To Long Live Warhammer40k: Yeah it's going to be bloody. Daemons circle the minds of men like sharks circle a meal.
To Melgar: If they took the Marine to a full complex someone would find out who would tell the SGC, this is a off the record operation. The power armour is almost impossible to get off without the Marine's help and the head was exposed. I try to please. Only heretics delay.
To Iubex Acerbus: The Emperor's Light has a small group of Neophytes on board and a limited Manufactorium. The Sons of Sol will take their vengeance out on the NID. I apologies for any mistakes, I think it sounds good. We fear no Evil for we are fear incarnate.
To emperorprotects: Yeah and thanks. Carry the Emperor's Light in your soul.
To Ravenor: It is easier for the demons to become physical than posses a no-phsyker. As for a Titan where are they going to find one? A bio-sphere could be hidden on the polar caps or inside a valley, but it wouldn't really matter only the highest end civilian telescopes can see in detail the surface of mars and even then all you would have to do to hide the base is paint it red. The battle barge could go behind Phobos or Deimos. NASA all ready knows of the Star Gate project. Thanks. Faith is all a man has.
To Exterminatus: That's because they are complete idiots who never think of the consequences. A Lasgun is a guardsman's best friend.
To Dracowar: The Chaos gods still sleep but the demons that are awake are really weak when compared with the 40k ones. Chaos corrupts all it touches.
To Krakefer: That's true but if they help them retrieve the Marine and take the necessary blood vengeance then they will regain some credibility. All men stand before the Emperor in the end.
To readers: Just a quick note, as none of the chaos gods are awake yet the demons have no specific allegiances but for simplicities sake they will be leaning towards Khornate designs as he is the oldest and strongest so the demons are more effected by him.
The demons leapt through the Warp tear and became physical. The guards were picking themselves off the floor when the first demonic hoof hit the ground. The guards and scientists just stared at the three creatures that had just appeared in front of them, they had red skin with patches of bronze armour fused into it. Their feet were cloven hooves and their knees bend the wrong way. The two at the back carried axes that dripped with blood and the central one had a long two handed sword that also dripped blood. The two at the back were smaller and had shorter horns than the centre one. All of them had heads shaped like those of a humanoid goat. Several of the guards were starring with their jaws hanging lose and one of the scientists had pissed himself.
The strongest, therefore the head, demon looked around it with its blood red eyes. The soul that shinned in the warp like a thousand suns had left this place but they could still collect souls from these mortals. Taking its Hellblade into one hand it shouted in its own language. "Blood for the Blood God!"
Everyone in the room took a step back as the lead creature bellowed into the air. Before they knew what was happening the other two had leapt forward. Swinging the Hellblades they decapitated the two front guards, the lead one jumped through the remnants of the two-way mirror and cut one scientist in half while ripping the throat out of the other. The NID man stumbled backwards as the demon dropped the trachea of the scientist. He screamed. "Stay back you monsters!" While firing off the entire clip into the demon. Several of the rounds bounced off the bronze armour, the few that got through blasted out the back of the demon painting the walls with its blood. The demon looked down at its chest were several small holes were closing, more blood for the Blood God it though with a twisted smile as it swung its sword cutting the NID man in half from his head to his groin.
The guards on in the corridor were frantically running away leaving eight of their twenty in stages of dismemberment. The fighting had been quick and brutal just what the demons lived for.
"Stand and fight cowards!" One demon bellowed down the corridor, the other one grunted in agreement as it buried its deadly axe into a weeping man's chest.
The lead demon came out of the room through the wall. It was smiling in its own way and had the blood of the NID man smeared on its armour and face.
"To the hunt." It said licking its lips with its black tongue.
The three roared into the air and ran down the corridor into the hail of bullets, the guards had formed a defensive line at the other end of the corridor but they were extremely unnerved as the demons ran towards them laughing all the way. Suddenly the gunshots were mixed with screams.
