Order of The Lotus

by DisplacedCommunalAccount

Rating: teen
Tags: Main 6, Cutie Mark Crusaders, Queen Chrysalis, Other, Adventure, Crossover, Tragedy, Sunset Shimmer, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Alternate Universe
Length: 28364

War is a dreadful thing. We're were dragged to this world to save it and we are just going with the flow. But we aren't alone in this mess. Started as strangers we became something more. A family.

Tucked away, behind a false Panel, Lies a book with a stylized lotus inscribed in the front. Within, Minotaur-like shapes are drawn in outstanding detail, with stories written about their feats.

At the beginning of the book, is a story, as if these figures were myth. "Once Upon a Time, In the Magical Land of Equestria, an Order of Knights stepped forward when the Nights were at their darkest. Discord, The Lord of Chaos, Found these Knights when all had seemed lost, and even his own power could not contend with the Foreign beings known as "The Grineer." These Knights fought against the Grineer that had invaded the Land, with a Camaraderie and skill unmatched by any force.

However, The Knights were being pushed back, unable to fight all of them at once. It was then when Discord turned to The Ponies, and their leaders, The Avatars of the Sun and Moon, Celestia and Luna. He Begged the Sisters for help, Offering the Land back to the Ponies, His own willing Imprisonment, and even willing to give up his powers if only to save Equestria.

The Sister's Agreed, and With the Elements of Harmony, along with the Knights, They Defeated the Grineer, and Sealed them beyond a pool of mystic water, where they would be unable to escape, for all of time. The Knights then scattered to the four winds of Equis, with the Intention of sleeping until Equestria called again, in the next hour of True Darkness.

Within this Book, Tells the Story of each Knight, each of those faithful beings who rescued Equestria, and Sleep to this Day.
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This is a collaboration story between;
geo hikari
Forgedheart
illua
Theyellowninja13
Solarkness
Joshleb1098
Dundredo
Ninetails

Published 2015-06-28 06:30:01 UTC
Last updated 2016-01-18 20:09:21 UTC

The day 23 people vanish

The day 23 people vanish.

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(Geo hikari)

Today was the day! My name is jack trans a black haired twenty year old man with electric blue eyes. But today I was dressed as the volt warframe from the mmo Warframe. It was the basic version. The armor was basically a light blue knight armor with the thighs and arms being brown. The knees were extended by about four inches. The helmet was hard to describe being pretty much looking like a fencing helmet with a solid face front with a crest on top looking like I had a dull sideways fin on my head. On the bottom where my mouth was supposed to be was a brown stubbed horn. Took me a long time to make the helmet as I had to use a special clear plastic I had to tint on one side to look like the 'face' of the warframe. Looped on my arms between the shoulders and elbows were three loops that made it look like I had Tesla coils attached. On my thighs were replicas of the kunai holsters from the warframe game. On my back in a sheath was a replica of the Paris mk 1 sword. Next to it was the Paris bow. I was taking the space ninja thing a bit seriously as one rule about ninja is that their silent. Guns are not silent. Oh right I bet your wondering about where I'm headed with this get up. I'm heading to e3 to Promote the game and as a joke I was bringing something I was working on on the side of my costume.

It was a silver robotic fox with nine tails. Took me three years to build and wire. The hardest was the tails. Had to find a nine point connector to connect the tails to one spot into the body. I gave the fox custom optics where when it's on the optics light up electric blue and can change to either amber or crimson depending on the mood. Amber is to signal that it's in the calm or serious mood while crimson symbolized the predator and hunter in each canine. Problem was that I sucked at programing so for now the fox was just a statue that can move and has no mind. I used light weight material to make it. I tried to make the kitsune as authentic to real foxes shape wise meaning fully jointed and the endo mimicked a fox's skeleton as much as possible. Yeah you can see why it took my three years to make this thing.

Well with that I gathered my things and sighed as I remembered the one thing about the costume I didn't have time to make for it. The greaves for the lower legs and feet. I pretty much had on a brown bodysuit with built in soles covering that part.

When I arrived at the convention center I was pretty much in awe. The place was packed with a gamers paradise. I had a fun time and played some demos of upcoming games though I steered clear of certain games. Then I found a interesting store in the center. The sign was pretty much a tao symbol. The classic yin and yang. Entering I smiled at the place. There was items from various franchises over the walls and isles. Manning the counter was a blonde woman like with her eyes colored white and wore a white dress that made me think of a holy person for some reason. Her entire presence felt innocent and calming. Next to her was a white kitten with a black bow around the neck. The fact the bow part was behind the head showed it was a girl. With her at the counter was a complete opposite of her owner. Black hair with demonic red eyes dressed in a black business suit with a black book in hand he felt like his presence was drowning out all light and made me on edge. Though the similar features made me think these two were siblings and I felt that they fit the sign of the shop to a t. Very much opposites of each other.

"Welcome to the balance twins emporium I'm yin and this is my twin brother yang, how may we help you" said the woman looking at me.

"Do you sell costume pieces? I'm kinda missing a part of my costume" I said motioning to my legs.

"Didn't have enough time?" asked yang raising a eyebrow inwardly making me cringe at his voice reminding me of that one person that always seem to have dark intentions even if he never means to act on them. Creepy as heck.

"Yeah between working on this and the costume I ran out of material to make the greaves of the costume. Just doesn't feel right that the costume is basically not complete. Not many people know about warframe after all" I said placing my robotic kitsune on the counter as I was carrying it in my arms.

"Nice craftsmanship. I can see you worked hard on this little cyber kitsune" said yin looking over the fox.

"Yeah though I'm not a programmer while it is functional I don't know how to code in a ai into it so it can move. I had to use my experience raising female foxes over at the animal shelter near big bear mountain to get the frame right. Guess that makes this a vixen took me three years to get this far" I said making yin whistle in a impressed tone.

"If you want we can see about the CPU for this. We may deal with various franchises but we also deal with electronics and with how much work went into this I want to see it finished. Can you open up the head so I can work on it. My brother can help you with your costume" said yin.

"That would be fine" I said reaching behind the head and flicked a small switch making the panels forming the head unfold revealing the electronics inside.

"This is very impressive that mechanism makes it easy to reassemble the frame once done working" said yin picking up the fox and was surprised how light 'she' was.

"Light weight material? There is some weight from the electronics it's making me think I'm holding a actual fox a couple of years old. You really went the extra mile on authentic detail" said yin.

I followed yang to where the leg and foot wear section was and looking at a picture I had of the full costume the twin pulled out the identical greaves of the warframe.

"Looks like your in luck someone built these about a week back but sold them to us because apparently they didn't fit the costume. The person was dressed as link from hyrule warriors" said yang making me raise a eyebrow. That was a surprise. Taking them we went back to the counter where yin returned with my kitsune back to full assembly.

"I have to admit this is one impressive fox robot I took a look at everything to make sure the CPU wasn't incapatable with the whole build. This was your first build right? You got some talent here" said yin handing me the fox and I noticed that there was some black decals making the fox look more realistic.

"Okay the CPU and the greaves together cost around thirty dollars that is with a 5% discount for such detailed work. It takes a lot to impress my sister here she prides herself on knowing her mechanics and to give you praise like that shows that you made it on a very rare good note with her" said yang tallying up everything.

"Got me there not many are as interested in robotics as me and to see such a impressive first build I just had to give you some major props. You were very through with the detail. I also like the optic system you had. Blue means a docile mood while amber and crimson are different moods. And they can have a wide range of expression. Now why don't you try on the greaves after paying I want to see the full set" said yin.

With a chuckle at the fact I impressed someone I played the amount and slid on the light blue greaves into place and picked up my fox in my arm as if I was cradling it to my chest.

"Nice so what are you going to name the cyber vixen?" Asked yang giving a rare interested look.

"I was thinking moonlight. The frame looks a bit like moonlight when light hits it" I said showing them what I meant.

"Wow the opposite of my little sunshine here" said yin petting her cat.

"I can feel the irony here a canine and feline having similar yet opposite names" said the cat with a purr making me stare.

"Did your cat just talk?" I asked blinking.

"Yes and good luck on your journey" said yang and it was then I realized my body was disintegrating into particles as if I was being transported somewhere else.

"I feel like I'm not going to like where this is headed" I said just before I vanished.

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(Illua)
It has been Two Years since I have dared enter any form of Convention, But I decided that has been enough time. Besides, It was E3! The Games, The Excitement, The Players! The Air was abuzz with the chatter of gamers and developers alike, While the sounds of gunfire and magic were blaring from multiple speakers from the numerous booths.

Let me Introduce myself. My name Is Jayson Averra, Twin Brother to the Missing Seinaru Averra, Gamer, and Craftsman. I stand at Six foot Two Inches, with a broad build for someone my height, With Snow white hair and Blue eyes. You wouldn't be able to tell that though currently with my Costume on. I am Cosplaying as Frost, The Warframe of Ice from the MMO, Warframe. I was wearing a Long, High collar coat, in which the collar attached to the Crab like helmet, concealing every inch of my body. My Black pants hung loosely around my legs, up until the Large and heavy boots. I had spent months and most of my excess funds on this project, ordering the carbon fiber and shaping the helmet and boots in just the right manner, allowing me to slip them on comfortably, and still be able to see out through a one way panel on the front of the helm.

I wandered E3, Rotating through the different presentations, from Fallout to Halo, and hearing the common complaint of 'where's Kingdom Hearts 3 Squeenix?' each time I would move to a different Presentation, I noticed an Inconspicuous Sign. A Tao, plain and simple, hanging over a Door to one of the Store rooms. I passed it once more, looking at it, feeling as If I was drawn to it. What the hell... Might as well see what they have. As I cracked the door Open, I immediately noticed how the store was evenly split between Black and White, with the goods on either side representing the good and Evil of varying franchises, while the more neutral items lined the racks in the Center.

"Welcome to the Balance Twin's Emporium." I turned to look at the counter, and saw a duo of merchants. The one on the White half of the store was a Fair skinned woman with waist length blonde hair, dressed much like a Greek goddess, with... White Eyes? Probably colored contacts.. "I'm Yin," The Female Spoke, her voice Soft and soothing, with a pleasing lilt, " And this is my Twin Brother, Yang. How may we Help you?" Compared to his Sister, Yang was a Tall man, with jet Black hair, his Crimson eyes glittering in the light. He wore a Buisness suit with off white pinstripes, with a Tome the color of midnight in his hands. The Light seemed to be dim around him, despite the lighting being excellent through the rest of the store.

"Just Taking a look around..." I Trailed off, looking along the Neutral racks.

"Eh. Seems like you're Missing a Piece of your Costume." The Male, Yang, Stated. His voice was Gravelly, with a dark overtone, that would set anyone on Edge.

"Honestly, This is the Complete outfit, But I did want to make the Syandana..." I spoke, rubbing my arm slightly as I attempted to dispel the chills Yang gave me. As per the game, I had chosen A Off-white color as the primary color on my Costume, with Deep Blue Highlights, and Made the Miscellaneous areas Black.

Yin giggled softly, Heading towards the White Walls, and sliding a panel back, pulling out a few scarf like objects, with an obvious collar like attachment at one end. "I believe These are what you are referring to?" I stared in wonder from beneath my Flat helmet. I looked over the set of them, Their names coming to mind near instantly. Rakta, Noru, Imperator, Harkonar... Ah! My Uru Syandana! I lifted up the Wide strip of cloth, taking a closer look at the lovingly crafted accesory. It Even matched my costume in color. "What is the Price on this one?"

"Hm... It Matches your outfit Flawlessly... Twenty Dollars." My eyes widened as my Jaw dropped. Only Twenty? The Craftsmanship would make it at least fifty... Thankful for my mask, I pulled out my wallet from beneath the heavy coat, and paid for the Syandana.

Despite being a Man, I nearly Squealed like a little girl in Excitement. I mean, Not only did I have my Prop Weapons, The AkVastos, Tiberon, and The Dakra Blade, I had the final piece that Replicated my In-game Frost. I clipped it on with ease, taking a quick Tug at it, Confirming it was secure.

Yang Finally Spoke again. "Ah, A fitting appearance for A Cold and Dangerous Journey." I nodded, containing my excitement to run out and Enjoy the Expo. "Have a Nice Trip." He Said, Waving.

I looked down as my Fingers and legs begin to dematerialize. I sighed as I looked up at the Twin Merchants. As My Vision turned Black, All I could think of was the Day my Sister disappeared in the same fashion, Two Years Ago.

(Theyellowninja13)

I whistled in surprise at the sight. Standing in front of me was a huge convention. I've finally saved enough money to go to the nearby gamer's convention. I should introduce myself first. My name's Blaise Flint, and I recently moved out on my own to live in the big city. I looked around at all the costumes, amazed at how in depth they were (when I could recognize them). I looked down at myself, noticing that I didn't wear a costume, due to not having enough money.

I sighed, and continued moving, looking through all the stalls. But finally, I found a stall with something that seriously interested me. In the stall there were an assortment of cool items from a game I can kinda remember. Warframe I think it was. The person running this stall had all kinds of things from that game. But what really struck my interest was the boa staff. It was colored red and yellow.

"Ah yes, I see you have noticed the staff." A voice said, and I looked up to notice that merchant running the stall was talking to me. He looked kinda creepy, as if he stepped out of a game himself.

"It is a well made staff." I replied, remembering my training that involves using boa staffs. I'm pretty good with them, as my parents let me get training for them ever since I was a child.

"Yes it is. I designed it after a character from Warframe." 'I wonder which character?'

I reach over and pick it up, slightly testing it out. "How much is this?"

"Ten dollars." He simply stated.

"Deal." I said with a smile. My previous boa staff broke when a friend incorrectly used it by banging it against stuff. So I needed a new staff and this one looked pretty good. I pulled out ten dollars, and gave them to the merchant.

"Then the deal is struck!" He snapped his fingers, and I noticed the world seemed to be slowly getting darker.

"Which character is this staff based on?" I asked, remembering hearing that someone on the news said they bought something from a merchant, and got sent as their character they dressed up as.

"Ember of course." The merchant said with a smile. 'Wait, Ember is a female.'

The world seemed to be getting darker and darker, but I quickly reached forward, and punched the Merchant in the face. Hard. "That's for doing what I think you're doing." Then, everything went dark, before a bright flash of white light almost blinded me.

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(Geo hikari)

My name is Kevin Russo I'm your average twenty five year old man. I'm one of those Hispanic Americans with slightly tanned skin and black hair. My eyes though were a light silver. I work as a mechanic and slight repair guy over in queens. But I'm also a gamer. My games range around my profession. So you can see I'm a fan of things like mass effect, dead space, portal anything related to tech I might have played it. But recently I got into a mmo I stumbled on steam that caught my interest. Warframe. It was like nothing I have ever saw. And right up my ally with the foundry. There was also everything about it that got me excited like I was ten years old again. There was a convention today here in new York that gave me a chance to take a break from my job. It was a convention based around all things sci fi. I forgot what it was called but it must have been similar to the star wars convention or star trek. Either way I was dressed as Vauban my warframe from the game.

It was a mainly blue armor with red as a secondary and there was white edges. My helmet was shaped a bit like the front of a train which was what I honestly thought it looked like from the image I saw. Equipped to my hip was a pistol I modified to resemble the one in the game and on my back was a staff. With it was a Paris mk 2 bow. Fully suited up I headed for the con with my wallet.

I was having a grand old time when I discovered a curious little booth. And on it next to what looked like a star trek com link was a data chip CPU with the image of a lotus on it. Curious I went up and looked at the vendor and noted he looked a lot like Hephaestus from the Percy Jackson books. Asking him how much for the chip he replied five dollars. I shrugged feeling it was fair and paid for it. As I was walking away I felt a bit dizzy before I suddenly started to fall not noticing the chip was softly glowing. I was out before I even hit the ground.
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(Theyellowninja13)

"That's quite a sight." I said to brother as I looked upon the imposing convention. We traveled across the entire country to get to this convention, as it's the most famous convention in the United States of America. My name's Nisha, and I was currently dressed up as my favorite character from the game Warframe, Mesa. My costume is hard to describe, but it's colored a bright yellow, a dull blue, grey, and black. My head looks like it is surrounded by a yellow wrap with a black spot around my right eye. I dressed up as Mesa because of a similarity between us. We're both good at firing guns. My father trained me how to accurately fire most weapons when I was really young, as my mother was killed by a crazy person when me and my older brother were really young.

