Space...the black void that once bared the name "final frontier", now a ship causally going through the vacuum became commonplace in the days of the Guardians.
Causally floating in orbit with the earth, floated a singular ship. Other ships of other guardians came to and fro from the planet. Some fading from view as they disappeared in their warp to another planet.
The lone guardian, legs on the dashboard of his ship, listened to the ancient tunes that he found the other day. Locked in the confines of an engram he thought was going to be more glimmer in his pocket.
"I still can't believe we found Pre Golden age music." a tiny, oddly shaped ball said as it swayed to the music.
"I still can't believe we found it on the corpse of a Hallowed Knight" The Ghost's respective guardian said. "What the hell was a hive doing with the collective sound data of..." The Guardian looked at his ship's screen "Cab Calloway?"
"I don't know, but it's a good thing we did find it, this is a great view into the Pre Golden Age's culture...
"Plus, it ain't too shabby, if I do say so myself."
The guardian's music stopped suddenly.
"Oh come on..."
"Sorry" the guardian's Ghost said "We're getting a request from Dead Orbit from the patrol line. They need someone to collect Spock Rockets from some Fallen Skanks on Venus."
The guardian almost told his Ghost to ignore the request to let someone else deal with that low level mission...but he realized that he has been sitting here listening to this music for about two hours, he needed to do something, and after non-stop Iron Banner, shooting dumb hordes of grunts would be a nice change of pace from a Titan's shoulder charge to the skull.
"Take the mission. " the guardian said as he took his boots of the dashboard and readied his warp drive to travel to Venus.
"Right." his Ghost said, a couple sounds and beeps later the Ghost informed the Guardian that the mission details were transmitted and they were ready to go.
The guardian grasped his ships controls and began to fly towards his destination.
'Warp beginning in 10 seconds.'
The guardian quietly waited for the warp as he has done so many times to actuate.
'Nine seconds'
'But Columbus was smart, said 'you can't fool me' a chicken ain't nothin' but a-'
His train of thought broke when his Ghost started beeping...
Strangely.
"I'm getting a strange signal...Vex in nature-"
The Ghosts sentence faltered when the entirety of the ship started to rumble.
"What was that?" The guardian asked as he held the controls of the ship.
"Uhhh..." the Ghost said cautiously "Remember when I messed with the Vex portal system?"
"...I don't like where this is going."
"Well, when I...inserted myself into their system, I might of set something off..."
"And by that, you mean 'messed with the portals so that an army of Vex came after us'."
"Yes that, but I kind of...forgot to close the door."
'Warp initiating.'
Caught up in the Ghost's explanation, the guardian failed to notice his ship's warp countdown. Now surrounded in the speeding blue light of the warp tunnel, the guardian finally saw what his Ghost was alluding to...
A giant, flying, one eyed, solid white Vex Gatelord.
"You're probably going to have your hands full."
"Thank you for pointing that out, Little Light."
His Ghost gave him a look of slight indignation, "I told you not to call me that."
"WRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
*Golden Oaks Library*
The basement of the once home of Twilight Sparkle stood broken and darkened. Littered with old, dusty, burnt books, broken pieces of lab equipment and other miscellaneous possessions.
All and all, it was a mess.
"Twilight...are you sure it's safe to be in here?" A tiny purple dragon asked as the pony in question rummaged through the remains of her basement laboratory, "Didn't you hear that this place is unstable? The roof may collapse any minute."
"Don't worry Spike." The purple alicorn reassured, "I put a 'safe and sound' spell around the premises, it should hold long enough for us to get what we need and get out."
"And what exactly do we need again?"
"Remember that weird red orb that you thought was a gem?" Spike shuddered when he remembered exactly what Twilight referred to, he thought the weird orb a ruby and tried to take a bite out of it...
The dental work he needed afterwards left a bad taste in his mouth.
"Blech, I know exactly what you're talking about, kinda hard to forget five broken teeth..."
"Well" Twilight said, " That orb caught my attention, and I wanted to study it further, but we got a little...preoccupied. I just remembered it when Rarity came over to visit and she wore that gem you gave her."
Spike smiled at the memory, but that little trip down memory lane cut short when he walked forward and tripped of something.
"Oof!...I think I found it?" Spike's words were almost strangled by the cold, dirty, unforgiving floor.
Spike's form floated in the air, surrounded by a purple aura. The offending red object that stole Spike's balance also floated in the sparkling purple glow.
