Sierra 716, a lost spartan.by OxyChaptersAssualting The SpireCraters and somethin' metal in the EverfreeThree Little Fillies...CivilizationGUESS WHATAssualting The SpireCovenant spires, tall, blue, alien towers emitting advanced cloaking. Shielding, hiding items and intel from humans. Currently Sierra 716 and her squadron of UNSC ground troops were on a stealh mission to take out one of the many spires. "This is Sierra 716, We are currently half a klick from the mission objective and closing. The covenant is still unaware of our presence. Over" "Copy that Sierra 716, thats good to hear. Over." "As of now we will remain silent until the objective is complete. See you soon command. Over." Sierra 716's, or Breane as she was known to her fellow spartans and Dr. Halsey, squadron consisted of four falcons housing five ODSTs or marines each, excluding the driver. The shield from the spire was now an stones throw away and the falons were entering in three. Two One. When you pass through the shield, you feel a small tingeling sensation on your entire body, twenty marines/ODSTs and a spartan were all feeling this currently as they passed through. The one problem with this plan was that a spire's shield shuts down a falcon's electronics. "Shit Shit Shit! Everyone prepare for a rough landing!" Sierra 716 shouted on the comm line. One falcon crashed into another causing a fire to light up the shy. Both of the other falcons crashed onto the hard soil, but niether lost any men. Most unijured, one broken leg. Luck seemed to be with the UNSC today, somewhat. Sierra 716 recoved from the crash after a light daze. Her m6D magnum was still holstered, and her MA37 assualt rifle was a few feat away. Sierra 716 un-holstered her side arm and aimed forward to see an oncoming line of grunts, twelve bullets was equal to twelve dead grunts. Soon after the UNSC foorpt soldiers got over the haze of the crash and started picking themselves up. After one minute all the capable soldiers were in cover, laying down a heavy line of fire. The array was slowly sending the covenant back "Everyone MOVE UP!" Sierra 716 shouted. All nineteen soldiers crept their way up to the next line of rocks, this time the covenant were a bit closer. One sangheili was able to separate a rookie marine from the group. Thesangheili was a zealot and was hold a sword of pure energy in his right claw. The marine slowly crept back until he hit a solid surface. The zealot brought up his right arm, preparing for the killing blow. But it never came, the marine was sprayed with a warm, blue liquid. The private looked up to see the zealot collapsing on its side with a hole it in its head. Where the zealot was standing was a spartan with a hand held fire arm in the air "Don't get yourself killed Jenkins, be a shame to die on you first mission." The marine could only return a shakey laugh and crawl back to his position. Sierra 716 was about to do the same until she saw a grunt running in fear. On instinct she grabbed it by the mouth and brught her combat knife through its head, a swift kill. Sierra 716 saw something odd. It was a grunt but it wasn't carrying a needler or plasma pistol. What it was, was a large, metallic yellow, and shoulder mounted weapon... A fuel rod cannon. As it was running the grunt let off two shots. They were both heading towards Sierra 716, but she was able to shiftt to the right in time. The to plasma rockets streamed past Sierra 716, one hit a marine. The maarine crumpled to the ground screaming in agony as he realized his leg was blown off. The other rocket rebounded off the ground and rock and started towards an ODST "LOOK OUT!" Sierra 716 shouted at the troop. The ODST realized the spartan was shouting at him and turned over only to be met with plasma. The plasma tore off half of his entire head letting brain matter and blood leak onto the cold surface of his cover. "Fuck!" Sierra 716 shouted as a ficus rifle beam shot past her face, causing her to dive down. Sierra 716 pierred back to find the sniper, a jackal one hundred metres off. Tough shot with a magnum "Seargant Cob, lend me your sniper!" "Yes ma'am." said a thick marine. He tossed the rifle at the spartan, to most marines the rifle was one of the heaviest weapons, but to Sierra 716 it was a feather. Going over her memory of the jackal, Sierra 716 was able to get an idea of where the shot came from. Sierra 716's guees was about ten metres off, she shifted the rifle so the sights were dead on the jackal. CRACK. The sniper round left a trail of smoke as it entered and exited the jackal's head. "MOVE UP." The UNSC troops were now under the spire, next to the gravity lifts leading to the top. "Alright I want you split into even groups one going in on the left, and I will be joining the group on the right. Everyone under stand?" "YES MA'AM!" all the marines shouted in unision. "Alright lets do it!" "HOORAH!" The marines diveded in thirty seconds and entered the gravity lifts. Sierra 716 followed her group up hoping for the best. When Sierra 716 was half way up all of the marines were entering the spire. Sierra 716 began to hear screams, plasma fire and gun fire, not good. When she entered the top she was thrown into the air by the end of the gravity lift. The super soldier landed on the cylinder in between the gravity lifts and saw Private Jenkins on the floow covered in blood, all human blood. Next and elite stood over Jenkins and raised his plasma rifle. The elite released a jet of plasma which connected with Jenkins' temple killing him instantly. "NO!" The spartan screamed and launched herslf at the elite. Both landed on the ground with Sierra 716 on top. The enraged soldier shoved her MA37's barrel in the elite's mouth and squeezed on the trigger. The armor piercing rounds shredded apart the elite's head spaying bone, brain matter flesh and blood every where. Once the clip was finished Sierra 716 stood up, reloaded and was now currently holding her magnum and assualt rifle. Somewhere another elite roared and sprinted towards the sparten. The footsteps from the elite gave away its position, and Sierra 716 raised her M6D and fired off threerounds, all connecting with the elite's head. Three more elites roared from the same side as the last one, all three charged. The lone sparted sprinted for a few seconds over blood and corpses until she reached the core. Sierra 716 unloaded her entire magnum clip into the core breaking it and dropping the shields. "Command mission objective compl-- Sierra 716 was cut off by a barbed, crystaline shard connecting with her neck "Oh Shit." The needle exploded shredding part of her neck and letting blood spill out. Sierra 716 turned around and fell to her knees once she saw the elites and realized she was cornered. "Command, I don't think I'm gonna make. Fire on position." "What! No, we're sending a pelican your way!" "JUST FUCKING DO-- Once again Sierra 716 was cut off, but this time it was by energy entering and exiting her stomach "I'm dead now jus... Just do it." Sierra 716 whimpered. "It has been an honour Breane." Sierra 716 peered out the spire window and saw the UNSC Eclipse come into view and fired off a mac missile. The first landed near the spire damaging it. Another missile was shot, this one was heading for Sierra 716, it connected. White, white was the only thing that could be seen. "Great Idea Twilight, havin' ah picnic out here." "Thank you Applejack, I've come out here before and noticed this spot and thought we had to have a picnic here." "The skys clear so I can show you girls my new stunts." "Oh that would be so super-duper cool Dashie!" The six friends all had the days off from their duties, they had decided to come out for a picnic. Fluttershy had laid down a checkered blanket. Almost instantly Rainbow Dash put on a pair of shades and stretched out on the blanket. Pinkie Pie had brought five baskets of sweets, how she brought them all nopony knew. The picnic was like any other one, all the mares chatted away happily. That, of course, was until a large BOOM was heard from the everfree forest. Fluttershy and Rarity fainted "What in tarnation..?" "Girls we have to find out what that was, it could be a potentiol threat to Equestria!" "Okey Dokey Lokey, We'll be ine any ways the author says so." (God damn it Pinkie) "Pinkie you are so random, Yeah come we gotta see this girls!" Rarity started to ponder "Wha... What happened?" "Something blew up in the everyfree forest. We have to investigate it." "Well, If you don't mind I'd rather take care of Fluttershy." "Fine, Aj, Pinkie, Rainbow Dash lets go."Twilight announced. And with that two ponies ran into the forest, one flew and one... well Pinkie bounced. Craters and somethin' metal in the EverfreeBreane's eyes opened... there was something brown covering her visor, expecting mud Breane attempted to wipe off the mud but her hand couldn't reach her face. The spartan realized that she was lying face down in the dirt. Meekly, she pushed herself on the ground and looked around. She captured and image of a crater and a forest. Then, she pasted out... Twilight and her three friends slowly crept through the forest, hoping, but also not hoping to find what had caused the explosion. "Ah really don't see the point in finding this thing Twilight." Applejack whispered, "Ah mean, couldn't we wait for tha royal guard?" "Yes, yes we could Applejack but they would take to long. They probably just heard the sound from the explosion now!" "I agree with Applejack Twilight, this doesn't really seem ethical." Rainbow Dash said, looking at her surroundings. "But this is of upmost importance to me, Princess Celestia and Equestria!" Twilight was close to shouting now. "Could you keep it down?" Applejack whispered violently. "Sorry, sorry." Twilight whispered. "Hey girls, over here!" Pinkie Pie said in a hyped up voice. "What did you find Pinkie?" Twilight ran over to her pink friend "A crater and a metal thingy!" "Thingy?" Twilight finally reached her friend and stared into the crater. As Pinkie Pie had said, there was a enormous blue and metal robot, which also had faded yellow on it. "What is that thing?" Rainbow Dash questioned, eying the strange metallic thing. "I couldn't say..." Applejack said dimly "It's weird." Pinkie Pie announced. "You girls stay back, I want to check it out but I also don't you three getting hurt." Twilight slowly crept down the crater wall and stopped and the "base" of the metal figure. The violet unicorn levitated a small piece of wood and poked the metal around a piece or orange glass. "What is this thing?" After about the third prod, the metal machine made an odd noise and lifted one of its four legs. Twilight gasped and scrambled backwards. "Are you okay Twilight?" Applejack slowly came down the wall to Twilight. "Yes, yes, I'm fine. I was just spooked by the movement." "It moved?" Applejack stared at the metal, outlandish contraption. "What happened?" Rainbow Dash started to walk down with Pinkie. "Apparently this thang moved." "What!" Rainbow Dash circled around the metal thing, putting up her hooves, preparing for hoofticuffs. "Rainbow, I really doubt that it will fight you right now silly!" "You never know Pinkie, you never know." By now the four ponies could hear distant voices shouting, "Twilight? Twilight Sparkle? Can you hear us?" "Sounds like the guards." Twilight explained, "Yes I can hear you! I'm over here!" Twilight shouted back at the voices. After about twenty seconds three royal guards entered the scene. The obvious captain instantly noticed the clunk of metal and shouted for everypony to step back while his guards disassembled the situation. The captain walked up to the four ponies and asked, "Who was the one who originally found this thing?" Twilight looked at Pinkie, who shook her head, apparently she didn't like the look of the guard. Twilight looked back to the captain, "It was me, sir." "Well then miss, you are coming with me." "Am... Am I being arrested?" "No, just for some questing. It should be very brief." "Oh, okay then. I guess I'll come." "Thank you miss, please step with us, away from your companions." Twilight stepped next to the three royal guards and the youngest one cast a teleporting spell. The spell warped four ponies and one metal, irregular object. Applejack looked to the two others and said, "Well girls, looks like we'd better get back to tha others." "Yeah, sure." Rainbow Dash said and started walking back to their friends. The guard captain had taken Twilight to a small bland room and sat her infront of a table and sat at the other end. "Alright, Ms. Sparkle. As I have already told you have done nothing wrong, I am just here to ask you a few questions about the metal object found in the Everfree forest." "Okay, sure officer." "The first question is what were you doing before you discovered the object?" "I was going out for a picnic with my friends in a field just near the entrance of the Everfree." "What are your friends names?" "Pinkamena Diane Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Fluttershy." "Those are... the Elements of Harmony correct?" "Yes." The captain wrote down a few notes. "What did you do when you first saw the object?" "My first thought was 'what is it?' but my first physical action was prodding the object with a stick to see what its reaction was." "Was there a reaction?" "Yes, the object lifted one of its legs, then the leg dropped back down and then nothing happened" "Exactly what happened after you finished your 'experiment'?" "Umm, about thirty seconds after you and your team came in." "Well, if that's all I'm gonna get, then that's all I'm gonna get. You're free to go Miss Sparkle." "Thank you." Twilight walked out the door and proceeded to exit the castle and back to Ponyville. Breane woke. The bright light was blinding her. She used her hand to shield her eyes while she sat up right. Once her eyes had adjusted to the light, Breane took in her surroundings, she was in some sort of medical bay. Except everything in this certain medical bay was extremely small. Even to small for a marine. Breane looked down and saw that the medics had layed out three beds just to suit her. Breane swung her legs over the third bed and stumbled up, "Geez, whats wrong with me?" Breane looked at the small door and almost crawled to it. She pulled herself under the