Equestrian Spartan

by Unit Scout

New Covies?

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Unit 1 and Crazy D get teleported to a clearing on a mountain nearby Ponyville. Unit 1 goes to the edge of the clearing and he sees a small town (Ponyville) but he can’t tell who it belongs to. He uses the zoom in his visor to see the town has wooden structures and different colored aliens (the ponies).

Unit 1 says to Crazy D, “Sir, looks like the Covenant got some new friends and they look like they took over a human a human refugee town. I can’t say if they are UNSC, because it looks too low tech or at least from the outside.”

Crazy D says, “Well Private, your 1st job is to get a closer look of that town.”

Unit 1 says, “Yes, sir. Wait a minute, where are you going to be sir?”

Crazy D says, “I’ll get a Scorpion (tank) for when you get caught.”

Unit 1 says, “Even though I can’t kill ‘civilians’, you can count on me to do a simple scouting mission. I’ll climb down the mountain.” Crazy D says, “There’s a road here.”

Unit 1 says, “I need some time alone and besides it’s training on the way to the town.”

Crazy D says, “OK, I’ll just meet you down the mountain.”

Unit 1 says, “Let’s race.” He climbs and slides the mountain and Crazy D runs down the road.Unit 1 gets down the mountain side, looking for the mouth of the mountain, Fluttershy is seen flying by, sees him, and flies away.

When Unit 1 gets to the mouth of the mountain’s road, He waits for Crazy D and says, “I guess I won the race.”

A strange looking rock moves and says, “No, I did.” Unit 1 reacts by pulling out his plasma pistol, charges it, and fires it at the rock. The plasma disables the rock. It turns out that rock was a cleverly disguised Scorpion (tank) and Crazy D gets out of the Scorpion and says, “Somebody’s jumpy.”

Unit 1 says, “We are in enemy territory so why wouldn’t I be careful.”

Crazy D says, “Well, I still won the race.” Crazy D pulls out an Active Camouflage Armor Ability and gives it to Unit 1, and says, “You’ll need this.”

Unit 1 equips the Armor Ability and says, “This will help a lot.”

Crazy D says, “Continue your recon mission and get me a cookie.”

Unit 1 gives Crazy D a look of confusion and asks, “Why do want me to get you a cookie?”

Crazy D answers, “Because I want a cookie and I am your commanding officer and I order you to get me cookie.”

Unit 1 says, “Yes, sir.” He walks towards Ponyville. He says under his breath, “Out of all soldiers, why would the General pick this crazy bastard to be my leader?”

Before Unit 1 gets to Ponyville, he turns on the Active Camouflage and walks into Ponyville unseen. He walks into the middle of Ponyville to look for the Covenant forces. The Active Camouflage runs out of power and the ponies see him and panic. Unit 1 faceplams himself and says under his breath, “Way to go Unit 1, you alerted the Covies,” Unit 1 retreats and gets on the radio, “Crazy D, I’ve been spotted.”

Crazy D says, “I’m almost there and I told you, you would get caught.”

Unit 1 says, “This is not a good time, Crazy D.”

Someone screams, “Halt, metal beast!”  The Royal Guard surrounds Unit 1 and they point their spears at him.

Unit 1 says, “You guys are new to the Covenant so I’ll let you know, you use guns in battle not fancy toothpicks.”

One of the royal guards says, “I’ll you show toothpicks.” He throws his spear at Unit 1 and when the spear hits Unit 1’s armor, it breaks, and doesn’t make a scratch on him.

Unit 1 says, “Wow, you guys suck more than Grunts. And that’s one of the worst burns ever.”

One of the guards says, “We don’t know what you are talking about but we will defeat you.”

Unit 1 says, “You guys are a lot braver than the Grunts. Let’s see if you fight better than them.”  Unit 1 pulls out his plasma pistol.

Before Unit 1 could fire his pistol, an explosion blows up 2 of the Royal Guards. Unit 1 shoots his pistol at one of the earth pony guards and kills him. Another guard charges at him, he pulls out his shotgun with his free hand and shotguns a Pegasus guard. Next, Unit 1 bitch slaps a unicorn guard and the guard falls to the ground.  He kicks the last guard (an Earth pony guard) and he starts flying. Unit 1 says, “Look at that, a Covie flying without a jet pack or wings. I hope he makes the landing.” He laughs deviously.

