"Now let's talk, shall we?" Princess Celestia looked at him from her chair. "I know you are angry with my invasion of privacy, but it is not one-sided I assure you. I will have cast the spell on myself as well."

"How can I trust that you will? I can't see any external differences besides your horn glowing." Mordecai said back to her. Suddenly his body was covered in a soft golden glow, the same as Celestia's horn. The Princess smirked at him before casting another spell. A dark blue unicorn was teleported next to her on the floor, her head resting on a pillow and her body covered by a blanket. She was snoring softly, and continued to for about three minutes until Celestia looked at Mordecai.

"Can you wake her by dropping your helmet near her?" She asked him. Nodding to her request, he grabbed his helmet and tossed it near the sleeping mare, the sound of metal hitting stone echoing throughout the room. The mare jumped up straight from her bed, wings flaring out from underneath the blanket. Her eyes were wild and frantic until they focused on Mordecai. Glaring, her horn lit up blue and was pointed at him. Mordecai instinctively pulled his Eyasluna out of his backpack subspace and pointed it at the Alicorn, resulting in a tense standoff.

"Do you two have any manners?" Princess Celestia said to them, their heads turning to look at her. She hid her grin by taking another sip of tea. Lowering his weapon, Mordecai kept his eyes on the Alicorn mare, while she did the same and powered down her horn. Her gaze turned from him to Celestia, and she scowled.

"Sister, why did you interrupt my rest for... this being?" She asked with a stern voice.

"Dear Luna, say hello to the meteorite, or should I say, this extraterrestrial whose ship crashed on Equis. His name is Mordecai by the way." Luna's eyes widened and her mouth dropped, looking back at Mordecai. He waved at her, and sipped at the tea in his cup. The Princess seemed to compose herself, before teleporting out of the room. Several seconds of silence later, she popped back into room, this time wearing a onyx crown and regalia with a crescent moon in its center. Her mane was also moving in the wind like her sister's, however he could see specks of lights glowing in it. Taking a seat opposite to Mordecai, she looked back at him with a neutral face.

"Forgive my aggression Mordecai, I had quite the rude awakening." She looked at her sister with a scowl, then turned her attention back to him. "I am Princess Luna of Equestria, and Avatar of the Moon."

Remembering back to earlier this morning when the Moon switched places with the Sun within a minute, he wanted to confirm his suspicions that it was her. He wanted to choose his words carefully as not to offend the Princesses, but knew the truth spell would probably do more than that. For now, he decided to ask that question later.

"I am Mordecai of the Last City, Guardian of the Traveler and Humanity." He said proudly. They both sported troubled expressions at his title before Celestia turned to Luna.

"Luna, while I would like to believe his word that he wouldn't bring harm to Equis, I have cast a truth spell on him and I would like you to cast it on me as well." Luna's expression turned from one of shock to anger in seconds. She opened her mouth to speak but Celestia cut her off. "I want to protect Equis, something I'm sure a Guardian can understand."

She looked at Mordecai, and he slowly nodded his head at her, knowing he too would do anything to protect the Last City. "It will be to both of our benefits, having complete transparency with each other."

"Sister, though I understand your thought process, we will have words later." Luna's horn glowed a pale blue, and Celestia's body glowed the same color.

"How can I know this isn't a trick?" Mordecai said to them, not fully trusting the two sisters by him.

"Luna and I wielded the Elements of Harmony several thousand years ago. They are six extremely powerful Magical artifacts that were here before our rule. They are the pure embodiments of Harmony, each Element representing an aspect of it. I bore the Elements of Kindness, Magic and Generosity. Luna bore the Elements of Honesty, Loyalty and Laughter. When combined, they were our most powerful weapon against those seeking to disrupt Equestria's Harmony." Celestia levitated the kettle to pour more tea into her cup.

"When my sister was corrupted by the Nightmare, I had to use all six elements to banish her to the Moon for a thousand years, which ended up breaking our connection to the Elements. They have now chose six new Bearers, and you have already met two of them. The new Element of Magic is Twilight, and Honesty is Applejack. Take Luna's word for she had represented Honesty, and were it not for what happened, she still would have." Celestia finally said to him.

Mordecai looked back at Princess Luna, deep into her eyes. Being a seasoned Hunter, he could usually tell when someone was bluffing, but this wasn't completely reliable as he had been wrong sometimes. He had taken many gambles, some for a game, others a choice in a battle. Individuals like Cayde was extremely hard to read, not just because he was a Exo but because he knew to keep his emotions and thoughts hidden. Celestia was a good example of this, her eyes betraying no emotion she didn't want to show. However, looking into Luna's eyes, he could tell she was sincere.

"I trust you Princess Luna, so how are we going to do this?" He asked them. Luna smiled at him before turning to Celestia.

"We will ask questions first, to ease my conscious and to learn more about you." Watching Mordecai nod to this, she continued. "When you said to Applejack that you had no intention of harming Equis, did you mean just yourself? What about the rest of your kind?"

"I did mean myself, and Guardians would never harm a race like yours unless we had reasons to. Those reasons would be something like you starting a war with us. That's not possible due to the circumstances of my crash." He answered her.

Celestia let a small smile on her face before asking him another question. "What were those circumstances?"

Mordecai proceeded to tell them of his scouting mission from the Vanguard. Having to go into plenty of detail due to the spell, Mordecai gave them brief summaries of who the Hive and Vex are. The sister's horrified expressions spoke for themselves as he continued on with his story. He told them about the wormhole, how he was dragged through it and his ship's crash landing. He told them about how even though he was far away from the Traveller, Equis's Magic substituted Light.

"We have heard you mention the Traveller, but what is it?" Luna asked Mordecai.

