Chapter 10D
The imperial civilised planet of Beta Kyoto Epsilon was a wonderful place to live, at least not counting invasions from external threats. It was a planet of shallow oceans and endless archipelagos of islands and sea volcanoes.
Originally settled long ago by Japanese astronauts during the dark ages of technology, it's language, culture and ethnic groups remained quintessentially Japanese even after thousands of years.
It was a timeless peaceful place, a place of order and structure, largely secluded from the influence of outsiders but still freely trading with the other planets of the Imperium of Mankind. It had a lot of very high quality industry that exported abroad, and imported a lot of food and bulk resources in return.
The planet had recently suffered tragedy in the form of the Steel Brethren Iron Warriors Chaos Space marines performing an uncharacteristic lightning fast slave raid of a number of islands. The attack had targeted public places, snatching people at random in market squares brazenly in broad daylight.
The damage from the resultant fighting had already been repaired but the people taken had not been forgotten. They would never be forgotten.
In one neat and tidy house the Tagawa family prayed for their lost member, a boy named Yuki. The two parents and one sister gathered around the family shrine, burning sticks of incense in front of a photo of Yuki Tagawa who had been taken from them.
Mr and Mrs Tagawa and daughter Rin Tagawa prayed in silence like they did every evening at this hour, it was a family ritual. He had been gone for so many months now that he must almost certainly be dead by now.
With great sadness the family returned to the lounge room. Mr Tagawa turned on the TV and watched the news. Mrs Tagawa pottered about in the kitchen and Rin went upstairs to her bedroom.
Suddenly a breaking news story was announced on the TV, an Inquisitor of the esteemed Ordo Hereticus had just arrived in high orbit with a massive fleet of badly scared warships. The news advised that the Ordo Hereticus would be on the look out for any heretical behaviour and urged all citizens to be extra vigilant in thoughts and behaviours to avoid heresy.
Suddenly the news showed a video message from the Inquisitor himself spoken in fluent Japanese.
"People of Beta Kyoto Epsilon, after a long and incredibly bitter struggle I was able to rescue some of the people taken from you by the traitor legions. I come here to return those that the Inquisition has rescued. That is all for now." The mysterious Inquisitor said.
Mr Tagawa screamed for his wife and daughter to come and told them what he had just heard. The entire house became agitated with terrible hope, wondering if Yuki would be one of the returned.
They watched the news frantically for hours but learned nothing more, they had to sleep so they reluctantly went to bed around 10, they could do no more.
At 2am they were woken up by a sudden ringing of the front door bell. Mrs Tagawa eventually got up and went to the door when it kept ringing.
She opened the door and saw the impressive power armoured form of the Inquisitor from the TV! Mrs Tagawa gawked thinking her eyes were playing tricks on her. It was no trick. He was there in all his armoured glory, an ancient looking grey haired man who looked both authoritative and wise.
Beside the Inquisitor stood a strange girl with what looked like blue hair and a strange helmet, but Mrs Tagawa barely noticed the girl, for holding hands with the girl was her Yuki!
Mrs Tagawa wailed with joy and threw herself at Yuki hugging him frantically and unable to get a word out past her wailing sobs. Mr Tagawa and Rin Tagawa came to investigate the commotion at the front door and on seeing Yuki they also howled with emotion and embraced Yuki frantically.
For a long time they made quite a scene in front of the venerable Inquisitor before remembering that they were being rude and invited the Inquisitor and the girl inside to serve them tea and express their gratitude to the Inquisitor for all of his hard work.
"Thank you so much Inquisitor, you saved him! Thank you! Oh thank you so much!" Mrs Tagawa said emotionally.
The Inquisitor inclined his head respectfully and drew their attention to the blue haired girl.
"This here is the one you should thank, she rescued your son and all the other prisoners enslaved by the forces of chaos." the Inquisitor said and continued.
