>>5757739
Charge Bunker like nobodys fuckdamn business.

Bro Fist Iratus

Check Status of Power Armour systems

See who has to die for us to reach the prisoners.
Make it so.

>OP would like to congratulate /tg/.
>iTunes shuffle started playing the A-Team theme as the group started to advance through the trench.

>>5757739
Pause briefly so the guardsmen can pick their jaws up off the floor and then proceed forward to Iratus. Ask that vox caster if he's gotten any updates from the main force.

>>5757739
As much as I appreciate the zeal, Iratus, one of these Guardsmen could have used that gun to lay down some suppressing fire.

Anyway, move ahead, you need to make sure that now foul warpbeasts come popping up courtesy of these heretics. Also, has there been any more sign of vehicles around?

>>5757770

I am now going to assume the loyalist Guardsmen behind us ARE the A-Team. Veteran Sergeant Hannibal, Valkyrie pilot Murdoch, Kasrkin Faceman and driver/mechanic/heavy weapons gunner BA Baracus.

>>5757770
BROFIST

Strike a heroic and inspirind pose.
Consolidate onto Iratus if you can. Ask him how the fighting's been going for him.

>VOX UPDATE

"Sir, The Thundering Gales Captain Saevio reports that the Battle Barge, the Maelstrom, is moving to support us."

It isn't as good as news you had hoped for. You need to silence those orbital guns before more of your brethren fall to their deaths.

>Armour Status
>HUD: Operational
>Vox: Inactive (Damaged?)
>Aux. Armour Systems: Functional
>OVERALL: 90%

>Find the prisoners

You move up the trench. Iratus almost makes a swing for a loyalist, but you halt him.

"No, Brother! These men still hold His name in their hearts. They've been of indispensable aid thus far."

"UNDERSTOOD, BROTHER. WHERE SHALL I BRING HIS VENGEANCE?"

You point towards a large gun tower. In a fury, Iratus charges to meet his greatest foe - Stairs.

You and the guardsmen move into the tunnels to look for the holding cells.

>Input Commands...

>>5757911
>stairs

oshi.....

I guess he could just methodically destroy the ground floor until the entire structure collapses?

Seek out command bunker for the orbital batteries

>>5757936
This is also a good idea

>>5757911
Ask the Guardsmen what they know about the layout of these tunnels. Not just about potential holding cells, but any areas that would make for good choke points (for you or the heretics) or anything that might result in nasty surprises.

>>5757911
Right, since I'm assuming we're relatively clear of AT guns, we could just let Iratus attack that orbital batter in the mean time. Now, we should need to free those prisoners and then bring them to the surface to support Iratus on those orbital batteries and eventually, the larger traitor forces.

Ask the sergeant for a description of the layout of those tunnels.

>Get info on tunnels from Vets

"Sir, these tunnels only last a few more meters before they branch off to the holding cells. It's a straight shot all the way down."

Good. No hidden surprises in an alcove. Your helmet switches into night vision as you scan the darkness, moving down the tunnel at point.

Meanwhile, Iratus is at the gun tower, mercilessly pounding at the support structure.

You reach the cells.

>Input Commands....

>>5757998
Ask the guardsmen to form a perimeter and to stay alert. Go to each cell and break those locks. Inform the prisoners that they will have a chance to regain their honor by taking the fight to the traitors.

>>5758044
Also, include enemy at the gates style speech about aquiring weapons from the fallen.

>>5757998
Get your loyalists to guard the entrances. Make sure that none of the prisoners have been corrupted by Chaos before you let them out. Next stop: guns for everybody!

What's our Cultist status?

>Guardsmen, make a perimeter.

"As your orders, Sir."

They secure the area as you move through each cell, breaking off doors to release the guardsmen within. They cheer with vigor as they move to the guard's station and retrieve their weapons, quickly reinforcing the veterans.

Another door comes off it's hinges with almost no effort. You look in to find the entire cell covered in writings and symbols.

"I wonder whats inside a krak grenade... can't possibly have crackers in it..."

There's a cultist sitting down, looking at the wall. From this light, it's painting on the walls.

>Input Command...

Interrogate. Purge. (the order is, in this case, important)

>>5758119
Crush him.

>>5758119
Instinct says cleanse and burn.

Brain is conjuring images of Admiral Akbar.

