Beyond The Forerunners

Beyond the forerunners

After the white light surrounding the UNSC Infinity dimmed, Commander Lasky and other UNSC operatives looked out of the protective shield that separated the inside of the ship from the depths of space. "Report!" Lasky called out to his official officers.

One looked at his monitor and had shock spread across his face. "S-sir, you may want to look at this..."

Lasky walked up to the monitor and looked at it. "What the hell? When did this slip-space jump occur?" He asked his officer.

"About...the same time the bomb went off..." He looked up at the Commander. "Sir..."

"Can you lock on to the exact coordinates of the time the slip-space jump activated?" He asked with a stern look.

"I can try, sir, but it will be a while before we can locate the Master Chief...if he's still alive." The soldier said softly, hoping that it was true.

As they worked on locking on to the coordinates, Lasky sighed. –“We’re going to find you John..."

On the side of the explosion, there lay a Covenant Corvette swimming in the flow of endless space. Inside the Corvette’s ship, the shipmaster was sitting in an anti-gravity chair, on looking the various elites piloting the Corvette. "Report," He said roughly.

"Corvette fuel pumps are flowing normally but, there's a crack in the plasma shield on the lower deck." One of the pilots explained.

"Get our technicians to that deck, make sure they fix the crack!" the shipmaster ordered. He got up from the hovering chair and walked up to his navigation expert. "What is it?" he looked at the hollow-monitor with interest. The patterns of the space-time jump sky shocked the navigator. "Strange, I have not seen something this powerful... send some of our zealots over there...I want to find out what caused the jump..."

With that, the group sent out their finest zealots out with jetpacks to the destroyed ship.

Chapter 1: Beyond Equestria

Chief looked around at where he was, the motion tracker did not seem to pick up anything. No altitude, no longitude, no north or south, no direction. "Dammit!" He swore as he made his way around the various ship parts. He finally stopped and shouted. "Is there anyone here!?" Even at the top of his lungs, nobody responded. The tired Spartan sat on a large piece of the ship and thought. He thought to the search party that may be looking for him.

He grasped his rifle and held his position. He then noticed something else before he blacked out, he had seen a castle off in the distance. He may not even be on earth. Whatever the matter was he sighed and got back up. "I should explore the forest. Get familiar with this...place..." He started to walk out of the crater and make his way into the forest.

On the outside, a group of six ponies was trotting through the forest. Twilight looked back at the group. "Okay, the Princess wants us to see what happened in the forest. Something big has hit, so is everypony ready?" There were nods from each pony. "Great."

"So, what do you think it is?" Rainbow said while hovering over Pinkie Pie.

"Oh, oh! I know! It must be something really scary and spooky and..." She was immediately cut off by Applejack’s hoof.

"Listen Sugarcube, we'll find out once we git' there... Ah' hope it isn't big and scary though..." The thought sent shivers down Fluttershy’s spine.

"I...I hope...it isn't...d-dangerous..." Her eyes shrunk once she thought about that more.

"Be calm, dear. If it is, it is nothing more than a meteor that crashed.  We should count ourselves lucky it didn't hit Canterlot..." Rarity spoke in her usual high-class voice.

As they made their way past the last few trees, they were at the crater; but it was not a meteor. It was pieces to an odd-looking contraption that was completely made out of an unknown material. "What the hay is that!?" Rainbow sounded shocked. It looked like nothing she or the others had seen before.

Pinkie jump down with joy. “I bet it's a spacey ship!"

"Pinkie! Stop! We do not know what is in...Oh forget it..." The purple unicorn groaned as she lazily followed the pink mare. "She’s...so...random..." She muttered.

When all six ponies were in the crater, they looked around. "Nothing, just rubble." Rainbow Dash pointed out the obvious.

As they looked around, Pinkie jumped around in record fast speed. "Oh what's this? What’s that? what's this doo, hickey?!"

"PINKIE!" Twilight finally yelled out. It made Pinkie stop and sit down. "Okay... let’s look around." The group got to work and looked around.

As they looked around the area, they start to notice some parts were blown off and had large scorch marks. Twilight then noticed strange orange-like liquid that was everywhere.  She went up to it and scooped some up. "What is this?" She silently said to herself. She stepped back and began to trot in the opposite direction.

