"God dammit, they keep on coming!" Karak fired another bolt into the oncoming "prim" ork wall.
"Are you sure Steel's up to this?"
Forlon upper cutted an oncoming ork and fired his gauss pistol into a doppelganger of Xavier.
"He better be or else we won't be able to get out of this alive."
The morning before the attack
Steel was running to go and see if Casalie was alright. She seemed alright the night before, no puncture wounds or bruises except for the one on her back from being slammed against the wall. He just wanted to make sure if she was alright or not. He finally reached her door and knocked. There was no answer, he knocked again.
"Casalie, I'm coming in."
Steel began to open the door before it opened for him. He saw Casalie, but she was not in her regular clothes. She was in a white Victorian age dress; she also had ribbons in her hair and a small umbrella in her hand.
"My, my, you made it just in time for tea."
Steel couldn't believe what he was hearing or seeing. A warboss of orks was dressed as though she was a pacifist.
"Who isss it, my dear? Some one that we know?"
"Why yes it is, Master Xavier! It's Mr. Steel, I was just inviting him in for some tea."
Steel pushed Casalie out of the way. It was Xavier, the apocalypse god from the night before.
"What did you do with her?"
Xavier sipped his tea before setting it down. He gestured Casalie to close the door.
"Oh my dear sssir, I did nothing but bring out the bessst of her. But I am helping her find her way to pure enlightenment."
"You're controlling her then; you're just as low as the other Apocalypse God I met before. Must run in the family, manipulating others for your own personal gain." Xavier chuckled and gestured Casalie to go to the kitchen.
"You mean my dear sssiter you've met before? Oh no, I do not even come CLOSSSE to my dear sssissster. Ssshe ussess brute forccce to get what ssshe wantsss, I ussse a… different method."
"What do you mean?"
"Oh Casalie, would be a dear and come in here?"
Within an instant, Casalie appeared by his side, handing him another tea.
"Ash'Aiii Onst Ulk. Free this poor, poor mind from its salvation."
Casalie flinched as she almost fell to one knee.
"Ow… Wh-what happened?"
"Casalie! Are you alright?" Steel rushed to Casalie to bring her away from Xavier.
"I am quite alright, Mr. Steel. I do, however, appreciate your concern."
Steel looked up, Casalie was back under Xavier's control.
"Óh, I'm sssorry, were you going to sssay sssomething to her?"
"Or were you using me falling to attack him?"
Steel looked at Casalie. Her eyes were dull, as if she was possessed.
"Oh yesss, I forgot to mention thisss to you. I can make my newly controlled pets say what I want them to say. I would think of it asss another body for me if I sssussstain a wound too greviousss to recover from."
"Bring her back! You have no right of controlling a living being!"
Xavier laughed as he took another sip of his tea.
"Tell you what, let'sss play a small game. A game of time, if you will. Let'sss make it a sssurvival match, if you can sssurvive for, I don't know,a day againssst all of these orksss within the confinesss of thisss camp, I will releassse the orksss and give you back your Cassalie."
"And if I lose, you'll keep her? This seems a little one sided, me versus about five million orks or so."
Xavier chuckled as he rose from his seat.
"But it'sss not one sssided. You have your friendsss and there are a few orksss here that I cannot control, the orksss that would never fit in. I believe one of them isss Casssalie'sss right hand ork, Troy. But enough chit chat, Casssalie already hasss her sssword ready to slice your metallic neck."
Steel jumped backwards, slamming into the door as he saw Casalie in her regular attire. She lifted her sword again and swung her sword vertically, slicing a hole in her roof. Steel grabbed his gauss rifle and ran out the door. As soon as he ran out the door, he was greeted by the dakka dakka fire an ork nob.
"Prim 'n porper, prim 'n proper, mista Xavier wants us ta be Prim 'n proper."
The nob charged Steel, knocking him to the ground. The nob then brought his axe down towards Steel's head. Steel moved his head to the side and struck the nob hard in his belly. The nob doubled over as Steel jumped back up only to jump to the side as a ball of black energy was hurled at him.
"You didn't think that I would misss out on killing the likesss of you, did you? After what happened on the Tau ssship, you are sssiply to big of a problem to be left alone."
Xavier hurled another ball at Steel. Steel sidestepped and saw Casalie running right behind the black ball. She began to rapidly stab at Steel as he was dodging every one of her attacks. Steel jumped backwards and ran into an alley way. He stopped for a bit before hearing crashing metal. Two nobs broke out of the walls and swung their axes. Steel parried one and shot a nob's axe as he ran out of the alley way.
"Forlon! This is Steel, we have code Apoc, I repeat, Code Apoc. Contact Piroon and tell him to bring a few extra squads to assist, do you copy?"
All Steel heard was the sound of dakka fire and gauss weapons firing back. He could barely hear Forlon or any other voice other than the droning voices of the possessed orks. Steel looked up and did a roll as he dodged Casalie's sword. Steel brought his rifle up and tried to parry her sword. He was knocked to the side as Casalie's sword hit the ground.
