The gates of the Fortress Monastery were sizzling with heat as the guards lay dead just inside. The turrets were broken and the remaining Space Marines had fallen back to the main hall. The Necron Overlord Theoris looked around with satisfaction. As he was looking around his right hand Necron, a Cryptek, came up behind him.
"We have been winning this battle from the moment we awoke my lord" he said in a voice.
"Yes, but has it awoken because of us" replied the Overlord.
"Our scanners indicate that it has not. But we would wipe this world clean of life quickly before it does" the Cryptek answered. And with that the Overlord signalled the Doomsday Ark to fire on the gates to the main hall.
With a thunderous crash the gates blew open revealing the Space Marines waiting inside. Seven Terminators, eight turrets, thirteen Tactical Marines, six Scout Marines, two Librarians, one Chaplain, one Captain and the Chapter Master opened fire on the Necrons, blowing all those in sight to bits. The Overlord and the Cryptek were standing behind the pillar, safe and hidden from the Marines but Overlord Theoris didn't plan on staying hidden.
A huge wave of Scarabs swarmed in through the outer gates and quickly into the main hall. The Marines fired everything they had at them and in a couple of minutes all the Scarabs were dead with the Space Marines all alive though some were bitten and scratched.
"Ha! Is that all you have got Necrons" shouted the Chapter Master.
"No!" shouted back the Overlord. "That's all you will get Space Marine."
The Chapter Master looked around confused at what the Necron had said. He didn't know that Necrons could speak and here was one insulting him.
"There were more just then normal scarabs in there, Marines" said Overlord Theoris. "There were Bloodswarm Nanoscarabs." The Space Marine looked at each other confused.
"It means that anyone who was bitten of scratched by them will draw Flayered Ones to them" said Theoris in mocking tone. "I suggest you look above you" he said just after looking at the Cryptek's scanner.
And just like he suggested the Marines looked up and saw a few dozen Flayered Ones hanging to the ceiling. Seeing their cover blown the Flayered Ones jumped down and began slicing and slashing the scared Marines. The Cryptek, hearing the Marines occupied jumped out from behind the pillar and shot eight blasts at the turrets, shot circuiting them and rending them useless. Then Overlord Theoris charged out into the battle and then through it to where the Captain and the Chapter Master were.
A Librarian jumped in front of him but with one sidewards swing Theoris killed him and nearly chopped him in half. Adosh, the Captain of the first company had just killed a Flayered One when he saw the Overlord but it was already too late. Theoris had already jumped in the air with his weapon in position and with one clean downwards swing Adosh's head fell from his body.
Chapter Master Corves saw Adosh die and swelled with anger he charged and rammed the Overlord, knocking him over. But just as he was about to finish him he felt blood trickle down his cheek. He raised his right Power Fist to his cheek and when he removed it there was a small stain of blood. Corves knew instantly that he had been infected by the Bloodswarm Nanoscarab and as he turned his suspicions were confirmed as he saw all the Flayered Ones, finished with their prey, now looking straight at him.
All at once the swarmed him. Corves punched one after the other but they kept coming. The scratches on his Terminator armour were getting larger and deeper by the second until suddenly there were no more. Corves breathed a sigh of relief before he was suddenly blasted unconscious by the Overlord's warscythe out the main hall and out the Fortress. When he woke he was on top of a skyscraper, facing the Fortress Monastery, now surrounded by multiple Necron battleships.
"Watch your pitiful fortress be destroyed vermin" said the Necron Overlord.
Corves tried to move but he was paralysed. All he could do is move his head and watch the fortress. The Overlord pressed a button on his gauntlet and then all the ships opened fire. The glass smashed, towers fell, walls crumbled and the whole time Corves had to watch.
"Now it is your turn" said the Overlord. He raised his scythe above his head in position and then quickly brought it down.