Author's Note

This is my first time making a crossover story about one of my favorite video game franchises, so I don't know how you guys will react. I'll be taking my time making the episodes as I go along, so some patience is required here until the second chapter has been released. Just bear with me, I am in no way an experienced writer, so what I have made won't be perfect.

Ep.1: The Entrance

The Cosmodrome has been rather slow regarding any alerts or anything actually interesting. I take out the occasional Fallen scouting party or two, but that's really about it. My ghost also knows how boring this place is without other Guardians here. I get ready to head to orbit, when all of a sudden I get a transmission from Zavala himself.

"He never sends out any private communications unless it's something important." I thought as I pick up on his communication.

He explains in a crackled voice over the comms:

"Guardian, we've picked up some strange readings near the Skywatch, we want you to check it out."

"We're on it, commander." My ghost tells him.

The transmission closes, so I raise my wrist to summon my sparrow, and I throttle the gas, proceeding to the Lunar Complex.

I exit the Lunar Complex, entering the Skywatch. Usually there would be Fallen and Hive fighting each other, but there was something off about this place.

"The Skywatch is completely empty!" I thought as I got off my sparrow.

My ghost appears next to me, scanning the entire area for any life signs.

"I'm not picking up anything out of the ordinary." My ghost says. "Apart from the lack of Fallen and Hive, that is."

"Were they driven out by something?" I ask him, looking around. "When we're here, they always keep each other busy."

"In any case, I'll let Zavala know we didn't find anything." He says disappearing. "Maybe the reports were false-"

He was cut off by an ear piercing sound that emanated from below me. A portal all of a sudden opens below my feet, and I fall into it before I could pull my Hawkmoon out.

"Guardian? Guardian? Eyes up Guardian!" Is the first thing I hear when I'm waking up.

I slowly get up off the ground, shaking my head. I notice straight away that we were no longer in the Cosmodrome. I look around, and all I can see is crystalline structures. My ghost scans one of them, then scans another one.

"These crystals seem to have naturally grown here." My ghost explains. "Fascinating!"

I notice what looked to be a city made completely out of the same material as the crystal growths, as well as a giant tower in the center of it all.

"Uh... ghost?" I say over to him. "You may want to see this."

My ghost halts his scan, and looks to where I am looking.

"Wow." He says astonishingly. "That looks like an empire of some sort."

"Hey, since we're here... can we explore the place?" I ask him. "This looks to be new territory to cover."

"Let me do a scan for any life first." He says, floating higher into the air.

He lets out a few scanning pulses, then comes back down to say:

"There's other life forms here, but they're only animals."

I raise my wrist to summon my sparrow, but it doesn't appear next to me.

"No transmission here." My ghost says. "We're going to have to proceed on foot."

I put my wrist down, sighing with annoyance, and I walk to the crystal city.

I come up to a street that had ponies of multiple colors walking about their business. I walk down the street, the ponies looking at me curiously. I could also hear them talking amongst each other, what was odd was that I could understand what they were saying. Some of them try to ignore me, others stop what they are doing to get a good look at me.

"Fascinating, these ponies can talk!" My ghost says. "I wonder what gave them the ability to do that though?"

I decide to take a look at some of them, they weren't the type of ponies I knew about from back home. Some of these ponies had wings, some had horns, others looked like ordinary ponies, only their coats had different color palettes.

"Ghost?" I ask quietly, trying to not be heard by any of the ponies. "Are they looking at me like that because of my cloak? Or are we the first outsiders to step foot here?"

"Maybe it's both." He says. "Let's just get to the center of this empire to get a good reading of the place."

I keep walking down the street, passing some curious and not so curious ponies. I then come across a massive courtyard, where I look up to see the tower completely envelops the courtyard. I look straight ahead to a floating heart that looks to be made of crystal.

"Guardian, can you get me close to that heart?" My ghosts asks me. "I'm picking up a strong energy reading from it."

I walk towards the heart, some ponies were looking at me with either worried or surprised looks on their faces. I stop dead in my tracks after I hear a loud "STOP!" behind me. I turn around to see a pony wearing armor and holding a metal spear.

"What do you think you're doing... whatever you happen to be?" The pony says in a stern voice.

My ghost appears next to me, saying:

"If we're trespassing, then we didn't mean to do it." "You two coming with me." He says.

His horn glows, and we teleport to what I think to be the a hallway inside of the tower.

The pony walks down the hallway,

"Follow me." He said.

I follow him down the hall, and we enter a giant room. In the center of the room, there were nine ponies and a what I could describe as a "Little dragon kid" are talking amongst themselves. Eight of them look towards me with the same look all the other ponies had outside.

"Sir, we found this creature near the crystal heart." The armored pony said. "It was walking towards the heart, suspiciously from my point of view."

My ghost appears next to me, saying:

"We didn't mean to trespass, if we were that is."

"We'll take it from here." A white stallion with purple armor said to the pony next to me. "Head back to your post."

"Yes sir." He said, turning around and walking down the hallway.

"So, uh" A blue pegasus with rainbow mane said curiously. "What are you two exactly?"

Me and my ghost look at each other, then back towards the ponies.

"I'm a Guardian... and this is my ghost..." I respond slowly. "We're... not exactly from here."

[To be continued]