"Owww, Owww, OWWW. STOP that hurts. Seriously stop poking my ribs. I think their broken. So help me Speaker if you touch my broken ribs again I'll vomit all over you again!" Charlie threatened, completely serious. "Stop moving or I'll punch you in the ribs, or maybe throw you out the window," the Speaker retorted, in a way mocking the Titans overreaction to the loss of his donuts momentarily. "Will he be able to fight tomorrow?" Asked Violet, hoping she wouldn't have to be in the crucible with Gears all alone, still afraid of another fit of rage. "He might be able to, if he heals quickly. But I must ask you, has Gears been acting strange lately?" The Speaker asked, wondering what could be wrong with the Exo Titan. "No, I mean he is an early riser, and the day we went to the crucible he wanted to sleep longer, so maybe he was up late doing something." Violet said. "Well, I would recommend little interaction with the Titan until we know what he could have been doing." The speaker warned, not wanting another guardian unable to fight. "I'll find out what is causing Gears to act like this." Said Violet, accepting her mission. _______________________________________________ "Ughh, I've been searching for two hours, and still nothing!" Complained Violet, who was on her way out the door, when somethings caught her eye. [i]Exo Codes, And How To Make And Break Them[/i] by Roshin Quri. The book was sitting out on a table, opened to a page about, raging machines. Violet immediately ran to the librarian, about to ask her who checked out the book, when suddenly a dark figure pulled out of the shadows, and knocked her out. The dark and ominous figure pulled down their hood, to reveal a fallen vandal, one you might know as Randal, The Vandal... Dragging Violet away to a ship docked in an abandoned warehouse in the last city. Randal began to load Violet onto the ship... Assisted by... A familiar figure... GEARS... But one difference, this Gears had black eyes instead of orange ones _______________________________________________ Charlie awoke in a cold sweat, after drifting off in he hospital bed. Remembering the dream. Unable to shake the feeling that it was MORE that just a dream, he checked the window where he saw the kidnapping from in his dream, to see a black eyed Gears standing, and watching a fallen ship take off. "You've GOT to be kidding me!!! The one day I'm injured! One of my team gets kidnapped, and the other turns evil!!!" Charlie exclaimed EXTREMELY annoyed at the bad timing. Climbing out of bed and donning his armor, he grabbed his Hand Cannon, and flinching made his way to the door. "I'm coming to get you Randal!" Charlie said to himself. Boarding his ship to try and find the fallen drop ship , he opened up he comms, hearing about a suspicious fallen ship flying to the twilight gap. Hearings this Charlie immediately set his ship's coordinates to the twilight gap. _______________________________________________ "What will we do with the ssssssshe guardian?" A lowly dreg asked Randal. "We will ssssacrifice the ssshe guardian to sssepiks prime." Answered Randal. "And what of the robot?" He dreg asked. "He will die too." Answered Randal, getting annoyed by this dreg. "Seriously?" Whispered Charlie to himself as he saw "Gears" walk in, his eyes glowing black as night. Gears obviously didn't hear Randal's plans for him, because he went over to guard Randal. "Mphhh!" A muffled voice said from inside a room to Charlie's right, with a troop of dregs guarding the door. Hearing this, Charlie turned invisible and climbed into the air-vent. Once in the grates, he crawled towards the whimpering noise. Upon looking through the grates, he saw Violet gagged and bound in the corner. "Psst! It's me, Charlie!" Whispered Charlie loudly. Violet looked up and saw his face through the grates, smiling through her gag. Charlie then dropped down and untied her. "Someone hacked Gears! That's why he helped the fallen!" Violet explained excitedly, knowing exactly what was done it his circuits. "Then I guess it's time we took out these fallen," Charlie said with a grin. _______________________________________________ "Well this could've gone better," Violet said still confused on how they were captured so easily. "Sshoot, Gearssss," Randal commanded. "My pleasure," Gears said, spinning around and blowing every fallen to kingdom come with his auto rifle. "How?!" Charlie muttered dumbfounded. "Reset switch man, works like a charm, also my internet connection cut out halfway through the download." Gears lied about the second part, not wanting to reveal that he had a hidden Warsat-like feature, which defends him from computer viruses. "We should get going soon," Violet said, tired from being kicked and beaten all day long. _______________________________________________ Charlie slipped into a fitful sleep, his mid. Still buzzing from the day's action. He thought about his plans for tomorrow. This concludes chapter 4 Index: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/159707322/0/0