As the sun set on Ponyville a group of three humans finished piling wood into two pallets, and placed the two dead humans on top of each. Both humans were covered by a sheet, "They will finally know true peace." Qi'meen said, "Even though they were fierce warriors, all they ever wanted was peace and now in death it has finally found them."
"Well said young one." Storm said as she handed Qi'meen a lit torch, and another to John, "It is time to release their souls back into the void and give them to the great maker."
The two humans nodded and approached the pallets. John threw his torch first, "May you become with the force my friends." when he finished Qi'meen followed suit, "I wish Maria was here. She would have liked to see her friends one last time before we did this."
"The least we could do is give her these." Qi'meen held out Frev've's light sabers
"She would like that." Rider said, "Those two actually met before all this happened. They said that they would always be there for each other. With those Frev've will always be at her side. By the way what color are they?"
Qi'meen shrugged her shoulders, "She never used these when I was around. She had another set that was destroyed not to long ago. A strange merchant gave them to her when he gave Thorvoyrs his focusing crystals."
"Wait a strange merchant." Rider ran towards the pelican and Qi'meen followed, "There was this strange merchant that appeared in the pelican not long before we were dragged here." Rider said as he pulled up the recording, "Was this him?"
Qi'meen looked at the recording in shock, "Yes that’s him."
"Dammit!" Rider yelled, "Celestia is not the one who brought us here. She might have been responsible for Maria going forward in time, but not for bringing us here. Maria has no grounds to justify punching her now."
"Is that bad?"
"Yes it is. Now we have to explain this to Celestia." Rider grabbed his sniper from the weapon rack, "We need to go find Maria."
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"What should I call you?" Maria asked the wolf as she petted it, "You are female. Hmm. How about Sasha?" the wolf barked happily, "It's settled then. Welcome to the family Sasha." Maria looked into the night sky and saw a faint light in the distance, "Lets get back to town girl. I want to see my friends and apologize for hurting that Pegasus.:
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John looked at the forest, "How far in do you think she went?"
"I don't know but we have to find her." Rider looked around the edge of the forest and saw something sticking out the ground, "I see something." he walked over to the item, "This is a chain sword. How did one of these get here?"
"Hey Rider I found an assault rifle over here!" John called out.
"What are you three doing this close to the forest?" Maria asked as she exited the forest dolled by Sasha.
"We were going to go look for you, but it appears that you have found us instead." Qi'meen said eyeing the wolf.
"I'm going to take this chain sword." Rider grabbed the chain sword and a message echoed in the air.
"This is Sebastian of the Dark Angels Chapter... And I'm Spartan Sebaste-915 of the UNSC.... Together, we are humanity's last hope in the future. If you're in need of the galaxy's most powerful super soldiers, or if you are needing to bring Death to the enemies of the Imperium and the UNSC, we will answer the call... AVE IMPERATOR, FOR THE UNSC, FOR TERRA!”
"I did not want to believe it, but this is evidence enough." Rider said.
"What didn't you want to believe?" Maria asked.
"Remember all of those displaced fan fictions I used to talk about when we gamed?" Maria nodded, "Well lets just say, we are displaced, and this and the assault rifle belong to other displaced from a different dimension."
"So what do we do?" Maria asked.
"We make a token our selves so those in need can call us to assist."
"Use this," Maria said as she took a shield off her back, "I have a shield that I can form out of hard light built into my suit."
"What message do you want to send?"
Maria held the shield out as Qi'meen, Rider, and John formed a circle around it, "We are the Titan Defenders. We stand ready to defend all who are innocent, and incapable of defending themselves. Be it from the Covenant or some other hell bent faction. The innocent shall not suffer." the shield glowed and vanished.
"Well that works. Now we stay here and hope that no horrid monsters come after us." Rider said soon regretting his choice of words as a beam rifle shot narrowly missed his helmet, "Fuuuuuuuuuuck!" he yelled.
"TITAN DEFENDERS ATTACK!!!" Maria yelled drawing her katana.
Two squads of a 12 grunts ran out the forest followed by two elites, and a single hunter, "Take out the grunts and elites. Leave the hunter till last. Just don't get hit by its attacks." Rider said as he removed the safety on his rifle and fired at the jackal in the tree.
John ran forward, light saber in his right hand and blaster pistol in his left. He swung once cutting through three grunts before he fired four shots into some more. Qi'meen followed his lead but with grace as she practically danced through the group of grunts spinning her double bladed saber cutting most of them down until an elite nocked her saber away with its sword. Maria took this chance to attack. Activating her jetpack she launched into the air and flew straight for the elite that engaged Qi'meen. She brought the katana down only for it to bounce of the elite's shield. She then yelled numerous things in Sangheili. The two elites yelled at her and charged. Maria brought her left arm up and a large tower shield formed blocking the swords of the elites. Rider then fired one shot that ripped through both elites' heads. The hunter charged at the humans charging up its plasma cannon, "Get back every one!" Qi'meen yelled as she brought her hands back as lightning formed around her arms. When she pushed her hands forward a large amount of lightning filled the air in front of her stopping the hunter in its tracks as it tried to block it with its shield, but failed. After a moment the hunter fell onto its back. Qi'meen fell down to her knees then she collapsed.
"Get her to the Defender John. We are going to look for any more." Maria ordered.
"Yes Commander Runa." John responded before he ran towards Qi’meen, and picked her and ran towards the large red ship.
"Rider get the pelican and use it as a sniper nest. Have Zalphite hold it steady for you." Maria ordered.
"Yes Commander." Rider activated his com and called for Zalphite to meet him at their current position.