Hansel shot up with a gasp holding his… wait a second, it was not day time when he- he most certainly was not out on a grassy knoll either! He looked around frantically, this had to be some sort of trick or something, nononononono, where is she? Where is she!?
"Ruby!" He shouted running over the knoll, when he got to the top he saw a road. Hansel ran at a dead sprint to the road with the hopes of finding a road sign, but he stopped dead in his tracks noticing a peculiar thing about the road that sent unnatural shivers down his spine.
It was made of gold bricks, all with Aquilia's carved into it.
There was only one world he knew of that had such a road, a world that was shrouded in legend and in mystery, a world peculiar to most of the Imperium yet oddly a welcoming idea to the sons and daughters of Krieg, a world that they pray to go to when they honorably fall in battle in the name of their benevolent God Emperor of all Mankind.
Terranis.
Hansel fell to his knees, the world seemed to spin for him, Terranis, this means that he was dead. He will never see her again, he will never tell her how sorry he was, he left her and his comrades on that world just as a Champion revealed himself and Chaos's presence on the world. He was powerless to do anything about because he was dead.
"I failed her." He lamented with his head hung, he fell forward with his hands bracing his fall to the ground, "Ruby… I'm so sorry."
"Oh there you are." Hansel looked over his shoulder and to his surprise he saw an older unmasked Korpsman walking over the knoll, "Usually new arrivals are too stunned to move from their landing spot."
Hansel blinked rubbing his eyes, "So this truly is Terranis?"
"Yes, welcome to paradise 3456768-008976 Hansel. You can call me Fokker." The Kriegsman said offering a hand to help him back to his feet.
"I can't believe it… I failed. Chaos is attack-"
"They haven't officially attacked yet, and you didn't fail anyone." Fokker said cryptically motioning for Hansel to follow him down the road.
"What?! How do you-"
Fokker looked at him with crossed arms, "You are asking questions that can be answered very simply boy. Where are you again?"
"Terr-" Hansel pursed his lips realizing just what exactly Fokker was hinting at, "I see what you mean. But how have I not failed? I died right when Chaos revealed itself."
"Who said you died again?" The Kreigsman asked with a raised eyebrow.
"What?"
Remnant, Vale docks…
"HANSEL!" Ruby cried shaking his shoulders, he wasn't breathing, he wasn't breathing, why wasn't he breathing?!
Nicholas went directly to Hansel's side, he unsheathed a combat knife and started cutting the straps connect to Hansel's flak armor. Saladin pulled out a small medical kit and pulled the zippers open, his hands dove in and he started pulling out gauzes and antiseptic, Julius clamped his hands down on Hansel's leg
"Pressure! Put pressure on the le- his chest, its sucking in! Find the exit wound!" Nicholas frantically ordered to Saladin as he pulled Hansel's coat and fatigues open.
The Vostroyan grabbed a piece of plastic from Saladin's bag along with some tape, he pressed the plastic down flat over Hansel's wound and taped it down as airtight as he could, Saladin moved Hansel on his left side pulling the trench coat and tearing the fatigues out of the way to press his piece of plastic down over the exit wound, once he taped it Hansel's breathing was no longer short but it still remained shallow, his already pale skin seemed to turn paler.
Nicholas started waving his arms over to the first responders, "Over here! Man down!"
Jaeger started to whine, yelp, and bark at his master to wake up, he needed master, he didn't want to be alone like in the forest, master needed to wake up.
Ruby shook Hansel's shoulders desperately with tear droplets falling from her eyes, "HANSEL!"
His head rolled limp, his mouth agape with shallow labored breathing. She couldn't let this happen, she just can't! He needed to hear her apologize! Thi-this wasn't supposed to happen!
Taking in several breath's Ruby began concentrating on her Aura, a dark crimson red hue starts to permeate around Ruby as the very energy of her soul starts to manifest. The Imperial soldiers watch in absolute shock as Ruby started to glow, Nicholas looked back and forth between Ruby and Yang.
"What in the Emperor's name is happening?" He asked with a wary look on his face.
"She's trying to unlock his Aura by force!" Yang said with worry on her face, "But that's dangerous especially when he's this wounded!"
"Ruby could kill herself and Hansel doing this!" Weiss cried trying to step forward and pull Ruby away from Hansel but the amount of Aura she was using blocked the Heiress off.
Listening to her heart and throwing caution to the wind Ruby started to release her Aura into Hansel by pressing her little lips against his with all the strength she could muster. In an instance her red energy engulfed the both of them in a vibrant red hue, Guardsmen and Huntresses/Huntsman in training stood aghast fearing for the lives of the two lovebirds.
Ruby's manifested Aura started to flicker and shine with less brilliance, it started to dim as her body grew increasingly heavier, she collapsed next to Hansel breathing in a near whisper as her energy was sapped.
She blinked slowly as she tried reaching out, "Hansss…"
"Ruby!" Yang cried cradling her sister, she started to lightly channel her own Aura slowly and safely to her little sister.
"Y-you dolt!" Weiss cried into palms as she started to fear for her partner's life, hot tears started pouring from her eyes, she turned to Saladin who promptly pulled her into a hug.
"By the Throne," Julius remarked as Hansel's wounds started to lightly glow," Nicholas grab his legs!"
The Vostroyan curled his arms underneath Hansel's knees and pulled up just as Julius was propping the Kriegsman's head against his shoulder and lifted him by the under arms.
By the time EMT personal got past the wreckage in the streets the two Guardsmen were rushing to them with Julius shouting, "Three gun wounds! We patched up a sucking chest wound, he's got a shot in the leg and one in the gut!"
One of the EMTs looked to his right and saw the bloodied remains of the White Fang, "Oh my-"
"Hey asshole! Pay attention!" Nicholas berated as he back peddled past the first responder holding up Hansel's legs, "Get us a damn stretcher!"
The EMT bolted over broken lamp posts and telephone poles to the ambulance he and his partner rode on and brought it out as fast as Humanly possible.
Back with the Huntresses in training they all were channeling small amounts of their Aura to help revitalize Ruby, Edison and Saladin had managed to restrain Jaeger and calm him down just slightly, the Hund was trying to run after Hansel after he was carried off.
"Ist gut, gut Hund." Edison said in his limited Old Kriegan petting the war dog's ears as they stood at full alert, his tail vaguely wagging as he whined at Tech Priest.
Vale Police started rushing onto the scene with utter shock at the remains of the White Fang members in their various stages of dismemberment, they ran up to the Huntresses/Huntsman in training with weapons at the ready, "What happened here!?"
"The White Fang attacked and the Guardsmen defended themselves." Edison said in his robotic voice greatly catching the Police off guard with his appearance.
"What in the- what happened to the girl?"
"She exhausted herself trying to unlock her boyfriend's Aura, some of our friends rushed him to the ambulance!" Yang said just as Ruby started to regain consciousness.
"H-hans-" She managed to utter before falling unconscious once again.
On Terranis…
Hansel stopped suddenly as he felt his lips tingle, his body started to glow, he brought his hand to his lips, he knew that feeling, "Ruby."
"That girl sure is fond of you, don't take that for granted boy." Fokker said as he lead Hansel along the gold brick road to a small Bavarianesque village.
"What was that, that feeling?"
"Your consciousness is on Terranis, it's an extension of your soul, you can still feel everything for the most part in the Materium. For example you can feel your lips but not your legs, she must've unlocked your Aura."
Hansel frowned in confusion, "Does everyone-"
"Yes and no. Everyone has the potential but its heightened to the point of basic on Remnant. Only Imperial Saints could unlock their Auras off of Remnant." Fokker pushed open a small wooden gate and gestured Hansel to enter through.
Today was full of surprises, he saw numerous Korpsmen from different regiments wearing different uniform colors from different regiments. Some were reuniting with long last comrades, some were crying with their hands clasped in prayer, some just stood or sat on benches and chairs enjoying the comfortable temperature and flowers blooming.
"By the Throne…" Hansel said completely humbled, "Its more than I could've imagined."
"Yes it is, but we must continue on. Your mission must be discussed, and someone in the gardens wants to see you." The ever cryptic Kriegsman said as he led Hansel past his fellow rejoicing Kriegsmen.
Hansel winced as he felt like small needles were being plunged into his arm, oh well, it must not have been too important.
The village was something out of a fairy tale, it had Imperial aesthetics but retained an older worldly charm that appealed greatly to the young Korpsman, nature was flourishing, it was like in the days of old Krieg, before its horrible civil war all those years ago.
"I was once like you, loyal and faithful to the Imperium and our glorious Emperor. Then I found a little lady that manage to melt my cold heart." A faint sad smile crossed Fokkers face, "The point I am getting at is that I understand that things may be… a bit rough at times."
Hansel bowed his head with a sigh, "She said she hated me."
"Women say a lot of things and do a lot of things when they are angry and bitchy, we do too. Nice idea with the laspistol." Fokker said bumping Hansel's shoulder, "I don't think she hates you, why else would she possibly kill herself to save your hide?"
Hansel blinked with wide eyes, "What!?"
Fokker stopped Hansel in the middle of a brick paved street and placed his hand against his temple, in a flash Hansel watched as Ruby in the Materium manifested her Aura and kissed him to transfer her energy into his body.
Fokker removed his hand and stared Hansel in the eyes, "She could've died doing that, she bought your body time to heal itself and for the doctors to save your skin, which they are doing right now."
Hansel stood silently as a tear fell from his cheek, a smile crossed his face as he wiped his eyes, she does love him.
"Yesyesyes, moving along!" Fokker said tugging Hansel by his arm, "The longer you are here the more time seems to pass in there. I don't exactly get it myself but time is rather wonky when it comes to reality and here, I however have a schedule to keep."
In the Hospital…
Julius paced back and forth with his helmet cuffed between his arm, it had been thirty minutes since they brought Hansel here, a message from Saladin had told him that he and the others were on their way and so was the Headmaster. The Police were about to arrest them, which would've turned out very badly for the Police if the Headmaster had not arrived and used some sort of tenure to take his students and employee in Edison's case into custody.
Nicholas was slumped in a chair, he was running his hand through his sweat matted hair, "I hope he'll be fine."
"Don't be ridiculous," Julius said, "he'd be fine either way."
"That's kinda frakked, aren't you his best friend or something?!" Nicholas recoiled in shock, on his feet in a flash.
A few tears ran down the usually calm boy's face, the aura of calm cocky attitude far from Julius's person, "I- you know what he'd want. You know d-damn well!"
Nicholas's eyes averted Julius's, he grasped the Armageddon teen's shoulder, "I'm sorry Jules."
Julius wiped his eyes just in time as the Headmaster and his Assistant bursted through the door with everyone from the docks.
"What's his status?" Ozpin asked somewhat in his calm demeanor but his face showed that he was very concerned.
"Still in surgery, we've been out here for half an hour." Julius reported firm and formal.
Yang brought Ruby over to some chairs so she could sit, the poor girl was still recovering from her Aura exhaustion, it was by Ozpin's grace was she spared a lecture from Professor Goodwitch on just how incredibly dangerous and foolish a forced Aura unlock was for an untrained Huntress in training.
Her head still spun, every one of her limbs felt significantly weaker as if she had been running a marathon wearing weights going uphill. The words she spoke out of spite still rung through her mind, splitting her heart and prodded at the wounds, she didn't know where those words came from.
'I'm so sorry Hansel.' Ruby thought bringing her knees up to her chin, her arms pulled them tight as she waited patiently for good news.
Jaeger planted himself down in front of his master's mistress, he laid his head against Ruby's chair with an exhausted sigh. Ruby reached down and gently began to pet Jaeger's large now floppy ears, he was missing Hans as bad as her. From what Julius said earlier Krieghunds instinctively seek out Krieg guardsmen to take care of and order them around. Without a master they are lost.
Nicholas sat next to Yang with an exhausted sigh, "How are you holding up?"
Yang crossed her arms and laid her head on Nicholas's shoulder, "I'm frickin' tired. This whole day has just been a pain in the neck."
Gently and with great care Nicholas began to stroke Yang's hair, most would've found this to be incredibly suicidal but the Vostroyan was feeling brave, luckily the blonde brawler wasn't in the mood to get protective over her hair… it wasn't like she was enjoying the way he stroke her hair, no not at all.
Weiss sat with Saladin, she was also resting her head on Saladin's shoulder, the Tallarn Guardsman held one of her delicate hands between his own calloused paws, his thumb gently rubbed her knuckle.
"I can't believe she nearly killed herself to save him." Weiss whispered wiping a tear from her eye.
"I certainly underestimated how much she loves the Kriegsman." Saladin said glancing back at Ruby, "Weiss, is there a less dangerous way of unlocking someone's Aura?"
The Heiress opened her eyes and lifted her head up, "Of course there is."
"Then-uh… do you know how to do it?" He asked with a tinge of red on his caramel cheeks.
A small smile crossed Weiss's lips, "Sure Sal. I'll do it later."
"Thank you." He said gently leading her head back to his shoulder.
Edison stood with his arms crossed, he knew deep down Hansel would survive, Deathkommandos do not die easily.
Blake sat closer to the group but she herself was closer to the teachers and Sun, she wasn't sure on how the Imperials felt about her at the current moment and now was not the time to approach them about it. Sun tried to make her feel better with a pat on the shoulder and a supportive smile, she however just slumped forward in despair, she couldn't help but feel responsible for the whole situation.
Sun didn't understand really well on why Blake cared so much for… him, they most certainly were not friends. How a little sweet unsuspecting girl like Ruby got into a relationship with a murderer like Hansel was a wonder to him, it seemed incredibly unlikely… yet she loved him so much to where she nearly killed herself saving him.
From the white double doors of the emergency room a nurse appeared removing a medical mask, "Headmaster Ozpin, Doctor Gris would like to have a word with you."
"Is Hans alright? Is he going to make it?" Julius asked with an ounce of hope.
"The patient is stable," Everyone sighed in relief for a brief moment, "but he is currently unresponsive."
"Wh-what?!" Ruby asked as renewed tears started to fall from her sore reddened eyes.
The Nurse looked away from Ruby and towards the tiled floor, "He's in a coma."
Julius's heart strings snapped, his right hand flew to his mouth as he slumped against a wall feeling like the wind was stripped from his lungs. Nicholas closed his eyes and bowed his head as he silently cursed to himself. Saladin nodded his head in thought, 'A coma, a perpetual hell for a Krieg Guardsman, the worst fate that could possibly befall them, being forced to live as a vegetable.'
Yang wrapped Ruby up within her arms as her poor baby sister started to cry herself hoarse, 'Damnit, damnit! We should've helped him, we should've done something!'
Weiss gasped with her hands over her mouth, she shot out of her chair and joined Yang in trying to comfort Ruby, Blake had a look of guilt etched across her face as she no doubt blamed herself, believing if she had not lost her temper a few nights prior this wouldn't have happened.
Little did she know, this was all…Just. As. Planned.
"B'lyad!" Nicholas cursed slamming his fist down deforming his chair's metal armrest, he immediately clutched his hand with a hiss.
"Here," Yang moved her hand over his and numbed the pain with a small release of Aura.
"He was lucky to have survived his wounds. The Doctor said whoever sealed his lung and unlocked his Aura saved his life, but Headmaster I digress, the Doctor needs to see you." The Nurse said motioning Ozpin to follow her.
"I'm coming, Glynda, make sure everyone stays put." Ozpin said over his shoulder to his second in command.
Edison followed with the Headmaster, "I'm coming with you, I need to make sure no nerve damage was done to the limbs."
Ozpin was about to frown at the heartless words Edison said but decided it wouldn't get them anywhere, "Fine, let's just see what the Doctor wants."
The Tech Priest and Headmaster followed the nurse through the ER's halls as they passed patients in wheel chairs or in beds waiting outside, apparently they all fell victim to an attack that happened outside the city, whatever attacked them wasn't aiming to kill them but wanted to strip them of metal and Dust, roughing up whoever resisted.
The Nurse opened a door and held it open for the Headmaster and Martian.
A man in surgical scrubs with blood all over the midsection removed his medical mask and started to remove his gloves, he ran his hand through his hair with a sigh, "I'm sorry about your student sir, but we found some… strange things patching him up."
The Priest and Ozpin shared a glance, things? What were things?
"I had an x-ray done and we found even more anomalies, here take a look." The Doctor handed the men a few pictures in color from surgery and a few x-rays of Hansel's body. If one were to compare Hansel's body to a regular Human body they would notice a few concerning things, such as he had a few extra organs.
Ozpin gasped seeing strange symbols written on the organs, "What in the world?"
"I'll be damned," Edison muttered examining the symbols more efficiently with his improved eyes, "property of the Deparmento Munitorum and the Inquisition. These organs vaguely remind me of the organs used for the Astartes, only these ones are somewhat unique though."
"How so Edison?" Ozpin asked as he started highlighting the foreign organs on Hansel's x-ray.
The tech Priest points to one of the organs seen from the surgery, "These organs are not bionic, I've seen many of those. These were synthesized, judging by their size it appears as though they were implanted just as he started puberty, if the stretched ink is anything to tell by. They grew along with him."
