It was a beautiful night for many across the world of Mobius; the last nail in the coffin for the EggMan empire had been delivered, and the world had begun to heal thanks to the efforts of many countries and the restoration.
There was hope in the air that perhaps peace had been achieved and that the world would never face a war like the last one. The heroes could finally relax and not worry about EggMan attacks on people or attempts to control eldritch beings.
Many celebrate in the streets, in their homes, and all around as Mobius steps out into the light, a little shaken up but healthy and ready to take on the future. The future was looking great for the people of Mobius, and things could only get better...
Tails started setting up another telescope while everyone else enjoyed themselves at the party. There was going to be a meteor shower tonight, and everyone was looking for a way to celebrate their victory over Metal Sonic.
Tails had organized all supplies to make sure that everyone was comfortable while Cream and her mother cooked most of the food that was going to be served at the party, though some others did bring food.
Or tried to since Blaze decided to join in on the party before leaving back to the Sol Dimension, and everyone had a good laugh as Silver explained Blaze's many attempts at cooking while Blaze sat there with a small blush on her face, embarrassed about the fact that she was going to be the leader of a kingdom and didn't know how to cook.
Everyone was enjoying themselves, and while working on one of the last telescopes, Sonic ran up to Tails and said, "How are you doing, buddy?" Tails responded as he finished the telescope, "I'm doing fine; why?"
"Well it's just that you've barely talked to anyone and have been focused on setting everything up instead of enjoying yourself." Sonic said, and Tails chuckled before speaking, "Don't worry, I'll start talking with Cream and the others after I finish up with the telescopes."
"Let me finish them up; it can't be that hard." Sonic said as he grabbed a telescope box and tried putting the thing together but immediately failed as the thing fell apart and caused some of the others to laugh. Sonic spoke, "Alright so it is hard, but we don't need so many telescopes."
"Guess I may have overprepared..." Tails said as Cream suddenly yelled out while pointing at the sky, "Everyone! It's happening!" Everyone looked to the sky as they saw the meteor shower start. Silver and Blaze looked through the telescopes as Tails sat down.
Tails looks around and sees that everyone is enjoying itself; it even looks like Shadow is enjoying himself. "Wow, look how big that one is!" Cream said, and Tails looked up to see a giant meter; it was the largest by far but also the strangest.
Shadow spoke up as he squinted, "That's because it's no meteor; it's the ARK." Everyone looked at Shadow while Sonic spoke, "Oh, come on, Shadow, don't try and stir up chaos the day everyone can finally relax and not worry about anything."
"Umm...Sonic, I think it is." Silver said, and Sonic spoke, "How would you know what it looks like?" Silver then shrugged and said, "There are a lot of pictures of it, so it's not that hard to know what it looked like."
"Here, let me take a look." Sonic said as he looked through the telescope, and Tails did the same. Everyone else was worried, and Sonic spoke, "Oh...Shadow was right."
Tails immediately started to worry along with everyone else as all of them started to chat about what could have caused the Ark to fall. Of course, Shadow started blaming EggMan along with Sonic since he didn't let him kill EggMan.
Though Tails had a strange feeling that this was something much, much worse...
"What about a device to mind-control the entire world?" EggMan said as he and Dr. Starline chatted around a table, trying to come up with a plan to try and take over the world after EggMan had recovered his memories.
"Didn't you try that, and it failed?" Starline said, and EggMan brushed it before speaking. "What? No, I only tried it out on Tails, and it...didn't really work, but that was because it didn't have enough power, but now, I think I can do it."
"Perhaps a virus."
"Space Colony ARK is falling down. Space Colony ARK is falling down!" Cubot said as he fell through the roof, interrupting Starline while Orbot gracefully fell down, EggMan stood up and spoke, "Really, and how did you two find out about this?"
Orbot spoke up as he helped Cubot up: "We were observing the meteor shower while cleaning, and Cubot pointed it out as he looked through one of the many spare telescopes."
EggMan sighed and got up before heading over to the control room of the faceship. He accessed some of his backup satellites and gasped as he zoomed in and saw that Space Colony ARK really was falling to the earth.
"Maybe something malfunctioned?" Starline said, and EggMan spoke after shaking his head, "It can't be, but who would be able to take down the ARK? The place is armed with tons of security, especially after everything that has happened over the last couple of years."
