Summary: During the battle of Reach, a Forerunner/Human Agriculture ship and it's escorts where able to escape the Covenant war machine and slip space into the Zeta Leporis System. Upon leaving slip-space they were contacted by an ancient Forerunner, who tells them of the importance of Humanity's birth right that was taken from them and the 'Elements of Harmony' that'll affect Humanity and Equines as a whole, can the fleet stop threats both on and off the planet, or will Humanity fail to protect the Planet from becoming another mark on the Covenant Genocidal campaign?
Chapter one: Evacuation and Meetings
Reach
Humanity's 'Fortress among the stars', the UNSC's largest naval base, strategic headquarters, and second-largest population center, holding nearly 24 billion colonists, behind Earth's 32 billion.
Reach sister planet, Tribute, also was significant, in 2364, when the planet was the home to facilities that held vast technology that dates back to when Humanity was still a hunter-gatherer society. With the technology inside the facility used, they ushered a new age of peace, with medical advancement extended human lifespan to nearly 1000 years, with most diseases and cancers being wiped out, along with increase in bone density, muscle mass and stamina making an average human five times stronger and faster than humans in the 21st century.
Along with medical advancement, the military also used the many scattered ship pieces to build a new and improved fleets, something that would take decades to make, along with better FTL drive, in which helped humanity to annex over eight thousand planets, which a fourth of them are colonies and the rest as resource worlds.
To billions, it was Humanity's 'prized' world, as of containing rich Titanium mines and most importantly, the home of the surviving Spartan-II and Spartan-III, supersoldiers who were three times stronger and faster than the average human living on Reach.
But now, Reach was the site of a battle that was being fought between the Covenant, an collection of alien species who declared a genocidal campaign against humanity, as the 150 ships and millions of the men and women of the UNSC prepare for the fight of their lives, which would determine the fate of humanity, with Reach at the metaphorical doorstep of Humanity's kept secret from the Covenant.
Earth.
After Winter Contingency was announced, the planet started to evacuate, with civilians heading to the Orbital Elevators and spaceports to escape the soon to be bloodbath. But, several day earlier, their fears increased when a fleet of over 300 Covenant ships arrived and started to attack Tribute and Reach. Now, it was a fight for survival, as the Spartans all over the planet were engaging the Covenant, hell-bent on protecting their home, even to their last dying breath.
As the Battle for Reach started, most of the Spartans were called to defend the Generators for their Orbital Defense Platforms in geosynchronous orbit, the only weapons that both UNSC and Covenant can't withstand one shot, and strategically placed assets all over Reach, including evac sites for civvies, but, during the ensuing battle, three Spartan teams, Noble Team, Phantom Squad and Rogue Squad, were called for different missions.
Noble Team was to destroy Sword Base to deny the enemy of any valuable Intel, including the location of Earth, Rogue Squad was sent to destroy a small staging area that the Covenant were using that was just outside of New Alexandria and Phantom Squad were called to defend New Alexandria last evac site.
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2552
"Hurry up Marines, I wanted turrets at those chokepoints yesterday!" A Marine Sergeant yelled, as the local Police, PDF and the 1st and 3rd battalion of the 13th Marine Regiment, along with assistance from the remnant of the 3rd and 5th Armored Division, containing 23 M808 "Scorpion" MBT, 15 M850 Main Battle Tank or "Grizzly" tank, as most Marines call them, and 6 SP42 "Cobra" Main Battle Tank, started to put up defenses against the Covenant, knowing all too well that they were on their way. While civilians were coming from an underground tunnel to fill the evac zone, with some armed with pistols and DMRs to help bolster the local force, they heard the tell tale signs of a Falcon coming in.
They all looked up and saw a logo that sent a chill down their spin, the Office of Naval Intelligence, or ONI, the UNSC intelligence and black ops department. While most believed that they were shady group of people who should be executed, most UNSC Personnel knows that ONI was willing to put itself into the bad spotlight if it means the survival of humanity. When the Falcon landed, six figures exited the Falcon, in which everyone knows who they are.
