Dengrad carefully goes and uses two of his hands to turn on the lights on the shoulders of his armor. After turning on the lights he slowly goes to shine his light upwards towards the top of the train. All along the upper portion of the walls and the concave of the ceiling are many Krutsummus quietly hissing. Once the light shines on them they begin to start swooping down on the three of them.
All the while alerting more and more throughout the train by hissing loudly: “INTRUDERS, INTRUDERS, GET THEM, FOR THE SAKE OF THE SKEP!!”
Some spread their wings, others keep them closed to pick up more speed as they dive towards Razzo, Ostikous and Dengrad.
Dengrad quickly tells the two of them: “DON’T LET THEM STICK THEIR CLAWS INTO YOU THEY’RE POISONOUS!! ALSO THEIR WINGS ARE VERY SHARP AND CAN SLICE THROUGH ARMOR!!”
Razzo can’t believe he’s only hearing this now and exclaims: “WHY DIDN’T YOU WARN US BEFORE WE CAME FACE TO FACE WITH THEM??”
Dengrad telepaths calmly: “I didn’t want you to panic ahead of time”.
Razzo yells: “FANTASTIC I’M TOTALLY NOT SHITTING MYSELF RIGHT NOW!”
Ostikous takes no time chatting during these high pressure moments, jumping and spinning while releasing his two energy razors towards the ceiling of the train. They travel in opposite directions, slicing through the wings of some, through the tails of others, through the heads of various Krutsummus or through their bodies. Then Ostikous uses the blades to slice through the Krutsummus that are nearby him from diving down.
The Urug yells to the two of them: “We have to retreat, we won't hold out here for long!”
Dengrad knocks a swooping Krutsummus out of the way and decapitates the being by extending the double staffed crook.
Dengrad telepaths to the others: “It’s too late, they already cut off the exit, we have to fight our way out one way or another or we’re dead”.
Razzo draws energy from his fists and quickly throws small spears of energy through the swarms coming down, then after realizing it’s not that effective Razzo creates another long energy rope and twirls it above his hand, slicing any Krutsummus that flies in its path. The constant wave after wave of the territorial beings doesn’t give Razzo and his group a break to regroup and they are forced into fighting back to back to back. They begin to get more and more overwhelmed until one of the Krutsummus breaks the line of defense and almost pierce Ostikous, knocking him over. He doesn’t have his retractable razors at the moment and uses his two energy blades to keep the winged beast's claws off of him while holding the inside of the wings with his hands. Dengrad takes a moment to look over at Ostikous and knocks back the three Krutsummus approaching him. He then uses his double staffed crook to peel off the Krutsummus by the neck from Ostikous, who immediately retracts his energy razors from the air and into his hands, slicing the beast's wings off. As the beast falls over it wails in pain before being put out of its misery by a couple slashes from Ostikous.
Dengrad telepaths to the Urug: “Abandon no one!”
Ostikous nods: “Thank you friend!”
In the brief moment of distraction a Krutsummus sneaks up close to Dengrad and in one swing of its wing takes off three arms of Dengrad that are on the same side. Dengrad quacks and falls in pain to the ground. As the Krutsummus slithers over to him to finish him off, Ostikous repays the favor by throwing his two energy razors at the beast and slicing it to parts. Ostikous steps in front of Dengrad and Razzo adjust as well so that the two of them are standing back to back with the Froklin lying between them. All of the sudden the lights turn on from the top of the train and along the walls lighting all the sections of the train up. The nanoparticle door panels open up from each side and at this point Razzo and Ostikous think this is the end for them as more Krutsummus will pile into the train. To their benefit at the eighth and at the tenth train carts enter the rest of their group of freed prisoners after hearing all the commotion. Chorion charges ahead with two Zenvas on his shoulder and the cannon over the other shoulder firing energy from the cannon forward ahead of Razzo and Ostikous as the horde of Krutsummus advances.
Chorion continues shooting as he approaches Razzo and Ostikous: “Thought you guys might be in need of some help right around now!”
As the cannon shoots balls of energy eviscerating any Krutsummus that it hits and splashing upon impact but not making a dent in the horde no matter how many shots were being fired . The two Zenvas that were with Chorion shapeshift into Krutsummus and fly at the horde and once they get into the thick of it they would transform back and extend their roots to trap Krutsummus in bunches in the roots. This would create separation between their group and the rest of the Krutsummus horde further down the train. Chorion uses this opportunity to take aim and fire at the bunches of trapped Krutsummus. Screep runs over to Razzo and Ostikous to help them out as they are still dealing with several Krutsummus trying to finish off the two of them to get to Dengrad.
