Title: Tokyo 3 Imperial Creed
Author: Knife Hand
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Spoilers: None.
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I do not own Evangelion or Warhammer 40K.
Summary: Thanks to a strange twist of fate, the fight for Tokyo 3 is no longer just to save Earth, but to Serve the Immortal Emperor.
December 16th, 2015
Misato wearily led her Regiment back into the Geofront after being relieved by another unit of Imperial Guard. As her units descended, they began removing their helmets and checking over their Lasguns. Most of them were true Imperial Guard, but Misato had also received the lion's share of the former NERV Section Three troops as they were more likely to follow her command. Sorry to say the Section Three troops were inferior to the Guard and had made up the majority of the casualties her Regiment, the First Terran Regiment, had sustained. She was running her hand through her hair, cut shorter than before to avoid it getting in her way during combat, when her personal Vox operator approached her.
"Colonel." The Vox operator said. "I just received word from General Ibuki. Command level meeting is scheduled for eighteen hundred."
Misato simply nodded in reply and continued to her private shower, a luxury most regular troopers and even most of the civilians no longer had, in fact most showers were no longer gender segregated, there just was not enough facilities to do that.
In the first few weeks of the urban conflict for Tokyo 3, the scattered forces form all sides had drawn into their controlled sectors and those sectors had stabilised. In the end a further fourteen thousand Imperial Guard Infantry, reporting in groups ranging from single squads up to Company size, and in a few cases only one or two individuals, from over two hundred different Imperial Guard Regiments, had made their way into the Imperial sector. Along with the Guardsmen had come, as was almost inevitable, almost fifty Commissars, the feared Discipline and Moral Officers of the Guard. Maya had restructured the Guardsmen, and the NERV Section Three troops into three Regiments, the First, Second and Third Terran Regiments with Misato getting command of the First. There was also a force of seventy Leman Russ Battle Tanks of various patterns that had also regrouped in the Imperial zone and were now dubbed the One Hundred and Fist Terran Armoured Regiment. This had been to avoid confusion between a possible First Infantry and First Armoured.
Other Imperial forces had made their way into the Imperial Zone besides the Imperial Guard. Three more groups of Space Marines had also made their way in, but none were as large as Captain Ikari's Ultramarine force of twenty-seven. There had been a full tactical squad of ten and a mixed group of six Terminators, three armed with Storm Bolters and Power Fists while the other three had Thunder Hammers and Storm Shields accompanied by a Tech-Marine from the Imperial Fists Chapter in their Yellow armour. The second group was seven Tactical Marines and Six Assault Marines accompanied by four scouts and an Apothecary from the Raven Guard Chapter, noted stealth operators, in the black armour. The last group were the blue/grey armoured Space Wolves, the savage Chapter from Fenris, made up of a Grey Hunter pack of seven, a Long Fang pack of five equipped with one Heavy Bolter, One Plasma cannon, one Lascannon and one Multi-Melta and lead by a Wolf Guard equipped with a Frostblade and Bolter. All of these Space Marine forces fell under the command of Captain Ikari, but due to their differing fighting styles the different Chapters operated only with their Chapter Brothers. While the Space Marines had started out, during that weird Halloween night, as basically normal Humans, since then the various implants of the Space Marine had begun their work and in only a few weeks, each of them had gained muscle mass, speed and healing. The Apothecary said that there had been changes to the Geneseed and the implants which would provide most of the advantages an Imperial Astartes enjoyed but would not give the extra height or the extreme muscle mass typical of a Space Marine. They would still be superhuman, but would not be towering Gods when compared to normal humans.
Two other forces of Sisters of Battle had also shown up. One was a simple force of ten Celestians, the elite force of the Sisters from the Order of the Sacred Rose, in their white armour with black robes. The second force consisted of twelve Battle Sisters and four Sister Repentia led by the Repentia Mistress from the Order of the Argent Shroud, with the Battle Sisters and the Mistress in silver armour with white robes while the Sister Repentia were dressed in the tattered remains of their white robes with their faces hidden and were armed with large, two-handed Eviscerator Chainswords. All the Sisters had agreed to operate under Canoness Ayanami's command, even through there had been some argument between the Battle Sisters of the Order of Our Martyred Lady and the Celestians of the Order of the Sacred Rose as to who should provide bodyguards for the Canoness, a role traditionally performed by Celestians. Rei had decided that any bodyguards would come from her Order's Sisters, citing to the Celestians that their expertise was of more use in the field.
The last military additions to the Imperial Forces were very few in number, five in total, but were arguably more deadly than even the mighty Space Marines. They were the Assassins. Three were lithe women in black, skin-tight full body suits with their only armament being a pair of Power Swords, the infamous Death Cult Assassins. The other two Assassins could not be more different from each other. One, a Callidus Assassin, was a beautiful woman in simple clothing with a sword sheathed to her back and a pistol at her waist, who had the ability to change her appearance. The other, a Vindicare Assassin, was a plain faced man dressed in a set of pitch black fatigues, was a master sniper with a long sniper rifle slung over his shoulder and a powerful pistol in a thigh holster and a number of pouches with specialist ammunition.
