POTUNK, POTUNK.
this strange sound could be heard all over the battlefield. continuous like the sound of breathing.
POTUNK, POTUNK, POTUNK, POTUNK.
"FALL BACK!"
"FALL THE FRAK BACK!"
VODEW, VODEW!
"AAAARGH!"
John swore softly as he laid prone on the muddy trench floor as the sound of the approaching combat reached him. No, it wasn't combat. it sounded to one sided than space marines vs feral orks for the emperors sake!
It was a massacre!
An light amoured figure jumped over the trench john laid in, shouting in an alien language that he could barely understand, but knew the fear it held.
another, more amoured soldier tried to follow but could barely jump the gap before he was grabbed from behind. Electricity sparked from the metallic gauntlet, zapping the soldier, most likely a tau trying to follow a retreating eldar stone dead before he could cry out. he fell on top of john, almost making him cry out.
"SURRENDER, OR BE DELETED" the voice heavily metallic, and almost rusty sounding.
"definilty not a necron" John thought quietly to him self. expecting the being to step into the trench, he remained still, hoping it didn't stand on him. It didn't step on him. nor did it step into the trench.
it jet-packed softly down.
THUD
"THIS IS CYBER-COMMANDER TO ALL FORCES, T.A.R.D.I.S MATERIALIZATION HAS BEEN DETECTED. ALL CYBER-UNITS ARE TO CONTINUE COMBAT ROUTES, BUT CYBER SQUADS APLHA 1337 AND Charlie 138 ARE TO REPORT HERE ASAP. FOR THE CYBERIAD!"
John looked at the robot... thing... and realized he had one chance. he slowly moved the the tau fire warrior corpse off him, slowly backed off from the machine, still barking orders through some built in com-link. then he did, in this mind, one of the most crazy and desperate things ever.
he turned and ran, as fast as his flak amour would allow.
"CYBER-TROOPERS, MOVE INTO DEFENSE PERIMETERS AROUND ARTILLERY BASE... PLEASE STAND BY..."
John risked a look back and swore loudly. The machine had turned its head and looked at him.
The head an 'communication device' coming out of its 'ears' and linking on the top of its head and the eye holes seemed to have tear ducts at the lower edges. The chest was heavily amoured, and a sign, like its head, was built into the chest. the right arm had some sort of flamer device, and the hands, as it flexed them, had some sort of circular light from its palms. Its face had a slit at where a taus mouth could be and the thing had a should mounted 'multi-laser' on its right shoulder. The machine was a sight to behold and also really scary and creepy, enough, john guessed, to scare an eldar. maybe even spook and space marine...
"SURRENDER, AND BE UPGRADED, OR YOU WILL BE DELETED." the machine walked forward, and a lighter, more pristine sound he had heard earlier issued out.
PSSHTUNK
"what the HELL are you!?" john looked behind him as he prepared to run.
"WE... ARE... THE CYBERMEN... SURRENDER FOR UPGRADING OR YOU WILL BE DELETED!"
Two slightly chunkier machines walked out of the smoke behind the 'cyberman' as it spoke.
during the conversation (if it could be called that) john had noticed the word 'cyber' had not been used for several years, not even by the chaos marines. he had also realized that the machine had looked similar to a story he had heard. when the two other 'cybermen' had appeared, as well as the name being said, it fell into place. all of it.
The cybermen. the Cyberiad. the world consumers, the unstoppable legion, the emperors greatest enemy. The conquerers of the universe at one point for the emperors sake! They were BACK!
The cybermen had returned after almost 17 millienia. There was only one thing to say now before legging it.
"FRAK!"
REQUEST
Please rate and inform me of things i need to change or do. if you are confused, read 'titus' discharge' before you read the next chapters. i thank the author of that for the idea. I do not own doctor who, war-hammer 40k, but i do own the new look of cyber men and the 'cybertroopers' and 'cyberthrall' ideas.
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