Wands and Warframes

New Base

"ETA 10 seconds. 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... arrival."

As Cy's voice says arrival, the slim lander hurtles down to the ground rapidly decelerating until it's hovering a mere foot off the floor. The airlock at the back of the lander opens to reveal a Warframe lying on the floor, it's cloak pooling around it like a blanket.

"Human Amelia, my captain collapsed after activating the seed. Cephalon Cy was able to negotiate with the new AI and sent a drone in to retrieve her. However, she has not responded since then. I, would like your help to ensure that my captain is fully functional."

The two of them share a glance before Amelia speaks up, "Cy, I think that Harry needs to go back to Lua. I can come with you if that would make you more comfortable."

"That would be acceptable."

"Cy, would you mind if we loaded Hermione's things before we leave?"

"... That is acceptable."

"Dan, give my apologies to Minerva. And don't forget that you'll need to buy Fawkes' fruit. You should buy the kids, and Harry some treats as well. Oh and a selection of comics and magazines too."

Danjell doesn't laugh, much as he wants to, as he knows that his wife is just nervous, "Don't worry, I won't forget. Do you want anything? Wine, cider, soft drinks?"

"Get whatever you think best."

With the Lander loaded, Amelia sits down on the floor and lifts Wisps head into her lap and starts to stroke it. Meanwhile Cy pilots the lander back to the Railjack and starts the calculations to return home.

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The journey to Lua is nerve-wracking for multiple reasons, as Amelia is acutely aware of the fact that she is travelling through the void. The same void that gave Harry and Hermione powers that can only be controlled with the transference pods. The same void that drove the parents of the other Tenno insane. She is also turning into a Sentient, and the only known energy they can't adapt to is the void, Natah was very clear on that.

Finally, the only movement that Harry has made since she boarded the lander is to take hold of her hand. It didn't help that Cy required her permission to engage the autopilot that would take them back to Lua. When she felt the weird sensation of being connected to the systems at Lua, she immediately called Natah.

The Lotus' face appears at the side of her vision, and Amelia fair screams "No, I need Natah. It's Harry, she's unconscious, and has been for over an hour."

The Lotus frowns before she reaches up and removes the helmet, "Where are you Amelia?"

"We're on route to Lua, I'm still in the lander with her head in my lap. Cy, do your magic and send her our current position."

"I object mistress, what I do is hardly magic. Transmitting data."

"I'm coming to meet you."

A few minutes later Cy's voice comes over the internal comm, "Warning, incoming Sentient signature. Be ready to repel boarders. Identity signal received, welcome aboard Lotus."

Natah's frame seems to disconnect far faster than Amelia has ever seen happen before as she rushes over to inspect Harry.

She sags to the floor on her knees, legs akimbo to either side of her as she sighs with relief, "Heart of Tau, she's fine. Thank you for staying with her, though she'd have woken up on her own in a few hours. What I'm reading from her implants is that she only succeeded on a technicality, so the AI was in the process of invading her brain when it finished processing the access codes. What's happening now is that she's mentally recovering from this while her implants are reconfiguring to their pre-attack state. Cy, disengage the lander and take us into Lua, I'm going to manually transfer her to a pod to speed her recovery."

"Understood Lotus. Will your frame be unaffected by being left behind?"

"I'll have it follow along, so don't worry."

Once they land, Natah lifts Wisp off the floor with brute strength and manages to look calm and collected even as she strains to carry her out of the door. Once there she reconnects with her frame and what looked effortless becomes effortless as she floats through the corridors to the reservoir trailed by Amelia. Once there a brief touch on the wisps systems sees harry appear in the pod, asleep. As she strokes his hair, she smiles gently at him. Turning back to the wisp, she makes a minor modification to the sensors on the Void reservoir to indicate that there is 25 more capsules of void energy than it actually contains, to it's maximum size. If she's right, then it will have no effect on Harry's usage of it's powers. If she's wrong, Harry will find out about the modification very quickly and correct it herself.