Chapter 3 Destination—Birth of Fire-Team Enteral Light, Blue Team and Fire-Team Osiris appear!
[…2 months after Hope arrived at the Tower…]
Hope POV
It had been about two months since I settled into the tower. I was starting to like it here, but I still missed the Infinity. Cayde never stopped asking me about it when I came to visit him. He asked all sorts of questions like; "So how did you meet them?", "Do Spartans have certain classes like Guardians?", "Think we can try and use some Vex tech to reach out to the Infinity and get some help?" When he asked his first question which was about John that caught Zavala's and Ikora's attention then I had to explain everything to them. Oh, now that was fun because Jason and Gold-26 where there too. Gold-26 when she heard about the Spartans she said this; "Spartans? Interesting, I want to have one on my dissection table." I nearly killed her with my Gunslinger for that comment. I felt like Kelly when she wanted to kill Fred for pranking her. Other than that, I had been going on missions trying help take back the Earth while also exploring.
"Hope?"
"What?" I look to see Halo hovering close to my shoulder.
"Just got a call from Star, Jason's Ghost, that he and Gold-26 are coming to meet us at EDZ."
"What's the EDZ again?" I ask, I know he explained it to me.
"The European Dead Zone." He says.
"Oh, but we aren't heading to there." I said. I wanted to see the Grand Canyon, so I began piloting the ship to America. Cayde didn't say anything about meeting up with Jason and Gold-26. If not him then Zavala would have said it.
"I tried telling Star where we were going but no, the jerk just hung up! And then Raven, Gold-26's Ghost, called right after saying the same thing then again before I could even get one word out he hung up me too! So rude." I start laughing.
"Well we can always see the Grand Canyon later, I don't think we need them sending a search party because I never showed up."
"Good idea." Halo sighs as I turn the ship around.
[…On the way back to Sanghelios…]
Buck POV
Well that was fun. Cortana has become the enemy of all life in the galaxy. She nearly kidnapped the Chief too. Yeah, all in all today was messed up! And the worse thing is, when we told the Chief—or John—that it was Cortana—before she separated us when found them on Genesis—activating the Guardian on Delora that killed Hope, he was not happy. Honestly none of us where! I wanted to shoot her so bad but then I reminded myself, she's an AI guns don't work. Maybe I could delete her. Now that would be funny, just goes up to the red button that reads "delete" and push it. Problem solved! God, I wish life was like that.
"Buck?" Vale whispers to me.
"Yeah Vale?" I whisper back.
"You okay?"
"I'm fine, just was thinking about Hope is all." I look at my gun. It was a gift she gave me on my birthday. I never go anywhere without it. But now it's like a reminder of what I and everyone has lost.
"I never understood how you can use a gun like that."
"What? Just because it's a pistol doesn't mean I can't fight with it." I say.
"Isn't that the pistol Hope gave you?" Tanaka asks. That caught Blue Team's attention. Fred came over looking at it. He didn't say anything and walked away. Chief came out, I guess he heard us because he looked my way then walked over to the corner. I'm probably going to die when I get of this ship.
*SHAKING SOUND*
Oh shit. Everyone held on to something as Chief was able to make his way to Locke who was driving.
"What's going on Locke?" He asks.
"I don't know sir; the ship is losing power and being pulled by something."
*KA-BOOM*
"What was that!?" Kelly asks.
"Looks like a slip-space portal. Hang on!"
Well fuck… The next thing I know there is this bright white light then I black out…
[…Back with Hope and Halo…]
Halo POV
Kill me now! I and Hope are stuck with Jason, Star, Gold-26, and Raven in the EDZ checking out some Fallen house activity. This is so boring. More boring than scouring the Earth to find Hope, kind of boring. Hope looks bored too. She pulls out her sniper rifle forgetting Jason said not to.
"Guardian Hope put it away!" He snaps in a whisper.
"Relax I'm not shooting them." She said back. "Have little faith, jeez. You like John and Locke on crack." She said, and I started laughing.
"Good one." I said as we laugh lightly.
"Focus!" Jason snaps.
