Hey everyone. Chapter one reuploaded!
AND ITS NORMAL! JOY!
2300 hours
Currently in orbit around planet Jacinto
On board USSC Frigate Invincible
Alronta System
Adam, Spartan identification E229 stood in the briefing room on board the USSC vessel Invincible. After their last mission, Adam was surprised when the General was able to get the ship back to use for Gold Teams deployments. At the same time he reasoned that the General had to pull some strings to get it back.
HE looked over to his team. Samantha, Spartan identification number E470, like Adam, stood at attention as she waited for the General to enter the room. Adam then spied Samantha glaring at Jak and Scott, who were both staring at a data pad, grinning in a strange manner. He couldn't see the screen, but he knew if they we're grinning, it was better not thinking about it.
"Would you idiots put that away? The General could walk in any minute!" Samantha hissed at them.
"Hey!" Scott said aloud as he held his hand out, palm facing Samantha. "Don't worry about it. We'll know if he's going to come in." He said in an assuring tone a voice.
"Oh, Really?" Samantha said sarcastically back. "Care to elaborate?"
"Well, we all know that the General favors his left side, right?" he asked the group.
Jak nodded in agreement.
Adam rolled his eyes.
"Well, we know that the hallways are notorious for echoing. So all I have to do is put my hand on the table and if he's coming, I'll be able to feel the reverberations off the table, thus announcing his arrival." Scott put his feet up on the table in triumph. "That man will never surprise me."
"Boo."
Scott jumped from his chair and moved to the other side of the room in an instant with both hands up, ready for a fight.
Adam, also surprised, turned around to see General Halsey and Zahr standing behind them. Zhar was smiling, holding back a laugh. The General just had a stern look on his face. Samantha whispered to Adam. "Did you hear the door open?"
It was then that Adam did in fact not hear a door open. How did they get in here? He thought to himself. Not many could sneak up and surprise a Spartan super solider and walk away with their bodies intact.
Samantha spoke first. "Sir, permission to call E790 a dumbass?"
"Granted."
Samantha walked over to Scott and patted him on the shoulder. "Nice theory dumbass. "
"No fair." Scott said defensively.
The General sighed. "Well, if we're done fooling around, would anyone care to get started with today's briefing."
Everyone stood at attention. "Yes Sir!"
The general powered on the display. "This is Planet Jacinto, fourth planet closest to Alronta's sun. A few weeks ago, we acquired Intel that an old Covenant warship Bearer of Sorrow entered the system and set up a base on the planet's surface."
A hologram of the ship appeared above the table.
"We've identified the crew as mostly Jiralhanae, with one San 'Shyuum acting as their leader."
Everyone purked up as the word "San 'Shyuum". After the Great War, most of the San 'Shyuum went into hiding due to fear of Sangheili retaliation. Since it was them who lead an alien collective on a genocidal war against the human race, it was a real treat to hunt them down.
"Scans of the planet show that the ship as of now is currently empty."
"Wait, wait, wait!" Jak threw up both hands, interrupting the general. "You're telling me that an old Covenant war machine is just sitting, completely empty, in geosynchronous orbit around a dead planet?"
"Actually, Corporal…" The General started. "Judging from the impact site, it would appear that the ship actually crashed a long time ago." The General emphasized the word impact.
Jak seemed to rethink his statement. "Impact site…Right."
"Are you done?"
"Yes Sir."
"Good." The general cleared his throat and started again. "Intelligence has also identified ancient Forerunner ruins about 3 clicks from the crash site."
A hologram of the entrance to the ruins appeared above the table.
"This is your mission, Gold Team: Enter the ruins and find out what happened to the crew of that ship. Also, investigate the ruins and gather as much data as you can. The NIA has an investigation team on its way, so we need to find out as much as we can before we get redeployed. Understood?"
Everyone responded at once. "Yes Sir!"
"Then get to it."
The ride down to the ruins was relatively uneventful. It was only tense when Gold team neared the entrance of the ruins. On a strange planet, entering an unfamiliar structure with no idea about the number of enemy troop's or their location was enough to put even carefree Zhar on edge.
"Gold four, you and me are on point. Zhar, you're in middle. Gold two and three, cover our six. I don't want anything taking us by surprise." Adam said to his team as the surrounded the entrance to the ruins. Everyone nodded in understanding.
Adam looked down to his MA5B assault rifles ammo readout. It read 32, a full clip. Adam took a deep breath, held it, and then exhaled. He shouldered his gun.
"Go." He said to Jak and ran in.
Adam swept the area with his vision, looking for anything willing to put up a fight. He scanned the whole room.
Empty.
"Move in." HE said over his comm. He moved to the door at the other end of the room. Everyone stacked up again.
"Go."
