So i decided to do my first ever crossover, and i see so few warframe crossovers anymore, i mean there's 100-something out there but compared to the likes of RWBY and naruto, 100-ish is not that much, anyway, from the author that brought you "Of soul and steel", i bring to you "warrior gods and witchers"! Enjoy! (Who even reads the author's notes anyway? Props if you do!)
(Near the end of The Witcher 3 main quest.)
The witcher Geralt of Rivia stood at the foot of Tor Gvalch'ca, where the White Frost was about to come and engulf the world in ice, and Ciri, his adopted daughter, was about to make an attempt to stop it, against her father's wishes. "You don't have to make this sacrifice." Geralt said, desprately hoping Ciri would agree.
"You're wrong, The White Frost is innevitable, it will come to freeze worlds, one after the other, eradicating all life. Only i can stop the destruction, i've given it much thought and made my descision." Was her answer "There's gotta be another way..." He tried, again, to persuade her not to go "what do you know about saving the world, silly? You're a just a witcher. This is my story, you must let me finish telling it." She said as she walked to gate between worlds.
Geralt eventually said "Ciri... Good luck" wich mildly surprised Ciri, as she replied with "i should have told you earlier, i see now you might have understood." "Know you better than you think, just don't keep me waiting." Was Geralt's reply, Ciri simply nodded, and before she entered, cast one more look on Geralt, and then she disapeared.
A moment passed.
Then another.
And another.
And then booming sounds came from the gate, and the dome around Tor Gvalch'ca collapsed, the gate in the heavens started to fade, but not before a strange shape shot out of it, Geralt's witcher senses helped him identify it as some sort of large, vaguely insect shaped construct, with a trail of red light following it's speedy flight, It finally came to a halt when it crashed somewhere on the isle of Kaer Trolde. "Should check that out later" Geralt spoke to himself.
He turned his attention back to the portal Ciri had disapeared in, it closed shortly after the gate, leaving Geralt on his own...
Or was he?
(Some time later.)
Geralt of Rivia had just returned from Vizima after tricking the emperor of Nilfgaard into believing his daughter, Ciri, was now dead. She was, in reality, hiding as far away as she could from her biological father, at least until Geralt convinced him of her "death".
The two now sat at the local inn, after Geralt bestowed Ciri with the unofficial title of witcher, the two set out to complete Ciri's first contract. Ciri's first suggestion was something right here, in white orchard, but Geralt had something more interesting in mind.
"What do have in mind then?" Ciri asked. "Just after you entered Tor Gvalch'ca, there was a strange thing that flew out of the gate, it crashed somewhere on Kaer Trolde, i wanna know what that thing is" Geralt said, to wich Ciri replied "Kaer Trolde?"
"Yup, we're going all the way back to Skellige!" Geralt said with humor in his voice, Ciri simply said "fine, but we're going to get there my way!" It took Geralt just a little too long to understand what she meant as Ciri teleported them both to the shores of Kaer Trolde.
(Meanwhile.)
It had been a while since the tenno crash landed in this strange place, how long? they did not know, for it was only now that they awoke. Slowly pushing themselves up from the mantis orbiter's floor, they recalled their most recent memory...
(Flashback)
It was a brutal skirmish between the tenno, the ember specter, and the grineer nightwatch corps that was already in the process of destroying the junction, the tenno eventually overpowered, and killed, the ember specter and a sizable chunk of nightwatch forces, but the junction was nearing it's breaking point.
With no time to lose, they opened the junction and bolted to their ship, they were just in time, for the control room just exploded, making the junction unstable, they took quite the risk and flew through towards saturn anyway.
It was a gamble, and the tenno lost.
The next thing they saw is a bright flash, followed by sudden crashing sensation.
(Flashback end)
It was a blunder, to head through an unstable solar rail, and now the tenno was paying for it, because this planet did not resemble saturn in the slightest, mainly because the orbiter was embedded in the ground, and saturn is a gas giant.
They looked around the orbiter, not much damage was done, praise be to tenno engineering, though there was half of a boltor prime on the foundry table, seems the crash interrupted the crafting process.
"Operator? Thank the stars you're finally awake -you lazy piece of- i was starting to worry i had failed you as ship cephalon...but you're awake now! By the way, operator, where are we?" That was Ordis, the tenno's ship cephalon, and it was a good question, one that they had no answer to. Having no desire to simply sit and wait for the answer to arrive, they grabbed their weapons and Laila, their huras kubrow, who had also survived the crash, and set out to explore this unknown world.
Normally, the orbiter would hang above a landing zone and the tenno would gracefully drop to the ground, but now the orbiter had one side buried in the ground, with the hatch nearly hugging the ground as well, this resulted in them ungracefully flopping onto the ground like one would when startled out of bed.
