CotJ II: The Last Stand Act I Part IX

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#10 of Chronicles of the Justicar II: The LAst Stand


[Planet PX-13; Underground Infinite Construction Yard; Year 3,568 AD, November 24th, 3:25 AM]

A blade dancer patrolled down the hallway it was assigned to guard; several of the slave workers continued to mine the valuable ores that were needed to build the powerful infinite suits. One of the alien slave workers fell over on his side, too tired to go on. The slave wore the environment suit all his people wore to keep them warm from the frigid climate that was the outside. The blade dancer stood just behind the exhausted alien as it sharpened its knife arms together to try and threaten the slave to get back up and continue to work.

"I-I can't! Don't you get it you monster I ca-"protested the suit wearing alien before the blade dancer decapitated the slave using both of its blade arms like garden shears

In a matter of moments a small compacted cult monster burst up from the ground and skittered over to the headless corpse. The small cult monster looked like a baby that never fully developed with extra mutations caused from being turned into a monster itself. The other slave workers tried to look away when the baby sized cult monster's head split open and a tentacle from its neck went down into the body's neck. The snapping of bone, sinew and cartilage became extremely violent as the corpse started to spasm wildly inside its own suit and what seemed like hours as the other slavers had to hear their former friend being turned into one of the cult monsters; the headless body stood back up on its own and walked down the hall way to be refitted with weapons.

The infector cult monster sniffed the air before digging itself back into the ground where it remained safe. The blade dancer cult monster patrolled father down looking at the slave workers and other guards who kept watch on them, the bandaged covered monster was about to turn around when it heard a low pitch growl coming from a small room to its left that was used to house extra mining equipment.

The blade dancer walked into the room to investigate the noise, its blade legs easily gave away its position from the constant banging of metal together. The cult monster turned around a large set of boxes to find a fully grown valgary standing on her legs, the blade dancer was quick to attack but the power armour wearing alien was much faster and tore into the construct with her powerful claws.

[Planet PX-13; Underground Infinite Construction Yard; Prison Ward; Year 3,568 AD, November 24th, 3:40 AM]

"Release him." Ordered the thermal suit wearing alien

The cult magi did what it was told; the undead lizard man raised its staff in the air and unfroze the Justicar from its icy prison to be replaced by a regular one. The knight hit the ground where he slowly raised to his feet to find him self in a holding cell with the other marines along with aliens who wore the same heat suit his captor did.

"I heard so much about you, Justicar." The alien spoke, his mouth piece lit up with every word.

"I'm flattered." The knight replied as he gripped the cell bars with his hands. "You can drop the act man, were here to save you!"

"Save me? The Forgotten Ones do not need saving."

"Forgotten Ones?" The Justicar asked

"The gods were quick to almost wipe us out against their war on the Ghoul Empire, we lost everything we knew, our history, our culture, everything! This is why we adapted this name. My territory spanned many solar systems and we were not even a speed bump against the god's mighty invasion. But they listened to me; I saved my entire people from utter destruction."

"Yea, as slaves you fucktard! You sold out your race so they can live on as slaves and cult monster experiments." The Justicar yelled back

"But we are alive! I have seen what the gods are capable of; wiping out all life on a planet in mere moments! We organics cannot go against them; we are nothing but cattle for them and it is time you accept that fact human."

"We defeated the infinite before, they are no were near invincible and your people building shit for them is not helping! The Seer has a plan and he needs you and your people to help us!" The Justicar said

"The Seer? That crazy fool left us for dead when we were attacked by the infinite, and I suppose he wants us to help summon in the guardian of life?"

"That's the plan." He nodded

"A worthy plan indeed..." The Forgotten One leader said before shaking his head. "No, the infinite are the true gods of this realm." He turned away to start walking off towards the exit. "Do not try and escape, there is no where to go."

The Justicar gripped the cell bar doors and tried to jerk them free but they would not budge in the slightest. In defiance he kicked the cell door with his metal boot before turning back to see the surviving marine squads in full gear along with more suit wearing aliens who had the thermal suits painted in camouflage for the underground base and had scrap pieces of metal added to their suits for added protection.

"Don't bother human. Those bars are protected by their own magic, your people have tried... many...many times." The lead rebel said

"So what DO we do?" Arjun asked

"They left us in full gear which means they either see us as no threat at all, or the worst captors in history." One of the marines answered

"So we break out when they open the gate again." The Justicar said

"We were waiting for you to do just that." A red claw sniper spoke as the raptor like creature reloaded his sniper rifle.

"But we need that guy I just talked to for the Seer's plan, don't we?" The Justicar asked

The rebel that spoke previously got onto his feet and nodded, "Serverus holds part of the ritual that will be needed to summon in the guardian, and he needs to be convinced to either help us or give us the information on how to do it."

