//------------------------------// // A Second Source // Story: Destiny DLC: The Gathering Light // by observer of dimensions //------------------------------// Somewhere beyond the Sol System The serenity of space overlooking Twilight’s homeworld is suddenly of broken by Three ships popping out of their NLS into normal space. The people Piloting said ships happened to be Friends of Twilight and Nox-23. Ohmei, Legion and Jeremy looked down upon the planet before them. “Data from the ship's scanner show that this planet is quite similar to Earth.” One of their Ghost stated. “This is strange. Im picking up another planet in the system on the far side of the sun. “That is odd. I don’t think Twilight said anything about another planet in the solar system.” Ohmei stated. “That may be so but don't forget that their technology isn’t that great they might have telescopes but not much beyond that.” Legion said. Legion’s Ghost quickly ran calculations on the newly discovered planet. “Ah I see. I just ran a large area scan and it looks like that the planet is in a dark spot.” “Dark spot?” Ohmei said curiously. “Yes. given that Telescopes would be the extent of their ability to see into outer space the one method they can use to find non-reflective or bright objects in space is to spot said object passing in front of a star. If there is no star for the planet to block then it wouldn’t be discovered until the ponies would have achieved greater technology for astronomy..” Suddenly Jeremy’s ship darted away. “Jeremy wha-” “Let’s go check it  out.” Legion and Ohmei watched as Jeremy took off only to follow soon after given very little choice to do much else. As they got closer to the mysterious planet a very interesting detail came to light. “What the heck happened to the planet!” Ohmei gasped. The planet was before them was brown with no atmosphere and had been broken into several large pieces all the way do to it’s core.    All three Guardians stared at the sight before them for a moment. Legion was first to notice that the ship’s scanner was picking up an active power source within the planet. “Hey guys do you see the energy signals coming from the southern hemisphere?” “Yea just noticed that too. Nothing else on the planet so not that hard to find.” Jeremy replied. We might as well check it out.” Legion and Ohmei spoke their agreement on the matter, interested on what they would find.        The planet’s surface as completely barren, not a single trace of evidence that the surface had at any point supported life. The inside however was a different story, embedded in the the cracks within the planet was an entire network of structures. The scanning equipment however could not penetrate the structure’s walls leaving their curiosity unsatiated on what was inside. The three Guardians made their way through the gap between the planet until they reached what appeared to be a large octagon shaped gate. “Hold on I'm getting a short range signal from the door.” One of the Ghosts says. “It’s an automotive massage requesting hangar access codes.” “ Can you get us in?”  Ohmei asked. “Asking a Ghost if he can open a door is like asking a fish if he knows how to swim. Though they always seem to take a long time when their Guardians are being attacked. ” Jeremy replied wittily. “hahaha.” Ohmei’s Ghost dryly laughed. “Yea I can get it open. Just give me a few minutes. “Well i guess we just wait and hope there are no xenomorphs.” Jeremy said. “Or Necromorphs. Legion added. “Who knows maybe there is could be a combination of both behind the gate.” Ohmei’s comment was met with silence. “Dude please don’t.” The gate to the hanger started to open. “Alright door is open… guys why are all quiet. The Ghost asked. “Oh just waiting for you.” Legion  answered. The Ghost blanked but said nothing.    The inside of the Hanger was quite spacious, allowing ships to move around without much trouble or likelyhood to crash into each other. On the sides of the Hanger were three story worth of docking bays. Many bays were empty but a few were occupied. The three guardians transmatted onto a white platform within the docking bays they had chosen to park. Guns lowered but minds alert. Legion glanced over the entire hanger noting several never before seen ships, making a list of which ones he would like to look at once he had the time. “Okay Guardians, look for a console one of us can access the station systems from.” Jeremy’s Ghost requested. The Guardians jogged to the back of the hanger. At the end of Hanger there was a large