Part One: The Journey Begins_

"Kei Dragdoul, Trinity Eversteel, and Xor-3285. Please report to the Hall of Guardians."

Kei paused and looked over at the wire mesh of the intercom in confusion; He was never called down there... He put down the wrench he was using and slid out from underneath his ship, the large Ether Eater was in for maintenance after a sudden run-in with a small Cabal fleet, nothing too bad, just a scrape. Still needed to get the cockpit re-sealed though...

He tossed his helmet into the cockpit and turned towards the elevator that led up to the main hangar bay. He gestured to Arach, the Dead Orbit vendor before continuing to the Tower Plaza. Then down into the Hall of Guardians,there he found the three Vanguard leaders waiting for him. A little off to their right was a tall awoken titan, her short, almost black hair hung down to her shoulders. It stopped just before the dark strands touched her plasteel armor plating. She stood with her back straight and her chin high, attentive and ready to receive orders. Xor, a hunter with a reputation for ignoring orders on a colossal scale was nowhere to be seen, as to be expected. Kei nodded to Ikora as he walked over to stand beside Trinity.

The first one to speak was Commander Zavala, his voice rang out clearly through the room, "Ms. Eversteel, if you would please reveal our third guest."

Trinity responded with a nod, before dropping to the floor and sweeping her right leg backwards in a wide arc behind her. At first Kei was confused until he heard a crash and saw a blue and yellow Exo flicker out of active camouflage, he rolled around and grasped at where his head had hit the ground, "Jesus girl, warn a man before you sweep him off his feet like that. I could've gotten a concussion…"

The Titan narrowed her eyes towards the Hunter as she spoke, her irritation slightly edging itself into her tone, "I do not believe that Exos like yourself are even capable of receiving concussions. So cease your nonexistent complaints and listen to your superiors." With that she turned back to Zavala, nodding for him to continue.

"Now that we are all all present and accounted for, we may begin the mission brief." He said, turning to Cayde, who glanced to his ghost and waved his hand forwards. The ghost nodded and projected the blue-grey image of a massive fallen Ketch.

The hunter clapped his hands together and rocked backwards on his heels, "Ok guardians! This is your mission. See that Ketch? It's been drifting around the system for a few months now, It hasn't come anywhere near any of our outposts so we decided to leave it alone. Then this happened:", He raised his arm and snapped his fingers. The hologram of the fallen flagship blinked into static for a moment before pulling up a flat image of what looked like a landing pad of some sort. "This here is footage from our newly established outpost on Triton, after the incident with Oryx we decided to keep a relatively close eye on the space around the outer planets. The video here is shot from a helmet camera on one of the guardians stationed there. Cayde pushed another button and the video began playing.

The guardian in the video was standing still, leaning up against the main entrance of the base, he scanned the perimeter of the platform slowly, allowing Kei and the others to get a good look at the surroundings. Then there was a noise, a loud bang as something came out of slipspace. The guardian's head-cam swerved as he turned his head, he gasped and swore when he saw almost two dozen Fallen Skiffs speeding towards the landing platform. He raised a hand to his head and shouted, "Hey guys we've got a big problem up here! We need artillery of some kind fast!" He rushed over to the large door of the base and slammed his fist on a control panel, making the door lift out of the ground as it opened.

The first few drop-ships arrived and dropped several squads of vandals wielding electrified blades that immediately rushed the guardian, he scrambled underneath the door as soon as he could fit through the gap. He jumped to his feet and rushed over to another panel, his fist came down on the release button on the door and it slammed shut. Unfortunately not before several of the vandals were able to slip through and begin charging him. He pulled out an auto rifle and fired a volley of shots into the wave of Fallen soldiers. His attention was so focused on the vandals in front of him that he failed to notice the shimmer of fallen cloaking circling around him. The camera jerked upward suddenly, throwing the perspective to the ceiling before jerking back to the vandals and then sinking sideways to the floor, a pool of awoken blood began to seep out from around the camera's lense. Beyond the blood-stained paneling on the floor was she large hangar door, which started to open again as the fallen pressed the button to let the rest of the invaders in.

One fallen vandal stopped in front of the camera. It turned and stared straight at it, then it pulled out a pistol and shot the recording device, ending the video and sending it into static.

The guardians stood there in silence, contemplating what they had just seen. After a very lengthy ten second Xor clapped his hands together and took a few steps back, "Well, that looks very fun and I'd love to participate but I just remembered that I have something to do out in the… um… Reef, yeah. I have to pick something up from an arms dealer and it may take me a few days or so…" He stopped as he noticed everyone staring at him intently. He nodded to himself and spun on his heel, glancing over his shoulder as he-

Whump!

Xor was suddenly thrown to the floor by Trinity. The Titan had him pinned to the floor with her knee and was holding his arms behind his back. He squirmed uncomfortably under her, "Ok! If we are going to be a fireteam you have got to stop doing that missy.", the hunter said, clearly irritated that his attempts to evade the mission had failed.

The Trinity sighed, "If you would simply stop trying to ignore direct orders from your commanding officers, I would not be required to restrain you.", The Titan pulled back a little more forcefully on the exo's arms.

"That's enough Trinity." Zavala stepped forward and placed a firm hand on her shoulder. Trinity nodded and immediately stood at attention releasing Xor in the process. The vanguard commander turned to Xor on his spot on the ground, only a slight twitch of his lips portraying his amusement, "Now that you see that you cannot run off like you normally do, you are free to prepare for your mission, all of you."

Dismissed!


This is the final revision of Chapter 1.

Also! I've decided to actually label the chapters as I titled them on Google Docs.

And I am Pleased to report that Part 2 of the story is coming soon... Very soon...