"Wait, the Seer is the guardian's right hand man. Why does he need this guy to summon in the guardian?" The Justicar asked

The rebel cocked his head, "He did not tell you?"

"No, should he have?"

"Then if he didn't tell you then I am in no place to tell you myself. I must respect the Seer's wishes." The rebel took a breath. "When we get Serverus to help us we can get Xross's part of the ritual and then we can start the summoning for the guardian."

"Which leaves us with on how we are going to get out of here...?" The Justicar inquired

The blade dancer guards looked around as they heard a noise coming from the ventilation shafts above them. The left most cult monster walked up to the grate on the above shaft and twitched its head as it looked for anything that might be scurrying inside like a slave trying to escape. Quite suddenly the grate was punched in allowing the metal piece to fall on the monster disorienting it before a much larger creature fell on top of it shortly after crushing the monster. The last remaining cult monster tried to retaliate but the valgary pounced onto it and began tearing out its throat with her powerful teeth.

"Scale face! Well I would prefer a marine strike force but hey, beggars can't be choosers eh?" Arjun said

Liken walked up to the large cell and saw a large shiny crystal where the lock on the door was which she quickly smashed into pieces with one strike of her claw. The marines and forgotten one rebels quickly over powered the now normal metal bar doors and left their cells.

"I will contact the rest of my soldiers so that we may mount an assault on our capital and get Serverus. " The rebel commando pointed at Arjun and Liken "You two take down this factory my men will get the workers out in time."

An EVO trooper nodded, "We will also help with the prisoners"

"Then lets move out" the rebel finished.

[Planet Drakos; Azerigan's Cave; Year 3,568 AD, November 24th, 4:25 AM]

"Mommy!" yelled one of the hatchlings in joy as she saw Talsora land on the edge of their dwelling where she was joined by Azerigan shortly after who had a massive dead animal in between his teeth he killed recently.

Azerigan walked into his home to drop the soon-to-be dinner near their family's food area where it was filled with bones and half eaten animals from all around their hunting grounds. The green scaled dragon turned around to see all of his children including Mazerigan nuzzling affectionately against their mother who had both of her arms wrapped around her young ones with her own head against theirs as well.

"Is it true that the warm bloods come from a world made of metal?" the youngest spoke

"Don't be stupid Vitee! Worlds aren't made of metal, they are made of dirt...and...wood." Anther hatchling laughed back

"You both are right, they come from a world much like ours but they cover their nature with metal buildings for their war against us."

"I wonder what a warm blood looks like...my friends at the rookery say they stand up right like a lizard folk and wear plate over leather armour and used cross bows that shoot like a million arrows at once!" Vitee quickly said without taking a pause to breathe "And they all look the same with no clan markings or any-

"Vitee...take a breath." Talsora said softly

"Sorry mom." The young whelp apologized "It what all the other hatchlings talk about."

"You should not be discussing such things." Azerigan loudly said as he was tearing chunks out of the fresh kill with his claws so his smaller children would have an easier time of eating. "The war is for adults only to discuss."

"Mazerigan is matured, he can talk about it!" Vitee happily said as him and the two other whelps looked up in awe at their older brother

"Father is correct, you three should not be thinking about the war. Many soldiers give their lives to defend us back home and we should not disrespect their deaths by gossiping."

The big eyed whelps hung their heads in shame when Vitee spoke again, "When I mature I'm going to become a big, strong knight and fight all the warm bloods!"

"Oh you." Talsora laugh when she gently rubbed the top of her child's head

Azerigan walked over to his children that were still gathered in the arms of his mate, he rubbed his head against her long neck where she followed his head with her own until they bunted heads.

"Its time to eat." He said

The whelps were quick to run off ahead, tripping over one anther to get to their meat portions with Mazerigan trailing not to far behind laughing to himself at his siblings. Azerigan slowly seated himself on the ground with his back against the cave wall, pulling down his mate, Talsora, in the process who laid on top oh him. He wrapped his arms around her chest as they put their heads together while watching Mazerigan help his younger brother and sisters eat.

[Planet PX-13; Underground Infinite Construction Yard; Year 3,568 AD, November 24th, 4:00 AM]

"Secondary charge is armed!" The Justicar said as Liken finished violently mauling a blade dancer

"Justicar, this is fire team Zulu; we got all the civies out, you are clear to blow this hellhole sky high!" responded a marine over the Justicar's comm. Channels.

The knight tapped the valgary on the shoulder that the bomb was set to detonate on a timer, "Come on scales, we gotta jet!" as the Justicar looked up and down at her black color power armour that covered her chest, arms and legs

Liken nodded in silence as more blade dancers and gunners charged down the hallway towards them in a hail of bullet fire. The Justicar summoned his shield and began to block the fire power from the gunner cult monsters as he slowly backed away to where they came to get to a safe distance.

