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First Contact
Hunter walked into the Vanguard's briefing room and immediately crossed his arms impatiently, Shiro walking over to the projector where Zavala and Ikora were waiting for Hunter, Shiro having been working on an upgrade for his Sidearm, it looked like. It had been a little more than a week since the Vex assault Lakshmi had started. A little more than a week of relaxing with Elsie, many of which days they hadn't left the bed on Hunter's ship.
"So what's so important that you had to summon your least favorite Guardian under armed guard?" Hunter asked, tilting his head back at the three Titans and Worlocks behind him.
"A bit of apparently unfiniahed business," Zavala said. "The Pit of Heresy."
Hunter tensed instantly, narrowing his eyes.
"Ever since we all cleared it, we've been sending regular strikes in to keep the Hive from regaining whatever unnatural strength they had at the time," Zavala said. "Things have been fine every time. In fact, a few of our more recent strike teams have reported that the pit was completely empty of Hive. However, two days ago, we lost contact with our most recent strike team, as well as the team we sent to reinforce or recover them. Then, last night, something came out of the Pit."
Zavala pressed a switch and the projector formed a hologram of the entrance to the pit where something pitch black, massive, and looking humanoid except for its misshapen head climbed out of the Pit of Heresy, then stepped into a shadow and was gone.
"What was that?" Hunter asked.
"We have no idea," Zavala said.
"Where'd it go?" Hunter asked.
"We don't know," Ikora said. "There's no sign of it. We need you to go to the Pit and see if you can find any sign of it."
"Elsie and I will-"
"Just you," Ikora interrupted him. "So close after Vex assaulted the city, we need to avoid a panic that disappearing Guardians would cause."
Hunter frowned in disapproval, as well as anxiety and annoyance that he was being sent into the Pit of Heresy, of all places, alone, but he nodded and headed for the docks. Elsie met him almost immediately, looking worried.
"What'd they want?" Elsie asked.
Hunter sighed, shaking his head. "I have to go to the Pit of Heresy, alone. I swear, they're just hoping I'll die somewhere and they won't have to deal with me."
Elsie looked worried, but Hunter smiled, kissing her.
"I'll be alright," Hunter said. "They said it's clear, but some dumbasses got lost."
Elsie nodded, sighing. "Be careful. I'll be with Ana today."
Hunter nodded, kissing her again before warping to the ship and heading for the moon. As he set the auto-pilot and formed his helmet, going with a Reverie Dawn Casque this time, he walked to the armory, grabbing his Hand Cannons. He'd finally upgraded both with his SIVA to regenerate their ammo, so he would no longer need to reload. He holstered both and stared into the mirror in silence for a long while before walking back to his seat and settling in to wait.
The crystal was shattered. There were no Guardians anywhere inside the Pit, and he'd checked thoroughly, but there were destroyed Ghosts. They were smashed beyond any hope of retrieving their data, but the main issue was the chunks of crystal scattered across the floor where they'd battled the massive Hive Knight.
"Did the Guardians so this?" Hunter muttered, picking up a chunk of crystal about the size of the tip of his thumb, sensing powerful residual Darkness from it.
"I don't think so," Spark said. "The way the cystal's scattered, it looks like something...broke out of it."
"There was something in it?" Hunter asked.
"Well..." Spark hummed thoughtfully. "When we got here, that Knight was kneeling before the crystal, almost like he was praying."
"So maybe it was less a ritual that mutated the Hive here and more whatever came out of the crystal?" Hunter asked.
"It seems entirely possible," Spark said. "I just don't know what it would be."
"Well," Hunter said, looking to the center of the tower and walking over, lifting a large crystal chunk out of the way of a hole. "We could find out."
Spark hesitated before agreeing, vanishing as Hunter dropped into the hole. The tunnel was barely wider than his shoulders, and wasnt's perfectly straight, resulting in him getting banged up quite a bit, but finally, he fell into a massive, open chamber. Void Energy shimmered over him and his fall stopped as Spark appeared and shone a light around. Instantly, they'd realized their mistake. Huge roots, the same as those on the Glykon, surrounded them, filling the pit, and something, somewhere, inside the pit, shrieked deafeningly as soon as Spark appeared. Spark vanished instantly and Hunter focused, streaking back up the tunnel he'd just dropped down, heedless of the bumps and scrapes he gave himself on the way up, since they all healed anyway by the time he escaped. He flew away from the hole less than a second before the roots exploded out of it, expanding it and lashing out at him. He rolled out of the way, then focused, hurling Solar-charged knives into them. They ignited instantly, burning away to ash, but as they did, Hive began to appear, except that they were all coveres with roots, including roots breaking through their chitin and falling from their mouths. Hunter went to work instsntly, his rifle firing endlessly into the infected Hive. Fortunately for Hunter, they were no stronger or more resiliant than normal Hive, so within seconds, he'd finished.
