"To anyone that hears this, please let the speaker know that there is a large fleet of fallen heading to earth. I repeat, class 1 fleet of fallen heading towards earth. Me and my team will attempt to stop the ship, but it's a long shot." I looked up at Alda, " do you think anyone received that?" She ignored me, continuing to stare intently through her scope at the thousands of fallen massing below the cliff we were seated upon. "Lets hope so, I can only punch so many fallen before I get tired." I laughed, zhani-23 always managed to crack a good joke, even while staring into the hooded face of death. Alda brought me back to reality by reaching for my knife, instinctively I grabbed her and twisted her wrist painfully "may I?" She asked through gritted teeth. " sorry. You know I've never been good at sharing." Alda cracked a thin smile before returning to whatever it is warlocks do when faced with over 1,000 heavily armed fallen. "So when is the party starting?" Zhani was fastening and unfastening his gauntlets, an odd nervous tick added to his drive for no reason other than to add personality to his grey, metallic frame. "Soon enough" I replied "Good cus I'm getting pretty bored he-" he cut off as a high volt charge from a fallen sniper cut through his helmet like a hot knife through butter. I dove on top of Alda as another bolt zipped over her head and fried the rock behind her. I could see the horror In her eyes as she looked at the zhani' now still eyes, no longer alight with the gentle blue glow I had come to identify as the color of safety. There was no doubt, zhani was dead, his ghost an intelligible mess hovering frantically around his body. It would be some time before he was revived from a wound that grievous. "We need to do something!" Shouted Alda. "Ok. What if I sneak into the kells ship and kill him? That should cause enough confusion to revive zhani and run right?" I reached for my knife, preparing to go invisible. The elegantly carved handle of my knife wasn't in its sheath. "WHERES MY KNIFE?" I screamed. Alda pointed down at the rows of angry fallen shooting at the rock. "I dropped it when you jumped on top of me. It's somewhere down there." "Ok,ok,ok.ill run down, grab my knife and turn invisible to go kill the..." She was already gone. Launching the largest ball of void energy I had ever seen. Scanning the ground was difficult, the tramping feet of the fallen kicked up dust on the canyon floor. Finally I located it's gleaming blade. The fallen were focused on Alda as I jumped down the canyon walls. I instantly felt a calm flow through me as I felt the hilt of my blade fill my palm. As the shadow of a fallen captain fell over me I smiled and let the pulsing arc energy fill me. The body of the final kells guard fell to the floor. The hall was ominously quiet, save for the quiet beep of numerous fallen computers. "Are you ready?" Asked my ghost. "Are you sure you want me to open this door?" I took a deep breath "Open the door." Fall on the floor Everybody walk the dinosaur