(I finally thought of a goddamn name to give our beloved main character! Read the chapter to find out! Also i should start a voting thing for something just to have an excuse to put more than an opening statement up here, well, anyway, enjoy!)

"Hull integrity holding at ninety-eight percent, rerouting noncritical power to void shields." Said Secundus, The Commander's ship cephalon. This cephalon had a male, baritone voice. The cause of his report was the damage that the group's landing crafts were taking from the unexpectantly dangerous trip through the saturn junction, wich was further proven as The Commander held onto his codex terminal to retain his footing through the harsh turbulence.

The rest of the group, however, had other solutions to this predicament.

Elli was holding on to Nya, her kavat, for dear life while screaming every curseword she could come up with.

Yidos had holed himself up in a corner, desprately trying to bind himself with a bastille trap to keep himself steady.

Rahim kept himself steady by thrusting his reaper prime into the floor and holding on to it, much to his cephalon's chagrin.

Vel was happily bouncing around all the corners of her orbiter, tightly hugging a despairing Railin as she went.

And Rivas just stood in the center of his orbiter's cockpit, unfazed by the earhtquake-like turbulence.

This went on for what seemed like an eternity, it was really just barely thirty seconds. The turbulence had eventually died down, making most of the team finally relax.

The Commander released the terminal and stood as if nothing happened. Elli stood up, but still clutched Nya. Yidos was waiting for his bastille to finally drop him. Rahim pulled his reaper prime out of the floor. Vel looked somewhat dissapointed while Railing was shaking in her arms. And Rivas just kept standing there, oblivious as ever.

"Everybody alright?" The Commander called out.

"I am... Mostly... Intact." Answered Elli meekly.

"I think i dropped my balls somewhere..." Answered Yidos, referring to his traps.

"Ffffiiiiiiineee..." Answered Rahim.

"Can we go back an' do it again?? Please?" Asked Vel, prodding Elli, Yidos, and The Commander to answer with a collective "NO!"

"Alright? Why would i be un-alright?" Rivas finally answered.

"Never change, big brother, never change." Added Vel.

The group eventually turned their attention to the unidentified planet they were currently in orbit of. It very much resembled old earth, as compared to images from orokin historical archives, being rich in natural biomes as opposed to the planets in the origin system.

"So, you think our little Talin wound up on this world?" Yidos asked The Commander, who responded with "It's the only world near the junction's target coördinates, unless you'd like to go back and try again?" The Commander didn't need to see Yidos to know that he shivered at the idea.

"It looks just like any other ball o' dirt i've killed shit on." Vel commented.

"Zhat is a big planet, how will ve go about finding Frau Talin?" Elli asked, she referred to The Tenno -now known as Talin- as a female, however, their gender had never been made known to the team. When pressed, they would only give vague, unsatisfying answers in return. Given their prefrence for feminine warframes, the team simply assumed Talin to be female, and left it at that.

"Right, on to the task at hand." The Commander announced as holograms of the planet's surface popped up in front of everyone. One section was highlighted in a glowing square, the right side was a vast continent with several primitive looking settlements. The left side was a sea with a group of islands, they too had several settlements.

The Commander started briefing the team. "Scans revealed that this region has faint trails of void energy crisscrossing all over. If Talin did land on this world, that means that energy signature must have come from their orbiter."

"This gives us a very big search area." He continued. "To speed up our search efforts, we will divide in teams of two. Rivas and Vel, you two will search the area in and around this settlement." He ordered as he highlighted a large, but primitive, city.

"Yidos and Elli, you two will explore this group of islands, scans show a massive ammount of residual energy, something grand happened there recently, no doubt Talin was somehow involved." He continued.

"Rahim and I will explore the wilds of the continental area, scans show void trails cross over that area the most. And lastly, try to gain any information from the locals you can, but be cautious, we don't know these people, so be prepared for anything. Any questions?" He finished up.

"Can't i be paired with Rahim? Pretty pleeeaaasee???" Vel asked, The Commander was silent for a few seconds.

"Any other questions?" He asked, recieving nothing but silence from the team. "You may now proceed with your assignments."

With that, the ships seperated into their assigned pairs, off to their destination.

(Several minutes later, with Yidos and Elli)

Yidos and Elli dropped down unto the planet surface. "Zhis planet is strange." Elli commented as she looked about the island she was standing on, wich was understandable, while the sight of a sea was not uncommon to any tenno, the mountains at their backs did throw them off, slightly.

"There's a sea over there." Yidos stated while jerking his thumb in said sea's direction. Elli just stared at him, Yidos shrugged and answered "I thought we were stating the obvious. My mistake."

