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[Corman2030]

Cullen took the rifle with a nod of thanks, checked the load, and slung it over his shoulder. Looking up he watch Miranda walk from the room and turn around and waited till the Security closed to look away. "Shit, Toolbox! We got to find a way to slow these Bastards down. At there present speed they will reach the platform in 3 minutes." He calculated on his datapad.

"The shaft! There has to be a way for us to collapse the shaft!" It may not solve the problem planet wide but will secure #3 for a bit."

[Keiya]

All at once, the Moon seems to contort. A wide irradiating burst of light erupts from the various man-made caverns dotted across the surface of Titan. Time seems to slow down as matter and time itself are contorted around this event locations - crystalline shrills and terrifying roars echo into the cold, dusty air of the Moon. A large seismic shift cracks the northern plate - 212 rolling out as if blood from a wound. From the cracks and frays of the shifting Moon contorting alien masses rose - seemingly taking form from the 212, bodies and forms ranging from small and sleek to titanic and hulking began to take shape. This event was on a global scale and seemingly unstoppable; like an angry ocean rising to sweep over a barren world.

On platform #3, screams of glass echoed from the metallic surfaces of the platform. With every step the alloy shifted form, taking on new appearance entirely. There seemed to be no driven purpose or pursuit, simply mass chaos.

" Cullen....What the hell is going on?" Celestia asked rhetorically with excitement and concern in her voice. Already she was soaking in every bit of data that her processors could handle. This was astounding! Never had there been such an event in the history of mankind! Here she was, right in the midst of what seemed to be sentient life birthing forth from Titan. It was mystifying, thrilling, and horrifying.

A large explosion detonated somewhere on the platform, rocking the entire structure. " Explosion detected in the Fuel Cell Storage. Damage to Platform integrity."

[Warmonger]

"Celestia, we must evacuate the platform now, human life is at too high a risk" E220 blurts.

[Corman2030]

Thrown from his feet as the fuel cells exploded, the entire platform shifted violently. The control panel Cullen had been standing at exploded in a shower of sparks and shrapnel, he stood and took in the Control room. Nearly all system controls were off line and that was from the monitors that had not yet been destroyed.

Cullen caught the transmission from E220 to Celestia and thought his conclusion was accurate. Making his way back to the Security Door, "Lets get moving E220," "Celestia were gonna need Evac now!" Cullen said as another large explosion rocked the platform. "Kayle, Miranda, platform is coming down. We are making our way topside for Evac. Move it Reapers, we don't have much time!"

[Keiya]

Seig hung out of the side-bay of the gunship, eyes wide at the sight of the Moon below him that he had hung over and protected for over a century. Something deep inside of him ached as everything seemed to spiral out of control. Plumes of greenish-blue light shot into the atmosphere, washing over the sky and shifting the very fabric of matter itself. Below he could hear the roaring of Titan itself; coming alive and spewing forth life that had never been witnessed, but had been held so close to home for so long. Was 212 a living organism? A consciousness? He had no idea - but what he did know is that he needed his men off of the ground. Just then a biosign blipped and then winked out of existence. He would have become enraged if not for the sound of a faint, distressed voice - one he had never heard before.

" Pilot! Get us to platform #3!"

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Miranda sprinted from the secure engineering checkpoint as the ground began to shift under her feet. Her scopes were going haywire - pinpointing enemies all around her, but she was alone. She could hear the glass-like screams of the planet, or whatever it was that was going on around her, and it only made her move that much faster. In the distance she saw her squad assembling. Kayle had turned to face her when the explosion rocked the platform.

She tried to hold her footing, find a balance, but there was none to be found. The alloy plating below her began to contort before it finally ripped. Taking a lunge forward, she rolled onto her back and rebounded into a backflip. The alarm in her helmet screamed and begged her to take notice of the threat directly above her - a plummeting support. Instinctively she tried to move from the way, but her right foot was held fast. Looking down her eyes widened in surprise and momentary horror. The shifting yet featureless face of the blue-green creature latched to her armored ankle left her paralyzed. Was it the fear? No. The Monitors of her suit showed that her power cells were draining rapidly. Was it feeding? It had to be. What the hell was this?

