Sebaste groaned as he streaked across the sky in the Broadsword, Rainblade keeping pace with him. The day had gone by without a single sign of enemy contact, making him wonder if the report he had received had been false.

“You okay?” Rainblade asked on the comms.

“Yeah, just frustrated. It’s like they just went off the map, other than those raids. But right now, I’m just looking forward to relaxing back at Ponyville… OH COME ON, NOT NOW!” he yelped as a portal engulfed the fighter. Rainblade watched in shock before plunging in behind him.

‘Hold on, Seb…’ she thought as she entered the portal. ‘I won’t let you get hurt this time!’

Meanwhile

Trent was firing his new gun at some trees. “Not bad,” he said, putting it down.

“You sure it's a good idea using that thing?” Church asked, appearing next to him.

“Hey, if we're going to be dealing with Grimm for a living, I might as well make sure our equipment works.”

“Maybe, but we just found that thing, which is more advanced than what this world seems to have, under some rumble of an old base and it talked to you. I'm not sure it's very safe.”

“Don't worry about it. It only did that once. Though, I wonder who that Sebaste guy is.”

Little did they know, they were about to find out as what looked like a portal opened up in the sky and spat out a jet fighter with the UNSC logo, followed by a cyan/metallic blur, both of which seemed to streak towards Ponyville. They then heard what sounded like Rainbow’s voice shouting, “Turn the plane! That’s Ponyville you’re gonna crash into!” before the jet swung to the side and smashed into the tree line at the edge of the town. What now appeared to be a pony pegasus with cybernetics flew down to the crash site.

Trent blinked before he said, “Should we check that out?”

“I think that'd be a good idea,” Church said before disappearing. Trent nodded before running towards the crash site. When he got there, he saw the crater where the plane had crashed, but no plane, just one annoyed Recon Spartan who was shaking his head at where the plane had been. The pegasus hovered right next to him, and the two seemed to be having a chat over what happened.

“Wait, that looks like a soldier of the UNSC,” Church told Trent.

“Yeah, and some weird pony...” Trent then walked to the two slowly and as quietly as he can.

“I’m just glad that catastrophe was averted… but where in the Multiverse are we?” they heard the Spartan say. “I know a Displaced summoned me, but as for who, I have no bloody idea!” he threw his hands in the air.

“Hey, that sounds like that Eliteslayer guy.”

“This is really starting to confuse me,” Trent muttered.

“Seb, calm down.” The pegasus said, causing Trent to blink in shock as he recognized Rainbow’s voice, and as he looked closer, he saw the familiar rainbow mane and cyan fur, but they were marred by the cybernetic wings, tail and front legs. Even her right eye was cybernetic. “Getting frustrated isn’t gonna help.”

“HOLY SHIT, IT'S A TERMINATOR PONY!” Trent screamed once he finished processing what he saw. Afterwards, he realized what he did. “Son of a bitch…”

The two spun around, the cyberpegasus’ right hoof splitting open and a gun barrel poked out from it, while an assault rifle materialized out of nowhere into the Spartan’s hand and was at the ready before it got lowered. “Church? When did you start wearing Washington’s armor?” he asked in shock.

Trent tilted his head in confusion. “Um, are you talking to me?”

“You don’t…” the Spartan then facepalmed. “Right… his voice is different and I would be on one of his ships…. Not near Ponyville. I’m guessing you were at a con and ended up buying something that wound up with you being here in Equestria?” he asked.

Trent looked at him in silence before saying, “You psychic or something?”

“Yeah, I’m psychic.” the Spartan said sarcastically. “Meaning, no I’m not. The same thing happened to me, only I’m in a different Equestria.”

“Wait, seriously?”

“I'm guessing you're one of those people that Andrew guy mentioned,” Epsilon said, appearing between the Spartan and Trent.

“Epsilon. If you’re talking about the Displaced, then yes, I’m one of them,” the Spartan replied. “But where are my manners, the name’s Sebaste, and this is Rainblade.” He said, nodding towards his companion.

“...Is she a Terminator?” Trent asked, staring at Rainblade.

“No, she was my old world’s Rainbow Dash before she was turned into what she is by another version of her that belonged to another displaced after he and I had a little… spat.” Sebaste said with a bitter edge to his voice.

