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[ahungeringknife]

365: May 18

The landing was hard. But solid. No methane bubbles down here as they crashed through the bottom of the ship and onto solid ground covered in stones and coral. That made Wolf relieved. She didn't like going into the methane. She didn't like hearing her helmet and armor cracking and straining under the intense pressure. It was claustrophobic in a way she'd never experianced before that even this tight coral cave was a welcome sight.

"Everyone good?" Bear asked landing behind her.

"Yeah," Cat said clearing their throat. "Hopefully this is as far down as we go," and they shook their head hard. "This pressure differential is wrecking my inner ear."

"You'll live, big baby," Mr. Grey said, coming out briefly to fix that.

"Let's go," Ghost said. There was a cave leading forward and dying coral clinging to the rocks.

As they came around the bend and out into the full methane bubble Wolf felt her legs wobble. Her knees shook and she crashed down onto one of them, all the blood leaving her face. "No," she heard Reggie say.

All Wolf could see was the Lucent Ghost hovering between Oryx's ribs. His dead carcass framing the orb of Light and spinning Ghost shell. Like it was trying to fill his empty chest full of Light. Trying to replace the Dark core inside him that they'd destroyed with Light.

This couldn't be happening.

This couldn't be happening.

This couldn't be happening.

She almost broke down right there as her throat shriveled up into her mouth and she could hear her heart pounding in her ears like the pounding of Oryx's fist on the platforms of his Throne World. She could barely breathe. She could barely think.

The only thought that penetrated was 'Was it all for nothing?' Was all her suffering for nothing? Was all the work she'd done, all the monsters she'd slain, all the good she'd done, all the ways she'd saved the system from total destruction for over a decade.

It would all be undone.

This would make it all undone.

She would be undone.

"-olf. Wolf-- Kassy," Cat shook her, her name snapping her out of her trance and she realized Cat and Bear had been calling her name.

"He can't," she said so softly it was almost a whisper as she forced the words out of her mouth looking up at her friends. "He can't." Not like this. She could see the Wizard now. He couldn't come back like this. She couldn't have two Risen Hive Gods who only knew of their hatred.

"He's not going to, baby girl," Cat said gently, squeezing her shoulders.

Bear hauled her to her feet but she could barely feel her feet, her toes, her knees. All she felt was a numb buzzing all over her entire body as the thing out of every nightmare was laid out before her. His corpse strewn across the methane bubble's open area.

She pushed their hands off and walked towards Oryx's open chest, his bleeding heart of Light. "Kass-" Cat tried.

"Just wait," she heard Bear say.

The Wizard looked at her as she approached but didn't attack. Didn't do anything. She looked up at it and they locked eyed behind Wolf's helmet. She used her eyes to navigate her HUD to find a specific modification she'd had put in recently. "Why?" she asked. "Are you so afraid?" And the recorded voice of Savant's friend Eric came out of her speakers in the hissing screeching sound of the Hive language.

The Wizard looked down at her curiously but again didn't attack. They spoke to her and after a moment the recorded sounds of Eris played in her helmet. "Who are we without our Queen, or our Navigator?" the Wizard asked in Eris' voice. "Only bone and sinew and fear... and Light," and the word was grating. "You took them from us; Ku-Aya Ereshkigal." Wolf Frowned. The end was untranslatable by Eris but Ghost flashed the word across her HUD.

"Whoever you want to be," Wolf said and Eric's strange quiet Hive speech reached the Wizard. "Savathun took that from you. To be who you wanted. Is this what you want? What do you want to be? Who do you want to be?"

The Wizard did not respond. She was silent for several minutes. Then she reached into her dress and pulled out a Ghost, claws curled around the core gently. "We do not know," the Wizard said. "Only that this thing becomes us," and she released the Ghost to float on its own. "And if we fail they will be taken from us."

"And if you fight me I will take it from you," Wolf said.

The Wizard looked at Wolf deeply and then reached over and plucked the Ghost within Oryx's chest out of the air. Wolf's eyes went wide when the Wizard crushed it in her hand as it yelled at her to stop. She swallowed and her throat was dry. "This is not who I wish to be, Ku-Aya Ereshkigal," again Ghost flashed the word across her HUD as Eris wasn't able to translate it out. "I wish to be alone with my Ghost, and the Light."

