Apocalypse (Game Thread : Closed, Dead)

[mcpop9]

Each of the insults the guardwoman threw at the techpriest hit her like a smack to the face. She winced everytime one came out of her mouth and visibly flinched when she began to make the battery grenades. "Sorry..." she said and slinked off. the techpriest was completely different from her previous mood.

The girl walked away and out of the garage and into the break area. she wasn't happy and was truly hurt by what the guard woman said. She pulled up her legs, sitting on a couch in the break room and pulled out a simple toy. It was one from one of the lost worlds and was famous among kids as being a brain challenger. We would know it as a rubix cube.

With her arms wapped around her legs against her chest, she let her mechandrites take care of the manipulation of the cube as she scrambled it.

[hr]

"The girl does have the right smarts to fix the cursed thing." He said glancing towards the garage. "I just hope she gets along with the others in their group well. Everything we've observed shows they aren't as brainwashed towards the cult as the rest of the worlds are. This gives me hope for them, but also the same level of concern you have. Their either some of the better spies the dark forces have sent against us, or they were isolated by the inqusition for some various reason." he said, squinting his eyes at the base as to if he was trying to see something invisible.

[hr]


As she was being roughhoused, the inquisitor kept herself calm. However, between her fingers jumped crackles of warp energy. So, she decided to appeal to force since he wasn't being nice in responce to calmness. Solara turned her back to the man and looked around.
"I want to make this known now. I am a psyker, what many of you are going to call a witch." she said, holding her hand up as energy crackled between her fingers. "Now that that's out of the way, i won't harm any of you and will do my best to protect you all. And any who cannot speak low gothic, i would appreciate those of you who can to translate my words to them." she explained.

"I will be here, fighting off any bugs that may try to enter this building, but i will also stand between this man and you. And he is nothing but a man on drugs, he bleeds like the rest of us. So stand strong and show no fear." she said then turned around to face Vymazat.

"I was being nice before, but no more." She said, taking a step forward and unleashing warp energy into the ground and building as everything sparked, from crevice to crevice in the building around her. Each word she said was forcefull and battered against his mind like a wave and with each word she took a step forward. "You WILL NOT touch me again. You WILL NOT harm anyone in this building. You ARE going to LISTEN to me. You are going to reach into that simple minded feral skull of yours and pull whatever consciousness you have into some form of respectable person who can understand orders and take them or so help me by the emperor i will turn your body into dust."

 

[Athol]

Lith

Lithian's mind was anything but calm. What if she's hurt? What if the Tyranids get her? What if she landed in the middle of a swamp and can get out? Enough....thoughts like that never help. But what if she's gone..... A shudder ran through her as she choked back a sob. NO! You rule them, not the other way around.

Looking down at the workbench she say she'd assembled three devices. They were little more than the main body of a lasgun, and a battery. You pulled the trigger, then due to some crude rewiring, roughly five seconds the thing blew up spectacularly. Tucking them into the bandolier she'd strapped to her armour, she turned about and saw that the garage was empty. Shit. She thought as she realized she was alone. The Rhino must've been worse off than they thought. "No sense standing around then."

Snatching up her helm, she strode off in search of her friends. They had a lot of ground to cover, and time was very short. Her path out of the garage took her through the break room, but in her current state of mind, she missed the techpriest sitting off to one side.

 

[mcpop9]

When Sana noticed the woman had gone, she walked back into the garage. Knowing exactly what to do, she began to look around. After a few minutes, she pulled together a peice if paper and a drained lasgun battery. She began to write in low gothic on the peice of paper and once satisfied with it, let it and the battery on the ground under the rhino, where it was lifted.

The note:

"This battery shall finish the repairs since it's far more useful than me.
Please, enjoy its charismatic company of the battery and continue to
shit all over someone who was trying to be friendly.
-sincerely
Miss worthless than a laspack,
Sana."


