There Will be Another Time...
Princess Twilight Sparkle watched as the unknown creature rose from inside the object. It stood on two legs, was at least seven feet tall, and wore strange armor. It had no helmet, and on its face was a dumbfounded expression.
Everypony was in too much shock to do anything but watch. The Royal Guard was trying their best to not completely freak out. The creature seemed to be looking around, surveying its surroundings. Then, the creature did something nopony expected.
“Where am I?!”
Everypony nearby was astonished to hear it speak in Equestrian, but were still too shocked to do anything about it. The Royal Guard, put on edge by this new development, pointed their deadly silver spears directly at the creature.
The creature suddenly looked very alarmed, and out of nowhere a blue sword of light popped into its paw, or claw, nopony was sure. The sword was at least two feet long. When it did this, everypony, including the Guard, stepped back.
"Where am I?!" The creature asked again, much more aggressively than before.
Again, nopony was able to answer. A few seconds later, the creature took a step forward, towards the Royal Guard. Then, Shining Armor did something exceedingly stupid. He shot at the creature with a magic blast from his horn.
The creature evaded the blast with relative ease. Now it charged at Shining Armor, covering ground faster than a cheetah, and aimed its sword of light to pierce him. Before the creature could harm her brother, Twilight shot a magic blast from her horn at the creature. It hit it right on the side, and it was unconscious in a second.
After this, everypony stood in stunned silence. Nopony knew what to do at this point. Princess Celestia tried to assess the situation. An unknown creature had just landed in Canterlot. It was armed and dangerous and tried to impale Shining Armor. Now Celestia was stuck figuring out how to deal with the situation. Then she had an idea.
Celestia quickly trotted over to Shining Armor, who was also standing dumbfounded. Quietly, she whispered into his ear,
“Lock down the castle, I want nopony coming in until further notice. Give me a few minutes, but when I get into the castle I will perform a mind wipe spell over all of Canterlot.”
Captain Armor nodded his head, and said to his Guards,
“Lock down the castle, nopony gets in besides those who the Princess lets in.”
"Yes, sir!” the guards bellowed and proceeded to do as Captain Armor ordered.
After this, Celestia picked up the strange creature with her magic, finding it quite heavy and moved towards her castle. Already many of the startled civilian ponies were following her, hoping to seek some kind of refuge from the monster that had just attacked. The Royal Guard had already seen this coming, and assembled into a row, blocking the civilians from the castle.
Twilight and her friends were blocked as well, and even they were complaining about it. Celestia knew she would probably need their help with the current situation, so she said to her guards,
“Let Twilight and her friends in.” The Guards immediately opened a hole in their formation, and let them pass.
Now they caught up with Celestia, who was stepping into her castle. They continued to follow her, unable to say anything. Vaguely, they heard voices outside the castle, they sounded like arguing. Twilight rationed that the newspaper, and all the other random media ponies, were trying to get through.
“Princess, how do you expect to handle this situation?” Twilight asked as they walked up a flight of stairs.
“Once I get up to my room, I’ll go onto my balcony and perform a mind wipe spell over the entire city. After that, we’ll figure out what to do from there.”
Twilight and her friends nodded their heads. It seemed like a good plan. It also was their only plan.
Noble Six found himself inside a Pelican, a UNSC air transport vehicle designed to transport troops and cargo to combat zones unscathed. He was standing next to Emile, whom was currently shooting his grenade launcher at some Banshees that were following them.
“Noble leader, seek immediate medical attention.”
Auntie Dot, the AI that was given to Noble Team, was becoming exceedingly worried about Noble 1. Carter was currently piloting the Pelican. The Pelican itself was badly damaged from the barrage of plasma fire coming from the Covenant Banshees.
“Noble leader, please respond.”
Auntie Dot requested again. Carter was too busy piloting the Pelican to say anything. He also was in too much pain to do anything else. Emile, still shooting with the grenade launcher, managed to hit one purple armored Banshee, which in turn crashed into another in a blaze of blue fire. Noble Six was moving towards the front of the Pelican, to see if Carter was still alive.
