The two amputated hands were brought before the emperor, the hands had immediately been removed from their previous owners and given to the custodes who now guarded them.
Sanguinius and Fulgrim felt their fathers presence begin to fill them and strengthen their presence in the material world, they knew that they weren't of the material world not anymore, yet with every passing moment their father's power made them somehow become more solid, it was as if they could now enter and leave the warp whenever they chose and suffer no ill effects from doing so.
Neither brother knew if that was because they were so close to their father or because of something else entirely.
They listened to their father speak to them and obeyed his orders, before turning to Roboute and hugging their brother, they knew that these moments were rare and would soon become even rarer so the brothers showed each other something they would never show anyone else, their humanity.
This part of them was something that extremely few had ever seen of them and yet they prepared themselves to act like this once again.
both brothers stood by ad watched as the two men that had summoned them were brought into the throne room.
Both men were sedated and so they slept peacefully, accompanying both men were their machines, perhaps they were robots perhaps they were something else.
It didn't matter the brothers watched as their father's presence touched the machine men before he ordered them to perform the ritual once again.
So the machine men did as their father commanded soon a pair of summoning circles appeared before they let out a burst of light when the light faded the brothers couldn't help but smile as they found the faces of Ferrus Manus and Magnus the Red looking at them.
In a burst of golden light, both human men had their hands amputated and regrown before the Custodes took them away, their fates would be unknown to the brothers but it didn't matter anymore, as their father immediately gave both Magnus and Ferrus their orders.
The news of the brother's return only grew as the Human's belief in their emperor was strengthened as five of his sons returned in humanity's darkest hour but two of them had managed to escape from the chaos gods corruption.
Yet in the infirmary, the two men slowly began to open their eyes.
We looked at each other as the servitors and servo skulls watched us, maybe it was because we had seen so many of them over the years that seeing these twisted monstrosities doesn't affect us anymore.
"You okay," I said to my old friend who just looked at his hand
"It's gone," He said to me
It took me a moment before I realized that he meant the command spells were gone, I immediately looked at my hand, and unsurprisingly mine were gone too.
"So do you think they somehow transferred them or" I began but he immediately answered me
"They cut off our hands and I mean both of them, my arthritis is gone," he said to me he closed his hands
"At least our robots are here," I said to him as I tried to look at the brighter side of things
"So what do you want to do now?" I asked him
'You know I liked living in that world, I mean it wasn't perfect but hell it was good" he said to me
"So what do you want to go back and fix the place up again?" I asked him
"...Yeah, it was our home and now it's in ruins" he answered me
"Okay" I answered him
'You serious?"
"Yeah, why not we go back we start from square one and fix the place up again, sure it's going to take longer because we have to fix the entire place again but why not" I answered him
"Just one thing, we have to do one thing before we leave," I said to him as the sound of giant footsteps echoed around us
Seeing a giant wearing gold armor is equally amazing and terrifying at the same time, normally we both would have been scared shitless, luckily we have our robots with us so we're perfectly safe.
So we both looked at the giants wearing gold and tried to talk.
"I'll make a deal with you, you let us go and well fix the web way for you" The custodes just looked at me
"Tell that to the emperor, our freedom for the repair of the webway project."
"He lets us go free with our robots and we will have our robots fix what Magnus broke, and by that I mean the machines that were lost and the machines that are still broken"
None of the golden giants moved they just stood there looking at us before they graved us and pulled us straight to the giant skeleton strapped to the giant golden throne.
"Fix the throne and the machines" We heard a million voices say to us
"Our freedom for your machines' I heard my old friend struggle to speak before we heard the voices agree to our demand.
So we watched as the robots did something to the golden throne before they began to build a lot of strange machines and then we were thrown out of the imperial palace, let it be known that it took two months for us to reach the exit and we were driven out of the place by a flying jet plane.
Outside of the palace was a man wearing an old military uniform waiting for us, he said he was there to escort us home.
Let it be known that not only is the emperor a liar, he is also a complete asshole.
Let's make a list of the things he did or to be more precise the things his golden guards did in his name.