Spartans.
The first to exit was a Brigadier wearing Recon armor painted red with white highlights. He carried a M392 DMR and a M6D pistol. His name was Marcus-A150, who is second in command of Phantom Squad. The next was an Warrant Officer who wore Sky Blue Air Assault Armor who carry two experimental Smg, which looks like the Vector SMG from the 21st Century, except a longer barrel and a bulkier stock, that fires .45 ACP plasma laced rounds. The Spartan was Callie-A280, the team's medic and third in command.
The third member wears a orange military police, and was a lieutenant Colonel. His weapons is a M7/Caseless SMG that fires heated 5mm round that burns armor and skin upon contact and a M6D pistol that uses semi or three round burst. The S-III name is Luke-B216, Phantom's Close Quarters specialist and Demolition Expert. The fourth wears white EOD armor and has a warrant officer insignia and his weapons were BR55 battle rifle and a M45 tactical shotgun. He was Andrew-B301, the team's hacker and communication officer.
The fifth was a Sergeant, wearing a forest green operator Armor,along that and being armed with a M45 shotgun that can be used to fire flechettes rounds and a M6D pistol with a extended clip. The Spartan's name is Blake-B092 and he's the team second CQC specialist.
The last member was also the tallest, standing at least 7 inches taller than the average S-III 7'7 height, due to mutations in his body during augmentation. He wore the MJOLNIR/JFO that's blue in color with gold highlights, with a Field Marshall insignia on his right shoulder pad, also carrying a weapon that not even the Spartan-II will carry, a Mk.2 Lancer Assault Rifle with a plasma chainsaw bayonet, which most called Ripper, a weapon developed by the UNSC R&D during the Interplanetary war called 'Morita pulse rifle Mk.1', and his last weapon of choice is a M247H Heavy Machine Gun with the fragmentation version of the rounds and a 300 magazine box. His codename is Viper-A258, leader of Phantom Squad and Heavy Weapons Specialist.
"Phantom Squad? What the hell are they doing out here?"
"Look at the size of him, He's practically a S-II!"
"Man, those Covies are in for it now!"
Viper looked around as he saw the army that is made from the police to the marines.
"You know that most of them won't make it out,Viper." Callie said through their comms.
"I know, It's just, I mean, we're Super Soldiers who can kill almost everything that is in front of us, and them? They only have their guns and their courage." Viper said as looked around, noticing that most were barely seventeen years old.
"Viper, they know the risk of being in the Marines, and they are willing to die to save others." Marcus said, as they got to the front of the makeshift barricades.
"Alright, Callie, Blake, you take the left, Andrew, Luke you take right. Me and Marcus will be in the middle." Viper said in a stoic voice.
"Yes sir!"
They got into position, where the defenders set up choke points and two barricade, the outer barricade, which had some turrets and placed explosives, along with hidden landmines placed so that large group of infantry and vehicles can be wiped out, along with a third of the defense forces. The inner barricade had most of the turrets, rocket launchers, mortars and Spartan lasers, along with the vehicles.
"Sir, radar detected Covenant moving in from the Northeast, two kilometer out!" A Marine said over the radio.
"How many are we looking at Corporal?" The Sergeant asked.
"At least four battalion of Grunts, two company of split lips, five platoon of Bravo-Kilo, several squad of Jackals and several hunters. They also have eight Wraiths and two dozen Ghosts with them, sir!"
'They're really that determined to take this place out.'The Sergeant thought.
"Thank you Corporal, how long until evacuation starts?"
"Not for another half hour."
"Alright, have the civilians that aren't armed with a weapon to get behind cover, because we're about to witness a shitstorm in those thirty minutes."
"Yes, Sir!"
As soon as he gave the order, all the non-combat personnel were now hiding behind various debris or inside small buildings, waiting for the Pelicans.
