Hinata donned her robes and looked from the balcony of the dormant Traveler, a slight awe and wonder of the ancient machine. It was definitely a Life Seeder, created by her kind's predecessors the Sifir and had them expelled to various realities with the purpose of terraforming planets to be habitual for human life once they start colonizing space. But the energy was something else, it defied even her own powers to analyze its origin.

Given that a Cypher's powers is based on human logic, concepts, and those of divine origins in human history, this kind of power the Traveler had made them pale in comparison. Alien in origin and nature it defied anything humans or even the gods of earth could ever comprehend and thus terrify her at the same time. Even the Shinto Goddess of Creation and Death, Izanami herself was voicing her fears of this unknown cosmic power within her mind.

It was faint, but she felt something tugging at her conscious towards the Traveler. It made her wonder if the Traveler was trying to speak to her? She had nothing to lose trying to communicate with it and slowly allow the pull drag her under.

What she saw was the very beginning of a series of Life Seeders her Sifir ancestors crafted and sent across the multiverse to begin their mission, and this lone machine traving in one such reality being exposed to primordial energies of the cosmos' beginnings. The massive machine was split into two beings and began their partially altered mission of terraforming to help uplift species to new heights.

One would become the Traveler, who believed cooperation between others in order to make progress and then succeed in a big project with what was known then as the Power of the Sky.

The other took the initial terraforming mission as something else, to make sure species were fit for survival, to become the ideal perfect shape. It became something twisted and sinister in the process that made the Traveler fear it as just as the Traveler harnessed the Sky, the dark other wielded the Deep.

She saw the twisted cycle of how the Traveler's attempts to bring a golden age to any planet with life it encountered were brutally devastated by the Darkness. Planet after planet, life after life lost until it discovered humanity. It saw a vast potential in them that only it and the Sky could understand and began their work.

Then the Darkness found it and it was angry for some unknown reason. This time though the Traveler was tired of abandoning the ones it had helped like the Eliksni and many others and Hinata felt that desire to protect akin to that of a mother to her young. It would lead to the event historians called the Collaspe as the Traveler and the Darkness fought one another for humankind's future.

This clash of paracasual forces devastated the entire solar system with their battle to the point it was mutual destruction. The Traveler banished its shadowy twin beyond this galaxy as they had both worn each other out and entered a state of dormancy, both sides injured from this cataclysmic event.

Then...little lights carrying hope were born to help humanity when they needed it most. The little lights that would choose what would soon be known as Guardians.

Hinata gasped as she breathed heavily, the vision ended as Hinata was alarmed that the Darkness was once the Traveler's twin other that became evil and she hated the curse with all of her might.

Curse of Twins-a nortorious superstition that if twins were born in a royal family, it would spell ruin. That affected Cyphers the most as they inherited infinite possibilities that if they ever were born with a twin, the taboo curse would claim them. Naruto Uzumaki was one indiviual to be born with a twin sister: Shana Uzumaki.

Fraternal twin sister-she was a piece of his own power given life of its own in order to balance out his natural strength before he could carelessly harm anyone at a younger age. Due to circumstances, he refused to kill his twin and reclaim the lost power out of love of his family member that was there for him in the beginning. Many people who've sought to use him as a weapon began seeking methods to have him kill his sister and were all thwarted by Lady Kushina the current Soul Empress and her spouse Minato Namikaze.

She had not heard of what happened at home for some time and needed to find out what has changed during her absence. She heard footsteps and turned to see the Speaker walk towards her, the mask he wears hiding his face as he solemnly looked up at the entity above. "I'm sure there are many things you wish to know child, of our history and past experiences. Since you come from another reality like this...Naruto of yours, perhaps you can protect something of ours in the case the Darkness returns and we've lost."

Hinata knew what he was referring to; the City's history and all the accumulated knowledge they've gathered throughout the centuries. In the worst case scenario were to ever happen, she would hold on to this last testament of humanity on this plane of existence and make sure it would be remembered by others.

In her previous adventure involving Jedi and Sith, this was common for the two factions to do such a thing, and even a few planet's species doomed to extinction. She would honor this request just this once.

That was when she noticed something else down below even with being at the top of the Tower Hinata saw that people were preparing for some sort of celibration. "Ah, the celebration of the Battle of Six Fronts. A memorable moment for the Last City when the Guardians held their own against the Fallen Houses at six fronts. It is still in preparation, but I know that with our recent triumphs against the forces of the Darkness we can have hope again." he spoke softly, as there was a hidden warmth kindled in his voice.

Hinata would have smiled at that growing hope in the man but her time with Naruto rubbed off on her as an old instinct kicked in. It was a calm before the storm and it was going to get ugly once it hits. But the questions are the who, the what, the when, how and why.

*?*

They loaded their weapons and placed their heavy armor on while going over their intel from the Skyburners back on the Dreadnaught. The plan was going under way and the cage was almost set. Soon they will storm the Last City and burn it to the ground, secure the machine and take its Light for their glorious empire. The Red Legion saluted their leader, the Ghost Primus, Dominus of the Red Legion, and Starkiller-Dominus Ghaul.

"Prepare for the invasion."

Destiny 2

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