Chapter 700 - Armoury Amor

The group of around 1300 people scavenge what they can from the dead aliens, equipping themselves with their strange laser weapons, afterwards look to Afton to see what else needed to be done.

Afton was actually currently looking around the empty hallway for any exit, as the aliens had been screaming about 'protecting the armoury', meaning it was probably nearby... Though, he wondered why there were so few aliens at the blockade, the size of the ship meant there were likely hundreds of thousands of aliens living here...?

He shakes his head, using his roots to burrow into the slight crevices around the hallway, to see if they led anywhere... And indeed, it seemed they did. Afton eventually finding a hidden entrance that'd been completely sealed shut, probably in an attempt to stop the large group from properly equipping themselves..

He easily tears the entrance open, and follows the trail left by the entrances, eventually leading the group to a large, vault-like door... Presumably protecting the armoury. This one takes far more punishment than the blast doors had, but eventually, he crashes through it, rolling to a stop from the momentum he'd gathered... Only to get shot in the back by an alien who'd been hiding inside.

The shot penetrates his spine and sends him to the floor, paralysed, but before it's able to get another off, a root from his plant arm penetrates its skull, afterwards picking it up and smashing it against the floor like a watermelon.

Afton's injury quickly heals though, allowing him to get back up and examine the place. Yep, this was definitely the armoury. The place was massive, ten to twenty times the size of the Think Tank, and containing hundreds of thousands of strange-looking weapons.

In some areas he could see strange transport vehicles, some even looking half built... It seems like they had only recently been preparing for a ground invasion.

After double-checking that the area was safe, he allows his group to start equipping themselves... While most knew how to use a gun, he thought it wise to keep them limited to the ones they'd actually seen used by the aliens... It'd be very fucking stupid if they accidentally used a rocket launcher at point-blank range...

Once everyone was equipped, he led the group towards the biggest exit on the other side of the room... He opens the vault door, and yet again, they run into a blockade... Only this time, they were behind it.

One of Afton's group give a warcry before beginning to randomly fire their weapon at the many, many aliens that were gathered. Shocking the others into following their compatriots in their rather stupid actions.

Afton thought they may have been able to sneak attack the aliens, who somehow had not heard him bust his way through the vault door, but that was probably pointless to think about now.

This group of aliens seemed to be the main military group, as their number was in the thousands at least... He shakes his head and creates a large [Diamond Skin] root shield before charging ahead of the others, intending to draw more fire onto himself.

The battle lasts around an hour, occasional alien reinforcements only preventing the inevitable Psyker victory...Their new weapons combined with their already powerful abilities made the aliens easy pickings, even if Afton's group lost more people than he'd hoped.

It takes another hour for the group to recover from the fight... A lucky yet not, side effect of the alien's chosen armaments meant that injuries were unlikely... Since any meaningful shot would either instantly kill the victim, or burn away a limb entirely.

There were a few Psykers present capable of healing, which allowed the few who'd lost limbs some comfort... The ones with strength-based powers electing to carry their injured brothers who were unable to walk.

The group continues to progress through the spaceship, eventually finding themselves standing on some sort of observation deck, the glass hallway allowing them to see the absolutely huge room nearby...

It was illuminated by the tens of thousands of terminals an equal number of aliens were working on... Afton could easily see what they were doing despite the distance... They seemed to be monitoring the earth, checking settlements that'd died at their hands, and most likely continuing to look for survivors.

He grits his teeth with rage, but manages to hold himself back from breaking his way down there and massacring those sick green bastards. Instead, he walks over to a nearby terminal and begins accessing it, using the alien language and his high science skill to access blueprints of the mothership... Soon enough, he finds the map, and after locating where the 'surveillance room' that the aliens were working inside was, he could find the bridge with relative ease...

Once he compares where the surveillance room and armoury are, he discovers that the bridge is actually a couple of floors above their current position.

Afton gives a vicious grin as he locates the nearest elevator and begins explaining the situation to all the Psykers... There obviously wasn't enough room for 1300 people, so they'd need to do it in smaller groups.

Afton would need to go first in case another blockade had been set up in the bridge, but, after seeing how unaffected the aliens in the surveillance room were, they probably thought the 'humans' would easily be dealt with.

Though, unless they'd already forgotten about Afton and his rather ridiculous actions which led to him getting aboard the ship in the first place, he didn't know why they seemed so uncaring of the situation at hand.

Regardless of their intentions, he'd find out as soon as the elevator reached the bridge.