Trial of The Dark Gods Part III: Plague Planet
The Plague Planet was a Daemonic World that from orbit was a disgusting dark green that was closer to rotten moss and decayed carrion from the sea then the emerald hues of Paradise Worlds. It was the "residence" of the Daemon Primarch Mortarion, the fallen son of the Emperor had it styled like his scoured Homeworld Barbarus it was somehow even more vile and putrifcate then even the original traitor homeworld. The planet had fleets guarding it and a large orbital ring chained together with biomechanical defense platforms. It was a hellish planet where the air was pure contagion of fumes carrying the worst diseases known to any living creature in the grim galaxy. Worm-eaten mountains with bulbs of green flesh filled with maggots and rotten corpse-trees carved with faces that gave grim blissful smiles. On the lower part of these "mountain" were large towering dark trees were the leaves were rotten and worm like roots wiggled around beneath the earth of it as Plague ridden abominations roam around with their stomachs ripped opened with entrails hanging as maggots and worms feasted upon them as flies flew around over there exposed head as there brain dangled amongst there chewed ears. These abominations hungered and craved human flesh. On the higher mountains over the peaks were large towers of a diseased and moss covered stone that hued chants to the Plague God.
They were large and imposing fortresses that could repel armies. Citadels that could equal the brass towers of the followers of Khorne. The fallen Death Guard, once a proud and mighty legion that defended Mankind, was brought low as they now ruled as Despots of the diseased Domains. It was a truly horrendous planet even for the lower forms of chaos and It's "mortal" followers who toiled in service of the Dark God Nurgle. Ever since the defeat of An'ggrath and the Slaughter fest in Drakaasi the other three gods of chaos were wary. This being of great will and power that found himself in a Crusade against Chaos had brought their interest but now it was bringing them a great sense of fear or the closest they could have to it. To them it was like having the Emperor once again walk amongst Mankind but unlike when the Emperor walked amongst Mankind the Doomslayer was taking the fight even more directly towards them. The Plague Planet was even more fortified then before as more Plague ships guarded the planet and all the Daemons Nurgle could conjure alongside his abominations were brought to defend the sentinel battery as it was inside Mortarion's fortress the Black Manse. The fallen Primarch alongside his space marines were guarding it and would die to the last man. Nurgle had seen the Doom Slayer Slaughter the Greater Daemons and he was wary but Mortarion as his champion eased the Plague God. 'He faced powerful Daemons but he has not faced a Daemon Primarch. He'll fall to Mortarion's scythe' Nurgle's word would echo through the turbulent warp.
The Fortress of Doom would arrive over the Plague Planet as it completely bypassed the Plague Planet defenses. The Doomslayer quickly noticed it was similar in a few ways to the Blood Swamp. He shrugged as he ignited the crucible and jumped from orbit as the green storms grew more turbulent. The Fortress of Doom disappeared from Orbit. 'This Planet is far more fortified than the planet you encountered the sentinel battery. I detect the presence of very powerful enemies. While I'm sure this will entertain you, we can't afford the chances to make mistakes. The stakes are even higher than before. If you fail Mankind fails' Samuel spoke through the comm. The Doomslayer clenched his hands and readied himself as he prepared to fight just as when he brought down the Titan and Davoth. His body started to be engulfed in flames as he got closer to the rotten continents. Artillery fire started to be shot from the skies as hundreds of thousands of rounds were Shot every second the round either bounced or broke as they impacted the Doomslayer. The Doomslayer crashed on one of the fortresses crushing it under his might as a large shockwave of Argent energy released pulverizing the nearby Abominations. He stood as with both hands he held the crucible. His eyes were flaming red and visible from his vizor. The Doomslayer saw a large formation of abominations. He came under heavy fire on his way through the jump.