“Okay, you lost me. Anyway, the name's Trent, but you can call me Wash if you want, and you already seem to know Church.”

“Sup,” the AI said.

“Sorry about the near disaster earlier, I was heading back from patrol when you summoned me,” Sebaste chuckled nervously.

“Wait, summoned you?” Trent asked.

“Did you pick up a Halo 5 REQ assault rifle with a energy bayonet?” the Spartan asked.

Trent looked the weapon in his right hand and lifted it up. “You mean this thing?”

Sebaste nodded. “Basically, you’re part of a multiverse, with different Equestrias and each with their own person who was Dimensionally Misplaced, or as they’re more commonly known, Displaced. And the only way to contact one another is through Tokens, objects that represent you.”

“Okay, before you say anymore, we should probably get my buddy, Steven.”

“Was he sent as a RvB character also?” Sebaste asked

Trent shook his head. “No. He became a RWBY OC he made up. He left a few minutes ago to patrol for Grimm.”

The Spartan blinked. “The only RWBY Displaced I know is a Sun Wukong.”

“The monkey guy?”

“Yep, and you mentioned Grimm? Shit….” he groaned. “Just be glad they’re the only foes you’ve encountered.”

“We haven't been here for 24 hours yet, and already been through a lot of shit, like me being tackled off a tower because that of Nightmare Whore sending Beowolves at me. As for other foes, Pinkie mentioned some aliens that showed up awhile ago, but they didn't say much about it.”

Sebaste stared at Trent in shock. “Wait, you fought Nightmare Moon?” he asked. Shaking his head, he then asked, “Do you have a base or something that I can head to? I think that crash ended up alerting the ponies at Ponyville to what just happened.” He jerked his head to where voices were starting to filter through.

Trent nodded. “Yeah, not too far actually. Follow me.” Trent then turned around and walked away, Epsilon disappearing.

Rainblade hesitated as Trent walked away. “Can we really trust him?” she muttered to Sebaste.

“We may as well, we’re in an Equestria that’s new to me and you.” he replied. “Besides…” he continued with a grin, “I thought you wanted more time to hang out with me to make up for lost times.” Rainblade shoved him playfully before the two followed Trent.

As the group arrived at the base Sebaste saw that it was in ruins, many of the buildings nothing but rubble. The only standing structure being a large building at the back of the compound that seemed to be in disrepair but still standing.

“Geez, talk about disrepair….” Sebaste muttered. “Rarity would have a fit…”

“What do you expect? This place was abandoned for a long time after a battle,” A voice said from behind them.

Both Sebaste and Rainblade turned to the owner of the voice. “I’m guessing you’re Steven?” Sebaste asked.

“Guessing you met Wash already then,” Steven replied as he walked towards them.

“Yep, I ended up having a bit of a… crash landing after Trent summoned me.” Sebaste said.

“What do you mean by that?” Steven asked in confusion.

“What he means is that your friend summoned him while he was flying a vehicle of his back to our Equestria’s Ponyville.” Rainblade replied.

“That reminds me, what happened to that thing?” Trent asked.

Sebaste smirked. “You remember when that assault rifle materialized in my hand?”

“Kinda. I was too busy mentally freaking out about the fact you have a pony that looks like the annoying bitch who attacked me earlier crossed with one of the most dangerous machines in sci-fi.”

“Well, I can do the same thing with vehicles. Like this…” The Spartan seemed to concentrate at a certain spot before a single Mantis walker appeared at the same place.

“JESUS CHRIST!” Trent yelled in surprise.

“Heh, you should have seen the others when they found out they had the same abilities.” Sebaste chuckled.

“Others?” Church asked, reappearing.

“The Equestria I’m in has two other Spartans and an Astartes, a supersoldier from a tabletop game called Warhammer 40,000. A new arrival recently made things a bit topsy turvy though…” He said, wincing at the memory of blades easily negating his shielded armor. “In total, my Equestria has four Displaced, five including me.”

“Huh. Well as far as I know, Steven and I are the only Displaced here,” Trent said.

Sebaste nodded before he took off his helmet, revealing a mop of short reddish brown hair and a face that appeared in its twenties with bright green eyes. The most defining feature was the two slash scars over his right eye.

