//------------------------------// // Meeting the town... // Story: Halo:EQUESTRIA // by Secondchancer //------------------------------// Twilight had wished the others a goodnight the only one remaining of the main six was Fluttershy she wanted to stay surprisingly agter hearing the story of Six and to make sure he was okay Twilight had said she could stay in the guest room which was stack from floor to ceiling with books and the only uncovered part of the room was the bed with grey sheets 'I don't think the sheets are supposed to be grey' Fluttershy thought before going to bed. (several hours later) Six was visibly shaking from his nightmare and grunting looking left and right as if he was awake and fighting he woke with a start unloading half of his magazine into a innocent pile of books (that are now cage linings for birds) while screaming "NOOOOOO!" the cracking of his MA37 awoke all the persons/ponies and dragon from there respective sleeping states. Emile was the first to react lifting his shotgun to bear and going to one knee "Six what are the fuck?" Emile said realizing it was a false alarm. Twilight teleported in front of the spartans looking like a bat out of hell she had a wild look in her eye right befre she could say anything Spike came running down the staris rubbing his eye "What happened?" he said yawning out loud. Twilight looked to him and then spartans before taking a deep calming breath she turned back to Spike calmly asking him to check on Fluttershy after a half hour he returned with the timid mare falling behind him hiding behind her hair as if it was a shield. "SO CAN ONE OF YOU EXPLAIN WHAT THE HAY THAT WAS ALL ABOUT!" she screamed at the spartans Emile just shrugged (which was a extremely hard in the bulky MJOLNIR armor) that movement only made the lavender unicorn angrier at the spartan. Six was looking between the two of them wondering if a fight was about to break out 'If a fight does happen i hope she is ready to lose' Six chuckled at the thought which brought an angry look from the unicorn "SO WHAT IS SO FUNNY SIX!?" she yelled getting right in his face Six only pushed back saying "I was thinking what would happen if you and Emile got into a fight and well it would be real funny to see that." he stated plainly to her. *BANGBANGBANG* Six and Emile both turned in unison Emile up top to shoot the chest Six at the bottom to kneecap them both ready to shoot. The door swung open both spartans kept rifles leveled at the door when the door was fully open it revealed a unicorn with dark greeen gunk covering her face and her eyes were blazing with a fire that said 'who the hell woke me up' the unicorn had dark purple hair and was as white as snow she had a light pink bathe robe on "WHAT IS WITH ALL THE COMOTION TWILIGHT THE WHOLE TOWN IS AWAKE!" she screamed at all of them until she saw who she was yelling at did she realize she should shut up. "Rarity this is Six and Emile they are Spartans from NOBLE team." "Noble team you mean they-" "Yes." "I just yelled-" "Uh huh." "Six and Emile i am terribly sorry for yelling at the both of you but the entire town is wondering what that cracking soud was." Rarity said gaining composure and putting her most formal voice on Emile relaxed and walked over to the wall leaning against it Six on the other hand still had his weapon ready and was staring off into the distance 'It's as if he.' Emile thought staring at Six ' OH SHI-' Emile leaped into action seconds before Six pulled the trigger both spartans were sent through the wall as Emile tackled him. Six only saw the battle all the covenant coming through the haze thats when a lone general began walking through the mist towards him he raised his gun about to fire when he was launched through a wall by a masive elite. Emile couldn't beleive what Six nearly did when they went through the wall Six fire his remaining sixteen shots peppering his armor draining a quarter of his shields. when both landed outside the library there were three small ponies one unicorn (white with a light purple mane), one pegasus (orange with a dark purple mane) and finaly a yellow earth pony (yellow with light redish orangish mane). "GET TO TWILIGHT IF YOU KNOW WHO SHE IS NOW MOVE!" Emille roared at the three fillies who looked at the skull faced and could only nod as they ran toward the library Emile looked around to find Six he was slammed from the left side sending him skidding across the ground not even falling to one knee. Emile looked to Six 'I need to get him to calm down.' Emile thought bringing his fist in an uppercut into Six's jaw sending him through a cart filled with different kinds of fruit. The two spartans stared eyeing each other Six was the first to move he brought his left leg up in a round house kick fashion aiming for Emile's head he duck to the side grabbing the spartan's leg using the momentum from the kick he swung Six around throwing him end over end he landed on his back making a small