00 -- The End, The Beginning
It was a beautiful day in Ponyville. Flowers were blooming, birds were singing, and a nice light breeze kept the sun overhead from making things oppressively hot. By all accounts it was a perfect day for a picnic, which is exactly what Twilight and her friends were doing.
“I must say, Applejack, you’ve quite outdone yourself this time!” Rarity observed as the earth pony produced a picnic basket stuffed to the brim with pastries. “Those simply smell divine!”
Applejack accepted the compliment gracefully with a smile and a nod. “Thank you kindly, and I’m happy to help. I convinced Granny Smith that having the picnic so close to town would be like free advertising since it’s downwind. After that she insisted that I make everything I could.”
“I’m sure the turnout tomorrow will be really good, considering how many of my animal friends you’ve attracted,” Fluttershy observed, and she waved a hoof at the growing flock of birds that was cramming itself into the tree they were using for shade.
Rainbow Dash’s initial response was a sigh and a grumble. “The only thing that would make this better is some cider from the farm. Once a year just isn’t enough,” she stated and let out another exaggerated sigh before stretching out on the picnic blanket. “Other than that, this day is just about perfect.”
Twilight nodded in agreement as she stretched out on the blanket as well, extending her wings out at her sides to soak up as much of the warm sunlight as she could. “I’m glad we were able to find some time to take a break, given how busy we’ve all been. There’s been a few times when I almost miss all of the free time I had after I had first moved to Ponyville.”
Dash opened one eye to give the alicorn a skeptical look. “The way I remember it, when you first moved here you always had your nose buried in the books at the library. Seemed like you didn’t have that much free time.”
“Yes, well, I was still adjusting to my move from Canterlot,” Twilight stated, though she couldn’t hide the embarrassed blush from her face. “Everything I was doing then seemed so important and I was still worried that Princess Celestia was putting me through one of those hidden character tests she likes so much.”
“Eh, if you say so. You know her better than most,” Dash answered with a shrug before glancing towards the one pony who was uncharacteristically silent. “Hey, Pinkie! Aren’t you going to come join us?”
The pink party pony sat on the outer fringe of the picnic blanket, her back turned towards the assembled ponies. What was more odd was the fact that she hadn’t so much as twitched a hair nor moved a muscle since assuming that position. She remained silent despite Dash’s questions, and the others merely chalked it up to one of Pinkie’s many eccentricities.
After a momentary lull in the conversation, Rarity took the opportunity to change subjects. “Applejack, I wanted to apologize on Sweetie Belle’s behalf. It seems that it was mostly her idea to try and create a catapult using lumber and rope taken from the barn.”
Dash immediately perked up. “Nopony should ever have to apologize for being that awesome! Did you see how much air time Scootaloo got? She was even able to control her descent, and replacing a few walls and windows is a small price to pay for being that adventurous!”
Applejack’s flat glare was followed by her scolding tone. “I think you’d feel differently if it was your walls and windows you were replacing, Dash.” The earth pony took another breath to continue her scolding but stopped when a shadow rolled over her. “What the… Dash, you promised us a sunny day today!” All eyes turned toward Ponyville, where a low-hanging bank of clouds and fog seemed to materialize out of thin air. The weather phenomenon was almost entirely dark gray, and the rumble of thunder could be heard from within it.
The weather pegasus’s first reaction was a flash of annoyance at the accusation, which slowly morphed into confusion. “That… that’s not a storm. It isn’t weather we made, but it isn’t natural either…”
Columns of lightning shot from the cloud bank and down into the fog in rapid succession, causing the Element Bearers to jump up from their relaxed positions. Several more flashes and booms followed as the strange weather expanded, and it wasn’t long before shapes could be seen inside. The largest of the shapes appeared to be ruins set atop a hill that appeared from within the misty depths, but the more pressing concern were the things that could be seen moving out and into the open.
They were bipedal, with the smallest being nearly twice the height of a pony’s shoulders, while larger shapes could also be seen. They were clockwork automatons, judging by the hazy shapes that could be seen and their lurching steps. Glowing cyclopean eyes glared out from the fog as the robots emerged from the mist… and attacked.
