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Chapter 1: Losing a Friend
"We all set to go?" Alpha announced to Tungsten and I. "Yep. Let's do it." I assure her, as I load up my fusion rifle. We load up in our fireteam-issued ship. Tungsten wasn't a very social Titan, he actually rarely talks, so he says nothing. Alpha-5 loads up her Hawkmoon and her sniper rifle. "Alright. Let's do it." Torrent managed to spot a patch of Vex and Cabal on Mars. They were at war against eachother, and we were sent in to suppress it. Once we landed on Mars after a roughly 10-minute flight to Meridian Bay, we scouted out the area. It didn't take too long to find them. It was one of the biggest firefights between them we've seen in a while. "How do you want to do this?" Alpha spoke up. I suggest, "I dunno. Create a diversion, draw their attention from the West, and I'll bomb them from the East. What about the Taken threat?" "I'll handle them. Tungsten, you got our backs?" "Hmph.." "Okay. Let's rock." Alpha starts firing at them, and I swing around a nearby canyon. Tungsten starts circling around the group, shooting the warzone with his auto rifle. I'm trying to be as quiet as I can, but I'm not the best walker in the city.
I stumble, and a Vex Minotaur snaps its head towards me. 'Aw shit. That didn't work.' I duck behind a rock, and I radio the team, "Take some cover! They're circling up!" Everybody takes some cover, and we wait for the right time. They're shooting almost nonstop. If I stepped out, I was dead meat. What's unfortunate is... you can't fool a machine, so there was no way around the Vex. On the bright side, we're machines, so we have an edge with reflexes. "Uranium! Any genius ideas to get us out of this shit?" Alpha shouts over the radio. "We wait. Just wait." After about 2 minutes, Tungsten gets an idea. He starts to pop out periodically, and fires bursts at them. We didn't need communication with him, because we've been a part of the same team for around 30 years now. Alpha and I know exactly what to do. Alpha runs back to a cliff, and she's there in no time. I pop out, jump off the canyon, and unleashed my Nova Bomb. It lands, and they all disintegrate in void light. That's when I knew I fucked up. I saw a spot in the corner of my eye. It didn't have the look of a Hobgoblin or anything. It had the look of a Guardian, but Siphon didn't tell us about anyone else out here. Bad news.
I saw a flash, and I soon found myself tumbling to the ground. "Uranium! Shit!" Alpha shouted. She started to run toward me from her sniping perch. I found my optics glitching out. That was no ordinary bullet. I couldn't move. My servos started to go haywire, and I looked up to see a faint glint. It started to fall down, and hit the ground like a rock. Alpha managed to take out the rogue, then started to run over to me. "Uranium!" Tungsten runs over, and starts shooting at the cliffs. There were more. "Fuck! We need to get out of here!" Alpha screamed. She picks me up, and starts running. "Tungsten! Let's go!" We thought we'd get out together, but we haven't seen the true side of Tungsten-10. We heard a voice we never heard before. "You two need to leave! The City's going to shit, and they need you! This is it for me!" "Tungsten... Come on!" "GO! NOW!" Alpha was stunned silent. She just started running. I saw him holding out as hard as he could. He always did. As Alpha ran with me over her shoulder, I saw a stream that looked like a bullet go right through his knee. He fell down and was riddled with bullets. I saw everything, but I couldn't react. Alpha shouted, "There's the ship!" I saw another flash in the distance, and that was the last thing I saw before I woke up in the ship.
When I rebooted, Alpha was shaking me awake. "Uranium.. Come on..." I rebooted, and saw her there. "Al-Alpha?" "Right. It's me. Look, about Tungsten..." She was silent. "I know. I saw it. Tungsten is gone." "You saw it?" "Yep." "I-I didn't know that about Tungsten." "That was the first time I ever saw him like that, and he died with his hand on his heart. He saved us." Alpha was silent, and she was thinking about him. "Now, about what hit me. What the actual hell happened?" "EMP round. Hit you in the shoulder. Critical point. You were out for about 4 hours." "Well, you have to give it to them, that was a good shot." "Come on. Let's go. We need to collect our rewards for a completed mission." She helps me up, and we go to to Siphon and Torrent in the Vanguard Hall. I don't know why, but Alpha seems to be really nervous when she's around Torrent. "Everything okay, Alpha?" Torrent asked. "Y-yeah, I'm fine." "Alright. If there's any more problems, just let me know. I'm sorry about Tungsten-10." "Thanks.. I just-" "I understand what it's like to lose a good friend. Cayde got me further than I ever imagined. Sometimes it's just too late to say goodbye. Now you two take the week off. You look rough." "Thanks." I speak up. "See you next week."
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