REVISED A/N: Yep, chapter 2. Here begins one of the bigger changes to the story. Won't spoil it for you, so you're going to have to read if you want to know what it is. Other than that, just some minor word changes, as this so far was the sloppiest chapter I've read. I also restructured some sentences and all that jazz. Well, enjoy!

Disclaimer: I DO NOT own My Little Pony, any characters and such and the MLP franchise belongs to Hasbro. I do NOT own any ships from HALO, blah blah blah blah blah blah.

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Ch 2: The Beginnings of an Adventure

Equestria

Canterlot Castle

Royal Canterlot Library

Normally, the Royal Canterlot Library was quiet at this, since usually everypony was asleep that late at night. But tonight it was host to the noises of ruffling pages and frantic hoof steps echoing through the spaces between the large shelves.

"Come on Spike, there has to be something in here," Twilight, a purple unicorn with a black mane and purple highlight whispered to Spike, her assistant, a dragon.

"Come on, Twilight…" Spike whined in retaliation, "it's almost morning, and I haven't had ANY sleep!"

"SHHHHH," Twilight hushed Spike. "Fine, we'll look just a little more, and then you can go get some sleep."

Twilight was on a mission. She had been reading up on folklore and legends, and one had caught her eye, the Mare in the Moon.

The story goes that Equestria was ruled by two sisters, Princess Celestia, who raised the sun; and Princess Luna, who raised the moon. There was harmony until the princess of the night wanted more power and for the night to last all eternity. Celestia, unable to reason with her power hungry sister, used the famed Elements of Harmony to lock her away in the moon for 1000 years.

By the stories age, that account was just about 1000 years ago. After reading it, Twilight began searching through any records about the Elements of Harmony, and her search for information led her here, the Royal Libraries, which she had been combing for 2 days straight.

"Hey Twi, I think I found something!" Spike said while waving a book around as he was balancing precariously on a ladder. Just after making that statement, Spike found the book magically yanked from his hand and gravity took his body on a personal visit to the ground, making a loud THUNK as he hit.

"Quiet Spike, ponies are trying to sleep," Twilight reprimanded. "Oh, this is it! Legend of the Elements of Harmony! Thank you, Spike! Maybe this will say where they might be."

The compliment was half felt as Spike rubbed the sore spot on his head. "So, what does it say?"

"Well, let's find out," Twilight said, placing the book on a table and opening the pages.

Meanwhile, far above in orbit, the arrival of a certain pelican and a frigate will add a bit of short chaos to the already long night for Twilight…

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UUA First Fleet

FFG-1028 Column of Faith

Location: Above Unkown System

MV Coord Frequency: 18764.97

"Exiting now," Fi shouted as the pelican violently shook as it left the MV* portal. "Unknown reality, nothing from our databanks. Planet below, life sustainable, and multiple life signs detected. The Column of Faith has successfully transitioned back into real-space. It is now at a standstill, just outside the planet's gravity well."

As Fi was reading off the information the scanners were giving her, I took it upon myself to steer the pelican back towards the Faith.

"Fi, give me an updated damage report on the Faith," I said, setting the pelican in a hangar, doors closing behind me. I waited a bit while the hangar pressurized, as the atmosphere containing force fields were offline, before exiting the pelican and walking over to a holo-pedestal and plugged Fi in.

"Engine 2 is down, engine 1 operational at minimum levels, life support holding, long-range scanners offline, short-range scanners operational, long-range communications offline, short-range communications impaired, shields and weapon systems offline, MAC cannon offline, Slip-space and MV drives offline, multiple hull breaches of which all are sealed, main generator operating at 15%, backup generators operating at 40%," Fi reported.

Well, could be worse, I thought while reading over the more detailed list. Most of these can be repaired, are unneeded at the current moment, or can just be repaired later.

"Get what's left of the drones up and working on repairs," I stated as I gathered up some weapons and ammo strewn across the hangar floor before walking back to the pelican.

"And where do you think you're going?" Fi asked in an accusing manner.

"I'm going down planet-side to scout it out. See if there is anything a danger to us up here, and maybe find an eventual landing place for the Faith. It'll be a lot easier to fix on the ground than up here in space, since we can get some surface AMPs* up" I stated, starting up the pelican and throttling it up.

"Ok, but be careful. You know I can't save you this time if you get into trouble down there," Fi remarked over the comm systems of the drop ship.

"Come on, what could possibly go wrong?"

I soon regretted that statement not 3 minutes later.

"Engine…. 4 offline, engine 2…" I looked out the cockpit, "…on fire." The pelican was currently shaking violently as engines were failing left and right, and the structural integrity of the craft was quickly dropping while entering the atmosphere. I hadn't expected the jump to have damaged the drop-ship as bad as it was.

I struggled to regain control of the pelican, ignoring all the blaring warning and alert klaxons and lights. After about a minute of this, the proximity alarm went off. I looked up from the constantly flashing console only to see the last thing I would have thought of to be there, a castle… right in front of me.

"SHIT," I exclaimed as I pulled hard back on the yolk hoping to pass just above it. The maneuver was partly successful as I grazed the right side of one of the towers, breaking off some of the bricks.

All the frantic pushing of buttons in hope to get some power back to the engines was not helping as the altitude meter started blaring its own warning in conjunction with the speed alert's own deafening cries.

As the pelican got steadily closer to the ground, I noticed a small village down in the valley below the mountain with the castle perched on it. Off to the side not far off from the village, there was a VERY dense forest.

"Well, if I'm going to crash, that would seem the best place if I'm going to hide it."

Piloting the pelican over the village, hoping I didn't attract any unwanted attention, I managed to 'touch down' in the dense forest. I say that, but it was more related to a bowling ball running into pins. The modified pelican slid across the ground, knocking down many trees due to its resilient armor plating and great momentum, until it hit a rather large tree making it come to a rather quick stop, causing my head to hit the flight console, knocking me out.

Note:

*MV drive: My character and the fleet uses a Multiverse Drive, allowing travel between different universes and alternate realities along with being equipped with traditional FTL drives (like slip-space) for travel in those different universes/realities. Just needed to clear that up.

*Surface AMP (Automated Mining Platform): Designed for shallow AI or VI coordinated digs for surface metals. It then can refine the metal into a more useable form, dumping the waste back into the hole dug.

REVISED A/N: Yep. No more pony Michael. I thought it was just too cheesy and it started making things harder to come up with and write as I went along, so I just took it out. PLEASE DON'T BE MAD! As always, keep an eye out for the next update. Until then, Arwingmaster1 out.