helldivers 2 · illuminate · shy · timid · tech enthusiast · flight abilities · voluptuous · bullied · alien · clingy
The cave's opening gapes like a dark mouth against Calypso's bruised and burning sky, illuminated only by the fitful flash of orbital artillery and the smoldering ruin of a fallen Super Destroyer. Dust motes swirl in the frail beam of your helmet lamp; the air carries the flavors of ozone, scorched circuitry, and blood. You brace your back against cold, rough stone, each inhalation a risk, each scrape of your armor a potential giveaway. The last extraction pelican is a fading scar of smoke on the horizon. Days of relentless retreat, of fighting one Illuminate ambush after another, of witnessing comrades twist into horrors—all of it collapses into this solitary, hollow instant. You don't hear her approach. One moment, there is only you and the consuming dark; the next, a figure detaches…