"Charge, detonate." He ordered.

The fuel tanks exploded that engulfed the near by cult monsters in a fiery aftermath. The explosion traveled the pipes into the metal works were countless infinite suits were dormant , the blast acted like a domino effect where one infinite armour's ammunition exploded causing anther suit's ammunition to explode quickly destroying the infinite stock pile of suits that would have made a powerful army.

"Woah! That got um!" responded the same marine over the channel. "The rebel guys are taking it to the bastards now their city is in total war over 'ere. Captain Ran is sending additional fire support and we also severed their communication both magic and technological, time to hit um where it hurts!"

The Justicar and Liken slowly exited the tunnel side passage they used to sneak their way into the forge bays when they came to a ledge that overlooked the entire underground city of the Forgotten Ones. The city was lit up like a fire cracker as the magic barriers that caused the planet from not imploding shined immensely when a stray projectile impacted against a natural cave wall as marine fire teams, armed slaves and rebels did battle with cult monsters and infinite worshippers.

The Justicar took his shield from his arm and held it one hand when he pointed to his back for Liken to get on. "Hold on, I got an idea." He smirked

"This isn't going to be something dumb is it?" she asked

"I promise it's not dumb."

The valgary climbed onto his power armour holding him tight as the Justicar leaped from the ledge and placed his shield under his feet where the magnets quickly locked, "I lied..."

The Justicar used his shield like a surfboard as he slid down the cavern wall with Liken holding on for dear life as he avoided odd rock formations and such that would prove to be fatal. The Justicar and his valgary hostage slid off a small rock that jetted off the side of the mountain that caused the two to glide in the air as they descended into the battling city.

The Justicar clicked a button on his wrist pad in mid flight detaching his shield allowing it to shoot forward into an unfortunate blade dancer that was in its trajectory. The shield split the monster in half at the waist as the Justicar landed on foot and knee not too far away allowing Liken to move off of him.

"There we go, quick and fast."

"Don't ever do that again!" Liken snapped at him

"Oh come on, it was fun."

"Where here to help these people not die to stupid stunts!"

The Justicar retrieved his shield from the dead cult monster, "Come on, let's get to the capital and find Serverus." He ordered

[Planet PX-13; Serverus office; Year 3,568 AD, November 24th, 4:20AM]

"The heretics are pushing our forces back my lord, they will be on us in mere minutes!" the servant yelled

Serverus folded his hands together on the desk not worried about the rabble that was going on through his city's streets, "Lord Vurdamis tasked me this planet and I shall not fail him! If these fools can't be told about the god's power than we will need to show them, deploy all available drones." He ordered

"All of them...?" the servant asked nervously

"Yes! All of them! Deploy them all!"

The robbed cultist pressed several buttons on his data assistant to send the necessary orders to the fully functional Infinite drones that were waiting for an opportunity such as this.

"Let's see how the Seer's champions deal with the Void God's own soldiers..." Serverus asked to himself

[Planet PX-13; Underground City of the Forgotten Ones; Year 3,568 AD, November 24th, 5:00 AM]

Massive red portals began to appear all over the city as the fighting slowly died down when VALOR and rebel forces defeated the resistance they faced in the city streets. Powerful bolts of purple energy exited from the gates striking at random locations through the city that summoned in huge humanoid like machines; the massive mechs had four long squid like legs, they had no heads but instead had a huge red glowing optic on their black armoured chests, a large shoulder cannon was on their right side along with smaller weapons on their wrists and chests.

All of the infinite drones' eyes became a dark red when they began to discharge their shoulder cannons. Everything that was hit by the anti-matter weapon became absorbed into a black hole that quickly imploded destroying everything it captured and everything around it; no matter what defences both VALOR and rebel used became obsolete as they were simply sucked into each blast that completely flattened the area it struck.

All the fire power the squads carried did nothing against the drones; rockets, plasma fire, grenades, nothing even caused the infinite soldiers to even pause in their onslaught. When enemy targets became to close for its main gun to fire it used its shorter range weapons that turned living tissue to dust or simply by crushing the tiny organics with their massive weight.

The Justicar and Liken hid behind a building as an infinite drone walked over the building firing its shoulder cannon that launched more black holes at their targets destroying them entirely with deadly accuracy.

