“Status report!” shouted a distraught captain Keyes.
“Sir, we appear to have lost engine power in the main thrusters, and a large hole in the side of the ship is currently being repaired by all the repair drones we could spare.” Replied Serina, the ships A.I
“Damn” replied cutter under his breath. The covenant super carrier, a divine wind had torn a massive hole in the side of the UNSC cruiser pillar of autumn with a barrage of plasma torpedoes. The ship was hit with another plasma torpedo and rocked violently for a moment, when Keyes regained composure he said, “dammit, Cortana, prep the MAC cannons and secure targets!”
“Aye sir, Mass Accelerated Cannon primed, loaded, and ready to fire.”
“Good, target their weapons system and engage the enemy.”
“Aye”
Three long white streaks of tungsten metal, each weighing over 600 tonnes, flew out of the MAC cannon barrel at Around point four tenths of the speed of light; the first weakened the shield, the second destroyed the shield and the third lodged itself in the plasma torpedo tube. The covenant super carrier happily returned fire; only to have the plasma torpedo hit the embedded MAC round and detonate.
“Covenant super carrier is now officially out of commission.” Stated Cortana.
“Such a beautiful sight.” Sighed Keyes, as he witnessed the super carrier consume itself with a fluorescent blue explosion. Lightening surged through the maelstrom of plasma that was once a large, purple, flying bowling pin (a bowling pin, is the UNSC slang for the shape of the covenant space vessels).
“SIR! MULTIPLE COVENANT VESSELS APPROACHING OUR SIX!” shouted a very nervous naval radar scanner. “God be with us, all right men, it has been an honour.” “Same here captain” said a technician; he was followed by a loud “OORAH!”
“Cortana, acquire closest targets and buy us some time while we prep for a slip space jump!”
“AYE SIR”
Round after round was hurled out of the MAC cannon at astonishing speeds, plasma torpedos and plasma bolts sped past the fleeing vessel, the point defence guns took out the puny covenant fighters and detonated some of the torpedos, but this had little effect.“Oh, and Cortana, what’s the status on the repairs?”
“Main engines are functioning well, and the lower deck is now habitable”
“Good!”
“Sir, tangos approaching from all sides, we will be fired upon in six… five”
“Sir 5 seconds till slip space jump.”
“This is going to be very close”
“Hold on to your skin boys, this is going to get bumpy.” joked Cortana.
Everyone was hurled to the ground, as a stray plasma torpedo smashed into the lower main thrusters, this caused a fault in the Shaw-Fujikawa trans light slip space drive, throwing them from the safety of the slip space tunnel, and into an area of un-explored space.
Unfortunately, a covenant super carrier, which had the same problem (caused by a well placed MAC round) exited just after the UNSC vessel.
“Shit” Keyes yelled. “Cortana, take that fucker down!” screamed an enraged captain Keyes.
“With pleasure sir.”
“That sure is odd.” Said a studious lavender unicorn, as she gazed at a star that flashed dully for a moment, “In broad daylight?” she then acquired her telescope and then examined it further.
Just then, another bright light flashed, followed by streaks of white light, and balls of blue, flying through space, causing explosions here and there. “Oh MY!”
“Cortana! Prime the EMP cannon.”
“Sir, we have yet to test it on covenant vessels”
“I don’t care, we are running out of options, and it will be a long time before we get another impossibly lucky shot.”
Cortana sighed and replied, “Aye sir, target locked, firing in three, two, one…..
An electric blue beam with lightning streaking from it, whizzed from bellow the MAC cannon, and collided with the large cruiser and disabled it completely.
“HA, take that you FUKKA!” shouted a victorious marine.
“Cortana, finish the fight.”
“With pleasure sir, just one problem…”
“What?”
“Well, the firing of the E.M.P disabled the MAC cannon for a while, we should take refuge on that planet, or at least attain orbit, we can deal with the covenant later.”
“WOW! Omygoshomygosh I have to tell princess Celestia now!” said the unicorn after witnessing the strange spacial anomaly. “Spike! Get here now!” she shouted, soon after footsteps could be heard as a small green and purple baby dragon came up the stair well. “Yes?” he stated blandly, “I need to write a letter to the princess, NOW!” Whoa! What’s the big deal?” “No time just take the letter!”