"Better do it or I am putting you on my dissection table." Gold-26 said darkly. I and Hope look at one another before moving away from her while Hope puts the sniper rifle away. She is one scary warlock. Hope looks at me with a "let's find a better spot" look. I nod as we slowly leave to a higher point. The Fallen pretty much where just on the lookout for invaders.
"John and Locke would have done something by now, well if they were here." She tells me.
"I imitation so given what you told me." I tell her.
"What are you two talking about?" Raven asks suddenly appearing next to us.
"None of your business why?" I ask.
"Okay." He went back to Gold-26 just like that. It was weird and concerning. I thought for sure he would try and press for answer other than that.
"What is that?" I look to see Hive come running out of nowhere just ripping the Fallen to sherds.
"Those are the Hive." I tell her as a reminder.
"Think they'll spot us?" She asked.
"Probably." I said.
*THRALL GROWLING*
"Shit." We both said hearing a Hive thrall growl from behind us. She switches to her pistol and shots its head off.
"Damnit." Jason said. Hope does a back flip onto flat ground. She changes to her Marshal-A rifle and starts firing.
Hope POV
Halo vanished as I started firing. They were tougher than Fallen and Covenant because they all came at me. Gold-26 lunches a void-grenade to the Thrall behind me.
"See what happens when you don't listen?" She asks.
"They were going to sneak up on us somehow." I said back. Jason soon joins us by jumping up and falling down slamming his Fist of Havoc into the ground taking out the Thralls.
"Thanks for the save." I tell him with a smirk. He looks back, but I can't tell if he's smiling or not. The he soon goes back to the fight. They just keep coming. I bring out Gunslinger trying thin their numbers, but it doesn't work like I was plaining. Gold-26 throws a Nova Bomb that does somewhat better than my Gunslinger.
"Where are they coming from?" I ask Halo.
"I don't know! If they are coming out of a hole let's find it and seal it up." He tells me when a Thrall grabs me. I shoot it as my Spartan training starts to kick in. From there I think of lose control.
Jason POV
It was amazing. Hope was going berserk, I remember Zavala telling me what she told him about her Spartan training, I had to admit she was more experienced then she led on. Maybe I can get her to teach me. Out of the corner of my eye I notice that she is running to me. She jumps using my shoulder as a launch pad going Gunslinger on the Hive Knight behind me.
"She's showing you up Jason." Star teases me. I ignore him and keep my head in the fight.
"Holding up okay Gold?"
"Just fine! I wish their bodies would stop fading so I can study their corpses." She said irritably. Yep, she is perfectly okay if she is saying messed up shit like that.
"Star any clue was to where they're coming from?"
"No, but I did pick up Hive ships when they started coming like I told you earlier." He said.
"Are there more coming?"
"Doesn't seem like it." He said, and I sigh knowing that this is almost over. Good, the sooner the better.
[…A few hours later in an abandoned Church…]
We had just managed to fend off the Hive and make a break for it. I swear the Hive where scared of Hope looking back on it. She was very good out there. Gold-26 was asking her about her Spartan training which she explained to us and then told us somethings about her family.
"You know I think we make a pretty good fire-team." She said suddenly.
"I agree, with a little work on our communication skills we can rival that of our Commanders." Gold-26 said.
"Oh, what the hell, why not." I give in knowing there is no way out.
"What's our name?" Halo asks and we all begin to think.
"Enteral Light!" Star says. "Think about it, we use the power of the Light and are pretty much enteral." He said.
"I like it." Halo and Hope say
"Makes us sound worthy." Gold-26 said.
"Our enemies will tremble at that name." Raven said. The more and more I am around Gold-26 and Raven the more I think they need up. Actually, I think all titans and hunters think the same thing about Warlocks.
"Then it's settled, today marks the day Fire-Team Enteral was born!" Halo cheers. Hope expends her fist and looks between me and Gold-26. I put my fist next to hers and Gold-26 copies us.
"Let's form a pact, no matter what happens from this point on we'll still be a team. Also, after a mission Jason buys the first round when we get home." Hope said.
"Deal." Gold-26 said. Why me?
"Fine…But you ask, you buy." She looks at me smiling fondly.
