"Why am I here again?" Vedalia asked, watching Mordecai place a number of different unique looking guns in front of her. Ignoring her, Mordecai finished lining up the different exotic weapons in front of the new changeling queen.

They were right outside his ship where he had borrowed several targets used for archery practice from Luna. From left to right was the 4th Horseman, Boolean Gemini, a replica of the infamous Thorn, Plan C, Jade Rabbit, and the Universal Remote.

"Alright, choose a gun, any gun and prepare to have some fun." Mordecai said gleefully as he motioned at the collection of exotics. Giving him a strange look, Vedalia looked over the weapons before settling on the 4th Horseman.

Picking it up with a telekinesis spell, she aimed it towards the target before squeezing the trigger. The weapon violently broke through her magical grip as the 4 barrels rapidly fired and gun was sent flying behind her, landing near Mordecai who had broke out in a fit of laughter as he looked at her bewildered face.

Her face changed from shock to anger as she picked the shotgun up again and started to whack Mordecai with the gun as he continued to laugh at her. Going back, a silver spiky weapon that was similar in shape to the red gun she seen Mordecai use caught her eye. There were small green orbs on the side of the weapon which reminded her of the Changeling capture or healing pods at the Hive.

Pushing aside the pang of homesickness she felt, she strengthened her magical grip on the weapon before looking down its sight. Pulling the trigger, she was rewarded with a flash of green light and a sound of something slicing through the air. She looked in awe at the archery target which had a spiked projectile impaled into it, which spread a sickly green aura over the target. Intrigued, she fired several more shots before the target began splintering, quickly breaking down into a pile of burned wood.

"Hmm, this weapon seems like it's down my alley. What is its name?" Vedalia asked, turning to Mordecai who was staring at the pile of burned wood. "Mordecai?" The hunter continued to stare wide-eyed at the target, as if he was going through flashbacks of some terrible event that happened with the weapon.

"Are you ok?"

"Oh yeah, my bad. It's name is Thorn, although the one you're holding is a replica of the original."

"Original?"

"The real Thorn is way deadlier, with the ability to put guardians down for good by devouring their light. It was lost though, when its wicked wielder, Dredgen Yor, was brought to justice after having gone on a guardian killing spree." Mordecai finished.

"Do all of your weapons have such history behind them?" Vedalia asked, inspecting the Thorn within her magical grasp.

"Mostly exotic tier weapons do, but some are a mystery like this one." Mordecai said, materializing a weirdly shaped golden weapon with orange lights.

"The Vex Mythoclast." Mordecai showed the weapon to Vedalia, before firing a couple bolts at a archery target, instantly disintegrating it.

"This weapon was dropped after my fireteam and I defeated a Vex time lord in a dimension of their own design."

"You WHAT?!" Vedalia shouted in disbelief. "How?"

Chuckling to himself, Mordecai sat cross legged on the grass in front of her.

"Let me tell you about the time we raided the Vault of Glass..."

"Holy shit this hurts." Liore-1 said, her titan chest plate smoking after taking a hit from Atheon's Torch hammer. Her ghost surveyed the damage before quickly repairing it. "I'm going to use my next ward's light to strengthen our guns by the way Cai."

"Got ya." The hunter replied, taking a peek at their heavily damaged foe. Atheon's once pristine and shining chassis was littered with bullet holes, causing massive cracks to appear on his frame. The giant vex minotaur was hammering away at their location, when it's attention was grabbed by another Titan throwing a pulse grenade at it feet. Having switched targets, Mordecai sighed in relief and watched as Jak dodged all of Atheon's shots as he catapulted into the air.

"I'm betting 50k glimmer that the next three getting teleported are Mordy, Radia and Drew." Orion-5 said, the gunslinger using a heavy ammo synthesis to reload his Swarm machine gun.

"I'm gonna be rich then" Mordecai agreed, the two shaking hands to signify their bet. Jak laughed deeply over the sounds of void blasts while Radia sighed in disappointment.

Atheon ceased firing before raising its arm to the sky, making everyone go on alert. A flash of light appeared, and gone were Radia, Mordecai and Drew. Orion-5 pumped a fist in the air before jumping on the synch plate to open the vex timegate to Mars. Liore-1 stood near the portal with her newly acquired Found Verdict, firing shots off at the supplicant harpies attempting to kamikaze her.

"You alright by yourself over there big guy?" Orion-5 asked, looking at Jak who was defending the synch plate to Venus alone.

Jak let loose several bursts of gunfire from his new pulse rifle, Praedyth's Timepiece, killing the approaching supplicants on his side. "No worries over here." The titan said, happily reloading the newest addition to his arsenal.

