Thel, Spyro and the rest of the small search group continued their search for Cynder. Venturing far from Warfang, they eventually stumbled across a large forest that spanned across the landscape, and Thel decided they went through it. Apparently, Spyro could easily track her scent, which confused Thel. How did the purple dragon smell her even though she could be miles away where they were. Spyro was ahead of the group with Arbiter right behind him, and Shin with the Grunts travelling just behind Arbiter. Jabjab and Yapflop were having their usual annoying chit chat, but it didn't seem to bother Tarscar at all. He was a like a father to them. The Grunts were talking about events that happened during the covenant war, which Thel didn't want to bother listening to. Instead, he ran up to Spyro's side to find out how he was tracking her so easily.
"Ahem, if I ain't interrupting anything, how are you able to smell Cynder from so far away? I'm quite curious" Thel asked the purple dragon. Spyro looked up to Thel and then hesitated to answer. He seemed a little embarrassed to tell him this, but it couldn't hurt, could it?
"Well, besides the normal scent she leaves behind, the reason why I can easily pick her up is because...well" Spyro looked down on the ground, not wanting to complete the sentence.
"Don't stop, I'd like to know, anything you say will be better than what those runts are saying" The Arbiter tried to block out the noisy voices of the Grunts. Spyro had a little blush on him with his heart racing, but he finally let the answer slip out.
"All right. It's because..." Spyro said, pausing in the middle of his sentence, "she's in heat". Arbiter widened his eyes in shock, knowing exactly what he meant.
"Oh, I see. Sorry I asked" Thel apologised in a polite manner, respecting the natural life cycle dragons have.
"It's ok. I don't think she even knows herself about it" Spyro continued. Thel then had another thought on his mind.
"Wait, how is she in heat at her age? aren't you two still a bit young" Thel asked, wanting to learn more about the biology of the dragon race.
"Yeah, both Cynder and I aren't at the appropriate mating age yet. I still don't know why though" Spyro responded. Thel mildly shrugged his shoulders, also having no clue.
"How long has she been in heat for, surely you must know" Thel looked back at Spyro. He sighed, lowering his head.
"She's been like it through half the day. Is it going to complicate our defence?" Spyro asked, concerned that this might be a problem.
"No, I don't think it will, but when the Brutes finally come to attack the city, you can't let your personal feelings for Cynder get in the way. You could let down your guard, worried that something has happened to her and that might cost your life. Jiralhanae will target the weakness' of their enemies and if they find out that you're very close to the dragoness, they will use her against you. You don't want that now, do you?" Thel looked back in front of, still leading them deeper into the forest and letting Spyro to deal with his question.
"That's what I'm afraid of Thel. I can't let anything happen to her. She's all I got left in my life. I...I love her" Spyro narrowed his eyes down, knowing that Cynder is the only thing that keeps the purple dragon going. Arbiter didn't blame him. Going through war takes almost everything away from you. Family, friends, everyone.
"Well, consider yourself lucky, I have nothing else left. I lost my most trusted friend a few days ago. The only two things that has kept me from committing suicide is the will to defend my home planet and my vengeance of destroying the traitorous Brute savages. No one personally close though" Thel explained his reasons why he stays among the living. Spyro stared at him, feeling sorry for the elite.
"Then Thel, if we all get through this in one piece and you ever find a way to get home, why don't you meet someone yourself? You'd have another reason to keep on living" Spyro suggested for Vadam, asking him if he could find someone to care for himself. He huffed at this idea.
"I don't know. Even though I have split from the covenant, I still have the mark of shame. Its considered a dishonour on Sangheilios, there's no chance a female would take me" Thel downed himself, seeing that there is no future for this Arbiter. Spyro decided to make Vadam feel better by saying;
"And is that going to stop you?" Spyro smirked cheerfully. Arbiter lifted his head up in surprise, looking at Spyro. He raised his left brow and put a little smile on himself. Looking back to the front of him, he heard the sounds of explosions and screaming.
