[6 Hours Later]
[Cal's POV]

Are you happy about this? Is this really the right choice? What about your sister, what would she think? Are you happy about this?

I sighed, scratching my head, whist I took another drink of my milkshake, finding the taste near impossible not to sigh about, its flavor was boundless, even for a simple drink, it was by far the greatest thing to grace my lips, I hate to say it, but the Strata Relay has nothing on this.

"My sister would love this...." I blissfully smiled, enjoying my time alone since the whole ordeal with my Liset becoming grounded since dawn, yet, in only a few hours, I've had quite a normal life, albeit, with some issues regarding how the Origin System, and this Solar System were identical, with some minor changes

Was it really another part of my galaxy? Or was this another universe entirely? So many questions were left unanswered, and it bothered me, I felt more driven from the truth than before, maybe it was better not knowing the truth, seeing as I had more than a few problems, one being the gold I needed to completely synthesize Ferrite, which sadly, consisted of gold in its make-up.

"Hey....stop looking so down, Mister Grumpy~!" A voice chirped beside me, causing my eyes to shoot open, my hand nearly losing my drink at the sight of a 'very' pink girl, actually, she was almost too bright to stare at

"Hey, don't kill my easy pass on this grade, Pinkie, I need the nerd alive for that!" A girl-no, Rainbow Dash, the most egotistical student to grace the Earth, seriously, she made Jack bearable, either that, or they're a match made in heaven

"Great to know that I'm just an 'easy pass' as you put it, Skittles." I grunted, causing her to deflected warily

"Please don't degrade me for this, come on, you're a cool guy-not as cool as me-but, ow!" Dash was cut off by a familiar bacon-haired girl, her arm connecting with the back of Skittles' head

"What Rainbow meant was, sorry, right?" Sunset asked her, making the girl nod, whist I continued to drink, gesturing to the booth in front of me

"Sit, just because I'm a teacher, doesn't mean I'm not....a teenager." I humbly replied, cringing at the 'teenager' part, due to the fact I was over that limit by a world wide margin. "Besides, I like'd like to chat, nothing wrong with that, right?"

The girls accepted, whist my gaze remained on the window outside. So peaceful, the colours of the sky, and atmosphere remind me of Cetus, the wild community, and plains, it was the most natural place I knew, but this....it felt like my home, before everything changed, before the war, the void accident....cryo-status.

"-Hey, you still there, Cal?" I heard Sunset wave to me, making my gaze fall back to them with a smile, then she asked curiously. "You said something about your sister, you have one?"

"Y-Yeah....Valkyr, I know, weird name, but my parents thought it suited her well, given her wild, happy outlook, and they were really into mythology, so....her name came from Valhalla." I explained with a small feeling of guilt in my chest, as it gradual sunk into my core. "She....She isn't doing too well, not for the last week."

"O-Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bring up any bad memory?" Sunset backpedaled, but I only waved her off

"Na, its good, I like talking about her, even if she's my younger sister, I like to think she's the older one sometimes, even if she's a little weird, Valkyr is always putting others before herself, not caring about her own problems until everyone was happy, she's the reason I push myself to do better." That was my drive, the thing that kept me going this long, it made me happy, right?

"I like her, she sounds awesome." Skittles commented, whist Pinkie nodded happily with a hum

"Mmmhmm. I wanna meet her, hey, you think when she's better we can see her!?" The hyper girl was in my face now, but I just chuckled, pushing her back

"Sure, when's she not giving me a heart attack, i'll introduce you to her." I replied, before my sharpened eyes struck Skittles in the face. "And before I forget, call me nerd, and I'll make sure you suffer."

