Chapter 18
Elder of Jupiter
"Haven't you heard?" Latinis said. "You could go to Jupiter now! Isn't that exciting Volxhos?"
Volxhos gone from bad to worse, his leg was completely crippled, and he seemed angry, holding a grudge on a certain somebody who decided to Harvest Him for a creation. He looked at Latinis like his home planet was just destroyed by grineer. He sighed, releasing his anger in a very still way, and Latinis sighed in relief. They were still in love with each other, but they were different. Much more than a guardian and tenno. Latinis was a nemesis who was a servant of Usir, who accidentally got here by using it at the power core. Volxhos on the other hand, well lets just say he had a hard time getting off the planet. He might of been raised by the natives of Jupiter, known as the Sevawings, and they were ferocious at hand. He could even feel one of his burns from when a Sevawing mistaken him for a outsider.
"Well?" Latinis continued to try and get a response out of him. All she would get out of him was "It is pointless." or; "We are part of an experiment on earth, and we cannot escape it. They already got us locked down, and tightly might I add". She laid her hand with a dark knife in hand, onto his shoulder. He was reminded then how they got here. They were crash landing after a grineer cargo ship shot them down, as the Liset's engines were failing. They flew nearly 34 hours, and crash landed onto earth. The humans then discovered them, and then sedated them before they could do any harm. "Jupiter is a skip and hop away. If we hurry out of here, we can make it onto the cavern where Ordis said he would be once the coordinate was visible." Latinis thought to herself.
She then swung her sword at the glass, and begun cutting their chains loose. Volxhos immediately approved of the plan, and his Atlas moved with him as one. For a second Latinis thought that a guard sliced his head off, but then she noticed that if they did, he would not be running with her. They reached the hall, finding a bunch of cameras looking directly at them. In that moment, the alarms came on, and turrets sprung out of the ceilings and walls.
"Do not worry! I got you!" Volxhos said while springing up a wall of boulders, and throwing pieces of it at the turrets. The humans came right after the turrets were shattered and broken on the floor. They shouted; "Freeze!" but they refused to give up now. Latinis then forced a sphere of darkness to come at them, and they were engulfed in a dark horror that ended with their bodies lying like they were dead.
"I think I saw this before... The defenses, the environment, everything.. It just looks like some nightmare I just had." Latinis thought to herself again. He heard quick and fast mechanisms, making the hatches close very fast. Before they could even reach the next section of the hall, they have been trapped. Gas slowly seeps into the space, and Volxhos was not ready to let her go just yet. He then started breaking the blast doors with rocks that looked like they were hard as diamonds. They broke after 3 swings. The blast doors seemed to not stand one chance against the Atlas now. Latinis held her breath and followed Volxhos when they have broken one after another blast door. They finally reached the end of the hallway, where they could see the Liset being raided for parts. They could see their weapons hanging on the rack over to their left, so they picked up their respective weapons, with the Atlas picking up his Opticor and cluster rocket launcher. Latinis could feel the energy coming back to her rapidly, as she picked up her sword, as it looked so long and adept at killing things with one stab.
They ran towards the ship and signaled them to get away, and so they did out of pure fear. Nobody could blame them for that, the sound of being stabbed and then blown to pieces sounded like a dreadful thing. The hatch shut while they got themselves comfortable.
"Operator, do we go to Jupiter now like you commanded?" Ordis asked.
"Yes, and be quick about it. We might get blown to pieces if we don't now." Volxhos answered.
The engines then rapidly came back on and before they knew it, they were already shooting beyond the clouds at very high speeds. He went back into the arsenal, and then changed his Warframe from Atlas to a Rhino prime, handling a gold shotgun, accompanied with two skeletal tonfas that were decorated in a certain way. He then went back up to the place where Latinis was kneeling down to the navigation segment. He then walked over and did the same. The Lotus then interrupted while they were looking at each other.
"The Infested are taking over Saturn again tenno. Nobody deserves to join or be with infested. Not even our enemies. Help if you can." Lotus said on a transmission.
The craft sped to Jupiter, not looking back to earth. The ship felt like it was just about to be consumed with infested spores because the room on the right of them is closed, and it seems it has infested qualities back there. He could not name it, but what he did not have was another tenno to help, someone who uses the 5 schools, since he did not defeat the shadow stalker yet. Latinis felt like it was going to get ugly when they got there, so she put her potions and throw-able items on her belt. Volxhos laughed as he saw a bomb hanging from her belt. "Are you really going to use explosives!? We do not need them!" Volxhos said while laughing uncontrollably. Latinis answered to say what she knew about. "If anything comes our way, we need to suppress and knock over. Even if they are your mentors, I doubt that I am going to be cut slack.
"Oh look. We are actually here for once. Well, prepare yourself. I am already ready." Volxhos inquired.
Out the front window, she could see that the surface was storming, meaning they could get struck down when they get into the atmosphere. She saw some strange tiny squares on the surface, with clouds making it almost impossible to see. Volxhos found out that once he did accidentally drink one of Latinis's Potions that his leg actually healed enough so he could use it once again. He held the boltaces on each side of his hands, and prepared for a warm welcome and battles along the way.
