WardenCelestine

Halo: Aegis Team

The first thought that ran through Aviza's mind as soon as she witnessed Spartan Rex receive the devastating blow from the Brute Chieftains Gravity hammer was immediate medical attention for what was most likely a life threatening injury. She knew this could not be done in their current situation, given the circumstances and the obvious threat that was still prevalent. With very few options available at the moment, Aviza sprinted forward towards her fallen Spartan, only coming to a stop when she arrived by his side. "Shih, I need a full scan of Spartan Rex, or as detailed as you can give. Once that is done, I want you to send a message to the Chorus of Thunder and inform them that we have injured and will need a fully detailed medical team on standby once our mission here is finished."

For the moment, Aviza's Argus armor was informing her that she still had a few more seconds before she had to actually face the Brute Chieftain in combat, but a few seconds was all she needed to at least attempt to stabilize Spartan Rex. Quickly reaching onto the advanced medical kit she kept on herself at all times, Aviza produced a biofoam dispenser and was about to place it back inside of the medical case when she witnessed the Chieftain slam his hammer down at the feet of Tar, thankfully no energy wave was dispensed. With some quick thinking, she tossed the biofoam canister at the Brute Chieftains head and then rapid fired the underslung shotgun upon her MA5D Assault Rifle untill the eight round clip ran dry and had to be replaced.

If this did not severely injure the Brute Cheiftan, they would be in serious trouble. Thankfully though, Aviza found an opportunity to assist Tar, and grabbed onto the back of her armor, pulling her back and away from the Brute and helping her onto her feet before once more turning to face the Brute Chieftain.

Warhammer 40k: Enigmas of the Warp

As soon as the first of the five Horrors of Tzeentch had been cut in half by Celestian Andromedai's Phase Sword, the others seemed to immediately adapt. A carapace formed upon them and they moved more rapidly upon the ground, a clear attempt to gain any form of advantage. Little did they know though, the retinue was just as adaptable to the changes that were happening before them. The second horror charged at Stukov and was swiftly blown into pieces that disintegrated into ash due to his shotguns blessed rounds, effectively stopping the horror where it stood for good. At the same time, Cole fired off precision shots at the horrors that hounded the retinue, though it was Adrianne's warp ability that effectively helped bring the lesser threat to an end. With the powers of the warp, the horrors were grouped up and slowed down to the point of where it seemed as if they were standings still, then blown into small pieces beyond recognition, thanks to Medaira and the well placed grenade that had been dropped on top of them.

Unfortunately, the Chaos Spawn had grown weary of merely observing from the rear of the battle, and now felt it was an appropriate time to move forward and begin it's assault upon the retinue. Celestian Andromedai was the first to raise her weapon and fire upon the hulking abomination, and while her rounds seemed to strike the Chaos Spawn, it appeared unphased by any damage it was taking. Unlike the horrors that had charged into the field of battle, the horror merely walked forward then bent down upon its front legs as if it was going to pounce but instead shot forth a hail of razor sharp quills. These quills fired at the retinue as a whole, and Celestian Andromedai found that they had the strength to disrupt even her Rosarius's conversion field emitter. One of the quills even managed to break through, and pierce into the Sister of Battles armor, though thankfully it did not puncture any skin.

In the middle of the fight, the retinues coms would activate, and Aviza's voice would be heard, even over the roars of rage that emitted from the Chaos Spawn. "Celestian Andromedai and retinue." began Aviza, though was quickly cut off from Andromedai who was not having any form of outside interruption at the moment. "Not now Aviza, we are in the middle of a situation!" said Andromedai, though Aviza was being persistent and started again. "There's a situation here as..." this time, Celestian Andromedai raised her voice, almost yelling at Aviza, who finely backed down, "Not now, Chaos Spawn!" The coms fell silent, and Celestian Andromedai fired another volley of heavy bolter rounds at the Chaos spawn who still shrugged off the attacks.

Warhammer 40k: Enigmas of the Warp

@rivaan Dr. J. S. Steinman vibes. ._.

Anyway, post up today, writers block is a hell of a thing.

Warhammer 40k: Enigmas of the Warp

@rivaan Sometimes your character worries me, more so as of recent.

