I start walking around inside wondering if the others are okay.
Janus:ah there probably fine. I should try to catch up before they think I'm dead though.
I step out and see a light and hear some marked one's I carefully head out and walk up some stairs and crouch so they don't see me
Marked nova:Hate.....
Marked grineer:...
The grineer start eating a corpse of a atlas and another dead marked one while the nova stands watch
Janus:there cannibals?
I sneak around and try to head to a door to the right I get in but then the door squeks close
Marked nova:STOP YOU!!!
She starts running towards me
Janus:FUCK THAT!
I shoot the the ceiling above the door. it was so rotted that it collapsed blocking there way in.
Janus:these things are everywhere.
BANG
Janus:What the fuck....
I see a circle start to spiral out of that corner
Janus:THEY CAN STILL ULT?!
I start running forwards looking back to see when the radius stops I run for 9 seconds and it finally stops
Janus:Hehe! AUGHH!
I trip on something and hit my head on the floor
Janus:Fuck....
I regain myself and look at what I tripped on. It was a rotted corpse of a rhino
Janus:Iron skin didn't help huh?
I look him over and notice something shiny under him
Janus:?
I flip him over and see an ayatan treasure.
Janus:what's that doing here? I haven't seen these in a long time. Harrow would probably like this.
I stash it
Janus:hmm...
I see a room that looks like some kind of armory.
Janus:?
I step in and see a ton of logs and terminals
Janus:guess it's not an armory.
I check the terminals one entry says the lotus
Janus:lotus? What could lotus have had to do with this?
It's been two years since lotus had turned on us. Joining the sentients I think that lotus has lost it some of these frames say "she can't stay like this!" And "she being controlled!" Idiots! That bitch made her decision! She's against us! When she left us for that orokin looking guy that should have been a indicater! That thing she said to Umbra...."No this is what I am." I appreciate all she's done for us but this means war!
Janus:lotus? Join the sentients? Never why would she do that? I know she has a past but she past that now!
I check the other terminals a bunch of things that I'm not interested in but one catches my eye it's cut off halfway.
Okay...lyno she hasn't come back! We sent her and 10 others to deal with lotus's sentients. I'm not sure what going on I hear pounding at the door did they find us? Dhdhdvvddvbd(&((& I...I heard a bang at the door i can't fight in just a grineer.....i can't hold myself against her or them...i locked myself in hear hoping they won't find me...but that sounded like a ship damaging blahsbdhdhdjndji&$&..
Janus:what...what exactly did I miss?
I throw the terminal in the corner
Janus:DAMNIT WHAT COULD I HAVE MISSED?! WHAT HAPPENED TO LOTUS?!
I hear a rumble in the corner of the room a few terminal fall down in the corner and I see a child burnt Grineer with a terminal stuck on his head.
Janus:...what....
I point my gun at it but it walks into a wall.
Janus:hey? Terminal head.
It stops and turn towards me
Terminal head:pain....it hurts...
It sounds more sorrowful then the others it's shaking under his armor I see he is shaking a bit.
Janus:what the fuck why is everyone scary but you? How are you a child? Your a clone.
He walks towards me or the sound of my voice and bumps into my leg and falls over.
Janus:must have been defective. Seems I woke you up.
Terminal head:pain....it hurts..
He is clearly in pain I don't know why but I feel sadder just by looking at him
Janus:..sad little creature aren't you maybe I should just put you out of your misery.
He walks up and hugs my leg
Terminal head:pain..
???:it would be a mercy.
I turn around with my shotgun and see a titania
Janus:titania? I haven't seen one of you recently?
Titania:we are rare. Earth is basically trash at this point so our blueprints are rare as you can guess.
Janus:What are you doing here?
She shoots the little terminal head in the face he flys backwards
Janus:What the fuck! You just shot a..
Titania:a rotting corpse its basically an infested.
Janus:why are you here? treasure?
Titania:to put these thing out of there misery. They are bound to suffer from there flesh being exposed. They don't belong here it's just not right. I will assume your a merc. You just through old data so you don't seem like a treasurer.
Janus:yeah?
Titania:the harrow is looking for you.
Janus:?! How'd you see that?
Titania:I know everything that happens here I travel between ruins of the brink to put these things down and I place my razorflies on walls with cameras.
Janus:...thats kinda freaky.