“Noble leader, please respond. You are alarming me.” Auntie Dot requested again, even more anxious then before.
“Not sure how long this bird’s gonna last. Her engines are done anyway. You have to get of her, Lieutenant.” Carter said to Noble Six, who was standing behind his seat.
“Get the Package to the Autumn.” Carter finished, his voice raspy and forced.
“Done” Noble Six responded.
“Not yet it’s not. Emile, go with him, it’s a ground game now.” Carter said to Emile, who was standing at the back of the Pelican, waiting for any more Covenant to get close enough to blast them to the stars.
“It’s been an honor, sir.” Emile said to Carter, knowing that this was his final day on Reach.
“Likewise.”
Noble Six now turned towards the other end of the Pelican, but as he walked away, Carter said,
“Six…that AI chose you. She made the right choice.”
Noble Six was now standing at the back of the Pelican with Emile, ready to jump out to the land bellow.
“On my mark,” Carter lifted two of his fingers.
“Mark!” Carter closed his fist.
At this moment, both Emile and Noble Six jumped out of the Pelican, hurling towards the earth. A few seconds later, they crashed into a cliff and slid down it, ending up on the ground. As Noble Six got up, he looked at the Package, and put it on his back. A few seconds later, Carter was standing in front of him, his once shining blue armor broken and burned from the explosion that would occur in the near future.
“As your leader, it was my job to ensure the operation’s success, no matter what the cost. It’s your turn to be the leader.”
Noble Six tried to tell Carter that he could be leader, that he would carry on the cause that Noble Team fought for. But he suddenly lost his strength and collapsed, unconscious in seconds.
He slowly opened his eyes, exhausted from the scene that had just transpired. He didn’t want to get up. For once, he didn’t want to act. He felt like he couldn’t do anything. But a small part of him, his Spartan training, urged him to push on. Noble Six looked around the room he had found himself in.
The room itself was quite large and seemed to be made out of some kind stone. The walls were adorned with pictures and bookshelves, with dressers and tables around the floor. What surprised Noble Six the most were the creatures that were in it.
There were seven creatures in total. All of them were horse like in nature, vibrantly colored, and seemingly unarmed. All of them had their backs toward Noble Six and were facing the largest one in the group, who was currently on a balcony of some kind nearby.
“So you’re sure this will work, Celestia? A mind wipe spell at this magnitude hasn’t been preformed since Starswirl the Bearded accidentally summoned the MegaBear of the North to Canterlot and tried to cover it up.”
A purple horse-creature asked. Noble Six was stunned to hear it speak in English. He was even more confused by what it just said.
“I’m sure of my capabilities, Twilight, and if I need help I always have you.” A much larger, seemingly regal creature responded.
“By the way, my room alone is built with a rare type of stone that resists all magic. You’re all safe from the mind wipe spell in
here.” It finished.
Then, the purple one said, “Why did you put the creature in here again?”
The big one looked down at the purple one, and said in a slightly impatient tone, “Because I don’t want anypony else to see it.” The purple one nodded its head slowly.
Then, the larger horse-creature said to her…or himself, “I’d better remove the wreckage before I do anything.”
Then, its horn lit up with a fierce golden light, reminding Noble Six that he had no idea what was going on. After a few seconds, the light died away.
“I teleported the wreckage to a secret location. Now to perform the mind wipe spell.”
Then, its horn glowed again, and it continued doing so until he could see little sparks popping of it.
All of the creatures were distracted. Noble Six saw his chance.
Slowly, Noble Six rose from the bed, and onto the floor. He made no noise as he did so. Then, he stealthily made his way to the door of the room, a large wooden one, making no sound. It took him agonizing seconds to get there; but Noble Six knew from years of training that it was better to be, “patient rather than pwnd” as the old saying went.
Once there, he opened the door a slowly as possible. Fortunately, it made no sound as it swung open. When it did, however, Noble Six was startled to see another creature standing on the other side of it.
“Auntie, what is going…?”
