Endure for an Eternity
Luminate
Previous ChapterNext ChapterShaking and heaving from the pain of having my mind brutally forced into by an alien and I was glaring right at her.
My head was throbbing in pain and it was agony to even try and focus on the one who did this to me as I can still hear lingering voices from her intrusion and that I can still see what looks like her memories from her past and it is all jumbled and confusing to try and decipher what is going on. The dark blue royal alien on the other hand is busy dealing with the memories of the Old War I gave her for her little stunt and I must say watching her writhe in pain is justice for the breach of privacy.
Shaking and trembling in my spot next to my warframe as my void energy is scrambled from whatever it is that the royalty has done to me, I couldn't stand on my own power as my body was still adjusting to no longer being in a stasis pod and that it had to be able to move on its own power. Trying to shake the strange disorientation from my body but all that did was make my headache even worse as I had to sit still and hold my head as the voices in my head slowly started to fade in and out from my subconscious all the while the alien horses were busy tending to their own.
"Oh Celestia are you okay?" A voice said to my right, the purple horned girl that was serving as the initiator for the peace talks was standing beside me, kneeling close to me as she tries to look me over but my warframe was keeping her at bay by pointing the Lex Prime at her forehead right below where her horn is located.
"Other than...the throbbing pain in my head...and the voices screaming at me...just snug as a bug on a drug...but my bloody head hurts like all hell..." I said as I groaned, my left hand twitching on my head as I held onto the table with my right.
On the other side of the table where Luna was taken by her sister, they were busy trying to assess the situation with her current state but she won't be done with the Old War going on insider her head until she saw everything or until I reconnect with her and cancel it myself.
"Is there anything I can do to help?" The same voice said to me, the purple horned girl from earlier was close enough for me to pinpoint that it was hers and not someone else's.
"Yeah, point to me...the one who did this..." I said as the voices faded away but they were still at the edges of my subconscious, taking up space and making it harder for me to focus.
"Princess Luna? She is over there, why?" The purple girl said, confusion was clearly written on her face but it was about to change when she saw what I did next.
"So I can do this." And like magic my warframe's right arm moved in the direction of the dark blue horned and winged alien horse royal, the Lex Prime pointing right at her head.
"What are you doing! That is the princess you are pointing that thing at!" And that thing that I am pointing with is strong enough to make your head explode into a fine pink mist. And also that your princess just tried to mind rape me without my consent!
"I am doing what I am supposed to be doing, dispensing the law onto the law breaker in question." I wanted to kill her but for some reason there was this unseen force that was preventing me from doing so.
"And just what law did she break huh!" The flying rainbow said as she took up a defensive stance in front of my attacker, trying to protect her but if she knew what this pistol is capable of doing than she would know that it would do nothing to stop the corrosive exploding bullet from reaching its intended target.
"For starters, the law of common sense. If someone were to break into another's mind without discrimination or a care for the one being assaulted than that person is willing to do so again. Then we have the forceful intrusion into the mind of a Tenno Operator, the secrets and knowledge of my order cannot be divulged and spread to those that seek to do us harm, and seeing how your princess did this without care or worry for her own action she must pay the price. And lastly assaulting a Tenno Operator with the side-effect of mental trauma." That and being a fucking idiot, even the Grineer and Corpus know to never purposely antagonize us!
"Oh...uh...well...your a jerk!" Name calling? Are you serious?
"And I am a jerk...how? For upholding galactic law against a criminal who knowingly broke the law?" Just be glad I didn't enact the Law of Retribution, the lot of you would be dead alongside her just by being an associate.
"But she didn't know what she was doing!" Bull fucking shit.
"I would buy that excuse, if it was only so. She walked up to me with a purpose and knew what she was about to do, this wasn't a flight of fancy nor was it an accident. She knew what she was about to do and did it anyways, there is no act of delusion or any kind of mental slipup, she did this fully knowing that she might suffer a backlash of any kind." This one isn't Alad V or even Tyl Regor, they didn't truly know what they were doing until it was far too late. Hell at least Alad V is now on our side after we cured him of the Infestation that was eating half of his face.
