//------------------------------// // The Archive: Violence is Knowledge and Knowledge is Power! // Story: Rogue Chaos // by FrostTheWolf //------------------------------// Rogue Chaos- The Archive: Violence is Knowledge and Knowledge is Power!         Personally, after hearing Chronicle say that the S1 sentry with a spider like personality disorder that tried to kill them on Bliss named Geoff was his cousin, everyone for the most part was speechless. However, none of them had any time at all in order to question it. Right now, they had a job to do, a sentry to protect, and a bunch of ancient data to get off the planet before the forest around them burned to the ground. Despite the amount of support that Caldarius was providing from the air with him destroying Jennerit fighters left and right, reinforcements with heavier firepower showed up and were beginning to land on the ground.         “Hostiles detected!! Get ready for the FURY OF THE LIBRARIAN!!” For a minute, the young draconequus thought that this fury involved Chronicle chucking books at the thrall and varelsi that were closing in. But instead, the sentry was using the mounted turrets near the front of it’s legs to open fire on it while the Battleborn on the ground were leading the charge. Discord himself was conjuring a special surprise for the next wave though as he threw out a pink cloud above the next squad of thrall. Mellka had seen this before and just sighed.         “Discord, I don’t think your chocolate rain trick is gonna-.” The Eldrid though was surprised when, as it turned out, it was beginning to rain little cocoa balls that were coming at the thrall like meteorites. Something that made Orendi really happy.         “I SMELL MUTATIONS!!”         “Well, it seems that Discord finally got the chance to use the new mutation on his helix ring,” Shayne commented. “I’ve been teaching him about how to discover mutations and use his equipment while in the field so he could be a more effective team player while on missions or while doing training matches in Meltdown or Incursion.”         “Okay, and what does this one do?” Sweetie Bot then spoke up and asked before Mellka or the others could say anything.         “It changes his chocolate rain attack and turns it to where chocolate cereal falls instead and explodes on contact with enemies.” She replied back as the team continued to press on. This time around, the team was going through the ravine through an alternate route that would be simpler for Chronicle to go through. All while Discord was happy to rain down cereal on his enemies and shouting ‘coco for cocoa puffs!!’ while doing so. It was only a few moments later that the group came back to where they were a few moments ago, only to have Warp Anchors crash down everywhere.         “Hostiles detected. THIS IS A LIBRARY YOU MONSTERS!!” Hearing that had ISIC prepare what he called siege mode, which allowed for him to use the turrets around his non existent shoulders to mow down any enemy forces that got too close. Meanwhile, Oscar Mike had something to add to Discord’s little meteor shower as he clicked the triggering mechanism on the side of his rifle and aimed at his target while the youngling teleported out of the way and landed on his head.         “Today’s forecast is a bit cloudy with a chance of SICK ASS SPACE LASERS!!” That was true in Oscar Mike’s case. His helix build allowed for the soldier to switch out his airstrike for an orbital strike to add more damage to his opponents. His other choice was to have a modified airstrike that stunned targets, but he thought that lasers were cooler. Especially when it added to the phrase that Orendi was shouting right now.         “It’s raining DEATH!!” She proclaimed, casting a Shadowfire pillar at the non existent feet of a few varelsi that happened to spawn at that moment. While those four were leading the forward push to guide Chronicle to Nova, Sweetie Bot and Mellka were in the back of the pack, watching out for anything out of the ordinary… along with Sweetie Bot asking a few questions about the Eldrid in general… Something that Mellka was not too keen on answering.         Just as they were reaching the final leg of their journey to get the sentry to Nova, all of the Battleborn heard something on Jennerit Comms that they knew was not good. Especially if that something… was from Rendain. “Enough of this… Bagranth! Destroy that sentry!!”         Soon, black void energy began to hold the sentry down as it laid crippled on the ground. “Help Fellas! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!!” Discord tried going back, only for the spatial energy to bounce him back and keep him away from Chronicle. As he shook his head and readjusted himself though, the whole entire team on the ground looked up at a nearby ledge to see what was restraining the chronicle.         “Protect Chronicle!!” Mellka immediately ordered, reloading her machine pistol. “If we lose him, we lose everything!!” All the other Battleborn nodded and prepared themselves as well. However, their attacks didn’t work and some shots were even bounced back at the team, including one of Oscar Mike’s grenades that almost landed at Discord’s feet. Leading to the two of them diving out of the way as the napalm grenade burned a piece of the earth they were walking on.         “We are in range of that new and improved Varelsi. Team heart rates at elevated levels,” Nova stated out of the blue. “Any suggestions, Kleese?”         “Well how the hell should I know!? Let’s see um… uh… okay um…” The LLC genius muttered to himself as he looked around the battlefield onboard the ship above the crew. Then, he noticed a few shards that were knocked away by Discord activating an Eldrid Device as it shot out electricity at the gunhulk… and it seemed to be working. “AH! Activate those turrets!!”         “Can’t ISIC switch to his turret mode?” Discord asked him, a little confused.         “Those are Veil Breakers! The Eldrid use them to fend themselves against massive varelsi incursions,” Mellka answered for the little guy as she turned to everyone else. “Get them online so we can weaken this guys shields!”         “Roger that!” Quickly, Oscar Mike and Sweetie Bot got two other turrets online while ISIC and Orendi tended to the rest. With all five of them up and active, the endless stream of lightning was wearing on the Gunhulk’s shields to the point that when the barrier evaporated, the varelsi leaped up tried to slam down in the middle of the battleground where they were.         “Shields down! Hand that freak his oh so freakish ass!!” Kleese screamed as Discord whipped out two of Oscar Mike’s assault rifles and began unloading multiple rounds of ammo into the varelsi.         “GUNZERK!!”         “Well… that’s… clever.” Ghalt thought to himself, considering the possibility of using that phrase whenever he needed to pull out both of his shotguns on the next mission he joined. However, it didn’t last long and by the time both magazines were empty, the Varelsi retreated to another ledge and activated it’s shields again.         “Bring more turrets online! Hasten that bastard’s demise!!” Kleese then spoke as the team saw multiple varelsi shulks spawning everywhere. But their attention wasn’t on them. Instead, it was on the turrets trying to break through the Gunhulk’s shields again. Oscar Mike was already having a lot of fun… but the chance to shoot more evildoers since he was planning to shoot them anyway was too good to pass up.         “Get a drone up or something for support!” Mellka snapped, depositing some shards in order to bring out a repair drone. However, when Discord did the same thing, a different kind of robot soon showed up. One on a wheel, had a camera lense for an eye and was really confused by what was happening.         “Holy #@$%! Where the F*** am I!?”         “... What did you bring?”         “Uh… oops?” Discord replied with an embarrassing smile & blush. This though, gave Oscar Mike an idea as he ran over and picked up the robot, only to chuck it at the Gunhulk as it crashed down again.         “FURY POTATO!!”         “GAH!!!” the robot screamed, followed by a huge explosion. Which in turn destroyed all the artillery on the monster.         “Now’s your chance! Give that freak everything you got!!”         “Heeya!!!” Discord yelled, throwing a piggy bank at the monster.         “...Really?” Sweetie Bot asked         “What? It’s all I got.”         “That’s not what he meant… Kleese meant it in a different context,” She said, nodding her head in the direction of the others, who were attacking the Battleborn. “What are you seeing them doing?”         “Fighting?”         “What do you think you should be doing?” She then asked         “Fighting with them?”         “See? That’s what Kleese meant.”         “Ah, I get it. Thanks, big sister!” Discord smirked before running off, leaving Sweetie Bot dazed and confused. However, that statement was heard by everyone, with the rampage stopping a bit as everyone stared at the two.         “BIG SISTER!?!?!?” Everyone shouted in unison.         “How the hell is she your big sister!?” Kleese asked in shock. “How is a somewhat genderless robot that started off as a male sounding Wolf Sentry turned feminine unicorn robot your ‘big sister’? Especially by the fact that that Wolf Sentry was only activated during that mission while you were up and running for who knows how long!”         “A thousand years.” Caldarius added.         “SHUT UP!!!”         “Leave Discord alone!” Shayne could be heard. “If that’s his big sister, then that’s what it is!”         “Aw great… two kids now.” Aurox groaned.         “What? Sweetie Bot is like a sister to me… now let’s just finish this thing off!” Discord commanded as he pulled out another set of two weapons. Sweetie Bot shrugged and fired at the enemy, though, with a classy twist as everyone fired some sort of explosion, but to the tune of 1812 Overture. The result was a huge explosion on the Gunhulk as everyone turned around & walked away in slow motion… with sunglasses over everyone's eyes, though sprayed on for Oscar Mike's helmet.         “Nice job! Now get Chronicle back to Nova, we’re getting out of here!!” The squad travelled at a snail's pace         “Uh… we're still walking slowly.” Oscar spoke.         “We have time.” Discord replied.         “Well you're the five people I'm gonna meet in robot hell!” ISIC proclaimed. Just as Chronicle got safely on board and the rest of them soon decided to catch up afterwards.         “Data’s safely on board captain, prepare for extraction!” Kleese hollered as everyone safely got on board.         “Hey guys…” Mellka said, addressing the squad that had risked their lives to save all the data that the Eldrid had cherished for over a millenia. “Look, I’m not a thanks and a big hug kind of girl but… Thanks and… who wants a hug?”         “HUGS!!!” Discord cheered, running and tackling Mellka with a hug.         “Not Oscar Mike, he thinks hugging is stupid and for stupid people.” ISIC replied, only to get scolded out by Oscar Mike since he wanted to say that instead of the AI.         “We were able to get all the data we needed and most of the civilians made it out okay,” Ghalt spoke up as everyone got on board and the hangar bay door closed itself tight. “I call that a win. Rendain can’t put them down that easy… not while we’re around.”         After making sure that the data was safely transferred to the Eldrid’s high observatory, Discord and the team were finally able to return to the new base in Bliss, where several of the Battleborn were there and trying to get themselves adjusted to their new surroundings as well as the cool temperatures that came from having a base on a frozen hellscape. Something that Kleese still thought was a bad idea, even going as far as to describe the planet as a… a box of bees that when opened… produces your own shrieking voice. Yes, that.         This only caused several of the Battleborn to think that he was over exaggerating while Nova went as far as calling Kleese “misery’s poet”. While this was going on though, Mellka was busy having to answer a call from the high observatory. Originally, she had thought it was to thank her for saving the Codex data, but it turns out that it was a little bit more then that.         After the call had ended, the Eldrid turned around and began to walk towards where Ghalt and the others were. The Captain himself being the first one to ask a question to her. “Well, how did it go?”         “Well, good news is that the observatory is grateful for us rescuing the codex-.”         “YEAH WOOHOO!!! NO NEED TO HANDLE THAT MURDEROUS JUNGLE ANYMORE!!” Kleese yelled before everyone stared at him and Mellka just facepalmed herself with the hand her bio gauntlet was on. “What?”         “Before you were going to say that… I was going to say that the observatory still needs our help.” Mellka sighed, causing Kleese to twitch a little in the process. Acting like he was put on pause as Discord looked back at her.         “I think you broke Kleese.” He conjured up a medkit & wore a doctor’s outfit as he went over to the elderly genius from the LLC. “If it makes it alright… we can make this as painless as possible.” He turned and whispered to Mellka “We can save his brain with the jar of pickles.”         “Uh… His heart rate is still normal,” Nova pointed out. “He’s just… processing. Don’t mind me, I’m pulling up Task Manager right now and trying to end any processes that is affecting his thinking.”         “I’M NOT A COMPUTER, DAMMIT!!” Kleese finally snapped as he looked back at everyone. “Oh, sorry, what were we talking about?”         “Saving your brain with the jar of pickles.” Discord answered, holding a jar of pickles. “If not pickles… perhaps mayonnaise? ... Chocolate milk? … Cotton Candy?” A long, awkward sense of silence was around… followed by blaring alarms. “ICEBERG!!!”         “Oh calm down, Discord…” Shayne sighed, looking back at Mellka as she sighed a little. “As you were saying?”         “Right… The observatory still needs our help and it’s more than dealing with the harvesters around Ekkunar,” She said as she looked back at Kleese. “Kleese, are you familiar with the premise behind that series of movies by that one director… first three were good but the fourth sucked?”         “Oh, you mean George Lucas and the Indiana Jones series? Why, what about it?” Kleese asked, looking at her a bit confused… until he realized what she meant. “Oh you have got to be kidding me…”         “Nope, I wish I were, but I’m not… So let me explain,” Mellka said. “Every kid who grows up Eldrid hears stories about The Old Sentinel…”