My brother, Chuck, was with me, dressed up as his favorite Warframe, Rhino. He looked the part, as he was rather huge and bulky. His costume was mostly orange with some black mixed in. "Yes it is." He said simply, replying to my earlier comment.

"Think we'll find anything cool?" I asked Chuck.

"Most likely." And with that, we were off, looking at all the amazing costumes, and the stalls too.

Eventually, we found a stall that had something we both wanted, some weapons for our Warframes. I wasn't allowed to bring weapons with me, so I decided to buy the pair of fake pistols this merchant had. I didn't get a good look at what Rhino wanted to buy, as the stall's merchant came up to us. "I see you noticed these pistols. They're the same kind the Warframe your costume uses."

"How much?" I asked, completely forgetting about everything else, even my brother, as I was so focused on getting the guns.

"Twenty dollars for both." He simply stated.

I quickly grabbed my wallet from a secret pocket on my suit, and pulled out twenty dollars and gave it to him. "Deal." He handed me the two guns, as they were on the wall behind him, and I quickly tested them out as if they were real guns. "Wow, these are pretty realistic!"

"Yes they are. I hope you two enjoy! Oh, and do be careful, the first trip is always a doozy." 'What?' I asked myself, as I felt myself fall backwards, and I yelled, as everything turned white. I could vaguely hear my brother yell as well.
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(Dundredo)

I was in the Salt lake Comic Con. I had gone a few times before this, but the size of it always surprised me. Something that I was especially exited about this year was that I was cosplaying. I had never done this before, and I had put a lot of time, effort, and money into my costume. I was dressed as the Warframe Saryn. She was my favorite Warframe because of her organic nature. I was just drawn to things like that, like iron filings to a magnet. The only thing I was disappointed about was my lack of a weapon. In Warframe I always played with just a melee weapon, but my attempt at making a replica of Mire was still in progress.

I spotted a booth with a Ying-Yang symbol. I walked over to it, and was stunned by the merchandise. All of it was quality work. But what caught my attention the most was the meticulously crafted replica of Mire laying on the counter next to other swords. I rushed over to the counter.

"How much for that sword?" I blurted out. I had kept my eyes on Mire up until a unsettling voice spoke.

"Normally, several hundred dollars. But since it would be a shame if your costume went uncompleted, two hundred. I looked up to see a man with demonic looking red eyes looking at me in a calculating way. He had raven black hair, but it seemed almost darker than that. He also wore a business suit that seemed like it was absorbing the light around it. I was glad for the mask on my costume, as I could pretend to be returning his stare. In actuality, I was almost gibbering. Then a woman that was the polar opposite of him stepped toward him.

"Honestly Yang." She said. "Don't do that." She then turned toward me, and gave me a smile that made me feel like I was loved by the universe. "Sorry about that. My name is Ying. What's yours?"

"Aisha." I said. She nodded.

"Well, you can have the sword for fifty bucks. Just to say sorry for my brothers attitude." I whipped out my wallet, and handed her a fifty.

"Thank you so much!" I said as I picked Mire up.

"My pleasure." She said, patting me lovingly on the arm. "And have a nice trip. I would love to talk to you again someday." I nodded, smiling behind my mask.

"I would like to ta- wait, what trip?" I asked. I looked down just as a shock wave of particles disintegrated me. I only had time to feel slightly hurt by this betrayal before I blacked out.
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(Forgedheart)

As I got off the bus I threw up my hands and shouted “HELLO E3!!” some people look at me like I was crazy, others were just as excited as I was. My name is Kiyoshi Takenaka (but my friends call me Yoshi or Yosh) I’m a 20 year old half-Japanese guy from Washington (the state not the city.) and this is my first year at E3 and I was pumped, so pumped that I dressed up as a modified version of Banshee (technically banshee’s a girl but I don’t care) from one of my favorite MMO’s Warframe, The main color was black,the secondary color a dark purple, and the cloth parts covering my legs and some of the armor was a light lavender also as opposed to the standard helmet (which looks really stupid) I wore the Chorus version (it kinda looks like there’s a lyre on my head.)

I entered the convention center and it was as awesome as I thought it would be there were demos, panels, and shops every where I didn’t know where to start! that is until I noticed A door with a Yin-Yang symbol above it, curious I entered and found the shop was filled with various merch from many different games, at the counter was a dark-haired man with red eyes dressed in a black suit. He looked at me like I was covered in trash.

“get out we’re closed.” he said with disdain. I didn't appreciate the tone but I was adamant on buying something.

“then why was your door open pal?” I retorted sarcastically.

“doesn’t matter just get out!” he spat back. “I’m done for today.”

I was about to respond when I heard a voice from the back yell out “YANG! Don’t pester the customers!” A door near the back opened up and a girl in a white dress with blonde hair and...White eyes? They must really like those contacts if they’re wearing them when the shop is closed. she gave the man ,who I assume is Yang, a stern look then turned to me and smiled brightly.

“Welcome to the balance twins emporium I’m Yin and this grump is my twin brother Yang, How may I help you?” I turned towards Yang. “just wanted to buy something.” he turned away “hmph whatever.” she giggled a bit “don’t mind him have a look around.” I nodded

Almost immediately I saw it a perfect Nikana Replica (A katana in the game) and picked it up, and pulled the sword from its sheath It weighs as much as the ones my dad has at home. My dad’s from japan and growing he taught me kendo and I practiced often but lacked a real blade..until now that is. the blade gleamed in the light.

“how much for this?” I asked hoping I could afford it. Yin smiled and walked over “well nomally it’s about 400 dollars, but if you buy this Attica crossbow and these Hikou Throwing stars all together it’s only 325 dollars. I pulled out my wallet “deal.” I handed her the money and started putting on my new gear. I thanked her and as I turned to leave she said "your welcome, Good luck on your Journey and sorry about this.” I stopped “sorry about wha-” I was cut-off as I fell to the ground and blacked out.
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(Solarkness ; Limbo ; The Employer)
I was always interested in games where you had to kill others, from Assasin's Creed to Call of Duty, I played it all.

"You came late to the job again? Please tell me you're going to change that... they might fire you!"

So it came as no surprise, that I immediately jumped at the chance to play yet another game:

"Warframe! You gotta play it with me some time! You know how I never liked shooters? Well, this one's special!"

Seeing how I am the good friend I am, I played with him often.

"Com'on! Your mom always told you you shouldn't be that late to the job! You can't leave me hanging just because you didn't listen to her, can you?"

I should have worked harder to get a new job after I lost my last one. I never liked being a windowcleaner anyways...

I remember that day...

It was a rainy day, clouds were hiding the whole sky. But I didn't care, I didn't care it was unlikely a firma in the upper half of the city would want me. I was happy... happy to have found work again, so I could earn my living again.

'Ecleston Street 24... Here it is', I thought to myself, looking upwards. I didn't know why there was a skyscraper next to the normal houses, and I didn't care. I didn't care... yeah, that was it. Not that I wished for something extraordinaire to happen...

As I entered the building, I realised how quiet, and empty it was. 'Where is the other personnel?', I wondered quietly. I didn't have time to ponder on that, I had a job interview ahead. I walked, feeling like an intruder with every step echoing.

As I reached the elevator, I was sweating everywhere, that just wasn't normal. I waited for the elevator to bring me to my destination, all while calming myself again.

I almost would have turned around back then... I should have.

"So, you are interested in my job-offer?", my employer asked.

"Yes, sir... I am", I replied, sweating nervously while sitting down on the chair, in front of the table. My employer was already sitting, as I looked around I couldn't help but feel dread...

The room was completely white. There were no windows, a lamp hanging from the ceiling being the only thing illuminating said room. There was nothing in here, no decorations, no wallpaper... Only the clean glasstable, and two oakwood chairs.

After I finished observing my surroundings, I redirected my attention to my potential employer.

He was tall, like, two meter tall. His face seemed pretty decent, his hair was slicked b(l)ack...

His eyes, they were my one of the greater signs something was wrong with him. Those cold, grey eyes... they seemed to stare right through me.

He wore an obviously, well tailored suit. It seemed like I really could have been being hired by a famous, huge company...

"Have you stared enough? Then we could maybe get started with our interview.", he told me, his eyes never leaving my face.

"YESSIR!", I quickly said, almost shouted.

He smiled, before speaking up again: "Well then, let's start with the important questions. What do you know about paralell matter-dimensions?"

My face turned dumbfounded, I couldn't understand. What kind of question is that? But my money-income was on the line, so I quickly regained my composure: "Well, unfortunately I don't know much about them. I know what paralell dimensions are, dimensions which are closely resembling ours, with only a few differences. Like Hitler won the second World War, or something like that."

"That is truly interesting. The next question is, did you ever wear any armour?"

What kind of job did he want to give me? Probably wants to find out if I am too smart or too strong and stuff like that...

"No, I never did.", I replied unsure.

"Hm... What did I expect? What is your favourite genre of games?"

"Well, shooters, assasinlike games... wherever I can kill stuff."

"That's good. I have got a job-offer for you", he told me, "You see, you would have to..."

"I ACCEPT!", I shouted, "I mean, I gladly accept." This somehow only brings him to smile, before telling me: "That is good. Have fun where you land..."

I remember suddenly feeling inexplainable sick, puking over the table... and everything dissolving around me.

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(Joshleb1098)

Have you ever wanted some kind of really cool power? Something only you could do? Well I got it, just not in the way I imagined. There was no special test by the military, no super drug or radioactive spiders. It all started with a merchant, and a convention.

It all started when me and my friends Zach, Alexis, and Kyle were planning to go to Comic-Con one year. We all agreed that we'd go together and we'd all dress up as our favorite video game character. At this time I was really into this game called Warframe. For anyone who doesn't know what the game is, it's space ninjas, that's all you need to know. Anyway my favorite Warframe in the game was the Hydroid. Complete control over water and multiple ways to make it deadly. I loved playing as him, which is why I used a bunch of my own money and some I got a loan on, to make my very own Hydroid suit. It took me about a month and a half, and more then just a few favors that a few people owed me to make it. It was glorious, completely perfect! Except for one thing, I didn't have gloves. I ran out of material, and I was already low on money. I decided to suck it up and hope that an opportunity would show up. Well, it did....in a way.

So, it's the day of the Con, around 6:00 AM and me and my friends all piled into Zach's car. Anyone who looked in would of been very confused by the sight. In the back seat was me in my Hydroid suit, trying not to hit my head off the ceiling with every bump on the road. Sitting next to me was Kyle, dressed as Chris 'Punching Boulder's Redfield from Resident Evil Five. In the passenger seat was Alexis, dressed as Alice from Alice: Madness Returns, the scary part is that she had every single dress Alice had in the game. What's even creepier was that she could act adorable while in a blood covered dress. Finally, driving the car was my friend Zach, who was dressed as everyone's favorite orange eating pirate Gangplank from League of Legends.

After about eight hours of driving, and a headache which may or may not of been caused by Zach picking the bumpiest roads he could find, we arrived. We quickly bought a hotel room and dropped our things off, and let Alexis change her dress before we walked to the actual Con itself. We walked in together and were instantly sucked into a massive crowd of people and we got separated, luckily we had planned out beforehand that if we got separated we would meet back by the main entrance by 3:00 PM, so I wasn't worried. I was wandering around, too excited to really notice where I was going. It was only until that I heard someone clear their throat that I turned around. What greeted me was a guy dressed as the Merchant from Resident Evil 4.

"Hehehe, Good afternoon stranger, looking for something to buy?" he asked, and I swear to god he sounded exactly like the Merchant.

"Depends on what your selling, I don't think Leon would be too happy if i accidentally bought his new weapon." I replied as i crossed my arms, which only caused the Merchant to laugh.

"Ha! I'd be rich if he were here, however I'm not selling weapons, it's illegal you see. No what i got here are things of all shapes and sizes, though I think I got something you'll greatly enjoy." He then opened his trench coat and revealed that instead of having a small army's worth of weapons inside his coat, he had everything you could ever ask for, and more. However what caught my eyes were the Hydroid gloves resting smack in the middle of his coat.

"Are those...?" I ask as i point towards the gloves, which he laughs and replies with a nod. "How much?" I reach into the 'ammo' pouch at my leg and pull out my wallet.

He scratches his chin in thought for a moment before holding out his hand, "Twenty bucks sound good?" In a flash a twenty dollar bill was in his hand and I putting the gloves on. They felt...weird, like they weren't made out of any material i ever felt before. My whole body suddenly felt very wet and my vision started to blur. The last thing I saw before blacking out was the Merchant waving at me, then darkness took me.

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(FrostTheWolf)

So, here I was. E3. The Freaking mother of all video game conventions. Honestly, how I got here in the first place was because I was a lucky winner in a charity drawing at a potluck on Easter earlier this year, but I was glad to be here. Oh and before I continue, my name is Varen by the way. Varen Luko. Your typical eighteen year old who just graduated out of high school a few weeks before. E3 was my way of celebrating my achievements, unlike my friends who decided to hold a Bonfire at the beach.

In addition to going to E3, I was all dressed up for E3. You see, I like doing different costumes and making certain props for them and today was no exception. I spent almost a few months working on this project based off of Oberon from the online third person action game; Warframe. I personally liked him because it reminded me of the good old days where I watched my father play a Draenei Paladin on World of Warcraft and use light based spells to smite villains and Horde alike. Oberon was basically the Paladin of Warframe and was represented in his abilities.

Besides my suit, I had a few other items on me. A pair of Dual Cestra’s that I did off of some Nerf Dart Blasters with a upgraded Paintjob and lighting were holstered on my sides and I had two swords that replicated the blades known as “Dex Dakra”, an exclusive set of weapons that were given out during the week that Warframe celebrated its two year anniversary. My main weapon, which I was mostly holding for the hell of it, was Latron. It was a burst rifle in game and it had a good feel to one of the weapons I liked when playing Destiny.

Anyhow, things were going quite alright until I came across some kind of merchant booth, where I was greeted by a pair of twins. “Hello, stranger! Welcome to the balance twins emporium!! I’m Yin and this is Yang, my twin brother. How can we help you?”

“Well…” I said, thinking a little before speaking again. “I was wondering if you two have anything on Warframe. Sometimes, the Warframes in game have alternative pieces of armor; so do you have anything for Oberon?”

The two twins looked at each other for a moment before Yin was looking back at me and Yang went behind the booth. “I believe we might have something back in stock. Yang is checking right now, but I believe we might have something for you in the meantime.”

“Hold on, we?”

“My little ‘assistant’ and I,” Yin said as a cat perched itself up on the counter. “Besides, we might be waiting a little while before Yang comes back. Like five minutes at most.” Five minutes later, Yang comes back; whispering to his brother for a moment before they speak again.

“It seems like we do have something, but we’ll need you to come to the back room with us. But first… Are you interested in a Immortal Skin for your Frame?”

“Oh… how much are you offering for it?” I ask them.

“It’s a simple add on, so 15 dollars should be sufficient.” Yin says.

“Sounds too good to be true. I’ll take it.” I told them, handing a ten and a five that I kept in the “ammo” clip of my Latron as I went into the back room. The two of them helped me apply the skin on like it was a sticker for a car. But as they were beginning to finish up, I was beginning to feel dizzy. The last thing I remembered before passing out was hearing Yin tell me something.

“You will be a perfect guiding light for the journey ahead. May the light be with you, Tenno.”

(Geo Hikari)

People all over the world stared at the TV screens as a international emergency broadcast was started. The news caster cleared her throat and looked to the camera visibly shaken up.

"This just in a repeat of two years ago where a young woman had vanished during a convention happened not three hours ago. Only this time it's on a larger scale. All around the world during different conventions a total of twenty three people have vanished. Amount them was the elder brother of the victim two years ago and the daughter of ambassador honodai from japan. A investigation has been launched to determine how this is possible and if the victims can ever be found. There is a lead right now that connects all twenty three missing people. They were all seen wearing costumes from the computer or video game Warframe. Police in each area has ruled in that it might be possible that someone was trying to recreate the game in real life and kidnapped the ones with accurate suits of the protagonists. As the investigation continues more details will be shown if they can be found. Here is a list and profile of the missing people. If anyone has any information of the missing people call this number as soon as possible"

For the sake of the other countries there were subtitles in their native language so they can understand the report.

