Chapter 3: The Vices that consume us
UNSC Pure Of Heart
October 1st 2728

"Why?"

Pow.

The captain fell to the floor dead.

Standing above his body was the Vice admiral Brown, Mandi-666, and Ignacio-479.

The first officer ran towards Anthony with a knife but Nacho shot him with his shotgun. His blood splattered across the terminals.

"Bridge is secure, Admiral." Samborn said.

"Admiral?" One of the surviving bridge crewman asked.

"I am the new Admiral." Anthony pulled out some psycho and injected it into himself. "So good."

He pulled out his M6D and shot the crewman in the head.

"Take us out Mandi we're gonna finish what you started."

"Yes sir."

"And we'll shove it in Hicks's face."

UNSC Infinity recreation bay
August 30th 2728

Anthony was at the bar in the recreation room chugging down a bottle of Brazilian ale. He grabbed a Men-tat out of his pocket and chewed the candy tasting drug and swallowed.

"What the hell are you doing?" Hicks was behind him. "You're on duty and are you eating a Mentat?"

"What's it to ya?"

"Doing drugs and drinking on duty is a capital offense! I could court marshal you for this!"

"Look I've been doing this ever since we got back! And you never had a problem with my drinking before!"

"I need you to be on your best since we're out in the open fighting AIs and equestrian spirits! I can't have you dying on these stupid drugs and alcohol!"

"You know what then?" Anthony balled his fists and punched Hicks in the face.

Blood trickled from Hicks's mouth. Security guards grabbed him but theres not much you can do to stop a Spartan.

(Maximus the warrior- freeplay music)

Anthony tossed one of the two guards against the wall. And kicked the other to the floor. He motioned to Hicks to fight and held up his fist.

Hicks was ready to fight and he tripped Anthony and kicked him into the bar. Anthony got up and slugged Hicks. Hicks punches him in the head and he punched back.

Anthony grabbed Hicks's arm and flung him across the recreation room plowing a few tables as he landed. Hicks rolled to the side before Anthony could land on him. He rapidly punched Anthony back into the bar.

Anthony picked up an Empty bottle of Brazilian ale and slammed it on Hicks's head. Hicks falcon punched him in the face and kicked him off of him. Hicks kicked him in the face and Anthony fell onto the entire bar's contents of alcohol filled glass bottles.

Anthony picked up a chair and threw it at Hicks. Hicks caught it and threw it to the side and charged Anthony. He did a Ninja kick and he landed in the pile of glass that was the bar.

Ten security agents came in and zapped Anthony with a riot zap-o-matic. He fell to the floor in convulsions.

"I want him court marshaled. He's no longer my vice." Hicks wiped off his uniform. "Take him to the brig for the remainder of our journey home."

"Iyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiy iyiyiyiyi!" Anthony said as his hair perked into what looked like a mad scientist's.

The security guards put electrified cuffs on him and dragged him to the brig.

The bartender looked at the mess.

"Dammit." He picked up a broom and started to sweep up the alcohol soaked broken glass.

(Song end)

UNSC Infinity
October 2nd 2728

"Athena, what's the vessel's heading?" Jeff asked.

"It seems to be on a direct course to Equestria ETA 2 hours."

"Full speed activate the RSN capacitors."

"Yes sir captain."

The normally blue slipspace vortex turned into every color known to man at once and the Infinity jumped to record speeds.

"RSN transition complete, ETA 30 minutes to Equestria."

"Give me a hologram of the Pure of heart."

A hologram appeared in the center of the bridge of an Infinity-III class vessel.

"An Infinity-III?"

"Yes the UNSC Pure of Heart service number UNSC-1471417Y-777122. The Infinity-III vessels have some of the more modern shields and modern plasma weapons. It was basically a prototype of the Infinity-IV. The problem with the design is that it includes Alpha shield technology instead of Theta. Alpha needs to drop a large portion of the shields to fire the weapons while Theta can collapse a small portion of the shield for a split second around the projectile or plasma." Athena explained. "It's based off the Covenant bubble shield and the calculations of the freelancer AI Theta."

"Anything else I need to know?"

"The Infinity-III class also has lower yield plasma weapons than us. But it holds an advantage: Triple MAC guns. The MAC guns were added as a nod to the UNSC Iroquois from the Great War. It also sports Twin PAC guns but they don't have the same power of our PAC gun. We also have more plasma beam projectors than them."

"Why are we anticipating a battle?"

"Reports say that Spartan Anthony-769 escaped from military custody 2 hours before the Pure of Heart left orbit and Mandi-666 and Ignacio-479 have not reported in."

"You assume that these Spartans have commendeered the ship?"

"Yes Anthony's personal pelican the 'Bootleg' entered the vessel a half hour before the ship left orbit."

"Did you report this to the Admiral?"
"Of course."

"Where is he now?"

"In his quarters."

"Tell him we'll be there in a half hour."

"On it."

Athena's avatar dissolved. Jeff looked at the view screen. It was filled with the plethora of colors that developed in RSN slipspace.