Zevala, the awoken sits at his desk, his blue eyes filled with contemplation, the light and dark energy swirling inside his pale blue skin. He looks out the window to The Last City below, thinking to himself "war..." he says "a constant thorn in our side, an era of chaos where peace seems too far to count."
He stands and begins to pace "Is this our fate, to fight non stop, to continuously be exhausted while protecting our traveler? Or is there something greater to our universe. Something we can't see. Recently, a massive energy was detected and all we know is that its quiet. We can't tell if its friend or foe, what does this mean?" he asks, contemplating with one hand on his chin.
Zevala rings the earpiece in his ear "guardian, do you copy?" on the other end he hears the riskrunner being dished out countless times as the guardian; whose name is peter answers "im...a little...busy...commander!" peter exclaims as he jumps out of enemy range. "damn...here, take this losers!!!" Peter activates his flaming sword dawnblade and sends fire slashes to every enemy.
After a few minutes the guardian answers zevala, "I'm out just completed the mission, whats up?" He asks feeling confused.
Zevala responds, "I need you to return and bring Ikora with you, there's something I need to discuss. Meet me at my office, it's urgent." He says with authority and slight tension in his words.
Peter feels confused and accepts the terms; his thoughts wondering, "What could be on Zevalas mind that has him on edge and why does he sound uneasy?" The guardian gets into his ship and flies through space his ghost Renegade beside him, "peter what do you think Zevala wants from us? It sounds serious, just like when the witness attacked."
Peter looks up from his console at Renegade, "Don't worry whatever he needs we'll figure it out. Get ready, we're approaching the last city." Renegade beeps in confirmation as the ship lands.
As peter gets out of his ship he notices all the citizens in the city's center "lively as always I never get tired of this place." Music and citizens laugh and play as he walks towards the tower where all the guardians meet but, for some reason Zevala specifically requested peter the lowest ranked amongst them, yeah sure he's a warlock but, peter has always been a bit different. He never goes with strike teams and would rather solo everything despite his thousands of misadventures and annihilations from enemies that includes eliksni. He's even tried to solo a raid once but somehow survived it and nobody knows what his deal is they just hate his attitude.
Peter eventually reaches the warlock Ikora, a human with brown skin and brown eyes. As she sees peter approaching, Ikora looks at him with a look of sadness and says, "you still do everything solo? Why not get over the past its not your fault it was just bad luck."
Peter stops in front of her, "I'm not here to talk about that, Zevala has requested us. Says he needs to talk about something, he said it was urgent." Ikora sighs and nods slightly, "fine but, you need to let go of the past peter."
Meanwhile, Zevala paces back and forth, impatiently waiting until finally his door opens and he sees peter and ikora approaching, "good, you're here." He says maintaining his commanding presence.
Ikora steps up, "What's the matter zevala?talk to us." She asks placing a hand on his shoulder, Zevala takes a deep breath, "I've felt a disturbing presence in the light like my body reacted to it."
Peter raises an eyebrow curious as to what he meant, "disturbance how?"
Zevala shakes his head, "I can't describe it, like my body rattled and not like a normal tremor, but like the light inside of me is overreacting to something, and a few days ago I picked up on an energy signature."
Ikora looks at him with concern,"what kind?"
Zevala, looks at her with a contemplative expression, "unsure, but It was a light signature but it was unnatural; like it was forced light reshape into something untold i wasn't sure what it was at the time, however, now I'm sure that we need to find out what it is just in case its dangerous, peter go ahead and get the coordinates from my computer we need to find this source."
Renegade floats beside peter, "so what do you think it is? Do you think its some kind of call for help?" Peter shakes his head, "probably not if zevala is sensing it even without his ghost then there's something going on that we need to find." Renegade beeps in curiosity, "but what if it's something we don't comprehend?"
Peter grabs the coordinates from the computer, "Relax Renegade everything will workout like it always does" Renegade sighs, "you always say that and yet you've died more times than the average guardian you can't be reckless."
Peter grins, "and yet we're still alive aren't we? That's a victory in my book besides im only able to do well because I have you as my partner." Renegade sighs, "i hate that you're right but still please be careful this time."
Peter grins wider, "don't worry we'll be fine. Come on let's go for a drink." As peter walks through the tower other guardians sneer and avoid him.
One guardian says quietly to his strike squad, "tch, look at this guy still thinks he's too good for anyone, it honestly pisses me off." They all laugh in agreement as peter doesn't even acknowledge them. The guardian calls out "Hey shithead!!! Remind us how many times you died again?!!! Oh yeah an impossible number!! You seriously suck dude get over yourself you're no better than us just because you can do everything solo!!"
Peter gets to a bar and orders a drink "one eliksni mix please" the eliksni bar tender looks at him like he's crazy, "that's an awfully strong drink but if you insist guardian."
"Thanks," peter says taking the drink. "First thing tomorrow morning I get to go find out what this whole thing is about, but why did zevala choose me if im the worst guardian to exist surely there's better candidates, but whatever. Just another day fighting a senseless war."
Peter recalls the words of the guardian looking at his reflection in the metal table, his stark contrasting grey eyes his tired expression his unkempt hair looking back at him his white skin just a reminder that hes still human. "Still though, he's not wrong maybe I am over confident, I mean I have no interest in the war, but I fight anyway, I just want to do what I want without these memories I mean how do I even tell people the truth about me. I really am a bastard."
Peter downs the drink and passes out, Meanwhile Zevala and Ikora talk, "so do you think peter is ok?" Ikora asks Zevala who looks at her his eyes expressing doubt, "I don't know he's always been different ever since he lost his first strike team," says Zevala, "Though I can't blame him, what do you think Ikora?"
Ikora shifts slightly and leans against the wall feeling the same, "I don't know he often seems like he's hiding something, but he never tells anyone what he's thinking the complete opposite of cayde-6, cayde-6 was a Renegade always said what's on his mind and did what he wanted but he was the best of the best and that's how we lost him, But peter is just lost, he blames himself for what happened to his team, and nobody has been able to help him, his light is weak because he has no confidence."
Then suddenly out of nowhere and completely random a giant screech came out of nowhere. Zevala trembles and kneels "what..is..that..noise...Ikora...sound the alarm!!!" He looks up and sees her unconscious "I..." they pass out unconscious, but not just them that sound knocked out every person in the solar system, the next few hours go by and people wake up wondering what that noise was unaware that something was coming that 2 realities were becoming one.
Peter however was still knocked out from the drink but wakes up afterwards receiving a call, "peter, wake up!! Ikora speaking look on your map a giant energy signature has been located and zevala is not waking up his energy is unbalanced!! Come in guardian."
Peter answers, "yeah i hear ya im heading out now" he rushes out the door. Ikora responds, "hurry to your destination there's something unnatural happening."
"Renegade start the engines we got some kind of merge happening." Renegade looks at him with confusion, "whats a merge?"
Peter shrugs, "no idea, it just popped in my head." Peter starts the ship and flies off towards the location "This will be fun." He says as he boosts off into space.