Doctor Gris stared at the Tech Priest with a look of vast confusion, "What the fuck are you talking about? I've never heard of such things being actually implemented, discussed yes but no one is close to testing- just who and what are you?"
Edison pulled his cloak apart and showed the good doctor how just what exactly he was dealing with, unfortunately the doctor hadn't the heart for the sight and fainted.
Ozpin rolled his eyes at the Tech Priest, "Was that really necessary?"
"He asked." Edison stated crossing his arms smugly, "For an apothecary his mind is weak."
The Headmaster rolled his eyes as some nurses pulled the doctor into a wheel chair and carted him off, his eyes however went back to the extra organs that were put in Hansel's body, 'Just what sort of man would do this to a child? What sort of utter monster would manipulate an innocent child's mind and their body?'
"It seems the Inquisition cares deeply about their investment with Lord Commissar Cestus, not many receive organs, specially synthesized organs made from their own original genetic tissue with sanctioned alterations, though it is not perfect like the Machine he should see this as an immense honor." Edison commented as he further read through the reports about the unknown organs.
"How is this an honor!?" Ozpin demanded, fed up with the nonsense from the stars, "They manipulated him! A child! Your people forced him to grow up and become a monster!"
Edison crossed his arms at the Headmaster, "Oh excuse us, excuse us for having our backs against the wall because we are surrounded by races that want to enslave or wipe our race off the face of the galaxy, excuse us for being prey to malevolent beings of the Inmaterium, excuse us for being desperate. Tell me, what would you know about our situation?"
Ozpin held a glare with the passive aggressive Tech Priest as his usual face mask was pulled up, revealing weathered wrinkling skin and tired nearly blind Human eyes, "I've seen many a boy die out there, many a man, even Angels. This boy has something that can possibly change the tide to our favor. Whatever experiment they are doing on Krieg, it will benefit our race, it by the Omnissiah may even save it."
The Headmaster crossed his arms, "This isn't right, to put such a burden on a child."
"How is it any different from what your academies do?" Edison didn't flinch as Ozpin brought his cane up underneath his neck.
"Don't you dare compare my school to your military!" The Headmaster growled.
Edison raised a metal finger and pushed the cane away from his neck, "You teach them to kill, you fill their heads with dreams of peace and glory, and eventually you send them out to fight a foe you can't possibly beat. The only differences are is that you are less organized and faithless."
Ozpin brought his cane back down to the floor, "They at least have a choice, they could've picked any other profession but they picked this one because it spoke to them. They believe this is the right thing to do."
"It must be nice to have choices," Edison said with snort, "but having a philosophical debate will change nothing. It has already been decided on what our fates are, let's just hope the Kriegsman survives, seeing that little scythe wielder cry does more stress on my hearts than I need."
"Agreed."
On Terranis…
It felt like hours passed as Hansel followed Fokker, the elder Kriegsman lead him to a Chimera that sat with its motor running, another unmasked Kriegsman stood outside the vehicle and gave a crisp salute to Fokker.
"Why are we using a Chimera?" Hansel asked, "Let alone walk? Aren't we dead?"
Fokker nodded his head with a small smirk, "We're dead, you're just consciously disconnected from your body. Believe it or not Terranis does not grant us the ability to teleport, no, that happens in the Materium."
Hansel's eyes popped open, "What?"
"Terranis is still a living world, our souls are allowed to mainifest here as material beings, but outside of Terranis we are immaterial. Get it now?"
Hansel rubbed his head with a sigh, "But since I'm material here does that mean I have two bodies?"
Fokker and the other Kriegsman sighed, "Stop thinking too much about it and get in the blasted transport."
Hansel nodded and ducked his head into the Chimera, "Where are we heading?"
"We are going to the First Garden of Terranis, it is the holiest spot on the planet, it is guarded by the Knights of Terranis, some of the best warriors from Krieg and others that believed in our second home formed the knights to protect it from the corruption of the Warp as it tries to take what is ours. It is there where you have requested to appear."
"Who requested me?"
Fokker crossed his arms and leaned back into his seat, "A Custodes that the Emperor himself relayed a message to."
The boy gasped as he turned pale, he started to straighten his uniform and tried to unwrinkle any imperfections, why in His holy name does He- what task of great importance, for what deadly purpose was he to be used for, what conquest was his benevolent God Emperor of Mankind about to bestow upon him?!
For two hours Hansel endured the drive as his mind raced like a speeding Kriegsteed powered by promethium fueled cybernetic legs, to his knowledge something like this never happens to anyone, the Emperor sent a Custodes to deliver His divine message, His divine orders.
Though, while the thought of his God Emperor's message brought enlightened strength to his soul… he still just wanted to see Ruby again. Her words struck his heart, they torn his soul- but he knew from his last moments of consciousness she was screaming and pleading for his safety, for his life.
He had been terrible to her, he did not deserve her… but he wanted her, he wanted to hold her in his arms and pledge to her an oath to never do anything to hurt her ever again, to treat his Rosenrot as if she was divine royalty and he was her ever faithful guardian and love, to strike down whatever devious malicious foe that dare considers raising his hand to her.
He just wanted to hold her once more.
The transport ground to a halt, the Kriegsman that escorted Hansel and Fokker into the transport earlier entered in commands on a small console that opened up the transport's door, "Have a good day Major Heinz."
Hansel snapped his head towards his host, "Major?!"
"It was a rank I was given after death." Fokker said as he exited the Chimera transport, Hansel followed him giving the Korpsman in the transport a nod of thanks before exiting the vehicle.
The sight of the First Garden was truly one to behold. It was as if a fortress was built within a temperate forest, trenches lined the outer rim of the fortress filled with Korpsmen, the walls stretched to the clouds with trees that seemed to double as spires with artillery pieces pointed out like branches, banners flew in the wind with the golden Imperial Aquilia shining a brilliant gold against its black background.
On the opposite side of the fortress there was an oddly out of place barren landscape, wrought with craters, broken vehicles, fields of seemingly endless barb wire tangled around the corpses of the Great Enemy as if the wire itself had a conscious objection to their very existence. He saw Imperial tanks patrol around that battlefield with their cannons ever searching for an enemy to make himself known to their operators. What ever being had the unfortunate enough luck to appear any where near the frontlines of this fortress would surely find a very quick unapologetic merciless death at the hands of the God Emperor's servants.
"It's beautiful." Hansel gasped as his eyes took in every detail, "I want to paint it so bad."
Fokker patted Hansel's shoulder as he too stared up at the fortress, "This Fortress is truly a work of martial prowess, but we must hurry, a new assault begins in but a few hours and the messenger does not appreciate tardiness… but before we go, someone wanted to see you."
Hansel raised a brow at who else could possibly want to see him, until he remembered just what planet he was on. Fokker pointed to Hansel's right, slowly the young Kriegsman turned his head with his eyes closed, silently praying that he was right, and that-
"Schwester-" He gasped as a young Kriegswoman with short curly grayish black hair stood silently with some tears rolling down her cheeks, "-sch-sch- GRETEL!"
Hansel dashed forward with open arms and wrapped his long dead sister up in a very strong bear hug, for the second time in his life Hansel was crying uncontrollably, all the years of constant emotional suppression, his prized military discipline flew out the door as he forgot all about pride and honor.
He was just happy to see his sister again.
"Bruder!" Gretel cried squeezing her arms around Hansel tight enough to squeeze a lesser being to death, "I missed you so much!"
Hansel fell to a knee bringing Gretel with him, unfortunately the two siblings tumbled over each other and landed onto the soft grass shamelessly crying tears of joy as they cherished their small moment together.
Fokker grinned crossing his arms, he knew this would happen, and he was not disappointed. Yet he would have to pull them from their reunion, "Knight Gretel."
"Knight!?" Hansel cried wiping his face of tears, "Knight!?"
Gretel herself was patting her eyes with a hankerchief while smiling at Hans, "Yes, I was offered the chance to join the Knighthood and I took it, I serve the Emperor as a faithful warrior even in death."
Hansel brought his sister into another firm hug, "I've missed you, so much. Every day."
Gretel pecked her brother on top of his head, "I know bruder, I check on you from time to time. You've improved greatly in fighting, your latest battle was very exciting."
Hansel raised his brow at that, "That is a strange term to use Gretel."
"I know," Gretel put her hands together and stood back on her heels going forward and backwards, "but it was so romantic throwing yourself in front of your little geliebte~"
"Gretel!" Hansel tried to grab his sister but she dove under his arms, he turned around and attempted to tackle her but missed entirely.
"Haha!" Gretel ducked under Hansel again, "You're too slow!"
"Why you-"
"Enough you two, we've wasted enough time." Fokker said getting the attention of the two siblings, "His messenger will be arriving soon."
"BY THE THRONE!" Hansel shouted clasping his hands against his face, "How in His name are we going to get to the fortress in time? It's so high up!"
Gretel bumped his shoulder and pointed to an armored rail car that had military munitions loaded onto it, "We can take that, I was delivering ammo to the guns until Fokker told me you would be visiting."
Hansel stared at the rail car for a few seconds, "I feel like a damn fool for not seeing that."
Fokker patted Hansel's shoulder, "Such great training you must've had."
A frown and low growl was the response Fokker got from Hansel as his sister pulled him by his collar to the rail car. Once inside the car Gretel pulled a lever back and turned up the speed on the car's control console, soon the armored car started rolling towards the massive fortress at a steady speed.
Hansel stared out a window of the car, taking in the view of the planet of promise, of legend. The stories did not do it the justice it so rightfully deserved, he could not paint let alone draw a picture that could come remotely close to giving an accurate representation of how much more this planet truly was a paradise to behold.
Gretel slowed the car down as they approached the fortress wall, they had already passed through at least twenty separate trench lines all of them half a mile apart with no doubt hundreds of landmines between the lines.
At the end of the line a portion of the fortress wall revealed itself to be a secret entrance for rail cars, the doors did not open as the car supposedly docked, instead four metal arms maglocked onto the car and brought it up vertically like it was an elevator in an office building.
Hansel got a good look at the insides of the large fortress, an uncountable number of levels, millions of marching armed men and women, level upon level of anti-aircraft weaponry, flak cannons, aimed upwards as if expecting enemy drop ships to descend from above.
"Every soldier here died in the Emperor's name, they did not pray for paradise; instead they forwent the thought of paradise to serve Humanity in the Imaterium, to fight back against the Great Enemy on their own soil. This is where the pious go to serve forever as His Hammer." Fokker said as chanting echoed throughout the complex, whole companies stopped in their tracks and fell to a knee towards the images of the God Emperor spread throughout the part of the complex they were in, the three Kriegsmen joined them in a prayer.
When the car finally reached the top the three Guardsmen rose to their feet and exited the car as several Krieg Engineers and Mechanicus Adepts passed them for the supplies.
The tree that the base was built into was so massive that individual branches were the size of Red Woods, parts of the top portion of the base had areas of soil and grass, mixing the garden aspect with the military zeal of the Imperial Guard, massive guns dwarfed the smaller trees as they pointed out towards the battlefield.
"How are there other members of the Guard here? I thought this was only unique to us." Hansel asked as he noticed that there were a variety of Guardsmen on top, from Cadians to Tanith First and Only.
"If a Guardsman believes in Terranis then his soul is guaranteed passage upon his death, if not, then he must've done something good within the Emperor's eyes to get here." Fokker explained.
"Alright, form up! Those rifles better be shining!" A very notable once dead Commissar commanded to Vahallan Ice Warriors.
Hansel's jaw nearly struck the floor, "I-is that?"
"Commissar Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium." Fokker finished with a grin, "Would you believe me if I told you I bought him a drink?"
"Can I-"
"It won't matter Hans, you can't take an autograph with you to the Materium." Gretel said patting his back.
Hansel nodded his head, "Julius would be so jealous."
Gretel looked the Commissar up and down from afar licking her lips, "He is quite the man~"
Hansel glared at his sister, "You did not just say what I think you just said."
"Well, what did you think I said dear bruder? I'm old enough to want a good man." She said with crossed arms.
"He is a Commissar that is so much older than you, and both of you are dead! Can you even-"
"Actually they can," Fokker said snickering at Hansel, "they actually can have sexual relations, though they would foster no children."
Hansel was seriously considering kicking the Commissar off of the base now, babies or not he was still an older brother… by a few seconds.
"Though I doubt he'd be interested," Fokker said crushing Gretel's dreams of getting in bed with the Hero of the Imperium, "he's more into older women. Specifically some woman named Amberly, I forget. Now, pointless fantasies aside the messenger should be arriving soon."
In an instant the air in front of the Krieg trio started to shimmer in the form of a tall being, it bursted into a bright brilliant golden fire, metal began to take form, long red silk robes adorned ornate sophisticated ancient advanced armor. The light show attracted the attention of everyone in eyesight, yet they went back to their work after the Custodes took form.
The massive being stood silently staring down at the trio, he held a Guardian Spear with his right hand and a Praesidium Shield in his left, he took a deep breathe, exhaling in a metallic tone, "I am Tribune Kadai Vilaccan of the Legio Custodes. I bring a message for one named Hansel."
Hansel fell to a knee and bowed his head as did Fokker and Gretel, "I await the Emperor's divine orders Lord Custodes."
Tribune Vilaccan looked down at the boy with shining red eyepieces, "Rise Kriegsmen. You boy, the Emperor has selected you for a mighty task, one that will pit you against the vile forces of the Great Enemy's chosen champions for their conquest of the world Remnant, champions that have bested the likes of great heroes over the course of a century."
The Custodes waved his hand and several images of the disgusting vile evil warped champions appeared in flaming mirrors, a champion for every four main Gods of Chaos, they were still lifelike images that seemed as though you could reach out and stab them with a bayonet.
"They came to Remnant to search for an ancient ark, a crashed ship that was hidden under the soil of Remnant, for the secret it holds within its bowels has the ability to change the fate of the Galaxy. You are to see to their destruction and the cargo's destruction, it shall not be an easy task, you alone will not be able to best them and their forces. You and your friends will need to grow stronger, harness and master your Aura's on Remnant, construct great weapons to cleave through the vile heretics."
Tribune Vilaccan swiped the images away and tapped Hansel's head, sending him a wave of images into the recesses of his mind, "Even then with your tested Aura's, refined Semblances, and deadly weaponry you will struggle greatly in the face of the enemy, they out number your allies greatly in skill and in numbers alone. In his great generosity the Emperor shall send some reinforcements in the form of a handful of Guardsmen and Astartes."
After recovering from the initial shock of the psychic transfer Hansel's ears perked at the mention of Space Marines, he'd get to work with Space Marines again! Another divine privilege, though in comparison it is less than the privilege of having a member of the Adeptus Custodes personally deliver a message straight from the Emperor himself.
"There will be no more reinforcements after this, it is all that will be sent. He will not tolerate failure." Vilaccan stressed the word failure by leaning in menacingly, "He has placed his faith in you and your friends. You. Will. Not. Fail."
Hansel bowed his head with his right arm over his chest, "I shall not fail the God Emperor of Mankind! I shall purge the Heretics with holy fire and show the people of Remnant the glory of the God Emperor!"
The Custodes leaned back, "Good, you will need that fervor in the coming war. Now that I have delivered the Emperor's message I will send you back to your body, say your farewells."
Hansel turned and stuck his hand out to Fokker, "Thank you for your help."
Fokker met his grip, "This was most certainly my most unique tour with a newcomer, die honorably when your time comes."
"I will," Hansel turned to his sister and wrapped his arms firmly around her, "auf wiedersehen schwester."
Gretel squeezed her older brother back, "I will miss you Hans… remember back home when we were participating in a wargame in one of the old cities? When we found an old aristocrat's estate?"
"I do." Hansel nodded, "I do."
"And you remember what we found? Hidden in a sturdy safe. Share it with your "Rosenrot" she'll greatly appreciate it."
Hansel's face flushed red, feeling embarrassed that she mentioned Ruby in front of the Custodes, "I will Gretel."
He turned to the Custodes and took a breath, "I'm ready Lord Custodes, though I have a few questions that I would be honored if you'd be able to answer."
"Make them quick boy." The golden giant said with impatience.
"How am I to find this ship? What is on it that is so important?" Hansel asked with legitimate chill down his spine.
"You will find this ship through clues in their history, the Grimm Daemons guard it well deep below the soil. The second one is not important for you to know as of yet, you'll know it when you see it." Vilaccan answered with finality.
"Why me?" Hansel asked looking at his hands, "Of all the valiant heroes of the Imperium, I am just a deadman, a nobody that fights to die."
Vilaccan gave a low metallic chuckle, "You underestimate yourself Kriegsman, there is so much you don't know about yourself and the people you live side by side with. If more Humans in the Imperium were as loyal and showed the same amount of humility as your Korps does then the Imperium wouldn't be in such a dire situation."
Hansel contemplated the answers the Custodian gave, while they were vague if not downright confusing he was honored that the Custodian gave him the time period, "Thank you my Lord Custodian. I am ready."
