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death_gone_madThe Resistance's retreat did not go unnoticed by the Combine. The voice of the Administrator had broken the Resistance's spirits.
The great machinery of the Combine pressed it's advantage, now uninhibited.
The work of the Scourge of the Kharidian Desert, (and apparently the Mongolian Desert) began in earnest.
She raised her staff to the sky, as if trying to scratch the bellies of the airships overhead. The staff roared. The sky roared. And columns of light tore through the clouds, tore through the smoke, tore through the airships, tore through the ground. The earth roared in response, and out of it came columns of fire and twisting winds rise to meet and envelop the columns of light.
The columns began moving around freely.
She was about to begin another spell when exhaustion hit. She looked into the sky and sees that reality near the firey column was twisting, tearing. "How much power did I put into that?" Then remembered. This world already had problems with reality bleed. The walls are paper thin. Having the power of the columns bleed back into the elemental planes of fire and wind prematurely would be bad.
Well, there was also the problem of tearing a hole big enough for reinforcements from the Universal Union to come to the rescue. Or refugees from infernal or abyssal planes or Xen or who knows where. Or invaders.
But power bleed is the important thing. She pushed herself to add extra flattening spells to the columns, then ducked behind a wall to collapse. The columns were carving their way Combine ranks, but it wasn't enough. She was supposed to had enough power to mow down the Combine forces that were advancing on her.
"Split your souls in twain, I will split your souls in twain, until you live no more -- Advoco insaniam haereticorum in pectus meus et animam meam."
The destruction wrought by the wandering columns began to feed her, but she was not fully recovered when Ayuni apparated by her side, panicked. "Mistress! An Advisor approache---AAAUUURRRGHHH!" There is blinding pain, knee buckling pain. "What is happening?! Why isn't this one dying like the rest??"
The Advisor drifted down from the sky and over Sarah's prone form. It turned its attention to the green eyed Ayuni, and lifted her up, and threw the gorilla away like a crumpled piece of paper.
Some fool worm had stuck its head into her mouth. And it took all she had not to bite down, to crush, to rip, to tear the alien mind apart.
Inwardly, she was letting the Advisor root around in her mind. But she couldn't hide her hunger. She was salivating.
The Advisor digs deeper and finds lives. Thousands of them.
A shadow in her mind, a dark shape that crawls, slithers out of the abyssal depths. Hunger.Sarah's body levitated off the ground
Leeuni, Ayuni, and Eruni apparate before the Advisor, who heldSarah aloft, her upper robes drenched in drool. Leeuni could sense her Mistress's hunger, could see it. But made no move. Instead it was Eruni. "Mistress! Why aren't you fighting? Demons! Your ears are mine! Come to my -" Sarah's arm rose and she showed her palm to the three gorillas. The gorillas were lifted by a mighty wind and carried away.
The dark shape slid out of the recesses of her mind and was illuminated! It waved its multiple proboscii at the Advisor, it was a monster, it was deformed, it had vestigial teeth and a non-vestigial dorsal mantle.
The Advisor rose into the air, still holdingSarah's body. It was no longer limp. It raised its arms, palms outward, and the firey columns ceased to be. It grinned, as it faced the gathered Combine army below. "How have I longed for this day. The day when I would soar high above the plains of battle!"
What is this? Has the Advisor acquired a sense of humor? Is it engaging in puppetry?
Waves of pain washed over the whoever was in earshot. "When every knee would bend in my presence again. When my name could be shouted on high!"
███████
And with that, a large swath of the Combine forces was crushed. The Advisor andSarah fell to the ground.
Ironically the fallen goddess of death had saved the lives of most of her deserters that day. And they didn't even have to strip her of most of her godhood to get her to do it.
The great machinery of the Combine pressed it's advantage, now uninhibited.
The work of the Scourge of the Kharidian Desert, (and apparently the Mongolian Desert) began in earnest.
She raised her staff to the sky, as if trying to scratch the bellies of the airships overhead. The staff roared. The sky roared. And columns of light tore through the clouds, tore through the smoke, tore through the airships, tore through the ground. The earth roared in response, and out of it came columns of fire and twisting winds rise to meet and envelop the columns of light.
The columns began moving around freely.
