Chapter 5: The grim dark future, part 2: WAAAAAGGGGHHH.
We are screw dude!
Game over man
GAME OVER!
Last radio call of the 17th Jungle fighter squad.
. 4 weeks later, sector 3789 of Armageddon, Training camp Rolio.
?: "Move your ass, you bloody scum bag!" screamed a sergeant from the top of a platform.
Sweating under the heat of the scorched earth training ground, Loona, with her green kaki uniform and chest flak armor, quickly readjusted her helmet before getting up from the barbed wire parkour and sprint at the finish line with an cry of victory.
?: "Aaaaaannnnnnnddddd DONE! Loona on the first place!"
Slowing herself to a full stop, she let out an exhausted huff before falling on the ground in a starfish position.
Loona: "Come and get some…" she muttered with a smirk.
While she was hardly trying to vent out the burning heat out of her lung, and the painful sensation in her leg, she suddenly felt a shadow overcome her face and force her to open one of her eyes to see an old woman dressed in a commissar uniform, and frowning at her behavior.
?: "Get yourself up recruit, no weakness will be tolerated here…" she sternly ordered.
Loona: "Yes commissar!" getting up and dusting her back a little, she gave a militaristic salute to the women.
Eyeing Loona up and down like she was nothing, the commissar discretely let out a scoff before going back to whatever duty she was order too, "That's right, move on bitch" huffing off her discomfort, Loona perks up at the sound of the announcement microphone.
?: "Alright soldier training is done for today, take a shower, eat something and go back to your quarter for further instruction" said the sergeant to his men, "Am I clear!"
Loona/All soldier: "SIR YES SIR"
?: "Then move, you pathetic worm!" he jokily scream out, earning him a few laughter from the crew (except Loona).
Detaching her helmet while following a group of soldiers who were entering inside the woman shower, Loona seated on a nearby bench to untie her boots and stuff out her armor in her personal locker before closing it with a loud metallic smack.
Finishing with her field uniform by putting in the washing machine, and setting the timer running, she could at last let herself go inside the shover and press the lever to turn on the hot water.
Loona: "Ha~, that's the stuff"
Closing her eyes and letting the hot water flow down on her skin, she rethought of the past weeks she has spent on the Astra militarum.
Having enter the office and sign the paper without an ounce of hesitation, she didn't expect the life of a soldier to be so…simple and enjoying, sure there were a few up and down here and there sometime, but in a certain and twisted way she, even for her own ego to accept that, started to like this kind of life, of course if she has to put the 'obeying order and discipline' part aside, she has everything she would have wished a few month back, an solid roof over her head, a real bed, three meals a day, a modest salary, hell there were even some damn functioning shower, "I should have done that a month ago, that would have save me some trouble", Taking a bar of soap and washing her long white silver hair, she softly and smugly smiled at the first impression she has made during her first day.
Having to be forced to cut her hair during the recruitment session, Loona immediately interposed to this idea and punched the barber in the face, breaking his nose and sending him fly in the air at a nearby table, this of course, grabbed the attention of an middle-aged man, with an yellow trench coat and an gas mask hanging loosely from his face.
Having to naturally ask why she has done that, and quickly responding in return the reason for this, the man who at first frowned at such stupidity, slowly smirked and chuckle at the boldness of her action, and proposed to her an deal to her shock.
If she was able to be in the first place at each round of the recruitment test, she would be able to keep her hair, and would even make sure that the commissar doesn't say any objection, if in reverse she tended to fail just one of them, she would have to cut her own hair and eat them in front of him while saying 'I'm a bad dog' each time she has to take a bite…welp, since she has still her hair, you could already guest on how the result have gone, "Ha, the look on this asshole face was just so precious" Having completely destroyed the physical, shooting and even sparing test without much of a sweat, she in the same time, have made some-.
?: "Hey~ bitch"
*SMACK*
Loona: "Ouch! For Satan's sake Sarah!" massaging her red marked ass, Loona squinted her eyes in anger at the new individual in front of her.
Having the body of a shaped vase and the eyes of a light blacked pattern, Sarah pulls out her tongue in a mocking manner, before untying her ponytail short light brown hair and entering the neighboring shower.
Sarah: "What? Don't like being smack, I thought that was your kink or something~" she mockingly said with flirt, before pressing the lever, "Hou~, Emperor blesses".
Deadpanning at her word, Loona decided to give her a piece of her mind.
Loona: "This is gonna turn you off for a moment" smirking at the wide betrayed eyes of her friend, Loona rapidly turned the lever of Sarah shower on the (extremely) cold-water set.
Sarah: "NOOOOOOOO-" feeling the temperature rapidly change, she lightly jumped on her toes in a desperate attempt to soothe the cold from her body.
?: "*sigh* You two are irrecoverable, you know that…"
Turning around to see a new figure make his appearance, Loona slightly smiled at the view of a familiar tall women.
Loona: "Hey, what's up Liz" Lifting her hand in a welcoming fist bump, Loona smirked at the view of her friend blue azure eyes.
Tossing her top behind her, and letting the water flow on her shaved head, Liz or Lizzie from her full name, returned the gesture with enthusiasm.
Loona/Liz: "Boom baby!"
Laughing joyfully between themselves and discussing for a moment about the multiple subject and gossip of the day, Sarah you have finally reset the water lever on his original set, turned to Loona with a betrayed look, but actually wanted to ask a question she has in mind for a moment.
Sarah: "Hey, I don't want to break the mood or anything, but…do you think we will be soon deployed?"
Raising an eyebrow while rubbing her arm with a sponge, Liz who then passed it to Loona, which she just…throw it away in disgust.
Liz: "Why? Tired of shooting carboard and not some xenos or heretics?" She playfully jabbed, earning a little snicker from Loona.
