A/N: This is my first warframe story in a while, one thing I feel I need to make clear is that this story does not follow the standard warframe lore, Tenno are people, linked with a particular warframe, one per tenno, 'the second dream' is a state that tenno enter in a warframe, where their warframe powers feel like a lucid dream, unlike the second dream we know in game, it's partially because I started writing this before the second dream update, and kept it as is, partially because I prefer writing warframes like this and partially because I had an idea relating to it I wanted to incorporate, if you don't like the changes then don't read, it's your choice, with that said, I hope you enjoy the story.
Warframe Cryopod Diagnostics running
"Ugh, what?"
Analysing warframe and diagnostics
"Where am i?"
Warframe identified: Mesa.
"Mesa… sounds familiar, my suit I think."
Analysing vital signs: Heart rate:70BPM;stable, Breathing rate:12 breaths a minute; stable, brain activity: resyncing.
"What?"
Resync complete
"It's cold, I can't see out"
Opening Cryopod
"Wait!"
I hit the floor with a thud, I gasped, got shakily to my feet, my vision refocused I found myself in an odd environment, white walls, gold ornate trim, a force stabilized me before I fell over,
"It's ok, you're with your own kind now." A female voice said
"I got ya, try to stand again." A calm male voice reassured me
I tried and slumped again
"Woah, I got ya', c'mon, try again." The male voice tried again
"Hey, she clearly can't! Help her!" a deeper, Irish, male voice said and a different force helped me,
"Hey, you alright there? Can you hear me?" The deeper voice calmly asked
I weakly nodded
"Alright, can you talk?" the voice asked, I saw a black figure with glowing marks across its face, or helmet, I didn't know.
"y…yes."
"Alright, I'm going to help you to the extraction ship, alright?" he said calmly
"O..k, I feel… kinda… d…izzy" I replied weakly before collapsing again
"Hey, she's collapsed, someone help me with her!" the figure called out as he knelt beside me
"I feel… bad…" I whimpered weakly
"I know, some of us do, Cryosleep affects us all differently." The figure replied
"Cryo…sleep?" I gasped
"Yeah, I'll explain later, right now we need to get you to trinity back at the relay."
"Relay? What… are… you… talking about?" I groaned
"I'll explain later just try to stay awake for me, ok?" The figure urged me
"I… can't…" I whimpered before I blacked out
It felt like only 30 seconds since I blacked out before I woke up, I was in a bed, my whole body felt numb, the lights were off and I assumed nobody was in the room, I found myself in a smooth, silken suit that covered most of my body rather than the Mesa suit I was in before which appeared to be in a strange glass cylinder across the dark room with a thin mist pouring over it, next to it was another suit, a circular helmet with a weird horn sticking out of the front that looked like it was wearing a massive winter coat
"Good to see you're awake" A familiar voice said from beside me
I tried to sit up in the bed but fell back down after a dizzy feeling overcame my body, I heard heavy footsteps coming towards me, a figure was approaching, now I could see clearer it seemed to be the same figure that helped me before, he towered over me before crouching down next to my bed to talk to me, I could see his features better, or the features of what I assumed was his suit, the helmet looked like a dragon's head
"How're you feeling?" he asked, his voice deep and calm the glowing lines on his helmet glowed brighter when he spoke, as did the spots on his arms
"Everything hurts, I still feel Dizzy…" I replied
"Trinity will be here soon to look you over again, after the loss of the dojo she's had to switch back to old earth medical analysis equipment, she can manage though even though we lack a medical lab so she has to use… less advanced treatment, should be set up here again soon enough however." The figure said calmly
"What Dojo? And what do you mean again?" I replied, confused
"I'll explain later, but you've been out for 3 days now, I'm Chroma by the way, most of us have forgotten our names so we just use the name of our warframes." Chroma explained
"My warframe was… Mesa, wasn't it?" I asked
"Yeah, it's good to meet you mesa." Chroma replied
"You too Chroma…" I weakly replied
Suddenly there was an energetic knock at the door and Chroma answered it, two figures came in, one shorter female with flowing red hair and bright blue eyes that had a slight glow to them carrying a large messenger bag which was soon slung on the floor next to me and the other taller male figure with short cut black hair and piercing ice blue eyes with a more profound glow carrying a metal box which was dropped near a locker at the foot of my bed
"Oh good, she's awake! How're you feeling sweetie?" The female chirped energetically with a thick Irish as she knelt beside my bed
"Not great…" I replied
"Well, better than yesterday, first I'm going to get introductions out of the way, I assume you're familiar with chroma so I'm Trinity, the medical officer here and that person over there is your combat partner Frost." Trinity said quickly
"nice to meet you finally." Frost calmly said as he reached a hand out to shake my hand, I attempted to shake his hand but failed because I was too weak.
