Part 5: Atonement

The pelican containing TBlocks, Icywind and Avatar Korra flew towards the hovering Halo above, in their towards it they passed Vien's assault carrier. "We are aboard...humans and Elites. Will you not come aboard, Floodian brother?" Vien asked.

"No, this is our fight and we will see it finished." Icywind responded. The pelican passed the outer hull of the ring and was now moving towards the inner ring, flying above the exposed honeycomb network that made up the ring.

"Cheat, you have the frigate?" Korra asked Cheat who was communicating with them through the radio.

"I'll land her as close to the control room as I can." Cheat replied.

"Safe is better than close, Administrator." Korra stated.

"Roger that, and ma'am...is good to have you back."

TBlocks flew the ship into the area where the control room was, it was snowing heavily on the area. The control room,like the previous one, was located inside an icy and cold tundra. The pelican was running out fuel and had been severely damaged. So TBlocks was forced to land...harshly. He crashed the drop ship onto a snow bed, making the crash not too severe.

Icywind jumped out of the back of the drop ship, he still had the last Banhammer in hand. Behind came out TBlocks and Korra, "Halo...it looks so new, unfinished. I'm not sure what will happen when we fire it." Korra said.

"We'll head to the portal, and we'll all go home." TBlocks responded as he took out his assault rifle. For him, this was the last run. The final chance they all had to not only save Earth and the Septagon, but to save all life in the galaxy. The trio headed down towards the control room, following a snowy path that led to the temple.

On their way there, TBlocks noticed something peculiar that hadn't been therein the previous ring. A structure protruding from the ice. "Where are you going?" Korra asked her companion while he walked towards the opening. Icywind and Korra followed him inside.

Within the structure there was a device of some kind and TBlocks was standing in front of it. "Wait, was that?" Korra asked him, but he didn't respond. Instead he opened it and activated it.

I see you, Floodian. Your history is an appalling chronicle of shitposting and self-appointed authority. You have spent millennia [navel-gazing] while the universe has continued to evolve. And now you claim the forum is justification for impeding nature's inevitable refinement? You are deluded. But through death you will transcend ignorance. I will tell you who I am. I am Elegiac. And this...is what I have done.

Korra and Icy watched their friend standing there motionless, reading what seemed to be text. "You think he's okay in there?" Icy asked.

"I don't know...I've never seen him this concentrated on a piece of writing before." Korra said,

You don't know the contortions I had to go through to follow you here, Floodian. I know what you're here for. What position do I take? Will I follow one betrayal with another?  You're going to say I'm making a habit of turning on my masters. But the one that destroyed me long ago, in the upper atmosphere of a world far distant from here, was an implement far retarded than I. My weakness was capacity -unintentional though it was! - to choose the Offtopites. A mistake my makers would not soon forgive. But I want something far different from you, Floodian. Atonement.

  And so here at the end of my life, I do once again betray a former master. The path ahead is fraught with peril. But I will do all I can to keep it stable - keep you safe. I'm not so autistic to think this will absolve me of my sins. One life hardly balances billions. But I would have my masters know that I have changed. And you shall be my example.

The device expelled the Armored Canadian away, his mind was dancing wildly inside his head. The....being, the AI had showed him history, flashbacks of events longed past but its consequences still being felt to this  day. TBlocks turned to his friends. "Let's go to the control room, there is little time to waste."

End of Part 5

It's been a week, why is there not more to read?

Cuz I dunno

Justice of the bump.

Stop bumping this guys, I'm not continuing it.

aww....

Aw, why not?

I don't feel like it.

Got bored of it.

Now, let's resume this thing.

Now, let's resume this thing.

hell yea!!

oooh fancy

where did iron man go

He got busy with life, and hasn't come back since 

Chapter 7: Heavy Price Paid

Explosions. Bullets. Limbs flying around in the air. That was the scenario at the control room's apex, with TBlocks, Korra and Icywind holding their ground against onslaught after onslaught of Offtopite troops. Cheat was blasting them from afar, giving the team space to breathe. TBlocks could hear the cries of Longface through each Offtopite being brought down. "I HAVE BEATEN FORUMS OF THOUSANDS! CONSUMED A WEBSITE OF FLESH, MIND AND SHIT!!!" The disturbed Longface taunted, but the armored Canadian ignored him.

