The last few days were nothing but interesting for Supergirl, through Y/N? She met some more interesting people, some Guardians that Y/N knew and got along with, and along with reporting that the two Guardians he found dead, to their respective Fireteams, all mourned their deaths and vowed to avenge them when the time came...

With the Vanguard now fully aware with another reality beyond theirs, another Earth in precise wordings, Ikora reached out to Osiris, hoping he would have an answer, but he came back with nothing, even if it was related to the Vex, but he was currently busy on Mercury, within the Infinite Forest itself at best.

With Kara settling in more further, her presence became well more known, the city's citizens were now fond of Supergirl, the children would ask questions of where she came from, now that the Vanguard announced to the city of Y/N's return and the red caped stranger from another world.

Kara worried for her cousin... For Diana... For everyone on her Earth, but Ikora gave the word to the Kryptonian that she'll be back home to her Earth soon, once a solution to open the bridge from this world to Kara's, was found.

And they believed they might have found something, but it could take time... Especially with what they've found within the underground room discovered on Nessus from all the runes and scripts.

It all was still mysterious, but the Cryptarchs were helping with the process of translating the scripts, but it all speaks in riddles of a key...

The answer laid unknowingly bare, but Ikora insists they'd find something soon... She knows it...

* *

"So... Yer tellin' me, that there's other world's out there?" a man with a thick southern accent, waving a green jade small object like a coin in between his fingers before he flicked it up and caught it with his hand. "And this other world is where she came from? Heh... Interesting, thought the Vanguard were pulling another one of 'em things if ya get what I mean" he spoke with a mischief intent in his tone, thinking about what he could do with this information. "Them rumors were too good to be true after all, even that lunatic of the Nine spoke about it to me, Light and Dark spreading out and brandishing to other realities beyond our eyes... Always thought she was being crazy with her wordings, guess I was wrong".

"Whatever you're thinking, Drifter? I wouldn't do it..." Y/N warned the man with the Haul of a Ship, with many names he went by in his years as a Rogue Lightbearer. "There's people on the other side that might not like your... Well, y'know?"

He runs the competition to the Crucible... Named Gambit, using Taken and enemies of the Last City and pitted them against Guardians in his own arenas, on different destinations throughout Sol, pitting two teams of four against each other, against enemy combatants, with invaders from one member of each time allowed every so often.

Motes of Dark are essential, bank them, summon Taken, bank enough? Summon a Primeval, a huge Taken boss that when killed? The team that summons their Primeval and kills it? Wins the game.

The Drifter is a name he goes by now... Has been that by a for a good while now, a whole century in a way.

(Voiced by Todd Haberkorn)

"Nothin' wrong with tryin', could set up some Gambit there and... Y'know? Get paid, me and the Guardians that compete" he smirked before a dark chuckle escaped him. "So, Brotha... You up for some Gambit? Get you paid an' all".

"...No... That's not why I'm here, I'm showing her around the Annex now, since we skipped it yesterday" Y/N deadpanned.

"Ohh? I see" he turned his eye on Kara. "What 'bout you, sista? Wanna try Gambit after Y/N here shows you 'round?" he asked nicely, despite Kara looking at him with a perspective of non good vibes.

"Ew... I'm not your sister" she scrunched her face up as Drifter laughed.

"He calls everyone that" Glace whispered to the Girl of Steel.

"She not all powerful like you said?" Drifter asked toward Y/N, knowing he had the answers.

"She can't revive herself, Drifter, she ain't a Guardian" Drifter made his Gambit coin disappear from his hand, before pulling it out of his ear, being a showoff. "It still interests me there's another reality beyond our eyes, one you were stuck on for... Eight months?".

"Around eight, yeah" Y/N nodded.

"Aren't you... A Guardian?" Kara asked Drifter. "I mean... From what Y/N told me? You've been around for a very long time" Drifter chuckled darkly at Kara's question, knowing for a fact Y/N hasn't told his 'girlfriend' about the things he's seen, the death, what the Dark Age was like... Nor for a fact, Y/N hadn't really known Drifter much.

