We finally make it back to there building its run down like the rest but it works they open the door let us all in then barricade the doors with a chain the child starts running around the room
Zephyr:very...untrusting here isn't it.
Mesa:yes..are you new here?
Ash:yeah we fell through the plane above this one
Mesa:I see...how did you two end up near that psychopath?
Zephyr:oh we landed there and he attempted to kill us.
Mesa:oh my you were just thrown in that situation?
Ash:sorta..yeah..
Mesa:here have a seat
They have some less then desirable chairs but I sit down
Zephyr:eh..
Zephyr sits on the floor I assume out of habit
Mesa:so you wanted to know why I'm a warframe with a Tenno child yes?
Zephyr:did you adopt her?
Mesa:No zephyr...see I was also a Tenno at one point I had a husband and that child. We had a life in the real world but our refuge on earth got destroyed by conclavers...wait earth is a destroyed planet maybe I shouldn't assume you know abou...
Zephyr:I also recently died on earth.
Ash:I lived getting off that planet but I don't fully remember how I died.
Mesa:oh...good I guess.. So the conclavers burnt down our multiracial village and me and my daughter here hid inside while my husband fought with his custom gauntlet.
Ash:(that sounds familiar I think I visited that village...shouldn't tell her might hit a depressing nerve)
Mesa:we got crushed by the building we assume he got killed by the conclavers. Afterwords we came here and a warden banished us to this lower plane. We notice that everyone sane left is trying to rebuild civilization down here. Just a very crude civilization.
Zephyr:I can tell.
Mesa:well....we had been here for two months living on the street when....that warframe came up to us an offered us to live at a place he knew...he was the killer and we didn't know that yet...we followed him he said he was about to go and get some supplies for us when we left the next day... He throws a knife at my husband when he's halfway across the stairs....it scratched my arm and the baby started to freak out...my husband fell over twitching...dead..I grabbed my daughter and started to run I told her to "hide somewhere don't make a lot of noise and get out. I will get you after I escape as well" my daughter at that time was a quiet, smart baby..she did exactly as told but I..was a bigger target..I was running like crazy...he followed me...everywhere I went until I had locked myself in a room and was about to jump out the window he blasted a marelok pellet through the wall and it hit me and it was laced in poison..
Ash:oh my god.
Mesa:I started to die he said he would come back for me when I was dead...I did what any Tenno would do..I shut my eyes, took a deep breath and...focused it I scanned the area for any warframe husks....I found a long dead Mesa outside in some garbage....I linked my transference to her..I started to control the warframes body...that's when I felt something...a sharp feeling of pain and I tried to transference back....I couldn't...my actual body was left to rot in that locked room. I tore the garbage off my new body....found my child....who I had to convince I was still her mother....and then we started to earn money...or what they use for currency around here.
She pulls out a little metal object
Zephyr:cryographic aula huh?
Ash:what?
Zephyr: it was used to create special ciphers to stop the corpus's ultimate weapon..Razorback.
Ash:I remember razorback but not that..
Zephyr:I guess you remember the first time they assembled him not his second coming.
Mesa:I earned enough to buy this house....off some squatter who owned it before..I stayed here for the rest of my life going out only when my Tenno child needs food or medicine.
Zephyr:yah those are the downsides to being a fleshy.
Ash:who's this other warframe then.
We all look over at him he seems dazed that he was acknowledged
Mesa:oh good old infernos over there? He was a squatter until soon arsonist eximus went behind his house and burnt it down I found him on the street almost dead from burns I nurtured him to good health. In hopes of making an ally and look I did.
Infernos:...
Zephyr:entitled bastards...being captains of a squad and they get titled EXIMUS fuckers..
Mesa:be aware there hybrids down here...so..
Ash:hybrids?
Mesa:experimental warframes....that have eximus genes in them.
Ash:So they can punch the ground and fire comes out like ember...even though it could be an all different warframe?
Mesa:yes...they do get hunted own quite a lot down here though.....because most of them pull stunts like that if they aren't sane.
Zephyr:why do you keep mentioning sanity?
Mesa:there are TONS of insane people down here. Broken from loss of life or how difficult it is to live here. They tend to murder with no cause. And then the wardens sometimes come down here as shape shifters.
Zephyr and ash:?!
Infernos:they tamper with the non-existing "peace" and it drives people mad before death....my friend tronya..... She thought she was with me...she wasn't she was with a crazy warden......I don't know what happened...I just know one day I came to check up on her......there wasn't much left but a head...
Ash:..poor people...
Zephyr:Gh..almost as harsh as the pit eh..
Mesa:anywho....now that you know our stories what are you going to do?
Ash:?
Mesa:are you going to stay on this layer or go deeper into the simulacrum.
Ash:I...