crater in the road from the amount of weight and force that Emile delivered from the throw. Six stood up slowly looking up only to catch a knee to his visor sending him back onto his back he flipped back onto his feet in a fighting stance jumped at Emile hitting him square in the chest. Emile was on his back being held by the throat with Six's right hand while his left slammed into his helmet over and over wearing on his shield it was slowly nearing the end of its protective state Emile using all his strenght multiplied by the MJOLNIR armor pushed up using his core. Six was lifted off his oppnenet landing on his back helmet to helmet with Emile who swung over Six grabbing him by the throat and the belt he swung him over his head right to left turning counter clockwise slamming Six behind him. Emile turned to his friend and pinned him down "SIX WAKE UP IT IT SAFE NOW WAKE UP SPARTAN!" Emile roared at Six trying to get him to snap out of his daze. The fog began to clear Six saw Emile in his face screaming at him to snap out of it Six shook his head and then looked around only to see the entire town encircled around the two spartans "Emile what happened i was back at Zulu god my head.." "Let's go back to the library to talk about this.' Emile said pulling Six up to his feet both of them walked back to the library and once inside Six saw three little ponies crying. "What happened?" Six asked the three mares who were trying to comfort the fillies they didn't look at him after about half an hour of talking down the three fillies stipped crying. Twilight walked up to Six and screamed in his face "WHAT THE HAY IS WRONG WITH YOU!" Six was shocked to see her outrage from what he could guess she was a bookworm who almost never came out of her shell. "What do you mean?" "I mean what is wrong with you." "I don't-" "Six you had a flashback and a bad one." "What do you mean dear." Rarity asked while the wite filly hid behind her looking scared of the spartan that was now sitting against the wall shaking his black helmet from side to side revealing the skull carving with the light flashing across it. Scootaloo turned to her friends Applebloom and Sweetiebell "What is a flashback?" she asked only to be answered by the darke helmeted figure "It's when you remember somethng you have forgotten it could be good, bad or both" he stated in a neutral voice with out looking up he continued and "the one i had was a very bad one." the three fillies turned to Twilight who was trying her best to stay calm and wake Flutershy up Sweetiebell asked "What's your name mister?" "It's Six." "You mean like the number?" "Yes Sweetiebell like the number." "Hi mah name is Applebloom." "My names Scootaloo." "Good to meet you." Six said with out looking up from the ground as if in deep thought the three fillies turned to Twilight who was now helping Fluttershy up from the ground for questions "Yes his actual name is Six and the one looking out the hole in my wall is Emile there spartans from Noble team." she said making sure Fluttershy was okay before walking up to Six and using her magic to tear his helmet off and forcing him to look at her face to face "Six what was that all about." she asked him calmly Six just closed his eyes and said "Emile please take your helmet off if i have to take mine off i think you should to." Emile only nodded popping the seal and slowly lifting off the helmet to reveal a dark skinned human male he looked like a cuban and american mix he had dark black hair with streaks of silver in it his eyes were ice blue and had tell tale signs of an undying rage in them along with unquenchable hatred along the top left side of his face ran a scar that was black from an energy sword the scar ran diagonaly across his face ending on the right side of his jaw line. The ponies shrunk back at the sight of his face when he looked towards Six and nodded giving the go ahead thats when Six explained what happend "I was having a flashback of Zulu base and the battle and thats when this all happended." Six could only look at the ground before asking the ponies if he could go to sleep and be left alone when they agreed to do so Six replaced his helmet sealed it and turned off all incoming audio and video. Before he slept Six saw a massive ship larger than any UNSC and covenant ship alike he couldn't believe what he saw and along it's side read UNSC GATES OF HELL (next morning) Six cracked open to only see darkness he remembered his armor shut down he rebooted the armor sitting and waiting Six thought about what he saw in his dream while his systems reboot when he looked back up his audio and visual systems had finished rebooting and were fully operational. Six stood up and looked around the room it was empty and to quiet Six brought out is pist and the energy sword activating the sword which sent out a dark blue light around the room Six walked forward. "Emile what ever happend to Six needs to be looked at by the princesses i have sent