MLP Halo: The Equestrian Event...

MLP/Halo: Pony Chronicles

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CH1: Another Day Another War...

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(The idea came to me when I read everyone else's FFs on the whole concept of crossovers on certain MLP things, so I decided to chuck in my 2 cents. This is tied in with my AU Halo universe so do not start complaining about the whole concept of the UNSC, they aren't where my guys are from, even though being neighbours.) - 2011/9

AN: 2012- its been over a year since I've launched this thing? Holy crap! I neglected this for a long time, and now that I think about it I probably should have thought this one through earlier. Oh well, this is a reboot my dear readers, this was my very first MLP fanfic. Yes this ancient thing was left behind in Season 2's start and I've forgotten to get back to it. Well I'm getting back to my roots with ponies.

Also my very first introduction into ponies was through a small link regarding CUPCAKES, yes that fan fiction, that was the first thing I ever saw before I got into the brony fandom, which was much earlier, I was just scared afterwards. Also a few other gore fictions which people linked everywhere. I don't know why it was so common back then.

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2554- 1- 22

Ever since the end of the covenant crusades into human space, things hadn't settled in the past 3 years, the covenant splintered forces were now attacking at random locations throughout the Nova Stratus regions of space. It had been well over 3 years since the destruction of the Covenant's Convent of Reverence and Ascension ended in the UCAF regions. The covenant being an accumulation of multiple races and factions of power which had stood for tens of thousands of years and endured generations of religious and political strife had finally ended in just scant 25 years.

The UCAF was the first to encounter the majority of the covenant armada and armies during their first scourging of the colonies of Haven's Gate and Prodigal Prime. Their subsequent cleansing continued with thousands of ships attacking the UCAF colonies and killing the millions to billions of inhabitants of the outer and mid colonies.

It wasn't until the UCAF was relieved from the pressure as the covenant splintered into two frontiers, the main front being with the UCAF and its 1500 colonised worlds and over 30,000 external mining and space colonies. Meanwhile the secondary front of the covenant was splintered into attacking the UNSC in the further southern regions of the galaxy.

But even then the UCAF was devastated from the efforts of the covenant in decimating life in the colonies, as 4.5 billion were fighting or serving on the front lines to defeat the covenant armies and push the covenant back or simply service the injured. Many others of specific skills and attributes were also in and amongst the UCAF ranks, but even then, deaths mounted.

By the end of the war, over the length of 27 years, 9,855,000,000+ military personnel aged from 10-40 had died and 21 billion of civilian and non-combat status had perished, the total death toll was over 30 billion. (The statistics are actually not true because there were more deaths than just the local population and contemporary troops.)

The UCAF colonies were in recovery since 2551 when the battle of Ascendant ended, the war was supposedly ended then and there, however with the sheer scale of the covenant crusade forces within the UCAF space and regions, it had taken years longer to remove more stubborn splinter fleets and zealous factions.

At the current position and time, at the battle of Vega 22-23 that is where our story begins…

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The amazing thing the universe was, a place of mystery and wonder, a place without bounds of the mind or matter, it was by far a sight holy to one's eyes. But not always were the cosmos so welcoming or so pleasing, to those who actually gazed at the stars and watched ever so long, the heaven's above were far dangerous than they could imagine.

The threats of disease and radiation, the void to which all beings may die in horrific manners, but no, this wasn't the threats or dangers that were now being faced, as this was more of sentients and machine. In Vega this was war…

Thuds of explosions and impacts went off, their energy dispersed, nothing could really be heard unless one was close enough, but no, to reality the vacuum sucked up most of what is dispersed and sends it in all directions and in forms and shapes. In the void of space, nothing could be heard only watched, and that was what Commander Thomas Liam was doing, he ordered from his command chair to intercept, and in moments his command was relayed to all CIWS to fire at the targets.

Thomas was not of who wished to be in command, but he had no other choice in the matter. He commander of the UCAF Dauntless, he was placed in command when he had graduated from the UCAF military command under the orders of Protocol 15 when there was an extreme shortage of viable officers in the command field for UCAF naval vessels. Thomas was placed into the command chair of the ship because of the situation rather than anything else, the commander was reluctant, but soon sat himself into the shoes as the commander of the vessel and commanded over the ship well. And for the past 2 years he had done well to keep himself and his crew alive throughout most of their ordeals.

