KrankysFirebrand48
@ONI
The GBE fleet was in understandable disarray, trying to get out of the ring of fire with the eye in their metaphorical neck.
As the larger ships were still shielding the smaller ones, there was a sudden flash of light amidst the ring...
An eerie, harrowing silence ensued, as the flash of light grew brighter, debris, wreckage and any ship unfortunate enough to be too close, were being pulled back.
The light grew brighter, until even the light from the explosion itself was drawn back into the well...
Luckily for them, they had at least known what to do, even though the sudden reappearance of the mutilated warbeast out of the mist had been a terrifying view, apparently catching the fleet off guard, redirecting the power to evasive and defensive measures seemed to have been the right call...
The well broke, debris, light and wreckage, converted into raw energy, rushing outwards after having been compressed, erupting into the surroundings in a both awe and terror inspiring epxlosion, waves of destructive light extending beyond the ring of fire, although, not by far...
The eye had taken its grim toll once more.
However, the GBE fleet was not the only one that was struggling, whilst the starfighters sent to deliver the information were already heading back, what they saw in their backs made their hearts sink.
A horrifyingly familiar flash of red light, a moment of silence, stretching to eternity...
It seemed, for whatever reason, the supporting fleet of the UEG had not made it completely out of the target area in time,
The eye detonated infront of the fleet, it's gravitational pull like a greedy maw, dragging in everything in the vicinity, not differentiating between debris, wreckage or ships...
A second flash of light, a second moment of terror, a wave of destruction, this one, considerably Stronger than on the GBE side due to how much matter it had devoured within it's short lifespan, wreaking incomaparable destruction amidst the fleet, vaporising anything it's immediate vicinity which it hadn't devoured already...
The fleet, was...
The eye had torn a large hole into the formation although due to all that was going on, the fighters couldn't determine how much damage had been dealt exactly, the sheer scale of it made clear they likely would not recover from this hit, not here and not today...
Then... as each of the fleets was trying to reaarrange or still trying to get out of the firing line, some more some less successful...
There was an odd sensation.
Then, another roar rolled over the battlefield, reaching every last ship and crewmember in the surroundings, hitting them like a wave...
...but oddly enough, without causing them any excessive harm.
Suddenly, the beasts... shuddered, they stopped firing and simply...
Veered back in direction of the mist and tear?
Each one of them in unison, beast by beast, without any apparent reason or tactic behind it, as if they were just... leaving?
As if some overarching dominant will, called them back, as if they were done here, as if all this had just been... a horrifying display of their power, an example to be made for the sake of it?
The beasts went into full burn without any regards to returning fire or firing themselves, heading in an elegant curve back to rift...
It would take them a bit to head back given the distance they had made...
...but were they actually just leaving?
