Dododex

ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Tales of Pandora

Origins of Salizar: Chapter 8 ~the broodmother~

“Why have you brought me here, Primalis..” King Drake said looking up at the green obelisk. “Because sire, I have figured out what these artifacts are for.” Primalis said. “He has?..” Agent Fox whispered to Agents Reed and Raptor. They both rolled their eyes. “Well, go on. Do it, I’ve only got an entire army waiting.” Drake said impatiently. “As you wish, Agents! Here.” Primalis said. “What are we dogs..” Agent Reed whispered. “What was that?” Primalis said threateningly. “Nothing sir!” They all replied. The Agents walked up to the podium, their wrists glowed brighter now that they were closer, Primalis reached out and touched the control panel, the artifact distorted out of his wrist like sand and sunk into the control panel, the others did the same and instantly the obelisk glowed brighter, a dome appeared around them and started to glow. “Men! Get in the circle!” King Drake ordered. Primalis looked out at the dome, he could no longer see the surroundings, just a cave, littered with yellow sacs and green crystals, and then there was a flash and they were really there, in the cave. “What the hell..” Agent Reed said. “Stand to men!” King Drake ordered, the army looked on Drakes direction, they saw a massive arachnid.

“Now what?” Phasma asked. “Wait for them to activate the obelisk, then go cloaked and go inside, once your in the arena hide until they kill the beast, then drink of its blood.” Salizar said. “And then?” Phasma asked. “We’ll see.” Salizar said. “Thatss not very assuring..” Phasma said. “You’ll be fine, just go!” Salizar said as the dome appeared. Phasma turned to see the dome and flew towards it.

“Okay.. just got to wait for the dome, then sneak in with a whole army.. easy! I can’t fail Ryker.. I must get the trophy.. hmmm…..” Wretch continued to stutter like this until he saw the dome appear, he mustered up his courage and scuttled towards it, he hid under a diplodocus and closed his eyes, the dome closed in and he heard the familiar but ever terrifying electronic noise of teleportation. ‘Ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, you got this Wretch!’ He thought, he was lying to himself he definitely did not think he had it. He scuttled away from the diplodocus and the army, and headed up the wall, he made it on the ceiling and waited. “Fight!” A voice said. “Wha-” Wretch stuttered. “FIGHT FOR YOUR MOTHER!” the voice continued, Wretch fought the urge of the hive mind. “Resistor! Seize him!” The broodmother’s voice echoed in his mind, three araneos started to scuttle towards him, “please, you don’t have to do this, fight the hive mind my brothers!” Wretch said to them. “Treasonous fool! We hear your thoughts! We know what you wish to do…” one said. “Alright then.. I guess I’ll have to resort to drastic measures..” Wretch said. “I just said we can read your mind, we know you mean run away..” the araneo said. “Oh, wait what’s that!” Wretch said pointing a claw at an albino desmodus in the distance. “Intruder!!” Another araneo yelled. “You two get the intruder, I’ll get the traitor..” the first araneo said. “AAAAAAAHHHH” Wretch yelled running away. The other araneo chased after him, they scuttled across the ceiling of the cave and down the wall, ‘Surround him!’ He heard the araneo say in his mind, he ran ever faster but they did indeed surround him, he held up two of his legs in protest, “please!” He said. “Do it.” The araneo said, two other araneos grabbed the legs he held up in their jaws and tore them off. Wretch screamed in pain. “Ha! Not an araneo anymore insect.” The araneo said. “Now, end him.” The araneo said, the others got ready to strike, and then they all exploded, a tribesman had rode by on a direbear and blasted them all with his machine gun. “AGH MISSED ONE!” Grizzly roared angrily. Wretch shrieked and tan behind cover, just then he heard a scream, and the constant chatting of the hive mind stopped, the broodmother was dead.

“They killed it!” Phasma said, he tried to cloak but it didn’t work, so he dive bombed down onto the arachnid, the army was too busy cheering and celebrating that they didn’t notice him, all except Primalis, he said the bat and pointed at it. “Over there! It’s a desmodus, shoot it!” He yelled, Agent Fox and Raptor both got out their guns and aimed, Phasma ducked behind the broodmother’s corpse and bit into it, instantly he felt his stomach turn, his eyes glowed cyan, then shifted to magenta, his body mutated and changed, he felt powerful, and intended to test his newfound power, he rose up from the body of the broodmother and shrieked, it was so loud all the humans put their hands on their ears and the creatures panicked, Wretch used this distraction to his advantage, he scuttled past the army and over to the broodmother’s head, he used his mouth to grab the key out from the head and scuttled away quickly before he was seen, Phasma continued to shriek, sending the armies rexes into a rage and their other creatures into a fearful panic, some of the people even fainted, then, the flash happened again. They were back and both Wretch and Phasma were gone.