"Y'know" his voice turned dark. "I've seen a lot of stuff you don't see these days... The Dark Age wasn't this... There was no Tower, no Hope, there was only death and suffering... Wanna know somethin'?" his attention was drawn to Kara. She didn't nod but she stared at him with no fear. "Guardians aren't immortal, they can die from starvation-"

"I think I've heard this before" Y/N crossed his arms.

"You 'ave? Since... Ah, why does it matter? You probably heard the tapes one of yer friends sent ya" he didn't assume wrong.

"Heard 'em all last night, all that talk with our Ghosts bringing us back just to save their skin? That's not true... This ain't the Dark Age, and I know your Ghost is one big mean fella" Y/N brought up.

"Who's tellin' the story? Me or you?" Drifter asked with slight irritation.

"I heard them too" Kara interjected. "Look, I get you've been through a lot, I've been too, losing a planet and the people I loved for one, having to live with it? It's hard, but I had new people enter my life to help me through it... Y/N and his Ghost were one of them. Your fascination with Darkness is... Very-"

"Look, Sista" Drifter interrupted. "I know what you tryna do, the whole pep talk thing? Nah, ain't gonna work on me. I'm clean, the Hidden, Ikora's buddies, had Guardians look into me and they came clean, I'm not such a bad guy... Trust" he smirked, flipping his jade coin again. "And look... I may have done bad things in the past, but I did them to survive, you have no idea what the Dark Age was like, we'd starve to death, and come back... It really pissed me off, I feel as if it's a curse, like the Traveler wanted us to suffer, second chance? Never thought of it that way".

Kara only glared at him before Y/N cleared his throat.

"To be honest, Kara? Drifter... Has been useful, he's not as bad as he looks. But... You are a very dangerous man still, a man with many names, no fucks given",

"That a compliment, Brotha? I'll take that" Drifter smiled. "And so are you, you killed Gods, slain a Prince in the Tangled Shore, and travelled to another reality, guess you made a name for yourself too?".

"For... The greater good" Kara butted in. "Unlike someone else" she glared at the man flipping his jaded coin.

"I see that fire in your eyes... I like it, now that's somethin' Gambit-".

"Well... I guess we should get going" Y/N grabbed Kara's hand, dismissing the conversation. "It's been fun, Drifter, see ya around" he turned to leave with Kara and his Ghost following behind.

"See ya around, Brotha, always come back for Gambit, if yer feelin' it".

The couple began walking out of the area where Drifter still watched them leave, leaving him alone in the Annex. Now walking past a vending machine that passed by a corridor that lead to Ada-1's section, Kara had already met Ada-1 prior to earlier... 

Ada was interested in knowing there was another reality altogether... Let alone? She gave him a completed and crafted Izanagi's Burden after many copies of the gun were completed months ago after his disappearance.

Earlier before meeting Ada-1? Y/N brought Kara to meet Amanda Holiday, who Kara seemed to like from the get-go, just from Amanda's personality and ongoing spirit, she seemed to be someone Kara would get along with, even with her more Texan accent.

"Ugh... That Drifter guy gives me the creeps... Calling me 'Sista'? Ew" she complained, faking a gag, making Y/N laugh at her expression.

"You'll get used to him eventually, he's been in hot water recently from what I dug up last night as well" Glace replied. "Especially the 'Gambit Prime' incident, three Guardians died completely, leaving one Guardian reportedly alive, named Doxer, a Titan" Glace pulled up information and projected it for the two walking up the stairs now.

"It's still recent, best not to mention it... It was an accident but he did get results apparently" Y/N spoke up, instantly proving Kara right about him from what she thought.

"Exactly! Why should you trust him? He's like a... A rat or something, sitting in that cold basement" Kara expressed with annoyance. "Ugh... He reminds me of someone back home, can't remember his name but he didn't give good vibes" Kara face palmed for a moment, before looking back at her boyfriend. "I'm sorry".

"No, no... You have nothing to be sorry for" Y/N waved his hand at her before chuckling. "Drifter's an okay guy, sure he's a little... Whackadoo for me but... He's genuinely not bad, I would say he's chill, that your world's kids say".