"OK, I'M SORRY!" She squealed, making the rest of them laugh, as I let a small chuckle escape my lips, it was fun talking with them, even if just a bit

"Oh hey, look at that!?" Pinkie gaped in dramatic shock, pointing towards the screen of the TV, at first, I didn't see anything, but that was short lived, as I finally caught on to what was currently on the screen. I could see it, but....I didn't believe what it was

An orange-brown armour, with glass hung around her shoulders, with glass hanging from her waist like small cape, with two smooth, glass visors at the sides of her head, whist she swung a massive hammer of the same nature, two prongs on either side of the head, both made of clear glass.

"A Gara....? H-Here?" I thought in shock, which was present on my face, but I had now moved to my feet, putting a hand to my ear. "Ordis, make sure everything is stable, last thing I need is problems, especially at this current point in time?"

"Operator, if you are thinking of going after that Warframe, you must know that your Warframe was damaged during our initial~BLOODY MANGLING CRASH~and won't be fully operational."Ordis replied, but I just threw caution to the wind, moving for my jacket

"Hold on, where are you going?" Sunset asked me, as I slowly lifted my jacket

"Going to protect my sister, that things near where i'm currently living, last thing I need is a bunch of space-glass thrown around my home, as well as my sister." I replied, before I ran out of the cafe, leaving them to worry for themselves, but right now, I needed to do my job

At the first opening, I ran directly into a nearby alleyway, trying not to impersonate Superman, as I watched the archwing fly-in overhead, before I watched it place my suit down before my feet, much to my joy, then, the Archwing detached, leaving me to merge with my Warframe once again, the surge of remnant power coursing back to me. Thank the Lua Reservoir for that. Then, I heard Ordis speak up again.

"Operator, I have added a few new features~FASHION IS END GAME~, I do hope you like it." Ordis replied happily. Then, I watched as my armour glowed. Two Prisma Edo pauldrons sat on my shoulders, whist the Prisma Edo Knee Plates sat on my legs, then I felt the cape on my back, and saw the hood and twin capes of the Covenant Syandana floating in the breeze

Last, my helmet was now the Avalon make. Overall, I was weakened, but my armour was badass, Fashion was what separated the new Tenno, from the veterans after all. Not that I cared. But now I was ready to figure out why this Gara was going ballistic, and why she was here of all places?

"I have given you your usual equipment, Operator, now~OBLITERATE THIS THING~!"

[Downtown Canternlot]

I was now perched on the roof of a building, overlooking the damage Gara had created, in a word, glass, glass everywhere. She was wielding an automatic shotgun that shot the stuff at such ferocity, it tore cars to pieces, whist her hammer broke any foundations in the roads with ease, luckily, no one was hurt. Then I noticed the broadcasters, and how dangerously close they were.

"-This unknown creature has already torn through most of downtown, and is heading for the central plaza, if anyone is in the area should evacuate immediately to avoid-GAH!" The woman screamed at the glass lance thrown towards her, but just as quickly as the lance, I dropped in, kicking the lance to the side, allowing it to sink into the brick wall behind us. "Wha-What?"

"You should move back, hate to have a nice lady die in such a graphic way." I replied to her, holding my Dragon Nikana to my right-hand side, then I looked at her, pointing to the blockade where many armed forces, and bystanders watched in awe at both me, and Gara. "Please, move back for now."

"Who are you?" She asked, and I just chuckled a little, feeling the spotlight on me, then I pointed my blade directly at Gara, her hammer hung over her shoulder as she stared directly at me

"Excalibur, Tenno of Relic Hunters, and I'm coming for you, Gara." I smugly replied, before she threw her hammer, which I could now see was a Volnus, which meant her shotgun was the Astilla, judging by the same glass pieces shaped like 'L's sticking out from the barrel. "Tell me, what are you doing, and better yet, why are you here?"

She didn't reply, but opted to dragging her hammer through the tarmac, her head tilted in my direction as she moved, but I wasn't an idiot, she wasn't going to listen, that was fine by me. So, I held my blade in two hands, moving into a stance as I grinned under my helmet. Even if it was only a day, I felt alive right now in this Warframe, as Excalibur.