"You sound a lot like Locke when you say that." She said.
"We should be getting home anyway." Star said. I check the time; our mission was to be over two hours ago. Zavala is going to have my head.
"Yeah we should." The Ghosts call for our ships and soon each of us turn into a flurry of light.
"Race you all back home!" Hope suddenly calls out. She maybe, shy at first but she is a hunter at heart.
[…At the Tower…]
Hope POV
In a few days I am heading to the Grand Canyon for sure! The only thing is I have to let Jason and Gold-26 know. Maybe they might want to come along. I walk down the Hall of Guardians with them as I wonder how to ask them.
"Hey Cayde!" I run over seeing him.
"Hope! I was getting a little worried when Zavala said you mission was supposed to be done a little over three hours ago." He said.
"We lost track of time because of the Hive." I explain.
"Wait what?" He asks. "There where Hive in the EDZ?" He asks making sure he heard me right.
"Yeah they came out of nowhere." Jason said. "You should have seen Hope out there."
"Yes, she fought well." Gold-26 said. I look off to the side trying to hide my blush.
"I have a video of her too!" Star said.
"Hey next time ask me before you record me!"
"I can't ask you during a fight."
"I know but still…" I trail off embarrassed as the Vanguard watch the video. Cayde looks like he has stars in his eyes seeming to be very impressed. Ikora is shocked and Zavala is impressed and shocked.
"So that must be your Spartan training." Zavala said. "Very impressive."
"Indeed. It's good to know we have an experienced warrior on our side." Ikora said.
"I am not that good!" I exclaim.
"Compared to us, yes you are." Cayde said.
"I thought you were on my side." I look away from him as he laughs. "I'm going back to my room." I say quickly leaving the room.
Cayde POV
When she gets uncomfortable she sure knows how to leave. But that video of her whipping the Hive, I'm so jealous! I want to do that! I hope that more Spartans start showing up so I and just about every Guardian can learn from them. Jason and Gold-26 soon leave the room.
"Okay, so I have to ask can we go outside of the tower just for a day to see her in real life?" I ask.
"Educational as that would be…"
"No." Ikora and Zavala course. I care about them like they're my family—and in a way they kind of are—but they are the murders of joy sometimes. Seriously though let me have a little fun.
[…6 months later in the EDZ…]
Jason POV
No clue how she did it, but Hope talked me and Gold-26 into going to the Grand Canyon with her. It took her a cuople months because I told her if she really wanted to go then she had to do several missions before I would consider it. I really didn't mind because the Grand Canyon really wasn't crawling with Fallen, Hive, Vex, and Cabal so that was nice knowing nothing was going to be shooting at us. Hope was telling us how she grew up on an outer colony back in her dimension when she met Blue Team. They sounded like nice people. She explained how she met Fire-Team Osiris because the UNSC was testing her to see how good she would do with others. Kind of interesting. She said that something happened to John and he was going through something, so he authorized the assignment to Osiris.
"What about you two? Do you both remember the lives you once lived?"
"Pff, no." I tell her.
"Almost 99.9% of Guardians don't remember anything of their past remember?"
"Yeah, yeah I know but don't you feel incomplete? I mean think of the life you might have lived. You could have been married and living what would be a dream now." She said, and I started seeing her point as we walked. I did sometimes wonder about the life I lived before. Was I an orphan? Did I have a loving family? Was I married? Did I have kids? I wondered those questions whenever the mood struck. It was nice to imitation it, I mean the life I lived way back when must have been very different from the one I live now. I notice that Gold-26 ponders the same thing as we walk.
*KA-BOOM/VROOM*
What the hell? We look up seeing a massive portal open with a ball of fire coming out. Heading straight for us.
"Hope!" I push her out of the way as Gold-26 jumps the other way to get to safety. "Are you okay?"
"I'm…" She holds her head. "Okay…" Gold-26 comes running over.
"You both okay?" She helps us stand up.
"I'm fine, just a little starch." I say.
"I'm…" She groans. "okay…"
"What's wrong?" Halo appears.
