"Well that was more difficult than I would have wanted it to be, but I did enjoy shooting him in the head so I guess its still a win-win." I was abit more hesitatant to agree.
"Easy for you to say. You didn't get launched off the platform from all his stomping AND get lit up by a sorch cannon the whole time!"
We finally managed to put Aksor down for good after a long drawn out fight with the big bastard calling in more Fallen reinforcements to try and stop us. Right now Spas is standing where the Archon Priest's body evaporated into ether while BearBear is informing the Vanguard of our misson success.
"What are you talking about? I helped."
"All you did was camp on a high ledge and snipe and use your Nova Bomb ONCE! Atleast BearBear got close to Aksor to get me after I went down and wsited for revive."
BearBrear jumped into the conversation, adding his 2 cents into the mix.
"Sam is right Spas. You sniped and watched as Aksor tear us limb from limb. In Sam's case, literally."
"No one asked for your input BearBear. Anyway, what did Cayde say?"
"He said our next mission is to investigate a secret hive beast hidden in the depths of the moon, but we have time to rest before we have to go."
Spas contemplated on that information.
"So Spas, whats our next move?"
Spas was our leader. She planned our next move, wether we rest after a mission or do missions back to back. She pretty good at her job. We come out alive so I say shes doing good.
"Lets go back to the Tower. We could use a break after the last strike with the Sephiks-Prime."
I hated that strike mission. Stupid teleporting Servitor.
"Yeah, but what about Parkour and the others?"
What I'm refering to is our other three fireteam members: Miget, Wiz, and Parkour. Some time ago, we use to be a fireteam of six until they were sent out to kill the Black Garden while we were sent to deal with Draksis, the Winter Kell. They killed the 'Heart' of the Black Garden and were referred to as LEGEND. Ever since then, they were sent on seperate missions. We barely even have time to hangout together without them being called to do a mission. So we need to get stronger if we want to be noticed by the Vanguard and paired with our friends again, but with them killing Valus Ta'aurc we realize just how much stronger we needed to be.
"We can't be noticed if were relaxing. We neeed to keep pushing."
"Sam is right. We can relax next time, but for now lets do one more mission." Its seems like BearBears in agreement. Spas looked between the two of us and sighed.
"Fine, but lets go change our gear at least. We need some solar based guns if were going to stand a chance to take on the hive. Agreed?" Me and BearBear looked at eachother and smiled.
"Agreed." So we were off. Ghost materalized us into our ships and we were off to the Tower.
Once we reached the tower our ghosts dropped us off to go park our ships in the Hangar. We take our helmets off for the first time in days, I'm reminded how my friends look. BearBear is an Exo like me. He's a very dull blue and has two little antennae on top of his head. As for Spas, she is awoken. She is a pale purple with teal eyes and a orange up-side-down triangle marking on her forehead. We were eachothers first friend since our revivals and our bond has been strong since. We even refer to eachother as siblings sometimes. Its been so long since I have seen their faces it makes me relieved to take a break. Looking at her makes me feel old. Good thing I'm a exo. I don't age. I'm a brown with red eyes and a metal piece that serves as eyebrows that give me a kind of an angry look, but don't worry its just part of my design. I'm actually really nice. As we headed to the Hall of Gaurdians to speak to the vanguard,we were immediately greeted by the crucible handler, Lord Shaxx.
"Ah Spas, its nice to see you again. Are you here for another round of Crucible?"
"Maybe next time, Shaxx. Right now we need to talk to the vanguard."
We say goodbyes to Shaxx and enter the central area to see-
"Midget?!"
"Sam?!"
We run up to each other and didour secret handshake. Passed her was Parkour standing next to Cayde-6 and Wiz standing next to Zavala. Other than BearBear, Miget is the only other human I'm friends with. She earned her name from her height. She still taller than the average man like all guradians, but slightly shorter than the rest of us. She id light-skin with short orange-brown hair.
"So whats up with you guys lately? Any recent missions?"
"Yeah actually. We just came back from taking down the Archon Priest."
"Archon Priest?"
"Big, scary Fallen with big fire gun." BearBear threw in.
"Gotcha." Yeah Miget can be pretty simple sometimes. I'm pretty sure she is the youngest in our whole fireteam though.
"You took down Aksor?" Zavala asked as he aproached us.
"Yes sir. He put up quite the fight let me tell you-"
"-but lets not get sidetracked." Spas interupted.
"We heard from Cayde-6 that we are to investigate a secret hive beast hidden in the moon."
"Yes, but that mission was assigned to Parkour and his fireteam. You were suppose to deal with Sekrion the Nexus Mind."
