"So, where do you think we're heading?" Rhino asked as we traveled through the portal, which was actually as black as night, not white, though there were other pinpricks of light, which we assumed were other universes.
"No idea," I said. "But get everything ready, we're probably going to be coming hot."
"Yeah, we kinda guessed that, Josh," Cybis said as he brought his Tlalock.
"Then the question is what we're going to be facing," Rhino said.
"Well, I'd say that's soon," I said as a particular point of light became brighter. "I'd also say that's where we're going."
"Agreed," Cybis said just as the light blinded us.
When the light faded, we saw we were frozen just above an anthro version of Ponyville, our feet pointed toward the ground. We were just above and in front of a group of three. One was a changeling in armor that looked like it belonged in a trash heap. Another of the three was a female griffon that looked somewhat like Gilda, though only because of the head. The third, though, was in Spartan-IV armor. He had the Raider helmet, air assault shoulder piece on his right, scout on his left, soldier for the chest, and bulk greaves and arms. I looked at the others, and we got into the familiar position Guardians are in when they transmat into a Crucible match, and time seemed to resume.
We touched down on the ground and I said, "So, who summoned us?"
"That'd be me," the Spartan, who, now that I think about it, had the same armor configuration and color scheme, cyan and brick, as the avatar I used back before Rhino, Cybis, and I were split, said as he picked the weapons of his off the ground.
"Josh, is it just me," Rhino asked, "or does he look like the Spartan we made in Halo 4 before we were split like this?"
"That's funny, you three look like my guardians," the Spartan said. "Let me guess, you bought something from a merchant and were sent to some version of Equis, and were split into three people, with the identity you had before being a single person, with his name also being the Hunter's, as well as mine?"
"I guess," Cybis said. "Cybis, by the way."
"Rhino," Rhino said.
"Well, we know each other's names," the other Josh said as he drew his halo 4 model battle rifle. "Disabling shots."
"Right," I say as I bring up my Vanity, Rhino brings up his Answering Chord, which, by the way, is a Suros made Vanguard auto rifle, for those who don't know.
"Mist, Quick, same goes for you two. Lone, Onyx," Josh said, "get a spell ready to get us out of here."
"Right," they said. "Come on, guys," Quick, the griffon, said. "But we are going to talk about this later, Josh."
"I know," he said as Quick took who I guessed was Onyx, a black crystal stallion, in her hands and flew up, with Mist, the changeling, taking this universe's Lone, who wore guard armor like Quick, and flew to a more secluded part of the town. "So, Guardians, time to have some fun."
Josh fired off a burst from his rifle as the three of us charged forward, firing at arms and legs. I myself aimed for knees and elbows. Hey, he said disabling shots, he didn't say anything about permanently crippling shots. Rhino was, mostly, just knocking guards out. Should point out that those we were going against wore royal guard armor. I sense a story there.
Once i ran out of ammo in my current clip, I just saved time and went with Drinker, slicing off hands and the lower third of legs. Cybis was using Tlaloc, with his super charged, and firing near ponies hooves, while Rhino just went all out hand to hand. I turned to look at Josh, and saw him engaged in a sword battle with who I guessed was the leader of these guards. And he was getting his ass handed to him. Guys, he needs help, I said over the link, and the three of us rushed towards him.
Just as we reached him, the leader brought his sword down, but Rhino was able to catch it in his hand. "Nice Knife," he said before he broke it. Those who've played Revengeance knows what that looks like.
"Now, how about you run back to Canterlot," Cybis said, pointing his Tlaloc at the guy, "before we kill you."
The guy chuckled. "That isn't going to happen," he said just as a lavender blast of magic impacted and exploded next to us.
We jumped back and looked up, and saw this universe's Elements coming down towards us. "Shit," Josh said. "Uh, Lone, how's it coming?" he asked over his radio. "Elements. . . So, you guys ready to run?"
"Yep," Rhino said. "Now?"
"Now," he confirmed, and the four of us stowed our weapons and made a mad dash in the direction we saw Lone and the others go off to. "So, what do you guys have to deal with?"
"Well," I said, "we pissed off our worlds Celestia, who just happens to be Oryx's daughter, make peace with changelings, and kicked Crota's ass like he was a Ray."
"Nice," Josh said. "So, how do I send you guys back?"
"Just say we can co back," Rhino said.
"Right," Josh said. "And if you need help with you know who, I'm in."
"Thanks," Cybis said.
"No problem. You can go home now."
As soon as he said that, our surroundings changed. We now stood in the Canterlot gardens, just in front of the Discord statue. I looked at it. "You know, while we're here," I said. "Might as well take care of this issue. Nolandroid, tell Forge to find that mirror portal, as well as the book Celestia used that would allow her to talk with Sunset, and have both brought to the Tower."
Nolandroid transmatted next to us. "Right," he said. "Should I get the ship prepped?"
"Please, we'll need it."
Half an hour later, the three of us stood in the portal room at the tower with Discord in statue form, a simple note attached to his head. It read, "Discord, you may not know us, it's hard to tell because, well, you, but we know you, and thus, just to make Celestia mad, my friends and I have decided to send you to a version of Equestria that has no force that can stop you. All we ask is that, should you come back here, you do only small bits of chaos, or help us, depending on the situation. Do what ever the fuck you want in your new home, though. Welcome to G3."
"Portal coordinates locked," Cybis said.
"Right," I said, nodding. "Rhino, care to do the honors?"
"Right," he said just before he backed up, then ran at the statue. Just before he hit it, he shoulder charged it, which had enough kinetic energy to move the statue into the portal.
"So, how long do you think until some one else summons us," Cybis said. "Which reminds me, the other Josh didn't give us his token."
"Yeah, that might be a problem," I said. "Lock the portal on to his Equestria, and have Dinklebot go through to get a token so we can summon him if it's needed. Or, rather, when."
"On it," Dinklebot said before he appeared and went through the portal.
"Probably going to be a while," Cybis said. "Think we should start working wiht Twi on making that transfer thing."
"Yeah, let's get started on it," I said, and we made our way to the laboratory that we had set aside for this little project.