"Doubt it but... I'll take your word" Kara shrugged. "Don't we have to see your Commander today? I overheard you two speaking on your comms this morning" Supergirl brought up, instantly making Y/N realize.

"...Shit... I forgot"

"I was just about to suggest" Glace whirled. "We should tell her" Glace suggested.

"Tell me what?" Kara may have her super hearing... But she was sleeping around the time Y/N had his conversation with Zavala, about the opportunity of Y/N having a new Fireteam without Guardians for the first time and an only acception for him alone. Having Kara on his Fireteam would be a test. "What is it?".

"For someone who has super hearing... You sure you're a good listener?" Y/N teased her, now exiting the Annex and into the sunlight as Kara looked as if she was going to interrogate him just to hear him spit out what he had to say.

"Y/N, don't make me tickle it out of you, and I know the good spots" she smirked with a flirtatious side to her, making Y/N blush slightly at her wording.

"Eh... Okay, so..." he began. "Zavala has approved of allowing you to work for the Vanguard, under my supervision of course in a Fireteam, just you and me" the Guardian smiled as Kara began to excitedly smile.

"R-Really?!" the sides of her mouth arched up. "I can?!!" her teeth showed in her smile as she stopped in her tracks, both of them did.

"Yeah, Ikora and Roze may trust you... But it's Zavala's trust you need the most, he's still a little... Sceptic about allowing someone like you to work alongside Guardians... Especially with the info I handed to him" Y/N told her straight away, before getting tackled onto the ground by Supergirl, filled with joy.

With her on-top, she pinned him to the ground and kissed him on the lips, out of view from the people in the Bazaar, the kiss lasted as long as he could before he tapped her to make her pull back, allowing him to breath once again.

"Sorry, *giggles* I guess I got lost in my excitement there" her face glowed red with a little embarrassment, making the situation awkward in her own eyes, but Y/N only smirked back.

"Don't be sorry... It's fine" he told her before kissing her back for a quick moment.

"Y'know what's funny?" she asked. The Guardian hummed back. "I guess that news is my birthday gift" she smirked as Y/N looked in confusion.

"Birthday?" Glace questioned.

"Yeah, September 22nd is today, I kept my phone with me while we were in space during the Crisis" she tapped on her belt with a few small bags as extra storage in case she needed to carry essential items, such as her phone for one. "I left it at home before we left but... Yeah" Kara smiled.

"Funny --" Y/N looked up to his Ghost. "Seventeen years ago now, you found me on this exact date in a way, you kept the numbers didn't you?".

"Yep" Glace whirled. "Sure did, upon your request, in fact... In my Guardians previous life, he was also born on this date as well, it seems you both are...".

"Seventeen" Y/N finished.

"Wow..." Kara smiled brighter. "What a coincidence" she softly giggled right after. "You could've told me! I could've gotten you something!" she pouted playfully.

"And you could've told me" he smirked at her as she began to get off him, her cape blew behind her to her left with the wind passing on through the corridor.

"Fair enough" she rolled her eyes before extending her hand out to him, getting a grip from his hand afterwards before Kara Zor-El herself pulled Zain up onto his feet once more.

"Why not since it's... Well... Our birthday but I'll focus on yours since I'm pretty much immortal, though we Guardians do noticeably age" he dusted his pants off with his hands before moving up to his sleeved armor. "After our mission on Nessus, covered with Zavala on comms, he wants us to investigate weird Vex behavior spotted on Nessus".

"Didn't Ikora mention that yesterday?" Kara asked, Y/N and Glace nodded. "And also a mission for us both? I thought you were getting your Vanguard thingy back?" she questioned with an arched eyebrow.

"That's Roze's job now, she wants to keep the role, knowing that Cayde mentioned to her that he didn't me to have the role, not 'cause he thinks I won't do it responsibly, but because I'd lose my freedom to roam the wilds" Y/N explained.

"Aww" Kara kept her hands close to her chest. "That's so cute".