minuscule door and into the hallway. Breane gazed around the also small hallway, apparently everything here was small. Breane noticed something to her left and saw two small white legs brush away from her, around a corner, and the legs had some sort of blue and bushy tail. "Is that some sort of creepy ONI experiment?" Breane questioned herself. Breane went the other way of the "experiment" and found herself walking through some sort of medieval castle. Breane pranced around a corner and bashed into something under half her height. Breane looked down and saw a equine wearing golden armour. "What in the fu..?" The equine jumped up and almost shouted "Halt!" Breane was still sitting, "Waaait, you can talk?" The equine looked at Breane again, "Silence, Come with me to the Princess." Breane raised her eyebrow under her helmet, "You serious?" "Silence! Come with me!" "Nah." Breane slapped the equine across the face, knocking it out instantly. "Wait? Did that horse say princess? Eh, probably talking about some ONI scientist." Breane got balk up and walked to a giant metal door, assuming it was the exit, and pushed it open. Once the door was open Breane walked across a garden, "Gee, ONI really out did themselves with this one." Once Brane reached a gate, she opened it and saw a enormous city, bustling with pastel coloured horses, "Holy Hell." One of the horses saw Breane and let out a high pitched scream, alerting all the other horses. "Shit." Three Little Fillies...Immediately after the tens of horses started screaming at Breane, she ran back the way she came. But, instead of running back into the castle, Breane jumped over a wall and scaled onto an enormous garden shed in the gardens that she passed earlier. Once Breane did her best to conceal herself, it was hard because of her bulking Spartan armour, she went over the facts of the situation: Unknown Where abouts - BAD Weird ONI spawned horses - BAD Lots of ONI horses - BAD ONI horses are scared of her - BAD Horses don't know where she is - GOOD No other humans in known area - BAD ONI horses think ONI scientist is princess - BAD Some armoured, combat trained horses - BAD Fuck - BAD After reviewing the facts, Breane negatively noticed that the bad outnumbered the good. Breane noticed a sound off in the distance, it sounded like trotting. Horse getting near - BAD Breane got up to move just as the horse came into sight. The horse took notice to Breane and its horn started to glow blue. Breane attempted to jump off the shed but something was keeping her hand back. The spartan took a gander at her left hand to see that a blue aura was keeping it locked in place. Breane pulled as hard as she could, and after five seconds her hand slowly broke free of the aura. By this time four more horses, all five attired in golden armour, had appeared. Breane ran at a pace with which she could fun fifty kilometers in about ten minutes (Read this in a book, spartans can do this.) She could easily outrun the horses. Breane was about to turn a corner when another horses ran into her, white and armoured like the others. One horse tried to kick Breane but his hoof only met air. Soon after his was being thrown over Breane's back and into the ground. The blow knocked him out instantly. Breane made a stupid decision and ran into the castle. After minutes of ducking and dodging through out the castle, Breane hid in a janitor's closet. Breane kept the door open slight waiting for a guard horse to come along. Eventually one did, Breane pulled him inside and slammed it against the wall with a hand on his mouth, "Alright, I'm gonna make this quick and simple, I'm gonna ask you a few questions alright?" The horse shook its head, Breane leaned in closer, "Look, I'm a specially combat trained soldier, and I won't think twice to snap your neck. Now, will I get some answers or not?" The horse nodded, its eyes watering. Breane took her hand off its muzzle. "Alright, now first, where is the scientist?" "What?" "The scientist? The other human?" "What, what's a human?" "ME! I'm a human." Breane took off her helmet, revealing her red hair. "I've never seen anything like you!" "Shit, okay take me there." "Oh, okay." Breane jumped up, gracefully hitting her head on the ceiling, "OW, god damnit." Put her spartan helmet back on, then dragged the horse out the room. The horse noticed more horses rounding the corner, gold armour and all, "OH CELESTIA HELP ME!" Breane's eyes opened and her head turned around, "You fucking didn't." By then the other guards had noticed her. Breane picked up the horse in her hand and chucked it at the other three. Breane strutted into the group of four horses, swiftly punched two and knocked them. She grabbed the other in a choke hold, keeping them there until they were unconscious. Breane looked at, who she thought was the pony that screamed, and spoke, "You know you didn't have to do that, now more are going to be coming for me." Breane picked him up and slammed him into the wall, making him stuck in the wall. She kept walking down the opposite way of the pile of horses where, as she had said, more horses were. At their lead was a more noticeable horse, his mane was two shades of blue, and his armour stood our from the rest, "Stop, in the name of Celestia!" "Who?" "Princess Celestia!" "Who is that?" "Answers later, Draw!" All the horses drew pikes, pointing them directly at Breane. The spartan slowly crept backwards towards a window behind her. Breane thought to herself, Alright, make a sudden movement, get the leader next to you. Breane spang backwards, causing the leader to follow her. Breane grabbed the end of the pike, pulled the leader close and threw him threw the window. Breane, still holding onto the leader horse, as he dangled thousands of meters of the ground, shouted, "ALRIGHT! I WANT SOME ANSWERS! GIVE ME THEM, OR YOU FALL!" The captain looked scared but said, "No." Breane lifted a finger from his hoof, "You sure?" The captain sighed, "Fine, fine." "Well first, tell your men to stand down." The captain shouted through the window, "Stand down." "Good, now first question: where am I?" "You don't know?" "Do NOT answer my questions with more questions." "Fine, your in Equestria." "And, where might that be?" "On the planet of Eque." "Shit. Alright, I want an audience with your leader. And I mean of your empire, city whatever." "You mean Princess Celestia?" "Yes, sure." "Then pull me up." Breane strengthened her grip and pulled the horse into the hallway. One it was back on its feat Breane spoke to it, "Alright, I want to be taken straight to your leader, whether they're expecting me or not." The horse scowled, "She will be angry from and disturbance, but alright." As the group of horses criss-crossed through the endless hallways, Breane noticed how primitive this civilization was to her own. They still used pikes and such for weapons, stone and wood for structures, metal armour, no major technology. It was surprising to her how not all civilizations had progressed this little, despite her intense education with the other spartans. The leader horse finally approached two large golden doors, he opened them and walked through. As Breane came closer she took notice that the doors were real gold, with actual gems in the middle. "Damn..." The horses stopped and bowed upon a throne. The throne had a horse on it, actually it was a pegasus... no a unicorn. No, both. "Wait, what?" Breane finally took notice to the other horses around her, there were peguses, unicorns and even normal horses. Then there was this one horse that was all three. Is that what made her special? Maybe it was her mane that looked alive? Damn, where was she? The pegasus/unicorn horse looked at the leader horse, "Yes Shining Armour, what is it?" The pegasus/unicorn looked behind 'Shining Armour' at Breane, "Or need I ask." "Hopefully not Princess. This is what was recovered from the Everfree Forest yesterday." "I thought it wasn't moving." "As many thought, it then woke up. And injured some ponies." "What!" Breane spoke up, "You know what? In my defence, I woke up in a unknown place, I get out of a room, one of the horses attacks me, I defend myself, I walk outside and there is THOUSANDS of horses, I run back into this castle and you guys start attacking me! OF COURSE I AM GOING TO FUCKING INJUR SONE UNKOWN SPECIES THAT ATTACKS ME!" All 'ponies' in the room gazed at Breane, surprised by her sudden outburst. She did admit, her temper wasn't the longest. The calmest looking, the one on the throne, though still surprised spoke, "I see your reason,..." Breane took off her helmet, "My name's Breane or Spartan 716." "Well then Breane, you must understand you are an unknown creature that showed up in a local forest. Your armour, or whatever it may be, was beyond what we know. You scared us so we decided to study you, learn about you." "You could'a just asked." "You were unconscious for a day." "Could'a waited." Breane also more of a stubborn spartan. Breane quickly thought up a question that was on the back of her mind, "So, I'm awake now. What are you going to do with me?" Princess Celestia got up from her throne and walked down to the living war machine, "Well, I hadn't thought of it, because we didn't know if you would wake up or not." Breane's eyes went wide, she had realized something. Something that obviously made this and ONI experiment, "How do you horses know english?" The large, white equine looked annoyed, "It's ponies, and I have never heard of this english that you speak of, the language used here is Equestrian." Breane's eyes went from surprised to thoughtful, she began to think out loud, "Apparently I'm on a different planet, with a completely different species and we speak the same language." Breane started to ignore the ponies in the room, lost in thought. Shining Armour nudged Breane, "There IS a princess in the room you know." Breane, annoyed by the white unicorn, looked down at Princess Celestia, "Yeah?" "You are correct, with the things you have stated, with us being from different planets, a different species yet we speak the same language. I think it would be best that you stay with my star pupil, Twilight Sparkle. It would be a great learning opportunity for her plus you two can figure out a answer to our thoughts." Damn, Breane thought, going to stay with ponies. The princess began to write a letter, "What the fu..." The princess quizzically looked at the spartan, "Is something wrong?" "Yeah, how the hell are you holding that?" Breane pointed at the note and quill The authoritative pony calmly said, "Magic." Breane snorted, "Yeah sure, now what's the real answer." The princess raised an eye row, if she had one, "I am not lying." "Wait, then... the... nevermind." Breane thought, Fuck it, they got pegasuses and unicorns and a mix of them, guess magic might as well be legit as well. The princess began to pronounce her letter, "Dear Twilight Sparkle, I have arranged that a special guest has come to stay with you, I see this as a learning opportunity for you. Princess Celestia." The letter rose up infront of her and disappeared in a flash. About a minute later another letter appeared out of nowhere. Celestia read out loud, "Dear Princess Celestia, I am very curious as to who this special guest is and what learning opportunities they may provide. From Twilight Sparkle." Princess Clestia wrote a fast letter and sent it back, all the while Breane was amazed by the flashing of letters. Again, she decided not to argue with another planet's laws, "Alright, when do I leave for Twilight?" Breane suppressed a laugh, the name on this planet were hilarious. "Right away, I'd hope." "Sure." Breane grunted. Breane was lead to a open field where there were many chariots waiting around. There was also a long slick rode, looking like a runway of sorts. Two ponies strode infront of Breane. They showed her to a single chariot and instructed her to get on the ancient Roman vehicle. Breane stepped on and almost immediately sat down. To two ponies to escorted her strapped onto two harnesses on the front of the chariot. The vehicle was already ready to go down the runway so the ponies started to run. They couldn't. The one ton heavy soldier was more than they were used to pulling. One of the armoured ponies sighed and walked off into the castle. "Where's he going?" Breane asked the other equine. Her merely grunted, apparently not wanting a conversation. After a odd few minutes the pony returned with two more and two more harnesses. The three guards strapped onto the chariot in a brisk pace. The four male looking ponies started to sprint down the runway. Slowly but surely they were able to get into the air. Breane stared at the feathery wings of the mythological creatures. The chariot slowly passed over the city and descended. Breane gazed over the side and gasped when she saw that the palace she was just running around in was also a city suspended on a mountain. The mountain side city was slowly becoming smaller and the chariot flew over a field. Breane rested her head on the side wall of the chariot. She slowly fell asleep. Breane's body slowly adjusted in her sleep, the pony guards were completely unaware when the one ton alien fell of the chariot. Some how they couldn't tell that the chariot became one ton lighter. The Cutie Mark Crusaders were having so much fun. The trio were having a sleep over in their club house constructed on Sweet Apple Acres. They were aloud to sleep in their headquarters after some convincing towards Appleblooms's elder sister Applejack, the famed farmpony of Ponyville. The reason these three fillies wanted to sleep in their club house was so that they could creep into the Everfree forest. These three devoted fillies thought that they could find a Cutie Mark of sorts in the infamous forest. Though, all wasn't going according to plan. The Cutie Mark Crusaders had woken later that wanted, and they were currently in a debate of whose fault it was, or atleast two of them were, "YOU were the one who was supposed to wake us up!" Scootaloo pointed a accusing hoof at her friend Sweetie Belle. "What! You were!" Sweetie Belle retorted "Gals, let's just go? Ah'm sure it'll be fine." Apple Bloom hated seeing her fellow Cruesaders fight. "Yeah sure, we all agreed that you'd wake us up!" Scootaloo pointed another hoof then fell, both