Next to the profiles of the missing people was a image of their costumes. Next to the ambassador's daughter was a pic of the mag warframe.

For a long time after that report any other convention was closed down until it was deemed safe to prevent a repeat. In the emporium yin shared a look with her twin.

"Looks like discord asked more then us for help I bet he asked the others for this. But for all twenty three warframes? That must be some crisis" said yin.

"Their section of my tome is definitely big" agreed yang.

Yang's tome known as the tome of displacement is able to record the stories of the people it's owner displaces and with this they can keep tabs on their displaced.

Sunshine hopped into Yin's shoulder.

"I hope that they can handle the journey from what discord explained it was severe enough to warrant this nya" said sunshine.

"I'm confident they can especially with the modifications I made to moonlight! When she unlocks it I'm sure she will be a great help there" said yin before losing herself to thinking up more robotic designs making sunshine and yang sigh. Why did Hephaestus have to teach her mechanics as a hobby and skuld didn't help there.

(End chapter)

Author's Note

This chapter isn't really finished there's at least two sections missing from this but when they do get up this author's note will change. - geo hikari.

Arrival

(Illua)

Wind.

The first thing I noticed when I woke up was I could feel a breeze. "Augh... Where... Huh.." I took in the sound of my voice, Sounding less like in a vented fiberglass dome and more in a full helmet. I opened my eyes finally, seeing the roof of a frozen cave, clearly, as if nothing impeded my vision. "This is... Strange..." I spoke aloud, finally getting up off of my back. my costume felt lighter than before as I began checking for any damage or injury. Thankfully, I was unscathed, but what really began to get to me was the fact the materials of my costume had changed from hard plastic and thick cloth to some form of metal and Kevlar combination.

Wait, How am I feeling that? I curiously wondered, heading towards the beckoning breeze. What I saw sent chills along my spine.

I could see an Expansive forest from the mountainside I stood on, with the trees rattling and the occasional appearance of a mighty serpentile head. In the distance, there appeared to be a Tall castle with a settlement around it. Am I dreamin- No... Naru disappeared right before my eyes.. And I disappeared the same way.. I took in my new reality, my breathing becoming unsteady as my mind began to spiral. I'm never going home, Am I? I sighed as I drew my Dakra, inspecting it. Unlike before, where it was simply a dull copy, this weapon had an Edge unlike any blade I had seen before. So, if my costume has changed to what I assume to be a near identical replica... I'm going to assume that my props have become actual weapons. I began to take deep breaths, analyzing my situation.

First, Find either a civilization of sentient life, or establish a camp. Second, Find safe food and clean water. Third.. crafting my checklist in my mind, I began to walk down the mountain path, seemingly carved into it, Focusing my mind on survival rather than my predicament to prevent a nervous breakdown. I kept my blade drawn as I reached the forest's edge, taking in the area. I could smell the fragrance of freshly rained on grass and trees, despite being in a helmet that seemed to completely encapsulate my head. Have I really become a full blown Warframe? I began to hack into the forest, making a beeline towards that castle.

After a few hours, I finally came across a clearing with a river running through it. Hm.. This might be a good place to set up a camp.. I approached the river, and crouching. I rested my hand where my chin would be, running my hand through the water. "It's not freezing, so.. Maybe I need to.." I focused on dropping the temperature of the water, watching as a thin layer of ice forms over my hand. Ah... Its controlled by thought... I smiled beneath my mask, pulling my hand out and breaking the ice in a quick clenching of my fist. I looked around, watching the treeline for a moment, before I focused on creating the frozen dome shield, the hexagons of Ice appearing around me and protecting me.

I reached for the latch that I used to secure my face, gasping as I feel a cold steam vent from around my face, releasing the front plate of the helmet. I looked around as I felt the warm air on my skin, taking a look at my reflection in the calm stream. I seemed to remain unchanged, except my skin was closer to a sickly white rather than a healthy peach tone. "I'm still me... and Yet.. I'm not.."

A Snap of a Twig caught my attention, making me turn towards the Source of the noise. What I saw both haunted me and fascinated me.

A wolf made from branches, covered in a pelt of brown leaves and grey moss with a flickering green glow emitting from its chest cavity and eyes. A Timber Wolf... an old one at least.. Would this mean I'm in... Equestria?.. I had watched the show in passing, with my sister before her exit from our world, taking in few details such as these beasts of nature. So I am in Equestria, specifically the Everfree forest.. So am I going towards a Pony society or... some other sentient society? I took a quick drink from the river as the wolf approached, replacing my mask shortly afterwards. "Easy... Easy.." The beast of timber looked up at me, and then away, disinterested in me as it began to drink from the river, Its pelt renewing with life as it sustained itself.

I slowly walked away from the curious creature, heading back into the trees as I turned my bearings back towards the settlement, determined to make it there by nightfall. How many others have been removed from Earth, and sent to other worlds, if not this one?
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(Dundredo)

My head was pounding. I groaned, and curled into the fetal position. I froze, however, when I felt dry dirt below me, my eyes snapped open. What I saw was a barren waist land. I got up, examining myself. I saw that I was still in my costume. I quickly reached for the well hidden clasps to get out of it... The clasps weren't there.

"THE HECK IS HAPPENING!" I yelled. My costume felt more real as well. From the poking and prodding trying to find a clasp, it was like my costume was sending sensation directly to my brain. to try and disprove this point, I pinched the fleshy growth on my right leg. It sent a stab of pain to my brain.

"Alright, strange things happening right now. Just try and find civilization for now." I nodded at this decision. But before I headed off, a familiar shape caught my eye. It was my replica of Mire. I remembered that it might be the reason that I was here, but figured that it was better to have it then to not have it. I grabbed it. it felt comfortable and familiar in my hand. I swung it experimentally, and it made a very satisfying swishing noise. I nodded, and instinctively put it on my back. I let go before I could realize that it would clatter to the ground, but it didn't. I shrugged, categorizing it under 'weird stuff to figure out later'. I then started walking.

As the sun was going down, I spotted an opening dug into the side of a hill. It was very large, nearly big enough to drive a truck inside over all. I cautiously stepped inside, gasping as I saw the mutilated corpses of horse-bug things. They were in armor, and swords lay beside them. Their killers seemed to have liked killing them, as the body's were bent and twisted in gut wrenching ways.

'So their intelligent. But I need to keep a lookout for what killed them. I just hope that the current strangeness also gave me more than a strangely modified costume.' I though as I walked in further. As I did, I started hearing the harsh language of the Grineer in the distance.

"Akre, akre, hu'uus krafe." I began to grin, despite myself. I decided to test my new abilitys against a few Grineer. I whipped Mire off of my back, and felt the fleshy substance that the blade was made of writhing slightly, as if responding to my mood. And if that weren't strange enough, I felt the growth on my leg begin producing toxins and poisons. But for some reason this didn't creep me out. In fact I felt invigorated! I charged in there, sliding occasionally to help keep my stamina up. I quickly encountered the Grineer. there were only five of them. One had his back to me, but began to turn as the other raised their guns, one shouting.

"Tenno skoom!" The one with his back to me didn't turn quick enough, and Mire cut his head off with barely any resistance. Mire quivered with joy at the taste of blood, and I was happy to oblige. The other Grineer unloaded their guns on me, but their bullets pinged off of my shields. I cut all four of them down in quick succession. They were dead before they breached my shields. I stood their, looking for something to wipe Mire off with, but stopped as I saw the blood being absorbed into it. I shrugged at this. At least I didn't have to worry about that. I grinned at the memory, before realizing that I was acting like a psychopath. I stopped at the thought, wondering if my mind was changed as well. I had conformed the impossible with this battle, that I WAS Saryn now, or at least in her body. But was I getting her mind as well?

'Stop thinking like that. Your still Aisha.' I thought to myself. That thought sounded hollow, but I ignored that. 'Now, should I try to kill all the Grineer here? They wouldn't have been able to get too deeply entrenched yet, after all. Most likely, they're still setting things up. Easy pickings.' With that thought, I had to repress a smile.
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(Geo Hikari)

I came to from the sensation of something nudging me. Opening my eyes I groaned at the beam of sunlight that hit my eyes. Pushing myself up I looked around finding myself in a forest clearing. Next to me was a surprising sight. My cybernetic nine tailed fox was what woke me. But what was different was that the metal and rest of it now had some organic traits to it like actual fangs and a mouth when it was just painted on due to time constraints. The metal actually had a texture like fur and the optics had a actual design like a eye. Printed on the forehead was a black lotus symbol.

"Finally your up! What in the world happened? Where are we" said my cyber fox in a young feminine tone.

"I got no clue moonlight things happened pretty quickly last I checked I was buying something. In fact I feel odd" I said trying to not freak out that the cyber vixen was if I was seeing this correctly as alive as a real fox.

I stood and quickly bent my knees from the pain standing straight gave me. What in the world was that. I took off my helmet and lucky me there was a pond I could look through. I looked at my reflection and was surprised. I looked the same but my skin had gone from tanned to albino levels. Even my black hair had turned white. The only thing that remained unaffected was my eyes. Well the iris at least. The whites had turned black with my pupils turning electric yellow. I still had my props and I prodded the extensions that made the knees of the warframe. I froze feeling the sensation of touching my own skin. This wasn't happening. Somehow some way I had become a tenno! I clenched my hand and nearly jumped at seeing electricity spark off my hands. That confirmed it I was officially a space ninja from a futuristic earth now. I guess jack trans would no longer do for my name. Bolt would have to do for now. Standing I heard a small buzz of insect wings. Turning I was nose to muzzle with what looked like a pony and a bug hybrid. I recognized it as a changeling from mlp.

We just stood there like that and I coughed into my hand awkwardly.

"Well this is awkward can you please move back a bit I don't have any control over my abilities. I don't want you to get zapped by accident" I said. The changeling who I just noticed resembled chrysalis just nodded and flew a few feet back. I blinked noting that surprisingly it was Chrysalis at a young age. She looked around one years old. I picked up my helmet and blinked seeing a dead changeling corpse.

A dead changeling queen.

Realization dawned on me. I arrived at some point in chrysalis' life. Possibly before the events of mlp. She had imprinted on me as her parent. Great I'm now a farther at twenty at least I have experience raising kids thanks to part time babysitting.

I frowned noting the injuries on the corpse. Those looked like laser burns. That meant that the grineer or another warframe fraction was in equestria. They looked recent.

Putting on my helmet I pulled out my bow and some arrows.

"Stay with me kid if I'm right whoever attacked you is still near" I said notching it. She looked fearful and hid with moonlight looking after her. I listened for anything around me. Taking a deep breath I focused.

*snap*

Quick as a bolt of lightning I aimed and fired into the tree tops. With a thunk sound a red armored deformed being crashed down and released some items much like in the game. Picking them up I retrieved the arrow and frowned at the corpse inwardly feeling regret that I just killed. Definitely grineer or corpus. And where one is more are not that far behind. Pulling my kunai out I felt my electricity charge them.

Motioning moonlight to guard the little changeling queen I leapt into the tree tops. With the higher ground I started to pick off grineer or corpus batman arkham asylum style collecting the drops once I was sure there were no more in the area.

Picking up Chrysalis and Moonlight I started to travel to find a place to hide until I could make sense of what was going on.

How are grineer/corpus even on equestria. Was this why the balance twins tricked me when I bought my items from them. Because I was needed to protect this world? Suddenly I found what looked like a mesa warframe unconscious in another clearing. Deciding to set up camp there maybe she can help me figure out what was going on.

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(Theyellowninja13)

I slowly pushed myself up, shaking my head to try and cure me of this drowsiness. When I finally got to my feet, I took a good look at my surroundings. I seemed to be in some kind of forest, where the trees weren't very close together, allowing a good amount of sunlight to come in. "A forest? How did I get here?" I heard my voice, and grabbed my throat, not even recognizing my own voice. But when I grabbed my throat, I felt something on my body. I looked at my hands, noticing that I was wearing some kind of suit. It appeared to be mostly grey, with some light green on it, but what caught most of my attention was the two orbs sticking off my chest. "Did... I become a Warframe or something?" I said to myself, shaking in fear, as my memories started coming back.

I remembered everything going black, and how strange it felt. I remember buying that staff, and I remember what the merchant said about who it was from. 'Ember of course.' "I've become Ember?" I felt my back, and pulled out my staff I bought, before examining it. "It's made of some kind of space metal now, isn't it." But before I could do anything else, I heard a loud growl, and turned around to see a strange creature slowly walking up to me. "A manticore?"

I put one hand in front of me, in a calming gesture, and kept the other on my staff. "Easy now. I don't want to bother you." The manticore didn't believe me, as it charged at me, and I tried to dodge, but I was unused to the weight of the suit, and got trapped underneath it. The manticore roared in my face, as I felt a need to relieve my anger from being sent to this place. "Get off of me!" I yelled, and managed to smack my staff into the side of it's head.

The manticore was dazed, and allowed me to get free, and get a few feet away from it, before it tried to charge me again. But this time, I quickly dodged it, and slammed my staff into the back of it's neck, knocking it out. Not wasting a second, I ran away from the manticore, hoping it won't wake up. I quickly came across a small lake, and examined myself in it. I had a mask on, with some kind of thing poking off the top. And I realized something else... I am definitely a girl now. Looking up at the sky, I noticed it was around afternoon, and I decided to keep moving, hoping to find some form of civilization.

(Theyellowninja13)

I quickly charged through the trees, ripping trees straight from their roots. "Where is she!" The she I was talking about is my younger sister Nisha. Since I arrived in this forest, as the Warframe I was dressed up as, and I heard Nisha yell when we seemed to have left the convention, I could only assume that she appeared here too, as Mesa.

It was strange really, waking up as a powerful Warframe. Even barely touching the trees almost turned them to shreds from my immense physical power. I even came across some kind of wooden wolf creatures, which I turned to sawdust with a single stomp. I heard a growl, and came across a giant bear. "Why can't they just leave me alone!" The bear swiped it's arm at me, which I quickly caught, before spinning around, and slamming the bear into several trees in a split second. While the bear was dazed, I quickly continued running, seeing some smoke rising above some trees.

I quickly burst through the trees to see a Volt Warframe tending a fire, while a small black bug pony and a robot animal sat nearby. But what really got my attention, was the Mesa Warframe laying on the ground, unconscious.

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(Geo Hikari)

I looked up at the sound of crashing wood to find a rhino warframe had arrived. We just stared at each other in a kind of stand off.

"Hello there name's bolt the vixen over there is moonlight and the changeling is Chrysalis do you know the tenno over here? We just found her a half hour ago. I tended to her wounds as best I could. I'm guessing you both got here like I did? Oh and be careful I don't know if any grineer or corpus are in the area. And yes they are here I encountered them when I came to" I said making sure he wasn't going to get mad. He was a tank after all.

"Chuck and yeah she's my sister nisha. Do you know what is going on" asked chuck.

"Far as I can tell we were transported to equestria as the actual beings we were dressed up as. Got a bit of shock at what I look like now. Trust me it's odd. I can't even stand straight anymore. Painful experience due to the way the knees are now built. I'm stuck walking like a soldier on a battle field" I said.

"She's waking up" said moonlight who I now realized was looking down on nisha from above. This was not going to be good. By the way chuck figgited I knew that nisha was the one to pull weapons out and think later.

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(theyellowninja13)

My eyes shot open, and I immediately noticed two people next to me. Acting on instincts, I quickly flipped myself onto my feet, and back flipped a several feet back, getting a good look at both the people nearby. One looked like a Volt Warframe, while the other looked like a Rhino one. And there was a small floating fox thingy, and a small bug pony nearby too. Then, the strangest thing that I noticed, was that I was holding two Regulator pistols, pointing them both at both Warframes. "Okay. Where the crap am I!"

The Volt Warframe started talking first. He kept his arms out, as he talked peacefully. "Now, let's not fight. We're all in this together." But before I could react, the Rhino Warframe immediately grabbed me in a hug.