The creature was never able to finish its sentence. Before it could speak further, Noble Six grabbed by the neck, and was about to snap it before the creature could give away his position. Before he could do so however, the seven other creatures behind him had turned to see what was going on.
“Princess Celestia!” The purple horse-thing cried, “The thing is awake!”
The big one immediately stopped whatever it was doing and turned around. It was poised to strike in an instant.
Noble Six thought the creatures were going to shoot him, but that’s when he had an idea.
“One move and I snap this thing’s neck.” Noble Six said as he tightened his grip on whatever he was holding.
All of the creatures froze in place. A few seconds later, one of the creatures, a yellow one with a pink mane, said, “Please don’t…”
Noble Six thought about this for a second.
“Answer my questions, and I let this thing go.” Noble Six said. “Don’t, and it dies.”
All of the creatures looked at each other nervously. Then, the large one said,
“Fine, but you must promise to let him go.” Noble Six thought about it for a second, and then said,
“Done.”
“First question, where am I?” Noble Six asked calmly. He no longer thought that these creatures would pose a threat as long as he held this one captive.
“You are in Equestria, Canterlot to be precise.” The purple one said, trying to answer as politely as possible.Noble Six thought about this for a moment, and then said,
“Never heard of it. Next question. What are you?” The creatures looked at each other, rather taken aback, and then an orange one said,
“Uh…we’re ponies, of course. What did you think we were?”
Noble Six chuckled in spite of his current situation. He mentally slapped himself in the face for breaking UNSC conduct. A few seconds later, the yellow pony asked, trembling,
“Please put Prince Blueblood down now, you made a deal.”
Noble Six wasn’t known to back down on his word. He put the terrified, well groomed creature down. The moment he did so, the creature known by the locals as Prince Blueblood ran out the door faster than a Mongoose on steroids, screaming,
“A monster, run!”
All of the creatures, Noble Six saw, realized their mistake. Noble Six knew that he himself was probably a secret, for obvious reasons.
“Hurry, get Prince Blueblood!” The big one yelled, more forcefully then Noble Six had seen it speak yet. Immediately, all of the creatures ironically called ponies ran out the door. Before the large one did, it turned, and shot a golden blast at Noble Six from its horn. Noble Six was caught off guard, and was not able to evade. A moment later, Noble Six felt the blast hit his chest, and he was knocked to the ground.
Noble Six’s vision was fuzzy as he watched the big one sprint out the door. But this time, he was determined not to black out. A few seconds later, his vision cleared. Then, using a nearby table for support, he pulled himself up. The blast hurt terribly, though his shields took most of the impact, it felt like he had just gotten punched by an Elite. Noble Six was trained to take harder hits.
Ignoring the searing pain in his chest, Noble Six walked out of the wooden door of the room. He found himself looking down a stone spiral staircase, descending into the unknown. He quickly then started running down the staircase, moving towards whatever lay for him on the bottom.
A few seconds later, he reached the end of the staircase. He found himself staring into a large hallway. It was made out of the same kind of stone the staircase was. It was brightly lit with lamps and chandeliers that hung from the ceiling. There were strange stone statues that stood on either side of the hallway, standing at regular intervals.
But there was a problem. Two armed pony guards were running towards Noble Six, their spears raised to impale him. A few seconds later, they called out to Noble Six, saying,
“Creature, stand down or be destroyed!” Noble Six wasn’t known for standing down.
Noble Six continued to stand, fists raised, ready to fight. He had no weapons, but then again, he knew his fists were the ultimate weapon A few seconds later, the guards charged at Noble Six with their spears raised in some form of levitation. When the first guard was right next to Noble Six, Noble Six dodged the guard, and it crashed into the staircase behind him. Then, the other guard saw his mistake, and slowed down. Then, he threw his spear forward at Noble Six.
Noble Six grabbed the deadly spear in his hand, tore it from the levitation grip of the guard, and hit the guard square on the temple with the wooden part of the spear. The guard was unconscious instantly
Noble Six wasn’t sure what to do at this point. He knew he had to escape, but there could be hundreds, even thousands of guards more to deal with. Unarmed and outnumbered, he knew that he couldn’t escape alive.