The unicorn guard tries to stop him with his magic. Unit 1 gets disabled for a few seconds and quickly recovers. While using the levitation spell to cock his shotgun,

Unit 1 says, “So, you can bend gravity. Too bad for you I had gravity training.” Unit 1 points his shotgun at the unicorn and kills him.

Unit 1 gets on the radio and says, “Crazy D, I didn’t need the heavy support.”

Crazy D says, “Where’s the fun of having a tank if I don’t get to use it?” He fires a round on a random house.

Unit 1 says, “I know its fun to drive a Scorpion but be careful, there are civilians out here.”

Crazy D asks, “These are aliens, right?”

Unit 1 says, “I mean there could be human prisoners in one of those buildings.”

Crazy D says, “Ok, Unit 1. I need you to regroup with me.”

Unit 1 says, “Yes, sir.” Unit 1 rushes to Crazy’s position.

Meanwhile back at the picnic, the Mane 6 and the Princesses are tying to have a good time. They hear an explosion from the distance. Twilight asks, “What in Equestria was that?”

Pinkie Pie says, “It sounds like one of my fireworks or at least the one I ordered.”

Applejack sees a royal guard flying through the air and says, “One of the royal guards is flyin’ this way.”

Twilight turns to Applejack and says, “Applejack, there are Pegas…” She gets a good look at the guard, notices he is an earth pony, and uses her levitation spell to save him at the last minute. The guard’s chest plate is dented into his chest. Twilight puts the guard on the grass gently. The Princesses and the Mane 6 surround the guard.

Luna asks the guard, “What happened?” The guard struggles to breath and answers the best he can, “A green and… blue Cyclops… defeated us. You need… leave before it’s… too late.”  The guard takes his last breath and dies.

Fluttershy says, “I saw a green and blue creature, I have never seen before, earlier today.”

Twilight says, “You didn’t think that was important?”

Fluttershy gets nervous and says, “I didn’t want to ruin the picnic.”

Another explosion is heard in the background and the ponies fleeing describe a strange moving rock that spits out fireworks. Princess Luna says, “Twilight Sparkle, you and your friends get the Elements of Harmony and we will find the new threats.”

Princess Celestia says, “That sounds wise, Luna. Let’s go.” The Princesses fly away.

Twilight says, “Let’s go, girls.”  The Mane 6 leave the picnic.

Pinkie Pie sneaks back to the picnic to finish the dessert plate. Twilight screams, “Pinkie!”

Pinkie says, “Coming.” She steps on the edge of the plate, the desserts fly into the air, and Pinkie catches it in her mouth. Pinkie quickly bounces to catch up with her friends.

Back with the Spartans, Crazy D is blasting buildings in Ponyville and Unit 1 tries to think of a way to buy the civilians (ponies) time to escape. Unit 1 notices every time the Scorpion fires, some of its stone disguise pieces fall off. Unit 1 says, “Crazy D, let’s remove the Scorpion’s camouflage, it is falling off anyways.”

Crazy D stops firing and says, “Good point. I’ll just press this button.” Crazy D presses a button and the camouflage falls off. Unit 1 dodges some of pieces of camouflage and says, “Warn me next time when you do that.”

Crazy D says, “You told me to remove the camouflage.”

Unit 1 says, “I know but I didn’t know it would fall on me.”

Crazy D says, “Well, be careful what you ask for.”

Unit 1 sees 6 civilians with golden jewelry (the Mane 6); they look like they’re getting in some form of position. Unit 1 says under his breath, “What are they doing?” Unit 1 sees the Mane 6 glowing and they fire a Rainbow of Harmony (I know it’s the Elements of Harmony but that is what I call Elements’ ammo..) in the air.

Unit 1 says under his breath, “A rainbow?” The Rainbow of Harmony hits the Scorpion and the Scorpion blows up. Unit 1’s jaw drops and he screams, “Oh my god, they have Fuel Rod Rainbows!”

Meanwhile in the sky, Princesses Luna and Celestia spot Unit 1 and charge at him.

Back on the ground, Unit 1 is investigating the destroyed Scorpion. Unit 1 says, “Crazy D, are you alive?”

Crazy D comes out of the cockpit without a scratch on his armour and says “I’m pretty sure that I’m still alive, but you won’t be.”

Unit 1 says, “What are you talk…” He looks at his radar “Aww…crap.”

