Apocalypse (Game Thread : Closed, Dead)

[Athol]

Egerion

"Titania filled me in with what she could feel from everyone. It's not a taint of Chaos, but it doesn't bode well. As much as I hate to say it... we're going to have to leave the locals here to their fate or end them swiftly now."

Watching Sister Helena organize her people, Egeion sighed to himself. "Unfortunately, I must agree." He said. This was the kind of situation he hated, yes he'd ordered men into combat where they were sure to die; he?d given orders that had meant the deaths of hundreds of his Brothers, and possibly thousands of regular soldiers...but this was different, it was one thing to order a man into a fight were he may defend himself, but it was another to condemn hundreds simply due to chance. The reasoning was sound, but he still hated it.

Listening to the warning broadcast, he began formulating plans to extract to the closest space port. If Enginseer Sana could not get him in contact with the Thunderhawk, then they'd have to make a dash for it, but even with the Landraider and the Rhino their odd were marginal at best.

"Ege, I have the comms unit working now. It's not perfect, but it'll do."

"Thank you Enginseer Sana." He replied, before switching channels.

"This is Ancient Egerion Micus, Brother-Captain and Dreadnought to His Imperial Space Marines Deathwatch Chapter to Thunderhawk Fury Fall, do you copy?"

"Praise the Emperor! Fury Fall here sir, we copy. Verification: Six, Niner, Alpha, Omega, Zero, Black"

"Authentication: Delta, Seven, Red, Mike, Delta, Mike."

"Confirmed. We have a fix on your signal sir, and are enroute. ETA ten mike."

"Copy Fury Fall. Be advised I have made contact with a full Soroitas squad, an Inquisitorial retinue, and a Mechanicus Enginseer and her bodyguard; I will be extracting them along with myself. We will require a second Thunderhawk."

"Understood sir."

There was a brief moment of silence before Fury Fall came back on the air.

"The Thunderous is launching now, and will do a least time insertion, ETA ten mike. Fury Fall out."

Closing the vox channel, he once again tapped into the base's PA. "ALL HANDS! ALL HANDS!" He boomed. "EXTRACTION INBOUND IN TEN MINUTES, EXTRACTION IN TEN MINTUES!" That done, he addressed the Inquisitor. "Since Sister Helena is tending to her people, I would ask you to make sure that the Field Tribune is brought with us. We may have to sacrifice his men, but he may still be of use."

 

[Outcast107]

Vym had shut him off from the rest of the group. The voices rages once again in his head that were driving him crazy. It seem even when talking with his inner self it didn't stop him from hearing the raging inferno of the voices. They would come and go on and off, as if a hurricane was in his head. Though when the voices were gone he felt like he was missing something. Like a part of himself was rip off and feed to the creatures outside of this base.

Oh how he love and hated when the voices were here and then gone. Vym would start to slam his head against the wall over and over again trying to regain control of his body. He hadn't kill in days! HE NEEDED THE BLOOD! TO RIP THE ENEMIES OF THE EMPEROR LIMB FROM LIMB AND SOAK IN THE BLOOD OF THE FALLEN!

Thats when he heard the blaring voice out of nowhere. "ALL HANDS! ALL HANDS! EXTRACTION INBOUND IN TEN MINUTES, EXTRACTION IN TEN MINTUES!"

?Emperor? Is that you?!? Vym would ask out to noone. ?Of course it is..PRAISE THE EMPORER!? Vym would shut as he headed towards the extraction site. Twitching all over as he rake the his claws against the walls, causing a horrid sound from the metal scraping against the metal.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

Dante stood with his back to the wall, as two members of the Medicae from the Orders Hospitaller entered the room, apparently not having noticed the presence of the psyker. He watched as they began a series of tests on the locals, probably seeing if they were worth saving.

His experience with physical medicine was minimal at best, though that's not to say he hadn't be subjected to a laborious check up process, made even longer for him given his nature as a psyker, which required mandatory tests to see if he had become corrupted or not. After a few minutes of quiet observation, he tentatively approached the Medicae, coughing slightly to make them aware of his presence.

"How do these souls fare? Can they be saved in anyway?" Dante asked, but before they could respond, an announcement came in through the Vox speakers.

