Hey guys here is the third chapter
Disclaimer: Still don't own Warframe and the charactes, just the names and the Grineer Major
Enjoy.
NO ONE
It had been four months since Excal had been initiated in the Dojo and him along with Nova, Vauban and Nyx had been through an amazing One hundred fifty missions from exterminate to sabotage to spy work but Nova, Vauban and Nyx know that deep down in Excal he want's to assassinate that Grinner Major and the only way to pin point his location is to know who that traitor in the video was.
'Damn, so far not so much progress...we need to improve our video enhancer but where...' Vauban didn't notice Nyx come up behind him
"Are you okay?" No response "Sir?" Nothing again, by now Nyx could feel the nervousness emitting from her leader. She then tried to snap Vauban back into reality "Joe, can you here me? Joe!" Nyx said in the coms link.
immediately Joe/Vauban snap back to reality in hearing his real name "Oh, hey there Nyx, what brings you here?"
"I was going to ask if the video was done being fixed."
"Sadly no, we need a component to enhance the video, ours is starting to be out of date."
"Oh, that sounds bad..."
"It is."
"So where will we get a component?"
"In...mars."
"Wait! You can't be serious? It's a war zone in that planet!" Nyx was starting to feel fear rising in her
"Yes, yes, I know, we swore not to go there or talk about anything related to the planet but that's where we will get the component we need...I'm sorry Jessic...I mean Nyx."
"It's okay." but deep down in her it's not.
NYX
Great just fucking great...we're going back to that god damn planet. To be honest I'm sure I'll be crying my eyes out the entire time. I then left the bridge and went to the observation room on the 77th floor and I just wanted some time to myself, but when I neared the room I felt a really strong sadness and I made a wild guess on who that person is and when I entered sure enough Excalibur was kneeling down and staring into space. Maybe alone time can wait.
"Hey." after I spoke Excalibur turned his head and gave me a sad smile and I went to him and kneeled down besides him and I dissolved my helmet
"It's been four months but I still can't get over the fact that my old Dojo is gone...permanently."
"Yeah, sadly it was the first time an entire Dojo was destroyed...well at least the Lotus was kind enough to make the day your Dojo was destroyed into a day of remembering..."
"Well it's good to know that she cared that much for us."
"Besides..." I placed an arm around him in a comforting way "other Dojos, Tennos who prefer to be lone wolfs, Grineer spies and Corpus spies and surprisingly Merchants and Thieves have all agreed to help in gathering info."
"Yeah that was good to hear...but still, it can't change the fact that I was the only one besides that fucking traitor who survived..."
"True..."
"So, how's the video?"
"Well...we need to go to...ma-mars..."
"What's wrong?"
"Well remember the story of our old squad mate?"
"Yea...oh, I'm sorry."
"No it's fine it's just...he was someone so special to me."
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"Maybe later..."
"I'll respect you decision." He then gave me a hug and I felt calm in his embrace.
"So when will we go there?"
"When Vauban summons us." Excal chuckled after I spoke "What's funny?"
"The way you said he'll summon us." I then laughed and we spent ten minutes talking about things and the past missions we had.
The coms link then called me, Excal and Nova. Excal and I knew it was time so we got up and headed to the bridge, once there Nova and Vauban were already making plans and when Vauban saw us he motioned the two of us to come near
"Glad you two can come, Nova and I were just discussing the plan."
"Well how are we going to execute it?" Excal said while looking at the 3D hologram of a Corpus base.
"Since there are three storage vaults and each one is different from the others only one should enter and one has to distract the Corpus." Vauban said
"A is the easiest to infiltrate, B is the hardest out of the three and C is just going to fuck your brain." Nova said while she place both arms over her chest.
"I'll be handling A" I said
"Okay then, I'll handle B." Vauban said
"C's mine." Nova said
"Leave the Corpus to me." Excal said with a smirk
"Okay then that's settled and now to the other part of this plan, we have to change our color to an urban camo and colors to decide upon?" Vauban asked
"Any shade of grey will do" Nova said
"We should have a bit of white since there's snow no doubt about it."