of her forehooves were pointed at the small white unicorn. Both the other crusaders snorted, Scootaloo looked annoyed, "Fine, let's just go." The small ponies put on their signature capes and set out into the near by forest. Apple Bloom was in the lead, holding a big lantern in her mouth, Scootaloo was in second and Sweetie Belle took up the rear, "Do you really think it's safe out here?" Sweetie Belle nervously eyed the surrounding trees. "What? After Fluttershy gave that cockatrice the stare, no thing will mess with us!" Scootaloo confidently replied to her friend. "Ah dunno, Sweetie Belle could be right about it naht being safe 'round here. Ah think we should be careful" Apple Bloom warned her pegasus friend. Scootaloo seemed to be ignoring them now, bouncing around she took notice to many things they could earn their cutie mark from. As she was blabbering random cutie mark ideas, Apple Bloom eyed Sweetie Belle and shot a worried face towards her filly friend. The trio carried on for what seemed like hours but was only about ten minutes, so far no cutie marks had come their way. Apple Bloom began to feel down, "Maybe we should just head back." Her negative attitude did try to get solved by her friends, but they slowly came to agree with their farmpony friend. Scootaloo sadly said, "Yeah sure, but..." The orange filly looked around, "Which way did we come?" The fillies all had their eyes shooting around in fear, eventually they recoiled in fear all next to each other, "Does anyone remember the way we came?" Sweetie Belle nervously asked her friends, "Nah, all tha trees 'round here look tha same!" Apple Bloom whispered, hoping none of the evil creatures in the would here her. Off in distance a loud, baritone roar could be heard. It shook the trees, land and three little fillies who were now scared half to death. "Wha.. Was that ah manticore?" Apple Bloom shivered, getting closer than thought possible to her friends. "I think so." Scootaloo tried to not looked scared infront of her friends, but was failing miserably. On the other hand, Sweetie Belle looked like she was about to scream. Actually she was about to scream. Both Scootaloo and Apple Bloom tackled Sweetie Belle to cover her mouth. They, under no circumstances, wanted to alert the creatures of the Everfree. Again, the Manticore roared, except this time, it sounded closer. The fallen spartan woke, there was dirt in her visor, and her head hurt like hell. Not likeable conditions. Breane swiped the dirt off her orange visor and sat up. Her head was throbbing, "There wouldn't be Aspirin here, would there?" Breane asked no one in particular. A soft grunt emerged from behind a metal helmet as Breane jumped up, her metal boots making a soft clunk on the small rocks and earth. Off in the distance, an orange glow was settling over a forest, night was coming. Breane fumbled for the switch on the back of her helmet, turning on night vision. The spartan could see flickering lights obviously coming from a town of village. They were just beyond the edge of a forest, the forest seemed decently seized compared to some of the massive forests on Reach. Deciding that civilization was the best option right now, besides being in an unfamiliar planet, Breane began to walk to the forest. Breane hoped that there would be no inconveniences while she headed into the town. She hoped wrong. When one first enters the forest the trees are spread out, but as you get deeper into the forest, the trees begin to close in on you, making one claustrophobic and having not very much moving space. But for Breane, she was taller and bulkier than the native species of this land, which significantly decreased the moving space, "Damn, maybe this was a bad idea. I coulda ran around this forest." Breane looked behind her to see that the trees looked even denser behind her, even though that's the way she came, "What? That's gotta be impossible." Breane was dumbfounded by what had happened, having no other way to go, she continued forward. The crowded forest was giving Breane a pain, she was walking sideways. And the little to no foot space mean't she kept hitting one foot into the other, small branches, seemingly coming out of no where, kept scraping across her visor making a very annoying screeching noise and she felt like she was getting nowhere. Eventually, after a mentally painful walk, Breane stumbled into a clearing, "Thank god." Breane said to no one. Breane walked into the middle of the clearing and sat down resting her aching feat. The spartan sat for five minutes before she heard a twig snap and a roar, the roar was extremely close. At the sound of the twig, Breane jumped up and dashed into a bush. Using her hands to clear a small way in the bush Breane looked into the clearing, mouth agape. What she saw seemed impossible, despite so many other impossible things on this planet. There was a large creature in the middle of the clearing, where Breane was sitting not moments ago. The creature had the head and body of a lion, wings closely resembling a bat's and a over sized scorpion tail. The creature looked oddly familiar, even though Breane had never come into contact with one. But that was exactly it, Breane had never come into contact with one, yet she had seen them. Breane had seem them in books about both ancient Greek and Persian myths. The manticore, originally named Mantichora, was of Persian myth origin, but was renamed Manticore by the Greeks. "How in the hell?" Breane eyed the creature as it continued out the clearing and back into the forest. Unsure of what to do now, Breane pursued after the Manticore, thinking she could out run it if the manticore noticed her. The mythical creature acted as though it was after something, even though Breane couldn't see anything obvious. 'Must be smell.' Breane thought to herself. The creature had a nose so it must've been using it. Breane followed the creature for atleast another two minutes before they entered another clearing. Breane dived behind another bush, smart enough not to follow the creature into a clearing. The creature stopped for sure in the middle of the clearing, stuck its head up and began to sniff the air. 'Knew it, it was using smell.' The manticore began to walk to a small tree opposite to Breane. If one listend closely, you could hear three sets of nervous breathing. As the menacing paws of the manticore crept towards the tree, the breathing's noise elevated, making the manticore move faster. This continued for seconds, long dreadful seconds. The manticore was almost at the tree when something odd happened. A small orange, purple and red blur came out from behind the tree. The blur was emitting a noise before it stumbled and came to a stop. The blur turned into a small pony, it was also armoured with a red cape. The manticore, surprised by the event, turned on the blur and began to growl, the pony quivered in fear. "Holy sh-- that looks like one of the ponies!" Breane thought over what she could do, either let the manticore get the pony or possibly get injured defending the pony. The spartan thought that the latter was more appealing but would never hear the end of it if there were more ponies around. "Well, shit..." Breane squinted her eyes and charged at the mythical beast. The manticore changed it's attention to the charging soldier, it growled and attempted attacking, but it didn't get a chance. Instead a metal foot collided with it's face. The blow pushed the beast back. It growled in anger before realeasing a menacing roar. The manticore jumped at Breane, but she was already gone. The beast looked up confused, trying to find its pray. The prey ended up on its back, holding its neck in blue, metal arms. The would end up being fatal to the manticore, so it used its massive scorpion tail to its advantage. The tail missed the spartan but hit the manticore's own back side. The blow hurt, but the manticore's own venom had no effect on it. Breane noticed the tail and edged further up the manticore, out of reach form it's tail. But, the manticore still thought it could hit Breane and kept and stabbing itself, eventually drawing blood. All the while, two more small ponies crept out from behind the tree and crawled towards their friend. Then, the three small ponies watched the spartan and the manticore wrestle. In a sort of bucking motion, the manticore threw Breane off itself. Breane's helmet was also thrown off her by the brute force of the ravage animal. Breane landed in a patch of blue flowers, she barely had time to react before the manticore jumped at her again. Breane moved missing most of the claw, but one caught the black body suit in between the armour's outer alloy. Breane cried out in pain and the massive gash began seeping out. The smell of fresh blood made the manticore even more determined to catch its pray. It jumped again, but in a flash of pain, Breane had jumped on it again. This time wrapping her legs around the monstrous creatures neck. The next minute was a minute of pure struggle. The manticore was thrashing around trying to get Brean off. But, Breane was resilient to stay on. The manticore's face became a deep shade of purple, visible under it's fur. Its movements became slower and less powerful, all before it came to a stop. The beast crashed down to the earth, where Breane jumped off. She gave its neck an almighty crack, taking an instant dislike to manticores. "Damn, that was odd... Who else is gonna fight a mythological creature?" Breane chuckled to herself. Breane remembered why she had fought the manticore in the first place. She turned around and gazed at the three small ponies. They all looked smaller than the princess and her guards, they even looked to be toddlers. "Hey." Breane crouched down to get to their eye level, even though they were barely two feet tall. "Are you guys alright?" Breane put on a reassuring face, though winced from her massive gash. "Look, I'm not gonna hurt you." The spartan offered a helping hand, trying to get an interaction out of the fillies. They stayed stiff as a board. "Um, let's start with named alright?" None of the fillies moved. "I'll start, I'm Breane." She looked at all three of the fillies, putting on a wishful face. A yellow filly with a bow in her mane opened her mouth, "Ahm A-Apple B-Bloom." She stepped back in fear. Breane put on a fake smile, "Hi Apple Bloom, now you tell me your name." She looked at a small white unicorn, "I'm Sweetie Belle." She mumbled, barely audible, but Breane could still hear, "Now you." She pointed her already out hand at the small orange pegasus. "I…" The fillie gulped, "I'm S-Scootal-loo." "Is there anyway I can get you three home?" Apple Bloom spoke up, "We, we got lost. We don't know where we are?" "Akkor miért jöttél el die?" Breane mumbled in her native language, "Well, I was heading towards a town over there." Breane pointed to her right. "Is it Ponyville?" Apple Bloom nervously questioned, still unsure if the hulking, metal biped. "I'm not sure, but it's civilization." Breane answered "Then sure we'll c-come." Sweetie Belle squeaked. "Alright, it's settled. You guys come with me, and I'll drop you off at the town." "O-okay." Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle answered their saviour. But, Scootaloo stayed silent. Breane got up and strayed over to her helmet. Breane placed her helmet back on her head and returned to the fillies, "Alright, let's go." Breane walked at a brisk pace. "Hey wait up!" Breane looked back to see she put twenty metres between her and the fillies. Right, she had much longer legs. After the fillies had caught up with her, they continued their eventless journey through the Everfree forest. The walk was awkward and boring, Breane didn't have any thing to saw, and the fillies were too scared to say anything, even to each other. Though, thankfully, the awkwardness came to a stop when the group reached the edge of the forest, "Is this Ponyville?" Breane asked the trio, getting an answer out of Apple Bloom. "Y-yeah, sure is. Thank yah, miss… Bree-ann." Apple Bloom fumbled with the pronunciation of Breane's name before taking off with her friends, "Sure know how to treat guests, don't they?" Breane chuckled to herself. With her night vision still in, Breane could see it was still night out. Having no where to sleep, she settled next to a nearby oak tree. With her helmet off, and in a decently comfortable position, Breane drifted off to sleep... CivilizationTwilight woke up from her sleep, the librarian had a nervous night, after receiving word from Princess Celestia that she would be having a guest, she got Spike to tidy the library. And, after reading that the guest could provide a learning experience, Twilight set thirty pages, three inkwells and four quills. But, after staying up until 1:30 AM, Twilight became nervous that the guest would never arrive. Drowsiness pulled her to her bed and she drifted off. Hopefully, the guest would arrive today so she would stop chewing her hoofs. Breane awoke, and sat up… something wasn't right. She felt awkward. She could see, hear and feel fine. But something was still amiss. She felt her face again, that's when she noticed what was wrong. She had no fingers, and her hand felt hard. Like a hoof… Like a hoof, Breane looked down and at bottom legs and almost screamed. Instead of her normal armour covered human legs, were two blue, fur covered pony legs. Breane's eyes widened as she jumped up, "Mi a szar történt vellum!" (WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO ME!) Breane couldn't stopped eying herself. She was a pony, a goddamn pony! Why was a a pony! And where was her armour! Breane gasped, where was her armour? Another fast inspection of herself, showed that she had no armour on. Breane looked at her surroundings and saw that her armour and her black jump suit were in a messy pile next to the tree she slept by. But, how oh how, did her armour get off her? Breane fell down in confusion. What the hell was happening? Breane stared ahead, remembering the town was apparently called 'Ponyville' according to Apple Bloom. Breane remembered last night, the manticore and the three fillies. Breane always had a thing for kids, after her brutal training as a child, she felt bad for children and was always looking out for them. "Nos, azt kell, és én vagyok a póni…" (Well, there