A/N: Hey guys, its been a while. I've been itching to write again for the past few weeks, but I know that I left my first story unfinished (or barely started at all haha…), but hopefully I'll stick to my second. I've got a feeling for this one. Disclaimer: HTTYD and Warframe do not belong to me, Cressida Cowell/Dreamworks and Digital Extremes respectively. If it did, I'd have all the plastids, potato seeds, and tomatoes I'd ever want XD. Hope you guys enjoy this little mashup!
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HICCUP POV
'I hear rumbling around me. Something must be going on.' I try to wake up. 'Something's wrong! I can't open my eyes or move!'
Out of a nowhere a female voice rings through my head. "For generations, you've slept, no purpose, no call to wake you. But now, something has arisen from the ruins of the Old War."
'Generations?! What?! It couldn't have been that long. I remember yesterday I was exploring the new lands.'
The lady continued, "The Twin Queens, the sisters, have sent their most beloved commander, Vor, on an urgent mission. To protect the twisted crusade they have begun. To transform the scattered colonies into an empire. To see that the Tenno, hidden and asleep, will never awaken."
'Why do I have a bad feeling about this?'
'I hear more rumbling around me. And I can hear footsteps nearby.'
"Well, well, what do we have here? Four Tenno skoom? The Queens will give me a promotion after this," said a gravelly voice that I assume to be Commander Vor.
'I heard more footsteps coming closer. Must be more with him.'
"Tenno, wake up," said the female voice in my head. "I will release you and your companions from your cryo-pods." With a sudden surge of energy, my cryo-pods opened its door and release me and three others. I landed on my hands and knees, breathing hard.
Steps came closer and came close to my ear, "I see the Lotus has tried to wake you…pity she's too late! You're all MY prize now, Tenno," said the gravelly voice. Suddenly, I feel something metallic getting attached to my leg and hear the same thing happen to three others around me.
With better hearing, I can discern that Commander Vor has metallic footsteps. 'Does he have metal feet or something? Some Vikings have those…hold on, are Vikings even still around? The lady said it's been generations since I can remember. I'll figure that stuff out later. Got to save myself and, from what I heard, my three fellow Tenno.
Guns clicked. "No! We are taking those three with us!" shouted to his men. "The Ascaris will take hold on them soon. They will come to us." With that, his footsteps left the room.
"What has he done to you? I can't lose any more Tenno. I am surging your Warframe's power systems." Within a second. I could feel energy flowing in to me, as if drinking some of Gothi's weird tasting medicine, but it actually felt good this time. The energy made me jump up and exploded into the air knocking out the soldiers by me I could see flickering lights flashing before my eyes. It was so bright, that I had to shut my eyes again for a few more seconds. (A/N: I think that seeing from within the Warframe, would be like how Tony sees from within his Iron-Man Armor. Warframe vets, I know that this isn't how it is according to the game, but for storyline's sake, I'm just gonna change for this FF.) Peeling my eyes open again, I can see my hands in front of me. I can see again! Hold on, these don't look like my hands. But they're moving as I'm moving, so I guess they are my hands. The lady said something about a Warframe, maybe I have a Warframe on me. That would explain this suit/armor-like thing on me. Now that I see it, I can see that my "Warframe" is mainly black, with some shades of gray, and some red accents.
Standing up, I notice my three companions on their hands and knees near me. I see my fellow Tenno in their respective Warframes. One is in cyan colored female Warframe with yellow accents and frills around her head. She looked to be around 5'10" with a slim build. Next was a metallic-gray colored female Warframe with jade green accents that looked like it actually was heavily armored. She also looked to be around 5'10" with a slim build. Finally, there was a white colored male Warframe, with black and blue accents. He looked to be about 6" with a muscular-ish sort of build.
'We should definitely get a move on.' I went over to them helping them get up. Bending down to help each of them, I asked, "Are you guys alright?"
"Besides weird things happening to my head, I'm fine. Also this thing on my leg, I need to get off," the cyan colored Warframe replied as she stood up and clutched her head.
"Same here," the other two chimed in as they rose up. 'Hold on, I know those voices. I really hope they are who I think they are.
"Astrid? Heather? Spyte? Is that you guys in there?" I asked nervously. If they are, then it'd be a big relief. I get to get back with my friends!
"Hiccup? Is that you?" the cyan colored Warframe with the Astrid-sounding voice asked in return.