"Let's ger out of here!" Spark said.
Hunter quite agreed. He turned, flying up to the doorway he'd jumped down to the tower from before landing and warping back to his ship. "Get a signal to Shiro first."
Spark sent a signal, but he didn't answer. Hunter narrowed his eyes, calling Petra instead.
"What is it?" Petra asked.
"There are vines formed and controlled by Darkness in a former Hive hole in the Moon," Hunter said. "They infected the Hive there and took control of them. The Guardians will destroy them, somehow, but I need you to keep them from spreading, at least on the surface. They should be able to be destroyed if they're blasted."
"Understood," Petra said. "I'm sending a detachment now. Send me the coordinates of the hole."
Hunter sent the coordinates, then returned his focus to flying just as the side of the Earth that had the Last City came into view. Hunter swore instantly and swerved right as multiple pitch black lasers flashed past, barely avoiding them.
"Hunter?" Petra asked. "What is it?"
"Orbital battle over the Last City!" Hunter shouted, powering up the ship's shields and weapons, only to stare at the true form of the scene before him.
Dozena of ships of all shapes and sizes were defending the city, some using rockets, others Trace Cannons, others Fusion Cannons, some heavy turrets, and some using their exceptionally hard plating and sharp edges like blades. Their opposing force were almost equally diverse. Broken, crumbling wreckages of jumpships, Hive Tombships, Cabal warships. The only thing the enemy ships had in common were the same vines as Hunter had found on the moon now growing from the ship, as well as large pods decorating their hulls. And there, hovering above it all, was the Glykon, now with the vines growing out of its hull through any availible openings.
"Whst the fuck?" Hunter breathed.
"Those ships are all radiating Darkness Fields!" Spark warned. "There are so many...if you die during this fight..."
Hunter nodded and focused, forming a backup memory core and copying his memories to it before holding it up, Spark instantly getting the idea and storing it inside himself.
"I'll wake you again, I promise," Spark vowed, then vanished.
Hunter streaked toward the battle and opened fire. The Railgun shot puncjed through a larger Cabal warship, and the vines turned to ash almost immediately upon being blasted by the Light-charged weapon. A moment later, the two laser rockets slammed into a pair of infected jumpships and exploded, blasting them apart, the vines once again burning away instantly, and the heavy cannons' shots ripped into another jumpship. This time, it took a few seconds of shooting before the vines burned away.
"It was only when the ship was disabled," Spark said. "I think it's control being released, not the vines being destroyed."
Several shots slammed into their shield, and Hunter flipped the ship backward, his cannons ripping through the unshielded ship trailing him. However, just as he swung around to chase an infected cabal ship, a trio of infected jumpships began to fire at him from behind. A bladed disk-like jumpship protecting the Last City shot past, the edges sheering through the trio, destroying them all, and the vines disintegrated, proving Spark right. Hunter destroyed the Cabal ship with his cannons, then blasted three more ships with his laser rockets and railgun. Then, suddenly, there was a massive Tombship chasing him, Hunter barely able to keep himself alive. Explosions surrounded him from its fire, several blasted his shields directly. He flipped around, firing at it, but his shots skipped off the hull, the laser rockets doing nothing. Then, it was after him again. Before it could fire again, however, a jumpship with a massive cannon on its left side passed Hunter. A cap on the front end of th cannon opened, and a massive beam of Solar Energy exploded out of it, punching through the Tombship and destroying it. Ahead of Hunter, a single jumpship with ten tubes per side opened fire at a swarm of infected Cabal ships, the tubes a combination of Void cannons and laser rockets, slaughtering the dozen-odd Cabal ships.
"Hunter!" Elsie's voice shouted from the ship's communicator, heavily distorted and static-covered.
"Elsie?" Hunter responded, blasting a blade-like infected jumpship for one of the Last City's defenders. "I'm over the City. It's a warzone up here."
"Same story down here!" Elsie said. "They're everywhere!"
"Ships?" Hunter asked.