"Please forgive her! She was only trying to help you!" I would forgive her if she actually asked me for before mindraping me.
"I have heard that excuse an innumerable number of times, and every single time it was said, it was never in the interests of those it was meant to help."
"Please! I'll do anything just spare her!"
"Twilight no!" "Don't do it! Its a trick!" "No!" All of her friends shouted at the same time, even the white winged horned alien princess. Why does royalty care so much about this particular person?
"Young Twilight, be warned that by pledging yourself to me you can not refuse my request nor demand to be released from your service until I deem it so." This is for life but I won't tell her that, then she wouldn't do it and just let this one take her punishment.
"No!" The white alien in guard armor shouted as I glanced over at him for a moment before returning my gaze to my soon-to-be-new assistant.
"I'll do it, just spare Princess Luna." And the deal was made,
For a moment all was silent in the room as I leaned against the table, catching my breath as I feel my body starting to balance itself out, filtering away the foreign memories before finally restoring full functionality to my person.
"Just know this young one, that upon this pledge that if you dare to back out from it or even try to betray that which was promised to me, you will carry the penalty of death along with the offender of the original crime of which you are trying to abolish."
"I understand."
"Good..."
And with that said and done I told my warframe to help me up and to carry me over to the mentally wounded princess, every single guard and alien in the room was on alert as they pointed their weapons at me and was moving closer to try and make sure that I wasn't going to do anything to their princesses.
Once I was close to the lunar princess I can tell that she is starting to crack under the mental pressure that has been placed upon her for her transgression against me.
"We must remake the connection that this one has created if I am to undo the mental trauma." I said as I watched Luna writhe and wince from the pain of it all.
The purple unicorn nodded at me and with a bit of hesitation on her part along with the fear and worry on the faces of everyone else present, Twilight's horn started to glow its lavender hue as she placed a hand on Luna's right shoulder before placing a hand on my left shoulder and in an instant we were pulled into darkness.
Floating alone in the darkness that is Luna's mind I drifted alone for a while, I saw nothing but the blackest void and it wasn't very comforting as it reminded me of the time I spent in the Void. Looking around I saw nothing but darkness but eventually I saw a lavender light off in the distance and after a moment of calling out to it I saw the light vanish before reappearing right in front of me.
"Where are we?" I asked the purple mare as I took a glance around the emptiness.
"If I did this spell right than we are in Princess Luna's mindscape and that all we have to do is either call out to her or if she is having a problem to find and focus in on the source of the mental problem." Twilight said as she floated beside me, having mastered this particular motion before I did I watched her motions to try and mimic them as I bobbled around like a buoy in the ocean during a raging storm.
"That will be easy then, I know what is troubling her. Hold onto me tightly." I said and as soon as I closed my eyes to focus on the target I felt a pair of arms wrap around my neck before I felt the young mare press her body against me just as we vanished into thin air.
We soon reappeared in the middle of a warzone.
There was dead bodies everywhere, bent in every which way the human body can be bent, some of them were melted to the ground and walls, destroyed machines scattered on the floor riddled with bullet holes and scorch marks, even the wreckage of a Dax transport ship was on the battlefield, billowing flames escaping from its ruined frame.
I recognized this place.
This was the surface of Phobos during our incursion against the Sentients, they had a repair facility there and that it was their main maintenance facility within the solar system. We were sent in to destroy and to destroy every single Sentient we could get our hands on and to make sure that they wouldn't be able to fix the damage to it so it could never be used ever again.
It was a slaughter for the Dax soldiers, they were woefully unprepared and had no hope against the enemy.
They had to send us Tenno in to clean up the mess and to find any survivors from the initial assault to help us with our mission.
I was too focused on destroying every single Sentient unit on the battlefield to even bother to rescue those soldiers.
While I was busy remembering this clusterfuck of a mission Twilight was too busy heaving all over the half-melted helmet of a Dax to even pay attention to anything else.
