As this is my first Fan-Fic, don't expect anything spectacular......
Prologue: M'Yen'Y'He (Unforeseen destiny)
Shas'la Shas'Nans heart pounded within his chest, all but running through the dense forest growth. Bolter rounds and plasma charges buzzed past as 'Nan ran, carrying his pulse carbine in one arm, and carried his wounded Shas'Ui, M'Yen, in the other. M'Yen's left leg was a mess, shattered by a single bolter round.
The six other pathfinders in Shas'Nans La'Rua was not so lucky, all killed in the failed ambush. They had been tasked with the relatively simple mission of intercepting a Imperial Rhino that held an important target. And the La'Rua had done a wonderful job, blowing down one of giant trees that populated this world, and had painted the Rhino with a marker light, highlighting it for an awaiting Sky ray. And the seeker missile did its job spectacularly, destroying the rhino in a spectacular blast. The Job was done, All that remained to do was to return to the rest of the Kau'Ui.
As the Rest of the La'Rua prepared to leave, Shas'la Ukos strayed close to the burning wreckage, claiming he just wanted to see what they had been sent to destroy. He never got the chance, just as he peered into the burning APC, his body was shredded by bolter fire. It appeared that the occupants of the Rhino rather than dying in the explosion, had something else in mind.
Five tall figures, clad in crimson suits of space marine Armor, climbed out of the wreckage. Four carried bolter's, and were adorned with the Blood Raven insignia. The Fifths Armor was more elaborate, and he carried a plasma pistol and a force hammer in his hands. This one was a [I]librarian[/I]. And if one could see through his helmet, one would see a look that could kill titans was set upon his face.
The Librarian raised his hand towards three of Nan's comrades, and in a blink of an eye, they were sucked into a tear that appeared below them. Shas'la Vral, a good friend of Shas'Nan, leveled his Rail Rifle at the librarian and fired, but the hypersonic round deflected harmlessly off the protective field that surrounded the Pysker. The other marines wordlessly turned their bolters towards Vral, tearing his body to pieces in bolter fire.
Shas'Nan stood in fear at the spectacle, clutching to his carbine, and he would have soon joined Vral in the after life, if it was not for Shas'Ui M'Yen tackling Nan. It was then that M'Yen was rent asunder by a bolter round.
The Marines started to advance to where to two pathfinders lay, when the helmet of one of the tactical marines exploded in a shower of blood, bone, brains, and ceramite showered his battle brothers. The bulky armored giants turned around quickly, far quicker than one would expect, to see whom dare attack them.
They were answered by another rail slug, this one going through the neck of another blood raven, blowing his head clean off. The space marines opened upon the likely source of the rail rifle fire that claimed two of their own.
"Shas'Nan, get the Shas'Ui out of here," came the call of the last pathfinder, besides Nan and M'Yen, Shas'la Savon, over the helmets radio.
"But what of you?" was Shas'Nans reply.
"I will stay and cover you, now Go!" and as to put emphasis to this statement, he rose from his new position and shot at the ravens. This time the round pulverised the lower leg of one, but failed to kill the marine. The Space marines turned to his position and opened fired, but Savon had already moved.
Nan got to his feet and with much effort, got M'Yen standing. The heavily laden Pathfinder started to go as fast as he could with his wounded Shas'Ui. He ran towards the extraction site, where a devilfish was supposed to extract them . He could hear the Savon trade fire with the Space marines for three minutes, before he heard the Shas'la pained cry come over the radio, followed by two more rail rifle rounds and then four bursts from a single bolter.
Then there was silence.
The Shas'la quickly found the strength to move faster.
He ran for seven minutes before the space marines caught up, firing inaccurately, bolts of metal and plasma flying every where. Nan stared straight ahead, running even harder, focused on reaching the extraction point, not even turning his head to see how many marines perused him.
On his radio, he heard the frantic calls from the Devilfish assigned to the pathfinders, urging him on, telling Nan that the transport would soon be there.
Shas'Nan felt his spirits rises as he spotted the field, only to be dashed as he tripped on a rock. He fell, bringing M'Yen down with him. He landed on his side, and started to get up, when he heard a large thing crash through the forest flora behind him.
Nan threw himself to the side, just in time to see the dirt where he was explode as a bolter round missed. Acting on instinct, he raised his carbine and fired full auto, not even bothering to aim. The rounds tore into the chest plate of the space marine, showering the pathfinder in bits of blood and ceramite. The marine fell to his knees, the fell forward, Shas'Nan barely scrambling out of the way.
The Tau sat their for half a minute, staring a the fallen marine, breathing heavily, amazed he was still alive. He started to stand up, but was violently thrown across the field. He groaned as he struggled to get back up, put was pinned in place by the handle of the force hammer. He looked up at his assailant, the Blood Raven Librarian.
The Librarians helmet was off, revealing a scarred face adorned with a sneer, a look of disgust at the Tau.
The Raven released the Tau from underneath the hammers shaft, and then, using his Pysker powers, raised the pathfinder off of the ground to eye level. He made a gesture, and a vortex opened up, a few scant feet from where they stood. Nan saw Shas'Ui M'Yen was sitting up, pulse pistol in his hands, taking aim at the Pysker.
The Librarian opened his mouth, and whispered the battle cry of the blood ravens, "Knowledge is power, guard it well." With that he threw Shas'Nan towards the vortex.
Time seemed to slow to Shas'Nan as he flew towards the tear. He saw the pulse of energy travel towards the librarian in at what seemed a lazy pace. He saw the blood ravens loose half of his face, watched him fall lifeless to the ground. He saw M'Yen collapse to the ground from shock. And then, Shas'la Shas'Nans world was dark.
Iraq, 25 KM northwest of Falluja.
A predator UAV patrols the sky, looking for signs of suspicious activity in the area records a flash on the desert below. Zooming in the predator spies a figure, clad in dark green armor lying in the sand. The images are forwarded to the nearest USA general, Air force General Granger.
Can you guess what is being cross-overed?
