Joker's PoV
Location: Earth, Alaska
Time: 1600 hours
When we emerged from the portal, one thing was evident. It was COLD.
As our vision cleared, I saw A bright while light. No, everything was bright white. "Snow..." I said, as that was all I could due to my loss of words from our instantaneous travel from the always hot Venus to some mysterious snowy land.
"Earth" Cryptic said. "Probably Alaska due to the snow and the lack of Fallen." O.K., so that solved that problem, but we still needed to know how to get back. Our ships were orbiting Venus when we left, and our sudden disappearance might have caused them to lose us in the endless void of space. I decided to walk around and explore while Cryptic called for our ships. I linked up my radio with him and started walking. I don't know how long I was walking, or how far I went, but my feet were aching and night had fallen on this icy hell. Cryptic radioed in, and told me our problem.
"When we were teleported, our ships auto tracking feature went bezerk to find us. The ships are now in the tower hangar bay receiving repairs. Were gonna be stranded here for the night." He told me.
"I found an old building about a mile back" I told him. "I'll send you the coordinates now. You should head here for some shelter before it gets dangerous out there."
"I'll be there in about an hour." he said, and then we went silent.
I began the trek back to the old building, ignoring the cold as any guardian would.
Its our job to suffer like this. I thought. We suffer so that others don't have to.
It was a short distance by guardian standards, but with the heavy snowfall and the intense cold, it was definitely not easy.
When I arrived, I began to search for any useful supplies. Times like this were moments when Bionic would be really useful. As a hunter, he learned other ways to use materials to make up for what he lacked in strength and light manipulation, and he was the best at what he did. He once started an old interceptor with just a knife and some pencils. I never said it ran very well, but hell, the thing was missing the entire bottom, and he still got it to run.
I found some wooden planks on the back wall, and some ripped curtains over a window in the front. I took two of the boards and the curtain and made a small cot. At least I wont be sleeping on the floor now I thought.
I went back to looking around, and saw that this building had a self-sustaining energy supply. There was a crank powered generator in the back, which was hooked up directly beneath the circuit breaker. I grabbed the crank and attempted to turn it. Over the centuries it had been here, it had locked itself into it's position, refusing to budge. I didn't want to break it so I just walked away from it. I could always come back to it later.
I decided that I had searched enough for now, and headed for the entrance to wait for Cryptic. A bit of solar light couldn't hurt right now, right?