//------------------------------// // The Beginning of a story // Story: We all have a Destiny // by Emo Rainbow //------------------------------// This is a story about a guardian. Now this guardian wasn't like the others, in fact she was much different. As soon as she was awoken by her Ghost she showed great skill and even killed a fallen leader. But this story isn't about that, no child this story is about how that guardian was thrust into something she could have never prepared for, and to tell you the truth...even I don't know the end to this story. Let us begin with her returning to the tower after a long day. She fazed onto the balcony as her ship was automatically directed into the hangar. She took a deep breath and began walking to the Cryptarch. Walking through the tower was always a good way to clear her mind after a long day of fighting. Going over to the Cryptarch she turned in some Fallen house banners to get some Glimmer. "Keep it up Hunter." He said to her. She nodded and continued walking around with no particular destination in mind, she just enjoyed the sights and sounds of her fellow guardians around the tower. Feeling the need to occupy herself though she decided to see what new bounties there were. Xander the robot greeted her as she sifted through his bounties. "Guardian, Cayde-6 the hunter vanguard wishes to speak to you." He said. She stopped looking and nodded taking one bounty with her. Walking to the steps that led to the vanguard room she walked down quickly and went into the large hallway. She took a moment to look around and admire the decor and crucible banners everywhere. Suddenly a cloaked figure jumped into her line of sight. "The nine wishes to speak to you, come." He said as he waved his hand over two boxes behind him. She looked at him and felt uncomfortable just like last time. "Umm no thanks, maybe some other time." She said walking away. "As you wish hunter." He said behind her in his low voice. The very sound sent a shiver down her spine. 'Out of all the things I deal with on a daily basis, he still creeps me out the most.' she thought to herself. After suppressing a shiver she entered the hall of the vanguards and made her way over to Cayde-6. Hearing her approached he turned and greeted her with his usual carefree attitude. "Okay hunter this mission is important and it could benefit the entire city if you complete it. There's an old colonization ship called Sovereign that has been destroyed for some time. It orbits Saturn and we have reason to believe that the Fallen have found something very valuable there. Go to the wreck and find whatever that valuable something is before the Fallen do. We can't risk them potentially gaining something that will aid them in their conquest of the solar system." He finished and waved Xaya off in a shooing motion. She looked at him in confusion. "Uh, that's it? No further Intel? How many fallen there are? What house? What this special something looks like? Schematics of the ship?" Cayde seemed to be lost in his own world, ignoring the literal lifesaver questioning him. "Don't you have anything interesting to tell me!?" She shouted. In response Cayde just stared at her, not saying a word. Xaya sighed in defeat. "You're right that is a dumb question." She made haste out of the room and into the hall. As she ran through the hallway was stopped yet again by the cloaked figure this time with two long black rectangular boxes in his arms. "Please guardian let me help you. I am Xür agent of the nine and I wish to gift these to you." He said, dropping the boxes in front of her. She looked at him unsure of what to do until he bowed and walked back to his spot at the wall. She picked them up in her hands and she noticed how they almost felt weightless. "Um...thanks? I guess?" She shook them around, and tried to open them, but they wouldn't budge. "What are these?" She asked him. "When the time comes you will know." He replied cryptically. Xaya rolled her eyes at his vague response not realizing the true weight of his words. She continued running through the tower and arrived at the hanger. She got into her Aestral AV1 fighter class ship and powered up the lift off sequence. Getting off of the ground she flew straight into orbit and set course for Saturn. "So lets hope that getting this rare item is as easy as finding spinmetal." Said her ghost. She pulled the throttle on the thrusters and the rockets burned brightly, propelling her ship so they could quickly reach their destination. Flying past the other planets and moons Xaya slowed down near the shipwreck orbiting Saturn. She activated her fighters landing program and landed in the sovereign. She hoped the fractured ships integrity could hold her fighter in the docking bay. She grabbed her hand canon and fazed out of her ship. She floated about in the wreck of the colonization ship known as sovereign. Realizing that floating around wildly in the ship wouldn't help she used her gravity correction boot function to stand correctly on the ground. Her Ghost turned on a light to brighten up the dark ship. "Okay the house of wolves are searching for something in this ship. We have no idea what that thing is but I'm sure we'll find it before them." The Ghost ceased its rundown of the objective and continued to light the way for his guardian. Xaya walked to a door at the back of the docking section and blew it down with her grenade. Walking through the shattered door she entered a hallway that was incredibly dark. She twisted and turned going through the many halls of the huge wreck wildly searching for anything. As far as she could tell there were no Fallen whatsoever in the ship. Walking deeper into the halls she felt the silence eating at her ears. "It's too quiet, didn't you say there would be Fallen here?" Xaya waited for a response before she heard crawling echo through the ship. In the vacuum of space though it sounded only like muffled thuds. She heard cackling noises in the vents just above her. Taking out her hand canon she fired into the vents above her. All noise stopped as she crouched down. After a minute she turned invisible and side stepped away from where she once stood. The sound of metal grinding invaded the vacuum, she looked up and saw that the metal of the roof was torn completely off. Two Fallen Dregs crawled out followed by a Reaver