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Chapter 7: The Prime
The Servitor fired a large blast of Void plasma at the three, and they scattered. Theoduin right, Alsyf left, and Sara straight ahead as the projectile exploded where they stood. They all started shooting at the Servitor. The bullets pinging off its hard shell. Sara seemed to be too close for comfort as it opened its shell and started sucking up biological material to make ether.
Mainly Sara's body. She gritted her teeth and ran under it, taking the damage as a Pulse grenade hit its shell and started bursting. The machine groaned and suddenly teleported back, quite a distance too, causing Sara to suddenly stop and keep shooting at its eye. The servitor slowly opened its shell, gathering ether, then snapped it shut, sending a shockwave that burst all their shields.
"Fuck me!" Sara said and ran for cover as Sepiks sent void plasma at her.
"That better not be an offer!" Alsyf said as he took sniper shots at the eye.
"Traveler no!" Sara said as she panted behind a pole as Sepiks started shooting at Alsyf. The roar of a rocket ripped through the noise, as did the ensuing explosion. Sepiks roared out and shot a beam at Theoduin that connected with him. It whipped up, then down, taking Theoduin with it, the energy connecting to Theoduin detonating.
"Okay, I'm hurt." Theoduin groaned over comms, there was static as three explosions were heard.
"Don't say it!" Sara said. As she ran out as Alsyf took agro from Sepiks, but it didn't seem to care as charged energy before firing it at Sara, or rather, Silvia. The bolt was dark purple and slow. Sara rezzed Theoduin and shoved him away with her powers, only to get hit hard by the bolt.
Even at full shields, she was disintegrated.
She found herself in a vast nothingness, but, herself.
"This is new." She muttered. Then there was that horrible roar.
"Your fate, is not what you think." The voices said. She growled.
"And who are you to tell me that!?" She shouted. No response. There was a bright light as she gasped, and was tossed behind cover with Theoduin. "Thanks." She said as she stood up and got her Machine gun. "One mag." She said. She peeked and unloaded her mag into Sepiks, who roared and fired more shots. Sara took them, didn't hurt nearly as bad as she thought. She kept going till there were several clicks. She hit behind cover. Theoduin was gone, she could hear his auto rifle firing nearby.
"Goin golden!" Alsyf shouted and the sound of his Gun forming in his hand was heard all through the area. Sepiks looked over, only for three rapid shots to be put into its eye. It roared in pain and teleported right to him, and started using its vortex drain.
"Got no rockets!" Theoduin shouted. Sara threw a grenade. It exploded and caused the damaging vortex. Sepiks teleported to the middle and fired three rapid void blasts. The situation looked dire.
But seeing Alsyf's body fly over the wall just made things seem less dire.
"Holy shit he got air!" Sara said laughing. She shut up as she took cover.
"Aw man I didn't see it!" Theoduin said.
"Please resurrect my Guardian." Athena said with a tired tone.
"All in good time!" Sara said. Suddenly the crate she was against seemed to move as she fell back. Sepiks was lifting it with that beam.
Then the beam vanished. Sara yelped and rolled forward as it slammed into the ground.
"That was close!" She shouted and took off. "Keep the big guy busy!" She shouted as she passed Theoduin.
"Yeah more the same." Theoduin said as he unloaded his mag into Sepiks, who teleported next to him.
He swore there was malice in that purple light as its shell opened to do its close range attack.
Sara rezzed Alsyf, who shook his head. "How we doin?" He asked. There was a loud explosion. They looked to see that Theoduin had used his Fist of Havoc on Sepiks. Sepiks responded by using the beam to slam him in the wall, and started thrashing him around like a doll.
"Iffy, rocket the bastard!" She shouted and started shooting its shell. The blast of the rocket made her ears ring a bit. Sepiks slammed Theoduin down as the rocket hit. The beam vanished and Sepiks looked to the two. Silvia was over Theoduin's now corpse.
"I got him!" Sara said as Alsyf fired his last rocket, scoring a hit. Sepiks opened its shell, and snapped it shut, even behind cover the shockwave blasted her shields apart. She heard rapid shots, and three explosions as she rezzed Theoduin.
"Still with me?" Sara asked over comms.
"Barely, broke my arm with one shot. Ow! Set it right!" Alsyf said, presumably to Athena.
Sara looked at Sepiks, who did his little laugh. His armor was cracked. So they were hurting him. One victory.
"Sara. How's your super coming along?" Theoduin said as he got close to pump some shells into Sepiks, which replied with a Vortex.
"Nearly charged!" She said as she used her fusion rifle on Sepiks, charging and shooting on repeat until she ran out of battery, Sepiks took the opportunity to launch its beam at her. It grabbed her Fusion rifle and threw it into the water.