When the Princesses get close, Unit 1 jumps out of the way and lands on the grass. The Princesses land a few feet in front of Unit 1. Luna asks in the royal voice, “What are you and what makes you think you can kill our subjects?!”

Unit 1 says, “Looks like the Covenant got some new allies and Prophets. I guess we…”

Unit 1 turns around to see that Crazy D is gone and looks back at the Princesses. “I have to give you the ultimate royal beating…”

Unit 1 pulls out a shotgun and cocks it, “and here’s the paddle.”

Unit 1 charges at Luna. Celestia uses her levitation spell to mess with Unit 1’s shotgun and Luna tackles Unit 1. Luna pins down Unit 1 and starts punching him. Luna says, “We got thou now!”  Unit 1 grabs Luna’s front hooves and says, “Now, I got you.”

Luna gives Unit 1, a smile while charging up her horn. Unit 1 notices her horn glowing; he uses his strength to hit Luna with her own hoof.  Luna’s spell goes off course and the beam hits Celestia’s wing. Celestia tries to grit her teeth to ignore the pain.

Luna turns to Celestia and says, “Sorry, Tia.”

Unit 1 pushes Luna off of him. Unit 1 gets up and sees Crazy D sitting on the destroyed Scorpion.

Unit 1 says to Crazy D, “I need some help here.”

Crazy D says, “It looks like you’re handling them very well by yourself.”

Unit 1 says, “Sir, you are a…” He hears energy beams in the air and hits the deck. “Whoa, that was too close.” Unit 1 gets up, pulls out his plasma pistol and fires at the Princesses.

Crazy D takes off his helmet to reveal a serious looking man with yellow eyes, blond hair, a triangular chin, and white skin.He pulls out a tub of popcorn and starts eating it.

Luna tries to fly out of the way but her wing gets hit by the plasma and she falls to the ground.  Celestia dodges the plasma fire and goes to check on Luna. She asks Luna, “Are you ok?”

Luna answers, “Yes, I am.”

Unit 1 recovers his shotgun and sneaks up behind Celestia. Luna sees Unit 1 pointing his shotgun at Celestia and pushes her out of the way.

Unit 1 pulls the trigger and kills Luna. He pauses and says, “Wow, a higher rank caring about someone other than themselves, I hope her soul goes to Hea…”

Unit 1 turns around to see Crazy D watching him. “I mean Hell.”

Celestia’s horn glows violently and says in the royal voice, “You monster, you killed my sister and some of my Royal Guard. For that I’ll…” Unit 1 puts away his shotgun, pulls out a sharp diamond knife, and cuts Celestia’s horn off.  When the horn lands on the ground, it explodes by the unfinished spell.

Unit 1 pins down Celestia, grabs her head, and whispers to her, “When you go to the afterlife tell your friend, her sacrifice was honorable but pointless.” Unit 1 quickly stabs Celestia behind her head.

Unit 1 walks back to Crazy D and asks him, “What’s next?” Then the Mane 6 fire another Rainbow of Harmony.

Unit 1 screams, “Incoming!” Unit 1 and Crazy D rush to get behind the wrecked Scorpion and use it as cover. The rainbow hits the Scorpion and turns it into stone.

Unit 1 says, “What are we going to do?”

Crazy D says, “I got an idea, you go stop the artillery crew.”

Unit 1 says, “Hey, you watched me fight those Prophets. Now it’s your turn to do something dangerous.”

Crazy D says, “Well, I order you to stop the artillery.”

A glare grabs both of the Spartans’ attention. The Spartans turn to see a golden cloud in the air.

Unit 1 says, “Ok we need back up.” Unit 1 gets on the radio, “Devil Dog Command do you read me?” No one answers. “UNSC Command do you read me?” No one answers. Unit 1 turns to Crazy D and asks, “Are there any other Recon teams?”

Crazy D answers, “Nope.”

Unit 1 says, “So we’re on our own. “ Unit 1 sighs. “I’ll take out the artillery but I need a new Armor Ability to get closer to the artillery crew.”

Crazy D says, “I have 3 Armor Abilities on me. Let me get them out.” He pulls out a Jet Pack, an Armor Lock, and a Hologram ability out of his pants.

Unit 1 awkwardly says, “I’ll take the Armor Lock.”