all ponies and I'm a pony.) Breane thought it best that she headed into the village. At least her being pony wouldn't cause any confusion, hopefully. The part of the town she entered seemed somewhat empty, save for a few ponies that would take one look at her before returning to there lives. Breane entered a slightly more populated part of town. All the ponies were staring at her, and it didn't take a genius to tell why. Breane was taller than all the other mares and stallions and significantly buffer than them too. When Breane entered what appeared to be the town square, she was confronted by a pink pony with a puffy pink mane. The mare took one look at her before her eyes widened and she ran away. "Umm…" Breane back away from the space where the pink pony just was. Some of the residents around her giggled. After another few minutes, Breane remembered what the princess had said. Breane grabbed the shoulder of a random pony, her mane and coat were peppermint colour and she had a flash of white in her mane and tail, "Hey do you know where a 'Twilight Sparkle' lives?" Breane asked the mare "Huh? OH, yeah yeah, she lives in a tree down this road. You can't miss it." "A tree?" "Yeah! It's the town library!" "Okay, thank you." Breane began to walk down the street again "My name's Lyra Heartstrings by the way!" The mare called after her Breane ignored the pony and continued down the road. The cobble street went on for a while, but as Lyra had stated, there was an obvious tree shaped into a building. "Thats… new?" Breane paced to the door on the tree and knocked. After a few seconds, Breane heard some shuffling on a the inside of the settlement. Again, some more shuffling before the door opened. There was a room full of books, shelves and shelves of books, like a library, on the inside. "Hello?" Breane asked, confused by the lack of a pony at the door. "Down here!" a deep child's voice spoke. Breane looked down and saw a purple and green reptilian, "What the!" Breane jumped back into a defensive stance, or what she thought was one considering she was a pony. "Oh… never seen a dragon?" The reptile grumbled "Dragon!" Breane exclaimed at the said dragon. "Yeah, yeah. Don't worry I'm not old enough to breath fire or anything." His eyes drooped. Unsure about him, Breane asked, "Is this where Twilight Sparkle lives?" "Yeah, sure is!" The dragon shot up, "I'm Spike by the way!" Breane." The spartan, now pony, responded in an monotone way. "I'll go get her!" Spike went back into the library and Breane's eyes followed him, her went up some steps and a few voices could be heard. "An invitation in would have been nice." Breane grumbled to herself. The dragon came back down the stairs, but now followed by a violet unicorn. Her main and tail had two shades of purple and one of pink. Her flank also adorned a star typed image. Breane checked her flank and saw a pair of boxing gloves, "What are these for?" Breane asked herself. "Did you ask for me?" The voice brought Breane back to the library, "What? Oh, yeah I did." Breane responded to the unicorn. Twilight's eyes widened, "Oh, oh come in." She said sheepishly "Thanks." Breane stepped in and saw… more books. "My name is Twilight Sparkle, star student of Princess Celestia and this is my number one assistant Spike!" Twilight addressed the hulking pony. "Yeah, the princess told me." Breane turned to face Twilight. "You know the princess?" Twilight's face turned a mix of surprised and happy "Sure, she told me to come here." Breane said keeping her monotone voice. "Oh, are you the guest I'm having?" Twilight's face light up more, thinking of the learning opportunity "I guess, Breane by the way." She repeated her name to Twilight. "That's an… odd name." Twilight closed the door to her library. "Yeah well, it's my name. So, do I have a bed or am I sleeping on a couch?" "Yes you have a room, why did you think you wouldn't?" Twilight giggled "Nah, I'm just tired. Yesterday was terrible for me." "You want to sleep?" Twilight's face saddened. "Yeah, why?" "It's just… I was told that you could provide a learning opportunity." "I think that's best saved for later." Breane thought she should present information once she was back to a human and 'Ponyville' was used to her, god that was a weird name 'Ponyville' "Oh, but… Nevermind. Hey, do you know anypony here?" Anypony? Wow, just wow, "No, I just met a pony called Lyra trying to figure out where you lived. But I'm not aquatinted with anyone." "Anypony." Twilight corrected "What?" "Anypony, it's proper!" Twilight smiled "I say anyone, just let me say it? What were you talking about a second ago? About me know anyone here?" Twilight's eye twitched, any form of speech error was a personal tartarus for her," I just thought that maybe you'd like to meet my friends?" No, please for the love of god no, "How about after I finish sleeping?" Hopefully I wake up back on Reach. "Oh, okay. Spike, could you show our guest to her room?" "Okay! Follow me Breane!" Spike ran up the stares. Breane slowly followed. Spike led Breane to a small room neighbouring Twilight's. The had only a bed, bedside table with a lamp and a bookshelf in it. "Cozy." Breane said, she turned to the small dragon, "Alright, I'm going to sleep now, could you please leave?" Breane asked Spike "Oh! Yeah, sure!" Spike ran out of the room. "Why is he so eager to work? He's gotta only be seven! Wouldn't that be child labour?" Breane questioned the dragon's eagerness. Eventually she settled on Twilight being a motherly or sisterly figure, or he was forced to act eager in front of guests. Breane settled on the bed and stared at herself for the umpteenth time. There was a way to be a human again? Please say there was! I'd probably have to resort to killing myself if I stay as a pony. As stated, Breane was always the stubborn type. Instead of sleeping, Breane sat on her bed, thinking for three hours.The hours went by fast, as there was many things to think on. From being on a unknown planet filled with ponies to the grunt she killed almost one month ago. This was one reason why Breane would constantly volunteer for single spartan missions, she enjoyed being alone with her thoughts. Though, she still had a spartan squad, they were like siblings to her. Their commander was James Zero Five One, Breane was their close quarters soldier, they had Zack as the heavy weapons man, Clayton as the midrange, Austin as the techie and Ashley as the marksman. Breane had spent countless hours on missions with that group. Kilo Squad, that was the name of the squad. They had served with the famed Noble Squad before. That before David, the earlier noble six, has K.I.A. That was how she knew Jorge and the rest, she was particularly fond of Emile, his smartass attitude and her's fit together perfectly. The two squads served together three times. They had been sent on an orbital mission out side of Reach to deal with a few rogue covenant drop ships, they also got rid of a large resistance camp. Before the covenant war. Those were the days, Breane remembered her first mission, she was yet to get into a squad and some resistance has attacked a UNSC training camp. Luckily, only three UNSC soldiers were confirmed dead, instead of the normal of around twelve. Guess the resistance didn't know they were attacking a ODST training camp. Breane glanced at the clock situated in her room, it was nearing noon. She'd been there for three hours, two minutes and forty six seconds. Time flies when you remember fighting for your life, kicking blue Covenant ass. The Covenant were a reason Breane was against religious activists. Breane got up off her bed, the sun shined through her window as she opened the closed curtain. Breane placed her pillow in the sunlight, it was a little deflated. (Fun Fact: If you put your pillow in the sun it will fluff up, the sun absorbs the moisture which fluffs the pillow) The tall pony exited her room and began to walk down the stairs… Why was it so dark? Did Twilight and… what was his name? Spike? Yeah, Did Twilight and Spike leave? Without telling her? Man, real nice to their guests. Wait, what was that? Some thing moved, it sounded like hooves. Burglars? In this colourful, happy happy joy joy pony place? Seemed unlikely. Wait, another noise, it sounded like rubber or plastic. A balloon? Was there a pa--- A bright light flashed Breane's eyes. On instinct she jumped back, expecting a fight. But, of course it was just a party. Breane sighed, while all the ponies shouted "SURPRISE!" How had she not heard them setting up? The pink blur from before appeared in from of Breane's face, "GAH! HOW DID YOU DO THAT!" Breane shouted, extremely surprised from the sudden pink. Twilight walked up next to Breane, "Just ignore it, it's just Pinkie being Pinkie. Not everypony here is used to it yet." "Yeah, I can see how. It breaks so many laws of physics!" "You know physics?" Twilight eyed Breane, she seemed excited from how knowledgable her guest was, "Yeah it had to study it f--" "HI I'M PINKIE PIE, I MET YOU OUT SIDE LIKE A SUPER LONG TIME AGO, WELL MAYBE IT WASN'T THAT LONG BUT IT FELT SUPER LONG BECAUSE I ONLY SAW YOU ONCE AND I WANTED TO SEE YOU AGAIN. BUT THEN I REALIZED, I ONLY SAW YOU ONCE! THAT MEAN'T YOU DIDN'T KNOW ANYPONY HERE, BECAUSE I KNOW EVERY PONY HERE AND IF I NEVER MET YOU THAT MEAN'T YOU WERE NEW HERE, AND IF YOU WERE KNEW THAT MEAN'T YOU HAD NO FRIENDS AND THAT MADE ME SO SAD SO I WA--" "Yeah, okay, I get it. You felt bad for me and organized a party for me. But also, how did you organize it in three hours?" "OH, IT'S ONE OF A SUPER DUPER PARTY TALENTS! They're so super awesome because I get to make parties and parties are so so so so so so SO FUN!" "Uhh, yeah." "Do you like parties because I like parties, I mean I REALLY REALLY LIKE THEM!" "I've never been to a party." "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!" Pinkie almost screamed, surprised, confused and somewhat scared that her guest had never been to a party, "B-But, now we have to show you all the party games!" Breane winced at 'Games', "No, trust me, it's fi---" Breane was cut off by being pushed towards a snack table, "What?" "HERE, HERE TRY THESE! AND THESE! AND MAYBE THOSE? YES! YES, TRY THOSE, OH AND HOW'S THIS?" Breane was choking, almost dead, from all the different desserts being crammed down her throat. With a line of drool dribbling from her mouth, Breane spat out the foods from her mouth. If she counted correctly there were 37 different types of cupcakes and other disease causing foods, "How did I fit all that in my mouth?" Breane felt her jaw, it felt normal… if she knew what normal for a pony was. Pinkie pushed Breane around the entire party. Breane did attempt to call for help, but all the surrounding ponies ignored her, as though this was normal. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PONY! Breane's mind was screaming at her, something was wrong with 'Pinkie Pie' something more than hyper activeness. It was like Satan formed a pink pony mould, opened its brain, and poured all the craziness and 'serial killer like mind' powder he could find into this one pony. Something, god doesn't even know what it is, was wrong with this pony. "Please for the love of who ever your god is STOP!" Breane shouted at Pinkie. The party pony stopped and her mane deflated instantly, how that happened, Breane would never know. Breane edged closer to Pinkie, "Look, quick movement frighten me, where I'm from shit happens when something moves quick if it's not me. So, PLEASE, for the love of god, please stop moving so quickly!" Pinkie looked as though she was about to cry, she never meant to frighten a new friend, "I… I'm s-sorry t-that I-I s-cared y-you." Pinkie sniffed in-between each word. By now, everypony in the room was staring at the pair, "HEY! Don't ever shout at my friend!" Some strange, blue blur flew out of no where and knocked Breane of her hooves. It turns out that a cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail had Breane pinned to the ground, "Hey, lesbian looking pony, could you please get off?" Breane was irritated, no, frustrated by the sudden actions of the 'Oh so kind and caring ponies who love and tolerate' The mare snorted, "I am not a lesbian, at I'm not getting off until you apologize!" "Holy shit! I'm not apologizing! It's something so small and simple that it DOESN'T EVEN MATTER!" Yep, ever single pony had stopped the party and was staring at Rainbow Dash and Breane. "Well, if you aren't gonna apologize, then I'm not getting off!" "You really gonna do this?" Breane raised a patch of fur, where her eyebrow would have been. "Yes." "Yep, okay, fine. This is your fault." Breane pulled her front right leg out of Rainbow Dash's grasp, her strength far more superior than the athlete's. The movement caught Rainbow Dash off guard, Breane took her free hoof and delivered a punch that Winded Rainbow Dash, now it was easy to push Rainbow Dash off her. Breane sat up and looked at the surrounding ponies, a blonde orange mare with a stetson hat walked up, "Don't hurt mah friends!" She snorted and slid her hoof on the ground, acting like she was going to charge, "Look, I'm gonna stop you there. I didn't hurt her, she's just winded, look she's pretty much fine now!" Breane motioned her hoof to point at Rainbow Dash, who was off the ground and coughed. Now she was fine. "Plus, she attacked me first, so it was jus self defence. Normally I wouldn't hurt anything for no apparent reason. Now, hows about we call what I did instincts, which they were, and call it done. It doesn't need to go on further." When Breane finished she opened her eyes in her mind, 'Holy Shit, did I really just say that? Back on Reach, I woulda whipped the shit out of anyone who did that to me!' The orange mare calmed down and walked up to Breane, "Alright, fine. Ahm Applejack." Applejack extended her hoof. Guessing that it was a hand shake, or 'hoof shake' Breane placed her hoof on Applejack's and they shook each other's hoof. "Breane." The large mare looked at all the surrounding ponies, deciding on who to apologize to first. Probably Pinkie… "Well fuck, I suck at apologies…" Breane mumbled to her and walked over to Pinkie... GUESS WHATYeah, I went through some stuff (Like holy emotion time). I've been away for a long time. I'm considering if I should still write since I find my old stuff very cringe worthy. Anyways, hello.
