#sapphalon retells

[sapphalon]

Operation: First Contacts

A short and silly one to pass the time:

The void was as beautiful as it was unknowable. The eternal expanse of shifting energy existing just beyond our normal reality. Many Tenno travel to this plane to meditate and strengthen their powers. Vayah was one of them.

As she peered through the window of her personal quarters she contemplated the meaning of her school. Unairu, the way of the mountain. She considered its philosophies and allowed the void to give them shape. She was an immovable object, an unbeatable foe, an unbreakable will, an-

“Operator, Ordis was wondering. When are you planning on calling - YOUR LITTLE CRUSH - That Ostron girl?” Vayah snapped back to reality and the void energy left her, dropping a surprising amount of floofs that had somehow started floating during her meditation.

She put on her best wise master voice and said “Unairu is a reactive style. I shall allow the challenge to come to me” This was clearly her way of hiding how freaked out she was at the idea of initiating contact with another human being, but Ordis didn’t have to know that.

“Truly a fantastic plan, Operator” Ordis added cheerfully. This side of him was easy to impress “Of course the Operator has already exchanged contact information with the girl and is just waiting for her to initiate courting” There were no words for how stupid she felt at this moment

“Shit shit shit shit” she continuously shouted as she searched for her comms. She found the small device under a kubrodon floof, scrolled until she found Ora-ka’s contact and.....froze in place.

“What am I gonna say to her? Is asking her out on a date too forward? Should we just talk first? Oh Unum, I had her number for days now. Did she think I forgot about her? or maybe that I don’t care about her or-” Umbra walked into the living quarters to see what had caused such a commotion and after hearing some more rambling he raised his hand to make a suggestion “I’m not inviting her over to play Komi” She answered immediately and Umbra lowered his hand.

“COMPOSE YOURSELF, GIRL” Ordis shouted “I’m sorry operator, but you need to calm down. This is just a conversation, not a death battle. Besides you’ve interacted with the Ostron quite well before”

“No, Umbra and Valkyr ‘talked’ with the Ostron. Only the Quills know how I look and they really don’t count as a social interaction” Vayah sighed “Things would be so much easier if this was a death battle” 

She must look so stupid right now. The savior of the solar system can’t talk to people without wanting to hide under her pile of floofs. No, she was not gonna let her shot with that girl slip away because of something like this. The mountain would not crumble.

Vayah hailed Ora-ka on her comms and waited. The wait was short, but still long enough for her to regret this decision a thousand times over. When Ora-ka finally answered her comms Vayah had to hold a sigh of relief “Hi, sorry for taking so long. This has been a wild week” That wasn’t a complete lie. All weeks are wild when your job involves fighting to the death on a daily basis.

Ora-ka smiled the most beautiful smile as she answered “Don’t worry, things have been pretty hectic down here too” Vayah noticed how her clothes looked far more casual and how she was missing her apron. Good, she didn’t want to interrupt her in the middle of her work hours. She should’ve checked what time it was on Earth, before calling.

“So I was wondering if you’d want to hang out for a bit? Just to talk face to face. Maybe play some Komi” She silently cursed Umbra for getting Komi into her head “Unless you don’t like Komi we can do something else or if you’re too busy I can totally understand that” Vayah was aware that she was talking way too fast, but at this point that was the only way for her to talk at all.

Ora-ka giggled and the sound melted Vayah’s last remaining brain cells “Well, I was planning on fishing all by myself this friday, but I guess I would enjoy the company”

Vayah quickly nodded a few times “Y-yeah, sounds perfect”

“Great. It’s a date then” and with that Ora-ka turned off her comms. Leaving Vayah in stunned silence.

Umbra approached her to see if she was okay and was quickly pushed to the ground by the weight of his Operator hugging him “I got a date!” She cheerfully shouted and he couldn’t help but pat her on the back. His weird little space daughter was growing up.

[sapphalon]

Operation: Much Needed Break

“This story exists very close to us in both time and space - AND IN MY HEART - it tells of an operator who took a day off to spend with the people of Cetus. Seeing the sights, relaxing and - BEING VERY GAY - interacting with the locals”

Get ready to meet my Warframe OCs. They’re my little girls and I love them very much

“Are you sure about this, Operator?” Ordis asked, as his process continued to calculate everything wrong with this plan.

“Relax, Ordis, everything is gonna turn out fine” Operator Vayah answered casually as she made minor adjustments to her outfit. Everything had to be perfect if she was gonna pull this off, but she couldn’t let Ordis know how nervous she really was. She wasn’t gonna let that over protective cube know he was right “Besides. If everything goes wrong Umbra can still come help me”

The warframe just shook his head in clear disapproval, but Vayah knew he would help her anyway. He was even more protective than Ordis and he wasn’t gonna let his operator do anything silly.