Unit 1 swaps his Active Camouflage with the Armor Lock. Crazy D equips the Jet Pack, pulls out a grenade box out of nowhere and gives it to Unit 1. Unit 1 opens the box, grabs the grenades and puts them into his pockets.

Crazy D says, “I’ll get the cloud of Covies.”

Unit 1 says, “Good luck, sir.”

Crazy D says, “You too, Private.” Crazy D flies off and Unit 1 goes to the next place of cover.

When Unit 1 gets the new cover, the Mane 6 fire another Rainbow of Harmony at Unit 1.  Unit 1 goes on his stomach and the Rainbow of Harmony turn the cover into stone. Unit 1 says under his breath, “What kind of radiation is this? This is not the time. The sooner I take out the new Covenant’s new toy; the sooner lives will be saved.”

Unit 1 jumps out of cover, pulls out his shotgun, charges at the Mane 6, and screams, “Bonsai!”

The Mane 6 look at Unit 1 with confusion. Rainbow Dash says, “Is that thing, serious?”

Twilight says, “Let’s get this over with.” The Mane 6 fire a Rainbow of Harmony at Unit 1. Unit 1 quickly uses Armor Lock. The Rainbow of Harmony hits Unit 1 and turns him into stone.

Applejack says, “Well that was easy.”

Twilight says, “Let’s go and stop that other creature.”

The Armor Lock protected Unit 1 from the Rainbow of Harmony so the spell only covers him with a stone shell. Unit 1 turns off the Amor Lock, breaks out of the stone shell and continues charging at the Mane 6.

Twilight says with shock, “The Elements of Harmony didn’t work.”

Pinkie Pie says, “I have an idea.” She grabs Twilight and starts using her as a machine gun. Unit 1 quickly slides to a cart and uses it for cover. Unit 1 sees on his visor that his shotgun is low on shells and tries to quickly reload his shotgun. Twilight’s beams begin to break Unit 1’s cover.

Unit 1 says under his breath while in middle of reloading his shotgun, “There isn’t any time to reload.” He swaps his shotgun with his plasma pistol and starts charging it.

Twilight says, “Stop Pinkie.” Pinkie stops turning Twilight’s tail and the beam volley stops.

Twilight says, “There’s a spell I wanted to try but, I could never find the right time to use it, until right now.”

Twilight’s horn begins to glow violently. Unit 1 points his glowing plasma pistol over his head and fires it. It makes a small ball of green light heading towards Twilight. Twilight fires a big purple ball of energy and it fires towards Unit 1. The 2 balls of energy collide into each other, (It turns out that magic does not like EMPs) they make a big explosion.  The explosion disables the Mane 6, damages the nearby streets, structures, and turns the cart into a pile of ashes and wood. The cart lasted long enough to protect Unit 1 from the explosion.

Unit 1 sees that his plasma pistol is low on power and switches with his shotgun while checking if he still has cover. He hears moaning from the Mane 6 and quickly gets up. Unit 1 sees Twilight and walks towards her with a smile on his face. Twilight can barely see the Spartan walking up towards her.

Unit 1 points his shotgun at Twilight and says, “See you in hell, you cybernetic monster.”

Before Twilight could react, Unit 1 pulls the trigger.

The rest of the Mane 6 screams out, “Twilight!”

Unit 1 reloads his shotgun and says, “You’re next.”

Applejack gets up and sneaks up on Unit 1. Unit 1 sees something trying to sneak up on him, he turns around and Applejack kicks his crotch. Applejack shakes after kicking the titanium armor and Unit 1 endures the kick. Unit 1 grabs the shaking pony’s legs and throws her to a wall. Unit 1 walks up to Applejack and he says, “You Covies suck without your walking weapon.” He points his shotgun at Applejack. “You’re going to meet your robot monster in Covenant Hell.”

Before Unit 1 could pull the trigger, Rainbow Dash recovers and tackles Unit 1.  The shotgun shell hits one of Applejack’s rear legs. Applejack screams in pain. Unit 1 falls on his side and Rainbow Dash flies in to the air to gain speed for her next attack.  Unit 1 gets up, only to get knocked down by Rainbow Dash again.

Meanwhile, Applejack gets up and tries to limp to her friends. The others barely get back up to help Applejack.

Back with Unit 1, he pulls out his diamond knife and gets up. Rainbow Dash charges at Unit 1 and says, “Who’s helpless now?”  Unit 1 tilts to right and cuts off one of Rainbow Dash’s wing. Rainbow Dash makes a crash landing into a building and Unit 1 goes after her. She is disoriented.

