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The little bird shot low over the ground, as they sped towards the dog. One of the delta force commandoes was aiming a M14 sniper rifle at the dog’s left ear. And as the littlebird deposited the five men in the jungle of massive grass, the marksman fired.

vio turned to the human."oh my...thats against the treaty....it wasent me,we dont use knives,and no kroots are here."

"Wasnt me. I didnt even know you were in there. Plus I dont need to dirty my ritual knife with your heathen blood."

The Leman Russ commander was too busy looking out over the yard through his scope to notice the large shape coming up behind him. Suddenly, a shot rang out and the commander's eyes turned to where it had come from. He gasped, stuttered, went down into the tank and ordered for the smoke mortars to be popped and fro the tank to take off full speed ahead...

"Daemon would you know where my nexus arrangement is", Marduk asked avoiding the glare the guardsmen was giving him. Mark didnt pay him any attention. He pulled out his bolt pistol and prayed to his gods. He shot Mark in the arm.

As the russ fired smoke grenades and tore off they knew it wasn’t fast enough. The dog darted forward and literally tore the turret off of the tank, which rolled and bounced down a small dip in the yard. Another Delta opened up with a CAR-15 and sprayed several shots ito the thing’s rear. Wich did not react at all but simply continued to destroy the tank tearing off the treads and sending the fuel tank hundreds of meters away. “littlebird!” we need a missile spread on that beast! Use HE-frag!” as the chopper wheeled toward the dog a pair of ravens slammed into it and began pecking at the underside. “Damn! Its like the environment wants to kill us!”

(WARORK. you will bust into a ant colony soon with the hades...one of the big types of ants)

bedtime for me...good night.

Mark is unfazed by the bullet. Marduk curses and hauls himself out of the car. He drops to the ground. He signals for his stormraven and it comes a minute later. Marduk jumps in. "Pilot take me to the Death corps soldiers. I wish to speak with them", Marduk orders his pilot. "Scratch that take me to the base. I want to go by land. With a sizable force", Marduk quickly says. The pilot brings him back to the base. Kol-Badar is waiting. "Coryphaus prepare the annoited and the landraiders. We`re going to go meet the Death corps lads. I wish to speak with them. Make an alliance, even though they worship the corpse", Marduk says cutting Kol-Badar from saying anything. Ten minutes later and the convoy is moving across the yard to get to the death corps trenches.

as the chaos lord ran off vio decided he wanted to talk to the other commanders to. calling in a hammerhead,he ordered them to bring him to the tunnels. as they arrived in the kitchen vio sighed. "we still cant use this entrance.those chemicals need to be cleaned up by the color giver still. bring me to the nutjob yarrik instead." as they sped around and went off vio called the HQ. "send off all souts to see what the other armies are doing." after finally arriving at yarrik he was glad he wasent shot."hey yarrik man,ive got some news for you,we have a slight necron problem..."

After the mole chamber had been cleared, the hades drill continued to plow the way through, soon, they broke into another pocket.

"Flashlights! Whats down there?" Kern yelled, the response was quick and came in the form of screams and lashes of flamers.

"Bugs!" Somebody yelled "Too many, we've got to go!"

"Back to the surface! Staggered retreat! Get those flamers into them!"

The group of kriegsmen made their way back to a lift that had been constructed to get down into the earth. They slowly ascended to the surface.

"Blow the hole, they can't get into the base!" Kern said, everyone was firing at the streams of ants that were coming at them, the flamers took a huge toll on the bugs, burning swathes of them black and crispy. One of the engineers took out a detonator and pressed its trigger, the caves below them shook with emplaced explosives which caved in the cavern. Kern looked below him at the cavern.

"Well, there goes our mining plans." He said disgustedly, soon, the lift brought the grenadiers to the surface and Kern was told of two things, firstly was the loss of a Leman Russ which he was rightly pissed about. the second, was approaching Chaos forces...

"Sound the alarm! All men to general quarters! All men to battle stations!"

The trenches were a flurry of activity as the men took up their firing positions. Kern stood in one of the parapets that had been constructed to oversee the battlefield. He spoke into a mega phone at the advancing chaos forces.

"Halt, another step and we will blast you to oblivion, have your leader show himself and state your reason for being here!" Kern yelled.

"Why do you think they're here?" One of his men asked.

"I don't know but they'd better have a good reason, there is supposed to be a ceasefire between the factions..."

Marduks force stopped at his command. Marduk stepped out of the rhino he was in. His command squad followed. They moved to the front of the convoy. Marduk yelled, "We`re here in peace. We`d like to set up an alliance. Dont shoot."

When Marduk didnt get a reply he said some more, "Alright major, there is a escaped necron force thats killed a gaint. I`m looking for allies to defend myself against them. We mean no harm as long as you guys dont provoke it."

