Rogue Chaos

by FrostTheWolf


The Saboteur: End of the Line

Rogue Chaos- The Saboteur: End of the Line


        Seconds after Nova had begun to work on uploading the worm cluster into the energy core of the refinery, both Jennerit Thrall and Varelsi began to swarm on the location of Discord and the team of Battleborn that was on the ground. For the Battleborn, they needed to stand firm and hold their current position until Nova was done with uploading the virus. Toby had already set up Arc Mines in the room, the thumper turrets that were armed with numerous missiles were ready to blast the crap out of anything that tried to lay a cosmic finger on Nova and Discord was wearing a pair of shades while chewing on a piece of candy that looked like a cigarette.

        “Heh… showtime.” He smirked, summoning a pair of pistols with explosive ammunition as he began to fire off a hail of bullets that as he showered the invaders with gunfire. “WHEN GOD CLOSES A DOOR, I BLOW IT THE F**K UP!!”

        “LANGUAGE!!” They heard Marquis yell in the background while Sweetie Bot was aiming her missile launchers at the enemies that were leaping into the room. Having them blow up before even landing on the ground as her weapons appeared to be on fire. “Search and Destroy!!”

        “Stand your ground!” Toby ordered, blasting more lasers. That… gave Discord an idea.

        “TAKE NOTHING, BUT GIVE THEM EVERYTHING!!!” Discord yelled, somehow having a six pack of abs and wearing a cape. “FOR TONIGHT, WE DINE IN HELL!!! THIS IS SPARTA!!!” He power kicked a bunch of thrall down into a conveniently placed bottomless pit. “... Now if only Zack Snyder can make a good story.”

        “Enough with these… references!” Shayne groaned. Noticing that Discord was unarmed and about to get swarmed from all sides, she looked to Aurox, pointed at the ground behind Aurox and motioned her finger like if she were firing a weapon… confusing Discord a little since Aurox in that moment had disappeared.

        “I haven't cowboy bebop’d yet-” The youngling complained, only to feel something warm behind him as he turned to see the heat rising from the ground. In an instant, Aurox emerged from underneath and caused an outward explosion that sent Discord flying onto Shayne’s head, but also incinerated every thrall and varelsi that had tried to gank him.

        “Whenever you use references, it leaves you open to get blindsided… Try using them after we’re sure that we took care of everyone.” The teenager said so he would know for future reference. “You’re an important member of the team and also my adoptive son… I don’t want you getting killed out there just because you either get cocky or you want to make it more entertaining for yourself.”

        “Pfft! Like the authors would do that. It's part of my contract with them. If I'm hurt, then they lose all of their lifesavings.” It was only a few moments later that a note came down into Discord’s paw… telling him otherwise as he took out a pair of reading glasses.

        “We did not agree to anything like that… Plus you do realize that the LLC can revive you on missions if you do fall in combat right?

        “Duh! But this is a fanfic! Unless I became a legit DLC character, then this means nothing… and that's sad, no thanks to you Overwatch players.”

        “True… But that doesn’t mean the same for your teammates…” The note read before dispersing into flames. That was when Discord’s attention was finally tracked back to one of the other members of the team… and they needed help… bad.

        “Oi! Could use an assist here! Friends… Enemies… anyone?” Discord was now seeing Pendles on his knees and surrounded in a white light. He was on the clock now and the draconequus needed to get to him as quickly as possible.

        “Don't tell me what I already know, authors.” Discord groaned. “And I was getting bored of your note.” He rushed to Pendles, blowing a snake charmer flute while wearing a turban. Soon, the Roa got back on his feet and growled to himself.

        “No one ruins MY professional reputation and GETS AWAY WITH IT-!” He said, until he looked back at Discord and noticed his Turban. “Really?”

        “Well, excuse me! I'm not a politically correct guy! I don't even like Tumblr.” He blew into the flute and controlled Pendles. For a moment at least… Until they heard Nova speak to them.

