{lots of pictures at the end of comments, however, I couldn't get the battle-mutts to look fully Slaanesh-y as I had hoped but it is what it is, as Slaanesh doesn't have any hound-type units. [also I didn't want full robot dogs] Sigh, also the pictures took me 2 days to filter through like 100 of them which is why this chapter took so long to release my bad, also Nova picture is not added yet as I still debating how I want her to look }
"Bravery is not a trait bestowed upon us; it is a choice we make in every battle. Choose courage, for it is the mark of true warriors."
→Excerpt By Lord Sanguinius←
Within the deep reaches of the mansion, in the back, and within the mechanical pipes, there as the wind blows through doors… the servitors know no better as their emergency contingency activates in the presence of the Tyranids… and with mechanical wonders they fought back…
They stood the line, even if it was pointless… their bodies and weapons were designed for building and maintaining, not for war… in doing so, they stood little chance as the bugs ripped them apart! Blood and limbs rained on every stained metal…
Watching such a scene unfold, Nova felt nothing… As why should she care for robotized humans? Slaves or those chosen out of their genetics… poor souls who probably wished for death more than any other…
But observing carefully how her foe dispatched the servitor was of interest to Nova, as these bugs were different from what she believed them to be! Normally the bugs would just attack without caring for their lives or injury, but these were different… they actually took the time to dodge, to wait between strikes... They were a planning and cunning group of bugs…
[Bastards!] screamed Nova to herself in the heat of the moment.
[Hahaha! Nova! As much as I love burning things…and the smell! As I'm sure you know…ha! Either way, I think this would be one of the few times I don't believe we have the weapons for this… So, why not inform the security detail?] asked Kora as double checked her makeshift flamer.
[Kora… I already tried… but they said they could only spare the lesser bounty hunterss… you know the new guysss…] replied Wrynes as he removed his under cloak to show his white snout.
[well they won't be of much help then, butttt then again… we could always use more meat shields… Am I right… Nova?] replied Kora with a grin.
[I knowsss, which is why I]
[I WASN'T ASKING YOU!] retorted Kora quickly interrupting Wrynes.
[sigh, praise be Slaanesh, if I don't find new crew mates…]
[WHAT WAS THAT!] screamed the pair as they overheard Nova talking under her breath.
[nothing, Wrynes, Kora... we are doing this regardless of the risk!]
[why? We have the bird… let's just leave this mansion to its fate…]replied Kora as if it was a matter of fact.
[kora…. If we just leave, do you think our mistress will let that go?] replied Nova a little frustrated
[no…shesss would not…] replied Wrynes with continued jitters.
[exactly! If that portal is destroyed by the bugs, and we return to her in failure… well… I'll just leave that up to your imagination… ]
[Fine… but then I need a bigger gun! That biggie won't burn fast enough…] replied Kora as she pointed to the Trygon.
[I know…] replied Nova with a silence that confused her crew. While awkwardly touching her tattoos and the scar brands of Slaanesh!
Within that silence, she made prayers to Slaanesh for aid, causing an unseen snake to squirm through her skin layers! Through her organs and heart! While it wrapped itself around her heart, the serpent hissed as it bit! Feeling the sudden jolt of pain, Nova vomited blood as her eyes glowed a violet hue…
Within the halls to the generators, stood the bug, eating and killing the weak servants and slaves of the governor, their blood coated every scale… every blade, tooth, and claw… of the bugs… their screams echoing deeper into the channels and the mics, to the point that even the control room mechanicus tuned them out!
Inter mission main chamber:
While in the main chamber, stood a dark, tall beauty of a statute, of a feminine demon with fan blades! Cracking her neck, she stared down the prime warrior! Who laughed as it licked his whip… but unimpressed by the bug display, the demon charged from her station tossing one fan out at a blinding speed! But to the warrior, the fan was as slow as a slug!