Unit 1 steps on her tail and says, “The answer to your question is, you are.” Unit 1 stabs Rainbow Dash’s head and kills her.

Unit 1 puts away his diamond knife and says, “Rainbow-haired alien, now extinct.”

Unit 1 walks out of the building and sees Applejack being carried by Fluttershy and tries to run away.  He says, “You’re not getting away that easy.” He fires his plasma pistol at them.

After a few shots, the plasma pistol starts clicking. Unit 1 quickly realizes that the plasma pistol is out of power and throws it at Applejack. It hits her and she falls off of Fluttershy’s back. Unit 1 pulls out his shotgun and rushes to Fluttershy and Applejack. Unit 1 trips over a tan metal box. He sees that it is an USNC ammo box and opens it to find a magnum with a few spare clips and a holo-message. Unit 1 puts away his shotgun and the spare clips, holds the magnum in his hand and begins reading the holo-message

The holo-message said, “Dear Unit 1,

I knew you would run out of ammo for one of your guns by now. So, I placed this magnum where you could find it. Good luck with the artillery crew.

Love, Crazy D

P.S. Don’t forget about my cookie.”

Unit 1 says to himself, “I should have seen that last part coming.” He looks around to see that Applejack and Fluttershy got away. Unit 1 faceplams himself.

He says under his breath, “Great, I let the Covies with the new toy get away. Better find them and prevent the prototype from getting off of this planet or at least, out of this town.”

Unit 1 uses his radar to locate the surviving members of the Mane 6. They were hiding out in one of Ponyville’s homes. Unit 1 approaches the building.

Pinkie Pie sees him and screams, “Its coming.”

Apple jack says, “Let’s get ready to pin down this bull.”

Unit 1 hears their scrambling and rushes to the wall. He makes his way to the front door. Unit 1 pulls out his shotgun and gets ready to breach.

When Unit 1 opens the door, everything starts to slow down. He charges in and in an instant, he finds himself in front of the mouth of Pinkie Pie’s party cannon. He says in slow motion, “Oh shi…!”  Pinkie fires her cannon and Unit 1 starts flying through 2 walls. Unit 1 gets stuck on the 2nd wall with balloons tied to one of his feet, a party hat on his helmet, a table cloth over his torso, and party streamers all over him.

Unit 1 pulls out one if his arms, grabs his knife and cuts the string of the balloons to free his foot. He gets himself loose, falls down, and lands on his feet and then on his face. He gets up and the party hat table cloth and most of the streamers fall off him. Unit 1 rushes to the house and says under his breath, “I’m going to do the right thing this time. I’m going to frag them and then storm the place.” Unit 1 gets nearby the door.

Meanwhile inside the house, Pinkie Pie fills a bucket with glue, Applejack and Rarity wait nearby the door to ambush Unit 1, and Fluttershy hides under a pile of pillows. The door slightly opens, Pinkie Pie throws the bucket of glue and a frag grenade flies in, and the door is slammed shut. The frag flies into the bucket of glue. The bucket lands in front of the door. The frag explodes and everypony expect Fluttershy gets glue in them. Pinkie gets glue on her eyes; Applejack gets glue on her hooves, mouth and hat, and Rarity just gets glue all over her fur and mane.

Back with Unit 1, he hears the bucket explode and says under his breath, “I hate to be the sucker who swallowed that frag.” Unit 1 pulls out his magnum, goes in and sees the place covered with glue. He says, “I don’t know what happened but I like it.”

Applejack tries to attack Unit 1 but the glue dried quickly making her immobilized. Unit 1 sees her and karate chops her neck. A crack can be heard from Applejack’s neck and she falls to the ground.

Fluttershy and Rarity scream, “Applejack!” Rarity jumps towards Unit 1 and kicks him. Unit 1 stumbles a little bit. Rarity says as she uses her martial art skills, “You killed my friends, killed the Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, and most importantly got me covered in glue…” Unit 1 found a big enough gap in the attacks to unload the clip of his magnum on Rarity. He says, “Sorry, I got your blood all over you.”

