Chapter 118: Senseless Violence

[Weapon Summon] Activated!

{Royal Hex-Angle Divide}: Hex-shaped double tip cone lance; Royal Nectar Charged.

I grasped a tube and pulled out a massive spear with a massive hexagonal cone that ran to points, but the end was angled slightly. I pulled it down and gave it a quick spin like a bow staff and then brought it down to my side.

"ATTACK!" I called, and the golden light started to pulse from me, and the ground beneath me cracked as I jumped into the center of the white and red wave. 

[View of Kena, The Predator General]

Kena followed her troops, but something was wrong. Trent had told her that they would crush them with little to no resistance, but now they were bringing the fight to them!

"Send word back to Trent. His predictions were wrong; the sheep lied," Kena said with disgust.

Even though she was controlled, Kena had the most free will, but she would not be able to leave this battle even if she wanted to. Trent was sure that his army would destroy them, but these were all that was left after his countless losses. 

Trent placed everything that we had left to destroy this Hive, but now it would all be for nothing, and they would all die. Trent would just sneak off into another kingdom like he had before when his plan had failed, but he had not sent Kena to her death so foolishly then.

"Yes, General Kena," A cloaked figure said to me.

The woman ran off, and Kena continued down the mountain.

"I AM COMING FOR PAYBACK, BITCH!" Screamed the Metal Drone that had a dress made from metal blades.

Kena watched her reach up, and the air cracked open just like when the Fallen appeared, and the Drone pulled down a massive double-ended lance. Outrage boiled through Kena; she knew who that was, and Kena rushed forward to finish what she had started.

[View of Tag and Miasma]

As Ashia Jumped into the air, there was enough force to push both Messia and Miasma, but she also relayed a message to them both. 

'Help Leah and Tag!' Ashia sent to both the girls, and both of them used the force from the Queen to shoot to help their friends.

The wave was coming now like a waterfall of white and red cloaks, but Sig came hurtling at one hundred and fifty kilometers an hour. He cut a line through the wave killing fifteen, and maim others, but the wave wasn't stopping this time.

"PULL TOGETHER MOST ONEROUS BRETHREN!" Tag roared, and all the Defenders and Protectors under him linked shields and shoved the undulating wave.

The tide was pushed back, and the ones coming down started to pile up, but that didn't stop them; they were mindless. The host inside screamed out wordless in pain and fear of their enviable deaths.

As Tag took a deep breath in, one of the Predators shot forward from the mess of them. The Predator smashed into Tag before he could exhale, and the line was broken.

Miasma landed with the Predator between Tag and her. She was torn with a choice, but that was when the other Predators started to rush the line again. 

Tag got up and shook himself off angrily. This was the second time he had been caught off guard, and now he was mad.

"Go help the others; this one is mine. I will join you when I'm done with this thing," Tag growled as his eyes filled with red, and the crack between his black scale armor started to glow red as well.

Miasma could only nod and rush back to help hold the line with her TeslaBee Drone Mech. Something about this didn't sit right with her, and she had heard silent screams, and she had killed the first Predators.

The line was holding, and as Miasma ran up, Sig landed beside her and started to run.

"Try no to kill them," Miasma said in the droning voice.

"What? Not an Excellent time for that suggestion, M. It is a bit late for that now, don't you think?" Sig asked as they slowed the line with a shoving match between the Hive and Predators.

"No! It's never too late to stop the senseless killing; I'm telling you something doesn't feel right! Don't you hear the screams of fear when you kill them? In your mind?" Miasma asked, and Sig went pale and slowed before the line.

"What are you trying to say?" Sig said, but only Miasma heard it with the Drone's enhanced hearing.

"Something is controlling these women, and we need to stop them somehow…." Miasma said, but Sig threw up.

[The view of Leah and Messia]

"STOP KILLING THEM!" Miasma screamed over the Drone-Sync.

Messia had just cut three down with a one-handed swing from her flaming sword. The wave wasn't stopping, it was like they were unending, and Messia did not understand what M was thinking with her comment. 

"Why? What have you discovered?" Ashia called back.

Messia's CharBee drone kicked two more and then spun with her arm extended to knock another off her feet with the back of her first. She did not charge it with the fire this time, but she waited to hear what M had to say.

Messia had already felt apprehensive about killing them with the sounds that she had been hearing in her mind. The problem was that the Predators were relentless and almost mindless in their rush to attack without weapons.

"Something is controlling them! You can hear them scream in terror in your mind as we kill them!' Miasma cried through the speakers, and Messia felt like she was going to be sick.

"How do we stop it?!" Ashia called back in a stricken voice.

How did you stop something like this that forces people to mindlessly follow orders? Messia had no idea, and the air cracked as she returned the Phoenix Blade.

"I don't know, but we have to stop killing them," Miasma said with tears in her voice.