Gemini Constel sat on the rooftop of building, having jumped around and climbed on various objects and broken vehicles to get there. Now she sat there, looking out at the ruins.
"Hey Specter." Gemini asked the small metal object to her right. "You never told me the specific location we're in."
The Ghost looked up at his guardian, "Oh. Well, currently we are in an old Cosmodrome somewhere between Fillydelfia and Manehatten."
She nodded, "Right then, now for a better question: Where are we going?"
Specter gave a series of beeps and boops, "There's a bunker not very far from here. Full of Fallen. That's where we need to go."
Again she nodded, "Alright, what's so special about the bunker?"
The Ghost made another series of beeps. "You'll see." was all he said before disappearing in a pixilated blue blur. Gemini magnetized the sniper to her back and reloaded her hand-cannon. Then hopped down from the building and landed, following the waypoint marker that flashed in her visor.
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Gemini peered around a corner with the hand-cannon aimed at the head of a Dreg. *BLAM* It went down with a thud that alerted the rest of the group. *BLAM**BALM* Gem felled the other two before they could get too close, and reloaded again. Then began moving forward again. Around another corner was the hanger bay Specter was talking about.
The inside of the room was filled with Fallen. Dreg scurried about and Vandals guarded the interior. Then there was what looked like the leader in the area. Gemini went wide eyed and hid behind the corner before it could see her.
"Specter? What... the hell... is that?" She asked, shaken.
The Ghost peered around the corner ever so carefully and turned back to the frightened guardian, "That, is a Fallen Captain. One of the more higher ranked of their army. They're big, they're heavily armed, and they're deadly. They have been granted a sort of overshield that allows them to stay in battle longer. However, the shield can be broken with enough firepower and the Captain will be exposed. The downside is that the shield regenerates if he doesn't take damage for an allotted amount of time."
"Okay, anything else?"
"They can teleport short distances." under the visor Gemini's pupils had shrank. "Yeah... best to take them out from a distance. Lucky for you, you have a sniper rifle."
"Are there... other ways to kill them off?" Void asked skeptically.
The Ghost blinked, "If you had a shotgun you could take them down at close range. Or mid-range with a fusion rifle."
".......The fuck's a fusion rifle?!"
"You'll find out. In time. But for now, you should figure out a way to get me to that ship." Gemini peered back through the door.
The hanger was in ruins and pieces of the roof were only hanging by threads of wire and mesh. 'If I place a shot just right, I could hit that metal beam and have the bullet ricochet off into his head.' Gemini rose the barrel of the rifle, and tried very hard not to misplace the shot less the Fallen know of their position.
Specter took note of the struggle that she was showing. "Need some help?" Specter had asked his companion.
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".......No." Gemini said defiantly, slinging the rifle across her right shoulder, barrel pointed towards the ground. Not bringing the hand-cannon out of its holster. Gemini Constel stepped out from behind the wall and into the room, the Fallen now aware of the presence of Light. Aiming their weapons and readying themselves for combat, until Gemini slowly sat on her knees and removed the sniper and hand-cannon to place them on the ground. "I am not your enemy." she had said with vigor and honesty.
The Fallen were hesitant and Specter shocked while still floating behind the doorway. The Captain had spoken in it's native tongue at a group of four, two being Dregs and the others Vandals. The Dregs commandeered the dropped weapons and the Vandals held Gem's arms behind her back. Specter, meanwhile, had already disappeared into the armor of his guardian.
The Captain pressed a few buttons on it's lower right arm and they all teleported onto a nearby Skiff. The Fallen piloted the vessel until it came to a landed Ketch.
Gemini Constel was now their prisoner.