"Sis! You're okay!" 'Wait, 'sis?' But the only person who calls me that, and has a right to call me that is...'

"Chuck!" I yelled, returning the hug, not wanting to let go, in case I lost him again. But I did let go, when I realized that my costume felt different. "Man, my suit feels weird."

Chuck started nervously laughing. "Well, you see... we kinda became our costumes."

"What?" I asked, not believing. I quickly tried to remove my gloves, before I noticed that they wouldn't come off. Then, realization dawned on me. "Oh, crap." I quickly remember the only other person here, and turned around to face him. "So... I assume you're not the real Volt either?"

The Volt guy chuckled, before responding. "No I'm not. My name's Bolt." He pointed to the flying vixen thing. "That's Moonlight." He pointed to the bug pony. "And that's Chrysalis."

"So, any idea why we are our costumes, and how we got teleported to a forest? Or what forest we're in?" I asked, deciding to sit down, and relax, after my freak out.

"Not quite sure about why, or how. But the forest seems to be the Everfree Forest. In Equestria." 'Equestria? As in horses?'

"Okay... what's the Everfree Forest, and what's Equestria?" I caught a quick glimpse of Chuck, who was trying to lean against a tree, but kept destroying trees.

"They're places from a show called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic." 'Oh, that show.'

"Never watched it. So, I guess we will be coming across a bunch of ponies that want to 'friendship' us?" I asked, not quite sure what tone of voice I'm taking.

But before Bolt could respond, a large shape landed on the ground in front of us, shining powerful sunlight into each of our eyes. I couldn't really see who it was, but I could make out a shape about as large as me, a horn perfect for kabobs, and two large wings that are each probably longer than Chuck's body.

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(Geo Hikari)

I blinked and now I got a good look at the alicorn in our mist oddly noting my new charge hiding behind me like a shy child. She was white with a tri colored mane and then I realized she looked to be in her teens. 'Definitely before the events of the show' I thought.

"Celestia? Well this was unexpected" I said and I was thankful of my helmet as I noticed chuck and nisha stared at me, obviously surprised I know this alicorn mare.

"How do ye know thy name" asked celestia in a hostile tone, by the scratches on her body I guess she ran into the grineer or corpus. I honestly couldn't tell the two fractions apart.

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you" I said and celestia glared before charging her horn. But I noticed something behind her that made me curse in my mind. A grineer or corpus was right behind her ready to kill her. Before anyone could react I threw a kunai right at the enemy behind her. Celestia was startled thinking I was attacking her only to be confused when the kunai went over her shoulder only looking back when the foe hit the ground with drops appearing. I sighed and retrieved my weapon while picking up the drops.

"As you can see princess we are not with the grineer or corpus in fact you can say us tenno are more or less as against them as you" I said removing my helmet and I faintly heard nisha and chuck gasp at the sight of my changes.

"Tenno" asked celestia.

"Think of us as a race of guardians my name is bolt. The fox vixen there is moonlight. The filly there is Chrysalis my new charge. These deformed freaks killed her mother so she is under my care. And I'll let these two introduce themselves. But first better take care of any others in the area where one is more are sure to follow. Nisha can you look after chrysalis for me until I get back you both have limited ammo for your weapons so you got to conserve them" I said and only heard a slight confirmation as I again went batman on the enemies. When I got back they were staring at all the drops I got from them.

"We better hurry and find a base of operations it's dangerous to be out in the open right now" I said. Nisha and chuck nodded seeing as I took over leadership being the more expert on this world for now.

Celestia seemed to be joining us as she relaxed glad to have found allies after a while. I divided the resourses I had so far with my current companions as we left with the future changeling queen riding on my shoulders as we soon came by everfree castle where we found Luna celestia's little sister chatting with a excaliber, nyx, neckros and mag warframes making me blink. Looked like we weren't the only ones taken. I had the feeling all 23 warframes were in equestria.
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(Dundredo)

I ran out of the tunnel system, cursing my brashness. I heard the Grineer behind me.

"Spera ku, hum klem!" I had killed too many to count, before they had cornered me. I had chunks of flesh blown off, and was bleeding profusely. I wound not make the same mistake again. Now, I was wounded and tired. Night had long since fallen on the land, and I was trying to use that to my advantage. I was just thanking all that was holy that my wounds had already clotted. I saw a spotlight sweep in front of the cave, pushing farther and farther out with each arc. I ran for all that i was worth, and managed to get out of sight of the cave before they spotted me. Exhausted, I fell on the ground, falling asleep almost instantly.
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(Illua)

I turned as I heard strange gunfire. That sounded like... The sound had gone silent for just a moment, before I heard the screams of innocents and the barking of orders. "... Get your weapons up! Enemy Forces East Side!" I could make out. I turned towards said direction, my blood running cold. rust colored armor held a disproportional figure, with a familar green rifle in its hand. Grineer. I pulled out my Vastos on the same assumption as my blade and fired. The slugs of my revolvers slammed into the face of the cloned monster, felling it and one of its allies.

Their Unfamiliar chatter began as many of them turned to me, the commander on the wall shouting more. "The enemy is Distracted, Attack!" Crossbow bolts and magic began raining down into the forest as I began to sprint towards them, unloading my twin weapons into the abominations. I smiled beneath my mask, my body acting near similarly to my time Roleplaying, as I ducked and disarmed those who rushed me with cleavers. I returned said cleavers into their faces, Throwing a wave of Ice at a platoon right as more fire rained down on them. It was a matter of moments before I was surrounded however.

"Enough!" I heard a voice yell above me. I didn't risk it being friendly, and dropped my shield, Just as a cobalt beam rained upon those surrounding me. Replacing my Vastos in their holster, I pulled the Tiberon from my back and began to snipe the survivors of that incredible attack, forcing many to retreat against the overwhelming force. I looked up at the sudden attacker and Blinked, before reloading a new clip into my rifle. Looks Like I was saved by Luna... Gotta pay her back now.. I thought, dropping the shield as I cast another ice wave, freezing more Grineer in place, as beams of midnight and explosives rained from on high.

"Discord, We Understand though likest thine chocolate milk, but at least drink that and not the cups!"
"But Luna, what fun is in that? The chaos it sews among these monsters is just Delightful."

I thought those two were enemies? I continued to fight, pushing that to the back of my mind, as our combined efforts decimated the attacking force. I looked around at the dead grineer, and noticed that they had dropped ammo and resources, as well as the occasional weapon that hadn't self destructed. Just as I had bent down for the ammo, I felt something sharp press against my back. "If thou wish to continue breathing, Might I suggest making thyself erect, and declaring your allegiance?" I sighed. I stood back up as I raised my hands, my weapons back in their sheaths.

"I am currently unaligned, although, The Grineer and Corpus are my foe." I said, keeping still. At this range, If I dropped a globe, I still would not be able to push them away before I would be harmed. I waited with baited breath, listening to the flaps of wings come down, scavenging the field.

"Very well. The Enemy of mine enemy is my friend. I am Princess Lu-"
"Oooh! A Human! I haven't seen one of you since I last wandered the void! How's your Earth? Who sent you here? I hope it was one of the Twins, Maybe even the Employer."
I blinked under my mask, and tilted my head. "Excuse me?"
"Oh Yes, Might I introduce my self. I am Discord, Lord of all Chaos and Grandmaster of Tricks. I had made a few friends of Void Dwellers, and called a few favors."
Luna glared at Discord. "Discord, Please Shutest thine mouth." Discord literally zipped his lips. "Anyways... It seems Discord's favor worked out. We have the assistance we need to turn the tides. Please, Come with me. We shall speak to our sister at once, and we will explain what we know there." She motioned with a wing, walking slowly as Discord hovered.

This is gonna be hell. Isn't it?

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(Dundredo)

Whispers, that's all that I heard. Floating in a dreamlike state, I felt at peace. Then my mind began processing what it heard. It was a multi layered voice that echoed in impossible ways.

"We have waited long for you to sleep, Tenno. We are happy to speak with you." I shivered at the words, and opened my eyes. I saw only blackness, and felt nothing.

"Where am I? And who are you?" I asked. The voice made a slightly amused sound.

"You are dreaming, and soon shall awake. But we are the Technocyte in your body." I stiffened at those words, remembering that the Technocyte is what made the Infested.

"What do you want?" I asked in an aggressive way. the Technocyte made another amused sound before answering.

"We sense your fears. But they are unfounded. We merely wish to communicate with our symbiote. And we cannot do that while you're awake. At least, not yet." I relaxed a little at this, but kept my guard up.

"What do you mean, symbiote?"

"Other Tenno have Technocyte in them, but they have dominate it. In them, it is merely a dumb servant. They don't get many benefits from it." I stiffened as I felt a tendril wrap lovingly around me. "But you have not dominated us, and we are grateful for it. We will serve you to the best of out ability, but first you must open up to us. Your mind is strong, so we will never be able to open your mind for you, but union with us will make you more powerful than ever before. So please let us in, Tenno."

"How do I know I won't just become another infested?" I asked desperately. I was afraid now. This was by far the worst thing that had happened so far.

"You don't have any proof, except for our word." It whispered into my ear. I felt something caress my face, and I nearly screamed. "But now you wake, and we must stop this conversation. We hope we will speak again soon, Tenno." As it finished that sentence, I woke up.

I sat up quickly, on the edge of screaming. My panic soon subsided as I saw that I was in the waist land again. I let out a sigh of relief. I got up, thinking about the dream. I wanted to discredit it, but it seemed all too real. The memory wasn't fading like a normal dream would. Shivering at the memory, I began to walk.

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(Forgedheart)

When I woke up I was laying face-down on the ground, I couldn’t hear anything but a ringing sound like when you’re to close to an explosion. The ringing quickly subsided and was replaced with a deafening roar, I tried to cover my ears but found I was wearing a helmet, it was so unbearable I screamed “SHUT UP!!” The roar immediately dulled but was still there, like when you shove your beeping alarm clock under your pillow. I slowly rolled over, sat up, and got a quick look at my surroundings. I was in a forest and I was currently sitting next to a river. “Where the hel-” I stopped as I heard a voice as soft as the wind and brought my hand to my throat What happened to my voice?!.

I looked down at myself and immediately noticed a few things, one: I was still in my warframe costume but it didn’t feel like a costume it felt like actual armor, it was flexible yet It felt durable hell I could even feel stuff through it like the grass, the wind, even the small splashes of water from the river. Two my senses felt and : I HAD BOOBS!!!(they weren't very big but thats not the point) not only that but I could feel that my whole body had changed. frantically I felt for some kind of latch to remove my helmet ,I found it near the back of my neck, I pulled the helmet off and crawled towards the river and gasped. In my place sat a beautifully pale woman with raven black hair that fell just past her shoulders, her eyes were a deep green, and she was blushing slightly. Is..Is that me?I thought to myself as I reached up and touched my cheek, the girl did the same, “oh my.” I looked relatively the same as before (the hair,eye,and skin color) but looked ..well like a girl. I was stunned to say the least, somehow I had been turned into a girl, brought into a strange forest and left for dead, but one of things that disturbed me the most (other than suddenly being a girl) was I was put into perfectly form-fitted body armor. I sat up and started to freak out a bit What’s going on?! Why am I a Girl?! Where am I?! What if I die out here? will I ever see my friends or family Again? I shook my head Calm down those are problems for later first I need to find any signs of civilization. I grabbed my helmet pulled it on, I noticed the replicas I bought were still on my back and sides.

I wonder.. curious I grabbed the attica off my back, pointed it at a nearby tree and pulled the trigger, immediately afterwards it fired off a volley of three bolts that lodged themselves in the wood. “holey-shit this is a real gun!” I decided to indulge myself a bit and (Like the nerd I was.) started practicing my Marksmanship, after about fifteen minutes of shooting far off trees I put my weapon away and started walking down stream, when I stopped...I could feel or rather hear something near me. On instinct I grabbed my nikana, pulled it from it’s sheath, and fell into the stance I used when sparring with dad. I closed my eyes and waited, I heard three sets of footsteps slowly walking towards me. when two of them got close enough I turned and gave a horizontal slash with my sword. I heard an inhuman death cry and opened my eyes and saw what appeared to be two grineer butchers lying cut in half in front of me.

Before I could respond A metal dagger pierced my upper-arm I screamed as I was dragged towards a third grineer this one held a sword that glowed orange and had a cable that extended from one wrist to the dagger in arm, It was a Scorpion. When I reached it the dagger was pulled away and the soldier prepared to kill me, but I was faster I slashed at it’s legs and as it fell to the ground I quickly got up and thrust my sword into it’s head killing it. I flicked the blood from my sword and re-sheathed it crap this means others will show up. I turned towards the woods and saw a castle in the distance, deciding it would be safer there I ran towards it wondering if there are other frames here.

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(Dundredo)

My eyes widened as I saw the barren waist land cut off suddenly, to be replaced with grassy land. I quickly ran towards it, and arrived quickly. I ran to the top of a hill, and promptly fell down on top of it. I enjoyed the feel of grass against my body, and stared up at the sky. After a few minutes of this, I got back up. I saw something in the distance, and squinted to see whatever it was. It seemed to be a castle perched impossibly on the side of a mountain. I smiled as I set off toward civilization.

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(Solarkness ; Limbo)

Warmth.

Everything around me was warm. My body was warm. The sunlight was warm...

I didn't want to stand up. I knew I should, but everything was so warm...

I feel like I'm being cuddled by small birds. Wait... being cuddled by small birds?

My eyes shot open, I looked around. Everywhere some hybrid-species-corpses were to be seen, there was a river ending in a waterfall. As i walked to the cliff of the waterfall, I was able to look around.

The land must have once been beautiful... but everywhere you could see devastation from war. I don't even know how I could see that, I simply knew it was.

There were some voices, slowly growing louder, but I couldn't understand them. I ignored them.

I ignored them, until I heard gunshots. I stumbled, and fell. I couldn't understand, why was I here? Who attacked me? During my fall, I turned around. What I saw... were Grineer. The same ones from the game. I didn't know why, they were just part of a game, but I couldn't think about it. The waterfall was not very high up, so I crashed into the water. All around the lake I crashed into, I could see Grineer. Even in the game, you couldn't fight this many.

It was then, that I became aware of the armour I was wearing. Limbo's armour, to be exact.

I hoped, prayed, wished with all my might for his power to traverse into Limbo to activate, so I could get out of this...

And everything went away.

FrostTheWolf

I was woken up by the sounds of a windy breeze as my eyes slowly opened. Right off the bat, I noticed three things that were definitely not ordinary. The first thing was my location. Before I passed out, I was in a convention hall. Now, I was in a freaking forest and a creepy one at that. Second was what I was seeing… literally. I saw two colored bars like the ones in game that represented the players health and Shield capacity. Only this time, they were reflecting on my health. I even saw a energy bar and four icons on the lower bottom left of my peripheral vision. I recognized the designs.

They represented Oberon’s abilities…… Smite, Hollow Ground, Renewal, and finally, Reckoning.

Holy sh*t…… I’m a F***ing Tenno.

The third thing was my gear. Originally, my weapons were nothing more than plastic props. Now, they were freaking metal weapons. I even tested the theory of if they were real or not by simply swinging my sword, only for it to cut a tree in half. All of this was exciting and all, but on the top left corner of my visual screen, I could see a map icon and something going off like waves of sonar. But nothing was bouncing back.

What I did hear though was the sounds of machines as I ducked behind a bush. Peaking out, I saw three Corpus drones scanning the area. Possibly searching for individuals like me.

Probably searching for other Tenno.

I had to get out of here. Find high ground. Survey the current situation. If I only had an Enemy sense modification on me right now to pick up the positions of nearby enemies, but I’ll worry about that later. Right now, I had to run. Starting off in a sprint, I ran up a cliff wall and flipped over, now getting a glimpse of the entire valley that I was thrown into.

It was all covered in snow and small setups of Corpus Mining Operations were trying to excavate some of the HUGE crystals that were stuck from the ground. Typical for them to be trying something like that. The Corpus in Warframe were a cult of merchants that were driven by only one thing. Profit. Sell anything… to anyone...

