IMPERIAL REPORT #08 2016-08-20 0114

Before I get a chance to react at all Xhaia opens fire, she strafes from left to right, there was located Protsmeias.

*Pshushsshshsphshshsh* sings her weapon

Protsmeias drops to the floor.

A weapon rack between him and me impedes me from seeing him any further

Xhaia continues strafing at an overwhelming speed.

Tih rushes forwards and attempts to grab Xhaia, but fails, Xhaia moves at an incredible speed and lands a kick on Tih's helmet, dropping him with his back on the floor then aims her weapon at Tih's breastplate.

Immediately before she can shoot Tih, I open fire upon our previous ally, Xhaia.

*Pshuuumm Phsuuuummm* each shot from the pulse carbine rings.

I fire 4 shots in a row from the hip, the pulse carbine has a very slight kick and the shots it fires are a deep blue.

Xhaia seems to somehow read my intention and dodges each shot.

One of my missed shots hits the door pad, leaving everyone in the inside of the room locked in.

Tih gets up and makes a run towards my location. Taking cover behind the weapon rack which impeded me seeing Protsmeias

Xhaia grabs a krak grenade from one of the weapon racks, sets it live and throws it in the direction of the door; the door is blown away completely.

I assume Xhaia is going to try and make a run for the door in order to escape, henceforth, I take aim and prepare to fire in the direction of the door.

I see Xhaia leave cover in the direction of the door; I can see her completely exposed.

I open fire, however Xhaia is far faster than me, I only manage to land a shot on her left arm and barely scratch her right leg.

Xhaia runs away, leaving a blood trail behind her.

I direct myself towards Tih "Tih, check Protsmeias"

I remain taking aim at the door just in case Xhaia or some other "unwelcomed visitor" decides to visit.

Tih does not answer so I speak again "Dude, Tih, are you there?"

I turn my head for a brief moment in order to see why Tih was not speaking to me.

As I turn my head I can see Tih clearly, he's face is looking towards the floor, the helmet he is wearing blocks my vision of his face, however I can sense great sadness.

I think to myself "don't tell me Protsmeias is…"

I speak to Tih "Tih what is wrong with you? Please answer"

There is only silence; I can only hear the echo of my own voice resonating in the hallway and the loud footsteps of Xhaia, as they grew ever further away.

Then I hear Tih's voice "I… I am sorry…"

There is a minute of nothing.

Suddenly I can hear behind me the footsteps of Tih getting up, he then speaks again and says "Where is Protsmeias?"

I speak to Tih "What are you saying man? He got shot, he must be over there in the floor, I saw him go down"

Tih speaks again "Protsmeias is not here" this time he speaks in a very strong and imperative voice.

I turn around in disbelief; I abandon my position and check the entire room again.

Tih is telling the truth Protsmeias is nowhere to be found.

All I could find of interest was a huge hole in the floor, which seemed to still glow with heat.

I can only ask one question in my mind "What the fuck is going on here?"

Then suddenly I can hear Protsmeias voice in my head, Protsmeias's voice speaks "Hello, hellooooooo, can you hear me?"

The only thought in my mind right now is "How the fuck am I even hearing this guy?"

I speak out loud "Uhmm, yes I can hear you, uhmm…. How can I hear you?"

He answers "I'm using my mind control, prepare yourself, now you are my slave muahahahahahah" his laugh is incredibly evil; in fact it's so evil that it induces me to ask greater questions.

I ask "What, when did you get inside my head"

He then speaks again "Hihihihi, I'm joking, I'm not actually in your head or anything, I'm using the Vox caster in your helmet to speak to you, I adjusted the frequency of my radio to yours, so now we can communicate, give Tih the following frequency so he can hop into this radio channel too"

Protsmeias passes me a long number; I get close to Tih and tell him to adjust his radio to this frequency, Tih obeys and gets into the radio channel

Tih greets Protsmeias "Hey dude it's good to hear you but, where are you?"

Protsmeias then replies "Well… I can kind of shot the floor, "accidentally""

Tih replies "And? Last time I checked no gun teleported people once they were shot"

Protsmeias answers "Well I… I kind of shot the plasma gun, and it uhmm… made a hole in the floor"

I intervene in the conversation "Why did you shoot the floor?"

Protsmeias answers my question "Ehhhh… I may have gotten kind of scared when I heard shots, and I accidentally pushed the trigger of the plasma gun, melting the floor"

I answer him "Well fuck, we need to regroup"

Protsmeias answers in a worried voice this time "Actually we have a much larger problem right now, and that problem is that the shot actually kept going multiple levels and I think it hit the oxygen producing chamber"

Tih speaks "How do you know that?"

Protsmeias responds "I can see a message in a screen next to an oxygen tank; it says oxygen will run out in an hour"

I think to myself "We are fucked"

Protsmeias keeps talking "We really need to get out of here now"

Tih answers to Protsmeias "Okay, no problem can you tell me which level are you in? Ill guide you to the hangar"

A sudden question boarded my mind "Why did Tih know the ship?"