Satisfied with her new look - more of a interplanetary hitchhiker and less of her usual “golden warrior” look - Vayah went over the plan again “If this is to work I need no distractions. Ordis, you should block all incoming communications. If it isn’t an alert I don’t wanna know. Umbra, you should divert attention away from me should anything happen and keep any Tenno from giving away my identity. Understood?” They both looked at her disapprovingly one more time - which was a feat considering neither of them had faces - but nodded in agreement. Vayah just smiled and prepared for her mission. Operation: Much needed break

She stepped out from the rocks she was hiding behind and begun her walk towards the Cetus open market. Those first moments were the most intense as she feared recognition, but all her worries melted away at the first “Lok heb, Offworlder” the absence of ‘Surah’ made it clear that no one recognized her.

That handled the Ostron, but the Tenno wouldn’t be so easy. A massive, hot pink Rhino made its way towards her and extend his hand for a handshake. Some of the locals gave her curious looks as she tried to get out of the Warframe’s way and pretend she had no idea who the bright pink dumbass was. She couldn’t be any more grateful for her Excalibur when he quickly stepped between the two of them and shake the Rhino’s hand for her.

With that scare out of the way and Umbra walking away with that flamboyant Rhino, Vayah was finally free to do as she wanted. She bought masks and decorations for her ship from Nakak, she shared fishing stories with Hai-Luk, she played pretend with the local kids - She couldn’t play the Tenno, but she had fun playing THE Kela De Thayn - and she heard crazy stories from Konzu. By the end of the day it felt like she had met all her Ostron friends for the first time once again. Without the burden of heroism she could finally get to really know them and as the sun set there was only one thing left in her to do list.

She sat down by the pier and watched as the last rays of sunlight reflecting off the golden particles that slowly drifted down from the great Orokin tower. For a brief moment she felt like the whole world was enveloped by this cloud of pure golden beauty. She spun around and giggled, her happiness barely contained as she watched the beautiful city framed in even more beautiful light and right in the middle of all of this she caught the most breathtaking of all sights.

A simple Ostron girl, in simple clothes and a chef’s apron, walking towards the many workers, carrying a basket with her. She looked tired, but carried herself with determination and a smile that could push away the darkest clouds. It was only the shouts of the nearby children that broke her from this trance “The Offworlder has a crush on Ora-ka” She cringed so hard she almost returned to her warframe on reflex. “Please, Void, don’t let the cute girl hear this” she prayed quietly.

Vayah carefully approached the girl as she offered the contents of her basket to the tired dock workers, every time Ora-ka looked her way Vayah had to resist her urge to step into the void and return to her ship. “Come on. You’ve fought Sentients 10 times your size. You can talk to girl” Oh who was she kidding? The way of the mountain didn’t teach anything about how to interact with normal people. She wondered if any of the schools taught you how to be normal.

She was once again snapped back to reality, but this time by shouts of warning. The world seemed to slow down as years of training kicked into gear. Find the treat and stand against it. The treat in this case was a piece of Unum flesh falling off from one of the balloons flying around the tower and threatening to land right on top of Ora-ka.

Flesh turned into thought and bone intro dream. Her body left the reality of absolutes and plunged into the abstract void. There she took a single step forward, but that step covered more ground that any leap she could’ve taken and in a single second she was right besides Ora-ka. Her body became flesh and bone once again and she tackled the girl out from under the falling pile of tower-meet.

“Ai yo” the girl said, looking up to her “You saved my life” Vayah just nodded. Now that they were no longer in danger her brain turned into mush at her closeness to the Ostron girl. Ora-ka giggled before adding “You can get off me now” 

Oh void. If the Stalker could show up and just finish her off right now she would just embrace her fate. Vayah quickly stood up and avoided eye contact at all cost, but still extended a hand to help Ora-ka up “M-my bad”

Ora-ka giggled once again “I saw you playing with the kids earlier. I knew you’d fit the role of a hero much better than whoever they had you playing” Ora-ka rummaged through her basket and handed Vayah one of her sweets “Here. For saving me” Vayah could only mumble her thanks as she watched Ora-ka walk off.

As night fell she returned to her base of operations - also known as a big rock by the docks - to find Umbra already waiting for her. He was now adorned by several bright pink glyphs - Gifts from that Rhino no doubt - and gave a curious look towards the sweet in her hand

“I got it from an Ostron girl. Her name is Ora-ka” Vayah's voice carried far more excitement than she was planning to share and she hoped that Ordis wasn’t listening in or she wouldn’t hear the end of it.

“An Ostron girl you say?” The appearance of Ordis’ holographic cube shattered all of her hopes “I did not know you were planning on - GETTING BUSY - socializing, Operator, but it is clear that you did not need my help. You’ve even acquired her contact frequency after all”

“What?” she shouted as she turned around the wrapping on her hand. Holy crap, she got her contact frequency. Her joy at that discovery could only be matched by her shame as Excalibur Umbra gave her a thumbs up. Vayah had the worst dads.