The Orokin Empire, a civilization that stretched across the stars, they had been at war for years a war that many had thought would never end. They fought an unrelenting foe, one that would not stop until every last trace of their great empire was scattered to the wind as ash but even as they choked on their slow but eventual extinction they refused to go out silently without a fight and fight they did with tooth and claw until they finally managed to push the foe from their lands and back to the darkness from whence they came.
But how did they manage to do this many asked, well the answer was simple the Orokin were builders, much like the humans that worshipped them, and built the warriors they needed to win their war they named them Tenno, men, and woman touched by the void, the darkness from which their mortal foe struck out at them. They crafted the Tenno armour, Warframes as they were called so that they could utilize the powers of the void, the Tenno then armed with the weapons of old cut a bloody swath through their eternal foe and finally ended what was supposed to be an endless war.
At least that's what they thought...
I awoke to the slow and heavy knocks at my door and the rough gritty voice of the man behind it.
„Up and at them girl, the celebration ceremonies are today and as much as it pains me to say it you have to be there too,"
„I'll be up in a second!," I called out as I rubbed the sleep from my eyes.
„Yeah yeah just make sure to out on time or there will be hell to pay," he grunted as he walked off.
I sighed and looked around the shithole that was called my room, compared to the rooms of my peers my one was rugged, practically broken.
At least it's secluded away from the others.
Yes, at least, there was that, despite us all being here for the same purpose, defeating the Sentients and finally ending the war, my peers still hated me with a passion for seemingly no reason. At first, I thought it was because I was the youngest Tenno disciple to have ever joined the order, having only joined four years ago when I was 12 but that obviously can't be the case as I am now 16 almost a fully grown woman and they still do not cease tormenting me.
I got up and looked into the cracked mirror that stood against the wall, my empty soulless looking red eyes, raven black hair and bruised petit nose welcomed me just like they did every morning, well technically the bruised part in „bruised petit nose" was something new but that was a tale best left for another time.
A quick test proved that my nose was definitely fractured so I decided to ignore washing my face and just concentrate on my I would tie it back into two equally large ponytails that would reach down to my lower back but thanks to a stupid prank that the others had played on me a few weeks prior my left ponytail had been left considerably shorter than the right one, the new look that I had wasn't unpleasant though so I just left it as it was.
My uniform was neatly folded at the end of my bed just as I had left it last night. It didn't take long to change into my standard Red and Black Skirt, Boots and Blazer and head out the door.
Some Breakfast would be great I wonder if the family Canteen is still empty.
I turned the corner only to be bombarded by the sounds of my would-be „allies" all loudly clamouring for food.
I guess that's a no then...
I walked past the door as fast as I could hoping not to be noticed but Lady Luck was obviously pissed off with me this morning.
„Well if it isn't Lunas," I heard come from behind me as 2 men and a woman stepped through the doorway behind me.
„Where are you going breakfeast is the most important meal of the day," the stumpy man on the left said.
„I'm not hungry," I mumbled under my breath.
„Oh dear you should be a bit louder we can't hear you like that," The woman said in a condescending tone.
I turned around to face my them my expression of annoyance clear as day.
The short and stumpy man was called Dirk, the only reason I remembered his name was because he was the only Vauban in our entire family. The Woman was known as Amelia and wore a Saryn badge.
No surprise that she's a bitch most Saryn's think they are better than everyone else.
The last man was called Triston you could tell just by looking at his huge frame and 90% muscle ratio that he clearly was a Rhino Operator. Together these three form what I liked to call the ultimate Asshole squad and I was forced to team up with them every 9 out of 10 missions.
„I said I'm not hungry, goodbye," I said a little louder this time as I attempted to continue.
„Hey hey hey where do you think your going you haven't even said Good morning to your beloved teammates," Triston said as he grabbed me by the shoulder before I could leave.
„Good morning, now let me go I have somewhere to be,"
„Where does some unwanted little bitch like you need to go this early in the morning?," Amelia asked.
