The snowy mountains under the night sky sat in silence. The snow slowly gathering on top of the mountains and the ground beneath it, the only sign of life was a lone base with a few lights to keep the inhabitants warm and the area around them bright. Two hundred meters below the base was a disturbance in the snowy winds; a swarm of blue particles appeared, forming two figures, and one was taller then the other. The figures appeared, one in exotic glowing armor with floating parts, and the other in a suit of iron armor. The Didact finished transporting to the location the Gryphon told him to go, he then looked over to the Gryphon and saw him looking at himself, making sure everything was there.
"How did you do that, you’re just an Earth Pony, and last I heard Earth Ponies couldn't perform teleportation spells?" The Gryphon asked out of curiosity and with confusion.
"Technology that's beyond your understanding, Gryphon." The Didact answered his question blankly.
"And before we continue, you will explain your reason for the assault on that train!" The Didact demanded out of the Gryphon.
"But first," The Didact said reaching for his holster and took out his handgun. "Explain to me what this is, I have seen such firearms as these" The Didact said examining the pistol then turning to him for a answer.
"Oh that? That's a prototype the Empire put out for testing, its only been out for at least a week." The Gryphon answered his question as fast as he could.
"Yes, a obvious technological advancement for a species." The Didact told the Gryphon.
"But what do you mean that you have seen weapons like these before" The Gryphon questioned skeptically. "As far as I know, our species is the only one to have this kind of weaponry."
"You probably would not even believe, your civilization may even consider them a myth, and I shouldn't be giving such information that could terrorize the planet." The Didact pointed out to the Gryphon while pulling out the clip from the pistol then tossing it with little force over the cliff.
The Gryphon wanted to pushed it, but he saw what he did to his teammates and he didn't want to end up like them.
"Now before you give me answers on the reason why the train was assaulted, I need your name so I don't have to keep calling you Gryphon." The Didact demanded out of him again.
"Well.. I'm Private Pierce..yeah" Pierce responded awkwardly.
"Alright, Pierce, why did your squad attack the train" The Didact questioned.
High up in the mountains, was two Gryphons watching the two talk. One Gryphon was looking through binoculars looking at them until he was interrupted.
"What are they doing" asked the rookie.
"What?" Answered the private.
"I said what are they doing now?" Repeated the rookie.
"Goddamn I getting so sick of answering that question!" The irritated private told the rookie.
"You have the fucking binoculars I can't see shit don't blame me cause I'm not going to just set up here and play with my dick"
"Ok look, there just standing there and talking ok, that's all there doing, that's all they ever do is just stand there and talk, that's what they were doing a few seconds ago, that's what they where doing when you asked me"
"Five minutes ago." The rookie added.
"So five minutes from now, when you ask me, 'what are they doing', my answers gona be, there still just talking and there still just standing there!" The private explained to the rookie stupid question.
The two just sat there for awhile in silence while the private awaited a answer.
"What are they talking about?" The rookie asked another ridiculous question.
The private just sat there staring blankly at him until he spoke up.
"You know what.. I fucking hate you."
"Yeah so are commander ordered us to take materials from the train." Pierce finished telling the Didact his reason why he attacked the train.
"Your reason seems, trustworthy. Now, I must deliver my message to your race." The Didact said with a tint of evil in his voice.
The Didact scanned the mountain they were on and found the Gryphon base about 200 meters up.
"We must find a pathway to your base, where is it?" The Didact demanded.
"I-it should be about thirty meters south." Pierce said with dread coming to his voice.
"Then let’s move."
The two started making their way towards the pathway
"What if he doesn't come back, what if he was lying just to get away from us, oh what have I done!" Twilight walked back and forth in a straight line while regretting her actions.
"Twilight, don't worry." Pinkie Pie said in her normal cheerful voice. "The Didact doesn't seem like that kind of pony that lies and why would he try to get away from us, he seemed pretty excited to meet the Princess, and besides why would he want to hang out with those big meanies." Pinkie pointed out, trying not to bring up the bloody scene that happened.
"...I guess you have a point, but what's his 'faster way of transportation' he has, what if it doesn't work and he gets lost out there!" Twilight responded, worried about her actions.
"Well he must have gone really fast if he was just disappearing like that!" Pinkie explained "But it looked like he was teleporting like you, Twilight, but he didn't have a horn, which is weird. But whatever he did, he could probably use that long distance teleport spell, Twilight."