"Yes. It's me Hiccup...uhh...Astrid?" Suddenly, her hands shot to her face, covering her, what I assume to be, mouth, since I can't see her face.
"Then that's means you're Heather," pointing to the metallic-gray colored Warframe, "and you're Spyte?" pointing to the golden-brown colored one.
"It is you, Hiccup!" Spyte declared. Heather just swiftly nodded her head.
'Oh My Gods! They are them!' I rushed over as fast as I could to give them a group hug. The joy I'm feeling right now is making me really emotional. Tears of joy are about to fall out. This has been the most emotional I've been ever since Dad died. I need to strengthen myself. For me. For them. For the rest of my friends that aren't here with me.
Out of nowhere, the same lady's voice and a display of her goes through my monitor in my Warframe. The display shows a lightly-tanned women in a purple/black/blue garb with gold jewelry around her neck, and the most unusual thing is the huge and weirdly shaped three-pronged helmet that covers most of her head besides her nose, mouth, and chin. "Sorry to disrupt the reunion, Tenno, but you must hurry. Commander Vor has just detained you. I am the Lotus. I will guide you. Time is of the essence. Cryo-sleep has taken much of your memory. It does not matter. Much will be explained after extraction. Quick, use your powers by concentrating your energy and focus into your chest and releasing it outward. Your Warframe will know what to do. Defend yourselves, a Grineer assault team is headed your way," said Lotus. (A/N: they will each start off with one power, and as time/the story progress, they will gain up to 3 more.)
'Focus energy into my chest huh? Alright, let's try it out before the...Grineer? come?' I channeled energy into my chest and let it rip. Suddenly, I dashed forward a good distance while slashing a sword that came out of nowhere and vanished after the dash! This is weird...But it is interesting.
"Hiccup! How are you doing that?" Spyte wondered with a shock on his face/
"Uhhh, I just did what Lotus said - to channel energy into my chest and let it all go. Seems my Warframe knows what do," I replied. 'Hopefully we can survive all this until we can get answers.'
Coming from the open hallway some distance away, came a loud shuffle of footsteps coming towards us.
"Ready up guys!" I shouted.
"But we don't even have any weapons!" Astrid stated with concern.
"We'll make do with our powers," I answered.
"We don't know our powers!" Heather declared with the same worry.
"Guess, we'll just learn on the job, huh?" Spyte pointed out.
"Yea, but we're Vikings! We don't back down!" I roared with as much power as I could muster in my voice. They grunted in agreement.
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NARRATOR POV
The Grineer came in squads of 5, led by an elite lancer. Expecting the Tenno to be still on the ground writhing, they were shocked to see that they were standing and prepped in battle stances.
Hiccup went up to a squad and immediately used [Ability: Slash Dash] up to the first Lancer and Elite Lancer, cutting the two in half before punching the next Lancer in the face and spin-kicking the other two, landing on their backs, and finished them off with a quick [Ability: Slash Dash] right through them.
As Hiccup dealt with his squad, Astrid tried to do what Lotus told them to do. She felt a flurry of energy flowing from within her and shot out her right hand towards an Elite Lancer and his squad. From under her right arm, a grappling hook shot out and snatched the Elite Lancer, pulling him to her. Stunned at what she just did, she recovered as quickly as she could. As he got closer and closer, she wound up her left fist and punched him in the gut, knocking him out of breath. Thinking of what she could do with this hook of energy she could summon, she tried to see if she could use it as a gap closer. She shot [Ability: Rip Line] up at the ceiling above her squad of Grineer and pulled herself up so the she could kick a Lancer as he fell. She used another [Ability: Rip Line] at the next Lancer and wrapped the energy rope around his head and choking him to death. Spying the other two Lancers pulling up their Grakatas to aim at her, she rolled towards them and tackled the one left. Grabbing hold of his legs, she spun and threw him at his comrade, knocking him down and the thrown Grineer landing on top of his ally. Following up her surprising feat of strength, she elbow dropped the two of them, incapacitating them.
