Chapter 1: A Guardian Rises
A Ghost, a machine created by the traveler, hovers around the great wall, a wall that stopped wars and invasions, it now was reduced to a sore eyesight, it being in disrepair for many years. The Ghost is searching for something, a person, someone who had battle experience, someone who held their ground, even in bitter defeat.
The Ghost looked to it's right, seeing figures that were in a group, standing there, watching the machine float across the field while it was in search. The Ghost turned back round and kept searching, it's scanning beam transcending across the land. The leader of the pack watching him saw the movement and un scoped from his weapon, moving his arms up and crying out, rallying others behind him. The Fallen were after the Ghost.
The Ghosts last try at finding something came up trumps, there was a body, fully composed in the wasteland. lying there, derelict, barely any armour on it's form, taken from him by the Fallen scavengers.
"Found you, my Exo friend." The Ghost said in it's monotone as it expanded to create a field around it and within it, creating light that gave birth from the Traveler. "Back to the living you are." It said and it's shell imploded and shot out a beam of light, causing the body to convulse back to life. The motion of the body rustled a few leaves and brushes that it was laying next to.
The Exo opened it's eyes to see a beam of light in it's face, the sensors on light input going crazy, it tried to help the issue, but it had no control of what was going on. The light just kept pouring in and eventually, the sensors picked up on it and adjusted to see fit. It blinked in response, returning some of the features of it's shell, but still had no control of it's legs or arms. "What?... what is going on with me?" It said with the audio speaker thrum.
"Your alive! Thank the Traveler! Come on, we need to get to a safer spot, we can't stay out in the open, the Fallen will murder us." The Ghost said as it tried to get the Exo to move into cover.
"I… can't, I have no control of my extremities!" The Exo shouted back. The Ghost reeled back at the sound.
"Shhh! The Fallen are hunting us, we need to stay quiet." The Ghost said back in a hushed tone.
"Well, give me back control and I might be able to help you." The Exo retorted, the Ghost opened up and gave the Exo control back to it's body. "Thank you, now, where to?" It asked.
"Follow me, we need to get to the wall, it will be the best place to hide." The Ghost floated off and the Exo followed at a slow pace, it's servos speeding up. "Hurry up, we need to go!" A war cry was heard throughout the area, the Exo pushed through the pain of rusted servos and motors and sprinted towards the wall, sliding in as a shot landed above it's head, he shut the door in response and locked it. 'Look's like nothing has happened here, it's still old tech' It ran in it's brain.
"What is this world?" It asked the Ghost, as it walked up some stairs and out onto a gangway.
"This is still the same world, you have been dead for a long time."
"How long is this time?"
"About 500 years." The Exo stopped in it's tracks, disbelief hitting it's memory.
"500 YEARS?! What the hell has gone on since then?" It asked as it stopped and stared at the Ghost, the Ghost put it's light down and sighed within it's voice.
"Alot of things, wars, death, despair, hope, but not much of that. The Earth is not ours anymore, it is now held by the forces of Darkness, the Fallen out there? They are one of the few who follow the darkness in it's path."
"How do we stop them then?"
"We can't. They OWN Earth, well, the vast majority anyway, with the Hive and such running around as well."
"Wait… Hive?" The Exo questioned as he heard a gangway above them creek. It ducked down and saw three figures moving around above, one much bigger than the other two. The Exo and the Ghost moved forward, the Ghost taking point, the exo followed as they reached a metal gate, the Ghost went through a hole in the gate, the Exo in turn put it's hands under the gate and pulled it up, making noise in the process. When it stepped through, it saw a huge cavern which was pitch black.
"The Fallen thrive in the darkness, stay here while I get some light in this place." The Ghost said as it flew off into a crevice in the wall's interior. "Huh, few hundred year old codes, this will be easy." The Ghost said as switches flipped and the interior was lit up as fast as a Christmas tree. A shriek was heard as the Fallen that was hidden jumped out of their hiding spots. "There, through there, that's the way out!" The Ghost shouted as it flew behind the Exo, through another gated door, instead of waiting to open the door, the Exo ran and bashed down the door, throwing the door down the corridor and slamming a Fallen into the wall. "Not one for subtle then." The Ghost commented.
"Never tried, never will." The Exo said as he walked down the corridor, peering from cover, seeing two Fallen staring at each other, seeing their brother crushed by a door. "Oh, gun." It said as it picked up the Khvostov 7G-02 from the ground below it, picking up a few magazines from the floor as well.
Weapon Acquired: Khvostov 7G-02 Assault Rifle
"The gun is a few centuries old, that's a lucky find." The Ghost commented as they heard more shrieking. "And you better know how to use it." The Exo peered again and flicked the safety off, aiming up and firing off a magazine down the hall, the Fallen fell pretty quickly. He moved forward and followed up by smashing another one in it's face with it's robotic shoulder, the others scattered but didn't get far as he head shotted them with ease.
"So about me knowing how to use this?" The Exo laughed.
