Chapter 11: For the Guard
Natalia was busy traversing Holy Terra to reach the Astropath office in order to contact her father, who still hasn't gotten the news of her brothers death. Many Kreig soldiers who knew the regiment really hated them, for their usage of using civilians as meat shields and unsuspecting mine clearers. These acts of brutal warfare made them quite unpopular in the Guard, especially for Kreig as they see this as breaking their promise of repenting for their sins. She enters a stone fortress and presents her Guard papers. She is led to one of the many metal rooms in the place.
The Astropath relayed her message to her family, she will be summoned if a reply comes back. She hoped there wasn't one.
She left the office and went back to her barracks to check on the Beastmen units. She had orders from Hayden to clear a foreign hive gang from the depths of Londinium, the Imperiaum's first Underground hive city, connected with the great sewers and metros of old. The Beastmen were held together by one Beastwoman, she is called Molly. She was quite friendly and very smart for a Beastmen, but can also be very strict to her brothers. She wore a large version of a Guard officer uniform that did not cover her brown-fur cow legs. She had no horns as she is female but makes it up for having bolter-sized breasts her brothers casually look at. She towered her brothers at 14 feet tall and was very respected to the point of veneration. She stands fast in the Imperial Creed so she will always hate other Beastmen who follow Chaos.
Natalia got along with her well considering they both were treated by bad family, though Molly had decent if rakish brothers. Natalia then remembers Rolf and Kelvin, they were her brothers. She smiled for the first time in forever, it hurts her face.
She arrives at the Beastmen quarters to find Molly cleaning her massive Poleaxe, she licked a bit of the blood on it. Natalia walks up to her as Daisy lowers her weapon, Natalia slides her finger on it and inserts it in her mask's eating tube. She savours the taste of the blood. They both had a taste for blood through their separate upbringings.
They head out with the Beastmen company in tow, Mortars and grenades were allowed as the gang resides in an abandoned factory. The gangers got a tip from one of their contacts and prepared defences in the factory, Heavy Stubbers, mines, beartraps, barbed wire and a heavily reinforced steel door. The gangers also had got their hands on a Lascannon for anti-tank. They were prepared for the PDF.
What they did not expect was a Chimera ramming a sidewall that deployed large bulls following an even larger Beastwoman, hidden behind her was a Kreiger with a multi-shovel. They slaughter the gangers as they run for their lives, only to be killed by some Guardsmen outside. After the skirmish, the Beastguard scavenge some weapons and tools for their own usage. Molly and Natalia found two identical blood-red master-crafted Warhammers of two different sizes, one for a human and one for a giant. They took them as a sign of friendship between them. Little did they know those gangers worshipped a terrifying being who wanted nothing but skulls for the skull throne.
In the Imperial Palace...
Magnus enters the room to greet his father and brother as the sounds of heavy footsteps are heard in the hallway. "Father!"
The Emperor greets his son, knowing what he has been up to "SON."
Rogal happy to see his brother return again "Brother!"
Magnus returned in a friendly tone "Brother."
Then out of fucking nowhere Grace enters the room and happily says "Brothers!" giving them both double heart attacks.
"SISTER!?" Both Rogal and Magnus were in total shock at their little sister who appears to be a fucking DAEMON PRINCE!? The custodians were about to attack but their Emperor intervened and greeted her with open arms.
Grace explains how she ended up like this going in full detail on the raping part, needless to say, both brothers were really, really pissed off. The brothers take a deep breath in before unleashing a scream of utter fury "FUUUUULLLLLLLGGGGGGRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIMMMMMMMMM!"
Somewhere in the Warp...
Fulgrim was quite confused today, many of his Daemonettes, Keepers of Secrets and his Daemon Princesses left him for some reason. Has he lost Slaanesh's favour? No, he is Slaanesh's greatest warrior. No way has he angered his patron god.
Suddenly he hears two of his brothers scream in an uncontrolled fury that gave him the shivers, what the fu-?
Back with the family...
Grace leaves out the part where she is now basically the heir to Slaanesh and the fact that she has several Daemonette legions under her, no need to get purged yet. Grace asks if her uncle still lived to the Emperor denied while Rogal confirmed he is still alive and on the planet. "DAMMIT ROGAL!" He switched to Magnus and asks why is his Lord-General on Mars.
Grace listens intently as she silently gestures to breasts-pads that if he tries to flirt with Magnus again she will castrate him and make him eat them, only too see him obliterated from this plane's existence. Council of Nikea my ass dad. She also thinks of changing the colour scheme of her Marines as pink seems a little, annoying for battle.
