The Hades Project

[Seth Karlo]

Saker's eyes narrowed as more Nomads appeared on the scanners. This time there were 3 gunboats with the scores of fighters that streaked towards them.

A second later, an SOS flashed on the screen as the Tisiphone screamed for help. Saker breathed deeply, his soul attached to the core of the Peregrine mentally, emotionally and physically. He closed his eyes as he raised shields slowly.

His breathing slowly quickened, his pulse raising, his heart beating. The children stopped where they were, and watched and waited.

Then Saker's eyes flicked open, endorphins shrieked through his veins, and his fingers clenched on the cold steel of the chair he sat in. Hairs raised to attention as he shivered at the sight of the beings he hated.

"DIE, YOU EXILES OF ALL THAT IS RIGHT AND GOOD!"

The children seemed to teleport they moved to quickly. One instant they were stationary, and the next they were among the Nomads. Weapons flew and ripped into the organic flesh of the attackers, war whoops flitting their way through radio waves, and engine trails crisscrossing each other into a beautiful pattern of death and destruction and doom.

Hatched opened on the front of the Peregrines massive bulk, and missiles streaked across the small space between the ship and the Nomad's, emitting blue trails as they weaved in between children and rocks, impacting onto the hulls of the monsters that threatened the Corvo nearby.

The Light Mortars ripped into life, each one shooting across space in an instant. Rocks flashed with the deadly light as each one struck a Nomad GUnboat, the antimatter ripping through the weak shell's of the Nomads as if there was nothing there. Children swooped around the Peregrine chasing Nomad fighters, twisting and cartwheeling and looping as they dealt their deadly revenge for the death of the AI that they killed long ago.

Then a shriek of death passed through Saker, as Child.32 exploded. Instantly she uploaded herself into the Peregrines mainframe, to be remade after the battle.

It inspired the children and Saker, who roared their anger at the invaders. Any nomad that approached the stricken Tisiphone was ripped to shreds instantly. Green weapons of the Children clashed with the Blue energy of the monsters, creating a cacophany of deadly explosions everywhere in space.

For the Children were angry. Some said that computers couldn't feel, but Kewl was flying and he was angry. Saker sat there and he was angry.

The pure emotion of this feeling ripped through the arteries of Saker, coursed through the circuits of the fighting warriors outside, and infuriated the Nomads.

"Die you scum of the universe" muttered Saker.

"Die"

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