“God damn dude, what happened to you?” Church asked.

“Being in a war can do this to a guy.” Sebaste chuckled before he turned serious. “But my past isn’t one I talk about, if at all.” his tone held a note of warning.

“Okay I don’t know if you told Wash yet, but you know why we’re in this world? The guy who sent us here told us a bit, but not as much as we’d like,” Steven told the Spartan.

“Honestly? I don’t know why the Merchant sends us to different Equestrias…” Sebaste replied.

“Actually, it wasn't the Merchant,” Trent explained. “We stayed away from him when we saw him take 2 people, one dressed as Amy Rose, the other in some blue and black costume. Don't know what he was dressed as. But it looked like he had a sword on his back.”

“Wait… two people dressed as…” Sebaste’s eyes widened in shock. “No way… this has got to be a coincidence….”

“What is it?” Epsilon asked.

“I know who you’re speaking of, but I’m still trying to process this…” Sebaste muttered.

“Wait, you do?” Trent asked in surprise. “How?”

“Because me and a friend of mine were the first displaced he summoned, we met his sister afterwards at a Hearth’s Warming party and then… I don’t remember what happened after that…”

“A heart what?”

“It’s our equivalent of your Christmas.” Rainblade said.

“But Christmas was a while ago. How did you meet them for a Christmas party? And besides, they were “Displaced” only a couple hours before us.”

“Time is different here. An hour on earth translates to days in Equestria.”

“So...how long have they been there?”

“A couple of months, since I saw them last.”

“Seriously?”

“Like I said, time flows differently.”

“Do you know their names?” Church asked.

“Tito and Cece, DarkSpider and Amy respectively.”

“DarkSpider? Never heard of him,” Trent said.

“Spiderman OC, he prefers to use a blade to webbing, though he’ll use both.”

“Sounds familiar to me, the sword thing I mean,” Steven chuckled.

“What can you tell us about them?” Trent asked.

“Well, Cece is a nasty piece of work with that hammer of hers, while Tito, her brother, is more of a try to calm things first before fighting kind of guy. Right now, things are a bit… crazy for them to put it lightly.”

“Why?”

“After a Delsin Rowe displaced ended up in their Equestria, the evil counterpart of that displaced attacked. The three of them plus their Rainbow Dash managed to stop it, but in the process, many of the ponies saw Tito with his eyes glowing red and a look of anger on his face. They’ve become so scared of him, he’s hanging out at Canterlot just so that things can calm down.” Sebaste explained.

“And his sister?”

“Same thing. But they keep in touch with the Mane 6 both in Ponyville and in the Wonderbolts.”

“Mane 6?” Church said, confused.

“If you’ve gone up against Nightmare Moon, you should have seen six mares facing her also.”

“Oh we did. Then Celestia, Bacon Hair, Luna, and that small black one that came out of nowhere.”

“Wait, Sunset Shimmer and Nyx are in this world?” Sebaste blinked in surprise.

“Sunset, yeah,” Trent responded. “Why?”

“And who the hell is Nyx?” Steven added.

Sebaste sighed. “Okay, let me ask the two a question. Have the two of you heard of a TV series called My Little Pony?” he asked in a resigned voice

“...Oh son of a bitch,” Steven groaned as he heard that, “I knew the names Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash sounded familiar.”

Trent snapped his fingers. “Oh yeah. Death Battle. That must've been what Pinkie meant. Wait…”

Sebaste nodded. “Yep, Sunset is from the Equestria Girls offshoot while Nyx is a fan-made character from a fanfiction novel.”

“Who exactly is Nyx?” Trent asked.

“She’s literally Nightmare Moon reborn, but without being power hungry. In fact, she’s usually depicted as Twilight’s adopted daughter.” Sebaste explained.

“Wait, you mean that black filly who...appeared… Okay then. Well at least we have a name for her now.”

“Wait, Twilight's adopted daughter?” Church asked in surprise.

“She was the one who found Nyx after a summoning spell went wrong.”

“Well that's not the case here,” Trent told him. “From what we were told, she just appeared beside Luna after those element things were used on her. Didn't even have a name for her until now.”

“Hmm… that is odd...”