The Sisters...
Ayla and Jessica were in a summoning room they made in the basement where many bodies of Daemonettes sleep, eat and fuck in. They were tasked with of turning their Order into a Daemonette/Sister of battle hybrid that protects the innocent and helps the week. This was greatly favoured by the Daemonettes, now the sisters needed to convince the Order's Canoness.
Ayla could not do this as her lower body transformed into a long-ass snake tail, giving her a dozen more rows of G-cup boobs and 2 more arms as she grew to a size of 12 feet. She fucking hates this.
Jessica, on the other hand, turned into a Living Saint with golden angel wings and golden armour as she grew to 8 feet high. She also fucking hates this, she wanted to be a Daemonette.
So they both went two ways, Ayla getting more Daemon support while Jessica getting Order support. This. will. suck.
Hours later...
Jessica first tried by exploiting the repressed lust in the Sisters by placing random dildos and porn mags in small places, the result was that Sisters have been holding this contraband hidden away from the eyes of their superiors. Adding aphrodisiac into the Sisters holy water made them very, as dad would say, 'Ara Ara' and caused many young male and female serfs to be a little late.
The Canoness was not blind to this and did a personal investigation herself. When she reached to Jessica's chambers the door closed shut and she was held up by golden chains. As Jessica revealed herself the Canoness instantly tried to kneel to the Living Saint, in awe at her wings. Jessica, see she can take advantage of the situation, stripped her and said that she is going to bless her. She made her drink a cup full of Daemonette cum, watered-down enough as only to be mental reconditioning. Afterwards, the Canoness became more relaxed and in turn, so did the Order's rules.
The Sisters were allowed to marry any Crusader House that was embedded to their Order gaining much favour as Crusaders and Sisters were raised in a similar fashion. Sisters can now have guardianship of their daughters while their sons are to be brought to the Crusaders, preferably one who sired him. With these two rules in place relations between the Crusader houses and the Adepta Sororitas have skyrocketed.
Jessica now convinced the Canoness to join forces with some 'divine beings' into a hybrid order, formed to fight in the name of the Imperium. Dad could use these, speaking of which she hasn't seen nor heard from him at all. Hopefully, he was alright. Jessica then travels back to her home.
With Ayla...
Ayla's effort to turn Daemones and Keepers of Secrets was, very easy to say the least. Some had even expected her, already wearing Adepta Sororitas armour. She did not want to know where they got it from. Leading them was a Keeper of Secrets she has seen before, during the ship boarding. The Keeper, Helixina, bowed her head and said she awaited her and is ready for her orders, expecting to kill any of their enemies. What Helixina did not expect is being tasked as an advisor and Warp guide, still better than being the official sex toy to the other Keepers, Slaaneshi Daemons can tire out too.
Ayla's effort to turn the Daemon Princesses were the hard part as most if not all tried to kill her, except one. Ayla recognized her as the enemy of Ciaphas Cain HERO OF THE IMPERIUM and she just asked one thing, to be his pet. Ayla agreed and asked Heli what the fuck is wrong with her, to which the Daemon shrug and said that this was not heard of from them.
Meanwhile with Cain...
Cain, now with a beard, felt as if he and his wife were expecting another family member. Worrying really as he had 10 different gremlins to work with, one liked to throw fireworks at him.
At the Parker residence...
The sisters return and await their next orders from their Emperor, with Heli in tow. They used the basement to hold her until their father's return, it will be difficult to convince him. They lay on the sofa and watch some Imperial news, and see that another chaos cult just appeared and is being handled by the 1st Terren Regiment now named The Green Knights of Terra. Again?! Were on fucking TERRA!
With Rolf...
I ate my ration bar as the sounds of artillery battering a chaos stronghold rings across the urban battlefield, ever since Voxcast invited that Chaos dude Terra has had an increase of Chaos cults. I finish my ration and fired my Hellgun into a crowd of cultists, taking 10 of them. Kelvin was in a Leman Russ providing support for my battalion. I remember the time where I was just a Sargent under John, he always helped us in our time of need. Always making sure each of his men was safe after a withdrawal, defying Priests who wish to see us purged, giving purpose and hope. If there was a Saint dedicated to the common man, it would be him.