"Man, 200 years in cryo really took its toll here." Frost grimaced as he walked to a locker at the foot of the other bed and got out a strange looking rifle before proceeding to a table and beginning to strip and clean the firearm,
"Right then, I'm going to need to perform a few medical tests on you sweetie to determine if you're fit to go on missions, is that ok?" Trinity asked
"Yeah… but I have to ask, what is Cryosickness?" I asked weakly
"Cryosickness is a state some Tenno experience after coming out of Cryosleep, we've been in there near 200 years, it typically entails weakness of voice and movement, increased heart rate, increase or decrease in appetite and damaged memories, all Tenno typically experience that last one." Trinity explained
"Alright, so, what's first Doc?" I asked jokingly
"Well, first it's good to see you've retained a sense of humor, but anyway first I need to gage how damaged your memories are." Trinity said
"Alright, well, I remember what Tenno are, and the warframes, I remember fighting things, weird things, like robots but really ornate, I also remember us slaughtering people, clad in white."
"ok, you're memory is surprisingly intact, I'm assuming you know your warframe name?" trinity asked
I nodded in response, she smiled brightly and jotted it down on a notepad and began rummaging through her bag
"Right, the next few things I would usually use a medical scanner for, but considering it's still in pieces scattered across separate boxes in a medical lab that isn't finished I'll have to use these old low-tech solutions." Trinity stated
"What do you mean, Low-Tech?" I asked
"Well, I have to use old earth technology to analyse your heart sound and function and when old earth was still a human colony they had to use something called a stethoscope to analyse heart function, not many tenno know this as they were always exposed to high tech medical equipment however in case of a scenario like this tenno with healing powers in their warframes need to know this like me Inaros, equinox and Oberon." Trinity explained as she rummaged through her bag and soon fished out the stethoscope, it was a strange looking device that Trinity plugged into her ears, I was a little unnerved by the odd device and inched away, bringing the blankets up over my chest, Chroma had left the room at this point but Frost noticed my discomfort, stopped what he was doing and came over to me and took my hand, it was really cold.
"Hey, it's ok, to be honest it weirded me out a bit the first time as well, I promise it doesn't hurt, but you have to let her, ok?" he spoke softly and calmly, it really put me at ease,
"Alright." I spoke quietly and lowered my guard
Frost kept hold on my hand whilst trinity placed the end of the device against my chest, she moved it around a small bit before placing it on my stomach, she giggled slightly before noting things down on her notepad and putting the strange device away,
"Well, it seems you feel worse than you actually are, if you tried I bet you could walk now, your heart sounds fine to me and you definitely seem to have your appetite intact" She giggled the last part out
"Right, guess we should get you something to eat." Frost said
"Yeah, thanks trinity" I said, feeling a bit more able.
"Not a problem sweetie, come down to the medlab if you need me, frost will show you that later, have a good day" trinity said energetically as she sauntered back to the medlab,
I tried to stand up, Frost tried to assist me, I ended up getting shakily to my feet, it was only then I realised how tall frost was, he was easily 6'4 towering over me,
"Right, think you can walk down to the mess hall? I'll show you where it is" Frost asked
"Yeah, I think." I said,
"Right, get your frame on but don't bother with the helmet, just type the command in the holo console for the case with your suit in." Frost said as he approached the machine, a holographic display appeared, he typed something in, the suit was drawn behind a panel and the machine opened, a metal screen came down instead of the glass after he entered, a few seconds later he came out clad in his warframe, save for the helmet then walked over to a locker and pulled out a wing like mantle with a flowing cloak draped from it, the cloak had 6 spots on it, 4 arranged in a diamond shape.
