Author's Note

I rewrote this chapter after some consideration and decided to incorporate some Destiny 2 elements into it. Hopefully this version is better than the other one.

Verse 1:10 Guardian(Rewrite)

"Very well. Once you defeat Tirek and regain your memories, I will only take the memory of our conversation." Harmony's horn lit up with rainbow colored Magic.

"Why? Shouldn't the Ponies know you exist?"

"I am not like your Traveler, who took a more direct route in bringing Humanity to a Golden Age. I prefer the more subtle approach, working behind the scenes like an author working on a story. There will be times where I must act directly, such as right now, but that's only when things don't go according to plan. Prepare yourself, Guardian." That was the only warning Mordecai and Rain got before she fired her Magic at them, enveloping and infusing the Human and Ghost with all the ambient Magic in Equis.

Two minutes had passed with the Elements, Discord and Dawn when the Chest blew up, shooting Magic straight out the top of the cave. When the beam of light died out, standing there was Mordecai, who was shining bright white from the enormous amount of magic pouring from his body. Rainbow Dash's excitement couldn't be held back at what she was seeing.

"That's so bucking awesome!"

"Rain, do you feel this?!" Shouted Mordecai as he flexed his wrists, feeling the vast reserves of magic/light flowing through his body.

"With all this boundless magic you can go all out against Tirek, though it might turn into a battle of attrition if you prolong it for too long." Rain replied.

"Alright, let's not waste any more time."

Sprinting out of the cave, Mordecai saw that the massive centaur had sensed the sudden influx of magic and was rushing towards him. The white aura around his body turned bright orange as solar light was channeled through it, turning Mordecai into a mini sun. He pushed the solar light into his right hand and cast Golden Gun.

He fan-fired his weapon of Light at Tirek, who had quickly put up a shield to block the incoming shots. The first shot cracked the shield, the second broke it, and the third struck him directly on his left horn. He roared in pain before his horns glowed the same color as Mordecai's body. That was the only warning he got before Tirek released his own solar blast, hitting the guardian before he had a chance to dodge. The beam completely encompassed the guardian and annihilated him, leaving only ashes behind.

Rain appeared over the newly created crater where his guardian had died, and drenched the area in Light, reviving Mordecai. Once he was back in the land of the living, the hunter switched subclasses from solar to arc, and electricity began coursing over him. He activated Blink and teleported half a mile, appearing directly in front of Tirek.

Mordecai formed a construct of light in his hand, and cast Arc Blade. He lunged at the centaur before he had a chance to react and stabbed him repeatedly in the eye. Tirek screamed and as he got ready to attack the other eye, Mordecai felt himself get grabbed by telekinesis. He was launched into the ground in front of the centaur and created another massive crater. Fortunately, the resilience from being in his super saved Mordecai from being crushed flat, but he still took considerable damage.

Getting up, he saw that Tirek had stopped being distracted by his wound and he glared at the guardian with something beyond murderous intent. Tirek's horns glowed again, and this time he vanished in a flash of light. Mordecai went on guard and looked around, wondering where his enemy went. He got his answer as a huge shadow appeared over him and he looked up. Mordecai barely had enough time to Blink out of the way as Tirek slammed a axe made out of Arc Light into the ground.

He was thrown to the ground as soon as he exited Blink by a earthquake created by the attack. Mordecai wasn't given time to recover before Tirek had closed the distance between them. He swung his axe down towards the hunter who raised his blade to meet in a clash that vaporized the grass and nearby trees as bolts of arc energy leapt from their weapons.

"Watch out!" Rain suddenly cried out.

Mordecai lowered his head to see a giant hoof flying towards him. Seeing as he couldn't do anything about it, he took the blow to the chest and flew back before crashing into the ground. The kick had completely destroyed his Pariah vest armor plate and caved in his chest. He groaned in pain as Rain healed him and he got back up.

Double jumping high into the air as his opponent changed the shape of his axe into a ball of arc energy, Mordecai pulled deep from the void. The area around him warped as his body started leaking void energy and he constructed his Night Stalker bow. When he got ready to cast Shadow Shot, he winced as he noticed a sudden decrease in the amount of ambient magic he was absorbing. Fully drawing his arrow of void light, he knew its damage output wasn't going to be as high, but prayed it was enough to at least cancel out whatever counter Tirek had.

"Die!" Tirek shouted as the ball of arc light he held in his grasp shot out towards him as a arc bolt. Mordecai released his arrow and watched it fly towards the incoming bolt. When they struck each other, Mordecai's fears had been realized as the bolt overpowered and dissipated his arrow. Now, it was coming straight towards him. He raised his bow and pumped more void light into it in an attempt to block it.

The arc bolt impacted the bow, which managed to almost shoulder most of the damage until it broke in half and Mordecai was electrocuted. His body went limp and he fell towards the ground with the broken bow. He managed to get his legs under him, which broke his fall, but they ending up snapping as he slammed his body on the ground.

