A Soldier 'Till The End
"We still do not trust it, 'Tia." Princess Luna said coldly as she trotted down the castle hall alongside her elder sister.
"Your concerns have been noted, Luna, but I feel as if it does not truly trust us, either. It knows we mean it no harm, but it still does not trust us." Princess Celestia replied, the last sentence mostly to herself.
As the two ruling sisters continued to trot through the castle in silence, each had their own worries and fears.
What strange feats was this beast capable of, moving so quickly in such a short amount of time?
What foul sorcery did it use when it rejected their magic, flaring itself golden for a moment and shocking the user?
Princess Celestia and Princess Luna shook their heads clear of any horrendous thoughts as they reached the end of their walk, stopping in front of a rather normal looking door before Celestia pushed it open and stepped through with Luna following closely behind.
The room they entered was anything but ordinary, what with Twilight having declared most of the floor space for her stacks of papers, inkwells, quills and books, Shining Armor was left sitting in a corner; watching the alien with an almost threatening glare.
Twilight, on the other hand, was as close to the creature as one could possibly be- breaking a few personal space rules in the process, but the alien didn't seem to be too upset by that.
"Good morning, Twilight. I feel foalish for asking, but have you even slept?" Celestia asked, carefully picking her way through a mess that would make Discord proud.
"Sleep? How could you suggest such a thing when there's an alien in the castle! An alien, princess! From another world! A world filled with more of them, and a society, and a history, and technology!" Twilight exclaimed excitedly.
Luna giggled a bit at the outburst, while Celestia simply smiled. "And what have you managed to find out about our friend, here?"
With that question, Twilight's excitement faded and was replace with a sad sigh. "Nothing... It doesn't seem to understand, or want to understand, any of my questions- verbal or physical."
"Physical questions?" Luna perked up, curiously.
"Well, I got the idea that it had no idea what we were saying, like a language barrier, so I started playing a game of charades. The alien didn't seem to understand any of them, though..." Twilight replied sadly.
"With all due respect, your majesties, Twilight never was good at charades." Shining Armor spoke up with a smile, causing Twilight to stick her tongue out childishly at her older brother.
Both Celestia and Luna shared a knowing, playful look before Celestia cleared her throat. "It's alright, Twilight. Progress cannot always be made in the first day. Would the two of you please step outside for a few moments? Luna and I would like to try something."
Giving a quick salute, Shining Armor began carefully picking his way through the mess and towards the door, while Twilight traversed the obstacle in one bound, thanks to her wings.
When the pair had left, Luna closed the door quietly and rejoined her sister in front of the alien- whose mask seemed like a mirror, reflecting the flames of the lanterns that hung from the ceiling.
In silence, both Celestia and Luna pulled off their crowns and set them in front of the sitting alien.
"Prehn-ses." Celestia said softly, pointing at her crown, and then to herself, as Luna did the same.
"Seh-les-tee-uh." Celestia continued quietly, saying her name slowly and carefully before Luna did her own.
When the creature did not respond, Princess Luna spoke up; producing a parchment with an old drawing of the moon on it and nudging it over to the alien. "Moon."
The creature took slight interest in this, looking down at drawing while leaning forward a bit.
"Sun." Celestia said as she added her own drawing alongside it.
The creature seemed fascinated with the drawings, now sitting on it's knees and feet as it held a drawing in both hand.
They had made a breakthrough.
Noble Six was getting bored of all of this.
First, it was the purple horse saying random, unknown things for a moment or two before staring at her with a creepy look, then hurriedly writing something which Six had no idea how to decipher, while the white unicorn gave her a look of death from the corner.
And now these two winged-unicorns were telling her that they were queens, or some other type of royalty.
I knew that by your fucking crowns, the first time I saw you. Six thought frustratedly.
When she gave no response, the dark blue horse pulled out a piece of worn paper from behind it, pushing it towards Six.
It was a faded drawing of a moon, complete with a few craters and several stars behind it.
"Mun." the blue horse said slowly, letting Six take it in.
Moon... Six thought slowly, sitting up a bit more to get a better view of the picture.
"Soone." the white horse added, pushing another drawing towards the Spartan. This one was a simple yellow circle over a light-blue background.
Sun. Six thought. The two most important celestial bodies that a planet needs.
Turning her gaze up towards the winged-unicorns, whose eyes filled with hope and anticipation, Noble Six slowly repeated what she had learned through her helmet; pointing at the dark blue horse first, and then the white.
"Moon. Sun."
"Did... Did it understand us, sister?" Luna whispered quietly to Celestia, who was on the verge of engulfing the alien in hugs. "It sounded nothing like what we said- all guttural and... Wrong."
"We must believe it understands, Luna. It may have different words for them in its own language, but it clearly understands what a sun and a moon are." Celestia replied with a smile. "Let us try something different, now."