"Ground troops!" Elsie said. "We need reinforcements!"
Hunter swore and flipped the ship toward the City, diving fast and blasting through several infected ships on the way. Three tried to follow, but the ship with twenty guns blasted them. Hunter broke the atmosphere hard, ignoring the flames flaring to life arouns his ship before slowing to a stop and setting the ship to hover. He found the battle instantly. It only covered two city blocks, but those blocks were chaos. Hunter warped to the ground just outside of the battle and froze.
The ground troops were Guardians. Infected with roots, like the Guardian from the Glykon, and their right arms had all been mutated into tangles of vines with a huge, blue flower on the end with a spore pod in the center, except that the pods were bursting and firing globs of black goo which aplattered seemingly harmlessly over whatever surface they hit, but which he doubted were really harmless. Hunter drew the Joker and switched it to his right hand before charging into the fray, firing rapidly and hurling daggers rapidly. Instantly, he found a much bigger problem with the infected. They refused to die. He fired nearly twenty shots into one before it died, and found his daggers, including Proximity Mine Knives, useless. He growled in annoyance, hurling an Incendiary Grenade into a group of them and blasting them away from each other, all of them catching fire and completely ignoring them, as his left hand holstered the Joker. At that exact moment, a glob of goo hit his left upper arm, melting through it in seconds, the arm that remained, from elbow down, falling away as SIVA all but sprayed themselves from the other edge of the wound, nearly an inch into his torso, to remove the rest of the goo before regenerating his arm. He stared at it in shock. His shield hadn't even tried to stop it.
He drew his rifle instantly, finsing its SIVA rounds did slightly better than the Joker, but still took about fifteen rounds a piece. Finally, he put it away, grabbong Worldline Zero, and slashed one, splitting it in half and killing it instantly. He sighed in relief and set to work instantly, racing through the infected Guardians and slaughtering them. More and more severed bodies piling up in his wake as other Guardians began to carefully use swords. Then, finally, it was over. Hunter frowned, looking around. He didn't see any familiar faces, including Elsie.
"Elsie, where are you?" Hunter asked.
"Tower courtyard!" Elsie ahouted over gunfire. "Where the hell are you!?"
"I just finished a group in the city!" Hunter said, warping to his ship and racing closer to the Tower. "On my way!"
"They're in the city!?" Elsie asked, sounding shocked.
"Not anymore!" Hunter said, then warped to her, arriving in time to slash a pawn heading for her back, noticing her struggling with her rifle. "Swords!"
Ana, lacking a sword, continued to alternate between her rifle and Golden Gun, which seemed to work as well as her rifle. Elsie drew the Lament instantly as she and Elsie tore into the infected.
"What are these things, Elsie?" Hunter asked.
"I have no idea!" Elsie shouted back, sliding under a glob of goo before slashing the creature. "Some new pawn of the Darkness that even I've never heard of!"
Hunter felt the gravity of her words like a gunshot. This was new. Something that in multiple timelines had never occurred. He slashed a pawn just as something else arrived. An infected Guardian covered in spiky vines landed in the distance with a sniper rifle that looked like it had been formed out of goo. However, as its first shot punched into Hunter's abdomen, he gaped at it as his body began to rapidly dissolve in a wave spreading outward. Desperation and instinct brought Worldline Zero up and thrpugh his neck, and Elsie screamed as his head spun into the air, but SIVA flooded from it, reforming his body in seconds before he caught Worldline Zero and brought it down through an infected before him.
He shot forward, spinning, and shredded a dozen of the closer-ranged pawns before leaping backward as something crashed to the ground. It had four legs formed from twisted, spiked vines, and a thin frame formed the same way, but a massive flower filled with jagged, pointed teeth on the petals for a head. As soon as it had landed, goo began to flow from its body, forming a more filled in silhouette of some kind of beast, the tips of the spikes still exposed, the flower still as the head, and excess goo dripping to the ground around its now goo-clawed feet. Another landed by Ana, and she leapt away firing rapidly, only for her shots to not get through the goo. The other leapt at Hunter, closing the distance in an instant, and he slashed it along the side, only barely avoiding its claws. When Worldline Zero passed in front of him, however, its blade was gone. He spun, grabbing the Ace of Spades and fired half a dozen shots into the flower and the thing let out a piercing scream and retreated. Ana's likewise retreated, though out of caution than from being wounded.
"There are so many of them," Spark breathed, just as a second sniper landed beside the first.