And so, with a smile, the warrior wrapped his whip around the tossed fan! And used it like an extended axe! Chopping demon heads and human freaks, as it whipped it around back to the demon statue! But thick were the demon hands! As she grabbed a hold of the spinning fan as if it was nothing…
And with it between her fingers, she pulled the warrior to her! Flying and off his feet, the warrior positioned his sword for a stab! And to the surprise of everyone but the demon, he succeeded! Stabbing through the chest and out the other end, but the demon did not bleed, didn't even change expressions, while the warrior on the other hand… Coughed out a mouthful of blood!
For in his gut, laid another fan! But even with the pain, the warrior smiled with evil eyes as he knew he had won! And though the demon at this time, stared into the eyes of a creature who, by all right should be dying, looked at her as if he had truly won the exchange of blows… confused as to why this bug, wasn't giving her the pleasure of his screams, the demon extended her blades through the fan like a long sword! Cutting deeper through the inner linings of the bug's spine!
The sudden coursing blade that brought with it agonizing pain, only caused the warrior to widen its smile even as its head was thrown back from suddenty of it. And while its blood drained from it, the statue took pleasure from the sight of its blood to its warm and wet feeling… taking pleasure in that excess and lost to it, the warrior took advantage of the time it had left, as it twitched down his two back scythe! Stabbing the statue through both shoulder blades!
But again the statue… only felt pleasure! The pleasure of the pain! Though no blood, as it was only an amalgamation of emotion locked in a rock! And through the pleasure…. It brought with it, an overwhelming sensation of "finishing" causing the statue to erupt its fan! Dividing it up into two thin sections of a mechanical wonder that in turn split the warrior in two!
As the warrior's body fell in two halves, the demon put back her blades, while beneath her feet and down her leg, coursed a liquid that burned the metal floor! Then as she pulled out the warrior's blade from within her body… the feeling… caused her to breathe heavily in a lustful sensation! Now with eyes that desired more, she licked her non-existent lips… tasting the blood of her enemy as she stared at all the other Tyranids before her!
Lost in pleasure and bloodlust the statue made it rain in Tyranid gore, as they became leaderless… to such extremes that even the governor, who was barely hanging on to life, couldn't help but stare in amazement! Until he heard a call… though haggard and bleeding, missing his claw arm, he heard the words…
[emergency! Sir! The tyranids... There… there… charging at the mansion! In numbers, I can't even fathom…] relayed the head of security, as he stared at a radar covered in dots, and a screen displayed that drowned in bug bodies charging at the hill!
[FUCK!] screamed the governor in frustration as he sweated blood at what he had to order next.
[TURN ON THE DAMNED SHIELDS!]
Hearing the order, the man reached to activate the generation, but then the priesthood, and all in the room, even those in the main chamber and out, felt the mansion shutter! As an explosion rang in the lower depth of the mansions! As they looked at each other and recomposed themselves, they tried to assess as the power recycled, only to be met with disappointment. As the bug began to run their lines! Auto guns and autocannons fired at their will….
[sir! It.. gone.. Everything is gone…]
[what? Repeat soldier! What do you mean it gone?] replied the governor having a bad feeling in the pits of his gut.
[the shield generators…]
[the shield generators?] repeated the governor to himself as he slowly realized what that explosion was…
[FUCK! THOSE DAMNED BOUNTY HUNTERS!] continued to scream the governor.
Moments before the shield generators exploded:
Within the underground tunnels… to the mini alters to Slaanesh lay silent in dry blood, the Tyranid menace went unchecked, as they slithered through the combat above them, and through the echoing metals… but while the Tyranid Gaunts killed the servants of Slaanesh, they heard a subtle growls within the pipes…
Turning to look at it, within the blinking lights within the dark corners, they saw the drooling teeth of a creature similar to them in stature! They could smell its wet purple and pink fur, as while as the ooze that dripped from its backside… The snake tail and the serpent tongue, the eyes that glowed in bright orange-red… while the sigil tattoo hummed and glowed… with the body of a Dobermen, the half-blessed hounds of Slaanesh posed with arrogance and graceful lust…
Though the Tyranids were unaffected by such charms… for their gluttony was their only driving force! To satiate such needs, and to follow through with their orders, they piled through the small pipes to feast on the Battlemutts!