"Here they come!" A PDF soldier yelled, as they saw the large blue, bulbous armor that was slowly hovering towards them, along with the ghosts, and the Covenant infantry moving ahead of the ground vehicles. Then, all hell broke loose.
Both side opened fire, bullets and plasma hitting their mark, while some were stopped by the Marines' and Elites' Energy shields. Those who were hit by plasma had their skin burned off, their armor melting onto their body, causing pain and agony to them.
The Covenant weren't faring better, as the rounds hit their target, with some tumbling towards them, removing chunks of their body, which caused the Grunts to cry in terror as they saw their comrades body being ripped to shreds.
The Spartans were shooting at the Elites and Brutes, knowing that they alone presented a serious threat to the evac site. Blake fired a shell filled with flechette round at an Elite Field Marshal, destroying his shield and internal organs as the small arrow tip rounds went through his body, causing it to fall backwards. As he turned, a Elite attempt to grab his gun, only to be filled with flechette rounds. Marcus got headshot after headshot with his DMR, showing the accuracy of a Spartan-III. Callie kept any Grunts that got up close at bay when firing her dual wield weapons, which cut through their flesh like a hot knife through butter.
Andrew was switching his weapons every opportunity he gets, effectively cutting down the Jackals and Grunts. Luke was using his one handed weapons, scoring kills after bloody kills, filling any unfortunate Covenant bastard with heated 5mm bullets and more holes than usual. For Viper, he was massacring the remaining Brutes with his Lancer Assault rifle, as their armor and hide, while able to withstand to an extent 7.62x51mm FMJ-AP, couldn't hold up to the barrage of 9.5x40mm M634 Experimental High-Powered Semi-Armor-Piercing rounds, which ripped right through their flesh, killing them in seconds.
Viper started to reload his weapon, when an Elite that was waiting in active camo, come out and swung at him with his energy sword, hoping to decapitate him. Unfortunately for him, Viper dodged his swing and activated the bayonet by pulling a small lever down to the ammunition mag, starting it up and ramming the plasma chainsaw into it's right shoulder, before bringing it to the Elite's chest, spraying blood and guts onto Viper.
"Damn it, fall back, they breached the outer barricade!" Callie yelled, as the Wraiths opened fire at the evac zone, shooting large balls of super heated plasma at the defenders, burning most that were caught in it's blast radius and turning the area of impact into glass, until they destroyed the first barricade.
The Marines stayed behind, covering the others until they got over the last barrier, as the Covenant saw the opportunity to charge at the remaining soldiers that were outside the barriers, but they were shredded to pieces.
Viper, seeing the chance, switched to his heavy machine gun and started to unleash hell on the attacker, the 12.7x99mm Armor-Piercing fragmentation rounds tore through them, leaving nothing standing, not even the Hunters were safe, as the rounds exploded upon impact of flesh and armor, tearing even the most flesh off of the Hunters, killing them before they could even get close to the second barrier. Viper replaced the empty ammo box with a new one, before opening fire once again, killing waves after waves of Covenant. The remaining Covenant forces turned all of their attention to Viper, who now switched to the Morita pulse rifle.
Viper primed the weapon, as he inserted the magazine, which holds 95 caseless 10x24mm Armor-Piercing Explosive tip rounds, into the weapon, before taking aim and firing. The pulse rifle, unlike the other UNSC weapons, fires the round inside the clip using an electric pulse as it's firing, giving each round penetration and firing rate than the standard issued Battle rifle and Assault Rifle. The Covenant didn't stand a chance against the new weapon, as they dropped dead, with holes where the rounds hit.
Viper was so focused on killing the Covenant, he didn't notice a Jackal Sniper who was about to shoot him in the head, but before the Jackal could get the chance, it body was blown to smithereens when a Scorpion fired at its location, along with the surrounding Grunts.
"Evac here's!" A Marine yelled, as several Pelicans, ranging from the Navy to Search and Rescue, landed and opened it ramp, as civilians ran into the dropships.