"Quiet" he scolded. "Anyways, enough about Roze. He wants me to investigate the odd Vex behavior, a Fireteam of two other Guardians who is in fact Roze's old Fireteam members, they were the ones that first reported the strange behavior to Ikora's Hidden before the Hidden themselves investigated the issue. A report from this morning came in, with Vex fighting one another, the Vex that normally roams Nessus aka the Sol Collective, and the other?" he left his words hanging...

"Sol Primeval? Or could it be our friendly ones, the Sol Consensus??" Kara pondered.

"Could be, but we're not sure, the report detailed both sides having wiped each other out in what appeared to be a battle, just dead Vex all around" Y/N revealed.

"Then... What're we waiting for?" Kara said with enthusiasm. "Let's go! Though I assume I can fly us to Nessus, super fast in flight and all" she winked with a smile.

"Actually... No".

"What?" Kara's face turned from happy to confusion in a second. "I can literally fly us there, faster than your ship, it's literally lightyears away and I can fly at the speed of light" she made a good point... But Y/N still smirked.

"I have two Jumpships, one for obviously myself and another? For me and people that can board upon, and both have warp-drives" he revealed. "I can instantly warp us to Nessus in no time".

"We could race to find out" she smirked at her idea but Y/N waved his hand.

"Nope, no time to play games" he refused, noticing Kara pout at him refusing her idea. "Glace, call the Skybound if you don't mind".

"On it, it'll be waiting at the hanger" Glace acknowledged with Kara sighing with a sulky intent.

"You're no fun, you suck" she stuck her tongue out.

"Careful with your words" he smirked before raising his eyebrows repeatedly. Kara's face flushed red completely as they both stepped out of the corridor.

"Y/N!! We're not even... I'm not gonna finish that" the girl instantly zipped her mouth.

"I bet you wouldn't" said the still smirking Y/N, holding her hand before kissing it which lightened her up a little, enough to keep her happy.

* *

[Nessus | Landing Zone: Watcher's Grave]

The ship's ramp began to open as Supergirl flew on out from the ship and touched the ground, boots first, her eyes sighting out her new surroundings on a new planet she's never been on before. "Woah".

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"So... This is Nessus?" Kara eyes darted around her surroundings, before she turned to Y/N transmatting in, in front of her.

He took a few moments to answer. "Yeah, this is Nessus. The planet the Vex have overrun, like Mercury but it's still got some of its organic feel to it. And yes... This is the planet I was last heard from before my disappearance" Y/N answered before his comms began to make some rustling noise.

"Guardian, you made it, excellent" Zavala's voice boomed through Y/N's and Kara's communicator. "Kara Zor-El... Welcome to Nessus, a planet overrun by the Vex that turned this planet into a machine world of its own, run by the Axis Minds on Nessus" Zavala gave a brief introduction for Kara.

"It sure looks like a machine planet almost" Kara agreed. Seeing Vex structures placed around the place, alongside overtaking some organic ground and trees.

"Cabal and Fallen are all over this planet too, most mostly it's just Vex" Y/N added. "Commander, we're en-route to the first location detailed within the report" Y/N jumped down onto the ground with Kara floating down toward him.

"Understood, I'm overlooking through your Ghost's feed... Eyes Up" Zavala tuned out the comms soon after, still listening however. As the Guardian and Supergirl began walking.

"Y'know? Wouldn't it be faster if I carry you? Flight and all" Kara suggested.

"No, it wouldn't... It's investigation, we take it slow" Y/N shut down Kara's suggestion as she nodded her head, giving out an audible huff.

"Understood" she said quietly, following him and keeping her ears open for any potential danger heading their way. "I do gotta say? This place sure does look beautiful, sure it looked more beautiful without any of those Vex corrupting this place, hard to believe the friendlier ones would do this" Supergirl brought up what she thought earlier upon seeing Nessus first hand.

"It was... The Vex here, turned this planet ninety-two point zero-fourteen percent machine, they successfully turned Mercury into a machine world shortly after the Traveler terraformed Mercury, or at least they began to, but they almost did with Nessus" Y/N answered Kara's question frequently.

