Defense of The Tower Pt. 3

The Drone ship generated a grating screech as it continued its approached the tower, the noise issuing from the metal of its lower hull as its armor was first stretched and scraped, then finally tore under the pressure of the monolithic ice spears from below. But its speed and momentum continued to carry the ship forward. Its guiding entity groups entering a frenzy as their systems went dark or were damaged by the assault. the shields it had generating, while excellent for diverting the power of the blast the royal directed at it, were near useless against the physical size of the spikes.

as portions of the ship shut down from the damage, others found themselves surging with the suddenly free outputs of power. The entities preforming a last ditch effort to rid the vessel of the damage it was sustaining, diverting power to its starboard A-grav systems that still functioned, a last ditch effort to bring its side mounted guns to bear on the tower.

The drone destroyer, crippled by its damage, veered hard to its left. shattering ice spikes as it suddenly altered its course, before then dropping in its flight path as its damaged systems, well beyond its ability to repair on its own or even to maintain its altitude in the planets atmosphere, began to give out in sections, starting at the bow, where the worst of the damage had been inflicted.

With a metallic ringing sound of vast amounts of impacting metal, the dying ship struck the ground not far from the tower, its lower hull flattening under its two kilometers of metallic weight, sending up vast clouds of dirt and debris as it dragged along, carried by its forward momentum, tearing up a massive stretch of the land in its wake.

Glacian shielded himself from the blast of dirt and debris with his wing as the ships crashed down in front of him. for several loud moments he held his ground until the ship had finally, completely, fallen. Glacian lowered his wing and observed the destruction he had caused before suddenly bursting out in laughter.
"That was awesome!" he exclaimed with child-like glee, his fur rose in excitement as he shuttered with joy, a wide toothy grin adorned his face as he observed the wreckage like a child on christmas morning. he turned around to observe the tower, placing his hand back on it he patted it affectionately. "Good job, Vigil" He said quietly.

"thank you, Lord Glacian." Vigil suddenly responded from inside the tower where only Jan could hear it. outside, Glacian turned to observe the wreckage once more, happy with his achievement and proud of his work.

Jan raised a brow at vigil, he hadn't been monitoring Glacian's movements and it caught him off guard. He jogged over to the door, opening it and peeking his head out.

"Is it all clear?" He said, looking around, wreckage, drones, and a handful of dead mages lying about.

For seconds, save for laughter of the drake royal, the crackling rumble of still greenish flames and the deep crackling of the titanic trail of ice spikes that had spelled the end of the silent one drone ship that lay, slightly on its side within the trail of torn up earth that it had formed as it had crashed. There was nothing but silence from the wreckage. Thick clouds of smoke and dust thrown up by the flames and the impact of the ship and the redirected weapons fire obscuring much of the area around the tower where it had crashed.

For seconds, there was seemingly nothing stirring among the area. until the drake turned to thank the tower and the vigil system for its contribution. Then life seemed to explode into existence all around him as things reacted in a flurry of movement.

From the dust, multiple Assault rifle level bursts of the anti energy that the ship had been seen using Burst forth. aimed with a precision and timing that struck the ice royal several times squarely in the center of his back as he spoke to the system, The sounds of metallic limbs moving within the smoke cover making themselves known as their owners began moving at what sounded like a charging run at the drake.

Above, on the higher portions of the drone ships hull. The sounds of something impacting metal began to burst forth. something within the vessel slamming against its bulkhead with force enough to begin to make the oily black outer panels warp with the impact.

Glacian gasped at the sudden assault and fell forward as the anti-energy impacted his body, its effects were devastating on his body as he momentarily lost control of his limbs, catching himself before completely falling over. he had healed the damage as quickly as it occurred, but for several moments the effects were continuous as the energy arced around him, striking the ground in multiple bolts as though it were an active energy source. Barring his teeth, Glacian managed to turn around in rage at the crashed ship. "W-who.....d-DARES strike a ROYAL LORD!" He managed to say through the pulses of anti-energy as his nerves healed through the damage almost as immediately as it occurred. He waved his arm into the direction of the blasts and a machine-gun like fire of ice spears shot forth. Despite his current state, his own assault was no less precise and utterly deadly.

Jan ducked in the moment the fire opened up, with a very non-manly shriek, as the door closed behind him and he ran to the chair again to watch the monitors. Slapping himself back into focus, he stared to try to make out the figures and their features.

From within the cloud of dust and smoke, There was a sudden Report of the ice spears That the royal had fired impacting something made of metal, The Sound being vaguely reminiscent of gravel hitting a roof made of tin as the Line of anti energy fire first wavered, then began to go erratic as whatever had opened fire was impaled again and again. The beam shuttering off after several seconds, Discharges. Green, Like the ones that the ship had given off exploding from some damaged construct within the dust.

In the next instant however, barely a millisecond after that first Strike. Two more opened fire from the Dust from two different sources.
The first, Was heard before the ice royal felt it. A hollow sounding “Phoont” like sound, the sound of high compression. Then there was pain as a length of silvery barbed metal, Two feet in length. A Short Javelin. Flew through the dust, and impaled itself in the Royals arm as he waved it in the direction of the first thing that had fired on him, The sound of metal feet hitting the ground increasing as a Second beam of Anti energy burst from the now thinning clouds to impact the royal from a second direction. Silhouettes of 4 Tall, Lanky looking running things appearing among the settling dust.

While this was happening. the sounds of something heavy impacting the wrecked ships hull from within only increased. The panel on the vessels side high up now visibly denting outward. A layer of Frost building across its surface, ice coating the strange oily black metal, making a soft crackling sound, accompanied by the squeal of the suddenly super cooling metal.

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(to be continued)