"You done yet?" I asked as Twilight looked up at me with a glare before she once again spewed all over the helmet, not even knowing that it was a helmet in the first place.
"What is this horrible place! Why would you make Princess Luna think of such horrible things!" She chastises me as I simply laugh at her, apparently she has never seen a dead body before, I bet she hasn't even seen herself bleed before either!
"Firstly this place isn't horrible, this is Mars's moon Phobos and secondly, this is not something that I made up, this actually happened from where I am from." I was actually shocked that she would have the audacity to call my favorite place to kick back and relax after a hard day of work and killing things.
"You have skirmishes like this! I thought this was just a nightmare you had!"
"Nope! This actually happened, and this was no skirmishes, this was a vital mission in a chain of several other raids in a long war that ended in our victory. IT also had the bonus as it helped kick start the downfall of an empire." I said as I walked over to a dead Dax Officer before kicking his helmet off, his body has been reduced to ashes while his armor just kept it from falling out and vanishing in the breeze.
The look on her face for disrespecting the dead is priceless.
I know for a fact that these Dax soldiers would have killed me without a second thought if I was outside of my pod, their loyalty to the Seven Executioners was unbreakable but they lacked the skill or even the will to refuse orders that they know is a suicide mission because they are so honor-bound to do as they are told.
Fools, the lot of them.
Executioners, they killed those that went against their principles and their will, it was also because of their greed that they have created the very thing they hated.
Twice.
First was the Sentients, they were created to colonize and ready for our arrival into another system, but they turned against us. I don't know how or why they turned against their creators but when they did they have turned into our greatest enemies and the biggest threat to our lives.
The second was us, the Tenno. They created a monster that they couldn't stop so they went and created several thousand monsters that they thought they could control with their thinly veiled threats. They took us away from our families, destroyed what we once were and turned us into something that is beyond human, and they wondered why we turned against them.
"Do you even honor your dead!?"
"Oh we do honor our fallen, but these guys...these...mindless drones...they are nothing more than cannon fodder. They are worthless compared to those that are like me, a single Tenno can kill several hundred enemy combatants by themselves, but when paired together with one, two or even three more operatives and we can end the lives of thousands of hostile soldiers."
"But what truly takes the cake for my kind, we destroyed an empire from within on our day of victory over the Sentients." I said as I led Twilight through the wreckage of the battle, this place was clearly the aftermath of the incursion, we exterminated everything in sight that wasn't a Tenno or a Dax soldier, but I took that liberty to spare only those that were mostly uninjured. Those plenty that were injured and dying I executed to spare them a slow death, I just stabbed them in the head to end their suffering immediately.
"You destroyed an entire kingdom? Why!"
"The Orokin Empire knew what they did, they damned themselves to their demise."
"But what did they do?"
"They created a plague that destroys the body and mind of those infected and transforms them into mindless beasts of a hive mind nature, they created a machine that adapted to everything that was hostile towards them and that it brought the empire to its knees, the creation of a clone race of slaves that immediately betrayed them as soon as they saw an opening and lastly they created me and those like me." I explained it all to the young mare, her ears folding back and her eyes growing wider with each thing that I list.
In all I think I painted a rather vivid picture as to why it was in everybody's best interest that the Orokin were wiped out. They just kept on creating the means to their own destruction.
Twilight was silent, probably from shock of being told that a mighty system spanning empire was wiped out from its own creations,
"So where do you think this princess of yours is located?"
"In all of this madness? I honestly don't know."
"Well if I can take a wild guess...it is probably at mother's grave."
"Her grave? Your mother is dead!?"
"She is not m-never mind, it is to long of a story and I rather not go into it...I am not willing to reawaken those memories and reveal unto them to anyone just yet. Let us just go find your princess and get out of here." I said with a solemn tone before regaining my usual composure and walked through the cleanly bisected remains of a Battalyst, its tuning fork arms still crackling with energy as it softly hums in the sand.
