It turns out the tunnel colpsing was not my biggest problem, that would be the tuhat opened up behind me, Sixes and Sixteens spilling out. Behind them stood a monstrosity.

  It vaguely resembled the smaller models around it, but it towered over its brethren. Its massive crested head nearly scraped the fifteen foot ceiling, below that sat four long arms whided in wicked looking scythes. Its main body, beetle-like, was held up by six tree trunk sized legs. The Twenty Six locked its eyes on me and screamed.

  That was a rick.

  The stupidly smart pnt must have wao try and isote the two of us and figured I was the easier target. Fuck it, I wasn't going to make this fight easy for it.

  Both sides opened up, a mess of projectiles filled the tunnel. “Nyx, shards! And cover!”

  Got it

  Purchased - Cryo Shard Mines 5 x 5 = 25 points

  Auto redeployment enabled

  Purchased - Bulwark mobile cover 20 x 3 = 60 points

  Points remaining 3413

  A series of metal partitions appeared iunnel, so I dived behind the one.

  “What happeo Sharron?”

  Well…

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  Sharron heard the tunnel colpse, she only mao half turn before something burst through the wall and threw her further up the tunnel, away from the cave-in. There was a tentacle, almost as thick as her waist stig through the wall, then another, and ahen dozens of smaller whip-like ones as the Antithesis pulled itself through the wall. It looked like a squid, but it had three bodies ected together by some of the bigger tentacles.

  “I remember you, Model Thirteen, hive guardian. Must be desperate to e out to fight directly.”

  Struggling to her feet, Sharron prepared herself for its iable charge. “Aeonys let Evelyn know we’ve engaged a Thirteen and will work our way around to her ASAP.”

  The creature charged and fleshy tentacles met metal ones.

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  The Twenty Six drove the lesser models before it, slowly drawing closer; I wasn’t going to go down easily. Calling Spooky over, I grabbed my railgun off its back. As soon as I leaned out the Twenty Six hunkered down, throwing its talons in front of its fa prote. Apparently it reised the on, not that it mattered. There was a fsh as I fired, the Twenty Six screamed in pain, I could see a deep wound in its abdomen, a grievous o not critical. I threw the still glowing railgun back to Spooky “Anti-tank gun my ass.”

  It would put a round straight through ventional armor. You just haven’t been fighting anything ventional tely.

  “No shit, suggestions?”

  Ohis is ideal terrain for Bob.

  “Really?”

  You know how you’ve been pining about how heavy everything’s armor is? Bobs is thicker. Two thousand points goes a long way.

  “Well shit”, I g the giant bear, partially c me with one of his shields. For the first time I realised that by c me, he really didn’t do anything to protect himself. Dozens of spines just bounced off him. “Forward big guy.”

  Bob’s shield folded up as he strode forward, slowly gaining momentum. A few Antithesis redirected their attacks at him, they didn’t even slow him down. At the st moment his cws extended, glowihen Bob’s arms shot forward. The first cw cleaved through the eithesis line before Bob took a step forward and the other cw down from the other dire killing scores more. From my position I saw a Model Three narrowly miss getting decapitated by the cws, only to be stepped on and crushed by Bob’s advance.

  The Twenty Six danced around, it seemed unsure what to do.

  “Bastard, I didn’t know he could do that, so there’s no way you could. Don’t deal with surprises very well do you.”

  You were worried not even two minutes ago.

  “Let me enjoy this damnit”

  The Twenty Six finally decided to meet the threat head on. It rushed out, sweeping down with all four scything arms at Bob’s head at the same time.

  There was a loud g. Bob looked up, ued by the attack, the both cws up to sever the offending arms. The Twenty Six cried out in pain, stumbling back, but Bob just pushed forward. Cws swinging bad forth, repeatedly eviscerating the Twenty Six until it y still.

  I stood up, the battle pretty much finished “Fuck me, he do that against something iwenties? Why didn’t you tell me?”

  First of all, that was not a bat oriented model iwenties, and sed of all I did show you the cws, you just didn’t believe me.

  “Okay, fair. Any update on Sharron?”

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  Whip-like tentacles smmed against her suit, causing the outer shell t from the blows but causing no real damage, that was caused by the rger owo tentacles attempted to restrain, and remove her arms simultaneously. It might have been effective against a lighter armored oppo, or ohout other means of defence.

  Sharron’s melee tentacles sshed down, biting deep, f the tentacles to either release or risk being severed. Meanwhile, the four sers cut repeatedly into the model thirteen’s main body. Unfortuhey were uo do extensive damage, the two were locked in bat.

  In frustration, Sharron forced her sers to assist in removing the tentacles, severing them and giving her some breathing room. The cuttiacles came fain, impaling one of the bodies, holding it still as she fired round after round into one of the bodies until it y still.

  The sers worked at stantly cutting away each tentacle that came her way. She repeated the process with each of the remaining body-masses until the entire creature finally died.

  “I’m gd that was a young one,” she said, kig the body “The st one we fought was badly worn down, I really don’t want to fae of those at full strength.”

  I doubt it’ll be an issue, you nearly have all the points required for your suit.

  “Excellent, we should get back to Evelyn before anything bad happens.”

  About that…