The creature exploded in a flurry of tungsten rounds as Kayle grabbed her by the nape of her neck and flung her across the platform. The bits and pieces of the creature slapped against the alloy plating as if flesh before fizzingly into a fine mist and slowly relocating to the main portion of it's host. Miranda looked up after she could focus - her ears alive with ringing. Eyes shifted left : Her team had gathered, firing endlessly into a surrounding and unending army of Blue-Green creatures of endless shapes and sizes, closing in more and more. Eyes flicked right - Kayles' faceplate depolarized to show his broad brow and sweat-dashed skin, the creature clinging to his legs, ripping apart his armored legs like paper mache. They vanished under the multi-ton reinforced alloy support - his biosigns spiked and flatlined in her HUD.

"Cu-" She struggled to move. "Cullen - get to an evac. NOW." Tears filled her eyes as Kayles' face remained burned in her vision. She pulled the RK770, Codenamed 'Shredder' from her hip : a high powered, compact, inaccurate, brutal auto rifle and cycled the chamber. Everything she could kill would die.

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[Corman2030]

Cullen received Mirandas transmission and hesitated at the Security Door, looking back at E220, "Im going after the Reapers, Android. Do as you wish but if your coming, you better not slow me down." He checked the load of the assault rifle and made ready,then punched a code into his mining gauntlet and produced a few remote detonated explosive charges. Hanging the charges on his suits tool attachments made for Miranda and the Reapers. "I'll be damed if I leave another Soldier behind!"

[Draco Ny'ade]

Runs to a gunship with a decent Transport capacity gesturing for Seig to follow, Jumps in the front while folding his rifle into the pocket and starting the engines

[Keiya]

Seig wastes no further time by leaping into the pilots' craft with Robin and Anders at his heels. As he continues to view the moon from his place in orbit and small sting of pain rushes through his chest. At first he felt this might be an emotional pain : watching a child or something you had known your entire life being eaten away. Then he realized that it truly was pain. He ran a quick diagnosis as he knew he hadn't been injured on his initial descent...it was one of his augmentations malfunctioning...an augmentation composed entirely of Particle 212. 'Shit.' He thought aloud.

"Nebuchadnezzar....You alive out there? "

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Celestia was in awe...until she saw Kayles' biosigns flatline. A sense of shock flooded her systems as she recalled his entire service history in a mere moment. What a terrible waste of life...Per protocol she pulled the information that his suit had been transmitting before it's complete failure and began tracing through it's diagnosis'. Complete system failure. Energy consumption alert. Breaching alert. Secondary Layers Critical Failure. What were these things to be able to rip right through some of the most advanced personal security armor there was to offer?

"Cullen - Running a check on the data we have so far of the enemy. They appear to be energy consuming based off of the single one there has been direct interaction with. From the rest of the team we are seeing a sort of regenerative ability. It's incredible. " Her excitement was obvious. " Also confirming from the information of sensors snipping air samples - they appear to be composed entirely of Two-Twelve..."

[Corman2030]

"Well if you're just gonna stand there and not answer me, make your way topside and get to the Evac. Tell the LC to stay on station as long as possible, but if it looks like the platform is going down, leave us." Cullen said to E220 and with that he was at the turbolift and headed down.

"Celestia, do we know of anything that can combat 212? I'm going after the Reapers, sounds like they're in a pinch."

The turbolift began decelerating, arriving on the Reapers level. Squealing as it came to an abrupt hault. Cullen was in awe that the lift was still operating given the integrity of the platform. "Come on old girl, hold together just a bit longer!" The turbolift doors would not open so Cullen forced open one side and jammed a splinter of unistrut, lying on the deck, into the toe of the door, to keep it open. Cullen exited the lift and followed the Reapers fof tag, he was now picking up on his HUD. Another explosion rocked the passageway and Cullen realized that the blast had not been the platform coming apart. There was a fierce firefight taking place up ahead and it seemed the Reapers where pinned down.

Cullen arrived at a junction, behind the Reapers position. Seeing now that only Miranda remained, Cullen brought his rifle to his shoulder and started firing controled bursts into the beasts that were clambering over a collapsed section of the corridor. Making his way to Miranda, firing all the while, Cullens added fire to Mirandas fusillade did slowly push the regenerating monsters back.
"Are you injured, can you move?" He asked as he unclasped a charge from his belt.

