"Fight on brothers!" He called above the din of battle. "For the Emperor is with us this day!" Even as he spoke a shot rang out from the balconies above, a shot that slashed the air, traveling straight for the daemons head.
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Thomas grinned at the standard bearers statement and pulled his chainsword from its place at his side, slid his las-pistol back in its holster and armed
himself with his bolt-pistol. "Well, I wouldn't have it any other way." With that proclamation he charged towards the general, bolter barking
shots from his left hand and chain sword revving in his right, his image every centimeter that of the hero and inspiration Commissars were meant to be. He
stood shoulder to shoulder with the lieutenant, his bolter raining shells down on the witch while his sword stood ready to parry any attacks by other
combatants or the witch herself. From the corner of his eye he noticed something. Something amazing. In the air above the chapels main, and now ruined alter, a
Aquila of pure light began to form and the small Aquila hanging around his neck began to pull at the chain, towards the light.
"Fight on brothers!" He called above the din of battle. "For the Emperor is with us this day!" Even as he spoke a shot rang out from the balconies above, a shot that slashed the air, traveling straight for the daemons head.
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigor of other, more honorable men. You are merely protected. You talk of sacrifice...He (more honorable
men) KNEW the meaning of sacrifice. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honorable man dry and offer nothing in return."
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Suddenly Asazael's slaughtering was interrupted by a hot laser piercing her skull. This had been completely unexpected and caused her to stumble to the
side, almost down the altar stairs. Regaining her balance she became aware of the hole through the side of her skull. She noted that she was rather lucky to be
immortal, but this was still infuriating; she had no desire to be sent back to the warp just yet, her work was not yet finished. With a leap and a chop jagged
knife another guardsman split open, his guts littering the floor. She whipped around and from her outstretched arm burst a thick pillar of writhing red and
green warp power. The balcony was no match for the baleful energies, and neither was the roof beyond it. Not waiting to see what happened to the man on the
balcony Asazael turned to the next threat. She unsheathed a black, twisted longsword, with a shifting pattern of screaming faces along the blade. "Your
Emperor is a lie, the Imperium is crumbling, and today is the day of your death." she stated, and lunged at the commissar, sweeping her chaotic,
daemon-bound blade in a wide arc. As it passed through the air, the sword let out what sounded like a thousand piercing screams of tormented souls.
Unbeknownst to any in the basilica, a squad of Khornate berserkers had been working its way through the city and the other side of the basilica. The berserkers had been on the front line for a large assault from the other side of the city, but this group had rushed far ahead through the buildings, leaving the main force far behind. Suddenly the door on the other side of the altar exploded into thousands of splinters and the berserkers charged in wearing their blood spattered World Eater power armor, chainaxes whirring through the air and bolt pistol shots flying wild, crushing Imperial decorations in their wake and bounding over raised surfaces. They could smell the blood and lost control, every one of them was on a rampage and wouldn't stop until either everything else was dead or they were. The room, though large, was still pretty close for anyone to be comfortable with berserkers around, were that possible. Now the blood would really start flowing.
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Horrifyingly and impossibly the las-round had no affect on the witch. Though the bolt smashed through the back of her skull the psyker hardly even seemed to
notice it and simply turned and unleashed a sickening display of power upon the balcony where the shot had come from. Commissar Shepard took a moment to pray
for the, he assumed, fallen soldiers soul and commend him to the Emperor. As he finished his short, silent, prayer a low keening moan caught his attention and
the daemon spoke to him. Her words were the corrosive acid that dissolves the soul of the weak and the traitorous and many a man cringed at either the moaning
blade, or moaned themselves at her words. Thomas however was made of sterner stuff then that and though the blades unnatural moaning sent shivers down his
spine and made his soul cringe he managed to bring his blade up to the defensive. As the two blades locked, his chainsword grinding against the dark blade, he
spoke to the witch.
