So here's another go at creating a fan fic and to be honest I don't know where it's going. So let's find out together.
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I had been running through dimensional rifts for the last week trying to escape a particularly nasty group of assassin's and had finely just managed to give them the slip, but now… "Where the hell am I?" I wonder allowed.
"WAAAAAGH!" It was loud and nasty sounding and to top it off it was coming my way. I quickly scanned the area for anything I could use to my advantage but true to form there was nothing. Well could be worse…
Then the things that were making the sound came around a bolder. "Well DAMN, Figures Orks would be in this dimension too…" I muttered as I readied my RE-HBR (or Rail Enhanced Heavy Battle Rifle). "Hey, Green skin's; let me guess all you want is a fight?"
"'Ey Boyz, Finely 'h Humi dat gitz it." The biggest of the Orks said as he slowed down.
"Then… could I perchance get something from you before we have our fight?" I asked hoping these Orks where more civilized then most.
"Depends Humi." He said as he stopped his boyz mostly by hitting one of them.
"Well, you see I'm new to the area soo I was hoping you'd give me a map, or at least put one off to the side?" this was never going to work from the start.
"Aht humi 'ere beh a mahp 'f da planet. Yus can 'ave 't if ye's can beat's me 'nd meh Boyz." He said as he waved a map around.
"Well good, this shouldn't be to hard." I said followed by eight cracks of thunder and eight bodies hit the ground.
"Yeh, killed MEH BOYZ. –CRACK-" and the last Ork hit the ground.
I reloaded, always want a full magazine if you can help it, and walked over and picked up the map. "Great, this is eligible… at least it has land formations…" I muttered as I looked at it. After a few minutes of studying the map I deciphered enough to know where the closest water source was and apparently there were humans near it. "What I wouldn't give for a proper recon satellite." and headed off in that direction.
"Halt, what are you? You appear human but most certainly are not." Came a sweet melodic voice from behind me. How the hell did she get past my motion tracker?
"I am but a traveler. Dear little Elvah lass." I replied as I slowly turned around. To my surprise she was indeed little; no more then 4' something, with long deep brown hair, a petit frame, and with a spear pointed at me. "Ah, pardon my manners too much time among humans. I am KenRu Kerashana at your serves…" I said with a slight bow and leaving the end open hoping for a name.
"Ellis'Val Esu'dalna, Eldar Farseer." She said as she relaxed a little. "What are you? You are as a beacon in the Warp; Blazing with brilliance."
What an odd thing to say. "I am of the Elvah, as you are but I and no… 'Eldar' my people called themselves the Rune Elves long ago and far away. I am one of but a hand full of my people left. But what is this Warp you speak of I have never heard of it and I've seen many a world?" I said as I pulled down my hood to show my long pointy ears.
"Elvah, Rune Elves what are you talking about you are Eldar obviously. More importantly how can you not know of the warp? It is everywhere. The Ruinous Powers influence can be felt everywhere." The little Elf said with more then a little disbelief.
"You mean that underlining feel of filth that's all about this dimension? It's kind of annoying but easy enough to push aside." I replied calmly. "You wouldn't happen to have a map would you this one I took off of an Ork isn't much use."
"You got an Ork map." She said with surprise.
"Yeah but it's useless to me you want it?" I asked as I handed the map to her.
As she took it she stammered out "T-Thank you, this will be very useful…" and started studying it.
"If you say so to me it just seems like troop deployments and enemy forces. Complete rubbish to me, but I suppose it would be useful if you were fighting a war on this world." I said calmly.
"So what you don't care for the fact your own people are being killed here?" She said with quite a bit of venom for one so small.
"Huh, you don't get it little one it's not that I DON'T care it's that I'm just passing through now could you give me a map I need to see the lay of the land." I replied.
"Fine here, do you have a data pad?" she said a little exasperated. "You do have one right?"
"Yeah here." I said as I reached out my left arm. "It's integrated into the armor."
"I see… give me a second." She fiddled with it for a couple seconds and retracted her hand "There done."
As I called up the map on my left arm I put in some data… "There we go. Well looks like I'm headed that way nice meeting you thanks." and started walking of to the north, north east towards some mountains.
"Wait, where are you going; there's a human base that way." Ellis'Val said as she chased after me.
"Well my way off this rock is that way. I don't want to be surrounded by all this filth any longer then I half to be. You should probably run back to your people. There will be enemy patrols, and the base will be hit by Orks in the next few hours. I just hope I make it there first." I said as I pulled up my hood and picked up my pace.