"It is easy to pull a conscious away as the body nears death, it is however hard to reunite it with its living body. A day's time is needed, yet for you, you will be in a dreamlike state." The Custodian started to glow as he set his index finger on Hansel's head, Hansel started to glow as well.
"Oh Hans! Make sure to tell your girlfriend she's welcome here any time! And make me lots of nieces!" Gretel shouted just as Hansel was fading away like rose petals in the wind.
"GRET-" Hansel tried to chastise but unfortunately for him he dematerialized before properly yelling at his sister.
"So worth it." Gretel said with crossed arms.
"Children." Fokker said nodding his head, he glanced behind himself and saw two figures standing under a tree, they had been watching the whole meeting from afar.
"I'm sorry, but you know that he will need to find out on his own, orders are orders." He said to them with the trademark Krieg monotonous voice, "I know it's tough, but trust in the Emperor, He knows what He's doing."
One of the two figures, the one wearing a fluttering white cloak set a hand on the other figure, a Krieg soldier with their head bowed.
On Remnant… late at night.
Jaeger whined nudging Hansel's natural hand, he licked Hansel's knuckle hoping to get a reaction from his master, only to go back to whining and nudging his master's hand.
"I know boy," Ruby said with a croak stroking the Hund's ears as he whined louder, "I want him to wake up too."
It has been two full days since the dock incident, Ozpin had ordered the rest of the students home but Ruby refused to leave Hansel's side, reluctantly the Headmaster decided to let her stay as Nicholas and Yang volunteered to stay with Ruby so she wasn't alone.
The Hospital was not initially hot on the idea of Jaeger staying, but the Hund would start viciously growling at the nursing staff that came anywhere near him, he even growled at Julius who tried coercing him with Old Krieg commands. He however did not growl at Ruby as she did not try removing him from the room.
She hadn't eaten or slept since first coming to the hospital which greatly alarmed Yang, Nicholas managed to convince the older sibling that forcing her to eat or sleep was the wrong option at this time and did his best to distract Yang from worrying too much about Ruby much to the younger girl's appreciation.
Lightly Ruby wiped Jaeger's saliva off of Hansel's hand with a disinfectant wipe, she then held his hand with both of her smaller hands as she pressed his knuckle against her forehead, "Wake up Hansel… that's an order."
Her lip started to tremble as the words she said to him echoed in her ears, 'Damnit Hansel! I-I hate you so much!', if she could turn back the time she'd smack herself silly for letting those words slip past her lips, she didn't hate him, she wasn't thinking when those words came out.
"Hey," Nicholas whispered loudly from the room's entrance, "I got you some cookies."
Ruby looked at him for a moment before going back to pressing Hansel's hand against her forehead, "I'm not hungry Nick."
The Vostroyan sighed setting a bag and bottle of water on a table near Hansel's bed, "Your stomach says otherwise."
Almost on cue Ruby's stomach growled, "I'm fine."
"Ruby." Nicholas said with crossed arms, "Why are you doing this to yourself?"
She sniffed keeping her eyes on the white hospital bed sheets, "I didn't mean what I said to him."
Nicholas laid a hand on Ruby's shoulder, Jaeger started to growl at him lowly, "Oh shut up Jaeger. I know you didn't mean what you said, Yang knows, everyone knows."
"He doesn't!" She cried with tears flowing down her cheeks again, "He doesn't know! He thought I hated him but I don't I love him! I love him and I want him to know I'm sorry!"
"I'm sure he knows Ruby, he can't possibly believe you hate him. But please, eat something, he wouldn't want you hurting yourself like this, at least drink some water, your sister is worried sick about you, she's almost pulling her hair out."
Ruby sat silently for a moment, Nicholas was about ready to leave believing she did not want him in the room, but she stopped him before he could get to the door, "Nicholas… can you help me with something?"
The Vostroyan blinked in confusion, "Uh sure, what do you need?"
Ruby set Hansel's hand down and rubbed her eyes, "C-can you teach me how to pray? For Hansel."
"Oh. Of course." The Vostroyan said taken aback by Ruby's request, "He'll really appreciate that. I'll teach you, but first I want you to eat some of the cookies I brought you."
Ruby sighed taking one cookie from the bag, then another, then another, and another, and another, then one for Jaeger, half of the bag was now empty as Ruby basically inhaled a few of its cookies.
"Good. Now, hands together like this and drop to your knees." Nicholas said steepling his hands.
Ruby copied his exact motions, "Then?"
"Well, I guess I'll do a prayer for you." Nicholas cleared his throat and closed his eyes, "Oh merciful Emperor, Shepard of the flock of Man, we ask that you may deliver our noble friend back to us, if you wish to take him by your side let him fall fighting in your name."
Ruby frowned at Nicholas.
Nicholas chuckled nervously rubbing at the nape of his neck, "Yeah there aren't many prayers for someone to actually survive anything, or wake up from comas. I didn't really know what a coma was until Yang explained it, I just knew it was bad."
The little reaper sighed longingly grasping Hansel's hand again, with immense disappoint written on her face. Jaeger seemingly shot Nicholas a dirty look with his very unamused hostile Krieghund eyes.
"You could make up a prayer for him, I mean Guardsmen come up with their own prayers all the time. Just make sure to exalt the God Emperor and ask for mercy and kindness, all that good stuff." The Vostroyan boy clasped his hands together and started backing out of the room, "I'm just going to leave, go and… I can tell you want to be alone, bye."
"Make up my own prayer, huh." Ruby tested the idea, tapping her finger against her chin, she snapped her fingers as she came up with one she hoped would be good enough, "Ahem. Oh holy divine incredible awesome powerful God Emperor of Mankind. I've only just recently learned how to pray to you but I promise to do whatever I have to learn more about you and your faith, I promise to fight whatever enemy stands against you, but please be nicer to the Faunus, uh, and…"
She looked down at her hands and then back to Hansel's hand, she reached out and held his hand with great care, "please… please just- just wake him up."
Ruby stretched her arms yawning, she hasn't slept in two whole days now and she wasn't able to resist the urge to fall asleep, maybe if she just rested her eyes fo- she started snoring the second she closed her eyes with her hands around Hansel's hand.
Nicholas Pov…
"Smooth Nicholas, why don't you just kick her in the heart while you are at it." The Vostroyan said to himself as he made his way back to the hospital cafeteria. He had told Yang that he'd deliver cookies to Ruby and make sure she was holding up alright waiting for Hansel to wake up.
Which as far as they knew would never happen, but that wouldn't be much of a story now would it?
He could tell they were sisters because they were both stubborn as all hell, he had to almost fight tooth and nail to get Yang to give Ruby some space, thankfully the elder sibling conceded into allowing her younger half-sister some space to allow her to come to terms with Hansel's condition on her own.
Yang wasn't thrilled about it but she did look a lot better seeing he returned without the bag of cookies he had originally left with ten minutes prior.
"Did she take it?" Yang asked anxiously.
"Yes Yang, I made sure she ate some cookies." He said pulling a chair out so he could sit at their table.
The blonde seemed to relax a bit more, a light tinge of blush covered her face, "Thanks Nick, well, for… not a whole lot of guys would be willing to stick around to help out in a situation like this."
Nicholas rubbed his neck with a sheepish grin, "I'm a drunken fool half the time, but I do not ever let friends down, even if they hate my guts."
"Why does he hate you so much?" Yang asked exasperated, "I mean what did you do that was so bad to him again?"
"Well, one day when the Krieg's were assisting us I had a particularly bad day and decided to get drunk and pick a fight, you can guess how that turned out for me, he flung me into a frakking wall. But the Commissar from both our regiments decided to punish us both for delinquency."
"Oh."
"With a hundred lashes across the back."
Yang's eyes popped open, "Oh! Isn't that a bit harsh?"
Nicholas shrugged his shoulders, "I stayed awake for around twenty lashes before passing out, from what I heard he didn't pass out at all. But to a Kriegsman getting lashed like that is a great shame to them, Commissar's don't usually ever have problems with them. I don't think he'll ever let that go."
"Heh, if I had to get whipped I'd be pretty Yangry myself, hahaha…" Yang tried to joke but once again falling flat.
Nicholas covered his mouth with one hand, "Pffft, what? Heheh, I didn't know you were funny."
"What?" Yang asked completely taken off guard.
"That was funny, do you make jokes? Do you have any others?" He asked with a small smile.
Yang had a wide grin and cracked her fingers, "Oh yes I do!"
Hansel Pov…
Images flashed like lightening, scenes of ten thousand years passed showed images of Imperial cruisers soaring through real space as they neared a planet with suspiciously familiar looking landmasses. Drop pods and smaller ships disembark from the main ship and break into the atmosphere, Space Marines wearing old outdated patterned power armor stepped and of the ships on the ground, Hansel gasped in his dream as he recognized the symbols on their shoulders.
Luna Wolves as they were formally known as, whom later became the Sons of Horus and finally the Black Legion traitor marines. Even more shocking was that they were being led by the Traitorous Warmaster to be himself long before his corruption by the forces of Chaos.
The images progressed as the Space Marines made their way into what seemed to be a settlement of Humans using ancient technology mixed with archaic armor and weapons of Remnant's distant past, soon ships descended with the Imperial Guardsmen pouring out of the hulls wearing uniforms that made the Kriegsman viewing the vision shutter after seeing just what sort of uniforms they wore.
Pre-Krieg Civil War uniforms and banners.
Just what sort of vision was this? Why was he being shown this? Why were Krieg soldiers on this old Remnant? Why was the Warmaster himself leader such an expedition?
As night seemed to draw closer the settlement they arrived at was under siege by the Grimm beasts, unsurprisingly the Space Marines slew the beasts with no problem, they cut them down as if they were little more than minor annoyances that did not deserve the attention of the Marines.
That was until he saw what came next.
Several of the Grimm creatures slammed into each other, forming into a ball of white and black that slowly took form as a beast of nightmarish design, one so indescribably ugly there was just no proper word for it as it gave out a harrowing warcry, slashing with bladed arms, bisecting the Astartes's armor like it was mere tissue paper.
More beings of unholy design started to appear, they were phenomenally stronger than the regular Grimm yet they were in few numbers than the rank and file beast. He saw the legendary traitorous Warmaster himself struggle to keep up a few of the horrifying creatures as they attacked him relentlessly.
Several Humanoid looking Grimm arrived and shape shifted into Beowulves and attacked the Astartes, they were almost on par with the Marines if not for the Bolter rifles they had to keep them at a distance. Larger Grimm inspired beings began to encroach on the small encampment, aerial types were keeping dropships at bay with a constant harassment of feather volleys and other black spikes being fired at them.
That was until a larger ship by far entered the fray.
Magnificent fire rained from the sky as Nevermores were struck out of the sky, drops pods hit like meteors around the outside of the perimeter killing many Grimm in their wake while trapping some between the pods and the original arrivals. The first being that sprung out of the largest pod had a flaming sword and clawed gauntlet that slashed through Grimm at a speed that Hansel's brain could barely keep up with as he was still reeling from the realization of who it was.
The Emperor himself entered the fray.
Legio Custodians poured out from the pods and formed a huge circle around the initial encampment, a row facing outwards and a row facing inwards. The outer row kept the Grimm at bay as Valkyrie ships made strafe runs, the inner circle slaughtered their way towards the Astartes and Guardsmen.
The Emperor himself sheathed his weapons and shouldered his wounded son as he had a hand over a devastating wound, he brought the Warmaster over to a few of his Luna Wolves and ordered that they take Horus back to his capital ship.
The Emperor ordered his Legio Custodies to push outwards, giving much needed breathing space for the Imperials, though it seemed as though it would not last long as more Grimm started to appear and they had very little reinforcements to combat the coming horde.
The Luna Wolves remained with only but a handful on the planet, the bulk of their force was either on the Capital Ship or lied on the ground slaughtered by the Daemons, the few that remained went towards the front with the Custodes as they refused to retreat and sought retribution for their fallen and wounded Primarch.
"My Emperor!" Hansel heard one of the Guardsmen cry out, "Flee my Lord, there is too many, you are too important to lose. Let us cover your retreat My Lord, our lives are yours!"
The Krieg Guardsmen were commanding the settlements people further into their town as the brave Guardsmen made fortifications out of whatever they could, warriors from the settlements came to join the Kriegsmen in battle, the Emperor saw this and contemplated the bravery the unaltered Humans showed.
The Emperor raised his gauntlet and released a psychic energy that bathed the Guardsmen and settlement warriors in a brilliant shining gold, "Rarely have I seen such bravery and courage from mere men in the face of certain death, I give thy warriors a gift, one that shall surely turn the tide in your favor. We shall return in a greater force one day to exact our vengeance against these abominations, I expect you to not fail me."
"It shall be done my Lord!" The Guardsman said, "This I Carolous Liberatous the Third swear!"
'That name,' Hansel thought, 'The garden statue.'
The Emperor was about to say something to the Guardsman but he looked up and saw two beasts of terrifying size, two Grimm Dragons gave chase to the ship carrying Horus to his Capital Ship.
"Fight with all your life Guardsman," The Emperor commanded, "I must go now, Custodes, come hither! Tribune Ferdinand, stay behind to assist in the quelling of these beasts!"
As the rest of the Custodians retreated to drop ships firing their weapons into the bulk of the Grimm horde one jumped back to the defensive line the Aura enhanced Guardsmen and remaining Luna wolves held, he looked towards his Emperor with bright crimson eye pieces, "They shall not prevail."
The God Emperor entered a Valkyrie looking back at the Guardsmen and Astartes, his eyes showed regret as he was about to possibly condemn these people to death on a backwater planet by the hands of inhuman beasts.
As the battle raged below another one occurred in the sky as Nevermores tangled with Imperial spacecraft, the Grimm Dragons were surprisingly swift with less gravity keeping them down in real space, one harassed the outside of the ship dropping large Grimm variants and Beowulves all over the hull, they tore at the metal hull and grappled with the outer guns.
The second Grimm Dragon smashed the ship carrying the Warmaster into the hanger, it smashed vehicles and Astartes alike around as if it were a child going through his play room. Dozens of Grimm started pouring off of it giving the Marines enough distraction for of the Humanoid variants to pry open the transport ship and kill the Astartes guarding Horus.
'These ones are so much stronger, they act with immense intelligence.' Hansel observed as they weaved around gunfire, manipulating their forms if they needed to, just what the Hell are these things?
Hansel watched as they held the Warmaster down, one of the larger Humanoid beings stuck his hand right through the armor protecting the Warmaster and pulled something out of him, the Warmaster screamed in immense pain as the being shoved whatever it was into its chest.
Before the creatures could finish him off though an angelic being swooped in with surprising speed and slew several of the Humanoid Grimm in one swing, the ones that survived, the larger one in particular fled into the larger Grimm Dragon as it was tearing apart the ship's insides.
Explosions rocked the ship as the Blood Angel Primarch and several of his Sanguinary Guard carried the wounded Warmaster into a waiting dropship just outside the hanger as Marines guarded it valiantly, they fled just as the Capital Ship's systems started to blow and lose its power, the planet's gravity was strong enough to pull it towards the atmosphere at an angle.
As the vision was coming to a close Hansel could see that the ship was heading towards a continent but his sight was off, he could not determine if the ship would actually land on the landmass or if it was going to overshoot it or if the ship would take a direct nosedive and smash the small settlement the Imperials had first arrived at.
"Now you see," A booming Godly voice said in his ear, "not all is at it seems. If given the chance to do it all over again, I might've let my son die on this world, but then what sort of father would I be? To be so cold as to let one of my sons die so terribly?"
Hansel's whole conscious shuttered in a mixture of unnatural fear and yet felt humble, he knew who's heavenly voice this was.
"Unfortunately we can't change the past, time surpasses the power of any God. I never did return to this world, the Ork Empire was a threat that affected the whole Galaxy, I ordered this whole sector to be quarantined, forbidden. I needed to understand my foe better."
From the darkness of space came tears in reality, dark clouds of electric Warp energy engulfed the planet and suddenly made it look as though there was never a planet there in the first place.
"The God of Anarchy made the world invisible with his Warp storm, any ship that would come close was torn to pieces before it could even come close to its proximity. That is why no one has rediscovered this world. I however have not forgotten its people, I am glad to see that after all these years they still manage to holdout, it isn't perfect but it's what I would've wanted the Imperium to eventually look like. My time is short, Vialccan gave you my message son of Krieg, avenge your ancestors, save this world, bring it into my light. Just as the men ten millennium ago I have faith in you."
Hansel's vision was immediately assaulted with blinding white light and a searing burning pain over his heart, it subsided as quickly as it had arrived. He blinked his eyes several times, images of a white patterned ceiling, his mouth felt like a barren desert.
Soreness on a high level went through out his body, yep that fight did a number on him, a regular man would be sore for weeks on end with the thrashing he took from Nero. Suddenly however he started to glow a dark gray and the soreness was subsiding at an alarming rate, 'Aura.' Hansel thought as he looked at the glowing light.
