(I, uh, i got nothing. Enjoy!)

The tenno was lying flat on the ground after clumsely falling from the cieling, they rose up slightly, still lying on the ground, but lifting their upper body up and supporting it with their elbows, they raised their head, and they saw beastly eyes staring at them.

The yellow eyes with slit pupils that belonged to the pseudo human, who had his hand on the hilt of a still sheathed straight sword, the only defining feature of that sword was the V shaped crossguard, and a simple round pummel. "What the hell are you?" He said as he indicated the tenno, his voice rugged, and spoke of many years of experience.

The female human stepped into view, seeing them both up close, they noticed that the human and the pseudo human shared several features, like white hair, and a scar over the left eye.

Seeing no better oppertunity to gather knowledge on what the pseudo human actually is, they took out their scanner, and scanned the kavat eyed human, who now had a confused and curious look on his face. "What's that?" He asked while they finished scanning the pseudo human from their position on the ground.

This one, too, had a name, Geralt of Rivia, his species, the witchers, could be considered a subspecies of humans, given their dwindeling population and shorter history. The title "witcher" was, surprisingly, also used to describe their work, they were monster hunters. Wich included that tall, wooden creature that the tenno slew, a leshen, they remembered it was called.

They boasted superhuman senses and reflexes, it was very much a possibility that this witcher, Geralt, used his senses to track them, why else would they come into a troll infested cave?

This particular witcher stood above the rest, having killed more creatures than most other witchers, and even some novice tenno. This mildly impressed them.

It seemed witchers typically carry two swords, one steel, and one silver, as it was common knowledge that monsters had a weakness to silver, maybe the tenno could have a silver coated nikana, or maybe their current arsenal was enough, the tigris prime easily ripped a volcanic rock troll apart, after all.

(With Geralt)

The... Person that fell from the cieling had to be the one that they were tracking, and she was wearing the strangest clothes that the white haired witcher had ever seen. For starters, her head was completely covered in yellow bandages, save for a spot of black where her right eye would have been, the bandages were held together by a black, scrappy looking hair pin at the back of her head, it looked to be of the same material of the thing that crashed near the cave.

Her modest bust was also covered up in yellow bandages, partially covered by a blue vest that held six short, cylindrical objects, the vest went down to her elbows wich each held another three of those cylindrical objects. Under her blue vest she wore a skin tight suit that had a mix of blue, yellow, white and black colors, her gauntlets looked strange, with the index fingers being yellow, and the rest of it being blue and black, on the backs of her arms were two strange rectangular pieces of metal.

Her hips held two big, round... Containers, each filled with more of those little cylindrical objects, her thighs each held four more of them, and her shins were, oddly, colored white, with black pointy shoes that each had two heels, they matched the footprints perfectly, there was a black pointy piece of metal extending from her heels, Geralt's first guess was that they were spurs, but they were a little too big for that.

All in all, it was a the strangest choice of clothing that the aging witcher had ever seen.

But there was something off, Geralt couldn't hear anything from this strange woman lying on the ground in front of him, no breathing, no heartbeat, and yet she was staring at him. "What the hell are you?" Geralt asked, the woman took out a small, grey contraption to her face, it now covered the area where her eyes would have been, there was a small blue light in the middle of it, and above it was the same symbol that the pair saw on the thing at the crash site. "What's that?" Geralt asked as the woman held the strange contraption to her face while staring at him for a while.

"I think i know what that is, a world i once visited with Avallac'h had people that had devices just like that one. They called it a... Ugh! What was it! A camera! Yes that was it, apereantly it can make an image of things without having to spend hours painting it." Ciri said, wich interested Geralt.

The woman took it off after a few seconds, and stood up, she was 6 feet tall, if you didn't count the hairpin, wich was just a little shorter than Geralt, who stood at 6,1. (I could be wrong on that, someone tell me if i am) Geralt decided to try talking to her again "what is your name?" Was his question, it got no reaction out of the woman, so he tried again "Can you understand me?" To this, the woman nodded, but didn't utter a single sound.

Geralt, relieved that he finally got some reaction out of the strangely dressed woman, tried his luck again. "Can you talk to me?" The woman shook her head, indicating she couldn't, then the woman perked up, like she was lightly startled by something, then turned her head away while faintly nodding every so often. Geralt and Ciri shot a confused look at each other while the woman continued staring into nothing.

