Iron Mongers: fall of a chapter

[vagabond6]

OOC: the former. he's not a tau Qhattdammit! also, you still ill man?

[kamikazewatermelon]

OOC: No. But you know that anyway by now. What is this Qhatt? It must not be worshipped! Praise the Emperor, blasphemous heretic!

(OK now I'm just rambling, and I do know what Qhatt is)

[Father Nurgle]

(occ: once i get back home this evening ill post don't worry)

Ravenous stared blankly at his orders and nodded his head, "we won't be able to kill these inquisitorial murderers! we cant let them live after their crimes!" He yelled, he turned and saw down the street of 20 inquisitorial storm troopers charging down to the group. "Orders sir?" Ravenous said shaking his gun eagerly wanting to kill more than anything, but controlling his utter rage...

[mina]

Gaberiel doesn't waste time on orders she draws her twin blades and closes her eyes for a moment centering her thoughts before charging headlong down the path at them. Her blades sing as they whisk through the air and the inevitable clash of weapons hits as she comes into contact with the charging marines. The Gabriel that cries and hates life is gone replaced for the moment by the dance. Even as the marines weapons rain fire towards her she dodges gracefully bringing her sharp swords down upon a marines head before nimbly leaping over his slowly falling decapitated body to land behind another and jab her dagger into his back. The wardens seem to have spread out weapons aimed at her and one steps forward raising his sword in a challenge. She salutes him with her weapon before they engage as the rest of the marines stream towards the rest of the IM.

[carnofex]

ryan snapped his fingers as 3 troopers burst into flames he the side stepped a trooper and kneed him in the gun then grabbing his shirt he smashes him to a wall. "you fight like kes gabriel, and what a loving child you could have been, if your mother didnt leave!"he said but shouted the last part he then grabbed a warden and smashed his skull into his

[mina]

Gabriel hears Ryan's words and herdance stops her thoughts are no longer centered. The Marine captain notices her sudden lack of attention and he takes the opportunity to kick her in the stomach. The force of the kick knocks the wind out of her and she crumbles her knees meeting the ground and the marine laughs at her as he walks forward, Your dead child." She is knelt gasping and choking. Her mind races trying to re enter the dance. As the marine's sword comes flying in to behead her she brings her sword up and blocks the blow. Within the span of a few seconds she's counter kicked him and then unlike the last dance she exicuted this one is a flurry of blows. She is moving so fast her swords are a blurr of movement. The poor marine is barely dodging and parrying her blows he doens't even see her foot come out and sweep his feet out from under him and knocks his sword from his hand. " Please Miss don't kill me." She looks at him her eyes dark with splotches of green." You scum deserve death." Then her sword pierces his skull and she turns back towards the rest of the group.

[kamikazewatermelon]

OOC: Not Marines, Storm Troopers! Basically elite IG, with hellguns and carapace armour, who work for the Inquisition.

Bloodfire suppressed the emotions with a burst of combat stimms. Instantly his senses heightened, his limbs tingled with the urge to destroy. He leapt up to the roof of the building, jumped to the next one, and landed behind the troopers. He tapped one on the shoulder, and as it span round, he punched it right over the heads of the others. The troopers, assailed on both sides, formed a defensive ring, rapid-firing outwards. Diving below the hell-beams, Bloodfire reached up and grabbed one in each hand, and brought their heads together with a crunch. Activating his neuro-gauntlet, he leapt towards the rest of them...

[Father Nurgle]