Hearing guns cocking right behind him, Spyte tried to roll behind some crates, but instead slid into some sort of space rift. Hearing the sound of bullets coming towards him and 'hitting' him but not hurting him at all, he got a bright idea. He was going to try to use this to his advantage and take out of his squad while using [Passive: Rift Walk]. Seeing that this was some kind of invulnerability, Spyte took to the time channel his energy like Lotus said and extend his left arm out to the squad to release at the energy. A wave of energy did come and hit the enemies, but it didn't do anything to tell. He tried desperately to figure out how as the Grineer squad closed in on him, repeating the same action some more. Then thinking that he could try walking out of the Rift Plane and then using his ability, he did just that. He stepped out of the Rift and casted his ability on his enemies. Shooting out the same wave of energy, knocking his enemies down and damaging them know. However, now, they were in the Rift like he was a second ago. Puzzled at this discovery, he quickly thought of how to take them out. Stepping in to the Rift again, meeting his enemies again there, his Warframe's shields immediately took a hit from their bullets. Acting fast, he sent another [Ability: Banish] at the Grineer squad, sending them back out of the Rift and finally killing them.
As the last squad tried to close in on Heather, she crouched and jumped up into the air like a bullet and landed behind a pillar to block the incoming bullets. With this respite, she calmed herself so that that she could channel her energy. Swinging her head around the pillar, she gave a death stare to the Elite Lancer, locking eyes with him and something surprising happened. Shocking both her and the Grineer, the Elite Lancer was stunned momentarily and then began firing at his squadmates, shooting them down one by one. Quickly recovering after the first Lancer was shot, she hurriedly wrapped around the Grineer. As the Elite Lancer killed the last Lancer, [Ability: Mind Control] ended bringing the Elite Lancer out of his stupor. Getting past his grogginess, he saw what looked like his fellow comrades dead in front of him and that his Hind was smoking and cooling down but was pointed at his dead comrades. Shocked at what happened, he didn't get a chance to react to the arms that were wrapping around his neck and twisting it, killing him instantly.
After all of the Grineer present were taken care of, Lotus appeared and stated that, "an extraction ship is on its way, but the Grineer will be hunting you. Your Warframe's power has faded, arm yourself. Find a weapon without Grineer interlock."
"Gods, we can finally use something to kill them," Astrid exclaimed.
"Ditto," Heather announced.
"Woah, what's this? It's a yellow symbol on my screen that leads to something. And we also got an objective to follow on the top left. There's a map there too! I think these things are linked," Spyte declared.
"I see that too!" Astrid proclaimed. "Hopefully that thing leads us to the weapons Lotus was talking about."
"Alright gang, let's follow it," Hiccup chimed in.
The four of them headed out into the hallway. After figuring out how to move better, they found the weapons cache near a blocked door. Opening it, they see that it had a sword, a double-bladed axe, a polearm, and a blade and whip.
"Call dibs on the axe!" Astrid cried. She then took it swiftly and inspected.
"Aww, no fair Astrid!" Heather whined. "Guess I'll take the blade and whip then." Having grabbed it, she then tested it for a few seconds.
"I'd like the polearm then," Spyte stated, reaching in and taking it out and giving it a few good swings.
"That leaves me with the sword then, my favorite," Hiccup chimed in and took out the sword for his own inspection. "Let's test them out on the Grineer then."
Footsteps sounded off nearby through the portal.
"Race ya!" Astrid shouted as she leapt through.
"Oh, you are SO on!" Heather responded before heaping in herself.
"C'mon Hiccup, we can't let them have all the fun," Spyte declared, following the girls.
"Well then, let's get our game on," Hiccup proclaimed as he jumped into the portal.
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ASTRID POV
After going through that portal, I saw two Grineer wielding butcher knives. I made quick work of them. I rolled to the closest one and swung upward, separating his left arm and leg from his body. Tackling the next one down, I then brought down my axe blade on to his head, splitting his skull open. Seeing that there were no more Grineer in the vicinity, I spotted my friends entering through the portal.
"Sorry Heather, guess I won," I smirked as I brought up my axe to rest on my shoulder.
"You had a head start," Heather countered, while crossing her arms.
"Heh," I just grunted.
"Whatever. We still gotta get to this extraction ship. Let's head on out." She stated.
After going through around 50 meters of the pathway, we crawled through a hole in the wall, which led up to a balcony, showing some sort of building complex. It was bigger than the Great Hall! But, it still looked too unusual for anything that would've been practical that a village would need.
"Look at the size of that thing! It's huge!" I exclaimed.
"I know right," Spyte agreed with the same surprise.
Checking out the area for a second, I then notice that there was a Grineer on the catwalk up ahead with his back turned to us and patrolling the area. "Shh, I'll go get that guy," I whispered.
"Nope, I'll do it Astrid. You already had your fun. I'll work my stuff," Heather said all of a sudden as she pulled my arm back and pushed me to the boys to catch.
