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Angel War:

Chapter 4: Ave Imperator

Angelus, Ardias, Janus and company were in the teleporter room, where the tech-adept was doing the ritual that invoked the teleporter's machine spirit into working. Personally Angelus wasn't big on the whole machine spirit thing, but hey if it worked...

The tech-priest nodded once and pulled a level on the console. Blue bands of light surrounded them and rose and fell around them till they faded out. One second they were within the holy walls of 'The Advent Glory' the next they were in the middle of the orbital platform's bridge. The squad's ancient power swords hissed to life, each engulfed in a hazy, blue disruption field.

"Ave Imperator!" cried Angelus as he rushed into the nearest group of Chaos marines. The very walls had been infected by Chaos, the walls were turning green and were coated in a viscous fluid, as Janus found out when a traitor slammed him into the wall and went in for the kill. He was promptly saved by a Knight Templar who decapitated the heretic with a single stroke of his power sword.

"Ave Imperator!" echoed Ardias, who followed Angelus into the thick of the fray. The Knights Templar fought a valiant battle against the heretic marines in the bridge. Janus emptied his bolt pistol's clip into a marine; it fell to the ground and didn't move. Just to make sure Janus plunged his chainsword through it. "Death to the traitors!" he yelled loudly over the din of battle. Various other oaths, from both sides, followed this proclamation. In a few minutes of intense fighting the Knights Templar command squad mercilessly slaughtered the chaos marines. Angelus and Ardias had a ring of black-powered armored bodies around them.

"Squad Crusade, this is Command Squad, we have secured the bridge, what is your status?" Angelus asked over the comm-net. Various sounds of battle were heard through the ear-bead headsets. "The situation is under control" Sergeant Jerome of Squad Crusade responded. "Understood".

The command squad disabled the bridge easily enough; they pulled out all of the internal wires and destroyed important looking consoles. "Now squads all we have to do is meet up at the drop pods and meet our battle-brothers on the ice-cap. We are like a secret weapon; we will be landing behind enemy lines. They will know we are there, but hopefully having to split their attention will give the brothers on the line a better chance of breaching it." Angelus commanded.

The command squad rushed out of the bridge running through the orbital platform toward the escape pods. As they reached the last bend another squad of Traitor Marines assaulted them. Sword through heart and bolt through brain, the command squad swept the heretics up and killed them without looking back. "Crusade squad what is your position?" Angelus near yelled into the comm, he needed to, to be heard over the klaxons and sounds of battle.

"We are at the drop pods, our position has been attacked by the heretics," Jerome responded. "Understood, we are with you". The command squad reached the drop pod bay; the chaos marines had their backs to the command squad. Once more they slayed the servants of the Ruinous Powers without mercy. Before congratulations or thanks the marines had filled the drop pods and began the plunge toward the planet below them.