Spines felt everything every moment. As the suit extended its arm to fire a spray of plasma on the field. Her body ached and screamed. No, she gritted her teeth and swallowed her pained wails. This was no time to be distracted, she was a dragon and she could handle it if it meant it would save lives, save Dusk and her family.
At the moment she was no better than a flesh puppet inside a shell. The suit could not function without a user however so her cooperation held everything together.
Carbon EX was not too much of a game-changer than its regular state but an enhancement such as this very well could tip the scales in their favor. Enhanced targeting and battle power combined with increased speed and defense make her a much harder target to kill.
It landed while unsheathing its blade which to her looked much longer as well as a longer version of her pistol. Around it rushed another furry of Spawn. In one swing of the arm, the path was cleared as a bloody mist tinted the air. "SHIT." Spines moaned, her arm tore apart little by little with the impossible speeds her suit moved with. It was hard to breathe from her earlier injuries, she knew if she commanded the suit would stop but she already made up her mind, no turning back, she will walk this path of Hell with a smile if it meant victory. She made a raspy inhale "KEEP FIGHTING." The suit nodded and attacked once more, another powerful slash that cut apart the weaklings. It used the gun to shoot larger ones in the distance in their weak points. The enhanced gun packed a new powerful punch every shot that downed a Titan in only a few well-placed hits. As the Void Spawns began to see the suit as a threat once again they focused to destroy it, this gave the soldiers at the wall about to be overwhelmed a chance to push them back.
"The General is giving us an opening. Do not waste it!" An Elite shouted as it tore apart a large Titan from the legs.
"JAWOHL!" Everyone chanted in confirmation.
Over the sea of evil, a purple fire blazed over it like burning oil. Bek spun around like a saw blade obliterating everything by the thousands. Then something snapped, the spin attack stopped suddenly and violently causing the commander to be tossed a long distance away, as he flew his system told him the error was due to his left joint piece giving out to the sudden immense pressure. Internally he swore, he knew this might happen after countless years in a dark room. It did not matter to him however, victory was in sight if everything was going as planned. If an absolute victory meant his life then he would do it without hesitation. His core fired up even faster, energy left the left arm and pulsed to the right. The heat made the purple blade's earlier violet ooze into an even darker hue. His time was short so it made these moments vital to deal a crippling blow. His vents fired up and like lighting, he was gone, with one arm he had to really focus to perform the same damage as before, he could feel his accuracy fall as his right joint began to creek and melt from the overwhelming power.
Yes it was working, Bek with his venomous fire was grinding their numbers down, and best of all the flood began to stop coming out from the Everfree, the summit of this mountain was finally in sight. Eight minutes until the wall was completed, yes with just one final push the General's efforts would be realized- in one moment his speed was cut like a flame in water. The incredible and sudden halt in speed caused several components in his insides to shatter and break, his diagnostics showed what he already knew. The body was dead and he was in great danger, his optics came back in order to see a most unpleasant sight.
It stood almost fifteen feet tall with four legs and two massive arms that ended in claws that measured up to three feet in length. The chest was ripped and shredded with misplaced muscles but the head was the most prominent feature in this abhorrent mess. A maw filled only with rigid teeth and an ovular head with sixteen small blue eyes that looked down at him as it huffed and breathed unevenly. Yes it was as Bek feared, the hidden Void pulled a risky move and pooled a large portion of its blood into one creature, a Blood Clot as it were. Dangerous and adaptable but only used in desperation due to the level of aggression they had. There was a solid chance the weakened Void was already slaughtered by this mess of a monster. It was red all over, oozing a black substance as if it lacked skin. It made an odd clicking noise that messed with his audio sensors.
His speed was his doom, he was too focused on killing as many as possible to see the large threat grab him off the air like a fly, it was truly a shameful moment for the commander...one he would repay now. "SELF DESTRUCT ACTI-" Before the command could go through the Clot tore off the commander's head and gave it a crush with its fist and as a final end the creature tossed the head into its pool of teeth. "SPines...I'm soRr-"
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It came to the point where Spines started to go numb from each movement given. Her brain started to shut down feeling altogether, time itself began to fade bit by bit. The suit was doing good work in keeping them away. She hopped her body would survive to see the end of it all...her eyes closed and darkness overtook her...for only a moment as blaring lights slapped her awake "Wha?" *EMERGENCY...HIGHLY LETHAL THREAT INBOUND...COMMANDER SIGNAL LOST* "Bek?" She muttered as her senses began to return, then she saw it. Nothing thus far struck fear into her soul like this, massive and unrecognizable to anything she has ever seen.
"General..." The soldier that melded with her suit said. "That is something we cannot afford to ignore, it will tear through our numbers with ease."
Pain began to come back to the dragoness, through gritted teeth she drawled out. "Then what do you suggest we do?"
"We need you to control this body again, having a clump of dead weight lowers our efficiency. We need full control to beat that thing and destroy the rest of the enemy in time.
Time? Right...five minutes left...she remembered the pai-'fuck the pain!' She gritted her teeth so hard her jaw began to creek silently to those outside the suit she began to rage and shout every obscenity in the book as loud as she could. Spines felt a new level of sick thinking she would let others die for her comfort. Then she let her com-link open to the world. "I'M TIRED OF THIS BATTLE I'M TIRED OF KILLING AND MOST OF ALL I'M TIRED OF YOU!" She pointed to the Clot in newfound rage.
This proclamation stirred the semi-intelligent Blood Clot, it roared the screams of a thousand voices. With some effort she put force back into her arms and legs, yes it burned but she was past this. "Sometimes you gotta kill to have peace." She gave out a mighty battle cry meeting the mass of blood head-on.
This was it, the final challenge in front of her.