"Looks like it's going to be a slow night Ordis. The alert system is still down, Nora Night has gone silent for weeks, the Ghouls are dormant, and the Thermia vents are inactive." A girl said as she stepped out of an elaborate chair in a decently sized semi circular room, wearing what could only be described as a form fitting space suit.
"Well Operator, you could go down to the Cetus or Fortuna and work on the conservation of those — HIDEOUS — endangered animals." An almost robotic voice said over an intercom.
"I would but Biz still has to find places for the last batch I collected for him." The girl replied as she walked through an automatic door, avoiding some sparks from a loose industrial cable.
"There's always those Void Fissures that need sealing. And the Operator has that collection of Relics that could be cracked open." The voice suggested as the girl passed a terminal with a holographic display of a metallic orb with what looked like a layer being pulled back, reminiscent of a cabbage.
"Good idea, thanks Ordis. l need to get some more Prime parts anyways." The girl responded as she made her way up a nearby ramp that descended from the ceiling, leading to a window revealing she was in outer space, in high orbit around Venus, and made her way to a terminal. "Looks like there's a Fissure causing a serious increase in Corrupted guards in one of the Orokin Towers adrift in the Void. Let's head to that one Ordis."
"Right away Operator," Ordis acknowledged as the craft started to turn, the Coolant storms of Venus no longer visible and it started moving towards deep space.
As they went further into space the girl walked back the seat in the back of the ship. When she sat back down a few panels came out from around her, encasing the girl until she couldn't see anything. A moment later she opened her eyes and she was back up near the front of the ship, and was standing a bit taller than she was prior. She had no discernible facial features. Despite having no eyes she was able to see more clearly than before. Her reflexes were also more acute than before. The girl was now possessing one of her WarFrames.
"Operator we have arrived at the Tower. Preparing to launch the landing craft. Are you ready?" Ordis announced as a ramp descending below the upper floor, leading to a human shaped indentation.
The WarFrame had picked up an ornate double-barreled shotgun, holstered a high-tech device on its thigh, and slung a large two handed hammer over its back. As it went down the ramp the WarFrame motioned for a small droplet shapes robot to follow it.
Once the WarFrame had laid down into the indentation, it proceeded to rotate half way around, putting the WarFrame into the landing craft and took off towards the Tower.
As they approached the Tower Ordis came over the comms, "Operator, I'm getting some — ERRATIC — unusual energy readings from inside the Tower. Be on guard."
"Will do Ordis." The Operator responded as the landing craft docked with the Tower and walked towards a teleporter to enter the structure.
As usual the entry area was empty besides the typical elaborate golden decorations. The WarFrame made its way to a nearby door. Just as it opened, a bit of what appeared to be smoke, started flowing from a wall by the next corridor. As soon as it noticed the smoke starting to increase the WarFrame quickly glided across the floor for a couple feet, ripping open a portal leading to the Rift, an overlapping dimension able to see everything outside of it, but not interact with it. Once completely inside the Rift, the WarFrame let out a mass of particles from its palms, materializing a large camera. It slowly made way towards the smoke, at which point it started dissipating, and saw a small handful of creatures of various sizes and shapes that were mostly black, with what looked like white flames inside them, almost like living shadows. The WarFrame immediately tried to scan them with the device in its hands, but was unable to get any data on them. Immediately afterwards one of the Fissures crackled into existence behind the WarFrame, getting the shadowy creatures attention and instantly spotted the WarFrame.
Since the WarFrame was inside the Rift it didn't have to worry about being attacked, but it was still going to be rushed. It crouched down to the ground waiting for the creatures to get closer, not worrying about the Corrupted soldiers coming through the Fissure behind it. The WarFrame started charging energy in both of its hands, waiting for the last of the creatures to get close enough. Once the last one was within range the WarFrame slammed its hands together creating a large dome of Rift energy, enveloping everything around it, and pulled everything it touched into the Rift as well. Right as one of the creatures was going to swipe at it, the WarFrame then sprang into the air, at least five feet above them, and snapped its fingers, causing everything but itself to freeze in place. As it slowly came back to the ground, the WarFrame pulled the device off its thigh and slid it onto a forearm, which caused the device to expand out and unfold a couple arms. It proceeded to launch a few orbs of energy from the device, the arms colliding every time it was fired, but like the creatures, they were frozen in place. The WarFrame then turned around, holstering the device, and pulled out its shotgun, releasing a couple cartridges so they'd line up with multiple Corrupted soldiers that also got stuck in the Rift dome. Once it was done setting up all its shots, the WarFrame walked out of the dome and quickly clapped its hands, instantly collapsing the dome of energy in an explosion and sent all the projectiles along their path. The orbs of energy from the arm-mounted device exploding upon making contact with the shadowy creatures, whom imploded, and the buckshot went straight through multiple soldiers before being embedded in the wall behind them.
