11:56:27 Fri
Jun 2 2006
| Re: Background: Recon |
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“My lord, we have intercepted an Imperial transmission.” The marine handed a piece of paper to the chaos lord.
“Hmmmm, it seems they have lost track of one of their archotech recovery teams near here.” He looked up from the paper. “Gather the men, we should be able to scout the area before they even arrive.”
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Another round of Reaper Launcher fire reached out and strafed the position of the Havocs across the street from where Jossat was crouching. More marines in the squad screamed and went down, the rest cowering under the Eldar weapons striking from all sides. A rhino in the street was hit by a series of lasers and skid sideways as a track flew loose and it overturned onto its side.
“Sir, they surrounded us!”
“Dammit, where is Closk?!”
Jossat could see through the smoke in the street the bodies of 4 men with Imperial garb, their bodies with no marks but perfect round holes drilled into their heads. In between them lay a large round Imperial canister and the Eldar appeared to not want anyone else to claim it.
Suddenly the air around the chaos lord and his bodyguard cracked and then a tear of realspace appeared over them. Sickly purple and green light shone from the tear and hurricane force winds tore at the men and debris, sucking it into the warp. The tear increased in size forming a jagged line meters in length.
“QUINTARA SAVE US!” Jossat yelled as members of his squad were either sucked wholly into the tear or ripped in half by the shearing gravitational forces. Jossat could feel half his body being lifted into the void, while some other force held him forcibly to the ground. Then as quickly as it started, the barrage of the Distort Cannons ended and the relative silence of the battle returned. Jossat looked up from where he was on the ground and saw half his squad gone, most of the rest torn to pieces.
Fury gripped him as he stood and he charged out to where the canister waited.
“You bastards!” he cried as sniper fire lifted puffs of dust on the pavement around him, “If I can’t have the prize, no one can!” He lifted his combi-flamer and trigged the one use flamer. Prometium ignited as it poured over the container and melted it and the surrounding pavement into bubbling slag.
He looked up as the small amount of fuel the weapon contained was spent. Two advancing wave serpents came to a simultaneous stop around twenty meters away, weapons focused on him. But instead of firing they banked to opposite directions and accelerated off, the sound of their motors soon gone. All around the chaos lord the sounds of battle died away as the Eldar disappeared as quickly as they had arrived. Over the comm-net squads were reporting the same thing. The Eldar were gone.
