“I’m ready! How bout’ you?!”
“You’re on your own Noble… Carter out.”
“Where does he get off calling a demolition op Priority One-“
“Tell them to make it count.”
Six awoke with a start her eyes shooting open as Jorge said those final words. For the first time since her arrival, she had dreamed during the night. She had dreamed of them again. Ever since Jorge’s sacrifice she had dreamt of her team. And every time she relieved that moment she woke up, but not out of fear or sadness. But because of anger.
Those damn Covenant had taken everything from her and now even after her ‘death’ they still haunted her in her dreams. And now, without any Covenant around to take her vengeance out on that anger changed from revenge to sadness. A sadness the Spartan had never felt before. Perhaps it had been there since Emile maybe even Jorge and simply couldn't show itself because of her rampage against the Covenant. And now without any Covenant to distract her, this sadness had made itself known.
Removing her head from the pillow she had laid on the ground, Six removed her helmet setting it on the bed next to her. Bringing her good up to her neck she removed the pair of dog tags she wore.
One was Six’s.
The other... was Jorge’s.
A sad smile graced the Spartan’s features as she looked at the tags. A piece of Noble had managed to come with her and maybe...just maybe, she could give Noble the burials they deserve. Give her friends the respect they won’t get on the burnt surface of Reach. For the first time since Six had become a Spartan so engrossed was she in her emotions she never realized she had, Six didn’t notice a lone tear sliding down her face.
A knock on the door brought Six back to reality. Putting the tags back around her neck, Six wiped the lone tear away as she put her helmet back on.
Walking up to the door after stretching the knots out of her body, Six opened it to find Command Sergeant Major Wild standing there.
“Ah good to see you up and about. Come follow me, we've been summoned to Canterlot, orders from way up high.” Said Wild as he began to walk away gesturing with his hoof for Six to follow.
Six did so without saying a word her mind still mostly focused on Jorge and Noble team. Following the Sergeant Major into the courtyard where a golden carriage was waiting for them. A Pegasus guard standing next to it, clipboard in hoof.
Wild said a few words to the Pegasus before he began yelling orders to the several other Pegasi patrolling the skies. After that was said and done Wild walked up to the carriage doors opening them before turning around the face Six, his usual smirk on his face.
“Ladies first.”
Ignoring the Sergeant Major’s words Six entered the carriage and took a seat. Luckily this carriage was made of some type of metal capable of holding the Spartans weight. The whole open-air design Six wasn’t really a fan of but who was she to judge their vehicle design.
Wild entered shortly after the Spartan taking a seat on the opposite side.
Once they were both seated an order was yelled as the four Pegasi attached to the front started to fly pulling the carriage forward and off the ground. To say the Spartan was surprised that they were suddenly airborne wouldn’t be wrong per se. But Six just stopped questioning it at this point. Sure the fact those four Pegasi could fly attached to a carriage Six was in was quite surprising but it worked so why question it.
“Any idea why we are being brought to ‘Canterlot’?” Asked Six Breaking the silence trying to distract herself from her emotions.
“ Not sure I’ve really just been assigned to watch you and make sure you don’t get into trouble”
Answered Wild.
“ But wouldn’t you be more useful back in Las Pegasus?” Asked Six confused. Sending a Command Sergeant Major away did not seem like a good tactical decision.
“I’m one of the best fighters in our battalion. I was really the only choice for Lieutenant Colonel Force when it came to watching you.” Answered Wild his eyes watching the retreating form of Las Pegasus.
“Huh…”
The rest of the trip was spent in silence, both parties simply watching the terrain pass by below them. Six using the time to build a map of the terrain on her HUD more information never hurts plus it helped keep her mind off of Noble Team. After several hours of flight, the damaged form on Canterlot could be seen approaching.
Six may not be well versed in architecture but when she saw that castle, even when part of it was covered in scaffolds for repairs, her breath was taken away by the beauty it still resonated. They began to make their final approach towards the main entrance of the Castle and after several minutes touchdown had been made. The Pegasi that has transported them seemed especially out of breath as they landed.
But before the pair could ask whether the exhausted Pegasi if they were alright, a light grey earth-pony with a dark grey mane holding a clipboard grabbed their attention.
Wild smiles at the Pony as she approached them.
“Ah, Raven good to see you again. I hope you're doing well.”
“I’m doing fine, and so is the Princess, Wild. Anyway, you two can follow me.” Finished Raven making her way back towards the main entrance, Spartan and Soldier in tow.