Protsmeias answers "There is a label here saying, "Level C""

Tih replies "Wow, nice, turns out you are quite literally next to the hangar, in fact you went down 2 levels; prisoners are kept in the highest level, Level A"

I ask Tih "So, any chance we use this miraculous hole to get down there too?"

Tih quickly responds "It's not a bad idea if you are not afraid of breaking your legs"

Protsmeias interrupts "Guys, do something fast, we don't have much time, oh shit"

I can hear background noise coming through Protsmeias's radio, it sounds like an explosion.

"Guys, we have a problem" Protsmeias speaks concerned into the radio.

Protsmeias keeps talking "The inquisitor is in the hangar apparently with the same intentions as us, and the friends of Xhaia seem to have come searching for her, they are tearing the hangar apart, get down here fast"

My first thought is that of using, the grav-chute to stop the fall, however there is not enough space in the hole to deploy it.

Tih seems to be doing something; I draw closer to him to see what he is doing.

Tih is sewing together shoulder straps.

I direct myself at Tih "Tih, what are you doing? And where did you get that sewing kit from?"

Tih doesn't answer for a brief moment, as if he was in deep thought, then suddenly as if he came back to reality answers me. "Oh sorry, I was thinking, I'm making a rope and the sewing kit, well… it's a long story but I always keep it in me, after a particularly brutal mission I learnt how incredibly annoying it is to be wearing boots with holes in them, since that day I always kept a sewing kit on me.

I watch him as his hands moves up and down very fast; he seems to be very experienced sewing, a secret art for me, which I could never master.

"Okay all done" says Tih

Tih moves closer to the hole and lets the sewed together shoulder straps fall through it, until there are no more shoulder straps to keep deploying.

Then Tih moves close to one of the weapon racks and ties it with multiple knots.

Tih directs himself at me "Want to do the honours'?"

My mind fills with doubt, why did Tih release Xhaia? Maybe he was scheming to kill me and Protsmeias.

I hesitate, but in the end choose to trust my companion.

I holster my new best friend, the pulse carbine, on my shoulder, re-tract the grav-chute and begin descending down the hole.

As I descend down the hole I get a good look at the many layers of metal between levels there are, there are several, in fact about 10 or 15, I cannot recognize which metal they are built from, I assume steel or titanium.

I pass through Level B, it is just as dead empty as Level A, not a sound can be heard besides from my breathing.

I finally reach Level C; There Protsmeias is waiting for me, he helps me down the rope, briefly after Tih descends too, both I and Protsmeias help him to get down from the rope.

Surprisingly enough Tih was much heavier than I expected, however Protsmeias didn't show to have any trouble at all lifting Tih on his own.

From that moment the way to the hangar was obvious, just simply follow the source of the shots.

Tih abruptly said "Don't go that way, both of you come here"

I and Protsmeias ask what was going on and why.

Tih explained "The hangar has 2 ways in, knowing the inquisitor she probably has both entrances covered in order to avoid the "uninvited guests" from escaping further inside the ship, right here" Tih points at a wall with a strange diagonal cut in it.

This wall was in need of repairs, however because of time restraints it was never fully repaired, the walls were just simply fixed on the outside, but the inside remains completely hollow.

I tell him "You have to tell me what kind of weapon was capable of blowing a hole in these thick walls someday"

Tih answers "Yes… maybe someday"

Tih asks "Okay, you guys ready?"

Protsmeias and I nod and back away; Tih takes a krak grenade from one of his pouches, sets it live, tosses it in the marked wall and runs towards us as fast as he can.

All three of us throw ourselves to the ground before the grenade goes off.

*CTHOOOOOOOOOOM*

The krak grenade explodes with violence, devastating the wall.

Now we can hear the shots in the hangar clearly.

All three of us rush towards the newly opened hole and storm our way in through it.

Immediately as we rush forward we find ourselves in a high position, distant from most of the shooting.

The hangar was a massive complex, much larger than any room in the entire ship I had seen, with multiple layers, with variating heights, there was a massive shootout going on, there was a ship docked which was being protected by soldiers wearing the same style of armor and weapons Xhaia had used when she betrayed us.

All of them seemed not human. I couldn't count all of them, but roughly there were around 40-50

On the other side, just as Tih had predicted the inquisitor seemed to be completely decided to push these "unwanted visitors" out of the hangar, on both doors, just as Tih said, covering each entrance there were about 100 men, all of them constantly raining down lazer hell upon the invaders.

The invaders seemed to have no problem defending themselves from the inquisitor's troops. All of the invaders were taking cover behind some sort of deployable energy shield; I assume they must have brought it with them.

However I noticed one glaring difference in the inquisitor's troops, the armor they wore was nothing like the armor we found in the armoury, some were wearing very light clothes that could of very well belonged to a civilian, my best assumption is that they belonged to the crew of the ship.

