Rising

///August 5th, 2224\\\

 Today is the day, today we take down The Council. I sat in my ship waiting to activate the alcubierre drive. Ares had his fleet next to mine. Akaalist stood on my shoulder waiting to be called upon. The command came, I flipped some switches and slammed my fist down on the red button and then there was a flash of light. Suddenly a large planet was in front of me, dark and radiating pure evil. I shot into the atmosphere. I saw horrible, tentacle-y monsters marching with anime characters. I flew to the castle. Bombs rained on the marching things. The castle was a large stone construct, things marched outside. Light filled my vision as fucking cannons fired.

"FUCK!" I shouted as I tried to weave through the barrage. A cannon ball caught my wing and exploded. My ship flew back and crashed in a field. I crawled to the back of my ship. The large metal suit opened up with magnets and hovered. I fell in and they closed together. The HUD and external cameras powered up. The suit was custom made with titanium nanotubes at the joints allowing for movement. The face plate was smooth showing no features, except for white glowing eye shapes that were actually cameras allowing me to see. Akaalist formed in my hand. I could hear the soldiers marching outside. I could feel the sanity shredding presence of eldritch forces. I cut my way out of the wreckage. I saw anime characters in armor along with slithering snake like creatures who made a horrendous, mind wrenching shrieking noise when they saw me. I leaped forward and cut through them like fucking tissue paper. Black glowing blood sprays out like a fountain. It boils the ground it touches and a few of the soldiers who got too close were now running and screaming as glowing black acid blood burned through their armor and killed them. More snake things were coming for me. I was being surrounded. I readied my blade. Then my hairs stood up on end as my ears popped and energy, raw and powerful, filled the air. Light flooded through a rift in the sky. A giant man in glowing red and black armor with green light swirling through it like a hurricane and with the horned face of a demon holding two scimitars, blades made of green flame. More rifts opened up and people came through. Two men, one in glowing green metal crystal armor and the other in gold crashed beside me. The snake things and soldiers rushed to the first person who came through. I heard Oath talk for the first time.

"By my oaths as a force, Honor is mine," He whispered in a deep, smooth voice. Blinding golden light flashed around his hand and a long silver sword formed in his hand. Joule's ring blades were pulled to his hands and they ran off in opposite directions and began cutting through soldiers and snake things. I ran to the castle with a squadron of men, cutting through soldiers and snake things the way there. I pushed open the large wooden doors, sizzling due to me being covered in glowing black acid blood and red human blood. Very little of my silver armor remained. My soldiers moved around checking rooms. I looked around the huge main room. There was a gun fire, a mind wrenching shriek and then the scream of a man and a crunch. I ran to where I heard the noise. My metal armor clacked along the stone floors until they splashed. Red blood flowed like a river from under the door. Soldiers gathered around. I readied my blade.

"Elder things" Akaalist hummed. Shit. One of my soldiers kicked in the door. Inside there were 20, 6 foot tall oval shaped beasts with starfish like appendages feasting on the remains of one of my soldiers.

"OPEN FIRE!" I shouted as I rushed one of the creatures. I cut in half as my blade slid up it's back as I jumped. I tossed Akaalist into the head equivalent of the second and summoned him back as I fell through the third. One of my soldiers screamed as two elder things bit into him, pulling his limbs apart and to their mouths with their manipulator tentacles. Blood sprayed out. I sliced into the next one. There was a flash of green light outside and the remaining 4 elder things spread 5 leathery wings and barreled through the wall towards it. Only 5 of the squadron remained. A man in all black robes holding a silver orb came from the shadows. His face was completely shadowed.

"Damn him," the shadowy man said seemingly from everywhere, "Now I have to do some dirty work. He held out the orb. It began to glow. The soldier's skin turned silver and also glowed. Their features quickly became distorted as they were all pulled into the orb. They shrieked from all places before the orb stopped glowing and the man lowered it. I charged him with my blade. The orb instantly shifted into a long, thin blade made of silver glowing white. He knocked the blade aside and cut through my armor and into my back. I screamed out from the burning pain. He kicked me to the ground.

"Idiot child, I AM A GOD!" the disembodied voice of the shadowy figure shouted. I stood up and charged again. He blocked and tried to twist but I moved with it, catching the blade in the fork and punching the man. Before the blow landed the robes dropped and the sword disappeared. I dodged just as the man emerged and thrust the blade at me. I cut through him but the cloth fell and he reemerged from the ceiling falling blade impaling the floor before it disappeared and the cloth fell. He jumped up from the floor just beneath me and cut my robotic leg. The servos failed and I fell to the floor as black cloth fell. He emerged from the wall again blade held high. I don't know how I could tell but I knew he was smiling. Blood poured out of my back. I laid down on my side and closed my eyes.

"Any last words, mortal?" the thing asked. I shook my head and waited for the sword. There was rumbling and light fell through my eyelids. It was over. I was dead. I heard sounds of metal clanging together. No, blades. My eyes shot open. Joule was glowing weaving around the man. Glowing black mist curled from cuts in the cloth. The glowing green ring blades spun around with the fluid perfection of the glowing green metallo-crystal man. Joule cut through where the things throat should be and it collapsed into a pile of goo glowing with a light of a black hue. Joule walked over and offered his hand. I grabbed it and he helped me up. I looked out the hole the elder things had made. Highmeme, my blimp, had arrived to take me home. We had won. The council was no more. The rifts began closing. When I looked beside me, Joule was just gone. As were the rest of the people who had fought with us.