Were the bugs thought they would be an easy kill, were met instead, with a sturdy wall! The Battlemutt's outer plates were covered in horns or spikes, while their snake tails opened to hiding blades! Within the small tunnels, the Bug's number counted for not, as they could only squeeze one or two in a line, while others were made to play a game of tag, as the dogs would do hit-and-run tactics as if they had human levels of thought!
As a war raged in the pipes, and their forces divided, Nova took this chance with her team, as she commanded Kora:
[you're up…Kora… Burn them! But mind the vents!]
Smiling at her command, Kora exchanged her normal flamer, for an Icefire! A flamer that shoots out pure frost! A prize weapon she stole from a Skitarii mechanicus! And with its frost, she burned the bugs' front lines! The rippers freezing alive as they rushed to her! And in her joyous laughter, Wrynes commanded the dogs, while he blew up the bugs with his gifted Arbites shotgun. While his iron shield lay close in hand….
While those two held the lines, the other bounty hunters with their generic gear, rushed in to fill the gaps as they continued to push! And as they reached deeper through the bugs, the Trygon grew annoyed, but with time against him, he could only hiss, as he continued to rush to his objective.
Watching the bug slither through the open ironwork rails, through her Galvanic rifle scope, Nova patiently lined up her shot, but even when dressed in stolen battle sister gear, repurposed in Slaanesh's image, she fired her bullet!
As the Trygon slithered through gunfire, coated in fresh blood and scars, through the ice depths in his backlines out came a bullet! As the remaining few bugs died to a shotgun blast, and a few bounty hunters died to surprise attacks from what they perceived to be dead bugs, the galvanic bullet continued to travel through the smoke, binding it and twisting the electric molecules in the air, all while the Trygon reached the Generators!
But seeing his fellow bugs dead and his enemy approaching, he knew he had little time! He could hear the surviving dogs raving's, as mutant freaks covered in open wounds… time was short… too short, even as he felt the embedded weapons of the servitors in his flesh, the open wounds caused by stray gunfire, he was a mess, if only he could dig under but below him all he felt… Was empty space!
With no time to think, the Trygon brought down his scythes upon the generators, but their metal was stronger than he had thought! One hit wasn't enough and he didn't have time to charge an electric blast… at least not fully… but continuing to bash his scythe against them, while charging a small load, the battle hounds had reached him!
Feeling their bite, their claws, feeling his flesh being torn away, hell even as his guts were being stabbed through by sharpened serpent tails, he did not stop! Hearing the humans screaming out commands or words, as he didn't know or care to understand, He just kept stabbing away at his one goal!
Tearing its metal apart, even as his tail was mauled to bare bones, while his back was riddled with holes! Blood poured and drenched everything! But the dogs could not stop him! Even with the strength of their jaws as they attempted to pull him away… then finally... as the humans were at the door, The Trygon… breached the metal shell! But with the breach came a sudden weakness, for too much blood was spilled! Causing the Trygon to fall over and drool out what blood remained in his mouth!
And to his success, the human only laughed as they celebrated their victory as they saw the Trygon fall! But with a claw still in the generator, straight through to its inner workings, the Trygon refused to give in… and so, with what little strength it had left it tried to focus its electric organ for any type of spark! But with a fading conscious, he couldn't ignite it! But as hope was leaving him… and as his eyes were closing, he felt the sting of something hitting him…
He could feel it dig its way through his scales, his flesh, and bones, all the way to his electric organ! And with it, came an electric shock to his nervous system! While his body twitched uncontrolled, he felt his spark ignite! Not knowing why but thankful, even as his body burned… The Trygon… released his thunder!
Seeing the sudden spark enter the generator, the humans cursed as an explosion rocketed the room causing a chain reaction! And while the flames consumed him, the Trygon smiled at HIS VICTORY!