Church looked at him and said, “You're a guy who's apparently traveled the multiverse, is a companion to a cyborg pony, can summon anything related to the UNSC, and, apparently, met a guy who can shoot webs from his hands, and you find the info on the filly odd?”

“Because the way Nyx was formed was from a spell and Twilight’s blood. The only other time I heard of this happening was with Delsin’s Luna.” He said.

“So the bookworm used blood magic to bring Nyx to this world originally, eh?” Steven said calmly from the top the remains of a nearby wall.

“It was actually a cult bent on bringing Nightmare Moon back that ended up bringing Nyx into the real world.” Sebaste snapped.

“So...would we have to deal with that?” Trent asked.

“Thankfully, no.”

“Good. We already going to have our hands full fixing up this place, which still needs a name, and dealing with Grimm, and we don't want to deal with a crazy as shit cult.”

Sebaste chuckled. “I would definitely agree with that.” He then cast an eye out at the ruins. “So who gave you this base?” he asked, as he turned to look at the two. Rainblade meanwhile had settled herself on a warm spot on one of the stones and was now dozing, twitching once or twice every few seconds.

“It was Celestia. She was practically begging us to form a group to deal with the Grimm,” Steven explained.

Sebaste raised an eyebrow. “I’ve met quite a few Celestias, and they weren’t as desperate as that…” He then frowned. “Then again, the Grimm aren’t exactly a foe Equestria has encountered before.”

“Considering they’ve apparently massacred entire towns and killed a lot of her guards, she was out of options when we arrived.”

“Good point.” He then looked over at Rainblade and chuckled. “It’s funny how many variations of Rainbow Dash I’ve encountered, yet they have one thing in common: loyalty to their friends.”

“And punching things… really hard,” Steven added with a smirk.

“I can vouch for that one,” Trent commented.

“That too.” Sebaste said with a laugh. “I ended up on the wrong side of my world’s Rainbow’s gauntlets once. Had to buff out the dents a few weeks afterwards after I recovered from being slammed. But once you get to know her, she’s a cool friend to hang with.”

“I'll take your word for it. Don't think I'll actually be on good terms with this world's Rainbow for a while.”

“What, worried she do what she did in Death Battle to you,” Steven said calmly.

“She can be a bit… hard headed,” Sebaste said. A noise that sounded like a snort escaped from Rainblade as she shifted in her sleep.

“I wouldn't say that. I'd say she seemed a little trigger happy, but without the trigger,” Trent said. “As for that Death Battle comment, I have better aim than a stormtrooper and can think of more things than just gain her trust, scream “die”, and fire a bunch of rockets at her.”

Sebaste snorted in amusement. “That’s one episode I remember laughing at the end result.”

“And why's that?” Church asked.

“Rainbow defeating Starscream obviously,” Steven said.

As Sebaste opened his mouth, he heard the sound of wings flapping nearby. “Um… does anyone else besides you guys and your Celestia know about this base?” he asked.

“Sunset and Twilight know the actual location, while the other 5 just know the direction it is from Ponyville,” Church told the Spartan. “Though I wouldn't be surprised if those two tell their friends about it. Why?”

“Because I’m hearing wings coming this way, and a blip is on my HUD.” He said. “And it’s coming fast.”

“Oh boy…” Trent muttered.

Steven then looked around before he said, “Rainbow Dash incoming at twelve o’clock.”

“Great, it's our version of the flying pride mascot…”

Sebaste quickly slammed his helmet back onto his head and sealed it as Rainblade woke up with a start. “Let’s hope she’s in a good mood…” Sebaste muttered as he watched Rainbow fly into view. He then blinked as he saw her. “Another anthro world? Geez, must be my lucky day….”

“How come?” Epsilon asked.

“Because a few other Equestrias that I’ve been to, they’re anthro. Seems your world is the same as those.” he explained as Rainblade walked up to look at the new arrival as she landed. “Guess she’s here because of me crashing.”

“Well, you did appear out of nowhere, in a ship, and nearly crashed into her town, so that makes sense.”

“Not exactly my fault, that’s actually the first time I’ve gone through a portal in a fighter.” Sebaste said, raising his hands defensively. “It messed with the electronics and caused them to go haywire. I was lucky enough to still have control over it and crash it into those woods.”