"Doctor, perhaps it was a case of internal sabotage?" Orbot said, and EggMan brushed that idea off since the station had multiple security measures to make sure that sabotage couldn't have happened.
"No, this was an attack. Someone or something boarded the station before diverting it on a crash course and presumably leaving." EggMan said as he started to organize some badniks along with Metal Sonic to investigate the wreckage.
Perhaps the answers would lay somewhere on the wreckage of the ARK, he also hoped that no one else tried investigating the wreckage as well but he knew that was unlikely, everyone would be flooding to get answers.
Especially Sonic and friends...
(Hours Earlier)_
Brother Korvexus pressed himself against the wall as he slammed a new mag into his bolter, autogun and las fire rained down the hallway he was about to enter, most likely another blockade by the xenos and the heretics.
He quickly grabbed one of his flash grenades and chucked it down the hallway before counting to three. Once he heard it go off, he broke cover and entered the hallway while those manning the blockade were stunned.
He sweeps left to right, firing a singular bolt for every contact in the hallway. He didn't need to adjust his aim for the xenos due to the fact that a body shot to a heretic is a headshot to a xeno, meaning no matter where he shot, he was guaranteed a kill.
He slowly advanced while firing, and before long, the group manning the barricade was reduced to nothing but gore. Korvexus stepped over the mangled corpses of both the heretic and the mutant.
"Enemy AT crew, along with five enemy infantry squads and multiple CAs in the command room, all brothers of Squad Kol, make your way to the command room." Korvexus heard Sergeant Kol say over the vox that the mission was simple and the killing even simpler.
Board the station by boarding craft, protect the tech-marine, and kill all the crew before sending the station into the planet below. None of the station's personnel have been able to put up a fight against them.
Most of them were armed with auto guns and primitive las guns; their body armor was worse than basic guardsman armor; and they most easily ran away from him or his brothers when they came into contact.
He moved onwards to the command room and heard the sounds of bolter fire, doubling over to the location where he found one of his brothers' finishing off a group of xenos, his green armor having splotches of blood on it.
He turned as he placed a bolt into the back of a surviving xeno as it tried to crawl away, his knightly MKIII helm staring at him as he reloaded his bolter. "The enemy trains weak soldiers, considering none could hit me."
"They are heretics, xenos, and all manners of abominable intelligences; of course they make for weak soldiers." Korvexus responded to brother Ordus as the two stepped over the fresh corpses of the 'G.U.N.' forces on the space station.
"Sergeant Kol has called all of us to storm the command room of the space station." Ordus said as Korvexus replied, "So I've heard, I've still got flash grenades and three magazines; how's your stockpile?"
"Four magazines and one remaining smoke grenade." Ordus replied, and the two continued on in silence, the only noise being the droning of their power armor and the clanking of their ceremite boots.
After encountering one last squad of both mutants and xenos, they decided to use their combat knives instead of bolters to save on ammunition. Astarte blades cut through the weak body armor of both the mutant and the xeno while they screamed in terror, while Korvexus and Ordus remained silent in their killing.
They eventually met with the rest of their squad, Sergeant Kol wielding a plasma gun while the others were armed with standard-issue bolt guns. Kol spoke as he gestured for one of the other members of the squad to plant a melta charge.
"Planting melta charge." Brother Kaed said while Kol spoke over the vox to the Tech-Marine to shut off the lights, "Brother Slyte, hit the lights." He eventually got an answer, and after a minute, the squad breached the command room.
The melta charged blew open the door as Korvexus's squad rushed in, the bark of bolters filling the room while the light went dark, the squad immediately switching to night vision. The only lights in the room were those that came from the muzzle flash of weapons and the glowing coil of Kol's plasma gun.
Korvexus reloaded quickly as he backhanded a xeno into a wall, blood painting his gauntlet as he switched from target to target, the explosions of the bolt shells illuminating the area temporarily while a ball of plasma flew into some combat automata.
Melting through the armor of the automata, it falls down onto some heretics. Bolt rounds flew past Korvexus as they smashed into the enemy AT squad, painting their defenses with their own blood.
Once Korvexus's magazine went dry, he unholstered his bolt pistol, unleashing more bolts into the surviving enemy as he stabbed his combat knife through an xeno's head.
"AT Crew down." Kaed said as the squad continued to clean up the command room. After much fighting, the final xeno took its last breath at the command room's communications console.
