Side Chapter: Ignis Corps Shenanigans
*transmission*
"Howdy, Raptor here, seems like our next ops is now part of a secretive ops on a Mysterious mining Planet gone silent with drop pods, Power armor, Capes and Copious amount of heavy flamers. Along with the so called Space Marines known as Iron warriors as reinforments from M.A.Rs. And I will See you around.
*Transmission end*
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(On transit to Arachnid bug zone)
Acclamator fleet where Ignis is station, many were busy to gather their Christmas present...
"Jay, We got Capes and New Weapons!"
"For Super Earth!"
"Wrong Universe Cooldude,"
"We did took on the Infinite Ikea."
"That we will never talk about. How did that place also lead to hell?"
"And we freed Santa from hell."
"Not our fault, he was in restrictive airspace ... Do we get our Christmas present?"
"I got my Raptor from the Jurassic Planet. Santa bless me with RNG on this op..."
"And this cool rig of mamoth tank..."
"And the raptor ate Tails and now your pet is a keter class pet... Where is he?"
"Over here guys." The Yellow smiling face man appeared before them... Many stayed silent as if he returned from death countless times, he was one of M.A.Rs greatest mysteries...
"Alright guys time for sit rep, so gather around ...me.." Jay looked at the group as they twirling towards Raptor with capes...
'Why do I get the feeling things will go horribly wrong?'
As the group waited for Jay to give his piece....
"Alright this is Planet Nutcase 3, Mining Planet in the Arachnid Zone." Jay pointed at the slide.
"Why Nutcase 3" one pointed out.
"Federation have been sieging this planet for three weeks and they believe that we suited for this task."
"Any Intel?"
"Seems like this planet is held by some Rebels on one half of the planet that kept the miners hostage and Bugs here.. and somehow they didn't attack each other. And coordinate each other... And there is a archeological dig site nearby...And a Nearby Federation outpost protecting it, went dark on their comms..."
"Holy shit, means bugs are controlling them?"
"Possibly, as now they diverted their minds away from the Federation..."
"Compliance?"
"Sadly their demands is garbage of spreading a ideology of a cult to Altman or some shit and that must be quelled by the director orders... And we got these boys right here..." Jay stepped aside as some Giant men wearing a Caution paint on their pauldrons took to the stage and stated their mission.
"Kill bugs and rebels, you get to have a holiday, director orders."
"That was brief... But hey, who can complain about holiday..."
"Your missions as follows."
. Gather Intel of the new threat.
. Kill anything that have more than two legs
. Find and free the Miners, evacuate the survivors and Kill the Cultists..
. Find the Federation outpost... And find what is in that dig site.
. Ignis will have a 5 Mechanized Infantry battalion and a Artillery regiment along with a squad of Mass produced Ravens for anti-mech/tank support, a Detachment of Heavy Tanks will be your shields however Air and orbital support is off the grid until we ascertain the ground... And if it what the director fear is confirmed then we get more reinforcements.
. And this is strictly off the books by the Federation... Courtesy by the director.
*Klaxon*
"Alright ya lazybums get off my ship! I will pick ya off when the ops is done and be radio silent until the director orders, Tails Try that stuff again in the mess hall, I am kicking you out of the airlock whether you are a Sanctioned Psyker or not!"
"What did he do this time?"
"He turned all our meat supplies into eldritch horrors..."
"No wonder why Chef special tasted weird."
"...Did you ate that stuff?"
"Meat is still meat." Says the soldier that is glowing purple like a natural glow stick...
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"Alright Ladies, we are embarking on the first ODST drop in the first time in the Federation and Fednet won't see us to look pretty for the Cameras! Short Range is 44 and Long range is 69, Do you Get me Troopers!"
(*WE GET YOU SIR!*)
As Ignis Soldiers headed to their respective drop pods, Jay and Cypher did a roll call...
"Everyone's Sound off"
"All are present and accounted for Jay."