She left it under the rhino, where the transmission was torn open and the suspension was halfway disassembled. She returned to her seat in the break room and continued her toy.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Urd and Titania entered the garage a little after Sana sat back down and the pair went about setting up the last bomb, when Urd noticed something, or rather noticed a lack of something. Sound, there was a lack of sound in the garage, which was odd because the Rhino that she requested work on was there. Urd had Titania finish up the bomb while she investigated.

Urd walked over to the lifted Rhino and poked her head under, spot a battery where the tech priest should have been, as well as a sheet of paper, Urd crawled under the Rhino, collected the battery and not, the crawled back out. "What the fucking hell?!" she blurted out after reading it, then stood back up and looked at Titania "If for what ever reason you end up back with your own people and some offers one you a rank of leadership, don't take it. it's just a damned head ache, I have a mess to sort out now, finish the bomb and" Urd pondered for a moment "see about finding some food I guess, If I can't get this sorted we'll be walking to Solara so we'll need it." Urd said in a tone that denoted she was annoyed but not with the Eldar.

Urd searched the garage and spotted the tech priest, sitting on a room. Urd walked into the room and dangled the note in front of the tech priest "Care to explain"

 

[mcpop9]

"I have no desire to assist anyone who thinks i am anything less than another human; someone who has expressed nothing but hostility in return for friendliness and shit on my apology for my own and my guardian's actions for earlier today." she said, not taking her eyes off the rubix cube or making any indication that she was going to move.

"And i quote: 'My only concern is getting me and my friends to 'lara, and then getting off this rock. Frankly you mean less to me than one of these batteries.'. I will resume helping once i have some form of an apology from her that recognizes me as a human. Until then, as Sgt Ortona indicated, the laspack is far more certified and capable of repairing that rhino than i shall ever be." was all the techpriest said, making two faces on the cube the same color, which did satisfy her a bit.

[hr]
Meanwhile, the Xeno was following order, getting together the final bomb, then walking about and picking up rations from corpses and even finding a few boxes of them as well.

 

[Lunar Templar]

"I have no desire to assist anyone who thinks i am anything less than another human; someone who has expressed nothing but hostility in return for friendliness and shit on my apology for my own and my guardian's actions for earlier today."

"Emperor help you when you find out how full of shit ..." Urd stared then stopped her self.

"And i quote: 'My only concern is getting me and my friends to 'lara, and then getting off this rock. Frankly you mean less to me than one of these batteries.'. I will resume helping once i have some form of an apology from her that recognizes me as a human. Until then, as Sgt Ortona indicated, the laspack is far more certified and capable of repairing that rhino than i shall ever be."

Urd sighed, both at Lith, and how thin skinned this little brat seemed to be. Urd crumpled the note and tossed it in the trash, internally debating how much she really wanted to deal with this 'child's' crap, and she really wanted to tell her little brat 'She didn't really care about her ether, and that she's just putting up with her group cause they are of use to them for the moment, and that they are, in all honesty, expendable to her.' but, she didn't, that wouldn't help, instead she just left the room to find Lith and get this sorted out.

 

[Outcast107]

The Eversor held his head as Solaria scream into his head. Forcing her way in his mind as he scream in a pain. Though he slowly starts to stop screaming and just twitch around. He was starting to focus on another face. He could hardly hear it from all his madness within his own head. Though the thing he did hear was 'Listen to her, or we both die.' Vym didn't want to die, not yet. If he died, that would mean less things to kill. With less things to kill, their would be no enjoyment. No FUN! HE HATED NOT HAVING FUN!

"The little man in the sea of madness agrees that I should stop. Though I hope he drowns so I DON"T HAVE TO FEEL SANE AGAIN!" He walks away, keep guard at the doors as he whisper to himself as if he was talking to someone.

 

[Athol]

Lith

Lith swept through the remains of the outpost, adding to her cache of weapons, what rations, water, and medical supplies she could find. "Oh shit...right." She muttered as she realized she'd forgotten to do something. Putting her helm on, she vox'd Dante and Urd. "Looks like we?re on foot you two. Guess that Rhino was worse than you thought....anyways, I've pulled together some gear, so grab what you can. I wanna be mobile in ten mike tops."

