Babes with Blades Page #4

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collector of alien artifacts.

The Cressfelt Crystal

being one of them.

It's a source of great power.

Not infinite, but should be

more than enough, am I right?

So your plan was to break

into the stronghold all along,

a bold plan indeed.

Yes, to steal it.

To get in and out quietly,

not to go in there and cause

mayhem by killing their leader.

It doesn't matter

now, does it?

We're going in one

way or another.

Well, we need more

than just these.

What about their guns?

They're slow to reload.

That's why the elite

guard don't use them.

- Recharging for a shot takes

- Five seconds.

Five seconds to close the gap.

More than we need.

(dramatic music)

Report?

The rebels are all

but destroyed, Ma'am.

All but?

One escaped along

with Azura and Dahlia.

The gladiators

sought out the rebels?

That is a troubling development.

Azura knows our whole

army will be after them

that it will be difficult

to stay hidden for long.

I'd say she thought

to stir up trouble

so our attention is split.

She was mistaken.

Mistaken, but still at large.

The elite guard

searches for them, Ma'am,

they will bring her

to ground soon enough.

I want the Sarnian

alive, Peltarion.

Is that wise, Ma'am?

She's proven herself

unruly, dangerous.

As your bodyguard I

urge you to caution

and to have her terminated.

Are you questioning me?

Come, my friend,

I fear that you suffer

from a lack of clarity.

(dramatic music)

(fire blazes)

(flesh squishing)

What is this place?

What are these things?

Trophies from

conquered worlds.

This is it!

Let's go.

Wait.

A flower... from Sarnia.

I must take this back.

Come on!

(glass shatters)

(guns firing)

I'd put the stone

back if I were you.

You are not getting

out of this room.

You are just so predictable.

And you, Azura, your

liberty is about to end.

I'll draw their fire,

then you've got five

seconds to get in close.

(guns firing)

(swords clinking)

(grunting and gasping)

Go, I can make it.

Take the crystal!

Wait.

I know you.

Tallerin, it's you.

(grunting)

You must remember!

Tallerin, we were friends.

You must remember.

Running through the leaves,

please Tallerin, think,

you must remember, please.

You must remember!

(dramatic music)

[Guard] Are you okay, Sir?

I'm fine.

Take her.

Back where you belong.

Tallerin.

(electric buzzing)

So.

Why risk capture for a crystal?

Tallerin, what have

they done to you?

Your eyes.

It is irrelevant who you

think I am or think I was.

Answer the question.

Tallerin, you must

try to fight it.

They have a hold on

you, I don't know how.

You must try and remember.

(electric buzzing)

(heavy breathing)

Why steal the crystal?

What are you going

to use it for?

Tallerin.

Tallerin, please

try to remember me.

They have robbed

you of your spirit.

Robbed you of your identity.

Tallerin, we are the

last of our kind.

Please, you must

try to remember.

Again.

Wait.

Leave us, Palterion.

The other fugitives have

the crystal, I want it back.

Your skills are best employed

in hunting them down.

Leave this unpleasantness to me.

Yes, Commander.

There's nothing

quite so satisfying

as seeing an enemy brought low.

You won't break me

like you did Tallerin.

Tallerin, yes, that was

once his name but no longer.

He is like you will

be, utterly mine.

You destroyed my

world, and for that,

I will see you dead.

Defiance, an

admirable Sarnian trait,

you have so many.

It is why you are

so hard to defeat

and why I've chosen a Sarnian

for my personal guard.

Personal slave, you mean.

I suppose I do.

Quite amazing what one

can do in a laboratory.

A concoction of my own devices.

Engineered to react specifically

to your Sarnian biology.

You, like your friend

Tallerin, will be reprogrammed.

Your unique skills and strengths

you'll retain, of course,

but your will, that

will be utterly mine.

Well, if it'll shut you up,

let's get on with it.

Ha, defiant til the last.

As you wish.

Begin the reprogramming.

Yes, Ma'am.

Bring her to me when

she's more compliant.

Yes, Ma'am.

We've lost power,

switch it back up!

(alarm beeping)

(bones cracking)

(thudding)

(blood splattering)

(alarm beeping)

Good to see you.

How did you shut off the power?

We didn't, it just went off.

Convenient.

Have you two finished?

Come on, let's get

the hell out of here.

(dramatic music)

Barbarians.

We will recapture them, Ma'am.

Commander, I assure

you, they will be found.

She tried to take it.

Ma'am?

The flower of Sarnia, Peltarion,

your favorite artifact.

Like the Cressfelt Crystal,

this has great power.

They say it can heal worlds.

I want it destroyed.

The Sarnian,

Azura, claims she knows me.

I can't help but feel

that she's right.

Is it true?

Am I a Sarnian?

Of course.

Your race are the best fighters

we have ever encountered.

Who better to protect me?

But your kind are wild,

emotional, and disordered.

I gave you a purpose, brought

out your finest qualities,

made you magnificent.

A precision instrument of death.

Thank you.

Finally, glad you're safe.

Did you get it?

I saw it.

The last piece of Sarnia.

A flower.

A flower survives.

She kept it as a trophy.

If legends are true

one flower could breathe

life back into your world.

It can do that?

A flower?

I must get it back.

I must take it to the waters.

Return it home.

Don't worry, we'll

set this machine up

and bring back your flower if

it's that important to you.

It doesn't matter.

Even if it could get back to

Sarnia, repair the damage,

what's to stop the

Visray from returning?

We build a second shield.

Then we kill Sorrentine,

steal back a flower,

and heal a world?

Couldn't be simpler.

(laughs)

Agreed.

- But first.

- But first we honor

our bargain, Viridian.

We heal your world first.

Wait, I'm unarmed and alone.

I wish only to speak to Azura.

[Viridian] Take him!

- Wait.

- Why?

It's a trick, he

cannot be trusted!

I want to hear

what he has to say.

I want to hear him

say please don't kill me

before I silence him forever.

I know, you'd be a fool

to take me at my word,

but I've remembered,

I know now what Sorrentine

has taken from me.

From us, Azura.

[Viridian] Let's kill him

while we have the upper hand.

Wait, I have proof.

If you don't believe me after

this, then do your worst.

(chimes ringing)

Sorrentine ordered me to

destroy it but I couldn't.

Something stopped me.

We're underwhelmed at your

sudden attack of conscience,

let's kill him and get

the hell out of here.

How do you think you got

out of there so easily?

Because I turned off the power.

Nobody else could have

done that, ask him.

Besides, if I did

want to betray you

you'd already be dead by now.

I've led no one to you,

I come in good faith.

Take it.

It is yours.

Thank you, Tallerin.

Sorrentine has robbed us

of all that we are, Azura.

Your words struck

me harder than iron.

They made me remember.

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