Prologue
We are Rifters. Inter-dimensional warriors, soldiers, and agents that are armed with skills, abilities, and powers. powers we use to fight darkness in all of it's forms. While there were many of us, we were scattered and mostly traveled alone. The way it was is that if we met another Rifter on our travels, we would join forces. Power in numbers and all, until many of us heard of an organized group know as the Order of the Nexus.
The Order to many lone Rifters was seen as a sanctuary. A place where all Rifters could gather under a banner with our own kind, together with a common goal: Justice against Evil.
Real evil, unlike the stuff you would see in a cartoon as a kid. Real true evils in the forms of tyrannical empires, corrupt conglomerates, dark conspiracies, and threats on peace and life. Such as what you will be reading about in the story I am about to tell.
I am Alden Ex Machina and this is a story that is also being told by my fellow Rifter teammates and friends Grey and Claymore from their points of view at the time else where on the Extranet. This is when we encountered a grave threat in the beautiful and peaceful lands of Equestria.