"Thank you Spike, are you alright?" She asks with worry to her companion. Spike shrugs it off as nothing, and they leave their old home with the object in question apprehended.
"What is this thing anyway?" Spike asks as he finally got a good long look at the object.
The orb in question, after closer examination, held a more oblong like shape than he remembered. A bronze colored coating surrounded the red center, and intricate, symmetrical outlines dotted the rim of the red center of the mystery object where the bronze coloring and the red circle met.
"I have no idea Spike" Twilight said with a hint of excitement and worry, "I wanted to study this and inform princess Celestia of your discovery, but life just delayed this train of action until now."
"So...what are we going to do now?" Spike asked the thinking alicorn.
"We'll contact Princess Celestia and ask for permission to lead a research team to study this object. We've never seen these types of alloys or materials that make up this...thing."
"Alright." Spike said with a nod "Now, can we go home, I kinda hun-"
Spike's lament over his lack of food suddenly and unexpectedly ran short as the earth started shaking. A violent screeching noise assaulted the ears of the residents of Ponyville soon after.
Space: Somewhere
Darkness.
That's all the hunter could see in his semi-conscious stupor. That battle with the Gate Lord wasn't the best of situations. This Gate Lord held a significant advantage over his less than combat focused ship.
"That was a new ship too..." the Guardian lamented as he looked behind him...
And saw the blazing remains of his once beautiful ship "Vintage Russian Soul"
"Well, you did run the ship into the Gate Lord." His Ghost said.
"Well, that ship wasn't really built for a space battle..." The guardian replied.
"Well, where lucky we didn't land in a place saturated with darkness, that would've been unpleasant "
The guardian looked around at the new scenery...
To say that this place radiated light would be a vast understatement. The pair looked behind them to see a absolutely monstrous vex portal shimmering with life and light. In front of them stood a vast expanse of portals and platforms disappearing and reappearing.
The stretch they were on looked like the main backbone of the Vex zone they were in, stretching on for as far as the guardian could see. They looked down at the edge to see the tell tale haze that signaled the appearing of vex. No vex came, but the haze continued to cover the expanse's lower regions. The place as a whole was...ominously beautiful.
The ship started humming but the Guardian and his Ghost were too entranced by the new environment to notice right away. The sound started off as a quiet hum, but grew louder in intensity the longer the pair in front of it marveled at the scenery.
Finally, after 10 seconds, the guardian noticed the sound.
"Is... that coming from the Ship?" the hunter asked. His Ghost responded by disappearing from view.
"I'm positive it is. We probably should leave."
With that in mind, in a flash of light and a trial of light later, the Hunter blinked away from the ship just before it exploded in a final blaze of glory.
"Well." After the explosion, the guardian looked around the place that they landed in...
"Wherever we are, it's not on any known map of time and space...be careful."
"What do you suppose we do?" The guardian asked.
"Keep going I guess. If we can find a Conflux, I might be able to find a portal that can lead us back to earth."
"Or make things 10,000 times worse."
"That too. But we'll never know what'll happen if we don't try, right?"
"I suppose..." the guardian said as he summoned his Sparrow and began to ride further into the zone.
"Can you still detect the Gate Lord?"
"Let me see..." A couple of beeps and sounds later, "I...actually got a bead on him-"
As soon as the Ghost relayed that information to him, the tell-tale cry of a Gate Lord sounded as the vex giant suddenly appeared out of thin air and made a swing at the Guardian.
The hunter was able to react fast enough to jump off his Sparrow and blink to safety. The Gate Lord managed to destroy his Sparrow, but it's arm slammed into the ground a bit too hard and managed to stay in the ground.
Taking this opportunity, the hunter drew his knife and in a flash of speed attacked the hurting Gate Lord's arm, as the stab hit, the hunter vanished immediately.
'Ghost, pop a heavy synthesis while we still have time!'
"Right!"
The Ghost did just that, and now he saw that he had seven rocket shots worth of ammunition for his beautiful instrument of destruction.
While still invisible, he upholstered his trusty Gjallarhorn and loaded it with two shots.
The Gate Lord, severely damaged from the battle before hand, had electricity sparking from its body every now and then. The arm that it had lodged into the ground, now weakened from the hunter's strike, was sickeningly ripped from its sockets. White goo spilling out from the disconnection point onto the ground below. The Gate Lord stood, but just barely.
With the invisibility receded, the hunter blinked into the air away from the wounded Gate Lord and fired the first salvo of Gjallarhorn.
