Apocalypse (Game Thread : Closed, Dead)

[Evrant-Knight]

Dante was exactly sure on what to say first, the fact there was a satellite weapons system in orbit which was in the process of preparing itself to fire some sort of chemical agent followed up by a barrage of energy beams had made him nervous like everyone else, though he didn't show it initially.

"Oh, so our option are, wait and die, or, get evacuated, and likely be executed by people who probably had there minds made up about us before they sent the Sisters after us, despite none of us actually being tainted. Yeah, awesome options there..." Said Urd after hearing about what was hanging over everyone's heads at this moment, which prompted Dante to discreetly hold her hand before speaking to her mentally.

"Don't worry, I'll protect you."

It seemed as though everyone was busy arguing, it made it difficult for Dante to think of something meaningful to contribute, and then he realised one of the enemies that they were dealing with.

"Enough. We're not getting anywhere with this. Need I remind everyone that not only are we facing Orks out there, but also Tyrnaids; you know, masters of adaption, evolution, and survival. Once the Hive Mind has caught wind of this, it'll likely begin preparations to create some sort of modifier that will allow its forces to withstand the effects of these chemicals. Granted, given the amount of time it'll likely take, a large percentage of the Tyranids will have likely been killed off before it's finished. Whilst this may not be the most popular idea, I say we batten down the hatches, and prepare for the worst; it'd be foolish, if not suicidal to head somewhere else before this all kicks off."

 

[sage42]

"I say we batten down the hatches, and prepare for the worst; it'd be foolish, if not suicidal to head somewhere else before this all kicks off." Helena glared at the man. Surrounded by fools

"Too even suggest a thing you must be tremendously ignorant or have no clue what exactly we're facing. My gelt is on the former. Even if the genestealers adapt to the chemical formula they still have the massive amount of fire power that is coming after to deal with." She looked around the room. "Enough fire power, I may add, to glass over the entire planet." She turned to the Skitarii once more. "Unless you have a bunker deep under this planets surface or a working signal to the fleet we have no other option but to wait and die." She warned. Her Sster's nodded; some, including Mara, looked terrified at their lack of options, other had resigned to their fate and once again had their faces blank.

 

[Athol]

Egerion

Egerion agreed with the Inquisitors sentiments. They're like Feral Worlders playing with atomics. [small]"Some days I wish they had left me on that Hulk."[/small] He muttered quietly, not realizing he'd spoken aloud.

After a few more moments he raised a massive hand, causing the others to fall silent. "I know none of us relish the thought of being subject to a planetary bombardment, but since we lack any other options at the moment, we best prepare."

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

Arcor sighed at the thought of what was coming and tapped into the bases loudspeakers with his helmets microbead and began speaking.

"Archangel is firing in nearly three hours, everything is to be moved inside. MOPP gear is mandatory.
All vents are to be sealed, all filters are to be checked, if your station is clear check the others.
If you don't know what to do, find someone who does and help them.
Once you're done, check your gear and report to the keep.
If you can't find a respirator, quartermaster'll be handing them out in the keep."

He switched channels to his squads frequency, "Weld the door shut, we don't want it blowing open."
He went through frequencies until he found the enginseer's "Sana, if you want any of the little data we have it's on the cogitator in communications."

With that he walked off to comms, he sat infront of the broadcast unit and set it to global, the relays'd carry it the way.

"This is a message to anyone who can hear it, My name is Theta 46511, in three hours a weapons system is going to fire from orbit, it could..." An intense burning flooded his mind "be targeting planetwide. Anyone caught outside will die. It is in your best interest to seek shelter and chem protection immediately. If you can I suggest evacuating to the void. Please heed this warning. Good luck."

He stopped talking, the pain stayed though, he hated the neurals they installed, all they did was cause pain and anger him.

He shook the thoughts of the coming death out and made his way to the keep, while others were resting he had his men cut it open, the command center was thankfully clean still. He was expecting corpses.