He still felt uncomfortable, there was something down- he immediately cringed looking at the tube coming out of his penis, 'Who is the sick bastard that put that there? I will gut whoever it was for this.'
With a short breath he yanked with his metal hand, dislodging the offending plastic tube but also hissng like a serpent, thankfully his new found Aura was doing wonders at numbing the pain and repairing whatever damage he may've caused with his rash reflexive action.
Hansel looked to his right hand after realizing there was weight on it but he froze seeing who exactly was holding it down. Carefully Hansel slid his hand from out underneath Ruby's hands and face, he stared at her for what felt like an eternity, the words she once said to him echoed in his ears but he ignored them as his hand gently reached out and moved some hair off of her face.
The slight contact however made Ruby blink as she slowly lifted her head up, rubbing her eyes of sleep, her eyes went wide connecting with Hansel's and for a moment the whole world around them just seemed to stop.
"H-hansel."
"Ruby."
Her puffy eyes started to flow with renewed burning tears, her bottom lip trembled like a leaf as her hands reached out to touch him, to be sure she wasn't having a cruel dream, "I-is it-"
His hand cuffed her cheek wiping some tears from her eyes, "Please, stop crying, I don't like it when you cry."
She hiccupped with a sore croaking voice, "Hansel!"
Ruby stood up and stumbled onto his bed, she smashed her cheek into his chest as she started to cry out sliding her arms around him desperately. Hansel wrapped his arms around Ruby with his right hand cuffing the back of her head, a few tears fell from his own eyes as he squeezed his Rosenrot for dear life, his lips found the top of her head as he kissed her repeatedly.
"I'-I'm so sorry! Sososo s-so-sorry! I d-d-d-did-nn-nnn-t-" Ruby blubbered uncontrollably as her throat felt like it was tearing itself apart.
Hansel pulled her face up to his and rapidly kissed Ruby on the lips like there was no tomorrow, all of the beauty of Terranis in his opinion did not amount or come anywhere close to Ruby's beauty, he did not care for the vast ever spanning gardens, the lush sky defying trees, the blue expansive sky, or even the comforting atmosphere of the holy world, all he cared about or wanted at this very moment was her.
"I'm sorry Ruby, I took you for granted, I love you so much. Forgive my foolishness, forgive my insolence!" He whimpered pressing his forehead against her own.
She sniffled a couple of times wiping her eyes, a small smile graced her lips as she nodded her head, "I-I don't know what I'm doing."
Hansel squeezed her hand entwining their fingers, "Neither do I… let's not know together."
Ruby kissed Hansel on the forehead, "I love you, you big lug."
His hand rifled through her hair and tugged her head back, he started to kiss along her neck slowly, Ruby let out a low moan as her hands scratched Hansel's scalp. He rubbed his thumb around her lips in a circle, they quivered in anticipation as Ruby started to grind her hips forward against his lap. His lips began to pepper down her neck again as his metal hand slid down and waist and gave her butt a firm squeeze, Ruby gasped as her hand slid down his neck and across his scarred back, his right hand joined his metal hand in rubbing and groping Ruby's butt as the girl gave out a lower moan into Hansel's shoulder, her lips met his in an electrifying show of affection, she groaned as she felt his tongue slip into her mouth, her eyes flickered as she reveled in sensation-
"Hey Ruby, Julius and the guys and J- GOOD OUM!" Yang suddenly shouted as she entered the room without knocking, catching the lovebirds in the middle of a steamy make out session.
Ruby and Hansel stopped what they were doing as they both looked at the door with deadpanned blushing faces, their jaws nearly disconnected because in the doorway was the rest of Ruby's team, Julius and the rest of his team, and of course JNPR as they came to try and comfort Ruby in her time of depression.
Obviously she didn't need comforting anymore.
"WHAT IN THE- WHAT?!" Yang screamed with her hands in her hair, completely losing her shit, "YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE- G- GAH!"
"Shrakk man, you scared the living Hell out of me you son of a pod!" Julius yelled wiping manly tears out of his eyes, "Not cool bro!"
Jaune found a wall interesting rubbing the back of his neck, Pyrrha looked at the floor with a bright crimson blush across her face, Nora was pulling out Lien, "Take it off! Whoo!"
Ren promptly covered her eyes and his own with his hands, "Nora!"
Nicholas face palmed nodding his head to the side, "Of frakking course."
Saladin laughed out loud smacking his knee as Weiss crossed her arms with a streak of red on her face as she palmed it, "You dolt!
"Okay, okay, they obiviously need some time alone everyone, so out. All of you." Edison said extending his mechandrites out pushing everyone out.
"WHAT?! HOLD ON I DON'T THINK SO!" Yang yelled as her hair blazed bright gold and her eyes bright red, "I'LL KILL YOU HANS!"
"Alright calm down, I'll leave the door open, no funny business you two!" Edison called as he pushed everyone, especially Yang, down the hall.
The two lovebirds sat there silently staring at the doorway, they looked at each other then back to the door, then back to each other. Ruby started giggling at the absurdity of the situation, Hansel even let a small chuckle out catching Ruby off guard.
"Oh my- your laugh is so cute!" She cried kissing him again, and again.
Hansel however held her head still as he stared into her eyes, "Ruby. There- there is so much I need to tell you, to tell everyone, I saw so many things I-"
"W-what is it Hans?" She asked as his thumb rubbed under her eye softly.
"You have bags under your eyes. Have you not been sleeping?" He asked with concerned eyes.
Ruby rubbed her eyes and inadvertently yawned, "I've been up two days straight waiting for you, I wanted to see you wake up. I guess I dosed off earlier."
Jaeger stared whining as he pranced back and forth in the room, yipping and barking excitedly.
Hansel moved his legs and patted the bed, Jaeger jumped up on the bed and went to lick his master and mistress, sniffing and cooing to his master wagging his tail like a whip in the air. Hansel patted his Hund's head as he settled down on Hansel's left side snuggling up to his master, relieved that he was not going to leave him for the next world.
Hansel patted Jaeger's back but then paid full attention to Ruby, "Please, get some sleep mein Rosenrot."
Ruby rubbed her eyes defiantly, "I'm not sleepy, you just woke up! I want to stay up with you!"
Hansel frowned at Ruby's cute little defiant frowny face and crossed arms, but the words Gretel said to him echoed in his mind, "How about if you promise to sleep I'll sing you a song?"
Ruby's eyes widened, "You know a song? What song?"
"A song from old Krieg, one Gretel and I found exploring a ruin with a safe that protected a few songs in it. Do you want to hear it?" He asked with a ghost of a smile.
Ruby reached over the side of the bed and pulled Hansel's repaired trench coat off of a rack and put it around the both of them as she made herself comfortable on his chest, "Heheh, sing."
Hansel cleared his throat, he noticed a water bottle on the table next to his bed and took a sip from it, "Ahem… Bleib still liegen mein Herz, erschreck dich nicht, ich bin ein Freund, der zu dir spricht."
Ruby's ears perked at how soft Hansel's usually gruff voice became, she had never imagined that he would sing so softly to her, she just wished she knew what he was saying, it sounded really nice.
"Ich hab gewartet und gehofft, dass der Moment vielleicht niemals kommt. Dass er einfach vorübergeht, oder vielleicht niemals geschieht. Ich schau zurück auf eine wunderschöne Zeit. Warst die Zuflucht und die Wiege meines Seins. Hast gekämpft und jeden Moment mit mir geteilt. Ich bin stolz auch jetzt bei dir zu sein." He whispered gently brushing Ruby's hair out of her eyes, cuffing her chin he pressed his lips against her forehead.
"Ich fang ein Bild von dir. Und schließ die Augen zu. Dann sind die Räume nicht mehr leer. Lass alles Andere einfach ruhen. Ich fang ein Bild von dir. Und dieser eine Augenblick. Bleibt mein gedanklicher Besitz. Den kriegt der Himmel nicht zurück." Hansel tapped her nose with a grin seeing Ruby's eye lids flutter, her eyelids were feeling heavy as she felt two days' worth of sleep deprivation catching up with her.
"Du kamst zu mir vor jedem allerersten Ton. Als das Zeitglas unerschöpflich schien. Du hast gelebt. In jedem Sturm mit mir gekämpft. nie etwas verlangt. Nur gegeben und geschenkt."
"Hast mir gezeigt Was wirklich wichtig ist. Hast mir ein Lächeln gezaubert mit deinem stillen blick, ohne jedes Wort. Doch voll von Liebe und Leben. Hast so viel von dir an mich gegeben."
Hansel went on to repeat the first two parts of the song again as Ruby progressively became more and more lethargic, her breathing started to go steady, her eyes were barely open as she grumbled lightly, nuzzling her cheek against Hansel's shoulder.
"Ich fang ein Bild von dir...Ich lass dich gehen und wünsch dir alles Glück der Welt. In diesem Augenblick. Bist du das Einzige was zählt. Lass dich fallen. Und schlaf ganz einfach ein. Ich werde für immer an deiner Seite sein." He whispered as Ruby started to dose off slowly.
Ruby yawned stretching her arms, she pressed her head against his chest snuggling tight, "Some-*yawn*day we're gonna graduate, get married- *yawn* build a house- *yawn*then we're going to have lots and lots of babies together... and nothing bad will ever happen, then we're going to live-*yawn* happily ever after..."
Hansel stared at Ruby silently brushing her hair to the side as he whispered in Old Krieg, "Please don't wish for so much my rose so red."
Though the Kriegsman had spent the last few days in a coma, which to him was a few hours at most he was now comfortable in a warm bed with the girl he loved dearly, he knew his mission the Emperor himself tasked him with, he now knew that there were far more dangerous variants of the Grimm that needed to be purged.
But for now, all he wanted was just to be with her.
Outside of the door the Imperials and Huntsmen teams in training listened in on Hansel's singing, no one among them knew that Hansel was able to sing, let alone to know who this Gretel was, except for Blake and Julius.
She greatly underestimated him, but who could blame her? He was a monster if not an utter asshole most of the time he was around them, he was anti-social, mean spirited… yet he showed that he could feel a deeper range of emotion, whatever changed in his time out he showed a greater appreciation for Ruby. It brought a few tears to her eyes, the song was beautiful, even though she had no clue what it was about.
Nicholas bumped Yang's shoulder with crossed arms.
"Oh shut up Nicky…" She said with a pout, "still… that was cute."
"Who's Gretel?" Saladin asked scratching his sideburns in confusion.
Julius licked his lips, opening and closing his mouth as he weighed if Hansel would be angry with him for revealing such personal information, "Gretel was Hansel's fraternal twin sister… she died a few years ago in battle."
The Huntsmen teams felt an emotional punch in the gut, even Sun, who was trying his best not to feel sorry for Hansel after what he did at the docks.
"He doesn't like to talk about her, so guys, please. Don't say a thing." Julius pleaded, "He will kill all of you and me for mentioning her."
Silently the Huntsmen in training nodded their heads to keep Hansel's secret.
"I'll inform the Headmaster he has awoken from his coma." Edison said pulling a Scroll from his robes.
Emperor's Throne room…
The Adeptus Custodes were balling their eyes out like emotional women watching a heart breaking Hallmark movie special, with manly tears they applauded Hansel's singing.
"My abs quiver at that boy's voice!" Wammudes cried wiping his eye pieces.
Magnus crossed his arms as he remembered what Father said to the boy while his consciousness was being reconnected to his body, he looked up to the skeletal body of his father with a single tear leaving his eye, "Father…"
A sparkle of energy formed into a hand that brushed the tear off of Magnus's cheek, "I still love all my sons, even if they do mess up, even if it is big time mess up, they are still my sons."
The staunch hardshelled Rogal Dorn in all his Rogal Dorness sniffed rubbing his eye, "A golden speck flew in my eye. That's all."
Remnant, three hundred miles away from Vale…
While a generally warm moment was being shared between a boy and a girl, a great ball for survival was being waged on the fringes of civilization, a Grimm horde of unprecedented size was smashing its way through a small town. The power was gone, their Huntsmen on the brink of collapse as they and a few remaining militia men fought to keep the Grimm from breaking through their last defensive line as civilians retreated in terror.
One of the Huntsmen, a Human man armed with an automatic crossbow, dressed in simple jacket and combat pants back pedaled giving covering fire for a woman carrying a baby in a smock on one shoulder and a toddler on another shoulder.
He saw her trip and fall, using her momentum she landed on her back to keep her children safe, the Huntsman dashed towards her and tried to pick her up but a Beringel was flying towards them with a terrible savage warcry.
In an act of desperation the Huntsman turned around and did his best to shield the screaming woman and her children, bracing for the inevitable death at the hands of one of the most savage ferocious variants of Grimm.
Yet he heard a lot crunching noises and the sound of struggling.
The Huntsman gasped as he turned around and saw a massive armored figure holding the Beringel by its shoulders in a massive metal clad hand, the being's armor was black with silver looking metal adorning it.
"Foul Daemon," The being spoke in a deep metallic voice, "if you are to pick a fight with someone, then pick one with me!"
In a swift motion the metal giant crushed the Beringel in his hand and tossed its remains at the coming Beowulves and Ursai. After getting a better look at the giant he could see that he was armed with a large firearm of unknown design, a large sword and an even larger shield.
"My name is Knight-Sergeant Nihilus of the Dark Angels Space Marine Chapter, I serve the Emperor of Mankind," He spoke out loud, for man and monster to hear the Knight-Sergeant clad in Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armor, he unsheathed his sword and brought his shield to bare as he pointed his shield at the Grimm, "AND HE IS OFFENDED BY YOUR EXISTENCE!"
One of the eager Beowulves decided to challenge the Knight-Sergeant and jumped towards him, his mistake costed him his life as the Space Marine bashed him with his Deathwing Knight Storm Shield, unleashing a flurry of lightening that threw the Grimm back as little more than a sizzling puddle when it hit the ground.
An Ursa charged forward roaring, the Knight-Sergeant charged forward and dashed to the left, slashing across the Ursa's body as it passed him, the Ursa fell apart into two giant pieces covered in electricity spasming as it disintegrated.
"HAVE AT YOU VILE BEASTS! YOU WASTE MY TIME WITH YOUR FOLLY! IF YOU DARE NOT COME CLOSE YOU'VE SEALED YOUR FATE! " The Marine shouted stabbing his sword in the ground, unlocking his Bullpup styled Combi-Bolter, the combat attached plasma caster started to glow and hum as it was brought to life.
In precise burst round fires his bolt rounds tore through the creatures like they were little more than gelatin with legs, the Huntsmen and militia men started to rally behind the Marine as he maglocked his rifle on his back, he raised sword and shield in the air, "DEATH OR GLORY! YOU WILL RETREAT NO FURTHER!"
With renewed faith in their ability to fight the Huntsmen and Militia men gave a thundering warcry, "URRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" as they charged behind the Terminator that was dancing through the horde of darkness with his sword and shield sparkling like a thunder storm through the night.
Vale Hospital…
Ozpin walked through the halls of the medical center with his scroll in hand, he had just recently received a report of a possible Grimm overrun settlement suddenly have a turn of pace after a large mysterious armored being arrived and quelled the Grimm at a remarkable speed, he had an idea of what side the being was on after hearing him shout battle cries for an Emperor of Mankind.
He was glad the, oh good Oum, Space Marine was there to help, otherwise that town would not have seen another day.
The Headmaster was relieved to hear that Hansel had awakened from his coma, he honestly didn't have high hopes for the boy waking up within the year let alone week. It was a miracle as it seemed, or maybe it was the workings of a higher being of magnificent power.
Perhaps there was more to this God Emperor thing after all.
As the Headmaster and Vice Headmistress approached the hospital room Hansel was staying in they saw that some of the students were outside waiting for them to arrive, they also heard a familiar giggling from a certain Huntress in training.
"Open up Hans, say ah."
"Ruby. I can eat on my own."
The teachers entered the room to a very heartwarming, Ruby was sitting in Hansel's lap on his bed with a bowl of soup on her lap and a spoon in her hand, "Shut up and let me feed you Hans."
The Kriegsman rolled his eyes and parted his mouth, allowing Ruby to shove the spoon in his mouth.
Professor Goodwitch blushed face palming, 'These two are going to kill me with this shit.'
"I see you are doing well Hans." Ozpin said with a grin.
"Hi Headmaster, hi Professor Goodwitch!" Ruby said with a large smile.
"I am doing fine Headmaster." Hansel said in his usual monotonous voice, "I'm just enjoying time with Ruby right now."
Ruby pecked his cheek stirring his soup, a small smile crossed Hansel's face for a second before vanishing into his usual blank face.
The Headmaster nodded, Jaeger walked up to Ozpin and sat down in front of him and Glynda, whining softly, Ozpin rolled his eyes reaching down to the Hund, "Oh fine."
Glynda wasn't able to resist the cute doggish charms for long as she was ruffling Jaeger's ears and scratching his scalp, "Ohhh, you're such a good boy!"
