Wake Up Boyz

by Rattraveller

Orks can pop up anywhere but how do they know what to do when they first pop up out of the ground?

1. Chapter 1

WAKE UP BOYZ

1/8/2020

For more than a Hundred centuries the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. His is the Master of Mankind by the Will of the Gods and Master of a Million Worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is the rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium, for whom a thousand souls die every day, for whom blood is drunk and flesh is eaten.

Human blood and Human flesh-The stuff of which the Imperium is made.

To be alive in such times is to be one amongst untold trillions and trillions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable; this is a tale of those times.

The first thought to ever go through his mind was a simple one. "I'm hungry." He opened his eyes for the first time and looked around for something to eat. His eyes laid upon many things in the room he was born in. He already knew the names of most of the things there. This was no surprise to him, and he really didn't care, he just wanted something to eat.

First, he focused on another one in the room who sorta looked like him. Almost two meters tall, naked with green skin covering thick muscles and heavy bones. The other one's small red eyes were open and by the rhythmic motion of his large fanged mouth the first one knew he was hungry too. Well that git wasn't getting any food before he did, that was for sure.

He knew how to make sure he got the first food. Rising up out of the hole he was in he walked over and bashed the other one over the head with his fist so hard he went down. Kicking him a couple of times he said, "Yo, I Hagob and I want something to eat. You go find me something to eat and don't be trying to eat it first."

The other one tried to cover himself and said, "Okay, okay I will, I will."

Hagob watched the other one scuttle away and did not question how he knew his name was Hagob he just did. Then turned to see about ten more beings like himself, it dawned on him they were all called Orks and he knew exactly what to do with them. He yelled at them. "You heard me get me something to eat or you get the same as that lug."

Before the others could move or think too hard, Hagob strode to the nearest one and hit him in the gut. The others ran off in every direction. With a satisfied smile on his face he took a look around where they were. Light was being provided by some long thin tubes about four meters over their heads. The walls and roof were made of metal that was rusted and grimy. The floor was dirt which for some reason Hagob didn't think was right. He could see the holes he and the others had crawled out of a little while ago after digging up from under the ground. He could also make out lumps in the dirt where he was pretty sure more of his kind were.

There was no vegetation but there were great big piles of junk everywhere. Most of it was rotted crates and corroded barrels the others were looking into and kicking around trying to find something for him to eat. A new thought came to Hagob. The others were Boyz, they were his Boyz as long as he kept them in line. That should be easy, he just needed to keep hitting them. No there was something else he needed to do. He couldn't think what is was so he tried to but decided he would think of it once he got something to eat.

Just then one of his Boyz yelled, "I gots food, I gots food" has he lifted something from one of the rubbish piles.

Hagob just said, "Bring it over here or you gonna get hitz."

The Orc Boy ran back to Hagob and handed him a squirming creature about a third his size. He grabbed it by its leg and thought it looked a lot like Hagob except without the muscles and its head was more bulbous with bulging eyes. Hagob took it and was about to take a bite when it said, "Wait Boss Waaaait!"

Hagob lifted it higher so their heads were eye to eye even if one of them was upside down. He looked it over for a minute and then said, "Why shouldn't I eatz ya?"

It said, "I Sou, I no good to eatz. I Gretchin we iz all bones and icky stuff."

Hagob thought again for another minute and then said, "That okay I will find something better later, really hungry now."

Sou said, "No Boss no. I can find you something tasty and juicy. Not all skinny bone like Sou. Give Sou a chance you like it, I swear."

Hagob needed to think about this. Sou did not look to tasty and he smelled worse but he was hungry. Looking around for some inspiration he saw all the Orc Boyz were looking at him and Sou. He needed to be decisive here or he would need to hit the Orc Boyz a lot more. Hitting them wasn't bad. They needed to be hit. But he was hungry now.

Getting back to the immediate squirming problem he decided to take a chance. He said, "Alright you find me and all the Boyz some tasty food or you go back to being da food." With that he dropped Sou on his head.

If this affected the little creature at all he did not show it. Springing to his feet, Sou put two fingers in his mouth and whistled. Hagob watched in amazement as two dozen more creatures like Sou sprang up from everywhere.

