A/N: Disclaimer: I own nothing in this story except my OC's and anything that comes out of my head in the writing of this story. This is my first story so please let me know how I do I will try and make a full story off of this but till then this is the first chapter. This chapter been beta revised to correct a few things that were pointed out.
Segmentum Obscurus
(Star System?)
(Date?)
On an unknown planet on the edge of Segmentum Obscurus I...Reven...awoke.
It is the end of my long rest and I looked around from the tree that I slept in. I saw the jungle around me once more the same Emperor forsaken jungle I had been stranded in for nine years of my life since I awoke at the age of seven in the middle of the jungle in a silver pod that has long since been over grown with weeds and forgotten about.
In the pod where some basic supplies such-
Some spare food packets
A water filtration system
Small back pack made of metal
A few strands of unusually strong cloth
A luminescent glow device
A rather impressive combat knife
At laspistol
And a few energy packs for the laspistol and other powered devices were all that he still had on him.
Most of my body's fuel was the food packets but the water filter and lumi-bar still worked and knife was still sharp. While inaccurate the laspistol was still good at close range so I praised the Emperor for that. I had learned a few hours after waking up so long ago that if I wanted to survive on this world then I would need to stay in the trees and out of sight of the large birds and vicious animals on this planet.
For I had come too close to their snapping jaws and gaping maws too many times.
A few days ago I had seen an odd shape sticking above the trees a little distance away from my home tree was and had decided to go check it out.
I had stopped yesterday and slept within a few hours climbing from it and I was on my way to it again now. Then I heard something move to my left on the ground below me which snapped him out of his thoughts and made me stop my trek through the trees.
I drew the laspistol and the knife and made myself ready to attack should anything that came out of the bushes notice me.
Then all of a sudden I heard a voice speaking in an unknown language but it sounded vaguely familiar like I had heard it before somewhere but still decided to play it safe and wait in the cover of the top of the tree.
Their language...I thought...Why does it seem so unrecognizable yet familiar at the same time?
"Hey Gideon get over here and check out the readings on the auspex." said a small balding man with an old and wrinkled face and a very skinny build.
"Hold your horses Samuel." said the man named Gideon who in stark contrast to the older man was young, tall, and all together heavily muscled. "I dropped my canteen and had to grab it...What is it I needed to check out?"
"Well my auspex is getting a strange reading that can't be right. It is saying that there is a young...human...life form in the trees ahead of us." said Samuel.
"Wait what do you mean human life form? All of our team is accounted for at the base camp except us because we are on patrol. No one on our ship is young enough to get a reading that young through an auspex." said Gideon, who was highly confused at the whole situation.
"Well unless this brand new piece of tech is already busted it must be right." Samuel commented, shaking the auspex as if it would help.
"Wait...Hey...Do you remember that weird capsule we found covered in vines and jungle flowers that we reported to Segmentum command about two years back? And we had a valkyrie pick it up and shuttle it to the ship to be taken to command? You don't think that this reading could be from the possible survivor do you?" Gideon asked his long time friend.
"No way anyone could survive on this planet with the meager supplies that were said to be in the pod based on its registry so I highly doubt it. Lets just keep going it was probably just a sensor error." Samuel said, "That, and I would like to get back to camp before it gets dark, so let's get going."
"Alright whatever Sam." Gideon rolled his eyes, "If anyone checks this thing when we get back and sees the error it's your ass that's on the line not mine. So it's your call to investigate it or walk away." said a highly agitated Gideon.
"Fine then, go take a look at it then get back here." said Samuel.
Reven
After hearing the voices argue for a while I realized that the voices where speaking a different version of the language I had learned from the pods teaching protocols that were on board on the capsule.
They were designed to teach me while I was asleep in the pod till the battery gave out and it woke me up. But I still had no idea who or what these people were here for. My instincts told me I should be weary of some new predator I had never seen before.
Then suddenly I heard the voices stop and the sound of feet walking my way again so I readied myself to attack if the need arose.
Just then, two people walked through a bush to my left and looked up at the tree I was in.
One of them yelled something that I could not make out so I decided to yell back, "Who are you and what do you want?"
This seemed to surprise the men as they apparently where not expecting anything to respond and caused the younger looking one to jump and say something that I could not understand but something told me it was probably vulgar.
"Holy shit!" yelled Gideon as the young boy in the tree responded to them in low gothic.
He then decided to try and reply in low gothic to the boy, "What are you doing up there boy? And how did you get on this planet?" then he noticed what was in the boys hands and his eyes grew wide and he became weary.
He was holding a space marines dagger and what could only be identified as a standard issue laspistol.
The boy replied "No, I asked you first. Tell me now or I will assume you are hostile and respond accordingly. What is your choice?"
Then Samuel piped in and said "If you come down here we will tell you what you want to know. My name is Samuel and this odd fellow here is Gideon. So if you will tell us your name maybe we can start a civil conversation here."
There was a pause as the two men waited rather impatiently for the large boy to respond.
