[Canternlot High - Class C7]

"Agh....this is soooo booooooring!" Valkyr groaned, smacking her head off the desk again, making my eye twitch, sure, there was nothing left to do in class, so I let them go my standards, 'have fun for the hour', and that they did, since I avoiding another paper airplane, flicking the paper construct up with a finger under my eye, as it struck the ceiling, wedging the tip into the crack between the ceiling panels, along with six others. I won't lie, I too was bored out of my mind

"Yeah, well I couldn't give a damn, so shut it." I grumbled beside her, flicking through a 'very' old generation of an IPhone, to say this world was like ours in the past was an understatement, their tech was vastly outdated by my standards, but hey, I appreciate the classics. "We only have five more minutes, anyways."

"Still hasn't stopped her from constantly asking about the time though." Skyler added, her head on the desk beside me, though the close contact was a little unnerving, I just watched her finger continue to flick a pencil up.......and down the table, her eyes glued to the groundbreaking activity in-front of her, then her ultramarine eyes titled to look at me with a curious gaze. "So, how's your, ahem, 'roommate', as I heard you grumble about before class?"

Aye, she was right about that, Volt, or in this case, Jarvis, had taken up residence in our home, though he wasn't in CHS with us due to his....assistance in gathering the resources for our new Clan location, since my Liset made a fundamental crash into the side of a mound near a forest, I decided to use it, and the cave systems behind the dirt as our new location of operations, and repairs, since we're all stuck here without our Lisets or communications.

"Surprisingly, he's really efficient when it comes to making deals with contractors for certain furniture and household appliances, if only the puns would be just as efficient...." I sighed, rubbing my temples again at the mere thought of his 'puns', I'd would rather die than listen to him ramble, hence why he is staying faaaaar away from this bloody school, where I, and my sister, along with Ceres, who was currently in an art class, could be at peace. "Overall, not a bad guy, just an idiot."

"Hmm, seems your life if full of interesting people, so, where do I sit?" Skyler's abrupt question made me sit up straight, with Valkyr stopping her conversation with Sunset and Dash, all eyes now on me for an answer, but Skyler shrugged with her usual, neutral smile. "Just wondering, since you have this habit of summing up others for simplicity, not that I can't agree, its rather funny watching your sister get flustered so easily."

"H-hey, just because I like Morana, doesn't mean I-well, not 'like-like'- but you know what I mean!?" My sister everyone, a badass Tenno, but a flustered girl underneath, yay for me....Anyways, I did think about it for a moment, surprisingly, I never really had one for Skyler, to sum her up, she was smart, funny at times like this, can be a little too logical at times and can get easily distracted, but overall, she was fun to chat with, even if it has nothing to do with anything in particular

"Well....I think you're....just fine as you are." I answered honestly, scratching the back of my neck, with the others looking between us. "I find you to just be a great friend, not like the rest that treat me as a teacher or as their superior, just....as a friend."

Now her face did change slightly, her eyes kept searching my own sky-blue eyes for a sign of something misleading or dark, but slowly, she smiled honestly and kindly, blinking once with a nod of understand, making my relax a little.

"Then, Cal, I'm happy to be considered your friend, even if you exaggerate sometimes." Skyler responded modestly, but I wouldn't push it, not yet anyways

"The boss is all flustered now, quite the spark to witness!" .....What. Was. That?

My head suddenly turned to the new, cocky voice in the room. The air around me grew cooler in sensation, whilst my eyes narrowed at the sight of the boy. His hair was a jet black, with strands of blue striking through it, as it stood upwards, spiky, his eyes were a purple tone, whist he wore a blue tank top, with his black jacket wrapped around his waist, where his dirty cargo shorts sat, tan in colour too. His leather boots were also covered in mud, and gravel from the cave, as my eyes twitched.

"Jarvis....what are you doing here? Or better yet, what's to say I don't give you a lesson on shutting the front door?" I offered, grabbing a pen by my hand, with an equally pissed off Skyler cracking her knuckles

"W-wait, I was joking, no need to be a dud about it." I'll kill him. I will. Seems Skyler had the same plan, as she stepped off her seat, with me following closely in toe. "Cal?"

