Chapter 7 – Months of Storm PART 2
The ark sailed underwater until it reached the shipyards built into the sides of a cave entrance, upon approaching the Despotek sent the order to the ark, the ark released the twenty Necron warriors and the Despotek, and they stepped on the bottom of the sea and walked towards the beach.
When leaving the water and stepping on the sand, Despotek ordered his units to hide behind the rocks on the beach, close to the shipyard, then Despotek sent an order to the ark. The ark advanced towards the shipyards, sailing in front of the buildings.
Then the ark aimed its lines of Gauss Flayers at the dockyard and fired.
At first nothing seemed to happen until the ships began to sink.
"Wot iz happening?" Mekboy commanding shipyard operations shouted.
Looking out to sea, Mekboy saw a green light glowing in the water.
"It's 'da tin men! Shoot 'da light!" Mekboy shouted as he ordered the other orks from the shipyard, the orks ran along the walkways and platforms with their weapons in hand, and then opened fire towards the light.
Upon seeing this, the Despotek ordered the ark to circle in front of the shipyard while firing its guns at different targets, Gauss rounds hit the ships in their submerged sections, allowing water to rush in, and other shots hit cranes, knocking them on top of orks and ships, some hit the beams that supported the walkways, platforms and docks of the shipyard, knocking them down.
The Despotek ordered his troops to advance towards the distracted orks, slowly the warriors advanced; hiding behind the rocks near the shipyards, when they got close enough the Despotek gave the order.
"Fire."
The warriors came out of their cover and shot the distracted orks, it took some orks to be turned into ashes, for the orks to realize what was happening.
"Tin man, yer will teef for sink'n 'da ships!" Mekboy screamed as he aimed his Kustom Mega Slugga at Despotek, the weapon releasing blasts of energy.
The Despotek took cover behind a boulder, the energy shots scorching holes in the boulder.
"The only one who will pay is you, for defying my lord." The Despotek responded by stepping out of cover and firing his Gauss Blaster.
The Mekboy ran across the shipyard, Gauss's fire disintegrating parts of the shipyard close behind, until the Mekboy took cover behind a large metal box.
"Advance." The Despotek commanded.
The warriors advanced through the shipyard while exchanging fire with the orks, the orks took cover behind machines and boxes scattered around the shipyard, but that didn't help to protect them against Gauss's shots.
An ork was hit in the chest, he was covered in a green light, and what was left was a pair of legs that fell to the ground, another ork came running across the yard, with a choppa raised he managed to cut off the arm of a necron warrior and then his head, the warrior was teleported back to the tomb.
The ork was disintegrated by the firing of gauss weapons from the remaining warriors, slowly the warriors were advancing; the Despotek decided to send another order, this time to the ark, the ark emerged and fired its weapons towards the orks in the shipyard.
A barrage of gauss fire had hit the orks; the orks were being attacked from two different sides, the warriors advancing through the dockyard and the ark firing far into the sea.
Eventually, a gauss blast from the ark hit an ammunition box that was being loaded onto a ship.
BOOM!
A huge explosion shook the shipyard, flames covered the facility, the Despotek sent another order, part of the warriors stopped shooting at the orks and concentrated on causing damage to the shipyards, the warriors fired at the crates containing ammunition and the tanks containing fuel.
Explosion after explosion rocked the shipyard.
"I'll rip off yer arms an' use im as a back scratcher!" Mekboy screamed as he fired his weapon and ran towards Despotek.
Energy shots hit Despotek, opening some holes in his body, Despotek aimed his weapon at Mekboy, but Mekboy managed to deflect Despotek's weapon to the side and hit him with one of his tools, specifically a hammer.
The Mek managed to hit the Despotek on the side of its head, denting the metal, the Despotek swung his weapon towards the Mek, the blade attached underneath the Gauss Blaster slashing the Mek at the waist.
The Mek took a step back and then advanced, trying to hit Despotek in the chin with his hammer, the Despotek took a step to the side, letting the blow hit the air, the Despotek raised his weapon and brought the blade down towards the ork, the blade digging into his shoulder.
"Aaaahhh! Kome ere ya git!" The Mek screamed as it pulled the Despotek close and aimed his gun at the Despotek's chest, firing at close range. Each energy blast opened a hole in Despotek's body, Despotek gripped his weapon harder and sank it even deeper into the ork's shoulder, and then Despotek fired his Gauss Blaster.