The formation was composed by the Great Unclean Ones, Plague Bearers, Nurglings and other lesser Daemons which charged at the Doom Slayer. He was being flanked by Marines with bloated innards as they shot bolter rounds at him as large rot flies mounted by one eyed Daemons that eagerly were going to launch themselves. The Doomslayer felt the very planet charge at him as from the distance massive war machines reminiscent of the Atlans overlooked him and it charged a mighty looking beam. 'Let no Demon survive. Rip and Tear until it is done' The Doomslayer thought. He had never wavered before and today would not be the day either. He dashed to meet the greater formation of Daemons. The legions of the Plague God like a swarm of locusts charged as the skies grew darker as the only light was the crucible as Its blade of fiery Argenta shone like light amongst the darkest night. They spewed foul vomit and pus. The northern flank was "led" from the distance by Ku'Gath as foul rot flies came from behind him as he spouted a smaller and even more abominable version of him. Rotigus led the southern charge closer to It's Vanguard. 'My children show this marine my love and blessing. His anger only burns him and fuels him. Let him not know pain only ecstasy in the melancholy to endure so on may live my grandchildren' A calm, melancholic but slimy sounding voice said in the distance almost like a grandfather but the Doomslayer could hear and feel the pure malice it carried that of an uncaring being with delusions of so called love for his lowers. 'Grandfather Nurgle demands we spread our love to this foul creature and so we shall. This pained soul shall know no more suffering' Rotigus exclaimed proudly with a "benevolent" smile but he was a Great Unclean One and he was only comely to the kin to Nurgle or even to an extent by Chaos undivided. The Doomslayer grunted as he started running towards the northern charge. 'Slayer. Hold them off on enough to make enough space I am crafting a boon' Samuel spoke through the comm, the Doomslayer barely listened as he jumped on one on the leader of the rot fly cavalry. The Plaguebearer, a hideous one eyed creature seemed to panic as it gave a strike to the shoulder of the Doomslayer but the blade shattered and then burned. The Doomslayer sliced in half the Plaguebearer as its foul rotten entrails fell over the rot fly. The Doomslayer strangled the Rot Fly and made it change course to face the charge. 'You'll have use for once in your life demon' The Doomslayer thought as he shoved three siphon grenades unto rot fly. Before he crashed against him he jumped off as the grenades exploded killing many. He crashed into the floor as he was met by thousands of Plaguebearers and lesser Daemons like the Nurglings. Some were like snails as they slugged around as pus and decayed flesh hung leaving messy trails and others were fast and inhumane as they were sluggish speeds but at the same time fast.
The Doomslayer dashed over the more concentrated lines as with his speed he blitzed through the rows of Plaguebearer and Nurglings. As the waves turned to meet the slayer his blade of Argent fire sliced through the ravenous horde of beasts. He stabbed a Nurglings in its mouth as he gave a strike, cleaving and slaying through the Plague masses as blood and rotten flesh filled with bloated maggots and pus exploded into the air. The Doomslayer started to stomp the ground causing the earth to shake as his boots radiated Argent waves of blood through the floor. We're the Doomslayer stood, the ground collapsed causing hundreds of Daemons to fall to the ground. A crater had formed and the bloodshed below became a grinder as gore started to splatter and explode all over the crater as the Doomslayer continued as the crucible's baleful wrath was heard as the Plague Daemons continued to screech and grunt as they continued to get slaughtered in the countless droves. Ku'Gath oversaw the battle as he kept spawning and vomiting Nurglings from his mouth and stomach. Ku'Gath gave a somber smile as his rotten, holed and jagged yellow, blackish green teeth added a certain terror to his troops but they feared more what was in the crater than him as the Doomslayer slayed them by the hundreds with no sign of stopping. 'Keep charging' Ku'Gath said with a wicked smile as he rubbed his belly with a decrepit smile. 'Place the three–titan legions and–get a Battleship over the crater' Ku'Gath said with heavy breathing and between long spaces. He delegated the commands to a Death Guard space marine, the Marine saluted. 'As you wish. But our troops Ku'Gath? Shall we order only a partial charge at least until we halt the Marine' The Death Guard marine asked. Ku'Gath slowly shook his head. 'Grandfather Nurgle-please forgive–my cruelty–towards my kin. But we need to–halt the Marine until–The Battleship–And Titan–Legions arrive' Ku'Gath spoke with lament, the Death Guard marine nodded.
