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Tales of Greenhorn-117: The Insurrection and The Covenant

by Mudslingerartist

Chapter 15: Cancellation notes and planned stuff

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Cancellation notes and planned stuff

I'm sorry to cancel this story, but I want to move on to making new stories.  This is my first fanfiction that have submitted and left incomplete but I'm proud of the adventure it was.

Here is what I had planted for that These are the outlines....later I will post texts for future sections that i have written but never got to submit, some of them for the sequels.

Book 1 (This one)

- After fighting Elites Zealots to get to Crystal Heart,  Team Indigo leaves via a covenant dropship.  Then they receive  message from The insurrectionist assassin Night Roamer, who is calling for a cease-fire

-  they visit equestria and are rewarded with the elements of harmony.  Cadence minor is created from the crystal heart.

- Doing so activated a secret distress beacon in the Heart, calling all covenant fleets to Equestria's location

“Cadence Minor, Sit Rep!” Keyes yelled as he gripping his chair.

“Sir!” The Alicorn AI responded “The enemy count has been doubled!”

Keyes's heart stopped when he could see out in space, more covenant cruisers coming out of slipspace, charging up their glassing beams over Equestria.

“May Celestia shoot-our-unlucky-flanks-to-moon-and-back”

- Using the elements to disable the invading covenants ships and enable evacuation ships to take different routes to sigma clopodia, Team harmony defends equestria until they are forced by Captain Gel Rio and Commander Keyes to evacuate donto the winter of wrap

- The Winter of Wrap jumps to random location that was Stored in Cadence Minor's data banks.  While being pursued by covenant, they end up in the unexplored HorseHead nebula.  And they Also find Halo.


Book 2

•         Captain Gel Rio goes against C Minor controlling the Winter's emergency landing on the ring and assigns Keyes to accelerate manually into Halo's surface. Destiny and Cadence get separated from the main team until they regroup at a Crystallion structure.  Despite their differences, both the super soldier and cadence work together as a team

- The other UNSCOE races  are also aboard the Winter – Changeling squad infiltrates , Griffon Hellprancers and  mechanics, zebra medics.  Sgt Gravy J.J. also makes an unexpected return after the events at Neigtherland.

"Hard enough coming back the first time!" - Gravy

• Stranded on an alien world, Indigo team fights with the covenant and tries to unlock the mysteries of halo.  the story follows parallel to the halo 1  story.

• In attempt to investigate the disappearance of Block Stacker’s squad as they tried to gain control of a “weapons cache” Team Indigo is told to pull out upon discovering the Flood (a parasite was contained by the crystal ponies/forerunners until now) – they also meet A Monitor-sprite named 343 Guilty Spark, who identifies Team Indigo as reclaimers and starts chanting about how Halo is a weapon used against the Flood.

• When the team reaches the control center to activate Halo, they learn about the flood-crystallion war and the halo installations were used to kill EVERYTHING to end the war, not just the flood. When they decide not to activate the ring, Spark turns on them, trying to use brute force to show the serious of the issue at hoof.  

• While inside the control terminal, Indigo Team finds out that Equestria is possibly a shield word used against Halo's power. Cadence points out that Celestia is probably the librarian, A Crystallion Queen who somehow saved some life from the halo firing. However, she disclaims after reading in Halsey’s notes on data extracted from the crystal heart, stating that the librarian was crystal alicorn queen that died years ago.

• Against captain Gel Rio’s orders to preserve the ring (Which results in fight with Mudd Slinger and at least two soldiers ‘gummed down’ by High hopes), Team indigo launches an assault to use a Covenant's Ship's engines to destroy halo ring, while the Winter of Wrap escapes.

• Once the ring is destroyed, Guilty Spark (in revenge) teleports the Team on 'gas mine' at a nearby planet. It is now a quarantine zone holding victims of the flood infestation. They end up fighting the Gravemind, the root intelligence of the Flood, and use the elements of harmony obliterate the hostility flood army (by turn them all into stone, which later they crumble into pieces of such).