Sarah: "I mean yeah, but it's just…that I feel like we are here just for the decoration and dig some useless fortification" Snatching the soap from Loona hands, the disguised hellhound slightly frowned at her friend, "I mean, why in the fracking world we will dig some trench in a zone where there is literally nothing, emperor help us, even me know there is nothing to gain by reinforcing this position!" she speaks out with exasperation, "When do we get to leave this damn rock? When do get the chance to see other world and beat shit up".
Thinking about her friend reasoning, Loona and Liz looked at each other with some eyes who were saying 'she is not wrong tho' before looking back at her.
Loona: "You know, if a commissar hear you say something like that, you are-"
Liz: "Dead, blasted, without a head, completely pulverized, and-" feeling Loona put a hand on her shoulder, she stopped.
Loona: "I think she got the message, thanks"
Pouting her cheek like a child being scolded in front of an adult, Sarah tossed the soap back to Loona before rinsing her hair.
Sarah: "Well frack them, they can eat my ass if they want" she said angrily "The day when we will finally be able to fight in a battle, will be the day when I'm turning an orks intelligent"
Laughing at the childish behavior of their close friend, Loona patted her head while Liz was here to say the right word.
Liz: "Common Sarah, I'm sure we are going to be deployed sooner or later, like my pop said, patience is a virtue" she smugly commented, earning a annoyed look from Sarah.
Loona: "Didn't he leave you for the milk?" she replied with humor.
Liz: "What?"
Loona: "Forget it"
Pushing the hand of Loona away, and turning her shower off, Sarah grabbed her towel before wrapping it around her.
Sarah: "Yeah, yeah, whatever you said Liz" wrapping another towel around her hair, she marched in the direction of the exit, "I'll wait the two of you in the bedroom, don't take all the water like last time"
Loona: "Okay, see ya there" she gave her a two-salute goodbye before returning to wash her body.
Waving her farewell to Sarah, Liz turned to Loona with her arm cross and her head titled to the side questionably.
Liz: "Soooo…What's the thing with my dad and the milk? No, you know what, what's milk?"
Looking at her with an exhausted look, Loona has to remind herself that she was in another universe, and that some reference will be completely different than the one from her world .
Loona: "*Sigh* Crap…"
Has the sun slipped behind the horizon of the metallic wall of the camp, Loona, low-stick in hand, looked at the multiple soldier and vehicle wandering around the camp with an distant and thoughtful look, "Sarah is right…when the fuck are we going to leave this planet" Taking a drag of her 'cigarette' to calm her nerve, she puffs out a blue smoke colors out of her mouth before letting a satisfied shiver course through her spine.
Loona: "Damn, better than the cigarette back home" she speaks out her thought out loud.
Felling a tinge of nostalgia coming to her, Loona retook another drag before puffing out the smoke from her nose and drop her smile.
Loona: "I hope you are alright Blitz"
Sarah: "Who's Blitz?"
Yelping in fear while falling on her ass, Loona gripped her heart before growling in annoyance at the laugh of Sarah.
Sarah: "HA HA HA HA HA HA HA *SNORT* *SNORT* HA HA HA HA I'M DYING" Gripping her stomach in pain and falling on her four, she smacked the floor in a happy madness, "He he he…*sigh* Okay, I'm good…No I'm not, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-"
Squinting her eyes, and looking down at her now wasted low-stick, Loona mumbled a quick swearword before dusting herself and enter the tent while by passing her friend, "That was my last low-stick dammit".
Sitting at the edge of her bed and taking off her ranger and sock, Loona let herself fall on the soft sheet of the mattress before fixing the roof tent lifelessly.
Sarah: "So…are you going to tell me who is this, Blitz? HO! Is that a lover?!" Standing beside Loona with a gleeful smile plastered on her face, she waited with impatience.
Opening one of her eyes to look at Sarah with an tired look, she sighted in defeat before standing up with an grunt.
Loona: "He's my father…my adoptive father…" she said with an sad expression.
Sarah: "Ha…" Feeling a sense of shame hit her heart like a truck, she quickly tried to change the subject, "Hey, you know I…huh-".
Loona: "It's okay…it's not a big subject, it's just…I miss him, that's all" Cowering her emotion at her fullest, Loona almost felt a tear come to her eyes at this moment.
Sarah: "Yeah, I know the feeling, I miss my husband sometime" she responded to Loona with a carrying smile.
Loona: "Wait, you married?" she said with wide eyes.
Sarah: "Well of course, isn't that obvious" she said while showing the wedding ring.
Loona: "Actually, no…like, how the heck is he capable to support you? no, you know what, how the heck did you find someone who is capable to live with you?!"
Sarah: "Ho hush you, I reveal you a part of my life, and that's how you thank me!" she screamed with her usual childish behavior.
Snickering at her friend demise, Loona patted her shoulder joyfully.
Loona: "*Snicker* Come on, I was just joking" Continuing to softly snort for a few second, Loona quickly retook a more serious behavior, "But, serious matter now, what's is name"
Looking at her with a suspicious eyebrow, Sarah relented after seeing that Loona was asking this question more seriously.
Sarah: "Xavier…his name is Xavier"
Nodding approvingly, she rested her head on one of her hands before following suit.
Loona: " How did you two meets?" she asked with a small smile.
Scoffing happily at her question, Sarah looked at her friend eyes with a distant yet present glance.
Sarah: "We knew each other since we were kids, always running and laughing together…emperor save me, we even run off from the PDF together" she said with a little giggle, "And with time, thing come up to this, and other through there, and then one night you decide to have…fun, and then bam, he become the love of my life now" turning her body to lay on her back, she pocked Loona nose with her head upside down, "What about you? Any lover at home?"
