Chapter 9D
Egg was happy as she munched on a partially thawed cockroach for breakfast, life really was good. Well in actual fact she knew that she would probably die soon and things were actually extremely dire, but having a boyfriend was absolutely wonderful.
The entire world seemed brighter now that Yuki was in her life, even the dull cold iron walls and very sparse lighting seemed to have a happy energy about them. Whenever she was with him her heart pounded so hard and she could not stop smiling, life really was amazing right now.
Egg beamed happily at Yuki at the breakfast table, he was so cute. He was currently looking at his bowl of cockroaches dubiously with a slightly nauseous look on his face. Egg giggled at the sight.
"Oh Yuki you are so funny. The cockroaches have been fully sterilised already, the food crates were all exposed to the light of the neutron pulsar star, the germs all got their DNA destroyed completely by the gamma rays and X rays. There is not so much as a single germ in those cockroaches." Egg reassured him with a giggle.
Yuki steeled himself and tried to nibble a cockroach, but he immediately spat it out and rushed to vomit in a dustbin. Egg followed him and rubbed his back.
"Poor Yuki, I'm sorry. I think that we have some other food. We have a lot of congealed blood slices, we have Kilimanjaro microbial paste, we have radiation sterilised mould, rat meat, mouse meat, spiders, short tailed trash panda meat. We also have a lot of human meat too, in fact we have HEAPS of meat." Egg offered.
Yuki looked at her in horror and turned green.
"What do you want to eat Yuki?" Egg asked.
"What about the pork that Lady Wendy always fed me?" Yuki suggested.
"That wasn't pork Yuki..." Egg started to say.
Yuki's eyes widened and he looked horrified. Egg didn't have the heart to tell him that he had been eating the bodies of people who had already died of hypothermia.
"What do you eat on your home planet, didn't you ever eat our foods?" Egg asked changing the subject.
"Oh, um. Well we ate proper food, like fish and rice and vegetables, all sorts of things made from ingredients grown on a farm or caught in the sea. The food back on Beta Kyoto Epsilon is amazing." Yuki told her.
"Oh, well I think that we have some leftover food from the time the Night Lords conquered the Agri World of Cocowango." Egg said thinking.
"That was you! We all thought that the planet had just been cut off by a warp storm! Beta Kyoto Epsilon imports a lot of food from Cocowango, I love their red beans." Yuki exclaimed sadly.
"Yeah, I'm so sorry about poor Cocowango, that was all my fault. My helmet broke and I accidentally crippled the Nightmare Asylum with my powers. The ship was nearly destroyed and had to drop out of the warp. The hull was breeched and loosing atmosphere, we had no choice but to crash land on a planet with a breathable atmosphere. Cocowango was the only place we could reach in time." Egg apologised.
"What happened?" Yuki asked in amazement.
"We came down in one of the seas and started repairs. The planet was conquered by the Night Lords, they stole as much food as they could carry. The inquisition then tried to murder me and I was taken away and locked up with my crèche for many months in a different chaos ship, locked up in a tiny little place for my protection, it was so horrible!" Egg remembered with a shudder.
"The inquisition tried to kill you?" Yuki asked in horror.
"Yes, they sent space marines and custodians of the golden throne, grey knight terminators, sisters of battle, an entire task force of the deadliest troops in the imperium. The worst were the Culexus assassins, I still have nightmares about the Culexus assassins, they were so terrible!" Egg said fearfully.
"How by the Emperor did you survive! Did the chaos space marines protect you?" Yuki asked horrified.
"I killed them by myself... My brother Augusta shot my helmet with his bolt pistol to break it. My helmet stopped working when it gets broken and I can use my powers. I, I tore them apart, I killed so many people. Oh Yuki it was so horrible! I don't want to talk about it! Please don't ask me questions about it, it was just so horrible!" Egg exclaimed, bursting into tears and sobbing heavily.
Yuki hugged her tightly and Egg cried in his arms. Yuki hugged her so tightly and didn't let go. Egg took refuge in that wonderful cuddle and just cried herself out, it felt so good just to cry all the trauma out.
