Kore-Drax walked towards the dry-dock, he had arrived just in time to see something entering the pirate ship, he narrowed his eye's as he walked up to the docking ramp, he stopped and looked behind him for a few seconds before going up the ramp to enter the ship, he was going to head for the bridge.
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Spartan had scanned the pirate ship when he had arrived, he knew where the bridge was, he was originally heading towards it but changed his mind after seeing the dead bodies on the ground, most riddled with bullet holes, others slashed apart by bladed weapons. The pirate's armory was just a few hundred feet away from Spartans current location, he crept along the metal wall of the corridor being sure not to make a sound as his shoes lightly stepped onto the metal floor. As he neared a corner he peeked around it, his eye's narrowing slightly, in the middle of the next hallway was some sort of machine, it was covered in painted on markings that seemed to match the symbols around the pirate ship.
It appeared to be guarding a door, above the door were highlighted symbols that Spartan assumed to be something related to armory, the machine looked little more then a box with two red lights at the front, it was two feet tall and two feet wide, it was a dark steel color, the symbols painted on it were a dark blue. It was just parked in front of the door in the hallway staring forward. Thinking it wasn't that much of a threat Spartan came out from behind the corner before walking down the hall, as he approached the box-like machine turned and looked in Spartans direction which made him stop on point.
The machine made a low static grumbling sound before an electrical humming began to rumble inside it, Spartan took a step back as the box's panels started to open up and transform. Small sharp metal plates started to come from the box and formed into limbs, two digigrade legs and two arms with three claw like fingers on the end of each arm, and then a head with multiple glowing red lights coming from it, it was over at least 10ft tall with a bulky frame, and it was glaring directly at Spartan.
The machine let out a mechanical roar before it sprinted towards Spartan, it's razor sharp claws aiming to slash at him, Spartan grit his teeth as he began to evade the machines attack, as it made a downward slash with it's right hand Spartan jumped to the left as it's claws came down, barely catching his shirt before the claws sunk into the metal floor with a sharp piercing sound.
The machine droned out a growl as it glared at Spartan, while it's hand was stuck Spartan quickly curled his left hand into a fist before he let loose a powerful punch into the machine's right side. The force from the impact wrenched the machine's hand from the floor and sent it into the wall with a loud metal clang before it slid to the ground with a thud. Spartan took a few steps back before looking to his left hand, his knuckles were slightly scratched up from the machine's sharp metal plates when he punched it, the scratches quickly healed in time for Spartan to watch the machine get back to it's feet. It glared at him, Spartan narrowed his eye's as he took a defensive stance when the machine rushed him with a roar, Spartan jumped back evading the machine's attack then lunged forward sending his right knee into the machine's head.
A metal clang rang out as the machine was sent barrelling down the hall from the impact, as the machine came to a stop it righted itself, there was a visible dent in it's head from the blow, but the dented metal plates were swapped out for new ones underneath the first layer. Spartan raised a brow to this before the machine began to charge at him again, Spartan grit his teeth before he closed his right hand into a fist, light blue energy began to envelop his hand and sparked with blue electricity as the machine closed in. Time seemed to slow down as the machine jumped towards Spartan from three meters away to close the gap, faster then the blink of an eye Spartan thrust his right hand forward and fired a cyan beam of energy from it.
The beam impacted the machine then enveloped the machine in a large explosion of energy that shook the ship slightly, the hall was filled with smoke from the blast, Spartan stood still, his right hand held out towards where the machine was, he didn't move until the smoke faded. The machine had it's limbs severed except for it's left arm, the red glow in its head was gone, Spartan grinned slightly as he lowered his arm, he then stepped over the machine and continued to the armory. When he entered the room the door closed behind him, shortly after, the machine's head in the hallway began to glow with red again, slowly it's limbs pulled themselves back together as the sharp metal plates began to shift and interlock with each other, the broken and bent plates were sent to the core in the center of the machines chest which was repairing the damage done to the plates while spare plates were shifted to where the damage was dealt making it seem like no damage was done.
Spartan looked around the armory, there was many weapons in sight, but none were what he was looking for, after digging through containers that were filled with random junk that was stolen from captives, he found what he had come here for, his Slip-Space Container, he happily grabbed it and attached it to his right thigh with it's magnetic clamp after he checked if everything was still inside it. Spartan made to leave the armory and head to the bridge, when he stepped out the door he eye's were drawn to his left when he seen movement, he stood still for a few seconds while staring down the hall, when nothing showed up he stepped into the hallway and turned to his right to head for the bridge. When the door to the armory closed a robotic hiss echoed into the hallway, Spartan turned around to see the machine from before standing at the end of the hall glaring at him, it droned out a roar before it charged towards Spartan again, this time Spartan didn't so much as flinch as it closed in.
