Chapter 39
The Emperor is master of the galaxy, but the captain is master of his ship.
Popular navy saying.
The Imperial Navy is an institution of the Imperium in many ways. It is the wall in the void. It is the blood that keeps the body alive. It is the work of many hundreds of thousands on Mars and many other forge worlds. But it is mostly boring duty in times of peace. I enjoy the stars and the friends I have made. The Guard has the las gun and the tanks. But we rule the stars.
Lord Admiral Steven Hackett M 3
Praise the sun! The bringer of their doom!
Imperial naval cheer M 3 onwards
Imperial Villa Italy.
Ravel woke to Issei cuddling into her. He was purring happily. Ravel enjoyed this. She was married to the best man ever! She was so happy that she thought this was perhaps a dream. But it was real. He was real. She wants to fall back asleep. But life sadly needs them. She needs the restroom and gently pried Issei off her. The man is still purring in his sleep. He is being extra lazy today.
The two had definitely enjoyed their night. They had fun with several new things. When Ravel slipped back into bed Issei re latched on to his wife. He was still. Ravel settled in for more sleep. They deserved this day of sloth. They did wake up again around 1pm and that's when Issei finally gets up and went to make breakfast. It is really lunch. But they enjoyed it together. Rossweiss makes a call and gives her boss a notice.
"I am staying here. Teaching is still something I want to do. But working with you is wonderful. I get the recognition I want without the handsy stuff. Your great and I see why other mes love you. But Harry is my man. You are the greatest boss ever! And thank you for the coupon book! Have fun! I will keep up with everything for the next two days!"
That was a voice message. Issei is happy for his secretary and for Hadrian. It was a nice gift and Issei appreciated his prime secretary. The newlyweds lounge about and enjoyed their day. They did several other non imperium things. Like watching a new movie Ravel was interested in. Was not bad. Too much CGI but it was definitely something new. Issei enjoyed the peace. He really did not stop purring the entire day. But he did warn Ravel of the final Sigillite.
"The big man got his wish. We are going to get a Quarian eventually and that dream meeting is in three days. After the honeymoon."
Ravel woofed because the Quarians were something she had dreams of too.
"He is not so bad. Thanks Watcher!"
She grinned perversely and Issei was thankful he had a decent Watcher. Some trees did not have really good ones. Like the SCP tree next door. That one was not good. But here Watcher was ok. The two continued relaxing and Issei wondering how Sona was doing.
Imperial Afterparty location.
Sona moaned. Her head hurts and it is distracting. She regrets drinking. But the few memories she does have revealed something to her. Sirzechs could sing. Tsubaki had helped her king. She never drank because of stuff her former family did. But she was sympathetic to Sona. Serafall was still blackout drunk to the world. Kuroka was in cat form on Sona's shoulder. She was meowing in pain too.
Le Fay had with the others helped move chairs and other things out of the room that had been used for the after party. Sona was excited because she was going to the Water Dragons today or tomorrow. The day could only go up after this morning. Never again with the alcohol. Sona never wants to drink again. Kuroka understands the unspoken commitment and meows in agreement with that. Asia has hangover potion ready for them. But she is needed back in Africa soon. The Imperium is close to a major battle with the new coalition of dictatorships that have been pooling troops and resources together.
Sona just wants to never be drunk again. Serafall was now snoring up snot bubbles and mumbling about her dreamy bird angel man. Sona does the sweat drop. She is just tiptoeing away from her sister. But is happy Sera finally found a relationship. The second sigillite does wish Issei and Ravel a fun three days.
New Imperial City Russia.
Mark 035
Victor cracks his thunder hammer and then charged a tank. The ad hoc militias are making trenches and helping move war gear into the city. The Lucifer Blacks and a Death Korps regiment have set up a first defense line and more regiments are portaling in. The Alpha Legion marine brings down his hammer and crushed the tank. He remarked over the Astartes vox.
"You did it Horus Heresy. You really are the Warhammer 40000."
The Alpha Legion laughed on mass. The Water Dragons are amused but more stoic. Their cousins are indeed meme lords. The Russians are reluctant to face the marines. Their size and their bolters are scary and the Alpha Legion fucks with them by always at random times jumping into their radio waves and declares that they are Alpharius. That led to several friendly fire incidents. The phrase was becoming something that meant your allies are going to turn on you.
The Imperium was slowly moving out in the city and griffins and mastodons roar up engines and then began to move out with hydras and more following behind. The Russians are preparing a siege of St Petersburg. But the Finns are coming with three regiments of their own and they too have las guns and carapace. The siege will not be long. The Aquilla flies proudly over the city and the Russian Unification party plus three other new non suppressed parties are setting up new civic administration. The people are not yet partying. But bars and clubs open for mid day work see Russians toasting the Imperium and the Emperor.
St Petersburg became a redoubt. It is closer to Moscow, and it scared the Kremlin. Riots in the capital are being quashed but the people are extremely pissed about the Serpents. Four of them have already died to mobs who directed by Alpharius have gone after them with extreme hate. The Serpents have also been watched more closely by the government now. They are not having fun.
China Beijing.
Two Guardsmen who are just walking down the street are met with a strange sight. Five people with raised hands. One carries a white flag. The five are young. But the Guard do draw their guns. They vox that they have a situation. Troops from the Blades reinforced the first two Guardsman and Leonardo and Ruruko who had been enjoying a date are called in by Ruruko's second. The Commander asked.
"What is it?"
The vox cracks but the answer is simple.
"Five Hero Faction are surrendering. One of them is the ultra prick."
Leonardo growled. He had never forgiven Cao Cao for being a monster. But Ruruko touched her queen's hand.
"It is ok Leo. I will take care of it. I will be back."
Leo kissed his king. They had hit it off so well. He wanted to be with Ruruko forever. The forge master had asked to be her queen. Ruruko was touched by that. She wanted him forever too. But duty calls.