• Just when It seem their troubles are over, A patrolling covenant cruiser that survived the destruction of halo takes as team indigo as prisoners.

• Epilogue: Halsey is on sigma clopodia, receiving a transmission from Keyes. He reveals to her that he has returned and that Gel Rio was harshly revoked of his position as captain for leaving the bearers Elements behind; Keyes is unsure if they are still alive.  Robin Hood hands Winter of Warp over to Keyes.  Meanwhile, Celestia tells Halseys she did what the Princess wanted; ‘to find and awaken the elements’.  However Celestia notes that the surviving forces of Equestria's Military (including a few Greenhorns) is awaiting to confront the covenant when they find Sigma Clopodia, without the elements to protect them.

Book 3: The Crystal king (a week later)

• Celestia witness the covenant invasion on Sigma Clopodia. (All UNSCOE forces have come to stand by ponykind) Meanwhile the Winter bring Halsey Sparkle aboard as a lead scientist. In the midst of the battle, The Winter gets caught in the slipspace portal activated by a  covie cruiser (While still in a city), racing to Equestria – (A.K.A. Requiem). Once the slipspace 'explosion' is over, both the cruiser and the  Winter receive  a message from Cadence Minor on the Ring

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• A Week before, Destiny-117 and her team were prisoners abroad a covenant cruiser. Destiny is taken to the covenant prophets who want her to activated a crystal pony portal they brought aboard the ship.  Much to the covenant's surprise, Destiny activates the portal - with Cadence, who infiltrated into the Ship's network, taking a video of it and transmitting it to several other  covenant networks .  Still holding onto the their beliefs, the Prophets order their new Minotaur bodyguards to kill off Destiny.  However the 'elite' warriors of the covenant (or shanghelli race as they are called in their tongue) come to Destiny's defense.  This causes a civil a war to start within the covenant, on all fronts, including Sigma Clopodia where Elites declare their new alliance to ponykind.

•   After evading a civil skirmish on the covenant Ship by going through the portal Destiny activated, Team indigo ends up on the burnt surface of requiem/Equestria (inside the ancient royal castle of the sisters)…with an insurrectionist scouting party (led by night roamer) looking for a being known as “Sombra of the crystal ponies” .  Night roamer and Destiny lead their troops to his supposed location at un-glassed north of Equestria.

-   Cadence is starting to become rampant and unstable, being the first ‘organic AI’ and exposure to halo’s data center. It would only be a certain amount of time before that rampancy forced her into death, much like the Discord AI and the Lyra AI.

• This uneasy Indigo-Innie-alliance has to fight though Covenant forces looking for the Sombra too.  When released, Didact Sombra plans to once again enslave the pony race now that he realizes that Celestia has retreated away from Equestria and the Librarian is nowhere to be found. His army is known as the shadow knights, powered by glowing crystals in their chests.  

• Destiny finishes off Night roamer as the latter is impaled by a shadow Knight, successfully avenging Cogneto. After that indigo teams escape through a portal  strangely and conveniently set up for them (by a the ghost of crystal pony known as Bornstealler)

• The Winter and Covenant ship come crashing into Equestria’s scorched world.

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• After sombra’s “late awakening”, Indigo Team, with the help of Spark and the crew of the winter of wrap, attempt to hold back the forces on requiem (The covenant and the Shadow Knights). However they Sombra’s warship escapes requiem/Equestria, headed to sigma clopodia (princess Celestia is located there). At the same time he stanches cadence from Mudd and places her into a device the Composer, which becomes a painful process for Cadence.

• In the caves of Las Pegasus, The team and 343 guilty Spark find the librarian’s and bornstealler's ghosts (Taking on the forms of Twilight Sparkle and Flash Sentry) and they find out that Sombra “composed” most of crystal ponies into the shadow knights, with their now heartless souls trapped in crystals.   They were originally meant to fight the flood infestation, until the elements of harmony were created.

o The librarian also reveals Didact Sombra’s plan to send Equestria is sent into the sun just after he left. (Destiny calls it the final Fall of Equestria) 343 stays behind to slow the planet's descent into the sun, while the Winter chases the Didact.