"I understand."

"Will you kill me now?"

"No. Will you try to kill me?"

"No. I am not as great as our Queen, our King, or our Worm Gods and they have fallen at your hand, Ku-Aya Ereshkigal. I do not know who I am but one thing I am not is a fool."

"It's okay to be afraid," Wolf said. "But don't let that make you someone you aren't."

"Odd wisdom. Human wisdom. We separate in mutual understanding. The Taken King will continue his slumber. Hopefully eternal," and the Wizard looked at Oryx's huge visage behind Wolf. "Goodbye, Ku-Aya Ereshkigal. May I never meet you again." Wolf bowed her head.

The Wizard flew away. From the edges of the methane bubble Hive poured out of caves and cracks, other Lucent Hive even. They gathered around the head Wizard, her Ghost floating by her head, and a tomb ship appeared above them. Without preamble they were sucked up into the ship and were gone.

Silence fell upon them for only a moment.

"HOLY SHIT!" Bear yelled at nearly his full volume.

Cat raced over and grabbed her by the arms. "Are you okay? Are you insane! What was that?"

Wolf laughed despite herself but felt tears at the edge of her eyes. Bear came over and she told them what had transpired. She couldn't see their faces in their helmets but she could imagine their stunned looks. "You just... talked her into leaving?"

"Yeah," Wolf said.

"How? You hate talking!" Cat cried and Wolf laughed again.

She put on the app for Eric's voice, "Like this. It changes my voice," she said and they both jumped when the soft hissing snarling language of the Hive came out of her speakers.

"Girl... you're crazy. Absolutely amazing, but crazy!" Cat hugged her tightly. "Don't scare me like that," they added privately over comms. "Don't do that. Don't," and held her tightly.

"I'm s-" and she squeaked when Bear wrapped them both in the most bone crushing huge. "Aaaaaah- Papa Bear you're going to crack my back," she complained.

Bear laughed his booming laugh. "Be lucky I am hugging you and not shoulder smashing you into atoms for scaring the shit out of me!" he yelled. Wolf accepted the hugging a bit more before he set them both down. Cat fussed with Wolf's hood for a moment and then their own, a familiar gesture that made Wolf warm all the way through with affection.

"So that's it then?" Cat said. Wolf nodded.

"Great. Now the real question is how the fuck do we get out of here!?" Bear shouted.

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[ahungeringknife]

365: May 20

She was alone when she woke up. Above her was a ceiling made of glass and shattered realities. She blinked slowly to get her bearings, not knowing where she was for a moment. Where was she? Why was she on the floor on her back?

"Eyes up Guardian," Ghost said and appeared above her, floating and looking down at her.

Kass sat up so fast she almost smashed her visor into Ghost's eye as it all flooded back to her. The Vault. The Gatekeeper.

Atheon.

She looked around wildly and saw no one. Nothing. Not a single remaining Vex. Instead in front of her was the heaped remains of the Vex Mind Atheon and glass that reflected a thousand possibilities. But no friends. No Ghosts.

Scrambling to her feet she forced her breathing to remain calm. Ghost was still here. "Where are they?" she asked in a small voice.

"Atheon killed them-

"And their Ghosts?" she demanded so sharply and harshly Ghost flinched away. But she couldn't do it. She didn't want to do it. She didn't want to be alone.

"They're at the edges of the Vault," Ghost said softly. "So you didn't shatter them too."

The memory was fresh and looking back on it; terrifying. She didn't know she could do that. Just explode with Light like that. She remembered the force of it shredding her armor, ripping away the fresh Vex plating wrapped around her until she was a star of pure unfiltered Light. She'd heard the Vault crack and shatter and all of Atheon had cracked too. And it was dead. She'd killed it in ten thousand time lines all at once. The Time's Conflux was no more in every time line. Every reality where time worked like it did in this one had lost Atheon in that moment of fractured glass and screaming metal.

"I see," she said softly. "Did I die too?"

"No. You just... passed out."

She went over to Atheon's... corpse? It was a machine so it hadn't really been alive. Could something like that have a corpse? She supposed she also wasn't a thing that was alive and she very much could make corpses. So it stood to reason that Atheon also created a corpse. But its corpse was a tangle of metal and fractured glass that when Kass looked into each frantic sliver showed her a different reality, a different timeline. But she ignored that and was looking for his radiolaria capsule. She couldn't be sure, despite what she knew, that it was done until she found the source of it.