I shake myself out of my thoughts as a Beastman fires his Stubbers in support of Natalia's battalion who arrived when a Nurgle Chaos Champion came out with a Heavy Stubber in hand. He mowed down Guardsmen while Nurgle's rot protected him from anything except heavy firepower. Our Leman Russ fires its main gun at him, taking out his legs. He continues firing his gun and it nicks me in the shoulder. I am dragged away by Sammy as she fires her Laspistol at the Champion, who remained unfazed and continued firing as his legs regrow.
Suddenly he was riddled with bullets from Andel's Stubcarbine as the Skitarii advances to him. The Champion drops his weapons and gets out a battleaxe and charges at Andel who unsheathe his sword. Wait, is that John's sword?
Andel parries his battleaxe thanks to his enhanced strength and gives a left hook into his face. The Champion shrugged the blow-off and kicked Andel. Suddenly he was hit by a Volkite weapon. I turn around to see the Medusas slithering to assist us with their Volkite Caliver, burning the Champion inside out. The Champion screams in pain as his insides are lit on fire, flaying his arms around until he falls dead. This was the 10th cult they found but the first to have a Champion.
I call for a cleaning crew to purge the taint here as I enter a command Chimera, in it was Natalia who's eyes scream 'I want blood'. I sweatdrop as she raises her mask a bit and licks off the blood on her fingers. I steel myself as I remember I seen worse and grabbed her hand and wiped the blood off her hands, looking up I could see she was blushing but wasn't taking her hands away. She slowly lowers her head and kisses my hand, in return, I kiss her forehead. We then decide then and there to officially date.
In the Warp...
Slaanesh was, as usual, having the most extreme orgies. Yet in all of this mess, she was actually planning with her army to free Isha, having Daemonettes duel each other in the disguise of sex, Seekers trampling over the bodies as endurance, doing contortions as to increase agility and so many more. Since the other gods were busy trying to get rid of the dreaded Hospitaller, many of their Daemons and resources were spent on Terra.
When the Chaos gods heard of the return of the Hospitaller they panicked, for the Hospitaller takes their Warp advantage and uses it against them. Slaanesh had no worry though as she was planing for him to either free her or purge her if it means Isha was to be freed, she did prefer the former though.
She also gained word that the daughters were forming the first Daemon of Battle order under the new Adepta Daemonus, a fitting name. Slaanesh also heard that grace has finally returned home, that's nice.
Slaanesh then turns around to see her nicer counterpart, Sally, using an egg vibrator while reading the Imperial News. Slaanesh stalked her within the orgy and prepared her equine genital, then lunged at her from behind, inserting her sword into Sally's equine vagina. Sally, both annoyed and aroused, ignored her and continue read on the news, finding out John has been busy.
Somewhere in Edinburgh...
Hayden needed to make plans to go back to that Shrine world. He just realized that 'Emma' was actually his old apprentice, Elena, a perpetual who survived the Great Crusade but lost many of her non-perpetual relatives over time with her husband being the exception. He had lost contact with her during the War of the Beast, thinking she was dead Hayden went out and buried every single one of her relatives. The last one was a toddler who died in a fire on Athena during its founding war, after that he reunited with John. You can tell what happened after.
But since he found her again, he can now recruit her and her husband to John's army. Then again, they were both tired of war so that he had to take into account. He got a message from Andel that another Chaos cult has been dealt with but what was new was they had a Champion. Shit, a Champion this soon means that the Chaos gods are taking an interest, putting Earth's safety in jeopardy. We need to somehow divide their attention elsewhere, but how?
With the Green Knights...
The regiment was still awaiting their commander return after he left to deal with some personal business. In the meantime they just trained and talked to one another, gaining more trust in one another. One example was the Beastmen sharing their cooked meat with the rest of the regiment who don't even know how to boil water, another was the Crusaders acting as therapists learning of the many doubts and worries of their fellow man, the Kriegers, Cadians and Vostoyans who were here since the formation of their regiment and were already well accosted to each other and being a cultural guide to new recruits and fellow Guardsmen from other regiments.
The Beastmen and Crusader had an awkward meeting at first but both have grown used to each other's presence and know they will have to depend on each other when the heat comes. They do have a few things in common such as the worship of the Manperor and hatred of Chaos, the Crusaders see the Beastmen as Imperial Abhumans then Chaotic mutants as the now-undermanned Inquisition says them to be.
The Regiment, having to fight more chaos forces than normal regiments, have been slowly been unconsciously building their mental minds and soul against Chaos corruption and when there is corruption, it will only change their bodies leaving the soul and mind intact, but it can change their behaviour in a minor way.
