Chapter-6

Farseer Ameria didn't know if she truly lost it, this was a trick by the Laughing God or the Monkiegh had truly survived being eaten by a servant of She Who Thirsts, and if tearing his way out of a Greater Daemon's stomach wasn't showy enough it's back erupted into fire and propelled it upwards and it landed on the Daemon's shoulders. The human raised his arms above his head and pummelled it downwards, impacting right on its skull with a loud crack breaking one of it's horns in the process,

'CEASE! YOUR! FAGGOTRY!' he swung its fists down with every word.

The daemon toppled over along with the human in red, it tried to move but the human was faster and was upon it within seconds and continued its assault,

'I! SAID! CEASE!' he swung his fists down again,

the daemon twitched but didn't fade away like all Warp spawn , one of the other humans present rushed over to him and checked him up and down, his helmet came off and the Monkiegh's face was being checked over by his compatriot, though she couldn't point it out there was something positively different about this one. After being checked over by who she assumed was the psyker and the medic the human retrieved a cubical device from his comrade in red, he turned his attention towards the Neverborn lying on the ground,

'Farseer what do the Space Marines intend to do with the Daemon?', 'I do not know Gilmela but what I do know is that those are not space marines, at least the two in red and whatever they intend to do with the daemon cannot be good.' The Howling Banshee Exarch looked at the scene playing out again, 'Then we must strike now!' the Farseer sighed but eventually agreed.

The Rangers quietly positioned themselves in place while various squads of Howling Banshees snuck around ready to burst out at any moment, Ameria observed her enemy closely, their armour was bulky like typical Monkiegh power armour but it looked much more advanced, if the six lenses that were present in front of them, their weapons that shot out energy not laser but pure energy and the group of psykers were any indication that their foes would not be bested easily.

NICK's POV

After being checked for and being declared corruption free by Rameses I turned my attention to the incapacitated Daemon in front of me, Rameses and his brothers' technique of channelling energy into him and turning said energy into a lightning bolt and hurling it at the daemon had effectively lobotomized it and turned it into a vegetable.

I walked closer, device in hand, when I was but a step away from the Neverborn I looked back and said, "This better work Alex", she gave me a huff in response, I swear as good of a friend that woman was she could get on one's nerves given the easily.

I pushed the middle of the cube in and it started to hum and a feeling of unease washed over me then it went away, the Psykers were hit harder but then relaxed as well, it continued to hum in power and right when I was putting it down in front of the vegetable something impacted my hand and I was forced to drop it and duck for cover when I realised there was none. Congratulations Idiot you just won the smartest person of the year Award I reprimanded myself.

I stood up and reached for my revolver, yes it was a revolver say what you will but the thing was wicked awesome, switching it to spew out Plasma and then I aimed, only the problem was that they were fucking everywhere and if that wasn't enough some lithe figure in bone white armour came dancing through the Guardsmen who weren't mad or rambling after that encounter with the Keeper of secrets,

'Frakking Eldar what in the bloody Eye of Terror are they doing here?'Spartacus shouted

Those arrogant sons of... alright calm down and start killing them; I aimed at the Banshees first as the Rangers who I assume were the ones shooting us from everywhere weren't causing much damage were less of a threat due to our armour and shields. I pulled the trigger and the projectile flew out at blinding speed not that the banshee cared anyway but right after she somersaulted over it, the thing exploded melting her spine in the process, oh did I mention that her squad mates had their armour melted and fused to their skin and were writhing on the ground in pain? Well I couldn't care less,

'Form up around the Keeper; we need to protect the device!' I ordered over the comms, everyone formed up, Rameses and his boys set up a wall of Warp fire around our position.

We fought and held our ground it felt like half an hour had passed but in reality it was only a minute and a half, the Eldar Rangers were shooting at us from well fortified positions, one of Spartacus' men was hit badly as his shield could not stand the barrage any longer and his Space Marine Organs had decided to put him in a coma for his own safety, I dragged him and laid him down behind just as we heard terrible screams that made me wish I could scoop out my brains with an Ice cream scoop, a very sharp Ice cream scoop, I rotated the barrel of my weapon again this time changing it to fire high powered las rounds that could easily dent Terminator Armour, I don't know how it works but I trusted Alex enough and I pulled the trigger at some white armoured figure jumping over the flames, I pulled the trigger, a loud crack sounded and a scream followed, A howling Banshee jumped through the fire and swung her blade at Alex, she barely avoided it but it still managed to dig into her left pauldron, she head butted said Banshee and threw her into the flames sending a burst of energy her way.

