Nox-23 sat in the pilot’s seat of his ship. Twilight Sparkle flew in her own ship the “Fang of Nyx”. After training with Nox-23 and his Ghost she had learned most of the in and outs of flying through space. Though it was a good idea to have the Ghost stay with her just in case.
They weren’t the only Guardians either. Several fireteams of Guardians flew with them, all for the mission they were about embark on.
“Guardians” The voice of Zavala, Guardian Vanguard spoke to the gathered warriors of light. “Today we face a huge threat. One that can doom us all if left unchecked. Somewhere down on the planet below you the Black Heart resides. Seek it out and destroy it. And...come back safe.”
The comms went silent for only a moment. “Alright everyone you have your assignments. Begin the mission.
As one the ships broke out of their orbit and headed to the planet below. Mars.
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Several teams of Guardians landed in the Burrens of Mars. Twilight and Nox-23 transmated right next to each other while Jeremy and Victor appeared some several yards away.
Any discussions were halts as A male Warlock jumps in front of the pack. “Alright everyone find your teams. You should already received word on your Assignments so…”
The rest was disrupted by the the sounds of Sparrows revving up. Not a second later to Sparrows shot off through the crowd nearly hitting a few people before breaking away into the dusty dunes of the planet.
“Leeroy! Jenkins!” The Warlock screamed, but it was futile, the two brothers had disappeared from sight. Other Guardians took the incentive and summoned their Sparrows as well. Soon only a few of them remained in the staging area.
Among the Guardians left behind three made their way to Twilight and her friends A Titan, a Hunter, and a Warlock. The Hunter broke away from the others waving at the group. While no one could place the armor the New Monarchy royal shader gave away what faction the hunter belonged to.
“Yo, looks like we are all here...it’s me Victor.” the Hunter said noticing confused stares he was getting.
Recognizing the voice Nox-23 spoke “So you didn’t go head like the others?”
“Victor shook his head. “Nea, as much as I wouldn’t mind going it alone. I can’t let my crew hanging. He pointed back to the Titan and Warlock coming up besides him.
“We are not your crew.” The Warlock spoke with a feminine monotone voice. Her armor refelting her reflecting her ties to Future War Cult. “Victor, the only reason I waited is because you convinced me that the extra help was worth it. I am not nor will ever be a part of your crew.” The Warlock said matter-of-factly.
‘If everyone is here can we go now. I’m missing out on the fighting.” The Titan wearing Dead Orbit colors said slamming his fists together.
Twilight looked at the Titan and Warlock then back at Victor. “I hate to be the rude one here but who are this people?”
“Ah, well here we have Syfis Lumis a so called ‘loner Warlock.’ who not such a loner.”
“Only because you keep joining me on my missions.” Syfis retorted.
“And my Titan friend here goes by the name Hex-107.”
“Well i'm Twilight and this is Nox-23 and Jeremy nice to met all of you.”
Syfis nodded her head in compliance while Hex-107 half-heartedly waved at them. “good, now We all know each other. Let’s get going already. Hex-107 said impatiently. FIve Sparrows were summoned on to the Martian landscape. As soon as he was on his Sparrow Hex-107 took off followed by Jeremy and Syfis.
As Victor, Nox-23 along with Twilight got on there Sparrows Victor laughed. “They should really start up some kind of racing event for us Guardians.”
The Trio sped off in order to caught up with their enthusiastic fireteam members. “Victor.” A disembodied voice called out to the Hunter.
“Hey, Sparky what’s up?” Victor answered his Ghost. Glancing over to Nox-23 and Twilight it looked like they too had their attention focused on something unseen.
“There has been a change of plans. “Fireteam Stem won’t be able to make it through the portal. They were ambushed by Minotaurs before they could get into the gate. They won’t be able to enter the gate. We’ve been pick to enter in their stead.”
Underneath his helmet Victor smiled. “This is going to be interesting.”
