Lighting and Thunder roared through the clouds as the continuous forging of arc energy continued, with Amelia as the beachhead. Her blows to the ground were beginning to slow now but she still pressed on and sparked with pure energy. Everyone else was trying to keep the other Guardians at bay. Angelica still shot weakened ones but she looked tired after her Radiance and was beginning to sputter out. Laurentine was also tiring out but he still kept his side up with Rex's help. Specially marked special ammo synthesis littered the ground near us as Rex and Laurentine burned their ammo supply quickly. Sri tried to assist whereever she could down but she now seemed more focused on checking everyone for fatigue. Charles floated around for a bit then ended up in the center and expanded his shell. "Calling all Ghosts, calling all Ghosts. This is your leader speaking." Quickly a giant red Ghost popped up. "What makes you our leader, Squirt?!" Huffed James angrily. "Well my partners the head hancho sooo..." Elizabeth appeared. Her silver and brass gears clicked and whirled softly as she moved around. "Then what about Alfred then?" Soon another Ghost popped up with Sri's family crest on both sides of its white shell. "Precisely my thought." Alfred spoke in a bit of an irritated tone. "Well I think we can all agree Josiah is spearheading this skirmish as of late so I am in charge of the Ghosts!" Charles expanded his shell to make his point. "Says who?!" "Says me Alfalfa." "Its Alfred, you nimrod!" "Gesundheit. Any who, I'm in charge. Now what do you want to talk about?" Elizabeth huffed slightly. "Excuse me?" "Well I didn't just call you up for no reason. We aren't doing much so..." "I have better things to do than to have a polite chat with some lousy pip squeak!" Barked James. "My thought exactly." Said Elizabeth. "You called us up here just to talk?" "Well.... Yea?... Duh..." Charles spun his shell in slow circles as he waited. "Are you serious?" Alfred inquired. Charles did his best stuck up impression of a butler. "As the plague." Alfred grunted. "Oh come on old boy loosen up! You know if I shoved a lump of coal in your shell I'd have a diamond within two weeks!" "What's that supposed to mean?!" "It means nothing if you just loosen up!" "Are you...?!" James butted in. "Both of you quit it! I've had enough." "You think you've had enough!" Charles rebuttaled. "It's hard being a free spirit with a bunch of stuck ups like you lot!" "You don't need to be a free spirit in combat!" James shouted. "So your saying we should give up?" "... What?..." James looked confused. "You said I can't be a free spirit. Which means I'd have to be a captured spirit. Which means getting captured or surrendering. So you want us to surrender then?" "That doesn't make any sense!" "Well it makes sense to me." "Oh for the Traveler's sake! Shut up!" "Hey don't bring dear ol' dad into this!" "Just shut your trap then!" "Oh so you wanna go?! You wanna go?!" Charles held part of his shell up like fists. James produced a low menacing tone and stared at Charles. Charles slowly began to move backward and behind Alfred. "You know.... I'm starting to like you more now." "I'm flattered..." mumbled Alfred. Elizabeth finally spoke. "Look we need to stop arguing and do something useful." "Like what?!" James barked, barely taking his eyes off Charles. Another Ghost popped up. Its core flashed a rainbow of colors as it spoke. "De-duh. Whistle. Click." The other Ghosts fell silent. "You.. have a point little one..." James said as he looked at Amelia. "We are so stupid! Why didn't we think of this!" Elizabeth spoke aloud as she scanned Amelia briefly before the Titan swung to keep her away. "Hey... What did it say?" Charles asked. "If you had your subtitles on, you would know." Alfred said. "I can do that?!" "Yes..." Charles thought. "Huh. Well the more you know... I'd now be able to understand half of you freaks!" "We don't have time for games!" Elizabeth said. "We have to figure out how we are going to win this!" "Well we produce a Fist of Havoc and wipe em out." "Do you know anything about Strikers?!" Alfred cried. Charles thought. "I know basic principle..." "Alright how much arc energy can a Titan produce and release to summon a Fist of Havoc?" "Depends on the user." Alfred pointed at Amelia. "How much can she use?" Charles answered quickly. "A s*** ton." Alfred pointed at the clouds. "How much arc energy is in there?" Charles stared at the growing cloud. "More than a... s*** ton?...." "There ya go!" "I fail to see how t..." "We need to use all of that energy to wipe out the remaining forces! And she can't use it all." Elizabeth said. ".... Oooooohhhh.... That's a problem." "Think so?!" James barked. "De-duh click click whirl." "He's right. How can she possibly use all that energy?" Alfred said. "Why don't we redirect it all in one burst?" Charles asked. "Only Titans can effectively produce lighting!" Charles looked at Amelia. "From what I see... she can do.. two super activations back to back within a few dozen seconds of charge time. We need the first to bring..." "It to some sort of source and the second to activate the actual super!" Elizabeth finished. "Exactly! So what's the a source then?" The Ghosts all fell quiet again. Rex's Ghost was the first to 'speak.' "Click click Whirl. De-du De-duh click." "There's only one person that can do Arc stuff besides Amelia..." The Ghosts all looked at Laurentine. "This isn't going to work!" Huffed James. "He could be fried!" "And we will die if nothing happens!" Charles said. "Just calm down. He won't be fried as long as the storm clouds don't..." Another boom of thunder roared to interupt Alfred as drop of rain began to fall and roll off the Ward. "Well this is good!" Charles exclaimed. "GOOD?!" James barked. "Yea! Rain conducts arc really well! So it will be stronger." "And also FRY MY PARTNER TO A CRISPY LIGHT STICK for the Darkness!" ".... Oh yea... It may not happen?..." "Its more than likely to dips***!" "What other choice do we have?!" The others fell silent as the rain continued to pour down from the artificial storm. They looked from one to another James huffed. "I refused to put my partner in that kind of danger!" "Neither do we! And we won't force him to but it's our only option." Elizabeth said in a calming voice. James' shell shrunk a bit. He looked at Laurentine and sighed. "This better work." He transmitted all the info to Laurentine. He looked at the group of Ghosts for a but and nodded. He trotted over. "How am I gonna get up there?" "Get up where?" I asked. "Try and go Bladedancer and pole vault your way up." Charles said. "To slow he will run out of juice." Alfred quickly corrected. "What if Josiah makes platforms? He's got enough void left to make them solid enough." "I need to do what?!" "Oh shut up!" Charles transmitted the info to me. My eyes widened. "Laurentine this is crazy!" He simply shrugged and stretched his legs. Elizabeth raced over to Amelia and briefed her on what to do as I continued to argue. "We can think of another way dude! This is..." "Josiah." I fell silent. He looked at me. "If want to help more. Let me do that." I sat quietly and nodded slowly. "Alright... you got my support." He nodded and activated his super. He quickly jumped up as I created multiple platforms for him to jump on. He continued to climb higher and higher as his super slowly died out. Other Guardians took noticed and fired only to be brought down by Rex's shots. Laurentine soon reached the edge of the clouds as his super ran out. "NOW!" He yelled over the comms. Amelia stopped pounding and put both of her fists together and slammed the ground. A bolt of lightning jetted up from her as it connected with Laurentine and activated his super again. The storm roared in anger as the lighting gathered around Laurentine and made him shine a bright light. I heard him yell as he produced a stream of glowing arc energy and pointed it at Amelia. She raised her fists again. She brought them to the ground and roared in defiance. The lighting jetted up again and connected with Laurentine. The bolt of lightning that cascaded down was immense. I deactivated the Ward as the earth shook in fear of the blast and my ear drums burst. https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/154694588/0/0 link to chapter 14 https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/158825968/0/0 link to chapter 15