“I do not know.” Scarlett answered honestly. She briefly stopped scrubbing the floor “I believe the best course of action to be showing we can cooperate, if I didn’t we, wouldn’t be here doing this.”
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“We’ll have to risk you staying with the Pelican then.” Catina said. “Use the weapons or fly to a safe location in case of minor, or major trouble.” Catina told him as she entered the cockpit and inserted Hermes into it.
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She sighed. “I’ll take that as a most likely.”
Atan looked to see the warriors in his Keep. “Who are they?” He asked his fellow comrades.
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“I will ma’am, stay safe.” Hermes said.
Ana, Leo and Athena all checked their weapons.
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“Why aren’t we firing back!?” Ab’don shouted.
“Fleetmaster, if we lower the shields the ship shall suffer critical damage!” An officer replied.
“Fleetmaster! We’ve been boarded! The Swords of Sanghelios are on every deck! We are overloading the engines; we will destroy the ship, and take the enemy with us! It is better to die for our Emperor, than to live for yourself!” The comms of one of his Blockade Runner escort ships, the Canis Lunar, roared.
Ab’don watched as the Canis Lunar sacrificed itself, plunging into the midsection of one of their CCS assailants. The supporting CCS cruisers zoomed forth, attacking the Cloak of Suban.
The Lupercal began its bombardment of Borli, dropping its payload of invasion forces. Their Sangheili warriors donned mixes of black, pale green, and white upon their armor.
“Brothers! Kill them!” Tallium shouted. The oncoming Sangheili were torn apart by the opening shots, but many of the pods began landing in the city. Wall defense was then relegated to ten of the hundred warriors.
“A delegate from Borli and a cohort of a hundred warriors we are unfamiliar with.” A soldier told Atan.
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“And you come unannounced into our territory?” He asked them, motioning the guards to alert the Kaidon and the elders.
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The creature slowly raised one of its right arms, seeming to know the fear it inspired. The plasma fire fizzling out against it’s damp skin. The clawed hand began descending, bringing doom to the ship. Yet, before it made impact another titanic form burst from the waves. The form of a colossal sangheili, standing just short of the beast it faced, a hand locked around it’s forearm. On further inspection it could be seen that the sangheili was a machine, heavy armour plates painted sea green. The head bearing a curved visor instead of eyes with four tusks in the placed of mandibles. A large fin sat atop the head, a design repeated on the back extending behind the shoulders.
The monster wasted no time grabbing the machine’s torso with both lower arms, scrapping against the metal as they grappled. The machine retaliated with a punch, aimed directly at it’s head. When the fist made contact a visceral crunch could be heard, a huge shockwave emanating from the impact, causing the waves to grow more violent. Damo’s ship threatened to capsize, as the giants did battle. As the best recoiled, the machine pushed forward, great engines upon it’s back roaring as it did. Staggering backwards the monster twisted, throwing it’s attacker. With a great splash the machine hit the waves.
As it regained its footing, the creature was already charging. The machine changed it’s footing to brace for an impact, energy charging around each massive hand. Four arms grappling, as it slid backwards, the fists hitting each side of the head with terrible shockwaves. One of the crests shattering under the impact, jaws slammed together. Great metal fingers digging into the skin, pulling the jaws apart. Terrible roars as they began to split, turning from rage to pain as they reached their limited. Yet the machine pulled further, tearing the flesh, glowing blue blood spilling from the wound. Clwas digging into the metal, desperately scraping against the armour, Blood stained the machine as it finally dropped the carcass, the split now extending down into the chest.
Turning slowly it looked to the ship, floating on a sea of the glowing blue blood. Slowly it reached down, and lifted the vessel, holding it above the sea. Marching forward past the corpse, it carved a path through the waves.
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with the blockade runners down, the fleet began their next phase of attack. The Cloak of Suban diverted its shields and absorbed shots like a tank for the rest of the fleet. as it broke off from attacking the enemy one and instead aided the rest of the fleet with dealing with the smaller ships. The CAS, Corvette, and CRS focus fired on one CCS battlecruiser, hitting it hard until its shields fell, as soon as they did they moved their fire to the other CCS, meanwhile Seraph bombers swarmed the crippled CCS and blew it to smithereens.
“why should i wake him up?” Beth asked quietly
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“I think he’s calmed down enough” Alice said quietly “besides there’s something different about you…Spetz never loses focus on anything” she said smiling “but he forgot all about what happened at Farius prime when he was with you”
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Beth looked a bit confused “why because i’m the only person actually trying to be his friend?” Beth asked “instead of just invading his boundaries, disrespecting him, and stalking him”
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“Well, Spetz doesn’t talk very much unless he enjoys them…so take that as you will” Alice replied sensing Beth’s tone “I’ve also done my research about you”
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“Now what?” Leo asked Sky.
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“so now you’re stalking me?” Beth said giggling
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“A little, just to know if you’ll pass the test” Alice said
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“what test? the i won’t traumatize spetz with my every action test?” she said
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The soldiers that had followed Damo stared on in awe, as well as the Gahlogali Warriors. "This is why we have come here. Make no mistake, brothers. This is the most powerful keep upon our holy Gahlogali.
“Where is Urze? What about Tarion? What is his status?! Grongar? Lorang? Agnus? Their fleets were supposed to translate into this space hours ago!” Ab’don sighed. “Deploy Banshees. Order the RCS to fire up the Plasma Annihilator, and aim it at the CCS. What is the Lupercal’s status?” Ab’don asked.
“They will have the necessary relics within the hour, though they have run into considerable difficulty since the Borli Keep has uncovered many of these relics and perfected knowledge of the very base enhancements over the past years. They have augmented their warriors.”
“Good. Order our other CCS to make boarding actions against the CAS classes.”
“To the bridge.” Sky said.
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Leo nodded. “Athena and I will be in front.”
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“Hmmm” Alice said thinking out loud as she stared at Beth “yes” she said as she brought up some of Beth’s medical files “it seems you are devoid of any human spread diseases, I’ll check that off”
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“okay now you’ve lost me” Beth said as she slowly approached spetz and gently shook him.
just as before, the Cloak of Suban, the corvette, and the CRS dropped the enemy CCS battlecruiser’s shield, and seraphs finished it off. the enemy RCS was now outnumbered and outgunned by a single CCS of Kays fleet. The superior force of thousands of Seraphs was able to easily decimate any banshees and boarding craft the enemy deployed before they could get close to the Cloak of Suban or Shadow of Qikost
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Spetz started mumbling “mom five more minutes”
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