Cao Cao was extremely nervous. More so seeing five blades have chainswords raised in barely disguised hate for him. But this has to end. He cannot run forever. Not with only four followers left. But one had said quietly that they were low on food and that was getting increasingly hard to acquire. The world knew his face. They had been chased multiple times by angry mobs of people. The young man is ready to face the consequences.
Ruruko has her new melta pistol drawn. She looks at Cao Cao. He looks like shit. But Ruruko nodded to the two guard here first.
"The reward for him is both yours. Congratulations. I will have my quartermaster send word to the Inquisition. Go enjoy extra time off."
The guardsmen are happy about that. They wandered off eagerly to enjoy an easy day. Ruruko glared at Cao Cao. As does her Commissar a man who is her new knight. He cracks his power sword. He was a former branded. But Ruruko sets him down.
"We will not torture you like you did others. But do not expect mercy. You are going to Kangabaru. And nothing you say will change your life sentence. Your remaining followers are going there too."
Cao Cao has heard of Kangabaru. The prison for the worst of the worst. He had wanted to at least meet the Emperor. The greatest hero who will ever live. But Cao Cao understands fully there is no redemption for him. The Imperium was built with his ideas. But refined into the best possible version of them. The supernatural were part of the world now fully. The good and the bad. But he will never see the stars. Just cell bars.
"I accept. I know I will get no mercy from the inmates. But I did what I thought had to be done. It was wrong in the extreme. But humanity needed a champion. I was never it. But I will accept everything."
Cuffs were placed on them to suppress the gears. The Commissar is still ready to kill Cao Cao. But he knows the imperium was not cruel to prisoners. But he still spat on the ground near the Longinus user.
"Suffer pig dog. You took away the best part of my life. You took my brother away. He died before the counter was made for your damn brand. I do not blame the Inquisition for that. But I will never forgive you for Jack. Emperor damn you and your ilk. You will be the greatest human boogeyman ever. Specie's Traitor."
That title was new. For those who betrayed humanity utterly. You were sundered from your species physically and spiritually. The Cabal had been given that. So had the Russian Government and the Dictatorships leaders. The common soldiers who fought for them were still human. They were not punished in the afterlives. Just admonished gently. But they too had a place in the human experience. Cao Cao had been thrown out completely. His soul will rot in the warp unwanted. The next of the lost and the dammed.
The five last true Hero Faction people are marched away. Ruruko giggles perversely as she thinks of the reward Leo wants to give her. He had whispered it in her ear before leaving. She will have fun with him tonight.
TSB Shipyard Canada.
Rias smiles as her crew prepares their systems. They are all eager to fly. She is on the bridge with her new bishop and Kenji. They are easily happy. The crew is in extreme high spirits. Hanako is going to love her cannon. She is getting good at the simulator. Phoebe is enjoying her navigational room. She loves looking at the Astronomican. The Sun that will never die. She wants to pass this along to the next generation of navigators.
Akeno likes her office on the Prometheus. It is secluded and has new communication capabilities that grant near perfect connectivity to Sol. She was offered a rosette. But she declined that for now. Her marriage was in two months. But she had a wonderful time at the wedding. She sees she could have loved Issei too. But they were not destined here. Plus, Akio was a mood kindred. They had a hunt soon for the now exiled clansmen. She launched into manic laughter for that.
Shirone was making out with Jiro who wants to see the ship. Her office was barricaded for this. Her mate had many marks. That had not gone away. Jiro likes it a lot. Said he will wear them with pride. He was going to start flight school. A weekend thing and his first plane would be a storm bird. Shirone wants their ship eventually. The HellCat. It will be a trader ship. But peace was coming to Terra. And the stars grow brighter everyday.
The crews for the three ships drank together. And the cheer from Rias's gunners spread to them.
"Praise the Sun! The bringer of their doom!"
That was chanted by the crews. Especially the crew for the first warship. The Emperor's Will. The angel captain liked the chant. He actually engraved it for his gunners on his bridge. The next five ships were under construction already. Three were warships. But two were passenger liners from TTS. They had their factories in the United States. In the state of North Dakota. Close to the first ones. Leonardo had happily said he would offer tickets cheaper than the speculation had been. That disappointed the scalpers. More so when they learned the website for tickets killed bots instantly with its code work and only real people could get tickets.
The first ship was exclusively for military personnel after the Unification Wars. The second ship was for civilians. The Guard who had tickets were happy to know they had that. That the Emperor had kept his promise to them. Same with the governments. They wanted to be pioneers and settle the new worlds of man.
The Metallica had great news for the world. Their ship would terraform planets faster than originally planned. Two months instead of three. The ship was becoming a holy site for the Mechcanicus. Their adepts came from across Terra to see it. The cog and the Aquilla made the new converts see their world Mars. They wished for it so badly. Elon was set to become the next greatest saint in their growing and evolving theology. Charles was honoring the man with offers to become his vice Fabricator. Elon is considering it. But Mars and vindication were enough. The red planet will become green everywhere but Olympus Mons. Where the capital forge will be.
In the warp.
The war between the gods started. Not with a bang but with a knife in the dark. Loki reveals his plan. Loyal Einherjar and Hoplites attacked a small force of Sun Elves in the nine realms. The elves had just been watching for a criminal that had escaped into the Dead Ends. They were not trying to attack Asgard. But the war started.
Hundreds of thousands of The Einherjar marched and quickly overwhelmed the Sun Elves. The end times of the Norse began. Not with Fenrir howling and swallowing the sun. But with Alfheim turning red. The Senate sent the legions immediately to help their new allies.
Imperial Angels marched with bolters and plasma guns. Their wings of gold were brilliant in color. The Sun Elves were also supremely surprised when the Votan came. Their armies bring radium weapons and arc guns. They wore red armor and chanted slogans about the Omnissiah.
"Ring the bell of reforging. Thus, we praise the Omnissiah and the Machine God!"
Hoplites under a demigod son of Aries support the Norse. As do armies from the Aztecs and more dead end faiths. They were reluctant allies. But better to stand together than be picked apart by the Senate. They were not the failing humans on Earth.