"ALL HANDS! ALL HANDS! EXTRACTION INBOUND IN TEN MINUTES, EXTRACTION IN TEN MINUTES!"

"Well, that makes things more complicated." Dante thought to himself.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Urd was trying to finesse the replacement part into place when the ten minutes to evac warning came over the coms, fortunately, it slid right into place a minute after the com message and quickly set about getting the plasma core back in and cover back on, which didn't take very long. As she made her way to the extraction point she was trying to work the suit back into its normal resting position, an awkward and light yelp escaping her as the plugs lined back up and slid back into place. She grumbled about the shock to her system every time so took the suit off or put it on as she had the suit running checks to make sure all systems were green.

 

[sage42]

Helena looked over the readings from the tests. She and her Sister's had inspected all they could. Most showed signs of.....something. Otherwise they were stable. but that something worried Helena. If it wasn't the taint of demons or the warp, then what was it? She looked over the few surviving locals. They were all unconscious. Some had made it to cots, before losing consciousness, those who didn't they moved. We cannot risk bringing them all. But they will know better comfort when they wake. They will be with the Emperor soon.

Helena heard a cough behind her and turned. "How do these souls fare? Can they be saved in anyway?" The man asked. He had looked familiar. Now where have I....ah yes, one of the Witch's followers. Helena thought before she opened her mouth to answer his question. She was interrupted by the Vox blaring to life.

"ALL HANDS! ALL HANDS! EXTRACTION INBOUND IN TEN MINUTES, EXTRACTION IN TEN MINUTES!" Helena sighed. No, not without great risk. She thought answering the man's question. "I'm afraid we simply don't know how they fare. There are anomalies within them that don't match any known reading. We can maybe bring one or two for study but the rest will have to stay." She spoke looking over the people in the room. "But we have no choice in this matter. Sister's! To the extraction point now" She turned back to the man. "I suggest you get there as well. We know what may be wrong with you, that can be stopped." She took one last look at the people before leaving. They were all going to die here before to long. A sacrifice Helena had to make. She led her sister's from the room and locked thee bulkhead behind them.

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The Sister's with Mamoru did has he ordered. the formed a small circle around the Astartes and began burning the room around them. Soon the flimsy cots in the room were nothing but ash, and the tables and medical equipment were hot to the touch, but now sterilized and relatively safe.

Then the Vox blared to life. "ALL HANDS! ALL HANDS! EXTRACTION INBOUND IN TEN MINUTES, EXTRACTION IN TEN MINUTES!" The Chiurgeon looked to Momaru. "My lord, I do believe it would be safer aboard the fleet to look after Sister Mara. Less chance of her contracting whatever affected these one's." She said gesturing to the charred corpses.

 

[mcpop9]

Solara had been monitoring the area around them for psychic influence and felt the draw of energy from few of them, her own psychic powers feeling off as well. "Understood, i'd also like to take along three of the mechanicus members, three of them are drawing in psychic energy with neutral readings. It's not holy or chaotic, they're just absorbing background energy... My psychic abilities also feel off, but not like theirs do. Whatever that blast was, targeted the psykers in the area, even those with low capabilities." she said, walking off and keeping in touch with him, making her way toward's arcor's signal, feeling him as one of the one's absorbing energy.

She then came across Helena standing with her sisters and sealing Arcor along with the two locals in the room. "Retributor Helena, You must open these doors as Field Tribune Arcor is in that room and the Ancient ordered myself to come retrieve him. I plan on taking the two other survivors with us for study up in the fleet for investigation into heretical activities. This is the direct result of whoever controlled and built the superweapon in orbit that has just fired upon us. Ontop of that, they're absorbing neutral warp energy, non-chaotic, but we might be able to discover for what reasons and faster if we take them up to fleet where there are proper facilities to study this." The girl explained rather well and thought out to Helena.

[hr]

Momaru nodded. "If this was biological, you would be right. but seeing as we're all offworld and it has only affected those who have lived on the planet, there is no risk to her other than waking up and pulling something in a leg or an arm from spasming." The Sergent explained to the sisters and led them out of the room. "But it is a good idea to get her up to fleet so their medical devices can examine her to see if the brief case of dead has affected her in any negative ways other than her psyke." he explained in a calm and rather relaxed voice as he made it back to mara and carried her in his arms to Egerion, where he had found Sana had already returned.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

"I'm afraid we simply don't know how they fare. There are anomalies within them that don't match any known reading. We can maybe bring one or two for study but the rest will have to stay." Spoke Retributor Helena as she looked over the three unconscious people in the room. "But we have no choice in this matter. Sisters! To the extraction point now!" She then turned to face Dante more directly.

