> Halo: The new age > by The Silent writer > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Award ceremony and prologue > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNSC AWARD CEREMONY, PLANET EARTH, 2560 Previous week marked the end of the ongoing Human-Covenant war, with Humans and Elites emerging as victorious by forming a treaty and together defeating the Covenant Loyalists. Since previous week, Humans and the Elites have been getting along well. Humans and elites have started trading technologies with each other. Humans telling elites about Titanium and Uranium and their properties, while Elites taught the humans about Plasma and it’s nature. Their were rumours that a flirtious human had started dating a female elite soldier. Everything was going very well this past week. Right now, The award ceremony was going at planet earth at a classified location. Various high ranking humans and elites were present for the occasion. Everyone was sitting together on different seats in a very large hall with a stage on which, The president of of the Unified Earth Government and The Arbiter, Leader of covenant Separatists were standing and awarding the deserving people. All the elites and humans were cheering and clapping for the one who got awarded. Many Spartan teams, ODST squads and a lot of marines were sitting together. Marines and ODSTs were cheering loudly for the awarded people whereas, the spartans were mostly quite. Civilians were watching the show from their homes and cheering for their heroes, who had saved their lives by defeating the covenant. But there was one spartan,” Spartan-127 a.k.a Parth” commonly known as lone-wolf, sitting in a completely secluded area but not away from the visions of other soldiers. He was checking out his sexy looking black armour with dark blue visor and with white stripes running along his armour, while occasionally glancing at stage to see the awarded individual. One thing the spartan was ignoring that most of the women present in the area were mostly eyeing on him, even the female spartans, with half- lidded eyes and with seductive postures, He was getting such an attention due to the amazing feats he put in the Human-Covenant war. “ Is he that spartan who took out 13 covenant planets alone ?” one of the female marines asked. “ His armour looks awesome, I hope he is all that good as I have heard from other women saying that he is very handsome.” another female marine said. “ Doesn’t matter, I know he looks so hot, I can tell.” a female ODST said, with seductive voice. “ Shut up you all, he is mine and mine alone.” one of the female spartan said, the last part in a very low voice so that no one could here. “ I wonder how good is he in bed.” another female spartan said. These were the kinds of talks, that Spartan-127 was listening from past one hour. He was ignoring these talks, but still felt uncomfortable about the attention he was getting from the women. But his luck sprung up as his name was finally called. “ And we have the last but not the least nominee, the one because of whom we were able to win the war and the one who not only destroyed 13 Covenant loyalists planet but, also discovered a Forerunner ship, which no other spartan could achieve, please welcome the one and only ‘SPARTAN-127’.” the president of UEG said with pride. Almost immediately, Spartan-127 stood up from the crate on which he was sitting and made his way to the stage. Continuous cheering was being done for him, especially by the women. He was awarded ‘The Medal of Honour’ for going behind enemy lines and destroying the enemy planets. He also received ‘The Disintiguished Service Cross’ for extreme acts of heroism, which saved a lot of Civilians from being burned away by molten plasma. He received many more medals after this with continuous cheering still going on for him. “ Now for you extra rewards, Spartan-127 after a long discussion, considering your loyalty towards the UNSC, your bravery and your thriving nature to learn new things, The UEG and the Swords of Sanghelios together have decide that you, Spartan-127, will be rewarded the Forerunner ship that you have discovered. You have also been promoted to Vice- president of the UEG and so, you have access to all the UNSC space. You can take your Forerunner ship anywhere you want and no one will question you about it, not even the ONI. You may even venture outside of UNSC space and do anything you wish with your ship.” the President concluded her a kind of ‘award speech’ to spartan-127 with a smile on here face, also with half lidded eyes. Every soldier’s jaw dropped on hearing such an award for Spartan-127. Some were jealous, while others especially the women were happy and cheering for the spartan. ONI were literally not happy about this, as they would loose command on the most powerful ship. Parth was personally taken aback, after listening such an award from him. He was still trying to process the fact that he is free to venture anywhere he wanted. But most important of all he noticed the way, how president was looking at him, he concluded a thought. ” Is she also trying to Seduce me....God damn it, that’s why I got so much freedom...I don’t understand, what do these women see in me.” Shrugging of this thought, he did a perfect salute to the president, who also followed the same suit. Spartan-127, then retired to his room, to which he was assigned. He went in their an was greeted by, Serry the A.I. construct he saved from dying who joined him on his course and Anubis, the A.I. of the Forerunner ship that Parth had discovered. Anubis pledged her loyalty to the spartan after he saved her from the torture that the flood was delivering to her to extract information. She along with 100 promethean knights under her command since then, have been with Parth and have made clear that they will stay with him. “ Anubis, I have two updates for you.” Parth said. “ What are they ?” the A.I. asked out of curiosity. “ First, the government has decided to award me the forerunner ship that we discovered while we were evading those flood forms and secondly, we are leaving tomorrow.” Parth said sternly. “ That’s great that I would be under your command, but where are we leaving to ?” the A.I. asked excitingly and curiously at the same time. “ We will leave the UNSC space and venture outside it, my plan is to discover new planets and possibly, new alien life form, which would be opposite in nature to that of Covenant, I need you to ask your prometheans to prepare the ship by tomorrow morning.” Parth ordered Anubis. “ As you wish sir, though I would like to brief you about our ship.” The A.I. said. “ Carry on Anubis, I must have knowledge about it.” Path said. “ OK sir, our ship has been named as the ‘UNSC-THE ENDURANCE’ as per the trends of the government protocols. Our ship is 2.13 kilometres long and 300 metres wide. Our ship has two modes.1) Cruising mode- In this mode our ship will look like a normal cruiser, just like other UNSC ships, this is the mode in which we can use our slip-space drive with maximum speed efficiency, the only disadvantages with this mode is that our energy shields will not be completely in power and secondly, most of our weapons will be disabled. 2) Combat mode- In this mode, our ship will rearrange itself to look like a giant robot, our all weapons will become active in this mode and the energy shields will recharge to their maximum extent, the capacity which will be 2x times more than that in cruising mode. It will take 15 seconds for the ship to change between it’s 2 modes.” Anubis finished her long lecture on basic modes of the ship and Parth acknowledged. “ OK Anubis, two mode will definitely help us to form effective strategies against our enemies, tell me about our weapons.” Parth asked and Anubis began explaining. “ Our ship has a lot of weapons, the strong being the DMFBC i.e. Dilos Magneton Force Building Cannon, this cannon fires magnetically amplified proton laser which can destroy half a planet as large as earth with just one hit, rendering that half portion of the planet lifeless. Secondly we have 3 MACs i.e. Magnetic Acceleration cannon which can destroy a city as large as New York with 3 hits. Lastly we have thousands of ground turrets, Anti-air turrets, installed Spartan lasers on the borders of the ships and lots of plasma cannons, the ammunition of all these weapons are capable of destroying anything that would stand in their way. We also have a Plasma rail gun, which fires hot and burning Plasma in vertically downward direction, it is the same plasma beam which covenant used to glass your planets. Our ship is powerful enough to deal with 20 covenant battle cruisers alone.” Anubis finished with hint of pride in her voice. This literally shocked the Spartan, as he never expect his ship to have this many weapons and capabilities. “ WOW ! It seems we are already prepared, I shall get to packing then, I need to put a lot of clothes.” Parth exclaimed sarcastically, which caused Anubis and Serry, both to chuckle. Parth, after packing everything up, undressed himself and threw himself on his bed. He said his good nights to anubis and serry, who returned the favour. “ From tomorrow on, My life will change completely now”. Parth said before dozing off to a good night sleep, after the war. > Spartan and librarian > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNSC THE ENDURANCE 1st January, 2561 In Deep dark void, also known as space was travelling a huge metal ship with various lights on making it’s way through the sea of stars. Inside the ship, Parth was just roaming around the ship in his blue T-shirt and stripped pyjamas and inspecting his ship. He was feeling funny at the moment and let out a small chuckle. “ Is there something funny ?” asked a feminine voice beside him asked. Parth turned around and saw the familiar pink A.I. looking at him curiously, “nothing anubis, just thinking about some things, awkward things to be precise.” he said with another chuckle and turned his gaze towards the wall and unpolarized it to get a glimpse of the space outside his ship. “ Care to share with me ?” anubis asked. “ Just thinking about the past year, just when the war ended and how I was awarded the prizes such as this ship and how I was feeling funny on looking at faces of those ONI spooks after knowing that they will have no authority on me.” he said still facing towards the space. ” anyways, what about the report that you deliver to me everyday ?” “Um, yes about that, the ship is currently travelling at a speed of about 45% of it’s top speed, the bridge and hangar are all being maintained by prometheans as you had ordered them, the slip-space drive is currently overheated due to our continuous usage of it for 6 hours, and rest of the systems such as life support, oxygen pressurization and light systems are working perfectly fine without any problems. Our ship is working at its best conditions since I always command the prometheans to service the ship every three days a week, so there are no problems.” she finished like a professional. “ That’s great anubis, you are completely dependable.” Parth said, which caused the A.I. to smile and hide away her face. Suddenly a white spherical object came at a high speed towards Parth. Instantaneously, Parth’s instincts kicked upon and he stepped aside as he heard the rumbling sound of the object due to his advanced hearing by genetic augmentations and caught hold of the object. “ EEP !” the object let out a squeak and was shivering in fear in Parth’s hands. “ Serry!, why were you going at a speed so fast ? Is there something wrong ?” Parth asked the A.I. Construct who now stopped shivering. “ Oh s-s-sorry brother, I-I...I just wa-wanted to inform t-that our sl-slip space drives a-are now r-ready to be u-used a-a-again.” the A.I. construct told Parth in a very low and shy voice, still in Parth’s hand. Parth let out a laugh and comforted his A.I. construct by rubbing her top surface, which caused her to relax and her humming. “Better ?” he asked serry and she nodded, “ Very well, Can you estimate the distance between us and the UNSC space ?” Parth asked and serry again nodded and started her calculations, and within matter of seconds she told him that they are currently 2,000,000,000 light years away from the UNSC space. This shocked Parth, he knew that the forerunner ship has a much better slip space engine as compared to that of normal UNSC ships, but he never expected that It would make the ship run almost 7000 times faster than speed of light. “ Well, that is certainly a news to me that our ship is fast.” Parth said with a laugh, which caused both anubis and serry to laugh too. “ Anyways, anubis, activate our slip space engine, we will go in another slip-space jump.” Parth ordered anubis. “ Very well sir, give me few seconds.” She said, and after 10-20 seconds, the ship began to shake and a blue portal appeared in front of the ship, the ship went inside the portal and vanished from that spot, the ship was now in slip space, with everything going behind them at an immense speed. Parth, satisfied that they were in slip space, went to walk away in the chamber after polarizing the wall again. “ Anubis, how are our pelicans, phantoms and warthogs ?” Parth asked again. “ Sir, they are all in their best conditions, 30 prometheans are currently working and tuning them as per my orders.” Anubis said. “ That’s good, I am so happy that I have you Anubis.” Parth said, which brought a smile on the A.I.’s face. “ Anyways, Serry, go and see what you can do about my armour, first clean and service it and then check if there are any updates available for the armour which might have been sent by Dr. Halsey, If there are any updates then download and upload them to my armour.” Parth ordered, and serry nodded, going towards the cryo-chamber, where the armour is currently placed on a machine. “ Anubis, I am going to my room and I might take a nap, wake me up if there is any news or any need for me.” Parth said while yawning. “Alright sir, sweet dreams.” The A.I. Said and then disappeared from site. Parth, then made his way to his room while humming, opening the hatch of his room he went inside and closed the hatch. Undressing himself, he threw himself on the bad and succumbed to his sleep. IN PONYVILLE, AFTER THE CURRENT EVENTS It was Wednesday, in the town of ponyville it was around 9:30, everyone was going about their daily chores. One interesting thing about this ponyville and Equestria, the country in which ponyville was located was that the people here could do ‘magic’ like telekinesis, teleportation to a small distance and fire magical beams which can cause damage on small to medium scale. Another fact about this equestria was that, this country had 90% female population since the beginning which caused females to dominate over males in equestria. Females considered males not more than a toy and would usually tease the males and sometimes, even thrash them for not obeying their orders, the condition of males was quite miserable in equestria, especially in the cities like Manehatten, Canterlot and crystal empire. Such partiality to males was there in ponyville, but it was much lesser than the big cities. Well everyday, a certain librarian, who lived in her library which was also her house, with purple skin and dark purple hair would wake up at 6:00 a.m. and start her studies. Her name was Twilight Sparkle, also known by many as faithful student of Princess Celestia, was studying as per her usual routine after returning back to ponyville