Screep tells them telepathically: “Don’t worry guys I’m coming, just hold on!”
Screep gets to them and knocks away several Krutsummus with her own double staffed crook. As Screep arrives and relieves the pressure, the left group begins to arrive to the action.
Screep tells Razzo through thought transference: “You have to get Dengrad back, he is of no use to us out here and we will be forced to adjust our positioning to protect his injured self which may cause our demise in this battle”.
Razzo registers about half of what Screep told him with all the action going on around him. From deflecting and dodging Krutsummus attacks to launching his own attacks on the beings. Razzo uses his energy rope like a whip and slashes a big group of Krutsummus across before turning back towards the huddle where Dengrad is lying down.
Razzo says to him: “Come on I gotta get you outta here”.
Razzo grabs one of Dengrads arms and one of his claws. The Froklin had lost a substantial amount of internal body fluid from what it seemed like when Razzo picks him up and throws one set of arms over his shoulder.
Dengrad noticed Razzo briefly staring at the puddle of fluid on the floor and tells him: “Not to worry human, we Froklins can isolate sections of our bodies off from fluid loss with rapid scabbing, so I will not bleed out I am simply in a vast amount of pain”.
Razzo nods and without saying another word drags the Froklin away from the battlefield and towards the beginning of the train. As Razzo passes by the sixth section where Dre was left with the other injured Froklin an idea pops into his head.
Razzo grunts to Dengrad while dragging him: “I’m going to put you into the room with Dre and the other Froklin you are more likely to be safe there”.
Razzo enters the supply container only to get hit by a hard right hook from Dre to the face.
Razzo exclaims: “What was that for!?!?”
Dre grimaces and says: “I thought you were a Krutsummus! I hear all the shit going on out there, I don’t know what to expect!”
Razzo shakes his head: “Whatever it doesn’t matter here is Dengrad I gotta get back to the battlefield and help the others”.
Dre stops Razzo after Razzo puts down Dengrad to rest: “Where did the other half of his arms go?”
Razzo answers hastily: “He lost them in combat, why do you think I brought him here?”
Dre answers sarcastically: “I don’t know maybe you missed me or something, I can’t read minds you know…”
“We don’t have the time for your sarcasm right now. Whatever, it doesn’t matter right now I have to get back to give us a better shot at surviving”.
Dre shouts after Razzo: “Okay go go! I’ll look after the Froklins here if you need me!”
Razzo shouts back: “I won’t!”
Dre yells back as Razzo increases the distance and can barely hear him: “That’s rude!”
Razzo takes one more look back before entering the eleventh sector where the battle ensued.
At this point the group had united fighting together in various ways using the equipment that was provided to them by the Forklin guards. The two Acarines used the energy gloves provided to make larger energy staffs to keep the Krutsummus back. They would also climb the walls where they spread their acid web along the walls of the train as a trap for any of the Krutsummus that wanted to land there. As Kreeg began to get encircled by the Krutsummus with the Krutsumuus using their sharp wings to slash the giant into the corner while evading the massive energy staff being used. Eekk ran swiftly to the area and used her gravitational suit to disrupt the Krutsummus from causing damage to the Acarine. Kreeg drops down from the wall as the Krutsummus drop down from the side of the, it spits a web of acid around the Krutsummus and the acid slowly burns through the beings wings and bodies before the Freksteri blasts them with his canon to put them out of their misery.
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Eekk shrieks at Chorion in a high pitched voice: “Hey watch it punk you almost got me!”
Chorion keeps firing in all directions and yells back: “But I didn’t so keep doing what you’re doing!”
The two Zenvas that were in the middle of all the Krutsummus, continue to shapeshift back and forth between their original shape to Krutsummus shape, continuing to confuse the Krutsummus in the horde as to what is going on. Fauwk and Screep continue to fight side by side with Ostikous in the middle of the section while Feefee zooms around the ground changing the gravitational field in some parts of the train causing groups of Krutsummus to crash into each other.
Razzo runs over to help out Kroug and yells to her: “Looks like we’re winning right now right?”
Kroug hisses as she knocks back four Krutsummus and Razzo slashes at them with a newly made energy rope: “Yes we are winning but this battle is far from over little one, we are merely not retreating as of right now…”
They continue fighting together as a group but the horde begins to learn and anticipate their strikes as they grow smarter as a hive mind. They begin to react smarter now that they know what they are up against. Instead of continuing to attack from the back of the train, the Krutsummus used the opportunity of the open doors to maneuver part of their forces to the earlier sections like the ninth and tenth section of the train.
