The Bleeding Galaxy

[lukeweedon1]

Luke heard an alarm ring out telling him to get to the drop pods. He knew this may be the last time he's scrambled but he grabbed his rifle and walked casually to the drop pod. He knew it was time and only hoped for the best he sat in the dop pod with fear in his eyes. His mind raced with thoughts he had never shot a living thing and... A marine put his hand on Lukes shoulder "don't worry scout the emperor protects." Luke stared at the floor of the pod and thought out loud "...theres no better time to die for me... i may be scared but i was given a bolter for a reason..." the drop pod launched... He knew it was time... Luke loaded his bolter and braced himself. "time to enter the fray..."

[Srgntcuddles]

Reno and his father finally tracked down the lone signal, sure enough it was another marine. His father dispatched him, again quietly but while dying the marine got off a shot which echoed through the halls of the bunker. Maybe it would be unnoticed due to the constant shelling going on outside. "C'mon, we need to get out of 'ere. This place is gonna be blown to pieces soon enough." "Aye, father, lets go." They set off down a corridor, eventually they wound up at the exit but a shell hit the door and caved in the entrance. "Oh boy...that ain't good..." "Nope..." "Okay...You still got some explosives left?" "Aye, but I don't think it'd blow this debris out of the way..." "Hmm...We need to find the blueprints to this place, find an exterior wall." "What about the shellin'? We'll be blown to bits by then." "Okay...First we find the communications room and tell'em to stop shellin' this bunker." "Why can't we just use our radios?" "The signal is being blocked down here, only thing strong enough to get a signal out would be the comms room." Reno nodded and they set off through the bunker in search for the communications room.

Meanwhile on Garland I...

"I can't believe you seduced me again, Miss Rio...You know how it annoys me..." said Calico as he walked out of a room in his human form. Rio was shortly behind him with a devilish smile on her face. "Oh you know you love it..." Calico huffed and returned to his fox form, continuing to walk down a hallway. "You need to find a new love puppet, I refuse to be seduced into...Gah! It won't happen again, Miss Rio. Mark my word." "My my, Calico, it was just a little fun...And it looked like you enjoyed it too. The way you said my name...Begged for it not to end..." "Shut up!" Rio chuckled as she still followed him around. "Oh, and Miss Rio, we missed the transport..." "Oh poo...I guess we're stuck here for awhile then. Well I'm going to head back to my room. I'll be waiting for you, Calico..." Rio smiled and giggled erotically and turned back around. Calico growled and entered a room, it was dark, only lit by candles. Which were all in a circle in the center of the room. He walked over to the circle and sat down on his haunches. "Slaanesh, my liege...I apologize, but Miss Rio and I seemed to have missed the transports out off the planet. I humbly request and alternate passage for us."

[KittKat chunky~]

Tel'vani pulled up on her controls, bringing the hammerhead into a roaring swoop upwards... Most of the guns on the gargantuan machine where firing in random directions, and so where no problem... it was the main cannon Tel'vani was rather worried about right now, though she would never admit it...
"Tel'vani! Frack, stop pulling these G-crazy manoeuvres!"

Several bullets skimmed the hull, clanking and pinging of the armour... Tel'vani quickly brushed over touch controls, levelling the hammerhead now at around thirty feet above the ground and coming around in a fast arc... "Those manoeuvres may be just what saves our hides Shas'la... Just get the aut-loaders working on the main railgun, and fire the Smart missiles at the cockpit..."

In answer to her commands, the dull clunk of new railgun rounds being loaded resounded in the back of the hammerhead, and below the vehicle the muffle -thump-thump-thump- signalled smart missiles firing off in fast volleys... Swerving through the air, the missiles locked onto the ork vehicle vision slits and weapon ports, before slamming home in a series of flaring explosions...

The main cannon fired with a loud boom, and Tel'vani hit the defensive actions button set into her console... All around the hammerhead a flickering shield erupted into view, a spherical blue wall of energy that absorbed the cannon shell... Inside the Hammerhead, Tel'vani smirked... "The great Tau'va technology... say hello to my lil' friend, the railgun..."

The turret of the hammerhead swivveled until it was pointed directly at the Banechoppa engine stacks... The length of the weapon pulsed with blue energy, as a high-pitched -vweeeeem- built up...




Down on the main front, Gurt sat inside the Battlewagon, happily whistling under his slimy breath... Everywhere the Ork Boss and his boys went, the battlewagon followed, armoured treads crushing rubble and tau alike as the grot guns fired in all directions... "Hurhur... Da Boss is gonna be well happy wiv' my smashin'... might even get me a shiny medal or sumfink... HAHAAA!" He stopped his rambling to laugh, as a stealthsuit materialised in front of him, only to be smushed below the battlewagon...