"There's organics here, at least alien birds" Kara pointed at one of them, sitting within a red tree.

"Nature on any world is beautiful, wait until you see Mercury's Past within the Infinite Forest, you'll see what was called a Garden World" Y/N winked before he knelt down at a substance splattered across the ground.

Supergirl took notice and found parts of a Vex body alongside the splattered substance. "A Vex body, long dead, they need that substance, don't they? That milk you call it?" Kara turned to Y/N who had his Ghost out.

"Yeah, Vex Milk, they need it to function correctly, or they'll die, it's their weak-spot too" Y/N answered. "Anything, Glace?".

"Hmm, *garble* same Vex Milk, they all use the same, Sol Consensus, Sol Collective and all other given Vex factions, the Sol Consensus being the first discovered friendly set of Vex of course" Glace whirled. "But... *Garble*, I'm having trouble triangulating a signal, maybe we should follow the trail, starting with that dead Vex in front of us".

"Good idea" Y/N agreed. "Let's move, SG".

The pair up the path, still no trouble ahead of them as of yet, but Y/N felt a little... Suspicious that it was too quiet, no Sol Collective Vex were in sight at all as they usually would be at their stations, guarding the planet from Guardians, Fallen and Cabal alike.

Kara could feel it too, but she was a little more relaxed, knowing her super hearing and sharp reflexes would pick up something at any given moment, she'd move Y/N out of danger like a speeding bullet if she had to.

"Failsafe would be pretty useful, right about now" Glace said to her Guardian, hearing Y/N give an audible hum, getting Kara's attention.

"Something wrong?" Supergirl said from behind.

"No, Glace is speaking to me, nothing to worry about" he answered, continuing up before they found their next trail. "Look, more Radiolaria spilled but no body, keep an eye out, Glace is gonna scan for any potential traces we could use" he knelt down to the ground, pulling his Ghost out.

"Gotcha" Supergirl nodded. "I gotta say... I was expecting some action, been a while since I last punched something" she stretched her arms out before doing the same to her legs as she float off the ground a little.

"We might run into some action soon, Nessus is dangerous for one" he responded, Glace still kept scanning for a trace or something for them to use. "Keep your ears sharp".

Just then... Kara's ears picked up something, the sound of metal like footsteps before a whirling sound escaped, just as her eyes widened as she heard the sound of a Vex rifle being fired.

In a flash, she instantly zipped Y/N to a safe distance along with Glace as soon as she finished scanning at the perfect time. "Sorry, hang on" she zoomed off to take down the Sol Collective Vex Hobgoblin that attacked them.

Her fist went through the Hobgoblin's head, leaving it headless, but frenzied before she floated up and shot her heat vision at the weak-spot center, killing the Hobgoblin immediately, before returning with the head she punched a hole through.

Y/N stepped out of cover from where Kara zoomed him to, with Glace disappearing from thin-air into Y/N backpack.

"Oh... So a little bugger tried to snipe me, ain't that something, thought you got paranoid there" Y/N joked. "Happy you punched something?".

"I was expecting more but... Yeah, I'm a little more satisfied, if it means destroying these things" Supergirl dropped the head of the Hobgoblin she took out, dusting off her hands. "So? Got a lead?".

"Nothing... But Glace says there's something up-ahead, Sol Collective signals" Y/N told her who smirked at him.

"Then, shall we look?" the Girl of Steel, suggested otherwise, instantly zooming him up to the sky, just above the area Glace detected enemy presence in the form of Sol Collective Vex.

Supergirl squinted her eyes, focusing her telescopic vision down below to the unmoving presence of Vex around the area, they weren't... Moving at all, almost like they were statues.

Y/N's eye turned a bright blue color, his integrated interface zooming down below, no need for the likes of a scope as he too sees what Kara was seeing, unmoving Sol Collective Vex, all of them within the area below, which instantly made him curious.

His eyes soon returned to normal, after thinking of an idea. "Supergirl, fly us down... I wanna test something".

"What? They'll spot us? I'm sure they're just in monitoring mode or whatever" Kara thought his idea bad.

