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Professor Chaos
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Posted: Fri Aug 22nd, 2008 12:35 am |
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Undivided Chapter 3
I hate them, I hate them all. Sprawling and breeding with their seething betrayal. They hate us. They hate us as much as much as we hate them, but we are the one’s who are right. At least this is what I am told. Maybe I hate myself. What I have been told since birth, that the benevolent emperor of man watches over all of his children. That his vengeance is swift and his judgment righteous. As I write these words I can’t help but ask if the emperor is watching me, judging my soul for the one creator. The emperor, living in the perpetual dusk between life and death, does he even care. My loyalty is to the Imperium, its citizen, and the emperor, but even though my executing the enemy’s of the imperium is righteous. I ask myself if all this killing I have done in the name of the Imperium is not actually murder, especially those who were innocent. Those deaths are the hardest.
Being an adjunct Inquisitor still gives me vast power over anybody throughout the body of the Imperium. I am the antibody to the virus of the corruption of human souls. I am the cure and I am the disease.
“Inquisitor Laurel.”
“Yes Lieutenant,” his power fist and its energy generator wrapped most of his right side. His flack armor was fitted snuggly around his body.
“I and two squads of veterans are at your disposal,” he replied at attention.
“Lieutenant,” Laural inquired. “How many cultist are their?”
“At least sixty, but there could be up to two hundred.”
“Your commander is only giving me two squads,” She retorted annoyed.
“Inquisitor, we can not spare anymore squads than these two,” he replied confident. His brown hair, un-kept bangs fell in front of his face. “I assure you, we’ve handled worse situations.”
“What is the situation with the traitors,” she asked, while removing one of her power armor gauntlets.
“They have sent units to infiltrate the city. The main chaos force is still assembling. The Ultramarines that were sent to bolster our forces to the east have been destroyed. I also heard of another fleet that will make planet fall in by the end of the day.’
‘We’ll move out in thirty minutes Lieutenant. Have your troops prepared and ready to slay these heretics in half an hour. ‘She ordered him and he walked off without a salute. She put her pen back onto her journal, immersing herself in thought.
I’m not looking forward to this. I hate them, but I also hate killing them. I know souls can be saved without cleansing, but then ‘I’ would be branded a heretic. There’s no room for me to have pity in my heart. I ask the emperor for direction, but he never answers. Tolerance, I wish it existed in my world.
She finished and inserted the journal into her power armor secret leg compartment. She knew if her journal was ever found. She would be the label of heretic. Inquisitors, whom are deemed, are punished beyond reason. Her long blonde hair snaked to the middle of her back, as her pail skin soaked up the small bits of ambient light in the officer’s mess, her mood darkened.
The power sword crackled with energy as she swooshed it around in the air piercing an invisible enemy to her left and thrusting forward to kill it. She put it into its sheath, silently resting. Her psycannon was harnessed in the holster on her back.
‘Inquisitor are you ready to go?’ The officer asked. The day was gloomy and overcast, the dense scent of rain was in the air. Distant thunder resonated; it was a day of bad omens.
‘Veterans of the Imperium,’ Laural, her eyes piercing theirs. ‘A traitor army has come upon your planet to rape and pillage your homes. To defile this planet, and leave its rotting filth upon us all,’ she paused again. This time pulling her braided hair around her neck. ‘Yet before these traitors even came upon this planet, its heart was already being corrupted by the filth of heretics. Their telepaths have brought these traitors here, and will continue to guide them through the warp, until we kill them. There may only be fifty or there could be two-hundred, either way we must kill them all,’ she paused again, tucking her roserius into her armor. ‘Today we cleanse these heretics in fire and pray for their souls to be redeemed!’ She said loudly, thrusting up her helmet. The veterans, with a grim look of determination, raised their fists with her.
Laurel could see that their overall morale was low. The traitor forces were strong, while the cities defenses were relatively weak; except for the Warlord Titan Maximus that was just fixed by the Mechanic us, and it was not at full power. She put on her helmet. The symbols of the eternal inquisition reflected the fading light as they walked through the threshold to underneath depths of to the ancient infrastructure of the city.
The decay of centuries had been eating away at the reinforced concrete of the human made caverns. Sharp beams of light cut through the darkness. The squads were cautious. The lieutenant and a soldier with a flamer walked abreast with Laurel. Large patches of steel rods could be seen with no concrete between them. Bioluminescent slime and moist fungus and chemophilic bacteria were the only signs of life. The infrastructure was nearly a thousand years old; this was the third time it was rebuilt. Any plans to the infrastructure had been lost at least two hundred years ago when an ork invasion force attacked the planet. Their had been rumors of orks in the under city for the past one-and fifty years, but if they were true or not, no violent actions have been taken by them. Still the city was immense, and the under city was at least twice its size in all three dimensions. It would not be easy. Luckily, not many people lived in the under city and most of those people had already sold their souls into damnation.
‘We’ll take a thirty minute break. I want to get a beat on the status up top,’ she took off her helmet, breathing in the dank pungent air. ‘The smell of decay permeates this place,’ she said aloud. ‘Lieutenant, get three of your best trackers to do some reconnaissance ahead of the main group. Take no chances as soon as they are found. Come back immediately.’
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