Laila was already on the ground, somehow. Laila was always at the landing zone before the tenno was, how she did this, the tenno will never know. Hoping nobody witnessed their ungraceful entry, they surveyed the area, it was a forest area, but not quite like the forests that covered earth, these trees were smaller, less impressive.
But there was something they didn't see on earth, mountains, snow covered like the ones on venus. But unlike any other planet the tenno had fought upon, there was an abundance of life here, there were birds flying through the sky, and small, furry creatures eating strange foods on tree branches, more furry creatures of diffrent shapes and sizes, one of said furry creatures was staring at the tenno, it was big, and round, it had claws at the ends of it's meaty limbs, and it was growling at the tenno.
With a strange roar, the creature charged at the tenno, who drew their nikana prime and parried the incoming blow, staggering the creature, the tenno took advantage of this and, with one swift stroke, took the beast's head clean off.
There was a small, shining box near the furry beast's corpse, it was in a vague triangle shape and had blue glowing lines all over it.
it was rifle ammo.
So even on this planet, every creature that could be killed dropped ammunition, even credits, of all kinds upon death for some unknown reason. The tenno, however, did not expend any shots during this brief skirmish, so the rifle ammo was left there on the ground, however, the tenno did regret not scanning the creature, they always did enjoy scanning each and every object and enemy whenever they got the chance, it was sort of a hobby.
Moving on, the tenno equipped their scanner and went to scan everything they found, and by the void, there was an absolute wealth of information! The round furry creature the tenno killed was known as a "bear", they are very territorial but mostly keep to themselves, seems the tenno made another blunder by walking straight into it's territory.
Then came the more common creatures known as "wolves", they are essentialy underdeveloped kubrows, they hunted in packs, are more intelligent than other animals, though they had no special abilities, nor were they known to be item hoarders of any kind.
Then there were beasts that the tenno couldn't imagine even in their wildest dreams, the tenno, not wanting to kill yet another beast, took a more stealthy aproach by bullet jumping on a tree branch, Laila had, at that point, already cloaked them, as was her special abilty as a huras kubrow.
These strange new creatures came in even more shapes and sizes, one of wich was a tall, slender creature made almost entirely out of wood, they used animal skulls as heads, how curious, the tenno took out their scanner and aimed it at the strange creature, but not before roots shot out of the ground beneath the tree that theywas sitting on, the roots nearly impaled them as they dodged just in time.
The strange creature turned to the them, and let out a strange roar, before slowly walking over to them, sad that they had to kill yet another creature, they took a quick scan, and readied their nikana prime, the creature took a swing, and the tenno simply blocked, this one was stronger as the bear, but this creature, too, fell at the hands of our tenno when they cut it's arms off, and then it's head.
The tenno eventually the tenno made their way back to the orbiter, nobody could see it, but the nikana prime's blade had been bloodied, more bears, wolves, and other indiginous creatures saw fit to make an attempt on the tenno's life. It saddened the tenno to kill creatures they wished to learn from, but now was not the time for regret, now was the time for exploration!
The tenno stopped looking around when they encountered a cave, it was a rather large cave, minimap scans revealed it led to a big central chamber, and an unidentified creature dwelled in it, not being able to hide their thirst for knowledge, the tenno entered.
(Meanwhile)
Geralt and Ciri were nearing the suspected location of the "fallen star", if the nearby village's inhabitant's testimony was to be believed. The villagers discovered their so called "fallen star" a few days ago, but no one dared to go out and look for it, the rock troll that Geralt found living in the nearby cave not long ago scared them off. They should be nearing the site of the "star". And then they found a trail "hm, something very big and very heavy was dragged along the ground." Geralt masterfully deduced, prompting Ciri to comment "you had to kneel down to see that?"
Geralt simply gave a light chuckle as they followed the trail "trail's getting deeper, our "fallen star" must have ground to a halt not far ahead." Geralt said as he inspected the deepening trail, wich they continued following.
eventually they arrived at what had once been the miner's camp, now it laid in ruin as it seemed the "star" plowed right through it. They then saw their supposed "star" at the foot of the hill, it was no star, in fact, the only thing either of them could compare it to was a large insectoid, but only barely.
It had black, shiny plating, and red waves of energy flowed along what must be the top of the thing. At it's assumed back, there were three cylindrical pieces of metal that resembled pipes of some sort, they flared up with red energy every once and again.
"Whoa, what is that?" Ciri prodded at Geralt as he carefully walked closer to the unknown object, and once again thought out loud "barely half of the thing's body is visible, the other half is buried in the ground, must have come down hard."
He looked around some more, and found what must have been the bottom of the thing, if it hadn't been lopsided, there was a cylindrical shape with a strange symbol on it, four triangle shaped pieces of strange metal were at what would have been the top. "This cylindrical shape is more losely connected to the body than the rest of the parts, must be a door of some kind, and those pieces of metal must be meant to hold something." Geralt deduced.