She found it, cracked in two like an egg spilling out radiolaria, and latched around it like the hand of a Vex was... a gun. It was burnished copper like some Vex and an insane construction. "What is this?" Kass asked, picking it up off Atheon.

Ghost came over and scanned it. His fins moved in what was a frown. "It belongs to you," he said in confusion. "My records show you've had one in your Vault since it was assigned to you."

"But I've never had this gun," she said softly looking it over. It fired some sort of energy ammunition and as she held it it... hummed.

"I know. I've never seen it before now either. But when I search for it it says it's been in your Vault. It isn't there now. But it was. Records, which appear to be logged by me, claim it to be a fusion rifle."

"Doesn't look like any I've seen," she said. No. The Vex mechanical machinations were so... strange but when she fit her hands around it they fit perfectly into the form and the form into her hands. It was like she'd always held it.

"No. There appear to be several revisions of these records, which again I put in here but have no memory of them. It's called the Vex Mythoclast," he said slowly, thoughtfully. The stats on the weapon appeared on her HUD. "Just from looking at it it looks like you renamed it fifty-six times before it ended up in your hands now."

"Huh. But if I've always had it why would I rename it?" Kass asked.

"No idea!"

Movement caught her eye and she spun, ready to fire this Mythoclast at whatever moved and see what it could do.

It was two Ghosts. Bird and Amelia. "Kassy?" Amelia asked from inside her spherical purple shell.

She lowered the gun. "You're safe!" she cried and the Ghosts rushed over to her. "Where are the others?" she asked and gently caressed Amelia's nervous shell.

"Around. We saw them hide so so did we."

"We saw you kill Atheon," Bird said, staring at her.

"Ah- yeah," she said weakly.

Another Ghost ran into her, thonking against her hood covered helmet. "Are you alright?" Mr. Grey asked frantically. She scanned Kass out of nervous habit.

"I'm fine," Kass said even as Cleo and Reggie slowly joined them. The Ghosts hovered around her like a constellation. "You're all fine?" she asked them.

"Yes," Reggie said as the rest bobbed in the air.

"What was that?" Cleo asked what they were all thinking.

Kass didn't say anything. She put the gun at her side. Silence stretched between her and the Ghosts. "Don't tell them," was all she said.

"Why not?" Bird asked.

She looked down thinking about this entire expedition down into this place. She couldn't see their faces but their voices had been enough. The shock, the awe, the way her friends just collapsed around her after they'd fought the Templar from her Light output to keep them charged up long enough to shatter it. Not like she'd been able to shoot it. The Aegis had clung to her arm the entire time since she had first touched it- Speaking of. Where was it? She looked around but didn't see the glowing shield of Light anywhere. And then in the maze where they'd been spotted by a Gorgon and even as they felt it starting to erase them from time she'd fired an unheard of number of Golden Gun shots into it's stupid eye and been left only winded after she'd torn it asunder. But she didn't miss the way they shied away when she ordered them around or the one time she'd snapped at them. They fell in line but were afraid. Afraid of this place where she felt no fear.

Afraid of her.

They'd all gone down before her. Blasted away from Atheon or dissolved out of time. She'd stayed up. They'd barely been able to scratch Atheon's silver coating but Kass had just... shattered him all by herself. She didn't want to think about what that looked like on the outside. She didn't want them to be afraid of her. They were her friends.

"I'm afraid," she said softly. "Of what they'll think."

The Ghosts looked between each other, talking between each other without speaking aloud. "It was amazing what you did," Cleo said.

"Never seen anything like it," Reggie agreed.

"But we understand you're scared too," Mr. Grey said. "It's okay to be scared. Just don't let it make you who you aren't." Kass nodded.

"We won't tell them," Bird assured her.

She relaxed her shoulders. "And can you bring them back?"

"Guardians can't be lost in time. They are always where we need them," Bird said. "But we need help."

"With... what?" Kass asked nervously. Did she have to go looking for them?

"Your Light," Cleo said nicely.