He found a chair to sit in and attached the respirator unit to his helmet. All that was left to do was wait.
[hr]~~~Two Hours and Thirty Minutes Later~~~
Everyone (except the ancient) had entered and the door in was welded shut
~~~Half an Hour after that~~~
A dull thumping noise could be heard through the walls as it began, culminating in a bang as the base was hit directly by a gas shell. After a minute, the thumping stopped.

The psykers, the astartes, and the locals began to hear a beautiful angelic hymn.
Everyone else found nothing but silence.

A feeling of electricity began to build up in the air, until it became painful.
To the psykers they would feel as if they were standing in the astronomicon.

For the brief second before everyone began passing out it would appear as if the locals were combusting.
[hr]Egerion
The ancient would awaken in a small white room, his body strangely appearing as it had before he was placed in his sarcophagus.

In the room was a table with a pitcher of water and on the other side of the room was a hole large enough to fit through. Outside of it was a corridor lined with the discarded helmets of thunder warriors and luna wolves.

Helena Karr
The retributor would awaken to find herself where she was before in the keep. Except everyone else who had been there before are simply skeletal remains now. A moment later she would notice the spot where Mara would have been is missing.

Vymazat
The eversor would awaken in an endless lake of blood, the sky above him golden.

Sana
The enginseer would awaken in a room with a flickering white light above her, the faint outline of a woman could be seen in the distance. If she were to look at herself, she would find herself without a trace of cybernetics and wearing a hospital gown.

Mamoru
The astartes would awaken in a warehouse-like structure. Surrounding him were thousands of marble statues with broken, damaged faces. The size and style would suggest they are of other astartes.

Keal
The sergeant would awaken in a tight wooden box, with little room to move. He would find himself lying on his box in it. A small amount of dirt could be felt in his mouth.

Dante
Dante would awaken in a dense forest with a dark purple sky, it feels as if other minds are attempting to penetrate his. Corpses of eldar could be seen in the distance.

Lith
Lith would awaken naked on a bed. She would find it familiar as she seemed to be in the room she shared with Solara on the Divine Light.

Titania
Titania would awaken in the keep and see everyone around her passed out. Except for the majority of the locals and skitarii, which have been reduced to charred skeletal remains.

The surviving skitarii and locals are bleeding heavily from their nose, eyes, ears, and mouth.
Titania would recognize this slightly as she saw this in several of the dying eldar during the fall.

Several of the Skitarii's eyes are lit with a golden light.

Solara
Solara would awaken in a white room with a hospital gown on, around her neck was a psychic neutralization collar. The wall to the left of her is transparent, she could see an operating suite with hospitaler staff working on a screaming woman, blood flowing onto the floor from her. In the back of her mind she could hear whispers.

Urd
Urd would awaken to find a blade being stabbed into her. Shoving it into her was a naked blood coated Lith. Behind her was the mutilated corpse of Dante. The ground seemed to be made of marble and a purple mist seemed to permeate the air. A crazed looked could be seen in Lith's eyes.

 

[Lunar Templar]

After making it very clear, in both Imperial common and Fenrisian that she did not, in anyway, approve of 'hiding in a hole and hoping for the best', she sat on a box and waited for this non-sense to be over.

Soon enough the shells hit and every one began to pass out, only to be jarred awake by 'Lith' stabbing her, a crazed look in her eye. Urd, with out hesitation twisted 'Lith's' arm with her right hand hard enough to snap the bones, with her left she grabbed 'Lith' by the back of the neck and slammed her face first into the marble flooring, splitting her skull wide open and 'killing her'.

Urd took one good look around, the mist, the floor, these things where not in the bunker, the mist could be explained by the ventilation failing, but the floor? Could not, not to mention Lith's actions, stabbing her and presumably killing Dante. Urd yanked the blade out of her self, but kept it in hand. She, naturally, wanted to check Dante, but this situation was so off it felt like a trap. "You can cut the crap" she shouted into the mist, presuming some manner of demon was responsible for this "I already know this isn't real, face me coward!"

 

[mcpop9]