Assualting The SpireCovenant spires, tall, blue, alien towers emitting advanced cloaking. Shielding, hiding items and intel from humans. Currently Sierra 716 and her squadron of UNSC ground troops were on a stealh mission to take out one of the many spires. "This is Sierra 716, We are currently half a klick from the mission objective and closing. The covenant is still unaware of our presence. Over" "Copy that Sierra 716, thats good to hear. Over." "As of now we will remain silent until the objective is complete. See you soon command. Over." Sierra 716's, or Breane as she was known to her fellow spartans and Dr. Halsey, squadron consisted of four falcons housing five ODSTs or marines each, excluding the driver. The shield from the spire was now an stones throw away and the falons were entering in three. Two One. When you pass through the shield, you feel a small tingeling sensation on your entire body, twenty marines/ODSTs and a spartan were all feeling this currently as they passed through. The one problem with this plan was that a spire's shield shuts down a falcon's electronics. "Shit Shit Shit! Everyone prepare for a rough landing!" Sierra 716 shouted on the comm line. One falcon crashed into another causing a fire to light up the shy. Both of the other falcons crashed onto the hard soil, but niether lost any men. Most unijured, one broken leg. Luck seemed to be with the UNSC today, somewhat. Sierra 716 recoved from the crash after a light daze. Her m6D magnum was still holstered, and her MA37 assualt rifle was a few feat away. Sierra 716 un-holstered her side arm and aimed forward to see an oncoming line of grunts, twelve bullets was equal to twelve dead grunts. Soon after the UNSC foorpt soldiers got over the haze of the crash and started picking themselves up. After one minute all the capable soldiers were in cover, laying down a heavy line of fire. The array was slowly sending the covenant back "Everyone MOVE UP!" Sierra 716 shouted. All nineteen soldiers crept their way up to the next line of rocks, this time the covenant were a bit closer. One sangheili was able to separate a rookie marine from the group. Thesangheili was a zealot and was hold a sword of pure energy in his right claw. The marine slowly crept back until he hit a solid surface. The zealot brought up his right arm, preparing for the killing blow. But it never came, the marine was sprayed with a warm, blue liquid. The private looked up to see the zealot collapsing on its side with a hole it in its head. Where the zealot was standing was a spartan with a hand held fire arm in the air "Don't get yourself killed Jenkins, be a shame to die on you first mission." The marine could only return a shakey laugh and crawl back to his position. Sierra 716 was about to do the same until she saw a grunt running in fear. On instinct she grabbed it by the mouth and brught her combat knife through its head, a swift kill. Sierra 716 saw something odd. It was a grunt but it wasn't carrying a needler or plasma pistol. What it was, was a large, metallic yellow, and shoulder mounted weapon... A fuel rod cannon. As it was running the grunt let off two shots. They were both heading towards Sierra 716, but she was able to shiftt to the right in time. The to plasma rockets streamed past Sierra 716, one hit a marine. The maarine crumpled to the ground screaming in agony as he realized his leg was blown off. The other rocket rebounded off the ground and rock and started towards an ODST "LOOK OUT!" Sierra 716 shouted at the troop. The ODST realized the spartan was shouting at him and turned over only to be met with plasma. The plasma tore off half of his entire head letting brain matter and blood leak onto the cold surface of his cover. "Fuck!" Sierra 716 shouted as a ficus rifle beam shot past her face, causing her to dive down. Sierra 716 pierred back to find the sniper, a jackal one hundred metres off. Tough shot with a magnum "Seargant Cob, lend me your sniper!" "Yes ma'am." said a thick marine. He tossed the rifle at the spartan, to most marines the rifle was one of the heaviest weapons, but to Sierra 716 it was a feather. Going over her memory of the jackal, Sierra 716 was able to get an idea of where the shot came from. Sierra 716's guees was about ten metres off, she shifted the rifle so the sights were dead on the jackal. CRACK. The sniper round left a trail of smoke as it entered and exited the jackal's head. "MOVE UP." The UNSC troops were now under the spire, next to the gravity lifts leading to the top. "Alright I want you split into even groups one going in on the left, and I will be joining the group on the right. Everyone under stand?" "YES MA'AM!" all the marines shouted in unision. "Alright lets do it!" "HOORAH!" The marines diveded in thirty seconds and entered the gravity lifts. Sierra 716 followed her group up hoping for the best. When Sierra 716 was half way up all of the marines were entering the spire. Sierra 716 began to hear screams, plasma fire and gun fire, not good. When she entered the top she was thrown into the air by the end of the gravity lift. The super soldier landed on the cylinder in between the gravity lifts and saw Private Jenkins on the floow covered in blood, all human blood. Next and elite stood over Jenkins and raised his plasma rifle. The elite released a jet of plasma which connected with Jenkins' temple killing him instantly. "NO!" The spartan screamed and launched herslf at the elite. Both landed on the ground with Sierra 716 on top. The enraged soldier shoved her MA37's barrel in the elite's mouth and squeezed on the trigger. The armor piercing rounds shredded apart the elite's head spaying bone, brain matter flesh and blood every where. Once the clip was finished Sierra 716 stood up, reloaded and was now currently holding her magnum and assualt rifle. Somewhere another elite roared and sprinted towards the sparten. The footsteps from the elite gave away its position, and Sierra 716 raised her M6D and fired off threerounds, all connecting with the elite's head. Three more elites roared from the same side as the last one, all three charged. The lone sparted sprinted for a few seconds over blood and corpses until she reached the core. Sierra 716 unloaded her entire magnum clip into the core breaking it and dropping the shields. "Command mission objective compl-- Sierra 716 was cut off by a barbed, crystaline shard connecting with her neck "Oh Shit." The needle exploded shredding part of her neck and letting blood spill out. Sierra 716 turned around and fell to her knees once she saw the elites and realized she was cornered. "Command, I don't think I'm gonna make. Fire on position." "What! No, we're sending a pelican your way!" "JUST FUCKING DO-- Once again Sierra 716 was cut off, but this time it was by energy entering and exiting her stomach "I'm dead now jus... Just do it." Sierra 716 whimpered. "It has been an honour Breane." Sierra 716 peered out the spire window and saw the UNSC Eclipse come into view and fired off a mac missile. The first landed near the spire damaging it. Another missile was shot, this one was heading for Sierra 716, it connected. White, white was the only thing that could be seen. "Great Idea Twilight, havin' ah picnic out here." "Thank you Applejack, I've come out here before and noticed this spot and thought we had to have a picnic here." "The skys clear so I can show you girls my new stunts." "Oh that would be so super-duper cool Dashie!" The six friends all had the days off from their duties, they had decided to come out for a picnic. Fluttershy had laid down a checkered blanket. Almost instantly Rainbow Dash put on a pair of shades and stretched out on the blanket. Pinkie Pie had brought five baskets of sweets, how she brought them all nopony knew. The picnic was like any other one, all the mares chatted away happily. That, of course, was until a large BOOM was heard from the everfree forest. Fluttershy and Rarity fainted "What in tarnation..?" "Girls we have to find out what that was, it could be a potentiol threat to Equestria!" "Okey Dokey Lokey, We'll be ine any ways the author says so." (God damn it Pinkie) "Pinkie you are so random, Yeah come we gotta see this girls!" Rarity started to ponder "Wha... What happened?" "Something blew up in the everyfree forest. We have to investigate it." "Well, If you don't mind I'd rather take care of Fluttershy." "Fine, Aj, Pinkie, Rainbow Dash lets go."Twilight announced. And with that two ponies ran into the forest, one flew and one... well Pinkie bounced.
Craters and somethin' metal in the EverfreeBreane's eyes opened... there was something brown covering her visor, expecting mud Breane attempted to wipe off the mud but her hand couldn't reach her face. The spartan realized that she was lying face down in the dirt. Meekly, she pushed herself on the ground and looked around. She captured and image of a crater and a forest. Then, she pasted out... Twilight and her three friends slowly crept through the forest, hoping, but also not hoping to find what had caused the explosion. "Ah really don't see the point in finding this thing Twilight." Applejack whispered, "Ah mean, couldn't we wait for tha royal guard?" "Yes, yes we could Applejack but they would take to long. They probably just heard the sound from the explosion now!" "I agree with Applejack Twilight, this doesn't really seem ethical." Rainbow Dash said, looking at her surroundings. "But this is of upmost importance to me, Princess Celestia and Equestria!" Twilight was close to shouting now. "Could you keep it down?" Applejack whispered violently. "Sorry, sorry." Twilight whispered. "Hey girls, over here!" Pinkie Pie said in a hyped up voice. "What did you find Pinkie?" Twilight ran over to her pink friend "A crater and a metal thingy!" "Thingy?" Twilight finally reached her friend and stared into the crater. As Pinkie Pie had said, there was a enormous blue and metal robot, which also had faded yellow on it. "What is that thing?" Rainbow Dash questioned, eying the strange metallic thing. "I couldn't say..." Applejack said dimly "It's weird." Pinkie Pie announced. "You girls stay back, I want to check it out but I also don't you three getting hurt." Twilight slowly crept down the crater wall and stopped and the "base" of the metal figure. The violet unicorn levitated a small piece of wood and poked the metal around a piece or orange glass. "What is this thing?" After about the third prod, the metal machine made an odd noise and lifted one of its four legs. Twilight gasped and scrambled backwards. "Are you okay Twilight?" Applejack slowly came down the wall to Twilight. "Yes, yes, I'm fine. I was just spooked by the movement." "It moved?" Applejack stared at the metal, outlandish contraption. "What happened?" Rainbow Dash started to walk down with Pinkie. "Apparently this thang moved." "What!" Rainbow Dash circled around the metal thing, putting up her hooves, preparing for hoofticuffs. "Rainbow, I really doubt that it will fight you right now silly!" "You never know Pinkie, you never know." By now the four ponies could hear distant voices shouting, "Twilight? Twilight Sparkle? Can you hear us?" "Sounds like the guards." Twilight explained, "Yes I can hear you! I'm over here!" Twilight shouted back at the voices. After about twenty seconds three royal guards entered the scene. The obvious captain instantly noticed the clunk of metal and shouted for everypony to step back while his guards disassembled the situation. The captain walked up to the four ponies and asked, "Who was the one who originally found this thing?" Twilight looked at Pinkie, who shook her head, apparently she didn't like the look of the guard. Twilight looked back to the captain, "It was me, sir." "Well then miss, you are coming with me." "Am... Am I being arrested?" "No, just for some questing. It should be very brief." "Oh, okay then. I guess I'll come." "Thank you miss, please step with us, away from your companions." Twilight stepped next to the three royal guards and the youngest one cast a teleporting spell. The spell warped four ponies and one metal, irregular object. Applejack looked to the two others and said, "Well girls, looks like we'd better get back to tha others." "Yeah, sure." Rainbow Dash said and started walking back to their friends. The guard captain had taken Twilight to a small bland room and sat her infront of a table and sat at the other end. "Alright, Ms. Sparkle. As I have already told you have done nothing wrong, I am just here to ask you a few questions about the metal object found in the Everfree forest." "Okay, sure officer." "The first question is what were you doing before you discovered the object?" "I was going out for a picnic with my friends in a field just near the entrance of the Everfree." "What are your friends names?" "Pinkamena Diane Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Fluttershy." "Those are... the Elements of Harmony correct?" "Yes." The captain wrote down a few notes. "What did you do when you first saw the object?" "My first thought was 'what is it?' but my first physical action was prodding the object with a stick to see what its reaction was." "Was there a reaction?" "Yes, the object lifted one of its legs, then the leg dropped back down and then nothing happened" "Exactly what happened after you finished your 'experiment'?" "Umm, about thirty seconds after you and your team came in." "Well, if that's all I'm gonna get, then that's all I'm gonna get. You're free to go Miss Sparkle." "Thank you." Twilight walked out the door and proceeded to exit the castle and back to Ponyville. Breane woke. The bright light was blinding her. She used her hand to shield her eyes while she sat up right. Once her eyes had adjusted to the light, Breane took in her surroundings, she was in some sort of medical bay. Except everything in this certain medical bay was extremely small. Even to small for a marine. Breane looked down and saw that the medics had layed out three beds just to suit her. Breane swung her legs over the third bed and stumbled up, "Geez, whats wrong with me?" Breane looked at the small door and almost crawled to it. She pulled herself under the minuscule door and into the hallway. Breane gazed around the also small hallway, apparently everything here was small. Breane noticed something to her left and saw two small white legs brush away from her, around a corner, and the legs had some sort of blue and bushy tail. "Is that some sort of creepy ONI experiment?" Breane questioned herself. Breane went the other way of the "experiment" and found herself walking through some sort of medieval castle. Breane pranced around a corner and bashed into something under half her height. Breane looked down and saw a equine wearing golden armour. "What in the fu..?" The equine jumped up and almost shouted "Halt!" Breane was still sitting, "Waaait, you can talk?" The equine looked at Breane again, "Silence, Come with me to the Princess." Breane raised her eyebrow under her helmet, "You serious?" "Silence! Come with me!" "Nah." Breane slapped the equine across the face, knocking it out instantly. "Wait? Did that horse say princess? Eh, probably talking about some ONI scientist." Breane got balk up and walked to a giant metal door, assuming it was the exit, and pushed it open. Once the door was open Breane walked across a garden, "Gee, ONI really out did themselves with this one." Once Brane reached a gate, she opened it and saw a enormous city, bustling with pastel coloured horses, "Holy Hell." One of the horses saw Breane and let out a high pitched scream, alerting all the other horses. "Shit."
