Target Acquired

"Let them bestride the galaxy like the gods of old. Sheltering Mankind from destruction at the hands of an uncaring universe."

— Roboute Guilliman, as laid down in the Apocrypha of Skaros.

I see the room laid before my eyes, the Colonel stood before me, saluting me while the surrounding people run around. The huge room was made of gray metal, it was filled to the brim with different types of machines, it had many things. I see a large window that stays behind the Colonel, the window was transparent and showed everything, the trenches and artillery shells flying around.

The room has people running different computers with different sizes of screens, the machines have panels that show things from maps to messages. Some of the panels were huge and some were small. I see some of the larger rectangle computer screens showing recordings of the hall, they were cameras, others had videos of scouts mumbling out any information they found. The Colonel stood in the middle of the room, she stared at me, her purple eyes not flinching away.

Some of the soldiers are typing on the machines, buttons glowing. I slowly, taking in a breather. I set it on a nearby table with a brown wood top and some metal legs.

I sigh to the colonel, "Hello, my name is Yeshamiel, space marine of the Nemesis Chapter..."

The Colonel neutrally lowers her salute and says, "Colonel Marcia Quintilla of the 24th Cadian regiment..."

"Hello, Colonel Marcia..." I leisurely walk to her, getting a closer look at what the glass reveals to me while I put my bolter on my back. Aside from artillery shells, I see a tower, it was black and maybe over 600 meters by itself. It was in the shape of a cone, its tip piercing the skies.

"What is that tower?" I show my curiosity to the Colonel.

"It is a tower that one of my scouts says came from the dark age of technology..." She explains, walking forward with anger, she goes to the glass wall and slams her fist into it, "If you have not noticed, it is distorting times in certain areas..."

"I already have intel on it..." I nod my head.

"Well my troops have not had any help at all, we can still somewhat talk to the reinforcement but they think that they are about to reach in a few minutes which has taken very long." She grits her teeth, "Damn Liberators are pansies."

"How have you survived?" I ask her, cocking my head.

"Well some of them managed to get here and help us, we still have over 200 more reinforcement that has not arrived yet, I am the 60th colonel here." She mutters to me while walking back. I move my head up and see the sky, I saw ships that seem like they have no movement, drop pods still plunging yet so slowly.

She calmly sighed, her face becoming neutral, "If we can destroy that tower, reinforcement may arrive and we may win the fight..."

I face the Colonel and think to her, "So how should I destroy a tower?"

She flatly says to me, "If you can find a way to explore the tower, you may fight a weak spot and hit it so that it may break and reinforcement could finally arrive."

I crack my neck, and promise to the Colonel, "I will find a way to break it and you shall get your reinforcement..."

She adds to me, "Not for me only, but my men."

I look at her and grin. As I was about to walk away, a guardsman enters the room and screams in panic, "The Liberators have-"

The guardsman was about to finish his panic scream until a laser blast hits him dead in the back, the guardsman's upper chest torn off and melted at the same time. Men covered in black armor, dash forward, firing their blackened lasguns at the guardsmen. I use my body and block any lasers that were meant to hit the Colonel. My armor smokes yet I am still fine, I try to reach for my bolter but a crackshot amongst the dark Liberators shoves it away with a laser shot.

My right arm quickly pulls out my chainsword, I leap forward and stomp on one of the Liberators, crushing it and blood squishing out with bones cracking. I slam my foot into the Liberator's head and flatten its head. I see more Liberators pour in, their black armor standing out against the gray room.

I sweep my chainsword diagonally onto one of the Liberators, he tries to stab me with a bayonet but I am too quick. My chainsword links to my body, it slowly shreds his bones and organs. His screams of pain echo out into the room but I finish him off by slowly tearing his spine out of his back, a quick death. Red dyes the gray metal floor, I look at the other Liberators and throw my body onto them. I pounce onto them and with the accuracy and speed of an expert sleight of hands yet with the power of a tank, I swing my blade.

I crash through the Liberator's bones, my chainsword already slamming them and killing them from the impact and my chainteeth just cutting them quickly and easily. I do a consistent triple swing. In the first swing I lop off one of their heads, the second swing I spin from right to left, and like a club, I bash into a Liberator and slice him at the same time, the third swing I chop a Liberator's legs off and then swiftly chop off his head at the same time.

Colonel Marcia barks at me, "We have to take them out!"

She fire a laspistol, killing 2 Liberators while she slowly walked back to escape the room. I grab a bolter pistol and fire 3 times, headshotting three Liberators, their black helmets exploding like balloons.

I spin around, my chainsword killing 4 Liberators. I smell the blood, seeing Liberators fire their lasguns at me, their rifles doing not much to my power armor. I cry out in rage, " Die! Heretic!" I dance left to right, draining blood out of Liberators, their laser shots too slow to hit me now. Several Liberators try to head for the door, I charge into them, one of them carries a plasma gun, a gun that fires unstable plasma.