Egg carried terrible trauma and burdens from the past, a mountain range of pain carried on her shoulders. She had killed so many people in the past with her powers, she was a mass murderer! She HATED every death she caused, she only wanted PEACE! Why did she have to keep doing this, why couldn't military factions just LEAVE her ALONE!
"You don't have to talk about anything you don't want to, please don't be sad." Yuki told her reassuringly.
Egg nodded and her sobbing became softer. Yuki rubbed her back and it felt so wonderful.
"I, I will see if we have any Cocowango food. I'm sorry for crying Yuki." Egg said shakily.
Yuki helped steady Egg and went with her to the food storage area with his arm around her shoulders. Egg found the arm around her deeply comforting.
They reached the food stores and Egg rummaged around. "Ah, here are some Cocowango red beans," Egg said triumphantly.
The beans were frozen solid in the large sack and had to be hit with a hammer just to separate them. Egg put the frozen beans inside her clothes to warm them up for Yuki and shivered at the feel of them on her skin. Egg returned to the table and ate Yuki's cockroaches for him, needing the extra energy to warm up the beans above freezing.
20 minutes later Yuki had a small bowl of body temperature beans which he ate gratefully. Yuki had told Egg all about the food back home as she had thawed his beans for him, it sounded really delicious.
"One day I will take you home, and you can try all the different foods." Yuki said hopefully.
Egg blinked at this.
"Yuki," Egg told him gently, "I am probably never escaping this place alive. Soon I will be dead, the imperium will kill me eventually. Maybe you will be rescued by the imperium and see your home again. I really hope that you do, but I myself am dead meat. I am just happy that I met you and have this little time with you to be happy, so so happy to have this time of kindness."
"What, Egg you mustn't think that way! There can be a happy ending to this." Yuki told her firmly.
"Yuki, the reason that everyone pushed so hard for us to be together, the reason we were forced to bath together and the reason my mother guided us in having sex is because they know I don't have time to waste. If I don't experience sex now, then I never get the chance after this. They want me to be able to enjoy some of the pleasures of life while I still can. Very soon the enemy will reach this planet and I will be fighting for my life, it's not a fight that I will win." Egg said bittersweetly.
Yuki stammered but Egg quieted him.
"It's ok Yuki, this right here is the happiest time of my life. You have no idea how thankful I am to have experienced this short life. Did you know that very few Alpha Plus Psykers live past the age of 5, I am almost 12! I have lived almost 7 extra years that most don't get to live, I am so profoundly thankful to have lived so long. I am happy. I have peace." Egg said and kissed Yuki tenderly.
Yuki started to cry.
***...
Inquisitor Horatio Hoffman's heart was splitting into thousands of pieces, the longer this went on the worse Horatio felt. Horatio felt his gorge rise and he rushed to the toilet and threw up violently in the bowl, his sanity was starting to crack.
According to the latest spy recording from a long range psychic scan of the dining room Egg ate breakfast in, Egg had confided in Yuki that she knew that she was going to die. And Horatio was not sure if his sanity could handle this fact.
Horatio was so highly tuned to the thoughts and feelings of his targets that his empathy for Egg was absolute. His empathy for her was his greatest weapon for defeating her, he could anticipate her every decision now with almost perfect accuracy. But empathy was also dragging him ever closer to complete madness.
Horatio had heard every single word the pair had said to each other, and it was so terribly sad. Everything about this situation sucked, it was a bad situation with no silver lining. No, it had ONE silver lining, Horatio was determined to rescue Yuki alive and return him home to Beta Kyoto Epsilon as Egg had wished. This was the one decent thing that Horatio could do.
Horatio was now determined to go on a leave of absence after this mission was over. He would adopt some child who was in terrible need of a loving father and just nurture that child with his entire heart and soul. He couldn't keep killing children after this, his sanity could not endure it.
Horatio would show mercy to the people that Egg loved, he would make sure that they didn't suffer, quick clean deaths for her entire crèche. Yuki would be taken care of, the baby mutant Patrick unfortunately had psychic powers so could not be simply sent to be raised by an Emperor worshipping mutant family. But Yuki at least had no taint of chaos so could be spared.