Bolts of fire lanced out from the fog towards the Element Bearers, one incinerating a large portion of the picnic blanket while another struck their shade tree and set it ablaze. Rainbow Dash was the first to react, rocketing into the sky before bolting towards Ponyville to raise the alarm. Applejack and Rarity ran for cover but not before scooping up Fluttershy, who had frozen in place.
Twilight’s first reaction was to channel her magic and smash the closest of the clockwork attackers, but immediately switched to a shield as nearly a dozen others turned toward her to rain fire upon her. Larger shapes emerged from the fog and began to hammer Twilight’s shield with blobs of purple energy. Slowly but surely, the alicorn’s shield shrank further and further as she gave ground.
And throughout the entire fight, Pinkie hadn’t moved an inch.
“Pinkie! RUN!” Twilight shouted to her friend, but could do little more than watch as one of the larger automatons stomped over to the earth pony and raised an arm high to smash her. The area outside of her protective shield had grown dark as the mist continued to expand, so much so that even Pinkie was little more than an unmoving silhouette beneath the shadow of the automaton.
The blow would never land as a series of sharp whip-like cracks cut through the chaos. The automaton’s raised arm snapped at the elbow and spiraled off into the fog, and its armored ‘head’ followed soon after. The crack sounds repeated with ear-splitting consistency, and the automaton continued to fly apart as though caught in a record-breaking hailstorm.
Twilight’s shocked and fearful eyes swept through the fog to locate the source of the sound, and she could only watch as another figure charged into the fight. It was bipedal, heavily armored and carried a weapon in its hands much like the automatons, but apparently didn’t need it as it rushed the closest machine and planted an armored knee in its chest. The machine crumpled like a tin can as it fell backwards from the blow, and the newest arrival used the defeated enemy as a springboard to jump high into the air. The smell of ozone filled the air as the creature descended with lightning at its heels, shattering a half dozen of the constructs with its landing.
The source of the crack sounds entered in a far less dramatic fashion. Its hooded shape moved through the fog like a ghost, the weapon in its hands the source of the harsh sound as its wielder took several shots at enemies that the first newcomer missed. The figure paused and seemed to turn towards Twilight, and for just a split second the alicorn saw glowing eyes meeting hers. And just as quickly as it happened, the hooded figure was gone.
Further lightning strikes cut through the fog, and more of the automatons appeared in the way of the newcomers. The robots’ efforts were short-lived as a flurry of magic rained down from above. Bolts of purple energy split up and struck each of the targets, shattering them on the spot. Before the last of the visible automatons had come to rest on the ground… she descended.
She was armored and clothed like the other two creatures that were fighting the robots, but that was where the similarities ended. Despite every inch of her being covered from snout to tail to her hooves, the horned helm and armored wings outstretched left no doubt that the source of the magic was an alicorn. Firebolts arced towards the armored alicorn, but none found their marks as she teleported out of sight.
The next few moments passed in a flash as the area descended further into chaos. More automatons appeared, but they were swept aside by the trio of strangers. Glowing orbs of light appeared only to be snuffed out almost instantly by one of the strangers and their weapons. Six lights flickered into existence, and six lights were put out. It was when the strangers had their hands full with a trio of the larger automatons that the seventh light appeared…
...directly in front of Pinkie.
The moment the light appeared, Pinkie reared up and struck at it with her hooves. The moment that her hooves connected with their target, all three of the giant automatons whirled about and charged towards the earth pony. The hooded stranger was only a moment behind, hurling a glowing orb at the back of the trailing giant. Just as the orb exploded brilliantly and consumed its target, the stranger vanished only to reappear above the second giant in line. A knife as long as Twilight’s foreleg jammed into the neck joint of the giant and twisted, and the automaton was only able to take one wobbling step before crashing to the ground.
The hooded stranger appeared in a flash of light between the last of the giants and Pinkie, glowing eyes cutting through the mist as they once again fell upon Twilight. Those eyes didn’t leave Twilight even as the giant raised one of its massive arms and batted the stranger out of the way. Two more running strides brought it within striking distance of Pinkie…
...just as her hooves connected again with the light, causing it to crack and shatter.