"Then I'm coming with I know this region. I can get you there faster." She said as she caught up to me.
"I personally don't care about your justifications but you do know I'm walking into a 'Man Made Hell' right?"
The base was a fortress turned manufactory built into the side of a mountain, and we were too late. The mountain fortress was under siege by Orks, thousands of them. "Well fuck, how am I going to get in now… Ellis you should probably go." I said as I pulled my pack off my back and started rummaging through it.
"I-I'm staying I will help you." She said.
When I looked up at her she was blushing… odd. "You owe me not, I have not saved your life, nor your people, in fact I have blatantly ignored there peril and gone about my own business." I said as I pulled a small football shaped object.
Ellis looked at it quizzically. "What's that?"
"This? This is my last tactical nuke. I figure if I get it to the right place and detonate it I can take out at least half of them." I said as I started activating it.
"WHAT, you have a nuclear weapon?" Ellis said with fear in here eye's.
"Yeah so? It's a tactical nuke so the affects will only last a month or two." I replied as I got up and prepared to throw it.
"Are you crazy? You'll never throw that far enough!" Ellis franticly whispered.
"Maybe not but one in the air it will teleport a great distance." I calmly said as I through it with all my might.
And as I had said it teleported landing in the middle of the field and exploding sending all the Orks in the blast radios to a flaming end.
When the blast died away, there came a loud booming voice. "Who's da one who's killed all meh BOYZ!"
"Ho, HO so they have a leader huh?" I said as I started walking towards where it came from.
"No, don't go it's their war boss you won't be able to take him alone." Ellis Franticly said while trying to drag me in the opposite direction.
"Never know tell you try; besides how bad could it be really?" I asked.
"This gonna be a good fight." Came the voice closer this time.
When I looked at what was making the voice I realized it was worse then I thought. The Ork was huge easily 14 feet tall, covered in crude armor plating and with some kind of claw weapon as one hand and a gun as the other.
"Well damn… no one told me I'd be fighting the jolly green giant to day." I said as I quickly pulled out my clip of standard full metal jacket round and replaced it with Armor Piercing rounds. "Well could be worse… I could be fighting 3 Demon Lords again." And I started moving running right to try and flank him to get some shots in from behind. I'm fast keep this in mind… really fast easily clocking 45 km/h when I need to but this thing; this 'War Boss' was fast too. Turning to keep me in front of him, he roared and fired his gun at me.
Feeling in impending threat before it happened all I had to do was dive forward and fire at his arm but most of the rounds pinged off. "Fuck" did I forget to initialize the RE system? Quickly hitting a few buttons on my data interface on my left arm. My gun hummed quietly for a second and went quite good everything is working. Taking aim once again and firing the rounds pierced his armor quite nicely.
"Hehehehe, that tickles Humi." The War Boss chuckled.
"Well, Fuck what's it take to kill one of you damn. You're as bad as a damn demon." Dodging left and firing at his gun arm again. This time I got the effect I wanted, the gun arm fell importable.
"Huh, WAAAAAAGH." The War Boss charged forward with his claw. So fast I didn't even realize it; tell it was too late and I was being pushed out of the way by… "Ellis!" her back was torn open a horrible wound. "You Fucking Bastard you are DEAD!" I yelled as I pulled out a bullet and fit it into the chamber. "LET SEE HOW YOU LIKE THE TAST OF HELL FIRE YOU LITTLE BITCH!" and I fired the round into the War Boss.
The War Boss went flying 80 feet covered in napalm and with a gapping hole in his chest, nothing but a corpse.
I quickly ran over to Ellis and checked her vitals they were surprisingly good but fading fast. "Hand in there." I said as I picked her up and started running for the human complex.
When I got there all the Orks were running routed by the death of their War Boss. "OPEN YOUR GATE I HAVE DRIVEN OFF YOUR ENEMY AND REQUIRE ASSISTANCE." I yelled.
The doors opened and 3 huge men walked out weapons pointed at me. "Suffer not the Xeno." One of them said.
"Have you no honor? I just saved your fortress, I just slayed your enemy, and all I ask in return is for you to save the life of this one person. You do this and you will never see me again. YOU DON'T and I will kill you all and leave not but a smoking hole in the mountain side."