"Prepare for Helldive!"
The Acclamator launched several drop pods into the planet below...and Sent along with several orbital bombardment in the drop sites to disguised their landings...
A hooded Figure stared silently from orbit from the archeology site... And disappear into the shadows...
"Altman be praised... More unbelievers have come to join us.... And Making us whole... Will be complete." As the figure entered into the darkness that is surrounded by countless of hooded figures, a gutteral roar echoed from the depths...
"Alright landings zones secured, move it ladies, we are on a tight schedule!"
Chimeras and Sentinels exited from the containers that exited from the drop..
A Hastily set up Fob base was erected...
A baneblade and several mammoth tanks was dropped for more additional armor and a Basilisk company have been dropped down.. a Fabricator center was set up to keep up the amount of ammunition spent by the trigger happy soldiers...
To the outsiders it was overkill, but to the Ignis Corps that handles bugs and the supernatural that Alexander gave them assignment on, it is more safer than being unprepared. They play hard, they fight hard.
Soldiers looked outside the FoB base watching for any signs of life...
The Radars that is erected have discovered nothing on the screens...
They found something is wrong...
There was not a signs of life...
Not even a bug tremor.
They sent scouting parties to a nearby towns and discovered that they were empty... Some of them having scribbles of something of a twisted tower... After making outpost out of the hollowed out towns, They proceeded with their objectives...
*Transmission*
"Raptor, Town 21 here, no signs of any humans... This is getting creepy... Setting up base defenses."
"This is Waffle 32, I am on road 16 heading towards town 12...not a Damm bug for miles..."
"Tails is acting up again..."
"All units near me are to converge to the silent Federation base and see if you can find anything there..."
As Ignis Corps converge towards the Federation base... The Base was under shutdown protocols...
One of the soldiers managed to jacked in the system networks and reversed the protocols...
And upon the gate opening revealing corpses piled high into a enormous pile... surrounded by the same
"Jay... Should we police this bodies?"
"No, director orders, burn it down and leave no trace... Lion, Jage you two lead the flamer squads and burn this bodies to the ground."
They did what they were told... The Director have been proven right several occasions... And they would rather not take a gamble of disobeying his orders... It was a silent task as both Space Marines and Ignis Soldiers held out Flamers to the corpses and burnt it to ashes...
As it was a trigger, the planet came to life.... The tremors began to acted up...
*Transmission*
"Jay, what in blazes you did in that base!? We can see smoke in the distance... Holy shit what are those things!"
"This is Town 21... Bug tremors are getting worse... Hell we see the locals... Wait... Why are they having those bug stabby things on their shoulders? Kill them! Purge them in holy Fire!"
Jay listen to the comms that is flooding in...
The Spearhead of Ignis Corps found the former civillian flooding out of the Dig site... And the former base defenses began to activate and slaughter the monster rushing out...
Most of them twisted into abominations and their arms replaced by twin blades made of bones...
"Quail... Radio the Director... This is a Confirmed reality breach and we will hold out as long as possible."
Quail understand the implications and sent the message to Alexander....
"Bird nest to Apple pie... Bird Nest to Apple Pie, Breach have been confirmed...I repeat Breach have been confirmed.... Classification...Necromorphs and the Miners is dead."
"I see... Your current missions objectives is rescinded and now you must take out the infestation...and if you see a marker destroy it using black hole Weaponry, anything else would make it worse and the Necromorphs can be killed by using excessive explosives or Flamers... M.A.R.s will be sent down as reinforments and you are now free to call air support...Apple pie out."
"Jay, Mission objectives changed, extermination protocols in place, any marker that we see must be destroyed by Black hole weaponry and Explosive and Flamers are allowed. Oh, Air support is free!" Quail yelled at Jay that was managing to kill one of the said necromorphs...
Jay grinned as now at least he don't have to babysit Ignis Corps and they could be let loose...