Kass let out a helpless little laugh. "I have plenty of that," and she held out her hand. Light poured out of her and she formed great fat motes on her palm. The Ghosts came over and each took a moment to absorb the Light from her, one mote per Ghost, before going a ways away and popping their shells open in Light. One by one in rapid succession each of her friends were transmatted and arranged back into existence just the way she'd seen them last.

"Kassy!" and she grunted when Grey was suddenly hugging her so tightly she could barely breathe. She hugged Grey back one handed, still holding the Vex Mythoclast.

"Is Atheon dead?" Kaley asked.

"Looks dead by that pile of scrap Kass is standing in," Rigel said his mechanical voice even more monotone than usual.

Grey slowly released her and signed, 'Okay?' She nodded.

"So... now what?" Nef asked.

"We climb back out," Kass said seriously.

"Yeah. Was afraid you'd say that," Nef sighed.

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[ahungeringknife]

365: May 13

Wolf looked over when two figures came to stand at either side of her while she was at the Vault. She hadn't quite gotten to just leaving glimmer on the floor yet and instead Ghost was refilling her stash. "Did you guys need something?" she asked Lizard. He was on her right, Fox on her left.

"Rat's been weird," he said.

"It's Rat, she's weird," Wolf said, pulling out a scout rifle to look over. Ghost displayed the stats for it across her HUD.

"No like extra weird," Fox said. "We think there's something wrong with her."

"Have you asked her?"

"Well... no," Fox admitted.

"Then it's not my problem," Wolf said quietly. "Also what makes you think she's more weird than usual?"

"She's hiding behind a shrub planter here in the Tower," Lizard said lazily.

Wolf looked up at him. He casually pointed across the courtyard. And indeed, there was Rat. She was actually doing a good job in not looking completely insane and was sitting on the concrete planter but looking over her shoulder and the shrub. Wolf followed her gaze and it was trained on some women talking to Tess. A group of Warlocks and Titans. Tess was showing them a video of the new popular dance move for them to learn and they were giggling and stumbling through it as a group.

She turned away with a shake of her head. Absolutely not her problem. "Well?" Lizard asked.

"Well what?"

"Isn't it weird?"

Wolf shot him a look through her helmet. She knew he felt it even through his facade by the way his head twitched. "I dunno, kinda reminds me of you a few years ago," she said dismissively.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Lizard asked, annoyed.

"Something something idiots don't know how to talk to girls-

"No way!" Fox cried but was excited. She looked across the courtyard at Rat. "Oh you're so right!" Wolf ignored the two Warlocks as they talked at very increasing volumes over the shared comm about Rat having a crush on one of the girls doing the dance. "Who do you think it is?"

"I couldn't say? They're all so tall," Lizard said, back against the wall next to the Vault. Wolf was starting to accumulate glimmer around the toe of her boots as Ghost dismantled gun after gun after armor piece.

"Probably one of the Titans," Fox said, positively vibrating in her excitement. "What do you think Wolfy?" she asked her.

"I think you two should just leave it alone," Wolf said dismissively. It was bad enough she'd suffered through years of gossip magazines speculating on who in Glitterbomb she was sleeping with and then the seemingly endless stories about whoever she actually was sleeping with. Even if she ever liked him the gossip always left such a sour taste in her mouth it never lasted.

"Oh come on," Fox complained. "She's always in our business," she motioned to herself and Wolf.

"Yeah and I know how fucking annoying it is," Wolf said ripping some sapphire wire off the inside seaming of a chest piece before letting Ghost turn the rest into glimmer. Like most of Glitterbomb Rat was very protective of Wolf's feelings, especially with all her failed relationships. If Bear didn't get to it first Rat was always ready to give someone the shovel talk. Even if some guys needed it it was annoying. She'd stopped telling them about who she was dating now at first.

"We're her friends. She's gotta take some lumps," Lizard said and got off the wall. "Let's go learn the new dance. Wanna come?" he asked Wolf.

She paused. "You paying?"

"Sure. Not like I don't have more silver than I know what to do with," Lizard chuckled.

"Only a dragon's hoard," Wolf agreed with a grin and left the Vault, ignoring the pile of glimmer she left at it. Some Ghost would collect it for their Guardian and she didn't mind sharing her good fortune with random Guardians.