Ruby and Ozpin giggled at Glynda's interaction with Jaeger, but sorely regretted it as she gave them both the look of deathmurderkillyourfaceifyousayshit, a look reserved only for the most aggressive milf- reserved and proudest of professional instructors.
"I know it's been a trying time recently Ruby but I need you to step out for a quick minute, there are something's' I'd like to talk to Hansel about." Ozpin said with an apologetic look.
Ruby looked bummed for a second as she turned her head to Hansel, he pecked her on the lips, "It'll just be for a moment, I'm not going anywhere."
She kissed him back and expertly jumped off the bed in a small flurry of rose petals and landed softly on her feet, she patted her thigh attracting Jaeger's attention as the Hund followed her out of the room.
The Headmaster pulled up a video of Knight Sergeant Nihlus cutting his way through a Grimm horde and showed it to Hansel, "This was taken two hours ago a few hundred miles from here, is this one of those Space Marines you spoke of?"
Hansel's eyes followed the large Astartes as he cleaved his way through Grimm like they were nothing, "Yes, one that wears a type of Terminator armor."
He was going to bring up his vision granted by the Emperor later with the Headmaster, for now he was just going to answer whatever questions the old man had.
"Hmm, interesting. I'm arranging to have him transported here on his own free will, as I'm sure fighting him is a bad idea. But while you were in surgery Hansel we… found some strange things you should look at."
The Kriegsman scrunched his face in confusion as the Headmaster showed him a slideshow of organs that he did not recognize with symbols of the Inquisition and Departmento Munititorum, he was shown a regular Human body x-ray and his own, he counted at least four different smaller organs within his body.
"What- what is this? Are you sure this is from my body?" Hansel asked as he felt his torso.
"It appears as though someone replaced your appendix with two smaller organs and your Spleen with one large organ and a slightly smaller one that connects directly to it. Would you know why someone would do this?" Ozpin asked having a suspicious sinking feeling on who just might've ordered such a procedure.
"No, I don't know anyone at all that would have these implanted, I didn't even know I had these!" Hansel felt violated, he felt nasty... but he felt honored as well strangely enough, someone thought he was worth the Thrones to alter to be a better weapon for Mankind, someone with enough influence to lure the Munititorum and Inquisition to make such alterations on someone that most see as mere numbers to sacrifice. But who would in fact do such a thing?
On a distant planet halfway across the Galaxy there was a planet under siege, the inhabitants made the fatal mistake on betraying their divine master the God Emperor of Mankind and in response to this insolence the Imperial Guard unleashed a hellish force upon the world, an army made infamous for their merciless destructive capabilities, known for their inhuman indifference for life and death.
The Death Korps of Krieg.
They were the main force progressing across the planet with the assistance of the Harakoni Warhawks from above the deployed regiments swept across the planet slaughtering everything and everyone in their path, the 263rd regiment itself was making immense progress as it escorted members of the Ordos Hereticus and Malleus to a fallen temple.
Two armored warships descended from the sky, dozens of Krieg soldiers repelled off of it as a ground force made its way to the temple the airships were securing from the outside, Guardsmen took up positions along the outside of the temple sculpted into a mountain side pointing their lasrifles at the windows and various vantage points along the mountain.
A Chimera rolled up along a road and promptly stopped before a secure line the Krieg soldiers established. Out from a large ramp a member from the Ordos Hereticus exited with his shining holy bolter primed and ready to fire, after him came a member of the Ordos Malleus, he was a large man wearing Inquisitor power armor, after him came a Kriegswoman and a Kriegsman wearing the red uniforms of the Inquistion's storm troopers followed by several other non-Krieg stormtroopers.
The Inquisitor from the Ordos Hereticus smelled the air and cringed, "This place reeks of heresy."
Three more Chimera transports arrived, two of which circled around outwards to establish a perimeter around the Inquisitor's Chimera, the third one parked adjacent to their own.
When the door came down several Krieg Grenadiers poured out in a uniformed march and stood facing each other, out from the vehicle cam a Lord Commissar with a skull painted gas mask with a sheathed power sword on his hip and a golden holy bolt pistol in its holster, from behind him came a Ubermaster with a billowing coat around her shoulders followed by a black cloaked Tech Priest with a white painted skull mask with two servo skulls flanking him, then from the deepest bowels of the transport came a massive Ogryn Bonehead clad in a ridiculously large Death Korps uniform with a large gun strapped on his back.
"Ah," The power armored Inquisitor of the Ordos Malleus said with a nod, "Lord Commissar Cestus Haxis, I'm glad you decided to join us on our purge."
"Inquisitors Scholaris, Quinten." The Commissar said bowing his head to them he turned to the red clothed Kriegers, "I trust my Todeskommando ubermensch do not disappoint."
"Disappoint?" The power armored Inquisitor Scholaris asked in shock, "They perform better than originally anticipated, the program was well worth its cost."
"They have shown immense skill in their trade, Lord Commissar." The Ordos Hereticus Inquisitor Quinten said, "Shall we get a move on?"
"After you Inquisitors." Lord Commissar Cestus said gesturing his hand to the temple.
The Ordos Hereticus Inquisitor stepped forward leading the expedition into the temple past the Death Korps Guardsmen guarding the passage, they bowed their heads as the Inquisitor and non-Kriegan Stormtroopers passed them by wordlessly, the Deathkommando Storm Troopers however hung back staring at Lord Commissar Cestus, he marched up closer to them as the Grenadier retinue and Ubermaster followed after him, along with the thunderous steps of the Ogryn Bonehead, "Seraph, Amwolf. I trust the Inquisitors treat you two well?"
"Yes Lord Commissar." They both said monotonously as they caught up with the Inquisitors and their Stormtroopers. The Ogryn ducked under the large doorway, it might've been large for the regular Humans but it was a tad small for the giant.
"Schwester." The red Korpswoman said to the Ubermaster, "Its good to see you again Serah."
"Its good to see you again too Seraph, have you killed many Heretics as of late?"
"I've lost count to be truthful." Seraph said as she pulled out a bone necklace, "When I heard we were going to see each other again I made you this from my freshest kills."
Inquisitor Quinten hung back until he was next to Cestus, "What are they doing?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Serah and Seraph haven't seen each other for a few years, so they are exchanging gifts with each other as a sign of not only respect for their fellow Guardswoman but also as a, 'its nice to see you' present." The Commissar responded.
"Is this a typical Krieg thing?"
Cestus nodded his head as the Guardsmen escorts turned on mounted flashlights and lanterns, "No, if siblings do part ways they usually never see each other again, this is just a small reminder they are in fact Human Beings and not machines."
"Oh," The Inquisitor said as he watched the Ubermaster accept her gift and give away her own to her Storm Trooper counterpart, "I do not believe I will be able to get used to them, how have you survived sixty years of leading these people?"
Cestus stopped suddenly, making his Guardsmen tense as they scanned the dark ancient structure, "I just carried on Inquisitor. Just carried on, learned about their ways, their culture."
The Tech Priest spoke up, breaking his silence, "To earn the respect of the Korpsmen like Cestus has is to be a figure of almost fatherly importance. Hence they will die for him."
"I see, it is very admirable on what you've been doing for them." Quinten said as the Commissar started walking again.
"I don't see it that way Inquisitor, I haven't made any signif-" The Lord Commissar stopped talking as he noticed the Stormtroopers and Inquisitor Scholaris crouch down low behind a barrier. Cestus motioned for his Grenadiers and Engineers to crouch low as he made his way up to Scholaris with Quinte and the Deathkommandos followed behind him.
"Heretics," Scholaris whispered as he watched at least twenty Lost and Damned cultists move around supplies in their small basecamp, it seemed as if they were preparing to evacuate their basecamp within the corrupted temple, apparently they had gotten word that the Imperial Guard was going to be advancing on to their position, only they had no clue on how close the Guardsmen actually were.
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"Lord Commissar, some of my Stormtroopers are still on the metaphorical fence about the true strength of your Deathkommandos, perhaps they could give a demonstration?" Scholaris asked as he glimpsed back to the Lord Commissar.
"Hmmm," Cestus waved his two Krieg Engineers forward, "prepare mustard gas grenades. Kommandos, these cultists offend my sight. Remove them."
Ubermaster Serah removed her coat and tossed it to one of the awaiting Grenadiers as two other Grenadiers held two distinctly red coats, she joined her sister and Amwolf on top of a peak overlooking the basecamp by a good thirty feet, they looked over to their Lord Commissar crouched and ready to spring into action on his order. Cestus knifehanded at the cultists without saying a word the gas was launched into the camp, giving the Kommandos the cover they needed, as the cultists started scrambling for gas masks the Deathkommandos were dropping upon them after leaping off of the staggering peak without a hint of fear, if anything they were rather bored with the rabble they had to deal with.
In three great thuds the Kommandos stunned the closest cultists with the amount of inhuman force they generated from their jump, in a flash Seraph dashed forward first, clotheslining a Heretic with her right arm, the man's neck snapped from the initial contact and as his body made contact with the ground his back broke in two. The Kriegswoman wasted no time and vaulted over a crate with her left leg extended, her boot found its place in a cultist's sternum, shattering it and his ribs like chicken bone, she dodged a sword effortlessly and uppercutted the offending cultist in his jaw, shattering his mouth and snapping his head backwards fast enough to pulverize the base of his spine. She vaulted over a cultist as he tried to bayonet her, her left hand grabbed the top of his head and her right hand gripped his shoulder, during her time in the air and using the momentum of her jump she spun around with her legs guiding her body in the air and snapped the cultist's neck like she was a screw driver screwing a nail into a hole before pushing off of him.
She landed boots first on top of a crouching cultist, crushing him like a bug, she upholstered two hotshot laspistols from her thigh holsters and began burning large holes into unfortunate cultists that didn't realize that the optics of the Krieg Storm Trooper masks were specially designed to see through thick clouds of toxic gas, even then a Korpsman could plainly see rifts in the gas made by hostiles and not friendlies with the way they frantically twisted and turned in panic.
Serah punched her hand into the gut of a coughing cultist and tore out his Liver, she threw it at another cultist that was attempting to strap on a gasmask, the cultist fumbled trying to wipe the eyepieces off but before he knew it two fingers went through his eyes and into his head. Serah unsheathed her monoknife and swiftly sprinted in between five different cultists, each reaching for their guts choking in desperation as their lungs filled with poisonous gas, their lungs started to tear and bleed as the gas made sores and blisters bubble up on their skin. She ducked under the wild swings of a blind cultist hooking a cooking frag grenade to his uniform in the process, she then punched him in the chest with an open palm, sending him into two others that had just turned the corner of a supply crate, they didn't have time to recover as they painted the corridor of supplies with their blood.
The Ubermaster then drove her knee between a cultist's legs just as he had tried to clock her with a mace, the resounding crunch of his pelvis made the Imperials watching from above cringe as his legs went limp, she however had the decency to stomp his head into the ground, crushing it like a ripe cherry. From the under side of her wrist a serrated half chainknife usually used for surgical precision started to rev up, with akimbo blades she carved her way through multiple Chaos aligned guardsmen traitors in a flurry of arm movements, her monoknife amputated limbs and cut through whatever pathetic armor they had while the surgical blade tore open their guts with laser like precision.
Amwolf punched a cultist in the gut causing the man to double over, the Kriegsman grabbed the man by his belt with one hand and tossed the cultist flailing into a wall with a loud crunch. A cultist tried to take the Kriegsman's head off with an axe but he missed Amwolf and axed one of his own men in the head, the Kriegsman grabbed the cultist by his shoulders with a vicelike grip and with one great tug he tore the man's arms from his shoulder's sockets and bludgeoned him with his own arms. The Kriegsman continued the tore arms as melee weapons as he dueled a man with a saber, he managed to catch the blade in between the severed arms after the cultist stabbed forward, he tossed them to the side and gabbed the cultist by the head and promptly squeezed the man's head in.
A cultist attempted to tackle Amwolf but he didn't even make the Kriegsman budge as two powerful hands grabbed the cultist by the shoulders midcharge, with little effort Amwolf pulverized the collar bones on both shoulders like they were twigs and tossed the screaming body into a wall of heavy crates head first, effectively silencing the man. Amwolf back handed a cultist in a closeline with his fist clenched, for the split second the cultist was in the air the Kriegsman's fist came down on the cultist's sternum, promptly shattering the fragile ribs and the back as he hit the ground like a ragdoll being thrown down unceremoniously.
The cultists struggled to shoot their assailants as they were moving much to fast for them to even see as more than forms moving through thick poisonous gas, whenever they were struck by the assailants it felt like a speeding truck the size of a fist struck at thirty miles per hour, most were killed in one hit as the strikes were usually aimed for the chest where very important and fragile organs were located or the strikes were to their heads, not much worthy of description would be left over after those strikes.
Both the Inquisitors and Stormtroopers were satisfied with the results, it was quite the spectacle to watch the heathens to be torn limb from literal limb at times by the Deathkommandos, Cestus stared however with pride as his Kommandos once again surpassed expectations.
The Tech Priest recorded the fight with his servo skulls, "Ten seconds to spare, not bad."
"Woah, I hadn't believed that the walking corpse with a face and firm legs could've actually done all that without breaking a nail." One of the Stormtroopers whispered bumping one of his friends with his elbow.
"She does have a pretty butt, those red trousers highlight it nicely when she doesn't have the coat on. Think she could do wonders with a lap dance or on a pole?" The fellow Storm trooper replied with a chuckle.
"Wouldn't mind seeing what she and the other could do in a bed." The other said joining in with his friend laughing.
While they did not realize it the Krieg Guardsmen were staring hateful daggers at the Inquisition troopers and were contemplating stabbing them in the back, it was one thing to think a woman was pretty, it was another to insult one of their heroes with petty banter, such as the thoughts of a very conservative society.
"They wouldn't sleep with either of you two," Cestus said sending shivers down the Storm trooper's spines, "a Kriegswoman of Deathkommando stature seeks Alpha males, you two are nowhere near that."
"That's enough," Inquisitor Scholaris said charging his Bolter's charger handle, "I will discipline you two later, but I expected more maturity Lord Commissar."
"I was simply stating a scientific fact Inquisitor." The Lord Commissar said nonchalantly, making the two Storm troopers in already hot water boil, "Little more then friendly banter."
Commissar Quinten covered his mouth at that remark, 'Scientific fact?'
The Tech Priest reserved his own laughter as his servo skulls buzzed to him with their own laughter.
The Krieg Guardsmen looked towards their Lord Commissar with gleaming eyepieces, once again thankful that there was at least one person in the whole wide Galaxy that was willing to defend the heroes of Krieg when insulted.
However the banter of a few horny Guardsmen were the least of their worries as the sounds of more cultists arriving from the bowels of the temple started to make themselves evident with vicious warcries.
"Faust," Commissar Cestus said looking up at his Krieg styled Ogryn, "these heretics offended the Emperor and me, be a dear and go down there and teach them a lesson."
The Bone'ead Ogryn took a few steps back before sprinting forward and jumping off the same rock peak the Deathkommandos did, he made the amassed supply crates scatter from the amount of force he made in his jump, the cultist corpses gained air for a few seconds splashing blood over the Ogryn's black uniform, "Stupid cultists upset Emperor and Bossman Cestus! Cultists die now!"
From behind the Ogryn upholstered his large Ripper Gun and charged its ejection bolt, the cultists had little time to respond before several loud thundering, "POOMF! POOMF! POOMF!" shredding them into little more than mystery meat in but a few seconds. Faust started stomping on corpses as arriving Chaos cultists immediately started turning around screaming, "RETREAT! REATREAT!"
Faust looked back at the Deathkommandos and squinted, "Iz pretty Krieg ladies and cool Krieg man okay? Mean cultists no hurt Faust's friends! Faust make them die!"
Seraph walked up to the Ogryn Bone'ead and patted his knee, "Danke Faust, don't let the heretics get away, they insult the Emperor by breathing."
"Huh!? Stupid cultist hurt Emperor's feelings by breathing!? They must die now! Bossman! I go get stupid cultists!?"
Cestus nodded his head with a small smile under his mask, "What would I do without this goof?" The Commissar raised his thumbs up, "Yes Faust! Kill them all, you will get a shiny metal if you do!"
"Shiny!? Faust will get da shiniest of all! Faust kill all heretics for Emperor and Bossman!" The Ogryn cried charging into the corridor the cultists were fleeing into.
The Korpsmen were already making their way down with Cestus leading them, the Inquisitors and their Storm Troopers followed, they however spared the deformed corpses a few looks in awe, though they had watched the fight it was still hard to believe that such an event even transpired in the first place. Inquisitor Quinton was a long time friend and supporter of Cestus's Operation: Todeskommando, he had seen the operation when it first began and he had to admit, the money it took to get the operation this far was well worth it, he hoped the Lord Commissar would keep his initial promises he made before the Ordos Majoris and the Departmendo Munititorum.
"Boss! Boss!" Faust called as the Lord Commissar came into view, "Dey got spikey bad Sphes Marines!"
