"I think I can force the Psion Flayers out of the cortex! Then, they're all yours!" Twilight's Ghost announced as three blue glowing circles appeared in the Cabal hangar, one on the left, one on the right and one on the landing deck in the middle.
A Ghost is a guide assigned to a Guardian of the City.
Out of the three circles three thin beings, thinner then most humans and/or ponies, spawned. One out of each.
"I want Rare and Dash on the right Flayer, Pinks and Flutters on left, and me and AJ will focus middle!" Twilight shouted into her mic, built into helmet, the Skull of Dire Ahamkara. It was Twilight's favorite helmet. It used to be an everyday Future War Cult helmet. But when Fireteam Harmony slayed a Beast of Darkness, an Ahamkara, Twilight was inspired by the beast's strenght. And used it's blood and skull to decorate her helmet. She used it's blood to paint it a dull golden color, and fashioned the skull over it.
"Right!" Five voices shouted back through her helmet speaker.
The Psion Flayers were elite soldiers of the Cabal army. And therefore the Darkness, the very force humanity struggled to defeat, had chosen them to wear shields of pure Darkness.
AJ firmly grasped her Red Death pulse rifle as she rushed towards the middle Psion, a pulse rifle is a kind of primary weapon that fired in bursts of three shots. The Red Death was AJ's primary of choice, it sported a bayonet and spikes at the front, the front itself was stained with dried blood. She had found the weapon in the stock of the Exo gunsmith called Gaunt. It sported a red screen with a white counter for ammo, the counter currently said 27, a full mag.
Beside her ran Twilight, who held her Atheon's Epilogue auto rifle close to her chest. Auto rifles are primary weapons that fired in fully automatic mode. The Epilogue's rounds were infused with Void Light. Light is the power that Guardians and Ghosts used. If they were an engine, Light would be their fuel.
Light comes in three types; Arc Light, the power of lightning - Solar Light, the power of fire - and finally Void Light, the power of the unknown. Twilight had found the weapon amongst the remains of Atheon; Time's Conflux. A gigantic Vex Minotaur with direct control over the flow of time. While raw kinetic power wasn't the Atheon's Epilogue strong suit, it made up for it with raw rate of fire. Clocking in at a startling ninehundred rounds per minute. The Epilogue was a shiny shade of brown.
The middle Psion saw them coming and retreated to a stack of crates at the outer edge of the platform.
"I have an idea!" AJ said as her Red Death vanished in a shimmer of Light, her heavy weapon, the Steel Oracle Z-11, taking it's place. It was a rocket launcher whose rockets were infused with Solar Light. Her plan was to use the blast of the rocket to knock the Psion over the edge. The Cabal hangar was at the top of the Dust Palace, a massive skyscraper within the Martian city of Freehold. So even a Cabal, no matter how big, would flatten to the width of a pancake at the bottom.
"Do it!" Twilight replied.
AJ grinned under her helmet, the Helm of Saint-14. The Helm of Saint-14 was a shiny silver color, with a thin vertical purple line down the middle for a visor, a mohawk of purple feathers graced the back of the Helm. She jumped into the air, channeling Light throughout her body to weaken gravity around her so she could float above the Psion. Pinks had dubbed this particular way of channeling; Lift. She fired the rocket at the feet of the Psion, the shock wave carried it up and over the edge. It fell to the dunes of red sands below with a gurgling scream.
The objective indicator on the Heads Up Display of all six members of Fireteam Harmony filled up a third of the way, signaling that the Psion was dead. The helmets of Fireteam Harmony had a digital display on the inside. The Hud, as Pinks had dubbed it, displayed various pieces of battle assesment info. Their objective was to kill the three Psion Flayers.
Satisfied, AJ and Twilight sat down and waited for the other four to finish their part of the objective.
Over to the left, Rare channelled Light around her. Stalker, as Pinks had dubbed, bent light around Rare so only a distorted image was visible in her place.
"Dash now!" Rare yelled as she jumped away from the Psion the two of them were tasked to kill. Dash taking her place with a thundering ground pound. Fist of Havoc, as the ground pound was called, was Dash's Super. Pinks had this habit of nicknaming certain techniques that the six used, Pinks had chosen the nickname 'Supers' for the technique of completely filling oneself with Light after she discovered how 'super awesome' they were. Dash and Rare focused on one particular type of Light, namely Arc Light.
The arc Psion vaporized in a flash of Arc Light.