"Oh you massive dick." She said as she took cover, Sepiks had begun to shoot at her. She pulled out her Sawed off and holstered it properly, then got out her scout rifle. She then felt a click within her and grinned. "Okay jackass, see how ya like this!" She said and jumped up, gliding upwards as Void Light covered her body. She charged the Light into her hand and launched the Nova Bomb with a loud shout. The ball slammed into Sepiks, causing it to stagger and groan as the large Vortex damaged it, until it teleported back over the water. Sara landed.
"So, Sepiks still seems pretty pissed." Alsyf said as Sepiks shell slowly opened.
"Good, means we're doing something right!" Theoduin said and fired a Rocket at Sepiks, whose shell snapped shut, sending an Ether shockwave that broke their shields, as Sepiks took the rocket.
"Ammo's an issue though Theoduin!" Sara shouted as she started shooting with her rifle, the others shooting too. Sepiks started charging energy in its eye, the big attack again.
"Just keep fucking shooting until you need to move!" Sara shouted as she reloaded. A swarm grenade landed on Sepiks, and it was undisturbed by the small explosions as it fired the large blast, aimed between Sara and Theoduin. The two quickly ran from the blast, even with the time it still blasted off their shields.
"Jesus that's powerful." Theoduin said as Sepiks teleported closer. Theoduin rushed out and threw a Pulse Grenade and blasted its eye with his shotgun as he ran by, Sara tossed her Vortex grenade, and Sepiks was taking a lot of damage as it shot at Theoduin. Alsyf jumped up and tossed a knife, and made it between the shell, the internals taking Solar damage.
Sepiks replied by connecting its beam with his chest. It threw him around, slamming him into walls and such, before slamming him to the ground, the Void Explosion disintegrating his body.
"Alsyf! Shit." Sara said. "Get Alsyf!" Sara shouted and ran close and used her melee, Energy Drain, and she pulled out her sawed off as Sepik's eye seemed to glare at her. "Suck on this!" She shouted and pulled the trigger and was blasted back by the force, Sepiks roared in pain as it seemed to try and shake it off. Sara got up and reloaded her gun as fast as she could as she took cover.
"Jeez, Banshee supped you up huh?" She said as she holstered the weapon.
"I'm up!" Alsyf came over the comms, sounding as he was taking his first breath. The sound of his Hand cannon ringing out.
"Seraph, how's the ammo scrounging?" Sara asked.
"The three of us have done what we can, Fallen had lots of supplies here, you're all back up to near full." He said. Sara pulled out her machine gun and reloaded it. Two rockets sounded out, followed by two explosions as Sara turned the corner and unloaded, struggling to keep her aim on point. Sepiks suddenly teleported back and groaned, it was, pretty damaged.
"Fallen Skiffs coming in. Sepiks called for help." Athena said. Alsyf and Theoduin fired two more rockets. Sepiks roared as it was hit and started gathering energy for its shockwave, as the skiffs came in and unloaded dregs and vandals. It snapped shut and their shields burst as the Fallen rushed them. They all fired at the fallen as their shields came back.
There was a loud burst noise, and a dark purple light was flying towards Theoduin and Alsyf.
"Incoming!" Sara shouted to them. They ran, but were heavily wounded by the explosion. Alsyf was ganged up by three dregs, killing two before the last jammed a knife in his back.
Theoduin won his fight with two vandals only to be hit by shots from Sepiks. Sara mowed down the fallen with her Machine gun and started to make her way to them.
Then she heard Sepiks laugh as it materialized in front of her, and connected its beam to her waist.
"Oh shit…" She said and shot at Sepiks as it lifted her up. The beams intensity increased and her whole body felt as if it was on fire. She grit her teeth and pulled out her shotgun, and fired both barrels, pushing her back a bit and damaging Sepiks, but the beam was still connected. She was slammed into the ground, and thrown into a shipping container, then a wall, and was tossed about like a ragdoll. It lifted her high, and she did her best as she collected her light and tossed it to Sepiks, and the initial explosion caused the beam to vanish as she fell, her body was basically in pieces on the inside.
"Sara, hold on I'm working!" Seraph said as she felt her bones and wounds mend. Sara slammed her fists into the ground as she pushed herself up as Sepiks made what sounded like an angry noise as its shell opened up.
"Sorry Sepiks, I don't intend to die here." She said as she grabbed her sawed off and reloaded as the vortex surrounded her. Her strength was nearly gone but, she had one shot. She turned around and pulled the trigger, and flew past Sepiks, right to Silvia. She rezzed Theoduin and quickly stood through the pain, and rushed to Athena as Theoduin unloaded his shotgun into Sepiks. She rezzed Alsyf and fell to the ground, panting. She looked at Sepiks and it was backing away as it shot. Alsyf shot at its eye with a sniper.
Its shell was cracked all to hell, and sparks were coming off it. Her pain was dulling as she stood. "Theoduin! Havoc it!" She shouted. Theoduin took cover to recover his shields as he charged arc energy. Sepiks started to charge its heavy blast. Theoduin rushed out and jumped up, fists over his head, crackling with Arc Light. He slammed into Sepiks eye, and caused a massive explosion of vo0id energy and Arc Light, Theoduin getting send into a shipping container.
