User blog comment:Dyrcaend/Primary storyline Act one/@comment-24081662-20140927234719

IC: Dyrx groans and looks back at Luis, wondering what the hell he was thinking. Dyrx shrugs and backs up a bit.

Dyrx: Fine. Go get yourself killed. See if I care.

Dyrx draws xirs aerkhim, and focuses on the game. Seeing no enemies in the way, xe puts away the aerkhim and takes out the bow, and then leaps forward, landing in a roll and instantly drawing the bow and headshotting one of the robots behind xir. without any more delae, xe looks upon the pedestal and sees a single packet, with two disks in it. At fyrst xe thinks that Luis was wrong and that there were two copies, but then xe notices they were labeled differently. Not wanting to spend more time on it, xe captchalogues it in xirs upper slot, which was empty at the moment since xe was wearing xirs clothes. Because xe was in public. D'uh.

Dyrx looks arounda nd sees the robot forces recovering and arming their weapons. Xe quickly draws a few arrows and launches them into robots in rapid succession.

Dyrx: Luis! Cmon! we gotta get out of...

Dyrx stops as xe sees luis is surrounded and locked in combat, badly losing. Bullets rapidly bounce off the ground around him, piercing plate metal and flesh, causing him to cry out in pain.

Dyrx starts towards him, but Luis gives dyrx a glare, a single look telling xir all xe needed to know; do anything neccesary to get out. Anything.

Dyrx gulps, finally understanding why there was only one copy of the game. Xe draws back the bow, closes xirs eyes, and fires at xirs target.

The support column holding the platform up shatters. In a sudden blur, dyrx sees everything going so much slower than a minute before; time itself warping before xirs gaze. the column breaks, causing the platform to shudder. The robots, each one trying to stop luis, suddenly focusing on Dyrx. The massive root luis was fighting firing off a hundred rounds per minute, bullets burrying themselves into luis's flesh. The walls scarred. Dyrx blocks it all out, Luis's death cry and a thousand shrieking metal blades grinding against eachother, clashing fires, rockets and bullets ricocheting, and focuses on only one thing.

Running.

Dyrx runs forward as fast as xe can, even as the platform behind xir begins to fall down. below them, nothing is there but a sea of molten rock and metal supports rupturing from the stress, the single most important link in their network of chains broken.

Dyrx puts xirs feet behind xir, bending xirs knees in preparation for a single last monumental effort as the metal shifts below xir, tearing xirs balance appt. Frayed wires sever, robots fall shrieking into burning ash. Luis tumbles to the ground on a floating wreckage, the massive robot crashing into a support, delaying its demise. A dozen robots running to dyrx, trying to catch xir. Blades cut xirs arms, scars scratch xirs legs. Dyrx blocks it all out, xirs mind suddenly wholly united, and a distant calm fills xirs mind.

Xe would try to explain xirs mind at that moment later, but xe never would be able to describe it. And then, with that last final moment, dyrx lept from the platform falling in twisted gears and crossed wires, landing hard on a support collumn.

Xe runs across the beams, jumping from plate to plate across the devastation, every once in a while drawing an arrow and dropping robots into the magma. xirs muscles burn, threatening to stop and to drag xir down into darkness, when finally xe sees one last small little stage untouched by the devastation. With one last desperate cry, Dyrx leaps forward, landing hard onto cold metal, before xe blacks out, consciiousness fading, and everything xe sees goes black.