Loona: "Nah" she said while dismissing her hand friend from her face.
Sarah: "Wait…really?!" She screamed out in outrage, "How!? If I was a guy, I would have clapped that ass a while ago…unless you are more in the other team taste"
Loona: "Nope, I'm perfectly straight, it's just…there were more morons and pervert, were I used to lived" she replied with a shrug, "Nice guys are much rarer than gold".
Sarah: "Geez, talk about a place…" Sitting with her leg crossed at the noise of footstep coming in their direction, Sarah smile grew at the presence of Liz, "What about you Liz, anybody at home?"
Siting at the neighboring bed of Loona with a loud grunt, Liz looked at Sarah with an curious eyebrow.
Liz: "Yep, my wife and my son…adopted, before you ask" Laying on her pillow and slowly closing her eyes, she suddenly forced to open them up again at the view of an exited Sarah.
Sarah: "How? And who?" she demanded in excitement.
Loona: "Yeah, how? And who? I'm curious too"
Sighing in despair, she relented to her demise.
Liz: "Her name is Mira, and we meet at a bar, nothing special, really" she said dismissively.
Loona: "And your son?..."
Liz: "His name his Henry, and in two month he is going to turn six" she said happily, a proud smile scatter across her face, "Man, I miss him so much".
Sarah: "Don't worry, one day, you will see him, I'm sure of it" turning to Loona, she pointed a finger at her, "Even for you, I'm sure you will find someone".
Loona: "Whatever you say" Yawning loudly while rubbing one of her eyes, Loona looked at the clock hanging above the entry tent, "Welp, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to bed" putting herself in a more comfortable position, she slowly closed her eyes "Night night girl".
Sara/Liz: "Good night, Loona"
Readjusting her position, Sarah still looked at Liz expectantly.
Sarah: "Go on, I still want to know more"
Grunting at her misery, Liz muttered an insult before abandoning herself to her fate.
Liz: "*Sigh*Kill me already…".
. 100 km away from the hive city of Surbia, sector 89005.
Sarah: "Y'know…when I said when are we going to be deployed, I didn't really think of that…" sipping at her canteen with an disappointed look, she dusted a crumb of dirt on her shoulder before getting up from her chair and look over the trench.
Resting her head on the wall of the makeshift bunker they were posted too; Liz with an bored sigh, maintained her lasgun for the fifth time in attempt to kill the time faster.
While the previous five days were about the multiple whining and complain about their first deployement on the field together, the group of women wouldn't have imagined to be posted at the most boring and remote sector of the front, while Liz had heard a few gossip from a neighboring unit about a potential xenos attack, she abandoned this stupid idea after seeing the defense they will be posted on, having looked at the kilometer of trench's, barbed wire fence, and heavy machine gun installed every hundred meters, she doubted that anything would passe without suffering some heavy casualties, "No heretic or xenos would be insane enough to attack head first an position like this" Putting the last piece of her gun with an satisfied click, she turned her attention to Loona, who right now, was lying on her backpack while reading a book about the event of the Horus heresy.
Liz: "Never thought you would be an book worm" she said with interest.
Loona: "I'm not, it's just a way to pass time, but got to admit, the book is not that bad" she responded to her without leaving her sight from the page, "Thing really went to shit after the treasons of Horus, huh"
Sarah: "Yep"
Liz: "Totally"
Loona: "…"
Sarah: "…"
Liz: "…"
Loona: "…"
Liz: "…"
Sarah: "…"
Loona: "…"
Liz: "Wait…were did found this book?" she asked after a few minutes of silence.
Not taking any interest at what her companion said, Sarah quickly took another swing of water.
Loona: "Stole it from the commissar tent" she bluntly replied.
Before spiting the water out of her mouth with her eyes almost coming out of her skull.
Liz/Sarah: "WHAT?!"
Loona: "God dammit, can you both calm your tits for a second, it's just a book…" she replied whit disinterest.
Sarah: "A book? A book!? Loona you just!…*whisper* You just stole a freaking commissar!" She said while throwing her hands up in exasperation.
Liz: "Yeah! You could have killed us with your mess, commissar don't have a tendency to take any 'undisciplined' behavior lightly "
Loona: "Guys, it's a fucking book, stop bitching about it" marketing her page and putting the novel inside her backpack, she took a pair of binoculars before crouching her way inside the bunker and put herself beside the autocannon, "And besides, she doesn't even know that I stole it, hell, I'm sure she doesn't even know that this book was in her drawer".
Liz: "She?"
Loona: "Hm? Ho yeah, from Raivea"
Sarah: "Raivea…The Raivea, the one who have executed an entire regiment because one of them have stolen her favorite shampoo bottle…Accidentally"
Loona: "Wait, she really did that?" she said with an raised eyebrow.
Liz: "Emperor saves us, and I thought that Sarah was the one to do this kind of grox shit" she said while massaging her temple from an incoming headache.
Sarah: "Frack you"
Hearing the heavy footstep coming into their direction, the three women looked above their post to see an squad of soldier passing beside them, without any clue of their presence.
Clad in heavy flak armor and equipped with advanced lasgun who were connected to an bulky battery on their back, Loona would have mistaken them for any other soldier if it wasn't for their weird red thunder color scheme painted on their armor to differentiate them from the rest.
Has there were continuing to walk while discussing amongst themselves, one of them suddenly stopped after noticing the other group in the trench.
Covered with an half mask respirator who was directly connected to his helmet, only his purple eyes and brown shade of skin could be seen between is gears and uniform, has he continued to observe each one of them with an hardened glare, his attention was suddenly grabbed on Loona, who in return, observed him with the same glare as his.
Not blinking or leaving their eyes from each other, Loona soon, felt herself growing more frustrated by the silence he was giving her and the lifeless glare of his strange, yet hypnotic orb of him.
