"Say again Lieutenant" Crawfish walks over to Jessica's station.
"We have ponies."
"Don't you mean horses?" Asks Crawfish.
"No, ponies. The life forms on the sensors are equine in origin, but are too large to be considered horses." Said Sam as she leaned towards the screen from the holo terminal.
"Wait a second is that a horn?" Crawfish points to a section of the screen.
"I believe so sir." Reply's Sam.
"Great, so we got unicorns and ponies. What else could be out there?!" Crawfish shouts.
"It looks like two of them have wings." Points out Vaht.
"For the love of the Master Chief!" Crawfish yells.
"They do not appear hostile sir." Said Sam.
"Neither do Uggoy, but they can still kill a marine." Crawfish says as he walks out of the bridge.
"Sir, where are you going?" Asks Jessica.
"Follow me and see, you too Vaht." Says Crawfish as Jessica and Vaht follow Crawfish to the ship's armory.
"Crawfish do you really think that ponies pose a threat?" Asked Vaht.
"Vaht, the first human to die in the Human Covenant War was killed by an Engineer so don't tell me that ponies are harmless!" Crawfish begins to undress.
"Woah! Put your pants back on sir." Says Jessica trying not to stare at the now naked body of Crawfish.
"Sorry, Lieutenant but in order for me to put on my armor I gotta be naked." Crawfish pulls a body suit from a locker. "Sam is my armor repaired?"
"Yes sir." Says Sam over the inter-comm.
"Good. Alright suit me up Sam." Crawfish walks onto a platform, and raises his arms to his side as robot hands hold them in place.
"W-whats going on?" Asks a startled Jessica.
"You see Lieutenant, when ONI gave me this ship, they also made me into to something with the help of some augs."Says Crawfish as claws take pieces of armor from who knows where and begin wielding them to Crawfish's bodysuit.
"Y-your,a Spartan." Says a bewildered Jessica.
"A Spartan IV actually." Says Crawfish as his chest plate is bolted on.
"Should I take a plasma repeater or an energy sword?" Asks Vaht trying to pick between the two.
"Just bring both." Says Crawfish as he steps off the platform, and grabs an EOD helmet with a black visor from a locker.
"Thanks." Vaht holsters the repeater on his back, while grabbing his helmet from his locker.
"You ready?" Asks Crawfish as he puts on his Helmet.
"Sure." Vaht closes his locker, and walks out of the armory towards the exit ramp.
"Sir are you sure that this is wise?" Asks Jessica as Crawfish grabs a DMR from a weapons rack and follows Vaht.
"Lieutenant, I have no idea." Crawfish exits the armory and follows Vaht towards the exit ramp. "Sam open the ramp."
"Ramp opening"
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"Oh Twilight look it's opening!" Exclaimed Pinkie as the ramp to the ship opened.
"Nopony go near it." Says Twilight.
"Twilight I am the toughest pony around, no alien is going to hurt me!" Rainbow Dash flies over to the entrance. "Come on you cruddy alien show me what you got!"
Vaht walks down the ramp, with Crawfish in his black EOD armor next to him, seeing the pony challenging him he activates his energy sword and says "Blarg!"
"Ahhhhhhhh!" Rainbow Dash screams ah she runs away from the ship and back to her friends "Did you see that thing try to eat me!"
"Ain't no space alien going eat my friends!" Apple Jack charges at Vaht only for Crawfish to step in front, seeing no other option Apple Jack rears up and bucks Crawfish in the groin, however she did not know that Crawfish's armor could survive a fall from orbit, however before her hooves could make contact with the armor they hit an invisible wall, and were broken at the ankle. "Ahhhh, ma legs!"
"Hold on Apple Jack!" Twilight begins charging up a telekinesis spell.
"Sir, that pony's horn is glowing!' Points out Vaht.
"It's charging up for an attack. Open fire!" Crawfish let's loose with his DMR wounding Twilight in the leg before she could fully charge up the spell.
