The Darkspore assault on the gate way to the bastion was, well, truly epic - hundreds of the creatures were arriving via Mutation Mines, trying to fight their way to the Bastion to slay the Progenitors within. While they initially tried to burrow through the outer walls of the facility, after my forces annihilated those groups of burrowers, they settled for, rather predictably, an assault on the main gate, allowing me to set up a killzone to begin slaughtering them in mass. Of course, sheer numbers was making this problematic - the advancing horde of Darkspore created a wall of corpses that steadily advanced toward my forces, and I wasn't reducing the corpses to red paste fast enough to prevent the wall of the dead from blocking my fire on the living monsters heading my way. At that point, I had to start using bombers modified to drop bombs equipped with both napalm and drill tips to bore through the tunnels and begin incinerating the corpses before the Darkspore could force the corpse wall right into the faces of my turrets. With those out of the way, my forces could easily lay waste to their armies without risking injury. Oh yes!

Also, how much longer did I need to wait for the door to open?

Opening Procedures: 25% Complete

Well, that was convenient.

AAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDD now the Darkspore were attacking me even more fiercely. I mean, they were using walking bombs to try and blow open the cavern the gateway was located in so that they could send in more forces. I responded by opening up a teleporter gateway within the cavern to pull in fresh reinforcements to stop them from overwhelming me. The tide quickly turned into a brutal slog, with my forces slamming into my foes in a brutal clash filled with blood, steel, circuits and misshapen flesh. Even with my huge progenitor tech advantage, I still took losses in not-insignificant amounts.

And yet, I was still winning. However many monsters the Darkspore threw at me, my armies slew them all. Whatever genesis type they were, whatever attacks they used, however tough they were, all died before they could breach my defenses. Despite their best efforts, I was still winning.

Opening Procedures: 50% Complete

Yay, half way through. Now what were the Darkspore going to throw at me?

The answer turned out to be mutation mines. Lots of mutation mines. The amount of mines I was dealing with practically collapsed the cavern the gateway was in, but still I held them off. I actually completely disintegrated the roof of the cavern so that it would fall on top of my turrets, not because they would do any real damage, but because I didn't want the rubble to interfere with their targeting. The lack of ceiling also let me have my turrets fire directly on the arriving mutation mines, allowing me to take out a huge chunk of the enemy before they could fight back. Bring it on, you wretched monsters.

Opening Procedures: 75% Complete.

Oh yeah. In the homestretch. Let's make that obvious.

Soundtrack Start: Destiny OST - End of the Line

Now the Darkspore were starting to get desperate, apparently because, according to my sensors, they were running out of reinforcements. The stream of mutation mines coming into the system was beginning to dry up, with the continuous assault slowly giving way to attacks in waves, which were far more easily repulsed by my defenses. They tried to compensate by throwing tougher Darkspore against me, some of which were almost the size of the Destructors, but it still. Wasn't. Enough.

In desperation, the pooled the remainder of their forces into one final assault, which did actually prove to be a challenge to my defensive line. The force of the literal wave of bodies managed to smash through my army of robots and organic constructs, with some even managing to breach the turret line, but ultimately, my defenses held, and the few Darkspore that did survive the assault were forced to retreat, though they were soon mopped up by my armies.

Game, set, match.

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AN: The next chapter will mark the beginning of the next arc. Sorry for the wait.

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