[spoiler]This installment of Exotic History is made in part by ThatDroidGuy[/spoiler] Anna rubbed her head and groaned as she sat up from the impact. Her eyes first went to the door. The entire wall was warped inward and several holes were punched through the sheer force to allow gusts of wind to sneak through but it was holding somehow. Her eyes then flicked to her teammates. JT was examining his arm for injury and Mom was brushing off snow from her armor. Anna sighed. "Is everyone ok?..." "Just peachy dear." Mom said happily. "PEACHY?!" Petrie barked as he floated over JT. "We could have died from that!!" "We didn't did we?" JT next examined his sniper and refilled the mag. "STILL!!" "Petrie is right this time..." Anna said as she stood. "I can't exactly let you just do s*** like that on the fly." "We've done worse even before Petrie." JT gave a sideways glance at her. "And how many times has that gotten us in good places?" "I'd say a good 3 quarters of the time." "More like less than half JT and you know it." She put her hands on her hips and stared at him. JT scoffed and stood. "Fine... But we are safe now that's what counts." "Agreed." Anna studied the room they were in. "Let's see if we can get up higher and find ourselves a way to access a radio post or something to help track down this weapon." "Fair enough." JT and Anna both began to look for someway to get up while Petrie just floated in air. "... That's it?... No court marshal threatening... no punishment... just a slap on the wrist and we are all friends again?..." "Good luck trying to court marshal a Hunter... Cayde is very persuasive as a lawyer..." Anna pulled scrap away from an opening and crawled through. Petrie blinked and sighed. "Whatever..." "Here dearie, would you mind switching with me?" Mom held out her hand. "I'm starting to feel woozy..." "Must be the adrenaline kicking off." Petrie floated over and inserted his shell in the slot on Mom's hand. Their lights flickered and Mom's body morphed back to a scrawny male shape and the lights flickered to green. The Ghost shell left the slight with Mom's brown eye blinking as she dissapeared from sight. Petrie tested his limbs and followed JT and Anna into the opening. The building felt similar to a Clovis Bray corporation setup. The tall ceilings and basic but stylish architecture led them to the assumed main lobby of the building. The doors were partially buried by snow but not to the extent of others. They made their way up a staircase to a upper balcony with several branching paths. Anna pointed to each team member and assigned them to a door and motioned them forward. She entered an office space, similar to that of a secretary office as she slowly combed her way through for useful stuff. Andy helped a little by scanning for movement ahead and pointing out things with messages on her HUD. She entered through several more doorways before meeting JT who was across the room. She shook her head and he nodded, motioning to a closed door opposite of them. She nodded in response and slowly walked that way parallel to JT. She stood on one side of the door as he took another. Andy scanned the lock and nodded, the message 'Unlocked' flashing on her HUD. She slowly reached forward as JT pulled out his auto rifle. She slowly turned the knob and pushed the door open quickly, JT darting forward like lighting. A quiet squeal made Anna dart through as JT held Petrie at gunpoint. Petrie was holding his hands up in fear until he saw who it was. "D***it JT!... Don't do..." JT butted the end of his rifle at Petrie's helmet, silencing him. He shook his head and looked around them. He pointed to a staircase past the group and stealthed his way forward. Anna followed with Petrie by her side. "This is ridiculous..." Petrie said quietly but with bits of anger. "Can't take that guy anywhere without him scaring the..." "Shh..." Anna said as JT suddenly stopped and held up his hand. He looked up at the ceiling and pointed up, along with holding up 3 fingers. Anna nodded and JT continued to move. Petrie stood slightly dazed before he began to follow again, his pulse rifle at the ready. The three slowly climbed the stairs. JT leading the way as Major appeared and briefly scanned the area, updating the teams radars with three red dots located near them. Anna nodded and spoke quietly. "Don't engage until my mark." JT simply nodded and Petrie gave a brief thumbs up. JT finished climbing the stairs and crouched by the doorway, holding his auto rifle close to him. Anna moved in on the opposite side and Petrie hid on the steps. Anna could hear voices a few paces off behind a closed door. She looked at JT and waved two fingers infront of her. JT nodded and stood very still, allowing his subclass to change as he vanished from sight. Several seconds later, he was across the hall peaking around the corner before he vanished once again. Anna and Petrie waited for a response. Several seconds later, JT sent a message over the comms. "Found the room. Down the hall then a right till you see the door with light." Anna motioned to Petrie and the two stalked down the hallway slowly. They rounded the corner and ended up by a doorway that was partially ajar. Anna peaked inside to see three of the enemies from before, though their armor was more formal and a deeper shade of blackish blue rather than white or blue. They were hovered over something on the opposite end of the room, debating furiously. Anna glanced as JT appeared in a corner in the room and pointed to the three enemies. She nodded and entered the room along with Petrie. The door swung open silently as they stopped at a table just behind the enemies. Anna looked to Petrie and pointed to the one on the far left. He nodded and pulled out a shotgun. They two made their way around the table as JT crawled along the ground, knife in hand. They poised for combat as Anna held up three fingers. Then two. Then one. Then a fist. JT silently sprung up and knifed the enemy in the back, spun it around and quickly slit it's throat. Anna grabbed the middle one and put it into a choke hold, crushing it's neck and jaw. Petrie slapped the last one upside the head and emptied a shell into it's face. JT quickly began to go over what the enemies were looking at as Petrie sat still, breathing heavily. Anna simply held the struggling foe in her grasp until it moved no more. She shoved it off of her and got up, standing next to JT. "What do we got?" "Looks like documents of some fashion. Blueprints, maps, all the useless jargon." "Anything useful?" "This one..." JT slid a hastily drawn map with bright red X's over so she could better see it. "Seems to resemble a sweeping pattern. Like they are looking for something else." "Possibly our weapon?" "More like the Ghost. We saw that they killed that Guardian so they would have the Trek." "Yea we saw Colman fall... So where is this?" She studied the map slowly and carefully. "Doesn't help us if we don't know where it is." "I'd assume by that structure we saw. Always look close to the crime scene for further clues." "But where?" Petrie looked over at it briefly. "That vaguely resembles the buildings that we are in." "Well where?" Asked Anna. "If this is a building which they occupy, then this one..." He pointed to a rectangle on the lower right hand side with a symbol on it. "Would be my guess." "That's about as good as we are going to get." JT looked out a window. "So we need to get our bearing and head back outside." "Sadly yes..." Petrie sighed. "The quicker we get this done, the quicker we go home." Anna patted Petrie's shoulder. "We will make it." He gave a grunt and crossed his arms but waited to leave. "Then let's move out." JT picked up the map as well as several other documents and headed out the door, scanning around him. The other two followed suit and made their way to an exit to continue their journey. https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/197818045/0/0 link to part 3 https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/172455482/0/0/1 link to the Winter's Trek