Hansel nodded his head speaking in old Kriegan, "You haven't changed at all skirt chaser."
"I haven't the need to change Mista Reaper, and I don't chase skirts. They're just drawn to me." Julius replied removing his gas mask with a smug grin, "In all seriousness how the hell did you end up here?"
"What are they saying?" Ruby whispered to her team, "It sounds angry for some reason, but they don't look angry."
"I got blown through a Warp Portal after killing a bunch of Tau and Chaos heretics." Hansel answered dully.
"Impressive. I was on a mission with the boys to rescue a frakking Inquisitor and some other guardsmen. Turned out he was a sodding heretic that sacrificed all of his men, he and I tangled for a bit until he… kicked me through the portal… jokes on him though, a bunch of Greenies were walking through the bloody door."
"What about your tank squad?"
Julius sighed, "Remember Commanders Heinrich, Reinz, Gottfried, and Jan?"
Hansel nodded.
"They're all dead, crews to boot. Greenskins got 'em with rockets," Julius said with casting his eyes downwards, he sighed conjuring up a forced smile, "but we took plenty of those heathen xenos with 'em."
"They died like good Imperials." Hansel said squeezing Julius's shoulder.
The Armageddon boy chuckled smacking his hand playfully, "Look at you showing emotion, I hope 'Death's Justice' isn't getting soft on me."
His reward for that statement was a fist to his shoulder, "Sod off."
"Hahaha, knew it was you Hans… where are my frakking manners, Saladin how'd you get here?"
The Tallarn boy sat down on a log and undid his boots, proceeding to empty one of sand, "I was fighting Necrons and Chaos cultists, they were trying to bind Daemon souls in the metal skeletons. Couple of my guys are dead, one blew himself up to kill some of them."
Julius nodded his head with a sigh, "Sounds harsh mate, perhaps that Vostroyan hasn't drunk all of his Amesac yet?"
"Doubt it. He's probably drowning in it." Hansel said rolling his eyes.
Julius bursted out laughing, "Pffftt, hahahaha, that's a good one Hans!"
"It's a statement of fact."
"Heeeeellllloooo!" Ruby said waving her arms around, "We're still here you know!"
"My apologies Rosenrot."
"Rosenrot?" Julius asked raising a brow.
Ruby face palmed, "Ruby Rose! That's just the nickname he gave me."
Julius bit back a grin, 'Oh boy this is going to be interesting~'
"Well sorry about ignoring ya Rosebud, jus' some old friends reflecting on old days." Julius replied grinning smugly.
"Right," The brown colored girl with the minigun said walking up to Julius, "Coco Adel, leader of team CFVY, second years at Beacon Academy."
"Milady." Julius said removing his cap, crossing his right arm over his chest to bow, "Sergeant Julius Romano, of the 101st Armageddon Legion heir to the Planetary Governorship."
"Governorship?"
"I'm supposed to lead the planet after my old man dies, guess my little bro is going to rule the world instead, everybody probably thinks I'm dead." He said with grin.
Coco frowned, "Why's that?"
"I called in an airstrike on my location, to kill a bunch of ugly Greenskins in case there were too many of those sons of a Grox to kill."
"That sounds suicidal!"
Julius shrugged, "Throne and Planet after all. Now why did a bunch of Emperor blessed beauties~ and this utter badarse," He said throwing an arm around Hansel, "come down here to a monster infested forest to pick up fo- three guardsmen and a Techpriest?"
"Headmaster Ozpin said that he wanted us to retrieve you guys, weird stuff has been happening and he's hoping that you guys could have some answers."
Julius frowned pressing his lips into a thin line, "What does a scholamaster care? What sort of schola are they talking about Hans man?"
Hansel pushed Julius's arm off of his shoulder, "I'll explain it on the way."
"You blasted metal octopus man!"
"Lousy crimson drunkard!"
"Robe wearing computer frakking monk!"
"Peach schnapps drinking lightweight!"
"Huuuuuu!" Nicholas gasped, rolling up his sleeves, "You take that back. You do not jest about the matters of drinking!"
Edison scoffed, "Calm down Tsartrov, we most certainly have more important matters to attend to."
Nicholas glared at his mechanical companion before letting his momentary anger go, "Sure… wonder how the Tallaharn man and Armageddon guy are doing."
"Hmmmm," Edison scanned the direction in which the other two Imperials were, "they seem to be alive, and in good company."
"Ahem." Professor Goodwitch grunted with a most unamused glare, "Gentlemen, if you both could kindly follow me to our rendezvous with the other students and Imperials."
