Chapter five.

Hive Hunting

"We're winning!" Bing cheered as the four ships raced through the stars, "Wheeeee!"

~ "Come on! You two have Awoken ships!" ~ Orion yelled.

~ "You said you wanted to keep using that old Ether Eater," ~ Arielle laughed as she and Rose were neck and neck, Vlad close behind while Orion trailed a few feet behind them.

~ "It's a reliable ship." ~ Orion said in his defense.

~ "Incoming message on all channels." ~ Vakarian stated. ~ "It's Variks." ~

~ "Let's hear it." ~ Arielle smiled as they came out of hyper space and continued to race towards the earth.

~{"Heed these words well, Fallen Houses. For they will not be repeated."}~ Variks hissed and chattered over the channels. ~{"House of Wolves is dead! Kell Virixis, Skolas the Rabid, Parixas the Howling and Irxis, Wolf Baroness slayed by the Queen and her people, The Queen has been merciful and allowed you to live, but this attack by these knew Wolves has brought a new order from the Queen. Kill. Kill them all. Kill the Wolves and bring their heads to her. And so I warn you. Run. Run and pray that the Queen's Judgement does not catch you."}~

~ "He's enjoying this." ~ Orion said.

~ "Yes he is." ~ Arielle nodded.

~{"The Reef belongs to the Queen. And no Fallen House shall be shown mercy."} ~ Variks ended his message, before Arielle, Orion Vlad and Rose received Bounty Alerts from Petra.

~ "Wow. That's a lot of Glimmer." ~ Orion said.

~ "No." ~ Arielle said, ~ "We are going to spend some time here and keep the City safe." ~ She added.

~ "But that kind of Glimmer… Babe we could be set for life." ~ The Titan said.

~ "No, Orion." ~ Arielle said again. ~ "We don't need Glimmer." ~

"We win!" Bing yelled as they reached the Tower. "Wow, they look busy." He said as they circled around and headed for the docks.

~ "More fun." ~ Vlad smiled, ~ "looks like we've got a lot to do when we land, the Vanguard wants a word and so does the Speaker." ~ He added.

"So we have to wait for a nice hot shower?" Rose asked.

"Looks that way." Arielle chuckled as she saw the Fallen House of Devils retreating from the walls. "The joys of being home." she added smiling.

"By the Traveler," Zavala said from somewhere amidst data screens, files and maps that now cluttered his desk. "We're getting incoming ship signals from as far out of Pluto, reports in from Venus and Mars about Tai Ravens showing up seemingly from thin air. The whole of Rose's universe seems to be coming through." He said.

"There had been altered areas, Warlocks are reporting increased Vex activity on Venus and that the Vault of Glass has been resealed, the doors barricaded and guarded. They appear to be focusing their attention on their Restorative a d Over Minds." Ikora explained, also going through scrolls and data feeds of her own. "How are you doing Cayde?" She asked.

"So far, so good, everyone reporting good health and all but those in the Reef are requesting information on where they can land their ships and start killing things." The Exo stated, Watson going over data files while he read and checked his maps. "We made the right call reclaiming and opening the other Towers. If my count is right we're about to increase in numbers." He added.

"You are right." Zavala said looking over his information. "We're going to be busy."

"Maybe we should bring in help?" Ikora asked.

"What do you suggest?" Cayde asked, "No offence but I don't think we'll have time to trial and pick a secondary Vanguard."

"No, but that doesn't mean we can't make this work." Ikora said. "Rose's world had a system, the young and weaker Guardians trained under the older and experienced Guardians until they were ready, Guardians teaching Guardians and it worked so I say we do that same here but in our own way."

"Go on," Zavala said listening carefully.

"We use the Towers as training schools, picking out three fireteam each week to train the younger ones, we can mix everything up, make them all work together, no matter the light level or class and we make sure no one is singled out for race or class, we teach then in unity and before they go out, we send them through the Crucible or the Iron Banner, the teams together, testing them against their teachers if they win they can leave, if not they stay on." Ikora explained.

"Makes sense." Cayde said, "And it will increase diversity in the Guardians we have too, I've stated to notice same Class Fire Teams are becoming popular and while I admit they can be useful, they aren't meant to be permanent."

"Excuse us. Coming through. Pardon us. We're home." Vlad's voice cut in as he, Orion, Arielle and Rose shuffled their way through the growing number of Guardians who were trying to get a place in the Crucible, constantly having to ask for someone to make space for them. "Man, it's crowded in here, pardon us."

"Too many people." Bing said and ducked close to Rose.

"You don't have to worry," Vakarian assured, "No one will grab you."

Bing gave an odd little ping but still stayed close to Rose as they at last got through the crowd and almost fell down the stairs.

"I trust you heard the message from Variks?" Arielle asked.

"Yes though we did not understand word of it." Zavala stated.

"Bing shared a program in the Reef that could translate the Fallen Language," Vlad stated, "The Queen's ordered the death of every House of Wolves remaining and Variks made sure every other Houses knows she is willing to kill them off too if they try to attack the Reef as well."

"What else do you have in that Shell?" Watson asked with a kindly chime as Bing ducked behind Rose in a shy motion.

"Just data streams, backed up reports and video files, some pictures and a few Coordinates we never had chance to check." Bing admitted, "Nothing special."

"All Ghosts are special." Ikora smiled. "May we also have a copy of this translation program?" She asked.

"All our Ghosts have had it installed." Vlad said as Sovereign, Wrex and Vakarian began a wireless transfer to the Vanguard's Ghosts. "You wanted to see us?" he added.

Zavala nodded and began to explain something to them, but slowly Rose realized his words were fading out and instead she was hearing a low humming sound. "Oh no… not now." She winced feeling pain start to swell in her mind.

"Rose?" Arielle asked hearing the Hunter hiss before Vlad caught her from falling. "Rose?!"

"She's ok." Bing said floating around his Guardian, "It's a memory flash," He explained as Rose held her head and gritted her teeth, grimacing as her head flooded with sounds images and noise.

"Arielle?" Ikora asked.

"She mentioned before she has flashes, memories of her old life coming back, but this is the first time I've seen her have one." The Warlock admitted as Bing began to make a soft clicking sound and Rose started to relax again. "You ok?"

"I think so… oh, that hurts." Rose groaned, rubbing her temples. "Ow, ow, ow."

"How long have you had flashes?" Cayde asked.

"Since Bing first revived me as a Guardian. First one knocked me out for an hour just after we got back to the Tower." Rose said, "Holiday found me and looked after me until I came around."

