The Specialist

CHAPTER 7

I awoke once more in the recovery room. I looked at my left arm seeing nothing wrong. I looked at my right arm and saw the whole thing was replaced according to the sevitor my arm was blown off by the super charge and nearly killed me. Looking back I have the devil's luck as it's called. I decided to act as if I was still out so I wouldn't have to do anything but after two days I got up. When I did my squad had already been brought back to full strength. We went back to our barracks and it was like that for about a month then we were called in to help escort a inquisitor on a special request. His name is Sevrek Strongmane and he is a powerful one especially when he is in his master crafted power armor, bolt pistol, and power sword. He is one formidable foe and not even Sir popus could best him, trust me, we tried. But a special request for us, bravo-2 of Theta A79 in the Riter system. Then again we have been through a lot and have more experience than any other squad. "Where are we taking him?" I asked the arch-magos, "to Macragge where you will meet up with mars and cadians, I wish you all good luck and may the omnissiah protect you" he replied and sent us on our way. We met him next to a Archaeopter Stratoraptor. "Hello sir my name and code are Sola-TCL-448 and this is my squad of vanguard class skitarii" Sola said standing to attention. "Yes I know how you are and who all of you are and I asked for you specifically because you are the best admech of Theta A79 and I like the fact you care for nothing other than yourself." he said without a care. With that we all broke our formation shocked that he wasn't going to kill us for not caring about the imperium. This one was not like the others, first of all they chose Theta and second he knew we don't like them and didn't kill us. We sat down still shocked and sat in silence for the rest of the ride. On the re-entry to Macragge was fine other than the turbulence but when we leveled out AA guns opened fire. These were not imperium AA guns, these were chaos. I knew because it was TECH-HERESY, these were shrapnel rounds and this shredded the wings and we plummeted. We landed with a CRASH, and I blacked out. Luckly I was wearing my seatbelt, the pilot and co-pilot were killed, one of the side gunners was killed and the other was wounded other than scratches, bruises, and pain the squad and inquisitor were fine. We went to open the door when... THUNK, THUNK, THUNK. The footsteps of a space marine. The door flew off the transport and there was an Ultramarine Tartaros Terminators. They were accompanied by hellblasters and three squads of bolter marines. As we made it to their camp the pain had subsided and they didn't talk to us on the way there and when we got there all ten of us were taken to different tents. I don't know what happened to the others but I was questioned, they fell along the lines of, "Why are you transporting the inquisitor, what shot you down, where were you taking the inquisitor," I responded all of them as honest as I could "It was a special request, a fragmentation AA gun, I don't know he wouldn't tell us, and I can only guess that only the pilot knew where we were going" they didn't exactly like the anwners but didn't question me any further. I step out and immediately feel unwanted and I can tell my squadmates can feel it too. The sun is setting when we are told to stand and gather as much as we can from the wreckage and we did as we were told because we knew if we disobeyed we would be torn into so many pieces that we wouldn't be recognisable. When we got there it was more broken than I thought, then again I was preity dazed from the crash but there was no way we were getting that thing back up and running. "At least we didn't crash in the mountains and we landed here." said Sola as he started to gather as much as he could and we followed suit. I grabbed guns, Beatrix grabbed what little armor was not torn to shreds, Sola got a lot of circuitry and wires and so did the others. When we got back we got the who we presumed to be the head of this small squad of space marines. We guessed because well not only was his armour more emixustat he had more purity seals. "We gathered all we could sir" said Sola family and stood to attention. We all did the same. "Good, now put all curcetry over there" pointing to a large tree that already had circuitry and wires around it, "and all extra armor will go there and if you need to replace yours with the extra." he pointed to another tree on the other side of camp, this one was not as big but still huge. "And equip yourselves with the weapons and all extra will be put over here" he said pointing to a tent already filled with weapons. We started doing as we were told when we heard from the captain, click. A muted click, there talking on vox channels. A space marine sergeant walked over to a large "circuit tree" where Sola and seven others where, I was in the tent, and Beatrix was at the other tree, and the other died in the crash. We both looked over as he was talking to Sola, he then walked over to the rest and was telling them something but we were too far to hear it. So getting done putting the guns and armor away we walked over to hear "-you all will be transported out of here" he said pointing to five of them. He must have heard us because he turned quickly to face us and said "you two will stay here with you alpha and other squadmates" and with that he was off. "Why are we staying here?" Beatrix asked Sola. "that is a classified information soldier." it sounded like Sloa had to choke out those words. Something wasn't right, not even close to right. There was something... off, I couldn't tell you but I had a feeling I knew what was in store for us. After an hour a transport landed but it wasn't Thetan or Admech to begin with it was (as far as I could tell) a militarum tempestus valkyrie. When the doors slid open out stepped a militarum tempestus command team, as this happened the five team mates that the sergeant told to leave got on the ship, and with a nod to the sergeant the command team was off and we were left there.