Hey those who have gotten this far. Very much appreciate it. Feel like I'm getting a groove here so don't forget to tell me how I'm doing. Anyways Enjoy!
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Mars. Once the center of Humanity in its golden age as this was where the Traveler first appeared. Turning the red landscape into green, and lush with life. At the center of it all a thriving metropolis called Freehold, its towers stretching high into the sky.
But now it was empty, the once thriving city slowly being taken by the passages of time, the red sands of mars, and the Cabal's war with the Vex and the Fallen House of Wolves. Who taken up residency within the now empty city. You normally wouldnt of walked far while exploring the city to run into a Cabal patrol, Vex, or the Fallen. But today, the city remains silent, no patrols, checkpoints, or fortified positions. All that remains was just the sand and the breeze of the martian sandy winds. Bristling against the towering skyscrapers that jut out of the sand, the rest buried beneath the sand for the first time in a long time. There was peace and quite.
BANG, THRUMP, CRASH! "OW! WHERE DID ALL THIS COME FROM?!"
Never mind.
Deep within the darken hallways of Freehold, bellow a mile of sand. Pavela was back to doing what she does in her off time. Exploring the old ruins of the city for golden age "stuff". She was in the process of trying to rip a door open with her bare hands. An when the door broke free and open a mountain of junk fell on her. "Ya know, i could of open that door for you." Spooks said as he hovered over the pile. Pavela's head pokes out of it like the long extinct prairie dog. "Ah! But wheres the sense of exploration if i had you open every door down here. It would take 10 minutes to open one-" THUNK!
A large sphere like object fell from the top of the pile and smacked smacked her in the head, where she slunk back into the pile with Strange Coins spinning around her head. Spooks shakes is shell "Myes, it would take me 10 minutes to open every door. Cant fault old world security, and what ever Rasputin has on lock-down down here." He floated over the pile as Pavela slowly got out of it with a grown. Seeing a whole in the pile he looked to see a long dark hallway. He used his eye as a flash light to scan the area. With a hum when the results showed no lifeforms, hostile lifeforms, where in the area.
"You know, the cabal of been silent for a awfully long time." As he floats over to a sign on the wall saying "Residential Area 12B". As Pavela dug a path through the junk as she fallows right behind Spooks "Ya, normally I would be happy to NOT get shot every 10 minutes. On a Good day! But..." She looks at the sign Spooks was looking at before and wipe some sand off of it. "We broke there backs, we killed nearly everyone that has a leadership. There entire fleet was annihilated."
"95%" Spooks corrected her
"You know what i mean." Pavela turned on her own personel flashlight as she looks around the hallway, as they walk they come upon a large recreational area with multiple floors going 5 floors high with a glass dome, long covered by sand.
Spooks as he looks up at the ceiling with a bit of dread "But i sense something else to it."
Pavela not really paying attention to the possible danger above her as she heads to the closest door and put her hands between them as she slowly pulls it apart. The gears creaking in defiance as she opens it. Revealing a apartment untouched for who knows how long "Well...that's the point. We broke them, really bad." She goes inside, sweeping her flashlight around as she looks around "We broke the back of a scouting force, that's long since been here during the collapse you would think they would call for help?" She eyes a box and walks over to it.
As she opens the box Spooks floats in and immediately goes to a old looking tablet and scans it "Your afraid they might actually call for reinforcements from the Empire, or bring the entire empires forces down on this system correct?" Pavela, throwing some useless junk out of the box, poke her head up. "Well..ya. This is a scouting force. A stupidly huge scouting force. Not the main body of the Cabal. This could be what passes as there pinkie on there hands. And we broke said pinkie." She eyes another boke and walks over to it, as she opens it up and digs in she heard a "Oooh" from Spooks.
"Found something interesting?"
"2 Terabyte's of Music, 4 of some movies, 2 of a bunch of games and 6 of...uh..."
Pavela looked over to see him fluster around. "What did ya find some old world virus or something?"
"Um...not...quite... think of it as human...procreation videos." Pravela stopped all process of thought to digest what he said. "Oh."
"Yea...can i delete it?" Pavela looked at him with a evil grin. "And what loose all that ancient history?" Spooks just rolled his eye as he glares at her "You will be in so much trouble if anyone finds out about this."
Pavela laughs as she goes back to searching, something catches her eye in a cabinet so she walks over to it. "Just give it to Xur, Traveler knows what he does in his spare time or what he'll see next...creepy eldritch face spook." she mutters the last part under her breath.