Razzo notices this after taking a moment to look behind Kroug.
Razzo yells over to the Acarine: “You need to spin your acid web to cover the doorways!”
Kroug hisses: “We can try but we only have so much that we can spin at a time before we run out and we’ve already used quite a bit!”
Razzo yells: “WE HAVE TO TRY OR ELSE WE’LL BE STUCK AND SURROUNDED!!”
Kroug understands this and begins to tap one of her legs against the dome wall of the train to get the attention of her sister on the other side. She keeps tapping with a certain rhythm to try to get her sister's attention on the other side of the train. But at the moment Kreeg was struggling to keep the Krutsummus back once again.
Razzo waves to Kreeg but fails to get her attention either.
Razzo shouts over to Kroug: “We can’t rely on her, we need to do it ourselves! By the time we get her attention it will be too late!”
Kroug agrees with him hissing: “Yes I agree we must do it now!”
Kroug walks over on her five legs, clicking along the way and knocking Krutsummus out of the way as she gets to the right side of the entrance in the tenth section of the train. She pushes back the Krutsummus advancing through the entrance of the section. Then she quickly begins to spin her acidic web around the entrance, melting some of the train's construction but creating a deadly trap for any of the Krutsummus to come through it. Unfortunately the webbing isn’t very dense as she gets to the top of the entrance weaving it throughout. Some of the Krutsummus attempt to fly through it but wheeze as they get melted by the acidic webbing falling to the ground before Kroug annihilates them once they're on the ground. At the same time Razzo runs over to the entrance on the left side of the train to hold off the other portion of the Krutsummus coming through. Before Razzo gets to the entrance he begins to pull energy out of his wrists again. Except now Razzo thinks to himself that he also has to protect himself from the Krutsummus without anyone able to watch his back and protect him. So he first pulls energy out and creates a thick wide ring of energy coils around his torso that shoots out green blue and red lightning from it. Then he creates a second wide ring of energy around and spins it over his left shoulder, above his head and all the way to the ground. Then he repeats the same action for the right side of him, almost creating a shape of an atom with him being the nucleus in the middle of the shape. Then after finishing bending energy to create some form of protection for him, Razzo builds two energy swords for either hand and engages the enemies coming through the doorway. A large group of about 25 Krutsummus focus in on the human charge towards him as this happens he runs at them as well with all these energy rings twirling around him. Razzo thrusts his way into the first two Krutsummus he meets slashing at the reptilian beings. He then spins away from the two to catch a third one trying to weasel its way through the defenses that Razzo had created and slashes at the being leaving it for dead. Five Krutsummus swiftly encircle the human trying to injure him but only injuring themselves as they hit Razzo’s defenses, then one of the Krutsummus gets within a hair from making contact with Razzo’s face before getting injured by one of the energy rings burning its wings. Razzo lunges at the being, slashing at its head and eliminating the opponent. One after another the Krutsummus replace the fallen one before it. Razzo continues bouncing around the circle taking out or injuring one at a time only to get replaced by another in an endless assault. Razzo doesn’t give up as he keeps fighting the beings hoping he will get through the horde before they cut off his comrades from the back. After getting through half of the group everyone hears a loud shriek coming from the other entrance, Kroug had gotten surrounded by the constant pressure of the Krutsummus. They had begun to slash at the legs of the massive Acarine and with every strike the being hiss and shrieked in pain. This was not long before the entire beast was brought down to its knees. After that it was left defenseless, to finish the job the old traitor that had received weapons from the Froklins flew through the entrance dropping its ice like shards down on the Acarine exploding its acid sack all over the nearby Krutsummus that had taken it down. All the noise and the thud that Kroug comes down with is noticed by the group one by one, with Kreeg howling at the sight of her fallen sister.
Kreeg hisses: “NOOOO YOU TRAITOR HOW COULD YOU!?!”
As Kreeg throws off the Krutsummus around her and makes her way towards the unnamed traitor.
The traitor replies with a hiss of its own: “How do you expect me to stab my own swarm for you degenerates, I would never have fought with you. The opportunity to help my fellow kin was simply a nice addition to the matter…”
Kreeg hisses back at the being: “YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS ONE WAY OR ANOTHER!”
The Krutsummus shoots her shards from her wings at Kreeg, who in the moment remains frozen from the traumatic experience of seeing the death of her sister. Chorion jumps over and takes the hit from the shards shielding the Acarine from damage by taking the damage onto his back.
Kreeg gets back to her senses and says: “Thank you giant, I live to battle once more thanks to you”.
Chorion smiles: “Not to mention it but lets focus on killing that disgraceful traitor and her friends”.