Much of the squad's armor bore scorch marks and scratches from the enemy's weapons, though the squad bore no wounds. Kol spoke over the vox as the squad patrolled around the command room. "Brother Slyte, command room secured. Make your way here so that we may eliminate one of the only ways this world could resist us."
"On my way." Brother Slyte responded as the squad continued to patrol around the room until the Tech Marine walked in, his armor covered in additional servos, mechanical arms, and weaponry, the embodiment of an Astarte that follows the Machine God.
"This station…" Brother Slyte said as he approached the main console before speaking once more, "Has been nothing but an affront to the Omnissiah, and I am glad we will be damning it to destruction."
As he tinkered with the console, attaching himself to the machine, and after much difficulty due to the machine spirit not bowing to his knee, he diverted the station's course so that it would eventually crash into the world.
As the squad left the room alongside Brother Slyte, he spoke, "Our job is done, now the next phase falls to both the Steel Legion and the Red Scorpions…"
"Alright, next question, coming from 'Governor Justin,' they ask, 'My lord, I have come with a question that only you could answer due to your connection to the warp. I know the warp is a tenuous thing, but when the reinforcing fleet we were sent just disappeared—not jumped but disappeared—was this your doing? Did you have a special plan for them?" Kitten said as the Emperor stayed silent for a second before speaking.
"…I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS FUCKER IS TALKING ABOUT."
"I believe he was referring to the time an entire imperial fleet just disappeared, disappearing out of thin air."
"AND HOW BIG WAS THIS FLEET?" The Emperor said, and Kitten gulped before speaking, "Well, the fleet contained multiple regiments of the Steel Legion and Death Korps of Krieg."
"I NEED TO ASK YOU LATER ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SOLAR AUXILIA BECAUSE THOSE WERE NEVER COHORTS."
"One is mostly based on lighting warfare with mechanized infantry and tanks, and the other is based heavily on attrition and trench warfare. Along with them was a force of the Adeptus Mechanicus."
"MECHANICUS? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MECHANICUM?" The Emperor asked, and Kitten spoke as he flipped through a list of forces that the fleet contained: "I'll tell you later, some sisters of battle-"
"FUCKING INSANE BITCHES WITH GUNS."
"And lastly, a combined force of 600 Astarte's, hailing from the Raptors, Red Scorpions, Iron Hands, and Imperial Fists chapters." Kitten said as the Emperor released a skeletal shriek before speaking.
"WHAT." The Emperor said before speaking as he picked up the list, "600 ASTARTES JUST DISAPPEARED INTO NOTHINGNESS; I DON'T EVEN RECOGNIZE TWO OF THESE LEGIONS-"
"Chapters."
"THAT'S WHAT I SAID BANNASTAIN. ANYWAYS, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, I HAD NO PART IN THIS; PERHAPS THIS IS SOME 4TH DEGREE WARP FUCKERY."
"What."
"ANYWAYS, NEXT QUESTION."
"Alrighty...umm… I don't like this one, mostly because it comes with some… tasteful art."
"JUST READ IT."
"Okay, then, coming from 'Magos CNMBWJX', they ask, 'Dear Emperor, have you ever thought about making primarchs female? Maybe it wouldn't have caused the heresy; perhaps it would have made them better. PS: I've included some art that I have come up with on what they would have looked like.'"
Kitten then showed the Emperor the art, and the Emperor spoke as he looked at the art, "SEE, THIS IS THE WHY I DIDN'T LISTEN TO MALCADOR, BECAUSE I KNEW EVERYONE WOULD JUST WANT TALL, MUSCULAR WOMEN CLAD IN POWER ARMOR. I WAS BUILDING AN IMPERIUM, NOT SUPER JAPAN."
"What's Japan?"
"AN OLD NATION THAT CREATED A LOT OF FUCKED-UP STUFF, IF SLANNESH WASN'T BIRTHED BY THE ELDAR, THEN SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN BIRTHED BY US."
"O-Oh…should we stop?" Kitten asked, and the Emperor spoke once more, "NO, I NEED TO DO SOMETHING REAL QUICK."
"What is that, my lord?" Kitten didn't get a response back immediately until a few minutes later, when the Emperor spoke, "WE'RE HAVING A GAMING/MOVIE NIGHT BECAUSE…"
A large stack of both video games and shows fell onto the floor as Kitten investigated some. "I'm…confused."
"YOUR SUPPOSED TO BE, NOW, GATHER EVERYONE…"