 

[Lunar Templar]

Urd didn't reply on the Vox, instead, she hit Lith on the top of her helmet, hard enough to get her attention and that's it. "We need to talk" she said once Lith turned around, then motioned her to fallow to a near by room where they could speak in privet. "Sgt Ortona" Urd started, in a tone that said 'I hate this part of my job, thanks for making me do it' "I understand you are under a lot of stress and you are eager to get to Inquisitor Draco, but for the love of the Emperor do not take it out on the one Tech Priest we have on hand. The Rhino isn't FURBAR, she stopped working on it cause hurt the thin skinned brats feelings with something you said." Urd said then took a couple steps closer "I had Dante scan for her and try and get in touch with her, so he should know by know how she is doing, I'll go find that out now, since it will do us all a world of good to hear how she's doing, but I want you to go get her back to work, I don't care if you lie to her about being sorry about what you said, but the sooner we get to Solara, the sooner we can get back to what we should be doing, and the Rhino help of achieve that aim orders of magnitude faster then walking."

 

[sage42]

Helena read over the data pad quickly. Twice. Find the "Inquisitor". Bring her and any other sentient thing with her in for questioning. Eradicate Xeno's. Simple as a dataslate. A worthy duty in practice. Good, those genestealers need to pay. She and several other squad leaders nodded and, with a salute to the witch hunter, leave the war room. Helena began making her way to the armory. She would not be going down on the planet without a personal source for the Emperor's Holy Flame.

Moments later she was leaving the Armory and heading for the hangar, another hand flamer set to her belt. She made a mental note to NOT let this one blow up in her face. She noticed a few dropships still in the hangar along side hers. Good she wouldn't be the reason that her squad was held back. She climbed up the ramp, switching her Heavy Bolter to her new hand as she climbed. The Sisters hushed tones were cut short as she ducked in and heads turned. Her eyes scanned the sisters assembled. Most of then she new, as well as replacements for the two that were lost.

A grim smirk crossed her face. "Greetings again Sister's. I Trust you weren't expecting anyone else?" She asked taking her seat near the front of the deck. She was met small chuckles. Helena strapped herself into her seat and pounded on the door to the cockpit, signaling the pilot to take off.

 

[Athol]

Lith

For a split second, she just about launched into an attack when she felt the strike on her helm, but stopped as soon as she saw Urd.

"We need to talk."

Lith felt a hollow sensation in her gut. Nononono! Calm down, you're jumping to conclusions...

As Urd read her the riot act, she replayed her 'conversation' with the Techpriest. THAT upset her? I've heard worse from my own family....still not everyone can be Cadian strong. With her head bowed, she let out a bit of a sigh. "Guess I came off as a bit of a ***** back there, eh?" She said finally. "I'll go see about calming down the 'wire-head'." She moved a few paces back towards the garage, and then tuned to Urd. "How and if Dante is talking to Lara, have him tell her that if she gets herself killed I'll kick her ass."

Shortly, Lith found herself standing in front of Sana. "Enginseer Sana, I....[small]bloody hell I can't stand this thing.[/small]" She muttered, pulling her helm off and tossing it onto a nearby table. "Sorry...like I was saying; Enginseer Sana, I owe you an apology. Between waking up in this bloody warzone, getting stuck with that Xeno, and knowing that someone I deeply...respect...is in danger, and that I can't help her, has left me a bit on edge. Still, that I know reason for me to react the way I did, and I'm sorry."

 

[mcpop9]

"I accept your apology. I've been stationed with guard regiments on other worlds and have done my best to keep myself looking human and staying human to help make them a bit more comfortable around me. i'm also there for a shoulder if they need one to lean on, cause there's always the one kid heading into the guard because it was his only choice left, he doesn't want to be there and still managed to keep it together until he shatters. I'm in touch with my emotions and am sensitive because it's easiest to do my job that way. Keep a smiling face on to give them hope." she said putting away the toy and smiling.

"But just call me Sana. Rank is too formal for me." she said and stood up off the couch, letting her hood fall down to reveal that her head was completely human to appearance, a definite oddity for a techpriest.

