The End of Markane VII

[Enigma]

I'll update once a week. Comments and criticisms welcome and wanted.

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CHAPTER 1: THE ARRIVAL

Sergeant James Tucker looked across the frozen landscape of the badlands of Markane VII. It was just as it was always. Nothing happening. Nothing worth noticing, anyway.

Suddenly, his captain called in: "Sergeant Tucker, come in please."
"Roger that cap'n, what is your message."
"We sent some sentries to the old gas factory, and haven't heard from them for half an hour. Mind getting a squad and checking it out?"
"Roger that cap'n, over and out."
Tucker sighed. Knowing the men, they probably found a couple cases of ale and were stumbling around the factory looking for the exit.
It was going to be a long day...

[niddy]

this might be good...

[miniman]

sound pretty cool

[Enigma]

Change of plans, just whenever I feel like it.

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It was half an hour later when Tucker and 11 other men arrived at the gas factory. Upon reaching it, they found that the entrance had been sealed shut with the 4 foot thick plasteel blast doors. "Why," asked trooper Menis, "would they seal off this place, from the inside?"
"I've no idea," replied Tucker, "but it better be a good reason, or the captain will be real pissed. Shadowitz! Get a mini computer on this door, and get it opened."
"But sir-"
"That's an order, soldier."
"Okay, okay, don't get yourself worked up..." Shadowitz put a small device on the door, and a few seconds later, it sprung open.

The 12 of them stepped inside. The very first thing they noticed was a large pool of blood near the entrance. Tucker kneeled down and got a closer look at it.
"Moore, send a radio back to base. Tell them about this." There was no reply. "Moore? Do you understand?" Tucker turned around. Moore had disappeared completely. "Moore? Where'd you go? Moore? Moore, this isn't a joke dammit! Where'd you go?" Tucker span around, looking for a sign of him. There was none.

[niddy]

MOORE! WHERE ARE YOU!?!?! NOOOO!

[Enigma]

"Dammit!" yelled Tucker, showing his anger to the skies. "Roibu, you're coming with me. The rest of you stay here, and while you're at it, look for Moore. Give us a yell if you find anything."

Tucker and Roibu had moved through the corridors looking for anything suspicious, but hadn't found anything of note. Until then. One of the chimneys which gas filtered out of had been blown apart, and a large fleshy... thing had been blasted through it and cracked open. "Get the men, Roibu. Have them carry this back to base."
"And you're going to..."
"Stay here and keep guard."
"Alright," said Roibu, walking off, "but be careful sir. Don't want anyone to ge..." He was cut off by a ripping noise and a watery gurgle. Tucker span around just in time to see Roibu's corpse, ripped in two, flying across the room towards him.
"What the hell..." was all Tucker said before he decided it was a good idea to leave. Fast. He sprinted for the exit...

[Enigma]

Guess who's back...
Enigma's back...
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Tucker came running out of the base, not even bothering to look back and see if anything was following him. He found Enta, sitting in one of the jeeps waiting for the squad. "GO ENTA!!! Get me out of this hellhole!" he bellowed, jumping in.
"What about the..."
"Dead. And we will be too if you don't get the hell out of here!" he cut Enta off.
They sped off...

Captain Beck took a look at the screen.
"Is it clearing up yet?" came a voice from behind his shoulder.
"No Enta, it isn't. That damned storm has been blocking us from contact with the Imperium for a bloody 2 and a half centuries! You think that it's just gonna let up now!" rebuked Beck.
"But sir... Look!" said Enta, pointing at the screen. Beck took a look at the screen, and couldn't believe his eyes. The data showed it was dying down. A couple more tense minutes showed it finally dying and disappearing. Forever.
"Get into contact with the Imperium. We might be able to leave this god forsaken place finally."
"I'm trying sir. It's not working! The telepathica matrix must be offline. I'll send a squad to check it out."
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." came Tucker's voice. He had just entered the comm room. "Last time we sent a squad, they were killed one by one. If the matrix is offline, it's because something's in there that wants us dead. Just leave it off."
"Sir!" cried out the worker on the computer. "Something's wrong! Even using the backup matrix, the Astromonicon should be easily detected! Thing is, we can't seem to find it." he paused for a second, looking at the screen. "What the hell is going on?"
"What is it now?"
"Something. Something huge. We're detecting a gigantic amount of ships heading towards us. They look... weird. Fleshy. Alive. Like nothing we've heard of before. You know what they are?"
"No. But whatever they are, they are going to get a nasty surprise. From a very big gun..."