"I suggest you get there as well. We know what may be wrong with you, that can be stopped." That last remarked made Dante a little perturbed, a bit angry, but he knew not to do something that would only cause more trouble, so he quickly turned round and headed for the door.

"Yeah, I hear a quick bullet to the head is the preferred method for Retributors." Dante quietly mumbled to himself as he left the room. As he walked down the corridor to the evacuation point, Dante saw Solara walking past and gave her quick nod of acknowledgement before carrying on. He thought hear could Solara initiating conversation with someone, but right now, that wasn't his concern, right now he wanted to put as much distance between him and the Sororitas as he physically could given the circumstance they found themselves in.

 

[sage42]

Helena turned from the locked door, ignoring the man as he mutter and left. Before she could get farther than a few steps the Witch stopped her.

Retributor Helena, You must open these doors as Field Tribune Arcor is in that room and the Ancient ordered myself to come retrieve him. I plan on taking the two other survivors with us for study up in the fleet for investigation into heretical activities. This is the direct result of whoever controlled and built the superweapon in orbit that has just fired upon us. Ontop of that, they're absorbing neutral warp energy, non-chaotic, but we might be able to discover for what reasons and faster if we take them up to fleet where there are proper facilities to study this.

Helena stared at the Witch, both her sister's glared. She felt the anger rising again. Mentally she had already stolen that damned spear the witch carried and impaled her flaming head upon it. Outwardly she just sighed and let her anger go for once. This is growing tiresome. Hopefully the Witch Hunters aboard the fleet will find sense and end her."Very well, I would object but we have more pressing matters to attend to." She said unsealing the bulkhead. "Sister's assist her, grab the other two." She turned once more to Solara "Quickly if you please, I am sick of this Emperor forsaken planet."

 

[mcpop9]

"Thank you, i appreciate your help." she said, taking up one of the surivors and helping carry him. "You know, my mother was almost Cannoness of Order of Our Martyred Lady when she joined the inquisition because of her unique psyker hunting skills. I'm sure she would smile upon you and your devotion to your order and the emperor. Truth be told, i can't blame or hate you, you're just doing your job." she said with a smile to the Retributor. It was odd as the Inquisitor sort of found herself calm and with no hatred or any feelings for the sister other than understanding.

"I really want to like you and maybe become acquaintances or friends even, but if you choose to hate me over something i cannot control, i can't stop you from doing so. I just hope you don't lump the rest of my routine in with me." she said with a smile as they began to move the three survivors to the hangar.

 

[sage42]

Helena thought on what the Witch had said for a moment. It was hard to believe she had come from a woman who was almost a Cannoness. "I find that hard to believe." She spoke after a moment. "You saying it certainly cannot make me believe it anyway. Tell me the name of your mother. If she had almost made Cannoness than her name will have been recorded somewhere. I might have even learned of her somewhere." She truly didn't care if this woman wanted to like her or not. She was not put into the Holy Father's service to be liked by anyone other than Him and her Sisters. But if she wanted to apply whatever terms to coming along peacefully, that was her business.

 

[Athol]

Lith

Not having anything to do at the moment, Lith stood back as Sister Helena and Solara 'spoke'. She was amazed Solara's control in the face of the contempt oozing from the Sister...she'd've punched that **** in the face long ago, if she'd been in the same position. And that is why 'Lara is an Inquisitor, and you are Guard...

"I find that hard to believe. You saying it certainly cannot make me believe it anyway. Tell me the name of your mother. If she had almost made Cannoness than her name will have been recorded somewhere. I might have even learned of her somewhere."

It wasn't so much what Helena said, but the way she said it that finally tweaked a nerve in Lith. "Oh, blow it out your ass you ****!" She spat. A couple of the more junior Sisters gasped, and they all turned to look at her. "Her name was Lunette Aletheia Draco, and she was a better soldier, a better Sister, and an all around better person than all of you cocksucking menstrual squeezings put together!"

