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The Arbiter let out a battle cry and flicked out his energy sword and started sprinting down the walkway.
"The Arbiter will take point!" cried Theg, the eldest Elite in attendance, running in to cover him with his trusty needler at the ready.
Joining the firefight, Ludo fell to a knee, raised his beam rifle smoothly to his shoulder and found the Brute pack on his scope. He dropped one with a clean head shot, then another with a piercing beam to the shoulder, then the chest. He knew the gun's faults by experience, so after the rapid fire kill on the second Brute he instinctively ducked into cover, holding the overheated weapon in one hand until it cooled down.
He glanced at his allies and saw one of the Hunters take a particle beam to the head and stop firing entirely. He stood there, trying to right himself, but the rounds just kept coming. A spike grenade thrown from afar stuck to his helmet and sealed his fate. The Hunter crashed to the floor in a hulking bloody mess of metal and worms, and his brother roared in a low grumble, a frightening, reverberating sound more felt than heard.
Joha was taking heavy fire too, but kept strafing back and forth, kept sniping.
"Killed another one!" he cried victoriously before taking a caseless green projectile to the face.