Hello everyone! So, I'll be alternating consistently between Destiny and the other two stories. Once one ends, I'll have less to put up with. So anyway, I do not own Destiny or its characters, ideas, ect. If you have an idea for a story, please leave a review. So, now in to the story.
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ACT I: FALLEN
CHAPTER TWO: Back From the Grave
Alec woke with a start, gasping greedily for air. For him, it was seconds after we was surrounded by explosions and his team, only to have everything swiftly end. But his body felt like it had been centuries. He found himself looking through a visor of a helmet he was not supposed to be wearing. He rolled over to see a skull looking straight at him. He gasped, jumping back. He gets to his knees, looking at himself and what he was wearing. Mixed colors of beige and white covered his jumpsuit as his belt held knives and whatever other tools he held. He was wearing a simple space helmet mixed with a scarf around his neck. He looks at his black, latex gloves, flexing his fingers and moving them around. He felt like he could do this forever, the pain still winding him. He looked up to see a small floating, white object with four pointed sides on the top, bottom, left and right of its eye. There is the same pattern near the back. The single eye is diamond shaped and is shaped like the machine itself. "Hello," The machine said in a light voice. "You're Alec Fields right? I'm Hades. I'm a Ghost. Well, I'm your Ghost. I'm sure you have a lot of questions, and there are people who are willing to answer them. But right now, we need to get moving. We're in fallen territory."
Alec looks around. He is surrounded by rusting cars and bones, human and alien, and there is a soft grey patch of dirt beneath him. In front of him is a massive wall. The scenery, most of all is what confused Alec. Before he was fighting a war in a city, surrounded by explosions, friends and massive machinery. Now everything is gone, and there is a wall. "Where am I," Alec asks, his throat so dry he barely managed to get the words out. "Fallen territory? How long was I out?"
"You weren't out," Hades replies back. "You were dead for a long time. Hundreds of years. Listen, we don't have much time. I made a lot of noise bringing you back. We're sitting ducks out here. We need to get in the wall." Before Alec could wrap his head around anything, there was a wail out in the distance, echoing for a bit. More similar wails followed. And they didn't sound friendly. Then Hades disappears. Before panic settled in, Alec hears Hades' voice say "Don't worry, I'm still with you. Kind of. In the wall. Hurry!" Alec gets up and starts running through the maze of cars to the wall.
"So, from what I can gather," Alec says, while sprinting. "The aliens are the fallen. And we lost the Battle for Russia?"
"Yes." Hades says simply and brutally. Alec shivers. His friends are gone and they lost the war.
"So, why are we going through the wall?" Alec asks.
"The breach there could lead us somewhere. Mainly, we have to get out of here before we get swarmed by fallen. You heard how close they are."
"The area beyond the wall doesn't have any fallen?"
"Unlikely. If there's a breach, the fallen probably did it. They're all over Russia by now."
"Then how do we escape?" No response. Basically, Hades' plan revolves on running around until they find something that could possibly help. He runs into the breach and up a catwalk, running through the dark area. They go in further and further until they can no longer see. A flash of light appears that makes the view in front of Alec more visible but he still cannot see everything. Eventually, they reach a big open area that is complete darkness.
"There has to be a light switch somewhere." Hades says as he strays away from Alec. Alec, taking the hint, stays put until Hades finds something. The hum of a generator suddenly activates and some lights turn on. Alec swears as he sees swarms of Fallen on the walls and machines flying around to stop and turn around in confusion. An uproar fills the room and the human knows what the fallen think. There is a human. "Crap," Hades says panicky. "Through the gate! Grab that gun! Hurry!" Alec runs through an opening gate and sees a rifle leaning against a box. He picks it up and observes it. A Khvostov 7G-02 auto rifle. Not the best, but he cannot complain. At least now he has a gun. He runs through the hallway, crossing corners and sprinting at a high speed as the screaming grows quieter.
"What was that?" Alec asks, angry at the encounter.