"Hmm?"
"Nothing Spooks." She looks into the cabinet to see a perfectly intact stuff teddy bear, though the its color a bit fade. She gentle grabbed it as she looks it over. She'll visit Eva on her way back to get it touched up.
She heard some weird Techno sound as she swung around, Kvostov 7G-0X in one hand as she see's the source of the weird sound coming from Spooks as he bobs up and down. "running in the 90s..." He stops to see Pavela gun pointed at him. "Oops"
Pavela sighed as she put her primary on her back again. "Warn me before you ply some of that old worlds music. Okay buddy." Spooks shook his eye "Myes. I gotta say, this songs pretty catchy." He plays abit of the song, and already Pavela, for some reason, felt annoyed about it. "Urgh sounds annoying." She walks over him and taps his shell, he looks at her, then the teddy bear. He instantly transports it to there ship in orbit as "I dont know what your talking about, its catchy and good compare to what you call music. More like to hive mating call." he continues to now hum the song as he flee's to the next apartment.
Pavela chasing after him "OH YOU DID NOT JUST CALLED MY ROCK MUSIC A HIVE MATING CALL!"
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After about a few hours of rummaging through the long abandon apartment complex. Pavela felt good with the haul she got from it. She pulled out a map of a drawn freehold and added "Come back later" and put a big circle around it. As she approach the surface she was greeted by the night sky of mars, a lovely aurora borealis dancing across the sky.
"Ya know, if we don't here from any baddies in this area, I would generally consider it safe to come back here. It's so peaceful." Pavela said as she look up in the sky.
Spooks "Um, about that peace thing-" BANG
Pavela nearly dodges the bullet from a Wire rifle as it bounces off her helmet. She Immediately takes cover and takes her trusty auto rifle out. "Ah shit, Spooks did ya see where that came from?!"
"Vandal 2 stories up, broken window with some type of cloth hanging out on the right. Careful hes cloaked."
"Urgh i don't have time for this." Flames start to form around her as she concentrates to conjure the hammer of sol. It appears in a bright flash of fire in her hand as she peeks out of cover. Looking for the Vandal. She caught a glimmer from the Vandals scope as she duck back into cover avoiding again losing her head. She retaliated by chucking the hammer at the Vandal offender, who watched with awe that a guardian throw a hammer, that's on fire, at him.
They all watched as the hammer flew through the air, leaving a trail of fire behind. The Vandal and Pavela watched as it dug itself in the floor below him, making a resounding thud with nothing happening. The Flames dying out around the hammer. A smoke trail leaving the impact crater.
Then he started to laugh hysterically which was more like shrieking then laughing.
"I think he's laughing at you. And maybe called said you throw like a child." Spooks said, fighting back a chuckle himself. Pavela growled in annoyance. The hammer was supposed to explode when it touches the ground, what the hell hap-BOOM!
The Vandals laughter ended when the floor below him exploded spectacularly. Taking a huge portion of the building with it as it exploded outwards. When the dust settles, all that remains was half the building has a gaping flaming hole in it.
"BY THE SPEAKERS SHINY HEAD THAT WAS AWESOME!" Pavela raised her arms in triumph.
"That was...a spectacular fail...but also you won that...how?" Spooks said as Pavela inspects the wrecked.
"I don't know. But i do know is that I would like to be out of here before his buddy's come along." She pokes the smoldering corps of the Vandal to make sure he was dead.
She soon found herself poking her controls as she was transported back into her ship in mars orbit. "Lets set a course for home, I got a package to deliver."
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Pavela landed her ship in the hanger at the Tower, visited the residential tailor Eva Levante, then proceeded to head down to the last city. Soon as she got off the elevator she was greeted by a bustling sight of poeple going about there business. Getting off she headed down the main street for awhile before coming to a large Plaza with various vendors selling there goods like fresh fruit, baked bread, and Sparrows.
In her opinion to many sparrows.
"SPARROWS. I GOT SPARROWS HERE!"
"I GOT S-20's. I GOT S-22's. VARIOUS COLORS AND PATTERNS OF YOUR CHOOSING."
"HEY YOU, YOU LOOK LIKE THE KIND OF GAL WHO WOULD LOOK GOOD ON A S-13."
