"Okay. We're here so get out.", Allie scowled at Kei as the cargo bay door hissed open, revealing the desolate surface of a run-down looking landing pad. Allie, Kei, and Kyle stepped off of the loading ramp and onto the pad's dusty surface, the clouds sent up by their steps were thrown out into the void as the small gravitational field created by the ship very quickly lost its hold on the small particles.

The Space station connected to the pad was surprisingly small from what Kei could consisting of a wide door marked A-113 in faded black letters. Allie walked to a panel left to the door and hit a button on the seemingly lifeless panel, causing the grey door to shudder and slowly lift open.

The inside of the base wasn't much better than the outside, however Kei quickly realized that the base was a tad bit larger than his previous observations had suggested. Any and all surfaces were covered in a layer of grey dust that drifted through the air when disturbed. Kei turned his head back and forth, taking in the base's interior and its state of obvious neglect.

"So, what are we doing here?" Kei's curiosity finally made itself known as the trio walked further into the base.

Allie walked over to a pair of sliding doors and pried them open, revealing an old rusted elevator shaft. A short glance down to the bottom prompted Kei to believe that it was indeed no longer working.

"Down the shaft. Kyle, get us a belay line." The Awoken nodded and walked up to the shaft. Leaning in slightly, he slung his rifle over his shoulder and pointed it at as much of a vertical angle that he could.

Something in the rifle let out a sharp discharge followed by the sharp sound of metal on metal. Kyle stepped back from the shaft entrance and tugged at the new tether he had just secured before detaching it from his rifle and nodding to Allie.

The Awoken Captain stepped forward and clipped the line into a small pulley on her belt. She turned her back to the shaft's entrance and leaned over into the empty space. Pushing off to allow herself to be lowered to the lower floors.

A few minutes later the three of them had regrouped about three levels down. As he followed the Awoken, Kei noticed that the rooms were actually clean in comparison to the ones above.

"So is anyone going to answer my question about why we're here?" The Guardian repeated, his irritation at being ignored was becoming increasingly obvious.

"This is where we're leaving you, of 've got a business partner we're supposedly meeting here. We give him what he wants, and we get you off my ship. Win-win right?", Allie said, finally replying to his question. She glanced over her shoulder at him, "I said this was your stop didn't I?"

"Well- Yes, but I said to drop me off at the nearest inhabited pl-."

"A-113… indeed is… inhabited."

Kei jerked his head around at the sound of another voice, his eyes widened behind his visor as he recognized the broken speech of something he had never hoped he see again.

The two Awoken quickly drew their weapons, they seemed almost as surprised as Kei was. "Eric never said anything about Fallen", he heard Kyle say.

"Damn bastard must've sold us out.", Allie replied.

Several sets of blue eyes suddenly appeared in the shadows that laced the darkened corridor. "Vandals", Kei thought to himself. In one fluid movement, the Guardian swiftly reached back for his-

Kei suddenly remembered that in all his time spent floating through space. Not once had he remembered to check his guns.

The first Vandal lunged, shock swords buzzing and crackling as they passed through the air almost a centimeter from Kei's helmet. The Warlock stumbled back, teetering on his heels for a moment before regaining his balance and facing his opponent once again.

A sound behind him drew his attention and he glanced backwards to find Allie and Kei also in a similar predicament. "They're in the ventilation!" Kyle's voice sounded strained as he used his rifle to deflect a blow from another Vandal. Kei turned and summoned his light into the palm of his hand, condensing it until it became solid enough to throw.

"Kyle! Hit the deck!", the Awoken instinctively dropped to the floor as a ball of orange energy sailed through the air and struck the Vandal in the face. It flailed about, struggling to remove the solid flames from its helmet. It stumbled and screeched as the fire grew hotter and hotter before bursting, engulfing the alien in a ball of angry red plasma and killing it instantly.

Kei dropped to one knee, leaning his head to the side to avoid getting decapitated by a shock sword. Reaching over his own shoulder, he grabbed a hold of the Vandals arm. He pulled down on the limb and, in a move he had seen Trinity perform multiple times, he threw the Vandal onto the ground in front of him. It laid on the ground in a dazed state for a moment, shaking its head and regaining its strength just in time for Kei to unleash a stream of flame into its face from the palm of his hand. Turning the surrounding floor black from the heat.

Bang!

The two turned to see Allie holding a large hand cannon up to the jawline of a Fallen Vandal. The Vandal stood stock still, almost looking alive for a moment before a hole in the back of its head began to steam. Allie stepped back and shoved the large alien over with a foot, the body fell with a resounding crash as its armor-clad body dropped to the metal floor.

She nudged the body with her foot for a moment before suddenly whipping around and firing a shot out into the darkness Down the hallway. Both Kyle and Kei were surprised to hear another Fallen squeal and fall to the ground. The Awoken Captain pulled out a flashlight and shone the light down the hall, revealing another Vandal struggling away along the floor.

She walked over and crouched down, pressing the barrel of her revolver into the back of its head.

"I will ask a total of three times. Who. sent. you?"

For a minute the Vandal only growled, refusing to answer the Awoken Captain.

Bang!

The fallen screeched again as Allie put a bullet through its other leg.

"This is the second time. Who. Sent. You…"

The Fallen whimpered for a moment.

"The next one goes through your head."

"Ok! Ok! I tell!", the Fallen rasped from his spot on the ground. Allie leaned back from her place over the Fallen soldier.

"Fallen hired by no one.", the Vandal growled, "Fallen follow Awoken. Awoken imprison many Fallen Kell and Archon. Farik See Awoken pick up Guardian. Guardian kill many Fallen too. Farik says we kill two bird, one stone. Revenge for all Fallen." He dragged himself into a sitting position, "Fallen never forgive. We are Wolfpack. We will hunt you. We make deal, kill all Guardian and Awoken Scum."

He raised an arm and pointed to the trio that stood in front of him. "Death!", he roared, "Death to all! We come! We kill! You all perish at fangs of-"

Bang!

Allie walked back in the direction of the elevator shaft, hand cannon still smoking, "C'mon. Looks like our deal was off. Let's get out of here." Kyle nodded and followed his Captain.

Kei looked around at the Fallen corpses, "Wait what about me?", he called to Allie, "Do I just stay here or something?"

The Captain stopped and tilted her head upwards in thought…

"Is the station inhabited?"

Kei once again glance at the bodies, "I don't think these guys really count so-"

"Then you can come.", Kei jerked his head back to the Awoken Captain to find her facing him, "Our deal was to drop you off at an inhabited facility. My reputation as a trustworthy individual would be at stake if someone found you so there's no sense in leaving you here. On top of that you're actually not bad at handling yourself in a fight, always a good trait in our line of work as you have just witnessed.", she gestured to the dead Fallen with a nod of her head.

Kei smirked behind the surface of his helmet, "So you're hiring me? I thought you couldn't wait to get rid of me."

The Captain huffed and turned her back once again, "What? Do I look like an idiot? I said you can fight not Welcome Aboard. You can stay until we reach a place where we can dump your sorry ass without breaking out deal, and until then, you are under my command. Got that?"

Kei grinned and gave the Awoken Captain a mock salute, "Every word."


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