A Question on Morals
Ordis brought the Liset to a ravine in the Mariana Sector, which was apparently just a prison for those that mildly upset someone within the grineer society. The door opened and Volt fell out onto a metal walkway. Rain drizzled and clinked against the armor when the Liset flew back into Orbit. Our arms dealer is named Darvo. He is being held in prison block D-34. It is across the factory complex.
A beep alerted the Volt to its map that showed where Darvo was being held. It checked the path and started along, jumping from one walkway to another and often having to boost itself with the energy in its arm bands. How many grineer slaves died building this facility? The Volt looked around truly for the first time at this comment. The walkways were attached to the ravines walls from sometimes hundreds of feet up. A few tracks for transports led from a landing strip, and crossed the ravine to enter the factory. All of this was insanely built in a true show of indifference to those who had to make it.
For the first time since waking up the Volt replied with simply two words, "A lot." The voice shocked himself, he was in fact male. One doesn't realize how strange it is to discover that until it happens. A deep voice, very deep actually. They had a slight accent to them. The T was sharply pronounced, as if the Volt had really focused on finishing the word.
After making it three quarters of the way to the factory doors, the walkway ended. The remnants of a walkway glinted far below in many pieces, an attack long ago, or maybe simply a rockslide. The Volt didn't care. It saw a transport moving along a track nearby, two grineer were on it as well as a dozen boxes all roughly the same size as the guards. The Volt jumped to the ravine wall, propelled its way up the side, and snapped itself onto the wall, a small stream of energy keeping itself in place. When the transport came into leaping distance, the Volt cut the energy stream off, and leapt into the open air.
A thud lightly rocked the transport and the two guards looked to see a kunai enter each of their eye sockets, falling down dead. The Volt nudged the two with its boot and sent them to join their long dead slaves in the bottom of the cavern. The factory doors opened, two doors that could let in three Lisets side by side enter comfortably, to allow the transport and its cargo in. As they slowly opened the Volt pulled out its Mk-1 Paris and notched an arrow, more than three dozen grineer were waiting for this transport, no one could know it was there. Tenno, do not release that arrow. Underneath the transport loading area there is a ventilation system, enter that, and do not get caught.
The Volt stood up, put the arrow back in its quiver, and snapped the bow into place on its back. A quick move of acrobatics had it on the bottom of the transport and snapped onto the underside of it with energy. A minute passed and the transport entered the cargo bay and the Volt dropped down the ventilation shaft without a sound.
It is imperative that you are not seen, the grineer are not beyond executing all the prisoners in here to keep us from what we want. We don't need that bloodshed on our hands. The Vents ran straight through the factory with branches going to different rooms. Block D is the third branch to the right. Once you are inside, make to kill all three wardens before releasing the prisoner. If you don't they will sound the alarm.
The Volt took the third branch and scaled the wall into Block D. As soon as it popped out of the vents a grineer Warden turned around and looked directly at the Volt. It raised a machine gun and fired off some thirty rounds in a single second. The Volt slammed it with electricity, momentarily frying the grineer's power suit systems. Just enough time to snap its neck and throw it down the ventilation shaft.
BEEP BEEP BEEP! Alarms! The execution sequence will be started. Find cell 34 and get Darvo! The Volt scanned the cells and found that none of the numbers made sense. It had to resort to counting each cell and got to 34 half way down the block. A energy propelled leap took the Volt to the cell door and a few less than delicate fist slams into the console and the doors opened.
On the other side was a very unattractive corpus. His hat seemed like a bulge from his forehead, highlighted by greasy dreadlocks that hung down past his chest. And a tattoo of two lines ran from his lips down to his neck. "I owe you for this one Tenno. I will get my entourage to meet us in orbit once we're clear from this mess."
Good work, extraction is ready. Remember, your success depends on getting out with Darvo…Alive. The Volt handed Darvo its Kunai, rather regretfully, and checked the map to see where the extraction point was. Surprise surprise it was back through the factory where it had come from.
Pain. Sharp pain. The Ascaris was needling its way up the Volts leg, and with it came the voice of Captain Vor. The Lotus must be desperate to send you fetching greedy fools from the Corpus. The Volt fell to one knee. A yellow light floated into its vision. Don't let Vor distract you. Overload your frame so you can go forward. The Volt placed a shield around Darvo, and then floated into the air, and released a blast of energy through the factory. The whole place got dark, no electronics worked at all. The only light was the purple electricity that sparked through console boards and lighting fixtures.
Immediately the pain eased and the Volt released the shield from Darvo. "Oh man, I don't want to make you angry man. Just remember I am your friend." The Volt ignored the Corpus trader and ran back to the ventilation shaft. As soon as he landed, a flurry of bullets came slamming into him. He placed a shield of pure electricity in front of him and Darvo and meditated on what to do next. The doors were all forcibly locked because of the Overload. The turret at the far end was not going to run out of bullets before they ran out of body parts to get hit.
A long lost memory came to the forefront of its mind. It grabbed the Skana and held it out in front of itself. It put all of its remaining energy into its arms and hands and got to work. At a sprint the Volt charged the turret blocking every bullet that came at it and Darvo who followed behind. They reached the turret and surprised grineer soldier behind the turret and a quick kunai throw from Darvo killed the operator.
It entered into the room with the transport to find the room had doubled in grineer troops all pointing their guns at the boxes that they were transporting earlier. Tenno. Don't move. I believe I know what is inside of those boxes. The Volt was confused but did as it was told. One of the grineer smiled, then said some joke in their coarse tongue and the rest of them laughed roughly. At the Volts continued confusion the joker opened up one of the boxes to reveal a cryochamber. Inside was a suit the Volt didn't recognize. The Zanuka project has succeeded? This is bad news. Tenno, you have to try to rescue those Warframes.
"How the hell do we do that woman? We can't outrun bullets. This one might get close to it though. He's damn fast."
The cryochambers were supposed to be able to handle highly charged blasts. But these might have their shields released. If that is true then the glass won't do anything to prevent these Tennos deaths. It's your choice Tenno. Stay and fight for them or leave. The latter option didn't seem like a possibility. But how to save these Warframes?
The Volt finally made a decision. It held out its hands and placed a shield in front of the two nearest chambers. The grineer opened fire. Ten cryochambers shattered, the Tenno within dead before being awakened. The final two were protected by the shields and the Volt went to work. The Skana sliced through grineer like butter. Never had the Volt felt rage like this, the whole suit sparked in reaction to its anger, sometimes blasting out and frying grineer. Thirty seconds later the last soldier fell to the ground with a thud.
Ship Cephalon, extraction has been moved to the factory cargo bay. Retrieve the Volt, and our two packages now. Not even a second later the Liset was there, hovering just over the two cryochambers. The Volt and Darvo hooked them onto the ship and then a second, smaller ship came for Darvo. The Volt allowed the ships magnets to pull it into the door and they flew away into the sky and into deep earth orbit.