"Amy, can you hear me? Amy!" A nurse was trying to calm her down, having been there mere moments before she'd started screaming in her sleep.
Taking a deep breath, Amy's tear streaked face gradually relaxed, her breathing heavy. She reached up to her right eye, feeling for her eyepatch. She must have fallen asleep and had a nightmare about the fire.
"Are you sure you're alright, Amy? I was checking in on you just before you started screaming in your sleep." The nurse explained as Amy examined her surroundings, still breathing hard.
"Just a nightmare, I'm fine." Amy slowly lowered her hand, reaching towards her computer with the other. "I'll be alright."
"Was it from the fire... or what you had on that computer? It looked like a video game." The nurse watched Amy's proficient knowledge of the computer's various cords and accessories.
"At first it was the game, but then it changed to the fire." Amy explained, opening Warframe's active tab, realizing that she'd left the game running before falling asleep... or did she pass out?
"Well, as long as you're feeling alright, I'll leave you be. Goodnight, Amy." The nurse bustled out of her room, closing the door behind herself with a small click.
Amy sighed, examining her shaking hands curiously. Before she started playing, her hands were steady. Maybe it was from the adrenaline from playing the intense Dark Sector Defence...
Wait a second...
Amy stared past her shaking hands, feeling a strange weightlessness on her left arm. It felt like something had been... attached... mounted to her arm.
"Aegis..." Amy whispered, reaching her right arm towards her left, and grasped the air above her wrist with a strange familiarity. "Sylvia..."
Lowering her arms, Amy remembered the Liset portion of her dream, the strange weight on her legs and back.
Realization came cascading into her mind, she could almost feel the weight of the weapons she'd used during the Dark Sector Defence mission! Ignis, carried on her back, Dex Furis, on her legs, and Sylvia & Aegis, on her left arm! She had been fighting the Infested during the mission! She was...
"Ember." Amy's eyes widened in shock, fear, and confusion. "I... was... I was Ember!"
In the corner of the laptop screen, Amy spotted a blinking tab, signalling a message. She clicked it, then raised an eyebrow.
'I just got her Chassis! Now all I need for Ember Prime is her Systems! Thanks for the mission invite, dude!'
Amy knew she'd fallen asleep, so she clearly wasn't the person they thought she was. But before she could begin to type a reply, the person added another message. 'Oops, sorry about that! Meant to send that to a different person!'
Amy quickly typed, 'No problem, accidents happen. Also, congradulations!'
Amy pressed Send, and waited for a reply. Moments later, she received a simple 'thanks!' from the other player.
Since there was no further continuation to their conversation, Amy was about to close the chat tab when she realized something strange.
"Ember Prime...?" Amy read the initial message sent by the player. "Ember has that?"
Quickly closing Warframe down, Amy brought up her browser, and searched for 'Warframe, Ember Prime.'
Clicking the first result, she was greeted by an information profile detailing Ember Prime. Though visually she was differently designed, most of her stats were still the same as the regular Ember, but she did have a different upgrade layout and faster Shield regeneration.
Amy thought about the differences between them for several seconds, then decided to figure out a way to acquire Ember Prime.
A few minutes of reading the profile revealed that Ember Prime was comprised of four pieces; The Blueprint, Helmet, Chassis and Systems. She decided to begin her task in the morning, since she wasn't scheduled for any tests or therapy.
Closing the screen, Amy placed it aside, then laid down to sleep.
"Amy..."
A voice awoke her from her slumber, calling out as if from a long distance.
Opening her eye, Amy sighed when she realized she was standing back aboard her Liset again, her Kubrow seated before her with a dopey expression.
"Amy... Can you hear me?" The voice repeated, which Amy realized was coming from behind her. She turned her head to see a slightly transparent Warframe standing in front of her...
Ember Prime.
"Child, you have grown so strong. I am proud of you." The ghostly Warframe held her palm to her chest, the other relaxed against her side.
"Child? What do you mean?" Amy felt a strange sense of caution. Something was strange about this apparition, so she was on edge.
"You wear the Ember Warframe, but I know my own daughter when I see her. Your brother, Kevin, he wore the Ash Warframe before he was lost in battle to the Grineer."
"Then what about my father? What happened to him?" Amy's eye narrowed suspiciously, watching the apparition for any minute reactive changes to her question.
"The last I heard of him, he was alive..." The Ember Prime tilted her head very slightly to the side before finishing her sentence. "But that was several months ago. Not even the Lotus seems to know of his location."
Amy's mind was suddenly filled by the echo of clashing blades and the distinctive shrieks of the Infested. A single Frost Warframe, wielding the mighty Galatine was fending off horde after horde of Chargers, Leapers and Runners.
"I may know where he is... But I must know the Warframe he wears and the blade he wields." Amy took a small step forward, clenching her fists together.
"Frost and the Galatine. His other weapons of choice were the Tigris and Akvastos, and he uses the Dethcube Sentinel."
"I may know where he is..." Amy glanced out of the Liset's window before facing the Ember Prime again. "He's fighting the Infested... Somewhere out of the range of the Lotus..."
Before she could finish her sentence, the Ember Prime suddenly spoke up in a spine tingling voice.
"Orokin Derelict."