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Operator's Mind, ???
Memory Sequence #5
??? > Lua/Earth's Moon/The Reservoir > Orbiter
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Adis's vision was filled with darkness. He spent some time with his thoughts while the next memory sequence is being put in place.
In all his time, he never knew how much the Tenno cared until it was too late. Now, his future self, probably he will do the same too if Adis hadn't seen the memories.
And just thinking how much the Tenno had really suffered, made Adis so sad. He was their friend and sure he is still learning, but learning after what Ballas did to them, and everything else that happened?
Adis knew he can never let Ballas get away with this. He may be dead in the future, but back in the present, he is still alive.
And with Tenno, Adis will make sure to prevent that Golden-lord bastard from doing the same thing again.
With a determined look through the darkness, Adis readies himself for the next memory. This one should show what truly happened to his Tenno after the Tauron Academy events.
Please still be alive, Tenno...
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It was darkness for another few seconds, until...Adis's vision suddenly brighten and the first thing Adis's noticed?
He's in somewhere new.
Wait...where did the memory send Adis to?
He looked around and he was on a platform, surrounded by...Hive-kin Sentients! But...they look different than what Adis usually see.
Adis then looks up and was shocked. Looming overhead, was a massive Sentient being. Wait...Adis recognized that Sentient!
Is that...Hunhow?!
But then Adis heard footsteps from down the stairwell. A figure was walking up those stairs. Adis narrows his eyes to see farther.
Is that...Tenno?
No, the Warframe looks...weird, foreign even. It seems the Warframe is a mix of different parts. What is- ?
But then Adis heard Hunhow's voice.
"Who destroyed the Orokin? Your way of life? Who do you hunt Shadow, to cleanse your despair in their blood?" - Hunhow
Then the Warframe passes by Adis as it then hold up...a severed head...a severed Warframe head...Non-Prime...
"TENNO." - "Shadow"
"Sever their heads yet they rise again. Someone has hidden the Tenno essence, their truth, from you." - Hunhow
Adis froze.
Hive-kin Hunhow...hunting Warframes?!
Hunting...TENNO?!
That thought alone immediately made Adis angry. And it only gets worse as he listened to what they said next.
"LOTUS." - "Shadow"
"I know where she hides the Tenno heart. A womb in the sky, forbidden to my kind, but where you will take me." - Hunhow
Adis watched as the "Shadow" Warframe got armed with several attachments along with a sword that pulses every time Hunhow speaks. Adis felt anger raising.
Why is Hunhow hunting Tenno?!
But then it clicked.
The Old Peace Events.
So the whole thing did happen. As for how Hunhow got here...Adis predicted this memory...is centuries later. But...if this is Tenno's memories...
Why is Adis viewing from a "Bird's Eyeview" ?
"Who?" - "Shadow"
"I am Hunhow, Sentient destroyer of worlds. By your hand, expose their heart. By my edge..."
Then Adis's vision went dark, as Adis heard this last line from Hunhow.
"Cleave it beating from its nest." - Hunhow
...Did Hunhow just...?
Adis felt himself snap.
Hive-kin Hunhow...
When Adis gets back...
ADIS WILL F-CKING KILL YOU!
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It took a few minutes for Adis to calm his anger, along with his eyes glowing red from the rage. By the time he was calm again, the memory has shifted again. Now, he finds himself in...a white, golden room.
Wait...is this Tauron Academy?
Wait- no. This place is different. In the middle of the room, stood a waterfall. Huh, Orokin Empire likes to decorate their place a lot.
Then Adis heard footsteps and turns around. He sees a Tenno Warframe walking down the stairs. They looked around, as if looking for something. Is the Tenno Warframe looking for something specific?
But then Adis hears it. He turns back to the waterfall. The waterfall then splits as these "pods" emerged. All separating away, as one pod moved forward. It opened, and a person in a black suit was there (Adis doesn't know about the Zariman Suits). The size of the person, almost kid-aged. Or somewhat teenaged. But then the pod seat drops the kid to the ground, at the same time Adis's vision suddenly gets glitched and as the Tenno Warframe suddenly went limp, Adis's vision went dark immediately.
It was only for a few seconds...until Adis heard a familiar voice.
"Dream..."
Is...is that Margulis? But...the voice seems...different.
"Not of what you are..."
"But of what you want to be..."
And suddenly, Adis's vision brightened up again, this time in the POV of the kid.
Yeah, this is a Tenno Operator...but who?
Adis watches as the Tenno Operator crawls over to the Warframe and touches it. Then the Warframe starts moving again and carries the Tenno into it's arms. Once they got up, Hunhow's "Shadow" appears, the sword pointing at the Tenno. But the "Shadow" hesitated.
"You hesitate Shadow, but remember your despair. This is your only chance to make it end. But look at you, your hatred is too weak, while mine is strong. My fragments will finish this." - Hunhow
Adis...really needs to have words with Hive-kin Hunhow when he gets back.
After "Shadow" had left, leaving the Tenno Operator alone with their Warframe, another person speaks on comms. Wait...
This is...The Lotus! From the Memory Sequence back on Tau!
"Tenno... Operator, you're awake now, but you're more vulnerable than ever. Get back to your ship, now." - Lotus
And so without wasting time, the Tenno in their warframe's arms, begin making their extraction, with Adis following the two.
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Adis had followed the two into the ship called the "Orbiter". He followed them to the back of the Orbiter, where there was this machine in the middle. As they got close, the "Shadow" Warframe appeared again, slashing their sword to keep the Tenno away from the machine. But the Tenno pushed through, using their Void power to shoot a beam into the "Somatic Link", which Adis was surprised by this.
