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I had been through the loop at least a hundred times at this point. I'd tried talking to my companions through multiple of those loops, but half the trouble was getting them to believe that it was actually happening, and then they never ended up having anything useful to say anyway. In this loop I decided to do something that was actually useful. After the last couple of fights I'd managed to accrue quite a few upgrade points, and so far I hadn't had the chance to go through the system to see what…-
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I was looping. Looping through time, and looping through space. Every time I walked out of the room on one side, I ended up walking right back into it on the opposite side. I'd never encountered a problem like this before, and I couldn't even end my synchro mode with BB to ask if he had any tips, because I was sure that the moment I did whoever was orchestrating this looping time would come at me with the full force of their reality-warping powers. "I'm fine," I said in response to Yr'Arl's question,…
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Through yet another combination of my low-gravity fields and propulsion, I allowed myself to hover up into the air above the survivors of the previous battle. "Our Squadron Leader has abandoned us," I called out across the battlefield. "Belana had fled back above the surface to Prespian City, allowing us to fight down here alone against that… creature." My announcement had achieved its goal of grabbing the attention of those who had survived. They gathered around me in rapt attention. "There is…
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"Thank you for rescuing us from the fray, Jacob Lyre," Yr'Arl said, placing one of his paws on my shoulder in a sign of what I could only assume was respect. "My suit would not have lasted long against that beast, I am not certain how you managed to combat it for so long in the Pren base alone." I drew my sword from its holster. "This is made from one of their claws, lets me fight on an equal pegging to a degree," I said. "Fal, you alright?" "I'll live," she replied. "But I never want to get that…
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The runes below us blazed with a light so all-consuming that I couldn't even hope to see through it. Then the glow faded, and though it hadn't felt like we had moved at all, it was clear that we had. The blue sky that I had become used to in Prespian city over the past couple of days was gone, replaced by the gunmetal grey of a closed-in ceiling. Now I was enclosed inside something that looked a whole lot like a spaceship, which in all honesty was probably exactly what it was, repurposed for life down on…
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Fal, Yr'Arl and I stood in the main courtyard of the Guard headquarters. While previously we had been the leaders of this mission, the only ones tracking the new Null Space horrors that had somehow managed to invade Prespian city, we were now just three people in a crowd of around fifty aliens. Standing at the head of that crowd, floating a few feet in the air so that we could all see him as he gave his announcement, was Clan Leader Belana. I had been worried that he was going to pull me aside again,…
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I shot her a grin, that green glint in her eyes told me everything that I needed to know. She had found something on the old Clan Pren servers, and hopefully it was going to lead us straight to what we wanted to know - where Pax and Akash were, and how to get them out. "It took a bit of doing, some jumping through servers to pick up the trail, but in the end… Yeah, I managed to find something," She said. "I think… and I can't be sure until we actually go there… but I'm pretty sure I have the…
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I fell to the ground the moment my hands were free from their bindings. It was like all of my energy had been sapped away by the sight that had unfolded before me. Rin hadn't needed to die. Rin hadn't even needed to be here. Now, she had perished in the very room that her abusers had locked her away in ten decades ago, by a creature that was desperate to devour her very essence. A creature that had succeeded in devouring her very essence. I let out a scream, raw and guttural. I didn't care too…
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- Content Warning: Violent scenes ahead - "Foooooooooood!" The creature screeched as its smaller forelimbs moved to open the carapace chest dangling beneath the abdomen, the mandibles around its mouth rubbed together in glee. This Null Space beast was a creature of two halves. In one moment it was moving slowly, its limbs jerking about in unnatural ways, and then all of a sudden it managed to get itself together and was moving at lightning-fast speeds. In a moment, the chest was open and the beam had…
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I pushed BB down into our synchro mode, drew my sword, and checked my system display. At the same time I looked around the room and noticed one glaring omission, Rin wasn't among our number. "Did anyone see where Rin went?" I asked, my eyes wild. "She… She was right here a moment ago," Fal replied, yellow coating her pupils. I quickly gathered that was the colour of fear, or if not fear, then certain dread. "I don't understand where she could have gone…" "Yr'Arl, did you see her leave?" I asked.…
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