"If anything, worry about Cai paying you that 50k." Liore-1 said, sticking a supplicant with her magnetic grenade. It died in the initial explosion, with a second one following suite after the grenade's secondary explosion went off. "He still owes me after all."

Mordecai poured his light into the Aegis, using the last of his vision to release a blast of energy at a glowing white Oracle. His vision black from the Oracles attempting to wipe his existence, he used his motion tracker to get close to Radia and Drew. Once he was in their vicinity, he used the Aegis to make a shield of light, cleansing their vision as they made their way to the now opened portal. As much as he wanted to look at the beautiful lush green scenery that was the planet Venus, Mordecai carried on.

Another oracle appeared by the portal, Drew gliding towards it with Invective in hand. Once the fifth Oracle was quickly taken care of, Mordecai jumped high into the air. Like clockwork, the sixth Oracle appeared opposite of the fifth, and Mordecai quickly brought the Aegis down on it, destroying it and bringing their work in the future to a close. The guardians began to glow, a universal consequence for the Vex for attempting to overwrite the guardian's destinies.

"Another cleanse?" Drew asked, Mordecai nodding his head in agreement as he used the Aegis's shield again. "You guys ready to make our own fate?"

"Let's finish this." Radia said as her Icebreaker sniper rifle recharged completely. The three of them ran through the portal, getting teleported back to present. Mordecai quickly jumped to the middle platform between the two portals before immediately raising the Aegis's shield to block Atheon's shots.

A lone supplicant who had been hiding behind the portal blitzed Radia before she had a chance to react and exploded, killing her instantly. The rest of the fireteam paid her death no mind as Liore-1 placed a Ward of Dawn near the back of the platform, everyone taking a dip inside to strengthen their weapons with her light. They took up positions besides Mordecai and started shooting at Atheon.

Radia's badly damaged corpse turned to ashes and with a flash of solar light, she was reborn. The flaming solar empowered warlock started tossing miniature suns at the giant vex, who staggered from the amount of damage being done to it.

"We almost got him, keep firing!" Mordecai yelled to his fireteam. Drew blinked up out of the shield and threw a nova bomb at Atheon, causing the minotaur's right arm get blown off from the impact of a collapsing star. Jak charged at Atheon with his Fist of Havoc, making Atheon kneel to their might. The vex angrily used its weapon to knock Jak into a stone pillar, the impact killing him as his chest collapsed in on itself. Radia flew towards his body and lended some of her light to his ghost, reviving him.

Orion-5 pulled out his Wail hand cannon and funneled his light into it, making it burn bright with light before he quickly let out six rapid fire shots of pure solar energy at Atheon. Five of his shots found their mark at the vex's weak spot, his radiolarian core, severely cracking the container and causing it leak out. Atheon became enraged, his torch hammer firing rapidly and supplicants began appearing to his sides.

"Everyone get clear!" Mordecai shouted to his fireteam. He let down the Aegis's shield and jumped towards Atheon. "Guardians make their own fate!"

Charging the aegis with as much light as he could hold, Mordecai shot one last blast of light at Atheon, the shot completely obliterating its radiolarian core and causing the machine to collapse, dead. The fireteam cheered, ecstatic with their victory against time itself. The aegis Mordecai was holding changed its shape to a large cache, weapons and armor appearing inside created by Kabr, the titan who previously attempted to conquer the vault but failed.

While his fireteam was fighting over who got what, Mordecai noticed a glint coming from the remains of Atheon. Deciding to investigate, the hunter was surprised to find a gun among the broken parts of Atheon, one that seemed mysteriously fit for human hands...

Vedalia sat with her mouth agape at Mordecai's recollection of the raid. "I'm speechless." Laughing at her reaction, Mordecai internally winced when a strong wave of longing came over him, caused by reliving his memories of his best friends. They had done so much together, from conquering the Vault of Glass to seeing to the King's Fall. He missed them so much.

Vedalia tasted his change in mood but her curiosity of what happened next beat her sympathy. "What happened after?"

"We were recognized by the Vanguard and we decided to officially become a registered fireteam, but first, we had to choose a name." Mordecai smiled. "As cliché as it sounds, we became known as Fireteam Fate."

"Did you ever pay Orion?"

"That is a story for another day."

Author's Note

I got nothing, but yes it lives. Now back to simping for vtubers and playing gacha games with my rank E luck.
OCs: Jak-belongs to DarkLord of Fire
Orion-5-belongs to TheWolfSpartanBrony
Drew Wilson-belongs to dragonstoa