"Literally a dragon's hoard!" Fox giggled and joined them. She looped her arm through Wolf's and they walked across the courtyard. The group had gained a few more people who were figuring out the dance move. It looked fun.

Lizard paid with a stack of silver on Tess' counter and she showed them the video. It was then projected directly onto their HUDs. "What are you three doing?" Rat's voice asked out of nowhere sounding suspicious and shrill.

"Learning to dance? Where are you? You snooping on us?" Fox asked as Wolf ignored them and watched the video on her HUD loop so she could get the foot work. This one was a lot of foot work.

"I already paid for three, you gotta buy your own," Lizard droned joining Fox in their attempts.

Rat didn't answer. "Wow you learned it so quick!" Wolf looked over at the woman who'd said that, watching her. And yeah she had figured out the foot work pretty quick, just needed a few times to get it right. She was a Warlock, human with pale skin and short blonde hair, both sides of her head shaved, and wore an all black look with silver fittings. She was also insanely buff. Wolf didn't know if she'd ever seen a buff Warlock.

"She's a quick study," Ghost said on her behalf.

"I've got two left feet and watching the demo is a nightmare," she said with a laugh. "Could you show me?"

"She's flirting with you," Ghost said quietly into her helmet and across the front of her thoughts. She wasn't annoyed he said that because honestly... she missed it a lot of the time. She nodded. "Sure!" Ghost said aloud.

"Great," the Warlock beamed at her. She had dimples. "I'm Lara by the way," she added.

"Nice to meet you," Ghost said politely. "Just follow along." Lara nodded and Wolf did the dance slow.

"What are you doing?" Rat asked specifically in Wolf's helmet. "Wolf," she said when Wolf didn't answer.

"You should see my friend Nef dance," Wolf said to Lara as they mirrored each other in the choreography.

"Wolf!"

"Is she as good as you?" Lara asked with a smile.

"She better be," Wolf said to Rat over comms because Rat could hear Lara too, "Yeah! She's better at the bigger moves than me though. Knows how to throw herself around. She's a really good dancer. If she was around she could totally show you some moves. She's a real good teacher too," she said over Rat ranting in her ear.

"What are you doing? Rat is flipping out in my helmet," Fox suddenly said, sounding pained.

"Damn. Wish she was here then. I always miss out."

Wolf ignored her. "Did you learn last month's popular step?" Wolf asked Lara.

"Noooo," Lara sighed. "I couldn't get anyone to trade out their silver. I was even offering old purple synths."

Wolf looked at Tess briefly who wasn't paying attention to then, she was cheering on some other Guardians learning this move. "I could show you if you wanted?"

Lara jumped up in delight. "Really!?" She wasn't really Wolf's type but she could admit Lara was pretty cute and she did the same thing all her Warlock friends did when they got excited. Wolf loved when Warlocks got excited about stuff.

"Sure. I've given Tess so much silver she could close up shop," Wolf said casually. Lara barely noticed the flex. "So you do this and-" and she walked Lara through the first few steps. This wasn't as complicated as the one they'd just done but it was... sexier.

"Lil Wolf I'm going to kill you," Rat said over comms.

"Uhhh huh," Wolf said.

"No seriously what are you doing? Rat- ahg," and Fox just ripped her helmet off. Wolf could hear Rat's voice coming over the speakers just shouting.

"Is that Fox?" someone asked.

"No way."

"Oh that's totally her!"

"Uh oh," Fox said realizing she'd just removed her helmet amid a bunch of Guardians. They all usually went incognito in the Tower. Basic Vanguard helmets and gear to avoid this exactly. "Uhh- hi!" she said cheerfully to everyone staring at her. At least six Guardians immediately went over and asked for her to sign something. She took it a lot more gracefully than Wolf would have.

Lara looked at Fox, then looked at Wolf. "You came over with her," Lara said, her brown eyes as big as dinner plates. Wolf just shrugged. Maybe?

"Did you get the dance?" Ghost asked Lara.

"Hmm? Sort of," Lara said. "Was that the friend you were talking about?" she asked.

"Nooo. You're pretty but Fox is straight," Ghost said apologetically.

Lara flushed. "Oh. Sooo, who was that friend you were talking about?" Lara asked. Oh good. Rat and Cat always complained lesbians were 'stupid', as in insanely obtuse, but Lara didn't seem to be. Must have been a Warlock thing.

