Chapter 1 Tournament Day
I Have Returned
Chapter 1: Tournament day
The light glow of the moon basked over the small city of Canterlot, it was a cloudless night as per usual, but that's the way the goddess of the night, Princess Luna, liked it. She was sitting alone on her private balcony so she could raise the moon. Yet she didn't know how she raised the moon itself. Celestia always told her that she did it subconsciously, and that things such as the balcony and the summer sun festival were just for were just for show. That didn't stop her from wondering though, how does she do it, and why her? Celestia also told her that she created the moon, but she never had any memory of it, or any memories from when she was young. She talked to her sister about it the other day but she was just told that it's just part of her recovery from her time as nightmare moon.
But that's not all that she was thinking about. Tonight was a special night, and not in a good way. It was that night six years ago that she lost a dear friend of hers, Twilight Sparkle.
A year before that Princess Twilight Sparkle Had her crown stolen from her. The culprit escaped through a magic mirror that takes ponies to another dimension. Twilight was quick to go after the robber and returned unharmed with her crown, but while she may have returned, Twilights curiosity of other worlds always drew her back. She always wondered what was on the other side but she never dared going into another world. But one day, one very fateful day she couldn't hold herself back anymore, and she went through the Portal.
As if on cue Celestia walked out onto the platform to join her sister. "I know this is not a very happy night for my dear sister." Said the sun goddess.
"Humph, you can say that again." Luna replied in a sarcastic tone.
Princess Celestia sighed at her remark and opened her mouth to speak, but nothing came out because she knew that nothing that she could say would help her little sister. Twilight was more than just a student to Celestia and the same could be said about Luna, she became very close to Twilight because she was one of the first ponies to treat her like a normally and not just as royalty or some kind of boogey mare. Eventually Celestia stopped searching and said "If you need to talk I'll be in my room."
And with that Celestia silently trotted out of her sisters room letting the poor girl be alone in her thoughts. The day Twilight left something different was taken from everypony: some lost a student, some a mentor or leader, many lost a friend, but perhaps the worst was that all of Equestria lost a great defender. Without Twilight the elements of harmony were incomplete and wouldn't work until she returned, if she ever returned.
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August 28, 2558. Time 0700 hours. Location UNSC Infinity.
On route to Earth.
Commander Jane Arimondo, the woman who was once Twilight Sparkle slept silently in a peaceful bliss surrounded by the warmth of her bed in her personal quarters in the starship Infinity. The past six years hadn't been friendly to her. The sheer amount of death that she had seen while she had been here was substantial and could make anypony go crazy, she wondered how it didn't turn her insane as well but maybe she was already crazy and she wasn't exactly a pony anymore now was she?
It was only a month before she joined up in the UNSC to fight the Covenant. Due to her love of studying and her thirst for knowledge she learned fast and quickly became one of the U.N.S.C.'s most effective soldiers. Because of that she kept ranking up until ONI deemed her worthy of becoming a Spartan IV, and she was one hell of a Spartan. But war changes everyone and Jane was no exception, she was once a sweet an innocent librarian from Ponyville who was obsessed with the magic of friendship. Now she's a cunning and ruthless soldier, but she didn't care, this is her life now, this is who she is, and she isn't going to change that. Still though, aspects of her previous life still made it into her current one, like her love of learning and her strong will, and hell she even named her fireteam "Fireteam Twilight".
One of the perks of being a fireteam leader was having your own room aboard the ship and Jane always used it to her fullest advantage especially now after a ruthless battle on planet Carenal VI against Covenant forces. She couldn't get enough of the soft beads, the warm blankets, the….
"Commander?" She heard a surprise voice ask.
"Ah!" She screamed at the sudden surprise that awoke her. Upon instinct she would normally grab her magnum from under her pillow, but was relieved when she saw that it was only the former ships AI recently assigned to her, Roland.
She sighed at the AI and said in a tired, but annoyed tone "Uuugh What do you want Roland?"
"I came here to talk to you." He said in a caring voice.
Jane laid back into her bed and replied to her companion "So you woke me up to have small talk? Great, just great."