A few seconds later, he saw something running towards him from the end of the long hallway. As they got closer, Noble Six could see that it was eight of the ponies, the ones he had saw before. One of them, the purple one, was carrying another by levitation.
Noble Six held his spear up, ready to strike. He knew that these creatures would try to attack him again. A few seconds later, they did something that surprised Noble Six immensely. They stopped about ten feet away from where Noble Six was standing.
Then, the big one spoke to Noble Six,
“Stand down, creature, we mean you no harm.”
Noble Six considered the statement, and then realized that he had just gotten shot by the same creature minutes before.
“Explain shooting me then.”
The big one stammered for a few seconds, and backed down. Noble Six called its bluff.
“Now you listen to me. I am getting out of here one way or another. I would suggest staying out of my way.”
Noble Six said, making sure to keep his tone threatening and brutal, as his expression suggested. The “ponies” began stepping back to avoid getting killed. All of them were, except the large one, whose horn was glowing an even fiercer gold then before. Noble Six brought his spear up to impale it before it could shoot him again. But right before he could do so, his world suddenly disappeared.
For a half a second, he saw a white light at the end of an infinitely long tunnel. Then, he found himself in another room.
His vision was fuzzy when he first got there, but it cleared quickly, and he realized that he was standing in the room he had first woken in. The spear he had been holding was nowhere to be seen. The creatures were also there with him, standing confused. All of them, except the large one. The big one, which Noble Six had decided to call Shiny, was standing about three feet in front of him.
Then, its horn glowed, and Noble Six found himself thrown up in the air and pinned to the extravagant bed that lied around five away. When Noble Six tried to move, he found he was immobilized by a golden field that enveloped him
“Now, I don’t have the patience to go on with this struggle! I didn’t want to resort to these measures, but you’ve forced my hoof!” Shiny said, the ponies’ rage bubbling up for the first time that day.
Noble Six was struggling to get up, to move at all, but he was effectively immobilized by Shiny.
Noble Six continued to struggle. After a few seconds, he could feel the energy barrier beginning to give way. But then, the purple creature’s horn lit up ,and now both Shiny and the purple pony were keeping him down.
“Now that we have everything under…relative control, I’ll perform the mind wipe spell.” Shiny said as it released its grip on Noble Six.
It was clear to see that Noble Six had stressed it over its limit. Trying to break free of the energy grip that the purple pony had him in was growing very tiresome for Noble Six. He stopped moving to recoup his energy for a future escape The purple pony sighed out in relief when he did, but it never released its grip on Noble Six. It was obvious to Noble Six that all of the creatures were tired. It was night time, Noble Six assumed, for the sky outside was dark. And most sentient creatures were exhausted by nightfall.
Noble Six now focused his attention on Shiny, who was standing outside on a balcony. Its horn was glowing a fierce gold, growing brighter by the second. After a few seconds, something happened. The horn seemed to gather all its energy, and explode.
Then, a huge blast shook the entire city, covering it in a fierce golden light. The light swept into buildings, filling up any space it could. It spread in all directions, seeming to cover the entire city.
A few seconds later, the light dimmed out, and faded away. It seemingly had no effect on anything within the city. The whole process took about ten seconds. After this, Shiny stumbled back, and almost fell on the floor. It was caught by a blue field of energy, caused by a white pony standing near it.
“Are you all right, Celestia?”
The cry rang out from all of the ponies at once. They all moved towards…Celestia; Noble Six found out, and were trying to help “her”. The purple one also jerked forwards, forgetting Noble Six. The purple field of energy disappeared.
Almost shocked by how convenient this event was, Noble Six jumped up, and ran for the door. As he put his hand on the bronze doorknob, he felt a small ping bounce off the titanium alloy plating of the back of his armor. Perplexed, her turned to face the unknown, rather futile force that attempted feebly to oppose him. To his surprise, he witnessed an orange pony in a brown Stetson hat reeling in pain, clutching its injured foreleg in intense anguish. To his slight amusement garnering the situation, Noble Six decided that the rather pathetic creature had attempted to kicked his back in attempt to halt his escape. Obviously, the gesture was futile. It would be like taking a foam pool noodle to a Scarab. No matter how determined the small pony had been, she now felt the immediate ramifications of her error quite thoroughly, howling out to her comrades with an oddly southern accent.