We walked in silence past burning wrecks, skeletons and disintegrated hulls, it took us several minutes of me and Twilight going through the battlefield to reach the grave sight, the one who took us Tenno in when the rest of the Orokin Empire wanted us either to be vivisected and studied as to why we can harness the Void or to outright kill us as we would be perceived as a threat to their society.
Before long we arrived at the grave and there she was, Princess Luna, a bleeding, scorched, beaten wreck of a princess, and she was leaning against mother's grave.
"Your actions have consequences Princess Luna of Equestria." I said in a menacing tone as I shifted from my normal self and turned into my Rhino Prime, my hands were now holding the shaft of the Fragor Prime as I walked slowly to the dark blue horned winged horse alien.
"Luna, this is just a taste of what the Tenno Order is capable of doing to its enemies. They sent in sixteen Tenno Operatives to take down an entire facility of these monsters when over twelve thousand Dax soldiers have failed. I was nothing more than an Initiate back then but as you can see now, I am far more powerful than I was on this fateful day." I said as I walked over to the princess before sweeping her off her feet and knocked her to the ground before placing the hammer head onto her chest, pinning her to the ground.
"Outside of this realm you attacked me mentally when your horn made contact with my head, whatever you have done in there may have given me the foreign knowledge to translate and understand your language, but the way you have done so has caused me mental trauma. Doing such a thing to a Tenno operative would normally grant you death by summary execution but instead something else has taken your place." Pressing the hammer harder on her chest I watched the princess wheeze and cough harshly as she tried to pry the hammer off her chest.
"This young one has accepted the terms of your punishment and for the time being she will act as my liaison and will be my guide during my stay here until my ship is repaired and is fully functional." And that she will be leaving with me when it is my time to leave, I will need a frame of reference when I return back to the Tenno Council so we can discuss a proper communication line and a possible colonization for refugees on empty zones.
"Please, let me take the punishment, do not involve her-" I cut the princess short as I placed my foot on the hammer head, forcing the air from her lungs and also the life from her body before relenting.
"A deal has been made and the bargain struck, there is nothing you nor your sister can say to negate what has been declared. If it had been denied by the either of you two, we would not be having this conversation right now." I said before I knelt down and picked her up by the waist before turning my head to look at the purple horned one and nodded to her.
Twilight understood what was being silently said as she walked up to us and lit her horn and in a moment the three of us were gone from this hellish landscape of death and ruin.
My vision returned to me and in a few moments I was back in the chamber with the rest of the aliens standing around me, the young purple one was groaning from having her mind thrust into a foreign dreamscape but soon she was all better as she stood back onto her own two feet...hooves...and was back to normal. The lunar princess on the other hand as I turned my head to look at her, she was no longer whining or groaning in pain but instead she was being cradled like a little baby by her big sister. I was left to myself with my warframe holding me steady as I was forced back onto my feet so I could return back to my seat on the other side of the table.
"The deed is done, the bargain made, I expect that you will not try to shirk or pass off your new duties until I deem your debt is paid." I said to the purple alien girl as I walked back to my seat, the other aliens in the room momentarily stopped paying attention to the mentally distressed lunar princess as they all looked at me when I spoke.
Glancing back at the purple horned girl I watched as she remembers to what was said earlier and for a moment I was hoping that she would try to back out of the deal so I can show them what happens to those that break an agreed upon deal.
"I know, just tell me when you are ready to get this started." Twilight said with a solemn tone, knowing that whatever she had planned for the evening might never happen now that she has been essentially made into a slave to spare the life of her princess.
"Good...good...there are things that I need to know and you will be the one to tell me, you will not leave anything out and if there are those that try to tell you otherwise to not say it, kindly remind them of what will happen to you and your fallen princess of the consequence of her transgression." I said as I sat back down in my seat, my Rhino Prime standing beside me, its right hand firmly holding the Lex Prime and it was pointed at the ground for the moment.
And when the other aliens questioned her what I meant she told them exactly what was going to happen to her and the princess and they all immediately gasped and before I can think on what they might try to do to me to end the deal and not execute their princess, the guard in purple and gold armor stormed right up to me and drew his sword and pointed it right at me but my Rhino Prime was faster then him.
