Ridge vs. Robot

Rilik ran backwards whilst firing a barrage of rockets at the next oncoming horde consisting of mainly robots with flamethrowers which admittedly worried the others a significant amount but they would have to fight through their fears to defeat this horde. Dark Cloud hammered at the automatic gun as it fired off a few missiles accompanied by a wave of high calibre bullets which pierced through the robots metal armour.

“Right flank!” Yelled Rilik as he began to reload the launcher, they’re attention turned directly to the right as the robots made their next advance from there where Freedom stood with the flamethrower and the mental preparation to fight the oncoming horde by himself. The first few leapt over him and were met by a rough blast of air which sent them soaring back a few metres before they were completely burnt to a crisp. Rilik nodded as he considered the right flank to be in safe hands and returned to firing barrages of rockets at the frontal wave.

“Moving up!” Beckoned Dark Cloud as he grabbed hold of the sentry and blindly ran towards the centre of the street they stood in before tossing it down and resuming the violent hammering to try and benefit the gun. He produced another blueprint with his spare hoof and looked it over before emptying a satchel full of scrap metal onto the floor and began to hammer at that which produced a large red box of sorts which emitted a red ray similar to that of Star Whistle’s healing gun she had began to use on Freedom, there was a dial which had no numbers but instead contained the letters ‘E’ and ‘F’ at either end. As the dial flicked up it quickly flicked back down as more scrap metal appeared inside of the satchel Dark Cloud had just emptied, so this was effectively a dispenser in Dark Cloud’s eyes. Meanwhile Star Whistle was assisting Rilik in his assault against the front waves of robots, her healing gun recoiled a moment before discharging some red electricity at the front as the many unlit lights now lit up and glowed faintly.

“What’s happening?” Yelled Rilik as he glanced over his shoulder to Star Whistle

“I don’t know! The entire gun is glowing!” Replied Star Whistle as she looked over the weapon “There’s a small switch on the side, should I try that?”

“Might as well!” Replied Rilik as the ground near him was hit by a rocket as a wave of soldier robots joined in the charge, she flicked the switch and the guns ray became a darker shade of red and Rilik was coated in a red colour completely removing the dark colours of his armour and the light reflection of his helmets visor, the oncoming rockets and bullets bounced off of Rilik as he marched forwards.

“I’m invincible!” He laughed manically over the sounds of the many explosions as he greatly thinned the number of robots charging towards them.

“I wouldn’t count on it lasting forever, the dial on the side is going down quite quickly!” Replied Star Whistle as the red covering began to flicker before disappearing completely, the smoke rising from the craters began to fade and revealed that there were no more robots heading their way once more.

“That was close...” Muttered Rilik as he sat down in the middle of the street and looked at his rocket launcher “More annoying than the covenant...”

Sky Gaze looked through the scope of his rifle and observed as the buildings in the encampment began to be destroyed by a few collector robots, by the looks of things the tank had already began to run out of materials to manufacture the robots with and were resorting to tearing apart the landscape around the encampment for additional materials.

“Dammit...” Muttered Sky Gaze as he watched, he knew that firing his rifle did about as much as throwing stones at  a magical barrier did to those robots after he had tried to stop them the first time. He  tore himself away from his rifle and picked up the sub machine gun he had placed next to his knife and also grabbed attached his knife to his belt before clambering down the staircase he had came up about an hour ago. He pushed open the broken wooden door and began his march towards the four that had stuck further back than Dark Cloud and the others.

Magnum fired off a heap of rounds into the support robots before his minigun overheated and he was forced to drop it the floor and punch it a few times for good measure, Twister leapt over Magnum and smashed a robots head into pieces before landing a kick on another robot which sent it spinning into a wall before exploding and spraying bolts into the air.

“Where’s diamond?” Yelled Twister to Magnum who had just picked his minigun back off the floor and resumed his unstoppable firing into the crowds of robots

“No idea” He replied blankly “Keep an eye out”  Chain Hoof launched himself over both of them using his sticky bombs and landed atop a building from which he launched a barrage of grenades to hold off the main robots of the wave. Diamond was sneaking around behind the wave completely invisible as she manipulated the light rays which made her visible to the naked eye. She approached the most dangerous appearing robot before plunging the knife she held deep into its back.

“There she is!” Yelled Twister as he leapt over the crowd of robots who all turned to face her after this outburst from Twister

“What a twist...” Muttered Diamond as she drew her revolver and prepared to fight the oncoming horde of robots. Suddenly a grenade landed in the centre of all of the robots as they glanced to the glowing object and realised that they were about to be destroyed.

“Aw sh...” Exclaimed all the robots before being violently torn apart by the grenade

“That was close” Sighed Diamond as she drew her knife again “Thanks Chain!” Chain Hoof smiled and nodded happily before leaping down from the rooftop.

“Isn’t that our host?” Inquired Magnum as he ignored the others and was facing the opposite direction, the others squinted and saw a silhouette through the disturbed sand that had been flung about in the grenades explosion.

“It is...” Stated Twister “And he doesn’t look like he has good news either...”