Samuel P.O.V.
We were almost done clearing the Forerunner structure we were ordered to investigate by Commander Palmer herself. So far resistance had been heavy. The strange thing was, there were no knights. Only watchers and crawlers. We had finally gotten to the room we were supposed to check out. I came in on the left side and my two teammates came in on the right. All Spartan IV's were divided into fireteams. I was the leader of fireteam Nightshade. We only had three members because our previous leader had been killed in action earlier and we had yet to get a replacement. My second in command was Lieutenant Alex. He was my long time childhood friend. He was the comedy relief guy and our sharpshooter. Our final member was Major Valentine. She ironically had the most balls in the group. She was our heavy weapons specialist. She would always be first to run into combat and the only one to come out unscathed. She was also my big sister by 3 years. Why she didn't run this team was beyond my comprehension. She wore the warmaster helmet, rouge chestplate, LG 50 Bulk legs, GV-09 arms, and had a Solar visor. Her armor was red and white. Alex on the other hand had the C.I.O. helmet, recruit arms, recruit legs, and the scout chestplate. His armor was green and white. I had the Locus helmet, LG 50 CLMN Bulk legs, Recruit arms and the Mark VI chestplate. We all had code names. Alex was Jester, Valentine was Petal, and I was Night. I was carrying a MA5B and an M6C on my hip. I also had a BR55 on my back. Alex had DMR and SSRC99 sniper with the Oracle scope and silencer on his back. He also had a stolen Boltshot on his hip when his Magnum ran out of ammo. Valentine always went overboard with her explosives. She had railgun on her back, five packs of C12 on a belt around her waist, a shotgun in her hands, and a Jackhammer rocket launcher on her back abdominal area. I opened the team com channel.
"Petal and Jester, stay back. I'm going to check it out."
"Yes sir." They said in unison. I contacted Infinity.
"Commander, I'm at the site. Moving to target." Infinity responded with a bad connection.
"Under... good lu... almer out." I got the message and went to the pedestal with the artifact. As soon as I got within three feet of it, it started flipping shit. A portal appeared and I jumped back. The problem with this one was that it started sucking us in. Fast. Before I could react, my whole team got sucked in. A second later we appeared in an orchard at night. There was a full moon and no clouds in the sky.
"I didn't know forerunners did agriculture!" Alex yelled.
"Shut it. We still don't know what happened or where we are. So we explore. Jester, I want you to circle this orchard. I think I saw a house in the middle. We will meet up there. Petal, with me. I have a feeling we need to set up a base. I think we can make an HQ in the woods." Jester nodded and set off. I beckoned Petal to come to me. She nodded. We both went to the woods. I felt a pull.
"Do you feel that?" I asked over the open com channel.
"Yeah" they both said.
"RV at the woods. I think there's something in here we need to check out as a group."
Jester came over as fast as he could. We took out our combat knifes and made a rough delta formation. Since Alex was our sniper, he had honed tracking and stealth skills. He was at the front with me and Val in the back. We had been walking for at least half an hour when Alex told us to stop. He tapped his helmet. The signal to ask if we can use coms. I nodded.
"Listen." Alex said suspiciously. I didn't hear anything.
"I don't hear anything. What's going on?" Val asked, beating me to the point as usual.
"That's the point." Alex said. "Why aren't there any birds or any other creature?" I listened and realized he was right. As one we drew our sidearms and covered each other. We kept walking and came across an abandoned castle. When we came to the entrance we heard shouting. They sounded human.
"Move in!" I yelled. They did and we came to a citadel. There seemed to be activity in the highest tower. "You two! I want you to find the stairs and get up there. I will use my jet pack and get up there first. I will notify you over the coms if there are any developments." They nodded and set out to looking for stairs. I climbed on to one of the broken fountains and jumped. As I reached the apex, I activated my pack. Since I jumped first, I got there with fuel to spare. What was inside was not what I expected. There was a purple unicorn lying prone on the ground unconscious. There was a group of two pegasi, one unicorn, and two normal horses surrounding the fallen unicorn. There was a Navy blue and purple horse off to the side. She had wings and a horn. Once I landed I dropped to one knee with my weapon drawn, creating a thump where my knee hit. Assuming the animals were indigenous, I started looking around the room for the humans. The animals had stopped what they were doing and stared at me with almost human - like fear. The purple one had woken up and stared at me with shocked fascination.
"Hello?" I called out. The animals flinched. I stood up and looked around the room. The blue Pega-corn thing stared at me with curiosity as I conducted my search. Finally, the purple unicorn stood up. Her horn glowed and suddenly I couldn't move. I activated my neural com opening that had been installed in all of our armor after fireteam Crimson got captured.
"You guys need to get up here! There are animals holding me in some kind of barrier. Don't shoot. I just want you there for intimidation." I heard two 'yes sir's and the sound of heavy footsteps approaching quickly.
"What are you? And how do you speak equestrian? "The blue pega-corn asked. If I didn't have a helmet on, my jaw would have hit the floor.
"You talk?!" I asked. I made sure the com channel was open. Two seconds later, Valentine and Alex came in. They were restrained by the Pega-corn and the other unicorn. The purple unicorn seemed to be the leader of the group. She stepped forward while the other two levitated my team to float next to me. They let us go as one.
"Bad move." Said valentine as she rushed forward. Before she could strike, I intervened.
"Stand down major!" She stopped and turned to me.
"Behind me. Now." I said with a voice that barely contained my anger. I wasn't mad at her, I was mad at the animals. Val saluted and stepped behind me.
"Now," I said to the animals. "You are going to answer my questions and I may answer yours. What are you, where are we and what is going on?"
