In enemy territory

by Grimaldus4DK

8 years ago,the 1013 Cadian shock troops were tasked with evacuating the Hive World Chimera IV from the most violent warp storm ever recorded. It arrived early and was lost to the warp, now 8 years later it reemerges. Upon hearing this the High Lords of Terra vote to dispatch a Vindicar assassin to investigate. M for disturbing images, strong language, and intense violence.

Narcus sat in the cockpit of the S.S. Redemption, making last-minute checks to his gear. He looked up from the view port of the cockpit and saw his the ship break from the void and make its decent towards the planet. It's once lush green forests and bone chilling snow deserts now transformed into a massive desert planet. Oh well, he didn't care one way or another. Oddly though the surface temp. was a shocking twelve degrees during the day and nearly sixty below at night. He was clad in the standard stealth suit worn by those belonging to his temple with his assassin mask strapped to his face. The S.S. Redemption was a rapid response vessel for the assassinorium which was equiped with some of the most high-tech stealth equipment ever developed. His Exitus rifle was a bleach white with an extended magazine with an extra one hooked to it's stock. He finished loading it with prometheum tipped rounds with a hell-fire acid core. The rounds were also desinged to disintagrate on impact thus rendering the bullets completly untracable. As he finished his prayers to his gear a message crackled over the com.

"To any nearby imperial ships, this is Commander Adrian of the 1013 Cadian. We've been attacked by orks! Suffering heavy casualties. Fuck, they're not fucking normal though, it's like they were mutated by some sort of virus! It's affected the civilans to! Oh shit! Calvin, look out. Calvin! Ah shit they've breached the emperor damn perminiter, fall back all units!"

"Odin, check the date on the message sent" Narcus said.

His skull probe hovered over to the terminal and scanned the message carefully.

"The date it was broadcast was 999126.M41. Two years after the planet went missing. It appears that they were affected by some sort of viral strain while they were in the warp" his skull probe responded.

"There's only one explination for the outbreak. Nurgle" Narcus said. "Check to see if plague marines were involved in this."

"Hard to say. What ever contamination was their has long since disapered" Oracle responded.

"Prep my drop pod. Set me down on the very edge of settlment north of New Terra" Narcus said.

"Very well. Happy hunting" Oracle said as Narcus enclosed himself in the pod.