Chapters All contents and character's are property to 343 Industry/Microsoft, and Hasbro. If you do not know about halo watch walkthroughs or play the game to get better aquatinted with the story revolving around its characters. Two, the story takes place at the end of the game so this is under a spoiler alert warning for those who are playing the game but have not beaten it yet. Third, this is rated T for mild violence, language, and some blood. Enjoy. * Proofread by flimflambros, with extra help by Heavy Rain, and final edits by me (with the aid of Microsoft word.)***
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Spartans don't die Jorge; they're just missing in action
Quote from ~Halo: Reach
"It worked. You did it, like you always did." Cortana said looking at Master Chief.
Master Chief looked around and spoke up. "So, how do we get out of here?"
Cortana looked down and replied softly. "I’m not coming with you this time."
"What?" Master Chief questioned disbelief in his voice.
"Most of me is down there." Cortana said looking below her. "I only held enough back-ups to get you off the ship."
"No! That's not...We go together." Chief said, trying to convince Cortana.
"It's already done." Cortana replied softly, her voice cracked.
"I am not, leaving you here." Chief said in a serious tone.
"John," Cortana stated, walking up and placing her hand on his chest. She looked up at Chief's visor and spoke up again. "I've waited so long to do that."
Chief looked directly at his A.i. partners eyes. "It was my job to take care of you."
Cortana smiled. "We were supposed to take care of each other." Cortana looked up. "And we did." Cortana proceeded to back away from Chief.
"Cortana, please." Master Chief said reaching out. "Wait." He said with much sadness in his voice, he was about to lose somebody close to him, somebody that has been with him for all these years, somebody that he made A promise to keep safe no matter what, somebody that was a closer friend than anyone else, his only friend.
"Welcome home, John." With that Cortana was gone, Chief's arm weakened and he just stood there. The structure behind him started to collapse as Covenant vehicles fell. And then, darkness surrounded Chief.
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Beyond The Forerunner’s
Chief's eye's shot open. He was free falling, and looked to be about a couple hundred feet above. He then tried to get his jetpack to work but it didn't start up.
Fire erupted around Chief's body, as if he were hitting the atmosphere. He turned and then he hit the ground creating a crater. Not only did he fall but some debris from the Didact's station fell on him.
Darkness surrounded Chief again, he couldn't see anything. The visor lit up and it loaded up his primary functions such as shield generator, weapon load out, and motion tracker.
He slowly got up as his depleted shields recharged pushing some of the Debris from the ship off. He looked around and he realized that he was in a forest. "Where am I?" Chief questioned, he stretched his tired muscles and spotted a log to sit down on.
He tried to contact anyone on helmets communications unit. "Is anyone there, this is sierra 1-1-7, I am currently in an unknown and request for an immediate Evac." He waited for a response.
"Hello, damn it." John swore as he sighed. He looked up and saw his Assault rifle a few clips away, he got up and approached his weapon. Chief picked it up and inspected it to see if it still worked.
He aimed at a tree and shot A few bullets at it. "Still works." Chief said with a chuckle, he placed the gun on his back and sat back down on the log. "Somebody has to know where I am." He said as he sighed to himself.
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In the castle of Canterlot on a balcony the sun and night goddesses themselves looked outward toward the Everfree forest where a large bang was heard. "Did you hear that sister?" Luna asked Celestia.
"Yes I did, I'm getting bad vibes from it as well." Celestia replied.
"This may sound strange but what do you suppose it is?" Luna looked at her sister.
"Couldn't be a surprise attack on Equestria, it looks to be a comet, or an asteroid." They both looked out at the giant dust cloud; all of a sudden a couple loud bangs echoed through the everfree, both sisters looked at each other with confusion. "What in Discord's oblivion was that?" Celestia said.
"It sounds like...” Luna trailed off, she had no clue what that sound was. “I don't know what it is exactly; I have never heard that sound before dear sister, it almost sounds like something piercing the sound barrier." Luna trotted closer to the edge of the balcony. "Should we get some pony on it?"
Celestia thought for a minute. "Get me some parchment and ink; I need to write a letter to Twilight." Celestia said to her younger sister as she went back in her bed chamber.
"Okay sister." Said Luna as she went to the library to get the items, seconds later she returned with both items and gave them to Celestia.
