//------------------------------// // Wake up call: Banshee // Story: Warframe: Weaponized Wubs // by eles74 //------------------------------// Wake up call: Banshee My recoveries from cryo are among the slowest, being in a suit based on vibrations and low temperatures slowing them. As my senses and HUD came online, I saw two green dots on my radar, meaning they were no threat at the moment. I heard whispers coming from their direction, so I focused to increase their volume to hear what they were saying. "Look, Octy," a female voice, on the tomboyish side, said "whatever that thing is, it's probably not going to hurt us" with that, one of the dots started to move in my direction. I didn't move my head to see, for I didn't have the need to. A sonar pulse showed that it has equine relations, the mane was a mess, but the good kind. Either my sonar had problems, or it was a unicorn with sunglasses. Odds are, it was the latter. "Vinyl!" The other being spoke up, in a refined female accent, like Old Earth British "Do you have to poke at everything that could get you killed?" She said in a hushed tone. As soon as the blue pulse signalling my shield regeneration went off, I kicked up my legs and got to my feet to see the two mares with my own eyes, since the second one, likely 'Octy' never came in range of my sonar. She was a grey pony with a charcoal black mane and a pink bowtie. The nearest one, Vinyl, was in fact, a white unicorn with purple sunglasses and a mess of a mane, coloured blue and teal. Both jaws dropped at my movement, one angled up, the other, down. "No one is poking anything right now." I said, hand on my short Skana. "No way!" Vinyl shouted, ecstatically "This is awesome! It can walk, talk, and threaten!" "Vinyl!" Octy shouted "Get away from it!" "It's fine," I said, trying to get take edge off, "neither of you have given me a reason to fight you yet. Name's Sonic Boom." "Nice to meet you, Sonic." The white unicorn said extending a hoof. "I'm Vinyl Scratch. I'm a DJ." I reached out to grab her hoof and shook it. "I am Octavia," the grey mare said, still eyeballing me in case I did anything "I'm Vinyl's roommate." "It's nice to finally meet a race that isn't trying to kill me on sight." I said, "You're not going to try, are you?" "Why would we try to kill something that hasn't even pointed any sharp objects at us?" Vinyl said. "Well, I have a history of getting mixed up in more than a Tenno like me should." "What kind of 'mixing up' are we talking about here?" Vinyl said, moving her sunglasses up to rest on her horn, and narrowing her magenta eyes. "It involves protecting the Origin System from two factions and an infestation, all of which would love to see my team and I, eviscerated, mutilated, and possibly-" "I think that's enough details." Octavia cut me off. "Right. Anyways, this suit is one of the reasons I can fight them. It's called Banshee. Basically I can control sound waves to do things from silence myself, to clearing a hallway with a blast." "That sounds awesome!" Vinyl said, "You know, I weaponized music before, but not control it like that." "Wait, you've used sonic resonance as a weapon?" I was genuinely surprised that a being that acted the way she did, could get some control over sonic energy. "We'll it was just that one time a being of chaos came back to try to take over, again." "Do you still have that weapon?" "Well, I lent it to Pinkie for the weekend, said she had a party to plan." "You gave a sonic weapon... to a party planer?" "Yeah, it's just a big modded speaker. She probably won't find the button to turn it into the bass cannon." "You know, Vinyl, it is P-" Octavia was cut off by a loud noise, that sounded like a bass drop from that Old Earth electro stuff. Not much to say, I saw the bass cannon on the outskirts of a nearby town. it was a modded speaker, that blasted enough sonic energy that it glowed blue, like my sonic boom or sound quake, but the beam was more solid. There was a pink pony standing next to it. "Well then, I guess I spoke too soon." Vinyl said. "Anyways, I have to go find the rest of my team." "How many of you are there?" Octavia asked. "There are three more Tenno like me. We need to find a way to contact my clan in the Origin System." "Then I suppose we could take you to see Twilight Sparkle in town." Octavia suggested, "She is the princesses student, so she would have the resources to help you." "Thank you, any help to get my team back in action will be appreciated." "To the library!" Vinyl shouted, taking the lead, headed into town.