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Equis system

Two hours before Changeling attack

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The trip to Equis had been… very uneventful. Of course, everybody was asleep during the trip, but the jumpships always made random jolts and jerks. However, this journey was… pleasant, to say the least.

No one was complaining though, because they needed their energy for whatever was to happen on their mission.

"Scott," the Hunter's Ghost whispered, "We've arrived in-system, and Cayde is contacting you."

"Uhhhhhh," Scott groaned as he got up from his military cot, "buzz off, Sage." He made a lazy swipe nowhere near to Sage, his Ghost, but it went flying in another direction and collided with the MIDAS Multi-Tool, Scott's Exotic Scout Rifle. Sage was too stunned to make a retort as the sleep-sick Hunter shuffled to his Phaeton class jumpship's holotank, which was flashing red.

"Scott," Sage whispered," do you know what you just did?"

"Yeah, I told you to fuck off," he replied, too drowsy and pissed to even grasp what he did.

Scott made his way to the beeping holotank, and pressed a button at the base of it. The sound and light stopped, and was replaced by a blue Cayde-6.

"Cayde," Scott said, cutting the Exo off from whatever he was going to say, "Before you ask, no, I didn't touch your oil can today. It's still in Ikora Rey's room where I left it yesterday."

Cayde sighed stressfully before saying "No, I didn't call for that, I'm just sending you the geographical maps on Equis so you know where you're going." He took a gander at Sage, who was still staring at Scott and being uncharacteristically quiet, and asked, "Sage, why are you just staring at him?"

"He pushed me away when I woke him," The Ghost said, out of his shocked trance.

"So? He goes that every time you mess with his sleep."

"No, this time was different," it said, focusing its only eye towards the hologram of the Hunter Mentor, and twisting his back half a bit. "He pushed me away using a new form of Light!"

"So?" Scott asked, levitating a bottle of water towards his outstretched hand and taking a swig. Then he realized the gravity of what he did not once, but twice without thinking and spit out his drink, showering Sage. Thank the Traveler he was lifeproof.

"Holy shit," Cayde uttered, amazed at what the new Guardian of the Air just did.

"Holy shit," Scott echoed, "I'm a fucking Jedi!" He then thought of the Multi-Tool flying into his arms, and it did. "Holy shit! This is fucking awesome!" he yelled.

"Stay safe, Brooklyn," Cayde mocked, knowing there was zero chance of talking to him at this state.

"I'm from the Bronx, tin man," the New Yorker replied as the connection was cut. He saw a green and blue jewel out of the viewport of his jumpship from his place in the hold, and forced himself into serious mode. "Sage, take sure everyone else is up and ready, and put all the other ships in orbit," he commanded as he gestured to the other two jumpships in formation with his own, a Kestrel EXO and a Regulus class. He went into his private room to change into his gear while Sage followed his orders. Started by strapping on his chest plate, then his gauntlets, next was his pants, and then his boots; all of them together was the Dustwalker armor set with a pure black armor shader. And last, but certainly not least, was his Dustwalker Cloak.

Never forget the cloak.

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'Everfree Forest', Equis

Five minutes before Changeling attack

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"Alright guys," Lanius said his Fireteam's Ghosts, Caesar, Apollo, and Sage, "Make sure to keep the jumpships' cloaks on and stay in low orbit; we may need the cavalry at some point for better or worse."

"Got it," Caesar said while the other two Ghosts were transmatting into their Guardians' jumpships, "Stay safe, Guardian." Then it too dissipated and gained control of Lanius' Kestrel and blasted off.

The Titan took one last look at the group of dots in the sky before putting on his helmet and walking back to the rest of his team. One thing that was on the Titan's mind is how different this world felt. He was significantly happier for no reason, and he was resisting the urge to break out in song. When Lanius finally found Nike and Scott, they were discussing something along the lines of 'can you have sex with the girls here?' Well, one of them was, who was of unmutated flesh and blood. If a Human from before the Collapse were here, they would have been disgusted with themselves if they even thought of it. Equines used to be on Earth too! Sadly, they were wiped off the face of the Earth ten years after the Collapse, so the young Guardians had never even heard of Equines before they had been called to that meeting.