Their main weaponry was the Hellgun, modified to be more powerful each shot yet kept its rate of fire thanks to a more refined powerpack Hayden manufactured from a secret foundry. Their Laspistol had now been modified to have more powerful lasers and a better rate of fire for CQC at the cost of range and accuracy making it akin to a Las-SMG.
The Leman Russ tanks had their tracks much wider for better road performance and have a Hellgun built into the cupola for both anti-infantry and anti-air. The inside of the tank had better ventilation and had the option of a cup-holder. The tanks were also outfitted with a better radio.
Last but not least were the engineer units, the least appreciated unit in the Guard. Without them, walls would not go down, defences would be overrun, traps to delay the enemy could not have existed and worst of all, trenches could not be made. They had been moved to the back ever since the Guard's unreasonable bayonet tactics became more prominent after the Great Crusade. John had praised every single one of them for their efforts to stall the enemy when the soldiers withdrew, without them hundreds if not thousands would die and for his recognition of them he has earned the respect of not just his regiment's engineers but those in every single division. John even wrote a book about them, still going through the Adeptus Administratum's atrocious inspection.
Then a call was heard this time they were to deal with a 5000-strong Chaos Cultists with the Regiment's 3000. The Regiment answers the call as the army marches to the district, of Londinium. They also carried their banner into battle and had Kevlin strap it to his back, it was not that heavy.
The Parker residence...
Celestine was observing the children of John as a guardian, and boy are they good.
A Living Saint and a Daemon Princesses fighting together was not something Celestine would see today, nor would she see her friend's daughters being such badasses. Ayla was using her wings to fly while using her Flamer and Melta Bombs to napalm the area, melting the skin of her enemies. Ayla, meanwhile, was using her new tail to crush a cultist head while using all six arms to effortlessly fire six bolters. Together they slaughter a platoon of confused traitors who thought the building was abandon and tried to set up shop, only to meet an angry Living Saint and Dameon Princess.
Fortunately, no one saw them, thanks to their superior speed. They went back into their home and took a deep breath in, that was too close for comfort. They hope dad's Guard can get here because they both were a hotbed of psychic and Warp energy that could rival the Astronomican all together. They hear the sound of a Leman Russ engine and look into the cathedral's camera system to see a Leman Russ running over a cultist. Crusaders charge at a disorganized line of cultists causing an Urban melee, soon Beastmen come and support them by crushing the cultists with their fists and hooves.
Suddenly smoke covered the cameras made from fires from the battle, the sisters look at the time to see it was nearly midnight and went to sleep, dad was going to be angry if they slept late. Celestine smiled, they were such responsible kids, like their father.
Andel cut through the cultists with his blade and blew their bodies apart with his Stubcarbine. He headbutts a charging cultist and riddles him with bullets as he observes the front line. The Urban streets prevented any sort of front line nor guaranteed a number advantage. The streets were still littered with traps and bombs from previous wars and no one took the time to get rid of them.
As if on cue, a Leman Russ exploded from a Melta bomb it ran over. The entire regiment stopped and set up trenches that cut the district in half, the cultists half were thankfully blocked in by the PDF forces. Why there was no Custodes was that they were all on fucking Mars. Why? Andel had no fucking clue why. He ducked as sniper shots rang out, leaving no Laser trace as they were slug weapons. The trenches had a metal cover built over it, had arrow silts for ranged combat, several motor placements, many kitchen stations and tunnels connecting to living quarters.
The cultists, on the other hand, were erecting idols dedicated to their Choas Gods and have only built an easily-scaled barrier of wooden furniture and pipes. Andel could only guess that they were praying right now. He goes over the offensive plans made by each Batallion.
Natalia and her Battalion were to advance through the sewers and blow the ground underneath the square the cultists have taken. They will make use of Melta and Demolition charges to blow the underbelly then charge in with bayonets and shovels.
Kelvin will lead his Battalion through the centre with his Leman Russes to distract them and bait them forward for a pincer movement. After ramming the barricades Kelvin's armoured company shall slowly withdraw. He will be supported by the Beastmen who will carry large tower shields.
Rolf will take the left street which is apparently a demolished factory with a lot of rubble, perfect to hide behind and flank with. He will be bringing along Flamers and Grenade launchers as they will be very close to the enemy. They will be protected by Crusaders who will form a wall of tower shields.
Andel will lead the right flank with his company of Skitarii as well as Richard who pledges his allegiance to John. They will have to be quick as there was a large clearing and no cover until we reach a bank at the far end, Stubber fire will be expected. Andel also gained word that the cultists have mortars and were loaded with air-burst shrapnel rounds, that's going to be nasty to the ground troops. They also summoned Lesser Daemons of Khorne, Bloodletters.