The trio began to make their way through the maze-like hallways of the castle, their gaze lingering on a painting and or vase decorating the halls for several seconds before moving on. This castle was fit for royalty to live in and considering that is exactly what it does it went without saying that Six was impressed. Every now and then they would pass a patrol of several maids every one of them eying the Spartan curiously or in slight fear.
Soon though after several minutes of walking the trio had been brought to some kind of dining room. A long table sat at its center as long flowing purple drapes hung next to the windows. Long stone columns rose to the high ceiling along the walls, a single guard standing in front of each of them eying the Spartan warily.
“You can both already take a seat, the Princess will be arriving shortly.” Said Raven before exiting through the same door they entered the room with.
“Wait, Princess?!” Exclaimed Wild apparently quite shocked that they were meeting the Princess. Six didn’t react visibly, she had already surmised that they were probably going to meet her. That still didn’t stop a hint of nervousness to invade her mind, only for it to immediately be squashed.
Sure the Princess could apparently raise the Sun and Moon and was treated like a goddess and should be feared by the Spartan, but then again Six had single-handedly fought an entire army with massively advanced technology, armor, and air support and was winning for 3 days straight.
Sure she ‘died’ in the end but so had thousands of Covenant in her wake. So Six was fairly confident she could take her on if their meeting went south. Any Spartan worth their salt could tell this was some interrogation in the form of a meeting, and Six was not going to give out any military secrets.
She technically was a foreign soldier and so they didn’t have any jurisdiction over her but Six doubted the Princess would just give up after being told ‘that’s Classified’ when they questioned Six.
Moving past the surprised Sergeant Major Six took a seat on one of the many cushions laid next to the table. It seems as if the Castle also used cushions instead of chairs as seats. Wild joined her shortly afterward, having gotten over the small panic attack he had felt.
Soon the pair sat in silence as they waited for the Princess to arrive.
“So this is this ‘Six’ SMILE was talking about” Muttered Celestia to herself as she watched the pair through her Scrying spell. With the intel report promised by SMILE having been finished early this morning, Celestia had gone ahead and summoned the pony to Canterlot.
The report contained everything they could find out about the pony up and including to her ‘pressure point’ involving her status as a soldier and her claim she was a Super Soldier to Lieutenant Colonel Force. Everything since the EAF first met her was documented.
Sierra-B312?
Possible meanings are written along the side.
UNSC? ONI?
Theories based on what these organizations could be based on clues from the tight-lipped pony.
From her height being confirmed as to be on par with her sister Luna. And from covert surveillance, her weight has been measured to be over half a Ton! Then finally came the ‘Shield’ that surrounded the Pony. Whenever an agent tried to cast any type of long-range stealth scanning spell on the Pony the magic was met with a metaphysical wall blocking it. But that phenomenon only ever showed up when the pony was fully wearing her armor.
SMILE knew how powerful an ally Six could be.
And how much of a threat she posed to Equestria.
It was honestly quite frightening to Celestia how fast SMILE could work when it came to non-Unicorn targets. And after reading through the Dossier.
Celestia was ready to hopefully form a relationship that could benefit both parties in this war.
So is Six going to give Celestia a verbal thrashing? that would be hilarious cant wait to read the next chapter and to find out what plans Celestia has for Six
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im guessing six will have relised that any magic used on her failes and likely sees her armor notify her when it does so she likely knows about the attempts at putting some magic on her
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i doubt that... not to say it isn't plausible that six knows she's being watched, actually if she doesn't think so then she's not a solider, what i do doubt is that she's had any physical/technological sign that she's been scanned. maybe watched due to the motion tracker, but i doubt the scan.
It's hee hoo peanut time, let's see what madness comes from this awaited meeting
I hate this, this cliffhanger, but it's so good and I can't wait for it excited happy noises
Soon Celestia and Six shall meet, this will be quite an interesting meeting as I'm certain that Celestia is gonna have to use all her skills as a diplomat, but I am certain that both of them will remain civil.
Let's hope Celestia, Luna, and SMILE ( For THEIR SAKE!) Don't screw or piss off Noble Six in this meeting.
Plus, I don't like on Noble Six having a little afraid or just Overestimating Celestia. I mean come on, your a FRICKIN Badass Spartan lll!!!!! And a good one at that.
Plus, Celestia is NOT really a fighter, or have a bad losing streak when she faced the other MLP Villains in the show. (It's because Twilight and the Main Five are the Main Characters, and Celestia is just the Mentor type, but SUCKS at fighting the Villains.)
I HOPE Noble Six could at least WARN Celestia, Luna, SMILE, Main Six, and the Pony Guard NOT to Piss Her Off, or fight a the Spartan, The UNSC Itself, and ESPECIALLY ONI!!!!
