The Cosmodrome had been the battle ground for many skirmishes against the Guardians of The Last City, from The Battle of The Twilight Gap to The Taken War it held many scars and was stained with much blood but the Guardians still held strong. A year after the death of Oryx the Taken King and his would be successors new threat rose to challenge the Guardians, a threat known as SIVA. SIVA was a Golden Age creation for self-assembling, self-replicating nanotechnology, that was created to accelerate humanity. In theory it could build everything a civilization would need, it was anything but as the virus infected the Iron Lords that discovered it and in the end they all sacrificed themselves to stop it from spreading. The Fallen House of Devils, lead by an Archon named Aksis, discovered it and figured it could be used to enhance them-selves, become machine gods, and also rebuild Sepiks Prime in hope to control the flow of ether in which to also control the house. Aksis' plan however was foiled by a fire team of Guardians who destroyed Site 6 which thus destroyed the production of SIVA, destroyed Sepiks Reborn which foiled his plan to rule the House of Devils, and finally put a stop to him by killing him. With the death of their new Archon The house of Devils were without a leader and without hope, until now.
Deep in the Plaguelands past the ruined remains of wrecked pre-collapse oil tankers sat an area known to Guardians known as Archon's Keep, it is considered to be the new home base for The House of Devils and Devil Splicers as they had a large hold over the Plaguelands as well as some of the Cosmodrome. The one big difference however was the fact that now hovering over the keep was the Devils Flag Ketch, a Ketch that is four times as big as any normal one, most Fallen houses lost their Flag Ketch even the House of Kings but the Devils have kept theirs one piece. Inside many Fallen Devils both Splicer and not were in the Ketch throne room discussing what their next phase of action should be while some were actually conversing others were straight out bickering and complaining.
"We are without a Kell, an Archon, and a Prime how are we to be a house without leadership?" questioned a Devil Baron named Salvik.
"We must be patient and plan our net move wisely or the Lightweilders may be able to take advantage of our current crisis" replied Kirkyks, the House of Judgement scribe for the Devils, replied.
"I grow tired of waiting, why are we even here? you said we were summoned scribe but you have yet to tell us why you summoned us."
Kirkyks just looked at the baron and smirked under his helmet "who said it was I who summoned you?" Salvik seemed confused until he heard very large and very heavy foot steps from behind the throne. Soon all conversation stopped and all attention was now towards the throne, or precisely what was behind it. Behind the throne a large Fallen stepped out donned in the armor that was once worn by Solkis the first Devil Kell.
The large Fallen walked over and sat upon the Devils throne, all of the Devils looked up in both awe and fear at the giant Fallen all except Kirkyks who slowly approached and bowed on one knee. "Welcome back my Kell, I trust that the journey to the Devils old lair was a success?" all of the Devils and Devil Splicers immediately bowed to their new Kell.
The Kell looked down at Kirkyks and then to the rest of his fellow Devils "rise my subjects there is no need to bow" he said in a calm voice. The Devils rose one by one Salvik being the last and looking at the Kell with respect, Solkis was a very brutal Kell even more than Skolas, the Rabid Wolf Kell, and would kill any Fallen that even looked at him without permission, but this new Kell acted calm and collected, he did not even boast or show distaste to any of the 'lesser' Fallen.
Salvik snapped out of his thoughts when Kell spoke again "I am Valek, your new Kell and I am here to not only lead you but to redeem our house as well as our people, for too long have we suffered and been reduced to nothing but mere pirates due to The Whirlwind and since then we have fell from grace, but no more we have wasted our lives fighting one another over the Great Machine, a god who had fled our home because of it was scared of it's enemy, an enemy who we fought and lost to, but now we see why it fled it led us here to where we found others who were given it's light like us, but due to our previous leaders mistakes we went to war with those who merely wished to defend their home much like we did ours."
There were murmurs and whispers but Salvik was able to hear them and had to agree with what he was hearing. The Kell was right, if Solkis would have just simply reached out to the Lightweilders and tried to maybe talk to them the Fallen could've made peace and be able to live in the city that was constructed around the Great Machine.
"I have made the journey to what was left of our old lair and have brought back a key part of our house with the help of SIVA and some fellow Splicers" the sound of a servitor sounded from behind the throne. What appeared had many shocked but the shock was quickly replaced with looks of hope, floating next to Valek was a Prime Servitor, it looked exactly like Sepiks before it was reborn but instead of a purple light this one was red.
"Behold Sepiks Prime Mk.2 while it is not as large or as strong it will be able to distribute enough ether for three whole houses" there were uproars of cheers throughout the Ketch as all Fallen Devils were pleased to have a Prime again.
The cheers died down as Valek raised his hand "Baron Salvik, step forward" Salvik approached the Kell with hesitation there were many things going through his mind as to why he was asked to come forward.