"Wait, stop!" Arbiter ordered them all. Spyro quickly reacted, looking directly in front of the group. Other than Cynder, he could also smell a bit of smoke. And some blood in the air. Shin and the grunts stopped immediately, also hearing the destructive explosions. Shin instantly knew what they were from.
"Arbiter, those are Brute shots firing!" Tarscar told them all with a low voice, trying to keep quiet. Thel growled, knowing exactly who holds them.
"C'mon! Cynder is where those explosions are coming from!" Spyro ran to where the dragoness and the explosions were. Thel followed close behind, with Shin just catching up, leaving the grunts behind.
"Oh brother, I hate how fast elites are!" Jabjab chased after them, waddling as fast as he could on those short, grunty legs.
"I hate how you always seem to run away from me when I try to tell you something awesome and epic!" Yapflop yelled at him, trying to catch up.
Spyro desperately ran to the destructive noises of the Brute shots, knowing Cynder could be there too. Thel jumped over a fallen log, trying to catch up to him and wanting to know what those savages are up too, with Shin following his every move, zigzagging around the tall trees, following the purple dragon. The grunts huffed and puffed as they ran. They weren't use to running this much but if they didn't want to get lost, they had to keep up. As they got closer, the explosions stopped. This really concerned both Spyro and Thel.
"Why have they stopped firing?" the Arbiter wondered.
Spyro finally saw an a few opening in the trees, seeing a field beyond it. He stopped before going through a few bushes, noticing 3 Phantom dropships hovering on the other side of the plains. Thel finally caught up to him and suddenly noticed the Brute craft.
"Get down!" Thel pulled Spyro into the bushes, not wanting to get caught. Spyro was a little hurt being pulled in but he ignored it. Shin jumped in as well, exhausted and relieved that he didn't lose them. The Grunts happily rejoined the group.
"Weee!" Yapflop and Jabjab excitedly cheered.
"Shut up!" Tarscar ordered them. Spyro and Thel were looking through to the other side of the bushes, looking at a Brute pack that has exterminated and eradicated a platoon of Grublins. They must've stopped firing just a few seconds ago, as some of the Jiralhanae were still reloading.
"They killed them all, those Grublins never stood a chance" Spyro whispered.
"Looks like they couldn't be bothered with them, so they killed them all in cold blood. They're mongrels anyway" Thel didn't care one bit about the little green freaks, instead, he was more in interested that Chieftain Magnaruckus was here.
"Huh? what is that vile beast doing here?" Vadam demanded to know. Spyro turned his attention the large Jiralhanae. Compared to the others, this Brute was the largest one the purple dragon's ever seen.
"Look at the size of that thing!" Shin was shocked, looking at him.
"Whoa, brutes are stinky and they're very big!" Jabjab added.
"That's what she said" Yapflop whispered, but Tarscar hit the grunt in the back of the head just for that comment.
"Idiot, this is no time for jokes! Arbiter, when shall we strike?" Shin asked his superior, but Thel was too caught up, with Spyro, watching Magnaruckus walking over to something.
They both moved over to the left, following the Chieftain's movement. As they got a clear view of what the monster was doing, they instantly saw what he was talking to. The black dragoness was in their sights, being interrogated by that disloyal beast.
"Cynder!" Spyro wanted to cry out to her, but Shin grabbed him by the shoulder, stopping him.
"No! if you jump out there, you'll be killed! and she might pay the price too!" Shin warned him.
"Shut it" Thel made Tarscar speak a little quieter.
They turned their attention back to Cynder and Magnaruckus. The massive Brute was asking her questions. Then at the last one, Cynder shouted at Magnaruckus, only angering the Brute.
"Cyn, don't do anything stupid" Spyro wanted to save her, but even he knew the Brutes would kill him where he stood if he tried.