Sou said, "This iz the new Boss. All you gitz getz him and his Boyz some squigs or they gonna eat youse."

The little critters started to group up in fives and sixes. They all grabbed up pieces of wood and metal and started to dig in the piles of trash. All at once small creatures in many various sizes and shapes and colors sprang out from the piles. The Gretchin chased after them, hitting them grabbing them. One of the Gretchin tried to grab one of the creatures which just turned and bit the Gretchin's hand off. The rest of them had better luck catching the creatures without serious injuries.

A blue one with six legs, tried to run through Hagob's legs and he stomped it flat with his big foot. Reaching down and scooping it up, he popped it in his mouth. It tasted okay he guessed. This was the first thing Hagob had ever eaten and thought it was good but wanted something better. Just then red one also tried to get past Hagob. He reached out and just caught it by the tail. He was about to eat it when Sou came up to him and said, "Wow Boss the red squigs iz hardezt to catch. They the fastezt youse know."

Hagob popped that one in his mouth, it did taste a little better, he then said, "Why am I doing all the catching here? Get me and my Boyz some food."

Sou and the rest of the Gretchin handed over the squigs they had caught over to the bigger Orks except for the one who had lost his hand who was just whimpering alone. Hagob ate another three squigs and was beginning to rate them as to taste versus chewiness when two of the Ork Boyz started to fight each other over the only squig left. He stomped over and backhanded both of them then took the black squig and ate it himself thinking it was pretty good, a nice oily texture that helped it slide down his throat.

One of the two Ork Boyz said, "Boss we still hungry."

The other one wiped blood from his mouth and said, "Yeah still hungry."

Hagob thought about hitting them again for mouthing off and then had an idea. He looked over to the group of Gretchin and found the one with the missing hand. He called the little creature over to him. The one handed Gretchin had a terrified look in his black eyes.

Hagob said in what he thought was a kind voice, "Did you catch any food for me Boyz?"

After a moment, the Gretchin said, "No no squig took my hand I couldn't find any."

Hagob pulled the Gretchin up by his arms and then he then tore him into pieces tossing the arms, legs and chest on the floor between the two formerly fighting Boyz. He said, "All you listen you either get food or you are food. Gotz it."

All the remaining Gretchin yelled out some kind of agreement and some of the Boyz added their voices too. As they trailed off Hagob decided he liked them cheering at what he said and doing what he said. He decided to give them something else to cheer at him for.

He said, "Now all you listen. We need to find something to do. We can't just sit here eating all the day. We iz Orks and Orks don't sit around all day eating. Now grab something useful and let's get to doing something fun."

The Ork Boyz and the Gretchin all let out a cheer and moved to find something useful. The Gretchin grabbed small rusty tools while the Ork Boyz looked through the trash piles and mostly picked up things they could use as clubs and one found a long rusty pipe that made for a could spear. Truth be told none of them were sure what they were about to do that would be something so they grabbed what they felt would be useful.

While they were doing that Hagob looked around for somewhere he and his Boyz could go. He finally took notice of a part of one wall that was partially recessed. In the recess the metal had a long seam running vertical. Just beside the recess was a panel with red and green lights. The red one was much brighter than the green one. Not waiting for the others, Hagob walked over to the recess and looked at the panel. He wasn't sure of what to do with it.

Sou came up to him and said, "The last Boss hit the green one and the door opened. He and his Boyz left through it and it closed again."

Hagob did not understand all the words Sou had said but he did catch the important one. Slapping Sou on the head Hagob said, "What other Boss?"

Sou recovered quickly and said, "Sorry I know youse the Boss but before youse there was another Boss and another before him. They had a bunch of Boyz and they all left through this door. None of them ever come back though."

Hagob took this in and then said, "Why they not come back?"

Sou said, "Not know Boss. The other Bosses say Gretchin stay here. We stay and they not come back."

Hagob tried to figure out what it meant. Not even an hour old yet and trying to work all the new things out was making him hungry again. All the Ork Boyz and Gretchin were watching him and waiting for him to do something. Hagob thought and came to the only decision he could. There would be one difference though. Hagob was going to do things the other Bosses had not done starting with the little ones.

