Dramatization of something that actually happened while I was playing Warframe.
I do not own Warframe.
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'Heh. Easy neurode.'
Rhino is sprinting through the halls of the Grineer galleon, bowling over any foot soldiers dumb enough to get in his way. An alert had just appeared, a level 14 Spy mission with a Neurode as a reward. Those being such royal pains to get, he had accepted the mission instantly. Barely two minutes have passed and he's already looted the first two vaults without triggering the alarms.
He always finds it odd that annihilating half the vault doesn't trigger any alarms and still leaves the data intact, but he's not complaining.
He enters an empty room, and the lights flicker.
'Crap. Not again.'
He pulls out his sidearm – which is actually the best weapon he carries on him – and watches his surroundings. After a short wait, the Shadow Stalker (who will be referred to as SS from now on) appears, standing up from his sieza and drawing War. Rhino launches a full volley from his heavily-modded Angstrum – 11-ish missiles, each of which deals 2k blast damage and 1k cold damage.
The tide of annihilation crashes into the terrain around the stalker, creating an unnecessarily large explosion. 'And THAT, class, is why you aim explosives at the feet – you won't hit them directly, but you're pretty much guaranteed to have it hit close enough for the blast to kill them.'
A wave of energy soars out of the cloud, slamming Rhino back even as he throws himself out of the way of the second arc following close behind. The smoke clears, and SS charges out, launching a complicated combo of arcing swings. Rhino is again forced to throw himself out of the way of the attack, taking the moment of breathing space to reload the launcher. He can see in his HUD that that single attack had wiped out over half of SS' health – and somehow triggered SS' damage adaptation on damage types his weapon didn't have… weird.
Rhino rolls and flips around the area, avoiding SS' attacks while peppering SS with single shots that fire two to three rockets at a time due to the weapon's mods. These rapidly drain SS' health, but things go south when Rhino backs himself into a corner and gets pinned there by another pair of energy waves while SS leaps in for another melee combo – one that Rhino can't dodge this time.
Rhino triggers Iron Skin, catching the edge of War on his forearm. SS instantly casts Dispel, shearing off the new armor, but while he's distracted doing that Rhino grabs his forearm. "I may go down."
SS hears a whirring noise and looks down, noticing the device jabbed into his gut.
"But I'm taking you with me!"
A full 15-rocket volley of missiles, attained through the favor of the Random Number God, slams point-blank into SS. The shot procs ice, a hurricane whipping out from the pair of them.
When the cloud disperses, there is a pair of ice statues in the corner, locked in a facsimile of combat.
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That's not exactly what happened, but it was effectively accurate up until the end. I didn't get pinned in the corner, use Iron Skin, and deliver a one-liner before intentionally killing us both. I'd just finished charging a finishing volley when SS ran up to me faster than I expected, causing the shot to hit us both. The shot did actually proc ice and turn us into ice statues.