Warhammer 40k: Enigmas of the Warp

The sudden outburst then change of mind from the retinues Psyker caught not only Lillith off-guard but also Celestian Andromedai, who now slowly turned to face the tall woman. For what felt like at least a minute, all eyes were focused upon Adrianne before Celestian Andromedai posed the question that everyone within the room was most likely thinking, "Adrianne, are you alright?" There was no time for a reply though, because Lillith introjected making her own comment, "I have to admit, you are all quite the strange group, I mean that in the most positive way I can, though!" Lillith seemed to peer over her left shoulder at something unseen before turning back to the retinue. "As much as I would like to stay and spend time with all of you, I have others I must turn my attention to. I am sure we will be talking again sometime very soon. Until then, take care of yourselves and enjoy the gift I have left for all of you." Lillith would then bow before the holographic image would vanish.

"I do not like the sound of that, prepare yourselves for a fight." said Celestian Andromedai before taking a few steps backwards. The massive door in front of the retinue that had runes covering it, ceased glowing, the runes vanishing. For a moment, an uncomfortable silence fell over the massive dome shaped room before the door would be violently torn from its secure position and flung across the room at the retinue. Celestian Andromedai quickly jumped out of the way, thankfully missing the door and then moving back onto her feet. What first emerged from the doorway were five Horrors of Tzeentch, but what followed behind it was much worse. A horrific amalgamation of limbs, eyes, teeth, scales, and claws, having trouble even fitting through the doorway. This Chaos Spawn of Tzeentch had a more avian form, almost representing the form of the eagle upon the arch they had entered through earlier ago.

Immediately, the horrors of Tzeentch began charging the retinue, while the Chaos Spawn slowly lumbered forward. Celestian Andromedai knew that if it wanted to, the Chaos spawn could move and great speeds, and from the looks of it even fly, but it seemed to be testing their combat abilities with the smaller horrors before moving to attack. Andromedai immediately unsheathed her Phase Sword and cut through the first horror to get within her range. The blade cut through the demon, with one clean motion, severing the body that seemingly had not noticed that it was now in two pieces.

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Post will be up today!

Side note: I am putting in place a week long posting period, what this means is that everyone has a week to post after I do, then I will post. This will help move things along and keep myself posting frequently as well.

Warhammer 40k: Enigmas of the Warp

Still hiding behind the metal riot barrier, Celestian Andromedai held her ground as the seemingly endless heavy bolter fire pelted her location. The heavy weapons explosive rounds would occasionally fly over her head and detonate, though thankfully none had managed to bypass her Rosarius, and were little more than a nuisance as long as she did not take any direct hits. Leaning to her left, Andromedai peaked around the riot barrier for a few short seconds, trying to get a view of where she could fire off a few rounds or perhaps toss a grenade. What she observed was that the window where the heavy bolter had been set up, now had a hastily set up bunker-like shield set up over it. Smalls arms fire would do little, but her Adrastus Bolt Caliver could possibly strip the metal shielding off of it and give her enough room to throw a grenade or other explosive into the reinforced position.

"I may be able to weaken their reinforced position, but I will take some fire from doing so." said Andromedai as she readied to fire. Peaking back around the left side corner of the riot barrier, Andromedai fired off a well placed hail of heavy bolter fire at the reinforced position upon the sixth floor of the apartment building. This was immediately answered with heavy bolter fire from whoever was manning the weapon nest. The rounds barely missed Andromedai as she quickly moved back into cover, deciding that they would have to be more creative with their approach. Turning to face the rest of her retinue, Celestian Andromedai overhead the conversation between Stukov and Adrianne. They were apparently planning to teleport themselves up into the apartment complex to flank the reinforced position, and Andromedai wanted to join them, but decided to refrain from mentioning that. "That could work, just be cautious, you two do not know what you will find within the apartment." said Andromedai as she merely observed the two vanish from where they had been taking cover with a bright, violet flash of light that left lingering after images within her vison.