Magnaruckus started growling loudly at the dragoness. He shouted at her, letting his grumbling voice be heard for miles. Thel instantly knew what Brutes do after this...they attack.
"By the gods, no!" Thel almost ran out of the bushes, but he resisted.
In an instant move, the group saw Magnaruckus grab Cynder by her neck, choking the living life out of her.
"You brought this upon yourself freak flyer!" Magnaruckus slammed the young Cynder into the ground, bringing up a large cloud of dust.
Thel's mandibles and Spyro's mouth instantly dropped in deep, emotional shock. The giant maniac backed away to look at what he just did. When the dust cleared, Thel and Spyro witnessed Cynder's body laying perfectly still. Thel couldn't believe his eyes. He saw a 20 ton Brute Chieftain crash a light weighted dragoness into the ground without mercy, the nature that all Brutes weild. Now, he might have just killed her...killed by a savage creature. Spyro swore he heard Cynder scream as she was slammed into ground the Brutes stood on. He felt the tears come onto him. The dragoness he cared for so much, spent so much time with her, protected her with his life, was suddenly and brutally killed by elites enemy.
"Those...monsters!" Spyro felt the anger come to him in an instant, exposing his teeth in rage. Thel turned and he saw Spyro's purple scales turn a little darker. Cynder and the guardians told him about this and it only brought trouble when this even happens.
"No, Spyro don't!" Arbiter tried to call out to him before it took over, but the darkness fully controlled the purple dragon's mind. Anger and revenge is Spyro could think about. Shin and the grunts instantly backed off, coming out of the bushes. The shadows fully covered his body and armour and his went completely white. Arbiter watched in horror, as the evil took control.
"Murderous...beasts. They killed her! THEY WILL ALL SUFFER FOR WHAT THEY'VE DONE!" Spyro's sinister, evil voice shouted and he launched himself directly at Magnaruckus.
"SPYRO NO!" Thel ran out, trying to grab the dark dragon, but the speed he suddenly wielded was unbelievable.
"Huh? WHAT THE? BY THE PROPHETS!" Magnaruckus turned and saw the evil dragon coming straight at him. Spyro rammed into the large Chieftain's chest with tremendous force, whilst the dragon was flying at a low level.
"AAAAAARRRRRGGGHHH!" Magnaruckus screamed as the force from what Spyro created sent the large chieftain flying into the trees, causing most to break as he flew.
Each tree that timbered down is one that Magnaruckus was sent through, recklessly destroying parts of the forest. The Brutes jaws dropped at the sight. Arbiter ran out of the forest in shock. A small, single dragon just sent a tremendously enormous Brute flying through the forest. Never has he seen strength from a single being so powerful that it's unparalleled. The dark dragon was not done yet. He looked up at the Phantom, noticing it had a single Brute on 2 of them.
"Your all next" the sinister voice of Spyro. He was in front of Cynder, who's body started twitching.
He opened his jaws to release the all powerful, annihilating, and destructive purple convexity beam, unleashing it upon the covenant craft. The beam went straight for the Phantom right at the back and the pilot suddenly noticed, but not having enough to evade.
"RARGH! NOOOOOO!" the pilot covered his face, bracing for the impact.
The Brute gunner jumped off the Phantom, not wanting to be part of the carnage. It went struck the left side, coming out the back right. Controlling his attack, Spyro (or Dark Spyro) dragged the beam across the Phantom, slicing through it to go to the next Phantom in the middle. In a sudden explosion, the Phantom was absolutely eradicated from existence. The Brutes watched in horror as their ships are destroyed by this small dark dragon they call a freak flyer. Not standing a chance, the second Phantom's armour was impaled by the beam, causing that one to explode in a blue fireball of fury as well. The Brute gunner on that ship did not have a chance to jump off though, and he died with the craft and pilot. Magnaruckus' personal dropship though had enough time to manoeuvre, and narrowly avoided the beam, but unbeknownst to the pilot, the Fist of Rukt slipped off the edge. Spyro closed his jaws to dissipate it, and turned his attention to a berserking Brute coming at him.
