The Remnant of a Life Past
Prologue
The fields of the cosmodrone were bare and desolate except for a few creatures and the machines that accompanied them through the field as they searched for the signal that usually came from that of a downed guardian jumpship. They were the Fallen from the House of Devils. They wanted to shed the blood of whatever poor guardian had crash landed outside the cosmodrone walls. They were a group of three Captains, seven Vandals, fifteen Dregs, thirty Shanks, one Elder Servitor, and five Spider Walkers. At the wreckage not far from the Fallen forces was a guardian jumpship that had landed right next to a small cave were the pilot could be seen hiding inside of while refilling the ammo in his weapons. His head was completely shrouded under the hood of his cloak as he sat, and as the cry of one of the Captains rang out over the field he smirked just before a helmet appeared over his head out of nowhere. He stood and exited the cave and crept to a rock a few meters away from his ship where his companion ghost was sending out a signal to contact his fireteam. The guardian took a long sniper from off his back and leaned on the rock while he looked through the scope at one of the Vandals. He checked the wind and then the dark creatures speed and then pulled the trigger.
The Vandal's head exploded into vapor like wisps as his companions ran for cover while the Spider Walkers pointed their cannons at the location where his bullet had come from and began to release an endless barrage of bullets at the rock he was hiding behind. By the time that the Fallen Vandals had snuck up to the rock to avenge their comrade the guardian was gone. They looked around baffled that is until two throwing knives came out of nowhere and impaled themselves into the heads of two Vandals. The guardian who could now be distinguished as a hunter came out from thin and drew a sword from his back decapitated three more Vandals leaving only one to pull its swords and engage the sword wielding hunter in a duel to the death. The Vandal believed that it had the advantage due to the fact that it was using four blades at once where the guardian only had one blade in his hands. The Vandal swung hard and fast as it fell into a deadly pace of swings and stabs trying and kill the guardian and absorb his light. The guardian moved with ferocity as he blocked the attacks and dodged the now incoming projectiles of the Dregs, Shanks, Captains, Spider Walkers, and the Elder Servitor. In a move that was unexpected he leapt back into a flip and pulled out a side arm and fired three rounds into the Vandals head causing it to explode into vapor just like the first Vandal that had died in the battle. He landed into a backwards roll and came up holding a rocket launcher with what looked like the face of a shark spray painted on the weapon near the launcher's opening. He looked through the scope which to him had the feeling of the steam age to him and pulled the trigger causing a rocket to be sent hurdling towards a small cluster of Dregs and Shanks. Some of the Dregs had the right idea and tried to roll out of the explosions path but failed miserably and fell face first when the tripped on one another. The explosion killed ten Dregs and fifteen Shanks. He pulled a Gun off his back and switched it for his rocket launcher and began aiming at the five remaining Dregs while barely being able to dodge the fire from the Elder Servitor and the five Spider Walkers. As he landed from dodging one set of well-placed shots from the enemy a Captain came rushing forward and punched him in the chest and flying to the ground where he landed painfully and rolled along the floor grunting in pain. He rolled out of the way as the Captain raised its foot and then slammed it down trying to crush his skull with one quick movement. He twisted his body on the floor and kicked the captain in the chest with rapid motions causing it to stumble. He then wrapped his feet around his opponent's leg and rolled over causing the Captain to fall on the floor while breaking its leg with a loud and sickening crack. He released the Fallen's leg and pushed himself up quickly while pulling his side arm and firing it into the Captain's chest twice. He got up and immediately pulled the auto rifle off his back and continued to fire at the Shanks that had started to swarm him with shots from all directions. He jumped and dodged the plasma bolts from the Shanks while casting a brief glance to the Spider Walkers which seemed to think that he was done for as the Elder Servitor fired a shot and then teleported to a spot nearby only fire another shot before relocating to another spot, and it would continue this pattern. The two remaining Captains began to join the fray and fired on him as they ran around with a speed that was actually surprising for him to see. He flipped around and quickly threw a throwing knife at his enemy causing a Shank to explode in the face of a Dreg.
Just as he landed on his feet his ghost came up to him which meant two things, one, the vanguard at the tower had sent him some help, or two, he was on his own on for the rest of the fight.
"Steven and Kevin are on the Dreadnaught; however Summer is on her way as we speak." His ghost Thetaus said with his usual demeanor of calmness. So he was getting assistance from the newest member of Fireteam Striker.
His attention was put back into the fight as the Elder Servitor landed a blast right at his feet causing him to go flying through the air and slam back first into his jumpship, and slowly slid down till he was on his knees and nearly unconscious. He stood up slowly and rolled his neck causing it to pop a couple of times. He let his hand extend to the side as he forged a gun the size of a sidearm out of nothing but fire and the light that the Traveler gave to him. His own version of the Golden Gun had ten shots and would fully recharge and reload if he stuck a throwing knife into the heads of his enemies. He dashed forward and fired three shots into the eye of the Elder Servitor causing it to explode just a second guardian appeared from what a normal person would have thought to be thin air.
She pulled a rifle off of her back and began to fire instant death shots into the remaining Fallen, not counting the Walkers, picking them off with one bullet each. There was a loud explosion as she saw her team mate pull a sword out from the brain system of a Walker causing it to explode and launch him into the air. He looked down and threw his sword at another walker momentarily stunning his large and highly armored foe. He took his rocket launcher off of his back and fired a salvo of three rockets at his foe while their shells fell from the back of his weapon and dropped to the ground like they weighed at least fifty tons. The three rockets hit the tank head on from above causing it to temporally open its exposed brain just before the shells hit the enemy head on as well causing a medium sized napalm explosion destroying two Walkers instead of just one. He landed next to Summer and slung his rocket launcher on his back and walked forward to pick his sword off the ground. The last two Fallen Walkers of the once much larger group stood side by side and aiming their heavy cannons at them until a flaming hammer came out of nowhere and blasted through both Spider Walkers consecutively causing a mini chain reaction. Both guardians looked to see a titan standing on a rock holding the Hammer of Sol.
"See you could use some help."
Ruby Rose awoke from a start as soon as that third armored person showed up with his flaming hammer. She looked towards her sister Yang and saw she was asleep with her blankets arranged all messily over her; she then looked towards Yang's partner Blake and saw that her back was rolled over and she was facing the wall. Ruby then looked to the bed under her and saw her dog Zwei curled up into a tiny ball at Weiss's feet. She recollected her thoughts about the dream. It was primarily one man against at least three dozen enemies on his own until a women that was named Summer showed up. She began to slowly tear up at that name, due to the fact that her own mother's name was Summer. Her mother had died when she was only five years old leaving her dad Taiyang Xiao Long to look after her and Yang. However, if that dream was real then did that mean that her mom was still alive?