This is my first Warhammer 40k fanfic. I'll keep writing this only if I receive a sufficient number of reviews.
Battle Honours: Ordo Exterminatus by xiao32615987
Field stripping a Lasgun is never an easy task. Field stripping a Lasgun in a battle situation is harder, but not impossible. Field stripping a Lasgun in a battle situation whilst directly under enemy fire is every soldier's worst nightmare; but achievable. Field stripping a Lasgun in a battle situation, whilst directly under enemy fire and only having one arm… now you get the picture.
SNAFU: Situation normal, all f****d up; yeah, that just about described it. Of course, he'd been in worse situations than this; but for the guardsmen around him, green as a newborn Ork; this was probably their very definition of hell.
The Lasgun was one of the most reliable pieces of technology in an Imperial Guardsman's armoury; but even it went wrong sometimes; and when it did, it was a complicated procedure to get it right again. It was the unfortunate man before him who was faced with this task. Having his arm blasted off by a grenade made things harder; yet he still went about the task resolutely, albeit slowly.
He wondered what it was that drove these ordinary men to such extraordinary feats of… was it bravery? It certainly wasn't training; but could it be courage? Faith in the Immortal Emperor of Mankind? Or was it simply a primitive and desperate desire to survive which propelled this soldier's one good hand as it opened the casing of the weapon?
Whatever it was that pushed these men, he didn't know it. To him; courage was his duty, the Emperor his guidance; and training and battle merged into the same thing. He had forgotten what it was to be truly human a long time ago, longer than that one-armed man could even imagine; for he was a Space Marine, an enhanced human, a faithful servant of the Immortal Emperor. He was proud to carry the esteemed title of Brother-Sergeant Tarchus of the Imperial Fists, one of the most loyal and elite of all of the Chapters.
Yeah, this is just a very short intro, that's why I included the first chapter as well.