Crouching down, he cast his gaze to the ground "a vague, person shaped hole in the ground, someone, or something was ejected from this thing, clumsely too." Geralt stood up while still keeping his gaze to the ground "footprints, two sets, one was rising up, must have been the one to leave that hole, walks on two legs, hm, strange footprints, almost like whatever made these was wearing... Heels? The other one is on four legs, a dog or a wolf of some kind, but very large. Both headed in the same direction."
"So we're hunting a space damsel and her abnormally large hound?" Ciri quipped, to wich Geralt nodded "i think so" and they followed the footprints.
(Line break)
As soon as the tenno entered the cave, they noticed the lack of light, seeing as how warframes were not outfitted with night vision despite their multitude of requests, they took out their tigris prime and used the flashlight that was installed on it.
Wandering through the cave, they saw corpses, while they did not shirk at the sight of blood, corpses, and the like, these ones looked... Odd.
They were human, that much was obvious, but their attire was strange, consisting of tathered and dirty rags instead of the skintight jumpsuits they were familiar with, they could also see their entire visage, including their hair, they did not see that often, most humans that the tenno saw covered their scalps with hoods and helmets, the only time the tenno saw someone with a completely uncovered head was when they fought Kela De Thaym.
They turned their head when they heard a bubbling sound, like something was boiling, advancing further into the cave, they saw what looked like a large, round, crude container, inside was what looked like boiling blood, mixed with chunks of flesh.
If they had a face, it would now be twisted into a disgusted frown, for something to simply eat people was acceptable, the infested made it a simple routine to eat whatever they touched, but whatever did this was going to make a cullinary masterpiece from multiple humans, and that just did not sit well with them. Turning their head, they locked eyes with a big creature, it had meaty limbs, a leathery skin, and a mass of rocks was gathered on it's back, it was covered in glowing embers.
Wanting to know what kind of creature was capable of such a disgusting feat, the tenno took out their scanner and scanned the creature. It seemed this one was important enough to have a name, even if it was a very crude one.
The creature was named Wham-a-wham, he was a rock troll, and quite the special one too, seeing as it how it was more volcanic then it's brethren, they are very strong, and have tough skin, but weak bellies, and it seemed ALL rock trolls had a habit of eating masses of humans turned into soup, this fact disturbed the tenno even more.
Wham-a-wham turned to them, gave a curious look, most likely because of the warframe the tenno had equipped, then roared and charged, just like every other creature that has so far laid eyes on them.
(Meanwhile)
Geralt crouched down in front of the corpse of a bear "head was cut off with one swing from a bladed weapon, and that was after the bear was thrown on it's back, takes strength to do that." Geralt deduced as rose up and looked at the tracks "bear was roaming it's territory, and then ran into our guest, given the tracks, the dog didn't get involved in the fight, corpse is still fresh, this happened recently." He continued, and then he spotted the strange glowing box next to the bear corpse "what's this?" He said while picking it up, the box was grey, in a vaguely triangular shape, and it had blue lines running across it's surface, every so often a flash of white flowed over the box. Geralt turned to Ciri "you got any idea what it is?"
"None, though it might belong to the same person that killed the bear." Ciri answered, Geralt grunted and stored the box in his inventory. "Tracks lead into the woods, come on" Geralt said as they continued onwards.
They eventually followed the tracks to more corpses, Geralt crouched in front of a dead wolf "This one was torn apart, bite marks and claw marks all over the body, i'd say the dog did this" Geralt then indicated the other wolf corpses "the rest died by clean and precise cuts from the same weapon that killed the bear." He continued as he neared the petrified remains of a leshen "a leshen, a young one, this one had it's arm cut off, then it's head. Died before it could call it's wolves and ravens. Given the roots that shot out of that tree there, the attacker was in hiding. Wolves and bears are one thing, but to fight a monster like this and kill it so quickly is impressive."
Geralt looked around a bit "tracks are leading back to the crash site, seems our little damsel had enough and went back. Let's keep following the tracks." And so they did.
They eventually arrived back at the crash site, Geralt focused his witcher senses "hm, fresh set of footprints lead up to the hill, into the silver mine" Geralt deduced as now stood at the entrance, focusing his witcher senses once more as he heard a sound coming from the cave "hm, roaring, a rock troll's, must be wham-a-wham and... Explosions?" The sound of explosions was heard from inside the cave, two were heard in rapid succession, then a few seconds passed, then two explosions again, Geralt and Ciri, having no desire to stand around and wait, equipped torches and went inside.
(A line was broken here.)
