Chapter 2

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    Allison held out her hand to catch herself as she fell hundreds of feet in the dark. She lands with a heavy thud  and a heavy pain in her side. At that point the night vision in her suit turned on showing the massive maze of a hive she had fallen into. But more so than that it showed that the cause of her immense pain was that she landed and a jagged edge of the gray rock like hive. It busted in her armor which broke off a large portion of it to the ground. Despite now having an open area of her body for attack the armor did luckily take on most of the damage only leaving a small wound and thus Allison quickly deduced not fatal blood loss. As she looked straight up she could see four holes on the ceiling above her all of which lead to the floor above her but in different spots and she wasn't sure which one she had just fallen out of. Allison quickly looks to her Radar to see if she can figure out which hole she should go through based on where her team mates are but unlike before they are not on her radar either. Running out of options Allison turns on her radio only to get hit with loud static which prompts her to turn it off. About to go with the old method of picking a direction at random but a sound catches her off guard. It comes all at once loudly. It is buzzing but it sounds significantly different to the buzzing of normal swarm bugs. Curious to check it out she goes to quick draw her pistols only to find that they broke in the fall. "Seriously what the fuck!" In tone with her curses she throws the broken weapons to the ground and starts off toward the sound still determined to see what was going on.

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     Maya and Nathan stood back to back now both standing firm. Multiple dead bugs on either side of them was starting to clutter the battle field. Maya having always preferred melee combat like this was right at home but Nathan was feeling more than a little closed in.  A bug pushes by a dead body to slash at Maya's neck but before he could even cock his arm back to hit at her she grabbed the arm under the one he was going to strike with and dug in with her clawed glove. She then with super human strength pulled the bug forward so she and it was face to face before side stepping to the right and swiftly cutting its head off. As she does she grabs its chest and pulls so she can roll over the top of its back before stabbing into the side of the torso of the bug to his other side.  

               Nathan was having a little bit more trouble as the bugs attacked him. One going on his right is stopped in its tracks as he smashed his staff into its neck with an electric discharge which fries its brain, but Nathan was unable to use his medium ranged weapon effectively to defend against an attack to his left. which ended with him get hit hard in the side. He winces at the pain as he raises his hand and unleashes the second level spell energy beam through the heart of that bug dropping before taking a defensive stance to point his staff at the on coming hoard. With another wince he began to fire energy beams out of his staff to take some of the strain off of his pool of magical energy.

           Maya mentally cast three more enhance spells on her before moving forward to catch a bug by under his chin. After she does she stabs her sword into its head and rolls down its back to run up its abdomen to jump at the bug behind it, to stab both her clawed glove and sword  into its chest. It screams and bites at her but she jumps back leaving her sword in his chest. It begins to swipe at her with all four of its clawed hands and she quickly gets into a pattern of dodging with her super human speed to avoid its predictable attacks. After a couple of minutes of dodging she got comfortable enough with its attack pattern to make her move. She raised her clawed hand and grabbed his lower right arm before using her strength to pull her self up onto his arm. She then kicked into its neck with a loud crack. It didn't kill the bug but as it blanched causing Maya to fall forward she reached out and grabbed her sword before ripping it up through the bugs chest and head. This time rather than roll over the bug she let herself jump back to get her bearings again.  A quick glance reveals that in the fight she missed another tunnel to her left as she was making it down the main tunnel that both she and Nathan where in. She turned concerned that there was now multiple directions that the bugs could get at them from. It was that point she realized she had gone farther from Nathan than she had intended and that she saw bugs going to hit Nathan from the back. She started off toward Nathan with a shout but before she could she got hit in the back of the head knocking her ten feet and into the ground. She did a roll to the side and got back to her feet to face her new enemy which was clearly not like the others. This bug did not have the same ash gray skin as the others, this bug had golden plated skin with two emerald colored eyes. It was also at least three times bigger and had 12 legs instead of 6 and 8 arms instead of 4. 

           Nathan had gotten into a comfortable position as he continued to blast each of his opponents to pieces knowing that Maya would have his back... It was at that point one of the bugs stabbed its clawed fist through his back and out his stomach causing him to cough blood into the front of his visor. It then pulled its clawed hand back taking Nate with it and smashed Nate into the side of the tunnel with a loud cracking of bone. Before another bug could smash its clawed fist into Nathans back or the Bug he was stuck on could smash him against a wall again Nathan's contingency spell went off. A contingency spell is a spell prepared in a ritual and given certain conditions to activate on. Once done the spell can be placed on a person or object. This particular spell that Nathan had set up was called Blink which is a 4th level spell for short distance teleportation. Suddenly 20 feet back and back on his feet Nathan looked around frantically looking for a dead or injured Maya but was both scared and delighted to see that he could see neither as she was nowhere to be seen. Realizing he had more pressing matter at the moment he suddenly took a scan to count his number of enemies. Coming at him from the front now was about 21 he quickly counted but he quickly turned away to count those coming from behind to see that apparently only the few who now stood in the hoard to the front had made it past Maya.