Then, another variation. A pair of masses of tangled, spiked vines and goo, similar in body composition to the beasts but disproportionately ballooned in front crashed down off to either side of the courtyard, then pushed themselves upright on their two, human-sized legs made of vines with rivulets of goo running down them. Its massively ballooned upper body was similar ro the beasts' bodies, but was substantially more desturbing. Where as the beasts were roughly as tall as a Vex Minotaur on all fours and three times as long, this variant's lower body from what looked like waist down was roughly human in size and shape, minus the small thorns. Its upper body, however, was the size of a Hydra, had spikes ticking out through the goo about six inches everywhere, had a flower about two feet wide for a head and smaller flowers ranging from six inches to a foot wide scattered over its body.
Hunter, Elsie, Ana, and her three dogs all began to back away, the infected forming up before them. Then, something happened. All of the goo that had been running off of the beasts and the massive ballooned things began to run across the ground, to the back of the infected's group, and formed a large pool. Then, it began to grow upward in four spots, quickly becoming legs. Both of them had nearly humanoid feet, but with blade-like talons in place of toes, then were humanoid from the ankles to the neck, forming three dimensional silhouettes from goo.
The neck was where the humanoid part ended, however, because the larger of the two silhouettes had goo flowing upwas into a head like a dragon, a real one, not an Ahamkara. It had a short, thick snout, a mouth that glowed dark red inside, highlighting its pointed teeth, slit nostrils that glowed dark red inside, and five glowing red eyes on each side of its angular head ranging from the size of a penny to the size of a palm. The goo on its head seemed to be flowing from the end of its snout backward along its head to its neck, only for its body to appear largely stationary and solid, giving it an oddly mismatched appearance even more than the inhuman head on a humanoid body did. It stood, glaring at them all with its bulding arms crossed over its muscled chest, its left hand holding its massive right bicep and its right jand tucked under its left arm. Its whole body was muscular, and a near-perfect silhouette of a human's, except between its legs where it lacked any parts thst would otherwise be there.
The shorter silhouette beside it was much the same. Smaller, slimmer humanoid feet with blade-like toes, slim legs, nothing where they connected to her body, a shapely, filled out figure but with its full, firm breasts lacking nipples. This silhouette, however, did not have a head like the male counterpart. Its head was that of a serpent the size of Hunter's torso with an easily ten-foot neck coiled on her shoulders then two more inches raised above the coil so her head was able to look around rather than resting on the rest of the neck. It's arms also differed in that they ended at a pair of spiked vines hanging to the ground, goo coating them and dripping from the dozens of thorns.
"So, who wants to name them?" Hunter asked just as everything opened fire, everyone scrambling to avoid the shots, Ana targetting the snipers as Hunter and Elsie both struggled to fend off the closer targets, both using cloaking tech to keep the beasts from targeting them.
"We can name them later!" Ana snapped, avoiding a sniper round as she reloaded.
"I've got a name," Spark said. "As a species, Pawns. Like the ancient human game, chess. You know it?"
"Elsie and I used to play," Hunter said, slashing through a pawn with his restored Worldline Zero, his Rifle firing into one of the big things with one hand as it charged at them headlong.
"Look out!" Ana warned Elsie, who dodged adide at the last second, allowing the charging swollen infected to plow into a beast's side.
"The small basic ones are Pawns," Spark said. "The snipers are Bishops, the beasts are Knights, the horse pieces, the big things are Rooks, and the silhouettes are the King and Queen. We'll call everything a 'Dark' whatever so that these Knights and Hive Knights don't get confused."
"Well, if that's what we're going with, Elsie and I are the King and Queen for our side, at least when Elsie uses her cloaking tech and I use my Hand Cannons and knives, though their both barely any help right now," Hunter said.
"And Ana's our Knight with her dogs in place of her horse," Elsie said, dropping a Pawn finally before targetting the Bishop Ana wasn't struggling to kill currently.
Hunter hurled a Stasis Shuriken at the King, but it merely extended its right arm, catching the shuriken, then crushing it before returning its arm to its normal position. Just then, Shiro, Zavala, Ikora, Drifter, Saint, Crow, and Shaxx all arrived.
"Our other pieces have arrived," Hunter said as the battle rapidly dissolved into utter chaos, everything except the King fighting.
