The Tower, Earth
After the events in the Black Garden, Otis-14 walked to the balcony and looked over this last human city. Like most guardians he hated not having a defined goal. This endless skirmishing with the Cabal, Hive, Vex, Fallen, and Darkness just irritated him. he needed something to set his sights on and achieve. Of course he could go to the crucible and continue to hone his skills, but he didn't feel like fighting guardians without purpose even more than aliens. He ran his hands along the rifle the stranger had given him, being an EXO he had a large curiosity of mechanics and computers. "Little light," he said, "can you tell me what I'm holding?"
The Ghost materialized out of thin air, then cast a beam of blue light on the rifle, taking it out of Otis-14's hand. "It appears to be a pulse rifle, it shoots standard ammunition, but this is strange," the ghost took a long pause, "some parts of this shouldn't even exist yet". With that he gave the pulse rifle back to Otis-14.
"Shouldn't exist? Where in the hell did she get this thing?" asked Otis-14 as he slid the rifle on his back and stepped away from the railing he was leaning against.
The ghost appeared again to say, "I know I'm smart, but I simply don't have the answers to your questions. I feel like we will soon meet from our strange friend and learn more."
Otis-14 heard the splashing of boots in water approach him from the back, but the rhythm of these steps was something he could never forget. He turned around to Jaina, an Awoken Warlock. Seeing the way her purple hair fell on her face always made Otis-14 feel happy, or what he thought was happy. He never knew if he could actually feel emotion or not. When the EXO's were built it was said some of the more advance models could feel which made them so human like that if one were to have its face covered it would be hard to tell if it was human or not. "I heard what you did in the Black Garden. Did you actually kill a Vex god? What did it look like? Man I wish you could drink so we could go to a pub and you could tell me about your 'heroic' journey into the heart of the Vex," she said teasing him, though he actually did want to hear his story.
Otis-14 shrugged and said, "We can go to the pub, I just won't drink." He wished he could have put a smile with that sentence, but he was sure Jaina understood.
They went to the pub and after a couple hours of Otis-14 telling his story and Jaina laughing, teasing, or asking questions, Jaina took the last sip of her beer, licked her lips and said "Okay, that's all pretty crazy and I'm happy you're still alive and all that, but what I really wanted to talk about is something bigger. Bigger and badder than a Vex god!", a grin crept across her face. "When I was on mars I got into a Cabal base on my little ghosty hacked into their computer, where he found something those damn Cabals tried really hard to keep hidden." She leaned in closer, close enough that if Otis-14 could smell he'd be able to smell whatever sent she had, another thing he wished he could do. "Plans for a Cabal super weapon being built somewhere in the asteroid belt." By now she was really excited and talking a little louder than she should when telling someone a big secret.
"Oh really!", Otis-14 said as he stood up from his stool, "Before you go any further, I think I should take you home."
Jaina laughed, "If you weren't an EXO I'd think you'd be trying to get me in bed." She winked then stumbled off her stool. She always forgot how much alcohol affected her. Otis-14 thought it may have something to do with her being an Awoken, but the quib about sleeping with Jaina made Otis-14 long even more to be living, because he would never know the warmth of a woman's body against his own after sharing in the passion of making love to each other. If there ever was a woman he would do that with, it would be Jaina.
When they got to Jaina's apartment, she threw off he Warlock sash and revealed he perfect blue skinned arms underneath. Then she flopped onto her bed with a chuckle and said, "Those damn crazy Cabals are making a thing that shoots asteroids using the gravity of planets or something stupid like!" She laughed some more then her head hit her pillow and she was fast asleep. Otis-14 tucked her under her blanket, it was the one he found for her with howling wolf crest on it. He tucked her in and made his way to her couch, though he knew that she was completely safe with her ghost watching over her, he always felt the need to watch her when she had too much to drink.
He laid down on her couch and set himself for power down until seven in the morning, so he could get started on figuring out what Jaina was talking about. He didn't want to get started without her though, she always liked to be kept in the loop of any findings he made, so he would wait for her to get up before he got started hunting. He threw his hunter cloak on the floor, as was he thought to be a human thing to do before sleeping, then powered down.
