Halo: The new age

by The Silent writer


Liberating Ponyville but bad first Impressions

OUTSKIRTS OF PONYVILLE, AFTER 10 MINUTES


Parth and Spike were moving towards a small high rise. Parth was continuously looking at his motion tracker for any sign of contacts. He was fully alert and completely cautious because of which, He and Spike were moving from cover to cover. Parth had holstered his magnum and was now carrying his assault rifle, pointed in forward direction. As they progressed, they soon came across multiple dead bodies, of both changelings and the local people. There was smell of the dead bodies everywhere. Parth was used to such smell, but he still activated his helmet’s air purifiers which allowed only ultra clean air to pass through inside the helmet, where as Spike had to cover his nose and mouth, to keep the contents of his stomach, in his stomach. Parth noticed Spike in an uncomfortable position, He saw that Spike had tears in his eyes.

“ You alright Spike ?” Parth asked, shockingly out of concern.

“ No offence, but do you really think that I would be alright with my town burning and getting rampaged before my eyes, with so many dead bodies around of both changelings and my people ? We have been in peace since a millennium and even in the wars we had no killings, we just defeated all our opponents using banishment methods or by using prison of love and peace, which would reform the criminals. Then, these changelings come out of nowhere and this massacre, I can’t believe it that these changelings could ever kill someone.” Spike answered, with a hint of sadness, venom and anger in his voice.

” Prison of love and banishment methods..... what the hell are those ?” Parth thought in his mind, completely confused. But still he tried to comfort Spike.

“ I know your feelings Spike, You wouldn’t really like to know me and what I did in past 6 years, try to compose yourself and stay behind me.” Parth said in a comforting voice. Spike was literally confused and wanted to ask about his past, but he remembered that they had a task to focus on.

Now they were at the base of the hill top. They were about to climb when parth suddenly stopped dead in his track, making Spike to do the same.

“ Contacts! Nine crossbow wielding changelings, on the top of the hill.” Parth said by looking zooming his vision of helmet.

“ What are we gonna do now ?” Spike asked, with a little fear in his voice.

“ Leave it to me, just don’t make any noises.” Parth ordered Spike, to which Spike complied and stood close to the spartan.

Parth holstered his Assault rifle and withdrew his Sniper rifle at the same time. He laid his one knee on the ground and used the other to keep himself steady. He aimed his sniper rifle on the top of the hill. He looked into his scope and found that these 9 changelings were far apart. He had a clear shot, but it might take time in reloading the sniper rifle as it has an ammo of 6 rounds only. So he decided one thing to counter this problem.

Parth went into ‘Spartan Time’ mode, which he had due to his augmentations. Time slowed down for him. Now everything was moving slowly for him. He took a deep breath and aimed his sniper rifle at the head of one of the changelings and released the pulled trigger. Since the sniper had a suppressor attached to it, it didn’t make any noise. The bullet left the rifle at tremendous velocity and met it’s mark. The bullet pierced the armour of the changeling very easily and hit the head, which caused it to blast in various pieces, the changeling fell down dead, headless. Now before any other changeling could turn at the sound of the bursting of the head of the fallen changeling, five more changelings fell down dead, just like the rest. The remaining 4 changelings were completely stunned and horrified, but another two seconds later, even they met the same fate as their fallen fellow changelings. After killing all the changelings, Parth returned, back to the normal world and time now assumed the same speed for him as it were before the spartan time.

To say that Spike was stunned was an understatement. He was completely horrified on seeing the commotion that had taken place between the past 10 seconds. He could not believe that this Spartan was such a good shot. Spike could not believe that the spartan was so fast. He thought that this spartan was way much faster than Rainbow Dash. Spike was also in ‘awe’ on seeing the spartan killing 9 changelings within few seconds, which even the strongest royal guard and captain of royal guard ‘Shining Armour’ could not do. Lastly he was completely petrified of the weapons that Parth had. He could believe that such a weapon could exist, which can kill someone from more than 500 metres away from their targets. But he was still uncomfortable with this ‘killing’ stuff, Spike believed that the Spartan should have knocked them out instead of killing.