"DAMN YOU FREAK FLYER!" the Brute shouted as he drew closer to the dark dragon.
A sinister smile came upon Spyro. When the Brute got in range, Spyro jumped into the air and dug both sets of front claws into the Jiralhanae's face, causing it to scream in horrifying pain. Spyro's claws went through the eyes and the top part of the skull, possibly impaling the Jiralhanae's brain.
"AAAARRRGGHHH! HELP ME! GET THEM OUT! GAAARRGHH" the Brute slowly and painfully died.
Before he did, Spyro did a cold thing to a Brute and rip the head clean off, releasing tons of dark purple and red blood. The headless body dropped onto its knees before finally laying to down to decompensate. Spyro dropped the head on the ground before landing to give the Brutes a vicious stare. Arbiter thought he'd never see the day when a creature small than himself decapitate a Brute. Shin held his focus rifle in shock, just in case the Brutes spotted him, but the savages were all concentrated on Spyro.
"By the gods...what kind of power does that dragon possess?" Thel thought his eyes deceived him, but this wasn't dream.
The Grunts eyes were wide open, their arms drooped down, staring the fury of a dark dragon. Yapflop was the first to break the silence.
"Dude, I'm so getting drunk after this" he mumbled. Jabjab looked at him, but it seemed the right thing to do...for them anyway.
"I'm with you on that one" Jabjab slowly raised his right arm.
The Brutes stayed as far away from Spyro as possible, not accepting a similar fate from as their comrade did. Little did the dragon know, his dragoness behind him was moving her legs a tiny bit. Thel noticed Cynder moving. She wasn't dead. She opened her eyes and she sensed that her body was a bit numb from the impact. She moaned as the black dragoness slowly lifted her head up and try breath a bit better from the choking, rubbing her neck. She coughed a bit, but that wasn't enough for Spyro to hear. Cynder had a few marks from her crash into the earth, but nothing so serious.
"Cynder, she's alive!" Thel was relived and happy at the same time, but Spyro still didn't notice her.
She turned to her left to see the dark evil dragon that she knows all too well. Her heart ached as she knew who it was under those shadows. The bottom of her eyelids were about to release emotional eye water. watching the dragon she loved and cared so dearly for succumb to the dark shadows. In an instant, she did what she had to do.
"Spyro!" Cynder called out to him, breaking through the dark barriers in Spyro's mind. He turned his dark face and white eyes around to see that she was still alive and well. His heart raced as his bright eyes went from anger to a sad facial expression. He was so traumatized. He thought she was dead, gone from his life, but he was greatly mistaken.
"Cyn-Cynder?" Spyro's voice slowly returned to normal.
"Oh Spyro...it's happened again" she didn't want to see him in a state like this.
She loved the purple dragon that she knew all her life, even if he had the evil still dwelling inside him. She became relieved to see that the darkness receded slowly. His eyes returned back to their amethyst state, like they've always been. The shadows were gone. Spyro returned to his normal, so emotionally happy to see the dragoness still among the living.
"I-I thought...you were dead" Spyro was about to cry, but it was to be a happy one, finally reunited with Cynder.
"I'm ok Spyro. I've always have been" she smiled. Spyro couldn't help but smile back, wiping away a tear that was about to come out.
Thel was happy to see the couple finally back together and now they have her back in their possession. As they were just about to embrace each other, the Arbiter stared behind them in horror as he spotted Magnaruckus running out of the destroyed part of the forest. He roared and growled his way to the dragons, grabbing his Fist of Rukt in the process from the ground. He held to his right, ready to strike at one of them.
"SPYRO, CYNDER, LOOK OUT!" Thel called out to them, attracting the Brute pack's attention.