The rocket flew straight and true at the Gate Lord's chest, exploding in a mighty show of strength and unleashing its wolfpack rounds on the damaged Gate Lord's core.
The strength of the salvo made the Gate Lord stumble back from the force of the blow. Another salvo took advantage of its moment of weakness and made it stumble again.
"He's weak! Finish it off!"
'Thanks for the important information...'
"Was that sarcasm?"
'Take a guess.'
The guardian took the Gate Lord's temporary stupor and readied two more rounds, but the Gate Lord did something...strange.
It didn't start shooting, it didn't start charging the guardian., it...
"Is it...retreating?" Ghost asked as the Gate Lord activated its back rockets and made its way towards the nearest portal.
"Oh no you don't!" The guardian yelled as he blinked into the air and fired another round of Gjallarhorn at the portal the Gate Lord tried to escape into. Despite the strength of the rocket launcher, the portal stood true...
But it blinked, fizzled, and started warbling uncontrollably...
This did not stop the Gate Lord.
'Looks like we're going to have to go after the damn thing.' the hunter thought as he produced another Sparrow and began to ride after the retreating Gate Lord.
"Are you sure that's a good idea? You kinda destroyed the portal's transportation matrix with the rocket shot. We could be transported into a sun for all we know!"
'True, but we'll never now until we try, right?'
"...Touche."
The Gate Lord managed to get into the portal and vanish in a flash of light a couple seconds before the hunter. His sight left him as the blinding light of the portal overwhelmed him.
"Here we go!"
Fwoosh!
Ponyville
Twilight started to feel a strange sensation on her flanks.
"Twilight...your Cutie Mark is blinking again." Spike told his friend. And true to his warning, Twilight discovered that her Cutie Mark did indeed start to blink and glow.
Twilight grew worried at this revelation. As the screech became louder, the sky over a section of the Everfree started to grow dark as a haze of black smoke started to appear from seemingly out of nowhere. The only other time her cutie mark did this happened to be the time her and her friends were lead to the village that had everypony give up their cutie marks. If the situation at hand had anything to do with this, then she feared what could happen in the next few moments.
Then, true to her suspicions, something happened. Like something straight out of one of Button Mash's video games, a giant, one armed, flying robot burst through the black haze that formed in the sky. The giant being spouted smoke and energy as it crash landed in the forbidden forest a couple miles away from its entry point.
The residents of Ponyville felt the earth shake as the robot crashed...
Before she could make heads or tails of the situation, the town burst into mass screams and hysteria. Doors were shut, ponies were stampeding and everything went to hell in a hand-basket pretty quick.
"What was that!?"
"It's the end of the world!?"
"Oh the horror!"
These and many other yells of panic cluttered the air as the residents screamed. Some the ponies did something actually reasonable and started to gather and asked the resident princess for guidance.
Those ponies being her closest friends and compatriots. The first and closest being a orange coated blonde earth pony by the name of Applejack.
"Twilight! You gettin' tha shakes too?" Applejack asked as her Cutie Mark also blinked and shined as well.
Twilight nodded, "Yeah, I think it would be best if we rounded up the girls and headed to the castle."
A blue flash streaked through the two as a blue pegasus suddenly made herself known to the group of three.
"Yo! I'm I'm guessing I'm not the only pony here who's getting the call of the cutie am I?"
"Yeah, and I'm guessing everyone else is getting their respective calls." Twilight confirmed.
Suddenly a pink entity made itself known to the group.
"Quick! To the Fortress of Friendship!" The pony yelled as she ran to the new home of Twilight Sparkle before anyone could actually rebut.
The just sighed and collectively ran towards the castle.
Everfree:???
'This...is the second time I've been knocked unconscious today...'
"This has become a very unwanted habit as of late, yes."
The guardian slowly and painfully came out of his episode of unconsciousness as he saw that his shields were down and had only a sliver health left before...an unpleasant experience.
As his shield and health regenerated. He began the process of standing. He put his hand on the ground to brace himself and...
'Is...is this...?'
Upon feeling dirt and soil beneath his hand, he looked up to see...
A vast expanse of forest.
"Where exactly are we?" The guardian asked as he produced his Ghost from himself as they looked around the new environment...
"I...I can't believe it..." the Ghost said as he started scanning the local flora, "we're...on earth!"
The guardian looked at his Ghost while it frantically scanned the area, "Why can't you believe it?"
His Ghost stopped its frantic scanning and looked over to its guardian, "because, none...and I mean none of these plants match with any known species of plant ever recorded."
