Chapter 704 - Leggo

Afton turns his head and spots Bokassa standing behind and pointing an alien rifle at him. He pauses for a moment in confusion, then a large grin makes its way onto his face, "Baksok or whatever your name is, didn't think I'd see you again." he chuckles.

Bokassa scowls, preparing to fire another shot, "You brought this on yourself... I think you though, for clearing the path for the rest of us" he states, firing another shot, this time at Afton's head.

Afton easily dodges it of course, his [Danger Sense] and reflexes allowing him to shift his head and allow the laser to shoot past... Unfortunately, this ends up damaging the harness controlling the manual operating system.

It sparks and suddenly explodes, launching both Afton and Bokassa a few meters away.. Bokassa rolls to a halt next to his 'loyal' group of psykers, new bruises slowly forming on his face and body. He's about to celebrate Afton's death, but stops when he spots a figure step out of the smoke.

Realising he'd need help to take him down, Bokassa points a finger at Afton and shouts, "Look! He abandoned the people that followed him, and is cooperating with the aliens! You see how he is able to operate their devices! He is a danger to us all!"

The group of hostile psykers scowl at Afton in response, charging up their respective abilities for the unavoidable conflict.

Afton shakes his head, disappointed that humanity could still fight itself, even when literally on the brink of death. "First off, I didn't abandon anyone... Second, I'll give you a single warning. You attack me and I'll tear your god damned heads off!" he shouts, not really caring about preserving their lives... After all, he didn't think any of them would survive anyway.

*Kukchuik!*

The mothership shifts, causing almost everyone to stumble as it rapidly begins to manoeuvre through space... Afton glances over at the main terminal and realises that someone else was operating it... And currently on the screen to select a location on the auto-pilot systems...

His eyes widen as the man pulls up a holographic globe of the earth and selects Africa, not realising the implication of his actions... The mothership was absolutely huge, approaching a quarter the size of the moon... If this thing slammed into the Earth, it'd tear the planet apart!

"No! You fucking idiot!" he shouts, having to dodge a few bolts of fire, electricity, and other elements that the enemy psykers begin throwing. They took his sudden shout as an offensive action, deciding to now take action...

Afton growls, realising that these fucking idiots may have just invalidated all the efforts he'd made to get to this position. His plant arms warp and extend into almost a hundred whip-like roots that were incredibly sharp.

He raises his arms up before abruptly bringing them down, the roots shooting towards the psykers who futilely attempt to dodge, only managing to get bisected and dismembered in other places than what Afton intended.

The hundreds of psykers attempt to fight back using the alien weaponry, but Afton just activates his [Diamond Skin], turning his roots into incredibly reflective material. dispersing the lasers into the surroundings, causing yet more damage to the group.

Bokassa had fled to the outskirts of the room as soon as Afton started to act, knowing the immortal man likely had more up his sleeve than he'd shown... He was right too, barely avoiding the blender-like roots that turned his men into a bloody pulp.

Most had already thrown down their weapons and got to their knees in an attempt to beg for their lives, but Afton was unmerciful as he tore them apart...

Bokassa tugged at his collar as he began profusely sweating, realising that they'd made an error in challenging this man...

*Thud!*

He abruptly falls to the floor as pain shoots through his legs... Looking down, he finds that everything below the knees had been cut off, Afton's roots had found their target...

Afton doesn't even glance at Bokassa as he cuts the man in two, instead electing to run towards the central terminal where that idiot had tried to doom the Earth.

He steps over the fools corpse and accesses the systems, quickly realising how fucked he was... It was impossible to divert the mothership from its course, and it'd soon enter the Earth's atmosphere...

Without many other choices, he begins preparing for the impact, lowering the engines as much as possible while also completely disabling the shields... If there was any hope to salvage this situation, he'd need to make sure a good portion of the mothership burns up before it hits the ground...

He looks through the other systems and frowns at the rather spare selection... There wasn't anything that'd allow him to simply blow up the ship, and he couldn't wait for the self destruct to activate either, as it was timed for around thirty minutes from now.

"How would this thing even self destruct in the first place?" he murmurs to himself, eyes widening as he gets an idea... He accesses the blueprints of the ship again and quickly locates the reactors, taking a moment to memorize them before moving.

He quickly stands and runs towards the elevator, stepping over the large pool of blood and organs that was all that remained of Bokassa and his group.

He sprints through the ship at full speed, barging back into the alien armoury and collecting every dangerous weapon and explosive he could carry before heading towards his final destination.

Again, Afton's forced to break through many blast doors that impede his path, but they aren't much of an obstacle at this point, especially with how determined he was.

Soon enough, he reaches the reactors that were slowly charging up, preparing to self destruct via overloading the warp drive.

He tosses all the explosives he'd gathered next to the warp drive and tears what was left of his trousers off, splitting the fabric into strips and creating a rather long rope. Once he's confident in its length, he lights it on fire after wrapping some explosives around the end of it.