*POV 1st Person Vuur Koning*

I was making my way to the engine room along with Minion, Baldric and Vapaa. The corridor was mostly empty, as most of the Covenant and Forerunner forces in this area were headed towards the engine room to try and immobilise the ship.

“Die, demon” a Fuel Rod cannon wielding grunt shouted, before sending a round towards us, I deflected it with my blade before sending a beam of fire towards the grunt.

“That’s fire demon to you!” I shouted as the beam sent the grunt spattering against the wall.

“Really?” Vapaa asked “Fire demon?” I shrugged.

“Gotta find some way of correcting them” I said “Anyway, how’s your family?”

“Of all the time to catch up on our personal lives” Vapaa said “you have to do this now, in the middle of a damn invasion?”

“No time like the present” I said, absentmindedly shooting a crawler off of the wall with my Suppresser.

“There’s a time and a place, brother. Time and a fucking place” Minion said, shooting down an Elite with his plasma cannon as it rounded the corner “do you know what Turaga Vakama would say?”

“Irresponsible?” I suggested, we soon reached the engine room, thankfully the corridor outside the engine room was empty. Baldric walked over to the door and opened it, an Elite was stood on the other side.

“vad nu då!” he said cheerfully, before shooting the Elite in the face with a Buckshot (you know, the shotgun that Kina tried to use but ended up hurting her wrist with), the other Covenant forces looked at the headless Elite as it slid towards them, before looking at Baldric “alright you bunch of mamman din jävel. Ve do dis easy vay, or hard vay” the rest of us stood next to him as he said this

“Die, heretic!” an Elite shouted, before shooting at him with a plasma pistol. Baldric flew out of the way.

“Hard vay it is” he said, landing before shooting the Elite and reducing its face to a bloody mess. The engine room descended into chaos as the four of us charged in, Vapaa waited for the right moment before allowing balls of light to collect in his hands. He clapped his hands together, sending out a shockwave of light, and every Forerunner it hit paused, before their orange hardlight changed to gold and they began to attack the Covenant.

“Where did you learn that?” I asked, shooting down a suicide grunt, whose grenades rolled towards some unsuspecting Covenant and exploded at their feet.

“Just now” he said, deflecting a volley of storm rifle fire with his double-ended sword before getting out his Tomahawk and chucking it at the Elite wielding the automatic plasma rifle. The small axe embedded in the face of the Elite, causing to it fall to the ground, dead as Vapaa recalled the Tomahawk with his magic. With all the Covenant in the room dead, and all of the Forerunner guardians in the room converted to our side, I walked over to the arcane computer terminal to check the status of all the ships systems.

“Thank god, they haven’t damaged the engines” I said “Shields are now at 80% and falling, all but one of the guns are still operational, we can win this yet” at that moment I heard the sound of an energy sword activating and I was shoved out of the way, followed by the sound of Baldric grunting. I turned around to see Baldric being held aloft, with an energy sword through his chest and an Elite holding said energy sword. Time seemed to slow as the Elite gave a deep chuckle and kicked Baldric away. I gave out a cry of rage as I drew my sword and swung it so hard, the energy sword shattered, handle and all, when the Elite tried to block my attack. The Elite looked at the shattered remains of the handle in shock as I plunged all five foot of my blade into the Elite’s chest.

“H-how…”the Elite choked out.

“Protosteel” I spat “nothing can break it, nothing can stop it” the Elite exhaled one last time before slumping to the floor, dead. I pulled my sword out before running over to Baldric, he looked pale. Minion shook his head sadly.

“Baldric” I said “come on, stay with me” he chuckled and shook his head weakly.

“No” he said “I von’t be valking avay from this one, my friend” he then stopped breathing, his eyes still open.

“Baldric?” I asked, no response…my vision started to go red and I began to pant.

*POV 3rd person*

Ruby propelled her mech over a warthog towards a Hunter, when she got close enough she drew her arm back and punched the Hunter’s ‘head’ as hard as she could, sending it stumbling and firing its fuel-rod cannon randomly. Ruby dodged a shot from the other Hunter before grabbing the first by its shield arm and swinging it at its brother like an oversized tennis racket, she then let go, sending both Hunters into wall before unleashing a barrage of missiles at the two Hunters.

Meanwhile outside the ship, Jetfire, Optimus Prime and Vector Prime were chasing down several Space Banshees, who, until the three Autobots had shown up, were trying to take out the guns on the Jörmungandr

“Crikey!” Jetfire said, trying to shoot down one, only for it to dodge out of the way each time “these Covenant just don’t quit…GET LOST, YOU BLOODY MANIACS!” Jetfire let loose a volley of missiles at a small group of Banshees, who exploded spectacularly.

“We need to get them away from the…ah!” Optimus went to say, but got hit by fuel-rod round, knocking out his engines.

“Optimus!” Jetfire shouted, banking around. He went to fire on the Phantom, only for it to explode and a small space ship shoot past.

“WOOOHOOOO!” Rocket Racoon called out through the coms as he shot down a couple of Banshees “Get the big bot back online, then focus on knocking out the ships. I’ll keep the small fry busy for you”

“Thanks, mate” Jetfire said “we owe you one”

“Just keep the Phantoms off my ass if you see one” Rocket said, Barrel rolling to avoid the oncoming plasma fire of two Banshees and returning fire, destroying them both “I fucking love this ship BLAM!” he sent forth a volley of missiles at another Banshee, destroying it.

Back inside the Jörmungandr, the Defenders of Berk were working with the Guardians to defend some of the crew.