Lith's violet eyes blazed with anger, and her scarred face twisted in a sneer. "Your masters didn't even have the fucking balls to give her a good death...no, when they wanted her gone, they sent her off to go die in the fucking Warp! No, she wasn't perfect, she made some bad calls, and by the Emperor we had a few good fights, but she was my friend...and if I EVER hear you disrespecting her again, I'm going to jam my foot so far up your ass I'll wear your asshole like an ankle bracelet!"

 

[mcpop9]

Solara's mouth dropped open. She listened to Lith spill out what must have been the built up hatred in herself and was disgusted with it.
Letting the sister take the full weight of arcor, she move forward, grabbing lith and shoving her against the wall, hard enough to dent it. "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?" solara shouted in her face, pressing harder against her.

"They are our allies, like it or not, disrespecting or not!" she continued on, pointing at the sisters before slamming lith against the wall again. "I don't care what you think about them. right now, i don't care what you think about me, but i'm not having your getting yourself, me or anyone else in our routine killed because you're on the fucking rag!" she shouted, clearly pissed. "Right now, i don't have time to deal with your utterly stupid bullshit issues, now get your ass to Captain egerion before i hog tie you and leave you that way for a few days!" Solara continuing to shout, but keeping her psychic powers under control.

She pulled lith off the wall and spun her in the direction of the bay. "I don't need any white knights to come and save my mother's reputation, i am capable of doing it on my own. But i'm not having you ruin any chances we have of getting off this planet." she said and gave a firm kick to lith's back that sent her stumbling in the direction of the hangar. "NOW GET YOUR ASS MOVING!"

 

[sage42]

Helena had handed her Heavy Bolter to one of her sister's as the other two pulled out their Bolters. The petty insults in the mess hall they could handle, the constant teasing. But now the witch's whore had insulted their very honor as Sister's of Battle. Helena started to advance on the woman before Solara stepped in. Helenas eyes went wide. One of her sister's actually gasped.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? They are our allies, like it or not, disrespecting or not! I don't care what you think about them. right now, I don't care what you think about me, but i'm not having your getting yourself, me or anyone else in our routine killed because you're on the fucking rag! Right now, I don't have time to deal with your utterly stupid bullshit issues, now get your ass to Captain Egerion before I hog tie you and leave you that way for a few days! I don't need any white knights to come and save my mother's reputation, I am capable of doing it on my own. But i'm not having you ruin any chances we have of getting off this planet. NOW GET YOUR ASS MOVING!"

Helena had to smirk a little at watching the foulmouthed woman get told off and physically get kicked towards the hanger. She eyed the Witch once more. Perhaps there's hope yet? She thought as she let her smirk fall. "......For what it's worth I have heard of your mother. Though the records differ a little from your tale, they state that sometime after being raised to Inquisitor she simply disappeared on a mission hunting down cultists." She said taking her Heavy Bolter back. "But up until then she was a decorated sister. That much is the same. As to whether I believe your story or the records....well there have been instances where our historians have been deceived before." She shrugged. "Come now...Inquisitor." She said said, holding back the contempt from her tone. "We need to get back to the fleet."

 

[Athol]

Lith

Solara's words washed over Lith as she glared at Helena. Staggering a bit from Solara's kick, she headed towards the hanger, still fuming. Her nerves were crackling with energy that she needed to vent, but with both that **** of a Sister and the knife eared ***** not within easy grasping distance, she decided to vent on what appeared to be a ten man barracks room.

Between her own adrenalin fuelled anger and her power armour, she tore one of the bunks from its mountings and hurled it across the room. She then proceeded to take out her frustration on any object in the room that she could tear free; by the time she was done, the only things not mangled beyond recognition were the plasteel walls and door.

Stalking back into the hanger, she retrieved her plasma gun and lasgun from where she'd left them, and set about checking them.

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

The Party
As the hangar doors opened, clouds of black dust began to blow inside, coating the room and anyone inside it like ash. The sky was visibly red to anyone who took the time to look.
After a moment two black thunderhawks quickly landed inside the space. Their doors opened and two black power armoured space marines came out of the one on the left. They began attaching cables to the Dreadnought and magnetically locked him down inside the thunderhawk. The rest of the group were yelled at to get inside.