the day before after the new year party at canterlot . Her no.1 assistant and her adopted brother spike, like usual was doing the chores that were given to him by twilight. “What are you reading twilight ?” spike asked out of enthusiasm. “Nothing that you would understand spike, well it’s about astronomy, I am studying how our princesses raise the sun and moon that revolve around our beautiful planet Equis.” She told him. Spike clearly didn’t understand much, so he just waved off went away doing his chores. “ I wonder if there is life outside our planet, that would be quite cool to study about objects that are not of Equestrian origin”? she thought to herself, and then laughed at herself for even thinking about that. She was damn sure that there is no life outside the planet. “ Well twilight, I am done with the daily chores, breakfast has been cooked and all the books of library are placed well in order in correct shelves, i am going to rarity’s as she asked me for some help for her designs.” spike said while serving the breakfast to twilight, who now left her book and came to dining table. “ OK spike you may go, but do return before 4:00 p.m. to the library, i know you have crush on rarity but just dont stay there for too long, if you know what I mean.” twilight said the last part while chuckling causing spike to blush heavily. “ I hate you Twilight.” was all that spike said before he rushed out of the main door slamming it shut. This caused Twilight to burst out laughing. “ Oh my dear little brother.” she said and then she devoured into her breakfast. Little did she know that she was about to get a surprise of her life in a few days. > The Discovery and assault on Ponyville > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PONYVILLE, 5 HOURS LATER It’s already 2:30 p.m. in ponyville and right now Twilight sparkle is having her lunch on the dining table and thinking about what to do next after finishing her studies. “ Well let’s see how are all my friends doing, I might be able to help them and then i would send a letter to princess Celestia about today’s day, if anything exciting occurs.” She said to herself and then, she quickly gobbled up all her remaining food and made her way to her dressing to room to get changed in formal clothes. After 15 minutes, she trotted down the stairs and started making her way to the door when suddenly, she heard lots of screams and pleads. Carefully, she opened the main door and her jaw dropped. She couldn’t believe that her town was under attack by black skinned bipedal creatures having scales of a dragon and teeth of lion. Only one word came to her mind. “ BUCK !” Rainbow dash saw Twilight standing at the gateway and zoomed to the library’s door to help twilight. “ TWILIGHT !”, Twilight heard a familiar voice calling her out. She turned around to see none other than Rainbow Dash who now reached to Twilight and panted heavily. “ Rainbow, what the hay is going on here ! How in tartanation are changelings attacking again ? I thought the power of love and friendship during the wedding of Shining Armour had defeated them and they would never comeback again.” Twilight asked Rainbow, completely stunned. “ So did we all thought Twilight, but somehow Queen Chrysalis managed to escape her prison of love and reached here with an army of changelings, much stronger than before, the power of love now seems to have no effect on these bastards.” Rainbow finished angrily. Twilight was now completely dumbstruck after hearing what rainbow said. Suddenly she turned to Rainbow and said, “Rainbow, go and gather all the elements and ask them to bring their necklaces with them, I am sure that Chrysalis would never have enough power to be able to stand against the Elements of Harmony. Meanwhile, I would write a letter to Princess Celestia to ask for aid from the royal guards.”, Rainbow processed all the information and saluted to her like a soldier and went away saying “ roger that” to Twilight. After Rainbow left, Twilight rushed into her house and slammed the door shut and began writing the following letter, Dear Princess Celestia, I am very sad and scared to inform you that ponyville is under attack by changelings, again. I have no idea as to how Chrysalis managed to escape the prison of love and return with an army of changelings, but has done it. Princess I sincerely request you to help us out by sending platoons of Royal guards. In meanwhile, me and the elements will try our best to stop the advance of changelings to further inside of ponyville. Please hurry princess, we have very limited amount of time. As per my analysis of few minutes, I saw that 25% of ponyville population has been captured by the changelings, most probably for them being the slaves and the rate is increasing rapidly. Your Faithful student Twilight sparkle Twilight finished the letter and sent it to princess Celestia, thankfully without the help of Spike as he had given her his emergency flame, a flame gifted to him by princess Celestia herself to spike so that he could contact them in a matter of seconds, for dire situations in which he might not be able to be near to Twilight. Suddenly, Twilight just got one thing into her mind, she had forgotten that Spike had went to rarity’s, she said very loudly what a sister will say for her brother. “ SPIKE, I AM ON MY WAY TO SAVE YOU FROM THESE DISGUSTING CREATURES.” and then she got outside of her house and ran towards rarity’s Boutique at a speed, which might rival to that of Rainbow Dash. UNSC THE ENDURANCE, AFTER THE EVENTS IN PONYVILLE Parth was fast asleep in his room for the past 5 hours 15 minutes, His eyes suddenly opened and he found himself awake in his room. He saw his clock that it was 2:45 p.m. as per earth time. He then dressed himself up again, opened the hatch of his room and went outside to see the commotion. He saw that they are still in slip-space. In almost 35 minutes, they would need to pull out of slip space jump, to give rest to the slip space drive for half an hour, before it will be reusable again, He shrugged off these thoughts and ventured into his ship. He entered the cryo chamber and saw Serry working on his undersuit. Curiously, he peeked over serry to see what she was doing, but serry noticed this and led out a squeak, and hid behind the spartan’s armour. Parth thought himself to be an idiot for peeking over serry, even after knowing her nature. He went towards his armour. “ Sorry serry, I didn’t do it on purpose, please forgive me.” Parth apologized, and the serry came out from behind the MJOLNIR armour and said “ it’s OK” to spartan. She then continued on whatever she was doing. “ Is there any new update available for my undersuit and armour serry ?” Parth asked the A.I. construct, who turned around and said “ Yes brother, there are major updates on your armour and undersuit, a great weapon has been place permanently on the right hand of you undersuit that you wear.” Serry said, which caused Parth to raise his eyebrow. “ And what might that weapon be ?” Parth asked interestingly. “ It’s the energy sword !! UNSC has make a chip which will be embedded in your right hand portion of undersuit, which will activate on your will and would create the energy sword attached to your hand, and for you armour it has been updated with camaflouge ability, which will work for 2 hours and then would deactivate and recharge in 30 minutes to be reused again.” Serry said, and Parth was in complete shock after hearing what has been given to him in the update. “ OMG ! Looks like i have thrown a good impression on the UNSC superiors, I guess that’s why they are providing me with such equipments, I guess i will really become deadly now.” Parth said quite amusingly, which caused serry to laugh, “ And you think you were not deadly before, It does take a lot for someone to invade and destroy an entire planet, also coming out alive, especially the planets of covenant.” Serry finished, which caused Parth to blush and look away. “ Yeah, your right, sometimes I do feel like I am a monster you know, I killed more than 6 billion covenant by destroying their planets.” Parth said with a little bit of sadness in his voice. “No brother, your not a monster, remember that because of your actions, humanity managed to survive and defeat the covenant, were it not for you, entire humanity would have been obliterated from this universe.” Serry said as she came near to Parth and nuzzled him on his cheek. This made Parth to feel much better, “ Thanks Serry for the comforting words”, Parth said and then Serry moved away from Parth, resuming the updates on his armour. Parth then turned around left the cryo chamber to go to the bridge and meet up with Anubis. Parth was in middle of his trek, when suddenly, Anubis popped up beside him, she looked shocked and happy at the same time. “ Parth, I have a great news. I just discovered a Celestial body, a planet to be precise, it seems to be in habitable zone of it’s star. We will pass it within next 5 minutes, I recommend we take a look at the planet, besides our slip-space engine might need a little rest.” Anubis said with her voice full of joy and excitement. This news was quite shocking to Parth, as finding a planet in a orbit around it’s sun in a habitable zone was one major thing, that they were trying to do past one year with no success. “ That’s an excellent news, Surely we will take a look at the planet and if possible, we might find extraterrestrial life on it, hoping that they will not be as covenant were.” Parth said, also enthusiastically. “ Alright sir, I will pull out the ship out of slip space in 20 seconds, we will be almost 200 kilometres from the planet, just for safety reasons. If it will be safe, I would put the ship in orbit around the planet.” She said and then disappeared from the site. “ Things really got exciting now.” Parth exclaimed and continued to the bridge. After 15 seconds, the ship began to shake and the blackness was replaced by millions of white and shining dots. “ We are out of Slip-space.” Anubis said through the speakers of the ship. By then Parth had made his way to the bridge, he continued to walk into the control room which had the permanently unpolarized window, through which everyone could see, what was in front of the ship. Parth entered the control room and his jaw dropped on what he saw. He saw that the planet was blue- green, similar to earth. It had one sun and one moon....revolving around the planet ! Parth couldn’t believe what he was seeing. “ Anubis, this is...amazing, we all know that a planet is supposed to orbit is star, but here is totally opposite !! I don’t get how it is defying the basic laws of nature.” Parth exclaimed completely astonished. “ Yes sir, It is really unbelievable site to see, we are really very far away in universe, so I think we will see many unnatural cases, right now i am scanning the planet for it’s composition, atmosphere, land and water ratio and and life forms, if they are on this planet.” Anubis said to Parth. “ Yes, scan the entire planet and then report to me everything that you find about this planet, by then I will go to armoury and check for all the weapons, because I might consider to land on this planet and to learn about it’s many secrets.” Parth ordered and Anubis nodded, disappearing again. Parth then, got out of control room and made his way to the armoury. ”Things will really get interesting from now on, let’s see what this planet might prove to be for UNSC and humanity.” Parth thought while continuing on his way to the armoury. > Ponyville war and Reaching the planet > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PONYVILLE, 2 HOURS AFTER THE EVENTS IN UNSC ENDURANCE The Main 6 were at the borders of Ponyville, hiding in cover, while shooting from cover at the changelings with Bows and arrows. FLASHBACK START After getting to rarity’s boutique, she had ordered spike to run away from Ponyville to everfree as it was the only safest option available at the moment. On seeing that spike had evaded into the forest, she along with with Rarity met Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy after Rainbow dash had managed to get them while avoiding the changeling troops that were patrolling the area. Twilight and her 5 friends got the message that 100 royal guards had been dispatched. Princess also told that she along with Captain Shining Armour would join them in the battle later. The main 6 together, had been battling bravely and were able to stop the advance of the changeling forces till 1 hour. After that, the royal guards (All females) had arrived and joined the battle to help the elements in defending ponyville from changelings. Civilians were being evacuated as fast as possible by the royal guard, but occasionally some civilians were caught, were either murdered or captured for slavery. Conditions were not good for Ponyville. FLASHBACK END “ Twilight, provide me cover fire while I try to knock the changelings with cannons out.” Rainbow dash said to twilight while evading an arrow that nearly missed her. Twilight acknowledged and nodded and began firing at the changelings with cannons, the changelings with cannons ducked behind their cannons. Rainbow dash with her incredible speed took advantage and reached behind the changlings and started firing her arrows at the changelings. She didn’t wanted to kill them, so she fired her arrows at the legs of changelings and then hit them hard with the blunt end of her sword to knock them unconscious. All the cannon wielding Changelings moaned in pain and fell down unconscious. Rainbow Dash returned back and was hugged by all her friends. “ That was so cool sugarcube, you literally knocked all of ‘em out.” Applejack said while patting Rainbow’s back. “ The was awesome Dashie, You defeated those meanies easily, I will surely throw ‘Rainbow the changeling knock outer’ party !” Pinkie exclaimed. All others were dumbfounded on pinkie’s reaction that even in such a time she was thinking about parties. Well they could never question pinkie’s antics ever. “ Yeah yeah, I know that I am awesome, because I am Rainbow Dash.” Rainbow Dash exclaimed pride fully, which caused twilight to do a face palm. “ OK guys, back to business” a royal guard said from behind, which caused all the main 6 to again get to their positions and resume their counter-firing. “ Lieutenant, what is the status of civilians and our current strength ?” Twilight asked a nearby high ranking royal guard beside her. The royal guard turned her head and told “ Ma’am, Evacuation process is going on as we speak, but there is also sad news too.” The guard put her head down, Twilight knew what the news would be but she hoped that it would be false. “ What bad news ?” Twilight asked, guard lifted her head and told, “ though our evacuation process is going fast enough, we still couldn’t save all civilians, about 30% civilians have been captured another 15% have been murdered by the changeling troops, we also lost 10 royal guards as of now.” ....Twilight now held her head down in shame, a single tear rolled down her cheeks because of the thought of being unable to save everyone from. “ OK lieutenant, I get it, let’s give our best and show these bucking changelings that they messed with the wrong people.” Twilight said loud enough for everyone to here. Every soldier and other friends of Twilight cheered and started firing back at changelings with more energy, UNSC THE ENDURANCE, AFTER THESE EVENTS IN PONYVILLE Parth, after two hours of testing all the weapons that were in the armoury like Rocket