They continued walking down a hallway, just about to reach their destination.
"...and so, I died while everyone went on to serve many more missions, the Loki has been locked in a prison cell that disables his abilities, and the Tenno went on with being our enemies, but will sometimes be our allies," KSLC-8542 informed standing outside the door to the engines. (change if it doesn't match previous chapters)
"You're wondering how I'm alive? Well the answer to that is- "KSLC-8542 was about to answer when a bang is heard inside the door they are supposed to go.
"We will continue this later, first come on let's see what they are doing down here," KSLC-8542 told you.
They entered the room to find it pitch black which they responded with turning on their flashlights. They soon came upon a split in their path.
"You go right, I'll go left, we'll meet up on the other side, signal if you find anything," KSLC-8542 ordered before he headed down the left path leaving you to go down the right path.
You hear a noise behind you which causes you to spin around and aim your grakata but you find nothing to be there. You decide to continue forward and soon more noises are heard all around you and as you look around for the source a body falls in front of you and it turns out to be one of the engineers and as you kneel down to check there pulse you find them dead with no exterior damage. You hear a noise to your right, you quickly aim to find an orange female figure ripping apart one of the grineers, sent down before you, in half. She turns around and reveals her green face which has a piece broke off of it to reveal a white surface underneath it. Her hands and face are covered in blood. She slowly makes her way towards you and you stand up and start to run back the way you came but you see your path is blocked by a red and black figure with a horn-like thing coming off the top of their head, you turn and run deeper in trying to get away from those things. You look behind you to see if they chased after and noticed the orange one is making a sprint for you, she closes in real quick as you come up to an intersection, you look behind you one last time to see she is so close but you end up tripping and falling over onto the ground, you flip yourself onto your back and notice that the beast crouched down and leaps at you with claws extended. You close your eyes and scream waiting for your imminent death but... all you hear is a grineer calling you and is trying to get your attention.
"Hey, hey you okay, you look like you stared death in the face." KSLC-8542 says reaching his out to help you up.
You tell him about what you saw which causes him to turn and look down the way you came, he begins to walk that direction, but you grab him and tell him not to go, he suggests that we go the way he came so that you both could summon reinforcements, so you begin walking down his way just to see that a being that seemed to have some type of gas pouring out stands in the way with another figure that appears to have smoke coming from their arm standing behind them. They begin walking towards you causing you to back up, you notice the one with the smoke arm disappear in a puff of blackness. You are looking around for where they had gone you bump into something you quickly spin to see a pitch black being with what seems to be white eyes stare at you while pulling out a sword of some kind, you notice it's the smoking arm one. You begin to run towards your pathway but saw the red and black figure again, but your hope comes when a small group of grineer arrive behind the figure and point their guns at the being. Your hope is quickly crushed as the red and black figure flicked their wrist and all the grineer stumbled a bit before turning and firing up each other leaving only one who procced to get stabbed in the back by the smoke arm one before they disappear and reappear in a matter of seconds back to their original position behind you. You look around looking for KSLC-8542 and realize they aren't there, so you begin calling out their name, but they weren't responding. You hear something fall onto your armor and you look as a splash of red fell right in front of you. You slowly forced yourself to look up and see that the orange beast pin is above you and had pinned a shield lancer to the ceiling with their claws, they seemed to be even more bloody then before and is staring down at you. You fall onto your back as the beast drops onto the ground in front of you and all of these creatures move to be in front of you, so you back up before you get up and run for your life, you feel like your in the clear but then you slam head first into KSLC-8542 again knocking you both down.
"Ow... okay what's wrong this time? I left you for only a minute and you start freaking out again," KSLC-8542 says as he gets up from the ground.
You started to grab onto KSLC-8542 as to not to lose him again and pretty much yell/cry at what you saw.
"GET A GRIP!" KSLC-8542 yells grabbing and slapping you hard enough to displace your mask a bit,
"YOU are a member of the most elite Grineer and you are here CRYING and CLINGING to me as if I'm an incubation machine, STAND UP and lets go see what caused you to act in such a dishonorable way," KSLC-8542, clearly irritated and is done with this shit, states before placing you on your feet and shoving your gun back into your arms.
You fix your mask and point in the direction you came from.
"Alright let's go side by side that way they can't get the drop on us, so don't turn your back to each other understood," KSLC-8542 orders waiting for you to nod and start moving before he moves to be beside you.
You both reach the area that had the shield lancer's corpse, that the orange beast had pinned, was now laying in a mess on the ground. You and KSLC-8542 look around and seem to relax a tiny bit before a loud noise behind you caused you to quickly spin and see nothing. You hear another loud noise that was near you and causes you to drop your gun and hug KSLC-8542's leg. You hang onto it for a few seconds before you realize that he did not even react to you, so you turn your head and notice his leg is stickier than before. You look up and notice you weren't holding onto KSLC-8542's leg, but instead it was the orange beast instead looking down at you with a tilted head. You look and saw each of the things had formed a circle around you and then you saw something you wish you didn't. KSLC-8542 comes walking up to you and the creatures moved to let him through.
"So, to finish off the story," KSLC-8542 says as he begins transforming into different types of grineer.
"I died, but my commander grabbed my genetic codes and gave it to the Tenno as a gift, so they turned my genetic codes into a spectre, but a special kind of spectre in which I can disguise myself as any type of grineer I want," The spectre states going from simple grineer like lancers and ballistas to more elite ones like Lieutenant Lech Kril and even the queens' guards.
"That's the end of my story and the end of your life." The spectre states a final line as he pulls a Kraken and shoots you straight in the head ending you.
The screen goes into static as the queens sat looking at the screen in disbelief, now realizing they can no longer get revenge against that squad as they all defected and escaped to join Steel Meridian. The queens looked around as if wondering if that spectre could be in this current room, as the screen came on for one final line from the spectre.
"I hope you enjoy this final gift Grineer queens," said the screen.
"Because this is my final gift, a gift of revelation," Said a voice behind them as they noticed all the guards became the spectre as the Tenno dropped down from the ceiling and so the spectre and Tenno stood beside each other staring up at the queens for this would be a showdown neither side would forget.
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Frame of a Shield, War for a Lance
FanfictionThe story of a Grineer Shield Lancer and his choice of following or disobeying an order given by the queens. (based during the war within quest, so spoilers...maybe)