Roland changed his tone of voice to a sterner one. "No commander, you see ever since they paired me up with you I have been researching data up on you so we can work better together."
"Mmhmm."
"I am definitely impressed by the work that you have done ever since you joined the UNSC almost six years ago, but after that I couldn't find any data on you, it's like you never existed until then."
Realizing where Roland was going Jane knew she had to end the conversation or send it elsewhere. She couldn't let him pry into that, she gave up that life long ago, and she wasn't planning on going back. She put on her best fake smile and said "Oh well probably some sort of glitch, it's nothing to worry about. Oh and by the way, people don't like it when you look up stuff about them without letting them know."
"Duelly noted commander."
"You know I missed it when you were more laid back and funny, now you're all serious." She said after finally sitting up. She stretched her arms wide open and let out a tired yawn and looked around the pale room. The UNSC didn't allow much customization for rooms, the most you could put in it was photos of family and friends, and she didn't exactly have those anymore, would they even recognize her if she went back? No, but that didn't matter, that's not who she is anymore, this is her world now. The layout of the room was simple; it was a square room with one bed on one side next to the door and a desk with a computer. It was nothing special, but it worked, and that was all that mattered. "How much longer till we get to earth?"
"Approximately one day, fifteen hours, and 23 minutes."
"Well then why did you wake me now? We could have talked about this tomorrow?"
"Because commander, the war games ricochet finals are today."
"And?"
"Fireteam Crimson is currently in the finals. The game will start in thirty minutes. I thought that you would like to attend considering that Crimson is... your friend."
She flinched at the word friend. Is that what people saw her and Crimson as? She hadn't considered having friends in a long time; ever since she came to this world the concept had been dead to her but she didn't know why. Was it because she didn't miss her friends? Did she not want to let people into her life for fear of them getting hurt? Or maybe it's because she missed her old friends, perhaps more than she knew. No, that couldn't be. Her old friends would think of her as a monster, she didn't need them. "Alright then, let's go. Oh and Roland…"
"Yes commander?"
"From now on, try to be a little more casual."
Hearing this Roland finally put a smile on his face and said. "You got it commander."
"That's the Roland I know, now let's get going." Jane said as she hopped up off her bed and walked out of the room.
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UNSC Infinity Wargames bridge, 07:20 hours.
Spartans crowded into the war games room in anticipation for the tournament finals between Fireteam Magestic, and Fireteam Crimson. But it wasn't just Spartans there, there were marines ODST's and even some petty officers there to join in on the fun. Due to the constant battles the ship has been in over the past year, Captain Lasky arranged a 10 round tournament for fireteams to compete in to raise troop morale. The prize was that the winners would be all promoted to Spartan Rank one hundred and thirty, and gain access to new armor. Lasky himself was even there to hand out the award, alongside Commander Sarah Palmer. Jane's fireteam entered the tournament, but were knocked out in the second last round against Fireteam Crimson.
Out of the corner of her eye she saw Crimson himself probably eager to get into the simulation. He was wearing the usual Spartan jumpsuit that they would wear before putting on their armor, and was running his hand through his long brunette hair. She trudged through the crowds in an almost futile attempt to get to him. Finally she was face to face with who was according to Roland, her friend. She opened her mouth to say hello, but was interrupted by Crimson. "Oh god there you are, I've been looking for you."
She raised an eyebrow at this. "Really why?"
"Private Jessie is recovering from her wounds from the recent battle on Carenal VI. She was fine for most of the tournament, but the docs said that they found fragments of a needler spike in her leg during her recent medical exam, and have to surgically remove it."
"Wait, let me guess, you want me to fill in for her."
"Umm… ya."
"Is this even allowed?" Jane asked, always a stickler for the rules.
"Yes, I checked with the captain, he said it's fine as long as it's a one-time thing."
"That seems kind of strange, normally the captain would never agree to that." Questioned Jane.
"I don't know, I guess he's just trying to be nice to get morale up."
"Isn't that supposed to be the tournaments job?"
"Ya, but I think he's getting desperate at this point, you know how things have been lately."
