Not Hive, but I have an idea for a Fallen Raid (Destiny)

by Mariachi , Kentucky, Tuesday, September 29, 2015, 17:25 (3439 days ago) @ Dan de Board

In a nutshell, I picture a scenario something like this:

You are in the Tower, talking to the Vanguard Mentors, when the room quakes. You get word somehow that the Fallen are digging on Earth and that is the cause of the quake. Your fire team is sent to put a stop to it. As you land on Earth, and begin racing to the site of the dig on your sparrow, the ground around you continues to shake and collapse. Sort of like the final run in Halo 3 where everything is crashing around you. As you near the end, you have to take out a massive Fallen Devil Walker that IS the drill.

Upon stopping the drill you chase a Fallen captain down into a hole made by the drill and it takes you deep underground into an old Forgotten bunker. And I mean really old, pre golden age. Somehow the Fallen had found out about this place and they wanted inside it badly. As you fight your way through the bunker, you discover its actually an old Nuclear Missile Stockpile from a long forgotten war and the fallen intend to set it off even deeper underground to make the Earths core collapse.

You end up chasing the Fallen down into the earth and have to fight a Fallen captain on a lava flow. Proximity to the Lava causes your health to slowly diminish unless you have some of the TTK armor that makes you resistant to Solar Damage. The longer you stand on any one platform in the lava flow, it makes that platform diminish into the lava, so you have to constantly keep moving. Right as you finish off the Fallen, he gets one quick hit on the nuclear missile he has been dragging and throws it into a wall where it explodes and knocks you unconscious.

Your ghost then helpfully revives you, but you discover that the Fallen never intended to destabilize the entire Earth. They altered the bomb to make it a more controlled explosion and knocked out a hole in the cave wall. That's when all heck breaks loose as a Fallen Queen Mother that had been trapped underground is finally freed. You then have to chase the Queen back out the way you came and try to take her down before she reaches the surface.

I imagine that during the raid, we discover that the Fallen prefer to follow a Queen, which is why they were so willing to serve the Awoken Queen.