Assess possessions of cultist, prevent cultist from completing painting.

>>5758119
Ask the guardsmen about the cultist. Why would they imprison one of their own? Also, save it to interrogate after you down the orbital batteries. Something had to have made the men here fall to Chaos and this could be a good lead since it's not actually trying to kill us.

>Ask about cultist

"We found 'er lazing about in the tunnels of the hive one day. Reported it to HQ but they didn't seem to care. Kept her here for interrogation, then the week after we started, all this happened.

>Prevent cultist from completing painting.
You move up into the room. Pushing the cultist over, you can see now that she has no arms. You ask the guardsman again.

"Found her like that. We didn't do anything to her."

The cultist speaks up.
"Ow."
>Input Command...

>>5758194
Develop heart condition and have series of romantic encounters with Cultist.

>>5758194
Purge.

awesome! armless cultist! Negi delivers :D

>>5758194
Remove any device she's painting with. After that there's no threat she could present for the time being.
In any case, there's no time to waste. The Battle Barge is preparing to drop in more of our Brothers and they need those orbital guns offline ASAP. If the controls are centralized, go after the command center. If each gun has its own firing crew, then we're going to do this the hard way, which is honestly much more preferable because it means we get to make more explosions.

>>5758194
>you can see now that she has no arms.

Oh god, I'd just been thinking, hey maybe he changed his mind, and then you mentioned a cultist, and it didn't even click.

I R G NEE US.

>>5758207

and we lived happily ever after..

>>5758213
you would dare leave one of the emperors enemy's alive?

I saw we strap a demo charge to her and give her point whilst we advance to neutralise the orbital batteries.

>>5758225
genius idea

quick interrogation and if no helpful info dispatch and off to the orb. batteries

>>5758219
We want to interrogate it later. We're not radical Inquisitors here who sets everything on fire first and then wonders why a Juggernaut of Khorne just jumped out of the summoning circle afterwards. Something happened here to make the bulk of the Guard turn to Chaos. We need to find out what and this one is our only lead right now. Maybe Brother Iratus can help us out by simply breaking a traitor's limbs instead of his everything.

>Stop painting

You break the toothbrush she was using in half. It can't defile the walls any longer.

"Well that's just rude." She says, flopping down into the ragged throw-rug that passes as a bed. She turns over and falls asleep. You know this because you hear gentle snoring, despite all that's going on.

You re-attach the door to the hinges with the help of a lasgun from a guardsman. The cells have been cleared. The guardsmen you freed have already ran to support the Astartes, charging towards another gun emplacement.

An enormous earthquake rocks the area as you hear a tower crumble into ruin. Leaving a 5-man guard on the cultist's cell, you return topside to inspect the sound. Turns out Iratus did a bang up job taking out the tower.

Literally.

>Input Command...

>>5758286

Locate enemy command centre/bunker. Fuck shit up.

>>5758286
Excellent work, Brother Iratus. Are there any more orbital guns in the area? If so we need to stop them from firing. I recommend liberal use of demolitions charges and, if they're being fired from a bunker, frag grenades through the viewing holes. Nothing says satisfaction like a traitor's scream when he notices a frag in his lap.

summon Iratus. Find orbital battery command bunker. Cause said bunker to cease to exist, along with inhabitants.

Where is the enemy HQ? Where are friendly forces? And where are the orbital guns?

Requesting a map drawn up. It's getting confusing.

>>5758286

be sure to come back after cultist, she can still serve the emprah with some bolters bolted on her shoulders.

>>5758311
hehehehehe

mental image supplied an image of a guardsman, two feet planted in the small of her back, hands on the grips of the bolters strapped to her shoulders letting rip with both barrels and swinging her around like a little loli pintel mount of doom.

>>5758325

>>5758363

or maybe 2 bionic arms with powerfists? oh the possibilities!

>>5758379

10/10 for effort

>>5758379
Alright. Get to that gun and fuck it up ASAP. Make sure the guardsmen know it's the top priority as well. You probably won't have to kill every heretic between you and it, just give them enough fire to force their heads down. Well, that a few well-placed grenades. Grenades solve everything.

>>5758379

Take Demo Charges. Violate Orbital Gun.

Guardsmen are to suppress Traitors long enough for you to blow some shit up.