"What makes you think we are going to listen to you?" One of the pegasi asked. She was cyan blue and had a rainbow mane. She had a thunder cloud with a rainbow coming out of it on her left side.
"The simple fact that we may deem you a threat if you refuse." I responded, deadly serious.
"So?" The Purple unicorn asked, genuinely curious. I looked at Val.
"Major, would you mind showing them what a Spartan can do?" She nodded once, and picked up one of the suits of armor with ease. The animals gaped. Their jaws hit the floor when she smashed it pieces with her bare hands.
"Now. I assume you had business before we got here, so we will leave you to it. There is an orchard on the edge of the forest. Meet us in the farm house." It seemed like the orange horse wanted to object, but all three of us activated our Active Camouflage and we disappeared from sight. The animals gaped again. We slipped out of the castle undetected. We had something charge and the Pega-corn yelling 'NOOOOOOOOOO!' But we didn't turn around. We walked around and finally found the house after about two hours according to our mission clock. Unsurprisingly, we got there before the animals. I placed Jester on top of the barn in a sniping position. Petal was next to Jester looking around with her inbuilt binoculars in her helmet. I was leaning against the barn house inspecting my M6C. We all had active camo on.
"Night." I heard Petal in my headset.
"Go ahead."
"I've got a visual on the animals from before." She said. Then she added, "There are two hybrids with them. One significantly smaller than the other. They both seem to be important. I don't know for sure, it's just a hunch."
"Alright. I'm going to deactivate my A.C. unit and see it they are hostile. If they are, put a bullet in between their eyes." I got two green lights on my HUD telling me they understood. They didn't like to use this method often, but if I became serious like this, they knew better than to fuck with me. I deactivated my camo just as they emerged from the forest. They jumped as I appeared seemingly out of nowhere. I put my cleaning supplies in a case and slid my magazine into my Magnum before putting it on the magnetic pads on my armor. The Pega-corn with the rainbow main that always seemed to be flowing stepped forward. She had a sun on her ass. Not that I was looking, mind you. The smaller one looked almost like the Pega-corn from the ruins except she was smaller and had a moon on her ass. She also had an ever - flowing mane that looked like the night sky.
"Sup?" I asked. The white Pega-corn seemed to be surprised that I was speaking to her that way.
"Um, hello? My name is princess Celestia." I decided to mess with her by using a line from Hellsing Ultimate Abridged. Little immature, but meh.
"And I'm Common San Diego! Guess where I am!" She knew I wasn't serious, but she looked confused nonetheless.
"I'm just kidding. Name's Samuel. Sam to my friends. Of which I have few." The princess looked around for a second then looked to me in confusion.
"Where are your compatriots? Weren't there two others with you?" I nodded.
"Yes. But they have decided to remain hidden to make sure you will not attack us. Would you like to see what happens if you do decide to attack me?" I said in a completely unthreatening way. She looked scared. She didn't show it in her face or in any outward movement. However, her eyes widened ever so slightly and her eyes showed a hint of uncertainty.
"No, that will not be necessary. I get the feeling you want something. Am I correct in assuming such things?" The navy blue hybrid asked. I nodded.
"Aye. We have a few questions. Then, if you like, we can move to somewhere more comfortable, and we will answer most of yours." They ignored the fact that I wouldn't answer everything they wanted and nodded.
"Where are we and what are you are the first questions."
"You are in Equestria and Luna and I are Alicorns." I could hear Val and Alex face palm. Or maybe it was just me. Apparently not, because the purple one asked, "What was that?" I waved her off.
"Next, where is your residence? Surely you don't live out here." The princesses nodded.
"We live in the side of the mountain behind you." I heard Petal gasp. I shot my hand up to my headset. I didn't need to do it, but I liked the dramatic effect.
"What? What's going on?" I asked, making sure that the ponies could hear me.
"Look. Behind. You." I did and gasped. A massive mountain stood off in the distance with a structure built into the side of it. I spoke to Petal and the princesses at the same time.
"That wasn't there before. What the hell is going on here?!" The princesses exchanged nervous glances.
"Um... where are the other ponies?" I heard Jester ask. I snapped my head to the side to see the others had indeed disappeared. I drew my M6C and held it at my side, ready to be used at a moment's notice. The princesses noticed this, and grew nervous. I drew a glance to my right to see a slight shimmer. I pointed my Magnum at it before a human hand brought it down. Petal shimmered into view. The two princesses jumped; not expecting a person to come out of nowhere. Next to her, Jester shimmered into view as his Active Camouflage wore off. He was holding his DMR in a fighting stance, scanning the area in case a threat decided to foolishly show themselves. They nodded to me and I nodded back. I walked up to the two and pointed a finger at them.
"Tell me just what the fuck is going on here. Now." Before I could get an answer, I was shot in the back. My shields flared and failed. Petal and Jester both started covering each other as I dove for cover. After a second, my shields recharged and I stepped out into the open. I got a needle from a needle rifle to the stomach for it. Thank God for shields. An elite stepped out of the shadows. Five more shimmered int o view. Well shit. I drew my MA5B and started firing at a minor. His shields dropped and so did he after half a mag. I dropped another the same way. Petal had just taken out her second and Jester was having a knife/sword fight with the last of the elites. I activated my Active camo unit and snuck behind him. I stabbed the elite in the neck, killing him instantly. As he fell, I let my gaurd down. I had an intense pain in my abdomen and looked down to see the two pronged edge of an energy sword sticking out of it. I lost consciousness soon after. This day just gets better and better.
So yeah! That is my halo/mlp fic! I will try to update all of my books, but it's getting harder because I keep getting new ideas and I have lots of school. Until next time my friends.
Bloodycyclone, signing off!