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Greystone pulls out a shot gun and smiles as he reduces several Dark Eldar to bloody lumps, he them reveals a Haywire pistol. He fires the pistol sealing one of the doors and fires a shot that blows the brains from a Chaos marines head and laughs as he throws a belt of Melta bombs into a power generator that explodes violently forcing Chaos marines into cover;

"Let's move, quicky and tell the fleet to keep tracking this vessel. Don't let it out of site!"

good point

WARORK93 wrote:OOC: Who said the last line, just so I'm sure?

Greystone.

OOC: Gah! Wait...are we going further into the ship or leaving?

Leaving, the Valkaryies in a hanger so you'll have to move fast.

blood reaper wrote:Leaving, the Valkaryies in a hanger so you'll have to move fast.

I thought we were still in the hangar...the valkyrie got its side ripped open remember? We got to get to the storm raven...

Aw hell yeah

Helmian uses his inferno pistol to melt a hole through the door leading to the hangar and ushers the Stormtroopers through while he and Greystone guard the rear. He nods to the commissar
"Tell Nathan to wait for us. We wont be long"

"Wait for us! We have to stop them from following us, we should find their main fighter conduction nexus and blow it to kingdom come. I've got experience with the technology of the Eldar, it won't be too hard to cause some damage. Let's move, it will be near the hanger."

Greystone fired his shotgun repeatedly at the advancing Chaos marines who retreat back but keep up their fire power, he fires again killing one in a shower of cremite and blood while the others run in fear.

(Note: this is not the 1st chapter, this isn't even the prologue yet.)

Vic and his men sprang into action, and immediately opened fire on the advancing enemy troops. While he could not do much damage with his Las-pistol, Vic led from the front, with the aim of inspiring his more heavily armed allies to relentlessly harry the foe.

Just as he was getting into his stride, after slashing a Dark Eldar Warrior with his Power Sabre, an order from the Lord Inquisitor rang through his comm's system.

"Fall back Captain, your no use to us dead. You need to make your way to my Stormraven," the voice of Helmian Gausse crackled

At that point Vic turned around, seeing the Inquisitorial Official across the hangar, indicating for him to leave.

"We need to go! Hector, cover our rear!" the Captain bellowed

The squad hastily made a retreating move backwards, towards the Lord Inquisitor.

He could see that the Inquisitorial duo were hanging back waiting for his squad to get to safety. At that point he issued another order.

"Talon, Hector! Escort the Inquisitors. Make sure they don't come back dead. The rest of you dogs! Get to the Stormraven!" Vic shouted

Helmian ignores the Inquisitor speaking rapidly into his vox.
{Amoneo Obscurum this is Gausse, I want grapples fired at the ship then full salvos at point blank blow it out of its scuppers. Give it 5 minutes then anouther discharge, I dont want anything left of this ship.}
{Affirmative Inquisitor firing grapples now.}
The ship rocks as grapple spikes rip into its hull. As the inquisitors and the Stormtroopers sprint to the Storm raven a massive Terminator clad Chaos marine blocks their path and raises a reaper autocannon but is impaled by a grapple spike as it slams into the hangar exposing the hangar to a vacuum. Helmian grabs the storm troopers one in each hand as he charges towards the Storm raven, he launches himself up and simoultaneously heaves one of the troopers into the hold even as the ship begins to take of about 15 feet in the air. His now free hand grabs the landing rail and he hauls himself and the other storm trooper in, Greystone gets up and in on the other side adn the two close the hatches as the Stormraven flies out of the hangar and towards Gausse's flagship, which opens fire with its gun banks just as the Stormraven is docking in the hangar that it left from not 10 minutes ago.

Thade and Pask both provide covering fire as the Inquisitors get to the stormraven. While Pask fires on a dark eldar warrior who sticks his head up, another one rushes him with a wicked bayonet. Pask is fast but not fast enough, it is rendered moot anyway because Thade lunges with his chainsword and slices the eldar's arms off, it screams horribly and is gunned down by Pask who nods at the Commissar as a thanks.