Buddha sent his people to help as medics. The Shinto were reluctant allies of the Senate, but Yasaka had threatened them with more reprisals if they did nothing again. The Shinto sent their armies of Samurai and their legions of dead Youkai. The Oni dead especially want to kill the Norse.
Battles rage across Alfheim. Sun Elves are especially eager for revenge because Loki has given orders to kill them entirely. Odin is horrified by the genocide. But he cannot back away from Loki now. The trickster has vast amounts of power and support in the bloc. Aries supports Loki. He sees the monster as his co Warmaster. Loki is willing to fight dirty. As seen by using Sun Elves as meat shields and as ways to mitigate the Senates forces.
Olympus sees its hydra activate. The satyrs revolt on mass. As do the dryads and every spirit in their realm that is not on Terra. That draws Hoplites away from the nine realms. But Einherjar support them.
Over Alfheim Valkyries on horseback along with champions of the Greeks on Pegasus fight imperial angels. Bolters and plasma fly. Many die on both sides. But the Senate has Galen's system. They are getting more faith and the Ecclesiarchy was informed immediately with humans across the world give more faith to the Senate. Thor fights against his kin. Baldur is declared the new Allfather and the Einherjar who had defected to him form a new legion to support the Sun Elves. Hela supports the God of Light. Her armies fight Hades and his grim reapers.
Bennia is torn between her human nature and her divine nature. She was deathly scared of Hades. He is becoming increasingly powerful as he continues to send more forces to help his ass brother. But the half reaper fights with her kin. But sees her opening to run.
A battle between grim reapers and Hela dead turns weird when five reapers suddenly turn on their allies screaming that they are Alpharius and that they are done with Hades. Bennia is close to them. She sees multiple grim reapers go down and she saw her escape. Four others did too. The new five rushed to the first and they fight back to their new allies. Bennia faces Hephaestus who now wears a red robe. The grim reaper begged for forgiveness. Hephaestus takes pity on the girl. His kastalan robots are helping clean up this fight.
"Stand girl. We will not kill you. It is interesting that a daughter of Hades would run from her father. But war makes strange bedfellows."
Bennia is a demigod. Her mother had somehow fallen in love with Hades. But her mother had been extremely troubled. Hades was not all bad. He did try to fix the human woman. Persephone had treated Bennia well. She was infertile. A side effect of the fruit. But Persephone had always been good to her husband's bastards. She had wanted to join the Senate. But her curse kept her chained to Hades.
Bennia was scared when she was presented to Neoth. But Neoth remembers Celestine. He gently touched the demigod. Bennia stills.
"You do not have to be up here. I can see you are a fan of my son. But you are worried about your stepmom. I will talk with the other high four. We will not punish you for something that is not your fault. The war up here is over for you. I am always trying to be better like my son. He is on honeymoon right now but after he should have a place for you."
Bennia is happy and babbling thank you to the new god. Neoth just called an Angel over and the new Angel gently took Bennia to Terra.
Rossweiss is humming an old Norse song when she sees a portal open in her office. An angel and a grim reaper enter the space. Rossweiss blinks in surprise. Before adopting her perfected face.
"How may I help you today? His grace is busy on a private retreat and will be unavailable for a time."
The angel man smiles and said.
"This young lass is a war refugee from the new War in Heaven. She needs a place to stay, and I know the Emperor is enjoying his honeymoon. You do not have to interrupt that. Just give her a place till his grace has time."
"I have a spare bedroom in the home I am staying in, it is hers. What is your name young lady?"
Bennia is surprised to see that the other woman is a Valkyrie. But softly replied.
"I am Bennia. Daughter of Hades."
Rossweiss sees the girl is incredibly nervous and simply reached over to her and extends her hand.
"Nice to meet you Bennia. I am Rossweiss. But call me Rose. You will like it here. I have need of an assistant if you want to help me there. But you are free to do whatever you want. His grace is not scary. Second strongest being in the materium for Terra but he is kind. You can do anything you want."
Bennia had once in private wanted to paint. But Hades had stamped that out of her. His kids did not do that. They were reapers of his will. But that hidden desire returned. Especially with the Aquilla over Rossweiss's head.
"Can I paint?"
Rossweiss smiled and then nodded.
"Paint the galaxy then. There is a new order being formed by the Emperor. It is being called the Remembrancers. They will be artists and historians. Journalists and more. You can paint to your heart's desire."
Bennia smiles big there. A peaceful thing. That is what she wanted. Not to deliver souls.
"I can do that. I will need practice. Have not painted in seven years."
The two warp beings talked while the angel returned to the war. His cadre was being moved to help Alfheim.
Loki grunts as the first day ends. He achieved the vast majority of his goals today. The Sun Elves were now neutered. Seventy-five percent of them are dead or being worked to death for treason. The world is theirs mostly. The Senate had evacuations leading the remaining Sun Elves off world. But the Votan had become a massive problem. With cries of for the Omnissiah and Rock and Stone they had saved twenty Sun Elf villages. Their radiation weapons were deadly, and they were claiming kills by the second.
The Bloc tried a second invasion of the dwarf realm it failed. The Einherjar hated Rock and Stone. That usually means they get lots of radiation poisoning. The main objective of the exchange was achieved. Testing the Senate. Loki will deploy Fenrir. Several champions had been spotted. Fenrir was collared and was going to become a killer of commanders. The Senate was indeed formidable. The Imperial Angels are killing three to one. The dwarfs six to one. But Loki has more troops and is wondering why the Senate has not unleashed their own full army yet. He hopes that the advance will continue like this. But Aries has informed his counterpart that the Olympians are having more trouble in their own space. Loki despises the Greeks. But they were useful meat shields. Jormangander is not responding to his father and simply is staying isolated. Loki will slap the brat. He can use that to make the humans stay out of this and as a threat to the kid who thinks humans can challenge their betters.
