"How long have we been walking?" Complained Miko, she took a deep breath as the two big men stopped. Hugges hefted his Grenade Launcher over his shoulder, turning to the small girl as Reed takes a knee in front of them, acting as a leader would (or to the best he could figure)
"Don’t worry Miko" Hugges said with a tone of kindness "If you want, I can lug you around instead" he chuckled a bit, Miko frowned "Hey, I’m not some prissy princess!" she exclaimed, stamping her foot a few times. Hugges chuckled as Miko strode towards them, walking past Hugges with a huff as Reed stopped her. "Hold on" he mutters as he points to the distance, slowly raising his weapon. Hugges and Miko quickly lower themselves to Reeds level. Miko and Hugges looked at one another then at Reed; they saw nothing.
"What?" Miko asks "I don’t see anything!" she mutters as Reed eases forward slightly "I know something’s there" he says, both Hugges and Miko are confused, yet they do not follow, Reed must be seeing things. "Maybe he took a hit to the head?" Miko whispered as Hugges looks at his comrade.
Reed wasn't sure, but something was drawing him forward into the brush. Ever since he was a kid, he had a strange ability of feeling things, being guided by something toward something else. He never mentions it to anyone since it was rare, but the times it did, usually ended with something major. As Reed took another step, he suddenly felt a pang of warning from behind, a force pushing him to the ground. His body crumbles as his legs are yanked from their place, landing him on his stomach with a knife to his neck. Reed's vision hazed from the impact, but as it cleared, he saw Tanya with the knife
"Tanya!?" He exclaims as the female quickly eases off "Reed?" she replied as the solider stood up.
Tanya apparently had been running on her own for the past hour, she had managed to ditch the Cannoness chasing her, but she caused the death of a whole squad looking out for her
"They did their duty" Miko said as Reed and Tanya regrouped with Hugges and Miko "I'm sure their death was for something, keeping you safe." Tanya sighed, Miko was right, but she felt those men didn't need to die just for her.
"Any word of Frost?" she asks, hoping something had turned up. Yet the three just shook their heads "Everdun took Cadien, Elisia, and Unil to find him and Taxi"
"Taxi?" Tanya replies
"Yeah, he went missing, go figure, always knew that guy would leave at the first sign"
Hugges shook his head "Meebe he got lost, this is a big forest"
Tanya nodded "I don’t think a Veteran would just go missing, he must have found something."
The group shrugged amongst themselves and began to make way towards their primary objective "We got to find the break between the forest and the field, so lets keep going and be ready to contact the commander as soon as we do" Reed noted, the rest nodded and began to walk, only to have Tanya yelp in sudden pain. Everyone turned, now realizing the furry xeno had a cast on her leg
"What happened to you?" Miko asked as Tanya was clutching her leg
"I...feel off a building" Tanya replied in a slight ting of pain. There was a sudden string of silence as she looked about the three. "HEY ITS NOT LIKE I HAD A CHOICE!" she barked "Stupid, jet pack Cannoness was hot on my tail!"
Reed sighed a bit "okay enough" he muttered "lets keep going"
Tanya huffed "If its still possible, she may be around, I would suggest we keep quite"
The group nodded, the last thing they needed was a stomping mad Cannoness right at them with a Power Weapon and Inferno Pistol.
On the other hand, Everdun and his unit have yet to come across anything; they had trudged through the underbrush for the past half hour and had come up with nothing more than squabbles and back pain. Everdun was fine with the brush, he had trained in it as a child, but Caiden and Elisia were constantly bickering, Unil kept his distance and his ears to the horn, so far news wasn’t good. 2 Squads had been pinned down by Exorcist fire, and another was engaging Sisters in mid range fire fight. What’s more, Sisters were still sweeping through the area searching for them, and Frost and Taxi were yet to be found. Everdun cursed under his breath, he needed a plan, anything to get them going.
He was answered by the low rumbling of treads plowing through the brush. It was plainly obvious something was heading towards them. Everdun rose his fist into the air, signaling a complete stop, despite the crews fighting, the hand signal rage clear, showing that despite their flaws they were still a team. Each one slowly knelt to Everduns level, each one shouldering their weapon. Everdun hand signaled to the others "Tank...Sisters...ready....AT Move" he said. Slowly he drew a krak grenade as did the others, as soon as the tank moved close, toss and run. With luck, that should knock out the beast. Slowly the tank crept ever closer, until the team could see it rushing towards them through the foliage. Evberdun closed his eyes, visualizing the tank moving into position and a successful grenade toss, that’s how it was done by the book. But within inches of their "kill zone", the think stopped. Out of the hatch came Taxi
"Hey guys...need a lift?"
