So, I suppose I'll begin when my companions and I were still human. There were three of us, our names then unimportant, and we were at a gaming convention. I was dressed as the Didact from Halo 4, a villain I think is tragic, if you know his backstory like I do. My two friends were dressed as Oryx-he always thought that between Guardians and Oryx, Oryx was the "good guy"- and the last in our trio was dressed as Alad V, no, I do not mean roman numeral five. It confused me too at first when I saw his name with no audio. Anyway, in his game, Warframe, Alad V was a scientist of sorts, and our friend dressed as him dabbled in science.

Anyway, the three of us were on the convention floor, looking around the various booths for different games. "Hey, guys," my friend dressed as Oryx, complete with a model Willbreaker, said, getting our attention, and pointing to a table, with a guy dressed as Xur from Destiny, complete with the face tentacles, standing in front of it. "Look what the guy's selling." Indeed, he was selling some interesting stuff, but what caught my eye was the Didact's Signet weapon from Halo 5 Warzone, a scattershot, think shotgun, modified with better range and better tracking after ricochets, a scale model Zanuka from Warframe, and the one part missing from our friend's outfit, Oryx's wings.

"Odd," our friend dressed as Alad said. "The fact one person is selling things to go with our costumes perfectly? It remind you guys of anything?"

"You mean those displaced stories you keep going on about?" I asked. "You need a new hobby other than watching ponies, dude. Besides, it isn't possible for things that size to go to a different universe. . . .Actually, our tech hasn't even reached artificial wormholes, yet."

"In other words, no need to worry," Oryx said. "So, yuo guys want to complete the outfits?"

i shrugged. "Don't see why not," I replied, and the two of us went over to the table, with Alad waiting behind us.

"Ah, two who care for more than what is done," the guy said as the two of us walked up, and i imagine he meant why the in-game versions did what they did. "I assume you are here to add to your outfits?"

"Yep," I replied. "How much for the Signet?"

"Thirty dollars," he replied.

"And for the wings?" Oryx asked.

"Twenty. And both are with tax calculated."

I looked at my friend. "Cheaper than I had thought."

"Agreed," he replied, and we both pulled out our wallets, and handed the guy fifty collectively.

"My thanks," the guy said. "And have a nice day."

"Yeah, yeah," I muttered as I took the Signet in hand, and my friend put the wings on his back. "You too, and thanks."

He bowed his head. "My pleasure," he said as Alad walked up to us.

"See, dude?" Oryx asked. "Nothing to worry about."

"Yeah, save the 'I told you so' until we get back and start gaming again," he replied, crossing his arms. "Uh, guys, you're glowing."

"Why, thank you," I said.

"No, I mean actually glowing," Alad said. "So, since that usually indicates displacement," he then turned to face Xur, "how much for the Zanuka model?"

"Thirty dollars."

"Here, then," Alad said, taking his wallet, removing three tens, and handing them to the guy, taking the Zanuka model in hand. Indeed, he began to glow soon after. "I'll see you assholes later," he said before black holes, I do not mean astronomic ones, I mean holes colored black, opened under Oryx and me, causing us to fall, blacking out soon after.

I awoke who knows how many hours later, my entire body aching, my head especially. I sat up, my eyes closed, as I attempted to rub my head, only to be met with a cold feeling. "The hell?" I muttered to my self as I opened my eyes, revealing i had a HUD tinted orange. In the upper right was a small image of the Scattershot, while the opposite side had what I recognized as pulse and scatter grenade images. More accurately, the pulse had an orb next to it, while the scatter had dots in a diamond formation next to it. Below that in the lower left corner was a bar, two really, with vitals. Both had pulses that I imagine were heartbeats, and one was erratic, mine, if the rapid thumping was any indication, while the other was calm, with the latter having numbers that may have been distance. Who knows? In the upper center was a bar that said Armor Integrity. Last but not least was symbol in the lower right hand corner. It was a circle, with two lines from the sides, branching in to create a hexagon, with the upper line having one above it. The symbol of the Ur-Didact.(1)

In a panic, I looked at my arms and hands, seeing that I had on silver armor with black and orange highlights, while my hands had six fingers each.

I facepalmed. "Damn it, Alad," I muttered, hearing my voice better. It was definitely the Didact's. "You were right."

"Indeed he was," a regal voice said from behind me. I turned, and, to my surprise and some shock, there stood Oryx, the Taken King, wearing armor made of bone with blood red robes, his three fingered hands holding in them a large sword also made of bone, his three, emerald eyes looking at me. "Perhaps we should have listened to him," he said in the voice from the first cutscene with him, the one I think was translated, given how it sounded later on. "Then we wouldn't be here."

"And it seems we're displaced now," I said, standing up, not even hitting Oryx's chest in height. "Joy."

"Well, on the bright side, at least we have some idea of where we are," Oryx said. "Though from what he once spoke about, who knows when we are."

"Does it matter?" I asked. "We're stuck in a land of technicolor ponies who are morons, more often than not."

"Yes, it matters," he replied. "If we arrived at a fortunate time, we may be able to trick them into sending us back home."

"And if not?"

"Then we take the thrones," Oryx said. "Well, I do, anyway. You're probably more on the military side now."