Once they were inside, the doors closed and locked. A green mist like gas began filling the transportation chambers and the thunderhawks took off.

As they began to pass through orbit, the locals began to scream as golden flames began to envelop them. As they reached the mesosphere the flames dissapeared and a magnetic disruption began to affect the gear of all present. As they broke orbit the disruption ended.

After a few minutes of transportation in the thunderhawks. A metallic thump was heard and the gas inside the transportation chamber began to disperse. Yelling was heard from outside the crafts and the doors began to open.

Light flooded through the entrance to the craft and it was soon realized what was outside. A sterile white shipboard hangar with five squads of deathwatch space marines and a platoon of sisters of battle standing outside with weapons drawn and aimed at those inside the crafts.

A deathwatch sergeant which Egerion did not recognise was screaming at those inside the crafts to disarm and surrender themselves for decontamination and testing.

 

[mcpop9]

Solara was the first to decide to stand up and make a move, but was pushed back by Momaru, gesturing that him and Sana would be the first ones out. He walked out, proudly and strongly as one would expect the Terminator to. "Greetings brothers, an sisters. I am Sergent Momaru, First company of the forgotten. You will move aside for me and Enginseer sana. We are mechanicus and not of the imperial army. you do not have jurisdiction over use, however, we will voluntarily come along peacefully for decontamination and testing so long as no harm is promised to come upon us." he explained and shifted his weight.
"And forcing us to submit to your will, will not be met with inaction as Lady sana is an invaluable asset. she is extremely close to becoming a rune priest, so i advise you not setting the imperium back in technology another hundred years." He explained in his loud booming voice, the techpriest standing next to him.

[br]
Solara waited inside the Bay of the thunderbird. She wanted to find out how they'd handle the two mechanicus member. "Listen, don't put down your weapons yes, keep them holstered with your hands up, but let me do the talking. we'll walk out as a group, ok?" she said to the rest of her routine.

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

The sergeant immediately yelled back at the terminator "The Fleet Magos has given us authority over you. You have all been exposed to an unknown warp conducting compound, if you do not submit we have been given permission to terminate you. Do you understand?"

 

[Athol]

Lith

Lith snarled silently into the emergency breather she'd taken from the base's stores. I?m getting sick and fucking tired of this bullshit...the sooner we get a ship the better. Suppressing a powerful urge to snap back at the Deathwatch Marine, she tightened her grip on the plasma gun in her hands, the grips creaking under the pressure.

[hr]

Egerion

From his stowed position in the other Thunderhawk, Egerion's voice boomed from an external vox speaker. "Stand down Sergeant Momaru, in a situation such as this he is correct. Until such time as we are declared clear, even I must bow to his orders."

"Brother-Sergeant." He vox'd to the Deathwatch Marine. "I will comply. I have disabled my arms, though I understand you may wish to confirm this through your own people."

 

[mcpop9]

"I'm a couple of Millenia older than you and i still have better hearing than you do, If you had actually listened, then you would have heard me say we're going to willing submit to decontamination and testing." he said then took his storm bolter and hammer, holding each of them with their grips facing outwards and began to walk towards the sergent.
"I'm handing these to you personally, i expect them to be taken care of." he said, his big lumbering form actually allowing him to look down upon the sergent as he arrived a few paces away.

"I'm doing this on act of goodwill, brother. I still fail to understand the lack of respect you new generations of space marines give to your elders who originate from the original twenty. That and the degradation of the gene-seed over time." he said, waiting for him to take the weapons.

[hr]

"Lith... calm down." solara said and looked lith in the face. "I promise you that we'll all be ok. alright?" she said, the inquisitor's head feeling a bit funky, but still alright. She smiled as her voice projected into lith's head. 'I'll be here with you the entire time." she said.

 

[sage42]

Helena grimaced but understood. She had expected this, though the reality still angered her. For the second time in this system she was under suspicion of warp taint. Though this time she had her Sister's with her. That gave her some small comfort. She and her Sister's departed the Thunderhawks and approached the other Sister's of Battle. One by one they handed over all their weapons. Helena was the last to do so. "Take care of these Sister." She spoke to the one in charge of the other group. "Should the worst come to pass make sure they go to the hands of a worthy Sister." She stood with the rest of her squad off to the side.