"Trust me on this, they don't usually behave like this, and I know how the Vex operate in and out" the Guardian answered back.

The Maiden of Might had no choice but to listen, less she be reminded that he was Fireteam leader. "Hope you know what you're doing" she expressed worriedly, flying him down before allowing his feet to touch the ground, she floated off a little as she watched him walk up to a group of unmoving Vex.

Their red eye was still active and beaming, but their limbs weren't moving, it almost felt creepy like, it gave Supergirl the heebie-jeebies, which reminded her of those statues that would move if you weren't looking, staying frozenly still like Weeping Angels.

The Guardian poked the Vex Goblin in front of him, seeing it not move at all upon his touch, their metal was still there but their movements weren't.

"Huh?" he thought to himself before moving onto the next, poking a Vex Minotaur that towered him, getting no movements upon him poking it a few times. "That's... Very unusual" he observed the next, poking it next but getting the same results.

Supergirl floated toward Y/N before touching the ground with her boots, closely examining the Vex that her boyfriend poked earlier with her x-ray vision and her other types of vision to get a better understanding of what could be happening.

"Zavala, you seeing this?" Y/N spoke into his communicator.

"I am and I read you" Zavala responded a moment later. "I've never seen anything like this before, this wasn't in the report" he observed the feed, seeing what Glace sees.

"Nor have I" Y/N later responded. "They're like statues but... They don't appear to be dead, Radiolaria is still within their frames, their eyes still online... Something weird is going on".

"You could be right" Supergirl chimed in, finishing her observation. "They do seem to be active... But they're in a form of... Stasis or something?" the Girl of Steel said with uncertainty. "Like something or someone wanted them to be, perhaps? I'm no expert on Vex but... I am in robotics in a way, and art too even though that has nothing to do with this situation".

"Nonetheless..." the Commander brushed off Kara's last other words that had nothing to do with the mission alone. "Keep investigating, we are bound to find something sooner than later" he tuned out after giving out orders to Y/N and his romantic partner.

"Copy that" Y/N tuned out soon after, before looking at Supergirl. "Let's move" he suggested, ignoring the *crash!* sound that erupted upon a frozen Goblin falling to the ground.

"You're the boss" she winked.

"Not really but... I get what you mean" he smiled, passing by the Goblin that crashed down in front of him as Kara floated over it.

"Wait, hold on" Glace suddenly spoke in a tone of warning as Y/N stopped walking, which alarmed Supergirl. "I'm picking up something...".

"Something wrong?" Kara asked with concern, seeing the look on his face made her ask otherwise.

"Glace is picking up something" Y/N answered... Before getting his answer a moment later from his Ghost. "Glace is detecting a signal through that portal... All the way over... There" he pointed toward the direction of where they needed to go next.

"That portal?" Kara asked with concern as Y/N hummed a yes. "Do you know where it'll take us?" she asked next... But why would she be asking him if he already knew where.

He gave her a smirk... Which answered her question...

* *

[Nessus | Chamber of Water]

 "Woah! That was... Very weird" Kara blinked fast a few times, her vision blurry and distorted for just a slight few moments before seeing her boyfriend leaning off the wall in front of her, within the new area they traveled to. "Where did the portal take us?" she asked.

"The Chamber of Water, an area I've went to a few times during the Red War. The signal is up ahead" he got off the wall to continue going. "Let's go!" he gestured her to follow.

"Y/N, I'm hearing combat up ahead, there's defo fighting going on" Kara floated up, race ya!" she gave a cocky smile.

"Wait-!" his plead fell on deaf ears, Supergirl zoomed on ahead without him as he sighed. "Why do I even bother?" he asked himself, before continuing forward in a quick manner, jumping over an obstacle in his way, before more got in his way...

"This is why I hate the way Vex build their shit!" he cursed, tripping up and falling onto the ground before he recovered smoothly, now running again and around the corner to the cavern in front of him, where Supergirl dismantled some Vex that got in her way.

"Took ya long enough? Heard you trip" she teased with a giggle.

