Chapter 10: Alliance

The Guardians raced to the Vault of Glass, almost there. Zavala was sure that the newcomers couldn't survive the Vex, let alone open the Vault. They had to make it there though, just in case they did and used Vex technology against them. Cayde was driving next to Zavala. Cayde knew to never underestimate the enemy, no matter how screwed they might look. Cayde heard something. Gunshots.

"Zavala, I hear gunshots," said Cayde.

"From the Vault?" asked Zavala.

"Yes."

Zavala thought for a moment and looked at his own troops. He was lucky to have them. They were the highest trained, and the most well armed to fight the Vex and the newcomers. One of them, a hunter nicknamed Odysseus, was driving his sparrow to his left. Odysseus was given his nickname because he had been the one to fight alongside another guardian, a titan nicknamed Athena, after the ancient mythological god of war. They had fought through the Black Garden together, and destroyed the Heart of the Darkness. He was going to need them, because at this rate, they will need to go through the Vault of Glass to find them.

Eventually, they made it to the entrance of the Vault, where a raging battle was commencing. The white droid and a human were wielding swords of light against the Vex and were moving with remarkable agility and speed. There were also more droids, and new ones that the Guardians had never seen before. They moved more fluidly, and were shooting the Vex with pinpoint accuracy. These new droids looked like they were a match for even a Guardian. They had to make a plan.

"Let's just charge 'em," said one of the Guardians.

"No." said Cayde. "We wait them out, let the Vex batter them down, then we strike."

"I agree with Cayde," said Zavala. "These new droids will tear us apart if we charge straight up.

Cayde detected movement in the path that they came from. Cayde raised his rifle, ready to shoot. A man and a group of people with white armor appeared. With the man was another, younger looking man. The older man had orange-brown hair and was dressed in white robes. The younger one was dressed in dark blue robes and had brown hair.

"Hello," said the older man. He had almost a peaceful tone of voice.

Zavala looked at the soldiers. They were looking around, seemingly checking for any threats.

"Who are you?" Zavala asked.

"My name is Obi Wan Kenobi. Me and my soldiers have travelled from another galaxy to yours, if that's believable."

"So you are here to help us, I suppose?"

"Apparently so. We will help you defeat General Grievous, the one droid up there with a lightsaber."

"We better hurry, because they are about to open the Vault doors!"

Everyone looked at the entrance to the Vault. Zavala was right. The droids had held off the Vex and were marching into the Vault.

"Go!" said Obi Wan.

Guardians and Clones alike started to run up to the Vault. They all started to fire up at the line of droids.

The Guardians, especially the hunters, were fast and were almost up the hill when Grievous walked forward, lightsabers out. Odysseus, the lead hunter, was a bladedancer, and as such, was charging at grievous with the other bladedancers. Grievous jumped forward, lightsabers swinging, and instantly killed one of them, slicing him clean in half. Another bladedancer ran at Grievous, actually holding him off. She was ferocious, slicing and stabbing Grievous's mechanical torso and limbs. She even deflected his lightsaber a few times with her electrically charge knife, which in itself impressed Grievous. Odysseus was with her, fighting his left side, dodging his lightsaber attacks and the bolts fired from the droids. Odysseus was more careful than the other hunter, making prescision strikes at his joints, almost fencing with him.

Grievous was surprised at the Guardians' skills in combat. He was having trouble trying to even move his limbs since they were being struck repeatedly by the knives of the Guardians. He saw the rest of them getting closer. It is time to end this. He thought.

The female hunter was sure that they were going to defeat this monstrosity, as she was hitting him over and over and over with her knife. She failed to notice that Grievous had more than two arms, as he drew another lightsaber, and as quick as lightning, chopped off her right arm, the one that was holding the knife. She stood there, shocked. Grievous, being too far to reach her and defending against an enraged Odysseus, drew his blaster and shot her thrice, killing her. Grievous then turned his full attention to Odysseus, who was still chopping at him with an animal-like rage. Grievous then realized: everything was quiet. There were no blaster shots, no Guardians fighting, no Clones shooting. Grievous looked at where Count Dooku and his droids were – or, used to be. They had went into the Vault without him. Grievous, shocked by this betrayal, was stabbed in the organ sack by Odysseus. Grievous fell, and then was confronted by Zavala.

"Why are you here?" asked Zavala.

"Like i would tell you..." gasped Grievous.

Grievous sprang up, lightsabers flashing. He swiped at Zavala, and at his disbelief, the lightsaber bounced off his armor as if it hit a deflector shield. Zavala ran at Grievous and simply punched him, channeling his fist of havok into one blow. Grievous went flying off the cliff, disintegrating on he way down. Zavala looked at the Vault entrance and said, "We have no choice but to defend it until it opens."

The battle had been going on for about 5 minutes. The Guardians, who were the most experienced in killing Vex, taught the Clones where to and where to not shoot them. They held them back well, until the Praetorians showed up and the Jedi had to take care of them, often with great difficulty due to their shields. The Vex had started to charge en masse toward the platforms, only to be taken out by the Guardians or the Clones.

"Just like fighting droids," one clone said. as he said it though, he was shot in the head by a hobgoblin, ripping off his upper body.

"Holy hell," said one of the Guardians.

Zavala was doing as he was during the battle at section 1-2; being a steel wall to the Vex. He was absorbing shots like a sponge while tossing grenades and punching Vex that got too close. Cayde was in the back, sniping the Hobgoblins and softening up Praetorians for Obi Wan and Anakin. After 15 minutes of this, the spire was constructed, and the doors opened. All of a sudden, all of the Vex had disappeared. Zavala looked at the remaining soldiers. A few clones had lost their lives to the Vex. two Guardians had died and their ghosts had been destroyed. This was very unlucky, since their ghost was the key to reviving them.

"Shall we go inside?" asked Obi Wan.

"Of course." said Zavala.

After getting their bearings, the two forces made their way into the hell that was the Vault of Glass.