He will become the new Allfather. Odin is now realizing his mistake. The Norse are fully behind Loki now. They are happy the Sun Elves are getting slaughtered. The Asgard are tired of pacifist shit and want war. The army is extremely loyal to Loki because they see the weapons the Senate uses and cry that there is no honor there. They, however, are intimidated when a new trumpet rings out the dawn of the second day on Alfheim.
Hundreds of thousands of Angels waved banners of the Aquilla. Behind them are more armies of the Senate. The Imperial dead marched again. They volunteered for this. The first dead Astarte blows the trumpet again. More legions of the Votan follow.
"Rock and Stone to the Bone! Death to the God of Evil!"
The Sun Elves have pledged themselves to Sol Invictus. They want vengeance for their people.
"Praise the Sun! The bringer of their doom!"
Alfheim sees new battles break out and the Bloc loses ground. Tanks made in the image of their Terra counterparts roll through the fields of Alfheim. Loki is pissed and sends forth new waves.
Vali and her team are here. They have a goal. Fenrir. The fact they are in the warp is weird. But the two new team members are going to make this fight better. The blank has made several Einherjar run already screaming of the void. Valeria is with Ren and her blood magic is helping immensely. Pavala and the rest of the team followed together.
Vali does not regret her deal. She gets fights. First against the OSF. Now against Gods. The White Dragon Empress has Percy. She has her mom. She has her fists and her new power armor. She gets to be happy. Her team wants to free Fenrir. Especially when Ren shows what torture the wolf had gone through. Vali remembers her family. Their smirking degenerate faces. She will help the dog. Give him a family that will not abuse him.
Mark 001
Team Vali moves with three Cadres of Imperial Angels. Plus, a new face. A champion of Shiva. He is called Ashwatthama a berserker and the team's temporary ally. He is grim. His purpose is to kill Fenrir if they cannot save him. Shiva has blessed his champion more.
The Senate forces run into Einherjar. Many of them. Plus, five Valkyrie. Hoplites are forming up a shield wall. The Angels opened up and bodies begin to explode or melt into goo. Vali cracked her fists and unfolds her wings. Her team kicked on their seraph jet packs and together they landed on the shield wall crushing several Hoplites. Percy hates them. He was not them. He fought for Terra. The future. Not the past. Ashwatthama joined in and activated his fury. He was the bait. Two Valkyrie lose their heads to his axe.
Mark 002-036
Vali pulped another Einherjar. The man died screaming from the electric punch. Le Fay has a new thing she enjoys. Sword work. Issei taught her how to use a chainsword. She was decent. Far better than the out of shape Norse who were used to extremely easy fights. The blank has unleashed himself against the enemy and he makes the warp beings scream on the Blocs side. The Senate is unaffected by the blank.
Ren and Valeria are fighting together with Ren using a force sword and Valeria unleashed her psychic might. Ren shoots a laser that kills another Hoplite. Pavala channels blood into a powerful whirlpool spell and drowns multiple enemies in the fluid. Kuroka is yowling casting her newly developed fire storm spell. Hot promethium lands on the shield walls. The Hoplites scream in agony. The Valkyrie are desperate to reform their line. But they fall back and try to get to a hill. Aztec eagle warriors are reinforcing their allies. A second demigod son of Aries brings more Hoplites.
The Senate has reinforcements too. Two maniples of Votan arrived and shout rock and stone. They open up on the Aztecs and many warriors fall sick and die throwing up their insides. A regiment of the Guard take another flank and their las guns make more die.
"We are the Imperial Guard! For Ollanius Perrson! We fight gods too!"
Ashwatthama sees the demigod. He kicks his berserker rage up a notch. He roared a challenge to the demigod who is somewhat intimidated by that. But he is a son of Aries. He roars back. Einherjar formed up behind the shield wall, javelins and specifically made arrows fly and slammed into the Cadres. The arrows are doing more than the javelins. Greek archers fired too.
But bolters are more deadly. The angels are not intimidated, and they fight for the second children. Kan's philosophy has spread deep into the new angels. They will not back down. Bolters opened up across the line and a trumpet sounded. Two tanks piloted by dead guard crews moved forward. The tengu captain commands again. He ordered his mostly reformed crew to open up.
The wave of las cannons ripped massive holes in the line. The Votan chant rock and stone again. The Guard chanted that they still march for Terra. The angels pushed forward. Many draw chainswords Others draw las shotguns. Vali kicks her wings back up and her team follows. Arthur loves the jet packs. Excalibur makes warp beings die screaming.
Ashwatthama slammed his axe against the xephon sword of the demigod. The demigod takes the blow and like his father taught headbutts the enemy champion. The Hindu champion takes the headbutt. But the Hindu does not move from the blow and the demigod hurts. His world is spinning. Ashwatthama simply cuts the demigod in half with his axe. The son falls and dies. The champion points to a Valkyrie and makes a slit throat gesture to her. The Valkyrie in question gulps and then shakes.
Vali kills another Valkyrie by popping her skull. She glared at an Eagle warrior, and he gulped before running.
Loki growled hearing this battle report. He knows the enemy is gaining there. The champion is a big problem. Plus, the Longinus user. But the report of the regular human driving his soldiers insane is the scariest part. He, unlike his forces, knows what a blank is. Those things are disgusting in the extreme. The last one he met had driven a bastard daughter of his insane. Loki fears those things badly. They are abominable. He will not commit Fenrir yet. But sends word to a Jotun merc company. The frost giants were his personal retainers. The first test.
Mark 037-0110
New Einherjar marched forward with their hoplite allies. A dozen Valkyrie are here. So are five champions of Aries and Artemis. They are not eager for this fight. Retreating Einherjar and Hoplites plus very few eagle warriors are babbling to them of monsters. A single Valkyrie who had escaped screams hysterically about something that has no soul. She is ripping parts of her face off and is deep into madness. Two sisters of hers put down the madwoman.
The Jotuns are not intimidated by the ranting of the insane. They want blood and bones to pick out the dead meat they will get.
