"Thank mate." Chris said as he left the shop with a full bag.
Chris was a former college student who was looking for work. But that didn't necessary mean that he couldn't have any fun. He had bought several 40k models along with paint brushes, paint and a codex rulebook. He had stopped playing for while as such he needed to update. As he put his headphones in a thunderclap then scared him half to death. Sighing he moved along the street. That was close as the downpour continued.
He made his way to a traffic light in order to cross to get to a bus stop. But as she stood next to it a lightning bolt hit the object and the lightning hit him. He screamed out in pain but while it lasted for a few moments it then disappeared, as did Chris but not his bag which fell to the floor.
OOOOO
"Ha come and get it Xenos scum." cried a sister of battle welding a heavy bolter.
Bolter rounds flew through the air before impacting the wrathbone of Eldar armour. The sister laughed out loud as the Eldar fell back thanks to her bolter fire. But from a raised position on a hill not too far away a hooded Eldar ranger took aim at the sister. But unknown to him a woman in the threes had already got a feed on him and aimed her sniper at him. She smiled and fired first to get his attention.
The Ranger looked up at her only to be met by a red bolt in the face. She smiled as a tail behind her waved in the air. Behind the sister another women came up. She was dressed in a long red coat with an armoured corset on and thigh-high boots on. She welded a bolt pistol in one hand and a power sword in the other. She aimed at the fleeing Eldar and fired two rounds. Both of them hit the Eldar squad leader in the back killing him dead.
Unknown to her a warp spider was in the trees and looked down on her for a moment before jumping. But before he landed on her a loud bang sounded causing him to fly backwards into the trees. She pulled the pump back as she moved up next to the coated woman. This one wore Cadian flak armour and tunic but without the selves and a shotgun shell bandoleer across her large chest.
The last of the Eldar fled into the trees allowing the women to form up. The sister then stopped firing her heavy bolter but kept a look out just in case they where going to get ambushed.
"Unyaaaaaa." the sniper said as she stretched out after jumping down from the three she was on.
She was a Felinid, a...catgirl to be accurate. She was one of the few allowed to leave her planet but the reason was not well known.
"Good shot as always Mikana." said the coated woman.
"Thank you Selena, or should I say inquisitor?" the catgirl said purring.
The woman with the shotgun just sighed. She was Kimsa Yangari, a former princess but after a rebellion she was little more the a peasant bur she didn't care much as she had already joined the guard as a cultural expert.
Mikana was dressed in a tank top and camo trousers to blend in. but there where holes so that her tail could move. The others shook their heads as her cat ears began to twitch.
"Huh? Something coming." she said.
"TANK!" the battle sister yelled running toward them as fast as her legs would carry her.
The other three turned to see an Eldar Fire prism tank smashing though the trees.
"Oh Emperors teeth." Selena moaned.
The main cannon fired, the energy projectile missed and allowed the four to find cover and hide. Aside for the heavy bolter they had little to take on a tank. Bolters even heavy bolters where not the best idea to take the beast on. But Selena had her finger on her ear. Soon the sound of jets sounded in their ears.
"Unyaaa finally." Mikana said as she watched as a Valkyrie came into sight.
The tank baked a bit as the gunship came in and fired a salvo of storm bolter fire. The rounds bounced off the armour as the main gun charged up. But when it fire the gunship rolled to the side before it fired three rockets. All of them hit the mark and the tank exploded sending wrathbone armour everywhere.
"Good shot Zemus." Selena said with a smirk on her face.
"No problem I'll keep the air clear, by the way I've picked up a power surge where the webway gate is. But the odd thing is that the Eldar haven't left yet." Zemus said over the comm.
"Copy and thanks." Selena said as the gunship flew away. "Something up move with caution."
OOOOO
"Farseer we cannot determine what is causing the fluctuation." one of the Guardian squad leaders.
"I can see that," the Farseer said looking at the webway gate.
Farseer Valnran had been on this hell hole of a planet for too long and she wanted to get back as soon as she could. Humans where so naive about what was on this planet that they deserved to die. Filthy beings, but she had to give credit where it was due, they where stubborn and tough. The Webway had been fluctuating for the last hour so whatever was wrong with it must be due to something trying to come in or something else.
The thing was that she had never heard about Webways acting like this. Just then gunfire came from the tree line. It came so fast that her last group of Guardians fell without hesitation. Valnran took cover behind a rockcreet barricade that an old human force left behind. She only had a group of Rangers who had taken cover in the trees. The fire continued as a human female walked out holding a heavy bolter in hand.
She had stopped firing but had he weapon trained on the Farseer.
"Surrender witch we have you surrounded." she said.
The Farseer could not help but let her mouth curl into a smile as she still had her Rangers in the trees. But just then the sound of gunfire met her ears. She looked to her left where the Rnagers had gone to see slug thrower flashes in the darkness of the trees and feared the worst. When the firing stopped a moment latter, she watched as a large muscular human holding two auto pistols in hand come out followed by the feared Catachan jungle fighters.
She could just surrender she had to do something. Normally she would have senses them but thanks to something on this world her senses where dulled. Just as she was about to move she felt a steel sword press against her neck. Looking up she saw the female Inquisitor who had been hunting her.
"If you value your life you will surrender." the Inquisitor said.