Titania looked around, she kept herself to the shadows, but made sure to keep the image of the skitarii in her head. She began to look around for the routine. Something didn't feel right here, so she disappeared into the building and kept herself on guard.

[hr]

Solara looked over and saw herself being operated on, on the table. Backing up a bit, she was shocked and horrified, but it hit her as she felt the colara around her neck that this wasn't real. She sat down and began to meditate, ignoring the flase voices at the back of her mind. "I dealt with slaanesh and tzneech before, you are not the real chaos gods. You're nothing but a shoddy false vision in my own mind." she said out loud, closing her eyes an beginning to concentrate.

In the real world, a psykik field began to generate around. She tried to make it healing orientated and purifying, focusing on her body to see if she could break this hallucination. She had lith to get back to, and the rest of the routine, so she was going to sit here high off her ass and tripping balls.

[hr]

"Well, i knew this damned planet would come to bite me in the ass." he said, having gotten a horrid feeling in the hour leading up to the launching. He began to walk down the rows of broken astartes, finding himself highly decorated in his standard issue astartes armor. "Damn, forgot how good it felt to move around in this armor. i'm going to need to talk to sana after this." he said, looking at themand trying to spot and details that could identify the marines.

[hr]

Sana groaned. "What in the warp... just happened?" she asked, looking down at herself and seeing the hospital gown. "I... i have modifications... where are they?" she wondered, looking at her body. Then the girl looked up and saw a figure a bit off. Getting up, she began to walk towards it. "Hello? who's there?" she asked, making progress to get closer to the person.

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

Sana
The vaguely female figure infront of her was a highly mechanized creature in red robes with a doll face not unlike her mask.

Momaru
Eventually the astartes would stumble upon an odd statue amongst them. Armoured with a complete face, the face was odd. He knew him. Upon inspection of the armour, it dawned upon him, it was a member of his legion. Then the statues began to change. They appeared with various legion markers carved into them. The faces became whole, they were all members of his legion. Some in the distance could be heard exploding, their remains falling onto the floor and shattering.

Solara
A voice could be heard from the other side of the wall.
"It's awake."
"What's it saying?"
"No clue."
"Do you think its kicked in yet?"
"Probably not."
An area on her left arm began to redden and become painful.

Titania
Solara's body began to tremble.

 

[mcpop9]

"You... you look like my mask..." Sana commented, looking at the figure before her.
"Well... i didn't want this to happen, but i guess it's going to. You're a clone of myself, one of many that were created. However, you're the only one that is alive because of my decree to let one of you live at a time. However, we have allot to talk about, i suggest sitting little one." she said and sana sorta noded inconfusion and agreement at the same time.

[hr]

Momaru accepted this with a blank but understanding face. "This is a sick metaphor you're playing at." he commented to whatever this subconsciousness was trying to tell him. "I get my legions gone, and not to the most honorable of deaths. You on't need to illustrate to me the fall." he said aloud.

[hr]

"You're all fake." Solara said loudly and audibly, ignoring the pain in her her body. she kept on concentrating, her mind focusing on lith now. Every fiber of her being focusing on the woman she loved. The inquisitor was trying to arrest her mind from this drug and bring it under her own control.

[hr]

Titania watched solara's body begin to tremble and used her mask to begin scanning and analyzing her, trying to determine what was going on with the psyker.

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

Momaru
Several more exploded around him before a voice spoke out.
Booming and mildly familiar.

"You have been forgotten. Astartes. They have erased you. Why do you serve?"

Solara and Titania
Solara would find herself staring at a wall, a familiar Eldar infront of her.
Titania would see Solara open her eyes.

Lith nearby, still unconscious, began to shake.

Lith
The door to the hallway opens as a purple light floods in from the now open doorway.

 

[Athol]

Lith

Lith let out a low groan, and ran her hands over her face. "By the Emperor, what happened?" She muttered quietly, her skull feeling a half-size to small. Slowly opening her eyes she looked about; the room reminded her of their quarters on board the Divine Light, but subtly different.