„That's none of your business,"
I received a painful slap to the face for my reply and fell to the ground.
„How many times do I have to tell you, you may be good out there with your little Prototype Warframe but in here you are nothing, you hear me," she said spitting on me.
„Not even the instructors like you that must be telling something," Dirk injected into the conversation.
At first, I was still but then I began to laugh uncontrollably as I laid prone on the ground with a hand to my face.
„I knew it you really are just jealous,"
I swiftly received a boot to the ribs for my remark.
„Well I guess you haven't learned at all," Amelia said as she then stomped on my hand and drove her heel into it.
„Just wait until curfew bitch I can't wait to teach you your manners," she hissed before leaving, her
two goons close behind her.
I laid there for some time waiting for the pain to subside before leaving.
I began to limp my way to the Dojo or better said my safe heaven there I had my Warframe, there I felt safe.
The Dojo door slid open without any resistance to revealing it was empty just as usual.
For all their talk about being better than me, I never see them in here when it's time to actually spar.
I slumped down onto the nearest mat and began meditating, it didn't take long for my Warframe to react to my calmed mental state.I could hear the familiar hiss of its storage unit opening and the soft tapping of its metal feet upon the wooden floor, when I opened my eyes I could see it sat in front of me trying to imitate my exact same stance.
I always felt more comfortable in the presence of my Vimparis Warframe it somehow managed to remind me of before the accident...
I shook the thought from my head and changed my focus to the Warframe.
My Warframe was different then the others not just because it was developed by S.A.C.R.I.F.I.C.E a special division in the Orokin military but also because it was an almost perfect replica of myself it's carbon fiber hair was tied in two ponytails just like my own except they were both the same length, it walked as if it were human hell it even had flesh which had been grafted from my very own body. They had hoped to create a much better synchronization between me and my Warframe by trying to make me feel as compfortable as possible inside it and they weren't wrong, the better synchronization more than made up for my shorter field time and combat experience.
But it isn't me
One look at the Warframes eyes was enough to tell that this thing wasn't me, they were aware and confident never faltering and more importantly they had that telltale shine of life, nothing like my own dark black pupils which seemed detached.
I took a deep breath and relaxed but before I could begin meditating once more the door to the Dojo suddenly slid open as my „Family" poured into the room.
„Lunas into your crib,now!," my instructor ordered as he entered the room last.
I raised an eyebrow to this odd request but followed the order nonetheless as I didn't feel like recieving a beating this early.
Crib's were the suspended animation pods where our human bodies were tored during Transference, thats when we tranfered our conciousness into our Warframe as to gain full control over it.
It took mere seconds for the connection to be established between me and Vimparis, after which I walked over to the assembler where the last part of my transferance began. The assembler whirred into action as I stepped under it's luminous yellow light, the mechanical arms which sprung out then quickly set to work applying my extra layer of outer armour. Unlike the other Warframes which used their shields and base armour to protect themselves I was equipped with an extra nanocyte breatplate and shifitng nanocyte skirt very much similar to the one on my uniform.
Nanocyte were microscopic sized robot's which were built to replicate the same effect of the dreaded Technocyte virus, a virus which would quite easily explained cause Organic beings to transform into synthetic robotic counterparts were driven to madness through the extreme pain caused by the transformation and would hunt down any organic being they could find as to spread the disease.
After an event which was known as The Great Plague where the human race was almost driven to extinction, the virus just up and disappeared as quick as it had manifested no one knows why or how but thousands of years later an altered form of the disease was unleashed, presumably by the Sentients, which infected thousands but was thankfully quickly halted as a vaccine was created to halt its progress. A few years later though it was discovered that if someone who had used to be infected was vaccinated and then left to the energies in the Dark space of the Void they would manifest strange powers, it is this particular achievement which led to the creation of the Tenno in the first place.
But back onto the topic of Nanocyte the small robots were capable of the same rapid adaptation as the original Technocyte virus and could, therefore, strengthen armour at the point of impact making it far stronger than almost all rare and hard to find alloy's.
