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Another day on sky meadows, the purple grass flowing with the wind, plants lighting up the darkness, rocks flying across the fields and lifeless bodies littering the nearby crashed ships.
Bodies of the fallen fauna litter the ground, from mini mushrooms to elder lemurians, all of this done by two beings. A commando and a huntress. Tearing through hoards of enemies they find a peculiar teleporter.
"Hey uh commando?" Asked the huntress
"Jess. We went over this, Chris is fine. But what's is it?" Replied Chris as he guns down a brass contraption. It explodes into a pillar of flames, injuring the greater wisp near it. Allowing Chris to easily finish it off.
"Right sorry, It's just doesn't this teleporter looks.... different." Jess returned
Chris looked back and realized what she meant. This teleporter has eight flat, rectangular prongs by the edge of the base, it donned grey color instead of the normal black and It's surrounded by small cyan orbs gently float around the teleporter
"That is unusual." He stated, throughout their adventure on Petrichor V they've never seen a teleporter like this. It felt off.
"Wait, use your scanner." Chris requested, Jess gladly obliged curious as well.
Few seconds later a notification appeared on their HUD
𝙃𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙙: 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙏𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙧.
"Primordial Teleporter?" They both questioned
Jess out of curiosity pushed the prongs aside, they suddenly shifted and another thing appeared on their HUD. They became the shape of the usual teleporter with the prongs pointing towards the altar
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘁.
Out of curiosity Chris pushes the prongs again they seem to be re-aligning until they stopped at the last move. They receive another ping on their HUD
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱.
"The wasteland? Aren't we already at one?"
Chris claimed partially joking.
"Do we move it again?" Jess asked letting her curiousity get the better of her. Chris nods and pushes it once more. It forms the shape they first found it in.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗼𝗻.
"Ok. So we have The planet, The moon and The wasteland, where do we go?" Chris wondered out loud. He looks towards Jess she shrugs in response.
After a few minutes of silence Jess chose to speak up.
"The planet seems like a bad idea because it's most likely talking about this planet." Chris nods in response and after a silent few second Chris got a idea
"How about this? A coin flip."
"As much as I respect you Chris. That is a horrible idea". Jess exclaims slightly irritated that he even thought of that
"Well do you have an idea on how to choose?" Chris claps back with a hint of sass in his voice
"I... uh well I guess not."
"Exactly. Now heads or tails? Heads for the moon. And tails for the wasteland."
Jess sighs in disbelief that their possible death could be because of a coin flip
"Heads."
Chris flips the coin, the spins in the air gracefully. Chris for some odd reason really wants to shoot it but he doesn't as this was the only coin he's been able to find on this god forsaken planet. He catches the coin and flips it onto his wrist. He raises his hand its revealed to be.
𝗧𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀
Jess slaps her face in disappointment but she's a fulfills on deals and pushes the teleporter into the designated shape
"You ready?" Jess asked readying her bow
"Of course I am!" Chris replied ready for a fight
She nods and activates the teleporter both of them move away from it as it powers up. Two portals open up they have an yellow rim and a orange inside with yellow seeping in slightly. From them two giant figure rapidly fall from them launching the two into the air. The match the same color as parents but they sit cross-legged have three fingers instead of five and a huge ring for a head. Something appears on their HUD, something they've seen many times with different names. A red bar at the middle-top of their visor, it has a name right above it
𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩
𝘼𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙧
Soon after multiple enemies most of them being brass contraptions and parents with a few elder lemurian and a mini-mushroom in the mix
"I deal with the lesser ones, you deal with the boss. Got it?" Chris commands still airborne, Jess nods and uses her blink to teleport towards the Grandparent. Chris soon after uses his head-stompers to kill off a good amount of enemies. The everything in the blast radius is killed of leaving a few stragglers but they were dealt with by the Will-o'-the-wisp and his 3 gasoline stacks
"I am so glad I got a few ignition tanks back at abyssal depths."
He turns to see Jess pelting the boss with arrows. Her AtG missiles go off a few times dealing heavy damage towards the boss one of them activating her kjaro band. Chris slides towards the boss lighting it up with his dual pistols. Multiple greater wisps spawn infront of him, he uses this to his advantage and uses a phase round though them all killing a few in the back and leaving the rest wounded this also activates his plasma shrimp multiple purple orbs fly towards the enemies and it finishes off the greater wisps.
The phase round hits the boss dealing heavy damage to one of the Grandparents. The other picks up a rock and throws it towards Jess. It hits her and sends her off course towards the giant pit in the middle of the map. She quickly uses her blink and Hopoo feathers to get back onto land. The grandparent she was attacking slouches over and disappears. The other one forms a glowing yellow orb and shoots it towards Chris. He barely dodges it and slides out the way.
It pulls a few enemies towards itself as it flys towards the hole. Jess casts her arrow rain and said arrows trigger her stun grenades, sticky bombs and AtG's causing significant damage to the boss. Chris uses his suppressive fire triggering his plasma shrimp and ukelele killing nearby enemies.
"Ugh this is taking way too long." Chris complains but he gets an idea he reaches for a button on his back. Three lanes of rockets fire from his back, all of them targeting the grandparent. As this is going on Jess and Chris keep on shooting the boss until it falls.
"Nicely done Jess. Now we... Ugh we gotta charge the teleporter, again."
Many excruciating minutes later the teleporter finally charges. The two look at eachother then the teleporter, they both look back and nod as the enter the teleporter, for the last time.