Wearing:
The Morpheus Chitin
Armed with:
The Sword of Cinndurr
Momentary Discomfort
Crime Hunter's Pistol (Cryo Configuration)
Laertia was absolutely horrified at what she saw.
If she had been having any doubts before about the necessity of total unity, they were wiped away as she saw the forces of
Tathra Khaeus
start murdering everyone they could get their hands on. Vile monsters like something out of Hell that she had no name for other than abomination.
Railgun defenses got badly damaged. Cruisers crippled. That thing of many eyes tearing apart tanks.
And him. Their chieftain.
Nuetralizers flying in squadrons of TIE Silencers went after the Dreddikast as Tathra leapt off it, targeting the most obvious weakpoint that they could think of, its eyes, firing bunker penetrating missile or plasma torpedoes at them, trying to harrass it as much as possible while informing of its exact coordinates to all nearby fighters on the SJC side as well as their cruisers, even as it brutally destroyed some of them, but they grew more relentless in their attacks, never staying in one place and always trying to fire at its eyes. The forces he had started to distribute throughout the city began to encounter more Nuetralizers among the ranks of the defenders, reinforcements from them alleviating many of the burdens of those like
Caedyn Arenais their cryo lasers and up close viciousness with their bio-sprays and mouth flamethrowers shredding into individual drones and Baeduran. The Nuetralizers were rapidly learning from their encounters, starting to coordinate their melee defense by exploiting weakpoints in their physiology to evade their close range attacks, especially from the Juggernauts, who were starting to find it was very difficult to get close enough to pull apart without getting their heads cut or blown off. Some Nuetralizers self destructed as they were tackled, engulfing dozens of Bryn'adul in a fiery explosion that killed most and injured many more around the radius of the blasts. Nuetralizers snuck up on Warlocks and tackled them, self destructing and blowing them and the warlocks to pieces.
But with Tathra arriving on the scene a sort of madness gripped the Bryn'adul as their perceived God King rampaged through the enemy. They fought thrice as maniacal as they had before in his presence, such that Laertia herself was taken aback at their rage and aggression as they stormed her lines, throwing themselves at her with such insane, animalistic abandon, that she could barely fend them off and cut them down in time. The Nuetralizers themselves were caught off guard as all across the field of battle their opponents deadliness increased by a significant magnitude, swiftly starting to cut down even them somewhat easily. It took hoardes of Nuetralizers to rampantly devote more processing power to their aggression parameters than even they were fully comfortable with to start keeping up.
Laertia was knocked backward by a punch from a Juggernaut, and went dizzy for a moment. Before the Juggernaut could press the attack and dogpile her, she flung the Sword of Cinndurr at them at point blank range.
Even traveling a third slower than most Lightsaber spinning with telekinesis they still weren't fast enough to evade it. The terrible power of the enchanted Lightsaber cut through even the strongest parts of their armor effortlessly. Nuetralizers dual wielding Ion Disruptors tore into the ranks of the frenzied Bryn'adul and seemed to go completely berzerk at seeing their mother struck, rapidly, wirelessly transmitting the data of her being hit.
Every Nuetralizer seemed to go berzerk, matching the increased fury suddenly blow for blow, suddenly slaughtering Bryn'adul with all the fanaticism of sons seeing their mother struck by a complete stranger. Revenge as a concept had fully crystallized in their coding, the skeletons discovering new patterns of killing in their berzerker state, lone Nuetralizers starting to be able to defend themselves against Juggernauts attacks with ease, their nightmare skeleton face being the last thing a Warlock would see as they were strangled , in spite of heavily being damaged by their strange powers before hand, seemingly downed Nuetralizers reactivating and suddenly killing again.
Fear began to grip the warriors of the Bryn'adul as the skeletons they had seemingly been destroying with ease suddenly surged forward with renewed vengeance, rallying organic defenders, and downing more of their gunbosts and fighters, now with sheer targeting of weak points as opposed to just coordinated fire. The combat ability of every Nuetralizer on the battlefield improved out of sheer hatred for the Bryn'adul just because
one of them managed to strike their creator.
Her skeletal sons defended her as she retrieved her blade, and resumed her charge against the endless hoarde, slashing apart the biggest strongest looking ones she could get her hands on, Nuetralizers around her and the Light Side Sith of Darth Themis, the War Knights in particular, gaining some of her strength and combat ability as she employed Form One to slash apart multiple opponents, becoming living wheat threshers.