Kreeg hisses: “Let’s do it…”
Chorion stands up facing the many new Krutsummus that are entering from behind the group.
Chorion shouts: “THIS ONE’S FOR KROUG!!” and fires his plasma cannon.
Kreeg hisses and shouts: “FOR KROUG!!” while charging ahead to intercept the Krutsummus.
Kreeg and Chorion charge forward fighting side by side wave after wave that’s coming at them. Razzo finally frees himself from the encirclement and joins the other two going next to Kreeg to fight side by side with the giants. Meanwhile the two Zenvas at the front that are shape shifting grow out their roots to block off the rest of the train and not allow the rest of the group to get completely encircled by the Krutsummus. As they do this, Jata along with Screep, Fauwk, Ostikous finish off the rest of the Krutsummus in the area between them and the other two Zenvas that enlarged their roots. The two Wokwoks continue running around all the beings disrupting gravitational fields, which also leads them to sometimes getting in the way of their own allies trying to fight for their lives. At one point the four of Jata, Screep, Ostikous and Fauwk were running over to help Razzo, Chorion and Kreeg. Feefee runs by them reversing the gravitational field and returning it back to normal causing all of them to essentially fall over as he continues sprinting forward. The four of them take a moment to get themselves up before continuing, they have a brief exchange about their newfound dislike for Feefee.
Jata says casually as she runs over using her roots: “I wouldn’t even mind it if they got rid of him…”
Fauwk and Screep quack amongst each other confusedly.
Fauwk telepaths to Jata: “Now is not the time to be petty!”
Jata grumbles: “Meh I could do without the Wokwok”.
Screep telepaths to Jata: “Give Feefee a break he’s been doing his part in this fight, and those suits are not easy to control. I’m for one impressed by the command that he possesses over the suit”.
The three of them get over it and nod their heads in unison after their brief exchange to continue charging forward. Ostikous, confused by the whole conversation that Jata was having with herself, decides to ignore it and charges forwards towards the enemy with a powerful roar. They all reach Razzo, Chorion and Kreeg fighting the horde of Krutsummus. At first everyone fights individually simply trying to remain one step ahead of the enemy. As the battle endures, the team gets pressed more and more closely together and pushed towards the wall of roots that the Zenvas were holding behind them. Without realizing it the team begins to work together in a variety of ways. From the Wokwoks racing around altering the gravitational fields around them causing the Krutsummus to fall and crash into each other either in midair or on the ground which provided Chorion with easy targets to hit with the plasma cannon. Similarly with Kreeg pushing the enemy back into a bunch and Jata entrapping them in her roots giving Screep, Fauwk and Ostikous the ability to easily hack away at the enemies without worrying much about retaliation. Then there was Razzo who continues to get himself encircled by Krutsummus and would be forced to fight from all sides. Even with the group working together, they were continuing to lose their footing little by little due to the mental and physical fatigue that such a high intensity battle was causing them. The only member of the group that was not being pushed back as much as the rest was Razzo who simply could not tire with the help of the star providing him boundless energy.
Eekk sprints by Razzo rapidly and upheaves him with a big group of Krutsummus around him causing them to fly up and fall down really quickly.
Eekk shouts to Razzo: “Sorry I didn’t mean to do that!”
Razzo smiles back yelling: “It’s okay it actually helped!” and slashes the Krutsummus around him giving him a moment to process and look around the battle. He sees that they are all getting pushed back closer and closer to the wall that the Zenvas had made. Even that wall of roots was beginning to get slashed through by the Krutsummus on the other side attempting to break through.
Chorion yells over to Razzo in a deep voice: “Don’t just stand there! Come and help here we’ll need a miracle to get out of this alive”.
As if someone had heard Chorion's request, that miracle came in a calm, fast swooshing and buzzing sound. In a blink of an eye before anyone can register what’s going on all the Krutsummus between the Razzo and the front of the train go silent and stop moving almost as if they had gotten paralyzed in the middle of their action. Then Razzo notices someone running over from the beginning of the train. It was Kyro running forward with the electrical coils piercing through the bodies of all the Krutsummus and also shocking them, leaving them connected by the current as if they were beads on a necklace. As Kyro arrives to the group he pulls back his right arm releasing the group of Krutsummus and dropping them dead on the ground in front of everyone. In the left hand and the left coil that he was controlling he had only one Krutsummus wrapped in it. It was the traitor that had killed Kroug and was struggling in the coils of the electrical energy trying to break free. Everyone stands there in shock as Kyro walks over the bodies and spreads his arms in a welcoming gesture.