Vs. Aqrusher: The Abyssal Guardian Prototype
Edited by: NeoAlicornofTwilight
The massive robot in front of me swung its right arm, missing my face by inches. I fired volley after volley of magic blasts at every part of the robot but all the blasts simply bounced off. "What is that thing?" I panted out, "I don't remember the ancients designing anything like this!" The robot suddenly stopped swinging its arms and placed them on the ground in front of itself. The robots lower jaw dropped suddenly and I could see a small ball of energy forming in its mouth. Within a few seconds, a massive yellow laser was fired at me. I barely managed to jump out of the way, causing the laser to focus at the ground where I had previously been standing. The laser concentrated on the ground for about ten seconds which was followed by the robot's mouth smoking and staying open to cool down for ten more seconds. In this time, I glanced down towards where the laser had blasted the ground. There was a burn mark, but no structural damage. "At least the building was built to withstand explosive and energy based blasts" I thought to myself. "Wait a minute... energy blasts! That's it!" I had suddenly remembered the two abilities I had but moments ago obtained. I quickly implemented a change of tactics, dodging more sweeps of the robot's arms, until finally it planted its arms on the ground and began to charge up another laser blast. This time though, I stood my ground and cast the force field spell I had learned. The spell activated seconds before the laser would have hit me, and drew in the energy from the laser to my horn, causing an overcharged blast of magic that I could barely contain to form. Once the laser stopped, I fired my blast back into the robot's mouth, causing its lower jaw and firing system to break off with a small explosion.
The robot reeled back with a metallic screech in pain. Once it steadied itself, its head gasket opened and folded to the side revealing five cannons. The robot gave a metallic roar and with that, a blue force field appeared around its head casket. The robot became much faster as I dodged more sweeps of its arms. After a few minutes, the robot once again planted its arms and fired fives missile from each of its five cannons through the force field. I immediately responded by using the lasso spell to grab each of the five missiles at once after having locked onto them. The visual display on my suit then showed me targets placed on the shoulder joints of the robots, so I locked on to the right shoulder and threw back the five missiles at the robot's joint. The missiles hit, and with another small explosion, the metal casing around the shoulder blew off revealing neither metal, energy, nor anything you would expect, but instead, an amorphous black substance which I immediately recognized as a sign of Darkeen corruption. After I returned a second volley of missiles at the exposed joint, the shoulder exploded, sending its right arm flying off. I then repeated this process first to the robot’s left shoulder, and then to the spinal cord that was connecting the robot to the hole in the room that I needed to go down. Upon the spine's separation from the ground, the robot gave a final metallic roar, and then collapsed to the ground. I waited a few minutes before deeming the area safe before walking in to where the robot was located. But I should have known that it wasn't anywhere near safe.
As soon as I walked into the room, the robot began to spasm until eight spider-like limbs shot out from its back. Seconds after that, the outer casing blew completely off of the robot revealing metal underneath that was so hot, that it appeared to radiate with the colors of the rainbow. "what in the-" my statement was quickly cut off as the robot began charging towards me. I tried running away from it, but once I had reached a the side of the room opposite the spider-like machine, the robot jumped from where it had been, to directly in front of me. The robot gave a loud, grinding shriek, and immediately began to try and impale me with its spidery limbs. I dodged the first few volleys until the robot remained stationary as it began to recharge. I made a hasty decision and tried my lasso once again. Fortunately for me, I found I was able to lock on to each one of its legs. I then grabbed all of the robot's legs and tore them off with the lasso. The robot came crashing down with tremendous force and then with a low, metallic moan, the robot began to shudder violently. I knew what was coming, but I couldn't believe it. The Darkeen had been known to possess creatures, but I had only known them to take full control of living creatures. This was a machine, so the idea of the Darkeen being able to morph the robot into a Darkeen creature, was quite startling.
Sure enough, however, the robot began to ripple, and be consumed by, a black, shadowy substance. When the robot was fully covered by the black mass it had been consumed by, a new creature emerged. This creature had eight eyes on its face and looked like a massive spider, except for its large mouth with an eye in it and its razor sharp teeth. The spider creature stood up as high as it could, and its chest cavity tore open and a multitude of smaller, similar creatures came out. I quickly blasted each of these creatures into oblivion with my magic, and then tried the lasso spell once more. Once the creature took the time to roar at me, I found I was able to lasso the eye in its mouth. Once I had used the spell I had to fight the creature as it began to reel back. Eventually, after much struggle, I was able to tear the eye straight out of its mouth, which then went flying out towards me. The eye fell to the cold, metal-plated floor with a squish and was followed by the spider like creature collapsing to the floor as well. I had assumed the creature was now officially dead, until suddenly a pure large, black, floating, spiked-sphere came out as the corruption left the robot, as the machine took its original form. The core-like mass split into two, and took flight down the hole, I could only assume, towards the guardian of the temple, no doubt to infect it. I was about to follow it when I noticed that the window, that the robot had originally broken, and the hole to the rest of the temple, had begun to seal off, and the robots eyes had begun to flash as well as an alarm started sounding. Before I could even react, the robot exploded.