A/N: Hello! Welcome to my Warframe fan fiction. I wanted to say a few things before the story starts. First off, if you are looking for a lore-friendly story, this is not it. I've had this story idea in my head for 2 years now and I kept with the original details. Since then the lore has been more fleshed out in the game so the details of this story no longer matches actual lore. Good, now that that is out of the way, I would also like to add that this is my first long form fan fiction. If you have tips, criticism, or even just happen to find a spelling or grammar mistake, review or message me. I am completely willing to listen and learn.
As a general rundown, this story follows one squad of characters based off of my friends and me. I wanted to give Tenno a voice they never had and using my friends for their personality made sense. The story has some action, some fluff, some dialogue, some intense scenes and some more.
Either way, I'll stop typing now. Enjoy!
The storage room on the Grineer frigate was dim and dusty. One giant window in the room showed off many bright flashes as the ship's cannons fired, but only to test them as there were no targets. The single room full of ammo and random containers from the ship's conquests was infrequently visited despite the number of times similar rooms had been invaded on other grineer ships. A single guard meandered through on occasion but never saw anything. It was a storage room and nothing more. The grineer fleet was huge so the chances of this one being invaded was small.
Except today, the ship was being invaded.
The room already held three Tenno, complete with warframes and weapons. They barely noticed the firing of the cannons as they stood talking while waiting for the last member of their squad to show up so they could start their simple extermination mission.
Suddenly a crash was heard as the vent on the ceiling fell to floor followed by a Volt warframe. The Volt landed softly then instinctively froze to listen for any Grineer who may have heard the sound. He had been surprised once and that was enough for him. After a few second, he stood up knowing that a group of Grineer was not on its way.
The Volt wore basic colors on his warframe, not wanting to look fancy and also being dreadful at picking a good color palette. His weapon set consisted of a Latron Wraith, two Lex pistols, and Kronen. Bring an experienced Tenno, he had mastered these weapons and considered them his favorites. Before doing anything else, he let out his Helios sentinel. Even though the sentinel type was not the most popular, the want to learn about the enemies made the scanner an invaluable tool. It was also modded to aid in defense which worked well for the pair.
Realizing that a conversation was probably going on between his fellow squad-mates, the Volt connected to the squad's voice comms system.
"That's not what your mother said!" a male voice yelled as soon as he entered the system. The Volt let out a small laugh both showing he found the comment funny and to signify his presence.
"You two are already arguing about something?" the volt asked. "What is it this time?"
"We are just discussing how the Nikana is a better sword than the Dakra Prime." a slightly british tinged voice responded. "Also, hi Spud!" she added.
"Hi Hayden." Spud responded simply. "And again? I keep telling you and Lonewolf that they shouldn't even be classed together in terms of weapons."
"Yeah," the first voice, Lonewolf, responded "but that doesn't change the fact that the Dakra Prime is better!" He yelled.
A small laugh was then heard in the system. Spud turned towards the corner where an Oberon warframe was leaning. The horned helmet he wore was impressive to say the least, and the bright orange and black colors fit rather well. His collection consisted of a Vectis which was being held up by the Tenno, two Magnus pistols on his sides, a glaive one his wrist, and a Shade sentinel floating above his shoulder. Nicknamed because of his impressive accuracy with his weapons, the Oberon was proudly called Falkenauge meaning "Hawkeye" in the ancient language of German.
"Hey Falken." Spud said. "How long have they been arguing?"
"Hey Spud. Literally since we arrived." Falken said with a joking tone.
Spud laughed as he turned towards the original speakers. Lonewolf wore a yellow and black Ash warframe and carried a Soma rifle, Acrid, and a Dakra Prime, being the only one in the squad with a primed weapon of any kind given how rare it was to find all the parts for one weapon. He also had a Wyrm sentinel floating above his shoulder but it had the Dethcube machine rifle instead of the standard Wyrm weapon. Getting his name from running mostly solo missions, Lonewolf was a very effective fighter.
Hayden wore a Trinity warframe and was easily one of the best healers. She had colored her warframe black, white, and yellow and wore a helmet which kinda resembled an angel halo, something many people had commented on. She also had a Sybaris, a Marelok, and a Bo staff as her weapons. Her Carrier sentinel floated above her shoulder as well but was more for collecting items than for combat. Despite primarily being a healer, Hayden was also good at fighting.
"Well, should we start our mission?" Spud asked. "It is only an exterminate so it will be easy." He said trying not to sound too impatient but failing pretty badly.
"I wanted to ask you all about something first." Falken said while pushing himself away from the wall to join the other three. "Have you heard any rumbling above a new Corpus executive? Alad V I think I heard?" he asked towards Spud since he tended to have more information than most.
"Not too much." Spud said simply. "Just a few things here and there. He seems to be interested in thinking of something new to make his precious profits. Building something perhaps. Most spy missions have failed, some really badly." They all glanced at him slightly. "Some haven't… come back…" he clarified slowly.