"Are they common?" Zavala asked.

"Not really. The last one I had was on Venus before we set up camp, lasted a few seconds like this one, but hurt a lot more." Rose said as Bing began to scan her from head to toe.

"Hmm, could you have died as a result of head trauma before you were revived as a Guardian?" Cayde asked.

"I have no idea. What little memory I have before being a Guardian is foggy, I know I served the Queen at some point, but I was Earth born, beyond that, I have no clues." Rose admitted as Bing settled on her shoulder and leant against her face slightly. "Thanks Bing."

"Hmmm. Maybe a full examination will help? They are useful for determining any overlapping injuries such as a continuing break of bones or asthma." Ikora said. "Many Warlocks suffer such form such injuries, but it wouldn't be uncommon for Hunters and Titans to suffer than as well."

"Kinda like Phantom Pains, Exos have them after fatal injuries like head injuries or loss of limbs." Cayde explained.

"Don't remind me." Vlad said rubbing his chest. "But an examination might help, maybe we could help you figure out what the flashes are trying to show you?"

"That would be nice." Rose nodded. "But I think we'd be waiting a while, the Tower looks like it's getting fuller." She added seeing the crowd had only gotten larger for Lord Shaxx.

"It will not last long, we are reopening the other five Towers full time now that they are ready and redirecting some of the Guardians to them." Zavala assured. "With this attack, we are calling every Guardian who was on long term patrols to push back the darkness back from the Tower and facing this new threat head on."

"Then for now Vlad why don't you take Rose to see the Speaker than tomorrow morning take her down for an examination while we talk, Sovereign can stay here and record the whole thing for you" Cayde smiled.

"Aye sir." Vlad smiled and lead Rose out of the room Bing close behind them.

"Sir?" Orion asked.

"We have been monitoring Venus, the Reef and other areas Rose's world reported high activity of Fallen, Hive, Cabal, Vex and Tai Ravens. In each area we have been give reports of increased activities with each race and a strange Rip that seems to just allow them to come and go for a few hours before closing again, the Vex are the only ones with a permanently open rip that we know of." Ikora explained, "We are going to be busy and we need to know Rose can be trusted to obey orders."

"You doubt her?" Arielle asked with a growl. "After all she has given you, the information she gave you without hesitation and all she's been through you doubt her?"

"No Arielle, we believe what she says is true, but she has lost her world and all she knew to the darkness, how can we be sure that has not affected her mentally? Or that the loss hasn't allowed something else to change within her?" Ikora asked. "Something we can't hear or see coming?"

"You mean like Eris?" Orion said with a huff. "Come on, Rose is a kid who lost everything, she wasn't faking those tears you saw and she wasn't faking the injuries we saw in the Vault of Glass when we found her, she's hardly some kind of evil force that brought this darkness to us." He added.

"How do we know that?" Zavala asked calmly, taking the angry glares as both Orion and Arielle opened their mouths to speak then stopped realizing that they had no answer to that question. "You have worked with her for only a short time, but have either of you felt or seen her light? Have you noticed any change?"

"She is getting stronger." Arielle said in an attempt to give Rose some defense. "And, we aren't Hunters, we can't see her light like Cayde or Vlad can." She added looking to Cayde in hopes he could defend Rose.

The Hunter Vanguard sighed, folding his arms over his chest as he spoke, leaning more towards Arielle and Orion than his fellow Vanguard members. "Her light wasn't increasing when you took her before, not at the same rate as you had hoped, taking her into the Prison could have been a disaster had she been any weaker." He said shaking his head, "But on her return that day and today, her aura and light have grown rapidly… it maybe that despite her world being lost, Rose still has a lingering connection to her world and thus, her light will only increase if she kills those from her world, though how long that will last I do not know."

"So what do we do?" Arielle asked, "We can't just start accusing her of causing all this." She added.

"We don't plan too, but if we are to trust her, it must be proven that she can be trusted." Zavala said. "And we believe we know how to do that." He added and Arielle saw Cayde shake his head as he leant away from the table. He was not happy about this.

Meanwhile Vlad had waited at the foot of the stairs to the platform the Speaker was stood on while Rose went up to see him, Bing hovering by her head with a happy chiming coming from his shell as he twisted and turned.

"Speaker?" Rose asked quietly as they reached the top of the stairs.

"Ah Guardian, I am glad you came so quickly." The old man said turning to face her, "I have finished that Shell you requested and Arielle has already transferred the Glimmer needed for it," He added and pulled a freshly crafted Ghost shell from a small box on his desk.

"Thank you, Speaker." Rose smiled and lightly caught Bing in her hand as he dropped from the air, an excited buzzing filling the air. "What do you say?"

"Thank you Speaker." Bing repeated.

"Such a polite Ghost." The Speaker said as his own Ghost hovered beside him, the new shell was an off white colour, with carefully details edges on the panels that had a soft blueish grey pattern over them, like little sparks or flakes of snow. "I hope it serves you well." He said opening the new shell carefully.

Bing smiled and allowed his old shell to open before moving his core into the new one, feeling the new shell fill his core with a fresh warmth as he adjusted to it and slowly he began to hover again. "I feel lighter."

"This Shell is made from the finest of my metals and the details are designed to help you focus your light more." The Speaker explained as the Ghost floated up and adjusted his new shell chiming and beeping happily. "I am glad you like it."

Rose smiled as Bing circled her, "Looks good on you Bing."

"It feels so much nicer, and it doesn't lag my vision." Bing chimed happily, "This is awesome!"

"Rose." Vlad called up, waving them down.

"We better go, thank you again Speaker." She said and with a respectful nod she headed back down the stairs, Bing chattering all the way.

Vlad smiled, "Nice shell Bing."

"Thanks, it feels so much lighter and less cramped in here." The Ghost seemed to beam, "Do you think we can keep my old shell Rose, maybe as a memory?" he asked.

"I'm sure we can," Rose smiled, "But for now, let's go back and see what the Vanguard wants us to do next."

"No need." Vlad said, "Arielle commed, they want us to get some rest and later, while Arielle is busy with Lindor and some other Warlocks doing a thing for Ikora, you me and Orion are gonna head to Venus and do some looking around. According to some reports there are some new Vex there that are causing some trouble." He said.

"But why can't we go now?" Rose asked looking around, "Its only midmorning, and they said to go for an examination..." she added.

