Chapter 4 16 - the
aftermath
"Why did you do it!?" screamed Karmen
Kons.
"I-I don't know" answered Rodyille, he was chained
arms and legs in the basement's north wall, via his own orders.
Tears
welling in his eyes, he was close to breaking point; Kons didn't have
to be a psyker to know that.
"The child was innocent
Leonard!" she continued "he didn't need to die"
The
broken Rodyille disappeared in a blink of an eye as an ugly grin
spread over his face.
"Well even if he didn't, it gave a good
distraction for our escape" he said.
Kons backhanded him
across the cheek so hard it echoed, she was finding it hard to keep
tears from her own eyes.
What has happened to you Leonard! It
pained her to see the man she loved this way.
"The Leon I
knew would never talk like that!"
Rodyille spat out blood
"for a psyker you don't know much do you?"
This time she
punched him.
"Who are you!?" she demanded, eyes wide
desperate, this cant be Rodyille it just can't be!
"You're
not the Leon who ordered us to lock him down here!" she
tried.
Rodyille grinned another grin, except deep black blood ran
down his teeth
"How do you really know Kons?" he said
"seen as though you know so little about the man you love"
She
punched him again, then it hit her.
"Rodyille never knew
that!" she cried "so how the hell do you know!?"
"I
always knew Karmen, ha! Ha! I always did, I just enjoyed to see you
suffer "He said "your so pathetic, can't even te--"
Kons'
fist interrupted him, then came another, then another and another and
another.
It was only stopped when Wilkenson ripped her away,
pinning her arms under his.
"Let me go Lynn!!" screamed
Kons trying to break free of Wilkenson's superior strength.
"Your
gonna kill him Karmen!" Wilkenson cried, struggling to keep hold
of her.
Then Rodyille threw back his head and laughed, his face
now swollen and bruised. It was such a cold laugh that both Kons and
Wilkenson stopped their struggle.
"You actually think she can
kill me Lynn Wilkenson?" Rodyille asked "then you're a
bigger fool than I could ever imagine"
Kons broke free and
pulled her Las pistol from its holster pointing it at Rodyille, tears
now flowed freely down her perfect cheeks.
"Bring Leon back
now!" she demanded.
Rodyille's eyes widened the apathy almost
made Kons feel sick "This is Leon. Karmen, the real Leon"
"Bull
crap!!" she pointed her pistol closer near, breaking point.
"Now
Karmen" began Wilkenson taking a step forward trying to calm her
but found the barrel of her Las pistol now in his face.
"Keep
outta this Lynn!" she warned then her lip trembled and she fell
to her knees, dropping the Las pistol, over taken by tears, she
sobbed terribly.
Wilkenson helped her to her feet and hugged her
shaking body, tight.
"Shush its okay, its okay" he cooed
then he saw the bloodied grin still smeared on Rodyille's once
handsome face.
"Look what you've done Leonard!" he spat
"she used to love you we all used to respect you! hell we would
have followed you into the Eye of Terror! But now your destroying us
all of us, our team. I hope you're happy, I really hope you
are!"
and he helped Kons out the door; he never saw that
Rodyille still grinned.
Both Wilkenson and Kons came out of
the basement walking right into the rest of the team.
Kons broke
free of Wilkenson's grip and ran off still in tears.
Everyone
looked spooked, scared, lost without Rodyille it was like the team's
head had been cut off
Even Ekitsa was taking this bad.
"W-what's
wrong with the boss?" asked Vex eyes wide, it was easy to forget
that he was only eighteen
Wilkenson shook his head "I have no
idea Vex"
"T-this is very much out of character!!"
said in Zerkas.
"I agree with Zerkas" said Latashe
"Rodyille was not himself on that roof"
"Rodyille
is not himself now!" shouted Ekitsa then she looked to Wilkenson
"w-what do we do now?"
There looking to me for
leadership realized Wilkenson, though Latashe was appointed second
they never where prepared for anything like this.
"okay first
we need to calm down" said Wilkenson, then he realized it "who
the frigs on watch duty?" he asked.