Now whilst I loved having the extra armour I was still quite uneasy when going out onto the field as I had still not been issued even a standard Tech department said that they were still seeking clearance from S.A.C.R.I.F.I.C.E who were the original builders of my Warframe to build one that suited my Warframe until then I had to make do with the nanocyte armour alone.
„Hey pay attention!" the instructor shouted as he tore me out of my inner monologue.
„Sorry, it won't happen again sir," I replied, several people snickering in the background.
We all assembled into an orderly line in front of our instructor and saluted before he began to explain how the ceremony would go down.
„This will be a standard ceremony you will all stand at attention until I order otherwise if any of you so much as makes a peep they'll be spending time with Alexander in the medical bay am I clear!," He said as he looked specifically at me.
„Sir yes sir!" we all replied as I did my best not to look at him in the eye.
„Good now forward march!"
As we left I noticed several elder Tenno enter the dojo with a large amount of equipment.
Shouldn't they be preparing for the Ceremony?
Our family Barracks were not far from the Orokin Embassy so we simply marched the entire way and all assembled ourselves in the courtyard, lining up just as we had many times before but something in the back of my mind was gnawing at me almost like a warning.
The ceramony started just like any other with the humans who came in and paid their respects to the Tenno with the courtasy of a bow. Tenno were brought up by the Orokin to believe that humans were underneath them, despite us once being human ourselves. I completly disregarded this racist believe, if anything I preferred the humans over my own Tenno „Family", at least the humans didn't insult me every day or look at me with those hate filled eyes that everyone else did, some of them even bowed or said a prayer when I walked past them in the barracks.
After the humans came the Orokin generals and politicians wearing their typical golden armour and robes, the believers aka the humans roared jubilantly as they passed, I instead found myself looking at the ground in disgust as these corrupt and power hungry individuals passed. The Orokin liked to think of themselves as pure beings but it was clear to me that this was just an image that they were trying to enforce upon the humans as a means to control them. They're a real face was one of a disgusting scientific perversion and the need to know and control everything that existed.
Talk about the perfect dictators...
Now normally some asswipe politician would take to the stage but instead, many more figures entered the courtyard wearing regal golden robes and crowns, they were quite clearly some kind of nobles maybe even a part of the royal family, at the front of this concierge stood a man and a woman who wore a helmet that covered most of her face and a slightly more open purple robe with golden trims.
As she passed me I felt strange almost ill
I'm inside my warframe something like that shouldn't even be possible.
The Orokin noble took the lead and walked onto the stage alongside his strange companion and cleared his throat.
„Before I begin with the ceremony I would like to give my deepest gratitude to our Tenno sons and daughters who fought and died with tooth and nail so that the people of our great empire could finally be safe...,"
There was another massive cheer from the human crowd.
Lies roll from your tongue just as much as there are likely credits in your account don't they.
As the Orokin continued for what felt like an eternity I turned my attention to the crowd, everyone was attentive but the Tenno seemed somewhat..blank as if they weren't even there I tried nudging the man next to me but it had no effect, he was clearly too busy with whatever he was looking at so I decided to see for myself. Following his line of sight, I saw that he was looking directly at the strange woman who had entered alongside the Orokin nobility. She was smiling almost evilly as she raised her hand opens into the air.
I found this extremely odd but quickly noticed how many Tenno were now raising their weapons.
The shots of respect are supposed to come after the ceremony, unless.
Oh God
Through a crack in her robe, I could see the telltale signs of robotics.
A Sentinal!
She then closed her hand and the sound of a thousand firearms going off at once filled the Courtyard.
The Orokin has no time to react and were cut down almost immediately by the coordinated strike as their still fresh corpses bled onto the ground the Tenno set their sights onto the Human believers
What they can't, they're innocent!