"You 'aight, metal man?"
It was Troy.
"Yeah, how about you?"
"Layta, we need ta get goin! I know a good hidy place till we can get mo of ar boyz rounded up! Follow me!"
Troy threw down a weird looking grenade. As soon as it touched the ground, the whole area lit up. Steel's eyes instantly turned down the brightness and sound to avoid damage to his eyes and noice receivers. He saw Casalie staring up at the sky in a daze. A stormboy came down next to Troy and grabbed Troy. Troy held onto Steel's spine as the stormboy rocketed off into the air.
"Get us to da hidy place and find the rest of da boyz and lead 'em back ere!"
"Wut if dey be dem changed boyz, boss?"
"If dey be speakin like dem umies do, dey da bad boyz. Look for da ones dat be shootin at ya n yelling like a propa ork should."
The stormboy threw them onto the ground next to an enormous rock before yelling Waagh and rocketing off again.
Steel walked over to Troy.
"What was that thing you used against Casalie?"
Troy was silent and was trying to avoid eye contact.
"Troy, what did you do to her? You didn't hurt her did you?"
"I would neva hurt da warboss! It was… It was sometin we use when she becomes… Gork n Mork's bigga sista…"
"Gork and Mork's bigger sister? But she's human, I thought that Gork and Mork were orks."
"Dey ar, don't get me wrong n all, but… She be more orky dan even Gazkull Thraka."
"Ok, so explain this."
"You alreay know dat she ain't an ork. She don't got da skin o da muscle… But she gotz more a Gork n Mork in 'er dat not even a whole Waaagh a boyz can stop 'er. When our last warboss, Goryteef Zappa, found 'er, 'e said dat we waz gonna train 'er like one of us. Some of da orks didn't like dat one bit, but still wanted to stay cuz we always be raidin n lootin. As da years went by, she began ta be like da orks. She drank like us, she ate like us, she almost spoke like us till she started readin dem wordy pages. She was growin up ta be a right n propa ork! Den, da Umies came down and attacked. Now we was always lookin for a fight, but this time we be getting al sorts a umies. Da metal umies, da stoopid umies, an da girly umies like dem metal umies. She was fighten with Goryteef when he was killed. She seen 'er buddy orks die before, even 'er pet squig bloweded up while she was playing with 'im. But when she saw Gorryteef go down, she snapped 'ard. Den, she roared like no otha ork has eva eard. She stopped all of da umies, even da umie leada. All ova da world and the worlds that was close 'eard 'er roar. The fighten stoped as both da orks and da umies ran off. All you could see was Casalie bawling as she held Goryteef in 'er arms."
"Gods, she must have really loved him."
"Every so often, she gets des attacks where she sounds like she's two orks. So I made dese here bombs ta stun 'er."
Just then the stormboy came back with Forlon and a nob holding an ork with a gretchin on his arm.
"Forlon, thank god you made it out. What happened with the others? Are they safe?"
"Don't worry Steel, everyone is alright. I heard you over the vox, but I couldn't make it out."
"It's the Apocalypse gods, one of them is here!"
"That explains why the orks actually sound intelligent right now. No offence."
Troy shook his head and the nob was too busy picking his nose to figure out what Forlon was saying.
"Do you know what the god's powers are?"
Steel nodded. "All I know is that the guy's name is Xavier and that he can control certain peoples' minds. Other than that, I don't know. He says that this is some sort of a game, if we can outlast him for at least a day, he'll free everyone here, but I want to kill him before that."
Forlon made an a u in the air, meaning that he was smiling. "I take it you have a plan?"
"You know it. But first let's get everyone we can get here."
To the present
Steel dodged into an alleyway to sneak up around Xavier's doppelgangers. He didn't like sneaking around but, for right now, it was necessary. He sprinted out of the alleyway and behind a crate. He peeked his head up a little bit to see what was beyond his cover. He ducked his head back down as he saw Casalie walking with the true Xavier. It was his only chance to do this. He sprinted out of his cover and shot his rifle at Xavier. Xavier just laughed as the bolts passed right through him and sent a ball of energy hurling toward Steel. Steel dodged and shot his rifle again. This time Xavier flew upwards and sent a wave of green energy towards Steel. Steel rolled under the wave and rolled forward again as Casalie brought her sword down. Steel jumped forward and hit her back, rolling to dodge another ball of energy that hurled towards him. Steel sprinted to a tin building only to feel it melt behind him. He quickly rolled out of his cover to see Casalie running towards him. Casalie tried stabbing at him, scraping Steel as he swiped her feet from under her. Steel made two quick jabs on her back as he ran towards Xavier. Xavier only laughed; Casalie drove her sword directly into Steel's chest.
"That wasss very entertaining, almossst to the point where I would have let you lived a little longer. But, alasss, you have failed at killing me and winning our little game. Now, come, little mortal girl."
Casalie walked behind her master, showing no remorse of stabbing Steel.
"Now I end you!"
Xavier began to build up energy within his body. He was about to hurl a ball of energy at Steel when Steel began to laugh.