Three Valkyrie who are younger than most are extremely scared. They had been in Rossweiss's class. One was her second biggest bully. The other two are extremely scared because they were her second cousins. One is an Alpharius. Frola wanted to run to her cousin and beg for protection. She had seen the Emperor too. But chalked it up to a dream. Rose was definitely winning more than she was. But her cousin had sent a letter to her. Said to make the symbol of the Emperor and you will live.
Frola will use that to live. The other cousin is a new Loki loyalist who had called Rossweiss a human lover. A worm who sullied their family of proud warp beings. She is scared but dreams of driving her lance through her bitch cousin. Frola was extremely scared of the fanatical evil seeping into the Asgard armies. Loki had been moving his people into the positions where he basically ran the entire civilization at this point. He was Allfather in everything but name. Odin was the figure head. In too deep to dig his way up and out.
The Votan makes contact first. A Votan captain kills a Valkyrie who had been scouting on her horse with a radium shot. The woman drowned in her own organs liquifying from the radiation. The captain shouts to his kin.
"Rock and Stone! For the Omnissiah the greatest maker of machines!"
The kin cheered for that. They want to explore space. They want the machines. Many want to serve as skitarii. Some have decided to do machine parts. But only if they get wounded. The Omnissiah taught that the flesh was weak. But it will endure.
The battle lines formed up under hailing arrows or radiation. Ashwatthama sees the champions of the Greeks. He has a title. The Senate's Champion. He was blessed by the high four. Further by Shiva and Buddha. He will challenge every single champion he comes across. Like Sigismund. Ashwatthama admires that Space Marine. Yes he was a warmonger. But he knew duty and fortified work. The champion admired the new space marines. They who will be legion and will destroy the Gould. And the Reapers. Vali sees the Jotuns. Those will be fun to kill. Kuroka is daydreaming of her wedding she might have. Nekoshou did not really do weddings. But marking him will be extremely hard.
The battle begins anew with the champions seeking the enemy. Angels form up with more Guard and Votan. The first Jotun made an Ice Javelin and threw it at Vali. Vali lazy divides it. Their blank simply smiles and then does finger guns. Two experienced Valkyrie who had charged them on winged horses stop and then screamed and entered madness. They began to chop and stab their allies in the Einherjar. They are freaking out too. Less than the Valkyrie but still horrified because the madwoman was not truly mad it seems.
Frola sees the most experienced Valkyrie go mad and she begins to cry. The human scares her so badly that she prepares to run. She does not care that she will die to Loki but stops when she hears a voice in her head.
"Do not run. If you do you will die incredibly fast. Rose told us about you. I am here on the other side. You see a bird or a dhampir with jet packs run to us. We know your Alpharius."
Frola gulped but did not run. She saw the scary human move away from her location towards the Jotuns and the woman with dragon wings. The Valkyrie sees the bird. He has a robot eye. Frola sees her degenerate cousin readying herself to kill the enemy. She and the bully are hyping themselves up.
Ren called his babe over. And then Kuroka.
"Val we have a friend trapped in there. She is extremely scared. Cat rain some promethium on this part of the line. I promise more screen time with senpai."
Kuroka yowled because she missed him. And she wants kittens soon. Still is a bit mad one of her primarchs could be a bird. But she will beat that out of him.
In the dreamland of the sons a black haired bird man shivers unconsciously. He is not awake, but he feels existential dread.
"On it bird. And thank you. Time for the burning ring of fire nya!"
Kuroka poked Le Fay and the two Sigilites chanted a spell. The ring of fire manifested and three hundred Einherjar and Hoplites disappeared into the hole. Frola sees why that was done. She gulped again. The two other Valkyrie and their forces moved to reinforce the line. Ren and Valeria kick their jet packs plus Pavala and the three fly. Force swords and a power scythe ripped into the new line and Frola runs to the bird. When she get to him he grabs her and then the jet packs fly off. Frola looks at this bird man. He is the single hottest thing she has ever seen. She blushed heavily. Ren sighed and when they land in friendly space Frola will not let go of him. She unconsciously said something.
"Marry me bird man."
Valeria belly laughs as does Pavala. The Senate forces moved to exploit that hole. The bitch and the bully lose their heads to very eager Death Korps Guardsmen. One from a sharpen shovel and the other to a las shot. The Death Korps cheer for the best melee weapon ever. The trusty shovel. Frola is smitten by her brave bird man. Her robo bird of hope. Ren sings a soft trill for Frola and Valerie stops laughing to simply smile.
"Not your harem. Our harem. He is a true hero Frola. Stopped me from killing the world. You're welcome to join us. I like both."
Frola looks at her hunky bird man more. She is down especially for a real hero. Her hero. She burrows into Ren and does not stop grasping him.
Pavala goes off to drown more fucks with blood magic the only good thing her father taught her while he was still somewhat sane. Pantier left only one good thing in his life. His daughter who has found a new family with this team. They do not look down on her like the other satyrs had. Her father was considered the most evil one of their kind. But Team Vali was awesome. Pavala has a small plot of land waiting for her on Mars. Where she plans to make an grape farm. Make great wine and be a spirit of peace eventually.
Vali is clobbering the Jotuns and enjoying the sounds of their bones cracking. She has a bit of psychopathy. But thankfully she was able to stop the vast majority of it. Her mentalist says that it is something that can happen with abuse. But when Vali learned that her rival had started his own therapy for his big sad. Vali asked herself if she was willing to do anything for Percy. Like he was always doing for her. She went. But she broke a spine for a Jotun and the body was punched through perfectly and fell over equally.
"Perfectly balanced. As all things should be."
Vali then killed the next Jotun. Ashwatthama has butchered three of the five champions and the two remaining ones are from Artemis. They both gulped. Ashwatthama cracked his knuckles and then spoke.
"I will be like Sigismund. A true champion. You are just like the champions of the tumors. You steal and destroy humanity. I bring my eternal crusade to those who oppose the Senate of the Gods. Run. Will be more enjoyable because your all garbage champions."
The hunters of Artemis do run. This guy is crazy! They were nothing like Chaos!
