Near the Larunda Relay, Mercury
Ordis, are the other cephalons and their tenno prepared for the void jump?
Yes lotus, the operators are prepared
Good, initiate void jump now, Ordis
Of course Lotus, Void Jump in 5 seconds…
Pan returned into his meditative state after hearing Ordis begin the void jump, he wondered where was it that the Lotus needed their cell to go on such short notice. However, if the Lotus required his squad of 4 to go on a mission this quickly, that would mean that it had to be of the utmost importance.
He checked over his weapons again, making sure his customized Hek was had enough ammo to last the usual decoy missions that he went on to gather supplies, he then went to check on his Gallatine and make sure Karabou, his Huras, wasn't playing with it again. Instead he saw his pale green Kubrow have something else in his mouth, his akazanis.
"Karabou what did I say about playing with my weapons", Pan said in an exasperated tone
Karabou looked up upon hearing his name and realized that his Rhino Prime Clad owner was staring down at him disappointedly, in an effort to feign innocence he quickly hid the duel auto pistols underneath him.
Pan knowing that Karabou wouldn't give them back replied, " Whatever just prepare yourself, we're doing a void jump soon", hoping that Karabou would get the message.
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Initiating Void Jump Now
Emerald Forest
"Why did Ozpin decide to send us down here at such a late time?" asked Weiss as Team RWBY progressed towards their objective, a strange energy surge in the Emerald Forest. "Because Ice Queen, Ozpin said that there might be some sorta UFOs or aliens er something down there" Yang said sarcastically. "We're getting close so we might be able to see what Ozpin wanted us to check out." added Blake as she kept up with Yang and Weiss, never taking an eye of her book.
With Ruby
Ruby sprinted faster to their objective, using her semblance to gain more speed and approach what looked like a Crash Site judging by what they had seen when they got close.
Broken Branches and Trees some of which were still burning fiercely in the night sky illuminating a very bizarre sight. The crash site had 4 ships that seemed to have crossed in an almost parallel manner, one right after the other going from left to right. The designs of the ships were something that Team RWBY had never seen before. The ships looked like rather massive metallic arrowheads with their tips buried under several feet of trees and dirt.
"Think that there those are the UFOs Ozpin was looking for?" Yang approached the closest one which was the least damage, only having fire damage and large swaths of metal twisted and burnt on the surface, but it looked mostly fine.
"Wait did you hear that?", Blake whispered
Team RWBY tensed up, listening carefully for the smallest of sounds until they heard a dull thudding emanating from the closest unknown craft that was near Yang.
"There" Ruby pointed at the ship, "There might be someone in there that survived the crash!" She exclaimed excitedly for being able to save someone. Ruby sprinted towards the craft as fast as she could when a she heard a roar from within the machine and witnessed a hulking black being adorned in gold burst through the back of the craft.
4 minutes earlier….
Operator!
Operator!
Your operator seems to be unconscious Cephalon Ordis, perhaps resuscitating him first would bring better results.
That's a good idea Cephalon Sanguine! I'll begin resuscitation procedures now.
Pan convulsed as hundreds of volts of electricity entered his body, immediately forcing him to jolt up from the floor of his liset.
"Ugh my head, " was the first thing Pan said as he put his armored hand to his head feeling for damage.
"Ordis you there?"
Thank goodness you're awake operator! There seems to have been a malfunction with the void key The Lotus gave us. From what I could tell the void key transported us far outside the origin system into unknown space.
"Unknown space? You mean we're stuck in unexplored territory with no way to contact the clans or even Lotus?"
Unfortunately that seems to be the case operator, however i believe that checking the rest of the cell takes priority. I only able to successfully contact with Cephalon Sanguine. Who says that her operator is in an identical situation like yours, except she is unable to revive her operator.
"Damn it, Shiki is in trouble again? Alright Ordis are you able to operate the machinery and door on the liset?"
No, the orokin power cores that were supplying the energy for the ship were damaged and power was lost to auxiliary systems as life support was priority for me.
Taking this information into consideration, Pan searched around the ship for what he believed was the where the armor on the liset was the weakest and began to pound on the frontal part of the Liset, slamming his shoulder into it until the metal was visibly dented. He then dropped into a pre-orokin era's olympic runner stance and charged head first into the weakened metal, pouring his warframe's void energy into the strike and successfully broke through.
What he saw caught him more off guard than any enemy he has ever faced.
He saw that he was in a forest. Similar to the ones he's seen on earth but untouched by the Grineer's machinery and destruction. 'This place is different,' he thought, 'Seems to be no sign of the Grineer, Corpus, or Infested here. Just where did that void key take us,' he pondered, 'I can go sightseeing later, first i need to get Shiki's liset.', he said as he broke into a run heading towards the other side of the crash site but was interrupted by Ordis.
Umm...operator?
"Yes? Ordis"
I was able to get some rudimentary sensors online, and I've discovered that a large group of unknown creatures is quickly making their way towards Cephalon Sanguine. I'm unable to tell if their intentions are hostile. I Recommend bringing your weapons, operator.
Without a word Pan stepped back into his liset and retrieved his Gallatine and Hek before quickly setting off towards Shiki's liset.