The dragons looked at Thel, then turned around to see the berserk chieftain running straight at them. Spyro quickly looked at Cynder, knowing he had to defend her. He jumped in front of, protecting his dragoness from the crazed chieftain.
"NO! SPYRO!" Cynder knew what he was doing. He was going to take the hit for her.
"YOU FREAK FLYERS WILL DIE FOR YOUR INSOLENCE!" Magnaruckus swang the hammer like a golf club, smacking it into Spyro's entire body, sending him into the forest just like he did to the Chieftain.
He yelled in pain as he crashed into one of the tree trunks and falling onto the ground, suffering a most likely fatal attack from the most powerful hammer ever created. Cynder stared at Spyro, terrified from what just happened, as well as angering her. She looked Magnaruckus, exposing the teeth, wanting to kill him.
"You monstrous, overgrown ape!" she insulted him.
Cynder pounced on top of his hammer and onto his back, catching the chieftain by surprise. She extended her front claws and dug deep under the Brute's skin, drawing his blood. She impaled him with her scythe tail tip, right into Magnaruckus' back, causing him to shout in extreme, agonising pain.
"RARGH! GET OFF ME DAMMIT!" he struggled to get her off his back.
As Cynder attacked Magnaruckus, Thel and Shin took cover behind a tree trunk as the Brutes started firing upon them. The Brute shots were decimating their cover, so they were a top priority. Tarscar leaned out of cover to fire a blue beam of infantry killing power. It went across the landscape, killing any Brute that didn't get to cover. Some made it to the hollow logs, others suffered getting literally sliced in half. Shin tried burning through the logs that Brutes hid behind, but the focus rifle, for some unknown reason, could not destroy their cover, only giving the wood searing burns. Shin hid behind the trunk again.
"What the? it only cuts through organic creatures! not bloody wood!" Shin moaned, pulling out his spiker and placing the focus rifle on the ground.
Thel took the plasma launcher from his back and held it with two hands, holding it like a human would with a rocket launcher. The Grunts ran behind the trunk to join the elites. Jabjab took out his needler and plasma rifle and held with a hand each.
"Sweet!" Jabjab jumped put from the log and went prone to suppress the Brutes.
One of them poked their head out and copped a skull full of pink needles, causing a small chain reaction within and blowing up the Brute's head wholesale.
"That ruined my night" the Brute next to the dead one mumbled.
"Oh snap!" Yapflop added insult to injury, holding the black fuel rod cannon.
"Hey, orange one, on my mark, we destroy their cover!" Thel ordered Yapflop, ready to fire his weapon.
"Uh, yea, got it!" Yapflop was ready to poke out. Shin fired multiple rounds from his spiker, suppressing and trading fire with the Brutes.
"All right, 3, 2, 1...ATTACK NOW!" Thel shouted. He, Shin, Jabjab and Yapflop started hammering the Brutes with everything they got. The black fuel rods created sudden and devastating explosions, causing Brutes to run and fire at the Sangheili resistance group out in the open. Thel's plasma grenades from the launcher followed their targets and stuck at least 4 Brutes with a grenade each.
"AGH, AGH! GET IT OFF ME! NO, NO!" the Brutes roared as they blew up in horrific explosions, leaving nothing but bloody body parts.
The Jiralhanae that were carrying Brute shots were no more. Only ones with spikers were the survivors. They started tearing up the elites cover. Knowing it's time to get a little close and personal with them, Thel jumped over the log without warning and started running at the Brutes firing at him. Missing each time a spike fired the Brutes were a little clumsy trying to shoot at the fast Sangheili. Thel placed his plasma launcher on his back and activated his right energy dagger, plus, pulling out an energy sword in his left. Shin jumped out of cover as well, leaving the Grunts to protect themselves, staying with the log. He was out in the open, shooting as many Brutes as possible, whilst they were firing at him.
