Inside the Timeless Tereshkova, Lucas was watching the news report of his actions. "...During the villain, an unknown person came in, on fire, shooting the villain, vaporizing it, after that, All Might appeared and took care of the villain. Unfortunately, we were unable to ask any questions due to eyewitness reports say that he teleported. It is unknown what his quirk is actually is and if he's a a new pro hero or vigilante."
Lucas shuts off the news and heads out. Reaching an edge looking over the city, he sits down, contemplating on what to do next. After a while of thinking, a voice enters his head. "Lightbearer, where are we?"
"Finally up from your beauty sleep, huh, Xol? And to answer your question, long story short, Vex tech malfunctioned and we are in another universe and this is Earth ," Lucas answered.
The voice,now named Xol, stayed silent for a few seconds before talking again. "Another universe Earth where there are no walls protecting your pathetic city and your Traveler? This is most interesting news you have given me Lightbearer."
"Well don't get your hopes up Xoley because this universe doesn't seem like there's any Darkness and I can still use my Light and last time I checked, you're a gun now," retorted Lucas.
"No Darkness? This is most interesting. Tell me Lightbearer, what makes this world so different other than that it looks so...primitive?" asked Xol.
"What makes this world different is that most of the humans here have powers. Not powers of the Light mind you. Powers like super strength, turning into liquid, creating fire, and stuff like that."
Xol seem amused at the thought of humanity having powers. "Powers? This world is unique after all. Farewell Lightbearer, we will talk again soon." Lucas sighed after Xol left his head.He then remembers how he met and made a deal Xol.
Xol was a Worm God that Lucas had killed with the Valkyrie after he tried to attack the Warmind, Rasputin. All was good until a few weeks later after investigating a Taken anomaly on Io. During the investigation, he found a Taken portal in which the Hunter entered. On the other side he found himself staring at a large ball of Taken essence that slows you down called a Taken Blight.
The only way to destroy the Blight was to shoot at it and shoot at it the Guardian did. After the blight was destroyed, he sees a hole and drops down. After dropping down, Lucas follows a path which leads him to a bunch of jumping, portals, hearing Xol, a green room, and then three rooms with a bunch of Taken enemies. After clearing the three rooms, Lucas is led into a large room with three, large, and familiar high ranked foes but they were all Taken. After taking out the three high ranked Taken, He was rewarded with the Whisper of the Worm sniper.
After using the sniper for a while, Lucas began to be hearing a voice. Lucas ignored them, thinking they were nothing.The voice was still there and still kept on talking. Lucas had enough and began to listen to the voice. After listening to the voice for a few minutes, realizing it came from Whisper, he began to recognize the voice. "Xol?! You're still alive?
"Indeed, Lightbearer, I am still alive. As to how, you have only destroyed my physical body. During my physical death, I began to realize something. Why drain the Lightbearer forcefully when you can do it passively? Once I realized this, I quickly changed into the weapon you use now to drain your light," Xol explained.
Lucas stayed silent to think about what Xol said. Lucas was conflicted and couldn't decide to keep Whisper or destroy it. On one hand, Xol is Whisper of the Worm and he's draining his Light. On the other, Whisper was a powerful weapon, able to return rounds when getting three precision hits into the mag without draining the reserves.Suddenly, an idea popped into his head.
"Alright Earthworm Jim, since you are draining my light at an unknown pace. I should dismantle you. But Whisper is a really powerful weapon and it would be a waste to dismantle it. So how about we make a deal? You won't get dismantled if you don't drain my light. We don't have to like each other but we have to at least work together. Deal?" Lucas asked looking at Whisper.
"Your demands seem fair enough and I have no problem killing your enemies. So deal it is."
"Lucas? You there?" Epsilon asked worryingly seeing that Lucas looked like he was in a trance.
"Y-yeah, I'm here Epsilon. Was just talking to Xol and remembering our deal we made with him."
"Xol's talking again huh? Last time we heard him talk was when we were at Cayde's…" Epsilon looked down somberly, not finishing the sentence.
Lucas also looked down and pulled at a black and white hand cannon. The hand cannon had a spade emblem on the grip and on the chamber where it held the rounds. This was the Ace of Spades, Cayde-6's personal weapon repaired and given to him by Banshee-44 believing that Lucas was the one who should have the Ace of Spades. Lucas didn't believe that. He failed to stop Uldren from killing his Hunter Vanguard, mentor, father figure.
Even after avenging Cayde's death he was left wondering. Was it really justice or was he letting his vengeance get the best of him? Lucas didn't know. "What do you think Cayde would do about this situation, Epsilon?" asked Lucas.
"I think he would've been a hero," Epsilon answered.
Lucas sighed at his partner's response. "I told you, I'm not gonna be a her-"
"Then WHAT are you gonna do then?! Sit back and let the heroes handle everything? Just because this world has heroes doesn't mean that you don't have to do anything. Did you forget what being a Guardian means? Being a Guardian means being a protector the Traveler, The Last City, and what's left of humanity. Granted, there's no Traveler, no Last City, but there's humans. Sure these humans are very different but they're still humans. Plus, what happens when something from our universe appears? The heroes can't possibly defeat it. Only a Guardian can."
Lucas stayed silent after his Ghost's sudden outburst. He began to think about what Epsilon said. As much as he hate to admit it, Epsilon was right. He can't just sit back and let the heroes risk their lives every single day. Heroes can only do so much before something bad happens.
"I'm sorry for that outburst. I just hope that you understand that there's a limit to what heroes can do," says Epsilon.
Lucas gets up and looks over the city. "No, you're right. Just because this world has heroes doesn't mean that I don't have to do anything. Sure, this world probably has some powerful heroes but that doesn't mean anything if they're dead. There could be a day when some powerful villains arrive that not even the strongest heroes together can't defeat. When that day comes,I'm gonna be there as a hero," Lucas said with determination.
AN: Man, that reality bomb though. So yes, the decision has been made. Lucas will be a hero. And surprise visit by Xol. Since Whisper is technically Xol, I decided to have him join and give him some personality because it's non existant in Warmind, but he won't taken very often, just from time to time. Last thing I need to clarify is that there will be NO SHIPS mainly due to me sucking at typing that kind of thing and how I wrote Lucas' personality to be a really depressing Hunter on the inside. Also future chapters will be longer, probably around Chapter 6. That will be all and I hope you enjoyed.
