God of Devils Part IV

Aro didn't even think about his reaction but he was still able to throw himself forward against a stack of old metal crates, using it for cover. As many times as he's been shot at in the last day, you learn that you don't have time to think. The place he was originally standing was red and black with Void fire. He looked back to check the position of his team. In a torn down room to the far left of the entrance, Asura and Crona had taken cover, peeking over the the edge of the window to check Prime's position.

They knew it was big but seeing the Servitor in person was admittedly shocking. It looked like the images Aro had seen but with long, thin spines sticking out of its shell.

After a few seconds to gather himself, Aro jumped out of cover and began shooting Prime. Following his lead, Crona and Asura came out from their cover as well. Sepiks Prime shook from the impact but had little reaction to their assault. Without warning, Prime shot back at the team, directly at Crona. She jumped out of the direction of the bolt but was still sent flying some distance away from the area of impact. Prime fired again before she could stand herself up. Aro was just able to tackle her away from the attack just before it landed. Both of them fell off the iron walkway of the Lair and onto the snow covered ground. Asura switched to the Sniper Rifle and began shooting at its eye, hoping to buy his team some time to get themselves together. His attack won Prime's attention. The Servitor flying around the Lair did little to throw off Asura's aim and within a few seconds, Aro and Crona had rejoined him in order to back him up and keep Prime on the defensive.

"We've got Shanks incoming!"

The tell-tale whirring alerted the team to their arrival anyway. Their main function was to draw fire away from the important targets and they were good at it. Prime had no problem blowing the Shanks apart to attack the Guardians, making the situation even more perilous.

The sheer number of Shanks and Prime along with them pushed them back into the shed where Asura and Crona originally took cover in when they invaded the Lair. It was a surprise it was still standing.

"We're not doing so good out there…" an explosion interrupted Crona and shook the entire Lair, "It's not feeling anything we throw at him and I'm running low on ammo." A small white object with a grey line running through its center appeared her hand. A Primary Ammo Synth pack. "Go ahead Sol. I was hoping to save this." After a few seconds, Sol announced, "Ok we're restocked."

"So now what's your plan?" Asura asked, "Snipers seem to do something to it but not much."

"Heavy weapons." Aro decided, "I'll take the far side. Crona,,you'll go up the stairs and Asura, you'll stay here. Just like with the Walker."

An explosion rocked the shed, "Now! Go now!"

Aro ran and took the far right side of the Lair, near a small set of rusty stairs that led down to the snow covered ground of the Lair. Closer to the shed they used as cover was a larger set of stairs that led up to a second walkway that overlooked the entire Lair. Crona ran up the stairs while Asura stayed at the base. Aro switched from his Auto to his Launcher and slid the bulky head open, exposing a large tube. Sliding a large cylinder into the tube, he straightened the head, slid it back and locked it into place. He balanced the heavy weapon on his shoulder and used the scope to lock onto Prime. He clicked the large trigger. A loud boom emanated from machine and it kicked upwards slightly in recoil. A flaming projectile flew from Aro's position and collided violently with Prime and exploded. Sepiks Prime shook itself off and stared at Aro, distracting it from a second onslaught, this time from Crona. Prime shook from the hard impact, turning towards Crona this time. A third onslaught, this time from Asura, was continuous. Aiming his machine gun straight at Prime's weak spot; its eye. This exchange continued and Prime was doing everything to avoid the attacks. They were obviously doing considerable damage to the machine. A flicker of hope started to grow in all of them. At least until they ran out of rockets and Asura's gun clicked empty.

Prime started to shoot bolts of Void energy hard and fast. Too fast to completely dodge and so hard that the walls and floors started to crack on impact. Aro switched back to his Auto rifle and desperately started to try and put Prime back on the defensive. Just like before, it did little to nothing. A blast smashed against the wall just behind Aro's head, causing him to flinch and duck to the ground instinctively. Large pieces of burning metal crashed all around him but he remained in place, to dazed to move. He was suddenly hit by a fast moving solid object and knocked some feet away from where he was originally standing, knocking the wind out of him. Asura had tackled him from a sprinting start, moving him out of the way of a large beam of steel that Prime had knocked down from the Lair's walls. He forced Aro down a pair of stairs towards the dirt ground under the iron walkway of the Lair. The whole place was shaking above their heads, threatening to come down.

"Guys we have trouble!" Crona called.

A Fallen ship quickly descended from the sky; the roar of its engines drowning out nearly all other noise. It was almost unnoticed until it got close enough. Fallen Vandals and Dregs quickly dropped from the vehicle and entered the fray, some being blown away by Prime's attacks. A large group of Fallen began moving towards Aro, who was struggling to keep them at bay by himself. The others were too cut off from him to assist.

He formed and threw a grenade at the group, hoping to open a space to get his back off the wall. The grenade exploded…and so did the Fallen. The impact of the the blast shook the entire Lair. Aro looked down at his own hand, slightly stunned. His grenades have never been that strong. Did he do that?

Prime whirred loudly, breaking Aro from his thoughts and flew towards him. Aro instinctively jumped to the side and barely dodged Prime's charge. Prime immediately stopped, turned around and charged again. Aro stood and barely dodged again. Crona and Asura were desperately trying to break through the wall of Fallen to reach Aro, who was cut off from the others by Prime. When their guns ran dry, they resorted to their fists and knife. Aro was doing everything he could to keep from being crushed or blasted apart. He was getting tired. He picked himself up only to see Prime coming at him again. He jumped to the side and at the same time, threw a grenade in Prime's path. Prime shook off his pathetic attempt at an attack and charged once again. This time, Aro mistimed his jump and was side swept by the massive machine. He was knocked nearly twenty feet to the side and hit the ground hard on his stomach, knocking the wind out of him again. His collarbone had been broken on impact.

Prime came around again…

"Aro get up!" he just barely heard Asura yell into the comms. With all the blood in his ears, he could barely register sounds. He stood on shaky legs and dropped down to one knee again.

Prime charged…and suddenly slammed into the Lair's left wall. It's impact created a large crater and nearly knocked the entire wall down. Whirring confusedly, it struggled to remove itself from inside of the wall. On its right side was…a small crack. Almost like something hit it. Aro was stunned from confusion until a loud smash from the large stairs on the other side of the area. Flicking his head over, he saw several of the Fallen that were crowding the stairs evaporate in electricity after Crona smashed the ground with a Fist of Havoc. Asura ran backwards and then charged towards Crona and jumped. Crona put her arms above her head, allowing Asura to land on them before boosting him into the air. His gun exploded in fiery orange Light and he instantly unleashed all three Golden Gun shots at the crack in Prime's side before he dropped to the bottom floor again.

The crack in the giant Servitor's side got larger with each burning hit. Aro used the distraction to get out of its range and regroup with his teammates and Asura met him halfway to the stairs, where Crona still was. Enraged, Sepiks Prime ripped itself from the wall and began firing blasts erratically and with much more force than before. One of his blast hit the entrance of the Lair, collapsing it in. Another knocked down a bar from the stairs, dropping it slightly from the lack of support. Crona slipped down from the drop of the upper walkway, using the railing to keep herself from falling over.

Prime shot another blast, destroying another support beam and dropping the walkway even further to the ground. Crona fell over with a yell and slid down the collapsing structure.

Prime started to glow bright purple and teleported forward towards where she was struggling. Only it did not slow down…

"Get away from her!"

But it was too late. With no time to evade its charge or even react, Crona looked up just in time to see the Servitor smash into her and the walkway with its full force, bringing it down with a loud destructive crash.

"CRONA!"