//------------------------------// // Could this day get any worse? // Story: Stealth Prowlers and Unicorns // by superfunnelc //------------------------------// As Crawfish walked down the dark staircase, he felt a sudden feeling of regret about the killings of the guards. "I know what your thinking about." Samantha chimed in though the radio. "You did what you were trained to do." "Sam, this is the third time you gave me this speech.and as usual it does not help." The walls around Crawfish begin to lose stone, and become a shiny metal. "Well, I am just trying to make you feel better." "I know, at least you can take pride in one thing." "What is that, sir?" "You're better at lifting my spirits than BB." Crawfish chuckles. "Please don't bring up Black Box." "Why, do you and BB have something going on? Not that its possible or anything." "Well you see. Black Box and I experimented and the result was the A.I Discord." "Wait a second. Discord was an out of control A.I that crashed a Halcyon class cruiser, into a covie super carrier. How could Discord be the outcome?" "You know how A.Is can fragment, right?" "Of course." "Well, Black Box produced a fragment, I produced a fragment, and we combined the two." Samantha said, blushing as only an A.I can, by turning her entire body red. "So you are the first A.I ever to get pregnant basically?" "No, Discord was never in my system." "Yes but, a baby is one half of his father, and one half of his mother, and seeing that BB is a blue box." "A blue cube." Samantha blurts out. "Could you please not correct me Sam? Now as I was saying, since you are the only female in that exchange, you are classified as the mother, you got that?" "Yes, sir. Now could we please stop talking about BB?" "Alright, fine with me. Sam can you get the Lieutenant, or Vaht on the radio?" "Of course captain." The radio goes silent as Samantha cuts the connection to Crawfish's helmet, seconds before Vaht opens a channel of his own. "Vaht whats the situation, back at the ship?" "No good, the locals may not have basic firearms, but they can still hurt us!" A massive thump can be heard. "Vaht, what was that?" "Blasto, says that the locals are hurling boulders at us." "Just hold out, maybe shoot a few of them, hell shoot off a few of the missiles if you have to, but do not let those ponies get on my ship." "Yes sir!" "Alright, the tunnel is widening out a little. I am going to lose you when I enter." "See you later, sir." Vaht cuts the connection. "Alright now, lets see what we have here." Crawfish walks into the cavern, when suddenly the whole cavern fills with blinding light, luckily the visor on Crawfish's helmet is polarized. "Ah, a reclaimer wonderful!" A voice with what appears to be Irish accent chimes. "Who's there!" Crawfish shouts as he draws his knife, as a monitor floats down from the rafters. "Stow your weapon reclaimer, I am 259 Translucent Flame, at your service." "Whats a monitor doing here?" Crawfish sheaths his knife. "I was appointed to watch over this science facility when the order to fire the Halo Array was given." "So you have just been waiting here all this time?" "Of course, it does get quite boring though, the sentinels do not make good conversation, so I mostly just watch the experiments." "What experiments?" "Oh, I am sure that you have already met them." "The ponies?" "Yes, you see the ponies were in their original form horses brought over from your home planet, and after a little crossbreeding, and some genetic alteration, you get the four breeds of pony. Earth pony, Pegasus, Unicorn, and Alicorn. Now the Alicorns are a special case because, they were originally created as weapons against the Flood." "Who would make ponies a weapon against the Flood?" "The only Forerunner opposed to the Halo Array; the Didact." "The Didact, of course! Why didn't I think of that. Quick question, who is the Didact?" "He was the supreme commander of the Forerunner military." "And he opposed the creation of the Halos?" "Yes, he believed them to be a sin beyond measure." "Thank you Flame." "Anytime Reclaimer. Now if you could please follow me." Flame begins floating off. "Hey, wait up!" Crawfish runs after Flame, who leads him to a room with a single glass pod in the center. "What is this place?" "The stasis chamber for this facility." "Whats in the pod?" Crawfish points towards the pod. "I can't quite remember, I think some of my memory is corrupted. However, I will open the pod and we can both find out, but to open it I need six keys, that the ponies currently have possession of. The ponies call them, The Elements of Harmony. Quite an odd name, but the ponies are an odd race. Now if you will follow me to the armory we can arm you, because the keys are tightly guarded." Flame floats out of the chamber with Crawfish in tow. "So, what made the forerunners create the ponies?" Asked Crawfish. "Well, it all started back when the Forerunners were at war with Humanity, and their allies the San'Shyuum. At the end of the war when Humanity was devolved, we needed a way to make sure you did not try to take to the stars again, so we engineered the ponies, and released them back on Earth, but they did not follow orders, and they were captured and brought back here, but not before Humans could create legends around them." Flame opens a door leading to the armory. "Jeez, I thought it was only you and some Sentinels?" Crawfish says gazing upon rows of Forerunner weapons. "This armory is actually a new addition, because a few hundred thousand years ago the ponies, rebelled and we had to bring in many Prometheans, to quell the rebellion and when the warriors left, they forgot their weapons. SO feel free to take anything that you wish." "Thanks maybe I will." Crawfish starts browsing the arms before settling on a Light Rifle, and a Suppressor. "Reclaimer, you do not know how thankful I am that you are helping me, now enter the portal at the far end of the armory and you should be transported to an empty building a few miles from where the keys are." Crawfish nods and walks over to the portal before jumping in. 0o0o0 "I do not understand, why you need me to deal with an alien?" Candace asks as she is escorted down to the dungeon, by Celestia, Shining Armor, and a trio of guards. "The reason I need you to talk to the alien is because, you are the only one of us who seems the least threatening, I mean your pink." Shining states. "Gee, thanks dear I will remember that in bed." Candace rolls her eyes, as they approach the cell that was formerly inhabited by Crawfish. "Now Candace this alien is blood thirsty, so don't hesitate to use force if-." Celestia begins saying only to be interrupted by Shining Armor. "The alien has escaped! Lock the palace down!" "Oh, no. How could this day get any worse?" Moaned Celestia. "Um, Aunt Celestia don't you have that meeting with the Griffon Empresses today?" "Candace don't remind me." Celestia rubs her face. "Guards tell Blue blood that he will be meeting with the Griffon Empress, and somepony get me a doughnut!" (A/N: Well it looks lite our good friend Tia, is losing it, so see you guys next time, don't forget to thumb up, favorite and comment.)