"go on, you try, I'll help you if you need." Frost said
I approached the machine, a holo console appeared with commands on it, I pressed the ones that said 'assemble warframe' and 'exclude helmet' and entered the machine, it sealed and energy swept my body, replacing the silken bodysuit with the warframe, except the helmet, I exited and frost nodded at me, we exited the room through the circular door and exited into a corridor, stark white with windows viewing space, I saw small ships zipping by and huge cruisers gliding through the black of space, I followed frost to a large energy field, he passed through it and I followed, also passing through it
"Keeps non-Tenno out of our quarters and Tenno run businesses" Frost explained
I looked around and saw 3 doors, one locked, one had a strange geometric pattern on it and the other had corpus on it
"Why are there corpus here!?" I gasped, remembering battles with them just before the cryosleep
"That's Darvo's shop, he's a corpus renegade, he's a friend, still obsessed with money but doesn't want to kill us." Frost explained
I nodded as frost took me to an elevator, we boarded and descended to the lower level, I recognised two door symbols this time, Conclave and Mission control, the third was unmarked and frost began towards the door, it opened and I quickly figured out it was the mess hall, many tenno of all types gathered to eat, I followed frost over to get my food, frost ordered a meal of Chinese seafood noodles, I settled with Sushi after much deliberation, me and frost soon sat down at a fairly unoccupied table and began to eat, not speaking much before we saw a full warframe sprint across the room, his horned helmet turned back as a much bulkier warframe charged into the room behind him, the smaller one scrabbled to open a vent cover before the bulkier one grabbed him by the leg and began to drag him away
"Apologies for this people, but to be honest this was Loki's fault." The bulky one said dragging the smaller one away
"Oh god help me!" The smaller one yelled, clinging onto the door as the bulky one dragged him out
"Well, looks like rhino is going to break Loki's arms again, or just batter him in general." Frost groaned
"Why?" I asked
"Most likely Loki pranked someone rhino cares about. Again. He never seems to learn no matter how many times Rhino beats the hell out of him and leaves him in the infirmary for a few days, most of the time mirage is the mastermind of the prank but loki executes it." Frost explained
"So it's a regular occurance." I said calmly
"yeah." Frost replied before we went back to eating, soon joined by chroma, without his helmet I could see his features, he had a fairly scarred face with light stubble and short black hair and brown eyes.
"So, how much do you want to bet that Loki gets a bone broken?" chroma asked jokingly, sipping at his coffee
" I'd bet a solid 100,000 credits that he has an arm busted" frost replied
"I'll match that for a leg." Chroma replied as we heard a light thudding from the ceiling
"Is that?" I started
"Rhino with a jat kittag in the sparring arena." Chroma replied
"Jat kittag?" I asked
"Big ass hammer with a jet thruster." Frost explained as a heavy thud hit the floor
I continued to eat my sushi slowly as frost and chroma got their credits ready
Soon a PA announcement came
"Calling Trinity to the sparring arena, casualty has 2 broken arms and several other impact injuries." The voice called out
"Hell yeah!" frost said as Chroma pushed his credits to frost
"thank you!" Frost grinned as he added the credits to his stock.
"Is he gonna be ok?" I asked
"Yeah, rhino never hurts him enough to endanger his life, hence why we bet on it." Chroma replied before getting up and walking off, soon after me and frost finished as well and soon left,
"Guess I should introduce you to everyone." Frost spoke,
"Alright, shall we?" I replied
"Indeed, lets go, I think Equinox and Ember are going to be back soon, let's go to the hangar for their arrival, the deployment ship will drop them off there." Frost said as we entered the concourse of the relay, the statue of rhino stood proud besides the warframe on the front currently spray painting a crude mimicry of makeup onto his face
"God Dammit Mirage!" Rhino yelled
"hey Rhino, don't stop her, it looks good." Frost joked, rhino glared at him
"Yeah, see, listen to frost!" mirage yelled in a cockney British accent
"Shut it mirage!" Rhino yelled
Rhino stormed off as mirage clambered onto the head of the statue and leapt off towards the elevators, frost and I continued towards the hangar
We entered the hangar and as frost had said, the centre platform had an extraction craft dropping off 2 tenno, a warframe with orange patterning and another with a predominantly white style with a single horn, but before my eyes in a flash of energy it switched to black and white warframe with 2 horns and flowing robe like extentions