Lanius cleared his throat to let his teammates know he was back, and Scott went from 'douchebag New Yorker' to 'Navy SEAL' in mere moments.

"Alright, here's the plan," the Hunter announced, "we will head out to the town two miles from here, Ponyville, and make contact with the townspeople there. They will summon their Princess here, we'll make history again and be back to kicking Darkness ass in no time." Scott checked his mission clock. "We'll head out within two hours, a-"

He never got to finish his sentence. In the general direction in which Ponyville was, two piercing green bolts filled the sky, followed by screams of innocent people and maniacal laughter.

"Or we can go now!" Scott exclaimed stressfully. He slipped on his helmet and studied his fellow teammates' gear.

Nike had the Manifold Seeker armor on with a dark blue and white armor shader that was coupled with the Born of Sight bond. He had Thorn on his left hip and his Exotic Pulse Rifle, Red Death, on his back. The Void Giver was not on his person, but Scott knew it was in his Transmat Inventory. The Warlock was ready for action.

The Hunter then shifted his attention to Lanius. The Titan was outfitted in Vanir armor with a green and gold armor shader, along with The Mandate Titan Mark. He had his newly acquired Exotic Hand Cannon, Hawkmoon, strapped to his right thigh, his Exotic Auto Rifle, Monte Carlo, on the right of his back being diagonal, and Mjolnir on the left side the same way. He also had a LMG, Thunderlord, in his Transmat Inventory, ready to be pulled out (giggity) at a moment's notice.

Scott then took a quick glance at himself. He had on his Dustwalker armor and cloak with a black armor shader. He had Sol Extinguisher on his right hip, the Multi-Tool strapped to his back, and his Exotic Sniper Rifle, Patience and Time, in his Transmat Inventory. All in all, they were ready for action.

"Let's get to that mountain," Scott ordered, pointing towards a mountain in the distance, "and try to fly. Imagine yourself flying through the air." They all did just that, and were immediately surrounded by each of their controlled Energies (Scott = Solar, Lanius = Arc, Nike = Void). They looked like multi-colored shoot stars. Not two seconds after that, they found themselves zipping through the air, with Scott flying faster than his teammates and easily breaking the sound barrier. He reached the top of the mountain four seconds faster than everyone else, and by the time the others reached the peak he already had out Patience and Time and was observing the town. The Titan and Warlock saw the opening of a gigantic cave by them, which they assumed once held a horrifying beast.

"What do you see?" Lanius asked, his faceplate already fully magnified and pointed towards the quaint little village, but he still couldn't see much of anything from this distance.

"There are these weird looking ponies with holes in them," Scott explained, "They're attacking the town and capturing the normal looking ponies in some sort of cocoon. There's this group of ponies by the train station, and they have these pieces of jewelry on… and they just teleported away. They just left this little purple guy to fend against six of those 'holy' ones…" he started to trail off.

*crack*

The head of one of the 'holy' ponies exploded in a burst of green blood, courtesy of Scott's rifle. He got up and then started to accumulate Solar Energy around himself, preparing for a launch.

"Let's get down there and do what we do best," Nike said, with some Void Energy pooling by his feet.

"Like fuckin' badasses," Lanius finished for him, doing the same with Arc Energy.

The three brothers in arms then shot upward like rockets, and zoomed toward the danger filled town, getting ready for another baddy beat down.

Once they were one hundred feet above Ponyville, Scott shouted "Drop!" and they stopped flying, each dropping towards the town like boulders. They landed in front of a large group of holy ponies, cracking the ground underneath each of them and intimidating the enemies in front of them. Scott and Nike pulled the receivers of their primary weapons back, and Lanius pumped Mjolnir's pump once, lock and loading.