"And we just got back from a run at the Reef, you've been awake almost 24 hours straight and unlike me, you need some sleep. Trust me, if we rush off now you'll be an easy target when the tiredness catches up to you." Arielle smiled and as came over to them from the crowd, "Nice Shell," She added seeing Bing.

"Thanks to you," the Ghost said. "Thank you Arielle. It means a lot."

"Don't mention it." She smiled, "Now come, we'll get some sleep and then later we'll go for your examination and then get on with what the Vanguard wants."

"Ok." Rose smiled.

"You two go on ahead, I have some bounties to turn in." Vlad smiled waving them off as he headed to the Bounty board, finding Orion was already there waiting for him they headed to the back of Traveler's Walk. "I do not believe this."

"I'm sorry Vlad, but Zavala wants proof and he is the Commander."

"He's being an ass." Vlad growled, "She's lost everything and they want her to prove she's trust worthy by sending her into the Vault just to see if she can somehow make things worse or if she's targeted just like anyone else."

"He's the boss. And his question is a good one… Even with all Rose has given us, how do we know she isn't corrupted or worse?" The Titan asked.

"Eris would have sensed it." Vlad said. "She's got more knowledge about that kind of thing than anyone I know and she hasn't said a word about Rose. Heck she smiles at her every time we go past." He added.

"I know Vlad. But that isn't enough for Zavala. And really, I don't think it's enough for the Speaker or some of the others either." Orion said, "The Dead Orbit reps been watching Rose like a damn hawk every time we go to our ships and so have the FWC. They want to approach her when she's alone and we both know what that could lead to."

"Tell me you slipped Holiday extra Glimmer." Vlad asked, not wanting to think what the two rival fractions would do to Rose if either got their hands on her.

"Cayde's already got that covered." Orion nodded. "Believe me I don't wanna do this anymore than you do, but we have to do it."

"If she gets hurt, I'll damn well tear Zavala a new ass hole." Vlad growled.

"Get in line, Arielle's planning on tearing him limb from limb if Rose is hurt." Orion stated looking at the woodland below the Traveler's Walk.

"I am not in agreement of this." Cayde stated looking over the plan Zavala and Ikora had given Orion and Vlad to take Rose on. "I cannot believe you two want her to do this."

"We have to know who she is, Cayde." Ikora said. "She could be carrying some kind of Darkness with her, weather she knows it or not, we have to be sure."

"She LOST everything Ikora, everything she knew, trusted and lived for, the people she cared for, gone and you are worried she might be carrying some kind of Darkness?! What more do you want her to lose? Her sanity!?" The Exo demanded, bringing his fist down against the table. "You won't do this is it was a Warlock or a Titan." He added.

"A Titan and Warlock are not known to travel alone so often, Cayde-6." Zavala said sharply, though he knew it was a low blow it was the truth. "We have no way of knowing for sure how trust worthy she is, the lack of light in her is worrying and all the sudden increases of our enemies is too much to be called a coincidence. We have to test her." He stated.

"And if she becomes a broken mind?" Cayde asked in angry. "She isn't an Exo like me, you can't just send her down to the repair bay if her mind breaks and she can't give her a fancy set of pills to fix her mind like a human. She'll be wreck if this plan of yours goes up shit creek and she will be worse than Eris when she came out of the Hive."

"Eris recovered." Ikora said trying to keep her voice even.

"Rose isn't Eris." Cayde declared. "She's a kid, a young mind who has been thrown in to the deep end of a shit storm and then yanked into our world and had to watch her world die. If she cracks, she won't heal. She'll never recover and she will never be the same. And it will be on your hands." He stated and stormed from the room. "I will have no part of this."

"Cayde!" Zavala called after him.

"Let him go." Ikora said, "He's only looking out for her as any Hunter would." She added.

"So that was a memory flash you had?" Arielle asked as Rose dried her hair on a towel.

"Yes, that was a flash." Rose nodded. "I'm not sure it was the same as the others I have, but I think I know why I was on earth when I died now."

"Oh?" Arielle asked.

"I was visiting someone, family I think. I heard the word Mother a lot and I remember watching children, just playing games and running around. But they weren't mine." Rose said. "I think I was on earth visiting family when I died, I just don't know how I died."

"Maybe the examination will help you figure it out." Arielle smiled, "Now what says we settle down for a good nap?" She added.

"I don't feel like I need sleep." Bing said.

"We can try," Rose smiled, "It will give your systems time to adjust fully to a new shell." She added.

"Ok. But I'm staying here." Bing stated from his place on the pillow. "It's comfy." He added.

"Alright," Rose smiled and settled down, "Night Arielle."

"Good night Rose." Arielle smiled as she laid on her bed, closing her eyes and waited silently. A few minutes later she sat up and looked at Rose, finding the Hunter had dropped into a deep sleep almost instantly and Bing's optic was flickering off as he too drifted off into recharge.

Vakarian floated over to her and hovered over her. "You aren't happy with this, are you?" he asked quietly.

"I am not." Arielle said. "She's a kid and we are the same race. There is no way I'd have missed something wrong with her and there is no way the Queen would keep it from me… Rose hasn't got the age or skill behind her to hide her thoughts from Mara or Eris. Why can't Ikora accept that?"

"Because she's human." Vakarian said, "Ikora and Zavala need more than just the word of others, they need to see it and in their eyes, if Rose can last in the Vault of Glass and do it alone she is trust worthy."

"Why alone? Why there?" She asked. "Rose isn't some kind of evil force that will kill us when we aren't looking."

"I don't know, but it's what they want and if she gets hurt, we both know Cayde will have the Commander dead to rights for misuse of authority and Ikora will be getting her own tea for a while." Vakarian said chuckling softly. "Get some sleep, we're gonna need it if we're gonna help her."

"Your right." She smiled. "Night Vakarian."

"Good night Arielle."

The day slowly passed without any fatalities, Guardians from all corners of the universe returned to the City and took up residence in the Towers before going off to hunt the Fallen House of Devils and the House of Wolves, old friends were reunited and spared their time to help new and younger Guardians around the Tower and learn the ropes.

Eventually the Rose woke and stretched rubbing the back of her neck as Bing came on line and hovered up with a soft chime. "Wow… Arielle was right. We did need sleep."

"Warlocks are always right." Rose yawned. "At least, the nice ones are."

Bing bleeped and bounced slightly in the air. "So, what shall we do? Arielle's already gone." He said and Rose looked back to see Arielle wasn't there.

