FIENDS, BEASTS, AND MORTAR--The siege of Sekto's lair (cont.)
Umi, struggling with all her efforts and strength, tried to break free from the Gloktigi's schemy plan.
'Sekto's all behind 'dis,' Umi thought.
The Gloktigi made a ghostly chuckle to Umi.
She only sneered hatefully at it.
"And yer goin' down with 'im, squid-head," Umi spat.
The Gloktigi snorted a negative. It spun back around, passing between the line of ventalation fans.
Until a furious roar shot behind the Gloktigi's large egg-shaped head.
The Gloktigi's eyes lowered to a callous squint ahead. It turned around to the Steef, its bow unlocked and pointed to it.
The Gloktigi squawked challengingly.
Stranger flared his nostrils, exhausting a slow growl.
"Leg'go the human," he ominously said.
The Gloktigi snorted as well, clapping a claw forward.
"I said LEG'GO!"
The Gloktigi noticed the Steef's challenge to it. Remembering what its master said to it, to have the human alive to him, and the Steef dead.
Getting the Steef dead would leave the human defenseless to it.
The Gloktigi accepted the Steef's request.
The ensnare was absorbed back in to its smooth flesh.
Umi dropped to the ground, close to a ventalation fan. She scrambled up and away from the Gloktigi, beside Stranger.
Stranger checked Umi by a glance, then darted straight back to the Gloktigi.
"So, you want Umi?" he said to it.
The Gloktigi cowled in agreement.
"Then you's got's ter go through me first," he frowned defensively.
"and I ain't no cookie,"
The Gloktigi laughed again, then kicked in its reflexes before the Steef could say any more.
Its ensnare popped out of its pores again whilst it spun. Clusters of the glop sped to Stranger's bow.
He only lowered his arm to his side loosely, standing still and staring at the ensnare.
The glob passed by his furry jaw, just touching the bristle that stood up near his neck.
Stranger grinned as if it were a joke.
"You done?"
The Gloktigi squawked confusidely.
Stranger snapped his arm up again, and before it could blink, two Boom-bat Seekers fluttered passed below the fans, and smacked upon its ghostly-purple flesh. The Seeker's clusters exploded on impact, leaving a large bloody hole on the side of its face, below its left eye.
The Gloktigi stumbled from the excruciating pain thumping below its eye. Its arm extended over the swirling fans shredding below its head.
Stranger watched it catch itself falling near the fan. It wasn't going down yet.
He placed a hand to Umi behind him, trotting up by the Gloktigi's arm that grappled over a weak fence around the fan.
It roared defensively to Stranger, snapping its talons at his feet.
Stranger stepped back, watching the Gloktig as it helplessly hovered over the fan.
Stranger shook his head.
"Oh no you ain't," he grabbed the Gloktigi's wrapped arm.
The Gloktigi's other arm slipped down to the fan. Its fingers were amputated down to nothing but three stubs of bone and blood.
It cried in pain, as Stranger lowered it deeper near the fan.Its arm was becoming gratted as it was slung lower.
The Gloktigi pleaded incoherantly, but Stranger wouldn't show no mercy.
Stranger's lips curled to a cruel smile.
"You wanted to hurt my kid, now did yeh?" Stranger said to its face.
"Well, I'm-a gonna hurt you,"
He shoved the rest of the Gloktigi down to the fan. He backed away from the explosion of flesh and fragment of bone that spurted in the air. Blood spattered in droplettes near his cleaved hoofs. A ghostly scream was all that lingered from the Gloktigi.
Below would be a present for the Wolvarks that still cowered from the Steef, and a message that Stranger would be coming for him faster than before.
Stranger turned back to Umi, she staying hunched on her knees, and staring at the gruesome sight of what Stranger did to the poor creature.
Her eyes shook in wonder. It brought back the horrible memory of the Covenant. It might've not related to the fact that the Gloktigi was shredded to tiny bits, but it was the cruelty, the sheer horror of how it was done.
The Covenant were about as brutal to the humans than the Flood. Especially when she was captured and stripped down of her clothes, and thrown in to a cell with only her bra and pants on, humiliating herself in front of all the young men held prisoner as well.
The Covenant sometimes took some of the marines, and torchered them until they spoke of what they wanted to hear. Then, they'd be put to death, or tortured them until they couldn't breathe no more. And they did it, right in their faces, just for kicks.