?: "What are you doing trooper?! Stay with the other!"
Briefly breaking the eyes contact to look at his right, the man gave one last glare at Loona before moving with the rest of his unit.
Observing him move away, until he was out of sight, Loona let out a breath of anxiety that she was unconsciously hold in her throat.
Sarah: "What's it's problem?" Sarah said with an confused expression, "He was looking at us, like we were…We were…I don't how he was viewing us, but I didn't like it!" she exclaimed with her arm cross.
Liz: "Yeah…me neither, especially how he looked at you Loona, dude was like he saw a daemon or something" she said while frowning her brow in irritation.
Humming too herself about the weird encounter, Loona really thought for a moment that maybe, this was man was suspecting something, or even worse, see through her disguise, "Nah, you probably imagine thing Loona, but let's stay vigilante just in case" not wanting to leave an long silence take place again, she smugly smiles at her two friends before responding to them.
Loona: "You know, I was ready to beat is ass if he continued to fix me like this" she said with a joking tone.
Both laughing at her response, and easing the atmosphere into a more welcoming mood, an high-pitched whistle coming beside Liz, came to grab their attention.
Liz: "HAH! coffee's ready~" taking the pot off the fire and pouring the contents on three different cups, she passed the two other cup before blowing at the coffee in order too cool it down.
Taking a little sip from her cup and going back inside the bunker, Loona retook her binocular to look at the horizon, "Can't wait for the end of the day".
She didn't know how many hours have passed since her last mug of coffee, but one thing was sure, she was bored as fuck, so bored that she completely felled asleep on top of the autocannon and leave her place to Sarah, softly snoring peacefully without a care, Loona almost jumped in fright at the slight tug Sarah was giving her.
Loona: "No Sarah, for the last time, we don't have any more coffee for fuck's sake" she said while rubbing her eyes.
Sarah: "No, it's not for that, take a look" with an worried voice, she handed the binocular to Loona.
Sighing in annoyance and snatching the device from her hands, she looked at the direction that Sarah was pointing with her finger, and see a cloud of sand coming in their direction.
Loona: "Woah, hooray, you saw a sandstorm, I'll give you a reward later" she said with sarcasm.
Sarah: "Well, that's the thing…there is no sandstorm in this region" she said with a genuine voice of worried.
Titling her head in confusion, Loona remade a double check to make sure that her friend wasn't being paranoid or something.
Squinting her eyes with more carefulness, and using her hellhound sight to zoom a little bit more, she saw that this sandstorm was actually not natural, and that her movement were much more-
Loona: "What. The. Hell" she said with a confused look.
Sarah: "What? What is it?"
Loona: "I…I'm not sure, I think I saw something in there…here"
Giving back the binocular and letting Sarah reobserved it again, her mouth slowly started to stay agape, has her pupil shrieked in terror.
Liz: "Hey guys, dinner is her- " stopping mid-sentence, and raising an eyebrow after seeing her friend shiver on the spot, Liz putted the pack of ration she was holding on the ground before extending a hand to grab her shoulder, "hum Sarah? Are you oka- WOAH!" shoved to the side by Sarah, and looking at her run in the direction of the commissar tent, her attention then instantly switched-on Loona, "What's her problem?"
Without being able to give her proper answer to this sudden behavior, Loona shrugged her shoulder in a genuine confusion.
Loona: "I don't know, she just looked at this weird sandstorm, and she just…Loose it or something".
Not completely understanding the situation, Liz just decided to take the initiative by grabbing the binocular and take a look at what was making her annoying friend bail out like this, "Soooo, what's the fuss about…this" having taken a look for just a few second, and froze like a statue on the spot, she then suddenly dropped the binocular on the ground.
Loona: "Hum, are you alr-"
Liz: "A-a-arm the autocannon" she said with an trembling voice.
Loona: "What?"
Grabbing her lasgun and tossing two boxes of munition at Loona, who in turn failed to grab them midair, she tossed the box aside before giving a scolding look at Liz.
Loona: "What the fuck Liz?! What's your problem for Satan sa-"
Liz: "ARM THIS FRACKING AUTOCANNON FOR EMPEROR SAKE!" She screamed in terror at the face of Loona.
Recoiling at her sudden outburst, Loona didn't try to ask twice and just started to obey what she was asked in the biggening.
Attaching a box of ammo beside the gun and pulling out from it a belt of bullet, she rapidly opened the slide of the weapon before carefully install the munition, hearing a soft click from the mechanism while seeing the first bullet being inserted, she closed the cover with a loud metallic sound before violently cocking the hammer.
Loona: "Gun is ready! What now!?"
Liz: "Now…" looking at a lever and giving a big kick to let out a deafening alarm blare across the area, she immediately crouched beside Loona with her gun pointed in front, "We pray that our death will be quick".
Running in every direction and giving order left and right.
What was used to be an calm and peaceful evening, was now replaced by the multiple movement and scream of order barked by the multiple officers standing in the area, as each guardsman took their designated position inside the trench line or in the nearby bunker, the commissar on their part, were standing behind their man with an watchful eye, and a loaded bolter, ready to spread out the emperor justice on any coward or disobedient soldier.
Passing beside the group that Loona was in, a certain individual finally remade her reappearance after a few hours of running.
Sweating and panting heavily from exhaustion, Sarah quickly swiped the accumulated sweat from her brow before grabbing her lasgun and crouch beside Liz to form a perfect line of gun with her other fellow imperial guard.
Loona: "Where the fuck did you go!?" she loudly screamed, making sure that her voice was heard between the incessant ruckus she was in.
Sarah: "I went to warn the commander" Checking her magazine and taking out the safety, she copied the same movement that her friend made earlier, and pointed her gun at the storm, "Is the gun ready?".