Also five Tech-Priests from the Machine Cult had arrived, with three Skittarii bodyguards between them, in addition to the one that had been with now General Ibuki's squads and they, with the aid of the Tech-Marine, had sealed of all personnel access routs into the Geofront from non-Imperial sectors and the maintenance of vehicles and equipment.
In addition to all this military activity, there were also over a quarter of a million civilians who had retreated to the Imperial controlled sectors, most of them being moved down to the Geofront to get them away from the fighting. A lot of the civilians being conscripted to either food production in the vast open areas at the top of the Geofront or into rapidly converted manufatorums to produce war materials under the supervision of the Tech-Priests, but General Ibuki had also passed an Act of Conciliation, where any civilian who whished to could join the Imperial Guard.
To everyone's surprise this had netted over twenty-five thousand volunteers, over one in ten of the civilian population. Personnel from the Active Imperial Guard Units were selected to form a training Cadre, dropping the front line ranks by over two thousand mostly from the Infantry Regiments with extensive combat experience or specialist training, but also taking almost four Leman Russ crews off the line to train crews for the new tanks that would be coming out of the new manufactorums. The vast majority of the Commissars had also been assigned to oversee the training of the new recruits, although one was assigned to each of the four Regiments, and about 5 had formed 'Section Headquarters' for the Commissariat, to organise and oversee the activities of the other Commissars.
Approximately a score of young female volunteers had been appropriated by the Sisters of Battle as Novices and a representative from each of the four Space Marine Chapters were observing both the new recruits and the Imperial Guard for possible Aspirants. So far, only two Aspirants had been chosen, both for the Imperial Fists, as the Ultramarines and Raven Guard already had Scouts, who except for their Sergeants were late stage Aspirants and almost ready to become full Space Marines, and the Space Wolves had very… unique requirements for their Aspirants.
After her shower and a hot meal, Misato made her way to the Command Level meeting, which was held in a conference room near what used to be Commander Ikari's office, but was now used for the council of the Lords of Terra. The meeting was officially chaired by General Ibuki, even though Captain Ikari and Canoness Ayanami outranked her. The Imperial Guard side was represented by the General, the Colonels from the First, Third and 101st Terran Regiments (The Second was currently deployed guarding the perimeter of the Imperial Sector), and the Lord Commissar who was in charge of 'Section'. Canoness Ayanami and the Veteran Sister Superior of the Celestians represented the Sisters of Battle. The Space Marines were represented by both Captain Ikari and the Wolf Guard from the Space Wolves Chapter. The Machine Cult was represented by two Techpriests, one was the Techpriest that had been with Maya Ibuki's Platoons during the ambush.
"How are things on the front lines, Colonel Katsuragi?" Maya asked.
"A few skirmishes with the Tau." Misato reported. "One attempt to break through our lines. We repelled them with relatively light casualties, thanks to some assistance from the Sisters of the Argent Shroud. Without them we would have had to fall back. The Eldar front was mostly silent, though I had reports that some Space Marine Scouts went into their sector. I think mostly they are trying to consolidate their forces, just like we are."
"Captain Ikari, would you please report on the Scouts?" Maya said.
"If anyone is likely to try something sneaky it is the Eldar." Shinji replied. "I sent the Scouts in to see if they were preparing any of their Xeno Rituals. Colonel Katsuragi is correct in her assessment. The Eldar are regrouping and trying to come to terms with what has happened. They still concern me, though. Most of the Eldar in that Sector are Aspect Warriors, which is bad enough, but they seem to have at least one Farseer and possibly a Warlock Council. I have no Librarian and there are no Sanctioned Psykers with the Guard, so their Witchery could be a real problem."
"Our Faith shall protect us." Rei said, her voice hard. 'Leave the Witches to my Sisters."
Shinji bowed his head in acknowledgment. The Sisters were not only the Militant arm of the Ecclesiarchy, but were also the Chamber Militant of the Ordos Hereticus of the Inquisition. They were Witch Hunters.
"How is the fortifications and production of new war gear going?" Maya asked, only to be interrupted by a wailing siren.
Only four people in the conference room recognised the alarm. Almost as soon as it sounded, Shinji and Rei were up and out the door, followed closely by Misato and Maya. It was an Angel Attack Alarm. As Rei and Shinji got into the Plugsuits they were joined by Asuka. They were soon loaded into their Eva's and were waiting for instructions to Launch.
Up on the surface, all fighting between the factions stopped, even a major battle that had been raging between the Orcs and the Tau for over five hours as the floating figure of the Angel entered the city. Every individual who saw the floating Angel, which looked like a little like a sausage with two little limbs at one end and a weird glowing orb and ribcage on the underside, immediately raised their weapons and started firing at it. Everything from pistols to Tank Shells to the Rail Cannons on Tau Broadside Battlesuits were fired at the floating form, mostly without effect. Some of the Rail Cannons managed to slightly scorch the Angel, and a decent sized chunk was burnt off it by the concentrated plasma burst from the main cannon of a Leman Russ Executioner.
When the three Eva's emerged from their special elevator shafts in the Imperial sector, everyone watching regardless of their race cheered. As the devastating Biomechanical weapons charged in and began their attack on the Angel, no one ever considered using them against the Xenos. The Eva's fought the Angels. The Imperium fought the Xenos. That was just the way it was.
TBC…