But even they did treacherous things to the human race, Umi couldn't resign the fact that the Covenant race didn't understand what the hell they were doing to themselves. Mercy was pulled upon the selected few that decided to stop their Prophets, their holy icons, from doing the most extreme thing that they would resent, to the entire universe.
But their cruelty lived on in Umi's memory, never to be erased from her mankind.
Stranger knelt down to Umi, blinking concernly to her.
"What's wrong?"
Umi gasped loudly, returning to normal conscious. She began to shake her head.
"N-nothing. I'm fine..." she lied.
Stranger grinned skeptically, but stood Umi up on her feet. He wiped off the glop that was stuck on her shoulder, holding down his hands on her shoulders.
"You sure?" he asked more curiously.
Umi kept quiet. Only her eyes looked to him.
She looked back down.
"Yes," she mumbled.
Stranger stared down the path through the rows of ventalation fans. The air began to smell of burned flesh rotting. He wiped his eyes. He never smelled such a disgusting scent, other than a Stunk's cloud of noxious gas.
Stranger galloped out up on the third and last level.
Computer boxes hummed mechanically through its gills. Flashing lights communicated with one another. Static even charged through Stranger's fur.
He passed by the computers, caefully passing through a glass door.
Umi jumped off his back, staring at the other side of the dam.
Stranger gazed down below the building's balcony. A blue foggy mist shrouded twisting clanging pipes. It was one helluva drop if a slip happened to occur.
The only way across was a moderately thin plank, dripping of water from the mist high above the dam.
Stranger gave a growl, frowning that he and his four legs would have to cross the plank without trouble.
"I'll go first," Umi suggested, stopping at the head of the plank.
His lip went askew, as Umi stepped on the plank, balancing herself with her two arms.
She placed foot in front of foot slowly as could be. She wobbled as each step was carefully placed in.
Stranger's mind stressed with the thought of Umi falling, and him not there to catch her. He pressed a palm to his face, wiping the concerned sweat down from his smooth nose. He moved himself sideways to the plank, placing one hoof gently on the plank, then one hind leg, skirting along with his second front leg, and dragging along his last hind. His legs scooted along vertically along the small walkway, holding out his arms to maintain his balance.
Umi was halfway there, when she slowly turned her head to Stranger following sluggishly behind. She blinked back forward, feeling a gut feeling that if she didn't pay attention to her balance, she'd fall to her death.
She skirted more fast-paced, knowing that she was almost at the end. She jumped off the plank, turning back to Stranger, who had just hit the halfway point.
Stranger's mind was completely locked on his balance. He didn't even think about Umi being on the other side. He stared only at the walkway under his feet, trying not to look down at the vast drop that could've been him going down if he didn't pay attention to his steps.
The water dripped vertically in turns. The plank was slick, which was just as bad for Stranger's cleaved hoofs.
The constant buzzing that lofted up from the pipes nearly destroyed his trane of thought, almost making him lose his balance.
He flapped his arms, evening out his weight on each side, and moving quicker to the end.
Umi watched him with suspence. She knew he would need help over, since he was thicker than the plank. She kept a sturdy arm out in front of her, as Stranger inched closer to the end.
"I'll hold out my hand if you need it," Umi said, extending her arm out to him.
Stranger stared at the end of the plank, scootching his front and hind leg lastly. He felt his balance lose again, and snatched up Umi's arm.
She reacted quickly, pulling Stranger over to her, not to fall over and take her with him.
Stranger jumped off the planks finally, holding an open hand to his chest, breathing deeply out of his fear.
"Odd-damn...How do these...these 'varks make it over 'ere without fallin'?" Stranger heaved a sigh.
Umi shrugged.
"Prolly lot's o' bodies down those pipes 'nyways,"
Stranger let out a weak chuckle, straightening back posture. A louder, more electrical hum floated through the cracks of the entry doors.
A spinning core of purple-white bolts of electricity sounded behind weak, granulated glass barriers.
Stranger's fur prickled on his arms and neck.
He growled in irritation.
"Damn static..." he smoothed his hair on his arms.
"This must be the power core central of the dam," Umi said to herself.
She stepped closer to the glass windows, stopping when she heard the growls and mumbles of familiar voices coming from downstairs.
"'Varks," she turned to Stranger.
"I know," Stranger's bow unlocked with a Spark Stunkz already loaded on.
They slowly moved downstairs, avoiding to make clops of Stranger's hooves noticeable. But the hum was so loud, who wouldn't notice the footsteps.
Stranger counted up the Wolvarks below. Too many to take on in one sitting.