"Stand down, Brothers." A new figure clad in intricate armor bearing the mark of a Wolf. "We will honor your deeds, but you will be leaving as soon as the Eldar Witch is taken care of. Fenris take them to the infirmary, then bring …" the finished looking at me.
"KenRu, KenRu Kerashana traveler, merchant, and occasionally gun for higher." I said as I started moving inside.
"Then bring KenRu to me." He said and the left person walked up to me "This way."
"I guess your Fenris?" I asked politely as we hurried to the infirmary.
"Yeah, you have a problem with that?" he said gruffly.
"No, I once new a Fenris, He was swift and brutal in a fight. I hope you live up to that name." I replied calmly.
"It's here." He said as he opened a door and we walked in. "You apothecaries treat this patient it's an order from Ragnar. I will be waiting for you outside KenRu." And he walked outside.
One of the 'apothecaries' walked over and started looking at Ellis. "An eldar? Interesting, what is her condition do you know?"
"Yes, I put her in a state of stasis to maintain her life but it won't last much longer and is draining me. Her spine and a few internal organs are damaged the spine will need to be replaced. I can give you the schematics to make a prosthetic if that would help?" I informed him.
With a look of shock on his face he said. "That kind of wound should be fatal… fine we will start… give me the schematics and I shall see to it that it is made."
"Data pad?" I asked as he started rummaging in his pockets.
"Here." He said as he handed it to me.
I started uploading the needed data. "I'm uploading the schematics, interface data for the prosthetics, as well as a manual for implanting it." I said as it finished and I handed the pad to him.
As he scanned through it he jaw dropped as he read through the manual. "This is amazing. This knowledge could… could… could do so much. Were did you get it?" he asked.
"I pulled it out of some archives I ran into a few years back. I'm trusting you with her life. Don't disappoint." I said as I walked out leaving a slight look of fear on his face.
"So KenRu, where did you come from to be able to take down a War Boss on your own?" Ragnar asked as he looked over a holographic map of the surroundings.
"Here, and there; I've been traveling too long to have a home anymore. But once long, long ago and fare, fare away my home land was a beautiful place but then our neighbors decided our peaceful ways were dangerous and that we had to much power." I said with a bit of sorrow.
"It is hard to loose ones home and survive… then were are you going?" He asked as he looked up at me with maybe a bit of pity in his eyes.
"Not sure… It's more about the journey then the destination." I said thoughtfully.
"Then stay here and aid us in securing this planet for Humanity. We will make sure the Eldar is allowed to escape the planet." He said.
"Well there's a problem with that… you see…" I said as I pulled down my hood and reveled my ears to the shock of all in the room.
"You are Eldar?" It was more of a statement then a question.
"Nay, I'm an Elf… how to explain… I'm from a different dimension through the use of naturally occurring rifts in space time, one can use these schisms as doors but they never last long." I may have given more of an explanation then needed but I suppose it was ok, not like they could be much with the knowledge.
"So you aren't from here… then why did you come here?" Fenris asked.
"You mean this dimension? Easy it was to escape assassins. But if you mean this fortress it's because my way out of this place is here."
"Then why have you not left yet?" Ragnar asked curiosity not so evedent in his voice.
"Well that's easy two reasons. One I wish to see how Ellis in before I leave. Two it won't be open until three days from now." I said as I looked at the map. "You know if you reinforce here, here, and here. You should be able to strengthen your defenses."
"You seem to have some training commanding troops. Is this from your travels or your homeland?" Ragnar asked.
"You could say both. I was, and probably still am in some places; a Lord. Not to mention I've led armies against all forms of foes, from Angels to Demons, and even a few gods." I said nonchalantly. "But that was a while ago. Right now I'm just traveling, hoping to find what I lost long, long ago."
"Fine it is not my concern as to what you plan of doing so long as it does not affect the Imporium." Ragnar said as he turned to Fenris "Fine him a room."
"As you wish Brother Caption." Fenris said with a bow.
After two days of mostly staying in my room and some time spent explaining some finer parts of the prosthetics to some 'Tech Priests' the good news finely came to me that "The Eldar is out of surgery." So I went and picked up some food and headed to the infirmary.
"So I heard the good news. I take it everything went well?" I asked one of the Apothecaries as I walked in.
"Yes quite well better then we would have dreamed. She's in the side room, she should be waking up anytime now." He said as he pointed at a door.
I said "Thank you." As I walked over to the door and knocked. With no reply I decided to go in and wait for her to awake.