“Cortana, what’s our status?” asked Keyes.
“Amazingly the covenant were very sloppy with their aim, and we only sustained minor hull damage, but that is easily repaired, oh and the second of the two main thrusters are down. So we wont be going as fast, unless we find the recourses on the planet below…” Captain Keyes contemplated his situation a bit and said “Prep some ODST’s, were going to get back to earth to finish this fight one way or another, the quicker the better.”
“Oh, a letter from twilight, how wonderful.” Said a brilliantly white and regal alicorn, as she examined the parchment in front of her. Once she had finished reading the letter she told her guards to stay in the palace as she was going for a stroll. Once she arrived in the quaint little village commonly known as ‘Ponyville’, she went straight to the library and knocked. The door was opened immediately and in the doorway stood a concerned and dishevelled Twilight. “Hello princess.” “Hello my student, may I come in?” “Oh, yes, yes!” “Here” she said pointing to her telescope with a hoof, the princess took a peek and her jaw dropped, she saw a gigantic metal object, seemingly in orbit around Equis, then four barely visible specks flew from it and grew bright as they entered the atmosphere. then, she panned the telescope over to the left and a bigger purple object was sending down smaller objects too...
“All right hell jumpers, lets get this over with, your clear to engage any hostile life forms, get in there, place the geo imaging probes at their co-ordinates and call for Evac, if you encounter any non hostile intelligent life, you are to report it to the captain himself, do not dawdle, we need you back on the ship ASAP, am I clear?” said John, the squad leader for these ODST’s. “Sir yes sir!” they yelled in unison.
John got into his pod and checked his armament, 1x MA5B Assault rifle and plenty of ammo, 1xMG6 side arm with plenty of ammo and 4xfrags and the geo-imaging probe. Launch in five..Four..Three..Two..One..BANG! The four pods flew through space at alarming speeds, “entering atmosphere in 3, 2, 1, Johns’ pod shook and heated up, but it ended fairly soon after, and they landed in a dense forest, throwing up dirt and bits of unsuspecting animals and trees.
“Oh my.” Was all the princess could say. She watched as the four objects flew gracefully into the Everfree forest. “We must see what that was Twilight, I shall teleport back to Canterlott and gather a troop of guards to examine these findings.
About five minutes after they landed, the four ODSTs were ready to go. As soon as their trek had started, a red blip appeared on their motion trackers. “Hold up.” Said John, the four ODSTs crouched down, weapons drawn, and watched the red blip notice them, it was soon joined by 8 or 9 more, “shit, I think they know were here, whoever they are…” just then 2 elites with plasma rifles appeared, firing wildly into the ODSTs a few stray bolts hit Bill, melting his armour slightly. “Argh!, YOU’LL PAY FOR THAT YOU UGLY FUCK!” he screamed, he lunged at the low ranking elite who had foolishly shot at the all powerful Bill, the other ODSTs already took care of the other covenant, there were only 2 elites the rest were grunts. The elite fell to the ground with bill on top, it emitted a hybrid between a roar and growl, and threw him off, Bill rolled to avoid a stomp coming from the now standing elite, the other ODSTs watched him take on a monster 3 feet taller than he was with an energy shield, while he only had metal armour. The fight turned up a notch when Bill pulled out his combat knife and held it on the side with the blade facing himself and said; “Bring it fucker!” he lunged at the elite, who side stepped, but this is what he counted on, he quickly changed course and spear tackled the elite, while it was on the ground, Bill raised his knife threateningly and before the elite could respond, Bill then brought it down with bone crushing force into the elites eye socket, effectively neutralising it, “that’s for reach you sick bastard”, he said, hate dripping from his voice like snake venom.
