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// A new world 
// Story: The Guardian's story 
// by Lon35hadow 
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	"Progress," I asked Twilight as to the status of the mirror portal.

"Almost done," she said. "Really, the only problem we have is chronological, by which I mean they seem to have a slower time rate than us, and we haven't had any success in getting a time frame close to us."

Looks like we need the Vex, Cybis said over the link.

Agreed, but we still don't have any contact with them, Rhino replied.

Yeah, that's about to change, Nolandroid said.

What do you mean, I asked, just as a familiar cloud with small lightning formed. Nevermind. "Don't fire," I say to the other Guardians, which were Nightmare, Twilight, Applejack, Far Sight, Rhino had invited her, I imagine hoping for a date, and Forge, who Cybis had invited. Well, if they want to call it a date or something, I can't stop them. "If you do, you'll wish you weren't born." As a shape came out of the cloud, they had their weapons up, but didn't fire. Good.

What came out of the cloud was a Vex Goblin. "Nolandroid, go," I said, and Nolandroid appeared and floated in front of the Vex, beeping occasionally with the Goblin doing the same, so I imagine they were communicating.

After a few seconds, a lifetime for an AI, by the way, Nolandroid said, "They're willing to talk."

I nodded, and, with my hands behind my back, walked up to where the Goblin was in arm's reach. It's red optic turned a little as it regarded me. "You are Hunter Josh, correct," it asked in a voice similar to Legion's from Mass Effect.

"Yes I am," I replied. "I thank you for at least hearing me out.

"It was logical to do so, the Goblin replied. "The collective picked up gate signatures from here, but had no data on this dimension, and so, they asked us to investigate. Query: why did you wish for an alliance with us when we have killed other Guardians?"

I saw the pony Guardians tense up, but they still didn't fire. "Because there is a threat that can only be defeated if we look past our past transgressions against one another, and I, we, were hoping the Vex would agree with us. I assume that my Ghost gave you the information."

"Assumption correct," the Goblin replied. "And we see the logic in your request. The collective has been watching, and the minds are debating." A few seconds later, it said, "The minds also see the logic, both in what you said, and what your Ghost relayed. You have an alliance with the Collective now. We are to be what you call an ambassador."

I smiled. "Thank you. And what should we designate you so that we may distinguish you from other Vex?"

"No designation to the programs on this platform have been give."

"Do I have the permission of the Collective to do so, to make things easier on our side of future interactions?" Ah, I thank Mass Effect and the Geth for helping me with knowing this kind of speech.

"Affirmative," the Goblin said.

Oh, a fucking no brainer for me. "Then the new designation for the collective mind of the programs in the platform in front of me will be Legion."

"Designation accepted," Legion said.

"Stand down, Guardians," I finally said. "Legion, if the Collective wishes, they may send other Vex here, so that they and the Guardians here can start training and coming up with tactics for the threat, as well as ones for construction."

"Understood," Legion said. "Done," he said. "Do you require assistance at this moment?"

"Actually, yes," I said. "Twilight?"

"You see, we're trying to make a machine that will allow this," she said, pointing to toe mirror, "to let us travel to an alternate version of this world, but there's a chronological problem, and we can't fix it."

"The solution is simple," Legion said. "Combine your technology with the portal that brought Vex attention here. It will automatically fix your problem."

Why didn't we think of that? I said over the link.

"But we don't know how to do that," Twilight said.

Oh, right.

"Allow us to help," Legion said as another cloud came into existence, causing the others to jump back, and, joy, a  Vex Minotaur and three other Goblins appeared.

"I'll lead you to it," Nolandroid said.

Keep an eye on them, I said over the link.

Right.

So, with that, Nolandroid led the Vex to the portal room. "Uh, what were those," Far asked.

"A race of machines from where we came from," Rhino said. "They mastered travel through time, and maybe space. They have something akin to a hive mind, and have existed for eons."

So, we explained what we knew of the Vex to the others, our battles with them, and even the Vault of Glass. Damn, that was hell.

Regardless, a few hours, Nolandroid, over the radio, said, "Guys, bring the portal down."

"Right," I say. "Let's go." As we made our way, with the mirror, I said over the link, So, what do you guys think will happen when we go through the portal?

No idea, Cybis said. Hopefully, we retain our powers.

Doubtful, Rhino said. Remember the films? Both Twilight and Spike lost their ability to use any sort of magic. Yeah, Spike talked, but I think we can chock that up to his sapience.

Guess we'll find out soon enough.

We arrived at the room a few minutes later, and saw a changed Vex portal. It was, for the most part, the same, but it had small plugs, I think, from the left side. Applejack, who was carrying the mirror, put it next to those, and the plugs extended and connected with the mirror, which began to glow.

"Chronology error resolved," Legion said. "You may proceed."

i nodded. "Let's go, Guardians," I say, and we walked into the portal, and the human variant of this world.