It grabbed his sword and ripped it from his grasp before it snapped the sword in half like a twig with just a single hand before his other hand dropped the Lex Prime right into my lap and grabbed the alien officer by the throat and lifted him off the ground three five feet into the air.
"If I was you young officer I would not make such hasty actions without knowing the consequences of your actions because after all your actions have consequences and it would be a real shame if I would have to kill you in front of your friends and family." In an eerily calm tone I spoke to the guard captain as he flailed in the air, his legs kicking uselessly about as he tried to pry the lone hand that was securely wrapped around his throat.
"Please don't hurt him!" The purple girl shouted, with the translation forced upon me I recalled back the words that was said and filtered everything out until I came upon to the words she said and picked out her name.
Twilight Sparkle.
I weep for the future if all names are like this on this world.
"Oh don't worry, I won't harm a single strand of hair on his head. I am just going to instill him the fear of knowing that he almost got you and your dark princess killed for his brash actions." I said and for a moment I caught the officer cease his resistance and realize that he nearly did get his own sister and lunar princess killed.
As soon as he was well aware of his actions I released him from the warframe's grip and went back to my calm neutral stance as I gave back the heavy pistol to my Rhino Prime.
"Now, shall we begin with the questioning young one, there is much I need to know and there is not enough time to learn it all."
And so began the questioning...
"Where are we currently?"
"Canterlot, the royal castle of the two sisters to be exact."
"What is the name of this planet?"
"Equis."
"What are you."
"I am a unicorn."
"What are the other races that inhabit this world?"
"Well besides us unicorns there are pegasi, earth ponies, diamond dogs, gryphons, minotaurs, dragons, zebras, donkeys, deerfolk, and lastly alicorns."
"Interesting...I will need to know more about these races, I require any and all information regarding these people to be sent to my room by today's end. I wish to learn more about these races if I am to remain here for what might be the foreseeable future."
"I will gladly tell you everything that you wish to know, but can you please be a little nicer to us? I don't mean to imply that you are being rude to us but it is just that so far you have been a little bit...well-" Twilight said as she made circles on the table with a finger, clearly a nervous tick of hers or just a motion she is going through.
"You have been acting like a real flankhole ever since you got here." The rainbow haired pegasus said as she crossed her arms and was wearing a thinly veiled smirk. This one was called Rainbow Dash...I hate this place more and more if the names are like this. A noun and an adjective...why?
"Oh? So I am acting like this 'flankhole' as you call it? Well have you ever crash landed your only home into the ground on a foreign planet before?" If the 'flankhole' means asshole then well, she is spot-on, I am an asshole but that is only when it is necessary.
"Well...once, but that was because I was a little drunk at the time and it was my first time moving my home all by myself." That actually made me do a double take because not once did I see anything resembling a crater or a burnt out mess earlier.
That actually stumped me, I saw nothing in this world that looked like a moveable building as it was all built into the ground or the side of a mountain. I guess this person either lives far from here or I just didn't see it at the moment when I was in the air.
"Hmm, well then how about learning that you have been sleeping your entire life and have only just been released from that coma-like state after the enemy has learned where you have been hiding for the past few centuries and you only just barely escape death by the skin of your teeth only to have that same enemy appear in your home and nearly get killed there?"
"Uhh..."
"Or how about being torn from your family and placed on a ship to an unscheduled trip to a realm where logic and science fail and that when you return home you are immediately placed into a secure facility and studied like lab rats because you and those that went with you are the only ones to have returned from that accursed place alive and changed? To be poked and prodded to learn what makes you tick?"
"No..."
"What about being turned into a weapon and are forced to fight for an empire that treated you like shit your entire life because you are different? Have you been forced to fight in a war that they created because they were shortsighted and didn't bother to study their new creations to a certain degree and ensure that it wouldn't ever betray them in the foreseeable future?"