Salvik now stood in front of his Kell and bowed on one knee "Baron Salvik, you have done well serving your house as well as lead our people to glory over many battles, and it is for that reason that I and the Prime find you worthy of Archon do you accept this offer?" Salvik looked up surprised as did many others he was offered to be an Archon one of the most greatest honors offered in a Fallen house.
Salvik looked dead into Valek's eyes "my Kell, I accept, nothing will prevent me from completing my duties as Archon" he then was approached by the Prime Servitor and fired a beam at Salvik and lifted him in the air. The room was engulfed in a bright light when the light faded Salvik looked entirely different, he looked just as tall as Valek but had different armor and bright blue eyes.
Salvik looked down at himself and then at the Kell before taking a dignified bow "I thank you for this gift my Kell I will serve the House of Devils with honor." All of the Devils cheered and chanted their Archon's name, however their celebration was short lived as a splicer stealth vandal dropped from the ceiling and landed in front of the Kell.
"My Kell we have lost the Forgotten Shores, the House of Kings are launching a full scale assault and are on their way to the Divide, there is also a large army of Hive making its way from the depths of caves from our old lair." The Ketch was now full of panic, the hive they could deal with but with the House of Kings they wouldn't stand a chance. Valek was lost in thought there was nothing they could do, they couldn't fight it would lead to their death nor could they fall back to any other planet the moon had the Exiles, Venus had Winter, and Mars belonged to the Cabal.
Valek let loose a mighty roar and all fell silent he knew what needed to be done but he didn't like it. "We must abandon Earth and the Sol System if we are to survive" he was only met with silence he looked over to some dregs manning the communication terminals.
"Send out a message to all Devils and Devil Splicers to retreat to the nearest Skiff or Ketch and flee to orbit we are leaving this damn planet, everyone else prepare for evacuation" all Fallen in the room and the rest of the Ketch went immediately to work. Valek looked to Salvik "I need you to get the Prime to safety then check on the pilot servitors and guard them if they are destroyed we will be stranded here" Salvik nodded and left with Sepiks Mk.2 following close behind.
"How long until the enemy arrives?" Valek asked staring out the window and into the Plaguelands.
"In an exactly three hours my Kell, will it be enough time?" responded the same stealth vandal.
"Yes, we already have the remaining SIVA catalysts which will allow us to produce more of it and once we leave we will be the only house that posses it, I trust that Kovik's body as well as his 'work' was retrieved?"
"Yes my Kell and as you predicted SIVA is reconstructing him he should be awake within a few days."
"Good, good we will flee within two hours, make no mistake I don't want to leave a single Devil behind."
"Yes my Kell, also the spies you sent into the Prison of Elders were able to free Eramis and Varjis."
"Good give each of them a Skiff to command they're gonna need them" just then alarms sounded off all over the Ketch and outside Valek could see that the House of Kings had arrived early. Valek turned away to grab one of the Iron Lords axes that was retrieved from Site 6 before its destruction, it was large enough for him to use effectively and went towards the exit.
"My Kell you're not really going out there are you?"
"Yes, it is time to show the Kings that House of Devils are not weak any longer" with that Valek walked out. Using the grav-lift Valek along with several Devil and Splicer captains, some armed with elemental cannons, went down to the ground and in front of Archon's Forge. The House of Kings and the House of Devils were engaged in an all out battle Valek focused on the battleaxe in his hands, it glowed before being set on fire and the Kell let loose a loud war cry before he and the captains charged. All Fallen from House of Kings looked in surprise as the Kell charged in and began to butcher them while the Devils gave their own battle cries and began to push forward. Two devil dregs kept firing from their makeshift cover before a kings captain with shock swords launched himself over and knocked one over in the process, the captain focused on the other now ignoring the dreg on the ground. The captain delivered a kick to the dreg's chest which sent him skittering to the ground the captain raised his swords to finish the poor dreg off but before the captain could claim his kill the other dreg jumped and latched himself to the captains back. The captain tried to shake the dreg off but it was no use the dreg then took his shock dagger and began to stab the captain in the throat repeatably, fresh purple blood poured from the captains neck before he fell. The dreg got off of the dead captain and proceeded to tear its head off and release a battle cry while holding the captains head in the air while the other gathered what ether could be salvaged from the dead captain's body.
Valek proceeded to hack his way through the waves of kings that dared to face him. After dealing with a lowly vandal Valek turned to see three king barons charging at him with only shock blades he lifted his battleaxe and slammed it on the ground sending a large wave of fire that killed two of the three barons. The surviving baron brought down his blades on the Kell only to meet the axe's blade and one of Valek's four hands grabbed the baron before slamming him in the ground and curb stomping him, leaving a crater where his body lay broken. Valek looked around with no surprise at all to see the Kell for House of Kings was not present for the battle and decided to demoralize them.