The Tenno opened fire just like they had before and the courtyard, which had been in shocked silence, now broke out into complete chaos. I watched on as Humans were cut down in the hundreds. the feeling of a hand tugging on my skirt alerted me as I turned around to see the little boy who would normally bring our mail every morning. Before I could even say a word to him the tip of a Tennos sword burst out from his neck showering me in blood.
My mind practically shut down as I witnessed the boy's tiny body crumple to the ground in a heap as he as he slowly choked on his own blood.
As the last signs of life left his body I knew what had to be done and drew my blade, a 4 foot long Odachi almost as large as myself, which had been my companion for the last 4 years, with both of my hands and lashed out at the child murdering scumbag, a Loki who didn't have his shields cycled, the tempered alloy of my blade cut through his unarmoured Warframe like a knife through butter and killed him instantly, Several others noticed my kill and turned to face me with their guns raised.
„Killing children you're all no better then the Sentinels!," I screamed out.
Activating defense protocols
The systems within my Warframe immediately whirled into action as many small holes opened up all over my warframe allowing my blood to freely bleed out, it did not fall to the ground though instead it formed a protective shield in front of me which soaked up my foes bullets and immediately spat them back out, as soon as they had to reload I sprang back into action willing the blood shield to transform once more into many small spikes which I sent hurtling into the group, thoroughly eviscerating them.
This was the power of the Vimparis warframe the ability to manipulate my own infused blood in any way I deemed necessary.
Taking a quick look around I saw that I was not the only one who had not succumbed to whatever madness was controlling the others but it was clear that we were at a disadvantage they outnumbered us 1000 to 1 and were quickly enclosing on our positions, I made a break for the nearest ally I could find a black Excaliber wielding a one handed scythe.
„Your not one of them?," He asked in a deep voice as he drove his scythe into the neck of a nearby Rhino.
„Does it look like it!," I replied as I cut down two more.
„We can't stay here, they will surround us if we do,"
I turned my head to see that the mad Tenno were already beginning to close us off.
Even when their being controlled they are still the most organized fighting force in the galaxy.
„Shit!," I cursed as I sliced the arm off of a Mag who was trying to cast Pull on me.
Before I could finish the Mag off a large Humvee burst in front of me and ran her over.I stepped back disgusted by the amount vile amounts of blood that coated my Warframe.
„What are you waiting for getting in quick!," A Volt said from the front seat as he fired off several shots into the crowd of Tenno behind us.
We both jumped into the Humvee me in the passenger seat and the Exalibur in the back.
„Hold on this might get rough!," The Volt said as he put down the gun in his hand and put the pedal to the metal.
As he drove through the horde I looked through the bulletproof glass window to see the Sentinal draw a strange weapon from its belt.
„Uh-oh," I muttered to myself
It aimed in front of the Humvee and let off a blast of what looked like pure raw energy, I anticipating this, quickly rammed into the driver's wheel causing the whole vehicle to lurch to the right and just barely avoid the attack.
„Jesus, Don't let it do that again," the Volt said as he passed me a Lex, a heavy pistol which acted much like a revolver but was capable of being loaded with 6 bullet magazine.
I drew down the window and took careful aim at the Sentient and her goons before letting loose 3 consecutive first shot missed and hit one of the many Mad Tenno that was stood beside her, the second pierced the barrel of the strange weapon in her hand rendering it utterly useless and the third and final shot landed perfectly between her eyes.
Destroy the brain and the Sentinal dies.
My celebrations were cut short as the flesh around the Sentinels head knit itself back together.
„Impossible," I managed to choke out.
I could feel it's eyes following me as we escaped the courtyard. I stared back in silence not able to comprehend what had just happened.
We drove for what felt like ages in utter silence past burning buildings and screaming civilians, the Tenno were making short work of everything the Orokin had built over the Millenia
„Phew that was close," the Volt said breaking the awkward silence.
„No kidding but what the hell was that, how did a Sentinal manage to get full control over the Tenno let alone gain access to Earth, the military hub of the Orokin empire, and the Orokin royalty?," I asked
„There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact, no one even noticed because we all believed the war was finally over," The exalibur said.
