He was woken up by Ghost hitting him on the head with her shell. "Crow! Crow! Get up! Caydes been calling us to come back to the tower for the past few hours!" "What?! Shit shit." Crow jumped up and grabbed his gear. "Get us to the tower!" Crow said as Ghost transmated them to the ship and they sped off in the direction of the City. Crow's helmet comm went off and it was Zavala. "Hey Zavala." Crow said bracing himself for the uncomfortable conversation. "Crow! Where the hell have you been! You were supposed to be back hours ago!" Zavala yelled at him. Cayde ripped the comm from Zavala and basically took reign of the conversation. "Don't mind him. Where have you been? Did you find out what it was the Fallen were looking for?" Cayde asked. "A little of my own recon. The fallen were trying to get something but a Warmind stopped them." Crow said. "A warmind? Your joking." Cayde said. "Not joking. Ghost tell him." Crow said. Ghost proceeded to tell them everything up to the point where they found the room and then made up some bullshit recon lies. "So what did you learn from the recon?" Ikora asked. "Nothing much. Just Fallen banners." Crow said. "Anyway you have a new mission. Scout out the Skywatch see if we can find out if there are any Fallen houses." Ikora said. "Come back to the tower. You must be tired and we have something to discuss with you." Cayde said.
Crow now stood in the Vanguard hall and was paying attention for anything that would give away his and Ghost's secret. "You'll be teaming up with a second Guardian from here on out." Ikora said. "Really? Who is it?" Crow asked even though secretly deep down he hated relying on others. "A titan. Goes by the name Andrew. He will be accompanying you from here on out. He's an experienced titan." Zavala said.
A titan made his way down the stairs and started to walk his way towards the room. The titan had a steel helmet with a Mohawk and a long single purple light going down the center of the face. He was in pure black armor and he had a shotgun on his back. The shot gun had four barrels and had a wooden stock. He made his way to the table and stood proudly. "Zavala." The titan spoke proudly. The titan looked over at Crow and asked. "Is this him?" He pointed to Crow. "This is Crow. He's been here for roughly a week. You'll be teaming up with him. He'll be the fire team leader though as we want to see how it would turn out." Zavala said. The conversation continued on for a while before Cayde pulled Crow aside and said to him. "So. How's the new home coming along?" Cayde said. Crow choked on his spit when he asked this. "How the fuck?" Crow asked. "You think you're the only person who was out that night. I do have scouts you know." Cayde said. "Don't tell me I'm going to have to get rid of it." Crow said. "On two conditions. One, you keep it secret. Two, all other scouts that are in the field will be notified of the fact that it exists and will be able to use it as a base to stay the nights they will be stationed in the cosmodrome." Cayde said. Crow heavily sighed before agreeing.
"Crow." Andrew called knocking Crow out of thought. "Yes?" Crow asked. "Let's get going." Andrew said before walking out to the deck of the tower. "Where are we going?" Crow asked. "Well you're the leader, but Zavala said we need to check out some strange signals coming from Skywatch." Andrew said. "But I just did that." Crow said. "No they're different signals this time. Zavala said we should get the array up and running to communicate with the outer colonies." Andrew said.
"Lead the way." Crow said as they walked to the hanger. "Hey Crow!" Amanda called. "Where were you last night?" "Out in the field. Recon." Crow said. "Ooooh really?" Amanda said. "Amanda come on. Don't you trust me?" Crow asked. Andrew laughed loudly at the conversation. "What's so funny?" Crow asked. "You're like a cute bickering couple." Andrew said. Amanda became flustered and threw a wrench at Andrew but it just bounced off his armor.
Crow and Andrew got in their ships and flew towards the Cosmodrome. They set down in the skywatch. They stood there in the mid-day and began their mission. Andrew and Crow climbed up to a roof and Andrew started his scans. "The array is through that building and…" Andrew said. "What?" Crow said. Andrew pointed to a glowing green object against the wall. Crow jumped off the building and made his way towards it. As he got right up next to it, it disappeared. "CROW MOVE!" Andrew yelled. Crow looked up and saw a blinding light in the sky. He stood there like a deer in a head light before realizing what was happening. Crow turned and ran as fast as he fucking can. His feet made thumping sounds as he ran across the dirt.
A loud thundering sound echoed through the Cosmodrome as the object hit the Earth. Crow jumped right before it landed. He flipped over and was trying to crawl away in order to gain more distance. Andrew ran over and helped him on his feet and they both drew their guns. They both aimed their guns at the smoke and waited as it cleared. When it cleared they were staring at a massive blackish colored spike with a spread out base in the ground. It was buried in the wall and smoke came out of each hole.
They slowly walked closer and a whirring sound started. The doors of the spike opened and more smoke poured out. A large group of creatures stepped out. It was a combination of Brown and grey colored shelling. It was bipedal and had a small crest on its head with three eyes. A larger creature stepped out afterwards.
It too was made of brown and grey shelling but this time it was much larger. It had three horns on its head and large shoulder shelling. "STOP RIGHT THERE!" Andrew yelled at the creatures. The larger creature turned and looked at the group of Guardians. It roared and Andrew and fired a shot from its gun straight at him. The bullet soared through the air like a starfish and made a whistling sound as it did. Crow jumped and dodged but Andrew held his ground and didn't move. The bullet hit Andrew in the shoulder and bounced off before flying a little further and exploding. Andrew fired all four shotgun shells into the head of the creature.
The littler ones started firing a barrage of bullets towards the two Guardians. Crow popped a few of them but Andrew finished the group off. He turned to Crow and said. "We need to get to that array. We'll come back for these things."