launchers, Spartan lasers, BR battle Rifles, MA5B Assault rifles, Magnums, plasma rifles, beam rifles, sniper rifles, fuel rod cannons, boltshots, suppressors and light rifles, came out in his undersuit of his MJLONIR armour, out of the armoury. He was not exhausted because of his augmentations which had increased his muscle reflexes and power so he could not get tired easily. He was still fascinated about the energy sword that would remain with him permanently. He recently used this sword and was astonished to discover that it had more power than the normal covenant energy sword. All these thoughts made him to grin widely. He returned back to the control room to get reports on the planet, that they recently stumbled upon. “ Anubis, give me the report about the planet.” Parth said, which caused Anubis to pop-out beside the spartan. Spartan was quite concerned when he saw that the A.I. had a serious expression, which was not much in the case of Anubis. “ Yes sir, all the reports are ready about the planet, though you may not believe what I had uncovered around this planet.” Anubis said in a concerned tone, which caused spartan to raise his eyebrow. “What do you mean Anubis, you know I trust you and serry more than anything on this ship, whatever you would say, I will accept it is true.” Spartan said these words which loosened the tension on the face of the A.I. “ OK sir, than let me start, This planet has almost identical conditions as that on earth with 21% oxygen and 78% Nitrogen in the Atmosphere. This planet has little bit lesser land to water ratio than on earth, here water is more and most important thing, there are sentient creatures living on this planet.” The A.I. finished about the basic characteristics of the planet. The last part caused the spartan to raise his eyebrow and he asked “ Sentient life ? You mean the creatures on this planet have intelligence ?” , The A.I. nodded. “ OK Anubis, carry on.” Parth said “ Yes sir, one more thing I discovered is that this planet has humans on it.” A.I. told the spartan. Now the spartan’s jaw literally dropped on hearing the fact. “ HUMANS ! The fuck are you saying Anubis...are they insurrectionists ?” Spartan asked loudly, and thinking if these are humans, what are they doing here so far out of UNSC space and how come UNSC never got to know about these humans. “ No sir, they are not insurrectionists, because sir I let out a drone onto the planet, The images are as follows as captured by the drone.” Anubis said and , a 3-Dimensional model of the planet came into view with various pictures of the planets. “ As you can see, their technology is centuries behind use, they don’t have vehicles, nor any satellites and most important of all there weapons are very primitive, they use bows, arrows, primitive cannons, spears and swords, that we used 1000 years ago. The buildings are clear description that there model is that we used to have almost 800 years ago.” Anubis said and took time so that information may sink into the spartan’s mind. “ So Anubis, it means just like we humans evolved at earth, these humans evolved at this planet and they have no contacts with the UNSC.” Parth said and the A.I. nodded. “ At least that is a good thing that we don’t need to engage in battle with them as they don’t know about us, Anubis what else can you tell about this planets ?” Parth asked. “ Well, I managed to get the drone into the library of a town known as ‘Ponyville’ and I learnt that, there are many countries in this world and all of them have monarch government.” Anubis said, and Parth pondered about the point. “ So they have Kings and Queens ruling there respective countries, interesting.” Parth said and, then motioned Anubis to carry on. “ Yes sir, the kingdoms are knowns as 1) EQUESTRIA 2) GRIFFIN KINGDOM 3) DRAGON KINGDOM 4) ZEBRA KINGDOM 5) BUFFALO KINGDOM 6) SADDLE ARABIA Well one interesting thing is that this planet has 90% population female population, so they have mainly queens as their leaders, only griffin kingdom has a king.” A.I. finished and Parth was again dumbstruck. “ 90% FEMALE POPULATION ! Damn I know a lot of guys who would really wanna be here.” Parth said sarcastically which, caused Anubis to chuckle. “ Also one more unbelievable thing I discovered is that the humans here can do mythical things like Telekinesis, Teleportation and magic.” as soon as Anubis said this, Parth’s jaw fell down again. “ O...k, I get it Anubis, I won’t question you as this planet already defied many physical laws of nature, so magic doesn’t really get the damn shock out of me.” Parth said and the A.I. chuckled again, “ Don’t worry sir, even though these humans can fire magical beams, they would have little to no effect on you as your energy shields are very strong, they wouldn’t be able to deplete your shield even by 10% even if they all attack you altogether.” Anubis said and Parth led out a sigh of relief. “ Anubis, prepare a phantom for me and put our ship in orbit around this planet. I would go to the surface of this planet to investigate further, I will try to uncover the mystery behind all this ‘magic’ stuff and the anomalies of this planet, I would like land on this country ‘Equestria’, give me more necessary details about it.” Parth ordered Anubis. “ Right away sir, I have ordered 10 promethean knights to activate the phantom, 2 prometheans will go and drop you at the surface of the planet and return back to the ship with the phantom, you can just call me through comms, for pelican or phantom and I will send it right away,.....As for your second question, this country has two rulers by the name of Princess Celestia the raiser of the sun, and Princess Luna the raiser of the moon, there is another princess also by the name of Princess Cadence, but we don’t need information about her right now. There are six girls which are known in the country as the ‘Elements of Harmony’, There names are Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy... Right now sir, I only know that these elements are the most powerful weapons these humans have on their land. But still these weapons cannot deplete your energy shields by more than 15%.” A.I. finished by showing the picture of how these six humans looked like, Parth was quite impressed by their ‘elements’ and felt funny on their ridiculous names, Parth didn’t say anything and only nodded after knowing this much. “ The phantom will drop you in the everfree forest which is just beside this Ponyville town, be careful there as that forest is quite dangerous having lot of wild animals, it is the safest area where I can drop you to avoid any attention from natives.” Anubis told Parth. “ OK Anubis, well you know I don’t need to worry because I am worry, I am a spartan” Parth said and Anubis laughed. “ Anubis, I am going to cryo chamber to get my armour back on me, by then prepare the phantom for me.” Parth said and the A.I. acknowledged. Parth then turned around, and made exited the control room, making his way to the cryo chamber. ”Raiser of the sun and raiser of the moon,...hmm....what did Anubis mean by that ?” Parth thought about this but shrugged it off considering it to be a question for later. It took 20 minutes for Parth to reach the cryo chamber. He saw Serry there and went to her to ask about the armour “ Serry, is everything done on my armour ?” Parth asked, Serr turned around and replied “ Yes, Sir everything in position, all updates have been downloaded and uploaded to your armour, you are ready to wear it.” This brought smile upon Parth’s lips. “ OK serry, start up the armour assembling machine, and place my armour parts on the machine.” Parth ordered Serry and she nodded. ” Let’s do it” was all Parth thought when he entered and stood between the different parts of the machine in his undersuit. The machine started assembling the parts on the body of the spartan. PONYVILLE, AFTER THE EVENTS IN UNSC THE ENDURANCE The war has been raging on continuously for the past one hour. More than thousands of the changelings had been incapacitated or killed by the counter firing of equestrians, and the equestrians had now lost 35 royal guards while battling against the changelings. The main 6 have been battling bravely against the changelings along side the royal guards, but the end of battle did not seem to be insight. “ Just how many of these buckers are there ? We had been incapacitating and killing many of them, but there numbers don’t even seem to deplete.” Rainbow shouted angrily, while taking cover form enemy fire. Twilight put her hand on Rainbow’s shoulder and said “ Don’t worry Rainbow, we are all friends. We will fight against these creatures and defend our town against these creatures till our last breath. Princess Celestia, princess Luna and Shining Armour will be here soon with more than 1000 royal guards. We just need to hold out for a little longer and then everything would turn back to normal.” Rainbow made a sigh of relief after listening these words from her friends. “ But darling, because of these dirty monsters my skin that I got massaged in the spa has returned back to it’s original dirty nature, also my beautiful hair have been strangled.” Rarity exclaimed while whining. Everyone present there did a face palm on hearing Rarity’s complains. “ OK, Rarity I will go with you and Fluttershy to the spa, once we deal with this attack. I will pay for everything, but until then, please focus on what we are doing right now.” Twilight said in a monotonous voice. “ Really ! Thanks dear Twilight.” Rarity exclaimed and jumped on Twilight to hug her, but missed when Twilight stepped aside. “ No huggings till we deal with this war.” Twilight exclaimed and Rarity pouted, but soon they both began covering fire. The war continued like this for 25 more minutes like this and 10 more royal guard died while fighting now. But now something unexpected happened. Suddenly almost 2000-3000 changelings came out of nowhere behind the main sic and remaining 45 royal guards, catching all of them off guard. The royal guards turned immediately from bows and arrows to swords and spears along with the main 6. The battle took place in close combat now but lasted only 30 minutes when all the remaining royal guards were killed and the main 6 were finally captured by the changelings. “ Why did you attack us again, what do you want ?” Twilight asked the changelings that were now leading them to the central area of Ponyville. “ It’s been a while Twilight.” a familiar voice came within the horde of changelings. Twilight recognised the voice and her anger rose. As the owner of the voice came into view, the rage of all the main 6 began to unleash. “ CHRYSALIS”, all the main 6 exclaimed together and with disgust in their voices. “ Oh don’t need to get angry, you will need to save that energy for crying for your loved ones later.” Chrysalis said with venom in here voice. The main 6 went pale after hearing that kind of warning from chrysalis “ What do you mean by that, you dirty creature ?” Rarity asked with fear in her voice. “ You will all see later, just wait, this time even your princesses will not be able to save you from me and my changelings.” Chrysalis said with a devilish grin on her face. “ You will never be successful, with your evil intentions chrysalis.” Twilight said with bravery. “ Just wait and watch, you will soon understand that when my revenge would be successful, for the last time you did with me in the royal wedding, you all will pay for that.” Chrysalis said to main 6 and then went away, leaving all of them alone. IN THE SKY OF EQUESTRIA, ON TOP OF EVERFREE FOREST, AFTER THE CURRENT EVENTS IN CENTRAL PONYVILLE Parth was sitting on the passenger seat inside the phantom. He was now wearing his armour completely, a 500 tonne MJOLNIR mark VIII armour. Two promethean knights were driving the phantom, while Parth was inspecting the weapons he had brought with him. He brought a magnum, a UNSC modified sniper rifle and a MA5B assault rifle. All his weapons were full loaded and he had the maximum amount of magazines, he could carry for each weapon. He also had the energy sword which was now permanently attached to his armour. “ Sir please strap yourself, we are about to reach the surface, ETA- 5 minutes.” A knight said from the cockpit. Parth nodded and strapped himself on the seat of the phantom. Just few more minutes and he would be on the surface of a newly discovered planet. Those 5 minutes went away like few seconds and the phantom was now hovering above the surface of the planet. Parth unstrapped himself and went to the hatch of the phantom. He jumped out of the phantom and landed on the ground with a loud ‘thud’. The spartan then motioned the prometheans that he had landed and asked them to fly away. Prometheans acknowledged and went away, back to THE ENDURANCE. “ Anubis, do you read me ?” Parth asked through comms. “ Yes sir, loud and clear, your helmet is recording what you would be seeing from now onwards.” Anubis replied. “ OK, over and out, will contact you when required, until then enjoy the show.” Parth said sarcastically and switched of his comms. Parth than began to scan his surroundings, what he saw was a bizarre sight. He saw that most of the trees were of the same colour, there were birds just like earth, many rabbits and squirrels, as same as that on earth. He saw that there were no contacts near his position in his motion tracker. He placed all his weapons on their respective places on his armour and started making his way towards this town ‘Ponyville’. > Meeting Spike and Reaching Ponyville > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- EVERFREE FOREST, TWO HOURS LATER It had been two hours since, the spartan had landed on the planet. He discovered that this planet has same date and time system just like earth using his armour’s advanced computers, much to his shock. Throughout this time, he had found many mythical animals on this planet like cockatrice, Hydras, manticores and dragons, he only peeked at them and did not confront them as that would make him to kill these innocent animals. He had been observing his surroundings and was trying to deduce, various scientific theories to prove these anomalies of this planet, but not even was completely being true. He activated his comms and said, “Anubis, do you read me ?” “ Yes sir, I read you, loud and clear, anything you need ?” Anubis replied like the soldiers, who respond to their seniors. “ Hmm Anubis, why are you being so formal, please don’t say that now you also have a damn crush on me, like all those women on earth.” Parth said sarcastically, “ Huh no....I .....I-mean...I- “. Anubis, struggled with those words, as what Parth said was partially true. Over the time, she had developed a liking for him through her advanced computing mechanisms, but not like that she wanted him to have sex with her. “ Relax, Anubis, I was playing with you...hahaha.” Parth cut her off when she was making a sentence “Hmmm.. you damn motherfucker..” Anubis said in a very low voice, even for a spartan to listen. “ Anubis, this world seems to be far more strange, I thought that magic was enough but seeing those fucking mythical creatures, I guess we are on a very weird planet, but climatic conditions are same here.” Parth said seriously but with some humour in his voice. “ You are correct sir, this planet has very different characteristics, even for me as a forerunner A.I. to understand such complex world is proving hectic.” Anubis said with an amusing voice, causing Parth to chuckle. “ Yup, Anubis this is re-“ Parth suddenly stopped in between