"You und your sass sometimes... Ve have a mission to complete, let's get to it." She commented as she made her liset fly around the island to scan for traces of the "residual energy" that The Commander had detected around this area.

"Come on, let's have a look around, explore a bit!" Yidos proposed as he was already slowly jogging into the distance. "H-Hey! Vait up!" Elli called out as she ran after the team tactician.

(Meanwhile, with Rivas and Vel.)

I say we rip 'im ta pieces!" Vel proposed as she and Rivas stood over a strangely clothed human with a ridiculous hat who was shaking in his boots, litteraly. "No Vel, he's just an innocent going about his buis- busini- stuff!" He tried to stop her.

Vel deadpanned, replying with "He tried ta have us killed."

"But-"

"Because, ta 'im, we look like some random fuckin' 'mage'-"

"That doesn't-"

"Who's a fuckin' pin'ead! I mean seriously, look a' this shit!" Vel explained as she held up a sheet of paper, paper of all things! Said paper depicted a tall person, assumed male, with a rectangular head, and a staff that looked suspiciously like the 'Scourge' javelin. Under the depiction were some runes that neither of them understood, and a number that had alot of zeroes.

"W-well, you can't blame the human for thinking that was us! I mean, that guy kinda looks like me!" Rivas countered, Vel took a rare moment to think. Rivas had a point, the figure displayed on the piece of paper did look like Rivas, with rectangular head and all, and the height wasn't off by much either.

"I s'pose, what do you think we should do with 'im? Fair warnin', if you're 'bout ta say "Let's release him into the wild!" i will claw your optics out." Vel stated.

"He's, uh, he's gone." Rivas stated, lo and behold, the human had indeed run off. The siblings turned their heads, and watched said human run off to the settlement they were assigned to. Vel activated her hysteria and bolted after him while screaming bloody murder. Rivas, deciding not to let his sister make a bad first impression, started running after her.

(Meanwhile, back with Yidos and Elli.)

"Yidos, i am not going to keep up wizh your ridiculous pace! Eizher slow down or get lost und alone on zhis island!" Elli complained as she struggled to keep up with Yidos, who was blissfully sprinting along the foot of said island's mountains.

"You've got no sense of adventure, dear!" Yidos answered, if warframes had the capacity for speech, he would have had a jovial tone to his voice.

"Don't you 'dear' me! Now stop running you Miststück!" Elli cursed, causing her partner to reply with "i have no idea what that means, but i bet it's something like 'my incredibly smart and handsome lover'." The pair had come to a stop when Yidos almost ran into a sign, quite a crude sign, made of wood and all. It had several wooden boards attached to it, each inscribed with runes that neither of them could dechipher.

But it wasn't the sign that made the not-as-secret-as-they-think lovers stop their banter. It was the village beyond. Inside said village, there were humans, although they were the strangest humans either of them had ever laid eyes on, mainly because of their choice in clothing.

The two tenno shot a glance at each other, should they aproach? Should they just keep exploring?

Elli made up her mind and stepped towards what she believed to be the village entrance, with Yidos following close behind. Upon closer inspection, some villagers, mostly women, appeared to be kneeling in front of a group of rocks that were neatly lined up. These humans seemed sad, as was evident from the looks on their faces.

Said faces turned to look at the pair of tenno that stood out like a sore thumb. The looks on their faces turned to shock, then anger. A crowd aproached the pair.

"Oi you two! You's wearin' the same clothes as that cursed witch!" A relatively young woman with red hair shouted at the two tenno, who shot another look at each other.

"Cursed witch?" Yidos asked, more to himself rather than anyone else. "Same clothes?" Elli asked in very much the same fashion. The humans couldn't understand a tenno's way of communication, wether that was a blessing or a curse remained to be seen. Not being able to think of another way to communicate on the spot, Yidos turned to the universally recognized sign of curiosity: a tilt of the head.

Elli had to resist the urge to smack her palm into her faceplate.

Yidos' sign seemed to fly right over the villagers' heads as some muttered among themselves. Saying things that ranged from "Please have mercy on us! We didn't touch a single wench since then!" to "I bet they're here to finish what that witch started.". All of these drew more questions from the pair, but they did know one thing for certain...

...Talin came through here.

(Meanwhile, with Vel and Rivas.)

"FUCKIN' LEMME GO YOU DAMN PIECE OF SHIT I'LL TEAR YOUR FUCKIN' THROAT OUT!" Was among the tamer things that Vel stated while thrashing about in Rivas' unyielding bear-hug-like hold.

"Sis, you need to calm down. We won't find the human if you keep raging about like that." Rivas tried to calm his sister, to no avail.

