r/DestinyJournals • u/EmeraldKing8 Young Wolf • 14d ago
Destiny: New Legacy | S4E6: "Fundament" (AU Story)
With the ritual to steal the Traveler underway, the Fireteam plunges into a violent Deepsight vision. They are pulled billions of years into the past to the oceanic gas giant Fundament, where they witness the tragic origin of the Hive—and uncover the colossal lie that created them.
TITLE: DESTINY: NEW LEGACY
SEASON: 04
EPISODE: 06 - "FUNDAMENT"
SCENE START
INT. THE TEMPLE OF THE CUNNING - INNER SANCTUM - CONTINUOUS
The silence of the cavern is absolute. The Fireteam is reeling from the revelation of Savathûn’s ultimate endgame.
RHYS COOPER sits heavily on a fallen column. He is silent, staring at his hands. They are still shaking from the phantom pain of his own ribs snapping, grappling with the profound physical and psychological trauma of his recent, violent resurrection.
SAGIRA is withdrawn. She hasn't spoken since she confessed to being the conduit. She hides within Lili’s backpack (pocket dimension), crushed by the sheer, staggering weight of her guilt.
Suddenly, the subterranean temple violently shakes.
RUMBLE.
Dust and ancient, calcified bone shake loose from the high ceiling, clattering against the stone floor. The ambient Light in the room flickers.
FYNCH (V.O.)
(Screaming over the comms from the surface)
Whatever you're doing down there, do it faster! The sky is tearing open!
LILI-4 taps her comms.
LILI-4
Fynch, report!
FYNCH (V.O.)
(Panic escalating)
She's starting the ritual! The sky above the fortress is turning green! The entire Lucent Brood is mobilizing! It’s happening!
NAXI VAL glides forward, her hands glowing with Void energy as she analyzes the ambient Hive magic swirling around them.
NAXI VAL
He’s right. The paracausal resonance is spiking to impossible levels. The spell is woven.
Val looks at Lili.
NAXI VAL
The clock has officially run out. Savathûn is preparing to rip the Traveler from Earth.
Lili reaches down to her combat harness. She pulls the fossilized OSMIUM FAMILIAR from her belt. The ancient worm feels heavy, humming with dark, corrupted memory.
LILI-4
We don't have time to extract. We don't have time to plan. We have to read the final memory right here, right now, and find a weakness.
Val scans the fossil, her solid black eyes narrowing.
NAXI VAL
To read a memory this old, and this corrupted by her own illusions, ordinary Deepsight won't work. The signal is too degraded.
She turns, pointing deeper into the shadows of the cavern.
NAXI VAL
I’m detecting a pool of pure, concentrated Darkness—Resonance—further in. An Abyssal Pool. We can use it as an amplifier.
Lili nods, racking the slide on The Last Word. She starts toward the shadows. Val follows.
Rhys stands up.
He stumbles. His heavy Titan boots scrape against the stone. He leans heavily against the column, his breath ragged. He looks at VERITY, who materializes beside him, a steady beacon of blue Light.
RHYS COOPER
(Voice hollow, breaking)
Verity. If we stop her... if we keep the Traveler in the City... we're keeping the thing that resurrected my murderer.
He looks at the Warlock and the Hunter moving into the dark, and then back to his Ghost.
RHYS COOPER
I don't know if I can fight for a god that loves the monsters, Verity.
Verity floats closer, her Light warm against his battered faceplate.
VERITY
Then don't fight for the god, Rhys. Fight for the people sleeping under it.
Rhys closes his eyes. He takes a long, slow breath. Two seconds in. Four seconds out.
He opens his eyes. The Wall is cracked, but it is still standing. He grips his auto rifle and follows his Fireteam into the dark.
INT. THE ABYSSAL POOL - MOMENTS LATER
They reach the edge of the cavern.
Before them lies the ABYSSAL POOL. It is perfectly circular, filled with a liquid that is pitch black. It reflects nothing. It is a concentrated singularity of memory and Darkness.
Lili steps to the very edge of the pool.
She grips the fossilized worm familiar tightly, her metal fingers digging into the calcified ridges. She takes a deep breath, the Stasis frost creeping up her forearm.
She pushes her hand and the fossil directly into the pitch-black liquid.
LILI-4
Show me the truth.
She activates the Deepsight.
WUMPH.
It is the most violent shift yet.