"Do not!"

"One second," Ghost said.

"Rat if you don't get your ass over here I'm going to date her instead," Wolf threatened.

"You are not!" Rat gasped. "You don't even like girls."

"I like whatever I want." Rat said nothing. "Nef, get your ass over here. You've fought fucking Hive gods."

"Oryx was less scary though," Rat whined.

She switched comms over to Lizard who was making himself as invisible as possible to go unnoticed from Fox getting swarmed by Guardian fans. "Lizard," and he looked at her. 'Bring the rodent here,' she signed sternly. She used the low hand for 'rodent' which could also mean 'annoyance', which in this case she was.

Lizard chuckled. 'What you say boss lady,' he signed back and moved away.

"Umm..." Lara asked, confused.

"Sorry. Our friend is just... shy," Ghost told Lana.

"Yeah right," Lizard droned.

"Lizard what are you- I'm going to beat you both into the sun!" Rat cried.

"Yeah yeah twerp, whatever," Lizard said and Wolf leaned over to see Lizard just lift Rat up from where she was hiding behind the shrub. Rat was not a tall woman and despite being nothing but compact muscle and metal armor plating was easy enough for Lizard to scoop.

Lizard came back over and put Rat down next to Wolf. Like the rest of them she was in full Vanguard armor and helmet. Wolf was not a super tall girl but Rat was still a head shorter than her. 'You're embarrassing us,' Wolf signed at Rat just to get a rise out of her.

'Me! You did this!' Rat signed back, furious, indignant.

"This is our friend. She's a real good dancer," Ghost told Lara.

"Really?"

"Yeah. She can totally show you some moves if you've missed out on some good ones," Ghost said thoughtfully. "She taught my Guardian some when she missed them because work."

"I'd love that," Lara said brightly.

'You are the worst friend ever,' Rat signed at Wolf.

"Anyway," and Wolf just thought something at Ghost. He didn't remove her helmet but he did change her entire suit. She didn't say goodbye. She just walked away now wearing some very familiar and iconic looking gear from when she and Glitterbomb had first climbed Riven's tower. It was probably the most recognizable armor she owned other than the bone plating armor from Oryx's Throne World. It immediately got everyone around the Eververse's attention as soon as more than one person noticed her.

"Is that the Young Wolf?"

"No way."

"Well the Fox is here."

"That's totally them."

"Holy shit."

"I think we should find the big ball," Wolf said casually to Ghost in her helmet, and maybe also Lizard who was standing at the ready to intercept. The group bothering Fox and then some was now following her.

"Hmm, I think we can do that," Ghost said.

It didn't take much for the Guardians following her to realize what she was doing and in almost record time they'd triggered whatever it was Ikora had her Warlocks do to jettison the huge Traveler ball out from its storage at the top of the platforms. Wolf punted it at someone. Didn't take much else for it to turn into a game. In the chaos of keeping the big ball from touching the ground Ghost swapped her back to her Tower Casual look. "I'm going now?" she asked Fox and Lizard, Fox had also changed her suit again.

"Sure!" Fox said.

"Great." If she'd just been in her casual look before she'd have stayed and played but everyone expected the Young Wolf to act a certain way. And she just didn't have the energy to wear that mask right now. She honestly really wanted to go to her favorite shop here on the Wall and have a soda and a pita wrap. As she left to head to the bazaar she looked back at Rat and Lara. Rat had her helmet off and was indeed showing Lara some dance moves. Well at least that was sorted out.

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[ahungeringknife]

365: May 21

Crow paced back and forth in the H.E.L.M. while Alex and Alshain watched from the war table. Alshain thought he was so dramatic. New Lights always were. "You frying your brain with anxiety won't make them come any sooner, lil boss," he said casually, leaning on the war table on his elbow.

"Leave him alone, he's a worrier," Alex said, head in his sketchbook, working on a new card idea. He was updating his deck to include the Glitterbomb suit and Alshain had nearly strangled him when he said he was removing half his Arc cards to make it fit. Spiteful little shit. He didn't even have to his deck could fit both suits but Alex was so particular about how many cards were in his deck.