Looking at the machine gun left and right, Loona nodded to herself before giving a response.
Loona: "Ready to spread death…but I still don't know what is attacking u-is that music?"
.Dawn of war 3 Soundtrack – Orks main theme:
0:02
Liz: "There they are" she said with an menacing yet fearful tone.
Slowly turning her head to the side with an unsure expression, her eyes immediately widen at the view of the multiple monsters rushing toward them.
Naturally cover in a thick green skin, while being reinforced with an surmount of muscle, the creature, who some of them were riding some makeshift Harley like motorcycle while being cover in heavy metallic scrap armor, where speeding up their pace in a blinding speed that couldn't match any other bike of this planet, has the motorcycle were standing on the front, the most imposing vehicle and tanks were slowly but surely following behind them, standing in the middle and amongst the rest, an giant tanks being the size of what could be comparable to an medium apartment, was hosting another one of those green monster who's size and banner was standing him out from the rest.
Stopping on a nearby hill and observing them for a moment in a dreadful silent, Loona then suddenly saw the giant take a deep breath before releasing a war cry that she would never forget.
0:30
WWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Covering one of ear in pain, she rapidly recomposed herself before putting a finger on the trigger.
?: "OPEN FIRE!" Scream out an young commissar.
Pressing the trigger to let out an slowly but destructive volley of bullet rip through the battlefield, her first shot was perfectly rewarded with two headshot simultaneous headshot at some foot troops, but has her third and fourth shot almost touched an incoming rider who in reverse have successfully maneuver to escape her line of sight, she then decided to reconcentrates her fire power on an incoming 'buggy'.
WWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH.
Shooting at the front of the vehicle in hope to destroy it before he crashed at them, Loona gritted her teeth at the useless damage she was doing on it, "Fuck! Go down already!" Has a red beam of light stroke the driver in the eyes, to force him to drift and roll his vehicle three time before exploding, Loona looked at Liz, who in response gave a thump up before continuing to shoot, nodding at her and doing the same thing, Loona quickly saw another group of bikers shooting with their archaic weapon while laughing and driving around like buzz saw, flinching at a bullet passing close to her, she instinctively took the rein before returning the fire.
Loona: "FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! AND FUCK YOU! YOU GREEN COCK SUCKER SHIT!"
Sarah: "YEAH! EXACTLY WHAT SHE SAID, XENOS SCUM!" putting a new battery in her lasgun and hearing a soft energetic hum course through the weapon again, she spread out a volley of red beam at an mounted machine gun ork pick-up.
Has the trio continued to spread curse and spill blood and dead, the nearby soldier who were desperately holding their own fight, were slowly getting overwhelmed and kill with brutallity.
?: "Man those chicks are crazy!" said an old guardsman from his cover.
?: "You're telling me!"Replied another one, much younger and less experimented.
Getting out from his cover to shoot at the incoming green horde, the young guardsman head suddenly and violently exploded in gore way, staining the man around him with his blood.
?: "Frakin-!"
*BOOM*
Having looked at the dead body of his friend for a few second, the old man who was standing beside him earlier, was now, like the other five soldier around him, reduced into a puddle of blood and shred limbs.
?: "STAND STRONG MEN!" Encouraged a commissar standing above a pile of imperial guard body and Orks, "HAS LONG THAT WE STAND, THE EMPEROR PROTECT!"
All soldier/ Liz/ Sarah: "THE EMPEROR PROTECT!"
Amongst the chaos and the whistling shelf of the Orks tanks, Loona who shredded to piece another car, wasn't sharing the same act of faith or enthusiasms than the other, "This 'emperor' won't be able to save anybody from this mess, if there is nothing to be saved anymore!" Looking to her right while continuing to press the trigger, she saw a group of soldiers being immediately shredded to piece by a wave of bullet, "Fuck-"
*Click*
"Me" Looking at the magazine box to see that it was empty, she quickly unclipped the box before tossing it aside.
Loona: "I'm out! Sarah, pass me a box!" Putting her hand over her helmet after feeling an explosion a few meters away, she quickly gets herself up to continue the reloading process she was in, "Dammit".
Opening the gun roof and slightly wincing at the sudden wave of heat coming out from the canon, and directly into her face, she turned around to scream at Sarah for a slowness.
Loona: "Sarah I need this box!-…now…"
Lying on the ground lifelessly, with half of her face exploded and burnt, Loona who stranded with her mouth agape and her eyes widen in shock, turned her sight on her second friend Liz, who, to her horror, has been completely blown in half, leaving only her leg and head as a gruesome way to tell that she has existed.
Forgetting the sound of bombardment and gunshot around her, and concentrating her mind one the remain of her friend, Loona with an shell-shocked look, crouched lazily beside Sarah.
Loona: "Hey…get up…you can't fuck with me now…I know your joking" she said while softly shaking her, "Sarah, Liz…come on *sob* get up…*sob*".
Softly crying while trying to 'wake' her friend up, Loona soon abandoned the idea that they will ever get up again, and just started to chocked on her own cry.
Loona:"*Sob* Come on…you're the only one I got *sob* fucking…get up *sob* both of you…*sob* get up" Letting her face fall on the chest of her friend Sarah and staining the rest of her bloodied uniform with her tear, she slowly grabbed her hand before softly caressing it with gentleness.
?: "THEIR IN THE TRENCH-HAAAA!" scream out a soldier before letting out an painful cry of pain.
Opening her eyes and snapping herself back on the current situation she was in, she slowly felt her blood boil in anger as the thought of those creature came to her mind in unending loop, "This is their fault" grabbing a nearby lasgun, she straightened herself up before sprinting outside the bunker with rough grunt of rage.
1:13
Loona: "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" coming face to face with an group of Okrs, she pointed her lasgun before pressing her finger on the trigger.