"FUCK!" He screamed in pain, his knees having completely shattered and the broken bones were sticking out of his legs. "Rain!"

"On it." His ghost replied, healing him again. "We're running out of ambient magic, and I don't have enough to rez you again. Whatever you're gonna do, make it count guardian."

"I got enough for about 3 more supers" Mordecai said as he got on a newly repaired knee. Tirek had seen all of his attacks, and he out of options. It was time to get creative.

"What, have you finally lost your will yet human?" Tirek gloated as he calmly approached him. "I'm going to heal my eye with whatever magic you have left and I'm going to enjoy ripping you apart."

"Yeah, keep monologuing you fairytail motherfucker." Mordecai said under his breath as he focused on the broken bow halves he held in his hands. They were still burning from the amount of void light he pumped into them, so he started absorbing the excess light, enhancing his body as he would with the Arc Blade. Void flames started surrounding his body and if he had his helmet off, his eyes would be alight with void fire. He reshaped the bow halves into dual blades, and he smiled when he had reached his desired effect. He was now a Void Wraith.

He sliced a dimensional rift open with his blades and jumped in it, entering the dimension of the void. To Tirek, he had just vanished into thin air.

"Cease your pesky trickery." Tirek said as cast a spell that sent a pulse around the entire area, revealing the location of all living creatures around him. However, the guardian was not detected, angering him. "Show yourself!" He yelled, before noticing something strange.

There were a pair of flaming purple footprints from where the human had disappeared, and a trail was made coming straight towar-Mordecai didn't let him finish his thought as he struck above Tireks's left hoof with both blades, completely severing it and bringing the centaur down to his knee. His thunderous scream of pain was music to his ears as he re-entered the void.

Mordecai double jumped and stabbed both blades into Tirek's back, before using it as a boost to once again double jump above high above Tirek's head. After he had entered the void dimension, he saw magic had started leaking from cracks made in the left horn, most likely from when he had shot it with his Golden Gun. Deducing it to be his critical spot, Mordecai killed the void light erupting from his body, before combining the blades and lengthening them into a staff. He poured arc energy into the staff and enveloped his body with it. He brought the staff over his head as he dived towards Tirek and used a jump to increase his momentum downwards.

Mordecai slammed the staff on the base of the cracked horn, and was rewarded when he broke it off. Tirek tried to cover the stump as magic began erupting from it. "Damn you!" Tirek shouted as other his arm was enveloped with magic and he slammed it into ground. A jagged stone pillar erected from the earth beneath Mordecai feet and launched him into the air away from the centaur.

Tirek used his remaining horn to construct a void lance, and shot it at Mordecai. The guardian saw the attack coming and begun rapidly spinning the staff, building up a arc guard. When the lance struck, Mordecai bent the light held by the guard and redirected it back at Tirek, who took the lance directly to the jaw, breaking it. Seeing his opponent dazed and shrinking in size as he lost magic, Mordecai decided to end it once and for all.

Activating another high jump to keep his height up in the air, he killed the arc light in his body and staff before breaking the construct into knives. With 4 knives in each hand, Mordecai transformed all the remaining ambient magic into solar light, and he pushed it into the now flaming knives. He aimed and released the barrage of solar infused knives towards the remaining horn. Tirek weakly raised a shield to protect himself but the knives pierced through and stuck themselves into the horn. Two seconds later, they released the pent up solar light inside of them in a massive explosion, obliterating the other horn and part of Tirek's skull. His lifeless body rapidly shrunk as all the stolen magic left him, and Tirek the centaur was no more.

Mordecai felt a sliver of his original light return to his body before splattering against the ground.

"Guardian down."

Opening his eyes, he was once again in front of Harmony. "Congratulations on saving Equestria."

"No problem, a deal is a deal after all. Plus your ponies, they've kinda grown on me." Mordecai admitted sheepishly.

He started to say more but was interrupted by Harmony giving him a hug, which he returned. "Thank you."

She touched her horn to Mordecai's head, the Guardian's soul vanished. Alone in her realm again, Harmony sighed. The future of Equis had always been certain, but now it was changed by Mordecai's arrival. She didn't know what would happen in the future, which excited and scared her at the same time. However, she knew Equis would be in good hands and hooves.

"Oh, so many unknowns..."

Mordecai felt himself being shaken. Opening his eyes, he saw Dawn looking right at him with a smile. "Mordecai you saved Equestria!" he could feel the rest of his Light returning to his body, along with something else.

He heard cheering coming from the Elements behind her and clapping from Discord.

The world around him died and Rain appeared in front of him, taking off his helmet.

All the voices were blurred out.

He found it hard to breathe.

A pit formed in his stomach and he felt sick.

His face became wet from tears.

He remembered everything.

In deep space, a small section of a once great ship remained. It was slowly floating towards the nearest source of Light it detected. The only way it was moving was by using the dark energy made by various Blights.

On board, was a Prince and his small army of Taken.