Unit 1 turns to see a blind Pinkie Pie bumping into furniture. Unit 1 gets his magnum and points it behind her head. He says, “If you hold still this won’t hurt a bit.” He pulls the trigger and the pistol clicks. Unit 1 says as he under his breath is reloading his magnum, “Wow, out of the times.”  He points his magnum at Pinkie, again.

Unit 1 says, “Sorry for the delay.”

Pinkie Pie says, “My Pinkie Sense is twitchin’.”

Unit 1 says as he pulls the trigger, “Your sixth sense isn’t going to save you now.” She dodges the bullet. Unit 1 fires some more bullets and Pinkie dodges them. Unit 1 throws a frag grenade at her; it misses her and destroys a support beam. He throws a plasma grenade at Pinkie; it misses her and wrecks another support beam.

Unit 1 says, “Ok, maybe it can.” He grabs his shotgun with his free hand. Unit 1 tries to trick Pinkie by shooting his magnum on one side to lead her to his shotgun’s barrel. The plan fails and it ends with his shotgun destroying another support beam.

The building begins to shake. Unit 1 says, “Aww…crap.” Fluttershy gets out of her pillow bunker and helps Pinkie Pie get out of the breaking structures. Unit 1 quickly uses Armor Lock to save himself.

After the building collapses, Unit 1 gets some of the pieces of the building off of him. He gets out of the pile of wreckage. He says, “I’ve got to get those Covies.” His stomach rumbles. “After, I get a snack.  I hope there’s a market or bakery still in one piece.”

Unit 1 walks around, and finds Sugarcube Corner. He goes in and finds desserts still in the cases and on the shelves. Unit 1 says under his breath, “Human desserts? They really must have human hostages, somewhere.” His stomach rumbles again. “Let’s see if they took good bakers as hostages.” Unit 1 goes to find a knife and fork.

Meanwhile Fluttershy is upstairs helping Pinkie Pie get the glue off of her eyes. Fluttershy rubs some sap on the glue.  She says, “This sap will get the glue off.”

She grabs a bucket of water, pours it in Pinkie’s eyes, and the glue and the sap comes off.

Pinkie says, “Yay, I can see and I’ll celebrate with cake.”

Fluttershy says, “Do you think it’s a good idea to…”

Unit 1 yells, “Where are they.”

Fluttershy softly screams, “Eeeek!” Fluttershy peeks downstairs and sees Unit 1.

She whispers to Pinkie, “The Cyclops is downstairs.”  Unit 1 ends his search to find a fork and grabs a cake.

When Pinkie takes a peek, she sees the Spartan eating a cupcake and she sees all the desserts. Her mouth beings to water.

Meanwhile downstairs, Unit 1 is middle of eating his cake. He hears footsteps from the stairs. Unit 1 swallows the last of the cupcake, pulls out his magnum and points it at the stairs. He looks at the stairs and sees no one there. When Unit 1 uses his free hand to grab another bite of cake, he doesn’t feel the cake or the plate. Unit 1 turns around to see that most of the desserts are gone. Unit 1 says, “What the…?”  He hears something break nearby the stairs. Unit 1 turns around to see Pinkie Pie with frosting on her mouth and a tower of desserts on her hooves. Unit 1 fires bullets in front of her. Pinkie runs downstairs, puts down her desserts, and starts throwing them. Unit 1 also flips over a table and uses it as cover. Unit 1 fires his magnum at her. She dodges the bullets and gets a direct hit on his helmet with a chocolate cake. Unit 1 wipes some of the cake off his visor.  Unit 1 says under his breath, “So you want to have food fight…” He pulls out an apple with a sticker of a black gear with a lit fuse. “Let’s see if you like a bopple.” He pulls the stem and throws the bopple. Pinkie sees the bopple and picks it up. A new Pinkie Sense starts to shake. Pinkie says, “That’s weird, a new Pinkie Sense. I wonder what it means. Oh well.” Unit 1 hides behind his table and puts his hands over his helmet. Pinkie bites the bopple and her head explodes. Unit 1 gets up and says, “Did your Pinkie Sense sense that.”

He hears a lot of footsteps upstairs and goes up to investigate. Unit 1 uses his radar to locate Fluttershy. He finds her in a corner of Mr. and Mrs. Cake’s room in a fetal position. Unit 1 pulls out his magnum and points his gun at Fluttershy, He says, “I’ll do this nice and quickl…”

Crazy D says on the radio, “Unit 1, do you copy?”

Unit 1 says, “I hear you Crazy D. What do you want?”

