Chapter 6- The Dragons Den
Vair was at the outside of the pre-collapsed factory with her Sniper raised and aimed at the entrance, her body prone on the dirt. Outside there were Fallen patrolling the outside, where her friends and teammates had called her. They reporting sighting the thing from her dream here and that they went ahead to investigate. That was nine hours ago and now she was here attempting to create a connection. She got nothing, making her wonder if she should just throw caution to the wind and come in gun blazing. Still, there were other Guardians on the way to lead her a hand. Vair decided to give it another hour and if neither her friends or back up get there she would go in. She hated waiting, her willpower slowly decaying as timed past. If they didn't arrive soon, she might just rethink her plans.
When twenty minutes past there was movement in her scope. It was the fallen and their leaders seem agitated about something. There were gathering their fellows and started forming a line, their daggers and rifles raise up high and moments of silence followed. Then there was a flash of lighting and they all fired, unleashing volley after volley, showing no signs of relenting. They seemed desperate to take their target down and when her hud made a ping, she knew who it was. With her first target marked and weapon prime, she unloaded a round at four hundred meters and saw her first target fall. They didn't notice her, the chaos must have kept her presents hidden well. She fired again and another fell, she repeated this until her sniper clicked.
In one fluid motion that took less than a moment, her rifle was reloaded and another barrage of sniper fire was unleashed. Many more fell and finally, they noticed her. They split their attention, firing at the hidden person and now laying suppressive fire at her general direction. Its effect was poor and more fallen warriors of every rank fell, slumped on the floor, with more of their kid following.
When Vair ran out of ammo, she switched to her sidearm, a new pulse rifle she forged herself. Black and white with an ace of spades painted on the left side of the barrel. Burst fire barked out of the weapon, fired into the enemy she charged. Accurate shots made their mark, adding to Vairs raising kill count. A four-armed fallen captain flashed appeared in front of her, already injured and swords raised, aimed for a killing blow. Vair made a snapshot at the center of the captain and no resistance was met. Its shock shields long since depleted from a previous fight and the three round burst tore through its chest. Leaving it a bloody pulp and forcing the thing to stutter in its movement. Vair didn't have time to react as its head exploded and from behind it another guardian appeared.
He wore a battered blue set of heavy armor, his helmet removed and clapped on his waist showing his Exo face and a smoking hand cannon on his hand. "Vair! Vulpis, he's gone!" The guardian yelled frighten for his friend.
The female guardian eyes widen. "Chul what the hell happened!"
[Location unknown-Oil rig in the middle of the Ocean]
Theal rushed through the decaying metal structure at blinding speed. He was rushing for the extraction, seeing no need to get into a firefight with these things. He did pass one of the fallen he now recognized as and they clumsily swung their blades to him blurring past. They all missed as the Tenno effortlessly dodged them and spun with his Tonbo to part their top and bottom halves. He smashed through weak windows and made thirty meter jumps as he rushed for his marker. The obstacle course of an oil rig seemed impossibly long for Theal as he reaches closer and closer for safety. As he slides and jumped through a hall, its side line up with broken windows, exposing it a view of the ocean beyond. It sparkeled as the sun past over it and for a moment it caught Theal's attention as he dashed past.
Then came the drone rising from the bottom of his view and forcing the Tenno to raise the new pistol he looted. The machines unleashed electric projectiles, some missing, others blocked by Theals Tonbo and a stray round impacting his shields. They lowered but not enough for him to worry about it. He fired the looted hybrid pistol and fired at the nearest drone and saw half a clip was able to down it. He was three fourths way down the hallway and enemy drones were still harassing him. He slides under the next burst of electric projectiles coming his way raise one more, throwing a pair of shurikens. Each honing on a target and each claiming a kill. He used the last of his ammo to claim the last drone.
Fifty more meters until he reached the extraction zone. He entered a large room this time, filled with the fallen and all of them alerted to his presence. The Tenno just holstered his empty pistol and readied his Tonbo. The hooked polearm glistens in the light and tensed in the hands of the Tenno. The Fallen big and small had their crosshairs pointed at Theal. The Tenno only had the bare essentials of these alien and only knew two things about them. They were aliens and they are hostiles. The first wave of electric projectiles flew across the room and was in a direct cruise towards the Tenno.
They only met the rusted floor where Theal stood, he vanished and reappeared behind a captain. He thrust his tonbo's edge towards the neck of the large beast it teleported away in the last second. The Tenno landed on the floor and his shields were assaulted by the Fallen's guns and his meter fell like a rock. The Captain aimed a quad barrel flaming gun at the warframe and fired at his shieldless form. Theal deflected them but one got through and his steel weaved flesh burned in pain. Theal felt the pain feedback into him and he grunted but didn't flinch. He forged on and threw down a smoke bomb.
The room fell silent as the gunfire ceased and the Fallen aimed their shock rifle and shrapnel rifles. Scanning the room but found no targets. Then the first Vandel fell and Dregs who were grouped up fell in half. Their Drones attempted to scan the area for the invisible enemy but found nothing. They fell next as some invisible force tore them apart and they all fell in a heap of sparks and scrap. The aliens were butchered, hunted one by one and they were unable to predict where the thing will strike next. The Fallen captain ordered to fire at will and the air was filled with electric projectiles. Firing at anything the moved. They hit nothing as Theal was already gone.
He just dashes out as he didn't care for a fight. He was in the other room and found it empty but a hole in the center of it. His hud told him to jump into it, he didn't question it. Without slowing down Theal bullet jumped the rest of the distance and starting falling when he was above the hole. He fell and the ocean was coming closer. He never reached the watery deep as he landed on an invisible platform. The Tenno lander decloaked and it hung in the air upside down. Its slide door was in the side the Tenno landed on. He got in and the lander and it flew into the sky back to the Orbitor.