Princess Luna nodded curtly to her sister, who reached behind herself to produce the strange black object that had been found with the creature; holding it in front of her own chest but not offering it to the alien.
Celestia gave a confused look while play-inspecting the object, ending the charade with a shrug before setting the object down next to her.
Luna made a mental note of how to creature tracked the object's every movement, rather than her sisters.
When the charade was complete, and the being sat staring at Celestia silently, Luna cleared her throat to catch it's attention before motioning towards a freshly inked quill and a sheet of paper.
She's going to blow her fucking head off. Noble Six thought idly as she watched the white queen twirl her weapon around as if it were a toy.
Six briefly wondered why she even opted to stay with these horses, before she remembered that she was lost in an unknown world with no idea what was safe to eat, what would kill her, or where to even go.
Giving a silent sigh and simply wishing to have her weapon back, the Spartan caught herself following her DMR's descent as the white queen set it beside her.
A cough caught her attention, and Noble Six eyed the blue queen suspiciously before she followed her hoof down, where it ended at a writing utensil and a sheet of paper.
They want me to draw it? No... They want me to draw what it does. Six realized as she grabbed the quill and moved the paper closely.
The Spartan stared silently at the paper for a moment or two, remember engagement after engagement with Insurrectionists and Covenant alike.
She remembered the recoil of her sniper rifle slamming into her shoulder, the satisfying ping of ejecting a spent shell casing, the smirk on her lips as a target went down...
She remembered the pop of a pistol, the chuck of a shotgun.
Weapons were her nature.
Stealth was her specialty.
War was her life.
And oh, how she missed it...
"Be patient, Luna. It's rude to peer over ones shoulder." Celestia said calmly as the creature before them began carefully etching a figure onto the paper.
Luna hadn't been able to help herself, being fascinated with the creature's understanding and hoping to steal glances at what it was drawing. Unfortunately, she had been caught by her eldest sister, once again, and 'educated' on the 'proper' thing to do.
Giving a little childish sigh at being told to be patient, Luna sat back on her haunches and waited.
And waited.
And waited.
When she snapped back into reality from her own imagination, Luna saw the creature put the quill down and stare at its work silently before Celestia cautiously dragged it away with the tip of her hoof.
As Celestia and Luna scrunched up together to see what the strange device could do, they found themselves staring at a masterpiece of horror.
The creature had been able to drawn an entire war with the quill, showing what Celestia could only believe to be itself with it's side to the viewer while it held the strange object in its hands.
Small little cylinders flew out from the end of the object like a spell from a unicorns horn, with great emphasis on speed based on the long lines from the end of the object to the small, thick cylinder.
Several bodies lay around the creature; some looking like it, while others appeared more gruesome and terrifying.
There were tall, bipedal beings that looked like their mouths had been blown open from the inside, along with several smaller, pony-sized creatures who had strange contraptions leading from their mouths to their backs.
Hideous creatures, and an appalling scene. Celestia thought grimly as her gaze returned to the alien; her own face reflected in its mask.
There was no question about it.
That object was a weapon, capable of killing hundreds.
And the being it belonged to was a soldier, capable of killing thousands.
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2621966 I'm at the mercy of the story when it comes to chapter length. Sometimes I just get a really good cliffhanger that I can't help but tackle, and for that I'm sorry.
I can, however, do my best to work on making the paragraphs bigger. Thanks for the tip!
yes omg this chapter was epic ... how are u gonna get over the language barrier? oh and first!!!!
2622058 I think it'll stay as a game of charades, actually.
To bad Dot didn't come with her. An AI would be extremely useful right about now.
2622109 Auntie Dot was never actually with any member of Noble Team. She was somewhere unknown, keeping contact with Noble Team through their radios and tracking them through satellites.
2622135 Which is why its sad that she couldn't come with. I mean you just transported a SPARTAN to another world via point blank Slipspace drive detonation, Dot coming with her wouldn't be that much of a stretch. Besides the armor Six is using couldn't hold her anyways. Didn't have the system to hold her that Chief's had.
2621716 I mainly meant for the ponies. I haven't played or looked into the Halo series enough to determine the personality of any of those characters, but if they all act as I've seen them written so far they could stand a little artistic license, I feel.
For this story you can suggest she was disoriented and acted in a more guarded fashion than normal, then have her try to be more social once she's gotten over her initial apprehension.
2622164 It would be quite a bit of a stretch, since Auntie Dot is actually anchored down somewhere.
It's kind of like just being on the phone with another person right before you activate the drive, and then having that person pulled through their phone and the rupture to be with you.
2622174 Slipspace drive to the face. And you think pulling an electronic data stream along is bit to much?
But before we get any further let me state one more time that even if she had come along Six would have no way to use her because the armor is wrong.
So really this whole argument is pointless.
2622196 Yeah, just two Halo fanboys arguing xD
But it's really not that too far-fetched, since the slip-space drive is meant to collapse the distance in space from point A to point B. It did what it was supposed to do.