        “Ow… ow… damn… ow… ow… S**T!! OW!!!”

        “Protect the generator!! Nova’s still working on the breach!!!” Reyna told them over the intercom as Pendles dived back into the fray and began hacking and slashing at numerous thrall that tried getting close to the core. Discord had another Idea.

        “To the audience reading… I don't support this idea.” In a flash, he built a wall around Nova that was several feet high in a matter of minutes. “Now I just need an army of feminists to guard this wall.”

         However, when he looked at Shayne and Aurox, all Discord heard her do was sigh. “Discord… That… was not a good idea… you trapped Toby over on the other side.”

        “HELP ME!!!!” Discord rolled his eyes. He took a piece of chalk and drew a large door. Like a cartoon character, he opened the door, letting Toby in.

        “Any other problems you would like to mention?” The Spirit of Chaos asked his teammates. However, the one who did have something to say was the one observing them.

        “Just one…” Kleese now spoke up as Toby thanked the draconequus for the save. “That wall may block out the Jennerit… but the Varelsi can go anywhere they please… In fact… several of them are behind you.”

        “Aww crap.” Discord pulled out a button and pressed it. They can hear, albeit muffled, disco music playing.

        “And they are rather… pissed…” Kleese added as a Varlesi Hunter blew up where the sounds of the music came from and ordered all forces to attack and destroy Discord.

        “Great… and things have gone from bad to worse…” Sweetie Bot grumbled. “Nova, what’s your status right now?”

        “Worm cluster upload at 50%. Structural integrity at 70%. Personal confidence… off the charts.”

        “Alright. We’re almost through this. If you see something that isn’t one of us or a friendly that we know, BLOW THE CRAP OUT IF IT!!!” Toby ordered.

        “Including that guy?” Discord asked, pointing at a guy with a box of pizza and wearing a red and white striped sweater and stocking cap. “He looks… familiar.”

        “Yes… including that guy…” Discord pulled out a rocket launcher and aimed it at the guy.

        “I'm sorry, sir.”

        “Wha-!? Is this the Battleborn? I have pizza for…” The delivery guy said as he looked at the receipt on the box. “Oscar Mike and Whiskey Foxtrot.”

        “... Uh, they’re back at the base… not here.” Shayne sighed. “Besides we’re… kind of busy. Discord, can you please get him to Whiskey and not get him hurt?”

        “My biggest question would be why did it refer to both of them. I mean, doesn’t Uncle Whiskey severely hate Oscar Mike?” Discord asked as he killed another varelsi with slice of one of Rath’s swords he conjured before sending the pizza guy to the right place to deliver the pizza.

        “He does. There’s no question to that.” Toby added on. “Discord does bring up a good point though. But we should focus on finishing the rest of these guys off and allowing Nova to finish uploading what we need to blow this place up.”

        “I think we can all agree with you on that Toby!” Shayne said as she sent Aurox to devour another Varelsi. “Hopefully we can hear some good news rather sooner than later!” No later did the group hear the last of the thrall dying off and also began finishing off the last few Varelsi in the room. Thanks to this, Nova was able to finish off the last remaining pieces of the worm cluster that needed to be pieced together and complete her work.

        “We’re clear!!!” Deande shouted. “Nova, trigger the reactors!!!”

        “Stand by for a bunch of things blowing up because I’M THE BEST!!!” Nova shouted. Though, the group did think that this would be the moment where everyone was able to catch a much needed break, Sweetie Bot noticed something crash land behind them and drag their weapons across the floor. Catching everyone’s attention rather quickly as it let out a threatening roar of anger and rage.

        “…… You have got to be bucking kidding me…” Sweetie Bot groaned as everyone had to quickly get themselves ready for another fight.

        “This is usually the part where Kleese says some important advice on how to survive this fight. Any words of wisdom for them, Kleese?” Nova then asked as they heard the elderly genius of the LLC snap back at the Magnus AI that was talking to them.

