Equestrian Spartan

It is a sunny day in Equestia, the Mane 6, Princess Celestia, and Princess Luna are enjoying a peaceful picnic just outside of Ponyville with a squad of Royal Guard, of course.

Pinkie Pie jumps on a big cake and starts devouring it.

(Well, as peaceful as it could be with Pinkie Pie around.)

Suddenly, screams of panic and fear come from Ponyville. Princess Celestia says, “What’s going on?”

A royal guard says, “We’ll see what the problem is. Your majesties stay here.” The Royal Guard goes to Ponyville.

When the Royal Guard gets there, they see a strange green and blue metal person.

(Wait a minute; we’re too far into the story. Let’s go back a little bit.).)

Still in the Halo universe, on the planet of Reach, after Master Chief destroyed the Halo, a fleet of Pelicans (transporters) of the new Spartan Platoon, the “Devil Dogs”, were going to one of the last Covenant loyalists’ bases.

The loyalists saw the Pelicans and their anti-air defenses and started to fire at them. The Pelicans immediately separated or got shot down.

Inside one of the Pelicans, a squad of 4 Spartans, codenamed Gear Squad (Sly, Firewalker, Silent Death, and Unit1), are watching the other Pelicans blow up or are looking for a safe place to land. The Spartan in red and orange smooth Mark 5 B armor (Firewalker) excitingly says, “Whoo! Look at all of those ships, they’re blowing up.”

The Spartan wearing black scary looking armor (Sly) says, “Those are our ships blowing up.”

Firewalker says, “I know but, explosions are awesome.”

A green and blue ODST Spartan, with a thick armor chest piece (HP/Halo) (Unit 1) says, “Sly, you know how much Firewalker loves explosions. Explosives are his specialty.”

Firewalker says, “I can’t wait to get on the ground and start blowing up Covies.”

The pilot says, “We’re reaching the LZ. You guys ready?”

Sly says, “The Infiltrator is ready.”

Unit 1 says, “I’m ready to kill these alien bastards.”

Firewalker pulls out his custom made revolver clip grenade launchers and says, “I’m ready to blow them up.” The Spartan in black and white Recon armor with an EVA helmet (Silent Death) gives the pilot a thumbs up.

The copilot says, “Hey, 4th guy, cat got your tongue?”

Unit 1 says, “Give Silent Death a break. He was born without a voice box.”

The pelican closes in on the space platform. The copilot starts counting down, “10, 9, 8, 7…” Meanwhile, the Gear squad gets ready to get out. “6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…” The Pelican lands on the platform. “0.”

The Gear Squad jumps out of the Pelican. The pilot on the radio says, “We’ll wait for you guys.” The copilot on the radio says, “Yeah, we’re staying here because we want to be your escape Pelican and we don’t want to move until the anti-air defenses are destroyed.”

Unit 1 says, “Ok, Let’s split up. Firewalker, you blow up all of the local AA guns.”

Firewalker says, “Those guns are as good as blown up.” Firewalker runs off.

Sly asks Unit 1, “Who put you in charge?”

Unit 1 says, “I won the rock, paper, scissors mini-tournament, remember.”

Sly says, “Oh yeah. I still don’t see how paper beats rock.”

Unit 1 says, “That paper won me temporary leadership of the Gear squad.”

Unit 1 sees 2 nearby structures (1 of them is a covenant warehouse and the other is a small UNSC building garrisoned by Covenant soldiers.)

Unit 1 says, “Guys, you see that warehouse over there.” He points to the warehouse and Sly and Silent Death turn around to see it. Sly says, “I see it.”

Silent Death turns to Unit 1 and nods his head. Unit 1 says, “Sly, you remove their funding and Silent Death, can you handle kicking the hive?”

Silent Death pulls out 2 magnums. Unit 1 says, “May your special condition of cross-eye, guide your bullets.”

Sly asks Unit 1, “What are you going to do?”

Unit 1 looks at the UNSC structure and says, “I’m going to play exterminator.”

The sounds of explosions can be heard in the background.

Unit 1 says, “Let’s not let Firewalker have all the fun.” The Gear squad splits up, Silent Death and Sly go to the Covenant Warehouse, and Unit 1 goes to the UNSC building.

When Unit 1 gets to the UNSC structure, he has his back to the wall and gets a special device from his dog tag chain. He presses the button on the device and it displays a hologram of a family (A tall and strong man, a pretty woman, 2 teenage boys, a preteen girl, and a short preteen boy) with a farm in the background.  Unit 1 says softly, “It’s been 8 years but, Little Ricky is going to get rid of the evil aliens. It’s finally time for payback for what they did.” He turns off the device and the hologram disappears.

Unit 1 looks at the building and counts the floors, “1, 2, that’s it 2 floors?” He pulls out a grenade with a dial, turns the dial to 2 and the grenade grows slightly bigger. Unit 1 finds a window and throws the grenade in it. Unit 1 falls back a couple of feet. The second floor blows up and then a few seconds later, the first floor blows up. The building is still standing with big holes in the walls and a few of the corners are gone.

