DWA: hey All, so far no suggestions on whatcha want. To those who haven't read TAA, I suggest giving it a try! Until then, I'll keep pluggin along! Also! Please note that the order of events is mainly based on a reddit post I found, that shows all Destiny 1 events in chronological order. I'll be sticking with it for the most part, as it does make a good amount of sense, but will move things around as needed. Thought I'd let ya know!
Chapter 14: The Stranger
Sara was, at a loss. She'd brought her data of the Stranger to the Vanguard. They didn't know who this person was, and what's more, told them to not investigate until they had more data. While she thought she'd done the right thing, she's been regretting it as she's now stuck doing patrol missions.
"I'm, very bored." She said as she turned on her side, looking at her nightstand. Seraph appeared in her face.
"Blitzkrieg did offer." He said.
"Yes but another mission on the moon? It's all most Guardians do nowadays! I mean yeah Guardians go all over but we've stays off the moon for the most part in fear of Crota!" She said sitting up.
"Why is Ishtar off limits?" She asked.
"According to the Vanguard, the Ishtar Sink is off limits because of a heavy Fallen and Vex presence, that, and the Vault of Glass." He said.
"The…Vault?" She asked.
"It's…a tragedy. Some other time." He said looking away.
"Right…" She said. "Well, regardless we need to go!" She said. "I'm curious and so are the guys!"
"But to disobey the Vanguard would probably cause more trouble than it's worth!" Seraph said. Sara sighed, knowing he was right, but, she had a nagging feeling.
She needed to go.
"Fuck it." She said as she called Alsyf and Theoduin.
"What's up boss?" Theoduin asked.
"Wanna help me see if my new upgrades on my ship work?" She asked.
"Why…do we need to go?" Alsyf asked.
"I don't know, I thought it'd be nice to see if they're working from outside a computer screen. And ya know, my current flight path seems to take me near Venus." She said. There was silence on the line.
"Sara, you're not really thinking…." Theoduin said.
"Are you saying we may just have some, 'complications,' along the way?" Alsyf asked.
"They are engine upgrades. Who knows how they'll react to a jump!" She said.
"Sara like I said-hey!" Seraph started before he was pushed away by a hand. "You guys in? It just may affect your engines too!" She said sitting up.
"We're in, we'll make sure you get home safely Sara." Theoduin said laughing.
"Get here soon." Alsyf said. Sara had a big grin as she hopped up and her armor appeared on her.
"I hate you." Seraph said.
"No you don't." She said pinching his two side diamonds.
"Hey ow stop that!" He said.
"Come on!" She said as she ran to the hanger. Seraph sighed and followed her. She got to her other Fireteam members waiting in their armor.
"Hey Mythic, where ya heading." Holliday asked as she seemed to be finishing something up on Sara's ship.
"Just gonna test those engines." Sara said.
"Ah they're solid." She said jumping down. "I'll be sure to log it as test run though." She said as she passed.
"She knows." Alsyf said.
"Without a doubt." Sara said transmatting to her ship, Alsyf and Theoduin doing the same.
"How many "test runs" does she log a week I wonder." Theoduin said laughing.
"Probably too many." Sara said as they took off. When they were out of atmosphere, there warped.
Not too long into the jump, Sara got on comms again.
"Hey, thanks for doing this guys." She said.
"Hey, we wanna see this person too." Theoduin said.
"I'm sure we all have questions, its cool." Alsyf said. Sara smiled. She knew this team would have her back.
"Coming out of warp." Athena said over comms. They came out of the jump and saw the sister planet to Earth, and flew down.
"By the way, examining the frequency and such of how our new 'friend' contacted us…its weird. Basically, she shouldn't have been able to contact us from Venus with her frequency, yet, she did, even if there was static" Seraph said.
"Weird." Alsyf said.
"So, she called us from Venus? Why's that weird, I guarantee the Vanguard could get us on Pluto." Theoduin said.
"Yes but, that's with relays and the comm's tower in the city. This was a personal broadcaster. What's in your helmet, that has maybe a country's worth range without connecting to relays, and she wasn't on a relay channel." Seraph said.
"Oh…" Theoduin said.
"So, all the more reason to find our new friend." Alsyf said as he sped down towards the planet. The other two followed.
"Athena, sitrep?" Alsyf asked.
"Ishtar Collective. Studied ruins older than Humanity." She said.
"On Venus?" Sara asked.
"Correct. That massive tower is an…example." She said. Sara looked out her window to see the massive tower of sharp angular shapes, mainly squares that seem to have been just, piled together.
The group transmatted to the ground, the three checking their weapons. Silvia appeared near Theoduin.
"I don't know about you, but being here without the lay of the land is a terrible idea. Guardians have an outpost nearby we can check." She said.