"No one" came
the answer, but from none of the team and they turned to the voice's
source.
"That is why we got in so easily" said
Inquisitor Nonin Edrasian with an amused smile.
17 - The
truth of truths
"Uhhh heh!" said Vex as he poured
Edrasian's tea "what brings you to our humble abode master
Inquisitor?"
They where in the lounge and Edrasian sat on
what was once Zerkas' couch (not that he complained)
with the
coffee table pulled right up to his legs.
Wilkenson sat on a chair
which was the back side first Zerkas sat on a chair to while Ekitsa
and Latashe leaned on the wall.
Edrasian smiled "please Vex
call me Nonin and I have much to tell you all"
"Like
what?" asked Wilkenson bluntly.
Edrasian took a sip of his
tea which he had to do almost daintily the pinky of his power armor
barely fitting the cup handle, he was a huge handsome man, looking
maybe ex-Space Marine with scruffy thick, brown hair and the air of
intelligence about him that far exceeded Rodyille.
The bright
white power armor he wore very personalized with a golden double
headed eagle on the breast plate and other gold unbraiding, he was
quite a sight to behold.
"Which part do you want to hear? the
bad news or the good news?" asked Edrasian placing the tea cup
on its saucer carefully.
"Stop pulling them along Edrasian"
came a voice from the stairwell and they turned to find that it
belonged to Harak "because none of it's good news"
"Ah!
Nathaniel!" cried Edrasian, friendly "you are quite
right!"
Latashe looked to the Inquisitor losing her patience
"okay the bad News first Inquisitor" she almost
snapped.
"Which bad News is that miss Latashe?" asked
Edrasian "the bad News or the bad, bad News?"
"Is
it that bad?" asked Vex perplexed.
Edrasian almost glared at
the kid "you can't imagine how bad kiddo"
Wilkenson
could see that this Edrasian was quite the eccentric.
"Well
it's kinda hard when you won't tell us" said Latashe.
"Ah
I apologize!" said Edrasian then after a pause "Nathaniel
said that you got straight to the point miss Latashe, well okay first
is that Rodyille has been lying to you"
"What!?"
cried Vex, getting to his feet.
"Sit down Vex!" snapped
Wilkenson.
"But--"
"I said sit!"
And Vex
complied.
Wilkenson looked back to Edrasian "how has he lied
to us master Inquisitor?"
finding it himself, hard to
believe.
"Yeah" said Latashe in her usual sternness "I'd
really like to know myself"
"Well would you like to
elaborate Mr. Harak?" asked Edrasian turning back to the
spy
"With pleasure Nonin" replied Harak stepping forward
his face a strange calm "Rodyille got this "mission"
originally from Edrasian here not an old friend from the system
defense"
All the team members looked at each other and
confused conversation rose.
"Why would an Inquisitor want to
steal from us Imperial's?" asked Zerkas.
"That's the
thing" replied Harak "Edrasian sent us here to
investigate"
"Investigate?" asked Ekitsa
"investigate what Nate Harak?"
Harak smiled "suspected
Chaos taint" he answered.
Everyone's eyes went wide, now it
was starting to make sense, why Rodyille had ordered such a strict
guard routine, why he had burnt down Derrag's base, why he had
dropped that kid from the roof all of it falling together, like a
puzzle.
"There's still more" said Zerkas "isn't
there?"
Edrasian nodded "and you have been compromised"
he said.
"What, how!?" cried Vex.
"That's when
you can answer your own question" replied Edrasian "when
you answer mine"
"And what question is that?" asked
Latashe.
Edrasian looked at them all, his face almost grim "Who's
idea was it to burn down the gangster base?"
"Leon's"
came the answer and they turned to the voice finding it to be Kons
who had said it.
She pulled out her Las pistol, cocked it, then
turned and stormed toward the basement.
18 - Inquisitorial
duty
Wilkenson was the first through the door and what beheld his
site didn't surprise him at all; Kons stood in front of the chained
Rodyille, Las pistol aimed at his head.
"First you lie!"
