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// Revelation 
// Story: The Guardian's story 
// by Lon35hadow 
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Excalibur

I walked in the halls of Oryx's castle. Only a few hours had passed since apparently vamponies became real, and Alad was currently analyzing the results of what the Guardians brought back. I wasn't involved mainly because, well, even if it ha been two years for me since, what mirror Celestia said before I offed her still has me thinking. Harmony, far as I know, has existed for as long as Equis, maybe the fucking multiverse, who knows. That's definitely enough time to master manipulation, and, now that I look at some stuff, It's made me doubt.

First was the fact she kept the truth hidden from the average pony in my Equestria, and I just went with it. So what if it caused chaos, she's the fucking goddess of Hamrony. I.E.: Balance, she should know chaos is needed. Yeah, that whole threat thing may be true, but there's who knows how many OP displaced out there who'd be willing to help. Plus her own power.

Then there's the fact the mirror versions were renegade when my world's weren't. Either the exact same or opposite has to happen. There was a drastic change in the mirror-the three alicorns becoming renegade and being outcast by Harmony- but none in mine when Cadence, Luna, and Celestia would have either gotten a huge ass power boost or gone renegade too.

And, personally, who knows, I may have been able to survive that car crash that Harmony used to get me here, and may have just blacked out from the pain.

Finally, the whole controlling magic thing. I've trained for two years, have put my self in the middle of a blade for Oryx and the others, but still nothing. This made me think back to something I read in the library of the mirror world. Magical constructs, regardless of who ever made them, are very limited. If they are made for combat, they can do nothing else. I they are meant to be a swordsman, nothing else. Though true they can branch out an use other skills, they can never do so effectively, and even then, it has to be under their creator's orders.

Though, there have been two cases of a construct breaking free of it's creator's will and mastering something else, including the crystal army used by Sombra to defeat Celestia many centuries ago. Though they remained loyal to him, many left the army to become craftsponies and such.

This made me look down at my left hand as I opened it. I then clenched it and sighing. "Looks like I'll need to open that door," I said before making my way to the training grounds. Now, you're probably asking why I'm heading there. Well, it doubled as the army training grounds and the landing site for my Liset and the Guardians' ships. "Forge?"

"Yes, Operator?" the Cephalon asked.

"Can you open the rear door in the Liset?"

"Not entirely," he replied. "Release the magnetic locks, yes, but you would still need to pry them open, and you are not a Rhino or Atlas."

"Do it regardless, and ensure Harmony doesn't know about it. I need to see something."

"Of course, Operator."

As I made my way to the grounds, the various castle staff and soldiers I passed saluted me, though my mind was too focused on a single question. If I'm supposed to be a pre-Update eighteen- or which ever one brought in the change to the Orbiter- Tenno, why is that door there?

After reaching the grounds, I made my way under my ship, the deployment tube opening up before it enveloped me in a gravity field, and lifted me up and inserted me in the slot before it rotated, and I was now laying down on the floor. I got out of the tube, and made my way to the back hall of the Orbiter, where I saw the Somatic Link room.

"The Magnetic locks are offline, Operator," Forge said. "However, when they were, a magical field flared up, and, as far as I can tell, it is still there."

I smiled under my helmet. "Then it is something important, then, Harmony," I muttered. Then, out loud, I said, "Check the Codex databank, look for something called a 'Nullifier Crewman'. I have an idea. Then get me a plasma sword."

"Done," he said. He did have an immense operating power similar to Halo A.I.s, so it makes sense. "Entry found, and weapon waiting in the arsenal."

"Right," I said, making my way to the arsenal. When I got there, I just walked by as I put my right hand into it, and the plasma sword materialized in it, then made the way back to the door. "Project the bubble the Nullifier uses on the door. If I'm right, this will remove the field."

"Understood," he said, and a large, blue bubble popped into existence around the door, and a shimmer was seen inside. "Field down."

"Make sure it stays down," I said before rushing into the bubble, and stabbing the plasma sword into the door on the right side, and, once it was hilt deep, began to carve a circle out of it.

Excalibur, what are you doing!? Harmony said in my head in a near growl.

"Just seeing if my hypothesis is right," I said as I continued. "I'm not really me, am I? I'm just something in a warframe being controlled. Or am I me controlling the something?"

Harmony was silent for a time before replying. "You do realize I could easily have the others hound you."

"Yeah," I said, turning my head to look behind me and see Harmony standing there. "But they'll need to try their damnedest to make it work, and I won't make it easy on them," I said before pulling an Aksomati and shooting her in the head making the body vanish, and I chuckled. "Looks like you won, Celestia," I muttered. I then holstered the automatic pistol, and sighed before returning to my task. When I completed the circle, two semi circles and two crescents fell, making a hole large enough for me to enter.

What I saw surprised me. I saw, in Cryopods, Excalibur Prime and the Ashen Gray and gold Excalibur Umbra. These were to the left and right of the Somatic link, at the very back of the room. "Forge."

"Yes, Operator?"

"Can you open the link pod?"

"Yes."

"Do it."

"Understood, Operator," he said, and, as I walked to the pod, it opened a sit did in game, and, in there, I saw a figure wearing a jumpsuit of similar coloration to this warframe, but it was the face which got my attention. It had brown hair, glowing green eyes, was pale, and had a few freckles on it's face. Just like mine. Exactly like mine.

"Oh my," Forge said. "Operator, I didn't know."

"No need to apologize, Forge. Can you sever the link?"

"Yes, but I'm not-"

"Do it, then have the Hunter get here."

". . .As you wish, Operator," Forge said before I blacked out, and heard my body hit the floor.