The rest of the fireteam had stopped in the Valley of the Kings Large rock formations resided on either side of them. Nox-23 and Victor slowed down to a stop right next to them. “We need to hurry.The other teams are handling the Cabal and an increasing amount of Vex.” Syfis stated. “The biggest problem for us is the Minotaurs and Hydras near the gate. There are smaller units between them and. us however They will be taken care of by Fireteam RWBY, Burnout, and Tron.”
“Twilight Can’t you teleport us right next to the Gate?” Nox-23 asked. The other Guardians not familiar with her abilities stared at her questionly.
The young mare however shook her head. “I can teleport no problem, but doing so near so many enemies would be a bad idea. First off my teleport spell isn’t subtle. I’m not just disappearing and reappearing in different locations.” Twilight paused for a moment coming to a realization of sorts. Shaking her head she continued. ‘We don’t have time for me to explain the intricate workings of a teleport spell so let me just say that the spell cause a flash of light and smoke in the affected areas as the spell accounts for the displacement of atoms within the teleport field. The Vex would be able notice this and start bombarding us with their weapons before we can safely walk through the gate. Don’t...don’t forget i can’t recover like you can.”
Nox-23 looked down at the ground. Disappointed at himself for forgetting how variable Twilight really was.
Syfis on the other hand had taken the context of what Twilight said in a different direction. “Twilight Sparkle.” Syfis said, grabbing the mare’s attention. “ Am I correct in that you are able to transfer all of us from one location to another in a single trip.?”
Twilight nodded. “I would still need to have seen the place that I’m going to in order for the spell to work. Other then that teleporting all of us would be else. Why?”
“There are several structures in front of the Gate. If you can teleport us by the side of one away from the Minotaurs and Hydras we will have a better chance of making our way to the Gate.” before anyone could put in a word in Syfis summoned her Ghost to her. “Sprite inform Fireteam RWBY to keep the area left of the structures as clear as possible. We will be dropping in behind enemy lines.”
the battle for the Gate was intensified, The fighting between the Vex and Guardians had roused the Cabal from the nearby base. The Cabal had no interest taking sides, attack both Vex and Guardians with equal prejudice.
Within the Vex held territory several stone like structures lined the path to the heavily guarded Gate. One such large structure stood alone, clear of enemies. With poof of pinkish-purple smoke and a flash of light six figures appeared ready to fight.
A Hobgoblin was first to notice the unwanted guest. Turning around it and took aim, however a sniper shot to it’s weapon bearing arm staggered it enough for it miss Twilight’s group. Victor quickly dispatched the vex before the group moved on, Unfortunately they didn’t get far as two Minotaurs and several Harpies appeared before them. Without any cover to hide behind most of the fireteam used evasive maneuvers to dodge incoming fire while return with their own. Hex-107 on the other hand ran straight to the Minotaurs, jumping over the Harpies. pulling out a shotgun the Exo fired several times at one of the large vex enemy taking down it’s shield and damaging it a little. The Minotaur’s fist shot out in an attempt to hit Hex-107. Another round of shotgun pellets ended its existence before it could connect.
The second minotaur didn’t wait to engage the Titan. It shoved the body of it’s comrade onto Hex-107. The Exo jumped back to avoid being crushed. As he did so the Minotaur fired it’s Torch Hammer at him. Hex-107 jumped away avoiding the majority of the blast but not the splash wave that came in it’s wake.
Ignoring the pain that shot through his body, Hex-107 took out his rocket launcher and fired. The rocket hit. The blast destroyed the Minotaur but also sent Hex-107 flying backwards.
Hex-107 landed on his back with “omf”. Before he could get up a hand shot out in front of him. Attached to that hand was Victor. Hex-107 glanced past him to see that the Harpies had been taken care of. Without further hesitation the Exo grabbed the extended apantiage and was pulled up by his friend.
“Watch Out.” Both Guardians turned to see a Hydra looking at them through the gap between structures. A second later it fired at them. A pink bubble appeared around them taking the hits from the Hydra’s weapon. However within three shots cracks were already spreading throughout the surface. “Get out of there, I can’t hold it much longer.” Twilight yelled. her voice strained as the magic she was casting to keep the bubble from collapsing out right.