“ Spike, come on we don’t have entire day to waste here.” Parth said to spike, which caused him to come out from his day dreaming.

“Hmm.. yeah ok.” Spike said and both of them now started climbing the cliff.



CENTRAL AREA, PONYVILLE



The main six had been captured for a few hours now. Rainbow dash was banging on her cage repeatedly with no success. Fluttershy was curled up inside her cage, with tears running down their cheeks. Pinkie pie’s fluffy pink hair had now fallen down completely, with her skin becoming duller. Applejack was gritting her teeth in anger and trying to think what to do next. Rarity was busy keeping her hair from getting messed up and occasionally glaring at their cage keepers. Twilight was completely worried for Spike, she had sent him into one of the most dangerous places in all of equestria, she was hoping that spike would be OK.

“ Let me out, and I will kick your bucking asses very hard.” Rainbow shouted at the changelings

“ Let us out you filthy, dirty creatures, the cage is messing up with my hair.” Rarity said, while whinning, which caused the changelings to chuckle.

“ Don’t worry now, your time is up now, we are going out in the open so that everyone could see that what happens to those who stand in my way.” Chrysalis said while coming inside the tent, where the main 6 were kept.

“ What do ya mean ?” Applejack asked, suspiciously.

“You will see soon.” Chrysalis said. “Guards, take these prisoners to the outside, and bring them on top of the stage that we have set up. Chrysalis said to her changelings.

The changelings acknowledged and started pulling the cart in the open.

As soon as the main 6 came out in the open, they were completely horrified on seeing what had transpired. There were more than 2000 changelings everywhere in town. There were a few dead bodies. There were many broken and burning buildings, but what horrified the main 6 were that the 40 % population that had been captured, were tied up in chains, which connected them to each other. The prisoners were made to sit on the ground in front of the central stage, created by the changelings. The main six were soon brought on top of the stage. Their cages were then opened with 3 changelings standing beside the each cage, so as to catch the girls if they did anything funny.

The girls were then taken out of the cages and then made to sit on their knees, in front of the civilians. Suddenly six changelings each came out with a scythe in their hands. The six changelings split up and each came behind the six girls. They immediately put their scythes on necks of the girls, ready to cut their heads off. All the civilians were shocked by seeing this scene.

“ What do you intend to do Chrysalis ?” Twilight asked in a fearful voice.

“Don’t worry Twilight, you will see soon now. “ Chrysalis said and turned around.

”Please hurry princess and BBBFF, we don’t have much time” Twilight thought in her mind as she turned her eyes towards the imprisoned civilians


“ OUTSKIRTS OF PONYVILLE, ON THE TOP OF THE HILL”


Parth and Spike had now reached the top of the hill. Parth decided to give Spike binoculars, that he had attached on his hips. Spike took them but didn’t understood what it was.

“ What is this and what does this do, is it a type of telescope ?” Spike asked Parth.

“ You may consider that. It is a mini telescope, which has a much shorter range than a telescope, you can see the magnified image of an object in it which is far away.” Parth explained and taught him how to look through the binoculars.

“ Now Spike, we are currently 1.1 kilometres away from the central area of the town, I need you to look through the binoculars, as I look through magnifying the scenery before me and pinpoint the leaders of this changeling army.” Parth ordered Spike and he acknowledged.

“ Good, now let’s get to work.” Parth said as they both began to look at the central area.

As they began to look look towards central Ponyville, their eyes pinpointed and their jaws almost dropped om seeing the commotion that was taking place, especially Spike. Parth saw that the civilians were tied in chains were made to sit together. He also saw a stage, on which their were 6 people with six changelings behind them, with scythes in their hands. Parth saw that that those six people were girls. A girls with lavender hair and tan skin, a girl having cyanish skin with rainbow haired colour, a girl with white skin and purple hair, a pinkish skin girl with fluffy pink hair, a blonde girl with blonde hair wearing a hat and a yellowish skinned girl with pink hair, they all were wearing a T-Shirt and jeans. Sudden realization fell on Parth, that these girls were none other than the ‘Elements of Harmony’ that Anubis told him about.