"They were more intact in here than I thought," Hades says, sounding guilty. "Just keep moving. Look at your motion sensor. If any fallen appears, kill them." As Alec runs down a hall way, two humanoid creatures appear with strange helmets, with spikes on the right side of the helmet. It seems to be wearing light armor, along with rags like scarfs. They have a type of pistol in one hand and a dagger in the other. "Dregs!" Hades yells. Alec raises his rifle and aims for one of the dregs, squeezing the trigger. Three bullets hit the first dreg in the face, and the its head explodes, a white mist shooting out like a volcano. The next dreg fires three times at Alec, which lightly damages his shield. Alec squeezes the trigger and the alien takes rounds to the stomach sending it flying. A third dreg falls in right in front of Alec and draws its dagger. Alec reaches for a knife of his hip and swings. It clashes with the dreg's dagger and sends it to the side. Alec then stabs at the dreg's face, killing the creature. He continues running.
A destroyed wall is parallel to where Alec fought the Dregs. He slips through into a load out looking area inside are five dregs and a new fallen. "Watch that vandal!" Hades yells. The vandal appears more civil, with medium looking armor and four arms. He appears to be holding a rifle and is on top of a canister. Alec manages to get a few shots off at a dreg, which dies quickly, and the vandal. The latter shuffles back and holds up his rifle. Alec manages to slide into cover, where he waits out the impending storm of bullets. He peeks out to the left, seeing the vandal waiting to get a shot off while the two dregs on ground level are firing away. He looks to the left to see one dreg staying behind firing as another, only armed with daggers, runs forward. Seeing his chance, Alec waits until the dreg gets close and pulls his knife. Once he can see the fallen, he surges forward and stabs the dreg in the face. The other dreg tries to fire at Alec, but does not land anything before his head is blown apart.
Alec rushes forward, and the second he sees the vandal, he fires. The vandal takes quite a few shots but in the end, it fell. Alec spins to kill the last dregs and then runs to an opening hallway. Inside he sees a chest on a box. "That chest could have something valuable." Hades notes. Alec stops and opens the chest to find a sniper rifle. He puts it on his back holster without thinking and continues running. In the next corridor, there are lasers jutting out. "Trip mines," Hades yells. "Don't touch the beams." Alec crouches and shuffles under the first beam right as a dreg appears. Alec fires and gets through the next beam right as more dregs appear. He ducks behind a fork in the hall, and waits as the dregs shoot. In the end, he pops up and mows them down. He runs through the hallway to find himself in an arena of some sort, and a collection of eight dregs and five vandals. Alec gets off a few shots just in time to see a dreg fall and the others turn toward him. The human runs as the murderous aliens take aim and shoot, missing all the same.
As he runs, he manages to flank multiple enemies, using hit and run tactics to confuse the enemy. He does this over and over until all of the enemies are dead. One vandal in particular has a strap on his belt holding several round objects. Alec takes the band and sees that the objects are grenades, five in total, yellow in color. Shaking them around, he hears a sloshy sound of a likely viscous fluid. Crude twenty-fifth century incendiary grenades. You throw them and anything in a five foot radius gets caught in an explosion. Alec pulls the grenades from the strap and attaches them to his belt, moving through the door on the right to move outside of the wall and into a large area with rundown buildings to the front of him, what looks like unused warehouses to his left and a large yard with a concrete gate to his right. Covering the scape are large towers with spheres emanating from them. Early twenty-third century technology. Alec could not quite grasp what this place is, but Hades knew immediately.
"A Cosmodrome," the machine says. "If this place is still standing, and if everything isn't in bits…the docks! There could be a ship there!" Before Alec had any time to contemplate on anything, two weird looking ships pass through the air, one headed for the warehouses, the other headed for the yard. "Dropships! They know we're here," Hades says. "And there's a massive fallen troop headed for the gate of the dock! They're hiding something." Alec gets up on a rock formation and pulls out his sniper rifle, glancing through the scope to see what he's swarming. The ships dropped off a few vandals and another tall, broad shouldered and wearing heavy armor surrounding his four arms, his huge crested helmet and his red cloak.
"Who's that," Alec asks. "He looks important."
