1 hour Before The Crash...

"I'm telling you, if it was a quick draw between me and Saturn, I would totally win!" I exclaimed. My Ghost rolled its eye and looked up at me.

"And I told YOU that Saturn's reaction time is far faster than yours! He would beat you in a heart beat!" he chastised in a condescending tone. I rolled my eyes in return. I looked down at my Hawkmoon, admiring the luster of the silver weapon. I saw a small smudge on the side of it. I grabbed a piece of my cape and began to wipe it off.

"Saturn does have a reaction time, but he would miss the shot. I, on the other hand, would not miss even if I did draw late. Why do you think he uses the Fabian Strategy. That exo has no accuracy whats so ever". My ghost looked away from me and looked outside of the cockpit out to the void of passing space. I could tell he was a bit annoyed since he kind of had a crush on Saturn-4. Ever since we met that exo, my ghost has been obsessed with his "awesomeness". Always wanting me to check up on what he was doing and other junk.

I managed to clean the smudge spot on my gun and I placed it on my dashboard. I sat there in silence, waiting for us to reach our destination. As the time passed, I could feel my eyes getting heavier. A nap probably wouldn't hurt. I closed my eyes. A loud beeping began to fill the tiny spaced as I was about to fall asleep. I jolted awake from the alarming sound coming from the ship. I looked down at the console and saw that we were approaching the edge of the light past the Reef.

I took hold of the throttle and stick and braced to break from light speed. I counted the seconds in my head as the timer went down. 5...4...3...2...1... I lurched forward as the ship decelerated and slowed from light speed. I pulled the throttle pack and slowed down to the point we were gliding in orbit of the planet we just jumped to. I looked out the window and examined what we were working with.

To my surprise, the planet looked a lot like earth. Landmasses and large areas of water covered the planet. I looked at my ghost and saw he was examining the planet as well. I guess he would know more than me. "Ghost, think you can give me something on what we're seeing here?" I asked.

"Well, there is a lot of resemblance from earth just from looking at it. There is obviously water on the planet, and with the amount of green I can see, I can wager there is oxygen on the surface. Most likely animal life as well. I'm also sensing something... odd about the planet". This made me look at him curiously.

"Your scanners can pick up stuff from all the way out here?" I asked. He looked away from the planet to me.

"Well. I can sense two large energy signatures I have never sensed before coming from the surface. They are both pretty close together. I can definitely tell that out of the two, one is much stronger than the other. I also picked up another energy signature, but its not coming from the planet. It's actually coming from space, not too far from where we are."

I raised a brow, my interest and worry rising slowly. I turned away from him and looked out the windows, trying my best to see anything I could. All I saw was open space. I sat back in my chair, wondering where the energy is coming from.

"Uh, Ashli... you should look at this!" my ghost called out. I looked over and saw him staring out the other window. I climbed over and looked out the window he was. It took me a moment, but I saw it. I didn't know why I didn't see it as soon as we dropped out of light speed.It was massive. The giant ship dwarfed us like an ant to a shoe. There were 4 giant guns poking out of it shell like exterior. One large gun poked out from the bottom that was connected to a tail like part of the ship. The ship had red stripes and covering some parts of it and a dark red light emanated from within it.

I looked away from the giant ship and looked down at my control console. I looked down at my sonar. Before where there was nothing, I am now getting a large ping coming from the direction of the ship. Somehow the entire thing was cloaked. I then saw a couple tiny dots start moving away from the ship. I looked and, to my surprise and panic, I saw fallen ships flying at us at alarming speeds.

I quickly sat back in my seat and grabbed on to the controls. I pushed the thrusters as far as I could, making the ship accelerate quickly. "Ghost, get the jumper ready!" I yelled. My ghost began flying around quickly, trying his best to work with my flying. I felt the ship shake violently. My console lit up, telling me we we were being shot at. I cursed under my breath.

"They are shooting at us!!"
"I know!"
"Fly faster!!"
"I know!!"
"Get us out of here!"
"I KNOW!!"