"Its got to be a trick" The commissar said.

"They seem sincere enough." Kern replied.

"Are you crazy sir? Those are heretics down there! Chaos! We should kill them where they stand."

"They haven't shot yet and so neither shall we." Kern replied to the Commissar's frustration. "They want to talk, lets talk."

Kern and his command squad marched out to meet the Word Bearers. They stopped several paces from them, Kern wasnt keen on getting to close to the fouls smelling chaos marines.

"How goes it Atlas? Ever get that planet off your shoulders?" Kern mocked, his men laughed.

"What exactly is it that you want, heretic?" Kern asked after the jibe, meaning to get to the point.

"Gods Damn you. Its Word Bearers. But I`d like to make an alliance with you to work together to protect ourselves from the necron. Being the only the only armies outside. Oh and we`d also help with the insect problem. We`ve been dealing with them with ease. But I dont know about you. So I`m here to propose an alliance pure and simple", Marduk said not willing to stoop down and insult the imperials. Kol-Badar was quivering with rage though. And burias was switching between his true form and his possessed form. The guardsmen behind the major flinched at the scary sight.

Kern considered the marine's deal, fully aware that everyone was waiting for his response.

"Alright, you've got yourself a--" There was the sound of a gun being drawn and Kern turned to see his Commissar pointing his gun in his face.

"If you even think about making a deal with these heretics, I'll shoot you where you stand." He growled.

Kern didn't flinch. "Before you pull the trigger, you might want to look around you Kyerzak." He said motioning with his hand around him, every other man had pulled out their weapons and aimed it at the Commissar.

"In case you haven't noticed, this isn't our world, universe, dimension, whatever anymore, and as such, rules must be broken to ensure our survival, like it, lump it, or die, your choice Commissar."

The Commissar eventually lowered his weapon, Kern snickered. "Good, now, this alliance will be purely practical, I wont have your men spouting your heresies in my men's presence and you wont see my men preaching Imperial faith, we will keep watch for the necrons and you will help us ward off these damned insects, rodents, birds and that bastard pooch too, we must find a way of scarring it off when it comes around or else there won't be any of us left."

A few moments passed between them. "Do we have a deal?" Kern asked disdainfully.

Marduk considered it, "Well we need tunnels that only your drill can make. So if you offer to let us use that, then sure. I`ll be happy to oblige. Thoughin return for the use of the drill, I`ll let my Coryphaus help fortify your position better."

Kern raised an eyebrow. "I'll consider it, but tell me, what are your trying to find by using our drill?"

"Well I`m not trying to find but more I`m trying to build. I wish to expand my base underground where its more defendable. Oh and to mine rocks too. We need the material to build our mausulium to Lorgar. Other than that nothing", Marduk replied.

Kern frowned, he didn't like anything about this but he didn't see much choice. Besides, it wasnt like he planned on using the drill for anything else, there were too many damned ants below the base to be digging around down there.

"Alright, you can use the drill, but if we get it back and there's even one heretical scratch on it, I'll have my tanks turn you and our entire army into paper mulch, got it Atlas?"

"Sure. My techdaemon doesnt dabble in scratches, so dont worry. Oh and I know about your insect problem when you were mining. Your psychic defences arent that great. We`ll happily help with that", Marduk said.

Derick was buried quietly in a nerby patch of dirt.

"Rest in piece, Derick. Emperor guide you."

Anthony gathered up the five remaining men, and looked for the Kreigsmen. He saw Commander Kern with the Heretics and approached in formation with his team. As they approached, Anthony whistled to get Kern's attention. Kern turned, and Anthony shot straight to the point.

"What now, Commander?"

With a nod to the Word Bearers, Kern cut the negotiations between them to a conclusion and marched his command squad back up towards the defenses where The Cadian, Kern remembered his name as Anthony, stood waiting.

"Well Anthony, it seems we have successfully gotten a hold here, but I remember something the giant said about other guardsmen in that fortress." Kern said pointing to the house.

"Specifically, I believe he used the word "Cadians" if you remember. I think it would be in our best interest to try and rendezvous with them perhaps link our two forces."

Kern's attention was gotten by one of the Kasrkin behind Anthony, one without an arm. "I'm sure my techpriest can get you a good replacement for that if you want before we set off."

Marduk swiftly turned around and sent his troops back to the rhino. A big noise could be heard and the drill came forth. Marduk`s plan would come into being. The convoy waited for the chimera hauling the drill to drop it off. Then the techdaemon, Darioq-Grendh`al, attached the trailer to one of the rhino`s. They convoy drove back to the base. Marduk was happy. "Now Kol-Badar you have a day to make the primary tunnels and two days for the whole project. Get it done. I want this done and over with before they come asking for it back", Marduk said meaning to hurry the project up.