The Exo and Human sprinted to the edge of the barrier, passing through it just before it shattered. Instead of going for cover the two Guardians ran toward the the Hydra. Hex-107 jumped into the air using his lift ability to casually evade the Hydra’s projectiles.On the ground Victor takes out his sniper and fires at the red eye of the large Vex.
The Hunter only gets three shots in before the Hydra turns on him. A Lighting Grenade, thrown by Hex-107 lands right underneath the Hydra sending jolts of electricity through its metallic frame. Unable to escape or withstand the power of the grenade the the Hydra exploded.
The victory was short lived however as more Vex teleported in. Nox-23 popped a bubble over his comrades. The momentary breather was appreciated by all.
Syfis looked at the Guardians around her who were either reloading their weapons or keeping an eye out on the incoming Vex. “ We need a plan, we won’t make it to the Gate like this.”
Victor glanced over at the Warlock “Oh, do you have something in mind?”
Syfis stared at Victor the sighed heavily “yes and...yes it involves one of you crazy Super Combo attacks.” Victor fist pumped the air.
“Twilight spared a moment to look at the two of them. “Super Combo attack.”
“YES, a super combo attack that uses Supers.” The over zealous Victor replied. Just follow our lead. Hex, time to go.”
Syfis, Victor and Hex-107 jumped up out of the safety of the bubble and onto the structure above them. ‘Well this could be good.” Jeremy said before following the three guardians. Twilight and Nox-23 just looked at each other and shrugged before the mare teleported the two to the others.
Nox-23 and Twilight immediately ducked down avoiding several slap rifle shots. Ahead of them Hex-107 jumped off the other side of the structure, his body glowing blue as he did so. A moment later he slammed down on the ground sending out a shockwave throughout the immediate area. several vex were ripped apart from the expanding wave of Arc energy. The more fortified Vex such as the Minotaurs remained functioning.
A flash of blue and Victor glowing blue with an arc blade appeared before the Vex. he dashed forward slicing up all who got in his way. Sadly Victor’s energy left him sooner than expected and in an awkward position within enemy lines. To his rescue was none other than Syfis, jumping from the structure while surrounded in purple. gather a massive amount of energy in her left hand. A quick wave of her hand and a ball of void energy shots out toward the enemy disintegrating them into nothing but leaving Victor completely unharmed.
“Thank you!!” The Hunter called out joyful. Syfis just sighed before looking for another target. While the three of them had thinned out the Vex some still remand. The three of them turned to the Gate to see that Twilight. Nox-23 and Jeremy were already in front of it, firing upon the enemy as they waited for their comrades.
Hex-107 pushed past Victor and Syfis running to the Gate. The Warlock and Hunter followed suit. Jumping, sliding, or shooting they made it to the Gate. Now all together again the six of them ran into the gate. even as their vision became warped by the energy of the Gate they did not hesitate heading into the unknown.
“Good luck guys!”
The other side of the Gate was completely different from where they came in. Stone surfaces and green vegetation replaced the sandy, dry landscape. Twilight instantly turned around, hornat the ready. Her precautionary endeavor proved to be unneeded as all there was behind them was a wall of rocks.
“Where are we?” Hex-107 asked.
“We are...somewhere.” The Exo Ghost replied.
“That doesn’t help Orbs.” Hex-107 said flatly.
“No he’s right. Jeremy’s Ghost spoke. “I can’t get a read on where we are. Nor can i contact anyone . We are officially alone.”
Victor, striking a pose with a fist on his hip and the other hand pointing to the only exit spoke to his comrades. “Well then the only thing to do is to move forward and save the City from the Vex and whatever else is lurking in the dark. Onward my friends.” The Hunter leaped forward into the path ahead of them.
Syfis waved them forward. “Come on before he gets himself killed.
Surprisingly Victor hadn’t gone far. Before him were Vex yet they remained still, what's more was that with the amount of alien vegetation. “They are inactive.”
