Alright, just thought I would clear up some things with the most recent reviews...

Tanks60808: Granger isn't the one with the deathstrike cannon, that's the night lord of the chapter...

Extartius: Yeah, I guess, but I can see you only went up to chapter 1, so you should read on, there's plenty of actuon, although not entirely accurate. Like you said, I'm still young, and learning about warhammer, so I will try to keep up my studies of warhammer. Mainly what I looked up was how the space marines worked, and not much of anything else...

Now back to the senseless killing and the space marines owning people!!!

Chapter 13: Traitors

They all landed without any complications. There was a dreadnought on standby. A little over kill, but if fights broke out, these crystals need to stay intact. Eric walked at the front of the group. Brother captain Granger was carrying the crystals in a special, radioactive shielding container. He was encircled by three squads of tactical space marines, and one squad of assault space marines. Eric could see that anyone on mars at the time had come to see the mysterious crystals. Eric walked slightly forward, and saw at least a battalion of imperial guards standing guard over the door to the laboratory.

I thought the dreadnought was overkill! Eric thought to himself. They walked through the door, the assault marines standing guard outside the door with the imperial guard. Soon, a tech priest came over, and laid the box on the table. He opened them up, and the crystals glowed an iridescent pink. The techpriest whistled, and started testing things with it. Density, mass, weight, etc. Just too find out what weapon they could fit it into. Granger then walked up to Eric.

"This is just a little too easy if you ask me. We have the most powerful crystal known to man, and no one has tried to stop us short of the eldar army."

"I know what you mean my lord. I will post my men outside the door."

As soon as Eric said this, there was firing outside the door. One of the imperial guardsmen came through the door and shut it.

"Soldier, what's going on out there!?" Granger asked.

The guardsmen just looked at him, scared beyond all belief, and finally answered, "Chaos." He then collapsed on the floor.

"Brother Eric, get out there, and hold them off, I will get the dreadnought down here immediately!"

Eric nodded, and motioned for his squad to follow him.

How did they get to mars, we have defenses everywhere around mars. Eric thought as he went out the door. He saw mainly chaos space marines, or 'traitors' firing on the guardsmen. The assault squad had made its way forward, and was currently engaged with the traitors. Eric's squad immediately opened fire. Taking out four traitors with one volley. Soon, a drop pod had landed, and out came a lumbering behemoth of a machine. It was huge, painted black. Had a flamer and a giant assault cannon on one arm. On the front, in the chest, was a drip of green venom. It charged its way forward, and met the traitors head on, killing without mercy. Eric charged into the fray, and battled alongside the fellow dreadnought. After about ten minutes of fighting, the traitors had been defeated. They had lost fifteen guardsmen, and one fellow brother. The dreadnought was walking away. Eric followed it.

"Quite a battle this time, huh?"

The dreadnought turned to face Eric.

"This is nothing but a lowly skirmish, when you get to a real battle, call me. I have nothing better to do."

He started to walk away, but Eric asked anther question.

"My understanding of dreadnoughts is that you have to severely injured to become one, and then only the most prized fighters become one, how did you die?"

The dreadnought stopped, and turned around once more.

"I died trying to save my friend. I died doing what was right. I died for the emperor. I died because it was my time."

Eric was taken back from this dreadnought, who knew he was dead, but instead of told stories of how he died, or how friends long gone had died, he embraced it, unlike the other dreadnoughts he had heard of.

"Who are you?"

The dreadnought pointed to the drip of venom in the middle of his armor.

"Just call me venom."

He then walked away, scaring the guardsmen that just happened to get too close. Eric walked back to Granger, who was still over seeing the advancement of the crystal. Granger turned his head.

"You're probably going to ask me how the chaos legion got in here in the first place. Good question, we just don't know. From what the guardsmen and our fellow brothers tell us, is that they just appeared out of nowhere. We have also confirmed that these were soldiers of the chaos legion 'world eaters' the most disorganized legion there is. Yet they broke through our defenses. I'm having the tech marines look into it now."

Eric nodded, and looked at his squad. They were covered with blood, and their armor was scratched in several places, but all in all, they were in perfect health. Eric then turned to speak to Granger again.

"How long are we going to be here my lord? This could take years."

"We have to stay here until 65th karskin regiment can get here from Kilarento, they had a bloody fight over there, and I feel for them, but we space marines are better off bringing the fight to people, not babysitting some techs. They should be here with in three days, until then, go have some R&R, we all need it."

Eric saluted, and left. Instead, he ordered that his men have some R&R, and headed back to the ship. He found venom, shut down in his chair. Upon entering the room, Venom immediately activated.

"What is it brother Eric?" He asked his voice cold and metallic.

"I wanted to hear more about you, you're the first dreadnought that I have seen, and I just want to know more."

Venom motioned Eric to sit down in the chair next to him. Eric felt a little uncomfortable, but got over it, and sat down.

"My real name," He began, "is Drago Venorn. I was technically KIA while fighting the chaos legion, 'Emperor's children'. My friend, Grinder, was with me at the time. We were told to hold the space port at all cost."

Venom went on for some time, including his death, and how they saw him fit to become a dreadnought. Eric had lost track of the time, and wanted to make sure his squad got some rest, and was alert the next day, should Chaos decide to rear its ugly head again.

"It's been nice Venom, really, but I have to get my squad, and make sure their rested."

"I understand, may the emperor be with you."

Eric nodded his way good bye, and went out the ship, to find his squad standing around by the laboratory. They were talking, their guns held limply at their sides. Eric marched up to them.

"Alright brothers, I want you all rested for tomorrow, never know when the chaos will attack again, so lets go."

"Yes brother sergeant!"