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"I have fought many a Daemon, mainly as I have been here before, fighting against Chaos without any assistance from the Empire, as our presence hear was almost crushed," Kais says sorrowfully, remembering the events that took place the last two times he had fought Chaos. "I think I will be fine."

"Not psychic just willpower and moral, I can also provide us with a shield from the warp whilst we are aboard the Space Hulk but remember Daemons will be lurking everywhere on that craft."

Several Tau scientists move forward carry the data module, all seem fairly panicked;

"Shas'O, the data module has released more recordings. Several of them you need to see now!"

The Scientists begin playing the recordings again;

DATA FILE 7

Its in my head.

Again.

Khan said it was the wipers of daemons but its far more.

'Employer' what a strange name for a Daemon.

I've heard the names of so many but why pick such a title? Pointless and strange for the creatures of the warp to waist their time creating pathetic and unworthy names?

But any way I have another report.

The test subjects attacked the guards and have systematically begun to hunt us down, I don't know how but a shadow in the warp cut them loose. They feel no pain and are utterly relentless against the security forces and every time they kill a guard they take the body, they've started to learn tactics at such a fast rate. They grow in strength and numbers using the machines on other 'supplies' we had taken.

I don't think we have long left, but the Emperor forgives.

And Chaos dams.

Ludias clenches his fist,
"This much is clear: The fool inquisitor is dead. That means that whatever is on that ship controlling it is most likely an Employer or one of his most powerful lackeys, I cant see them letting a low class minion command that ship.

Whoever is controlling it also must have some kind of base control over the children, that gives to choices, either its an evolved child, or it has telepathic linking abilities. Either way it needs to be brought down. Bel' and I can take on any number of those things, we wont tire, or at least I wont, my body makes sure of that. I dont even need to eat anymore, allthough the taste stil stays with me. Regardless The creatures arnt a problem, its their escorts, the Marines on the ship. I reccommend firelines designed to take advantage of the slow heavy weapons of the marines, use carbines and stealth suits.

Additionally some close quaters explosives may be useful, frag grenades and the like. I havnt had the time to resupply myself. Also if anyone could find a length of plasteel about 2 feet long and 6 inches wide that would be appreciated.

Ludias steps back into the shadows after his miniature speech and begins to think.

"We'll see what we can do Assassin, we will return once we have what we need."

The Tau Scientists move back to the the labs moving out of Syrath's way who now wears a suit of armor like that of a knights, he walks over towards the Snipers and nods to the Eldar Ranger who moves back as Syrath confronts Luidius.

"We have many differences and will now put them aside, the Employers must fall but these 'Children' are a threat."

Ludias looks up at the daemon and casts a wary glance over his features, he makes sure Shas isnt near before slowly taking his mask off. His long white hair and ice blue eyes would have entranced any human girl but Syrath was no human, and certainly no girl.
"Show me your face Daemon"

Syrath raises his helm, a scaly bone like face appears. His eyes are black and each bear a symbol of the Chaos gods and his head is covered in a crown of twirling horns that are dotted by gems and his teeth are bone white, a serpent like tail folds back into his maw as he stands over Luidius but behind the vile Saint of Chaos lied something strange.

"What is it whelp?"

"I just wanted to see the face of the one I will be fighting alongside, so that if anyof them try to trick me I can look into their eyes and kill them in cold blood, thankyou. Now let us get ready."

he turns to an aid
"has that plasteel arrived yet?"

"Yes, here it is sir."

The Tau Aid hands the sniper his wished for material.


"Yes We will see, I believe our best chance will be for us to warp on board. Come and remember hold your breaths and think happy thoughts."


Syrath puts his hands on the shoulders of the snipers as they begin to warp to the Space Hulk.

OOC: Wait, so what is Kais doing now?

Preparing to attack with the Dark Eldar.

OOC: Ahhh, awesome...

IC:

"Okay, does everybody know what they have to do?"

"Yes Shas'O, scouting transports are tracking the movements of any Chaos Drop-ships approaching the Space Hulk. Our troops are ready for combat Shas'O. For the greater good."

The Tau officers voice almost broke then, the Tau etheral had been killed long ago by a Chaos Champion and their moral had never been as strong as it was then.