After the first wave of Pelicans they head towards ships waiting for them, with them being escorted by Broadsword fighters.
Once the first wave of Pelicans left, a second wave came in to pick up more civilians, only for two to be shot down by Banshee's, who zoomed away.
"Shit! All cobra, keep those Banshees away from the Pelicans!" Viper yelled through the comms, as the anti air tanks turned it's twin 35mm Gauss cannons to the sky, firing at any Banshees that got too close. Viper and his team, now firing all of their ammo at the Ghosts, who were becoming a nuisance to them. Marcus, seeing that the vehicle was near a conveniently placed gas tank, shot at it, which exploded, destroying the Ghost in the process.
The Scorpions and Grizzly, now done dealing with the Wraith, aimed their cannons at the Ghosts, before firing, bringing death and destruction to the Ghosts and any remaining Covenant that escaped Viper's LMG. After a couple of minutes of continuous firing, the Covenant attackers were no more, giving the human defenders much needed rest.
"Jesus Christ, I really hope that's the last of them."Blake said, as he replaced his empty clip with a fresh one.
"I hope it is, because almost all of the troops, including us, exhausted nearly all of our ammo reserves." Andrew said, looking at the once filled stacks of ammo boxes, now only several remained.
"We won't need them." Viper said, as all of the civilians were evacuated, now the Pelicans started to pick up the soldiers who were still alive, while some grabbed the dead soldier's dog tags, along with picking up the Armored vehicles used in the battle, as they head towards the planet atmosphere. The Spartans were walking, until Callie stopped them.
"Hey, you hear that?" Callie asked, as the Spartans, thanks to their augmentation, heard gunfire that came from nearby.
"Yeah, gunfire. But who the hell survived all of this?" Blake asked.
"I don't know, but we need to find out. Pelican-2497, we might have possible survivors, over." Luke said.
"Roger that, be advised, we have enough fuel for one pass, so you better get them, or you'll be left behind." The pilot of Pelican-2497 said, as it flew off to space.
"Come on, let's go find those survivors." Viper said, as he held his pulse rifle in his hands. The squad of six started to head towards the gunfire, killing any small Covenant forces that were near them. After fifteen minutes of walking, they soon found the source of the gunfire, though the people they were looking for was something they didn't expect.
In front of them was seven S-II, who were using DMR, but something didn't seem right. One, the DMR was firing the same rounds in Vipers' Morita Pulse Rifle, which is hard to find since they were switched for the rounds in the Assault Rifle. Two, they had energy blade at the end of the barrel, which was still in beta testing and Three, it had no scope, effectively making hitting long range enemy very hard to hit. They also had energy pikes on their back, but the Titanium shaft was collapse to where it would fit on their back and it was based of an old Pike of the medieval era, the Glaive pike. Viper immediately knew who they were.
"Oh God, it's Rogue Squad." Viper complained.
"You serious? Out of all Spartan team, we have to meet them." Marcus said, as he saw them kill off the Covenant troops surrounding them. Rogue Squad was a team of Spartan-II who were the 'black sheep' of the Spartan-II project. They were either considered outcast for various reasons, ranging from mission failures or for not working together as a team in whole. While this created tension among the other S-II, with a few exceptions, Rogue Squad created a bond that's unbreakable, not even the famed Blue Team bond is close to theirs.
Rogue Squad was also a nuisance to military officers and ONI, as they rarely obey them, doing things their way, which ensue destruction and death for any unlucky Covenant bastard in their way. But, while a nuisance to most, for a Spartan-III team and others, they're the most powerful people that can change a battle to their favor in an instant.
"So, who wants to ask the most dangerous team in the UNSC to abandon their home and come with us?"Viper asked his team, who looked at him. The Spartan sighed.
"Fine, I'll go, you pansies." Viper said to his team as he started to walk towards the seven S-II. The Spartans were cleaning up their mess when one turned around.
"So, the leader of Phantom Squad want to talk to us, so what do you want?" The leader, Rusty-626 asked, as he grabbed a Elite's neck and snapped it, before dropping the lifeless body.
