The Specialist

CHAPTER 12

I awoke in an unfamiliar setting, "I don't know this ceiling." I said aloud without realizing. "It appears you're awake" came a voice that was also unfamiliar. I turned to see a middle aged man with a beard looking at me "w-who are you?" I asked. "I am the man who healed you the best I could," he said. With nothing more I went to stand but then saw my legs were still gone. "Well" I said aloud again and with nothing more to do I added another notch IIIIII and thought I shouldn't be this lucky. " well with nothing to do I guess I'm off to sleep" I said and did just that when sometime later, *clunk* I woke "what the fu-" I said but was cut off "shhhh, don't wake the others and meet me outside. It was too dark to see anything and the voice was not one I knew. But I did so after putting on my legs that he gave me. I stepped outside and saw a woman but they were Admech "that's rare" I said when I saw her. She turned to me and said "hello" but it was off, she sounded like a man. She took off her helmet and her voice changed "do you know why I called you out here?" she said in this serious tone "no I don't but what concerns me is why you look like skitarii." I said as honestly as I could "well I called you out here to say that I'm a good friend of yours" she said. "What are you talking about, there is no way I am friends with a female and not know it" I said matter of factly. "You really are too dense aren't you?" she said. "Well first of all, ouch, and second of all, who are you." I said. "I'm Thuella, your old friend." she said slightly annoyed. "WHAT, how and why and how and why" I said, very confused. "That is not of importance at the moment but what is, is your home. You see it's going to be attacked but not just your home but everyone elses." She said, concerned. "Ok I will have to relay this information to the Arch-Magos to get the clearance to leave" I said. "Ok well see you there" she said walking off. "Alright see you there, may the omnissiah protect you." I said to her, she didn't respond. In the morning I asked Sola where the nearest vox caster was so I could send a message to the Arch-Magos. "We got one in the dunecrawler, but it's too far to reach the Blue Moon Orphan, you'd need a transmitter to reach them" he said confused, "what do you need to send to him?" he asked. "Well my home town on theta is going to be attacked" I said almost frantically. "WHAT, where did you get this information." he said "that's not important right now" I said to him in a daze. "Fine but we do have to find something," Sola said. "Ok, I'll ask the mayor." I said running off. I ran outside and sprinted down the street. When I made it to the mayor's office I tried to compose myself as best as possible. I open the door to be met by a woman at a desk. "I need to see the mayor at once, it's urgent." I said knowing I was not composed as well as I should be, but that helped her see that it was in fact urgent. "He's right in here" she said pointing to a door to her left. "Thank you," I said and walked in. "Sir, please do forgive the intrusion but I must know the location of a long range transmitter." I said after closing the doors behind me "Well the only one we have is in here but before I show you I need to know why" he said all sense of that joy old soul form before. "A town on Theta is going to be attacked and thus more of Theta will be attacked." I said now fully composed. "Alright it's right there behind you" the mayor said pointing behind me. "Thank you sir, Theta will be thankful." I said. I grabbed the transmitter and put in the right frequency, I spoke "Blue Moon Orphan are you there I repete, Blue Moon Orphan are you there, do you copy." as I said this the crackle on the other end of the transmitter said that they didn't copy "Blue, Moon, Orphan, are you there, do you copy." I said with no response. "The Blue Moon Orphan... is under attack... send, help... *BANG*" came from the other end of the transmission. "Hey robot boy" called from the other end "yeah, who is this and what have you done." I said furiously. "Who am I and what I've done is not of any concern but what I'm gonna do is. I'm going to crash this ship into your town and I know who you are so I'm gonna send a transport ship so you can watch and if you think you can retaliate I'll have to take you by force" he said, then... the line died. I turned mortified and saw the mayor had the same look. I turned and ran from the room, past the lady and out the door but by now everyone was awake and as I ran past them they got visibly concerned. I burst into the place we stayed and ran to Sola "WHAT THE, WHY ARE HERE AND WHY DID YOU BURST THREW THE DOOR!?" Sola yelled in surprise "I *pant* they *pant* THEY'RE GONNA THE BLUE MOON INTO THETA!" I yelled loud enough to be heard by the rest of the team and some people on the street below. As the rest of the team filed in I filled them in on what I had gathered and I said "I'm going to comply because there is no way we could win that fight and even if we somehow did there would be no one left and nothing would be gained." Some protested the idea but the injured saw it as the only option and the rest saw it as the overall best plan we had. I stepped outside where a small crowd had gathered and I spoke as my team listened from inside "as you all heard me shout, the flagship of the Thetan army will be crashed into Theta and they are taking me and only me so do not fear for your lives and I do hope you will pray for me." as I finished up, the crowd did the same thing my teammates did, some were in favor and others saw it as the worst idea in the history of ideas. After they saw I was not wavering, they stopped and they all went home. I walked to the edge of the fields and waited for their arrival. I don't know how much time had passed but it was about midnight when I saw the landing ship. It landed in front of me and out stepped two high ranking cultists I presumed. Following them was a large man about the size of a space marine with no armor, as I thought about it, he was a space marine with no armor. What he did have was a chest piece that only covered his torso and he also had brown pants with metal coverings over the thighs. "IN" he shouted and I did so. As I did I heard a distant cry of anguish and I turned just in time to see a women charge the two cultists with pipe of sorts and when she got to them, she swung and collide with a *CRUNCH*, when she went to swing at the other *BANG*... she fell and as the blood soaked into her clothes I saw she was shot in the gut, I said aloud "dead on impact, may the omnissiah protect you." the cultist that was hit never got back up so he was probably dead. "Now that that's cleared up let's get moving, don't want to miss the big show" the Chaos marine said with a smile. We took off and I was told to sit in the very back of this ship. I didn't know what it was but it was relatively large and was probably a cargo ship of sorts.