Shinya struck downwards with her Nikana, slicing through infect flesh with ease as she hacked her way to the reactor of the infested Grineer ship. She had already exhusted her reserve of rifle ammo, saving her explosive Castanas for the final objective, she needed to destroy the reactor to put the ship into an overload and self destruct to stop the spread of the infection in this sector. At her flanks a few friendly Grineer marines advanced with her, their guns running hot as they fire non-stop into the horifying masses of the infested, runners and chargers advancing from every hall. Already half of the squad had fallen to the infested hordes and she doubted that the remaining clones would make it reactor with her.
There was a scream behind her and she turned to see another of the marines overwhelmed by the advancing force, his armor torn open as the infested chargers ripped at his body and sprayed the walls with gore. Under her helmet Shinya gritted her teeth and activated the venomous powers of her Saryn warframe, infusing her Argon Crystal lined blade with a deadly corrosive toxin as she sliced away at the advancing runners, dashing forward while swinging in wide bloody arcs.
Three hundred meters to the reactor, she checked the HUD inside her helmet, it had been only ten minutes and now only 2 remained of the 20 marines. She must have looked like a war god in her frame, not a scratch on her and her sword soaked in blood, to those two remaining marines she was their only hope of finishing this mission alive. Shinya put in the pass code to bypass the door and they continued their advance, pushing through the now empty corridors, one marine joked that they had killed everything on this ship during their half our of fighting, Shinya wished it was true.
The door to the reactor opened and she scanned the room for hostiles before letting the marines enter, one of them activated the release on the reactor, causing the blast shields to drop down and the coolant vials to be released from the core. Remaining silent Shinya signaled for the marines to cover the door while she affixed her mines to the core, positioning them to blast away the vials so the reactor would go into a meltdown, the detonator in hand she turned to clear the room with the marines when they suddenly started firing. Outside Nine ancient charged their position, the remaining two marines firing their weapons into them with little effect, she watched the ancients grabbed each of them and ripped through their armor, tearing the marines to shred, Shinya helpless to aid them or risk causing more harm than was already done, she could tell from the lack of screaming that they had already died anyways. With all her Castanas spent she only had her sword, there was no point in fighting these infested anyways, she had already completed the objective.
Turning towards the door she left the ancients to feast upon the dead Grineer as she made her escape in the docked Liset, boarding her ship and activating the mines, destroying the coolant vials and putting the reactor into a meltdown. Taking off she did not care to watch as behind her the Grineer dreadnaught Vok'Tek detonated and destroyed the left remaining infested in this sector.
Removing her helmet Shinya's short black hair fell over her green eyes, she kneeled down in front of the navigation helm and her Cephlon informed her that credits for the completion of her mission had been forwarded by the Grineer councilor. She offered no reply and set the ship on a course for the Prowler Clan's Dojo, she needed some time to rest.
The ship set to auto pilot she moved to the back of the ship and removed her warframe. The semi organic armor folding away into a large bracelet on her wrist while she set her weapons down in her armory, drawing her Dragon Nikana to clean the bloodied weapon. A weapon she had forged herself by hand the Nikana was a sacred Tenno weapon and the Dragon pattern was only allowed to be built by a veteran Tenno. The Gallium blade was Infused with Oxium and the edge lined with Argon crystal, making it razor sharp and never able to dull, the blade half existed in the void, phasing back and forth continuously allowed it to cut through almost any substance with very little trouble. She wiped the blade with a cloth, making sure to get every drop of infested blood off of it before blowing the sullied cloth out the airlock. Finished her gear maintenance she stored the weapons and climbed up into her bunk to sleep until the ship arrived at the Dojo.
A pulse was sent through to her bunk to signal that the ship was approaching the dock, Shinya had not dreamed. Walking up to the bridge she looked out to see the Dojo, busy in this time of war as the clan Prowler moved to make war with the Tenno loyal to Lotus who had betrayed the Clan. Shinya looked down at her shoulder where the symbol for Prowler was displayed, for a long time she had been alone, working by herself as lone Tenno who took contract work from either faction, her recent induction to the clan meant that she was now apart of this war too.
The ship docked in the hanger and she turned to see the access ramp lowering so she could exit. Stepping down into the hanger she say the place was a mess of activity, squad moving out for mission and new arrivals being process, one of the clans Elite was met by a Master and his guard, she ignored their interaction as she moved to the main hall to find the gardens, she had to check on the flowers she had been growing.
The gardens were... disturbed of their usual peace and tranquility, she did not mind those that practiced their combat forms in the gardens, in fact she did so on occasion herself but those that spoke while other meditated she detested, several others had met in the gardens and were speaking as she walked past them to the corner of the garden most avoided, this was because poisonous plants grew there. It was her won private corner, few approached because of the lethal danger these plants posed and with good reason, Shinya was the only one who knew how to deal with the toxic spore of each flower, her time in the Saryn frame having made her immune to the effects, she kneeled and looked at the purple petals of the Midnight deth blossoms she had grown, looking sickly from her time away she fetched water to revitalize them before kneeling under a nearby tree. She chose not to meditate like some of the other but to observe, mainly the two who had chosen to so blatantly speak in the gardens.
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