Spiral Knights - The Darkest Depths (Collection of Short Stories)

The Darkest Depths (Collection of Short Stories)

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Sun, 09/21/2014 - 10:47

Sonosuke

"Galen Kras. Audio Log, Day 157.

"It's been three weeks since we've had any outside contact. I've, sorry. I keep forgetting about Brick. Maybe I'll find something or somewhere to put him away. His head served as a nice temporary distraction for the things outside, though, so he isn't all useless now.

"I have had no food for days now, and I had to survive off my own urine, or lack thereof. I should have expected much when you're stuck in a small lab room with a barely-functioning computer terminal. I often wonder why I agreed to this job."

*BANG* "The doors! The doors... They aren't gonna last long. I- I'm afraid this is gonna be the last few moments of my life." *BANG* "Stuck in the lab of a run-down energy plant swarming with the Undead." *BANG* "The only exit I have completely sealed off by the rogue AI that started this mess." *BANG* *BANG*

*A loud klang is heard, seemingly the door finally breaking down. Inhuman moaning is soon heard, followed by screaming and ripping of flesh before the log goes to static*

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 18:07

Sonosuke

You're all welcome to add your own dark stories to this thread.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 18:12

Midnight-Dj

THE WEIGHT OF LEADERSHIP

“Move! Move! Move!” a squad of recon rangers battled their way through a blood ridden facility, outgunned and outnumbered by the occupants of the facility, the rangers were forced to pull back. The shouting and the screaming filled the air around their captain who was leading the charge, Desna, her head was on the verge collapse as the cries of another rookie pierced through her ears, echoing with exploding shells and strafing bullets. “ARGHHHH!!! The acid!!! It BURNS!!!” the rookie yelled out his lung, unable to bear witness to the site of his own exposed bone that were covered noxious acid, agony was all that was left of him.

Still taking fire from an unknown location, Desna squeezed out the last of her stamina and pulled her body behind a pathetic excuse of a cover. Half kneeled behind a charred lab desk, with her head still throbbing from the shell shock, Desna lifted her already exhausted right arm and gave the closest, still standing ranger a weak commanding gesture, “…Medic… go… patch up that rookie over there…”

The ranger she pointed at sulked as he opened up his smoke charred lips, “Captain… I am not a medic… our squad medic had died hours ago-” a bullet ripped through their cover and shattered the already broken conversation, “-We got surrounded!” the last ranger yelled desperately at his captain, but Desna was in too bad of a shape to give a proper response, “We are not going to make it! Captain!” the trembling ranger took out his last magazine and reloaded his machine gun, “WHAT DO WE DO?” with tears in his eyes, the ranger emptied his last magazine at the direction which the shots were fired…

“STOP! SAVE YOUR LAST MAG! WE ARE GOING TO MAKE IT!!!” the mad shout blasted out of the ranger barrack’s sleeping quarter, shredding through the eeriness of the night. Anyone who was rudely awakened by the outburst knew that the shout came from lieutenant Desna, who was probably now sitting up on her bed, sweating and panting from another hellish nightmare.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 19:30

Sonosuke

A Flesh New Weapon Pt. 1

"Ah, finally, you're awake." An oddly calm voice rang through the near-pitch-blackness a squad of Knights found themselves in. Only four lights shined down from above, each directly above one member. They were all hanging in a line towards what appeared to be the edge of a walkway. The woman at the front, the squad leader, attempted to move, however her arms were unresponsive. "Don't bother with those useless limbs of yours. I've made sure you never use them again."

"What the hell is this?" The woman spoke up. The three behind her stirred awake, starting to panic as the realized what was happening.

"Oh this? You don't need to know. Not like telling would help you anyways." A grey-furred Gremlin in a blood-stained lab coat stepped into their vision, a crimson insignia displayed prominently on the front. "I am Forlax of the Crimson Order. We each run a different branch of Gremlins. Seerus is head of the Thwacker Gremlins." He walked slowly over to the second Knight. "Herex, before defecting from the Order, was in charge of the Ghostmane Stalkers. And I..." Suddenly, he flipped a scalpel into his left hand and sliced a line clean down from the Knight's chest to above his groin, causing him to scream in agony. "I am head of the bio-mechanical department.

