The 518th

[The 518th]

i know the first 2 are in need of major editing (sounds more like a script) but i havnt had the time to yet...critism is always good...jsut try to go stroylinewise and not writing conventions =p


Prologue

armeggedon, one of the main forge worlds of the imperium, it is so polluted from industrialization and non stop war that people out side of the hive cities must wear a rebreather mask because of this. amreggedon is such an important forge wolrd constantly sending out men, weapons, and machines that if it falls the whole system will collapse. amreggedon has endured 3 of the largest ork WAAAAGHS ever seen and nuclear cleansing.

it is the 41st mellenium and there is only war!

the 518th
it was a gloomy and dismal day, well of course this was a good day on armeggedon, hot, weatherless, dry......"home sweet home" muttered colonel faust of the 518th armeggedon armored devision. peeking over the trenchline he took out his looking scope and saw a shape moving in the distance, faust looked around quickly and say a man cleaning his longlas "you any good with that?" faust says indicating the longlas, the sergeant stand up and says "sir master marksmen of the 678th steel legion!" faust replys "you dont need that kind uniformality with me..jsut answer the question" with a sigh of releife he sits back down and says "yes sir i am a pretty good shot". faust tells the sergeant to get up and takes him to the lip of the trench "see that casuality over there?" says faust indicating the ork across the feild
"casualty sir?"the sergeant asks
"hmmm...u must be a greeny, whats your name son? and in this devision we go by the saying 'anything visible is a causalty'"replys faust
"names kaufman sir"says the sergeant
"well kaufman i want a hotshot round through the head" orders faust
"hotshot round sir??why waste one of those when i could put a normal round between the eyes?"asks kaufman
"because my young green freind an ork has an amazing abibilty to survive brain damage.....probably because they dont use to much of it" faust remarks.
kaufman grins and turns around, taking a minute to recallobrate the sight. then you hear a loud ZZP! even through the sound suppressor. all of the sudden a look out yells "incomming greenskins! several thousand of 'em!". fasut thinks to himself 'several thousand...we can take care of that'. faust grabs the the vox reciever from his vox officer and yells.
"you see those causlties comming towards us??? you know what to do....."
there was loud agreement, followed by the ordenence blast of the dug in tanks, the ZZP of the lascannon emplacemts, and the chug of the heavy bolters and heavy stubbers, soon the rest of the devision was out, lasguns firing. many greenskins fell under the barrage but there was more then they has anticipated
"fix bayonets!" fust ordered
"remember hive hades! for the emperor!" faust yells as he climbs over the lip of the trench followed shortly by commisar saunt and the rest of his command squad soon followed by the rest of the devision who isnt manning a heavy weapon or vehicle. faust draws his botl pistol and hits the activations rune on his power sword, as the sword hums with energy he spins and uses the momentum to decapitate the nearest ork, before he even gets around he puts a .75 caliber round into the face of another. fuast felt a tinge of greif as he heard the shout of "medic!" over the vox line, knowing the medic would never come in this melee. after that split second of vunerability he was back to his onslaught, as he cliced into another ork he noticed sgt.kaufman having trauble with an ork boy. faust raed his bolt pistol and hear a 'click', after muttering a silent oath to the empty magazine he charged and dismembered the ork, then heard a 'boom' and see's kaufman laying on the ground, he used his body to cover an ork stikkbomb that was thrown, but wa barely alive.....faust new he wouldnt make it and would die a slow and painful death....so after tking the tiem to reload he rased his bolt pistol and with a tear streaming down his face mutters a silent prayer before the mercy killing.....faust will never forget this.
now fighting with a new sense of fury he runs and kills another ork, faust suddenly look up to see a 13 ft giant in ork 'eavy armor staring down at him with a grin. faust unloads the rest of his bolt pistol clip into a mob of orkz behind the boss. faust then throws the bolt pistol at the boss and slices at the bosses left arm, and cuts clean through his kustom shoota, the orkz eyes widen in astonishment and says in that gutteral language of theres
"dis iz gonna be a good fight 'umie"
now faust is about 6"3' with descent size muscles, an above average man, with his normal tan flak coat, rebreather mask he had jsut recently affixed, black helmet, and his power sword.....
staring up at this 13 ft tall giant...probably as wide as he is tall.....power klaw faust could swear was bigger than him, a broken kustm shoota, and out of the wound faust gave it earlier, he could see that these things arent fat at all.....they are probably huge balls of musle....
now faust looked around....the fighting has actualy stopped and a circle has been formed around the 2 combatants, and if faust didnt know any better he could swear cage was taking bets.....so faust unlatched his rebreather and couldnt help but grin, the ork tilted his head inquisitivly before lashing out with his power klaw. faust brought his sword up to defend himself, but this was no normal ork, he was fast! and brought the power klaw down on is right arm (sword arm), only to get stuck, faust could swear he heard some greeny faint, the ork ,looked at him questionly as he pulled out the klaw. faust then pulled out his knife and cut the sleeve off his flak coat to reveal is bionic arm. and then threw the knide at the hydrolics tube on the orkz shoota arm, rendering it uselse. now gone beserk the ork charged at faust,m but faust merely spun around to dodge the swipe of the orks klaw arm and stabbed the sword into the orkz back, but the ork turned around quicker than expecte and the power sword was still stuck....so while doging this next blow faust pulled out his holstered las pistol and hot 3 rounds into the ork....they bounced off harmlessly. as faust looked down at the pistol he noticed it was on low...the reason it was will never be known.
after adjusting the pistol for high (reducing the number os shots from 30-10), faust ducked the next clumsy strike and waited for the ork to turn around and unloaded the rest of the power pack into the orkz face....turning it into a gory mess. the orkz looked around as if trying to find someone to tell them what to do, they then started to back away, only to be mowed down in a hail of gunfire.
faust looked across the horizon and saw the commisar approaching totaly unscratched, then a corporal said what faust was thinking.
"how do they seem to get out of every engagement without a scratch? i dont think here all that special"
well apparently the commisar heard this and shot a look at the corporal that would make a tyranid carnifex stop in its tracks. faust couldnt help but laugh, but before the commisar reached faust, corbec red companys cheif engineer stopped and loked at fuast with a look of concern on his face.
"try to move your arm sir" askes the engineer
faust did this and looked questioningly at the engineer.
"no sir the bionic one" says corbec with a hint of annoyance in his voice
faust tryies this....but to his suprise he cant move it!
"let me get that for you sir" said corbec
while the engineer who was an electrition in his past life went to work, the commisar approached and said
"800 dead, 300 wounded"
struck with greif because faust never liked to take causalties he says
"so that leaves us wit a gran total of 1,500 men to replace (due to previous engagments)?
"yes colonel,when do you think you will be ready for leave?" asks the commisar
"leave sir?" asks the engineer
"i need to go get some more boys"replys faust
"when will we be done corbec?" faust then asks
the engineer looks at the 'wound' and then looks at his tools....and finaly says "about 2 hours"
"well lets do it in the trench....i hate being a casualty" faust says
faust then taps his micro bead and says " red 1, blue 9, gold 6, you guys are one cooking duty"