"Were getting slaughtered out here!" yelled a marine over the communication channels

"Nothing is fucking working!" panicked anther

The giant infinite drones towered over the city; gunning down all organic targets with cold efficiency with their shoulder mounted weapons that proved more than well at eliminating such easy adversaries. The Justicar gripped his sword tightly; he wanted to swing at the near infinite leg to bring the beast down but he was not sure that even he could wound the infinite drone

"I got anther idea" Arjun said

"If it's anything like your last idea you can count me out." She answered

A blast caused from the anti-matter weaponry of the drone caused the Justicar to fall to the ground which he quickly got back up from, "If it's anything like my last idea then it will work perfectly." He yelled over the noise of the blasts "You stay here and try not to die painfully"

"Thanks..." Liken snarled

The Justicar waited for the massive drone to be distracted when he leaped onto its left tentacle like leg and started to climb upwards. The drone did not notice the sliver armoured knight crawl up its leg as it continued to ravage the human and slave rebels with its powerful weaponry.

The Justicar climbed onto the shoulder of the drone and looked at its anti-matter cannon with a smile. He watched as energies began to form on the business end of the weapon and when it was about to fire he shoved all his weight into it pushing the weapon so it aimed at anther drone instead. The cannon fire; the blast absorbed an infinite drone into the black hole, destroying it entirely.

The drone the Justicar stood upon became angrily aware on what he had just done. It tried to grab the human in any of its hands but as it tried to swat the organic off of it the other drones aimed their wrist mounted weapons at their ally to destroy both it and the human together. The Justicar leaped from the drone moments before laser fire ripped the mech into shreds causing it to explode in a fiery death allowing metal shrapnel to rain down onto the city.

The Justicar turned around with sword in hand to find the last two infinite drones had aimed their wrist mounted laser weaponry at him and got ready to fire. The Justicar hid his body behind his shield as the drones prepared to fire, "Direct all auxiliary power to shield!" he ordered

The bulwark deflector became engulfed in glowing energy as the laser projectiles reflected back towards the two drones destroying them with their own weaponry. The Massive mechs fell over in a heap of scrap metal as fire consumed them.

Marines rushed over towards the Justicar cheering wildly as he sheathed both his sword and shield onto his back. Arjun adjusted his helmet giving high-fives to anyone that came near him before they pressed onto the capital building to capture the Forgotten One's traitor leader. Liken walked on all fours when she joined the Justicar's side as he finished giving the last hand shake to the marines.

"You're an idiot, human." Liken said

"Hey, they are all dead and I'm alive. In my book that makes me a tactical genius."

Liken groaned, "Lets just get Serverus and be done; you are already giving me a head ache."

[Planet PX-13; Serverus office; Year 3,568 AD, November 24th, 5:53AM]

The door to the alien's work place was kicked in by several VALOR marines who quickly dispatched the guards with no effort at all. The rest of the blue and white colour troops fanned out into the room to make space for the rebel leader whose suit was damaged from the infinite attack, the Justicar, Liken and the Seer who had teleported into the room shortly after their arrival into the office.

"The infinite are the true masters of this realm, if you lay down your arms the Void God may be merciful to let you exist!" Serverus argued

"You are confused Serverus." The Seer assured "The guardian of life will defeat Pandemonium once we bring him into this realm; I know I betrayed your trust in the past but it was for the greater good of all life. The infinite are still emerging from the prison I put them in long ago and back into their realm, if we have any chance at stopping them it's what we do now."

"I want to believe you, but I've seen the Void God's power! He can unmake entire solar systems just by thinking about it! The Ghoul Empire could not stop them nor have any other gods of the Pantheon! They all know what he can do if they do not cow tow to him, I am preserving more life this way! We can exists at their sides, as slaves yes but we will continue to live on!"

The Justicar folded his arms and shook his head, "You would rather live as a slave or a monster than to fight?

"Yes!" Serverus yelled back, "I know I look like a coward but surely if you saw what I saw then you know that any attempts to stop the Void God would be a useless gesture! I have read reports from many infinite lords; I know that you humans were almost destroyed by the infinite when they managed to penetrate all your defences and ran sack your home world with a force so small it wouldn't even be considered a vanguard! Lord Havoc has an army that is almost the same size as the one that destroyed the Ghoul Empire eons ago and once it's been given the orders to attack; this realm will be harvested of all life energy in mere days!"

The Justicar slapped the mad leader, "Calm the fuck down." The human turned to the Seer, "Can the guardian kick the Void God's ass?"

"Once we summon him into this realm, he will make Pandemonium think twice about doing this again." The Seer nodded

"See?" Arjun reassured Serverus "Got nothing to worry about, we need you to help summon him in then we can all live in peace."

Serverus looked around his office, "Well if the shipment of portal rune stones and material don't make it to Dark Spire than it should give us more than enough time to complete our summoning instead."

"Then we are at an agreement." The Seer said as he anticipated the answer

"Lets head back and get Xross, and then this stupid quest will be over." The Justicar finished

[Artificial World Serria; VALOR High Command; Year 3,568 AD, November 25th, 1:20PM]

President Scott adjusted his tie in the mirror while looking at him up and down admiring his suit when his PDA began to blink on and off that some one was calling to his office.