"Look, I know that you guys want to defend Reach, but you need to leave." Viper said, which got him some nasty glares aim at him, which was impossible to see as they were blocked by the helmets.
"Can you ring that to me again? It sounded like you want us to abandon Reach, our home?" The Spartan standing next to Rusty, designated as James-005, asked Viper.
"Look, I know this might be hard to comprehend, but Reach is already lost when that fleet entered the system." Viper said, hoping to convince the team to come with him.
"And what are you going to do? Run away, while your home burns into flames?" Joshua-029 asked.
"I know that's it's my home as well, but I know when to accept the fact that nothing can stop it from being glassed, but what's the point on staying on our home, if my death was in vain and the Covenant find Earth?" Viper asked the team, who were getting a bit uncomfortable with Viper's words.
"Look, what I'm saying is, is it better being dead and not knowing if your sacrifice is for nothing, or getting off of Reach and getting revenge for her?" Viper asked the team. The team knew that Viper was right, Reach was already lost and they, including the other Spartans, were fighting a vain fight, but they didn't want to accept the fact that Reach was a goner and believed that she can still be saved.
"Fine, but we're doing this for Reach, nothing else, got it?" Rusty said to Viper, who nodded. The S-II team and Viper, along with his team, head back to the evac site, there that pelican was waiting for them.
As soon as they boarded the drop ship, it went to a Babylon class Agriculture/Colony ship designated UNSC Arcadia, that was one of the ten Agriculture ship that was responsible for giving surviving colonies food. Now the spaceship, along with it 2 Thebes class Battleship,4 Independence-class Carrier, 8 Agamemnon Class Heavy Cruiser, 32 Polyphemus Class Destroyers and 64 Brooke class Heavy Frigate, were responsible to get most of the civilian off of Reach and now heading toward unknown space, unaware of the events that they'll start.
Meanwhile in Ponyville, Equestria
A purple unicorn, standing at a 7'4 feet tall and wearing a purple T-shirt and black sweatpants, ran towards the park with all of her strength, only to stop when she see somepony, or someone, sitting on the park bench. The person was wearing standard UNSC workout clothes, a Grey T-shirt and black basketball shorts, with the logo 'UNSC' on side of the shorts. He had brown buzzcut hair, blue eyes and a fairly tanned skin, but was a foot smaller than Twilight.
The man was Corporal Miller, one of the two thousand humans that ended up on Equestria in 2546. Their ship, UNSC New York, a ship who FTL Drive sent half of the ship into orbit above Equis, until all of the civilians started to evacuate the ship, using escape pods and Pelicans, as the half ship started to fall back to the ground. As soon as they hit the ground, they were immediately surrounded by 7'7 Solar and Lunar Guards, which the four hundred UNSC soldiers raised their weapons and went in front of the civilians, until two alicorns, Celestia and Luna, were able to break the tension between them. When they started negotiation, everything went south. Celestia wanted them to hand their weapons over, as they were more advanced than any other species on the planet and make them citizens of Equestria.
They flat out refused, as they don't trust them with their technology, but eventually they came to an agreement. They can keep their tech, but are not allowed to leave Equestria as their bigger and more powerful species that might kill them, which some soldiers silently scoffed at. They were already fighting against aliens, what's different than that?
Luna and Twilight, though, still kept on pressuring on showing them their technology, even Luna going as far as offering a billion bits, but once again, they refused. Now back with the current situation. Miller was giving Twilight first hand on how soldiers went through bootcamp, and Twilight was already about to quit, and that was a three mile jog.
"Not bad, Twilight. Twenty four minutes, but that's still three minutes from a hundred points." The ODST teased the unicorn, knowing that she can fling him across Ponyville.
Twilight, who was breathing in precious air, looked up and glared at the man.
"How… can...you...do...this?" Twilight asked, as the man chuckled.