As the war raged outside from the panoramic view of the CIC, he called to the AI of the ship.

"Celia, status report."

"We're taking incoming fire from 2 corvettes sir! I'm already taking evasive actions, but they're gaining sights on us and quickly." The black haired AI said.

"Damn, pull us about and tell Carl he's not finished out there, have him cover us with the EVAF until we can reach slip-space range!"

"Yes sir!"

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Carl-2011 didn't know if he was blessed or cursed, but he did know when to focus, the two enemy corvettes were closing in on the Unyielding, he activated his ventral thrusters to pull him away from the ship to engage. The cyan coloured suit glimmered in the plasma fires as the Extra Versatile Armoured Frame jumped into action, it spun into a brilliant manoeuvre as it headed towards the incoming fire from the two corvettes and 2 dozen enemy fighters.

Carl knew better than to be alone against such odds, and thus had 4 striker fighters engage alongside his EVAF. He locked targets with his HUD and fired off 2 canisters of 40 missiles; the canisters ripped open like a blooming flower and set forth dozens of cluster missiles. The missiles covered the distance quite quickly and showered the covenant fighters in a deadly array of fire, 6 kills and 3 critical strikes had been sufficient in evening the odds for the UCAF.

The EVAF went forwards spraying death with its dual gauss repeater guns, the multi barrelled machineguns destroyed 2 banshee EVA fighters and removed a single seraph in its deadly volley. The EVAF continued on its path of destruction, stitching death wherever it was pointed. Carl took aim upon the first corvette that came upon his sights, the cannons attempted to swat him before he could fire, but he was much harder to strike with simple pulse lasers and plasma bursts.

Dodging the fire, he unleashed his 2nd wave of missiles, he'd only have his last reserves of 2 more and then he'd be dry on firepower to deal with the corvettes, the only exception being the main gauss lance he had on the tip. The missiles scattered over the length of the ship, the fire removed all the pulse lasers on the hull and crippled the main guns. Carl brought himself into attacking the rear of the corvette; he brought his 3rd missile reserves and fired.

The subsequent explosions sent his EVAF spinning as the engines erupted in a brilliant flame of florescent purple and white, the engines went critical and then finished off with a secondary explosion, the hull ripped apart from the strain of the internal plasma injectors exploding and sending aftershocks through the ship's interior.

Carl knew that the first lead ship was useless and this second one was now his priority, Carl set himself onto the enemy ship, but as fate would have it, the enemy fighters quickly ID him as the greater threat amongst the UCAF fighters and went into engage him. He dodged a kamikaze run from one banshee and managed to fire his 4th and last missile reserves. There was one thing that Carl hadn't counted upon, the enemy fighters ran themselves in front of the incoming waves and shielded the enemy corvette.

Carl watched as the continued attack on the unyielding progressed, the Strikers had no missiles and the covenant were now within reaching them as the ship was soon to engage slip-space. Carl didn't like this idea, but he had next to no choice in the matter. Spinning up the Gauss Lance, he brought his EVAF down past the enemy corvettes defences and lined up a direct shot.

He had nothing to hamper him this time as the enemy fighters were pretty much destroyed, but he could only get in a single shot, or else he'd have to wait another 2.5 minutes for the next to fully charge. And Carl knew that the Dauntless wouldn't be able to avoid plasma damage if it was to jump into slip-space.

And as if on cue his com activated with a status report from Celia. "Carl, you have to hurry! We have less than 30 seconds to jump into slips-space."

He acknowledged and brought his Gauss Lance to bear on the enemy engines, he was about to fire as the reticule registered a lock, but as he pulled the trigger a box appeared, he twitched the controls as he fired. Two things happened, his shot hit, but only damaged the engines, and the box exploded in his face.

He could only see muffins? His HUD was covered in the sticky residue of blue muffins and a lot of plasma fire, he could only imagine where the muffins came from, but his objective had just gone awry!

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"Umm, Twilight you said that the teleporter was working right?" Ditzy asked.

"Yes." The lavender pony unicorn replied with a tone of sarcasm.

"Where are the muffins I ordered then?" Ditzy asked.

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Carl didn't have time for this screw up, he called into the ship. "Sir, I just got side swiped by debris, the shot missed, is recall necessary?"

