//------------------------------// // Ending Shore leave with a bang // Story: Halo:EQUESTRIA // by Secondchancer //------------------------------// (End of shore leave) Six was standing in his BDU standing outside of Twilights library she stepped out in hers she brushed her hands down the shirt trying to get rid of the wrinkles. She looked up at Six "Six good to see you what shall we do today." he pondered the question then shrugged his shoulder Six was sixteen but for most of his life was training and fighting the covenant "Six do you want something to eat me and the girls were gonna go meet up at Sugar Cube Corner, before we meet the other S-Ps." Twilight said walking off to Sugar Cube Suare Six caught up "S-Ps ?" he asked "Yeah Linda is an S-II, Ally is an S-III, so i'm an S-P spartan pony." she stated he nodded getting it "So you and Halsey getting along ?" Six asked "Yeah she, Linda, and Ally are pretty cool Linda is teaching me to be a sniper were using the Mind meld she says i'm almost as good as her Ally is helping me get stronger and well its cool you spartans are great." "Welcome to the family, glad your part of Hellfire Squad." "Me to, so Six when will we have to fight ?" "Twilight i don't know but your spartans now you can handle it just remember its for the good of you planet and your people." "I do so this war is over ?" "From what i hear Twi is that a new one is starting slowly but its building up." Six said they had reached Sugar Cube Corner walking up Six saw Fred, Kelly, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash talking getting closer he realized they were discussing armor "...really wow well i'm getting the hazop stuff when i get to six hundred." Six smiled and decided to startle Rainbow Dash "Well maybe you should work on your aim RD its all over the place." she and Applejack jumped up surprised by Six and Twilight showing up Fred and Linda shot up in attention say "SIR." in unison Six saluted them and they sat back down. Rainbow stared at Six for a second then she punched his arm "Six i love these BDUs they match my taste in color." she said smiling her hair was cut to regulation "Yeah Six ah like'em to so when do yah think we could get back into our MJOLNIR armor i fell uncomfortable out of it." AJ asked rubbing her arm he and the S-II's nodded they almost never walked around without there armor. "So Fred how is Reach i heard that the UNSC has developed a way to fix climates ?" Six asked the S-II he nodded and said "Yeah we are gonna end up going there soon when the ship gets her." "Cool can't wait to get to Reach how about Onyx heard that place had some action ?" "Yeah Blue Team was there, the planet was alot like Requiem well minus the Didact." Fred said grimly remembering the New Poenix he shook his head "Hey back the fuck up ape !!!" turning the spartans saw a pegasus about to pick a fight with Johnson who had bumped into the pony on accident "Boy you best not be talking to me cause i'll reach down you pie hole and rip your gut out if you did." Johnson growled to the pony getting in his face. After the incident Johnson fixed his cap and walked over to the spartan wearing the Spartan BDUs which was a black undersuit type set up with multiple stars like objects on them (Halo four spartan ops episode one) they're were two on the chest one on each shoulder and two on the back of the shoulders each had holes in them, his pants were black with grey squares stretching down to the black combat boots. "Six good to see you boy this planet has some fine looking girls." Johnson said smiling he winked to two pegasus females walking by each holding a bag in there hand they were wearing short black skirts and blue shirts "So you ready to fight the covenant Six." "Does a bear shit in the woods ?" Six asked allowing himself a small smile Johnson laughed slapping Six on the back "Boy me and you are gonna be good friends now let us go and check out the new base camp." Johnson said motioning for them to follow. Six walked up to a troop warthog smiling he ran up to the beast and got in the drivers seat Twilight getting in the passanger side the rest got in back and strapped in "Hang on !" he yelled gunning the monster he shot throught the town kicking up dust and newspapers. Driving the hog Six felt like a kid opening his presents on christmas he loved the wind whip across his face as he drove the monster toward the military base. 'I miss flying maybe i could try flying one of the new pelicans' Six thought when he reached the base seeing three of them lift off and fly he relished the thought "Sir Halsey and Celestia are expecting you suit up and meet them here." the MP said pointing to the main building "There in room A 5 on the second floor." Six nodded and drove to the building stepping out of the hog Six made his way to the armory. After 5 minutes of getting suit up Six stepped out of the ring and looked to see Applejack, Rainbow, and Twilight waiting on him. Walking into the room Six saw the rest of Hellfire sitting in the room along with Blue Team and Noble Team walking in Six sat at the end of the tabel Celestia was the first to speak "Your ship will be arriving here in ten hours and i wish to thank you all for getting rid of the Griffins, Minotaurs, and Changelings my kingdom has never been safer." "Celestia i'm sorry but at the moment you planet is still in some danger i have been doing some scans and well take a look at this." Halsey said tapping on her pad she brought up a 3-D map of the Everfree forest "I sent in some probes to scan the area before i went in a science team and all but three probes returned when i reviewed the video i learned the covenant have taken up residence there." Halsey finished the video began to play. The probe was moving along the forest scaning different plants, animals, and resources when a purple glow caught it's attention. Moving toward the light the probe came across a ridge looking down it showed hundreds of grunts and jackals moving the left to right the probe also made out a few dozen Elites and.......BRUTES "Shit." Six said remembering thos monster the video continued there was two pairs of hunters 4 ghost, 1 banshee, 2 wraiths, and 1 revenant the video ended when a plasma bolt slamed into the camera. "B-but that ship was d-destroyed." Celestia began to stutter sighing Six explained "They must have been moving small numbers of troops down from the ship in drop pods and phantoms