For a moment, it seemed as if nothing had happened. The heavy bolter fire continued to pelt her position, and Celestian Andromedai was beginning to wonder if they had been teleported to the wrong apartment complex, or perhaps somewhere much, much worse. Andromedai opened her mouth to inquire if Stukov and Adrianne were alright when suddenly, one of the cultists flew through the front wall of the sixth story apartment complex, followed by flaming debris that rained down upon her. "Clearly, you two have the situation under control." said Andromedai as the heavy bolter fire from above suddenly ceased. Using the break in fire as an opportunity to advance into the apartment complex. As she kicked down the front door of the apartment complex, she replied to Medaira's question, "You have been pondering? Don't think to hard or you may hurt yourself. All kidding aside, I doubt those were the only hostile forces. We will encounter more as we head deeper into the apartment complex, I am sure."

Sweeping her Adrastus Bolt Caliver from the left and then to the right, she noticed that there were currently no hostiles within the immediate area. Andromedai did not lower her weapon though, and kept it at the ready, and would fire upon any movement that was not friendly. "Cole and Medaira, follow behind me, watch your corners and your our backs." Taking a few steps forward, Andromedai immediately noticed the gold and blue decorations that were excessive and intricate. "Sure feels like a Tzeentch base rahter than something Khorne." Flipping a small switch upon the side of her Adrastus Bolt Caliver, Andromedai activated the weapons Adrastite directed energy beam. "Everyone regroup on the first floor, we will decide our next move from there." said Andromedai, who noticed that the apartment complex was oddly quiet, except for their own movements through the building. Taking a few steps forward once more, Andromedai felt a low rumble through the floor boards beneath her feet.

Taking a grenade from her belt, Andromedai prepped it before tossing it far down the hallway in front of her. It would land upon the ground with a metallic noise that echoed through the apartment complex before detonating. The explosion knocked paintings off of walls and sent splinters from furniture and other debris flying in every direction. Along with the detonation and debris, arks of bright blue electricity shot across the hallway in front of them, barely missing Andromedai and her squad. When in a Tzeentch base, expect traps." said Andromedai as she stepped forward as soon as the arks ended. Leaning forward, she would expect the traps that had been placed. "These traps were made to stun anyone that entered them, not kill them. They want us alive after all, but for what reason, I wonder?" said Andromedai as she stepped forward and pointed towards the end of the hallway where a new door had been exposed from the blast of the grenade. "There is our entrance into said Tzeentch base, I will take lead." Andromedai would carefully but quickly move forward towards the door, reaching out she gripped onto its handle and opened it just enough for one of Andromedai's flashbangs to be slipped through. Prepping one of the stun grenades, she tossed it through the opening of the door then closed it for a moment, waiting for it explosion. Once it did go off, Andromedai would kick open the door and began heading down a set of lavish marble stairs and even more lavishly decorated hallway. At the end of it, was a massive dome shaped room, painted upon the ceiling was an image of Tzeentch himiself. Andromedai quickly glanced away and noticed that there was only one door in front of them, but it was massive, and seemed to be sealed off by some sort of warp runes.

"I was expecting a base of sorts but, this is more than what I had in mind." said Andromedai as she she raised her weapon and readied to fire upon any hostile that may show itself up her. For the moment, nothing happened, but then a sickening wave of energy washed over the room, and the image of someone that matched the image of the previously described Daemonette appeared in front of them. Andromedai instantly fired upon the hostile, but the energy beam went right through her, it was merely a warp holographic image cast before them.

The Daemonette now spoke, "So this is the Inquisitorial retinue that has discovered my presence, and our small shrine to Tzeentch. The Daemonettes voice was smooth, calming, peaceful, non-threatening, welcoming, why would you want to fight her? "I am Lillith, and you mortals are so easily predicted, such simple creatures that I have become rather fond of. I know each of you, your names, your mission here, your movements through the city and beyond. I enjoy knowing these things, and also know what it is you are after. You are here to clear out Chaos infiltrators, cultists, and any other forces that may impede upon your Imperium of Man. I can give you all of this information for nothing in return. For I already have what I want, and have already achieved my goal within the system. So, Andromedai, Stukov, Medaira, Cole, and of course Adrianne." The Daemonette winked slyly at their Psyker, before continuing what she was saying, "What shall it be? Will you accept my offer of information or shall we engage in the bloodshed you and your type are all so familiar with?"