"I know; the attacks are getting worse. I mean just look at how many attacks we've gotten in the last year: first Venara II, then they destroyed new colony on Reach, and now Carenal VI. We were finally starting to rebuild."
Crimson put his hand her shoulder in an attempt to confront her. "I know Jane, I know, but we need to put that out of our minds for at least for today, alright?"
"Ya sure." She said reluctantly.
"Good, now how about that match, are you in?"
For the first time that day a smirk ran across Jane's pale face, and replied. "Hell ya, let's do this."
"Alright then, let's go."
The two made their way over to the simulation capsules and entered their data into the computer, waiting till it was time to enter the system.
As she already knew the game type was going to be Ricochet, one of the new games that were recently added. The match would consist of two fire teams containing four spartans each, the objective was to take a ball at the middle of the map and either toss the ball into the enemies goal post for twenty points of run it in for fifty points. The first team to hit two hundred points wins.
At last Captain Lasky spoke over the crowd of spartans "Ladies and gentlemen, I know things have been hard lately but today is a day for you guys to enjoy yourselves. Now I know you all are excited for the finals of the Infinity tournament, and I am glad to say that we can finally get on with the match. For the red team we have Fireteam Castle, and for the blue team we have Fireteam Crimson. Sadly private Jessie for Fireteam Crimson is currently undergoing surgery, so from what I see commander Jane Arimondo will be filling in for her today. Spartans we would like you to now enter your simulation capsules so we can start the match.
That was all she needed to open the capsule and get into the game. She stepped into the pod, strapped herself in and a mechanical arm in the pod injected her with the serum in order for her to pass out so the capsule could put her into the system. With a hiss the door closed and she felt herself losing conscience and finally entered, the war games were about to begin.
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Not bad at all.
3442355 Spartan 4's were made out of regular soldiers, only spartan 2's and 3's used children. And I do have an editor. I'm always trying to improve my writing, and I will get better as time progresses, so thanks for the tips
3442355
Well. Nice constructive criticism.
you know what? I'm interested in seeing just where you will go with this story. The premise is interesting, the style is pretty good, and the fact that Twilight isn't ignorant of humanity's fight is a plus for me. Keep goin and stay golden^^
This is a good start, defiantly better than a couple other stories I've followed. I shall patiently wait for more.
3442355
Just thought I'd let you know, you have '3' twice in your list.
3445256 Same with your story. I'm really enjoying The Lost.
Nov 6 is coming up soon, so lets repopulate Halo 4!
Damn this is actually not bad.
I was impressed at the concept and am hoping to see Sunset Shimmer as well lol.
also if you need Spartans I'll give you the info on mine.
FINALLY!!!
A Halo fic that actually is good
Keep going
I'm just a little confused here. if Roland said she has no info about her what-so-ever, how did she get into the UNSC in the first place? and how did she get there, what happened to her and what did she do that she got a rank like that?
sure, its been 5 years but come on...
and you better have a good explanation on why they paired Roland with her. she seems like a good spartan, but no one in the higher ranks simply give AI's to spartan's.
still, I'll read this later. hope to see more soon.
Ace out
Great story and all but just one question, what ever happened to the Spartan IIs?
3448128 I don't know, I haven't read all the books.
3447233 That will all be explained in due time my friend.
3448391 What I ment was like are the Spartan IIs fighting with the Spartan IVs, are they on the Infinity, or are they fighting to save Halsey?
3448577 I have no idea of what's going on with the Spartan 2's. This story isn't going to act as a sequel to the events of spartan ops.
3448719 Ok lets just leave it at that.
AWESOME!
When is the next update!? can't wait for more.
3448821 A week or two.
3448953
hmmm......it's understandable (I guess). So I won't mind.
This seems very interesting and does have potential, but I do have to voice some concerns, especially after you yourself stated that you weren't that well versed in Halo lore. SOLUTION: Halo Wiki. It has pretty much everything Halo related you can find on the wiki.
