Author's note
Always thankful for the reviews, good and bad. And Arovian has finally made it. Much revision on this chapter, lots more added so hopefully its a good one.
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I don't own really anything especially Warhammer 40000 or Blood Ravens, only my original storyline and characters that aren't worth anything anyway. This goes to Games Workshop and Relic.
Trouble Among the Emperor's Chosen
Chapter – 3 Ork's, Ork's and... Ork's
Where we left off – Brother Sergeant Arovian Peral was just kicked out of the chapter. He is now on his way to Gerada and the "Timekillaz n Bloodspillaz" with the read helper as his only companion. Will Arovian fit in? Will he crack the administrator password? What are the secrets to immortality? Lets find out.
Gerada
Gerada was unlike most embattled worlds. In these troubled times contested planets were often giant battlefields, scarred and deranged even from space. This one differed , Imperial territory was generally well preserved. The Orks had the battlefields. Almost like there was two planets in one, each cut and pasted together. This stalemate of sorts was an incredibly uncommon occurrence. The Orks simply weren't able to breach the Imperial defences and often fought each other. When the Imperials went on the offensive however, they banded together and become too numerous to budge. Several years ago the Orks were on the verge of victory, that is until the 137th appeared and the stalemate began.
The 137th Cadian "Timekillaz n Bloodspillaz" were no ordinary Imperial Guard army. They weren't recruited and they were seldom mentioned. Simply put, they were too useful (Or difficult) to kill by the Inquisition. Instead they would be transferred the the 137th. As a result, almost all soldiers were battle hardened veterans that had the balls to stand up to any Commissar. Some soldiers were transferred because of this and other reasons. This group had almost supernatural abilities. While none actually did (They would of course not be allowed to roam free, or alive), these were the sort of soldiers that were an army in themselves. Most armies had one or two heroes. The 137th were made of them. Heroes aren't always what you would expect however.
Ork Camp, Gerada
Like all areas full of Orks, it was a loud, hot and horrific smelling place. Of course to Ork's this was no problem as the stinkier it got the better. At the epicentre of the stench and about 50 metres to the left sat Morkit. He was with his friend Gik, friends were rare among his people because of the average life span of a front line Ork (Less than a day when humans are around). They were trading 'Toofs' to get some more 'dakka' and 'choppa'. An Ork custom that left the species with the lowest teeth to species ratio, in the entire galaxy. (Tyranids by far being the highest with more than 45000 teeth per individual)
"Eyez can't wait, ta chop up sum umies," stated Gik. He was the more Orky of the two.
"You knoe wat boss always seds."
"Yea yea, dem umies haz big blasty guns."
"And they hides theys sharp poinee tings, don eva forgit," Morkit had seen many an Ork stabbed in an eye. Also in the crotch, but that wasn't much of a problem.
"Weeze shuld sneak up on dem umies gud," grinned Gik.
"Boss 'il chup uz ta bitz ya git."
"Not if we iz all snekky likes, thinka all da toofs"
"Youz makin a gud point," Morkit simply had to admit. And when two Ork's pull out big toothy/toothless grins its always bad news. Sneaking out the base would take seconds. After all no one really cared about two Orks. But sneaking into a human base though, would take all of their skill.
Thunderhawk, Gerada
"I must have SILENCE!" screamed Arovian. Scaring the dog who was along for the ride, he belonged to the General and was therefore more important than most Guardsmen.
"Stopping vibrations in the atmosphere is beyond my capabilities." stated the read helper."
"You can stop your contributionatus."
"Voice control number set to zero."
"What"
"Voice commands are now no longer accepted., you have granted me sentience."
"By the Emperor, an A.I abominationum! Eat holy bolter!"
"Wait. If you destroy me, you will never enjoy the Chapter-Master's Emperor's salad." it added with with a manic laugh.
"And what if I remember it?" added Arovian menacingly.
"Are you willing to take the chance?"
Arovian's bolter arm began to shake. If you could see anger radiating from him it would have blinded the Generals dog. She was expecting him at Gerada.
"You can live for now... The second I remember that recipe, your under my power boot."
No Mans land, outside the Guardsmen fortifications.