"Then how can you tell if it's Earth?" The guardian asked.
"Even though the gravity, and the air content match exactly to the planet Earth. I wouldn't believe it myself if my map didn't say we're on Earth, but it does. I really don't know what to think..."
"Where?"
"North America. Or what used to be North America, Colorado."
"Do we have a communications link to anything?"
The Ghost beeped a couple of times before shaking its tiny body in a negatory fashion "nothing...it's like the channels never existed in the first place."
The Guardian sighed, "and we don't have a ship, so we're stranded here on 'earth'" he lamented as he looked around to see nothing but plants as far as the eye could see. He saw a couple of eyes watching him from the overgrowth around him. His radar hasn't shown any enemies yet, but he wouldn't take any chances.
"Ghost, Gunslinger setup, please."
"Right."
His chest-plate and helmet that he currently wore shined bright before being replaced by two new pieces of armor. The knife on his right side also was replaced by a hand cannon.
He took out the Fate-bringer hand cannon on his other side and readied it for action. He put his Gjallarhorn on his back after reloading it.
"Alright then. Can you at least locate the Gate Lord to see if it came here as well?"
A couple of beeps and sounds later, "I've got it..." more beeps and sounds, "It's...very faint, 20 clicks to the southeast."
"Got it." The Ghost retreated back into its Guardian with a flash of light, and the guardian produced a Sparrow to begin heading to to waypoint the Ghost put on his hub.
"Hold on, I'm getting other signal...this one is astronomically fainter than the Gate Lord but...it seems like the same Gate Lord is occupying a region in the north as well. Non-hostile. "
'And what of the other signals?'
"I was getting to that. There seems to be a high concentration of...light in the north as well. This light is different from the traveler's though. It feels...young. I also sense another source of light further north. Stronger, older, not as old as traveler, but still old. That source might be able to help us."
'Right, mark them on the hub and we'll get to them after we finish this Gate Lord.'
"On it."
The Sparrow hummed loudly as he rode on to his date with the Gate Lord. Trees passed by, flora and fauna were viewed and forgotten by the focused guardian as he made his way to his destination.
'Reminds me a little bit of Venus.' the Guardian thought to himself as he quickly drove the expansive forest.
"You mean the parts of Venus that aren't a machine because of the vex?"
'No, I meant those areas.'
"...Was that sarcasm?"
'No, the lush green wildlife here completely reminds me of the robotic remnants of the vex ruins that are completely devoid of life.'
"...Was that sarcasm? Because I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm."
'And I'm pretty sure that you're doing that on purpose.'
"I can neither confirm or deny your suspicions."
'Right...'
The rest of the ride to the location was ridden in silence, and as each click past, the hunter's anticipation grew. He didn't know what to make of this pseudo-earth, what did the existence of this world entail? Was this a parallel universe, a hiccup in the vex time circuit? These and so many other questions rattled in his mind as amount of clicks he had left turned from double to single digit numbers. He asked his Ghost to pop some synthesis for all of his ammo needs.
"The Gate Lord's signal has stopped moving."
'Copy.'
The time had come, he dismounted his Sparrow and watched it fade in a flash of light. He readied his rocket launcher and began the final few meters towards the enemy. He saw that the trees and plant life stopped a couple feet in front of him. He couldn't see all of it, but he knew saw a building of some sorts. When he went towards the open field where the plant life ended...
His face adopted a look of mild surprise at what he saw.
'...Ghost?'
"Yes?"
'Am...Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?'
"Six colorful equines in front of large Pre-Golden age style ruins?"
'Uh huh.'
"Then you are seeing what you think you're seeing."
'Good to know. Hostile?'
"Not that I can tell, but tread carefully."
Upon further examination of the six strange creatures, he noted that they all had specific symbols on their flanks, and upon hearing one of them produce sound...
"They..."
'Speak...'
"English."
'English.'
The Ghost and the guardian both shuddered that last word out of their systems.
At a loss for words, the guardian's mind slipped for just a second. He pushed the questions he had about this apparent version of 'earth' to the side as he focused at the matter at hand.
'Ghost. what's the status on the Gate Lord?'
"Inside the ruins of the castle...Right in front of the equines."
"Well ain't that just dandy..." The hunter let the sentence slip out of his mouth.
And unfortunately, one of the equines heard.
"Candy!?" Pinkie Pie yelled and turned her head around at uncomfortably high speeds.