The Bloc falls back in disarray. They fear the banners of the Senate. Loki sees his left crumble. His right starts too as well. His center is wavering. The Warmaster of The Norse sees this is an awfully bad losing fight. He signs to his opposite in the son of Aries Kronto they are pulling out of Alfheim. But Loki will slow the advance by having his forces use Sun Elves as the wall to get to their invasion points. Kronto understands. He likes the Warmaster. Loki was a bastard, but this was how you need to fight the Senate. Use their weakness of kindness against them. He has lost eight champions and he will not sacrifice more for a rock that is not even really important.
Sun Elf civilization will never recover the old. The Bloc burns down everything in their retreat. Alfheim will never be their home again. By the time the invasion is fully repelled the Sun Elves have truly lost eighty five percent of their population. Many prisoners are forced off world in chains for future battles. The last two royals of their family are a fifteen year old girl and her seven year old brother. Both tortured badly. But the girl is determined to win this Ragnarök. She is presented to the Senate. She is missing a leg and has to be helped by crutches. But she has a burning hate for Loki.
"Thank you for helping us. Alfheim is with you. But the world is gone. The God of Evil has poisoned our rivers and soil. He said to me before the leg was taken traitors do not deserve to live. That we are nothing. We have nowhere now. I beg for your help again. We have little to offer. They stole our wealth. But my people need food and homes. We will pay anything. Even eternal service in your name. Just help us please."
Neoth looks in pity to the Sun elf. But he genuinely wants to help them.
"There are new worlds coming. We will not abandon you. I will contact him on Terra. Ask for places for your people. And we expect nothing for this. Loki will die painfully by my son or another. The Emperor is ready to kill gods now. And he has ten years of hate and resentment against them that he will love to end. Your never going to be slaves."
The girl cried in relief. She was a fifth daughter. She was not trained to rule. Her brother was the heir. He had lost an eye. But the young boy wanted a robo eye because that was his first sight when Ren, Frola and Valeria saved them. The girl was regent till her brother was old enough to rule. To know the Emperor protects them too makes the Sun elves wish him praise. That he could kill Loki. Kill the bastard in Odin who is letting Loki do this to them. That makes the twenty five percent of the Sun Elves feel much better.
Less than an hour later they are informed by an angel that there is a new place for them. Portals open and Sun elves see a purple sky. But they are greeted by Riser and his pawns. Riser smiled and said.
"We have a new city almost ready for your people. It is yours. You are all welcome to stay there forever with no issues or taxes till you recover. Riser has authority as the personal assistant to the High Lord of his grace the Emperor of Mankind. The Imperium is for everyone."
The Sun Elves love the Emperor more. But many wanted vengeance. They want to serve in any way they could. Two hundred form their First regiment. The Sun Walkers. They will serve in the warp. To help kick Loki's teeth in. The rest will take simple jobs farming in the rich soil around their city. They call it New Alfheim. Tacky but it is what they want, and they will be treated well by the devils and angels who live near here. Along with the flood of humans who wished to be ruled directly by the Emperor. The purple sky is weird. But it is just a new normalcy.
The little elf boy meets an adept of the Mechanicus. He gets his robo eye. And makes a new friend. Millicas is introduced to Sveinal. The two bond. Millicas likes his friend. Sveinal likes the devil too. He does not stare at the eye. He is being tutored by an Imperial official who helps both Sveinal and his older half sister learn to rule. Sveinal remembers the torture. He will never forget that. He denied the the offer for a mentalist.
"I must be like him. He suffered too. I want to be like him in knowing what I went through. That I will become stronger by seeing this part of life. I will take the help when I need to. But I must be like him who is the Sun. May he bring doom on the betrayer. For our Istvaan three."
The Sun Elves get help from their new countrymen. Food and clothing plus everything else they could possibly need. The Sun Elves will remember this. Many will start charities that will help people who society will eventually forget again. Not self serving charities. But ones who will have extremely long lived people who remember their start at the bottom. They will hammer that into their hearts and never let them go.
One is started called the Sirta Foundation. They see medi-gel and they will make that. A much stronger and more efficient medi-gel. They will make this at a loss. The Sun Elves make the galaxy's greatest fast reaction first aid medicine. It will one day become another thing the Citadel will want besides the technologies the Imperium has. Another legacy of humanity.
In the warp three days after the Marriage.
Zaria Zorah is dreaming a very strange dream. She is on a world unknown. She is seeing images of a cog and a two headed bird. She does not understand this. But she feels the desire to explore this world where there are many factories. They are not producing smoke or smog. Zaria wanders and notices something new. She is suit less. Her hands and feet are in regular clothes. This is weird.
She continued onward. The cog is everywhere. As is the bird. Figures of murky fog are doing thousands of tasks. Zaria cannot see them at all. But they do not seem weirded by her presence. Just accepting. Zaria heard a hammer coming down on metal. A forge of some kind. She followed that noise. She comes to the forge. Inside is four figures. Three women and a man by shape. They are making something. They are cloudy. But Zaria is interested. She entered the forge.
Issei is making a simple thing. A bolter. Ravel, Ingvild and Asia are here helping. This will be their first strike against the Reapers. The first cut. Ravel sees Zaria entering the forge. Asia is surprised by how beautiful the Quarian is without a suit. She has now found her xenophile self. Ingvild sees something else. Strange. Issei sees it too. An even number it seems.
Zaria feels the heat of the forge. She feels something new. Longing. The figures are holding a gun of some kind. It is blocky and not pretty. It has a magazine. That is weird because guns used ammo blocks not magazines. The figures are now looking at her. The male raised the gun at Zaria. The Quarian prepared to run. But she cannot move now. What the fuck dream logic!
Issei fired the bolter. The special round is designed for one thing. To kill an infection. A small bit of indoctrination that spreads to everyone in a species that ever comes into contact with the Citadel. A memetic hazard. It kills the connection to the gods and spreads throughout a species. Liara and Falere are next.