"This is Raptor calling all units, Director said it's time for demolition! Bolters and flamers are the main objective! Markers get blasted by Black holes charges! And we can call for air support!" As Jay spoke and there was cheers.
"Burn baby burnnnn!" Laughed a soldier as manned the Hellhound flamers ...
"Dayum those bastards have thick skulls" another yelled as his bolter blasted a group of Necromorphs...
"Hell! blasted one freak off... And his legs grew spikes?!"
"Then Cook him!"
"Every unit on this channel watch out for the vents! These things are hiding there!"
Every inch of the land is covered In promethium and incindeiary weapons...
"Where are the bugs?" Jay wondered... If they counted the amount they killed... It was half of the population unless there was illegals that managed to hide from the Federation census... But there was reports of the bugs by the Federation...
The Tremor grew worse... Jay realize this was not a normal bug tremor...
"This is Outpost 4... The tremors here is getting stronger-*Bzzt*" the line is cut off as a humongous bug that is made of human flesh and Chitin armor rose up the ground and envelope the said outpost...
"Someone's late to the party! What classification is this?"
"Kick its bloody ass simple as that!"
Explosion and shells envelope the creature as some Iron Warriors aimed at the thing with spite...
The giant monster headed towards where Jay is...
It's body was engulfed in light by the support ships in orbit... Seeing such a big target is tantalizing to shoot at...
Jay received a headache as he see a vision in of a Giant Marker that is surrounded by several moonlike planets made of flesh and tentacles...
"*MAKE US WHOLE*" was the sound that entered his mind...
"Jay you okay? I having a Headache like in the old drinking session at college..." Cypher was nearby suffering from the after effects of the markers...
"We must blow the markers up...Quail where is the Demolition team...we must blow this planet from existence..."
"This is Charlie 2 carrying the Demolition team, the Baneblade crew guarding us gone berserk and firing indiscriminately... The Mammoth and The Ravens is keeping it contained...but we will reach there... In around a football match away..."
"Too long! Cypher take the best of the blokes and the stubborn headed ones , have them join me as we head to that archeology site and clear a path for the demolition team to arrive... We must not Let it awaken."
"The guys that fit the description at a short notice is the Aussies and the Bosnians?"
"Yes those guys..."
Jay and the strong willed Ignis Corps entered the depths of the archeological dig site...
Flesh and bone pulsating in the darkness of the passageway leading deeper into the site...
The Residents in the darkness is flooding towards them and various wave of mental attacks began to inflict the minds of the soldiers...
But the Space marine that been indoctrinated from childhood? It was a common attack by a Psykers they dealt with on a daily basis, their minds are harden against the attacks...
"I think I gonna hurl *bleaching*"
"Fck, I need Morphine for this shit..."
But it can't be said for the soldiers beside them...
As they marked the way for the demolition to arrive...
They sense a powerful presence ahead...
A Hooded man waited for them that is among the dead...
"Come now, Worshipper of the Corpse Emperor and embrace the Worship of the Markers, He fed you lies but we offer salvation...come and embrace the liberation of the flesh."
The Soldiers turned to each other and laughed like crazy, while the Iron Warriors looked at the hooded figure as a fool. Sure they don't worship the Emperor as a God, but they see the necessities in of it... But a stranger ask them to forsake the Emperor is akin of forsaking his vows and his beliefs of humanity...
The first shot in the stranger head was a Terminator squad captain Faseus... And the body of the hooded figure was exposed, worms and whatnot squirming in the empty head as if wanting to regenerate... Something not human... And the Necromorphs began to swarm into the group...
Faseus took no time as he used his Heavy Flamer to burn the room and the denizens within and his Brothers assault cannons echoed in the room...
It was enough... Time passed as the Demolition team find A lot of scarred passageway and a glimpse of flames still flickering...
Sounds of bolters and the hissing of the flamers still rang out from the depth of darkness...
They followed the path of destruction as they reached the center of the dig site...
A giant twisted structure is unearthed that reached the top of the ceiling...