they are each equipped with active camo and can scramble radar pretty well, Halsey Hellfire, Noble and Blue Teams can do a three pronged attack and have that base reduced to nothing." she looked to each of the spartans then to the six S-Ps sighing she answered "Blue and Noble are staying here just in case that camp is a decoy, Hellfire can go.....take the six ponies with you Six there ready, oh and there may be a pair of headhunters at that camp please rescue them." Six nodded when Halsey gave the okay on someone or something they were ready. (Armory) "Twilight, Fluttershy, and Applejack your with Mac and Ally you will be attacking the base from the south-west, Twilight you and Mac will be sniper support while Fluttershy, Applejack and Ally attack the camp and are planting C-12." Six explained what squad one would be doing turning to his squad "Rainbow, Pinkie, Rarity your with me and Sarah we're going after the headhunters and getting them out of there, while heading that way we will be placing C-12 we'll be coming from the north-east." Six finished explaining he looked around the spartans nodded in unison each one armed with a weapon of there choice. Six picked up his MA37, Pistol, and Saw checking ammo he nodded satisfied walking out he saw two Falcons waiting on the team walking forward he sat on the edge next to him was Sarah across form him was Pinkie, and next to her Rainbow, Rarity sat next to Sarah. Lifting off Six watched as the ground shrank when the bird rose looking to his left he saw the other Falcon start flying south turning forward Six said to his team "Alright everyone your ready for this these covies need to be killed remember plant the C-12 then move kill anything non human or pony, the mission objectives are rescue the headhunters and kill covenant bastards to you read." as one voice his spartans said "WE READ YOU SIR !!!" (Norht part of camp) Six made his way through the shadows behind him was Pinkie boht had active camo activated blending in with the shadows perfectly stopping Six saw a fuel tanker. Turning he motioned for Pinkie to watch he back a green light acknowledged what he meant walking forward Six made his way underneath the tanker taking out one C-12 pack he primed it placing a sticking gel on the back of the C-12 he attached it to the tanker. Slipping out from under the tank he motioned Pinkie to move up. Making there way through Six had marked every area with C-12 he had place 6 in all making his way to the main building Six saw two elites making there way to the back looking away from the spartans. "Pinkie i got the one on the right you get the left one." he whispered over COMs she quickly answered "Okay." leaping forward the two spartans slamed into the elites whipping out his knife Six stuck it into the elites neck tearing it to the side he ripped open the monster throat. Pinkie had simple crushed the elites neck when he slamed into the ground. Policing the bodies they threw them into a near by bush walking up to the door Six opened it while Pinkie watched there backs the door hissed open "Took you guys long enough." Rarity said over the COM looking inside he saw Sarah and RD moving bodies into a room and sealing the door. "Okay where are the head hunters being held ?" Six asked Sarah who had hacked into the Covenant system "Sir there in the camp the closest team is Applejack, Ally, and Fluttershy." she answered nodding Six turned "Ally you and your team are closer the hunters me and my team will cause a diversion for you while Twilight and Mac get your backs acknowledge." greens lights winked on letting him know they understood "Okay get ready for a fire fight !" Six yelled walking over to the front of the building Six primed two Grenades and threw them at the wriaths each landing in the cockpits destroying them instantly fire and plasma spread across the camp killing grunts, jackals, and brutes the explosion caused the bashee to be thrown violently into the revanant causing both to become useless. Six open fired on a team of sucidal grunts causing them to fling active plasma grenades over the area causing a series of explosions killing more covies. The battle had been going on for about 4 minutes "Sir we got the hunters already radioed for a pelican E.T.A 3 minutes." Applejack said over the radio looking back the head hunters were in bad shape they had no armor both of them had cuts, bruises, and burns along there body the team were at the field waiting on Six and his team "Thanks for saving our asses back there names Grant and my twin brother is Rick." Grant said intoducing himself he looked to be around 19 he had black hair military regs and five o'clock shade his brother though had blonde hair and five o'clock shadow. Applejack only nodded watching the area her weapon of choice was a GE-578 Machine gun which basically was a cut down version of a mounted machine gun it still used the 50. cal. bullets but the size was redusce allowing the user to aim the monster better the front of the gun was spray painted with smiling shark blood covering it's teeth. Six broke through the forest running behind him was his team he was limping pretty badly "AJ how long till our ride home is here ?" "Sir i'm here hope you have those fireworks set up !!" a voice rang over the spartans COMs a green pelican landed in the field kicking up dirt, twigs, and leaved "Mac me and you got the turrents GO !!" Six yelled running he got onto the right turrnet Mac got on the left he open fired into the forest destroying trees, shrubbery, and tearing the ground apart he heard screams of pain and death from the direction he shot in "GO GO GO !!!" Six roared the Pelican took off taking out the switch for teh C-12 Six pressed it causing the Covenant camp to go up in a wonderous and beautiful blue purple fire. (Camp Hope) Landing Six got out of the Turrent slumping up against the pelican he slipped off his helmet and sighed Halsey and a few techs ran up to him "Six are you okay ?" Halsey aske coughing up some blood Six smiled "Ma'am i'm okay just got surprised by a brute." he said before passing out Halsey called for a gurney the techs came picking up Sixs helmet Halsey walked over to a console and watched the video after seeing what happend she smiled. "Celestia i'm happy to hear that the spartans were able to take care of your problem now i just need them back for a mission on your moon." the Captain of THE GATES OF HELL said smiling.