"Greetings, you must be the new recruit" the horned one said slowly and calmly,
"Yes, I'm Mesa" I replied
"An honour to meet you Mesa, I am Equinox" Equinox said with a small bow
"Oh, are you the new recruit?" the orange one yelled hyperactively
"Uh, Yeah…" I replied
"Ooh its really nice to meet you! I'm ember, what's your name?" Ember said after running towards me,
"I'm mesa Hey, what're you doing?" I yelled as ember grabbed my arm looking curiously at the slinger pistol on the bottom of it
"What's this, a pistol?" she said grabbing it, she attempted to fire then realised
"Where's the trigger, and the hammer?" ember asked, examining the pistol,
I took the pistol from her and fired a shot, slamming my thumb into the back of the bullet with enough force to fire it then slung it back on my arm, Ember looked at the pistol with amazement,
"Wow, that's so cool! I want one!" ember exclaimed,
"Can you fire it though?" I asked
"Well, I don't think so but you could teach me right?" Ember asked with wide eyes
"Nope, sorry kiddo, specialisation of the Mesa warframe." I explained
"Awww." Ember groaned
"anyway, I'll be dealing with my products if you need me, I make natural, Herbal remedies and beverages for those who prefer them, if you ever want one do feel free to come and see me, see you around Mesa." Equinox spoke calmly as she and ember left with equinox calmly and elegantly walking out with ember skipping along beside her energetically, as we walked back from the hangar we heard another Voice
"So, you're the newbie people have been talking about." the female voice called
We looked in the direction of the voice to see a warframe perched on the metal ledge of part of the hangar, she hopped down and removed her helmet, she had fairly short cut blue hair the fringe of which drooped down partially obscuring one of her glowing green eyes and fairly pale skin,
"G'day mate Name's Zephyr, nice to meet ya" Zephyr said as she shook my hand her accent was very Australian
"I'm Mesa, it's nice to meet you too Zephyr." I replied
"Alright Mesa, apparently your first mission is tomorrow after trinity's check-up, you, Frost, me and Hydroid are supposed to be hijacking a Rover full of scavenged corpus resources." Zephyr said
"Huh, How do you know?" I asked
"I've Jerry rigged a system up on my perch that I was just on, feeds comm data to my earpiece, I'm always in the know mate, you ever need to know anything just ask me mate, I'll be more than happy to inform you." Zephyr replied
"Alright then." I replied,
"Maybe you should come meet Hydroid since we're going on a mission tomorrow." Zephyr replied,
"I'm gonna go get ready then, take mesa to meet hydroid then to go get her gear from Vauban please." Frost said calmly,
"Alright, cheers mate, have a good one." Zephyr called after frost before we began towards the elevators
"Hydroid might come off as a bit, abrasive at first but he'll lighten up a bit, trust me, just give him some time ok mate?" Zephyr pre warned me
"Alright." I replied, we entered Zephyr and hydroids room, he was seated on a chair, leaning back resting his feet on the bed, warframe on save for the helmet with a cigar in his mouth sharpening a Nami Solo, AkVasto's strapped to his hips and a Sybaris Rifle on his back, his grey hair and moustache contrasted his blue eyes which had a faint glow, he glanced over at me and spoke in a deep voice with a thick Australian accent
"G'day mate, names Hydroid, you're the new recruit?" Hydroid asked
"Yeah, I'm mesa, It's nice to meet you Hydroid." I said as I outstretched my arm to shake his hand, he glanced at it before sitting up and shaking my hand,
"More polite than the last recruit, good to see" Hydroid said, smiling slightly
"Who was the last recruit?" I asked,
"Ash, tends to keep to himself now, we found him wounded having woken up early from cryosleep, he barely survived, we've tried to tell him he can trust us but he still doesn't trust anyone, word of advice, keep away from him." Hydroid advised
"Seems like good advice." I replied
"Good to hear, so, we're joining you on your first mission, corpus, if you have many mods specialise for impact and electrical damage, it's a hijack so its likely the power cell of the corpus rover will be corrupted when we hack it, I have a large shield so I'll deal with shield power for the rover, you, Zephyr and Frost keep the corpus off of me, it'll be nice and easy." Hydroid explained
"Alright, I have to go get my gear, I'll see you at the dock." I replied
"Take care mate." Hydroid said as he returned to tending his Nami
Zephyr and I started towards the business sector of the tenno quarters, as we entered there I saw a few signs hung near doors, some with simple names some had named businesses like 'The Firecracker' and 'FashionFrame'