        “How the HELL should I know!?! KILL IT!!!”

        “Like every other boss fight.” Discord groaned.

        “Yet this time it’s the hellspawn of a Jennerit and a Varelsi…” Shayne groaned. “This is not going to be an easy fight.” This gave Discord an idea. He pulled out a megaphone.

        “Hey! You're adopted!” That… did little to help things as the Foreman went to attack Discord first. “Gah!!! I thought the adopted trick would work!!!”

        “Because some people can take offense to that!” Shayne yelled, using Aurox to pull Discord out of the way of the thrall’s attacks and to allow the other teammates to fight back. “If we get out of this alive, you and I are going to have to have a serious talk about… well, pretty much everything. It’s out of control and you’re doing to WAY too much now…” Shayne was going to add on a little more, but it was then that they saw the Foreman shield himself and various wisps of black void like energy spawning everywhere.

        “Kill those scientifically impossible monstrosities!” Kleese commanded the others.

        “And why should we do that-?” Discord tried to ask, before he saw one of them blow up next to one of the traps that was set up earlier in order to protect Nova. “Oh… bombs… that’s why.” That was when he noticed Pendles finish off a few of them and quickly went on to take car of the others while saying something.

        “Boring conversation anyway.” The Roa chuckled, only for the draconequus to change into a black leather jacket, jeans, white shirt and also have a blaster weapon at his hip. Only for Shayne to sigh to herself in the process.

        “Oh so I do something and it sounds like I’m going overboard and yet the new guy says a Han Solo reference and he’s fine? Seriously!?” Discord complained.

        “What reference?” Pendles asked, killing another few Varelsi in the process. “Well, there I go killing again!”

        “And now he’s saying something from that one guy on Rick and Morty!” The draconequus proclaimed. “This is an outrage I tell ya! An outrage!!!”

        “Okay, Discord, I’m telling you this because I care for you, but also need you to really focus right now,” Shayne told him. “Save the shenanigans for when there isn’t a possibility for us dying… because the sooner we can kill that… whatever the hell it is, we can get out of here-.” It was then though that one of the orbs that they needed to destroy wandered too close to Discord, causing Shayne to grab him in a barrel roll as it detonated, using her body to protect him from the blast.

        When the smoke cleared… Shayne could not be able to walk it off… despite Discord saying so. She, the adoptive mom that helped raise him, was hurt bad… and all because he wanted to have a little fun. Discord saw what happened and poked her with a stick.

        “... Uh… adopted mom?” He asked “...ya’ll alright?” All she could do was groan in pain as she tried to get up, but was unsuccessful in the process. She was hurt… bad… and also glowing a bit white. Almost like when Pendles went down just a few moments ago. He grit his teeth, eyes furious as he looked towards Sweetie Bot. “Sweetie Bot, Help mom… I’m going to teach this monster what happens when ANYONE messes with my family!”

        While Sweetie Bot was helping her, the teen partially smiled to herself… that was the Discord she knew. He snapped his talon; now he wore an orange shirt with blue pants, and he had black, spiky hair. He placed his claw and paw together, making a ball of blue energy and having it’s power escalate while the rest of the team worked on disabling the Foreman’s shield.

        “Ka… Me……… Ha…… ME……”

        One last strike from Pendles had the abomination’s shield drop. “Shields down! Hit him with everything you got!!” He yelled to the draconequus… whose reply was just a simple nod of the head. Then, with all his strength, he threw his hands forward and released the energy he was building up.

        “…HA!!!!!!!” A huge pillar of pure energy blasted at the boss. It saw the energy coming to him.

        “Oh s**t!” It simply growled in the Jennerit tongue before turning into nothing more than a pile of ash as it also created a huge hole in the wall behind it. However, despite their victory… Kleese had to ruin it.

        “Okay, even if that was awesome, YOU ALMOST STRUCK OUR SHIP, YOU IDIOTS!!!!!” Kleese snapped as Discord dispelled his clothes and black hair.