I wonder how much Wild had to fuck up to be demoted from an E-9 to an E-5 between the last chapter and this chapter
Hopefully things don’t go too FUBAR. Otherwise one or more parties are not leaving that room alive.
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Wait. What happened? Because I didn't notice it when I read this chapter.
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I have no idea, he went from a Sergeant Major to just a Sergeant, if I'm guessing it's just the Author thinking that it's fine to shorten his rank down to Sergeant.
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What's with the dislike? I merely want to defend Noble Six, and DON'T want her to be "Nerfed" or a STUPID Doormat to the Ponies. Like some other "Weak Minded/Spineless" Human Protagonists that I read in other Stories. 😤 😡
Clearly, it should be the other way around of having the Ponies be in the short end. They SHOULD be GRATEFUL that they have a Badass Spartan like Noble Six to be their Ally/"Friend"!
They SHOULDN'T try to act cocky or "high and mighty" to Six. The Covenant tried to do that to Every Spartan ll's and lll's in general. Now Look at what happened to their forces? They took HEAVILY LOSSES by the Spartan Teams and Company. Sure, a Lot of Spartans did Die/KIA ( MIA). BUT, they at least took a LOT of Covenant Soldiers, Vehicles, and Ships with them in a Blazing Glory fashion!
Basically, the Ponies, ESPECIALLY Celestia, Luna, and even the Main Six DON'T want to F*** with Humanity ( UNSC, Every Spartan in general, like John 117/Master Chief, Noble Six and Noble Team, Red Team, Blue Team, Black Team, Etc.. ODST's, and ONI!)
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I just ment a verbal thrashing in general not whether she knew about being scanned or not
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* nervous cough* Nope just forgot continue on please nothing to see here
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I didn't notice that. Is it a error on the Authors part? Or he really did get Demoted? I personally think it's because he tried to flirt with Six. ( Which I clearly didn't like.)
The reason I didn't like it is because One. Noble Six is NOT interested in a Romantic Relationship firstly. ( Spartans can still feel love. But their Sexual Hormones were repressed due to the Super Solider Augmentations.)
Two. I DON'T think Wild is Noble Six's "Type" of a lover. Three. Even if they did "Like" each other. Wild himself CAN'T handle Six!!!!! If you know what I mean. 😼 😏
Four. Wild is just a MERE and BASIC Pony Guard. While Noble Six is a BADASS, AMAZON TYPE, SUPER SOLDIER OF HUMANITY! You do the Math. 😹
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I refer to my earlier comment XD
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Did you really make a little error or mistake? Or was the Rank Demotion on Wild was on PURPOSE??!! 😉
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also, does it look like Six is looking for a romantic partnership? Right now she's dealing with her loss of Noble now that she cant distract herself by killing Covenant
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Okay dude I love you and all but it's quite rude to advertise your own story on another story. It is good with the nice halo reference but still, it's rude
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Haha, it's ok. Though I will be honest, Wild acts more like a Master Gunnery Sergeant than a Sergeant Major in my experience. It's a parallel rank to Sgt Maj and can be shorten to Master Guns. Just think of all the innuendos he could do with that
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well I'm basing the military off of the US one and in my research it said that a battalion is commanded by a Lieutenant Colonel and a Command Sergeant Major. So no master guns for mister Wild xd
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Yep. That too. That will be Number Five for that. Thanks.
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You're right. My bad. Maybe a PM would have been better.
Wow you are really pumping out some chapters. Great work as always. I only wish the chapters were a bit longer. I’m really enjoying the character building and the infrastructure of the story. .
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Yeah I figured. Master Guns are more subject matter experts in their MOS and typically not in command positions.
Love the story but your profile pic is fucking horrifying.
I like it.
i just tried to imagine that first meting.
celestia comes in the room and sergant mayor wild makes the usual expectet groveling of being scared of the princess.
" Six stares at him with her head slowly tilting to the side " xD
like what the fuck have some spine soldier, she's not that intimidating shesh
I HOPE THE NEXT ONE COMES ERALY BECAUSE NOW THIS IS A CLIFFHANGER!!!!!!
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Did I say Six was scared XD
She thinks she should be but Six has dealt with worse
way worse than Celestia.
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And also yeah thas pretty much how this meeting is gonna start
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Oh please! The Spartan have face way worse Enemies like you said, and a more Badass Warrior than a stupid "Sun Goddess" Pacifist Pony. Besides, Celestia will Piss and Crap herself when she learns and sees the Covenant's Evil attempting Genocide on Humanity itself.
