I do not own Warhammer. I only own my OC
Hey guys welcome back, It's been a while hasn't it. You guys may not know this but the other story with Wolfgang in it has surpassed this one in popularity. isn't that strange? Anyway let's get going then.
"This is our home now and we will defend it from all threats, even if that means taking up arms against our kin." - Soulseer Beneros of Reach
Wolfgang's eyes slowly opened. He was in a dark room but he was on something soft and something warm was over him. When his eyes adjusted to the darkness he saw he was in his room.
"Rosa, lights." Wolfgang said pushing himself up to a sitting position.
The lights in the room clicked on causing Wolfgang to grunt and squint his eyes.
"Lower settings please."
The lights dimmed allowing Wolfgang to open his eyes again. He slid himself out of bed and stood up, albeit a bit shaky in the knees but he was up nonetheless. Wolfgang made his way over to the bathroom and did his business before coming back out looking a bit better.
"Rosa how long was I out?" Wolfgang asked rubbing his eyes.
"Three days." Rosa said appearing on his desk. "You gave me quite the scare there partner."
"I will try my best from doing that in the future." Wolfgang said making his way over to his dresser.
"We will be arriving at Uncle's in thirty minutes." The red knight AI said to Wolfgang as he changed his clothes.
"I see, how's our guest?"
"The Black Dragon is on the bridge familiarizing himself with some more history. The Eldar is in the living room waiting for you to wake up… she has been worried about you, you know."
"Really?" Wolfgang asked surprised he had expected her to be glad that he was almost dragged into the Warp.
"Yes she came in here to check on you every day… well she stood in the doorway to look at you for a little bit before she left a least and she would put her hand over your head to at most. She also wanted to see you as soon as you woke up." Rosa said disappearing and reappearing on Wolfgang's shoulder.
"Wonderful." Wolfgang sighed before making his way to the living room.
"Rosa how's the ship coming along?"
"Well the repair teams have finished all the bay doors and fixed the power problem." Rosa reported. "They delivered our knight back to the ship I have it in bay one."
"What still needs to be done?"
"We need to restock the ship's armory, and make sure the turret's guns were charged, and restock the mess hall-" She started to list more things to do but Wolfgang couldn't focus once a headache set in.
Wolfgang sighed as she went over his to-do list.
It was kind of funny preservers were expected to manage their own equipment and finances, even though they were a part of a "military branch" they acted and operated more like glorified bounty hunters. A preserver needed to collect enough items enough to pay for the price of restocking. The only reason he had such a large ship was because his brother bought it for him soon after he became a preserver. Normally only preserves with at least five crew members had a specter-class drop ship, normally the first model one got was the paladin-class.
The paladin-class was a smaller drop ship that could house two crew members and a good sized cargo bay but it had no vehicle bay meaning no stealing vehicles or bringing some of your own when you ran into the larger enemy units out there. It was pretty fast but only had two small laser cannons at the nose of the ship, and in a preserver's line of work a turret was better.
The next class someone would get would probably be the firewasp-class drop ship it was bigger than the paladin-class and it had a vehicle bay big enough to store two predator tanks, however the tanks deployed under the ship meaning you could not land if you wanted to unload them. The firewasp could hold five people comfortablely and was armed with a turret so it was a good overall upgrade.
Then there was Wolfgang's ship. With room to support ten crew members and a vehicle bay's worth of passengers for a few weeks. If he wanted to Wolfgang could store a few medium sized vehicles in the cargo hold but nothing large like a walker or super heavy tank. Though the only reason he was able to run the ship with only one person being on board was because Rosa ran a lot of the ships minor systems.
Wolfgang had to spend quite a credit to update Rosa's neural net so that she could run the ship smoothly but she was not at her peek just yet. If he had to he could sell some of the weapons he had in the armory the only reason he didn't was in the off chance he needed a bolter for something. Although he had to treat it more as a set up weapon rather than a normal rifle and he could only fire it once before he had to aim again.
The door to the living room opened and Wolfgang stepped in. The Eldar was sitting on the couch idly. Wolfgang could not help but notice how beautiful she was. Her white eldar rode really drew attention to her red hair, which flowed like water down her back and her blue eyes were like a calm blue ocean.
The Eldar turned to face Wolfgang when she heard the door open and stood up.
"I see you have recovered." She said normally but still had a hint of concern in her voice.