Hagob said, "All of you get ready. That means you Gretchin too. Everyone is going and everyone is gonnsa to have some fun when we getz there."

The Ork boyz and some of the Gretchin cheered at this. The others did not look to happy but one glance from Hagob and they started cheering too.

Hagob looked at Sou and said, " What are youse waiting for? Hit the button and letz go, the Boyz want to have some fun."

Sou said, "Yes Boss, yes Boss, hitting the button right now."

Sou went up to the panel and hit the green glowing button. There was nothing for a moment and then a heavy grinding sound started. Slowly the seam in the recess started to separate with many jerking stops and starts until finally it ground to a stop revealing a three-meter-wide and two and a half high opening. Stepping through the opening, Hagob saw there was a tunnel about three meters square leading off into the distance. There were more of the glowing tubes along the ceiling. One thing he saw right away was the floor here was made of the same metal as the walls and ceiling. He could see dirty footprints from many other feet leading away and down the hall.

Hagob started walking not sure where he was going and not really caring. After five minutes Hagob and his group arrived at an intersection with the tunnels going left, right and straight ahead. He looked down at Sou who had been walking next to him the whole time, chatting about how grateful he was to tag along and how Hagob was a great Boss for taking the Gretchin with him and how they would get all of them food and whatever else they wanted and on and on. Looking down at the little thing now, Sou wasn't saying anything. Hagob didn't think there was anything he could say.

A slow and methodical chanting started down the tunnel to his right. This was something new. Given the choices he had at the moment, Hagob quickly thought new could be fun and without saying anything just started heading to the sounds he heard. It did not take long for Hagob to see a different kind of light coming from further down the tunnel. This light was more yellow and flickering. It also looked to be coming from the floor as well as the ceiling.

New ideas began to spring into Hagob's brain. Ideas on how to get his Boyz into a line to best approach what was ahead. Then it struck him he should find out what was ahead. Looking down, Sou was still right by his side, he said to him, "You little, go sneak up there and see who is doing all the chanting and then come back and tell me."

Sou did not look happy and was about to say something but Hagob slapped him upside his head and said, "Git."

Sou but both hands on his head and with a pained look and scuttled down the tunnel. Hagob turned and saw a few of the Boyz starting to follow Sou. He hit one of them in the gut and stomped on another one's foot. The others took the hint and stopped. Hagob then said, "No one starts the fun until I start the fun. Youse getz that."

Several of them nodded and a few mumbled their agreement. Hagob thought he should say something else to get them ready for the fun to start. "Now listen check what you brought. Make sure you ready for whatever is chanting. Cause we are going to go down there and make them stop that. We are gonna do that cause we iz Orks and that is what Orks does."

Now the Boyz were back with him again. There was a glint in their eyes that told Hagob they were ready to have some fun. It dawned on him at that moment that he was not sure what fun was, but he figured he would find out soon. He also realized he had not grabbed something when they had left the dirt floor room and only had his hands. Before he could think of what to do about this Sou appeared back at his side.

He said, "Boss there is a bunch of funny people down there. Not Orks or Gretchin. They iz weird. They are part machine and part living flesh."

Hagob took this in and said, "What are they doing?"

Sou said, "There is a bunch of machine things in the room there. They iz all standing around a big machine. Some is poking it and some iz just chanting at it. None of them iz looking around. They iz all only looking at the big machine."

At the last part, Hagob knew what he needed to do. He turned to the Orks and Gretchin and said, "Okay all of you get in a line. Orks in front Gretchin back. Everyone be real quiet and we walk up to the chanters. We I sayz so we hit them until they stopped chanting."

With that Hagob turned and headed down the tunnel moving as silently as he could. The others followed and tried to be quiet but the Boyz could not help stomping and the Gretchin were chittering and giggling. It didn't really matter with the chanting growing louder and louder the closer they got.

They entered the large room and spread out. Hagob look and was not sure what he was seeing. The ceiling was at least four times higher than the tunnel and he could not see the opposite wall. All over the room at regular intervals where large oily metal columns of machinery all whirling cogs and pumping pistols and flashing lights, covered in symbols and skulls making humming noises. One of the columns was not moving or making any noise.