[Keiya]

Miranda doesn't take a second to register. As the FoF tag marks the engineers approach, she swings the belt-fed weapon around to the right and lets the shredder rounds pelt into the lumbering hulks marching up the northern access catwalk. Hatred burning through her eyes, she grits her teeth as the taste of copper floods her mouth. " Die.. Just.. Die....FUCKING DIE!"

" Miranda...Calm." The ghostly voice of Gabriel demanded in a low but frightening tone. " Kayle is gone....Deal. Survive. " As he spoke, the sound of his rifle echoed through - the high powered .70 rounds pounding through several of the monsters with each shot.

Miranda snapped back to herself and nodded as if confirmation of what she was hearing. " Ey...Righ'..." She continued to spray the inaccurate, high volume weapon into a wall of entrenching enemies. " Grim - We need cover. Cullen is here. " The eyes on her visor slid to the side and locked on the armored engineer - pulsing as if a soft 'hello'.

The group was cutting a path, slowly and circling - keeping the monsters at bay as they tactically maneuvered towards Miranda and Cullen. As they reached them, Risky reached into his hip-pack and pulled out a small micro-fusion grenade. Without warning he hurled it down the walk-way, blowing it and any access from that direction : Or so he hoped.

Through the teams' speakers, Seigs' icy voice filled. " We're abandoning Titan. This outbreak is surface-wide....Men, prepare for Evac : We're coming to get you. " As he sent the announcement, he pounded his fist against the hull of the transport and clambered inside. " Pilot. Get us down there. We have lives to save. "

"There's nothing to Abandon." Celestia said com-wide. "Titan.. has fallen...It's fallen to itself. "

[Draco Ny'ade]

As the gunship streaked through the atmosphere he voiced a concern to Seig
"we wont have any certainty once were down there because of all the 212 in the gunship"

"This could be a Shitstorm"

[Warmonger]

"REAPERS- this is the nebuchadnezzar responding. We can save the arguments for later, where do you need us most?" the captain messages

"error, cannot enter combat situation" E220 says. "i shall remain here and oversee stages of evacuations"

[Keiya]

Seig sneered as the HUD fizzled in front of his eyes. He could tell that something was wrong. Things just weren't performing right. His augmentations were giving momentary spikes and then sudden plummets into retraction. He brought his hand before the pulsing eye of his helmet and examined it. The pilots' voice came over his com and he nodded. " I'm seeing obstructions - Good catch. Either way, we need to recover those men. Take us in hot and gunning. We have to clear a pickup. Mark location Azure-Nine-Two. Direct to Cullens' location. "

A breath of relief flowed through him as he heard the voice of the captain of Nebuchadnezzar respond. " Agreed. " There was a growl in his voice. " We have to evacuate Titan. We have no idea what's going on, but it looks like Two-Twelve.... "

As he watched the atmosphere burn around the ship a voice erupted through his head - not his coms. " HUMAN. MAINAR'LIAK. SOL CHILDREN. SAH-LI-RAK. HEAR OUR VOICE. " His head was overwhelmed with a crushing pressure that brought him to a knee. As he looked to his left, Robin and Anders were in the same condition. "What.. the...hell? "

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Celestia monitored a sudden spike in everyones' biosigns at once. She quickly ran scans through the various systems. " People, what's going on? You're spiking but I see no damage. " She couldn't hear what was effecting them - but she did take note of one outstanding trait : The flood of sentient 212 had ceased... Toiling, shifting, hulking, monstrous forms of every shape and size were halted just out of reach of the seemingly crippled humans.

"E220? Can you see something I can't? What's going on? "

[Warmonger]

"celestia, some form of sound wave pattern emitted from the life forms has overloaded the human's receptors. Send transcripts for analysis... Revise plans and make evacuation alpha priority.

