There's a calm in the city. Not out of arrogance, not of freedom but of boredom. The guardian are in the tower. Most are reveling over there triumphs. This “Age of triumph”, the speaker has declared has most guardians at ease. Others have their radar at full tilt. The Stranger once said “It’s a day for pretty speeches and medals but the real fight is still out there”, she was right. There’s a fight out there, even if I want no part in it. -LethalViper You all hide behind your fancy new bonds, cloaks and marks, not knowing the real fight. The darkness arises. The darkness never sleeps. We’ve killed many, others are still out there. Few have yet to attack. -LethalViper Ikora rey knows this to be true. Her losing faith in Eris and the vanguard being to suspicious and feeling it to dangerous to reach out to the disciplines of osiris. Ikora gathers two new guardians to be became apart of her new band of hidden. Ikora summons Yungblockburna and Billydontrage into the upper section of the tower. The place abandoned by Lord Saladin. “Guardian in the tower and also Zavala fears a new threat many be among us. I don’t believe nor discount it. I need you two to join my hidden to gather information on any and all new or unknown threats to us or the Traveler” -Ikora rey “How exactly do we find unknown threats, I mean their not known right?” -Yungblockburna “We’ve done it ALL, who left? Huh, dear? The hive are finished, the vex, splat. No matter how many timelines they create we always crush Atheon dear? They did everything to making us jump through literal hoops to stupid oracles. There’s nothing left? -Billydontrage “If Ikora is worried we need to take her advice, we need to listen. I’ve alway wondered why they called you Billy don’t but in this case, Billy just -blam!-ing don’t” -Yungblockburna Down in the bar of the tower. The bar air still reeking of the stench of alcohol from Xur’s weekly visit. Cayde-6, Anonpig and TheGreatNike (and unlikely combination) are sitting at the bar while Cayde-6 pours the fifth round of drinks. Anonpig is going through old pages of lore in Tolands journals, not listening to the conversation, or stories being spouted by Cayde and Nike. “So I told Zav, Zavala. You wanna bet if MY golden gun can beat your fist of panic. Then let’s go to Shaxx and set something up.” -Cayde-6 “So what did he say” -Nike “Shaxx is whining about wait till after Iron banner, The Crossroads and Bannerfall are still burning because of that whole mayham business. I think it's an excuse, Shaxx knows, Shaxx knows” -Cayde-6 “What about Wednesday, Cayde, It will be armsday. You can go visit the gunsmith and get some ne-” “NO ONE CARES ABOUT -blam!-IN ARMSDAY ANYMORE NIKE” -Cayde-6 “When the last damn gun that was worth a shit that the piece of metal sold?” who the hell wants another Suros DIS-43? -Cayde-6 “But people love armsday” -Nike Cayde smacks Nike with a shot glass. “See what you did, you made me waste my drink, I gotta wait till friday to get some more of that stuff. It's the only thing the Nine is really good for anymore.” LethalViper follows Arach Jalaal around the Dead Orbit halls. “Master Jalaal, this place is dead WHEN will we flee? We may have been told everything will be better, everything is fixed. But we know the power that is continually trying to screw us at every turn. The time to run is now! “If you choose to leave than leave. We are not, ready the time is not near” Arach Jalaal Yungblockburna, Billydont and Anonpig gather will Ikora. In a secret hall of the tower, know to only the hidden. “Ikora, me and Billy have searched the tower for any information that could prove to any threat. We’ve talked to guardians in the field and also with Shiro. We may not have found much but Anonpig had stumbled on information that you may way to hear” -Yungblockburna “This was supposed to be a mission for the two of you, not three. If I cannot trust you to keep things within our circle, there is no circle guardians”. Send Anon away and tell me what you have learned” -Ikora Anon slowly walks away Yung: In our travels we have noted that we have defeated the Hive, they seem like no credible threat now as Oryx is dead. The hive have a broken leadership. The fallen have tired but never amount to anything much without the threat of Siva. Ikora: Go on Billydont: The vex are still here but Atheon was the closest they had to an unstoppable god dear, without him we see no evidence that they can pose a threat. Ikora: You two are wasting my time, Yung: But that's just it Ikora, time. We've learned for the Vex and the Future war cult about time manipulation. We are getting readings of an attack. Ikora: But Billy said the Vex don’t create a threat? Yung: It’s not the Vex, who are the only ones that haven’t attacked us? What enemies have we seen countless times before but they never attack. Our greatest threat is the one that has been hiding in plain sight the entire time. A box pops open in the hallway of the tower. A drunken Anonpig stumbles out. “You idiots, they’ve been here all along the Cabal, the goddamn Cabal. On the dreadnaught, before letting us into the black garden. They’ve ALWAYS been there. They’ve been watching waiting for us to destroy everything. They learned, they watched. They didn’t get taken because they were weak. They got taken because they wanted to know how we would react. They didn't send there best to fight us. They sent their worst as hamsters. To let Oryx defeat them. So we could defeat Oryx. They let us use the hive’s sword logic to defeat Oryx so that they could learn to defeat us inturn. Ikora: Anon, THAT'S ENOUGH!!! You are not apart of this! LethalViper overhears this. Lethal wants to get in the good graces of the speaker. He runs to the north side of the tower with the knowledge he’s just gained. Lethal feels in his heart this is his chance. This is his chance to become a hero again. To become a hero to the guardians, the city and more importantly to get back into the Speakers good graces once again. Lethal runs to the Speaker's chambers. He finds books tosses from the shelves. The Speakers tools and devices which was the guiding light for the city smashed to pieces and sprawled on the floor and across the desk. The speaker is gone. Lethal looks out on the deck where the Speaker's chambers are. He overlooks the city as many guardians have before him. He feels that since he will not be the hero any longer. He decides that if he jumps he may get a hero's funeral. He feels that the city will remember him for what he was once. Not as he is now. They will bury him with honor for the great battles he was apart of instead of the coward he has become. He takes a deep breath, stares off in the distance. To the barracks of the city. Where the human live. He sees a familiar figure,...he sees the Speaker, running. BOOM -End transmission- DESTINY 2