Location: City of Tears
The sentries were afraid, they had every right to be. It wasn't every day a metal giant rampages through your city, seemingly making a mockery of some of the best Hallownest had to offer. Nothing seemed to hurt it, not nails, not needles, not even the reinforcements of the Soul Sanctum seemed to do anything to stop it. It seemed the destruction would continue until the giant approached a hatch that led to the Royal Waterways.
When the metal behemoth got there, it just ripped the hatch off, and jumped in. A sigh of relief washed through many of the sentries. It seemed that the beast had taken its sights of the city, and on to something else.
Ogrim had finally managed to arrive at the scene with the contingent of watcher knights Lurian sent. The wounds sustained from the giant burned, but that wouldn't stop him from carrying out his duties. Good bugs lost their lives to that thing, what right did he have to sit it out because of a few cracks.
"You say it heave went into the Royal Waterways?" Ogrim asked.
"Yes sir" Said a great sentry who was stationed there when it happened.
"It had just busted through another house, we thought it was going to repeat its previous actions, but instead is went into the Waterways of all places, this leads me to believe that it actually has a purpose here beyond just mindlessly killing innocents" The great sentry continued
"The White Palace!" Ogrim exclaimed, this thing was trying to assassinate the Pale King.
"I'm going after it, heave no one here knows the Waterways like I do" Ogrim declared
"Sir, you are in no condition to be fighting that thing" The great sentry warned
"If I don't then-" Ogrim was interrupted by a familiar voice behind him.
"I'll do it!" Ogrim turned around to see Isma marching towards them, a look of determination of her face.
"Isma, you can't-" Ogrim began
"Oh shush Ogrim, I'll be fine, stay back here and rest, I have already alerted the other Great Knight, I shall return with that monster slain" Isma declared, as she jumped down the torn open hatch.
Ogrim tried to follow her, but was stopped by the great sentry "Sir I highly suggest you heed her instructions" Ogrim wasn't happy about it, but he relented, he only hoped Isma would be ok.
Location: Royal Waterways
The gene trooper was making its way across what looked to be the bug kingdom's sewer system. Minimal resistance encountered, hostile fauna terminated after acts of belligerence.
The trooper arrived at an area with a wooden scarf holding, the signal from his objective was getting stronger, and he kept up the path.
Hostile bug soldiers terminated upon initiation of hostilities. The bug soldiers didn't have as much of a presence down here as they did in the city proper, but they still had a presence.
The trooper managed to make its way to the bottom of the area, where a destroyed cage like construct was located.
The trooper followed the signal and came upon an area with a minimal soldier presence, though it had gaps that he would need to jump across, easy enough. The trooper jumped his way across the gaps, killing any bug soldier that engaged, and letting any that did not go, in accordance with the order to 'show restraint'.
The gene trooper saw an opening down a hole, simple enough, he could easily climb up later, though his objective would need to hold onto him. The trooper jumped down, and landed in what can only be described as a construction area. The loudness of his landing alerted the bugs to him, and they began running every which way in panic, none showed hostility, do not engage.
The trooper went through another opening in the ground which led to a tunnel system, no presence of bug soldiers detected, only hostile fauna, easily taken care of. After a while of traversing the tunnels, he came to an area with a sign that had a strange symbol on it. That did not interest him as much as the hole where the signal appeared to be coming from.
Suddenly, in a flash of light, the trooper was sent flying. It landed on the opposite side of the hole where the signal was coming from. The trooper scrambled to its feet, the HUD in its helmet telling him that some of the plating on his back had been broken. The trooper turned around and saw a white bug, whose head looked like a sort of crown, a pale whaite light seemed to emanate off of it. Suddenly, a bolt of white was launched, and hit the trooper in his breast plating. The plates cracked, and sent the trooper skidding backwards, but not knocking him over.
"Hostility confirmed" was the trooper's only thought as the battle commenced.