"yeah! yeah you murderous humans!" Ravenous was yelling as his heavy bolter fired out round after round into the storm troopers. 10 were hiding around the streets and firing their hellguns down range, even hitting their own in the backs on accident. As the fighting went on through the streets the sound of imperial orders roused some mutants and traitors from the city. large riot bands began to unite and the inquisitorial forces were being ambushed left and right. "More to the cause sir!" Ravenous yelled as he pointed towards the 7 remaining gunning storm troopers, signaling a horde of 10 mutants to charge them, although cut down by hellgun fire it served well in bringing them out from cover. "this planet is not going into hand of these monsters!" Ravenous yelled. His yellow armor and the entire streets got darker and the rioting heretics paused to see the incoming attack...
"sir! above!" a large imperial ship flew down from large pollution clouds above, Valkyries flew down into the city dropping off more troops. guns fired and killed many mutants, but these were not hellguns, these were bolters. The ship above was holy and white, trimmed red and gold for the emperor. holy music was being played as Valkyries passed above blowing buildings up and dropping of fresh reinforcements. Battle charges and gargled battle prayers were heard echoing from the city "Sisters of BATTLE!!!" Ravenous cried as an immolator dropped off a fresh squad of adeptas soritias. They dispersed around the rubble of the street and the rest of the storm troopers piled into the charging team, Ravenous and the soritias exchanged fire...
The fire fight continued and Tun, Gabriel, bloodfire, and Ryan had just finished mopping up the last of the storm troopers; "Look at the horizon!" he heard a yell from Tun. From the end of the road a massive 12 meter tall penitent engine charged battle frenzied for redemption followed by a priest with an evisorator...

(lets take down these as a team, as best we can. and with adding the sisters into the fray, it makes sense. this world is one full of heretics and mutants. it was only a matter of time before the crazy witch hunters popped in.)

[carnofex]

(o but this a tau world i should have mentioned any fighter aircraft would be shot down if not registers first and the tau really like this world so many units they can hire)

[mina]

Gabriel turns to view the penitent engine bearing down upon them and makes a spot decision," I dib the Sisters!" She then turns to where the battle females are landing and grins as she walks forward, " always did want to test my skills against the other fighting females." She then takes off running at the now charging sisters and leaps kicking off of a nearby wall and in a stunning display of acrobatics turns mid air and brings her blade down on one of the sisters heads killing the female before she hits the ground. As her feet touch down she is already exicuting the next partof her dance. The sisters have turned and drawn weapons to fight her. She grins as one sister jabs at her with a blade. SHe knocks the blade away and with a flick of her practiced wrist draws her flaming dagger and ignites it before flicking it into one of the sisters face and igniting the female in pure flame. The woman sprawls to the ground already dead as she burns. Another swings for he rhead and she dodges backwards while gripping her single blade with 2 hands. " Get off our world Sisters of Battle, Or I will be forced to destroy you!" The sisters stare at her for a moment noticing her lack of attack, " You girl are a battle dancer! One of the Emperor's elite fighting females." The captain of their group walks forth pointing an accusitory finger at her, " Have you forgotten what the xenos and heretics have done?" She snarls at Gabriel like a lion, " You betray us for these mutts?" Gabriel holds her sword up and salutes the sister, " I choose my fate willingly. Now I say again leave now or die." The sisters charge at her and it takes all her dancing skill to dodge them and still strike blows. She slips up only twice and both are painful wounds one causes her to take a sword through her shoulde rand another is a bolter round into her thigh. Even these don't stop her from the completion of the deadly dance she is in. When at last all the sisters of this unit lie dead at her feet their blood and her own staining her dress and hands she turns back to view her unit engaged in battle.

[kamikazewatermelon]

"I've got the walker." Bloodfire stated, matter-of-factly, sprinting at the petinent engine. He dived behind a ruined wall, heavy flamers blackened it but it shielded him. He leapt out from behind it, continuing his run. He weaved back and forth, dodging the massive, whining buzzsaws. He then jumped up onto the back of the thing, ripping out wires and sending electric shocks through it. The left arm fell limp at the walker's side, and Bloodfire shoved a melta-bomb in at the shoulder, the detonation tearing the damaged arm off. Then, he jumped forward, reaching for the human occupant--which, much to his surprise, punched him in the face. He swayed backwards, almost falling, but righted himself and snapped the human's neck. The petinent engine toppled, and Bloodfire just managed to leap clear. As he recovered from the ordeal, the flat edge of an eviscerator sent him sprawling...

OOC: Allright, time for another character to handle the priest and maybe another to get the rest of the battle sisters...

[Father Nurgle]

(i will kill this priest in the most detailed manner i want to. and to Terran, the sisters will still pwn a tau world for heresy. and a covenants navy fleet isn't one to be messed with. i mean, in game they can take a orbital bombardment as a heavy support choice, it's fair to say the tau and sisters are in a heated and awesome space battle.)