The other Issei in the bad tree learned that. Shares it with the Emperor. And the counter. The SCP tree one was broken by the first Chaos species and the Reapers there were not evil. Their creators died not because of Ai. They died because of Chaos. The Reapers there had offered that information up as a peace offering and to show humanity in that tree they were not monsters. This was their way in.
The round slams into Zaria and instead of waking her up Zaria sees a ghostly monster leave her body. It screams as it dies. Zaria sees a new figure now. A Quarian who feels extremely familiar. The faces of the four are revealed now. The gene in Zaria activated. She was a psyker.
Zaria sees the humans fully. They are beautiful. The male is the maker of machines. The creator of the greatest computers. The first cog. The Omnissiah. Zaria gasped at seeing him. He is the maker of everything to come. He is also damn hot. He has hair. Like her. He has golden eyes of wisdom and kindness. Zaria never considered herself a xenophile. But now she questions everything. He was handsome in the extreme.
The women are beautiful too. Two have blonde hair. Another has lavender. By the ancestors they are amazing. They are kind too. And one looks at Zaria with open lust. Another promises to be the kindest of lovers. The final one is a song maker. But the other Quarian in the forge squealed and then ran to Zaria. Zaria Zorah is hugged by something she had never realized was missing. Her Goddess. Zaria tightly wrapped her arms around her goddess.
"Thank you Champion of the new. You do not know what this means to me. I can speak with my fam again! Oh, I have longed for this day! Anything you want from me is yours. Including her!"
Issei growled. Ravel and Ingvild blushed and then think perverse thoughts. Asia puts her dragon tamer to use and calms her future husband.
"She did not mean it like that Ssei. You know that. I will do that one thing you want. Me holding you and then you can purr. Please be good."
Zaria hates that the growling is an extra damn thing that is hot. Ravel smirked and sees another mood kindred. Everyone will become mood kindred. But Zaria is both touched that he is defending her a stranger and pissed because he is a dream thing that is insulting her goddess.
"Boshtet you shut up! You are just a weird figment of my imagination. Get fucked by a pack of varren. You do not get to shoot me with your weird gun and then insult my goddess bitch!"
Issei now growls at the Quarian. She growled back. Lightning shoots between their eyes. Issei sees why the growling is a big turn on for many of his Sigilites. It is hot. Ravel does a jig and Ingvild tries to calm everyone with a song. Asia is now holding back Issei and the growl off continued. Vheia realized her mistake. Stupid air head self. And she inserted herself between them.
"My apologies champion. I did not mean that in the way it came out. Zaria do not be mad at him. It is my fault. He is just trying to protect you from me. He is in the right. Please do not be angry with me. The disconnect has been bad for me. Like it is for the rest of us. We are all real. And he is our greatest friend."
Zaria does not back down. But her anger is soothed. She kept growling, however. He did too. They were now feeding each other with the growls. They were mood kindred. It is hot for both of them. Ravel stops her jig and then skipped over.
"You two can growl and fuck later. Right now, we need to introduce ourselves. Hi, I am Ravel Hyoudou. This is my husband Issei. Don't worry I'm into it too. Same with Ing and one other. So far. But we will all be there one day. It is my new life goal! The other blonde is Asia Argento and the lavender like yours is Ingvild. We are what is called humans. Technically I and Ing are a subspecies and so is Asia. But we are eager to get to know you! We will take care of you!"
The growling finally stopped. But Issei turned an eye onto Ravel. This is a grudge. He definitely wants to fuck Zaria now. But be respectful. Asia whispered a thing she is ready for with him. That makes the grudge get forgiven. Damn dragon tamer. Ingvild waves at Zaria. The Quarian is now happier because she has found more mood kindred. And because yes she does now want to fuck the human man. Their sessions would be fun. Incredibly so. But she is still confused by the monster that exited her body. Issei finally turned professional. And answered.
"That thing was a memetic hazard. It was preventing you from talking to your goddess. Like every other Quarian has in their body. All species who have touched the Citadel have it. It is a virus, and it spreads extremely fast. It makes your people ignore things that should be common sense. Like testing the relays' age. And more. I am sorry I did that without explanation. But you would have tried to wake up and it was a bitch and a half for your goddess to even get a hint of a connection to you in the first place. I am at fault for that. I am sorry."
Zaria frowned. Then her eyes widened. That is bad. And yeah why did they never test the relay age? She thinks more and reality is now more clear than ever before. So many things that are common sense being ignored. So many ideas her people and more just accept as completely normal. Like not trying to develop different FTL. Or anything that is not inside their tech tree. Quarians have been the only people dreaming the new FTL dream. Not attempting but that is clearly a mistake now. The human really is their friend. He is like her. Zaria apologies.
"I am sorry for the insults. I'm not for the growling. But you are right. Your truly real? And why do I feel like everything is bright and has more color? Why this place? The forge? That title? Omnissiah. What is that?"
"I and the others are real. Starting from the top. You are what is called a psyker. You are connected to a mirror reality called the warp. Second we are in a dream, but you are seeing what will be a world in my empire. A forge world. We are mood kindred in many ways. The title ties into that. I am a scientist. Love me hard science and while I am better with religion than I was earlier the faith known as the Cult Mechcanicus is inspired by me. I make great things. Like spaceships for my species. Medicine. Tools of war. And what will eventually shake everything your people will know and accept is possible. Gods are very real. As are the foe who gave you the virus."
Zaria is scared to ask. But instead of words her gift kicked in and Zaria sees the Protheans dying by the billions. She sees their worlds burn. Numerous others being forced marched into the cuttlefish at gun point by their once kin. The indoctrination and how subtle and disgusting it was. She is about to explode. But then a shard entered her body and began to build walls. It slows the images until it is like looking through a tv instead of a movie theater screen. Zaria feels him in her. She returned to the dream. Issei is bashful but non apologetic.