He looked at the power core, then grinned a cruel smile.
The glass shattered a sharp brittle behind the Wolvarks. They jumped in suspense, holding their weapons close to their arms.
Then their whole world began to suck dry towards the power core.
The Wolvarks clawed despirately at the laminated cement, feeling the shock bite their metal-tipped boots. They screamed fearfully, as they felt the shocking pulse explode through their veins. The Wolvarks were pulled down in to the power core by some unknown force. They thudded to the plate bottom of the core, the deadly volts of electricity still coarsing through their bodies, until their hearts stopped them from living.
Stranger ran down the levels of landings, passing the twitching, lifeless, bubbling mouths of the Wolvark's bodies laying eagle-spread on the core's electric base.
The outside was dark of blue foggy mist and a cold draft fell upon the dam's facility. Stranger trotted by a built-in ventalation fan grounded in the cement base, stopping behind a corporation box with the insignia of Sekto's Springs, the shape of a Gloktigi.
Stranger peeked around the box crate, two security guards holding shields and bombs standing in front of an open facility door.
He looked at the fan, but frowned. Using a Stunk would be a waste. They were too far from the fan to shred them up. The only alternative was to get rid of them up close.
And he had to hurry quick. The catapults were already barraging the defense of the dam. Chunks of roofing plummetted far down the open pipes transporting water from the Mongo River. Bubbling metal dripped upon the near-rusted pipes, hissing hotly, and melting in the metal, creating small puncture holes. Water sprayed forcefully through the burned holes.
An explosion of white web showered over the Wolvarks, creating a tough ensnare for the Wolvarks to try and tangle through.
Stranger quickly bountied the Grunts up, before the catapult shots breached further near him and his path to Sekto.
Magma from the pulted rocks splashed in to the ventilation fan, shorting out the wires from the bubbling rock, and killing the power to it.
Stranger cringed at the sparks that popped out between the blades of the fan. He pushed himself and Umi urgently through the open facility doors, then walking normally as they safely approached a breached door scattered with Grubb bodies.
Rebel yells called behind a safe-wired window in the corner wall ahead of them. Three Wolvark guards shot at a pair of lone rebel Grubbs attacking the dungeon doors they guarded behind them. Bullets tore directly through the tender skulls of the Grubbs, sending them back on their behinds.
The Wolvarks laughed cruelly, clapping hands together in the air from their success of ridding the annoyance.
Pitter patter of bare feet tapped on the cement in a large unison. Around the corner came an even larger mass of Grubbs, holding up sticks of hissing explosives.
The Wolvarks frowned, turning to each other.
"Well'p," one said, dropping its rifle before it. "that's too much fer me to take on,"
"Yep," the other followed its partner's action.
The Wolvarks cried away from the suicidal Grubbs, latching their backs to the dungeon door, as their oncoming doom came closer with crafty grins.
An elevator shaft layed open to Stranger and Umi. The doors began to close on them.
Stranger squeezed quickly through the slow-closing doors, and Umi easily slipped behind him.
The elevator platform thumped to a start, the wheels grinding scratchily on the cords.
The loudspeakers inside the facility screeched loud of feedback.
"All security personnel! Fall back to the barges! Repeat: Fall ba-Whoa, ARGH! GAAAAAAAH!!"
The Wolvark screamed loudly.
Grubb yells shouted in the background on the microphone, and gunshots rambled distantly.
The elevator jumped to a stop at the top.
The Wolvark's voice came back quickly.
"Alright! We're back in business!"
Then more Grubb cries roared.
"WHAT THE- WHOA!!!"
The microphone squawked of feedback again.
"Steef dude! We know yo can hear us! Hurry! Get up to Sekto's office! Our catapults are moving in! HURRY! KILL SEKTO DEMON!" a Grubb rebel shouted urgently through the speakers.
Stranger growled. He peered through the wire frame enclosed ramps that led off down through two crumbling facilities, that would lead straight up to Sekto's office.
And how quickly the catapults came in, splashing around on the Wolvarks, and scrambling the inside of the facility in to chaos.
It wouldn't be long until the dam would be overrun by the catapults, almost nearly five minutes, as Stranger calculated.
They needed to move to Sekto, and fast.
"Git on! Now!" Stranger barked.
Umi fastened her legs around Stranger's waist, and holding her arms tightly around his chest.
Stranger trotted up to the head of the ramp. This was it.
This was the Race against Time.
Last edited by Dark Elite_H2; 01-28-2006 at 09:28 AM..
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