"My head is spinning." She said. But then she removes her hand staring at it. "Well it's gone now." She said somewhat confused maybe it was because I tackled her? "Nevermind me what about that… Pelican!?" She shouted the last word in total disbelief.
"What's a Pelican?" Me, Star, Gold-26, and Raven ask. She doesn't answer and runs to it. Halo appears.
"That's a ship issued by the UNSC." He said following her. We follow after them as we inspect the damage. Hope tries to open the hatch with little success.
"Let me try." I tell her I start pulling at it.
[…Inside the Pelican…]
Locke POV
My head…I slowly sit up to see that Buck, Vale, and Tanaka are all on top of me.
"Everyone alive?" I ask.
"Aye…" Buck says in pain.
"Yeah…" Vale groans.
"Still alive." Tanaka says slowly getting off. Vale then moves and the two of them have to drag Buck off of me.
"Sorry but my legs feel funny." He said.
"Blue Team you alive?" I ask.
"Somehow." Fred says waving as he pushes a container off of himself.
"John?" Kelly asks.
"You're sitting on my Kelly." He said as she got off. "Linda?"
"You're on top of me." She said as he got up helping her stand. "What was that?"
"No clue, but it looked like a slip-space portal."
"Yeah but they don't suck people in." Buck said now standing.
*CRACKING/SREECHING SOUNDS*
We turn to the Pelican's door starting to open. We see a crack of daylight come through. Then three little lights slip through.
"Spartans!?" The middle one exclaims. Then it thinks for a moment then looks more shocked. "I know someone how will be happy to see you all." It said.
"What are you?" Vale asks.
"We're Ghosts." They said.
"Halo, Raven, I am going to let the Guardians know that their live and seem intact." The one on the left said.
"Okay." Raven said motor-toned. Halo looked cornered at Raven.
"Where are we?" Linda asks.
"Earth Grand Canyon." Halo said. We immediately looked at one another.
"The Grand Canyon!?" Buck and Fred ask.
"Yep." Raven said.
"Are you sure we're on Earth?"
"Yeah of course! Oh, yeah you all come from a different dimension." Halo said with a laugh.
"A different dimension?" We all ask.
"Just what do you mean?" Kelly asks as the door finally opens. Two girls and one male stand before us. They wore strange armor and weren't of the UNSC. Great, if those Ghosts are right we are in a different dimension.
"Come on," Halo came behind John and started pushing. "She was right, you are a brick wall." He said looking at John. Who was he talking about?
"Wait who was right?" He asks.
"John? Locke? Is that really you?" That voice! One of them walks pull removing her hood and takes off her helmet. We see auburn hair, and ocean blue eyes. Impossible.
Normal POV
"HOPE!?" The eight Spartans shouted in shock seeing her face again. Hope didn't seem startled by their shout like her new fellows. She just smiled with tears forming in her eyes. Jason gave her a light push over to them. Kelly was the first one to hug her.
"We're sorry." She said as one by one the Spartans came hugging her.
"It's not your fault. I mean how where we to know that was going to happen?" She asks when they break the hug.
"Good point." Buck said. "And look at you, what's with the hood?"
"Holy shit you do sound like Commander Cayde-6." Jason said.
"Whose Cayde-6?" They ask.
"Long story but we can explain more back at the Tower." Hope said with a smile then Halo suddenly drops into her hands. "Halo?"
"Mine." Was all he said.
"Halo you are acting unlike a Ghost." Star and Raven remind him.
"Screw that! What if I want to be different!? Hope is my Guardian!" He said snapping at Star and Raven.
"She was ours first little light!" Vale said.
"Don't call me that!" He said back. Hope starts laughing stopping the Spartans making them look at her.
"Now, now, Halo be nice." She said.
"Fine." He sneers at the Spartans as Hope sighs. Halo and the Ghosts disappear.
"Where they go?" Fred looks around. "Is this a prank or something?"
"No." Gold-26 said.
"Oh, before I forget; that Jason, and Gold-26." She points to them. "We made a fire-team called Enteral Light." She said with a smile. Jason takes off his helmet as Gold-26 follows suit.
"I'm Jason a Awoken of the Titan Guardian Class, Hope told us good things about you."