--
"Man, were are they?" complains Miko as she, Tanya, Reed, and Hugges continue to trudge their way to whatever place they had to find. Originally it was the break in the forest, but after running into Tanya, the pair seemed to forget their original mission.
"So...uh what now?" Reed asked, seeming to have lost his "cool guy" attire prior with finding Tanya. Elisia and Tanya sigh "we track out way out of here and hope to god someone finds us before the sisters do" Elisia mutters, Tanya simply nods, not really wanting to talk to the other squad mates. This was a common thing between Celestiens and Imperium, though the guard regiment sees them as allies, the Celestians believe not to trust them fully, originally a lot of tension was on Celestien in the earlier years, before the Signing of the Wolfrien, a doctrine to dedicate peace between the Vuplines, the original allies of the Guard and very noble allies, to the Celestians, a wolfen type race long since run underground by the Vulpines by numerous hidden wars. The Vulpines had superior technology, but the Celestians had powerful forms and crafted magic skills, easily dwarfing any Vulpine that may try to tackle one. Some were as tall as 8-10 feet. Vulpines can only grow to 6', but that's rare
"You seem quite down" Miko sudden asks, causing Tanya’s train of thought to stop.
"I’m...okay...just..." she sighs, turning her head aside to try and duck the conversation...she knew she had nothing much to say about it, but...she missed frost, terribly.
"Its alright, don’t worry about your leg, it will heal soon"
Tanya stopped, did Miko...Tanya couldn’t really like Miko, she was the youngest, everyone knew she had lied about her age and just came around to be with some "solider boy" before she gets caught. It was the entire rave for most human girls, from what she observed when the Guard landed on their planet. She huffed a bit "I'll be fine...” she barks back, in a somewhat offending tone
"Well...relax, I don't mean to harm you"
Tanya kept her eyes on Miko for awhile, but eventually took her attention back to her work.
--
"A Exorcist?" Everdun asks as he spoke with taxi in front of the tank
"Yes Sir" Taxi replied
"I say again...an Exorcist....how the hell did you manage that?"
Taxi smirked "like i said sir, if it moves, i drive it...not that bad sort of way sir, i mean vehicle's, you know like tanks, trucks...cars...that sort of thing..." Taxi grew silent quite quickly...Everdun sighed
"Well...whatever your reasoning...i cant really condone against this...fuck this is perfect"
taxi blinked "uhh sir?"
Everdun cracked a grin
"We have a way to get out Frost"
--
Frost...cold. Silent...really that’s all he is good with, but Frost in a hot zone...he isn’t so cold. Sisters...everywhere....and not a nun to rump. The arctic fox kept himself calm, slowly studying the world around him. Though the sisters were skilled, when shit hit the fan in their own backward, they couldn't act as coordinated. They needed to see the enemy to be able to smite them, when the enemy is a shadow...its harder.
Inquisition seemed to scatter the Celestian Guard, for years, the Inquisition has attacked Celestian Guard at their bases and outposts countless times, trying to drive away this maverick army. For countless months after their re-founding on Celetian, the Inquisition had been targeting them, marking them as traitors even though they continued to fight for the Emperor. There have been cases were Celestian forces had fought against Imperium and with its enemies, but these cases were solely for benefiting the army. Take for example the raid alongside an Ork warmob. The Boss saw the Vulpines (as they were called back then) as a good asset, and as the battle against a Space Marine chapter whittled down, the Vulpines turned on the Orks, saving the few remains of the chapter that had been hard pressed by the Orks for months. Tactical advantages was the reason the Celestians had joined foe armies, even against chaos, they used them as a means to get closer to them and destory them.
Frost sighed, the Sniper, lone man, now he was stuck within a bushel of nuns with deadly guns to his fragile frame. He growled, he didn’t even have any sound suppresser to mount his gun with to kill a few lone chicks. He held his knife tight by his side, hoping to get a chance to make a commit to run, but never finding the time
"Bolters...why did it have to be bolters..."
--
Isobel was not one to be left out, despite her Sisters triumph, she felt that not killing that one xeno she would taint her record, demoralize her sisters. But the possibility of nodding off the "saint-hood" talk by the sisters did seem appealing. The possibility of nearly finding the letting escape xenos could tarnish her record slightly to ease off the pressure, but all the same, the risk was against her emperor and she HAD to commit to his name, nothing else. Suddenly the distant rumble of an armored unit caught her attention, could it be a Celestian tank...no...That couldn’t be right, she had killed the 2 Celestian tanks that arrived while the third lay immobile and out of ammo. She had no reason to suspect a hostile, this was her lost tank.
