A/N: Just another quick note to say thank you for reading! Comment, questions, suggestions, and corrections are welcome! Enjoy chapter 3!
The four Tenno got ready for their mission quickly. Even though it was just a standard capture mission, this one had a lot more relevance to the group and the clan as a whole. Even though Valkyr was still a student, every Tenno in the clan knew her. Her long black hair and constant smile was hard to ignore and could easily cheer up anybody having a bad day, She had already established herself among the clan members and had known for a while that she would join the dojo once she chose a warframe; something everybody in the clan was looking forward to in the future. But it was all in jeopardy now.
As the squad checked their personal weapons and modded them accordingly for the Corpus soldiers, the Lotus was giving them the details of the mission while trying to stay collected and calm for the sake of her warriors. They would be infiltrating the same Corpus outpost where Valkyr was initially sent. There had been multiple high ranking officials spotted by drones and one in particular was determined to be the most likely to know the information they were looking for. He needed to be alive though, something that made sense but was always more difficult.
The Lotus suggested that a stealthy approach would be the best since the outpost's alarm systems was probably state of the art and would warn the target of any intrusions, allowing for easy escape. Agreeing that it was the best idea, Spud switched in a mod to silence his high powered Lex pistols in order to take out cameras while the rest dealt with any soldiers who had the misfortune of running into them. The mission had to be done perfectly and quickly, something the squad was quite good at doing.
When the group arrived at the outpost, there was no talking and no time wasted. Hayden used a module to quickly fill everybody's energy pool then they were off. Stealth was sometimes hard in missions but Lonewolf's invisibility and drive to finish the mission made everything easy. Spud shot every camera before they could be seen and the others had their melee weapons in hand for quick, silent kills. Lonewolf destroyed rooms full of soldiers with blade storm and Spud often electrocuted small groups of them while Hayden and Falken took out stray enemies.
The mission hit no hiccups. One soldier tried to run to a console but was struck by Lonewolf after a room-long teleport brought a foot against the soldier's helmet. They worked their way through the complex killing those in the way while ignoring others in order to keep stealth going. As they approached the area marked as the location where the target was located, the group switched to their main weapons. In order to get the jump on the target, Spud activated his speed ability as they ran into the room.
The scene was chaos for about five seconds but it felt like forever. Falken threw his Glaive and cleanly cut through four soldiers while Spud slid in taking out two more just as fast. Lonewolf's blade storm cleaned off a big number of soldiers from the heavily guarded room and Hayden kept a good eye one everybody's health and shields while taking out distant enemies.
Shortly after, the Corpus open fired. Spud put up various electric shields to block the bullets and make his squadmates' bullet gain a small electric burst of damage. Falken fought his way through the soldiers using just his glaive to cleave through their armor and block almost all incoming bullets. As he reached a high point, Falken pulled out his Vectis to scan the area.
"Found him!" he yelled as he took note of the figure running towards the door. He shot repeatedly at the target finding the armor hard to penetrate but knocking him around with the impacts of the bullets.
The other three quickly jumped into action to catch the fleeing target.
"I'll catch up to him with speed," Spud said taking over the quick plan making job. "Lonewolf, teleport in to knock him over and then blade storm to clear the area. Don't hit the target. Hayden, watch our health and our backs." They quickly split to do their jobs.
Hayden stopped and turned around with her Link activated to take the brunt of the attacks while Falken helped her clear the soldiers. At the same time Lonewolf delivered a forceful kick to the target after a teleport but paused slightly before using blade storm to clear any other soldiers from the area. Spud's speed activated and he switched to his Lex pistols while running. The target got up quickly but fell down again as the two pistols shot bullets which rammed into his knees with tremendous force.
Spud got there quickly, delivering and extra shock to make sure the target couldn't and wouldn't get back up. Lonewolf had finished cleaning up the area and walked to the target to capture him.
"You've got the wrong person!" the target yelled as Lonewolf held out his hand to capture him in the extremely painful transfer to the storage section of the warframe's systems.
"No, we got exactly who we are looking for," Lonewolf said menacingly as the transfer started.
"Where are you taking me?!" the target yelled in both panic and severe pain. He knew they were Tenno but he couldn't hide his fear.
"We can't tell you that," Spud said simply. "That would take away all the fun… for us at least." he continued with a wicked smile in his voice. "I'm very sure we will have a lot of good times soon enough."
The target's eyes grew large with fear and then screamed as the transfer continued, now at a faster rate but also adding more pain. At this point the others had joined the group as the room had been completely cleared by the group of Tenno. The bodies of Corpus soldiers were everywhere and the only one still alive was screaming in pain. A good room clear in terms of Tenno standards.
As the transfer completed, the Lotus spoke in their comms.
"Target captured. Now get to extraction Tenno, we need to interrogate his immediately if we want any chance of saving Valkyr."
The Tenno looked at each other and pulled out their primary weapons. Spud activated speed once again and they took off running, ignoring every soldier they could ignore but cleanly killing any who happened to cause them any issues. They reached the extraction quickly and easily finished the mission without an major complications.
When they reached the dojo, Lonewolf instantly went to hand over the target to the Lotus and to help with the interrogation while the others stayed back a bit. Hayden was the first to speak.
"Am I the only one noticing that Lonewolf seems a little off?" she said with worry in her voice. "I feel like he is going to snap and just kill everything soon."
"Yeah, I noticed it too," Spud said. "He was too quiet and brutal to the first soldiers we encountered. Brutal even for him."
"I kind of thought he was going to kill our target," Falken added. "Through my scope I noticed a bit of a hesitation before he used blade storm after knocking the target down."
"We should probably watch him," Spud said. "I mean, we all know that Valkyr means a lot to him so it is clearly anger, but at the same time I think he will put saving Valkyr before revenge. Or at least I hope so…"