//------------------------------// // Wake up call: Rhino // Story: Warframe: Weaponized Wubs // by eles74 //------------------------------// Rhino Cryo Is probably my least favorite thing, ever. At least I survived the ship blowing up. The thing about the cold is, when you wake up from cryo, your shields are offline for a little bit. That was something Sub's old team had to deal with when they saved that Excalibur warframe on Pluto. The difference is that I was fully equipped, Fragor, Hek, Lex. two generally big weapons, and the heaviest pistol known by the Tenno. Because this gear is so big, it managed to freeze onto the pod's interior. All I could do was detach my gear to get out. When the pod opened, I sat up and to take a look around. I was in what looked like an old earth apple orchard. I heard a noise of a nearby tree shaking, then the sound of something falling to the ground. I looked in that direction, only to see an orange equine with a stetson and a ponytail. Oh, the irony. It was picking up some apples that hadn't fallen into the baskets below the tree. It hadn't noticed me yet. I scrambled to get out of the pod to grab my stuff, once the pod disappeared. The equine must have heard me in my rush to hide. I couldn't let it see me, not without knowing what intentions it would have. I was hidden from view behind a tree. "Ya hear that Big Mac?" a female, accented voice said. That must have been the orange equine. "Eenope." A new, deep, male voice said. I hadn't seen any other ponies when I looked. I glance at my radar confirmed their locations. My Fragor hadn't defrosted yet, so the connection for it on my back failed. To give an idea about how loud a frozen power hammer hitting the root of a tree, think of about a dozen Bratons firing at once. "It came from over here!" the female said. She ran, er, galloped in my direction. I hit my Lex to the tree to get rid of the rest of the ice, and emerged, pointing the powerful gun at the pony's head. She stopped dead in her tracks, with a larger red stallion that got in front of her as soon as he saw me pointing the Lex at her. I cautiously lowered my arms. The stallion, who I assume was Big Mac, had that 'touch her, you die' look on his face, but his hind legs were slightly shaking. "That's really brave of you to stand up to someone like me." I spoke up "But lucky you, I don't attack anything unless I'm attacked first" "Who exactly are ya?" The mare asked, steping out from behind Big Mac "Long story, involving a race of slightly mutated beings trying to turn my solar system into an empire." "That don't sound too bad." She said "Well their empire falls under the category of 'twin tyrants wanting to enslave everyone'." I responded "By the way, what was your name?" "Oh, pardon me. Name's Applejack" she said, She pointed a hoof at The large stallion "This is Bag Macintosh, he's my brother. We work the orchard together." "Nice to meet you both. I go by Rock Raider. Rock for the resilience, Raider for my specialty." I said, grinning under my helmet. "Hang on there. What kind o' raidin' are we talkin' about?" "The kind where I steal an artifact that would be used as a weapon against me and my kind." "Just who is 'your kind'." "We are the Tenno. The masters of blade and gun." I said as I pointed to the lotus on my pauldron "Our purpose is to strike at those that would disturb balance. The Grineer, Corpus, and Infestation have done just that." I clenched my fist at the thought of a three way invasion of this new planet... that my team would have to fend off. "I need to go, and find the rest of my squad. Where is the nearest town, or village?" "That would be Ponyville." Applejack said. "Big Mac, you keep workin', I'll bring Rock over to Twi's place to see if she can help." "Eeyup" was all Big Mac said Finally, we were on our way to meet Applejack's friend in Ponyville. All I can hope is that the rest of the Ethereal Lotus aren't far off. Who knows what could have tracked us to this quiet planet.