A large crowed had replaced the smaller one composed of homeless people. The police had been alerted to the animal noises, gunshots and screams by a passerby who had noticed the congregating group of homeless, several of whom were attempting to as they put it. "Let the nice animals out." Everyone was pressing for a closer look; several rumours were flying around the crowd they ranged from this being a psychopaths' rampage to being a gang-land battle but no one could make a theory that had anything to do with the animal noises so it was dismissed as being part of a drunk's delusions. Three teams of police had been sent in, several seconds after each one entered garbled messages over the radios about demonic and satanic symbols would come through these were replaced suddenly by screams and what sounded like large animals. The last team sent in had been equipped with a video camera the images had made several of the most hardened police officers vomit, blood was all over the walls in several places a body part were nail in place as well, at one point they had found a pair of eyes tied to a nail protruding out of the wall by their optic nerves. The deeper you went in the more symbols you found; most revolving around an eight pointed star that was either written in blood or body parts accompanied by several smaller symbols. The last images it captured before it was smashed was something with horns moving at break neck speed running down a corridor along with the screams of a man behind it.
"Shit, what the hell am I going to tell these peoples families? They were good men they were killed by a rampaging goat." The police Lieutenant said sarcastically. He was standing next to a squad car with a schematic of the building on its bonnet.
"We don't know it's a goat, it may be a ram or even some sort of gazelle." The simplistic police officer said.
"Shut up! What the hell would a gazelle be doing in a warehouse?" The police Lieutenant shouted pointing at the building and getting strange looks from some of the people in the crowed.
"Maybe it's a secret government conspiracy." The police officer supplied happy that he had seen through the shroud of mystery.
"That will be enough of that." A man in a black suit with sunglasses commanded.
"Who the hell are you?" The police Lieutenant demanded. He didn't like being bossed around and this guy look far too neat to be local.
"Agent Milligan FBI, this location is now under our jurisdiction." The man said removing his sunglasses with a well practiced flick.
"Well is about time one of you shit heads appeared." The Lieutenant growled.
"Please refrain from calling me that. Now what is the situation?" Agent Milligan asked unemotionally.
"We sent in three groups of people, first the two arriving officers then six lightly armed officers and finally a SWAT team fully geared up. None of them have returned and the next team has always found evidence of the precious's deaths." The Lieutenant said.
"That's not all we saw some weird animal on a video camera." The police officer said from his seat.
"Interesting. Any other strange activities?" Agent Milligan asked.
"Yeah just one, couple of the homeless guys say they saw a huge guy wearing, you will never believe this, a suit of blue armour. He was reportedly limping off in that direction." The Lieutenant said pointing his thumb over his shoulder.
"Did you send someone to search for him?" Agent Milligan questioned.
"Hell no, I got my guys getting slaughtered here so why the hell should I send them off to look for some drunks hallucination!" The Lieutenant shouted.
"It's procedure to follow up every lead." Agent Milligan said returning his sunglasses to their previous position.
"Screw procedure, I've got my guys to worry about." The Lieutenant muttered.
"Indeed, well I have to report this to Headquarters. I will return with orders soon." Agent Milligan informed them before walking away from the squad car.
It took nearly an hour for someone at the FBI centre to make the connection between the report from the SGC about a large man in bright blue armour wandering around and the report about a huge man in a blue suit of armour limping away from a multiple murder scene. When they eventually made the connection the SGC was alerted immediately, fortunately it came when it did as Angelus was preparing to call in the Emperor's Light and start invading random cities. All this time the police at the scene were ordered to continue the operations to arrest the people that were holed up in the warehouse. With every soul, no matter how weak, the demons collected they could stray further from the Warp tear and became more powerful. As the last police officer's corpse dropped to the floor the demons let out a roar that scattered most of the crowed outside, soon they would be within reach too. The warehouse its self was beginning to change, what looked like bone was growing over the walls and windows, blood had started to leak from cracks in the walls and the doors were growing large serrated teeth on the frames. In the former interrogation room the pink Warp rift pulsed and grew with ever new soul sacrificed to it, every demon in the Milky Way was waiting for it to be large enough for them to flood into the physical world.