Unbeknownst to her that something was lifting itself out of the debris. She then heard it moan loudly.  She turned and instantly feared for her life. A Promethean Knight lifted itself out of the large piles of metal. "What the hell?" She started to back up as the creature looked directly at her.

Chief was making his way through the dense forest, the trees were blocking his view so he could not tell his location.  He felt as if he were lost he let out a large sigh. He was going to keep moving, but then he heard a high-pitched scream behind him.  Has someone found the crash site? Is it the military? He had to know.He rushed back to the crash site as quickly as he could.

At the crash site, the creature closed in on Twilight and the others. "Eh, what is that?!" exclaimed Rainbow Dash.

Pinkie jumped to the promethean and giggled. "Hello, I'm Pinkie Pie and I'm sososososo-" she was cut off by an arm hitting her and knocking her clear across the ground. She got up with a whimper. "Th-that hurt..."

Rainbow Dash got angry. "No pony pushes my friend around like that!” She yelled and flew at the creature.

"RAINBOW! WAIT!” Twilight try to call out to the deranged Pegasus. She did not listen and came at the Promethean at full force. The creature ducked and grabbed her hind leg before slamming her to the ground.

The creature came forward a little as both Pinkie and Rainbow were too scared to get up.

"Ah' reckon ya get back, bucker!" Applejack charged but the creature kicked her. Fluttershy and Rarity fainted, so all that was left was Twilight.

"G-get back! I'm warning you!" Her horn lit up, but the Promethean grabbed it and cut off her signal to her horn.  The Promethean lifted her up and looked into her eyes. Tears flow down her cheeks as she watched the creature take a weird-looking sword out. Twilight closed her eyes, knowing it was the end. Until...

Footsteps were head over a hill of broken pieces of the ship. Before the Promethean could react, Spartan 117 jumped from the hill with a knife in one hand and his rifle on his back. He latched onto the Promethean’s back and came down with the knife. The promethean Knight let Twilight go; she scooted back and witnessed the other being kill that creature.

The Promethean Knight fell down, still trying to struggle. Chief looked up and saw the pony. "What the..." He was cut off by the Promethean elbowing him off and kicking him against the hill of rubble. "Run!" He shouted at the purple unicorn and her friends. Rarity and Fluttershy woke up and immediately Twilight levitated them behind the rubble. Pinkie, Applejack, and Rainbow went behind the two. Following them was Twilight.

As they hid behind the rubble, the six ponies looked out in awe. "What is that thing?" Twilight whispered.

"It seems to be fighting it...maybe it's on our side..." Fluttershy spoke up.

"I hope you're right on that, Shy..." Rainbow added.

Chief got up and shot some rounds at the Promethean but, it continuously dodged it. As it jumped at John, he ducked and rolled out of the way. He turned and shot more bullets at it. It backed up and charged again.  Again, Chief dodged again and slashed across the mid stomach of the Promethean.

The Promethean looked at him and backhanded him. He got up and had his knife under his stomach. "Die..." It said as it lifted its sword.  That was the time...Chief got up and stabbed it in the neck. It dropped its sword and kneeled down. Chief grabbed it and came down with the sword onto its neck. Chief successfully sliced through the neck and cut its head off. In midair, the head disintegrated in an orange cloud of ash, a few seconds later the rest of it went along with it.

The ponies looked out as Chief collapsed to his knees and fell consciousness. The last thing he sees was six blobs approached him, and then, nothing.

In Canterlot, the Princess paced back and forth, hoping for the best of her six ponies. "Sister, I think you need to calm down. They will be back safe... What could possibly be out there?" Luna said while sitting in front of the worried sun goddess.

"I'm sorry, Luna, but I have some weird vibe coming from the crash...I have never been this worried..." Celestia stopped.

Luna came up to her. "Come on, we need to look at the bright side...they'll make it back."

"Well...I... I guess you're right..." Celestia looked out at the obvious crater seen. "I should contact her, I want to see if she's back yet..."   With that, Celestia wrote a letter and sent it. "We should head to the throne room." Luna nodded and the two left the balcony and closed it behind them.