"I'm Gold-26 an Exo of the Warlock Guardian Class, I am honored to meet you." She said.
"Like wise, I think." Tanaka said. "What did you tell them?"
"Only good things and that you all are the best of the best." Hope giggled. But what scared the Spartans was Jason and Gold-26 turning into flurries of light, then they were gone.
"This will take some time to get used to." Hope said as she and they started to do the same.
"WHAT THE F—" They didn't get to finish their sentence as they were transported into Hope's Jump Ship.
"Sorry about that." Hope said from the cockpit.
"Well we didn't land on our heads." John said as Halo appears before them again. He starts scanning them then thinks for a moment.
"Zavala is going to love you guys."
"Zavala? Okay Hope, please explain." Fred asks.
"Halo is a lot better at then me."
Halo POV
Traveler why me? They all are so tall! I only came to scan them for any injuries.
"Can't we wait until we get to the Tower and have the Speaker, or the Vanguard explain to them?" I ask.
"Nope." Hope said from the cockpit sticking her tongue out at me.
"Damnit…" I sigh seeing that the Spartans are amused. "Okay to start us off, thousands of years ago, man had discovered something on Mars. They—well we call it the Traveler. After its discovery, Humanity began to reach out and colonize Mars, Venus, and Gallian Moons. It was the Golden Age, until the Traveler's enemy arrived. The Darkness. When it appeared from the far corners of space, it marked the start of the Collapse. Humanity fought against it but was wining. In the final days of the Collapse, the Traveler made a choice; that choice was to explode its light pushing back the darkness and giving birth to me and many, many Ghosts. We set out to find Guardians, they would keep Humanity's survivors safe and fight the Darkness if it was to return. Also, so long as we are alive, Guardians are immortal."
"So, we've lost the Earth?" John asks.
"Kind of, the Last City as a decent size territory. The Fallen do control most of the Earth through their houses. Hive have complete control over Moon with some Fallen soldiers hanging around. Cabal have Mars and Phobos. The Fallen are called that because of their lost glory, and no Hives aren't bees, but they do attack in swarms. Cabal are planet killers." I explain and there is a moment of silence.
"How is it that you haven't taken back the Earth over all these years?" John asks surprised.
"The Fallen houses are separate factions, and besides taking out a whole house would be the Collapse repeat." I tell him.
"What do they look like?" Kelly asks before I could show them Locke asks;
"So, the Cabal haven't killed the planet yet because why?"
"We don't know how they destroy planets but I imitation they must need a powerful weapon to do that. But from scouts and others have surveyed them they don't have anything of real damage yet." I explain.
"When can we shoot them?" Asks Buck and we look at him. "What? If they aren't going, give us back our planet then why not shoot them? We were here first." He explains as I roll my eye. Buck really does sound and act like Cayde.
"What does the Last City and Traveler look like?" Tanaka asks.
"It looks a lot like this." I show them a holographic image of the city and the Traveler. "See that big ball?" I highlight it in green. "That's the Traveler. And here," I highlight the tower. "That's where we're going. That's the Tower where the Guardians live."
"And my question?" Kelly asks.
"Oh, right sorry." I show holograms of them.
"If I go to the moon it will be too soon." Buck said looking at the Hive.
"The Cabal look bigger then the Covenant." Fred said.
"The Fallen do have a stoic feeling about them." Vale said looking at them. John doesn't say anything else and got walking over to Hope.
John POV
I made my way into the cockpit watching Hope fly. She had gotten better. I remember when she was starting her Spartan training she would come up to the cockpit on her own and try to remember everything to do.
I place my hand on her shoulder. "Something wrong John?" She asks realizing it was me.
"How long have you been here?"
"About almost half a year." She explains never taking her eyes off the two ships ahead of her. Jason's and Gold's ships, I'm guessing. "Oh, how's the Infinity, are Roland, Lasky, and Palmer okay?"
"Don't know ask Locke." I tell her.
"Why?" She asks worried.
"Long story." That can wait for when we are at the Tower.
She starts laughing. "I know what that means."
"Oh, you do, do you?" I ask with a smirk.
