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Thanks. Where abouts am I at the moment? There's a squad of 5 men at the fortress, but where would everyone else be?

You'll be with Blap, Squid and Cutthroat back at the downed Stormbird fighting the Eldar.

You are at the camp. If you want to discuss anything there.is another thread. Link is in the OP of this.

Cool. Thanks.

Dreph walked through the fortress.

"We have been under siege for months now by the Orks. We cannot grow food, we cannot gather water. If we can't break out soon, we'll have to resort to cannibalism."

"I see..."

Dreph opened his Vox.

"Griffin Squadron, this is Captain Dreph Kalar. Come to my position."

"Hectoris, I have located the city. I have ordered Griffin back to me, and once your mission has been completed, come to my position alongside them."

Segari re-entered the defensive position, looking over to the other well camoflauged marines he gave the signal for the all clear.

"Rephosus, is it all clear?" Hectoris whispered. He still wasn't acknowledging Segari's existence.

He nodded.

"Marines, just clarify, when I said Hand signals only, I meant for distanced communication. If a bloke is right next to you, you may speak, but do not use the vox system. The Eldar will find us if we do."

"Ok, Sergeant" said Segari. Hectoris ignored him as usual.

"Ok lads, we need to find the Eldar Headquarters ASAP and take it before the day is out. We came here to exterminate the Orks and destroy them, and protectthe fort. The Primarch has ordered us for something else and that takes priority, but our goal is still the Orks. Rephosus, lead on. Aloysus, you and two others cover the advance from the rear. I'll take middle."

He caught up with Rephosus, and spoke to him. "Brother, I am sorry for my rash actions yesterday. My judgment was clouded by anger. Forgive me. But I have another thing to say. Do not speak to the traitor again. he is a heretic and a bad influence. If he speaks to you again, tell him where to go. If he persist...."

He paused, as he thought.

"I want you to kill him."
Rephosdus was stunned His helmet masked his face but he was clearly taken aback.

"I will take full responsibility Rephosus. You slew a traitor and did so rightly. Rephosus, I know you are fond of him, but should it come to it, I need to know where your loyalties lie."

My lord we do not yet know why that happened. And we should not turn upon each other yet. But sergeant i have something important to tell you. I have been having dreams it was the daemon rupturing out of segari and massacring everyone. Sergeant i don't know what to think of it. Sergeant in other dreams it said the same things as you that my allies will turn against each other and that we will kill each other. Sergeant what do you advice?

Aloysus took the rear guard position, keeping a wary eye on Segari. He waited until Antioch was out of sight before challenging Segari. "Why didn't you tell us Segari. We knew something was wrong, and you knew it too. Why didn't you tell the Chaplains or the Librarians or the Apothecaries? And why didn't you tell Hectoris? Why didn't you tell ME?" Aloysus asked. "Damnit, you had all these people around you who would have listened to you and tried to help you and you chose to remain silent. Why would you do that, Segari? I don't understand it."

"Why didn't you tell ME?!"

"Aloysus! Remember orders. Keep it down!"

Dreph walked into the watchmen's barracks.

"Where are the watchmen?"

The entire visible populace turned to him.

"We sacrificed them."

"BWAAAAAAAH?!"

Segari grabbed Aloysus by his chest armour slamming him against a nearby tree.
"Do you think I had a choice!", he said quietly but with a tone so angry it would make a Tokrok flinch. Segari hesitated, seeing the look of disbelief on Aloysus' face.
"I--I am sorry brother" he let go of him shifting back a few steps.
The devastator sergeant walked away with the rest of the squad, too ashamed to look back at the stunned Aloysus.

"Rephosus, tell me more about these dreams, have others had them?"

Name: Nero Cayillus
Position: Tactical Marine
Personality (Likes, Dislikes, etc): Likes: Marine Xenobiology, Fire, and Ocean Worlds. Dislikes: Dark Eldar, Rebellion, and Deserts
Background:He loves fighting on ocean worlds because when he is not in battle he spends time working with the Apotecarium as a Xenobiologist who specializes in Marine Xenobiology. He has catalouged dozens of species and how to kill them most effectively. He was placed in Sergeant Antioch's care and has loyally served the Sergeant for two hundred years. He has a special hatred for Dark Eldar because when he was still a Scout he was sent on a mission to find the cause of a planet not paying its tithes. A Dark Eldar raiding party hijacked his squads vessel and all but Nero died. He hopes to one day man the squad's flamer.