Continue along to the final gun, tell some guardsmen to stay behind and watch the flank. Don't blow the orbital gun up, Capture it and use it to fire on the orks?

>Make orbital gun not there anymore

Iratus is already charging towards the final gun. The guardsmen surge forward in a vie for control, a mass attack with lasfire and grenades flying through the air.

A flare of light is all you see.

The darkness over takes your senses as you're knocked unconscious from the shockwave. Orbital fire from the Maelstrom silences the final gun, the assaulting forces (from what you're seeing) utterly anihilated along with the heretical defenders. You're thrown back into the cell block.

You awaken to find you're alone. There are no guards posted any longer. Drop pod impacts rock the earth as your brothers move in to support the assault. The cell that the cultist was in is still shut.

>Input Command...

>>5758457
Mournful anger raep

>>5758457

SECURE RIN IN A BIN

>>5758457
Must have some hella awful shock after that. Get a Vox line up with command and find out what's going on now that the guns have been silenced and the traitors little more than mop-up duty.

>>5758457

Take Inventory.
Assess immediate surroundings.
Figure out how to turn cultist into pintle-mounted Loli.

>>5758457
Brother Iratus?

>>5758486

>>5758522
This... doesn't bode well for Brother Iratus.

>>5758524

pfff, walk it off son

>Inventory
>Vox line
>Armless Cultist Bolter Turret
>(Rin is not a loli by a longshot)

You have your power weapon and bolt pistol, along with your grenades. Your excess wargear was lost in the shockwave and explosions. The jarring impact fixed your vox, however.

"This is Saevio, go ahead."

"Sir, this is-"

>Oh fuck. Forgot. Didn't name us.
>Input Name....

>>5758536
Name? ReallyFuckingEnragedAtHereticalCultistsMakingUsOrbitalBombardThemWhenBrotherIratusWasToCloseicus.

>>5758536

JC ! a bomb!

A BOMB!

leonidas! do it!

Splaticus

>>5758536
Brother Ulixes
Odyssey up in this thread!

Brother Sergeant Mansoon

Brother Teegus.

>>5758573
>Ulysses
>Get your literature right.

>Mansoon
>Monsoon
>Gales

>OP APPROVES.

Brother PAIN

>>5758584
Temporary Brother Seargent

Was only a field promotion, and we're a squad of one now anyway.

>>5758591
It's Ulixes in Latin.

"This is Saevio, go ahead."

"Sir, this is Brother Mansoon."

"Mansoon? Throne be praised, you survived! We thought we lost your whole squad in the bombardment."

"What happened to Brother Iratus?"

"He is well, Brother. For his efforts, he is being re-interred within the sarcophagus of a Venerable Dreadnought."

"That is good to hear, Captain."

"Regroup at the secondary tower's ruins to report. Saevio out."

>Input Command...

>>5758609
You heard the man!

Cultist Turret! We are leaving!

>>5758609

wait... wait...

Brother Itarus... with more armour and fire power?

Fucking approved

>>5758609

... Gramps, is that you?


Should we inform the Captain about the cultist in the cell?

>>5758609
Briefly consider the 'cultist' what is she doing?

>>5758609

Regroup as ordered. Keep an eye out for stray traitors on the way out.

(Given our current run of luck with Allied forces over the vox, i'm half expecting there to be Alpha Legion all over the rendevous)

>>5758624
>>5758622

Drag her along for use as a gun servitor?

>>5758609
>"He is well, Brother. For his efforts, he is being re-interred within the sarcophagus of a Venerable Dreadnought."


Huh. You know, I've never actually seen a venerable Furioso Dreadnaught...

>>5758647
B-brother Iratus?

>Check on Cultist

You move over to the door, opening it once again. She's sitting on the make-shift bed looking at the ceiling. For a cultist, she doesn't seem all that heretical.

You enter and pick her up by the back of her jerkin, without a word said from either of you. You head out towards the rendezvous point, tossing the cultist at the feet of your captain as he stands clad in his set of Artificer Armour. His command squad stand with him, an apothecary moving about the bodies collecting the geneseed of the fallen, the others serving as guards and overseers.

"What's this?" Saevio asks, turning her over with his foot.

>Input Command...

>>5758647

Maybe they'll pull one of the DCCW's and give him a support gun?

