Chaos and snowfall

Maya and Nathan approach the end of their hallway which ends in a door. They both draw their weapons. Maya takes point as Nathan watches their backs. Maya opens the door holding her hand with her clawed glove out ahead of her intending to block anything that might come at her. She enters and finds that the door leads to a room which is not what they had been looking for. Still not wanting to have no results Maya cautiously began forward looking around the room. "Going in for a five-point room scan. Keep watch and be ready to back me up." With Nathan prepared Maya went about her room scan looking for anything that would be noteworthy enough to warrant calling in about. As she concludes her scan, she turns to Nathan just in time for a massive black tentacle to wrap around her and pull her into a secret passage that both her and Nathan had not seen. As Maya gets pulled down and away Nathan chases over to help her but the passage closes. Nathan casts a level 5 titans strength spell before punching into the closed sheet of metal but it hardly dents the metal. Nathan rears back for another hit but suddenly the room begins to shift, and he feels that he is going up. He turns to go for the door, but the door has disappeared behind another sheet of the black metal as he does.

***

Allison and Mrs. White just finished killing the evil skeletal spirit who had attacked them as the room began to shift. "Allison get close to me we can't lose each other if this place is moving." Allison nods before moving up next to her teacher. Mrs. White goes to speak but suddenly gets a call on her radio from an outside channel. She clicks the button on the side of her helmet to answer and is greeted by the voice of a man she has known for a long time. Her best friend Danial Becker. "Hey Ellie. You remember that thing you had me look into like a week ago?" Mrs. White tensed up as she realized that he was talking about her having him investigate the space station that she was currently on. "Yeah bad news. So, the calculations I sent you to get past the asteroid field are still good. But upon researching the scans I got longer I noticed something wrong. You see the outside shell of the station moves around and shifts in a seemingly random pattern. But what it seemed to me before is the rooms inside of the station where consistent with each other. I mean they moved but like if you were inside the rooms would always lead to the same room. It appears not to be the case. Really, they are just on a very complicated week or longer movement pattern that I hadn't had the chance to observe. So, like contact me the day before you want to go okay? So, I can send you a better map." Allison blanched as Mrs. White just let out a loud scream. "Dammit Dani what the fuck! I am on the space station right now! This would have been important to know before I came here!" Her best friend of many years chokes as he clearly sits up and Mrs. White hears water go off in the background. "What the hell Ellie! You brought it up to me as sort of a blue skies maybe you would investigate it if you had enough time on one of your weeks off. Not like you were planning to go right away as soon as I sent you the blueprints! I didn't think it was that important." Mrs. White lets out a large sigh before resting her head next to a nearby wall. "Dani I'm here with my squad. And we are split up in two groups right now. I need immediate support. Can you get to your console to help us guide through this as our support?" Allison who was also hearing the call just looks up at Mrs. White clearly concerned as they sit in silence for several minutes as Daniel does not answer. "Ellie this is like literally the worst time you could have needed my help. " Mrs. White nods toward Allison "I really do need your help. Please?" Danial let out a heavy sigh. "Seriously Ellie... I have worked seven days a week for the last four months. Which is far too much considering I have been retired for like almost a decade. Two weeks ago, was my anniversary. But as I've been busy for the last two weeks, I haven't let Michael take me out yet. I called you while literally in the bath to get ready for him to take me out. Do you know how upset he will be if I blow him off again? To help you again?" Allison was looking up at her teacher with a big smile pretty much as soon as she heard the casual way this guy spoke to her. But now... Her teacher has a go to gay. This is like the best day ever. Mrs. White though just frowned thinking. "I. Dani I really, really need your help I could die you know?" Mrs. White looks down at Allison. Both just smile as Dan lets out something like a whine. "Dammit Ellie. First being your friends sucks. Secondly, you have ruined my night. Because like now that I know you are in trouble even if I blow you off, I'll spend all night thinking about it. I really wish I didn't call you; you know?" There is a pause as before Danial lets out a long sigh "Fine, fine whatever I guess I have to help you. You know my com numbers put me in, so I can communicate with the team while I go get ready." Before Danial turns off the com, they hear him "Mike! I uh... Need to get a rain che-" Before he can finish that they hear a man yell out in an angry scream before calling back "I swear to god if this has to do with Elanor again i'm goi-" That is all the two of them got through before the Com got switched off.