2622217 Yes it makes travel shorter, however it is not instantaneous. A human frigate can travel only a few lightyears in one twenty four hour period in slipspace. A Covenant cruiser on the other hand gets something like a couple HUNDRED light years in the same time frame. A Forerunner keyship gets a thousand light years in that time, but they're asshats and so don't count.
So when it closed on her the best thing that could have happened is that she died from the explosion. The worst is that she is stuck in Slipspace and slowly asphyxiating.
2622272 Oh. I had no idea there was a time frame for slip-space travel. o-o
2622279 I have way to much free time on my hands.
Also That's why in the Spartan Ops Epilogue, The Infinity was able to make the jump so fast. It not only had Forerunner engines but the Slipspace abilities of Forerunner vessels. ONI has been very busy little people. Then they shot their foremost forerunner expert in the arm while simultaneously shooting themselves in the foot.
2622302 Hooray for Halsey!
Well, this is very interesting. I like how you are working with a real language barrier here, and I am especially liking how you managed to convey culture shock.despite that. This should make things very interesting in the future because Six is once again armed and the ponies have no way of knowing about the ammo restrictions (although this is a Spartan so silly things like no ammo are more of an inconvenience than anything else) so they will have to be very careful around her.
2622461 I thought you were going to bed? But thanks for the compliment
2622466 Well, I'm glad you had a chance to read the story, and I'm glad you liked it so far! Good night!
2621045 KIA stands for Killed In Action.
glad to see an update so soon
Aaaaand featured.
Seriously how does the feature box work?
Also the first person to say "magic" is going to get a strongly worded response.
2622954 Science, then.
2621655
What did you write? I like the way you're thinking. But where does the bitchy tone come from?
2622954
It's explained in the Principia Discordia.
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Hail to that! Now, if you want me to clean up the punctuation of this, just speak me up.
It's always bugged me when the ponies magically speak English in crossovers. I absolutely love the language barrier. I can see some miscommunications that could lead to some very good or bad things.
and when it comes to the chapter length, just follow what my high school English teacher called "The miniskirt rule" : Short enough to grab attention, but long enough to cover the details. Which so far, you seem to be doing a pretty good job. Keep up the great work.
also last thing not really related to this story, (kinda is i guess), with Six setting off the bomb, what happens in the Halo universe?
I like what you have going here so far. Kepp up the good work!
Wait, you created this Foxi?!!?
2623218
about half a ton
Is this related to "MIA"?
It certainly sounds so.
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A follow and a thumbs-up from me!
me gusta......
Lol
Ah yes, I was wondering when The War would pop up.
Quite refreshing to find a story of this nature where one party isn't going "You speak English/Equis/whatever-the-spoken-language-is-called?
"
...MOAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2622954 maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain favorite ratio.
I like the description & the cover art the best!
I just have one question. Have you read MIA, which is also on this site?
Now, now, your majesties, don't be squeamish. I'm sure that, in your time, you have killed more people than even Noble Six could imagine - after all, Equestria wasn't always a paradise and the price of Harmony is a high one indeed!
So Noble Six is a soldier with a soldier's mind; what does this mean? You thus know more about her than you did before: You know what her fears will be and what her training will likely be teaching her to think and do. You will know what to avoid doing to prevent violence and, most importantly, you have made the first important steps to communication.
I love MIA but this isn't as good but still great, although you make it sound like noble six isn't very smart, so please make her talk we have only read her talk twice and she talks more than twice in the game. also if you can, can we see what she looks like or is it the stock armor? Agian it isn't as good as MIA but still better than me.
This is literally a copy of MIA, blatant and just changed one letter in the title
1/10 for originality, only scored 1 because you typed words.
2624117 Thank you for reading what I already wrote, in regards to that.
2623036 The Halo universe continues on as normal, With Jorge taking over the MAC gun and Emile making a last stand.
2623172 I said, in the first chapter, that this story was kind of ripped from MIA with the author's permission.
2623967 I'm not planning to go into detail on Six's armor, only to allow the reader (if they've played Reach) to be able to interject their own Noble Six.
As for Noble Six speaking, it'll be kept at a minimum because, despite her being apparently social during the game, her background (as a lone wolf-assassin type of Spartan) just doesn't add up with that, for me, so she'll remain pretty antisocial.
Overall, I love it!
Congrats on the feature!
2624239 Glad you like it, and thanks!
2622480
ok if a spartan can DRAW a battle field why not make that a reality as six said or something
war is my life
stealth is my skill
weapons are my nature
up-top six! brohoof it right here! /)(\
Definitely a unique story! Lots of creativity had to go into this!
2624279 Why would she say it if the ponies wouldn't understand it?
2623852
I certainly have. Piece of shit if you ask me. More plot holes than a god-damned Twilight movie. Jesus, and the author is such a pretentious douche.