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     Allison stood in the large chamber she had found looking over her handiwork. Though she had to use a dangerous amount of magical energy to do she had found and killed the queen as well as her 12 guards. She felt a smirk creep onto her face as she did. Before she could turn to start back down the tunnel she had come from to take another guess at where she had fallen to get back to her team she started hearing the buzzing again. It sounded exactly the same as the buzzing in this room had. She cast Another enhance spell before bolting out toward where the sound was coming from. The chamber she entered was massive and made her drop to her knees as she looked it over. Millions of larvae and eggs, A dozen queens.... or what she had thought was a queen and another massive monster. The queens where all massive but they weren't dangerous. They can't move all they do is get fed and produce more swarm. But there had never been a recorded case of finding more than one in a single hive. But Allison didn't even have a guess at the other monster she had found. It looked to big even for this massive chamber. It stood nearly 200 feet tall. It appeared to have gold as skin. It had 40 heavily clawed arms and well over 100 legs. It also had 8 long, winding, whip like stingers that moved independently of each other. Allison looked over this for a few more minutes as nothing in the room seemed to notice her presence. It felt as if gravity was heavier than it was as she struggled back to her feet. She looked down to her blood stained hands and noticed them shaking. "Am I afraid?" She wondered aloud to no'one. Suddenly her shaking stopped as she looked up with a smile. " No... I'm excited. This is the exactly what I wanted when I asked for a mission." With that Allison began to cast multiple enhance spells on herself before charging at nearly 50 miles per hour at the unknown monster. 

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           Maya dodged out of the way of the annoyingly fast bugs attack again having done it well over 80 times now. She was memorizing its attack pattern but it was so much faster than her she still didn't have a obvious opening. She started looking around letting her body and muscle memory mostly take over for dodging as she tried to think of anyway to fight instead of flee. 

            Nathan Jammed his staff into the neck of the last bug standing before letting fire erupt through the staff. The flame intense enough to turn the beasts head completely to ash came from a 3rd level spell called fire ball. Not willing to get caught off guard again Nathan turned ready to attack another target with his staff only to find that nothing was left to challenge him. He let out a sigh of relief as he went to look at his radar but found that it picked up nothing. "What could possibly be interfering with our radars this is ridiculous." Having not moved from where the group fell originally Nathan merely looked up with a smile as an idea crept into his mind slowly.

                 Maya having now dodged the same attack pattern 200 times was starting to lose patience. "You know Mr.Bug you are not going to hit me at any point. So if you could slow down so I could rip your throat out that'd really help me. I mean If I have to use much more magical energy than I already have in this fight it would be inefficient.. I would probably run out before I clear the hive. Not only that but if I ha-... You're not even listening to me are you?" With a heavy sigh Maya threw caution to the wind and cast 20 more enhance spells on herself  before casting a level 5 spell on herself called Lightning step. Suddenly she was the faster of the two of them. Actually with lightning step she was moving so much faster it was laughable. At hyper sonic speed she slashed the chest of the golden bug with her sword over and over. As she did each hit cracked his outer armor barely but after hitting him 300 times in less than a minute that didn't matter. After the outer shell broke enough she lunged in with her other hand and ripped his chest open with her clawed glove. Revealing his bare muscle she stabbed into its chest with her gloved hand and tore back and forth before digging her claws into him deeply and ripping out its heart. She jumped back and dropped the monsters heart in front of it as it fell with a blood gurgle. 