when he heard something. He heard someone....Crying ? It sounded like a child’s cry. Deciding to check on it he said, “ Anubis, I will contact you later, over and out.” Parth said to Anubis she acknowledged by cutting the comms off, but his front camera was recording everything. “Anubis said that this forest is the most dangerous place in equestria, then why the hell is someone crying here...in middle of this forest.” Parth thought inside his super brain, while making his way through the bushes to the source of the sound. As Parth made his way through the Forest, the sound of crying grew louder gradually. He was holding his magnum in his hands, while his assault rifle and sniper rifle rested on his back. He soon reached the spot where he confirmed that the crying was of a child, he was making his way through the bushes when he realized something. ”I think I shall use active camo... I am sure that the child would surely get scared when he would see a human, with some futuristic advanced armour”. Parth thought and soon activated his active camo and became invisible. Now he was almost 100 metres away from the child when he noticed the red blip on his motion tracker, coming from the direction of child. Cautiously, he tightened his grip on his magnum while making his way slowly to the child. Even though the natives of this planet could not damage him even in the slightest, he took no chance with caution and had activated his active camo and grip tightened on magnum. He also readied his energy sword. When he got out of the bushes and saw the child, he could not believe what he was seeing. He saw a boy, wearing dark blue jeans and red coloured T-Shirt with three diamonds on it. He saw that boy had green hair and was... purple skinned. The boy had scales on his body and two eyes, nose, ears and mouth with hands and legs, just like humans. By his facial features, he deduced that the child was a boy. ”WHAT THE FUCK.... That kid looks like a dragon and different from other natives. Damn this planet will never stop to amuse me.” Parth thought very loudly and laughed in his head. Concluding that this boy was no threat, Parth switched off his active camo and made his way forward towards the boy. But magnum still in his hands, just in case. The boy, suddenly stopped crying and his eyes widened with shock when he saw an armoured behemoth materializing in front of him and coming towards him. The boy saw that the....thing as he thought, had different and more advanced armour as compared to that of a royal guard, the armoured being was wearing a black helmet and armour with blue-black faceplate. He saw that the armoured being was carrying some ‘L’ shaped thing in his hand, with his one finger on a movable piston like object. The boys also noted that it had two more sticks, stuck on his back with some unknown magical force, one was a long stick whereas other was a little shorter, perhaps they were some sought of unknown weapons. Now this whole armoured being inserted one emotion in the boy’s mind in vast amounts. ‘FEAR’. The spartan noticed the boy’s behaviour and saw that he was really intimidating for the boy. So Parth decided to confront the boy and if possible, comfort him by asking a most basic question that one species would ask to another. “ Can you understand me ?” Parth asked. He knew that he could understand their language by the translator that his helmet was carrying. The boy seemed to get confused as to how this thing was able to speak without a face. He also deduced that this armoured being was a male by the accent of it’s voice. Seeing the boy was in confusion, he repeated himself “ I ask again, can you understand me ?” The boy was still feeling intimidated of this armoured creature, but he managed to nod to Parth. Celebrating his short victory in his head on getting the response from the boy, Parth tried to continue the conversation to get some answers from the boy and to ask about his problems. “ Good, now tell me, what kind of creature are you ?” Parth asked, trying to be less intimidating. The boy, feeling a little comfortable on knowing that this creature is not going to harm him, said “ I-I-I a-am, what i-is kn-known as a d-d-dra-dragon b-boy, we a-are a mixture o-of human and d-dragon.” The boy finished very nervously with his eyes with less fear than before. “ OK boy, now tell me what is your name and why are you crying ?” “ S-S-Spike “ the boy told his name to the spartan. “ I am crying because, I had to run away from my house and my village and was forced to leave my friends on the orders of my adoptive big sister.” Spike said and his eyes again started filling with tears. Parth understood from the way he spoke, the way he looked miserable, that this boy had suffered something bad and has lost someone, just like those few kids that he had saved from the covenant. Nevertheless, Parth asked him one more question, though he knew why had Spike run away. “ Why were you forced to run away from your home.” As soon as Parth asked this, Spike burst into tears right in front of Parth. Being a spartan, Parth was trained and his genetic augmentations caused him to feel almost no emotion so, Spike’s crying did not induce any sympathy or caring nature for spike in the spartan. Spike, recounted all the tale of the war that had broken out in Ponyville, Spike told hime that he had gone to rarity’s boutique and how when he was helping rarity, some changeling creatures invaded their town. Parth questioned him about these changelings. Spike told him that Changelings were black and scaly bipedal creature who fed on emotions of others and were brutal in their methods, Spike also told him that these changelings were led by a queen known as ‘Chrysalis’. Spike explained him that his big adoptive sister was none other than Twilight. These names Rarity and Twilight all caught Parth’s attention as they were two of the carriers of the most powerful weapon of this planet. Spike also told him that after being rescued by Twilight, she had ordered him to escape and hide into the Everfree forest, as it was the only safest option available at the moment. The last part of the story dwelled tears into his eyes again as he didn’t know what would be the condition of twilight as of now. Parth had enough of his crying. “ Stop crying like a one year old baby spike, get yourself up move forward, it is pointless to cry for those things that are not in our control, I shall say that your sister made a wise decision by sending you here to hide. Else you would have been captured also.” Parth said in complete emotionless voice, as he had dealt with the emotion that Spike has been going through. The final part really angered Spike and he said out loud. “ STOP CRYING ?? DO YOU EVEN KNOW, HOW DOES IT FEEL TO LOSE SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU, WE DID NOT HAD A WAR SINCE A MILLENNIUM, AND ONE DAY MY VILLAGE GETS ATTACKED AND I AM FORCED OUT OF IT, THEN YOU SAY STOP CRYING, YOU D-“. Spike was cut off by the loud shout of the spartan. “ ENOUGH ! You don’t have any idea through what I have been through, you are a small kid who should not have watched those horrible moments of war, so shut up and get over with it.” Parth said a bit loudly and harshly to Spike, which caused him to cringe in fear again. Realizing that a kid would not understand the intergalactic war that he went through in the past 6 years, he knelt down on one leg. “ I am sorry Spike, I shouldn’t have yelled on you, but you forced me to led out the anger and sadness that I have buried in my heart from the past one year.” Parth said almost emotionlessly, but Spike managed to understand that this armoured being had a lot of pain inside him, even though he could not see his face or even if he had one. “ I am sorry too, I know nothing about you and I spoke those harsh words, by the way who are you and what are you ?” Spike asked out of curiosity. “ Call me Spartan-127 or just Spartan, the rest information about me is classified.” Parth said. He didn’t feel that it was the right time to share his details, especially with a kid that he is a human, not of this world but also the owner of a ship that could devastate this planet within few minutes. Spike didn’t understand about this ‘classified’ thing but, understood that Spartan did not wanted to divulge any information about himself, so he didn’t suppress his question for answers. “ OK mister Spartan, I jus-.” Spike was cutoff when the spartan raised his hand to silence him. Parth saw nine red signature dots in his motion tracker. Soon after that their was a loud ‘HOWL’ just like of a wolf, which caused Spike to cringe more in fear and the spartan to unholster his magnum and to ready it for an incoming possible attack. Suddenly, the creatures stepped out in front of them, the spartan moved forward, he was quite amused to see the creatures. The creatures were made of...wood. They had bright green glowing eyes and sharp canine teeth. They looked exactly like wolves. They started surrounding the spartan as Spike had already dug himself behind a bush. ” Oh shit....more fucking impossible creatures, what more ridiculous creatures will this world show to me, and they think they can take me down, let me prove them fucking wrong.” Parth said as he readied himself for the combat by igniting his energy sword along with the magnum. These poor wooden creatures didn't really have an idea about what they are facing right now. Spike peeked through the bush to see what was happening, but could only see in horror that the Spartan had been surrounded by nine Timberwolves. But he saw that Spartan was not afraid, instead he had readied himself for the combat with that 'L' shaped weapon and a blue sword with little flames, that he thought that Spartan had brought out from nowhere. Spike thought that this creatures was underestimating the Timberwolves. He was a little enthusiastic as what would this creature do to protect himself, surely he won't kill anyone would he ? Suddenly, the timber wolves stopped circling the Spartan and stood at a particular position, with their growling increasing in intensity. Parth marked the positions of his targets. " Three targets, behind me, Three targets, infront of me, two targets on my right side and one target on my left side, seems they are trying to flank me, I know how to deal with this." Parth formulated this all by his increased thinking capacity. Suddenly three Timberwolves lunched at him from behind, Parth saw this in his motion tracker and spun around with incredible speed and slashed his energy sword through the timberwolves. The energy sword had no problem in cutting the wolves as various parts of the bodies of the wolves splattered into pieces. One of the wolf's face was gone completely, second one was cut entirely in half and the third one was on fire with,screaming with his legs cut from the attack, all of them had some green substance flowing out of them. Spartan spun around quickly again and before any of the Timberwolves could react, he fired three rounds of his magnum towards the three timberwolves that were standing infront of him. Each bullet met it's mark and the heads of those three timberwolves were gone in few seconds, all of them fell down, dead. Now the remaining three wolves we're completely intimidated by the power of Spartan, their legs started shaking and their faces had look of pure fear. But the Spartan showed no mercy, he quickly fired one more magnum round towards the head of the lone standing timberwolf which met it's mark, and he quickly spun around and slashed his energy sword at the two remaining timberwolves before even they could run for their lives. So within 5 minutes, the Spartan had taken down all the Timberwolves, each lying down dead. "Ha...piece of cake". Parth said in his mind. Spike was completely petrified on what he saw. The creature had KILLED those nine Timberwolves. It would take almost 12 royal guards to scare away so many timberwolves, but this Spartan had killed these timberwolves mercilessly without even flinching. Spike was now completely afraid of this Spartan. He understood that this creature was danger to everyone, Spike thought that the Spartan must be banished to the Moon for such aggressiveness. But before he could make a run his life, away from the spartan. He heard the Spartan call his name. " Spike come out, the danger is dead , we are safe for now." Parth said with emotionless voice which caused Spike to flinch as he came out from the bush. This Spartan k-killed those wolves mercilessly, he could have scared them away, but he chose to kill them and still does not show any regrets...this creature is really dangerous. I shall say to twilight to ask Princess Celestia to banish this creature from Equestria Spike thought in his mind as he made his way to the Spartan, but did not say any word. " So Spike" Parth started," Can you venture out of this forest on your own or shall I escort you out of it ?" Parth asked Spike. Spike was more than happy to get away from this Spartan as soon as possible, but again heard a large 'ROAR' of a manticore. Realizing that he would not be able to make it to ponyville alone he asked, "W-well, it would be better if you could escort me out. I don't wanna become a food of a manticore." Spike said in a low voice, but enough for the Spartan to hear. " OK, then I will escort you out, don't go away from me if you don't wanna die kid." Parth said as he deactivated his energy sword, much to Spike's astonishment, but kept his magnum in his hands, just in case. Thankfully, the rest of the trip was safe, and the Spartan and Spike we're now nearing the edge of the forest, they had been walking for almost 1 hour because of Spike's slow speed. Spike on other hand was explaining about the dangers of everfree forests to the Spartan, Spike also told him that the creatures he killed are known as timberwolves and are very dangerous creatures. Though Spike was still petrified from him, but he also looked on the Spartan with awe on the Spartan's remarkable strength and speed. " So here it is kid, where we part ways, your town will be just ahead of these bushes, good luck." Parth said as he started making his way back to the extraction point. "But wait, how can I go into the town with these changelings rampaging it !" Spike exclaimed, which caused the Spartan to stop dead in his tracks. He had forgotten that this child had runaway from his attackers and he was leaving him here, to be caught by those attackers. He quickly contacted Anubis by shutting off his external speakers. " Anubis, there is a problem now." " Go ahead sir, I am listening." Anubis replied, prompting the Spartan to continue. " I was researching the area when I suddenly stumbled around a kid in this forest. He told me that his village was under attack by some creatures called 'changelings'. I right now escorted him out of the forest, and standing infront of the village. Shall I help them or shall I return back ?" Parth asked Anubis for her advice. " I advice that you shall, help them Parth. It might help us to become friendlies to locals, which might inturn, help us in researching of this planet, we might also contact their rulers and get to know their intentions, rest is up to you Parth." Anubis advised, which was enough to convince Parth to help the natives. " Alright Anubis, I will help them, I need you to change the ship mode to combat, as I might ask you for orbital bombardment, If I find that their army is more than one million." Parth ordered Anubis. " Alright Sir, Anubis out" Anubis said and shut the comms