[niddy]

meh, i think a hardened vetran would know a tyranid when he sees one, especially if he is ultramarines.

[Enigma]

Look closer next time niddy, they've been out of contact for 2 and a half centuries. When were the tyranids discovered? 2 and a half centuries ago. They never heard of the tyranids.

[zzapper]

Good job

[Hive Mind Fury]

Sounds good so far

[Enigma]

Em... sorry for the super long wait. For the mods, this can be considered a blog in a certain sense, and who actually cares what goes on in the roleplay board anyway?

Anyhow, the wait for you was because of a severe case of writers block. As an award for paitence though, here is a super long post.

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Captain Beck looked straight at the screen and connected to the battleship, Arania. Captain Lawson of the Dark Guardians appeared on the view screen, gigantic and menacing in his power armour.
"Greetings, Captain. We have no idea what these beasts are, but maybe you do."
"Yes," spoke Lawson "We do know what these are. They are what we call Tyranids. They are nomadic, attacking in gigantic swarms of bio-engineered creatures. They kill everything on a planet, then use the biomass and air in the atmosphere, as well as their own dead, to create new creatures, which have been evolved. You currently have 100 Tyranid capital ships near your planet. It won't be long until they attack. I will send reinforcments to you."
"It's a bit late for that captain. Hundreds of spores have been dropped, in a gigantic ring around our base. We probably can hold them off, but if they drop more spores, we are going to be overrun. This base is the largest installation on the planet. There are others, but ours has the best chance of fighting."
"Understood. We will send reinforcments, and possibly establish a temporary encampment near the Tyranids."

With this, Lawson shut off the screen. He looked at the ships, and found himself wondering about their size. The fleet that had destroyed The Dark Guardian's home planet had been twice this size. Yet the markings on these ships were exactly the same. Maybe they split off into smaller fleets, like Kraken did... he thought to himself. No time for pondering, he corrected himself. He turned around. "Charkon! Get some drop ships with ranged combat pesonnel, and maybe a predator or two, and send that base reinforcements. Jarlex, you load up a drop ship with close combat soldiers and come in at my signal. I'll go in with the first company with drop pods and secure a landing zone. Terminator squads Ferron, Carnals and Parnol, you will teleport in and support us if needs be." Lawson picked up his plasma pistol and power sword, and walked off with his honour guard, getting into the drop pod. He saw 4 more being loaded up with assault marines. Then all the doors closed. He then prepared himself to fight the beasts of Enigma.

[Enigma]

CHAPTER 2: THE EVACUATIONS

Sergant Tucker was really getting annoyed at those civilians. The governer and Captain Lawson had decided it was for the best that they didn't know about the Tyranids and start a panic. In retrospect though, maybe their story could have been a bit more realistic. Evacuating a whole planet because of a failed training mission may be pushing the civilian's gullibility. Still, they were eating it up, as long as they thought it was life threatening. Well, it is life threatening thought Tucker. They hadn't been in such a rush to evacuate them because that would be stretching credibility even further. Maybe they should have taken that chance. People were insisting on bringing cars, money, furniture, and other things which weren't essential, or even useful. That's when he noticed the spores coming closer. "Oh, god." he said softly. "We gotta get out of here a whole lot faster now!" louder now, so the civilians could hear. "I don't give a damn about your stupid car, you're not going to need it where you're going. We'll just leave you behind to die here, if you want to keep it. Do you even have any idea of the magnitude of the--" he managed to cut himself off before mentioning the Tyranids. More questions he was unauthorized to answer were all he needed. That's when the spore hit...