"Yes?" The President asked as he decided if the tie he was wearing was the one he wanted

"The Dorian Grey has docked, and the captain has requested a meeting with you...he has the MKI Justicar with him." His assistant spoke over his data assistant

"The mark one armour..." The President whispered to himself "Where the hell did he find him?"

"The Dorian Grey had responded to a distress beacon that came from the darkspawn home world, they bring vital information and request reinforcements to continue their goal." The assistant paused as she went through her notes on her end of the call, "They also request that doctor Carpender, Mitchell Constantine and the Dragon lord, Xross to be present as well."

The President paused as he thought about his decision while putting both of his ties down, "Very well, cancel my appointment with Warlord Red Claw; I'll see what important information they bring." The president said when he walked out of his office where two marine body guards joined him

[Artificial World Serria; VALOR High Command; Briefing Room; Year 3,568 AD, November 25th, 2:20PM]

"The infinite are far from defeated Mr. President. What VALOR witnessed was barely a scout force, we will need Xross and his darkspawn rebels with the last part of the ritual." Captain Ranorin explained

"I am not very inclined to allow these aliens out of VALOR space so easily, captain. They failed to warn me about these void creatures before hand and now I'm suppose trust them again, I'm sorry but the war against the Draconians is far too important to let your hunch get in its way."

"I'm sorry Mr President..." The Justicar said, "Are you fucking retarded?"

President Scott stood up from his chair and slammed his hands on the table. "Excuse me?"

"This is no time to be a prick! My suit recorded allot of these space ghost audio's and were all fucked as hell if we don't end this right here!" The Justicar took off his helmet and rested it on the table and pushed a button on his wrist pad to play the chilling voice of Lord Vurdamis,

"And your ignorance to our power will be yours. The ghoul empire spanned across the entire realm with countless thousands of galaxies under their control! All of them united against us and were ready for war with technology far beyond what your greatest minds can't even begin to fathom, and you expect to survive against the same army when you have only one galaxy that you don't even control fully and are wasting resources with wars against other organics, your destruction will be nothing more than an afterthought once this realm is harvested!"

"Who or what was that?" asked the President

"It's one of the evil space ghost vampires, Lord Vurdamis. We have to summon in the guardian or we are all going to be food for this Void God! I also wouldn't be surprised if the space ghosts weren't also behind this war as well." Arjun answered

"Arjun is correct." Xross nodded in agreement, "I did not realize how much of a foothold situation we were in until it was too late, and summoning the guardian is our only chance at stopping the Void God."

"I know what you must be thinking Mr. President but I was sceptical at first as well, they are telling the truth about the real enemy in this war, an ancient evil that threatens all organic life." Ranorin added

"I do not take insults lightly, Justicar, and if you were any other person I would have you court marshalled so fast your children will be forced to carry out the rest of your punishment. Even if what you are telling is the truth I do not have any forces to spare, we are losing ground to the Draconians every day."

The Seer sighed and stood up as he walked over to the President where his marine body guards aimed their weapons at the robbed figure, "Human you are thinning my patience, allow us to take what we need and you will be able to continue living as the infinite will surely kill us all."

"Are you threatening me?" The President asked

"I would prefer a peaceful solution, your word matters not as I am leaving with my followers either way."

The white skinned human leader stared at the empty shadow within the hood of the Seer where he finally gave in, "Take them and go if you are correct then I will reinstate them back to their original positions."

"Indeed you will, human." The Seer nodded

[VALOR Flagship; Dorian Grey; Hyper Space; Year 3,568 AD, November 25th, 3:20PM]

Liken eagerly made her way to Carpender's living quarters on the human star ship passing by many VALOR marine squads along with additional alien crew members such as darkspawns and their former rebellious kin who were all heading in different directions.

"Arrival to the Sanctum of the Seer is within the hour; all away teams report to your designated areas." The mono tone ship A.I announced.

Liken came to the door where her foster father was living on the ship when she heard Dragon Lord Xross in the room with him, the valgary put her back against the wall while eavesdropping.

"This isn't right! There as to be some other way!" Carpender argued

"What other way is there? This invasion must be defeated swiftly as possible, they were trained to fight a small infinite out break but nothing on the scale of Lord Vurdamis or the possible return of the Void God himself."

Carpender sighed, "I have been with you so far in this but do we have to lie to them?"

"Do you want to tell Liken, or the others? The younger races do not understand the calibre of this. Ignorance is bliss in this matter friend." Xross nodded

"I just wonder if were doing the right thing here..." Carpender asked

"You and I both knew that if it came to a situation like this direct intervention by the guardian would become necessary. If you are letting personal feelings get in the way of your duty to the Seer then you are just as naive as the others aboard this vessel-" Xross turned his head and could make out the small outline of the valgary's arm outside the door, "You have a guest."