Twilight thought about everything the Didact and the Forerunners could do, and there was still a lot more she didn't know about.
"*sigh*...Thanks, Pinkie."
"No problem, Twilight, that's what friends are for." Pinkie Pie said with a giggle.
"Well I got to make sure Fluttershy's ok, why don't you come with me. You've been like this ever since the Didact left, and everypony else is there." Pinkie Pie told Twilight.
"Sure Pinkie, and I have to say, I have been overreacting."
"Alright, lets go!" Pinkie said in her cheerful tone.
The two started to walk to where all their friends were, comforting Fluttershy from all the death.
"I just hope you make it in time." Twilight thought, while seeing the sun rising.
"Hey just asking." Pierce said exhausted from the uphill climb. "Why couldn't we just have teleported."
The Didact looked beside him to see Pierce awaiting a answer.
"The device needs to recharge, long distinct teleportation takes up more power in order to get you there safely, if not, the atoms that make up your body will spread out uncontrollably and kill you instantly." The Didact pointed out the disturbing truth.
"Wait what, these 'atoms' will spread out and kill you if you don't have enough power to teleport? How?" Pierce said confused.
"It would take too much time to explain Teleportation Technology. And I don't have that time." The Didact said not wanting to go in to the subject.
"Alright alright, just don't kil-"
"Be quiet!, we’re here." The Didact said in a hushed tone.
The Didact pecked over a hill of snow that was in front of them and saw Gryphons raiders everywhere around the encampment. The Forerunner took notice of a large tent that had two heavily armored Gryphons guarding it.
"What's your plan?" Pierce asked, worried for his comrades.
The Didact thought for a moment, thinking of what to do. Then he had a plan.
"Listen, you will go up there and distract them, then I will take them out, one by one." The Didact told Pierce. "And don't even think about attempting to save them, or else I'll kill you as well." The Didact threatened Pierce.
"Y-y-y-yeah, I still have many things to do in life." Pierce said, clearly frightened.
"A wise decision, now get up there and-"
"Look Tucker, it’s that pony, along with Pierce!" The Private from the cliffs returned to base and shouted so everyone could hear.
The Didact took immediate action and grabbed the Gryphon in his Constraint Field and tossed him off the mountain.
"FUCK YOU GUUuuuuuuuuuuuuys." The Private said his final words while falling to his death.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS TH-" A Gryphon was interrupted by a towering figure emerging up from a small snowy hill.
"Gryphons, foolish creatures." The Didact insulted their entire race.
The Didact deployed his Hard Light Sword with a flick of his hoof and started walking slowly towards them with ease.
"WELL WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, KILL HIM!" A Gryphon general screamed.
The raiders started charging towards the Didact along with some going airborne. The airborne Gryphons reached high enough and started flying back down towards the surface. The charging Gryphon reached the Didact and raised their weapons to attack, only for some of them to be cut in half like butter and the wooden surface then set on fire from the intense heat. The Didact then pushed them away with the force of gravity under his control. The airborne ones were approaching the Didact from the sky, and when they did, he disappeared.
"WHAT?" A airborne Gryphon yelled.
Just then the squad of airborne Gryphons touched down on the snowy ground, causing a very light shockwave to be made and the layer of snow to be removed completely in the impact zone. They only got two seconds before the Forerunner reappeared in threatening stance above them, but then lowered his Hard Light Sword, burning the snow underneath and around the sword to melt instantly.
"I will allow you a moment more to use your weapon, Gryphon." The Didact said calmly and with venom in his voice.
One of the Gryphons stood up with a smug look on his face. He then swung his sword at the Didact, but broke instantly when it connected with the Promethean’s armor.
"We are done here." The Didact said while raising his Hard Light Sword to finish the Gryphon.
The Gryphon tried to run, but was stopped by the Hard Light Sword entering his flesh and lifting him in the air. The Didact then placed the corpse on the ground and pulled the sword out of him. The Didact then look at the other Gryphons that crashed into the ground, some where dead and the others where either unconscious or dying. The others he pushed away where pushed into the mountain and were all dead from head injuries. The Didact turned back around to where he last saw Pierce, and he was just sitting there in complete shock and dread.
