Chapter six: Einsatz
[A.N: Iron tide is now officially my longest fanfiction to date, yay.
So an overview.
After 40k i was thinking of moving my newest chew toy into a gundam universe, perhaps 00. I looked through the reviews and saw the one that talked about familiar of zero, probably not going to be in an 'official' chapter but i could play around with it in an extra one.
I appreciate the feedback my story is getting and would like to thank everyone who decided to read and follow this.
And for a little preview of what's to come, one word.
Demonbane.]
In the first hour alone, hundreds of thousands had died.
I did my best to not care.
They made their choice, even if it was better than the imperium's rule there was nothing to benefit from chaos.
The hords of cultists were easy enough to deal with, what with having 20 meter tall mecha and unending waves of drones gun them down. The airborne vulture's zipped about as they fired their p 90's into the flood of corrupted bodies.
It seemed that the chaos astartes themselves were a no show, which meant they where in their temples.
Fighting a demon, never thought I'd get a chance like that.
My dominators charged through their deranged ranks reducing most into a red viscera, racing along as they opened fire on everything around them. I'm not sure what effect the warp might have on my tech so letting my second largest and better armoured unit's go in first and see what happens.
"Status: tenth TSF squadron in position, squads twenty two and twenty three have been terminated".
Well shit.
Something needed killing.
I directed my attention back to the dominators.
Good news. Not a single one was suddenly turning around and firing at my forces shouting about chaos.
Better new. Some had found temples to the local 'totally not chaos you guys honest' temples and smashed straight through like a high speed car through a wall.
Best new. Killed a chaos marine or two.
"Automaton".
Holy shit that voice was smooth as fuck holy shit.
Why does eliphas have to sound so amazing jesus that voice was...just oozing 'i'm better than you and i know'.
I wonder if i can steal voices.
"Flesh pawn".
I just realized how many people that could have summed up.
And i just killed most of them.
"Oh?, Taldeer's pet robot can speak! Interesting, fascinating even. I had assumed you where like the necrons, silent, an ever marching wall of death...and without soul or humanity. But one glance and how could i ignore the vast, massive inferno that was your soul... your making this too easy" he chuckled.
The bulk of my force's had broke through the remainder of the cults and set about crushing the temples.
"Though i am curious, why do you fight us machine. Even the gods have a place for you".
Why...
Why?...
"Why?. The answer is quite simple, inheritor. Chaos is a reflection of life, I'm sure you know, and life is inherently...self destructive...".
"Chaos is in constant flux, I'm sure you're aware, four gods, four way of things, four painters trying to paint over each others brush strokes faster than the others...This alone has kept your precious gods in line, and has wrecked havoc for those who the gods feed off of".
"The chaos god's aren't really gods. Powerful, yes. But what are they, truly?".
Yes, what where they ?.
"I'll tell you what they are, O' Inheritor mine, they are but parasites... Gatherings of thoughts, ideas, emotions and much more... enough to achieve something similar to self awareness and sapients, and with that...fear."
"Fear?, you assume much machine. What, pray tell would the god's fear?."
"What they were before, becoming a being that is not only aware of it's self on a existential level but developing an 'I', forming an 'me'. Becoming individual beings than what they were before."
"Isn't it terrifying?, knowing that you could go back to that state of nonbeing all because of a little slip up, losing that 'me', losing that 'I'...And what comes after?, is it the same being as before?, does it remember the 'I' it once was?."
"This state of being can be intoxicating, and what are the ruinous powers made of?, feed off of?. Emotion, idea, thought, they are parasites relying on the very beings that helped form them. And these flawed, monstrous and selfish beings will do anything to survive, to indulge their primitive urges. Even if it destroys them..."
"The warp is influenced by the materium, so tell me word bearer. Everything has an opposite, so, what happens when one believes?."
"...What are you getting at?."
"It's simple. When there is belief there is unbelief. So...when so many believe in something. What happens to that unbelief?."
"Enough death made nurgle, enough change made tzeencth, enough battle made khorn and enough pleasure made slannesh. So, what does enough unbelief make?."