Nicholas chuckled, "Oh so the other two are alive? That's good."
Jaune coughed, "Argh, dude, need a mint?" Jaune pulled out a packet of mints and handed them to Nicholas.
Nicholas scoffed, "Are you insinuating that my breathe is foul?"
Edison face palmed, "I'm wearing a mask and even I can smell it!"
Nicholas frowned at Edison, "Who's frakking side are you on?"
The Techpriest shrugged his shoulders, "The Imperium, the Omnissiah's specifically."
"Smartarse."
"I am the smartest after all, fleshbag." Edison said patting Nicholas on the shoulder reassuringly, "I'm the reason why you're still alive."
Nicholas rolled his eyes taking a sliver of gum from the blonde boy, stuffing the wrapper in his pocket because it was shiny.
"Now that you two have calmed down finally," Professor Goodwitch said stressing the last part, "I would like to introduce myself as Glynda Goodwitch, Huntress and professor at Beacon Academy."
"That makes no sense, what does a schola teacher that hunts have to do with us?" Nicholas asked replacing his lasrifle's battery with a fresh edition, saving the previous one for recharging.
"Well Mister Nicholas is it?" The red clothed Vostroyan boy nodded, "Everything will be explained once we regroup with the others and head back to Beacon. Now, if I may ask what is your name?"
Edison dusted his robes off and stood firm, "Edison Luminous, Techpriest for the Vostroyan First Born."
Everybody raised a brow, "Techpriest?"
"Yes, I believe in the Machine God and make sure that all technology for the Imperium is running ship shape, and make sure only the worthy are handling technology appropriately."
Now after the past current events Glynda has tried to keep an open mind for the weird, Hansel for example was one of the reasons why she started to be open minded because everything he said and did was just too outrageous to be untrue, but this was starting to drive her off the deepend.
With a sigh she asked a question she already partially knew the answer to, "A God of machines? Please tell me you are joking."
Edison nodded his head, taking mild offense, "I do not blame you for being skeptical about my God, but I do not jest. We Techpriests take pride in his ways and in our transition from mere flesh like yourselves to something greater."
Metal tendrils came out from behind the robed man and started slithering through the air around him, he pulled a little bit of his robe out of the way for the others to see his mechanical replacements.
'Ohdustohdustohdust!' Professor mentally screamed, his insides were… they were just gone! Replaced with metal and- 'oh Dust that's his heart!'
Velvet being a second year student has seen a lot of things that scared the beegeezus out of her; giant Grimm, numerous Grimm, horror movies, Coco missing a sale. But this was the single handedly most terrifying thing she had ever seen. So without any grace she fainted right into her partner's arms.
Jaune had put his fist in his mouth to prevent himself from puking his lunch out, the flight over here was bad enough, this was just disgusting!
Nora however had the most questionable reaction, "Oh cool! You're like a cyborg monk!"
Edison chuckled lowly through his rebreather, "In crude terms yes young one."
"I'm not that young to be called that any more, how old are you anyways?"
Edison tapped his mask, "Let's see here…. ah yes, one hundred and twenty years old now."
…
"WHAT?!" Goodwitch shouted with wide eyes, "How is that possible?!"
"Power of technology." Edison said plainly walking away with Nicholas following.
"Where are you going?" The Professor asked flabbergasted.
"I can see where our allies are. Allow me to lead the way."
"The planet is overrun with soulless Emperor damned monsters?"
"Yes."
"These people have also somehow found a way to WEAPONIZE their very souls?"
"Ja."
"…." Julius tapped his mask resting on his hip methodically while he racked his brain with how… peculiar the whole situation has become, "No Warp heresies of any kind?"
"Nein."
"Huh, well, I'm no Inquisitor, but this shrakk seems very peculiar to me."
Saladin jogged up to the duo, "Obviously the Imperial Guard is not arriving any time soon. What have you been doing?"
Hansel closed his eyes nodding his head, because the situation was utterly ridiculous, "Going to schola. To learn how to kill these things."
Saladin and Julius looked at each other, and started laughing, "Are you frakking kidding me?"
"It's not funny."
"That," Julius chocked out wiping a tear from his eyes, "is frakking hilarious! A Korpsman living in a school with a bunch of clean hands? That sounds like a bad joke!"
The Beacon students were silently observing the three guardsmen, everyone had a general idea on what Hansel was like; cold, dismissive, hateful, angry, mean, tactical, and scary.
In Ruby's case he was a kicked handsome puppy that needed love in his life.
So when the proposition of four other outsiders made them wonder if they'd be any different. Strangely enough they were drastically different from Hansel; they were polite, they laughed, they were kind, they seemed… alive.
