Chapter 24
Darkness after Night
"Hey, Rhenka wake up, you are oversleeping this." Zalok notified.
Rhenka shot up, and quickly raised his head, resulting with him impacting the top of the cave. He then rubbed his head, having serious pain from the sharp rocks from up above. The rough and hard surface feels like you drag along somebody while on it, and soon, they will be bleeding, fatal or dead. Zalok tried to look through, but they patched up the hole already, knowing that he was there. The minions of Raleigh seem to be very intelligent, but somehow Raleigh always gets their minds converted to his side.
"Thinking what I am thinking?" Rhenka asked.
"Not really." Zalok responded.
"We take the wall down, and then do a full frontal." Rhenka said.
"Well, that always worked for me, but i know that if there is-" Zalok tried to say.
"JUST DO IT!" Rhenka yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Okay okay, fine!" "You dont have to yell!" Zalok disturbingly said.
Zalok immediately swung the blade, and the wall began cracking into pieces of rock, not making a mark. Rhenka then sighed and bashed the wall with his head, and it came crashing down. There were many shadows, all with the same rifle, aiming straight into Rhenka's head. One threw a leash over his head, and pulled him back to them, with the others shooting. Zalok then tried to take over some of the shadow's minds to take out the other ones, but that did not work. Soon he was forced to use his sword to try and clear them out. With each slash, darkness, void and limbo was splattered on the metal surface, marking the death of the affected. Rhenka then broke free of the shadow's leash, and stabbed his claw into it's chest. Darkness also splattered onto his arm. Soon there were nothing but corpses and dark blood.
"Cmon, Uitan and Tyler shouldn't be that far away." Rhenka said while placing his head down low.
They both ran for the left hallway that was strangely empty, as they thought this was an ambush, Rhenka spread the ground with flames. Zalok knew that if he touched even one of them, he would be burning in hell. So Zalok asked Rhenka if he could sit on top of his back, and Rhenka did, but the heat from the flames still step was searing hot, letting the heat go through his scales. It was like a disease, but more feverish. Rhenka then said something but did not notify Zalok. He slowed down, assuming that Zalok would get the gesture. Although he thought, Zalok did not understand this at all. Was he just slowing down because of this Fire? it doesn't make any sense. Then he spotted the ground which was not burning, and without warning jumped onto it. Instantly, Shadows came from the walls, chaining them by surprise. They took each of their chains and wrapped it at a pair of limbs.
They began communicating to each other as they were done, while Zalok was relieved of his blade, and Rhenka was struggling hard to get free. A huge shadow came in and pushed both of them with extreme force. With the chain tightly wrapped around his mouth, Rhenka could not really do anything at all. Just get pushed by the shadow. He tried to blind every one of Raleigh's minions, but with the sharp feeling of darkness suppressing him, he couldn't. Zalok tried to take over a shadow, but he couldn't do it when there is darkness in presence. One of them suggested stabbing them both with a very huge thorn, that usually was used for executions. One however, conveniently had it in the back of his armor, and pulled it out. With haste, it jumped onto Rhenka and stabbed it through his thick scales. His eye's widened, thinking that the puncture was impossible but it just happened. Soon, his sight began dwindling, and he no longer could feel anything. His whole body began losing control, and he stopped breathing.
Raleigh came into the hall, seeing the shadows subduing Zalok. Raleigh approved with excitement. He then ran to Rhenka, checking to see if he was genuinely dead. He was not breathing or making any any movements anymore. He cut into him, and collected a sample of blood on his finger.
"Great work... You actually killed two Sentients in one go." Raleigh stated. "Something that I could not do in years, you accomplished, and you are the low ranks."
"Will- Interrogate the other Sentient? Will extract Vermillion co- Master?" The shadow slowly asked while stuttering.
Do what you got to do. I have a forsaken mind right now. Raleigh muttered under his voice. After you are done extracting, please get these two sentients out of my sight. Incinerate them or something.
"As you wish... Raleigh..." The shadow acknowledged.
-At the Tower-
With the darkness rapidly spreading across the world, as Equinox merged, the energy that Sentients used to have, was getting drained with each passing second. Within minutes, they could not reach a state of continuity, and became unable to take down Zhallo. Even though Zhallo was a Sentient himself, he was not affected since he broke his bond with Equinox, being stated as the Demon of Sentients. The fire that Equinox stood next to, was flaming bright, but it kept on lowering, and lowering. The heat was quickly fading, and the color turned from blue to red, meaning in that room, it was about to become a massacre by the flame. With that in mind, She called each one of the sentients that were in the tower, and to that room too. They all came in, limping, not being able to fight at all.
"It is time. We will all be put to rest." Equinox said.
"Why did you merge with your bad side? That was a bad move for all of us." Death said.
"No time to explain. I will now put us all into a deep rest, and seal us away. If we do not, we all die from the darkness. If darkness takes dominion, then we die anyways." Equinox stated.
"Okay then do it." Death agreed.
Equinox raised both of her hands into the air, emitting a strange light that almost blinded everybody, and when it exploded, they were all gone.
