Arc 2: Return of the Lost

A Titan coughed into her helmet as she drifted through the empty void of space.

She wheezed into the respirator as the air grew thinner and thinner.

"Didn't get your helmet on right… Just breathe slowly… Just… Breathe… Slowly…"

Trinity's vision began to blur as she stared out at the stars.

"Just… Breathhhhee…"

Her eyesight went dark and she slipped into unconsciousness…

Her body slowly grew colder as it drifted through space...


Tink tink tink.

"Helloooooo…"

Trinity groaned at the voices that echoed around in her head…

"Hey Trin! I know you can hear me!"

Trinity's eyes opened to the bright glare of an overhead light, the white momentarily overpowering everything as her eyes adjusted. Her helmet was off, it sat only a few feet away from her on a nearby shelf.

The room was almost all grey, the metal paneling making it seem colder than it probably was.

"Welcome to the world of the living, hon.", Trinity's eyes darted over to the source of the voice.

"Zor…", she whispered.

The Exo grinned and chuckled quietly, "Miss me?"

At first Trinity was shocked; The Ketch had blown up… She watched it explode with her own eyes. She lashed out with a fist and sent the Exo flying across the room, slamming into the wall opposite from them, "Idiot!"

Xor groaned from his new place in the wall, "Jeez you could just say no…"

Trinity opened her mouth to respond only to close it again, her anger boiling over into fury as she gritted her teeth and stood up from the cot she had been on. "What were you thinking! The Ketch had to have some kind of transmitter on it! You didn't have to make us see that!"

The Exo stroked his chin, "Uh… Heh, sorry… Didn't think of that…"

Trinity stalked over to him and raised a fist threateningly, then lowering it and opting to grab the Exo's shoulder and tear him from the dent in the wall. "Don't you ever think of anyone other than yourself? How would you feel if it was me and Kei?"

As she spoke her voice began to waver, getting softer until the Titan sank to her knees began to breath heavily, fighting to hold in the emotions that she kept hidden from the world.

Xor sat and watched with sad eyes as she failed to hide the tears streaking down her lavender cheeks…

When she next looked up to meet the Hunter's eyes all trace of sadness had left her gaze, "Where's Kei…"

Xor sighed, "That… my dear friend…"

"Is our next mission…"


Kei sat, knees to his chest, on what was left of the Fallen Skiff. He had watched as Triton and the larger sphere of Neptune float farther and farther away. His respirator worked overtime to refresh and resupply the oxygen that the Human was breathing. The ship was crippled beyond repair, all that was left were iced over electronics and cold metal. Kei's head fell onto his knees as he replayed the memory over and over again…

The two Guardians stared through a monitor at the fiery remains of the Fallen Ketch, mouths gaping as they searched for the words to say.

Debris flew in every direction, threatening to tear their stolen Skiff apart.

Kei watched helplessly as everything around him seemed to flow in slowmotion.

Trinity began to reach for her helmet.

Bang! Crack! Whoosh!

All at once the ship's port side cracked and exploded, sucking all the air out into the vacuum of space.

Trinity seemed to be falling in slow motion.

Her limbs waved slowly as if she were surrounded by a thick, clear liquid and her short hair cascaded around her head. Her yellow eyes wide with shock and her mouth was opened in a silent scream.

Kei's vision blurred as he watched, reaching out a hand in an attempt to catch her.

Instead he got to watch as the last of his fireteam was torn away into the vastness of space...

Snap!

Kei cried out in his helmet as his ankle caught on a trailing wire, cracking bones and sending pain shooting up to his brain.

The world went black…

After that the Warlock continued to drift silently through space, tangled in the wreckage of a Fallen vessel.

Where he would remain in exile with his thoughts for a long, long time…

Or so he thought…


(sorry about the re-post, kinda realized the plot I decided on would quickly evolve into a dead end.)

Here it is folks!

The thing that maybe five or six people have been waiting for!

Part 2 of the story that probably made people think I'm a heartless bastard!

I will now be both editing my own previous chapters as well as writing these new ones. Also, I apologize in advance for my lateness when posting new stuffs. Mid-terms are coming up and my grades right now aren't the best so I'm going to need to focus on schoo more than I have in the past.

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