Three Little Fillies...Immediately after the tens of horses started screaming at Breane, she ran back the way she came. But, instead of running back into the castle, Breane jumped over a wall and scaled onto an enormous garden shed in the gardens that she passed earlier. Once Breane did her best to conceal herself, it was hard because of her bulking Spartan armour, she went over the facts of the situation: Unknown Where abouts - BAD Weird ONI spawned horses - BAD Lots of ONI horses - BAD ONI horses are scared of her - BAD Horses don't know where she is - GOOD No other humans in known area - BAD ONI horses think ONI scientist is princess - BAD Some armoured, combat trained horses - BAD Fuck - BAD After reviewing the facts, Breane negatively noticed that the bad outnumbered the good. Breane noticed a sound off in the distance, it sounded like trotting. Horse getting near - BAD Breane got up to move just as the horse came into sight. The horse took notice to Breane and its horn started to glow blue. Breane attempted to jump off the shed but something was keeping her hand back. The spartan took a gander at her left hand to see that a blue aura was keeping it locked in place. Breane pulled as hard as she could, and after five seconds her hand slowly broke free of the aura. By this time four more horses, all five attired in golden armour, had appeared. Breane ran at a pace with which she could fun fifty kilometers in about ten minutes (Read this in a book, spartans can do this.) She could easily outrun the horses. Breane was about to turn a corner when another horses ran into her, white and armoured like the others. One horse tried to kick Breane but his hoof only met air. Soon after his was being thrown over Breane's back and into the ground. The blow knocked him out instantly. Breane made a stupid decision and ran into the castle. After minutes of ducking and dodging through out the castle, Breane hid in a janitor's closet. Breane kept the door open slight waiting for a guard horse to come along. Eventually one did, Breane pulled him inside and slammed it against the wall with a hand on his mouth, "Alright, I'm gonna make this quick and simple, I'm gonna ask you a few questions alright?" The horse shook its head, Breane leaned in closer, "Look, I'm a specially combat trained soldier, and I won't think twice to snap your neck. Now, will I get some answers or not?" The horse nodded, its eyes watering. Breane took her hand off its muzzle. "Alright, now first, where is the scientist?" "What?" "The scientist? The other human?" "What, what's a human?" "ME! I'm a human." Breane took off her helmet, revealing her red hair. "I've never seen anything like you!" "Shit, okay take me there." "Oh, okay." Breane jumped up, gracefully hitting her head on the ceiling, "OW, god damnit." Put her spartan helmet back on, then dragged the horse out the room. The horse noticed more horses rounding the corner, gold armour and all, "OH CELESTIA HELP ME!" Breane's eyes opened and her head turned around, "You fucking didn't." By then the other guards had noticed her. Breane picked up the horse in her hand and chucked it at the other three. Breane strutted into the group of four horses, swiftly punched two and knocked them. She grabbed the other in a choke hold, keeping them there until they were unconscious. Breane looked at, who she thought was the pony that screamed, and spoke, "You know you didn't have to do that, now more are going to be coming for me." Breane picked him up and slammed him into the wall, making him stuck in the wall. She kept walking down the opposite way of the pile of horses where, as she had said, more horses were. At their lead was a more noticeable horse, his mane was two shades of blue, and his armour stood our from the rest, "Stop, in the name of Celestia!" "Who?" "Princess Celestia!" "Who is that?" "Answers later, Draw!" All the horses drew pikes, pointing them directly at Breane. The spartan slowly crept backwards towards a window behind her. Breane thought to herself, Alright, make a sudden movement, get the leader next to you. Breane spang backwards, causing the leader to follow her. Breane grabbed the end of the pike, pulled the leader close and threw him threw the window. Breane, still holding onto the leader horse, as he dangled thousands of meters of the ground, shouted, "ALRIGHT! I WANT SOME ANSWERS! GIVE ME THEM, OR YOU FALL!" The captain looked scared but said, "No." Breane lifted a finger from his hoof, "You sure?" The captain sighed, "Fine, fine." "Well first, tell your men to stand down." The captain shouted through the window, "Stand down." "Good, now first question: where am I?" "You don't know?" "Do NOT answer my questions with more questions." "Fine, your in Equestria." "And, where might that be?" "On the planet of Eque." "Shit. Alright, I want an audience with your leader. And I mean of your empire, city whatever." "You mean Princess Celestia?" "Yes, sure." "Then pull me up." Breane strengthened her grip and pulled the horse into the hallway. One it was back on its feat Breane spoke to it, "Alright, I want to be taken straight to your leader, whether they're expecting me or not." The horse scowled, "She will be angry from and disturbance, but alright." As the group of horses criss-crossed through the endless hallways, Breane noticed how primitive this civilization was to her own. They still used pikes and such for weapons, stone and wood for structures, metal armour, no major technology. It was surprising to her how not all civilizations had progressed this little, despite her intense education with the other spartans. The leader horse finally approached two large golden doors, he opened them and walked through. As Breane came closer she took notice that the doors were real gold, with actual gems in the middle. "Damn..." The horses stopped and bowed upon a throne. The throne had a horse on it, actually it was a pegasus... no a unicorn. No, both. "Wait, what?" Breane finally took notice to the other horses around her, there were peguses, unicorns and even normal horses. Then there was this one horse that was all three. Is that what made her special? Maybe it was her mane that looked alive? Damn, where was she? The pegasus/unicorn horse looked at the leader horse, "Yes Shining Armour, what is it?" The pegasus/unicorn looked behind 'Shining Armour' at Breane, "Or need I ask." "Hopefully not Princess. This is what was recovered from the Everfree Forest yesterday." "I thought it wasn't moving." "As many thought, it then woke up. And injured some ponies." "What!" Breane spoke up, "You know what? In my defence, I woke up in a unknown place, I get out of a room, one of the horses attacks me, I defend myself, I walk outside and there is THOUSANDS of horses, I run back into this castle and you guys start attacking me! OF COURSE I AM GOING TO FUCKING INJUR SONE UNKOWN SPECIES THAT ATTACKS ME!" All 'ponies' in the room gazed at Breane, surprised by her sudden outburst. She did admit, her temper wasn't the longest. The calmest looking, the one on the throne, though still surprised spoke, "I see your reason,..." Breane took off her helmet, "My name's Breane or Spartan 716." "Well then Breane, you must understand you are an unknown creature that showed up in a local forest. Your armour, or whatever it may be, was beyond what we know. You scared us so we decided to study you, learn about you." "You could'a just asked." "You were unconscious for a day." "Could'a waited." Breane also more of a stubborn spartan. Breane quickly thought up a question that was on the back of her mind, "So, I'm awake now. What are you going to do with me?" Princess Celestia got up from her throne and walked down to the living war machine, "Well, I hadn't thought of it, because we didn't know if you would wake up or not." Breane's eyes went wide, she had realized something. Something that obviously made this and ONI experiment, "How do you horses know english?" The large, white equine looked annoyed, "It's ponies, and I have never heard of this english that you speak of, the language used here is Equestrian." Breane's eyes went from surprised to thoughtful, she began to think out loud, "Apparently I'm on a different planet, with a completely different species and we speak the same language." Breane started to ignore the ponies in the room, lost in thought. Shining Armour nudged Breane, "There IS a princess in the room you know." Breane, annoyed by the white unicorn, looked down at Princess Celestia, "Yeah?" "You are correct, with the things you have stated, with us being from different planets, a different species yet we speak the same language. I think it would be best that you stay with my star pupil, Twilight Sparkle. It would be a great learning opportunity for her plus you two can figure out a answer to our thoughts." Damn, Breane thought, going to stay with ponies. The princess began to write a letter, "What the fu..." The princess quizzically looked at the spartan, "Is something wrong?" "Yeah, how the hell are you holding that?" Breane pointed at the note and quill The authoritative pony calmly said, "Magic." Breane snorted, "Yeah sure, now what's the real answer." The princess raised an eye row, if she had one, "I am not lying." "Wait, then... the... nevermind." Breane thought, Fuck it, they got pegasuses and unicorns and a mix of them, guess magic might as well be legit as well. The princess began to pronounce her letter, "Dear Twilight Sparkle, I have arranged that a special guest has come to stay with you, I see this as a learning opportunity for you. Princess Celestia." The letter rose up infront of her and disappeared in a flash. About a minute later another letter appeared out of nowhere. Celestia read out loud, "Dear Princess Celestia, I am very curious as to who this special guest is and what learning opportunities they may provide. From Twilight Sparkle." Princess Clestia wrote a fast letter and sent it back, all the while Breane was amazed by the flashing of letters. Again, she decided not to argue with another planet's laws, "Alright, when do I leave for Twilight?" Breane suppressed a laugh, the name on this planet were hilarious. "Right away, I'd hope." "Sure." Breane grunted. Breane was lead to a open field where there were many chariots waiting around. There was also a long slick rode, looking like a runway of sorts. Two ponies strode infront of Breane. They showed her to a single chariot and instructed her to get on the ancient Roman vehicle. Breane stepped on and almost immediately sat down. To two ponies to escorted her strapped onto two harnesses on the front of the chariot. The vehicle was already ready to go down the runway so the ponies started to run. They couldn't. The one ton heavy soldier was more than they were used to pulling. One of the armoured ponies sighed and walked off into the castle. "Where's he going?" Breane asked the other equine. Her merely grunted, apparently not wanting a conversation. After a odd few minutes the pony returned with two more and two more harnesses. The three guards strapped onto the chariot in a brisk pace. The four male looking ponies started to sprint down the runway. Slowly but surely they were able to get into the air. Breane stared at the feathery wings of the mythological creatures. The chariot slowly passed over the city and descended. Breane gazed over the side and gasped when she saw that the palace she was just running around in was also a city suspended on a mountain. The mountain side city was slowly becoming smaller and the chariot flew over a field. Breane rested her head on the side wall of the chariot. She slowly fell asleep. Breane's body slowly adjusted in her sleep, the pony guards were completely unaware when the one ton alien fell of the chariot. Some how they couldn't tell that the chariot became one ton lighter. The Cutie Mark Crusaders were having so much fun. The trio were having a sleep over in their club house constructed on Sweet Apple Acres. They were aloud to sleep in their headquarters after some convincing towards Appleblooms's elder sister Applejack, the famed farmpony of Ponyville. The reason these three fillies wanted to sleep in their club house was so that they could creep into the Everfree forest. These three devoted fillies thought that they could find a Cutie Mark of sorts in the infamous forest. Though, all wasn't going according to plan. The Cutie Mark Crusaders had woken later that wanted, and they were currently in a debate of whose fault it was, or atleast two of them were, "YOU were the one who was supposed to wake us up!" Scootaloo pointed a accusing hoof at her friend Sweetie Belle. "What! You were!" Sweetie Belle retorted "Gals, let's just go? Ah'm sure it'll be fine." Apple Bloom hated seeing her fellow Cruesaders fight. "Yeah sure, we all agreed that you'd wake us up!" Scootaloo pointed another hoof then fell, both of her forehooves were pointed at the small white unicorn. Both the other