With one quick movement Spartan held his hands as it he was holding some kind of large weapon, then a light shined from his slip-space container before Spartan's rocket launcher appeared in his hands ready to fire. The machine appeared to notice the threat but had no time to react as Spartan pulled the trigger with a grin, a fraction of a second had passed before a heat seeking rocket propelled explosive was fired from the launcher at the machine, as the machine came to a stop to try to evade the oncoming danger but it was too late. The rocket hit and detonated, the explosion plumed into a fireball that scorched the surface of the hallway, the blast from the explosion caused Spartan to take a step back, he scanned through the smoke that came from the explosion, and the machine was no more.
On the floor was what looked like a shattered core of some sort surrounded by melted and broken metal plates, with that Spartan let go of his rocket launcher before it was called back to the slip-space container, then made his way to the bridge
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In the cargo bay Magnus and Eve were frozen still, they listened to every noise and looked for every movement, there was something in the cargo bay with them, something big. Eve clung to Magnus's neck, as the light cast from Magnus's eye's passed over a box Eve locked her eye's to it
"wait, look back there" Eve whispered to Magnus, the yellow beam of light looked back to the box that they had passed, upon closer examination it looked like some kind of flare kit, just on it's side against an empty cage.
"it looks like a flare kit, maybe it can help us find a light switch" Eve whispered as she got up from Magnus's neck
"keep your eye's on it, I'll sneak over to it and get them" with that Eve dropped down from Magnus and landed carefully making barely any sound, she then proceeded to silently move to the box.
Along the way she heard something moving near her, soft foot falls about six to seven meters away from her to her right, she froze as she heard a hissing sound that echoed through the cargo bay. Magnus grit his metal teeth, he didn't want to take his eye's off Eve in case something tried to attack her, he had to be ready at defend her at a moments notice. Eve didn't want to wait any longer then she had to, she nervously made her way to the flare kit and grabbed it, she turned to go back to Magnus but stopped when she heard a low growl the sounded like it was right next to her.
Resisting her urge to scream and run, and fly, she quietly open the flair kit to find six cylinder shaped metal rods about a foot long, she grabbed one and placed the box down in a quiet but rushed manner. She fumbled with the flare in her hands before she managed to turn the top part of it which made the top part glow red which faintly light up the area around her, Eve's eye's widened in fear as her heart sank, she dropped the flare and it landed with a clank. Just to her left stood a bipedal beast with skin as dark as night, with a mouth full of teeth, it looked just as big as Magnus and every bit as intimidating, if not more so.
It let out a hiss with a beast like growl as the red light from the flare lit up it's features, Eve took a step back and tried to run but her body wouldn't move, she was frozen in fear, the beast took a step towards Eve, it's foot landing on the flare, suffocating the cargo bay in darkness again. In a panic Eve activated her jets and flew into the air to get away, the beast let out a monstrous roar and lunged at her with it's teeth, just as they were about to clamp down on Eve's legs the beast was pulled to the floor with a loud thud. The beast raised it's head and looked to it's attacker with a roar, Eve looked down below her to the beast illuminated by two beams of yellow light.
She knew Magnus had just saved her from being bitten, she didn't waste any time as she had noticed something on the wall of the cargo bay when the light from Magnus's eye's passed over it, it looked like a switch, Eve flew down to where it was and began looking, with the help from the faint pink glow from her eye's she found it and flipped it up. The cargo bay became as bright as day when the lights on the ceiling lit up, upon closer inspection the beast had a large tail with a spear like end to it, it had a hard bone like shield on it's head, four bone like spines jutting out from it's back and two powerful legs with sharp claws at the end of it's toes, and two small arms which Eve couldn't help but grin at slightly, but the beast was still terrifying to her. As the beast got to it's feet it turned to Magnus and roared at him, the roar echoed through the ship and sent shivers down Eve's spine.