I don't know. Nobody has told me but if i need to guess and with no offense i think the captain also has been troubled by these dreams. But sergeant i have been honest now i want to hear the real reason why you are ignoring sergeant segari. He has been haunted by the demon, he didn't tell anything because he didn't want to compromise the mission. All he wanted to do was make sure the mission could continue successfully. And now the demon is expunged from him you must see it he has been acting like his old self again.

"You always had a choice, Segari. You could have told someone, and we would have tried to help you and we would have trusted you, but instead you chose to lie." Aloysus said as Segari walked away from him. "Answer me this: how are we meant to trust you now? We're your brothers and you turned your back on us. How did you expect us to react? Do you honestly think we enjoy having to deal with you in this way? You brought this on yourself, brother, and now you must deal with the consequences."

Nero entered the barracks and saw his Captain staring at a shockingly few men with a horrified expression on his face. He instinctively raised his bolter.
"Orders sir?" He asked not lowering his gun

"We must purge this fortress. The populace have fallen from the grace of the Emperor, and we must destroy every last trace."

Dreph raised his bolter.

"Die, traitor scum!"

A man drops to the floor dead.

"Nero! Follow me!"

Segari did not turn to confront Aloysus.
"I have already foreseen the consequences" he said under his breath.

After a silent march of over 17 kilometers the squad came to a halt. In front of them was a grand rock wall, smothered in vines and exotic flora.
"Is this the site?" Segari said with an exhuasted breath. The ordeal with expunging the dark entity and the confruntation with Aloysus had taken effect on his drained body. His very essence had been consumed, feeding the unborn abomination.
"Consult the data again this cannot be right"

"Damn you rookie, give me that datapad!" Hectoris snatched the pad from the devastator, checking the location.

"This should it. Where is it!" He shouted, punching the wall. It rippled under his fist, as if it were liquid or an illusion. He placed his fist against the rock, a pushed through the rock face. He motion for them to follow.

Emerging on the other side, he saw the Eldar base.


"We sneak around the aides. Once we get nearing, hand gestures ONLY. These Eldar have especially good hearing." They crept round the side, coming to a large, vaultlike door. They could not get through. Hectoris turned to the Killteam. He raised his arms and shrugged his shoulders as if to say "What now?"

Sergeant i brought a explosive charge with me but that will make too much noise. We can wait until a patrol goes out and take them out while the door is open.

"Hectoris, I'll use my melta to break in, and then we'll need to move quickly and quietly. I suggest we only use blades until the games up, and then use firearms. Is there anything else?"

Antioch drew his blade,"I agree with Aloysus, we must keep the silent and quick, our blades will work best."

Dreph came through the city with Griffin at his side. As they started purging the city, he found more and more horrific idols in every house, alley and shop. As he walked through, a lone rebel came out of cover, arme with a shotgun. He blasted at the squad before being killed in a hail of lead. As Dreph turned back, he saw Nero collapsed on the floor.

"Hectoris?! I need assistance now!"

"Captain, don't use the v - OH !"

"HECTORIS! RESPOND!"

Nero rolled out next to the captain and chewed away with his bolter.
"Captain drop back, we have to find Hectoris!" He shouted

"Captain, the Eldar found us! I'm not sure whether they heards us or tracked the vox signal. We're knee deep in corpses already."

He meant that quite literally. The Eldar had committed so many to this fight he4 could not mopve without crushing a skull or hand of a dead Xenos. Not that he minded of coarse. They weren't like Hera, a proud and regal figure. No, they were scumbags, alien creatures that cared for naught but death. They sent even their citizens, militia to war, and entrusted them with the weapons that should normally be wielded by trained hands. What fools.

"Weapons free, weapons free!" The barkl of Bolter and Heavy Bolter rounds tore wave after wave of Xenos apart.

"Press forward!" He yelled, pushing forward through the narrow corridor. It was so narrow in fact, that he could barely fit through. Those he did not kill were crushed between him and the wall. The others were pulling up in the advance.. Then there was a lull, at which point Hectoris saw a black robed figure, carrying a wraithbone spear, though it lacked the blade of the Spear of Twilight, who was directing the battle. He was guarded by 3 like him, who wielded dull edged blades they had to grasp in two handed. Child's toys.

Suddenly, a group of colouful Eldar assailants were among them, dressed in checkered costumes, wielding power swords. The Harliquins were never sitting still, always flipping away from attacks and dancing towards their target, never walking.

It did them little good, as all but 3 were cut down by a single round from the melta attachment on Aloysus' bolter.

"Antioch, Rephosus, engage the Harliquins, I'lltake the third. Aloysus, you and [i] him[/] lay down supressive fire on the assaulting force.!"

