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// A new branch 
// Story: The Guardian's story 
// by Lon35hadow 
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	The fourteen of us, which is to say all of Fire team Lone, Auryx and her children, Sombra, and M Luna's teammates, which are M Twilight, M Applejack, M Sight, and M Forge, were in Canterlot, with M Luna's body hidden by a shroud. "You sure this'll work?" Cybis asked me in a whisper?

"Ghosts were meant to revive the fallen," I replied. "I'm more worried about the memory aspect of it."

"Agreed," Rhino said as Nightmare stepped up, and took knelt next to the alternate version of her as she began to concentrate. "If she doesn't have her memories, Sekana will kill us, regardless if we can bring her back."

"Not what I meant," I said. "If she acts on her memories, M Luna will try to destroy her Ghost. The only it didn't happen with M Twilight is because she was alive when she got her Ghost."

"Does it matter if that happens?" Cybis asked. "I mean, she'll be alive and with her memories."

"Can you three please shut up?" Nightmare asked. "I'm trying to concentrate."

"Sorry," Rhino said. How did she hear us?

Who the hell knows? I replied. Probably her hearing is upped.

Let's ask later, Cybis said. With that, the three of us fell silent from conversation, physically and mentally, as Nightmare began to create a Ghost. As far as we could tell from her explanation, she had been able to make Night and M Twilight's Ghost because she knew what she wanted in her Ghost, and could guess from Twilight and Spike. For M Luna, it was harder, as, though in our world, Luna was the opposite, here, it was the main one, and that led to differences in the mind, which meant it was harder to guess what M Luna would like.

While that was going on, I looked around, and saw Sekana glaring at the three of us. Not that we could blame her. In way, we were responsible for her death, even if it was our mirror versions that did the deed. She mouthed, "You'd better hope this works."

Other than that, nothing happened in the room for near five minutes, until a spark of light, following the in-game model of one, came from Nightmare's chest, and particles of dust, a lot in this room as it hadn't been used much, came from the walls. At this time, the door to the room opened slowly and, as our Ghosts were on surveillance duty outside the room, the fire team and M Twilight got a feed of what they saw, which was a lot of pony guards and Raiders, looking to see what was going on. Can't really blame them.

For near a thousand years, M Luna was the protector of the ponies, and, though for a week, the Raider's leader, making her the only leader they had. Must have really liked her.

Anyway, it wasn't until ten minutes after the whole thing began that a small flash happened from where the mote was, and a Ghost with a dark blue shell with light blue highlights. With that, Nightmare looked at the Ghost before M Luna's shrouded body. "Ghost, she is to be your partner. Can you revive her from death?" Nightmare asked.

In a blank voice, meaning no personality or gender in it whatsoever, it replied, "I believe so," before going to scan the body under the shroud, with small beeps coming from it.




An hour later

Auryx and I stood in the castle, just outside the main balcony, where multiple individuals, ponies, Raiders, and proto-hive, were waiting for news on M Luna. Rhino and the others were outside, working on security.

"You think they're ready for the news?" I asked Auryx, who nodded.

"Yes," she said. "My subjects, pony or no, will be shocked at first, any would be, but they are strong, and will be able to take it. If not?" She chuckled. "Well, there's not much they can do, now can they?"

I chuckled in response. "You, Auryx, are a queen I'd like to follow. Good thing we're going to be seeing one another a lot, huh?"

"Indeed, Guardian. And again, my thanks for helping us."

"No problem," I said with a polite head bow. "It's what Guardians do, after all."

"Well, I suppose we had finish here, then," Auryx said. "So that you and your allies can return to your Equestria and defend it."

I nodded. "Agreed." With that, the two of us stepped onto the balcony. No cheers, as everyone wanted to hear the news. "My thanks to you all for coming," Auryx began. "I am sure you all have heard of the rumors of what happened in the north, and of what happened to my daughter's sister. . . . . I regret to inform you that the rumors are true."

There was a lot of gasping, and this is where I came in. "Please, everyone. There is more," I said. "I am a Guardian, from an alternate version of your world. We came to help Queen Auryx remove the threat to you all, and we did. Through it, we learned a comrade of ours, our version of Luna, could create our version of Phantoms, called Ghosts, who can revive the dead. Upon our return, we attempted to revive Luna, but the damage was to great. . . . . . So we made her a new body."

With that line, M Luna, wearing a set of Warlock armor Cybis and Nightmare, with the help of their Ghosts, had made with a custom shader, one dubbed "Night Blade",steppe donto the balcony, eliciting cheers from most down there.

Auryx whispered to me, "You wanted to do that, didn't you?"

"Yep," I replied.

My former subjects," M Luna began, causing the cheers to stop, "and those that followed me. To each of you, I apologize for the hardships I have caused. I know I can not erase what I-we, the Raiders- did." She paused. "But we can make up for it. After talking with my second in commands, as well as the first Raider the Guardians freed, we have decided that, in order to help repair the damages we have caused, we will be under the command of the Guardians, with me being the branch leader here. I gave up my title of princess when I betrayed you all, and, as such," she said before drawing an old fashioned sword and turning around before kneeling, "I swear my loyalty to Queen Auryx and her family. Whatever they command, I will follow."

Auryx and I looked at each other, both of us a little surprised. I shrugged, stumped at what to do, so, as the queen she is, Auryx improvised.

First she chuckled. "My thanks for pledging your loyalty to Equestria," she said. "But there is no need. After all, as a princess, you already have." Before M Luna could say anything, she elaborated, loud enough for the crowd to hear. "My daughter, who many of you know as Celestia, came to me on the day we discovered you to have joined your father, begging me to spare you should it come to us defeating you in battle. I told her that I would do one better, as some today would say.

"I told her I would adopt you, should we win. Which we have."

That's a little surprising, Cybis said. I could not help but agree.

Playing along with Auryx, and after a quick mental conversation with Rhino and Cybis, I said, "And you'll have full command over those here." I then closed my right hand, and put it over my heart. "You have earned that much, Princess."

M Luna, for lack of a better term, was shocked. "B-but-"

"Our decision is final," Auryx said sternly before, in a softer tone, saying, "And besides, we need to finish this up so that you can see Sekana and your new brother."

"And we need to go," I said, with Noland sending a signal for the jumpjets. "But before that, I think we should announce the other thing."

Auryx nodded. "Agreed," she said. "Another thing that the Guardians and I have agreed on," she said to the crowd, "is that our two worlds will become allies. If one of our Equestria's were to be attacked, the other is to help it. After all, they are us, in a way."

I nodded. "And should any Guardian go rogue, we'll take care of them," I said as the jumpjets, which had been parked on the other side of the mountain, came around. I then turned to Auryx and, with a two fingered salute, said, "See ya in a week, Auryx," before being transmatted into Nightmare's jumpjet, as she had offered me a ride back home. To my embarrassment at the time, I landed in her lap. "Sorry," I said.

"It isn't a problem, Josh," she said, though with a hint of embarrassment in her voice as well. "Now stop talking so I can concentrate on flying this thing." And with that, the five ships took off from Mirror Canterlot, and to the Everfree forest, and back home, with Rhino, Cybis, and me wondering what the multiverse would throw at us next.