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Chapter one. Arrival of Survival.
As the monstrous creature leapt through the passage into the central corridor, it heard an inhuman buzzing from a doorway further down the hall. It stepped cautiously towards the door, and poked its head round into what seemed like a security booth. There was a hiss, and the bulkhead door slid closed, neatly slicing the creature's head in two. The door beeped once, and slid open, revealing the monster inside. Two and a half metres of genetically enhanced muscles and steel-strong bone.The huge, armoured being stepped out of the door and felt a tremor in the floor as a massive explosion tore through the door at the end of the corridor, and bits of shrapnel pinged off his power armour. Then he collapsed as rapid las-fire hammered into him, from the direction of the passage to the bridge. He turned towards the corridor, and the men ceased fire. So this is how it ends, he thought, as his life slowly ebbed away, those idiots can not hit the xenos, but they could all hit me. This is ironic, knocked down by the very madmen who were assigned to escort me. A rumble erupted through the hull, announcing the arrival of a boarding craft. A boarding craft? I thought they had already docked with us? There was a hail of bolter fire, and he felt the heat of a flamer on his back, and he knew he was dead.
"Sergeant... can you hear us... we have a very bad reception signal... transcom system malfunctioning... wait... picking up signals... you have incoming, repeat, you have incoming! They're all over us, throw that grenade now soldier! The bastards, we're surrounded, fight for the Emperor, goddamnit, you can't run as there is nowhere to run to!" Then there was a burst of static, and the vox system whined and died. There was a rumble, and Terminator Sergeant Tranolos awoke.
"Thank hell you've woken up sir, we thought you were dead." Tranolos sat up as much as he could in his bulky power armour, and through bleary eyes he saw the shapes of Belanos, Hakos and Travir, the guardsmen who had volunteered to aid him on the journey to an unknown planet where he was supposed to start diplomatic negotiations . Although how sending one of the Imperium of man's most powerful soldiers to negotiate peace would help, he didn't know.
"What has happened, Corporal?" enquired Tranolos, the micro-vox in his helmet making his voice sound rusty as he spoke.
"Well, we've welded the door shut, and soundproofed it so no-one can get through and no-one can hear what we are saying. Even though the xenos can't think, they can still send one of their thinkers, you know, the zoan thingys. We hope they will just think that the door is welded so they cannot get to the nav database. Also, you won't believe this Sarge," said Travir, his voice barely containing his excitement,"but you know the boarding craft that hit just as you blacked out?"
"Yes," Tranolos said, just a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
"We got them to fix up your armour. You wouldn't have lasted long without them," Hakos said, the only one who wasn't screaming at all of this. His squad members called him the Librarian, as he always kept quiet.
"Who is it?" Tranolos said again, anger seeping into his voice
"Well, like I said, you won't believe this!" Belanos let out a whoop of excitement .
"Tell me!" roared Tranolos, his anger getting the better of him.
"Well, it was filled with Terminators!" Now Belanos and Travir were almost screming with joy, as they might now be saved. However, Tranolos feared the worst.
"What Chapter are they?" asked Tranolos, his fear showing in his voice.
"They are Ultramarines, as you are sir," replied Hakos, the only one not screaming his head off at the arrival of the Terminators.
Relief flooded back into the Sergeant's face as he heard this.
"Thank the Emperor they are not of any other Chapter," said Tranolos, and he muttered some holy phrases under his breath.
"Why is that sir?" enquired Hakos, much the inquisitive member of the group.
"Because, young one, if another Chapter of space marines find me, they will most likely strip me of my armour, torture me, and interrogate me over what my Chapter knows."
"Sorry I asked," Hakos replied, suddenly regretting what he had just said.
Then everyone in the bridge stopped as a thumping sound echoed through the corridor outside the door.
"Duck and cover!" whispered Hakos, who had had the sense to run and duck under the control cabinet next to the door, and was already readying his las-rifle and training it on the door. There was a thump, and the door collapsed. Tranolos reeled with shock. Only a thunderhammer could have knocked that door down with a single hit. There was a scream as Hakos, who had moved to get to Tranolos' side to give him covering fire, was pinned to the ground as the heavy plastasteel door collapsed on top of him. Then, outlined in the doorway, was the one thing that could save them all. A Terminator, one of the mightiest soldiers that had ever been trained by the Imperium of man.
Their saviour.
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