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The engine room was broken and blind. Fallen machines whirred in loud noises, accompanied by the ear-rattling screeches of Hive portals ripping through the current dimension to deposit more and more troopers. Thralls swarmed and Acolytes laid down surpressing fire so the Thrall could flush out the Guardians from their cover, as well as finish off any cultists. Despite that the cultists served the Darkness, they were no friends to the Hive. They cared not what life they took, only that life was taken. Some of the remaining cultists left in the engine room screamed in agony as Thrall flanked them, tearing through their flesh with arc-energized claws. Arxus was left in the silence of himself, with his team and without ammo.

Across Arxus's HUD, his primary weapon counter flashed red. "Out of ammo..." He muttered, allowing his Vision of Confluence to flash away into Light. Before another pack of Thralls could swarm him, Arxus painfully dragged his body away and managed to find a sidearm from a cultist's corpse. He checked how much ammo was left. "6 rounds. More than enough to kill anything that moves." Hive snarls echoed in the darkness, and Arxus quickly aimed onward.

A pack of three Thralls rushed his position, but he could barely move from it. Left sitting against the wall, he had to aim true. With his good arm, he carefully squeezed the trigger of the sidearm and popped a Thrall right in the face, causing it to burst into ashes. He quickly squeezed off another shot and dropped the second Thrall, but the third was too close for him to fire upon. Arxus struggled and narrowly moved his body out of the way, as the Thrall sliced through the wall and got its claws stuck. Arxus painfully focused his aim and shot the Thrall point-blank through the skull, causing it to burst into ash as well.

Arxus sighed and eased back against the wall, laying his sidearm at his flank. He saw nothing in the darkness, even with nightvision active. Likely because of the way he was placed, he couldn't see any of his fellow Guardians. After that, the Hive portals ceased to open, and it seemed for now that the influx of Thralls and Acolytes had ended. "Anyone alive out there...?" He spoke into his comms.