The Queen lashed out with her whips, which seemed to extend as far as she wanted, as could her neck. Hunter shouted the order to target the Bishops and the florwers on the Rooks and Dark Knights. Everyone did as instructed, Hunter noticing Drifter using a Hand Cannon with an odd, rib cage-like barrel thst was open along the top and Crow wielding a sidearm that looked to be made of an oddly rough off-white metal with blue around the grip. He refocused on the fight, continuing to wield Worldline Zero in his right hand and Ace of Spades in his left, glad he had upgraded it to be ambidextrous like the Joker. The Bishops died first, but just as they did, the King extended his hand, two of the Pawns jerking and twitching as spikes grew from their bodies and their right arms returned to being arms as goo formed in their hands, growing into sniper rifles. Hunter swore. Just like Chess pieces indeed. The King was swapping out his Pawns.
Hunter swore as the new Bishops finished and leapt backward, creating distance between themselves and the Guardians instantly before opening fire. The King extended his hand again, and two more Pawns began to unleash a flood of goo. Ana shot one with her Golden Gun, but the shot bounced off into a different Pawn, killing that instead. A moment later, there was a third Dark Knight, just in time for Shaxx to hurl a Hammer of Sol into one of the original two's head flower, killling it. Another Pawn began to release goo, and Hunter growled in annoyance, barely keeping out of the new Dark Knight's way while peppering any flowers he could with bullets from the Ace of Spades. Finally, Elsie tackled him out of the way of both the Knight's claws and a Bishop's sniper ahot, then leapt into the air, hurling a pair of Stasis kama. However, the King leapt into the air, catching both and crushing them. Stasis crystals encased his arms just past his elbows, but he slammed them together and shattered the crystals without harming himself.
"For fuck's sake!" Hunter snarled, forming a pair of his own and hurling them directly into the ground, sending the resulting ice storm roaring toward the two Dark Knights raking their claws against Zavala's Sentinel Shield again and again, leaving huge gouges in it as their Darkness slowly beat out his Light.
Then, he turned to the rest of the Pawns of Darkness and focused.
"How many shots will I need?" Hunter muttered, rapidly converting all of his stored Light Energy to Solar.
"Assuming the Pawns and Bishops each need one shot, the Dark Knights and Rooks need three each, and the King and Queen each need ten or more," Spark listed, calculating quickly. "At least thirty."
Hunter sighed. "Let's see, then."
He formed his Golden Gun and took off sprinting. He split a Pawn with Worldline Zero, only for another to shoot the blade. He dropped what was left, firing rapidly. Three shots found targets in three Pawns before he dove aside from the Bishops' shots. He fired at them, but missed as he was forced to avoid a Dark Knight's claws. He fired three into the Dark Knight, killing it, then fired at the Bishops, killing both. He spun toward the Pawns, leaping into the air over a volley of globs of goo, firing in a fan and slaughtering five of the remaining six. The last one began to convulse, so he ignored it, instead turning on the two Rooks charging at Saint. One went down immedistely, but the last shot missed the third. Saint instead charged his fist with Arc Energy and drove it into a flower, finishing it. Hunter spun as the newly-formed Dark Knight charged, only to die before reaching him. The other charged from behind him, but Ikora hurled a massive sphere of Void Energy into its head flower, killing it. The Queen shrieked, lashing outward at Hunter rapidly, and he begsn to avoid its whips as best he could before Elsie and Drifter both hurled a pair of Stasis Kama into the ground, sending a pair of massive Stasis storms at it. As soon as it froze, however briefly, Hunter opened fire, shot after shot exploding into it. However, it took until his last shot to kill the Queen, and as his Golden Gun faded, everyone turned on the King as it uncrossed its arms, glaring at them all and growling.
"This is going to hurt," Hunter said, drawing a fan of Proximity Mine Knives and the Ace of Spades.
"We can do this," Elsie said before vanishing.
