Once the second part was completed, we returned to the plains. Nakak was chatting once again - apparently, she wanted to see how this ended. That made two of us.

Carefully, we advanced toward the lake, looking for anything out of the ordinary - namely, a glowing blotch of sentient energy with a hand sticking out of it. We'd already seen those twice before, so we'd probably get to see it again.

Indeed, that was what we saw. Once again, we approached it.

I doubted anything good would happen if we interacted with it, but I had no idea what else to do.

Thus, I did nothing as Etran, in Umbra, attempted to grab the hand.

Suddenly, the hand vanished. A moment later, my sensors went haywire as something emerged. It took me a moment to realize this was the warframe that guarded the Sentient. Yet this one seemed...wrong. It glowed with Eidolon energy, almost as if it was burning. Nakak had gone off on something again, though this time I could see some relevance in her statement to the current situation. Apparently, this was not the jailer of Eidolon - not anymore. Now it was but a puppet - a mask - for the alien machine. It had tried to use its Jailer to escape, but he had allowed himself to fall into its world. Now, the monster was trying to use us to pull itself free from its prison. If we wanted to stop it, we had to banish this...specter...back to where it came from.

Well, time to get to work.

"Warning, Commander: Enemy signatures are converging on your location. Signatures match up with those of the Grineer."

What? "Anything else available, Fide?"

"..they have Eidolon lures with them. Does that help?"

So they thought this was an Eidolon and wanted to capture it? Okay, I could deal with that. "What else?"

"Scanning...scanning...what the...that can't be right..."

"What, Fide?"

"...Well...um..."

"Fide."

That made her sigh. "...I'm picking up Progenitor technology signatures form those lures."

WHAT!

"Not sure what they mean, but whatever you are doing down there, HURRY THE HELL UP!"

No need to say that twice.

Unfortunately, the first Grineer forces arrived soon after Fide called in. They didn't really do much, though, before the warframe shot energy attack them, somehow bringing the clones under its control. Desperately, the few unturned Grineer tried to repel their comrades, only to be swiftly cut down. Moments later, Etran and my avatar disposed of the thralls.

The fight against the specter was vicious. Whenever its shields went offline, a burst of energy would repel us, giving it some time to recover. My engineers, meanwhile, worked to capture all of the lures before the Grineer could use them. One slipped through the net, and its presence seemed to aggravate the warframe, which swiftly destroyed the machine. On the outside, they looked no different from the normal Eidolon Lures, yet when one of them became tethered to the specter, it became unable to break the link.

Eventually, though, the suit weakened, and we avoided the repulsive explosion, allowing us to finally begin tearing into its flesh. Soon, the mask was on its last legs.

Collapsing onto its knees, the puppet turned to look at me one more time as I lined up my rifle with its head. Desperately, it tried to grab at me, and its hand brushed against my foot.

Before I could react, my vision suddenly went dark. When it refocused, I found myself staring at the body of a sentient - Eidolon, I realized.

Some distance form the plains, the machine was laying waste to Orokin forces. Then a new sound filled the air. Looking upwards, I found myself staring at a Progenitor machine - the same one I had seen in my earlier visions. As the machine neared the Sentient, energy tendrils shot out of it, trying to snatch the monster. The beast was soon caught, but it fought back, and managed to break free, then bolt away.

The vision soon faded, and the shape of the dead frame replaced it, with Etran's Umbra standing over it.

Good job, kid.

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After listening to another monologue from Nakak, we left the plains, did another bounty, acquired the last part of the frame, and got to work assembling it. While Etran took the opportunity to celebrate, though, I was still pondering what I had seen. What did it mean? Why had the Sentient shown me that vison?

And why did I have a location marked on my map of Earth?

Okay, let me examine that.

…..Hmm, that's where lures came from, according to my hacking. Why did it look like a pyramid?

Then I ran scans on it...

….no way...

Carefully, I examined the object that had now formed from my scans.

There, staning before me, was the unmistakeable shape of the building I had seen in my visions.

And the Grineer were examining it...

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