Getting her bearings, she was unhappy to find that she was alone, and more distressingly, unarmed. Even sleeping with a woman who could tear holes in reality, she preferred to keep her laspistol close at hand. "Could've at least left me a shirt and some pants...that or turn the heat up." Further thoughts were disrupted when the door slid open, bathing the room in a purple light.

As the door had opened, she'd dropped into a combat crouch, expecting hostile action, but when none came she slowly approached the opening. "ALL RIGHT YOU COCK-SLEEVES COME AND GET ME!" She shouted. "FIRST ASSHOLE THROUGH THE DOOR GETS MY FOOT SO FAR UP HIS ASS I'LL KICK HIS TEETH OUT FROM THE INSIDE!"

[hr]

Egerion

It took Egerion a moment or two, to realize what he was looking at. It was his body...his flesh and blood self, lost eons ago in the defence of a great man. "What trickery is this?" He said, looking at his hands. Thick, meaty fingers and scarred knuckles, the veterans of countless battles; the letters VSAQ tattooed on the back of the left hand, an enigma from a lost past.

Stepping through the door, he picked up one of the Thunder Warrior helmets. "Tevon Matanis." He said softly, staring into the blank eyes of the helmet. "Died during the scouring of Geru Salam. First through the city walls...by the time the neo-barbs took him down, he?d razed sixteen blocks." And so he went, picking up each helmet, speaking the name of the Brother who had worn it and how they had died. As he did this he smiled to himself.

 

[Outcast107]

Vym smile behind his mask as he then let out a huge insane laughter. Finally he was drowning in a lake of blood. Was it from all of his victims he killed in the past. Was it his friends he slaughter mindlessly while black out. He didn't care as he swam through the blood lake. The only thing he wanted was more carnage. Looking for a way out to add to this collection. Looking up at the golden sky as he shout out "PRAISE THE EMPEROR! LET ME KILL MORE! MORE! MORE!" Lost to his own insane thoughts as he seem to be falling back into his old ways without Solara around to claim his mind.

 

[sage42]

Helena groaned beneath her rebreather. She pushed herself up against a wall, trying to regain her senses. She looked around, it seemed she was alone in the room, the other's were.....dead apparently. Lord Egerion, or his sarcophagus anyway, lay still and rusted, slumped over. Lord Mamoru's armor was in a pile on the floor, along with that of her Sister's. Save Mara's.

Something was wrong, anything capable of doing this kind of damage with no signs of a fight would not leave anyone alive.Or take anyone alive. So why was she spared? And where was Mara. Helena drew her Plasma pistol from her hip aiming around the room. "Show yourself demon, I know your here somewhere. Reveal yourself so that I may bathe you in His Holy Power." She warned aloud, whether this creature was here or not, Helena would not let it run free much longer.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

Dante immediately sat bolt upright as he awoke, his arm raised in a way to make it as if he was grabbing a hold of something. Checking his immediate surroundings, he could see that he appeared to be in a very dense forest, similar to the one he woke up in earlier, though something about it didn't seem right. What didn't help was the headache that came from a thousand minds trying to enter his all at once as he tried to stand. As he made it out of the forest, Dante looked up and saw the sky was a dark purple colour.

"Okay, something is definitely up; this has got to be some kind of illusion, I mean, this doesn't make a lick of sense. Why would I have left the base when a doomsday weapon was about to fire, utter madness I say, then again, Psykers are known to be a bit mentally unbalanced." Dante said to himself as he tried to assail a hill.

"Now then Dante, just focus your mind and get a hold of yourself. This is just a very bad dream. Remember where you were before waking up, if you have woken up that is. You were in the keep of the fortress base, they'd just finished sealing up the door when you could hear a loud thumping noise from outside. After that came the sounds of a choir, next was the painful electrical like shocks. Then I was... standing in the Astronomicon? No wait that can't be right, or could it? Too confusing. Must focus. Must rid myself of these voices. Now, let's see what's up this hill." He then added once he reached the top. A short distance ahead him were corpses, though their slender shape meant they were not human, more like they were Eldar. Perhaps it would provide him with some sort of clue on how to get out, so he headed towards them.

 

[mcpop9]

"Why do i serve? i don't serve anyone. Since i have been abandoned, i've taken up my own path. If that path is to protect a girl and help give the imperium a better chance of fighting and surviving." He responded to the voices with confidence. "They abandoned me, but i still stay the path true." he commented, folding his arms. "Show yourself, if you're willing to talk to me on fair grounds." he said out loud.

