I flew in the direction of the weapons core system.
“Harvester OC-22874 verify yourself or we'll shoot you down!” a Psion said over the comms.
My Ghost verified us.
“You have permission to land on platform T4E338.” the Psion gave as a response.
Instead of flying to the landing pad I flew in the direction of the Almighty’s weapon core. I found a perfect spot to set down and hovered the ship a few metres over the ground.
I opened the drop hatches and jumped out, still missing Rainbow Dash only a few seconds behind me.
As I took my first steps on the Almighty, my Ghost flew the Harvester in a save but hidden spot, still reachable for me.
As I went around the first corner I met a cabal patrol and took them out with ease.
The next encounter was a bit different: Ten Legionaries and a Centurio. I emptied four mags in the Cabal, leaving two Legionaries over. I made a quick shadestep into cover and reloaded.
As I peeked over my cover I didn't really expect what I saw: Instead of two Legionaries Rainbow Dash stood there, hooves covered in Cabal blood oil.
“What are you doing here?” I lowered my weapon.
“Saving your flank.” Rainbow walked over to me.
“Anyways when you are here then help me at least.” I picked up a slug rifle from a dead Cabal and threw it over to her.
“Sure.” she catched it with a wing, weighted it a few seconds and took aim,”How do I use this thing?”
“Aim at an enemy and pull the trigger. If the counter goes to zero, take one of these” I threw a mag over to her and she catched it with her other wing,”Change the old one, pull the bar on the left side and you're ready to go again.”
She fired a test round with almost no recoil.
“Seems easy.” she stepped inside the next room.
“Yeah may now, but don't get cocky.” I stepped behind her in the room.
We took out two more patrols with ease, but a third one got us a pretty good fight.
We entered a hangar as the lights went on, revealing sixty Cabal soldiers.
We both made a quick dash to the side behind cover and waited for the first wave of enemies.
The first wave began as ten Gladiators and ten War Beasts rushed to our position.
The War Beasts were easy to take out, but the Gladiators had really heavy armour, taking more than two mags of my Origin Story.
We took out four of them by shooting them together, making it impossible for them to get close.
Two of them came through the crossfire and tried to kill us in 1v1s.
I waited for mine to get close, switched to my Gravity Slingshot and killed him with two precision shots to the helmet.
Rainbow Dash gave her Gladiator a very good fight. She gave him precise punches and kicks until he staggered back, and ended the fight with a high speed kick to the chest, sending the challenger flying to the back wall of the hangar, making his thrusters explode on the impact.
Another one jumped over our cover and pressed Rainbow to the ground. I quickly took out my DMR and shot it's booster, until it malfunctioned and sent it flying through the air.
The last three where no problem now, but now the second wave began, consisting of Legionaries and Phalanxes.
Rainbow killed five of the Phalanxes before she self got hit. She ducked down behind our cover and let me take a closer look at her shoulder. She only caught a graze.
“I will tether them, when you see a bright purple light shoot them.” I peeked over the cover and instantly ducked down again as the Cabal opened fire on our position.
“I have no ammo.” she complained and threw her weapon in the crowd of Cabal forces.
“When I tether them, punch one in the head, that should kill them all.” I counted to three.
As I reached three I jumped in the air and fired a void anchor, tethering all of the Cabal and instantly refilling my ultimate energy.
Rainbow dashed forward, and as I predicted, punched one in the head, dealing the same damage to the others and making them explode in void light.
We entered the hallway to the weapon core and I scoped in to examine the situation around the core.
“We need something well armoured and heavy hitting to get through that.” I lowered my weapon.
“Like a tank?” she pointed her hoof at a Goliath tank next to us.
“That could do.”
We entered the tank, me on the driver seat Rainbow on the gunner seat.
My Ghost quickly analysed the tank and explained to Rainbow:”Red button fires the main weapon, green one a rocket barrage.”
He turned to me:”Drives like a Drake, red button releases a fiery close range attack”
The tank was pretty slow, so we had to watch our maneuvers, Rainbow holding the Cabal on distance whilst I got the tank in position for a clean shot.
Before we reached a clean spot a Harvester showed up and before Rainbow took it down made us unable to move again.
I jumped out the tank and took out the last defenders.
“New plan?” she asked.
“New Plan. Climb up that thing throw a grenade in it and run.” I found a good path to jump up.
I began my jumping and Rainbow flew up and waited for me.
I found a vent and opened it.
“When I throw a grenade in there, this whole thing will collapse.” I pointed at a catwalk pointing to the sun,”Our ship waits there.”
“Stop talking and go.” she made herself ready to sprint the whole distance to the ship in ten seconds flat.
I threw a scatter grenade in the core and with that destroyed the ventilation system, making the core overheat and collapse.
“RUN!” I yelled over a dozen explosion.
We reached our ship in time and I quickly brought us on course with the Orobas Centaro.
I activated autopilot and went back to the crew apartment.
Rainbow was still covered in Cabal blood oil and had scorched spots on her fur from the sun.
“You gave them a pretty good fight.” I sat down next to her and gave her a fist/hoof bump.
“We should do THAT more often, instead of fighting each other.” she began cleaning her wings.
“Probably. But we're still not finished.”