Elizabeth Weir walked in on the Marines' interrogating the guards at the gates for the fourth time. Both guards were severely scared and tired, Levi who had arrived ten minutes after Cerberus abduction was scanning their minds again while Angelus threatened them with thousands of ways to die horribly. Sometimes she wondered how much effort he put into being violent.
"Captain Angelus we have a report about your Librarian." Elizabeth Weir said as Angelus threatened the guards with being dropped in to a planet's atmosphere for the sixth time. The twist this time was that they were naked.
"What? Take us there now!" Angelus shouted forgetting all about the guards, much to their relief.
"We have a truck standing by to take you, Librarian Levi and another fifteen Marines of you choosing to the site." Elizabeth Weir said.
"Levi gather the Marines, we go for vengeance." Angelus said he was happier now he had people to blame.
"There are also reports of strange animals at the scene. Could you Librarian have done anything to cause this?" Elizabeth Weir asked blocking the door. Both guards respect for the Dr. Jumped when the Marines stopped to answer her.
"I cannot sense the use of a Psyker's powers for a hundred kilometres around but he may be out of range, take use there and I will tell you." Levi offered.
"Very well I will send SG-1 with you." Elizabeth Weir said, neither Marine answered as they swept out of the room.
Gathering the Battle-Brothers was quick; the best Tactical Marines were going with Angelus and Levi. Kage, the Terminators, Baltus and the five remaining Tactical Marines were to remain here at the SGC. If Angelus gave the order they were to cleanse it, contact the Emperor's Light and take the Blood Vengeance on this world.
"Remember, we are going to recover Cerberus and take vengeance on those who did this. We are not going to attack any civilians, local law enforcement or military units unless they engage us. Do not show these people mercy if they fight us." Angelus said to the Marines in front of the truck. After he received nods of confirmation. "The Emperor protects." He gave the Sons of Sol's salute.
"The Emperor protects." All the Marines returned the salute. Then they began to get seated in the truck.
"Well off we go again." O'Neill said making sure Teal'c was between himself and Angelus.
"Are you still afraid of getting hurt by the Captain O'Neill?" Teal'c asked moving away from O'Neill.
"Of course not." O'Neill replied with fake hurt at the accusation.
"Then let us board with them." Teal'c said, ignoring the glare O'Neill gave him.
"Yeah, I just wish Daniel was here so we could understand what they are saying." O'Neill said as he climbed into the truck after Teal'c.
The truck ride was long for O'Neill mainly because every time he tried to start a conversation with a Marine they would ignore him, continue mumbling in their language or tell him to stop interrupting their battle preparation; as far as he could see they were ready to go. Suddenly the truck swerved to a stop and nearly drove several cars off the road.
"Angelus I have a fix on the location of Brother-Cerberus, his warp signature is weak and I think he is injured. He is that way." Levi said pointing out the window.
"You, take us over there and do it quickly." Angelus said to the driver while pointing in the same direction as Levi.
"Angelus, we may have a problem, I am sensing the strongest demons I have felt in this Universe and they are all here in physical form. We have to hurry before they begin to attack the populace." Levi said after a few minutes. His face was strained with worry. No one on this planet had even the tiniest of hopes to ward off a full demonic incursion.
"Are you sure Levi?" All he got for an answer was a nod. "Very well, you drive faster you entire world is at risk." Angelus said to the quickly paling driver.
Cerberus was found wandering on the highway, there was obvious evidence of him being attacked and there were scorch marks on his head. He was laid down on the floor of the truck with the entire Marine group gather around, Teal'c and O'Neill tried to catch some of the conversation but it was in Gothic so they quickly gave up. Cerberus could barely talk so Levi had to take the knowledge from him, his mind was jumbled mess all he could get out was a constant stream of apologies to Angelus and Levi mixed into these were his begging's for forgiveness from the Emperor for not being able to stop the demons.