"I guess we better go find Vlad and Orion… but first, we make the bed." Rose smiled, getting up and dressed before neatly folding the blanket ready for the next time it was to be used and fluffed the pillow.

"Do you think Vakarian and Arielle left in a hurry? They didn't leave a note." Bing said.

"They said they had something to do for Ikora, maybe it was something only a warlock could do? Then there would be no reason for her to leave us a note." Rose said, smoothing the blanket out softly.

"Should we leave them one?" Bing asked and Rose chuckled, finding a small pad and a pen she jotted down a short note.

"Went to find Vlad and Orion, hope you had success with the task Ikora set you and we will back when we are done. From Rose and Bing." She read off, "Happy?"

"Yes." Bing bleeped as they left the room. "Where do you think they will be?" he asked.

"Well, Vlad's a Hunter, so he might be at the Bounty Board, or they'll be in the ship hanger." Rose said. "But we still have to go for that examination." She added as they came out into the sunlight and Rose looked around. "Wow… it got busy while we were sleeping."

"Rose! Bing!" Vlad called from somewhere as Wrex and Sovereign hovered over the crowd of Guardians. "Over here!"

"Lots of people…" Bing said and hovered closer to Rose.

"You'll be ok," Rose smiled "This isn't like home remember."

"Still… lots of people." Bing repeated as he floated practically against her helmet as she moved closer to Vlad and Orion.

"You look rested." Orion smiled.

"We didn't keep you long did we?" Rose asked.

"Nah, I've got a few things to do before we go. So Vlad can take you for that examination now and then we'll meet up in the Hanger and get gone. That ok?" Orion asked.

"Sounds good." Rose nodded and followed Vlad as he lead the way down into a much quieter area of the Tower where Guardians were being tended by doctors for pains, aches and other none fatal but still problematic injuries that their Ghosts could not heal, injuries that were from the life before their time as Guardians.

"Have you been down here before?" Rose asked.

"Most Exos are regulars here." Vlad nodded. "We need a monthly scan, debug and system check, sometimes we can't do it alone so we come here. It's none invasive and anything found here can be fixed or changed, heck we can ever get system upgrades if we need them."

"They don't hurt?" Rose asked.

"Not if they are done right." Vlad assured. "Ah, here we are the Neuro, Optical and Bone Surgery wards." He said opening the door for her before politely tapping a small bell on the desk on a table.

"Ah Vlad, you are in early, you're not due a check for another two weeks." A kindly female human doctor stated as she came in holding a clip board. "And… Whom might this lady be?" She asked looking down her list of names.

"Rose, she's new here, very new." Vlad said, "She needs a mental examination if you have a moment?" he added.

"Ah, so this is the new Hunter Cayde-6 told me about, do come through dear, he's here already." She said and waved them over, leading them to a small curtained area where Cayde was sat on the edge of a bed, his cloak and shirt removed as another Exo carefully moving and reconnecting wires for his right shoulder and arm while another doctor carefully worked on his helm area.

"Afternoon." The Vanguard greeted with a slight wince.

"What happened to you?" Vlad asked.

"I had an argument with a wall." Cayde said with what sounded like an attempt at humour. "Ow."

"He skipped he last two check-ups. Now he's having a whole system check and we are upgrading the out dated systems and rewiring the parts that need it." The doctor stated. "The Argument he's talking about what the fact he walked into the wall next to his door this morning and he's been in here ever since."

"You're a real buzz kill doc-Ow." Cayde winced again before rolling his shoulder. "Rose here gets memory flashes, Ikora thought an examination would help her understand what causes them and why she has them."

"I see, well, if you would take a seat and we'll get started." The doctor nodded while making some notes on her clipboard while Rose did as she was asked and settled on a chair, smiling as Bing settled on her lap.

Vlad took a step back, watching as the Doctor carefully placed a portable C.T Scanner over Rose's head and after pressing a few buttons and adjusting the scanner as she asked Rose a few questions.

"Do you have any pains before or after you have these flashes?" The doctor asked.

"The first time I had a flash I was knocked out by it, but the ones after it have all been small and haven't really hurt so much as just given me a really bad head ache for a few minutes after they finish." Rose stated, blinking somewhat as the light from the scanner.

"How many have you had so far and how common are they?" the doctor asked.

"I've had five so far, but they aren't very common, the last one was this morning and lasted about two minutes, the one before that happened on Venus just before I settled down for a nap." Rose explained.

"And the other three?" the doctor asked.

"First one was in the Tower lasted about an hour, the second one was during a run with J-Cey and Ace on the Moon, that one lasted about ten minutes the third one was just after we reached the Black snake camp site, that one lasted five minutes." Rose said.

"They sound serious," the Doctor said, "Do you have any memory of what happens when you have these flashes?"

"No, I don't know what's happening to me, but I do know that I end up falling over when I have them," Rose explained.

"She would have fallen if Vlad hadn't caught her for the last one." Cayde stated as his panelling was replaced and reattached. "Thank you."

"Well, as long as you are not alone if you ever have them again you should be safe and by the sound of it they are not terribly harmful towards you, so we can prescribe you some pain killers for your head aches." The doctor stated as the C.T Scanner finished its work. "I'll contact you when the results are in, but until then I can only suggest that you stay with someone just in case you have more flashes."

"Thanks Doctor." Rose said as the scanner was lifted and removed from her head.

"Don't thank me yet, it may be something serious." The doctor said.

"Or it might be nothing." Cayde said. "Go one have fun kids," He added waving them off.

"Where are we going on Venus?" Bing asked as they followed Vlad out.

"Ikora said reports were from the Waking Ruins, so we'll start there." Vlad said.

"Waking Ruins?" Rose asked suddenly feeling very worried.

"What's wrong?" Vlad asked.

"The Waking Ruins is… was, a Tia Raven Nesting site on the Venus I knew." Rose explained.

"Well, according to the reports, we just have lots of Vex there, but we'll keep an eye out for Ravens too, ok?" Vlad said offering her his hand. "Come on, we'll go find Orion and head off sooner we get this done, sooner we can come back and bug Cayde for some new armour and helmets. Sound good?"

"You could just ask him nicely." Rose said taking his hand.

"Yea but it's more fun to bug him first." Vlad chuckled as he walked with her to the docks.

"I do not like this." Arielle said. "I really do not like this." She repeated.

"Duly noted." Zavala stated. "But we must know."

"If she gets hurt because of this, so help me I'll forget you're the Commander." Arielle growled. "She shouldn't have to do this, she's just a kid!"

