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// Chapter 4 
// Story: Halo Aftermath 
// by F-22 Raptor 
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Early the next morning Princess Celestia arrived with a force of about 50 of the best trained Royal Guards, equipped with the best weaponry Equestria had to offer. They set out at once, following tracks left by some large creature, heading into Everfree forest. After about an hour of hard marching, they neared the ODSTs outer perimeter. At once the ODSTs caught sight of the guards shiny armor.  One of the ODSTs was sent out to talk to the ponies. 
Once the ponies caught sight of this bipedal creature coming towards the Princess, they immediately opened fire with their crossbows. The arrows however, bounced off of the ODST's hardened armor. It was then that the two spartans, the Master Chief, and Jorge arrived, having heard the noise the Royal Guard troops had been making as  they marched through the forest. When they saw the ODST get shot at they sprang into action, immediately the Master Chief took down the guard that had fired, jumping on him and stabbing him. At once Celestia yelled for them to stop. However they did not listen, they charged at the spartan, hoping to overwhelm him with sheer numbers. As they reached him, even as they swung their swords the Chief was ready, pulling out his plasma sword, slicing the Royal Guards to pieces with his deadly blade. Then ,and only then did the Guards cease fire, stunned by the ease and efficiency with which he had taken down some of their best troops. Celestia was stunned, never had she seen such efficiency, about. 20 of the guards had been taken down in less than half a minute. "Stop", she yelled once again. However, this time the results were different, the Royal Guards immediately stopped and formed a shield wall around Celestia. By this time the ODSTs were on the ground, laughing at how easily the troops were taken down. "Do you understand me? Will you take me to your leader", Celestia asked. One of the Marines said, "whoa, whoa, you expect us to open diplomatic relations after you have just assaulted us, given it was not much of an assault, but still." "We could beat you easily if we tried alien" one of the guards shot back. "I seriously doubt that, given that you just attacked us with 50 troops and just lost about 20, and we didn't lose any at all" said one ODST. 
However, Lieutenant Jenkins chose this moment to appear. "What do you want" he said. It was then that Celestia realized that she didn't know, she hadn't come here expecting sentient beings, she had expected a wild animal or something like that. 
"I.......... I........... I don't know" she said.
To be continued