"It's translation for: I disobeyed orders, went on a hellish adventure, and nearly died about 50 times."
"I did not." I mess up her hair.
"Hey not while I'm driving! You're going to freak out Jason and Gold!"
"John!" Kelly shouts from the other room. Damnit. "Leave Hope alone before you kill us again." Hope started laughing notice she heard "again".
"Kelly stop being a mother!" Fred shouted laughing.
"Bite me Fred!"
"Guys don't fight!" Linda said.
"I love seeing this side of Blue Team!" Buck said laughing.
"Yeah, it's kind of scary." Vale said.
"You need to settle down before you tear the ship up." Halo said.
"You better listen, or I am letting Gold-26 preform autopsy on you all." Hope shouts at them.
"She wouldn't do that, right?" Buck and Fred ask.
"You should see what she does to Fallen bodies." Halo said with a shiver.
"Yeah, I didn't sleep for a cuople days after that." Hope said shivering. Well that's one person I need to talk to. Halo comes in the cockpit tiredly.
"I'm going to contact Star and Raven." He said tiredly.
"Why don't we contact Jason and Gold too. Besides it's going to be a while before we reach the city."
"This is Jason."
"Gold-26 here, are they dead yet?"
"Gold! There is one question you don't ask and that one was the one." Hope said.
"I don't care. They could valuable for a new line of research."
"I know I am going to get hurt for this, but Gold get help." Hope bit her tongue laughing before she calmed herself down.
"Okay, the both of before this turns into an argument take it to the Crucible." She said. Crucible? Do I even want to know what that is?
"I accept your challenge Jason."
"I didn't—" Gold-26 cut the transmission between the three of them. "She didn't let me finish."
"Jason you know how she gets." Hope said.
"Yeah, yeah, I know. I'll let the Tower know we're coming. We should be in range by now."
"Tower communications aren't that wipe spread?"
"Not really, the satellites are old and don't work well and they crash into others. They did get some new ones but there, but they don't want Fallen or Cabal getting into the satellites." She explains then places her hand on mine. "I'm fine John, I know you far to well. I'm not going to die." She tells me. "Just smile John, I've missed it." She tells me with a smile I smile back kissing the side of her head.
"Don't crash." I walk back to the others. She laughs.
"Like you and Fred?"
"For the last time,"
"We didn't crash the ship!" The two of us shout.
"Sure." She says going back to driving the ship. It was still going to be a while, so I chose to sit down and rest my eyes.
[…at the Tower…]
Vale POV
The sun was setting by the time we had arrived at the Tower. God I'm glad my leg fell asleep through the whole ride. And I was kind of afraid of falling asleep because of what Gold-26 had asked earlier. When we exited the ship, my stomach felt weird like the first time. We look back at the setting sun to see the city and the Traveler. Holy crap that thing is huge!
"Welcome to the Last Safe City on Earth!" Hope and Halo cheer.
"I like it." Buck said looking around. "I like the tower, very nice."
"Well you guys came just in time for the gathering."
"Gathering?"
"It's the time of the year other than the holidays that Guardians spend a cuople days relaxing." Jason explains. "We party, dance, play game, watch some TV, you know live the life of a normal person." He looks at the lights.
"We should have you guys meet the Vanguard and the Speaker before you do anything else." Hope said walking between John and Locke. It was like old times.
"Who's the Speaker and the Vanguard?" I ask.
"The Speaker is a man of mystery we don't know if he's Human, Awoken or Exo. The Vanguard like the mentors and leaders of the three different Guardian classes."
"Which are?"
"I'm a hunter, you can tell because my armor is lighter, and I have a hood." Hope said. "Jason is a Titan which means they have similar bulky armor like a Spartan and they have a little side cape hanging off the waist. Gold-26 is a warlock, robe like armor and wears a band on their upper arm." She explains to us. After that I notice a cuople hunters having their Ghosts play something.
"What are they watching."
"Crucible I think." Jason said. "Hey Star, what's the score?" Star displays the score of the Crucible. "Bravo seems to be wining." He said.
"Okay, what is the Crucible?" John asks like he had been wanting to ask for a while.