"Twilight! Now your in for it you overgrown tin can!" Rainbow rushes towards Crawfish who uses his DMR like a baseball bat and nails Rainbow in the face with the butt of the rifle, Rainbow crumples to the ground unconscious.
"P-please don't hurt me." Flutter Shy slowly walks up to the entrance ramp.
"Should we shoot it?" Asks Vaht.
"Nope, it looks like a medic, Rules of Engagement dictates that we can't fire on a medic." Says Crawfish as Flutter Shy drags Apple jack off the ramp and back to the mouth of the crater.
"Since when have I followed ROE?" Crawfish asks as Flutter Shy comes back and pulls Rainbow Dash's unconscious body out of the crater.
"There was that one time." Says Vaht as the group of ponies slowly heads back to town for medical assistance.
"Hey, I didn't know that 10-year old had a magnum." Replies Crawfish "Looks like they're gone, let's head back in they will likely be back." Crawfish and Vaht walk back into the ship and raise the entrance ramp.
"What did you do?!" Screams Jessica as the two entered the bridge.
"Let's see. I hit a home run, when that rainbow pony flew at me. I broke that orange pony's legs with my mind, and I shot that purple pony in the leg. Any questions?" Crawfish takes off his helmet only to get slapped by Jessica.
"We just got out of a war with aliens! Now you want to start another!?" Jessica throws her hands up in the air.
"Relax, they are ponies what's the worse that they could do?"
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"Nurse Redheart! We need your help!" Spike shouts as the group enters Pony ville General Hospital with Pinkie carrying a bleeding Twilight, Rarity carrying an unconscious Rainbow Dash, and Flutter shy carrying an immobile Apple jack.
"Oh, my word! What happened?" Asks Nurse Red Heart as she check the three wounded ponies.
"It was those meany pants aliens!" Says Pinkie.
"Those meany pants what?" Asks Nurse Redheart.
"Aliens, their ship crashed. And they were like Blarg! And Rainbow Dash was like Ahhh! And then Apple jack was all Ahhhhh too, and thats what happened!" Says Pinkie.
"Oooookay. Hey get three gurneys stat!" Shouts Nurse Red Heart, as three other nurses pushing gurneys arrive and take the three wounded ponies and load each on a gurney and ships Twilight off to surgery, Apple jack to X-ray, and Rainbow Dash to a Cat-Scan.
"I'd better tell the princesses." Spike begins taking a letter.
Dear, Princesses Celestia
A few minutes ago an alien ship crashed outside of Pony ville, but when we went to investigate the ship the aliens attacked us, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Apple jack are all hurt with Twilight being the worst. Please send help.
Love, Spike
P.S, When are you going to tell me where you got my egg from?
"Here we go." Spike breaths fire on the scroll sending it to Princess Celestia.
0o0o0
Celestia was enjoying something that she almost never had time to do, relaxing in bed. When a scroll dropped in front of her "A friendship report?" Celestia opens the scroll and reads it, as her eyes read over the letter she becomes more and more worried, until she could not take it anymore and shouted. "Guards!"
"What is it your highness?!" Shining Armor, and three guards burst in.
"Send all of the guards you can to Pony ville, I fear it is under attack from aliens." Says Celestia.
"Aliens, your highness?" Asks Shining Armor.
"Yes, aliens and they have already attacked your sister and her friends."
"T-twily?!" Gasps Shining.
"Yes, now go!"
"Yes your highness." Shining runs off to alert his guards.
"I pray that this is all a misunderstanding." Celestia steps onto a balcony and looks in the direction of Pony ville.
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"Uh, Crawfish you might wanna take a look at this." Says Jessica looking at the sensor panels.
"What is it, Lieutenant?" Crawfish walks over to her.
"I have eyes on 150 plus armored ponies heading right for us." Jessica says.
"Well then I better go out and greet them." Crawfish walks out of the bridge. "Vaht, Blasto be on your toes and stay here."