"It makes a god of chaos, of self destruction, a force that destroys itself in an attempt to destroy the very same thing that made it."
"And what does your rant prove?, that you are merely accelerating a hypothetical process?. Chaos cannot be stopped, not by the corpse emperor or by you."
"Oh, but it can. I'd just have to kill every living being with a soul that can think and feel. I'm not sure what would happen to me if i removed my ability to think and feel. But I'm sure it would be better having me around."
"But that's not the point, eliphas. The point is that chaos will destroy itself. It's very nature is without restraint, without reason. Even if chaos won, the armies of demon's would devour faster than soul's could develop. They'd literally starve themselves to death, perhaps you could consider the act of annihilating you all as...mercy."
That should have distracted him long enough, my jet's where already in place.
Heading deeper lead to things that definitely fit the term 'chaos fortress'.
"Mercy?..." he suddenly broke out into a laugh that went on for too long. So demon time or comeback.
"Mercy is for the weak, and you are not only weak, not only mad but insane. While you're little monologue was thought provoking it did little than entertain me. Your soul shall make for a fine offering to the gods, and a fine means for my ascension."
"Alright, eliphas. I'mma let you finish, but i got one question."
This is gonna be fun.
"Ya like death?."
Without warning, a crimson beam rushed forward.
The structures unlucky enough to be in it's path had their void shields bombarded by exotic particles that destabilised it to the point where in five hours it would collapse, and when it did the entire structure simply... dissolved. Any structures near simply found their void shields rapidly destabilising.
While i did enjoy the odd flex now and again i didn't exactly enjoy doing it with anything incomplete, like my commander chassis, that STILL wasn't finished updating. Goddamn O.S.
I landed. Right Infront of a defiler. I stabbed the thing downward, piercing it's head and chest. TSF V-99 'Susanoo', similar in design to the vulture but designed to fill the traditional role of super prototype. Primarily close quarters based it's arms lacked the hand guards and sheaths of the vulture and instead had an overall smoother limb design. The head too was different, Two proper 'eye' cameras along with an up facing horn.
It's colour scheme was primarily black with blue highlights.
I withdrew my blade.
The beam did it's job of hitting eliphas's fortress of doom.
And missed.
Instead of a hopefully dead chaos lord there was a hole, it wasn't a very big hole but it cut straight through the fotress. Ya did good kid.
Another TSF landed, another susanoo model. There was only three i made, each meant to fulfill the varied purposes that the vulture covered.
The body structure was identical sans the angled head which boasted a compound mono eye along with a sword and shield, the shoulders for the susanoo model featured hidden weapons. either rocket launchers, gattling guns or a superior sensor array to map out the area.
The machines colour scheme was highlighted by silver and was primarily dark gray.
Unlike the vulture, the colour of the cameras could be customized, my eyes were red unlike the other units orange.
"My king, we've lost squads thirteen, five and nineteen.".
"Seriously, what the hell keeps doing that!?.".
Nearby a whole bunch of stuff exploded, said stuff being chaos marines.
The third model landed, the most striking thing about the golden machine was the firepower it packed.
Two anti-ship cannons angled upwards from it's tactical assault unit, both of it's forearms had reinforced shield's equipped along with dual anti-vehical cannons and both hands were explosive, armour piercing assault cannons.
Attached to the sides of it's leg's where launchers equipped with thermal detonator tipped missiles, while the shoulder weapons were normal ones.
The golden machines head was angled downwards, two purple compound mono eyes.
"Maybe someone's messing you, senpai."
I still don't know why she went with such a cute voice.
"Alright, most of eliphas's bases are either being raided or slag, his troops are dropping like flies and there's a hole in his base. There better not be a bloodthirster or so help me god.".
I just had to say it.
My entire sensor array exploded. Staus reports about 'energy spikes' and 'reality restructuring'.
A massive tide of blood exploded from the word bearers stronghold. A collosal red monstrosity walked forth. It was huge. Huge and angry.
Fucking Jinx's.