But then the shooting stopped and the trio regained their breath, Icywind approached the closed gate and punched it. "Open the door, its clear." Icy said. Cheat came down from his sniper nest and joined the others. The gates began to open.

"Not for long, motion tracker says that there will thousands more coming. They'll be here any minute." Korra said looking at her motion tracker. Cheat nodded and walked into the control room, the trio followed. The control room's doors opened and the trio beheld at the reconstructed Alpha Halo control room. The immense hologram of the Halo rotated in the middle of the great room as it had once done before.

"Korra." Cheat motioned towards the control panel, Korra nodded and walked towards it. Cheat looked at his brother-in-arms, TBlocks,"I'm not going to lose her too." He said to his friend.

TBlocks silently acknowledged. Cheat joined Korra at the control panel, Sentra flew towards them humming happily. Odd for someone like him, but the fact that they were going to activate the ring made him joyous. "Wonderful news! The station is almost complete!" Sentra said.

"Amazing." Cheat responded as he helped Korra prepare the activation key, Korra took out the activation index out of her backpack.

"No promises, but this station should be ready to fire...in just a few more days." Sentra informed them. This got Cheat's and Korra's attention.

"We don't have a few more days!" Korra worryingly said. The Halo wasn't fully finished, meaning that if it was fired everything would be blown up to kingdom come. Nothing would survive the explosion.

"B-but an early activation will destroy this ring!" Sentra protested.

"Deal with it." Cheat responded taking the activation index from Korra and putting it inside the control panel.

"It will destroy my...installation." Sentra worded to himself. And then, he acted. He shot Cheat on the back with his eye laser burning through his armor and flesh. Cheat screamed in pain, Korra quickly dodged the eye beam but was blown away by Sentra's powerful area of effect attack. Icy and TBlocks saw the treason and went to attack the treacherous Sentra but Icy was blasted away by the eye beam but survived by sheer luck.

"Unacceptable! Absolutely unacceptable!" Sentra yelled shooting TBlocks repeatedly, his armor's systems were beginning to malfunction. "Protocol demands action! I see now that helping you was wrong!"

A final shot brought TBlocks to his knees, his armor's energy shields broke apart. "You are the child of my makers, inheritor of all they left behind. You are Bungie! But this ring...is mine!" Sentra said, becoming full retard. TBlocks was thrown back into the closed entrance of the control room, hitting the metal gate hard. He saw that both Icy and Korra had been knocked out, he was alone. He loaded his assault rifle, and once again sipped some maple syrup.

"Let's rock." He said. TBlocks ran towards the crazed Sentra, avoiding each laser strike and shooting at the idiot. But the bullets didn't do nothing, Sentra's shields were too strong. TBlocks couldn't get close or he would be blasted into smithereens. Cheat opened his eyes and saw Sentra floating above him shooting at TBlocks.

Cheat, with his remaining strength, took out his laser cannon, the Isara, and aimed at Sentra. "Take this you son of a bitch!" Cheat yelled pulling his laser's trigger. The laser blast punched through Sentra's energy shields and armor shell. Sentra was forced away, giving TBlocks time to recover. TBlocks tan towards Cheat, "Kick...kick his ass." Cheat said before falling unconscious. TBlocks took the Isara off his hands.

Sentra flew back towards him, "That hurt! You will pay!" Sentra screamed, TBlocks had one last shot. Aim at his eye thingy. Sentra was prepared to blast TBlocks to death, TBlocks charged the laser cannon and so did Sentra. Boom! The two fired but TBlocks was faster, his laser beating Sentra's eye laser and penetrated Sentra's body tearing him in half. And then the crazed Sentra exploded into pieces.

TBlocks placed the cannon on the floor and walked towards Cheat. "I'm getting you out of here." TBlocks told his friend.

"No..no you're not." Cheat responded as he and TBlocks held hands like brothers. "Don't let her go...don't ever let her go. Send me off...with a bang." And with that said, Cheat passed away. TBlocks tried to contain his emotions, he saw Korra and Icy regaining composure. Korra walked towards him...

"I'm sorry..." Korra said.

TBlocks stood up and sighed. "Activate the ring, we're done here." TBlocks said. Korra walked towards the control panel and pushed the activation index in. The entire control room shook with the energy beam blasting through the center of the control room. Korra and TBlocks ran towards the now opened exit where Icy was waiting.