Andel also received a promise from the surrounding DDF (District Defence Forces) that they shall join but considering Londinium is in lockdown to prevent both entry and exit enforced by the district governor and his private army, he doubts this would be possible. Andel looks to the civilians who were with them, finding no place to shelter then nor the route to run away. Their eyes filled with terror and sadness. Andel sighs in regret and turns on his Vox ++Engineers, get these people out of here.++
The engineers, who were upset they had orders not to save the people, quickly hop to their feet and uses all their tools to dig a tunnel into the sewers. They knew this was treason but fuck it, these are lives they are saving. Andel commences the assault with a flare gun, for the Emperor.
Behind the district border walls that separate Londinium from the other hive districts, Olly watched from a watchtower to see the attack commencing. He used his binos to see what the hell was happening back there to see a pincer movement being executed. He called Hayden and reported what was going on. Hayden responded in sending Bjorn as reinforcement, he needs battle.
Olly agrees as he gets his hunting rifle out and loaded in .308 HE rounds to pop some heads off, he also attached a silencer so the governor doesn't know of him. Speaking of which the fat bastard was talking to one of his private officers who was giving him the bad news that the serfs are being protected and the Knight's engineers are digging a tunnel for them out.
The governor was furious, he did not want some tunnel dug underneath his beautiful walls just for some insolent serfs to escape. He ordered that flamers will be used as soon a hole appeared. The scarred officer smiled "With pleasure boss."
Olly, overhearing this, gripped the gun's handles without realising. He aimed at the governors head before realising a much better opportunity was coming out. Olly grinned as waited by shooting cultists, someone was about to burn.
Meanwhile at Edinburgh...
Bjorn was currently being outfitted out with a jetpack that will allow him to easily get in any strategic area and to tactically speed up his movement. Hayden could not outfit the Dark Age version so he had to modify a boarding craft's engines and power it with a washing machine-sized plasma core. Removing several unnecessary wolf systems like the howling feature, Hayden could snuggly fit the jetpack into the back. Adding micro-thrusters in the limbs for control in the air.
Hayden opened the hangar doors as Bjorn runs thanks to the new core, his footsteps making mini-earthquakes in the metal. He jumps from the edge and the jetpack fires up and he flew into the vast ashy sky. Hayden went to the control room with Kiri and got out some popcorn, watching the footage from Bjorn's cameras. He has a flight-guidance system Hayden installed for a less rough flight. Judging by his laughter he's having fun.
With Bjorn...
"FEAR ME ENEMIES OF MANKIND! FOR I, CAN, FLY! HAHAHA!" Bjorn felt a huge rush of excitement as he flew in the sky, his large body going at Mach 3. He arrives above Londiuam in roughly 8 minutes and shuts his engine, his claw powering up as he falls.
With Kelvin...
"Load AP rounds!" Kelvin ordered his men as a Chaos Baneblade appeared from a building, where did the fuckers get these!? Kelvin's Leman Russes are easily destroyed by the Baneblade so he ordered a withdrawal. His tank tracks are shot off by an RPG as more cultists rush forth from the buildings, only to be killed from an underground explosion from Natalia who charged with her Battalion with shovels and bayonets. Rolf had his guys obliterate the enemy's right flank with a heavy amount area of effect weapons, yet were held back by the Bloodletters who kept the Crusader line at bay.
Andel was having the hardest time as he was trying to fight back more Baneblades with The Lionheart, who held his own against one.
Hearing the sound of metal laughter in the sky, Kelvin looks up to see a sky blue box figure falling towards them. As it alarmingly gets closer he could see it was a Space Marine Dreadnaught. "What the fu-?" Kelvin was cut off by the Dreadnaught crushing a Baneblade with its body, who was still laughing.
"HELLO HERETICS! PREPARE TO DIE" You can tell the figure was smiling as it slaughtered the cultists with its Claw and Assult Cannon. The Baneblade's weapons being ineffective to Bjorn's heavy armour. "IS THAT ALL YOU GOT? FUCKING ADORABLE." Bjorn lifts the Baneblade until it was over its side then upside down, the crew inside try to get out through the side hatches but a Kriegsmen kicked one in the face and threw a grenade in the hatch. The tank blew up from its stored ammo as the bottom part flew up, leaving the turrets behind and crash back down into another Baneblade which detonated as its ammo was crushed from the weight. "COME, GUARDSMEN! TODAY IS THE DAY WE SPILL BLOOD OF TRAITORS!" The Guard yelled an enthusiastic warcry John accidentally uttered to them during a very religious battle, "DEUS VULT!"