„Yeah and we all see how that turned out for us!," The volt shouted from behind the wheel.
„The Orokin were greedy but so are we, after she is done using them to destroy the Orokin she will likely set them upon one another until none is left" The exalibur replied.
The Volt merely sighed as he turned his head just enough so that I knew he was talking to me.
„That was some good shooting back there which family does you belong to?," He asked
„Zorne," I replied as simply as possible.
„ahh then you must be...,"
„Bloody Mary," The exalibur interrupted monotonously.
„Do you know how rude that is!," The volt exclaimed slightly slamming the steering wheel as he did.
„I am merely stating that which I have overheard," he replied.
I sunk down low in my seat.
„My name's Lunas, Bloody Mary is just what they called me after Amelia played that stupid prank on me." I murmured.
The Humvee was silent for a long time before the Exalibur finally spoke again.
„I apologize for my remark I have also heard rumours of this prank,"
„Who hasn't," I replied despondently.
A few weeks ago Amelia thought it would be funny to replace my hair conditioner with pink hair dye, thankfully I noticed it very quickly but as I went to leave my room to confront her about it the real „prank" began. Opening my door caused a large pail to fall onto me coating me in a thick sheet of congealed animal blood, my clothes were completely ruined and although I had reacted fast a large amount of it still managed to get into my hair or more specifically my left ponytail.
I spent hours trying to wash the blood out but in the end, I was forced to cut my losses quite literally.
„Such pranks are incredibly childish, I hope they received an appropriate punishment for such unlawful conduct against a fellow family member," The Exaliber thought aloud.
I ignored him and just kept my eyes forward.
We drove for an hour before finally reaching the barracks of one of the many Tenno family's.
„Why are we here?," The exalibur asked.
„One of my family members may be here and we are going to need her help if we want to get off planet," the Volt replied.
„I take it she knows how to operate a ship then,"
„That your right my friend,"
I went to unlock the door but was stopped by the Volt.
„Whoa there missy we can't go in there without a battle plan, things might get hairy after all,"
„What would you suggest then?," I asked.
„Well for starters we are going to need a secure channel to communicate on,"
„We are fighting against a Sentinal there's no such thing as a secure channel," the Exalibur said as he joined the group huddle.
„Which is why we are going to pick a channel they would never look at, everyone join the Powderpuff Girls channel," he replied.
„Your kidding with me right?"
„Do you want to be dead or alive?," the Volt asked back.
The Exalibur grunted clearly annoyed but did as he was told.
„Good now before we go any further I think a proper introduction is in order allow me to begin, my name is Kaiden and as you can obviously tell I am a Volt operator,"
„Call me Dredge," The Excalibur grunted.
„Lunas," I simply replied out of courtesy.
„Very good, now then which of us should take point?," Kaiden asked more towards Dredge then me.
„I will, I no doubt have more experience than either of you," Dredge replied.
„Then I guess that settles that good luck out there and don't forget to watch each other's backs," the Volt finished.
We all exited the Humvee at the same time and made our way quietly towards the barracks front entrance.
All of the camras are offline I'm not sure if I should be thrilled or terrified
Dredge took the lead just as he said he would and opened the door silently scythe at the ready just in case but as we peered inside we sensed no threats.
The door opened up to a short hallway with two large double doors on either side and a staircase at the end, Dredge made hand signs to indicate that one of us should go to each door whilst he would make sure nothing came down the staircase.
I took the door on the left and drew my newly acquired Lex whilst Kaiden took the one on the right. Dredge then held up his hand and made the breach signal, I quickly kicked the door in revealing what appeared to be an empty Commons room. Kaiden did the same for his side and just like me found nothing.
We fell in line behind Dredge once again as he began to ascend the spiral staircase up to the second floor which opened up into what appeared to be large living quarters, kitchen included. After making sure no one was hiding in any of the nearby side rooms we made our way down another corridor to the Mess hall and personal living quarters.
