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Goliath: New Birth
Chapter 3
Ghost had seen a lot of different kinds of guardians. Wildcards, hotshots, master strategists, assassins, scouts, and library dwellers. You name it, he'd met them. But he had never seen someone fight quite like Cadron. She flowed across the battlefield, the Dreg knife in one hand, a steel fist in the other. Nothing had been able to hit her, she just moved through the Fallen like a wave. Placing a stab here, breaking a bone there. In a way, it was beautiful. The appearnce of vandals, or even shanks, had not phased her. Not even the trip mines they had set up stopped her. There was a Dreg standing in front of them, staring at her, and the bodies she had left behind, in awe. She walked up to it, and before it could even think to fire, she had comitted it to its doom. She placed her foot firmly in it's chest, and pushed with all her force. The Dreg flew down the hallway, tripping all the mines as it went. She had a look at the body as she passed it, it wasn't even recognizable anymore. All the shrapnel had made it more of a pile of blood oozing flesh, than a body.
She continued through the halls, slicing and punching her way through the fallen. Until she got outside. It was a massive plaza, with a grassy hill in the middle. Old rusted sheds were littered around the outside of the plaza. Just like the highway, earth had reclaimed everything. Plants had grown, twisting and turning through walls and ceilings. It would have been a beautiful sight, if not for the skeletons. There was not a speck of flesh left on any of them, like something had picked them clean. Cadron staring at the skeleton immediately in front of her, horrified.
"Before I go any further, you are going to tell me who these people are! Why have they just been left here, it's disgusting! They should have been buried long ago. You obviously need me to get out of here so you better answer me!"
The machine flinched at her sudden outburst.
"Alright, for starters, you can call me Ghost. And it's a very, very long story. Which I will fully explain when we are safe. So for now I'll give you the short version. Humanity was attacked by a group of aliens, collectivley called the Darkness. These Fallen, are a faction of them. They are basically scavengers, they live off of old broken technology."
"So the entire planet is like this! And these Fallen caused it? At least I have a reason to enjoy killing them now. I expect a full explanation when we're out of here. Where am I going next, Ghost?"
She paused before saying the last word. Seriously considering not calling the funny little machine a "ghost". She was surrounded by ghosts, and she didn't need reminding.
"Don't worry, I'll explain on our flight back. That building, across the plaza. I can detect a ship inside, hopefully it's still in working condition."
Cadron made for a sprint across the plaza. She arrived to the building in question. The inside smelt heavily of wet dog, she had noticed that's what these Fallen smell of. She walked through the halls of the building uninterrupted. She reached a room with a high ceiling, four pillars reaching to it from the ground. Crashed through the rusted ceiling, hanging by bundles of wires was an old ship. Luckily, it seemed operable, unluckily the Fallen captain atop it had just seen her. It jumped down and steadily walked towards her, she broke into a sprint towards the captain. As she reached the captain, she ducked under his punch into a maneuver that would have broken his arm. But as she reached for his arm, her hands bounced off, and she received a painful shock. The captain then backhanded her. She flew across the room, leaving a good sized dent in the rusted wall.
"That captain has an arc shield! There's a button on the hilt of the knife you picked up. It will run arc energy through the knife which should allow it to overload the shield!"
She picked herself up off the floor, and pulled the knife out. She held the knife in her right hand, she found the button and pressed it firmly. Blue lightning suddenly ran across the blade, trying to reach out to anything nearby. She sprinted at the captain again. She leaped in the air, aiming to bring the knife down on it's head. The captain tried to raise it's shrapnel blaster, but it was too late. He was already watching Cadron bring death upon him. The knife came down, sparking as it went through the shield. It continued straight into the captains eye. The captain dropped his blaster, all four arms to his face. The knife had gone all the way through, penetrating it's version of a brain. The captain could feel it's energy slowly draining away. With a last effort it picked up it's blaster again, and took one shot at Cadron. Cadron had not expected this, and the shrapnel hit her square in the chest. As the captain fell over, dead, Cadron's chest armour exploded, and she was thrown across the room again. The shrapnel entered her chest cavitiy, shredding everything inside. Her dead body lay crumpled upon the floor, crimson blood flowing into a pool beside her. But then the body just disintegrated. Ghost stared at where her body had been.
"Here's to the first of many."
Ghost said to himself with a chuckle.
Cadron suddenly appeared, in a magnificent flash of light. She sputtered and struggled to breath at first, but then got ahold of herself.
"What the hell just happened to me?"
She managed while gasping for air.
"Lesson number one, if I die, you die. I'm your direct connection to the light. As long as I'm alive, and I have light, I can heal any injury you sustain. Even death itself."
Cadron stared at Ghost. It was amazing how it simply only had an eye, yet it could still show such smugness.
"Alright, I'll give it to you, that's pretty amazing. And thank you."
Ghost made an audible sarcastic gasp at the last part.
"The guardian showed gratitude! Something other than arrogance and badassery! I'm genuinely shocked!"
Cadron chuckled at Ghost's words, then began to look for a way into the hanging ship.