In fact there was something else he could do, Horatio could also ensure that the mutation free very young children of all the chaos worshippers were taken alive and sent to an orphanage. Indeed maybe Horatio would adopt one himself. Babies and toddlers were young enough to not be tainted, it was one kind act that Horatio could do.
Horatio sniffed, he felt a tiny amount of hope that some small good could be salvaged from this horrible situation. He owed at least that much to Egg he felt, he was going to murder her after all.
Horatio suddenly felt something foreign in his mind and he froze. Words seemed to buzz into his mind.
"I will be sure to tell my daughter Egg that you feel thusly, I'm sure that she will take it well." A daemonic voice smirked in his mind.
"TigerLily", Horatio thought, "begone, I will brook no trespass!"
"You love her so much, yet you still seek to murder her," the daemon said in a voice that set Horatio's conscience aflame, "I will tell Egg everything, I will make her aware of you. The next time you spy on her she will know your name and she will ask you why she deserves to die!"
Horatio screamed and curled up in a ball on the floor, something inside his mind broke and he started to bawl his eyes out, pleading for Egg to forgive him.
A diabolical laugh of triumph filled Horatio's mind and he passed out from the sheer horror of the weight of guilt he felt.
***...
Egg listened carefully as her crèche sister Violet relayed a message to Egg from TigerLily, the message was extremely detailed information about an Inquisitor named Horatio Hoffman. Egg then started to cry.
Inquisitor Hoffman was going to spare Yuki's life and send Yuki back home! But at the same time he was going to kill her entire crèche including poor little Patrick! How could someone be so nice yet so horrible!
Egg went straight to the dining room which was apparently being constantly psychically scanned to gather intelligence for the Inquisition and sat down in a chair and spoke to Horatio Hoffman directly.
"Horatio Hoffman, first of all I want to thank you for deciding to spare Yuki, secondly I beg you to spare my crèche and mother and loved ones too. If you really love me as TigerLily says then show mercy." Egg began.
Egg felt a bit silly speaking into the air but she just kept talking. She got everyone else to leave the room to give herself some privacy and she just offloaded everything that was on her heart, every ounce of hurt, every hope and fear.
For 2 hours Egg spoke without stopping, speaking directly to the Inquisitor. He was her executioner, she felt certain that she would die by his hand and that gave her a confidence to just confide in him. She said that she would love to get that cuddle from him, asked if he would cuddle her and speak to her before he killed her.
Egg had never had a father worthy of the name, had never had a man like Horatio Hoffman in her life who wanted only to nurture her without abusing her or seeing her as a possession or super weapon. Egg admitted that she too was so terribly sad that she could not have the Inquisitor be a part of her life.
"I want so badly to speak to you face to face Horatio, but I know that when I do I will die. I'm so sorry for being an Alpha Plus, so sorry for everything. I so badly just want to have a normal life, I never wanted any of this conflict and suffering. Do I really deserve to die Horatio?" Egg asked.
***...
Horatio Hoffman reviewed the recording of the psychic scan of the dining room were Egg spoke to him directly and his mind had finally had enough. He couldn't do it, he couldn't kill this little girl!
Not only couldn't he kill her, but he couldn't stand by and let others kill her either. It was too utterly evil, too obviously wrong.
This girl should be eating Japanese food on Beta Kyoto Epsilon with her boyfriend, enjoying the simple pleasures of a normal life. She should NOT be shivering in a freezing hole eating vermin and awaiting her death!
Horatio would rescue her alive and use his authority to keep her safe. They could travel to galaxy in his ship, she could have the sort of life that she deserves. Horatio would have her brain operated on to remove her psychic powers, she would then be just a young girl like any other. Some advanced surgery could give her normal human feet and normal human hair, her larynx could be altered to be normal human and then no one would know that she was even a mutant.
Horatio would adopt her as his own daughter and take his leave of absence. It would all be ok in the end. Never fear Egg, I will make sure that everything turns out ok in the end!
