"YOU WHAT?!" Aurae fumed, hands thrown up in the air.
"I have no choice Aurae! If I hadn't left him, I won't be able to talk to you guys at all. Got any plans to get him out?" [Luke's Ghost Name] continued.
"We don't even know where exactly you guys are, I'll start heading there now. What do they want with Luke anyways?" Aurae asks.
"I'm not completely sure, but they think Luke's an enemy. They'll probably try to interrogate him." Luke's ghost recalled.
"How are we gonna get him out then? I don't have my light, I'm practically useless!" Aurae says, "Remember, they have all these weapons that can change and stuff. They also have aura and semblances, we're at a huge disadvantage."
'We...have weapons. We could use—'-V.
'We are NOT using Malfeasance!'-Aurae.
'It could be our only chance against them, be prepared to use it in the future.'-V.
'Just because I earned it doesn't mean I want to use it. It's dark, I feel...like it's going to turn me into a Taken when I hold it. It gives me the creeps.'-Aurae.
Aurae recalls the moment he got the quest, at first he was excited, since like 'WOO EXOTIC!'. But then, when he received it, he felt dread. He hadn't touched it since. His Whisper was just a gift from a friend, he never really wanted that weapon either.
'If our other weapons can't be strong enough to them, or they'll kill them actually—which we don't want. We don't want any deaths on your hands.'-V.
'Then why are your suggesting to use Malfeasance?'-Aurae.
'I feel like we'll need it in the future. We don't have light anymore, I've heard of guardians using Malfeasance, the Whisper, and other weapons to become powerful! We can use it or the other weapons as a last resort.'-V.
'Let's hope we won't have to use any of them...'-Aurae.
'We're also running low on kinetic ammo since we used a lot of it on the Grimm earlier.'-V.
[A/N: I know this shouldn't happen since they're nowhere near the Traveler, but I wanted to at least reference the Festival of the Lost once]
V beeps for a second and says, "Festival of the Lost started. And we're not there!"
Aurae freezes, "NO! I wanted to be there. I really want those emotes, masks, and ghost shells! DAMMIT! The Colonel mask...Man, I wanted to troll people with it in Gambit."
V 'sighs', "We can't go back you know. We can't transmat any of our ships. They're too big too transmat from far away. This planet hasn't even made a ship able to go outer space. We only have two sparrows with us unfortunately."
Luke's Ghost chuckles, "Luke had the same reaction as you."
Aurae gets back on his current sparrow, Ravager's Ride, and starts heading towards the direction of Atlas.
"How exactly are we getting into Atlas?" Aurae asks V.
"I'm planning on hacking into their systems and creating a fake identity for you. From Atlas, you'll be known as a Huntsman," V explains, "I'm not sure about your name though. Try to make one up that's better than the name 'Hunter'."
"Um...does a nickname work? Surely Huntsmen have fake names to keep their identities hidden." Aurae remarked.
"Then what alias do you have in mind?" V questions.
"Er...let me think about it and I'll just say it once we get there." Aurae disclosed.
"Fine, better think of one quick. One that's good." V mutters.
"Yeah yeah, whatever." Aurae answered.
They reach their destination after a couple of hours. It's almost morning according to V, since there's no sun to look at. Which means another day had past while they drove.
"Are you sure it's okay to go in?" Aurae says nervously.
"For the fifth time, yes! It's night so you should be fine, just go!" V complains.
Aurae, now wearing his usual armor but with a black shader, walks towards Atlas. He sees multiple soldiers and robots walking around.
'Can I somehow knock one of them out and take their armor?'-Aurae.
'Maybe, be cautious though. They're always together, so you'll need to somehow lure one away or get one without the others noticing.'-V.
'Can do.'-Aurae.
He's now crouched on a building in the darkness. He already missed the gold that came with the Midnight Talons shader, but he had to remain hidden. It's night so the color is perfect to use to blend into his surroundings.
He slowly, but surely, makes his way towards two soldiers guarding an entrance. V has already hacked the cameras, so all he had to do was knock them both out.
Aurae is glad that he figured out how to weaponize emotes. Ever since guardians started dabbing with the chicken(which was horrendous and terrifying to see), he figured out that emotes could, in fact, hurt people. Given enough thought of course.
He uses the Home Run emote then smacks the soldier on the right in the head with the baseball bat. The left one spots him and raises his gun to shoot him, but before he could fire at the intruder, he gets smacked in the face as well.
"First time using my supposed method and it works!" Aurae states proudly, albeit quietly. The baseball bat disappears after a few seconds, leaving no trace of it ever being there.
He grabs one of the guards and starts dragging him towards an alley.
'So...how exactly do I take off my armor and their armor?'-Aurae.
'I'll simply transmat their armor into your inventory then replace your current armor. Their helmet doesn't completely cover your face though, so I suggest getting something to cover the rest.'-V.
'Don't they have robots for soldiers too? They'll probably think I'm one of them.'-Aurae.
'We can never be too cautious. I'm worried that they'll notice you're not like the other robots.'-V.
'Fine...you're right.'-Aurae.
V scans the unconscious figure and the armor disappears, leaving only some black clothes behind. After that, Aurae's armor disappears and is instantly replaced by the armor from the Atlas soldier.
Aurae checks the power of the armor and says between fits of laughter, "A-are you kidding me? Their armor is—like—power 250?!"
His armor is power 600 or at least somewhere around 300-600 since he can't infuse all of them to a high power level with limited resources. He hates how hard it is to get Masterwork Cores. He's also really sad because he can't get most of his armor or weapons since they're in the vault, which he can't go to anymore.
'This world is behind on technological stuff and armor. But they do have cool weapons.'-V.
'True, do you think we can buy something like what Ruby has? Or maybe even a hand cannon that can turn into a sniper rifle!'-Aurae.
'From what I can tell, their weapons are a combination with a melee weapon and a long range weapon.'-V.
'Then I'll get a cool sword and a sniper rifle.'-Aurae.
'We still don't have any money.'-V.
'I...can earn some!'-Aurae.
'How exactly?'-V.
'You said I'm known as a Huntsman once you hack their systems, right?'-Aurae.
'Yeah...'-V.
'Well, I could go kill Grimm or whatever they do to earn money.'-Aurae.
'Uh...how exactly are you gonna get hired? Remember, we need to find wherever they put their info first so I can hack into their systems. I also don't want you fighting anything without light.'-V.
'Gah! This is gonna be so boring. It's only a stealth mission.'-Aurae.
'At least you won't die, alright?'-V.
Aurae sighs, this is gonna be worst than he thought.
'So...we're gonna free Luke. How exactly?'-Aurae.
'You can sneak into the place where Luke is being held, his Ghost will lead us to him, and break him out. Quietly.'-V.
'There's multiple soldiers there though!'-Aurae.
'Exactly, you're dressed as one so you should be fine.'-V.
Aurae was about it facepalm himself, "Gosh, I am stupid. Let's go then!"