"Osiris will get snippy if he wears a hole through the floor though," Alshain smirked. Crow sent him a sharp look. "You aren't as scary as the Guardian, that doesn't work," his EXO face curved into something like a smile. "Especially not with that stupid mask of yours."

Crow nearly jumped out of his skin when transmat triggered several times in the main cabin of the H.E.L.M. and six people appeared. "Hey! God squad," Alshain called, raising a hand in welcome.

Alex looked up from his scratching as Glitterbomb approached the war table. Crow was standing so very still. But not in stoicism. Alshain knew he wasn't stoic at all. Kid wore every emotion in his entire body. No. He was scared. Just like he'd been scared the first time meeting Osiris. "What is that?" Wolf asked seeing Crow.

"What?" Crow asked.

"On your face-" and Alshain and Alex both laughed. "I thought Shin got you a helmet."

"Osiris thought this was better so I wouldn't have to wear it all the time," Crow said nervously.

She cocked her head to the side. All of them were wear helmets and from personal experience knew many Guardians, including himself, wore their helmets basically any time they were out and about. It confused Alshain why he'd say that when Osiris was well aware of this but it wasn't his place to argue. Or well... it was but Osiris was so snippy with him and Alex. Not that Alshain blamed him. Losing your Ghost was... traumatic. He'd only lost the Light, not Adha, and the pain of it had been so overwhelming he'd been numb and stupid to everyone except Alex.

"I guess," Wolf said and then removed her helmet. "But I want to introduce you to my fireteam. I trust Osiris and these... guys have brought you up to speed?" she waved casually at Alex and Alshain.

"More or less," Crow said only just not wringing his hands. Alshain leaned forward casually, finger on the metaphyical trigger of his Light. He figured Wolf would have prepped her fireteam for Crow having Uldren's face but it was one thing to know it it was another to see the face of Enemy Number One looking back at you. Not that that mattered to Alshain. He hadn't known Cayde. Didn't care about Cayde. Cayde's tenure was after his banishment. He'd known Andal though. Crow being a serious Fallen sympathizer was more damning to him than killing Cayde because Alshain still thought about Taniks. Alshain had only heard about it but he knew every Hunter in the City had been furious.

There had probably been so many dead Fallen after that. Alshain wondered what the man hunt had looked like and how the Vanguard had called the Hunters to heel. Of course. It was probably because Cayde had ordered everyone grounded. Between him and Xander they'd have prevented more Hunters from meeting their end at Taniks.

Still better safe than sorry. So he kept his Light close in case he needed to intervene. He could feel Alex doing the same, his glowing yellow eyes catching purple at the edges.

"Great," Wolf said. "This is Glitterbomb," and they removed their helmets as well when Wolf indicated them. "Cat, Bear, Rat, Fox, Lizard," she pointed to each of them in turn and they waved or nodded. "Guys, this is Crow, he's a New Light," and she indicated he should take off his mask. It really was an ugly thing.

Crow pulled it off and Alshain chuckled when Lizard said, "Doesn't even look like him," orange painted EXO head cocked to a full forty-five degree angle.

"It does so," Fox smacked his arm.

"Uh... which is a better thing?" Crow asked awkwardly and then stiffened when Cat stalked up to him and got in his face.

"Careful there," Alex called as Cat inspected Crow's face.

"Hush up, kid," they waved a hand at Alex around Crow's body. "Hmm," they scrutinized him.

"Well at least it won't be a surprise now," Rat said, more to the others than Crow who was very stressed at Cat's stern look over.

"Think it's still... a delicate situation," Bear said, arms folded.

"Incredibly," Wolf agreed.

"And just us know?"

"Yeap."

"Zavala's not going to be happy," Bear said gravely.

"Okay but who wants in on how long it takes Ikora to find out?" Lizard asked.

"Rigel," and Fox jabbed him in the ribs hard. "Inappropriate."

"What? I'm just being realistic."

"Well if you can all keep your mouth shut it shouldn't," Wolf said seriously.

Alshain was more worried when Cat suddenly smirked. They stepped back and pulled out a knife. "You know the knife game-

"Cat do not!" Wolf yelled while Alshain and Alex laughed.

"... No," Crow said. "Does it hurt?"

"Not if you're good," Cat said with a devious grin on their face.