"Indeed." Wolfgang replied drily but even he could not hide the fate fondness in his voice.
The room went quiet for a few moments before Wolfgang spoke again.
"You wanted to speak with me about something?"
The Eldar's face hardened and she took on a more business like tone. "Yes, I wish to know how so many Eldar sided with your…" She paused looking for the right word. "People."
Wolfgang thought whether or not to answer her question. It wasn't like she could escape anymore, where would she go? Her enemy was all around her there was no escape. But that needed to change. She viewed everyone around her as an enemy meaning she would plot against them at any given opportunity.
She needed to trust them. Trust him. Only then would she start to see them more as friends then as enemies. So he would have to do as she asks and answer whatever questions she had… at least for now.
"Alright." Wolfgang said then walked over to the couch and took a seat. He also leaned back and crossed his right leg over his left.
Eldar take notice to someone's body language it was almost like a second language to them. Wolfgang knew that if he sat in a business manner she would be asking more questions and she would think he would be hiding something. If he sat relaxed, like he was doing now, as if he was having a normal conversation with a friend she would be less inclined to think he was lying.
"Around five years after the preservers of Reach started to steal from the eldar, we discovered a way to intercept eldar communications. This lend us to finding the locations of many of the craftworlds as they flew through space." Wolfgang started with the worst things someone could tell an eldar.
We know where you live.
The Eldar's eyes were wide from the shock of what she was hearing. Wolfgang felt a tug against his mind but he did not do anything to stop it. A few moments later it faded and the eldar looked away and started to breath slowly.
"However they also found very small independent eldar fleets carrying eldar civilians. Only the best Preservers were sent to infiltrate the craftworlds and lower grades to the small independent fleets."
"You mean that-" The eldar started.
"There are few places my "people" have not set foot on." Wolfgang finished for her letting a smirk come to his face.
Wolfgang then started again, "One such eldar fleet that a preserver was hiding aboard notified a nearby battle barge that this eldar fleet was about to come under attack from an ork fleet that would wipe out the eldar fleet if they went un-helped."
"This particular fleet of eldar only had a few farseers and they weren't very strong. Even they knew that they would be wiped out by the orks should they fight them. Unfortunately for them there were no nearby eldar ships to help them fight them off, but there were a few dark eldar ships nearby and they were offering their help for a price."
The eldar's face paled knowing full well what that price was and what would become of the eldar involved.
"Their price one thousand eldar civilians or their strongest farseer." Wolfgang said grimly.
"Meanwhile the preserver on board was trying to convince the captain of the battle barge to assist the eldar fleet, claiming that they could get a serious score of eldar technology. However the Marine captain was still holding on to the old ways that xenos were all evil and needed to be killed, he was totally fine with letting the eldar make a deal with the dark eldar."
"Not having much of a choice the preserver revealed himself to the governing council. At first the elder tried to attack the preserver but he quickly told them that he had deal for them that would possible save their fleet and it would only cost them some technology. This was enough to get the elder council to call off the guards and hear the preserver's proposal."
"He suggested they set up defenses on a nearby planet, as the orks were still far away enough to allow them time to set up a small fort with traps surrounding it. At first the eldar called him an idiot and that the idea would never work. The preserver returned saying that it was better than dealing with the dark eldar, and the more time they spent arguing the closer the ork fleet got."
"That is absurd." The eldar interjected. "Ork ships could never hope to catch an Eldar warship."
"True, but not when all their ships were barely working and incredibly outdated." That caused the eldar to go silent.
"Not wanting to sacrifice what little eldar they had to their dark counterparts the eldar agreed to the preserver's deal and deployed all of their aspect warriors to a nearby planet. There they started to build defenses. By the time the ork fleet arrived the bonesingers had just finished putting in the last of the traps that the preserver designed for them."
"The battle soon began after the eldar ships retreated from the planet leaving behind the elder fort and everyone in it. The Orks, not wanting to chase them anymore, sent their WAAAGH to the planet. Many of the orks fell victim to the traps the elder set, because they were designed especially for orks."
"But Despite that the many of the orks still made it to the eldar fort and thus start the battle. Many eldar died defending the fort while even more orks fell to the preserver and a banshee that were fighting together."
"The battle looked all but lost until ork ships started to fall from the sky and crash into the plant. They were soon followed by Sons of Liberty drop pods racing towards the surface as well as tormentor squads teleporting into the front line."
