John's head turned.
"I am Chieftain Kepentus," he announced arrogantly to the world."And, this, will be your final battle."
John simply swapped his Assualt Rifle for a Fuel Rod Gun as a response.
"Ah," Kepentus said."Fuel rods, it'll take 3 to kill me."
"In Heroic mode," Pinkie corrected.
His head turned over to Pinkie.
"Silence! This is a private matter, so if you mind, then you would stay out of this!" he shouted at her.
WHOMP!
By the time his head turned back, he found that a fuel rod had already been fired and was 2 feet from hitting him.
He couldn't duck or dodge.
He couldn't block with his Gravity Hammer yet.
He couldn't even scream.
The explosive hit him square in the forehead, unleashing a green explosion that threw off sparks. If it weren't for his shields, then he wouldn't have a face right now. He staggered up, with his Gravity Hammer in hand, he used the shockwave to make another fuel rod explode before it hit him, and after that, he lunged at John.
John was not impressed.
He kicked the Chieftain in the groin, breaking his shields and making him fall. He was unable to pummel the Demon then, but Kepentus was determined to end the Demon's crappy life anyways, with a Gravity Hammer.
He lunged again.
It was the biggest mistake of the Chieftain's life, he got a Spartan II rolling through his legs and shooting him in the back of
the head with the Fuel Rod Gun.
"Now," John thought to himself."He dosen't have a face."
Even though Kepentus was wearing very heavy armor, the awesomeness of fuel rods was enough to blow his head off, sending purple blood flying everywhere.
"Awesome!" shouted Rainbow Dash.
"More like messy," Rainbowshine muttered, finally daring to speak."Very messy."
He looked at the bridge controls, what they've been fighting for.
He shrugged and steered the cruiser to crash.
Meanwhile, 2 hours earlier, just before the Phantom's engines went critical...
Scootaloo heard the droning sound, and that meant something was going to go boom, and that was the Phantom. But then, she felt some magical protective veil surrounding her, then the Phantom went boom.
She thought she would be dead anyways, but then she opened her eyes, finding she was still alive and unscathed.
"Woah," she thought."This is awesome!"
But then, the veil burst, sending her plummeting down to her death.
"Crap!" she shouted,"I can't fly!"
Then she thought,"Well it's worth a try..."
She spread her wings. She fell noticably slower, but still fatal speed. She opened it wider, now she was falling at your- going-to-wake-up-with-everything-sore speed.
She tried flapping the hardest she could, then she noticed something, she was gaining altitude!
"Woah," she whispered."So this is what it feels like to fly."
She dove down, swooped around, and she was able to hit roughly 240 mph at the highest speeds. She had never felt so free, the brisk wind, the fluffy, warm, clouds. And the shine of the sun on her light orange wings. This is what Rainbow Dash was able to do everyday.
After a while, she flew down, to find a blue unicorn, limp on the ground.
"Lyra?" Scootaloo asked.
Her eyes opened, and she muttered."Scootaloo?"
"I was covered in a protective veil suddenly surrounded me," Scootaloo said,"Was that you?"
"Yes."
Then Lyra further explained,"I saw a green speck throwing sparks heading towards the Phantom high above. I decided to
use my energy on the only thing I could sense inside, you. But at such a distance, my energy was being incinerated, and so, I passed out a few seconds after it exploded." But how did you make it to the ground?"
"It's a long story," Scootaloo said,"To put it simply, I learnt how to fly."
Lyra looked at her, shocked and disbelieving.
"But," she stammered."How?"
"I just did," Scootaloo shrugged.
Back on the cruiser, at the time the ship had been positioned to crash. Listen for enchancement)
Applejack looked at her wound that she had previously ignored, now it stung, but she ignored it. Fluttershy threw her Brute
Shot away, Pinkie DIDN'T throw her Spiker away in case she needed ranged coverage.
John looked at Kepentus, who had been alive a minute ago. His headless body's black and red armor plates was splattered with blood, some of the inner plates seemed to have been nailed together have been torn and bent. Some of his
armor was already incinerated. he looked at Kepentus's head. the black and white helmet was knocked off, leaving a grey
skinned ape-like head. His feral teeth were shown with his open mouth.
Pinkie walked up to his head and, for fun, shot three spikes down his throat. She began laughing hysterically a few seconds later.
"Come on!" John shouted suddenly."We gotta get out of her in a minute, no later!"
Everypony's head instantly turned to the exit, they madly galloped/flew out. Fluttershy got into the act with no hesitation, so
did Twilgiht, who didn't bother to pick up Kepentus's helmet to analyze.
In forty seconds, thye reached the edge of one of the shuttle bays, this one was the one they entered in, and so, it didn't have any vehicles, they didn't have the time to go to the other bay.
"Okay," Rainbow piped."I'll carry you all.'
Nopony protested, they knew that was they're only chance of survival. So, they grabbed Rainbow's legs/tail/another pony's
leg.
Rainbow felt them dropping rapidly, at 90 mph, John said he was going to jump down himself, because he's too heavy,
Fluttershy volunteered to fly down herself, but even with the reduced weight of roughly 1,060 pounds, it was still to heavy for Rainbow, despite her best efforts. She beat her wings at 20 times per second, they still were falling at deadly speed.
"This is it," she thought.
She beat her wings quicker than she ever did and braced for inevitable doom, she blamed herself for this, and it technically
was her fault. She slapped herself mentally for not doing a new plan of what she could have done.
Her new plan that has been formulated to late:
Fly to the other shuttle bay as quick as you could, board a Phantom and get everyone else to go on.
She knew that John would survive, if he could fall a fall from space, then why not from 5 kilometers?
"Well never mind that," she thought. With utter determination, she beat her wings quicker than anypony had ever done.
