"Guardian, there has been more Taken activity in EDZ than usual. I want you and two other guardians to find out what's happening. Take down some of the Taken around The Sludge to find the source and stop all this nonsense." Zavala says to Aurae then dismisses him.
Aurae-9 sighs, he swears he's the only guardian around because he literally has to do everything. He reluctantly nods then leaves to go find his usual fireteam. Grace and Luke should be at EDZ already since Zavala already told them about the strike.
He holds out his hand and his ghost appears.
'I need to fast travel to EDZ, V.' He telepathically says to his ghost.
"On it!" V happily says and they disappear from where they were at the Traveller and appear at The Sludge.
"Watch out!" He hears a frantic yell directed towards him. Before he could heed the warning, a Taken Knight crashes their sword down on Aurae. His ghost appears to revive him and 'glares' at Luke. Luke chuckles nervously, "We—um, kinda started without you?"
Aurae stands back up with a groan. He takes out his sword and slashed at the Knight behind him. The Knight dies and he looks back at Luke and chastised, "You're the worst."
Luke laughs, "Yeah, that's the hundredth time you said that to me."
"And it's not enough times." Aurae retorts.
Grace glides in and explains to Aurae, "Sorry, Luke just started killing them and I had to help before he got himself stuck in a bad situation, again."
Luke throws up his hands and exclaims, "Hey! His fault he took too long. I thought we wouldn't mention something that happened in the past. Me being stuck in the middle of Vex does not need to be mentioned."
Aurae huffs, "Let's just get this strike done so I can go back to Gambit."
"You need to stop playing Gambit! I swear The Drifter did something to you." Grace protests with worry.
"I'm fine! But the good loot you get from it," Aurae beamed and shows her some legendary, prime, and exotic engrams he got in his inventory recently, "makes it all worth it. I didn't have time to open them though. I'm gonna have to go back to the Traveller to get these bad boys open."
Grace rolls her eyes and Luke's eyes practically sparkle, "Awesome! Mind giving me some?"
Aurae shakes his head, "Nope! Now let's go kill some Taken. I don't want to be here for too long."
Luke gives a disappointed sigh but follows anyways.
Fireteam GAL (Grace. Aurae. Luke. Aurae and Luke hate the name but Grace said that if they're not Fireteam GAL, they're no fireteam at all.) set off to destroy some blights and Taken. They find a huge Taken Knight and Luke freaks out, "Holy—he's huge?!"
"We have to hurry! It might cause trouble later on." Grace says urgently as she kills multiple Taken Thralls.
Aurae uses his current subclass, Arcstrider, and attempts to kill some of the Taken to clear a path for Luke, "Luke! Hurry up and use your flippin' fire hammer and kill him already!"
Luke uses his subclass, Sunbreaker, and starts hitting the Taken Boss with all he's got. Grace supports him by placing a healing rift down because the other Taken were shooting at him.
Aurae continues to kill enemies, one by one, to protect Luke and Grace. The boss was so close to dying. His yellow bar shown on their hud slowly decaying.
Suddenly, all the Taken shriek and a portal forms in the middle of the fight.
"What the—" Grace says with surprise. Before she could finish her sentence, the portal engulfs them.
Luke screams as he falls down, Grace is trying to find out what happened and is slowly gliding down the abyss they're now in, and Aurae is very confused and too shocked to even scream as he falls down like Luke.
Grace sees the end of the portal and yells, "Guys! We might not end up at the same place. Please try to stay calm and try to find out where you are. We have to come into contact as soon as possible because us guardians can't and won't be alone!"
Aurae replies, "Understood. But I'm worried for Luke."
Luke looks up at Grace and was about to say something in reply but they all fall out of the portal, all landing in different places. Grace later then them because she was gliding mostly.