"How about you Excal any color to add?" Nova asked Excal
"Can we add black?"
"Hmm, a bit odd but okay then. That settles it black, white and any shade of grey it is." Vauban said
(AN: Please don't think about fifty shades. The books that my sister had and the movie disturbed me in so many levels.)
"When will we depart?" I asked Vauban
"In five earth hours, why?"
"Five hours to meditate."
"Oh. I guess you should begin Nyx."
"Thank you sir." I then left but instead of heading to the garden I went straight to my room with tears forming in my eyes
VAUBAN
*Sigh* I wish we didn't have to go back to that fucking planet...I may look all calm in the outside and I look like I have moved on but in the inside I'm a total fucking mess.
"Vau is there something bothering you?" Excal asked
"Yeah, I might as well tell you the truth. I'm not happy about going to mars."
"Is it because of your old squad mate?"
"Yes."
"Not that I'm being nosy but what was he like?"
"I think you have to know the truth." I said while motioning him to sit down with me and Nova
"Okay then." Excal said while sitting down
"Our old squad mate was a Frost user his code name was Frost 61-A1 his real name was Jack, he was a great leader, a good friend,
a caring brother and to Ny-Jessica, he was a very special someone."
"Oh, now I know."
"He was the old leader of this squad and he was the one who founded the clan. Back then the Dojo was just about 50,000 Tennos and he asked me first if I wanted to join him in making a squad and I said sure. Then a few hours later Nova here heard about the making of a squad and she asked if she could join and Jack was kind hearted enough to accept her even though at that time she was still fragile, then the following day that's when Nyx joined and our first mission together was at E Gate in Mercury and we had a successful first mission as a squad and we actually inspired other Tennos to work together and before we knew it words spread about our Dojo and from 50,000 Tennos we were almost a million."
I then inhaled really deep and I felt a tear sliding down my left cheek
"Two earth years later we were heading to mars to do a simple exterminate mission and everything went smoothly until...those bastards came...it was a surprise attack from the Grineer Army, us and the Corpus in the base were caught unaware and next thing we know the Grineer Galleon opened fire and cannon shells were exploding everywhere. Corpus soldiers began shouting to take cover,
get the laser cannons and some were motioning for us to take cover. The bombardment lasted for about thirty minutes and the once nice looking Corpus base was reduced to ruins and the foot soldiers started to pop up and began their assault, our simple exterminate mission became a Grineer assault with the four of us helping the Corpus in defending their base."
I clutched to the sides of the chair I was sitting on and Nova, while in her chair placed both knees near her chest and began to cry.
"We asked the Corpus if they have any heavy weapons with them and a Corpus Tech pointed to a giant door in a mountain face and he said that we'll be able to us high powered Corpus weaponry, Jack and I decided to go there while Nyx and Nova were to cause chaos among the Grineer. That was a really bad decision. Jack and I went to the weapons room and I saw a giant gun that looks like it needs to be lifted around."
I was now starting to have tears fall down from both my eyes
"He asked what the weapon was and I said it was an ion cannon, it fires super concentrated beams of heat and judging by the size of it, it look like it can blow up the Grineer Galleon. Jack then had an idea when the Grineer Galleon flies over we use it to bring down that ugly ship, I said it could work since the ion cannon will have no problem in punching through rock. Okay let's do it he said. He ordered me to tell him when to use it and I foolishly agreed...I should have been the one that stayed. Anyways, so there I was waiting for the Grineers ship to fly above the mountain and when it was I radioed Frost to activate it. A few seconds later I felt the ground shake and then a giant laser erupted from the mountain and it made direct contact with the hull of the Grineer ship and it was at first smoking then explosions erupted in the ship then next thing I knew the Corpus were all cheering that the Grineer Galleon was destroyed, I was also happy about the result but then Jack radioed me telling me that the ion cannon was acting weird and I told him that I was on my way but he just ordered me to get Nova and Nyx and get them to safety, I tried to reason with him but he said we all might die if I went back to get him. So I did what I was ordered I contacted Nova and Nyx and told them to go the extraction zone. I radioed Frost and he said that he will place an Ice Dome to slow it down to buy us some time to get away safely."