***

Maya found herself being held upside down by the massive black tentacle in a lightly lit room with pink energy going through the black metal. The black Tentacle was connected to a massive monster that had 11 more Tentacles protruding out from its back. It held Maya in front of its face. It has glowing red eyes and a mouth with massive, jagged teeth in a perfect circle. Maya and the beast look at each other for some time before Maya hears this horrible and broken voice from all around her. "You have come to my home puny human. You and others of your kind. As you have done before. None of you have ever come back alive why do you keep coming back here! There is nothing for you here!?!" Maya looks at the monster wide eyed still processing what she had just heard or that the monstrosity in front of her could talk at all. "I'm here for a crystal of great magical power." The monster looks down for a moment before looking back up at her. "You have come to steal something which is not meant for humans. I will not let you have it. I cannot let you have it." Maya clenched her teeth as the tentacle around her started tightening enough that she heard several cracks from her bones as well as the cracking of metal from her suit. The beast continued speaking. "Your kind used to know their place. The stars used to belong to us. We were called gods by humans and Velspree and Seren alike. But then in your growing knowledge and power. Your growing ability to control magic you have all become arrogant. I and others like me have suffered you to live despite this out of the goodness of our hearts. But you see us now as beneath you, you come to steal what is ours. Let me teach you the proper order of things tiny human!" The other Tentacles of this beast slowly surround Maya causing her to not be able to see anything before beginning to crush down on her. The creature watches pleased with his work as blood slowly fell down to the ground from his prey. His pleasure was short lived though as this activated Maya's contingency spell. A spell that is illegal to even know and certainly to cast. A spell that even a being who was once considered a god would not endure unharmed. A level 8 spell known as Nyphalheim. The being trying to kill Maya suddenly felt cold. He felt cold beyond even the coldness of empty space as his Tentacles suddenly froze over and shattered. The beast screams in pain as Maya floats in midair with a blue, white sphere of magical energy around her. Slowly her broken bones snap back into place and her heart begins to beat again. Her skin turns very pale as her hair becomes long and turns a light blue color. She opens her eyes that have changed color to be a pal blue as she looks at the damaged beast, certainly not beaten but damaged. The beast screams at her "How! How can a human control this level of magic!" Maya smiles lightly "Who says I have any say at this point? I control nothing. I am sorry but this home of yours has just become a tomb." The large room in which the two find themselves slowly begins to freeze. Ice begins to cover the walls, floor and ceiling.

***

Mrs. White, Allison and Nathan had reunited by coincidence as the rooms they were in connected. They all stood near each other anxious to go help Maya but knew their best bet was to wait for Danial to be ready. It was at that point the three of them heard Danial over the com system. "Alright time to get to work I suppose. I thought there was four of you why do I only get three vital readings?" A silence fell over them for a few seconds before Danial just sighed knowingly. Her suit was destroyed so she was either dead or in deep trouble. "Alright so because I can't get their readings I don't know where they are which means they can't be the target right now. My systems are currently doing scans of the station which is a lot easier with you three as a focal point, but it will still take at least ten minutes to get a usable map out of it. So just sit tight." As Danial finished talking another blip came up on his support station. "Hey Ellie, I was the first help you contacted right? Like you aren't expecting reinforcements?" Elanor looked to her two students confused and they just shook their head. "No, we aren't expecting anybody." Danial looked over the signal before starting to try and contact it through the battle academy com channels. Danial turns on the video communicator to see a young man and a short girl to his side. The man looks at the video a little confused as Danial was clearly not a part of the academy. "Hello, I am Officer 121 of the Battle mages academy. My name is Christopher. This is Officer 123 of the battle mages academy her name is Ashley. May I request to know to whom I'm speaking?" Danial nods "Yes I am former officer 112 of the battle mages academy. I am Danial Becker. I am currently helping squad one of the battle mages academy on the request of Elanor White. I asked her and she said she did not know of any reinforcements. Why are you here?" Chris smiles at that and looks down to Ashley for a second before looking back up to Danial. "Yes, you may ask that. Though we were not requested we have come to be reinforcements just the same. Additionally, we stopped one Mr. Cen who was trying to get squad one killed on our way here. So, we have already helped considerably I would think." Danial rolls his eyes. "Right Ellie did tell me that guy was a bag of dicks. Any way you can go home now kiddies your help isn't needed and without my calculations that asteroid field is certain death." Chris and Ashley just look up at Danial who starts to switch com channels, but Chris speaks up. "Are you going to send them?" Danial looks back with a raised eyebrow "Send what?" "The calculations on how to get past the asteroid field. You said it was certain death without it and we need to get past it so like..." Danial lets out a long sigh at that. "I meant for you to leave you know. Oh, whatever I'll send them over just don't fuck up. Being off by less than an Inch or going even a tiny fraction of a mile per hour to fast or to slow and you'll die." Chris nods "I'm sure I can handle it."