In the home of the Space Wolves, The Fang...
"WHAT DO YE MEAN HE'S ON TERRA!?" Logan Grimnar asked his men as they view a battle on Holy Terra. "ARE YA TO TELL ME THAT A DREADNOUGHT TRAVELLED ALL THE WAY TO WOLFING TERRA!?" He looks to the screen to see it confirmed before his eyes.
"I know he needed battle but to do this? I'm speechless." Logan lay in his throne as the feasting hall was filled with joy at seeing Bjorn fight, making bets on how many he can take within a set time. "Rune Preist, send a message to Terra for the return of our Dreadnought, if I find out the Inquintsion did this, we will have to go there ourselves." The Rune Preist nodded grimly and went to his chambers. "All-father, why is this happening?" The sounds of cheers rise as Bjorn stomps a cultist.
With Commissar Violeta...
Violeta kicks a cultist in his balls then fires her Bolt Pistol down his throat. Behind her was Rolf and Natalia who were covering her back as Violeta observed the battle. She sees the traitors were slowly withdrawing into a Chaos portal, their numbers depleted and morale broken. The Deagnught continued to laugh and slaughter the heretics, after that, he bowed his massive form to the guard then flew into the grey clouds and disappeared.
Violeta praised Andel for his kindness even though he was just a machine, Andel just quoted "Life is the Emperor's currency." Violeta would agree with him as she remembers her more idiotic colleagues putting more bullets into their own men than the enemy. Violeta and the Guard then heard a gunshot behind the walls, they came out to see several burnt corpses which include the governor and his personal mercs. Apparently, they were about to burn the serfs who just came out of the tunnel only for the fuel tanks to burst open from a gunshot. It was unknown who did this.
With Olly...
"Boom shaka laka laka." Olly then went back into the shadows and travelled to a nearby pub.
Back with the Green Knights...
Natalia, Rolf and Kelvin were now at their new permanent barracks, an entire level in Londinium's Hive, spaning 5 km by 5 km. It was built by the grateful serfs as thanks for their defence. Rumour has it that the Emperor himself gave this to them but the entire Regiment was sceptical on that. Their Colonel would begrudgingly disagree.
They would receive new autonomy as orders from the Imperial Palace now forced every single Division or lower to act independently from the main battlegroup, allowing better adaptability and better reactions to new changes in the shifting battlefield. Instead of Lord Generals micromanaging single regiments, Colonels can now relive tons of paperwork and stress to get, shit, done.
The 3 Majors would look to their new equipment, each designed for their unique Battalions.
Natalia's "Harlots of Artillery" was in charge of demolitions and siege warfare, they will help the regiment pass fortress and fortifications will their expertise. Natalia would be named the Hell Harlot by both friend and foe for her excessive usage of swearing, wearing a long red kilt while in her own personal Leman Russ Demolisher. The kilt belonged to her surrogate mother before she died in battle.
Rolf and his "Vanguard of Light" Battalion were armed for CQC with the Crusaders forming the vanguard line. Armed with Las-shotguns and heavy flak armour, they will charge under covering fire and cause mayhem and disorder in the enemy.
Kelvin and his "Great Hounds" Tank Battalion have been awarded the prestigious honour of being equipped with 100 Baneblades recycled and purified from the ones they destroyed and fought against, granted Richard and Bjorn delt most of the damage. Their Baneblades were modified by Hayen to have a small boiler for disinfecting and making drinks like coffee and tea.
The Regiment would also swell in numbers from volunteers officially making it a Division that now-promoted Second General John Parker worried would clash with the other cultures, excluding the veterans. Speaking of John, he woke up and wore his repaired and upgraded armour. His raised dead and ghosts had disappeared when he fell asleep, thanks to his hard-earned experience he did not get a nosebleed nor vomit blood, yay. The Medusas are now stationed across the planet as its new garrison and John's spies for anything interesting. He needs some permanent solution for anchoring the dead in the material world.
Many Crusaders and Guardsmen look to their Commander walking out wearing compact modernized ancient knight armour from the old wars of Terra, the Crusaders kneeled while the Guardsmen salute. "At ease, get back to work." He walks to Andel holding some reports for him.
