I dodged it's attacks over and over again like a broken record, and I began to get tired from shooting it. Eventually a shot pierced it's eye and exploded it, making it blind.
"SUBSYSTEMS DAMAGED! UNLEASH EXPLOSION!" The robot nonsensically said.
I felt like I was just getting warmed up. I saw the robot preparing a weapon of mass destruction, so I kept firing at it to try and prevent it.
"Take this! And that! And this!" I carried on.
"You're taking it too far. I think that's enough overkill." Aurora said. She then beheaded the robot with her sword, dissecting it into pieces of scrap metal. "Too easy. I know they'll send another, but I doubt it."
The gates veiled in mist opened. I saw what appeared to be lift close by.
"Come on, hurry!" Aurora said, and we ran for the elevator. She pushed a button with an up arrow. Within seconds we were already ascending.
I noticed a lot of large metallic spheres on our way up. Other worlds? It didn't matter. I felt the sun shine down on my face and we found ourselves in a large town.
"This is Haven, where the Spiral Knights are stationed after the Skylark crashed." Aurora told me. "You should report to Lieutenant Feron ASAP."
"All right then." I acknowledged.
I walked off to the large building built into a mountain at the back. I saw Lieutenant Feron's station when I walked in and came over to him. When I got there, I saluted to him.
"It's a good thing you managed to get to Haven." Feron said. "Basically, the Skylark had crashed a while back. We sent a team of our best knights to scout the clockworks, and they went missing. Then some strange substance appeared and caused some havoc before we imprisoned it to study it." Feron explained.
"So some chaos has been occurring throughout the place since that attack on the ship." I tried to make sense of it.
"Exactly that happened." Feron said. "We've been analyzing the substance and it appears to have a crystalline structure. Maybe if we run it through a mass spectrometer we can get the full detail."
"Hmm. I wonder what happens if it's run through a negative mass specrometer?" I asked.
"We'll try that if a mass spectrometer doesn't work." Feron decided.
"All right then. We'll give it a shot."
Feron activated a node on the terminal in his office. It opened up a hatch next to the door leading underground. I followed him down and into a small laboratory that contained a mass spectrometer that took up most of the room.
"This is where we'll conduct the experiment." Feron said as he remove the black crystal from it's prison and inserted it into the pedestal that kept it held in place for analysis.

I'm not sure how this will work out.

Author's Note: There will be a Half-Life 1 shoutout somewhere in the story. It may be spoilers for anyone who hasn't played the game/reached Chapter 2 of Half-Life 1.

Feron began using the many terminals around the room to prepare the mass spectrometer.
"We are ready to begin the experiment!" He said. Just then, Chief Geo Knight Wegner came down.
"Oh, hello there. So, we're going to begin the experiment?" Wegner greeted and asked.
"We'll do that just when we're ready." Feron stated.
"I'm prepared for this." I said, standing by the wall.
"Well then, let's begin!" Feron told, activating the spectrometer. The tubes circling the room powered up into blue lightning, and then a bunch of blue lightning bolts began working on analyzing the crystal. I spotted a message on the terminal:
"WARNING: NEGATIVE MASS DETECTED", it read.
"Sir, it's saying it detected a negative mass. Switch?" I asked. Feron switched it to Negative Mass and the lightning bolts turned yellow. As it was analyzing the crystal, it began to crack. It let out red light into the surrounding area and then shattered into a storm of red lightning. I ducked to avoid the bolts.
"LOOK OUT! IT'S GONE CRITICAL!" Wegner shouted. The storm of lightning launched out what seemed to be a completely black wolf creature that died as soon as it teleported as it crashed into the wall with phenomenal force. I was shocked by the carnage ensuing until the storm stopped. The single bolt spiraled into the sky.
We followed it and watched as it rose up into the air.
"That doesn't look friendly." Feron lampshaded.
It then bursted into a huge storm of lightning, striking many points of Haven. Dark clouds circled it as a bright red glowing portal opened. Eventually Haven was shrouded in dark clouds.
"What in the name of..." Wegner said in horror.
I felt shocked by this too. I saw Aurora come up to me.
"What's going on?!" She asked in worry.
"The end of the world, maybe." Feron said skeptically. The portal simply stayed there, pouring out streams of lightning bolts. Eventually they all converged on a single point and created a huge beam of light. We continued to watch.
"It's best if you and Aurora take an expedition. I wonder what happens underground while this happens?" Wegner suggested.
"Maybe." Aurora stated. "But just a little more looking at the fancy portal before moving on."

...

It had already been 30 minutes since the mass specrometer exploded, and me and Aurora were at a ruined city, spying on the Devilites that lived there according to Aurora. We noticed an IT worker working very hard. From the looks of it all the other workers are at home. We weren't sure what he was trying to accomplish, but it's fun to watch him. Feron sent me and Aurora off with a choice of a battle sprite. I picked a Maskeraith while Aurora picked a Seraphynx.

We watched and studied carefully while the portal storm continues aboveground.

I wonder what happened up there?