Vandal. Using her temporary stealth she walked around them as they searched for her. Just before her she became visible again Xaya threw a lightning grenade on one of the dregs, and speed stabbed the Vandals' back. He fell to the ground as both of the dregs were killed by electrocution. The Vandal got up just in time to see her gun barrel point at his eye. Before he could react the bullet came and tore his head off. Two bright items fell from the Vandal one triangle shaped and the other round. She noticed right away that the triangle shaped item was a log the Reaver vandal carried with him. "Let me analyze it." Ghost said as he shot a beam of light at it and read it. While he was doing this she went to pick up the second thing, a blue engram. "Nice." She said to herself while looking at it. She could make out that it was either a rare or legendary pair of boots. She needed new ones with light in them so she didn't complain. As soon as she put it in her inventory her ghost exclaimed. "Amazing the fallen have found something very rare. A slip space drive for huge carriers. The sovereign had one as did most human carrier ships did. When the darkness came humanity lost all forms of those drives." He said to her as she continued through the halls to the checkpoint ghost put up. "But not just any slip space drive this one was made of the travelers light. The house of wolves seek to reverse engineer it for their ships. Their Archon is here overseeing the process since they didn't want to move it." Brushing past floating debris she neared her destination when a large rumbling noise erupted through the ship. Soon the lights started coming on above her and the gravity was stabilized. Xaya didn't want to test if the life support was working though and decided to keep her helmet on. She reached a coded door blocking her path and she prepared herself. "It's just past this door. I hope your ready." Ghost said. She teleported through the door and stabbed a vandal on her left in the eye killing him instantly. The room had about eight fallen and a captain in it. Immediately they raised their guns and fired. She ran across the room past all the bullets trying to hit her. Taking cover behind a pillar she fired off shots from her hand cannon counting the shots as she went. "One,two,three,four,five,six,seven,eight." She whispered to herself before reloading. Looking at the room almost all of the Fallen in the room were dead by head shots. She noticed the captain starting to get closer to her so she reached around for her sniper rifle. She fired three shots and two hit him breaking his shield and hurting him a bit, as for the third it missed when he teleported. Appearing two feet away from where he was originally he charged with a sword. she fired the last bullet in her mag at his unshielded forehead staggering him. She lunged at him with a speed boost and stabbed him in the chest killing him. She took a breather and looked around the room for the drive. Behind her on a pedestal she saw the slip space drive made entirely of light. The sight of it left her speechless and she stared as a single beam of energy was being blasted at it. Her trance was cut short as a large door behind her opened and revealed the towering form of the Wolf Archon accompanied by three captains, and four vandals two of them being stealth. "They really don't want us here." Ghost said as Xaya ran for cover. The stealth Vandals cut her off in the middle of the room and attacked with their swords. She shot at their heads but missed both shots. One of them lunged cutting off his invisibility while the other went around her. The first one slashed but missed his attack. Xaya took her chance and stabbed him in the bottom left arm. She jumped above him and grabbed his back pushing him forward. He was impaled by his friend who was trying to perform a sneak attack. Quickly Xaya jumped over them avoiding the blades jutting out of the vandals back and kicked the other one in the face. He staggered backwards pulling the blades out of his friends limp form. He slashed wildly at her but she got her gun out and fired five bullets into his abdomen. Afterwards she barely had enough time to dodge a wall of bullets fired by the Archons shrapnel gun. She ran behind a pillar but a captain knew she would go there and he teleported to the pillar. He appeared in front of her and punched her. She lifted up her arm to block the oncoming attack and was successful in blocking most of it. She was sent flying backwards into a wall and that force broke her shield. The Vandals realized that she was Completely vulnerable without her shield and powered up their guns. One fired off a bullet that hit her arm, luckily the other one missed. She ran towards them and teleported as they fired again. They both looked through their scopes to look for her and soon a Captain came to join them. She reappeared behind them with a purple blade in her hand. They looked at her as fear coursed through their bodies. In the blink of an we she stabbed the Vandals turning them into dust and slashed at the captain four times killing him. A purple box dropped where the captain once stood and she picked it up. The Archon walked towards her while his teal cape flapped behind him. He screeched as he fired at her. Quickly dodging out of the way Xaya pulled out her sniper and emptied the entire mag into his face staggering him. Pulling out her heavy machine gun she reloaded as fast as possible but it wasn't fast enough since one of the other captains teleported right next to her and punched her. She dropped her machine gun and fell to the floor. He walked towards her and lifted his gun to her face. However Xaya activated a lightning grenade in her hand and teleported through him sending the grenade straight into his face. Before it detonated she shot him in the head twice with her hand canon. As soon as the grenade detonated he died. Grabbing the gun she reloaded it and turned her attention to the Archon. "Fallen ships are exiting slip space just outside of the sovereign. Some are house of wolves some aren't. If your going to kill the Archon you better do it now." Said ghost. Xaya knew she needed to hurry up so she threw another grenade towards the Archon. He teleported away and the grenade flew past him and landed right on the slip space drive. "Well that's one way to wrap