Chapter- 2
Nick felt his entire being wobble along with the force in which they were thrown from one plane of existence o another, he reached out and struggled to close the door but he managed it eventually,
"Jesus Christ! You could warn me the next time you do something as reckless as that Nick"
but Nick couldn't more about what she had to say. They were going to be dropped into an universe where death was the most merciful end you could think of, not to mention the atrocities committed by everyone. He started laughing hysterically, it was strangely funny to him the fact that he died wasn't enough but the fact that they were going to be dropped in a place such as the forty second millennium or was it the forty first? Was probably life's way of screwing him over,
"You okay there Nick? I don't want you to lose your head just yet okay even if you do just make sure it's while we're fighting a Bloodthirster or something"
Nick stopped laughing, "I know, I don't look like someone who would dabble in the events of grimdarkness. Blame my elder brother, he got me into it"
he nodded in response. After a while Nick finally addressed the elephant in the room, "You said Slipspace, what exactly does that mean?"
Alex looked at him, her helmet masking all the emotion, "The drive uses particle accelerators to rip apart normal space-time by generating micro black holes. These holes evaporate via Hawking radiation in a nanosecond. The real quantum mechanical "magic" of the drive is how it manipulates these holes in space time, squeezing even a hundred thousand-ton cruiser into Slipspace".
"Uh huh, I think I understand. Is it safe to assume that it's safe and FTL? ",
"Yeah and a thousand times more faster and efficient than Warp drives, the Webway or same cheep knockoff made by the Tau, the Necrons are probably the only one who could surpass this as our benefactor gave us only Dark Age level tech", he was silent for a moment then he continued,
"What about our offensive capabilities?",
"Oh, no need to worry this baby's cargo area is connected to a subspace, that means we have near unlimited storage capabilities and we can switch between virtually any type of weaponry" she pointed at the panels,
"We have Melta, Plasma, Las, Vortex, Conversion Beams and a whole lot of weaponry that would take a lot of time to explain", Nick's mood was arguably better than it was in the beginning, 'Maybe It's part of the upgrades?' he thought. "Alex, how exactly are the two of us going to stop a planetary invasion ?",
"I thought You'd never get to that part smarty pants as for the answer to your questions, we're fighting Orks, entering realspace now",
"You could've mentioned the fact that we're fighting giant warmongering fungi in the beginning" his voice was dripping with sarcasm,
"Relax, I'll hack into the Imperial vox lines and we'll pass to and take Intel from them info and I'll drop you off to assassinate any and all Warbosses ", the planet in front of them was green and Earth-like except for the fact that its continents were in the wrong shapes.
Hive Calicut, sector 53, Imperial lines.
Anthony was not having a good time, he had been recently promoted to Captain and was in command of the 4th, 5th and 9th companies after the premature death of is superior by a Ork rokkit blowing him to bits, he died when they had tried to assault a Warboss's camp within the Hive and their initial assault had failed, now they were on the defensive. 'Come on Anthony put up a brave face, if not for yourself at least for your men' he scolded himself in his thoughts; he pulled out his chainsword and leveled his laspistol at the approaching horde of gigantic creatures.
"Stand fast men, the Emperor think it's time for us to join him at his side then let's make sure we take as many as these fouls Xenos with us"
a defiant cry rose up amongst the lines. There were three times more orks than them. Guard artillery bombarded the orks as they charged towards the entrenched Imperials barely noticing their comrades being blown apart rather being more driven by their comrade's deaths, a bloodthirsty cry rang out, "Waaaagh!" the nearby orks rushed forward with even more fervor as they continued to be bombarded by artillery shells.
"Fire at will" Anthony bellowed at the top of his lungs and the Imperial lines immediately exploded into a fury of red lasbolts, boltershells and autocanon rounds flew and hit the orks as a show of the final defiance of the men women of the 4th, 5th and 9th companies, "This is it my brothers and sister in arms, our last stand remember you do not fight because you hate what's in front of you but rather because you love what's behind you, the homes you all left behind, the wives, daughters, mothers, sons you all left behind. Remember you fight for them! " another round of cheers passed along the lines as the enemy got closer. Anthony felled a few Orks with his laspistol as they rushed forward, he revved up his chainsword preparing himself for melee combat, the Orks hit the right flank first, the guardsmen put their bayonets to good use but for every Ork they fell three more would take its place. Anthony slashed at an ork boy and let the blade do its work, he rolled to the side as another swung its choppa at him as he used the last few bolts in his laspistol to turn the offending boy's head into red squishy pulp, He continued cutting down orks as, keeping his previous mentor's and his father's lesions in his mind as he hacked, slashed and decapitated his way through. The ground underneath him began to shake as if something was pounding at the planet itself; he looked forward as he saw the warboss and his Nobz rushing to his position, "Lookie there boyz, dats a humie dat kan krump lotz of our boyz, we've gott urselvez a good zogging fight here Waaagh!"
he then charged towards Anthony's position,
"Emperor save me" he muttered under his breath, his legs suddenly felt weak and wanted to give out from under him but his firm resolve kept him standing.
