-A month before Excalibur was found-

When she opened her eyes, she felt heavy, like lead.

Her arms and legs refused to move, as if she had been in a sitting position for a long time. Her vision was clouded, unable to see anything in front of her. She curled her hands into a fist, trying to get her own feelings back.

Where was she? She could hear some few faint footfalls and clicks of metals hitting against some surface. She slowly blinked trying to clear her vision away, confused as to why her vision was still blurred.

'Oh wait', she thinks, something was covering her face. She was about to wipe it off her face until the voices made her sit still.

"Ready your weapons." A deep voice commanded, "We need to kill these Tenno before they are awakened. The storm may have jump-started them!"

She felt dread, she is not going to die here, not now. Despite her body screaming in pain for her sudden movement, she scrambled up, quickly wiping her face to see her enemies.

She stilled when she saw deforming faces of humans, equipped heavily in unknown machinery and weapons that she had never seen before. They all wore black and green armors and she even saw some of them wearing masks. They too, froze when they saw her moving, unsure what to do.

"They're alive!" She heard one of them scream, "Get them, before they do anything!"

She gasped, screaming in her own mind to do something, anything to get rid of the unknown enemy in front of her. Then there was a loud bang and she felt an exploding pain going through her shoulder.

'They shot me.' She mentally screamed, 'They literally shot me.'

Fear whirled within her mind, she scrambled away from the unknown enemies, trying to get her footing. However, she tripped over the roots, her legs still numb by her unknown amount of time sitting in the same position. The bullets still whizzed past her and she wished she has something, anything to stop the hurt coming.

Ignoring the tingling sensation from her hands and arms, she covered herself with her arms, a poor attempt to protect herself. If she looked at herself with this attempt, she would've laughed at the sheer stupidity of that. But she did not want to die here, not when she has so many questions about the world, who she is, and what had happened.

she heard shouts of surprise coming from her attackers, and the shooting had stopped. Cautious, she lifted her arms away from her face to see what had happened.

To her surprise, she saw the attackers being bunched together in a large field of energy. It was as if they were… magnetized?

She looked at the field in awe…did she do that?

Suddenly, the attackers started to scream in pain. She jerked back in surprise only to react in horror when she saw what the field was doing. In the field, it had bullets from her attackers, and it was moving with the force of the magnetic field, back and forth through their body, tearing through their armors like it was paper.

She did not notice the field was shrinking and before she realized what happened, the field exploded, blinding her.

As she blinked her blindness away, she was shocked to see many mangled limbs and broken armors littering across ground. She staggered up, flinching when she felt sharp pain coming through her feet as she slowly walked up to them, checking to see if any of them are still alive.

After few minutes, she took note that her attackers were more robotic than organic. Mechanized legs to arms, to armors that were fused within their biology. The masks were yellowed white with two yellow circles to indicate for their eyes, and for those who were not wearing the said masks, she was able to see the how sunken their eyes are, skin full of spots and maybe some hint of decay? She was not sure.

She looked back at the masks, sensing familiarity with it as if she had seen it before, where had she seen it before?

Shrugging it off, she decided to focus on her own survival. It wouldn't do well if she stays here too long, and she doesn't want to find out if these attackers have any back-ups. So, she grabbed a large gun from the tall, yellow orange looking enemy, a knife from another and some few ammos she could find from their leg pouches.

Once set, she looked around the area she's in. It seemed to be a broken-down building, the walls had lost its colors to years of dusts and the metals that were encased into the walls and ceilings had rusted away the original color. Mother Nature had claimed this decrepit building with no restraint, brown trees curling around any open spaces it could get its own hands on, stones stacked up high, obscuring the purpose of what the building was. Perhaps she'll never know what this building was intended for, forever to be lost by the Mother Nature itself.

Then she glanced back at the spot she woke from, to see two figures she never noticed before. Both were slumped over, never moving. She glanced over at the one on her left, this figure had a single horn on its head, and no other interesting features she could see.

There was, however, a pile of bones of what it seems to be a large four-legged creature next to the unmoving figure. Whatever it was, it had stayed by this figure until its death, a loyal pet to the master.

She then turned her attention to another, one on her right. The figure has the similar single horn on its head and seemed to have a triangle blade extruding out from the back of its head. On its arms were three strange rings and she was not sure what functions it had for this one.

Glancing down, she took note of the glowing purple flowers sitting in front of the figures. She picked up the one that was once her own spot and studied the flower. It glowed purple and blue against her hand, with small stems inside, moving along the motion of her hand.

She does not know why the flower seem familiar to her.

Putting the new information later in her mind, she carefully held her flower to her chest and walked away from the place. She hoped to come back here, to return those two who were still unmoving, waiting.

For now, she must continue, to find out who she is and how long she had been gone.

AN: Volt is going to take a while

Headcanons: None for now