The moment that the light flickered out of existence, the fog and stormclouds vanished. The automatons and the strangers fighting them vanished as well. Even the shadowed ruins that had been just barely visible were nowhere to be seen. Signs of the fighting were still present in the area, from scorch marks and fires in Ponyville to the residents themselves galloping about trying to save what they could. Amidst the hectic rush, Spike’s familiar purple and green shape could be seen running towards the hill where Element Bearers had intended to have their picnic.
“Twilight! Twilight!” the baby dragon screamed as he ran up the hill, only to pause and catch his breath. “Are you okay? What were those things? Are they going to come back?” he asked between gasps for air.
“I don’t know, Spike, which is why I need you to send a message to the Princesses right now. If anypony knows what’s going on, they would,” Twilight explained quickly as Spike turned on his heel to run back into Ponyville. A flicker of movement in the corner of her eyes drew her attention next, revealing Applejack and Rarity cautiously approaching the hill with a wide-eyed Fluttershy behind them. “Girls! Are you alright?” the alicorn shouted as she ran to rejoin her friends.
Rarity nodded in response to the question but her eyes continued to dart around in search of dangers. “Twilight, do you have any idea what just happened? Usually the princesses are quite good at letting us know when some sort of unspeakable evil is on the way…”
“That can wait!” Applejack interrupted. “What I want to know is where Rainbow Dash is!”
The question froze both Rarity and Twilight in place, as the brash pegasus was nowhere to be seen and her warning shouts had long been lost to the din of fighting. The alicorn had spread her wings to lift off in search of Dash when Pinkie’s voice reached her ears. “I don’t think Rainbow Dash is here anymore, but I think our new friend here can tell us.”
All eyes whipped around to the party mare to see her sitting beside the hooded stranger that had been struck down trying to defend Pinkie. With the fog gone, the details of the stranger were far more easily identified, with a ragged blue cloak wrapped over her left shoulder. The hood was also dark blue but with a gold stripe running down the middle of it. A hoofful of mysterious objects could be seen in belts or pouches wrapped around the stranger’s body. but what was perhaps most surprising was that the creature wasn’t a living being at all. The hands and arms that were visible through the armor was some of the most complex and detailed clockwork that Twilight had ever seen, and the stranger’s face was mostly composed of an articulated white metal plate, with a hinged portion where a mouth might be expected. The once glowing eyes were now dark and still as they stared up into the now cloudless sky.
“Is… is it dead?” Rarity asked as she eyed the body warily, not willing to approach any closer than two body lengths.
Twilight’s eyes narrowed as she drank in every detail of the stranger that was left behind. “I don’t know if it was ever ‘alive’ to begin with, but it was animated before. And I’m going to fix it so it can tell us exactly what just happened and where Rainbow Dash is.”
Applejack’s voice was cautious as she glanced from the stranger to Twilight. “Are you sure that’s a good idea, Twilight? Those other robots were downright hostile but we don’t know if this thing is going to be the same way.”
Twilight shook her head and gave her most determined stare at the stranger’s dead eyes. “This thing… it put itself in harm’s way to save Pinkie. If repairing it leads to finding Rainbow Dash, then I’m willing to risk it.”
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Another place, another time…
Where there had once been a mighty civilization spanning the world, only the echoes and bones remained. Mighty roadways that had once teemed with traffic were now little more than broken and eroded slabs with rusted and burned vehicles. Where once glittering towers of glass and steel reached up towards the sky, only rubble remained. The closest thing to the world’s once great splendor that still stood was the rusted and collapsing walls of the Cosmodrome and the towering colony ships that would never get the chance to deliver their precious cargo to new worlds.
It was a mausoleum in all but name, with the dry and sandblasted bones of tens of thousands littering the roadways to the Cosmodrome wall. They were all that remained of the bright and brilliant people that had tried to escape the darkness that consumed their world. They had all been left where they died, doomed to remain as unknown and forgotten deaths from a bygone age. All… except one.
