Hey guys! It's nearly Christmas!
I love Christmas! It will always hold a very special place in my heart. And the presents. The presents hold the larger percentage in that place, actually.
What can I say?
But sometimes (always) my family is really, really irritating. I could go on forever.
One of them almost never comes because of some excuse, one insists we watch the whole ceremony going on in the Vatican with everyone there, one brings horribly strong mince pies that make your eyes water. One is my sister (so naturally she's the worst out of all of them.)
One of them never speaks and just is sort off there.
Suffice to say, some are shepherds, fun and easy to talk to. But most are sheep. Dumb, dumb sheep.
Moving on, you can bet that there will be a Christmas chapter, but maybe in a few days. Not this chapter.
I'm going to go ahead and stop talking about Christmas, mainly because I don't have auto correct so Christmas keeps coming up in a red line because I didn't use capitals.
Disclaimer: Anyone getting deja vu?
Chapter 36: Gate Lord
(Tank's P.O.V)
"Man down!" I yelled to Wi-fi, who was cowering behind in a ditch, trying to avoid the fire of the Minotaur that just killed Lucy. The corpse herself was lying down, with no leg and a mangled red splattered arm. She was in a pool of her own blood, and it was all running down the slight slope to God knows where.
"I didn't notice!" Wi-fi yelled back at me over the noise of the Minotaur, because I'd already taken care of the other one.
Of course he noticed. He always notices. But I've never been that good at picking up sarcasm. With him, I think everyhtng he says is a joke or an insult of some kind.
I pulled out my rocket launcher, the infamous one, and aimed while running backwards for cover.
It was in my sites, and didn't even notice the danger it was in because it was so focused on Wi-fi.
Perfect.
I pulled the giant trigger, and off it went.
"Get down!" I yelled to Wi-fi, who was already curling fully into the ditch.
The rocket hit the Minotaur with a bang, going straight into it's white stomach and exploding. The Minotaur died instantly, and it's body was ripped into pieces by the explosion. Wi-fi was nearly hit with it's head.
Wi-fi got up from his cowering (which I wasn't going to let him forget later tonight) and we assessed the area.
From years of experience working together, we worked as one.
"I think that's where we need to go." Wi-fi pointed up at an especially large portal. Huh.
I pulled out my secondary, took aim, and fired. Nothing. No effect whatsoever.
"Definitely the one." I agreed.
I ran up the stairs, Wi-fi hot on my heels, only to pause at the top because of the white circle of light that almost always meant more Vex incoming.
I pulled out my primary weapon, because it was much faster at reloading and shooting than my shotgun and my rocket launcher. I didn't want to bother in the middle of the fight to ask Ghost to switch it out with another weapon I have stored.
Wi-fi stopped and crouched down, whereas I just charged in blindly. Cowering is for cowards.
OK, judging by my counting skills, it looks like there are about 6 of them, along with a hobgoblin towards the back. Should be no problem.
I punched the first one in the face, it's head flying clean off and clanging on to the ground behind it.
I kneed it in the stomach, killing it instantly.
Wi-fi helped me out by shooting and thereby distracting the 3 Vex that tried to advance on me.
Nope, never mind. HE wasn't distracting them. He was killing them. Of course he wasn't doing it to keep me safe. What a surprise.
I spat on the Vex corpse at my feet, which was joined remarkably quickly by three other corpses. I spat on it because I wanted to, and why not? I didn't need a reason.
Reasons are for pansies.
It was then that I remembered the Hobgoblin was there. I noticed because it shot me in the shoulder. Ouch.
My armor rating was high, but one more hit with that thing and I would be losing health.
Wi-fi aimed his sights to the Hobgoblin, shooting it once so that it went into that comatose state, buying us a few seconds.
I shot down the two Vex goblins aside it quickly, and then charged forward. My timing was just right, for as the Hobgoblin got up from it's orange crouching or whatever the hell it was, I was right in front of it, and punching it through the chest. My hand pierced through it all, and now there was a huge hole made by my hand. I pulled it out, and the Vex surprisingly kept fighting.
it made some robot noises and twitched around a bit, before I took the gun in my other hand and hot it though the head. Definitely dead now.
The place was empty now.
Wi-fi got up from his spot on the ground and jogged past me, heading for the giant titanic portal.
There was nothing of interest, I noted, as I followed him. All that was up here was the colossal portal and a large-ish circle in the middle... oh.
"I think you're going to have to stand in the circle." Ghost commented, stating the obvious.
"Wow, I never would have thought of that without your brilliant insight!" Wi-fi sounded over enthusiastic, which confuses me; since when?
Oh, wait, it was probably sarcasm. Anything that he says that I don't understand is probably sarcasm.
"I volunteer as tribute." I deadpanned, then casually strolled into what was probably a deathtrap.
The circle started buzzing, and Wi-fi took out his secondary fusion rifle, expecting something to jump out. He was worried. How cute. (that was sarcasm. I think)
White light started climbing up the edges, until it was about up to my thigh.
"Here we go." Ghost said dramatically as a towering figure floated out of the portal. He always got all the good lines.
As it materialized, I got more and more scared. Not scared, but knowing that it would be a powerful enemy. I don't get scared.
It was a head about the size of my upper body, two giant arms that would easily be bigger than me, legs and a hip. Not attached.
"Maybe it broke?" Wi-fi spoke with uncertainty, and started backing away towards the stairs, aiming his gun at the enemy.
I think he jinxed us, because the moment after he said that, all the parts clicked together as one with a clang, and a gun formed itself beside the monstrosity, attaching itself to it's arm.
Once everything was together, gravity suddenly remembered what to do and it came crashing into the ground. The thing didn't even flinch, it just took the blow and got back up again.