"Lord Shaxx created it. It's basically a game that Guardians partake in to settle disputes or gain more experience from working with other players. Sometimes it's a 6 vs. 6 or 1 vs. 1. In the 6 vs. 6 you have either just shoot the other team or shoot and capture the zone. 1 on 1 is just shooting everyone." Gold-26 explains.
"So, you all can get away with shooting something you don't like?" Linda asks.
"Yep."
"Damn. Too bad we Spartans aren't immortal. That would be so nice." Buck said.
"I've played a few rounds. It's a lot of fun." Jason said.
"You Guardians are so lucky you have Ghost to bring you back every time you die." Fred groans.
"Hell, yeah we are!" Buck said.
"You're still a Spartan Buck." Locke tells him.
"I didn't say anything!" Buck defends.
"Oh, hey Cayde!" Hope waves past us. "Everyone that's Cayde-6 the Hunter Vanguard." We look past us to see Cayde-6 walk up to us. Now we know what Jason meant when he first met us. Cayde and Buck really do sound alike.
"Howdy!" He said. "You must be Buck."
"Yeah, I am voice stealer."
"I'm not you are!"
"What?" Then the two started bickering much my amusement. Jason has to break them up before they start shooting.
Cayde-6 POV
Hope was right! I and Buck do sound like one another. Damnit that means I owe 10 glimmer to her.
"Hey Cayde, where's her glimmer!?" Halo reminds me in a mocking tone.
"Yeah, yeah, I got it." I sigh, when will I start learning how to bet smart.
"You two had a bet?" John asks like it's her first time. Or at least I think that's John, I mean he's the big green guy, right?
"His idea." She said taking the glimmer from me. "He didn't believe when I told him that he sounded like Buck, so he made a bet and I followed through." She said simply. I roll my eyes at her before looking back at Buck, though we just tried to rip one another head's off we are going to get along just fine.
"Cayde!" And there is everyone's favorite Space Dad, the Titan Vanguard; Zavala! Long with everyone's favorite Space Mom, the Warlock Vanguard; Ikora! I should address them like that!
"Spartans allow me to introduce you to my fire-team and fellow Vanguards." I clear my throat. "This everyone's favorite Space Dad, the Titan Vanguard; Zavala! Long with everyone's favorite Space Mom, the Warlock Vanguard; Ikora!" I address them like a talk show host. Hope, Buck, and Fred began to laugh hard. Zavala and Ikora look embarrassed yes mission success! They are going to kill me after this.
"Thank you for the introduction Cayde." Ikora said.
"Oh, come on, you both know me…I could have been worse."
"True." She says. Zavala only nods and walks up to John.
"I am Zavala, welcome Spartans." He said extending his hand to John.
"Spartan 117, leader of Blue Team, you can call me John." Ha! I was right!
"Spartan 104, you can call me Fred."
"Spartan 058, you can me Linda."
"Spartan 087, call me Kelly." Blue team introduces themselves.
"Spartan Jameson Locke, I am the leader of Fire-Team Osiris. I go by Locke."
"Spartan Olympia Vale, but just call me Vale."
"Spartan Edward Buck, I normally go by Buck, and yes I am aware I sound like Cayde." We give one another warning glances out of fun.
"Spartan Holly Tanaka. Go by Tanaka most of the time." They look like Titans with their armor. I wonder if they're willing to try on some of our armor. When I get the chance, I'm going to ask Buck if we can trade places for a day and see how much it confuses everyone.
"So, it was the eight, of you I saw in my visions; the ones that will give us back the Earth." The Speaker appears out of thin air like normal when he has something important to say. Jeez the guy knows how to scare people.
The Spartans look at one another confused. Then look at him and say; "Wait what?!" They shouted confused and I thought I felt the tower shake.
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Next time: Chapter 4 Destination—Speaking with the Speaker, Spartans get a warm welcome to the Tower from the Guardians
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Hopefully everyone enjoyed this chapter! And if you thought I could have done better, I know that but you try writing a scene where Buck and Cayde who are both played by the same guy (Nathan Fillian—did I spell his last name right?—) in the same room. Anyway, until next time! PS: Uldren need to die immediately!
