"So you're an exo too?" I asked. "Yeah." He replied. "So you were just talking to someone named Captain?" He asked. "It's my ships on board AI, we recovered the vessel along with him when I first woke up." I said. "Really? You traveled about a hundred feet and found working transportation?" He said. "Yes?" I replied sheepishly. "When I woke up on Mars I had to dig out a ship for about three days." He said. "It takes a lot of work to get the sand out of your circuitry." "Sounds like you had a hard time getting to the tower for the first time." I said. "Yeah, I did, captain obvious." He said. "Alright, sorry." I replied to his sudden outburst. "Its fine, I just have a hard time dealing with people who get what they need slash want with no effort at all." He said. "We should probably call in the death of the Archon to the Vanguard." Ghost said. "Good idea, then we can pick up the loot when we get there without wait." Aaron replied. "Shouldn't Cameron get a portion of the loot?" I asked. "Why? She was going to get sacrificed to a Servitor Prime if we didn't save her." Aaron Replied. "No, she got the final hit on him, without her he probably would have killed us by now." I said. "Fine, we'll split the reward three ways." He said "I could have taken care of him alone." She said. "Well you seemed to be handling him just fine until we showed up, that playing unconscious strategy must really be amazing." Aaron said with a tone of sarcasm. "I didn't need your help." She said. "As I said already you looked fine." He replied. "Okay, can you two be quiet." I said. The bickering guardians looked at me oddly, "Listen, without each other we wouldn't have been able to take him down, we eliminated a key threat to the city and located another." I said. "We can all help each other." I continued. "All right, I'll consider a partnership." Aaron said with a sense of reluctance. "Fine, as long as he doesn't take all the credit." Cameron said. "I won't." he said. "Okay, cool." I replied. "Captain, take us home." I said to the on board computer. "Aye sir." He replied. I then dematerialized boarding the vessel. "Welcome back, I kept the seat warm for you." He said. "Thank you Captain." I said. "You're welcome sir." He said. The thrusters on the ship roared to life as the ship breached the atmosphere and I watched the flames on the outside of the ship flow from the front to the back. The flames finally cooled down from the outside and nearly the whole earth was in my view. "Orbital destination select point reached sir." Captain said to me. "So we have a jumpdrive now right?" I asked. "Upgrade module is ready and primed sir." Captain replied. "What is the interstellar limit on this model of ship captain?" I asked. "One point two light years on a full energy tank sir." He replied again. I began to think about that for a minute, one point two light years? How far out from earth will we be able to go? What will we see? My train of thought was then interrupted by a large asteroid looking object flying down to the earth. "Sir, we have an interstellar body entering cosmodrome air space, designation, Hive seeder." Captain said. "Hive? What is that?" I asked. "Impact confirmed, Divide sector." Captain said. "Take us down." I said. "Yes sir." He replied. We reentered the atmosphere with the same vigor as when we rose up into orbit. "Drop off in three, two, one." He said, then dropping us onto the site where the seeder landed. The seeder was huge, what ever it was it was meant to crack into the surface of a planet. I walked up to it with my new assault rifle drawn, I took one hand off of the under side of the gun and placed it on the vessel. I almost immediately drew it back, it was as if I could feel my life force being drained from my being even only for a second. The vessel was green and black, with the black parts looking much more like stone than metal, yet felt cold to the touch, even if it had just entered the atmosphere. The vessel then began to open, I leaped backward and the door opened and a large haze flew outward. At first I saw nothing then sets of green eyes began to appear from the inside of the vessel. Small frames of grey ran out from the ship in numbers straight towards me swinging their claws like birds chirping begging to feed after being first born. They were the weakest, taking at most two shots from the AR to the chest the others then came out of the ship, they were red for the most part and used oddly shaped guns that fired purple rounds. They were only slightly stronger than the small ones the creatures were then purged from the seeder, and ghost floated out by my head. "So, what now?" I asked him. "I already called it in to the vanguard." He said. I started walking to the ship ahead of me, the inside of it still had fog coming out of it from earlier. "Are you sure you want to go in there?" Ghost asked me. "Yes." I replied. I continued my path forward into the vessel, and I must say, it's about as comfortable as a bed of nails. "Where did it come from?" I asked aloud. "It must have come from the moon." Ghost said. "The moon?" I asked sarcastically. "Are you serious?" I asked him. "Yes, many decades ago we staged an invasion to reclaim the moon from the hive." He said. "There were so many guardians slain that day, many didn't come back at all." He continued somberly. "The culmination of that was a six person fire team sent to invade the throne world of the hive prince Crota." He continued. "Nobody returned from that." He said. I looked around inside the ship, thinking about his story, how could an army of such weak creatures destroy an army of guardians? "Crota isn't like the other hive, many of our scholars believe him to be a descendant of a hive god." He said. "I thought I told you to stop reading my thoughts." I said to him. "It's not like I can just turn that feature off you know." He said. "Right, so what now?" I asked clutching my assault rifle as I walked out of the craft. "We head home, and report our findings." He said. I then kept walking out in the cosmodrome's fresh snow as more began to fall from the sky. I looked up to see beautiful lights streaming through the sea of endless stars, I kept walking around back to where the skeleton was. I stood over where it sat alone, I could only imagine what they may have felt knowing that their life was crashing down around them. Nobody to bury them, no one to respect the dead. I put my assault rifle around my back, and picked up the skeleton. I started walking over to a place to bury it, I could see some fallen looking at me from a distance. I found a tool that I could use to dig a grave for it. "What are you doing?" Ghost asked me. "I'm doing something that nobody got to do for them, give them a place to rest." I said. "Does this have something to do with the story I just told you?" He asked me as I continued digging. "Yes, those guardians up there, they died knowing that nobody would be able to bury them." I said. I then glanced over to the skeleton. "They didn't deserve this." I said. There were more across the cosmodrome I knew that, too many to bury, too many to remember. "None of them did." I said again. I finished digging the hole and placed the brittle skeleton inside. "I never knew you, nor will I ever, but if there is somewhere where you are listening, I want you to know, you will not be forgotten." I said aloud. Ghost and I sat there looking at the grave site for about ten minutes then we decided to leave. We sat inside the ship in orbit for a while, I needed to get some more rest, but I couldn't sleep not while that kept moving through my head. "Captain?" I asked. "Yes sir?" He asked. "Take us home please." I asked. "Yes sir." He replied promptly. He flew out of orbit and into the lower section of the atmosphere out into the city's air space. We disembarked and Captain parked the ship in the hangar bay. Aaron and Cameron were waiting by the stairs. "Where have you been?" She asked. "I was taking care of something, a hive seeder impacted the divide." I said. "A hive seeder?" Aaron asked. "How's that possible?" He asked. "The hive are preparing an invasion." Ghost said. "That was just a test flight." He continued. "So what are we gonna do then?" Cameron asked. "We go to the moon, and strike at the heart of the invasion." I said. "You know how implausible that sounds right?" Aaron replied. "We'd be going into the strong hold of the hive and the demigod that Ghost told you about is still there." He continued. "I agree, at this stage of the game we aren't strong enough." Cameron said building off his previous statement. "Ok, then we need a new plan, let's talk to the vanguard, see what they think." I suggested to the other two. "Alright, sounds good." Aaron said.