The Doomslayer kept hacking through the endless hordes as they gave him less space to maneuver as less and less Plague Daemons appeared to face him as more "humanoid" abominations charged on him and smaller forms kept launching themselves at him. One of the Daemons got the jump on him from behind and swallowed the Doomslayer. The Great Unclean One burped for a moment before the Doomslayer ripped from the inside the Great Unclean One. He grabbed the large Daemon and ripped his head in half. 'That beast reminds me of the Mancubus' The Doomslayer thought as he was filled with a disgusting slime. 'Slayer got out of the crater. There's a vessel nearing you and many machines targeting you' Samuel spoke through the crater. The Doomslayer looked over an encroaching shroud as it fired a large beam that shattered the sky above him and a continent shattering noise shaken the entire earth. From above the crater the Titan legions and Battleship shots made the entire Plague Planet rumble as a great fire scorched the entire crater and more as it killed many of Nurgle's forces. They shot another even more devastating shot that made the crater even bigger and collapsed more parts of the planet and then a last one as they fired everything in their arsenal. The forces of Nurgle observed in silence as they readied themselves for another attack in case the Marine somehow found himself alive from that. Ku'Gath smiled as it seemed the Marine was dead. 'We did-What Khorne's whelps–could-not do. ALL HEIL GRANDFATHER NURGLE!' Ku'Gath said as he roared in an uncharacteristic manner as he gave far more emotion than he ever did as he raised his fist. The forces of Nurgle started to cheer as they prayed and thanked Nurgle for their victory.
"BOOM" A deafening shriek cut the chants and celebrations as the Battleship exploded into a redwave of energy as it crashed down and exploded causing a massive fire that burnt higher than mountains as the dangerous and badly kept reactor materials of the ancient Imperium battleships "poisoned" the air as many locust burnt by breathing it. But despite the size of the fire they could still see that from the flames a blade of holy fire emerged as Its wielder emerged . Those who saw it felt more fear of the creature that emerged from those flames than even of Nurgle's wrath. Many started to flee only for their rotten bones to finally collapse as from the earth disgusting worms embedded themselves in the legs of the deserters as it ate chunks of their flesh as it forced them to face the Doomslayer. A swarm of rotflies, locusts and flying states of greenfield with eyes and hands formed an image of Nurgle. 'You have slaughtered many of MY CHILDREN. You are a butcher But today I bestow woes and disease unto you fool. And it is the day of reckoning and you shall die fool Khorne's honor will not aid you hear Marine. My children he who slays him shall never know my rare wrath ever again and eternal bless shall await you. But slay this butcher of your kin of my children. And I shall reward accordingly. Do not let him reach Mortarion!' Nurgle spoke and would have spoken more had it not been for a barrage of missiles destroying the manifestation of Nurgle. The Doomslayer sheathed his crucible as from below a package flew near him crashing and revealing a large weapon. The Death Guard looked at the weapon and appeared to be a mix between a heavy-melta gun, plasma Blaster and assault cannon. The gun was mostly black with some red patterns of energy flowing throughout the base of the gun. It had one large cannon in the middle surrounded by four others.
He gave a great leap as he crushed a Great Unclean One under his boots killing a couple Nurgle cultists in the process. The Doomslayer started shooting the gun it unleashed fired bolts like the Unmakyr but these exploded and burnt the Nurglelites. Its ammo unleashed a fiery ash that burnt the skin to the touch through a massive radius, a perfect tool to deal with the horde. Ku'Gath looked in hatred at the Doomslayer. 'You heard father Nurgle. Spread his disease and slay this fool!' Ku'Gath shouted in rage as he charged alongside his host. The world started to rumble once more as the hosts of Nurgles as the Doomslayer with no fear for he knew none charged to make his way to Ku'Gath. He blitzed through the cultists as they pathetically tried cutting him down with their rusted blades and autoguns, he blasted his way as he burnt and scorched the abominations. The Death Guard from the distance tried launching precise shots but he dodged them all as they all hit other Daemons on the field. The Doomslayer jumped over a Great Unclean One and shoved the barrel of the gun and unleashed all its fury as the abomination exploded into many pieces of gore. The Doomslayer was stormed from all directions by Plague Bearers and Nurglings as they hungrily and hatefully jumped at him from all sides as they chanted the creeds of Nurgle. The Doom Slayer launched siphon and freeze grenades culling the numbers to something more manageable for the weapon he had, he unleashed a heavy barrage of fire shredding down the endless horde as they grew ever in number as he heard massive ships come through orbit. The Doomslayer blitzed through the horde. He found himself on the sides of the worm-eaten mountains as he faced the Death Guard to his southern flank and a charging mostly Daemon host as the east and west were spearheaded by the Titan Legions and a mixed force of cultists, daemons, death guard and daemonic engines. They charged at him with great speed as the Great Unclean Ones started chanting as a deadly glow filled their eyes as they rose up as they started spawning more Nurglings, rot flies and sludge-grubs. The Doomslayer's weapon barrel had gotten more and more redder as he shredded through the daemons. The largest barrel in the middle released an Argent energy beam that like its plasma counterpart functioned like the beam emitter but it was more powerful as whatever it did not slice through exploded causing a chain reaction of Argent explosions.