Just as Tathra spearheaded his own attack, Ax reaping through the defenders of this city as well as non-combatants, so did Laertia rip through his forces, viciously fighting her way to him, feeling the death of the innocent everywhere, in spite of the best efforts of her sons, doing all they could to butcher Bryn'adul both big and small, and butcher they did, with ruthless abandon that reflected their enemies, mimicking their unison attacks.
Laertia cut down everything that dared stand in her way to Tathra. She would broke no attempts to stop her. None at all.
She finally spotted him after she cut down a Warlock, suppressing his power with her own will before ripping his head off. Tathra was busy killing another innocent when she came in range in a brisk stride towards him, armies of her skeletal sons targeting and slaughtering the forces immediately next to him, the black armored Knights sent by Themis flinging electric Judgement into the ranks, many of the Bryn'adul so consumed by sheer hatred of weakness that it reacted as though they were Dark Adepts, violently exploding or cooking alive many of them.
She spotted the terrible red energies of his ax. Sensed the Force upon it. Upon all of it. But his powerful arms and a face only something as ugly as him could birth were exposed.
Her silvery armor was scorched and dented, and she knew that Ax was nothing to sneeze at, as she barely evaded one of the destructive energy attacks.
But she was not without her tools also.
The Morpheus Chitin, a powerful, ornate looking prototype powered armor had proven itself in battle before against his hoardes, protecting her from extremely lethal attacks. Unlike his armor, her arms and face were fully covered, the face concealed by the somber visage of a woman's harsh stare, and she was in possession of two of her most powerful and devastating weapons.
One was a weapon inherited from her parents, a Lightsaber spear altered by the forbidden Ice Magics of Atrisia, of the "God" Kuraokami. Its frozen blade could eat through the sturdiest of alchemized materials
The second was the Sword of Cinndurr.
She was only slightly less wary of the spear than she was the Sword.
She had never held a blade that could so utterly destroy materials like Phrik or Beskar in two to three blows. Only a few other blades in her collection even came close. It took dozens of hits to even damage alchemized materials, but it would inevitably chop through them, especially if the blade was held against the surface.
Laertia barely dodged a wave from his axe, though part of it clipped her and tore off a piece of her arm armor, though she barely felt it and the wounds were already starting to seal due to its Regenerative systems. The rest shredded the Nuetralizers behind her and killed lots of organic troops.
Laertia snarled, and the thing inside her that would become Darth Xiphos gained more influence, wiping the fear and horror from Laertia's mind, becoming that cold determination she invoked so often to survive.
(Darth Xiphos Theme Song Power Up)
(Theme:
"You Know My Name." by Chris Cornell)
While her Sons sluaghtered the forces around him, shooting and cutting down his strongest warriors, the mix of Laertia and the thing not yet called Xiphos at last closed the distance.
She executed a falling Avalanche attack in the Djem So style as she bore down on him, guilded demon versus scorched beast warrior. Her series of strikes were delivered as fast as possible with her extreme strength, directed towards his face and arms, trying to penetrate what she had observed to be a well thought out mix of offense and defense. Both Laertia and the coldly determined thing soon to be given its Light Side Sith moniker were in accordance.
Whatever else happened to her personally, however fethed up their shared lives were about to get,
this Motherfether had to die.
The Not-Yet-Darth Xiphos struck murderously at him. She heard
Syd Celsius
pleading with her distantly, asking what was wrong, but Not-Yet-Xiphos was forced to shut her and Laertia's mutual love out to give all of herself to breaking the heart and soul of the Bryn'adul, to freezing their dreams of galactic dominance solid, cut them into little ice cubes, and put them in various alcoholic drinks to serve pleasantly at a party.
The very presence of the Not-Yet-Xiphos in the woman who had before this moment been purely Laertia Io began to tap her cryokinetic abilities. Blue cryonic flames ignited throughout the battlefield around her, spreading through screaming Bryn'adul troops, freezing them solid in seconds. Many others managed to escape, but they were now under severe threat of Laertia's now completely enraged Nuetralizers taking advantage of the cryo flames being ignited mentally by their Mother, killing with such sickening brutality that even the legendary fury and fanaticism of Tathra's warriors were starting to feel the lance of cold terror now at facing even a lone Nuetralizer, which they were starting to understand were as pitiless, remorseless, and fearless as their largest, most brutal warriors, and would stop at nothing until they were dead. They were starting to fight their way out of dogpile attempts, cutting off pockets of their warriors to be slaughtered from all sides, the gunboats from Tathra's super ship starting to crash with increased frequency.