"Yes, you've been out there too long, get back to the ship, enter slip-space alongside the Unyielding when you arrive, don't worry about the corvette, the ship's been crippled." Commander Thomas said as the ship accelerated into slip-space.

"Roger that, disengaging from the enemy." Carl said as he jumped away.

The steady stream of plasma fire had ended, but the corvette was still too stubborn to give in or give up, it headed onwards without pausing, firing off a few random shots. Carl drew up beside the ship and synced himself to the ship's alignment, making sure that he didn't accidently get swept aside by subspace eddies.

As they accelerated into the swirling vortex of light, a single lucky plasma blast struck the portal…

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The whole ship shuddered as it entered into slip-space; Thomas hadn't ever been the one to begin thinking that the corvette was going to have to pay for the damned blast. He gripped his railing and began shouting orders.

"Celia, begin emergency exit procedures!" The commander yelled.

"Yes sir, already beginning slip-pulse!"

The slip-pulse was to cause a slip-space pulse within subspace and knock the ship from subspace and into real space once more, there were a few dangers of doing such things though, the chances of accidently blowing one's self into oblivion was incredibly high and unless the situation demanded it, it was usually avoided by many starship captains for the fear of accidently blow the ship to pieces.

But with the Dauntless being so close to being ripped apart by unstable slip-space fields, better the alternative than the primary at this point in time. The crew braced as Thomas yelled.

"Initiate slip-pulse!"

The whole ship jarred forwards the ship hit a proverbial brick wall and sent things into the air, the crew spun about in chairs or on the ground, they could all feel the pressure of the ship being thrown forwards by the sheer forces of slip-space being so heavy. The gravity drives had also gone offline as the ship moved forwards.

The Dauntless headed helplessly towards a planet with inertia and gravity doing the work, Thomas knew that this wasn't going to be pretty.

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Carl couldn't imagine how hard it was to keep his EVAF from being thrown into the aftershocks, he had to dangerously dive his EVAF into the oncoming stream of plasma scattering about and then into the bow of the ship just to keep ahead of the pulse. When they exited slips-space, Carl was tossed forwards faster than he could handle the inertial forces from tossing him about.

He shot forwards to the planet which had then materialised, he was knocked a few clicks from the Dauntless, but not enough that he couldn't see the trajectory in which it was headed to. He memorised his theoretical re-entry procedures in with standard analysis and physics and determined that he'd been going a long ways from the ship, estimated around 130kms.

He then turned forwards to keep his EVAF from completely burning up in the upper atmosphere while he aimed for a clear landing site about 5kms from what he could see was lights, which meant civilisation. It was the dead of night and he could tell that falling in pitch black with a dysfunctional EVAF and on the fritz MKV wasn't the best combination.

He warmed up the emergency thrusters for a heavy vertical blast to make sure that he landed safely on the ground without accidently exploding.

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Ponyville, the one true place where one could find everything likeable, it was a place where even the most out of town ponies would find enjoyable, everything seemed rather neat and tidy, and there wasn't a single sign of trouble. In a certain library in the town of Ponyville, a certain lavender unicron pony with a velvet mane worked.

This unicorn was Twilight Sparkle, a normal workaholic pony who found studying so much greater than that of almost friendship, but she had learnt that study was good, but having friends was much better. She was currently watching the skies, as a hobby in the local environment, she found looking up at the heavens a good and usually intriguing exercise.

It was today she just wanted to look at the skies from her hard work in studying teleportation and the means of teleporting one item from one place to another by magical projection, to which she had not done as well as others who had written works on such an idea. She had hardly gotten anywhere with her work, and the prototype had ended up magically vaporised a box of muffins.

She decided that the portal idea needed to be worked on at a later date when others had figured out what might have gone wrong with the projection. She was now just wishing to watch the skies by herself. Spike had gone to heavy sleep, working all morning to night for her, and nothing could wake him up from that sleep, not even the largest explosion in Equestrian history.

Twilight sighed and poked another look at a unique phenomenon, there were currently 2 streaks of light in the skies of Equestria tonight, and the strange thing was that it hadn't been predicted by the Canterlot Astronomy division, the lights were too bright and slower to be meteors and one seemed to be heading straight for… Ponyville…

Twilight looked away from the telescope to look at the skies normally; a very large blot of light seemed to increase in intensity and size. Twilight could practically see the outline of the light from the background of the stars. The light grew to a size that she doubted any meteorite could possibly fit, but it was also at this point a roar of noise could be heard.