I looked at mirrors and saw three fallen ships chasing us. I pulled back on the thrust, making the ship slow quickly. I watched the fallen ships fly by us. I smiled and punched the forward, making the ship boost forward. I locked onto the ships with my missiles. As soon as the targeting system locked on, I pulled the trigger and fired three missiles at the ships. I cheered as all three missiles hit their target. I dodged the debris from the ships as we flew threw the explosion.

Taking a quick look at my radar, I saw more ships leaving the giant one. I growled and turned towards the planet.

"What are you doing?! We should get out of here!" my ghost yelled in my ear. I ignored him and continued my way to the surface of the planet. I was too focused on flying that i didn't notice a missile was flying at us. I cried out as the missile hit the right side of my ship. The stick was fighting me and it started moving to the right. I quickly let go of the thrust and used my two hands to try and stabilize the steering stick.

I felt the ship begin to shake again. I looked out the windows and saw we were breaking through the atmosphere. I then heard a loud explosion come from the right side of the ship. I looked and saw that the spot the missile had hit us was beginning to catch fire. I used all my strength to keep the ship from spiraling out of control.

A few minutes after we entered the atmosphere, the shaking began to stop. I tried my best to see where we were landing but the clouds we were flying past made it hard to see anything. Soon, another loud beeping came from my console. I looked down and saw it was the warning sign we were coming to close to land. I looked away from the sign and saw that we had broken through the clouds.

From where it looked, it seemed that we were about to crash in a forest. Normally I wouldn't be scared in a situation like this since I have died plenty of times to know that this was going to hurt, but for some reason my heart was pounding in my chest like I have never felt before. All I saw was us flying into trees before it all went black.

I woke feeling sore all over my body. I coughed loudly as I felt my lungs begin to burn for some reason. I looked at my surroundings and saw we were still in the ship. I looked down at myself and saw my body was covered in dirt and ash. I also noticed my vision was a bit blurry and it was a bit hard to see beyond the cockpit I was in.

I then saw a bright light was hovering over me. It took me moment for my eyes to readjust, but I was able to figure out it was my ghost hovering over me. He was exposed, his shell opened and revealing his eye. His eye was surrounded in a pulsing light that blinked every few seconds. He usually only did this when I...oh.

I sighed as I felt some of the pain begin to fade. My ghost closed his shell and looked down at me.

"Welcome back. That was some great flying by the way" he said sarcastically. I groaned and flicked him in the air. I pressed a button on my control console that opened the cockpit. The hatch opened up with a slight resistance. I stood up on my chair and looked around. I wasn't surprised to see how much damage and pieces of the ship were laying about. Fires and different armor plates were scattered amongst the wreckage.

I looked around and saw the direction we had come in from. A line of broken trees was all that was left of our entrance into the forest. The gap seemed to go on for at least a mile. As I inspected the damage, I barely noticed that my ghost was trying to get my attention. I felt him poke me in the back of my head with one of his sharp edges. I winced in pain as he used a bit too much force in the action. I looked at him in annoyance as I rubbed the spot he hit.

"I am reading movement in the trees. It wont take long for them to get here." he said. I moved down to my seat and grabbed my Celestial Nighthawk and Hawkmoon. I slid the helmet on and stowed my revolver in my thigh holster. I looked down at the radar on my HUD and, like he said, there was movement on my motion tracker. I didn't waste anytime in preparing for an attack.

"Ghost, load as much ammo and supplies into my inventory. Scrap anything I don't need right now. I also need all my weapons". My ghost nodded as he disappeared. I looked through my inventory on my HUD and saw all my weapons and ammo synths being loaded into my inventory. As my ghost finished loading the last of the equipment, I jumped off the ship and ran into some bushes. I made sure to switch to my Bladedancer Subclass so I could turn invisible when I crouched.

I sat in the bush, waiting for whatever my ghost identified to come out of the thick line of trees. I was surprised when I saw three colorful bipedal creatures walking towards the wreckage. I eyed them curiously, taking note of what they looked like. They were wearing clothing, so I could take a guess they were sentient. I was too far to hear, but I noticed they were talking to each other. One of them was purple and had a horn sticking out of their head. The other two had wings that matched their color pallet.

The purple one began to walk towards my ship, looking at it as if it was trying to analyse it. When it came closer, I noticed that the bipedal creature was female, the average sized bust on her proved evidence enough. I noticed the other two were female as well. Realizing that me sitting in the bush was wasting time, I began to move slowly.