"That is more than a little concerning…" Hayden mumbled to herself. "I'm surprised you haven't tried to take that mission yet Spud. You like that sort of thing."
"Well I'm not supposed to know about this to be fair. Not yet at least." Spud replied.
"Either way, I don't think it will be too long before we break through and find out what he is doing." Lonewolf said. "We always do at some point."
"Yeah," Falken said, "but you have to admit that it is kind of sc-" he started to say as he was cut off by the sound of a door opening.
"Grineer coming this way, just one." Spud said quickly as he actually had sight of the door.
Spud quickly dispersed the small amount of energy he held. The emptying of his energy pool made the light fade from the coils on his arms but also caused the lights to flicker before burning out completely.
The now curious grineer quickly pulled his grakata up to look for any threats and walked into the small area where Hayden and Lonewolf were next to the doorframe, Falken was in a dark corner, and Spud was in the other corner. Noticing the grate on the ground, the grineer started to get suspicious.
Spud's energy siphon mod then kicked in making his energy pool rise while also allowing for the coils to light up their normal red color. The grineer noticed quickly and shortly after noticed the rifle aimed at his face. Trying to escape and tell the other grineer, he ran towards the door but was quickly hit in the face with a Bo causing his to fall and quickly get stabbed by Lonewolf's Dakra Prime resulting in a quick death.
"Okay, I think it is time to start." Spud said without any complaints from the others. The group headed towards the door to the rest of the ship to complete their mission.
"Multiple enemies ahead. Leave no one standing." The voice of the Lotus said in their comms. And with that, the squad went out.
The mission was going well. The combined powers and strengths of the Tenno worked well together for clearing out rooms. As they approached a door, the Lotus cut in.
"Tenno." She said quietly. The squad stopped. The Lotus never talked so quiet. "The grineer have gathered a big force in the next room. For what reason, I do not know but they do not know you are here. Be careful."
"Well that sounds fun." Hayden said, sounding bored. "But I suppose we should be careful."
They entered the large room quietly. The number of grineer was substantial nothing they couldn't handle. Falken quickly ran for the group to get a better vantage point using his Shade's invisibility to sneak past grineer unnoticed. Once in position, he made a small sound to tell the others to attack.
The three remaining Tenno jumped into battle as Vectis shots rained from above, taking out at least one grineer per shot. The grineer quickly noticed and started shooting at the approaching Tenno.
"Time for some fun." Spud said as he activated his speed ability, giving the three of them an insane boost in running speed. Upon reaching the first grineer, Spud pulled out his Kronen and did a sliding, sweeping attack which took out a few grineer without a problem. Noticing the empty space around him, he put his Kronen away and started taking shots with his Latron Wraith. The roaring of the weapon matched its power as single shots took down enemies easily.
Lonewolf started his attack with two shuriken thrown towards the grineer and taking two out with them. He quickly activated his Blade Storm ability and teleported around applying lethal strikes to multiple enemies while three clones of himself did the same which took out a large portion of the attacking force. Upon finishing his Blade Storm, Lonewolf pulled out his Soma and started taking out enemies quickly with the combination of the gun's high fire rate and Lonewolf's almost perfect aim.
Hayden had jumped over the first grineer and was fighting a small group of grineer with her Bo while keeping a close eye on everybody's health and shields. The Bo strikes were strong but she eventually pulled out her Marelok to quickly kill the enemies at close to mid range before using her Sybaris to hit the enemies farther away.
Falken provided great cover from above. He shot perfectly with the sniper rifle, never missing a shot and also helping his teammates. He fired a shot at a grineer trying to flank Spud, a grineer with a shield that Lonewolf couldn't quite hit, and grineer butcher running at Hayden from behind.
Suddenly, a loud clang was heard as Spud was knocked down by a shield. Falken quickly turned and killed the attacking before Spud could even get up. Spud activated his electric shield to gain some cover and saw that some Bombards were entering the room too. He heard the rockets fire and quickly shocked the group attacking from behind him. This gave him enough time to pull one Lex and shoot 2 rockets out of the air. Under the cover of the smoke, Spud activated his Speed ability and launched himself towards the Bombards, his Kronen flashing as he hit from behind and from the front not allowing them to fight back.
Lonewolf teleported over knocking one off balance and driving his blade deep into the grineer's stomach. Hayden also ran over and activated her Link ability as one Bombard smashed the ground causing Spud and Lonewolf to fall while Hayden stood standing as her Link knocked down the enemies nearby. She quickly healed the group noticing that the area was clear. A sound was then heard behind them as Falken lifted up 4 enemies hiding behind the group and smashed them towards to ground to finish them off.
"Well that mission was a success." Falken said. "At least I didn't have to pick any of you back up this time." he said with a smirk.
"Yeah, yeah. Let's just get going." Spud said. "I think we've deserved a little break."
The squad started walking towards the extraction to get out of the now deserted grineer ship and headed to their clan dojo.