"Lock, and load, bitch." I mused, before she grasped Volnus in both hands, swinging the hammer round, along with tarmac, so I turned, blocking the hammer with my blade as the metal rang, my feet skidding across the road, but she was fast with the heavy weapon, and came round, throwing the hammer downwards

I backflipped, avoiding the shattering glass that erupted from the contact, before I narrowly bent back, my helmet trimming another lance, before I felt my feet fly from under me, her lance swung like a blade, throwing me to the ground. Now defenseless, I watched as Gara held her shotgun to my chest, but I quickly rolled towards a mangled car, the sharp glass blades nicking my arm, and side as she continuously fired her slugs, but eventually stopped to reload, allow me to jump behind the car.

I then peaked over the hood, before I ducked at the next round of glass slugs propelled from her shotgun, pinning me to the car's back, but I quickly sheaved my blade, grabbing my Dread from my back, before I pulled the string back with an arrow, leaping out from my cover. Then I leapt into the air, my body gliding over her bombardment of glass blasts, before I released the string, two arrows flying in her direction.

She dodged the first, but it caught her off balance, allowing the second arrow to knock the shotgun from her hands. She instinctively went for her hammer, but I used a weak Slash Dash to close the distance, before I slid on my back, kicking upwards to knock her hands away from her back, before I leapt to my feet, grabbing my Dragon Nikana again.

I quickly threw several short thrusts at her chest with overwhelming speed, provoking her to lift her arms to defend her upper-body. Taking the bait, I slashed at her exposed legs, causing her legs to give out from under her, leaving her defenseless at the assault, to finish her, I thrusted my Nikana into her chest again, the shattering of her shields ran like her glass capes, which also shattered to defend herself, but her body tumbled back, falling onto her face at the end.

She was stumbling, trying to put her feet under her, but her energy was exhausted, whist I walked over to her body with a sigh of relief.

*Clang-Shatter*

I was quickly drawn to my knees by the sudden pain in my side, my small shield shattered in a flash of white, as I dropped my Nikana beside me, the hand of Gara pointed towards me, her own body panting at her sluggish movements, but she was beginning to move to her feet, whist I struggled to my own.

"She's gonna crush me with the hammer, isn't she?" I thought, before the blinding strike of said-hammer cracked across my jaw, sending me flying to my side, her body now over mine, her Volnus raised high above my perfect jawline. "Now....I know we had our differences....but, can talk this out over a brew?"

She wasn't having it, but my eyes quickly locked to something on her neck, it was small, so my eyes didn't lock onto it upon first glance, but it was small, golden device, similar to those Arcanes the Grineer stuck to my leg years back, was that the cause of her rampage? If so, I may not have the chance to grab it.

"Hey, bitch!" A new feminine voice snapped in our direction, and before I could even comprehend what exactly was happening, I watched as an orange fist smeared itself across Gara's face, sending the vexing Tenno back, before the new arrival, kicked her in the stomach, followed by a round-house kick to the legs, and whist Gara was airborne, the arrival axe-kicked Gara into the road, burying her face into the black tarmac with ease. "Get your hands off my leader!"

"Hehehe....You should have been resting." I breathed in both concern, and joy, as the black, and orange hand held itself out to me, before I was lifted off the ground to face the wild-looking Warframe before me, then I whispered my response. "Valkyr."

"Says who? I'm awesome right now, I was given the whole, 'don't strain yourself' stuff from you-know-who, and here I am, saving you again." Valkyr hummed in glee, whist I slapped the back of her head. "Ow!"

"Less talk, more action." I answered for her, before I pointed to the now unstable Gara, her fist punching the ground in protest to what had occurred. "She has a small, golden device on the back of her neck, if you can give me an opening, I can pry it off with my Nikana?"

"Well, if the last ten seconds didn't piss her off, than this would do it." Valkyr nodded, seeing the glass capes on Gara shatter, creating a Splinter Storm around her, before her body shimmered for a moment, her arms brought close to her chest. "Hurry!"