off. Parth also reopened his helmet's external speakers. He saw Spike looking at him, puzzled. " Spike." Parth said which caught Spike's attention " I will help you and your people in this war, but don't think that I will not kill if I am supposed to, I saw your reaction when I killed these Timberwolves and understood that you guys don't know or have seen killing since a long time, so I will help but will not hesitate to kill, and it would be beneficial for me too." Parth stated complete emotionlessly. Spike thought that he was crazy, that he thought that he could take on an army on his own, but Spike did realize that this Spartan had killed 9 timberwolves with much ease. So Spike only nodded in agreement, but he was petrified as he would see more deaths and killings. "Good, now let's find a safe spot to take cover while getting most of the open view of the village, I might need to snipe some targets before entering the battlefield, I might need your help in identifying some potentially important targets." Parth said asked Spike to follow him. Spike again nodded in agreement and started following him. " Looks like I have to return to my former self, once again after the war with covenant, to my lone-wolf and ruthless side... that everyone feared." Parth thought as he made his way to the target hill. > Liberating Ponyville but bad first Impressions > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- OUTSKIRTS OF PONYVILLE, AFTER 10 MINUTES Parth and Spike were moving towards a small high rise. Parth was continuously looking at his motion tracker for any sign of contacts. He was fully alert and completely cautious because of which, He and Spike were moving from cover to cover. Parth had holstered his magnum and was now carrying his assault rifle, pointed in forward direction. As they progressed, they soon came across multiple dead bodies, of both changelings and the local people. There was smell of the dead bodies everywhere. Parth was used to such smell, but he still activated his helmet’s air purifiers which allowed only ultra clean air to pass through inside the helmet, where as Spike had to cover his nose and mouth, to keep the contents of his stomach, in his stomach. Parth noticed Spike in an uncomfortable position, He saw that Spike had tears in his eyes. “ You alright Spike ?” Parth asked, shockingly out of concern. “ No offence, but do you really think that I would be alright with my town burning and getting rampaged before my eyes, with so many dead bodies around of both changelings and my people ? We have been in peace since a millennium and even in the wars we had no killings, we just defeated all our opponents using banishment methods or by using prison of love and peace, which would reform the criminals. Then, these changelings come out of nowhere and this massacre, I can’t believe it that these changelings could ever kill someone.” Spike answered, with a hint of sadness, venom and anger in his voice. ” Prison of love and banishment methods..... what the hell are those ?” Parth thought in his mind, completely confused. But still he tried to comfort Spike. “ I know your feelings Spike, You wouldn’t really like to know me and what I did in past 6 years, try to compose yourself and stay behind me.” Parth said in a comforting voice. Spike was literally confused and wanted to ask about his past, but he remembered that they had a task to focus on. Now they were at the base of the hill top. They were about to climb when parth suddenly stopped dead in his track, making Spike to do the same. “ Contacts! Nine crossbow wielding changelings, on the top of the hill.” Parth said by looking zooming his vision of helmet. “ What are we gonna do now ?” Spike asked, with a little fear in his voice. “ Leave it to me, just don’t make any noises.” Parth ordered Spike, to which Spike complied and stood close to the spartan. Parth holstered his Assault rifle and withdrew his Sniper rifle at the same time. He laid his one knee on the ground and used the other to keep himself steady. He aimed his sniper rifle on the top of the hill. He looked into his scope and found that these 9 changelings were far apart. He had a clear shot, but it might take time in reloading the sniper rifle as it has an ammo of 6 rounds only. So he decided one thing to counter this problem. Parth went into ‘Spartan Time’ mode, which he had due to his augmentations. Time slowed down for him. Now everything was moving slowly for him. He took a deep breath and aimed his sniper rifle at the head of one of the changelings and released the pulled trigger. Since the sniper had a suppressor attached to it, it didn’t make any noise. The bullet left the rifle at tremendous velocity and met it’s mark. The bullet pierced the armour of the changeling very easily and hit the head, which caused it to blast in various pieces, the changeling fell down dead, headless. Now before any other changeling could turn at the sound of the bursting of the head of the fallen changeling, five more changelings fell down dead, just like the rest. The remaining 4 changelings were completely stunned and horrified, but another two seconds later, even they met the same fate as their fallen fellow changelings. After killing all the changelings, Parth returned, back to the normal world and time now assumed the same speed for him as it were before the spartan time. To say that Spike was stunned was an understatement. He was completely horrified on seeing the commotion that had taken place between the past 10 seconds. He could not believe that this Spartan was such a good shot. Spike could not believe that the spartan was so fast. He thought that this spartan was way much faster than Rainbow Dash. Spike was also in ‘awe’ on seeing the spartan killing 9 changelings within few seconds, which even the strongest royal guard and captain of royal guard ‘Shining Armour’ could not do. Lastly he was completely petrified of the weapons that Parth had. He could believe that such a weapon could exist, which can kill someone from more than 500 metres away from their targets. But he was still uncomfortable with this ‘killing’ stuff, Spike believed that the Spartan should have knocked them out instead of killing. “ Spike, come on we don’t have entire day to waste here.” Parth said to spike, which caused him to come out from his day dreaming. “Hmm.. yeah ok.” Spike said and both of them now started climbing the cliff. CENTRAL AREA, PONYVILLE The main six had been captured for a few hours now. Rainbow dash was banging on her cage repeatedly with no success. Fluttershy was curled up inside her cage, with tears running down their cheeks. Pinkie pie’s fluffy pink hair had now fallen down completely, with her skin becoming duller. Applejack was gritting her teeth in anger and trying to think what to do next. Rarity was busy keeping her hair from getting messed up and occasionally glaring at their cage keepers. Twilight was completely worried for Spike, she had sent him into one of the most dangerous places in all of equestria, she was hoping that spike would be OK. “ Let me out, and I will kick your bucking asses very hard.” Rainbow shouted at the changelings “ Let us out you filthy, dirty creatures, the cage is messing up with my hair.” Rarity said, while whinning, which caused the changelings to chuckle. “ Don’t worry now, your time is up now, we are going out in the open so that everyone could see that what happens to those who stand in my way.” Chrysalis said while coming inside the tent, where the main 6 were kept. “ What do ya mean ?” Applejack asked, suspiciously. “You will see soon.” Chrysalis said. “Guards, take these prisoners to the outside, and bring them on top of the stage that we have set up. Chrysalis said to her changelings. The changelings acknowledged and started pulling the cart in the open. As soon as the main 6 came out in the open, they were completely horrified on seeing what had transpired. There were more than 2000 changelings everywhere in town. There were a few dead bodies. There were many broken and burning buildings, but what horrified the main 6 were that the 40 % population that had been captured, were tied up in chains, which connected them to each other. The prisoners were made to sit on the ground in front of the central stage, created by the changelings. The main six were soon brought on top of the stage. Their cages were then opened with 3 changelings standing beside the each cage, so as to catch the girls if they did anything funny. The girls were then taken out of the cages and then made to sit on their knees, in front of the civilians. Suddenly six changelings each came out with a scythe in their hands. The six changelings split up and each came behind the six girls. They immediately put their scythes on necks of the girls, ready to cut their heads off. All the civilians were shocked by seeing this scene. “ What do you intend to do Chrysalis ?” Twilight asked in a fearful voice. “Don’t worry Twilight, you will see soon now. “ Chrysalis said and turned around. ”Please hurry princess and BBBFF, we don’t have much time” Twilight thought in her mind as she turned her eyes towards the imprisoned civilians “ OUTSKIRTS OF PONYVILLE, ON THE TOP OF THE HILL” Parth and Spike had now reached the top of the hill. Parth decided to give Spike binoculars, that he had attached on his hips. Spike took them but didn’t understood what it was. “ What is this and what does this do, is it a type of telescope ?” Spike asked Parth. “ You may consider that. It is a mini telescope, which has a much shorter range than a telescope, you can see the magnified image of an object in it which is far away.” Parth explained and taught him how to look through the binoculars. “ Now Spike, we are currently 1.1 kilometres away from the central area of the town, I need you to look through the binoculars, as I look through magnifying the scenery before me and pinpoint the leaders of this changeling army.” Parth ordered Spike and he acknowledged. “ Good, now let’s get to work.” Parth said as they both began to look at the central area. As they began to look look towards central Ponyville, their eyes pinpointed and their jaws almost dropped om seeing the commotion that was taking place, especially Spike. Parth saw that the civilians were tied in chains were made to sit together. He also saw a stage, on which their were 6 people with six changelings behind them, with scythes in their hands. Parth saw that that those six people were girls. A girls with lavender hair and tan skin, a girl having cyanish skin with rainbow haired colour, a girl with white skin and purple hair, a pinkish skin girl with fluffy pink hair, a blonde girl with blonde hair wearing a hat and a yellowish skinned girl with pink hair, they all were wearing a T-Shirt and jeans. Sudden realization fell on Parth, that these girls were none other than the ‘Elements of Harmony’ that Anubis told him about. ” The fuck ??? They have the most powerful weapons and yet, they are held captive... that is strange. Seems the changelings are about to do a public execution.” Parth thought in his head as he analyzed the situation. Spike panicked on seeing twilight on the mercy of the scythe wielding changeling. “ TWILIGHT !! OH N-“ Spike was cut off when, Parth put his hand on his mouth. “ Damn it Spike, you would have given away our position. We are 1.1 kms away but your sound will still reach them as we are in a hill top.” Parth shouted in a low voice on Spike. “ How am I supposed to be quiet, they are about to kill twilight.” Spike exclaimed, with tears in his eyes. “ Don’t worry Spike, nothing will happen to them.” Parth said as he adjusted his sniper rifle to point at the scythe wielding changelings. “ Spike, we need to wait and see what they are about to do, start pointing out the important beasts.” Parth ordered him and Spike began telling and pinpointing at Chrysalis and her commanders. CENTRAL PONYVILLE “ Let us go, you ruffian.” Rarity shouted towards Chrysalis, who then let out her devilish grin. “ I guess it’s time that you, now get to see the price that I wanted to show you. Guards, bring those 3 kids right out here onto the stage.” Chrysalis said with still holding her grin. The girls were confused at first, but their jaws dropped on seeing the 3 kids that were now being brought up on the stage by three more scythe wielding changelings. Those three kids were also girls. One had fair skin with purple hair, other had a fair skin and purple hair, same as that of Rarity, while the last was on had and orangish skin and pink bow on her hair, looking a lot like Applejack. Those 3 kids were none other than Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and Applebloom. Once the 3 kids saw their sisters they said. “ Applejack”. Applebloom said weakly. “ Rarity”. Sweetie Belle said, also weakly. “ Rainbow Dash”. Scootaloo said, a little bit louder. “ PLEASE SAVE US.” All 3 of them shouted together to the main six. “ APPLEBLOOM, SWEETIE BELLE, SCOOTALOO, DON’T WORRY NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO YOU.” Main six shouted in unison while trying to go towards the kids, but were pulled down back by changelings. “ Ah swear, that Ah ‘ll kick ye asses very hard, if ye lay ya scythe on my sis.” Applejack growled. “ You will suffer, even if I find a single scratch on my dearest sister. “ Rarity said, very angrily. “ I WILL BEAT YOU SO BAD, IF YOU TOUCH SCOOTALOO.” Rainbow Dash shouted at the top of her voice. “ Here is your gift girls.” Chrysalis said with devilish grin on her face. “ Now, I will kill them before your eyes, your death will not be an easy one, Elements of Harmony.” Chrysalis said with a murderous look in her eyes. “ No, please. Do anything you want with us but not to the girls, please.” Twilight pleaded to Chrysalis, who laughed maniacally in return. “ I already said that, you will suffer for defeating me during the wedding. Killing your 3 loving kids will be a best start for this.” Chrysalis exclaimed. “ Guard start with the white one first, kill her now!” Chrysalis said to her guard. “ Yes your highness, I was waiting for this moment finally.” The guard said as he was raising the scythe in air to dacapicate sweetie. “ NO !!!” All the girls exclaimed and the chained civilians also shrieked in horror. Rarity fainted on seeing the scythe nearing her sister’s neck. But the end never came. OUTSKIRTS OF PONYVILLE Parth saw the entire commotion that was going one through his scope. He concluded that this queen of theirs was first going to kill those 3 kids and then the main six. But that was not going to happen under a spartan’s watch. ”Get ready you fuckfaces...now you will see what this spartan can do” Parth thought to himself as went in to his Spartan time to kill 9 changelings in mere seconds. He took a deep breadth and pulled the trigger, while his sniper facing the changeling of was about to kill Sweetie Belle. The bullet left the sniper at a speed, greater than that of sound and met it’s mark, hitting the changeling’s head which splattered in pieces in front of everyone present there. CENTRAL PONYVILLE The changelings, that was about to kill Sweetie Belle fell down, without his head anymore. Everyone was shocked, at what just transpired, including Chrysalis. As they were trying to process what happened, another two head splattering sounds were heard and the changelings, who were wielding scythes on the heads of Scootaloo and Applebloom, fell down without their heads. And even before the crowd, queen or the main six could turn to see the other two fallen changelings. Two more head splattering sounds were heard, while the other was a big scream. The two changelings who lost their head right now were wielding their scythes on the neck of Rarity and Twilight and the third, who was wielding his scythe on Fluttershy just lost his arm and was shouting in intense pain. “ AHHHHH ! My arm My arm...!” The changeling said before he fell down and went limp due to blood loss. There was no sound in entire Central Ponyville. Everyone was too shocked on seeing what had just happened. 