Having an Asscan or Plascannnon Venerable Dread backing you up would be tasty.

>>5758670
"Don't worry captain, she's 'armless"

sorry
sorry
sorry....

>>5758670

Give him the rundown of what the Guardsmen told you. recommend interrogation followed by gun-servitor-ifying

>>5758670
"Some sort of possibly non-heretical thing. Maybe we should give it to the Inquisition, or whatever."

>>5758670
"Another corpse."

Then shoot her.

>>5758672
>Brother Iratus is now Venerable.

>Brother Iratus is now Grandpa with a hot new paint job of green with yellow highlights.

>>5758670
"A prisoner that the Guardsmen had held before their fall from The Emperor's light. She may know something of what happened here to drive these formerly loyal servants to the Ruinous Powers. I believe her knowledge may prove valuable."

>>5758700

So he's a '95 Benneton F1 car?

(Sorry, couldn't resist. dat colourscheme.)

>>5758711

And by '95 I mean '88. I'm getting too old for this 'memory' shit.

>"A prisoner that the Guardsmen had held before their fall from The Emperor's light. She may know something of what happened here to drive these formerly loyal servants to the Ruinous Powers. I believe her knowledge may prove valuable."

"Interesting. Accompany her escort to the Maelstrom. Extract what you can from her."

She is lifted by a pair of Sternguard as a Thunderhawk swoops down from the skies. It lands nearby.

You're ushered on to follow. Taking your position across from her, you watch her motions. She looks around with perked interest at the interior of the ship, then loses focus and watches her toes as you ascend through the atmosphere.


The Thunderhawk docks with the Maelstrom shortly. You follow the escort to an interrogation chamber.

>Input Interrogation...

>>5758681

groan.

>>5758740
"By the emprah! Tell us your life story!"

>>5758736
More of a guideline these days hey?

*very gentle bro fist so as to avoid possibility of damaging frail old knuckles*

>>5758740

Well, first things first. Ask her if she knows why the Gardsmen on the planet went to shit and got all chaos-mad.
No need for unpleasantries if she's willing, lucid or not.

(If she resists, however, excruciators should be employed.)

>>5758740
"So, cultist, I heard you like heresy, tell me about this heresy.... "
"Where are your arms? Is this a sign of your devotion to things heretical?"
"What the hell is so interesting about your toes?"

>>5758758

LOL

>>5758740
Question with soft, but firm tone. Ask her how she came to the Guard base and what she saw while there.

>>5758811
>soft, but firm

Stop making me think about her inappropriately, damnit.

>>5758866

THIS THREAD WILL NOT INVOLVE SEX

>>5758881
THIS IS A NEGI THREAD
IT EITHER ENDS IN SEX OR TROLLING

>>5758740

WHAT THE SHIT IS GOING ON!
WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?
WHERE ARE YOUR ARMS?
WHY AM I SHOUTING?

>>5758897

We should question the heretic quickly, dark things are gathering in the warp and the librarians are starting to look nervous.

Quickly! Unnerve the Librarians!

Ask about: Name (although we have a feeling we know it already), reason for her being in the cell, and what she knows about the symbols she drew. Also, has her body been examined for signs of Chaos taint?

>>5759008
>body been examined

You're doing this on purpose, aren't you.

so has this died?

>>5759176
looks like it.

>>5759045

What? I just don't want us to let a potentially dangerous Chaos-tainted creature on board the barge. It could be a daemonhost or something.

n-neji?

>>5759198
If it was a daemonhost, it would probably be flinging warp-lightning around and generally being all YO WATSUP about it. They're not generally very subtle, once they've been summoned. That's not to say the body might be tainted or full of nasty nurgle plagues or something though.

>>5759212

It's worse than that; He's dead, Jim!

>>5759315
Oh shit.... now it's in my head.... FUCK YOU!

"Star Trekkin, across the universe, always going forward, still can't find reverse"

>>5759331

"We Come in Peace, shoot to kill!"

>>5759331
Ah! We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill;
we come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, men.

>>5759345
>>5759338
Shoottokillmind!

Tickle the information out of her!

>OP has fainted gainst chair
>somoene archive please

>>5759517
It's already been archived. Good job, this was quite enjoyable.

Awesome quest. Shame about those guardsmen though. At least they died for the Emperor.