The battle with wham-a-wham went about as well as you expect, wham-a-wham took a swing, the tenno dodged it gracefully and used the opening to fire their tigris prime into the troll's soft abdomen. Wham-a-wham was now on the ground, clutching his belly as it had been torn apart by the many pellets that shot out of the prime shotgun, seeing no desire to let this beast suffer, tempting as it was, they held their tigris prime to the bleeding rock troll's head, and pulled the trigger, emptying the gun's twin chambers into it's skull, wich then exploded.
The tenno started walking towards the exit when they suddenly saw light coming the tunnel, this was not the bright light of the sun, this was the dim, orange light of a torch.
They had to hide, but the large central chamber did not give for much cover, except maybe... The cieling? Quickly bullet jumping up, they held themself up by latching on a tree root that happened to pierce the cave's cieling, while Laila simply cloaked and hugged the walls. And so the tenno, hanging from a tree root, awaited the new arrivals.
(With Geralt)
Geralt and Ciri made their way into the cave, torch in one hand, sword in the other. The noises had stopped since they entered, wich could only mean something bad had happened.
They arrived at the central chamber, where Geralt had first met wham-a-wham. "What the hell!" He said, wham-a-wham laid there, dead, on the ground, his abdomen was open, guts spilling out, his head looked like it had exploded.
He crouched over corpse of the volcanic rock troll and began to examine him "hm, hole in his abdomen doesn't look like anything i've ever seen, no claw marks, no bite marks, hold on, what's this?" Geralt said as he pulled out a small metal shape wham-a-wham's abdomen, it was a tiny metal ball covered with very tiny blades. "looks like this was shot into him, it was propelled by something, that was probably those explosions we heard." Geralt deduced
"You think that that tiny metal thing did that much damage to a troll on it's own?" Commented Ciri, to wich Geralt answered "Maybe, but how do we know if this is the only one? Like you said, a single ball can't do that much damage, but picture a couple dozen of these flying at break-neck speed at you, you'd be torn up, too."
Ciri then looked beside wham-a-wham's corpse "another one of those boxes" Ciri said, this one was smaller than the last one, and had orange lines running over it, this one, too, had a wave of light envelop it every now and again. "This one's smaller than the other one we found, but it has the same cleanly cut edges." Geralt said as he put the strange box in his inventory
He focused his witcher senses to look for signs of what had killed wham-a-wham, when he suddenly felt pepples land on his head and shoulders, he turned his head too look up "shit!" He said as he almost didn't have enough time to roll out of the way of a falling person.
(Back with the tenno)
The people that came into the cave proved themselves not beast, but human, well, one human and one human-like creature, the room was very poorly lit, but the dim lights of the torches carried by the human and the pseudo human proved enough as the warframe optics could easily look into the man's eyes, they were eyes like those on a kavat.
The pair's attire threw the tenno off once again, they did not wear the skin tight bodysuits that humans could usually be found in.
Instead, the female of the pair had a loose fitting tunic of all things bound under a brown, underbust corset, with one leather belt, and one segmented metal belt with green gemstones in it.
She wore tight, green, studded pants and kneehigh, heeled leather boots, a single straightsword hung on her back.
her attire was light on the armor, a little too light for the tenno's tastes.
The pseudo human, thankfully, had sturdier attire, but not by very much.
His attire consisted mainly of leather and chainmail, a form fitting, hard leather cuirass covered his pectorals, while the rest of his torso was guarded by a layer of chainmail, his pauldrons were pieces of hard leather with chainmail seemingly stitched into it.
His arms were protected by simple leather gauntlets with spikes where his knuckles should be. His legs were covered with tight pants that consisted mainly of cloth, but from his knees were protected by leather, his boots, too, were leather, with a spike coming out of the heels.
The man had two swords strapped to his back, for what reason, the tenno did not know, the hilts of the swords told them that they were meant to be handled with two hands, so dual wielding couldn't be the reason.
All in all, both people's attire was very primitive, that coupled with the torches, and leather scabbards for their swords, hinted to a low-tech civilisation, this bodes ill for the tenno, and any repairs to the mantis orbiter would be much more inefficient than they could be.
They would have pondered this predicament more, but that's when the root that they was clutching was starting to falter.
Before they knew it, they fell.
The tenno quickly saw that they were about to land on the pseudo human, luckily, he rolled out of the way so they could hit the ground with grace, the kind of grace one would expect from a drunk.
They hit the ground ass first, but the warframe's armor was thick enough for them to feel no pain, praise be to tenno engineering. Pushing themselves up, the tenno raised their head, only to lock eyes with the pseudo human.
And thus ends the first chapter of my first crossover fanfic! Be sure to follow this story for more exploits of Geralt and the stranded tenno, maybe fav it too, and leave a review if you got any tips for me on how to improve, or, you know, if you just feel like it.