6 changelings dead within 2 seconds. They couldn’t believe anything, yet the truth was in front of them. Finally, they saw the six trails of smoke, coming from a hilltop. Finally the silence was broken by sobbing Fluttershy. “ They are.......t-they...are dead!” She said and then burst out crying, as she had enormous love for every living creature. Suddenly her sobbing stopped, when three more head splattering sounds were heard, this time it were the changelings who wielding their scythes on Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Pinkie pie. All of them were completely stunned. But their stances were broken, when there was a huge amount of light coming from the sun, which could nearly blind anyone. While every head turned up to see the lighting, suddenly the gates of the surrounding building were burst open and what came out of them made them sigh in relief. There were thousands of royal guards coming out from the buildings and pinned all of the changelings while pointing their spears at their eyes, with one heavily golden armoured soldier. “ BBBFF !!” Twilight shouted, now fully broken from her trance and ran towards Shining Armour with her full might snd speed, and embraced him tightly. “ Twily ! Thank Celestia, you are safe” Shining said as he embraced his sister back. All the girls were now broken out of their stunned stances and were now being helped by the royal guards, civilians were unchained and the changelings were made to stand in order. The girls hugged each other, while Rarity and Rainbow Dash ran towards Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo to embrace them. Chrysalis couldn’t believe that she was about to be failed once again, but she saw that Applebloom was still there. She quickly picked up the scythe that was fallen down and ran towards Applebloom, grabbed her and put the scythe on her neck. Which sounded in a ruffle. “ APPLEBLOOM !” Everyone shouted who just hear the ruffling and had turned their heads. “ I will not fail...not fail again.” Chrysalis said, as she backed while putting scythe on Applebloom’s neck again. Suddenly, Chrysalis was surrounded by a horde of female royal guards and two people came out from between the royal guards. They were none other than Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, in their battle armour. On seeing the princesses, everyone bowed before them. “ Rise, my subjects this is not the time for formalities.” Celestia said and everyone stood back up. Then she looked back to Chrysalis and her expression changed to anger. “ You are completely surrounded Queen Chrysalis, we give you the chance to surrender peacefully and to come to Canterlot with us for your proceedings.” Celestia said in a neutral voice, with a stern expression on her face. “ Never, I will never comeback with you.” Chrysalis said while tightening her grip on Applebloom’s neck, which caused everybody to flinch. “ This is the last time I ask you to surrender yourself, I assure you that nothing harm will be done with you" Celestia replied with a neutral tone. " Nothing harm ? NOTHING HARM !!! THAN TELL ME WHY DID YOU KILL THOSE 9 GUARDS OF MINE ?" Chrysalis exclaimed, with tears in her eyes. It was at this moment that the eyes of Celestia and Luna went towards the headless corpse of changelings. The princess were shocked at such a gruesome act, they had indeed killed a few people in the past that was almost a millenia ago, without leaking the information to their subjects, but they were never so cruel that they would literally rip off the heads of their enemies or kill them this brutally. Shining Armour was also in shock. He had to fight in a few small battles but he never witnessed killing, in his entire life and never did he thought to kill anyone. Celestia was the first one to break the silence. " W-what j-just happened here?" She asked, with a bit of saddness and pity for the changelings in her eyes. " Don't play with me Celestia, I know it's your doing, you have changed and you are the one who killed them. But never I did expect it would be this brutal." Chrysalis said while bringing the scythe closer to the neck of Applebloom. " I am really sorry for this act, but I can assure you that this is not my doing. We don't have weapons that can splatter any living creature's head." Celestia said to Chrysalis in a neutral tone. " I don't believe any of you anymore. After this gruesome act, I will have my revenge by taking the life of this girl, and th-" Chrysalis never got to finish her sentence, because a 7.62 mm round of a heavy sniper rifle passed right through her head. A royal guard who was standing beside dropped her spear in shock and covered her mouth with her hands. Applebloom swiftly fell from the hands of the Queen, and then she ran to Applejack and hugged her with all her might. Chrysalis's head did not splatter as she was quite larger than other changelings. Her lifeless body, first fell to the ground on it's knees, and then fell sideways. The area where Chrysalis fell, was now covering up in green blood, oozing out of her head. Saying everyone was in shock was an understatement, especially the Changelings who we're now crying loudly. Chrysalis, the powerful queen of the changelings, was now lying dead on the floor. Fluttershy fainted on seeing the dead Chrysalis, but was caught was Rainbow Dash. Everyone present there, except Princess Celestia and Shining Armour had tears in their eyes. They only wanted to imprison Chrysalis again with a powerful prison of love, even though she killed a few civilians today. But they never wanted to kill or execute her. Celestia held her head down in shame. She had failed her duties. She had taken the oath that whatever may be the reasons of a war, it will be resolved peacefully, but today, it had been broken with the death of Chrysalis. Suddenly, Celestia's eyes met with a trail of smoke coming from the nearby hilltop, she concluded that it must be the same smoke that had beheaded the other 9 changelings there. She understood that this commotion did not happen on it's own, someone has killed them. She came out of her thinking world by Luna's question " Tia ? What just happened right now, I can't believe that someone died in front of us and we could not do anything about it." Luna said, after wiping her tears. " I understand sister. None of us expected that a event like this would unfold, in front of our eyes." Celestia said, sadly. But Celestia did not knew as to what has to be done in a situation like this, because nothing like this ever happened, even in the great war. But she knew one thing, she saw that the trail of smoke was emerging from the hilltop, and it has to be investigated. Fluttershy had now woken up, but was quite sad. " Twilight and her friends, I need you to gather the elements of harmony, and return to this place in 20 minutes, something else has also happened here." Celestia ordered the main six, they nodded and went off to gather the elements, without questioning. " Your highness, I don't understand anything. How did this all happened, I understood changeling invasions, but splattering of heads !! It's something I have never seen before." Shining Armour said, but a hint of fear in his eyes. " I am as confused a you are captain, even I don't understand that what has such a power, that can kill anyone, without having mercy. The best hope is to wait and investigate." Celestia said, as she took another look to the dead bodies. " Citizens of Ponyville, what transpired today is the most disheartening thing that ever occurred in a millennia, but I assure you that we will investigate the reason and if there is a person behind it, he or she would be brought to justice. Until then, please return to your homes." Celestia said and everyone silently walked away to their homes and locked themselves up. The only remaining people were the guards, the captains and the princesses. " I will find, what or who did this and give it the justice that it will deserve." Celestia thought in her mind as she ordered her guards to get rid of the bodies, and provide a funeral to Chrysalis. OUTSKIRTS OF PONYVILLE Parth was satisfied that he got a perfect shot on the changeling Queen. He had killed the main source of the war and war had ended. He was also glad as he didn't have to jump in between the city as the army of the Equestria had come at the right time to save their citizens. But he looked though his scope saw that the princess was not happy, neither were the civilians. He noted that princess had sent the main six somewhere, and had asked the citizens to return to their homes. He was now sure that the was had ended. " Seems everything is fine now, changeling Queen is dead and Ponyville seems to be liberated now, right Spike ?" Parth asked Spike. No response. " Spike ?" Parth asked for him again. No response. The he turned his head and saw that Spike was not there. Suddenly he saw a shadow right down the hilltop, it was none other than Spike who was running towards the queen. " How the hell did he got away.....well I don't care, jobs done here, I guess that I shall talk to the princesses later and see if they are friendly enough". Parth thought to himself, as he positioned his sniper back on it's place on his armour and started making his way towards the forest back. > First meeting...not as expected > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CENTRAL PONYVILLE, AFTER 20 MINUTES Princess Celestia had been pacing back forth continuously for the past 20 minutes without talking to anyone. She had been thinking about the smoke trail, that she had witnessed emerging from the hilltop on the outskirts of Ponyville. She was determined to investigate about this, as she thought that they might get a clue as to what had caused such devious and inhuman circumstances. Her walking exercise was finally stopped by a known voice. " What is in your mind Tia ? Tell me." Luna said as she put her hand on her sister's shoulder, trying to loose her mood. " Just wait Luna, I think I might have an idea as to what must have happened, but first let us wait for the elements." Celestia said, feeling somewhat relaxed from her sister's concern. After 10 seconds, Celestia saw that the girls were now returning with the elements, the lockets around their necks. She ordered her army of royal guards to stand up in formation, with Shining Armour in front and the elements beside them all as she began to speak. " My people, it seems we might be in a bigger danger than we suspected, other than these changelings. As you all saw, that an unknown force today killed Queen Chrysalis and 9 changelings within a few seconds, we suspect that this force might prove to be very dangerous. I saw that there were smoke trails coming from the top of the only hill top near Ponyville. I suspect that whatever may be the cause of of this unknown force, there might be a clue on that hilltiot, which will perhaps lead us to the source. So we all are to march to the hill top and investigate the area. Am I clear ? Celestia finished her speech. Each and every royal guards saluted and acknowledged her orders for them, along with Shining Armour and the main six. " Twily, I need you to be at my side for your safety, ok ? Shining Armour asked her sister. Twilight nodded and embraced her brother once more. " Likewise, BBBFF." Twilight said as she loosened the hug. But before they all could move, they heard a known voice. " TWILIGHT!!!" Spike shouted with all his might as he saw Twilight standing there and running towards her. Everyone turned their faces towards the sound, and then cheered up in happiness, especially Twilight. " SPIKE !!" Twilight said as she also began to run towards Spike. The two continued to run towards each other and then embraced each other very tightly. " Twilight, I missed you a lot, I saw how you were about to be killed, I was really afraid." Spike said as he then cried on her shoulder. " I missed you too, Spike. I was so worried for you, I thought that I had lost you." Twilight said as her eyes began to water. They finally broke off and found everyone was tearing at the sight in front of them. It was a moment of happiness that everyone was ok, for now. After getting released by Twilight, Spike was then group-hugged by rest of the main six. After hugging session was over, Princess Celestia made her way to Spike. Spike saw and immediately, bowed before the princess. " Rise little Spike, I m delighted to see you okay and fine. Out of curiosity, would you mind telling me how did you survive in everfree and how did you know that Twilight and her friends were prisoners ?" Celestia asked him, with serious expression. Spike's mood turned into a sour expression and everybody noticed it, implying that it was not good. Thinking that he would not be able to hide himself from telling about the Spartan, because of the presence of Applejack, he decided to tell the truth " I survived because of a guy who called himself 'Spartan' and he was the one who consoled me, while I was crying, while sitting under a tree. He was the one who escorted me safely out of the forest." Spike told everyone. Everyone was shocked, including the princesses as they were curious to know about this Spartan now. " Spartan ? I do not know anyone by this name living in Ponyville or anywhere near and most importantly, was he a male ?" Twilight asked and exclaimed, stunned. " Yeah, because he is not from Equestria, as he told me in our conversation and yes that guy is a male." Spike replied, and everyone gasped at his reply. " What else do you know about this 'Spartan' Spike ?" Celestia asked, with a raised brow. She also noticed the change in Spike's body posture, getting tensed. " He...he is a quite guy, and a highly skilled and powerful warrior, more skilled than anyone in the entire royal guards, wonderbolts or the night guards, as I saw by his actions." Spike said and once more everyone was shocked by his answer. " Warrior ?? And what kind of actions did he do to make you believe that he is more skilled than anyone present here in the royal army ?” Shining Armour asked this time, somewhat tensed....and Jealous. “ I...I can tell but you won’t probably believe me.” Spike said, stammering. Twilight saw this and then placed her hand on Spike’s shoulder. Spike relaxed a bit. “ Everyone believes you here my Spikey-Wikey, tell us about this Spartan and his actions.” Rarity said to Spike. Spike blushed on hearing this from Rarity. “ Yeah just tell us about Sparty, I might wanna throw him ‘Welcome to Equestria’ party...