"Ok class, with assistance from Skyler here, we're gonna discuss how to 'fix' an electrical wire, and how to 'seal' the laceration along with wire." I grunted, as I pulled out a roll of duck-tape from my pocket, whist phones quickly raised from under the desks of many students. Jarvis tried to run, but he quickly screamed like a girl, seeing Valkyr standing with the door to her back, as she silently hummed to the beat of her headphones, her eyes closed, and her body unmoving to Jarvis' tugs to pull her away. "Careful those in the front, it might be splash zone...."

[Outskirts of Canterlot]

[Several Hours Later]

"For the last time, we didn't order a giant trampoline." I was losing it. It had been a few hours since playing the role of a teacher had passed my mind, now I was stuck in a bind. Turns out the bellend Jarvis bought a bunch of other stuff at random to help 'improve' on my original designs, saying it wasn't 'fun' enough. That was easily solved with a switch claw to the back of his head from my sister

The plan was a simple grid formation. Two grand halls down the middle, with small hallways starting from the bottoms and middle sections of the dojo, which would encompass the two massive halls, forming a six-grid square. So our research and communications hub would be in the center, whist things like training rooms, meditation and medical wards to the rim of the grid, alongside an elevator on each side to reach the reactor levels below us, and our personal quarters above us. About the only section above ground was the entrance where I 'Landed' my Liset, but everything else was below us through a smaller elevator.

The colours would be a mixture for each floor. Personal Quarters were blues, silvers, and whites. Main Floor is reds, blacks and grey, with a hint of white. Reactor Level is yellows, golds, greys and silvers. What we didn't need was this delivery man giving us a bloody trampoline!

"Hey, you could have told me that, before I set it up." He argued calmly, while the thought of revealing our location was a bad move, it really wasn't, several people knew of its location due to my, ahem, 'Landing', so far not a soul had bothered us, probably because security would be nigh-impossible to break, which they're right

"Ok-ok-ok-ok....I'll take the bugger, just....next time 'that' idiot-!" I then pointed to Jarvis, who was currently working on the electrical grid atop the roof of the massive cave. "-Buys anything with 'my' account, just decline him."

"Kids these days." The man shook his head, and I nodded

"I know, right?" Grabbing the pen, I quickly signed off the ridiculous item, and waved the man off, oh right, we're wearing our armour if that wasn't obvious. Moving past the trampoline, whist purposeful snapping one of the springs for Jarvis to realize later, I made my way under the overhang, overlooking the progress made

The entrance was rigged with our basic water, electricity, and oxygen stations, both small and silent, with spotlights lining the ceiling above me. Ahead at the back was a small stairway leading to a catwalk, where a circular tube hung open, my sister inside the elevator itself, working on the weight distribution since Warframe's were seriously heavy, alongside our equipment. How did she do this? Threw herself in, a bunch of random items, and most of 'MY' weapons too. But upon the pile, placed neatly atop a box was actually a picture frame.

It was her outside her armour, with a guy wrapping an arm around the back of her neck to hang limp off her shoulder. My sister was trying to use her dandelion hair to hide her glowing red face, whist the man stood with a smile of his own. He had long, black hair, covering his left eye where metal could be seen from the locks towards his nose. His eyes were a golden hue with a red tint to them. He also wore mostly black, much to my comments of how edgy he was, with faint designs of silver and red on the jacket, shirt, and shoes, his jeans being the only thing pure black.

"You miss him, don't you?" I spoke up, seeing my sister roll out from the pile, throwing a tool back to the pile behind her when she looked to the picture, while her helmet didn't show it, her body language suggested the answer clearly, she was worried about him. Moving closer, I placed my hand on her shoulder softly. "He's tougher than he looks, you know that better than anyone."

"I-I....he is, but....that doesn't mean I can't 'not' worry about him, right?" It was so strange, even after everything with the Orokin, the Old War, what Hunhow nearly did to us, my sister, who charged into gunfire without a moments hesitation, battled hardened in every aspect, yet she was ready to nearly crumble to her knees over her closet friend's safety, I couldn't blame her

"You know something, if I know him as well as I do, and I think I do, then he's probably looking for us, hell, he's more than likely forgotten about rest until he does." That little memo gave Valkyr her energy back, more to the point that she hugged me, placing her head on my chest. So I just held her there, patting her back gently

"Thanks....I....you know I...."

