//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 Fired Up // Story: Warframe: Relic Hunters // by UnknownEntity743 //------------------------------// Warframe: Relic Hunters Chapter 2: Fired Up After the events of yesterday the so called ‘Dragon’ was beaten by Canterlot’s new ‘Heroes’. Some call them terrorists, others call them a government experiment, Excalibur calls it a headache as people for the entirety of the day kept talking about him and his Sister. This however was driving Excalibur nuts, not only that but the new Russian friend of theirs being the same Chroma from yesterday. About the only thing keeping Excalibur from loosing it was having his sister back to her 'normal' self, normal being an understatement. “*Sigh* will this torment ever end?” Excalibur groaned in annoyance as him, his sister Valkyr and Chroma sat at their own table in the cafeteria “Well I’m find it very… amusing as they don’t realize the ‘Beast’ is sitting here right now” Chroma stated in a Russian accent as he rested his head on his hands “Well I for one am loving it!, were like superheroes!, well besides Chroma, no offence” Valkyr said sheepishly as she rubbed her arm “None taken” Chroma replied simply “You ok though I mean you did just fight the equivalent of a tank right after your recovery?” Excalibur asked in concern but Valkyr waved him off and smiled innocently “I’m fine Calibur Ordis just said for me to take it easy nothing more, that and who else is going to keep you out of trouble?” Valkyr said with a cocky grin as Excalibur returned it before flicking her on the nose “Yes but who’s going to keep you from doing something reckless?” Excalibur said playfully as Valkyr put a thumb to her chest and made a proud look “Reckless is how I roll after all!” She stated loudly as Excalibur laughed “Yea ok keep telling yourself that!” Excalibur retorted as she frowned "Aww did I hit a nerve?" Excalibur then earned a slap to the face as Valkyr smiled deviously "How's that for a nerve?" She retorted triumphantly “Oh Excalibur there is a girl coming this way” Chroma mumbled to him as they all turned to see AJ walking over “Oh hey AJ, please tell me you’re not coming to talk about that ‘Hero’?” Excalibur asked with a grunt “Oh no I wanted to meet your sister since you told me she was injured and such, which reminds me if she’s only just come out of the hospital then why is she here?” Applejack asked with a curious brow as Valkyr grinned “Ain’t no hospital gunna keep me down, at least not for long!” she said happily as Excalibur gave her a deadpan expression as she smiled innocently “Hehe but I was told not to overexert myself, still its cool to meet ya!” “Yes the names Applejack but my friends just call me AJ” Applejack responded with a smile as they shook hands then she noticed Chroma “Excalibur who’s this?” “That is Chroma and don’t be expecting much he doesn’t talk often unless necessary” Excalibur pointed out as Chroma nodded in acknowledgment “Well still I think this whole ‘Hero’ thing is being taken a bit too to heart, they only showed up once so what?” Applejack said as Excalibur smiled “Finally someone who isn’t obsessed!” Excalibur said loudly “Still talk to you later AJ” she waved goodbye and Excalibur went back to shoving all mentions of the word ‘Hero’ into a box, then proceeded to burry that box in the ocean Then he noticed Valkyr’s smug grin as he raised his brow “What?” Excalibur asked as she rolled her eyes “Oh nothing hehe” Valkyr responded as Excalibur shrugged it off and continued to bury the box… After the torment of listening about himself, his sister and Chroma being thrown around like a ragdoll that hypnotised an entire town the day was over. Chroma, Excalibur, Valkyr and AJ were walking down the streets of Canterlot, casually taking to each other when a small crowd of people around TV’s caught their eye. “What the…” Excalibur wondered as they all walked over and saw the news report “Breaking news a creature covered in what seems to be flames has been seen slowly making its way towards the town as firemen and police forces have failed to slow the creature down and it seems that anything it touches catches fire!” the news reporter said as a camera panned to the road beside a field What they saw can only make Chroma less scary in comparison. They all looked towards the flaming (girl) as she slowly walked towards the crowd of people and thanks to Ordis Excalibur made out what it was saying “You shall burn Tenno” she said in an ashy voice as the gleam of a chip reflected off the light “Hey now that’s near my farm!” Applejack gasped as she almost ran off if Excalibur didn’t stop her “Hey what do you think your doing?!” “If you think you’re going alone your wrong” Excalibur said casually then before she could retort Valkyr chimed in “Yea, look I’ll go with you whist my Bro and Chroma go get help” Valkyr said as she saw the look Excalibur was giving her then she walked up and hugged him “Don’t worry I’ll be fine just get help K?” She then winked “Alright you two go, Chroma you’re with me!” the two groups parted and soon Chroma and Excalibur rounded a corner “You ready?” Chroma finished equipping his armour as he roared with ice “Right then let’s lock and load...!” As Valkyr and AJ got to the location of the broadcast nothing was left as burnt cars and foliage