By then I was already crying really hard.
"He said we had thirty seconds to get away and we wasted no time, once Nova, Nyx and I were inside the Liset we flew away...the three of us should have just continued to fly away, instead we went back to try and rescue him but we were too late. An huge fireball blew the giant door wide open and the mountain collapsed on itself, we landed the Liset and I used my ability to make giant boulders bounce away while Nova was using her Antimatter Drop. Nyx was using her mind to try and find Jack's location but to no avail. We spent about five hours until we had to go back to the Dojo."
I wiped the tears from my eyes and I...I just can't continue anymore so I motioned Nova to continue it
NOVA
I watched as Vauban was having a breakdown and he motioned me to continue, I don't want to talk about the next scene but I guess Excal has to know everything.
"The three of us walked out of our Liset and we didn't get that far, different squads were wondering why we were only three, I wanted to shout at them to leave us alone but Vauban placed a hand on my shoulder and as if he knew what I was about to do, he just shook his head and said just continue walking. After about an hour we had no choice but to tell the entire clan that their founder, leader and friend was MIA or KIA."
I paused for a while and had to wipe tears forming in my eyes
"After we broke the sad news the life that was in this Dojo disappeared in a matter of seconds and it went on for five months. The following day after the incident the three of us went back to the Corpus base and discovered that it was abandoned by the Corpus army and they actually left a letter which said that they are sorry for our lost, even though the day started as us fighting them but in the end the Grineer army was the real threat to both fractions and they promised to tell the Board members of the bravery and the sacrifice that Jack did. Even though the pain was still fresh we came to accept half heartedly that Jack was gone so we decided to build a monument in honor of him."
I had to excuse myself and tried to stop myself from shaking
"I asked Vauban who then was appointed as the new leader if I can be Nyx's roommate to keep an eye on her since she and Frost had a really close friendship and out of us three she took it the hardest."
"Oh my...I-I guess she wasn't herself for months or a year or two?" Excal asked worriedly
"She manage to keep her sanity but every night for a year she always woke up screaming and I was always by her side to comfort her,
I treated Nyx as a little sister and I am older than her by four earth months thanks to DNA checking. I would always hug her and tell her that he's now in a happy place and that he's watching over us."
"So that's where your bond began." Excal asked
"That's right and we were actually visited by the Lotus herself and told us that she was also saddened that a clan founder died and she had a private talk with the three of us." I paused and looked at Joe who nodded his head and I looked at Excal "What I'm about to tell you is a very classified. This is between us squad mates, you can ask Jessica about it but you must not in any condition talk about it to other members of the clan. Understood?" I said with a serious tone
"I understand, you have my word."
"Okay, the Lotus told us that the Grinner assault was part of a major invasion attempt across the entire solar system by the Grineer she didn't warn all of us in time and she was devastated to get reports from different Dojos that squads or one operative were either MIA or KIA and she had also received reports about a Dojo, a new one which only had about twenty five percent of it's members left. So every clan leader she would talk to them personally and not in a recorded message and told each one about what she had discovered.
In our case, she told us that we must do covered ops that the other don't know about and she told us that she'll be giving us information that's up to date, in other words she will be talking to us and not the A.I. that's built in our Warframes."
"Wow, that's some info, hopefully I don't fuck up." Excal said while scratching the back of his head
"Yeah, you better not. Now I guess this talks over. Right Joe?" I looked at Vauban
"Yeah this talks over."
"I suggest Excal that you go and find Jessica and talk to her, she'll be needing you. We'll just radio you two when we're ready to go."