[Corman2030]

Cullen, dropped to the deck and rolled himself in behind a stanchion for cover. Blood sprayed form his face as the pressure inside his head became unbareable. He retracted his helmet and picked up the rifle he had unknowingly droped. Trying his best to block out the pain and train his weapon on the corridor where the beast had been coming from. It seemed they had stopped their attack but were still lingering just out of sight. Cullen pushed himself to a kneel, "Come on Reapers," he wheezed, attempting to sound unaffected. "Lets get moving before this place comes apart."

[Keiya]

Gabriel winced as the pain shot through his head. The years of silence that he had created in his mind, a fortress of void and silence, compromised. He narrowed his eyes and tried to focus on the enemies surrounding them. Glancing towards Ryan and Miranda, both now at their knees, he forced himself to stand erect and gave nothing more than a grunt of effort. " Don't...Be overwhelmed..." He released into his mic is as calm a fashion as ever. Squeezing the trigger of his .70 caliber rifle, the ringing from the shot cleared his mind for a moment.

Miranda growled, furrowing her brown as sweat rolled down her face. She had never felt so weak in her life - even after the recovery from the installation of her physical augmentations. Eyes locked on Cullen, she couldn't help but be impressed by the seasoned' mans' ability to stand. Not to be outdone by him or Gabriel, she forced herself to her feet. " What the hell.. is going on?" She exhaled in obvious strain. Her head was pounding - vision blurred and distorted - she thought her head as going to explode at any moment.

The voice rang out again, this time smoother and less forceful. " Our Grave. Ek'Nar. 'Titan' per your tongue. Tite-os NE'rsah Mol. Why have you - You interrupt our slumber. Liyk'Malr Kiakn Xelna'verash'tah."

Gabriel fired off another round and heaved his chest in an effort to breathe. The force was increasing as if gravity itself were distorting around him. "...What.. are you? You're...obviously not intent on killing us. Where did you come from? "

The voice huffed for a moment - then came the light. A spiraling, twisting nether directly before the team. Several of the Plasmic-like being fall and seemingly disintegrated. In a rush of light, the very matter of the broken beings swept together into a single hulking form. The monstrosity was more solid matter than the twisting ethereal beings around them. This one had depth and solidity, though it's form continuously shifted - never staying the same shape. " Come from? Dear human, we have been here forever. Existing, breathing, dreaming in a world forgotten by time. Oh yes, I can sense the shock in your mind. How would we know what you are? " There came a deep, booming laughter. " You were meant to play your role for centuries. To become a burning flame before being extinguished. To feed the ever-growing light. "

Miranda tilted her head. It felt as if her mind was being rolled over. " Oh, yes. This one. You wonder 'This is life?' It is not 'life' just as it is not 'death'. We are eternal. " A hand formed and in an instant extended and latched around Mirandas' chest. " We have given you enough. Now we shall take what is ours and consume you. " Being lifted from the alloy grating, Miranda was flung to the side effortlessly. She did all she could to tuck herself as she slammed into the Engineering security center, caving into it's reinforced walls. Gabriel tried to react but found that his strength had been stolen. The being that had flung Miranda formed another hand which began to pulse a brilliant blue.

" Now - Let us began our extermination. " With that, the first true attack sounded with a chilling display of power. A rippling volley of light ejected from the 'hand' and sped towards Miranda. Unable to move, the attack slammed against her, pulsed, and exploded - leveling the Engineering security center which Android E220 was still inside of. From the explosion, Mirandas' ragdoll-like body sailed through the air, slamming against a distant wall before it collapsed into an unmoving heap.

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Celestia was running wild. Her subroutines began to rampantly attack the stations' defensive systems as she brought the orbital cannons to life. "Seig, Get those men off of Titan. NOW."

Seig slammed a fist into the floor of the ship and growled as he watched Mirandas' vitals plummet. She wasn't dead, but whatever had hit her, hit her hard. " Pilot! Surface. NOW!" He opened a link with the ground team and hissed. " Evacuate! Do whatever you can! You have to get out! Celestia is about to bombard the area! " He grimaced with the thought . "Nebuchadnezzar! Light the area up! Danger close! "

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The voice spoke again in an arrogant fashion. " As those before you, you will be consumed to strengthen the Legion. Our war is near - You will add to our strength. " It's attention turned to the engineer, sensing there was difference. " You ; You will be the first to be consumed. " And with that a horde of grasping hands shot forth towards Cullen.