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      Allison ran on the upper level of the wall as she avoided 6 more strikes of the incredibly fast whip like stingers that the monster had. Each hit smashing through the wall that it hit without slowing. The wall fractured knocking Allison off it, but with a well timed jump she jumped onto a piece of wall that went through the air. She then ran off of it as fast as she could and jumped up into the air before casting a 5th level spell called Star Strike. A ball of green pulsating plasma appeared in her hand for an instant before she shot it like a baseball as she still falls through the air. The incredibly hot plasma went right through anything it hit ripping through the monster causing it to scream in pain. Before Allison could celebrate that small victory though two more of the monsters stingers shot through her left leg causing her to match the monsters scream of pain. It ripped its stingers back but the tips are barbed so that as it does it takes more of Allison's leg with it. Allison falls to the ground with a hard thud and a groan. Though her instincts and training overcame her sense of pain enough for her to look up and then to roll to the left to avoid another two stingers stabbed down into the ground. Allison then rolled up and got to her feet before casting fly on herself. Before the next 5 stingers that where aiming for her could get to her she suddenly took to the air. In the air she began to build a spell in each of her hands, chanting the invocations for both simultaneously. Dual casting is the most difficult skill a wizard of any kind can achieve but Allison picked up the talent like a natural. She shot out the spell in her left hand a level 3 spell called fire ball which hit and exploded into the ground to the screams of many larvae and queens. The spell building up in her right hand was another Star Strike which she contorted in air to aim at the face of the massive monster. The burning plasma screamed through the air and went right through the face of the monster. The monster screams in pain again as Allison lands to the ground with a satisfied smirk. She looked up thinking herself victorious before the she realize the monsters face simply started to come back. The damage she thought she had done was quickly regenerated as Allison looked up at the monster. The monster looks down at her and she could swear it was gloating as it opened its mouth. Though she quickly realized that it was opening its mouth for another purpose as a powerful jet of white flame suddenly shot down at her. On instinct she used the spell called Blink to be behind the monster. She watched as the monsters incredible white flames ate away at the hive around them and traveled as though the fire itself was alive and hell bent on killing her. She was suddenly in the air again avoiding the fire as it seemed to swipe and lunge at her. "Seriously WHAT THE FU-" She was cut off as the monster smashed its fist into her sending her flying into the wall. However this wall was much stronger than the one she had been sent into earlier as she did not break through it but rather heard her bones crack as she smashed into it. She slowly peeled herself off of the wall only to fall onto the floor with another thud.  "Ow....." She laid there for a few seconds to long because as she looked up the fire was already upon her. Suddenly she took to the sky again as the fire burned her lower right leg. If not for her incredibly powerful armor she had no doubt that she wouldn't have a lower leg left at all. As it was it was severely burnt as she made her was up. The monster looks up at her as the whip like stingers and its fire charge at her. Allison felt that she had used almost all of her magic already having kept up the fight this long and healing her previous wounds. She had what she guessed was about a 10th of her total magical energy left at the moment. "Alright so it heals quick. So trying to conserve my energy would be dumb. Alright! All in then? yeah!?!" She shouted at the monster like she expected an answer. Suddenly Allison started to glow with a blue light as she went through incantations in her head meaning to use up the last of her magical energy to damage the beast all at once. Level 5 spell Lightning step, level 5 spell Titans fist, level 5 spell Phoenix soul and lastly level 6 spell Star blade.

      Suddenly massive wings of fire appeared on Allison's back. She suddenly felt the strength surging through her muscles and her speed was hyper sonic. Lastly a large blade made out of black plasma appeared in her hands as she charges the giant monster. Her slashes came at well over 200 a minute and each one ripped a part the monster burning it to nothing. Each slash was backed with enough strength to match the beast and then some. To the untrained eye the fight appeared as nothing but flashing light as pieces of a massive monster began to disappear. At the end of it Allison landed and her sword disappeared. She stood easily as the power that had flown through her body healed her wounds. This time she didn't bother looking, she knew she had won.

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        Maya found Allison as Allison was half way back to the spot where she had fallen originally. The two of them began to talk about what had happened but could hardly get a word out as the hive started sinking, their hearts did the same. They started off as fast as they could with Maya carrying Allison with her fly spell as Allison had truly used all of her magical energy. But the hive began to sink faster and faster. "Dammit Ally we need to go faster!" Allison looked up with clenched teeth "What you want me to do, doggy paddle!?!" Before Maya could make another comment a hole through the roof suddenly opened up with a loud explosion. Maya with expert precision avoided the falling bits of hive and got past the explosion's cloud of smoke. They looked up to see their ship over head having just fired a shot from its plasma rail cannon directly down. The two sighed with relief as Nathan opened the door and flew out looking to help them back into the ship. 

         As they got in the ship Allison took two steps and just fell to the ground with a satisfied smile. "Best mission ever you guys. This is why we should do things like this more often." Maya pointedly stepped on Allison as she walked over to the weapon station causing Allison to curl up and groan. "No this was not fun. But it was.... Much harder than we had expected. We better make sure to leave nothing out of our after mission report. Had they known of the much larger hive under the smaller one they probably would have come to us in the first place." Allison slowly sat up and shrugged "In either case we won. I mean we always win it's getting a bit predictable isn't it?" Maya turns back to Allison with a raised eyebrow. " Would you rather we didn't win?" Allison rolls her eyes as she stands up and gets into the pilots seat. "Yes that's what I want. I hate being the best. Of course I don't want us to lose you idiot." Maya sighs heavily as she turns back to the weapons station. Nathan pipes up as they start back off toward base "This is why I wanted Mrs.White to come with us." 

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