"Why does the great Kell of Kings not show himself, is he testing us or is your Kell too much of a coward to face the new Kell of Devils!" Valek shouted over the battlefield and was responded with cheers from the Devils and growls of hate from the Kings. The moment of cheer was short however from behind the army of kings the screeches of hive could be heard and the largest swarm of thralls that Valek had ever seen burst out and began to overrun the kings with ease. Behind the thralls; knights, acolytes, and ogres started swarming out and the Kings began to focus on them more than the Devils. Just what Valek needed.
Valek went over all comms "House of Devils retreat, all Devils and Devil Splicers fall back to the nearest Skiff or Ketch you can, we are evacuating the whole planet" Valek along with the rest of the devils on the battlefield retreated back to the Flag Ketch and prepared evacuation. As Valek got to the throne room he felt the Ketch move and rise, he looked out the window to see the Ketch leaving the planet with a large fleet of Skiffs and Ketches by its side.
"My Kell, we are getting hailed by two of our Ketches" said Kirkyks.
"Put them through" two holograms appeared before Valek. One was a devil captain, who had recently been promoted to baron, that had scars and slash marks all over his body as well as a three pronged claw mark over his left side of his helmet and a 'x' mark on his helmet's forehead, this was Varjis, the Clever Headed one of the smartest Devils in the house and was the tactician that planned of many assaults made by the Devils, but was defeated by Variks, the Loyal who not only imprisoned him but took his staff as well. the other was a baroness who, unlike many others, was very tall only a head or two shorter than the Kell, she had a very slim build as well as deep purple eyes, and her armor looked shining as if it had never been dirty once in her life. This was Eramis, the Shipstealer an excellent infiltrator and a very skilled thief it was because of her that the House of Devils had so many Skiffs and Ketches at their disposal and she also kept the Flag Ketch in good condition before she was captured by the Awoken. The two Fallen bowed to their Kell before being addressed.
"Rise you two" the two Fallen barons rose to their full height.
"I trust that the Silent Fang made your escape...comfortable" after the destruction of the House of Wolves the Silent Fang became desperate what with low servitors and low ether, Valek searched and found them before inviting them to the House of Devils. Since then they have become Valek's personal task force that obeys him and only him.
"Yes my Kell they managed to break us out without anyone noticing, it was quite amusing to see how simple and idiotic the Queens Guard can be" replied Eramis.
"Even so we must leave, not only are the Kings a problem but so is the House of Winter and the Awoken once they discover we have vanished" Varjis said with worry, he did not want to go back and he most defiantly did NOT want to deal with Variks again.
"The House of Devils must flee the Sol System if we are to hope to survive that is why I've set the coordinates to a different system all together so we may be able to start anew for our people, to the Lightweilders we were Fallen but now we are once again the Eliksni and we will restore what we lost so many years ago." The two barons nodded before signing off and leaving Valek and Kirkyks to discuss what will need to be done once they arrived.
2 days later
Valek sat upon his throne checking over the reports from across the fleet. One of his first acts as Kell was to remove all docks from dregs and made it to were the docking ritual would only be used as a punishment, this meant that now there no dregs but instead vandals which meant more ether to supply. Many were overjoyed that the Eliksni were becoming the proud race that they once were but it meant more work from Valek, Salvik, and the Prime to make sure that the ether supplies stayed at a steady rate. Valek was now overseeing the voyage to a new planet that the pilot servitors found and had deemed habitable, and the large fleet made its way to said planet. The fleet was fairly large with twelve Ketches and thirty Skiffs which held many Eliksni and much ether.
Valek was checking over a diagnostic of the Flag Ketch to make sure that nothing was overheating or damaged in someway before he was contacted by one of the pilot vandals. "My Kell the pilot servitors have spotted the planet we've been searching for" Valek turned his attention to the window that gave a wide view of space and sure enough there it was. A planet that looked similar to Earth but completely out of the Sol System.
"My Kell scans show that the planet has large deposits of ether both in the air and in the ground."
"Good, send a few scouting parties down there and make sure that if they find anything to report to me" Valek turned his attention to another vandal "contact my barons and the Archon and tell them to meet me within the hour." The whole room became loud with Devils going to work while Valek sat on his throne and stared out at the planet.
'Soon, soon I will give my people a home again.'
Meanwhile on the planet in a very snowy terrain a tall alicorn princess stood in gold battle armor staring out at a crystal city in the distance from her encampment. Beside her a shorter, darker alicorn stood net to her in onyx clad armor directing multiple soldiers to different stations and preparing for a siege on the city. The black alicorn looked to her sister "sister are you sure that we are ready to make such a move? Sombra will not give up easily and we can be outnumbered should the plan fail."
"I understand your concerns Luna but we must stop Sombra and take back the Crystal Empire I shudder to think what Sombra is doing to those who defy his rule."
"Very well, I well let the troops know and I pray to Faust that you know what you're doing Tia" with that Luna went back to supervising the camp while Celestia looked up into the shining night sky.
'I pray for a miracle as well as our victory tomorrow' with that last thought Celestia went to her tent to rest for the battle that would take place in the morning.
Author's Note
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