Letting out an blast of red bean zip through the closed corridor of the trench, she successfully, by sheer luck, eliminated two of them with an almost perfect shot, but only to be for her, being overwhelmed by another one who in a fit of gruesome ingenuity, used the body of a dead guardsman has a meat shield.
Tossing the body at Loona who in reflexes dodge it to the side, she was then violently send flying a few meters away by an powerful front kick.
?: "WWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" scream out the monster while rushing at Loona with an crude blade.
Spiting an lump of blood from her mouth and getting on her feet, she grabbed her weapon before taking aim and-
*THSSSSIIIIUUUUUMMM*
Loona: "Huh?" Looking at her weapon mag, she saw the battery hum with an deep red color to indicate the emptiness of munition in there, to put it simply, she was fucked.
Tossing her weapon at the brutish creature, she rolled to the side in order to dodge a stab directed at her stomach, and at the same time, grab an nearby plank who was laying on the ground.
Holding the plank like a baseball bat and taking a stance in preparation, she was totally taken by surprise when the monster started to boom a joyful laugh at her.
?: "MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! HUMIE IS'H FASGTH LI'E POINTY EAR'S, MUNCH FUN, NO'T LIKE OTHER'S HUMIE'S!" he taunted with his blade pointed at her.
Loona: "I am not human" she snarled with venom.
Not giving any chance to the creature, she swiftly gave an direct strike at is adversary blocked jaw with an savage war cry, smiling at the feeling of her weapon it his target with a direct smash, Loona eyes still widen in horror at the unfazed creature and her now broken weapon.
Loona: "What the-OUF!" taking a powerful punch in the face, she felt her balance and vision dazed a bit, has a gush of blood flooded out from her nose.
?: "MUUUUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! HUMIE WEA'K LIKE OTHER'S HUMIE! OKRS BEST, GREEN BEST! WWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH"
Putting a hand on her head and shaking off the dazing feeling out of her mind, Loona sighted in pain before pulling out her combat knife, while desperately trying to figure out a s plan to get herself out of this, "Okay, fighting head first is stupid, I got to be smarter" dodging an uppercut and jumping a few meters away to give her some distance against her adversary, she sharplylooked around each corner of her environment for any useful things.
Has she carefully analyzed her surrounding for a few minutes, she came to view behind the monster, a dead body who was holding in his hand a flamethrower, "Okay girl, let's do this" gesturing smugly for the dumb creature to attack first, he acknowledges her wish by charging with his blade up in the air.
?: "WWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHH!"
Stepping back at the first and second slash with ease, Loona tried to make an rush beside the monster, but failed after seeing another slash directed to throat, "Patience" dodging each punch and swing at the last moment, she almost got herself cut in the thorax by a mere inch, "Patience" kicking the green brute on his chin in order to anger him even more, he in exchange responded with multiple savage swing and scream of incoherent dialect, "Patience" having enough, the brute gruffly thrusted is blade at Loona, "Now!" Only for her to step aside, and let the blade stuck himself on a wooden pillar.
Taking this occasion to plant her knife in his leg in order to slow him down, she, in a blink of an eyes, rushed directly to the weapon she was eyeing earli-.
?: "WWWAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! ZOG OFF!" grabbing Loona by the leg before she could be in a safe distance from his grasp, he then violently smashed her against the ground and wall of the trenches like a ragdoll, before finally throwing her away.
Crashing face first into a puddle of mud and blood, Loona felt that her right eyes was so swollen that it was completely blinding her.
Loona: "Huuuuuu, crap…" taking out her helmet and letting it fall on the ground with a heavy 'splash', her eyes instantly sparkled in hope at the view of the flame thrower a few inches away from her.
Sprinting on all fours, she quickly but carefully grabbed the weapon has if was a pile of gold…but then widen her eyes in dumbfound at the view of the missing fuel can on it.
Turning around to look with her good eyes, at the giant who was pulling her knife out of his leg, she desperately searched the body and the area around for any trace of amunition.
?: "YOU FIG'TH GUD HUMIE, ALMOS'T LIKE A BOYZ'!" he stated while liming toward her, "BU NAW! YOU HUMIE DIE!".
Feeling a rush of adrenaline come through her system like some cocaine blend with some LSD, she finally found a fuel can inside a satchel and immediately snatched out of it before trying to install it with her trembling hand, breathing heavily at the sound of incoming heavy footstep, she clumsily dropped the can out of her hand.
Loona: "Shit,shit,shit,shit,shit,shit,shit,shit,shit,shit-" having at last found enough nerve to hold the container and properly connected to his place, she turned on her back while pointing the flamethrower at h-.
?: "RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAARRRRRRHHHHHHHH-!" launching himself at Loona in a desperate attempt to rip her throat out, the last memories that this orks will have, his the smell of protenium infiltrate is nostrils, and the painful sensation of is melting burned skin.
1:49
Loona: "WWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!" Roaring a war cry of fear and anger at the same time, she pulverized and smoked the green skin in a fiery and smoldering wave of green and orange flame, "THAT'S FOR MY FRIENDS ASSHOLE!"
2:05 (stop the music)
Continuing to press the trigger until the weapon container was totally empty, she tossed the gun the aside before falling on her knee and hold her face in pain.
Loona: "GUH! that hurt!" she said while wiping some mud off her face.
Getting up and limping her way through the gunshot and destroyed line of the battlefield, Loona suddenly looked at the sky when an of a rapid whistling noise pierced the cloud above her.
Loona: "You gotta be kidding me"
*BOOM*
Sent in the air by the powerful blast of the bombshell, Loona, who's body was flipping multiple time in the air, bumped three time on the ground before crashing violently inside a pond of blood, mixed with the body of the two-faction side.
