Disclaimer: I do not own Halo,Warhammer, or anything else in the script.
Author's Note: SO you know, this is a background chapter about John, it is based 11 years before chapter one, John is 21 in this time-frame, don't flame this chapter, it is just to give John some more character to him. He joins the military shortly after this incident. By the way, I know this is short.
Chapter 11: Through the Fire
John looked around him, everyone was dead, the orks hit Alchron V hard and fast, it was slaughter he was looking at.
"Sam!" he yelled desperately, "Aliyah! Is anyone out there?"
He crumpled down into a ball and started mourning at the lack of answers, his home had been burnt to the ground, his family was apparently dead, and more then likely he was about to join them.
Suddenly he heard something, it sounded like cloth, he grabbed his machete off the ground, If I'm going to die, I'm taking as many of these bastards with me as possible.
An ork leaped from behind a rock and tried to hack him with its Axe, John evaded this attack and sliced off the thing's head with his machete, right after that he went on up a hill and nearly screamed,.in front of him was a field of bodies, most were decapitated, and gathering heads, were orks, being ordered by their Warboss to put the heads on his truck.
He charged down surprising the orks and catching most of them off guard, he sliced his way down to the Warboss and swung with his machete in rage, the Warboss not caught off-guard put his power claw in the way and tossed the machete aside, then laughing evilly, picked John up and tossed him thirty-two feet into the air.
John landed with a thump as the Warboss waddled over to finish him off, it went to cleave his head off with its power-claw but John rolled aside screaming in agony as the claw raked down his cheek to his chin, John, now blinded by rage, picked up a lazgun off the ground and fired at the Warboss hitting it in the haw, the Warboss just ignored his firing and approached with all the time in the world.
The Warboss this tie grabbed him with its claw, John knew exactly what it was about to do, it was about to squeeze him with those sharpened mechanical fingers, Shit.
Right as the Warboss began to do this, he was pelted by bolter fire, Space Marines!
The Warboss fell dead and the Marines continued firing, killing every green skinned bastard in sight, it left him in awe as the mercilessly murdered every ork, big to small, in sight.
One of them walked over, John could tell he was a younger initiate, he was clad in orange, what chapter is clad in orange?
He spoke," My name is Brother Mathew Dalagarde , are you alright?"
"I've been better." he groaned.
"Come one, lets get you patched up."
Shortly after he recovered from the infirmary, he joined the Imperial Guard 26th Cadian Regiment.
Author's Note: Yes they've been getting short, but thats mainly because the text isn't as spread out anymore, also thats John's reason for being in the Imperial Guard.