As for the training sim there's a few things that don't sit right. First off are the sim pods. It is well known in the first book Contact Harvest that Sgt. Johnson uses TTR* rounds aka sim rounds that paralyze the recipient via a paint-like substance that gets deactivated by a device carried by the activity's organizer. Even in the live action series Forward Unto Dawn (as linked down at the bottom of this comment at a scene in which one trainee is shot by such a round) they also use TTR rounds. So therefore it wouldn't be so far fetched that they wouldn't do the same on the Infinity during the War Games simulations. Which moves me to the second part of this specific concern for lore:
There is an entire deck dedicated to the Spartans and their training called "S-Deck," also add in the fact that the ship is 6.5 kilometers long** (or roughly a little over 4 miles long) and most of the maps we've seen in the MP maps aren't that massive in comparison to the overall ship size would imply that the AI in charge (yes there's one separate from Roland as of Halo 4) of the War Games simulations has the authority to change the "battlefield" to any specifications given.
While I do give you an A for effort on the name change, I agree with >>pendrake72 's suggestion in which you try to keep some semblance of Twilight's former name. She could have gotten away with "Twilight" as her first name because look at some of the ridiculous names that we have in the world today, to any person looking at her paperwork they wouldn't have given a second glance at it, all that would be needed would be a "normal" sounding last name.
When all's said and done this looks interesting and I'll follow for now to see where this is going.
*TTR
**UNSC Infinity
3450910 I did consider the naming her in a way like what >>pendrake72 suggested, but I decided on Jane Arimondo for reasons that will come later on in the story.
This was actually pretty damn good, looking forward to the next chapter.
This is very good so far. Looking forward to more!
Update required.
Damn this is good.
Introducing badassery.
Insanity.
Glorified amazment.
MOAR!!!
Soon.
3517691 Update might be this weekend.
Dear Author
are you going to bring into the story ponyfied Covenant/Prometheans?
3523939 I'm not giving any details about the future of the story. I will say though that there wont be any ponified versions of the Covies or prometheans, but that doesn't mean that the actual ones will be gone from the story period.
3525144
good because that be messed up
is new chapter coming out today?
3528732 Well the Xbone just came out so Ive been pretty busy playing BF4 on it
. Chapter 2 might get finished tonight, then I just need to send it to my editor, once I get it back I'll upload it. To be honest I',m working on it right now as we speak.
UPDATE! Chap 2 is done, but my editor is currently on vacation in Mexico ( lucky bastard ) I will give it to him when he comes back. Sorry for the wait.
I am so exited for new chapter
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Kuledud3 approves
PLZ I NEED MOAR NOW
when is your editor back from Mexico?
(lucky bastard)
3693250 He's editing it right now.
3448391
Give em a read, they're worth it
3448391 Keep in mind that I'm not fully up to date either, but the only things that I noticed were the Reach colony( I believe glassing a planet makes it completely uninhabitable.) and Twilight/Jane being promoted to spartan IV( I know spartan II's were handpicked and trained from childhood to be the ultimate soldiers, but I'm not sure about spartan IV's). Other Than that this seems pretty lore friendly.
P.S. The spartan II's all died out, Master Chief was the last of them. Read the books though, they are pretty good.
4913281 Also, I said that I haven't read all of the books. I have read most of them.
4913281 no im pretty sure there were more
I think blue team is still up and kicking around halo 3 meaning there most likely still up and kick in around halo 4 plus there were muktiple spartan washouts that could be considered "spartans" and are still alive....
Don't quite me on any of this though because I'm not entirely sure
not getting hate from me. ^_^ love the idea! keep up the good work!
Oh god, what?
You have my attention!
Destroyed the new colony
3445313 nobody enjoys the lost. (the binding of Isaac reference)
And using ya as yeah
the only time I have heard ya is when it's coming from a ditsy valley girl saying "ya totally"
Technically, all Spartans are petty officers. For example, Master Chief’s Rank is Master Chief Petty Officer.
4913281
There are more Spartan II's all but one of the Spartans from The Pillar of autumn Died on Reach his name John there were others but they already got off planet before the glassing well the rest were stationed off planet at other places