The Venture continues to bombard the Andonian evacuation zone. Incoming shuttles, escaping their overrun lands, meet incoming volleys of searing destruction. The ground is cratered and scorched.
A deep rumbling crosses the land. The Kerplah vortex convulses furiously.
Out of the deep ocean erupts a searing shot of blue light. It launches far into the sky, then arcs around, heading for land.
Time folded on time, it burns by its own existence. It twists the world around it. Reality becomes intent.
Power of Key.
With the creatures so near the survivors, the blasts from the Andonia began to strike very near. Explosion after explosion rocked the area. Young ones began to cry while those protecting them looked up in concern.
Endless streams of light were pouring out of the ship. Unimaginable destruction. What had the Venture brought back from the depths of the swirling black vortex?
Another sharp blast struck very nearby and suddenly the screams of terrified Andonians rose up. Then another blast, closer, and the sound of metal blowing apart could be heard.
Tarnan, an assistant engineer for construction pods, looked out from his safety station to see what was happening.
All the creatures had been killed. Body parts were strewn across the open field. Nothing of those evil twisted dimensional gates stirred. Yet the towers of fire kept coming from the Venture.
A new one emerged. Slowly it arced overhead, turning and twisting, then bearing down. It was going to strike something near. Very near.
A sudden sense of panic gripped the skittish engineer. Bones on blackboard scraped inside the twisted flesh of the dead horrors. Tarnan rushed outside, calling his team along.
He ran. Air screamed in pain as the tear of light rushed down. Then it happened.
The air bent around him and pushed him forward. The safety station they had all been hiding in was instantly vapourised. Only one of his team made it out, but his body was thrown away from the blast, broken twigs in the bonfire.
Out across the field it was chaos. People running from their shelters, beams of light destroying everything.
The Venture was attacking Andonia.
The Andonia Venture emerges from the Kerplah vortex, sailing swiftly across the sky.
The escape shuttles have gathered in the mountainous regions to the north by the great ocean. Massive beasts surround the survivors.
That great dark ship draws near, but stays high aloft. It does not descend to rescue those trapped on the ground.
A cold silence fills the air as killing tortures fly through the sky and creeping wailing swarms across the ground.
Then a great shudder and a crack fills the air. The Venture bursts alight with searing destruction on all that threatens Andonia. Creatures of the night burn with an inner light before exploding violently.
Those on the ground look on in shock.
The Venture has saved them.
The Venture was never equipped with weaponry.
Light of the dark realm.
Cutting fire deep within.
Grow quickly out.
Cast asunder.
That which was foretold in stone of ages past now seeks those of the many doors.
Curiosity of the void beckons near.
Beware the sharp rapier.
The Megatoth slowly wanders the misty plains.
Tiny claws to scrape bone. Bigger claws to snatch noisy things.
Don't be noisy.