Anthology Of The Origin System

The Infested Horde (Trinity 2)

The Infested Horde

(Trinity 2)

This...this was where he belongs. This was where he could truly be himself, where nothing else matters but the strength of his sword arm and his own instinct. As the dragon spun through the army of mutated flesh he lets go of all control, all sense of restraint as he flows through them like a shark swims through the ocean, Tiamat's Wrath cleaving left and right, dismembering all who were unfortunate enough to be caught in the path of the powerful blade.

This was the only place among the stars he could truly unleash the primal rage that dwells deep inside him, always begging him to be released unto his foes. One on one duels with a single powerful opponent was Excabliur's specialty and he could have it, Chroma lived for the horde battles. Battles where every swing ended dozens of lives and by the end of it all your entire body was covered in the blood of the enemies who were too foolish to run away. It was this reason that the Infested was the Dragon Tenno prefer enemy. Sure, the Grineer and the Corpus, whether they be Corrupted or otherwise, would try to overwhelm him with their numbers but only the endless waves of corrupted lifeforms could ever truly satisfy him for they did not care for tactics or advanced weaponry. No, they simply swarm their target like the waves crashing onto the shore and that was all the Tenno ever wanted in a fight. This reason and this reason alone was precisely why Tempo Royale was his prefer sword-style as it was perfect for keeping on the move and utilizing crowd control techniques. For this was his element, it was another reason why he preferred doing solo missions for the other Tenno did not simply understand the beauty of this type of battle. For with a swing here, a lightning Spectral Scream there and his Elemental Ward sending blast after blast of lightning through the endless flood, their numbers would eventually be culled, all the while he revels in the chaos, as a dragon should.

Trinity and Revenant continue to fire downrange into the flanks of the horde where Chroma wasn't at, doing all that they could to somehow stem the tide. It didn't take long for Trinity to realize the Chroma had essentially aggro the mob through the use of his aggressive swordplay and lightning which was causing the majority of the horde to focus solely on him though this didn't stop a few of the more intelligent stragglers from peeling off and heading straight for the Healer and Sentient Tenno. Bursts from Revenant's Battacor and Trinity's Twin Vipers easily put down the majority of them but a few were still able to close the distance and get up within striking range of Trinity.

Quickly, she holsters her guns and switches to the ancient pole-arm, Orthos, using it to impale the nearest Infested, a Charger that got too full of itself, through its head, easily piercing it hide and planting it into the ground along with her weapon. Springing forward she swings on the now stationary staff to deliver a double kick to the head of a Runner, sending it flying backward into the walls and as she finishes her movement, she yanks the Orthos out and slashes the upper half of another Charger's head clean off before turning her attention back to the still daze Runner who she then guts with a thrust into its torso, twisting her melee weapon before yanking it out. As the Runner's guts spill out onto the ground it somehow still had the life left in it to makes a feeble attempt to attack Trinity, who draws a single Viper and empty a half a clip into its head, finishing it off for good. She then uses the remaining rounds to headshot another Runner that was in mid-sprint toward her. Dodging the claws of a third Runner that came from her side, the Healing Tenno swings her Orthos into it, the staff part colliding with the mutated beast side and slamming it into the wall with a resounding smack.

Before the Runner could even react, Trinity once again holsters her Viper and pulls her free hand back. From the ends of her warframe's fingertips tiny syringes extend out and she shoots out and clinches the Runner's neck, her tiny knife-like appendages going deep into its flesh. Combining the mechanics of her suit along with her own supernatural Tenno power, she began to absorb the very essence of the Infested, taking both its life force and energy until it became nothing more than a dry husk that crumbles to dust within her grasp. As the extra health and energy surge through her, a Leaper jumps out of the ocean of Infested toward her, its claws ready to strike. Instinctively, Trinity casts Well Of Life on the airborne creature stopping it in its mid-flight as it became encased in a green aura. As the creature hovers in mid-air, Trinity puts away her Orthos and draws both Vipers. After taking a brief moment to reload both of them, she unleashes a barrage of bullets into the Leaper's head, the damage inflicted on it being converting by her own energy into health to aid her compatriots, not that they needed it though if her HUD was anything to go off of. Revenant was holding his own against the tide while Chroma was simply hacking through them too fast for them to do any real damage to them besides a few scratches here and there.