"I felt pity for them, The Guardians. They are immortal and had the power to back it up and still, they are bearly enough to hold them off. At least they had a trustworthy power source in the traveler, right?"

Chapter 2- The Tenno

Theal parched on some metal beams as he overlooked the scene before him. The tenno watched as the hoards of three-eyed bone beast scuttled around the collapsed metal insides of the unknown building. They were doing nothing interesting, only patrolling. He just sat in his hunches and watched them. Attempting to decipher anything about the bug people. Minutes past and he got nothing, he could make assumptions and assume they were harmless man sizes bugs. But that could get him killed as these things could shoot sun killing lasers out of their clawed hand or talk with dancing. It was better if he just avoided the beasties and find something interesting later. Afterall, it was better to be prepared that caught unaware. Still, he wished he could just jump in and do something. Sitting around and doing nothing for day after day is getting to him. He just sat there like some sort of bird and watched the thing go along their day.

After days worth of recon, Theal scuttled into the damped tunnels of the buildings. He was certain he was stalking some innocent bug men doing what bug men do. He navigated the maze of corridors and walled jumped into new floors until he entered a forgotten corner of the building that no one would find unless they looked for him. Even then, they'll need to climb several walls and be undetected by the many trip alarms in the path if they wanted to catch him. Theal was ready to do anything to protect his loot.

The Koga ash walked towards a bundle of cloth and wire that made up Theals base camp. He moved into the makeshift tent and found a damp corner with a lit lamp in the middle of it. There were also boxes and scraps of tech littered everywhere with the odd box of light here and there. Theal and his koga ash separated. The young tenno in his zariman suit walked sat in the corner and looked at the wall. There were multiple slashes marking it, this was how he kept track of time here. four slashes for four eath days. He let out a long and tried sigh as he didn't know what to do. Hell, he could even say he wasn't afraid of the situation. He took a few minutes to let it wash over him, thoughts of never seeing his friends, home, and the Lotus assaulted him. He recovered quickly and decided to get some work done before turning in. The examples of tech were carefully dismantled and placed in neat piles. He didn't how this tech worked but it seems familiar enough to understand the foundations. It was boring work but he did get that it was similar to human tech in some ways. At least he hoped. He wondered where he was, who were these things and what was that woman in the cape.

He was tried and build something out junk he gathered tomorrow, for now, he looked towards his gear. He moved towards his ash and removed the rubico from his back and placed it on the floor. He clean and maintain the sniper but it was going to mean squat if he could find a source of ammo, same went for his aksomati. The Tonbo would have to be his main weapon but he didn't want to get into melee range with bug guys yet. The four armed pirates were another story, he ended up slaughtering them the first day he was here. He was glad that that fact of life didn't change. Still, he killed the four armed things and for all he knew, they were defending themselves. He didn't really ask after he was pulled into this new world. Theal slumped and hoped that at least everything was that simple to fight, he'd hate to learn some of these things were immune to bullets or void powers. For now, he places the gear back and went to the box of loot he gathered. With a quick search, he pulled out a few cloth clothing. He had a cape that matched the colors of his warframe and thought that it would be a perfect match. When he equipped it, it made the warframe look. That should keep his Koga ash clean too and maybe it would stay on him when he teleported. With that thought, he checked his warframes energy pool and found it filling up like normal. Even if it was a mysterious force to him, he was glad that he could still connect to the void.

Theal moved to a corner with a dry spot and meditated. He didn't know how long but he needed to give his mind a rest but he didn't have anywhere to go. He retreated into his thought and tried to figure out what was happening. This whole situation was just more than he would normally handle. Fighting was so simple to understand, but finding so many unknown things was just something else. He shook away those thoughts and prepared to meditate. His mind was cleared and he levitated off the floor. For hours he remained there, keeping his mind clear and connected with the void. He hoped that it could somehow give an answers but nothing came. Just the same illogical hellscape that made him. He felt this day would pass and nothing would come of it. That was until the gunfire echoed across the walls of the building.

Theal summoned his Koga Ash and moved in a flash. Quickly navigating the hall and moving closer to the gunfire. His rubico was tight in his grip and near to his chest as he maneuvered between the steel beams. The gunfire became loader and loader, with its aftermath becoming apparent. Bunched up groups of the eyeless bone bugmen laid strewn around with bullet holes. Theal took this opportunity to quickly study the bodies. He dashed from metal beam to metal beam until he landed and crouched down next to the dead bodies. First of all, he knew they weren't unkillable and second, bullets worked just fine. Especially the lead kind thaat he pulled out of the dead bugmen. There were the larger three-eyed ones as well in the mix. Filled with more munition than the small ones, but that was a given due to the size and extra bone plating. The gunfire became more distant. Theal had no idea who was doing it but he was sure he could keep hidden from then if he wanted to. He ran into the hallway and past the larger piles of bodies. Theal did note that they had more than just bullet wounds. Some had burn marks and a few were bludgeoned to death. More useful information on both these bug things and the brutality of their enemy. To be fair the Tenno are just as, if maybe more brutal since they used bioweapons and soul tearing void powers. Neither of which are painless. He caught up quickly with the fighting. Due to the unknown party taking its time, it told him that this attacking party wasn't fully bulldozering the bugs. Again, useful.

He was stopped by a bridge that hung over a massive gulp that ended in darkness. A testament to the sheer size of the building he lived in. Theal saw them. A man in think blue armor and wielding a revolver, his counterpart was in red robes and firing the unmistakable barking of an assault rifle. They fought with bravado and hit them with unknown powers that Theal didn't recognize. Red and blue fought the bug men and the tenno saw the creature do so with both claws and bolts of energy, with the odd buzz saw blade. One past by the battle and hit the wall near the hallway. The Tenno jerked and realized he was out in the open. He clenched his fist and turned back to the two men fighting the creatures. Theal wondered who these people were, should he try and attempt to make contact. They looked like they had human forms and the weapons they used were exactly the one he uses in the origin system in the old days. there might be a chance he might not be alone.

He pondered this question more and more, while he did the fighting got quieter and quieter. He saw the men nearly finish off the rest of the bug men. It was do or die now. Theal said screw it and decided to make contact. He raised a hand and greeted them. When they saw him, red and blue stared at the tenno for a few minutes then at each other. Theal had no idea what in the void they were talking about but the tenno hoped that they were considering to say hi. Still, this felt like a mistake to him.

Theal stood there for a solid minute as the two bickered to one another to far away to understand and thought to himself. He could sneak away and if he needed to, he could just throw a smoke bomb. Allowing his to given them the slip. He slowly inched away into the hall that leads into the massive bridge and got a few feet in before gunfire stopped him. It was between his feet and it was blue who shot near him.

Then a male voice called out. "Who in the hell are you and why are sporting three eyes?" The Blue one yelled at Theal with his revolver barrel smoking.

The Tenno scrambled to find the words to explain but screeching cut them off and Theal turn around to find a hoard of the bug men charged towards the three.