Leo sighed with relief.

"I'd really like that. Think I could get a chain sword attached?"

Marduk waited for the elevator to reach the tunnel floor. The doors openned up and Marduk could see the progress of the tunnels. They had in half a day made the primary tunnel system. The reason was that they hadnt run into any tyrinids yet. Marduk walked along the tunnel and looked around. The walls were being supported by themselves, for they were pure rock. Marduk marveled at the strength of the drill. Marduk wished he had one.

Yarrick and his army came steaming in to the garden.
"What the F**K is all this noise? I'm trying to watch my-HOLY SH*t!" A raven came swooping overhead, picking up dozens of men and flinging them across the grass.
"Crap! OPEN FIRE!" The raven plummeted as the air filled with autocannon shots from the Hydra battery. The raven's bodyheat made it an easy target.
"Good shooting! Now keep that up and we'll be home in time for breakfast." A second raven flew towards them, but turned away as hundreds of las-bolts struck it's chest. However, a shell from a Leman Russ had hit the dog and now it was pissed off.
"Keep firing, aim well-giant dogs? What the hell is this place? Whatever it is, burn it to the ground!" The dog charged Yarrick's lines. Bolts and tank shells bounced of it's fur like the rain.

"Commissar-
"Lord Commissar. I don't care what the Codex says, I'm a LORD Commissar."
"Lord Commissar, we've spotted the group of Death Korps again. It looks like they're stuck in this too."
"Good. Request aid from them and await a response. And will you just f*ck the hell OFF!" He yelled as he swiped at the Dog's paws with his power klaw.

Mark got up and made himself a glass of tea. Being sure not to step on the uruk-hai that had made a cereal box fortress on the island or the group of orks who where debating with said uruks about who was the ‘ardest’

As he walked out to the front yard and fetched the paper, an almighty explosion and an exultation of “We are the hammer! We are the hate! We are his right hand!” Mark facepalmed. Kaldor was now awake it seemed

Kern laughed at the trooper's reply. "I'm sure our resident cogboy can find something satisfactory."

It was then that a commotion was heard from the garden and the Korps looked over in time to see the beast dog that had ravaged one of Kern's tanks clawing into what appeared to be Commissar Yarrick's forces.

"Get me the artillery, tell them to lock on coordinates and give me a salvo on that thing!"

Soon, shells were raining on top of and around the dog with all the effectiveness of firecrackers. The dog soon ran away whimpering and the kriegsmen on the line gave a cheer. Kern marched back to Anthony and his group with a squad of Grenadiers in tow.

"I will be ready to go when you are, our first objective will be to get into the fortification, shouldn't be much of a problem I think, and then we'll go from there."

Lord Kaldor Draigo had strolled through the Daemon's with all the subtlety of a bulldozer rampaging through a park on a summer's day. Suffice to say, the fight was over very quickly. With his current foes dispatched, he made his way to a very large black case that lay upon the table. When he reached it, he plunged the Titansword into it and cut a large doorway out of the plastic. Several Grey Knights in Power Armor stared out from their padded "beds" with relief before jumping out and joining him.
"Supreme Grand Master, it is an honour," One began, kneeling before him.
"Dispense with the pleasantries, we must free the others," Draigo commanded.

Within ten minutes, the entire Grey Knight force had assembled on the board so that Draigo could inspect them. His seventy Power Armored Grey Knights consisted of four Strike squads, two Purifier squads, one Interceptor squad and one Purgation squad. Then there were two units of Terminators and his Paladins; twenty-five Terminator-armored warriors. Furthermore, Techmarine Aurellias stood overseeing the great warmachines of their force - the Dreadnought Icarus and Venerable Dreadnought Torrontus, as well as the Dreadknight piloted by revered brother Gideon. Their armored section consisted of a large amount of vehicles. Each Power Armored squad had its own Rhino APC and his TDA equipped Knights had a trio of Land Raiders and three Storm Raven Gunships to transport them. Standing next to a Chimera a short way off from the main force was Inquisitor Corteaz and his retinue of henchman as well as a representative of four of the six temples of the Officio Assassinorum that were in the codex.

Next to Kaldor himself stood Castellan Crowe, Grand Master Gaius, Librarian Korvus whose psychic strength matched even his own nigh-unmatched power as well as Brother-Captain Stern who was rather annoyed that ever since Draigo came along with the new codex, he had been a Grand Master for over six years, but now he was only a Brother-Captain as fate had originally intended.

Heathans, heretics and the unholy would never know what was coming for them.. until it was too late. Far, far too late. Lord Kaldor Draigo grinned in anticipation of the great hunt that was to come.