"Now if you want to get to this person you "respect"." she began with a smirk, hinting that she understood. "Then i would appreciate it if you helped me with the pully system in the garage since it's just out of my reach when working on the rhino." was all the techpriest said and led them into the garage, gesturing to the system of chains over to the right.

"The transmission is done and the suspension is as well." she said, lowering the rhino onto the treads and re-wrapping them around the tracks. She climbed ontop of the rhino and attached the chains to the top of the hull. She then climbed off and inside the back hatch. "I'll need you to keep those chains tight, i'm going to raise the roof of the hull on her." sana said and climbed inside, waiting on confirmation.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Urd smirked at Lith's parting comment as she left to go sort things out with the Tech Priest, and departed the room shortly after her self to find Dante. Urd looked around the main area of the compound but didn't readly see him, so she took to the sky for a moment to find him, she could have just asked over the Vox, but she liked being airborne and just used it as an excuse to get in the air again. besides she found Dante quickly and glided over to him "Dante" She called out from above him as she descended "Have you been able to get a hold of Solara?" her feet touching ground as she finished her question.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

Dante continued to home in on Solara's position when he received a transmission over Vox "Looks like we're on foot you two. Guess that Rhino was worse than you thought....anyways, I've pulled together some gear, so grab what you can. I wanna be mobile in ten mike tops." But he knew that wasn't completely true when he felt some negative energy coming from the Garage/Vehicle Pool, obviously something had happened, but that wasn't of his concern for the moment. Several minutes later however, and a voice spoke to him directly.

"Dante." Said Urd as he noticed that she was slowly beginning to descend from above. "Have you been able to get a hold of Solara?" She asked as her feet made contact with the ground. Dante got off of the rock he had been sitting on, which coincidentally was getting a bit difficult to sit on by this point and returned to the spear-staff to the holder on his back.

"As a matter of fact I have Urd. At the moment she is with a Skitarii at a base which was in a northerly direction of where her cryo-pod had landed. Appears that there were some other Skitarii at the base along with what she assumed were locals. Currently I believe she is trying to talk her way in. Apart from that she is fine, no injuries to speak off."

"Using the original crash point as a reference marker and based on our current location, it will take us several hours to reach her, travelling in a northerly direction at first, I'll be able to give more precise directions once we're on the move, though I'd imagine the base would be pretty noticeable in these surroundings."

 

[Lunar Templar]

"As a matter of fact I have Urd. At the moment she is with a Skitarii at a base which was in a northerly direction of where her cryo-pod had landed. Appears that there were some other Skitarii at the base along with what she assumed were locals. Currently I believe she is trying to talk her way in. Apart from that she is fine, no injuries to speak off."

"Good, I'm glad she's reached safe ground, that should calm Lith's nerves as well" Urd said, then hugged Dante "I hate having to be 'commander-y you know that, more stress then I need when I far better suit to be a front line fighter" Urd added, venting a little.

 

[Athol]

Lith

"Now if you want to get to this person you 'respect'...."

Am I that obvious? Lith thought, blushing slightly at Sana's comment. Following the Techpriest back into the garage, she came to grips with the pulley system. As Sana prepped the Rhino, Lith took up the slack and once the chains were secured, she began hauling away. As she hauled on the chains, she began to sing in a low voice.

Lasguns flash, Chainword swing,
Heavy Bolter's booming ring
Russ' run 'cross a bloody field,
Fight Those Bastards till They Yield
Midnight raid and Blood Red moan,
Fight to Keep this Land Your Own
Sound the horn and call the cry,
How Many of Them Can We Make Die!

Follow orders as you're told,
Make Their Yellow Blood Run Cold
Fight until you die or drop,
A Force Like Ours is Hard to Stop
Close your mind to stress and pain,
Fight till You're No Longer Sane
Let not one damn cur pass by,
How Many of Them Can We Make Die!

Guard your cities and civilians well,
Send These Bastards Back to Hell
We'll teach them the ways of war,
They Won't Come Here Any More
Use your 'shields and use your head,
Fight till Every One is Dead
Raise the flag up to the sky,
How Many of Them Can We Make Die!

