The flight into the orbit of Mars was slow and quiet, but the descent was anything but. The ground shook violently and frozen Hive ran around the Clovis Bray facility like children in the city. "Anastasia.." Icarus' eyes widen at the sight of Ana Bray battling off Acolytes and Wizards with a few other patrolling guardians, none of them seeing the hoard of Vanquishers about to flank them. "Proxy! Take the wheel, I'm heading in!" Icarus doesn't wait, he transmats out directly behind the vanquishers and reaches for his light. ... Nothing. He feels nothing, no arc charge, no void whisper, no solar screams. A brief moment of panic passes before he realizes he has to act. Reaching for his hand cannon, he remembers he didn't stop at the vault before departing. "Ahh, shit.." The only weapon he has is the rifle he stole from the Vandal. It'll have to do. He charges a shot, focuses at the back of the vanquishers head, then [i]bzzzZAP![/i] The knight vanishes into smoke and lightning, his shield falls to the ground and his sword flies into the air. Icarus rushes the sword and tries to catch it mid air, but it is way heavier than he thought. He grabs it and is thrown to the ground with it, landing on the shield, and with the forward momentum, he begins to slide forward a bit on the frozen face of the now cracking shield. "Huh," he thinks, then charges another shot, this time directly at the ground behind the shield. [i]bzzzZAP![/i] The force propels the shield forward and knocks another vanquisher to the ground. "Haha!" Icarus shouts, then turns to face the direction he is moving. "Oh no.." [i]THUD[/i] He slams into a shipping crate and the shield shatters into a thousand frozen shards. Icarus goes flying into the air, "Ahahhahhh!!" landing on an acolyte and crushing its icy skull into glass on the ground beneath him. Ana looks over amazed. "Ick?" She is almost upset, but more so glad to see him. "Ick, what in the hell are you doing here?" She helps him up and gives him a scout rifle. She turns her back to him while opening fire on a group of incoming thralls. "You know I hate it when you call me that." He stands and starts shooting the last two vanquishers making their way to them. He truly did hate the name, but there was something about [i]her[/i] saying it that didn't bother him as much. The ground shook and Rasputin spoke. Icarus didn't understand him, but Ana knew what was coming. "Ick, we need to get inside, now." She looked panicked, and rightfully so. The ground shook again and cracked for a moment. Then suddenly it burst open, and a massive dark knight with an axe the size of a drop ship burst from inside. It's axe slammed down, shattering one of the vanquishers clean in half. "Oh fu-" Icarus is swept off his feet as the ground rumbles from the quake. Three wizards float over him towards the dark knight. He whips his head to Ana, and jokingly begins to say, "If we don't make it out of this, I want you to know-" "Save it!" She snaps, as her arm ignites into flame, her eyes burn wild, and three of the most magnificent beams of solar energy perfectly melt every wizard before they can even look back. There's almost a half second of silence before the dark knight roars in denial. Four shriekers materialize behind the knight and start their wretched songs. "Look, you're really amazing and all, but I don't think we can-" She cuts him off again, "if we had a way of pushing him back over that wall, we won't have to worry about killing him at all." She is almost completely muffled out by the drow of shrieking death that rains down on their position. One of the other guardians that was helping defend with her, a titan, peaks out and takes a pod shot at one of the shriekers, skims the shell, and is immediately torn to pieces by the hell fire spewing out of its eye. Icarus pulls out his broken ghost, and whispers, "Come on, little light, give me something here.." The light of the eye flickers wildly. The ghost barely gets out a few words... ... "You.. are more p- owerful, than you know." The ghosts light barely stays on, as Icarus puts him away again. Suddenly the air shifts, the clouds stop moving and even the hive slow their pace to look up. An overwhelming powerful flash of light, then [b][i]B O O M !!![/i][/b] An orange bolt of pure energy cracks the sky open, slamming down directly into Icarus. His eyes glow orange, blue, purple, orange, blue, purple, faster, orange blue purple orange blue purple, then all at once... cold black. He stands straight up, drops the rifle and walks straight toward the dark knight. The shriekers barrage him with hell fire, but he keeps walking, unfazed. Ana watches in horror as the void energy from the hell fire seems to absorb straight into Icarus, causing him to glow brighter and brighter. He continues to walk straight toward the knight, and the knight waves his hand to stop the shriekers fire. Then halt, and close, in wait. The knight does not move, but just stares at this anomaly before him. Icarus, now at the behemoths feet, about 10 feet from it, looks straight up, waves his hands around slowly, using the void energy to form a bow of light, pulls the string back and fires a single arrow directly into the jaw of the beast. But, instead of tethering and disorienting the knight and his shriekers, the arrow pulses, once, then twice, then... ... The entire planet falls to complete silence as a massive Nova explosion tears chunks of hive face apart, throwing it 100 yards in every direction, all four shriekers shatter to pieces, and then all at once, the sound is heard. Ear piercing deafness shakes the facility more so than Xol ever did. Icarus falls, completely scorched and paralyzed. Unconscious. Motionless. Lightless.