With Team RWBY
Team RWBY was hiding within the forest behind a couple of large trees digesting what they just saw.
"Think it's a robot?", Ruby asked the others.
"No, it's movements are far too fluid for an atlas robot.", replied Weiss while she pondered about that thing's appearance and goal as it headed towards the farthest crashed ship(?).
Based on the appearance of the unknown, Team RWBY quickly came to the conclusion that it was a male if it wasn't a hunter. Weiss believed that the gold lining and adornments on the thing's armor(?) deemed it of a higher standing from wherever it came from. Ruby thought that he was a hunter whose ship crashed alongside his allies and was going to help them get out, judging from how quickly and surprisingly quietly he moved towards the ship on the farthest part of the clearing; Yang agreed with her. Blake remained neutral and didn't give her opinion on the thing, though her eyes followed it with intense curiosity.
'That thing smells of blood and metal', Blake thought. Her eyes narrowed, thinking of what that thing could be, a freelancing hunter?, an alien?, or perhaps the least possibly conclusion, a white fang terrorist. She shook her head at the thought that the White Fang may have something as advanced as this.
Gunshots echoed through the clearing followed by the sounds of howling and steel clashing against bone and flesh.
"It sounds like he's in trouble! We need to go help him out!", declared Ruby as she rose from her crouching position to help the Hunter(?) against the creatures of Grimm. "Hold on Ruby, what if it's hostile towards us?" Weiss countered while also preparing to move towards the incursion site wanting to know more about this new creature. "Then we watch to see how it fights, figure out how to counter it, and approach it cautiously," Blake replied. The team agreed on this plan with grunts and nods of approval then began moving towards the fighting, listening closely to the death cries of Beowolfs, gunshots from what sounded like a shotgun, and the sound of steel clashing with flesh.
With Pan
'These things just don't give up', he thought while dodging an incoming strike from the right. The creature covered in bony spikes on its' black as night fur had its' bony mask covering it's face blown apart with Pan's Hek, immediately killing the creature.
The other creatures became cautious of Pan, and they began to circle around Pan looking for opportunities to strike him, but instead they were beat back with his Gallatine; while several others were cut down with ease the reinforced steel greatsword easily cutting through their flesh causing the dismembered parts to dissolve into the night sky.
'10 left', Pan counted, formulating a strategy to kill them in quick succession of each other. Now with a plan, Pan shot twice at the beowolves forcing them to move to avoid the pellets of his Hek. 3 of the beowolves charged at Pan with the intent to shred him to pieces. Pan casually turned the barrel of his Hek in the general direction of the 3 and shot twice, emptying his magazine. All 3 beowolves despite having close to 2 meters of space between each other were hit by all the pellets of both shots, reducing two of them into a bloody mist of fur and bones, while the other's bony mask shattered and caved in on itself instantly killing it.
The 7 other beowolves howled in anger at seeing the dissolving corpses of their allies and began charging towards the lone Tenno in a loose formation with one almost exactly behind the other. If tenno could smirk Pan would be right now as he prepared to charge right into the formation. He got into a runner's stance and began charging void energy into his shoulders and feet. In an instant Pan bounded forward running shoulder first into the beowolves with the wind rushing behind him with incredible force. Making beowolves who weren't hit by Pan fly backwards into the air dying on impact due to their landing position or being impaled upon shards of burning trees surrounding the crash site.
My sensors tell me that was the last of the hostiles , operator.
Pan nodded in confirmation and began walking toward Shiki's liset to get her out. The creatures were trying to get into the liset and were able to dent some of the frontal armor due to their repeated attempts and numbers leaving Pan to only need to use one of the Rhino's well known abilities, Rhino Charge, at low strength to break into the liset.
"Shiki!", Pan said via private communication channel that all warframes have access to.
'No reply', he thought while looking around the liset. It was a mess, exposed panels and sparking wiring near the front of the ship. There were a few small fires in the ship that were quickly stomped out by him. The glass monitors that the liset were shattered with pieces scattered at the front and where the foundry was. Pan proceeded cautiously through the liset towards the back where there were usually 3 locked doors. He didn't find Shiki's body anywhere; fear spread through Pan's body as the possibilities that Shiki was thrown out of the liset upon crash and died upon impact went through his mind. He felt something approaching him from behind and quickly pulled him Hek to the unknown person to find Shiki standing in her Black and Gray Colored Ash Prime warframe.
"I thought you were dead.", Pan said blatantly, lowering the tip of his Hek to face the ground.
"It'll take more than a hard landing to kill me.", replied Shiki while stretching her shoulders and neck obviously still affected by the rather harsh landing.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah just a bit sore from Sanguine having to shock me awake with enough electricity to make any Volt jealous."
"Alright, we still need to get Jameson and Bianca out of there Lisets and use the private comms channel like we usually do. I ran into some native wildlife that wasn't exactly friendly while on my way to retrieve you."
Shiki nodded in confirmation and scavenged her Liset looking for her preferred weapons of choice her Paris Prime, Dragon Nikana, and Vastos Prime. After retrieving her weapons, the pair set out to get to the other lisets to free their fellow tenno and find out more about this world that they've landed upon.