WARP ONE

"We were lucky to find this ship just lying around, but we need a warp drive in order to fight beyond Earth." Rusty briefed us on the mission. "And the Cosmodrome is the only place left standing that still might have one."

"Sounds like a 'smash and grab' to me," I said. I was driving the ship through the atmosphere, and to Old Russia. The Titan sat in the cargo hold with The Hunter, whispering about something. "What do mean he's the chosen one?" The Titan asked. His partner replied, "The ghoul to bring back the Light, that's him."

"But, do you feel like it's too easy? We found him before anybody else."

Then she said, "The six that enter, shall be led by one who will harness Pure Light and restore the Traveler."

The Titan was silent, then he spoke, "We need to be sure." The Hunter nodded, then said, "I'll watch him carefully."

I shouted, "We're here!" and teleported everyone to the surface.

"Alright," said the Titan, "Where's this warp drive?"

"A ship crashed here a few weeks ago, so let's head there first."

As we were walking to the crash site, I thought I saw another hunter, perched on a cliff, wearing a torn cloak decorated with bones, and holding a sniper in his hands. But when I turned my head, he was gone. Just a puff of green smoke stood where he was. "Warlock!" shouted The Titan. I turned my head toward him and said, "Yes?" "You need to look at this!" shouted The Hunter. I ran to where they were standing: right next to a crashed ship. Rusty then said, "I'll take a look." He began to scan the ship. "The Warp Drive is trashed, but I can bring up the last transmission." Ignoring my ghost, I asked both of my teammates, "Why don't you have Warp Drives."

The Titan plunged his fist into the ship.

The Hunter turned to The Titan and said, "Leviathan! It's not The Speaker's fault!"

Leviathan then turned to his partner. "Oh yeah, Lianna? He restricted space travel to only a small number of Guardians. I think it should be our turn to travel out there and fight The Darkness."

I turned to meet them. "What happened?"

Lianna looked at me through her helmet. "A fireteam went to the moon, and never came back."

Rusty interrupted with, "There's an information hub down below, that might help us find the Warp Drive."

We walked to a rusted building, down two flights of stairs to a giant map, guarded by Dregs. When I looked at what they were guarding, I told Rusty, "You could just say 'map' instead of 'information hub'."

"What's a map?"

I definitely felt out of place in this century. Too analytical for my tastes.

"Nevermind, I've got this," I said, and I shot the first in the head, the second in the stomach, and the final one in the heart. "All clear," and the three of us rushed into the map room. Rusty floated toward the map, scanned it, and said, "Dock 13, that's where we found our ship, and that's also where we'll find a Warp Drive."

"So, what's wrong with it?" asked Leviathan.

"That's the same place where we met the Arc-." Rusty froze.

Lianna looked at my Ghost. "The Archon?" If Rusty could nod, he would have done so.

Leviathan looked scared. "Ar-Archon?" he said.

She nodded, and Leviathan looked terrified. Lianna gave him a look, and he soon straightened out. I could understand that they have been through alot in their training. Then I thought, How could I have mastered the "Force" immediately after I was risen? No Warlock who was risen from death could possibly know about his powers until he's had experience. Or-. I snapped out of my trance when Lianna said, "Time to go."

"Coming!" When I reached the surface, I saw 3 Dregs and 2 Vandals were patrolling the area in front of the shed that we were coming out of, and there were 7 more Fallen in front a building with a huge hole in the wall. Pulling out my scout rifle, I jump onto the metal crate, looked down the weapon sights, aimed at a Vandal's head, and shot it. The other 4 Fallen screamed, and their buddies ran to our position. 11 Fallen surround us, and they wait for me to move first. "We are screwed," muttered Leviathan.

Suddenly, Lianna raised her hand, muttered some incantations, formed a blazing pistol, and vaporized 3 Vandals. The Dregs screamed again, and ran for cover. "Nice job, Lianna!" I said.

"Thank you," she replied, "Something that I learned from training. Cayde called it 'The Golden Gun'."

"And only Hunters call upon it?"

"Yes. But I really want a blade that discharges electricity." She looked at Leviathan. "He has a 'Fist of Havoc' that damages enemies and the ground that they stand on within a 3 meter radius."