The greater demon roared as it charged into my army followed by the majority of chaos marines and vehicles under eliphas. They smashed through like a hammer into my Steele legions, the traitors were met with drones shaping their limbs and generating more into blades, the bulky forms of phalanxes blocking attacks and crushing any who fought them. Vultures skating and flying as they shot at the chaos force's.
The removal of the choas warband would have been difficult but doable if it weren't for that bloodthirster jumping in and cleaning house when i had the advantage.
The things durability was stupidly insane, all i could do was hopefully distract it and wipe out as many of these bastard's as possible.
"Let's go!."
Backed up by the others i charged at the beast, sword and axe clashed as i dueled with it. As expected of a demon of khorn it's martial prowess was something else, we exchanged blows. I pushed my frame to it's limit's trying to keep up with the beast's skill, it found its face bashed by a shield as i swapped out.
The dark grey mecha blocked and hacked away at the demon, it's strikes leaving gashes in the thing that stood between it and it's foe.
Before it could land another slash, ot soon found itself bombarded by the gold machines weaponry.
The gold mech hovered around the monster as it continued to unload upon the demon, the machine alone could have decimated a small force of space marines with the weapons it was firing on the demon with.
The three of us continued to distract the bloodthirster, the gold TSF pelting the demon with it's munitions while i and the dark grey machine continued to swap out.
This went on for a good while before the greater demon found a slim window to escape through.
No longer being fought by three mecha at the same time, the bloodthirster went to town on my drones effectively cutting my army down by forty percent.
Alright that's it. Bringing out the big gun's.
Three jet's shot downward.
In the demons direction.
The third jet- considerably bulkier than the others- engines extended and rearranged and morphed along with the rest of the machine into a pair of legs and a pelvis.
The second jet- who's armour was noticeably segmented along with a front that was mostly cone shaped - body rearranged and sans the 'head' collapsed to form an abdomen.
The first jet- which was a mix of both the previous machines along with six short blades, three on each side - moved it's engines up while morphing into a chest with the engine's now in place as both shoulders and biceps.
"Change-!".
I shouted out, moving myself from the susanoo and into the jets.
"Getter-!".
Getter three docked with getter two, both machines now accelerating towards getter one.
They practically slammed together, all three gett machines combining as the partially formed super robot rocketed to the earth below.
The silver machine formed arms shooting out from it's large shoulders, both new limbs ending in clawed hands and each forearm sporting three razor sharp blades.
Horns extended from the head that formed from getter one's 'nose', green geometric plates formed it's 'mouth' with a green circle on its forehead, two yellow eyes snapping open.
"One!".
'I' landed, honestly that was probably the coolest thing i did recently. I mean it's not everyday you get turned into the personification of 'Fuck the rules i have nanomachines' and get access to tech that can make whatever i can think of or want.
Anyways, my little transformation sequence got the demons attention. Nice that it decided to let me finish.
I slowly walked towards it, the demon seemed to size me up as it too walked over.
[Plasma energy furnace: 1000% operational].
[Jormumgandr drive: Offline].
[Getter Requiem: Systems operational].
The statistics of my new mechs status lit up my vision, going better than the simulations.
we stopped, i glared up at it. My getter was tall enough to come up to the demons chest, it returned my glare in kind. Probably all the stabbing and shooting.
"Senpai, you do realise you could have just shot it while you where still airborne...right?."
"Wheres the fun in that?, besides..."
[Sclash driver deployed].
"...i can take this bastard."
I opened with a right hook to it's stomach moving at super sonic speeds, didn't do much but piss it off and let me punch it with a left hook at equally fast speeds to it's face.
The demon punched back, my getter leaving trails of displaced dirt as it skidded a few miles away from the the khornate.
"Getter tomahawk!."
With my shout the voice activated systems sprung to life, a rod shooting out of the port between 'my' shoulder. Taking it in hand i twirled it around over my head before swinging it down, the tip unfurling into a massive two bladed axe head which didn't go unnoticed as my swing was blocked by it's axe.
I swung at it again and again and again and again, each swing of the tomahawk flying at supersonic speeds as we exchanged blows.