“Hey, I saw something huge just crashed here, what happened?” Rainbow asked, landing. Then her eyes widened when she saw Sebaste and Rainblade. “Okay, who are you, and what the hay is that?” she finished, pointing at Rainblade.

Rainblade gave a small scowl at the comment and flattened her ears. Sebaste knelt down and put a hand on her shoulder. “The name’s Eliteslayer, Special Operative and a Displaced from another Equestria. And this is Rainblade, your… counterpart.” he coolly replied. “I assume you’re Rainbow Dash?”

“Yeah...and what do you mean my “counterpart”?”

“Meaning she’s you from a different Equestria, unfortunately, she’s the way she is after another displaced and I had a little spat. She’s still getting used to the Equestria I’m situated in.” he explained. “As for the crash… sorry about that. I wasn’t expecting to get brought here when I was returning from patrol.”

Rainbow just stared at him before tilting her head and looking at him like he was crazy. “What?”

Sebaste sighed. “The short of it is, we’re not from around here. We were brought here by what’s called a Token. One that your friend Trent ended up picking up.” He nodded towards the assault rifle the other spartan was holding.

“Hey, how was I supposed to know that this gun would pull two people from another dimension to here?” Trent asked.

“It’s common for new Displaced to find a token for another displaced and summon them when they least expect it,” Sebaste replied with a rueful chuckle. He then noticed the holo comms button on his left arm flashing. Oh crap… that’s probably Vik or Alex…’ he thought. Judging by the looks he was getting from the others, they had also noticed. ‘Damn it…’

“Um...what's that?” Church asked.

“It’s… a holo comms. One of the other displaced in my world must’ve noticed my disappearance and is trying to contact me.” Sebaste then tapped the button and a holographic version of a female Spartan Scout with Ivy Valentine’s right arm armor appeared in miniature on his arm.

“Seb? What happened? You and Rainblade vanished all of a sudden.” She said. Turning her head, she looked at Trent, Steven and Rainbow. “Guessing these guys had something to do with it?”

“One of them. But I’m fine, just had a bit of a crash landing.” Sebaste said, rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment.

“That's a girl?” Church asked. “Good thing Tucker isn't here right now.”

“Agreed,” Trent said with a nod. He then looked at the hologram of the woman. “So who exactly are you? Another AI?”

Alex shook her head. “If I was an AI, I wouldn’t disappear like this.” She then turned and walked to the side, vanishing as she did so. She returned to view a second later. “I'm using a holo comms like what Seb has installed in his armor.”A voice behind her made her turn her head. “Yeah, I got him on the comms. Tell the others he’s fine.”

“Who was that?”

"That was Sasha, our resident Astartes. Seb here caused quite the commotion after you summoned him, we thought he had been shot down by enemy AA fire.” Alex gave the Recon a reproachful look. "But I’m glad he and Rainblade are all right. My name’s Alexandra, or Alex for short. I’m one of three Spartans here, Seb being the first.”

“Name’s Trent. The little white guy is my AI, Church, and the dude in the shades next to me is Steven. Nice to meetcha.”

“It’s nice to meet other Spartan Displaced.” The sound of raised voices was then heard in the background, followed by the sound of electricity. Alex whirled around and groaned. “I have to go, my sister and Rainbow are at it again… Seb, be careful.”

“Aren’t I always?” he chuckled before her hologram shimmered and vanished.

Rainbow shook her head. “Okay that's it, what in the world is going on?!”

Sebaste chuckled. “I did say I was from a different Equestria. Sorry if I’m confusing you, Dashie.”

Rainbow just glared at him before saying, “That's it. Either you start making sense or I'm gonna clobber ya.”

Sebaste took his helmet off and returned the glare. “You wouldn’t even last ten seconds against me,” he growled, his light tone replaced with one of steel. “I’ve told you where I’ve come from, and that’s all I’m giving out to you.” Rainblade started to back off as she caught his tone. “So unless you want your tail kicked, don’t fight me. Otherwise, you’re gonna be in for a hard time.” A massive two-handed hammer that crackled with energy then materialized in his hands. He then shook his head and dismissed the weapon in his hands. “I’m not here to fight, but I will defend myself if necessary. And I honestly rather not make any more enemies, beside, I have enough of those already.” He said in a more normal tone and a wry chuckle.