Low and behold several Chaos Space Marines had the Ogryn Bone'ead pinned under fire as he kept his head down under a large slab of rock, "Faust not close enough to hurt bad Marines!"
Inquisitor Scholaris tapped his Voxbeads and raised a power armored gauntlet, "This is Scholaris, send in the thunder!"
"Gott Kaiser Mitt uns!" Cestus shouted to his Krieg Guardsmen as they prepared for a suicidal charge, nothing out of the ordinary for them.
The temple started to shake as an intense drilling noise was heard, the Chaos Space Marines had to dodge out of he way as large chunks of the ceiling nearly crushed them, a large drill tipped vehicle came down from the ceiling, its drill still spinning as it slammed into the ground tearing up more Earth as it provided a much needed distraction for the Guardsmen and Storm Troopers to close the distance with the cultist forces, engaging them in laser and close quarters combat. As the Guardsmen engaged their enemy the Chaos Space Marines recovered they laughed to themselves as they prepared to slaughter the lesser Guardsmen with their chainaxes and swords.
That was until the occupants of the drill stepped put, clad in pure black Astartes power armor, baring weapons of ancient significant power that far out weighed that of the Traitor Marines, their visors shined a bright luminescent as they stared down their former brothers in arms, their right shoulder pardons were bare black showing no allegiance to any Space Marine Chapter, excluding the Imperial Aquilias that were painted onto their armor being the only symbols showcasing where their loyalties lied. One Librarian carrying a power sword and Storm Bolter, a Chaplain wielding a Power Maul and Holy Bolter, one Assault Marine with Power Claws, and one more Marine an Eviscerator Chainsword and Melta Gun on his back.
They were Deathwatch Black Shield Marines, Chapterless, fatalistic, and above all else dangerous. It was obvious that the Death Korps admired such Marines.
With a roar of hatred five Chaos Space Marines charged at the Black Shields with threats of death and dismemberment, yet the Black Shields were not amused by the display the younger Traitor Marines, in fact it irritated them that these young Chaos punks dared to bare arms against their older yet superior loyalist counterparts.
The Black Shield Librarian used his psyker powers to attack with Smite bolts, incinerating two Chaos Marines before they could dodge the bolts. The Terminator carrying the Melta Gun fired a single blast, incinerating a dozen cultists and baking two Chaos Space Marines, hurting them but not quite killing them as they were farther back, the Chaos Marines decided to change tactics and took cover upholstering their Bolt based firearms, blindfiring around the corners of what little cover they had.
None of the Black Shields rand for cover as the powerful Librarian held his hand up blocking the rounds that came close, he fired three more Smite bolts destroying some cover, leaving the Chaos Marines open to the Storm Trooper's Hotshot lasrifles, the only kind of lasrifle that could pierce Space Marine armor. Several Storm Troopers focused their fire on one of the Chaos Marines and with their combined effort one Marine fell to their onslaught, they charged forward attempting to force one Chaos Marine out of cover, only to not notice in the heat of battle a Berserker leaping at them with twin chainaxes.
In a few slashes the Chaos Marine butchered the Storm Troopers without mercy, slashing them into chunks of meat before some could even react to the red giant, the Berserker roared out in fury as he punted two Storm Troopers over the Kriegsmean as they started to shoot at him with their less powerful lasrifles, he raised his axes prepared to murder them but the Black Shield Marine with the Eviscerator sword held his axes back with sparks flying from the struggle of.
The Black Shield Marine shrugged the axes upwards, opening the Traitor up to a devastating slash that tore far into his vile guts, crippling the Marine to the merciless fury of the Black as the Eviscerator went down the Traitor's shoulder to his belt, the Black Shield brought his blade out from the vertical slash and gave a horizontal slash with his sword to decapitate the Traitor in a violent action, sending the Traitor's head flying into the lines of the Lost and the Damned.
With blind fury another Chaos Marine went after the three Deathkommandos, mistaking them for three easy kills. To his surprise the red soldiers and black clothed soldier moved faster than the Marine could swipe them with his large hammer, he growled angrily as the smaller Humans not only evaded him but were landing the occasional kick that would stumble him just lightly. Serah and Seraph both double kicked the Marine from the front as Amwolf attacked from the side with a Monoknife, penetrating the Marine's right lung, he pushed off quickly as the Traitor thrashed around insulted that such lowly Humans could deliver such damage to a Demi-god such as himself.
That was until The Librarian Brine stuck his sword right through him, effectively ending the Marine before he could try and strike back against the Korpsmen for the wound they gave him. Thoug
With several lightening fast slashes the Black Shield with Power Claws diced a dozen cultists to bits, the Black Shield Chaplain finished off the last Chaos Marine by obliterating his head with the Power Maul, whatever cultist with any sort of brains in their skulls fled down a cavern that lead further and further under ground far past anything that would've resembled an Imperial Temple, it had seemed the followers of the Great Enemy found out about a system of caves hidden beneath the Temple, it seemed as though the tunnel itself dared the Imperials to follow.
"Form up! Field inspection!" The Lord Commissar demanded with his hand in the air rotating his wrist around to gather his Korpsmen.
Two Regulars came up to the front carrying a wounded Grenadier from underneath his arms, one leg was missing while the other was propped on the rear Regular's shoulder while the stump that had a tourniquet on it squirted some pressurized blood on the Regulars uniform. The Grenadier had half of his mask burned off the other half fused onto his face from a hot lasround, whatever pain he was in was not shown so easily as the Grenadier kept himself from crying out even after being set down on the ground.
Ubermaser Serah upholstered her laspistol to give the Grenadier the Emperor's mercy but the Grenadier instead unsheathed his monoknife and stabbed himself in his Aorta artery and twisted the blade, pulling hard to the left, he bled out in but a few Delete repeated word
Inquisitor Quinton's eyebrows shot up in surprise, "Woah, I've never seen one do that before."
"He knew we'd need the lasammo." Cestus grunted as the Ubermaster distributed the dead Grenadier's ammo and even his own monoknife out, "I've lost most of my Grenadiers, I got two of them left but thankfully we still have two Engineers, fourteen Regulars, a Tech Priest, an Ogryn, and three Deathkommandos."
"You fail to mention us Inquisitors and of course the Astartes." Quinton said as he checked his ammo over.
"Yes, but you six aren't comparatively brittle." Cestus said gesturing to his Kriegsmen, "I hope you don't mind Inquisitor Scholaris but I'd like my men to salvage your Storm Trooper's Hotshots."
"Go on ahead, it'd be shameful to leave such valuable weaponry to waste." The Inquisitor said giving the shredded remains of his Storm Troopers a dejected looked.
"Brothers, we must pursue the Heretics down the tunnel." The Librarian said to his counterparts with his sword pointing down the hole.
"Koprsmen, follow the Space Marines." Cestus commanded just after the Korpsmen finished looting the Storm Trooper's corpses, "Faust take point behind the Space Marines."
"Yes Bossman!" The Bone'ead Ogryn said as he jogged up to the hole leading down, though now he treaded far more softly as he realized that the hole they were going down looked like it was going to be an enclosed space, Serah and Seraph jumped unto the Ogryn's shoulders as he started to get nervous over the increasingly narrow long hall, "Pretty Red Krieg lady Faust is scarred of smaller hall."
Seraph started to stroke the Ogryn's exposed part of his head shushing him lightly, "Its okay Faust, Bossman and Krieg friends are right behind you. Besides, the Emperor's sons are here to guide us through the smaller hall, you can't be afraid with the Space Marines here."
"Duhhh," Faust looked up and saw one of the Marines glimpse over his shoulder, "Huuuuuuuh! He look at me, Faust not afraid no more!"
Serah patted Faust's head, "Good Faust."
"That has to be the queerest sight I have ever seen," Quinton said nodding his head in disbelief, "Korpsmen being nice, to an abhuman!?"
"Faust is no mere abhuman," Cestus chided seemingly offended, "he has severed by my side as my personal bodyguard for thirty years. He has been around Serah and Seraph for fifteen of those years in my regiment, he is practically one of us. If my Guardsmen have an issue with it then they know just who he belongs to."
"I see, hold on, how old are they? Your Kommandos?"
Cestus felt an unnatural chill go down his spine as the two female Kommandos turned around on Faust's shoulders giving the Lord Commissar and the Inquisitor that look. He could feel the coldness of the stares even though they wore their gas masks.
Inquisitor Scholaris chuckled patting Quinton on the back, "That is never a question you should ask pertaining to women."
"Alright, they," Cestus put his hands on his hips looking up at the Kriegswomen," whether they like it or not! Are both thirty two."
Both female Korpswomen on the Ogryn's shoulders turned around to the front of Faust with their arms crossed.
"That is a pretty old age for a Krieger." Quniton whistled.
"They are literally the oldest in the regiment besides Faust and I." Cestus said, getting the cold shoulder as the Korpswomen turned their chins up in the air with muffled, "Hmphs!"
The Four Black Shield Marines nodded to themselves as they listen to the banter going on behind them, "You, Commissar."
Cestus ran up closer to the Librarian, "Yes my Lord Astartes."
"I witnessed the two red ones and that black one with the skeleton uniform attack a Traitor Marine, by themselves, with their bare hands. How is this so? I have never in my years seen mere unaltered Humans perform such feats."
As Cestus was about to speak Inquisitor Scholaris interrupted him, "You just saw the Inquisition's newest investment in action. That's all you need to know."
The Librarian didn't seem to take kindly to that but whatever protest to the indigent disrespect the Inquisitor showed him went unheard as the Black Shield turned his head back to the front.
Cestus was speechless as the Space Marines ignored the Inquisitor, "You have some balls Scholar, insulting an Astartes like that."
"You know full well no one needs to know the specifics of our "investment" Lord Commissar." Scholaris said with typical Inquisitional coldness replacing whatever camaraderie he had with Cestus earlier, "They don't need to know, they won't even remember our faces by the time the mission is done."
Cestus was about to argue no matter who it was when it came to an Astartes it would be best not to disrespect them, though such words were lost on him as the cultist corpses with very large holes and missing limbs started to appear and the Commissar knows full well the Marines nor Faust killed any of them.
"The bloody hell happened here?" Inquisitor Quinton spoke aloud turning a corpse over with his boot to find the literal face of a cultist removed, revealing the skeletal face of the owner.
"This doesn't look like typical infighting," Inquisitor Scholaris said as he observed the wounds, "no, this is, this is different."
"Enlighten us Inquisitors, what makes this different?" Cestus asked as they entered a wider chamber that showed a far more well supplied camp, the previous ones being fallback points with this being the last stand area with flood lights illuminating the area they were in.
Quinton examined one of the corpses, "No signs of biological corruption, they weren't tormented to death or stabbed anywhere that would make them suffer, these wounds aren't savagely done, there's no tearing to suggest jagged blades, they are smooth."
"Its almost like one of those knife ears did this but no one from the Ordos Xenos detected Eldar active- look at these ones."
Cestus knelt down in front a bunch of cultist corpses with the Inquisitors, it seemed as though someone or something had completely drained them of life and liquid, they seemed little more than husks with humanoid form. This was starting to be far more complicated than a mere hunt for a Chaos leadership, this whole temple was giving the veteran Commissar the provable creeps, something here is wrong.
The Black Shields advanced twenty feet in front of the other Imperials as they observed the cavern with a mix of interest and wariness, there were old carvings depicting images of great beasts fighting Space Marines, only they had never seen such beasts before, they did not take up any form that they would've recognized, they looked as if they were spawned from the horrific nightmares of an insane man with their twisted inhuman forms, there was a sneaking suspicion that they would be seeing them soon.
They weren't far off from that either.
Noticeably shadows in the room close to the drained corpses started to pull away from the Imperials alarming them greatly, the shadows took to the air and began to swirl into a thirty foot tall tornado of spinning black mass, as the mass began to spin faster bulges began to appear at the sides, white bone scaled arms broke out from the sides as the tornado formed a strong scaly body with a long curling tail with what looked like a woman's face flanked by Praying Mantis arms. Its head was adorned with horns upon its head, one of which looked damaged, with beady dark soulvoid eyes it stared at them, it stood on two great hind hooved legs standing far above the Space Marines.
The Inquisitors shook as an inhuman amount of fear ran through them, it was unnatural, both were veterans in their own right, both had put in nearly a hundred years of service and spent countless hours ironing their will but the mere presence of this Daemon seemed to totally disregard all of that.
Inquisitor Quinton fell to a knee as he felt his heart threatening to burst from his chest, luckily a Krieg Regular removed their mask and allowed him to take several deep breathes, with great relief Quinton started to breathe normally, his heart slowed down as he took another breathe. It was at this time he was able to observe that the Space Marines, Korpsmen, Cestus, and the Ogryn seemed unaffected by the Daemon's overall influence, it seemed the emotion suppressor wasn't such a silly idea after all as it seemed a larger one was activated for the Ogryn right as the Daemon revealed itself, that must've been a pretty penny.
"By the Throne," Scholaris gasped as he too was revived by a Korpsman, "I've never seen a Daemon this strong. Of this caliber!"
Cestus gripped his sword with a growl as he recognized not only what type the Daemon was but also the Daemon itself, "You! Bastard son of Anarchy!"
The Daemon looked down at the Commissar and sniffed the air, "The Blood of Terrax I smellll, sweet, foolish, slavedog blood."
Quinton cringed hearing the horrendous voice of the Daemon, it sounded like a mish mash of nails on chalk boards and knives against blades, he could understand the other unpleasant things but could the Daemons have had the decency to speak normally and not be pricks about it by altering their voices to inhuman levels of irritation?
"Aye you smell my blood alright you good for nothing snake skinned bastard son of the Void!" Cestus declared unsheathing his shimmering power sword, "You remember me, you took a few things away from me the last time you roamed."
"Yessss, I do recall something on Terraxxx, though you must be specific, it was just a Tuesday for me." The Daemon taunted.
"You son of a-" The Black Shield Chaplain held his arm down blocking off the Commissar to go charging at the Daemon.
"Standfast Commissar, it wants you to get upset."
The Daemon clapped thunderous as it gave a deep grainy chuckle, "Yes, yessss, good little slavedog, do as you are told by your masters. If you must know I do recall taking a little boys arm away from him a long time ago."
The Commissar's cap lowered as, his eyes stared holes through the Daemon.
It knew it too, "Though that isn't what upset you the most, no, arms can be replaced... sisters, especially ones that scream themselves shrill are hard to replace, I can still hear her screaming for her big brother Cestus to save her, oh, how pitiful it was to see you reaching for her but then, you grasped nothing. Nothing but thin air."
Inquisitor Quinton spared a glance at the Commissar as he could've sworn he could see steam rising from the man, his Kriegsmen were rallying behind him, the one giving him puffs of their mask seemed to want to join them so the Inquisitor released the soldier, "Go I'll be fine."
Scholaris dismissed his aid too, he was an Inquisitor damnit, nothing like this shall have a hold over him like this ever again, he did not serve a century of flawless service just so some Daemon from the underground of some planet in the middle of nowhere could disable him so easily.
"Mark my words, you wretched beast," Cestus growled as he raised a sword towards its face, "I, Lord Commissar Cestus Haxis of Krieg shall vanquish you to the depths of the Warp even if it takes me all my years, in however many lives, I will have vengeance!"
The Daemon peeled his eyes as it felt the Commissar's resolve hit it like a snow ball, "Firm words for a small man, oh, but where are my manners? Your friends seem to not fully grasp who I am, so allow me to clarify and introduce myself."
Flood lights stared to flicker, the air grew a crisp cold, the shadows seemed to grow darker, "I am no mere Daemon, no mere Greater Daemon of the likes you've ever seen. I do not follow the four, We exist to destroy them!"
Black puddles started to bubble near the Daemon as several masses jumped from them and into the air, taking Humanoid form as the landed, bone white armor plating covered their black as night bodies.
"I am Zyxlck the Butcher! Firstborn of the God of Anrachy, MALAL!"
The Malalian based cultist beings sprinted at the Imperials with incredible speed with bone white swords bared, they screamed an inhuman warcry that seemed to personify scraping broken glass against ceramic plates being used as chalk boards.
In other words they were really fucking annoying.
"Feuer frei! Feur frei! Zerstöre sie alle!" Cestus commanded to the Korpsmen Regulars as they formed a cresent semi circle around the Imperial group and began to fire out into the Malalian cultists, some shots struck home and sent them down as the flailed into oblivion, others shrugged off hits thanks to their bone armor. To the shock of the Inquisitors larger beasts with Humaoid skulls, insectoid bodies with six hairy Humanoid arms for its legs began to crawl out of the huge black pools with men on their backs.
The Black Shield Marines with Bolter rifles and pistols began to support the Kriegsmen with their own covering fire, taking great care in dispatch the Steeds of Malal before they could get closer with their cargo.
Thouh rarely encountered it was to their benefit to being material creatures, Chaos aligned beings especally Daemons ironically enough were incredbly weak against Malalian beings, howver beings of the Materium not aligned with Chaos stood a far better chance at surving.
That is of course they weren't dealing with the literal son of the Dark God.
