Mithrax has a crisis of self


The Forsaken
Chapter 2: A captain’s dilemma
As the effects of the transmat waned, Mithrax looked around. This Skiff, awarded to him when he was promoted to the rank of Captain, was now empty. He had wasted his entire crew on this quest for the Rig’s reactor core.

“why did that human spare me? I’ve attacked them so much…” he muttered to himself has he reached the ships bridge. The ship was a bit larger than standard Skiffs, as he wasn’t of a large enough rank for a ketch, but his crew is-… was loyal. All that was left of his crew was one lone Ether servitor, modified to only produce Ether. Mithrax sat in his captain’s chair, and headed out to space. Once they reached a stable orbit, the captain got up to go get a drink.

“Syivax, dispense a quart of Ether”, the servitor began whirring before producing a faintly glowing white liquid. The Ether drifted a couple inches until finally landing in a canteen nearby.

“getting low on resources, aren’t you? This mix isn’t very pure.” Nonetheless, the Fallen picked up the canteen and took a swig. As the Ether dripped down from his mouth, his mind began to wander. That guardian certainty must have been angry for constantly being one-upped by him. No human has ever shown an Eliksni mercy, or restraint before.

***Brrggragg*** the servitor growls, as if to say yes.

“the only matter that could work is this armor stuff” he placed a few larger slivers of Chitin armor on a nearby table. He was lucky enough to collect it during the battle earlier.

Syivax floated over to the table, and began emanating a purple light. The molecules of the armor flecked off, and were absorbed into its chassis. This process took just under a minute. The servitor then hovered to the back of the ship, to process the new matter into Ether.

“eh, this ship isn’t a good place to think. Too much noise.” Mithrax rubbed his temples, giving a low sigh. Over the humming of the engines, constant beeps and clicks of the electronics, and the gurgling of Syivax, he’d been trying to think of what could have compelled that guardian to lower their gun. All the time, his mind slowly wandered to thoughts of a moon of the planet know to humans as Jupiter. The humans were known to travel to this moon a lot, at least until the lumbering rhinos, the cabal, took over at the beginning of the year.

“yes… that would be a good place to start.” Said the captain, as he went over to his chair. He started tapping on many displays, some with system metrics, but one in particular had a map of the solar system.

“Syivax, prepare for subspace jump” Mithrax said, as he pulled two levers to his sides. The surrounding space began to melt, giving way to a colorful tunnel of light. Just one minute passes until everything slows down, revealing a large moon, tinted a sickly green. Mithrax could sense remnants of Machine energies coming from the moon. It was like the stories of when the machine once came to the homeworld. Bursts of life energy changing everything. When it was done, the process would begin anew on a different planet.

“it’s like, it never finished, Syivax. The Great machine stopped here”, he flew down to the surface, taking note of a large cybernetic structure.

“ugh, those robots infect everything. They smear the good name of machines everywhere”, the servitor whirred in agreement. Mithrax flew across the moon, eventually settling in an undeveloped area. The Skiff landed in the middle of medium-sized crater, only a few spots of vex technology littered the ground.

“I can feel the life-energy stronger down here… it feels good”, he kicked a broken robot arm, while holstering his guns, and ordered Syivax to stay on the ship. As he slowly walked across the rocky landscape, he took note of all the bones, sticking up around the area.

“all these bones… how many beasts died here? They must have been big…”, as he summited a large hill, he noticed the large vex building he took note of earlier. It was like a huge triangle, rising out of the otherwise natural landscape. There were so many cabal ships flying around.

*‘better avoid that place for now’* Mithrax decided to go away from the structure, all the while noticing many guardians in the distance dealing with the Dark forces and their blight. All the time, he felt pulled towards something, but he didn’t know exactly what it was. He proceeded towards it, when he was attacked by a large patrol of Vex.

“gaaagh! I didn’t even notice them! What do you want?!” he shouted, darting behind a rock. The vex halted in place, shooting all the time.

“get away!” Mithrax grabbed a shock grenade from his belt, pulled the timed trigger, and chucked it at one group. It made an audible **clang** against the robot’s body, before exploding in electricity. The goblins sparked and jolted, before falling over, dead. Mithrax loaded his guns next, and shot the next batch, leaving just a hobgoblin and a minotaur left.

“you picked the wrong Eliksni to make angry” he jumped out of his hiding place, snow scorched by the slap rifle’s energy bolts, and drew his swords. He spun his blades in such a way to block the incoming fire, moving out of the way from the minotaur’s shots. When he reached the hob, it tried to hit him with a pulse from its hand, but the captain ducked under it.

“that was your last try” in one swift movement, he swung both shock blades, bisected the robot’s torso from his legs. Next up was the minotaur. Just as he tried the same thing twice, it caught the fallen by surprise, bashing him over the head with the butt of it’s gun.
“ghuagh!” Mithrax spat out blood, and fell down. Dazed, he noticed just in time, the Vex winding up to impale him with its hand. He put up his swords to block it, then used a wrist mounted knife to puncture a Radiolaria tube. White goo spurted from the minotaur’s arm, and covered Mithrax. Wincing through the stinging sensation, he impaled the hidden casing in the robot’s stomach. It fell down in a slump, with more Radiolaria pooling around.

“stupid machines. Never underestimate a captain.” Wiping the residue away with some cloth, he stood up, and continued his trek. Passing by a large rock outcropping, he heard the sound of a human Pike, he dove behind a large tree stump before being seen.

“that was close”, he muttered.

______________about 2 miles later_____________
After more close calls with guardians, and dodging passed more vex patrols, he finally came to a large rock structure. The stone was different from the craggily green stone, this was smooth and white. There were many openings in the walls of this mysterious structure.

“woah. It’s like what the Great machine looks like” said the captain, awestruck by it. He walked into the great walls, working towards the center. There, he found a large pool, radiating light, with some green vegetation around it.

“it’s beautiful….” Mithrax wandered to the edge of the water, and crouched down. Admiring his reflection in the glow, when he heard a voice coming from behind him.

“you! Fallen scum! This is a holy place! Get. Away. From. THE LIGHT!”