was left in ashes but what was most strange was that the tracks of Ember’s feet were leading off into the woods, so the two girls followed the tracks. As they continued to walk Valkyr stopped as Applejack turned only to see Valkyr’s face showed nothing but dread. “Valkyr, something wrong?” She asked as Valkyr swiftly shoved both herself and AJ to the ground as a fire blast whisked above them and hit a lone tree as it lit the area up and revealed her Ember stood there in front of them, her body covered in flames as she held a (Heat Sword) in her grasp as she slowly raised it above her head as she prepared to attack. But the sound of grunting and cursing stopped her. “You know I really think just tying you to my leg was a bad move” Excalibur groaned as he kicked Chroma off him as he stood up Chroma just grunted as they came into view and saw Ember and Excalibur brought out an ice hammer (Sibear) and held it with two hands as Chroma brought out his (Boar) as they got ready to fight “Wait that thing attacked us yesterday so why’s it working with the Tenno?” Applejack thought then remembered the chip the Tenno ripped out of the beast’s neck “Hey Ex-Tenno guy it’s on her neck like the last one!” Valkyr shouted as they nodded and Applejack gave her a look “What Excalibur told me” “You will burn!” Ember hissed “Really and I thought I was up agenst Frost, oh well” Excalibur said sarcastically earning a fire blast to the face as Chroma breathed ice to stop the next “Ok I might have deserved that one!” Excalibur shouted as he got back to Chroma “Alright if we keep hitting her with ice attacks it should work” Chroma nodded as he fired ice breath continually as Excalibur followed up with swinging his hammer into the ground causing ice spikes to appear. But each attack just melted off of Ember like nothing as she swung her blade and Excalibur barely had time to block it as his body jerked. All of them then noticed the fire orb building around Ember’s arm as Valkyr and Excalibur said simultaneously “Oh son of a-“ Then a massive nova of fire blasted all four of them flying as the two girls hit a tree and Chroma held onto the ground to stop his fall and Excalibur was rolling before getting to his feet. He then dashed forward as the fire blast came hurling at him as he smashed the hammer into Ember’s face but all it did was piss her off as Excalibur winced “I’m sorry” Then he was sent flying into Chroma or at least beside him as Chroma lifted him out of the ground by the foot and sat him down. Chroma then began to fire round after round of ice shells into Ember's body but it did little to dent her shield as Chroma rolled out of the way of a fire blast as he ran and shot rounds into her but as he reloaded to begin his assault again Chroma soon felt the ground beneath him melt as he roared in pain as his roars were cancelled out by the sound of the raging fire as it engulfed as he watched his shields drop to nothing as he kneeled in pain as he felt his body cook within the frame. Chroma and Excalibur glanced at each other as they panted due to the intense heat then Applejack's voice pierced through the roaring flames. “Try hitting her at the same time!” Applejack shouted as Chroma and Excalibur thought about it and soon nodded in unison as they got ready to retaliate Chroma activated ‘Effigy’ and prepared to fire off another round of ice and Excalibur held his hammer high as another blast from Ember shot towards them burning the ground beneath it. Then the skin of Chroma along with Chroma fired a wave of ice as Excalibur channelled all the energy he had into the hammer as he smashed it into the ground. Ember’s attack fought back as the air changed from hot to cold as the elements raged on but soon the fire dwindled as the fires disappeared as Ember began to move through the ice trail but soon her body slowed and she became a Frame-popsicle as Excalibur ran forward and smashed the chip off her frozen body as the ice shattered into shards. Ember's body fell as Excalibur caught her, Ember was now free. “God and I thought you were difficult” Excalibur laughed in pain as Chroma hit him on the back as he slowly set Ember down “Well good thing is she’s alive and she’s just exhausted from using so much energy in those attacks” “What’s the bad news?” Applejack asked with a hint of worry as Excalibur pointed towards the darkness “The fact that a sniper has been shooting my head for the last 20 seconds” Excalibur said plainly as another *ding* sound rattled off his helmet “Well then I think that’s our queue to leave, you two get home save ok?” Excalibur said as they both nodded but just before the two walked away with Ember in Chroma’s arms Excalibur was stopped “Who are you really?” Applejack asked then swiftly Excalibur raised his hand and pointed to the holographic symbol on his armour “We are Humans but people used our gift as a weapon now we fight to prevent the same thing happening again, and for clarification we’re the Relic Hunters and we just gained a new member” He said as the two of them ran off into the darkness as the red and blue lights began to appear One thing that bothered Applejack through was not the mystery of the Tenno but rather did Chroma and Excalibur get into contact with them? If so how…? The myth, the legend From the skies he soars But on the ground he rules Chroma