*AUTHORS NOTE* GOLDSTRIKE IS THE NOLAN NORTH VOICE OF THE GHOST

After retrieving the Warp Drive Paladins, Ghost spoke, 'Holy shit, we just killed a Fallen Archon.'

Velra reloading her gun said in response 'Need I ask?'

'Second highest rank in a Fallen house with the highest being a Kell.' LightningFire responded.

'So what are Fallen houses? Which house is this? and Where is this Houses Kell?' Alex asked.

'Houses are different groups or factions of Fallen each with different laws, weapons, beliefs and actions. This house is the House of Devils and their Kell is dead.' Griffin said.

'Oh, who killed it?' Velra asked.

'A legendary Titan called Saint-14. He killed it by head butting its face so hard that its skull caved in.' Goldstrike replied.

'Well, lets never piss him off then.' Velra said.

'You can't. Saint's been missing for centuries and presumed to be dead.' Goldstrike added.

'Let's just get out of here and not talk about dead people.' Paladin said.

With that, the trio went the way they came in and found themselves outside. Once outside Griffin spoke

'Now that we have a Warp Drive, we can go back to the City.'

'Yeah, but there has to be more we can do whilst we're out here?' Velra asked her Ghost.

'Well, there is an old building up ahead that the Fallen have been monitoring and guarding closely. We could go and take a look at what's inside?' Griffin suggested to her Guardian and her Fireteam.

'Let's go and take a look then.' Alex said.

The trio began moving to the building which was quite a bit away, and as they moved into the Mothyards which was littered with broken and rusted planes as well as a large building with a massive satellite atop it. As the three Guardians moved closer to the building Goldstrike spoke up

'Before the collapse, this place must have been full of life. Humans boarding ships to colonise planets.'

After Goldstrike had said this the trio had made it to the Mothyards and could see the building they were going to.

'LightningFire, what's the time?' Paladin asked his Ghost.

'1730hrs. why?' LightningFire asked.

'After this, we should have time to do a few more things before we head back to the Tower.' Paladin said to Alex and Velra.

'Yeah, we can do a few more things after this.' Velra said.

'Let's get in this building then.' Alex said.

The Guardians ran to the building, and as they did Griffin spoke to all of them saying,

'This is the old Skywatch building used to maintain contact with Earths colonies out in the system.'

After Griffin had finished speaking Alex, Paladin and Velra had arrived at the building entrance, which was blocked by a Fallen barrier and guarded by a Fallen Captain and a Fallen Vandal.

When they got close enough, they started to shoot the two Fallen guarding the barriers generator.

'Let me have a look at that.' LightningFire said.

Paladin mimicked Velra's movements form earlier and let his Ghost hack the generator.

After a few seconds, LightningFire spoke 'Looks like the Fallen were trying to keep something out or something in.'

As he said that the Barrier came down, giving an entrance into the building. When they made sure the way into the building was clear, they entered.

Alex, Paladin and Velra proceeded to enter the building, moving throughout it with caution.

After a short walk through the only available route, they came across a room with a door blocked by a shutter.

'Can you open it?' Alex asked Goldstrike.

'I should be able to.' He replied.

Alex then mimicked what his teammates had done with their Ghost's to hack into the system, keeping the shutter down. After a few seconds of Goldstrike hacking into the system, the shutter began to rise.

Once the door had opened, the three were greeted to a staircase and some strange rock-like material. The Fireteam ignored it and moved on up the stairs. Once at the top of the stairs, they entered a pitch-black room, the three Guardians Ghost's appeared above their shoulders and activated a light coming to form their eyes.

After they had moved into the room, a roar echoed throughout the building.

'Hive contact!' Griffin yelled as a horde of monster-esk aliens came charging at them.

Alex, Velra and Paladin started shooting the horde that was coming to them and didn't stop until they were all dead, only ceasing firing to reload once or twice.

'That was terrifying.' Paladin said to his friends.

'Let's never do that again.' Alex said.

'Unfortunately, there will more than likely be more further in the building.' Goldstrike said.

'Let's kill these fuckers and get out of here.' Velra said.

'Fuck doing two more things after this; we're going back to the city once we're done here.' Alex added.

'I second that.' Paladin responded.

'Agreed.' Velra said.

'We can come back to do some more shit when we're rested up.' Paladin said.

'Alright, let's get this over with then.' Alex said as he walked forward from where the horde had originated.

After a brief period, the Guardians arrived at where the horde had started its charge. They saw a small amount in the room they had just entered. Just wanting to leave the Cosmodrome and go back to the City, they just killed everything in the room and saw a barrier of a dark mist come down that they somehow missed.

They walked through the doorway that the mist blocked and saw more things that they had to kill, so they did until all that remained was a floating thing.

Alex decided that now would be an excellent time to use the skill Kate had taught him. he grabbed his knife and threw it at the thing which caused an explosion that killed the thing.

'I don't remember it being that powerful.' Alex said.

'It's shield matched your damage type, so it exploded when it pierced and broke its shield.' LightningFire said.

'What was that thing, anyway?' Velra asked.

'A Hive wizard, basically like a Hive version of a Warlock but, not.' Griffin said in response to her Guardians question.

'It must have come from the Moon.' Goldstrike said.

'I don't really care at this point about why that would have come from the Moon. Can we just go back home?' Alex asked.

'Transmatting now.' Goldstrike said as he and the two other Ghosts transmatted their Guardians back into their ships in orbit that was beginning their descent back to the City.