"Never gets old!" Dash said as she and Rare high-fived. The two of them walked over to AJ and Twilight and sat down with them.
The objective indicator on the Huds of the six filled up to two thirds of the way.
On the right, Flutters was flying above the solar Psion with her favorite special weapon in her hands. Her butter yellow wings sticking out of her Prime Zealot Cuirass chest armor. The chest armor for both Dash and Flutters had to be modified to allow them to still use their wings. The weapon in her hands was a grey and red sniper rifle, the Ice Breaker.
It was Flutters weapon of choice as she favored long distance engagement. The Ice Breaker solidified Solar Light into super heated rounds for maximum armor penetration.
Because of this it couldn't reload, but it made the bullets on the fly.
Flutters and Pinks had chosen to go long and close range respectively.
Pinks was using her favorite weapon, the Invective. An Solar shotgun that shoots fast, hits hard and regenerates ammo. It was a shade of dull black with glowing orange decals on the barrel. Shotguns are special weapons.
Primary, Special and Heavy are the three catogories that determine a weapons place in a Guardians loadout.
Flutters took a deep breath and calmed her nerves as she looked the red tinted scope of the Ice Breaker. Pinks seemingly random hopping around was making it difficult for Flutters to line up a shot, but she knew that Pinks was still unloading shotgun shells into the Psion's shield. So she waited.
With one finale shot Pinks broke the shield and channelled Light around her to tear a hole through space, a wormhole, and traveled through it to a safe distance, namely the landing deck.
Flutters smiled a little as she pulled the trigger, the round of hard Solar Light leaving the barrel with a distinct 'zew'. She quickly flew a safe distance away from the Psion Flayer as the bullet impacted the head of the Psion. The Psion died instantly but the bullet still stuck inside its head expanded outwards. The surrounding Legionaries and Phalanx' tried to escape the ball of fire that was right on their heels. Even before it reached them the wall of flame melted their armor. Causing the Cabal to suffocate in the, to them, toxic Martion atmosphere. The ones that were maybe a little more lucky were instantly incinerated. Satisfied with her kill Flutters flew over to the rest of Fireteam Harmony.
With all Psions the Cabal still in the hangar panicked and teleported away.
The objective indicators of all members of Fireteam Harmony filled up fully, saying 'Objective Completed'.
"Good, I'll let the Vanguard know the Psions are dead" Ghost said.
Ghost's body was made up of a black sphere for a center. His eye was black with a blue pupil. With eight prisms surrounding it. He was about as big as AJ's fist.
All members of Fireteam Harmony made their helmets disappear in Light. Letting their manes flutter in the wind. AJ's old Stetson replaced her helmet.
All of their ears folded back upright, sick of lying against their cranium for the last forty five minutes.
Their weapons disappeared in flashes of Light as well.
Dash and Flutters stretched their wings a bit.
"Well, that was easy" Rainbow Dash nonchalantly said.
"Definitely. I didn't even have to use my super" Applejack said.
"I really liked it when the right one exploded!" Pinkie Pie said in glee.
"What time is it Ghost?" Twilight Sparkle asked.
"It's twelve forty-five pm" Ghost said.
"Okay, let's see what Xûr's found this week" Twilight continued as she stood up.
"I hope he's found the Suros Regime. That's the last medium to long range weapon that I still need" Fluttershy said.
"We'll see what he has when we find him" Twilight said as Harmony's spaceship landed in the Cabal hangar. When they were all in the ship it took of towards Earth.
The bright and multicolored form of the Element glided through the inky blackness of space at breakneck speeds. The Darkness had drowned out a lot of the stars, a true testament that showed just how powerful the Darkness really was.
The Element was Fireteam Harmony's experimental magic powered jump ship.
It's oval shaped body was painted a deep violet. It's two front wings are pointed fifteen degrees downwards, at the end of those wings two experimental thrusters worked their magic. The left one was cyan and the right one was butter yellow. They were powered by the Element of Loyalty and the Element of Kindness respectively.
The engines in the thrusters themselves worked by using the endlessly generated magical energy, to turn the finite energy of Light into pure thrust. Unfiltered Light entered in the front, and through a magical reaction Twilight called 'The Ice Breaker Effect', because they worked in the same way an Ice Breaker worked, they solidified Light and made it expand backwards at the opening on the back of them. On their own the thrusters hardly worked but when controlled by the Element of Magic they worked in perfect harmony.