The WarFrame proceeded to go about its typical routine for the mission it was on, quickly dispatching the Corrupted as it saw them and picking of the creatures as it would come across them, either alone or in pairs, and collecting golden pulsating orbs of Void energy, semi-crystalized essence that had allowed the smaller Fissures to form. Once it collected its tenth Void crystal, the energy from the crystals started clinging to the shotgun.
As the WarFrame continued on it entered a large intersection room with a large shadow orb floating in the air. "Ordis, I think I found the source of that unusual energy reading." The Operator relayed as the WarFrame leaned down to pick up a piece of nearby debris, throwing it at the orb. The moment the debris made contact with the orb, three smaller orbs came into existence closer to the ground, inside domes of thin smoke.
"Operator! It appears the orb has a unique energy shielding it, that rubble didn't even scuff it." Ordis panicked as the WarFrame readied its shotgun. Seconds later a couple dozen of the shadowy creatures materialized in the smoke, seemingly refusing to leave. The WarFrame then shot into smoke but the pellets evaporated as they made contact. It reached for the hammer on its back and took a quick swing at one of the creatures inside, getting direct hit and knocking it out of the dome. The WarFrame then walked inside the dome and started taking wide swings, making sure to hit multiple creatures with each. "It seems you and your weapons are coated in the same energy as that large orb, Operator, you might be able to break through it now."
The WarFrame then quickly switched to its shotgun, leaped out of the smoke, unloading cartridge after cartridge into the orb without reloading, the energy from the Void crystals temporarily giving it infinite ammunition. After a couple bursts the orb expanded slightly before shattering, revealing a significantly larger creature. The WarFrame immediately slammed its hands together, creating another dome of Rift energy and froze time inside, stopping the behemoth almost instantly. It unloaded as many cartridges as the Void energy would allow before taking a moment to catch itself. "I think I might have overdone that just a little..." The Operator thought out loud, noticing a couple dozen cartridges worth of ammo waiting to hit their target. Time started flowing again and all of the pellets hit the shadow simultaneously, causing it to fade away.
As the last of the creature vanishes dark tears appeared over the smaller orbs, trying to drain them of their energy, and at that moment a fissure appeared inside the Rift dome and a bolt of Void energy then arced through the dome, going straight to one of the tears. "Operator, get to extraction now!" Ordis called as a white light started emanating from the fissure And enveloping everything it touched.
The WarFrame immediately sprinted to the extraction site, leaping over everything in its way. As it got onto the landing craft that was waiting at the extraction site, the WarFrame saw the white light come into the room. "We need to get out of here now Ordis!" The Operator called as the landing craft closed up and undocked. "And get the engines started on the Orbiter!"
The landing craft quickly got back to the Orbiter and the WarFrame almost sprung out of it, "Why aren't the engines already firing Ordis?!" The Operator started to panic, the wave of white light getting closer.
"I've been trying to cycle the engines since before you left the Tower, Operator, but there is some kind of interference causing power to not go through." Ordis responded, as the light was just about at the Orbiter. "Operator! Brace for impact!" The Orbiter started to rattle as the light passed over them, and the lower levels went dark.
A moment later floor lights flipped on as everything started to calm down. "Ordis, can you hear me? Are you there?" The Operator called out hoping that Ordis would be getting power from the back-up generator. Getting no response, she sighed and the WarFrame walked back to the rear of the ship to where the Operator was sitting, and pulled a couple emergency releases, opening up the panels that had closed around her. She then opened her eyes, the WarFrame going motionless, the Operator was back in her body. She proceeded to put on a wrist mounted contraption that was nearby, and aimed it straight at a point above the seat and unleashed a concentrated beam of energy at it. The energy then traveled through some otherworldly vines that were behind where she was sitting, which brought the main power back to the ship. "Ordis, take us back to Earth, I need to talk to the Quills about what just happened."
"Right away Operator." Ordis answered as the girl could faintly hear the engines starting up. She decided to go to the top level of the Orbiter to make sure everything else was working. Right away she checked the radio scanner which was normally tapping into Grineer communication lines, and was getting nothing but static. A moment later she felt the Orbiter slow down to a crawl, "Operator, I think we might have a — CATASTRO.. — problem on our hands."
The Operator looked outside the window, seeing they were near Lua, and noticed a large white sphere floating over the surface of the Earth. "Ordis... activate the cloaking on the Orbiter, and send me down near that sphere, it looks like there's a city under it." She quickly went back to the rear of the ship and took control of her WarFrame, and was on her way down to the surface.
The landing craft dropped the WarFrame off at a mountain range a couple days walk from the sphere, not wanting to get too close to be detected. Once the craft was out of sight the WarFrame proceeded to make its way across the mountains towards the sphere and the city underneath it.