[Warmonger]

Flames and debris consumed E220, scouring him and stripping him of his facáde. What remained was his titanium endoskeleton, it's receptors flickering.
//:reboot.ini/subsetmask active
//:damage critical/reboot
//:boot aborted.subroutine delta six activated

His receptors flashed red, and he stood, panning round and searching for targets. He locates an assault rifle and begins his hunt
//:priority override:/destroy lifeforms/
//:all life forms 
"you heard the man, FIRE EVERYTHING!" captain meyers shouts as he recieves the live feed from the ground.
Along her hull, weapon ports open, and the nebuchadnezzar shows her teeth: type delta plasma cannons, capable of reducing three kilometers of hardened steel into jelly. The cannons charged once, and then fired upon the other platforms, the fires of their demise lighting the planet.

[Corman2030]

Still holding the explosive charge in hand, the 212 creatures hands, exploded from its body, reaching for Cullen. In that instant he reached back and through the charge. Meeting the extending limbs, between Cullen and the beast. With a thought, Cullen, primed and detonated the explosive in flight. The charge, designed for precision blasts drilled deep into the rock of Titan, was the equivalent to a pound of plastic explosive, none the less, much more than was safe for using his close. proximity. The blast, tore Cullen from his feet. Throwing him 20ft. back down the corridor, suit integrity lights flashed amber in Cullen's eyes. Dazed but still conscious, he looked back to see what had become of the creature.

[Keiya]

The being arched it's multiple 'hands' around the device, paying it no mind. As it came withing grasping reach, the device detonated and blew the extensions of it's body apart. As the pieces were sent sprawling through the air and slapping gorily along the platform, they dissolved into a fine mist. The mist swirled in place momentarily before shooting off towards the host.

Gabriel noticed exactly what the object that Cullen had thrown was. Looking to find 'Risky', he narrowed his eyes and dove to cover the unconscious Ranger. The youngest of the group, he was everyones' younger brother. He hadn't near the experience or augmentative updates to his body that the rest had to deal with these sorts of things. He must have collapsed from the mental pressure of the creature. As the explosion rocked the area, he set his armor plating to harden, digging his hands into the alloy plating on either side of the downed Reaper, and winced as the heat-wave blistered the surface of his skin on his back.

"Humans. Are you so eager to survive that you risk your very lives doing so?" The voice bellowed through the explosion.

Heat and fire spewed into the air. She could feel it against her face - but it was so soothing. Miranda opened her eyes, fighting for focus. Images of her team washed through her head as the darkness swept away to take in the cracked screen before her, fighting to focus. Red alert lights winked on and off, a quiet alert ringing in her ears. " St-." She coughed, blood splattering the HUD. "Status. "

:- Health Critical
-|| Damage to Sternum
-|| Broken left arm
-|| Dislocated left shoulder
-|| Separated Ribs
-|| Broken Ribs
-|| Concussion
-|| Blood Pooling against left lung
-|| Left Lung collapsed
-||>> Recommendation : Immediate Medical Attention
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=: Administering Pain Counter-Actives
=: Countering......Adrenal Stimulants

Miranda lifted her head as her pain seemed to wash away. She could feel the pressure and lagginess of her body as she forced herself to stand, using the wall she had collapsed against as a brace. As the adrenals took effect over the cocktail of painkillers administered by the suit, she looked upon the scene from the explosion. Her screen would not focus properly, but in the distance she could see Cullen at the ready, damaged, and facing this new opponent. Opposite of him, she took note of Gabriel covering their unconscious comrade. Another cough presented more blood inside of her helmet. Then she heard it - The screams of orbital firepower.

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Streaks of brilliant light plummeted through the atmosphere, streaking down like lances of divine brilliance. As they broke through the thick atmosphere, their speed increased several fold - slamming into the #3 platform with unrelenting force. Glassy screams echoed into the air as the strikes landed dangerously close to the team, shifting them and breaking the platform into pieces. The entire structure shifted, ripping apart, forcing to separate the group or even more dangerously drop them into the pit below.

[Warmonger]

//:routine active - destory.organics
//:restraints - none.

The killer android stalked towards miranada's last know position, his skeletal form rippling