With their new weaponry and Alex's new skill, the three new lights headed off to the Tower Hangar to meet Amanda Holliday, and get their ship when Alex stopped.
'Actually, No Ryan Reynolds go back to your normal voice please?' Alex said to Goldstrike.
'Yeah sure, no problem.' Goldstrike said as he transitioned from the voice Alex had just chosen for him to his original voice.
'Anyway, ONWARDS!' Alex yelled as he sprinted down the corridor.
Velra and Paladin looked at each other, shook their heads and went on after him sprinting.
When the trio arrived in the hangar ships could be seen docking and leaving going who knows where in the Solar System. Then after a short walk, they arrived in front of Amanda Holliday.
'So you three are the new lights which brought that hunk 'a' junk from the Cosmodrome?' Amanda said.
'It may be junk, yes. But it got us out of there.' Velra said.
'Well, its good to hear you think of the ship that way. It's yours now.' Amanda said.
'Wait. What?' Velra exclaimed.
'Yeah, fixed it up and its as good as new. It's that one over there.' Amanda said she grabbed Velra and pointed toward the ship that they had escaped in that looked almost unrecognisable from the one they were in earlier, except how the paint has been painted on the ship and the colours used.
'Honestly, it doesn't look too bad. Damn your good.' Velra said to Amanda.
'I know' Amanda responded.
Alex whispers to Paladin 'Is...is she trying to...?'
'I think so.' Paladin whispered back to Alex.
'Is this gonna become a problem?' Paladin asked Alex.
'I hope it won't' Alex said.
'Now your ship, Velra, is an Arcadian Class Jumpship, and an old one at that so if you get it damaged badly enough you're just gonna be gettin a new ship.' Amanda said to Velra.
'Fair.' Velra responded.
Amanda walked over to Paladin and pointed to a hangar bay with a ship that looked like it had never flown before.
'That is a Minerva Zero class Jumpship, its base colour is white, but it's been changed to match your face paint design, right side white and left side black with a white star in the middle of the black side.' Amanda said.
'Thank you.' Paladin said.
'Oh, and if yours is damaged badly, I can fix it.' Amanda added.
'Now, Alex.' She said, walking over to Alex.
'Did you need to yell "ONWARDS!"?' Amanda asks him.
'No, but I found it funny.' Alex responded.
'Just like Cayde.' She said.
'Now that ship over there.' she said to Alex pointing at a ship that was sleek in design. 'Is yours. Its an Echo Zero class Jumpship painted black.'
'Thanks.' Alex said to Amanda.
'Now before you lot go on patrol. In chests, you can find ship blueprints, so if you find any bring em to me and I'll make you a ship from em.' Amanda said to the trio as they looked at their ships. 'You three need to go back into the Cosmodrome and get somethin for me.' Amanda told Alex, Paladin and Velra.
'What do we need to get you?' Paladin asked.
'Well, Velra's ship didn't have all its parts. The Fallen took one of the most valuable parts from it, the Warp drive or NLS drive.' Amanda said.
'NLS?' Alex asked.
'Near Light Speed.' Amanda responded.
'Ah.' Alex said.
'Now since Velra's ship didn't have one and your ships are so recently made that I didn't have enough time to find one for you. You need to find one in the Cosmodrome so that I can use the design to fabricate some more and insert them into your ships.' Amanda said, explaining the situation.
'Well, it seems easy enough.' Velra said.
'Don't get cocky, plenty of Guardians have been killed cos ah cockiness like that.' Amanda said to Velra.
'We'll be careful.' Alex said to Amanda.
'Good, now get that drive.' Amanda said as the three Guardians began to walk towards their ships.
Once at their ships and inside the cockpit, Velra spoke up 'So, whos up for a race?'
'Really, a race?' Paladin asked.
'What, scared your gonna lose cos your ships to slow. Or do you need some Oil and DW-40 for your rusting joints?' Alex asked Paladin both taunting and insulting him at the same time.
'Right, that's it you little fucker.' Paladin barked at Alex as he started up his engines.
Alex started his engines as soon as he heard Paladins and said 'Oh, fuck.' both slightly laughing and panicking at the same time as he flew out of his specific bay and put his ship on maximum speed, blasting out of the Hangar, flying toward the Cosmodrome and trying to escape Paladin.
Paladin with anger on his robotic face chased after Alex with intent to kill or at least harm as he did the same as Alex and blasted out of the Tower Hangar.