Then, she noticed something.
She wasn't falling at fatal speed, they were falling at five mph. Apparently 100 flaps per second worked!
But then she felt a new feeling, fatigue, something that she was afraid she wouldn't be able to endure.
In the distance, the CCS-class battlecruiser had crashed and was violently exploding. That distracted her enough to lose her focus.
"Crap!" they all shouted as they plummeted down.
"I don't want to die!" Rarity shouted.
They all fell helplessly down from the sky, with a Rainbow Dash struggling to regain control.
Then, luck was merciful again.
They began slowing down to the point of being shaken by the landing, but unscathed.
Once they landed, Rainbow wiped a huge amount of sweat off her mane and passed out.
In the distance, John landed in partial lockdown, and got right back up.
"Hey," shouted a voice in the distance, it belonged to Scootaloo.
Everypony's head turned, in shock, they knew NOPONY could have survived that explosion.
"Okay," Scootaloo started."I'll explain."
5 minutes later...
"You learnt how to fly?" asked Applejack.
"Wow," muttered Rarity."In a time you needed it? You're a very lucky filly."
They spent the rest of the morning celebrating, John even got tempted to take his helmet off.
By the end, they all headed back to Ponyville, to find word had spread that the center of Canterlot had been incinerated. T-
hat the threat had been destroyed had been spread too.
"No wait," asked Lyra,"Are you a HUMAN?"
6:10 pm
Equestria
Canterlot
Luna looked at the remains of the center of Canterlot. Her sister had been wounded, over ninety Royal Guards had been sent to defend Ponyville, they failed miserably, it was some weird bipedal aliens that fended off more bipedal aliens. And
then, a huge ship 1,782 meters long shows up, and oliberates a decent chunk of Canterlot. Her blue/green eyes fixed on
the smoke, her dark blue body was fairly difficult to see in the night, her wings, tucked at her sides. Her horn, gave no
illumination.
She swore under her breath and took off into the night sky, towards Ponyville.
6:10 pm
Earth
Still glassed Voi
Jun-A266 looked at the remains of Voi, being terraformed. He sighed, the terraforming would take about a century.
Next to him, were two Spartan IVs. The one to his right carried a Assualt Rifle; the one to his left carried a BR55HB SR Battle Rifle.
He usually carried a Sniper Rifle, and now was no exception. His olive green MJOLNIR Mark V Assualt Armor stood out
completely. His armor looked completely different to the other Spartans, they had smaller visors.
He shrugged and walked into a Pelican dropship. He just wanted to go for a spin. The two other Spartans followed.
When the Pelican exited the atmosphere, they spotted a human vessel in the distance.
It was a huge 2.5 km long Phoenix-class colony ship.
It looked like one of those ships in the Campaign of Harvest that happened before he was born. He blinked, as if to refresh
his vision.
"No," he thought."It can't be. That ship was declared lost at all hands!
But it was. It was the UNSC Spirit of Fire.
Jun was still thinking it might have been a hallucination by the time he docked the Pelican down in the hanger. Then, he saw Shortsword bombers, Grizzilies, Wolverines, Sparrowhawks and other outdated vehicles.
Then, Captain James Cutter walked down from a entrance, he looked at Jun and the Spartan IVs.
"Who are these Spartans in deformed armor?" he thought.
"My name's Jun," Jun chatted."The humans have thought that you and the 11,000 personel on board were dead. They declared the Spirit of Fire lost at all hands. I am a Spartan III. They are Spartan IVs. Now we have done a fleet-wide upgrade to the Pelicans. Shortswords and Hawks are now outdated. The Human-Covenant war is finished, we have won.
The Elites, some of the Grunts and Jackals have united to form the Covenant Separatists. Oh, and most of the Hunters.
The Separatists have sided with us and four or five years ago, then, the Elites went back to Sangheilios."
James tried to digest what Jun was blabbing about, but only caught half of it.
"Well, we'll have to go get a new Slipspace Drive soon," James said, changing the subject.
"Seriously?!" Jun asked."You lost the Slipspace Drive?!"
"It's a long story," James said, trying to sound as enthusiastic as possible.
Jun, not noticing Jame's terrible acting said,"Well, we have all the time in the world, so tell me it."
"Oh here it goes again," James thought.
Equestria
Ponyville
6:25 pm
Ponyville came into sight for Luna. Squinting, she could make out the straw-thatched roofs and the pink frames. It made Canterlot look like a very unhappy place. But not today, the windows were boarded shut, the stalls were closed, hell, everything was closed. In case of a bigger threat.
Squinting even more, she could make out two figures in the distance. Six were ponies, but one was a bipedal creature, supposedly a human. She flew closer, quick as she could, making no care to not startle any wildlife. She streaked through the night sky under the cover of dark blue fur. She charged at the ground, making a large dust cloud. When it cleared, she
found six ponies. One purple, one orange, one butterscotch, one cyan, one pink, and one white.
It was them.
"Hello," she greeted.
Then her eyes met a bipedal creatue, clad in green armor, that had a invisible shield that sort of felt like magic. Sort of.
After ten minutes of explaining...
"Okay," Luna muttered."But why I came here was because I wanted to tell you that a bigger threat might be on it's way, a
threat twenty-seven times worse than the last. In fact, it might be looming above us right now."
"Really?" everypony said.
"Really," Luna answered.
Suddenly, a pink/purple glowing thing lit up, a huge beam shot and landed dangerously close to Cloudsdale. Another one
began charging up before anypony could say anything else. It impacted in the Everfree.
The entire ship lit up. It was a damn Covenant Supercarrier.
Then John realized something, even though it had nothing to do with the hovering threat ahead of them, he thought,"Why am I talking so much?!"
Edited by The Enemy Cube