Chapter 7
TO WAR!!!
He wasn't ready for this.
He was in the "red light" zone right now. It was called that because of the small red led light glowing in the middle of the drop pod. He was in a restraining couch and could feel every movement. Thanks to his helmet the outside world was dampened his auto senses turning down the noise so he wouldn't go deaf. The optics in his helmet helped cut through the dark but did not help what he saw. Inside this drop pod with him was the inquisitor with his feral grin and a blood thirsty look in his e yes. In all the other couches were grey knight terminators, their bulk filled most of the drop pod. Cameron was glad he would be fighting alongside these godly steel clad warriors.
The terminators stood silent and un moving but over the vox Cameron could hear the constant low murmurings of prayers offered to the emperor normally these would be comforting but instead they were prayers for guidance in to he next life, they expected to die on the planet below.
Cameron had briefly seen the planet before he had been whisked into this drop pod. It was grey and dark, there were no clouds and the whole planet seemed devoid of life, there were no land marks or any true features to it other than plain grayness. Cameron feared how back it would be on the surface.
On the right of Cameron a grey knight terminator finished his preparation for the after life, he looked down at Cameron and spoke over the single vox net.
"do not fear, when we land the emperor will guide your hand and bless your mind with protection." Cameron nodded not wanting to talk fearing that a shaky voice would betray his calm look, it was easy to look calm when in a suit of power armor.
Suddenly the red light changed. It now flashed almost in a strobbing way. This was the signal for a 1 minute drop until the revers thrusters kicked in. Cameron looked past the light and made out the inquisitor, he had no helmet and only a few pieces of armor on but he seemed to not fear. When the inquisitor noticed camerons sstare he looked up and shouted.
"soon we will be cleansing this place my boy, these aliens will feel the wrath of the emporer. Just don't break!" the inquisitor laughed to himself and went back to smiling manically and looking about the cabin. Cameron thought about what the justicar had said.
"we all have dark corners." What was the inquisitors meaning for bringing him down to the hell hole.
The red light suddenly winked off. Technically it was pitch black in the drop pod but Cameron could se through it with his auto senses. He could see the mesh racks above the terminators heads packed with weapons and ammo incase they ran low. Lined along the roof of the pod was also a string of highly explosive material. If anyone went in the pod that wasn't supposed to be there it would detonate and blow everything within a 20 meter circle to the warp and back.
The terminators armor shone with the polish they put on when they were chanting their battle rights. Cameron felt out of place among them and had waited near the drop pod having already had his armor polished cleaned and perfected by servitors, he wished he had tried to clean the suit himself but he hadn't had the time or know how as to do it.
Like him the terminators eyes glowed a faint red as their scanners scanned the cockpit. Just like Cameron in their upper right hand corner of their HUD they had a small radar that told them the size distance and nature of the enemy. Thankfully everyone had tracers on them so the whole drop pod was blue friendlies.
As the timer counted down to 30 seconds Cameron felt a thrumming outside. It made the pod sway from side to side drunkenly. With each thrum Cameron could feel an electro magnetic pull go up his spine. The inquisitor seemed to read his mind. He leaned out of his restraints as far as he could and shouted.
" that's the necrons anti air fire. They use some sort of beam weaponry that can cut through shields." With this he leaned back in his restraints and closed his eyes.
Finally the reverse thrusters cut in. the floor lurched upwards and all the air was squeezed out of Cameron. Event through his hardened armor Cameron could feel the suit almost crushing him. Then it stopped with a sudden thud and pitch blackness. Before Cameron could say or think anything his restraints let him go and the sides of the drop pod blasted outwards on explosive charges. The doors flew outward and destroyed anything that came to investigate the metal pod from space.
The grey ash wafted in and the grey knights exploded out. They ran out with a zeal and began to look for targets. Cameron followed them and he saw the inquisitor leap onto of a dirt mound ig nighting his power sword and powering up his plasma gun. When Cameron crested the crater the drop pod created what he saw stopped him dead in his tracks. It looked like a hive city, but instead of the graceful spire of a hum hive this had random just of steel and corners that didn't seem to be physically possible to have. The whole place shimmered with chaotic colors and parts of it seemed to shift shape under his gaze. Truly they had now entered hell.