"This is the marketplace, most signs are self explanatory but there are a few that aren't which ill tell you about, the Firecracker over there is a Bar run by ember, the only place on the relay that is allowed to sell alcohol, FashionFrame is a store that sells decorative armour and syandanas, SystemShock is a store that sells items that assist with technological warfare, ciphers and software such as viruses and such, Duality is a coffee shop run by Equinox where she sells her herbal drinks and stuff and finally, The Vault is a store that deals in luxury items and decorations including prime parts, noggles and display plates for your area of your quarters, gemstones and other valuable items that can be displayed, rare Orokin relics and void relics containing prime parts, if you keep going past here then you'll get to a place called the Oasis, a leisure centre with a gym, large feature pool designed after an earth coastline, a spa, sauna, pretty much everything to be used when you have your break day after missions, the schedule usually is do a mission one day and a break day the day after, it keeps Tenno rested and refreshed to ensure we're always fighting at peak performance, there are also Medidation Gardens and sparring arena as well as agility training rooms, everything to keep you at peak performance." Zephyr explained as she took me towards the armoury
"Seems like a nice enough place, at least when compared to everywhere else, I appreciate this clan taking me in." I said smiling at zephyr, she smiled back as we entered the armoury,
We entered the armoury, racks of weapons lined the walls, categorised into faction, grineer, corpus and Tenno, infested weapons were locked in an airtight container, being tended by mechanical arms, Vauban was at the back in his full armour, he noticed us entering and straightened his posture, I began to browse the racks of armaments, taking hydroid's suggestions into account, I grabbed a tigris double barrel shotgun, a lex heavy pistol and a pair of Kronen Tonfa, I took the guns to the counter and readied to pay before Vauban stopped me,
"you the newbie?" he asked, his voice muffled by his helmet
I nodded,
"your purchase is free for today." He replied, handing me a large case to put the weapons in, I took it and said my goodbyes to Zephyr and headed back towards my quarters,
Upon arriving I found frost sharpening a large golden scythe, Reaper prime I think, he looked to me and nodded before going back to his work, I took my equipment to my bench and set them into their wall rack before heading back out
"Where you going?" Frost asked,
"To go meet other people, must be some at the Firecracker, at least I think that's what the bar is called." I replied,
"You're gonna need someone there your first time, maybe go find Chroma or Zephyr, Hydroid maybe." Frost replied again
"Alright." I groaned as I left,
I began towards the firecracker, I bumped into chroma along the way,
"So, why would frost want someone with me, it can't be so bad." I asked
"Ash, he has his… Moments, he wants to be the last tenno we rescued, usually hangs about in the firecracker." Chroma replied ambiguously, the inside of the bar was styled like an old style bar, wooden walls and floors and old chairs and tables, I approached the bar to find who I could only assume was ember standing with a taller man with a top hat and another woman who was slightly shorter but seemed more mature, as we sat down at the bar, the loud chatter of the bar continued, the shorter woman came over,
"Hey, you're the newbie right? I'm Valkyr, it's nice to meet you!" she said cheerily
"Hi Valkyr, I'm Mesa, nice to meet you too." I replied,
"Hey newbie, first drink's on the house." Ember called over to me, I nodded back in thanks,
"so, what can I get you two?" Valkyr asked
"I'll take my usual, and possibly something softer for you?" Chroma asked
"Whiskey on the rocks." I cut in, overruling Chroma's suggestion
Valkyr nodded and got to work on our drinks,
"Pinned you as one for something softer like wine or something." Chroma said, surprised
"Yeah right." I replied jokingly as valkyr brought our drinks over, a small glass of whiskey with ice and a Beer for Chroma, I looked around the bar, I saw Hydroid with Zephyr enter the bar, the soft chatter of Tenno all around, I saw another Tenno, a young woman with strange shoulder protrusions on her warframe, she sat alone, another tenno was arm wrestling Rhino, both taking care not to knock their drinks over, while mirage snuck up behind Rhino to sabotage him, and in the corner a strange Tenno sat alone in a cloud of ash like smoke, coming from his warframe's arm, he glanced a piercing stare at me, I shivered and approached the woman on her own, taking my drink with me as hydroid and Zephyr began to converse with Chroma
"Hey." I said as I approached the strange Tenno
"Um… Hi... Sorry, I'm not that good with people…" The Tenno said as she seemed to sink back into her chair, edging away
"ok, well let's start with introductions then, I'm Mesa, I only got here recently." I said to the tenno