"With the support from the Sons of Liberty the battle was soon won. It turns out that when word of the battle was relayed back to Reach chapter master Leonidas ordered out a fleet of warships to assist in the battle. After the dust had settled the leader of the marines met with the Eldar council and offered them a safe place to settle on. The Eldar refused and instead gave the preserver the technology per their deal and both parties left without another word."
"So how did the Eldar end up on your home?" The eldar asked looking Wolfgang in the eye.
"Before that happened the banshee that fought alongside the preserver was offered a place in his crew, after much thought she accepted and left with the preserver back to Reach. Once they returned the banshee was shocked by the planet that the preserver and marines called home, and hastily sent a message back to her fleet urging them to reconsider the offer made by the marines."
"After seeing the pictures of the planet the eldar sent a message back telling the governing body of Reach that they wished to re-discuss the offer the marines made. Headmaster Durzo met with the eldar aboard their flag ship and discussed a more detailed offer. In the end the eldar and Durzo came to an agreement and the eldar fleet was escorted to Reach, where they were given places to live within the cities."
"As the two people intermingled with one another a few eldar human hybrids were born. Reach's scientist started to research how this was possible and found that the processes of the X-protocol made some humans capable of having children with eldar. Eldar males with human women being the most common case of this happening."
"What is the X-protocol?"
Wolfgang was quite for a moment before he spoke. "Rosa, have Omael come down here and tell him it is of utmost importance that he hears this."
"He is on his way." Rosa replied moments later.
"And have a marine squad on standby outside the ship just in case."
Rosa did not reply this time. The eldar looked a little shocked by Wolfgang's order but she remained quite. A few minutes later the door to the living room opened and in stepped the black dragons chaplain.
"You wished to see me preserver." Omael said walking into the room.
"Yes and I suggests you take a seat for what I'm about to tell you."
"I will stand." The black armored marine said crossing his arms.
"Very well." Wolfgang paused for a moment. "I was telling our resident eldar how some eldar came to live on Reach, and she asked a question about something that you should hear as well."
"And that is?" Omael asked his tone getting serious.
"The X-protocol." Wolfgang replied just as serious. "The X-protocol states that in order to live we need to adapt to our enemy and that our enemies' technology, tactics, and even the enemy themselves can be used to increase our power and insure our victory."
"Are you saying?" Omael started but did not finish his sentience.
Wolfgang nodded. "We take the corpses of our enemy and use them to improve ourselves."
The marine fell silent for a moment then he turned away to process the information. "I could look past the techno heresy and even living with the xenos, but this is to far!"
Wolfgang shook his head. "I did not say that this was a common thing done to all people who live on Reach."
The marine looked back, the skull helmet was hiding Omael's face but Wolfgang could tell he was giving him a "explain yourself" look.
"The main genetic difference between the people of Reach and the rest of humanity is that our bodies last much longer. The average lifespan of a human from Reach is one thousand years. Only certain military positions infuse some genetics from other races."
"How did this come to pass? You have a section of a first founding legion and yet they let you damn yourselves?!' Omael said angrily.
"Durzo let scientists study his body. Using his genetic code, and that of marines, as a map they were able to enhance the people of Reach. We made our bodies last longer, increased our mental capacity, and mabe our bodies more versatility."
"Then tell me Wolfgang." Omael said taking off his helmet showing his displeased expression on his face. "Are you and the majority of your people human?"
"Are you?" Wolfgang replied.
Wolfgang's answered seemed to shock Omael.
"Of course I am! what kind of question is that?!"
"I am not an idiot Omael. I know how close you and your chapter are to being deemed heretics by the inquisition. I know your chapter's genetic flaw is those bones that grow out of your body. Yet your chapter embraces it uses to fight your enemies!" Wolfgang said standing up meeting the marines gaze.
"We did not have a choice!" Omael fired back.
"Neither did we!" Wolfgang interjected. "You know this universe is cold and unforgiving with monsters at every turn! How were we to live in a universe as we were! I ask you could a planet of guardsmen survive and thrive as we have as they are?!"
The marine was quite for a time before he answered.
"No." He all but growled out.
"The majority of our genetic advancement came from steadying Durzo and marine bodies, only a few come from other races manly those being from the eldar." Wolfgang said his voice returning to normal. "Only a few special forces have more genetic upgrades that come from other races."