“Both of you need to chill before you end up getting someone killed.” Steven said calmly.

Sebaste gave Steven an exasperated look. “Like I said, I’m not here to fight. But I do apologize for giving Ponyville a bit of a scare with the crash landing.” he said.

“And we all know Rainbow is hot headed, so it’s not a problem,” Steven admitted.

Sebaste chuckled before he began fiddling with a piece of his arm armor. “C’mon… please work this time…” he muttered before a single blade shot out and locked in place. “Yes! Finally got this thing working…” it then retracted and vanished. Noticing the looks he was getting, he asked, “What?”

“What is that?” Trent asked.

“Wristblade. Sometimes I don’t have time to summon a weapon, so I installed this to use when that happened,” the Recon explained. “But it’s been a bit finicky lately.”

“How so?” Church asked.

“Keeps getting jammed on a component on my armor. Gonna have to fix it when I get back to my Equestria.” He then looked at Rainbow and gave a small smirk. She felt a tap on her shoulder and then jumped after hearing someone screaming, “BOO!” from behind her.

“Surprised?” she heard Sebaste’s voice behind her.

Rainbow looked behind her and saw someone who looked exactly like Sebaste. She looked between the two Spartans before saying, “How are there two of you?”

You have holographic projections?” Church asked Sebaste.

“Hardlight projections, yes. So they can hit as hard as I can, and I can fight at two different spots at once. It’s come in handy more than once.” He gave a wink to Rainbow. “I’ve pulled that particular prank quite a few times, consider it a way for me to pull a prank without getting slammed.” Rainblade snorted with amusement.

“How do you have that?” Trent asked.

“It’s… hard to explain. I’ve had it since my first Displacement. I’m still honestly trying to figure out how it works…”

“And you don't need an AI?” Church asked.

Sebaste shook his head. “It’s linked to my armor.” He then seemed to remember something. “You mentioned fighting Nightmare Moon, how long ago was that?”

“l’d say it was earlier today,” Steven replied.

Both Rainblade and Sebaste looked at him in shock. “You're kidding, right?” The Spartan asked.

“Nope,” Trent said. “Not one hour after waking up in that castle, we ran into her and she sicked Beowolves at us thanks to this idiot,” he gestured to Steven, “opening his mouth and mentioning henchmen. He was thrown off the tower when I was tackled through a wall.”

“It's rather funny in hindsight seeing Wash freak out before he finished off the ones that attacked him,” Church said.

“So we're in season 1 territory…. Makes sense now…” Sebaste muttered.

“How so?” Trent asked.

“Because Nightmare Moon showed up in the first two episodes of Season 1. That explains why you two encountered her.” Sebaste explained.

“I remember fighting Nightmare Moon, left me with a broken wing and leg.” Rainblade remarked.

“Was that all? She broke the majority of my bones and almost killed me, I was lucky that my semblance gives me faster regeneration when under the sun… and the fact Celestia found us relatively quickly,” Steven admitted.

“I didn't have that luxury… took me at least two weeks to recover.” Rainblade said.

“I’m pretty sure knowing your personality that something like that was just a walk in the park for you,” Steven admitted with a smirk.

“Well I can be pretty awesome.” The cyberpegasus said with a grin.

“Hey!” Rainbow Dash shouted back in annoyance. “I always mean to crash when I do!”

“Sure you do,” Steven replied as he looked to the sky.

“What does that mean!?” Rainbow shouted grabbing ahold of Steven only to be grabbed seconds later and her right arm being pinned behind her back.

“Okay, okay, I give, I give, just let go!” Rainbow shouted back in shock at how fast Steven had reacted.

“Say please,” Steven taunted as he pulled her hand upwards slightly as she gritted her teeth.

Rainbow growled. “Please!” she shouted before Steven let her go as he had promised.

“That wasn’t so hard… was it?”

“Alright, if you're done playing “Pick on Rainbow Dash”, I have some questions to actually ask.” Sebaste said, sounding like he was trying not to laugh.

“Well then shoot,” Steven replied as he went back to looking at the sky, but still paying attention, “not literally mind you.”