"I'm… I'm Saryn… It's nice to meet you… I guess…" Saryn replied nervously
"Hey, if you're not good with people, why are you here? Seems like it'd be hell, just asking." I replied
"Drink's good, and my friend Banshee comes here a lot. I just talk to her usually." Saryn replied
I was about to reply when I heard the whine of a blade, the conversation stopper, the tenno in smoke had gotten up, he began towards me, saryn sank back into her seat, shaking slightly, Chroma had a hand on his pistol, as did hydroid, the tenno arm wrestling Rhino deployed gauntlets as the smoky tenno walked toward me, his eyes seemed to be piercing,
"Fresh Meat eh?" the tenno said
"Y-yeah…" I replied shakily, chroma drew his pistol, ready to fire, as did hydroid
"It's been a while since new blood was here." The tenno replied, he had a dagger in his hand, he began to circle me,
"It has?..." I replied nervously
"Yeah… I was the last one." He said, his voice growing more malevolent,
"Oh…" I replied
"Yeah, they must be replacing me!" his rage blew up in an instant and at that point I found a dagger pressed to my throat, the sound of guns cocking filled the Bar, Hydroid, Chroma, Ember and Valkyr had a Vasto, Vaykor Marelock, Hek and standard Marelock, respectively, pointed at the tenno, he looked around, I took the opportunity and ducked back, drawing one of my regulators and pointing it at the tenno as well
"Ash. Stand. Down. Now." Chroma growled,
"Back off!" I saw frost come in, Latron pointed at Ash, Frost put himself between me and Ash
"You people." Ash growled as he exited the bar
He turned to me as he left, smirking, then tossed a hikou at me, the bladed star spun in the air, flipping from vertical to horizontal before stabbing into the bottom of my abdomen, just above my hip, I yelped and collapsed to the floor as the blade stabbed into me, I saw Saryn, hands clasped over her mouth as to stifle a scream, Frost and Chroma fired their Guns in retaliation as saryn crouched to help me,
"Saryn, help her, Chroma with me, we're going after Ash, shoot to wound, he's off to the brig." Frost barked as he loaded a fresh magazine into his Latron, Chroma did the same with his Vaykor Marelock,
My heart was racing, I could feel the cold steel of the throwing star embedded deep in my flesh, stabbing muscle and blood vessels as I breathed, I began to panic, I could see blood dripping from the single point of the star that was visible from the wound, the star was embedded up to the centre, I felt Saryn help me up, I looked around, it was silent, hydroid loaded his Sybaris and joined the chase for Ash, Zephyr did the same with her Tiberon, they both left and went down to the concourse where ash was in the centre, at least, that was what I heard from the PA system as Saryn helped me to the medbay, I thought that the main problem was shock, as it was an attack by a fellow tenno, in hindsight the wound wasn't all that bad, as we entered trinity and one other male ran over, helping me to a table to attempt a removal of the star, I saw trinity preparing a syringe as the male prepared to extract the star from my gut, I felt the tiny prick of the syringe, a little spark in a fire of pain, the pain faded as what I assumed was genral anesthetic, I saw the male use a pair of medical tongs to swiftly remove the smooth sided throwing star from me as trinity stitched the small wound shut, I was still in shock, breathing ragged and fast, heart rate uncontrollable, trinity came up to me, saying something I couldn't hear, muffled, unclear,
"Hey… sweetie, I need you to try and slow your breathing." Trinity said, muffled but audible,
I tried to slow my breathing, but I was still breathing in ragged gasps, I felt helpless, out of control,
"sweetie, I need you to listen to me, follow my breathing, ok?" Trinity said and began breathing slowly,
She breathed in and out, visibly and audibly in for 3 seconds, out for 3, in, out, in, out, I followed as best I could, my breathing slowly returned to normal, I felt trinity had a finger pressed to my wrist, she kept glancing at a watch, then to me, then my wrist, then the watch, me, wrist, watch, me, wrist, watch, over and over until she was happy with my heart rate,
"You feeling better now, Sweetie?" Trinity asked
I nodded slowly, sitting up slowly, then attempting to stand
I overheard trinity and the male talking
"Oberon, I'm not sure that mission tomorrow for her is the best idea." Trinity whispered
"It'll be fine, we just need to be ready to go at a moments notice, if something goes wrong, we help her, ok?" Oberon replied
"Alright then." Trinity replied to Oberon, then looking at me,
"Keep an eye on that wound for me, come back if it gets worse." Trinity instructed as I left, I went back to my room and grabbed my Lex, and went hunting for Ash, I went to the Concourse of the relay to find ash backed up to the locked hangar door, Frost, Chroma, Hydroid and Zephyr were aiming at him from the door, I saw a blurry shadow type figure, it looked like they were wearing a hood, Ash clearly didn't notice them nook a strange arrow onto the bow and fire, it hit ash and produced a pulse that incapacitated him,