"Sound's good. Mythic, move out!" She said. The three started walking towards some old buildings in disarray.
Following the streets they saw a bus stop in the distance, covered in Fallen.
"Alsyf?" Sara said as she walked closer and raised her rifle.
"Got ya covered." Alsyf said as he jumped into one of the buildings and made his way to a vantage point and set up. "Pop." He said and fired his rifle, taking out a Captains shields as the rest of the Fallen looked to where the shot came from, only to be shout at by Sara, and pot shots from Theoduin, his rifle made for shorter range combat. Alsyf shot the captain again, killing it, Sara and Theoduin cleaning up.
Sara walked up to a terminal the Guardians had set up and started accessing.
"Let me." Seraph said as he appeared and took over. Sara threw her hands up in mock annoyance.
"I had it!" She said.
"In ten minutes." Seraph said.
"I am not that bad with tech." She said.
"Whatever. Either way, we're in, data on the Vex too. Sending it to your Ghosts, nothing me and Sara don't already know." He said.
"Oh I do not like that." Silvia said.
"So we have resilient, super intelligent, ruthless teleporting machines all over Venus huh?" Athena said.
"Fun." Alsyf said.
"Note, shoot the glowing white part." Sara said as she started messing with the tech.
"What are you doing?" Theoduin asked.
"Juuust trying to, OW!" She shouted as there was a spark and the screen went dark. "Trying to hotwire…there!" She said and the screen came back online. "Sparrow Link with obscurity! No one knows we have the authority to use Sparrows but us, not that we're supposed to be here." She said as she summoned her sparrow.
"Very nice." Alsyf said as he jumped out the building and summoned his in midair. Theoduin called his as well.
"Where too boss?" Theoduin asked.
"Seraph?" Sara asked.
"Over here." He said and a waypoint appeared on their HUD's. The three took off.
"What's there?" Alsyf asked.
"A set of sensors used to track the Vex, should be helpful for us once we make the modifications to your sensors." He said.
"Sound's good!" Sara said as she revved up her Sparrow and took off, the others following close by. Their drive through the campus of the Collective was short lived.
"There, that building!" Silvia said. The guardians slowed down, and Arc shots came out of the building.
"Woah!" Alsyf said and they hopped off their sparrows as they transmatted. Theoduin and Sara ran forward as Alsyf ran back to a large folded up piece of road and hopped behind it. Sara and Theoduin took cover at a window. Sara took out her sawed off.
"Thanks for the heads up guys." Sara said as she peeked up, only to be met with the warbling cry of a Servitor in her face.
"Wassup my guy." She said and put her sawed off to its eye, and pulled hard, both barrels blasting out and pushing it back pretty far as it cried out and buffed its allies.
A sniper shot passed her head and pierced the Servitor and caused it to detonate, unstable ether staggering the Fallen. Theoduin hopped in through the window and blasted them with his shotgun.
"Clear!" He said as the Ghosts appeared and flew over to a device and started scanning it, Alsyf catching up.
"How long?" Alsyf asked.
"Hm, a minute." Athena said. Soon the hosts went to their Guardians and modified their sensors to track Vex. "Done."
"Nice, now, let's see what our friend wants." Alsyf said. The group went back the way they came on food, going deeper into the campus, under the foundation, then into what seemed to be a library.
"Look at all the books!" Sara said laughing.
"Uh, Sara, radar." Theoduin said. Sara glanced to her radar, red all around. The three pulled out their primaries and spun as they looked around.
"Nothing?" Sara said.
"Radar says Vex all around, but I can't see em." Alsyf said.
"Silvia, anything on cloaking tech?" Theoduin asked.
"Not that I can find!" Silvia said. Sara then saw what looked like a tree…made of data.
"Woah…" She said and jogged to it, letting Seraph take a look.
"What…is this?" He asked. "A conflux of…non-baryonic streams? Where's it going?"
"Non Barywhat!?" Theoduin said.
"Something like dark matter." Sara replied. Suddenly clouds formed around them, a sparking orb in the middle of each cluster
"Oh no, no, no! The Vex!" Seraph said as he vanished and the conflux vanished. Suddenly, something appeared in the cloud. Red eyes before the clouds vanished. Thin, frames, a. odd made head, like it was ornamental. Their cry was, haunting yet enchanting to Sara.
"The chest!" Sara said as she shot one right in the gun, causing it to stagger, another shot caused the core to rupture and explode, killing the Vex.
"Push up the stairs!" Alsyf said blasting two with his hand cannon as the Vex started firing, red bolts splashing on their shields. Theoduin charged forward and tore through the Vex, and was hit twice by what seemed to be lines of Solar energy, his shields bursting.
"Sniper!" Alsyf said as he ran up to the top of the stairs, Sara right behind, shooting down on advancing Vex.