Adam opened the door and Jak walked in, aiming down his shotgun sights. The room turned out to be a stairwell. At the bottom, Adam stood near the door controls as Jak and Zhar stood in front.
Adam opened the door.
In a matter of minutes, the final room in the ruin was cleared. Jak took off his helmet and scratched his head.
"Ok this isn't weird or anything." Jak said to Scott as he walked around.
"Yea." Scott said back. "What was this place used for?"
"More importantly," Samantha chimed in. "Where are the brutes?"
Adam gave more commands to his team. "Jak, Scott, go check the last few rooms again. Try to find something we might have over looked."
"Yes sir." They both said at the same time and exited the room. Adam turned to Samantha next.
"Try to get in contact with the General. Tell him about the situation and inform him we're beginning our investigation of the ruins."
"Yes Sir!" Samantha shouted and activated her comm. "General Halsey, this is Gold two. Be advised, the ruins are clear and we are beginning our investigation, over."
Adam turned and saw Zhar looking diligently at a spot on the wall. HE walked over to his alien counterpart.
"Got anything interesting?" HE asked.
"Yea." The elite replied before pointing at the wall. "Look at this."
Adam looked closely at the wall, which has what looked like hieroglyphics all over. "What am I looking at?"
"This is ancient Forerunner symbols. Like their alphabet. But something is wrong."
"What's wrong?"
"Its orientation is off." His friend replied.
Adam looked closer at the symbols, half expecting them to magically translate into proper language. "Can you translate?"
"It's been a while since I've brushed up on Forerunner runes, but…" Zhar trailed off, staring intently at the symbols. HE touched one of the symbols. "I'm fairly certain that this one means "Heaven"."
Adam nodded in approval. "Anything else?"
"Yea, give me a sec…" Zhar's eyes scanned the wall, every now and then translating a symbol.
"Sun, moon, eternal, crush, Faith, heaven again, tears, warrior, demon, and creation."
Adam looked at the Elite. "It that all it says?"
"No, you dumbass, I'm just translating individual words! I got no idea what it says!" Zhar snapped back.
Adam sighed. "Well we'll let the Intel team see what they can make out." He said as he took pictures of the symbols. Just then Jak and Scott reentered the room.
"We did another sweep, but I think what we see now is all we got." Scott said to his CO. Adam nodded in approval.
"Alright good enough. Everyone topside now. Gold two, call in for evac. We'll secure the area and let the Intel team do its job." Adam said as he started to walk towards the exit.
Just as he was walking away, Jak turned his head and saw a symbol on the wall begin to glow. Instinctively, he would have told either Scott or his CO that something was off, but something about the symbol's glow seemed alluring. Without thinking, he reached up and placed his hand on the glowing symbol.
Samantha turned to see Jak. "What are you doing you jacka…"
The instant he touched the symbol, the entire room lit up in an eerie, light blue glow. They the party turned to Jak who just stood there.
"I didn't do it!" HE said.
"What did you do this time you dimwitted, senseless, pathetic e excuse for a soldier?" Samantha screamed at Jak.
"Hey lay off my brother!" Scott shouted back in argument.
"Shut up!" Samantha shouted before turning back to scream at Jak some more.
"Everyone CAN IT!" Adam shouted and everyone became quite instantly. Adam was about to say something else when an invisible shock wave knocked everyone to the ground.
Adam then heard what sounded like an explosion go off as he turned around in time to see a large, sphere like substance appear in the middle of the room. Adam then felt a pulling sensation pulling him toward the sphere. He clawed at the ground to find something to keep him from being sucked in.
Samantha saw him and grabbed his hand before he got out of reach. Adam then turned to grab Zhar before he was sucked in. HE reached out with his hand. Zhar to reached out to take it, but he was just an inch too far away as he was pulled into the sphere.
"Dammit! NO! Zhar!" Adam heard himself call out.
"God Dammmmmmitttttt!" He heard Zhar yell out before he disappeared from view.
Adam held on tighter as he felt some invisible force pull on him harder. Samantha too pulled harder against the force. Adam then heard a soft, faint voice go through his head.
Two tears will roll off heavens cheek.
Then he looked at Samantha as she strained her muscles to keep hold of him. Then, in an instant, all of her strength gave out, and Adam was pulled into the sphere.
The last thing he saw was Samantha outstretching her hand towards him.
Then nothing.
The sphere then shank in size then disappeared altogether. The room then seemed to power down as the three Spartans sat there recollecting what just happened.
"What the hell was that?" Jak yelled out at last.
"Where did they…." Scott started before Samantha cut him off.
"Gold one do you copy, over? I repeat, Gold 1 what is your status, over?"
Samantha waited but didn't hear anything back.