"Oh, Twilight, even I'll never tell you our secret." Miller said as he walked to her and bopped her on the nose.
"So, want to head back to the Library?" He asked, as she nodded. The two started to head back to the library that's almost in the middle of town. But halfway through, they bumped into Applejack and Big Mac, two Earth ponies, with Applejack standing at 7'6, while her brother stands at 7'9.
"Hey Twilight, Hey Miller. What are you up to?" Applejack asked.
"Oh, nothing, just giving Twilight her evaluation on her 3 mile run and she has a "B"." Miller said as the two farm pony chuckled.
"Man, I believe that's the first time Twilight ever received a low grade." Applejack said.
"Okay, let get past that, so, where's your other friends?" Miller asked.
"Rarity is in Manehattan, getting some more supplies, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are visiting their relatives and Pinkie Pie is in Las Pegasus, helping the Cakes in a baking competition." Twilight said.
"Alright, come on, let go on our trip back to the Library, unless you guys want to join?" Miller asked. The two ponies looked at each other before walking with them.
The four started to talk to each other like they were old friends, telling about what they done in the few weeks and such.
But, when they reached the Library, they saw two guards at the entrance, except they were wearing a loincloth, armor that consisted of bronze breastplate, a wooden and bronze Shield, greaves and a helmet with a horsehair crest and they were blue anthropomorphic foxes.
Twilight, now very excited that a certain fox came to visit her, ran towards the library, only to be stopped by the guards near the door.
"Are you Twilight Sparkle?"The guard on the left asked, as she nodded.
"Yes and these are my friends." Twilight said as the guards scanned the other three with calculated eyes.
"Very well, you may proceed." The guard said as they moved about of the way, allowing them in. As soon as they opened the door, they saw a blue female fox that was sitting on a couch, reading a book that was, no doubt, a romantic novel.
"Krystal!" Twilight yelled in happiness as the fox turned around and saw Twilight.
"Twilight!" Krystal said with a slight British accent. The two hugged, despite Krystal being 8'0 and Twilight eight inches shorter than her.
"Why are you here!?" Twilight asked her friend.
"Well, my parents sent me to see if we can open another trade route, since our farmers lost a lot of their crops during the drought." Krystal said.
"Don't worry Krystal, I'm sure Celestia will help you." Twilight said with a smile, in which Krystal smiles as well. But they were interrupted when Miller cleared his throat.
"Well, now that's out of the way, maybe you like to introduce us?" Miller asked.
"Sorry. Krystal, these are my friends, Applejack, Big Mac and Corporal Miller, guys, I want to introduce you to Krystal, Princess of Cerinia." Twilight said as they shook hands.
"So you're one of the humans I heard from Celestia. So what is it like living in Equestria?" Krystal asked.
"Well, compared to our home, it's quiet, peaceful and good place to live." Miller said. It was true, it's been years since they had any contact with the Covenant.
But to be on the safe side, they secretly contacted two Fleets, large flotilla of ships that were protecting the Inner Colonies and some remains of the Outer Colonies, until it was chased by the Covenant and forced to randomly jump to different places due to the Cole Protocol, to watch the system in case of any Covenant attacks.
"That's Equestria for ya. Say? I want to know if you want to come with me?" Krystal asked.
"Sure, it's been awhile since I seen Luna, just give me a sec while I put my armor on." Miller said as he walked to his house. As soon as he left the library, Krystal turned to Twilight.
"You two would make a fantastic couple, you know?" Krystal said as Twilight, who was drinking water, coughed as a blush started to develop on her cheeks.
"No! I mean, while we would, he already has a marefriend." Twilight said as she calmed herself down.
"Does he know that he can have more than one marefriend?" Krystal asked.
"Yes and he said, 'the day I have multiple girlfriends is the day hell freeze over'." Twilight said, internally scoffing at Miller decision of having a monogamous relationship, something that's rare on Equis, but common among Humanity.
"Its his decision and you should respect…"Krystal didn't get to finish as Miller, now in his ODST armor, ran inside.