This Guardian of Contradiction however was the son of Malal, and he was just bidding his time, enjoying the fruitless endevours of the Imperials as they fight a literal never ending enemy that would spawn in five new cultist Echos for everyone they put down, it made the irony even more intoxcating seeing Cestus so frustrated, so angry that after so many years he has finally found the monster that helped forge him into the man he is today by damaging him so long ago as a child, only to be out of reach by a mere hundred feet.
" How painful it must be for you, to see me here, after all these years. You obviously never got over what I did to your world, the pinnacle of despicable order. Oh, how painful it will be to see these people that serve you so valiently die for no substantial meaning. No one cares about them, no one ever will, look at them, nearly machines they are, yet you call them men. They live only to die, huh, and I'm called a contradiction, yet I see the irony in their very existence."
"Oh shut up!" Cestus demanded shootng at the Daemon, who lazily deflected his shots with minor telekiniesis, "Fight me! You bastard!"
"No, I will watch you watch your friends, your heroes die at the hands of my Father's followers, then I am going to melt your mind inbetween my fingers yet not kill you. No, I will have you on an endless loop of watching your sister die just out of your grasp."
"He's a real sick bastard ain't he?" Quinton asked as he shot a Malal Steed down, the beast slid on the ground and the cultists used its body and momentum to launch themselves over the Kriegsmen.
Inquisitor Scholaris immediatly engaged the fiendish beings in close combat, his sword slashed one in half as his Holy Bolter managed to dispatch two more at a midrange, the black robed Tech Priest fired several lasbolts striking and killing four of the invaders as the Inquisitor tangled with two remaining inhuman beasts. He kicked his boot forward sending one into the wall, he shot it with his Holy Bolter but the last one kicked his gun from his hand, in a swift motion he slashed down verticually attempting to bisect the monster but it caught his blade inbewteen his palms and fell backwards onto the ground, "You annoying litt-"
The Inquisitor gasped as he looked down, the creature's legs shape shifted into blades and had piereced right out the back of his armor, to his horror the creaure became slimmer as it felt like spikes from the inside were pushing through his body along the wounds the legs made, the Inqusitor coughed up blood as on the inside black lines tore their way through every organ that they could find, he however would have the last laugh, "You cr-crafty lil' cheat'n c-cunt," He pushed down with all his might and bisected the creature, effectivly vanquishing it before his own world went back.
"Inquisitor down!" Quinton shouted as he saw Scholaris go down, "They're getting closer!"
"Damn!" Cestus growled as he now saw that the Malalian nightmare creatures were steadily gaining ground, retreat not only never an option would not have been viable since no one would be able to leave without being pursue by significantly stronger beings of the Warp.
There was only one option left.
"Librarian!" He shouted at the Black Shield.
The massve Space Marine looked down at the Commissar.
"We can't win, we can't leave, but netiher can they! You know what needs to be done!"
The other Black Shields glanced towards the Librarian and nodded, they were Black Shields, they were Death Korps, they were meant to die.
Out of pure desperation, not for salvation but for utter mutual annihalation, the Librarian started to gather up immense energy as his hands began to light up with Warp energies, using years of practiced technique he absorbed whatever Warp energy that was viable and began to concentrate, his hands began to weave a portal, he began to cast the Vortex of Doom onto the Greater Daemon at the risk of sucking everyone else into it.
Zyxlck the Butcher stared at the Librarian curiously, but once he started to feel the pulls of energy he stared to feel enraged, "Come now, there's no need to be spoiled sports, you had yourselves good runs in your lives, you will not cheat me so easily!"
He reached forward with his larged scaled clawed hand to grab the Librarian, but several very large shotgun shells from a certain Ogryn's shotgun and a jumping Space Marine with an Eviscerator made him retract his paw with a pained harrowing screech, "Insolent insects! I will have my revenge for that soon-"
The massive Daemon stuck its arms out to try and keep itself from falling into the vortex that was created, however no matter what caliber the Daemon it was still no match for the powers of fuckall reality and slowly lost its grip, "You worm! You will not cheat me of your suffering!"
Dragging its nails against the cavern floor the Butcher was dragged into the abysis of the Warp, however the vortex was far from done with absorbing things, without the Greater Daemon around the Echos lost form and disintegrated into thin air, all that was left was corpses and Korpsmen and Space Marines that were now struggling agaisnt the pulls of the seemingly growing vortex.
"IN HINDSIGHT THIS WAS- OKAY ANY IDEA SUCKED!" Cestus shouted keeping his hat on his head with a firm grip on a rock.
Inquisitor Quinton had only his hands in some crevices to keep him pinned as his legs flailed, "I'M TOO OLD FOR THIS SHRAKK!"
A Korpsman lost his grip and was rolling down the incline they had come in on, he would've gone in if Faust hadn't caught him and tucked him in front with several other Korpsmen, the three Deathkommandos clung to the Ogryn's back, "HOLE NO TAKE FAUST'S FRIENDS!"
Cestus could see that even the Astartes were struggling to hold on, this was it, of all the things in the Galaxy to have done this old man in, a fucking vortex, great. It couldn't have been on the battlefield, in the trenches, in no man's land to die alongside his many sons and daughters, that would've been fitting, his boys didn't deserve to die like this they deserved to die like their brothers and sisters in the trenches like custom. Oh how he found these people of Krieg to be a odd if not unique bunch of Guardsmen, death given Human form to all, well, almost all. To him, the people in his regiment were in fact people and not machines, they had thoughts and -hold thy tongue- feelings, they were just very... bare, they weren't developed, if anything to him they were always like children, children he always wanted. This may not be the death he saw himself having, but he was proud to go down surrounded by what he could call with distinct unapologetic pride.
Family.
"Let go." A sweet light whispering very familiar voice said in his ear, "Let go."
Though his eyes must've been playing tricks on him he could've sworn he saw a pair of golden industrial gloves gently grasp his own in a familiar tender grip he once felt nearly two decades ago, sending a cool comforting feeling throughout his body, almost numbing him, "Let go."
The Commissar lost his grip and rode the vaccum that sucked him into the vortex.
"BOSSMAN!" Faust shouted reaching for the Commissar, the Deathkommandos wordlesly and without second thought jumped in after their Lord Commissar, the Kriegsmen under Faust started scrammbling from out underneath the Ogryn after the Commissar, said abhuman followed. Inqusitor Quinton sighed as he saw the fruitlessness of holding on as the ground under his hands broke up and went with the flow, if Cestus was going down he'd go with him. The Black Shields fully immpressed with the dedication the Korpsmen and Inquisitor had for their Lord Commissar reminded them of how they once held such loyalty to their Primarch and Chapter, if unaltered, or what they presume unalterted Humans could jump straight into a Warp Vortex without fear in their hearts then by the Emperor so can His Astartes.
The title "Chibi Korps of RWBY" suddenly appears, the main cast appears on screen. Saladin appears next to Weiss waving his Khailg sword, Nicholas appears in a head lock via Yang. Julius is seen waving an Imperial flag on top of the Rose emblem, while Hansel is seen carrying Ruby bridal style.
Scene 1.
Chibi Hansel marches up to Chibi Ruby with a red heart shaped box, "I have a gift for you on this strange holiday your people celebrate."
Chibi Ruby squeals jumping up and down, "What is it?! What is it?!"
The Chibi Korpsman fell to a knee and raised the box up to Ruby's hands, "I sculpted jewelry for you-"
In lightening fast hand motions Ruby tore open the box and stared wide eyed at her gift.
"-out of the bones of your fallen enemies with shiny pieces of gold. Do you like it?"
She stared at him for a few seconds before sighing, "I-its pretty... kind of creepy, but I like it!"
"Will you put it on?" Chibi Hansel asked with innocently gleaming eyepieces on his gas mask.
Chibi Ruby gulped as she put on a bracelet and necklace, "Huh, they aren't that bad, I just need to totally ignore them being people at one point... yeah, Hans you are seeing a therapist mister! But I got you something too!"
Chibi Hansel tilted his head, "What is it?"
With a sly grin on her face Chibi Ruby pulled out a huge chocolate bar, getting Chibi Hansel's attention, however she did not give it too him as she broke off a piece and held it between her teeth, "Come and get it lover boy~"
Chibi Hansel spared no time tearing his gas mask off and tackling Chibi Ruby, kissing her with little red hearts floating and popping over their heads.
Scene 2.
Chibi Yang stood with her back against a wall in the school with a red heart shaped box in her hands, she glimpses around the corner and spots Chibi Nicholas sitt- Slav squatting on a stone bench with a book in his hands, "Okay, okay. Just walk up to him and give him the chocolates. Easy, he's just a boy, nothing special... he's just a nice guy to hang out with just give him the-" Chibi Yang glimpses again and watches in awe as Chibi Nicholas whips his short wavy brown hair back and forth after taking his hat off, she started smashing her head against the wall as she was welling with anxiety.
She peaks again and takes several quick breaths before using her shotgun gauntlets to propel herself at Chibi Nicholas with her Valentines Day gift in one of her hands cocked backwards.
Chibi Nicholas had half a second to look up to see Chibi yang flying at him, he raised his arms up expecting to get hit in the face, though after a second he lowered his arms to see her standing in front of him digging a small hole in the ground with her boot nervously as she held her gift out for him, "H-hey, I got ya a little something something, don't think its because I like like you! Its just well, we're friends and what not."
The Chibi Vostroyan rolled his eyes laughing, "Tsundere much?"
Not realizing his wrong choice of words in time Chibi Nicholas was flung across the campus from an embarrassed Chibi Yang, "YOU JERK!"
Scene 3.
Chibi Saladin stood in front of a ice block with Chibi Weiss watching from the side, he unsheathes his Khalig sword and in a flurry of motions he sliced and diced the block.
He sheathed his sword presenting a to Chibi Weiss a statue of her likeliness with a Beowulf under her heel, "Ta da, happy Valentines Day!"
Chibi Weiss pecked Chibi Saladin's cheek and unsheathed Myrtenaster, she swiped once and a ice statue of Chibi Saladin appeared.
The actual Chibi Saladin however crossed his arms slouching forward in disbelief, "It took me seventeen hours to get that done right, that is just bloody cheating."
Chibi Weiss patted his shoulder and pecked his cheek, "How about I buy you lunch at this place I know downtown later?"
"I guess that's okay my Amira." Chibi Saladin said throwing an arm around her shoulder, "And after that I'll massage your feet for being so generous."
"Yes!" The Chibi Heiress said pumping her fist.
Scene 4.
Chibi Coco held two dresses in front of a mirror weighing them on their ups and downs, "This one has a pretty design, but this one matches my shoes... hmmmm, Julius what do you think?"
"That is a rhetorical fruitless question, you will disagree with what I have to say and go back to trying to figure out what to wear, again for the fifth time." The exasperated Chibi Armageddon boy said rolling his eyes.
"That's not true!" Chibi Coco said with a frown, "I will pick whatever you say I should wear!"
"Nothing."
"What?" Chibi Coco asked with cherry red cheeks.
Chibi Julius grinned with crossed arms, "You said you'd wear whatever I said you should wear. So wear nothing, you look better like that anyways."
Chibi Coco narrowed her eyes at Chibi Julius with contempt.
In a flash he was flying out a window by one bag swing, but with red lipstick on his face.
Scene 5.
Chibi Nicholas and Chibi Yang stood back to back as Chibi Neo and some Chibi White Fang grunts surrounded them.
"Dang, they've got us surrounded, I don't have much Aura left!" Chibi Yang said clutching her side.
Chibi Nicholas sighed, "Yang, I must use my secret weapon."
The Vostroyan stabbed his sword into the ground and reached into his coat, he pulled out a Vintage GPO Bakelite house phone and started to dial a phone number slowly, confusing the White Fang soldiers, Chibi Neo, and Chibi Yang. He held the receiver of the phone up to his face and took a deep breath before shouting into the receiver, "ANU CHEEKI BREEKI IV DAMKE!"
Everyone stared for a moment as he hung up and placed the phone back into his coat.
"What?!" Chibi Yang screamed, "How is that a secret weapon and how is it going to help us!?"
Chibi Neo shrugged her shoulders holding up a sign saying, "You're boned."
"Give it a second." Chibi Nicholas said taking a sip from a flask.
The Chibi White Fang grunts looked up to the sky as their Faunus ears started to pick up a faint ever increasing techno sounding music, just as the music started to pick up in beat and encroach faster several cars trailing dust flew over the small crowd, the black cars with three white Edyeedyes stripes started donouting around sending the Chibi White Fang grunts flying as Cheeki Breeki Hardbass Anthem blasted on speakers duct taped to the roofs of the Blyat Mobiles.
One of the Blyat Mobiles backed up to Chibi Nicholas and Yang, from the driver's side a Chibi man front flipped onto the hood of his Blyat Mobile with a double barrel shotgun and Makarov in his hands, "Isssss Chibi Boris! Da Power Gopniks have come to liberate you cykas from your kompot and cheeki your breeki!"
The Blyat Mobiles stopped and several Gopniks wearing their Edyeedyes tracksuits with golf clubs, baseball bats, iron pipes for their melee weapons and of course for range they had AK47s on their backs. The Gopniks were all different colored variants of the original Slav Superstar, counting the true Chibi Boris there were seven of them.
Chibi Neo stood with a sign saying, "What is even going on even more?!"
In a inexplicable turn of events the Chibi Power Gopniks used their superior Slav martial art of the bar brawl to defeat the Chibi White Fang and infamous ice cream super villain.
"Thank you tovarich Boris!" Chibi Nicholas said with a brand new steaming shastik in his hand.
"Any time tovarich Nicholas Space Slav, remember, stay cheeki breeki!" The chibi Slavic legend said as the Blyat Mobiles combined to make the Sasha Zorg, a giant Bear mech, and flew off into the sunset.
Chibi Yang looked at her reflection in a pond as she was now trying on her tracksuit gift, "Not bad."
Scene 6.
Chibi Ruby observed Chibi Coco give Chibi Julius a buttslap after he passed his latest test with a ninety percent on his score, she thought for a moment and a crazy idea popped into her head as Chibi Hansel came up to her with his test.
"I got a one hundred percent." Chibi Hansel said, unbenounced to him Chibi Julius was making faces at him from behind.
"Good one Hans!" Ruby jumped in the air and upon landing gave him a firm buttslap, she started waving her hand after hurting her hand on his adamantium buns.
Chibi Hansel looked at her with a blank stare before turning her around and gave her a firm buttslap that made the poor girl jump into the air wth her hands rubbing her butt, "Owowowowow!"
Chibi Ruby blinked for a second though as some blush rushed to her face, "H-hey Hans?"
Chibi Hansel crossed his arms, "You deserved that."
"I know... could you do it again?"
The Chibi Korpsman face palmed falling backwards onto the cold ground, "You pervert."
Scene 7.
"Ahahahahaha!" Chibi Montresor laughed as he floated about the main cast with his hands sparkling with Warp energy, "My power is unmatched by you puny mortals, who among you could possibly-"
"ORA!" A punch promptly sent Monstresor into a wall.
"Ow, fuck, what?!" The Chibi Sorcerer cried as a purple ghostlike entity floated in front of him with his fists cocked, "Wha-"
"ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA! ORA!" Diamond Platinum Chibi cried as he sent Montresor screaming towards Mount Glenn.
The Stand phased back to its master, Sly Marbo, as he fist bumped the entity, causing a shock wave that knocked everyone nearby over.
Scene 8.
Chibi Gretel sat on a bench fluffing her hair like the other Kriegswomen that were competing for Chibi Commissar Cain's attention.
"Hold up!" The Chibi Commissar yelled pointing at the fourth wall, "Why am I being used for this shit!? I was supposed to be just a brief cameo what the hell!"
"Guten Morgen Herr Commissar~" The Kriegswomen said appearing in a non-Chibi form, looking more relatable to a dozen Krieg-Chans posing in numerous suggestive provocative poses.
The Chibi Commissar's face lit up with blush as he lowered his hat as he slowly backed up, "Now ladies... Guardswomen stand down that's an order! Ahhh!"
Chibi Fokker nodded his head as the Chibi Commissar Cain ran across the First Garden's battlements screaming as a storm of Krieg fangirls chased after him.
Scene 9.
Chibi Lieutenant Mira sat down with her arms around her legs in a wheel chair with tears rolling down her cheeks, "Cadia is no more... I now have crippling depression."
Chibi Ruby covered her mouth with her hands in a gasp, "Oh no, you need hugs!"
In a flash the adorable ball of black and red picked Chibi Lieutenant Mira up in an Aura infused hug of ultimate kawaiiness from behind with her head pressed against the Cadian's back, "Please don't be sad any more!"
Chibi Lieutenant Mira smiled sadly tapping the younger girl's hands softly, "Squad morale restored."
Scene 10.
Chibi Commissar Cestus stood silently in the hallway of Beacon Academy much like a Queensguard did in Pre-Holy Terra England, silent, unmoving until something pissed him right the fuck off.
Like some students running down the hall.