Kaiden took the lead as we turned another corner and stopped at a door with the name tag „Amber" on it.
Dredge nodded and instructed me and Kaiden to enter the room as he kept an eye out in the hallway.
Kaiden went first silently opening the door and quickly rushing in checking the right side of the room, I went in close behind making sure to check the corners on the left.
„Who's there?" we heard someone call from within the bathroom alongside the distinct sound of a gun being loaded.
„It's just me Amber it's ok to come out," Kaiden replied as he lowered his weapon.
I heard a large amount of clamouring before the door to the bathroom finally opened to reveal a Trinity.
„Thank god you're alright," she said as she practically jumped into his arms.
„Hey I promised to me...,"
I decided not to eavesdrop into their conversation and instead went over to the window, which happened to be in complete lockdown.
Wait what is that?
I put my head against the wall and managed to pick out a very subtle light thrumming in the wind beyond the wall.
„Guys," I said trying to get their attention.
„There's just one problem," Amber said.
„What don't tell me you don't actually know how to fly a...," Kaiden began but he was interrupted as Amber enveloped him in a very tight hug.
„Why did you run from mother Kaiden," she asked all emotion having left her voice.
Realization hit me like a freight train and I immediately hit the ground as the window was suddenly destroyed by a hail of bullets.
Shit!
Kaiden tried to run but Amber held onto him tightly as the heavy caliber rain completely shredded them both within a matter of seconds.
As soon as it stopped I took a quick peek out of the window to see what had attacked us and was not pleased in the slightest by what I saw.
That's A Rah-666 Comanche stealth helicopter only six of those things exist throughout the empire how did the Sentinal manage to get its hands on one so quickly!
I quickly ducked back down as it began to shoot another volley from it's 2 forward mounted machine guns and took a few deep breaths as I waited for it to finish.
As soon as it's guns stopped feeling I made a break for the door and just barely managed to get through in time for the next volley. Dredge was busy fighting off a horde of Mad Tenno who were attempting to get up the staircase to the second floor.
„Get to the roof it's your only chance!" he ordered as he kicked another Tenno down the stairs.
I didn't hesitate and began making my way immediately up the second flight of stairs to the roof.
„Good luck girl, you're going to need it" he muttered just loud enough for me to hear.
I slammed the door open to the roof with my shoulder and was immediately met by an Exaliburs blade, I managed to weave to the side just before it managed to make me one head shorter and quickly unsheathed my own blade before driving it through its now vulnerable torso.
It didn't end there though as the helicopter swooped overhead letting several more Tenno out onto the roof.
I activated my Warframes power's and enveloped myself in a Blood Shield as they began opening fire, I then dissolved my shield and lashed out using it as a sharp whip-like appendage slitting the throats of two of them before rushing forward into close quarters combat.
They tried to mow me down mid stride but my adapting Nanocyte armour merely reflected what was left of their magazines as I carved a bloody path through them with my Odachi.
As the last one fell the helicopter returned for another swoop this time with its getting guns already revved.
Adrenaline drove me on as I jumped directly towards it instead of running to cover and managed to drive my sword through the front windshield. The pilot was clearly shocked and before he could react I unloaded the entire magazine of my Lex into the front windshield,the helicopter spiralled out of control towards the ground as the pilot slumped over the controls dead.
Before it could crash into the ground I wrenched my sword out and jumped off ,still several feet off of the ground and landed with a harsh thud on the hard Tarmac of the parking lot.
I laid on the ground panting completely out of breath as the helicopter crashed and exploded only a mere few feet behind me.
My small period of respite was interrupted however as I heard the click of a magazine reloading. I looked around to see what appeared to be at least half of the Tenno military stationed on Earth were all stood in the courtyard pointing their firearms at me, their Sentient master standing alongside them.
I used my sword as a crutch to get back onto my exhausted feet, if I was going to die I was at least going to go out with a little dignity. The Sentient merely clapped slowly as I rose.
