Title: Twilight and Didact's Boulder Spell

Premise: MLP: FIM, Halo. As they climb up the mountain to Celestia's weapon, Master Chief, Arbiter, Didact, the mane six, and Derpy find themselves being chased by the Prometheans. Didact has a plan to get rid of them.

Date Posted: 01/24/13

Personal Comments: Remember last chapter? This is a continuation of that. Skip ahead, The Didact and the Mane Six had made it to the mountain, and are now climbing up, fighting their way through the Prometheans who are trying to stop them.

Also, The Master Chief and The Arbiter have joined in. The humans and good covenant have come to fight off the forerunners. When the Chief and Didact reunited, of course Chief wanted to kill him for killing Cortana in the last game, but after a little talk, they've decided they can put their differences aside to save Equestria.

I imagine The Didact would say something like "Just help us to save this world. They do not deserve this fate. We can resolve our conflict at a later time."

I imagine what it would be like if a couple other ponies joined this quest, namely Derpy, Doctor Whooves, and for some odd reason, Trixie.

I remember in like middle school, I started reading the Halo books. I read The Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike, and Ghosts of Onyx, and but then I stopped at Contact Harvest because I got bored with it, and I was too busy with school at that point. They were pretty good books at first. I especially loved reading Fall of Reach and learning about Master Chief's origins and beginnings. They were really good books. Eric Nyland is a pretty good writer. Some of the action scenes though were a bit hard to follow, I gotta say.

Listened to "Sugar Rush Showdown" from the Wreck-It Ralph soundtrack while writing this.

The party continued to run up the slope. The Didact, Twilight and Rarity would use their powers to knock occasional knights and crawlers that got in their way. Chief and Arbiter took the rear, blasting the horde chasing them with their guns. They could do little to slow down their pursuers.

The Didact looked back and saw the massive horde of his knights and crawlers after them. Chief and Arbiter, he knew, skilled as they were, would not be able to hold them back forever. And suddenly, he got an idea. He skidded to a halt for a moment, looked over down the side and spotted a large boulder. He gripped the large rock and gravitated it closer toward him. He gently closed his fist, compacting the rock, smoothing it out until it was a nice smooth sphere.

"Twilight!" He called to the front. Twilight stopped and turned to him. "Can you grant this stone a magnetic charge by chance?"

"Uh, attractive or repulsive?" Twilight asked.

"Attractive."

"Coming right up!" Twilight excitedly slid up beside him and focused on the floating rock. Her horn glowed violet, as did the boulder. By the look on her face, The Didact guessed this was a difficult spell for her, or perhaps it was a spell she rarely used or just recently learned.

By now, the other ponies had all caught up and were about to run past Twilight and The Didact. Chief and Arbiter were still holding back the Promethean horde.

Finally, her aura disappeared.

"Done!" She exclaimed.

"Excellent." The Didact gravitated the rock back toward the end of the line.

"Arbiter! Chief! Heads-up!" Applejack called down.

Arbiter and Chief looked back in time to see the boulder coming. They both dodged to the side of the mountain, pressing against the wall, evading the thundering obstacle.

The Prometheans stopped shooting, and looked confused at the rock coming. And then the rock crashed into them, rolling over them, crushing them, and grabbing them in its magnetic hold. Each crawler and knight that the boulder hit was plastered to the rock, and pulled along down the hill. As the rock continued down the path, the more Prometheans it gathered, and the larger it became. It was as though it were a game of Katamari.

"Nice going there, Dido!" Twilight exclaimed. "That should keep them off our tails for a while."

"It was a team effort, I believe," The Didact replied, smiling.

Everyone cheered for Twilight and The Didact, everyone except Arbiter and Chief.

"Yes, excellent job," The Arbiter replied. "But come. We have not reached our destination yet."