"Your leader, now." The Didact demanded
"H-h-h-he's in that..tent over there." Pierce said horrified and pointing his talon towards the tent the Didact thought he would be in.
The Didact walked quickly and intently towards the large tent while preparing his message. The Didact entered the tent with no effort, surprisingly, and he saw a Gryphon wearing headphones. When the Gryphon saw him, he took off his headphones.
"Well looky here." He said, in a southern accent. "A visitor, I'm Sarge, the leader of the fine encampme-"
"I do not care for the name of this encampment, all I care about is you leaving this remote area at once and return to your king with a warning I have!" The Didact shouted at Sarge.
"Hold it now, no need to yell and get violent." Sarge said while reaching for an empty table. "Wait, where's my shotgun."
The Didact grabbed Sarge by his throat and held him to his height.
"If you don't fulfill my wishes, I will end your species!" The Didact hissed his threat and not sure if he could summon his Prometheans here.
"Alright *cough* big fella *cough* just let me down." Sarge said worried for his safety.
The Didact released his grip on Sarge, sending him falling back into his chair. The Forerunner was preparing for him to run for it.
"Alright, I'll do what you say, but don't kill me."
"Listen here, Gryphon," The Didact said with a voice saying 'I'll kill you if I have to. You and Pierce are going to head to where your king is, then your going to tell him my message, my warning to your species. Gryphon, your species has committed serious crimes against the Mantle of Responsibility, by allowing a group of your species to assault a train with pony passengers aboard. Your species has been causing trouble and are a blight among this world for some time, do not allow this to happen again, and along with the other species of Equis. If you do not listen to my warning, your species will be punished. The Didact said with hatred and venom in his voice.
Sarge was writing on a piece of paper and writing down the words the Didact said.
"Aaaaaaaand done. So now I just got to get there." Sarge said in his normal southern accent.
"Excellent, now get moving!" The Didact shouted at Sarge.
"Right, right, just don't kill me."
When Sarge step out of the tent, he was greeted by a dead bodies littering the ground. Sarge turned to the Didact
"You did this." Sarge said, fearing if he said yes.
"Correct, I killed them without much of a fight." The Didact answered Sarge's question.
"Now you have me convinced of your power. I'll make sure to move twice as fast."
The Didact formed a small smirk under his helmet, thinking of the words he said.
"Pierce is waiting for you, don't keep him waiting, along with me." The Didact said in an irritated voice.
"Right right, I'll make sure this gets to the king." Sarge answered the Didact nervously.
"But, what I saw from your kind in the train, you can already consider your species doomed." The Didact told them while glaring at them through his helmet.
Sarge swallowed in fear of what he prefered, 'doomed'.
"Come on boy, we have a long trip ahead of us." Sarge said, facing Pierce.
"Right Sarge, lets move." Pierce responded to Sarge's request.
The two Gryphons made there way towards Gryphoania and prepared themselves for their long journey.
The Didact found himself alone in a base littered with dead bodies. The Didact checked his teleportation device's recharge rate, it was only at sixty percent. The Didact thought how long it would take for the device to recharge and allow him to make the jump from here to Canterlot.
"At least two hours, in this planet’s time." The Didact thought to himself, frustrated that it would take that long to recharge.
The Didact looked at the clock in Sarge's tent, it read 6:43 AM.
"8:43, the teleportation will be ready." The Didact thought to himself.
The Didact went over to a log that had been near a campfire, and he sat down.
Waiting.
Three days earlier
"Infinity, this is Sierra 117 of the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn, do you copy?" John said while putting his hands on a console that was supposed to contact Infinity and prevent them from entering the Gravity Well around Requiem, a Forerunner Shield World.
"Infinity, this is Sierra 117 of the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn do you copy?" A voice that sounded like the Chief's but squeakier came from the Forerunner device that was in front of him, as if mocking him.
The Spartan was confused by this phenomenon, but he couldn't stop now.
"Infinity, do you read!" The Master Chief said urgently while the Forerunner device was starting to lift from its original place.
The Spartan along with Covenant Elites and Prometheans, watched the Forerunner device rise farther into the Forerunner structure's ceiling. Then it stopped.
"Chief, Chief let go of the contacts!" Cortana told John from inside his helmet.
The Chief back up from the contacts, worried about something happening with the Forerunner device.
"Find us an exit." The Chief said urgently.
"Don't wait around on my account!" Cortana said with worry in her voice.