Rushing towards it she can catch a glimpse of its snow white armor and crystal blue siding as she nears, but is shocked and horrified to see the xeno sympathizers atop it.
Those...tainted souls..." Isobel muttered to herself "Why must they vie off the path of the Emperor" she added as she rose her sword
--
"aye...gimme one too" Uril muttered in his thick Scottish accent "could us one of the tall's" he said as he knock back a drink from his "stash" in his bag. Uril was a bit of a braincase, he was Irish, but had an intelligence that almost rivaled any known scientists in the world. Some people wondered why he took combat duty
"Because battle is in me blood laddie" he had remembered saying to some Imperial officer before he enlisted.
Now, here he was, seven years beside Everdun and all the battle he wanted. Yet his mind was put to good use "To learn the enemy" he had mentioned, his plan to study all races of Xeno in the universe and when finished his tour, use it to help the Imperium fight and even work together with in battles for humanity. He looked up at the sky, slowly, it began to rain. He laughed slightly "ah..rain...the one thing that controls us all" he muttered. Still he knew the problem with his company, Inquisition, a problem and a political blackout, able to end him instantly it was a miracle his industry power had not been squashed.
Not like the plate of armor Uril sat next too, as he looked up, a power sword came slashing down, ripping into the metal panel with a dull buzz. Everdun was already up, his own sword drawn and pistol ready. Elisia was scrambling onto the top of the tank while Cadien was struggling to get his Knives out of his tangled Gellise suit. Uril simply looked up at the Cannoness jetting along side, gave a smile and ducked into the tank quickly
"Holy shat!" he exclaims "i need a drink...nearly pissed me pants!"
Everdun growled slightly, this was their main commander; a Sisters Heroine was a tough contender. He had read the reports on the Inquisition, noting their Cannoness having been majestic yet powerful females that bear the most experience and will in battle, capable of commanding their sisters with deadly efficiency. Everdun knew he might not survive, his squad might not, with this Cannones, but even so he braced. The female came at him hard, her jetpack rumbling in the night as their swords met atop the tank. Taxi kept the vehicle in motion as Caiden continued to scramble topside, but failed due to the rough road they drove on, for now Everdun was on his own.
“You shall die by my hand, your sins of working with xenos can not be forgiven in the Emperors judgment!” she shouted as the blade came down hard, narrowly slicing Everduns arm off. Everdun quickly ducks to the side, drawing his pistol and firing off a few shots, one hitting the joint piece in the chest armor, causing the Cannoness to retreat, but quickly retake her composer and attack again. As the tank made a sharp turn, Everdun was floored, rattling his sword against the plates, he catches it under the rocket launchers hydraulics, and quickly drops it, fearing he might break the device. Unarmed, Isobel hovers gently over him
“Your time has ended” she said as she soared up slightly, yet as she rises, the sudden crackle of energy rips across the sky, causing everyone to duck. In an instant, a single bolt strikes upon the Cannoness, sending her plummeting to the ground, and crashed into the trees beyond.
"Wow...what are the odds?" Elisia blinked as she watched Isobel slam into the earth some distance away. Elisia let out a sigh, slowly slipping a book back into her bag “Pray I didn’t have to do it” she said, the blue book slipped snuggling into her pack, a glimpse of a Fure De Leirs on the front.
--
Tanya covered herself with a branch, she sighed, she hated the rain, it not only messed up her tracking ability, but it made her cold and her fur soaked for days. She growls, this day couldn’t be any worse, stuck with a hyper curious kid, a lugging idiot, and a private whose greener than yesterdays twingshoots...she sighed, and twingshoots were very green. She suddenly heard the rumbling coming towards them, catching a sudden glimpse of white lights, the group was ambushed by a single tank, Atop it, Everdun, Elisia, and Caiden, Taxi, popped his head out of the tank
"Heya, welcome to my neck of the woods"
--
"Were going to get frost!?"
Tanya exclaims excitedly as the tank rumbles slowly towards the "predicted" Sisters line. Elisa sighs "Stay still dear, can’t fix you up" she said as she replaced the Jerry rigged brace on the vulpines ankle. Elisia knew how Tanya felt about the other members, yet she was the only one Tanya respected and that pleased her, she always looked out for the Vulpines, and is able to see and respect them better than most her patients. She fixed applying a proper medical instrument that would cut down healing by half, coupled with the Vulpines fast metabolism and healing "there, all good to go" Tanya nodded and slung her rifle back up "Gonna get me some payback...by the way, were is the Cannoness?" she asked
Everdun walked over "She got struck by lighting...guess the Emperor is with us"
Tanya shook her head "Nay, the moon is full, the Luna Goddess plaid a hand in that"
Everdun sighed a bit, to each his own, he always figured.