” The fuck ??? They have the most powerful weapons and yet, they are held captive... that is strange. Seems the changelings are about to do a public execution.” Parth thought in his head as he analyzed the situation.

Spike panicked on seeing twilight on the mercy of the scythe wielding changeling.

“ TWILIGHT !! OH N-“ Spike was cut off when, Parth put his hand on his mouth.

“ Damn it Spike, you would have given away our position. We are 1.1 kms away but your sound will still reach them as we are in a hill top.” Parth shouted in a low voice on Spike.

“ How am I supposed to be quiet, they are about to kill twilight.” Spike exclaimed, with tears in his eyes.

“ Don’t worry Spike, nothing will happen to them.” Parth said as he adjusted his sniper rifle to point at the scythe wielding changelings.

“ Spike, we need to wait and see what they are about to do, start pointing out the important beasts.” Parth ordered him and Spike began telling and pinpointing at Chrysalis and her commanders.



CENTRAL PONYVILLE


“ Let us go, you ruffian.” Rarity shouted towards Chrysalis, who then let out her devilish grin.

“ I guess it’s time that you, now get to see the price that I wanted to show you. Guards, bring those 3 kids right out here onto the stage.” Chrysalis said with still holding her grin.

The girls were confused at first, but their jaws dropped on seeing the 3 kids that were now being brought up on the stage by three more scythe wielding changelings. Those three kids were also girls. One had fair skin with purple hair, other had a fair skin and purple hair, same as that of Rarity, while the last was on had and orangish skin and pink bow on her hair, looking a lot like Applejack. Those 3 kids were none other than Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and Applebloom.

Once the 3 kids saw their sisters they said.

“ Applejack”. Applebloom said weakly.

“ Rarity”. Sweetie Belle said, also weakly.

“ Rainbow Dash”. Scootaloo said, a little bit louder.

“ PLEASE SAVE US.” All 3 of them shouted together to the main six.

“ APPLEBLOOM, SWEETIE BELLE, SCOOTALOO, DON’T WORRY NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO YOU.” Main six shouted in unison while trying to go towards the kids, but were pulled down back by changelings.

“ Ah swear, that Ah ‘ll kick ye asses very hard, if ye lay ya scythe on my sis.” Applejack growled.

“ You will suffer, even if I find a single scratch on my dearest sister. “ Rarity said, very angrily.

“ I WILL BEAT YOU SO BAD, IF YOU TOUCH SCOOTALOO.” Rainbow Dash shouted at the top of her voice.

“ Here is your gift girls.” Chrysalis said with devilish grin on her face. “ Now, I will kill them before your eyes, your death will not be an easy one, Elements of Harmony.” Chrysalis said with a murderous look in her eyes.

“ No, please. Do anything you want with us but not to the girls, please.” Twilight pleaded to Chrysalis, who laughed maniacally in return.

“ I already said that, you will suffer for defeating me during the wedding. Killing your 3 loving kids will be a best start for this.” Chrysalis exclaimed.

“ Guard start with the white one first, kill her now!” Chrysalis said to her guard.

“ Yes your highness, I was waiting for this moment finally.” The guard said as he was raising the scythe in air to dacapicate sweetie.

“ NO !!!” All the girls exclaimed and the chained civilians also shrieked in horror. Rarity fainted on seeing the scythe nearing her sister’s neck.

But the end never came.



OUTSKIRTS OF PONYVILLE



Parth saw the entire commotion that was going one through his scope. He concluded that this queen of theirs was first going to kill those 3 kids and then the main six. But that was not going to happen under a spartan’s watch.

”Get ready you fuckfaces...now you will see what this spartan can do” Parth thought to himself as went in to his Spartan time to kill 9 changelings in mere seconds. He took a deep breadth and pulled the trigger, while his sniper facing the changeling of was about to kill Sweetie Belle. The bullet left the sniper at a speed, greater than that of sound and met it’s mark, hitting the changeling’s head which splattered in pieces in front of everyone present there.