"Ok!" I moved to my left, whist Valkyr ran directly at Gara, screaming out as her orange, fiery claws came to light, whist a thin, gold aura surrounded my sister. "Time to end this in one shot!"

Gara then released her arms, an ever expanding wall of glass emanating from her body, throwing rock, cars, and other debris from its path, but Valkyr leapt through, her body becoming coated in a shiny coat. Gara seemed amused by my sister's flawed attempt to attack, as her movements slowed, her body beginning to harden at the touch of glass. Any caught in the radius, would then be turned to hardened glass, well, anyone who wasn't already coating an immortal shell.

Gara jumped at little, seeing the claws begin to crack, as Valkyr's movements bent against the glass coat, the fissures in the shell beginning to glow orange with each grunt, and twist, then, she exploded. Her body fired molten shards of glass to the winds, bringing the massive glass wall down for me. As my body flew through the rain of shards that dropped like snow.

Gara didn't see me, so I accurately thrusted five strikes into her back, knocking her towards Valkyr, as my sister recoiled with another stomach kick, before I slashed downwards, before inverting my Nikana, and thrust vertically again, then I brought my blade down once more, knocking Gara down to her knees one last time.

With little time before she rebounded from this dual assault, most likely furious, I quickly pointed my blade horizontally to my face, before I swung to my left, my blade sinking through the device in her neck, as a burst of yellow void energy was released, shaking the earth, before Gara went limp at the moment the void energy dissipated, right as Valkyr caught her arms, holding her body up. As I swung my blade to my right, before I spun it, placing it back in its scabbard in a quick motion.

Finding our moment of peace, the crowd that had been observing us had finally broken into a cheer, much to my sister's embarrassed giggling, and my amused satisfaction, it wasn't often you were praised like this, it was usually only a few people that did this, but it felt....nice, the gratification we almost never felt as Tenno was given to us, and we took it in stride.

"Where....am I?" At the new, shy voice, me and Valkyr looked at Gara, her head tilted up at us, as if she was completely lost. "Wait, Tenno? Did you....help me?"

"Yeah, mind you, if I see another pane of glass thrown in my personal bubble again today, it will be too soon." I replied, seeing her head look away from us

"I'm s-sorry, I don't know what happened....I was in Cetus, then....here I am, just, in your arms, miss." The meek voice explained, which was vauge, seeing that her memories of what transpired were gone, leaving us to look at each other, then back to the crowd, as I watched some armed officers looking at us

"Well, you're not alone in the, 'where the hell are we', department." I chuckled, looping her arm over my neck, as Valkyr did the same. "Come on, lets get back to my ship, or what's left of it."

"Thank you....umm?" She paused, before I responded

"Call me Excalibur, but if we're alone, its Cal." I greeted, before I pointed to my sister. "Her name is the same as her Warframe, so that makes it easier."

"Hey, not my fault my name is cool...." She was pouting now, which was funny, that is, until I heard that same reporter call out to us

"Who are you, Excalibur? Everyone wants to know?" Well....it won't hurt them, in-fact, it might just help us out a little more for any future encounters with other Tenno on this planet

"A Tenno, master of gun and blade, a human, like you." With that, we left them all behind. Today was a first for many things, and knowing my luck, there was bound to be even more eventful encounters in the future

--~Mission Complete~--

To Be Continued....

Valkyr: That. Was. Awesome! We're like superheroes now!

Ceres: But i'm still the enemy, in everyone's eyes....

Cal: Don't worry, you'll be fine with us, just until it all blows over

Valkyr: Cal.....what about 'him', in the storm?

Ceres: I guess I wasn't the only one

Cal: *Sighs* Yay.....

Author's Note

In the words of both me, and the one who created this. We clearly see the improvements needed, and with a story that is far better, this is gunna be good. Hope you enjoyed, seeya in the next chapter!

Next Chapter: Winds of Destruction