crusaders snorted, Scootaloo looked annoyed, "Fine, let's just go." The small ponies put on their signature capes and set out into the near by forest. Apple Bloom was in the lead, holding a big lantern in her mouth, Scootaloo was in second and Sweetie Belle took up the rear, "Do you really think it's safe out here?" Sweetie Belle nervously eyed the surrounding trees. "What? After Fluttershy gave that cockatrice the stare, no thing will mess with us!" Scootaloo confidently replied to her friend. "Ah dunno, Sweetie Belle could be right about it naht being safe 'round here. Ah think we should be careful" Apple Bloom warned her pegasus friend. Scootaloo seemed to be ignoring them now, bouncing around she took notice to many things they could earn their cutie mark from. As she was blabbering random cutie mark ideas, Apple Bloom eyed Sweetie Belle and shot a worried face towards her filly friend. The trio carried on for what seemed like hours but was only about ten minutes, so far no cutie marks had come their way. Apple Bloom began to feel down, "Maybe we should just head back." Her negative attitude did try to get solved by her friends, but they slowly came to agree with their farmpony friend. Scootaloo sadly said, "Yeah sure, but..." The orange filly looked around, "Which way did we come?" The fillies all had their eyes shooting around in fear, eventually they recoiled in fear all next to each other, "Does anyone remember the way we came?" Sweetie Belle nervously asked her friends, "Nah, all tha trees 'round here look tha same!" Apple Bloom whispered, hoping none of the evil creatures in the would here her. Off in distance a loud, baritone roar could be heard. It shook the trees, land and three little fillies who were now scared half to death. "Wha.. Was that ah manticore?" Apple Bloom shivered, getting closer than thought possible to her friends. "I think so." Scootaloo tried to not looked scared infront of her friends, but was failing miserably. On the other hand, Sweetie Belle looked like she was about to scream. Actually she was about to scream. Both Scootaloo and Apple Bloom tackled Sweetie Belle to cover her mouth. They, under no circumstances, wanted to alert the creatures of the Everfree. Again, the Manticore roared, except this time, it sounded closer. The fallen spartan woke, there was dirt in her visor, and her head hurt like hell. Not likeable conditions. Breane swiped the dirt off her orange visor and sat up. Her head was throbbing, "There wouldn't be Aspirin here, would there?" Breane asked no one in particular. A soft grunt emerged from behind a metal helmet as Breane jumped up, her metal boots making a soft clunk on the small rocks and earth. Off in the distance, an orange glow was settling over a forest, night was coming. Breane fumbled for the switch on the back of her helmet, turning on night vision. The spartan could see flickering lights obviously coming from a town of village. They were just beyond the edge of a forest, the forest seemed decently seized compared to some of the massive forests on Reach. Deciding that civilization was the best option right now, besides being in an unfamiliar planet, Breane began to walk to the forest. Breane hoped that there would be no inconveniences while she headed into the town. She hoped wrong. When one first enters the forest the trees are spread out, but as you get deeper into the forest, the trees begin to close in on you, making one claustrophobic and having not very much moving space. But for Breane, she was taller and bulkier than the native species of this land, which significantly decreased the moving space, "Damn, maybe this was a bad idea. I coulda ran around this forest." Breane looked behind her to see that the trees looked even denser behind her, even though that's the way she came, "What? That's gotta be impossible." Breane was dumbfounded by what had happened, having no other way to go, she continued forward. The crowded forest was giving Breane a pain, she was walking sideways. And the little to no foot space mean't she kept hitting one foot into the other, small branches, seemingly coming out of no where, kept scraping across her visor making a very annoying screeching noise and she felt like she was getting nowhere. Eventually, after a mentally painful walk, Breane stumbled into a clearing, "Thank god." Breane said to no one. Breane walked into the middle of the clearing and sat down resting her aching feat. The spartan sat for five minutes before she heard a twig snap and a roar, the roar was extremely close. At the sound of the twig, Breane jumped up and dashed into a bush. Using her hands to clear a small way in the bush Breane looked into the clearing, mouth agape. What she saw seemed impossible, despite so many other impossible things on this planet. There was a large creature in the middle of the clearing, where Breane was sitting not moments ago. The creature had the head and body of a lion, wings closely resembling a bat's and a over sized scorpion tail. The creature looked oddly familiar, even though Breane had never come into contact with one. But that was exactly it, Breane had never come into contact with one, yet she had seen them. Breane had seem them in books about both ancient Greek and Persian myths. The manticore, originally named Mantichora, was of Persian myth origin, but was renamed Manticore by the Greeks. "How in the hell?" Breane eyed the creature as it continued out the clearing and back into the forest. Unsure of what to do now, Breane pursued after the Manticore, thinking she could out run it if the manticore noticed her. The mythical creature acted as though it was after something, even though Breane couldn't see anything obvious. 'Must be smell.' Breane thought to herself. The creature had a nose so it must've been using it. Breane followed the creature for atleast another two minutes before they entered another clearing. Breane dived behind another bush, smart enough not to follow the creature into a clearing. The creature stopped for sure in the middle of the clearing, stuck its head up and began to sniff the air. 'Knew it, it was using smell.' The manticore began to walk to a small tree opposite to Breane. If one listend closely, you could hear three sets of nervous breathing. As the menacing paws of the manticore crept towards the tree, the breathing's noise elevated, making the manticore move faster. This continued for seconds, long dreadful seconds. The manticore was almost at the tree when something odd happened. A small orange, purple and red blur came out from behind the tree. The blur was emitting a noise before it stumbled and came to a stop. The blur turned into a small pony, it was also armoured with a red cape. The manticore, surprised by the event, turned on the blur and began to growl, the pony quivered in fear. "Holy sh-- that looks like one of the ponies!" Breane thought over what she could do, either let the manticore get the pony or possibly get injured defending the pony. The spartan thought that the latter was more appealing but would never hear the end of it if there were more ponies around. "Well, shit..." Breane squinted her eyes and charged at the mythical beast. The manticore changed it's attention to the charging soldier, it growled and attempted attacking, but it didn't get a chance. Instead a metal foot collided with it's face. The blow pushed the beast back. It growled in anger before realeasing a menacing roar. The manticore jumped at Breane, but she was already gone. The beast looked up confused, trying to find its pray. The prey ended up on its back, holding its neck in blue, metal arms. The would end up being fatal to the manticore, so it used its massive scorpion tail to its advantage. The tail missed the spartan but hit the manticore's own back side. The blow hurt, but the manticore's own venom had no effect on it. Breane noticed the tail and edged further up the manticore, out of reach form it's tail. But, the manticore still thought it could hit Breane and kept and stabbing itself, eventually drawing blood. All the while, two more small ponies crept out from behind the tree and crawled towards their friend. Then, the three small ponies watched the spartan and the manticore wrestle. In a sort of bucking motion, the manticore threw Breane off itself. Breane's helmet was also thrown off her by the brute force of the ravage animal. Breane landed in a patch of blue flowers, she barely had time to react before the manticore jumped at her again. Breane moved missing most of the claw, but one caught the black body suit in between the armour's outer alloy. Breane cried out in pain and the massive gash began seeping out. The smell of fresh blood made the manticore even more determined to catch its pray. It jumped again, but in a flash of pain, Breane had jumped on it again. This time wrapping her legs around the monstrous creatures neck. The next minute was a minute of pure struggle. The manticore was thrashing around trying to get Brean off. But, Breane was resilient to stay on. The manticore's face became a deep shade of purple, visible under it's fur. Its movements became slower and less powerful, all before it came to a stop. The beast crashed down to the earth, where Breane jumped off. She gave its neck an almighty crack, taking an instant dislike to manticores. "Damn, that was odd... Who else is gonna fight a mythological creature?" Breane chuckled to herself. Breane remembered why she had fought the manticore in the first place. She turned around and gazed at the three small ponies. They all looked smaller than the princess and her guards, they even looked to be toddlers. "Hey." Breane crouched down to get to their eye level, even though they were barely two feet tall. "Are you guys alright?" Breane put on a reassuring face, though winced from her massive gash. "Look, I'm not gonna hurt you." The spartan offered a helping hand, trying to get an interaction out of the fillies. They stayed stiff as a board. "Um, let's start with named alright?" None of the fillies moved. "I'll start, I'm Breane." She looked at all three of the fillies, putting on a wishful face. A yellow filly with a bow in her mane opened her mouth, "Ahm A-Apple B-Bloom." She stepped back in fear. Breane put on a fake smile, "Hi Apple Bloom, now you tell me your name." She looked at a small white unicorn, "I'm Sweetie Belle." She mumbled, barely audible, but Breane could still hear, "Now you." She pointed her already out hand at the small orange pegasus. "I…" The fillie gulped, "I'm S-Scootal-loo." "Is there anyway I can get you three home?" Apple Bloom spoke up, "We, we got lost. We don't know where we are?" "Akkor miért jöttél el die?" Breane mumbled in her native language, "Well, I was heading towards a town over there." Breane pointed to her right. "Is it Ponyville?" Apple Bloom nervously questioned, still unsure if the hulking, metal biped. "I'm not sure, but it's civilization." Breane answered "Then sure we'll c-come." Sweetie Belle squeaked. "Alright, it's settled. You guys come with me, and I'll drop you off at the town." "O-okay." Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle answered their saviour. But, Scootaloo stayed silent. Breane got up and strayed over to her helmet. Breane placed her helmet back on her head and returned to the fillies, "Alright, let's go." Breane walked at a brisk pace. "Hey wait up!" Breane looked back to see she put twenty metres between her and the fillies. Right, she had much longer legs. After the fillies had caught up with her, they continued their eventless journey through the Everfree forest. The walk was awkward and boring, Breane didn't have any thing to saw, and the fillies were too scared to say anything, even to each other. Though, thankfully, the awkwardness came to a stop when the group reached the edge of the forest, "Is this Ponyville?" Breane asked the trio, getting an answer out of Apple Bloom. "Y-yeah, sure is. Thank yah, miss… Bree-ann." Apple Bloom fumbled with the pronunciation of Breane's name before taking off with her friends, "Sure know how to treat guests, don't they?" Breane chuckled to herself. With her night vision still in, Breane could see it was still night out. Having no where to sleep, she settled next to a nearby oak tree. With her helmet off, and in a decently comfortable position, Breane drifted off to sleep...