Not only did they order a ship filled with people to do whatever we told them but also ordered them to find the longest way possible for us to go back home.
Not so bad right, wrong because that meant that the ship's crew did everything in their power to make sure we didn't get home.
For example, somehow we found ourselves in an abandoned space station because our ship broke down, so we started exploring the place and because our ship was broken we had to repair the station's life support systems.
It turns out the station was abandoned years ago because there's nothing important in the star system it's in.
Oddly enough we soon found that the seventh planet had an entire colony filled with humans still living on it, needless to say, they were shocked when someone finally returned for them.
According to the captain of the ship, because he had been ordered to do what we said, it was our job to bring the people back into the Imperium so this is how our conversation went.
Listen are all of you still part of the Imperium" I asked the humans that were in charge of the colony, who looked at us with confused expressions.
"Weren't we always?" a man answered me
"Standard procedure, please answer," My friend said to them before they all nodded
Okay, then until the planet is a fully stable colony you won't have to provide tribute" My friend said to the representatives before we began to explore the planet.
There were a lot of old broken machines and only a couple of people here and there so the place hadn't been abandoned for long.
According to the captain, it was more than likely that the people in the colony, were the descendants of either people who others didn't like and so they were left behind or people that had tried to escape because there wasn't any real reason for anyone to be living in this planet.
The reason no one besides the few colonists lived in the world was the fact that the radiation from the nearby sun was unbearable, even when underground.
The robots immediately began to build planetary shields and backups for those shields, so that the people on the planet could grow, without worries.
then the robots began to repair all of the abandoned machines, that was when things got weird.
We found a lot of od human technology, like the tanks and knights we found back home.
It wasn't anything special just a bunch of space marine power armor, that for some reason looked even more advanced than the armor the golden giants were wearing.
remember I said the emperor is an asshole, well it turns out we had someone spying on us the entire time, so whenever we went somewhere it was recorded and reported.
We only found out about this after we explored five more worlds and arrived at a Space Hulk.
Look I'll be the first one to say it I have never seen those robots move as fast as they did when they entered the hulk.
they began to repair all of the broken machines inside of those ships, it didn't matter if they were human or alien ships, they just kept on fixing things
Imagine something the size of a planet somehow breaking apart and start following you around, yeah that's exactly what happened.
So remember I said someone had been following us, well we soon had an Inquisitor saying that he wanted our entire fleet because the Imperium needed it now and no we couldn't ask questions, we could keep our one ship because he was merciful, so yeah we lost almost everything.
The jackass too everything the robots repaired.
The guns - the power armors- the microwave everything, everything except the STC that could make all of the things he stole from us.
I don't know when the robots learn how to make an STC, but one day they started making them and neither of us asked any questions.
I don't know what's inside those things I just know that the robots say that it's everything that they managed to scan and repair so far, but that their defense programs forced them to remove the A. I that was once inside the machines and replace them with A.i that wast free, so it couldn't go insane.
So we kept on repeating this act of urs until we made it back to our old broken world, Look I'm not going to lie, our plan was this.
Go back to the planet we spent fixing and fix it again and if there was time fix the planets around it.
Not the best of plans but not the worst, so imagine our surprise when we found the place in ruins.
It turns out that after we left the knights and the tanks that survived the war began to clean out all of the radiation, beats the hell out of me how they were doing it, but they were doing it, but then a bunch of orks landed and things went straight t hell, so everything is worse than when we first left.
So remember when I said the emperor was an asshole.
Remember I said that our robots had made a couple of STC's that had everything they scanned completely free of crazy A.I.
The machine prest somehow found out about them after we began to use them to either make the machines and equipment we needed or just plain make new things.
And so we are stuck fixing everything by hand again, but at least everyone is pitching in, luckily we have a bunch of servitors helping out and our robots fixing everything from top to bottom.
It's going to be years but we will be done one day and hey at least we have all of the broken armors - tanks -planes and Titans that were left behind by the Imperium, hell we even have all of the knights and tanks working again.
Yeah, things are looking up especially since all of the broken ships will be repaired soon so we will even have a fleet guarding the planet again.
As long as nothing bad happens everything should be just fine.
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