Anthem: Desolation

150 years after the events of Anthem.

Location: Fort Tarsis, Abandoned.

"I mean, If he wants us to go to some old dusty ruins and do some grave robbing in the middle of the night, we better be greatly compensated for our efforts" said Nico

I turn on my flashlight and point it straight ahead.

I turn to Nico whose standing behind me and say.

"Don't worry, as long as your not afraid of ghosts then this should be a smooth job, In and out"

We both chuckle.

"Hey Blake, Do you know what happened to this place? I can't seem to find anything in the Cypher logs...theres no record of this place anywhere" Nico said to me.

I examine the area and notice, bullet holes, sword marks across the walls, skeletons resting on the floor, broken javilin armors laying around.

"My guess is a huge battle took place, alot of people died. Sentinels and Freelancers couldn't hold whoever or whatever back, which in turn, killed this city" I explained.

We both make our way past the main fountain in the centre of town, the water is a dark red shade like a pool of blood. We proceed up the staircase to a set of big doors, chains lock the handles.

"Every one should always carry a Plasma cutter for all your grave robbing problems" Nico said as he pulls out a small machine.

Nico cuts through the chains with ease, and blows the smoke of the end of the machine like it was a gun that just fired.

"Not bad, Not bad...You've gotten better with that I see" I said to Nico.

We both grab the door handles and with all our strengths we pull the doors open, a gust of wind filled with dust hits us both in the face. Revealing a dark cold room, filled with webs and corpses.

"Ladies first" Nico says as he bows with his hand.

"I swear this is the last job Im doing with you haha" I said to Nico laughing.

Four Colosses Javelin stand in front of the door holding their shields up on guard.

"Some pretty old tech in here" Nico said as he stands examining the suits

I point my flashlight into the room and proceed to walk through, skeletons hugging and shielding smaller skeletons. I shine my flashlight into a corridor and spot a and Black and grey rusted Ranger Javilin, laying against the wall holding a black box with glowing ancient text.

I reach for the box and try to grab it but I was interrupted by Nico

"Hey! A few blimps just appeared on the radar, Their closing in fast..we need to hide, Quickly!" Nico yelled to me.

I quickly grab the black box from the grip of the rusted metal hand and place it in my satchel.

We both quickly hide behind a group of skeletons and turn off our flashlights.

Three suits of armor land quickly from the sky and make a big clanging noise of metal hitting concrete.

Black Interceptors with glowing yellow eyes, a insignia on their shoulder of a Skull with hands surrounding it.

Nico leans over and wispers to me

"Seekers, The Dominions Elite...Shit and I thought this job was going smoothly" he said.

One of the Seekers, turns its head left and right, scanning the room. It see's the rusted suit of armor and noticed the hand is broken.

"It's not here, Must've been a Glitch in the energy readings" as It turns around and says to the other Seekers.

One of them lifts up their arm and speaks into it.

"The mission is a failure, Oragon box wasn't located, Must've been malfuction in the scanners, Returning to the Capital"

All three Seekers charge their thrusters and take off at the speed of sound.

Sweat drips down my face, I take a sigh a relief.

"If I had my Javilin, those guys would be scrap metal in a second" said Nico.

We get up out of our hiding spot and wipe off the dust from our clothes, I pull the box from out of my satchel and read some of the text.

"The..Who...Whose...Will...Is...Strong...May...Hear...The...Voice...of...The...Past." I slowly read.

Nico looks confused

"Whats that even supposed to mean?, Anyway I think we got what was needed from this Contract, Time to Cash this in" Nico said Happily.

I put the box back in my satchel and we make our way to our Javilins. We hide them behind bushes so noone could see us.

Nico first makes his way into his, A Blue and Grey with a tint of Purple Storm Javelin.

I place my satchel around my Suit And I get into mine, A red and white Ranger Javelin.

My system start to boot up and my HUD is slowing turning on and an alert appears on my screen, One missed message from Reed.

"Blake, I know its been four years since we last saw each other...I know I ended our relationship after the battle of valley of kings...I wanna let you know that Im sorry"

- Reed

I send that message to the trash.

Nico launches off into the sky and I launch right after him.

-An hour later-

Me and Nico are flying beside each other in Unison over a sea of trees

An error appears on my screen and quickly goes away

"Huh thats weird" I said confused

"Whats up?" Nico says

"An error appeared on my HUD then disappeared, must be a bug " I said

All of a sudden My Javelin starts glitching and my thrusters start overheating out of nowhere

"You okay over there?" Nico says

"Somethings wrong with my Javelin, It's bugging out" I said nervously

Then my systems turns off completely, every thing goes black and I plummet fast into the forest, slamming into trees and then into the ground.

My vision went black and I can't move.

Suddenly my vision goes white and I appear in a open space and a being is standing in front of me.

It touches my hand and flashes of the past cloud my eyes, every battle that took place here..from The legion of dawn, The event of the heart of rage to the events of The freelancer that stopped the monitor and the fall of Fort Tarsis.

"You are the key, The key to unlocking the Anthem" says the being.

Then it appears in my eyes, the Anthem of Creation...Key to it all, I can feel it.

Then Everything goes black and I wake up to Nico standing over me giving me a hand.

I grab his hand and he helps me up onto my feet.

"You took quite a fall, Blake...you okay?" He said

"Im fine but I saw things, like battles and the Anthem" I said shaking

I run a system diagnostic and every thing is damaged, must of broke when I fell.

"The Anthem? its a myth..an urban legend, anyway looks like you have no way of flying up outta here so let's try and make it there on foot, its only a few hours, nice way to stretch our legs for a bit" Nico said

We proceed to walk through the forest

"What a day, I just wanna head home and relax in a hot bath, but first I wanna get my armor to Doc first and see what he can fix" I said

Nico looks at me and gives me a smile and a thumbs up

"I say we take a rest here for the rest of the night" Nico said as he stops

We get out of our javelins and start setting up a camp

"So tell me about Reed" said Nico

"Well long story short, We Dated for about 6 years until the battle of the valley of kings, He broke off the relationship and became Captain of the Sentinels and left me to become a lone freelancer" I explained

"That when you joined us, The Freelancers of Section 6, We need to come up with a cooler name in the future, I'll pitch something with the Director" Nico said

We both laugh together.

"Lets get some rest" I said

"Agreed" said Nico.

I rest my head on a log and close my eyes.

-Few hours later-

I hear noises, like a Javelin system booting up. I quickly open my eyes and see my suit turned on and fully operationable. I look over and see Nico still sleeping.

The Pilot spot is empty and open, I get inside the suit and the back closes quick.

"What the?!" I said.

It starts charging my thrusters for a take off.

"No, No, No. Nooooooo!" I scream

Then it lauches in to sky.

"Sorry to scare you like that, just trying to get use to the systems, some pretty new tech you got here" said a unknown voice.

"What the hell? Are you inside my Javelin?" I said

"Yes, I've been trapped in the bloody box of dust and secrets for 650 years, My name is Arden Vassa but you can call me Vas"

"And this was supposed to an easy contract they said" I said