"Cerberus you rest now. We will get you home and have Samuel fix you up just relax for now." Angelus said to Cerberus.
"Thank you Angelus, I feel so tired." Cerberus said just before he passed out.
"I will kill everyone who took part in this." Angelus hissed looking down at the injured form of Cerberus.
"Yes the Sons of Sol will have their vengeance for this atrocity but first we must stop this Warp rift, they may even be one and the same." Levi said and all the other Marines nodded their agreements before returning to their battle prayers.
"You know Teal'c; we have to learn their language some time." O'Neill said from his seat.
"Indeed, but you have trouble with your own language at times." Teal'c quipped.
"Teal'c this is neither the time nor the place for you horrible attempts at humour." O'Neill muttered with a smile.
The truck sped down the highway and turned into a warehouse district. Levi could feel the demons they were getting stronger.
O'Neill jumped out the truck as it ground to a halt outside the warehouse. He took his cap off and scratched his head. The scene in front of him was the weirdest he had ever seen.
"Shit, you don't see that every day." He said staring at the now fully mutated building, the walls were growing pulsating skin and the teeth on the doors were moving around the frame.
"This is definitely the work of Chaos." Levi said getting out the truck.
"What have these fools done?" Angelus asked of Levi.
"Let's go and find out." Levi replied.
"What the hell do you want?" The police Lieutenant shouted as he ran over.
"We are here to invade that." O'Neill stated proudly, pointing at the pulsating warehouse.
"Right, so you guys have a death wish." The police Lieutenant said sarcastically.
"We have no such wish. We have come properly prepared." Teal'c said indicating the Marines who were climbing out of the truck and re-checking their weapons.
"Who the hell are those guys?" The police Lieutenant asked as Angelus drew his Power Sword and checked its edge.
"They are our best assault team." O'Neill said looking rather smug.
"Yeah sure, whatever, you will have to talk with the FBI guy; he's around here some were." The Lieutenant said walking off.
"Well gentlemen, I am so glad you could find the time to come and sort out or little problem." Agent Milligan said he just appeared behind O'Neill seemingly from thin air. His statement was undermined as another series of screams echoed through the streets.
"What's the situating here?" O'Neill said watching as several more police officers began to tool up.
"We have sent in seven teams of the locals, none have returned and all are presumed dead." Agent Milligan said offhandedly.
"We must hurry; the Warp rift is getting stronger." Levi called from the truck.
"Right, well you held the man Agent let's get to work." O'Neill said as what looked like an eye appeared on the wall of the warehouse. This is going to give me nightmares for weeks, he thought to himself.
"Space Marines it's time for us to go." Teal'c shouted.
"Space Marines? Who are these people?" Agent Milligan asked. Pointing at the Marines who were fixing the fuel tanks onto the two flamers they had.
"They are the government's best assault squad, you know off the record kinda' stuff." O'Neill said in a lowered voice.
"O'Neill we are ready to go. You and Teal'c will remain here." Angelus said as he and the other Marines walked passed.
"I suggest we get the police and civilians away from here, it's going to be a bit messy." O'Neill said. Agent Milligan looked at O'Neill for a moment before he ran off and confronted the police Lieutenant. They got into a long argument with both men waving their arms in the air; eventually the police Lieutenant gave in and started to clear out the civilians and his men. Everyone was cleared out by the time the Marines had gathered around the warehouses door.
"Brothers avenge Brother-Cerberus." Angelus said. He nodded to Levi who blew the door open with a ball of Warp fire.
"Another Psyker!" One of the demons bellowed the other two roared in agreement. With his soul they could roam this city and collect more souls to feed the rift, soon many more demons would walk with them. Then this world would be their play thing, so many souls to feed the Warp.
The Marines filed into the building and set up fire points. O'Neill sat down on the truck's bed and waited for the fireworks to start. Teal'c had a staring match with an eye on the wall. It was another day in the life of SG-1.