Dawn has broke, the time has come,
Move Your Feet to a Marching Drum
We'll win the war and pay the toll,
We'll Fight as One in Heart and Soul
Midnight raid and blood red moan,
Fight to Keep this Land Your Own
Sound the horn and call the cry,
How Many of Them Can We Make Die!

Lasguns flash, Chainword swing,
Heavy Bolter's booming ring
Russ' run 'cross a bloody field,
Fight Those Bastards till They Yield
Midnight raid and Blood Red moan,
Fight to Keep this Land Your Own
Sound the horn and call the cry,
How Many of Them Can We Make Die!

In short order, they had the top deck of the Rhino clear of the hull.
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Spoiler: OOC: Sung to this tune

 

[Evrant-Knight]

"Good, I'm glad she's reached safe ground, that should calm Lith's nerves as well." Spoke Urd as she hugged Dante. "I hate having to be 'commander-y' you know that, more stress then I need when I far better suit to be a front line fighter."

"Yeah I know how you must feel, literally." Dante said with a mischievous grin as he tapped his head, suggesting his telepathic powers.

"I guess the situation has taken their toll on everyone in their own way. How about when we've linked up with Solara and are given some downtime to help get our bearings of this place and relax from our deep thaw; you and I find somewhere quiet and-" Dante stopped midway through the sentence and whispered something into Urd's ear that she didn't want the others to hear, even though they were a little way out from the outpost.

"-Though I'd imagine it would be difficult what with the wings and all; after all they are difficult to remove."

 

[Lunar Templar]

Urd liked the sound of Dante's privet suggestion, and gave him a loving kiss in reply, before a glint of light off the Terminator and Dread caught her eye "I want to make sure they won't cause any problems first, and I'm not sure they won't. In fact I expect them to do something when get to Solara. but I'm not sure what just yet." Urd said, not really letting go of Dante just yet "After that though, and we have reasonable safe ground..." Urd letting the sentence drop, but flashing the kinda smile that said everything Dante would have needed to know about the topic, then kissed him again, her wings wrapping around the pair.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

As a reward of sorts for the suggestion, Dante received a loving kiss from Urd; it was then that something caught her attention. Dante looked in the direction she was facing, and noticed a gleam of light from Captain Micus and Sergeant Momaru's armour. "I want to make sure they won't cause any problems first, and I'm not sure they won't. In fact I expect them to do something when get to Solara. but I'm not sure what just yet."

"After that though, and we have reasonable safe ground..." Urd had simply left the sentence drop by that point, as she flashed a smile that easily finished everything off. She soon kissed Dante again, and wrapped her wings around the pair. Dante nuzzled his head against Urd's shoulder, which made him purr softly for a moment.

"I agree. Whilst at the moment they haven't tried anything that would put us in jeopardy, I shall be keeping an eye on them; although I simply can't just enter their minds and read at will, theirs are more protected than others, but not like us, probably something to do with the cybernetics they have as part of their armour. But enough about that for now, let's just enjoy the moment while it lasts."

"You know, I've never realised how... pretty your wings look until now. It must feel like a relief to fly in such a manner, to not be constrained to the ground, to be amongst the sky. " Remarked Dante softly, being lost in the moment.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Dante returned the kiss and nuzzled into her, which brought a soft smile to Urd's face. Dante then went on to agree with her concerns about the Terminator and Dread they'd come across, but was quick to change the subject. "You know, I've never realised how... pretty your wings look until now. It must feel like a relief to fly in such a manner, to not be constrained to the ground, to be amongst the sky. "

"I love them" Urd said as her wings 'stretched' a bit like wings of flesh and blood might before returning them to a folded position behind her "If we weren't constantly in danger I can see my self just flying around, just cause, its hard to put into words how it feels to fly like this, but it is truly magnificent and I do wish I could show you what I mean" Urd said, in the kind of loving tone she generally reserved for how she spoke about Dante. "They don't really feel artificial ether, they feel more like a part of me, like any other limb or organ, yo know, like they where supposed to be there from the start."