CHAPTER II: Torn Apart [PART I] [CONTAINS ROGUE ONE SPOILERS IN DIALOGUE] “We need to move now!” Martin yelled at the group. Highway got up from where he had landed. Taken Blight was slowly pouring down the cliffside. The Guardians ran away from the Blight. “Sparrows now!” Highway yelled to his Ghost. Three sparrows transmatted in front of the group. The three remaining Guardians. Blacknyfe, MD, and Highway. As Blcknyfe got on to his sparrow he turned around. He saw Mark’s body pinned beneath the cleaver of a Taken Knight. With the speed of sound, the sparrows took off. They left trails behind them. A storm of conversation went around the three Guardians. “We need to contact the vanguard!” MD yelled. “No -Blam!- jack@ss!” Highway said back. “That or we are going to kill this beast!” “I’m going with contact the Vanguard!” Blacknyfe said. “I’m not going over there again!” “I wouldn’t either but there’s an old settlement. Hopefully we can get the comms tower online.” MD told the group. Was he crazy. “What are we? Imbeciles? You always know what happens if the comms tower is out of alignment. It happens a lot of the time for missions like these. We get help. They die. We get more help, we eliminate some of the enemies. We realign it and then everyone dies! It never -Blam!-ing fails!” Highway said. “And besides, the Vanguard sent us here to investigate to see if scouts can be sent in. Are we really going to go Rogue so we can hopefully turn on a comms tower?” Martin smirked. “I guess we are, because I’m going back.” Blacknyfe hopped off his sparrow. “Don’t do this Mart! It’s suicide!” Md just turned. He nodded. He then rode away on his Sparrow. Blacknyfe looked off into the distance. “Highway, we’re going after him!” He yelled. Highway was already on his sparrow. The S-31V to be exact. With the plasma drives charging, both Guardians rode after Martin Darx. *ONE week LATER* “We’ve gone nearly 130 miles!” Blacknyfe exclaimed. “Where is he?” Highway looked around the two Guardians. Martin was nowhere to be seen. But someone else was. A Taken Huntress. But she was black on top and white on bottom. Then she spoke. “Your friend was murdered and taken! I, Artemis, killed him. You shall now join us!” Black tendrils of Darkness began to swirl around Highway. He tried punching out but his arms broke when he tried to move them. Screams of pain flew through the dead and airless vacuum of space. Highway then tried to shoulder charge out. It failed and he snapped his left leg. Through his comms he yelled to Blacknyfe. “RUN NYFE! RUUUUUUUUUN!” Highway yelled. Blacknyfe-12 didn’t hesitate. He jumped through the air as if the world was falling beneath him. As he landed on the cliffside he quickly jumped upwards again. A metal arm reached out of the cliffside. It grabbed Blacknyfe inside. Inside this hole in the cliff was a camp site. The hole sealed and Oxygen flowed into the room. A women walked in front of Blacknyfe. She handed him a cup of tea and took his helmet. The exo which had grabbed Nyfe was the first to speak. “My name is Axel-93. Good to meet you sir.” Nyfe nodded. The women then walked to him. “I’m picturing that Ax already introduced himself. My name is Aphrodite and I need your help.”