"How the hell are those two friends?" Coco asked staring at the three guardsmen and the extremely large Atlesian Shepard with utter confusion.
Yang shrugged, "I really do not see how they are friends, it makes no sense to me."
Blake, while she was hiding behind Yang because she was terrified by the dog made her own observations, "They seem to share a similar language, they both wear trench coats, wear skull gas masks, and fight in the same military."
"But that seriously can't be it! I mean look at all of us, we are extremely different from each other and yet we work well together after some… minor hiccups." Weiss reasoned, feeling a small amount of shame for how she originally treated Ruby.
"Then let's just ask how they're friends." Ruby said plainly quickening her pace to keep up with the trio and dog.
Ruby broke out into a small jog as soon as she saw the other two laughing, "That sounds like a bad joke!"
"What is?" The other two guardsmen jumped, surprised the small girl snuck up on them.
"Sweet Throne girly," Julius gasped holding his hand against his chest, "give a guardsman a heart attack why won't ya?"
Ruby chuckled, "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you guys. I was just wondering, how are you and Hansel friends?"
Julius gasped with both of his hands against his cheeks, "Hans! You didn't tell them about me!? Your best friend! Your bruder from Armageddon! The Bane of the Orks! Killer of Greenskins! Tank ace of Armamotherfrackinggeddon!"
Hansel stared at him blankly, "No."
"The frakk mate? I thought we were cool like that." Julius said crossing his arms, putting on his best 'you hurt my feelings' look.
Hansel smacked him upside the head, making the Armageddon boy laugh, "Yep, you're Hansel alright. Anyways little red I met this guy on a joint campaign taking place on my home world Armageddon. Now at this time I was just some newbie officer straight outta the academy waiting to spill some Greenskin blood, and my first assignment was to greet the 263rd Death Korps Siege Regiment, low and behold this glorious son of a pod was the first one I tried talking to."
"Of course being a son of Krieg and all he wasn't too keen on talking to me, but his Commissar ordered him to work alongside me so he had no choice but to talk to me." Julius said nudging Hansel's shoulder, "During the campaign he ended up saving my bacon several times over. I've only repaid like three favors since then."
Ruby raised a brow looking at Hansel, "What sort of favors did you ask for?"
Hansel held up three fingers, "Chocolate, a book, and fresh socks."
"Really?"
"I really needed new socks, and the regiment wasn't supposed to get any new ones for three months. Our time on Armageddon was coming to a close and our next assignment was an ice world."
"Oh," Ruby said kicking a small pebble, "that's reasonable I guess, but I'm looking for a more detailed explanation of how you two became friends."
"Oh I see," Julius chuckled smugly, "you want some war stories then, because if I'm not mistaking this guy here has been keeping his trap shut about our adventures against the Green Tide?"
"The what?"
Julius and Saladin both frowned looking at Hansel, "You weren't kidding, they don't know much about the Xenos."
"They know absolutely nothing."
"Tisk, tisk," Saladin muttered, "we need to regroup with the Techpriest and Vostroyan and straighten things out."
Julius pointed ahead, "Speak of the devil."
"All I'm saying is if the Primarch Vulkan returns then perhaps the Emperor could possess him and use him as a vessel to fight Chaos directly!" Nicholas argued as he and Edison walked in front of the strange clothed children, and the particularly bitchy blonde lady that wouldn't let him drink.
Edison sighed nodding his hooded head, "Nicholas, for the thirteenth time, that sounds completely heretical, besides, the Omnissiah doesn't need to use one of his sons, they just need to lead the Imperium for him on Holy Terra."
"What are they talking about?" Jaune whispered to his partner Pyrrha.
Pyrrha shrugged looking just as confused as Jaune, for the past five minutes all their 'guests' did was argue with each other after nearly coming to blows mere minutes ago, only this arguing seemed more or less light hearted banter.
"Be a professor he said, it'll be fun he said, we'll be teaching the next generation he said, it's not like a bunch of portals will someday open up and spit out more headaches no not at all!" Professor Goodwitch muttered to herself, still not believing her situation.
"Yo Vostroyan!" Julius bellowed walking past some trees, "We made contact with some allies, I can see you already found some of your own."
"They won't let me drink." Nicholas said jabbing a thumb back towards the other teens and teacher, "No one here is from the Guard."
"I actually found someone, meet my good mate Hansel!" He said pulling his Deathkommando friend to his side.
"H-hansel!" Nicholas chocked, not believing his eyes or luck.
"Oh shrakk." Edison muttered stepping backwards, "I'm not getting involved."
