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The Swarm War

Chapter 10

Starfox watched as he tossed and turned on the cot. "Wow he looks like shit" Falco said.

"So would you if you've been through what he has!" Krystal piped in defending the disheveled human.

"Okay okay I didn't mean anything by it I was just saying he looks beat up that's all." Falco muttered "I wasn't trying to be mean."

"I know it just I'm a little on edge I never thought things like these could be real. The idea that they really are is frightening." She said holding her tail close to her chest.

Meanwhile fox was talking with Lupa. "So are these thing still a threat?" He asked.

"Since this mission there have been no more sightings of these monsters or any more of these obelisks." She expressed to him. "Furthermore if our alliance works out we will expand our efforts in aiding Corneria against threats such as these. Now then lets focus on the video until it has concluded. All your questions can be answered at the end.

"Sounds good to me, wait what's that noise?"

Varrus's troubled sleep only lasted for half an hour before he was rudely awakened by the sound of metal buckling. He shot out of his interrupted slumber and turned his gaze towards the door. With a tired moan he rolled of the cot and picked up his helmet and resealed it. He reached down and picked up his abandoned supplies repacking them in the pouches. The door started to cave in as he picked up his discarded rifle "these things won't leave me alone." He muttered exhaustedly.

He prepared himself for the attack and evaluated his weapons. Finding that they were up to par he trained his rifle on the door and waited.

The door finally collapsed revealing there shadowy forms. Without hesitation he unloaded his rifle into the doorway scything down the first few monsters in a dazzling flash of light. He upon realizing they were going to rush him slung his rifle and drew his nemesis sword and with a shout leaped to engage them.

The first abomination was wearing the tattered uniform of an engineer. As it swung it's bladed appendages at him Varrus leaned backwards and the limbs hurtled towards him barely out of range. With a quick motion he brought his sword up and severed the pesky things from its body. Using the same motion he spun the blade around and down into its cranial vault separating it from its body in a magnificent shower of blood. It fell nervelessly to the floor with a wet thud. Without skipping a beat Varrus moved to engage the next one this time covered in armor.

Dressed up in the remnants of a soldiers gear it would be a little harder to eliminate. He drew "Faith" one of his blasters and kneecapped the monster. It took quite a few hits to finally pierce the exceptional armor. During its collapse he raised his blade and hammered down bisecting the unlucky corpse and then kicked it out of the room.

The final one of the set was so corroded he was not sure what it used to be. Varrus in an effort to end this quickly rotated his body bringing the weapon into its side slicing it in half. Unbelievably it's lower half sprouted three tendrils that began to attack him. He deflected the first two but the last one hit him in the chest only mildly scratching the paint. With a scoff Varrus booted it into a wall driving his sword through it and finally ending it's twisted existence.

He checked his motion tracker to confirm that he was indeed finished with the fight. Satisfied he was well and truly alone he relaxed his guard.

Now that the danger had passed he sat back down on the cot and tended to his still wounded chest. He was breathing shallowly clearly that short fight had exasperated his injuries. He injected a pain reliever into his system through the armor interface on his chest. Satisfied that all that could be done was done he made to leave the room. Not before checking the soldiers remains for an ID that sadly was missing from the chest plate. Since there was nothing else he could do he exited the room.

Looking around he was thankful that the corridor was empty. His motion tracker was silent bolstering the fact that he was truly alone in the hallway. Content that there really was nothing out there he made his way to his destination.

Suddenly the door down the hall exploded revealing a group of monsters supported by the ill discovered new variant. "SON OF A BITCH SERIOUSLY?!" He yelled quickly drawing his rifle and emptying his clip in there direction. "GOD DAMN PLACE WAS EMPTY THATS CHEATING!" Prioritizing the the more dangerous ranged adversaries he swiftly targeted and obliterated them in a hail of gunfire. By that time the others were already halfway to his location. He pulled the trigger and "CLICK" his clip was dry.

Panicking he backpedaled and drew his two blasters and started to shoot there legs in an effort to slow them down. The first few tumbled to the floor in a struggling mass of bladed appendages. The others roared at him as they drew nearer. Holstering the pistols he unsheathed the sword from his back and closed the distance.

Shoulder checking the first one to the wall it slammed into it with a sickening crunch. Using his momentum he spin kicked another into its compatriots buying him time to press his advantage. He hacked the closest one in half with a spray of gore as it collapsed. He closed his left gauntlet making a fist and brought it raging down upon the next one smashing it to the floor with his immense strength shattering its bones as if they were made of glass.

Soon after the vent next to him shattered birthing the forms of two more monsters. Not giving them time to attack he ran into them pining them to the wall and pulled another grenade. This time it was a fragmentation variant and rammed it into the stomach of the one on he left. After leaving it embedded in its chest he grabbed both of them and smashed them together and hurled them away. As he turned to the last one the two he tossed exploded in a blistering flash of heat metal and body parts.

The last one was still getting up from the floor when he flashed his blade in five quick movements decapitating it and removing its limbs.

He then brought his focus to the group of handicapped creatures. The struggling mass of enemies were eliminated just as the first one was, in a blistering blaze of incendiary might. The fight complete he gathered himself and his equipment. "Goddamn things are relentless." He muttered sullenly.

Continuing his trip he went back to the lift sidestepping the little massacre and selected the floor for research and development. The ride was silent thanks to the untimely demise of the speaker system. Leaving the lift he was happy to see no bloodthirsty corpses out to kill him.

He went to yet another terminal and searched for the artifacts specific location. After a lengthy and frustrating search the terminal directed him to hanger bay C. Groaning Varrus started smacking his head on the screen "damn things not here. Of course it would be back near where I started" he groaned.

With a wasted trip he turned around and headed back to the lift. Once inside he pressed the button that would take him to the next floor. It was a little farther and so would take longer to arrive. Utilizing the extra few minutes he did a once over of his gear. His ammo was still good and his sword was only slightly nicked nothing a little sharpening couldn't handle. His twin blaster pistols were still in peak condition hopefully they would stay that way.

His inventorying was interrupted when the elevator suddenly rocked up and down. Varrus stumbled confusedly and fell on to the wall.

That saved his life as the vent above him was breached and one of the things flew out exactly were he was just standing. With a almost bored groan he simply pummeled it into a pile of broken bones and tenderized meat. The elevator arrived at its destination a moment later he exited leaving the pitiful mound that used to be a monster and rushed to the hanger. "Luckily my way out and target are in the same room" he said excitedly. With reckless enthusiasm he ran to the door. "Alright destroy anything in the way to the artifact. Blow up said artifact and call for extraction piece of cake." He muttered to himself as he activated the door.

The door opened.

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"Fuck"