"AAAHHH!" The Mek screamed in pain as a hole was ripped through his body, his arm and much of his chest destroyed.
The Despotek kicked the Mek in the chest, throwing him to the ground, the Despotek approached the Mek, and simultaneously the Mek aimed his weapon at the Despotek with the little strength he had left.
Mek shot at Despotek, but Despotek didn't even bother to dodge, his enemy was on the verge of death, Despotek pointed his gun at Mek's face.
"Last words, creature?" The Despotek asked.
"I will… I'll rip yer head off… An put it on 'da front uv ma ship…" The Mek said between heavy breaths.
"Even in death you don't say anything relevant." Despotek said as he fired his weapon.
With the ork dead, the Despotek looked around, the shipyard was in flames, pieces crumbling from all sides, ships were sinking in the sea, and the few orks that remained were being eliminated by the warriors, with an order the Despotek ordered the ark to approach the shipyard and fire its weapons, causing even more damage.
So the Despotek walked into the dockyard flames to join the fight, his body's self-repair repairing the damage it received.
With Haratek
The rain intensified as Haratek advanced through the vegetation of the island, what before were a few raindrops, turned into a storm, strong winds shook the trees, lightning fell from the sky as if it were an orbital bombardment, loud thunder like artillery fire assaulted the ears of living beings on the planet, and the rain fell like a barrage of autogun bullets, if Haratek was a living being he would have difficulty seeing and hearing during this climate.
Haratek and his company walked in a loose formation, the warriors and the Despotek walking among the trees, eventually they saw artificial lights forming ahead, Haratek advanced to the tree line and with his improved vision he analyzed the area in front of him.
It was a large clearing with an airstrip and several warehouses, there were no planes on the runway, probably the orks could not take off in this weather, around the clearing there were watchtowers with orks inside, and orks patrols were walking around the base.
Haratek scanned the base, the position of the orks being marked and sent to the Despotek and warriors, the units advanced to the tree line and pointed their weapons towards the orks.
On the ork base
"Hey, do yer fink 'da boss will kall us ta fight?" One ork boy asked the other while the two patrolled the base, the orks wore goggles, to at least be able to see during the rain.
"Wot?" The other ork screamed, unable to hear anything over the noise of rain and thunder.
"I asked if ya fink 'da boss will kall us ta fight." The boy said again.
"Wot?" The other answered.
"I SAID… AAAHHH!" The ork wasn't quite finished, most of its body being disintegrated by a Gauss Flayer blast.
The remaining ork looked surprised at what happened, immediately he turned to where the shot came from, about to fire his weapon, but it was too late, the ork disintegrated as well.
In a watchtower, two orks watched the base for anything out of the ordinary.
"'Dat sucks!" One of the orks said.
"I know, but Zazzog will take our heads off if we don't do wot 'e says, 'da boss 'as put Zazzog 'n charge an Zazzog 'as ta do wot 'da boss says, 'da boss 'as sent Zazzog ta take kare uv 'da island an if someth'n happens ta 'da island 'da boss will finish Zazzog an Zazzog will finish us." The other ork answered.
"Why iz Zazzog so important?"
"Listen ere Zazzog iz a big mek, 'e's bigga an stronga dan ya, 'e 'as weapons 'dat kan turn ya inside out, so ya betta not let 'em hear ya talk'n bad about 'em! did ya understand?!"
The ork nodded yes.
"Well, zazzog an' his meks make 'da best shootas 'n 'da bunch; if ya survive long enough maybe 'e'll send a mek ta make a shoota to ya."
"Do ya fink i kan get a snazzgun?"
"If yer have enough teeth… but wot iz this?" The ork said when he saw something strange in the tree line, something green glowed there. The ork went to the edge of the tower and turned on a spotlight and when the ork illuminated the forest he saw a pair of green eyes staring at him.
Immediately lightning split the sky, lighting up the forest, for a moment the ork saw dozens of green eyes staring at him from between the trees.
"Sound da alarm!" The ork screamed.
The second ork complied with the order and went towards the "alarm", the alarm consisted of a squig sitting in the cabin of the tower, and the ork kicked the squig causing it to release a scream similar to a bombing alarm from World War II.
The base went on alert, ork came out of the warehouses with weapons ready, and the patrols joined the other orks in the effort to fight the invaders. From the forest around the base, coming from different directions, gauss fire hit the orks that failed to take cover.