"Hey! Hiccup, Spyte let me go! I was gonna go do it!" I steamed.
Hiccup pulled me up and swung me to face him, holding onto my arms, "Astrid don't you think it was unfair of you to get that head start? I mean, you didn't even leave any for us back there." he stated.
"I guess you're right…" I whispered as I shied away.
"Good, now let's just watch," he said as he let go my arms.
Looking back, I watch as Heather stealthily made her way to the unaware Grineer Lancer. She jumped down from our balcony, landing behind some stacked crates. Making sure that he was still turned around, she rolled to stack of crates closest to the unaware sentry. Tip-toeing right behind him, she pulled out her blade and whip in her right hand. Next thing was that she clasped her hand tightly over his mouth to prevent him alerting his allies, followed up by stabbing her blade right through him and wrapping the whip around his neck to finish the kill. After hiding the body behind a barrel, she motioned us to follow her.
Lotus came back in and announced, "There's a weapon's cache ahead. Go and retrieve its contents." After that she disappeared again.
"Ooh, more weapons!" I exclaimed with glee.
"Let's go get them," Hiccup said as we rush after Heather.
Following the yellow symbol on our screens, we end up at an unlocked door. As Spyte opened it, we see weapons we've never seen before. There were throwing knives, and here's the weird thing. There was a small metal object, with a hold on it that looked like it was made for a hand to hold. The next thing I notice was that it had some sort of lever right next to handle. There was a hand guard for this whole part too. Moving on, the object lengthened out a little bit with a small hole at the the end of the thing. Inspecting it more closely, I see that there was some space that I could put index finger into. Taking out my finger out of the small barrel shape side, I grasp the other end with my right hand and try to see what I could do with it. I pointed it at the ceiling and did all I could to it until suddenly it made a loud bang. I close my eyes, shocked at what happened. After looking back, I can see a dent at the area of the ceiling I was aiming at.
"Astrid, what did you do?!" Hiccup came over to me hurriedly.
"I have no clue, but when I did something with this thing, something went off," I stated as I showed him the thing.
"Try doing what you just did again, but be safe about it, please," he said with a mix of curiosity and safely.
Right before I could try to do what I just did again, Lotus chimed in. "I apologize Tenno, I did not realize that the era you came from did not have guns."
"Guns?" Hiccup asked.
"Yes, they are ranged weapons that can shoot out small deadly objects called bullets that can damage and potentially kill others. To shoot a gun, all you would need to do is press down on the trigger, which is the small lever right next to the handle. There are multiple types of guns in existence currently, but for now, all you need to know is that for this gun, a Lato, a pistol, which is a secondary weapon, is semi-automatic, meaning that you need to pull the trigger each time you want to fire a bullet, but you can fire many in rapid succession before you need to reload. To reload, you need to eject the magazine, the object holding all of the bullets, and replace it with a new magazine that has more bullets for you to shoot out. The magazines can be pulled out of your trans-dimensional storage device that you can access via thinking about it. However you may need pick up more bullets/ammunitions from the enemies that would happen to drop them as ammo is not infinite. The most important part is that you do not aim at your allies, you can kill them. Anyways, you should pick back up the instinct on how to carry, prepare, and use each weapon pretty soon."
After hearing this new info, I further analyzed this...gun and tested it out again, aiming it at another wall. I then pulled the trigger once, a bullet fired. I looked at where I fired and saw the dent. Wow, that's pretty impressive. I then pulled the trigger twice, I saw the bullets hit the same spot again, one after another. This seems pretty useful.
"Wow, this guns seems pretty useful, but it's a bit too loud for my liking," Heather stated. "I'll take the throwing knives for now." She then picked up the MK1-Kunai.
"I feel the same as Heather, it's too loud and clunky for me," Spyte expressed as he followed suit.
"This gun seems like a thing that I could improve on. I'll take one and see what I can do with it." Hiccup proclaimed with a curious look on his face.
"Good, the extraction point is about 250 meters up ahead. Quickly head there. We must not let Vor get his hands on you," Lotus declared as she left faded out again.
"We should probably listen to her, that guy gives me the creeps," Heather blurted
"You and me both sister," I agreed.
"Alright, let's head out then," Spyte proclaimed as he moved towards the door.
"Gotcha buddy," Hiccup commented as he started to go.
"Let's get out of here," I exclaimed, following him with Heather.
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A/N: Hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I did writing it! I'll try to get the next chapter out as soon as I can. R&R if you can! :)