“Why are they doing this!?” Fishlegs asked, panicking as he hid behind his dragon, Meatlug, he whimpered as a fuel rod round flew over them “Chances of survival are dwindling into single digits now!”

“Would you shut it!?” Bunnymund yelled, chucking a couple of egg grenades at the Covenant “HAPPY EASTER, YOU BASTARDS!” North got out one of his portal baubles and brought it towards his mouth before whispering.

“Outside” he chuckled and chucked the bauble at an Elite, the bauble turned into a portal to outer space, drawing all of the Covenant and Promethean forces into the portal before closing.

“Did you just send them into space!?” Astrid asked, the grin on North’s face told her all she needed to know.

*POV 1st person Vuur Koning*

“Brother” Minion said “you need to calm down”

“Give me one good reason why?” I asked, I took this cue to teleport out of there and into one of the Covenant ships.

“Who are you” an Elite said.

“YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE!” I yelled, before unleashing every ounce of Elemental energy I had into one concentrated Nova blast. Destroying the ship around me with the force of a nuclear bomb, the last thing I felt before blacking out was my armour adapting to the conditions of space.

*POV 3rd person*

both Covenant, Forerunner and ‘Jörmunganduns’  that were of the deck of the ship stopped fighting and looked on in shock as one of the Covenant ships exploded and its fireball consumed the other ship, its explosionadding to the fireball.

“What in my sister’s name!?” Luna exclaimed.

“What did this?” an Elite, the Shipmaster to be precise, asked, Luna thought for a moment before her eyes reduced to pinpricks

“Oh gods no”

“What?” Autumn asked.

“Take a wild guess” Luna said, before taking a deep breath, teleporting off the ship and teleporting to different parts of the wreckage. After searching frantically she found Vuur Koning floating in a relatively empty area, she grabbed hold of him with a foreleg before teleporting back onto the ship and gasping for breath.

“Oh gods, what happened?” Autumn asked.

“A Nova blast” Luna said.

“He did this!?” the Shipmaster roared, before going for Vuur Koning with an energy sword, Luna rolled her eyes before slamming the Elite against a wall.

“HOLD YOU TUNGUE, SHIPMASTER!” Luna thundered “YOUR ON AN ENEMY SHIP WITH NO REINFORCEMENTS TO SPEAK OFF, SO DO THE SMART BUCKING THING AND ORDER YOUR REMAINING TROOPS TO SURRENDER” Luna released her hold on the shipmaster before teleporting away, leaving a trembling, and considerably paler, shipmaster to lean against the wall, he sighed before activating his com-link.

“All forces…surrender” he said “the battle…is lost”

*meanwhile*

Luna arrived at Canterlot palace with an almighty bang! Celestia was sat at a small table on a balcony next to their mother, drinking tea.

“Sister” Celestia said, calmly sipping her cup of tea “would it kill you to send me a message beforehoof, we may have unlimited…”

“Sister!” Luna said, looking panicky “now isn’t the time, we need to prepare for war…” the cup of tea shot up into the ceiling, Celestia’s eye twitched and smoke started to drift off of her mane.

“Pray-tell, dear, beloved sister of mine” Celestia said, her voice a sea of barely contained rage “what exactly did you do this time?”

“Not what I did” Luna said “but what a certain genocidal race that paid this planet a visit did”

“And what exactly did they do?” Celestia asked, still in the same state of near rage.

“They attacked our ship” Luna said “they slaughter crew members with no provocation” Celestia turned to Fantasia.

“Mother” she said “if you would excuse me for just one moment” Fantasia nodded and Celestia teleported away, a few seconds later they saw a bright flash in the sky, followed by a slightly singed Celestia teleporting back onto the balcony. Celestia cleared her throat before gesturing for Luna to continue.

“Better?” Luna asked, Celestia deadpanned “Right, well, as I was saying we need to prepare for war, we can’t stand idle whilst the Covenant rages across the universe unchecked”

“What allies do we have?” Celestia asked “beyond this planet”

“An organisation belonging to one of the human worlds” Luna said “an Earth that is more advance that the one Vuur Koning and his ilk hail from”

“Exactly how advanced?” Fantasia asked.

“Over five hundred years senior” Luna said, causing the other two Alicorns eyes to widen “they already have faster that night space travel done to a fine art, and they are already at war with the Covenant, so they will be sympathetic to our cause…”

“Can I just stop you there, sister?” Celestia said “you mean to tell me you made contact with a race that were enemies with the Covenant”

“Yes” Luna said “why is that…oh”

“Did you not think that perhaps that is why the Covenant attacked our ship?” Celestia asked.

“They would have attacked us sooner or later” Luna said “they were just looking for an excuse, their leader, called…Jul ‘Mdama, is a terrorist who only wishes the destruction of the Human race, Vuur Koning knows enough about them…”

“Exactly how can he know about them if they are from one of the other universes?” Fantasia asked.

“Something about some kind of ‘video-game’, whatever that means” Luna said, rolling her eyes “you remember when Vuur Koning told us about the second Earth war?”

“Yes” Celestia said “what does that have to do with current events?”

“He likened the Covenant to ‘making the Nazi’s seem like care-bears in comparison’” Luna said “sister, we must retaliate, we cannot let them roam unchecked” Celestia looked towards Fantasia.

“Mother” Celestia said “what do you think the best course of action would be?” The elder Alicorn thought for a few moments before sighing.

“Your sister is right, Celestia” Fantasia said “We cannot allow the Covenant to roam unchecked, we must retaliate” Next Chapter: Chapter 12 Estimated time remaining: 5 Hours, 7 Minutes