When Thel got in range of the only Brute captain, he used the sword slice the spiker in half, disarming the savage. Without warning, he impaled the captain, using the dagger, in the neck, letting the blood seep out. The Brute couldn't breathe, as his windpipe was severed, so he died quickly. The blood got on Thel's hands, but that didn't seem to worry him. A Brute turned his attention from Shin to Vadam and quickly aimed at Arbiter. With no time to run at him, Thel threw his energy sword at the minor, like a spear, impaling and sending it through the air, going through 2 other Jiralhanae on the way and landing on a tree trunk.
While the grunts hid behind the log, The Phantom hovered above them, aiming its front forward plasma cannon at them. Jabjab looked up and saw the dropship, ready to kill where they hid.
"YAPFLOP! FLEEEEEEEE!" the green grunt ran away from the dropship. Yapflop looked up and he too started running for his life.
AGH! WOOO! YOU'RE NOT GETTING ME STINKY BRUTES!" Yapflop yelled out. Plasma fire followed the little grunts, but they serpentine around the area, avoiding the slow plasma bolts the Phantom fired.
Arbiter was fighting the Brutes really up close. He was using both of his energy daggers to slice and dice with. He stabbed another Brute in the head and sliced his windpipe to kill him for good. He turned and impaled another through the belly, deactivating his left energy dagger, and pulling the plasma rifle out and shooting from the Brutes chest to the head, annihilating it. Finishing it off, he kicked down the Brute with his left foot. He was the perfect close quarter combatant for anyone to challenger and he showed no mercy to the Jiralhanae, like an Arbiter should, if negotiations fail, but this is the Brutes he's fighting, diplomacy is dead here.
Cynder was still holding onto the chieftain for dear life. She has spilled so much of Magnaruckus' blood, never having lost so much before. This really started to anger him. Finally, he grabbed Cynder's right wing and pulled her over his right shoulder, but before he fully got her over him, her claws went straight across his face and scarring his right eye. In too much pain, he dropped Cynder. She grunted as she hit the ground and backed off to watch Mag trying to cover his bloodied face. She turned her attention to the injured Spyro, who was slowly walking away from the tree he slammed into. She was absolutely relieved to see him still moving.
"Spyro! Are you alright?" she was deeply concerned.
"I'm good…thank the ancestors for armour. But this has gone on long enough, we need to get out of here, now!" Spyro suggested. They both heard Arbiter's voice. Finding out where it came from, he was being choked by a Brute from behind.
"CYNDER! TAKE OUT THE PILOT IN THAT PHANTOM! IT'S THE ONLY WAY WE'RE GETTING OUT OF HERE ALIVE! COME HERE YOU VILE COVENANT FANATIC!" Thel grabbed the Brute and threw him over his head, putting him in the ground. Stomping on his back, he reactivated his right dagger severed the Brute's spinal cord in the neck, killing it.
The dragons both look at the Phantom. Thel was right, it was the only way out of here.
"Can you fly?" the black dragoness turned to Spyro.
"Yeah, let's go" Spyro took to the air, as well as Cynder.
"Ok, follow me in" Cynder took the lead.
They both flew straight at the Phantom, desperate to get out of this battle zone. The pilot was too caught up trying to kill the grunts. For small imbeciles, they sure knew how to avoid death.
"Little, defying runts! How are you still alive after what we did to you with the Seraphs?" the pilot was getting a little angry. Little did he know, Cynder was already behind him. She smirked, having the element of surprise. Wanting to play with this Brute, she had an idea that will give her and Spyro a good chuckle.
"Hey, you" she disturbed the Brute's shooting, pissing him off even more.
"Ung! what? uh..." the Brute turned his chair and just suddenly noticed the dragons right in front of him. He was unarmed, not being able to do anything now.
A moment later, Cynder blew him off the Phantom with a bit of her wind element. He roared as he was sent flying into the air and crashing on the hard ground. The dragoness looked for Thel, who was still combating Brutes at close range. He was getting real tired of fighting them, Vadam's exhaustion will be his demise the way things are going.