A flicker of light floated through the lanes of wrecked cars as the sun rose over the ruins. The source of that light wasn’t a reflection from the fiery orb or any natural creature though. The light was that of a Ghost, a tiny machine filled with the the smallest grain of Light and a goal that it had been searching for since it had been created all those years ago. The Ghost bobbed and weaved through the wreckage, sparing only a single moment to scan a few of the skeletons or bits of debris. Eventually it stopped doing even that as it accelerated, its sensors practically screaming that the goal was growing closer.
The Ghost’s path led to a small hill alongside one of the many broken roadways leading into the Cosmodrome. It ignored everything else as it ascended the hill and gazed down at its prize, only to recoil in shock.
The hill itself was littered with the bones of Humans and Awoken alongside the rusting husks of destroyed Exos, which wasn’t a strange sight for the Ghost given how long it had been searching the wastelands. What was strange was that the remains at the top of the hill didn’t belong to any of those three, or of any race that had been recorded until now.
The bones at the top of the hill were quadrupedal, with unmistakable wings spread out where the creature had fallen. Its single-horned skull was opened wide in a wordless scream from its last moments before it perished. Despite the mystery that the creature presented, the Ghost knew that this was the goal he had been created for.
The panels that ringed the Ghost’s central orb expanded with a burst of energy, and it called to its Guardian.
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Evening folks!
This is the first chapter of Brightest Spark, one of the many plot bunnies that has been running around my head as of late. How often this will update will really depend upon how folks feel between this and Directive 2 (a non FiM crossover) which will be out shortly on another site (check my blog later!)
Thanks again for my readers who inspire me!
Edit: Apparently my coverart isn't loading. : |
Edit2: Fixed!
On days like these, kids like you...
Sorry. Couldn't help it.
On another note, I'll have to read this tonight as it's a bit confusing in terms of what is going on.
Well, color me interested!
Wow, I like the premise. I am really hopeful for this story's future!
Have a like, favroite, etc!
A destiny fan myself, I'm glad you decided to make a Destiny fic. You've got a good track record for sci-fi fics and are actually capable of finishing a story with more than three chapters to it's name. Maybe this'll actually be good or something, I dunno'. I'll be keeping an eye on this for sure
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Don't let us down, Guardian.
Interestng story so far, I hope it will be as good as your other stories.
I'm liking it so far, and I'm looking forward to a certain purple-pone's reaction to seeing a guardian come back.
20 bucks its gonna be after a partial mental breakdown caused by repeat failures at understanding the exo's systems, possibly leading to some sneeky breeki ghost stealth
I dont know destiny, but this was different in the approach. So good luck, this managed a watch.
Yes! This is what I've been waiting on!
This looks interesting.... Activating tracking beacon!
7752810 Today was the first time in eons that I randomly looked through the new stories and this one caught my eye even before I knew it had your name behind it. I have great hopes for this. If this is par with your other stories then I know we are in for something great.
Hm, this is looking like it could be interesting, although I feel like a big part of that hinges on what you plan on doing with Rainbow Dash. If she is going to play a major part in this story then I'm very interested because she felt underused in your other stories and while that did make sense there, she really does have a lot to add if you use her as more than a plot device. The fact that she isn't specifically tagged makes me think I'm going to be disappointed, but I would much rather have a firm answer from you than guess from the tags. Normally I would just wait and follow this for a few chapters to see which direction you take it, but since you want us to vote after this chapter I feel like I need to ask so I can make an informed decision.
To begin with, I don't like the Destiny storyline. The magic in it is as soft as the Star Wars 'Light' and 'Dark' sides of the 'Force'. And even after reading a fair amount of the (difficult to obtain) pieces of lore, I still don't really have much more of an idea than "We are the good guys, everyone who isn't us is a bad guy, because we go for quality over quantity in our foot soldiers."
That being said, I absolutely love the game. I have logged just over 24 days in it. My Account. I love the gameplay, but as has been said by one of my favorite authors (not a pony author) "No one cares about the story in an MMO, you go from exclamation mark to exclamation mark and kill everything in between."
