We Stand Together

Chapter 10: Picking Right

Eden clenches her teeth and regrets her decision to ever come on this mission.

Going to find a warp drive and kill a Kell had been made to sound easy. But here she is, scorch marks on her left arm from the bullets slicing past her and forced behind a wall for cover. Eden's already missing the free days she and Uriah had. But this had to be done, at least according to her fireteam.

From her left, she hears Lance throw a ball of Void and watches as it drains the life from the Fallen around it. To her right, Axel fires round after round of shotgun blasts into the Fallen that wander too close. And from behind her, Jaren is sniping the Kell but it only serves to anger him further.

The Kell stops shooting at them to stand still and give a fierce roar.

The sound is deafening and makes it hard to hear what the others are saying. After he's done, he stomps the ground, shaking the entire building and throwing Eden and the others off balance.

Waves and waves of Fallen begin to drop from the roof and run toward the fireteam of four.

Curses fall from Axel's mouth and he replaces his shotgun in favor of the machine gun strapped to his back. From behind her,  Jaren activates his Golden Gun. Three fiery shots of sol burn past her and take down three of the Fallen edging closer to her and Lance.

Eden herself fires a few bullets into the crowd of Fallen but only two find their target. As she's working to keep the Fallen back, the same voice she'd heard last time she was here floats through the air. She freezes and looks up.

There, behind the Kell, stands the shadowy figure.

It points at her and then at the huge Fallen in front of it.

Whispers start up and Eden so wants to ignore it. She wants to pretend that it's not there or that's it's just a figment of her imagination. The conversation with Jaren returns to her mind though and she remembers the very words that he told her.

"Just because no one else sees it, doesn't mean it's not there," She breathes out.

Eden clears her head and forces her initial instinct to ignore away and listens.

The whispers turn into words that she understands as it lays out a plan for her. Eden listens intently and once it's finished, the whispers stop and the shadow disappears.

Eden looks towards her fireteam.

They're all too preoccupied keeping the Fallen at bay to notice what she's about to do. She looks at Uriah and without one word passing between them, he knows. He gives her a single nod and disappears within the confines of her armor, waiting.

She turns her attention back to the Kell. Just behind him is a perfect ledge to get an angle on him.

Before any second thoughts can enter to discourage her, she leaves her spot to throw a grenade at the group of Fallen approaching and turns to Jaren.

"Sniper! Give me your sniper!" She yells out.

He turns to her and seems to battle with something inside him before Axel turns to him.

"Jaren, give her the gun!" The Exo snaps, punching a Vandal that had come to close to him.

With only slight hesitance, Jaren throws the gun to Eden and watches as she catches it and slings it on her back.

The female Titan drops her own auto rifle and turns, launching herself at the Kell, arc crackling around her body. Eden slams the ground near his feet, her Light burning at him.

The Kell stops, shrieking in pain. The giant Fallen leader stops his attack momentarily to limply stand still.

Eden takes the time to jump up onto the ledge behind him, using the occasional boost to help her up. Once she's situated, she takes the sniper off her back and aims down the sights. In the few seconds that she has, Eden lines up her shot and waits.