Malcador POV

The Sigillite looked at the remains of a battlefield, surrounded by custodes he watched as the thunder warriors secure the perimeter and the most mundane imperial troops deal with the bodies and collect the weapons and gear around. The bodies of the so called Udug Huls, being taken to the custody of the biotechnical division. Cybernetics being removed, cleaned, sterilized and cataloged, the unknown ones, being sent to the members of the Terawatt Clan, now allied with the empire.

Suddenly a full armored custodes approach him, holding a dataslate, it's the reports from an intel informant. It talks about some kid, an abnormally resourceful and intelligent child, that seems to be sort of a weird "sorcerer", the child found in the countryside. The report tells about his first sight, on the ruins of the south front battlefield, about the kid confrontations with the Udug Huls, and how he was "magically" repairing advanced equipment on a farm on the outskirts of town.

The report goes on with all that the "technician" heard, as he eavesdrops the kid chat with the former starship commander that seems to be his "guardian" and be organizing a expedition to the oort cloud, the talks about the sorcerer not be a psyker, and how the sorcery he uses, is based on some sort of "nervous system" that filter energy from his own body, and from the nature around him, terra itself, not the immaterium.

Malcador squinted at the text, scratching his chin, he knew the captain, Burk, one of the few men on terra outside the emperor paycheck, that has training and experience on space travel, descendent of the admiral of an ancient confederate fleet.

"I need more information, confirm the truth of the report, ask Valdor to oversee the investigation, if the report is true, we need to know more, and we need this child in our custody. Unnatural phenomena not related to the Warp? We need more info… This might be a "game changer", but claims of weird things happened before, is not the first time some warp sorcerer or psyker tried to pretend to be something else." Says Malcador

"It will be done, I will gather one of our navigators, and maybe a pariah, just to be on the safe side." The custodes report to Malcador that nods.

Rin POV

The teenager drop on the bead, sha was on the garden of the Tohsaka mansion, in front of it, a massive metal container, had jewels, for Rin magecraft, mystic codes, and was too filled with notebooks, external hard drives and pen drives, that contained not only countless digital books, encyclopedias, music, games, movies and such. But it contained digital copies of the books she sold. She was surprised about how she could save space in her workshop with some sort of advanced technology.

The teen magus filled the container with seed, seedlings and such, and had a few cages with calves and chickens. She even filled some space with food, alcohol and such, "rare things" from ancient terra, it would be valuable in this new world she thinks. The most important thing though, was the digital copy of a "wikia" specialized on "Warhammer" content. Knowledge that could be worth more than gold in this universe, all encrypted, for safety reasons, and protected by bounded fields too.

"So… You and Bazett will reinforce yourselves and lift the container, I will go inside with Taiga, that's it?" Rin asks.

"I guess that's the gist of it." Saber says

Back into M30

The advancement and repairs are slow, every room that's cleared and secured, starts to receive a inspection and repairs, a inventory of the found supplies, items and tech is made, everything overseen by Burk, that make sure to not let anyone steal anything, he and his most reliable friends keep a eye on the others, discreetly.

The advancement is uneventful, until they find the first creature, climbing the roof like an insect, going in their direction through the shadows at high speed. The scout team is composed of Shirou, the mercenary commander and 4 soldiers armed with lasguns; they keep contact with Burk through vox.

Shirou is only allowed on this dangerous mission, because Burk knows how capable the kid is of self defense, and because he has a way to fix broken doors, elevators and if needed disable security systems.

"Contact! Hostile mutant 5 meters ahead!" One of the soldiers yelled.

"Trace on…" Shirou whispers.

Hell break loose, multiple lasgun shots brighten the dark corridor, the creature fall from the roof, but quickly stand, wounded and jump towards one of the soldiers, just to fall decapitated on the ground, at the soldier arms reach, as the kid throw a white curved sword, a short sword, that´s a long sword for the kid, the spinning sword decapitate the creature, and fly back into the kid hands, the kid suddenly having a black version of the sword on the other hand, as the soldier gulps and a drop of sweat fall from his forehead.

"Keep your eyes open, don't let that thing get close." Shirou says.

The soldiers frown at the fact the little runt is yelling orders, but the decapitated abomination kind makes the kid's point.

"You are quite good with those swords, kid, how the heck did you throw them with so much strength with these sticks of arms you have?" One of the soldiers asked.

"I used my magecraft to reinforce my body. Not enough to match those "Udug Hul" guys, but I can hold my own like that." Shirou answered.

The soldier nods, the only thought on his mind is "the kid´s a monster", and he gulps and sighs relieved that the little monster is on their side. The advance is slow, and takes days, small battles like that, followed by cleaning, inspection and repair of the cleared sector. It goes well until they arrive at the big meeting hall, where things start to become desperate.