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I fall asleep do to how long they were dragging me then I hear "Hey wake up" and a light smack on the face
Janus:Sghh....huh?
Equinox:you fell asleep?
Janus:yeah......
I go into hysteria
Janus:but...I guess I'm going to escape you now.
Xenos:Radial silence...
My hysteria cuts off and i hear a loud ringing noise
Janus:Ghh....GAAAAHHHGG
Xenos:listen....and I won't need to make you go "missing" okay.
She cuts it off
Janus:Gh....a simple stop not good enough..
Equinox:you really don't wanna pull any hasty moves
Janus:and who are you to stop me?
Equinox:The darkwraiths.
Janus:your like the darkclaws or somethin?
Equinox:that Reno gave his group that name to spite us. We have no ties with them.
Xenos:we have killed about 7 of there gang members though.
I look around and notice we are in a bunker underground
Janus:where is this?
Xenos:Jupiter under the city.
Janus: what do you need with me? Why not just attempt to kill me?
Equinox:because your special. if you took down the arbiters then there hope for you.
Janus:what's in it for me?
Xenos:living..don't do this and we will kill you.
Janus:try to.
Xenos:I will use radial silence again..
Janus:hehe..I'll kill you before you can
Equinox:stop horsing around. We need you to help us out on an incident from a few weeks ago.
Janus:?
Equinox:.a building exploded. Only ruins left in there place. Two warframes died an ash and a nova.
Janus:go on.
Equinox:everyone thought that was General nasds fortress
Janus:(Nasd!)
I remember that name...from the day me and ash were frozen in time! He was the one who did it! Maybe.that ash was my ash.....I've heard his death was unknown.....but it make sense for him to come here.
Equinox:turn out it was some sort of cover. A fake building makes sense realistically but it's a loss of civilians. A strategy.
We hear a knock from above then a solid kick then a thud
Xenos:?!
Banshee cuts on savage silence
Xenos:no sudden movements okay.
We peek around the corner and I see three warframes
Two lokis and a saryn looking right at us
Janus:HEY THERE IN HERE HEL...
They shoot at me and almost shoot me in the head
Equinox:see that's what you get too. For trying to be slick.
Saryn:COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP!
Xenos:oh god more of these drippers!
The Equinox and banshee starts to fire from cover. A stray arrow from the saryn hits me
Saryn:GIVE UP!
I rip the arrow out my chest
Janus:CHOKE ON SHIT!
I go into hysteria while I Rush for the saryn the lokis attempt to cut me off. Equinox hits them with some kind of dart and they both seem drowsy I see my opening and I flip when into the ground and I slash at the others face they both immediately drop
I let out a roar the saryn seems to flinch backwards in fear
Saryn:Gh!
Equinox:see why you never beat us.
He shoots her in the head and I walk up to her and slash her in the throat she falls down in her dying breath she creates two husks I shout destroying both husks in the process
Janus:NOW I CAN...
I feel a tremor form under my feet I feel weak and fall to the ground Equinox grabs my head
Janus:...what..
Equinox:if you think we didn't have this under control without you your mistaken.
Janus:why don't you just kill me...
Xenos:your skill set is very....needed for us at the moment we have been trying to exit in and out of the void and the same being stops us...you...had void keys with you that we confiscated...along with your powers we could destroy him and plunder prime gear..
Janus:if I refuse.
Xenos:let me show you.
Equinox lets me go and banshee grabs my foot and drags me Equinox grabs the other three we just killed we walk further deeper into the bunker until we see a whole glowing
Janus:what's that...
They open it and it's a portal to the void
Janus:I thought only grineer could build something like...
Equinox:they did. This place was grineer owned until we killed them all.
Equinox drops the bodies inside of the portal.
Xenos:that's a one way portal. The only way out is relics or void keys. Heheh...in short even if you open up the tower to escape....you don't have a ship to leave and your bound to become corrupted.
Janus:but we are warframes. They can't corrupt us.
Equinox:you want to jump in and find out yourself?
Janus:........no..
Xenos:well then welcome to the crew!
She puts an energy collar around my neck
Janus:OI WHATS THIS!
Xenos:if I feel you try to do anything sneaky this should release enough noise to blow a head open. So don't try to be slick okay?
Janus:yeah yeah I follow your point.
Equinox:so you ready to enter the void?
Janus:how do we get back?
Xenos:we had takin one of your void keys and modified it it also now has teleportation like the beings.
Janus:okay you keep mentioning this being? Who is it?
Xenos:a grineer named vor and his other two warframe disciples.
Janus:?! Warframes?!
Equinox:they gave up control to link with the void. They now protect the void tower. If there under the influence of the neural sensor to stay is unknown.
Xenos:anyways...it's time to go!
She pushes Equinox in and jumps in with me
Janus:GAH!