Wolf grabbed them and yanked them away. "You are not doing that," and then switched to sign. 'He barely knows how to mod his weapons or use his Light. Absolutely not.'

'Don't be so sensitive,' Cat signed back, still holding the knife.

'No.'

"Fiiiiine," Cat groaned and stepped back. They tossed the knife as they went, end over end. "You're no fun sometimes, Wolfy," they sighed, catching the knife each time, barely even looking at it. They were showing off to the extreme and Crow was falling for it by how his head tracked them in the H.E.L.M.

"Being clan leader is no fun, get over it," Wolf sniped back.

"Well that really is all there is huh," Bear said, arms folded looking at Crow.

"Yes."

Bear looked Crow over. Cat and Rat were discussing something at the recaster. Alshain finally relaxed. "This is so messy, Wolf," he said looking at her instead.

"I know."

"How do you get into these messes?"

"I told you she needs a baby sitter," Fox said.

"I do not!"

"Went away for two months after we iced Eramis and came back with... this guy-

"And don't forget the dirt bag!" Cat called from the recaster. "Came back from the Shore with two shitty Hunters. And she pissed off Spider so bad he's got her face on every 'shoot on sight' broadcast across the entire Reef and part of House Dusk."

Wolf put a hand over her face with a sigh. "Thank you for reminding me," she groaned as Cat and Nef laughed.

"Well since we've seen him I'm going to go," Fox said.

"Yeah. Better than the shock of it while we knock down that Empress bitch... Caitlin or something?" Lizard droned.

"Caiatl," Fox said, dragging the other Warlock back.

"That's what I said," Lizard complained. Then their Ghosts transmatted them away.

"So you all knew me too?" Crow asked Bear who was still nearby.

Bear still had his arms folded. "Knowing is a strong word," he said gruffly.

"Oh. Was I ... bad?"

"You were pretty fucking annoying is what you were-

Alex and Alshain laughed loudly at that. "Good news big Bear, he's still annoying! And more melodramatic than ever," Alex laughed.

"Great," Bear rolled his eyes.

"I am not, quiet," Crow turned on them both but his pale skin was a bit dark around the top of the cheeks.

"And emo," Alex said, ignoring him. "You should hear him monologue to him- Ah!" Crow full body tackled Alex from where he was.

Alshain laughed at them as Alex squawked and batted at Crow while Crow put him into a sort of head lock. He knew his brother would get out of it once he felt like. Wolf had her hands on her hips. "Well I see he's doing just fine with you two," she sighed.

"We're taking good care of him," Alshain assured him.

She sighed softly but had a small smile on her face. "We'll let you deal with this then."

"Yes ma'am," Alshain said.

Wolf gently knocked Bear's arm and they went to collect the rest of their fireteam at the recaster. Then they were gone. "Okay okay that's enough horsing around lil boss!" Alex called and Crow looked very surprised when Alex went from being in a head lock to free and standing.

"... How did you do that?" Crow asked empty armed.

"Maybe if you're a good boy I'll show you," Alex smirked and sat down again, grabbing his sketchbook. "Now you done being a nervous ninny?"

"I... guess? That went a lot better than expected," Crow admitted.

"Great!" Alshain lurched to his feet. "Because it's time to see if I can beat some Arc Light out of you," and he went around to Crow and put an arm around his shoulder.

"Ah-- it's not really my thing," Crow tried to say.

"Yeah well we better check before I chuck you at Alex and he melts your brain with Void talk," Alshain scoffed.

"I can use Solar fine. Shin showed me that's fine," Crow said and Alshain didn't miss the way his voice went up a pitch when he said that. Huh! Well he'd have to look into that later.

"Yeah but Shin's a shit head," Alshain said leading him to the transmat zone. "Doesn't have any showmanship in him at all. Tsk, might as well be a Titan for how stoic he is about the Light," he scoffed.

"Or a stuffy Warlock," Alex called after them.

"Anyway lets see what you got, kid," and Alshain let him go long enough for Glint and Adha to transmat them out of the H.E.L.M. and to some private training room in the Wall.

#365 #writeblr #writblr #fanfiction #destiny #destiny 2 #destiny the game #the young wolf #young wolf #fireteam glitterbomb #the crow #crow #uldren sov #Still mad about Crow's STUPID fucking mask in this season. Give this boy a HELMET