Far off in the chaos fleet, Daemon Princess of Tzeentch TigerLily screamed with diabolical laughter, the sentimental fool had just made a catastrophic mistake that would cost billions of lives later and hopefully bring the Imperium of Man to it's knees. TigerLily had won!
***...
Radical Oblationist Inquisitor Eduardo Garcia was deeply troubled by his senior colleague Inquisitor Horatio Hoffman. It was months now since the capture of Hapela Theta Rho 4 and Inquisitor Hoffman had become increasingly distant and withdrawn from Eduardo and others.
Despite worshipping Chaos Undivided, Eduardo's loyalty to the Imperium was unbreakable. Eduardo was untroubled by such pesky things as conscience or compromise, he was as firm and inflexible as the neutron lattice that made up the neutron pulsar star at the centre of this system. It didn't matter who had to die or suffer, no price was too high to protect the beloved Imperium of the God-Emperor.
A man like Eduardo who would not even spare his own soul for the sake of the Imperium would not think twice about killing anyone else to serve the Imperium.
Eduardo laughed maniacally as he rampaged through the chaos trenches on Hapela Theta Rho 3, gunning down chaos militia fighters with his master crafted storm bolter. The icy hard vacuum of the airless planet greatly increased the power of explosions, making the enemy bodies explode in highly satisfying red sprays as the bolter rounds exploded inside their bodies.
Bodies popped like balloons all around as weapons fire punctured their space suit clad bodies, spraying Eduardo's master crafted Inquisitor power armour with blood that instantly desiccated and froze. Eduardo's helmet eye piece outer surfaces briefly glowed bright blue with an energy arch that burned away the frozen blood that obscured his vision, his eyes protected from the bright blue flash by built in flash suppressors.
Around Eduardo were his most elite Inquisitorial storm troopers, troops that were growing increasingly dissatisfied with the aloof leadership of Inquisitor Hoffman. Eduardo and his storm troopers ran down the length of the trench system from the point where their spearhead attack had breeched it. They were slaughtering every enemy they found, leaving ever more of the trench unmanned to allow more imperial troops to storm the trenches without resistance.
The war was going very well but the fighting was still vicious, these chaos forces were stubbornly making the Imperium earn every meter gained the hard way. It was only a testament to the sheer inexhaustible manpower of the imperial guard that they had captured so much of the fortified planet so quickly.
Dead bodies of imperial guardsmen littered the planet in the millions, unburied and simply left behind. Even the equipment was left mostly unbothered, there was no time in this breakneck speed of advance for men to double back to scavenge the dead. After this war was over, the planet would have enough gear to scavenge to draw scavengers for years to come.
Day and night the advance never stopped, combat engineers with melta guns and cutting equipment worked nonstop to build tunnels to reach the enemy during the day while the soldiers advanced over the ground during the night. The enemy army officers above the rank of captain were now forced to remain far behind the front lines just to avoid being caught up in the constant rapid imperial advances.
Eduardo was in his own personal heaven as he obliterated enemy soldiers at the head of this glorious advance, killing the enemies of mankind. His imperial men looked at him in fervent inspiration, driven to new levels of patriotism and fury by his example.
Eduardo encouraged the men with generous praises, calling them holy heroes of the Imperium and whipping them up into a maniacal frenzy. The men frothed at the mouth inside their space suits and fought all the harder to take the trench more quickly.
The enemy scrambled out of the trench and fled to the next line of trenches protected by heavy covering fire. Eduardo mopped up stragglers in the trench he occupied as waves of imperial guard rushed forward from the imperial front line to occupy this new trench. The trench was only just secured before Eduardo was launching the next attack on the next line of trenches, calling distant artillery fire to keep the enemy hiding behind cover as Eduardo's men advanced.
For hours Eduardo captured trench after trench in a breakneck advance, uncaring of casualties. 30 minutes before sunrise Eduardo reluctantly was forced to order all his men and artillery crews below ground, leaving the machines of war unmanned in the lethal radiation that was harmless to machines. Hundreds of thousands had died today in Eduardo's reckless advance and many wounded left above ground died instantly at the first "light" of the black starlit dawn, their cells killed instantly by the radiation.