an urgent letter to them we will be meeting them and the other spartans in today i'll send a letter letting them know they can teleport us to the castle." Twilight explained to Emile who looked up from polishing his helmet and stared at her with those cold eyes Twilight shivered. "You mean Noble?" "Yes and no." Twilight said shivering she turned to Spike and Fluttershy who were sitting and being all to quiet for Emile's comfort he turned to Twilight and glared at her before asking in a voice that would have frozen hell over "What do you mean by yes and no? Don't try to dodge the question either i want a straight answer girl." he looked behind him to see a blue glow coming from the hall "SIX get you ass in here for a sec Twili here is about to explain something about Noble." Six walked throught the door holstering his gun and deactivating the energy sword before taking a seat across from Fluttershy which caused her to shrink behind Spike ass if he were a shield. Six took off his helmet and motioned for Emile to pass the polish and began to clean off his helmet "So Twili-" Twilight stopped him "Don't call me that only my brother can call me that." Six just shrugged and continued "-what do you have to tell us." "Well when you asked about if there we're others like you i bent the truth just a little the first part was all true about Noble team but another team also fell from the sky although it was only three of them." "Okay so what did they call themselves?" "Um...i-if i may t-they called themselves Hellfire Squad." Fluttershy spoke up from behind Spike Six froze and looked up at Twilight then over to Spike "Hellfire is here?" Six asked setting down his helmet and polish Emile looked to Six wondering why he was acting like this way "Six who is Hellfire?" Emile asked "Hellfire was composed of the remaining spartans that i chose once i arrive at Zulu it was me, Mac, Sarah and Ally, the three of us fought together before even though it was only a day they became my family much like Noble." Six stated sadly he heard a sniffle to his left side he looked and saw the three fillies and the four mares he met earlier they looked sad excluding the rainbow haired one who looked at him with a smug look. "Darling may i ask what happened to them before they arrived here?" Rarity asked looking around and she got supporting puppy dog looks from the others (except Rainbow Dash) Six shook his head and said "They died by the hands of animals and i killed those animals." Six stated as if it was an everday thing standing up to lean on the wall behind him leaving his helmet on the table. Fluttershy looked at Six fixing him with her glare and started to yell at him "Y-YOU KILLED POOR INNOCENT ANIMALS YOUR A MONSTER!!" Six just stood staring down at the mare before getting face to face this shocked all the ponies in the room Emile chuckled turning to Twilight blocking out the yelling "Whats with the open mouth stares she's just staring him down not like Mendez but still." Twilight was still shocked Six was matching her stare with his own which made her stagger. "Well Emile her stare can stop anything in it's path they can't help it but Six he-" "The thing you need to know about Six he has stared death in the face so many times and won all those times he is also sixteen remember so nothing affects that kid hell there was this one mission Six took on a pair of hunters by himself spent a week in the hospital less time than a spartan." Emile explained when he turned back to the fight Fluttershy had only a sad look in her eyes while Six yelled -AND YOU THINK I'M A MONSTER WELL HOW ABOUT YOU WATCH YOUR FAMILY VAPORIZED IN FRONT OF YOU OR YOUR FELLOW COMRADES DIE WHILE YOU LIVE TO FIGHT I AM NO MONSTER THE COVENANT ARE NOW FUCK OFF." Six finished staring the pony right in her eyes before she broke down into tears and began shaking uncontrolably and crying the mares ran to her side. Six walked over to the table picked up his helmet and walked to the door "i'm going into town for a few Emile com me when it's time to go." right when Six was about to open the door he felt a weight on his leg he looked down to see the three fillies on his leg "Can we come with you PLEEEEEEASE." they said in unison giving there best puppy dog eyes Six turned to the mares Applejack and Rarity gave the okay Six looked to see if Scootaloo could go before he left Twilight motioned for Six to walk over to her she was at the table Six told the fillies to stay by the door. "Go you can take all three of them." She said glaring at him he turned to Scootaloo and motioned in her direction "She's an orphan and none of us are blood or gaurdian related to her now go we need to calm Fluttershy down and with you here thats going to be impossible." she finished with anger growing in her voice Six nodded and walked over to the fillies saying "let's go." (two and half hours later) Six was giving a tour by the three fillies who explained what each store was and who owned them