The Guardsman kept on looking at the billboard over the counter, but he didn't seem to be satisfied by what was proposed to him. The Vespid just in front of him got his order and paid, so now it was his turn, but he didn't have a clearer idea of what he'd take.

« What will it be, sir ? » Asked the Burger Marine in charge of taking the orders.

The Guardsman sighed loudly, still looking at the meals. This was enough for the Marine for understanding that something was wrong.

« - A problem, sir ?

- Not really, no... It's just... I come here regularly, and yet... Well, I'm getting kinda bored. You always serve the same meals, all over again... Nothing in your menu ever changes, nothing is ever added... Can you give me something new ? »

New... New... New... New...

His last word echoed in the silence of the restaurant, which was quite surprising considering it was dinner time. Wondering what was going on, the Guardsman took a look behind him. Every single customer of the restaurant was looking at him with terrified eyes, including those who were in the other side of the room. Worse, everybody seemed to have been frozen in place. He could see an Ork Nob staring at him although he was apparently about to bite in his burger ( he could even see the sauce of his meal slowly dripping from it), and numerous other customers frozen as they were chewing on fries and burgers or sipping their drinks.

He looked back at the Marine, deeply disturbed. The Marine was silent, but he could have sworn that the ocular lenses of his helmet widened somehow. And he wasn't the only one : all his colleagues at the counter and in the kitchens were staring at the Guardsman. Wopper, the restaurant's dreadnought, was even leaning his hulking mass from behind a pillar for having a better look at him.

« Would you please wait ? I must go search the manager. »

The Marine said those words in a tone that was colder than a winter night on Valhalla. He left his desk and disappeared behind a door on the side. The Guardsman heard some rumor in the room behind him. A quick look informed him that a few of the customers were rushing to the exit. This included, among a few Guardsmen, Eldar Guardians and Tau Fire Warriors, a Necron Lord and a World Eater.

The Burger Marines and the other customers were still staring at him silently, the first with an outraged and enraged look, the others with a terrified one.

Finally, the manager arrived. The captain Kayeff See stopped right in front of him, from behind the counter, and looked at him in the eyes. To say that the Guardsman had an foretaste of the Warp just by giving back his stare wouldn't do justice to how he was feeling.

« So, this is the heretic who wants something new ? »

The Guardsman swallowed his saliva with difficulty. Being called a heretic by a seven and a half foot tall demigod was already bad news, but to add to the uneasy feeling his sentence created, the captain spat the word « new » like some annoying grot he'd have inadvertantly been chewing, thinking it was a pastry.

« - Well... I... I... Staggered the Guardsman.

- The Burger Marines have been founded by the Emperor himself, worm, continued the Marine. One of the Sacred Commandments He gave us was to serve the best of the best of mankind's gastronomy. Those meals we serve here ? Their recipes have been approved by the Adeptus Gastronomicus after centuries of trials, tests and experiments. All this hard work not only for serving the best meals, but also to ensure that His will would be carried on until the End of Times. And you, you unworthy son of a squig, you want us to betray our ideals just for getting something new ? »

The Guardsman, shaking in fear, would still have tried to say that he was sorry for the trouble he caused... If the captain hadn't already drawn his storm bolter out.

A few seconds later, the servo-skulls patrolling the restaurant had already cleaned the mess created by the commotion.

Captain See put his weapon back into its holster, before giving a general glance at the customers. They were all looking a bit distressed by what just happened.

He immediately switched to his most charming smile.

« And don't forget our special offer of the week, yelled the captain in a playful tone : for two Supersize menus bought, you get a regular one free ! »

The expression on the face of the customers immediately changed.

« WARP YEAH ! » Screamed all the customers in unison.