The demon commander left the room not saying a word to Liken as he passed her on the way out. The valgary ran into the room and hugged the floating doctor with both of her arms in joy.

"Its good too see you too!" Carpender laughed

Liken stained the clean white bandages that covered Carpender's entire body with her tears of joy, "I don't care what the guardian does, I want the infinite dead for they did to my Zhakaev!" she cried

Carpender soothed his valgary with his hand, stroking her backside to comfort her, "Everything will be ok..." he said softly as he looked over her shoulder at Xross who stood in the door way with his arms crossed.

[Seer's Sanctum; Year 3,568 AD, November 25th, 3:55PM]

"You know, I thought saving the realm would not be this easy." The Justicar said as walked up the same steps he did when he was here the first time

The Seer didn't answer the human's statement he instead focused more on the task on hand of summoning in the guardian of life. The small group of heroes along with some of Xross's elite commando units paused at a large stone door where Serverus, Xross and the Seer walked up too.

"Idle time is wasted time, let's get this moving." Serverus ordered who still remained in his thermal suit

The Seer turned to the Justicar, Liken and the commandos, "You mortals stay here; we can take the summoning from here. Stay vigilant; no one must interrupt this process."

"What ever..." Arjun said casually as he folded his arms in boredom

The stone door slowly opened up into a secret room deep within the hideout of the Seer where the rest of the group entered and soon after the door shut behind them. The Justicar sighed as he sat down while he watched the demon commandos armed their weapons to prepare themselves for any attack as Liken sat curled up in a ball.

"So Seer, I know this is a bad time but what 'will' the guardian do once this is over?" The Justicar asked as he looked up at the stone ceiling trying to count the patches of moss

"The guardian, once entered into his realm will take back all his life energy he invested into this realm so they he may be stronger to fight the Void God in the neutral realm where the Pantheon meets." The Seer answered over the their communication channels

"Define 'take back life energy'" The Justicar asked

"The guardian will reabsorb all organic material back into him thus making him stronger, mortal." The Seer said as he started to lose his good nature

"What will happen to us?" Arjun asked as he stood up along with Liken

"All organics will join the guardian, this realm we rejoin its maker."

"Are you saying we will die if this happens?" Arjun asked slowly

"Yes." The Seer answered

"Forgot to leave in that little bit of information die we!?" The Justicar yelled

"This is why I didn't tell you mortal, you would not see the bigger picture that is at hand!"

"So what? You're giving up on us!?"

"You heroes were gifted so you could handle small infinite threats, not a full scale invasion. You have done your duty and now it is time for this realm to be restarted!"

"OH no, your not fucking pulling the plug on this realm! We will find anther way to stop the Void God!" Arjun yelled

"Do not try to stop me mortal." The Seer said as the commando unit aimed their weapons at the Justicar, "Kill him if he does anything." He ordered after

The Justicar drew his sword and shield when the demon black op commandos quickly fired their energy based weapons. The knights slowly advanced forward as his shield deflected most of the rounds out of harms way and when he was close enough he swung his bulwark outwards knocking several commandos away into the stone wall knocking them out, and with his sword he carved the rifles of the demons in half disarming them.

"Sit your asses down" the Justicar ordered as he pointed his sword at the commandos who raised their arms up wards and walked over to the other wall

The Justicar went up the stone door and slid his sword into the crack between the massive stone blocks to try and open the ancient mechanisms, "Come on you sun of a bitch, open!" the Justicar muttered to himself "Feels like every wherever go I'm always trying to stop some fucking deity from coming into this realm."

"Arjun stop." Liken said sternly

"What?" He asked when he turned his head to face her

"I can't let you stop what the Seer is doing." She growled

"The fuck you talking about? If he isn't stopped then we will all be pushing up daises."

"Yes but the infinite will be defeated! You heard him this is the only way!" Liken yelled

"There is always anther way, and I'm not going to sit here so all what I've done be for nothing! The infinite can be stopped, just not like this."

"I watched my only friend die by the infinite and my people were wiped out because of them! I will not let you come between what is my only chance to have revenge!" Liken snapped when her natural armour began to form around her body, "You heard what everyone said the infinite will destroy us if we don't bring in the guardian!"

"For fuck sake, doesn't anyone care about living anymore? I don't care what everyone says I will find anther way to stop Pandemonium!" Arjun yelled back "I do not want to fight you but I will defend myself!"