Thade orders the fall back just as the Inquisitor orders the ship's barrage. The storm raven begins to take off just as Thade leaps into the closing hatch with Pask close behind. The rush to get into the stormraven ended with Thade panting on the floor after his sprinting dive and Pask next to him getting up and taking his helmet off to breathe the clean air of the ship as the door closed and it thrusted away.

Thade sits himself in a seat and Pask checks his weapons.

"Well, thy aren't our friends any more." Pask said lightly.

"Too right." Thade said, replacing his fallen officer's cap.

Gausse, Greystone and the others rushed through the Hangers main deck area, a large grey room with several vehicles docked and under-repairs along with new loot from raids. A large tower like structure sat at the end of the hanger, a tall construct with several windows and a grav-lift where the Archon stood and drew his venom coated blades that he twirled into an offensive stance against the enemy. He snarled and made a gesture to a silent Greystone who kept his shot-gun ready , the Inqusitor nodded to his allies who moved ahead without him while he and the Archon circled each other. No words or threats where exchanged as the charged each other, shot gun shells exploding and blades slashing. Greystone quickly ran forward and fired his weapon at point blank range but missed the Archon who slashed and hissed at Greystone like an angered serpent, the Archon charged and swung his blade towards Greystone but was sent flying backwards by a shot-gun blast. Greystone moved towards the injured warrior and re-loaded and aimed down at the Archon. A single shot ended the Xeno's life in a second, the Inqusitor and the group sprinted back to the Storm Raven ignoring the fire of marines and Eldar as it took off flying through the hanger as Gausses ship engaged in a close ranged orbital fire-fight.

Diddnt I pone that guy with my infernus pistol earlier? ah well

(BIC)
Gausse looks over the numbers, they had a full new squad of Storm troopers who he was prepared to allow thier own Stormraven and a ground transport. The Commissar and his aide however would become part of Gausse's retinue. Such a figurehead would be invaluable on the field of battle in his command squad. He had Greystone sent packing to his own ship with the promise of a full debriefing later. The Stormtrooper captain and the Commissar he called over.
"I am prepared to let you and your squad become a separate unit to myself but work alongside me, or you may appoint a new captain of your squad and join my command retinue as a colonel. It is up to you. I will await your descision"

He turns to the commissar
"Commissar, your name is Thade yes? I am inviting you to join my personal retinue to fight alonside myself, the captain here if he accepts and the other three members of my team."

We need WARORK to post....

actually we need lord of change to post, then me, then warork... lets make this simpler...

edited my post

Ah, well still we require them to post. I'll add more about X'charis.

yeah but now i opened it up so warork can as well

Vic suddenly pauses. While the proposition was enticing he had to consider his comrades whom had been dragged along with him. It had been his idea to band together after all, leading them to believe they would be able to lead normal safe lives, free from the Imperium. He was the one who convinced his new found friends to stow away on a freighter, despite the risks it entailed. And most importantly he had had to choose whether they were to live or die, before deciding to renew their allegiance to the Emperor, without their input or protests of course.

"I will gladly accept your offer Lord Inquisitor, on the condition that my subordinate officer, Katerina Iala, is allowed to serve alongside me within your retinue. I would also be grateful if you could allow Theodore Mathola the position of Captain and Hectorus Atlan the rank of Sergeant within my former Stormtrooper Squad," Vic respectfully said to the Helmian Gausse.

0290 hours since Inquisition entering system, threat level beta
Location: Relic outer ridge, Cascade of Sins, Word Bearer 3rd Battle Group

The Chaos lord and his Sorcerer sat within the Land-Raider, they waited eagerly as they approached the outer regions of the Titans activation index temple. X'cahris stood up as the Land Raider came to a halt and was the first to exit into the icy blizzard, the Terminator armour protecting him from the ice shards that left Cultists in bloody ribbons of flesh and bone. He snarled as he watched an Emperors Children defensive force around the temple with many Noise Marines and Cultists in trenches and fortified buildings, he turned back and re-entered the Land Raider while the Sorcerer worked on a large holo-table displaying the planet and the system around it. The entire thing was ancient and flickered constantly due to ill repaired parts, the Chaos lord ignored this and turned to then Sorcerer;

"Send these locations using the Storm trooper codes, have them believe the remanning Troopers found the temple and need back up. Our mole will make sure they do not know of  our presence and will remove the Slanneshien servants for us." 