But despite the hard fighting the men did not have much time to sleep, already the combat engineers were beginning the first of the tunnels to reach the enemy lines tonight. In a few hours the fighting would begin again, so the men frantically got what little sleep they could and frantically ate and drank after a day spent in space suits.
Eduardo himself needed very little sleep and used most of this time to work, reading reports and corresponding with the rest of the imperial forces. He frowned in disapproval as he found that once again Inquisitor Horatio Hoffman had dropped the ball and left it to Eduardo to try to coordinate the majority of the war effort.
Eduardo was deeply suspicious of Hoffman but he was so busy all the time. Eduardo simply did not have the time to both do everything and keep an eye on Hoffman at the same time. What the hell was Hoffman up to?
Eduardo was needed here to not only capture the planet but also reprogram the chaos laser batteries they captured. Hoffman was on the "Dictator of Righteousness" far away from Eduardo, too far away for Eduardo to simply visit him in person. It was suspicious, bloody suspicious.
Eduardo was not stupid, he saw just how conveniently Hoffman was keeping him so far away and overworked. Hoffman was up to something, something that he clearly did not want Eduardo to know about and that meant that Eduardo could not trust him.
Had Inquisitor Hoffman become corrupted by chaos?. The thought was unthinkable. Inquisitor Hoffman had been flawlessly loyal with a perfect record for all of the many centuries of his distinguished career. Why would he suddenly change?
Eduardo decided that it was his duty to find out, a corrupted Inquisitor was almost as dangerous as an Alpha Plus, able to command any and all imperial forces and call down nuclear strikes on any planet on a whim. Eduardo would not hesitate to kill Hoffman himself if he found the merest hint of disloyalty to the Imperium in him.
***...
"Happy 12th birthday Egg!" Mum said happily.
Egg blinked sleepily awake, poking her head out from under the crèche blanket where she was snuggled between the warm bodies of her siblings and Yuki. It was now getting so cold that even the shy Yuki had no choice but to bed with all the girls for shared body heat.
"Oh, I'm really 12? I really made it?" Egg asked in wonder.
"You really made it sweetie, you are 12 years old today." Mum reassured her happily.
Egg gave a happy birdsong, she was now one of the only Alpha Plus psykers to ever get so old.
"I'm 12, I'm 12! I'm still alive and I'm 12! Oh Slaanesh I am alive to see my 12th birthday!" Egg cheered jubilantly.
Egg sprang out of bed and danced around the room uncaring of the cold, she was just so THANKFUL to still be alive! Egg skipped, Egg sang, she jumped and danced and cheered for joy, she was now one of the oldest Alphas currently in existence.
The others under the blanket groaned sleepily at being woken up so early but also wished Egg a happy birthday. Reluctantly the sleepers emerged from under the large urine soaked blanket (Egg still wet the bed most nights, though less often since having her relationship with Yuki).
Egg jumped up and down excitedly and asked hopefully about birthday presents.
Mum laughed and said, "of course you get birthday presents, the entire extended family has sent you gifts."
Egg was astonished, she had hundreds of blood relatives in her extended family! If every one of them gave her a gift then she would have hundreds of birthday presents!
"Wait, are you serious!" Egg exclaimed in shock.
"Yes absolutely, even the random people in the city that we don't know are sending you things, we have piled up the first lot of presents in the sitting room. The rest of the gifts are all being checked for bombs or poison or other attempts on your life, the safe gifts will be delivered to you periodically." Mum said happily.
Egg was flabbergasted and ran out to the sitting room to check the presents. The pile of gifts was a mountain almost up to the ceiling! Egg reeled back in shock.
Most of the gifts took the form of crude iron trinkets carved with chaos symbols, literally bits of the iron that was the substance of this planet hand carved into good luck charms. Some had crude cards made of whatever paper was available, and some were even wrapped. Alongside the charms were all kinds of odds and ends, gifts of food, items of patched clothing, inappropriate sex toys bedecked with Slaanesh symbols and a hundred other things, and that was just the presents from the people Egg didn't know!
