First, let me apologies for the lateness of this chapter. First, my computer crapped out on me so I had to get it fixed. Then I had a huge case of writers block for both this story and Neo and the Wolves of Mars. Now that it's over, a bit of warning. This chapter will feature characters and locations from the first DLC of Destiny 2 "Curse of Osiris". So spoilers for whoever hasn't played it yet. And for those who have played it, I did my best to describe the characters and location, so please be kind. Shout out to Ptabs0101 for this awesome universe he/she has created and hope they post a new chapter soon. Now on to the story!

A huntress shall be reborn in light,

to fight the Darkness incredible might.

A Remnant of a world, once lost shall be found,

when a great Vex army will be brought to ground.

As one autumn falls, another shall rise

By Grimm Queen's hand or Ironsbane, lost world raze.

Cult of Osiris Lost Prophecy 13

Infinities Crown, Infinite Forest, Mercury

Mercury, first planet in the Sol system and the closest one to the Sun. In the very early days of the Golden Age, it was changed by the Travelers energy into a garden world. But those days are now far gone. Now it is nothing more than a machine world, converted by the Vex. The plant and animal life poisoned and killed by Radiolarian fluid that the Vex pumped into the ground, the landscape changed and the planets core was hollowed out and replaced with machinery all of which to suit the mechanized beings for their own purposes. All this done in a single day. The purpose being a Vex machine called the Infinite Forest; a giant planet sized machine capable of simulating and predicting anything and everything in the universe, both the past, present and future and allow the Vex to counter them in the real world. And it is in the hands of the very Vex Mind responsible for Mercury being what it was; Panoptes, Infinite Mind.

Panoptes is housed within a unique Vex armature, resembling a massive Hydra chassis with an angular "head", two arms resembling those of a bipedal Vex unit, wing-like appendages, and numerous glowing Harpy tentacles along its back. Many components of its body float independently of one another held together by arc energy. And surrounding it in its main hub was strips of data and algorithms that allowed it to oversee, calculate, create and direct new simulations of anything and everything the Vex may encounter in their quest to convert all of existence so that the Vex and only Vex are the dominant race.

Panoptes ignored the many simulations of Venus's past and Mercury's present and focused on the newest acquisitions. Several cycles ago, two Vex Programs were created to go to a lost human colony called Remnant and eradicate all of the lifeforms, both sentient and non-sentient, seek out a power called Dust and use it to upgrade the entirety of the Vex Collective. Unfortunately, they were thwarted by Guardians led by the destroyer of Atheon and the Black Heart; Summer Rose. Time and time again, this being has stopped the inevitable conversion that the Vex plan, but perhaps now, there may now be a way to thwart the White Rose.

It shifted through the many streams of data and converted lifeforms that the Vex of Remnant were able to obtain before they were booted off of the world by the White Rose and her fireteam. If a normal organic being was to look at the amount of data being poured in, without being driven to insanity, the amount would be the equivalent to at least the size of a medium continent, but to the Vex themselves it is a measly 12 percent. For Panoptes, 12 percent was more than enough to create at least 1000 Simulated past, present and future events. So, it absorbed all of the data into itself and teleported to the main hub of the Infinite Forest.

The Infinite Forest is a continuous fluctuation of data streams, simulated constructs and firewalls that are there one second and gone the next in a continuous random loop. Only four constructs within the forest remain unchanged. The first being the only entrance that connects the Infinite Forest to the surface of the planet for corporeal entities such as the Vex or other species that they occasionally bring in to test the simulations on real subjects. The other three are large cylindrical towers facing the entrance in a triangular formation a large distance away from each other. The one on the left contains the Simulations of the Past of any and every planet. The middle one contains the Simulations of the Present and the last one contains the Simulations of the Future.

It faced the three towers then brought its arms out. Static started to form between the hands, which attracted Simulated Seeds and other bits of data in the vicinity that would make up the building blocks of each Simulated events, until three beams came out and went into the three adjacent towers. The beams were the various data streams from Remnant that the Vex have acquired.