Wasting no time... They each took a side and began arming the Bombs that contained several Black holes... They know that not even a speck of dust would escape... Now they had to find the first team...
They found the remains of the first team as Jay is profusely bleeding as the Medic is patching his wounds...
"Done?"
"Armed and primed for 55 minutes sir."
"Good let's get outta here!"
Ignis Corps began a fighting retreat to the landing zones to evacuate as the last vestiges of the Necromorphs is flooding into their FoB...
"Did we sanitize the vehicles with the flamer?" Jay asked the Logistics Teams
"Double Checked Jay and we spayed even the Cannon barrels"
"Better be safe than sorry... We can't risk a infection."
"We will teleporting the vehicles to safety... Just hold out, and Orbital support is here..."
"We are slowly getting used to last stands eh, Jay?"
"Aye Laddie, we are up in the creeks end and most of the Director toys is being shipped off, just us in power armor and our bare fist, if ammo drier than my ex-wife...I gunna need a drink if we survived this ops and if we die, see ya topside bois."
"Then we make them bleed and make it quick. Let's make this the last moment on this dead planet that no freaks of nature mess with Ignis Corps!"
The planet heaved and crack under the ground both Arachnids and human flesh converged towards the last Fob That is still operational.
Orbital bombardment rained freely around the lone base as the horde of tainted flesh converged towards the remaining Ignis Corps defending and distracting the Necromorphs until the bombs blow up...
"Another skinwalker down, how's your end Jage?"
"65 and still counting!"
"The 'ell! Give the dead wankers back to their dammed masters in a smoking carcass!"
Jay looked at his watch as the timer reached zero..
"Mission done and now we have liftoff." Jay smiled as light envelope around them and disappeared... The Marker on the dig site witness firsthand to be like to be ganged up by four black holes... And not even a dust that emitted the same frequency of the Marker is spared...
The Planet had a Third of it's crust eradicated until they could not hear the psychic screams that pounding their minds...
(???)
Jay gave reports of the events to Alexander in his office...
"Director, Cleanup have begun... We already tested the new technology and destroyed one of the Breaches... Can I ask a question?"
"Permission granted..."
"How did you know the cultist and the weaknesses of the monster we seen? As if you know the future..."
"Jay, When you seen such horrible stuff you realized that what you worried about is meaningless in the end... Something is coming... And this small time infestation are just the vanguard..."
"Holy hell, you mean there is something more worse than some stone carvings that messed with our minds and turned us into monsters from the dead?"
"Yes... But worry not... You managed to cut the root before it spread across the federation... You saw the Hooded cultist?"
"Yes...he was mumbling of something called us the worshippers of a corpse Emperor and the Markers will set us free before Faseus of the Terminator squad blown his skull apart as Stated in the Combat reports."
Jay noticed Alexander was making a face that he didn't know...
"A Sense of urgency...sir?"
"Yes... You are dismissed and your soldiers will get a week off from any mission from both my organization and the Mobile infantry until I call you up again..."
"Sir, I will take my leave." Jay saluted and left the Office.
After he heard the click...
Alexander sighed...
"The Breaches is getting worse..."
While some of the Breaches was manageable, it was harder to keep things under wraps...
Magnus was interested in the breach and help sealed some of them...
"This time it is a marker from dead space... What happened if it's a flood spore... There is so much excuse that I could give the people of what is happening...and I know Ignis is faithfully agreed helping me stomp it out... What happened if it's a situation that even a director couldn't cover it up? I am starting to sound like Macaldor... We need time... But time is turning against us..." Alexander stared blankly at the paperwork and began working on a new set of plans...
Knowing the future breaches from his alternate self managed to used Ignis as a scalpel in the dark eradicating the troubles before it begins... Many of the infestation is destroyed long before it becomes a danger to humanity... Many individual that contributed to humanity downfall by appeasement was killed once before it began...
But how long till he keep doing this?