//------------------------------// // Chapter 5 Everything is Equal // Story: Warframe: Relic Hunters // by UnknownEntity743 //------------------------------// Warframe: Relic Hunters Chapter 5: Everything Is Equal *Location: Earth, Sugarcube Corner, +1 mouth after crash* Excalibur along with Valkyr and their new pain in the ass Volt were sitting with the Mane 7 and a new girl called Skyler, she wore near the same as Volt only her colours where more of a sky blue and her jacket faded into darker colours of blue. She was relatively nice and had a better sense of humour than Volt as Excalibur kept pointing out at any time he got. But everytime Excalibur would talk to her he would stutter every now and then but he didn’t know why until. . . “Hey Bro you mind coming over here with me for a sec?,” Valkyr asked before dragging Excalibur by the hood away from the group “Hey what’s wrong you could have waited for me to respond,” Excalibur said with a hint of annoyance “Well… I just have a bad feeling… about well Tenno stuff,” Valkyr said in a more concerned tone as Excalibur raised and eye brow “Is this about them not knowing?” Excalibur asked as she nodded “Well I want to tell them but only when we get these idiots to stop calling us terrorist because I don’t want them to be dragged down with us,” “So when they stop calling us a threat we can tell them?” Valkyr asked as Excalibur did a Pinkie Promise “So can you manage?” “Yea I just needed to make sure this wouldn’t be forever, that and I have a very bad feeling, but this one feels familiar,” Valkyr said as tried to think about it before smiling “Na probably nothing!” “Alright shall we got back?” Excalibur asked as she nodded before bringing Excalibur to her face “As long as you stop flirting,” Valkyr said with a smirk as Excalibur’s face began to turn red “What are you talking about? I’m not!” Excalibur shot back in a whisper “Oh ok It’s probably just me being protective, or is it~” Valkyr sung as she skipped back to her chair as Excalibur sighed as he sat down “So what were you two talking about?” Dash asked as Excalibur stiffened and Valkyr smiled “Oh nothing just that-,“Valkyr was about to talk if Excalibur began shaking her like a rag doll “Don’t you dare finish that sentence!” Excalibur shouted more in embarrassment than anything but what they didn’t know is that their last topic was picked up by a pink demon as her inner thoughts began to work away “Oooooh Excalibur has a crush of Skyler this is so cute!!!” Pinkie thought but soon yelled out load “Everyone look at the T.V!!!” This got all of them to first look at her and then to the screen as it magically switched to the news channel “How did you do that?” Volt asked in confusion as Dash laid a hand on him “It’s Pinkie don’t try to understand it,” Dash said simply as he soon turned to the screen What the news reported was something that made everyone’s including the Tenno’s blood freeze as they looked at (It) with its (Reaper Prime) by its left and a massive black fog that followed it with shadows of ‘Things’ swarming within. “What is Celestia’s name is that?” Sunset asked in fear as even Pinkie was freaked “I-It looks scary,” Fluttershy whispered before everyone jumped in fear as the thing turned to face the camera like it heard them. “I just think it saw the camera man, not like it can hear us,” Volt said in reassurance as he jumped behind his seat as it rose its scythe and shook its head slowly as it turned away and just waited “Alright that’s it I’m leaving I am not sitting here whist this thing toys with us,” Excalibur said as Valkyr followed suit “Hey wait for me I don’t want to left to walk home on my own!” Valkyr wined as she followed “Nope not moving nope!” Volt said in resistance as they shrugged and left the others to sit in fear The Special Forces lit the entire street up with bullets as they hit the Tenno's body but seemed to do noting to faze him as he spoke in a chilling voice but no apathy to them. "If your going to use weapons then know when to pull the trigger, or in this case-" He said as he channelled an attack into his Reaper prime and slashed the air as the soldiers looked at each other before their weapons fell into pieces "-Make sure you kill me in the first hit, now I would like to know whose in charge so I can file a complaint," A familiar girl with sky blue hair stepped forward as she glared at the Tenno with cold blue eyes. "My name is Skyler Cirrus and I'm the one in charge of this squad and if you don't surrender so help I-" She spoke with venom as the Tenno's reaper swiftly cut her off as it laid just under her throat as she gasped slightly "Really now? I was expecting better but then again humanity is so... one-sided," He said before another voice chimed in making everyone turn to their left “Hey dumbass what took you so long!!?” Excalibur yelled as it looked towards him “Meh I was… side tracked,” Nekros said as he shrugged and holstered his scythe “My question is how did you fuck up this bad to crash land on a planet?” “Hey not my fault I had half a bloody Ship left,” Excalibur said defensively as he then noticed the 1 infested and yelled “What in god’s name happened to that guy to make him look like a deformed pancake on feet!?” “Well..,” Nekros began *Somewhere in space, aboard Nekros’s ship* Nekros sat sleeping with a ‘Necromancy’ book on his face as a large thud hit the glass and began to slowly trail itself off the glass as Nekros mumbled “Duh fuck was that?” He asked as he shrugged and went back to sleep “Honestly I didn’t