"Yes sir." Says Vaht as Blasto raises a tentacle in salute.
"Your going out there unarmed?!" Says Jessica as Crawfish approaches the ramp.
"I got a combat knife in a magnetic sheath, but other then that I have no weapons." Crawfish opens the ramp. "Sam when I am off the ramp, seal it."
"Yes sir." Says Sam.
"Alright here we go." Crawfish walks down the exit ramp, his black EOD armor ready for combat, when he steps onto solid ground the ramp seals shut behind him. When he reaches the top of the crater he can see the over 150 guards in front of him.
"By order of Princess Celestia surrender!" Shouts Shining Armor, as several of the guards begin to have second thoughts about going up against aliens.
"How about no!" Crawfish shouts back, making several guards wonder how he speaks the same language as them.
"So be it! Alpha and Beta teams attack!" Shining Armor shouts as 60 ponies break file and charge.
"Hostiles detected!" Crawfish gets into a fighting stance, just as the first guard reaches him spear drawn. Crawfish grabs the spear breaks it in two and proceeds to break the guard's jaw with a single punch. More guards charge him, Crawfish is a flurry as he delivers punches and kicks at incredible speeds. After seven minutes 75 guard lay unconscious, several others dead, however the battle has strained Crawfish as he drops from exhaustion, the last thing he sees before slipping into unconsciousness is Shining armor looking over him.
0o0o0
As Crawfish awakes he realizes that his hands are bound, however he manages to break the rope easily. "Where the hell am I?" Crawfish looks around his surroundings that appear to be a dungeon. "Great, a dungeon, what could possibly happen now!?" The door to his cell opens, Crawfish quickly puts his hands back behind him so that his captors can't tell that he broke his bounds. As he looks towards the door, he sees a large white Alicorn walk in with three guards and Shining Armor escorting her.
"Who are you?" She asks.
"Your mother!" Crawfish replies.
"Show some respect towards the princess!" Shining fires a bolt of electricity at Crawfish.
"Is that the best you got?" Crawfish says as his armor absorbs the electricity giving him an over shield.
"Next question." Celestia is not phased by Shining Armor's attack. "What are you?"
"I am a demon, and not the kind of demon that was drafted into the Navy at six years old and replaced by clones, that died a year later. If that's what your thinking." Says Crawfish replacing the word spartan with the Covenant's nickname for Spartans.
"This is pointless, we will return later and maybe then you will be more willing to talk." Celestia and the guards leave shutting the door behind them.
"Crawfish come in." Crawfish's helmet filled with sound as Sam radioed him.
"Crawfish here, go ahead." Crawfish replies.
"Sir, where are you?"
"Hell if I know Sam, but I think I am at some sort of castle since I am in a dungeon." Crawfish says as something catches his eye.
"Sir, the ponies have formed a barricade around the crater, and we only have so much food left." Says Sam.
"It's okay Sam, I am going to get to you." Crawfish kneels down in the corner using his helmet's zoom feature to reveal that what caught his eye was a glowing symbol carved into the rock.
"Sam what the hell am I looking at?" Crawfish turns on his helmet's camera and begins sending photos to the Bayou.
"Hold on, it appears that ONI has a reference to the symbol, however it is in Dr.Halsey's files."
"Halsey." Crawfish murmurs her name, and feels a bit of guilt. Halsey might have only worked on the SPARTAN-II project but to the SPARTAN-IVs she was the mother of all SPARTANS, the only SPARTANS to not treat her as a mother were the SPARTAN-IIIs for which the 2's and the 4's hated them for it. "Open it Sam."
"Alright, it appears to be the Forerunner symbol for Reclaimer."
"Forerunner huh." Crawfish had learned a good deal about the Forerunners a few months back after hacking into ONI's database for the fifth time that week. Crawfish places his hand on the symbol, which begins to glow brighter until it disappeared into the rock, moments later a door appeared in the wall, Crawfish seeing no other option walked though the door.