Re: The Grand Battle II! [Round 3: Escheresque!]
12-31-2009, 03:15 AM
Originally posted on MSPA by Opirian.
Galus wandered away from Maxwell, not paying much attention to much around him, not even the destruction caused by his fellow combatants. He found himself at the water wheel, the continuous loop of confusion if one tried to figure it out for to long. Opirian sat on the edge and stared outwards at the world, its mostly two-tone planes all but kept one from telling where surfaces started and ended, but that didn't matter in a place where even gravity was denied even a shred of logic. The constant creaking of the waterwheel was annoying but brought back memories, memories of space and of recklessness.
The 'night' was just like any other, of course there was no night in space just an endless field of stars speckling a black wasteland. Galus had been flying for quite a few hours now, his wing men chattering over the comm. systems trying to fill the silence of the vacuum. A streak of light, an explosion and one moment his whole world changed into one filled with a lust for revenge and hate, Krowe had arrived. Friend's ships had exploded, leaving Opirian alone with two to support him, but it wouldn't be enough.
Krowe's ship had dwarfed theirs but Galus kept fighting despite having no chance to win, so his friends could escape, he kept fighting not knowing the identity of this ruthless enemy. One foolish move, one accident was all it took Galus maneuvered too tight, slamming into one of his friends his ship sent spinning out of control straight into the behemoth that was Krowe's battleship. Galus couldn't think, he had just killed one of his friends, that's when it almost ended for good, mass drivers pierced the hull of his ship and his last friend, his friends exploding and his own becoming nothing more than a heap of scrap floating in space.
Galus snapped too with a start, he couldn't remember much else past that, either because he didn't know or didn't want to recall, fingering the trigger of the pistol in his holster he stared out at the faceless' fight once more.
Galus wandered away from Maxwell, not paying much attention to much around him, not even the destruction caused by his fellow combatants. He found himself at the water wheel, the continuous loop of confusion if one tried to figure it out for to long. Opirian sat on the edge and stared outwards at the world, its mostly two-tone planes all but kept one from telling where surfaces started and ended, but that didn't matter in a place where even gravity was denied even a shred of logic. The constant creaking of the waterwheel was annoying but brought back memories, memories of space and of recklessness.
The 'night' was just like any other, of course there was no night in space just an endless field of stars speckling a black wasteland. Galus had been flying for quite a few hours now, his wing men chattering over the comm. systems trying to fill the silence of the vacuum. A streak of light, an explosion and one moment his whole world changed into one filled with a lust for revenge and hate, Krowe had arrived. Friend's ships had exploded, leaving Opirian alone with two to support him, but it wouldn't be enough.
Krowe's ship had dwarfed theirs but Galus kept fighting despite having no chance to win, so his friends could escape, he kept fighting not knowing the identity of this ruthless enemy. One foolish move, one accident was all it took Galus maneuvered too tight, slamming into one of his friends his ship sent spinning out of control straight into the behemoth that was Krowe's battleship. Galus couldn't think, he had just killed one of his friends, that's when it almost ended for good, mass drivers pierced the hull of his ship and his last friend, his friends exploding and his own becoming nothing more than a heap of scrap floating in space.
Galus snapped too with a start, he couldn't remember much else past that, either because he didn't know or didn't want to recall, fingering the trigger of the pistol in his holster he stared out at the faceless' fight once more.