"No." It made Rainbow Dash back off for the moment as her ears folded back in defeat but I pressed on even further.
"What about having the only person in your life treat you better than anyone else ever did and you then find out that she was actually the very enemy that was trying to kill you at every moment? Have you ever had a crisis of faith and just wanted to end it all only to know that you can't because you would just come back to life?"
"Okay we get it! You had a hard life!"
"Do you? Because no one ever has a hard life until it is forced upon them, I had to watch in silence as the only person that cared about me and the others like me as she was executed for going against the Seven Principles. She was a mother to us all and they killed her because she knew that what she was doing was wrong and that it has left her scarred."
That made everyone silent as I rubbed at my temples, a headache was starting to form and it was starting to annoy me to no end.
It was when the silence grew too great that one of them spoke out, the yellow one to be precise.
"I'm sorry..."
I looked up at the source of the voice, the yellow winged girl looked at me for a moment before quickly hiding behind her hair and for a moment there was silence before I exhaled explosively in annoyance until I broke the silence as I sat up straight.
"Don't be, you did nothing wrong yellow one. The only ones in the wrong here is your lunar princess, your unicorn officer and your rainbow friend along with myself are to blame. The stress of several revelations all crashing down at once along with getting marooned on a alien planet isn't doing any favors as well." I admitted as I let out another sigh, its hard to even explain everything that I went through to someone because I doubt that any of them went through seven centuries of war with hardly any breaks during it all along with that lovely crisis of faith with the Lotus being a damn Sentient in disguise.
Before the conversation can die and everything be lulled back into silence, the pink one stood up with a gasp before she started to talk in rapid succession and it took one of her friends to convince her to slow down so everyone else can understand what was being said.
"We should totally start over and be friends! No more grudges between us all and we can finally be friends with someone from space! A space friend! Oh that would be so cool because I can then tell my sister that space rocks are real and that there is somepony here that can prove it and-" Did...did she just suggest such a thing? A restart? You don't just restart after an incident like that!
How does one even just forget a clusterfuck that just happened not even an hour ago!
But then again, this can have some benefits to it. I can possibly get on their good side and get some things out of this all the while holding onto this grudge and not enact upon it until I absolutely need to.
Letting out a sigh I dropped my head before looking up at the white princess in question.
"Alright, I can agree to this...restart as you call it. But just know this Princess." I said as I leaned forward slightly, trying to make myself look bigger but with me being next to my warframe I am pretty much dwarfed by its size and made weaker because of it.
"Know what?" The white one, Celestia if I am remembering the translation properly, said as she looked at me with a hopeful glimmer in her magenta eyes.
"That if you ever dare to enter my mind without my permission ever again, I will enact the Law of Retribution upon you and those that dare to intrude upon anything that I hold sacred. Other then that just don't anything to piss me off." I don't think I can even enact that law without the council or the Lotus's permission all the way out here, but I can sure as fuck make that threat with ease!
"What is this 'Law of Retribution' that you speak of...besides of what it sounds like that is." The white unicorn said, Rarity I believe...I hate my life so much.
"It is exactly as it sounds like, a law where we enact our retribution upon those that have brought it upon themselves. We have only used it once and it was carried out by myself and seven other Tenno operatives on Grineer Councilor Vay Hek." And may this monster rot in hell for all eternity.
"What did he do to warrant such a thing?" Oh you wouldn't believe why he didn't get such a bounty on himself any sooner!
"He attacked and destroyed our relays, are new homes that we built in orbit over the planets of our system. He thought that by launching a devastating attack on our homes he thought it would break us, it instead made us mad. We followed him in hot pursuit back to Earth and we chased him through hell and high water to bring justice down upon him, from Earth to Ceres we forced him out of hiding by hijacking a power core for his Fomorian flagships. Eventually we chased him down to Mars and cornered him, we broke his mechanical chassis and body and when he begged for his life, I made sure he would never bother the solar system ever again by cleaving his head in half before burning his body." I said as I let out a closed snarl as I said that Grineer bastard's name.