She jumped outside to get a proper view and was shocked to see that the object was cooling down; the lights she could see weren't from the re-entry of the meteor, but the lights coming off of it. The object whizzed past overhead and sent a sonic boom that woke the living daylights out everything within 50kms; even Cloudsdale had been shaken awake from the noise.

Twilight watched as all the residents woke from the noise, many wondering what could have possibly made the noise, but Twilight had been the first to see it, she had seen that it wasn't an object of natural design; it looked far too agile to be anything of normal astronomical formation. She knew that this was a bad idea, but she just needed to find out what could have landed so close to Ponyville.

She looked about and then began to jog off into the direction of the crash; it was closer to the library than the rest of the town, so she'd have arrived well ahead of anyone else within range.

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Carl had been through some of the worst landings in UCAF history, and he had seen some of the worst landings, he had managed to get his EVAF from crashing into the town and landed the EVAF into a small pond, by a miracle. He had managed to put a massive hole in the ground and splatter mud in all directions, but at least he was still alive.

His body ached from the combined efforts in trying to land the 21m assault frame, he jumped off and sunk into the mud about 5 inches before he hit the bottom, he walked on from there and disengaged his equipment from an armament compartment in the side of the EVAF. He removed his Mattock AR-055 and 6 grenades, 5X30 clips for the AR, 1 M6SI, and 1 M7S; he had also brought out his new dual core system. The function of the dual core was to work with both a Jetpack and a bubble shield; he knew that they'd work well considering his situation.

The jetpack was a Series 9, which wasn't bulky, it was built into the MKV armour he was wearing, and the external Bubble shield was also integrated to use less space for the user. He scanned his surroundings and found nothing, he decided to activate his combat scanners and reboot his suit before heading out. The BIOS kicked in and soon he had a clear field of view of his surroundings.

The IFF system worked again and brought out what looked like heat signatures from the nearby place he had overshot. It was rather prudent that he head in that direction because he needed help. He jogged off into the shrub and began to head to the town…

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Twilight had spent nearly half an hour before she reached the forest where the object had crashed, she just hoped that nothing would go wrong if she just decided to investigate a little. When she arrived at the scene she carefully began to negate towards the place of the crash. But as deeper as she got, the more she felt nervous.

'What am I doing? This should be left for tomorrow or the guards, or anyone else, but trying to go into an unknown place where I could get attack?' She thought to herself.

She continued on unhampered and soon she made it within visual range of the object, she circled around to see what she had found, it was big and had wings, it was stretched like a bird, but not like any she had ever seen. It seemed to have been shaped completely out of metal, and she could see joining points of the object, it was all so different.

Markings on the side of the thing suggested a name or a code, she looked at it carefully, and then she began to swipe her hoof at the point where the markings were, it had the letters: EVAF- E334. She had no idea what EVAF meant, but she continued her work on wiping away mud from the metal surface, she soon uncovered: UCAF- for Honour, Duty, and Grace.

She could understand those words, but she had absolutely no clue as to what the UCAF stood for as well. She turned about and noticed something very odd, the whole thing seemed to have had a seat, or saddle where someone would sit, and there was strange pedals on the side and top, she looked at the muddy floor and noticed that there was a track leading into the forests.

She gulped and picked up the pace, she activated her magic and began to summon her searching spells; she then remembered the one to track items or people of significance. She then followed the trail through the forests and back out towards Ponyville, she just hoped no one would get hurt should they stumble upon the unknown being.

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Carl knew a few things about tracking, and this wasn't one of them, he had seen a strange glow coming after him ever since he had exited the EVAF, he'd been only half way through the forest when his IFF and scanners picked up a moving energy signature not that of his own. He thought it was covenant, but the signature matched nothing that he had ever seen in his records. He had to assume that a local might have some kind of impulse scanner of sorts.

But from a planet that had no active radio waves or subspace emissions, it was very hard to believe anyone would have tier 2 class technology as such. He decided that he'd go wait in ambush for whoever might have been following him, he walked closer to the town, and then put himself just a click from the outskirts and waited in the trees where he had a clear view.