Twilight poked one in the leg. The Vex remain both emotionally and physically unmoved. “Maybe we should move on before we wake them up.” She suggested.
“Ah there is nothing here, let’s go.” Hex-107 said sternly
Not even a moment later two Goblins worked from behind their less mobile brethren. Six guardians however made quick work of them. A Minotaur teleported in bring its torch cannon to fire. A single shot escaped the muzzle. Twilight intercepted the projectile with a magic bolt from her horn. The projectile exploded mid flight. The rest of the Guardians ran forward firing their weapons at the large Vex taking it down in mere seconds.Two more Goblins appeared from a corridor from the right. Hex-107 ran at them then slid as he got close taking them both out with his shotgun. In a split second he was up on his feet.
Syfis’s hand landed on his shoulder making him turn around. “We need to stick together. We are completely in the dark here, do you not feel it?” Hex-107 tried to turn away from Syfis but she strengthened her grip on him. “Your light alone will not be enough. If we want to kill the Black Heart we do it together. I will not have anymore guardians dying on me because of stupid mistakes and foolhardy choices.” Syfis released him from her hold taking the lead from the rest of the group. “Now we go.”
“I hope he doesn’t run off again.” Nox-23 commented quietly to avoid Hex-107 from hearing.
“He won’t. This happens sometimes on missions. Hex charges ahead, Syfis eventual stops him and either tells him off or give a speech and wala he becomes a team player.”
The stone corridors eventually widen out with a moss like foliage covering more of the ground.A huge light shine from beyond. Becking them like a moth to a flame. It wasn’t until they had reached the end did they truly see where the Gate had taken them.
Before them laid a grand expanse. Above them there was no sky but rock, in front of them the ground dropped down to grassland like landscape with several large pathways cutting through the ground. In the middle a large mountain stood.
“Yeaa it’s a freaking maze.” Nox-23 declared unenthusiastically.
Victor inched forward till he was at the edge of the cliff. “So any bright ideas to get down?” The Grouped turned to look at Twilight.
“Or we can not exhaust the magical pony and head right. There is a path there that we can take.” Nox-23 Ghost stated matter-of-factly.
“Alright, we head right then.” Syfis ordered.
Queen Chrysalis sat quietly at a small round table in the middle of a grey room she had been led to. She along with two of her Honor Guard arrived at the border between Equestria and the Badlands several days ago. Since then they had been taken Fort Regine, a training base for the Royal Guard.
She had been in this room for just over an hour with nothing to do but sip on a cup of homemade ambrosia. Apparently that fat flank of a Princess likes to take her time. The sound of several metal shoed hoof steps and a quartet sounded heavier than others came closer to the door. ‘Speak of the devil.’
The door opened with four Royal guards entering first then the Princess, however it was not the Princess that Chrysalis had expected. Princess Luna waked into the room. “Queen Chrysalis, I hear you wish to speak with me.”
The dark mare and her guard made their way to the table. “I had expected your sister to meet with me not you.” The Queen answered snidely.
“She is busy at the moment.” Princess Luna replied calmly. “Whatever you were going to say to my sister you can say to me.”
The Queen shrugged. “If The Sun Princess is afraid to see me again she could just come out and say it.” Princess Luna’s eyes narrowed at the Changeling's comment. “But I digress, Very well Princess Luna It doesn’t matter which Princess I talk to however what I wish to speak to you with is of a matter that are not for the ears of our... short lived brethren. Unless you want to break another rule laid down by our predecessors.”
Princess Luna’s eye twitched as she kept herself from dropping her facade. “Lieutenant I must ask you and your stallions to leave.”
“But Your Highness It’s dangerous.” One of the Royal Guard no doubt the lieutenant spoke out, he then leered at the Guests on the other side of the table.
Princess Luna peered over to her lieutenant. “I will be fine Lieutenant. I know how to protect myself.
“You don’t have to worry your fuzzy little head over it. My own Honor Guard will be joining you outside the room as well. The Queen snidely remarked.