The people who actually knew Egg had gone even more overboard with the gifts, huge properly wrapped boxes filled with things that Egg loved. Egg was so overcome that she started crying, she had really not expected this.
Egg started reading the cards on the gifts from random people she didn't know and suddenly it made sense. Message after message contained desperate pleading for Egg to use her powers to save the people from the wrath of the Imperium. The people were praying to Egg for salvation as if she was a chaos god!
Card after card begged her to be pleased by the gift and in turn protect the safety of the gift giver and the fleet. And the cards that were less blatantly transparently selfish still urged her to master her powers as quickly as possible. Most of the trinkets were good luck charms carved with runes of chaos to bestow fortune on Egg, to give her success in mastering her powers and alter fate in her favour.
Those who couldn't give her fate altering trinkets instead gave her bribes to try to win her favour so that she would save them from slaughter. These people were desperately afraid and were looking to Egg to save them.
Just being around so many trinkets dedicated to her made her reel slightly as the combined mass of minor spells started working on Egg's strands of fate. Egg was deeply impressed, the amount of faith represented by all these trinkets would have a palpable effect on Egg's fortunes she was sure of it.
Egg excitedly opened presents and sorted through the massive pile of gifts and cards, she was utterly spoilt to be given so much wonderful stuff! She tried on cute tops, knitted scarfs, gloves, socks (most were not able to be used on her bird feet), dresses, skirts, winter clothes, and a hundred other wonderful clothes.
Egg blushed as she was given specially sized highly adult lingerie by her crèche sister Mandy, told that it was for Yuki's pleasure as much as Egg's (Yuki blushed scarlet at this). Egg squealed with laughter when her big half brother Augusta gave her birthday tickles, wetting herself as per usual but not minding the wonderful warmth of the pee running down her cold legs. Egg was deeply touched by the compact digital photo album of all of them together over the years that her crèche siblings had together put together for her.
Yuki was a slave with no actual possessions to give her but instead he spent the whole day cooking for her, using the best ingredients Wendy had left to make her such wonderful foods. Wendy let Yuki use a lot of electricity for cooking and the main occupied rooms in the home were all heated with generous use of the electric heaters!
It was such a wonderful day, she was given the entire day off from her usual gruelling regime of psychic training and heating up iron to power the city. Yesterday Egg had spent the entire day just heating up very large iron blocks to generate enough electricity for 2 days, and today all the power came from battery storage, saving precious deuterium so Egg didn't even need to feel guilty.
Egg giggled at all the inappropriate sex toys and lingerie from well meaning but misguided Slaanesh worshippers, they really didn't get the fact that a dildo is not an appropriate gift for a 12 year old. Egg couldn't stop laughing, did they honestly expect her to use these?
The most impressive gifts were of course from the rich and powerful, especially from her biological parents and from Wendy, extravagant gifts worthy of the princess that Egg technically was. Diamond studded dresses and extravagant jewellery, real silk, gold, precious metals and precious stones galore. Treasures worth an absolute fortune.
Strangest and somehow most touching of all was the birthday wishes from the imperium that was actively trying to kill her. The imperium had open diplomatic channels with the Night Lords to try to talk them into handing Egg over voluntarily. The imperial ambassador personal wished Egg Sevenson a happy birthday, followed by a sincere hope that this would be her LAST birthday. It was deeply disturbing but at the same time Egg was deeply touched by this.
The birthday message from Inquisitor Horatio Hoffman was the kindest of all. Horatio gave an Inquisitorial pardon to Yuki and all other enslaved imperial citizens who had not succumbed to the worship of chaos, but even more amazing, he promised to try to return the slaves home free to the planets they were abducted from! ALL of them!
It was an astonishing act of kindness, Yuki and a multitude of others would be spared and sent home. Egg bawled her eyes out with thankfulness and relief, this was such a terrible weight that had just been lifted off her shoulders.