"This here is Princess Egg Sevenson, first daughter and heir of the Chaos Space Marine Lord Luke Sevenson. She defied the wishes of her father at great personal risk to rescue Yuki and the other prisoners back to the Imperium. In so doing she has earned an Inquisitional pardon of all her sins and has been declared righteous in the sight of the Emperor." The Inquisitor finished.
The Tagawa family looked at Egg with astonishment and the strange little girl blushed brightly.
"Thank you so much Princess Egg Sevenson for rescuing my brother Yuki." Rin Tagawa said sincerely.
Mr and Mrs Tagawa hesitated only a moment before then also deeply thanking the strange Princess.
"You are welcome," the girl said shyly in a strangely bird like voice in passing Japanese.
"Waa! Look at her feet!" Rin suddenly exclaimed.
The parents looked down to see a pair of birds feed instead of human feet! They both recoiled in shock and the girl burst into tears. Yuki hugged her tightly and told them off for upsetting her.
"Your son and thousands of others owe this girl their lives and safe return. She is a mutant, it cannot be helped, but she is also one of the bravest girls I have ever seen. She deserves more respect than to be made to cry with unkind words." The Inquisitor said gravely.
Rin and the two parents felt deeply ashamed, the Inquisitor was absolutely right. This girl had apparently defied her terrible chaos lord father to rescue Yuki to the Inquisitor. All 3 of them bowed humbly to the girl and begged her forgiveness.
"I, I forgive you. Let us forget and move on. Yuki has told me so much about you, it is so good to finally meet you." Egg said politely.
"It sounds like you and Yuki are close friends." Rin said happily.
Egg and Yuki both blushed and shifted guiltily.
The Inquisitor spoke up, "if I may, Egg and Yuki are a lot more than just friends. Before her defection from Chaos, Egg became Yuki's girlfriend, the relationship is genuine."
The Tagawa family was shocked.
***...
The surviving Chaos forces on the hurtling iron planet Hapela Theta Rho 1 viciously fought with both the Imperial forces as well as each other for the few remaining energy sources on the exhausted planet. With Egg gone, the alliance between the Night Lords and the Iron Warriors had likewise disappeared, and both factions warred viciously with each other over remaining deuterium supplies.
The planet was rapidly hurtling away to extreme outer orbit of the system with the excessive kinetic energy Egg had given as her final parting gift, getting ever closer to the safe warp use distance from the pulsar. The planet still retained some of the heat it had gained from its acceleration and this had gone a long way to keeping people from dying of hypothermia.
Colonel Otto Armstrong directed his veteran chaos militia soldiers in a defence against Steel Brethren Iron Warrior Chaos Space Marines, desperate to hold onto the the underground bunker city that Otto had claimed as his own personal domain.
The entire planet was divided up into tiny warring kingdoms like this who controlled whatever shelter and energy they could find.
Otto's own city was little more than a maze of tunnels and bunkers 100 meters below the surface, the size of a small town rather than a true city. Otto had dubbed it the kingdom of Armstrong humorously, but didn't feel any strong connection to the place.
Apart from providing shelter and a sealed atmosphere, the only thing this settlement had of value was it's single deuterium plasma fusion generator and a few 12 kilogram canisters of precious deuterium, enough to last several years if properly used. That energy was running the atmosphere processing unit, they needed it just to keep breathing!
The Chaos Space Marines were trying to steal the deuterium for themselves, uncaring that this would kill Otto and his people. Well they were certainly not getting that deuterium without a fight, that's for damn sure!
The Steel Brethren already controlled huge amounts of deuterium, they were just being greedy now.
Otto got on the radio and shouted at the enemy to stop the attack.
"Give us all the deuterium and all your other supplies and we will spare your lives." The Chaos Space Marines shouted back.
"Fuck dat! We will all die without da tiny amount of stuff we have. Go raid da imperial positions, they have heaps of fuel!" Otto argued.
"YOU raid them and then give us the fuel you take and we will let you keep a few litres for yourself." The Chaos Marines countered.
"We can't raid em if you keep shooting at us, how about we join forces and raid them together." Otto suggested.
"Hm fair point, but it is probably easier to just kill you and take your fuel." The Marines replied.