Another blow had sent me back from the demon, my 'body' besides the myriad dents, cuts and gashes was still operable.
Good.
"Getter wing!."
Two bat like wings extended from my 'back', needless to say the speed on this thing was insane. It took me seconds thanks to the getters flight system to get back to and start seriously kicking this assholes ass.
"Plasma-!."
I pointed my 'shoulder's' at the greater demon, both opening to reveal cannons that Extended forward.
"-Cannnon!.'
The beams of plasma shot out at the demon, both searing flesh and melting steel and at such short range would probably do more than just piss it off.
Now it was the jolly red bastard's turn to be hurled around at mach speed. It was sent a good few miles before it righted itself and landed.
"Tomahawk boomerang!."
Now with five more tomahawks, i threw them at the beast. Anti gravity and compact thrusters spun them towards it, three were lodged in its chest and shoulders, two were swatted away and one missed spinning away.
I shot towards it.
"Getter razor!."
The blades on my 'right arm' extended tremendously, i could bisect a ship with these. I swung my blades at it, only for the damn thing to parry.
The blade's on my other arm extended and i spent a good hour or two trying to dice the asshole only it to parry me and land a few hits.
Alright, i tried doing things fair. 'How about i don't use my new mecha at one hundred percent?, seems fair enough'. No.
[Jormungandr drive: Online].
Fuck it, fuck this fight, fuck this planet, fuck chaos, fuck everybody.
"And fuck you!."
Right on time.
A shadow soon descended upon the wastes, covering the battlefield.
up overhead was a ship.
That was the only possible explanation.
But this was me who built it, so anyone who knew me knew what this was.
I flew up to the massive ship.
And grabbed it's handle.
I landed back on the ground brandishing my new sword.
Sclash emperor.
With a roar i hefted the massive weapon up, the gigantic machine released cloud's of steam as it begun to open.
The entire rectangular barrel opened, both sides moving downward with the upper half moving farther below. A massive behemoth of a blade extended up from the structure, logically being too big to actually fit in the titanic gun sword.
The blade glowed orange as the metal was heated, anyone without tremendous amounts of armour, agility or powers would find themselves incinerated by the intense heat alone.
This ship killing, fortress crushing, army breaking blade was dropped onto the demon.
"RRRRRRRRGGGHHHHRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!."
The things sheer weight was straining my 'body', why out of everything to keep this damn engine kept my sense of pain!?.
The drones and chaos marines that where near by were reduced to molten slag or thanks to their armour burning alive in molten slag.
Once again the demon raised it's axe to block my blade, and found it's axe being parted by said blade like a thousand degree knife through anything.
The continuously heated up blade sliced through the demon, the blade traveling down it vertically. Flesh was both burning away and turning into glass, armour was melting away and through it all the demon roared as it's form was being annihilated from the physical world.
The blade heated down as it was sheathed, there wasn't much of it's remains left. Just two molten pillars of glass.
The sclash drivers thrusters fired as it flew back to my base.
And in an instant, i was overhead of eliphas's fortress.
A panel on my 'abdomen' opened revealing a circular lens.
"Getter-!."
The lens begun to glow an ominous green.
"-Beam!."
And fired.
The beam of getter ray's cut through the half strength void shield.
Dragging it along, i used the beam to cut through the fortress and begun to dismantle it.
Eliphas's army was either making a mad dash to the warp portal that brought them here or too busy fighting to care.
My drone's flooded forth.
"This isn't over, machine."
It never is.
/
After that all i had to do was check for stragglers and make sure the deimos peninsula was nothing but glass.
The new ships i made helped.
Massive in size, they were comprised of three 'V' shapes segments that if necessary could detach and function independently of eachother.
While the 'annihilators' glassed the peninsula, i checked and double checked and triple checked and spent day's checking for any sign of corruption in my unit's.
After that i just hit the self destruct on them.
While it was a waste of resources, the information gathered would be helpful the next time i had to deal with chaos.
I watched as my army dissolved into inert ash, kind of freaky.
With that done there was one last thing to do.
Take a break.