This served as a distraction for Haratek to be able to infiltrate the base, Haratek left the tree line in an area left unprotected by the orks, accompanied by Despotek and four warriors, Haratek advanced towards the largest warehouse in the base.
Stopping in front of the warehouse, Haratek held out his hand, a small metallic disc appeared in his hand in a flash of green light; Haratek placed the disc on the warehouse gate.
But instead of the explosion that many expected, the gate was molecularly destroyed, turning it into a pile of ash, Haratek and his units walked into the warehouse, shooting at the orks caught by surprise.
DAKKA!
DAKKA!
DAKKA!
But Haratek's advance was stopped by a hail of bullets that came towards him; Haratek took a step back at great speed, allowing the bullets to hit the ground.
"'O 'da hell are yer?!" A guttural voice demanded.
Looking in the direction of the voice, Haratek saw a large ork standing on top of a high walkway overlooking the lower part of the warehouse. The ork wore a visor, body armor pieces, metal shoulder pads, metal pieces covering his arms and legs, on his back the ork carried a device similar to tesla coils with wires connecting them, electricity flowed through the coils. In his left hand, Mek wore a tweezers-shaped gauntlet and in his right hand he carried a Kombi-Weapon.
"My name is Haratek; I am here in the service of the great Overlord Akatosahk Ulthagakh. Are you the ork responsible for this installation?" Haratek asked.
"Dat's right, ya tin man! I am Big Mek Zazzog Brazzhead!" Zazzog replied as he pointed his pincers at Haratek.
"I understand. Fire!" Haratek ordered his units.
The Despotek and the warrior opened fire on Zazzog, but the shots never made contact as an energy shield around Zazzog blocked them.
"Hahaha! Wot do yer fink uv ma force field?! Take them out boyz!" Zazzog screamed.
A large metal door on the other side of the warehouse opened and ork ran in the warehouse, carrying improvised melee weapons and firearms.
"You are but scum, not worth the effort." Haratek said to the advancing orks.
Haratek pressed a button on a screen on his arm and a signal was emitted in the warehouse, the device used was a Cryptogeometric Adjuster, this device messed with the senses of non-necron life forms, distorting their perception of space and time.
The orks in the warehouse, minus Zazzog, thrashed and shot wildly, giving the necrons the opportunity to fire freely, meanwhile Haratek advanced towards Zazzog.
Haratek opened his hand and a Rod teleported out, it was a meter long black Rod covered in gold and silver hieroglyphs.
"I'll drow yer 'n da trash kompactor, tin man!" Zazzog yelled as he pointed his Kombi-Weapon at Haratek, the weapon was a mix of several different weapons, Zazzog chose to send a bolt of electricity towards Haratek.
Haratek didn't bother to dodge, he just hit the shot with his Rod, the energy was absorbed by the Rod, Haratek spun the Rod in his hand, electricity accompanying his movements and pointed the Rod at Zazzog, and a bolt of lightning came out of the Rod and flew towards Zazzog.
Haratek's weapon was a Rod of Night, a weapon capable of controlling, absorbing, storing energy and releasing it in powerful shots.
Zazzog ran to the side, letting the lightning hit the walkway, the impact created an explosion, tearing off a piece of the walkway and destroying part of the roof and wall of the warehouse, leaving a large hole and molten metal.
"WWWAAAGGGHHH!" Zazzog screamed as he fired repeatedly with the tesla mode of his weapon, Haratek walked towards Zazzog, with fluid movements Haratek blocked each shot with his Rod and returned them to Zazzog.
Zazzog managed to dodge most of the shots, and the ones he couldn't dodge, his force field blocked, but slowly cracks formed in the force field.
Seeing that the energy shots didn't work, Zazzog switched his weapon's function to that of a machine gun.
"Try block'n now tin man!" Zazzog screamed as he fired.
"You waste your breath on your empty threats, primitive creatures." Haratek said as he dodged the shots.
For many it seemed that Haratek was teleporting, but thanks to Zazzog's visor he realized that Haratek was going from one point to another at great speed.
"WAAGGHH!" Zazzog screamed as he tried to keep up with Haratek.
Haratek ran through the warehouse, the bullets being a few centimeters behind him, Haratek ran between the machines and orks scattered around the warehouse, Zazzog didn't bother in destroying his equipment or killing his boyz, all he wanted was to finish off Haratek.