"Sure." with that Excal stood up and left the room
"Jack please protect us." I whispered to myself
EXCALIBUR
Wow I didn't know that this missions gonna be an emotional thing for the three of them, especially Nyx. I had a hard time looking for her in the Dojo so I had to ask around and almost everyone said they didn't see her.
"Hey excuse but have you seen Nyx 50-D1?" I asked Rhino user
"Hey your that survivor, right?"
"Yep that's me."
"Hmm, my names Rhino 43-M5, you can call me Harold."
"Oh, nice to meet you." I extended my hand and he shook hands with me
"It's nice to meet you too. Back to your question, yeah I saw Jessica she went to the sleeping quarters."
"Thank you."
"No problem."
I walked to the sleeping quarters and I made a guess that she was in her room and when I came near it, true enough I heard crying so I knocked gently on the door.
"Who is it?" I heard her say from the inside
"It's me." I heard her sneeze and heard her walking towards the door
"Hey, is it time to go?" she asked when the door opened and her eyes were still red from crying
"Uhm, not yet." I said nervously
"Then what brings you here?"
"I came here to talk with you."
"I'm guessing it's about Frost right?"
"Y-yeah, if it's fine with you."
"I don't mind, come in."
"So..." I asked awkwardly
"So what?"
"How long were you crying?"
"A few minutes after I left."
"It's that painful?"
"Yes."
"You know you can tell it to me some other time..." I was cut off by Nyx
"No, I have to tell you or else it's going to hinder me when we're doing the mission." Nyx said
"Okay, I'm all ears."
NYX
I watched as Excal sat on the edge of my bed and I sat next to him
"It all began the day I joined the clan. I was a rookie and I was anti social, I just woke from my cryopod and the first thing I saw was the Grineer soldiers fighting three unknown figures. My hearing and sight were messed up due to being in cryostasis for a long time.
But next thing I know was that I grabbed from the ground a weird looking knife that resembled a opener (sheeve) and I saw one of the unknown figures fall down on his back, with my recovering strength I threw the knife and the one that brought that person down might have heard me as it's body faced my direction and the knife hit him square on his face and he suddenly burst into flames killing him."
I wiped a tear in my eye and blew my nose
"Then after getting to safety I was initiated to this clan and at first I was a bit clumsy since well I woke up. But as the minutes passed I was starting to do progress and after a week I was done. I was done with being initiated into the clan and that's the day I started being antisocial, a loner...I didn't talk to anyone and I didn't go into any missions. If I did go to a mission I would be all alone and I was always greeted by silence whenever I returned. There were moments I wished I'd just die in the hands of the Corpus, Grineer or better yet with the Infestation...but when I was in my lowest point he came and talked me out of doing it..."
"Doing what?" Excal asked with a worried tone which I find cute
"I was about to kill myself...I was gonna stab myself with my skana but he...Jack came in the right moment to talk with me about something but he ended up talking me out of killing myself. Afterwards he would occasionally talk with me to keep my hopes up and I wanted to thank him for that. When I heard he was making a squad and there was only one slot left I decided to join and he was kind enough to let me join."
"That was nice of him."
"Yeah. Back to my story, we did a lot of missions and through those times I develop a crush on him which ended up in me wanting to tell him that I love him. So in that unfaithful day when we went to Mars I was just thinking we'll all be going home safe but it didn't go according to plan and we lost Jack."
I was shaking uncontrollably and Adam wrapped his arms around me and he comforted me
"You don't have say the rest I already know and I want you to know that I'll be there for you."
We remained the same for ten minutes but for me it felt like hours and I couldn't help but enjoy his warmth.
"Thank you Adam."
"Don't worry about it Jessica, I'll never let anything hurt you, I'm always gonna make sure your all right."