"How much fuel you even think we have? You get maybe a canister at most after we shoot all da cans and open da air locks just ta spite you." Otto laughed.
"You wouldn't dare." The Marines growled threateningly.
"Yeah we would, we die anyway so we make ya raid for nothing." Otto promised.
The Marines grumbled and stopped attacking.
"Alliance?" They asked.
"Fine but you better pull ya weight in da raid." Otto warned.
Ever since Egg had left the system, the imperium had lost interest in capturing Hapela Theta Rho 1, it just had very little strategic worth anymore. The inquisition fleets had left in a hurry, taking the majority of the imperial forces with them. What remained was the new local planetary defence forces of the other 4 planets, all of them now officially designated as imperial mining worlds with their own planetary governors and populations of colonists.
The 4 imperial planets were mostly populated by imperial guard soldiers from the viciously mauled regiments that were too badly decimated to be worth the effort of amalgamating with other regiments to bring them back to combat strength. This included millions of wounded, millions of noncombatant personnel who's regiments had been destroyed by the fighting, as well as a few hundred thousand liberated chaos slaves who's home planets could not be reached for whatever reason.
All in all this new garrison population was far less effective at battling the forces of chaos than the endless waves of inexhaustible manpower the imperial guard had thrown at them had been. The new defence forces were battle hardened and had a lot of military equipment lying around, but simply did not have the manpower to finish off such well fortified enemies.
Otto's regiment of chaos militia fighters was now extremely battle hardened from months of the most vicious fighting imaginable. They had no sources of reinforcements, every soldier present had been present from the very start of the Hapela Theta Rho campaign. This made everyone still alive an exceedingly dangerous fighter, forged in the fires of war.
They numbered only a few thousand now after the terrible war, formerly they had numbered tens of thousands. This few thousand were now worth more in a fight then the original tens of thousands had been, perfected killing machines now.
Otto met on the open surface ground outside with the Steel Brethren company that was now their temporary ally, and together they discussed a plan of action to steal 100 tons of deuterium from an enemy supply dump.
"What's to stop them blowing up the supplies to deprive us?" Asked the Space Marine leader with a snarl.
"We be sneaky, sneak in and out without them da wiser." Otto explained.
Before the Space Marine could reply, the hidden bomb Otto's men had planted went off, a small yield tactical nuclear warhead hidden from sensors and eyesight by TigerLily's awesome psychic powers. The Chaos Space Marine company had been standing right on top of it without realising it was there.
The chaos space marine leader tore around from where he stood a short distance away with Otto to see his entire company engulfed in a mushroom cloud. Chunks of power armoured bodies flew everywhere, his space marines were all dead.
The Chaos Space Marine leader barely had time to take this all in before a bolt of bright blue plasma erupted out through his forehead and he fell down dead. Otto stood impassively holding his smoking plasma pistol, he had shot the leader in the back of the head the moment he turned his back on Otto.
TigerLily chuckled from where she had been standing right next to the leader, she had been there the entire time and the space marines had even seen her, she had merely reached into their minds and blocked the neural pathways that let them process the information. TigerLily had predicted this encounter days in advance and set a trap for the Iron Warriors.
TigerLily quickly collected the precious gene seeds from the smoking chunks of dead space marines, protecting them from the hard vacuum with her psychic powers. Otto's men got to work collecting the nuclear power cells from the power armour backpacks, this had been a very profitable bit of deception.
Having what they came for, everyone quickly fled safely back underground, the nuclear blast would have attracted unwanted attention.
"Soon the fates will be in place for us to leave this humorous ball of iron, it has been fun while it lasted, but soon the time for this place to significantly affect history will be over." TigerLily said with a delighted smirk.
"We really getting out of here alive?" Otto asked with desperate hope.
"Indeed, events have proceeded exactly as I have planned at every stage. My own ship, the Dauntless light cruiser "Orphan Blender", is currently parked in the warp at the edge of the system to pick us up. I was not so stupid as to let my own ship be forced to join the others in a futile last stand." TigerLily said delightedly.
