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Alone (standard:science fiction, 3916 words) | |||
Author: Steve | Added: Jul 03 2008 | Views/Reads: 2963/2045 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
my first try at wrighting a quick 40k story | |||
Alone Prologue There I was Nathan felt the mussel of the rifle pull away from the back of his head. Looking up he saw the guardians raise their weapons all at the same time and fire into the ranks of the PDF solders. He only hoped the rest of his squad was heading back out of the mine. It was too late for him and he didn’t want his squad to die in some impossible rescue attempt. Everything had just gone to hell but there was still one thing left to do. Nathan pushed himself to his knees and pulled out his pistol. He could see the governor, see tears running down his checks, see the dark lines under his eyes, and the mad look of someone who knows there is no place left to hide. This will end the war, at least that’s what they told me when they sent my squad on this mission. The reagent governor of Sin had chosen to forsake the light of the Emperor choosing instead cut off all contact and forgoing Sin’s responsibilities to the Imperium of Man. To clean up this mess and to “reeducate” the local PDF the 477th Varian was sent in. Specials in quick strikes the 477th made quick work cleaning up the PDF and tracking down the governor to a small mining settlement still held by the PDF. If HQ knew what he was really up to they would viral bomb the hole planet in steed of sending in my squad. But they had no idea, how could they? So they sent us in, the Varian 12th to cut off the head of this rebellion. The Varian 12th exiles in scouting and infiltrating enemy lines and had been sent in to take out rebel supply dumps and other targets of opportunity. But something didn’t seem right with this mission. Why did was governor hiding out in a mining settlement and not one of the several vast fortress city doting the planet? What they were doing there HQ didn’t care. It was an open window to end the war. So they sent us, my squad the Lost, and two other squads the Dead and the Night. A four day mission. In and out. Almost a vacation from the front lines. I’ll never forget how wrong I was. Well hindsight is always 20/20. Chapter I The Lost Four days earlier Sergeant Nathan stood in the door way running his hand through his tight cut hair. He looked old covered from head to toe in the ashes of the burning buildings outside. His night black hair graded and his face hard and dry from the ashes and heat of the fires. His green cameo was hardly visible and he looked more like a ghost than a man. In the room sat the other two other sergeants of the Varian 12th. Sergeant Doim and Sergeant Carson. Where sergeant Doim was small and slender, sergeant Carson was a huge man with arms that stretched the sleeves on his shirt. Nathan liked the man, if not for his sense of good luck; it’s always nice to have someone bigger that you in a fire fight to hide behind. Leaning back in his chair Carson was the first one to see Nathan standing in the door way. ‘So what’s the word?’ Asked Carson while he opened up one of his canteens. ‘We move out at first sun.’ Replied Nathan. Both the Sergeant gave the usual disapproving grunts before cleaning off a small table in the middle of the room and retrieving maps from their assault bags. ‘They tracked down Governor Plato to a small mining settlement not far from where we are now’ started Nathan. ‘HQ wants us in there to take him out. Quick job, in and out, home in time for dinner.’ Yea that’s what they all say.’ Interrupted Carson. Doesn’t sound right’ Doim shifting in his chair was always wary and never took anything at face value.’ I mean it hasn’t sounded right from day one. Why would a planetary governor just one day decide to turn agents the Emperor? They must have known this was going to happen. And...’ And why do you always make things complicated?’ Carson lighting a smoke as he cut in. ‘why doesn’t madder, only what you do about it.’ ‘There’s three ways in’ continued Nathan. ‘Doim and the Nights will take the east path thought the hills to infiltrate the eastern mine shafts. Carson and the Dead will hit a supply camp west of the settlement as a diversion for the Lost to slip in. Click here to read the rest of this story (264 more lines)
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