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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Journey Through All Creatures

Chapter 25b: The Bosses

Note: Story starts in Achatina, The Island ABC order for Section I and has a Prologue. Last chapter in Thylacoleo. This is the second section of Chapter 25, the Section I Finale! Last section of Chapter 25 in Titanosaur. Next section of Chapter 25 in Overseer!

Part 1/3: The Broodmother Lyrisk

3 hours, 45 minutes until Ascension…

The group of Argies approached the terminal of the obelisk after almost 30 minutes of flying. When they approached it, they set their Argies down just off the path up to the terminal. The group got off and walked towards the terminal. Sodden and his group stood on the left of the terminal. Dorack and his group, along with Red, stood on the right. Red walked up to the terminal and put the Artifacts in, along with the tributes. Sodden took out a cryopod, and Red started to throw out some, along with his group. Red and Dorack put two Rexes across from each other, standing close to the terminal device. They put the Rexes out in a circle until the group circled the terminal device. Then Red and Sodden walked to the device. “You ready?” Red said. Sodden then took a shotgun from his bag. “I’m ready for this. Let’s get on our creatures.” Sodden said. “Now, before we teleport, 10 people will come with us to the fight and 10 others will stay to guard the place. We don’t want anything ambushing us when we return.” Red said. Sodden nodded then threw out his Yutyrannus in front of the device, then Red threw out a Daedon. It had almost 100 stacks of meat in it. Sodden got on the Yuty, then Red walked to the terminal. Then 8 others, including Rod, Serenity, and Dorack got on some Rexes. Then the other 10 people walked to the path and went a little down the path. Red took out the sauropod vertebrae, the Titanoboa venom, the artifact of the Hunter, Clever, and Massive, and some other tributes. Red put everything inside the device’s inventory and a screen popped up. There was three fights available, the gamma, beta, or alpha. “You really want to do alpha?” Red asked. “Of course.” Sodden said. “Okay. Here we go.” Red said. He then clicked the red button and a countdown started. “Teleporting to Alpha Broodmother in 30 seconds.” Red got on a Daedon so he could help heal the Rexes and Yuty. “Okay, so here’s the plan. Sodden, Serenity, you two are on Group 1 of the Rexes. You’ll lead them towards the front of the Broodmother. Rod, Dorack, you’re on group 2. Lead them to the back. I have two Rexes that are mate boosted so that should handle the minions. They’re Group 3.” Red said. Sodden and the others nodded. “Teleporting in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5…” “Let’s do this. Journey Through All Creatures will prevail!” Red yelled. Everyone cheered in excitement. “2… 1… Transportation initiated.” Then a large green dome started forming around the platform, then it started spinning. It spun faster and faster until it collapsed and caused a huge WHOOSH, which compressed the group into a ball, containing the group, which was just energy particles now, that got launched upwards. The ball flew higher and higher until it left the dome surrounding the Ark. The ball traveled through a path towards the arena, which hung on one of the poles that helped the force field stay stable. As long as the large poles stayed stable, the force field would always be active. The ball traveled across the dome of the Ark, creating a green streak of light that looked like a comet. Survivors all over the Ark could see it. There was someone fighting the Broodmother. And that someone was the team that would save the Arks from C Tribe. Then when they hit the arena’s roof, the ball went through it and hit the platform inside the arena. Then the ball expanded and the group was back to their normal forms again. The green light disappeared. Then the Broodmother came from one of the large webs on the wall. It looked around, and screeched loudly as it started running at the Rexes. “Okay. Remember the plan. Charge!” Red yelled. Then Sodden had his Yuty roar, then it energized all the Rexes. The Rexes roared, then Sodden led his group to the Broodmother’s front. The Broodmother roared and released some acid balls. The Rexes and Yuty dudged the balls, then some Araenos crawled from the back and started attacking the Rexes. Rod led his group to the back of the Broodmother. Red led his Rex pair to the minions throwing webs at Sodden’s group. The webs were causing the Rexes’ feet to get stuck and not be able to move. The Rexes started crunching the spiders, but the spiders would keep webbing their bodies and biting. But the Rexes were really good and had great saddles. They weren’t taking much damage. At least, not until the Broodmother started attacking. It lifted one of its legs and swung it across the air, trying to hit the Rexes. Sodden’s Yuty roared again and then his group of Rexes ran at the Broodmother’s head to bite in its body. But it was very, very strong. It had almost 1 million HP. Its skin was going to be hard to penetrate, but the Rexes would overwhelm it if they bit hard and kept going. The Broodmother swung its leg to push back the Rexes, then the Rexes that went to the back started biting the Broodmother and trying to penetrate its shell. The Broodmother screeched then swung its back legs and launched more acid balls at the front. Some Rexes got hit and screeched as they started to topple. The minions were webbing the Rexes, but the Rexes were constantly getting repaired by the Daedon. The Rexes were stomping around and getting the spiders squished. But they were strong and kept biting, but eventually, some minions began to die. The Rexes crunched down some spiders roaming on the ground, biting their little teeth into the Rexes’ legs. The Rexes then got knocked back by the Broodmother’s attacks again, then the Broodmother launched more acid balls and roared in anger. It swung its back