Otto and his entire regiment cheered at the top of their voices and went wild with feverish hope, a ship was coming to rescue them!
***...
Mr Haruto Tagawa and his wife Aiko Tagawa were overwhelmed. They had their son Yuki back! Everything they had been told was so much to take in. They now had both a chaos princess and an Inquisitor staying as guests in their home!
If Haruto had the details right then a chaos space marine tyrant named Victus Ironboot had been the one responsible for kidnapping Yuki and the others for slave labor. This tyrant had been fighting a war against an even stronger chaos tyrant named Luke Sevenson the way that tyrants so often do battle amongst each other.
Luke Sevenson had then defeated Victus Ironboot and taken Yuki and the other kidnapped people as spoils of war. This terrible tyrant was a Chaos Space Marine Lord of the dreaded Night Lords traitor legion, he ruled a fleet of terrible ships even more terrible than the fleet that attacked Beta Kyoto Epsilon and stole Yuki!
This terrible tyrant king, Lord Luke Sevenson, had a 12 year old mutant daughter who was heir to his terrible throne and massive wealth, Princess Egg Sevenson.
Princess Egg's father had taken his entire fleet to the Hapela Theta Rho system, chased by Inquisitor Horatio Hoffman who had been tracking the Chaos Lord for years apparently. The imperial forces commanded by the Inquisitor then defeated Chaos Lord Luke Sevenson and rescued the prisoners.
Haruto had heard about the terrible war in the Hapela Theta Rho system from the news, the news had shown a planet of cold iron where there was no heat of any kind, airless and deadly. It was a terrible place where a brutal villain had his last stand in a war that killed millions of imperial guardsmen. Haruto could not think of a more terrible place to die in a war.
Yuki had been down on the terrible planet Hapela Theta Rho 1, forced to work as a slave in the terrible subterranean fortress of the Night Lords, right at the epicentre of the fighting. He had been forced to clean the household of a terrible Chaos Lady, the sister of the Chaos Lord who was minding the Princess during the length of the war.
Yuki had said that it was so cold down on the planet that no amount of blankets could keep him warm, so cold that he was dying of hypothermia. Princess Egg Sevenson had seen Yuki dying of cold and taken pity on him. She had put Yuki in the Royal chambers in front of an electric heater and had nursed him back to health.
The Princess had then fallen in love with Yuki, and Haruto Tagawa started to have a problem with what happened next in the accounts. This girl was very young yet Yuki had done very adult things to her, she had even shyly admitted that Yuki had had sex with her!
Haruto felt ashamed, his son had deflowered an underage princess! It didn't matter that she was a mutant, it didn't matter that her dynasty worshipped the chaos gods, she was still a Royal princess from a rich and powerful dynasty and her Princess rank had to be respected!
The Princess had then somehow managed to collaborate with the Inquisitor to rescue Yuki and the other prisoners and here they all were. The princess had been pardoned and was now learning to worship the Emperor, it was a wonderful happy ending.
It was wonderful, Haruto did not dispute that, it was just a shame that his son had not been able to keep his anatomy out of the princess. At least Yuki had taken responsibility for his actions and was in a committed relationship with this girl. Haruto was honour bound to accept the relationship, when your son porks a girl repeatedly you pretty much have no choice but to accept the relationship for the sake of the girl's honour.
The fact that she was a mutant daughter of a chaos worshipper would usually have been a source of great shame, but this was a PRINCESS, the daughter of a terrible powerful warrior king, and furthermore she had been given an Inquisitorial pardon. The family could save face in the community by this fact.
***...
Mrs Aiko Tagawa woke up early and went to Yuki's room to check on him to make sure that it wasn't all just a wonderful dream. She opened the thin wooden door and saw an outline under the bedcovers in the thin grey light of pre dawn.
Aiko smiled and tiptoed quietly to the bed. She sat on the edge of the bed and gazed lovingly at the shape under the bedcovers. Aiko suddenly felt a cold wetness under her bottom and stood up quickly.