The back wings were swept upwards by a factor of twenty degrees. The left thruster was orange and the right one was white. The left one powered by the Element of Honesty and the right powered by the Element of Generosity.
On the back of the main body one extra big thruster sat, it was colored pink and was powered by the Element of Laughter. That thruster was hardly ever used because it used pure magical energy as fuel. It was highly unstable and quickly overheated. But when activated, it generated so much thrust that the Element would instantly accelerate to light speed. It was never tested above that speed, no one knew what would happen.
It lacked guns, the only thing that halted it's perfectly oval shape was a dome on the top made of glass and plasteel plating. Plasteel plating was the material that the armor Dash and AJ wore was made of.
The second was a single glass window at the front of the ship. The cockpit.
The ship itself was the biggest ship in the fleet of Guardian ships that patrolled the inner solar system.
It housed all six members of Fireteam Harmony, normal Guardian ships only had to house their single owner.
"Everybody hold on tight! We're entering Earth's atmosphere!" Rainbow Dash said over the ship's communication system. Rainbow was the Element's pilot.
The Element shaked heavily as it entered the atmosphere. For a total of thirty seconds.
Then it came across a layer of thick cloud cover.
"Activating weather management systems" Twilight Sparkle said over the coms as the clouds around the Element dispersed. Giving a clear view of the deep blue Atlantic ocean.
"Setting course for the Tower" Rainbow said as she lowered power output. Slowing the ship down from a hundred thousand kilometers an hour to seventy five thousand kilometers an hour.
"Activating optical camouflage" Twilight said as the Element shimmered all colors of the rainbow before it vanished. The only indication that it still existed being the massive shadow it threw on the ocean below.
"We're going home girls!" Applejack said laughing.
"Yeah!" Her five friends answered her.
They've been flying back and forth between Earth, the Moon, Venus and Mars for the past four days. Always keeping an eye out for more Ahamkaras and other Beasts of Darkness.
After another half hour of flying the Element slowed down to forty thousand kilometers an hour.
"We're nearing Old Russia! Not much longer and we'll be there!" Rainbow said.
"Activating Dead Silence systems!" Fluttershy said as the Element stopped producing sound altogether.
Rainbow sighed in content as she put the Element on autopilot. Without saying a word she walked through the ship towards the hangar where Applejack and Twilight would be doing maintenance checks on the various methods of ground transport that the six of them used.
"Any news on the old bike we stole from the Fallen?" She asked as she walked through the automated doors of the hangar.
"No, not really. It's takin' a lot of time just taking this piece a' scrap apart" Applejack answered as she managed to undo the main bolt that held the front wheel in place. Her bright orange coat dirtied with oil and sweat.
"Just admit that you can't figure out how the damn thing works" Rainbow said walking over to Twilight. Who was working on her own sparrow at the moment.
"No way in hell am I gonna let this opportunity go to waste. I've seen proof of these things working in the Archive of the Ishtar Collective. I want me one of these bikes in working condition" Applejack stubbornly replied.
"I could help you you know?" Twilight said as she turned away from her heavily modified Timebreaker sparrow. She had reworked the engine and overcharge booster and painted it a bright yellow and orange, nicknaming it 'Dawnchaser'.
"No thanks. I wanna do this on my own" Applejack said as she took a good look at the engine of the old and rusted harley being held in place by anti-grav magic.
"Riiiiiight" Rainbow said as she walked over to her ground transport. A sparrow reworked into a hover board.
"Too bad magic ain't a real thing in this place huh?" Rainbow said as she detached the board from the stand on her work table.
"It is a thing here Rainbow. Just, the only things in this world that generate magic are our bodies and the Elements of Harmony. Which are to dangerous to take with us in the wild" Twilight corrected her.
"Yeah, yeah. I know. We just generate magic so slowly" Rainbow said as she jumped on her bright red hover board, clicking with her right heel to activate it. It hummed softly as it rose one foot into the air. She smiled as the modified Type-L propulsion engine boosted her forward.
Making an uber-sharp U-turn she boosted back to her starting point. "I'm lucky this thing hasn't once overheated in the four years I've been using it" She said as she stepped off of the board.
Four years ago Fireteam Harmony finished up their training. They had been trained in the ways of The Three. Hunter, Titan and Warlock.
Fluttershy and Rarity had trained to become Hunters.
Rainbow Dash and Applejack had trained to become Titans.
Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie had trained to become Warlocks.
It was the fact that even though they focused on six different fighting styles but still fought together in perfect synergy, that earned them the name: Harmony.