That one was surrounded by a dozen figures that Hagob knew weren't Orks. What skin they had was shades of brown and tan and covered in blood, grime and strange symbols. None of them had natural limbs. All their legs had been replaced with metal imitations. Nine of them had their arms replaced with large heavy tools of various kinds and were only wearing pants with bare torsos. These ones were silent and were standing close by the other three who were dressed in long dark red robes with cowls. All three had had their arms replaced also, instead of tools their metal limbs ended in multi jointed fingers. Their faces were also mostly robotic and it was from what Hagob guessed were mouths that the chanting was coming from. He found it hard to believe that much sound was coming from only three people.

Then the chanting stopped. The silence was so sudden none of the Orks or Gretchin knew what to make of it or even what to say. The tallest of the robed figures reached out to the machine column and touched a series of lights like the ones on the door in their birth room. With a few poofs of smoke from many places the machine column started to act like the others. The whole group then turned and for the first time noticed the large group of Orks and Gretchin.

None of the partial metal men reacted at all except for the tallest who said, "Control this is Fervent 3489, the machine spirit has been revived. Also, a group feral Orks are in the third charging chamber."

After a moment the tall one said, "Very well Control, it will be done." He then changed his tone and said loudly, "Orks I am Tech Priest Fervant 3489 we require you to come with us to the main arena. Follow the servitors willingly or you will be terminated."

Hagob did not know what terminated meant but he did know he did not like anyone telling him what to do. He could feel a power rising inside him and Hagob bellowed out, "It's fun time Boyz!" and with that the Orks charged forward yelling at the top of their lungs.

They hit the line of the bare-chested metal men first. None of half flesh, half mechanical men acted at first and three of them were taken down quickly. Two of them were beaten down in bloody and oily piles as several Orks hit them repeatedly with their makeshift clubs. The Ork carrying the spear rammed the other one straight through, picking him up and carried the unmoving target back until the pair hit one of the machine columns.

Hagob ignored the ones his Boyz and tried to reach the one called Tech Priest Fervent 3489. Before he could the first ones came to life. The tools on their arms began to whirl, twist and pump as they struck back at the Orks. One Servitor with a large shear on his arm cut the head of one Ork in a spray of green blood. Another Ork was taken down when a hammer arm struck him in the chest caving it in, crushing his ribcage and knocking his body back several feet.

Hagob found himself facing one with a whirling buzzsaw on its arm trying to cut him in two. Has the arm came down he reached up and caught it in his hand. For a moment the two were locked not moving at all. Hagob could not believe this smaller creature was strong enough to hold him like this. As they stood there the fighting continued around them with more Orks and their tool armed opponents being killed.

As he struggled, Hagob could feel the power inside him rising. He took the power he felt and put it to use by releasing the Servitor's arm and jumping back out of the way. As the buzzsaw hit the floor, Hagob moved forward and hit the Servitor with all his might on top of its head cracking it open with both blood and black fluid leaking out.

Looking down at the body, Hagob reached down and pulled the still spinning buzzsaw arm off. Rising it over his head he turned and swung it a wide arc striking two of the enemy and taking both of them down. He looked for more things to hit but all that was left were six of his Ork Boyz and the three Tech Priests who still had not moved.

Tech Priest Fervent 3489 said, "Orks you have refused the simple order. We must now punish you for that."

The three Tech Priests started to move up. Hagob shouted to his remaining Orks, "You three git that one, and you three git that one. I got the big one!"

Feeling the power inside him growing again, Hagob raised the buzzsaw arm and charged Tech Priest Fervent 3489. Instead of barreling straight through his opponent Hagob stopped at the very edge of his reach and put his built-up momentum into the swing. He connected but not in the way he thought it would. Instead of cutting the Tech Priest in half, he had caught the buzzsaw in both his hands and was holding it. Hagob tried to pull it back to him but could not even budge it from the Tech Priest's metal hands.

Tech Priest Fervent 3489 said, "Things will go easier if you submit and accept your punishment. Otherwise you will suffer injuries which may affect the Arena."