The strange woman turned her head back towards the pair, held out her hand, wich started glowing a pale blue as a black, transparant rectangle apeared in front of her, on the rectangle, a blue diamond shape with a circle in it appeared, Ciri had a surprised look on her face while Geralt's eyes simply widened. This became more pronounced when the diamond shape started speaking "greetings!" It spoke, it's voice was somewhat young and jovial, and had an odd undertone to it.

"I am Ordis, the operator's ship chephalon, what are your names?" The now named Ordis spoke to wich Geralt replied "Name's Geralt, this is Ciri, what, exactly, are you? The word "cephalon" doesn't mean much to me." He asked, "certainly! Cephalons are artificial intelligence constructs designed to complete certain tasks, like -MURDER- managing and maintaining the operator's orbiter." Ordis explained, his little outburst slightly starteling the pair "Who is this "operator" you keep refering to?" Ciri decided to ask "the operator is standing right in front of you, the tenno in the mesa warframe!" The woman, now known as the tenno waved, making Ciri awkwardly wave back, after wich they started having a rather one-sided conversation, amused at the interaction, Geralt decided to ask more.

"You called that woman there a tenno, what does that mean, is it her species?" Ordis replied as his voice got deeper and more impressive "they called themselves 'the tenno', masters of the gun and blade, warrior gods cast in steel." The last bit made Geralt raise an eyebrow, Ordis continued with his normal voice "apologies, the operator asked me to give that little -STUPID- speech if anyone ever asked about what the tenno are. I don't actually know what exactly the tenno are, but they are extremely capable warriors who handle a multitude of asignments like infiltration, rescues, and exterminations." Somewhat satisfied with the answer he got, Geralt asked a diffrent question.

"That thing that lies half buried in the ground outside the cave, what is it?" Geralt asked "oh, so you were the life signs i detected wandering around the crash site! That thing is a mantis landing craft, also refered to as an orbiter. It is a means of transportation with wich the tenno can slip in and out of mission areas -GUNS BLAZING- undetected." Ordis explained, Geralt asked "something that big is used to slip into places undetected?" To wich Ordis simply said "you'd be surprised."

Geralt decided to ask yet another question, this time he pulled one of the boxes he found out of his inventory, and showed it to Ordis "you know what this is? We found it near a beheaded bear." Ordis replied "ah yes! I believe the operator will enjoy having one of those! Please show it to them, ah, once they're done over there, that is." Geralt turned his head towards Ciri and the tenno, they were sitting on the ground, Ciri sat cross legged, while the tenno was on her knees, listening to Ciri with childlike interest, there now was a big, dog-like creature lying down next to the tenno.

Geralt gave a light chuckle, and asked more. "Those strange clothes the tenno is wearing, that the 'warframe' as you called it?" Geralt asked, to wich Ordis replied "correct, each warframe has the power to shape a tenno's raw energy into special abilities, the warframe that the tenno has equipped is the 'mesa' warframe, it's powers focus around gunfighting." Geralt was more or less satisfied, and asked yet another question.

"We heard a series of explosions before coming into the cave, what was that about? it didn't sound like any normal explosion." Was Geralt's question, to wich Ordis replied "that was the operator's -BOOMSTICK- shotgun, the tigris prime." "Gun... You have said that word multiple times now, what is that? A sort of weapon?" Geralt asked

"yes, a gun is a weapon that can shoot projectiles over a long distance using various methods, from chemically propelled bullets, to condensed heat beams. Some guns can even be used as javelins!" Ordis replied, Geralt, now satisfied, decided it was time to wrap this conversation up. "That was all i really wanted to know, so long." Geralt gave his usual goodbye as the image of ordis disapeared.

this drew the attention of the tenno, who got up, and walked over to Geralt. "Your little friend, Ordis, said you might enjoy having this." Geralt said to the tenno as he held out the strange blue box, wich disapeared as soon as it got near the tenno, who then gave a light bow before the now confused witcher. "Well, that just happened. Anyway, there's some people who really want to see you, the inhabitants of a nearby village, you crashed a little too close for comfort, so they sent me to see what it was. You want to come with us back there?" At the tenno's nod, the three of them, plus Laila, left the cave.