"Don't make me regret waking you up again." The Exo ignored the comment and went across the bridge, leading outside of the wall. A box lit up as he walked past it, the Ghost within his inventory pointing at it on his radar. "Look, a weapon cache, you day is just getting better by the minute." The Exo lifted the lid and looked inside, he saw a shotgun and picked it up, the weight of it caught him off as it was heavier than it looked. He also picked up whatever the blue shards were, storing them for whenever they became useful.
Weapon Acquired: Silver Dollar Mk.35 Shotgun
Glimmer Acquired: 500
"That thing looks ancient, I'm surprised that takes the standard rounds!" The Exo demonstrated the power as he slid down a set of stair and let a salvo of buckshot land into one of the bigger Fallen. "I'm not complaining though.
The Fallen have a tighter hold on this place than I thought. Just a little bit further. Let's hope there's something left out there…"
The Exo walked out of the war, through a broken turbine, that was the first it saw of the desolate world. "What… happened…?" A rifle shot landed square in its chest, being deflected by the angular plates on it's chest.
"No time, we need a ride out of here. This was an old Cosmodrome. There's got to be something we can fly out of here."
"Now where on hell's Earth is one then lightbulb!?" The Exo was getting infuriated as the Ghost was spouting random information without any help.
"Calm down, there's one on the other side of the area." The Exo was about to get up as a thrum was heard. "What?! Fallen ships? This close?!" A trio of huge ships dropped down into the fray, before gunshots were heard, more people were to be seen, taking down the enemies that were in the ship and a mechanical walker that had been dropped as well, the Exo walked a bit closer, taking out anyone silently on his way to get closer.
He looked at the trio that were shooting into the walker, they destroyed it within a matter of a few minutes, as it was blowing up, the Exo made a move out of his cover. Shouting at the people who had been fight. "Hello? Can you help me?" He said and as he finished his sentence, They all disappeared on the spot. "Fucking yay." It said as he walked into the building, shotgunning anyone or thing in his way.
"Be careful, there's a Archon near."
"How do you know?"
"The darkness is stronger with them. Just look out."
"How can they be that ba-" He stopped as he saw the Archon, the Fallen being even towered over the other bigger variants, "OH COME ON!" HE said as he dodged out the way.
Level Up: 2
The Exo fall behind cover and pulled up his shotgun, but as he turned the corner, a Fallen with four arms came over and snatched his shotgun. The Exo was not impressed. It ran up, ignoring the ever present threat of the Archon, and punched as hard as it could into the Fallen, breaking it's head off and making a white wisp appear as the beheaded being fell to the floor. It picked up the Shotgun and turned round to face the Archon, who was looking at him with a evil glare. "HNNNG." Was all the Archon had to say as oit fired its scattershot at the Exo, the Exo moved with speed, running around and giving it a flank, all the while as it peppered the Archon with his shotgun, the Assault rifle (as it found out the hard way) was useless against the armour.
"Ghost, give me something with more power!" He shouted as he ran out of ammo.
"Here, your skeleton can now procure grenades. Use them as you see fit." The Ghost said and the Exo immediately moved and manufactured a grenade, pulling the pin, it threw it at the Archon, the grenade landing and embedding it in it's armour, the Archon moved to pull it out, but it was too late. The grenade exploded, leaving discarded remains of the Archon. The Exo moved back towards the ship, letting the Ghost out of it's inventory.
"It's been here awhile. Hasn't made a jump in centuries. We're lucky the Fallen haven't completely picked it clean."
"Will it fly?" The Exo asked
"I can make it work." The jumpship's engines power on by the Ghost and the jumpship breaks free from the cables, hovering in the air.
"Okay, it's not going to break orbit, but it just might get us to The City. Now, about that transmat…" As the Ghost said that, a cry was heard and another, even bigger Fallen entered the area.
"You have got to be joking me, get me out of here now!" His plea was met by silence. "GHOST?!"
"Bringing you in!" The jumpship flies out of the building. The Fallen enemies shoot at it. All in vain as the jumpship flies off into the sky "We can come back for them when you're ready. Let's get you home."
"I have no home, Ghost. I am a machine."
"So am I, but I'm not complaining." That made the Exo shut up as the ship went through the storm that was forming over the cosmodrome. They got to the other end and they saw the Tower, a beacon in the last city of Earth. The ship lowered down and the Ghost dropped the Exo off at the courtyard. "Welcome to the last safe City on Earth-the only place The Traveler can still protect. It took centuries to build. Now, we're counting every day it stands. And this Tower is where the Guardians live. Go speak with the speaker, I will get this to the shipwright, get it cleaned up."
"Thanks, now, lets find this Speaker, he has a lot of explaining to do about the current situation." The Exo said as it moved throughout the tower.
A/N: Right, I'm back, later than expected :3 I was busy with another Project *cough* Herald of Light* *cough*
Oh well. So, here is my question to anyone who is interested in this story, what Class and gender shall our little Exo friend be? I'll leave it up to you to decide! (That's the reason for the 'it' instead of 'he' or 'she' :P)