Chapter 2
2 Months later

2552/ October 2th/ 0800 hours

Solar was on the bridge of his ship, The UNSC: Last light.
Halcyon class light-cruiser with hull and armor overhauls, Overclocked Triple Fusion Reactor as well as dual Mark IX Magnetic accelerator cannons, allowing for 6 shots in a row with-out needing to recharge.

the ship was on patrol duty in an asteroid field deep with-in UNSC territory for awhile to let everything settle in and make sure the ship was ready for combat, as well as test a few prototypes that were currently on the ship still being installed because of a few technical issues.

Solar is sitting in his chair that he had installed in the bridge, one leg crossed over the other and one of his fore legs to keep his head propped up.
"ensign, any activity yet?"
ensign: "no sir, just the usual, endless void with alot asteroids going about"
Solar: "ugh" rolling his eyes " i don't know why i expected to just get straight out there and start being some super hero captain that pulls of awesome feats of heroic-ness..."
A PO3 from engineering comes up to Solar " Sir, Lieutenant Peter Stignkov From ONI wanted you to have the latest engineering report, and said that our chief engineering officer can take over soon"
Solar levitates the report out of the PO3s hand puts it in his lap while turning his gaze to the PO3 " finally some good news, i don't exactly trust though Peter Stignkov... don't like the ONI kind, always backstabbers those guys"
The PO3 bites his lip and then speaks " sir, Lieutenant peter stignkov is my father, and all do respect i would appreciate it if you do not bad mouth him, and he is certainly no backstabber!"
Solar raises an eyebrow
"I did not know that crewman, and i'm sorry, but next time ASK for permission to speak freely. I know he was your father and you felt you had to defend him and all, i understand, but next time ASK!"

the PO3 recoils and takes a step back "Sorry sir, won't happen again!" then the PO3 rushes of the bridge "it better not" mumbles Solar.

Solar turns back to look out the front of the bridge again "well... at least that was something to take my mind off of this boring task of sitting here and counting asteroids go by... and that would be 17 now" "sir, that would actually be 21" yells a Cadet that is at the helm.

At this time, Solars second in command, A female walks onto the bridge, "captain, want me to take watch?"
Solars jumps up at this, grabs the tablet with his magic and begins to stride off the bridge "its all yours Catherine, I'm going to go find that rumored officers poker game, because sitting in this chair and staring at screens or counting the asteroids go by is killing me"

Catharine snickered at Solars remark. Catherine may seem like your standard run of the mill female officer with a small bad-ass side, but that's not the case with her. she can have some of the most amazing luck in some of the most hopeless times, and can see the end when something seems endless. She is as hard as a rock, and that is an amazing complement to rocks. Some people call her spartan born, in other words, shes a natural born spartan due to her almost unnatural strength and agility. In fact it was recently found out that she was going to be put into the Spartan II Program if it wasn't for her family going on a unplanned and very sudden holiday, this may have been due to the fact that her father was an ONI Higher up at the time and saw the candidates for the Spartan II program and saw his daughter was on it.

"the officers poker game is in Ensign Jalimuns quarters, and its just with two other Ensigns and a LTJG, and besides they don't have any spare chairs that you could take"

Solar laughs at her statement "I'll just sit down on the floor, besides, when I'm in a chair i tower over everyone, if i sit down on the floor i should be around the same height as everyone else sitting down"
and with that he turns right down the corridor, going towards ensign Jalimuns quarters.

As solar strolls down the corridors of his ship, looking for ensign Jalimuns , occasionally passing crewmen, ensigns and LTJG's alike, with the rare instance of a higher ranking officer passing by.
as they walk by they all address the captain as sir and walk by, but solar could always hear, see and sense the awkwardness they are feeling, and he doesn't blame them.

He had read up a lot on humanitys history and knew they did and still do, ride equines like him. So he understands why they are being shy and when directly faced with him, they either look away, get agitated that they serve something that humanity saw as an animal and below them, or avoid making any type of conversation and get as far away as possible and simply dismisses themselves to get away.