"We have come here to chew bubblegum, and kick ass," the Hunter said, "and we're all out of bubblegum!"

Scott fired the Multi-Tool twice, killing the hostile in front of him, and the real fighting started.

The group started walking slowly towards the center of town, mowing down anything in their way and dodging or tanking through dozens of green energy bolts. This was their winning strategy since they've met the Hive; Wading. Once they reached the square, they formed a triangle and continued to blast the bugs to pieces. At one point they heard someone exclaim, "They're destroying the Changelings!" They now knew the name of their enemy.

At one point a changeling got close enough to attempt to stab Scott with his horn, but ducked and sidestepped to the right as Lanius sidestepped to the left while he brought his elbow over his head and into the changeling's face, fracturing it skull and killing it instantly.

"Nike!" Scott yelled over the roar of battle, "Form a black hole right above us! Lanius! Get a Ward of Dawn up! Can't help these ponies if we're nothing but atoms!"

The Titan was already forming the Void-constructed shield as Scott gave out the order, covering the Fireteam in a purple shield that extended into the ground just in case. Meanwhile, Nike had clenched his fist as Void flowed through it, constructing an artificial black hole above the Ward of Dawn. Fortunately, the Void dome protected the Guardians from the thing in which nothing, even light, could escape. Everything else outside the shield, however, was at a risk of being sucked into the black hole and having their atoms violently and horrifically torn apart, exactly what the Changelings were going through at this very moment.

That included the innocent townsponies trying to flee from the danger. Luckily, Lanius had the hindsight to realize this and formed protective barriers of Void in front of every non-changeling within the town's limits, saving the civilians from becoming nothing.

As the black hole dissipated, the young Guardians took a good look at the ponies around them. Some were flustered, some were scared, but all were happy that the Changelings were gone, thanks to these armored bipeds that fell from the sky.

As Fireteam Excalibur eased themselves into thinking they had done the job, green mushroom clouds erupted from a city in the distance that they hadn't noticed before. Lanius tapped a button on the left side of his helmet, signaling the jumpships' Ghost pilots that they needed a fast pickup. As he was doing that, an Earth pony mare with a yellow coat, grey mane, glasses and a Cutie Mark with a scroll wrapped in blue cloth trotted toward him. Unbeknownst to them, she was the Mayor of the town they had just saved, Mayor Mare.

"Thank you for saving our town!" she said enthusiastically, "How did you do all that?"

"Came with the job benefits," Scott replied, replacing MIDAS' empty ammo magazine with a fresh one.

"Who exactly are you?" Mayor Mare asked, concerned that they were making sure that the Changelings didn't have all the fun.

"We're Guardians," Lanius answered, "We do this stuff for a living."

"So I assume you are going to save Canterlot," she commented, pointing her hoof towards the war torn capital of Equestria.

"It's on our to do list," Nike remarked, hearing the roar of their jumpships. He started to transmat into his own, while Lanius did the same. A second later, and they were both gone.

"Would you like any help?" the Mayor asked kindly, "I'm sure somepony wi-"

"Look doll," Scott interrupted, making the Mayor lightly blush at the new name, "I'd love to stay and chat, but…" he mock saluted her, "gotta run."

He then jumped up in front of his Phaeton's flight path, which was fifteen feet from the ground. He transmatted into the jumpship before it turned him into roadkill, and zoomed toward the city hanging on a mountain. Mayor Mare watched as the jet-like spacecraft rejoined its wingmates, and become no more than a speck in the sky. She was joined by a certain purple dragon who was still awestruck at the new level of awesomeness that he just witnessed.

"You think they'll be able to help Twilight out?" he asked, now concerned of both his caretaker and new heroes' wellbeing.

I'm sure they will, Spike," she said, calming him to a certain extent, "I'm just hoping there won't be a misunderstanding. Those 'Guardians' were very intimidating."

At that moment, Mayor Mare unknowingly jinxed the battle ready Fireteam.

And there would be Hell to pay.

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Dammit, Mayor, you had ONE job!

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