"Who are they?" Diana asked now beginning to feel afraid herself.
"We need to get out of here now." I said.
"I second that motion." Jayden said
"We can't win this fight." Leo said.
"What your running." Superman said in shock.
"Seriously Avery your willing to insult the most dangerous people on earth to ther face without even flinching but your afraid of that big schmuck." Flash said.
"Yes Flash I am afraid of that MONSTER." I said
"Avery, who are they?" Diana said as she took my hand in an effort to calm me down. I looked into her eyes and saw one thing I never expected to see. Fear. I squeezed her hand and I started to speak.
"That is Crota the Son of Oryx and Oryx the Taken King. They are what the hive believe to be a god." I said.
"The Taken King? What does that even mean?" Batman asked now beginning to see the severity of the situation.
"The Taken refers to Oryx's power to Take." Jayden said.
"The power to Take?" Batman asked.
"Oryx can somehow forcibly transform others in creatures know as the Taken by corrupting them he Darkness." I said explaining it to the best of my ability.
"Well you have beaten him before." Flash said.
"We had another fire team with us and even then we didn't take on Crota and Oryx at the same time." I responded. Jayden had gone back to looking through his sniper while we were talking.
"Things are getting worse down there." Jayden said.
"How could things possibly be getting worse." I said.
"There bringing a army through." Jayden said. I looked down at portal and sure enough coming out of the portal were thousands of Hive.
"That's an invasion force we have too stop them." Superman said as he began to move out from our hideen position only to be stopped by Leo.
"Are you insane." Leo hissed at him.
"We don't have time to talk." Superman said as he tried to push past Leo.
"You are about to give up the only advantage we have on the hive. If you go out there without a plan you will kill us all." Leo said.
"He's right Superman." Batman said.
"Well I don't suppose you have a plan?" Superman asked.
"No I don't. But we need to recognize that we are out of our depth." Batman said.
"I have a plan." Jayden said.
"Well what is it?" Green Lantern said.
"Your not going to like it but if it works we might be able stop Oryx from resurrecting any more of his army." Jayden said.
"Well don't keep us in suspense." Flash said.
"Were going to call for some "reinforcements"." Jayden said picking choice words. He started to look of into the distance. I followed his line of sight until I saw what he was referring to.
"Are you trying to destroy all of humanity." I asked furious.
"What does he mean by reinforcements?" Superman asked. Leo finally realizing what he was proposing voiced his opinion.
"Jayden you Traveler dammed psychopath that is singal most suicidal, idiotic and down right apocalyptic plan that has come out of that psychotic death trap you call a brain." Leo said angrily.
"What is his plan?" Batman asked.
"That Psychopath wants to summon the Vex." leo said.
"Do you have any better idea. The Vex are the only faction in the galaxy with the fire power and the numbers to stop this." Jayden said. As much as I absolutely hated and despised this plan he was right, the vex are the only faction in the galaxy that had not only the firepower and the numbers to stand a chance they were also the only that could deploy those resources fast enough.
"I much as I hate to say it and believe me I do hate to say it. Jayden is right." I said with a sigh.
"What?!" Leo said angrily.
"Leo I wouldn't be suggesting this if there was anyother way. There's no way for us to get to that crystal in order to destroy it there are just many Hive. Keep that in mind even if we do somehow kill Crota and Oryx the portal is still open, they could just walk out of it again." Jayden said desperately. Leo growled he knew Jayden was right and he hated it.
"Do we get a say in this?" Superman asked.
"Do you have a better plan?" Jayden asked.
"We cause a cave in." Superman said.
"That won't work for multiple reasons." I said.
"We are wasting time. The more we talk the more soldiers they bring through. We have to go with Jayden's plan." Batman said grimly.
"Ok but once I do this we are going to need to book it out of here before the fireworks start." Jayden said.
"Once you bring Kreig out they will know where here." I stated. The natural light that ghost gave off would attract the hive like a moth to a flame.