Hours have passed since the battle have finally come to an end, and while the Astra miltarum was victorious for today, it didn't mean that his was a day to fest upon it, at least not for some people.
?: "Three hundred thousand dead and forty thousand injured…I call that a victory" said a commissar with an smug grin.
?: "And me, I didn't have to execute half of the regiment like last time, I'm so proud…of myself obviously" said an women in the same uniform has him.
Taking out from her coat two quality cigar, she both light them up at the same time, before passing one to his colleague.
?: "Sure the battle was win with an crushing victory, but still…I think we could have done better" she said with an jovial tone, puffing out a tray of gray smoke.
?: "Nah, its already a lot for me" taking a drag from his cigar in turn, he was suddenly harassed by a fly, which in return tried to chase it with his hand "Hey! Trooper!".
Turning their attention at their officer, three dirty and heavy armored men saluted him with respect.
All soldier: "Yes commissar!"
?: "Start piling up the bodies, I don't want any flies disrupting me from my sweet victory"
All soldier: "Yes commissar!" They saluted again before spreading around the carnage to pile the bodies.
?: "Haaa~ I love Cadian, they are so obedient" he said with an snarky chuckle.
?: "Couldn't disagree on that one"
Leaving the both of them at their own discussion, an particular soldier whose purple eyes darted around the destroyed plain with an observing gaze, sighted at the destruction around him.
?: "Emperor mercy…"
Unclipping his half mask to let it loosely hang on the side of his helmet, the soldier scratched his bad shaved beard before taking a long breath of air, "Another day, another battle…has always" continuing his track to view the remain of a young soldier, the man kneeled to his side before taking his dog tag and give him his respect in the form of a small whispered prayer, "May you find peace beside the emperor…" Following the same action for an hour or two, he suddenly stopped at the sound of moaning coming from a hole.
Sliding his weapon from his shoulder and pointing it in precaution, he cautiously walked over the little hill of the bombshell hole to look at a now, bloodied pond fill with fresh decomposing body and swarm of fly, not fazed by the smell or the nightmarish view, the soldier just sighted in relief after seeing that no threats was in there, "dead bodies, over dead bodies…nothing out of the ordinary" putting the safety on and leaving the area, a rough cough came back to retake his attention.
?: "What the…" carefully looking between the dead with an more sharpened look, his eyes instantly widen at the view of the women he saw earlier, "Ho crap!"
Dashing inside the pond and chasing the fly around him while soaking is uniform in a red and putrid scarlet color, he carefully grabbed her by the waist before checked her vital sign.
?: "Ho thank you" he sighted
Has his eyes illuminated with hope, he immediately removed what was left of her flak armor by cutting the remaining belt who was holding it, before proceeding to gently scoop her in a bridal position and leave out this horrible place.
?: "Someone! I got a survivor here!"
5 hours later, after the battle.
Hanging on the balance of consciousness and sleepiness, Loona, who could hear but not feel the world around her, was in some sort of blur of memories and light, all was but a vague impression of the reality surrounding her, all was but an internal loop of the last few hours of carnage and bloodshed she has follow a mere moment earlier.
Having enough of this and finally founding the strength to open her eyes, she was at first blinded by the sudden surge of light coming directly into her sight, and force her to squint her eyes in discomfort while naturally trying to block the light that was blinding her.
Loona: "Huuuuuuggghhh~" Slowly regaining her line of sight and consciousness, she at first remarked that she was on a soft mattress, and in a different place, "What in hell".
Massaging her temple in a futile attempt to sooth an awful headache, she soon founded her arm and body cover head to toe in some sort of sterilized bandage, if the odor of chlore and disinfectant was a clue to follow at least.
Siting herself on her bed while clutching her teeth through the sore and awful pain coursing through her member, she then looked around to see an enormous sight of a church fill with numerous bleedings and moaning injured like herself, put in the same bed that she was sitting on.
Loona: "Where am I?" she spoked her thought out loud before coughing in her hand, felling a sticky substance on the tip of her finger, she looked at it to find her own blacked blood stain her palm.
?: "You shouldn't move too much".
Lightly jumping in fear and turning her head to the source of the voice, she soon founded herself in front of a man with an tan black skin color, a charcoal dirty yet well cut military undercut, accompanied with an bad unshaved beard who almost covered an horizontal scar on his mouth.
?: "The doc said that you have two broken ribs, and an potential concussion…" Taking from his pocket a low-stick, he used an nearby candle to lighting it up and take a drag small drag from it, "Normally you should be dead…That's what they said at least".
Scoffing at this little comment, she still maintained her glare from the man purple eyes, eyes that for a reason was giving her a sensation of déjà vue.
Loona: "Hmph, it's not the first time that I put myself into this kind of mess" she said in a monotone yet firm tone.
?: "I can see that…but I can see that you also kinda special" he said while puffing out some smoke through his nose.
Loona: "What do you mean about that asshole" she barked back, anger in her voice.
Pointing two fingers in the direction of the black blood dripping into her palm, she by instinct clenched her hand.
?: "If I remember correctly, blood is usually red" he said with an raised eyebrow.
Gulping a lump of anxiety into her throat and managing her nerve with a good lie, she without conscious sweated in fear at each passed second, "Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, think Loona, think!" suddenly having an idea pop out in her mind, just like a light bulb spawn out over her head before rapidly disappearing, she returned her attention at the man in front of her.
Loona: "It's an common thing on my planet, yep, we got black blood where I live…" she stuttered on her word.
?: "…And, in which planet do you live?" he said dismissively, taking another drag of nicotine.
Loona: "Huuuuuuhhh~…Planet…Hellvios…Two?"
?: "Hellvios two?"
