Hello, I don't have much to say, so here it goes. The Destiny part of this fanfic will start some time after their universe is destroyed. The ships that the Guardians will have will be from Dead Orbit, the rest of the Awoken fleet that wasn't destroyed by Oryx or was rebuilt by the Awoken, and some cruisers that the Guardians have either found, rebuilt, or made from the surrounding shipyards on Earth and in the rest of the Solar System that they could find. Variks has also gotten most of the exiled house members and other lost Fallen to rebuild his House of Judgment, that has chosen Variks as their Kell and is a very close ally to the Guardians.
Most of this will follow Cayde and some of my original characters, mainly the Guardians that I created on Destiny. Oryx and the dark forces has agreed to a non-aggression pact with each other until their new home is found. Any random Guardians that I made up and is a lot like your Guardians, that is a complete coincidence. So let's go ahead and go into the story. Oh, the copyright stuff will stay in chapter 1, just in case.
Chapter 2: A strange yet familiar home
Before their universe was destroyed, the Guardians had failed to kill Oryx in the mission that was called the King's Fall. Oryx wanted to shame the Guardians, so he let them live to tell the tale that they almost killed Oryx, but ultimately failed. Of course, the forces of Darkness still wanted the Taken King to die, but our dark king had other plans. Oryx broke into the Vault of Glass and used the time powers that the Vex had and used to bring back the main dark leaders that were killed by the Guardians. Oryx was reunited with his son, Crota, had gained the trust of the other dark races. After a week of preparing an attack on Earth to kill the Guardians for good, Oryx and the other races were noticing certain parts of the universe crumbling before them. Their home was too unstable to support that many deceased leaders come back to life. Oryx and the dark races were heading to their homes and getting as many of their soldiers and civilians into their ships. The Guardians were also noticing this and did the same thing, get as many people as possible into the ships that Dead Orbit provided.
A lot of their people were left behind, but both Oryx and the Speaker were sure that it was the end of everything. In a flash, both the races of darkness and light had lost their homes. Before the universe collapsed, the Traveler reawakened and told the Speaker that it needed to escape to another dimension and wait for them to summon it. It disappeared and was mentally linked to the Speaker until it returned to their new home. That was months ago, and they were ready to move on, finding some suitable universes. But one seemed to call out to them.
Cayde and his ghost were reading some comics that their friend has lent them. Joseph, an old Hunter that recently lost his ability to walk, has given Cayde some relics from before the Golden Age that might suit his interest, partly because he wants Cayde to hold on to them for paying back the number of times he was saved by him, and mostly because Cayde was really bored when it got to the second month of their new home exploration.
"This is a really fantastic comic that you got from Joseph." Said Cayde's ghost. "What issue is this?" Cayde went to the cover to see the issue number, also giving him a big title on the cover.
"Sonic the Hedgehog, issue number 247." Cayde said. "I wonder what happened to them that they stopped such a great comic?" Cayde asked rhetorically, knowing the answer his ghost was gonna give him.
"Copyright issues when they tried to include the Traveler in their story. But it was mainly the reason that the series was being pacified and didn't interest anyone without an evil villain." The ghost said, which actually reminded Cayde of the main reason. "A shame too, well so far the interesting ones, from my perspective, is before the Super Genesis Wave ends. Let's just hope we can it pick up from where it was left off, add the dark armies, and give Sal, along with a few others, a more solid personali-" The Exo was cut off from the intercom turning on and hearing Zavala's voice shortly after.
"Cayde, could you please come up to the bridge, we need you to see this and confirm our suspicions." Zavala said before Cayde sighed. "Well, looks like my 27 days of reading this comic series is over, for now." He said before carrying the comic book with him putting some fingers on a specific page. "What I, and probably you as well, should be pointing out is the fact that Zavala needs you to confirm some suspicions that he has, as well as Ikora." The small machine said.
"Yeah, well let's go see what it is first." Cayde said, he then saw someone who wanted to see the comic issue that he held in his hand. "Here you go, Jack." Cayde said before throwing the comic to a rather big Titan with some armor that made him look like a bull. "Thanks, Cayde." Said the Titan before going into his room to read the comic in private. Cayde was reciting in his mind the last 53 or so issues that came after 247 while he walked to the bridge, which was on the same level.
