The Spartan in command looked down at Zan as he shakily saluted. Under his helmet, the man couldn't help but smile before answering. "Sorry, but it's best for you to stay with the group. While I appreciate the courage... technically your life is more important than mine as of this moment," he said as he tried to speak in a nicer voice from before. "We know that most of you kids would rather help than be told what to do, but this isn't the time to argue. We need you alive, safe, and to follow us, alright kid?" spoke the Spartan before patting Zan on the shoulder with respect. While the Spartan in command was talking to Zan, and as Drake made the plasma pistols, one of the younger Spartan's laughed, before promptly moving faster than anyone could react and crushed Drake's gun within his bare hand... along with his wrist cuffs. He made sure to destroy the queens through the visual scanners from his helmet, and everything else nanobot related that the kid could produce. "Sorry kid, but lemme be blunt with ya, that ain't going to do shit to the Cruxi besides tickle them. We already tried those things." "Hey! You're not to do anything to my children's toys! Bah! I, as his father, am to decide how to discipline them!" spoke Lorenzo as he readied himself with his own gun. "Sorry, boss, but even if they're under your care, they need discipline and learn that he isn't great if one of us can destroy it that easily. If he really wants to defend himself, I suggest he, and the other kids, use an actual gun," mumbled the Spartan as he opened up his pack and quickly handed out guns similar to the one that Lorenzo has. "Least now you kids wont be completely useless." "Stop taunting my children... you are to protect them. Anyway we best hurry before-" It was then that a massive shock wave shook the facility, before the female officer came over the intercom once more... ---- ..."They... are here," she spoke as she stared at the pulsating waves right as the two large Cruxi Destroyers warped right into the sight of the facility. [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/ZMcjqrU.jpg[/img][/center] One was heading head first into the side of the Yamaguchi due to the jump, while the other was on a nosedive straight into one of planetary defenses. "Shoot down the Destroyer closest to the Hades Cannons! We cannot let it land at all! Yamaguchi!" "Don't worry, we will handle this bastard!" stated Captain Kobono from the Yamaguchi as he began firing all missiles and artillery at the Destroyer incoming to ram him. It was then that the underside of the Yamaguchi began to open up, releasing thousands of fighters and Frameworks of its own to combat the Destroyer-class ship that was incoming. Despite the sheer numbers, and the fact that Hades Cannons began to cleave through the Destroyer's shields and lay heavy damage upon the ship... thousands upon thousands of drones, pods, missiles, fighters, and 'things' began to fire and launch from the holes of the alien ship and towards both the facility and the artillery defenses. "All Spartans, Banshee Queens, and Omegas, the Destroyer has begun laying siege with ground troop pods, take them out before they can reach the ground with anti-air weaponry! Remember your priorities are to be in this order: Sovereigns, Harbingers, Hunters, Grinders, and then whatever else you can take down from there!" "Ma'am... There's too many for us to pick out..." spoke the male officer as he began to swiftly type out security A.I. Defenses that were shooting down the pods despite the thousands of them that were dropping down, now from both ships. "I know... but we have to do what we can..." ---- "Well... Fuck," stated Lorenzo as he gritted his teeth and as the sounds of rockets, explosion, and massive cannon rounds could be heard. "Well... we need to get to the Izanagi right now. Matilda, awaken." Lorenzo snapped his fingers and in doing so a beautiful female A.I. with long aquatic hair appeared around him. "What is it, Doctor? Ah, are these the new children I have heard you speak so much about? They all look rather... interesting." "Yes, that is them. Matilda, meet the children. Children, meet my personal A.I. Matilda. Matilda, we need to get out of here now and to the Izanagi where Boris and Airick should be at." "Shouldn't be a problem sir. However... Cruxi forces have made things quite difficult. From what I can tell, the Yamaguchi is suffering heavy casualties and the Hades cannons are nearing critical levels. Not only that, sir, but there are reports of Cruxi attempting to penetrate the facility's wall from the Western Wing. The Hades Cannon on the East is reported to have a Cruxi destroyer inbound as well..." "Don't care, Matilda. We need to get the children to safety as soon as possible by meeting up with Airick and Boris. Find the safest route now," grunted the Doctor with frustration. "Will do sir." ------ Boris paused a bit before looking at Airick. He looked towards both sides, before sighing loudly... and before deciding to sip some more from his flask. There was a long... long hesitation for Boris to actually... well, do anything, that I'm sure Airick took great notice of by now. Swirling his fingers around, and listening to the chaos outside, Boris tried his best to come up with a good solid reason on how to break it down to the Admiral. "Okay... Bad news..." he finally said. "So... you see... this Izanagi is just in-development since... well... uh..." he coughed a bit before slowly clapping his hands and looking at the ceiling. "...Well...you see... it doesn't particularly... well, have a strong enough power source to well... power it and all of its extra stuff..." he finally said as he looked at Airick. "Look! We were supposed to have a strong enough power source for this Izanagi done for you by the end of next week since your crew were Lorenzo's! Besides, I'm not a engineer! I'm a man of war!"