Somatic Link...evolved form Somatic Connection?
He was snapped out of his thoughts, when the Tenno shot at the Somatic link for the third time, only to get blasted back. Now on the floor, the Tenno Operator crawls over to the machine, only for the "Shadow to appear.
"No self, no sense, no death. Just a metal puppet, dangling on Tenno strings. Only the Tenno's death will end your despair." - Hunhow
God...Adis is really starting to hate Hive-kin Hunhow. BALLAS STILL FIRST!
Adis then watched as the "Shadow" stabbed the Tenno's warframe before walking over to the Tenno Operator. Once he was near them, he kneels to look at their fearful expression behind the Suit's mask. He then grabs their throat before lifting them up, almost as to choke them. All the while Hunhow continues to monologue.
"All your dread-long life you've waited for this moment. But you're asking yourself—was I one of these wretched things? You know the answer. You still hate them. You still hate yourself." - Hunhow
But then suddenly behind "Shadow", the Tenno's Warframe started to move...without the Operator! The Warframe grabbed onto the sword and started to rip it apart. Slowly, but surely, the sword begin to split.
"Shadow! Protect... me..." - Hunhow
Adis felt himself smirking as it happened.
Adis approves this. Would like to do more when Adis returns...
Then the sword fully split, and "Shadow" then twitches before exploding in a blinding light, which also affects Adis's vision. When he regained visual, he sees the Tenno Operator on the ground, before slowly being picked up by...someone.
Wait...that's the Lotus?!
Adis watches as the Lotus carries the Tenno Operator to the Somatic Link chair before setting them down. Then the Somatic Link powers up, and the Tenno regained consciousness.
"Now we fight on two fronts, my child. The war without and the war within." - Lotus
Then there was another blinding light. When it cleared, the Tenno's face was fully revealed...
And Adis froze.
The Tenno's face...
Adis's eyes started to tear up.
It's them.
Tenno...Adis's Tenno...is alive.
Adis just watched as Lotus asked her Tenno.
"My child... so beautiful to behold. How do you feel?" - Lotus
"...I'm confused... I thought I was..." - Operator
"I know. Forgive me. This is who you really are. A Tenno. More than human... but once a child like any other. What do you remember?" - Lotus
"...The soft lines of a hand, my mother's, I think. We were watching the stars, awaiting the jump to Tau. She was afraid." - Operator
Awaiting the jump to Tau...
Are these...memories from before Adis met them?
"Memories. From your time aboard the Zariman Ten Zero, before the Void-Jump accident. It was years before the ship was recovered. It was drifting dead in space, all her crew gone... except the children." - Lotus
Oh...
So Tenno really forgot...thanks to Margulis...
"...We were just kids, but... they were afraid of what we could do. When they tried to treat us like rats I stood up to them. I wasn't going to let them divide us after what we'd been through." - Operator
"You were so brave - but the Orokin were afraid of you. The Void had changed you and you couldn't control it, no one could. They were about to destroy the orphans of Ten-Zero but Margulis... she loved you, she found a way..." - Lotus
"She put us into the dream, brought us peace. I remember we could still hear her voice, raging at the leaders for their mistreatment of us. When they executed her... well... I could not let that go." - Operator
Adis perks up from this.
Margulis...executed?
But then Adis notes something.
Come to think of it...Lotus does sound like Margulis.
"The Orokin murdered Margulis - used her work to create 'Transference'. Your mind - projected into a surrogate, strong enough to withstand your power. It felt like waking up, but it was just a lucid - second dream." - Lotus
"...It was a shadow underneath what we did. That sensation of being a victim, of being helpless. I took up the sword to protect those in need." - Operator
That line made Adis smile.
At least Tenno still had some instincts...
"And so you became Tenno. Serving the Orokin... but bound by honor. As the Tenno grew, they founded great schools. The Tenno Ways. Do you see yours?" - Lotus
Adis watches the Operator ponder for a moment, before answering.
"...I see a tree, of many branches, the Naramon Way. Our discipline focused on Knowing The Enemy. We believed that to truly understand a foe would confer the greatest advantage upon a warrior." - Operator
Adis smiled further.
Naramon. The one Adis was studying...
Figured this was because of Adis's Memory Self instinctively being remembered...even if Tenno forgot now...
"Naramon will be your focus. And now we have much more to do. Here in the Orbiter, Transference will be even stronger. Command the Warframes... Make whole, this shattered world you've been given. Are you ready, Tenno?" - Lotus
"...Yes, I'm- " - Operator
Suddenly the Operator stopped speaking. Adis then noticed the Operator looking...straight in Adis's direction...before their eyes widened in shock?
Wait...can Tenno see Adis?!
But...that doesn't make sense! How Can- ?!
Then Adis's vision turned to darkness, as Adis then heard the Lotus and Tenno again.
"What, Tenno? What were you looking at?" - Lotus
Adis heard the Operator stutter.
"...S-sorry...thought I saw a...glowing Blue Flower." - Operator
Adis...was confused.
Glowing...Blue Flower?
Then Adis blinks in realization/
Can Tenno...see...People watching them? Even though this is a memory?
Adis's mind can't fathom the variables of this. There are too many things adding up. And something is always strange. But then again, Adis can figure this out when he gets back.
...And Adis had a feeling that he needed to speak with Itzam after this.
And so, Adis puts his thoughts aside for now and prepares himself for the next Memory Sequence.
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...That until he remembers what he needs to do. And proceeds to return to the present, now angry once again.
NO, SCRATCH THAT. ADIS NEEDS TO VISIT HIVE-KIN HUNHOW. NOW. 💢