"General Halsey, come in. This is Gold two. Gold 1 and Officer Zehiomie are MIA. I repeat, Gold 1 and Officer Zehiomie are MIA. We need reinforcements now, over!"
Samantha cursed to herself and exited the room.
Jak gave a low whistle and pressed his hands on the sides of his head. "Great, I just killed the lieutenant and an Elite Officer. Perfect."
Scott walked past Jak. "Yea. You really F'ed up this time."
Jak then stood there in the room alone. He took a look back into to the room before swearing to himself and ran out.
Time unknown
Location unknown
It was night time in the town. Then sun had just gone down, and most of the citizens where asleep. Only one person (or should I say pony) was still awake.
Her name was Luna. Her main was night sky black with dark purple hair. She was in charge of rising and lowering the moon at the end of every day, thus ushering in night. Usually she would do her royal duty then go to sleep, but tonight she couldn't help but stay awake and stare into the night sky.
In fact, she hadn't been able to sleep in days. With the memory of the past month still in her mind, she was growing suspicious that she might not sleep anytime soon.
The past month. Only a month had passed since the strange creatures appeared, promising peace then attacking , forcing her and her sister to flee to Ponyville. The fact that countless pony's were either killed or capture to ensure their escape. Perhaps it was the sacrifices that burdened her mind. She would never want anypony to sacrifice their life for her. What kind of pony could live with that guilt? A tear formed and slid down her face.
"Luna, are you still up?"
Luna bolted up and whipped the tear from her face then turned to see her sister, Princess Celestia, standing at the door, looking puzzled at her.
"Oh sister! Oh no I'm fine. Just couldn't sleep was all." She said in a gentle voice.
Celestia smiled. "I see." She said with a chuckle then sat down next to Luna. Luna sat down as well. They sat there awhile, silent, until Celestia spoke up again. "You did a good job raising the moon tonight."
"Thank you. I aim to please." Luna said with a smile. The two then sat there a while longer. Again silent.
Celstia spoke up again. "What's troubling you? Please tell me."
Luna sighed out load. Realizing her sister would leave it alone, she confessed. "Oh sister, what am I not troubled about. First that liar tricked us and attacked us in our own home, then everypony is sacrificing their lives to make sure we survive! I just can't take it!" A small tear dropped to the ground. Not Luna's, but her sisters.
Luna, unable to contain herself any longer, put her face into her sisters shoulder and began to sob. After a few minutes, Luna pulled herself together. "Sister, what are we going to do?"
Celestia whipped the tear of her face and looked back to the sky. "The only thing we can do. Be strong."
"But What about everypony who was captured? Your student! We have to do something!"
"I know we do, but charging recklessly into the arms of our enemy won't do anypony any good. We just have to stay put and wait for now."
Luna looked away from her sister, mortified. How could she say such things?
Celestia, seeming to read her sisters mind, spoke again. "I now it isn't right to just sit here and do nothing, but we're no match for him. I care for my student and everypony equally, but If we just go in and challenge him and be defeated, then all their sacrifices will be for nothing."
Luna kept looking away, not convinced.
"I promise you, as the ruler of Equestria, I will find a way to defeat that liar and bring peace beak to my kingdom!"
It was silent again for a while, until Celestia spoke up again. "A shooting star. How nice of you, sister!"
Luna looked up confused. There, in the sky, a flickering light was streaking across the sky. Sure she had the ability to make stars fly across the night sky, but that wasn't why she was confused.
She was confused because she didn't make it.
"I'm not doing that." Luna spoke up as the light became brighter.
"Really?" Celestia asked.
The two then sat there as the light became brighter and brighter until it could be clearly seen that there wasn't just one shooting star, but two.
"There's two of them." Luna said as the lights got even brighter.
"That's because they're not stars, their meteors!" Celestia replied back. The Two balls of fire stated to grow even larger and larger as they fell to the earth.
"Their coming this way!" Luna announced. Celestia had to act fast. If those meteors were to impact anywhere in the town, the damage would be catastrophic. Using her magic, she summoned a shield around the town. Seconds before impact, the balls of fire, as though guided by some unforeseen force seemed to jerk up, sailing above the town with a roaring boom before impacting somewhere deep inside the Everfree forest.
Confused, both Celestia and Luna got up a walking through the town toward the impact sight.
Luna spoke to her sister. "What in your name was that?"
Location: Small cottage at edge of Everfree forest
Time: Night time (Lol)
Well, I guess I lied when I said that only one pony was still awake. In a small cottage at the outskirts of town, a small, yellow pony by the name of Fluttershy was busy attending to the needs of her animal dependents.
"There you go Mr. Hedgehog." She said as he slid a small sack toward the hedgehog. "Take one of those every day before meals for two weeks and you should be better in not time."