Cayde then appeared before Commander Zavala, the Titan vanguard, and Ikora Rey, the Warlock vanguard. "So, I'm assuming that you need me to 'confirm some suspicions' that you two had, right?" The hunter asked, trying to give off a smug impression. "Precisely, take a look at this footage of the new universe we're at right now." Zavala said in his usual serious voice. On the screen was a sort of white ball, reminding them of the Traveler, with one light that was gleaming from the orb. "Right, anything else?" Cayde said in an "are you okay" tone. "Yes, now look at the different positions that we took of it." Zavala said, showing pictures in other obvious to not-so-obvious positions. "Cayde, is this light following us for no reason or to get our attention?" Ikora asked. After a few moments, Cayde finally said. "It looks like a sort of light that you see when someone is either calling you over or calling for help. Is there anything else you guys thought of?" Cayde asked, with Zavala giving him a quick response. "When we slow down the footage, what looks like Morse code appears. It's too fast for us to see, do you think you can look and see what it says?" The Awoken commander said.
With a sigh, the Hunter said, "I'll try my best." After saying that, he was presented with the footage in slow motion, giving him the fast blinking light that the other two saw as well. "It's Morse code alright, it also says that it's inviting us to stay and help them, while at the same time saying that we found our new home." Cayde said, surprising the two vanguards with his amazing sight.
"Alright, I guess that settles it, we head toward the universe and make a home there, then see- what the hell is that?!" Zavala said before seeing a weird robot thing that looked like a sentry from Halo, but sporting a white paint job with bright blue lights on it.
"Warning, universe is temporarily closed off to all of you, for now." The machine said. "This unit will present your small robot friend with the images of the events that took place in this universe that may take place as well." This did prompt everyone to second guess it, but Cayde's ghost went to the window any way.
"Uh, ghost, what are you doing?" Cayde asked his ghost friend.
"Just doing what he said. I don't see anything wrong with this robot, it reminds me of the Traveler." The ghost said, surprising everyone in the room. Although they were shocked to hear it, they did process that the weird machine outside the window would be equally as powerful as the Traveler.
With a sigh, Cayde of course said "Alright go ahead, but if he does try to kill you, I'll kill him back, you here me out there?" Cayde said with a serious tone to his threat. "Affirmative, now, young machine, please stay still for this procedure." The machine said to the ghost. When they were ready, the machine outside then summoned an ethereal yet visible link to the ghost, causing it to shutter in the air for a few moments, all the while Cayde still keeping his hand cannon in hand. After that the machine left and headed toward the universe that it warned about. "I have... all the information that we need... to know about the universe ahead of us" The ghost said sounding tired and amazed by the information.
"So what the hell was that thing talking about with the universe?" Zavala said
"And did it damage you?" Cayde said, sounding worried for his small friend.
"I will need to process the information... done. That machine is an invention from a greater power to protect the universes from invaders and other harmful things out here that could harm it. This greater power could be the same thing that saved us from the destruction of our universe, and something equally as strong for Oryx and the other races that fight us. We can't enter now because it's not stable enough for us to enter, for now at least." The ghost said.
"Alright, ghost, give me and Ikora the information regarding the universe rules and that machine, you and Cayde will look at the events that transpired in that universe." Zavala said, knowing Cayde might be bored from the information about the universe rules and the machine.
"Cool, this will be either the greatest or the worst experience ever, the real fun is what I might see. Come on ghost, we have some images to decipher after you give them their half of the info." Cayde said, pointing to the two vanguards. "Right away." His ghost said, before putting the Titan's and the Warlock's information on a nearby console. After that, they walked back to Cayde's room, his decorated room had Fallen, Hive, Vex, and Cabal ornaments and trophy's he gathered over the years.
