I want to state that English is my third language and I apologize for possible errors.

In the dark void of interstellar space , in the border of the dust cloud that surrounds an unknown stellar system, a small scout craft warped in to existence.

In it there is a few tons of organic matter,only the fraction of a fraction of the being know as Tide. A few months ago in his base in the Ghoul Stars he had detected an anomaly in the galactic border. The last star before the intergalactic void was orbiting a small Earth -like planet . He could have ignored it as only an anomaly but seeing the system through the Warp he had seen something truly remarkable.

The Warp in and surrounding the weird system was pure as it was before The War in Heaven. This impossibility made Tide send a piece of himself to investigate right away. If he could discover what caused this , and more importantly, reproduce it, his war with Chaos would be won .

Slowly, the scout craft entered the system and confirmed his earlier observations. The system consisted only of an beautiful blue and green planet in the center and a star orbiting it. At the opposite side of the sun orbit but occupying the same orbit was a white moon.

"Well well, what we have here?"

Suddenly, Tide found himself in his Domain and in the center of it was a table with a teapot and two teacups .

"You have a beautiful place , I would prefer a bit of chocolate rain or dancing goose but is neat"

Floating in front of the table was what Tide could only describe as a chimera serving himself tea

"No no my friend, I'm a draconequus, the one an only in this branch of the Tree, and the more devilish handsome too "

His voice tickled with familiarity in Tide mind but he could pinpoint it .

"Stop thinking so loud and come here, your tea is gonna be bees if you wait more"

Slowly and without realising he was in Sangheili form Tide approached the table and took a sip of his tea, it tasted like Patagonia.

"What are you?"

"I'm Discord and I want you out of my friend's home"

"Discord? From My little.."

"Yes yes I know plis not sign that sacarine song" The being now identified as Discord folded the table in to the Platonic definition of an armchair and cleaned his ears with it.

"But if you are here that means that"

"Your SI powerfantasy crossover is now a multicross, at least in this omake"

Tide's multiplanetary mass of grey matter came to an stop , an slowly tried to comprehend what he had heard.

"We ...are in a fanfic?"

"Yes , and a very good one , kudos to the author. That is you "

All his suffering, all the deaths that he had witnessed, the seas of blood that he had poured , was his fault? Or not real at all? Was he real?

PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! Suddenly Discord was dressed in a English police uniform and had a whistle in his mouth.

"Push the brakes in that spiral of madness and let me explain"

Now he was dressed has a university professor

"And pay attention, this will be in the test"

"First and foremost, you are real. As real as the you that is writing this fic , as real as the millions of versions of myself, including this poor written one "

Suddenly a comically big anvil fall in to Discord head

"Ignore that, someone don't like to take criticism. All realities, groups or clusters of universes were and are stories in the head and paper of another sentient being"

"Meaning that all fiction is real in some universe?" Tide finally interjected

"Exactly, you have won a golden star!"

In some part of Tide's dominion ,a star made of pure gold appeared, and then collapsed because a star made of gold is impossible.

Tide sipped his cup of tea in silence, musing to himself.

"Why are you telling me all of this?"

" Because I want to be your friend of course, and I want you to leave this place . What best way to accomplish this to give you a bit of existential dread?"

"Why? You seem to know everything about me .."

" Yes , {NAME REDACTED} from {PLACE REDACTED}"

"...then you know what are my objectives and my enemies. If you are and Spirit of Chaos why"

"DON'T COMPARE ME TO THAT BUNCH OF DISGUSTING TUMORS!"

In and instant Tide realized how small he truly was. There is nothing in this galaxy that can compare to the level of power and disgust that Discord manifested in just one moment.

"Your little crusade is good and dandy but you will not involve Equus in to it"

" But"

" No contact, no embassy, nothing. They are not ready for the Galaxy"

Tide knew that he was out of his league but the goat dragon noodle thing was starting to frustrate him.

"If you are so powerful and love those horses so much why don't you do something to save the galaxy?"

"Because" Discord exhaled " This is your story"

Tide made a gesture, promoting the draconequus to continue

"You are the axis of this tale, the protagonist. They and myself are only part of an omake. This fanfiction didn't have us as an integral part since the beginning like Halo was . And this Equus is baseline , they are naive and friendly"

Tide thought in silence.

"And you?"

" If I help you directly, by the laws of narrative something horrible will happen to them"

Silence filled the Domain, the Discord smirked devilishly

"But I can help you indirectly"