Panoptes was so consumed by its work, the giant Vex unit didn't notice a golden figure materialize near the entrance to the Infinite Forest. The golden figure observed the giant Hydra unit as it continued to channel data and energy from its hands into the three Simulant Towers until it suddenly ceased. The Vex unit retracted its arms into its body and briefly observed its handiwork. It then dispersed into data and began to oversee the newest simulations. The golden figure stared hard at the three Simulant Towers. "Panoptes has created new simulations, I must alert Osiris!" The figure said as it turned around and dispersed into golden particles.

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Forever Falls, Remnant, Simulated Present

If a normal living being were to venture into this location, they would mistake it for the living deal. It looked real, sounded real and even smelled real. However, every so often, one of the trees and even the ground quickly shifted into tiny blocks of data that either dispersed into nothing or shifted back into what it was simulating. In this one of the many simulations of Remnant's present a small group of Vex units belonging to the Remnant Corrective were scouting the region called, Forever Falls. The Vex units under the Remnant Corrective sport plain bronze bodies similar to the usual Vex units from other Collectives, the difference being that these ones have crimson stripes along their heads, while those under the Remnant Protective have blue stripes. This group is composed of six Goblin units, three Harpies and one Axis Minotaur. What this group doesn't know is that they are being hunted.

As this group made their way into one of the clearings of Forever Falls, one of the Harpies got a brief glimpse of something darting from one cluster of trees in shadow to another. The mechanical unit froze in place and focused its optic to the shadows. What it saw was a Grimm of the Beowolf genus. The dark wolf looked at the Vex unit and raised its hackles and growled a warning to the mechanized unit, the response was the Harpy fanning its body out aiming its small guns at it. So, focused on its target it didn't notice the bigger shadow coming from behind it. The shadow reached out a dark arm covered in white armor and black claws out to the Harpy, lifted it up into the air, brought its other arm up and tore it in half. The shadow revealing itself as a rather large and very old Alpha Beowolf. It let out a howl and soon the rest of the Beowolf pack surrounded the rest of the Vex.

It was a massacre.

The Vex were all over the clearing fighting the pack. Three Goblins used their slap rifles and burned one of them to a crisp, as it dissolved, two more came to avenge it and sliced one of the units in half while another one got decapitated, but that didn't stop that unit from getting close to the two wolves and blowing itself up taking them with it. The two remaining Harpies fired on a Beowolf and killed it with their combined fire power and floated backwards as another tried to slash them. The Axis Minotaur used its torch hammer to blow up several clusters of wolves all around it. It turned its attention to the Alpha Beowolf and points its weapon at it. The Beowolf leaps towards it to tear it to pieces. Just as it comes into swiping distance, it stops in mid-air. In fact, everything stops. The beowolves freeze in their tracks, explosions from Vex weaponry halt mid explosion, even the trees and birds that took flight from the fighting stop.

At the edge of the clearing, a line of light emerged from the ground and split into a triangle formation and two figures emerged from the doorway. The first is a human being wearing the robes of the Warlock order with the hood in the shape of an eagle, large feather-like strips around the collar of his neck and wearing gauntlets that is a hybridization of Vex and Guardian make. He was followed by a Ghost in a unique armature. She had the usual blue optic in the center and bordering it are bronze diamonds and triangles giving it a unique appearance signifying her status. Their names are Osiris and his Ghost Sagira.

"Well, this is certainly different than our usual haunts." Said Sagira.

"Different how?" Said Osiris in a deep wise voice as he stepped towards the middle of the frozen battle. Every so often stopping to look at either frozen Vex or Grimm gauging their threat level.

"Usually we are holed up in some symmetrical Vex structure, gate terminal or Guardians in mortal danger. But this time, a red forest on a simulated world that isn't converted into a machine. It's beautiful." She said as she approached the Axis Minotaur and nudged its weapon hand so that the torch hammer was pointing in the air instead of at its attacker.