The hedgehog smiled, took the sack, and scurried away. Fluttershy spread her wings and flew over to her couch. She was exhausted. She had been up all day caring for her animals. Usually they didn't need so much attention, but ever since the tragedy in Canterlot and her friends being captured by violent, bloodthirsty creatures, evrypony was put on edge.
Not that she minded the extra work. She believed that every single minute she put into caring for her animals was a minute well spent. She started to drift off to sleep until a small rabbit walked up to her and started swatting her with its ears.
"Oh, Angel Bunny, what's wrong?" She asked the small creature.
Annoyed, the rabbit opened his mouth and pointed into it, then he rubbed his stomach.
It took a second to relise her mistake. "Oh my! I'm so sorry Angel Bunny! I was so busy that I forgot to feed you!"
The Rabbit face palmed then looked back at Fluttershy with an Oh You Think? look on its face.
After making sure that her small rabbit had enough to eat, she retreated up to her bedroom, layer her head down on the pillow, and drifted to sleep.
BOOM!
Fluttershy bolted upright and rushed to her window. She whipped her eyes then looked at the forest. She say two columns of smoke rising not too far in. She then heard a ruckus downstairs as she rushed down at calm her startled animals.
"It's ok! Everything's ok! Please everyone calm down! Oh dear!"
After a while, Fluttershy finally restored order and went outside to investigate the forest.
Normally she wouldent dare step a single hoof into the Everfree forest. It was strange in that forest, as it worked differently than the rest of Equestria.
"Oh, What if these a forest fire?" Fluttershy was stressing to herself. She then got brave. "No, an animal might be hurt! I need to help!"
Not convincing herself, she squeaked meekly aloud and tried to reenter her house, only to find her rabbit had locked the door.
"Your right, Angel Bunny! Fluttershy needs to bebrave right now." Then she charged into the forest.
It didn't take long for her to move through the forest, her being a Pegasus and all.
"Hello?" She called out. "Is anyone hurt? Hello?"
Not long after, she was at ground zero of one of the impact sites. She hid from behind a bush as she strained to see what was in the crater.
"Hello? Is anypony there?" She said aloud. When she didn't hear a response, she moved from behind the bush and investigated.
(Gasp)
There, in the crater, laid a creature that Fluttershy had never seen before. Well, actually, she had seen something like it before. It looked like a human, but much bigger than any she had ever read about. Curiosity overrode her fear, and she crept quietly up to the unconscious human.
And poked it.
The human let out a grown, and Fluttershy was sent reeling back behind the bush. Hearing another grown, she looked out behind the bush to see the human slowly getting up. The human stood up on its hind legs and clutched his head. The human took two steps forward before it grabbed its side and let out a cry of agony before it dropped to his knees.
The human tried to force itself to stand back up, but failed and fell down on all fours. It again tried to stand back up, but again failed.
"God dammit…" She heard the human say before falling face first into the grass.
She came out of the bush again and walked over to the human and checked it. From the way it grabbed his side, she had to assume that something was broken. She rolled the human onto its back and felt along its chest. At one point she apparently found the afflicted area, which provoked another grown from the human.
"Oh my, you need medical attention! I'll go get some more help!" She started to leave but then heard another grown from somewhere farther inside the forest.
She was scared, but she decided that if something else was injured, she had a moral responsibility to try to help in any way she could.
She had a feeling that her work was just beginning.
And So Heaven Will Come And Give Birth to life
And Bare Two Daughters
One The Sun, The Other The Moon
And The Two Will Rule Eternal
But When The Sun And The Moon Are Crushed By Faith
Two Tears Will Roll From Heavens Cheek
Baring Two Gifts
One A Warrior, The Other A Demon
And With The Sun And Moon Behind Them
They Will Ascend to the Heavens
And Squeeze A Drop
From The Apple Of Creation
Well Helllllloooo there minions… Freerider2901 here. Now If you're one of my loyal Minions who just read this your probably wondering to yourself "What in the name of Bungie was that shit?" First, the second part of the story was inspired by My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
Yea that's right. I watch My Little Pony. If you don't like it, then you can just go opt yourself.
Truth be told I've had this story in my head for a while now and I had to just get out of my head. I am still writing for my Halo Reborn, but I just had to take a break.
For my fellow bronys out there who are a little confused, the first part of the chapter is from my halo fanfic "Halo: Legends reborn." I advise reading them, just so your familiar with my OC's.
If your one of those readers who can't stand ponies, then just ignore this. Please don't flame.
Anyway, things belong to their respective owners and what-not.
Anyway I guess I have to keep this going, so please R&R and let me know what you think. Updates might be scarce, so don't get mad.
Peace out.
(OH MY GOD IT WORKED! IT ACTUALLY WORKED!1!HA!)