"A'ight, everyone hide" taxi shouted as the tank reach the edge of the forest just inches from the perimeter of the sisters camp, the plan was to sneak in, wire the tank to fire its missile in a delay shortly after the team enters to cause confusion at one end and firing off bolter into another. It was to provide confusion and located Frost, Tanya said "knowing him, he might be hiding out a kill spot" she muttered as the team readied their operation. This was going to be tight.
--
Taxi slammed a few commands into the firing computer, tapping a bit here and there until he figure to delay the launchers for 5 minutes
"That should do it' Everdun mentioned as he and the rest of the squad left the tank to its own devices. Slowly, with weapons shouldered, they begin their silent march towards the sisters camp, inside, the nuns still buzzed about, causing a bit of a new risk towards the squad, the sisters were in an uproar
"Man, this isn’t going to be easy" Tanya mutters as she and the rest of the team take cover behind another parked tank
"Frost could be anywhere" Cadien muttered "We need a signal for him"
Elisia smirked slightly "I may just have it" She slowly draws out a mirror "If im not mistake, this is the universal symbol for a signal" she said as she grabbed her flashlight and shined it upon the mirror, causing a reflection. She wiggled it in place a few times until she got an answer, a sudden barrel of a gun perked from behind a few barrels, catching the light and shaking
"He’s over there" Elisia says as the squad checks their surroundings before moving closer. Avoiding Sister patrols every so often, running their luck to the wire until they get to the barrels and are reacquainted with Frost. The Vulpine was in bad shape, they had mended his arm, but he bore several; scars of interrogation
"Don’t worry...didn’t talk much" he said with a subtle grin as the team check their watches
"5...4...3...2...1.." Everdun whispers as the sudden chorus of a missile launcher in the distance echoed around the camp, within seconds, several powerful missiles landed smack dab into the camp, kicking up dirt and debris, some sisters paroling nearby were vaporized by a missile strike, Everdun quickly grabbed frost
"LETS GO!" he barks as the team hoofs it towards the exit, letting their presence be known now
"Intruders!" came a shout as the team ducks behind crates, Tanya cracking a few shots along with Reed into a troupe of sisters which caused them to duck behind a shed.
"We can’t stay here!" Reed shouts "were gonna get killed!"
"Shut up!" Frost said taking aim again and firing upon another sister "We got to do this right"
The sudden sound of jetpacks brought fear to the whole squad, looking up, Miko yelps, Seraphim sisters began to decent towards them
"Sisters...annihilate them" Spoke their Sister Superior in a monotone voice, no emotion in her gaze as they slammed into the crates, kicking up both squad and material in a sudden ambush of jet wash and metal boots.
Miko screams, her arm was pinned to the ground by a crate as a Sister hovers over her, yet she was quickly removed as Hugges slammed a barrel right into the side of the Seraphim, causing the female to crumple to the side. Already the squad was getting into the thick of it. Caiden was dodging and slashing his twin blades at a pair of Seraphim while Frost and Tanya continued to move to find better firing lines. Elisia was with Everdun, using her own knife against a Seraphims bolt pistols while the LT was dodging and slashing with the Superior
"Geeze, don’t you girls ever quit!" Everdun mutters as the Sister continues
"As aide to Cannoness Isobel, I, Sister Superior Avriel of the Seraphim shall do my duty and destroy you xeno sympathizers." She lunged at Everdun, causing a shatter of sword upon sword. Clanging and buzzing with energies
"Damn...well if that’s how it is" He smirks, ducking back and causing the Seraphim to follow with him. As she fell forward, Elisia turned from the flank and slammed her dagger into the Superiors side armor. The female seemed to flinch as Elisia removed the blade
"Your weapons...aren’t efficient" the sister muttered as Elisia pulled away.
"Were done" Everdun muttered as he and his team begins to withdraw from the base, moving as quickly as they made their way to the exit amidst the confusion.
--
"Your dropship is en-route sir" Came his Vox officer to Commander Elionem, he nodded in return as he watched his men evacing
"Well...what can we saw we accomplished here?" the vox asked
"We took a blow, but made them bleed just as well" Everdun said, walking up to the Commander
"Everdun...were have you been?" Elionem asks
"Rescue op" he says, pointing to his Sniper who was helped forward by Elisia "they captured him, we went in and got him"
Elionem nods slowly "Well that’s good, were pulling out, the Sisters want this piece of dirt so bad they can have it, we made em pay for it at least"
Everdun nodded, sighing as he watched the mix of men and equipment roll off into the distance...eventually seeing the world turn black.
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