(With the tenno)

The tenno was frustrated, they wished to simply use bullet jumps to get to their destination, but Geralt was content with walking at a snail's pace, while picking every random plant along the way. The trip so far was very uneventful, and to their horror, there was notning new to scan! All the plants that the scanner had picked up were already archived in the codex, they could only be re-scanned, but they had always found that boring, so they would leave it to their helios sentinel, wich was also not here, much to their irritation.

And they also couldn't chat with Ciri, since she had gone off on her own, something about wanting to do her very first solo contract.

"We're almost there, you holding up back there?" Came Geralt's voice, the tenno gave a thumbs up, the hand signal was somehow recognized everywhere, by everyone. Not that they were complaining.

The village was in sight, it didn't look as impressive as the tenno thought it would, there were five shabby looking huts, each of varying sizes, and a ruin on the top of the hill, they thought it must have been a castle once upon a time.

Following the witcher inside, they could just feel the stares of the humans on them "mummy, what's that?" "What kind o' clothes are those?" "How can that lass even see anythin'?" Are what the humans whispered, among less flattering things. The witcher gave a glance at the tenno, he must have heard too.

"You get used to the stares eventually." Was what he said, they didn't have time to ponder as a man called out to the witcher. "Oy! Witcher! Got a proposition for ye!" He shouted, as the group walked over to the man, he had brown, greasy hair, and a dirty beard.

His armor consisted of a mix of cloth, leather, chainmail, and an animal hide around his neck and shoulders, this man's attire looked even more primitive than geralt's!

"What is it? Got a contract for me?" Geralt asked "might do, if yer willing to partner with me." Was the man's answer. "Usually work alone." This mildly surprised the tenno, but at the same time it really didn't. "Could pay to make an exception this time." The filthy man spoke, there was an odd accent in his voice "it's not every day you get to work with the most renowned bounty hunter north of the Yaruga - Djenge Frett himself!" The man announced with no small ammount of pride, the name did sound familiar though.

"Alright, i'll bite, what does the famous Djenge Frett need a witcher for?" Asked Geralt with a hint of sarcasm when he mentioned the man's name. It seemed to fly right over his head as he continued "i'm guessin' you're a man of the world. Perhaps you've come across the Grossbart brothers in your travels?" He asked, they didn't think much of the name. "You hunting them?" Came Geralt's question "aye, quite the rogues, they are. Three of 'em, and each got a pack o' rapes and murders under his belt, even took to grave robbin' lately!" To the tenno, it sounded like a tamer version of the gustrag three, the most infamous grineer death squad they knew of.

"Easy to recognise on account o' their yellow caps. Folk see three yellow tops, they flee to their huts. Wich don't help much 'coarse, 'cause they're also fond of arson!" The dirty man continued, to the tenno, they sounded more and more like the gustrag three, this worried them, could the grineer have followed them here? They didn't get a chance to ponder as the conversation moved onward.

"No, haven't met them." Geralt said, Djenge replied with "if ye do, tread careful. They're quick to stick a knife in a man's gut, often just by way of greetin'!" And just like that, the tenno's worries were gone. the gustrag three didn't use knives, they used more obvious weapons, like hammers and axes.

"Doubt they'd try that with a witcher" was Geralt's reply, to wich Djenge responded "Ye never know with that lot. Right, well, i head south soon, haven't looked there yet. Fare ye well, ye and yer strange lookin' lass. Might meet again, some day" by the void, the tenno hoped not. Though the man did provide with some insight into how the people on this planet acted, and they weren't overly fond of it.

They were crude, and not just on the technological level. That bounty hunter, the tenno didn't like the way he looked at them, like a feral kubrow during their mating cycle. Their grammar also wasn't something to be amazed by, at least not in any good way. And their personal hygiene also didn't impress them. If they had a nose, it would probably have fallen off, or shriveled up, or both.

They wished to ponder the diffrences between the humans here, and the humans in the rest of the origin system, but Geralt saw fit to move on now. The witcher led the tenno to the ruin on the hill, wich actually turned out to be another house, the pair entered, and saw a single human male.

This one had a grey beard, a green tunic with an animal hide on his shoulders, and an odd head covering.