So I am giving this the benefit of the doubt because you are awesome, Arad, and if anyone can make it work, you can.
I do expect some snark, from Ghost and from Cayde. (Please put Cayde in this, please please please)
And finally, there is an extremely important question I have to ask you, Arad.
Dinklebot or Nolanbot?
I am so going to give this a read come morning. just put it on my tracking for now. usualy stuff goes to read it later where it sits for weeks or months, but your such an amazing author an ive loved Stardust, Mente Materia and some of their side stories alot so i know this will be good to
7752865 Congratulations! That is EXACTLY what Arad was referencing when he wrote that!
Huge Destiny fan, really looking forward for this one.
I almost hoped the protagonist would have been rainbow dash. She'd make an awesome guardian. And it would be a bigger separation from your xcom crossover(which is still awesom btw) and give twilight a break. Just a thought.
"Crap, Arad's doing another crossover."
"But I don't even like Destiny!"
"Dammit." *Follows*
7752810 How, if at all, does this relate to the "Traveler" from Celestia?
a destiny fic from Arad? sign me up!
Ok. Still confused. Looks like I need help to understand. Tell me if I got anything wrong:
Mane 6 on hill having picnic, Pinkie is catatonic for some reason or another. Unnatural, non-pegasi Storm appears leading to the ruins of a city during a fight between robots and three peculiar beings, one being an Alicorn. Fight occurs as all but Pinkie and Twilight retreat, with Rainbow going to warn Ponyville. Pinkie Pie remains catatonic until an orb of light appears in front of her, which she attacks for some reason. Said orb of light shatters, causing the storm to dissipate.
Afterwards, Rainbow Dash is missing, but a robot (assuming Exo?) that tried to defend Pinkie Pie remained, deactivated. Pinkie Pie no longer catatonic.
In another time and anothe place, a Ghost searches Brough ruins and dead bodies for something, not knowing what said something is, until finding the skeleton of an Alicorn, which is apparently what it was looking for.
That's what i got from the chapter, but I'm missing a lot of details:
Why was Pinkie catatonic?
What were the orbs?
Why was there an Alicorn?
7753088 I have doubts about guardians being the good guys
seems like an alright story it has my attention for now
7754381 [Insert ad voice] "Coming up next in The Brightest Spark:
Why was Pinkie catatonic?
What were the glowing orbs?
And why was there Alicorn remains on an apocalyptic planet originally inhabited by bipedals?
Tune in next time for this and more on The Brightest Spark!"
7754409
Don't be a butt.
hmmm an interesting first chapter you have definitely caught my attention with this one. keep up the good work
7754381
I'm fairly sure that the alicorn was Twilight.
Given how long Destiny has been out... i'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner. Of course, i have no idea if it has happened and the stories just fell by the wayside or were completed or something.
Anyway, a good start and i look forward to where Dash ends up in the spectrum of Guardians (Hunter, most likely bladedancer, but that's my prediction)
Morning folks! I'm afraid my time is limited this morning but I'll try and reply to a few of the comments.
7752880
In my experience the fics that get three chapters and then die usually don't have an overall plan as to how the story is going to develop and end. Because of that it tends to meander about and wither over time as the author loses interest. And I never start a story without knowing how it will end.
7753041
I'm afraid I don't really have a way to answer that without giving out huge spoilers. I suppose I could at least say that Rainbow Dash's disappearance is one of the driving forces that sets all of the events into motion... but you've probably guessed that already based on the chapter. :S
7753088
Oh I have a few things planned for Cayde-6. XD
Also, Nolanbot.
7754009
Thanks! Though one thing I did want to mention is that the Twilight in this is post-Tirek. She isn't nearly as gunshy as Stardust Twily... though how much that affects the story is anyone's guess. :P
7754057
Completely unrelated. It was just coincidence that I named a character 'The Traveller' in Celestia.