I nodded for I was lost in the way he looked at me and knowing we both lost someone so special to our lives. I was about to ask him if he would like to have lunch with me someday but I wasn't able to ask him as Nova's sad voice echoed through our head telling us it was time and my grip on Jack tightened and he placed his free hand on my back and sooth me telling me it will be all right.
Excal and I met Vauban and Nova on the way to our Liset which the colour was change to fit the environment. When we flew there we were all silent and it took us ten minutes to get to our destination once there we were dropped off on top of a building overlooking the Corpus outpost and we then proceeded to our own objectives.
"When the alarms blare that means go to your objective, okay guys?" Excal said while equipping a Ether Reaper
All of us nodded and he disappeared we waited for fourteen minutes, then the alarms blared all around with that me, Nova and Vauban headed to our objectives, I headed to A and it was easy and I was heading back to Excalibur.
"Excalibur come in."
"Excal here how'd it go Nyx?"
"Didn't break a sweat, how about you? How are you?"
"Just beheading Corpus soldiers and destroying Moa's."
"I'll meet up with you."
"Sure Nyx, can't wait to se-" Excal's communication was cut midway and I started to worry
"Excal? Are you okay?"
"EXCAL! YOU OKAY?" I shouted in the coms link and now I was getting worried
"Ny...you...kay?...FUCK..." the long silence was enough for me to start running towards Excalibur at the same time I manage to radio Nova and Vauban who were also on their way to Excal's location.
NO ONE
Two minutes ago
Excalibur or Adam was busy avoiding lasers from every direction while at the same time splitting every Corpus soldier he can see into two or more pieces, he was also chatting with Nyx.
But then the entire area where Adam had killed a hundred and ten Corpus units was covered by a shadow and everything went to hell, it was now pandemonium as the Tennos had ended up in a crossfire.
Present
"Fucking Grineers!" Adam yelled while splitting a Grineer Bombard in half
Excalibur was now starting to be surrounded by a growing pile of dead or dying Corpus and Grineer units. Then he heard a very familiar voice
"Grineers! Kill all of this box headed scums! THAT'S AN ORDER!"
Excalibur's world suddenly became slow and next thing he knew he was mutilating Corpus and Grineer units just get to the Grineer who shouted the orders and when he was close enough he was now seeing red. It was the same Grineer who stabbed Ember and he was bent on revenge.
"YOU MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF TRASH, I'LL KILL YOU!" Adam yelled to the top of his lungs
"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!" the Grineer asked
"THE ONE WHO WILL BRING JUSTICE TO MY DEAD FRIENDS!"
The Grineer Major then took a calm posture and chuckled.
"What's so funny?" Adam asked through gritted teeth
"That your dead friends will increase by three." Adams eyes widen at the realization "You think this is a normal invasion? Fuck no this is a mission to exterminate the last survivor and once your dead the clan that welcomed you will be destroyed."
"Oh hell no!" Adam then tried to slash the Grineer soldier but he had a force field around him
"Haha, you'll never beat me boy"
"Shut up!"
"Give up now and join your dead friends!"
"I SAID SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Adam yelled and tried to hit the Grineer again but this time the force field was destroyed
"WHAT THE...?!" the Grineer couldn't believe what just happened
"NOW YOU DIE!" Adam was starting to not be himself
"DEFEND ME YOU STUPID MARINES!" different Grineer units then tried to defend the Grineer Major but all were falling dead with just one slice
"Nowhere left to run off too..." Adam was now dragging his ether reaper leaving a straight line "...and nowhere to hide." Adam was able to corner the Grineer Major, he was about to deliver the final blow until her voice was heard
"EXCAL! STOP!" immediately Excaliburs entire body froze and Nyx ran to him and hugged him. "Don't do it please." Nyx asked while burying her face in his back
Taking advantage of the situation the Grineer made a run to safety and once away from the two Tenno's he took a moment to catch his breath
"This is Grineer Major De'thaus, I need a pick up immediately!"
"This is Alpha Squad coming to your location sir."
"Roger."