Titania:they arent far from here we can catch up.
I look back at the child and nod. We walk and talk still wary of any marked ones.
Janus:can you inform me on something?
Titania:?
Janus:the lotus what happened to her?
Titania:she had made some choices. To align with the sentients these warframes and grineer stationed here are examples of the outer brigade people scared of her reach and wanted to fight her from a distance. She nuked this place with sentient lasers. Not sure why they turned out like this.
Janus:but she... she didnt like sentients either...
Titania:from these logs it seems like she had a past ive never met her so I cant say.
Janus:they did...but I dunno if it would be enough for that..
Titania:the legend goes that in a onslaught of frames and senteints both sides were critcally injured all that was left was lotus but in a saryns dying breath she placed a nano spore on the heavily injured lotus's body it took awhile but she had died. This is why most old frames are dead because of that war. You seem well informed for and outsider are you an old frame?
Janus:yes. I was frozen I forgot for how long.
Titania:mhmm..
???:pain!!!
We see a cluster of about 30 marked ones blasting into a door
Titania:that where your friends are.
I get my corinith ready titania shrinks
Janus:ready!
I shoot my air blast blowing up and knocking over many some turn around
Marked ones:Pain!!!
Harrow:Run....
He spins his incense torch on a chain almost like his third ability
Harrow:and dont come back.
They start to scurry away me and titania still shoot at them from a distance.We check in the room that harrow was hiding in and see many more marked corpses.
Ox:"whew" thanks.
Titania:what did you do to attract them?
Ox:we found a vault and while harrow was taking things a metal plate fell off the ceiling hitting the floor and attracting a ton speaking lf which. We should go before more arrive.
???:Guagh...
We look and see one with an anasa sculpture carved into a helmet
Harrow:why would you do that to such a precious artifact?...
Titania:...
About 20 marked ones show up behind him.
Titania:Neflun..
Ox:who?
Titania:That guy right there is like a mountain i dont know why but every time i put him down he doesnt die!
Neflun:pain...pain..STOP YOU..
They all pull out makeshift guns
Harrow:those all look like artifacts
He brushes past me and titania and stands still
Neflun:pain..
Harrow:I will take those...
He grabs a whip like thing from his back and pulls out his pistol, undoing harrows chains in the process
Harrow:EVERYONE GET DOWN!
His chains sprawl backwards
Janus:?!
They wrap out feet and trip us
Ox:What the fuck?!
Neflun:PAIN
We see rounds be fired into harrow so much a thick smoke covers the whole room we are in
Titania:GOT IT!
Janus:?
I hear her pixie noise
Harrow:Stay down pixie im not done yet
Titania:?!?!?!
We hear bullets firing like crazy a shouts of agony coming out of the marked ones.
Neflun:.....pain..
The chains get strapped loose from our legs.
Janus:shit man you coulda just told us that!
He walks up to nefluns corpse and takes his hat.
Harrow:precious little thing arent you? Janus, Ox grab these guns!
Janus:Sure..
I tie them up and place then as a sling on my back
We start to walk away
Neflun:pain...
We hear 5 bullets make contact
Titania:Ill cover your exit.
Harrow:alright.
We look around a little more on the way back and get in our ship i place everything down on the ground
Ox:shit..that was annoying...
We boost off the brink
Ox:so janus?
Janus:?
She leans in closer a talls softer
Ox:why are you taking that pistol i think the boss would lile that too.
Janus:As a sovernir.
Ox:ahh....weirdo..
Janus:hehe...I guess.
Harrow:alright we are here.
We land in the station and help unload the gear to harrows bunker in the plaza
Ox:dumb shit...welp where payment?
Harrow:ah yes.. here.
He pays us both ox counts up her plat and i just stash mine
Harrow:well hopefully we meet again.
Janus:yeah you too.
Me an ox leave and she splits somewhere else I open my archwing and start flying back for valkyrs advice
Janus:I probably should have asked her what to use platnuim on...maybe I could get some new weapons or...some kind of mods. Or or.....eh i dunno.. even in the day the trading thing just wasnt for me.
I think on what i heard about lotus
Janus:...she was iffy I guess with her past but...sentients? A stretch I cant imagine her wanting to go back th..
My thoughts get cut short
Janus:What the hell....what...what is that doing here....