The Doomslayer put his new weapon away as he took out the Hell-Breaker. He looked around and saw the Titan Legion as they started blasting him with their world shattering weapons. 'Like the Atlans' The Doomslayer thought he charged his way to meet the eastern host he went to face the largest of the God Machines as Its defensive countermeasures targeted the Doomslayer as they failed to hit. The Apocalypse missile launchers swarmed the Doomslayer like locusts to the harvest as the heavy weaponry of the titans tried killing him to no avail. The Doomslayer with the Hell-Breaker smashed from head down the Titan giving it a dirty slice. He landed as he turned his gaze to meet the Titan escorts the Chaos Warhounds and their escorts the Death Guard started shooting at the Doom Slayer as the ground started to shake and crater under the sheer power of the Warhound weaponry. The Doom Slayer launched his Hell-Breaker at the Warhound Titan Exploding it in an instant. The Deatguard kept shooting at him to no avail; the Doomslayer jumped higher than a mountain as he oversaw the other Titans. He aimed towards one of the Plaguelord Titan. He hit the Plaguelord all the way through the ground slamming it with the hammer unleashing a massive explosion of Argent energy scorching the entire area as Death Guard marines fell to the ground melted into their armor or worse and the titans fell on their faces. He had wiped the west flank now for the East.
By this point The three remaining flanks were quickly positioning themselves to make a united flank as the planet formed to make trenches and the barren mountainous world. They shot all they had at the Doom Slayer as he kept dashing towards them at great speeds but no matter what they threw nothing slowed him down. And nothing ever would again for it was a fool's folly. No matter where they hid light or dark he would find them and he would kill them all. The Doomslayer charged at trenches with fist as he slammed the cultists faces together as the Death Guard jumped into the trenches with the chain-scythes and bolters as the Daemons soon followed. They were no match for the power of the Doomslayer. Twelve Death Guard marines charged and another thirty from the distance shot him. The Doomslayer displayed him as he ripped a chain-scythe from the hand of a Death Guard marine and slammed inside his head. He kept using the weapon the blades ripped apart the bloated marines with ease as he killed the last one ramming it into the captain and chained it until it made Its way to the skulls as guts and Grey matter flew everywhere. The Great Unclean One with there blades and Plague Bearer hosts tried standing against him as they kept conjuring all matter of abominations but they fell all the same to the teeth of the chainsaw as he could saw them from the stomach to the mouth like the Mancubus and the Plague Bearers were like dealing with the Zombies as he pulverizing there heads with one punch or mangled them with his fists with the gore flying around.
Like a tremor from below he ensnared and broke the Titans feets and made them into scrap as he descended like a red and green bolt of death hitting like an exterminatus as he ripped apart the chassis even while the titans stood as their own weapons failed him. After hours of Slaughter the forces of Nurgle after they finally could not replace quickly enough as the Plague Planet was scorched by Argent fire they started to retreat to Mortarion' fortress to make a final stand. Rotigus and Ku'Gath were lagging behind as the screams of death from the large amount of forces left behind grew louder as the spells and bolter fire grew silent every second. 'This all your fault fool! Had we baited him into Mortarion's fortress we would have his head on grandfather Nurgle's garden by now' Rotigus started with a motion from his bloated and rotten arm. Ku'Gath shrugged as he tried to hide the snarl at Rotigus. 'He's a fool-and he'll fall by–Mortarion's hand–None can stand against Grandfather–Nurgle's might nor his champions–He'll fall like all the–so called great hopes–of the–carrion–empire' Ku'Gath explained delirious as a Greater Daemon can. Two barely noticed as the Doomslayer landed in front of them with the Super Shotgun facing them. The meathook latched on to Ku'Gath face and burnt in pain as the Argent fires ensnared him, the Doomslayer stabbed him in the eye seven times and crushed his head all while Ku'Gath fled as his "comrade" was slaughtered by the Doomslayer. But his end came too as the meathook hit the rotten legs of Ku'Gath and flipped him over to face the Doomslayer as he yelled in agony as the fire outpaced his regeneration and blessings. The Doomslayer walked with the chainsaw as he ignited it sliced from legs to the neck as the Ku'Gath screamed all the way through. The Doomslayer had killed many Daemons and he saw them full on retreat as he saw a large black fortress over a large mountain as all the Daemons were fleeing there. The Doomslayer placed his shotgun on his shoulder as he crushed Ku'Gath head.