His slight smile faded as he witnessed the purple pony, who had previously been tending to her wounded mentor, bolt 180 degrees around to face him, her teeth bared in feverish rage and a form of annoyance. Without hesitating, it shot a purple bolt of magical lightning from its glowing horn, punching Six directly in the temple of his forehead. Within moments, the super soldier found himself fading into the black reaches of unconsciousness by a small pony one third of his height for the second time that day.
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Well he definitely took a few more hits than last time but I don't think a pony's buck is strong enough to hurt noble six in his spartan armor but overall it was a great chapter
3828613 fair enough
There is no way, even if she is strong, for Applejack to buck Noble Six into unconsciousness. I'm pretty sure that weighing close or over a ton would have had her back peddle from the impact. Still, its a good chapter. Keep up the good work.
3828586 his shields were depleted,and the shockwave was enough to break the camels back?
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3828691 Well noble six has fallen from orbit and walked away with a limp granted he had a re-entry pack but he still hit the ground hard
If noble Six was at full strength, then Applejack would have had that smug look ripped off her face and shove very far up her ass.
This is very good, but what happened to his shields in these situations? Were they depleted every time? Or does he not have them?
3828681 AJ's like a freaking gravity hammer. She kicks a tree once, all the apples fall down. Plus he's already weak. Banshee crashes are no fun.
Infinityslayer-In chapter 2, when six was talking to Kat, and saw her die again. You said he felt like he was in a game-I see what you did there.
Stay Awesome
RDD
PS: "He said 'Six! Are you six?' And I am older than six, so I said yes." -Caboose
"He meant Noble Six you dumbass" -Church
Please tell me you get the reference
SO GOD DAMN AWSOME! Can't wait for chapter 4.
i cant help but to fell that six is getting beaten pretty easy
Do the mane six seriously think they can take on noble six like seriously he's almost like master chief if he wanted to he could take them all out Ina blink of an eye
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Unexpected turn of events can make even a Spartan hesitte.
3829707 so far up it would come out of her stetson
4164791 to true mien friend
Ok, I have to point out that last part bit about Applejack successfully knocking out Noble Six: SHE SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
Noble Six is wearing SPI Armor (Semi-Powered Infiltration). It increases his weight to about a half-ton and is made of Titanium Grade-A metal, which is what UNSC starships utilize as hull plating. So Applejack's buck should've yielded nothing but an intense pain in her hind legs. That's not even taking into account the energy shields that can withstand multiple shots from a Type-25 Directed Energy Rifle. So, bottom line, Six should still be standing in front of that door with depleted shields, that's it! Not sprawled on the ground, unconscious.
Other than that, this story shows much promise. Can't wait for it to finish!
Noble Six is WAY better than this. OOC. Instafail.
pretty much the best line so far
5150669 his armor is broken, no shields, body not completely healed from reach and long sleep, magic, confusion, plot.
" will perform a mind wipe spell over all of Canterlot.” That's some shady shit Celestia... Shady shit.
If I was him, I would find my gun and shoot the seven. Thay have knocked him out 2 or 3 times now.
i whould try to grap somethingthat can be used as shield and a spear then i whould scream leeroy jenkinsand while i am doing that i charge at them
i just realized i am taller than noble six
Jeez, I'm surprised the spartan is getting his ass handed to him by these ponies. Pretty humiliating.
This story made one of the most decorated and skilled Spartans in the Halo canon a total pussy. I'm fairly sure that even without shields, that his MK V MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor, that is designed to stop bullets, blunt force trauma, plasma, and death in almost any form, to the point that with shields, and the gel layer pushed to the max, the wearer could survive a 30,000 foot drop....was defeated...by a two foot tall pony.
