Tyranifex: And I'm back
Sonic: Finally
Giacomo: great
Tyranifex: now this chapter will take off where it stopped last chapter.
Thought of the day: 'If the Eldar fell because of their desires, then we must not let the God-Emperor fall because of your desires to rule all that around you'- Forbes Alin to Inquisitor Highrise Acherman before the Inquisitor's death.
Chapter 2: The Angels Landing
'God-Emperor? If they are so fanatical in some emperor, it's probably better not to question them.' thought Chuck upon obtaining this information. "Very well, we will take you to Mobius and you can explain your mission to the full council of Acorn." with that, the Blue-Typhoon and the exceedingly large fleet of ships headed to Mobius through the solar system.
"Tails, contact the Kingdom Acorn, and tell them we have visitors." said Chuck as Sonic came into the bridge.
"So what do you make of them?" Chuck asked Sonic.
"I think, that we're completely at their mercy. I mean, they out number us, out gun us and out power us." Sonic replied. "So in all, I think that we haft to stay on their good side."
Chuck nodded, Sonic was right. Those ships had enough firepower to destroy all of Mobius if they wished.
The two way call that Chuck had ordered to Mobius soon opened up. On the other side of the call was non other than Sally Acorn. "So what's this I hear about a few visitors." she asked getting strait to the point.
"Well that anomaly in space we detected a few hours ago was actually a fleet coming out of their transportation system." Chuck answered. "But before we carry on, I think you should talk to them and lay down the terms of their visit."
Sally was stunned by this, Chuck wanted her to talk to the potentially hostile off worlders. But the fact that they opted to talk first says that they are willing to negotiate. "Okay, put me through to them." she said.
Tails and Marine quickly turned the call into a three way call and Giacomo appeared on the left side of the screen. Once again Chuck began first. "This is princess Sally Acorn, of Mobius. She wishes to collect information from you and set the terms for you visiting Mobius."
Giacomo turned himself to face her. "Greetings, Princess. I am Chapter master Giacomo Vinci of the Blood Lords."
"Greetings Chapter Master, now, would you please explain your reason for being here." she asked. Giacomo could tell she wasn't that versed in the ways of interplanetary and interracial diplomacy.
"We are here for a number of reasons. The main one is to collect the 16 imperial relics that reside on your world, for the good of the Imperium."
"And what is the Imperium?" Sally asked
"The Imperium is a galaxy spanning empire, with a million worlds in its full support. That's the abridged version, I will explain the full version once we arrive."
"Yes, now how much land will you need to land your fleet?"
"We will need sixty square miles of open land"
"Very well, there is at least that much space outside New Mobotropolis."
"Very well, and to ensure full security, we are going to occupy the planet until we have the relics."
Sally had to take a few moments to think about this, it wouldn't be a good idea to let these people occupy the city, let alone the planet. But this wouldn't stop the new comers, they would land anyway.
"Very well. I will prepare the city for your arrival and..." but she was cut off by a loud explosion. "Eggman's attacking the city!" she yelled. "there are 30,000 of them according to NICOLE!" she exclaimed.
Giacomo had already assessed the situation. He turned to the other Chapter masters, the Cannoness and the Commissar, "Have all ships increase speed and prepare all assault forces!" he ordered. Then he turned back to the princess, "We will be there shortly."
In a few minutes, every space-marine, neophyte, battle sister, Tech-forces and guardsmen were in their various space to ground transports. The Drop-pods were loaded with either devastators or dreadnaughts. The Thunder-Hawks and Thunder-Ravens were loaded with assault marines and tactical marines. The Neophytes were in there land speeders, the terminators were prepared for a teleport assault .The Valkyries were filled with battle sisters, tech-forces, and guardsmen. And to defend the attack craft were many marauder bombers and Thunderbolt fighters.
"Brothers!" Giacomo bellowed out to his brother space-marines "Today we do the emperor's work, we destroy the heretics and Xenos that threaten his great plans! Let them feel the strength of the emperor's finest! Now, we go to our bloody business!" with that, the first forces of the Imperium in the last ten-thousand years descended on Mobius.
On the ground the Dark Egg Legionnaires and Badnicks were making headway towards New Mobotropolis. The Freedom fighters were being pushed back. At the heart of the defense Sally and Shadow were drawing up new strategies for the defense.
"I am sorry Sally, but this defense is hopeless," Said Shadow "We are outgunned and out powered. And I'm afraid the GUN reinforcements won't be here till late tonight and..." he stopped talking in time to hear the screeching sound of something coming out of the sky. He stepped out of the command center and looked to the sky as did Sally. They saw something that brought out the primal feelings of fear and awe. Out of the sky came many objects. They were slowing down as they approached the ground. The Robotnik hoard turned their attention to the objects as they opened themselves.
Out of the drop-pods came the forms of the dreadnaughts and penitent engines of the gathered forces in space. The Dark Legion was thrown into chaos. They tried to fight back, but their weapons had the strength of Las Guns. It would have been an insult for it to have damaged the great heroes the Imperium's forces. As they tore through them, the next wave of pods came down and out came the devastator marines. They started butchering everyone. On top of all that the rest of the imperial forces just attacked from either the sides of the hoard or by jumping out of the thunder-hawks or Valkyries. It was turning into a blood bath. There was no escape for the Eggman army except through death. The hoard was soon destroyed through the power of the holy bolter and power sword. Within minutes, the Badnick hoard and the Dark Egg Legion were annihilated or retreating with the force of a tidal wave. But the Marines, Sisters, Machanicus troops and Guardsmen wouldn't let anyone escape. They were destroyed in less than an hour, the entire freedom fighter army was cheering, patting each other on the back or making celebration plans.