"Them being?" Omael dangerously.
"You have seen the black armored marines with the power swords as their main weapon. They have genetic enhancements that come from Eldar." Omael's eyes went wide. "You may have seen white armored marines that change their armor color from time to time. They have managed to tap into the Ork's crowd mental energy and use it for themselves. Have you seen marines in grey armor with a lot of tactical equipment that you have not seen before? These marines they have taken Necron technology and use it to make themselves stronger."
"That is the X-protocol Omael . Take the best parts of the enemy and use it to improve yourself." Wolfgang finished looking at both the eldar and Omael.
Suddenly the enter ship shock but it was not just Wolfgang's dropship. The sudden moment stopped the conversation, and Rosa appeared on a holopad.
"We have just finished docking with Uncle's." Rosa reported. "I also have a list of things for you to get Wolfgang."
Wolfgang nodded to his AI partner be for the fasted. "Omael, my people have adapted to survive. We maybe have used other races to speed up the process but in the end we are still human."
With that Wolfgang walked out of the living room, leaving a conflicted chaplain and a confused eldar.
A figure not to dissimilar from Wolfgang stood in the shadows as he watched the crew of Freedom's Progress disembark. His eyes flickered over each face for a millisecond before going to the next and the next and so forth.
The man continued to do this until he came to a familiar face. A brown haired and hazel eyed familiar face. The man stepped out of the shadows and made his way toward the preserver weaving his way through the crowd of people.
The man ended up behind the preserver and he reached forward and tapped his shoulder. The preserver turned only to be met with a fist flying at his face. The preserver went flying backwards skidding across the ground.
The crowded around them gasped and made room for the two men creating a circle of people around them. The preserver on the floor slowly got up the force from the blow dazing him. He looked at the man who punched him his vision a little fuzzy.
"Albern?" The preserver asked the man.
"What were you thinking, Wolfgang?" Albern said coldly. "Taking on that many craftworlders, you could have gotten yourself killed if it was not for Freedom's Progress and its crew."
"A mistake I will not make again." Wolfgang said wiping the saliva that came out of his mouth from his chin.
Albern narrowed his eyes at Wolfgang before walking towards him. His footsteps were the only sound to be heard in the area as everyone held their breath to see what a legendary grade one preserver was about to do.
Wolfgang prepared himself for a fight that he knew he was not going to win. When Albern reached Wolfgang he stopped and stared at him. Even when Wolfgang grew he was still shorter than Albern by a head.
Suddenly the older brother pulled his younger brother into a tight hug. It took a moment for Wolfgang to register what his brother was doing. It took him a moment but Wolfgang returned the hug.
"Alright nothing to see here folks move along." A Sons of Liberty marine said coming into the circle.
The crowd started to move again sparring the two brothers a look before going on their way. Albern finally pulled away and looking at his brother in the eye.
"Come, Uncle would be pissed if you don't visit him while you're here." Albern said walking off.
Wolfgang followed him deeper into the city sized hollowed out asteroid. The two brothers made their way to a bar in the upper part of the city. They came to a large club twenty minutes later; there was a line out the door with two bouncers at the front checking IDs at the front.
The two walked up to the door bypassing the long line of people waiting to get inside. The bouncer watching the door saw the two brothers coming and got in their way.
"Sir please get in line with the rest of the people." The bouncer ordered the two brothers.
"Step aside we have business with Uncle." Albern said to the bouncer who was around his height.
"Sir I will ask you one more time to get in line with everyone else or I will have to remove you from the premises." The bouncer said again.
Albern sighed and pulled out his phone. He hit the screen a few times before he put the phone to his ear. A few moments went by before the person he was calling picked up.
"Hey Uncle, one of your goons won't let me in. Thank you, see you soon." Albern ended the call then stared at the bouncer for a moment before he started to count down from three.
When he reached zero the door to the club opened and out stepped a very large and muscular man in a tuxedo. The man stood at seven foot four and had large scars over his face making him looking like one of the Imperial Guard's seasoned generals.
He looked at the bouncer standing in front of Albern and Wolfgang and frowned. He walked up to the bouncer then hit him upside the head.
"Do you not know who these people are?!" The man said angrily. "These are the boss' great grandkids."