"I know, you....really aren't as hard to read as you say, sis." I chuckled at the thought, before I pulled away, pointed a finger to the cave entrance. "Here, I have an old friend I want you to meet." I clapped my hands twice, and from the shadows beside Jarvis, two eyes sprung to life

"Wait...ACK-ITS ON ME~!!!" He screamed like a girl when the infested creature leapt from the shadows, then atop Jarvis, sitting down on his chest as he hyperventilated, both me and Valkyr nearly toppled over in a fit of laughter. "I TOLD PABLO HE'LL GET HIS MONEY, I SWEAR!!!"

"Wait....Senketsu!?" My sister quickly leapt from the elevator to the ground within a second of realizing who it was. A Kubrow that I had found on Eris in an old Liset, turns out the egg had been exposed to the concentrated air the infested breathe that the effects of the Technocyte Virus, apparently it also wiped out Earth's population long ago, so the whole Orokin making weapons of it, and....well there's alot of conflicting evidence of how it came to be, and what happened, but essentially. Orokin make it worse, it infects a ship, that ship infested Eris, Eris is now home of Infested Hive-Mind, the end

He was a white and black, with the glowing spots on his body, and antenna across his body being tinted cherry red, his eyes were red too, as his segmented parts set themselves back in place, upon hearing my sister, to which it leapt off of Jarvis and happily panted, its infested tail wagging happily at the sight of her. Despite his....rather interesting appearance, my sister actually loved him like any other pet, so while I did bring my basically immortal dog on missions from time-to-time, when we were at our dojo, I'd let him roam, and mostly find him with Valkyr, sleeping. He was also a badass.

It was a rather touching moment to watch my sister run up and slide down to her knees before Senketsu, who happily sat before her, allowing my sister to rub the top of his head, giggling to herself when he would boop his muzzle against her helmet. Before long, she hugged him too, and I couldn't stop smiling at the sight of Senketsu lifting its right paw to rest on her shoulder, its head resting on her shoulder too. 'Man's best friend' indeed.

"Umm....why is Jarvis hanging from the ceiling?" Ceres came up to the base, and was just perplexed by the scene of Jarvis waving a stick in the direction of Valkyr and Senketsu, said two happily looking at Jarvis, with Senketsu barking at it, and Valkyr laughing

"Get 'em boy~!"

"I'm soooooooorry~" Jarvis cried pitifully, and all I did was wave to Ceres

"Welcome to Relic Hunters, Ceres."

"WHERE ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUUUUE...." Thank you, Ordis

[Space, Orbital distance From Earth - 100,584 Miles]

Between the orbital rotation of the Moon and Earth, sat a lone Flagship of grey metal and the twin hulls gave off a more sinister bulk of size and sense of power under the shadow of the Moon. It was a double hulled 'Stanchion' model, a highly dangerous warship of the Corpus. Inside the command station, sat a larger than normal Corpus Crewman, dawning red and silver equipment, with a large plasma rifle resting to the left side of the armchair, his helmet's gaze staring intently at the several screens that projected the exploits of an Excalibur, Gara, and Volt Warframes, but the last projected a rare target, the broken helmet and bulky gauntlets upon her armour were clear to him, as he pointed his hand towards the screen

[Translation of Security Log - Active]

"The Tenno Girl. Report the findings to Alad V. Prepare for assimilation of planet." The Sargent had spoken

To Be Continued....

Failsafe: Captain, we have arrived at our destination!

Failsafe: Its called 'Earth', seems their originality is just as bland as ever....

Failsafe: I am happy that we have found your friends!

Failsafe: Yay....

Zane: I better not miss a God Damn thing

Author's Note

Yeah, haven't uploaded in some time, but when hey, atleast I ain't dead! Oh, wait... Anywho, hope this more mellow chapter was good enough, cause we get some more action coming soon! Hope you enjoyed, seeya in the next chapter!

Next Chapter: Reap What You Sow
Valkyr is left to lead Gara against another sighting of a Tenno, without her brother leading the charge, she'll have to balance her second life with her Tenno one, and deal with dark memories better left unsaid all at once.