- Holy Terra -
- Date -0.14M31 10 days since the breaking of the Solar Defences -
"MOVE IT!" A commisar in full tactical gear yelled as, from a distance, came a roar before a beam of pure blue plasma shot across the desolate land.
The Plasma hit hard against the ground, the ceramite, mud mix of the ground turned black before a shockwave sent waves of men flying or melting.
After the shot, mild silence took hold before the roars of chainsaws and the deafening sound of horses' hoofs stamping against the ground resounded.
Men and genetically modified horses moved in a pack, their faces both man and horse covered in the typical masks of the Famous Kreig regiments. Thousands of men on horses covered in light armour charged into the heretical lines.
"FOR THE DRAGON KING!!!" Some yelled, whilst others yelled "FOR THE EMPORER!!!"
The sea of men and horses charged forward as Astartes with eight-pointed stars met them in a duel.
The riders, seeing the metal giants run towards them, charged with fervour as their horses met the Plasteel walls charging at them.
The giants pushed down, forcing the horse to fly over as the heretic's blade drove through both man and horse, splitting the two into pieces.
However, before the astartes could even register, a pole arm exploded, piercing from front to back. The astartes collapsed in an explosion of blood and armour scrapnel as the battlefield resounded in similar explosions and the shrieks of dead or dying men and women.
Pulling away from the gory battlefield to the arena of giants. Titans bearing all types of banners and loyalties shot against one another. Bullets larger than some tanks flew across the battlefield in arks only to be halted against the void shields of another.
The war horns of the titans roared in declaration as a titan from Legio Ignatum, a warlord-class titan, released his arm cannon as bullets ran across the battlefield below, punching holes through the heretical titan's void shields.
The titans battled like gods as 11 from the heretical side met 10 from the loyalist.
Shots rang out from both sides as apocalyptic missiles shot and got shot down by the opposition's anti-air.
Each one of their weapons caused massive secondary damage to the environment as swarms of traitors and loyalist soldiers alike were blown up or obliterated under the smouldering heat of a plasma gun.
The battle escalated as two of the ten loyalists were blown apart. Their void shields no longer able to withstand the devastating penetration of the enemy's weapons.
All seemed to be lost as the still-standing 11 heretical machines began to encircle the remaining 8 loyalists.
"Athena," The name came through the vox as titanicus Megaix hailed the leader Traxal
"Yes adam?" the voice replied without urgency, even though the titans were being battered by heretical firepower.
"We need to return Athena. We are too outgunned. Both Titanicus Abysicus and Qurais have fallen."
Silence was transferred through the vox before from behind towering buildings, a roar of a god engine resounded.
All engines battling seemed to stop, their guns halting mid shot as the ground shook.
Some heretical warlords turned to meet the new engine from behind the towering structures. However, before either side could register if it was friend or foe, a deep rumbling resounded as a shot of bright fire licked plasma, piercing both building and heretical warlords.
The engines devoid of shields and plasma engines collapsed as their veros and power systems fell under their own weight.
What came next shocked multiple princeps and moderati.
A god engine running full tilt ran through the buildings and the crumbling god engines. Its height, standing at 90 metres, is classified as a emperor class titan run.
The engine was unlike any of which either side had seen; the god engine was sleek, bearing no shoulder cannons nor anti-air. Instead, it looked like a human-made machine, one hand a rotating saw blade, the other a steaming red and orange plasma gun.
Princep Athena shrieked at her moderati as the massive god engine raised its blade-like hand and pierced a heretical pilot seat.
"My Princept- The calling is off the ordo Dragonic." Her moderati called out as more roars of engines resounded behind her group.
Athena moved her visual display behind her titan, and the screen shocked her.
Hundreds of different variants of the same titan butchering the heretical engines in front of her stood behind her titan.
Suddenly, a voice resounded behind her, "We are the Knights of Noyoleais. We are the servants of Primarch Nazareth. Loyal to the Emperor and the Omnissiah."
Athena watched as hundreds of emperor-class engines began to run towards the heretics. shock overwhelmed her at the sight.
And from the beginning of the battle, a twinge of hope appeared with her and her sister titans as the knights of Noyoleais tore the heretics' engines apart. Fists met ceremite and plasteel. Plasma burned through metres thick of void arrays and armour, leaving only molten slag.
The heretic engines which her and her sister titans had been battling for over eight hours were obliterated.
The army of Emperor-class titans only stopped moving for a second before a hail came through the vox.
Hurridly, Atena ordered her moderati to answer as a visage of hundreds of Princepts met in a coglominations.
"Princept Athena. You are to take your sister titans to these Quaridents and hold the line."
The voice was told in a commanding tone, Athena; however was stunned, never in her hundred-year service had she seen such a coglomination of Princeps. Not even on Mars did they have this many.
"Wh-Where have you all come from?" Athena asked with bewilderment. From the direction they had arrived, it made little sense. Even if her titan's optics were damaged, she still would have felt the deafening vibration of hundreds of god engines moving.
The lead engine princept simply looked up, signalling Athena to fall before a video of shorts appeared and showed an armada piercing through a heretical ship.
At its front, leading the newly arrived armada was a ship bearing the imperial sigil and at its bow was a dragon's head.
The dragon opened its maw as a beam tore reality asunder. The beam pierced rows of heretical ships before its 22km long body turned to reveal rows upon rows of guns which opened fire.
Immediatly the already damaged ships were completely obliterated. From its underbelly, the view opened to show ports large enough to fit Multipule Strike Class Cruisers. From the ports instead came beams of light which shot towards Holy Terra.
Finally, the view ends with the legions of titans teleporting onto the surface.
"That was two hours ago... As we speak, my Primarch marches in space to meet the grand traitor himself."
Athena was stunned. She could comprehend what was happening, and yet that hope blooming within her exploded as she was transported back to her titan.
"God engine Traxal, we wish you luck. Into the Maw of the End and Fire of the Abyss"
With that, the transmission between titans ended. The wall os plasteel and titanium moved, their humanoid footsteps echoing in the battlefield as a flag upon one of the titans showed three dragons eating their own tail.