"Your gods have no power here vile succubus." He pushed towards her, separating the blades and taking the opportunity to check his surroundings. A squad of Khronite beserkers had entered from the back of the chapel and a the men were starting to break, a few fleeing. Thomas knew a few was all it would take for the whole ordeal to turn into a route, so he acted quickly. While it was a Commissars job to deal death to cowards and deserters, sometimes inspiration was a better motivator. "Lieutenant!" He barked into his comm bead as his bolt-pistol barked at the daemon and he charged her once again, his command all the signal that the troops needed. Moments later the Terrond infantry that had been waiting outside for the Commissar rushed into the chapel, bolstering the wavering infantry and adding their fire to that of the Ultramarines who were engaging the Beserkers. It was anyones fight now, and Thomas had his own to worry about. "From the Storm and the Tempest, our Emperor deliver us!" He shouted at the daemon as his sword sliced through the air in a heavily powerful horizontal swing at about hip height, then he reversed the swing and brought it up diagonally from hip to shoulder. Unfortunately for the Commissar his weapon dictated broad strokes and refuted subtle swordplay. Fortunately though practicing with such a heavy weapon had given him large amounts of energy and reserves of stamina. Reserves he was willing to bet this woman, this daemon, did not have. "From the scourge and the plague, our Emperor deliver us!"
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigor of other, more honorable men. You are merely protected. You talk of sacrifice...He (more honorable
men) KNEW the meaning of sacrifice. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honorable man dry and offer nothing in return."
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Petrenko smiled deviously as the Daemon spoke, taking its words for fear and denial, the bulky general assuming it meant the bitch knew her doom wore Guard
issue Combat Boots.
"Captain McTavish, get your arse in here, and bring plasma guns, double time" he yelled into the micro bead as soon as the first bezerker entered the room, knowing that only luck saved the normal man from death at the hands opf a normal space marine, an act of the emperor had sanctified this place, as the once defiled Aquila behind the altar had shrugged off the filth that had been attached to it and reformed the areas torn down, before shining bright, illujminating the Basillica, emboldeding the guardsmen within it "MEN OF THE IMPERIUM! TO GLORY!" The general's voice was more of a gutteral roar, and just as he and Molotov went to charge, a platoon of guardsmen burst through the doors of the basilica, some doubling over, others screaming in terror, but most shrugged off the warp energies and brought their weapons to bare on the Bezerkers, particularly three men, each armed with a Plasma gun. This was the special weapons squad Petrenko had come to rely on to destroy power armored foes, or at least wittle them down so that close combat became possible rather than suicide. the massed Guard Infantry fired as one, las rounds scorching the Bezerkers and striking something vital for two of them, who fell, decapitating themselves since they could not reach the fight. the plasma gunners took down another two, the third blast melting part of the wall next to the Aquila, which shined even brighter. although it was at this point that the Bezerklers charge hit, Ultramarine and Guardsmen alike were beseiged by a whirlwind of Chainaxe armed death, and even though only four were left, the slaughtered guardsmen left and right, before Petrenko and Molotov dived into the swirling melee, both targeting the same foe, large even for a space marine, skulls hanging off chains that wrapped around the monster's body without a word, the two guard officers became the emperor's instrament of vengeance, together accomplishing what no single guardsman could hope to. together they fought the World Eater, and were not instantly killed.
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Flak opened his eyes and saw the sorceress stumble. Hope flared bright and pure as she started to fall, but died into ashes as she righted herself. She
disemboweled a nearby guardsman before turning, hand outstretched to him. He quickly took a few hurried steps backward but was unable to fully escape the blast
of sorcerous energies. The shock wave hurled him into the balcony wall but saved him from being launched into the air through the hole in the roof of the
Basilica. Flak slumped to the remaining portion of balcony and sat there dazed.