Fluttershy gives Unit 1 a confused look. Crazy D says, “I’m done here. Oh, I need a quick favor. Take one of them alive.”

Unit 1 says, “There is only one left, sir.”

Crazy D says, “Good, you could kill the alien or capture it. It’s your choice. It doesn’t really matter to me.”

Unit 1 says, “So, it’s my choice, right?”

Crazy D says, “Yeup.”

Unit 1 takes a deep breath and says, “I guess we’re taking a P.O.W.”

Crazy D asks, “P.O.W.?”

Unit 1 says, “You know a prisoner of war.”

Crazy D says, “Ooh. I’ll go call in a Pelican to pick us up.”

Unit 1 says, “Give me the coordinates when it gets here.”

Crazy D says, “You’ll be the first or in this case you’ll be only one to know.”

Unit 1 says, “Wait a minute, how are we…” Crazy D hangs up.

Unit 1 looks at Fluttershy and says, “Good news, you’re going home with me. I know today sucks for you since your squad mates died but at least you’re alive to bitch about it. Come on prisoner, we have to a few chores before we leave this town.” Fluttershy is shaking in fear. Unit 1 says, “Don’t worry as long as you do everything that I say. I won’t kill you.” Fluttershy gets up and they go downstairs slowly.

Meanwhile with Crazy D, he has Derpy Hooves prisoner. Crazy D contacts a mysterious source, “Hello Moon A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) this is Crazy D, Can you hear?”

The moon A.I. says, “Crazy D, I hear you and my name is the Lunar Eye. What do you want?”

Crazy D says, “I don’t care what your name is Moon A.I., I need a Pelican down here, now. Oh, you know the clone I ordered, cancel it. He kept her alive. ”

Lunar Eye says, “Sending you a Pelican now and recycling the clone for spare parts. What do you want me to do with the…”

Crazy D interrupts, “Keep the others in their cells.”

Lunar Eye says, “Yes sir.”

Crazy D gets off the radio. Derpy asks, “Who are you talking about?”

Crazy D puts his finger on Derpy’s mouth and says, “shh, No spoilers.”

Back with Unit 1, he is carrying a box of random cookies and Fluttershy finishes cleaning his helmet. Unit 1 grabs his helmet and inspects it for any surprises. He didn’t find any extras in or on the helmet and puts it on.

Unit 1 says, “Thanks for cleaning my helmet even though I forced you to clean it.”

Fluttershy says, “You’re welcome Mr.…umm.”

Unit 1 says, “Let’s just tell each other our names to save us from more awkward moments. I’ll start, my name is Unit 1.”

Fluttershy says softly, “”I’m fluttershy.”

Unit 1 asks, “Can you speak up, I couldn’t hear you?”

Fluttershy speaks slightly louder, “I’m Fluttershy.”

Unit 1 says, “Ok, Fluttershy. We’re going to visit your exsquad mates. You can say your last words to them while I collect their dog tags. Let’s start with Pinky here.”

Unit 1 finds her Element of Harmony necklace nearby her body and takes it, thinking it was a fancy dog tag.

Fluttershy asks, “How did you know her name and what are dog tags?”

Unit 1 says, “Seriously it’s…I mean her name was Pinky. I said it because she was Pink, I didn’t know someone could be lazy enough to name his or her kid after the color of the kid’s skin." He coughs. “Sorry for the unnecessary complaining. Now to answer the real part of your question Conscript, a dog tag is like a metal ID that a soldier wears around their neck so when they die they know what to put on the tombstone and to tell whose family is getting some bad news.”

Fluttershy says, “Oh... my.”

Unit 1 puts Pinkie’s element of harmony in a special pocket and consumes the whole necklace. Futtershy gasps and Unit 1 says, “What, It is just a medal pocket, it is known to be bottomless to keep all of our medals.”

Fluttershy says, “That convenient.”

Unit 1 says, “Let’s go and get the others.”   Unit 1 and Fluttershy leave Sugarcube Corner.

Almost a half hour later, Unit 1 had collected most of the Elements of Harmony (expect Fluttershy’s, of course) and the princesses’ crowns and necklaces. The Pelican arrives and Unit 1 regroups with Crazy D and his prisoner.