(Hi guys i am back sorry i was offline such a long time but couldnt do anything about it cause it is kinda private and stuff but is fixed now so can someone give me a little shortcut about what happened? And give me a re-entrance)

Ludias heard the Tau's voice waiver and stides over after replacing his mask, he leans over to the commander and whispers briefly in his ear before taking the coms cone
"Listen to me, all of you. Tau, Dark eldar, Eldar alike. My name is Ludias Storm, and I would not be telling you this if I wasnt so sure of your prowess: Every single one of you, has been trained and honed to do his, or as I understand it, her, job to the utmost standard of quality.

This I have faith in, not bullets, or swords, but the training and personality of honed troops. I have witnessed all of your races on the battlefield, against a wide variety of foes. This one will not defeat you."

He moves away from the device and sets to work, his fingers moving over the plasteel and short bursts of heat from his tools allowing him to work the metal into six small cylinders, each about 6 inces long and about an inch in diameter and capped at one end. He fits one tube from the carcass to each cylinder and to that attatches a small vial for a second or two before putting the vials, (of which he uses 3) into a small bag. He then seals the tubes, (all of which about a foot long) with a valve and wraps the cord around the cylinders seeral times before tying the of with a plastic cord.

With the six devices he goes to his friend and hands him three.
"Oxygen activated corrosive gas, use them wisely. Break the valve to release the gas, itll fill a room in about 30 seconds and the gas takes about 5 seconds to travel the foot along the tube, giving you about 35 seconds to evacuate. And trust me youll want to. Each of these cylinders has enough gas to fill the size of this bridge. Have fun old friend."

"And everyone will heed those words, for they are the utmost truth," Kais says, before walking away, to prepare himself.

Beltayn looks down at the cylinders in his hand and back at Ludias with a small smirk.

"Chemical warfare eh?" He said aloud. "Aww Ludias, you know me so well." He finished playfully. He then looks around to the assembled force.

"You should have been a public speaker, but perhaps this group is just now realizing the power of words from one who does not speak so often." He muses. He then swings out his rifle and continues to tinker with it, adjusting the scope and calibrations. "Bullets and swords may not an army make, but they aren't a bad start. I will be ready once again when they are." He said, pointing to group though not looking away from his work.

The snipers and Syrath arrive in a ventilation tunnel within the Hulk, they begin moving away as several life-signs are spotted on the radars. Shas'O boards the Silver Shark with Hunter and play another one of the modules;

RECOR--ERROR----MODU--=SDSHF

They've breached the system, they've found the engines and disabled them....the bridge crew were slaughtered...Kill teams have been dispatched....our heresy will be our end! If you find this run, run Leave this place, they're here holy emperor help us! Help us!



(Well WARORK,Marta, Shas and Syrath are currently fighting in a Space Hulk while your fighting mutants

Ludias moves calmly through the systems of the ship, his mental interface mapping the way as he goes and reffering that to his position constantly.

His foot lands with a less hollow sound on a piece of grating and he looks down into what appears to be an engine chamber he nods to hunter who smashes his fist through dropping a melta bomb. The explosive goes off and wrecks the engine control panels and the locomotion drives, so now the ship was well and truly stuck. they carried on through the vents but when they heard the scampering of the children thumping along the shafts the decided to make thier exit hunter again making an exit through the floor of the venting which the group drops down into, Ludias throws a krak grenade back into the vent and the group move away from the entance as a firey blast consumes the tunnel. Ludias checks his map and speaks clearly into his interface, signalling the rest of his group, Theyre close to the control chambers of the main firing systems, with some luck they can use the weapons against the ship itself and make thier job easier.

The three soon spot a silent Chaos Drop-Ship where Coraks and around thirty Chaos space marines carrying Bolters and Chain-swords and have set up defensive positions around the area, Coraks is bowing to a holo-projection of an Employer.

"My lord, we are searching the ship for the remaining Data-Modules but have had difficulty with that dammed Inquisitors experiments bu...."

"No, return to us and destroy this place once the Tau arrive. Set the charges."

"But lord this Relic cou...."

"No. Do as we say! Now Set the charges, sacrifices must be made to achieve our goals."

Ludias winks at a symbol on his screen and Beltayn gets voice conformation for both of them to use a corrosive bomb, they head to different points around the edge of the room, coming at it via different doors. Ludias takes one of his tools and cuts a small hole in the base of the door and puts the charge there. And once he hears Beltayns voice conformation he fires a silenced shot from his pistol at the valve which breaks and makes the charge skitter into the room behind some boxes. The sound is muffled by the engines. Then Ludias takes aim and fires a swift shot at the hangar door control. The marines are trapped now with 2 doses of diocylratechlorine. A gas developed by Ludias to kill Tyranids by dissolving optical nerves and brain matter. Once that is gone the gas sets to work on vital organs tearing them apart at a mollecular level. A body will be a husk within about 45 seconds, and the gas lingers for about an hour.