Sepiks was making several noises at once as its shell spun all around it before it made a single high pitched noise, and exploded, its corpse rolling to the side near the water.
Alsyf and Sara just stared at it.
"Is…is it dead?" Alsyf asked.
"I'm…I'm pretty sure it is very dead." Sara said falling to her knees.
"You good over there?" Theoduin said as he walked over and Alsyf sat down.
"We all nearly died our last deaths." Sara said as she fell back. "Sepiks fuckin had me, this fucking shotgun saved us." She said holding it up straight into the sky.
"Looks old." Alsyf said.
"Banshee was really happy to work on it." She said smiling as she let her arm fall. "Seraph, contact the Vanguard."
Seraph appeared and opened up. "You got it." He said.
"Guardians, how goes the Strike?" He asked.
"Done, Sepiks is in a nice pile over there." Theoduin said with a laugh as he stretched.
"Really? I'm glad I didn't take that bet." Cayde said.
"Whoever bet on us is dead when we get back." Sara said as she stood.
"Either way, with Sepiks gone, the Devils are considerably weaker, and as such, much easier for us to deal with. Come home for your full debriefing Guardians." Zavala said and the channel went silent. Their ships soon appeared overhead.
"Mythic, let's go home." Sara said as she was transmatted up. Theoduin and Alsyf followed and their ships flew home.
Footsteps crunched in the snow and gravel. A figure inspected the broken corpse of Sepiks.
"Well well, impressive for some newbies." The male voice said. "Poor poor Sepiks, did they bust you? Guess you were too weak." He said and kicked the broken servitor and looked up. "Things are getting, interesting."
The ships docked at the hanger, and the three transmatted out and walked out to the Vanguard hall. The Vanguard were waiting for them.
"Hey hey hey, welcome home Guardians! Not gonna lie we were pretty damn worried sending flowers like you out into hell like that." Cayde said.
"But we had faith that you and your Light would prevail against the Fallen." Ikora said with a smile and nodded.
"And our hopes prevailed, Sepiks lies in a pile, the Devils are already scrambling, the Cosmodrome will be much easier to hold with this victory." Zavala said.
"My Hunters will start marking caches for the Titans to secure and the Warlocks to study ASAP." Cayde said. "Time to really see what that old place holds."
Sara started a bit, seeing Cayde so formal was, odd. But smiled knowing that he could be, well someone to look up to regardless of his attitude.
"And with that, one last thing. Banshee will have a selection of new weapons for you, and expect new armor soon." Zavala said.
"Until you here from us again, consider yourselves on leave Guardians." Ikora said.
"And hey, Alsyf, buddy. Yes on leave you may take small missions but I require you take a mandatory two day break from work. Get some rest. Ya know what, that goes for all of you!" Cayde said. "No work, two days, rest, relax…and Warlock find a good book." Cayde said. Sara rolled her eyes.
Zavala gave a warm smile to the group. "I'll agree on that. Dismissed Guardians." He said. Before they turned Sara made a book levitate, and flung it at Cayde, hitting him in the back.
"Ow, Ikora!" Cayde shouted as they left.
"It wasn't me." Ikora said with a chuckle. "I think Sara got you back. You should read that one Cayde, you'll like it." Sara was smiling to herself as the door closed.
"He'll get you back you know?" Alsyf said.
"Yeah but it was worth it." She said.
"Guardians!" Shaxx voice echoed through the Hall as Shaxx walked over. "I wished to personally congratulate you. Sepiks was a menace that needed to be put down. The Vanguard has their own rewards, but here is mine." He said handing them envelopes.
"Sir?" Theoduin said.
"Welcome to the Crucible Guardians. Sharpen your skill, and fight!" He said before going back to his post.
"The…Crucible." Theoduin said.
"Not my cup of tea, but maybe every now and then." Sara said pocketing her invitation. "So, drinks?" She asked walking in front of them and backing up.
"Yes for the love of the Traveler." Alsyf said looking up.
"Let's celebrate quietly though. We have a lot of rest to catch up on with Guardians who'll find out by tomorrow." Theoduin said. Sara smiled and the three went out and had a great night, drinking and laughing with other guardians.
It was late as Sara walked into her room and fell on the bed. "I'm gonna regret that whiskey." She said laughing. Seraph appeared in front of her.
"Yes you will and no I'm not helping. It was a stupid bet." He said. Sara raised a hand.
"But I won!" She said as her hand fell back down.
"Still." He said getting close. "Get some sleep. Tomorrow you should go down to the city." He said.
"Yeah yeah, after, I nap my hangover away." She said as she slowly fell to sleep.
"Crazy…in power and mentality." Seraph said and looked out to the Traveler. "What great things we'll do."
DWA: Hey! Hope ya liked that! I hated how the strike bosses needed constant adds to fight, so, I spiced it up! Please, tell me what ya think of it!