they took him to sugarcube corner and then all the way to sweet apple acres where Applebloom interduced him to Granny and Big Mac he just nodded on their way into town they took a detour where he was interduced to Zecora a rhyming zebra 'God help me' Six thought the final stop was the school they went to it reminded Six of an old 19th or was it 18th centruy school house. "Thank you for the tour you three it was.....interesting." Six said to the three who had excited looks in their eyes they examined each others forearms they then have a dissapointed look in there eyes "Ah danggit well ah don't hav my cutie mark." Applebloom stated sadly the others just nodded they reached Ponyville "Whats a cutie mark?" Six asked as he looked around 'interesting there isn't anybody around.' Six thought he looked to the three fillies the one named Sweetiebell was explaining what a cutie mark was and how it told what your special talent was. "Hey blanks who the freak?" said a arrogant young filly who had a smug look on her face she was a snow white while her mane was a purple her friend was the exact same the only difference between the two was there cutie marks im guessing on had a silver spoon and the other this onc being the talker had a crown they had been arguing with the three fillies before Six asked coldly "So who's a freak?" getting down in her face. She immedatly shut up when the freak asked that not because of the voice but because of the skull carved into his helmet it froze her in place "What is your name and your friends." it asked her in the same fire freezing voice "I-I'm Diamond T-tiara and this is S-silver Spoon." she stuttered barely getting it out it cocked it's head to the side standing up straight the creature toward over her "Why did you call them a blanks ?" it asked "B-because they don't have cutie marks a-and i-i bet y-you don't either." she said with a smug grin Six just shrugged and said "Where i come from these cutie markes are known as tatoos and i have two on is a skull and cross bones with a cog in the back ground and thats tatooed on my left forearm the second is my S-III and S-159 which is tattooed on the left side of my neck." Six finished before walking away with the three fillies in tow behind him giggling all the way to the library. When Six walked through the door the three fillies tackled him onto his stomach laughing the entire time Six just shrugged and stood up "Six." Scootaloo said from behind the spartan he turned and looked at her she had a sad look in her eyes "I-is it true your Sixteen?" "Yes." "Oh okay i thought that Emile guy was lying but you look so much older with out your helmet why is that?" "War." Six stated before removing his helmet and running his left hand through his hair and continued into the room everyone was still in they looked up to see the spartan and three excited fillies walk through the door. Six walked over to the wall he had leaned against when he got into his arguement with Fluttershy and sat down leaning against the wall with Scootaloo following suit. "Applejack you missed the best day of mah life you know that big jerk Golden Tiarah?" "Whah yes i do Applebloom." "Six got he to bequiet fer once and it was amazing." Applebloom says raising both legs above her head and laughing along with Sweetiebell but Scootaloo just sat there smiling next to Six who was now looking around the room "Hey um.....girls mares whatever why was no one in town?" "Well people are there darling-" "They just think your a big meanie beanie monster thats going to hurt them!" "Well yeah what Pinkie said Six i mean you and Emile did trash my house and nearly kill eachother in the streets yesterday so they are justified." Twilight said looking at Spike tapping her hoof Rainbow Dash flew over to Six and looked him in the eye "You aren't as tough as you have been saying you are but hey who am i to judge." Six just cocked an eyebrow and looked at the mare "I am tough just because i showed my feeling makes me tougher than you." Six stated coldly. Twilight jumped up and ran over to the two blocking them from tearing eachother apart she looked between the two "STOP!" Scootaloo screamed "both of you are acting like a couple of fillies now both of you say sorry." Six looked to Scootaloo she was standing in a defencive way looking to both of them with tears in her eyes Six looked to Scootaloo then to Rainbow Dash "Sorry Rainbow Dash." Six turned to Scootaloo "Sorry to you too Scootaloo." he held out his hand to Rainbow Dash who shook his hand. Spike looked like he was going to puke then instead of his stomach contents coming out he just coughed up a flame which led to a letter appearing in the air a purple aura surrounded it the scroll floated toward Twilight who opened it and read "Okay get ready to teleport." Six looked up and grabbed his helmet slamming it on his head right before everypony, person and dragon disapeared in a flash of whit light only to appear in huge main room.