What else is up There?

Chapter Eleven

Everything you call home

March 24th, 2553
Equestrian star system
Outskirts of Ponyville
Unicorn Twilight Sparkle
7:00AM

Organization, that's what Twilight Sparkle stood for. She was always organized, always planned ahead, and was always prepared for anything.

Or so she thought.

When the Covenant ship descended directly above Ponyville and immediately began glassing Twilight knew she wouldn't have much time to organize an evacuation of the town. So when the Covenant ship left for inexplicable reasons the Unicorn seized the opportunity to race out and warn Zecora in the Everfree forest about the return of the Covenant Empire.

Her mission complete Twilight immediately began racing back to Ponyville to organize an evacuation of whoever was left in the town as most had fled immediately when the Covenant ship came down.

Twilight came galloping out of the forest and continued on her way to Ponyville, the crest of the hill Fluttershy's cottage used to be on coming ever closer.

As the Unicorn neared the top of the hill she heard a tremendous rumbling and felt an enourmous tremor in the earth below her hooves, causing her to stamp her hooves down to brake and look around in confusion.

Twilight turned around and looked back at the Everfree forest, seeing a massive four-legged thing standing high over the trees.

It was extraordinarily tall, and sported a giant light on the front that glowed green, looking eerily like an eye. A few flaps on the side of the eye moved out of the way and exposed even more of it. In addition to the massive green eye thing there was also a giant purple device that swiveled around on top of the creature, sporting lateral blue lines that came together at what looked to be four prongs. Overall the creature's appearance was very sleek and sported a mostly purple color to it.

Twilight wasn't sure what she should feel about this thing until it shifted in place, moved a few of its legs, looked down at the lavender Unicorn with its massive green eye and trumpeted a mighty horn that pierced the stillness of the early morning air.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Twilight screamed and covered her ears with her hooves to shield her eardrums from the deafening blast, unaware that another far more sinister noise was starting to build up.

When the horn finished trumpeting the Unicorn dropped her hooves back to the ground and looked up, eyes coming to a dead stop on the big green eye which was growing in intensity and looked to be collecting motes of light on its front, an energy-based sound accompanying the ever-building glow.

Scared by this enormous thing and unsure of the glowing green light Twilight immediately turned and resumed galloping back to Ponyville.

She ran as fast as her hooves could carry her.

Suddenly the horn filled the air once again, assaulting the Unicorn's ears with its mighty blast of sound.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Twilight made it over the crest of the hill and the town of Ponyville came into view, the large hamlet terrified of what was coming over the horizon.

The energy sound reached crescendo and a green laser beam rocketed out above the lavender Unicorn, streaking out for Ponyville. The laser struck along the edges of Ponyville and destroyed several houses, causing several explosions to rock the earth below the Unicorn.

Just then gallons of green liquid landed in front of Twilight, forcing her to dive to the left to avoid the mysterious stuff.

When Twilight got back to her feet she saw that where the green liquid landed steam was rising out and dirt and grass had actually been melted.

Wait, this all happened in my dream...so that means that a leg is about to--

Twilight heard a mechanical whirring and the horn trumpeting again, prompting her to look up and see that a massive leg had risen high into the air, blotting out the Unicorn's view of the sun before it came back down on top of her.

It never happened.

Before the leg could smash the Unicorn into non-existence the massive purple creature suddenly exploded in a massive purple fireball and collapsed to the ground harmlessly.

Half a second later a Covenant CCS-class battlecruiser rocketed over the land, slowing to a stop and turning on its axis to face Ponyville.

"Citizens of Ponyville, this is Fleetmaster Rala 'Toram, we will assist in the evacuation of your town" a deep voice bellowed over the land from the battlecruiser.

Salvation from doom had come for the ponies of the town.

"Oh thank Celestia!" Twilight exclaimed as she continued on her way to the town, first stopping at Sweet Apple Acres to gather up the Apple family before continuing on her way to the library to get Spike.

Once they were rounded up Twilight brought them all to town hall which was the designated evacuation center for the town.

With the weather Pegasi scouring the town for any other ponies Twilight and several others tried to keep the crowds of ponies calm while Rala 'Toram sent down dropships to escort crowds of ponies away from the town; many having to be forcibly evacuated as they didn't want to get on the Sangheili dropships even with the assurances of Twilight and Applejack.

Most of the town had been evacuated when it all turned for the worse.

From space came an enormous creation unlike anything Twilight had ever seen before in her life; it was shaped like a figure-eight with two tear-drop shapes connected at the center with a massive rotating ring in a hole between the two tear-drops. The creation was about 18 miles in length and six miles in circumference.

At the end of one of the bottoms a massive purple light was growing in intensity.

"Oh ma stars…what is that thing?" Applejack yelled.

"Oh no…everypony GET ON THE DROPSHIP!" Twilight screamed as she turned to board the last one, catching a glimpse of the Everlasting Faith turning to engage the massive creation before the side hatches closed and the dropship began rocketing away from Ponyville.

Twilight trotted over to a side hatch and looked out the open little door at Ponyville and the massive creation, watching as its purple light finished growing and discharged a blinding laser that lanced directly down into the center of the town, immediately creating a massive explosion of purple plasma and flames that completely destroyed the town and turned it into nothing but a glowing crater.

Ponyville had been effectively wiped off the map in a single explosion.

Twilight hung her head in sorrow as Spike and Applejack came over to comfort her, understanding and sharing the loss of everything they called home.

"We'll get 'em, Twilight, ah promise that we'll get back at those stinking Covenant and make them pay for what they've gone and done" Applejack said.

"Will we? Will we actually make them pay?" Twilight asked, unable to stay confident in this moment. "I mean, just look at what that thing just did! It destroyed Ponyville in a single blast! How can we fight something like that when we've only got two ships protecting us?" the lavender Unicorn yelled.

"Calm down, Sugarcube, ah know you're upset but yellin' and makin' a big fuss about it ain't gonna help nopony" Applejack stated.

"I…I just…I don't…" Twilight was completely speechless at what was going on; it seemed like every time an alien species came around to make friends something went wrong and another species wanted to destroy all of them.

"Jus' don't worry Sugarcube, we'll be alright" Applejack said as she and Spike embraced the Unicorn to comfort her further.

Will we? Will we really be alright? Twilight thought, even she didn't know the answer to that question.

Where are you, Michael Preston? Sparkle mused, wondering where the Commander who defended them all twenty years ago might be at.

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Author's note: too bad Commander Preston is dead.

Now, I have a favor to ask all of you; leave a goddamn comment! Please! Do you know how disappointing it is to write something, put work and time into it, and then not have the readers comment on it?

Legal fucking horseshit that I absolutely fucking hate writing but have to otherwise I'll get sued by some fucking pussy-ass cunts and their gang of lawyers that they fucking cower behind like they're shields: Captain James Mitchell, Fleetmaster Rala 'Toram, and all related characters belong to me. Twilight Sparkle, Princess Celestia, and all related characters belong to Hasbro. My Little Pony belongs to Hasbro. Halo belongs to 343i(un-fucking-fortunately.)