CENTRAL PONYVILLE




The changelings, that was about to kill Sweetie Belle fell down, without his head anymore. Everyone was shocked, at what just transpired, including Chrysalis. As they were trying to process what happened, another two head splattering sounds were heard and the changelings, who were wielding scythes on the heads of Scootaloo and Applebloom, fell down without their heads. And even before the crowd, queen or the main six could turn to see the other two fallen changelings. Two more head splattering sounds were heard, while the other was a big scream. The two changelings who lost their head right now were wielding their scythes on the neck of Rarity and Twilight and the third, who was wielding his scythe on Fluttershy just lost his arm and was shouting in intense pain.

“ AHHHHH ! My arm My arm...!” The changeling said before he fell down and went limp due to blood loss.

There was no sound in entire Central Ponyville. Everyone was too shocked on seeing what had just happened. 6 changelings dead within 2 seconds. They couldn’t believe anything, yet the truth was in front of them. Finally, they saw the six trails of smoke, coming from a hilltop. Finally the silence was broken by sobbing Fluttershy.

“ They are.......t-they...are dead!” She said and then burst out crying, as she had enormous love for every living creature.

Suddenly her sobbing stopped, when three more head splattering sounds were heard, this time it were the changelings who wielding their scythes on Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Pinkie pie. All of them were completely stunned.

But their stances were broken, when there was a huge amount of light coming from the sun, which could nearly blind anyone. While every head turned up to see the lighting, suddenly the gates of the surrounding building were burst open and what came out of them made them sigh in relief. There were thousands of royal guards coming out from the buildings and pinned all of the changelings while pointing their spears at their eyes, with one heavily golden armoured soldier.

“ BBBFF !!” Twilight shouted, now fully broken from her trance and ran towards Shining Armour with her full might snd speed, and embraced him tightly.

“ Twily ! Thank Celestia, you are safe” Shining said as he embraced his sister back.

All the girls were now broken out of their stunned stances and were now being helped by the royal guards, civilians were unchained and the changelings were made to stand in order. The girls hugged each other, while Rarity and Rainbow Dash ran towards Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo to embrace them.

Chrysalis couldn’t believe that she was about to be failed once again, but she saw that Applebloom was still there. She quickly picked up the scythe that was fallen down and ran towards Applebloom, grabbed her and put the scythe on her neck. Which sounded in a ruffle.

“ APPLEBLOOM !” Everyone shouted who just hear the ruffling and had turned their heads.

“ I will not fail...not fail again.” Chrysalis said, as she backed while putting scythe on Applebloom’s neck again.

Suddenly, Chrysalis was surrounded by a horde of female royal guards and two people came out from between the royal guards. They were none other than Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, in their battle armour. On seeing the princesses, everyone bowed before them.

“ Rise, my subjects this is not the time for formalities.” Celestia said and everyone stood back up. Then she looked back to Chrysalis and her expression changed to anger.

“ You are completely surrounded Queen Chrysalis, we give you the chance to surrender peacefully and to come to Canterlot with us for your proceedings.” Celestia said in a neutral voice, with a stern expression on her face.

“ Never, I will never comeback with you.” Chrysalis said while tightening her grip on Applebloom’s neck, which caused everybody to flinch.

“ This is the last time I ask you to surrender yourself, I assure you that nothing harm will be done with you" Celestia replied with a neutral tone.

" Nothing harm ? NOTHING HARM !!! THAN TELL ME WHY DID YOU KILL THOSE 9 GUARDS OF MINE ?" Chrysalis exclaimed, with tears in her eyes.

It was at this moment that the eyes of Celestia and Luna went towards the headless corpse of changelings. The princess were shocked at such a gruesome act, they had indeed killed a few people in the past that was almost a millenia ago, without leaking the information to their subjects, but they were never so cruel that they would literally rip off the heads of their enemies or kill them this brutally. Shining Armour was also in shock. He had to fight in a few small battles but he never witnessed killing, in his entire life and never did he thought to kill anyone.

Celestia was the first one to break the silence.

" W-what j-just happened here?" She asked, with a bit of saddness and pity for the changelings in her eyes.

" Don't play with me Celestia, I know it's your doing, you have changed and you are the one who killed them. But never I did expect it would be this brutal." Chrysalis said while bringing the scythe closer to the neck of Applebloom.

" I am really sorry for this act, but I can assure you that this is not my doing. We don't have weapons that can splatter any living creature's head." Celestia said to Chrysalis in a neutral tone.