He looks at Cayde with a stern look. Cayde raises his hands defensively.
"Hey don't look at me it was Ikora's idea.I just went along with it." Zavala looked at Ikora who merely smiles.
"What? I merely believe that its time you gave our other protigee students a chance to prove themselves as guardians is all."
Zavala looked us over questioningly. Contemplating on idea of us going instead of Parkour and his team.
"Very well Ikora, I trust your judgement. If you believe these three young guardians deserve a chance than they will hunt down this hive abomination while the others take down Nexus Mind."
" Yes! This is our chance to show them we got what it takes to become legends. I walked up to Ikfora, thanking her.
"Please young titan, it was no trouble. Actually, it was your Titan friend, Wiz, that proposed the idea."
Everyone looked over at Wiz who merely shrugged. I forgot how much he rarely talks. Its all in the facial expressions with him. To bad he normally has his helmet on. He is a Awoken like Spas. He has purple eyes and a deep purple hair color. His haor was fashioned in a perfect tousle hairstyle that really fit him. Wiz is one hell of a fighter, even better than me. He once used knight's sword to help me cut down a horde of thralls that had surrounded us back during our old days as a 6-man fireteam. We were still left pretty beaten up afterwards though. There were ALOT of thralls. Ah, good times. It sucks the vanguard had split us up into two fireteams to help 'spread our skills out to help maximize our effectiveness' or whatever.
"Guardian I'm curious, why do you call him Wiz when he is a titan?" Ah yes,that infamous question again. I never get tired answering it.
" Its because his cunning is as sharp and lethal as a hive wizard ma'am." I said laughing at how rediculous that rumor sounds when speaking to a wizard, Ikora of all people.
She seemed a bit intriged though.
"My aren't you lucky to have someone so gifted on you team. Sounds like a runner up for Zavala when he steps down from the mantle of titan vanguard."
We shared a laugh as Zavala gave us a confused look.
"Hey guys, Cayde here, you know you don't have to start those missions until tomorrow. Take the day off guardians. You've earned it. Parkour, we'll talk later about that new intel you found for me."
Oh yes, how can I forget about Parkour. After the defeat of the Vex's Black Garden he became Cayde-6's top scouter. His optic sensors never shined so bright. Oh yeah, he is also a Exo. He's yellow and blue with a slender frame in contrast to my bigger, bulkier one. His 'eyes' are yellow too, really reminds my of those sweeper robots scattered around the tower. He hates beginning called them.
As we all walked out of the Hall of Vanguard, I came up with a fun idea.
"I don't know about you guys, but I can definitely go for a drink right about now. Anybody want to join me?" I said.
BearBear and Miget decided to join me, but the other chose to speak to Lord Saladin about entering the Iron Banner for a quick match to practice some sniper shots. "Wait, the Iron Banner isn't for practicing Spas, its for serious guardians looking for a real challenge." "Yeah I know right. Its going to be fun poppin their skulls open with my new sniper rifle, Ex Machina~." "You mean the one you got to replace your old one, Eirene RR4, after the gunsmith couldn't fix it after you smashed it in a rage when Parkour beat you in Rumble Crucible?"
There was a big blue vein on her awoken forehead. "I don't wanna talk about it." Sad to say, that wasn't even the first sniper she broke out of anger.
That elicited a slight chuckle from Wiz. "Whats so funny Wiz, you know I'm getting back at you for when you beat me and Parkour durong the last Iron Banner Event." Wiz merely shrugged. I remember that too. Spas had to replace the sniper she had back then, the VIOLATOR VII, with Eirene RR4. I think anytime Spas loses in a big guardian event, she breaks a sniper beyong repair.
"We'll see you later Spas. Try not to make the ALL the guardians quit. There was barely anyone last time I went in for a match." She scoffed. "No promised. If they can't handle my aim, then they shouldn't be in the competitons." She said with a smirk. Oh no.Traveler bless those guardians poor,poor light for the hell those three are going to put them through.
Me, BearBear, and Miget went to the hangar and bumped into Amanda Holiday as we were heading out. I asked if she wanted to join us, but she declined. "Sorry darlin, I'm workin on a new jumpship design. One thats going to compete with even the fastest ships out there." She said as she pulled her wielding mask back down and slid back under the hood of her prototype. Oh well, I guess another time then.I hopped into my ship, the Fatal Vision, and join BearBear and Miget as we headed down to the Last City to see if there was a good bar open with a sports channel so we could root for Spas and the others in the Iron Banner to see who will win the first match of the season. Because, unlike Shaxx, Lord Saladin don't let weaklings play.
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