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin first heard the bombing, he was about to yell at them to move it, but then heard a shot. "Who shot?!" "I didn't fire sir..." "Theyda, rep... $#@%%$#.... we're pulling out before the whole place caves, forget the stragglers!" Chronin yelled as both of them ran to  the now caved entrance of the bunker. Chronin cursed under his breath, and moitoned Evra to follow him as they tried to find another way out...


Gerin's laughter resonated as he rode the transport with his men. "Told you those Slaanesh would be too drugged up to get here, now pay up!!" the Berserker that had actually bet they would show up at the last minute, gave up his gambling money to Gerin. As he quickly put it away and leaned back, he gave a metaphorical pat on his own back for his 'easy money'. He actually ordered his men to withhold the leaving time of the transport, putting the odds in Gerin's favor.

[Gabag]

The Chaos ships accelerated from the surface of Garland I, and made all speed for the current battle between the Tau and the Imperials. Malal wasn't going to miss a battle with his greatest foes for anything, not even that pretty boy Calico or that Slaaneshi cultist Rio.

"Field promotion Gerin, your leading the speartip directly into the Tau assault force." he ordered the Tzeentchian annoance.


Post Merge: July 14, 2010, 02:58:38 AM

Entaru grimaced as the battle continued.  The first line was holding, but barely.  The Tau had the advantage in ranged weaponry but in urban combat like this their range was useless.  Thank the Emperor for that...forgive me, my liege, for my lack of faith but I doubt we would've lasted this long if it weren't for superior cover and your blessed Space Marines.  Entaru looked about the battlefield.  A grin came over his face as a plan came into his head.  Looking to his officers he relayed his command.  "Send a Skull Probe to Foxtrot X-ray...have it send up a flare for the drop pods."  One of the officers saluted and went to prepare the Skull Probe.  Entaru looked to the area marked as Foxtrot X-ray and laughed.  The Tau commander would be wearing a drop pod as a hat soon.

The Skull Probe floated its way through the battlefield, unseen.  Its built in stealth generator kept many of the Tau from noticing it, as it actively avoided anything that might detect it.  Shas'o Kas only saw it as it was too late.  The signal for the drop pods was sent.

((Luke, its your time to shine.  Gabag, might I suggest doing an epic dive out of the way.))

Shas o' Kas looked to the skies and her eyes widended as Drop Pods accelerated towards her squads position

"Jump outta here, NOW!" one of her Crisis Guars yelled, and they jumped away, with her following along with two other Crisis Suits. Alas, one was too busy hsooting Space marines, and was crushed.

[Entaru]

The Looted Baneblade roared forward and rammed into the Hammerhead.  As it hit, a gretchin leapt off the top of the Baneblade and began beating on the barrel of the railgun with a wrench.  ((Of course, most gretchins would have rather stayed in the Baneblade but a Painboy had gotten a hold of him earlier and drugged him up with "Engree Jooce".))

Meanwhile, Knawgril and his Waaagh! were ripping through the Tau defensive line.  At the moment, Knawgril was feeding a Tau Stealthsuiter his Shoota while turning a Firewarrior into hamburger with his Klawz.  "WAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!  KRUSH 'EM!!  STOMP 'EM!!!  WEZE BE DA BIGGEST BESTEST WAAAGH! DIS 'ERE SISTEM EVA DID SEE!!!"

[Srgntcuddles]

Reno and his father made it to the communications room and started messing with the equipment. they managed to get on their own frequency. Reno's father grabbed the radio and started talking into it. "Oi, stop the shellin' of the bunker on the front! There are friendlies inside! I repeat, STOP (CENSORED) BLOWIN' US UP!!! Reno, see if you can't find the blue prints and get to work." "Aye" With that Reno searched around the area, searching through various drawers and such. Eventually he found them and found the area where there was a wall to the outside. "Got it, lets go." "Alright, lead the way." They both set off out of the communication room to where they needed to go.

Meanwhile on Garland I...