Aiko touched her wet bottom of her bedclothes with her hand and then smelled her hand. It stank of urine!
Aiko looked at the bed closely and found that it was completely soaked with urine. Aiko could not just let Yuki sleep in a wet bed and turned on the bedroom light to change the sheets. The light showed that the bed was soaked with bright yellow urine.
The shape under the covers shifted and Aiko heard a strange bird noise coming from under the covers followed by the sound of Yuki groaning. Aiko was confused, did he have a pet bird in the bed with him?
Yuki's head poked out from under the covers, squinting in the light.
"Huh, what's going on, why is the light on?," he asked groaning tiredly.
"Yuki you need to get out of that wet bed, just let me change the bed for you." Aiko told him gently.
Another head poked out from under the covers and Aiko froze in surprise. The helmeted head of the princess squinted in the light.
"Oh, I, um, oh." Aiko said embarrassedly.
Yuki saw her embarrassment and he blushed terribly too.
"I'm so sorry about the bed Mrs Tagawa, I wet the bed almost every night." Princess Egg said apologetically in her strangely birdlike voice.
"I, I, you have a bed in another room, why are you here?" Aiko asked.
"I'm so sorry Mrs Tagawa, I just can't sleep alone. It was the first time I have ever slept in a bed all alone by myself I think. In my family, all the children share a bed, all except my big brother Augusta. Augusta is the oldest but he is a bastard, not a legitimate heir. Anyway I have just always shared a bed, I got very lonely in a strange place all by myself." Princess Egg said nervously.
"Ok, maybe you can sleep with Rin in future, that might be more appropriate than sleeping with a boy." Aiko said compassionately.
Egg blushed, "Is it bad that I sleep here?"
"Well people might get the wrong idea and it might be too tempting to you young people." Aiko explained gently.
Princess Egg looked confused.
"Anyway dear, please get out of bed so I can change the sheets." Aiko told the little girl sweetly.
Princess Egg nodded and climbed out from under the covers, she was naked! Aiko blushed and rushed to get Yuki up lest he do something untoward, but Yuki blushed and kept himself covered by the bedcovers.
Aiko gasped, "Yuki! Are you naked?"
Yuki nodded frantically, blushing all over.
Aiko stammered, "d-did you, did you and her?"
Egg tilted her head puzzled and cheerfully announced, "Yuki and I had sex earlier, that's why we are both naked."
Aiko became extremely quiet, this situation was so awkward. Yuki cringed at Egg's words and hid his face in his hands to escape his embarrassment. Egg blinked at them both in confusion.
"Did, did I say something wrong?" Egg asked anxiously.
"Just shut up Egg, don't say anything else I beg you." Yuki said mortified.
Aiko personally agreed with this but didn't say anything. She gave Yuki and Egg some privacy to put some clothes on before stripping the bed. The mattress was soaked right through and would have to be washed immediately.
***...
Egg felt sheepish as she bathed with Rin in the bathroom that morning. The family had a very particular way of bathing and Egg needed help figuring it out.
Egg fumbled to wash under her helmet without the proper specially designed cleaning tools she used to own.
"Why don't you just take it off?" Rin asked.
"It's not safe to take it off, the town won't be safe." Egg said sadly.
"What are you talking about?" Rin asked incredulously.
"I'm a psyker, this helmet stops my psychic powers. I can't yet control my powers, this helmet is the only thing keeping everyone safe." Egg explained.
Rin shuddered at the mention of psychic powers.
"I guess I understand, so the Inquisitor keeps you safe with this helmet?" Rin asked.
Egg nodded.
Rin helped Egg clean under her helmet with the hand held shower hose and a lot of shampoo. The jet of water dislodged a knot of shed blue feathers that had been stuck to her scalp for years. Rin picked the feathers up and looked at them in wonder.
"What does it feel like, having feathers?" Rin asked.
"Mostly it's just a nuisance, they are really hard in the stem bits and they get really itchy. I wish I had hair like yours, I have always wanted hair like a normal person." Egg admitted.