The chaos began instantly, as did their rapid loss of ground. Their shots didn't seem to affect the King at all, and it instantly sent out a pulse of Darkness that forcefully exposed their Ghosts, minus Elsie's equivalent, and then launched the Ghosts away from the battle before forming a barrier around them all to stop the Ghosts from returning. Anyone who had enough Light Energy used it, three Hammers of Sol, a beam of Arc Energy, a volley of successive Shadowshots, several Golden Gun shots from Ana, and an Arc-charged dagger all exploded into the King at the same time, only for it to launch itself at Hunter. He dove to the side, dropping a pair of Vortex Grenades and a SIVA Grenade for it, only for a back-handed slap to shatter his spine. The SIVA burrowed into its body and exploded, but it ignored it, its body healing, and likewise ignored the Vortex Grenades that seemed to do nothing. Bullets ripped into it and a half-dozen grenades of various other types also slammed into it, but had equally little effect. Hunter hurled his Proximity Mine Knives, but they had no effect. Elsie formed a pair of rocket launchers from her SIVA and fired, only for the explosions to not budge the King. Hunter drew his other Hand Cannon and fired rapidly at its entire body, but the bullets had no visible effect anywhere. The King roared, lunging and punching downward at Hunter, but he leapt over its fist, then stepped off of its shoulder, firing back into its head as hd dropped an Incendiary grenade on it. The King spun, swiping at him in mid air, but Saint slammed into Hunter, tackling him out of the way.
Elsie fired her rocket launchers again, and again they seemed to do nothing. Hunter reformed Worldline Zero and shot forward, ducking under the King's punch and slashed, only for the blade to shatter against the King. The King's foot swung up, crashing into Hunter's torso and blasting it open, and Shiro and Ana sprinted forward to distract it. Hunter groaned as his SIVA repaired the damage before Elsie helped him up. Hunter growled in annoyance, taking one of Elsie's rockets and aimed carefully. Then, just as the King roared triumphantly and moved to finish Ana with a punch, Hunter's rocket slipped into its mouth, exploding.
The King staggered away, its head blasted apart but regrowing already, however, things had changed now. As soon as the head finished regrowing, everyone fired at it, trying to get their shots into the King's mouth, largely succeeding. The King was not pleased, and roared, charging, only for Hunter to step forward, hurling a pair of Proximity Mine Knife fans into his eyes. As they stabbed into them, the King roared in pain, Ana's dogs instantly filling its mouth with chaingun bullets, a Trace Rifle beam, a Linear Fusion Rifle shot, and a rocket. Elsie fired both of her rocket launchers into it at the same time, and anyone who had something besides a shotgun added their own contribution, Hunter using his Pulse zrifle for the added effect of his SIVA rounds. Again the King's head was blasted apart, this time along with a large amount of his torso, but unlike last time, the King fell to his knees, his previously solid body growing less defined, becoming flowing goo like his head when it reformed.
Hunter shot it in the body experimentally, and it roared in pain, staggering away. A moment later, a grenade from everyone present hit it and erupted into a massive string of explosions. As the smoke faded, the King was still standing, though large chunks of its body were gone. Finally, it tilted backward, then crashed to the ground like a fallen tree, shaking the ground, before beginning to steam, its body dissolving as the Darkness barrier around them faded, along with the Darkness Field inside of it. They all waited until its body was completely gone before cheering, Hunter and Elsie kissing each other happily.
"I almost can't believe we beat them," Zavala said. "Holliday, what's the situation in orbit?"
"Mopping up the last of them now," Holliday said. "It got messy. That big Cabal ship took off but reinforcements showed up. We're down almost twenty five percent of our forces."
"Twenty five percent," Zavala breathed, staring up at the explosions above the City as they slowly faded. "And the Glykon got away."
"That probably wasn't the only King, either," Hunter said. "We need weapons thst work better against those."
"We'll work on thst," Zavala said. "For now, we need to assess the damage to the City and gather our fallen."
"Speaking of Fallen," Hunter said, just as Mythrax limped toward them, one leg broken and an arm melted off below mid-bicep.
"We survived," Mithrax said. "But those were once Guardians."
"The weak ones, yeah," Hunter said. "How's your House holding up?"
"Half of us were lost before the fallen Guardians fled," Mithrax said. "Was that your doing?"
"Probably," Hunter nodded. "The ones that still look like Guardians are Dark Pawns. The snipers are Dark Bishops. There are other types, all named after chess pieces, but those two are the weakest group."
"So, that's why you kalled it a King," Zavala nodded. "The beasts were..what, Dark Knights?"
"Yeah," Hunter nodded.
Zavala nodded before sighing, he, Shiro, and Ikora leaving. Hunter sighed, turning and staring out at the City. There was a war brewing, and they were going to lose if they didn't make some amazing improvements, and soon.
"You've really never seen those before?" Hunter asked, Elsie shaking her head. "Then how do we get ready for them?"
"I have no idea," Elsie admitted.
Hunter sighed, nodding, and they both warped to their ship to rest.
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