It sounded like something scratching up against metal mixed with an elephant trumpeting in a deep tone that was slowed down, Magnus let out a droned growl before he reared his head back then thrust it forward letting out his own roar, which sounded like a robotic grizzly bear roaring at the top of it's cybernetic lungs. Eve flew to one of the tall empty cages and landed on it to watch what would happen. Magnus didn't back down, his metal claws digging into the floor with each step as he and the beast circled each other, with a growl the beast charged at Magnus, it's heavy footsteps shaking the cargo bay with each step, as it closed in Magnus narrowed his eye's, then he sent the full force of his powerful metal tail slamming into the beast's head which knocked it into a cage, bending the steal bars with ease from the force. Magnus backed away with a static hiss as he repositioned himself, his metal footfalls echoing in the cargo bay as he did so, the beast growled with a hiss as it wrenched itself free from the dented cage, it looked to Magnus with a growl as it began to circle him.
Magnus narrowed his eye's as he turned to face the beast, on instinct both of them charged toward each other, the cargo bay shook with each step they both took as they closed in on each other. Magnus reeled his head back to lunge at the beast's neck, but as he did so the beast lowered it's head and brought it upwards and bashed Magnus's head with it's bone like shield with a roar. Magnus was knocked back a few steps, slightly stunned from the blow, by the time he got back to the fight the beast had bit down on Magnus's neck and pushed him to the floor with a crash, then it place it's left foot on Magnus's shoulder to hold him still.
Eve watched in fear of her cybernetic dragon as he was pinned down, the beast let out a snarl as it thrashed it's head back and forth to try and snap Magnus's neck, Magnus screeched in protest as his right paw grabbed hold of the beast's left leg. With one swift movement Magnus pushed the beast's leg off him which made the beast lose it's grip on his neck and step back. As Magnus got to his feet he turned around and slammed his metal tail into the beast, knocking it to the floor with a crash, now it was Magnus's turn, Magnus quickly placed his right paw on the beast's head, then his left paw on it's right shoulder, effectively pinning it to the ground while it kicked it's legs to get free.
Magnus reeled his head back as an orange glow filled his chest, the glow went up through his neck, then he opened his maw, Magnus let out a fierce roar as a torrent of white hot plasma erupted from his maw. The plasma blasted over the beast's skin, it shrieked in pain as the plasma burned right through it's neck and onto the floor, when Magnus's plasma breath stopped, he backed away from the beast. It's legs twitched slightly, it's head was completely severed from it's body and where they were separated was cauterized from the plasma so no blood was spilt.
Magnus felt pride well up in him and couldn't resist, he inhaled deeply then raised his head as he let out a roar of victory over the beast, Eve let out a sigh of relief and jumped down from the cage she was on with a smile. Magnus looked down to her with what she could only make out was a grin
"you did it Magnus, your the best!" she said with a cheer as she jump up and hugged his left arm, Magnus let out a low purring sound when Eve hugged him, when she got down she looked to the dead beast
"so.. what are we going to do with it?" she asked Magnus as she looked up to him. Magnus then looked to the cargo bay door then to the body, Eve nodded in understanding and flew to the door, pushing the button to open it. As the cargo bay doors opened up, the first thing to go was the beast's head, then it's body was shoved out, both fell to the docking ramp below with a thud.
With that done, Eve closed the cargo bay doors and the two went too the center of the room, Magnus lied down and Eve sat down and leaned against his side
"I guess we just have to wait for Spartan now... I hope he'll have better luck they we did..." she said as she closed her eye's, Magnus let out a low grumble before resting his head on the metal floor to rest
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Spartan had heard the roars, and felt the floor trembling from the fight below, he knew it had to be Magnus, he hope both Eve and Magnus were alright, he'd make sure to find them after he secured the bridge. As Spartan approached the door that led to the bridge he heard voices, they sounded familiar, the other captives perhaps, as this passed through Spartans mind he made the decision to see what would happen. As he entered the room, he recognized Junko right away, the other two looked familiar, looking back in his memories he had seen the two back at the slave shop, logic made Spartan think they had come here the same reason had had, to get off this world.
But the fourth person in the bridge was different, he didn't remember seeing her before so he kept his distance
"well, looks like we came to the same place we got on this planet to get off it" Spartan said with a slight smile
"what a coincidence" he finished.
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"what a coincidence indeed" another voice said as Kore-Drax entered the bridge from where Spartan had entered while holding his D.M.M.G in his upper hands
"what would make it more of a coincidence, would be if one of you happened to have the other key to this ship, and if you were to hand it over to me peacefully, so I don't have to pick it off your dead bodies..." Kore-Drax said venomously as he narrowed his eye's towards everyone in the room as he aimed his D.M.M.G generally in everyone's direction, in his two lower hands he held his D.M.H.C's at the ready.