I back away from the scene and walked away from the crash. It made me wonder though, what were those things? They were very colorful, and they obviously came from some sort of civilization. Seems like my ghost was right about there being life.

As I walked away from the crash, I felt the slight tremor of ships jumping in. When ships usually jump in from orbit, they send out a large electromagnetic pulse that scrambles my equipment for a second. I looked to my motion tracker and saw large readings coming from the ship. Realizing the fallen must've found my ship, I began to walk a bit faster.

My ghost suddenly appeared next to me. He looked at me expectantly, as if he was waiting for me to say something.
"Well, are you going to help them?" he asked. I shrugged.

"If the fallen found them, they will be a long enough distraction for us to get a good distance away." My ghost looked at me wearily.
"I know you've done some pretty crazy things in the past, but this is cold. I know you don't want to run. That's not the Ashli I know." I stopped in my tracks as he said those word. I closed my eyes and sighed deeply. I looked at him.

"You really know how to push my buttons."' He rolled his one eye.
"Yea, I picked up a thing or two over the years."

I opened my inventory and looked though my weapons. I needed something that would kill quick and something that hits like a rocket. I found two weapons that fit those categorizes. I summoned the Necrochasm, and the Sleeper Simulant. I pulled off the sleeper from my back and held both weapons in my hands.

I turned around and made my way back to the my ship, fully aware I was about to get my hands very dirty.

30 min after battle...

I pushed open the door that led into the tree. When I first saw it, I was a bit surprised to see a library inside of a tree. I kind of found it a bit ironic and funny. I held the small purple unicorn in my arms, bridal style, as I walked inside. We talked a little bit as we rode here on my sparrow. She just told me her name and what she was. Apparently these things are anthropomorphic ponies. I guess that means I am the first to meet a new species. Cool.

When we entered the small town, I was greeted with a few ponies standing near the tree. Twilight told me they were her other friends and were probably waiting for her at her home. I simply shrugged and picked her up off the sparrow. She tried to make me let her go, but her attempts were that of a small child. Does she even work out... or run?

I set her down on the couch in the living room and let the Pegasus, Fluttershy, patch her up. The other ponies walked in after me. I could hear them talking behind my back, thinking I couldn't hear them.

"Are you sure she is on our side, dear? From the looks of it, she could destroy this whole place if she wanted to."

"She's cool, but you're not wrong about her being crazy badass. She freakin' killed more than a dozen of those alien things. You should have been there Rare's." I smiled as I heard them gossip. I walked over to a nearby chair and sat down in it, enjoying the soft cushions that pressed against my back and bottom.

I looked over at Fluttershy and at Twilight's leg. She was grazed by a ark bolt during the skirmish. Good thing I shot that dreg that was trying to kill her. I noticed them fighting when I was halfway done killing the fallen. From the looks of it, whoever shot her had decent aim. "How's it looking Fluttershy?" I asked. She shook her head and frowned slightly.

"This wound is definitely gonna need stitches. The heat from the bullet burned the wound closed, but it needs cleaning and to be treated in the hospital fro it to get any better. The best I can do is put some gauze and disinfecting spray on it." She sighed softly as she began to pull out the proper equipment. I stopped her by putting a hand on her shoulder. She looked up at me in surprise. I stood and walked over to Twilight.

I held out my hand and summoned my ghost. He appeared in my hand and looked around. The whole room fell silent as he appeared out of thin air. I looked around and saw everyone looking at me like I just summoned god. The orange one with the hat spoke up.

"What in tarnation is that thang'?" she asked in a deep county accent. I smiled. I floated my ghost over to Twilight. He looked over her leg did a quick scan.

"I'm a Ghost. I help assist my Guardian whenever she needs. That includes healing her wounds." he said as he opened his shell, revealing his light. The whole room glowed brightly for a second. Everyone looked in awe as my ghost began to heal the missing tissue of Twilight's leg. After a second of healing, he closed his shell and looked up at everyone. The were all still looking at Twilight's leg, now healed and no longer missing a chunk or flesh.

"How did you do that?" Twilight asked. My ghost looked at her.