A seemingly ghostly figured appeared in the circle in front of Calico, it was apparently female. It swirled around Calico as he sat there. "You didn't get on the transports?" "No, master..." "How unfortunate..." "Is there any way you can forgive us?" "I suppose..." "Thank you, master." "There is another transport you can take. It didn't leave for some reason. Go ahead and go see why. If it's those slackers again...Anyway, fix the problem and you both are forgiven, and you get to go play with the Tau. Fun fun, okay, bye now." The figure dispersed and Calico stood up to leave. "Women..." Suddenly Calico felt a sharp sting on his backside. "Ow! What the-" "I heard that, Calico..." He grumbled and set off to Rio's room. Once there he saw her face down nude on the bed again. "Oh Calico, I want another back rub." "It will have to wait, Miss Rio...We have to redeem ourselves to Slaanesh, there is one last transport here. It didn't leave for some reason and we need to investigate and solve the problem to be forgiven and permitted an exit off this planet. We will then be going to fight some Tau." "Oh, that sounds like fun!" Rio got off the bed and Calico stared wide eyed at her before turning away. "Help me pick out something for the trip." "No, no no no!" Calico headed for the door and stood outside it. "I am going to start investigating this like I was told. If you don't help me I'm not going to take you with me." Calico huffed and walked off as Rio dressed herself and followed after him.

[lukeweedon1]

Luke leapt out of the drop pod into cover as soon as it opened and looked around quickly looking for higher cover. He spotted a hospital nearby mid way through the battlefield between the Imperium and Tau sides he leapt up using his wings as propultion catapulting him up onto the roof and as he landed he prepared his rifle and aimed at the nearest Tau Sargent. He slowed his breath. He steadied his thoughts. He squeezed the trigger and the rifle responded by sending a bullet through the Tau's neck causing a slow but painful death. Luke stared at the tau dropping his rifle and said in fear "what have i done...?" as he finished saying this a Tau pushed him off the roof Luke fell half way down then hovered now armed with nothing but a bolter he flew back up and punched the tau's visor stunning him then threw him off the hospital stealing a grenade from his armour Luke took off again avoiding fire from the (now aware of his presence) tau. He flew over a large group of them and threw the grenade at them with all the force he could muster then flew back to the main group fast ignoring the wounds on his left wing as he landed. He drew his bolter and fell into the squad a marine looked at him "the emperor protects the brave." it was the marine from the drop ship Luke looked up to him and said "I'm not brave I'm just doing my job." Luke opened fire at the tau he knew he would die eventually and to him there was no better spot to die than where he stood.

[Gabag]

A vision came to Calico, a vision of the path that would lead them to a sill intact Orca dropship to et them off Garland I. The vision cannot be explained in mortal words, except for the fact it came as a vision of the Dark Gods themselves. It seems they have a plan for dear Calico and Rio, but to what their neferarious ends are, mortals cannot even begin to guess.

[Srgntcuddles]

" 'ere should be it. Cover me while I set the charges, don't need those remainin' guys catchin' us." "I don't detect anyone else, maybe they got blasted." Reno kneeled down to a bare wall and began planting the last of his explosives. Once finished he tapped his father on the shoulder letting him know they needed to clear out. A short time later it exploded, leaving a good sized hole in the wall leading out. "Alright, lets get out of 'ere, Reno. I'm just about out of ammo, you'll need to take out any opposition as we 'ead back to base. Can you 'andle tha'?" "Aye, I'll manage." With that they cloaked and made their way back towards the main base.

Meanwhile on Garland I...

"So what happened?" "I saw something." "Where?" "In my head..." "That's lame..." "Shut up, I think it's the path we need to follow." "Okay, I don't mind being back here anyway. I have a nice view." Calico held his tail down as to obstruct Rio's view of his behind which she was obviously gawking at. "I think we're almost there...Maybe a twenty more minute walk." Rio sighed as they trudged on.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin heard an explosion, and went towards it as it was the only explosion since the bombing that they could hear. In moments they found an exit, but none of the Tau were still there. "Sir, if its any consilation, I managed to get Theydas' helmet and his power hammer..." Chronin nodded "Evrin, report to base and tell them we have gene seeds to extract..." "Yes sir!" Chronin took a deep breath and joined the marines on the front lines, not realizing the drop pods had arrived...

[lukeweedon1]

Luke advanced with the marine squad firing at the Tau inaccurately but rather effectively he stopped behind some cover and started firing over it in 4-round bursts. Suddenly he stopped firing and ducked behind his cover gripping his head tightly he howled in pain hearing numerous voices in his head crying out in pain and in it all one voice chanting repeatedly a daemonic chant. He curled up behind his cover and closed his eyes tightly. He opened his eyes again and saw only a misty barren plain he got up and started walking through the mist "where am i?" Luke asked into the mist "we are in your mind..." Luke suddenly turned to face the voice and saw a chaos sorcerer "who are you!?" Luke reached for his bolter and found it was gone "that is none of your business scout i have come to warn you of your fate" the sorcerer spoke calmly making Luke lower his guard "do you know why the imperium are intrested in you?... they're scared of your powers and after destroying your home world they fear your retribution"  "but I've lived in my home for as long as i can remember..." "that's because your past is incomplete... and once you remember the evil that is the imperium shall destroy you... "Why are you telling me this!?" Luke shouted aggressively "i offer you salvation... our ships draw near... i hope to see you again soon... Luke suddenly awoke to fine a marine over him "scout are you OK?" Luke panicked kicked the marine away and flew off back to the hospital. "Could the imperium really be evil?