They duelled for several minutes, Hectoris unable to kland a blow, while all the wile the Harliquin leader twisted, nicking him with its blade, wearing him down. he had to end this.

He rushed forwards, shield held out in front, intent on smashing the Eldar dancer into the wall. It lept out of his path, however, and camwe down behind him swing its blade. hectoris spun, as quickly as he could, slashing even as the Harliquin's blade conected, shearing through his armour and into his hip. 3 inches it went before it stooped. The Harliquin dropped its blade,, and was clutchingits abdomen where Hectoris had sliced into it. Hectoris' balde had cut all the way through. Rather than let it slide off dramtically, he lifted ihis foot and booted the torso from the legs with the sole of his boot.

Hectoris turned round to find Antioch had likewise dispatched his opponent and was aiding Rephosus with his. Hectoris walked up behind them, and picked the Harliquin up by the throat. He placed one hand upon its head and squeezed. The dancer let out a short srcream before he crushed its skull.

A bark of bolter fire took down the unarmoured seers at the far end. A lone guardian, howeverr, picked up the leader's spear aand hurled it at Hectoris. As fate would have it, it struck the rent left by the Harliquin's blade, penetrating halfway up its length. Rephosus took aim, but Hectoris, although staggered by the wound, placed his hand upon Rephosus' Bolter's sights, telling him to leave it.

Through a great strength of will, Hectoris removed the spear along its flight path, and hurled it back at the guardian, who was now fleeing as fast as it could. As it was about to turn a corner the spear thrown by the wounded sergeant,his aim true despite his injuries and fatigue, and pinned it to the wall. "Let's keep going." he said with a grimace. He strode off, but without the confident stride to his step he had upon entering.

Seeing the courage of the sergeant i felt reinvigorated i took my bolter in one hand and my combat knife in the other and sneaked past the corridor. I saw 5 guardians moving up. I switched my bolter to full auto and cut 3 of the eldar down. After that i rushed to the remaining two with my combat blade i slashed at them and killed one of them with a succesfull cut through his torso.
The second xeno's taught he ambushed me and slashed at me with his combat knife, but before he knew it my bolter was infront his face and i shot him down with a rain of blood. I cleaned my blade and made the hand signals to the sergeant's who were following the battle.

I walked up to the terminator sergeant and said ''Sir i have i spotted a reinforced entry point up ahead, i think the melta charge will come in handy now.''

After pushing the impaled Harlequin off his blade, Antioch turned to assist Rephosus with the Eldar he was dueling, then he saw Hectoris's massive form stride up and crush his skull. Antioch let off bolter fire, covering his brothers, while they discussed using a melta charge to blow through a corridor.

Aloysus was in trouble. He had provided supporting fire for his brothers as they beat back the Eldar assault. As Hectoris, Antioch and Rephosus had dueled with the acrobatic warriors he had picked off Eldar after Eldar. A burst of shurikens had struck him in the back and he had turned to face the source. 5 Eldar warriors bearing shuriken pistols and whirring chainblades were approaching silently from behind him, led by an exarch with a monstrous 2 handed chainblade. Striking Scorpions. He shouted a warning to Segari, telling him to keep the assaulting force pinned while he dealt with the flanking force.

Marius fired several burst off with his bolter, felling three of the warriors as they advanced while return fire glanced off his armour. Letting his bolter fall away on its strap he drew his combat blade and leapt to meet the advancing Eldar. He parried a strike by the the leader and the teeth of the chainblade of the other warrior skittered off his pauldron. Lashing out with his free hand he put his fist through the helmet of the last warrior before turning back to face the Exarch, A blast of laser fire caught him full in the face, fired from the jawline of the leader's helmet, momentarily shorting out his autosenses. He staggered back a pace, and cried out as he felt a white hot pain in his side. As his autosenses cleared he looked down to see the Scorpion's weapon driven through his armour, the teeth churning. On instinct he lashed out, driving his combat blade through the creature's throat. Hurling the corpse aside he pulled the deactivated blade out of himself with a cry and a welter of blood.

He felt himself swaying as unconciousness pulled at him. "Hectoris!" he choked out through the vox. Heads turned towards him just as he crashed to the ground.

Dreph knelt down next to Nero.

"We cannot forsake the threat at hand, and we cannot escape."

He turned Nero over.

"Tis naught but a flesh wound, Nero. Get over it!"

Dreph pulled him up and continued on his path.

It was not much longer until he came to the heart of the fortress. Dreph found a terrifying twisted rack of human bodies, and above it lay a strange red mark. It was drenched with blood, and lined with skulls.

By any chance could I oversee some Necron activities that interfere with something?