(gasp) I need to make preparations and...” Pinkie’s rambling went on and everyone was dumbfounded. They ignored Pinky and then concentrated back to Spike. ”Ok then, here it goes...” Spike thought to himself and then began explaining about the powers and his acts to the princesses, Main six and everyone else present there. EVERFREE FOREST Parth was making his way through the forest, quietly as he did not want to get attention of the dangerous animals present there. Obviously, he was the danger to the animals present there and did not wanted to kill them. He activated his comms and contacted Anubis. “ Anubis, mission was a success. The town has been liberated of the changeling invaders and... I killed the queen of the Changelings from a hilltop using my sniper.” Parth told his experience to Anubis. “ Really ? You killed their queen... why didn’t you tried to find any other way except killing her, you could have knocked her unconscious easily, by going invisible through your camaflouge... well I am happy for you, so did you try to contact the Princesses ? Anubis replied and then asked. “ No..not now, I think I need to give them time to clean up the town and help their people, I would try to contact them later....right now I would be examining this planet more, before I need to return to Endurance.” Parth answered her, with an emotionless voice. “ Ok Parth, just tell me when you need to comeback... I would send either a pelican or a phantom to pick you up, good luck Anubis out.” Anubis said as she switched off the comms. Parth sighed after the talk with her. ” Today will be a hectic day” Parth thought to himself as he noticed that he had almost 5 hours more of daylight left. He then continued to trek on his way for more anomalies. CENTRAL PONYVILLE “... so this is what happened with me the entire time... it was really scary Twilight....he was a monster....he j-just (sniff)...killed them all mercilessly, without any sign of regret.” Spike said as he finished his story, he was tearing in Twilight’s arms “Shhh Spike...it’s okay... that monster will pay for everything that he has done.” Twilight said to Spike to calm him. Everyone was completely shocked and stunned on hearing about the murderer of Queen Chrysalis. As per Spike, that creature, possibly a he, was someone nobody had ever seen before. He was wearing, what Spike said to be black coloured armour with a black and white stripped helmet, which was different and very advanced as compared to that of a royal guard... with the ability to get invisible. He had 3...sticks. Two of which were long and were stuck on his back by some force, while the third one was an L- shaped with movable piston. He even had a...sword with him which would come out on his command. He had used those weapons and his skills to kill 9 timberwolves, 18 changelings in total and Queen Chrysalis in a matter of few seconds. According to Spike, by judging the Spartan’s tone... the Spartan was completely ruthless and merciless. A complete danger to the Kingdom of Equestria. Fluttershy was being consoled by her friends as she was crying continuously because of the deaths of timberwolves. Celestia was in her deep thoughts about this Spartan. She was totally confused. On one hand, he had saved the lives of her subjects by killing Chrysalis and her subjects in a few seconds. On the other hand, he was very dangerous, he was told to be very skilled and lethal by Spike, a creature who could kill easily without any second thoughts, he had weapons that could shoot from a very distant range, which Equestria could only think about in dreams. But soon she made her final decision. She would either banish him to the sun, with the help of the elements or she would kill him. With so many lives taken by this Spartan, it would not matter much to her to take his. She cleared her throat to get the attention of the crowd before her. “ My dear subjects, with profound thinking and considering all the facts that were told by Spike about this ‘Spartan’. I have come to a conclusion that this creature is potentially very dangerous to Equestria. He has all in him, to disrupt the peace and harmony that reigns along this land. I have concluded that this creature must be stopped for the land to continue to thrive. So my final decision is that we march to the location of this Spartan, surround him and then make him pay for everything he has done. Does everyone agree with my decision.” Celestia asked her subjects loudly, and everyone cheered for her, implying that they all had agreed to their princess’s decision. “ He will be payin’ for all he has done, he killed Chrysalis and disrupted the flow of harmony, Ah would personally love to buck him very hard.” Applejack said, while cracking her knuckles. “ You are not alone in this Applejack, I would give him a kick that he will remember for the rest of his life.” Rainbow Dash said, through gritted teeth and venom in her voice. “ Such indecent creature, who is merciless can never be the knight of my dreams. He must be banished.” Rarity said, mostly concerned for Spike’s emotions because of this Spartan’s act. “ I will never give such a meanie creature, a party even if he begs me to do that.” Pinkie exclaimed, but everyone just ignored her dumb comment. Fluttershy did not say anything but she was determined to make the Spartan, pay for the lives of all the creatures, he had taken. “ You are right girls, no matter how powerful an evil creature may get, but he will never be able to defeat one strength, that is our power of friendship and the elements of harmony. We all will face him together and make him pay for his acts, remember until we are altogether, there is no evil that could defeat us.” Twilight said to everyone there and everyone cheered. All the main six held eachother’s hands and activated their element necklaces. They each gave other a group hug and made their way to the princesses who were ready to march. Celestia was impressed by the courage, the main six and her soldiers were displaying, even after knowing that they were going to fight an opponent about whom, they had no idea. “ Everyone, I believe the creature must be in the Everfree forest now, I will feel his presence when he would be near us. FOR EQUESTRIA.” Celestia said the last word with full force. “FOR EQUESTRIA” Everyone else followed the same suit, and then started following the towards the Everfree Forest. But they didn't know, that the army of Griffin Kingdom was also present in the Everfree forest, scouting Equestria and waiting for a right time to attack the Equestrians. ONE HOUR LATER, EVERFREE FOREST Everyone was searching for this Spartan without respite, past and hour. The princess was trying to feel the Spartan’s presence, but with no success. The main six were a little scared, because of the Everfree forest and the dangers it hold inside it. All the royal guards were on full alert for any danger that could leap on them, no word was being spoken. Rainbow Dash decided to break the silence. " This bucking sucks, we have been searching for him past an hour and we got no clue." " Be a little decent and show some mannerisms Rainbow Dash, we are with royalty so please, act with some ettiquetes." Rarity told Rainbow Dash, who inturn huffed and started walking faster than anyone else. Luna saw all the commotion, and begin to say " Sister, it has been a long while, while we had been searching for this Spartan, do you think we would find him ?" " Yes Luna, I am sure we will find him, he has to be somewhere in this forest, and when we would find him, we will banish him." Celestia said. " Ok sister, remember that I am always with you." Luna said as she embraced her sister. " I know Luna, I know." Celestia returned the embrace and they continued on their trek. Unknown to them that the Griffin army had surrounded them all, while hiding. " Commander Smart Beard, our all 1000 Griffin soldiers have surrounded the Equestrian army, I have counted that they have the 'Elements of Harmony' , they have 500 royal guards and both the princesses, shall we attack by flanking them ?" A Griffin lieutenant told and asked his Commander. " Patience, is one thing that leads to success lieutenant. We may have outnumbered them, but they have the princesses and the elements. We have to come up with a strategy first, else it would be us that would getting pinned down instead of them." Smart Beard explained the lieutenant, without letting his anger control him. " Ok commander, what do you suggest we do ?" lieutenant asked Smart Beard. " We wait lieutenant.... For the right moment, right now they are at high alert, if we attack now we may suffer heavy casualties. For minimums, we need to wait till they sit down to have some rest, at that moment we will attack them and then we would take our revenge, that we always wanted to take since the Equestrian-Griffin war." Smart Beard told the Lieutenant. " Acknowledged sir, but those royal guards do look beautiful and hot. I am impatient to have fun with them." Lieutenant told Smart Beard, in a hungry manner. " Patience lieutenant, you will have all the fun you want, just be patient, and remember there has not been any killing since a millennium, so we have to take all of them prisoners, so no one will deal a killing blow, order that to all of the troops." Smart Beard told the lieutenant. The lieutenant acknowledged, and went back on the track. 30 minutes later The search party was still continuing to look for this 'Spartan' but with no success. It had been more than 1.5 hrs. So all of them decided to take a break of 15 minutes, before resuming their operation 'Teach the Spartan a lesson' as named by Pinkie Pie. Nobody gave a shit about it. While they all were resting, Twilight approached princess Celestia. " Princess, what do you think of this 'Spartan' really ?" Twilight asked Celestia. " What do you mean Twilight, I really didn't catch your question." Celestia asked with a raised eyebrow. " I mean, we are going to apprehend or imprison the Spartan, who may be termed as our saviour. I mean if it weren't for him, we would have already been dead. So do you think that it is gonna be a good idea to take him down ?" Twilight elaborated her question. Celestia was taken aback by Twilight's question, she had been thinking only about the evil deeds that the Spartan had put up, but didn't think that not only the Spartan took care of Spike, but also saved her people from death. " I really don't know my student. But I do think that you are somewhat, correct. But we cannot allow such a creature to venture out in the open, it would be a wise decision that we either kill or banish him, or apprehend him and research on him, if Spike says that he has unimaginable equipments, it would be a great boon to our technology." Celestia answered while patting Twilight's head. " Ohh !! I would get to study advanced technology, it would be coolest thing princess!!" Twilight exclaimed while jumping, Celestia could only laugh at her enthusiasm. But their moment was short lived. " ATTACK NOW !" someone shouted from the trees, just beside the Equestrians. Before either the princess or the main six could react, thousands of soldiers coming out from the woods, and began to assault them. It was because of the training of Equestrian guards, that they instantaneously caught up their weapons and they also started counter- attacking the soldiers, now identified as the Griffin forces. " What the hay just happened, from where did these come soldiers come out from ?" Rainbow Dash shouted, as she clashed her sword with the two female Griffin soldiers on her own. " I have no idea, what just happened Rainbow Dash, but we do know that we are under attack, so counter-attack them but remember, no killing as Griffins are only trying to capture us." Princess Celestia shouted as she threw few of the Griffin guards away with her telekenises. The main six and all royal guards shouted 'FOR EQUESTRIA' and fought back. And soon the peaceful break of the Equestrians, had now turned into a war in the deepest parts of the everfree forest. Most of the animals ran away from the spot as clashing of swords and Spears began. Things were going really boring for the Spartan, he had saved Ponyville from the changelings, and was now checking out for anomalies and forming out his theories for them, which obviously, failed. " Arrgh, this is fucking boring, I am a Spartan, not a fucking researcher." He said in a loud voice to no one. He was about to go to a clearing and contact Anubis, for a flight to his ship when suddenly, he heard the sound of 'clashing' of metals due to his advanced hearing in his surrounding area. " The hell's that sound ? Looks like sword clashing." Parth said to himself as he expanded his motion tracker's range to 500 metres. He saw that there were a very large number of red dots, at a distance of 470 metres from him. " Hmm...something doesn't seem right, I shall check out, about what this commotion is." Parth said as he made his way to the source of the sound. 10 Minutes later As Parth got closer and closer, the sound of clashing got louder and louder. Now he was almost 10 metres away from the sound source, behind a tree. The number of red dots had also increased. He was now sure that some sought of fight was going on the other side because, he knew all types of combat. " I think, I would be better if I don't reveal myself." Parth thought in his mind. He activated his active camaflouge to go invisible, as a sign of precaution and unholstered his Assault rifle. As he got near the final tree, he decided that he should go out in the opening very slowly so that his footsteps won't draw any attention. Parth took a deep breath and stepped out in the clearing, just a metre ahead of the tree behind which he was taking cover. When he saw what was going on, he couldn't believe on what he saw infront of him. His eyes saw an ongoing war, but it was very different. He saw that two armies were clashing head on. Most of the soldiers were females with swords. One army he identified were the same Equestrians he had saved, while the other he could not remember. What the Spartan found amusing, that instead instead of killing, they were pinning each other down and putting their swords on the throat of their enemies. He saw that the unidentified army outnumbered Equestrians by 2 to 1. He understood that the unidentified army was trying to capture the Equestrians. " SERIOUSLY....I SAVED THEM FROM A WAR, SO THAT THEY COULD GET IN TO ANOTHER ONE !! Parth thought out loud in his mind. " I shall wait and see to check what the fuck is really going on here." He said to himself and he went back to the tree where he had been taking cover, and leaned himself upon it. The fight continued for 30 more minutes. Parth was really amused on seeing the battle. Instead he felt like laughing on seeing the primitivity of all the weapons. But something caught Spartan’s attention and that was Pinkie. Instead of fighting she was happily bouncing like a small child on her two legs and kicking anyone, who got near her. ” What the hell is she doing ?” Parth asked himself, totally confused. “AHHHHHH !!!” Someone shouted loudly from the battlefield. Everyone’s eyes turned to the sound, even the Spartan’s and what they saw cause their eyes to widen in shock. Fluttershy was stabbed right through her belly, by a male griffon guard. She had screamed in pain, and she fell down, unconscious. “ FLUTTERSHY !!” Every one shouted and began sprinting to the unconscious girl. But as they got distracted, the griffon guards took the advantage and pinned down every Equestrian. “ Private ! What is the meaning of this ? I ordered all of you to not deliver a fatal wound to anyone, and you dare to not oblige me.” the lieutenant shouted. “ I am sorry sir.... but she reacted fast, and I missed my target.” The private, who had stabbed Fluttershy tried to defend himself. “ Private, I don’t want to hear any excuses. You will be doing the latrine duties for 1 month now, and I want no backlash from you, is that clear ?” Lieutenant shouted angrily, to which the Private acknowledged and stepped away