Velra laughed at what was happening and followed them, leaving the same way they did not want to miss what would happen.
After a while of flying at top speed through mountain passes, storms and flying so low that they all most crashed into a forest, they finally arrived at the Cosmodrome. Alex, being virtually hunted by Paladin, arrived just before his Titan friend. Seeing that Paladin was right behind him and was about to ram into his engines, he did a barrel roll to the left. He flew quickly over to a flat surface near where they had found Velra's ship and got close enough to the ground so that he could Transmat out from his ship and landed just barely staying on his feet with his hand on his gun in case as his ship flew into orbit, waiting to be used.
Paladin followed Alex's movements and landed a few feet from Alex as his ship went into orbit. He began to charge toward Alex, and Alex started to shot him with his gun. Alex then holstered his Hand Cannon and began to charge toward Paladin. As Paladin got closer to Alex, he raised his fist to the level Alex's face would soon be.
Alex not wanting his skull to be smashed vaulted over Paladin, stopped and turned around to look at Paladin who had turned around right after Alex went over him had punched Alex so hard he flew back into an old, rusted plane shattering his spine. Paladins punch had temporarily disabled his helmet revealing a black eye, cuts all over his face, missing teeth and a dislocated jaw. Paladin walked up to Alex, retracting his helmet to show his face full of rage, or at least as much as a robot face could display.
When he got to Alex, he picked him up by the throat and began to choke him. Alex could see that Paladins eyes were no longer white, nor was his mouth, instead they were blood red. Goldstrike healed Alex's wounds after Goldstrike had healed him, Alex grabbed his gun and put it under his chin, the hammer down and Alex's finger on the trigger.
Right as Alex and Paladin were about to kill one another, Velra transmatted from her ship and was the first to speak of the three since they had almost crashed and just said 'Coated.' When she said that Paladin's eyes turned from red to white. As this happened, he let go of Alex who fell to the ground on his knees, one hand with his gun on the floor and the other around his neck. He managed to say to Goldstrike 'Throat.' telling him to fix his throat so that he could breathe.
Velra ran over to Alex, 'Alex, are you ok?' she asked Alex who was getting to his feet. 'Let me help you up.' Velra said to Alex.
'It's fine I can stand.' Alex said to her.
'I'm so sorry, Are you alright?' Paladin asked Alex.
'I'm fine.' Alex responded, fixing his hood.
After saying this, Alex raised his gun to Paladin's forehead and pulled the trigger almost instantly when it was at his head. Paladins Ghost rose from his corpse, and Velra walked over to it, put her hand in the field that surrounded the Ghosts eye, and Paladin was revived.
'You ok?' Velra asked Paladin.
'Yeah, I deserved that.' Paladin responded.
'What the fuck did you have up your ass and why did you say "Coated" when you arrived?' Alex asked.
'I don't know.' Paladin said.
'We do.' The Ghosts said in unison. 'Paladin was built for a long-forgotten war, just like most of the Exo's, he must have a trigger word.' Griffin said.
'Paladin is a Titan, which means he is strong and can make lightning-fast decisions. His trigger word takes everything in his skillset and makes it practically unbeatable.' LightningFire said.
'Why only practically unbeatable, why not completely unstoppable?' Alex asked.
'Well, Exo's with trigger words also have a word that makes them normal again.' Goldstrike responded to Alex.
'Well, that'll come in handy.' Alex said.
Right as Alex finished his sentence, a bullet hit the plane next to Alex's head. The trio turned to the direction the shot came from as Paladin's helmet went back on his head. Alex's helmet was still disabled, so he just had the hood of his cape as protection.
'You two distracted the shooter somehow, and I'll look for a place to shoot it.' Alex said.
Velra and Paladin started to run around like madmen trying to distract the shooter whilst Alex got to a position. Once Alex found a spot on a nearby rock, he lay on his front with his sniper and aimed down the scope. After looking for a brief period, he found who was shooting at them, got the Vandals head dead insight and pulled the trigger. The shot from Alex's gun was loud and fast, and it killed the Vandal almost instantly.
Alex came down from his rock and checked his helmet to see if it was fixed but with no avail.
'It's dead.' Alex said, putting his sniper on his back as it disappeared to his ship.
'Ok, now what?' Paladin asked.
'We could wait for your helmet to be fixed?' Velra said.