It was around now when I began to hear some nearby voices. Looking at the ledge, I saw two Corpus foes like thirty feet below me. One of them being a Technician and another one being the Prod crewmen jerks that carry the stun batons. They were talking in their own language, which I personally called Corpish, and I couldn’t understand them at first. But then, I could feel my suit kicking in as I began to hear the words being translated into english.

“Hey, what was with the cargo that Salvage Team Bravo acquired earlier?”

“All I was told was that it was contraband weapons and that it was related to the small group of locals that they encountered earlier. They killed the others and took the captain they had as a hostage. They’re actually loading up in the ship right now.”

Looking up, was when I noticed that a Corpus Ship was just about ready to take off and that the ledge that it would rise up too would allow for me to jump on there. If this captive was against the Corpus and knew about weapons that would be considered as contraband, then that would be an ally that I would want to have. I pulled out Latron, using the scope to get a closer look at the targets. There were two normal crewmen in the main compartment along with two prod crewman guarding a silver crate with holes, which I assumed to be the hostage, and a pilot in the front portion of the vehicle, that’s when I also noticed something else.

Something like a warning label. The sensors in my helmet translated the scripture that was engraved to say “WARNING: DO NOT LEAVE ENERGY CORES UNGUARDED.” I felt a surge of confidence. If I can pull this shot off, then I can send the whole thing crashing down. But then again, if I miss, I alert the enemies of my location. What should I do?

That was when a Corpus osprey appeared alongside the ship, giving me an idea. Oberon’s first ability, Smite, fired a projectile of light that when it hit a target, it dispersed and bounced off nearby surfaces, striking every opponent in it’s wake. Now was my chance to see how to work with my frames powers.

Aiming with my left hand, I fired the Twirling shot of energy as it destroyed the flying drone and homed in on it’s nearby targets. The ricochet's not only hit the four on board and killed them, but also hit my intended target. The Pilot himself was beginning to panic as the ship came tumbling downwards into the snow like a Snowspeeder got shot down in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Hopping down from the ledge, I ran over to find the cage and the injured pilot. I was not sure if he was dead or not, but I didn’t take any chances and silenced him with one of my Cestra’s.

Next task though was the cage. The original plan was to use my Dex Dakra blades to pop it open like a crowbar, but that was when I saw that it needed a security codex for it to unlock. Just like in the game, a small puzzle appeared in which I had to line up the cyphers in a certain shape for the box to open. When it was released, a white unicorn with a Dark brown mane and a mark of two crossed swords on his rear stepped out.

“A-are they gone?” He asked himself, looking around before seeing me. “Y-you-!!”

“Shh shh shh,” I ushered him. “Calm yourself. I’m not going to hurt you.”

“Y-you’re a Tenno, aren’t you?”

I was speechless at this point, but before being able to ask, the equine interjected. “Don’t be alarmed. I know somepony who is looking for individuals like yourself.” Turning to a crate in the snow, he casted a spell that removed the magical lock that was placed on it and used his levitation spell to pull out a couple of weapons that I can recognize.

Daikyu and Skana, A tenno crafted Longbow and sword.

“Come, we must hurry before more show up.”

“O-okay,” I reply to him. “But who are you though?”

“I am Captain Heartblade. What should I call you, Tenno?”

I thought it over for like a couple of seconds, but then replied back with a grin that he couldn’t see because of my helmet. “Oberon. You may call me Oberon.”

“Well, Oberon, it’s good to have you on our side. We need individuals such as yourself if we want to remove these foul invaders from our home. But we should go… Princess Platinum will explain everything to you before we try and contact Celestia. I have a feeling that our allies have found others like you. Now, hang on. I’m going to teleport us out. Get ready”

“Wait wha-?!”

And that was when a bright flash of light caused my head to spin nonstop. God, I hate it when that happens.

Author's Note

Again same as last time but there is still some segments missing but when they are I will let you know. Just bare in mind that things are getting done some are just slow going. - geo hikari.

Solarkness: I am not sure of it, but I think Gryphons etc. are being attacked too. I mean, Grineer etc. attack more than just pony-like stuff.

The Tenno Gather

The Tenno Gather

(Theyellowninja13)

I took another bite of the chicken I cooked. It's already been about a day since I arrived in this forest, and I already have a camp set up in a small clearing. I silently thanked my parents for taking me out camping when I was younger. I managed to find a chicken, which I quickly caught and snapped it's neck, and then cooked. Luckily I figured out how to take off my helmet, so I could eat, but I haven't seen my reflection yet.

I finished tearing the meat off the chicken, before throwing the bones into a pile. I sighed, thinking about how I need to learn how to use that fire power I probably have. I was able to make a fire without it, but I could use fire blasts as protection. I was cut out of my thoughts, by a sharp pain in my shoulder, and I looked to see a group of ten humanoid soldiers all walking into the clearing, pointing their guns at me. "Oh, crap." I said to myself, as they started opening fire, and I quickly rolled behind a rather thick tree.

Crouching down, I looked at my hands, trying to create some fire. "Come on. Come on!" I tried everything I could think of, from saying 'fireball' to imagining the molecules around my hand to start vibrating madly. Hearing some footsteps coming really close to the tree, I decided to something really crazy. Quickly jumping out from behind the tree, I pointed my right hand at a close group of six humanoids, before yelling. "Ignis!" Ignis is a Latin form of the word 'fire,' which I remember from taking Latin classes.

Luckily for me, a bolt of fire quickly shot out of my hand, and disintegrated the six soldiers in a flash of fire. 'YES! It worked!' The only reason I tried that idea, was because it always seemed like Latin always works for spells in movies and the like. Feeling a quick pain in my legs, I remembered the four other soldiers firing at me. I rolled out of the way, before pulling out my staff, and rushing forward, and slamming it into the neck of one soldier, killing it, before I fired a blast of fire at a group of two soldiers, burning them alive. I turned to the last soldier, and rushed forward, ignoring the pain in my shoulder and legs, before slamming my staff into his face, knocking him back a bit, before burning him alive.

Once the soldiers were all defeated, I sighed, before walking over to a stone I used as a seat earlier, before hearing the sound of fire burning and crackling. I quickly turned around to see the surrounding forest was on fire, and the fire was spreading. Spreading fast. I ran forward, and stuck my arms out, hoping to call the fire back to me. It seemed to work for a second, as a flame seemed to almost fly to me, before returning back. 'That probably won't work unless I train my powers more.' I quickly sidestepped a falling tree, before deciding to run off and try to find a lake or something to put the fire out.

I made to run out of the clearing, but realized something. I was surrounded by fire. I don't know if I'm immune to fire, so I don't want to test it out in case I wasn't, and got badly burned or died. I kept on turning around, trying to keep track of all the fire, before I heard the sounds of people shouting.

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(Illua)

I had followed the unlikely pair of Discord and Luna into the camp, glancing around as I could feel the glares of ponies digging into me. The walls of this camp consisted of heavy sharpened logs rammed into the forest floor, making a tight ring around the clearing. Nothing was fancy or permanent in this encampment, besides the proudly standing castle, despite the burn marks covering it. "Discord, can thou be bothered to help with repairs? We would appreciate it greatly." Luna asked. In a blink of the eye, Discord was wearing a World War 2 Era general's outfit, complete with metal helmet as he saluted, and marched off towards the repair crew.

"We must Apologize. Discord is childish at times." I nodded, motioning for her to continue as we approached the Castle. "These beings called the Grineer appeared a few years ago. It was during the last clash between our sister and I and Discord. We each had cast a spell to seal him, hopefully to end the original conflict, only for him to deflect them. Unfortunately, his deflection turned them into holes in The Veil, which brought this legion of beings to our plane. Since he did mention the Void.." She passed through the doors to the castle, unharmed as she spoke.

I stood outside the door, with a set of spears stabbed into my armor. "You know, you should be polite to The Princess' guest." I quickly turned, snapping the heads off the spears as I continued in. "Otherwise, They tend to make lives harder." I said, proceeding in with the splintered ends sticking out from my armor coat. "As you were Saying?"

Luna looked at me with a mixture of 'Did you really just do that?' and 'I'm not even gonna ask.' "Yes... Discord mention the Void, saying someone sent you here. Would you happen to know if any others may have been brought to our world as well?" I sighed softly, continuing to follow dark pony princess, the sound of her horseshoes echoing through the quiet halls with a gentle clip.

"I do not know for sure, but I will assume that, due to the enemy and my role as theirs, I believe there should be at least 20 something others similar to me." The sound of wings popping open and the look of happiness in the lunar diarch's eyes was adorable.

"Oh joyous day! If they even have a fraction of your ability or durability, this war will end in no time! We must make haste to the throne room!" Luna bounced around like a giddy schoolfilly, removing any impression of being prim and proper. "What is thine name, noble knight?" She asked, her hooves up on my chest.

They are quite expressive, despite being horses..and It will do no good to tell them a name that has no meaning here."My Name is Frost. I am a-" However, I was cut off and her mood was soured at the sound of bells. I could faintly make out was was being said. "..ire...fir... all... gasi..." ire.. Fir... Fire!?

"It seems something has caused a forest fire... Pegasi are probably trying to get clouds to put it out." Luna mused, her tone returning to its original somber tone.

"Can you lift me?"

"Excuse me, Art thou suggesting we drop you in the midst of it?"

"Yes. I command ice. Ice when melted turns to water. Water puts out fires. Can you manage to air drop me in?"

"We Believe so. Can you delay the flame's approach to the encampment?" Luna asked as I felt the tingle of her navy aura surround me, as she took wing, flying out the nearest window and towards the burning ring.

"I'll do my Best."

"Godspeed, Frost."

I was dropped to the forest floor outside the ring, hearing the crackling of wood and... Screaming Grineer? I called out towards the ring. "Is there anyone over there? Possibly an Ember?" I created one of my domes, covering a section of flame and snuffing it out, mercy killing the singed Grineer. "If so, Stop using your Abilities!"

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(Dundredo)

I was on my way to the castle I had seen, when I saw smoke begin coming out of the near by forest. I carefully weighed my options.

'One, I may get hurt in the fire, perhaps even killed. Two, I might find some people.. Three, I might rescue some people. Four-' My stomach decided to cut in with a growl. 'I might find some food. Five... there is no five. Going wins three to one.' With that, I changed course, and began jogging to the forest.

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(Geo Hikari)

I looked over the other warframes surprised to see that the mag looked to be holding a diplomatic approach between the others.

"Well things are getting a bit lively" I said making everyone turn to me.

"Bolt are you sure that there is 23 warframes in total currently on equestria" asked nisha.

"I'm sure as frankly as we keep finding other warframes like this the more sure I get" I said.

"By the way what the hell happened to your face! When you took off that helmet I nearly had a heart attack" said nisha making the others curious. Luna had left to attend to some personal matter earlier so that left us to get to know each other.

Seeing the curious looks on the others body language I pulled off my helmet making the others back up in shock.

"I think it's the technocyte virus. I mean think about it we went from ordinary humans in costumes to actual tenno. The change in DNA must have introduced the virus mid transit and for some of us the changes are noticeable. If you haven't noticed we still have to be able to eat if we can. So far it seems we kept most of our human dna. If I remember right about equestrian lore there is a desperate dimension connected to this one. But by the looks of it the mirror that acts as the portal to it hasn't been found yet" I said.

Suddenly we heard a alarm about a fire. Quickly putting on my helmet I ran to a nearby window.

"Shoot looks like Ember or whoever became her was trying to control her powers! I'm going to help get some rain over there" I said and turned to moonlight.

"Moonlight watch chrysalis with the others" I added.

"You can count on me" said moonlight surprising nisha and chuck as well as everyone else.

Using my natural speed I quickly got to the site of the fire noting Luna had located frost.

Leting my electric powers flow I hoped this would work. I aimed above the sky and shot a large bolt of electricity adding to the humidity and causing water vapor to gather creating a storm cloud surprising Luna and the frost when they noted my presence. Just then the storm cloud I created released the water helping frost to put out the fire. I just barely made out the ember warframe looking at the sky confused before frost pulled her out of there. I felt really drained as I moved closer to them. Note to self don't use so much energy in one go.

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(Forgedheart)

As I ran towards the castle I started making notice in the changes of my body, my muscles were more toned, i was stronger, faster, and my sense of hearing had drastically improved I could hear everything from my own footsteps to the sound of a nearby fire. Wait..fire!? I turned towards the sound there it was clear as day a forest fire.

I noted that there was a single rain cloud above it and a winged pony (Pegasus maybe?) carrying someone towards it. Maybe there is something I could do to help I went to turn towards it, when I found myself met with a group of about 15 Grineer I recognized them from the game , seven of them had shields, three were standard lancers, and there were five heavy gunners. I sighed This might take some time. I grabbed my crossbow off my back and started my assault.
(Shortly after)
That went pretty much as expected I was currently running away from the remaining Grineer I had no trouble taking out the lancers,but the gunner and those with the shields were much smarter than I anticipated, they had grouped together and covered just about every vulnerable point.

An all out attack would work because Dodging the gunner’s bullets were next to impossible I had tried stealth and it worked for a while till I realised they could easily follow where my throwing stars came from. I had no ammo for either weapon left and so doing the sensible thing I ran.

hence my current dilemma They were smart the only shots they got in were at my legs and feet any moment now I’ll collapse and they’ll catch me, I know one thing for sure they are trying to catch me not kill me and I can’t decide which is worse.

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(Dundredo)

I had just climbed to the top of a hill, and was looking down. I looked around, seeing if there was anything interesting near the hill on her way to the forest fire. I spotted a wounded Banshee running from some Grineer.

“Not on my watch, you won’t.” I muttered as she sprinted down the hill, drawing Mire as I did so. Sliding occasionally to catch my breath on the way down, I quickly came within earshot of the enemy.

“Rentroy aass Tenno!” One of them shouted. About a second after that was spoken, I jumped, and impaled a Grineer as I came down.

“Ug ka, Tenno, soana hat horoi!” The downed Grineer said before the life left his eyes. I quickly spun around, and managed to get one or two more kills before the gunners opened fire, and the shield bearers turned around. I smiled behind my mask as I remembered exactly what I would do in game if I were in this situation. I did what any melee user would do. I ran towards the largest concentration of gunners, swinging my sword. I felt Mire quiver slightly in my grip as it absorbed the blood of my kills. After about a second of this, a pain in my back reminded me that I was still hurt from my last fight.

(Forgedheart)

Hearing the death cries of my pursuers I turn to see just who is responsible and am met with what appears to be the saryn warframe wielding Mire. I cheered YES! I’m saved! but I was brought out of my celebration as I could hear her labored breath from here “damn, well if she can fight while injured so can I!” I ran towards one of the gunners, dropped into a slide and slashed with my nikana, I then turned towards saryn and asked “Need some help?” She nodded.

“Yes please. Killed a twenty or so of these guys back in a cave before I got cornered. Tore me up something nasty.” I smiled (Even though you couldn’t see it) “Yeah these assholes just showed up after I killed what I assumed to be a small scouting party.” I went to work slaying as many grineer as possible before my legs gave out on me. It wasn’t long before we had finished them off and as soon as the last gunner dropped so did . “Oww fuck those bastards were pretty dead set on destroying my legs.” I sighed as I hit the ground. The Saryn sat next to me, groaning slightly. She had a few more wounds, and some had reopened. For some reason, instead of blood, she bleed a purplish ichor.

“Good tactics, but they were still just Grineer in the end.” I shook my head at her “But they had heavy gunners. Those thing can tear through you rather quickly” She nodded.

“True. But if you know how to cut through them quick enough, they can’t do much. Even when I played the game-” She paused for a moment. “- You did play Warframe, right? We aren't from two different dimensions. I mean, you aren’t an actual Tenno, right?” I laughed at that “No no I am or at least was human, I did play the game, we are from the same dimension, and to top it all off I used to be a guy.” Saryn was silent for a moment, before bursting into laughter.

“I-I’m sorry.” She said after a moment. “I had just read and watched way too many things like that for it NOT to be funny. Still-” She said, briefly attempting to brush a tear from her eye before realizing that there was a mask in the way. “I had a trans friend back home. So I’ve heard all that stuff about being in the wrong body. Sorry again.” I shook my head “It’s fine. By the way”-I extended my hands towards her”-my name’s Kiyoshi Takenaka, but my friends call me Yoshi.”