Teeth grinding the Lieutenant turned around. “Alright, you heard the Princess, move out on the double”. As they did so the Changelings moved to the door as well. Though one shot a worried glance at his Queen before exiting.
“Such dedicated ponies aren’t they. I wonder how they would react when you have to tell them the true extended history of the pony race.”
“I would like to know how you learned about it.”
Queen Chrysalis didn’t answer right away, instead she went to take a sip of her ambrosia. A dark blue hoof slammed down on the table making her pause. “Answer ME! You couldn’t have known about our race… unless.”
“Unless?” Queen Chrysalis smirked.
“Unless an Alicorn has taught you. But who?”
The Queen’s smirk grew. “I guess you're close enough for me to fill you in. I learned about the Visitor and the Alicorn Utopia from my mother, the Queen before me who in turn learned from her mother.”
Princess Luna’s eyes widen and the implications of the Changeling Queen was saying. “If what you say is true then you are from one of the groups left behind but...you are not a Alicorn.”
“No, what Alicorn blood I have in my veins is minuscule compared to my Changeling blood, that's what happens when your ancestors decide to genetically alter their bodies to fit their grand design.”
“I...I see. But you didn’t just come here to tell me about your lineage. “ Princess Luna stated.
The Queen shook her head. “No I didn’t I came here to make a deal.”
The Princess raised an eyebrow. What kind of deal would the Changeling Queen want and now of all times, after the attack in Equestria? Nevertheless it won't hurt to at least hear the deal. “Very well, what is this deal you speak of.”
Twilight and the Gang had finally done it the had gotten through the maze. However another problem had rear it’s ugly head. The had reached an area that had ended up a dead end or at least that was what it looked like at first.
“There are two Vex terminals here. I f another Ghost and i were to access those points we could gather more information. “ Jeremy’s Ghost explained to the hidden Guardians.
“Very well. Syfis replied. We will break up into two groups Victor, Hex-107 with me and the left. Twilight Jeremy and Nox-23 in the other head to the right. Any objection?” The five Guardians shook their head. Without another word the two groups split up and ran to their objectives.
Syfis’s group made quick time heading to the conduit, The surrounding structures provided great cover for them from the Vex, allowing them to reach the small tunnel just before the conduit without being noticed.
They were almost on top of their goal when a Harpy floated right in front of them. Vex and Guardian stared at each other for a second before the Harpy popped out it’s weapons. Victor was quicker, firing straight into it’s eye.
The destruction of the Harpy alerted the nearby Vex of the intruders. Several more Harpies appeared, firing their weapons Syfis and Victor fired back chipping away at their armor just enough for Hex-107 to fire a rocket at the group of them. A Goblin and Hobgoblin teleported in. sliding underneath the goblin’s slap rife Syfis returned fire with her fusion rifle. Hex-107 and Victor fired upon the Hobgoblin however none of them made a critical hit giving the Hobgoblin the split second it needed to put up it’s shield.
A Minotaur arrive just in time to support it’s comrade. It ran up to Syfis punching her before she could do anything. The punch sent her on to her back causing her to cry out in pain. At that moment the Hobgoblin’s shield gave out making it’s an excellent target of the Hunter and Titan.
“Here take this!” Victor yelled out as he threw a skip grenade at the Minotaur. The large Vex jerked as its body was it. Syfis fired her fusion rifle at it several time before the Minotaur.
As Syfis got up she called out to Victor. “Hurry and get you Ghost to the conduit.” The Guardian nodded, already running to their goal.
Meanwhile Twilight’s group was running across the field to their conduit. Unfortunately it was located on an elevated landscape that overlooked the rest of the area. It didn’t take long for them to be spotted.
Twilight Teleported herself and her teammates behind cover to avoid the incoming attack. “Well this is a problem.” Jeremy said, taking a quick glance over the stone cover. A Line rifle shot barely missed him as he ducked under cover again. A purple glowing orb dropped a few feet away from them.
“Grenade!” Nox-23 yelled. A purple bubble appeared around the orb just was it exploded. The bubble was destroyed in the blast but left the Guardians unharmed. Jeremy and Nox-23 looked at the young mare.