"I was on the military side before this, dipshit," I said. . . Anyone else find it weird that the Didact just said dipshit? "But yeah."

Before he could reply, we heard an eerie WHHHHIIIIIIIIRRRRR, one I realized from when Alad forced us to marathon My Little Pony with him.

"Great," I said sarcastically as my suit gave a warning of Extreme Temperature. "Windigoes."

"Those ice horses?" Oryx asked. "Well, I suppose we can work with that. Think the Signetcan work on them?"

"May as well try," I said as I reached behind my back, where the Signet was, and grabbed it, bringing it to my chest. "I think it came from that direction," I said, hooking my thumb, still in the same place as a human one, behind me.

"Agreed," Oryx said as he moved his sword to his shoulder, the sharp edge pointing toward the sky. "Let's go."

He took the lead on our way there, with me following behind him. We had, or I had, at least, landed on a flat plane of snow, and, from the play episode, we knew to head to a cave. On the way there, I experimented with my new armor, stating small by removing my helmet telekinetically, which, amazingly, I got on the first try, exposing my face, pale as it was in-game, with sacs on the sides of my head that served some purpose I do not know. "Cold as shit," I commented as the cold air stung my face.

"Welcome to the obvious club," Oryx said. He then looked up, and saw the clouds of the Windigoes. "Does it have enough range?"

"It's a shotgun, in essence," I replied. "So no. Would your abilities be able to injure them?"

"Most likely," he replied before spreading his wings. "Free the leaders and their companions. I will handle the Windigoes."

"Good luck," I said before he flew up towards the clouds, Darkness radiating around him. I then activated my helmet, and made my way to the cave that the three leaders would be, along with their companions, and where the leaders were most likely frozen solid. Just as I hit the rocks, I looked up, and saw Oryx blasting the Windigoes with his Darkness bolts, which are essentially orbs of concentrated Darkness. Yeah, don't ask me on how Destiny attacks work.

Anyway, I reached the ice covered entrance to the cave, and set my left hand on it, which caused something to pop up on my HUD. Solidified H2O. Approximately ten inches thick. Okay, that's a cool feature.

Anyway, I raised my weapon, and fired the hardlight bolts into the ice, most ricocheting off and past me, but still damaging the ice. I fired another "buckshot", then another, the third finally breaking through the ice, allowing me an unobstructed view inside, showing that the "assistants", as well as the leaders, were anthropomorphic. The ice fully covered the leaders, and were up to the waists of the others.

With out a word, I walked into the cave, and made my way to where Platinum, who, oddly enough, looked like that fashionista pony. Rarity, I think. I hated her. I raised a fist, bringing protests from the three not frozen, and hit the ice, shattering it and freeing the princess. She fell down, unconscious due to the cold, according to my HUD, and I proceeded to free the other two, but not before saying ,"She is alive, simply unconscious."

I then freed the other two, freeing Puddinghead, who was a brown earth pony with vanilla white hair and tail, last. I then looked up, and saw Oryx finishing off the last Windego, the others either having fled, quietly, somehow, or they simply vanished upon death. "What-what are you?" I heard directed at me. I turned toward the advisers, the ice having somewhat receded to their ankles-is that the right term, considering- shaking with fear, and maybe a hint of cold. Clover was a white unicorn with green hair and tail, Cookie was beige with chocolate brown hair and tail, while the pegasus was white with yellow hair, and was shaking the most.

"Which of you spoke?" I asked in a neutral tone.

"I-I did," clover said, fear in her voice.

"If you wish to know my species, that is unimportant, as I am the only one of my kind here," I said. "If you meant what I am in occupation, I am on par with generals, with my name being Shadow-of-Sundered-Star, though you may only call me Didact."

"And him?" Clover asked, pointing up where Oryx had just sliced the Windigoes head off, and the thing evaporated. Not going to question it right now.

"He is known as Oryx," I replied. "Are any of you royalty?"

"J-just Princess Platinum," Clover replied.

"Then you have to call him either 'My lord' or any other royalty title, as he is a king."

"So you're his general?" one of the mares asked, I think, given the voice and conviction, Cookie me.

"No," I replied. "I'm his friend," I said as Oryx landed in the cave, entering through the hole in the roof. "They went down quickly," I commented.

"Indeed they did," he replied. He then looked at the three conscious mares. "I assume you three are of the three tribes?"

"Y-yes," Clover said before she remembered what I had said and added, "your majesty."

Oryx looked at me. "Next time, Didact, let me do my own introduction."

"You got it," I replied. "And the three leaders are out cold, no pun intended. Probably best to take them outside."

"Agreed," he replied before going to pick up Platinum and Puddinghead, with me picking up Hurricane, who was red with black hair and tail.

"You three coming, or are you going to stay here?" I asked as the two of us got to the cave entrance.

They looked at each other, and nodded. "Then come on."

Author's Notes:

1:For those who don't know, the bottom most symbol on the cover art.
And the reason why Alad didn't show up is because I do not know what the life span of the Corpus is. Forerunners, like Didact, are able to live for thousands of years, while Oryx has lived for possibly hundreds of thousands.