"Fire a full-charged shot!" One of the Liberators screams at the one who wields the plasma gun. I see the plasma gun, a translucent tube charging up, it glows to an all-five and it fires at my head. I see the light blue plasma shot, shaped like a round arrow, it hits my head. I feel pain as if I was punched by a brick wall and fell into a volcano. The fire seeped into me and sears my skin, I howl in pain. I angrily look at them and with no words, charge at them. Their lasguns to slow, their only trump card an unstable plasma gun that might explode and kill all of them.

Guardsmen enter the room, firing at Liberators. It was a full-on battle, I hear explosions in the back, I see the green guardsman fight against the dark Liberators in a rifle fight. I want to help them but I first swish my blade into the Liberator squad, I bash the plasma rifle into the wall and it explodes, sending me back and out of the room by being crashing into the large glass window.

My free left arm hangs onto the ledge of the room, I see Colonel Marcia command her soldiers to take battle formations, they take cover and fire at the exposed Liberators. I climb back up quickly and run forward, as I run to help the guardsmen, a blast happens and rubble interrupts me.

I jerk my head to my left to see a large mech, it was black and humanoid, maybe about 3 meters or so. It had the shape of an athletic man and had smooth, black shining armor. I look to see that it uses a power great sword, though it fitted into its right hand with the left a black wrist-mounted attach to a black belt-fed heavy bolter. I look to see that the head of the giant was in the shape of a skull, with a strange black crown as an ornamental item. 'What is them with the color black?' my mind distracts me.

I shake my head and then hear the same voice of Colonel Marcia bark at her soldier swiftly, "Fire everything at the giant!" The soldiers follow her order and fire their lasguns at the giant yet it does nothing but leave patches of smoke on its powerful metal hide.

I stand up and point my chainsword at the giant mech. "Keep firing at the giant!" I charge and when the mech tried to hit me with its power sword., I jump over it and slam my chainsword to its chest. The chainsword's machine spirit roars yet it barely did anything, just cutting a bit but not enough to harm the wire.

The mech taunts me, "You brute!" It swings its power sword at me and I get a large cut on my shoulder, the power sword melting my ceramite shoulder pauldrons. I jump back but quickly pull out my bolter pistol and fire at the belt that fed the wrist-mounted heavy bolter. The bolts explode, causing a chain reaction within the belt and it explodes and explodes a part of the mech.

The mech's back burst into flame, sparks of electricity bouncing off. I hear more Liberators coming in, luckily countered with guardsmen reinforcing me. I see the guardsmen and Liberators fight once more, they firing their lasguns against one another. I feel my chainsword's machine spirit tell me to fight and I oblige, my chainsword whirrs.

I swoop forward and I swing my chainsword from down to up to down and it traps the mech's right arm. I see my reflection in the mech's metal skin, seeing half my face burnt and the other half bleeding. I use my free left arm and slam it into the chainsword, pushing the chainsword into the arm's inner workings.

Circuits get cut and explode, wires separate from each other and I limb several tubes containing flammable oil. The right arm is burning from the inside and exploding, the mech looks at me, I look back to its skull head."You accursed brute with no mind!" It lashes out at me and the mech uses its left arm to grab its power sword, "How about this?!"

The mech uses the power sword to cut its right arm. I backflip and then the mech kicks its right arm at me, it hits my jaw and I hear cracking sounds until it exploded and shoves me back. I get slammed into a few monitors and machines, shattering the glass and breaking them. I open one of my eyes to see more guardsmen and Liberators facing off my shooting at each other.

I see the green men fire lasguns while taking cover behind monitors while the Liberators just march on, not caring for themselves even when their comrades get hit and die. Colonel Marcia spots me and rushes to my aid, "Are you alright?"

I shake my head and quickly get myself together. I calmly mumble, "The mech, we need a way to defeat it..." I stare at the large black mech that charges to me, it points its power sword to its comrades and barks at them to march on. I stand up and to spite the mech, roar at the soldiers with a wave of fierce anger, "Fight for the Imperium! Fight for your Emperor or I will see fit to end you all!"

The soldiers out of fear push on, holding off the Liberators. I look at the black mech that ran at me with a missing right arm, I stand still, dropping my bolter pistol. I take a stance, I wave my chainsword up and even my 2 feet, the left in front and the right at the back to hold him off. The mech tries to jab me with its power sword but I twirl over it and throw my chainsword into its chest, cutting deeper with the more powerful hit.

I shout at the Colonel, "Now!" The Colonel reads me and fires her laspistol. The laser hits the inside of the chest and explodes some machinery.

The mech screams in hate, fear, and rage," No!" The mech's scream of no was nothing to me and the mech explodes, the explosion rips apart its engine and all of the mech. The mech was not just huge scraps of metal scattered, I get hit by one and my nose bleeds. The other shards of metal destroy several monitors, destroying some computers and other machines.

I fall down, letting go of my chainsword and vomit blood. I see the guardsmen get more soldiers and kill the Liberators. But then when the Liberators try to exit from the door they got in with, they start screaming to run away and they topple over one another.

In the blink of an eye, their bodies exploded and were ripped apart. I see a large figure similar to my size walk through the smoke to see a Primaris space marine with a bolter in hand, stepping over the bodies of dead Liberators. He wore dark green power armor and a red helmet. It was Sergeant Moranius.