“I rather not need to do that to many more times.” Twilight huffed.
Jeremy smiled underneath his helmet. “I don’t think you need to worry about that.” His body glow a bright yellow as he jumped into the air. He fired three hot bullets each hitting a Vex, burning their body to ash in an instant.
Nox-23 and Twilight took their chance and ran out of their cover. “Cover me.” Twilight called to Nox-23. The Exo stood in front of her firing his auto rifle at the Vex. A moment later a Minotaur and goblin rose into the air and did not stop. A quick glance at Twilight and she answered. “Gravity control spell.
The three of them jumped or flew up to the ground above them. Twilight flew over a line rifle shot and countered by throwing the Hobgoblin into another Vex. Jeremy threw a knife at the Hobgoblin killing it and pinning the other Vex beneath it. He then walked up to the struggling enemy and shot it dead with one of his hand cannons.
“Ghost?” Nox-23 motioned his to the conduit. The Ghost appeared and flew through the air to a spot near the all not made of stone.
Whatever it needed to do was done in a matter of seconds the Ghost returned to Nox-23 backpack.
“Syfis, were are done here what’s your progress.” Jeremy spoke through the Ghost’s comm system.
“Sprite just got to the conduit. Shouldn’t be long now.”
“Hey something just activated further up.” Nox-23’s Ghost spoke out.
“Sprite noticed it too. We meet up at that location.”
All six Guardians united without much trouble. Syfis immediately had her Ghost scan the area. “Ok.” Sprite said after seconds of scanning. “It looks like we can enter the Black Garden from here. All we need is access it was a Gate Lord.”
“We don’t have a Gate Lord on hoof do we?” Twilight asked.
Syfis shook her head “No we do not but we have the next best thing. The Warlock held out a hand, within it she held a small ball like object, the eye of the Gate Lord. The Eye rose into the air. At the same time several glass objects appeared and joined the with the Gate’s Lord Eye. A beam suddenly shot out of the Eye reflecting through the glass objects before hitting the wall.
The Ground shook below the Guardians as the wall turned out to be a door opening for them. Slowly they stepped through the door to an interesting sight.
A mass of Goblins kneeling before a mass of black liquid a ball shaped form hanging in the air. The Heart of Darkness no doubt. Twilight took a step back, which was noticed by Nox-23. “Twilight are you okay?”
The mare turned her head to him. “Ye...no...i don’t know. That thing... feels wrong I don’t know how to explain it.”
Nox-23 looked back at the Heart only to realize that the Goblins were staring at them.
“Think you guys can take down a God?” One of the Ghosts asked.
“I don’t think we have a choice. Syfis replied.
“Actually the door behind us is still upon so we could run away.” Jeremy added wittily “But why would we do that when we have and fight like this on our hands.” The Hunter jumped forward blinking right in front of a teleporting Vex. Quickly the he pulled out his knife stabbing it in the stomach.
More Vex came. Twilight and the others opened fire on them killing a few before they retaliated. Nox-23 stepped in front of Twilight taking a few hits ment for her.
Syfis unleashed her super onto the Vex. Twilight teleported in front of Nox-23 following up Syfis attack with a magical beam attack of her own. “Get to Cover” Syfis yelled.
The six of them split up among the pillars and platforms. “Heads up people. Big ball of evil is doing something.” Jeremy warned the rest as he destroyed Goblin closing in on him. The Heart pulsed with dark energy, focusing it to one point until it finally shot out hitting and being absorbed into one of three tall statue.
The Guardians found themselves watching it as the Statue rotated around, arms freeing themselves from the rest of the body and the grey stone texture turning black and metallic. What once was a statue a Minotaur stood.
“Death approaches.” said Jeremy
“Better skedaddle.” Victor added.
The large Vex fired it’s torch cannon up the group forcing the group back behind the pillars. “There is one of him and six of us. We attack him in groups of two. Once it’s aggroed on one group another will take their place.” Syfis relayed her plan to the other guardians. “Hex and I will be first.