Rainblade snorted as Sebaste rolled his eyes. “For starters, what exactly are your abilities?”

“You’ll need to be way more specific on what you mean by that? If your refering to my Semblance it’s light manipulation, I can bend the light around me, although I only know how to use it to hide the flash from my sniper when I fire it and make it appear somewhere else nearby me,” Steven admitted.

“You must be a crack shot then.” Sebaste remarked.

“Not really… it's just all I’ve managed to use as of yet, with practice I could possibly create a flash of light to blind someone, but I don’t know how to store the light I use in larger quantities or how to release it more effectively.”

“So basically a flashbang?” Sebaste asked.

“As I said, I don’t know. I haven’t learned how to access it effectively… or at all. When I was designing it, I made it a wide scope for it’s abilities because I never planned to do anything more with him then dress as him at the convention.”

“You're not the only that thinks that. Many displaced were expecting to just get something and continue enjoying whatever con they're in. Including myself…” he added the last part in a barely heard whisper.

“Anyway, why are you asking?”

“I was honestly curious, the only other RWBY characters I’ve encountered are Weiss, Blake, Ruby and Sun.”

“So the actual teams do exist somewhere,” Steven chuckled.

Sebaste nodded. “Yeah, and this Sun has a Beacon for Displaced. I'm actually one of the combat trainers there.”

“Really? I’d never guess... who’s your training dummy then?” Steven asked

“Usually one of my holograms.” Sebaste said.

“I see… to be fair that makes a lot of sense.”

“Yeah, I’d rather not get in trouble with the Headmaster…” Sebaste chuckled nervously. “And honestly, clobbering students would look bad on my resume.”

“I’m pretty sure even you have some students you take it a bit farther with when you spar.”

There was an awkward silence from Sebaste.

“Your silence all but confirms that one.”

“That kind of training I only do with my team.”

“Okay, I'm getting bored,” Church said.

Sebaste turned to Church. “Then is there anything you'd like to know, Alpha?”

“Wrong AI, dipshit. I'm Epsilon, remember.”

“Sounds all Greek to me.” The Spartan said with a grin.

“Fuck off.”

“Okay, that's enough outta you Church,” Trent said, putting his hand up. He then turned to Sebaste. “Anything else to discuss?”

“Unless you have any other questions, then no.” Sebaste replied. He then sat down on a nearby piece of rubble.

“I’m sorry that we don’t have anywhere more reasonable for you to sit,” Steven admitted as he rubbed the back of his head with his right hand.

“It's fine, I’ve done this more times than I can count.” Sebaste chuckled.

“Still… I bet we both wish this place looked more presentable for our first guests.”

Trent shrugged. “Definitely could be worse. At least there are some buildings intact.”

Sebaste shrugged. “I’ve seen cities destroyed in different Equestria, even Canterlot once. A destroyed base isn't something new to me.”

“That’s gotta suck,” Church commented.

‘Like you wouldn't believe…, Sebaste thought.”Anyways, what exactly is the story behind this place?” He then asked, looking around.

Trent then said, “Was an old military base, but got messed up in some battle a while ago and Celestia never felt the need to fix it up til now.”

Sebaste raised an eyebrow. “Must have been some battle.”

Trent shrugged. “Probably.”

The Recon Spartan frowned. “Did she say how long ago this battle was?” He asked.

“We don’t actually know,” Steven admitted begrudgingly.

“Who cares?” Trent asked. “It was years ago, that war's over, and now this base are belong to us.”

Shrugging, Sebaste stood up and began to walk around, Rainblade following behind him. “I'm gonna check some stuff out, see if anything's salvageable for you guys to use.” He called behind him.

“If you do, you’ll be lucky, but go ahead,” Steven said calmly.

Sebaste gave a wave of acknowledgement before he and Rainblade vanished at a corner.

“Umm, I’m going to head back to Ponyville, i’ll see you both later,” Rainbow Dash said quickly before flying away from Steven and Trent.

A few minutes later…

“Geez, whatever this battle this base had been in, it's been trashed pretty badly…” Sebaste muttered as he tossed aside a piece of machinery, Rainblade hovering next to him.

“Think that's bad, you should have seen some of the bases I fought at.” The Pegasus snarked. “There wasn't enough left to do a dance on them.”

