Shinji: You feeling better Kay?
Kay: I think so… never knew writing a silly profile could be so taxing.
Asuka: That wasn’t a profile, that was an emo diary!
Kay: Says the girl who played one of the most sensitive moments in my life a little while ago. As punishment…
Asuka: Uh-oh…
Shinji: Asuka RUN!!!
Kay: ORE NO TAAN!!!!!
*screams echo through the night*
Kay: Rey, I’ll be continuing the notations here.
Rey: Will you be alright? You got carried away last time.
Kay: I always finish what I start, right?
Rey: I understand.
Kay: You can work on the rest of Glock’s profile when I’m done, deal?
Rey: Thank you, it means a lot to me.
Kay: That goes to the both of us.
Rey: Of course.
We arrived at the pyramid site, hoping that nothing had happened. We thought our hopes answered, as we arrived at the massive burial chamber with the entire team unharmed. The chamber itself was a massive circular room, about 500 meters in diameter, with an estimated 1,000 tombs inside, and a larger box sarcophagus at the center. They had been preparing to open the central sarcophagus as per Dr. Macabee’s orders, and I pleaded with him to “postpone” opening the casket, bluffing with a supposed new discovery to convince him. I had thought it over that day… before one of the men was punched through the gut by a gleaming metallic arm. Panic spread through the expedition as the central sarcophagus was ripped open by a powerful explosive force. For the first time, I saw the face of the
destroyer.
It was a thin, skeleton like humanoid, no taller than a man, made of black, metallic endoskeleton, adorned with golden trim engraved by the ruin glyphs. Its head wore a golden helm, that revealed only its menacing glowing eyes, and it wore a black, tattered cape on its back. On its left hand it held a dark crystal orb, and on the right it held a long staffed blade trident, with a transparent tube at the hilt flowing with green electric arcs – it looked similar to the form taken by Sofia, which Glock now wielded. But what caught my attention was the glowing engraved green emblem on its golden ribbed chest. Somehow it looked similar to the emblem on the black tablet that insinuated itself into Sofia… but as I looked at Sofia I noticed a slight difference: instead of a straight bar, as with the staff, the emblem on these machines had a semicircular arch on top of the cross’ circle. And I also remembered that the tablet was the only one with the straight bar, while all the other artifacts had the arch. I did not grasp the significance of this trivial change at the time, nor did I have the time to linger on the matter as the monster smashed his left hand into the ground, smashing fissures on the floor that glowed with their characteristic green light. Almost immediately the entire place shuddered with a hellish noise, as hundreds of tombs split open, and gave way to the metal skeleton monsters that had awoken. I had to push Glock out of the way of incoming fire as they started firing their green deathrays, the sight of these monsters petrifying him on the spot. I had to squeeze his had to snap him out of his stupor, and remind him of why we were here.
For the first time, Glock used his new Sofia, using its defensive powers to cover the evacuating Limiera team while I cleared the escape route with Galatea. Fortunately the team had a running head start, making it easier for us to shield them from the machine’s attacks. We escaped from the pyramid just as the ground shook beneath us. The site was now awash in an eerie green glow, and lightning arced all across its surface. As we got farther away from the site we were witness to an amazing site; the once submerged pyramid rose out of the ground, violently displacing the sand that buried it, the four obelisks that once guarded it collapsing to the ground. They gave way to the mass of the enormous black pyramid that had revealed its true, terrifying splendor. All of us knew that with the emerging army of undead machines pouring out of this pyramid, that none of us stood a chance if we stayed here.
That was when Glock suddenly stopped dead in his tracks as he was running, and simply collapsed, his blank eyes wide open.