The looks of grimace, fear and several hints of disgust were clearly evident in all of their faces but I could care less if they didn't like what I had to do. He killed both innocent people alone and fellow Tenno agents, he executed those that were in his way as he climbed the ranks of the Grineer military along with those that might ever be a threat to his power.
"Doesn't that seem a little...harsh, don't you think?" The white horned girl said as she covered her mouth with a dainty hand, seems like she is weak when it comes to death and reality.
"Trust me, he has done far worse to those he deems unworthy or in his way." I watched a recording of a Fomorian glassing a colony on Mars of renegade Grineer clones and human colonists.
"Why would such a hateful, evil being be allowed to roam unchecked or stopped for so long?" I have no idea, I was hoping that Sargas Ruk would have smoked his ass or even his damn Queens, but nope, neither did him in.
"Because it was partially the fault of us Tenno. When we destroyed the Orokin Empire we also inadvertently created a power vacuum that was quickly filled with the crude and ruthless Grineer and the greedy Corpus, these two factions hated each other almost as much as they hated us. Hell, they would sometimes stop in the middle of a firefight just to try and kill us." I said as I recalled back to the time when I was on board a Corpus Hammerhead flagship trying to retrieve a hostage and it was halfway through the vessel when it was besieged by Grineer Galleons. I was a few inches away from stealthily breaking the hostage out when a Grineer pod punched through a window that just so happened to be overhead right behind me and blew out the rest of the glass from explosive decompression.
I bet the cleanup crew for the Corpus were infuriated that they had to clean up what was probably a river of blood and a mountain of corpses that ran from one end of the ship to the other.
"At the very least we ended one threat and several others that rose up from the ashes of an empire." I said while picking my ear, it has been a while since I did that and well, it felt like it was a proper time to do it.
"Does this make us friends?" The pink one asked me and for a moment I was going to straight up tell her 'no' but I instead decided a different course of action.
"No, we are more like...acquaintances then friends." I said as I relaxed in my chair, my Rhino Prime relaxed as well by dropping into a much more calmer stance.
"Then how do we become friends?" The pink one asked as she seemed to be bouncing in her seat, and just now I am noticing that she has two strange lumps on her chest and that they were bouncing up and down. I do not know if that is healthy or not, cancerous or are just a part of her biology.
In fact almost all of them have those strange two chest lumps...some of them are bigger than others. Is this a female-only thing or is it something else? If only I paid attention to those biology classes while I was back on that outpost over Ceres!
"Unless the way to become friends is different from my system to here then I think we just have to get to know each other, but I would rather refrain from doing such things for the time being." Back home to be friends you just have to be a good teammate while in a squad of Tenno's, I got my friends by making sure that they don't eat that machinegun sandwich with a side of explosive rockets.
"And why is that?"
"Because he is still here." I said before turning to look at the lone alien in a lab coat.
All eyes in the room immediately shifted over to the lone scientist as he looked at everyone before turning back to me.
"What? What do you have against me?" The professor said with a bit of a hurt tone but I can tell that he is pissed that I am singling him out in front of royalty and also possibly his fellow colleagues.
"Because it is people like you who made people like me without first wondering if they even should tamper with things that was beyond their understanding." Just look at Jurassic Park! Why would the idiots of the past resurrect ancient monsters of the deeper past to be a part of an amusement park for the enjoyment of defenseless civilians! That is just stupid on so many levels!
That shut him up as I leaned in my seat, slightly making it off balance but it was stopped when my warframe adjusted his right leg so the back of the chair would rest against it.
Soon enough it was the cyan winged girl that spoke up after thinking on what to say.
"So do you have any sports where you are from?" Rainbow Dash said and for a moment I paused to think this one through.
That brought a smirk to my face as I recalled everything that we had back home.
"Yup, we have the Conclave and Lunaro, along with Rathuum and the Index." I said as I recalled back to the fun times I had with those sports, for that matter the blood sports that I had fun with.