see its mangled, flattened corpse until I landed, or what’s left,” Nekros said as he heard some people gaging “Oh grow a pair,” “So why the smoke?” Excalibur asked as he pointed as the shadows “It makes for a better entrance,” Nekros said simply as he saw Excalibur side step “Oh and incoming,” Excalibur said as Nekros went to speak but felt a fist connect with his face as he turned to see Valkyr and froze as his shadows dissipated “What was with the shadows? You were going to beat him up weren’t you!” Valkyr said in a harsher tone as Nekros stuttered from his calm and bland tone “I um can… explain, I, yes,” Nekros said in defeat as Valkyr pointed in one direction as he began to walk and mumbled “I fucking hate this world already,” “You’ll get used to it, but good to have ya back buddy,” Excalibur said with more happiness “Yea good to be back,” Nekros said as they began to walk home until Excalibur heard the click of a gun as he turned to see Skyler holding a revolver to his face as behind his helmet his eyes were wide "Don't think that I'm just going to let you walk away," she said coldly as Excalibur asked something unexpectedly "Do you think were evil?" Excalibur asked simply as she gave a puzzled look "What?" was all she could say "Do you think we're evil or the one's who were freed but became allies, do you think were evil? Excalibur elaborated as Nekros and Valkyr looked at each other and walked away "I-I don't know... I never really cared I just...," Skyler tried to answer but couldn't find an answer "They did nothing wrong, sure they attacked but never did so afterwards," "You were just told what you were commanded to do right?" Excalibur asked as she nodded before he put his hand on her gun and slowly lowered it "Remember this, you may be told what is right or wrong but never let that cloud your own judgement, only you can decide what is right or wrong in the end," Skyler didn't know what to say, what could she say? he was just trying to help and she almost killed him. then Skyler took her gun and holstered it as a small smile crawled onto her face "Ok then I'll remember that," she said as he nodded before turning away "And thank you," This made him stop as he glanced back and nodded. But even under his helmet she knew he was smiling as he turned away and jogged up to the others as they began to walk away. The Next Day… If the events of yesterday were not crazy enough then today would sum that up nicely as people whispered amongst themselves as Excalibur caught words like ‘Psychopath, demon’ and other such things. As Excalibur approached his table he saw that only Valkyr had her normal smile along with Pinkie as the others looked scared or unnerved. “Ok why is everyone looking like Volt went off on another pun spree,” Excalibur asked as Volt yelled ‘Hey!’ as he sat down and Pinkie pulled Excalibur very close to her face “There’s a scary new person in today and he’s really-super-scary,” Pinkie said as she released him and Excalibur began to count down from 3 “Why are you-, “Skyler was about to ask until the doors to the cafeteria opened revealing him. Everyone went dead silent as they all saw who was standing at the doors as the sound of his black boots echoed. He wore mostly black clothing as his black hood covered his messy hair. But his eyes were covered by round-red shades that seemed to glow and a bandana wrapped around his face with rows of white teeth on it as he made his way towards Excalibur’s group. “Ok I know you like being all creepy and all but really you just had to scare the entire school?” Excalibur asked as Nekros turned and sat down beside Excalibur as he looked at all the others and sighed making them jump “Hey this idiot called Blueblood was nagging at me so I may have ‘Taken’ care of him,” Nekros said dully as he heard the others gulp “So that explains the scream I heard,” Excalibur said in wonder as he smiled “Well good at least something good came out of this,” “Yea that jerk’s been trying to get on my nerves two but a little punch quickly solved that!” Valkyr said happily as the others began to relax “Oh I just might as well introduce you,” Excalibur pointed out before continuing “This here’s Nekros, my friend and murderer,” “Wait you mean that last part as a joke right?” Sunset asked as Nekros butted in “Murder is such as ‘Strong’ word I prefer ‘Guide’ to the afterlife,” Nekros said simply putting everyone back on edge before sighing “It does not mean I’ll harm you in anyway if that’s what you’re thinking,” “Well still it’s good to have you Nekros!” Valkyr said happily as the others couldn’t see it but a small smile was on his face but then Volt butted in “Well he can sure put- “Volt was about to pull a pun until Chroma hit him flying off his chair along with Ember walking right over his back as she sat down “Don’t you ever try a pun now Spark Plug!” Chroma and Ember said in unison as he groaned “Um Excalibur why is the pink one looking like she’s about to turn me into cupcakes?” Nekros asked with slight concern as Pinkie wore an evil grin of her face “Oh she’s just thinking about the party she’ll be throwing you and Skyler since you two are new,” Excalibur explained as Nekros sighed and began to think “Now I wish I let Rhino go instead, this is bloody torture!” Nekros thought in dread “Well I could just kill her?” “Fuck it I’ll just kick Blueblood in the balls again," “Still it’s good to see these two again, maybe now I’ll have a chance…," I strike without warning The storm on the horizon The light that strikes before the sound Volt