A Hell jumper through and through
Chapter 2 - Search and Destroy (unedited)
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Location - Crystal Kingdom
Status - Calm
ODST's Orders - N/A
"What?" Bell asked the group of ponies that were looking at him worriedly, "yea I'm a bloody alien that just dropped out of the sky and brought 'peace and love'" he stated.
"That's not why we are staring darling" the white unicorn with a curly purple mane and tail said.
"Then why if I my ask?" He asked.
"Your crying" the butter Pegasus with a pink mane and tail said worriedly from behind the white unicorn, upon hearing that, Anthony rubbed his gloved fingers on his face gently and checked them to see that she was correct.
"Damn it" he muttered quietly, although they could hear him, before he clenched his fist and put his helmet back on and rose to his feet and grabbed the rest of his gear from his drop pod.
"Um excuse me, but what are you?" The purple unicorn with a black mane which had a pink and purple strip on it asked.
"I am an alien, and that is all you need to know" he said retrieving his pack which he put on before grabbing his spare ammo pouch with plenty of AR magazines inside followed by his Sniper Rifle and his combat knife which he was given by a old friend of his.
"Um okay well may we know your name?" She asked, "my name is Twilight" she added.
"My name is Anthony" Bell said as he reloaded his Magnum before bolstering it.
"Nice to meet you Anthony, um why did you fall out of the sky?" She asked.
"Well because that is just my most favourite hobby" he said before checking the Drop pod's monitor. "No it's how my type of Soldier is deployed" he said after removing the data chip and inserting it into a wrist mounted datapad that he pulled from his pack before attaching it to his left arm.
"Your Type of Soldier is deployed from the sky?" She asked slightly confused.
"No my type is dropped from Orbit" he stated getting looks of awe and disbelief " thus why i am called an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper" he said as he erased the data from inside the pod.
"Oh wow, that's awesome, how fast do you go?" The cyan Pegasus who had a rainbow mane and tail asked.
"Um I haven't actually checked but seeing as it only took me like 30 seconds to a minute to get from several thousand miles to ground level" he said "and breaking the sound barrier" he added as the pink pegacorn walked up to him.
"Thank you for saving the crystal kingdom" she said before standing up on her hind legs and hugging him, catching him off guard before he hugged back.
"It's what I do" he said as a scroll appeared out of thin air.
"Ah my auntie has written back" the mare said letting go of him as she opened it and read it "it appears that she has requested that you come to Canterlot As soon as possible" she said before looking at the other ponies "you should return with the girls in a few hours to Canterlot" she stated before a white unicorn stallion walked up to with a kind smile.
"Thank you for saving my wife" he said which he recieved a nod in reply.
"Would I be able to sleep somewhere?" Anthony asked the Pegacorn who nodded and gestured with her wing for him to follow her.
(Ten minutes later)
Upon arriving to a spare room, Anthony entered the room and immediately locked it behind him after thanking Cadence. He then checked his datapad and went scanned for signals which after about twenty minutes he discovered one and found it was producing a recording which played.
"Mayday, Ma...day, This is ..... SC Frigate 'Intercept' we ha.... .............unknown planet after using Slip space to get aw....... Reach. Crew status is 100% de....... Any UNSC forces are requested to ....... Search and destroy this Artficia...... Unit to not allow it to fa..... This is Priority O..... , this message will repeat ev..... Until unit is destroyed." The message said through static. Anthony set a waypoint before unlocking his door only to be confronted by a guard.
"Sir you must stay in your room unt.... "The guard was saying until the marine hit him and knocked him out before placing him in the room and locking the door as he made his way out of the crystal castle stealthily.
As he made it outside he was confronted by Twilight who was inspecting his drop pod with cadence ad a few other ponies which he ran passed and headed towards the town.
"Hey wait!" Called Twilight, who teleported in front of him, only for him to jump over her an continue running out of the city into the frozen wastes. Twilight was about to follow him before she was surrounded in a blue aura.
"Why they hay Cadence, we have to stop him" Twilight said which received a no gestured from Cadence.
"Not when a Blizzard is coming in" she said as she teleported back to the drop pod to find the scientist ponies freaking out as a crackling noise was coming from the machine. "What's wrong?" She asked.
"We think we discovered where the creature is heading" a stallion said using his hoof to gesture in the pod where a message was playing.
As she sat she listened to the voice and looked at the screen only for her face to turn to a frown. "Are you telling me that this flashing light is where he is going?" She asked him.
"Yes, he is going to the Windigo Gorge" the stallion said which made Cadence sigh.
