I just realized that I haven't shown you guys what Arthur, Vera, Jake, Seris and Lappland look like. Well here are the pics, and those aren't mine by the way I got them on pinterest.
[Arthur's image]
[Vera's image]
[Jake's image]
[Seris's image]
[Lappland's image]
Yes I'm just going to give images to named characters and I'll see about the rest.
Anyway on to the story
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"Captain?"
"Someone you know, Jake?"
At some point, Jake was passing by my lab and heard the vox transmission. He looked surprised and hopeful.
"Yes boss, that voice belongs to captain Morris, the man who trained me and the rest of the guardsmen. I... didn't think he was still alive."
"Hmm, do you wanna go rescue him?"
I asked this knowing he would want to, I mean the amount of emotions surging out of him when he was talking about his captain and probably remembering his training days. If we can rescue Morris then we I can probably secure another minion who knows the lower and middle hive better than anyone else and I can make Jake more loyal and indebted to me, killing two birds with one stone. Alrighty then I guess I know what we're going to do today.
"Jake, tell everyone to gear up and get ready to head out in 10 minutes and give this vox Trissy, she'll be our listener this time."
"Yes sir!! I'll do that right away!"
I watched run along as happiness, excitement and hope oozed out of him like a tidal wave. It's honestly rare to see this level of emotion out of him, he mostly remains stoic for most of them time and he usually shows his enthusiasm when eating or when he gets praised. I should farm some affection points with my minions more since so far the most loyal out of all of them is Seris but that's because she sees me as her idol of worship, I'm still deciding if I should stop that or not.
Many thoughts passed through my mind as I went around my lab and put on my armour, it's not much but it'll do for now since I'm still mass producing glimmer for other uses. Glimmer is programmable matter that can be transmuted into nearly anything with an input and energy sources, so one can image the amount of shit you can create with it but making it is hard since the amount of scrap needed is alot. I don't regret it though since I was able to make to use it to make mine and everyone's guns and a few of my outfits.
[Arthur's armor]
[Arthur's normal outfit]
Once I was done gearing up, I went towards the entrance of the base to meet up with my team who were also geared up.
"Let's go everyone, I'll brief you guys on the way since I don't think we have much time."
"""Yes."""
And just like that we headed out to our first life and death battle.
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Morris's POV.
"This is captain Morris from the 6th squadron requesting for back up! I repeat, this is captain Morris from the 6th squadron requesting back up, the heretics are overwhelming us and their numbers are too many for us to deal with, over.
"Ah Morris, we also can't spare you any extra hand as of right now since our own guardsmen are busy–"
"Fuck!"
Those snobbish bastards aren't going to send us reinforcements, their busy partying or busy bootlicking those fucking nobles. While we're busy here trying to quell the unrest and getting killed for it, they're busy laughing at us cause we're at the bottom of the barrel. They're just gonna take credit for our work and sacrifices without doing a thing.
"Captain, we've lost the 5th platoon as of now, when is the back up coming?"
"No reinforcements are coming soldier, we're on our own as of now. So it's a do or die situation, tell the men to put more power into their lasgun, if we're going to die then we're dying while taking these nasty bastards down with us."
"Sir yes sir! I'll relay your commands to the rest of the squadron."
The soldier saluted and ran off to relay my orders. I should also prepare myself too since Im not going out without a fight. Just as I was about to leave and join the rest of my soldiers, a vox caster came in running.
"Captain! We've received an unknown vox transmission!"
"Unknown? Is it like the one that was broadcasted two months ago"
I asked the caster warily since the last unknown caused wide spread panic and death which led to the heretic sorcerer to summon countless chaos demons.
"Unconfirmed sir but the signal is different and no threat has been detected or confirmed so far"
"Alright, put that transmission on now!"
"PDF, this is Trissy from The Outcasts, do you read me? We on our way as your reinforcements, we need confirmation that we won't be gunned down as soon as we get there."
The Outcasts?
Must be an unknown group I haven't heard of or a new resistance force assembled during the chaos. There have been many of those and most of them were just a heretic cult gathering followers but others were just people just trying to survive. I don't know which type this one belongs to, either way we need reinforcements if we want to survive, so I'll accept their help and if they are heretics then I'll just have my men kill them when we get to a safe place.
"Caster patch them in, I'll do the talking."
"Yes sir."
"This is captain Morris of the 6th squadron of the planetary defense force and the one in charge here. Are you the leader of The Outcasts and how many men do you have?"
"I'm Trissy, the caster in charge for overseeing communications and no, I'm not the leader. Our leader is currently going ahead of us so he'll be the first one to reach your current location– as for our numbers we have 10 men here excluding our leader and were currently on our–"
—Krr-shhh—
The other side of the vox was cut off for a brief moment before Trissy's voice came through again but this time its followed by another voice–
"Captain Morris, our leader is close to your location and he wants to talk to you. I'm patching him in."
What the– These motherf–
"This is Arthur, leader of The Outcasts, captain Morris– if you don't want any of your men to die then I suggest you move them away from the blast zone before I take action–"
I don't know what compelled me to listen to this Arthur – whether it was my instincts or the Emperor himself– in that instance I didn't hesitate. I grabbed the vox transmitter and gave the order to back away from the horde of poxwalkers and plague zombies.
"MEN LISTEN UP! REINFORCEMENTS ARE COMING AND THEYRE COMING IN WITH FIRE POWER. IM ORDERING EVERYONE TO RETREAT TO THE BACK LINES IMMEDIATELY!"
I watched my men retreat in droves–some of them dying while retreating and the others stayed behind to give their comrades time to retreat. Just as I was starting to doubt listening to him, I heard a loud crackling noise. I and those around me looked up–
And oh boy, I am so glad that I listened, because what happened next was something I probably won't ever see again in my life.
"KIRIN!"
A voice called out and everything went white.
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THE END. So what do you guys think of chapter 8? Good? Bad? Okay? Anyway I know I haven't delivered like I said I would with the two chapters thing but in my case, I've been going through shit irl. Though I do promise to deliver two more chapters to make it up to you guys. Also they're kinda a bit short so I'll try to increase the word count.
Question: why do fanfic authors do the word count chapter thing– like them writing random things to add to the word count–?
Anyway Bye bye~