By the War Dogs.. What hit me...?... I should be dead... What...? He noticed something burning white hot against his chest. My aquila... but...? Realization hit him harder than the warp blast had. Him. Flak clawed his way up the wall and gained his footing. He heard shots and shouting from below and made his way painfully to the edge of the small piece of flooring. Must've broken... a few ribs... Ow... He saw the psyker in combat with a group of Imperials. His vision was still too blurred to make anything specific out however. Concussion too maybe... He was about to try for the stairs when he heard a single shout drown out the rest. From the far end of the sanctuary, a large door opened and from the entryway, a group of Berserkers emerged, screaming for blood. Flak felt his heart drop. Fuuuuck... guess I'd better stall 'em... He looked for his weapons but found he'd lost all but his pistol in the blast. Drawing his remaining weapon, he reached down and picked up a broken piece of rebar as a melee weapon. He looked down from the remains of the balcony. Well, if the drop doesn't kill me, then I should be fine. He looked at the charging Berserkers. In theory, at least... Flak stepped off the ledge and landed on the Sanctuary floor. His wounds marred his usual grace and he stumbled but quickly rose to a ready, but tired, stance. He faced the Chaos marines. "Fight me..." he muttered, tiredly. The marines took no notice. Flak tried again. "Fight me!" Nothing. The marines ignored him, bent on the battle in front of them. "FIGHT ME!!" shouted Flak. The marines then saw him, and began charging. Flak raised his weapons. "War Dogs, I need a furlough..." Who needs open battles? The wreckage of humanity and their creations is my home. I'll come from where you least expect. Most likely, the last place you saw your buddy before I introduced him to my knife. |
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"Goumpf" the Chain axe had smashed into Sterns Side for the third time, luckily for Kyler however the Chaos Marine had not realized it was jammed. On
the other hand the traitor marine was also doing his best to cut him in half anyway, with a fairly effective club. However the Chaos Marine made a mistake as
it drew back for a fourth swing it left itself open for the moment it took Stern to jam his Plasma Pistol under it's jaw and fire. turning it's head
into goo and mist, in that order. Holstering the pistol he drew his power sword. Meeting the Tainted fury of the Chaos marines with the Righteous fury of the
Emperors chosen he leaped at another Berserker burying his sword in the Chaos marines chest and Ripping up with all his strength, almost cutting him in half
lengthwise.
"I FEAR NO EVIL FOR I AM FEAR INCARNATE!" Bellowed Stern. "BY OUR FURY THEY SHALL KNOW THE EMPERORS NAME." Bellowed back The marines in Sterns Squad. "OUR FURY IS THE DIVINE WILL OF THE EMPEROR OUR FAITH HIS BLADE!" Shouted All of the Marines as one. FOR LO, THOUGH THE TIME IS DARK, OUR FAITH SHINES!" Stern almost screamed. "COURAGE AND HONOR BROTHERS." "IN HIS GLORIOUS NAME!" Was the Shouted Reply.
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The resistance was far heavier than expected. Asazael was so close to her full potential, almost at that key point. She needed to bring out her full power, all
it would take is a little more blood to open herself to the warp fully and make a strong connection. There were plenty of civilians outside, their blood was
just as good as any marine's or guard's. At least the berserkers were keeping most of the guard busy, the few remaining cultists were doing little but
acting as fodder. Swaying and parrying the chainsword attacks from the commissar with an unholy grace, she took the opportunity to slip into the chaotic
bloodshed around her. Once she had put a berserker between herself and the commissar, the daemon witch moved around the frenzy to go out the back way.
As soon as she reached the door, she was greeted by a hail of bolter shells. With the deadly projectiles whizzing around her, she twirled out of the doorway, also noting that she spotted the colors of the ultramarines stomping down the hall in the whirling colors. Inspecting her robes, she found their shots had torn them up some more, each one of those holes could have been her flesh. She needed to deal with these marines, but couldn't risk losing her connection yet, she needed this body until she could be completed. Jumping up to the wall, she rebounded off it over the fight. As she twirled overhead he let loose a blast into the frantic melee right at a couple of guard who had just taken down a berserker. She jumped again off a fallen pillar that was righting itself, and she cringed as she felt the Emperor's presence. Flying right out the doorway, she landed at the top of the stairs to start her descent into the city below with many fresh bodies ripe to be drained of blood for her cause. |
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"Coward!" Shepard bellowed after the retreating daemon even as he charged her, unloading what was left of his bolters clip into the Beserkers face.
the rounds didn't stop the fallen marine but they did draw its attention and stun it long enough for the Commissar to slip around it and thrust his
chainsword backwards through its chest. The sword squealed with the harsh sounds of metal grinding on metal and Shepard roared in rage as the chaos being
eluded him. He let his sword stay in the beast's back and slammed a fresh clip into his bolter before turning and unloading half of it into the marine.
There was no point in taking chances with the creature. With a mighty lunge he yanked the sword free from he dead marines back and turned his attention to what
was left of the battle. The tide had surly turned and even now the last few pockets of resistance inside the chapel were being put down, the few Beserkers the
only real threat left as the fight had gone out of the cultists.