"I got here! Theoduin, break right! Alsyf, left!" She said.
"Yes Ma'am!" The two shouted and ran off to take care of their Vex. Sara saw one with what seemed to be a longer rifle and horns get shot, only to curl up and cover itself in light. She turned to focus on her vex, more just showed up as she got fed up. She collected Void Light into a ball and threw her arm to the side, her Nova bomb was now three smaller bombs, landing across the enemies, and destroying them all. She helped her team out best she could till she heard something behind her.
"Sara!" Alsyf shouted in her comms as she turned to see a Vex, burly frame, no open core, and well over a foot towering above her, roared in her face before it back handed her with surprising strength. She went flying into the statue. She fell and looked up to see it teleport to her in short bursts, thinning its hand into a spear of sorts. She went for her shotgun but was going to be too slow. A rocket slammed into its shields, bursting them as it was peppered with gunfire. It turned towards Alsyf and fired what seemed to be a grenade launcher. She got her shotgun and blasted it, causing it to fall back and twitch before a rocket blew it to pieces.
"Anymore!?" Theoduin shouted. Sara stood and looked around.
"We're clear!" Sara said. "Fuck, they just, appeared, one even right behind me, me and Seraph are gonna take a look." She said as she went down into the piles of vex. She found one barely active and leaned down, as Theoduin and Alsyf walked up to her.
"Well fought." A voice said. The three turn to look, and find an Exo, hooded and cloaked.
"You…" Alsyf said as Sara stood.
"Bout time you showed." She said. The Exo started to walk towards them.
"We haven't got much time sadly." She said.
"Who are you?" Sara asked. Seraph appeared.
"And why have you been watching us? The moon, and the Cosmodrome." He said.
She sighed in a, sad tone. "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain." She said.
"Busy schedule." Theoduin said. She then looked down.
"I will. I will…I know, yes, I know." She said.
"Will? Will what?" Seraph asked as the other Ghosts appeared beside him.
"Wasn't talking to you, Little Light." She said. Silvia snickered.
"I-I'm a Ghost. That's the term." He said.
"Many Guardian's have fallen here. Strong ones. But you made it here. You-Yes, they're here, with me." She said turning away. Athena flew over.
"Who are you talking too?" She asked.
"Understood." She said and pushed Athena away.
"Don't touch my Ghost." Alsyf said.
"I'm not going to harm it. You all need my help, as much as I can give." She said.
"That's why we're here huh? To get help?" Theoduin said.
"We're here, because of them." She said as she walked to the still alive Vex. "The Vex, many evil's exist. This evil…is evil to all other evils."
"Cause that makes sense." Silva said.
"You're not a Guardian." Sara said.
"Neither are you, not entirely." She said turning. Sara nearly felt her heart stop. Theoduin and Alsyf took a step forward. "I was not forged in Light. But, where our path's cross, ground, could break!" She said and stomped the core of the Vex, it making one last dying cry. "Do you know of the Black Garden?"
The Guardians looked at each other and shrugged.
"I've heard the Legends." Seraph said. "Red flowers blooming eternally, growing forward and backwards in Time."
"Fun." Sara said.
"The greatest threat to us all is there. Find the Garden, rip out its heart, only then will your Traveler begin to heal." She said.
"Begin!?" Alsyf said. Sara put a hand on his shoulder.
"Easy Alsyf. Help us find it then." She said.
"I cannot." She said shaking her head. "My path is my own."
"If we're going to find the Black Garden, we need to see the Awoken." Seraph said.
"The Awoken, teetering on Dark and Light. A side must always be chosen Little Light. Even if it's the wrong one." She said. She then turned away. "Too late, returning. How many?" She asked pulling out her weapon. "Hold position, kill the engine, don't let them find you!" She said and vanished in swirling scintillating blue light.
"That was a headache." Theoduin said.
"So, the awoken…ideas?" Alsyf asked.
"They live in the asteroid belt, the edge of the Light." Seraph said. "Can't we stay with the murderous robots?" He asked. Sara knelt to his level.
"No we can't. Little light." She said. Seraph turned to her.
"Do not, do that." He said. Sara laughed as she stood.
"So, we have to do this carefully. The Vanguard would never allow this kinda stuff." She said.
"Sara one mission is fine, but, we can't hide this." Alsyf said.
"It sounds like a month long search to get to this place." Theoduin said. Sara sighed.
"You…may be right. This, is going to suck." She said. "Let's go get chewed out." She said as she transmatted up, the others following.
DWA: Heeey! Deep story stuff! Love doing that! SO! Again, please Fave, Follow, Review, and tell me if I should do TAA, still haven't decided! I'm sure I'll get back to it when Sword and Shield come out in probably November. Until then, see you all next chapter!