"Why do you have feathers, how come you don't have hair?" Rin asked.
Egg sighed, "I inherited the feathers from my mother. She wasn't born with feathers but Tzeentch gave them to her as a chaos mutation before she had any children. Unfortunately all of my siblings from my birth mother inherited the feathers and even my sister Violet's baby has feathers, they are passed down the generations."
Rin shuddered fearfully at the mention of Tzeentch.
"Do you have a big family?" Rin asked after a pause.
"Yes, extremely big family depending on how you count relations. My father the Chaos Lord got to be with any women he likes in his fleet, he got hundreds of women pregnant, possibly thousands. I only know a small proportion of all of my siblings by my father, now I will never get to know them." Egg said regretfully.
"Oh? You mean you will never see your family again?" Rin asked gently.
Tears started to form in Egg's eyes and she started to cry.
"They are probably all dead. It was so much death in that terrible war. My father's flagship was destroyed by laser batteries, I saw it burning, like a bright ball of fire! And my poor mummy and Aunty Wendy are trapped inside the fortress city, it was SO cold on Hapela Theta Rho 1, and they are stranded there forever with my poor siblings. You have no idea how COLD it is in that terrible place." Egg wept.
"The only family I have that are still alive are my grandmother MA7 and my birth mother TigerLily, maybe my grandfather Nathan is also alive and a few others on Beta Kappa Rwanda 5, but that's all that is left out of hundreds." Egg sobbed.
Rin comforted Egg compassionately, "oh that is awful! To lose so many family members! Will you never see any of them again?"
"My birth mother TigerLily will hunt me down for the rest of my life, the Inquisition will need to protect me from her." Egg replied sadly.
"I'm confused, weren't you just crying about never seeing your mummy again?" Rin asked.
Egg blinked at this and tried to explain.
"Mummy is not my birth mother, mummy is a slave who raised me from birth. My birth mother is a terrible person who thinks dead puppies are funny, she is a monster. I want nothing to do with TigerLily, she is a truly evil villain." Egg exclaimed disjointedly.
"She's probably dead though?" Rin said.
"No, TigerLily cannot be killed. Less than a year ago she stopped being mortal and became a Daemon Princess of Tzeentch. No matter how many times my Father killed her she just kept coming back from the warp. She could be on this planet already! The inquisition and the grey knights are the only ones who can keep me safe from her." Egg said darkly.
Rin trembled and cowered in terror, "you must not stay here, don't bring such evil things to Beta Kyoto Epsilon!"
"If I leave here she will still come for Yuki, she will kidnap anyone she can to try to force me to return to her. It's safer for all of you if I stay, that way she will ignore you and just focus on me. Also as long as I stay here the Inquisition stays here too." Egg explained.
Rin nodded numbly and Egg felt absolutely terrible for putting these good people in such terrible danger.
***...
Inquisitor Horatio Hoffman sat the family down and explained the entire situation with Egg. He explained the concept of an Alpha Plus, explained that she was one and explained that he had centuries of experience in dealing with them and had spent 7 long years tracking Egg intent on killing her.
And Horatio explained that he saw within Egg a goodness and extraordinary potential that compelled him to spare her life and recruit her to serve as an agent of the Inquisition. He explained that Egg's enormous potential outweighed the risks, used properly Egg could defend billions of innocent people from deadly threats.
Horatio explained more than all of this that Egg was a person, a very good person with enormous strength of character, and that she deserved a chance to have a normal life with a normal family.
"To that end I have officially legally adopted Egg as my own daughter. I will raise her with kindness and the sort of nurture that she needs. She suffered terrible emotional damage from her traumatic childhood and requires years of dedicated nurture to undo some of this damage."
"That is where you come in Tagawa family. I need you to help me provide Egg with a much needed support base to have a normal life. She has lost her entire family and Yuki is all she has left of people that she knows."