"Twilight, please send a message to Princess Celestia to come here immediately" she said as she looked back at the screen "so this blip is this 'Intercept?'" She asked getting another nod.
"We believe so" he said, "it may be his people" he said causing Cadence to raise an eyebrow.
"Why do you day that?" She asked as the stallion gestured her out.
"Well we believe the message was referring to UNSC when it said SC, and this UNSC is on the side of this pod" he explained pointing at the side of the freshly cleaned pod.
"So he is going to look for survivors?" She asked.
"We don't think so as the message said they were all dead." He added.
"Then who sent the message?" She asked getting another shrug "well we need to prepare our guard as the creature may have weapons there" she said with a shudder.
Equestria
Location - 'UNSC Intercept' three hours later
Status - crashed
ODST's Orders - Search and Destroy AI unit of the Intercept, Destroy the 'Intercept'
"Well she looks in good condition, no bumps or damage.... So why did she crash?" He wondered as he moved closer to the starship until he the open hanger door to be confronted with used magazines, rocket casings, shotgun shells, bullet casings and blood but no bodies. "This isn't good" he said raising his assault rifle and listened, all he could hear was the blizzard raging at the top of the gorge and nothing else.
Steeling his nerves, he entered the dark hanger of the ship after turning on his night vision in his helmet, scanned the hanger to see that it was full of vehicles "ok so they didn't evac" he muttered as he reached a pitch black hallway that led to the engine room "better get the power back on so I can set the self destruct" he muttered before hearing a soft brief moan behind him causing him to whip around ad scan the hanger only to find nothing, he turned and headed down the hall way slowly seeing his night vision only gave him the few metres in front of him in the hallway, he passed more spent munition and blood until he found a arm that had been severed.
He knelt down and lifted the arm before looking around to see a blast door that had sealed and where it sealed was covered in blood "poor fucker" he though before he felt the are twitch causing him to drop it and look at the arm and saw it's finger twitch slightly. "What the fuck?" He asked as he curb stomped the hand of the arm before continuing down the hall way until he found the door to the engine room half sealed.
He was about to entered when he heard another moan, except this time it was closer, but when he turned and switched on the flash light of the rifle he found just an empty hall which made the ODST gulp as the arm was gone. He slowly turned and entered the engine room and scanned the room to find the problem, several of it's main switches had been flipped, shutting down the engine. "Well fuck" he said before looking at a wall which had instructions on how to turn it on. "Well that's handy" he stated as he started to flip the switches in order until he came to the final switch and found an empty helmet simply on the ground, lucky for him the helmet had a camera so he could see what happened.
He flipped the switch starting up the engine and reactor before removing the data chip from the helmet and inserted it into his data pad and played the last hour of the recording.
Unknown Planet
Location - UNSC 'Intercept'
Status - Crashed, Boarded
Marine Sargent Williams' Orders - Survive
Running, that was the first thing that was shown, the marine had a shotgun in hand and was with several others with him who varied from flight crew, to ODST to even a Spartan - 2 . They had shotguns, flamethrowers, assault rifles and the Spartan had a spartan laser and machine gun turret, the group was making it's way down the blackened halls towards the engine room.
"Sarge why did we get the worst mission?" A female marine asked a they arrived at the sealed door which the spartan proceeded to open manually.
"Simply Summers, we get the engine on and then the heating comes on and drives those freaking ice ghost horses from this ship" he explained as the Spartan began to separate the sections of the blast door slowly.
"Okay but what about the turned?" She asked nervously.
"Simple we burn and blast every las one of the frozen corpses" he said confidently until he heard a wolf like howl coming from behind him, making him turn to see a glowing horse standing about 20 metres away with a team of marines who's flesh was pale and their eyes milky, the worse thing was that the marines all had their weapons on them, the horse let out another howl before it charged with the corpses only to be hit by a wall of flames from the Flamethrower wielding ODST's
"Go, get the engine on, we got this " one said as the group nodded and entered the engine while the spartan and ODST held the enemies at bay.
"Eugene, you are the Engineer here, how do we turn it on?" He asked the man in a red jumpsuit.
"Um we have to flip the breaker switches in a specific sequence then wait a few minutes" he said as he rubbed the back of his head. "Just follow that map" he said pointing his flashlight on his assault rifle to a wall with the instructions.
"Okay let's move out, everyone stick together" The Sarge ordered as he lead them to each but as they were almost at the last a wolf howl was heard and several ghost horses came down from the ceiling and attacked the group, freezing them solid before the ice around them shattered and they began attacking the survivors by shooting or biting them. After a few moments the Sargent was left as he pulled out a grenade and primed it as a turned Summers fired her rifle into his gut before the grenade detonated and the recording ended.