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• Didact Sombra's warship arrives in the battle of Sigma clopodia, with all the races of the UNCOE and Covenant locked in an epic stalemate.  Some of the covenant surrender themselves to didact and becomes part of his lifeless shadow knights.

•   Team indigo jumps ship off the Winter on November’s pheonix and, with the help of Winter, breaches into the hull of the Warship, having to fight though many sections to get to the 'composing Chamber'.

•  right when the team is nearly defeated my Sombra, An organic Cadence Minor saves them.  Destiny activates a nuke in the Composing Chamber of the warship, Killing Didact Sombra and eradicating his Shadow Army.  This forces the covenant to surrender once and for all, seeing their god had been bested by their enemies and their beliefs shattered

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In the Epilogue, Destiny narrates the ending of her recorded military career:

“I’m not the best raconteur but…ponies fought dragons in the everfree forest wars….then they fought each other when the insurrectionist conflict arose in the colonies….and then the covenant and their ‘gods’….and now….”

> Mudd Sparkle was promoted to the captain of the Winter of Wrap.

> Cadence Minor is coronated as a princess – She and Mudd are enggaged

> Silverblitz and High hopes start their own company (Indigo studios - which resembles Bungie Studios)

>November Flare becomes a veterinarian

>Blades lives the life of a farmer, just like on Bronze Harvest

>Keyes and Halsey have retired

>A foothill memorial is held by Lady Robin Hood

>Destiny takes an antidote to have mind-reading powers removed and moves on after war to become a wonderbolt trainer, often quoting Mendez during sessions. She was told strictly to keep her service as Greenhorn a secret.  She now goes under the alias, ‘Foresighter’

>Eventually Celestia welcomes the covenant races into the Equestria council

>Lifestyle reverts back to a more classic style

>CASTLE military complex becomes a village

"….We have come to a place far from Equestria / Time long passed since we have seen the sun rise / A place where peace can finally come / A place where we can rest and laugh and sing and love in Harmony once more."

Thanks to the many efforts of team Indigo

And because of them, we can rebuild

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Book 2 was more halo-ish than book 3.  In fact it even felt that these would be great stories for a videogame but not  fanfiction.  But, meh,  it would have been hell just trying to write all this, let alone make my own concept art for it.  I figured I do better in short and simple stories about MLP than epic crossovers that tie in.  Like I said before I will be posting pieces of text that I had worked on for this fiction so please stay tuned and keep watching this fiction.

Yeah I threw all this into the trash - but who said I had to do it? Also, I'm gonna reuse Mudd Slinger, Blades, Silverblitz, November, and many others in future stories.

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Last few things I want to share:

"Aaah! Zombies…swap…floating blue ball…halo is evil….HALP!" – High Hopes or November

"This is a Warthog. It is only to be used for spattering, transporting, and on occasion with permission, as a pretend futuristic truck with a machine gun on the flatbed. It is not a trampoline, so stop your jumping right now, missy!" - unknown

"I'm... hanging out... with the... Greenhorns!" – Galaxy Glimmer, a cut OC that was set to appear in Book two and Three

"Alicorn party!" – High Hopes’s discovery of Galaxy Glimmer as an alicorn in disguise

"What about "Super-Ultra-Extremely-Bucked?" Silverblitz

“I still say you're crazy, but hey, I've done lots of crazy things” - Destiny

"No offense, but it's not a real story unless  its a threesome shippin- er…I mean three-way-war.” – High Hopes, talking about a flood-vs-UNCSOE-vs-Covenant

"He can be a real sweetheart once you get to know him." – Candace, talking about Mudd

(Most of those quotes are from MLP episodes)

Book 2 subplots for some characters

o High Hopes is trying to make postcards (One says 'Wish you were here…jackass')

o Blades and Silverblitz hold ‘magic duels’

o November is reunited with a disguised alicorn princess Galaxy Glimmer

o Mudd and Cadence minor investigate things (such as Covenant history and information about Halo)

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