Halo: Aegis Team

Staying in cover behind one of the support beams inside of the room, Spartan Aviza swept the crosshairs of her MA5D over the retreating targets. She would fire off a few short and accurate bursts at either the Chieftain or the other Brutes who fell back with him, knowing that they were the primary threats. It seemed as if the two forces were at a stand off, and one of them would have to make a move before any ground could be made. Aviza realized this and was preparing to use her SRS99-S5 AM Sniper Rifle to weaken the Brute Chieftain, though before she could pull the trigger, he let out a roar that echoed though the chamber. Suddenly, Brute stalkers opened fire upon Tar and Yalu with Spikers, while two incendiary grenades were tossed to the rear, attempting to cut off their retreat. Spartan Aviza started to give out orders, "Rex, head to the right side of the room and see if you can climb up the support beam to deal with those Brute Stalkers. I am going to climb the left support beam and deal with the Stalkers here. The rest of you pressure those advancing hostiles, we will handle them shortly." Aviza would then quickly engage her active camouflage, vanishing from sight.

Using the few areas upon the support beam that she could grip, Aviza pulled herself up and onto the overhead walkway directly above the team’s position. For the moment, the Brute Stalkers were focused upon Tar and Yalu and had not noticed her arrival. Using this to her advantage, and knowing that her Shotgun would give her away immediately, Aviza reached down and gripped onto her energy sword, the one she had taken from the Mammoths armory. It would power on, showing only a faint crimson outline of the weapons shaped super heated plasma upon her helmets HUD. This HUD highlighted the first Brute Stalker, showing her where the armor was supposedly the weakest, or where there was no armor protecting the massive ape like creature.

Charging forward, Aviza closed the gap between the first Brute Stalker and immediately made a swift stabbing motion at the first Brute Stalkers left underarm. The energy sword easily traveled through the Brutes flesh and appeared out of his upper left shoulder before Aviza pulled the weapon back, almost severing the limb from the Brute Stalkers torso. The first Brute Stalker howled in anger and pain before using his right arm to swing blindly through the air in frantic motions, attempting to hit whatever had just attacked him. Aviza quickly dropped to the ground and slid under the swinging arm of the first Brute Stalker just as her active camouflage deactivated. Now, she was in-between two very angry Brute Stalkers that wanted nothing more than to end her life, violently. The Brute Stalker on the other end of the platform quickly turned as he saw his fellow Brute start to flail his right arm around in an attempt to hit something, though as soon as he saw Aviza he turned his spiker upon her and fired. Bringing up the energy sword once more, Aviza cut clean through the wrist of the Brute Stalker who held the Spiker in her direction. While some of the spikes came close to hitting more delicate areas, her armors shields fully protected her.

The Brutes Spiker fell to the ground, his right hand still gripping onto the weapon as it fired blindly. The Brute who was now missing his right hand let out a roar and attempted to grab Aviza by the neck, though the Spartan quickly rolled to the right and used her free hand to grip onto the spiker that he had dropped. With one swift movement, she picked up the weapon and turned it upon him. A few of the spikes from the weapon made their mark before running out of ammo. She tossed the weapon at the Brutes head. It made contact, disorienting him for a moment, giving Aviza enough time to turn and focus upon the Brute Stalker behind her with the crippled left arm. Throwing herself to the right, she barely managed to miss an attack from him as he seemed to go berserk, as Brutes tended to do when in some situations. Using the Energy Blade once more, she swung downwards and cut the Brutes left arm clean off from his body, though the Brute apparently did not notice or was so fueled by adrenalin that he merely fought through the pain.

Aviza felt the Brute from behind her kick her in the back, though he recoiled from kicking her armor and stumbled. The force was still enough to send Aviza flying into the Brute that was missing his left arm. Bringing up her left knee, she used the force of the other Brute kicking her to knock the other Brute Stalker onto the ground. With Crimson energy sword still in hand, she brought it through the Brute Stalkers neck, and pulled roughly to the left to ensure the Brute Stalker was now dead. The remaining Brute Stalker on the right of her now charged at Aviza as she was standing up and turning around to face him. Instead of moving out of the way, Aviza used her energy sword to stab the Brute Stalker through his chest. She took the hit but still managed to impale the Brute. Both of them stumbled back a bit before Aviza quickly charged forward and knocked the Brute over the walkway and down to the ground below. Catching herself before she fell, she watched as the Brute plummeted down to the ground below and landed directly onto the incendiary grenades that they had tossed a short moment ago. The Brute Stalker failed around in the flames before dying, and at the same time putting out some of the flames.