"So, think you can tell me a little something-something about the imagery before I look at them?" Cayde asked his loyal ghost. "You may recognize them, that much I will say." The floating robot said. "Hm, fair enough, alright, let's look." Cayde said with an attempted exciting look on his face. After seeing the images, he went from exciting to absolutely stunned when looking and processing what he was seeing. "Should we go through them and then call our head honchos to look themselves?" The ghost asked, prompting Cayde to respond with a serious look, saying, "Yes, give me about an hour to look at this." Cayde said, now sifting through a nearby metal box for possible images.
The Speaker, Ikora, and Zavala sat down waiting for Cayde to show up, he was a few minutes late, which gave the two vanguards enough time to download the simplified data that they got before being called up. The three of them sat in a sort of office that the Speaker stayed in, only sitting down when there was an urgent meeting to attend to or just tired from walking around in this room.
"Well, Cayde seems to have been running errands in the bridge, it looks like he's approaching my door now." The Speaker said before Cayde walked in with a big stack of papers at a moderate pace. "Why have you called us here, Hunter vanguard?" The Speaker asked.
"Well, before we get to that, please know that these images are from that universe," Cayde said, pointing at the giant ball outside the ship. "None of these images have been fabricated or altered when I last saw them, right ghost?" Cayde asked, looking at his ghost. "Yes, It's true." The ghost said. Then, looking at a wall, the small robot then projected the images on the wall. The group of three couldn't believe what they saw. They all saw a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog fighting against an obese looking human with a big orange mustache in a giant spider robot, with the human as his passenger. "Is this some of joke, because this is a little amusing." Ikora said, Zavala looking curious at it, and the Speaker just staring at it.
"Honestly, I wish I was, but this could be the universe we go into." Cayde said, putting down a piece of paper on the Speakers desk. "Here's the same image, notice anything different about it?" The three of them looked at it and saw the same image, but with speech bubbles and a different angle altogether. "Now here are a few more images and the pages they come from. Ghost, if you could be so kind?" Cayde said to his ghost, giving a nod motion in reply. Before all five of them, images came up on the wall, with Cayde putting down the same yet different images on the desk, the vanguards and the Speaker looking at them. They all had the same scene, while they were both at different angles and one set of images having speech bubbles and the not containing them.
"Is this enough to convince you all completely, or are you still skeptical about this?" Asked the Exo to his flesh counter parts. "Not entirely, I'm afraid, we all do seem skeptical." the Speaker said, also speaking for the other two vanguards. "Alright, well there are images that seems to be out of place. These are the prediction images that the universe thing gave us. Ghost, go ahead." Cayde said to his ghost, which showed some images that would appear later on. Sonic and Sally, as a robian, walking in town, Antoine kissing Bunnie in the elevator, The Freedom Fighters looking depressed with Sonic crying on the ground, Sally becoming a mobian again, and everyone having a good time a Chuck's diner. "From what I could tell, these images show the Freedom Fighters being back to full strength, but the obese guy giving them some sort of choice that they don't like, but accept anyway, and one of their final moments in that diner. These last four images will convince you that this is true." Cayde explained, prompting to his ghost to show the images.
These four images made the Speaker, and the other vanguards gasp at these pictures. "That was the same expression that I had." Cayde said, looking at the images. These images showed Cayde giving Sonic and Sally a thumbs up, Zavala outside a door to a room with Eggman inside it, Ikora making some sort of platform, and the Speaker at a console in New Mobotropolis.
The three of them, Cayde and his ghost looking at them, were in utter shock that this was a prediction from the robot that they met not too long ago. "Now do you believe this, because I have one thing left that can convince all of you and also give hope to us all." Cayde said, but everyone was convinced and waited for that last piece of info that would give them hope. "Another Morse code message was sent to us and I'm sure with what it says, which was that we can summon the Traveler to our new home." After Cayde said that, the Speaker stood up and looked at him. This bit of news also surprised Ikora and Zavala.
"Are you sure about this bit of information?" Asked the Speaker.
"Yes, I'm very certain about this." Cayde said.
"Well it seems we have a new to prepare ourselves for." The Speaker said in a joking tone.
"You know, I like the way you think. So how long will it be when we're allowed to enter this universe?" Cayde asked.