"Commissar." A voice came over his comm bead and Shepard took a quick moment to parry a badly aimed swing from a raging cultist that was missing an arm. Though the cultist was whipped into a blood frenzy and likely on some kind of hallucinogen or combat enhancing drug, he was little match for a pissed off Commissar and Shepard promptly cut the screaming, gore covered fanatic in two. "Yes Colonel Shey?" Thomas answered the commander of the Terrond Fighting 1st. The man had deployed his troops in a one block square radius from the chapel, securing a perimeter and holding the forces of chaos at bay. "We may have a problem Commissar. The resistance is somewhat heavier then we expected and, hang on a tic." In the background Shepard could here a voice screaming, a cultist he imagined, about blood for the blood god. "Well he can bloody well have yours!" The colonel roared back and the sounds of a revving chain sword and a squeal of pain came back over the comm bead. "Colonel, is everything quite alright there?" He looked around the chapel, noticing that a particularly battered soldier was about to engage a Khornite with a improvised weapon and a las-pistol. That simply wouldn't do. Thomas charged over to Johnathyn and loosed a few shots at the Beserker who had turned to face the man. Trying to gain the creatures attention, or at least split it between the two of them. "Shepard, I'm not a great aficionado of the forbidden arts or anything but this reeks of sorcery. I can't help but feel we're in the middle of something big here. Something that's just about to come to fruition." Shepard had guessed much the same thing as the colonel had. It was heartening to know he wasn't the only one with that glum out look.
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigor of other, more honorable men. You are merely protected. You talk of sacrifice...He (more honorable
men) KNEW the meaning of sacrifice. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honorable man dry and offer nothing in return."
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He had only moments to react. Pulling his fist back, he slammed the woman right in the face, getting a joyous crash as she tumbled backwards. The Space Marine
decided to play the Steriotype and slowly sauntered into the room, stomping his feet. Best to make this center peice, more than likely the head Sorcerer,
under-estimate his agility and speed. He looked at her, the back of his skull tingleing. That "Someones screwing with the Warp" feeling once more.
"Who are you." He asked, Holding his blade at the ready with both hands. He knew he would get one of two things. First, would be a tempting, proud tone with a rather fancy ring to her name. Second, would be an out-burst of rage with an incomprehensible jumble of cylabals and vouls. He knew damn well what to expect from Heretics such as this one. It was ether melt your brains, make you cream your pants with heresy, or just get eaten by some outer dimensional entity with a squid for a head.
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This newcomer had been wholly unexpected. Asazael had been focused on escaping the frenzy inside and the Emperor's presence. That damned (or rather holy)
entity had been plaguing her for the several decades she had become a daemon. Obviously, he could see her potential and figured she was worth hindering. The
mighty blow took her right off her feet and sent her body tumbling through the air right back into the fray.
Managing to land on her feet and using a hand to brace herself, she surveyed the battle, and realized the chaos forces here were all but gone. Luckily, she also noticed that of the few left, one was a champion of Khorne, a terrible foe indeed. The chaos marine was currently busy with tearing a guardsman in half with his bare hands, just before going back to his double-headed chainaxe and assaulting the next victim. He should be able to buy her the time she needed to get out of here. With a flurry of slashes using her sword, several of the guardsmen in the group she had landed by were shredded gruesomely. She did not feel any gain of power from this new blood though, it would seem that the presence of the Emperor was cutting her off from the warp, which made it all the more urgent that she retreat form the building. The witch turned to this newcomer, it was that strong-willed marine from before, it would seem he took out her corrupted psyker without taking so much as a scratch; a worthy foe, but still no match for her in one on one combat, even in her weakened state. She also sensed something in his large sword, something she wanted, a source of power. This astartes would have to die, today if possible, if he had as much potential for growth as she expected. The priority was still to gain her full power though. Responding to him as he walked in, "All you need know is that I am your doom." her sultry voice floating to his ears, even over the din of battle. With that, she plunged her sword into the ground, causing it to explode upwards from underneath his feet, catapulting him into the air. Taking her daemonsword back out from the ground, she leapt up towards the marine, sword trailing behind her. Once reaching the large armored figure, she gripped the hilt with both hands and swung with all her might, hoping to end this problem here and now. |
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Flak ducked a swing by the lead Berserker and sidestepped into another's path. This one didn't have a helmet and Flak capitalized on the
opportunity. The guardsman ducked under the massive Chaos Marine's arms as the giant swung a mighty overhand blow and drove the tip of the rebar through
the Traitors eye, into the tainted brain. Flak ripped the rebar out of the Marine's head and quickly dodged out of the way as the Berserker crashed to the
floor in a thunder of ceramite, steel, and flesh. Not paying anymore attention on the fallen Traitor, Flak spun out of the way of one axe and managed to barely
parry another swing from a second Berserker. Flak suddenly found himself pinned between two Marines. Taking stock of both warrior's attacks, he waited for
the last moment to drop to the floor. Both Berserker's chain axes missed Flak by inches and buried themselves instead into the opposite Traitor's
chest. Flak scurried out from under the two dieing Marines as they fought to push their axes into eachother's torsos, blood spurting by the gallon.