As I walked in I noted she looked like an angel sleeping peacefully there. I silently entered, closing the door with a whisper, and was just sitting down when she awoke with a start.
"WHAT? WHERE? HOW?" Ellis franticly shouted as she looked right left and then noticed me.
"Nice to see you awake sleeping beauty." I said electing a slight blush from her. "You are in an Imperial Facility as the guest of a caption of the Space Wolf Space Marines."
"Huh? How… Why they hate all non-humans and would rather kill me then save me… but I should be dead… why… how am I alive?" She asked.
"Well, YOU saved MY life. So I saved yours. I always pay me debts in full, and sometimes with a little extra." I said as if everyone did this then I asked "Are you hungry?"
"Yes." She said so I passed her the food I had brought. "But the wounds should have killed me in only a few minutes." She said between mouthfuls of food.
"You're probably right but I put in a form of stasis and brought you here." I said as she wolfed down the rest of the food.
"How." It was more of a statement then a question but I decided it would be best to deal with this now rather then later.
"Your spine was destroyed in several places and some of your internal organs had severe damage… I had them make some prosthetics I… designed a while back to fix the problem you should be able to get up and move around normally in an hour and be running and fighting in half a day. Plus you have well, turn your head around a bit and look at your back."
When she did so she noticed the metal tendrils sticking out from her back hanging over the side of the bed, as she noticed them she started to panic which made them start to flail around which made her panic more. I grabbed her shoulders and said "Calm down you can control a supernatural power which means you have self control master your fear and calm down." It wasn't working; she was just getting more worked up… What to do… well there's that. I moved in and kissed her long and hard. It worked she started to calm and the Machinites stopped flailing.
I pulled back and asked "Are you better? Are you in control now?"
She meekly nodded "Yes, I'm… good. But… but why do I have these?" she asked with just as much dread as curiosity.
"Well the schematics I gave them where just the spine replacement and support implants, but the spine has input plugs for different attachments they insisted on making you machinites, so I gave them some schematics for high end ones instead of the shoddy ones they have. I also showed them how to make a light weight but durable metal called Mithral… you want out of this place I can take you to the room they gave me and we can talk more there."
"Yes, I'd like that." She said as she tried to get up.
As I put a hand on her shoulder to prevent it I said "You might want to give me a minute and… odds are you won't be able to walk yet. I'll be right back." Then I got up and stepped out.
"Hey you got a robe or something? Ellis wants to leave the room but has no clothes." I said to one of the Apothecaries. Who replied by handing me a robe he was holding. "Thank you." I said as I went back into the room to find her on the ground naked and sobbing lightly. She was beautiful but I don't think I'll be going into detail about her.
As I slowly walked over to her she looked up at me with a puppy dog face. "I-I c-can't s-stand. M-my l-legs f-feel all weak and fold under me." She sobbed to me.
"Sh-sh it's ok. It's always like that with these kinds of implants. It will take time like I said for your body to adjust to new wait distribution and nerves. Here put this on." I said as I bent down and helped her get the robes on. Then I picked her up like she weighed nothing and carried her out the door were several apothecaries jaws found the floor. One managed to stammer out "But-but-but she must way 300 pounds now."
I replied with a snicker and "Not even at most the implants added… oh say 40-45 pounds." And I walked out with her machinites curling around my arms and legs.
On the way to my room we passed Ragnar in the hallway. "Ah, good she's awake. I will have to ask that you take her with you when you leave there will be an Inquisitor arriving in a few days." He said with a gruff smile.
"I see…" is all I said as I kept walking.
"Where are you going and how? Wasn't getting here your goal?" she asked as I gently set her down on the bed.
"Yes, my goal is here or I should say the path to my goal is. It will open in…" I checked my readout "3.4 hours and will stay open for 1.2 hours. I can not afford to miss this window."
"Wh-where will it take you?" Ellis asked in a quite voice.
With a sigh I replied "Who knows but away from this filth and corruption. Hopefully somewhere I know." I started rummaging through my pack and pulled out a spare set of fatigues and set them down near the bed then sat in the chair in the corner.
After a few minutes of silence she asked "C-can I come with you? My people will never accept my like I am now and… and I want to see one of these places with no warp that you spoke of."
It was a fair request and it was my fault her people wouldn't accept her. "I guess, there's no real problem with that but Eldar don't exist in other dimensions at least not by that name anyways. You will be a…. high elf. That should do they are a race with high cultural levels and are known for there high aptitude for magic."