The boy calls back saying, "Sorry if I don't believe you but you are the first people I have ever seen let alone talk to. I am not coming down there...but...my name is Reven. Now that I know who you are I still want to know what you want."
Suddenly Samuel's vox-caster sounded in his ear, "I need to take this incoming call. Give me just a minute and I will return...Gideon...don't do anything more stupid than usual." he said to Gideon in High Gothic.
Gideon chuckles and says "I'll try mom."
So with that Samuel walked off to answer the vox leaving the soldier and the boy alone.
Reven
After the older man walked off I began analyzing the man in front of me.
I saw two things that seemed odd to me-first was that he had a rifle in his hands that was attached to a backpack by a hose looking thing but thankfully he was pointing the rifle towards the ground. Second was his odd looking gray and green armor and helmet with and odd looking device on the upper right of it.
I decided to try and talk to this man while the other one was gone, "Hey um...Gideon...right? I was wondering how long it has been since you arrived here because I have been roaming the woods for 9 years and have never seen another human before now."
Gideon looked surprised at me asking him this and said "Well we got here 2 years ago through are ship..."The Eyes of Cadia"...and came down on a few Valkyries. We set up our camp not too far from here and have been exploring ever since to see if humans could colonize this world."
So now that this man and I had started talking I decided to show some trust to my fellow human and climb down from the tree. I sheathed my knife and holstered my laspistol and begin to climb down.
I just got of the vox-caster with the base camp and they told me that the type of pod we recovered is rare. Only twenty of them were ever made and before we found this one the Imperium had only recovered two like it since then.
These pods were only found on worlds where the Emperor's greatest sons were found and that they normal contained a primarch within them.
The new directive according to the vox-caster was to find the survivor of the capsule if we could but I decided not tell them that we may already have found him because I had yet to see the boy that was in the tree up close so I was still suspicious.
I decided to head back to Gideon and let him know what I had learned.
When I got there a young man about 3 meters tall with short brown hair and a very muscular build that even rivaled Gideon's was standing next to him. He had a very well defined face that he judged would draw a lot of female attention back at the camp.
Deep green eyes that showed great experience and talent in them were recognizable even in the low light and he and Gideon were sitting on rocks talking like they were long lost brothers who had finally been reunited.
I step forward and said, "Wow Gideon, looks like you did something right for once and managed to get our lost young friend here out of the tree."
Gideon shrugs and smiles.
I continued, "Command says that that pod was made in the 30th millennium and only twenty like it were made." I can see the amazement in Gideon's eyes and the confusion in the boy's.
"Of the twenty...as of now only three have been found but of that number eighteen confirmed survivors have been found. Maybe this boy here would be the nineteenth but we have to get him back to base to be sure. So see if we can get him to come with us I need to find a clearing and signal the pickup Valkyrie. I will be back in just a few minutes to get you. If you do get him to come you may be able to meet me at the clearing instead. Vox me if you head out in the next few minutes."
I had intentionally overloaded Gideon with information so that he could not argue back. I turned swiftly on my heel and quickly walked out of the area, excitement and suspicion fueling my body.
Reven
"That guy seems like a real thorn in your side. He said something about you needing to get me to your base soon... Why?" I ask.
"Yeah well he can be a little irritating to me but him and I are good friends." the man called Gideon assured me.
He continues, "Now then it seems that you are a very special person and we have orders to take you back to base but in this case if you try to leave I won't try to stop you because I don't think I could if I wanted to." Gideon admitted and I feel strangely uncomfortable as his eyes scan me up and down.
"Well then I have one question to ask you then. When we arrive at your base...that's saying if I go...Will there be hot food and a bed to sleep in for a while before I have to do anything?" Reven asked.
Gideon seems uncomfortable to assure me of anything else, "Well I don't know about the R&R right away, they may need you to get a medical exam and answer some questions but after that then I am sure we can find a bed, shower and a hot meal until we get something worked out with Segmentum Obscurus Command and get you settled in for the long haul." said Gideon seeming perfectly honest.
Then I asked a question that completely dumbfounded him, "What is a...shower...exactly? My pod's recordings show no reference to that word."
He just stares at me for a moment and then says "A shower is a water system that you turn on and step into after the water warms up and then you begin to use the water to clean yourself off. Then you take soap and wipe your body down and use it to kill off germs and bacteria. Basically to help you smell a little better cause' no offense but you smell pretty bad."
I wrinkle my brow and sniff the air. He is right.
Then I reply "Oh so it works like bathing in a stream. Basically I have not done that in eight years due to the hazards of being on the ground with all the predators and a limited ammo supply. I take no offense in what you said." I nod.
I make my choice, "I will go with you if you can promise at least a hot meal before I get questioned or a medical exam."
Again, Gideon is uncomfortable, "Well I don't know if I can get you out of the medical exam but I can promise a meal before the questions at least and maybe if you get lucky some liquid refreshment or carbonated beverage." he responds.
"Well then I guess that will have to do." I put my hands together excitedly, "Alright then, let's go catch up with that other man and get on that transport." I say with great enthusiasm.
"Alright just let me vox the doctor and let him know we are on our way." said Gideon.