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The Leman Russ pattern tank rolled silently up the deserted street. Well not silently, such a large vehicle could never be said to move silently as its large engine gave off quite the roar, but the roar of the warp storm over head was much more fierce and it drowned out the sound of the idling engine. Behind that tank came another and another and another, fully fifteen tanks had been deployed into the theater by Peter Andrews, or more accurately the daemon host that infested the Guard colonel. They were there to assist the forces of Chaos already on the planet, an odd task for one who followed Malal as Meconopsis did but what ever was happening on this planet was big and the daemon prince wanted a part of it. As the tank rolled up the street Mecon popped open the tanks access hatch and stuck his head out of the top. "All elements, full stop." He whispered into his comm bead. Not that he needed to, the storm would cover any sound he could have made. The daemon thought he had seen something moving in the storm, thought he could sense a presence out there in the darkened buildings. The storm though was making it so difficult to sense anything, it was blocking his senses and making it more difficult form him to draw upon the warp even as it suffused him with power and made him immesurably stronger. It was the meat sack he was in, the rotting fleshy prison kept him from realizing his full potential in this beautiful fiasco of crossing realities. Sadly it was also the only thing keeping him here. Being a creation of pure energy it was rather hard to maintain a form in a purely material world and he would simply fade away into nothingness if he was out of his organic place holder for too long. "Adjust angle five degrees elevation, right two degrees." There was definatly a life out there, a steady beating light different then the flickering cowering lights of the human civillians. This was a soldier, a soldier who had somehow escaped the black ships and was now selling out his fellow soldiers. ""Prepare to fire." Mecon reached out with his mind and touched the psykers. His mind, a white hot light being fulled by the storm, resisted the daemons for all of a second before snapping. The man wasn't broken, his defenses were just down enough that Mecon could sneak in and look around. "Man, I don't know what the Commissar is doing up at the chapel but he needs to hurry up. I want to get the hell out of here." Mecon moved the mans eyes, making him look out the window, look right at the tank. "Hey Jim, you see anything out there?" Menopsis guessed that the man must be talking to him and retreated enough to give the human control of his voice again. "Na, not a thing." Back in the tank the daemon host looked at the psyker whom he used to look at himself, checking his aim, and whispered softly into the comm bead. "Fire." A roar of epic proportions split the night, the muzzle flash from the tanks main cannon lit up the small street, and civilians in the building next to the tank pissed themselves in fear as the large tank shell was flung into the Guard look out post. In the tank the crew cheered, the heretics and mutants within were elated at having drawn first blood. "Attention all units. Forward." The tanks began their silent crawl forwards anew as a lone guardsman crawled from the rubble and bodies to stare at the massed armor in horror.
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Blagga da Butt stood, no walked, no he flat out was charging towards the very back of the parade where a basilisk was just sitting... doing nothing. Some of
the people around it were shooting at something in front of them. Blagga cared not about what it was. He was running, and he had his choppa in hand so why
would he care what they shot at. With him twenty other boyz were on the move as well. Surprisingly, they weren't yelling. Just breathing loudly with
words thrown in that happened to be loud. Blagga didn't care much about that either. He was on the charge and this small group of boyz was gonna kill
some guard today and get some dakka.
The sound of the boyz was muffled by the fact that civilians were screaming and running and explosions were all over the place. "RAWR" was what Blagga da Butt said as he lept at some guardsmen and hacked at his necked until it was hanging by a few pieces of skin. This was when the guardsmen realized that they now had new enemies. And then the orks really hit the guardsmen and started cutting at them. Choppa choppa choppa. |
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It was da boiz! Snufflewumpy had never been so glad to see a bunch of orcs. They might kick him, but it was better than the alternative laser gun. Scurrying
over the battlefield, over sandbag and corpses, picking up an autopistol as he went, he reached the boyz as they were chopping down the last of the guard
squad.