legs too, knocking back Rod’s group. But the Rexes kept biting, trying to break through the skin. The Broodmother roared loudly then some minions came out of its back, and started throwing webs at the back Rexes. The Rexes started to bite the spiders, ripping up their bodies, then the Broodmother launched more acid balls at Sodden’s group. One of them hit the Yuty and it screeched in pain as it stumbled over a spider. It managed to catch itself then started attacking the spider. The Broodmother’s legs were doing some real damage. But so were the Rexes. Scratches began to appear on the Broodmother’s body. A few Rexes started getting bloody. It seemed like it would be a close battle. The Daedon was healing the Rexes, but some spiders were starting to attack it. Red used his shotgun to destroy the spiders. He pulled the trigger multiple times as the spiders tried to crawl over to the Daedon and bite it. But the spiders were being pushed back. Meanwhile, the Rexes were getting pushed back constantly by the Broodmother. It kept swinging its legs at the Rexes’ legs, while the Rexes were biting through it. It was down to 550K HP, and some small tears were starting to appear in the Broodmother’s body, with a very small amount of blood starting to ooze its way out. The Rexes went for the tear, which was on the back of the Broodmother, then it swung its back legs again and knocked back the Rexes. Then it launched a web out of its back and climbed up to the ceiling. Red tried to get it down by shooting his shotgun, but the spider roared loudly and in anger, then spit out some kind of acid. It landed on one of the Rexes, and the hot green liquid started burning through the Rex’ neck. It started screeching in pain, and the person who was on it put a sheet of gauze down to stop the wound, but the liquid just burst through the gauze, and the person yanked his arm away. The Rex started stomping around, dizzy and injured. It then started hacking up blood then tripped over a spider and slammed into the ground. The Broodmother leaped down from the ceiling and towards Red’s daedon. Red steered his creature out of the way, then the Broodmother landed on its feet, and one of its legs scratched a Rex. The person who rode the injured Rex ran towards a Rex that had no rider. Then all the Rexes circled around the Broodmother, and three of them ran at the tear in the Broodmother’s back. The Broodmother turned around and shot some acid balls. Then the Rexes behind it ran at the Broodmother and sunk their teeth into the tear. The Broodmother screeched as it swung its back legs to swat away the Rexes, but it was no use. The Rexes were biting hard, and their grip was very strong. They started to dig through the tear in the Broodmother’s skin, then it screeched and launched a acid spit from its butt, and it hit one of the Rex’s leg. Sodden’s Yuty kept on roaring and moving around the area to dodge the attacks and minions, but even that wasn’t helping too much. The Rexes began to run out of stamina from all their biting and running around. The Broodmother had caused the Rexes on its back to let go, but now its wound was bigger and it was bleeding out quicker. The Rexes had acid on their legs, and they started to lose health quickly. But they were dealing a ton of damage to the Broodmother. “If 30,000 health and 489% melee can’t stop the Alphas, nothing can! Keep going!” Red yelled. The Rexes did not stop biting the Broodmother, and the Broodmother did not stop launching balls, spiders, and swinging its leg. The battle raged on for a while, around 20 total minutes. After some time, the Broodmother was bleeding out on its head and body. It started to lose fluid from its injuries. However, the Rexes too were hurt. 2 Rexes had perished and the other 16 were injured, with wounds on their legs and back and only around 9000 HP left for most of them. The Broodmother was slowing down, moaning in a weak voice and starting to die down. The Rexes ran at the injured boss and knocked it into one of the pillars, and it screeched loudly as it fell over. Then the Yuty let out one more screech, and the Rexes started biting through the Broodmother’s injuries. Then suddenly, it was over. “You killed a Broodmother Lysrix (Alpha)!” The Rexes stood over the dead boss as it retracted its legs and went into its death pose. Then Sodden looked to the podium where they arrived and saw a green glow begin to appear. It formed the shape of a crate then the light disappeared. There was a green crate with the element and trophy. Sodden hopped off his Yuty and walked to the crate. He opened it and saw 148 pieces of element, along with a red trophy that looked like the Broodmother’s head. Sodden took out both of them and walked to Red. “We did it. We did it! One down, two to go.” Sodden said. Red nodded, then Sodden put the rewards in his bag. Sodden, Rod, and Serenity started putting the Rexes in their cryopods, then Sodden put his Yuty in a cryopod and Red put his daedon in a cryopod too. Then everyone walked to the terminal. “Teleporting back to Ark in 3… 2… 1…” Then suddenly, a green dome appeared around the podium. It spun faster and faster until it collapsed and compressed everyone into a small green ball that was launched out of the arena and flew across the Ark’s force field until it descended down quickly towards the green obelisk. It went through the dome and hit the podium of the dome very quickly. Then the ball expanded again and the group was back to their normal forms. The ten people that stayed behind walked from the bottom of the path up to the terminal. They set out their Argies, got on, and took off for Nudon again.

When the group got back, they put all the Argies in the cryopods, then walked to the castle. Sodden and his other teammates put out the Rexes to heal. He then turned to Dorack. “Okay, you’re staying with the others to heal the Rexes. Okay?” Sodden said. Dorack nodded, then he, along with the others, walked to the Rexes. Sodden, Rod, Serenity, and Red walked back into the castle.