Looking around him, Hagob saw three of his Ork Boyz were down and the other three were not doing so well. The Tech Priests were just too fast and too strong for them. Turning back to Tech Priest Fervent 3489, Hagob smiled at him and said, "We are Orks and we don't do what anyone sayz. So we are not going to any Arena bubbo."

Tech Priest Fervent 3489 did not show any emotion on his metal features or in his voice and said, "You have no other options and now you will come along with us."

This time Hagob laughed loudly before he said, "You don't knowz about our secret weaponz."

Before Tech Priest Fervent 3489 could respond Hagob called over his shoulder, "Sou get your scrawny legs up here before I getz really mad and eatz ya."

The Gretchin had not been cowering down the tunnel while the fight had been going on. Instead they had been sneaking into the large room looking for anything they could steal. Now Sou and all the others swarmed up and on too the three Tech Priests with a collection of purloined tools and other bits. They did not so much as attack the Tech Priests as they began to disassemble them, snipping wires, cutting cables, smashing lights, pulling out anything which was not triple bolted down.

All three Tech Priests tried to swat the Gretchin away, the remaining Orks started clubbing their enemy with only occasionally hitting a Gretchin. Hagob stood back and awaited his moment. He then swung the buzzsaw arm again and this time he was not blocked but still did not cut the Tech Priest in half. The blade buried itself only a few inches into the Tech Priest's side. Still he must have cut something important, purple fluid spewed out in several directions at high velocity covering everything for a dozen feet.

The Gretchin jumped off in fear as Tech Priest Fervent 3489 spun around three times and then collapsed to the floor. Sou and the other Gretchin tried to move back in to see what they could find on the twitching body when Hagob stopped them and said, "Sou get my blade out of that guy and then getz me something to eat, fighting is hungry work."

Sou said, "Right Boss right away Boss right on it Boss." He then took the wrench he was carrying and hit two other Gretchin over the head saying, "You heard the Boss, get on it, get on it."

Satisfied Sou would take care of what he told him, Hagob went over to his remaining Ork Boyz. The five of the last six were up and poking at their fallen foes. He let them to it and went to see what the last one was up too. He found him sitting in the green and red blood and gore among the dead. Has he approached the Ork and one of the dead ones stood up. A little surprised so when close enough said, "How you do that?"

The Ork turned to Hagob and said, "I not do that. This one not all dead. I just popped him on the chest and stood him up to fix that. He damaged some but I can fix that too."

Looking over the formerly dead Ork, Hagob could see his right arm had been smashed almost flat. He looked at the other Ork and said, "How you gonna fix that?"

"No problem, I can cut the arm off and put a new one on from one of the real dead ones."

Hagob thought that sound like a great idea although the Ork with the destroyed arm looked like he didn't agree. He said to the unhurt Ork, "Okay youse do that. Oh whatz your name?"

"I am Codt." answered the unhurt one and then he called out to the Gretchin, "Hey you grubby little runts, I got some more work for you. Now get over here before I let Boss Hagob eat you."

Hagob went off where none of the others could bother him for a few minutes. He had eaten and the Gretchin were bringing him some more food. He had had some fun with the part metal men, at least more than the Ork Boyz who had died, and was hoping to have some more fun soon. What he wanted was the feeling of power he had felt build up before and during the fight. That power feeling was quickly fading. He had to put all his thinking how he could get that power feeling back.

The first thing he came to realize was that every time one of the Ork Boyz had died the feeling lessened. So he needed to get more Boyz. Walking over to where two of the surviving Ork Boyz were poking at the dead Tech Priests, he slapped both of them and said, "Go back to that room and see if more Boyz are there ready to have some fun." The pair made some squeals as if to protest but a few swift kicks from Hagob got them on their way.

Smiling now he turned as someone tapped him on the shoulder. He said, "You better have a good excuse." Behind him he found the smallest of his Ork Boyz standing and holding up the buzzsaw blade he had killed the annoying Tech Priest with. Except now it had a proper grip on it and some bracing so it did not spin anymore and the arm had been removed.

The Ork said, "Here Boss, Iz made this for you."

Snatching it out of the Ork's hand, Hagob tried his new improved weapon out swinging it back and forth. It felt good and natural in his hands. Looking back at the waiting Ork, he said, "Okay, you don't get hit now." Thinking for a moment he then said, "You make more of these for the rest of the Boyz, ah what's your name?"