"I used my light. It is the power than flows through me that was gifted by the traveler."

The whole group didn't seem to understand a thing he said. I chuckled. "I think you might want to elaborate since they obviously never heard of these things."

He nodded and floated to the center of the room.

"A long time ago, a great being came into our solar system and touched many planets within it. These planets were given a portion of its power, the light. This being was called the Traveler. Over the years it traveled from planet to planet, seeking out something. When the Traveler came to our world, it presented new technologies, and evolved the species hundreds of hears ahead. It was a Golden Age. However, like most Golden Ages, it soon broke apart."

"'What happened! Was there a big meanie who came and stole all the cakes?!" said the hyper pink pony as she jumped in front of my ghost mid speech. Me and my ghost looked at the pony in confusion. My ghost shook his head(eye) slowly.

"Um, no. It was the Collapse. Many creatures of darkness invaded the solar system, destroying everything we had built. It was a slaughter. The times were dark and there was little hope. But in its dying light, the Traveler used its power for one last thing. It created us, the ghost. We were born to seek out warriors to fight the darkness. We sought out to create Guardians."

The ponies looked at me in awe and surprise. I stared at them, my mind black as I heard the story the Speaker has told me so many times. So many times to where its like I was being told an old bedtime story.

"Um, do you mind if we see your face?" Fluttershy asked. I looked over at her slowly. She squeaked slightly as I looked at her. I realized that my helmet was still on. I imagine the eagle with glowing golden eyes can be a bit intimidating. I reached up and pulled down my hoodie. The group watched as I pressed the release button on my helmet. A soft puff of air was released as it opened.

I slid the helmet off, pulling it off slowly so I don't pull any hair. As I pulled the helmet off, I saw the ponies looking at me curiously. Placing the helmet under my pit, I adjusted some of my red hair that stood up from the static. I decided to break the silence with an awkward cough. "So, um, this is me."

They looked at me for a second before Rainbow spoke up.

"You look like a monkey."

I frowned. I summoned my light and brought forth a flame of fire in my hand. She instantly backed away as I held the fire in my fist and looked at her with annoyance. I heard Twilight gasp.

"How did you do that?"

I looked at my ghost, promoting him to tell her.

"That... is the power of the light gifted to us by the Traveler. The light has three different elements the Guardians can Harness: Solar, Void, and Ark. These different elements give us an edge when facing creatures like the ones you saw in the forest. They can even conjure weapons with the light." He looked at me, expecting me to show them. I shrugged and summoned...

The Gunslinger

The light flared though my body as it went aflame. I watched as the fire danced across my arms and chest. I looked down at my hand and saw the gun I was known for mastering. The HandCannon bore the biggest flame on my body, visibly showing the power coming from it. I saw everyone look at it in a mix of fear, awe, surprise, and curiosity. I felt the energy within me begin to flicker as my light slowly faded. I watched the gun, once vibrant and full of power, now dwindling like a small flame in the rain. I watched the gun disappear into ashes and felt my body's flame begin to simmer down.

I didn't want to do that since it was a waste of a super, but I can't help but show off when I get the chance. Plus their expressions were priceless. I heard the Rainbow haired Pegasus let out a loud squee'.

"THAT.WAS.SO.AWESOME!!" she practically yelled. I couldn't help but smile at her enjoyment of the small trick or many I have. I saw one of them begin to speak, but then I felt something... different. Like before when the fallen ships were landing in the forest, but this time it was much more strong. The tree house began to shake slightly as a loud vibration filled the air. I knew this feeling all to well. I pushed past the group and looked out the window. And I saw it.

Out of the morning cloud, I could see the ship. I tore through the clouds like knife butter. I felt the ponies behind me bundle up to see what was happening. I watched the ship fly towards the city, looming over the forest as it came closer and closer. I stared at the marking of the ship as it came closer. It was obviously a Devils ship with all the red.

"W-What is that?" asked Fluttershy, her voice trembling in fear. I took my helmet and slid it on.

"A Ketch."

Author's Note

Yay, new one is out. I feel nostalgic writing about the old weapons and the story given to us. I want to make this series special since I can do whatever I want with it. Look out for the next chapter since I will add to the Legend of My OC Guardian.