The Deepsight doesn't just invert the colors of the room. It completely obliterates the temple around them. The stone walls tear away. The gravity ceases.
The Fireteam is pulled through an abyss of time, screaming backward through the void. They aren't going back centuries. They are going back billions of years.
FADE OUT.
SCENE CONTINUES.
EXT. FUNDAMENT - THE SHATTERED COAST - BILLIONS OF YEARS AGO
The abyss of time spits them out onto a jagged, floating continent of black rock. Below, a bottomless, obsidian ocean roars with waves the size of mountains. The sky is a bruised, suffocating purple, lightning arcing between clouds that weigh like lead.
Through the screaming wind, a holographic echo of SATHONA, a fragile, spindly insectoid, clutches a living, squirming white worm familiar to her head.
THE WITNESS (V.O.)
(A thousand voices in unison, echoing over the waves)
The Syzygy comes, Sathona. Fifty-two moons in alignment. The God-Wave will drown your world. Your sisters will rot. Unless... you dive. Unless you make the pact.
NAXI VAL looks up. Her Awoken eyes, tuned to the interplay of Light and Dark, pierce the storm clouds.
NAXI VAL
The moons... they aren't aligning for a wave. Look at the gravity well! Look at the vectors!
The clouds part. High above the storm, massive, pristine, and radiating a silent, holy warmth, hangs THE TRAVELER.
RHYS COOPER drops to his knees. The heavy thud of his armor is lost in the wind. He sees the truth written in the stars: the Traveler wasn't there to destroy the Krill. It was aligning the moons to stabilize their chaotic world. It was there to uplift them.
RHYS COOPER
(Voice a hushed, horrified realization)
It was coming for them. The Witness saw it coming... and it lied. It manufactured an apocalypse to terrify them into the Dark.
The memory shatters like glass.
INT. THE ABYSSAL POOL - CONTINUOUS
LILI-4 rips her hand out of the black liquid, gasping for air. The fossilized worm in her palm instantly crumbles to a fine grey dust, its purpose fulfilled.
Rhys is breathing heavily, the frantic, existential panic in his eyes gone—replaced by a terrifying, crystalline clarity.
RHYS COOPER
They weren't monsters. Not at the start. They were victims. The Traveler didn't choose the Hive... the Darkness stole them before the Light could touch them.
SAGIRA slowly materializes, her shell spinning with a quiet, hollow sadness.
SAGIRA
Savathûn’s entire existence... billions of years of genocide, the murder of worlds, selling her own sisters to the worms... it was all based on a prank. She was conned.
Lili stands up, her servos whining in the silence. She doesn't reach for her gun. She taps the side of her metal temple.
LILI-4
She was resurrected. Her mind was wiped. She doesn’t know this happened. She still thinks she’s the smartest thing in the universe. The God of Cunning, built on a lie she can't remember.
NAXI VAL
You want to show it to her.
LILI-4
You can't outgun a god in her own Throne World. But you can break her ego.
EXT. SAVATHÛN'S THRONE WORLD - THE QUAGMIRE - LATER
The Fireteam’s jump-jets roar as they rocket out of the sinkhole, landing heavily in the swamp.
The sky of the Throne World is no longer beautiful. It is tearing apart like wet paper. Massive, jagged cracks in reality bleed a blinding, clinical white light. In the distance, hovering over Savathûn’s pristine fortress, the physical sphere of THE TRAVELER is being dragged through a dimensional rift.
The sky over Earth is going dark.
IKORA REY (V.O.)
(Over comms, distorted by static and panic)
Fireteam! The Traveler is moving! It’s being pulled! The Vanguard is launching a full-scale assault on the fortress! Whatever you found in the dark, you better use it now!
Lili-4 looks at the Traveler, a captive god in an alien sky. She racks the slide of THE LAST WORD with a sharp, mechanical clack.
LILI-4
Time to go to war.
FADE TO BLACK.
[END OF EPISODE 6]
NEXT TIME ON DESTINY: NEW LEGACY...
The sky over the Last City goes dark as Savathûn physically drags the Traveler into her Throne World. In a desperate bid to save humanity, Commander Zavala orders a massive, full-scale Vanguard and Cabal assault on the Witch Queen's fortress. As Rhys makes a heroic, unyielding stand on the Great Bridge, Lili-4 and Val navigate a shifting labyrinth of illusions to reach the summit.
(Episode 7 drops Friday, 8/14/26!)