Sentient Worm

Rebirth

Rebirth

Margulis stops as they come out of the portal, in front of her is a large group of Sentients. "Ballas, what's this? What's going on?"

"Why? I've freed you. I needed new allies to do it, but as you can see, allies were easy enough to come by."

"But they're trying to kill us."

"No, that was 800 years ago. We are the last true Orokin left."

Margulis nervously steps back, "Ballas what do you mean?"

"It's quite simple, you're mine, and the others tried to take you away from me. I replaced you with a prototype spectre, and used your implants to block your mind. You see you needed to be punished after all, for not recanting when I told you to. Then I modified Erra's sister, Natah, so that she could carry you and keep you alive. Oh, she was doing well enough at infiltrating for a Sentient. But she couldn't act human well enough to fool anyone for long. So doing it solved two issues, it saved you my darling love, and it gave us a new caretaker for the brats. With you out the way, we were able to move forward with the transference program."

The humanoid Sentient speaks up, "We need to retrieve my sister."

Margulis looks around desperately, "Ballas!"

"Oh, don't worry, there's an automatic recall built into it. There, I've activated it. Your sister should be arriving now. Now!"

Ballas activates the signal again, and nothing happens, "What? It's not working. It has to work, the release signal worked and Margulis took control." – His voice turns to a growl – "Grab her, I need to find the component in her head, and activate it manually."

Margulis backs away as the Sentients approach, "Ballas, why are you doing this?"

Ballas growls, "You should be unconscious. Never mind, you won't remember this as I'll clear out your short-term memory again. You're mine, and so is Natah. I never let anything that's mine go."

Margulis turns to run, and one of the sentients shoots her in the back before she gets more than 5 steps. As she falls to the floor her vision goes dark. Hyperventilating, she doesn't notice as the walls of a pod slide open in front of her, or a Warframe pick her up gently and place her against a sentient body.

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"Ordis! Grab the transference logs and record everything you can, until transference ends. I need to know where that Spectre is!"

"Operator Taylor, are you malfunctioning?"

"No, something's happened to the spectre and Anet's in trouble."

"Oh dear, Anet isn't responding. Should we do something?"

"No, just... record everything and check to see if any of the other Tenno are saying that the Lotus was kidnapped."

As Ordis is doing that, Taylor spares a glance for Anet's body, lying on the floor, before getting her Oberon. Once girded, she grabs the chassis and drags it into the transference room. Only the fact that she has no idea what's going on, stops her from ending the transference there and then.

"Ordis is sorry, Ordis is unable to locate the Spectre."

"Are you at least recording the data?"

"Affirmative. Though you will need Simaris' help to view it. All of the awakened Tenno have reported seeing the Lotus be taken."

"Great, let them know it was a decoy and that she's in a safe place."

Taylor waits anxiously for something to change, just as she's about to leave her Warframe to scan things with her sensors, the transference pod begins to open. The sound of hysterical screaming is immediately apparent as Anet's subframe is in distress. As soon as she is able to, Taylor grabs the subframe gently in a princess carry, and lays her down on the main chassis.