***

Maya floats over the old being of immense knowledge and power as it screamed in pain. She watched with no emotions evident in her eyes as she watched the moisture of his skin and his eyes slowly freeze and crack. He yells in languages old and new as it begs for mercy. It was obvious that, that is what it was doing even though it sounded only as screaming to her. The very atoms in the room slowly began to stop freezing in place and falling broken causing nuclear explosions to begin but the flames freeze before they can get bigger than snowballs. The beast screams in pain again as its eyes completely freeze and then shatter to pieces before going quiet as it suffocates from its lungs freezing inside out. Maya holds out her hand and in an instant the temperature rises to normal and her hair and eyes turn back to normal. As the ice around her breaks the monster that once fancied itself a god was reduced to nothing but melting ice and dripping liquids.

As Maya began to leave the room in a newly opened Tunnel she looked around for her weapons. She saw them but they were clearly broken beyond repair and so she left them. For some reason she suddenly felt as though she knew her way around.

***

The rest of squad one met up with the members of squad two who came to help them and have been following Danial's instructions as they also look for clues of Maya. Chris and Allison both take point leading the pact. Both having two pistols as they move together almost unnaturally in sync. Mrs. White was in the middle ready to help either those in front or those in back should there be trouble. Nathan who was still distraught at having lost Maya was with Ashley who had a pistol at the ready though she was also clearly uncomfortable as she was more used to fighting in larger spaces at a much higher distance.

Danial goes to say more instructions but realizes that the file with the map he had set up was finished getting ready to send and suddenly the map appeared on the 5-person team's visors. Able to see the map for themselves both Chris and Allison bolted racing off. "Hey, Chris, we can't both go ahead like this someone has to watch the teams front!" Allison turns to Chris chiding him. Chris just returns the look. "Then stay here." Allison frowned at that before scowling "This isn't even your mission. You can't just show up and like steal the mission!" Chris rolls his eyes as he looks in front of him again less focused on the conversation than the mission. "Yet here I am. Doing that thing you said I can't do. Really makes you question what's possible and our overall place in the universe doesn't it?" On instinct Chris ducked in time to avoid the incoming slap he knew was coming. But knowing that he would Allison slapped up to hit him where he was ducking to instead making solid contact with his face eliciting an "OW!" from Chris. With a pleased skip to jump off with Allison started off faster but Chris sped up to go after her.

Mrs. White quickly took point realizing those two had no interest in being part of the group anymore. "Ashley take middle. Nathan take rear." The two more team-oriented students quickly got into the positions Mrs. White indicated. Ashley spoke back to Nathan with a warm smile. "Is she always this bad?" Nathan looked up at her confused. "Who Mrs. White?" Ashley shook her head clearly having a little bit more trouble having a casual conversation whilst moving at this clip. "No Allison. Or is she only this bad when Chris is around. I know he gets a lot worse when he's trying to get her to have a dick measuring contest with him than he is normally." Nathan just laughed and shook his head. "I'm afraid not. She really is always this bad." Ashley made a mock expression of horror "Oh my that must really be hard to deal with." To which Nathan could only shrug.

Before any more conversation could take place, Chris and Allison burst into the large room where their target was. They both stopped in their tracks as they saw a mostly naked Maya sitting on a black Crystal the size of a desk. Chris immediately turned away, but Allison just put her hands on her hips looking over Maya confused. "How the hell did you get here first?" Maya shrugs before jumping down. "Doesn't matter. Just help me move this damn thing. It weighs like a lot." Allison takes another moment to stare at Maya as the rest of the team catches up but then just shrugs and goes to help her get the crystal back to the ship.