"The Vex are the only ones who could tell us more about Rose and they refuse to share more, at least if she goes in there we can see how the Vex react to her and through the information we already have determine whether or not Rose can be trusted." Zavala said, letting the threat go for now.

He knew this was not a fair choice, nor was it right of him, but he had to make certain that this Hunter could be trusted whole and unquestionably, as cruel as it seemed of him to send her to Venus and let events play as they could, he had to be sure. He had a city to protect, a city that was under threat constantly by Darkness and now, it seemed that Darkness was getting stronger and threats could come from anywhere. Even from the seemingly innocent.

And if protecting the City meant he was seen as the villain of the Vanguard by everyone else, then so be it. He would be the villain and the cruel one, he would be the cold unbending steel while Ikora's motherly care soothed the tears and Cayde's brotherly nature made the spirits lift.

That was his duty as Commander and he would for fill it.

Arielle wrung her hands, watching carefully through Wrex and Sovereign as they left the Tower, idle chatter between the three of them, where they were going, why they were going, what the problem was and why it was a problem.

All the while, Arielle wanted nothing more to answer the comms and tell them to abort mission, to tell Rose it wasn't safe and give her some kind of warning, but Ikora had already given her blessing to this mission and while she knew Ikora would never agree to something that could kill a Guardian, she knew this mission was risky but she knew that Orion and Vlad could keep Rose safe.

And yet Arielle couldn't shake the feeling something terrible would come of this mission. Something that would hurt not only Rose, but also test the Vanguard as well and so she looked towards the only soul she knew who could watch for the unseen threats and found Eris stood beside her.

"Will she be alright?" Arielle asked.

"As long as she has light, she will survive." Eris said.

~ "Wait a minute." ~ Vlad said over the comms, bringing Rose out of her thoughts.

~ "What is it Vlad?" ~ Orion asked as they began to fly over the Cosmadrone.

~ "Something is wrong. The Fallen aren't in this area anymore," ~ the Exo said pulling his ship around for a second pass. ~ "We better check this out." ~

"What about Venus?" Rose asked.

~ "Venus can wait. There's a Trans-Mat zone not far from here." ~ Orion said as he led their flight down towards the landing zone.

~ "Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" ~ Sovereign asked as they landed and their ships went back to orbit.

"You have a bad feeling about everything." Bing stated, blinking to life beside Rose's head. "Though with Wrex and Orion always running head first into deadly situations, I can't blame you." He adds and then ducked out of the way of a playful tap.

"Cheeky." Orin chuckled, "Well, let's go see why the Fallen are missing." He added and practically bounced in his steps to search for Fallen or what had caused them to go missing.

"Maybe they all packed up and went into hiding?" Rose offered. "Variks' message was creepy." She added.

"If it was that easy, we'd have been winning this battle years ago." Vlad said, bowing and waving ahead of him. "M'lady."

Rose chuckled. "Thank you kind sir."

Sovereign gave a roll of his eye and floated after them, "Come on Bing, let's make sure the love birds don't get lost." He said.

"What's a love bird?" Bing asked and the older Ghost reminded himself that Bing wasn't as versed in such things as him and Wrex.

"Arielle and I are love birds. It's a term for people who like each other a lot, but haven't gotten around to making it official with a ring yet." Orion explained looking back over his shoulder.

"Oh! Like Cayde-6 and Eris Morn." Bing said loudly then blinked his eye as everyone laughed. "What?"

"Oh, Bing." Rose smiled trying to regain her composure from laughing so much. "Oh, never mind, I'll explain later."

"Oh, ok." Bing said and landed on Rose's head. "I'll wait here." He added and Rose smiled, following Orion and Wrex as they headed off towards where there should have been Fallen.

"What are they doing?" Zavala asked trying to maintain a calm tone.

"Inspecting an area where there should be activity but there is none." Ikora said, "Let us see how this plays out Zavala. It may not be Venus, but it may prove to be acceptable as a test of Rose's loyalty." She added.

Zavala did not look pleased but said nothing, watching over the screen as Orion led the way, passing places where there should have been Fallen, only to find scattered ruins of walls and buildings, torn down Devil Banners.

"This isn't right." Vlad said as Sovereign scanned the area. "Where are the Fallen?"

"Maybe they're on the attack against the City Walls?" Rose suggested.

"Sh." Orion hissed softly and Rose listened soon hearing what sounded like music. "That's not good." The Titan said.

"What is it?" Bing asked.

"That music is Rasputin and old war mind that helps us defend the Last City. That last time he played that music he was in some real trouble with the Hive." Vlad stated.

"But the Hive aren't on Earth." Orion said. "Not anymore… we drove them to the Moon and then we chased them and their Hive God back from Saturn with the Awoken."

"Maybe that's where the Fallen are?" Rose suggested. "It would explain why they aren't here."

"Maybe," Orion nodded looking at Wrex, "Sparrow."

"Rose, you ride with me. My Sparrow will be faster than yours." Vlad stated as the two sparrows appeared.

Rose nodded and climbed on behind Vlad, Bing returning to her armour as they took off. "I'm starting to get a bad feeling." Bing admitted.

Arielle watched as five messages appeared on the screen, two from Vlad, two form Orion and one from Rose.

'Cayde. Lack of Fallen activity near entrance to Rasputin. War mind playing music again. Checking it out. Vlad.'

'Zavala. Something closer to home came up, checking on Rasputin. Reschedule Venus. Orion.'

'Cayde. Checking a war mind that plays music in the Cosmodrome, sorry not on Venus, Orion said we should check this out first. Rose.'

'Ikora. Send Arielle. Vlad.'

'Ikora. Send Arielle. Now. Orion.'

"Zavala." Ikora said evenly.

"We wait until we know what the trouble is." The Commander said.

"Ikora." Arielle pleaded, she felt something twisting in her gut, something was wrong and she had to be there.

"We must let this play out, Arielle. She is safe with your team." Ikora said trying to sound assuring.

Arielle growled. "You wouldn't do this to another Warlock."

"Her class is nothing to do with this." Ikora stated.

"Then why does it feel that way?" Arielle asked and Ikora went silent. There was no answer to the question because truthfully, there was no nice way to say what she knew was a shared view by thousands.

"Eris, come, be our voice with them." Ikora said as she turned to Eris who nodded and began to open the comm channel.

"Guardians. Ikora has asked me to speak in her place as she is busy with Arielle and her Warlocks." She explained.