Anthony was on the final verse of his prayers when a loud screech took everyone's attention, it came from above them, letting his curiosity win over his sense of self preservation he looked up and saw a sleek red craft roaring across the skies as it passed over the orks it started dropping what resembled bombs from an open hatch located on the undercarriage, these bombs upon contact with the ork lines resulted in huge explosions resulting in reduced Ork population on the planet,
"Oi boss dat flying thingamajig iz heading here "
Meanwhile
"Are you sure this is safe?!"
he shouted over the rushing even though the amplifiers in his helmet meant that he wouldn't need to,
"Of course, it's completely safe if just remember aim for the Warboss, he and his boyz are the main problem for the guard in this area", Nick grabbed his new power axe and clutched it tight alongside with his power Shotel,
"What will you be doing in the meantime?",
"I'm going to provide air support for the guard, target coming up in 3,2,1 GO!GO!GO! "
Nicholas let go and screamed on the top his lungs "Ho frickin Ho Xenos scum!"
he plummeted towards the earth at breakneck speeds. Seconds later there was a loud crunch as Warboss Skull krarkah was just split in half, and on top of him a red armored figure, he held an axe in one hand and saber in the other. He didn't even wait after landing and within moments he was already tearing through the Nobz,
"Oi! Dat big red Spoice muhreen just krumped the Boss and the Nobz",
"He's gonna krump uz all, run!" and run they did but to no avail as the red attack craft came in for a second attack run and started bombing them all to damnation.
Nick tore through the Ork lines not giving them a moment's respite, his saber decapitated and his axe hacked and slashed the Ork boyz apart, "Take this ya daft git" and several rokkits came flying at him, he braced himself and they exploded. "Ha dat'll teach da daft git", the Nob who ordered the attack squinted his eyes at the smoke, and a small red orb came flying out of the dust and landed at his feet and he bent over to observe it. It was simple enough, round and red with a golden top which seemed to rotate, "Wot da?…" he never got to finish his sentence as the small orb exploded and killed all the orks in the vicinity, "Damn! So that's what the decorations do and the shields on my armor man, gotta love them" he muttered to himself as he continued charging onwards.
Anthony was bewildered but didn't waste any time in rallying his men and ordering them to charge as this was too good of an opportunity to pass up,
"Onwards my brothers and sisters for the Emperor!"
"For the Emperor!" and they all charged into the fray following the armored warrior into the smoke and dust left behind by the bombs his craft which was still doing strafing runs. They all charged onwards, las bolts felling Orks by the score, bayonets plunging into green flesh and the occasional but rare plasma rounds, soon enough they had reached the ork encampment and he ordered his troops to slow down, the warrior in red stood near the carcass of a Leman Russ tank, he turned back and pointed at Anthony and waved him over, gulping down his nervousness he slowly approached the Astartes,
"Hello there" his voice boomed out from the speakers of his helmet ,
"Greetings lord space marine it is an honor to be in your presence" , "
The honor is mine Guardsman but I am not an Astartes, however I am here to assist you in",
"I see" the man scratched his chin, "I don't suppose your craft has anything that can break down that former Arbites fortress, it's out of the range of our artillery",
"I think I have just the thing for that", Alex's voice came out of Anthony's vox set,
"Who are you?",
"The one who has been providing air support to you all this while",
"I apologize for my behavior then honored one", after a moment of silence her voice came back on,
"Captain tell your men to be ready, I am going to fire some vortex missiles and the moment the walls comes down you follow my colleague into the breaches",
Anthony quickly forwarded this message to all his officers , and it was all in the span of a moment that Alex came zooming over and shot multiple missiles at the wall and upon impact the fabric between realities was torn open as the wall, all the heavy weapon emplacements and a lot of the orks . "Charge!" and by the time Anthony had yelled out his command Nick was already in the thick of it and slaughtering Orks left and right.
The Orks were panicking, their boss dead, his Nobz dead meant there was no one to take leadership and direct them, and Alex was now hovering over the former Arbites fortress gunning down any and all Orks that were trying to escape, releasing a salvo of rockets and explosives when they tried to mass up. "Don't worry Nick you've racked up quite the kill count for a first mission, Aah and here come the wall of guns", no sooner did she say that did the Tsunami of green fatigue wearing bodies enter the fortress unleashing red lasbolts of vengeance upon the offending Xenos. The battle didn't take long and after it was done the guardsmen started to circle around Nick and praising him, "Let's hear for our protector, the Angel of death" said a Guardsman at the back of the crowd and the grounds of the fortress erupted into cheers, "Thank You all" Nick made sure to adjust his speakers volume so that everyone could hear him,
"But it was all of you who did the hard work, so give a round to yourselves"
the cheers got even louder. No one noticed the red craft slowly lowering to the ground but Nick quietly climbed on and in almost no time they were gone.