        “Comes with the job description… Nova, how are we doing?” He then asked, remembering the reason why they came here in the first place.

        “Upload completed. Core Meltdown initialized… Begin running for your lives in 3… 2…” She said, before being interrupted.

        “CORE MELTDOWN IMMINENT. EVACUATE!! EVACUATE!!!

        That had the rest of the Battleborn up on their feet and moving quickly to get out of the refinery. “Nova, transfer back here now! Everyone else, rendezvous back at the ship! We’re getting the hell out of here!!” Deande yelled as Discord landed on Toby's back.

        “Come on! Go faster!” He yelled.

        “This is as fast as I can go! The extra weight isn’t helping any!!” Toby squaked. Discord pulled a cord on Toby's mech, each making a revving noise. With one final tug, Toby's mech went into overdrive, moving faster than everyone else… but also causing Discord to fly off because of the sure speed.

        “That's right! I can fly! These wings aren't for show.” He said as everyone was cheering because of Nova’s success and he crashed into the hangar bay of the ship. However, just as Shayne was about to climb aboard the ship… she heard something that made her stop running and turn back around.

        “Hello… it's me.” Hearing that, Shayne turned to see something overlooking the platform they were on and that was above the already looted chest that Discord had scavenged seconds ago.

        “Eris?” Shayne said in a low tone, confused as she looked at a… familiar statue. “Is that you?”

        “No, it's Adele… of course it's me.” The voice of the draconequus sarcastically shot back at her as she deeply sighed to herself. “Look, I don't have much time, and that's not because this place is about to blow, but I'm using the rest of my strength to talk to you. Would you kindly take me aboard? I promise that I won't awaken and kill, or in my case, eat anybody aboard.” Shayne had only seconds to think on this as someone else interrupted her train of thought.

        “Shayne, what the hell are you doing!? This place is going to blow any second!” Reyna snapped as she looked back… seeing Discord next to her. That gave Shayne an idea as she pointed a finger at the draconequus.

        “Aurox… Fetch.” Without warning, the Djinn sprang forward and yanked the youngling towards them. Holding onto the statue firmly, Shayne then said something else. “Okay, Dissy. We’re taking this thing with us, so can you please help us and teleport us back onto the ship?” However, Discord stared at the statue. He was entranced by it… and Shayne could literally see flashes in his eyes..

        “BOY!!! IF YOU DON'T SAVE US, I'M TAKING AWAY YOUR CHOCOLATE MILK!!!”

        “AHHH!!! Yes mom!” He snapped his paw as they both were teleported onto the ship. Just as it was about to break through the planet’s atmosphere. Everyone was relieved to be able to make it back safely… But still, Shayne’s risky maneuver had one particular rogue angry as she was knocked over the head by Reyna.

        “Ow! What the hell was that for!?”

        “That was for scaring almost everyone on board half to death! What the hell were you even thinking!?” Reyna snapped, only to be interrupted by Deande once she saw the statue.

        “No… way… That is a statue of Lady Eris… One of the ambassadors to Empress Lenore before Rendain took control of the Imperium… How-?”

        “That’s what I was coming back for…” Shayne explained. “Since the statue was of a Draconequus, I thought we could learn more about the draconequus… From one.” It was then that small beams of light began to form from the cracks within the statute as the blocky stone exterior soon began to chip away… bringing back the being that was trapped inside. In a huge burst, pebbles shot everywhere as gleeful laughing was heard.

        “Yes! I'm free, b*tches! FREE!!!” Discord was teleported into the arms of the floating Dracequis, who began to coo to him. “Ahh… did you miss your mommy, little Dissy? It's been at least 17,496 years… Give or take a few centuries.”

        That had everyone on board look at her, collectively shocked and surprised. The only one to say something though was Kleese. “Let’s get back to base… This… changes… EVERYTHING!”

        “Until you're gone, old man.”

        “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, I’M NOT OLD!!!!”