"Do you enjoy that I will be ending your life?"
"No, I'm just laughing cause I just killed you."
Steel thrust his arm out. Xavier chuckled, then looked down and saw a blade sticking out of chest. He looked back to see Casalie, her arm extended towards Xavier, along with her blade.
"Then I will use your body…"
Xavier's snake eyes widened, he couldn't posses Casalie.
"This is why I was always called the captain who's plans always got him hurt." Casalie and Steel were speaking at the same time.
"I think it's time or you to take a dirt nap!"
Steel smashed his hands down on Xavier's head. Xavier shone a greenish glow.
"NOOOOOOO, I AM IMMORTAL! I CANNOT DIE LIKE THISSS! I… I AM… a… goooood…"
Xavier's body started to crumble in on itself. Streams of light rushed out of the remains of Xavier, entering any and all creatures that Xavier controlled. Casalie stumbled forward a little bit before regaining her footing. When all of the lights had left Xavier, all that was left was a mask with the face of Xavier smiling a devilish smile.
"Wha- What happened?"
Steel Chuckled.
"Honey, you just killed an Apocalypse God."
Later…
"So, you will join us then."
Casalie nodded her head.
"The ork clans know who I am. They'll also want in on this fight if it's as good as you say it might be. I'm Gork and Mork's little sister too, remember?"
Forlon chuckled. He bowed to Casalie, Casalie and the rest of the orks laughed.
"W-what, it's common courtesy to show respect to a powerful leader."
"Around here, clan members don't bow to anyone."
"W-wait… You mean…?"
"And as initiation, drinking till the night is gone!"
Steel laughed as he saw Forlon droop a little.
On Freedom's Legion home planet…
A Wraith came up to Kan Wreek holding a data crystal.
"Message from squad Apollo, bonus objective. Orks are joining after sending out signal telling of upcoming battle. Also, have accomplished primary objective of setting up an outpost for supply runs."
Kan nodded. Even though he had no face, Kan could feel himself smiling.
"They did it huh?"
Wolfbane walked next to Kan Wreek.
"Yes, we have another faction that has joined our cause… But now for the others… Who knows… The orks may have the power to destroy everything in this universe, but they will not be enough."
"I know sir, we can still recruit the others."
Kan waitied for a minute before talking again.
"Wolfbane, I know what you have gone through in the past, but I need an emissary to an Eldar craftworld."
"Send someone else, I won't get anywhere near them"
Wolfbane walked away.
"Wolfbane… I know what has happened between you and the Eldar, but we need to get with this. I miss Hecatriss too, but you can't hold onto his death like this!"
"HE WAS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD, KAN!"
Kan Wreek flinched. He had heard the stories of how Wolfbane had lost his second captain to the Eldar.
"Please, Wolfbane. I need you for this, do this for the sake of Hecatrss's memory."
Wolfbane paused before walking away.
"Fine, but I will do this on my terms."
As Wolfbane walked away, Kan saw that Wolfbane was trembling. He knew that Wolfbane has had bad blood between the Eldar and him, but this was a way to help Wolfbane get rid of his grudge against the Eldar. Kan hoped he was making the right decision.
The Apocolypse Realm
"KYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
The Lady of the Void kept laughing as she saw he brother fall before the hands of a mortal again and again.
A Daemon came up behind her and whispered in her ear.
"Father, how was your nap?"
Ten daemons came out carrying a man in a coffin in chains and magical seals around it.
"Oh, what is that father? You're happy to see me, oh my you are much too kind! But, now is the time I showed your own child dying!"
She waved her hand as small puppets began to dance around a grand stage. One puppet stabbing another one repeatedly while a grey one was dancing about. A loud scream came from the coffin as the daemons fled from the coffin.
"Oh, are you angry at the mortals killing your children? Oh don't worry; I'll put a stop to that. It is time I set MY plan into motion. I want this dimension as my own so that I can keep these little pets around! It's for me to set off towards a planet of Upmost importance! To Terra I go, to incite a rebellion and to watch as their God Emperor cries for his children that will be killed!"
I AM SO FREAKING SORRY I HAVEN'T POSTED FOR A LONG WHILE! I REALLY NEED TO GET WORKING ON THESE! I HONESTLY HAVE A LOT GOING ON RIGHT NOW, MARCHING BAND, AP US HISTORY, A LOT OF STUFF. SO, FROM NOW ON I WILL TRY MY HARDEST TO GET STORIES GOING AT A STEADY PACE!
NEXT TIME ON FREEDOM'S LEGION: Ahriman of the Thousand Sons encounters Kan Wreek while being stranded on a planet. As Ahriman confronts Kan Wreek, Freedom breaks in and tells Ahriman that there is a way that he can free his Brothers and that Tzeench is one of his four sons that were pure before the corruption of the Apocalypse Gods.
New Story?: Wolfbane has always been a loner, but it wasn't like this before. Step back 20 years to squad Icefang! Learn the truth of why Wolfbane dislikes the Eldar and how Hecatriss died.