Ravenous stood watching not able to get any shots off with his heavy bolter. with Gabriel and Tun killing sisters with too fast of speeds and bloodfire fighting the engine with great agility. Ravenous pulled out his bolt pistol and began a charge to help out Bloodfire, when the priest began a counter charge to intercept Ravenous. With only seconds to respond Ravenous slid to his knees and laid back as the massive evisorator fly over Ravenous nearly uncontrolled. Ravenous kicked back up to his feet to see with surprise the priest regained in control and ready to charge. Ravenous Revved his blade for combat.
The priest was surprisingly built for his human body, the eviserator obviously heavy to a normal human must have been used so much that it made this one much stronger. The priest was dressed in a white robe with golden lining and red carapace armor over it with a golden trim. His face was genuinely young and even though he wore glasses it didn't affect his looks. His short white hair was being covered by a long headdress. After assessing his enemy Ravenous made the first move. Charging forth with his chainsword trailing the ground at his feet ready for an uppercut.
With one defensive slice the priest smashed his eviserator down, dodged by a quick side step Ravenous threw his chainsword up in a wide arc from his feet expecting to hit where the priest was but when it was all the way in the air there was no hit. The priest was gone from where he was "whe-" Ravenous was confused, but before he could utter the words the priest had done a circle around his eviserator now planted in the ground and kicked Ravenous in the shoulder plate. The blow knocked Ravenous to his left foot and the priest landed on his feet again, quickly pulling his eviserator back out to strike. This priest was fast and stronger than expected. The priest swung the blade from his left side shoulder down at the now balanced on his left foot Ravenous. With no options Ravenous dived to his left shoulder, somersaulting to his feet in front of the sliced air of what could have been Ravenous. Now the Priest and Ravenous were face to face again. Waiting to see who would make the second move. When the explosion of the penitent engine rocked the ground. The priest seized the opportunity to throw his Eviserator back to his right hand to slam into Bloodfire, knocking him unconscious. The priest now with his blade drawn all the way back charged forth preparing a horizontal strike.
Ravenous counter charged the holy man with blinding speed. As the 2 were about to connect Ravenous took his chainsword in two hands, threw his body down low, and slashed upwards to throw the eviserator, already at it's midway point to Ravenous, off balance. This gave Ravenous the upper hand, with the Priest waylayed he threw the rest of his body already with momentum into the priest, knocking him to his feet. The heavy eviserator landed flat side on him to. Ravenous allowed himself to smile as the heavy set priest kicked back up. With a relentless charge the priest charged again, this time blade trailing his feet prepared for an uppercut. Ravenous Charged forth a full sprint at the priest. Seconds before the priest swung hard Ravenous Leap into the air, fully over the moving arc of the priests swing. With the leap initiated, Ravenous did a front flip over the Priest who had very momentarily lost control over his eviserator and landed behind the off balance man. Both Ravenous and the priest began to do a circle to clash with each other but holding less wieght Ravenous made it to The priest faster and clean cut the whole Priests head off. Leaving the rest of the priests body to finished its full turn and lightly bump into Ravenous as it finished its last seconds command. The headless body clumped to the ground in a heap.
Ravenous noticed this street was clear and had no more resistance, Tun and Gabriel had mopped up the rest of the sisters and Bloodfire unconscious. Ravenous had run over to the assassins body and stared upon it. the drugs should be working by now.. he though. he slapped the face twice and saw some reaction. a better sign. "Ryan, this is evolving into a full scale war here, and we are targets on one side. i suggest finding an ally or leaving..." Ravenous said sheathing his blade and picking up his heavy bolter...

[kamikazewatermelon]

"Yes, I suggest finding an Imperial ship to hijack as Tau ships are not warp-capable and the path to our own is undoubtedly filled with enemies, if they haven't destroyed it already...Hold on a minute." A few hours earlier Tun had uploaded a schematic of the city into Bloodfire's database. He examined the digital map. Take a left, another left, a right, bio-scanner indicating enemies to the next right, so straight on there...and energy scanner reading a ship's engine radiation, including warp-residue, so Imperial...Right. Now to program it into his objectives console..."Follow me!" And he started down the route marked out on his world-view, wondering whether to bring some of the Tau along. His newly-emerged emotions were, for some reason, all for taking them, but logic dictated not to waste the time. He would leave it to opportunity.