The Ork said, "Iz Boss, I Iz. Iz can make lots more choppas and stabberz, all you want, Iz find plenty of things to make choppas and stabberz from metal men. Think Iz can make other things too if Iz can get lazy Gretchin to work right."

Hagob laughed at this and said, "Kick them alot and they will work. Now go make some of those choppas and stabberz so every Ork can chop and stab. Chopping and stabbing iz fun and all Orks want to have fun."

Iz said, "Right Boss right, right on it Boss." Then he turned and went back to the pile of dead Servitors and Tech Priests.

Feeling a tap on his knee, Hagob brought his arm back and was about to swing when he noticed Sou holding up a few chunks of meat still dripping blood and black fluids. Taking the offering from the Gretchin he popped one in his mouth and thought the Squigs had a better taste but it did satisfy his hunger.

Sou said, "What we gonna do now Boss, what we gonna do?"

Hagob took a few moments to eat the rest of the meat and really think about what to do next. He wanted to have some more fun, but for that they were gonna need to find some more metal men or somebody else to have fun with. To make the power grow he needed more Orks.

Just then the Ork Codt was fixing started to scream as his arm was removed. Hagob thought that was funny. Still he needed a lot of things and he needed to figure out how to get them. He also needed to keep the gits he had busy or they would do something stupid and ruin all the fun he wanted to have. Slowly a plan came together.

Looking down at Sou, who was still waiting, Hagob said, "Go get the rest of the Gretchin. I want half of them looking for food and the other half cutting up that stuff the metal men were wearing so it fits us. I want us to look good. But leave the Gretchin helping Codt and Iz alone." Then for good measure he kicked Sou over to where the other Gretchin were to get them started.

Moving over to where the two unoccupied Ork Boyz he had left were, he dropped the choppa and grabbed each of them by the arm and gave them a good shake and said, "You go over there and make sure those Gretchin do what I said to do and you go over there and make sure those Gretchin do what I said to do. If you don't make them do what I said to do then I am going punch your teef out. Got it?"

Both of the Ork Boyz started nodding their heads and mumbling, "Yes Boss." over and over again.

Hagob shoved them off toward the general direction of the Gretchin and took another look at his little group. All those present were busy and the other two should be back soon, unless they got lost but he thought they should be able to get there and back. Now he had time to do what he thought his thoughts were trying to tell him to do.

Picking up the buzzsaw choppa he leaned on it and tried to listen. He was not listening with his large ears. Hagob was trying to listen for the power he had felt with his mind. He just knew it was out there somewhere and if he did it right, he could find the power and then he and the Boyz could have some more fun.

Hagob did not know how long he had been leaning on his choppa when he noticed Sou tapping him on the knee again. The Gretchin was holding up some of the cut up red cape from the Tech Priests in his arms. Sou said, "Here Boss, here, try this on, should fit good."

Taking the cloth from Sou, he held it up and tried to figure out how to wear it. Seeing places for his arms but not his head, he was still not sure how it worked. Looking back at Sou saw the Gretchin was wearing a much smaller version of the same thing so he slipped it on and liked the look of his new vest.

Sou said, "See Boss see, look good on you, look good on me."

Hagob thought he'd hit the Gretchin again for thinking he could wear the same thing as him when the two Ork Boyz walked up with four new Ork Boyz and another dozen Gretchin and a dozen littler green creatures following them.

One of the Ork Boyz said, "Here is the Boss, you call him Boss Hagob. Hey Boss, we found these Boyz. How'd we do?"

Hagob patted the Ork Boy who had spoken on the shoulder hard enough to buckle his knees and said, "Good, now all of youse listen. Grab some food from the Gretchin and see Iz to get a choppa or stabber. We are gonna go have some fun soon."

As the Ork Boyz went to try and figure out who Iz was, Hagob held on to the first one and once the others were gone, squeezed the Ork's shoulder and said, "What are those things you brought with you?"

Looking very uncomfortable, the Ork Boy said, "We didn't bring them. They just came. We tried to stop them. That's what took so long, the Snotlings wouldn't stop bothering us and they wouldn't go away."