"Magic… what's that? Isn't it a superstitious belief that things happen because of some unknown force?" Ellis asked quizzically.
"The same can be said about your so called warp powers, but I suppose a demonstration would help?" I replied.
"Yes that would help." She said wryly.
"So would some dancing lights do, or would you like me to summon a gerbil or butterflies… I know flower petals that should do right?" I asked thoughtfully.
"Can you do flower petals, please?" she asked a little childishly.
"Sure, let's see how'd that go again… Alucan sumanis tolados loranima colanoma tosa." With the last word the room was filled with flower pedals.
"It's… It's beautiful…" she said in awe then she turned to me and asked "Would… Would you teach me?"
"I suppose it wouldn't hurt but we'll wait tell after we leave this place I don't want what I teach getting corrupted. It's already a great power and great powers will corrupt those who are not vigilant." I said.
"I couldn't agree more." It was a new voice one I had never heard and one I didn't much like. It was a man standing in my doorway and I did NOT like what I felt from him.
"I am Inquisitor Todaln, and YOU are not human. What is your business here." He demanded.
"I am just passing through and have no agenda on this place but to leave it in…" I looked at me clock "One hour. I would suggest not trying to stop me Demon Lords have died trying and YOU… YOU are a mere human. What do you think you can accomplish?" I asked while my hands started moving to my knife.
"Worry not I care not for what you and your companion do I owe you that for saving this place the power sleeping here will be awakened soon to destroy the great enemy that threatens us all." He said wish a tone that implied darkness…
"Really?" I asked as I stepped over to my bag and pulled out a sheathed sword. "Then I offer you a gift. It is a weapon that in known as Evlance, and no impurity can bear to be in its life." With the last part I unsheathed the sword revealing a white glowing blade.
The Inquisitor fell back as if its light was fire and ran from the room yelling for someone to kill me.
"Quickly get those close on we'll be leaving in a hurry." I said as I started getting my stuff together.
Half an hour later Ragnar came into the room to find me waiting there with sword in hand. No surprise he wasn't affected by the light.
"What did you do to upset the Inquisitor?" he asked eyeing the sword.
"OH, that that's a funny story you see this sword as the power to cause all who are corrupt to feel great pain when it it's light. I was going to give it to him but guess what." I said with a half cocked smile.
"Its light caused him great pain." Ragnar stated then he went onto ask "May I have it then?"
It was a simple request but was kind of odd… "And why do you wish for it?" I asked.
"It would allow my chapter to sniff out those corrupted by the touch of the warp, and it will give me an excuse to kill an Inquisitor." He said with a smirk.
"This. This I can approve of. I bestow into the keeping of your chapter this ancient artifact of my homeland. This Evlance, The sword of Purities Light; may it serve you as well as it served me in my times of need; let none who are beyond redemption stand before you and cleave the filth from your path with it's edge." And with that I handed the sword little more then a short sword in his hands to him along with its sheath. "One last thing; never kill the innocent with it. If one was to do so they would be killed by the sword for the very act they just committed. I now must be going."
"Very well; Fenris will insure you make it to where you seek." Ragnar said as he stepped back out the doorway and started walking off.
"Ellis, are you ready?" I asked as I looked over to her she was now wearing the spare fatigues I had given her and standing on unsteady legs.
"I…" she took a deep breath "I think so." She said taking an unsteady step forward.
"We don't have time." I said as I swept her up in my arms again taking note that she seemed to snuggle up close to me when I did so.
"Ok." She said as she wrapped her arms and machinites around me. Well this will be interesting. And we head out the door to find Fenris standing there a chain-saw like sword in one hand, and a gun in the other.
"Ready." He asked.
"Yeah, we need to go down two floors." I told him, and he started off.
"This way." He said as he headed off to the left; after a few minute we came to a stairwell and quickly descended two levels. "Where to from here? He asked.
After consulting a map on my retinal implants I said "This way." And started going towards a door a few feet away.
"That's a storage closet." Fenris stated flatly.
"Your point? I asked with a raised eye brow.
He went to say something then fell silent and spun around. "Someone's coming and there armed."
"Well that's our queue I'd offer to allow you to come along but I doubt you'd want to, so good luck and don't die." I said as I kicked open the door and stepped throw to be grasped by the familiar nausea and vertigo of trans-dimensional travel.
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So give me your reviews and what do you think should I take Fenris with us?