Julius frowned with confusion, "You guys know each other?"
"Tsartrov." Hansel said coldly eyeing the Vostroyan, "It's been awhile."
"Ehehehehehe," Nicholas laughed nervously, "y-yeah, awhile… you're still not mad are you?"
"What would he be mad about?" Ruby asked innocently.
"A year ago I received one hundred lashings because of my participation in a bar fight," Hansel said keeping his eyes on Nicholas, "Tsartrov here is the one that got me in the fight."
Julius nodded his head, "That ain't cool bro."
"I know, I know!" Nicholas said scratching the back of his neck looking extremely nervous, "I also got myself a hundred lashings, look I'm very sorry about that Hansel, can you forgive me?"
Hansel walked up to the Vostroyan boy that trembled underneath his silent gaze. In a swift motion Hansel "forgave" him with a quick knee between the red suited boy's tender region.
Julius cringed as Nicholas fell over holding his now very tender region, "Ooooohhh, sshhhhrraak, that looks like it hurt…"
"Apology accepted." Hansel said plainly walking away from Nicholas.
Edison lent down a hand and picked Nicholas back up, "That could've ended worse."
"Aaaaaahhhhhh…" Nicholas whined, "I deserved that… I'll admit it, but did you really have to use the metal leg?"
"Yes."
"Hansel!" Ruby squeaked covering her mouth, "Was that really necessary?"
Hansel crossed his arms nodding his head up and down, "Very much so." He looked over to Edison and nodded, "Techpriest."
"Deadman. You're looking well, are your augmentations holding?"
"My left arm could use some tuning."
Edison bowed his head slightly, "Then I shall run a diagnostic and give it a blessing."
"Wow," Ruby said just realizing that the robed man had metallic parts waving about, "that's so cool."
"I know right!" Nora jumping up and down next to the Techpriest while the rest of JNR, CY, and Goodwitch came up from the path.
Professor Goodwitch frowned looking at Nicholas moan grabbing for his family jewels, "What happened here?"
"Stepped on a bad branch," Nicholas muttered, "my mistake."
"I see… I'm ordering the Bullhead pilot to pick us up in the clearing, until then everyone stay together and keep watch for any more Grimm."
From the bushes a set of eyes watched the group of Humiees converse while the owner of the eyes scribbled down notes in what appeared to be gibberish, unless you're an Ork.
'Da boss needz ta 'ear dis.' The Gretchen Kimari thought as he stealthily scampered away.
Miles away, under Mountain Glenn…
Khan watched with an uncompromising sneer as the other two Chaos Champions set up a summoning circle, using Warp chalk mixed with the crushed bones of the Ruinous Powers enemies, these bones in particular were Eldarian courtesy of Caligularii's campaigns against the dying race.
Bubonicos was whistling, but it was no random tune, it was a Chaos chant from the Nurglian sect.
Inherently as a Khornate cultist he never saw sorcerers as worth his time, but he'd be a fool to not appreciate the benefits of having them around, they were Undivided after all.
It still rubbed him the wrong way.
"Now if Montresor was right," Bubonicos said absent mindedly, "we should have enough sacrificed abhumans and enough power between you and I to summon this… Setesh Marine."
"Setesh is not a name to be taken lightly," Khan growled as he stalked around the circle, "he was the Warmasters most loyal marine, he himself has killed many of the Loyalist Marines and Sororitas, the Inquisition trembles at his names mere mention! He is the true leader of this platoon."
Bubonicos hisses lowly, "He sounds like worthy Captain to lead our force."
"Captain!"
"Montresor convinced him to risk death by Abbadon's hands coming here. If anything Khan he is just another part of the bigger picture Montresor has planned, Setesh is only a useful ally nothing more." Caligularii spoke with an oddly serious demeanor.
Khan sneered at the Slaanesh Champion ready to fight him for the insult made about one of the greatest Traitor Marines that Chaos currently had, but that would only be counterproductive.
"Fine, just hope however that's how Set will see it."
The two sorcerer's went back to drawing up the circle, taking great care that the bone-chalk was done professionally, a minor mishap and the whole room could implode on its self.
This summoning was different from the other summoning was different from the other summonings, this required great care to summon something so powerful in its own right, this portal was meant to be opened for a longer period of time than a mere twenty seconds.
It needed to open long enough for a Chaos Space Marine Champion, and his Lesser Daemon escort.
Shit just escalated, what sort of hell is Chaos Undivided summoning now? A Space Marine and Daemons? Oh boy, I sense a lot of death coming... Mwhahahahahahaha! What trials shall our heroes go through now?