When Unit 1 and Fluttershy arrive at the Pelican, Unit 1 notices Derpy Hooves and turns to Crazy D. He says, “You captured a cross eyed soldier. Don’t let it get dual weapons. Trust me, I fight alongside one and he kills 2 by 2.”

Derpy asks, “He fights with wood?”

Unit 1 says, “No, Silent Death is a master of dual weaponry with the help of his crossed eyes.”

Derpy says, “He sounds like a cool… whatever you guys are.”

Crazy D says, “He doesn’t sound cool, He’s mute.”

Unit 1 says, “Here are your cookies.” Unit 1 gives Crazy D the box of cookies. “Let’s go back to base.” Fluttershy gets in the Pelican.

Before Unit 1 gets in he sees something moving in the abandoned town. Unit 1 asks Crazy D, “Sir did you see something?”

Crazy D says, “It’s nothing, let’s go.”

Something screams, “Noooooo!”

Unit 1 says, “I’ll investigate what made that scream.” He goes into Ponyville.

Crazy D says, “Wait Unit 1 get back here.” Unit 1 rushes out of sight. “Aw man I hate waiting.”

Meanwhile in Devil Doghouse, Silent Death finds the prototype UNSC teleporter and it implodes. He texts a message to Sly and Firewalker about what happened and it could have been a possible escape route in Crazy D’s plan. Firewalker says on the radio, “Did it explode?” Silent Death types, “No, it imploded.” Firewalker says, “Aw, Crazy D doesn’t respect explosives.” Sly says, “Unit 1 is MIA (Missing in Action) until we can find Crazy D.” Firewalker says, “I think we just lost a gear.”

Back with Unit 1, he finds out the loud scream came from a short purple and green grunt (Spike). Spike is crying over one of his friends. Unit 1 gets on the radio, “Crazy D, do I have permission to take another prisoner or should I leave him like the others?”

Spike hears this, gets angry and says, “You did this.” He unleashes a power stream of green fire on Unit 1. Unit 1 quickly finds cover from the fire. Unit 1 says, “That grunt is a walking flamethrower. What do I do, sir?”

Crazy D says, “You know those ice blue grenades, you took from the box, earlier.”

Unit 1 says, “Yeah, what about them?”

Crazy D says, “They’re Cryo grenades; use them to cryo freeze that grunt.”

Unit 1 says, “Thanks for the advice.” He throws a Cryo grenade at Spike. It freezes both of them and some of the ground. The fire turns into steam and Unit 1 breaks out of the ice. Unit 1 says, “Come on ice cube, you’re coming home with me.” He picks up Spike and goes back to the Pelican.

After finding a place to put Spike down in the Pelican, Unit 1 goes on the Pelican’s radar and says, “I’ll do a global scan on the radar to see where the nearest UNSC base or camp is.” Unit 1 presses certain buttons to activate. Crazy D says, “Wait a minute…”

A hologram of the planet appears in the middle of the Pelican. Derpy says, “Wow a glowing globe.” Fluttershy flinches.

A voice from the globe says, “I am the Global Scanner System or the GSS for short. What do you want to locate, today?”

Crazy D says, “Nothing so turn…”

Unit 1 interrupts, “Sir we need to know where the nearest UNSC base is.”

The GSS says, “I’ll begin scanning the planet for any military UNSC structures.” A curved green line appears on part of hologram and the hologram begins to spin.

After a couple of seconds, the hologram stops and the GSS says, “Scans complete, no military or civilian UNSC structures detected.”

Unit 1 says, “That’s weird. GSS use heat scans to locate any Covenant forces.”

The GSS says, “Changing scanner.” The curved line turns orange. “Beginning scans now.” The globe spins again.

After a couple more seconds, the GSS says, “Scan complete, No Covenant or plasma radiation detected.”

Unit 1 says, “What the Hell?”

Crazy D says, “That machine is defect…”

Unit 1 turns to Crazy D and says, “Shut up, sir!” Unit 1 turns to the G.S.S. and asks. “Are there any other humans other than us?”

The GSS says, “Scanning now.” The globe spins again.

After a few seconds, The G.S.S. says, “No other human life detected.”  Unit 1 turns to Crazy D and gives him a dirty look.

Crazy D says, “That machine is lying.”

Unit 1 says, “It is true that an A.I. can lie but an A.I. on a Pelican doesn’t have enough power to support that scanner and lie. So Crazy D, I have one major question to ask you, where in the UNSC are we?”

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