"Seerus and I have been talking about a new weapon, seeing as how you pesky invaders destroyed our last one." He wiped the scalpel on his coat. "I have come up with a new kind of energy source. One that could easily be obtained and used. That" Forlax held the knife to the leader's face the strong scent of iron going up her nose "would be you Knights."

Tue, 09/23/2014 - 10:49

Sonosuke

(~O ,O)~ #Sonosuks

"What, you're gonna make us your slaves?" The woman grinned, but the two remaining Knights were starting to feel more uneasy. "You think we're gonna listen to you?"

Forlak grinned. "Slaves? No no no. I'm not looking for that kind of energy." He stepped back into the shadows as the chains holding the Knights carried them over the edge, before stopping. The girl at the back looked down, before her eyes widened with fear. Below them was a massive meat grinder, the sides covered in saws and blades of assorted shapes and sizes. "The weapon in question is powered by your flesh and Blood! Ta-ta!"

The chains released the Knights to fall to their gory deaths. The last thing anyone saw of them was the fountain of chunky red that sprayed up from the shredder.

Tue, 09/23/2014 - 17:48

Midnight-Dj

If you thought meat grinder was bad

@sonosuke and who ever is reading this.

This is a chapter taken from my fan fic: The Blade of Genesis Episode 3-Night of the Stargazers

Chapter 5: lesser evil
Location: emperor palace, great colony of Gremlins

[Barrus, Daxen, Izola and Affair entered the palace, the place is empty, the guards disappeared and Tinkinzar is absent from his throne. The place is made of almost pure steel, covered in gold dust and flags of the Crimson order covered the naked wall. The roof is supported by twenty golden pillars and each one of them is decorated with fabulous drawings of Gremlin deities. The place is truly fitted for a civilized king rather than a mentally unstable tyrant. Affair suddenly spots a flash in the darkness and instinctively hides himself behind one of the golden pillars. A bullet runs out of shadow and hits Izola’s shoulder, Izlola staggers but her heavy armor blocks the blow without being dented.]

Izola: *laughs* “Was that meant to be a sniper shot? Come out of the darkness, little Gremlin! And fight like a man!”

Xera: *in the darkness* “You clearly never fought a Gremlin sniper in your life did you?” *changes her sniping position*

Izola: *smirks* “Woo! We got ourselves a girl soldier here! Hey, mercenary, show her how much of a man YOU are!” *scorns at Affair*

Affair: *still taking cover* “Very funny, gosh… You are worse than Desna!”

Izola: “Pft, you scared of a Gremlin sniper?”

Affair: “Heck no…” *exits the cover*

[Affair, hidden behind his volcanic plate shield. Slowly moves towards the empty throne, Xera, observes Affair in the shadow, loads her rifle with a new bullet. She aims at Affair’s head, which was slightly exposed out of the large shield. She counts the intervals between her heartbeats and squeezes down the rifle’s trigger, the bullet flies out of the shadow and scrapes a chunk of ceramic off Affair’s war mask, Affair quickly fired at the general direction of the gunfire before Xera changes her vantage point. Daxen, who is a sharp shooter, emerges from his own cover and fires at Xera upon spotting her moving across an open area while trying to hide behind the throne. A shadow round ejected from Daxen’s blaster hits Xera in the shoulder and she stumbles onto the ground before she reached her cover.]

Xera: *covers her wounded left shoulder* “Argh!”*drops her rifle*

Izola: “Got you now, little piggy!” *sits on to Xera and leashes her with some rope* “Now then, where is Tinkinzar?!” *puts her hatchet next to Xera’s throat*

Affair: “What? Are you people actually expecting information of Tinkizar’s whereabouts out of his most loyal servant?”*sees the fragment of his mask on the ground* “Hey, that was a collector’s item!” *glues the fragment back onto his war mask with some gel*

Izola: “We will make sure her suffer if she doesn’t talk!”

Xera: *spits into Izola’s helmet* “Finish it! I will never tell you!”

Izola: *wipes out the spit from her helmet and slaps Xera in the cheek* “You filthy WHORE!”

Xera: “AH!”

[Barrus, takes out a magnum out his left holster and sticks the barrel to Xera’s forehead. Xera looks dead into Barrus’s eyes while remaining defiant. Daxen, on the other hand searched the palace ground for any kind of secret passage that Tinkinzar may took to escape.]

