Another failure, delivered to you from Alias. Sadly, it is once again at the expense of a beloved teammate. I'm so terribly sorry...but thanks for the writing material.
"Okay, guys, let's do this," Vigilance's nonchalant voice pulsed through the headsets of his teammates.
It was true that Alias and Raddigan often liked to work in their preferred number of two, but when it came to the big battles, they always sent in for more teammates. Today they were rejoined by Tungsten – who had seemingly forgiven Alias for recent events – and Vigilance, a comrade mutual to all three. They ran through the maze of walls gathering grenades and stronger weapons as well as vehicles before they began their reign of terror against the Reds.
Tungsten mellowed to the sweet purr of his beloved Wraith as he showered his enemies with electric blue meteors. Alias - confident that she couldn't harm Tungsten while he was in a larger vehicle - saddled into a Revenant. Raddigan took to the upper level to weed out those who would shoot his comrades from above and Vigilance…well no one knows where he went or what he was doing. All that was known was that he was filling a silver platter with Red ass, kicked to a crispy goodness.
Silence rang loud through the communication lines as the Blues maintained a steady lead. Alias skillfully dodged explosions as she weaved through Tungsten's insanity, splattering anyone who had managed to survive his wrath. Caught up in the heat of the moment, Alias spotted a group of three Reds and charged them with her covenant vehicle. A sinister smirk curved her lips as she drew near and just as she reached them, one fell to the ground dead, but the other two ducked into armor lock with impeccable timing. There was no avoiding it. She crashed into the locks and the wall behind them, instantly exploding along with her Revenant.
Raddigan bore witness to the mess but said nothing, deciding that he, too, would have taken the opportunity to splatter three of them at once. Brushing off the incident, Raddigan peered through the scope on his DMR and took out an enemy on the lower level that was rushing an attempt to hijack Tungsten's Wraith.
Before he moved his face back from the scope, he spotted Alias flash back into existence as she respawned directly between the Wraith and the wall to its left. The upper half of her body twitched ever so slightly as the Wraith jerked forward while Tungsten proceeded to move in on the enemies. She sucked in a sharp breath that was audible through Raddigan's earpiece. "Tungsten you're gonna squish me, lemme out," she begged him with an uncharacteristic desperation.
The second the words left her mouth, the Wraith, with Tungsten still inside, shot forward as if thrown by some unseen force and exploded midflight. Through his scope, Raddigan watched Alias flee the scene, completely unscathed – except for a little lowering of her shields. The Wraith, however, lay in the distance, just as lifeless as Tungsten was among the wreckage.
We HAVE watched the video clip for this and still cannot determine what actually caused the tragedy. Raddigan claims that the Halo universe just has a problem with the two being near each other... if this keeps up, I'll have to rename the entire story... I'm thinking "How NOT To Make Friends With Tungsten".