Trinity leapt from her place on the opposite side of the hall, sliding in front of Kei and throwing up a purple dome of energy just in time to stop the swirling bolts of blue plasma from frying the Warlock where he was.

Xor dropped down from the ceiling, Traveler knows how he got up there. Causing the Vandals to let out twin shrieks as six inch hunting knives pierced the fabric that surrounded their necks from above and sent them crashing to the ground with the Hunter on top of them. He twisted around and lashed out with an arm, sending one of his knives flying, blade first, into the control panel on the door frame. The surging tide of fallen was suddenly cut off as the thick metal door slammed shut with a loud bang.

"Okay!", Xor said, letting out an exasperated sigh, "Time for plan B." He lifted his gaze to the ceiling, causing Kei to notice the rather large air vent that spanned the length of the metal surface above. The Hunter raised his hand cannon and blasted the bolts off of one side, resulting in a new escape route for the three guardians. "Everybody up!", Xor stated, glancing over his shoulder to see the locked door behind him began to glow and boil as the Fallen began to melt their way through. Kei jumped first, using his powers to boost him up a few extra feet before coming to an almost silent landing in the ventilation shaft. Trinity followed shortly after, pushing down powerfully and sending her flying through the opening. Xor had just enough time to pull out a grenade and lob it at the door frame before throwing himself up into the hole in the ceiling, pulling up the vent behind him. "Warlock", he rasped softly. "Com'ere and use your sun-thingymawhatsit to weld this panel back on."

Kei shook his head before scrambling over and igniting his hand, quickly fusing the metal plates together so that they looked almost as good as new, albeit glowing red. After that they simply turned and began crawling in the direction they were going previously. Meaning, as Kei wanted to point out, that they were directly over a room full of more Fallen than he could count. Trinity and Kei released their Ghosts to light the way as they made their way through the dark vents, keeping as quiet as possible as not to give away their presence to any of the Fallen that may be wandering the halls below.

Xor led the three of them through a maze of vents, he took so many turns that Kei was unsure whether he knew where he was going or not. Even so Xor didn't hesitate in the slightest when confronted with an adjoining vent.

Left. Right. Left. Left…

"Are you sure you know where we're going?", Trinity spoke up in a hushed tone, apparently she had the same concerns as Kei at this point. The Exo just sighed and took another left without answering. "Xor… I understand that you were indeed on this ship before any of us. But you could not possibly have made it this far." The Titan's irritation only increased as she was once again ignored by the Hunter in front of her. She suddenly reached forward and grabbed Xor's ankle, forcing him to roll over so she could face him. "Xor you should know not to ignore your teammates!"

Xor sighed in his helmet before finally responding, "Guys relax… I know where I'm going…"

Trinity was probably scowling in her helmet, not enjoying the fact that the Hunter was strangely lacking on specifics. "Well then… If you find yourself familiar with our current position, how far are we from our destination…" She leaned back out of a crawling position and sat down in the vent, Xor rotated himself to a similar position, the air crackled with tension as the two stared at each other through their respective helmets.

"I'll tell you when we get close… It'll be fine…", the Hunter said, straining to keep the annoyance out of his voice. Trinity huffed loudly before dismissing him with a wave of her hand. The Exo nodded and turned to continue on his way.


Xor stopped and held up a fist, making an 'L' with his left arm and signaling them to stop. "Turn off your lights", he whispered. The two guardians hesitantly obeyed, nodding to their Ghosts to shut off their spotlights. Now the only light was a dim orange glow from what must have been another vent coming from around the next corner.

By the time Kei reached the metal opening, Xor had already pulled out a knife and was cutting away at the bolts that held the metal vent in place. Trinity pulled out her shotgun and began loading it with rounds. Kei himself pulled out his pulse rifle and reloaded it with a fresh magazine, pulling back on the charging handle before letting it slide smoothly back into place.

The final bolt fell to the floor outside the vent with a soft plink and Xor had to hold the vent in place to keep it from falling along with it. He carefully rotated it and pulled it back into the metal shaft, setting it down as quietly as possible. "Here we go…", he said before leaping out through the rectangular hole where the vent had been.

The Hunter landed with a graceful roll, barely making a sound as he came in contact with the metal panelling of the floor. Kei jumped and slowly lowered himself to the floor with a burst of energy. Trinity followed soon afterwards, her heavy armor proving difficult as she tried to land as quietly as possible, still creating a dull thud as she hit the floor. It wasn't too loud, but loud enough.