~ "Eris have you sense anything Hive-like on earth recently, near or around Rasputin? He's started to play that music of his again so we're going to check it out." ~ Orion asked. ~ "We're gonna head in via Bunker RAS – 2." ~

"I shall search the shadows. Be on your guard." Eris said and pulled away to look into her orb.

Arielle wrung her hands and watched as her team reached the hidden entrance to Rasputin from the Forgotten Shores, the music was distorted and fading, filled with terrible static.

"This isn't good." Vlad said. "The doors have been forced open from the outside by something big."

"Too big to be the Fallen." Orion said, "Hope you brought lots of ammo, kid." He added looking at Rose.

She nodded. "Bing stay close." She added.

"I will." He assured.

They made their way inside the bunker, listening to the now distorted and haunting music as their Ghosts provided light in the once well-lit walk ways. Rose shuddered as the air around them started to feel smothering and hot, and the smell of rot and death filled the air.

She stopped as their Ghosts' light reached a familiar barnacle like mess that clung to the walls and seem to ooze darkness and simulate breathing, nearby they could hear the clear sound of chewing and hissing Thralls.

"Hive." Vlad said quietly. "Just fucking great." He hissed and spotted a half-eaten Fallen limb. "And now we know where the Fallen went." He added.

"You said it." Orion said tapping his comm link again. "Eris, we got Hive inside Rasputin in the Seraphim Vault corridor." He stated.

~ "Do not let them reach Rasputin. I am contacting Arielle and another Fire team to assist you at once." ~ Eris said over the comms.

"So, we kill Hive until they get here?" Rose asked.

"Basically." Orion nodded taking the safety off his weapons. "Let's do this."

Vlad nodded and removed the safety from his own weapons with Rose. "You remember what Arielle taught you?"

"Aim for the heads and eyes, knights can't take a punch when they hold their shields up and yell at Orion when he steals kills." Rose said.

"Smart girl." Vlad smiled and with a nod the three rounded the corner and opened fire on the Hive. "Remind me to ask Arielle how long the Queen will be in a bad mood when we get back, if these bastards got past her who knows what else might have come here." He said over the shooting.

"Sure, right after you remind me why I didn't go hunting already." Orion said taking a second to reload while Rose covered him. "All that Glimmer, I'd have more than enough for me and Arielle to have everything we need."

"She already has what she wants." Rose said, ducking under a Knight shot and firing back. "She loves you, you love her, your Ghosts get along, you have a stable home and you can both clearly look after yourselves. Why do you need to get her anything else?"

"Because on the Reef she had everything." Orion huffed. "Arielle was with the Prince before she left and met us… And you saw how much power he has, he could give her the life she deserves."

"But not the life she wants." Rose said. "Arielle doesn't need fancy things she said so herself, she'd rather be on the field and fighting then cooped up in some apartment." She added. "Maybe you two just need a long break. Somewhere nice and calm and then you can talk it out and make plans that don't involve tones of Glimmer and just involve you two being yourselves?"

"Vacations cost Glimmer Rose." Orion said, taking down the last Knight at the back before they moved up the stairs slowly, still killing the waves of Thrall that charged them from the top of the stairs.

"She never said a vacation." Vlad said. "I mean, no one would question it if you went off and oh I don't know, got stuck in an elevator or locked in your own room due to a power fault." He chuckled and Rose giggled.

"Very funny Vlad." Orion huffed, "Let's just get this seen too and-Whoa!"

"Shit!" Vlad hissed as the three of them dived for cover from the sudden surge of poison gas sent at them from the top of the stairs. "Not good." He hissed seeing Rose fall to her knees couching as she dragged herself out of the gas that had caught her.

"Help Rose." Orion said and Rose heard the familiar sound of crackling flames, "Come here bitches!" He snarled and charged up through the gas.

"Orion!? Damn it all wait for us!" Vlad yelled, helping Rose back to her feet. "You ok?" he asked.

Rose nodded. "Just a little smoked… I'll be ok." She wheezed.

"We got Watchers of Crota!" Orion yelled. "Little help!"

"Good?" Vlad asked.

"Good." Rose nodded and followed him up the stairs and into the Vault.

"Get out of my way!" Arielle snarled as she smashed through a line of Dregs, her arms alive with lightning as she channelled her Super towards the clear life signatures Vakarian was showing her.

She, Lindor, Zaragosa and Terrik had been forced to trans-mat in in The Steppes, as the Fallen had started to fire on their ships as they tried to land in the Moth Yards, and now she was further away from her target and that made her temper flare.

"Slow down Arielle!" Lindor yelled. "We've got plenty of time to get to them!"

"I don't have time to wait! Orion went off on him own!" Arielle yelled back.

"Vlad is still with them, Arielle, he'll protect Rose and he'll make sure Orion's still alive when we get there." Zaragosa called, "He likes that girl." He added.

"Vlad likes Rose? How can you tell?" Lindor asked.

"He smiles at her more than he does anyone else." Zaragosa stated. "He likes her."

"How much you wanna bet on that?" Terrik called.

"Shut up and kill things!" Arielle yelled. "We have to get in there!"

"Killing things, got it!" Lindor said as her own super raced down her arms and into the gathered Fallen blocking their way, "Barbequed Fallen!"

"Come on!" Arielle bellowed and snarled slammed her fists into a Vandal's face before hopping on her Sparrow. "Let's go!"

"Arielle wait!" Lindor yelled as they followed after her.

"Zavala." Ikora growled as the Commander continued to watch the screen.

They had watched as Vlad, Rose and Orion ducked and ran to avoid Watchers of Crota around the once pristine Vault space, struggling to bring them down.

Throughout it all, Rose had been sending pings and messages to them, constantly seeking help and aid from anyone who could offer it, even sending a message straight to them for some kind of support and to alert them of the danger Rasputin was in.

"We continue as planned." Zavala said ignoring the glare he was getting.

"Zavala she is fighting to stop this." Ikora stated firmly. "Surely this is enough to prove she is not one of them. She's proven her loyalty! She gave us all the information she had and yet you still wish to test her on Venus? This isn't worth the lives of others!"

"We have an entire City full of innocent lives to protect Ikora! If our duty to protect them means that lives must be lost then so be it!" Zavala bellowed. "Rose is not of our world, I cannot see her Light nor can I sense it, if I am to trust her and believe she is no threat to the thousands of lives that depend on us for their safety, then she must prove to me that she is worthy of that trust."