Eventually Haratek was placed with his back to the wall in the warehouse, Zazzog taking the chance switched the function of his weapon to that of a rocket launcher, several rockets flew towards Haratek, but when they were about to hit him, Haratek flew up, away from the exploding rockets.
"Stop runn'n an' fight tin man!" Zazzog screamed as he tried to hit Haratek, Haratek flew around the warehouse dodging Zazzog's attacks that alternated between the machine gun and rocket launcher.
Haratek flew along with the ceiling, the rockets opening holes and letting the rain in, the sound of the storm previously muffled by the roof of the warehouse can be heard by all.
Haratek continued flying, he went from the center of the warehouse to the right, when he reached the wall Haratek descended towards the ground, a few centimeters from the ground Haratek flew to the left of the warehouse and climbed up next to the wall, all while dodging the shots and rockets from Zazzog.
"Fight Tin Man!" Zazzog screamed as he fired rockets at Haratek.
"I will grant your wish." Haratek replied as he flew towards Zazzog.
Haratek dodged the rockets launched towards him, each one exploding and creating a cloud of smoke, the last one created a cloud big enough to hide Haratek, but a few seconds later the necron came out of the smoke and landed on the walkway in front of Zazzog. .
"Tired uv running?" Zazzog asked mockingly.
"I just got tired of your futile attempts to eliminate me." Haratek replied.
With a scream of rage, Zazzog aimed his weapon at Haratek, only for Haratek to knock his weapon upwards with a swing of his Rod, the weapon's shoot opening a hole in the ceiling above the walkway, then Zazzog tried to grab Haratek with his pincers, but Haratek took a step back making Zazzog grab the air.
But unfortunately for Haratek, Zazzog was not without tricks, Zazzog pointed his pincers at Haratek, and from the center of the gauntlet a tube opened and from that tube came a jet of flames.
"Hahaha! Do ya like 'dat, tin man?" Zazzog laughed.
Haratek took a few steps back as he was hit by fire, but Haratek's necrodermis was of such high quality, it wouldn't be damaged by something as simple as fire.
Haratek steadied his feet and took a step forward, knocking Zazzog's flamethrower aside and then slamming his Rod of Night into Zazzog's force field. The force field glowed brightly, the coils on Zazzog's back exploded, until the energy was fully absorbed by the Rod.
Next, Haratek slammed his Rod into Zazzog's chest and electrocuted him.
"AAAHHH!" Zazzog screamed as he was electrocuted, but he resisted, Zazzog wasn't a Big Mek for nothing.
Fighting the agonizing pain, Zazzog took a step forward, his pincer extended towards Haratek's head, upon seeing this Haratek tried to pull away, but Zazzog was faster, Zazzog grabbed Haratek by the head and squeezed it with his pincer.
"I win tin man!" Zazzog screamed as he crushed Haratek's head, only for Haratek to explode in a bright light, blinding Zazzog.
Just before Zazzog tried to grab him, Haratek activated his Photonic Transubjector, creating a solid light hologram of himself, Haratek allowed the hologram to be grabbed as he walked away.
"Wrong, creature, I won." Haratek said as he stood under the hole in the ceiling above the walkway.
Haratek pointed his Rod upwards, and as if the storm understood what Haratek wanted a lightning bolt fell towards Haratek, the warehouse was filled with a strong white light and when Zazzog regained his vision all he saw was Haratek pointing the Rod of Night towards him.
Zazzog didn't have time to scream, run, or think, in the end there was no more Zazzog, only ashes.
With that final blow a huge explosion demolished the warehouse and from its ruins emerged Haratek with Despotek and the warriors.
"My Lord, the mission has been completed; the military infrastructure of the primitives has been destroyed." Haratek said as he got in contact with his Overlord.
"You did well Haratek, finish eliminating the orks and return to the tomb." The Overlord replied.
"As you wish my lord." Haratek replied as he ended the communication.
With the mission complete, Haratek did what necrons do best, wiping out all life in the region.
Tomb
Well, Haratek succeeded in his mission, now all that's left is to get rid of that damn cannon. My forces are advancing at an acceptable speed, but I believe it's time to deal with the Warboss personally.
"Rahkikh, Thaszan!" I said as I lifted from my throne.
"Yes, my lord!" The Lychguards responded simultaneously.
"Bring me my command barge!"
END OF THE CHAPTER