I always assumed Jorge had given Six all of their dog tags. As in, at the time Jorge had all of Noble's tags (those that died) as is customary. Collect all dog tags if possible.
Salutations! Abother glorious chapter!
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It has been done
I find it hilarious that I’m reading all these right-before-death quotes and then right after I see an ad for car insurance.
Edit: This chapter was awesome. I hope to see more soon!
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Fimfiction be foreshadowing like no tomorrow
Always lovely to know you are a useful ally to be used for exploitation or being send to Tarterus because they can...
If this is going as well as her current luck Equestria will look along the line of this:
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"Always lovely to know you are a useful ally to be used for exploitation or being send to Tarterus because they can..."
OH HHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Noble Six will make them FRICKIN REGRET IT! And give their Ungrateful and Ridiculous "Friendship and Rainbows" Lifes, an CRUEL Reality Check and Living Hellish Nightmare!!!!!!
Sure, they got magic. But Humainty in general, and the Spartans face WAY FRICKIN WORSE like the Covenant/The Banished, and even the Flood to the Forerunner Prometheans later on.
What will the Ponies do??!! They just THROW THEIR LIVES AWAY for being Arrogant Dumbasses to an Super Human Soldier, and just becoming an waste of being the most pathetic organisms ever in the Entire Universe! (I DON'T hate the Ponies in general. I just F*********** HATE them for being Xenophobic OOC Assholes to Humans, and other Alien to Non Pony Heroes.)
Author, For the Ponies SAKE, and BEST Interest. They SHOULD befriend and ally the Spartans and Humanity in general. And DON'T make the Ponies into Paranoid OOC Xenophobic/Racist Jerks like "some" other stories do.
P.S. I seen the MLP: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Before, and I agree it is funny.
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Too bad Noble Six didn't get Kat's (Noble 2), Carter's (Noble One), and Emile's ( Noble Four) Dog Tags. 😓
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Halo Ranks
Waiting for Six to yell out: "you can come out now, you suck at subtle."
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Again, I always assume that the others collected them and passed them on, eventually getting to Jorge, then to Six.
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I'd say she doesn't want them to know that she knows that they exist.
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Nevertheless, it will be funny on seeing Celestia's, and S.M.I.LE's shock faces that Noble Six knew all along that they were spying on her. I mean, Six is not stupid, and she is a EXPERT in Spying, Reconnaissance, and Espionage when she once worked with ONI. And later on with Noble Team in the Fourth Level of the "Nightfall" Mission with Noble Three.
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I think your misread my comment. I'm talking about Carter's, Kat's, and Emile's ( Noble One, Two, and Four) Dog Tags. When they died recently on Reach. I'm NOT talking about Jorge's ( Noble Five), or the Previous Dead Noble's Dog Tags before Reach.
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No, you're misunderstanding mine. I'm saying that Jorge SHOULD have gotten those dog tags, and in fact I always believed he did. I never said anything about the Nobles pre-Reach.
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So your saying that Jorge (Noble 5) already has Carter's, Kat's, and Emile's (Noble 1, 2, 4) Dog Tags in his person, and gave them to Noble 6 inside the Covenant Corvette? That they gave their Dog Tags to Jorge, Before the Events of the Covenant Invasion of Reach? Like some sort of precaution IF they might die later on ( Which they did die. 😓) in the Battles? 🤔
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No. Generally in these kinds of situations, the squad is obligated to collect the dog tags of their dead squadmates. The same is true on suicide missions (Jorge went on a suicide mission, gave the tags to Six). So it was always my assumption that the squadmates collected the dog tags (i.e. Noble One or someone else collecting Kat's. Then when Noble One is about to die, he gives the dog tags to the someone else, etc. etc) then they pass on to squadmate to squadmate, eventually Jorge has them, and he gives them all to Six.
Of course, it's not always possible to collect the dog tags, but it was my assumption that the ones collected would've been eventually given to Jorge, then to Six.
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Well, I hope Noble 6 has all of them ( Jorge, Carter, Kat, and Emile. Except Jun, because he is still alive.). It might leaves some closure to Six that she still has her Fellow Spartan Squadmates ( Even classified them as her True Friends) Dog Tags. 😞
I hope the Author MIGHT Revive Noble 1, 2, 4, and 5 (Carter, Kat, Jorge, and Emile. And maybe teleport the Alive Noble 3: Jun.) along to Equestria. Just so Noble Six will be really happy.
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I did have a convo with a friend, and the other dog tags are never shown, but Kat's should definitely have been collected at the very least.