"You're kidding, right?" Lone asked Harmony. "There's no way Plasma had a brother. Even if he did, he probably killed him, right?"

"I wish I was, Lone," Harmony said, "but Plasma indeed had a brother. The reason why he was never mentioned was because the two of them went their separate ways and went to different universes, most likely to escape the Nexus' eye. Plasma went to Equis, and his brother, Oryx, went to an alternate version of Earth, or at least, its dimension. He did not have our attention until now."

"And just what got him to get your attention?" Luna asked.

"Because these six," Scout said as a projection of six different people appeared. Three had a similar color scheme, with that scheme being white, red, purple, and yellow(FWC year 2 gear.), while other three had a red and white color scheme(new monarchy.), "killed his son, and he's come for revenge against them. That in and of itself wouldn't have gotten our attention."

"What did," Harmony said, "is the fact he's ripping individuals from this universe to make his own army." She sighed. "We sent Legion in to a collective much like the geth to gather what he could, but we lost contact with him soon after."

"What we do know, for the most part has come from the Queen," Scout said, gesturing towards Mara, "as well as another of our allies there, and has chosen to remain there to assist these six against Oryx."

"Then where do we come in?" Nightengale asked. "Why involve us. Don't get me wrong, we want to help, but what had Oryx done that's an immediate threat to us?"

"Because, just recently," Harmony said, "he has begun sending his forces to where Metamorpha, John, and Cortana currently are. They will be able to handle themselves for a time, but, if they are to be safe, as well as the UDG, Oryx must be stopped where he is now. "That is another reason I asked Scout here: to help the six of you in your fight there, as well as introduce you to the six that killed Oryx's son."

"Okay," Lone said, "but one more question: Do you know what happened to Green Mist?" Ah, that. Green Mist had last been seen before Plasma joined in the fight that was his last. No body had been found, and anti-disguise and illusion spells ha been cast, and he hadn't been found.

"We still have no clue what happened to him," Harmony said, "but we are still hunting him down, and I made sure you all would be the first to know."

"Well, I know I want to kill him for what he did to me and Metamorpha," Chitinia said.

"In due time," Harmony said. "Now, if that's all the questions, Scout, show them to the armory, then, well, you know."

"Right," the female exo said. "Follow me." With that, everyone got up and made their way to the door, Mara away from the others.

"Lone, a moment," Harmony said just before the aforementioned thestralicorn left.

"Go on ahead, guys," he said. "I'll catch up." He closed the door, and turned to face Harmony.

"You haven't told them?" she asked, to which Lone shook his head.

"No," he said. "I want to, but, well, I don't want them to make a bad decision. If Chrysalis, their mother, didn't tell them, I won't."

Harmony chuckled. "That, Lone, is why I was personally surprised you don't bear kindness as well. But if you don't want to tell them, I won't pressure you. You can go now."

"Thanks," Lone said before he left.

"Oh, and I had a special armor made for you. Its waiting with the other armors."

"Thanks, Harmony," Lone said before he left to join the others.

Bang

As a single sniper shot echoed across the cavernous space it was in, felling a tall being in gray, almost bone like armor, the owner said, "Move up, Monarchy. You're clear." The owner of the sniper rifle, a Hereafter, wore the most recent future war cult hunter armor. His name was Josh, and he was the leader of Fire team Specter. "Move fast, though. Something tells me the Hive are gonna be on our asses soon."

"Right," Patrick, the second in command of Specter, who wore the most recent New Monarchy Hunter armor, said. "Where are the others?"

"Covering our six," Josh replied as he looked down his scope. The location of Fire team Specter was the Dreadnaught, Oryx's fortress in the skies above Saturn. "Good thing they got their own swords, huh?"

"Yep," Patrick said. "So, what are we doing again?"

"Infiltrating one of the various libraries on the ship and seeing what we can get before pissing off the Hive to the point we need to run," Josh said. "Oh, and doing a mission for Zavala that involves, fortunately for us, killing the guard of the library we are raiding. But, you know, the first ones actually just because, even if it does help us out."