Cameron was nudged by a justicar on his right.
"come no guards man we will find this sorcerer and destroy his foul witcheries." With this the justicar bounded off down the mound and towards the city. The rest of the grey knights continued with him.
Cameron followed in close pursuit, their boots kicked up grey dust and left easy tracks for them to follow. Rocks jutted out of the ground but each one seemed wrong for some reason.
The run from the pod to the city was over a mile, and the whole time Cameron could see other pods setting down in the same fashion his did. They were all closer to the city than his and on their run they even encountered 2 more squads of grey knights who took up the charge with them. Cameron thought there was something wrong why was there no enemy fire?
As soon as the thought came to mind green lances of pure energy stitched the ground all around them. Two grey knights fell with gapping holes in parts of their armor, only one got back up.
The lances made no noise except for when they hit the ground causing a crackling sound like tin foil being crunched up into a small ball. Cameron ducked and rolled to the left pulling out his bolt pistols as he had trained himself to do. He peeked over the rock and caught a glimpse of gun emplacements on the ridge ahead of them there was a 200 meter kill zone that was bare of anything except for a slight slope upwards towards the guns.
Cameron looked over to the inquisitor and shouted.
"draw attention! Ill take out the guns!" the inquisitor nodded and made hand gestures to 2 of the grey knights who then crouched and did a dash for a grouping of boulders 50 meters from their position. The guns tracked straight at them and began to fire, Cameron did not look to see what happened to them. As soon as the guns turned he leaped over his rock and bolted for the closest gun emplacement. His natural strength and speed was doubled by the armor. He was half way when the gun began to track back towards him and send a deadly wave of green pulsating energy at him. Cameron dived over the beam and rolled to back up to his feet never loosing his speed. The gun couldn't track back as fast as Cameron could run and he was on top of the emplacement. He swung around behind it and kicked in the steel door to find 2 of the necrons standing with their weapons pointed at the door. He swiveled out of the way as the door glowed with the puer power of the shots. Before they could exit the building Cameron spun back in and doubled tapped each necrons in the skull with 2 bolter rounds.
The lifeless machines dropped to the ground. Cameron then moved on to the next few bunkers repeating the process until there was a gap big enough for the slower bulkier grey knights to run their way in.
By now they were literally on the out skirts of the necrons city. When the 3 squads had regrouped a grand master laid out battle plan splitting the men up so they could find the chaos sorcerer. As they waited the inquisitor motioned for Cameron to come stand at the bunkers door with him.
"do you notice anything about this place Cameron?" said the inquisitor drawing a deep breath of the stale foul air.
"yes sir, it just look wrong as if, it shouldn't exist. Like the buildings should have fallen over and the structure crumbled long ago."
"ah yes that is the dark chaos that has taken hold here. They have changed everything even the very buildings of the necrons planet." We believe the sorcerer is in the heart of the city so we have called in a single strike from space." Cameron looked confused
"see for yourself" said the inquisitor pointing towards the sky.
The sky lit up with a red glow as a round from the prow bombardment cannon flashed through the air and into the city. The explosion sent a visible shock wave through the air that made Cameron and the inquisitor stumble back into the bunker. After the blast the air filled with the grey dist found all over the planet. The grandmaster looked up from the plotting table.
"it is time to move, everyone to their respective staging areas we will meet in the middle and cut off the head to this snake."
Cameron and the inquisitor were put into 2 different groups and were sent ont heir way. Cameron's went straight a the city aiming for the great leveled part where the shot had struck home.
They went at a quick jog searching through the dust for the metal targets. Occasionally a few necrons were found limping through the rubble. They were dealt with by swift deaths. Cameron even dispatched a few of the machines before they reached the lip of the hole dug by the necrons. What they saw inside defied all reason.