[KittKat chunky~]

Oh Frack...."
The Banechoppa smashed into the hammerhead with a colossal crunch... The hammerhead, hovering several feet in the air, was thrown backwards with the force of the impact... The back end of the gunship ground into the muddy earth, as the front end was tipped up into the sky... Tel'vani, never one to give up, punched the controls... Tee gunship engines let out a roar of ionised particles. The hammerhead gained height, mud and stones falling away from it's smooth hull, and down onto the banechoppa below... Tel'vani brought the gunship in a low arc straight over the huge ork tank, firing off a salvo of smart missiles as she went....

"Shas'vre! THe gunship cant take a hit like that again... I have a rupture in the main fuel cell compartment..." Tel'vani shouted into her comms in response to the co-pilot "Well just keep its together, until i take this beast down!"




In the Ork Battleline, Gurt crawled out the now smoking wreck of a battlewagon... He straightened up, snorting and wiping a green fist across his mouth.. "Stupid lil' blue ummies... wrecked the Boss's wheels!... 'E's gonna be right mad..." TO aleviate his feelings, Gurt kicked a gretchin up the backside.... It made him feel quite  a bit better about things in general...

[Entaru]

The missiles slammed into the Looted Baneblade to minor effect.  The forcefield it was generating was starting to fade out but was still strong enough to take another hit or two before they began damaging the hull.  The Big Mek barked an order to one of the Orks inside and the Ork popped out of the top hatch with a rokkit-launcha.  The Ork fired and the rokkit made its way for the underbelly of the Hammerhead.

Knawgril heard a crash as he sliced open a gunship and tore out its occupants.  Looking over he saw his battlewagon in a wreck.  "Wah?!  Not me battlewagon!"  Knawgril looked from the wreckage to an unfortunate Tau who happened to be standing too close.  "YOU SLIMY LIDDLE GREYSKINS BROKE MAH BATTLEWAGON!!!!"  Knawgril grabbed the Tau, shot him in the face, chopped him up in his klaws, threw the remains into the air, and launched a rokkit at the remains making even smaller giblets.

[Srgntcuddles]

Reno and his father made it back to base safely. They headed for the armory to resupply. Once done they went over to Shas'O. Reno stood back a bit as his father saluted. "Captain Shaun O'Malley reporting. My team and I have successfully neutralized two bunkers. Three of my men were lost during the battle, but we are still willing to fight!"

Meanwhile on Garland I...

Rio and Calico stood a ways from an Orca dropship watching it. There were a few Tau Firesoldiers patrolling near it. "I count five...Can you handle it, Rio?" "Yeah yeah...I'll handle them." Rio started to walk over to them nonchalantly. "Wait! Don't go out there lik-...Hrmphh...Damn her...She'll be the end of me..." Calico quickly followed after her towards them. Just about next to them one of them spotted the two. They surrounded the two quickly. "Don't move! Or we'll shoot!" "Okay okay, no need...We aren't armed. Just lost...A lost woman and her pet dog." "You look like one of those Chaos God worshipers!" "Please, if I was would I have walked up to you nice men unarmed?" "I don't know...It seems awfully fishy..." "Oh come now...I'm sure your big ole ship has enough room for little ole me..." As Rio spoke she walked up to the Firewarrior who was talking and started to rub up against him. "U-Uhm...We have to run it bye the captain!" "Oh alright...Don't be gone too long...I get lonely." "Yes, ma- I mean. Wait here!" Three of them ran off while two took a few steps back and watched them. "Rio...What are you doing...?!" "Just keep quiet, neither of us can fly this thing. And dogs don't talk!" "Did you say something?" One of the firewarriors asked. "No no, must have been the wind!" Soon enough the three came back, the one who was talking before came over to Rio. "Alright, the captain will let you and your dog on board. I just had to...*Breathes on his knuckles and shines them on his chest arrogantly*...Talk him into it." Once again Rio threw himself on him. "Oh my hero! How ever will I repay you?" "She better not..." "Well we're about to head off, you can stay with me." "Oh...How nice..." Rio smiled devilishly and followed them onto the ship. Calico right behind Rio.