"Witcher! You're back! Did ye find anythin'? And who's this odd lookin' lass?" The man asked, he too had a strange accent, must be common on this planet. "This woman was who i found near the crash site, she was roaming around the area there, refers to herself as 'the tenno', killed the troll living in the silver mine as well." was Geralt's answer.

"Oho, so this strange lass could do what a witcher couldn't?" Came the man's reply, wich confused the tenno, do what the witcher couldn't? Was Geralt hired to kill the troll? Why didn't he, he was getting paid for it, right? "That's beside the point, this woman is who you hired me to find, people usually pay me when i complete the task they give me." Geralt said, slightly offended.

"Aye, you did the job, now here's yer coin" the man said as he tossed a small leather bag at Geralt, who caught it deftly. "What'll happen to the girl?" Geralt asked, the tenno was slightly surprised at the concern the witcher put into the question. "Don't ye worry now, witcher, we'll be givin' her a fine reward." The tenno didn't like it, the man's voice started sounding like a mix between Alad V and the gustrag three, it sounded like this man was going to attempt things that a warframe wasn't meant to be used for, so they would take matters into their own hands.

Geralt looked like he was about to object, but a raised hand from the tenno silenced him, and the look they sent the witcher's way told him all he needed to know, so he nodded at them, then turned and left.

"Oy, lads! Get in here! We's got us a fine catch." At the man's call, three more men stepped into the room, they each wore similar sets of armor of cloth, leather, and animal hide. "Who's this weird lass?" One of them asked "probably the new village whore" another one said, 'whore', it was a word that was used to describe women of a less than proud profession back in ancient times. They had read about that in orokin archives, so now they knew what the men had planned for them.

"Have yer fun, but make sure there's still some of her left for the rest of the boys." The elder man said, the three others aproached the tenno, still slightly unsure of what was about to happen, one of the men put his hands on the tenno's chest, specifically the two modest breasts that were present under the warframe's vest.

What followed was later known as the quickest and one of the most brutal massacres in Skellige's history.

They had enough of the innapropriate touching of their warframe, thus they decloaked their nikana prime, the men backed away in shock. One of them was about to reach for his sword when his hand was suddenly gone, it was now lying on the floor, and the tenno's ornate sword was bloodstained.

The other two drew their sword and axe, and all together, they charged at the tenno, who cut all three of them in half with one horizontal swing from their ancient sword. The ground was covered in blood, and the elder was sitting up against the wall, almost frightened to death, almost, but not quite, the tenno would remedy this by siccing Laila on him, who promptly tore him to shreds.

Having slain the four less than pleasant men, the tenno left the house, their HUD now showed an extermination counter.

Enemies 4/36 it said, and so the tenno fulfilled their objective, slaying every warrior who would raise steel against an agent of the Lotus.

Enemies 14/36 "die you whore!" *bambam!*

Enemies 27/36 "by the gods, what are ye!?" *shrrrk!*

Enemies 35/36 "please! Spare me! I's just a humble blacksmith!" *growl*

Enemies 36/36

Some villagers had escaped, but the extermination quota had been reached, their deaths were not necessary.

The tenno had half expected to hear a transmission from the Lotus saying "well done, the enemy is broken, head to extraction." But the fact was that the lotus had not contacted them since they crashed here. It was lonely without the Lotus' voice...

Turning their head, the tenno saw Geralt standing at the village entrance, his face didn't betray a single emotion. "You didn't have to slaughter them." Was all he said, they made no reaction, except swing their nikana prime to get the blood off, then sheathing and cloaking it. No words were uttered, but the action itself spoke clearly to the witcher, "it's already done" was what the tenno was trying to convey.

(Meanwhile)

It wasn't often that Tyl Regor, the infamous grineer researcher, would leave his sealab on uranus. But when he did, great things were about to happen, like a tenno using an unstable solar rail to jump to an uncharted world. By the queens' decree, Tyl Regor had been tasked with finding the place that the slimy lizard had been flung to.

Time would tell if he would succeed.

(And that's that, expect the next chapter soon, meanwhile, i wanted to try my hand at omakes, here's my first attempt)

Omake:

Geralt, now satisified, decided it was time to ask one final question.

"Gwent, you play?"

Ordis simply nodded