Sebaste gave a bark of laughter. For a while, it felt like the old times before the Equestrian Black Crusade.

It was then they were cut off as a certain non-robotic rainbow annoyance crashed into Sebaste before landing backwards on both feet and glaring at him.

Sebaste coughed as he stood back up. “Geez, I knew I was a target, but not that kind of target!” He joked, wincing as he felt a bruise starting to form on his chest. “Did you really have to ram into me like that?”

Rainbow didn’t reply to that question and just continued glaring at Sebaste.

“What, do I have something on my armor?” The Spartan asked, making a show of checking his armor.

“I don’t trust you… or any of your kind,” Rainbow said maliciously

“Surprise, surprise…..” Sebaste muttered before suddenly appearing at her side, a combat dagger at her throat.

“Now listen here, Rainbow…” The Spartan growled, causing her to gulp. “I don't care if you don't trust me, but I'm not here to cause any kind of trouble. But if you insist on picking a fight with someone that's more experienced in combat, you’ll find that I won't show mercy…”

“How in Tartarus can I trust you! Your turned me into that!” She shouted gesturing towards Sebaste’s Rainbow, “I can never trust anyone who would do that to anyone… and I am almost sure that those two will do the same to everyone here!”

“You think I would harm one of my friends?! I'm not like the Displaced who's actually responsible for how Rainblade is!” The Spartan snarled.

“Hah! So your kind did do that!” She shouted back.

“It was another Rainbow that turned me into this…” Rainblade spoke up. “She works with the Displaced he mentioned.”

“How can you be sure of that fact! For all I know you could be tricked into believing that to be the case!”

“Because I have the video that will show you what she's talking about…” Sebaste said before a holographic version of Rainborg's video of her turning his old world’s Rainbow into who she was now began playing in front of her. Rainblade looked away, not wanting to relive the memory.

After the video finished Rainbow looked away, almost looking sick before she said “that video must be false... nopony could be that cruel.”

“Unfortunately… it's not.” Sebaste said, a bitter tone in his voice. “I’ve run scans on this, and it's authentic.”

“That can’t be true,” Rainbow Dash replied before backing away from the two of them.

“Rainbow, use your head for once! If I was lying, I would have been evading your questions! I'm not one for telling falsehoods, besides, I learned what happened if I did that the hard way…” Sebaste snapped.

Rainbow Dash just looked away from him as Sebaste swore he saw tears welling up in her eyes before she turned and flew away.

“C’mon…. Let's try and at least salvage something…” Sebaste muttered as he walked deeper into the base. Rainblade looked back to where Rainbow had flown off before following her friend.

Rainbow landed in by Golden Oaks before going inside. When she entered, she saw Twilight writing something down with Spike next to her. When Twilight heard the door close, she turned towards her winged friend. “Oh, hello Rainbow. What are you doing?”

Rainbow sighed. “Just checked on some crash nearby from some weird plane. And you wouldn't believe what I found.”

“Really? What?” Spike asked.

“Another human with similar armor as that Trent guy, and…” Rainbow shook her head. “Another me.”

“What?!” Spike and Twilight asked in unison.

“That's not all. This me is...weird. She's short, walks on all fours, and has metal parts all over her. Even one of her eyes.”

“Wait wait wait,” Twilight said, her hands up, trying to process what Rainbow just said. “Are you sure that's what you saw?”

“Yeah. They're at that old base, helping those guys right now if you don't believe me.”

Twilight stood silent for a moment before taking a deep breath and turning to her assistant. “Spike, take a letter.”

Author's Notes:

Wow. Can't believe how long it took to finish this. Well, anyone who read the last chapter would have saw this coming. It's another crossover with Sebaste. Hope you guys like it. Also, it is revealed that the 2 that Trent and Steven saw get Displaced were Tito and Cece. Which was kinda obvious if you read Spider in Equestria. For those who haven't, they're the main characters of said story. Oh, and that scene with Rainbow confronting Sebaste, whether you like it or not, wasn't my idea. Wasn't even present when they wrote it and didn't see it til we finished. Hopefully some of you are okay with it. Not trying to blame someone else for it, just want to clarify. Well, until next time.
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