The Farseer just looked at the human with death in her eyes before dropping her sword. With that she stood as two more human came from the treeline followed by Hazard suited Caidans. One of then had a tail and cat ears. That was odd normally those abhumans where kept on their world. But the Farsser then knew that this Inquisitor had her surrounded.
OOOOO
Selena smiled as she took out a pair of cuffs that prevented from the Eldar using their Pyker powers. She forced the Eldar to tun and cuff her hands behind her back before letting the Catachaian Jungle fighters lave with her. She then turned to the Cadain Sargent with fury in her eyes.
"I TOLD YOU TO HOLD POSSITION!" she yelled as she walked up to him.
The other Cadians backed up a bit as they knew her temper. The Sargent just stood there looking at her.
"And I told you that I doubted the Xenos would double back!" the Sargent said back. "They are aliens, animals and must be treated as such. And I refuse to take orders form a subhuman!"
Mikana hissed in annoyance as the fire in the Inquisitors eyes burned even brighter. She pulled out her bolt pistol and aimed it at his chest.
"I have the authority and the right to kill you now! But your skills are not in question, as such..." she said lowing her pistol. "...you'd better hope that I do not find a better replacement."
"Huph." was all the Sargent said.
Just then the fluctuation of the Webway portal began to glow purple making people take notice. It then glowed red, then green then blue. The portal flashed between these four colours fast making the soldiers back up until they where almost at the treeline. It then turned white before firing something out of it before shutting down. The object it flew and landed in a heap by the ruin. Once it landed the Hazard Cadians moved up fast lasguns up.
But as soon as the object was in sight they could see that it was human, or at least looked like it. Whoever it was wore a back top with a hood attached and urban camo trousers and combat boots. Interested Selena came up as well to get a good look. One of the Cadian turned the person over to see that it was a young man barely in is twenties. But his clothing chose questioned her. Why would anyone ware something like that?
"Is he alive?" she asked.
The Cadian laid his lasgun down and pressed two fingers on his neck.
"Yeah he's still alive." he said before he spied a wire.
He followed it to an ear piece. Was he taking orders? He then followed it the opposite way until he came to a box of some kind. One side was silver while the other side, he touched it and a screen came up in a language he didn't understand. So he put it back before looking up at the Inquisitor.
"What should we do with him?" he asked.
"Leave him he has no..." the Sargent tried to say but the Inquisitor fired a round by his foot making him shut up.
"Bring him I have questions." she said before Zemus came in over the comm.
"I'm on the way." she said with the Inquisitor nodding.
OOOOO
Inquisitor's personal ship was a light scouting vessel, a Viper-class Scout ship, was at the planetary port. She wasn't one to wave her Inquisitional title around and liked to keep a low profile. A Viper-class was her preference. The Ship was named 'Fury of the sun'. She liked the name as did her command team. Zemus flew into the hanger with the Arvus lighter transport filled with the command team and Cadians and their new guest.
On they had landed the Cadians left first and headed to the barracks while the command team rolled a stretcher out of the ship with their new guest on it. Three Hospitaller stood waiting for them and moved up to the mobile stretcher and looked at the boy.
"He's young." the lead said as she took a blood sample.
"Yeah, get him to medical let me know if you find anything." Selena said with the lead nodding.
OOOOO
Selena sat in her room looking over a book and sighed. The planet they where on was little more then an industrial feudal world that had called for help against the Eldar. No one knew why the Eldar was there as such, not wanting another Aurelian incident the Inquisition sent her to deal with it. She had also been informed that the 56th Cadian was nearby and would be able to help out if she needed it.
Just then the internal comm activated.
"Inquisitor you may want to come here, its about our new guest." said the lead Hospitaller.
"I'm on my way." the Inquisitor said before she put the book down and stood.
She walked out the door and into the hallway. She turned and walked down it to the lift to get there faster. Making it to the lift she entered and clicked it for level 4.
OOOOO
The lead Hospitaller just looked at the boy her face was utterly confused. The Inquisitor walked in and looked at the boy who was now half naked.
"So what did you want?" Selena asked.
"He is not from the Imperium." the Hospitaller said.
Selena turned to her eyes wide before laughing, but then realised the Hospitaller wasn't smiling.
"His DNA clearly shows no evolutionary progress. Even though humanity has changed based on the planets we have inhabited, but there is a consistency throughout humanity of evolution. His evolutionary progress ends at M3."
"M3?" Selena exploded. "That's years before the Dark age of technology."
"Yes and if memory serves correctly they didn't even colonise Mars. Imagine what he could tell us."
Fury of the sun mobile force:
20 Elite Cadian guardsmen.
2 Cadian commanders.
3 Elysian heavy bolter teams.3 Elysian sniper teams.
8 Elysian commandos.
2 Elysian Turos assault vehicle.
9 Catachan jungle fighters.
7 Storm troopers.
3 Armageddon-pattern basilisk.
6 Chimera transports.
4 Leman russ battle tanks.
3 hydra tanks.
6 Taurox Primes.
5 Sentinels.
5 Valkyrie gunships.
5 Valkyrie troop carriers
4 Arvus lighter.
6 Thunderbolt fighters.
2 Marauder bombers.
2 Marauder destroyers.
1 Stromblade.
1 Baneblade.
