Ancient dust swirled around Melody and I as we landed in the Steppes of Old Russia. Along the way, Melody had explained the basics of how I could use my ship's inventory space and had even shown me how to activate it through my gauntlet. Melody walked forward slightly and seemed to be looking for something.
"If we were just going to stand at the Steppes landing I don't think Ikora would've sent us, Melody." Dischord, frontier shell and all, appeared next Melody, Fira following suit.
"Oh, come off it, you floating ball of facts. I'm just looking. Come on, Frost! We've got some Fallen freaks to find!" And with that she started off walking in the direction of an old rusted building in the corner of the Steppes. As we got closer to the building I started to notice movement.
"You see that movement behind the rusted vents, too, correct?" Melody made a motion towards the small vents in front of the old building. "That's the Fallen. They are scavengers around the Cosmodrome. They aren't that much of a problem in small numbers, but when you have lots of them..." Melody raised her left arm as a large revolver looking pistol appeared in her hand. As the movement occurred again, she squeezed off three shots and watched three bodies fall to the ground, white wisps escaping from where their heads were.
"That's basically how you get rid of them. There are some more of by the garage-like building. You can take care of them. Go ahead and pull out your weapon. I wanna see what you have."
"Oh, right." I did as she asked and after a quick tap of the wrist display, a small caliber semi-automatic rifle appeared in my right hand. "This is called a scout rifle, correct?" Melody jumped forward excitedly and grabbed my rifle from me.
"Oh, wow! It's been awhile since I've seen a Jigoku SR2! These are so well-rounded any guardian could use it well!" Behind my helmet, I smiled and, shaking my head, I took my rifle from the over-excited girl, readying it in my grip. Walking forward as Melody continued to giggle like a madwoman, I went over the small hill, preparing to fire on whatever target I saw. What I saw surprised me almost as much as itself...