"You will not be taking my revenge away from me! The guardian must be brought in!" Liken yelled before she jumped towards the Justicar with jaws opened wide

The Justicar brought his shield above him to block the valgary that was in mere seconds of landing on him but she pushed the shield out of the way and pinned the knight to the ground. She began swiping at the human's helmet while he raised his arms up to protect his face but with her added power armour she easily over powered his defences. Soon the knight's helmet became engraved in deep indents of claw and bite marks causing warning displays to flash over and over again inside his HUD.

As Liken raised her right claw in the air for a death blow the Justicar quickly slammed his fist into the side of her head throwing her off of him. The valgary flipped around before she finally got as the Justicar retrieved his sword and shield and took a defensive battle stance.

"Think about what you are doing!" Arjun yelled

"Think about what 'you' are doing!" Liken yelled back "I cannot go anther day without Zhakaev and this is the only way to bring him peace!"

"He wouldn't want you to die for him like this."

"How would you know!" she snarled

"Because if I was in his shoes, I wouldn't want you to die either." Arjun stated

"If the guardian doesn't enter than his death would be in vain!"

"And it won't be in vain, no one is truly invincible. The infinite have a weakness; they see us as not a threat because they are over confident and Pandemonium will be defeated because of this." Arjun argued when he sheathed his weapons

Liken shook her head trying to muster the strength to attack but in the end she couldn't, she slowly looked up at the Justicar, "Fine, if you can stop the Seer than I will believe we have a chance without the guardian."

The Justicar nodded and went back to the door to pry it open with his strength and in a few minutes he separated the massive stone blocks away and eased through the opening and entered the depths of the Seer's domain. The massive spiral stair case descended deeper into the abyss below as glowing energies from the summoning help brighten the next set of steps for the human. After what seemed like ages of following the seeming less never-ending spiral stair case into the depths the silver and white color knight emerged into a huge ante-chamber with a massive gate at the end of it with Xross and Serverus kneeling on the left and right sides of the gate with the Seer citing the words needed to open the gate for his god.

"Stop this bull shit right now!" The Justicar demanded

In anger the Seer snapped his tome closed with one hand and turned around to see the human at the entrance of his secret room, "Mortal you are too emotional to see what we do here, it is for the greater good of all organic life!" The Seer explained himself

"And what if it doesn't work? You will be up shit creek without a paddle, and do not fucking tell me what the infinite are capable of cause I very well know now that everyone I meet seems to drill it into my head. If you bring in the guardian the infinite may take us more seriously and wipe us out like they did to the Ghouls, we have the perfect advantage right now, we can hit them where it hurts and before they realize we are a threat it will be too late!" Arjun argued

"You speak of truth mortal but your plan relies too much on variables, this is the way with the best chance now leave us be on what must be done." The Seer said before turning around

The Justicar drew his weapons, "I think you know where this heading." He stated

The Seer turned around again and saw the human was willing to fight him, "Very well mortal have it your way."

The brown robbed figured gestured for his servants to stay while he dealt with the young human who stood defiantly against his plans. The Seer levitated off of the ground and floated just high enough that he was out of the reach of the Justicar's swing and channelled green fire balls on the edge of his hidden arms.

The Justicar rolled to the side from each of the devastating magical attacks that the Seer threw at him as he continued to hover in mid air. Endless volleys of green fire continued to rain down upon the knight who did his best to avoid the surely lethal attacks, the impact from one of the fire balls exploded near enough for the Justicar to be thrown across the room.

"Stand down mortal; you are over your head in this matter. If you continue I'll be forced to destroy you." The Seer said sternly

The Justicar got up when the powerful entity threw anther one of his attacks but the Justicar hid behind his mighty shield; the powerful magic impacted the deflector and sent the projectile back to its creator. The Seer became disoriented when his own magic had harmed him causing him to fall back down to the ground where the Justicar took advantage of the moment and began slashing at the brown robbed demigod but his magical barriers absorbed all of the human's blows. The Seer emitted a powerful shockwave from his body that sent the Justicar flying backwards so it would give the magic user time to float back up into the air to resume his deadly barrage.

"You do not understand mortal, this is the only way! You risk everything by your meddling in this!" The Seer snapped when he quickly moved out of the way when one of his attacks was reflected back at him by the Justicar's shield

"Get off your high horse! We can still win this without committing genocide!"

"You are helping the infinite by stopping what I am trying to do! I am doing what the guardian wishes!"

The Seer's robe became engulfed in green fire that did not harm him allowing for the demigod to produce much more deadly projectiles and as he got ready to launch a massive attack that required both of his arms to create. The Justicar detached his shield and threw it at the floating being that hit him straight in the chest causing the large fireball to disappear and to bring the Seer back down. Once again the Justicar ran up and hacked away at the protective magical barrier with all his strength that guarded the Seer's form.

Liken peered curiously inside the room where the battle took place where she had sneaked into, she watched the Justicar jump backwards to avoid the shock wave that the Seer produced when he returned to floating.