The war was now going very badly for Chaos, the fourth, and third planets had completely fallen to the imperium and the second planet was completely overrun and would fall to the Imperium soon. A new fleet full of imperial guard reinforcements had arrived and now the imperium was advancing faster and more recklessly than ever. They didn't care about casualties, they just advanced in a never ending flood right across mine fields and heavy fire, not even slowed down by casualties.
In a few weeks time the entire first planet where Egg was would be swarming with imperial guard. The enemy had even stopped their relentless nuking of the surface to give the red hot iron time to cool down to a safe temperature before the ground forces arrived. This was the end of Egg, but thank all the gods that it would not be the end of Yuki and the multitudes of other slaves.
It was a glorious and wonderful weight off Egg's mind, the Inquisitor had even promised to spare the very youngest chaos children who were too young to yet be "tainted" by chaos worship, he would give them all to imperial orphanages! Egg wept gratefully like she had never wept happy tears before, they would all be spared!
Egg collapsed down to the floor on her bum, the sheer sense of emotional release was so great that she could not stand. The promise of Inquisitor Hoffman was quite simply the most important gift Egg had ever received. This was a WONDERFUL birthday.
***...
The end came very quickly, less than two weeks later in fact.
The second planet had already fallen and the chaos fleet was reduced to mostly burning wreckage by the combined laser batteries from the 4 other planets. Chaos worshippers were still alive on board their ruined ships in orbit, huddled in pressurised sections deep inside and wandering the wrecked vacuum filled corridors listlessly in space suits.
The Nightmare Asylum fled the system at top speed abandoning the Alpha Plus and others on the planet. It got less than halfway out of the system before it was reduced to wreckage, carried away by its momentum out of the system into the cold icy void of space to drift forever.
With the chaos space fleet annihilated the imperium was uncontested in their landing on Hapela Theta Rho 1, the very last refuge for the forces of chaos.
Egg was immediately deployed and her helmet was taken off.
No sooner was Egg's helmet taken off before she disappeared in a flash of psychic energy. The slaves vanished too as did the Chaos Children below the age of 5 who lacked psychic powers and mutations beyond the imperial tolerable limit.
The entire planet started to move, heating up as it suddenly gained godlike quantities of extra kinetic energy. The planet quaked apocalyptically as a screaming vortex of warp energy dumped ever more highly directed kinetic energy into the planet, adding ever more velocity to it's orbiting speed. Only when it was too hot to safely get any hotter did the flood of extra kinetic energy stop.
Hapela Theta Rho 1 had now reached enough velocity to be carried away to an extremely distant orbit, far enough to escape the effects that the pulsar had on preventing warp travel. It would still take a few months but eventually the planet would escape. The orbiting wrecked space crafts would be carried along in their orbits with the planet.
On board the Inquisition Retribution class Battleship "Dictator of Righteousness" Egg Sevenson appeared inside the ritual circle Horatio Hoffman had prepared to allow her to safely warp such a distance. All of the collected slaves and chaos children flashed onboard the ship in similar huge ritual circles all across the ship. The entire ship creaked with strain as Egg's incompletely mastered powers inadvertently tortured the metal of the ship's superstructure.
Egg walked up to Inquisitor Horatio Hoffman and gave him the cuddle she had promised, sighing deeply and preparing herself for death.
"I'm ready Inquisitor Horatio Hoffman, please make it quick." Egg said with a deep sigh of peace, moving back to let him kill her.
The Inquisitor gazed at Egg with deep resolve and plopped an imperial version of a psychic nullifying helmet on Egg's head and strapped it in place. Egg gazed around at her very last look at life and waited for him to kill her.
"I'm not going to kill you Egg Sevenson. I am instead going to give you that peaceful and kind life you always wanted. By the power vested in me as Inquisitor of the Golden Throne I Thrice declare you officially pardoned of any and all charges against you and declare you pure and sanctioned in the Emperor's sight. Further still I hereby adopt you as my own daughter effective immediately and declare you as an official servant of the Inquisition under Inquisitorial protection. You will be educated to worship the God-Emperor of Mankind and will one day be able to use your powers to do good rather than harm." Inquisitor Hoffman declared.
Egg could only gape at him in shock!