Osiris merely nodded, but silently agreed with her, it was indeed beautiful. When one of his Reflections found him in the Lighthouse in Simulant Present of Mercury and told him of three new simulants being created he had to come and observe them for himself. Normally he would create more Reflections of himself and send them on their way, but some part of him told him that he had to see them. He walked a bit farther from the frozen battlefield and observed his surroundings, looking for a Vex Conflux. Normally in simulations, Vex Conflux's take the form of an object within the simulation that didn't match the simulation itself. He looked towards the trees, noticing that one of them was more green compared to its neighbors. He grinned under his hood and strolled towards his target, followed by Sagira.

"Need any assistance?"

"I got it, thank you."

He waved his hand in front of the tree and it quickly shifted into the usual data tree that was a Vex Conflux. Another wave of his hand and he glanced through the data on everything about the planet, its inhabitance and what the Vex came for.

Vex units under designation Remnant Corrective and Remnant Protective made landfall on Lost World known as Remnant.

Remnant Corrective begin eradication of:

Humans

Faunus

Dark Minor Beings

Dark Queen

Lightbearer White Rose interrupts eradication and conversion protocols.

Remnant Protective begins digging for Vault of Oum and retrieving Relic.

White Rose, three humans), Dark Queen and Dark Minor Beings interrupt.

Vex Mind overseer Nihileon, Times End sent to eradicate White Rose and other minor threats.

White Rose joined by two other Lightbearers.

Nihileon shifts to secondary form after major damage sustained.

Nihileon Destroyed.

By Order of First Program:

All remaining Vex units under Remnant Corrective and Protective acquire all data saved, send data to Infinite Mind for experimentation and return to Collective.

Osiris read through it all and reread it for analysis. Two new Vex Programs were crated to convert a lost planet but were stopped by Guardians, or what the Vex call them That-Which We Cannot Simulate. And not just any Guardian, but the White Rose herself. Summer Rose was a Guardian that he only heard through word of mouth, whether it was from his Cult members when he makes his brief forays into the real world or through the various simulations. He smiled when he remembered when she destroyed a chest full of weapons in the Lighthouse, one of the very few times he showed emotions besides seriousness. He looked through the packets of information relating to the planets rarest commodity Dust; its applications on the planet and why the Vex wanted it so bad. The reason being to use it for their nefarious purposes and how they can make it function outside of the planet's atmosphere. He figured it out and, he admitted, it was quite simple how to do it.

He glanced at Sagira and she immediately downloaded all of the information for later analysis and categorization. Once she finished he waved his hand a third time and the Conflux resumed its guise of being a tree.

Osiris turned away and walked back towards the gateway followed closely by his Ghost. As they stepped back through the doorway the simulation resumed and as the door closed behind them, Osiris heard the clash of claws on metal body followed closely by a wolf howl symbolizing victory. In this simulation, the Grimm are victorious.

For those who are wondering if the "First Program" is a sort of OC I created for this chapter, you are wrong. There is indeed a Vex Unit called The First Program featured in one of the Adventures on Nessus, "Deep Conversation" as an alternate ending to it. As for the Remnant Corrective and Protective, I got the inspiration from the Vex units on Venus, Hezan Corrective and Protective. The Correctives purpose was to eradicate the House of Winter on Venus along with anything else while the Protectives purpose was to guard Vex structures. So I figure two Vex units on Remnant, one to destroy Human, Faunus and Grimm while the other protects Vex bases. As for the next chapter of Neo and the Wolves of Mars, it is 20% done and it should be done by Friday at minimum, so be patient a bit more.

The next chapters (depending on what I'm feeling at the time)

Chibi Chapter 2

The Emperors New Shadow

Salutations Simulation!

Dark King and Queen Dreams

Farmboy and the Fallen

Fallen Conclaive

Dawning

Sparrow Racing League

Eris goes to a Schnee Party

Till then see yo next time!