"And getting others, your own student, killed while she is trying to do one task for you is a worthy trade?! You'd sooner see her dead because of your so called test!" Ikora yelled.

"Enough."

All eyes fell on Eris Morn as she tapped the comm-link. "Vladamir-66."

"What are you doing?!" Zavala demanded.

"Ending this without loss of life." Eris stated. "Vladamir-66."

~ "Yes Eris?" ~ Vlad answered the comm channel echoing the gunfire ad Wizard screams.

"When you are joined by the other fire team and Arielle you must clear the Hive from Rasputin and then return here." Eris stated. "Rose must know what is said of her."

~ "Yes Eris." ~ Vlad said and the channel went quiet.

Vlad panted heavily as he ducked for cover, swallowing the air as he tried to keep himself from overheating as the last Watcher of Crota disintegrated into a pile of ashes.

"My god." Orion gasped for air nearby. "That was harder than it should have been…"

"They aren't from this world." Rose panted, clutching something to her chest. "These are Ghosts from my world." She said, feeling the tiniest fragments of light left in the three dead Ghosts reaching out, desperately trying to feed on her own. "They wore them like prises. Like trophies… Damn it! How did they take over this place without us knowing?"

"I don't know." Vlad said then growled as a green fog thickened in the middle of the room. "Oh come on!"

"Now what?!" Orion snarled.

Rose ducked behind cover, wrapping the dead Ghosts she'd collected in to her cloak as a make shit pack before peeking out in time to see a massive form shake the room with its steps.

"Oh fuck." Orion cursed opening his comm link. "Arielle! We got the Might of Crota here! I repeat the Might of Crota is inside the Seraphim Vault!"

~ "We're almost there! Hang on!" ~ Arielle answered sounding frantic with worry. ~ "Stay alive!" ~

"Orion! Look out!" Vlad yelled though his warning came too late as a powerful blast knocked Orion from his hiding place and something big smashed down into him grabbing him tightly and lifting him up.

"Fuck." Orion spat looking up into the business end of the Ogre's bulging eye and drooling jaws. "Sorry babe… I fucked up."

~ "Orion?!" ~

"Get off him!" Rose yelled as a hail of bullets hit the Ogre's face, ripping into it's hide as the huge beast turned towards Rose and tossed Orion to the ground as she continued to fire on it, lifting its arms to try and block the shots that just kept coming, forcing it to stagger backwards, when it had a chance to fire its eye beam, Rose moved jumping and scrambling over the Hive walls as if she had done it before, pausing only for a few seconds to reload and fire on the Ogre, keeping its attention on her.

Vlad saw his chance and raced in, heaving the groaning Titan from the floor and dragged him out of the way as thrall began to pour into the room again, though they did not seem to at first notice them.

"Get your ass up Orion!" he snarled taking shots at the Thrall and Knights that tried to charge Rose.

"Arielle's gonna kill me." Orion hissed through his teeth as he struggled to move alone. "Fuck!"

"Nah, she'll kill Zavala, then she'll kill you for being stupid. Then kill me for letting you do something stupid." Vlad stated, helping the Titan up to a safe place watching as Rose unloaded all hell into the Ogre.

Arielle skidded into the Vault just in time to see Rose aim her rocket launcher. "Fire in the hole!" the Hunter yelled as she fired and Arielle shielded her eyes as the Ogre took a direct hit to the eye with a bone shaking roar of agony before falling to the ground, its eye oozing blood and something that looked like tar from its wounds.

"Did she just… solo an Ogre?" Lindor asked.

"Yep." Terrik nodded.

"Orion?" Arielle asked searching the room. "Orion?!"

"Here." Orion called and a shaky hand waved from the far side of the room. "I need a doctor… or a very long hot bath." The Titan added before wincing as Arielle all but threw herself at him and refused to let go.

"Don't. You. EVER. Scare me like that again! You idiot! I told you to stay alive!" She yelled at him though there was more relief and joy in her voice than real anger or rage. "So help me if I lost you… Damn it don't ever do that again!"

"Yes Arielle." Orion affirmed, returning the tight embrace while Wrex and Vakarian worked on healing him. "Sorry I smell like Hive." He added.

"Shut up and hug the woman." Vlad chuckled.

"Nicely done Rose." Lindor praised as Rose sank to the ground, clutching the bundle of her cloak to her chest as Lindor crouched beside her. "What you got there?" She asked.

"Ghosts. From my world." Rose said, chocking back a sob. "How did this happen? How did they get in here without someone knowing? How?"

"I don't know." Lindor said softly, placing her hand on the hunter's shoulder in comfort, "But they are dead now, and we can revive those Ghosts, take them to our Speaker and he can send them to our Traveller where their memories can help us fight this Darkness."

"And what if they can't?" Rose asked. "What if they can't be revived?"

"All Ghosts can be revived Rose, even the broken ones." Zaragosa stated. "We just need all the pieces."

"Really?" Rose asked and Zaragosa nodded.

"Um… does anyone else have the feeling we are being watched?" Lindor asked suddenly only to hiss and clutch her head in pain, seeing Zaragosa, Terrik, Vlad, Orion and Arielle go down also clutching their heads.

Rose screamed, clutching her helmet over her ears, trying to drown out the sound that assaulted her ears.

Bing sent out one final ping for help, sending it to the one person he knew somehow could help them fight the Hive.

~ "Help us!" ~

"No." Eris breathed, clutching her orb close to her chest. "No, no, no, no…"

"Eris? What's wrong?" Ikora asked as the former Hunter fell against the table. "Eris?!"

"He's here… Crota… his darkness… it's here!"

Ikora paled and opened her comm link. "Arielle?! Vlad?! Orion?! Anyone!?"

{"Too late, pathetic Light."} A sickening cold voice hissed and Ikora tore the comm link from her ear. {"They will never see the Light again!"}

"No." Eris trembled.

"Where has he taken them?!" Ikora asked, kneeling beside Eris. "Eris talk to me! Where has he taken them!?"

"His realm." Cayde said as he came in, kneeling by Eris and pressed something inside Eris's hood. "Little help here?" he asked.

Something must have happened because Eris' shakes began to fade almost instantly while Cayde helped the still shaky Eris to her usual dark corner and placed something from her chest over her before coming back.

"What did you just do?" Zavala asked.

"Made her feel safe and to answer you Ikora, think about who we are now dealing with and read the files Rose gave us." The Hunter Vanguard stated before he began to type rapidly on his console.

A pair of signals suddenly appeared on his screen and he smiled. "There they are."