The engine room was sparsely populated with Dregs, the only main difference between these and those found in the warzones on the other planets, was that these ones had not pulled out their weapons yet. That soon changed as they all turned to the sound of Trinity's landing.

They turned and growled, baring their razor sharp teeth at the Guardians as the slipped knives out of their belts. The knives began to crackle with electricity as the Dregs got more and more agitated. They began to form a ring around the intruders, creating a wall of snarling teeth and sparking knives several bodies thick.

Kei raised his rifle, preparing to fire, he felt Trinity and Xor do the same. "Welp", the Exo of the three spoke up, "We were bound to do some fighting sometime in this mission…" The dark blue and yellow plates on his face shifted until they formed an almost maniacal grin. He quickly pulled out his hand cannon, twirling it a few times around his trigger finger before catching it and leveling it at the enemy, "Finally…"

The silent standoff lasted only a few moments before Xor blew off one of their heads, then all hell broke loose… The Dregs rushed forward in a tide of savage ferocity, swing their crackling knives in wild abandon. The first one to reach Kei was blown backwards in a roaring wave of fire from the palm of his hand. He then plucked a grenade off of his belt and rolled it along the ground. The explosion sent several Dregs flying, killed instantly by the intense heat of the solar grenade. Meanwhile, Trinity was blasting away at her own section of the Dreg army with her shotgun, Invective. Five rounds exploded into the faces of five enemies, she then dropped the shotgun and rushed at the remaining Dregs, pulling several of her own grenades from her belt as she ran. As the aliens attacked she gracefully dodged their knife slashes and planted a grenades on them before shoving them away. She was soon surrounded by a circle of very confused Dregs, just before they all exploded around her. The purple bursts of plasma showered her with dust and bits of shattered alien armor. Not too far away Xor was laughing like an insane asylum patient, wielding his large revolver and firing seemingly random shots into a third crowd of Dreg workers. He seemed to fly as he fought, taking huge leaps over the crowd and utterly confusing his enemies. Then he disappeared completely, leaving a tightly packed crowd of confused Dregs. A moment later the group of Fallen exploded as Xor detonated the charge he had dropped into the center of the group. He turned and grinned at his fellow Guardians as the bodies fell to the floor, "Are we done here?"

He was answered by Kei, the Warlock was busy kicking some of the Dreg corpses to confirm their deaths. "We still have to set the charges you adrenaline junkie." he smirked at the Hunter as his Ghost materialized several flat, disk-like objects and dropped them into his hand. "Zavala said five charges to an engine right?", Trinity nodded before planting some of her charges to the closest tall cylindrical engine she could find.

Xor busied himself with the large circular door on the wall behind them, hacking the terminal and locking it down tightly in its frame. Kei walked to the largest engine he could find and began sticking charges to all the important-looking parts: Large pipes, control panels, fuel tanks. All received a charge of their very own.


Finally, after a few minutes, Kei set down the last of his charges. He looked across the large room at the many tall engines, all of them each with their own scattering with explosives. Xor set of a transmitter on one side of the room, rigging it to the nearest charges to create a remote detonator for the three of guardians to trigger when they were at a safe distance. He stood and walked over to Trinity, removing a simple rectangular box from the backside of his belt. It was plain and grey except for a comically large red button with a glass covering. "Here ya go, that's the detonator that'll trigger the explosives. I don't recommend pushing the button while we're on the ship though. Things tend to get a little… Explode-y when that happens." He patted her on the shoulder as he passed, making his way back to the area below the vent and pulling out his MIDA Multi-tool and snapping a small cable mechanism to it.

For a minute Trinity stared silently at him through her helmet, she glanced back at the remote before putting it in a pouch on rear of her belt. She walked over to him and stood with her arms crossed as she waited for Xor to fire the cable into the air vent. The small harpoon shot from the attachment on the scout rifle with a sharp pop and lodged itself somewhere in the vent. The Exo gave it a few experimental tugs and pulled out a hunting knife, slicing through the cable and returning his weapon to the sling on his back. He took the cable in his hands and pulled himself up. He was followed by Trinity, Kei climbed up last. The cable was pulled into the vent and the slotted panel was welded back on.