“My name is Aisha. But I’m thinking about going by Saryn now. Since, ya know.” She gestured to her body. “But I’m not quite sure.” I shrugged “But Banshee sounds to serious, I’m not a serious kinda guy-er girl.” She shrugged.

“Whatever you want. Hmm, our Warframe names could be like titles. You know, like how Natsu from Fairy Tail is sometimes called Salamander. That would also beat being called ‘ms.’ or ‘mrs.’ in high society like things. Plus-” She said shaking her head. “I could never quite get those two honorifics straight.” I nodded “Yeah. Anyway, can you help me stand or make a splint or something? I noticed a fire earlier and they might need our help.” She nodded.

“Yah, I was going there before I spotted you. Anyway, here.” She said. She brought my arm around her shoulders, and brought me up. “Let’s go then.” I smiled inwardly “yeah.” She hesitated for a moment before adding something.

“Just don’t make any wisecracks relating to your former manhood and this situation. Ok?”
I chuckled “Sure thing. I dropped my man card a while back anyway.” She nodded happily. We then began to make our way to the burning forest.

(Solarkness ; Limbo)

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!", I screamed. As much as it pains for me to admit, I did scream like a little girl... watching an eagle eating a whole cheesecake balanced on the **** of a fat man who is covered in shit.

I screamed that bad, falling headwards and all that...

Except, what I realised after a second, I wasn't falling. "I... I am not falling? I AM NOT FALLING! But wait... my head is pointing downwards, isn't it?"

As my vision cleared, I saw that I was in what seemed to be a camp. A military camp.

And in the hold of a complete and utter chimera, which I could tell from his tail and legs (A male one, I checked!): "Actually, the whole world is pointing downwards, and you are pointing upwards."

I think about that for a moment, before replying: "That makes sense... I guess."

Judging from the short pain inflicted through my armour, he was hurt by that, but doesn't want me to know.

"So, were you sent from the Twins or the Employer? I hope you were, it would be great to find one who was already!"

I looked dumbfounded between his legs, at his tail, seeing how I was still hanging downside up: "Well, I was having a job-interview when this happened... Could you please let go of me?"

"Ah, so it was the Employer! Perfect, and sure I can, you can enter the Barrier too, eh?.", the chimera told me.

"Why is my vision filled with spaghetties with tomato-sauce?
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(theyellowninja13, Illua, Geo hikari)

I quickly ran around the small open space I had, noticing all the other Warframes trying to put out the fire. I saw bolts of electricity shoot into the sky, and create rain clouds, to put out the fires, and waves of ice also help put out the fires. I mentally sighed, but was still panicking, as the fire quickly spreads. I heard something land behind me, and turned to see another Warframe.

“.... Stop using your Abilities!” The Frame called out, his armor glowing orange in the light of the flames.

“I’m not! This was just one fire! I didn’t even expect their bodies to spread the fire when they died!” I said, still panicking.

Frost facepalmed, casting additional waves to his sides as the tree lit with Flame, freezing them solid. “Look, If you are Ember, Draw the flames inward and fire them towards the sky!”

“I tried that already. It didn’t work.” I turned around, before thinking. “But maybe since the fire is smaller, it just might work this time.” I stuck my hands out towards the fire, and closed my eyes, concentrating on drawing the fire to me. I opened my eyes, to see massive waves of fire coming straight to my hands, and becoming an unstable ball of fire between my hands.

Frost dropped to his knees, His shoulders heaving as if he was breathing heavily. “I don’t know who the lightning caster was, but I think I might be able to freeze the area. Think you can handle it?” he called out, a orb of ice appearing in his palm as he raised it skyward.

I nodded, before gritting my teeth together, and pulling more of the fire over to me. I had about half the entire forest fire between my armored palms. “I think I can do this. Just make sure it doesn’t spread more!”
Frost nodded, staying in his crouched position as the orb began to grow further, pulling in what humidity he could, only for it to rocket skyward, expand, and suddenly drop a massive amount of snow and ice on the burning ring, Smothering Flame and ember alike.

I eventually pulled in all the fire I could, before pushing my hands together, compressing the ball of fire in between my hands. When it was the size of a softball, I pulled my hand back, and threw it into the air as fast and hard as I could, where it went rather high, before blowing up in some small fireworks. “Nice.” I then remembered I got shot in the shoulder and leg, and fell down, grasping my shoulder, as blood started pouring out. “And there’s the adrenaline.”

“Cauterize your own wound… I’m pretty sure your armor will repair itself… I think I need a Nap..” Frost collapsed just then, his breathing still heavy but beginning to mellow, as a blue winged unicorn decided to land just then.

“Well… It seems Frost is not the most effective caster, but he is efficient. And who might you be?” I used a small gout of flame to cauterize the bullet wounds on my injured limbs before standing up.

“Blaise. You can just call me Blaise. And you might be?” I asked, deciding not to use the Warframe’s name, but my own.

“I am Princess Luna...“ She paused for a moment, looking back and forth. “... And We art part of the Harmonic Alliance with Discord, Lord of Chaos. You seem to be armored much like Frost. Art thou a knight as well?”
I looked back at the form of Frost, before shrugging. “I guess. All I know for sure now is that I have bullets in my shoulder and leg, and cauterizing only stops blood.”

“Bullets? Art those the bits of metal that we are finding in our little ponies after fighting these abominations?” Her gaze turned both curious and suspicious, her wings folding close to her sides.

“Yes, those are bullets. Small metal projectiles fired at fast speeds towards a target. Highly dangerous, especially if they hit vital organs, like the heart or brain.” I stated, recalling from memory what I know about guns. I’m just personally glad I only have a boa staff to deal with.

“That we have noticed far too often.” the lunar diarch sighed, just as Frost stirred a bit, shaking snow off his broad frame.

“Now I know why Skyrim people ragdoll when they lack stamina…” Frost muttered, standing up, if a bit shakily. “Oh, seems like Avalanche worked. Any lingering embers?”

I closed my eyes, and didn’t really feel any fires nearby. “Only me, and I’m choosing not to be Ember, so just call me Blaise.” I said in a joking manner.

“Blaze?”

“Yeah… let’s just go with that. It’s actually with an ‘i’ and an ‘s,’ but you can call me Blaze if you want.”

“With an ‘i’ and ‘s’.. Blasie?”

“And you mispronounced that on purpose. ‘Blasie’ doesn’t sound like ‘Blaise’ or ‘Blaze’ at all.
Frost chuckled.

“I know, I have a unique spelling of my real name as well, despite being said the same. Anyways, Princess Luna, This was one of the other 20 or so ‘knights’ that I mentioned before. I think it would be prudent to return to your castle and see your sister.” He said, his boots crunching in the fresh snow as he rebalanced himself.

“Do you know if there are other Warframes here?” I asked, as I walked over to one of the burnt corpses of the ‘Grineer’ I believe they’re called, before pulling off a sharp piece of heated metal, and heated it up more, before jabbing it in my shoulder, and pulling out the bullets imbedded in my shoulder, before doing the same to my leg.

“Considering the Grineer are here, I wouldn’t doubt it. I’m hazarding a guess that Corpus are also here, in some form.” Frost mentioned, leaving a bewildered, and slightly nauseated Luna between the two conversing warriors.

“They have a name? There’s another faction? Where art my dear sister at times like these, or even Mother…And must thou really do that to oneself? We have healers at the castle for that very reason.” Luna sat on her haunches, resting her muzzle between her front hooves.

“It’s nothing I haven’t done before. I was once shot by a crazy old guy while camping, and had to remove a few bullets without anyone else nearby.” I turned to face Frost.

“It’s been awhile since I refreshed my memory of the factions and lore, so bare with me here. The Corpus were a corporation right?” I asked, as I stuffed the metal piece away for later.

“Yeah, the Corpus are greedy bastards who want to mass produce powerful things. I’ll cover what I have memorized when we get back to the castle.” Frost bowed slightly, motioning towards the spire in the distance. “Shall we?”

Just then another warframe walked up stumbling a bit.

"Luna remind me not to release so much energy in one go like that again. Creating rainclouds like I did was draining." he said almost falling if frost didn't catch him.

"Bolt? Oh right we forgot sister brought thou and six other knights to the castle" said Luna sheepishly.

"Bolt?" I asked.

"Well I can't use my old name anymore, I don't really look like a jack trans anymore" said the volt warframe.

"Hm.. Well, I believe we should return to the castle, and familiarize ourselves with each other.” said Frost. Bolt nodded in agreement.

Frost moved to support Bolt as two new beings entered the burnt and frozen clearing, the sound of crunching snow signaling their approach. It was another warframe who looked to be.. “Saryn! Banshee!” said Bolt, shock readily apparent in his voice. Saryn who was supporting banshee or rather both were supporting the other took a few weak steps, and proceeded to collapse, falling on one of the slowly melting snowdrifts.

"Princess Luna, Those two are some of our comrades. Would you mind helping us transport them?" Asked Frost. Luna nodded, the diarch’s horn alighting with magic as she levitated the warframes to our little group as we headed out.

"Great. Chrysalis is going to be worried." muttered Bolt.

"Who?" I asked.

"A changeling who has pretty much now thinks I'm her dad. Also, Luna, drop the illusion. You’re only twelve years old. You don't have to look older like that" said bolt making Luna look surprised.
"How did you.." asked Luna.

"Celestia looks like she's in her teens and your her little sister. Of course I would know your under an illusion." said bolt. But before the princess could retort the electric warframe slumped.

"Ah, Used a bit too much energy himself.." Frost mused, taking a look at the unconscious Tenno. I sighed feeling that things would just get crazier and crazier from this point on. And I thought my gender change was weird.

FrostTheWolf + Solarkness

Oberon My head was pounding like crazy by the time Heartblade’s teleportation spell wore off and I was back on solid ground. When I opened my eyes again, I found myself in a deep frozen cave that reminded me of the Rebel Base on Hoth. No wonder I have been getting Flashbacks to The Empire Strikes Back. I saw Heartblade nearby with a pegasus mare that had an Ebony mane and a hazelnut fur coat with another mark on it’s rear. This time of a bow and arrow.

“Hey Arrowhead, I got you something that I could salvage from a weapons crate. Hope you find it useful.”

“Thanks Heartbla-.” The Unicorn stopped talking once he laid eyes on me, drawing back his newfound Longbow in defense. Unlike him though, I didn’t draw any weapons. He was doing it because he was scared. “Captain, What is that thing-!?”

“Colonel, stand down.” Heartblade ordered with a firm tone in his voice. “This is Oberon. He’s a Tenno that saved my life.”

Arrowhead’s eyes widened, putting his bow aside as he looked back at me. “M-my apologies, great one. I did not know-.”

“There is no need to apologize,” I assured him. “A lot of people would do things out of instinct if they’re scared or intimidated. That’s why you shouldn’t be quick to presume the worst in people.”

“You are right, Oberon. But we must not delay. Princess Platinum must be notified,” Heartblade ushered me as we started to walk down the frozen hallway. “Arrowhead, how are the evacuation plans as of right now?”

“We’ve evacuated all of the civilians and commoners. Most of the troops besides the ones in your patrol have gone with the evacuees in order to protect them. Speaking of which, what happened to your patrol?”

“They’re gone, Arrowhead. Those Bucketheads killed every one of them. If it weren’t for the Tenno, I would’ve been captured by them.”

“Dear Celestia, have mercy.” The mare swore. “Now it’s just only us, the Princess and Chancellor.”

“Who-?”

“Chancellor Puddinghead. She’s grown unwell ever since she and Princess Platinum were attacked by those Bucketheads a few days ago.”

“You mean the Corpus?”

Both ponies look at me with puzzled looks on their muzzles. “Corpus? You know about them?”

“Indeed, they’re a corrupt merchant cult that does whatever it takes to sell anything to anyone in order to gain profit. If they’re here, then they must’ve found something valuable about this place. But let’s not focus on me right now. Take me to your chancellor.” I was beginning to walk past the two ponies, but was interrupted when I heard Heartblade speak again

“B-but Oberon! She isn’t doing well. We should-!!” At this point, I spun around, looking at both of the ponies below me and getting on one knee.

“I can heal her to where she could be able to walk around like nothing ever happened to her. And, judging from what you were going to say and the tone you said it in, you seem to be clinging onto hope.”

“W-well, the clerics had tried to keep her stable, but they said that any unknown source of energy could disrupt the healing process.”

“Trust me… I know what I’m doing.” I said before going through the next door. I saw a female pony with a horn lying on the bed that was in the center of the room in prayer with another mare tucked in it. The Unicorn was dressed as if she was of royalty while the pony in the bed looked pale. I didn’t see any horn or wings on her, so I thought that she was… well… Normal.

“W-who are you!?” The Pony which I assumed to be Princess Platinum demanded. In response, I bowed down to the floor and got on one knee.

“Princess Platinum, my name is Varen Luko; but I am known as Oberon. I am a Tenno.”

“So… you’re one of the warriors that Celestia had mentioned?” I nodded my head, explaining everything to her from my arrival to saving Heartblade and also how I could heal the Chancellor. Her eyes widened, seeing it as a sign of hope.

“Princess, shall I help restore your comrade?”

“Please… hurry.”

I nodded, letting the holy energy release itself from my fingertips and casting it on the pony that laid down in the bed. After a few seconds, her eyes shot open, looking around the room. “P-platinum? Is that you?”

“Oh my dear friend, I am relieved to see that you are well.”

“Indeed,” she replied before turning to see me. “Were you the one who healed me?”

“I was just simply doing what needed to be done,” I told her. “I am Oberon, a Tenno Warrior. I was told by your companions that you know of someone that might understand what is going on?”

The Earth pony nodded. “Of course. Celestia and her sister Luna. We need to get to them now though. I fear that with the amount of time we spent here that our enemies could be knocking on our doorstep.”

“I agree,” Heartblade replied. “Princess, if you can lend me a hoof with this spell, I can have all of us be at their location as soon as possible.”

“Certainly, Captain. Everypony get ready.”

As they were making preparations though, I began to hear screams and cries from outside the base. As I moved from the room, I heard what sounded like a single word in the Corpus language being spoken

ITTEYPEP.

As my sensors in my head began to translate, I began to hear a few loud roars as a flash of light went off behind me. I turned around, only to see Arrowhead behind me.

“Arrowhead? Why aren’t you with the others?”

“Heartblade told me to stay with you. He thought that something was wrong and that I would need your help.”

“Oh we definitely will need each others help. Tell me, does this place have any weapons?”

“Yes, we’ve been uncovering Tenno weapons lockers over the past week, but haven’t been able to get most of them open.”

“Well, we need you to get ready. Because we got something far worse than the Corpus we need to deal with.”

As she trotted next to me, the mare became worried. “Worse?”

“Yes…” I replied as the Corpus word I heard before; was finished translating.

ITTEYPEP

Infested.

“We need to deal with a series of abominations called the infested. They’re creatures that are infected with a Virus that could kill all organic life like you and I. If the two of us are to live, we need to be ready for the fight ahead and your bow won’t be enough.” I told her as she directed me to the storage lockers that her kind had found. “You’ll need a secondary weapon and a combat weapon for if they get too close to you.”

There were only two other lockers, but both of them seemed to have the locking encryption be malfunctioned or damaged. Now was when I had to use my Dex Dakra as crowbars and popped the doors off of them like they were a can of peaches. Inside though, I found two weapons that would work for a range like combat specialist like I presumed Arrowhead was. The first was a set of throwing stars called Hikou, which were quiet and quick to unleash if thrown correctly. The second was a special kind of glaive that my systems in my Warframe identified as Cerata. Both of these items would have to do for now.

After fumbling a little with equipping the weapons onto the pegasus, the two of us were almost ready to move. After going over some simple hand signs and military slang from back home, I had Arrowhead watch my six while I kept my eyes peeled to what’s in front of me. Despite the chaos going on above up, the pegasus told us that it would be safer to go through the tunnels because of how they lead to a place called “White Tail Woods”. It was our only shot of staying alive.

Part way through our journey though, I clenched my fist and held it up. It was a cue for Arrowhead to hold her position as I checked what was on the ground in front of me. Using two fingers, I touched a smeared substance that was on the ground. Systems scans showed that the chemical traces was what would normally consist of the compounds that made Blood.