She said nothing to him as she struck with her blade, all that mattered was his head falling from his shoulders.
Meanwhile...
The now berzerk Nuetralizers upon watching their mother being struck, renewed their vicious assault on the Forces of
Galak
with a cold rage running through their processors, bent on hemming in Galak from all sides, their Ion Disruptors shooting those little shield making pearls from the air as well as Juggernauts, disabling the shielding the Bryn'adul enjoyed, allowing them to employ their toxic gas and cryo weapons once more. A Nuetralizer engaged a gang of Juggernauts, going full badass as it evaded their shots and strikes, roasting them with its built in flame thrower before gassing them. Then it turned to Galak, aiming both its toxic dart shooter, Onboard Sonic Disruptor and Automatic Paddle beamer at him to distract him while a Stealthed Nuetralizer Assassin pointed a Stouker Rifle at him some distance away and fired at the same time the other did, while still others opened up with many weapons to brutally shred all squads in front of them, Bryn'adul body parts raining down on the Battlefield around Galak as they began to relentlessly slaughter his warriors from all directions, even as they themselves were cut down, now only through intense coordinated effort which still began to slow his warriors down, leaving yet more of their warriors vulnerable from the combined concentrated fire of the Warbots and their temporary organic partners...
Nuetralizers began providing covering fire for landing Skytroopers or Aerial Mechs under command of
Gir Quee
trying to draw as much aggro to themselves as possible to allow Concord soldiers a chance to shoot more Bryn'adul, assisting the Power Armor units deployed with missile and heavy mortar attacks on enemy positions near
Osam
. Everyone had heard about the Nuetralizers by this point. Ever since Generis. Every SJC aligned organic was terrified of them. But against such a merciless, relentless enemy, you need something equally lacking in mercy to have a chance of winning. And thats what they were: fighting fire with fire, destruction with destruction. Gangs of Nuetralizers armed with Chainguns, portable rail guns, HE Rocket Launchers and 40 mm Pump action grenade launchers loaded with 40 mm buckshot cannisters that made them pump action super-shotguns began and began firing at the forces around
Keldothera
mercilessly and with frightening accuracy, while still others reinforced those attacking
Primarch Drek'ma
by firing scoped disruptors at him, as well as cryo lasers
The Nuetralizers in the tunnels had gotten the wireless transmission, including Lyssa, the
Advanced Prototype . Every Nuetralizer there suddenly found their inner Dolph Lundgren, and began fanatically killing every drone and juggernaut they spotted looking in the general direction of
Val Drutin , advancing with him to recover his brother. Lyssa knew
Hrajlmak'Natok
was important on sight, and began beheading the biggest and strongest of his warriors, brutally shredding them and evading with high speed as she ordered her brothers to fire at his troups with their Concussion Rifles, blasting apart even the largest from the destructive barrage.
Lyssa closed on him, having detected the emotion in Val's voice and understanding just enough to empathize with his fear did her best to keep their fearsome Leader's attentions off Val and onto her.
Meanwhile...
Syd felt intense distress as she and the Nuetralizers she had taken with her as she helped reinforce defenses around the shield Generator. She had cast spells that had not only increased its durability, but spells that would reflect projectile attacks on it back at the source once in a while. For the soldiers, rituals to increase their physical durability, accuracy with weapons, and speed and reflexes for the next forty eight hours.
The Light was still in Laertia, but it felt totally twisted and...unnaturally fixed within her. Laertia used refused to be guided by it at this point and Syd didn't know how to convince her to step away from it.
Syd knew, as other Nuetralizers desperately stalled the forces of
Udomek Seker
through sheer crushing brutality and efficiency, that things had finally come to a head. She needed to find out who was giving Laertia these unnatural Light Side teachings...and ending them. Before they destroyed Laertia...
Kad
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Sethrak
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Auteme
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Laertia Io