Equestria
Location - UNSC Intercept, Engine room
Status - crashed
ODST's Orders - Destroy Frigate.
"Holy shit" Anthony muttered as he threw the date chip away as the lights came on, as they did a whirling sound came from behind him causing the marine to turn and see a seven foot tall Spartan with a turret in its hands, the soldier'a visor was cracked at his milky white eyes could be seen clearly. "You have got to be fucking kidding me" he said before diving off the platform as a hail storm of bullets tore through the air. He turned and opened fire on the undead spartan only for the bullets to bounce harmlessly off his shield making the ODST gulp and run off the exit.
As he ran he heard the sound of the spartan dropping down behind him and the whirl of the turret barrel, only to receive several clicks followed by a loud thud, he turned to look to see the spartan unslung his Spartan Laser and aim it towards the marine. As the weapon charged, moaning and growling could be heard from behind the marine making him turn and see a large group of turned humans all with a variation of weapons. The turned were about to attack only for all the weapons to simply click empty.
The living human smirked and lobbed several grenades before he unslung his sniper rifle and fired it into the spartan'a head, piercing the shield and it's skull only for it to ignore it and charge into where the grenades landed, blowing off it's leg, killing it.
He then turned and threw the last of his grenades down the hallway before running out of the other exit, he was running for a good 30 minutes until he reached a lift that would take him to the bridge were the AI was hopefully but as he hit the button for the bridge, nothing happened except for a voice coming through the P.A
"You sHAll not deCommISSIon me liKe the oTHers human!?" A voice screamed causing the ODST to gulp before feeling like he was being pulled into the floor and the sound of the engines engaging.
"Oh shit, the AI must be rampant and the crazy thing is taking off" he said as he ran to get to the the armoury while dodging zombie soldiers. Upon arriving he sealed the door behind him and swapped up his sniper rifle and his assault rifle with a DMR and Shotgun the grabbed a duffle bag and loaded it with grenades and supplies. Anthony then looked around to find something to bring down the ship. "How the fuck does one blow up a Frigate without knowing a thing about how it works" he wondered as he looked around until he saw a locker which had skull and cross bones painted on it.
As he opened the locker with a little force and discovered three tactical havoc Nuclear warheads. "That works" he said as he grabbed them and put them in the bag before he heard loud banging coming from the far locked door gaining his attention.
As he looked he saw that the thick steel door was being beaten in, so he quickly grabbed his gear and ran to the engine room through the door on the opposite side. As he reached the door he turned to see the far door being forced open by the Spartan he though he killed and watched it pick up a a rocket launcher and a assault rifle before taking chase. "Why won't you just give up and die already" Anthony yelled throwing a grenade, detonation the room'a munitions as he ran way.
Equestria
Location - Crystal kingdom
Status -On Alert
ODST's Orders - N/A
Cadence was sitting in the dining hall explaining the situation to Celestia as a low rumbling was heard from outside making them run to a window only to see a massive black metal object raise from the mountains in the distance and begin flying towards the Equestrian Border, upon seeing this Celestia teleported away while Cadence looked worried as she watched the object vanish "Anthony what have you gotten yourself into?" She muttered.
Equestria
Location - UNSC Intercept, Hanger bay
Status - Charging Slip Space Engine
ODST's Orders - Destroy UNSC Frigate, Destroy Rampant AI, Escape
"The phrase 'Spartans never die' is just a figure of speech" the ODST yelled as he pinned the walking corpse to a wall with a warthog, moments before it picked up the jeep as threw it across the room. Anthony had managed to set the three warhead up on 20 minutes times in the engine room, Just below the Mac Gun and in the Slip Space Drive room, which he found out that it was powering up so he made his way to the hanger to take a Pelican, only to be confronted by the Undead Spartan again. He had been thrown around by the zombie for the last 10 minutes and was starting to get sick of it.
Anthony was reaching his wits end as he had been trying to activate a Pelican or Falcon but the Spartan kept ripping him out of the drivers seat, so he had to disable the zombie first which was why he drove a jeep into it. Bell was now running to a nearby pelican that he had began to set up, before he was pulled from it, and mounted the turret on the back before unleashing hell on the freak, severing it's legs and arms before he went and began to take off and leave the hanger.
When he was free he began to fly away from the ship just as his instruments went haywire as a pulse one white energy hit the craft, causing it's electronics to fail and to plummet towards the group at high speed before crashing on the edge of a large forest.
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