A Hole To Fill

Chapter 3

Light broke through the window as the sun rose in Celestia's dawn. Char was standing at the window looking out upon Canterlot, the guards were doing morning drills, ponies were tending to the gardens, everything seemed at peace. A knock at the door startled him, "Yeah?" The door opened and Celestia walked in.

"Char could you come with me?"

"Uh...Sure but what for?"

"Just come with me. I'll explain when we get there." He followed Celestia through the halls of Canterlot Castle through the courtyards outside the castle and outside Canterlot itself near a long road leading into the hills and off in the direction of Ponyville. Luna was standing near a small headstone and a bush. "Celestia mind explaining why we're here?" She stopped and turned towards him. She pointed her horn at him, "What the fuck is this!?"

"Enlightenment." Luna told him as Celestia hit him with a ray of magic. He tried to dodge it but it was a little late to dodge magic going as fast as a bullet. He stood surrounded by the magic his eyes closed. They hoped the memory spell had worked when he fell to the ground. He slowly got up and walked over to the grave. "I finally get to see you again Dad." He looked back to the princesses. "Thank you for showing me those memories. I still don't understand...my father was killed in action twenty nine years ago. My mother died during the attack on Earrth by the Covenant."

"The UNSC must have changed your memories some how..."

"How they don't have the ability to do...Wait... thirty years ago did Dad ever tell you who was the Commander of the

ODSTs?"

"No..."

"No actually nevermind you don't have anyway for AI to archive anything."

"AI?"

"Fake beings created by our technology take to long to explain. Right now I'm concerned why they changed my memories.

They never even told us Equiss existed..."

"They didn't?"

"Well I learned about it in the military maybe they wanted to leave humans off your world let you ponies live in peace. We did it after we defeated the Covenant we gave alot of their races a world and let them live in peace. The only race we kept in contact with for the most part were the Elites."

"Well maybe that's why they changed your memories..."

"No they would have told us he was going to be returned to full duty. Not change our memories. It must have been something else..."

"Well for right now let's not dwell on it too much. It's something we need to keep to ourselves you can tell the others you are Frank's child if you want otherwise keep that they changed your memories out of the explaination."

"Alright ma'am." Celestia stopped for a second, "You really are like your father." The way he said ma'am sounded so much like Frank.

"Alright so where is this house of my father's?" Celestia pointed down the road.

"Just follow this road. It will take you there."

"Alright I'll get my things once I get there and check it out." He started to jog down the road. His mind was exploding with thoughts and memories that were unlocked by the spell. He put all in the back of his head so he could forget that the UNSC brainwashed him and changed his memories. All he was focused on was getting to the house then getting his stuff.

The house was quaint enough looked like a plain cottage from long ago matching the rest of Equestria's architecture. He tried the door but it was locked their was a mat in front of the door. He knelt down and felt under the mat and gripped a small key. "A little obvious don't you think Dad?" He unlocked the door and stepped inside. The interior was just a cottage one room, a bed in the corner, a table dominated the middle, a small kitchen to the right, a bookshelf to his left, but on the far wall was the most unexpected thing in the house. A gun rack, the rack had every weapon that could possibly be given to a Commander from M6G Magnum to the mighty SR99C-S2 AM sniper rifle. "What did he have these for?" Hung on the wall was another odd thing a black crossbow. It wasn't loaded like the rest of the weapons were or well had mags in them. Well that was all inside the house so he left to go back to Canterlot, but he decided maybe there is something around back? When he went around the house what he found made his heart jump. Before him was a Warthog, the main ground vehicle of all of the UNSC its been used for well Char couldn't remember. It was of the M831 transport variant. He jumped in the front seat and he hit the key to start it up. The engine roaring to life made him scream with excitement.

"Hell yeah!" He bellowed while driving down the road he came from. Celestia was standing on the balcony of her chambers staring out over the land. She couldn't help but admire the beauty even though she saw it each and every day. She looked towards the road leading to Frank's now Char's cottage. She saw the Warthog jump over one of the hills in the road and smiled. "Seems he found his father's Warthog." She looked back at the scene before her, "Still did the UNSC choose to send him here because he is Frank's son?"

Char slowed as he approached the castle. He brought it to a sudden stop right in front of the guards, who were scared for their lives but they were told not to move. Once the Warthog stopped they started to yell at Char who just laughed, "Ah come on you guys I wasn't going to actually run you over!" He passed them laughing. They looked to each other and shrugged going back to their guard positions.

Char entered his room and started to gather his stuff, when the door opened. He turned to see who it was, "Ah hello Twilight!"

Twilight looked at him and raised an eyebrow, "What's got you in a good mood?"

"Well..." He scratched the back off his head.

"Do not tell anyone unless I tell you, you can ok?" She nodded, "Alright good. It turns out I'm the secret child of Frank Morrison."

In the silence of the aftermath of that sentence you could hear a Spartan sneaking up on you while cloaked. Twilight finally took in a deep breath, "WHAT!?"

"I'm his son...I just found out myself it turns out he had me and then had to leave to go back and fight and well he never came back I was so young I just didn't remember him."

"Who told you?"

"The UNSC did." His lie was so terrible that anyone could have seen through it but this pony seemed oblivious or maybe Char is just that smooth.

"That...is...amazing!" She hugged Char.

"Ok...Ok...Now let go I really don't need a hug..." She started to hug him harder, "Twi...Let go..." She noticed she was crushing him with the hug and let him go. "Oh I'm sorry!"

"It's ok...Just remember don't tell anyone about this Luna and Celestia know but that's it no one else not even your mother."

"I hope you do understand alot of the ponies around Ponyville grew real attached to Frank and really don't like to many other humans."

"I get that. I'm just gonna wait for the right time to tell them." His smirked looked as if he was about to open a box that contained Pinkie Pie on unsuspecting ponies. Twilight helped him pack his things that he had taken out which included the dossiers and a change of clothes. The clothes smelt of someone that was asleep for a week without anyone bathing him.

"Dear Celestia these clothes stink!"

Char chuckled, "Yeah they should I was in cyro for a week the clothes tend to stink after that long." They finished packing everything, "Hey Twilight your able to leave the castle right?"

"Yeah?"

"Wanna go for a ride?" He smiled and she nodded knowing all to where this would lead.