"From what we can tell, we have 312 hours before we are allowed to get on the Earth like planet, maybe less for the universe in general. In the meantime, Cayde, you and your ghost will make a book that covers the important parts of this universe, the major parts we may need to know will be up to you. Me, Ikora, and the Speaker will look into what we need in order to summon the Traveler. Now let's hop to it, we have important jobs to take care of." Zavala said, which let the ghost make the images disappear and followed Cayde out after he cleaned his mess on the Speakers desk.
After 24 hours, Cayde was able to make a detailed book with important details in the Sonic comic universe, but has specific chapters on the cover for the details that they need to know about it. Cayde and some other caretakers, normal people helping the Guardians with some work they couldn't take care of at times, were carrying boxes of these books, he and his group were walking in the last of the meeting that Zavala and Ikora held with most of the other Guardians in the room. The two vanguards were telling everyone about the information that they gathered on the universe, from the time that they will be allowed to enter to what was inside the universe. "Now, we have Cayde here with some books on this universe, containing the important details that you will need to know about it. There are more books, I presume?" The Awoken vanguard asked Cayde.
"Of course, but the details that you need to learn from now to when we interact with the inhabitants will be the chapters that you will see on the cover. It won't be a whole lot, but it will be what you absolutely need to know about this universe." Cayde said, making some Guardians to sigh from his statement. The Exo vanguard then put the boxes on the long sideways table in front of the gathering.
"Guardians, you are to read the chapters that are presented on the cover of these books within 288 hours from now. Anyone who doesn't will be on dish washing duty for two weeks." Zavala's statement made almost every Guardian eager to get their own book. Everyone knew that anyone that washes dishes are to wash them alone for punishment, two weeks worth would be a ten man job, even more if they included the civilian dishes.
"We have more books on the way, so no need to shove and push for your own copy. There's plenty of books to go around, including me, Ikora, and the Speaker." Zavala said, making the other guardians calm down a bit since there would be enough for them, hopefully including some of the new recruits that they have. "Alright, everyone make lines of three for the Hunters, Warlocks, and Titan's. Everyone will get one, just keep it orderly." Cayde said before the Guardians started getting up in their respected lines. Everyone walked up and got their own books and just when they ran out, some more caretakers walked in with boxes of these books. It would take 20 whole minutes before everyone got a book and sat back down.
"In 144 hours, we will be able to go into the universe and observe the inhabitants for any customs that we may need to use, and also see the events that take place on this planet. This meeting is over, everyone dismissed." Zavala said before the normal Guardians walked out and back to there rooms.
In one of the Guardian fire team rooms, there were three people in it. Alex, a male human Titan that had orange hair, a scar going through the exterior of his eyelid and his face, Zardic-3, an exo hunter that looked like an ordinary exo with a giant plate on his forehead and blue lights for his eyes and mouth, and Sarifine, an awoken warlock with purplish white hair that goes just below her shoulders, faint purple skin, and glowing blue eyes. These three were one of the elite Guardian teams that went through everything, from the devil Archon Priest to the failed King's Fall mission.
"You know, this book ain't half bad. Then again, I'm not big on reading myself." Alex said.
"Yeah, so far it hasn't been as grueling as I originally thought. Still, shooting at the firing range beats this any day." Zardic said.
"Honestly, it does get more interesting and crazy the more we read. The Xorda, The Bem, The Black Arms, a nanite city, and look at the map in chapter 3!" Sarifine said, prompting the other two to see what it was. They both gasped at the map of Mobius, it looked a lot like Earth in some places, but looked a little disorienting in other places. The human and the exo tilted the book in different ways to make sense of the fused Africa, Asia, and Europe.
"This thing really does get weirder and weirder by the chapter." Alex said, in a sort of bewildered tone.
After a few minutes, Cayde walked in and said, "Hey, just needed to check up on everyone to see if their reading, what chapter are you guys on?"
In order, Alex, Zardic, and Sarifine said what chapter they were on.
"23."
"18."
"113."
"Alright, Sarifine is near an interesting part of this book that will blow your minds. Oh, faction meeting are happening in 4 hours, so be ready. See ya around." Cayde said before he left the group to continue their reading. Alex is in New Monarchy, Zardic is in Dead Orbit, and Sarifine is in the Future War Cult, or FWC for short.