"Oi! I iz so glad yew boiz come to deese pahts!" Was all he could get out before a blood mad orc punted him over a wrecked tank. Scrambling back around it, he caught up to them as they finished the wounded and looted a bit. He sidled up to one of the bigger looking boyz and mentioned "y'kno, I saws a bunch o' da humies runnin dere." pointing towards the stairs to the basilica. "Dere is shur to be sum gewd smashin ta be had. I think dere wuz even sum beakies." And he stood there, wating for a response as he twiddled his little green thumbs. |
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Right then, multiple forms ripped into shape from the warp storm, as an Imperium Astartes battlegroup was spat forth into the sky, not even a kilometer from the ground, their purple forms shuddering to a halt, to hang in the air, like an ominous moon that swallows the sky, but refuses to fall. The ships seemed to hang there, as if time had ceased to be. Were they an Astartes chapter, or were they chaotic and heretical? And then, as if commanded by the Emperor himself, Imperial double eagle flags began to be raised on the bow and stern masts of each violet-hued ship, and they started dropping Marine drop pods down into the rear and middle midsts of the unholy throng of chaos forces.... And Hell broke loose....
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Flak was suddenly wrenched from the ground by a massive arm cased in ceramite. The Berserker reached around and took Flak's hand in its giant fist and
began to slowly crush his hand against the guardsman's laspistol. Flak was about to mark himself as dead when the Basilica shook. Suddenly, the pressure
stopped and Flak was dropped to the ground. Stirring, he looked around for whatever could stop a Berserker in the midst of a Blood Rage. Flak's eyes rested
on the gaping hole the Daemon had blasted in the roof where the balcony had been. Through it he could see the shape of a gargantuan warship; an Astartes
Battlebarge clearly visible in the sky. Flak smiled then, grim and evil. Help had come. They had a chance now. He shakily rose to his feet, but was launched
across the room by a vicious kick by the Berserker. Flak slammed into the altar. Hard. He managed to keep from blacking out by holding onto the pain. I can
feel pain, therefore I'm alive.
Flak pulled himself up to his knees and saw the Berserker charging towards him. He raised and leveled his laspistol at the Traitor's damaged helmet. Praying to the War Dogs, he pulled the trigger. Who needs open battles? The wreckage of humanity and their creations is my home. I'll come from where you least expect. Most likely, the last place you saw your buddy before I introduced him to my knife. |
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Xillian inwardly smiled. The daemon came crashing towards him, errogent as ever. Deciding it was not quite time to remove his 'disguise', he Brought
his blade up in a wide ark. The two possessed blades ground against one annother, one screaming as the other began to feed off the energy, and vice versa. As
the two warriors attempted to best one annother in a contest of Skill, the blades spirits went at each others necks.
Xillian did his best to use raw strength, but he was no where near as good as this agile thing when it came to this context. Finally deciding the ruse was up, he spun on his heel, kicked off a pillar, and landed atop a charging Berserker that had just received a fatal blow. He rolled to the side, before flipping over an overturned pillar and landing behind the Daemon, as she "It" he mentally corrected himself, had to be. He had used his trump card; He was faster than this thing, and he was almost as strong. It was going to be a close fight. As Xillian flipped and ran about the daemon almost scoring hits all about her, nimbly evading her warp blasts, she too was barely managing to hit him, her blade always being blocked or evaded at the last minuet. While one might think their lack of hits was an approximation to how weak they were, they were putting each other on the defensive at the same time as they both tried to go on the offensive. Effectively, they were deadlocked when it came to a contest of martial power or nimble speed, and skill alone would decide their fight. |
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In the air Above the Basillica, Valkyrie and Vendetta Gunships screamed overhead, relaying information to and fro, providing an overall view of the battlefield
whilst engaging the enemy with missile, Rocket, Multilaser, Lascannon and Heavy Bolter, and a heavy toll they wreaked on the chaos insurgents, sending cultists
sceaming into either cover or death, and drawing the attention of the Heretic anti Air batteries, which they engaged and destroyed as they were assailed.
