The grate hit the ground with a clatter, and was followed a moment later by a dark green and black Loki prime and a matching Helios Prime.

The Loki straightened slowly, glancing around the room.

Satisfied that he was alone, he tapped two fingers against his helmet. "Lotus, this is Vaarta. I'm in."

"Good work, Tenno. You are here to infiltrate datavaults and retrieve highly sensitive enemy information."

Vaarta rolled his eyes as he placed and activated an energy restore. For all that the Eyes of the Lotus worked closely with the Lotus, they still mostly got the preset responses the rest of the Tenno got.

While he waited for the energy restore to finish charging his onboard storage, Vaarta ran a final check on his gear. His daikyu seemed fine after crawling through the vents, and its quiver was still full. His knell was secured and loaded, and his endura hung properly on his left hip.

As the energy restore released its fourth and final pulse, Vaarta activated his invisibility and headed out of the room and into the halls of the Grineer galleon.

Passing the guards in the hallway, Vaarta headed into the next room. Turning left at the door, he stopped abruptly to avoid walking into a pair of Grineer soldiers who were standing there talking.

"...hut os humtreshuve."*1 One was saying as Vaarta halted and looked for a way around them.

"Rur?! Humtreshuve?! Gar sono ba horoi!"*2 The other snarled.

"Rey, div tu mukler oot of klos!"*3

As the two began arguing, Vaarta carefully backed away and leapt over the railing to the lower floor, allowing him to continue to head towards the first vault.

"Tenno, be on the lookout for increased security measures. The enemy would rather destroy their data than let it fall into our hands."

Vaarta jumped over a Grineer lancer, rolled, and continued down the hall. "Lotus, I do know what I'm doing, and the last thing I need right now is another distraction."

There was no answer.

"Somehow I'm unsurprised." Vaarta chuckled as he continued into the ship.

As Vaarta arrived at the first vault, the Lotus contacted him again.

"You're nearing the console. Trigger the alarms now, and they will start destroying the data."

"Yes, thank you mom." Vaarta said as he worked on hacking the door open. "I have done this before, you know."

The door opened, and Vaarta glanced around the vault. "Production line. Excellent. Opening on the right."

As he stepped through the door, Vaarta's invisibilty expired. He paused, then continued. "I don't need it for this. I'll turn it back on on my way out."

Vaarta jumped through the opening, latching onto the opposing wall and clambering up to the platform above, before heading into the open pipe next to the platform.

"Let's see...slide under that...and that...down to the conveyor, aaand...yes! I can get to the console."

Vaarta dropped down in front of the datavualt access console. A quick check confirmed that the Grineer hadn't placed a guard in the room, before he turned his attention to the difficult task of extracting the data.

Ten seconds later, the console had been hacked, vault security had been disabled, and Vaarta was on his way out of the vault.

"Excellent work. A clean extraction with no alarms."

Vaarta sighed. "As usual, mother. You don't need to keep being so surprised."

At that moment a deep metallic chime filled the ship.

Vaarta immediately cloaked and checked his radar. No, none of the guards had spotted him, so what-

"Aktentruk. Doramn fkr shuta spekton. Uk khorai. Klaat os as."*4

Vaarta grabbed an arrow, drew it back, and just barely avoided firing it into the speaker as the voice blared from it. Relaxing a little upon realizing the voice's source, Vaarta tried to listen. His understanding of the Grineer tongue was incomplete at best, but he was able to pick up a few words. Something about a ship? In an hour?

Without warning the doors of the room he was in slammed shut and locked, and Vaarta could hear echoes of other doors throughout the massive galleon slamming shut as well.

It seemed that the ship was in a lockdown, and not for any reason to do with him.

"Well." He muttered, searching for a pipe he could make use of. "This mission just got a lot more interesting."

I'll put translations in the footnotes for those who want them:

*1 ...it is impressive.

*2 What?! Impressive?! You son of a whore!

*3 Hey, leave my mother out of this!

*4 Attention. Lockdown for ship inspection. One hour. That is all.