"Cool!"

"What about you?"

I didn't want to disappoint her. "Umm..." I began to say, but Leviathan interrupted with, "Hey! Let's get moving before reinforcements arrive." "Maybe later," I told Lianna.

Entering the building, I heard Leviathan whisper, "He doesn't know?"

Lianna whispered back, "I couldn't tell, but I felt the Void shift around him."

"Typical, that's their first stage. Some don't even make it to the second, harnessing the sun."

"Channelling the Sun," she corrected, "Warlocks can channel the elements for long periods of time without the need of tools."

"Were you reading Osiris's books?"

"No."

"Toland's journal?"

"That thing is torn apart and scattered in the winds. No one's read it in decades."

"Then how do you know this?"

"I attended one or two Warlock rituals."

Leviathan looked shocked, and then he shouted, "YOU WHAT?!"

I turned around. "Leviathan, why do think that Lianna can't attend a ritual, or read a book?"

He stammered, "I-I-I, W-w-well..."

Lianna said, "Titans are supposed to be 'enforcers of the law'," then she turned to her partner, "but it doesn't give you the right to judge anyone else."

Then we heard the sound of Fallen growling, and we stacked ourselves up against a wall. "I hope you're ready for this," Rusty said in a cautious tone. Lianna pulled out her sniper, aimed down the scope, and shot 5 Dregs before the Vandals were onto us. A few stabs, punches, force pushes, and bullets later, the entire crew was dead. "It's in the walls!" shouted Rusty. The Archon crawled out, and began firing devastating rounds of shrapnel at us. When one of us would try to shoot at him, or run for some cover, the shrapnel would burn us well to oblivion. Lianna got some on her arms, I had a lot on my back, Leviathan was covered in it, but everyone's clothes were singed. The Archon shouted, "It's the Darkness!" As soon as we heard that, more Fallen crawled out of the pipes. "Tas ku, Tas ka," The Archon spoke to his subjects, and they instantly obeyed. I said to Lianna and Leviathan, "I have 12% of a plan, but right now it's better than nothing."

"12%?" asked Leviathan, "I've got a full plan already in my head."

"If your plan is to 'Kill the Archon', then you can guess where that landed us," shouted Lianna.

"And you two are buddies?" I said.

"He kills enemies, and I try to keep an open mind for his 'strategies'." She whipped out her sniper, shot 4 Vandals and 6 Dregs, then landed a bullet into The Archon's eye. He screamed, she pulled out her Pulse Rifle, and managed to poke some holes into his armor. A gaseous substance started leaking from his chest. Then I thought, There's your plan! I asked Lianna, "Can you recall your Golden Gun?"

"I can't. It has a cooldown, but I'll use it when I can."

"That's good." But when shrapnel started piercing the walls which we used for cover, I realized we didn't have time. "No rush, but do you have anything else with fire?"

"My grenade, but..."

"It's on cooldown as well?"

"Yep."

More shrapnel. "Anything that can create sparks?"

"A throwing knife?"

"Yes," and I told her the plan as the Archon started coughing. "Aim for the chest. Don't lose focus."

"Alright, I know what I'm doing."

"Just throw the knife already," said Leviathan. Lianna threw it at the Archon's chest, it punctured his armor, but it didn't ignite the gas. "Why didn't it work? I saw the spark and everything," I said.

"Unless it isn't flammable," finished Lianna.

"Oh, this is ridiculous!" shouted Leviathan. He jumped out from his cover, and prepared to slam the ground with his full weight. In mid air, he shouted some words in a foreign language, became electrified for just a moment, did a Hulk Smash on the Archon. "That ought to start a fire," I said. But it didn't. Instead, we saw Leviathan breathing heavily on the ground. The Archon growled, and stomped his foot, knocking Leviathan into a wall. "LEVIATHAN!" we shouted, but he didn't respond. I was angry. A Guardian, killed just like that!? It made no sense. "That's IT!" and I called upon a part of space and time to focus into an orb that I held, and I launched it the Archon's head, dealing a killing blow to him. I fell to the ground, and I fainted. The last thing I remember was Lianna rushing to me, shouting, "WARLOCK!" every 3 seconds, each time, her voice felt fainter, as my eyes began to shut.