Giving him a smile and mentally praying to whatever divinity who was willing to listen to her, that her lie have work, the man just looked at Loona with a deadpanned face before shrugging his shoulder off.
?: "Meh, probably a shit hole that I never heard before"
Relieved that the man has taken her lie so easily, he then saw the strange man take a nearby chair, before sitting beside her and pull out from his vest pocket an book strapped in a leather cover, leaving Loona alone and scramble inside his journal or whatever this thing was supposed to be.
Sheleft herself slowly fall back on the bed and close her eyes to catch some sleep, she suddenly reopened them at the flashback of her two-friend dead.
Has the image of Sarah replayed in her mind like a horror movie put in a loop, a sudden flash switched to the scene where she saw Liz face look at her with a last expression who just screamed fear and shock at the same time, "Fuck, how the hell did you two got yourself…I couldn't…maybe if I just took more attention around me, they will, Dammit!" Covering her hears in hope to block out those memories, she then suddenly clutched the sheet of her bed has another realization came to her, "Sarah, she doesn't have a face anymore, how her husband will…ho fuck, what about Liz boy, I can't…how he will live without his mother! What will happen if he saw her mother cut in half, like a freaking-".
?: "Lost some people…aren't you…" said the man with an concerned voice, heads up from his book.
Coming back from her own thought and looking at the man dead glare, she then growled in anger before putting herself in a more comfortable position.
Loona: "Just look at your stupid and leave alone" she said with a rude tone, while turning to the side.
?: "You know, you can talk to me if you want" he responded with an genuine voice of concerned, earning him in return a scoff from the silver haired girl.
?: "Why the fuck would I want to talk to you, you don't even know me"
Staying in his place for a moment without saying anything, he let out an tired sigh while passing a hand through his hair.
?: "Name Nolan…what's yours?" the man named Nolan asked to her.
Having for project to pissing him off and sleep, she stayed silent for a moment before relenting with an annoyed sigh.
Loona: "Loona" she said with her back turned.
Nolan: "Loona, well now that we know each other" putting out is low-stick under his boot and tossing the remain in a random direction, he slumbered on his chair before speaking again, "Are you willing to talk to me" waiting for a moment, she heard the women hum in a approving manner, "Okay, so…where do you want to begin?".
Explaining to him with her back still turned from his eyes sight, Loona without knowing the reason or explanation just unwrapped to this 'Nolan' all the event and feeling she has lived during her first real battle, sure she has done some brawl and shoot-out during a few assignation with her team and Blitz, or even during some random moment in hell…but unlike hell or the contract she has made, it didn't involve an incomprehensible mass carnage of monster and friend, the stress, the violence, the gunshot, the creature she has fought in the trench line, all just made her feel like she was about to die…all this event made her feel something she hasn't felt since she has leaved the foundation with Blitz, something that she has promised herself to not become anymore…weak.
Loona: "And just like that…they were gone" Finishing her explanation with an outburst of restrained cry of stress, she looked at Nolan while choking on her own tear "Is…*sob*Is this always hurtful when you lose someone, did…*sob* did this get better over the time"
Looking thoughtfully at her with his eyes shadowed by the light of the small candle around him, he then pulls out from another pocket, an entire pack of low-stick before getting up from his chair to march around the bed and offer one to Loona.
Gladly accepting the 'cigarette' by catching it with her mouth, Nolan then lighted them both with another candle, who after use, putted it back to his place.
Nolan: "Yes…it hurt, it hurt every damn time…" he said in a sad tone before crouching beside Loona, "But in the end, you'll just learn how to ignore it and live with it"
Chuckling sadly between her sob, she sniffs out a flow of snot before responding to him.
Loona: "So that's your solution…just ignore it and live like nothing have ever happen" she frowned in outrage.
Nolan: "No" he said sternly, taking a drag from his low-stick before continuing, "Look I'm not very good to comfort people or do any of this psychiatric crap, just-" taking a breath to recollect his mind, he carefully choose is next word, "Look, the best advice that I can give you right now is to not let yourself being consume by your own guilt, what happen to your friend was something that you couldn't control or prevent, none one could have".
Loona: "Bu-but if I just kept an eye on them, maybe-"
Nolan: "This wouldn't have change anything, believe me…I know what I'm saying"
Staying silent again while enjoying the scent and taste of their low-stick tabaco, Nolan then suddenly gets himself up before going back on his chair.
Nolan: "I'm going to stay here for a moment, that give me a good reason to avoid the commissar for a day" he said jokingly, before taking his book again and going back to where he has marked his page, "If you need anything, just tell me and I'll do what I can".
Loona: "Nolan" She said is name with an uncertain expression on her face, "Thank you…"
Nolan: "Anytime miss, and after all" lightly tapping is chest with a proud smile, he responded to her with confidence, "We are the imperial guard, we must help each other, no?"
Leaving out of a soft snort for his silliness, she then left the man in his own bidding before going in the world of dream, "I hope that he would leave me alone this time".
I HAVE POSTED A NEW CHAPTER AT LAST!
Sorry for the wait everyone, it's just that i was doing some research and gaming about the detail and lore of elden ring.
Yes, elden ring would be the first crossover storie i will work on, second place goes to the last of us, why i will work on elden ring first (before you ask) it's simple.
Because the lore his so freaking complex and hard to comprehend, so i just want to start on the hard one before going on the simpliest one, like...Jesus Christ i don't even know where fromsoftware goes to find such idea for a stories like this.
By the way before i leave you on this note, big thanks and apreciation for alecwillnerleo236 for all his review and tips about the multiple grammar mistake i made in each of my chapter (seriously dude/girl, eveytime i saw a comment like that, i just make me want to continue and never give up)
Anyways, have a good day/nigth and don't forget to leave your critics and apreciation, but has usual, don't flame up.