"Sorry but I would rather not have to regenerate here in dreams. I will take that back when you are properly built up. I need it for a God of evil that has started his pantheon's Armageddon. The fucker needs to die, and I see why Watcher made this between us. Damn bastard. But I guess thanks for making me the strongest being on my planet."
Zaria does a new thing. She is mad again at him. But she sees the tree. The lines. She would have spaced five hundred of her people had he not intervened. But she desperately wants something. She marched over to him and then stared him down. Before kissing him in her fury. Issei blinks but enjoys the kiss immensely. Zaria sees stars. And feels like fire is running through her blood. He is damn good at this too. Vheia clapped for her Champion. She is not Tali. But will outshine her by ten super novas. Ravel cheers for her mood kindred. As does Asia. Ingvild simply smiled. But silently claps for her fellow lavender.
Zaria ends the kiss. She growled again to him.
"Get here fast. You have fucking ruined me and will take responsibility! If you do not show you will feel my sniper. I do not miss. My descendant might like shotguns, but I am the best damn shot on my father's ship. You are an arrogant prick but that is so damn hot. You fire bird. You and I are going to tie him up together and make him regret being his damn noble self. Kill that fucker and make it extremely painful. Meat shields are for fucking cowards in the extreme. You are going to wish I could get there boshtet."
Issei shivered. Oh yes she was mood kindred. This was like Ravel. He is definitely now a xenophile for Quarians. And Asari too. This made the last doubts of Falere truly disappear. They were both guaranteed. Issei looks to Vheia.
"The shot is extremely hard to make. But I will do what I can. I need more samples from the fish. And thankfully we have counter measures for the current indoctrination system. And my dear sexy sniper I will do what I can."
The conversation continued with a bond being made. Zaria is going to have incredibly fun times with him.
Russia Saint Petersburg.
Sona is here four days late. She had to babysit Serafall and that was not fun. But Sona sees the first five Water Dragons. Malcom is nervous as is his brothers. But Sona just hugged them.
"You all have my hair. Like Roboute will too. I am eager to serve with you five. Have your cousins been treating you well?"
The five marines sweat dropped as they remember The Alpha Legion and their last engagement where Death Korp troops and the others made nothing but shovel jokes for eight hours. The Kriegers loved their shovels and often used them over axes. A small cult had erupted from them with a shovel figure named Shovel-Chan. The figure was very prominent in the Kriegers here in the city.
"They have been fine. Just. Crazy sometimes."
Sona frowns but quickly shakes that away.
"I understand. Where are you five being sent next?"
"We are being sent to near the Lithuanian border. They want to fight but the Russians are keeping a force there to stop them."
"I see. I am coming with you. And you five are welcome to come to my wedding next week. Your family too."
The marines are stoic. But internally they are happy. They like grandma.
TSB shipyards Canada.
A devil man is running. Extremely hard and fast. There is a group of five internal security chasing him and three have chainswords. The devil regrets volunteering for this mission. He was sure that the last three devils who took this job before him regret so too. He is almost off the shipyards when he feels a hole in his stomach. His last thought was of that hole before he toppled.
Rias growled and threw a fire ball at the OSF saboteur. She was getting tired of the fucks trying to kill her ship! Their attempts were sloppy and the security at this point was mostly just there to fuck with them and chase them to either her or the angel. The tengu captain mostly just watched from the cameras. The damn OSF had tried multiple times in the past three months to blow up the ship. As had the Russians. They know that as soon as the ships take off the enemy has a new supremacy. They fear the day a lance cannon shot will wipe them out. But they would never do that.
A new rule of the Geneva Conventions was implemented. No fire bombing worlds unless there is legitimate reason to do so. The Gould are the biggest exception. They can be blasted to death. The snakes deserve no quarter and every single rule in the conventions is nullified when fighting them. But the ships can function as orbital aircraft carriers. Especially the Emperor's Will. They have twenty storm birds and the new phantom starfighters. They can help.
Rias is ready to fly next week. And for Sona's wedding. She and Kenji have invites and it will be enjoyable. They were definitely staying together. Kenji was so sweet, and he saw Rias for herself. Not for her title. He was like a particularly good healer Issei. No. Kenji was better than Issei. In every way that matters to Rias. She is happy. But she sees a thing that fell out of the pocket of the OSF fuck. She picked it up and read it. Oh no. She must get this to Issei.
Imperial Villa Italy.
Ravel is happy dancing and is dreaming of Alpharius. He will be here next year this time. The lines assure that. But something just happened. A portal opens and a frantic Rias entered the room. Ravel tilted her head. Rias is freaking and Ravel is just amused. Do they really think that will work? But it gets better. The fuck who started the Imperium technically was going to be there. And someone gets revenge. An incredibly angry bird will finally get what she has been looking for.
Asia sneezes and then shakes her head. She is confused. Before she sees the lines. Then a very unusual thing happens to the kindest person on Terra. A shark grin of evil that promises pain and suffering shows on her face. Now she likes being a peaceful person. But this will be enjoyable. She will get her just revenge.
An. Huzzah. Several important things here. The biggest being the memetic virus. It is a theory and I like it a lot. It takes the SCP concept and makes it into a very dangerous threat. It is extremely bad. And then there is my noticeably clear and hard bias towards Quarians showing. They are my Mechcanicus mood kindred. Zaria is unlike Tali in that she is very vulgar and extremely confident in herself from the start. Writing that was interesting and thank the Emperor Children of the Omnissiah was playing there. Warhammer has such good music. I have been using Mechcanicus, Darktide and Legio Symphonica as my muse tools. Each is great especially Darktide. Jesper did an absolutely banger job Imperial advance and Immortal Imperium are so good. And yes the Sun Elves got screwed then helped. Rock and Stone! Another Mass Effect staple is there Medi-Gel. Made by damn elves.
Alfheim got screwed. Badly. It can be compared to Istvaan. In how the genocide is. And finally, there is credit to King000 for his original character that has become a new Sigismund. That character is totally his and I, despite him saying to not credit him will do so. They get two more human characters maybe three, and then the rest of his OCS will be given a new purpose. Thanks man.