Hagob let go of the Ork Boy and slapped him upside the head. He said, "Why didn't you just smash em all you git."

The Ork Boy said, "We did Boss, we did. We squashed a bunch of em and more just kept coming. It was fun at first, but we had to give up to get back here. Like ya said Boss."

Hagob looked over at the Snotlings and could see they were already bothering both the Ork Boyz and Gretchin. He only thought that now he had another problem to deal with and needed to figure this one out too. Before he could start to think on this one and hit the Ork Boy a couple more times he felt a small prick in his brain.

Stopping everything else he was doing and thinking, Hagob felt around some more in his brain. He knew this was the feeling of power from before. Even though this power was much weaker he felt drawn to it, like he had to go to it.

He called out, "All of you, stop what you iz doing and follow me. I know where we can find some more fun." With that he headed back down the tunnel without looking back to see if they were following him. He wanted the Boyz to follow so they could have fun together and didn't care if the Gretchin and the new Snotlings followed. Every step he took he could feel the small spark in his brain getting a little bigger and bigger. When they got back to the intersection, he went straight across to what would have been the original left turn. The further he walked the faster he walked. He just knew the power was leading him and the Boyz to some fun and he wanted to have that fun now.

After another fifteen minutes of walking, the group came to another door with the red and green light buttons. Hagob could feel the power on the other side of the door. Smashing the green button, this door opened much smoothly than the first one and they were greeted by sight that excited all of them.

This room was like the others with metal floor and walls but was oval in shape. There were numerous tables and chairs in the room but none of them were in very good shape or even up right. Most were either strewn around or formed into barricades by two factions. The closer faction was made up of about a dozen men and women. These ones did not have any metal augmentation to them but were wearing the same red clothing covered in strange runes and blood. The second group was a smaller number of Orks much like Hagob's group but with a big difference. Both of these groups were using some kind of handheld machines to shoot at each other.

Hagob watched for a few seconds as the shots brought down one Ork and one Human adding them to the pile of dead surrounding each sides barricade. He really liked the way the little machines sounded and loved the impact they made on furniture, flesh and flooring. He would ask the other Orks about them once he got done with his fun.

He yelled, "Charge." and leaped forward toward the Humans. The Ork Boyz and the Gretchin and even a few of the Snotlings followed him, all yelling at the top of their lungs. All those who had been in the room turned at the sound. Almost at once the other Orks yelled and also charged towards the Humans. The Humans for their part tried to keep firing with half of them shooting at Hagob and his Orks and the rest at the ones they had been shooting at.

One of the new Ork Boyz fell down. Glancing over Hagob saw him lying on his stomach with a large hole in his back, green blood still pumping out of the open veins. Hagob let out a roar of joy seeing the fallen Ork. Not at the loss of one of his Ork Boyz but because he had been killed trying to reach the enemy and the rest of the Boyz would avenge his death. If any more of them died well that would only add to the fun.

Hagob reached the barricade the Humans were hiding behind and used his momentum to leap over it. As he landed, he brought his new choppa down on to the head of one of the Humans the force of his blow split the Human in two sending a shower of blood in all directions and sticking the choppa in the metal floor. Planting his foot and spinning to his right. He landed his fist into the gut of another Human and heard the satisfying crunch of his spine shattering.

A series of loud bangs brought his attention to the other Orks who had now joined the fray. With the little machines in their hands they finished off the few remaining Humans that were left with explosions of blood and flesh. Hagob could not believe the fun was over that fast. He had only just got started smashing and now it was over. He could feel the power slowly draining away again.

A hand reached out and grabbed Hagob by the arm and spun him around. Attached to the arm was a larger Ork with really long tusks. He said, "This was our fight. Who do you think you iz running in like that?"

Hagob smiled as he felt the power start to rise again. This time he felt the power growing in him. Hagob said, "I am Hagob, these are my Boyz and my Gretchin. I brought them here to fight and have fun and YOU ruined it with your cheating."

Now the larger Ork looked confused and got angrier and said, "Cheating, we never cheat. We are Lytnog's Orks and we always Waaagh the best and we don't cheat."

Hagob shook himself loose and said, "Then why you use those little machines and not hack and chop them up properly?"