7754381
I'm afraid a lot of those questions I can't answer without giving away spoilers, but the fight described might be familiar to Destiny fans. To those that aren't familiar with Destiny, it'll be explained in the fullness of time. :)
7754601
To be honest, the only reason I hadn't attempted this earlier is that there is -so much- of the Destiny world that was never fully explained and I didn't want to commit to a story only to have it subverted by later reveals in the game. Now that the original Destiny is winding down, I'm feeling confident enough to stick my toe in the pool.
7754618
I understand that, honestly... there's just so much in the vanilla game that has no other explanation than 'it happened, deal with it LOLZ', like the Exo Stranger or the Cabal on Mars and so many other things.
Still, this caught my interest and i'm definitely looking forward to seeing how everyone at the Tower reacts to Dash.
Maybe you will actually finish this unlike so many others attempts.
THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!!
Are you gonna give us a Destiny lore dump? I know nothing about Destiny
7754381 the robots were vex, a bio-mechanical paracausal race of aliens that inhabit mercury, venus, and mars in Destiny. They teleport through those storms, which are a temporal rift storms that allow the vex to move through time AND space. The orbs are a kind of temporal lock, allowing the vex to keep traveling between the point of origin and the destination. In as far as pinkie being catatonic, I'm gonna blame that on pinkie being pinkie, and getting a feeling that the vex were coming, and deducing the orbs as being important to them.
The alicorn is a stumper, but we'll find out I'm sure some point in the future.
7754510
I don't mean that Alicorn. I mean the one that came through. The skeleton.
7754962
TY chicken pie.
So let me understand this real quick... The lack of updates from your stories was because of ... Destiny ?
7754884
I'm not a terribly huge fan of info dumps for the sake of explaining things, BUT your question is one of the many thing I've been considering. Considering that the main character that's going to be exploring the world of Destiny is about as much of an outsider to it as one possibly can be, I fully intend to describe these events as a person might if they've never played the game. (Because this was more like a prologue than a first chapter)
7754962
An excellent description! I was extremely leery of posting an explanation in the comments since (a) it will be eventually described in the story and (b) I tend to say TOO much and potentially give spoilers away. :S
Regarding the other questions that folks have, I'm afraid we'll have to wait for the next chapter.
.... did..... did you just..... DID YOU JUST TAKE A PONY?!
Edit: Oh no you just used Vex. Yes that's SOOOO much better.
More Destiny stuff~
Sooooo... either Twilight somehow in the "Future" gets sent to Earth and dies horribly in the collapse, or Rainbow Dash got sucked through the Vex' temporal rift and somehow ascended to alocornhood... before dying horribly in the collapse... Only for them to loop back around somehow during a fight with the Vex, which is incidentally what set the whole thing in motion in the first place...
By the Grace of the Iron Lords, I freaking Hate the Vex and their stupid Time Hax BS. It makes keeping track of everything they get up to a real pain.
My bits are on Twilight considering that the Pony-Guardian displayed the abilities of a Warlock, while RD's skills fit more with the vein of the Hunter.
As for the battle, good bets are either on VoG (Just because of the volume of Time Hax related crap the Vex try to pull from there) or the Buried City/Freehold Station on Mars, though considering that the scene is described as being in a city, chances are higher for the latter.
7754618
...That shouldn't be a significant spoiler. My question is basically how much direct page time will Rainbow be getting. If I were asking this about Stardust, the question would be if we are going to be following Twilight with XCOM, or if we are going to be following someone else as they try to get Twilight back. Now, there is obviously more possible room here since Twilight and Rainbow could be off doing things together, but that would still qualify as Rainbow getting a significant amount of page time and being a significant character rather than being a plot device Twilight is off trying to save (sort of like Celestia in the show). Once again, I don't want you to tell me who is doing what, just if Rainbow will be doing a significant amount of talking/acting or not.
Also, yes, I did indeed see the obvious and realize that Rainbow's disappearance is what sets this story in motion like Twilight getting kicked to Earth in Stardust.