Which meant that something… or someone was killed here.

“Oberon?” I heard Arrowhead speak as I turned around. “Are those normal?” Looking at what she was referring to, I almost immediately froze. It was traces of the spores left behind by the Infested. But if those were there… and so was the blood… Oh no…

We were in their killbox.

A loud roar echoed from behind me as I turned around, quickly enough to get a shot off from my Latron to strike an Infested Charger between the eyes before two more of them showed up and charged past the corpse that disintegrated on the ground. Switching weapons, I unloaded a stream of Cestra shots into one of them while Arrowhead shot an arrow into the other abomination as they both collapsed on the floor. “Come on, we got to keep moving!” I told her, “And don’t touch anything!! The virus that infected them would infect you as well.”

She simply nodded, firing another arrow that struck a crawler that almost got my legs as we turned a corner into a hallway on the right. There were a few runners that were on our tail now because of the noise that came from the Infested we already dealt with, so to create some space between them and us, I used Oberon’s second ability: Hollow Ground, to set a patch of holy light that would hurt anything that came even close to it. In addition, any time we came by a set of doors or gates, I had Arrowhead shoot the locks or switches that held them in place to give them a barricade to try and rush through.

“We’re almost there!” She told me as I looked at the alleyway in front of me. “Just a little more!”

“Seriously!? All I see is a dead end-.”

My comment was interrupted the second we made it to the end of the hallway as the two of us were warped into a location that resembled less of the Rebels base on Hoth and more like the Forests of Endor. God, what is up with me and comparing things to Star Wars? Anyways, I saw Arrowhead a bit relieved.

“Whoo!! We made it!”

“Yes,” I told her. “We did make it out of there. But I have a hunch that we’re not alone.” I told her as my Warframe’s systems were picking up a nearby lifeform. However… it resembled another Warframe.

One that looked like Limbo. The Warframe of Rifts.

Limbo

...I didn’t know what to think about this. Here I was, dusting off the corners in the ...housings of the military camp, still being commanded by that chimera… I forgot to mention how exactly it looked, didn’t I? It’s head was… and its wings… with the tail being…

I give up. I have no way to explain this monstrosity.

“Oh, and please don’t forget the spider in the left corner!”, he shouted over to me, him doing something at the other side of the camp. I looked back to the corner I just dusted off, and sighed: “Do you have anything to do with strangely appearing spiders? Including webs?”

“What? Me? No! How could you even think I’d do that?”

I eyed the spider suspiciously. Now that I was thinking about it, it had the eyes of that chimera… I think he called himself ‘Discord’, its horns and colours…

I’m going to ignore this spiderweb.

I turned around, held the broom up… or would have, if the broom wouldn’t have gone missing. I am going insane.

“Oh, I think you have done that quite enough already! I think you should take a minute for yourself or something. I mean, your whole situation… I just now realized that couldn’t have been too coconut for you!”

I muttered. “I stopped caring about it three of your words ago.”

“Well, I am sure I would behave the same way you did. After all, if I would have been dragged across something I didn’t understand, land in a white void…”, he began only to be interrupted:

“Wait wait wait, what white void?”

“The Limbo? Where I fished you out of?”

“...I remember trying to GET there, but not actually Limbo itself…”

“Well, if you would instantly be able to do everything I guess there would be no fun, that’s why I don’t solve everything instantly after all”, Discord mumbled to himself, but at this he got louder. “Aww, who’s an adorable tenno who doesn’t understand what he does? You are! Why don’t you go get some fresh air or something? You forgot to dust off yourself!”

As I looked down, I saw dust covering my whole armor. “I hate you too.”

I turned around, and walked out of the camp. I didn’t stay to listen his reasons, and went towards a forest, even though there seemed to be a lot going on there… not the best place to train, but probably interesting.

As I saw fire in there, I stopped dead in my tracks. There is no reason for me to walk right into a forest fire. I turned around, saw a river and followed it instead. ‘Who knows,’ I thought, ‘It could lead to a place better suited for training’.

After a while, I arrived at another forest, this one fortunately not on fire. ‘Calm down’, I told myself, ‘It’s not like there will be Grineer and Corpus coming the instant you take out your weapons to take a look at them...’

First, I checked my primary weapon by opening up a slot for it in my leg-protections. It had a yellow base with a silver muzzle pointing out, I think it was called Viscar or Vuntar or something. Whatever the case, it was a sniper rifle and I could see extremely long distances.

I put my primary weapon back, and took out my secondary… I mean -ies.

Their handles / grips? was brown, and they had big, silver coloured bullet rounds and muzzles with lightblue dots on it…

As I looked at my last weapon, my melee-weapon, were actually four weapons to be worn at the feet and hands. They were all blue-silver, with the feet-parts having three ‘claws’, and the hand-parts four. When used, they would be electrified as to make each attack lethal.

I changed back to my primary weapon, and looked around…

I heard footsteps, and hoofsteps, coming closer. It seemed to come from behind me, so I pointed my gun there. The bush rustled, and…

Oberon

When I was walking through the forest with Arrowhead, I heard a nearby twitch and signaled Arrowhead to stay down. However, when her wing caused the bush to rustle, I saw the figure turn around, holding a Vulkar issued rifle that the Grineer would use. Thinking quickly, I kicked the weapon to the ground and pulled out my Dual Cestra’s. Only to see the other figure pull out… Akvasto’s?

“Drop your guns now.” I said firmly, trying to use the light from a standard Smite ability to shine some light on the Warframe.

“You’re not mugging me, are you? Because I’ll have you know these guns are mine, and you got your own.” he replied, still pointing his guns at me.

“No, because from what I can tell, you were trying to point your rifle at my friend who was hiding behind the bush.” At this moment, I showed another hand signal that meant “okay” as in okay for her to come out and Arrowhead stepped out, bow drawn and at the ready. “See?”

“Well, I would make a joke about me being blind… but I am not. And hey, ‘let’s sneak up at someone with a gun from behind and expect him NOT to be cautious of the mysterious rustling bushes! It will totally work!’ ”

“I was originally going to calmly talk to you, but you moved your weapon and I could only think of the protection of my partner. Now, why don’t we put this past us and introduce ourselves. I’m Varen, but call me Oberon. This is Arrowhead.”

At this he slowly pointed down his guns, until he had them stored back in his pockets, and grabbed his rifle. “Well, you can call me Limbo. Or you could call me Azione Tralasciare, whatever suits you, I guess. But if you prefer the latter, please use Azio. It’s better that way.”

“Okay then, Limbo.” I told him, setting my guns back on my sides. “It’ll be better if we try to stick together and try to find other people that are stuck in the same situation as us. You going anywhere right now?”

He sat down, and replied. “No, not really. But I was coming here to train in the use of my abilities, from something that’s kind of a military camp. Some weirdass chimera runs it.”

“Wait… Camp?” Arrowhead said. “Mister, would this Chimera happen to have a lions paw and an Eagle Talon by any chance?”

He nodded, “Yeah, and by chance it’s name is Discord. His mother wasn’t very creative, even I could think of that name by looking at him…”

“That’s… important. Discord is the spirit of Chao’s that’s working with the Princesses. Earlier, we got separated from a few others that were heading in that direction.” Arrowhead replied, “If we head that direction, then we can find the others. We’ve been told that any Warframe we find to take them to Princess Celestia.”

At this, Limbo held up a hand. “Wait wait wait, they are NOT to be used to dust off basically everything and clean up the camp?”

“No.” I told him.

“It’s official. Discord is a jackass.”, he exclaimed.

I sighed a little. “From what I know, the Corpus, Grineer, and also the Infested are here on this world and are pushing ponykind and other species to the brink of extinction. We’re the only ones who can keep that from happening. The Corpus are in the north, so I presume that the Grineer are to the south and the infested could be basically anywhere if you’re not careful. Got ambushed by them on the way here.”

Limbo, AKA Azio, stared at me slackjawed. And stared… and stared…

“Let me make this simple for you…” I then mustered, in my best Arnold Schwarzenegger voice. “Come with me if you want to live.”

“Did you just say that I am one of the only ones who can keep the extinction of several species from happening??? ARE YOU MAD? I CAN’T EVEN ENTER THE LIMBO WITHOUT BLACKING OUT, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO THAT???”, he hysterically shouted.

-----Nearby, a Grineer troop that was roaming around-----

-”Did you just hear that?”-, a heavy gunner wondered.

“Do I have to investigate? My brother told me not to!”, a butcher asked.

-----Back to the important guys-----

“You idiot! Don’t you think that yelling like that would attract attention!!” I snapped at him in a low but serious tone. I looked at him with my scanners inside my helm and realized the problem with Limbo. He had no energy. Zip. Nada. Zilch. He was dried up like a lake in the Serengeti in Africa. Looking through my inventory, I was personally surprised to find something he might need once he stopped yelling.

Energy restore. A piece of gear that could restore the energy of a Warframe. “Here. Use this and calm down. You don’t have any energy, so that could be the reason why you’re blacking out.”

As I looked up, and at him, I saw him curled up and muttering, “It’s just gonna be like in your old job… everyone’s gonna scream at you for being bad and coming too late, but these won’t fire you… at least not in the metaphorical sense…”

I sighed, cracking the energy restore over his head as I let the mystical teal like energy restore him before he even realized what was going on. I was about done when I heard something else. “Arrowhead, keep an eye on him for a minute.”

The mare nodded and went to him as I used my Latron’s sight to look at what was in the distance. “Well, Sh*t.”

“What’s wrong?”

“We got some visitors. It’s the Grineer.” I tell them. “They don’t see us, but something tells me that might change soon.”

“Um…”, Limbo asked, “It’s not like they are walking down a river towards us, right? Because that might be… the way the camp is.”

I now stared at him, sighing. “Well great... Arrowhead, go up top. Limbo, stay down and out of sight.”

“Why?”

“Things are about to get loud.”

That’s when I aimed my weapon and without even thinking twice, pulled the trigger. The shot went off, blowing off the grineer ballista’s disfigured head as I unloaded two more shots into the nearby troopers.

As I quickly looked around, I saw Limbo lying on the ground a bit higher, and aiming. He shot off six bullets in rapid succession, but seemingly hit not a single Grineer.

“Steady your aim.” I suggested. I used my Cestra’s now to hit the troops in the kneecaps, preventing them from moving anywhere. “Now!”

He pulled the trigger… only to find out he had no more bullets. The magazine of the Vulkar is six shots, and he had no reserve-magazine. “Later?”, he asked, before fumbling to get out his secondary weapons.

“Son of a B-.” Before he could fire again, I had to switch to my Dex Dakra’s and used both blades to Slice and Dice the Grineer butchers into nothing more than dismembered body parts. For the few that remained, I used all the energy I had to activate Oberon’s strongest ability, Reckoning, which picked up all the Grineer like I was using the force before slamming them down and killing them. The remains of the foes turned to smoke while others dropped ammunition clips. Picking up a purple one, I tossed it to Limbo.

“Here. You might need these.” I told him.

He took it from me, before storing it somewhere and aiming with his dual guns. “Try to dodge rapid-f-”

“Dude… We killed them. They’re down for the count. All that’s left here are there ammo clips and-. Hold on…” When I said that, I was referring to the blue energy ball that looked like a globe. “Well, I’ll be damned. Looks like we found a Nav Coordinate.”

“Well, can’t you at least let me look like I am actually doing something, even if it’s AFTER the battle? And I thought that was an energy-ball from the game…”

“They’re two blue energy spheres. Dark Blue is energy. Light blue is Nav Coordinates. And thanks to this one, it seems to be registering the area we’re in on my map.” I told him. “So, you said we needed to follow the river to the camp?”

Limbo sighed, before complaining. “How am I supposed to know whether it’s now a tone of blue lighter or darker? And yeah, I did. Where is Puddinghead?”

“Probably back at the camp with Princess Platinum. Come on, we should hurry before more of the Grineer show up.” Arrowhead said, going out ahead and leading us onward.

Limbo whispered to me. “But… isn’t he Puddinghead? How can he be here and in the camp at the same time?”

“She is named Arrowhead. Puddinghead is an Earth Pony. Arrowhead is a pegasus. Puddinghead is a Chancellor while Arrowhead is a soldier.”

“...That went over my head. Both my Pudding- and Sparrowhead.”

“Arrow. Like Bow and Arrow.”

“I am going to assume you know what you are talking about and mention how wonderful eagles are. And what great beds Gryphons make.”

It’s official. Limbo is Caboose.

Author's Note

Solarkness : The Barrier means Limbo. Since we agreed on that it is between the void and the universe... or dimension, kind of.

Geo hikari: well looks like things are getting along so far. Next up a epic battle.

Recapturing Mount Atlas

Author's Note

FrostTheWolf here. For those who find this and for the Tenno involved in this project... hurry. We need to regroup quickly if we are to survive. Transmission follows below:

Recapturing Mount Atlas

Recapturing Mount Atlas

Oberon

I walked towards the camp in the distance, with Arrowhead being my guide and Limbo being the guy who happened to complain about almost everything Non-stop. By the time we got there though, he immediately decided to run for the nearest bed that he could throw himself onto and pass out. Sighing a little, I ignored the urge to sleep and pressed on. Soon, the two of us arrived at a small war tent in which I assumed that the Princesses would be in. Stepping inside, I saw Princess Platinum, Chancellor Puddinghead, Captain Heartblade, Two other ponies, a chimera like creature and another Warframe… I think. It was hard to tell what it was since it stood in the far corner against the wall and way barely visible.

“Oberon! Thank goodness you’re okay!! I was a little worried about you when you chose to stay behind.” Heartblade told me.

“Your concern is noted, but there was a reason why I chose to do so. We’re dealing with more than just the Corpus and the Grineer. But first, maybe I should introduce myself.”

“Heartblade told us about you. Oberon, the Mystic.” One of them spoke. “Given the circumstances, you seem like somepony who could be a true leader.”

“Honestly, I only lead Arrowhead and the other frame named Limbo. Who is… well…”

“A dumbass?”

“Yeah, let’s just go with that.” I sighed. “He fired off six rounds from a sniper rifle, only to realize that those were the only six he had. Also, after I killed a Grineer patrol, he kept firing his guns at nothing. But there’s one other problem for him.”

“Other problem?”

“He doesn’t know how to use his powers with Riftwalking.” I began to explain to the other frame. “Now, can you do me a favor and actually step into the light so I can see your face?”

“I believe we have more important things to attend to first,” He replied back. “The Princesses could take it from here.”

“He’s right. Oberon, we need your help in capturing a location crucial to our efforts of fighting back the Corpus and Grineer abominations that are trying to take over Equestria.” The Princess named Luna explained, pulling out a map and laying it on the table. She then used her magic to levitate what looked like a piece of burned out charcoal as she drew a circle around one main location.

Mount Atlas.

“This mountain is a key holding position because of its location. It’s in between the main structures of both the Grineer and the Corpus and the caves provide a lot of necessary materials that our blacksmiths need to keep our equipment intact.” Celestia explained. “We’re going to need you to be able to reclaim that mountain.”

“Okay, but I have a few questions about this operation.”

“Ask away.”

“One, how many people besides me are going to do this. We’ll be in a turf war between two major factions that are hasty to try and kill one another. And second… are those people preassigned or am I allowed to choose who comes along.”

“You are allowed to choose, yes. But you must be reasonable in your choices. I know that you would want to leave Limbo behind, but you also must think of who would be able to replace him-.”

“Already thought of that. Sticking with Arrowhead on this one.”

“Wait, what-?”

“I trust Arrowhead more than I trust anypony else right now. She actually has helped me understand the circumstances of what is going on and how important my role is.” I told them. “Plus, she seems to be quite handy with using Tenno weaponry.”

Celestia and Luna looked at one another for a moment, before taking a deep sigh and looking back at me. “Okay. We approve of her coming with you. You only have one objective though. Use any means possible to reclaim the mountain. There are bound to be Grineer and Corpus fighting in the area and possibly infested as well since the two of you encountered them on the way here. It pains for me to say it,” Celestia told them, looking at Discord. “But use the chaos to your advantage.”