Chibi Nora and Yang were racing each other down said hall crossing the Commissar, "NO RUNNING IN MY FRAKKING HALL!" He suddenly bellowed like a thunderstorm making the two girls stumble, "GET OUT OF MY BLASTED HALL BEFORE I BLAMM YOUR FRAKKING BRAINS OUT OF YOUR FRAKIING SKULLS! YOU INSUBORDINATE IDIOTS!"
Scene 11.
Chibi Team JHSN stood around the Beacon Campus playing around on their scrolls lazily.
"What is this Dustbook? It looks stupid." Chibi Hansel said as he removed the app.
"It is societal cancer." Chibi Julius said with venom, "They took down my posts demanding people to worship the God Emperor or they'd die. Jerks."
Suddenly in a burst of light the Pillarstodes appeared in their oiled muscular form, showing off their divine super human physiques to the stunned Guardsmen as they fell onto their knees in a bow to the Companions of the Emperor.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't the Guardsmen our illustrious God Emperor has placed his faith in, hmph, disgraceful that you men do not worship him in a proper manner." Karstodes purred condescendingly as gold specks seemed to radiate off of the near naked Demi-gods.
"Hmmm, yes. You restrict your physiques, your monuments to Humanity's greatness under these thick layers of clothing, how ever do you even worship the Emperor in such an uncomfortable manner?" Custodisi asked sizing up the very short Guardsmen, at least compared to the height of someone that stood at twelve feet.
Wammudes flexed his magnificent biceps, the resounding noise sounded like a thousand leather whips tightening, "You must show off your natural superiority to all of creation, show them the true beauty and grace of Mankind's manly men!"
The Chibi Guardsmen looked at each other and nodded as they prepared themselves.
Just in time for Team Chibi Team RWBY and Chibi Coco to walk out and observe in ah.
Chibi Julius spun in flash of lightening and smoke, reappearing again in a non-Chibi form with his hands holding his mustard colored coat open, revealing tanned oiled up Greco-Romanesque sculpted abs.
Chibi Coco slumped forward with her sunglasses falling off, her face was bright red as her mouth hung wide open, the other Chibi girls gasped as their eyes started to revel in the sight of the pinnacle of Human health.
Chibi Hansel spun taking his coat off in a flash of smoke, he reappeared un-chibified with his hands behind his head as he flexed, he leaned backwards at an angle to show off his obviously superior muscular form, his pants hung loose as they were unbuttoned with an open belt buckle, his suspenders were the only things holding up his trousers as they teased to go down further.
"MINE!" Chibi Ruby cried as she hung off of Hansel's bicep, "MINEMINEMINE!"
Chibi Saladin spun in a little sandstorm and exited it showing off his right arm in a full of curled flex, his caramel skin glistened in the noon day Sun as Chibi Weiss drooled at the sight of his muscular arm and abdomen as she reached out with both hands attempting to squeeze his muscles.
Chibi Nicholas spun in another flash of smoke and left it with in a Atlasesque kneel like he was holding up the world, showing off manly but reasonable amounts of body hair adorning his muscular frame, he gave a wink at Chibi Yang, making the poor thing reel he head back in a explosive nose bleed at the mere glance.
"Hmmm, adequate Guardsmen, very adequate. Until next time!" Karstodes said as the Custodes disappeared in a golden light.
On Holy Terra in the Emperor's Throne Room,
"I can not believe those fucking oiled up Aztec looking motherfuckers actually believed me." Chibi Magnus said in exasperation.
"Fucking Hell Magnus all you did was give those muscled bound shiny oily total disappointments a reason to do a cameo and to show off their muscular bodies as fanfair for the female readers who got a bare description of Jojo Bizarre Adventure drawn Guardsmen, you essentially gave them soft core porn." The Emperor said doing a psychic eyeroll.
"Yeah but-"
"No!" Chibi Rogal Dorn, the Dorniess of the Rogals, said as he body slammed Magnus into a wall.
Epilogue, I originally forgot about this but "Just a reader" reminded me about it in a review.
Island of Patch, Vale...
Out on a porch on a very sunny yet cool day sat two men, one blonde and one with dark black hair, their names were Taiyang Xiao Long and Qrow Branwen, both were veteran Huntsmen and related only by marriage that fell apart due to a Raven Branwen for an inexplicable reason left her husband. Though these two had seen dark times together they got along, they moved on and help raise two magnificent girls after Summer Rose had passed away years before hand, it was rough, very rough, but it ended up working out in the end.
Qrow raised a glass of iced tea and clinked it against Tai's, "To the girls, for making it to Beacon!"
"To Ruby and Yang!" The blonde man said as a took a sip of his drink, "Have you heard from them this week?"
"No, they didn't send you a letter or anything? Didn't you tell them to do that?" Qrow asked frowning at the supposed laziness the girls were showing.
"I ought to-" Qrow's started to beep, "Who's that?"
"Oh, its Yang." Qrow extended the scroll as he realizes she sent multiple messages, "Hey Dad and Uncle Qrow I have to tell and show you guys some things."
Both men looked at each other as they realized this message could either be really good or really bad, or a mixture of both.
"Ahem," Qrow coughed as he read the first message outloud, "About a week ago when we were in the forest Ozpin sent us and another team with Professor Goodwitch, geez I feel sorry for them, to find someone lost in the forest. It turns out this boy came from- what?"
"What? Where'd he come from?" Taiyng asked now fully interested.
"She's saying he came from space after being shot out of a portal- wait a minute, this is that kid Ozpin was talking about, he came from an anomaly portal. He's supposed to be really screwed up but like super strong."
"Huh, that's... huh, keep on reading the message Qrow, it sounds like this is leading up to something."
Qrow began reading again, "His name has a bunch of numbers in front of it but his name is Hansel, he is from a world devastated by never ending warfare on a galactic scale called Krieg."
Both men froze hearing that world, someone they knew mentioned such a place before, a long time ago.
"He initially came off very rude, in fact he is a massive jerk I can't stand, he is edgy as hell, has just about no sense of humor and is a massive racist. All in all no one likes him."
"That makes sense, I wouldn't want my girls associating with him." Taiyang said taking a sip of his iced tea.
"Oh Dust, except Ruby, she's in love with him."
Taiyang promptly spat his drink out, "What!?"
Qrow rubbed his eyes and read it again, "Oh no, nononono! Ruby come on! Ugh, maybe its nothing."
"Is there a picture of this guy or what?" Taiyang asked impatiently.
Qrow clicked one of the links next to Hansel's name and opened up a file with two pictures of a masked and unmasked version of Hansel, "Damn, this kid looks like he's seen some shit."
Taiyang cringed as he analyzed the boy's face, "He's not ugly, kind of handsome, but what else is there? Didn't she say he was racist jerk or something?"
"Yeah, apparently his people really have something against non-humans and, well I guess there are very hostile aliens out in the Galaxy." Qrow said nodding his head, "His uniform looks just li-"
"Just keep reading Qrow, we'll go down that road later." Taiyang dismissed quickly.
"Okay. Ruby for some reason took fondly to Hansel, she was willing to overlook his crabbiness and general jerky attitude and tried to get him to open up, apparently it worked, take a look at this."
Fearing the worst both men watched with anticipation as the button opened up two pictures, two pictures that made both men scream in utter horror. Their cute sweet adorable little Ruby Rose was under a big black trench coat with Hansel, a picture Yang took earlier, and in the next picture she was in her pajamas sitting in his lap, while he was shirtless.
"RUBY!" Taiyang cried into his palms, "MY SWEET INNOCENT LITTLE SUGAR PLUM NO!"
"DAMNITDAMNIDAMNITDAMNIT!" Qrow yelled kicking and stomping the ground, "NOT MY GIRL!"
Both men lamented for a good five minutes before calming themselves down, still fuming over the images they saw but then noticed Yang wasn't finished with her messages.
"Fuck, there are more messages to go." Qrow groaned rubbing his forehead.
"Ugh, might as well keep on going, why stop now?" Taiyang asked exasperated.
"A few nights ago Ruby and Hans had an ugly fight over racial beliefs and the account of Ruby trying to lie for Blake, a Faunus that we found out was posing as a Human but all is good now she's really cool by the way, but during that time they didn't talk to each other for two whole days. Then Hansel told her if Blake turned out to be a badguy like the people his guys fight in space she had to shoot her- oh my Dust what the fuck is wrong with this boy!?"
Taiyang crossed his arms, "I don't like this boy, I don't like him at all, we need to speak to Oz about this."
"Wait there's still more. Ahem. When we were looking for Blake apparently there was a fight at the docks where Hansel and some of his Imperial friends had to kill a bunch of White Fang soldiers, Blake initially ran because she used to be apart of them but she left because they were getting crazy. He threatened Blake but didn't hurt her, Ruby however said something she regretted, she told him she hated him and I saw that it tore them both up inside."
Taiyang kept his arms crossed and nodded his head, "It was probably for the best."
"Though right when she said those words a bunch of badguys popped out from behind some crates, they were the badguys from space that found their way to Remnant like Hansel's friends but these guys had this one guy that was- he was something else, he had telekinesis that held all of our weapons down, he could've killed us all easy but his men wanted to fight Hansel because they had a beef with his people."
Both men looked at each other, a man with even power to hold down their daughter's weapons and their friends? That sent terrible chills down their backs.
"Hansel accepted their challenged and stepped into this ring of fire the powerful guy made, and Hansel literally started ripping them apart with his bare hands and no Aura, seriously no Aura, he tore a guy's literal face out- geez, the hell is this guy?"
"We really need to talk to Oz about this."
"Hansel struggled against this one really big guy for a few minutes, almost losing but he took one look at Ruby then he fought harder and more vicious to beat him and win. The evil guy left like he promised if his guys lost but he promised to return. Just as Ruby was going over to Hans the big guy pulled a pistol out aiming for Ruby, but Hansel jumped in the way and took every shot for her."
Qrow looked up from his scroll and blinked for a moment, he looked at Taiyang who looked equally worried, "Wow, I still don't like him but that is still pretty brave."
"Come on Qrow, get to the end!" Taiyang encouraged feeling more impatient.
"Alright, alright. Hansel went down bleeding bad, the Imperials started to patch him up but Ruby went and did something reckless, don't get mad- what!?"
"Damnit Qrow! Just read the message!" Taiyang growled pulling at his hair.
"She forcedly unlocked his Aura to save his life." Taiyang covered his mouth, "She's fine now and so is Hans, though he was in a coma for two days, but he woke up today and ugh, they madeout after making up." Qrow slammed his feet on the porch repeatedly while Taiyang smacked the wall.
"What else, what else could there possibly be?" The blonde man asked exhausted.
"Also I met one of Hansel's friends, not really Hansel's friend because Hansel hates him so that makes him more likeable, he's kinda a drunk at times like a certain Drunkl- hey!-e, but he is also really cool and cute, he stayed with me to watch Ruby while she waited for Hansel to wake up. Here's a pick of him."
Qrow opened up a link that brought up a few pictures of a boy wearing red clothing with a manly moustache for his age, they also saw a few pictures of the boy with the jacket off his shoulders with impressive arms to the older men, then they started to question why exactly Yang sent them a picture of Nicholas bending over, a caption appeared by the picture, "Whoops didn't mean to send that one."
"My daughter is a pervert." Taiyang sighed.
"This guy seems alright," Qrow said nodding his head to the sides, "I'd like to know what bottle he has though, it looks nice."
"Uhuh, I'm not worried about Yang, she's a big girl that can punch a man out the room, but Ruby is- well, she's Ruby. She's too young for a boyfriend, especially someone like this Hansel boy."
"Want me to keep an eye on him when I can Tai?" Qrow asked as he took a sip of his iced tea.
Taiyang groaned rubbing his brow, "I will make certain to give Ozzy a call about this, though if Ruby is anything like her mother than it might be pointless to tell her otherwise."
"Are we going to continue to ignore the whole Krieg thing too?" Qrow asked just as he was fixing to leave, "I mean its just glaring at us right now."
"Later Qrow, just, just later."
"Alright," Qrow said as he started to walk off the porch, "take care Tai."
"You too."
The song Hansel sang: An deiner senite - by Unheilig
Deathkommando theme: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Ba- you already fucking saw this, I don't own this! I wish I did. I know you do to.
Well now, that was one hell of a roller coaster wasn't eh? I mean the shit I pulled last chapter then the whole frigging thing I just put y'all though with over twenty five thousand words. Unfortunately this may be the last one for a while, I may very well be going on hiatus due to the fact I need to get some shit done, some twenty/fifteen pounds to lose, get unstupid with a test book, then go sign my happy ass up for the Army. Now I know what you are thinking, I know it sucks, hell I like writing this, this story when it first began was just a stress reliever and an idea release after I had gone through a very stressful move from Wisconsin to Massachusetts literally a month into my senior year, I had to start a clean state in a less than friendly inner city environment that pushed me to my limits of stress, I mean they pulled some regional bullshit that made me take after school classes just meet their curriculum to pass. So from easy street no problem "hey what's up man, going to the state fair?" "my dad gave me an ale, want to split it?" to "fuck you cracker" "You need to take both first and second years of Spanish in one year" in zero to one hundred, I can dig it, I did dig.
But this story was there when I got home with tremendous migraines of having to deal with a shitty school, in a shitty part of town, with some shifty people, I mean fuck I had to warn the school about this kid joking about shooting the place up, that ain't cool. But yeah, whenever I got finished with that fucking Algebra 2 homework, or if I decided to ignore it I would tap into the world of the Internet and decide to give some folks a story that I wanted to put some work into, and well after awhile I made a friend into a Beta Reader that I talk to every night and a idea man that I also talk to but with our different time zones we have a hard time talking as much, then almost out of no where favorites and follows and reviews just pop up into my Gmail almost daily believe it or not, because I hardly can, all these people from around my United States and he world actually find this little idea I had which initially had no direction to it at all, no major big secret or untold story like it does now with the small taste I just gave y'all.
Would it shock you to know I've only completely watch the first volume? I know I'm a lazy cunt, I know what happens I just haven't watched it all, fuck off don't ruin the moment.
I mean thanks to MrGreen, Fuckew McHugerage, theRedRat8, and Cpl. Leon I now have a larger lore established in idea with new characters that have not yet been given their spotlight that will begrudgingly have to wait. It upsets me that I'm limited in my time to do this, I mean if this was a job I'd be a happy man but as you can obviously tell I don't own either franchise because it'd be retarded for me to write fanfiction for something I own instead of making it canon, but that's just me. There's so many scenes I wanted you guys to see, like the dance for one, the train- countless others. If you've been with me these past two years- I know right? Where has the time gone?- then you have seen that this story get's longer with every chapter, its gets better details and became less shit like it is now, and you know how I can be a sonvabitch and kick you in your Feels glands in the good way and in the bad way, I hope I did with the ending of this chapter with Cestus letting go and his Korpsmen following, that kicked me hard I'm man enough to admit it because it was an endearing scene in my head. Someone actually treats them like human beings for once and when that person is in trouble they will do whatever they can do to save them.
Which leads me to a point I wanted to make, one of the major things that lead me to like the Death Korps so much besides aesthetics was their backstory, it was really unfair to me that the Departmento didn't try to clean up Krieg just slightly and send people there with medical equipment and resources to better the population, but hey, grimdark right? Getting back on track, they came off as repentful and resentful to human emotions as punishment. I get that. But call me crazy if I don't think any human being could reasonably be broken to the point of machine level dullness, maybe with a few positive pushes here and there a fucking pat on the back or something you might give them a good day, hell, to be pious servants of the Emperor they do have to love the Emperor so either way whether you like it or not they do by that logic have emotions... very bare ones.
Anyways I just wanted to tell you all personally, don't point out the obvious flaws with that statement, that I appreciate how you've all stuck with me along the way, its been a real boost to my confidence as a writer and literally my face lights up whenever I see a review good or bad guest or member, this is the kind of thing that got me to the keyboard and mold my grey matter to write something fun for whoever wanted to read. Unfortunately I got so many damn ideas on my mind, I want to do more crossovers like putting my favorite villain, Cobra Commander, into RWBY and have him pull a bunch of evil crimes and shit or do a "discovered nation" story where a whole island nation gets rediscovered after some seacraft finds them on accident and end up getting returned by a retro-futuristic society that holds not only a large capable army but also resources to get the attention of the SDC, Atlas and the Huntsmen yet the society itself wants to be isolationist.
Fuck sake, I'm getting off topic again with these ideas, see what I mean?
This isn't a goodbye, fuck no, I'll still be on the site talking with the guys I talk to but I most likely will not be releasing anything anytime soon, so don't be getting your hopes up in the clouds lest they come crashing down, if I do ever have time on my hands I will of course be thinking of making y'all another chapter to satisfy yourselves, we all love the Death Korps getting crossed over with something.
Well, catch you guys later,
Always plotting,
Dommsdayguy12345
P.S Skulls and Roses forever!
P.S.S I might give you a Skulls and Roses n' Friends lemon chapter if I'm good with my time.