"I already have a Sparrow buddy." She walks pass him as she looks around, searching for something or someone. Her eyes locked onto a head of a human girl about a inch shorter then herself, medium chest build and tantalizing blue eyes with silver white hair in a ponytail. Who was having a conversation with a Exo over her stall, "Lara's Lost Relic's". She walked on over as the Exo walked away. "Hey Lara, hows business going for ya."
Lara Foche looked up from counting her earnings to greet Pavela with a smile "Oh Guardian Pavela, nice to see you again! Did you find anymore interesting things from Freehold?"
Spooks materialized next to Pavela, and with a flash a large box appeared next to her. "Sure thing, found this apartment complex deep down after opening up a few doors, digging my way through collapse roofing and sand. Lots of sand."
"I hope you were careful, last time you went exploring down there they said you got berried by sand." Pavela shrugs "Hey I dug my way out of there." "After about 3 days." Lara put her hand on her hips and gave her a questionable look.
"Oh she got berried alright." Spooks said as he showed Lara a video of Pavela getting berried by a pile of junk. All the way up to the point where that sphere like object smacked her in the head. Lara laughed at that part. "Your such a goof ball Pavela." She said as she continued to giggle at the video.
Pavela rolled her eyes "You know i got ambushed by like 40 Fallen when i got back to the surface, it was a intense firefight I tell ya." Spooks just lazy eyes her. "Do i need to show her the actual truth of that "Epic Battle" you been rehearsing on the flight over here from "fighting" that one Vandal." Pavela deflated at that, as Lara was holding a laugh back.
"Urgh. Anyways is Elizabeth here, got something for her." Her answer was someone pulling on her Mark of the Queen's Guard. She looked don to see a little girl, possibly 5 years of age with he same hair color as Lara looked at her with huge puppy dog eyes. She went "Aaaaw" in her mind as she knelt down. "Hey Liz, how you been doing lately, still scared of the dark?" Elizabeth nodded, not saying a word as she stares at her. Spooks floats behind her as she reach's behind her back as he materializes the teddy bear into her hands. "Well i got a little companion i found that will protect you from the big bad darkness."
She pulled the recolored teddy bear with some "Extra" bits on it, making it look like a adorable Titan plushie, out from behind her back. She watched as Elizabeth's eyes went wide, and immediately took the bear into a big hug, squeezing the refurbish and now sturdy "Titan bear" tightly. Pavela smiled as she got up and looked to see Lara also smiling at her baby sister and at Pavela, she always likes it when she smiles.
"Sorry to interrupt the heart melting moment happening right now. But Pavela the Vanguard request your presence. They got a new assignment and it may or may not take you to Remnant." Spooks said, the metaphorical pin dropped as Pavela was shocked. Her being assigned to go to Remnant? She wasn't even part of a Fireteam so why she being assigned there. "You mean the lost colony that everyone and there mother are talking about?"
"That's the one, they are requesting your presences immediately." Spooks said as he disappears back into her head. Pavela looked to Lara "Well, this got interesting." But notice she got a worried looked on face.
"Hey it's gonna be alright, from what i heard these "Grim" are laughable at best, a chuckle if it happens when they get serious." This brought the smile back on her face, abit less so. "Hey I'm gonna be alright, new world new stuff to explore. More baddies to blast in the face. It's gonna be alright."
Lara spoke softy "Its not that, its the people there, they were at each others throats before summer arrived. And still are I heard, but less so when the vex invaded there world. I'm just worried something that bad happens over there and you'll be stuck there." Pavela rested her hand on Lara's shoulder "I'll be fine, would take a Entire planet to bring down this "Goof Ball" of a guardian. I'll try and bring back some souvenirs for you and Liz. And who knows, you might find new costumers. Speaking of there's a old lady eyeing that pendant over there, she might be a runner." Lara chuckled as she went up to Pavela and giver her a kiss on the cheek. "Be safe out there." As she turns around and talks with said old lady about the pendant.
Pavela felt something tackled her leg as she looks to see Elizabeth hugging her thigh tightly. "Don't worry kiddo. I'll be back, and i promise to bring the biggest teddy bear i can find." Pavela ruffled her hair a bit as she let go, and gave Her a thumbs up, Pavela gave a thumbs up back as she watched Elizabeth head back behind the stall.
Pavela turned on her heels and quickly jogged back to the tower. Wondering what mysteries she gonna find on a world forgotten, but discovered once again. And more likely defend it against the darkness once again. Not before she see's what secrets this world holds.