"That's a fallen captain," Hades says. "On the channels, they call him 'Rhan.' He was stalking me earlier when I was searching for you. If he's here, whatever is in there is important. Shanks coming out of the dock." Small hovering machines with propellers on their sides and turrets on their underside float out of the building. After a majority of the group goes inside, Alec counts the enemies. Ten dregs, five vandals and five shanks. The sniper rifle only has three rounds in it, so Alec has to make smart choices. He aims for a vandal's head and fires. A second later, some white, misty material is spewing out of their neck and he falls. The fallen begin panicking, scattering for weapons as Alec takes aim for another vandal. He fires again, and again at another vandal. The Fallen scatter around to find the attacker as Alec throws an incendiary grenade. As Alec reloads, he sees a massive explosion that throws multiple cars into the air. He looks back through the scope to see with satisfaction that the Fallen are dead. He runs for the dock and heads inside of the dock.
Running down the hallway, he sees two dregs and two vandals. In an instant, Alec pulls a grenade and throws it at their feet. The hall explodes and the fallen are dead. Moving on, Alec's motion tracker picks up large amounts of motion in the following room. He sees inside to see the captain, Rhan, three vandals and three dregs picking a jumpship apart, while five dregs, five vandals and three shanks stand guard. Alec picked two grenades from his belt and threw them at the fallen's feet, causing a huge explosion that kills all of the dregs and vandals standing guard. Ale picks off the shanks before they can fire right when the vandals and dregs fall with Rhan, the captain roaring loudly. The captain fires a four barreled gun, making Alec duck for a control room nearby. As he runs, he guns down two dregs and stabs a vandal in the face. He takes cover as the fallen fire. Alec peeps over cover to see the dreg and vandals in formation around Rhan, all firing furiously.
Alec takes his last grenade and throws it in the general direction, the gunfire masked by an explosion. The human pulls out his sniper rifle in time to see Rhan, without his shields, staggered and stunned, surrounded by dead fallen. Alec fires one gunshot, and kills Rhan. After, Hades teleports in and Alec holsters his gear. "We don't have much time," The human says. "My motion detector is picking up lots of movement behind us. How's the ship?" Alec never got a good look at the dusty, rusty ship before. An ancient Arcadia-class jumpship, shaped like an arrow with a long tipped nose and rockets in the back.
"It's ancient," Hades replies, flying around the ship to get a good look for it. "It probably hasn't made a jump in ages. Found the engine. Telemetry reads really weak power though. Can't break atmosphere."
"But can it fly?" Alec asks. If they can get out of this area, then the problem is solved.
"I can make it work." Hades says, firing a blue beam at the back of the ship where the engine would be. Alec hears a few roars behind him, and a minute later dregs appear. Around the same time, the ship begins to hover. Alec is teleported inside and is faced with old controls. Gunfire taps the armor of the ship, as Hades teleports into existence. "Setting co-ordinates. I'll drive." The ship lifts into the air above the roofless building and flies far up into the clouds, escaping the area where Fallen area swarming. After clearing fifty meters from the dock, Alec finally sits back and relaxes.
"So," He says. "Where now?"
"Nepal." Hades answers simply, not looking away from the dirty console.
"Why Nepal?" Alec asks, bewildered about the strange question. They just started to clear the Russian border, they're headed to an area in Nepal.
"You don't understand, right," Hades says, then turning to Alec. "Well, there was a huge battle in Nepal when the Darkness closed in. Humanity was surrounded at all sides and everyone was about to die until the Traveler…did something. I'm not sure what, but it forced the Darkness back and annihilated all of the enemies in the area. It also cost the Traveler its life. But its light still is active in that area, meaning under the Traveler is where we're most safe. So…"
"City comms, identify yourself." A voice says from a radio.
"This is a Ghost, I've come with a new Guardian." Hades replies back.
"Confirmed," The voice says. "Welcome home." The feed comes in as they break from under the clouds to see the massive white sphere that is the Traveler, and beneath it a City so large and alive it made the area in Russia look primitive. They appear to be headed toward the largest tower in the area.
"This is the Last Safe City on Earth," Hades says. "It was used a safe haven to keep humanity alive. Now, we're counting every day it stands. And this tower is where the Guardians live."
The worst part about long chapters is the editing. I'm lazy, so I usually don't do it. But still. I hate. If you like this chapter, please tell me what I can improve. I'll see you around, guys.
God bless, JPLegends