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

Urd
The body of Dante began twitching on the ground. It coughed blood clearing its lungs before actively moving itself. It rolled over onto it's stomach before pushing itself off the ground and standing.

It adjusted its head so the neck was more upright and natural before speaking "Why do you have to ruin my fun?"

Lith
A voice spoke from the light, it sounded like Solara but somehow wrong, it had a frightened tone "Please, don't hurt me."
"Please, you-"
It paused shortly before resuming.
"Come and See."

Egerion
As the fallen astartes walked and looked upon the helmets with fond memories he noticed a painting on the wall.
It was something seemingly painted in blood and gold upon a canvas of flesh.
The image was that of the emperor being felled by Horus lying behind him.
A short man in flak armour, smoking a cigarette approached from behind and spoke in a smooth tone "I think it's my best work yet. What do you think?"

Vymazat
As the eversor spoke, a small island materialized in the distance.
On it was a small child in ragged clothing, on his knees crying quietly.

Helena
A short shrill scream could be heard before a knocking on the sealed door began.
The knocking on the door ended after a few moments and a voice could be heard.
"Please, can you help me, I'm trapped." It sounded like Mara.

Dante
There were about twelve bodies in total, wearing bone white armour, their shapes suggestive of eldar. Each had a pool of blood under it. One began twitching as the psyker moved towards it. It seemed to be a woman with a large abdominal wound. The hand began moving towards a nearby blade on the ground.

A raspy weakened voice spoke "Please, stay back."

Sana
The ground changed to a rust red dust as shifting purple sky was revealed above them.

Momaru
One of the statues nearby animated and broke itself from its base.
It's feet seemed to meld to the ground as it began walking towards the terminator.

It's mouth reshaped to something more functional with pointed teeth.
It cleared its throat before speaking in a voice not unlike that of the questioning terminator.

"Your king is a corpse, his land rots, his subjects live pointless lives and die bloodily. Yet you and his knights fight. You claim not to serve, Insect, and yet you still cling to protecting your disdaining slavemaster's legacy."

 

[mcpop9]

"Corpse or not, i am not indoctrinated and i do not fight for his legacy. I fight for all of humanity. I fight to keep helping in some way, even if its one person." he responded. The terminator carried himself with a sense of pride and aura of confidence. "Now, i may be old, i may be dated in comparison to those around me, but my will, will never die. So long as there is someone who i've taught, who i've become friends with and laughed with, my will will carry on. Now i no longer need to explain myself to you, so be gone. I banish you from my conscience, begone 'doubt'. he said, casting off the statue with a slash of his arm.

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

Momaru
The statue shattered at the astartes touch.
The voice resumed through from the distance.
"Perhaps my efforts are wasted here, why do you creatures never listen."
It sighed.
"Someday I will consume you, but that day appears to not be today."
The statues around him began to crumble.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Urd just gave 'Dante' and unimpressed look. "You have a rather boring idea of fun. This is only" Urd paused a moment thinking on something a moment "The third time one of you moronic deamons have tried this same stunt since I've been with Solara." Urd pointing the blade at the carved up doppelganger "Not sure which is more pathetic at this point. You deamons 'fighting skills', or the lame tricks you keep pulling that don't work but keep expecting to." Her tone was a mixture of bored and annoyed, but mostly bored.

"Are we gonna cut to the part where I kill you now? Or do you wanna try some other, stupid, and ineffective plan to screw with my head"

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

Urd
The corpse bowed and pulled a knife from its belt before leaping at Urd.

 

[Outcast107]

Vym watch as the island form as he swam towards it. Once at the shore he walks up towards the boy. Dripping blood everywhere as he stares down at him. So many mad thoughts race within his head. Who was this child? Why was he crying when they had a lake fill with blood of their enemies!?

Vym would grab the boy by the shoulder with his claw-less hand and lift him up into the air. "WHY ARE YOU CRYING LITTLE ONE!?!" He yells in his face.