"You all should in case this goes south." I told the leauge. To be blunt I was more directing that statment at Diana than anyone else.
"No we are seeing this through." Diana said definently. I knew I wasn't going to change her mind so I didn't try.
"Jayden." I began.
"Yes Ave?" He asked.
"Go unleash hell." I told him. Jayden quickly bolted off and ran towards a unfinished Vex construct. "Everyone keep your heads down." I said. Jayden quickly arrived at the construct and Kreig materialized and started to go to work. However I was stil right when I said that once kreig was out in the open the Hive would notice. Because the second Kreig appeared Oryx's head shot up and he began racking his gaze across the room before gaze fell on Jayden and he smiled.
"Guardian!" Oryx bellowed. "Look at how easily your work has been undone. I have returned, every Hive you have every killed has returned. Your annihilation is at hand. But I am not without mercy come to me now and I shall grant you a warriors death." Oryx's voice reverberated off the cavern walls.
"Yeah how about a rain check. Because I was just inviting some more freinds to the party." Jayden yelled.
"No matter how many Guardians you bring they will fall." Oryx said.
"I didn't say they were Guardians." Jayden said. Now realizeing what meant a look of rage passsed over his face.
"Stop that fool now." Oryx yelled. But as soon as the words left his mouth the sound of crackling electricity filled the cavern. I looked up and saw a vex invasion portal. The Vex started to teleport into the room by the thousands. Several massive Vex minotaurs were leading the assult. Within seconds the cavern had devolved into a full fledged war. Crota himself charge into the fray immediately and in one fell swoop cut one of the leading Vex minotaurs in half throughing the top half away.
"Run!" I yelled as we made a mad dash for the exit. But even before Flash could get to it the tp half of the Vex minotaur landed infront of us blocking our escape rout.
"What do we do now!" Flash yelled.
"Kreig managed to download a map of the Labyrinth while he was in the system. There is one other exit that is a straight shot to the surface." Jayden said.
"WHERE!" We all yelled at once. Jayden responded by pointing to another tunnel several hundred yards away. The problem was inorder to get there we needed to cross open ground and worst of all it put us right in Crota's warpath.
"Just great." Leo said. Without a word we all took of running. Jayden took several potshots with his sniper whenever something tried to snipe us. Despite it being less than two minutes it felt like hours and it was about to get alot longer.
"You!" Crota's voice cut through all the chaos. "Your the pathetic Guardian who killed me. I shall have my revenge!" He swung his sword at me. I barley managed to avoid being chopped in half by it.
"Avery!" Diana yelled in fear upon seeing whoi was facing off against. The others had sll made it to the tunnel by now and we watching on infear.
"Run!" I yelled. Crota then realized our connection and a evil grin appeared on his face.
"I shall take my revenge on you Guardian but not before i take everything you love starting with your mate!" Crota bellowed as he raised his sword.
"Move!" I yelled at Diana. But she wouldn't move I could tell she was trying something was keeping her in place. Acting on pure instinct I blinked right infront of her and in that second all I knew was pain. Crota's sword hit me and sent both of us flying into the tunnel my armour shattered and my helmet broke. Everything hurt I could just make out the sound of gunfire. My vision grew blurry and I saw Diana's beautiful face looking down at me in horror. Normally death wasn't suchchbbig deal to Guardians but but this was Crota's sword I didn't know if Click could revive me from this. Diana began to cry and yell at me. I couldn't make out any of the words she was saying. If I was to die at least I would die near the ones I loved. Not exactly the best situation but it is the one I was in. I could just make out several explosions and then a sudden lack of gunfire. Someone had caused a small cave in. I felt soft lips touch mine for a few seconds before I couldn't feel anything. The last thing I saw was the faces of he woman I loved and my fireteam looking down at me with multiple different emotions. Fury on Jayden's face, sorrow on Diana's face, and something between the two on Leo's face. Finally everything slipped into darkness.