Yeah, I'm calling bullshit, this story ends for me here. Six should only be really threatened by magic.
6431205 Especially considering that the specs of his armor make him pretty much immune to their weapons, except magic I guess.
Seriously, him getting bucked by Applejack should be the equivalent of taking a baseball bat to an M1 Abrams.
5404728 >his shields tanked 99% of the magic blasts and regenerated soon after
mhm, his shields are fucked 100%
we can all agree that the chapter ending was utter bullshit.
seriously, even without the shields she's kicking best quality TITANIUM.
fucking use common sense
bone using force against hard quality metal = fucked bone
6955517 right!
Titanium Alloy Outer Shell: The outer shell of the MJOLNIR armor is comprised of a fairly thick titanium alloy. This plating covers the chest, arms, hip, legs, calves, feet, and hands. This alloy is very resilient, can take significant punishment, and is nearly impervious to small arms fire. While enough shots from armor piercing rounds will breach the outer shell, the suit can take a few glancing blows from them without compromising the armor. The outer shell of all MJOLNIR suits is covered with a refractive coating to help disperse the heat experienced from Covenant energy weapons. However one or two direct hits from any Plasma weapon will compromise the armor plating.
Shields: First used on the Mk. V, and later refined on the Mk. VI, the energy shield device is reverse engineered from Covenant technology. Begun in 2532,[9] forty scientists and technicians would spend the next 20 years attempting to make some use of the technology. For decades, the attempts at cracking their technology had met with failure after failure. Some had given up, and others in the scientific community believed the energy shield technology could never be cracked; however, at some point before 2552, a breakthrough was made, and for the first time, the UNSC had successfully cracked and improved upon the technology.
what the fuck is with spartan's armor in this fucking story.
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Having read through this chapter/story before submitting it to the Good HiE group, I have concurred with your sentiments about Applejack's ability to knock out a 1 ton killing machine. Therefore, I have repaired the end of this chapter to make it seem much more believable and less dumb. Thank you for your comments and support, and stay awesome!
7027671 i am but you just made another error.
It is hardened against EMP and radiation, and has filters that are completely effective at removing toxins and bacteria from local atmosphere.
it mean shield will break but the Spartan will still be able to move.
No offense, but this ending was no better than the last. I understand you want to make the antagonist become unconscious, but he would have saw that bolt coming. In the official Halo book "Fall Of Reach" it even states that a spartan can dodge machine gun fire with ease. Heck, Master Chief did it for fun! Something has to sneak up on him to knock him out since he doesn't have his helmet on. This means no motion sensor. And, surprise surprise, he will be out cold.
7028074 he also still has his shield which seems to be forgotten about few times, even if it doesn't cover his head without the helmet, which I doubt, he's a Spartan and getting taken down too easily. Also even unarmed he shouldn't have trouble taking on a hundred ponds armed with midevil weapons while he's supposed to have reflexes that far surpass a normal person. Which in my mind should surpass a pony, alicorn or other wise. And he's acting way to personal for a "lone wolf", while he could "start" acting that way cause of the events of Reach, I just feel he's acting that way too fast.
O look I fell asleep o look she made me fall asleep god I sure am sleeping a lot today I wonder if I made every stronger then they should be or am I just getting weaker
BTW. Did not like the story bye
You really make him weak. Honestly was coming into this story hoping for him to be a BadAss. But we got this instead. Especially when you look at his final stand and now. That is something that is really bugging me. Also the power that the Magic does to him seems way to much. I like the story just wish he wasn't a pansy
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you made him weak?! are you saying that the ponies are stronger than the reach?! and a spartan cant overpower mere ponies?! is that it?
not cool dude.....not cool......
Welp, there goes hoping for a good story. Nerfed Spartan to normal human scrub.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGiAxlLLgY0
if these ponies tried to attack noble six they'd be knocked out flat because a spartan, especially noble team members, could outpower their magic, even if it was that "bind you to a certain location" spell, just read MIA
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nope.
pegasus can take crashing down from 3 floors height without a broken bone.
and they don't have earth pony's magic