15. What is your character afraid of?
Planet 1231-2 ‘Cantus’Two years after the drop site massacre.
Imperial army troops were dissapearing.Most assumed it was desertion. Some thought treachery and betrayal.
The solution came from an astartes of the blood angels legion. Bomb collars for the lot of them.
Armed with the fact that every man was rigged to die, acting major Jan Harlock crept with his men into the eerie, empty outpost.
“Spektor, any contacts?”
“None but i can tell there was some fighting. Blood here and there, and some shell casings. This place went quietly though. Not enough damage.”
Harlock squirmed. This dreadful world of perpetual darkness unsettled him.
“Could it be the night lords? This looks like their work…”Harlock stepped into the hq and tapped at some terminals. They were unresponsive.
“It could be anything. We dont have answers yet, sir.”
Harlock looked up and around at the men standing next to him. They were already scared.
“Okay unit, listen up. Our job here is just to remain in this point. No more no less. First and foremost, investigate the base armory for anti astartes gear. Everyone move in packs of 20 or more. Report any suspicious activity. Once we secure the armory, i want a slow sweep of the whole facility multiple times over. Check everything. Look for holes in the defenses.”
Harlock turned to his staff. “Klicke, see what turrets or heavy guns were deployed here. Tarantulas, heavy weapons platforms, anti air guns, i need to know.”
Harlock regarded the vox man. “Give command reports every 45 minutes. Listen into vox channels for relevant information. In the meantime, check for any odd voxnet traffic or blocked frequencies.”
Harlocks forces moved as he commanded. The roving search parties discovered several rooms coated with gore, but no bodies. Power was also deliberately sabotaged. Most generators were completely gone. The base did have some manned perimeter guns, and tjese were staffed. But still, Harlock could feel it… a dark taint over his heart. Horus’ presence lingered somehow.
Still, he was no fool. Harlock wemt to lengths to give the centauri a plasma gun and melta in every squad. Astartes would suffer if they snuffed the star rifles out.
…
Harlock awoke in a cold sweat. A simple idol of the secret imperial cult dangled on his naked chest, as he clothed himself. Something was wrong, somehow.
He stepped into the hall and looked about. His sentry was missing.
The major grabbed his fine blade and plasma gun and walked through the hall.
In the distance, he heard bizarre chuckling as a wet noise was made. Harlock’s blood raced. He crept up and peered into a open door, daring to make no sound.
Before him sat about a dozen dead riflemen. Harlock saw that their eyes were plucked out, mouths sewn shut, and were dressed in old tatters that were once civilian clothes.
Orchestrating this stood a marine of the emperors children. The marine, himself bearing a bizarre mantle of iron on his face, looked at his collection.
“Yes, now eat. Eat her meal.” The marine force fed a still living sergeant something through his poorly sewn lips.
“So delicious. You love it. What lovely puppets.”
Harlock steadied the pistol. A single round of plasma streamed out and blasted the head of the offemding marine with a crash, its ceramite covered body toppled down.
Harlock could see immediately that the soldier was being fed a comrades organs, and vomited from sheer revulsion.
He approached the still living soldier.
“Rifleman, what happened? Where are the others? Why was there no alarm or noise?
Harlock could only hear sobbing and moaning. After a minute, he said a silent prayer and stabbed the mans heart.
The acting major crept out again, and saw more chaos handiwork. A set of eight hands were nailed to a bulhead to form a star shape, and he found more evidences of horror.
Silently he moved to the next compound, to be greeted by a lazy centauri sentry.
"Evening sir. Alls clear at this post. Doing a nightly walkavout sir?”
Harlock was mortified. They had no idea.
“Attack” he whispered, wide eyed.
“No sir. All quiet.”
“Were under attack! Theyre in the base! Get inside and lock that!”
Harlock pushed the man in and slammed his hand on the console controls.
“Wake everyone, come on! Hurry man!”
The pair opened the door to the hallway to find an emerors children marine woth perfect flowing white hair and a mouth torn open and defleshed by metal wire, exposing his teeth and mouth, which seeped gore. In his hands were two dead riflemen.
“Oh.” The marine rasped. “You saw me. That’s different.”
The sentry screamed in terror and backed away, while Harlock drew his blade as the marine casually dropped his bodies and drew a knife forged of living twisting metal.
The marine stabbed down, his attack unstoppable. Harlock dived down and attempted to climb the marines back, only for a hand formed of three awful fleshy tendrils to rip him off and hold him before the marine.“
"Lovely. Your passions will feed my princess. Your pain will satisfy my lord. And when it is done i will feel such unimaginable things.” A massive inhuman tongue extended and caressed Harlocks face.
Suddenly a stream of fire glanced off the marines armor. The terrified rifleman clutched his namesake in his hand, hyperventilating.The marine glanced away; an opening long enough for harlock to stab the creature in its black lidless eye.
“Come… come with me. Set the alarm, soldier. Good work.”
… by the nights end kill teams had cleared the entire facility. The children had teleported into some simple storage room. Only a single tactical squad of them. Yet in total they had killed over 120 riflemen. As they died, the sick marines laughed and gargled in pleasure.
After three more days, command agreed to burn the base and be done with it. It was a minor skirmish in the war gor Cantus. But it never left Harlocks dreams.
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