[vagabond6]

OOC: honestly confused. one minute we are at the spaceport, the next all this other stuff is going on . also, not entirely sure of the terrain on this world, but i am going to say there is some kind of cave tun can run and cower in - i mean make a tactical withdrawal to.

IC: Tunrael hid behind the others for most of the time, occasionally dashing out to slash with his power blade or fire a bolt round over the heads of his team. He had to get back to the ship, where he would be more use with his tactical and technological expertise. But it would be too hard, he reasoned. Tun had noticed that Bloodfire had been acting strangely of late and had done some simple brain scans with discrete apparatus. The results were interesting. It appeared that the emotion controlling mechanics were deteriorating and his chemical supplies were running weak and low.

Tunrael ran and ducked through the fighting, his armour shrugging off a few bullets, his side taking one, but not too badly. Assassins were taught to deal with such pain and he could hold for a minute more. The ground underfoot became rocky as the fighting fell behind him. He was almost safe. However a crazed zealot was still on his tail, handflamer and groxwhip in hands. She wore a gold mask over the top half of the face, the bottom was an insane grin. Tun shot clumsily backwards and missed. The whip lashed at the ground, just out of reach. Tun's heart pounded and blood was flowing freely from the wound in his side. making his head spin. He was nearly at the cave he had seen, just 5 more seconds... can't stop. firing pointlessly over his shoulder to play for time, possibly slow down his aggressor. the attempt failed miserably. The zealot was mad and unstoppable. As Tiun stepped into the cool darkness of the cave, the woman unleashed the hellish fury of her flame pistol. The gout of burning promethium ignited in the air all around, engulfing everything. Tun was only hit for a second, luckily his partially flame resistant assassin clothing and mask saved him as he spun away from the flames. He staggered to his feet and struck out with his power weapon. She parried with the whip, lashing it away. He mouth opened and inside was a complex array of intricate mechanical devices that formed what Tun recognised as a needle pistol attached tom her tongue and roof of mouth. Time slowed as the mechanism primed itself for firing, the toxins pouring into the single, hollow crystal dart. She half laughed the next words in a strange, hardly understandable voice (probably because of the mouth pistol)
"Tfunraell Gravusch" she spat "I havsh been schent by Inchisitor Salem Thulek. He knowsch what you have done. you have disobeyed him and left the imperial fold. You shall burn for it, you shall die at my hand for him and for the emperor." her words had become clearer as the pistol finished extending, ready to fire "I am the bringer of redemption. An assassin of assassins. I shall be the venenum who killed the errant vanus!" She laughed and the pistol fired. In the same instant an energy shot burned through the side of her head and she went flying. The needle hit his armour, which hardened, deflecting the shot. The spine of crystal hit the cold stone of the ground and shattered. The toxin spilled out and promptly the stone started to melt where the liquid touched it. When he looked up he saw a tau before him, in the cave mouth. It nodded to Tun, and he thanked it. He was too troubled by the disguised assassin's message to speak more. He collapsed, realising finally the bullet in his side. it wasn't very deep in and was easily but painfully removed. He injected a little strong painkiller from his medipack and dressed the wound. He removed his mask and backpack. And from the hard shelled bag he produced several flat screens and holo-projectors, along with a few other pieces of equipment. He linked it up and switched it on. He created a direct contact link between all of the IM members out there from where he had just escaped.
"ok, let's do this" he said rather uncertainly. He looked down at one of the screens to see the aerial view of the area from the eyes of his swarm of netflies.

[mina]

ooc(wonder where Terran is.)

IC: Gabriel has just finished cleaving another sister's head in two and blood is all over the young female. Some is her enemies and some her own. No pain touches her. Because she has yet to be issued a com she is out of the loop as it is. Yet, the dance goes on. Even as more enemies step forth for battle and Bloodfire calls to move off she continues the dance it is within her now and she cannot stop the fight. Her mind is fuzzy everything is a blur all she sees is green. Yet her movements remain fluid one attack blending into the next until she repeats the steps over. Guard fire upon her sisters attempt combat but nothing stops her. Then a hand grabs her arm and begins to drag her back towards a ship. She comes back to reality the green fading from her vision and she looks at Ryan screaming at her for her stupidity. She follows him her legs and body groaning in pain. They make for the ship quickly as the guard and sisters pursue.