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WARFRAME: Ghouls #1

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  • Published by
  • Top Cow Productions, Inc.
  • Los Angeles
  • Written by:
  • Matt Hawkins
  • Ryan Cady
  • With Cam Rogers & Ryan Mole
  • Based on an idea by: Steve Sinclair
  • Art by: Studio Hive
  • Lettered by: Troy Peteri
  • Chapter 1
  • Blinded during the attack, I can't see my home anymore.
  • But the burning fires assault my nose.
  • The silence broken only by the wind passing through wreckage.
  • I can sense the monsters responsible for the devastation are still here.
  • Even without seeing it myself, I know --
  • It's all ruined, isn't it?
  • Everyone's dead but me...
  • ...and you, Tenno.
  • Thank you, for saving me.
  • I just wish you'd gotten here sooner.
  • Before the Grineer.
  • Who's in charge of this heap?
  • Captain Vor of the Grineer would have words with them.
  • We've heard about what you did to the other villages! Leave, now, and we'll --
  • It doesn't have to be this way. Resistance isn't necessary.
  • Let's try once more.
  • Who is in charge here?
  • I suppose, now, it would be me.
  • Word spreads. We know of your reputation.
  • This planet doesn't need more scavengers.
  • You're the only scavengers here, Ostron, selling history off to the highest bidder.
  • What're you --
  • This planet, and everything on it, belongs to the Queens. The Orokin left something here worth far more than credits, and we're taking it.
  • Search the houses for their scrap. If you find anything older than me, bring it.
  • And if you encounter any resistance, well -- do what must be done.
  • They tore through our homes like a plague.
  • When they didn't find what they wanted...
  • they claimed we were resisting.
  • They began to execute us, one by one, destroying our homes.
  • Mitsuki!
  • What could we do against them?
  • By the time we started fighting back, it was a lost cause.
  • But then you came...
  • like an angel.
  • TENNO SKOOM!
  • Like an angel of death.
  • Send backup!
  • We need the Ghouls!
  • Pull back.
  • We'll strike again after their incubation.
  • M-mother...?
  • DIE, TENNO!
  • I really don't know what happened next.
  • Did you kill all the Grineer?
  • Did they retreat?
  • And why did you stop to save me --
  • When you could have kept fighting?
  • Why do we keep fighting?
  • A dozen villages, hundreds dead, and for what?
  • For the glory of The Queens?
  • Orders are orders, but we haven't found a single working Orokin artifact.
  • Except for that Tenno...
  • Captain?
  • Except for that Tenno, we've yet to face a single true challenge.
  • This unit has gone soft from months of raiding villages and glorified nature walks.
  • That ends tomorrow.
  • No matter how many of us fall...
  • We will level that village. We will take that Tenno.
  • Captain, please...
  • Tomorrow. Send just the Ghouls. Not us.
  • This is my failure.
  • They Smelled the doubt rotting in my heart.
  • Can't beat Tenno skoom.
  • I must be rid of it.
  • You forget yourself, brother.
  • You are GRINEER!
  • You are laborer! Soldier! Builder and destroyer! Inheritor of the stars!
  • The Tenno have lost their way. They are not like us. They are without purpose. They have doubt.
  • There is no room for doubt!
  • Not for a Grineer.
  • If it is commanded of you, for the glory of the Grineer, you will raise a banner against The Void itself.
  • For the glory of the Queens.
  • We understand better now, both of us. There can be no room for doubt.
  • We make our final attack at dawn.
  • The Ghouls will lead the charge.
  • No Tenno has ever seen them-- they will take him by surprise.
  • No matter what happens, that Tenno will not be victorious.
  • Tomorrow belongs to us.
  • For the glory of the Queens
  • I smell the rain before I hear it.
  • What does the rain sound like to you?
  • What does it feel like?
  • Can you feel at all, Tenno?
  • We all know the legends...
  • "The greatest warriors in history."
  • "Bound by honor. Masters of the Warframes."
  • "The last great relics of the Orokin Era."
  • Even now, I don't really understand...
  • What are you?
  • A clone, like The Grineer? A machine?
  • Do you have a heart?
  • Like me?
  • I don't expect you to answer. Maybe you never speak.
  • Maybe you can't.
  • There's so much I want to tell you. To ask you.
  • Tenno...
  • But the time for words has passed.
  • Strike true.
  • If only I could see what comes next...
  • ...but I can hear the only thing that matters now.
  • Only one thing matters now.
  • The rain washes all the doubt away.
  • Move out.
  • Break him, but leave him alive if you can.
  • If not, I'll take the pieces.
  • This is the end for you, Tenno.
  • Fighting for this empty village, no one left to defend. All gone, just like your Orokin masters.
  • Grineer...
  • ATTACK!
  • For the glory --
  • of the Queens.
  • Advance! ADVANCE!
  • I hear the bullets. The blades. The death...
  • Tenno...
  • ...I cannot believe it is yours.
  • I must believe that every cry of pain is the enemy's.
  • That every true strike is yours.
  • That every bullet misses you.
  • I feel no doubt Captain --
  • Hold your ground, brother. But let us not confuse doubt with wisdom.
  • I'm returning to the base camp.
  • If the Ghouls cannot take him here...
  • I will have to prepare counter-measures.
  • The battle grows quieter with every second.
  • Soon, I know, there will be one final strike --
  • -- the killing blow, and then --
  • silence.
  • I cannot see the outcome, and yet, Tenno...
  • I know you must be victorious.
  • The Lotus.
  • I see you, my Tenno.
  • "Hold on, Tenno, I'm calling for reinforcements."
  • "A fellow Tenno needs you. You must go to Earth."
  • Mag.
  • Just because we have not heard from Excalibur does not mean he is dead.
  • He could still be in that village, but wounded or unconcious, or...
  • captured.
  • "The Ostrons may have investigators of their own looking into the villages."
  • "Work with them, if you can."
  • "Save them, if you can."
  • "But do not forget why you are here --"
  • "Find Excalibur. Investigate The Grineer. And, most importantly--"
  • "Stop Captain Vor. At all costs."
  • To be continued...