I'm assuming that's an Alicornified Rainbow Dash, though I suppose it could be Twilight Sparkle having somehow gotten to pre-collapse Earth in an effort to find Rainbow... I'm expecting Alicornified Rainbow, but I'm hoping for Twilight. I always prefer adventures that star Book Horse. Still, I'm super interested in seeing where this story's going no matter who the main character is. Hopefully it gets continued!
EDIT: Wow. That wall of text.
7754401
That was kinda my point. The only difference between the Guardians and the various forms of Darkness is the fact that the "darkness" uses lots of expendable people and they seem to be invading, rather than defending. Except not, because the Vex lived on Venus? /Mars but locked out of time on Venus? I don't even know. The Traveler could be the galactic equivalent of the Doctor, gallivanting all over enforcing his own set of morals on random peoples and then disappearing right after shit explodes. The fact that the rest of the galaxy wants it dead would make a fair amount of sense at that point.
I mean, to be honest, the Vex have time travel tech, so they should have won this "battle" before it began, but haven't for some reason.
The Cabal, Vex, Hive, and Taken have very little in common, save that they all hate The Traveler. So I don't really see a unifying "Darkness" in the lot of them. Other than, of course, not being part of The Traveler's "Light".
And the Guardians seem to be okay with the Queen treating a sapient race (the Fallen) as little more than domesticated animals.
I was once rather frustrated with the incredible lack of story, and when I found out some of the story, I was frustrated with the lack of justification for everything the Guardians did, then I gave up on the storyline altogether and had fun shooting other guardians in the face. Because that is a good use of the Guardians' time and effort. This rant is me letting off all the steam that built up playing through those daily missions and listening to Little LIght (definitely, totally, officially his ponified name) spout nonsense about time manipulation and golden age tech into my ear.
Phew. Alright. We're good. I'm done. I'm not even going to talk about SIVA. I haven't even run the newest raid, and I don't plan to.
Y'know, I reeeeeaaaally hope the gaurdianified pony is Twi, but the implication for RD is pretty hard too... Maybe a rescue mission? I would be completely open to the idea of Twi going on a rescue mission to find RD, and then having RD train as the hunter. Maybe throw AJ in there afterwards somehow and have her be the Titan? That'd be kinda cool. Maybe all the main 6 would end up as 6 of the 9 subclasses.
On the fun side, while playing the Taken King I was totally wishing that you could choose to side with Oryx and get new powers after being Taken. I mean, if there are some people who get Taken and still retain some of their mind, You as the Guardian should retain a fair amount of autonomy. Because Good-F******-God, that teleportation ability that half the enemies seem to have would be SOOOOOO beautiful to have. It makes me drool to imagine what I could do with that. Instead of the difficult-to-use teleportation that only some of the classes actually have.
7756898 I'd like to make a few corrections, if you don't mind. The Traveler never made any Guardians before Earth and Humanity. It would raise races with knowledge like it did with Earth then leave them; The Darkness is that which came on the tail of the Traveler to destroy them: in the Eliksni's or Fallen's mythos, The Great Machine, inferred to be the Traveler, came to them and helped them into a 'golden age' of their own. After it left, 'The Whirlwind', implied to be The Darkness or a force for it, came and destroyed them. After infighting, they left to find the Traveler to restore them to their old glory.
As for Rasputin, it did have a hidden directive it created itself called ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE, which is a last-resort move for weapons to fire on the Traveler should it try to flee, and cripple it in a way that it would force it to stay and defend humanity or die. However, so far no solid evidence has come up that shows this directive was ever used.
...why?
This is almost as good as money.
Mmm... almost.
If this is anywhere near as good as Stardust, then this is going to be one heck of a story.
Finally!! A Destiny Crossover!!! I've been waiting for one for sooooo loooonnnngggg... Thanks for making this. If it's horrible, I'm going to find you. And force you to make it better...
7758040 Ikr! I tried writing one, but it was shite.
7755352 thank you! I honestly tried to stick to only common known lore and frequented forum posts. Paracausal is not a recognized term, but Google it and you'll find the forum posts I got it from. Its one of my sins and shame that I can't help by discorge whatever nugget or cache of information I have whenever the opportunity presents itself.