//------------------------------// // Chapter 5 // Story: Halo:Resurrection // by Me101Puck //------------------------------// "Yes, I do."Shining Armor said to the ODST. "Wait, hold on a minute. You can talk?" Dakre said. Even though he fought the covenant briefly as a child, and he knew they could talk, the fact that an animal could talk surprised him though. "Um, yes I can." Shining Armor replied. He raised an eyebrow at the lieutenant as he spoke. "Okay, that's beside the point. why did you fire at us when we were attempting to leave this planet?" Dakre asked. "We didn't," he Shining Armor said. He pointed a hoof at his dead lieutenant. " He did." "I know he did, that's why he's dead." Christian said as he loaded a fresh magazine into his handgun. He yanked the slide back and chambered a new round. One of the soldiers reached for a spear that was on the ground near hes hoof. "Not a good choice." Dakre said, and pointed his pistol at the guard. The soldier retracted his hoof and shrunk into the ranks of the other forty guards. "Well, we aren't diplomatic experts, and I assume you aren't a diplomat, are you?" "No, I'm the military leader. I can take you to the princesses, my leaders." Shining Armor said. "Well that would be little help, considering we don't have any diplomatic experience. We could get some authority down here and then that would be a viable option." Dakre said. Someone tapped him on his left shoulder, and he turned his head to acknowledge the person. It was Jackie, and she wore a grim look on her face. "We lost him sir. He lost too much blood before I could close the wound." she said, as she used a bandage to wipe the blood off her hands. "Shit!" Dakre yelled. He punched the metal barrier next to him. The punch was delivered with enough force to dent the armored steel. "Have you notified captain Falan?" "No sir." she said. "Well come with me. I have to talk to them about diplomatic matters anyway." Dakre said. He turned around and began walking to the downed pelican, which served double as the UNSC command post in the foreign land. "Excuse me, would you mind telling me where we are?" Christian asked Shining Armor. "You are in Equestria." He replied. "Thank you." He said. Christian then joined Dakre and his team in the cockpit of the pelican. "Yes ma'am, I understand. We will negotiate a location for a peace summit in the next few days." Dakre said. "Good, lieutenant Dakre. We have an issue with getting you supplies, since innsurrectonists sabotaged the hall. They choose now of all times to hate us again." Captain Falan said. "Roger that. We will make due with what we have, and possibly get some aid from the natives." Dakre said. "Roger. Hall of Heroes out." the transmission cut out immediately after those words were spoke. "Well, we have to find somewhere big enough that multiple pelicans can land, and try to schedule a peace conference with the leaders of this nation." Dakre said. "Alright, do you want to go talk to the guy out there? He said he could get us to the heads of state here." Christain said as he stood in the doorway. "Yeah that would probably be best." Dakre said. He stood up and replaced his helmet. "Let's get this over with." The two soldiers walked back outside, where it was still dark, despot the fact that it was close to seven in the morning local time, which had been determined by the Hall's scientists and mathematicians. The two soldiers ignored this and proceeded to Shining Armor. "Alright captain, we would like to meet your leaders. Our leader wants us to negotiate a location and time for a summit between our two nations." Dakre said. "I believe that can be arranged. RUNNER!" Shining Armor called with a shout. A pegasus showed up immediately. "Tell princess Celestia and princess Luna that foriegn contacts would like to meet to discuss details for a possible peace conference in the next few days." The runner saluted the captain and immediately took of. "Now that that's settled," he turned to face the humans, "Do you have anywhere to stay or food for the next few days?" "Actually, I was supposed to ask if you could spare some supplies." Dakre said. "I'm sure we could spare some supplies. I'm not sure how much though." Shining Armor said. "Well, anything would be great for us." Dakre said. "Oh, I want to ask you, did you destroy one of those," Shining Armor pointed at the downed Pelican, "a little ways north of here about three hours ago?" "Yeah, that was our first ship. It was sabotaged by some rebels on board our flagship. It is standard to destroy technology to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands." Dakre explained to Shining Armor. "Well, three ponies were injured in the explosion, and we're out here to investigate the cause." Shining Armor explained. "Well, now you know, and I'm sorry to whomever was caught in the blast." Dakre said. "It's alright, since you didn't intend to harm anypony. Although the princess is upset, since my sister, and her prized student was one of the ones injured." Shining Armor said. "Well, like I said, it i protocol. I am sorry, but it had to be done." Dakre said. "It's alright. In the future please make sure you don't destroy it where somepony could get hurt." Shining Armor said. "I can't make any promises." Dakre replied grimly. "At least try." Shining Armor said firmly. "Anyways, I'll get you somewhere where you can stay until we can take the train to Canterlot tomorrow afternoon." He lightened up as he made his offer, much to the relief of the SPARTAN standing next to them. "Where will you keep us that will not scare the general population?" Christian asked. "I believe you can use the barn on the farm, but I will need to get consent from the owner to have 'guests' stay in there over night." Shining Armor said. "Again, I don't think it is wise to alert the general population of our arrival yet. We should at least wait until the peace conference starts, and at our leader's discretion." The SPARTAN said to the captain. "Alright, I will think of something else." Shining Armor said. "I believe we should stay here for the night, just to be safe." The SPARTAN suggested. "I agree. We shouldn't reveal ourselves until our leaders have deemed it acceptable." Dakre said. "Alright, you can stay here, but we will have to stay with you as part of our regulations." Shining Armor said. "That sounds perfectly fair." Dakre said. "In that case, I'm going back to the CP and informing the captain. Good night everybody." Dakre said as he left to go back to the pelican. "Great." the SPARTAN said. He turned around and faced the marines behind him. "Alright, we will be staying here for the night." he pointed at the royal guards, "They will be keeping us company for the night. They are friendly, so don't do anything stupid." a few yes sirs were heard through the clearing, but other than that it was silent. "Good, see you in the morning marines." The SPARTAN walked into the pelican and sat down on one of the benches as a conversation was going on over the radio in the cockpit.