Now the larger Ork said, "You mean our shootas? We use them cause the Cult of Dripping Blood uses them. It makes it a fair fight not cheating. You must be some new Orks not to use shootas. You don't even wear proper clothes. Maybe we forgive you this time and take you to Lytnog so you can be part of his great Waaagh."

Hagob thought on that for a moment and said, "Not sure I wanna join your Waaagh. Will we get shootas to use too?

Now the larger Ork smiled and calmed down some and said, "If you want, wease have all kinda shootas. You come with us and ya'll see."

Hagob said, "I not sure. Can I see your shoota?"

The larger Ork said, "Sure." and held out the shoota to Hagob.

Hagob took the shoota and looked it over. He could easily determine how it worked and hefted the weapon. He then pointed it at the larger Ork's head and pulled the trigger. The shots took the sudden surprised look off larger Ork's face and his face too.

As the larger Ork fell to the floor Hagob said to the rest, "See its cheating to use shootas."

When Hagob had fired the shoota he decided he liked it. The shoota made a nice loud sound he really liked the way the impacts splashed blood and gore everywhere. He continued saying, "Since the Humans have shootas you can use shootas too but it still cheating and choppas is betta."

Moving back to pull his choppa out of the floor, he pulled it up and held it above his head with the choppa in his right hand and the shoota in his left. He then said, "Now all you listen up. You are now part of Hagob's Orks. Right now we is gonna get all the shootas and choppas we can find and the Gretchin are gonna get us some squigs and then we are gonna go find this Lytnog so we can have more fun."

All the other Orks and most of the Gretchin let out a cheer and started to do as they were told. Hagob called over Iz and Codt and said to them, "You two get doin what you do. I want all the Boyz ready to go and all them with choppas and stabberz and alot of shoota. You got it."

Iz said, "Sure thing Boss, shure thing."

Codt said, "No one really got hurt but I think I can make that some of them betta. I get right on it."

Sou came up Hagob and said, "Boss, Boss I think they is stealing from you."

Hagob looked down at Sou and then looked where he was pointing. A couple of the other Orks were pulling teef out of the larger Ork he had killed. Hagob wasn't sure why they were doing that but he didn't like it. He didn't like it one bit. Marching straight up to the pair, he smacked on up the head with his shoota and kicked the other one. He said, "What do you think you doin?"

The one he kicked over jumped up and said, "We wuz getting the teef for you Boss. So you can buy stuff when we get back to da Zone."

The other one said, "Yah Boss we doin it for you before the others try and steal them all. We waz the old Boss teef getters now we your teef getters."

Hagob did not understand some of what they had said. He tried to get his brain to work on it and then the thoughts like so many other things had come to him today the idea of buying things with teef made perfect sense. He said, "Alright then you get me all the teef here and then the other Orks will show you where to get some more. Then they will show you where you could find some more Boyz. Now hurry up we ain't gonna wait on you all day."

The pair of Orks just kept saying, "Yes Boss, Sure Boss, Right Boss," and things like that over and over.

Hagob started to walk away from them not sure where he was going to go next when Sou spoke up and said, "So Boss what are we gonna do? Are we going to have some more fun?"

Hagob thought the little Gretchin was growing on him because he almost felt like not hitting him this time. Instead he said, "We will get back to the fun soon. First we need to learn some stuff."

Stopping to organize his brain, Hagob ticked off each item with a tap on Sou's head, "We need to go meet Lytnog, we need to find out who the Cult of Dripping Blood is, We need to find out where we are, We need to find more Boyz and choppas and stabberz and shootas and squigs. Most important we need to get rid of the Snotlings."

Sou said, "Good thinking there Boss. Sou go make sure all the Gretchin are working hard and the Snotlings not bother you."

As Sou moved away, Hagob looked over his growing crew and decided things were going pretty good so far. Of course, he had not told Sou what his biggest question was. What was this feeling of power he had felt before and during the fun times? He knew it was the key to everything in his life but unlike everything else which his brain eventually found the answers too he could not figure this part out. There were only two things he could do to figure it out. Go ask some other Orks smarter than him and none of these Boyz were that and get something to eat. He was hungry again.