"Left upper walkway is clear, use the dead Brute as a way to fall back if needed." said Spartan Aviza as she moved forward upon the walkway and prepped two of her own incendiary grenades. They were quickly but carefully tossed with force upon the Brute Chieftain, who Aviza now saw as their primary target. "Remember, keep that human commander alive, I have questions for him." added Aviza as she readied herself to fight their greatest challenge yet.

Warhammer 40k: Enigmas of the Warp

The concept of using a person as a living warp bomb was a disturbing scenario for Celestian Andromedai, and one she had heard about but not truly witnessed until a short moment ago. How one person could explode with such force to send a fully armored individual flying like a childs toy across a large distance remained a question in the back of the Celestians mind, and one she would have to run past Adrianne when she had the opportunity to. At the moment though, the point that Stukov had brought up was a sound one. What had just happened was most likely designed to take out lighter armored targets, or to distract them from something happening elsewhere. "I would not be suprised Stukov, though not following up with a counter attack immediately afterwards is sloppy, even for those of Khorne. I believe that it was a distraction to keep us away from something. Celestian Andromedai glanced around her as if looking for something that stood out of the ordinary, or would guide them forward.

There was nothing at the moment, so she turned to Medaira to speak to their local friendly, albeit strange Tech-Priest. "Rituals and ambushes aside Medaira, the living warp bomb means they were prepared for us, and will continue to be in the future, I am sure of it." Andromedai took a few steps forward ahead of the group in a random direction, then paused to turn back towards her retinue. "Adrianne, what causes someone to explode like..." Celestian Andromedai paused in the middle of what she was saying and tilted her slightly to the left in concern as their Pysker clutched her head. "Adrianne, are you alright?" inquired Celestian Andomedai. This was answered though as Adrianne pointed towards the six story builds to their north. Andromedai opened her mouth and got part of a question out, "Are you sure? It could be a misdirection, attempting to..."

The Sister of Battle was unable to finish her sentence, as a hail of heavy bolter fire came from a window of the six story building Adrianne had pointed at. "Get into cover!" yelled Andromedai as she quickly charged forward and took cover behind a more solid object, which was a metal barrier set up for some unknown reason. Grabbing onto her Adrastus Bolt Caliver, she prepped the weapon ready to fire and took careful aim, pulling the trigger for the heavy bolter built into a normal bolter frame. The rounds flew towards where the hostile heavy bolter fire was coming from. The fire stopped for a moment, but then picked up once more, now focusing upon her position, "They are focused upon me, see if you can take out the main hostile." said Andromedai, a few short seconds before more heavy bolter fire opened up upon their position from higher up within the apartment complex.

Halo: Aegis Team

Situational awareness is crucial upon the field of battle, Spartan Aviza had learned this through many years of not only combat training but also experience in live fire situations. Unfortunately, it appeared that some of the other members of her immediate squad had either forgotten this important tactic or were more brazen and impatient than the others. To Aviza, is was clear that the hostiles had set up some kind of trap for them, though she was unsure what that trap would be. Perhaps they were trying to lure some of the forces into an area then cut them off from the others with some sort of energy barrier? That would make them easy to overwhelm, and the hostile forces on the other side would have to somehow deactivate the shield before being able to assist. Whatever their plan was, Spartan Aviza was not about to let any harm come to those under her command.

Quickly, Aviza gave orders to the two had moved away from the rest of the squad, "Why are you advancing into what is most likely a trap? What happens if you two get cut off from the rest of the squad and we can not help? I want both of you back to my position immediately, the rest of us will provide cover and then try to find out what they have planned for us ahead." Spartan Aivza hoped that there was still time for the two Sangheili to correct their mistake, if not, the situation at hand was about to get much worse.