"FUCK YOUR DAMN CALM SHIT I WANNA FUCKIN' RIP THAT HUMAN TO TINY FUCKIN' SHREDS!" Came her response.

Rivas was running out of options, Vel was currently in a volatile state, an Railin was left on her orbiter. That in addition to their current position, wich was very close to the settlement, didn't leave him with alot of time before they were found and things would escalate even further. So, being the simple minded strongarm that he is, he settled for his only real option:

He knocked Vel unconcious.

Sure she was going to rip his prized atlas warframe to teeny tiny shreds and feed it to her pseudo-kubrow when she wakes up, but a warframe could be replaced. Human lives, however, those were a little harder. Rivas had just saved who knows how many lives.

He could explain the mission's delay to The Commander later.

(30 minutes and a narrowly avoided evisceration later.)

The siblings were walking along the path to the settlement they were assigned to, in the meantime, this world had entered it's night cycle. Vel had her arms crossed, and Rivas was just radiating akwardness.

"I'm still fuckin' pissed at you." A somewhat calmer Vel stated.

"Well at least you're not trying to kill me anymore." Rivas responded, trying to give of a relieved feeling, it didn't work.

"Night's still young, dear brother. Just you wai- woah." Vel was interrupted as the siblings reached one of the settlement's gates. What made the unstable tenno stop in her tracks were the charred corpses of humans that were tied to towering stakes.

Rivas covered Vel's warframe optics and turned her around. "Really?" She deadpanned. "I've charred alot'a fuckers before, y'know!"

"Right, sorry." Rivas apologised as they advance through the gate, putting up with the guard's constant staring along the way. The inside of the settlement was busy, like a relay during one of Baro Ki'teer's visits. People moving up and down the streets, pushing past each other, some of them stopped what they were doing to stare at the siblings.

"They're starin' at us..." Vel 'whispered'.

"Should we... I dunno, do something?" Rivas responded.

"Pfff! Look a' that twat o'er there!" Vel suddenly announced as she pointed at a human in white and red robes, he appeared to be standing on a box. "He looks like a fuckin' weirdo!" she exclaimed as she doubled over in a laughing motion. The humans around the pair had odd looks on their faces, they couldn't percieve the pair's conversation, so all they saw was a pair of strangely clothed people shooting looks at each other.

The aforementioned human in robes aproached the two, he had a complicated look on his face. "You two! You are clearly not from around here. Tell me, do you worship the eternal fire?" He asked in the most ear-shriveling voice either of them had ever heard.

"What's this now? People worshippin' a damn fire? Wha' kinda loopy planet have we landed on?" Vel asked, it was a retorical question, but that fact seemed to fly right over Rivas' head as he answered with "I don't think we've seen any loops yet, sis." Vel could only stare at her brother.

"Ahem!" The robed human fake coughed, wich drew the attention of the siblings. "Well?" He asked. At the shaking of their heads, he got a sinister smirk on his face. "Faithless heretics you are! And those wierd clothes you have... You must be with that heretical priest who tore our most sacred temple down! You shall see how we deal with your ilk here in Novigrad! GUAARDS!! GUAAARDS!" He shrieked, causing the two tenno to wince.

"Heretical priest...?" Rivas asked as he remembered the poster Vel took from the first human they met here. "If everyone keeps mistakin' us for that pin'ead on the piece 'o paper..." Vel continued. Several humans in matching plate armor rushed around a nearby building's corner, wielding a variety of weapons.

"Then that means that... What does that mean?" Rivas asked, if Vel had a face, it would have a frown now. "It means lil' Talin decided to go all triggerhappy on this shithole."

"Oooooh, it makes sense now! But, uh, what do we do with these humans here?" Rivas asked.

"Let's just say we might get an earfull from The Commander for this." Vel stated as she extended her venka claws.

"Why would i want a full ear? Doesn't that make you hear less good?" Rivas asked as he drew his fragor, Vel was silent for a few seconds.

"Let's... Let's just kill these fuckers..." She finally answered.

(Back with Yidos and Elli.)

The german wannabe and the team tactician were walking along the path away from the village that they had run into, Elli was healing slash and puncture wounds on Yidos, who was busy pulling an arrow out of his neck. Neither said anything.

"In hindsight, we could have handled that better." Yidos finally started.

"Ve? You vere zhe one to start zhe whole zhing!" Elli responded, thinking back to the fiasco in the village...

(30 minutes ago.)

Oi you two! You's wearin' the same clothes as that cursed witch!" A relatively young female with red hair called out to the two tenno. After seemingly gaining their attention, she continued. "I don't agree with what the men did to yer friend, but the murder of o'er half the village was cruel and unnecissecary."