„My what skill in battle they did not lie about you little Lunas, you even managed to hit me with all people," she spoke as it let out its hand and signaled everyone to lower their weapons before beginning to approach me, little did it know that as I was hunched on the floor I had reloaded my Lex and promptly unloaded six smoking pieces of lead into her head, just as last time though her organic tissue simply stitched itself back together within a matter of seconds.
„And such determination you really are something dear," it said
„What are you!," I shouted as I reloaded the Lex once more.
„That's not important what you need to know Is that I am your mother but you may call me „Lotus"," she said in an attempt to sound comforting.
„My mother died years ago, she was disassembled alive from the inside out by one of you fucking monsters!," I screamed trembling slightly. As I unloaded another full magazine into her.
„Now, now dear that is all in the past, today we look towards a brighter future for all of us," it replied seemingly unfazed by the bullets that were tearing at its flesh.
„By murdering thousands of innocents, you call that a brighter future?," I asked, if a warframe could cry I probably would have been bawling by this point as I tried once more to shoot her.
„Sometimes sacrifices must be made so that we may begin age..."
„Oh cut me the bullcrap you Sentient bitch!," As I threw the now empty Lex at her face with no effect.
„It's clear that you won't give up and whilst I respect that I'm afraid we have no time for this," she said.
Several tenno emerged from the encirclement and began attacking me with various forms of melee weapons.
I quickly readied my blade and slashed the first one vertically across the chest before turning and blocking two more, a fourth one attempted to come at me from the side but I kicked out his knee and delivered a vicious elbow to the back of his head. I could hear his artificial skull caving in as I yanked my blade across the two I was blocking and parried another kicking him away as to make room for his friend who also came darting in from the left, the tradeoff was quick and ended with my blade splitting his spine and rendering him useless but I was immediately set upon by another 3 Tenno. One of them managed to get past my defense and drive his blade deep into my arm causing me to drop my blade.
Never!
I began channeling energy throughout my Warframe and blocked his next attack with my blood shield. Using more blood as an extension to my arm I grabbed onto the Tenno's shoulder and pulled back hard whilst also kicking him away. There was a sickening crunch as I dismembered him and used his now severed arm to brutally beat one of the other two as I drowned the other by manipulating the blood shield to wrap around his face.
More attempted to charge me from the front but I sent a hail of bloody spikes to cut them down mid stride.
Never! Never!
I could feel myself losing my grip on reality as my Warframe moved on its own weaving in and out of the Tenno and leaving a bloody trail in my wake as I tore at them with my bloody appendages.
Never! Never! Never!
I could only see red as I continued my bloody rampage.
NEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVER
I lifted my foes from the ground and tore them apart as they ran.
And then I suddenly stopped and fell to my knees.
Unbelievable I've reached my limit already.
I panted heavily as my legs gave out from exhaustion, I had put up a good fight but there were simply too many for me to handle and I had wasted too much blood by going berzerk and letting my feeling gain control over my actions.
„That is quite enough, it's clear I underestimated you far too much despite what I have witnessed, a stupid mistake on my part and one that will never happen again," the Sentient said as it approached me from behind.
I could hear the sound of its fake bones breaking as it revealed it's true robotic form to the world and knew what was about to come.
2 Tenno came, grabbed a hold of me and turned me around, just as I had expected she had reverted to her true form a mix of Machine and Organic surrounded by darkly coloured appendages, The Sentient lowered it's arm and dispensed a long but thin, sickly looking blade, this was clearly her means of injecting the Sentient corruption into her prey.
„Your just as stupid as you are ugly all Sentients know that Tenno is immune to the corruption," I spat out as she grabbed my head and pulled it to the side.
„ I'm not a normal Sentinal and this is not a curse it is a blessing," The Sentient recited as it drove it's blade deep into my warframes neck.
I choked slightly as it injected it's filthy corruption directly into my bloodstream and extracted itself from my neck.
I convulsed as images of the past flew before my eyes.
