Chapter 11:
When life hands you monsters…
It was two stories tall, a giant, hunchbacked ogre with flaking grey skin, broken shackles gripping its arms, and one eye, covered by machinery, on its forehead. And worse, floating on a platform attached to the monsters back, was a large Vex automaton, with large, silver, lemon shaped head with (Notice the trend) a single red eye. Its body had three limbs stuck out at either side, each tipped with mortar laser cannons. And the Automaton, the monster, and many Vex and Hive throughout the room, turned their attention to the six guardians and one wolf stood in the doorway. Becca gulped. "Delta, gimme a breakdown." The A.I appeared over her shoulder. "The monster is Phogoth the untamed, an ogre class hive with a nasty reputation and an eye that fires lasers. The Vex riding it is a powerful Hydra class robot known as the Nexus mind. It usually stays on Venus, managing nearly all the Vex activity on the planet." Smith grimaced. "Talk about a boss fight… Ok, concentrate fire on the Nexus mind keep it distracted, Delta, let Theta know that whatever he intends to do, he needs to do it fast. The rest of you, we need to- RUN!" The Nexus mind screeched and opened fire, purple balls of plasma began raining down, and the platform squirted something down at Phogoth, making him bellow and begin firing beams of laser energy out of his eye! The team scattered. The Nexus mind concentrated its fire on Bishop, who stood still firing his heavy machine gun, and was saved by Jenson launching a protective field his way, while Phogoth slammed a meaty fist towards Becca, she dodged backwards and blasted solar energy from her palm into his. Phogoth roared and reeled backwards, throwing off the Nexus minds aim and trampling many minions underfoot, the matter was worsened by Cynthia, who had charged her knife with light and was hacking both at Phogoth's ankles and any smaller enemies that had avoided being trampled. The Nexus mind recovered, and fired his mortars at Smith, but Smith matched him blast for blast with the travellers light. He began to feel as though they could win this without Theta's help.
Two minutes later, he was feeling less confident. The damn things wouldn't die. Phogoth reached out and grabbed Luke, with a howl of outrage Whitepaw leapt up and bit deep into Phogoths arm. It roared, released Luke, yet flung Whitepaw into the wall with a crack. "NOO!" Bishop yelled. He leapt up, and smashed a fist of havoc right into Phogoths eye. Phogoth roared loud enough to bring the roof down and Bishop stumbled and fell off its head. The Nexus mind fired at Bishop as he fell, but the blasts were detonated in mid-air by Precision fire from Cynthia, who was then sent flying by a smack form Phogoth. The ogre was about to finish him when more gas came out of the platform on his back, and he stiffened, then roared, turned round, and smashed his fist into the Nexus mind, sending it hurtling into the wall of the Chamber.
Sorry it took so long to get this one out. The final battle begins, and- wait- what's going on with Phogoth? Check the next chapter to find out, coming out on friday. See y'all!
