Tails was asleep in his room, but then he once again found himself in that white space again, the same one he heard the voice

"so you stopped the xenos on Kadaku? Good"

"Who are you exactly! Show yourself!" Tails said with some anger in his voice for not getting answers

"Heh, fine, i will tell you who i am, but please, keep this a secret for now"

"Fine"

"Alright, i will tell you this, I am Malice, the god of the kitsune, master of redemption, bringer of atonement" This shocked Tails, he had been contacted by a literal god, who turned out to be the kitsune god

"Are there any others like you?"

"Yes, but they are in hibernation for now, but your actually a demigod kitsune, i have rendered your true powers inert for now, but i will reveal them once the threat has been Eliminated" Malice said, shocking Tails even more, he was a living god, or half god, and there where more like him

"Can you tell me what my and your powers are?"

"Our powers would be considered heresy, since its of the chaos dimension, but i am not like the other chaos gods, and those who are evil are Khrone, Nurgle, Slaanesh and the worst of them, our arch nemesis, Tzeentch" This scared Tails, since he knew what happened to heretics and traitors in the imperium, and the fact that he had these powers scared him

"But who is the enemy then?"

"Imurah, A chaos sorcerer of Tzeentch, your goal is to defeat him, then i will awaken your powers and the other demigods" Malice said

"I must go now, return to realspace, but remember our deal, don't tell anyone about this"


Tails woke up, and realized he was in his room, but he felt sad, he had just gotten to know Nozick and Lyreo only to watch them get killed by the Heretics

He stood up and went to work on T-skull, his remake of T-pup

While working he pondered on Malices words, he had strange powers, He know knew the chaos gods names, he needed to know more

But knowledge can be quite dangerous sometimes, maybe even considered heresy now, he had to thresd carefully

Outside, he could hear the chaplain giving a speech, he had a distaste in him for some reason, since it seemed there was something tense between him and Titus

Once he had completed the modified servo skull, which was in the shape of a fox head, he inserted the AI chip, and it came to life

"Tails! Long time no see!" T-skull said, but he felt something strange, he wasnt in his original body, he looked into a reflection and saw that he was a floating head of some form

"W-what happened? What is this?!"

"Your a servo skull now T-skull"

"servo what? And did you rename me?"

"This is going to take time to get used to"

"and where are we master Miles?"

"I am not Miles anymore, i am Malex Prawix"

"Ok master Malex, i will explore this place myself"

"Wait!" But it was to late, it already flew off on its own curiousity

"Dammit..."

He then saw Titus, who was finally awake and speaking with Chairon and Gadriel, he approached them

"Your finally up Lieutenant, are you alright?"

"i could ask the same for you Malex" Gadriel said, having witnessed Tails collapsing

"I am fine, but i was working on a custom servo skull and... it flew off like it had a mind of its own"

"Huh?"

"Where is it?" Chairon asked

"I think it went to the strategium"

"Dammit, we need to follow whatever you made before it makes a mess or something"

and so they went onto the cargo elevator to the strategium


Tails and the rest of the squad arrived at the Strategium, only to find Acheran holding T-skull

"Help me!"

"Stop squirming you abominable intelligence!" Acheran said annoyed at the thing he was holding

Tails then approached Acheran

"I can explain, i made that thing!"

"You WHAT?!" Acheran bursted out, accidentally letting T-skull go, he then confronted Tails

"This is tech heresy, do you know what damage AI can do!"

"Heresy?! Oh no, did i do something bad?!"

"Your existence is Tech heresy!"

"AH!" T-skull blurted out before hiding behind Tails

"Listen, this thing is an old friend of mine, but don't worry i put restraints on the AI so it wouldnt go rogue"

"...Fine, but i will be watching you" Acheran said coldly before turning to Titus

"Now what in damnation happened down there!"

"Nozick was Assassinated"

"The adeptus Mechanicus report said engine failure"

"Thats not what i saw"

There was some Silence

"Traitors?"

"Chaos"

"Your sure?"

"No mistaking it sir"

"Clear the bridge!" everyone left at the bridge except for Titus squad

"Nozick was head of a highly classified project"

"Aurora, What is it?"

"A weapon"

"and the minions of chaos learned of its existence"

"With Nozick dead there is only one man able to continuing his work"

He then showed who it was

"Morias Leuze, Nozicks apprentice, he is currently missing"

"His last known location was a mechanicus facility of Avarax, one that is now overrun with Tyranids"

He then showed Titus a device

"This will get you into the cogitator within the facility, you can access Leuze's tracker from there"

"I will take it!" t-skull said, snagging the device from Titus

"Hey! Give that back!"

"I will guard it!" T-skull said, storing the device for later use

"..."

"We are in orbit over Avarax soon, get ready"

Titus then talked with Acheran what was onboard that ship, but he didnt know, since it was useless without Leuze

"Scary big men everywhere!" T-skull said, frightened by that experience

"These men serve humanity and the imperium, they are good people"

"a-are they?"

"You can trust me T-skull"

"Ok!"


"An Abominable Intelligence skull, what where you thinking!"

"This Servo skull's AI is an old friend originally known as T-pup, he was my ally when i faced an invasion on my original home"

"I see, but it must be kept under surveillance"

"i understand"

After they got off the Cargo elevator, Titus conversed with the Chaplain about his collapse, then he went to Magos Galeo for a diagnostic

"Malex, your collapse near the wreckage concerns me"

"How does it concern you? I am a xenos after all"

"Yes... but we are allies in the end, if the archenemy is involved, we must stay vigilant"

"I will reflect on your words Chaplain" Tails said and went to the armory

"Lieutenant Malex, i am concerned over your collapse on Kadaku, a diagnostic must be run"

"Why?"

"Your... unusual mutation might be the cause, i will do a scan"

"No i cant let my secret be discovered"

"Don't worry, i've made sure your biology is obfuscated"

Tails was then throughoutly scanned, but Galeo couldn't find the reason for his collapse, even T-Skull couldn't

"Archmagos Galeo, i can't find master Malex reason for his collapse on Kadaku, i am greatly worried"

"Your unusual for a servo skull, and you seem to have Volkite and Plasma weaponry installed"

"Vol-what? Nevermind, i will try it at a more appropriate time, away from my allies, Praise the Omnissiah" T-skull said, but he was just confused on why he just said 'Praise the Omnissiah'

"Omni-what?"

"The omnissiah, the machine god of the cult mechanicus"

"Cult? Oh dear, what kind of religious dogma is this?" He then flew away a bit frightened and followed Tails and Titus Squad to the thunderhawk, ready to get to Avarax and slay those Tyranid filth who are desecrating the planet

NOTE: this was fun to write

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