Knowing I had only seconds to react, I quickly used my jetpack to propel myself backwards. Just as my instincts warned me it was going to do, it shot a large purple exploding-whatever to the circle, AKA the spot I had just been standing in. These big balls of energy were a lot bigger than normal, and I didn't want to know how much they hurt more. No sir.
It was still watching me, firing more of them at about 1 second intervals. I kept using my jetpack to steer clear of them, ut I couldn't do this forever.
Thank Wi-fi for being there. Using me as a distraction, he started rapidly shooting into it's white glowing stomach, and got about 3 shots in too.
The Gate Lord was not as stupid as it's brethren, it seemed, because once Wi-fi had run out of steam it turned on the smaller robot, gun at the ready.
"Look out!" I shouted a warning, and he didn't need to be told twice. He used his own jump to get out of the way.
I took cover behind a large perfectly square stone, and got out my shotgun.
Peering out from the sides, I got a great aim of his stomach while it was shooting at Wi-fi. Bang, Bang, Bang. 3 more shots.
Even though secondary weapons are supposed to do a lot of damage, it didn't do much to the Gate lord. Only about a 4th of his health was down, I noticed.
I could tell because of that nifty thing Ghost put in our helmets, allowing us to see that kind of thing.
I got a flinch on the last one, and it stumbled and stopped it's overwhelming energy gun for a few more seconds. Wi-fi caught on to my idea, and did the same as me except at the opposite rock.
It was focused on me again, when I noticed the sound behind me.
I turned around. White floating balls that glowed. White floating balls that glowed that were spawning more Vex. Crap.
"Turn around!" I screamed at Wi-fi, who was too busy aiming down the sights of his primary gun to notice the danger behind him.
He looked up to me in question, and saw our new company.
I ran further down the stairs, to the rock in the middle. Wi-fi stayed where he was though, shooting at any goblins that came near him.
Flattening myself against the rock so none of the aliens could hit me, I allowed myself to heal before jumping straight back into the action.
I turned to see about 4 Vex shooting at me, and two hobgoblins as well as the Gate Lord shooting at Wi-fi. With the onslaught of power he had coming to him he couldn't so much as glance over the edge of the rock he was behind without getting his head blown off.
I ran forward, mainly because I wanted to punch one of them. I really, really hate Vex.
I punched the first one in the face, shrugging off the bullets from the others.
It's head caved in and to finish it off I kicked into it's stomach, getting white juice all over my boot.
I completely ignored the others, instead aiming Gjallarhorn at the Gate lord, Tanking half of it's remaining health in one blow.
Wi-fi shot down the remaining Vex goblins, and I used my rocket launcher again to get rid of the hobgoblins. Conveniently, they were standing next to each other.
Once there was only the Gate Lord left, I smirked and re equipped my shotgun.
I walked from one side of the stairs to another, so that none of the balls of energy would hit me.
It worked, because I was still alive. I used my free time to cripple it with even more shotgun ammo.
Wi-fi caught my drift, because soon we were both doing it. One quarter of health to go.
It appeared that I had spoken too soon, because yet another wave of Vex were on the way. More little white balls. What were they called anyway? I'll need to look it up.
Let's see... five more Goblins, 3 more Hobgoblins.
"Let's split it!" Wi-fi yelled as they started to spawn.
"I call dibs on the Hobgoblins!" I yelled back, and he obviously heard me because the first thing that he did was throw a grenade into the middle of the Goblin group.
I don't know how many it killed, but I didn't care. I was supposed to kill the Hobgoblins, so that is what I'll do.
The first of the set was on the pillar closest to us, where the last 2 had been. Not for much longer.
I jumped, my jetpack allowing me to soar over the Goblins on the ground, landing on the pillar. I kneed it in the stomach, and as it keeled over I bashed in it's head with my gun.
1/3 gone.
Next one was a bit further on, on a pillar behind the Gate Lord.
I pulled out Gjallarhorn again, but instead of using it to kill a puny Hobgoblin, I shot it's dangerous ammo into the Gate Lord's chest. If flinched, and it has nearly no health now. Score.
I fired my primary gun at the Hobgoblin until it crouched down in that weird orange light, then reloaded, and did the same to the Hobgoblin that was parallel to the one I had just been shooting.
It got the same treatment as the first one, and it reacted the same way.
The Gate Lord was not in an orange ball of light, however. It was still active.
With the sliver of health it had left, I might as well just kill it now, right? Right.
I didn't have much ammo left, so I might as well use my hands to do this. I never minded getting my hands dirty.
So I jumped off the pillar with the dead Hobgoblins on it, and charged.
The Gate Lord had no emotion in it's eyes, as all it did was struggle to aim it's gun at my running form. Wi-fi covered me by killing off the Hobgoblins as they stopped glowing, he had probably already finished with the 5 Goblins.
And, just like a true Titan, I jumped straight into it's weak spot, hand clenched into a fist.
To sora93232: It's really up to interpretation at the moment. I'm only going to reveal what it really was right at the end. But thank you for guessing, and it was a good guess! But I'm not going to spoil anything. :)
To Guest: As I said in an earlier reply, she isn't actually related by blood to Crota or Oryx... but she does have a connection. Her biggest connection is with the sword though, and the word thinks that she is actually Crota... but of course she isn't. Why would she be Crota? There is no way that she is. No way. No. Way.
I don't really think that her eyes turned green, but then again I was writing it in her own point of view. If I ever write down a killing spree from someone else's I'll be sure to add that because that is a brilliant detail! Thanks for that! And just a little spoiler, there will be dreams coming soon. PTSD dreams. Or are they?
Thank you to anyone reading this chapter, it seriously makes my day when anyone reads this stuff, let alone comments on it!
And if you don't like it... why are you still here?
See you all in a few days time!
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