"What..." Applejack asked she rubbed her ear in pain as she was right next to Pinkie when she yelled that "in tarnation are you blabbing about Pinkie?"
"You girls didn't hear "I wish I had some candy" from the bushes?" Pinkie asked the group, "I could've sworn I heard somepony said that from behind us."
The girls looked at the mare with an incredulous expression.
"What?"
'Quick, Bladedancer setup!'
"On it."
In a flash of light the guardian's armor changed. The moment it happened a noticeable arcing sound escaped the hunted as he turned invisible. The equines took notice of the sound and started the slowly move towards where the hunter was when he turned invisible.
Being very careful not to bump into one of the equines, he stealthily made his way around the now obviously feminine equines.
The pink one's tail twitched and she looked behind her, but when she could see nothing, she shrugged and continued to follow her friends.
"Is anypony there?" the purple equine said to the space the hunter once occupied. He assumed she lead the group of equines due to her wings and horn, an "alicorn" is what the Ghost told him. Golden Age data told him that they were laughing incarnations of pure destruction.
So a wide berth is an understatement of what the hunter was going to give this creature.
He only had a couple seconds of invisibility left, and he had to use them to the best of his ability.
Now, came a proverbial fork in the road. There was a canyon with a rickety bridge that he knew that he couldn't run across completely without his invisibility running out. On the other hand, the canyon had a nicely placed tree on the other side of the canyon, and he knew that a well placed blink could get him the distance he needed to hide behind the tree and wait for the invisibility to activate again. But there were two risks of this option.
One, the blink would deactivate his invisibility, and make a very noticeable sound that would certainly catch the attention of the equines. And he didn't want an incarnation of pure destruction on his hide.
The other risk is that if he missed the tree and fell down the canyon...it would not be a pleasant experience.
He only had seconds to decide what to do, the safe, but inevitable detection. Or the dangerous, stupid, risky, option that may or may not lead to his death?
Being a hunter, he took the most reasonable option in his mind.
He took option number three.
He ran towards the bridge, ran across half of it, jumped, blinked behind the tree, and hoped to whatever deity that is watching over him that they wouldn't find him before his invisibility reactivated.
"Huh...no pony's here..." Twilight said as her friends looked around the foliage to see no pony there at all, she could've sworn she heard something behind her, but now that she looked...
"Well I thought the same thing dear. But I guess that if anypony was here, I'm guessing they don't wan to be found." Rarity said as she carefully stepped over the plants.
"Yo, what's bugging you Pinkie?" Rainbow Dash asked as she saw her look back at the castle and shrug.
"I could've sworn I felt somepony walk by me with boots on..."
"Boots?"
"Yeah, every time my tail twitches once, somepony with boots walks by me..."
"Doesn't a twitchy tail mean that something's gonna fall?" Fluttershy asked from next to her. I little worried at her friends possible confusion of her own senses.
Pinkie shook her head "Yes, but that's three twitches, not one." Pinkie clarified and smiled "I actually remember the first time that-"
*FWOOOSH!*
Pinkie's trip down memory lane halted as a loud 'fwoosh' sound sounded behind them. Twilight felt a strange but oddly familiar sensation. It reminded her of the feeling she gets when she teleports, but...not.
The group looked behind them to see a flash of black, gold, and white go behind a tree right over the canyon. Even though the night made it a little hard to see, the being illuminated itself but for a split moment, long enough for the mares to see an outline before concealing itself behind the tree.
Whatever it was, it wasn't a pony.
"See! I told you I saw somepony!" Pinkie yelled happily before reaching into a tree hole and producing 2.5 pounds of hard candy. "Hey! I got the candy you wanted!"
"Pinkie, that...thing we just saw wasn't a pony. I think we gotta tread carefully, who knows what lives out here and if it's friendly." Applejack stated as she got her lasso ready.
"Hey, don't worry, I'll go check this thing out. And if it isn't friendly, I'll kick its flank, no prob." Rainbow said confidently.
"Rainbow, I don't feel comfortable with only one pony going over there. We go together, as a team." Twilight said as she looked around the group who nodded.
Rainbow rolled her eyes and sighed "fine, let's go check out this thing together."
Their group talk gave the hunter enough time to regain invisibility and make his way to the castle. He noticed on his radar that they were still not recognized as threats...but then a red outline made itself known on the radar just in front of him...
The Gate Lord was close, alive, and quiet. That combination never spelled good for anyone on the receiving end.
He noticed that the group of equine's started making their way towards the castle.
