The trio of guardians quickly moves in as Eramis heads out into a much more open battlefield- one that is simply a group of three platforms bridged together by thinner looking platforms, and Fallen emerge to defend the dark kell.
"Come pawns of the once great machine! Show me what you are capable of!" Eramis shouts as she starts slamfiring her shrapnel launcher.
"Don't think you're going to stop us so easily!" Suzuka shouts. With a seemingly endless amount of energy flowing through her she continues to fire off blizzards of stasis crystals that freeze those unfortunate enough to be in the warpath while Gold proceeds to wall off the Fallen with frozen ground smashes.
"I'd like to see you try!" Spe-7 laughs as she charges forth with her icy scythe and dukes it out with Eramis. The dark kell proceeds to put away her shrapnel launcher for the moment and uses her stasis powers to conjure up two icy blades, her other two arms grappling with the equine hunter.
"We've got incoming reinforcements!" Gold calls out as even more Fallen emerge, smashing through the icy walls that the equine titan has created- but those that dare get close get a taste of Malfeasance, the gun exploding any and all Fallen that are hit, and when that gets to be too much Gold busts out her machine gun, mowing them down by the numbers.
"I am going to shred you to bits with the very power you've been blessed with! I know this power better than you!" Eramis shouts as she manages to knock Spe-7 away for a moment, and the equine hunter nearly gets her arm cut off.
"WHOA!" Spe-7 shouts as she grasps her arm, making sure it's still attached. "I could use a little help here!"
"I got you!" Gold shouts as Suzuka switches to crowd control and begins freezing the Fallen into delicate ice statues while Gold gets to work, creating an icy prison around Eramis.
"You really think these frozen walls will stop me?" Eramis asks in a monotone voice. "Grow a brain cell or two donkey." And with that she smashes the walls of stasis with her bare hands, revealing a VERY angry Gold.
"You call me a donkey again and I'm gonna rip off all your arms, BITCH!" Gold yells as she charges forth and delivers the mother of all punches, nailing Eramis in the face and leaving behind a nasty gouge where her eyes are already gone. The dark kell screams in agony and stumbles back, nearly falling off the edge in the process before she recollects herself.
"Why you-" Eramis gets cut off as Gold proceeds to trip the dark kell, knocking her onto her face, and Gold is about to stomp her back in when Eramis scuttles away, throwing a stasis grenade that freezes Gold's arms in place. All that does though is make Gold slam her arms on the ground, creating walls of stasis crystals and smashing the ice holding her arms. Eramis finds herself in a pinch as the last of the Fallen is destroyed by Suzuka and all three guardians close in on the dark kell.
"So, you have nowhere to run." Suzuka says as she smashes her stasis gauntlets, forming a sword out of stasis instead.
"You let yourself get carried away there." Gold adds as her stasis boots melt off, an icy ax forming in it's place.
"What are you gonna do now?" Spe-7 asks. "Are you going to surrender?"
"You really think that you three can make me bow down just like that?" Eramis laughs. "I could end you all in an instant."
"Why are you shaking then? If you're that confident in your powers, go ahead." Spe-7 retorts.
"I'll have you know that-" Suddenly, Eramis freezes up, an icy blade jutting through her midsection. The light in her other two eyes fades out and the dark kell slumps to the ground.
"What the?! Who did that?!" Spe-7 asks as the trio looks around, and when Eramis' body completely falls to the ground they see none other than the lost guardian himself. Red tendrils are coming out of his back a la slenderman, and his eyes are completely dark, giving the impression of him being dead. Ghost isn't faring any better as his once blue light has turned red and red tendrils appear to be growing all over his shell- and he doesn't say a word either. "Taiki?! Ghost?!" The fallen guardian doesn't say a word, but he does point upwards to a space station that's visible from where they stand.
"Taiki?! Are you still in there?" Suzuka asks, but the fallen guardian vanishes in a red mist as opposed to the normal light. "Where in the..."
"He pointed up to that space station..." Spe-7 mumbles. "What in the world does he want in there?"
"Guardians! Is everything okay?" Variks asks over the comms.
"Eramis is dead... But not by our hand..." Suzuka replies.
"Come again?" Variks asks.
"Taiki came out of nowhere and straight up murdered her." Spe-7 replies. "The last we saw he was pointing up to a space station."
"He must mean the Morning Star Orbital Observation Center yeees?" Variks says. "This makes me worried... This must mean that Taiki is under the control of the darkness..."
"His eyes were completely dark... I don't think there was anything left of him." Suzuka replies. "Should we go up to the station?"
"At least look for Kridis, possibly the only follower that's still on Europa, and alive." Variks says. "Let's hope she hasn't been slaughtered by your fallen friend..."
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Destiny 2: Frozen In Time
FanfictionAn old friend, the savior of the city, the end of Crota and Oryx, a hero of the Red War, one that has fallen to the darkness... Such a person troubles our trio of equine guardians as they find themselves on a planet that has been left uncharted for...
