Omega's Valued Prisoner

Tale 10: Duel

Skorge would begin growling at Gyules as the two would be circling. Gyules wielded his Lancer similar to if it were a sword, ready to cut when needed. Mora would run into the room and his eyes diverted to her entering. Skorge would take advantage of this and jumped at Gyules, slammed his staff down at him. Gyules was block with his Lancer and pushing against him. He was getting pushed back and losing his ground, but began to put in more effort, pushing at Skorge before throwing him off.

Mora would pull out her Hammerburst and open fire at Skorge. The six round burst would hit his body, causing minor damage and he merely turned to her and growled, his eye showing much anger. He would turn back to Gyules and began moving back a little, realizing he is outnumbered. Skorge begins chanting.

"Now is our chance!" said Gyules and would start to open fire at Skorge. Before he can do any significant damage, he can hear ticking.

"Fuck...I know what this means." he stated, quite annoyed with this. A ticker would come running from somewhere and ran to Gyules. It prepared to explode and he jumped away, only for that one to explode and another to come near. It exploded and another one was right by where he landed.

"Fuck." said Gyules and jumped away as that one explode. He looked back to Mora to see her fending off Skorge with her Hammerburst. He kept swinging his staff at her hammerburst multiple times until he finally broke through. Gyules would begin firing at him once more and Skorge would then jump to him. Rather than meet chainsaw to chainsaw, Gyules would instead put his chainsaw bayonet on the staff by the chainsaw end, cutting it off and leaving him with one saw. Skorge would growl in frustration and then kicked him, sending him towards the center of the room. Skorge would then toss an ink grenade at him. It bounced off of his head and he caught it in his head.

"Ah fuck me!" he said and it explodes. He began coughing rather loudly and dives out of the smoke He coughs a bit and then falls over.
"Oh, that is gonna suck for my body to filter." he said and then looked over to Skorge standing above him. Skorge would kick him onto his back and raised his food up. Gyules just laid there and watched as he slammed his foot onto his face. He shouted a curse and would take his combat knife, stabbing it into Skorge's leg. Skorge shouted in pain and fell down on his ass. Gyules got up quickly, his nose broken and bleeding badly.

"What did you think that would do? Explode my head?" he asked grabbing his Retro Lancer. Gyules would point it at Skorge and start firing, the bullets tearing through his body and doing much harm, though Skorge would then jump away, fleeing out of sight. Mora would run to Gyules.

"Oh shit, I thought you died!"

"And you did nothing to help. Thanks."

"Well I...I dunno I have never fought in a major fight!" she said.

"Just...Skorge is going to-" An explosion would come beneath Gyules and Mora, the ground is starting to give away. Gyules grabs onto Mora as the ground beneath them collapses and the two begin falling.

"Hang on tight." said Gyules, positioning them so he takes the majority of the damage. The two would fall into deeper tunnels being dug out by the Locusts. Gyules would hit a rock sticking out and then fell to the ground.

Shit...you okay?" he asked letting go. Mora is still holding tightly, but then lets go and looks up to him, nodding.

"And I cannot see a damned thing." he said looking about. Skorge begins laughing and Mora would take Gyules' gun.

"Dammit you are vulnerable. You cannot see a thing." she said.

"And you dunno how to use that damned gun." he said grabbing his retro lancer.

"I have minor training!"

"The recoil would probably remove your arms." he said.
"We need somethin-SHIT!" she said "Skorge has drones coming in."

"Use that Boltok of yours. You have the training." he said "I will see what I can do for light." Gyules slowly feels his way to cover and gets behind a wall. He begins to try and contact Osman.

"Osman, I need you." he said.

"A little busy man!" said Osman. Osman is in the garage of the building, sitting within a Pariah Tank. The garage door is open and he has just fired and destroyed one of the tower. Right now he is trying to get it to fire at the wall, but is the only guy in it.

"I need you to back to that hallway we were in and go to the door it was leading to. There is a hole and I need you to drop a source of light in there. Skorge dropped us down a hole and Mora's gun is gone and its pitch dark in here."

"Where the hell do I get something that can light the tunnel?" asked Osman as he got the shell in. He would then press the button and fire at the wall, destroying it and exposing the forces.

"I dunno, you are the only one I can turn to right now!" he said.

"...Shit!" said Osman. Osman would jump out of the take and start running. He would begin looking about the garage, at the bodies. He keeps looking and then finds a dead Flamer.