Andel explained what happened for the past few weeks, making John sigh and nurse a headache. Hearing Bjorn assisting was nice, but that would bring the Wolves on Terra. Something that would be both bad and good, mostly bad.
Suddenly John then got a telepathic message from the Warp, Slaanesh told him Grace was in the Imperial Palace. John had a heart attack and then ran out of the barracks, hijack a Chimera and headed towards the Palace with Hayden in tow. Not before telling Andel to bring the Wychs to the Palace, including Kiri.
Now it was Andel's turn to have a heart attack.
Hours later after going through portals and driving on the train tracks...
Several newer Custodians were a bit perplexed when they found a Chimera stuck in one of the windows on the 5th floor and could not find its occupants, as they were helped out by the veteran Custodians from the Great Crusade. John sends Hayden to reactivate Grace's Ordnance War Walker under the Palace, The Arachne.
After going through several bright golden halls John arrived at the Throne Room where breakfast was being served. At the table are Boy, Rogal, Guide, Grace and Edward. Grace saw men and we both went into a comforting hug as she releases all her trauma from the past frozen millennials, poor girl. I rubbed her back as tears flooded my back. Rogal saddened by his sister's trauma had made something special for her, an ancient Terren drink called hot chocolate.
I waited for the hybrids as Grace, being the size of an 8ft amazon, sat on Rogal's lap and drank her hot chocolate. I used a hammer to break apart the waffles and dipped it into some hot chocolate. There was a rumble then the distant sounds of deep war horns bellowing, Hayden got the spider online.
Down below in the vaults...
A massive metal spider slowly advances down a huge cavern that led to the surface, it was the size of an Imperial Frigate with 6 large legs that could crush Titans. Its broadside armament consisted of 20 Macro batteries accompanied by 800 Casemate Vulkan Mega-Bolters on each side that eat Titans for breakfast. Its roof weaponry consisted of 20 AA cannons and 70 artillery stations to decimate air units and ground units respectively. Its spider-like face had large frontal Flamers that slightly dwarf Thunderhawks that are mostly used as an area of effect weapons against soft targets. And don't even try to get underneath the metal beast as it had ventral mounted Assult Cannons and Heavy Lascannons that will rain hell on anything beneath it with extreme accuracy.
This thing was by far the largest and deadliest War Machine in the Imperium, even able to take on Frigates. Another fact about this machine is that it can fight in space, on top of its transport, the Gloriana-class battleship Malta, using its enormous firepower at smaller and faster escorts. Hayden was proud of his and his brother's work, using the best resources from the Age of Technology they could manage to scavenged and the tremendous help of the Void Dragon for making the plans, they made Grace the best chariot to fight in.
It was able to accommodate at least 50,000 Space Marines, 100 Thunderhawk Gunships and transports, 10,000 Dreadnoughts, 2 Emperor-Class Titans, 20,000 Land Raiders and tons of Guardsmen Corps all at once. This thing is basically a land Phalanx.
It was powered by a massive cold fusion reactor that needed rows of batteries for both redundancy and the fact that it produced too much energy. With this available energy, The Arachne can power its automated systems with extreme efficiency, able to produce EMP bursts that disable anything in a 2km radius, activate a powerful clocking device, powering its magnetic feet, advancing at a brisk 50 kph and powering its very long-range radars.
The spider moves forward as it reaches the surface, the recently cleaned Marina Trench. It climbs at a quick pace for its size upwards, firing grappling hooks for extra stabilization. Hayden was grateful that he inbuilt a Men of Bronze AI system to ease operation. He checks that he was 500 Km deep, this was going to take a while.
Back with John...
John watching the screen saw Star-child using kindness while talking to Vect, slowly but surely draining his dark soul to Sally. As he sees this, the Wychs enter with Andel, a bit scared but not in any harm. I summon some seats for them as they see the screen, both stunned and confused. Kiri sat on Andel's lap as he prepared some shades for her. Thanks to being hybrids they do not suffer when others are being kind to them. If anything it makes them happy. They smile wickedly at Vects demise as he really started to piss off the Wychs as of late.
John smiles as he finally gets to see someone who deserves to suffer get their due. But his smile wiped off and his eyes dilate when Star-child's greatest personality trait, that could have prevented the Hours Heresy, was used against him, compassion.
In a fit of rage to see the last good shard of Edward be in danger of being gone forever, John got up and yelled into the Warp "NO! YOU SHALL NOT HARM THIS GALAXY'S LAST HOPE!" before being stopped by Andel.