When the squad of Grineer soldiers came they along with the Major escape to the safety of the Galleon
"Captain, I want you to send them to take care of the Tennos and Corpus."
"But sir, their mental state is not yet that okay."
"That's an order soldier...or do you want to be fed to them."
"N-no sir, r-r-r-right away sir."
"Good, now do it."
As the Galleon slowly flew higher and higher in the sky one by one it fired canisters that looked like escape pods while at the same time Vauban and Nova arrived to see the canisters falling from the sky.
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE THOSE THINGS?!" Nova screamed
"I HAVE NO IDEA BUT WHATEVER IT IS WE BETTER BE READY." he then looked over towards Excal and Nyx and notice the body language of Excal was a bit off. 'What happened to him?' Vauban questioned himself
One by one the pods landed and the Tennos took defensive postures and one by one the pods opened
"Excal, please don't loose yourself again." Nyx told with a worried tone
"Don't worry I'll try to control it."
"How many pods are there?" Vauban asked
"According to my helmet more than one hundred pods." Nova replied
"Well, that's easy enough-" Vauban was cut short when laughter erupted
"Oh, fuck..." Nyx said
"Lotus help us." Excal said
"I'll be needing a lot of energy." Vauban said
"We're gonna need a lot of ammo." Nova said
All of a sudden all one hundred Manic's attacked simultaneously
"GET READY!" Vauban shouted
Excal was the firt one to draw the first blood by successfully landing a fatal blow to the first Manic's head with his ether reaper. Nyx manage to shoot two of the Manics square on the face, Vauban used Bastille to hold off as many Manics as he can before shooting each with his modified hek shotgun while Nova was slashing each unlucky Manics with her Orthos while using Null Star to attack any enemies on her blind spots.
After an hour of running, slashing, hacking, blasting and shooting all one hundred Manics were dead and the Tennos went to the extraction spot and went back to the safety of the Dojo. While on board the Liset Nyx can't help but wonder what was going on inside Excal's head
"Are you feeling okay?"
"Yeah, why'd you ask?"
"Because you weren't yourself when I saw you about to kill that Grineer. Was that him?"
"Yeah it was that bastard...but I didn't know what happened, all I remember was seeing him and next thing I know was you hugging me."
"When we get back to the Dojo I'll explain to you what I felt."
"Sure."
"We'll be making a stop to the shrine." Vauban said
Before leaving Mars they made a stop to the shrine that was made for Jack. They landed in a secret spot which won't show the Liset's location to the sensors of the Corpus fleet. When they step out they walked for a bit until the group stopped facing a rock wall and with a secret switch the rock face slowly disintegrated revealing a life size statue of Jack on top of a podium and they paid their respects.
The four of them stayed there for thirty minutes before leaving.
"You miss him a lot huh?" Excal asked Nyx once on board the Liset
"You have no idea." Excal then just gave Nyx a gentle pat on the shoulder
STALKER
After witnessing the Tennos, I couldn't help but smirk at the Excalibur user...he's full of potential. To be another pupil.
"Have you seen what they were capable of?" I asked my apprentice
"Yes and I must say they...were vicious."
"Yes they were but did you see that Excal user? The way he killed both Grineer and Corpus just to get that Grineer Major?"
"I did, he was...different."
"Call her and tell her that it's time to depart. We don't want to be seen by those greedy Corpus."
"Yes master." He then contacted my other pupil "Are you there?" I heard him ask
"I am here, just finishing off any survivors." my other apprentice said through the private coms
"It's time to go."
"Okay."
Me and my two pupils then departed to the darkest corner of space but I can't help but want to know that Excal user...more.
So hopefully you guys and gals enjoyed this chapter, took a lot of sleepless nights to make and I got delayed in making this due to school but here it is.
So the Grineer Major has a real name and the Stalker makes his appearance with two apprentices, who could they be or it's that easy to know. Haha oh well we'll be seeing more of them later on.
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