bulkhead with windows overlooking the entire Hanger. Upon entering Hanger control the Ghosts went straight to working turning on controls and shifting through programs and data. Thankfully the wait wasn’t long. The Ghost finished their work and returned to the their Guardian’s “backpack” “there wasn’t much there besides reports and the Hanger control but we did find out that this station’s main power was turned on a few hours ago.” “Meaning that someone else is here.” Legion said out loud. “Most likely. Good news I found a basic map of the place.” Ohmei raised an eyebrow. “A map from Hanger control?” “Technically it is an emergency evacuation plan that shows how to get here from other location to escape the station but no one said that we couldn’t use it for the opposite of evacuating.”   “Well we won’t find anything more here so we might as well find out who or what turned the power on.” Legion stated to which Jeremy and Ohmei agreed. Using the map the three Guardians left the Hanger and headed deeper into the facility. The first couple of minutes traveling through the hallways. The lights started to flicker, the three Guardians raised their weapons. “For Thousands of years I laid dormant…” A voice called out from out of nowhere. “ Who dares disturb my...Oh hey you must be friends of Nox and Twilight.” the voice said suddenly coming from right behind Jeremy. The three humanoids spun around to see a pink pony with a fluffy pick mane and three balloons as a cutie mark. “ Hi i’m Pinkie Pie what’s your names?” The guardians took a moment to stare at the strange pink mare. Pinkie smiled widely in return. Finally Ohmei broke the silence. “Oh I’m Ohmei and my comrades are Jeremy and Legion. “Hiya!” Pinkie said vigorously shaking their hands. A sudden tremor broke throughout the facility. The Guardians quickly rebalance themselves preventing them from falling over. “What the hell was that?” “Oh that’s just the gravitational control module pulling the broken pieces of the planet back closer to to the would be core to prevent us from eventually floating out into empty space.” Pinkie explained, the Guardians blinked. “Hey want to meet the others?”                Traveling through the hallways of the facility following the bubbly pink pony the fireteam of guardians arrived at a double door. A plate above said door with written text on it seemed to dictate what the room was for, however it was in the pony language. The double door slid open and Pinkle pulled all three Guardians in before their Ghost could give them the translation of the text. The majority of the room was taken up by rows of spheres sitting in indents on the floor. Some of the spheres were larger than others but all of them could at least fit a single person or pony. Among the rows one of the spheres was hovering in space. The sphere stayed right above the indent but seem to be rotating. On the side of the room not taken up by spheres was instead taken up by ponies. The ponies all looked from the console that they had been at to the new arrivals. “Hiya girls I found some guardians in the halls.” Pinkie cheerly announced. Immediately the ponies turned to look.  “This is Jeremy, Legion and Ohmei” The Guardians preceded to wave at the ponies. Pinkie seemingly teleported next to her friends. “And this is Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack, Starlight Glimmer, Sunset Shimmer, Princess Luna and Princess Celestia, and Rainbow Dash is in the pod.” Pinkie completed saying before collapsing on the ground gasping for breath. Princess Celestia stepped toward the three men. “Hello Guardians. I hope everything is well in your solar system and with Twilight.” Celestia’s regal tone dropped into a more somber one at the mention of Twilight.” The ears of the other ponies straight up waiting for news of their friend. Legion smiled “ our mutual purple friend is doing well. Been kicking ass and chewing bubble gum. While confused by how Legion wording Twilight’s friends were relieved to hear her condition. Before anyone else Princess Luna addressed the three Humanoids We weren’t expecting Guardians. How….”  