things up." Ghost commented. The grenade exploded and in a huge flash of light the drive exploded too leaving a big black mark where it once was. The Archon looked at her with fire in his eyes and raised his gun. Ready to pull the trigger he almost fired before another explosion behind him sent a huge chunk of metal right through the Fallens' upper right arm and chopped it off. It screeched in pain as its limb fell to the ground below it. "I think we should go!" Shouted Xaya over the loud noise coming from the drive. It started sucking everything in the room into a large hole of light at an alarming speed. It pulled in the Archon that was now unconscious. "We probably should." Ghost said after witnessing that happen. The Hunter ran as fast as she could towards her ship while feeling her cloak being pulled behind her. Along the way the lights in the halls shut off seeing as how the wormhole was ripping the ship completely apart. They got to her fighter and got in. Bringing the thrusters to life she flew out of the sovereign docking bay. Upon going into Saturns' orbit they saw almost all of the fallen ship leaving and only two got caught in the hole. Xaya kicked the ship into a speed that was almost ludicrous by the ships standards. But without warning the ship teared at the back of her fighter ripping off the brand new yellow top wings and crushing the thrusters. "We are dead in the water ghost...no hope now." Xaya said solemnly as the ship was being pulled back. "I just want you to know that it's been an honor serving with you guardian." Ghost replied as they felt the hole consume them. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - On a planet much like ours yet different in so many ways a small town resides in the country of Equestria. There the mayor is gathering the town for the beginning of a special day known as Appreciation Day. Everyone is gathering here for the towns tradition. Or should I say everypony. "Okay everypony settle down. As you know today marks the seventeenth annual appreciation day." The crowd of ponies stomped and cheered before then quieting down. "So now we officially start it by appreciating six mares that have saved this town and Equestria many times. The Elements Of Harmony!" The crowd cheered even louder than before as a curtain on the stage lifted up revealing six mares wearing necklaces and one wearing a crown. Their names were Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Twilight Sparkle, and Fluttershy. They were the elements that stood for all things good. After the crowd died down the purple mare Twilight stepped forward and spoke. "Thank you very much for doing this everypony, but please don't treat us any differently. We're normal just like any one of you. Anyway happy appreciation day everypony!" They cheered one last time before dispersing into the town wide fair. The fair was set up by pinkie pie who as you might have guessed was pink. The fair was jam packed with rides games shows, and It was fun for all ages. "Aww yeah! Wasn't that sweet guys? Everypony cheering for us and the things we did." The cyan mare Rainbow Dash said while flying through the air. "Well of course it was sweet I've never been so appreciated in my life. The only thing that would be more sweet is a super cupcake with triple layered frosting!" Pinkie pie said in return before getting lost in thought. She started drooling then shook it off and giggled. "I know what I'm doing next party." "Well ah didn't mind it at all. Though the cheering did make me kinda uncomfortable." Applejack said while walking slightly faster. "Well Applejack we at least deserve a little appreciation for what we've done. What better day for that to happen then appreciation day." Rarity said and gestured to the fair they had just walked into. "Ah guess you're right we kinda do deserve some. Well I gotta go and get Applebloom see ya later." Applejack walked off to find her sister. "I'll come with if your cool with me tagging along." Rainbow said. Applejack nodded her head to Rainbow and let her follow. The rest of the ponies went off to have fun the entire day, and appreciate those around them. Little did they know that a great evil was about to emerge on the planets atmosphere. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Xaya woke up to a blaring noise echoing through the ship. She couldn't move though, she couldn't feel anything. Then she felt the burning sensation of the light waking her up. She jumped up and heard Ghost screaming at her. "Right now Xaya! We are going to blow up with this ship if you don't do something now!" He yelled. Xaya without a word went to work trying to stabilize the spinning ship. It didn't make it any easier with the thrusters being crushed. Xaya got the familiar sensation of fear when she realized this. Grabbing the ships inner walls she focused her mind and strained herself trying to project her blink ability unto the ship. With a loud yell she shifted the fighter through space and reappeared with it floating lazily in the Vacuum. "Movement stabilized. Good work Xaya." Ghost said with relief eminent in his voice."Now that we have that problem solved let me check on the ships condition. Stand by." He said before appearing outside of the ship and going around to the back. Xaya sighed and took off her helmet letting her silver hair breath. Looking up she saw a planet that looked a lot like earth but it was different. The water looked the same and a lot of the geography was similar but it wasn't earth. She couldn't see the Traveler anywhere and that would have been a dead giveaway. Ghost returned to the ship and floated right in front of her face. "Good news I managed to save the main thrusters. But without the back wings, and with the redirecting thrusters destroyed we either fly forward or not at all." He said to her. He noticed her orange eyes were looking past him and at the planet behind. "How did I miss this? Do you think we might be able to find something there?" He asked. "We can try." Xaya replied simply. She was just about to kick the remaining thrusters into gear until she saw two flaming Fallen ships heading for the planet. They didn't even look like Fallen drop ships anymore with their mangled hulls and flaming thrusters. "I have a feeling this will be harder then we thought." She said as she quickly followed after them.