Solar knew that All this was going to be extremely common in the first few weeks of command for most of the crew, but a few of the crew, roughly 1/5, he had served with before on previous ships so they knew him.
With time, people on his side and being the highest ranking officer,most of the crew will adjusted to him and alot of them had already, but a few still were still taking their sweet time.

"Kamil... Panimine... Daviry... where could his quarters be? ugh...Ensign come over here for a second"
The Ensign that Solar had just passed turns around and stiffens up and puts her arms behind her back in a cute way with arms fully extended as far down as they could go and her hands crossed and locked together, and slowly walks over inquisitively and with a large smile, like she had just won the lottery
"Yes sir!?"

Solar looks the Ensign up and down and sees that she is in fact rather comfortable with his presence and seems to be having the time of her life, she had no defensive posture, all her body language suggested she was incredibly calm and relaxed about the Situation.
"Ensign, do you know where ensign Jalimuns quarters are?"

The ensign almost instantly breaks down at hearing Jalimun and begins to cry
"I swear captain its nothing bad please don't get me or my friends reprimanded or kicked out of the navy, we just wanted to do something while we waited and didn't mean anything bad i swear and i-i-its not bad i sw-" she continued to spew out a sentence half muddled up by the fact she was almost ready to faint from fear and anxiety.

"Hold up Ensign, Calm down! I'm not going to reprimand you because of a friendly game, even if it is against UNSC rules to play that game under Act 32, in fact i just wanted to join your game"
She stopped bawling her eyes out, just sobbing as well as the occasional sniffle"really?"
Solar rolled his eyes and took a breath in, puffing out his chest a bit "yes, i just wanted to join you guys in the game, because honestly, right now i can't imagine a job more boring than sitting in my chair and staring out the bridge window."
"oh... eh, that was really embarrassing and unprofessional of me to break down like that, but um, your welcome to join capt-"

the girl just stops mid sentence for a few moments, as if she was thinking and then out of nowhere, The young Ensign very suddenly bounces up into the air with a big jump. Solar decided to remember her features so he can remember who she is, she had shining blue eyes and brown short straight hair and with a height around Solars chest, after landing her gaze shoots up to look into at Solar's eyes and decides to almost blinds him with smile to large it could act like a moon to deflect light "OH I FORGOT TO INTRODUCE MYSELF! My name is Emily Lilly-bell! But everyone calls me Happy Bells because i'm usually heard from a mile away and almost nothing can get me down besides, you know, me thinking i have nearly lost my job in the UNSC and all that stuff BUT there was this one time where-"
Solar was eyes where wide open, he could not BELIEVE how fast this girl was talking, and how only two minutes ago she was shy and hugging the wall, its like she had two completely different personalitys! and just has this thought was going threw his head he noticed that HER HAIR WAS GOING CURLY, in front of his very eyes!
"ALSO, did i tell you that i love Strawberrys! OH OH i also LOVE party's!, Party's are amazing, best things in the world, and everyone says i can make the best party's, and i know that no one else can do them better than i! OH OH OH! I JUST THOUGH OF SOMETHING, WE COULD HAVE A FIRST COMMAND PARTY, OR A SOMETHING LIKE A-"
Solar being a smart pony and the captain knew that the further she went with this, the more likely she was not going to snap out of it, as well as being one that does not like party UNLESS it was a friend or family members birthday or it was hearth warming eve , or humanity very similar Christmas
"calm down, just calm down Emily. Anyway it was a pleasure to meet you and i must say you have a rather explosive and infectious mood, Anyway, would you mind if i join your game this morning?"
Emily, who was somehow on the ceiling when solar was addressing her, almost teleported to him. If he was not a pony that could not use magic, he would of swore that she'd just used magic to teleport to him.
"SURE!"
"so where is the game?"
"FOLLOW ME!" she excitedly hoots, as she Bounds off with a half walking, half bouncing stride, leaving solar wondering how she is managing to stay in one piece and not rip in two.

End of chapter 2

So i would like feedback on how this story is going.

also to let people know i am doing a fair bit of research into halo to make sure my lore is accurate and not 90% made up.

I also revise my chapter works but I'm human and bound to miss stuff so please mention anything that is really bad or if you have any suggestions on what should happen, its not a absolute story that's on rock hard tracks, you guys can have some say in it.