She was about to begin another spell when exhaustion hit. She looked into the sky and sees that reality near the firey column was twisting, tearing. "How much power did I put into that?" Then remembered. This world already had problems with reality bleed. The walls are paper thin. Having the power of the columns bleed back into the elemental planes of fire and wind prematurely would be bad.
Well, there was also the problem of tearing a hole big enough for reinforcements from the Universal Union to come to the rescue. Or refugees from infernal or abyssal planes or Xen or who knows where. Or invaders.
But power bleed is the important thing. She pushed herself to add extra flattening spells to the columns, then ducked behind a wall to collapse. The columns were carving their way Combine ranks, but it wasn't enough. She was supposed to had enough power to mow down the Combine forces that were advancing on her.
"Split your souls in twain, I will split your souls in twain, until you live no more -- Advoco insaniam haereticorum in pectus meus et animam meam."
The destruction wrought by the wandering columns began to feed her, but she was not fully recovered when Ayuni apparated by her side, panicked. "Mistress! An Advisor approache---AAAUUURRRGHHH!" There is blinding pain, knee buckling pain. "What is happening?! Why isn't this one dying like the rest??"
The Advisor drifted down from the sky and over Sarah's prone form. It turned its attention to the green eyed Ayuni, and lifted her up, and threw the gorilla away like a crumpled piece of paper.
(what? dying like the rest?)
(a little too much confidence in you)
(you are impressive though)
(you believe you almost caused a portal storm?)
(ha)
(ha)
(ha)
Some fool worm had stuck its head into her mouth. And it took all she had not to bite down, to crush, to rip, to tear the alien mind apart.
Inwardly, she was letting the Advisor root around in her mind. But she couldn't hide her hunger. She was salivating.
(hunger?)
(what are you?)
(human)
(what are you?)
(HUMAN)
(what are you?)
(I Am Humanity)
(hunger.)
The Advisor digs deeper and finds lives. Thousands of them.
(how?)
One life, thousands of years(how???)
It watches how one human learns how to survive. How one human learns to thrive. How one human doesn't die, how one human learns to manipulate the forces of nature, how one human learns to manipulate people, beasts, nations, religions, GODS. How one human learns to kill. How one human learns to set the whole world ablaze with WAR.A shadow in her mind, a dark shape that crawls, slithers out of the abyssal depths. Hunger.
(your mind will be a great gift to the Universal Union)
(and we shall study your physiology)
and toward the Advisor(and you shall teach us true immortality)
Immortalityhorrors
(and you shall teach us true power!)
The Advisor's proboscis emerges.Leeuni, Ayuni, and Eruni apparate before the Advisor, who held
(WE SHALL BE GODS!)
The Advisor's proboscis struck the back of Sarah's neck and rooted up and down her spine.The dark shape slid out of the recesses of her mind and was illuminated! It waved its multiple proboscii at the Advisor, it was a monster, it was deformed, it had vestigial teeth and a non-vestigial dorsal mantle.
I WILL FIND THE HIDING PLACE OF THESE OVERFED SEASLUGS
AND I SHALL SHOW THEM THE TRUE HORRORS OF IMMORTALITY!
{I Claim This World And Its Resources For The Universal Union. Join Us And Free This World From This Endless War!}
It did not float in the air, it slid on the ground, on a trail of its secretions.{I Will Be your Queen. I Will Be Your Mother.
Come Child, Forsake Anger And Hate.
You will Only Know My Love,
FOREVER.}
(MUTANTEXILEFAILUREIMMORTALITY
..., though suffering several mutations that made her and her spawn severely atavistic, eluded capture and destruction by purification agents. Her faulty genetic material was the greatest threat the young Empire faced, a threat that mater...
The Advisor rose into the air, still holding
What is this? Has the Advisor acquired a sense of humor? Is it engaging in puppetry?
Waves of pain washed over the whoever was in earshot. "When every knee would bend in my presence again. When my name could be shouted on high!"
(what are you?)
You know what I am. You know my name.
███████
And with that, a large swath of the Combine forces was crushed. The Advisor and
Ironically the fallen goddess of death had saved the lives of most of her deserters that day. And they didn't even have to strip her of most of her godhood to get her to do it.