A/N: As promised, here is a little epilogue! I'll keep it short up here because I'm going to say some more below. Enjoy!
The room was littered with paper and dust from the wall. In many places, the walls had shuriken stuck inside them as if they had been thrown with tremendous force. In the middle of the room stood a group of Tenno all standing around an Ash who was eyeing a fly which was crawling on the wall. As the fly stopped moving temporarily, the Ash launched a shuriken from his hand towards the fly.
"Ooooohhhh," the group around him exclaimed mockingly as the fly casually flew away from the wall past the shuriken which was now firmly wedged into the wall.
"You don't have to do that every time I miss," Lonewolf said to his crowd as he tracked the fly once again.
The room had a lot more Tenno in it than usual. Over the period of light missions and lots of breaks after the death of Alad V, the room had become a usual meeting place of more than just Spud, Falken, Lonewolf, and Hayden. Today, like many other days, Nova, Valkyr, Nyx, and Saryn had stopped by to say hello to their partners, but today they had walked in right after the fly killing attempts had started and had joined in watching the repeated failure.
"We don't have to," Spud said with a smirk, "but we really really want to."
Lonewolf growled slightly and slow gravitated towards the fly's location to attempt the throw again. The rest slowly formed around him to get a good view of the attempt and waited for the fly to stop moving.
"Where did this fly comes from anyway?" Nova asked with actual curiosity. "I've only seen them on earth and it would be unlikely that one would just randomly fly into your liset, even if it could easily."
"I think he catches them," Falken said. "He just wants to prove he can do it. The Lotus did it the last time he tried this."
"Wait a minute," Valkyr said suddenly. "Is that why it took you so long to get to extraction when we did that earth mission the other day?" Lonewolf froze for a second. "I knew you weren't looking for Kubrow eggs!" Valkyr exclaimed with a laugh.
"I'm honestly not too surprised," Hayden said as she played with her hair slightly. "This is exactly something you would do."
Lonewolf suddenly let another shuriken fly, missing the target again and pulling another sarcastic reaction from the group. Lonewolf got up slowly and turned to Valkyr.
"Out of everybody," he said, "you should be cheering for me."
"Perhaps," she responded. "Would you maybe like some help? If I Warcry it will slow down the fly even more than it already is," she added with an innocent smile as Lonewolf frowned.
"Maybe I could try," Nyx said, "my psychic bolts would seek it out and hit it."
"Or I could shock it quickly," Spud added. "I would get close enough that it would get zapped."
"My reckoning would hit it," Falken said adding to Lonewolf's annoyment.
"My poison could easily kill it too," Saryn added with a smirk. "And I don't even have to aim."
"Molecular prime would also slow it down for you," Nova added quickly. "Or I could kill it with null star or antimatter drop."
"I don't need any help," Lonewolf said more than a little annoyed at the jokes. "I'll hit it."
"Well," Hayden said slowly, "the way I see it, you are one of the few without a guaranteed way to kill the fly so…" she trailed off for effect.
"You don't either," Lonewolf responded.
"Hence the 'one of the few' hon," Hayden responded with a sly smile.
Lonewolf once again moved closer to the fly and prepared for the fly to stop moving. Despite being annoyed with them, he was glad that everything had worked out. He looked back at the group and smiled. Valkyr was almost completely better and the design for her warframe was now complete and was even named after her. She was now one of the dojo's best fighters. Spud and Nova were almost inseparable now that they had been together for a good amount of time. Even now they stood close together as Spud hugged while from behind while watching the next attempt. Falken and Nyx were almost the same but seemed to spend a lot more time in private. They claimed they read a lot of books but only they really knew the truth. Nyx was currently leaning slightly on Falken allowing them both a good view. Hayden and Saryn were more or less just as connected as ever but had moved a little more towards dates instead of the their normal purely physical relationship although right now it looked like they might find a different room soon enough. Overall, everything was good and Lonewolf was happy with that.
Before Lonewolf could throw another shuriken, the group heard someone clear their throat behind them and turned to look. In the doorway stood the Lotus holding on the Lonewolf's shuriken in her hand. To her right stood another warframe. Lonewolf, Spud, Falken, and Hayden all froze as they recognized the warframe as the one they fought at Alad V lab but without the half-infested collar.
"Hey Lotus," Hayden said casually, "who is that?"
"This is Mesa," she responded with a smile. "Thanks to your scans, we were able to recreate the warframe that attacked you at Alad V's lab. Mesa is the first Tenno to try it out. I thought that since the breakthrough was because of you all and she is now part of the clan, that you should be the first to meet her."
"What does she do?" Spud asked without thinking about how rude that might sound.
"I'm a gunslinger," Mesa said for herself. "I excel with pistols and use that to my advantage. I even have my own," she added indicating the barrels on her forearms.
"I have to ask," Falken said after a bit of silence, "is that a bandana around your head? And doesn't that make it hard to see?" he asked.
"Yes, it is a bandana," Mesa said with a smile. "And it does, but I like a challenge."
At that moment, the fly flew over the heads of the Tenno in the room. Instantly, Mesa flipped her wrist so one barrel came up to her hand, and shot a single bullet which hit the fly perfectly.
Lonewolf looked back at Mesa as the fly fell to the ground.
"Oh great," he said sarcastically, "another Tenno that can kill flies better than me."
A/N: And that is the end! Thank you so so much if you read the entire story, it means so much to me that people are reading and (hopefully) enjoying something I've put so much thought and work into. I would love to read everybody's thoughts on it so if you have anything you want to say, feel free to do so! I am still looking for oneshot ideas so if you have any please tell me and I will try my best to make it happen!
Once again, thank you so much for reading my fan fiction! I truly hoped you enjoyed it. Any questions, comments, suggestions, or corrections are still encouraged, and reviews will be gladly accepted!