from Fluttershy. “ Patience lieutenant, losing one of these will not interfere with our plans.” Smart Beard said to lieutenant, which caused all the Equestrians to perk up and the Spartan to raise his eyebrow. “ Please... let us near Fluttershy. If she will not be treated, she would die of blood lose.” Twilight pleaded to the Commander. “ Hahahaha... and you think that I would let you near her. Let her death be the message to all the Equestria, that anyone who would dare stand against the Griffon empire. They will suffer the same fate as hers.” Smart Beard said with a laughter of a Devil. “ What do you mean ?” Celestia asked Smart Beard, angrily. “ To capture Equestria, and take our revenge from you for the damage, Princess that you inflicted upon us in the Great war.” Smart Beard replied with venom in his voice. “ You know it was you guys, who started the war and who dared challenge the power of Equestria. You suffered the consequences of your actions.” Luna said, with a hint of pride in her voice. “ Don’t underestimate us now, we are very powerful than before. You won’t survive us now. For now you will see what we will do to you all girls now.” the lieutenant said, while eyeing the main six with lust, while licking his lips. “W-w-what do you mean ?” Rarity asked, quite fearfully. “ You will see....sweetie.” Lieutenant said while he started making his way towards her. “ I swear that I will buck your asses, if you lay your hand on my friend.” Rainbow Dash shouted at him. “ Oh try me.... next will be your turn.” The lieutenant said as he got closer to Rarity. Rainbow Dash tried to lunge at him, but was restrained by the two female griffon guards, pinning her down. Parth saw that condition of Fluttershy was getting critical by each passing second. Luckily, He had brought few packs of biofoam and bandages with him, just in case and which he could use to patch her up. He decided to step out and reveal himself, and also decided to ‘kill’ the lieutenant of the Griffon Kingdom to weaken the spirits of these Griffin Knights. He decloaked himself, unholstered his magnum and started moving towards the opening while pointing he magnum at the head of the Griffin Lieutenant. He also activated his energy sword. Lieutenant was now standing very close to Rarity. “ C’mon...Sweetie look at me it’s ti-“. BANG Lieutenant’s sentence was cut short, when half of his face was ripped apart after a very loud noise. He fell down to the ground beside Rarity, dead. Rarity...as a drama queen shouted very loudly, while other were very shocked especially the Griffons. “ Leave them alone” a voice shouted at all of them causing all of the heads to turn towards the sound. When they turned, their jaws dropped on what they saw. They saw a 6 foot 4 inches tall bipedal metal like creature, easily a little bit taller than princess Celestia. His head and body were black coloured, with white stripes. He was holding a ‘L’ shaped weapon in his left head, which was pointing towards the dead Lieutenant and his right hand was holding a...glowing sword. But sudden realization took place upon them as this creature resembled the properties of the Spartan, that were told to them by spike and also Princess Celestia started feeling something strange. They all recognised that this was the Spartan, for whom they had been searching for hours. Smart Beard grew very angry, as he recovered his composure and instantly understood that this creature was responsible for his lieutenant’s death. “ WHO AND WHAT ARE YOU ? AND WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY LIEUTENANT?” Smart beard shouted with complete rage. “ I am Spartan-127, thats all you will get from me. And for your lieutenant... I just killed him.” Spartan replied neutrally. Smart Beard’s right eye twitched as he heard what the spartan said to him.....the lieutenant, one of the strongest people in Griffin Kingdom was killed in mere seconds by this...this thing. He couldn’t believe that something....could possibly even touch his lieutenant, but this thing literally killed him. “ YOU WHAT ?” Smart Beard again shouted with rage, but a hint of fear was visible in his voice. “ You heard me, now all of you leave these golden armoured soldiers and go back from where you came...else you all will end like him.” Spartan said as he pointed his sword towards the lieutenant. Suddenly, Smart Beard was shocked by the threat of the Spartan and than began to laugh like a madman, followed by all the Griffon soldiers. The Equestrians were watching all of this commotion with awe, as this Spartan had again come to their rescue, nonetheless, even threatened an entire Griffon army in his own. “ Is he crazy ?” One of the female equestrain guard said. (All of the Equestrian forces present their knew that spartan was a male). “ You bet... he really is crazy, but brave enough to stand his ground against all of them.” Another guard said. The main six were too stunned by seeing the actions of the Spartan. “ There is our target... damn we are bound or else I would be teaching him a good lesson right now.” Rainbow Dash said, gritting her teeth. “ Rainbow be quiet. Let’s see what he will do.” Twilight replied while glaring at her. Rainbow only huffed in response. “ REALLY !!!! You think you can take an entire small portion of the mighty griffin army on your own. You do know we outnumber you by 700 to 1. If you think that by killing my lieutenant, you could make us fear you, then you are bloody wrong.” Smart Beard replied, after regaining his composure. Parth sighed to himself as he knew where this all was going. The Griffons were clearly underestimating the Spartan. “ Listen, I am tired of killing today. I am in no mood for more kills so why don’t you just leave, besides that yellowish girl is in dire need of treatment, else she would die.” Spartan replied neutrally but clenched both his weapons more tightly. “ Why do you wanna save a whore and filthy girl like her...why don’t you focus right in front of a big problem, that tour created for yourself by killing my man.” “ Well, you have no right to insult a girl like that. You too, look like a hybrid of what would be produced when a eagle and a fucking donkey had sex with each other.” Parth said, trying to retain his composure and not letting his anger take control of him. Smart Beard’s right eye twitched again and many of the Equestrain soldiers started laughing with a low sound, but enough for Smart Beard to hear. Rainbow Dash broke out in laughter while, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and even Princess Luna were having a hard time time in controlling their laughter. Celestia, Twilight and Shining Armour simply stood in shock at his vulgar language. “ S-s-sister...he seems a bit funny, I think I will get along well with him.” Luna stated to Celestia between her laughters, only to receive a glare from her. “ ENOUGH !!!” Smart Beard roared in anger, “Guards att-“ BANG Everyone was shocked again by the same loud bang. They now saw Smart Beard...with horror. His face was gone, just like the lieutenant’s and he fell down with a loud thud. The Griffin guards were now completely horrified with both of leaders, now laying dead. There gaze averted towards the spartans and saw him, with ‘L’ shaped weapon raised again. “ This is the last time I am repeating to you all. Both of your leaders now lay dead, I am restraining my anger to take control of me.... if you wanna see the tomorrow’s rising sun...Leave.this.instant.” Parth said with a bit harsher voice, depicting his anger. The Griffin guards looked each other and then to the Spartan. True that they outnumbered him, but they all were now doubting his skills. This creature had killed both of their leaders in mere seconds. Their faces now turned to fear as they saw the spartan switching off his sword and placing his weapon back, only to pull out a long wooden stick, which he then pointed towards all of them. Realizing that they had no knowledge of the weapons that the spartan was using. They were full of fear as they thought that this weapon would be much more efficient and faster than the previous one. They all got away from the Equestrain guards, the main six and the princesses and backed away in fear. Realizing that his threat had done his job, he holstered his assault rifle back on it’s place on his armour. “ Good...now leave this area and never return again....else I would kill you all.” Parth said, with a voice of threat. The guards nodded and ran away at full speed, back to the Griffin Kingdom. Now only the Equestrians and the Spartan remained. All the Equestrians were ‘aweing’ the Spartan for his bravery and courage that caused the Griffin Army to run away, except the two dead ones. Even the Princesses were impressed by the Spartan, especially Luna. The main six also had baffled expressions. Princess Celestia realised that she had concluded all wrong about the Spartan. True, he had ‘killed’ someone only because it was necessary, but he saved her subjects twice now and most importantly, he saved a woman’s honor. Before she could talk to the Spartan someone shouted. “ Guards !! Target insight, surround the Spartan.” Shining armour shouted. All the guards broke out of their trances and quickly rushed towards the spartan and surrounded him with their spears raised towards his head. “ Really ?” Parth said, completely unamused and crossed his hands. “Guards, stand down.” Princess Celestia said as she along with her sister and the element bearers began making their way to the Spartan. All the guards just lowered their spears and backed away “But Princess he ju-.” Shining Armour started, only to be cut off by Celestia. “ I know what he did but that was necessary, else we would have been captured by now and Celes...uhmm..I mean..I know what would they do with us. Don’t forget Captain that he saved all of us and your sister twice now.” Celestia said. Everyone’s eyes were now on Celestia. Shining Armour tried to resist, but found no words. “ Fine , but I will be wat-“ he cut off, when he saw that Spartan was not there, where he was standing before. “ Where is he..WHERE IS HE ?” Shining Armour shouted and everyone now were confused, as to where the Spartan had disappeared. “Uhh, everyone....” A guard said while pointing towards the Spartan. Everyone’s gaze turned towards, only to see him kneeling towards and doing something on someone. A look of horror took place on all of their faces as a sudden realization came upon their minds, that they had forgotten about someone. Fluttershy. “ He’s doing something to her... He’s dead now.” Rainbow said as she started to run towards the Spartan to tackle him, only to be stopped by Applejack. “ Relax..Ah can tell that he's patchin' her, let’s see what he’s doin’ to her.” Applejack said as they all started running towards Fluttershy and the Spartan. Parth was checking Fluttershy’s wound. It was deep and blood was flowing continuously from it. He already deduced that she was in deep unconsciousness and lot of blood had been lost. He first took out Fluttershy’s T-shirt leaving her in her bra, and then the biofoam cans from his armour’s ports. He started applying it on her wound which caused her to wince in pain a bit by closing her wound. While applying he heard gasps behind him. He turned behind, only to see the other main six, the princesses and almost all of the females guards with deep red blush on their faces. “ What are you doing !!” Rainbow snapped at him, still having the blush on her face. “ I am treating her, now be quiet and let me concentrate.” Spartan said as he returned back to patching her. All of them went quiet but still had blushes retained on their faces. 10 minutes later Parth had finally patched Fluttershy completely. He had completed her treatment just in time. Any time late and she would have died due to heavy blood lose. But the biofoam could only stop the bleeding for a few hours and her pulse was weak. He put her T-shirt back on and picked her up in bridal style, only to hear few more gasps from behind. He laid her on a stretcher nearby and turned towards the group behind him. “ I have applied my medical supplies on her. They should stop her bleeding for few hours, which is enough for you to get her to a hospital. She has suffered considerable blood lose and trauma. I just patched her right on time as anymore delay would have led her to her death. I suggest you to take her to hospital immediately.” Spartan said to all of them. Suddenly, a pink blur tackled him but not powerful enough to make him fall down. The spartan realised that he was being hugged by a pink haired girl. “ Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you......soo much for saving her.” Pinkie Pie said, while still clinging to the Spartan. “Uhhhh.. welcome ?” He said and Pinkie hopped off him. He then turned towards the giggling crowd. Their attention then, turned towards a cough. “ Greetings Spartan, I am Princess Celestia, the raiser of the sun and co-ruler of the land of Equestria, alongside my sister Princess Luna, also known as the raiser of the moon.” She said. Though, Parth knew about them all, he decided to keep his cover. “ Spartan-127” He replied neutrally, standing in attention mode. ”Seems he doesn’t talk much, I think I shall invite him to Ponyville and get some answers.” Celestia thought to herself. “ Spartan, earlier we had bad image of you in our minds. We thought you to be a merciless killer and a monster and we had marched to this forest, only to capture you and hold you for your crimes, but now I have understood as to why you did that, you saved my subjects not only twice, but you saved my faithful student Twilight’s adopted brother and Fluttershy, one of the element bearers and for that... I thank you from the side of equestria. We are all indebted to you.” Celestia said with a smile and all other element bearers and Luna nodded their heads in agreement, except for Rainbow Dash, she still didn’t trusted him completely. The Spartan nodded and acknowledged her “ It’s my job” he said. All of them were confused by his answer... but they left it as they would ask him later about that. “ Spartan, we really want to ask some questions about you. We have never seen a creature like you before and the kinds of weapons you use are totally different. We wish to know about you a bit more. So we just wish to ask you... will you come with us to the city, that you saved from the changelings for a few Question and answers ? Of course there is no pressure on you.” Celestia said, with a little excitement in her voice. ” So they wanna know about me.... that’s what I wanted that now I might get some answers...but I must be alert as it might be a trap.” Parth thought to himself. Satisfied he turned to princess and said. “ Fine, lead the way. But I will only answer the question that will not involve classified data and I would want some of the answers of my own.” Spartan replied. ” So he is from military...interesting.. I will ask him about this later.” Celestia thought to herself. “ Seems, fair enough Spartan, follow us.” Celestia gestured to the Spartan to move. The guards surrounded the Princesses, the main six( fluttershy being carried by Rainbow and Applejack), and the spartan who was walking behind them in a protective manner. The spartan was at his full guard...just in case. The princesses were eyeing the Spartan curiously, but they didn’t knew that Spartan could see them eyeing him. ” Now things got more interesting” Parth thought to himself as they continued to move towards Ponyville. Leaving the two dead Griffins behind them.