"Those sound like fun! Do you think you can teach us those games?" The pink one said, apparently learning about games is a thing that she enjoys...I doubt she would even like these games.
"Well the Conclave is an arena where fellow Tenno fight and compete against one another. Lunaro is something similar to the Conclave but it is a much more ancient sport where two teams toss a ball through a hoop all the while thrashing the opponents that are holding the ball to drop it. Rathuum is a much more...bloodier sport, it involves the Grineer Executioners who fight against traitors and prisoners to entertain their soldiers but recently we Tenno joined in on the sport to free the prisoners. And as for the Index...I don't know much about it other than it is the Corpus version of the Rathuum but I think it might be something else entirely." I actually miss Rathuum, I love making Kela De Thaym scream in anger as I wipe the floor with her favorite band of killers.
Good times.
Well good times for me, but for the rest of these aliens they all seem to be a bit green around the gills, so to speak. I guess they don't like violence or blood sports all that much.
"Is there anything that you do that isn't filled with violence or pain?" The purple one said as she grimaces, seems like I was right after all.
"Not really, other than that the only thing we have that doesn't revolve around such things are our mediations, practicing in the obstacle course, playing with our Kubrows and Kavats, and for the most part just enjoying a relaxing time in the relays." Truth be told playing with my pets is truly relaxing, even when I thought I was just a being a pure energy inhabiting the warframes that I have created I had always thought that those two would keep me company till the end of time or until their genetic structure falls apart.
The words 'Kubrow' and 'Kavat' perked up the ears of a buttercream yellow winged girl as she looked up with what looks like a hopeful smile on her face.
"What are they? Are they nice? Do they play well with others?" This one, Fluttershy...huh a name that matches her shy nature if she continues to hide behind that long hair of hers.
"They are genetically-created pets that belonged to the upper echelons of Orokin society, a few of them were created to assist us Tenno's out in the field while others were made to help clean up an Infestation Outbreak. They are nice to those they are imprinted to and they only play with their masters, with others...well does losing a limb or getting mauled count as playing?" I said with a bit of humor, my kubrow just loves to maul on those tasty Grineer roller balls.
"You ask me what I do for fun but I have to ask what do you do for fun?" I said while looking at the purple unicorn girl and for a moment I thought I saw a flash of mischief but that couldn't be, she wouldn't dare to do anything that might cause her to lose her life so soon.
I soon learned why she was smiling like that.
We ended up in what these alien ponies call a royal archive and I was sitting in a chair surrounded by the purple one's friends as she brought several stacks of books onto the table we were at. I feared that if she put anymore books down that the table might not be able to support the weight and cave in.
I later learned that my purple liaison is in fact a tremendous bookworm that probably has more knowledge than Cephalon Samaras and that might actually be a scary thought and a sight to ever behold if that was true.
Eventually though a pony guard entered the archive with a scroll in his hands and gave it to the white princess before standing to the side out of the way, my guess is that he is a messenger and is just waiting for either a reply to be made or to be dismissed.
So primitive.
The white princess hummed thoughtfully to herself as I watched her pace back and forth, I can only speculate what was written on that piece of paper but for the time being I can only hope it is good news because I will not let myself get involved in these pony's affairs.
I have my own bloody affairs to contend with and all of them are out to either kill me or mutate and mutilate me into an unimaginable horror born from a test tube and needle.
"What is wrong sister, is there something wrong?" The lunar princess said as she finally said something after having her mind bruised during our little scuffle earlier. I am moderately happy to see that she is well enough to speak under her own power and now through life support or through a machine apparatus.
"It would seem all of the old records, priceless relics, old portraits and antiques from our old palace have mysterious vanished last night while both of our guards were present and in the area." The white princess said as I swallowed dryly. It would seem the alien relics that I was collecting earlier belonged to them, but seeing how it was left behind to rot for Lotus knows how long...
"Oops."
Author's Note
I should have no excuse for being late other than my laptop being a piece of shit but I was a bit busy playing Endless Space 2, grinding Warframe for ayatan sculptures and lastly playing Gears of War 4.
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