"Should work..." he muttered. He picks up the pack off of the corpse and his Scorcher. Osman would take off running to the room, jumping over obstacles and running past minor skirmishes. He would keep running and then the ground would shake. He nearly falls over, but keeps up and continues to run.

"Did you do that man?" he asked.

"Oh yeah I just made the entire damned earth rumble and nearly collapse this tunnel. Check with Aiden, I got nothing on this end besides Locust-MORA GET YOUR DAMNED HEAD DOWN! Anyways, check with Aiden." Osman begins to mutter curse words and then runs to the room. He runs in and finds Skorge is within the room. Skorge looks over to Osman and then jumps at him. Osman tosses the stuff towards the hole and then picks up his gun.

Skorge slams his chainsaw staff at him and begins trying to push him back. Osman is being pushed back slowly and then his Lancer ends up being pushed off and Skorge slams it in the area between his neck and shoulder blade. He begins to dig it in a little and then Osman slams the butt of his gun into Skorge's gut. He begins to run through the door and Skorge starts firing his Gorgon pistol at him. Osman merely gets behind cover.

"Shit! This is their fight...not mine." he said panting. He grips his shoulder and then Skorge runs to him and stands over Osman.

"Lord...please save me now." he muttered. Skorge merely smiles and raises his staff, but then another rumble occurs. A stalk comes out from beneath Skorge and millimeters from Osman. It digs through the building and outside of the place. Osman grips his chest and then his ear piece.

"Hey guys...we got stalks...and I owe the glowies a big favour!"

"Why?"

"Stalk just took out Skorge. I presume he is not dead, but probably is hurt bad. Get my gift?"

"I think so..." said Gyules. In the tunnels, Gyules grabs the Scorcher and pulls the trigger. He would send the flame going and accidentally burn Mora a bit.

"AH! HOT HOT HOT! SO HOT!" she shouted grabbing her burned backside "That really hurt!"

"Sorry...wait I never expected the day to come when I apologize to a Locust." he said "Meh..." Gyules put on the pack, though poorly, then stands next to Mora and begins sweeping the flames over the Locusts coming in. He is walking slowly, using the flames to light the way as he burned Locusts alive. Not as many as he thought were there and before long they were burn to a crisp. Mora would grab Gyules and began leading him through the tunnels.

"We gotta get to the fight, if the Lambent are here, shit has hit the fan!" she said.

"No shit sherlock."

"Who is sherlock?"

"...Nevermind" The two would be navigating the tunnels, while in the fight, most of the Locusts were not fighting each other as Lambent forces were flooding from stalks. Several stalks had risen on the field, two came directly from within the base. A few others had risen in various points around the field. Drudges and drones had come out, which were being easily slaughtered at first, but once a Gunker and a Lambent Berserker arose, they could form their own front. Only one Lambent Berserker would be on the field, and the Gunker would be slaughtering troops nearby with its arm. The Gunker would be cutting through when rockets would go flying into it from the Brumak. The Gunker would prepare and toss a wad of its 'gunk' but would start being shot down by the machine guns. The Berserker would start tearing through the crowd until it hit a rock. It would begin trying to wake at it,but then Aiden would run by to it. He fired his boomshot directly into its exposed chest.

The Berseker would barely react and roared, running at Aiden. Aiden would smile and merely tumble out of its way. It grabbed for him like he was there and turned around to several Boomers who launched their Boomshots into its exposed chest. The Berseker would be harmed and fell back a bit, but yelled and ran at the Boomers. The Boomers could do little to escape as the Berseker ran at one and picked it with both arms, slamming the poor Locust around while its larger tentacle-like limbs would hit and scratch the others nearby. Aiden would grid his teeth and then when it finished killing the Locust, he ran up and slammed a frag grenade into its chest. He would tumble and before the Berseker knew it, it exploded and the Berseker would fall on its back. It began screaming on the ground and light would begin to expel from its face.

"Get into cover! Its going to explode!" he shouted and hit the ground. The berserker exploded, killing the rest of the Boomers. The Lambent were having much difficulties beyond their much larger troops forming a front, as all Locusts focused on them rather than each other. It would not be long before they were removed from the fight and it quickly turned to Locust on Locust. The remaining boomers who were not with Aiden were launching their boomshots into the base, destroying walls and windows and causing the rubble to rain down. Once they were all reloading, the Mortar crews of Skorge began to fire. They loaded their mortars and would fire onto the group. Several Locusts shouted about sky fire and would try to disperse as the mortars rained down, killing quite a few. Their mortar crew responded with firing two mortars within their front and one upon a Brumak that was currently dying. The mortars rained down within and upon the walls, tearing through Locusts and whatnot. Most of them were retreating from outside and firing from the windows now, giving room for Mora's Locusts to start running to the wall and break through the gate.