The device started to pulse it's weird light faster, and I could see Dire Avengers making their way towards us, another plasma round from me quickly got rid of them,

'Nick it's ready to blow we gotta get out of here, and the guard is about to drop some Earthshaker rounds on the spire' Alex shouted while dancing around with a Banshee, Jesus Christ how many Banshees do these people have? 'Let's haul ass people we need get out of here!',

I'd like to say I charged heroically out of the flames but that would be a lie, I resembled a Berzerker of Khorne than Santa Clause, we ran fast as we could as there was no need to worry abou- damn it I completely forgot about our AMPs,

'Alex ou-' she interrupted me, 'I know I'm sending Achilles there right now'.

Eldari screams were heard along with a daemonic roar, guess that'll keep them busy for now. We approached the exit elevator only for an explosion to knock us off our feet and the roof above the door to collapse, burying our exit.

I couldn't control myself and bellowed at the top of my lungs, 'DAMN YOU CHANGER OF WAYS!'

Great, just absolutely great, we're trapped, I could hear audible clicks coming from Alex's armour, no doubt she was communicating with Achilles,

'Nick the window' I turned my head towards it and saw a beautiful sunset, 'I guess that is a nice sunset, too bad it's going to be our last one' I chuckled mirthlessly but she slapped me on my head.

I was about to retort when I saw what she meant, an explosion sounded, I grabbed Brother Aegeus who was injured and used the short harness on myself and tied him to myself, the others realized what Alex's Idea was and immediately readied themselves.


Spartacus used his power hammer and broke the reinforced glass, they were very high above the ground, he did not like it but they were already briefed on the device's lethality, he made sure all his equipment was properly strapped on,

'Commander are we going to climb out the window?' he asked with a grim face not that it would matter due to his helmet, the reply was a short and emotionless yes.

Nick stepped up next to the window and he slowly put his boot on the outside, the magnetic undersides would hold on to the metallic rods present in the Ferrocrete would help them maintain a grip, and slowly they all climbed downwards, switching the magnets on and off using their neural connections, Nick was clearly struggling due to Brother Aegeus weighing him down, they had barely moved a few meters when a loud explosion rocked the building, it's source? The floor they had been on, everyone shook along with the explosion but managed to maintain their balance except for Nick.

'COMMANDER!' came the unified cries, Nick screamed as he fell,

'Nick I'm rushing the Uberpanzer over but it won't make it' Alex's voice came out frantic with worry, 'It's fine I'll think of something'.

But he couldn't if he could feel fear he would be terrified right now, he set his mind to work thinking oof what could be done, then the Idea popped into his mind and he reached for his axe,

'This better work!' he grit his teeth and dived towards the spire and dug his Power Axe into its side, the Axe tore into the Ferrocrete, it slowed his plummeting but he was still sliding downwards at a fast rate, Brother Aegeus's weight being the culprit, he kept sliding downwards then he fired his jetpack and thrusters present on his boots, normally the jetpack would have not worked due to Brother Aegeus being strapped to his front, the spire shook again, he looked up and saw the top floors exploding

'Alex I assume that's the guard' a moment later a garbled reply came, 'Yea...Earthshak...nic...with the axe' another series of explosions shook the spire making his Axe slip free of the spire, 'Frak this' Nick shouted as he once again started freefalling, 'Come on think, think, think!' he shouted as the another Idea immediately came to his mind, 'Well this might not work but what do I care' he said to himself as he pull out his multi revolver and aimed at one of the windows below him,

He squeezed the trigger, two speeding projectiles left the barrel, exploded into plasma and melted the glass off, he holstered it and dived towards the window feet first activating his jetpack and boot thrusters, redlining them both. He speed slowed considerably and he fell closer towards his target until something impacting against him pushed him off course.

'Frak!' he cursed, his shields took the worst off it and he was unharmed save for being shook considerably he briefly looked up and found the culprit, an Eldari fighter speeding towards him, he looked at the spire again and saw that he was too far away and the ground was coming up too fast, his jets were already pushed to their limit and if he tried to use them it would only result in an explosion.

'So this is where I die' Nick said and smiled there was no way he would survive the fall, he turned his back towards the ground, there was a chance Aegeus might survive it if he cushioned him and he was willing to take that chance. Nick's mind drifted to his family as he kept falling, the Eldar craft shot a salvo of missiles at him, he pulled out his Multi Revolver rotated the missile and aimed at the oncoming missiles, he squeezed the trigger and bright las bolts flew out of the barrel, impacting with each missile, one by one the missiles were taken out as he kept falling and soon he fell to the ground with a loud thud making a huge crater, he lay therefor a while his vison becoming black, he briefly saw an Eldar standing over him before the darkness had overtaken him.