The bouncer's eyes went large. "I'm sorry I didn't know."
"Save it." The man snapped. "Finish your shift here and report to the back for trash detail."
The bouncer's face well and stepped aside.
The man's face turned to a smile when he looked upon the two brothers. "I am sorry for that he is new, please follow me."
He turned and went to the door and opened it for the brothers. The loud music hit them as soon as they stepped in. The club was covered with dark colors, mainly purple and a dark shade of blue. To the right of the brothers was a large bar with two bartenders on either side of the bar serving customers or cleaning glasses, to the left was a stage were a band was playing with a very attractive woman as the singer. In-between those were tables but most of the people were crowded around the stage cheering and a few were jumping up and down.
The man led the two brothers to the side of the club to a door with two guards in tuxedos. The guard on the right opened the door for them when they got close allowing the three to proceed without a problem.
The door led to a staircase that went up to the upper level of the club were the owners office was located. The man led them up the stairs and to a set of glass double doors which he opened for them before moving to the back corner of the room.
The office was a rectangle shape the entrance being on one side and while the owner sat on the opposite side at his desk. To the right was a long window that looked down at the main floor and to the right was a living room like area with couches, rugs, coffee tables, and a small fully stocked bar.
The two made their way over to the desk on the far side of the room. As they got close the chair behind the desk turned to face them. Setting there was a twelve year old boy smiling at them.
"There they are my two great grandsons." The boy said happily standing up from his chair.
"Uncle Sam it's good to see you again." Wolfgang said respectfully.
"AH Slim it's been so long. Two years since the last time you came to visit me." Uncle Sam said approaching Wolfgang but he only stood at four foot two so he had to look up at him. "Well kneel down and give me a hug I am not tall right now."
Wolfgang did as he was told and kneeled down to Sam's height and gave him a hug. Despite his current look Uncle Sam was not twelve years old he was actually over six thousand years old back when the experiments to extend the normal human lifespan on Reach started.
Uncle Sam had a type of… curse/blessing, he was immortal in the sense he would not die from age but he stilled aged. He would age normally until his body was about one hundred and five years old then he would start to age backwards until he was a newborn baby then back again. No one knew how this happened to him but it was something he lived with. Right now he was ageing backwards so he had twelve more years to go before he would start aging up again.
This was why everyone referred to him as Uncle. His full name was Sam Jackson Rose and he ran this entire asteroid, he only did the club thing on the side to keep his mind busy.
Once Uncle Sam was done giving out hello hugs he sat back down in his chair and gestured for Wolfgang and Albern to set down in the two seats in front of his desk.
"So!" Uncle Sam said pulling himself into his desk and folding his fingers together before putting them on his desk. "Slim, you have had quite the week."
Uncle Sam pulled up a holopanel on his desk and started to read the report he got.
"Let's see. You were captured by a Eldar fleet while transporting over twenty craftworld eldar, then tortured for information, then saved by the battle barge Freedom's Progress, then nearly lost your AI partner. How is she by the way?" He said looking at Wolfgang.
"She is better but she lost some of her more recent memories but they are coming back to her." Wolfgang replied normally.
"That's good to hear, now I know Rosa must have given you a list of thing you need to get so give them to me and I will have them transferred over to your ship." Uncle Sam said holding out his hand.
Wolfgang reached into his pocket and pulled out a small piece of paper and handed it to his Uncle. He took the paper and looked it over before he started to type at a holokeyboard that appeared in front of his holopanel.
"Alright right they should be on their way now." He said after he finished typing causing the holo keyboard to disappear. "Now you two need to get back to Reach there is some history making events going on. I myself will be returning to Reach in a few days. Wolfgang I was told that the Battle Barge would be taking you back, and Jack no stops along the way back ok?"
Albern nodded and Uncle Sam nodded back.
"Good! Now Freedom's Progress will be leaving for Reach in Five hours, so until then you guys can hang out here or go shopping!'
"Sure thing Uncle we will be going now." Albern said standing up with Wolfgang.
The three said their goodbyes before heading for the exit the guy in the tux getting the door for them on their way out.
Alright that's done again sorry for the long wait I have been caught up in my other stories for far too long and I will try to divide out my time better than I have been. See you guys next time.
Special thanks to my editor: ZoDiAcKiLlEr315
God bless and don't lick ice in the winter… trust me don't do it.