"Twilight, we need to get to Celestia now!"Miller said.
"Why?" Twilight asked.
"No time to explain, just hurry up!" Miller said as he went outside. Curious, Krystal and Twilight followed him, only to see a Falcon, one of the many vehicles that the small amount of humans have, and saw Miller waving him to get on, which they did.
As soon as the three got on,the Falcon flew off to Canterlot.
"Miller, what's going on, what's with the urgent tone?" Twilight asked him.
"Look, just wait until we get to the throne room, then we'll explain in. Just hope it's not too late." Miller said, as he whispered the last thing to himself.
The three were quiet until they saw the familiar white and gold city as they landed outside the castle. Miller helped Krystal and Twilight off, as they met two more ODST and a man wearing the UNSC officer outfit, with the rank Captain on his shoulders.
"Captain." Miller said as he saluted his superior, as the man did the same thing.
"At ease Corporal. So who are these two?" The man asked.
"This is Twilight Sparkle, student of Princess Celestia and she's Krystal, Princess of Cerinia, sir." Miller said. The man looked at the two, before nodding, showing his approval.
"Alright, come on, we can't delay for any longer." The Captain said as the seven walked to the castle gate. The Guards, upon seeing the Captain and their escorts, opened the gates and allowed them in.
"Why did they opened the gates for you?" Krystal asked.
"Well, Celestia still had the offer of letting us becoming her citizens open, but that's for another time, right now we need to see her." The Captain asked.
The group started to walk to the throne room, as they know the room location since they have photographic memory of the castle, along with a 3-D blueprint inside of their eye piece. Once they made it to the throne room, the three ODST opened the massive golden doors, which revealed Celestia, Princess of the Sun, Luna, Princess of the Moon, and another being, a human, but something was amiss. She had fox ears, and nine tails, along with whiskers on her face. Her name is Youko, Goddess of Lust and Marriage.
"Hello Captain Romanov, how may I help you today? "Celestia asked with a tone similar to a mother asking a child.
"Not now Celestia, we have a serious problem." Romanov said.
"What do you mean, 'we'? Luna asked.
"Look, whatever I say in the next couple of minutes will never leave this room, got it?" Romanov said in a commanding tone. Celestia, after looking at Luna and Youko, nodded.
"Ok, several hours ago, our satellites picked up several messages that came from one of our planet's." Romanov said as Luna spoke.
"I thought you never had any satellite in orbit?" Luna asked, a bit pissed that she wasn't informed of.
"Sorry, but under certain circumstances, we couldn't tell you anything," Romanov said," back to the topic. We picked a distress signal that came from one of our planet, Reach. Here's the audio." the man pulled out a black box that contained the message and played it.
"This is...flagship...of the UNSC Epsilon Eridani Defense fleet… we need help...Reach is under...vant forces...need reinforcement...being overrun...can't hold off… Oh God, ahh!" The audio went silent after that. The fact that the message kept having constant static every couple of seconds gave the message a more eerily one, like those found in destroyed ships.
"What was that?" Youko asked, as she dropped her pipe that she was smoking onto the floor.
"That was a distress signal sent by a fleet of 150 ships that was safeguarding Reach, until it was destroyed." Romanov said as he clenched his fist.
"By what, Captain?" Luna asked. But before he could say anything, Miller received a message from the small intelligence group that was in Ponyville.
"Sir, the slipspace probes just picked up two hundred plus slipspace rupture that's just beyond the fourth planet!" Miller said in distressed.
"You mean?" Romanov asked, fearing of the answer he's about to receive.
"It's the Covenant!"
AN: Hey guys, sorry for not updating for a really, really long time, I've been so busy with school, jobs, and in a couple months, I'm joining the Army Reserve, so I've been putting this off for a while now, but now, I'll be posting these chapters, while I revamp the MLP/Destiny story, since Destiny 2 has been confirmed and the trailers came out. So as a substitute, this story will be posted. Until then, see ya!