"Go, get him restrained, get the cuffs and the nullifier brace on him! Now!" Frost said as he, Chroma, Zephyr and Hydroid rushed to the dazed ash, pinning him face down to the floor, Hydroid Handcuffed Ash while Zephyr secured the Nullifier Brace around his neck, it activated and nullified his warframe and tenno abilities, he was dragged to his feet and escorted away By Frost while Chroma kept the Vaykor Marelock trained to Ash's Head, I didn't bother to follow, instead I went back to the firecracker to collect the regulator I dropped when the hikou hit me, when I entered a dark haired tenno, fairly tall approached me
"You alright?" He said in a deep Russian accent,
"A little better." I replied
"Good to hear Tovarich, Do you want another Drink? Your one was spilled during the scuffle with Ash." The tenno replied
"Yes, I'll pay." I replied to him
"Nah, it's on me. Hey Ember! I'll take my usual and get her another, it's on me, Da?" he called to ember
"Sure thing Atlas!" Ember called back.
"Thanks Atlas. The name's Mesa by the way."
"It's good to meet you Mesa." Atlas replied as I went to my dropped regulator, the blood was still on the floor, several small dribbles of blood on the floor, I groaned as I bent down to collect it, someone got it for me
"Here. Let me." She said, a British accent ringing in my eats now
"T-Thanks." I replied as the smaller tenno handed me the pistol, I swiftly returned it to the holster on my arm then looked at the tenno, she had long, dyed bright green hair, the straight locks flowing to just below her shoulders, her green eyes had a bright glow to them and she was wearing a strange headset, it looked like something out of an Anime of old earth, black with cartoonish cat ears with speaker insignias on them the side had screens that reacted as either of us spoke with bars reacting to the sound and having a base rythym to them that I assumed was music playing through the headset,
"I'm Banshee, Saryn told me you were hurt, are you feeling ok now?" Banshee asked, a hint of concern in her voice
"Im feeling ok now. Thanks. Also, can I ask,, what's with the headset, it seems like it'd be hard for you to hear me, but you can hear me fine, how?" I asked
"Well, Cryosleep and the void exposure to make us tenno gave me hearing that is extremely sensitive, if I took these off here, it'd hurt, but the headset's ears filter out all but what I want to hear, and I can ajust them by thinking, to hear a quiet version of everything to filtering out all noise and even pick up really quiet noises." Banshee explained
"What do you mean quiet noises?" I asked
"Well, not that you'd be able to tell when I was, I could make it sensitive enough to hear everything going on inside you, your heartbeat, breathing, stomach, everything, I don't generally, because if I did, if the person I was focussing on spoke, it'd be really loud compared to it and hurt my ears, that and I'm afraid people would find it weird if they found out." Banshee explained,
"Those things are cool, I like how it looks too." I said to banshee
"You do? Thanks. I designed them myself, Inaros helped me build them.
"Not at all, also, sorry to ask, but why put that sort of feature in if you think it's weird?" I asked
"Well, my combat partner, Titania used to let me listen to her heart, it made me feel better during the day when I didn't have my headset to protect my ears, but sometimes it'd be a bad idea as she had things to do, so that let me do it while not having to cling to her the entire time, so it made it easier." Banshee said, looking away
"Hey, it's ok, I understand, I know we've only just met, but if you need, then I can fill in for titania on occasion, I don't find it weird." I said, immediately banshee's face lit up
"Really? Thank you so much!" Banshee said with enthusiasm, I smiled at her excitement,
"I'm with frost, come see me if you need me, it's getting late, I should likely get going soon, still need to set up for a mission I have tomorrow, since I have a free day afterwards, do you want to do something? I need to get to know people anyway, sound good?" I asked
"Yeah, we could go to Oasis, or somewhere like that." Banshee said,
"Sounds good, I'd need to get a swimsuit though, my belongings here currently are restricted to weapons and a silk undersuit for my warframe, maybe you could help me pick my swimsuit?" I asked
"Yeah, sure." Banshee said, smiling,
"Thanks, it should be fun." I said, smiling
"Yeah, I'm sure it will, should we invite saryn too?" Banshee said
"if you want, we could invite Hydroid Zephyr and Frost." I said
"They your friends?" Banshee asked
"Yeah, I also figured they'd need a break after the mission we're going on tomorrow, corpus hijack."