CivilizationTwilight woke up from her sleep, the librarian had a nervous night, after receiving word from Princess Celestia that she would be having a guest, she got Spike to tidy the library. And, after reading that the guest could provide a learning experience, Twilight set thirty pages, three inkwells and four quills. But, after staying up until 1:30 AM, Twilight became nervous that the guest would never arrive. Drowsiness pulled her to her bed and she drifted off. Hopefully, the guest would arrive today so she would stop chewing her hoofs. Breane awoke, and sat up… something wasn't right. She felt awkward. She could see, hear and feel fine. But something was still amiss. She felt her face again, that's when she noticed what was wrong. She had no fingers, and her hand felt hard. Like a hoof… Like a hoof, Breane looked down and at bottom legs and almost screamed. Instead of her normal armour covered human legs, were two blue, fur covered pony legs. Breane's eyes widened as she jumped up, "Mi a szar történt vellum!" (WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO ME!) Breane couldn't stopped eying herself. She was a pony, a goddamn pony! Why was a a pony! And where was her armour! Breane gasped, where was her armour? Another fast inspection of herself, showed that she had no armour on. Breane looked at her surroundings and saw that her armour and her black jump suit were in a messy pile next to the tree she slept by. But, how oh how, did her armour get off her? Breane fell down in confusion. What the hell was happening? Breane stared ahead, remembering the town was apparently called 'Ponyville' according to Apple Bloom. Breane remembered last night, the manticore and the three fillies. Breane always had a thing for kids, after her brutal training as a child, she felt bad for children and was always looking out for them. "Nos, azt kell, és én vagyok a póni…" (Well, there all ponies and I'm a pony.) Breane thought it best that she headed into the village. At least her being pony wouldn't cause any confusion, hopefully. The part of the town she entered seemed somewhat empty, save for a few ponies that would take one look at her before returning to there lives. Breane entered a slightly more populated part of town. All the ponies were staring at her, and it didn't take a genius to tell why. Breane was taller than all the other mares and stallions and significantly buffer than them too. When Breane entered what appeared to be the town square, she was confronted by a pink pony with a puffy pink mane. The mare took one look at her before her eyes widened and she ran away. "Umm…" Breane back away from the space where the pink pony just was. Some of the residents around her giggled. After another few minutes, Breane remembered what the princess had said. Breane grabbed the shoulder of a random pony, her mane and coat were peppermint colour and she had a flash of white in her mane and tail, "Hey do you know where a 'Twilight Sparkle' lives?" Breane asked the mare "Huh? OH, yeah yeah, she lives in a tree down this road. You can't miss it." "A tree?" "Yeah! It's the town library!" "Okay, thank you." Breane began to walk down the street again "My name's Lyra Heartstrings by the way!" The mare called after her Breane ignored the pony and continued down the road. The cobble street went on for a while, but as Lyra had stated, there was an obvious tree shaped into a building. "Thats… new?" Breane paced to the door on the tree and knocked. After a few seconds, Breane heard some shuffling on a the inside of the settlement. Again, some more shuffling before the door opened. There was a room full of books, shelves and shelves of books, like a library, on the inside. "Hello?" Breane asked, confused by the lack of a pony at the door. "Down here!" a deep child's voice spoke. Breane looked down and saw a purple and green reptilian, "What the!" Breane jumped back into a defensive stance, or what she thought was one considering she was a pony. "Oh… never seen a dragon?" The reptile grumbled "Dragon!" Breane exclaimed at the said dragon. "Yeah, yeah. Don't worry I'm not old enough to breath fire or anything." His eyes drooped. Unsure about him, Breane asked, "Is this where Twilight Sparkle lives?" "Yeah, sure is!" The dragon shot up, "I'm Spike by the way!" Breane." The spartan, now pony, responded in an monotone way. "I'll go get her!" Spike went back into the library and Breane's eyes followed him, her went up some steps and a few voices could be heard. "An invitation in would have been nice." Breane grumbled to herself. The dragon came back down the stairs, but now followed by a violet unicorn. Her main and tail had two shades of purple and one of pink. Her flank also adorned a star typed image. Breane checked her flank and saw a pair of boxing gloves, "What are these for?" Breane asked herself. "Did you ask for me?" The voice brought Breane back to the library, "What? Oh, yeah I did." Breane responded to the unicorn. Twilight's eyes widened, "Oh, oh come in." She said sheepishly "Thanks." Breane stepped in and saw… more books. "My name is Twilight Sparkle, star student of Princess Celestia and this is my number one assistant Spike!" Twilight addressed the hulking pony. "Yeah, the princess told me." Breane turned to face Twilight. "You know the princess?" Twilight's face turned a mix of surprised and happy "Sure, she told me to come here." Breane said keeping her monotone voice. "Oh, are you the guest I'm having?" Twilight's face light up more, thinking of the learning opportunity "I guess, Breane by the way." She repeated her name to Twilight. "That's an… odd name." Twilight closed the door to her library. "Yeah well, it's my name. So, do I have a bed or am I sleeping on a couch?" "Yes you have a room, why did you think you wouldn't?" Twilight giggled "Nah, I'm just tired. Yesterday was terrible for me." "You want to sleep?" Twilight's face saddened. "Yeah, why?" "It's just… I was told that you could provide a learning opportunity." "I think that's best saved for later." Breane thought she should present information once she was back to a human and 'Ponyville' was used to her, god that was a weird name 'Ponyville' "Oh, but… Nevermind. Hey, do you know anypony here?" Anypony? Wow, just wow, "No, I just met a pony called Lyra trying to figure out where you lived. But I'm not aquatinted with anyone." "Anypony." Twilight corrected "What?" "Anypony, it's proper!" Twilight smiled "I say anyone, just let me say it? What were you talking about a second ago? About me know anyone here?" Twilight's eye twitched, any form of speech error was a personal tartarus for her," I just thought that maybe you'd like to meet my friends?" No, please for the love of god no, "How about after I finish sleeping?" Hopefully I wake up back on Reach. "Oh, okay. Spike, could you show our guest to her room?" "Okay! Follow me Breane!" Spike ran up the stares. Breane slowly followed. Spike led Breane to a small room neighbouring Twilight's. The had only a bed, bedside table with a lamp and a bookshelf in it. "Cozy." Breane said, she turned to the small dragon, "Alright, I'm going to sleep now, could you please leave?" Breane asked Spike "Oh! Yeah, sure!" Spike ran out of the room. "Why is he so eager to work? He's gotta only be seven! Wouldn't that be child labour?" Breane questioned the dragon's eagerness. Eventually she settled on Twilight being a motherly or sisterly figure, or he was forced to act eager in front of guests. Breane settled on the bed and stared at herself for the umpteenth time. There was a way to be a human again? Please say there was! I'd probably have to resort to killing myself if I stay as a pony. As stated, Breane was always the stubborn type. Instead of sleeping, Breane sat on her bed, thinking for three hours.The hours went by fast, as there was many things to think on. From being on a unknown planet filled with ponies to the grunt she killed almost one month ago. This was one reason why Breane would constantly volunteer for single spartan missions, she enjoyed being alone with her thoughts. Though, she still had a spartan squad, they were like siblings to her. Their commander was James Zero Five One, Breane was their close quarters soldier, they had Zack as the heavy weapons man, Clayton as the midrange, Austin as the techie and Ashley as the marksman. Breane had spent countless hours on missions with that group. Kilo Squad, that was the name of the squad. They had served with the famed Noble Squad before. That before David, the earlier noble six, has K.I.A. That was how she knew Jorge and the rest, she was particularly fond of Emile, his smartass attitude and her's fit together perfectly. The two squads served together three times. They had been sent on an orbital mission out side of Reach to deal with a few rogue covenant drop ships, they also got rid of a large resistance camp. Before the covenant war. Those were the days, Breane remembered her first mission, she was yet to get into a squad and some resistance has attacked a UNSC training camp. Luckily, only three UNSC soldiers were confirmed dead, instead of the normal of around twelve. Guess the resistance didn't know they were attacking a ODST training camp. Breane glanced at the clock situated in her room, it was nearing noon. She'd been there for three hours, two minutes and forty six seconds. Time flies when you remember fighting for your life, kicking blue Covenant ass. The Covenant were a reason Breane was against religious activists. Breane got up off her bed, the sun shined through her window as she opened the closed curtain. Breane placed her pillow in the sunlight, it was a little deflated. (Fun Fact: If you put your pillow in the sun it will fluff up, the sun absorbs the moisture which fluffs the pillow) The tall pony exited her room and began to walk down the stairs… Why was it so dark? Did Twilight and… what was his name? Spike? Yeah, Did Twilight and Spike leave? Without telling her? Man, real nice to their guests. Wait, what was that? Some thing moved, it sounded like hooves. Burglars? In this colourful, happy happy joy joy pony place? Seemed unlikely. Wait, another noise, it sounded like rubber or plastic. A balloon? Was there a pa--- A bright light flashed Breane's eyes. On instinct she jumped back, expecting a fight. But, of course it was just a party. Breane sighed, while all the ponies shouted "SURPRISE!" How had she not heard them setting up? The pink blur from before appeared in from of Breane's face, "GAH! HOW DID YOU DO THAT!" Breane shouted, extremely surprised from the sudden pink. Twilight walked up next to Breane, "Just ignore it, it's just Pinkie being Pinkie. Not everypony here is used to it yet." "Yeah, I can see how. It breaks so many laws of physics!" "You know physics?" Twilight eyed Breane, she seemed excited from how knowledgable her guest was, "Yeah it had to study it f--" "HI I'M PINKIE PIE, I MET YOU OUT SIDE LIKE A SUPER LONG TIME AGO, WELL MAYBE IT WASN'T THAT LONG BUT IT FELT SUPER LONG BECAUSE I ONLY SAW YOU ONCE AND I WANTED TO SEE YOU AGAIN. BUT THEN I REALIZED, I ONLY SAW YOU ONCE! THAT MEAN'T YOU DIDN'T KNOW ANYPONY HERE, BECAUSE I KNOW EVERY PONY HERE AND IF I NEVER MET YOU THAT MEAN'T YOU WERE NEW HERE, AND IF YOU WERE KNEW THAT MEAN'T YOU HAD NO FRIENDS AND THAT MADE ME SO SAD SO I WA--" "Yeah, okay, I get it. You felt bad for me and organized a party for me. But also, how did you organize it in three hours?" "OH, IT'S ONE OF A SUPER DUPER PARTY TALENTS! They're so super awesome because I get to make parties and parties are so so so so so so SO FUN!" "Uhh, yeah." "Do you like parties because I like parties, I mean I REALLY REALLY LIKE THEM!" "I've never been to a party." "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!" Pinkie almost screamed, surprised, confused and somewhat scared that her guest had never been to a party, "B-But, now we have to show you all the party games!" Breane winced at 'Games', "No, trust me, it's fi---" Breane was cut off by being pushed towards a snack table, "What?" "HERE, HERE TRY THESE! AND THESE! AND MAYBE THOSE? YES! YES, TRY THOSE, OH AND HOW'S THIS?" Breane was choking, almost dead, from all the different desserts being crammed down her throat. With a line of drool dribbling from her mouth, Breane spat out the foods from her mouth. If she counted correctly there were 37 different types of cupcakes and other disease causing foods, "How did I fit all that in my mouth?" Breane felt her jaw, it felt normal… if she knew what normal for a pony was. Pinkie pushed Breane around the entire party. Breane did attempt to call for help, but all the surrounding ponies ignored her, as though this was normal. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PONY! Breane's mind was screaming at her, something was wrong with 'Pinkie Pie' something more than hyper activeness. It was like Satan formed a pink pony mould, opened its brain, and poured all the craziness and 'serial killer like mind' powder he could find into this one pony. Something, god doesn't even know what it is, was wrong with this pony. "Please for the love of who ever your god is STOP!" Breane shouted at Pinkie. The party pony stopped and her mane deflated instantly, how that happened, Breane would never know. Breane edged closer to Pinkie, "Look, quick movement frighten me, where I'm from shit happens when something moves quick if it's not me. So, PLEASE, for the love of god, please stop moving so quickly!" Pinkie looked as though she was about to cry, she never meant to frighten a new friend, "I… I'm s-sorry t-that I-I s-cared y-you." Pinkie sniffed in-between each word. By now, everypony in the room was staring at the pair, "HEY! Don't ever shout at my friend!" Some strange, blue blur flew out of no where and knocked Breane of her hooves. It turns out that a cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail had Breane pinned to the ground, "Hey, lesbian looking pony, could you please get off?" Breane was irritated, no, frustrated by the sudden actions of the 'Oh so kind and caring ponies who love and tolerate' The mare snorted, "I am not a lesbian, at I'm not getting off until you apologize!" "Holy shit! I'm not apologizing! It's something so small and simple that it DOESN'T EVEN MATTER!" Yep, ever single pony had stopped the party and was staring at Rainbow Dash and Breane. "Well, if you aren't gonna apologize, then I'm not getting off!" "You really gonna do this?" Breane raised a patch of fur, where her eyebrow would have been. "Yes." "Yep, okay, fine. This is your fault." Breane pulled her front right leg out of Rainbow Dash's grasp, her strength far more superior than the athlete's. The movement caught Rainbow Dash off guard, Breane took her free hoof and delivered a punch that Winded Rainbow Dash, now it was easy to push Rainbow Dash off her. Breane sat up and looked at the surrounding ponies, a blonde orange mare with a stetson hat walked up, "Don't hurt mah friends!" She snorted and slid her hoof on the ground, acting like she was going to charge, "Look, I'm gonna stop you there. I didn't hurt her, she's just winded, look she's pretty much fine now!" Breane motioned her hoof to point at Rainbow Dash, who was off the ground and coughed. Now she was fine. "Plus, she attacked me first, so it was jus self defence. Normally I wouldn't hurt anything for no apparent reason. Now, hows about we call what I did instincts, which they were, and call it done. It doesn't need to go on further." When Breane finished she opened her eyes in her mind, 'Holy Shit, did I really just say that? Back on Reach, I woulda whipped the shit out of anyone who did that to me!' The orange mare calmed down and walked up to Breane, "Alright, fine. Ahm Applejack." Applejack extended her hoof. Guessing that it was a hand shake, or 'hoof shake' Breane placed her hoof on Applejack's and they shook each other's hoof. "Breane." The large mare looked at all the surrounding ponies, deciding on who to apologize to first. Probably Pinkie… "Well fuck, I suck at apologies…" Breane mumbled to her and walked over to Pinkie...
GUESS WHATYeah, I went through some stuff (Like holy emotion time). I've been away for a long time. I'm considering if I should still write since I find my old stuff very cringe worthy. Anyways, hello.
