‘ stay there. i’m coming to get you. ’
This is why he didn’t like being assigned to patrol the Dreaming City.
Sure, it was a cryptic place, as pretty as it was. He appreciated its beauty, but that wasn’t to say that it didn’t unsettle him every time he came by. He felt like he didn’t belong there, he knew he didn’t belong there. And while both the Awoken and the Guardians were both well aware of that fact, the aura of the planetoid sunk that fact into his mind like a knife.
He thought it was just a small group of Taken wandering this area at first. Easy enough, he thought, it’ll be like taking down a squadron of the bastards on Io or something. They’re kingless, mindless, as far as he’s concerned. Even if things get difficult, he can handle a boss fight or two.
The waves kept coming and growing in strength. Whatever this place was, and possibly whatever it held was probably important to the Taken and Hive’s motives. That’s the best reason he could think of, tactical advantage.
And they started to have a tactical advantage of their own against the sole Arcstrider, even as he leaped and bolted between pillars and walls and enemies like he were in a pinball machine striking with erratic yet graceful speed. But there was one too many projectiles and one too many strikes and he kept on tumbling down hard.
He staggered up now, still crackling with Arc throughout his body as he reoriented himself with the environment around him. A large Taken Ogre blocked his path, surounded by the likes of Vandals and Psions and Wizards all trying to cut him down. As quick as he is on his feet and in the air, he knew that bit off more than he thought he could chew.
Battered and panting he ducks behind a crystal wall, sending out a call for assistance in taking down this sudden surge of Taken. He glanced back to the corner with his machine gun in hand until a voice came back through his comms, a clear sigh of relief.
“Thank the Light, I was about to get decimated out here.” He stands up and peers back around the corner, flinching back when a Vandal’s shot whizzes by his face. “I don’t know what’s up here, but they REALLY don’t want anyone near it!”