Wilkenson heard her say "then you make me lie, then you murder
Derrag!! th-then you betray the God-Emperor of mankind!"
Rodyille's
eyes went wide "I-I don't know what your talking about"
he replied.
"Yes you do!" she shouted her sadness gone,
now it was replaced by anger pure anger.
"The fire you made
us set it somehow alerted our enemies to our presence!"
"What?"
asked Rodyille "I burnt down that gangster base to hide our
tracks"
Nonin Edrasian entered the room "you may have
fooled your comrades Rodyille" he said "but you have not
I!"
Rodyille eyes went even wider "Inquisitor?" he
said confused "w-what are you doing here?"
Edrasian
smiled "oh I think you know, I've met allot of traitors in my
time as a Inquisitor and I had pegged them all, all but you"
"What
about your colleagues!?" Rodyille cried, struggling with the
bonds "they had no trouble convicting me of Torathe's
death!"
"That was a mistake" admitted Edrasian "but
now I'm having second thoughts"
And he started forward toward
Rodyille.
"But I didn't kill Torathe!" cried Rodyille
struggling more "neither the rest of our friends! Amaraa you can
vouch for me!"
Latashe didn't answer, her eyes shone with
contempt.
"The fire you set sent a message didn't it
Rodyille?" said Edrasian who was still coming closer "a
message through the warp that told the enemy in the complex
everything didn't it?"
"What?" asked Rodyille
"how?"
Edrasian drew his giant Bolt pistol and aimed it
right at Rodyille's head "you do not fool me traitor" he
said, and then pulled the trigger.
19 - the true evil
shows it's hand
Edrasian was less than a meter away, the shot,
point blank, but yet it never hit the bullet going as far as stopping
in mid-air less than a millimeter from Rodyille's face then it
crumpled to dust and fell to the floor.
Rodyille grinned a new
grin his eyes hidden In the shadow of his long fringe, his face to
the floor, everyone else in the room were to amaze by the sight to
move.
"You have forced me to show my hand Inquisitor"
said Rodyille but with a voice not his own, it was deep and echoed
inexplicably then Rodyille looked up, his eyes no longer human deep,
deep black and iris's of gold, his teeth now long, yellow and sharp,
the face of evil "But the plan is not foiled yet!"
"Daemon!"
howled Edrasian, who drew his powersword and slashed down at Rodyille
but the blade simply bounced off what seemed to be an invisible
shield.
Then Rodyille threw back his head and laughed the deep
darkness of it shook every ones soul.
"That is correct"
said the Daemon who was once Rodyille "a fitting host don't you
think?"
Edrasian slashed down again but to the same
effect.
"It had taken me twenty four long years to destroy
Rodyille" continued the Daemon "he was not like any host I
couldn't merely corrupt him I had to destroy his entire consciousness
oh and how he fought Edrasian how he fought it was Delicious every
inch he fought but now all for naught"
"No!"
screamed Kons suddenly "I will not believe it!"
The
daemon looked to her amusement crossed his face as it had once with
Rodyille "believe what you want wench Rodyille is dead, now I am
here"
"Chaos scum!" shouted Edrasian who flayed in
with his blade attacking over and over again.
"Ha! ha! slash
all you want Inquisitor" said the daemon "you will not
break my shield"
Just then the team saw Rodyille was no
longer there and what remained was a heretical spawn of Chaos that
needed to die, Wilkenson opened fire with his Las gun, Harak with his
Autopistol, Kons with her Las pistol, Ekitsa layed in with her
Chainsword and Latashe with her Double blades, none of that even
affected the daemon their attacks just bouncing off the shield.
The
Daemon laughed, through the entire ten minutes
After ten minutes
they all gave up.
The heresy that once was Rodyille grinned
"pathetic all of you!" it said " but right now I am
not your biggest threat with these chains I am forced just to only
use defensive spells, I cannot summon my offensive power but right
now a holy army of my followers will be here soon to destroy you all
and free me"
Just then Edrasian reached for his
Micro-bead.
"What is it?" asked Wilkenson.
"The
daemon speaks true" answered the Inquisitor