The device sounded as it was charging up for something. The Chief took off, running for a lege and vaulted over it just in time and took cover behind a Forerunner wall as the device let out a giant orange shock wave that knocked the Covenant Elites and the Prometheans off there feet.
The Chief waited a few seconds before looking over the wall and saw a figure on a platform emerging from the bottom of the device. After at least three seconds the platform stopped, revealing an unknown alien in a crouched position. The Chief then hid himself from sight.
The Didact had finally been awoken from his imprisonment by the Librarian that had been done 100,000 years ago. The Didact then pushed himself up from his crouched position and stood at the height of 11'4. The Didact currently didn't have his Combat Skin equipped. He began the process to equip the Combat Skin. Didact pulled his arms backwards and the pieces of armor morphed itself into place piece by piece, when the Didact began to feel the familiar feel of his armor, he pulled his arms back into their normal posture, while doing this he heard the satisfying click of his armor attaching to his back.
Didact then rolled his arms forward and heard the the pieces of Forerunner metal attaching to the back piece of his chest plate. Then, the full chest piece attached itself to the Didact’s front body, creating a set of body armor. The Didact then extended his right arm along with his fingers, and a whole piece armor for his arm and shoulder came flying from nowhere and attached itself to his arm, The Didact did the same with the other arm. The final result, a perfectly crafted Forerunner Combat Skin with some pieces of the armor defying gravity and sitting there in mid air.
The Didact looked down towards that platform he was standing on, and then lifted his head and spoke his first words in roughly 100,000 years.
"So fades the great harvest of my betrayal." The Didact said calmly, then turn around and wave his six fingered hand towards his Prometheans and a orange wave of energy went towards them.
The Prometheans turned from a peaceful blue, to a battle ready orange. The Elites stared in awake at the Didact, realizing that he is one of their gods. The Elites bowed before the Didact.
The Didact started making his way towards the Chief, already knowing where he is. The Didact stopped and spoke.
"Even this species can recognize what you are oblivious to, Human." The Didact said the last word with hatred.
The Chief stayed in cover, hoping for the best.
"Your nobility has blinded you..as ever." The Didact said while the wall the Chief was behind was disintegrating and at the last words the Didact said, it fully disintegrated, leaving the Chief vulnerable.
The Chief pulled up his Assault Rifle and pointed at the Didact preparing to shoot him, but was caught by surprise as the Didact grabbed him in his Constraining Field rendering the Chief completely helpless. The Didact pulled the Chief over to him while speaking.
"The Librarian left you to the chance, didn't she?" The Didact spoke as he raise John to his eye level. "Turning my own guardians." The Didact said while turn his head towards his Prometheans and the Elites. "My own world, against me." The Didact said while turning his attention back towards the Chief.
"But what hubris, to believe she could protect her pets from me forever."
The Didact moved his hand sideways, observing the Master Chief.
"If you haven't mastered even these primitives." The Didact said while looking at the Elites. The Didact looked back at the Chief only with his eyes and raising both his eyebrows, finally he came up with a answer. "Then man has not attained the Mantle."
"There ascendence, may yet be prevented." The Didact said, already thinking of a plan.
The Didact pulled the Chief a little closer to him and spoke.
"Time was your ally, Human." The Didact pointed out.
"But now it has abandoned you...The Forerunners, have returned." The Didact told the Chief while morphing on his helmet with a thought. The helmet formed around his head then blinked with Hard Light energy.
"This tomb...is now yours." The Didact then responded by throwing the Chief into the air and sending him flying towards to wall.
The Chief hit the wall with great force and then fell at least one meter before hitting a part of the wall then landed on the floor with a thud. After two seconds, John moved his arms and pushed himself up with a grunt of effort. The Chief pick up his Assault Rifle and looked up to see the Didact's device going farther up towards the ceiling.
"Slipspace rupture, Chief MOVE!" Cortana yelled.
John turned around as fast as he could and stared running towards a small drop off and hearing a Slipspace portal powering up. The Chief dove into the drop off right as the Slipspace portal opened, creating a blinding light. After that the Chief world went black.
The Didact remembered how he meant that Human, and the one who got him here in the first place. The Didact clutched his hoof in anger and spoke his thoughts out loud.
"When I get my hands on you Human, I'll make sure that this time, you'll be dead."