"Let me go, sir, I know the place well." John, reluctantly, nodded and opened a portal for him. Before he entered he turned around and looked at Alison, his masks collapse to reveal his smiling face "Seeya later, alligator." then step back into the portal. John promises her some logs Andel prepared for her, she needed to see them. Alison nodded and looked back at where the portal once opened, why did she recognize him?
Back with the Guard...
Natalia had odd cravings when it came to her food lately as she seems to enjoy meat rare and strawberry juice, the last one not very common amongst Kreigsmen. She and Molly also help each other cleaning their blades by licking the blood off. Her 1000-strong Battalion also seems to have acquired similar tastes as there was a surprising increase of clean blades and buckets of blood stored.
Rolf and his Battalion were introducing to their Division the music from Vostroya as they dance and kick to the beat. Alcohol was distributed across the Division as the sounds of happy Guardsmen begin to grow. Hardbass shakes the Hive as drunk future-Russians began to squat and dance.
Kelvin and his Cadian Battalion brought several board games produced by their planet. Most were war games but you could find an RPG or two in there. They also had a lot of war miniatures they had on hand, the same ones Pertarubo used in his free time. These models were updated to modern Imperial standards and had nearly all Guardsmen Regiments, Space Marine Chapters and Sisters of Battle from its standard box set. Extras included but not limited are, Xenos, Daemons, asshole Grey Knights, Killteams from a different specialist box set and so many more.
The Crusaders gave weekly sermons and acted as therapists for their fellow man. These Crusaders came from an ancient Crusader House called The Holy Lanterns that promotes humbleness and duty, making them excellent friends and companions. True to their name they also carry lanterns for both heat and light, imbued with special healing properties not yet known.
The Beastmen have shown the Division how to preserve meat, using long-forgotten cooking and baking techniques. After taking some extra training they were considered the best bakers and cooks of the Division and can make some good meals that are great for morale.
Not all was great though, the Inqiunstion had to place tabs on them after they keep getting reports of strange and odd events happening in the Division, ordering the Officio Assassinorum to watch over them just in case. Another Organization was the AdMechs who really hated the amount of tech-heresy they did to both their weapons and equipment. Last but most volatile were the Ecclesiarchy, very upset at both the lack of proper worship to the Emperor, being tolerant to the Beastmen and the Sisters of Battle not doing anything about it. Both the Inquisition and the Ecclesiarchy also heard strange reports of lewd behaviour from the Sisters of Battle, very worrisome that they sent their best agents to investigate.
Emperor knows what fate has in store for these men and women, for their leader is quite an important player in this great game. And they were his knights, unfortunately.
Somewhere with Lofn...
The little cute hybrid explored the underground chambers that could fit several Craftworlds. She passed by Men of Bronze as they chat about upgrades and chassis changing. She did not understand anything so continued exploring, Mr Hayden told her that she is only not allowed in the armouries and the Metro Tube, whatever the last one is. She really liked Kiri, another hybrid. She was nice.
Lofn felt tired and yawned, her dad was nearby and noticed his little sunshine sleepy. He picked her up and headed towards their quarters to lay her in bed, giving her a good night kiss then turning the lights off. She would dream of having a tea party with Isha, for some reason.
Isha's mind...
Isha smiled as she gave 3 cubes of sugar to the little one, so cute! Thanks to her Physic ability she gets to talk to one of the first normal hybrids, she was impressed by her parents' wholesomeness as one was a deadly Vindicare Assassin and the other a powerful Psyker, what an odd combo she thought. She continued to giggle as Nurgle ignored her trying to make his plague Hospitaller-proof, with no success thankfully.
She also sent a guide for John's kids, it's about time they knew.
Back at the Parker Residence...
The sisters woke up to find an orb of light floating the room, emitting a light that dimly lit the room. The sisters grabbed their weapons as it flys into the hallway. They chase the orb until they reach their father's study. They search the room for the orb only to find an entire bookcase opened revealing a hidden passage. They look to each other, sigh and go down. Reaching an ancient form of transportation, an underground metro. The sisters look to see the orb hovering in front of them, it was trying to guide them. They enter the tube as it accelerates to the north.
When they arrived the first thing they see were metal soldiers performing maintenance on some very ancient armoured vehicles. Then a motherfucking Warlord-Titan also walked passed them. They hear their names being called and turn around to see a very confused Hayden.
"How did you get here." Then the orb flew next to him. Hayden's face turn from confused to annoyed "Isha, the hell girl!"
End of Chapter 11