"Thank you sister, I appreciate your help." Celestia said, Luna nodded and smiled before heading out the door. Celestia then began to write the letter to Twilight.
My faithful student, Twilight Sparkle
I hope I didn't write to you at a bad time, but there was a large bang in the Everfree forest, we think that some pony was in an accident.
I would want you and your friends to check it out and make sure that every pony was okay, also we heard a strange couple of other bangs, and we don't know what it was but for your safety be careful. I don't know how dangerous it will be, but be careful.
~Your mentor,
Princess Celestia of Equestria
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"Hey! Twilight!" Spike called out from the second floor of the library home. "The Princess sent a letter!" He shouted running down the stairs.
"A letter, Right now?" Twilight said with confusion in her voice. She took the letter from Spike and read it. After she was done she looked at Spike. "Spike I need you to get the girls and tell them to meet me on the outside of the Everfree forest."
“She’s sending you to the Everfree forest!? Must be very urgent for the Princess to want you to go out into the Everfree." Spike said scratching his head. "Just, be careful Twi, the Everfree is dangerous."
"Don't worry Spike I'll be fine, I've been in and out of the Everfree forest multiple times. You don't have to worry."Twilight said with a smile, with that Spike nodded and was out the door to get the other five ponies.
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Chapter 1: Beyond Equestria
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.
Chapter 2: Beyond The Rift
Beyond The Forerunners
In the depths of space, a pelican was moving through what was left of the wreckage. "UNSC Infinity, pelican is getting ready to investigate the remains of the Didacts ship....or whats left of it..." There was nothing left....the whole middle of it was gone leaving a gap.
Lasky watched from the Infinity. "Dammit…where are you chief...?"
As the doors to the back opened, a few jet soldiers stumbled out into deep space in search of chief. "Jetpack marines deployed...good luck out their boys..."
On the other side of the wreckage, a few banshees flew in over. a soldier pointed and shouted. "BANSHEES!"
The group hid behind some wreckage and got their guns ready. "Alright, let’s kill these bastards!" The banshees turned and shot at the troops. "Okay! Ready? One!" one soldier called out.
A few more shots fired. "Two!'
The banshees were closing in. "THREE! Return fire!' The soldiers all came out of cover and fired at the banshees. "Jacob! To your right!" one soldier called to the other.
"Got it, Rick!" He turned and shot at a banshee coming at him, it blew up in a large purple explosion.
"Piolet! Get the turret out!" The soldier yelled.
"Aye, Aye Soldier...” The doors to the back of the pelican opened and the soldier kicked against the wreckage to help him move to the Pelican back. He grabbed to the back entrance and pulled himself in. "Turret up! Good luck soldier!"
He loaded up the turret and aimed. "Time to gut these split lipped freaks..." He aims at one and shoots it down, it too exploded in a flash of purple light. "Yeah! Get some you fuckers!" He aims at each individual banshee and shoots it down. In no time each one was shot down. "Targets neutralized! Good work guys..." He looked out into space.
Jacob looks out. "....there seems to be none left...."
"Alright...let’s continue our search...." Rick then got on his headset and called in The Infinity. "sir...We got into a large firefight with Covenant.....Must be checking the wreckage too...."
'Get back to base....We're going to try something...'
"Yes, Commander Lasky..." He gets off his headset. "Lasky....What are you planning..." He says to himself as he stared out into the empty void of space.
Chapter 2
Beyond The Rift
'Is...He...alright?'
Chief can hear voices but couldn’t open his eyes to see.
'I wonder what he's wearing? Doesn’t look like anything I ever seen...'
'That’s not important Rainbow...we have to see if his pulse is good....'
Slowly chief woke up.
'Girls! He’s waking up!'
His eyes opened and he found himself on a hospital bed...he looked around and seen his helmet by him. Slowly he got it and put it back on...."Wh...What happened?" He looked up and seen six concerned faces of six ponies. He looked utterly shocked...but it wasn’t the strangest thing he seen.
"Dude, you okay?" The Rainbow manned Pegasus began.
Slowly, Chief looked at her. "I'm fine...What happened?"
"Ya passed out and we took ya ta' the hospital...:" Apple Jack began.
"You looked hurt and decided to help you for um...saving us from that thing...” Fluttershy said shyly. "How are you doing?"