" I don't believe any of you anymore. After this gruesome act, I will have my revenge by taking the life of this girl, and th-" Chrysalis never got to finish her sentence, because a 7.62 mm round of a heavy sniper rifle passed right through her head. A royal guard who was standing beside dropped her spear in shock and covered her mouth with her hands. Applebloom swiftly fell from the hands of the Queen, and then she ran to Applejack and hugged her with all her might.

Chrysalis's head did not splatter as she was quite larger than other changelings. Her lifeless body, first fell to the ground on it's knees, and then fell sideways. The area where Chrysalis fell, was now covering up in green blood, oozing out of her head.

Saying everyone was in shock was an understatement, especially the Changelings who we're now crying loudly. Chrysalis, the powerful queen of the changelings, was now lying dead on the floor.

Fluttershy fainted on seeing the dead Chrysalis, but was caught was Rainbow Dash. Everyone present there, except Princess Celestia and Shining Armour had tears in their eyes. They only wanted to imprison Chrysalis again with a powerful prison of love, even though she killed a few civilians today. But they never wanted to kill or execute her.

Celestia held her head down in shame. She had failed her duties. She had taken the oath that whatever may be the reasons of a war, it will be resolved peacefully, but today, it had been broken with the death of Chrysalis.

Suddenly, Celestia's eyes met with a trail of smoke coming from the nearby hilltop, she concluded that it must be the same smoke that had beheaded the other 9 changelings there. She understood that this commotion did not happen on it's own, someone has killed them.

She came out of her thinking world by Luna's question

" Tia ? What just happened right now, I can't believe that someone died in front of us and we could not do anything about it." Luna said, after wiping her tears.

" I understand sister. None of us expected that a event like this would unfold, in front of our eyes." Celestia said, sadly.

But Celestia did not knew as to what has to be done in a situation like this, because nothing like this ever happened, even in the great war. But she knew one thing, she saw that the trail of smoke was emerging from the hilltop, and it has to be investigated. Fluttershy had now woken up, but was quite sad.

" Twilight and her friends, I need you to gather the elements of harmony, and return to this place in 20 minutes, something else has also happened here." Celestia ordered the main six, they nodded and went off to gather the elements, without questioning.

" Your highness, I don't understand anything. How did this all happened, I understood changeling invasions, but splattering of heads !! It's something I have never seen before." Shining Armour said, but a hint of fear in his eyes.

" I am as confused a you are captain, even I don't understand that what has such a power, that can kill anyone, without having mercy. The best hope is to wait and investigate." Celestia said, as she took another look to the dead bodies.

" Citizens of Ponyville, what transpired today is the most disheartening thing that ever occurred in a millennia, but I assure you that we will investigate the reason and if there is a person behind it, he or she would be brought to justice. Until then, please return to your homes." Celestia said and everyone silently walked away to their homes and locked themselves up. The only remaining people were the guards, the captains and the princesses.

" I will find, what or who did this and give it the justice that it will deserve." Celestia thought in her mind as she ordered her guards to get rid of the bodies, and provide a funeral to Chrysalis.


OUTSKIRTS OF PONYVILLE


Parth was satisfied that he got a perfect shot on the changeling Queen. He had killed the main source of the war and war had ended. He was also glad as he didn't have to jump in between the city as the army of the Equestria had come at the right time to save their citizens. But he looked though his scope saw that the princess was not happy, neither were the civilians. He noted that princess had sent the main six somewhere, and had asked the citizens to return to their homes. He was now sure that the was had ended.

" Seems everything is fine now, changeling Queen is dead and Ponyville seems to be liberated now, right Spike ?" Parth asked Spike.

No response.

" Spike ?" Parth asked for him again.

No response.

The he turned his head and saw that Spike was not there. Suddenly he saw a shadow right down the hilltop, it was none other than Spike who was running towards the queen.

" How the hell did he got away.....well I don't care, jobs done here, I guess that I shall talk to the princesses later and see if they are friendly enough". Parth thought to himself, as he positioned his sniper back on it's place on his armour and started making his way towards the forest back.