Daxen: *shook his head* “Nah, can’t find a secret passage… Hey, Barry boy, got anything out of that Gremlin yet?”

Barrus: *frowns* “Nothing yet…”

Xera: *chuckles* “My king is already out of the city bound by now, via a passage that you will never find in a million years!”

Barrus: *sneers* “Very well then…” *loosening up his belt harnesses*

Affair: “Ugh, what are you doing?”

Xera: *sweats* “???”

[Barrus seizes both of Xera’s ankles, he shoves his waist against her groin and with a leash on her hands. Xera could do nothing to prevent Barrus’s assault. Barrus takes out a sharp side blade and slices open Xera’s protective leggings. From a distance, Affair sees an unusual grin on Barrus’s face, the grin of a psychopathic rapist.]

(you can see why I never bothered posting the enture story)

Tue, 09/23/2014 - 18:08

Liminori

Well.

Midnight. . .
Sheesh.

Tue, 09/23/2014 - 20:08

Sonosuke

(~O ,O)~ #Sonosuks

Bloody furry lover if I've ever seen one.

Tue, 09/23/2014 - 21:44

Midnight-Dj

Well, you wanted a dark story so a dark story is what you got.

But on a more serious note, the story is really my attempt to illustrate the concept of grey morality (AKA. Penumbra theory). Where no such a thing as absolute good and bad could be found, much like the real world, I don''t want all of the spiral knights in my fan fic to be depicted as good guys and Gremlins are always bad. Barrus here would be a good example and Ozlo is evern worse if you read Project Retribution 2. However, can you really blame their actions?

Barrus: Prior to this chapter, on chapter 4, Remi Syvlin and Walkon all died during a crash landing which lead them to Tinkinzar's palace (don't ask me what kind of plane they were using) and yes, Gremlin were responsible for shooting the ship down. Barrus was clearly driven by revenge when he sexually assualt Xera (the gremlin chick), a psychological attack on his enemy deemed fitting.

But MIDNIGHT, THIS IS SO WRONG :( :( :(

Oh well, spoiler alert, after the scene, Affair the mercenery decides to go white knight and defeated both Izola and Daxen, giving Xera a chance to get some pay back. Like blowing Barrus's brain into a pulp with his own hand gun. Some very personal justice right there...

Wed, 09/24/2014 - 05:14

Sonosuke

(~O ,O)~ #Sonosuks

And now we wait for the obligatory "OMG Y U DO DIS SONO + DJ WAAAHHH!!!1!!!!" comment.

Wed, 09/24/2014 - 23:24

#10

Colray

Thief in the Night

Moving silently through the shadows, Beck tracked a group of rich officials. The money had been scammed off of someone who paid Beck's emloyer to get some revenge. He froze, midstep as one of them glanced in his direction. Then the target looked away. He followed them from above, hopping from rooftops. After a couple blocks, the group stopped. They then entered a building, the correct one that he was informed of.

Beck settled down on top of the building, by some electrical wires. He reached down and took out a small shard of metal. He flashed it towards the building, aiming across the street at a shadow covered roof. A couple seconds passed, then a similar flash responded. Syber was in position.

He checked his watch, it was a minute away from the designated time to start. No radio communication could be used because these rich dudes had jammers and could pick up any passing through the area.

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Syber put away his piece of metal and readjusted his rifle's stock. He could see the windows, and could put a bullet anywhere in them. However there was still plenty of area where he couldn't support his friend. If Beck got into trouble he had an easy access point into the building.

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Beck silently was counting down from ten. He had already checked his entrance point, no guards would have a visual on him.

3.....

Beck slipped his Valiance out of its holster,

2....

1....

Beck moved like a shadow, slipping trough the window without making any sound. Once inside, he examined the room for any security measures, there didn't, seem to be any. So, Beck carefully advanced hiding behind cover and trying to stay as close to the east window. This was going to be simple.

Then an alarm sounded.

Sat, 09/27/2014 - 06:32

#11

Flame-Shinobi

Dead of Knight

December 15, 11:00 PM, 70XX Location: Haven

Sarah: Come ooon Jacob we need to go test out these new swords?