After a while, Alex and Zardic nearly caught up with Sarifine before going to their respected faction meetings, which just talked about how they could persuade the native inhabitants of their faction's ideas. Fireteam Steel, which was the team name the three had chosen, was not the best team ever, far from it. If anything, they were lucky to go through everything that they had and live to tell the tale.
After the anxious 144 hour wait, it was finally time for the Guardians to be allowed in the universe, and on designated areas on Mobius. They couldn't interfere with the events that would occur in 144 hours from now, or six days. They could only wait for the universe keepers to allow them to interact with the inhabitants of this world.
"Alright, Guardians, it's time go to our new home and establish a fighting force there to combat the darkness that will arrive in 144 hours from now. We will go to the planet and observe what is happening and what customs that they had to be more familiar with said customs. The force needed to get into the universe and to our destination will be provided by the keepers. Be ready to brace yourself when we go through, and may the Light prevail in this war." Zavala said in the fleet wide broadcast before closing it for now.
The fleet moved forward to the edge of the universe's infinite barrier, the size dictating it's importance than it's actual size. (I will explain my terminology in what a universe would look like and what it can do some other time). The fleet then saw the contraption that they were going to in to travel from the outside of the universe to the planet Mobius. This thing looks so bizarre that no one could describe it without looking at a picture of it first.
Generally, it had a multi-ringed structure in the center, which was big enough for half of the fleet, and had cylinder shaped generators around it. It gave off a blue glow and was the second most spectacular thing that the Guardians have ever seen, the first being the revival of the Traveler. Zavala had also read in the decrypted data that this transportation structure had the power of 1 sextillion Hiroshima bombs. This might damage some systems on their ships, luckily they would mostly be non-vital systems.
"May God and the Light help us now." Zavala said before entering the structure. The keepers sent a text message saying 'Are you ready?' As soon as a Guardian was cleared to respond with yes, and then send it, they were immediately slung forward by the force of the structure's full power. After 12 seconds of gripping handles and such, just to not be pushed against the wall, they were stabilized and saw a very fantastic scene.
In front of them were galaxies that zoomed by them, the ones up close were ones they never saw before, the farther galaxies being the ones that they saw in high power telescopes. Eventually, they saw the most familiar one of them all, the Milky Way galaxy, just going by Andromeda. When going closer to the familiar galaxy, they gradually slowed down.
"The rest of the fleet is taking pictures of the galaxies we first saw. To think we would be the fastest things in the universe at a speed we never thought of, for a few minutes of course." Cayde said, which was what everyone thought of. They then saw some very familiar planets, Pluto (debatable), Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and then stopped near an Earth like planet. Cayde's map was not far off, North and South America was pretty much the same, and then the Europe, Asia, and Africa continents being one whole, clear piece of landmass.
"Guardians, Fallen, and citizens alike, we have made it to our destination." The Speaker said on a fleet wide broadcast, making everyone in the ships cheer, despite some non-essential systems being broken, but still fixable. "There will be specific areas that we can not interact with until six days have passed, as we have already synched up with the time periods of this planet." Zavala said on the same broadcast, "We will begin landing parties in 3 hours, tops. The Guardians will be in said landing parties to scope out some dangers that we may not know about this place, but this isn't Earth, not anymore, this planet is what happens when you anger an alien race with very advanced technology. Cayde will be the party leader of one group of 12 Guardians, as well as me and Ikora going to different continents for support of the inhabiting nations." Zavala said, making Cayde put on a really happy face, being the physics of this universe. Why? We may never know, but it is what it is. Cayde then walked back to his room to get the gear he waited to use for a long time.
End of Chapter 2. I haven't kept a good schedule for this stories chapters, but I'll keep it within weeks, days if I'm lucky. My original Chapter 2 was already hitting the 10,000 word mark, so I split it in two so it's not painstakingly long. The action scenes will be short and describe the general fight. Later chapters will have more detailed fights, but a whole lot compared to the next chapter's fights. Just use your imagination for it, that's all. Onward, to Chapter 3!