Locusts would charge at the gate and slam into it, pushing it back, but not breaking through. They would keep ramming as the Brumaks began making their way. Locusts within the windows were firing and throwing everything they have at the Brumaks they had, harming them quite badly. A boomshot would hit the Brumak walking closest to the gate and he would give a final roar before falling forward and onto the gate, just not crushing it. Locusts were smart enough that they were running over him, but were being shot to shit by the Locusts within. The Locusts who had entered the building from the start were mostly dead. Osman would enter the facility rather than use the pariah tank he found and was taking out Locusts on the second story. Tanner had entered via the elevator and was killing them on the top floor, leaving merely the second floor. Osman could not go as fast though, as he is still bleeding quite a bit.

Gyules on the other hand, would escape with Mora, walking into a section meant for housing the soldiers. The area was adorned with corpses of Locusts, and a few were laying against the wall severely wounded. They were on Mora's side.

"Shit..." she said looking it over, feeling saddened.

"This...this bloodshed did not need to occur." she said walking over to the Locust who was dying. She sighed and looked over to him.

"Your sacrifice will not be in vain." she stated with much sorrow in her voice. The Locust would mutter a few things and closed his eyes, dying. She got up and then grabbed his gun. Mora did not seem to care it was a Hammerburst two, she would start running up the stairs and looking for Locusts to start killing. She runs towards some stairs and once up them discovers a makeshift front going on. Three therons on her side and Osman are hiding behind boxes as Locusts are firing at them. One of her Therons would fire a Torque bow shot into a Savage Grenadier and killed him with the explosion, removing much of his chest.

"Just in time for the party." said Osman.

"I got that flamer ready." he said as he got behind a box next to Gyules. Mora would get away a wall across from them with her therons.

"We could use some back up. The majority of their numbers are up here." said Osman.

"We gotta be the ones to push through, otherwise the gunners outside those window will continue to slaughter our men."

"According to Aiden, the outside battle is done and now they are trying to climb over a dead Brumak and get inside, problem is the Brumak's corpse is a killzone.

"Then those gunners are top priority." said Gyules. He would put the Scorcher down and grab the pack. He takes out his pistol and shoots the pack, causing a flame to start coming out. Gyules tosses it over the cover and Locusts begin to shout and duck. It exploded and Gyules does a full mantle over the cover and begins charging into a room with the bayonet aimed out of his retro lancer. Gyules charges into a Locust and brutally stabs into his gut, the blade piercing through him. He throws the Locust off and then as another charged at him he slammed the bayonet into his throat, aiming the Locust at another and firing the gun, holding it to the best of his abilties. The bullets pierced through and destroyed the Locust's skull hitting the one he aimed at and tearing through his flesh. Gyules gets behind the wall by a doorway to the room next to this one. Two locusts are behind a table that is flipped over, one has a lancer. They begin to open fire at the wall, trying to break through the wall. Gyules tosses a grenade behind their cover as he gets behind the wall across from the one he was at. The locust shout grenade and begin to run from it, but it explodes. The two are killed and Gyules takes their table as cover, then reaches and grabs the fallen Lancer.

"Thanks for the gun mofo." muttered Gyules. Mora rushes to him and gets behind the table with him.

"Impressive." she said.

"Thanks." he said. A locust grenadier would shout as he began to charge the cover. Gyules got up with the retro lancer and opened fire at him. The grenadier fired a gnasher shot to his chest plate, but Gyules would kill him. He went behind cover and sighed a breath of relief.

"Theron armour sure is damned protective." he said "But I prefer human armour." he said. Gyules poked his head above the table to observe a Grinder walking in. He said his signature "GRIND!" and would start cranking the Mulcher. Gyules rolls out of cover and towards the doorway. Mora doing the same once Gyules does. The table is destroyed fromt eh bullets and once he stops grinding the two open fire with their weapons, Gyules firing his retro lancer. The inaccuracy causes bullets to hit all parts of it, but mostly hit it. Mora merely aims for his head with her Hammerburst. By the time the Grinder would start grinding again, he fell over dead. Osman would run past them from an open doorway as he leads the Therons down the hall.