The Sorcerer nodded and began to type the corse for the Imperials and began re-coding it as an Inquisition style message, they transmitted it and waited. 

Really sorry guys for not posting, as I'm being kinda held up with Crawling Dark and Blood Moon...

IC:

Kais takes this as a shock. An Emissary? For what?

"What are you, Daemon?" he asks, before seeing the full form of his new Lord. "I will accept. But only because I have no idea whats going on right now, and I need someone or something to guide me."

"Tsk, tsk... I am not what you have accused me of... I am so much more... " the whisper continued, "Of course... you... you are important..."

The Tau sat up, opening his eyes once more. He was still in the mysterious room he had awoken within.

"It's probably just a hallucination. Some kind of side effect of the drugs" he mused aloud.

"Did you say something dear?" the attractive young Fire Caste medic responded.

He had completely forgotten that she was still in the room, and he was rather shocked at his own loud outburst.

"Oh, it was nothing... " he vaguely said, drifting back to his slumber...

"But first... " the eerie whisper enigmatically pronounced, "You must remember who you are... "

Thade nodded to the Lord Inquisitor with a passive glance, next to him, Pask said nothing, just looked straight ahead in his own seat on the moving Storm Raven.

"I accept your invitation my Lord, it would be my honor to serve the Emperor by your side." He said as professionally as he could and straightened his cap. "If you would be so kind, sir, what is our next destination? I have been briefed by Inquisitor Greystone but his report was that you were still on the planet below."

OOC: Sorry for the short post, couldn't think of anything else to write that would make sense in our current situation.

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(OOC) Should we wait for Marta? Or should I just press it forward using his character and move onto planet scenario?

blood reaper wrote:(OOC) Should we wait for Marta? Or should I just press it forward using his character and move onto planet scenario?

I don't think it would too much of a stretch to at least get us headed in the right direction. BTW...can we all hear that in the black text?

Yes, and it may or may not be censored. I will post later when I have accesses to a better writing area.

Greystone ordered that the Imperials come to the command centre, he stood with several elite Karskin carrying Plasma Guns and Melta Guns. They bore several markings showing the campaigns and battles they had fought in, the old Inquisitor raised his hand as a signal for the doors to be shut.


"Ah gentlemen, I have brought you here to discus the mission on which we will be in barking on quite soon. We have received information that a Slanneshien War-band of the Emperors Children legion are taking up positions near the temple and will put up a fight, another threat has also revealed it's self. A Chaos Lord by the name  X'charis is hear, you will no doubt that he is a threat if able to hack into our systems and was responsible for the destruction of two Space marine chapters. He stole or corrupted their gene seed, and is known for his vicious and quick attacks."

Helmian looks at the captain long and hard before agreeing,
"Yes that would be fine, go to the quatermaster when you have a free moment, he will give you two chevrons for your and your second incommand's epualettes. they will give you the power to requisition anything from this inquisition as long as it runs through me first.

His throughts turn to the commissar and he is pleased that the man accepted his offer
"Thankyou for accepting my offer Commissar Thade when you have a free moment you should also get one of the chevrons for yourself and one for your aide here. Now as for your question, yes I was still on the planet. But the moment I heard that we had lost an inquisitor to enemy hands I made my way to your position. And in hindsight it was probably a good thing I was there. Our next destination will b edictated soon enough. I may outrank the Inquisitor Greystone but he still has a better grasp of the situation here than I do, if only from being here longer. So I will follow his lead until I feel I can do better. Do not worry Commissar, I will not allow any of my retinue, or indeed my staff, to fall under enemy fire for no reason. You are quite safe under my command."

When Gausse hears of the warband defending itself he scoffs.
"I have seen them fight, they wont be satisfied with letting this X'charis walk into thier guns, as effective as that will be. They will wantto get up close to see the death in thier enemies eyes, I have to ask, of what importance is the relic?"