Meanwhile with the command group of the imperial forces; Giacomo was approached by Sally (whom she recognized from the transmission). She was intent now on staying on the imperials good side. She also wanted to know the full reason for the Imperium being here.
Giacomo noticed her approach and turned to her. He knelt down in order to make himself feel less awkward next to her. "Ah, Princess Sally Acorn. Allow me the pleasure of being the first imperial to greet you in person. This is Chapter master Hercules of the Spartans, chapter master Forbes Alin of the Ghost Legion, Cannoness Lenora, of the Order of the Blooded thorn, and Commissar Connan of the Golden-Hawks imperial guard regiment." he said while gesturing to the other commanders.
"Greetings to you all, now, the council is ready to meet you at castle; Acorn" replied Sally while motioning to the domed city of New Mobotropolis.
"Very well. But I must address the troops to enter the city." she only nodded at this.
He turned to the armies that stood before him; vigil as ever. "The First Companies shall enter the city! The rest of us will begin the occupation of this planet! Forces move out!"
His Vox caster made his voice very, very loud. The first companies of the three Astartes Legions formed up to enter the city. As the Chapter masters of the three legions and their honor guard followed Sally into the city the three companies followed suit. On a normal day the Mobians would have been enough to provoke the imperials into an exterminatus, but today the imperials, with all of their self control, held there weapons in check.
The Mobians were in awe of their saviors from the most resent Eggman attack. If you were to put the average Mobian next to one of the veterans of the first companies, you would be on the floor laughing. The Terminators stood 11 feet tall and the Mobians stood 3 feet tall.
The chapter masters were followed by their honor guard. Their chapters had the second most honor guard to spare next to the famed Ultra Marines. All of the honor guard were equipped with storm-bolters and relic blades (the relic blades look like gray knight nemesis force weapons...the spears). The blades seemed to distort the air around them.
They soon came up to the front gates of the castle: acorn. Sally quickly ordered to doors open, so as to not displease the off worlders. She lead the chapter masters to the council chambers, while the honor guard and the 1st companies spread out through the city and castle.
The council was gathered quite fast by the normal standards (also because of the fact that some of the members were retired by King Elias but others were added). They wished not to do anything that may turn their saviors into enemies. And judging by how fast they routed the 10,000 strong army, they were not willing to take any chances. As soon as all possible paper work was formed on synthetic paper (curtsy of Nicole) the council allowed the Chapter masters entry into the room. The first was the tallest as he stood 11 feet tall, and had a massive suit of red and Yellow armor.
The next tallest stood 10 feet tall with a less bulky black and white suit with a hood over his head, he also had a pare of fists that, by them selves, looked bigger than the average Mobian. On each of these fists were sets of holes that looked like they were used to hold large claws (They are a pair of deactivated twin lightning claws).
And the final one stood around 9 feet tall with an even smaller suit of green and gold armor. This one had a sword in a sheath, a cape and a large gun holstered on his side.
All three of these beings were quite imposing, and they all emitted a sort of aura around themselves, like for example the tallest had an air that made him look like the kind of person that gets jobs done with high efficiency and machine precision. The Next tallest looked like he was the cautious type and had the battle hardened mindset as well as the air of being a wise mentor. And the final had the air of a young but highly experienced warrior, but an arrogant one at the same time.
The talking soon started and the Mobians began to learn of the Imperium's reason for being here. In the mean time, a Mobian cheetah, who happens to be a guard at the castle, anyway, he'd left his post and was now walking through the forest towards the closest jump gate, one of the ancient relics of the old echidna clans. On his way, he began to change form, he turned into a being that floats above the ground and has a golden gleam. It was the Deceiver, an ancient C'tan whom had left his tomb 4000 years ago and has began to plot his control of the universe. 'This is an... Unexpected occurrence.' he thought, 'I will have to summon my servants from across the galaxy.'
Back in the outskirts of New Mobotropolis, in the trees, an Eldar Long Rifle was aimed through the window of the castle, into the council of acorn chamber. 'They are here as you said, Honored Farseer.' she said through her telepathy to Farseer Eldrad, whom had predicted the arrival of the Imperium. 'Good, now make contact with them and prepare for the arrival of the warhost.' Eldrad said back through the warp.
Back in the room where the Chapter Masters and council members were meeting, the council members were finishing asking the Chapter Masters what the Imperium of Man was. Most of them were not convinced that there was an empire of humanity across the stars, the main reason for that being that they had heard tales from the trek across space that the Blue-Typhoon had gone through while Mobius was at war with the Metarex, the only humans they encountered were anti-Metarex freedom fighters.
"This talk is pointless," said Hercules "We should be taking the relics through any means necessary!" with that, the room filled with tension...
Forbes came up with a retort to that instantly, "No we shouldn't because if we get their aid, then we have much less to worry about."
Before anything else could be said, Giacomo's internal communicator turned on in his head. It was Cannoness Lenora, he relayed the message to his vox caster so that everyone could here. "This is Cannoness Lenora to Chapter Master Giacomo. I have located the relic known as the 'Master Emerald'. It is being guarded by a red Xeno and a group of others. Permission to take the relic by any means?" she asked.
Before Giacomo answered, he turned his head to the council and asked, "Do you have authority to make the emerald's guardians hand it over?"
Sally stood up and said, "I can try to persuade him to hand it over. But it will be difficult as it is his sworn duty to protect it at all costs."
Giacomo nodded, "Do you need transportation to get there?" he asked.
She nodded, after all, Tails' plain had been destroyed in action or DIA and his other constructs were not exactly meant for in atmosphere flight. "Very well, follow me to the Thunder-Raven." he said in response to her nod. This was going to be a very interesting planet to stay on, and he had many questions for this princess.
Tyranifex: and that is where I leave it for this chapter, this story will not be finished for AK's contest, but I hope this has a shot at getting mentioned by him.