"Where the fuck are we?" Terrik groaned forcing himself to his feet even though his legs felt like Jelly.

"It looks like… like a Hive Chamber?" Zaragosa said helping Vlad back to his feet, "But nothing like we saw on the Moon." He added.

"Oh my head," Orion hissed. "What the fuck happened?"

"Crota."

All eyes fell on Rose as she clutched her bundle of Ghosts looking out the barrier that seemed to separate them from gathering Acolytes, Knights and Thrall, clawing at the barrier to get at them.

And stood across from them, surrounded in an ominous pale bluish green light, stood Crota, The Hive God.

"Shit." Vlad hissed. "We don't have ammo for this."

"I do." Zaragosa growled. "Jazzy, dump out all the ammo boxes. Now." He said as his Ghost flitted into life, dropping three crates of ammo. "Fill up, Orion you're not in fit state for this so you get to baby sit the ammo."

"Great." Orion winced.

"I'm staying with him." Arielle said.

"No, go with them, I'll be alright." Orion said. "I can handle Hive." He added taking the bundle from Rose. "I'll keep them safe."

"Thank you." Rose said, hearing a cold chuckle echo around them.

"Come hopeless Lights!" Crota snarled as the barrier began to flicker.

"Keep your Ghosts inside your armour, no matter what happens." Rose said.

"Face your demise!" Crota bellowed and the shield finally dropped.

All hell broke loose.

Vlad lost sight of Rose for a second as the Thrall lunged into the area only to be forced out again as Lindor unleashed her Lightning, atomizing the Hive that dared to get to close while Zaragosa and Terrik took turns unloading their weapons into Knights and Acolytes, Vlad and Rose taking sniper shots at the Wizards and Knights outside while Arielle gathered as many light orbs as she could. Building her own light up inside in hopes of ending this quickly and getting Orion to safely.

"Supers just bounce off this guy!" Terrik snarled as Vlad's arrow bounced off Crota like a bullet.

"So we do to him what we did to his Soul Crystal on the Moon!" Vlad snarled. "Rocket his shield down and then fuck him over with swords!" he added heaving Dark Drinker from his back. "Rose."

"Fire in the hole." Rose said and took aim, firing two rockets from her launcher in quick succession and quickly reloading.

"Come on!" Vlad snarled and rushed Crota as the Hive God fell to his knee, shocked by the sudden impact from the rockets.

He saw the faintest Light hidden behind the wall and growled, using his own sword to shove the brighter one away. "Wretched, Pathetic Light! I will devour you!"

"The Hell you will!"

Crota turned in time to see two more rockets coming at him from both sides and felt the third smash into his chest as he hit the ground again, feeling two blades attack him this time he snarled and smashed his fist to the ground, forcing his attackers away.

"Watch yourself Ari!" Vlad called as he skidded backwards, seeing Arielle clutching her Bolt Caster, focusing her lightning down its blade and her gantlets, intent on killing whatever was on the cutting end of the blade.

"Die already!" Zaragosa snarled firing another pair of rockets. "Die!"

"Watch out!" Lindor yelled pulling Zaragosa from his place as a tri fingers hand smashed the ground where he had been. "We got more Ogres!"

"We have more everything!" Arielle yelled. "Fuck!"

Rose ducked behind cover and clutched her launcher to her chest, panting heavily. "Damn it… Damn it all… What do we do?"

"We fight." Orin hissed, "I got enough light in me for a Super, I can take down one of the Sword bearing Knights. But you'll have to do the rest." He explained.

"Me?" Rose asked.

"You can do it Rose. See those rocks to his right? When the Knight goes down, get his sword and get to those rocks, then when I shout, jump up and take that bastard out."

"But I'm… I'm not a sword user, I don't know the first thing about how to handle them." Rose said. "I'm not sure I can."

"You can." The Titan assured. "You took out the Might of Crota alone. An Ogre! You can do this. If you don't, we might never get out of here."

Rose looked to the battle fight outside, Arielle and Vlad were struggling to bring down Crota while Zaragosa, Terrik and Lindor acted as crowd control, taking out the Ogres, Wizards, Thrall and Knights while she and Orion dealt with any Hive that came to close to them and fired rockets to try and bring down Crota's shields.

They were starting to falter, she could feel a terrible pressure around them, as if the air itself was trying to drag them down.

"You're sure you'll be ok alone?" Rose asked.

"Terrik! When Rose runs, you take her place with me!" Orion yelled, forcing himself to stand. "Ready?"

"No." Rose said though she put her rocket launcher on her back and prepared to run as Orion clutched the handle of his hammer, releasing his super in a burning light and Rose dared to take a deep breath.

"Go!" Orion yelled and she ran, jumping down into a rapidly falling number of Thrall and snatched up the huge claymore blade and rushed towards the rocks Orion had pointed out, jumping up to them and clutched the sword tightly as she heard Crota's laughter above her.

"Hit that bastard with everything!" Orion yelled as Rockets shot towards the Hive God, slamming into his shield over and over again until the Hive God at last staggered. "Keep him down!"

Vlad and Arielle charged Crota, slamming their blades into the Hive God's own to keep him down, forcing their Light down their blades, trying to keep the Hive God from blocking Rose as Hunter came over the side and slammed the stolen blade down hard into Crota's back.

Light, blinding white light.

It burned through the Hive's darkness like a fire through snow, burning the remnants of the Hive around Crota away while bathing the Guardians with warmth and renewed energy for a few seconds.

~ "How the hell did they get to the Moon!?" ~ Zavala demanded into the comms.

~ "Can any of you hear us!?" ~ Ikora asked frantic with worry.

~ "Zaragosa?! Vlad?! One of you answer me!" ~ Cayde bellowed.

"We have to get out!" Bing yelled frantically over the open comms, "We have to get out NOW! Trans-mat for your Ships!"

"You heard him!" Vakarian yelled picking up the ship signals. "Everyone get your Guardian to their Ship!"

Rose felt the warmth of Bing's trans-mat scanner and would have spoken had a horrid, echoing, bone chilling and familiar scream split her ears.

"Omnigul!?" Orion snarled.

"We are LEAVING!" Wrex snarled out as the screams became unbearable all but dumping Orion into the piolet seat of his ship and he took over the controls and threw the whole ship into full speed heading for Earth.

~ "Do not stop until we hit the Tower!" ~ Vakarian commanded over the comms and Wrex heard a chorus of affirmatives as they speed away from the Moon.