“See, what did I tell you Tia? A little Ch-.”

“Not your chaos,” Luna deadpanned, knocking Discord on the head. “The chaos on the battlefield. Both sides are distracting one another, so Oberon and Arrowhead could completely avoid them if he plays his cards right.”

“Why thank you for the support Princess,” I acknowledge her compliment. “Well, we better not waste anymore time… Question though? What if we find other Tenno that seem lost?”

“Help them the best you can.” Celestia replied, casting a small spell as a device landed on the table in the war room. “This will allow us to contact you and for you to contact us in case of emergencies. Good luck.”

“You’re gonna need it-.”

“DISCORD!!”

Before I heard anymore bickering, but Arrowhead and I were out of that room as quickly as possible. The Pegasus continued to trot with me as we made our way through the camp. “We’re definitely going to have a busy day tomorrow.”

“Better get your gear ready then.” She smirked. Right now, even though she can’t see my face… somehow, she knew I was smiling.

Early Morning

I woke to the feeling of the earth shaking underneath me. It wasn’t massive, but I can still feel it nonetheless. It must’ve been the fighting between the Grineer and the Corpus. But the rumbling beneath my feet did not cease. Something was not right. Getting up and grabbing my gear, I turned to where Sol was and woke her.

“Come on, we need to move.”

“W-what time is it?”

“I don’t know, but I can feel the tremors in the earth from the fighting between both Grineer and Corpus. We need to hurry and reclaim Mount Atlas while we still can.” She nodded, grabbing something out of her bag that resembled a orb and then smashing it. She told that it was a Teleport Orb with it’s location set for Mount Atlas for when we were to go. Now, after a brief flash of light, we were on that same mountain.

Looking behind me, I could see the scarred battlefield that was painted with the blood of the fallen Grineer and Corpus. Both of them were expending every trooper and crewman that they can muster. Better stay clear of that then. Looking back over, I noticed that Arrowhead was trying to signal me over to where she was. The Pegasus must’ve found something that could help us somehow.

“Look down there,” She told me, pointing a hoof at the basin below. Using the sight on Latron, I zoomed in to what she was seeing. It was a Grineer outpost. But something was not right. None of them were moving at all. They were standing still. Almost like they were statues.

“Arrowhead, let me see your bow.” I asked. She was confused, but still complied. Taking an arrow, I pulled it back as far as I could and aimed at the first Trooper that was standing still. As I let the arrow fly, that same trooper soon became a pile of broken rubble and stones. I hand the bow back, sighing a little. “We may have another problem… Someone else is here.”

“Who? Are they on our side?” Arrowhead asked.

“Honestly, I don’t know. But something tells me that it is a Tenno. Who else would try to turn their enemies into stone?” I ask. Cautiously, we moved closer, knocking over each of the statues that we found while going in. Whoever had been here earlier caused a MASSIVE amount of damage with heavy casualties. As we work our way across the outside of the camp and emptied a few storage lockers, the pegasus I was with pointed out the door to the facility that they had here. And the air that was preventing the door from fully closing all the way.

“Looks like it went this way,” I said, “Watch my six, I’m going to try and override the door.” Arrowhead nodded, landing on the ground and having a few throwing stars be kept in between her wing feathers as I worked on the security for the door. It took like fifteen seconds to crack, but once I was done, we were finally inside the facility. Blood was spilt almost everywhere and bodies of the floor littered the ground. Whoever was in here had been tearing them apart piece by piece. However, there seemed to be a security room near the back left.

“Over here,” I instructed Arrowhead as we entered inside. Looking at the security console again, I got to work on cracking this lock. It took twenty seconds before we were both greeted by footage of what happened inside the facility.

"Ot's kle Tenno. Attaf!"

That was the only sentence that could be heard as the rest of it was either high pitch screams or gunfire. The camera recording the footage was also shaking violently like the earth underneath it was handling tremors. Then, I caught a glimpse of something. Another figure that looked like a powerful brute that fought using excessive force. It was only when I zoomed in though that my scanners picked up something.

New Warframe discovered- Atlas

“So it was a Tenno…”

“A Tenno caused all of this?” Arrowhead questioned. “Who?”

“I don’t know, but something tells me that he’s related to the mountain. The Warframe is coming up on here as Atlas and he is destroying the Grineer. Possibly the Corpus as well.”

“Maybe he see’s the Mountain as his home… You know… Mount Atlas… Atlas…”

That may have sounded dumb, but I think she was onto something. “Let’s see if we can deal with what’s left of the Corpus before we encounter this guy. Maybe we can prove to him that we’re on his side.”

“How do you suppose that’s going to help?”

“Well, for one thing, it shows that the two of us and him have a common enemy. Two, it shows honor amongst one another for being able to assist others in need. Because I’m beginning to think that our one Tenno wrecking crew might soon be meeting his match.” I told her. From what I remember, there were three factors that all tenno needed to be mindful of on the battlefield. Four if you count ammunition, but primarily three.

The first one was your shields. These, along with your armor, can protect you as long as your shields are still up and active. Second was your stamina. This determined how long you can run and what kind of maneuvers that I, as a Tenno, can pull off. The final thing to be aware of was energy. Energy is required to activate abilities. For me, I needed 25 energy to cast Smite, 50 energy to channel Hollow Ground, 75 energy to heal with Renewal and around 100 energy for my final ability, Reckoning. However, the circumstances varied depending on the Warframe that was being used.

As we moved into another corridor, the data on my Helmet showed me the Analysis it picked up on Atlas. It was known as the Titan of Stone, The Brawler, and The Strong. His abilities were focused on Melee Combat and on both offensive and defensive capabilities. Landslide was used to accelerate himself forward as a head on blitz. Techtonics allowed him to conjure a wall of stone to protect himself. Along with that, it could also be turned into a boulder to roll into enemies like real life bowling. Petrify made enemies turn to stone like he was Medusa and lastly-.

“Look out!” I heard Arrowhead shout that, pulling me down as a rock almost hit my head. Looking over, I saw two stone soldiers heading towards us, while the man we needed to talk to was running along the walls to get to a higher platform. Looking at the rockmen, I realized that this was his strongest skill. Rumblers. It allowed Atlas to summon two earth elementals to fight alongside you. Despite being Melee focused, they can also throw stones at enemies and if the ability is casted again, the soldier themselves will explode.

Quickly, I hit the first of the two men with Smite so I can keep my distance while using Latron to get some shots in. Arrowhead did the same with her Daikyu bow and released some arrows into the other stone warrior. We kept this process going for like another thirty second while dodging the rocks chucked at our heads before both of them became heaps of rubble. However, by then, Atlas has already disappeared. “Let’s keep looking-.”

“Hold up a second,” Arrowhead stopped me, moving to a nearby work table. “Look at this. Are these maps?”

Looking at them, I could tell otherwise. “No… These aren’t maps. They’re blueprints. But for what?” There were three of them. One for a strange helmet, one for a chestpiece and one for the systems to run it-. “Oh god.”

“What? What is it?”

“These aren’t normal blueprints. They’re blueprints for a Warframe!” I looked at the top of the scroll and read what was written there. “Project Equinox. We need to get these to Celestia and Luna. But right now, we have to reclaim the mountain and go after Atlas.”

“How? He’s a walking Juggernaut!?”

“Yes, but if we convince him that we’re not his enemy, then it’ll be one more ally for us and one less foe for us to deal with.” I told the mare. “Let’s just be careful from here on out.” She nodded her head and held her bow close to her, arrow at the ready as we continued to march through the base. We did not encounter many foes. Mostly because Atlas had either slaughtered them all or The Corpus and Grineer killed each other in the fighting. They had encountered a small number of infested along the way, but that was just a small setback that was easy enough in order to fix.

Soon though, the dust was beginning to settle… And the only ones who were left were myself, Arrowhead… and Atlas. When the earth based Warframe landed near us, Arrowhead was tempted to draw her bow. She thought that Atlas was going to pull something on them after seeing it fight off the Grineer and Corpus. Not only that, but also the stone soldiers that it used before weren’t really too friendly. But both of us were caught off guard the moment that we saw the Tenno put his weapons aside.

“Wait… you're not one of the Grineer or the Corpus… who are you?” It asked. I looked back at Arrowhead, using my hand to tell her to lower her bow as I turned back around.

“I’m a Tenno, like you. My name is Oberon. This is my companion, Arrowhead. We mean no harm.”

“I never meant harm either, yet you two attacked my Rumblers. They were meant to target the foes you were fighting. Not yourself.” The warframe of stone explained. “By any means though, I’m glad that you are on our side. We haven’t seen any friendly faces come this way before.” I nodded my head, but there was one thing I could not be able to wrap my head around.

“Hang on… We?”

“Why of course.” Atlas replied. “You don’t spend all the time in the world protecting your home without any allies. And this one is not part of the Grineer or the Corpus.” He soon pointed to a ledge that’s was high up on the mountainside, giving a signal that I was to believe meant “all clear”. All I could see was another bipedal figure stand up and place a recurve bow they were holding on their back.

It was another Tenno.

“That is Ivara. She acts as a lookout and also helps steal critical supplies needed from the Grineer and the Corpus.” Atlas explained, motioning for us to follow him. “Come… there’s a lot of things that you need to see.”

“See? But this is a Volcano.” Arrowhead deadpanned.

“That’s only on the outside.” Atlas told her. “Inside… is a entirely different story.” I looked at him, confused a little, but soon realized what he meant once we stepped inside through a doorway that was originally blocked. My Warframe’s interface said that it was Atlas’ second ability Tectonics, which allowed him to conjure a wall of stone and then turn it into a boulder. As we stepped through, he used the same ability to close the door.

“Welcome to Mount Atlas… The home of our Dojo.” Atlas told us as we walked inside. “It took Ivara and I a couple of months to get everything, but here, we have almost everything we need for combatting the Grineer and Corpus. Hell, we began research on the Infested.”

“You’re researching the infested?” Arrowhead asked, “Why?”

“As the saying goes, fight fire with fire.” Atlas told us, turning around to look at us. “The more research we conduct on them, the more we can be able to create infested weapons to use against them. For example, look here.” With that, he pulled out what looked like a combination of a sword and chain whip. But my frame saw it as something else.

New weapon discovered- Mios

“A blade and whip? That’s a new one.” I said as Atlas placed his weapon back.

“Yeah, we have a lot of things going on in terms of research,” He said, looking at my rifle. “Is that a Latron? I can upgrade it for you if you want me too.”

I looked back at him, partially confused. “Hang on… upgrade?”

“I can take your Latron and use some of the extra materials that we have here at the dojo in order to craft you a Tiberon.” Atlas told me, showing a holographic image of the rifle that he was talking about in the palm of his hand.

“Well, I’m impressed.” I told him, handing the rifle I had. “How long would it take to build it?”

“Like with all other things built, it takes twelve hours,” He explained as he had us follow him to a makeshift foundry. Inputting a few keys, the machine whirred to life as it soon began to deconstruct my old weapon and begin building from scratch. Turning to me, he sighed again and had me follow him. “Don’t worry though, we have a lot of other spare weapons for you to use. Also, if you mind me asking, do you have any mods in your warframe?”

I stopped walking, looking back at him. “Mods?”

“Yeah. Why, you didn’t come across any?”

“No. I had only been here for two days.” I deadpanned.

“Ah, not to worry. I believe I can help you with that.” He said, opening up a nearby locker and handing me four disk like objects, followed by pushing something into my back and having it dissolve into my warframe. I saw Arrowhead tense up for a minute, but I used a hand to have her hold her position. The last thing I wanted her to do was attack a new ally “I installed an Orokin Reactor into your suit to double your mod capacity. The disks I gave you were some spare mods that I had completely ranked up just in case for if I run into any other tenno like yourself. Install these by inserting them into your gauntlets.”

Following his instructions, I did what he told me. My Warframe then showed me each of the modifications I installed as my body began to feel… rejuvenated. Looking at what my suit was showing me, I began to see the mods I had installed. Vitality; A mod that significantly increased my health. Redirection; One that increased my shield capacity. Steel Fiber; one that increased the amount of armor on my Warframe. Fast Deflection; a necessary mod that increased the rate for my shields to recharge. Which leads to four open slots and a fifth one above the others.

But I couldn’t just choose any mods to fit the other slots. Different types of mods could affect my abilities. Strength mods increase the amount of damage I deal and the amount of healing I do with Renewal. Range mods affect how far I could cast Smite, Hallowed Ground, and Reckoning. Lastly, duration mods affect the regeneration rate for Renewal and how long Hallowed Ground can remain on the field of battle. I needed to be careful with the choices I make for mods if I wanted to be strongly balanced in all areas. Not to mention the aura mod slot that is above the other four.

After some thought, I made my decision on the mods. For right now, I decided to worry about the aura slot for later and just focused on the other four slots. First, I chose Streamline, which increased the efficiency of my powers. Second was Intensify, which made my abilities stronger. Continuity, which I saw as a must have, makes my abilities like Hallowed Ground last longer in duration. So I had that as choice number three. Leaving spot number four for my last choice, Stretch. A mod that increased the range of my abilities.

“Okay, I chose my mods. What now?” I asked.

“Now… you’re going to need a new loadout for weapons,” Atlas said, opening up a storage locker. “Place your Cestra’s and your blades in here. The locker will restore their durability within a short while. As for now, catch.” The earth warframe soon tossed over a new rifle towards me, which was already fully modified when I looked at it closer. Soma, an assault rifle that packs quite a punch. In addition, Atlas also gave me Nikana, a katana blade that already had a stance mod equipped to it named Blind Justice. Lastly, I received a new secondary weapon for myself. AkJagara, a pair of dual pistols that had a blade on each end. I remember back home using these weapons a lot and personally, they were my favorite aside from the Dual Cestras.

“Alright. Now that you’re fully equipped, take some time to look around the dojo. Nezha should be back soon, so you’ll get the chance to meet him. Also, I can help your friend here with her weapons if she’s fine with that.”

Arrowhead looked at me, nervous a little. But all I did was nod my head, telling her that I was okay with it before she went down the hall with Atlas. For me, I took the chance to look around a bit and explore a little. The Dojo was massive and had a lot of sectors that I was quite surprised by. A research wing, Dojo, and some other sections too. But when I went to a basin overlooking the valley below, I was personally surprised to find the same archer warframe from earlier standing on lookout.

“Hello there,” She replied, putting away a sniper rifle that she was holding. “What brings you out here?”

“I was just looking around the place and happened to run into you.” I told her honestly. “Why do you ask?”

“Just curious.” She replied. “Besides Atlas, one other guy named Wukong and Nezha, we haven’t met a lot of other Tenno like yourself. Have you met anyone else?”

“Well, the only guy I met was someone as Limbo. However, he did not know how to use his powers and was a bit… clueless.” I told her, explaining what happened yesterday when he unloaded two sets of rounds with his AkVasto and also wasn’t aware of the ammo limit on his sniper rifle that he had equipped. Needless to say, Ivara was kind of amused at Limbo’s idiocracy. She personally said that he needed someone to help him provide guidance, but I just thought that he needed to start using his brain.

A little bit into our talk though, I noticed something that alarmed me. Smoke. In the distance of the camp. “Ivara, I need to hurry. I think the camp is in danger.”

She nodded, shooting a zip line arrow from her quiver down to the ground so I would slide down and begin to take off, running into the direction of the camp. However, when I got there, I found a disturbing sight. The bodies of slain equines that I had just met the other night. All trampled, shot down or disintegrated. However, I noticed one thing when I looked down. Huge tracks in the ground, followed by some kind of left behind communicator. Corpus tech.

It was then that I found out who did this when an eerie voice that I knew echoed in my head and it’s scratchy tone ringing my eardrums. “You have loyalty issues, Tenno...”

Alad V. And with him, he held Celestia and Luna as hostages. “Let them go!” I hollered, only to find out that the communication link only went one ways. But what I could tell was that I can pitch into its frequency and find where it was coming from.

“If it’s your friends you’re looking for… You’re welcome to make a donation to my newest Zanuka prototype-.”

At that taunt, I crushed the device with my hand, cutting it apart with my Nikana. The signal was still strong. West from my current location. Alad V was looking for a fight. I was going to give it to him.

Because he just made this personal.