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// Not a Chapter, "How it all began." 
// Story: Walking the plains of Equestria... As a Spartan? 
// by Brother Uriel 
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You know the one good thing about sleep? It blocks out a lot of crap you don't wanna listen to.  And where I sleep... There's plenty of noise.

I sleep in a room with my two younger siblings, both are boys so obviously, they need to wake up at the butt crack of dawn, and wake up the whole house with the tv blaring and they're stupid arguments.

But when you work at your dads work, which is pretty much a huge work place, and the work your told to do, is to clip the bushs, which are the fire thorn ones, and pick up the twigs and place them in a trash bin and take it to a pickup truck and dump it in the back, and to yank out weeds near ponds, and in the cracks in concrete... Did I mention it's in the blazing heat of the summer sun? Yeah, it sucks! But, I get paid quite a bit for doing it all... So... Kinda worth it.

But when you do all that for a whole day, and you go home to bed... Sleep comes easy... And you become hard to wake up.

But, I needed to get up, or that's what my alarm clock is telling me, by beeping like crazy, to the point that I wanted to burn it... In the flames of the Warp.. Don't worry about it unless you're a Warhammer 40k person, then please do worry... Cause that may mean I am turning to Chaos... And that's bad.

I lift my head to the infernal clock, and I slam my hand on the top of it to shut it off.  I lift myself out of bed, and look back at it.

Oh, yeah, now my cats giving me the, "You're a dick face." Cause I woke him up, hey, he's on my bed, so it's his fault, not mine.
I yawn and walk to go get dressed.

-Two hours later-

So, I bet you're all wondering, "Hey, what do you have planned for today?" Well, I'm going to a con.  My friend was able to convince his parents to take me, and my parents said it was fine... That was three months ago, and in that time, I had a lot of ideas of what to go as.  My first was to go simple, so I thought, Hey I could go as Scout from TF2, I looked the part, and I was pretty fast too, then I thought it may have been done a bit too much.  Then I thought, hey, why not my Chosen Undead character from Dark Souls? Then I thought of the armor and weapons... Which all of it was Silver Knight armor, a Silver Knight shield, and a Black Knights sword, I was immensely lucky to get that sword on my first Black Knight, don't ask how, it just happened.  Then I ruled that out, I thought of my Fallout Three character, then, ruled that out.  My friend and me had another friend who was great at making costumes, and me and my original friend helped make them, and in the end, I chose to go as a Spartan Pathfinder, and my friend went as the Tenth Doctor from Doctor Who.  Kinda sounds like a bad joke when you think about it, the Tenth Doctor and a Spartan walk into a bar... Heh, kinda funny I guess.

So, I get ready to head out as my friend comes to pick me up, so after an hour of preparing and then waiting, his parents van parks out front, I get up and walk outside, I walk up to it and the door opens, I jump in, and we're off.

-two more hours later-

So, after all that, we finally make it, I see people walking around dressed up in some grade A badass gear, I can't really name too many, most are from games I never played, and some are anima characters, to which the only full anima I watched was Full Metal Alchemist.  I see a few TF2 people walking around, I see a blue spy walking with a few people dressed as characters from Naruto wearing a mask that had the face of Naruto on it, clever, and hilarious.  My friend had immediately broken off without a word, to which, it is only me.  So I start to wander around, looking at different venders, I see a few choice looking ones, I turn to see a My Little Pony stand with a few guys looking at comics, and a few others looking at plushies, I continue on my way.

That's when I saw the Resident Evil 4 merchant, now, you see, I never played Resident Evil, none of them, but I watched the game grumps play a bit of it, and if I remember correctly, they shot him to see what would happen, and it turns out he came back to life and scared the shit out of them... Hilarious to the fullest!

So, seeing him, I walk up to him to look at his wares.

"Ah, a true warrior I see?"

I look up at him as he said that, he has his eyes locked on me, a bit creepy, but, hey, no one knows if I'm looking or not, best part about a visor, no one knows if you're looking or not.

"Eh, wish that was true, but I'm just a normal guy, nothing special."

"Ah, true, true, but, if you had an A.I. wouldn't that make it easier for you to be better?" He cocks his head at me, waiting for my answer.

Clever sir, oh so clever.  "Yeah, an A.I. would make targeting my enemies so much easier." I say jokingly.  I turn my head to look over at another stand, and when I look back, he has a metal case in his hands.

"Then maybe this would help?" He offers for me to take it, to which I do, I unclip the clasps, and pop it open, I look to see a glowing A.I. chip, it looked just like Cortanas, same color too.

I whistle at it, some fine detail, and it looks like actual metal, whoever made it is a damn good artist.

"How much for it?" I ask, looking back up at him.

I could tell he was grinning under his mask.  "For you... Twenty Dollars."

Damn... Cheap... Seems too cheap...
"It can't be that cheap, what's the matter with it? Is it defective or something?"

He shakes his head "No no, nothing like that, it's something that's been taking up a bit of room and no one seems to want it, so, for you, twenty dollars."

Hm... Seems a bit suspicious... But, hey, it's cheap, and looks well made, so, why the hell not?

"Alright, sounds fair."  I open pouch with my wallet in it, and pull it out, I fish out twenty dollars and pass him the money.
"There you go, twenty dollars."

I can tell he's smiling again "Thank you, enjoy the A.I."

"Thanks, I'll make sure I do." As I say that, I pick up the case, only for everything to go black, then the Rainbows start, and, the single thought I had, was "Aw shit..."