'What am I going to do with them following me?'
"Would it help to tell you that those six carry the light that I was sensing in the far north?"
'Then I'm guessing their species either have some sort of warp capabilities or are just really fast. Honestly I'm not surprised. Hell if dragons existed in this world I wouldn't be surprised.'
"Maybe that's why we don't view them as enemies? Maybe they can aid us in our fight against the Gate Lord."
'Weren't you the guy that told me that alicorns were insane incarnations of destruction?'
"...In hindsight, maybe only telling you that information wasn't the best first impression."
'Then why didn't you tell me that they were beings of light? We could've saved a lot of time in this whole ordeal.'
"I didn't notice their signatures until we passed by them, something is blocking my sensors the closer we got to the castle. I didn't tell you because you were focused on avoiding them. So I waited until we had some time to recollect our thoughts."
'I'm guessing the Gate Lord is the one blocking your sensors. But I'm guessing it's too weak to block our radar.'
The hunter reached the castle entrance a couple seconds before his invisibility wore off, he looked from the entrance to see the ponies closing in on the entrance of the castle. The yellow one looked absolutely terrified, the blue one had an overconfident grin on her muzzle, and the pink one...
The pink one bounced, bounced, towards the castle entrance with a smile too big for her face and a giant bag of candy in her mouth.
'What the...'
"She seems...happy."
'Too happy.'
The hunter contemplated his next course of action, if he went alone then he could risk these ponies getting in the crossfire and potentially getting hurt. He knew what a Gate Lord could do, he didn't know what these beings could do.
Or these ponies could stomp this Gate Lord's face into the dirt, he preferred this future, but he wanted to be on their side if they could. Even though the Gate Lord had one foot in the scrap heap, it still registered as a threat.
"I guess first contact was unavoidable."
So, with his mind made up, he asked his Ghost to give him his Gunslinger Setup and waited for the equines to come up.
His plan would've ended in a clean, if somewhat awkward meeting....
If the Gate Lord didn't decide that time to attack.
WRAAAAAAAA...!
AAAAAAAAAAAH!
The girls froze as they heard the piercing roar of an unknown monster inside the castle of the Royal Pony Sisters..
Then, all hell broke loose.
*BAOW!*
One loud, single, cracking sound similar to a cannon rang throughout the Everfree forest. Birds got spooked and started to fly away from the scene.
Then...ever so slowly the strangest being they've ever seen, clad in white, black, and gold. On his chest were a pair of immaculate wings made of the purest white they've ever seen, black belts wrapped around the being's stomach beautifully and symmetrically, its boots held a tree made of the purest of white with the center being colored a shimmering, brilliant gold. For a second it glowed as bright as the sun, so blindingly bright this being's light shone that they would have covered their eyes if it weren't so brief.
"So big." It said in their language as it spun a weird L shaped object in its...hooves?
"So angry." It said as it put the L shaped object in a weird pocket in its armor. The air suddenly started to taste of iron as the atmosphere grew warmer. Behind the being, the castle began to produce a bright light as the giant robot that they saw crash into the Everfree just a couple minutes ago start slowly floating into the air above the castle, producing the same light the alien did moments ago. Its light started to grow in intensity as it started to violently spew light from cracks in its body, the girls started to run away from what they assumed would happen. Finally, at the apex of this giant being's brightness, the alien said one last sentence...
"So dead."
The robot exploded...
The robot exploded.
The force of the blast bared so much intensity that the entirety of the old and ruined castle disintegrated in a fiery pillar of bright death. The explosion could be seen throughout all of Equestria, its brightness made the six friends cover their eyes in fear of blindness.
When the light receded, shining orbs of light rained down from the point of the robot's fiery end. The ponies looked in awe and terror as the smoking crater stood in place of the old home of the Celestial Sisters. When the orbs touched the ground, plant life started to thrive and explode from the crater, quickly filling up the hole in a beautiful display of nature's raw power. The ponies stood breathless, their eyes shining with the remnants of the beautiful death of the being they saw crash.
In spite of all of this, the alien stood as cool as a cucumber. His beautiful cape swaying in the wind, on the cloth stood two golden wolves growling fiercely at each other, as if ready for one-on-one combat. The threaded crease in the center made a giant, golden tree. Strong and majestic, the being towered over the awe-inspired ponies at a mighty 6'3.
The being simply looked at the ponies. Its face the visage of a majestic, almost ethereal bird of prey, and spoke.
"...Sup, name's Sam, how you doin'?"