He watched and waited for the being which was following him to appear, he didn't need to wait long. 10 minutes into his trap preparations he had received the heat emissions of a being moving directly at him, and thus he knew that this was the same being that had been tracking him through the whole forest. So now all he had to do was wait for the being to reach him.

He watched patiently as the being came into the little clearing, it came as a bit of a surprise when he saw the being, being about 2/5th his size and strangely lavender, he couldn't imagine what kind of quadruped was this thing like. He then took note that the being had a glowing horn, and immediately he found out the source of the strange energy emissions. He then noticed that the being's horn was pointing in his direction.

That was when he pulled the lever for his quick forest trap, the string net he had made from his inventory wrapped about and pulled upwards, the string tied to a stone trick. It was quick and easy to catch small game, and this kind of counted in the sense. He watched as the being cried out in surprise, he could swear that the being was sentient to the level of human capacity. But when had anyone ever heard of talking horses?

But nonetheless he walked from the shadows towards the scared and frightened being, he made sure to scan the area in case of friends, but the 75m beacon found nothing. He proceeded with caution and then went up and scanned the being before him, it labelled the being as a female, equestrian- commonly known as a pony. He couldn't imagine where in the light a pony could have come from on a planet like this.

But enough questions he had a bit of investigation to do, he'd never expected this, but then again, the galaxy was filled with unexpected things. He removed a knife and began to cut at the rope where the being was being held, he made sure to tie it up and then bring the netted being down. Once all had been set and done he picked up the netted creature and moved from his location, as it was in his previous encounter with certain races that dangers still remained if one waited too long.

His suit's volume and sound buffers were still on, so he couldn't hear a word what was being said, only the dull sounds of movement from the reverberations of his feet and some other outside shakes, his auditory nerves could still pick out other sounds, but none mattered. He just needed to get to a shelter and figure out what this being was. That or if he could use it as a food source…

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Twilight had never been as frightened except when she had faced Nightmare Moon and a hydra, but not to the point where she had been taken alive by something and was very much conscious. This should have been a simple look about and head home thing, but not tonight, she had to be so inquisitive and now she had been captured by a massive bipedal being with arms and what looked like armour, it had picked her up and then taken her deeper into the forest.

The shock of being captured quickly passed as she began to focus her magic, she was tired, but not enough to not use her magic, she focused on her location and then to the town, she could feel that they weren't so far away. She'd expend a good portion of her magic in doing this, but it was necessary or she might not live to see another day.

Her magic soon encompassed them both and she finished with a blink of her eyes… they were still moving, but now they were in the town, at an awkward position, they fell downwards. She had teleported them upside down. They hit the ground and rolled away, the net came free from the impact and Twilight soon found herself dazed in the middle of town.

The being was also mildly stunned from the drop, it had forgotten about her and looked about in utter confusion, and that bought her enough time to yell.

"HELP!"

The cry had alerted the ponies of Ponyville that something was wrong, those who had stayed at home since the strange crash in the forest came outside from their homes and began searching for the cry of help. Cheerilee, the teacher pony came out of her home and noticed the strange being and soon she cried out in surprise.

The being wasted no time, it picked up Twilight and bolted south towards the library, it seemed as though it was a straight run, it just didn't know that half the town was already nearby. Twilight watched as they travelled the distance south in astounding speed, she now knew how Rainbow Dash felt in the air at high speeds.

As they reached the south part of town where the library was, they skidded to a halt, the gathered crowds were watching in utter shock at the arrival of the being with Twilight slung over its shoulder. Twilight called for help again, and this time the crowd reacted.

A certain Orange pony jumped from the crowds followed by a cyan Pegasus and others, the being carefully walked backwards. This whole thing just seemed to make it uneasy, the being clearly didn't know how to react.

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'What in the name of Terra was going on?' Carl asked himself.

The Spartan had seen many things but this was new. Ponies, quadrupeds with the ability to talk and others with wings and odd looking horns which sprouted magic, he had to have had some serious head trauma or he was delusional or completely sane and just surrounded by sentient beings who just happened to be 'pony' like. But what was more apparent was the very nasty glares he was getting from a few of them.

He was just having one of those days…

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Well this was an idea sprouted from multiple fics I've been reading on the net, some of these ones are pretty good, and I do like to think I could try something, and also I have no clue as to what to do about pairings and shipping.