"You sound a lot like Cayde, you know, right?"

"If that were the case, I'd be making more wisecracks," Josh said. "Like this: Shut up before I put a bullet message in your body that says, 'Monarchy sucks'."

"More an insult, and not a good one," Patrick said.

"Now you know why I don't do them that often."

"Would you two please shut up?" Josh's Ghost, who had a female voice and a customized shell with a crescent moon on the inside surfaces and the main color being navy blue.

"Sorry, Luna," Josh said, his Ghost being named for the old scientific name of the Earth's moon, as he rubbed a green survival bracelet that campers sometimes wore on his right wrist, the last thing from his life before he became a Hunter. "But still, I thought the Hive would have had more assholes guarding the place."

"Yeah," Patrick's ghost, who he had named after his little sister from before he had become a Hunter, said. "Kinda weird."

"Guys, this is Cybis," their team mate, an awoken warlock who had the warlock future war cult armor on, said, "we got something interesting going on."

"Define 'interesting'," Josh said.

"We got Cabal inbound, waving, I shit you four not, a white flag, and our Ghosts are picking up transmissions from them calling for a truce."

"Why?"

"Large ass Taken force inbound."

Josh rolled his eyes. "Patrick?"

"Already enroute with Catherine going to get what she can. She'll meet us when she's done."

"Right," Josh said, nodding. "Cybis, tell the Cabal that once we repel the assault, truce is over and both sides give the other time to get back. Us to the tower, them to the Dantallion Exodus VI."

"Right," Cybis said before he cut the comms.

"This is going to be interesting," Josh said before looking at Luna. "Super?"

"Charged and ready."

Under his helmet, Josh smiled. "Then let's get going," he said as he jumped off his post, a ruined Hive pillar from an earlier Cabal assault, as he put his Hereafter on his back and drew his Vanity, a future war cult hand cannon, from his thigh. This particular variant had what many called "Zen moment", though what it did, if it actually did something, Josh never noticed, and a choice between "Outlaw", which allowed the weapons AI and Luna to more effectively increase his reload speed with the weapon when ever he capped someone's head, or "Surrounded," which caused the weapon's AI to increase the caliber of the ammo just slightly to increase damage when three or more enemies were in close proximity.(1) "Oh, and Luna, get some music cued."

"Already done," she said. With that, Josh made his way to where the other had holed up. The first he saw was Rhino-13, or just Rhino. He was the last of the future war cult triumvirate of Specter, and, if the name didn't make it obvious, he was an Exo. He had one of the newer Suros weapons, a refurbished Regime, actually.

"About time you got here," he said.

"Oh shut it, Rhino," Josh said. "What's going on with the Cabal?"

"That's just it," Rhino said as the two made their way to where Cybis, the others, and the Cabal were. "Once we gave their leader the terms, a Primus Tha'ron, he said the truce wasn't just for now, it was for until the Taken are utterly and totally defeated. Turns out the Cabal with him are considered rogue by the Empire. He and those following him actually want peace with the city."

Josh chuckled. "Vanguard's gonna be pissed at that, Zavala especially."

"Do you really think we care?" Rhino asked.

"I guess not," Josh said with an amused smile on under his helmet. "So, do Vanguard files have any thing on Tha'ron?"

"Just that he's been in and out of the Cabal equivalent of the news for the past century, more often then not trying to have a peace thing set up between the Cabal and the City. One of the few Cabal with the rank to even have it get in the chain to begin with."

"Well, I wouldn't say cooperation's impossible," Josh said. "Remember Cayde's story of when he met that Fallen Baroness on the moon?"

"Yeah, I remember," Rhino said. "I can not wait to see the reaction of Cayde, especially. That's going to be funny in some way, I just know it."

"Same here," Josh chuckled. "Now come on. We need to get there soon. Next Chapter: Arrival Estimated time remaining: 31 Minutes