With a hiss the pod that was behind them lowered to the ground an a door opened and a cyran head popped out. “Hey what gives I asked for you guys to make it…” the new pony Rainbow Dash finally noticed the three Guardians. In a flash of rainbow light the mare appeared in front of them. “New guardians! Hey how’s Twilight? Why are you here?” Rainbow Dash fired off questions rapidly to the Guardians. “Rainbow.” Luna spoke in an unamused tone. We were just about to ask that before you interrupted us.” “Oh...sorry.” Rainbow dropped to the ground sheepishly. “Honesty we are surprised to see you guys here instead of Equestria.” Ohmei said. “We are not in Equestria?” Princess Luna replied. Ohmei shook his head. “No we’re-” “We’re in another planet that's been smashed into pieces and is only being kept together by advanced technology that pulls the pieces back together that's why we feel the rumbling you wanted me to find out about..” Pinkie interrupted, smiling cheerfully at the Lunar Princess. Princess Luna looked down at Pinkie and was about to open her mouth to say something be instead shook her head. She looked  to the Guardians once again. “Could you answer the questions that Miss. Dash happened to ask for me. Said mare looked off to the side with a slight redness to her cheeks. “Certainly.” Legion answered.  Twilight is doing well making friends with other people, Guardians and citizens alike. Her skills in battle are a great help to us as well. As for why we are here… The Vanguard, the leaders of the Guardians and the leaders of the city wanted to know if we can possibly get an official alliance with Equestria.” “I see.” Princess Celestia said. Princess Celestia and Her sister  glanced at each other briefly before answering. “My sister and I have considered such a line of thinking however we alone do not have the right to decide. There are other creatures and kingdoms on our planet, the deserve a say in this. Princess Luna nodded. “Yes Something like this can affect the entire world. I am sure you can understand.” “Yea. No one wants that type of weight solely on their shoulders.” Jeremy replied. Princess Luna offered a small smile. “Thank you for understanding. For now we will return to Equestria and contact the nations of the world. The three of you can just us if you wish.” Jeremy, Ohmei and Legion nodded to each other. “We would love too.”                                                                Twilight flew through the air and dived right behind a pillar of rock just as the Orge fired it’s face blast at her. “Horse meat isn’t good for you have a taste of this instead!” Zeelock a Warlock Guardian yelled as he fired his Truth at the Orge from behind. The Orge fall like a ton of bricks. No longer being suppressed. She look over to see Zeelock giving her a thumbs up unaware of the Wizard floating up behind him. A dead Thrall flew across the room into the Wizard, stopping it before it could attack and notifying Zeelock to her presence. A titan landed next to the wizard and fired at her point blank with his Found Verdict. The Wizard dead the three Guardians looked up at the sickly green crystal glowing in the middle of the area they were in. A shadowy figure with three eyes looked down at them.  “Let’s finish this before the Hive summon more of their kind here.” the Titan said. Twilight and Zeelock joined the Titan and fired whatever the had at the crystal. The crystal, already damage from before finally gives, spinning faster and faster until it explodes. “Well that took longer than I wanted.” Twilight said. “What? Got some books you need to read before bedtime.” Zeelock teased. “N-no that's not it.” Twilight pouted. “Either way were did what we came for. What that woman wanted.” the Titan said. Twilight nodded. “Than we best leave there is nothing for us here other than bones and hive.” The three of them transmitted out to their ships in orbit around the moon. “Thanks for the help guys.” Twilight said. “No problem Twi. let me know if you need help again.” Zeelock replied. “If you need muscle and a more aware Guardian let me know.” the Titan said before he and Zeelock broke off from Twilight’s ship to fly elsewhere.    Twilight, after saying her own goodbyes plotted a course back to the Last City. A radio signal was received by the ship as Twilight entered the Earth’s atmosphere. Identifying the caller as Eris she answered immediately. “I sensed the destruction of Crota soul. The voices are quieter now...there is still more that needs to be done before we safe from the Hive. Twilight was quite surprised by Eris’s declaration that they were not done. “What do you mean? I just destroyed his soul. Literally his very essence is gone.” “Yes but the Hive’s magic has allowed them to do things that no other species have been able to do. They even know how to escape death. Crota is in his Ascendant realm. Sooner or later he will come back. Unless we kill him there he will not be permanently gone.”