"The Traveller is Humanity's god basically. It showed up in our Solar System hundreds of years ago, terraforming our planets and bringing about a Golden Age. We had spread out from Earth, colonizing our planets and we were going to go beyond when the Traveller's enemy, the Darkness, appeared. With it, 4 different alien races came to Solar System and started mass genocide. The Traveller and Humanity was pushed back to Earth, where it made a last stand before sacrificing itself to save us from complete annihilation. This was called the Collapse. The Traveller's last act was to make Ghosts, tiny sentient machines that select Guardians from the dead and revive them, gifting us directly with the Traveller's Light." Mordecai explained to the sisters, staring at his teacup. He looked up to see Celestia wipe away a tear from her eye and Luna's sorrowful expression.

"Not all Guardians started as one. Some were warlords and abused their powers, but were stopped by the Iron Lords, the first Guardians. The remnants of Humanity migrated to the Traveller's resting place, an area it hovers over. We built the Last City, and with more Guardians being brought to life, we began to fight back, taking back large areas of Earth back. I was revived after the Last City was built, and have played an instrumental role in pushing back our enemies, destroying armies and killing Gods to protect Humanity. I have died thousands of time, but thanks to my immortality from Rain I was brought back, becoming stronger and smarter from each death. That is the life I live, and I wouldn't have it be any different."

Mordecai emptied the rest of his cup and pushed it over to the kettle. The Alicorns were silent, most likely pondering about everything he just told them. "Are you done with your questions?"

"Yes Mordecai, and forgive our silence. Your race has our condolences and respect. I believe we are done with our questions, but we understand you must also have yours." Princess Luna said to him.

"Do you control the Sun and Moon? Rain informed me that they were moving extremely quickly."

Both Princesses looked at him as if he had asked why the sky was blue, but remembered he wasn't from Equis. "I move the Sun, while my sister the Moon. We Alicorns tend to represent things just like the Elements do."

"Alright, that's all I really wanted to know about this world." Mordecai told them. Celestia's horn stopped glowing and the weird feeling he had disappeared. Luna did the same as her sister.

"What now?" He asked them.

"We want to meet your Ghost, and our technology is lacking sadly. Ponies are nowhere near as advanced as you Humans are, due to our Magic. We can provide you with any metal and supplies to repair your ship, but anything else beyond that would be out of our power. Perhaps Twilight's genius would be of help to you."

"Thank you Princesses. The whole alternate dimension seems to be my biggest issue, but for now I'll focus on my ship. Also, say hello Rain." Holding his hand up, Rain appeared out of Mordecai's backpack subspace and floated above his palm. The Princesses looked at him curiously.

"Hello Princess Luna and Princess Celestia, I am Rain. Mordecai and I are neurally linked, being able to share our thoughts together in his head when necessary. In case you're wondering, I live his backpack." Princess Luna tilted her head at hearing this and looked behind Mordecai, while Princess Celestia looked at her sister in amusement. "I meant the subspace of Light he has, which is a bubble of warped spacetime that is used to keep weapons and supplies."

"It is a pleasure to meet you Rain. Forgive me if this question may offend you, but are you alive? Celestia asked Rain. Spinning the components that made his shell around, Rain focused on her with his optic.

"Yes and no. In the sense of being organic, I am not. However, I have my own personality, thoughts and memories, the same as any sentient creature."

Mordecai was about to open his mouth when the hairs on the back of his neck stood up. He wasn't the only one, as the Alicorns began looking around the room. Rain disappeared back into Mordecai's backpack, sensing an unseen danger.

"Oh my, who do have here?" A disembodied voice asked, sounding playful.

A snapping sound was heard and appearing in front of them was one of the most unsettling creatures Mordecai has ever seen. It had the head of goat with two different horns, a long slender body with brown fur, a eagle's claw on one arm and a lion's paw on the other. It had a reptilian leg and tail, the other leg belonging to a goat. Two different wings were on it's back, one being a leathery wing similar to the ones he saw on the guards, and other being a normal feathered wing. Two crazed red irises surrounded by yellow looked back at Mordecai's blue ones.

He didn't know why, but Mordecai reached into his backpack and pulled out his Gjallarhorn Exotic rocket launcher. Without hesitation he fired a rocket at the abomination, feeling strongly compelled to do so by an unknown source. The rocket obliterated it's body, the mismatched body parts scattering the room. Gjallarhorn's Wolfpack Rounds split apart and tracked them, destroying them as well. All that was left was its eagle claw, remaining undisturbed from the Rounds.

The sisters were extremely surprised at what they just witnessed. "Silly Guardian, that's a Year 1 Gjallarhorn. You haven't reached Year 3 yet plus it was slightly nerfed, but alas maybe next time we'll meet you'll have the Iron version. Farewell my future associate." The claw snapped it's talons and disappeared, leaving behind two shocked Princesses and a confused Hunter.

"What... was that?"

Celestia let out a huge sigh, while Luna rubbed at her face with a hoof. "That was Discord, the Lord of Chaos. He bends reality to his favor, usually in chaotic ways. He's been reformed though, so don't mind him. Now, let's pretend that didn't just happen."

"...Ok I guess. My concern right now is how I'm going to get my ship out of the Everfree, due to it being grounded."

"I can help with that." Princess Luna volunteered. "First, you will need to be introduced to Equestria via a Royal Announcement and then I will help you the following night. Anything else?"

Mordecai shook his head to her question. "Thank you Princess Luna, and to you as well Princess Celestia for your help. I won't cause trouble to your kingdom, but no promises as I tend to be in places when something bad happens."

"You're welcome Mordecai, and I hope you don't as well. The night is fast approaching, so I will have the Ambassador's suite prepared for you and you're welcome to stay for dinner." Celestia told him. "It is rare to have such a interesting guest after all."

Author's Note

It's finally out, hooray!