"Just tell me, are ye here to finish the job? To kill us all?" She asked.

A moment passed.

Then another.

After what seemed like an eternity of nothing but deathly silence from the two tenno, the woman's gaze softened, she prepared to speak again, but was interrupted when an arrow flew in from behind her.

Right into Yidos' neck.

After that, several men dressed in An Craite armor charged at the pair, who drew their respective weapons, a boar prime now rested in Yidos' hands, and a daikyu now graced Elli's hands.

"When The Commander asks, we'll just say we tripped and landed weapons first into a group of humans." Yidos tried to smooth over the situation.

"Save it. Und don't kill zhe ones who don't try to kill us." Came Elli's reply, after that, the whole situation quickly errupted into a bloody skirmish. The first warrior that reached the pair found his body eviscerated by Yidos' boar prime, and the archer that had wounded Yidos was quickly flung away into the distant horizon by an arrow, curtesy of Elli's daikyu.

Yidos, in the meantime, was surrounded by several humans, he fired his trusty boar prime mutiple times into the bodies of his advesaries, who were thrown backwards by the force of the prime shotgun. Alas, he missed a target, who quickly took a swing at the tactician, it didn't break his shields, but still hurt.

Yidos retaliated by taking a shot at the attacker, who was promptly ripped in two gory pieces. But once again failed percieve an attack from behind, this tactical error cost him his shields, as was further proven by the red aura that enveloped the vauban prime warframe.

Meanwhile Elli was busy pinning humans to houses with her arrows, it was almost laughable, really. One of said humans tried sneaking up from behind her, only to be rewarded with a headshot from a bronco prime. She turned to Yidos, only to see that he was starting to take more than a little damage.

She would have backed him up, but he seemed to make a comeback by deploying a bastille trap to bind his nearby enemies, who were quickly cut apart by Yidos' galatine prime. A pale blue aura flowed over his vauban prime, signifying the regeneration of his shields. Elli would never understand why someone so smart could be so reckless in combat.

The enemy numbers began to shrink, they were retreating, the skirmish was won. It was a bittersweet vitcory, the villagers looked on in horror, the girl that had spoken to them earlier had fainted.

"We... We should go.." Yidos said with a gloomy feel about him.

"Zhat may be for zhe best. Ja, let's go." Elli responded, following Yidos after briefly running her gaze over the villagers.

(Back in the present)

"They shot an arrow in my neck! What would you have done?" Yidos asked as his neck wound began to close

"W-well, i... Uhh... Zhat's got nothing to do with zhe mission! My Liset has, in zhe meantime, identified a tenno signal from zhat island." Elli answered as she pointed to an island in the distance.

"The mission, right. What's this about a tenno signal?" Yidos asked.

"I can't say for sure, but it's all ve currently have to go on." Elli answered, Yidos seemed to shudder, she briefly wondered why, then she remembered.

Yidos had aquaphobia.

While he didn't shy away from puddles and suchlike, he became very jumpy around of large bodies of water, like the ocean that covered Uranus, or the sea that surrounded them at that very moment.

Elli now had the best way to get some payback for the trip here.

(Meanwhile, with The Commander and Rahim.)

The Commander turned to look over the crude houses he and Rahim were surrounded by and into the distant horizon, in the general direction of the Skellige isles, wich drew Rahim's attention, who tilted his head in question.

"I think i'm going to get some very interesting reports by the end of this..." He finally said, Rahim gave no response, except turning his head back to the human who was explaining the rules of a peculiar game called "gwent".

(Meanwhile, with Talin.)

Young Talin was sitting high up on the roof of Beauclair Palace. On one of their little sight seeing trips on this world, Ordis had picked up a faint trace of void energy around this region. Wich was, after a brief spying trip around Beauclair, now known as "Toussaint", even though it was pronounced "tooh-sahnt", what odd names these humans came up with.

The mere prescence of void energy on this world meant the Orokin were once here, or there was some incident that allowed the void to change this world, maybe this planet wasn't as foreign as they first thought.

Deciding they had lazed about enough, Talin stood up, their saryn prime gleamed beautifully in the afternoon sun. Calling their archwing, they let themself drop from the high palace, halfway to the ground, their trusty Itzal swooped in and attached itself to their back. Deciding to be a little daring, Talin stayed the course, it was only a few centimeters from the ground until they pulled up.

Feeling satisfied with their little stunt, they quickly gained altitude. Off to wherever that energy signature originated from.

(And that's that!... I, uh, i usually have things to say at the end of chapters, but no, i got nothing. Until the next chapter!)