Vrack peered from his vantage point down to her usual arrival spot. She should arrive soon. On the outskirts of the Cosmodrome she usually arrived, appearing from thin air as Light wielders usually did. She had made the mistake of falling into a habit, arriving when the planets star just peaked over the horizon and the light of it created long shadows, perfect for hiding in for his kind. He had set up a perfect ambush for her, while several Vandals posted up around the upper buildings shot her shield down and kept her occupied after surprising her, several others, mostly Dreg's, would advance and try to grab her and subdue her. His hope was that she'd use up her power immediately on them for him to finish her off.

What made him antsy though was she should be here by now. The star was rising higher and she was still nowhere to be seen. True, she wasn't late by much, but she was still late.

Pacing around his spot, careful to not leave his hiding spot he wordlessly growled in annoyance. Years had trained him to be an excellent hunter and effective killer but despite it all he hated waiting. Hated having to sit still and wait on his prey to arrive or let their guard down. Instead he looked over the spot, spying his Vandals at their posts, equally impatient. This was a high risk mission, the anticipation and waiting was almost as deadly as the killer they were about to engaged.

Suddenly a soft electronic wooshing sound caught his attention and he swiftly got back into position. Freezing he listened carefully, not wanting to peer out in case he was spotted. It was soft but he could here the crunch of footsteps and their odd language. She was speaking to somebody, perhaps the small servitor like creature that would appear near her sometimes? He sniffed the air for others but he could only smell one of them. Despite that however another voice joined her's, deeper sounding. Confused he dared a peak and cursed inwardly, annoyance growing further. Sure enough there were three of them now. Why were there three?!

Judging by their armor the new arrivals were not the same as her. One bore heavy white armor and was considerably larger then the others, the other was shrouded in a cloak and their armor was black and red. She was still there yes, but the new arrivals made this far more troublesome, he hadn't come prepared for this.

Across from him, hidden from the arrivals view, up on the next level one of the Vandals signaled for his attention. Wanting to know their orders. Should they shoot? Vrack's paused and though through on his options. Shacking his head he back away from the group who was now heading out into the Cosmodrome to do who knows what. Once far enough back he opened his coms channel to the others "Pull back. New plan. Regroup at Commons Cave Access." he ordered, watching his prey walk off with her teammates. He had another idea but this one was higher risk, less so for him and his Vandals, but far more risky for her.

Nix regained her balance as she landed on the ground hard. She always felt jarred when teleporting down from her ship. Maybe it was the sudden change from the sea legs feeling she got on her ship to solid ground, or maybe it was sensation of feeling like the ground disappeared under her. Could be a mixture but regardless she could never quiet get used to it.

Haste-4 and Killbot appeared next to her, seemingly unbothered by it all as they surveyed the area. The Cosmodrome was eerily quiet, not an unusual thing though for this area. She liked it so much for that reason alone, House of Devils didn't come out this far giving her a secure spawn point. Sure it was a bit of a walk out to where the real activity was but she didn't mind. A little morning walk before warfare was a nice wake-me up. Drawing her Nirwen's Mercy she looked around breifly.

"Wouldn't worry to much about activity. Fallen never come this far out, hence why I like this spot so much," she commented walking up next to Haste-4, putting a hand on his shoulder to relax him.

He didn't reply right away, still scanning before looking back at the building they were surrounded by "I don't much like it. Secluded, could be a dangerous place to appear." He commented looking at the long shadows "Anything could hide in there. I think you should find a new spot to spawn."

She looked back into the shadows and felt a little embarrassed, she hadn't thought of that. With the lack of activity she had figured it be perfect but now that she reeeally looked around she could see the tactical dangers of such a spot. "I see your point...still I don't think they even know about this spot. To far out."

"Its very possible some do. You should hope none know you arrive here, while House of Devil's doesn't come this far out they aren't the only danger on this planet." he warned as they started out into the Cosmodrome, holstering his revolver.

"You think Hive come out here?" she offered, keeping pace with him as she looked back at the building nervously.

"House of Kings." Killbot spoke up and she snapped her head towards him. He never spoke, or rather rarely, so it greatly startled her.

"Never heard of them. Another Fallen house?" she asked, quizzled. If another Fallen house was on earth why had nobody bothered to inform her, further more what did they look like? Had she come in contact with them before and just not known?

[House of Kings is a bit weird for Fallen Houses.] her ghost offered [By now you've likely noticed how aggressive Fallen Houses are, be it House Winter, House Devil's or even House Exile on the moon. House of Kings is dangerous too but they prefer surveillance and espionage to more traditional aggressive means.]

Nix thought on this for a moment "I see. By that doesn't answer why I've not heard of them. I'd imagine the Tower would be more aggressive in finding them out. Something like that is far more dangerous then Devil's Id think. With Devil's they're loud but easy to follow. Sounds like Kings could be a bigger threat." she commented then chuckled as a thought crossed her mind "Kind of lie a toddler. If they're quiet that means they're up to something." she chuckled but didn't get the laughs she was after and instead was met with an awkward silence for a few moments.

"I can't say I know the feeling, and I don't see it that way at all I will agree with you they are a greater threat," Haste-4 finally replied, in an unimpressed tone.

"It was a joke Haste," she sighed, the humorous mood she had developed leaving with her breath.

"Your jokes and humor are terrible," he shot back, while shooting down a stray Shank that was flying awkwardly.

Nix snorted at his comment "My humor is awesome. Your humor is just very...dry. Still funny but dry." she shot back.