While others wore guardsman armor, some others wore Stormtrooper armor and others wore kinds of armor which I could not recognize. I also noticed that the helmets we three were wearing were completely closed, while the helmets of the people fighting downstairs were open, either on the eyes or the face.

The inquisitor's side seemed to have the advantage; however they suffered plenty of casualties, about 80 people wearing imperial armor laid on the floor completely immobile.

That was when I spotted the inquisitors, first I saw the woman inquisitor, wearing the same she was last time, and then I noticed she was accompanied by the inquisitor which had a cybernetic eye implant. I also noticed there were more than those two wearing inquisitor's attire, in fact there were 3 more, however I couldn't get a good look at them and confirm they were inquisitor's too.

They were accompanied by woman wearing almost what the legendary space marines are said to wear, power armor, the weapons they carried were varied, a few carried bolters, while the others carried chainsaws and bolt pistols.

Tih whispers "Take a look over there" pointing to the women next to the inquisitors "Those women next to the inquisitor? They belong to the Adepta Sororitas, they are the inquisitor's personal bodyguards, it would be wise to not cross them"

Protsmeias pointed us towards the inquisitors and said "You see that man? He was the bastard who killed my brethren, we should kill him"

Tih answered "Don't worry, I got this"

Protsmeias and I stared at him; I asked "what do you mean with "I got this""

Tih answered "You remember we came from the prisoner ward, don't you? I took the freedom of hijacking the door control system before I was captured; I also planted melta charges all over the ceiling of Level A, Level B, and Level C which means, that when we activate them the ceiling will literally melt, the prisoners will be released and get some "revenge""

I asked "how do you plan on activating them? You don't look like you have any way of doing it"

Tih replied "Don't worry, my plans are fail proof, they are activated by emitting a particular message on a particular radio frequency"

I replied "But what if the helmets we found didn't have Vox casters in them?"

Tih replied to me "I had taken special care for these particular sets of armor to be "misplaced""

Protsmeias looked worried and asked Tih "But, wouldn't that make the ship fall apart?"

Tih answered "Maybe, but it is either that or getting eaten by Tyranids or getting executed by the inquisitor or getting shot"

Tih changes radio frequency and says "Me da biggest baddest ork"

I hear the loudest noise ever, and then I notice the ceiling crumbling to pieces.

Everything gets covered in rubble, shortly after the angry denizens of Level A begin descending upon the already surprised inquisitor's forces and attackers.

"Can it truly be?" I ask myself in confusion as I witness Xhaia wounded, running towards the attackers ship.

Protsmeias says "Hey, look over there, it's that bitch"

The inquisitor's troops still confused by the falling ceiling and incoming attackers from above them barely realize what it going on and get torn apart by the angry prisoners, while Xhaia makes her way through them, dodging and running.

The denizens from Level A vary from disgusting creatures to madmen, all of them enjoying the bloodbath that was taking place.

The attackers didn't get any luckier, they also got attacked by the denizens of Level A however they seemed to have much easier time, as the amount of them was much lower.

I looked up to see what the inquisitor was doing, but all of them were gone except one, the inquisitor with the cybernetic eye implant, he instead, was staring directly at us, watching our every move.

If I wouldn't be wearing a helmet I would say he made eye contact with me.

Tih called us for him to follow him "Follow me" he said while gesturing with his hand the same command "Let's go before they notice us" oblivious to the fact we had already been noticed.

Tih sprinted forward, he went down a ramp, which left us in the same level the fighting was going on, he then turned around and went down yet another ramp, Protsmeias and me followed closely behind him sprinting.

I hear one strange noise behind me, hesitantly I turn around.

A sword appears in front of my eyes, it is descending at a too fast a speed for me to react, I recognize the saber, I recall seeing it before.

Protsmeias intervenes, pushing me aside while grabbing the descending saber by the hilt, stopping it in its tracks.

I hit the floor with my arm, still confused regarding what is going on, I see the aggressor and instinctively prepare the pulse carbine to open fire on him.

Protsmeias takes a swift kick to the chest, as a defensive manoeuvre by the aggressor in order to regain control over his saber.

I regain my bearings and realise what is going on, I swiftly I open fire upon the assailant,

*Pshuuum Pshuuum*

I fire over and over my pulse carbine, but every time I fire the only thing that takes place is a bright light emitted with each impact, after firing 6 times and each shot yielding the same effect, I stop firing.

I manage to see the man clearly for the first time; he is the inquisitor with the cybernetic eye implant.

The inquisitor breaks in laughter "Puahahahahahah, Keheheahhhheheheh" "filthy enemy of the imperium, disgusting heretic, you dare shoot me? I am protected by the emperor himself, prepare yourselves, I shall see all of you dead"

IMPERIAL REPORT ENDING #08 2016-08-22 0846

Author note:

"The door of the armoury was blown away"

The door of the armoury was impressed

Door: O: "why me?" the door then lays on the floor crying after being shot, attacked by a grenade and then Xhaia stepping over the poor door's shattered pieces.