"Not funny, c'mon! And stay close to me, this ain't a race, remember" he ushered her to follow him this time instead of rushing off cockily, she rolled her eyes.

"After you" she smirked before grabbing his hand. "Oh and uh... By the way? I scanned up ahead... Praedyth is here" Kara dropped an unexpected bombshell over the gunfire up ahead, with many Vex gunfire overlapping their voices within the cavern.

"What?!" he almost shouted in shock, before he was going to question her again, he stopped himself upon seeing the look of seriousness on Kara's face that she wasn't pulling his leg. "Actually, never mind, let's go!" he ushered her to follow again, running up the path as Kara floated up the pair of rocks, flying beside him.

A sound of grunts were heard throughout the cave, Y/N's eyes were drawn toward dead Sol Collective Vex corpses and parts that laid bare throughout the cavern, hearing more Vex shoot at their aggressors up ahead.

A sniper rifle's shots loomed and echoed throughout the cavern up ahead, followed by the sound of Vex dying at the hands of this rifle, followed up by a looming Nova Bomb that exploded in Void shining Light around the corner.

Both Kara and Y/N peeked around the corner to see Praedyth arming his sniper rifle and reloading it, joined by Sol Consensus Vex that fought against the Sol Collective, a few Consensus Minotaurs finishing off some stragglers that were at the edge.

"That seems to be the last of them" he told himself, before looking around the room as he took a breath under his helmet. "Seems to be nothing here, I had a feeling there'd be something here" he sounded as if he was hunting for something, before he got a word from his Ghost of nearby friendlies. "What? Impossible... They can't be..." he turned round to see the Guardian walk around the corner, with Supergirl following behind. "Alive...".

"Praedyth?" Y/N looked at the Warlock that was once lost in time, holding his sniper in hand, the Warlock jumped down from the vantage point he took.

"You're alive... Both of you, I had assumed you both perished in the Crisis" Praedyth still sounded shocked, he wasn't sure if what he was seeing was a trick or not. "But... How?".

"Commander?" Y/N tuned into his comms, before his comms crackled.

"Praedyth" Zavala's voice boomed in his comms, before Praedyth heard the voice too in his communicator.

"Who is this? How did you?" he asked with a shocked tone, unsure still.

"This is Commander Zavala, I assume you are Praedyth, Zain has told us much of you. We all assumed you were long lost within the Vault of Glass on Venus" Zavala spoke to Praedyth, meanwhile... Kara looked at the view ahead of her that showed the skybox of Nessus.

Y/N took notice of her and decided to join her nonetheless.

"I have missed a lot from what I'm sure of, last time I was around, you weren't the Commander or the Titan Vanguard for that matter" Praedyth answered, Y/N overheard their conversation and so did Kara, both on the same comms channel.

"Indeed it has been a long time, the last we heard of you was through the messages that escaped the Vault of Glass during the Taken King's attack on the Vault of Glass itself" Zavala answered. "But... It is good to hear you're still thriving, even with our common enemy".

"The Sol Consensus are nothing but generous, they value the Light as they value Guardians, they rescued me, and I believe they're a valuable ally, I assume Zain has told you much?"

"I gotta ask Praedyth" Supergirl interrupted. "And sorry to interrupt, but how did you get here? Didn't you mention that if travelling here, you're memories would be wiped of my Earth?" Kara asked a good question, overlapping the current Praedyth asked Zavala.

"I too, am wondering the same from both of you" Praedyth looked at both Supergirl and the Guardian. "But for your question? I did find a way to travel beyond our worlds using the Vex Network, it took some time, but I managed to make a gateway in-between your reality and ours, but... It was for a short period, the gateway collapsed on me and I awoke here, on this planet. Nessus" he explained the whole reason for him being here, but he looked... Troubled. "However... I am unable to return to your world if that's what you were hoping for".

"Great" Kara said sarcastically before she looked at him again. "Is... My cousin okay?" she asked.

"I think so, last I heard from him was a few days ago, after hearing that the Crisis had ended on a good note, but there's been death from what I've heard" Praedyth answered.