He paused in his pace and turned to look at her "Your humor is made up of bad puns and awful analogies. Your humor if awful and bad." he retorted, sounding amused at their banter.

"Puns are fucking awesome dude. I don't know what your talking about. Speaking of which wanna hear my newest one?" she offered.

"No." He said flatly and started moving again, there was a group of Shanks and Dreg's in the distance and the group, following Haste-4, made way for them. The Dreg's, spotting them began shuffling away but not without one of them dropping dead from Killbot's shot.

"Okay here's a joke." she began earning a groan from both men, "What is the difference between a nicely dressed man on a tricycle and a poorly dressed man on a bicycle? A tire." She said, earned more painful groans from the two while she snickered to herself at her own joke.

The morning went much like this for the group. They traversed the Cosmodrome Hunting Fallen groups and picking off the survivors of skirmishes with the Hive. It went mostly undisturbed this way. Haste-4 was his usual veteran mentor self, pointing out errors Nix made and telling her how to correct them, earning irritation from nix after a while which as usual she qwelled reminding herself that he was indeed helping her improve. Killbot was quiet the rest of the run, possibly lost in thought or just apathetic to everything around him, Nix didn't know.

At least that was until they approached the end of their patrol time when he spoke up once again.

At first he hadn't given much away to what he was thinking until Nix noticed he was staring off into the distance. She didn't say anything just watched him then leaned over to see what he was looking at. She didn't see anything at first until a flicker of movement caught her eye. Killbot raised his sniper and peered at whatever it was through the scope. Apparently Haste-4 had noticed his behavior too since he spoke up from behind Nix. "What is it?"

He didn't reply right away but dropped his rifle and looked over at Haste-4 "We've been being followed." he stated. Nix perked up at this and tried seeing through her pulse rifle scope but they were too far off for a good look. Haste-4 nodded and waited for him to elaborate. "Four of them, one Vandal and 3 Dreg's. House of King's banner. I noticed them a while ago, been following us for a long while now." he stated, then resuming his watch on them from his scope.

"If you saw them earlier then why didn't you tell us?" Nix asked a bit annoyed. They were supposed to be an elusive house right? They could've been waiting to assassinate them and all but him would've known!

He didn't reply further irritating her, however Haste-4 stepped in. "Alright, while normally we wouldn't get involved without the Towers approval their clearly targeting us for some reason. Likely recon so we're going to follow them and see where they lead us. Likely not far but we need to intercept them, whatever information they were gathering or if they planned to attack we need to know." he stated, his tone reminding Nix of Zavala and made her inwardly wonder if the two were once related.

Her and Killbot nodded and began to move out. Killbot took lead, watching from a distance and guiding the group to follow. Nix managed to get a good look at the Fallen who really didn't look any different then the others save the golden banner on their backs. Briefly she wondered is she HAD seen them around but never noticed. She had never bothered to look before at the banner her enemies wore. It was a miscellaneous detail to her before, hardly worth looking since she thought their was only one House on Earth.

The group seemed to wander to the edges of the Cosmodrome and under a pile of decaying wall from a concrete building. She had never seen this place before, in fact it was surprisingly well hidden. She was about to voice her confusion until a holograph appeared and hid the spot from view once again.

"Ghost, send a message to the Tower we've found a what appears to be a House of Kings hidden location," Haste-4 spoke to his Ghost "Inform them of our current location, that its entrance is hidden by Holograph and that we are going to investigate further."

The small creature didn't verbally respond at first but did as asked [Message sent. Zavala will likely request you remain here.] It warned.

"We will be fine. I want to map the immediate entrance out." he replied then looked to his Hunter companion "Scout the entrance ahead, see if there is anything in the immediate entrance."

Killbot headed out without another word. Making his way to the entrance and slipping in silently. Nix however suddenly felt a wave of dread wash over her. Something about all this seemed very wrong. Even too easy to her. She would voice her concern but she was certain Haste-4 must feel it too, didn't he? She shook her head and tried to shake the feeling she should leave. Her Ghost noticed this but didn't ask, instead watching her. Personally she thought it must just be nerves, rookies nervousness. At least she hoped that was it. Normally she'd trust her gut instinct but instead she chose to trust in her team. That's what she was supposed to do right?

After a while Killbot returned and signaled for them to follow him in. Haste-4 followed effortlessly but Nix was hesitant, regardless though she still entered. On the other side was a hole that seemed to drop a good 10ft down. Inside Nix could see tracks and old pipes. It was an old empty train shaft, abandoned by humanity since the collapse. The team dropped down for a better look and Nix immediately hated how dark it was down there. She could barely see 4 feet in front of her already and the darkness made her antsy. What she could see didn't help her feeling of creeps.

The ground had mushrooms and fungus growing in the dark moist environment, she could here but not see the trickle and flow of water nearby, the metal was rusting and she idly hoped there was no live wires the water to electrocute them when they couldn't see them.

Killbot lead the way after a quick scan in the area for immediate environmental hazards. Nix thought to protest going further but couldn't find her voice for once to protest. She lingered for a moment while the others began forward but soon followed. If things DID get hairy they'd need her to protect them. Ikora told her when she first awoke that Warlocks were conduits of knowledge and power. Titans were stalwart guardians for the Light and the City, Hunters were the Lights eyes and Scouts, and Warlocks were the keepers of knowledge and great unyielding power to blast away the Darkness. The Light did not need cowards, so despite her growing concerns and her gut telling her to stay away she pressed forward. For her teams sake.