The two snipers exit the area sharpish and rendevous with Hunter and Syrath.
"We need to go"

"One very large problem, the 'Children' and Tau are on their way and we have no way of alerting the latter to the presence of the explosives do we? And with about the many Children approaching our position right now?"

Ludias shrugs,
"I see no problem, the marines wont have the time to set the charges they were just about to start when we set our charges. And the children are no problem, if you listened at all you would know that Beltayn and I could handle them on our own, with the two of you here this will be easier than simple."

"I see well where should we go next 'commander' because the Tau are approaching fast and we also have that small problem."

A group of children move forward lead by a larger glowing beast that hisses and points towards them with its crocked and boney fingers, its head covered by a steal mask with the 'I' symbol on it;

"Kill...them...all!"

"Tau... good... we could use the fire lines, that thing... not so good. Bel', Hunter, can you target that thing? Syrath here and myself will butcher these midgits"

"On it"

Hunter fires several rounds but the creature hisses and runs after making a rude gesture with it's finger while it's smaller breathen battle Luidias and Syrath who cut them down with ease.

"We can take them"

Syrath unleashes waves of burning green fire that incinerates the creatures.

Ludias' sword has a brief respite as he checks his map the "children" were being butchered, the life signs on his map were dissapearing faster than they arrived.
"Keep going we nearly have them!"

Beltayn had a rather simple job of dispatching these things but his mind was still on the larger specimen that had run, suddenly and idea comes to mind.

"Ludias, I need a corridor!" Beltayn shouts to his friend as he continues to empty and reload his pistol into the mass. Ludias acknowledges non verbally and pulls a second pistol out, aiming it at the group of charging mutants. He walks the pistols along the length of the mass by alternating which trigger he fires and hence makes a path of dead mutants through hallway. The path that he shoots begins to close again with bodies but Beltayn is faster, deftly skipping along almost acrobatically across the hallway, dodging blows and returning them at weak points with afforded grace. He is soon at the other side.

"That one mustn't get away, I'll be back shortly." He voxes as he sprints down the corridor while fitting a special oval shaped device to the end of his rifle. He makes a blind corner and pulls the rifle up to his shoulder just in time to see the creature trying to fit down a ventilation shaft. Beltayn's slight momentum hadn't even stopped when he fired the projectile. The energy of the laser shot in the barrel hit the device's primer causing its propulsion to fire off into air and rocket toward its target.

About three quarters of the way through its flight, the device opened and a monofilament net spread through the ar and wrapped its weights around the creature, trapping it and constricting it so it could not break out. Beltayn calmly walked over to the beast while voxing his friend.

"Target down, got him alive."

Ludias reloads his pistols while ducking under a leaping "child" Syraths claw disembowels the beast as Ludias hears his partners voice come through the vox channel.
"Target down, got him alive."
"Excellent, we'll be there momentarily. Allright Syrath, Hunter, lets go."

Lotus wakes a little dazed. "Oni vindicare?" She coughs up some blood " where are you?" A huge shadow passes over her and she is taken up by two strong arms. She looks at him "o......oni? What happened?" "All dead mistress." "WHAT IS EVERYBODY DEAD" she is shocked. Oni laughes hard. "No they are dead." He shows her his "artwork" and then brings her back to the others. "Wa....... What happened?." "Well mistress you where hit by one of those muty's who came past your web and past me and where knocked in the most spectacular way. Vindicare states. "You think this is funny vindicare?" "Actually i do find it a little funny. BUT i also wish to thank you for it for i would be dead without you." "Ok and now i wish to know what the feth is happening here. I wish a full combat scan of the area and possible strike zones ASAP. Dont make me wait for them." "Informaticus whispers while he scans. "She's as good as new......... Thank the emporer"

"It seems the Alpha beast has retreated, it's far more smarter than these things but still they pose somewhat of a threat to our Tau friends. Lets find the nest and burn it before they can steal a Drop-Ship and get down to the planet or the command ship."

Syrath decapitates another of the beasts which falls into a bloody pile with it's head in it's hands.



"Kill them all."

A group of sleek, silvered armoured marines move towards the Inqusitors and open fire. The armour they use matches no Imperial records and is covered in runes and symbols of Chaos, they open fire with their bolters at the same time. A perfect second after the last attack.