"Death?" Y/N looked concerned. "Who?".

"From what little information I got? Conner Kent was one of the people most were heartbroken about" he dropped the info like a bomb, Kara's heart sank upon hearing his cloned cousin's name being one of the names confirmed to be dead.

"N-No" she muttered, before feeling a comforting hand on her shoulder, knowing it was Y/N's.

She burrowed her head into Y/N's chest armor in shock. "By Great Krypton" her voice said shakenly. "N-No" she couldn't believe it, she knew a lot of people that would be upset right now, including her former best friend who was dating him.

"I'm sorry for your loss" Praedyth spoke to the two of them.

"As am I" Zavala spoke through the comms. "However, you two did a good job today. Return to the Tower, and Praedyth, I shall have someone catch you up to speed of the latest events that has happened in your long absence".

"Thank you... Commander" Praedyth said his vows, tuning out the comms.

Meanwhile... Kara looked up at Y/N with plead in her eyes and Y/N knew that look, he could see her in complete shock and dread.

He didn't know Conner all too much, even when their first encounter was a little hostile through misunderstandings, Conner wasn't a bad person, he was someone who struggled with his own identity at the time, knowing he was a clone of Superman and all.

"I need to get home... Sooner than later" she shakenly told Y/N, who cupped her cheek.

"I know... I promise you will... I promise, Angel" he kissed her temple. "Everything is going to be okay...".

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[A few days later | Unknown Location]

Within a lone dark cave... A cave that whispered lowly with an eerie sense of ambience... Walked a woman with bone like armor on her shoulders, and a two-way short cape behind her with an insignia of white. Her eyes covered by a black cloth, she wasn't like any typical Human, no... She had three eyes, just like the Hive... But she was once a Guardian, a Hunter, and a member of Ikora's Hidden... Before her brief transformation from human... To Half-Human, Half-Hive.

She alone... Was an expert on the Hive, and once ventured into the Dark Pits of the Hellmouth with her Fireteam... That were slain by Crota, Son of Oryx and his Brood.

She had a name...

Eris Morn...

In her right hand? A green orb with a bone, that illuminated the dark cave... Her only source of light.

She walked down the cave with curiosity, like she always did, the sound of her boots echoed throughout the dark cave of eerie, whispering ambience, one she hadn't heard before which gave her more curiosity as to what she had found...

Beneath our own Moon, Luna in other words...

She stopped just at a wall, all black and mysterious, it looked to be Hive related.

Eris ran her left hand on it in curiosity, with the wall responding to her touch alone, a sudden activation left her startled as her surroundings began to shake.

Light began to break into view with the wall on her right beginning to crumble, she looked at it as it did so as she covered the bright light with her free hand, shielding her eyes from it's brightness as the wall crumbled...

On the other side? Laid a very... Very dark secret, something she wasn't expecting to find, burrowed deep underneath the Moon this whole time, it had been under Guardian's feet since before the Red War even began, even when the City's Walls were built and before the Great Disaster itself.

Her eyes widened in shock, as a sudden noise caught her attention behind her... A red substance began to take form.

Eris looked at it curiously, wondering what it was when she took a few steps toward it... Before it began to take shape in a figure of someone...

Someone... She knew who died at the hands of Crota's Brood...

It took shape... In the form of a Hunter...

"Hello... Old friend" she spoke... Her voice echoed, 

"S-Sai?"...

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To be continued...

A/N: So... I'm gonna be doing something a little different with this story...

So in the next few days, I'm gonna be updating the chapters released... To "S1/Ch.Example - Example title" for the rest of the chapters... Pretty much this...

S1/Ch.2 - World's Finest and vice versa for the rest of the chapters...

Chapter 34? Is gonna be the start of Season 2 of this story... Which will firstly delve into...

Destiny 2: Shadowkeep

So with that? Season 2 will kick off with S2/Ch.1 - A Mysterious Disturbance.

That's how it's gonna be working from now on, with my Y/N-Verse stories at best, Crisis On Infinite Earths: The Final Shape will be a little different than this but nonetheless? That's how it's gonna work from now on.

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