AN. And now we enter crossover territory.
Vulpes the Zoroark was lounging around on guard duty that day, with not a care in the world. She knew that aside from minor disagreements and a few criminals, everything was peaceful around the regions. Still, they were always wary of what might happen, especially if one of the Creations found them. Hence the ordered radio and technological silence, although all of the equipment was drilled with to reflex and maintained and improved over time when it wasn't hidden. No one aside from the Legendaries had seen the Creations in many eons, so Vulpes was highly doubtful that anything was going to happen on her watch.
It was in the middle of these sanguine thoughts that she saw ten streaks moving across the sky that clearly did not belong to anything from any of the regions. She sounded the alarm, and waited for her Captain to arrive while observing the streaks. It looked like they were heading for the large plains next to the forest, so that was most likely where they would intercept them. Vulpes knew action was coming, so she donned her armor and got ready for the fight. Not that she really needed the armor. She was extremely well trained in fighting with or without it, it just enhanced her natural abilities and gave her protection from anything short of their most powerful abilities and weaponry. Well, if these beings thought they were going to harm the planet, they had another thing coming. She and her comrades in the defense forces would see to that.
Leroy had no clue what to expect. The moment they touched down, they found themselves in the middle of the plains with a forest to their front. He expected his squad was going to have to clear it out, and he was not disappointed. Given that assignment, he would carry it out to the best of his abilities, but he knew that this was incredibly dangerous. A forest offers infinite opportunities for ambushes, inability to bring in vehicles, and all round good defensive ground. For a moment, he thought he saw something on his motion trackers, but he dismissed it, due to the fact that it was only there for half a second. That was his mistake.
Vulpes moved silently with the rest of her platoon, stalking the squad of what were apparently one of the Creations. She had always had a fascination for humanity, reading of its many battles, daring triumphs against insurmountable odds, of their tenacity to survive. And for all that, they were still brought so low by the Forerunners because they couldn't accept that humanity had gained the approval of Arceus and the Precursors. She read of how the humans had fought a two front war against the Flood and the Forerunners, winning the fight against the Flood, but losing to the Forerunners. To be forced down as low as humanity was, Vulpes didn't think it fair.
In the end, the Forerunners met their end quite deservedly from the ashes of those they slaughtered to attain their position. Vulpes felt no pity for them, especially due to the fact that their solution against the Flood was to destroy all life in the galaxy. Such genocide was inexcusable, even if they did attempt to reseed the rest of the planets. Well, with the flood locked up in the Halos, at least they wouldn't have to worry about that.
Shifting her mind back onto the subject at hand, she was surprised to see humanity here. After all, they HAD fallen so far. It was incredible that they had pulled back so quickly. They shouldn't have been able to reach here for hundreds of years, even with slipspace drives. What were they doing here? Her suit had a translator on it, so she had a pretty good idea of what they were saying. Something about clearing the forest. Well, she and her group would do something about that. Her suit cancelled out their motion trackers, and her illusion ability kept her perfectly concealed. They would reveal themselves when they saw fit, but for the time being, they followed the humans, keeping them constantly encircled.
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