When I was young me and my family took part in a space cruise from Earth to the newly discovered planet at the time which was called Eris, something went wrong with the ship as we went into warp speed and it tore itself apart leaving half of it in Eris space and the rest of it in dark space, the area around the terrifying emptiness known as the void I, of course, had been stranded on the latter thankfully ships back then were equipped to deal with such situations and even though we only had half of one left me and my family managed to keep ourselves sheltered from the deadly magics contained within the Void. We were sure that we would be ok until what was left of the ships radars warned us of incoming contacts or better said Sentients.
You don't know the real meaning of the word fear until you've seen the true face of a sentient, underneath the human masks that they built for themselves they were Eldrich abominations so horrifying that they were indescribable, They cut through the survivors injecting them with their sick corruption and implanting their disgusting parasitic offspring inside of them. Me and my family managed to escape but I had to watch in horror as the Sentient offspring that had been injected into my Mother disassembled her from the inside out gorging itself on her organs to grow before finally bursting out from her empty chest cavity and doing the same to my brother's and father. In the end, I was left trapped in a room with a now fully grown Sentient and the 5 thoroughly mutilated corpses of my family And the first thing a newly grown Sentient does is viscously kill any sentient lifeform in the area. I was brutally eviscerated, mutilated and tortured for days by that disgusting Synthetic being. Before finally being save the military but instead of being sent to the ER or anything remotly reasonable I was sent to an advanced Orokin research base located on Pluto, there S.A.C.R.I.F.I.C.E experimented on me as they were surprised as to how I had survived the Sentient turned out I had a genetic defect that allowed my body to adapt to the corruption much like how the Technocyte vaccine adapted the virus so that it would lie dormant inside the victim.
They used this concept to create a new vaccine against the Sentient corruption and injected the newly made Tenno with it making them immune to its effects and essentially winning the war for us.
Afterwards, I was sent to the Tenno order to become a disciple and fight in the war despite me being so young at the time as S.A.C.R.I.F.I.C.E discovered that my blood now changed by the infection and having fused with the dark void energy that seeped into the destroyed room we had hidden had gifted me with unique powers.
I stopped convulsing as the memory came to an end.
„Now that that is over how do you feel my dear?," the Sentient asked.
„Like I want to kill you," I spat out weakly.
Without warning or remorse she drove the blade into my neck once again, my entire body shook from the intense pain.
„Who am I!" she shouted.
„A...filthy...fucking...Sentient," I coughed.
She drove it in again and again and again until I began to lose count.
„Why won't you submit!, how do you continue to resist the new strain!" she asked clearly angered.
„Fuck...you..that's ….how,"
She took a step back, she was clearly not prepared for this outcome.
„I want her put into stasis right now, she is clearly a danger that must be studied before we can continue,"
I could hear something being rolled onto the car park and turned my head painfully towards the sound, behind me stood a small completely empty cryo pod.
„You..think...freezing me is going to...help," I managed to cough out.
„You know what happens when a Tenno stays in cryo-stasis for too long don't you dear," she said as she began to shut the Cryopod.
„Your body's may be strong but your brains are just as weak as any other human beings, enough time in Cryostasis and you won't even remember me let alone your own name, and when that time comes I will let you out to be my willing daughter, that is if I don't decide to kill you first,"
„Why...did you...do it?," I asked as I resigned myself to my fate
„To maintain the natural balance," She replied as she walked away.
As The cold began to seep into me the first thing to go was my hearing as the dull sound of pale white noise began reverberating in my ears.
The second thing to go was my sense of smell and taste as the disgusting taste of the corruption faded away into nothing.
Next, I lost all control over my limbs as I fell deeper and deeper into the eventual abyss. I was screaming to myself to stay awake, begging to stay awake. Pleading to escape to no avail.
The last thing I saw as I fell into darkness was the Sentients sick smile before it turned back to its sick puppets
I'll have your head Sentient, I promise you.
I promise you...
Promise...
And then everything went black.