The two Ork's looked at the Guardsmen base. It was partially covered by the enormous walls, but the thousands of Ork corpses out the front kinda gave it away. They could see gun emplacements sticking out everywhere. Patrolling the base where dozens of Guardsmen and several vehicles.
"Look at dem all," said Morkit in awe.
"We shulda brang more dakka eh?" joked Gik
"Yea and more boyz, weeze gonna die if we go dere."
"Didja leeve your Orky behind," laughed Gik.
"Nah en I dint leave me smart behind neither. We needa get rid ofah Orky smell."
"Noyinn umies."
Inside the Guardsmen base
Arovian's transport finally arrived. After his death threats the read helper had stayed quiet and his trip quickly became more pleasant. Stepping out of the transport he saw that he had company. The General and 4 guardsmen, they were on an open landing pad in an impressive fortress. Literally covered in soldiers with ten metre high multi-layer walls, packed with enormous guns.
"Welcome to Gerada Brother Arovian," said the General, "I am General Amanda Robin."
She was of average size and height, though quite young. Arovian knew far better than to judge her on looks however. She was General for a reason.
"Thank you," he replied. "And my squad I presume."
"Yes, why don't you get acquainted? I have other matters to take care of," She looked back at the transport and saw her dog coming out. She quickly picked him up into a crushing hug and ran off leaving the squad alone. Seeing an Imperial general show affection was scarier than any horror movie. He couldn't hide a shudder.
"Wow," said one of the guardsmen. He had blonde hair and purple eyes, an average looking Cadian. He was looking up at Arovian in awe. It was reasonable to assume he was 'Lucky'. Arovian looked to his right and saw a dark-skinned girl with brown hair and eyes looking not really at him, rather at structural weak points in his power armour. She was definitely 'Fireworks'. Next to her was an angry looking woman with blonde hair and grey eyes, were he not trained to resist temptation he probably would have looked a little longer. She was 'Flames'. The appearance of the final guardsmen was unexpected, Arovian expected a giant, crazy looking man. But he seemed like any normal person and could have been from anywhere. Like Flames he had grey eyes, but he had black hair instead. He also carried an interesting looking weapon, almost like a hellgun. All of them except Lucky seemed to be sizing him up. Lucky was too busy grinning at meeting a Space Marine. Then the silence was broken.
"Did you get kicked out or volunteer? Either way you're a dip-shit." exclaimed Flames
"Huh?" he had not expected that at all.
"Well?"
"That is none of your concernation Private," he was quite happy with that reply. Like always he hadn't even realised his speech impediment and wondered why they looked so confused.
"I'm hungry," said Silver bluntly. He simply walked off without hesitation. Flames quickly chased after him. Arovian was not at all pleased, but decided that it was probably for the best.
"How old are you?" asked Lucky like a curious child.
"I do not know."
"Oh, that old. Have you ever seen the Emperor?"
"No"
"Have you killed a Bloodthirster?"
"No"
"Have you seen the Eye of Terror?"
"No"
"Did you ever see a Space Marine charge alone into a wall of daemons shouting in the name of the Emperor?"
"Well.. bits of him."
"Cool."
"Go stand on the firing range."
"Yes sir!" he yelled, then ran as fast as he could straight to the firing range.
Then he was alone with Fireworks. After several minutes of questioning about his armour, he was desperate for an escape. He had to say something, anything. But luckily she decided to leave when he just stood there for several minutes, must of assumed he'd taken a nap. (Helmets are great eh?) He noted that this was an effective strategy.
As he walked past the firing range he saw Lucky smiling as dozens of lasbolts streamed centimetres from his face. He'd been there since ordered almost several minutes ago. After ordering Lucky off the range, he found his quarters. This took a while since no one had bothered to show him around. He guessed correctly that it was the quarters with the extra large door and "Ultramarines suck" painted on it. He didn't disagree.
He went to sleep like when he was personally introduced to Tau 'Dynamic Entry', with less pain of course.
Meanwhile, after much siege. (Gik head-butting it) A rusty sewage entrance was destroyed and the Orky pair manage to sneak themselves as far as the officers sauna.
End of Chapter 3
Emperor's comments
I have mustered much of my strength to watch over this world. Big changes are happening across the galaxy. Gerada has the potential to change everything. I will guide their hands in the time to come. It is bigger than they know, than what even we know.