I stood at the mouth of the hive entrance, using everything I had, my fist, mauler, and rockets to keep the Taken from entering. I don't care why they're here, but I'd like to know how they're here, even if they can travel between dimensions.

Anyway, I used my thrusters to propel myself off the ground, and then used them to plunge down, and bash in the head of a Taken Acolyte, and creating a shockwave with a circle of fire around me, burning some of them to a crisp, making them either melt, don't ask me how that works, it's their usual death animation in game, or just sending them flying back, and into trees.

The flame area gave me some breathing room from the Taken Thralls, annoying things that can teleport and are melee enemies. Yeah. Of course, those with weapons other than claws were still able to attack, but my armor was able to withstand it. Soon as the flames vanished, all hell broke loose.

I fired off a swarm of missiles at those closest to me, the explosions killing the Taken closest to the explosions, which allowed me to use my thrusters to move forward, and hit a Taken Knight in the face with enough force to rip its head off, if it wasn't Taken, which killed it. From there, I turned and slammed my mauler into the ground, creating another shockwave, which cleared the area around me, but left me open to an attack from a Taken Thrall, which clawed at my back before I spun, grabbed its head, and crushed it.

The next to die was a Taken Knight, who, using its ability to spit fire, I'm not kidding, tried to melt my armor off, but, as I used flames, my armor was able to resist it, and allowed me to get in close, and, in essence, rip it in half with my mauler hitting its waist.

Unfortunately, I didn't even make a dent in their numbers, as more just came out of the literal woodwork of the forest. I guess I can only hope that Chrysalis and the others decided to escape. Which means, time to go out with a bang.

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I used my thrusters to kick up a giant cloud of dirt and dust, obscuring the vision of the enemy forces, and activated my helmet's various vision settings to be able to see them. I then fired off more rockets at the priority targets, Taken Wizards and Knights, either killing them, or devastating their shields and badly injuring them. I then spun around, hitting an Acolyte in the head with the long edge of my mauler before puling my arm back, and punching a Taken Thrall in the face, which allowed one to claw at my back, getting a lucky shot in at the undersuit, and causing it to tear.

A warning came on my HUD. Suit rupture detected, unable to seal off. Losing humidity. Twenty minutes until empty. Okay, then. Twenty minutes to kick ass and give the others time. At best.

Better make it count, then.

I turned, and grabbed the Thrall in my hand, and threw it into its comrades, the speed making it unable to teleport out of the way, which, unfortunately, widened the tear, resulting in, Ten minutes. Yeah, fuck you too, universe. Looks like I need to go explosive.

i activated my thrusters, and rocketed into the air as I fired my missiles down towards the ground. I don't know how, but Cabal tech allows for infinite missiles, which I'll take right now, considering my handicap, making this the only thing that'll give me as much time as possible.

Anyway, I continued to rain missiles down on them, up to the three minute mark on my humidity reading. "Time to finish this," I whispered to my self before I went higher into the air, near a kilometer, and then turned around, an drocketed toward the ground, maluer poised and ready to strike.

As I hit the ground, the largest shockwave I had created radiated out from the impact point, along with a large ring of fire, which incinerated each Taken left. "That is why you do not mess with a Valus," I said before my vision dimmed, and one last warning announced that I had run out of time, and, with that, I fell to the ground, but not before seeing the alicorns, Fleur included, rushing to my location.