Unit 1 enters the destroyed structure to kill off any enemy survivors. Unit 1 tells Firewalker on the radio, “Firewalker, your floor buster worked.”

Firewalker says, “I saw the blasts from here and they were awesome.”

Unit 1 says, “See you in a few minutes.”

Firewalker says, “Let’s send these Covies to Alien Hell. I’m going to put what’s left of aliens in a soup can when I’m done with them.” Both of them laugh evilly. Firewalker calms down and says, “Bye, Unit 1.” Firewalker gets off the radio to continue his killing spree.

Unit 1 investigates the house and finds a basement door. He grabs his Designated Marksman Rifle (DMR) and enters the basement. Unit 1 carefully goes down the stairs. He sees a lot of Covenant (Grunts, Jackals, Skirmishers, Elites, and Brutes), but to him it felt different. They were different sizes and most were unarmed wearing normal clothes and some of them had patches on their clothes (Covenant civilians). The rest of them were a handful of Grunts with plasma pistols, a few Jackals with focus rifles, a Jackal with a plasma pistol and shield, and a Skirmisher Commando with a focus rifle (The only Covenant soldiers left). Unit 1 stops to look at the civilians’ faces, he sees fear in their eyes. Some of them are trying to calm down their families, and some of them were saying their last goodbyes. He tries to ignore the faces and points his DMR at them.

A civilian sees him and yells out, “A demon.”  The soldiers get in cover while the civilians scream and they try to protect themselves or their loved ones.

Before the soldiers fire at Unit 1, Unit 1 couldn’t find a good reason in himself to shoot civilians, even if they were Covies. He puts away his rifle and says, “I can’t do it.”

The Covenant were confused, the thing that would usually kill them without question is giving them, mercy. One of the Grunt soldiers says, “A Spartan is giving up? That was easy.”

Unit 1 walks down the stairs says, “I’m not giving up, I’m giving you a chance to escape and survive.”

Another Grunt soldier asks, “How do we know that you’re not leading us to a trap.”

Unit 1 says, “If you waste enough time, it will be. I recommend shutting up and using the ‘back hole’.”

The civilians got what they could carry and started to leave, the soldiers escorted them out. A few of them thanked the Spartan for letting them go. Unit 1 stayed in the basement and waited for the Covies to leave the building.

After a couple of minutes, the Covies were gone. Unit 1 asks himself, “Did I make the right choice?”

Sly on the radio says, “Silent Death and I are done in the warehouse, how about you guys?”

Firewalker says, “Give me a couple of seconds and...” A big explosion is heard in the background. Firewalker yells out, “Kaboom!” He laughs evilly. Then Firewalker says, “All defenses are blown up.”

Sly asks, “How about you, Unit 1?” A moment passes. Sly says, “Unit 1! Answer the radio!”

Unit 1 says, “Huh? Oh, the building is cleared. Let’s regroup at the Pelican.” Unit 1 leaves the building.

5 hours later, the Gear squad is at the frontline base, the “Devil’s Doghouse”. The Gears are relaxing in their new quarters and they start talking to each other during their brief break time.

Sly says, “You, guys know when we clean up the loyalists, the Covenant’s new order is going to try to kill us.” Silent Death nods his head.

Firewalker says, “I’m going to blow them up when they do.”

Unit 1 says, “That sounds about right with the knowledge of our history.”  Firewalker says, “You and those holo-books.”

Unit 1 says, “You could learn a few things by looking up the past.”

Firewalker says, "I need to learn how big I need to blow something."

Silent Death gets a holo-pad and starts writing, “I hope the new alliance lasts long enough for us to at least celebrate Halloween with the civilians.” He shows his message to the others.

Unit 1 says, “Yeah, I miss Trick or Treating.”

Sly says, “I do too, mostly the tricks I use to pull after I got the treats.” He laughs.

Firewalker asks, “Guys, we’re 18 years old, doesn’t that make us too old to Trick or Treat?”

The Spartans think about it. Silent Death shakes his head and the others say, “Nah.”

A UNSC soldier with an eye patch, opens the door and says, “Unit 1, General Dickson wants you in the Command Room, now.” Unit 1 says, “I’m going.” Unit 1 leaves the room.

Sly asks the eye-patched soldier, “What happened to you?”

The eye patched soldier answers, “I’m not wounded. It’s a style.”

He leaves and says under his breath, “Why do people question the eye patch?”

When Unit 1 gets to the Command room, the room is dark and there are some dark figures in the room. Unit 1 enters the room and says, “General, what happened to the lights?”

The door closes and the lights turn on to reveal that the dark figures are General Dickson and his personal guard. The General says, “Private Unit 1, get over here.”

Unit 1 says, “Yes, sir.” He goes in front of the General.

Unit 1 says, “What do you want, sir?”

The General says, “I command you to remove your helmet and hold still.”

Unit 1 places his helmet on a table to reveal a clean shaven young man with green eyes, short black hair, and light brown skin. General Dickson kicks Unit 1’s leg. Unit 1 falls on his knees. Then, the General punches Unit 1’s face and he gets knocked on his back.

