//------------------------------// // Regrouping // Story: Halo: Equestria // by shenadri //------------------------------// Refugee's campsite, two hours later Dark Scout and Burning Blaze were beyond tired, after the lieutenant had departed with their fellow soldiers, the duo ordered all the civilians to push foward and to try to make it at least near to the Foal Mountain's base, however, their scape route has come with some complications, namely Twisted Cog, an elder unicorn who was trying to delay the group. "And I am telling you, youngsters, that that mountain and the forest near it are cursed," the old stallion was half yelling, pointing his trembling hoof to the dark forest looming in the horizon, "those who enter there, they change... sometimes for the worse." "Please, elder Cog," Scout tried to calm down the panicked old pony again, "we are trying to help you guys, but come on! what is the worst thing that could happen?" As soon as those words leave the soldier's lips, one strange sound was heard, ears perking, all the equines could only roll out of the way of a strange thing that came barreling from the fields, the strange beast was roaring continously, the lights on the front of the beast too bright for them to see what was behind it, all the ponies cowered in fear, both soldiers up front, poining to the thing with their spears. "Sometimes I hate you sooo damn much, Scout," Bruning Blaze said in a monotone, squinting his eyes, "why you always open your big mouth?" "At ease, soldiers!" one voice said near the white luminous thing, "we are back with reinforcements" "LT Swift Wing?" Blaze asked aloud, from the white light, a silouete came out, then, the lights went out, all of the ponies now staring in awe, all the soldiers that went to explore the mysterious object were on top of the strange thing, now revealed as some sort of vehicle in four weels, however, two big bulky armored humanoid figures were helping to unload the little ponies on their strange machine, ignoring the astonished eyes of the survivors that were directed to them. "Well shucks, sugarcube," one of the armored golems said after a while, looking at the commanding officer, "this is a little uncomfortable for us, why are you lot looking at us like that?" "Cowgirl, don't bother the civvies and help me up unloading the remaining forces of LT Swift Wing platoon, will ya?" the other one answered, checking something in the vehicle, "then we need to go back to the crash site, I think that we left some grenades and sensitive material back there." "Yeah, yeah coming up, Warlock, don't get your tail in a twist" the first armored thing replied, then, doing a little finger salute to the equines, turned around and went back near the transport, all the equines looking between the soldiers and the huge humanoid things. "LT, sorry for being freezed in fear back there, but, with all due respect, What the hay are those things!" Blaze said, trembling and pointing her hoof to one of the behemoths, wich was lifting one medium size boulder to make more room for all the refugees for camping for the night, turning sharply, the old pegasus looked to his subordinate and smiling, he answered "Those two, soldier, are our new hope in this war." Earlier "WHAT?," Swift Wing yelled, taking all of his men by surprise, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT WE CANNOT TELL ALL OF THE OTHER'S IN THE CAMPSITE THAT YOU HAVE RETURNED!!" "Uncle," Twilight began, again pitching her nose with her fingers, "First of all, I am now a genetically modified, super fast and powerful anthro pony with enough stregth to crush a tree with my bare hands, not to mention that I am carrying a set of completely alien designed armor that further enhances those abilities, other than that, we just returned after being missing for 17 years, only to find our planet in a war that we do not know nothing about, and finally, I have done some negotiations with the ones that helped us to come back here, and those negociations need to be supervised by both princesses so we can get some help, because I promised my friend that she doesn't have to fight more." "I understand, Grape, but still this are big news, we aren't alone in the universe, we can..." the veteran soldier began, only for his muzzle to be trapped in a lavender colored field. "That, is another reason," Twilight said, dissipating the etheric muzzle from her uncle's face, "I need first to talk with Celestia and Luna, so we can be accepted, and furtermore, so we can help with this war." "OK, OK I get it!, i don't like it, but we will do as you command then, Twilight" her uncle finally conceded, giving her a sharp salute,"so, what are your commands now, princess? "First of all, I am here now with you in the same conditions, so please adress me as any other soldier, LT, and second of all, please use my callsign while we got to Canterlot." "Sure thing, Warlock, now, what is the game's plan, we have more or less two hundred ponies trying to get to the capital, and we have no support from our allies." Unknown by the stallion, Twilight was smirking under her helmet, after a little conversation with Applejack via radio, wich no pony besides the two modified spartans could undertand, she turned around and adressed the full contingent of soldiers "What do you guys think of doing a big entrance in Canterlot?"