The Warlock and Titan step out and fired upon the Large Vex. The Vex, now having a clear target turned to fire back. Lucky the two returned to the safety of the pillar while Jeremy and Victor took their turn. As it switched to Nox-23 and Twilight turned the Exo noticed dark clouds forming on the other side of the area. “Incoming hostiles.” he yelled.
Harpies flew out of the clouds toward the Guardians. Jeremy broke from cover ignoring Victor’s call to him. With Thorn and The Last Word in hand Jeremy rushed the harpies flying toward Syfis and Hex-107.
He fired The Last Word at one that had flown into close range. His Thorn tore into a Harpy farther away.
“Look out!” someone yelled. Jeremy instinctively jumped forward barely dodging the Large Minotaur’s weapon. A rocket found it’s way to the Minotaur disrupting its attack on the Hunter.
Jeremy’s body burned with yellow light upon entering his super. With steady hand he fired two for two Harpies and and the final one for the Minotaur. The accumulative damage it had received destroyed enough of it’s armor for the Golden Gun to be the straw that broke the camel's back. The Vex called out as the burning bullet melted it’s core into a smothering mess of metal and white liquid.
“That, my good fellows is how the game is played.” Jeremy twirled The Last World in his hand.
“Not to burst your bubble but the Heart is acting up again.” Twilight said staring at it as once again it shot a pulse into one of the two remaining statues. Dark clouds once again started forming as well. Only this time Goblins and Hobgoblins dropped in.
“Round Two, Start.” Victor called out.
Nox-23 threw a magnetic Grenade at one of the new arrivals. The unlucky Vex looked down at the new addition to it’s chest just in time to watch it explode. The Blast killed the Vex and damaged the others. A second explosion killed even more.
Twilight blinked “Ok that reminds of a conversation I had with my friends long ago.”
Nox-23 looked down at his friend. “What are you talking about?”
“No time, Hobgoblin above us!” Twilight yelled firing at. The Hobgoblin fired it’s own weapon grazing the Exo before going down. “Nox!”
‘I'm ok, we have incoming.” Nox-23 said watching another black cloud form. Nox-23 realized it would be a bad idea to let the Vex get close to their position. Twilight would no doubt be hit more times than Nox-23 would want her to be. “Twilight focus on the Minotaur I’ll take care of these guys.”
Nox-23 took off running.
On the other side Jeremy had put a pause on attacking the second large Minotaur to watch Hex-107 rip the head of a goblin and started beating it to death with it. “That shouldn’t be physically possible.” He said both in awe and amusement.
Victor shot down a Hobgoblin then turned to the other Hunter “Yea, that is what my Friend Jimmy said last time he did that.”
“ Unlike some of us here we can’t spend our time just standing around and talking.” Syfis sneered.
“They have reinforcements coming in.” Hex-107 warned, aiming his auto at the darkening cloud before him. The Hunters quickly reloaded their weapons, readying themselves to attack both Minotaur and Goblins alike.
In time The Minotaur fell to the exceedingly large amount of weapons fire that it had taken. With it destroyed and the Goblins no longer teleporting in the Guardians look toward the last Statue.
“The Heart is weakening.” One of the Ghost proclaimed.
“Well that's good to heard.” Twilight sighed with relief. The Heart gave life to it's final Guardian and like before dark clouds foretold the coming of enemy Vex.
The once high spirited Guardians fell as they saw that the help the boss received was none other then more Minotaurs.
Fortunately the number of Minotaurs now on the field were less than the Goblins and Hobgoblins on the waves before them. Hex-107 acted first firing a rocket at the Minotaur advancing toward Syfis and his location. The rocket damaged it greatly but did not destroy it. The Minotaur fired its Touch Hammer quickly before Hex-107 could finish it off. The projectile flew past the Exo slamming into Syfis throwing her from her cover. She was on her feet in an instant despite the pain in her side. At that moment she noticed the large Minotaur coming to life, with her clear in it’s sights. Three bullets from three different locations all hit the same white weak point in the Minotaur’s abdomen making it flinch.