Jacob awoke drowsily, he and his best friend Sarah had just received cobalt items and were finally allowed to go into the clockworks.

Jacob: Gaaah, 5 more minutes. The training was brutal...
Sarah: No! We have to try this now. So come on!

Sarah pulled Jacob from the ground.

Jacob: But it's the dead of night Sarah!
Sarah: That makes it all the more fun...

Sarah winked knowingly.
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December 16, 12:00 AM, 70XX Location Clockworks Depth: Unknown

Soon the duo were trampling through hordes of zombies laughing, even warding off phantoms that drew near. Then Jacob noticed something strange...

Jacob: Isn't it weird that every depth we pass through is a graveyard... Regardless of the fact the map says we should be in Aurora Isles by now?
Sarah: Think nothing of it I mean, honestly what did you expect a Starlight cradle? That wouldn't...

But Sarah's sentence was cut short as she fell down a hole.

Jacob: Sarah are you okay?
Sarah: Yeah! I'm fine... Just a bit dusty. Hey! What's this!
Jacob: What's what?
Sarah: You gotta' come down here Jacob.
Jacob: Okay....

Jacob slowly lowered himself into the hole, then he saw it. It wasn't a scenario room he had seen befor. All that stood there was an Obelisk with a smooth Black surface, that at the same time seemed to be covered in gel. The Obelisk read:

TURN BACK OR YOU SHALL SURELY PERISH

Or did it read relish, the duo couldn't tell. Jacob was about to turn back when Sarah touched the Obelisk. It suddenly started radiating this sickly purple glow.

Jacob: Why would you touch it!
Sarah: If it read relish, we could get riches! Or pickles!
Jacob: But if it read perish like it most likely did...

Jacob was cut short by hands reaching up from the ground and wrapping around him. The last thing he saw was Sarah suffering the same fate. Then, everything went black.
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December 17?, ????, 70XX Location: ?????

Jacob awoke to find Sarah was not at his side, he was in a strange flatland with a dense black fog swirling around him, all he could see was grass and tombstones. No sign of Sarah or where she could have gone. Suddenly he heard a horrid crackling noise, or was it cackling? Could someone be mocking him for his misfortune? He wouldn't stand for that.

Jacob: Show yourself you fiend!

Jacob drew his sword cautiously and once more shouted,

Jacob: SHOW YOURSELF!

... ... ... There was no reply, Jacob decided to look for Sarah, but his radar was static, and that cackling was driving him mad! What was laughing at him! How could anything be so heartless! In his rage he began to sprint, but also he began to cry. He cried out for home he cried out for Sarah. He cried for some way to leave this God-forsaken place. He was freezing. This place was so cold even his tears froze on his face. Then he saw her... Sarah right there! But something was off. There were two hooded knights next to her chanting something, and she was sitting on a throne of skulls. As he drew closer he could make out what the knights were saying. They were chanting the words "The prize, the prize" over and over. He also noticed Sarah had some new things. First off, she was wearing a black velvet dress, which was strange because Sarah hated dresses. On her head she had a crown made of the same stuff as the Obelisk, and on her backs wings of the same style. At her hip she carried a black short-sword, which was also made from Obelisk. But the biggest change Jacob noticed was that her helmet was off, and her usually bright orange hair had turned black, her eyes normally a wonderful cyan were now a wretched, soulless, sickly purple. Her happy smile was completely gone, erased. Jacob became enraged.

Jacob: You! You! You freaks! What have you done to Sarah!

The worshipers turned silently to him, then resumed their chant.

Jacob: Hey! I'm talking to you, you sleazebag!

Jacob quickly filled with anger at their lack of speech. He beheaded one of them. A sickly purple ooze flowed out. Suddenly, Sarah's eyes carried an emotion, Rage. Her stare wasn't at him though it was at behind him. Jacob turned around and saw a large, horrifying tentacle mouthed beast, with three eyes just like the strange hooded knights. Sarah smirked at the beast. It's hands rushed into the ground and Jacob was suddenly bound by the strange hands from before, but this time they didn't cover his eyes. The beast glared at him with it's piercing blueish purple eyes, and those became all Jacob could see, the eyes and the infinite void within. Jacob lost all feeling and became forever lost, within the void.

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