Bill yanked his knife out of the deceased elites’ throat with a sickening slicing noise, and proceeded to wipe it on a nearby leaf. “Wow, I knew you liked your armour Bill, but don’t be so reckless next time, am I clear?” Bill reluctantly replied, “Yes sir.” “Good, all right ODSTs, lets move out, we will not be splitting up, this mission requires us to stay together, keep on your toes.” As the ODSTs moved through the forest, they slashed and hacked at the dense vegetation, creating a lot of noise, “SHHHH! Stop here.” Said John as he crouched and held his fist in the universal symbol to stop. 11 yellow dots appeared on their motion trackers, as well as 10 red ones on the opposite side…
“UGH! Twilight how much longer? It’s been like, 5 days!” asked an annoyed rainbow maned Pegasi mare. “Quit exaggerating Rainbow, I’ll ask the princess.” As twilight turned to face the princes, she noticed a noise, it sounded like a foreign language, filled with grunts and the odd “wort, wort” here and there. “Princess, did you hear that?” twilight asked shakily, “Yes, everypony hide, we should be careful to note down these creatures, and do not come out until I give the word, they may be hostile, okay?” the regal alicorn was met with a series of nods, they all took up their hiding spots and waited for the creatures to make themselves present. Exactly 23 seconds into hiding four tall biped creatures, with metal skin and only one shiny eye, holding strange metal sticks ran from the clearing and hid behind some trees extremely close to the ponies…
“Shit, looks like 20+ Covvies, all right ODSTs there’s a small clearing over there, we should be able to use the trees as cover.” The four ODSTs moved to position and readied their weapons, Jake, the teams sniper, positioned himself lying on the ground, aiming directly at the tree line the motion tracker saw the covenant, Bill and John had trees adjacent to each other, John had his Battle rifle, Bill had his assault rifle, and Gary had his shotgun. “All right, get ready boys here they come!” Said John, he then armed a frag grenade and threw it into the grunt squad. as he threw the device he wondered what those eleven yellow dots were...
The ponies watched as the odd creatures communicated in perfect equestrian, they were stunned when one of them threw a metal rock into the forest, “What’s with the rock, asked Rainbow Dash to no pony in particular. Around five seconds after she asked, a large explosion rocked the ground and a bright light surrounded them momentarily, they then saw the most epic and gruesome battle on Equis.
“Shit, get down boys!” screamed Bill as a flaming green rod flew past them and detonated on a tree, setting it alight and scattering broken wood everywhere. “supress that fucker!” commanded John, firing off some more battle rifle rounds, “on it boss” replied an all to eager Jake. A grunt in green armour appeared in his scope, he lined the crosshairs up on the crouching alien and squeezed the trigger, sending a bullet the size of a small artillery shell hurtling towards the unsuspecting grunt at far more than the speed of sound, penetrating its skull like a hot knife through butter and into the shield of an elite, but it didn’t stop there, it went through the elite, killing it and the unfortunate grunt behind it. Jake looked up from the scope to see a thick white perfectly straight streak of vapour from the barrel to the now dead aliens. “Good shot Jake” cheered Bill, his commendation was met with a hale of plasma and grenades. It seemed hopeless, there were so many, over fifty now. “All right, this is it boys, its been a pleasure” “same to you sir” said Bill, “same here” replied Gary, “and here” said the other ODSTs, “we wont go down without a fight, give ‘em hell men, CHARGE!” yelled John, but as soon as he said that, their intercom crackled to life, “Boys, were sending in a hornet to take out those covenant, we’ll send in a Gauss warthog for ya, command out.” “You hear that boys?” John was met with a series of acknowledgements, “Get to cover then!”
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The ponies were utterly terrified by now, such a gruesome sight! They were almost hit numerous times by strange blue and green lights that set fire to everything. Then a louder noise filled their ears, as a giant metal bird appeared and started to attack the other creatures with those strange weapons the other creatures used, as well as some different ones.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Craters from missiles littered the already bloody field, grunt and elite body parts formed a sea of purple and blue blood that ran in a small river down the most angled surface it could find. The hornet pilot started to fly away, “Good luck ODSTs, Hunter 21 out.” Said the hornet pilot. “All right, ODSTs on me!” said john as he crouched on the spot, aiming in his peripheral vision, the others did the same until a pelican with a gauss warthog on the bottom arrived.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Princess, I’m scared!” said twilight shakily, the princess was also rather distraught, but she didn’t show it. “I know twilight, I know…” “Guards, we will make our appearance soon, it doesn’t seem like anything is going to hape-oh my…” the weird metal bird made a loud whining noise, getting worse as it went in to land. Then it dropped down a smaller one. The odd creatures then got into it. “AGH!” screamed twilight, as the weird metal creature roared. “SHHH! Said Rainbow, over enthusiastically. But she was too late, the creatures had already spotted where the noise came from.