When he woke up in the morning he yawned and sat up. He looked around and saw he was up way before Amanda. He grabbed his rifle and helmet and went to the hanger. He looked around for Cayde-6's ship in the log book. He found it, put in the code to get it, and wrote down in the log that he was taking it for a hunting trip. He left the balcony to call ships and started to make his way towards the hanger. As he was walking he was surprised to see someone else awake. It was a warlock dressed in standard armor. He decided to ignore them and walk past but as he did this, they bumped into him. "Sorry." He said as he continued walking. They didn't say anything but as he walked away he could feel their eyes on his rifle. As he neared the drop point in the steppes, he was told by ghost "I heard reports of Fallen snipers in position around the patrol beacons. Stay cautious." "Will do." He replied as he readied his rifle and started to walk through the shrubs. He decided to go back to the tower that he was in yesterday and he walked up to the door. He was about to turn the handle to open it but he realized that the door wasn't shut. He had specifically remembered locking it yesterday with the key he had gotten from the over watch. He slowly pushed it open quietly and took out his Hakke sidearm. It held fifteen shots and was black with the words Hakke on the side. He crept up the stairs silently and stopped just before the top and listened for any sounds. He didn't hear anything but the sound of the wind outside. He, in one quick motion, pushed open the trapdoor and aimed his pistol inside. He didn't see anything and did a full sweep of the small room. He locked the hatch and set the chair in the normal spot. He sat down with his legs resting on the window sill and raised his rifle. He saw a Vandal on the cliff side directly across from him and, instead of shooting it instantly, just watched the enemy sniper to see how it acted. "Aren't you going to shoot it?" Ghost asked. "Shh." Crow said. He watched as the Vandal moved its wire rifle to look over each area with a beacon in it. It moved over towards the tower and before it could see him Crow pulled the trigger and hit it in the chest. The vandal curled up and held its chest, while doing so it stumbled on the rocks and fell to its death.
Crow was certain he had heard something coming from below the hatch. He quietly put his rifle down and pulled out his pistol. He crept towards the hatch and stopped in his tracks when he heard another noise. He instantly knew it wasn't coming from under the hatch and turned around and looked up. As he did this a Vandal uncloaked and dropped down. It had wire cutlasses in two hands and swiped at Crow. The blade missed any crucial area but hit his shoulder, cutting his shoulder pad in in a diagonal angle. The bottom two hands grabbed Crow's gun so he couldn't raise it high enough to get a lethal shot. Crow pulled the trigger twice and both bullets hit the leg of the Vandal. The vandal flinched, allowing Crow to push the Vandal back. It landed against the window sill and Crow threw a knife that hit it in the head making it fall backwards out the window. "Well can't be here anymore, they know where it is now. Damn I was starting to like this place too." Crow said as he picked up his rifle and seeing a scouting squad of fallen making their way towards the tower. "Well you'll have to fight them if you want out of this tower. We'll find someplace to hold up in the meantime." Ghost said. Crow put the rifle on his back and climbed out of the window. He climbed down the side of the tower by using the cracks in the metal. He slowly made his way down and at about halfway he heard the Fallen on the other side of the wall. He stayed there until he heard the trying to bust open the hatch. When they busted in they started to yell at each other and Crow took this opportunity to take out one of the solar grenades and throw it up into the room. They yelled something in Fallen right before it exploded and Crow climbed his way back down. "Well I've been thinking." Ghost started. "You didn't hurt yourself did you?" Crow asked. "Like I was trying to say." Ghost continued shrugging off the remark from Crow "When your ship is done, you'll need a warp drive if we ever hope to fight beyond earth." "And where would we get one?" Crow asked. "Well a guardian ship was recently shot down and crash landed here. We could search that first and see if they have one. Hopefully the drive is in good enough shape to be fixed." Ghost said. "Let's go." Crow said as he started to run in the direction ghost put up on the display of his helmet. He got to the top of a hill and looked further ahead to see a crashed Acadia Jump ship. "Did they make it out?" Crow asked as he started to run down the hill. "We sent a group of Guardians to retrieve them and from what I know they did make it." Ghost said. Ghost flew out of a blue light and started to scan the ships drives. "Picked clean. They did manage to open up a data network in the tunnels below. Let's check there." Ghost said and Crow followed the directions again. He was surprised when he got to the entrance of the tunnels and he didn't encounter any fallen on the way there.
He slowly made his way down the stairs and over a few concrete barricades. The tunnels were pitch black. Ghost came out and acted like a flashlight and hovered right beside his head. The tunnels were flooded with water and broken stone, cars and now plant life had begun invading. He saw a faint blue light at the end of the tunnel and crept his way towards it. He peered around the corner and saw a group of fallen rummaging through the remains of the room. He burst in and took them all out with one magazine from his pistol. He walked over to the far wall where a map of the entire Cosmodrome was on the wall. Ghost came out and started to scan. "A map of the entire area. I don't see any place where we might find a drive. Only hope we have is back where we found our ship." Ghost said. Crow made his way back through the tunnels and went back to the surface. He made his way across the open fields quickly for fear of being seen by a Vandal. He slowly pushed open the door to the same room where they had gotten their ship. There was a scouting party inside but these ones had robots with them. "Shanks. Be careful." He threw a knife at one of the three shanks that hit it in the rotor. The shootout between the guardian and the Fallen lasted a few short minutes. "Look out it's in the walls!" Ghost cried as Crow turned around. The same massive Fallen crawled out of the wall "Gamy vo Kuta me la to vor!" The Fallen cried. "It's the Devil Archon." Ghost said as the Archon landed on the floor and charged towards Crow. The Archon stood far taller than any other Fallen. It had eight eyes, two horns on its helmet, black fur on its collar, a large red cloak, and had tubes running from the left side of the jaw on the helmet to a canister on its back. Crow ran through a smaller doorway and dodged and weaved through the rooms, shooting at the archon. After a while the Archon was gaining an upper hand but Crow had a trick up his sleeve. He jumped high into the air and raised his right hand towards the heavens. A golden revolver of fire appeared in his hands and he fired three shots at the Devil Archon. One into the knee, one in to the right upper shoulder, and the final shot into the head. The Archon burned up and its body fell to the floor. Crow went over to the body and check to see if it was dead by firing a few "security" shots into the body. Ghost was searching through the crates while Crow did this and found a NLS Warp Drive that was universal to fit into any ship. "How far will this be able to take us?" Crow asked. "Anywhere in the system basically." Ghost said. Crow put in the coordinates and Cayde's ship came and picked them up to take them back to the tower.