-In space-
Akaz begun to stretch, and move. He knew he now had control once again. He slowly looked at his front claws, and saw the blood seeping down the tip of his claws. He was wondering why there was, and he asked them, realizing that everybody in the room was sleeping and he knew each and every one of them. Altayous was cooped up next to his foot, while Enuo was sitting against the wall. Mideran and Ivect were also doing the same thing, but very separated from each other.
"Uhh, Altayous?" Akaz asked.
Altayous sprung up from sleeping from his leg.
"Oh nice!" Altayous exclaimed. "He is awake!"
They got up slowly, being sore from being in one place at a long time. They looked at Altayous, as Akaz had the claws that was covered in the ogre's blood. They all stepped back for a second, and Enuo did the opposite. He began talking, but whenever he talked, Altayous and Akaz could not hear him. Altayous then did a gesture that was supposed to be translated as 'I cannot hear you'. Enuo then nodded and shut off the force field.
"Anyways, what I was saying is that we just restored your sanity. Now, we need you to control both of the ships from here on my signal. Although, you have to be careful because our allies and friends are on the other ships." Enuo said. "Hopefully you know how to use them, right?"
"What is this thing on my head, and why did the energy flow from me and Equinox suddenly felt like it has been severed?" Akaz asked.
"Well, we are about to find out." Altayous responded. "Although, we still need you to take down this mothership or at least it's engines."
"Fine." Akaz said while connecting to the ship's control module.
Suddenly, alarms sounded and distracted Akaz from his action, and threw him off. They were not knowing what was going on since, Akaz did not do anything yet. They heard large explosions going on outside. From what he guessed, it was the Tenno. The mothership however, made sure that each and every one of them was retaliating, and so the 2 destroyers rerouted the cannons to the invading horde.
-Left Destroyer-
Volxhos then used a Fomorian disruptor to take out all of the shields, and he ran out the door, so that he may help their efforts.
"Volxhos! Where are you going!?" Latinis asked out loud.
"I will help!" Volxhos answered. "Come along Latinis!"
Latinis then walked out of her shield and ran towards the huge Rhino prime, who was Volxhos. Latinis, with her sword came and sliced each base, containing the power to imprison people. The team immediately pulled out their weapons and started to kill everyone in the ship, with the exception of themselves and the tenno. Soon, alarms sounded again, and this time it warned of a hull breach. They knew that their rescuers were fighting on ground and space now. Davoskis saw a Terrace soldier shooting at his head repeatedly, but when he did, Davoskis quickly dashed towards him, and pounded the ground with intense arc energy.
Roa'urn ran out as well, but this time he was going for the control module with Caughantis, who has already hacked into the Destroyer's mainframe. They could see about four Tenno roaming the ship, flames spreading everywhere, spewing bullets of pure agony. He could see all the bloodshed that the Tenno did to the Terrace empire on that ship, and wondering why. He then found the mainframe, and Caughantis was prompted to hack it already, and he said he has already did, knowing each and every step taken. Roa'urn then immediately stood and held his sniper rifle up to his shoulder. Another one of the tenno came in and slowly walked over towards them. He had his gun up at Roa'urn, making him try to show that he is with Volxhos. It slowly put it's weapon in it's holster, and he walked off as Caughantis finished hacking the mainframe. He then tried to reach out with Sasha and Deji, with Tuo and Inaj as well.
"We got our Destroyer under control. How is yours!?" Caughantis questioned.
"Think you can Help us out? These Tenno think we are enemies, and are pointing guns at our faces, so we cannot execute the plan." Sasha rudely said.
There was a voice that spoke faintly.
"What plan you wolf? Tell me." The group leader asked.
"Fine, one second." Sasha bellowed. "We want to go back to Jupiter so we can claim our reward. Our Friend Akaz is on the mothership, but I doubt that they slacked off with their plan. They are going back to the second moon on Ceres, which ironically, Ceres is a moon as well. If you would let Tuo over there with about 5 guns pointing at his head free, then the plan will execute perfectly."
"I understand. Let us rid this ship of you enemies then." The group leader stated. "Move out."
-Right Destroyer-
Tuo was released from the Tenno's oppression, and was told to hack the mainframe of the destroyer he was on. Inaj has already scanned the ship pre-entry, and overridden his mind and the suit. Tuo was running fast and it looked like he was about to crash through the ship, run through the reactor, and compromise the ship's integrity completely. Soon enough, There was the console where Inaj let the suit's lashes out, which was controlled entirely from Inaj. It then injected it into the mainframe, and made it so that Inaj could take over the ship, without having the suit around.
-Destroyer hacked. Caughantis. Please get Mideran and Ivect, I know Ytrian would want them back.-
"Acknowledged, Inaj." Caughantis responded back.
-Space-
Soon, the mothership began moving once again, and this time, it began to go at the highest speeds that Akaz ever saw. The Tenno all got out of the destoryers, returning to their landing craft, one being a Xiphos. Akaz knew that something has happened on the Second moon, and it was about to get ugly. Both destroyers in succession left the scene, and gone back to Jupiter. Within the ship that Altayous was on, he wanted to really know what was keeping him from going berserk. He knew that was something that was on his head, but the energy that was controlling him suddenly disappeared. Altayous patted his leg, saying; "Do not worry. We should come upon a new day".