"Arbiter! c'mon!" she shouted out to him.
Killing the Brute he was just fighting, by literally pulling its heart out, he heard Cynder's call and he made a mad dash for the Phantom, which the gravity lift just activated. The Grunts also heard the call and they made a run for the Phantom too, not wanting to stay here any longer.
"TO THE DROPSHIP!" Yapflop yelled.
Shin gave them all cover fire whilst they ran to the ship. Quickly, he grabbed the focus rifle nearby and threw it up into the Phantom, not leaving a very powerful in Brute hands. Spyro jumped out of the way as the rifle landed next to him, through the left side doors. As Shin turned though, as he was about to fire, a spike landed in his chest, through to one of his hearts. Feeling the searing pain, he coughed up a bit of blood, Sangheili blood. As Thel was finally inside the dropship, he looked down on the battle zone and saw Shin falling to his knees.
"No...NO! SHIN!" Arbiter called out the minor classed elite.
"They, they got me. HURK!" Tarscar was shot by another spike, followed by another. The Brutes got him where they wanted the elite. The surviving Jiralhanae fired in a line, shooting at the injured elite. Spikes landing and missing, Shin dropped his weapon as more sharp objects landed in his chest and belly, as well as the legs and arms. The Grunts looked down, watching in horror as their leader was slowly getting killed.
"NO! NOT SHIN! HE WAS MY FRIEND! NOOOOO!" Jabjab saw dropped to his hands, about to cry.
Shin could see his life passing by. His blood was spilt all over his armour. The Brutes stopped firing, thinking that the elite is done for. Tarscar looked at both his hands, dark purple stained all over his palms. The sight was unbearable for him. His vision started to blur slowly. He tried to speak a few more words.
"So this...this must be it...my time comes to an end...here, on this amazing planet. What a way to die in honour" he made a weak smile.
Spyro and Cynder watched as their elite friend slowly died. The dragoness couldn't watch anymore and buried her head into Spyro's shoulder, put his right wing over her. Shin looked up at the Phantom. He could see that they couldn't leave without him. Before his life would come to end, his last words were;
"Thel! Don't let them win. Don't let those savages destroy the dragon's city. Don't let them kill Cynder...Don't let them destroy Sangheilios! May honour guide your path...Arbiter" Shin then saw images of his entire life.
Images of the covenant war, images of Sangheilios, even images of his time on the dragon homeworld. Everything. The last one was an image of him and a female elite that he's comforting , who was a little shorter than him and much thinner. This female was no doubt his mate. He never told anyone this. Maybe he shouldn't have too. Suddenly, a spike landed in his neck, severing the windpipe and killing Shin Tarscar in that instant. He fell back and blacked out, leaving this universe forever. Thel was beyond anger and grief. Shin, one of his friends and a survivor from the Shadow, dying right there. It has scarred him deeply into his mind…very deeply
"SHIN!" he called out to his dead friend. Everyone's friend at the very most…
Jabjab saw a plasma turret at the edge of the door. He didn't resist to use it on the Brute survivors. He ran to it and aimed at all of those vile beasts, with a swift flurry of vengeance.
"YOU GIANT, BULLYING...MONSTERSSSS!" Jabjab cried out, firing the plasma turret all over the area.
Blue plasma rained from the sky, burning and killing the Brutes below. They all roared and screamed as they tried to get but it was a useless gesture. Jabjab was not going to let this down. Yapflop decided to jump onto the Phantom's control and pilot this thing himself. Jabjab stopped firing as he saw most of the Brutes now laying dead. He has never been this angry in his life, and for good reason. The side doors on both ends of the ship closed. They have escaped from the Brute's hairy clutches, but at a huge price. Magnaruckus heard was covering his left eye, which Cynder scarred, but he watched the Phantom fly away in both victory...and defeat.