The Imperium had Air Superiority this day, and whilst the Brigiadier Fought for his life inside the Basillica, the men of the 32nd continued to retain the initiative and assault the heretics from above, losing quite a few gunships to enemy ground fire, but the Gunships were hitting harder than they were being hit for the time being. A flight of Vendetta gunships, having refuelled and re-armed back aboard the Troop ship that was supporting and supplying the Regiment screamed back through teh atmosphere and into the air above the city, just in time to catch sight of fifteen leman russ tanks surge into the city, weapons blazing. "Raptor Lead to Raptor Schwarm, Freindly armor below" the pilot said, the traitor leman russ tanks seemingly appearing to be Imperial to the pilots, as they had their IFF strobes active and the five vendettas screamed in over the tanks, Raptor Two-Five even doing a victory roll over the tanks "Raptor Lead to Armor Command, Good Hunting, Bag some Heathen scum, over" the pilot transmitted on what the channnell normally assigned to Air support to Regimental level communication. the Vendetta flight banked and screamed over the streets, their target a Traitor Hydra tank that was firing at the Valkyries. the four autocannons swivelled around as the traitor gunners saw the Vendetta's coming in, but just as the quad cannon faced the imperial gunships, fifteen lascannon beams slammed both into the Hydra and the cobbled street around it, the anti air vehicle dissapearing in a cloud of smoke and flames as it's fuel and ammunition stores exploded.
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Thomas had just managed to put down the last Berserker, other then the one Jon was fighting, when the Astartes ships warped in over head. Even through the
storm outside, the Imperial air-raids, the chaos in the basilica, he was still able to make out the large bulky ships plowing menacingly through the sky's
above. Now the enemy was in for trouble as they had not one, but two Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes fighting against them. THomas watched the purple ships
float high above the city even as they rained ceramite covered death upon it. Wave after wave of drop-pods fell upon the city and the Commissar smiled. This
war was all but won.
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigor of other, more honorable men. You are merely protected. You talk of sacrifice...He (more honorable
men) KNEW the meaning of sacrifice. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honorable man dry and offer nothing in return."
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There was a loud crack the Mecon's enhanced ears was barely able to pick up on over the roar of battle. The sound of much air being displaced all at once
and he turned his eyes skyward in time to see the battle barges unfurl their colors. He sighed to himself and shook his head, these Imperials had no sense of
discretion nor misdirection. The Deceiver would be ashamed. Metal pods rained from the sky, causing much shock and awe but little blood and death. The Thirster
would be appalled. The ships uniform colors were a bright brilliant purple, lacking any devious markings, all was clean precision. The Great-Father would be
horrified. The Marines that came down would have a single purpose and would not have any time for personal pleasure or gain. Slaneesh would rage. All Mecon saw
though was targets, new creatures to destroy and the potential for much destruction within all the new comers. Malal would be sated. He grinned and waved the
vehicles forward once more, moving up through the Imperial lines towards their command center. The guise was holding up well and they daemon had not engaged
anyone after killing the perimeter guard. The men in the tanks were getting restless, they wanted destruction, to unleash their power and pay homage to their
god through glorious destruction and death. To bathe the city in a baptism of fire and ruin. Mecon had different plan though. He wanted to infiltrate the enemy
lines as far as possible before opening up on them. To push as deep as he could before sowing confusion that would cripple the Imperial war machine. That was
his task.
A squad of Vendetta's passed over head and Mecon waved to them, sure that his guise as a Guard officer would hold up, as would the IFF's his tanks had and the clearance codes he gleaned from a Officers mind as the tanks had rumbled by their positions earlier. As Raptor Two-Five made its maneuver above them, Mecon signaled his driver to raise the Lemans main barrel in a salute to the craft. He was pretending to be an Officer of the Imperial Guard, so there was no reason not be cordial with the humans. Besides, he did so enjoy interacting with the short but ferociously lived humans. "Raptor Lead to Armor Command, Good Hunting, Bag some Heathen scum, over." The Changer-of-ways would be proud of him. Malal would reward him. "Armor Command to Raptor Lead, roger WilCo. Get some of them damn Heretics for us eh?" He radioed back, loving every second of the feel of the humans voicebox making the vibrations necessary for human communication. It was a wondrous and unique feeling to one who was used to communicating simply by thought, and he had labored long over finding the right accent to use before deciding upon a voice he had heard in a holo-drama. His voice was warm and friendly with just a touch of a drawl to it, but underneath was the stone hard, ice cold speach patterns of a seasoned killer. For a brief moment he hoped that Raptors would radio back, but a large explosion lit the sky where the flight had just gone to. He wasn't sure who had been taken out but the wing was now beyond the range of his auspex. That was just fine with him though as the afore mentioned Astartes (Quasar Marines Chapter) were landing all through out the city and he knew he would need every ounce of his concentration to make it past the Angels of Death, or he risked blowing his cover and engaging in an all out fight with the Marines. Not a bad plan either way.
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