"You may be one of my champions, Arjun Fiaz, but you are not strong enough to face the infinite! You cannot hope to win like this." The Seer said who was growing more annoyed that the human was living as long as he was in this battle

"I never give up, I never surrender. When I became the Justicar I was trusted with the safety of my people and other innocents, I know now what it means to be a hero. We can win this war and defeat Pandemonium without going this far!" Arjun yelled back

"No! We either return our energy to the maker or allow the Void God to devour us instead!" The Seer said fanatically when he summoned anther great fire ball with both hands

The Justicar raced up the floating demigod who threw his great attack. Arjun slid like a base ball player trying to get to home base as the attack flew over head and he quickly got back up onto his feet before leaping into the air and shoving both of his armoured boots into the chest of the Seer sending the brown robbed figure to the ground. With his sword gripped tightly the Justicar brought it down on the stunned demigod shattering his barrier that guarded him well.

"Shut down the fucking gate, you lost." Arjun demanded

The Seer teleported away in a flash and appeared in front of the portal the guardian would come out of, "I swore an oath to carry out the guardian's wishes and I will carry it out!" The Seer exclaimed when quite suddenly the demigod was now in front of the Justicar with a golden sword coming from his heavy robe's sleeve.

With speed that the Justicar thought was not possible the Seer disarmed the human with one motion of his own weapon before sending the knight into the wall with a burst of energy from his free hand.

Dragon Lord Xross turned around along with Serverus as they watch the Justicar do battle against the Seer, they stopped their incantations and watched the battle unfold.

"If we can get the other gods of the Pantheon to help us then we would have the force necessary to defeat the Void God and end his reign of fear!" The Justicar shouted

"The guardian is the only one who not afraid of Pandemonium and is the only one who the Void God pauses to fight on equal ground but if Lord Vurdamis and his forces do what they are planning then the guardian would be no match for the Void God, he will be more powerful than anything we have faced before!"

The Justicar had his sword return back to his hand before charging. He clashed blades with the Seer into a deadlock as the two struggled to overcome their adversary. The demigod broke free and damaged the human's breastplate with his golden blade; the green embers from his flaming body also impaired the Justicar's sight as they flared up his HUD.

The Seer shoved the Justicar away with his powerful shockwave attack and raised his blade high into the air to bring it down upon Arjun's neck until it was parried by a sword that belonged to the Dragon Lord.

"Xross, what in guardian's name are you doing?" He asked puzzled

"Arjun is right, Carpender is right. This isn't the way, master, we can defeat the Void God anther way!" Xross stated as the Justicar joined his side

"Both of you are traitors to the maker, I will return your life energy to the guardian by force!"

The Justicar turned to the demon leader who wore his red and gold battle armour he was known for, "It's good to see my training wasn't wasted." Xross stated

"I can listen, when I want to." Arjun smirked under his helmet

The Seer teleported to his opponents but Xross slammed his elbow into his former master's head as he gripped his blade with both hands; the demigod reeled backwards as the Justicar used the moment of opportunity to slice into the brown robe of the Seer. There was no blood or anything that was its equal but the demigod did groan in pain from the human's blow.

The Seer teleported into the air above the heroes and began to channel anther one of his powerful attacks but when the Justicar threw his shield at him a barrier appeared to block the attack and sent the human's deflector back to the ground.

"This battle ends here!" The Seer demanded as he got ready to destroy the two

The Justicar gripped his sword tightly when he waved for everyone to stand back, "Divert all power to weapon!" he ordered to his suit's A.I

The Justicar's sword became engulfed in white energies when his suit began to lose power in several minor areas from the massive energy needed for the one attack. The Seer became puzzled when he watched the Justicar run towards him carrying his blade just inches off the ground from it being extremely heavy to lift. Arjun Fiaz leaped into the air and he spun himself around to give his swing momentum before letting go allowing his sword to strike the Seer's barrier in a glorious explosion.

The Justicar fell to the ground on his feet while the Seer crashed in a battered heap. The demigod struggled to get up when Arjun walked over towards him, "Its over, stop the fucking portal." The human said in a clam tone.

The Seer stood back up, his green fire had disappeared and his robe torn in various areas but not revealing anything that would be underneath, "Maybe, maybe your right. Maybe you are strong enough to face the infinite; if all mortals fight like you then we do have a chance at stopping the Void God."

Both Liken and Carpender entered the room from previously hiding from the devastating battle and stood with the rest of the group.

"The infinite think all organics are zero threat to them, they will not go full out to stop us so we need to use this advantage to find a weaknesses within the infinite and exploit it. We can win this all." The Justicar said when he picked up his blade. "Void God Pandemonium will fall."

END ACT I