When Unit 1 tries to get back up, The General’s Guard holds him down. The General orders his Guard to beat him up. Unit 1 asks, “Why are… you…”

The General interrupts, “You have disobeyed one of the Devil Dogs’ most critical rules of the battlefield, leave no enemy survivors.”

Unit 1 says, “Most of… them were… civilians.”

The General says, “They are still aliens and all the Devil Dogs know is that the alliance between the UNSC and the new Covenant are not going to last for very long.”

Unit 1 asks, “Isn’t our job to… protect the… innocent?”

The General says, “You are wrong Private, Devil Dogs are suppose to protect humanity from aliens and crazed rebels.”

Unit 1 finally gets knocked out. The General orders his Guard to stop the beating because he wanted to teach Unit 1 a lesson, not to kill him. Then, General Dickson orders 2 of his Guards to carry Unit 1 to the Gears’ Quarters.

When the Guard gets in the Gears’ Quarters, they drop Unit 1 on one of the beds and put his helmet and a Medkit on a nearby table. They leave without saying anything to the Gear squad. The Gears checked on their downed squad mate. Silent Death put the Medkit in one of Unit 1’s hand and helped him crush it. The Medkit made a blinding light for a few seconds, healed Unit 1, and disappeared. Unit 1 regained consciousness and gets up. Sly asks, “Unit 1, what happened?”

A Spartan in orange Recon amour comes in and says, “That’s classified.”

The Gear squad turns to the Recon Spartan. Firewalker says, “Oh no, not this guy.”

Sly asked Firewalker, “Who’s this guy?”

The Recon Spartan answers, “I am Corporal Grade 1, Crazy D. I’m Unit 1’s new parole officer.”

Sly asks Crazy D, “What did Unit 1 do?”

Crazy D said, “That is still classified.”

Crazy D turns to Unit 1 and says, “The General ordered me to take you on a recon mission when you get back on your feet.”

Unit 1 sighs and says, “Let’s get this over with.” Crazy D and Unit 1 leave the room.

Sly asks Firewalker, “How do you know, Crazy D?”

Firewalker says, “I had a quick mission with that guy. He is annoying, uses pudding as a weapon, and has stockpiles everywhere and I mean everywhere.”

Sly says, “Wait a minute, how can you use pudding as a weapon?”

Firewalker says, “Even though I watched Crazy D use that weapon, I still don’t understand it.”

10 minutes later, Unit 1 and Crazy D arrive in a room with something big, covered by a really big sheet.

Crazy D asks, “So you want to know how the General knew about that certain action you did on the battlefield?”

Unit 1 says in an annoyed tone, “Yes! Every time I asked that question, you were either stuffing your face with cupcakes or giving me a random way to say no. Besides, how can you eat about 150 cupcakes without getting sick? I know we’re super soldiers but still...”

Crazy D answers, “I didn’t want anyone to hear about your mistake and I had a lot of practice eating cupcakes.”

Unit 1 asks, “We were in a 1 person wide hallway, who could hear us?”

Crazy D says, “There were still cameras in there.”

Unit 1 says, “Good point. So how did they know?”

Crazy D answers, “I put in my report that I killed some Covenant fleeing from an UNSC structure that you happened to completely clear out, according to Command.”

Unit 1 says in anger, “You killed them! You’re lucky that you’re my parole officer or I would have given you such bad ass kicking.”

Crazy D says, “General Dickson made me, your parole officer to make you tougher against aliens.”

Unit 1 says, “Let’s get this recon mission over with.”

Crazy D pulls off the sheet to reveal a new looking teleporter. Unit 1 says, “That's a strange looking teleporter. It doesn’t look like a Covenant teleporter.”

Crazy D says, “It isn’t a Covenant teleporter, it is a prototype UNSC teleporter and it is a one way trip.”

Unit 1 says, “I’m guessing we’re the test dummies for this.”

Crazy D says, “Don’t worry I already tested it and I’m ok.” Unit 1 gives Crazy D a look of disbelief.

Unit 1 says, “Wait a minute, we need weapons before going on this mission.”

Crazy D says, “Oh yeah.”

Crazy D taps on the wall to reveal a secret gun rack with ammo cases. Crazy D grabs an assault rifle, a magnum, and some bullets. Unit 1 grabs a shotgun, some shells, and a plasma pistol. He double-checks the gun rack and says, “Where are the grenades?”

Crazy D says, “You can have one of mine.” Crazy D hands Unit 1 a frag grenade.

Crazy D turns on the teleporter and says, “Come on Private, let’s go.”  He steps in the teleporter.

Unit 1 says under his breath, “I hope he dies before me.” Unit 1 goes in the teleporter.

Meanwhile back at the Gears’ Quarters, the Gear Squad is waiting for their next mission. One of the General’s Guards comes in. He asks, “Troopers, where is your squad mate, Unit 1?”

Sly says, “He is with the parole officer The General assigned him and they are leaving for a recon mission.”

The Guard says, “That’s impossible, I’m his parole officer.”

Firewalker says, “Aw crap.”

Sly says, “That clever devil. Let’s go and find Unit 1 and that spy.” Firewalker, Sly, and Silent Death storm out of the room and split up to search the base.