"Be careful Mesa, Hijacks are hard, besides, I won't be able to hear your heartbeat if you don't come back." Banshee said shakily
"I will come back, Don't worry." I said as ember sauntered over, carrying my whiskey, I nodded towards Atlas in thanks and turned to greet ember
"Here ya Go, enjoy." She chirped happily before sauntering back to the bar
" Whiskey, didn't pin you as that type mesa." Banshee said,
"Yeah, you're the second one who hasn't, Chroma pinned me as the wine drinking type." I replied as Frost, Chroma, Hyroid and Zephyr re-entered the bar
"You sure you're still up for the mission tomorrow?" Hydroid said calmly,
"Yeah. I'm good." I replied
"Good." Hydroid replied, going to get a drink with Chroma, Frost and Zephyr.
"Hey, I got you a little something, sort of like a welcoming gift, most tenno don't get these until a little while after awakening." Zephyr said handing me a cube like device, it soon whirred to life and looked at me, beeping and chirping before floating to my shoulder,
"A sentinel?" I asked
"Mhm, Dethcube to be precise, it fits with your whole run and gun thing with Mesa, at least I thought that." Zephyr said,
"Thank you, I really like it" I said, looking as Dethcube looked around,
We stayed drinking until about 22:00 earth time, when we were advised to return to our dorms and prep for the mission, with tenno being able to tolerate much higher levels of alcohol we weren't nearly drunk, when entering frost and I removed our warframes, modding our gear. the box frost dropped at my locker this morning was mods. I modded for upgraded slash on my tigris with some shock, then switching to Magnetic to disrupt shields, modding the Kronen for the same, I upgraded impact on my lex. The mods were still on my warframe from when I went into Cryosleep, efficiency, health, shield, power strength and range. I nodded and went to the bathroom to look closer at the wound from ash, I looked in the mirror and finally got a good look at myself, long, disheveled hair, dyed purple, glowing green eyes, pale-ish skin tone, fairly soft features.
I decided I needed a shower, I informed frost of this so he didn't enter the bathroom, I gently unzipped the Silken suit taking care not to agitate the wound, at least until tomorrow, I opened the suit down to my waist and looked at the wound in the mirror, red raw skin surrounded the stitched slash on my gut.
Continuing to peel the suit from my body a container opened up when I removed the suit completely, I placed it in there, the container closed, a light blinked twice then the container opened again with the suit freshened up and warm, I placed the suit back in the container and it kept the suit warm. i clambered into the cylindrical shower tube, a small console appeared displaying a temperature and intensity sliders, I turned the water up to a reasonable intensity and heated the water to a temperature of 25 Celsius, the warm water poured over me, I sighed, it was the best feeling, having been in cryosleep so long it felt really nice to have the warm water cascading over my skin, soon a panel in the wall opened up to display different soap scents, I used lemon shampoo to begin scrubbing my hair, easing the tightly wound knots in my hair out, I soon scrubbed them out, repeated the process, then shut the water off, I'd have a better shower next time, the environment system dried the air out in the shower tube then used blasts of heat to dry my skin to a reasonable moisture, then I exited the shower, gathering my suit I slipped it back on, the now warm silk felt nice against my skin after the airblasts and re-entered the room, my hair now falling against my shoulders and spreading out into a curtain across my back, Frost nodded in my direction a slight smile on his face, I smiled back as I made my way to the bed on my side of the room, slumping into my bed I settled beneath the sheets, exhausted, resting my hands on my chest, the smooth surface of the silken suit and the soft, slow tapping of my heart making a soothing feeling against my hands, I closed my eyes, willing myself to sleep, the only sound in the room being the whine of the sharpening stone against Frost's reaper prime, slowly, I sank into sleep.