"Guardian down." Mordecai sighed for the fifteenth time during the Crucible match. He was scoped in with his LDR 5001 sniper rifle, staring at his teammate's downed body and his floating Ghost. Whenever Doubles showed up as the weekly Crucible event, he would always be paired with newly revived Guardians who wanted a taste of the Crucible. If he wasn't with one of his fireteam members, Lord Shaxx saw an opportunity for inexperienced Guardians to meet "The Legend."

Most Guardians have heard of his accomplishments as Mordecai quickly rose through the ranks of the Light and became Legend. He destroyed the heart of the Black Garden, led the raid on the Vault of Glass, and struck a Hive God down with his own blade. There was also the Fallen uprising at the Reef, in which he took down the self proclaimed Kell of Kells. His most recent achievement, defeating Oryx the Taken King, and halting his invasion had only cemented his status as "The Legend." His fireteam of five was also recognized, each of them getting their own unique titles and fame. They gained utmost respect from the Speaker and the Vanguard.

If only fame didn't lead to being put together with blueberries, thought Mordecai. His teammate, a Hunter named Chandler, had simply walked into the hallway and got sniped in the head. Chandler really didn't pay attention to his radar, as red flared up on Mordecai's. He held the scope to his eye and took careful aim near the floating Ghost. A Warlock slid past Chandler's Ghost, opening fire at him with a scout rifle. Only two shots hit Mordecai in his chest as his energy shield made of Light took the damage. Quickly, he lined up his shot. To a Hunter like himself, sniping was as natural as breathing. Pulling the trigger, he was rewarded with the kill as the Warlock's body crumpled to the ground.

Red flared up on the radar again, this time behind him. Acting quickly, Mordecai used shadestep, a evasive roll powered by the Void, to get out of the way of a shoulder-charging Titan. He double jumped in the air, then threw a smoke grenade at the Titan's feet, disorienting him. Mordecai switched to his Eyasluna and finished him with two shots to the head. With only fifty points needed to win the game, he made his way to Chandler's Ghost.

"Thanks for the warning Rain. Really helped out right there." Mordecai jokingly said to his Ghost as he reloaded his hand cannon. Chandler's Ghost seemed to light up at his approach.

"Hehehe we both knew you didn't need me to tell about the infamous shoulder charge," Rain retorted back. "Cayde also wants to talk to you about something Guardian. He says it's rather important so let's finish up here."

Wonder what he wants? Mordecai pondered. He focused and felt some of the Light leave his body and into Chandler's ghost. The ghost used the energy to repair Chandler's body. With a flash of bright light, he was alive again. "Splendid work Guardians. Victory goes to Bravo Team" called out Lord Shaxx on their team voice channel.

Chandler turned to him and apologized "I'm sorry I died a lot Mordecai Sir. I saw them on my radar but I didn't know where they were and just-"

Mordecai patted him the back and said "Don't worry about it. The radar is difficult to understand but becomes clearer the more you use it." He had flashbacks to his first couple of games into the Crucible and suffice to say, they were downright laughable. He was just like Chandler when he started, a blueberry getting assists and dying way too many times to count. He was sure Rain must've had a headache if that were possible, with the number of times he had to be revived.

"Thank you so much for the advice, it was amazing watching you work," Chandler gushed out to Mordecai, "I can see now why you're a Trials of Osiris Champion. Any more advice?"

Mordecai smirked under his helmet. "Don't just walk into hallways and around corners because that's what guardians expect you to do. Sliding, shadestepping or jumping will surprise them." Mordecai gave what he just said some thought. "Unless of course they're seasoned in the Crucible so it's really up to luck. May the Light protect you Chandler." Mordecai said as he was transmatted to his ship. He quickly set a course to the Tower, and made a jump into warp space.

Having landed in the Tower's hangar, Mordecai made his way to the Vanguard. Some fellow Guardians saw him and said their greetings. Lord Shaxx nodded to him as he passed by the Crucible Handler. Approaching the Vanguard Hall, Mordecai saw Cayde-6, the Hunter Vanguard, who was studying a map of Oryx's Dreadnaught on the right side of the long Vanguard table. Across him was Ikora Rey, the Warlock Vanguard, looking at her data pad. Commander Zavala, the Titan Vanguard, was looking at a pile of reports in front of him as he stood at the head of the table. The Dreadnaught was left floating in Saturn's rings after the Taken King's final death, as destroying it was out of the question since it would take out most of Sol with the explosion. Upon further inspection however, the massive ship was side by side to a massive cube-like structure, with a giant portal in the center. Mordecai instantly recognized the design. It was the Vex.

"What's the situation?" Asked Mordecai as he looked to the Vanguard.

"It appears that the Vex are leading some sort of assault on the Dreadnaught Guardian. We at first believed that they were going to destroy it, and had prepared a small fleet of guardians to stop this threat. This was not the case it seems." Zavala informed him as he turned his gaze from Mordecai to Ikora.

Mordecai looked to her as well as she put down her data pad. "Observations show that while the Vex are fighting the Hive on the Dreadnaught, they seem only to distract the Hive from their spacecraft. This cube, appears to be a giant Vex time portal, and with that it seems that Vex are going to attempt to take it through time. We don't know what will happen as a result. We want you to take a closer look and scout for more information."