I got a distress call from Feron, but just then I felt a voice in my head.
After they kept you away from the swarm for all these years, you had to go ahead and cause an apocalypse. The voice called out.
I picked it up.
"I've tried to self-destruct the spectrometer to stop the chaotic chain reaction." Feron explained to me.
I'm afraid you don't nearly have the power you think you do. And you will find this interesting: Sirius realized he has just set off the Resonance Cascade.
"I hope it stops it. I don't want anything to happen." I replied.
In the event that a Swarm Crystal is taken out of it's location, it will explode and cause massive destruction to the fabric of spacetime. How much time to detonation? Hmmm...let's say...
"I doubt it will. It's intensifying!" Feron replied in worry.
Ten hours.
"Just...why?!" I asked to the voice in my head.
Because I love to see you try to take back control of things while everything falls to pieces.
"You're kidding me."
"Hey! We've got to go see what that devilite IT worker is up to!" Aurora said. She ran off to the office building while I reluctantly followed.
That's good. Keep following her. Deviating will anger me a lot and make me want to change the timer to two minutes.
We closely followed him and then we spotted him at an altar, with a strange sword wrapped in cloth stabbed into it. Aurora recognized it.
"The Gran Faust." She whispered. "A sword long forgotten because of it's dark powers."
Oh, I thought I wasn't the only narrator. Sirius decided to help him pull it out.
I silently commanded my Maskeraith to cloak me and him, and we silently helped him pull it out. When he lifted it up, he stumbled because it was too heavy for him. Then my cloak expired.
"Aaaahhh!" The devil-IT shouted. He quickly ran away, stumbling until we heard a loud crash outside. When we walked out, blackened monsters were everywhere.
"Oh my gosh." Aurora said in shock.
Yes. YES. Suffer! All of you will suffer!
"We've got to help him!" Aurora said, pulling out a thin, sharp fencing sword that was a brilliant bright white and blue in coloration and had feather-like structures at the handle.
I pulled out my gun and aimed very closely at the pure dark monsters.

Do not dissappoint me.

Author's Note: Yes, I just parodied The Stanley Parable. No Ender for you, by the way. New characters. When I said I was remaking it from scratch, I was NOT lying. Also since I love The Stanley Parable, I'm thinking having a narrator that belittles and insults Sirius throughout the story would be fun to do and to do the same purpose as the Narrator from The Stanley Parable. This isn't a crossover, but something I thought up for fun.

I began shooting away at various monsters. Most of them evaded my gunfire while some got into range for Aurora to attack.
Ah, they're evading your gunfire. This is making things more interesting.
"Here, take this." Aurora said, handing me a large white and blue blade. I saw the devilite IT worker stumbling around trying to hit enemies with the sword he pulled out of the pedestal. The sword felt a bit heavy but not too much to be unwieldy. I began hacking away at them and trying to defend the IT worker.
"Thanks...I guess..." He said. "I'm guessing you helped me pick up the Gran Faust?"
"Yeah, I did." I answered.
Zappery decided to team up with Sirius to take out the rest of them.
"Say...what's your name?" I asked.
"Zappery's the name." Zappery replied. "Now let's get rid of these things before they overwhelm us."
More and more monsters kept on coming.
"And we're not going to make it." He snarkishly commented.
"INCOOOMING!" A female voice shouted. We saw a Nitronome sail over our heads and proceeded to cover us in a huge explosion. I pulled my shield up to block the damage that would be inflicted on Zappery. When the light faded, dead bodies of the shadowy monsters littered the floor like leaves on a clear fall day. Another knight wearing what appeared to be a bomber's gear walked over.
"Sorry about that incoming attack. I heard from the Lieutenant that something was happening." She said, walking to me with her hands empty. "So I'm guessing this Devilite IT worker is important?"
Alicia guessed that Zappery was required to help ward off the Swarm. She was right, of course.
"Yeah, I had to protect him." I said.
"We better get a move-on, this place is starting to get unstable." She warned.
"But before you go..." Someone said. I saw a Pit Boss walking towards us.
"I know that Zappery is going on a journey. And you're the one destined to defeat the swarm, right?" He asked. "Of course I'm right."
Sirius would obtain the weapon needed to ward off the swarm and find a way to shut off the portal. But unfortunately...
He handed me a piece of a broken sword. It was a hilt with little patches of blue cloth on it.
It had been shattered to pieces.
"It somehow got destroyed in the office vault...I hope you can repair it. And Zappery, good luck to you. This is your vacation: an adventure to save the world."
"Thanks, boss." Zappery acknowledged. He grinned and adjusted his glasses.
Sirius would have to travel to three places to find the broken parts of the sword. The sun silver needed to rebuild the laser cutter would be found in a factory where robotic nightmares were made. The blade would be found in a forest where a shadowy beast lurks. The celestial ore needed to repair it would be found in a palace where slimes live, ruled by a gooey fist.
We set off to find a way to repair the sword. Listening to the voice's knowledge, I knew where we had to go first.
"The Gloaming Wildwoods." Aurora told. "That's where we'll find the blade."

And of course, they would have to find the finest blacksmith in all of Cradle for his assistance to repair the Divine Avenger. The blade of evil's bane. The glowing light in the sea of darkness. However, there are three other weapons that will be needed to shut off the portal. The Neutralizer, wielded by an excellent friend. The Obsidian Crusher, wielded by a skillful bomber.

With this, they will save the world. Of course, why would a ragtag bunch of misfits be able to stop this raging storm? Heh...hahahahahahaha. Sirius. You're in for a surprise.