"Yuki has likewise been through a highly traumatic experience, one he only survived thanks to Egg. The pair carried each other through a hellish experience and are very close as a result. It is in both of their best interests that they stay in each other's lives, at least for the immediate future."
"The sexual relationship between them, you must understand what they were going through. They were freezing and in a deadly war. They both expected that they would die very soon and had nothing to lose. They both firmly believed that if they did not have sex at the time then they would never live to have another opportunity."
"Do not condemn your son for reaching out in kindness to give simple joy to an innocent girl facing certain death. She at the time said that she was thankful to experience it before she died."
Horatio continued to discuss his plans at length. Egg was new to the Imperium and needed to get to experience Imperial life if she was to truly develop a love for the Imperium in later life. Egg and Horatio would be living permanently in this community and be integrated as much as possible into the community.
To this end Horatio humbly requested that he and Egg lodge with the Tagawa family in their home for the next few years, promising to pay rent to compensate.
Mr and Mrs Tagawa did not dare refuse the Inquisitor who had returned their son to them and agreed to this request.
***...
Egg was extremely nervous about her first day of school with Yuki at the local high school. She had been bumped up a year to be in Yuki's class, her over the top Royal family education making up for being too young for the class.
Inquisitor Horatio Hoffman had the authority to command any imperial citizen, and that included school principals and education boards. At a word from him Egg was enrolled without question.
Egg was wearing her school uniform. It consisted of a short light green skirt, a white button up T-shirt, a yellow vest over the shirt and a little red ribbon done in a bow at the front of her shirt collar. She also wore polished black shoes specially designed for her bird feet and thigh length white socks.
Her helmet was completely covered in purity seals showing her as a fully sanctioned mutant under the protection of the Inquisition itself, and her uniform and bags likewise had very conspicuous Inquisition sanction orders pinned to the fabric with safety pins.
The Inquisitor himself walked beside Egg in his power armour accompanied by a retinue of elite bodyguards in carapace armour and holding fearsome weaponry. At the head of the group marched a man holding a massive banner flag bearing the official icon of the Inquisition.
People everywhere made hand signals of religious devotion at the sight of the procession and abased themselves fearfully before the Inquisitor. Others cheered, recognising him as the Inquisitor who had returned their kidnapped loved ones and shouted praises.
A crowd of people followed behind, holding their hands together in prayer fervently. Egg blushed shyly, this was not putting her at ease!
The Inquisitorial group marched straight into the school with Egg, the school was already secured by an entire regiment of imperial storm troopers who checked everyone and patrolled everywhere to keep it safe for Egg.
Egg was marched directly to her soldier infested class room with Yuki and she blushed scarlet as the terrified classmates gazed at her in astonishment.
Inquisitor Horatio Hoffman addressed the class and gestured at Egg.
"My name is Inquisitor Horatio Hoffman of the Ordo Hereticus. I have just returned from fighting a terrible war in the Hapela Theta Rho system where I rescued many of your abducted people. This girl standing beside me here is the reason I was able to rescue so many of your people alive and return them to you a few days ago."
"This girl is Princess Egg Sevenson, eldest daughter and heir of Night Lords Chaos Space Marines Chaos Lord Luke Sevenson. Egg risked her life defying her Chaos Lord father to rescue countless multitudes of Emperor worshipping prisoners back to the Imperium."
"Every one of your rescued countrymen was rescued because Egg collaborated with the Inquisition to release them from the terrible fortress down on the planet."
"For her heroic actions and noble deeds aiding the Imperium in the face of certain death, Princess Egg Sevenson has been given an Inquisitorial pardon for the crime of being born a mutant and a member of a chaos worshipping dynasty."
The Inquisitor went on at length describing Egg in glowing terms until she was blushing brightly. He really was going a bit overboard Egg thought.
"As a new Imperial citizen, the princess requires proper integration into Imperial society and education as an Imperial citizen. To that end, as her legal guardian I have enrolled her in your class and I expect all of you to make her feel welcome." Inquisitor Hoffman finished.
The entire class gawked at Egg. Egg blushed, she had never felt so shy in her life!