Ikora then turned to Cayde with a disappointed gaze as he stirred a bowl of spicy ramen. "Cayde!"

He jumped and dropped his spoon back into the bowl. "My bad Ikora. Anyway Guardian, you should stock up on supplies and anything else you might need. Scout closely, but not too close since going forward or back in time might be hazardous to your health. I will also be giving you another stealth drive so you won't be a target flying around." Cayde instructed Mordecai.

Mordecai responded to Cayde with a flat stare, remembering the last time Cayde gave him the stealth drive. It resulted in the stealth drives failing, his ship (Eris's ship) being detected by the Dreadnaught, and being almost wiped out as the ship was destroyed. He was stranded on the Dreadnaught until he was able to make a transmat zone, a stepping stone towards the goal to take out the Taken King.

Cayde stared back at him before snickering. "Don't worry Guardian, I've made modifications to the already modified stealth drive to not fail this time. Now get out there and follow your Hunter instincts!"

Zavala and Ikora both wished him and Rain luck on their scouting mission. Quickly stocking up on as much ammo as his glimmer could buy, Mordecai got on his ship, Hebridean Thoughtcrime, and made a jump towards Saturn.

Seeing the Dreadnaught always made Mordecai's hairs stand up on end. The massively dark, rectangular ship seemed to be in a state of decay, reminiscent of all Hive structures. The Vex cube ship had stationed itself right in front of the Dreadnaught's dish weapon. Mordecai's ship flew near both, safe from any transgression as his ship was cloaked by the stealth drives.

He had been scouting around the Vex Cube for several hours now, sending whatever data he collected straight to the Vanguard. He was messing with his data pad before his Ghost Rain grabbed his attention.

"Guardian, look!" He yelled worriedly.

Mordecai watched as the time portal on the Vex cube started to glow and pulse as it powered on. Before he could respond the time portal shot out a beam of light at the Dreadnaught, enveloping it in a white glow. This glow however, turned from a bright white to a sick green as the Dreadnaught seemed to emit it's own power.

Deciding he had collected enough data, Mordecai got ready to make a jump back to Earth when his ship's sensors started going off. He had only a couple of seconds to move his ship out of the way as an asteroid hit the left side of his ship, breaking off the left wing of the craft and sent him spiralling back towards the Dreadnaught.

"Minor damage to the hull, left thrusters lost, and jumpship drives operating at half-capacity. We're flying dead-stick! " Rain reported to his guardian.

Getting control back on his ship, Mordecai realized more asteroids were getting pulled in towards the Dreadnaught. He could only watch in horror as both the Vex cube and Dreadnaught glowed as bright as the Sun, the conflicting energies meeting in the middle of them. It was creating some kind of... wormhole. It was pulling in his ship and the surrounding asteroids toward it. He grabbed his helmet and slipped it on. The way he saw it, there was no escape.

"Rain, it was a pleasure fighting alongside you, thank you for choosing me to be your guardian." Mordecai said as he faced his ghost, fearing this will be his last life.

"Mordecai, thank you for being the best guardian any ghost would wish for. May the Traveller's Light keep us safe." His ghost replied back. Mordecai was sure if Rain had a face, he would have a proud smile on it. He watched as he was pulled closer and closer toward the wormhole.

The wormhole grew bigger as more energy was pumped into it by the Dreadnaught and Vex cube. Mordecai's ship was pulled into the wormhole, his existence gone from that dimensional plane. The wormhole quickly enveloped the Dreadnaught and Vex cube, and then like nothing had ever happened, they were gone. The only evidence of anything ever being there, was the large hole in Saturn's rings.

Princess Luna walked out of her personal chambers towards the balcony. Her sister had just lowered the Sun, signalling it was time for her rule of the night to begin. Luna's horn glowed as she activated her powerful magic, and started to raise her Moon. While the Moon replaced the Sun's former position, Luna raised a brow as she felt something small pass by it. This object was of no concern to Luna, as meteors would occasionally drift towards the planet but were small enough to burn up in the atmosphere. However, this object made it's way past it.

Luna took to the air with a flap of her wings to get a better view of where the impact would be. It was small enough that it wouldn't cause a catastrophe, but she didn't want any of her ponies getting hit by a meteor if she could help it.

She watched it fall toward the Everfree Forest, where she saw it impact. She hoped the impact didn't disturb any of Ponyville's residents as they slept, as she was interested in their dreams. She landed back on her balcony content that no destruction was brought to any of her ponies. She was sure to tell her sister of what had transpired as well as Twilight Sparkle, as she was sure the young alicorn would be very interested in finding the space rock and studying it.

However, once she turned back to head inside her quarters, she felt a pulse of very powerful magic from behind her. Looking back to where it originated, she was sure it came from the meteor crash. Now she was definitely going to tell Tia.

"Tis interesting." She said to herself while she got ready to start her night court.

Author's Note

This story takes place after the Taken King DLC and during season 4. Since it's my first story any feedback will be very much appreciated thanks!