"We are falling behind, keep going through the rooms or they are gonna get flanked." said Gyules. He charges into the room the Grinder was in and finds there to be no Locusts. He then begins to charge forward again and begins firing in short bursts his retro lancer at whatever Locust is there, Mora joining him. Tanner is trying to talk to him over the earpiece, but Gyules is busy firing. After killing the Locusts in that room, the two get behind cover and he signals for Mora to be firing as he begins to listen to what Tanner must say.

"What is it Youkahainen?" he asked.

"Its Tanner, and ask Mora if she was to include any Gas Barges."

"Why?"

"Something big is flying from the distance. Giovnni just noticed it through his longshot scope and I saw it as well. Its far away, but its big as hell." said Tanner.

"Just ignore it, if its an enemy Gas Barge our mortar teams will deal with it. I do not believe the Locusts have anything else that flies."

"I dunno man..."
"Well, what do you plan to do about it anyways?"

"...Touche motherfucker. Tanner out." Gyules grabs a grenade and looks into the room.

"Chased them off." said Mora "They are all falling back to the stairs." said Mora.

"Then keep firing. Locusts don't surrender so we are gonna have to kill them all and finish off Skorge there. It will be much safer if we let the Locusts flood in and merely keep the pressure here from the stairs."

"Then lets do it! I want to have Skorge's head as a trophy."

" Gonna be some space to keep on ya and we aren't carrying your stuff." said Gyules.

"I know, I thought you were gonna kill me or release me after this." she said.

"We will kill you before releasing you unless it must be done. You are a high value target. Not someone the COG would want dead but soldiers would."

"Wait...why would the COG not want me dead?"

"Line of succession. You would end the war declared on humanity I bet and if you merely inform us of the Lambent we could help kill it! But now is not the time to talk what could have happened. Now is the time to make shit happen!" said Gyules. He rushes to the stairs and as he gets there, the sound of gunfire all stops. The sound of Locusts stomping and trying to run about, Locusts dying, explosions, everything stops.

"Why did it stop?" asked Gyules, turning to Mora. Mora has walked over to a window and seems ready to squeal with joy, like when a fangirl seems what they are a fan of.

"Whats going on man?" he asked as the therons approached the window.

"No idea." Gyules walks over tot he window and sees flying above the Locusts, accompanied by a few Gas Barges, the Locust Queen herself upon the Tempest. She looks over the field and seems utterly disgusted at how they have been infighting. Mora takes off running through the hallways and Gyules begins to chase her. She ignores the fact that he is doing so and runs downstais and through the gates outside.

"Mother!" she shouted as she kept running to her. Mora throws aside the helmet she was wearing.

"Mora!?" shouted Queen Myrrah, astonished, but happy to see her safe. She begins to lower the Tempest to the ground when Skorge jumps from the third floor window. He has repaired his chainsaw staff and he grabs Mora, putting his staff to her throat.

"Skorge..." muttered Myrrah "Release my daughter! I know you had conflicts with myself and her, but that is no reason to lead this feeble movement against me." Skorge seems a bit surprised she knew, but merely growls and begins to activate it. Myrrah shows the same confidence at before.

"And now you put yourself in quite the predicament. See if you let go of her, my Locusts will kill you. Even the ones you thought were on your side, do not seem to retain loyalty." Skorge seems angry and then looks about at everyone. He throws aside Mora and then charges at Myrrah instead. The Locusts are about to fire, but Gyules would charge at Skorge and slam into him, tackling him away and to the ground. Skorge would kick Gyules off and to the ground. Skorge would swing his staff around and slammed it at him, but Gyules would roll to his right. He then stood up wielded his retro lancer. Gyules would swing the bayonet at the staff and cut it in two. Skorge looked over to the two halves of it, but Gyules would merely stab the bayonet into his stomach. Blood would begin to fill his mouth and then he put it away and reved up his Lancer. Skorge swings a staff head at him wearily, but Gyules would block and throw him off, then slammed the chainsaw between his armour and shoulder, cutting through him like he was an average Kantus. Skorge's halves slowly fell over, blood between it stretching and separating. The Locust Pope ha dbeen killed. Gyules turned around to Myrrah, panting a bit and covered in Skorge's blood.

All of the Locusts would aim their weapons at Gyules as he stood up and looked around.

"Well...fuck me." he said putting his hands up.

The End