Master Chief got up and stretched. "I'm doing fine....just need to walk it off..." Slowly he gets up as a guard came in. Chief looked up at the guard
"Are you the from the crash site...?" He asked in a calm voice. Chief nodded and the guard continued. "You’re going to have to come with me..."
Everypony in the room gave the same concerned faces, finally Twilight spoke up. "But guard, he needs his rest...he just got issued into the hospital..."
"Not my orders, they come from Princess Celestia herself...." He goes up to Chief. "We will give you the medical attention you need, but we need you to come with us quickly...."
Chief looked at the guard. “Okay....where are we going?"
The guard motioned him to follow. "We are going to Canterlot...” They both make it outside and there was a carriage waiting for them. "Alright...let’s go..." With that, Chief and the guard went into the Carriage. The doors shut and they were lifted into the air.
Chief looked out the window. "...whats going on?"
The guard looked at him. "Something happened when the crash occurred...Luna wasn't able to detect it quickly but Celestia was....A rift happened and it was so grand not even her magic can stop it...suddenly the rift stopped and the next day...you turn up..." He finished. "Princess Celestia wants to know what happened..."
Chief looked out the window and seen a castle in the distance. "...better have some popcorn...it’s a long story..." Chief leaned in.
The guard leaned in too. "...i got nothing but time..." with that the carriage landed in the military section of Canterlot. “Here we are..." He went first and looked back. "Oh...My name is Lt. Diamond Blade...."
"I'm The Master Chief..." He stepped out after.
He smiles. "Welcome to Canterlot, Master Chief."
The Chief walked out into the open courtyard and seen the military ponies training. "...What are you creatures?"
The Guard smiled. "Ponies...That’s what we are..." He trotted down the courtyard with Chief following behind. "We have neon under the rule of Princess Celestia for some time now and we were always fonded over Princess Luna...both play a key role in bringing Equestria to its former glory...Equestria is the continent your in now..."
"What do you mean by former glory?” The Chief asks.
"Well, a few weeks ago a unicorn named Syrin ordered his brotherhood to attack Canterlot and major cities along Equestrian border... We managed to stop but the attacks costed around twenty five hundred ponies....and injured over eighty ponies...."
"What happened to this, Syrin?" Chief asked moving through the guards that are passing by.
"He went missing after we stopped the attacks...Nopony knows where the hell he is..." Diamond Blade and Master Chief made it to the large gates. Diamond Blade opened them and let in Chief. "The Princess will be with you in a few..." The doors close and he looks down the hallway of a massive throne room.
"Hello...?" He slowly goes up the hallway.
He stops as he heard a voice. "Oh, lookie here...more guests. So splendid!"
Chief took out his rifle and looked around. "Who’s there?!"
"Oh that’s not polite...But neither am I...Hehehe....Allow me to introduce myself...My name is Discord...God of chaos....Now who the hell are you?...." The voice sounded a little mad.
"My name is Chief...Master Chief..." The Spartan started.
"Oh that’s a weird name, who gave it to you?...oh wait...I don't care...but I want to know one thing....what business do you have here?"
He walks further up and comes across a window that had a weird design of a creature. The creature then moved and disappeared off the window. "My business is private...where are you?"
"Behind you..." Chief turned and Discord was there. "BOO!" Chief flinched and shot at him, he tried to dodge. "Hey! Hey! Quit it! That’s not fun!"
He stopped. "Let that be a warning to you...." Chief scowled.
"Oh fine! You’re no fun anyways!" Discord huffed.
Chief looked at the odd creature. "What are you?"
Discord laughed. "Silly human! I’m a Spirit Draconaquis...basically god here....hehe. But you didn’t answer my question, what are you doing here?"
Chief looked up at Discord. "A guard took me here....whats going on?"
"I don't know...something about a crash...or something, who cares...hehe..."
Chief looks around. "Big place....You live here?"
"Oh no... I live in Tartarus...I'm basically one of the seven guardians of the place now..." Discord floated around Chief.
"Tartarus...?"
"It’s basically hell for ponykind....If you were the baddest pony, you’ll get sent there...." Discord then hovered in front of him. "So...What did you need to see Celly for?"
The Doors opened up widely as Celestia came in. Chief got a good look at her. "Hello, my name is Princess Celestia of Equestria...and frankly what I want to know is...Why the hell was my subjects and elements hurt trying to save you?..." She looks at Chief with daggers.
Chapter 3: Beyond The Stars Part 1
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