They entered the atmosphere where the clouds were almost so foggy, that even a high definition telescope couldn't even see through it. They felt the ship continuously shaking and then getting faster and faster, but then Ordis made the Liset swoop up, and now they could relax. Where they have entered was where corpus stations were supported by skinny looking pillars that surprisingly held the station up. Latinis could feel the gravity pulling her down easily. Cannons on each side began to track them down, and then shoot at them, hoping that at least one bullet hit their engines. Alad V on his platform saw the ship speed by and then threatened them.
"Thank you for donating to our project, staff will be coming to you shortly." Alad V said on the transmission.
The liset kept on going and sped up and lowered the altitude so that the turrets might not see them. They cleared the corpus stations and saw a hole in the fog. Volxhos already knew that it was the entrance to the sacred palace, where he was raised. Ordis made the Liset dive down into the hole in the fog, and then was met with a sight of two Sevawings guarding the door. The exit for the liset then turned around when they got in, he looked and saw two Sevawings guarding the door unarmed seeming unarmed. One was kind of yellow, and with a head that was long and straight, the wings being the same color and the claws being extremely sharp and long. The other one was blue, but still had sharp claws and excellent claws to impale their prey easily. Volxhos then thought getting in there was going to be easy, and he put away his weapons as Latinis did the same as he did. They then began walking near then Latinis followed, but they were greeted with them charging and pinning them down with their claws. The quick take down was not expected of these creatures. Akaz couldn't pin him down that quick without using anything but his natural abilities.
"Filthy Outsiders.. We know what to do. Throw them into imprisonment and never let them out. Make them starve and die of thirst." One of the Sevawings said.
The one who pinned down Volxhos then overloaded his warframe with a intense stream of electricity, which his Warframe could not handle. He knew to save power to his warframe, so if he was captured, he could do his iron skin, and then stomp his way out with no trouble. Latinis was also pinned down, but instead of knocking her out with electricity, she was stunned and knocked out by how hard the Sevawing's tail was. They both took their captives away into the cave. The door opened slowly, and as soon it was high enough, they threw them in and let the door shut, so they could quickly start guarding again. The door then quickly closed which is strange. Other Sevawings dragged them down through a complicated tunnel through the cave, with crystals shining light blue and the only source of light was from it.
"Crap.. They have gotten a lot stronger like I have, but at a very fast rate... Probably even the babies could beat me if I did not use my guns." Volxhos thought to himself. "So much for a warm welcome."
When they both woke up, all they saw was the blue crystals, and the feeling that they were being dragged in. Then a excellent opportunity came, when Simaris wanted to study them. So the synthesis target was the one dragging both of them. The bad thing was, that if they did try to wriggle one of their hands free, the one dragging them would then tighten his grip and make his hands become a very clingy one. Volxhos then charged without having to get legs on the ground, and rammed him to a wall. This then made him angry, and his scales shot up, then attracting electricity to him. The synthesis target was then lifted up by the trap, and Volxhos started scanning him with the synthesis scanner, and scanned each of his limbs, including his head to make it transfer to Cephalon Simaris.
-Excellent job hunter.-
They felt safe once again, knowing that they would now be able to walk freely, but another Sevawing then quickly knocked both of them out with its tail. It then dragged them quickly across the rocky surface, and then entered the sacred place, where a ton of them were walking around doing their business. The Sevawing that was dragging them then walked towards where they would trap their victims, and threw them in there. It entered into the cell and then chained their wrists with the hot coals and the cuffs. He then exited out of the cell and went on with his life.
"Enjoy dying. Its the last days you will ever have." The Sevawing notified and laughed heartily.
They woke up 5 minutes later, noticing that they were trapped, and then hung from chains that was almost unbreakable.
"I am sorry if I did bring this on us.. I really did think they would let us in." Volxhos apologized.
"It is okay. We know how to deal with situations like this." Latinis reminded him.
"This isn't your average everyday prison, this might be lightly guarded, but the Sevawings do not take us outsiders kindly." Volxhos said. "They will kill you on sight. We are lucky that we are alive right now."
"If we can get the elder to spare us, then maybe we will be let off easy, and probably become free once again. This is my home after all. He should know me by my scent. It has always been the same." Volxhos explained.
"These are highly intelligent and aware creatures aren't they." Latinis sarcastically asked.
"They are. If you want to be with them at their home, they need to know you. There are some of them that know me, and some of them that like to talk a lot too." Volxhos said.
(Finally done with chapter 18. Anyways, lets get right into the descriptions. The Arsenal that he had before was Atlas, and a Opticor. He switched into a Rhino prime with a Tigris prime and a telos boltace, which was the tonfas that look like it was crafted by an actual skeleton of a live animal.)
(Chapter 19 is now when the ketch also arrives at the same place. The description of the story will take effect at chapter 20. Stay tuned for more!)