'Ghost, could you see if you can fix it while we're looking for this NLS drive?' Alex asked Goldstrike.
'Yeah, I can do that.' Goldstrtike responded.
'Ok then, let's get this drive.' Alex said.
'A Guardian crashed their ship nearby recently. We should start there.' Griffin said to the trio. 'The location's been added to you tracker.' She added.
'Could I get pointed in the right direction?' Alex asked.
Paladin and Velra pointed to where they need to go.
'Thanks.' Alex said as he began to go to their destination.
After a few minutes of walking, they arrived at the ship. It was severely damaged, sparks were coming from broken circuits, and peeled bits of the hull could be seen on the ground next to the ship.
Velra brought out Griffin, who scanned the most exposed part of the hull.
'Can you find out who this belonged to?' Velra asked her Ghost.
'I can try, but the Fallen have picked this ship clean, there are ship logs but their corrupted.' Griffin said as she tried to get whatever information possible from the ship.
'Ok, I've got a name for the owner of the ship.' Griffin said after a few seconds.
'Who did it belong to?' Alex asked.
'A Hunter called Ethan Thorne and that Last Word you found in the Wall Alex, belonged to him.' Griffin said.
'Is there anything else?' Velra asked.
'On Ethan, no. And this ship doesn't have a Warp drive. But Ethan sent a transmission saying that he restored an old information hub in the tunnels below. It's not too far from here.' Griffin responded as she returned to her Guardian.
Alex, Paladin and Velra walked over to the tunnel entrance they needed to go into to see what they could find in there.
A group of Fallen was patrolling the building with the tunnel entrance, not aware of the nearby Fireteams presence. Goldstrike spoke up
'Helmets fixed, try not to get anymore spine shattering punches from Paladin.' He said.
'I'll try.' Alex said as his helmet came back up and covered his head whilst he looked at Paladin.
'So, what are we gonna do about those Fallen down there?' Velra asked her teammates.
'Well there is about ten of them, so just shoot them?' Alex asked.
Paladin grabbed the shotgun off of his back and reloaded it 'Sounds like a fine plan to me.' he said, jumping over their cover and shooting the Fallen.
Alex and Velra followed and killed the fallen on guard with ease. Once they were dead, they moved into the building and went down a staircase which led them to the information hub.
The hub had a few more Fallen which were quickly dealt with. Once they were killed the trio walked up to a massive screen which covered an entire wall. Griffin scanned it after commenting that it was a map of the whole area.
'What we need is a Warp drive so we can travel to any planet or moon.' She said.
'Our only hope of finding one is where we found Velra's ship. We have to go back.' Griffin added as she returned to Velra.
The Guardians went back over to Dock 13 where they had found Velra's ship. In the dock was a small group of Fallen that was dealt with swiftly.
After the group was killed a tremendous roar came from the hole in the wall that they had seen the massive Fallen come out of.
The same Fallen came from the hole with a lot of Vandals and Dregs. The Fireteam hid behind three pillars and devised a battle plan.
'What are we gonna do? That fuckers huge.' Velra said.
'I don't know.' Alex responded.
Paladin looked from his cover to assess the enemies shooting them. Then brought his head back to cover and spoke 'Ok, I'll take the fire from the little ones and deal with them. Alex, Velra, you two are going to focus on the big guy.'
Once he finished his sentence, he ran out from his cover and shot at the smaller enemies avoiding the bigger one.
Alex and Velra looked at one another and ran out, shooting at the bigger enemy.
Alex went behind it and started to shoot at the back of his head whilst Velra was attacking him from the front. The Fallen had no clue who to shoot at.
Paladin had finished with the smaller Fallen and went to help his teammates with the big one.
Paladin shouted to Alex 'Alex, get on his back!'
Alex responded by saying 'Velra, you keep him distracted and Paladin, you get him on a knee!'
With this, the three Guardians followed through with the plan. Velra was distracting the Fallen by shooting at it, then when he was close enough to Velra. Paladin charged up to the Fallen and kicked him in the back of the knee, bringing him down. Alex ran up to the Fallen, jumped on his back and started to stab him in the back of the neck, then shoot him in the head, killing it and revealing the Warp drive it had stored in an engram.
With a Warp drive Alex, Velra and Paladin could get their ships fitted and could explore the rest of the Solar System. But not before a few more things had happened and a few more attentions caught.