Syfis got herself to cover quietly thanking Twilight, Jeremy and Victor for the save. Seeing Hex-107 in trouble with two minotaurs trying to pulverize him into dust. Syfis leaps into the air and with a wave of her hand a single Nova bomb is hurled at the Vex. The Minotaurs are blown apart while leaving Hex-107 completely unharmed.
“I had it handled but thank you.”
After Flinching the large mechanical enemy the first time Twilight and the two Hunter had found out that they could continually make it flinch. The smaller Minotaurs didn’t seem to like it as much as the guardians did. While Hex-107 and Syfis were able to handle the ones coming from the left. Nox-23 however was having trouble defending the right side by himself. Even with his interference the Minotaurs were making their way to Twilight and the others.
Twilight took a moment from shooting to cast a magic wall between her and the Minotaurs just in time to stop several projectiles from hit her or her friends. Cracks begin appearing on the wall not long after under the heavy bombardment of the Torch Hammer.
“It won’t hold for much longer.”
“Just cast another one.” Victor replied.
Twilight looked at him like he had grown three heads. “It’s not that easy. I can’t put in in the same place and I can only do it so many times before I exhaust myself.”
“I got it.” Hex-107 called out. Running up from the left and floating over the magical wall and into a purple dome. Nox-23 was in his own bubble shield fighting off some of Vex that had made their way in. He was fighting courageously against the Minotaur, however it was a losing battle for him. Even with his barrier giving the two Guardians Armor of light it was only time till he would fall to the Minotaurs. Hex-107 wasn’t going to allow that to happen.
Hex-107 charged into one of Minotaurs. The force of Hex-107 attack staggered the Vex. Nox-23 Moved forward and shot it with a shotgun at blank range. Blasting a hole in it’s chest. The next one was quick to attack with it’s fist. Nox-23 was quicker to guard. Hex-107 fired his own shotgun at the Minotaur while it was distracted by Nox-23.
The Minotaur backed off and as it did Nox-23 closed the gap punched it left and right. He then nailed a Magnetic grenade to it’s chest and kicked it out of the bubble before it could explode.
As if synchronized, the magic wall and barrier collapsed. A Trip mine and scatter grenades were immediately thrown at the Vex. Twilight scurried away from the fight periodically shooting the large Minotaur.
Syfis was busy handling her own Minotaur leaving it to Twilight to be the only one attacking the Boss. Extending this battle any longer would be detrimental to the Guardians. Without knowing how much more it would take to shoot the enemy done so instead She took to the air.
No longer being stunlocked the large Minotaur looked up at the flying pony. Twilight swore it was staring angrily at her. The moment passed and the Minotaur raises its weapon and fires at her. Twilight dodges underneath the projectile and over the next.
In order to use the spell she was aiming for she would need a few seconds to charge it up enough to do anything. The Minotaur was doing a great job preventing her from that. The other Guardians were to busy to help her.
Twilight flew hard right to avoid another attack. She watched has the Minotaur take several seconds to turn toward her again to fire at her. Twilight’s eyes widened realization. Wasting not another moment. In a burst of speed Twilight flies over the head of the giant Minotaur. Once on the other side she repositions herself to face and started charging up her horn with magic.
The Giant Minotaur turned around but before it could do anything she released a beam of magic right into it’s chest. The beam melts through the Vex’s body making it cry out. Twilight looked over to Nox-23 and the others. The Minotaurs they were fighting had stopped attacking and instead were self-destructing. Twilight smiled. The battle was finally over.
“LOOK OUT!” Twilight looked down at Nox-23 as he yelled at her. The others were look elsewhere, at where the Giant Minotaur was. Twilight turned her head just in time to see a projectile right in front of her.
Next thing she knew was that she was on her back. Her chest hurt and felt wet. Nox-23 and the other Guardians appeared in her darling sight. NOx-23 was calling her name and Syfis was mumbling about it not being apart of the plan in a worrying manner then there was nothing.
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