it only allows 10,000 things of text so i hafta break it up =p

[The 518th]

The sun had just set....one of the things all of the soldiers of armeggeddon feared...night. samuel was on look out, looking for a sign that the flare traps set by the ork hunters went off. he saw a thing oflight in the distance, taking off his glare goggles he put the scope of his longlas up to his eye what he saw he would never forget.....

There was an engagement to the east, and the 518th was ordered to reinforce the legions lines.
"great....jsut before i was about to replenish my fources..." grumbled faust
"well atleast we'll see what 'it' is capable of" said commisar saunt
"you know at times i really hate it when you look on the bright side" said faust with a hint of annoyance in his voice.
"well someone has to" said saunt cheerfully
"well we better load up" said faust
outside, to the untrained eye would look like chaos, there was machines driving out of there bunkers, men running around trying to load up the supplies onto the chimeras, techpreists with there servitors running around trying to see to all the vehicled. faust took out his time peice nad proceeded to time how long it took......

2 hours later, everything was packed and the troops ready to move out, faust looked around, it looked like no one was ever here.
"good" said faust, content of the job they did
faust then loaded up in his command slamander, doned his glare goggles and told the driver to go. his and the rest of the salamander scout vehicled went off full speed, along with the few outriders they had left.faust had always liked to be at the head of his forces, he looked back a the slower chimeras, leman russes, hydras, and even sentinels were getting smaller and smaller, then he spotted 'it' and smiled inwardly.
"thats gonna be a suprise to those greenskins"muttered faust
after turning around he could see an oncomming force of orks, after a closer look he could see it was only infantry and a few lightly armored killer kans. he signaled for his slamanders to break formation and seround them. then he said into his vox..
"outriders harras those infantry!"
then the outriders hit there acceleration and began to breakaway from the group, faust had always admired the speed of those bikes....when he was back form his train of thought he saw the gap closing, and could see the outiders auto cannons opening up on the infantry....'poos bastards' he thought as he saw one of the outriders turn into a ball of flame...'those orks have tankbustaz with them...' so he grabbed his vox once again
"watch for hostile rockets!"
then he was inrange, and saw as his salamander oppened up with its gun, not enough to do much to a tank but enough to take on those lightly armored kans. we watched as one of the kans was blown up by cooking munitions, which also killed several orkz nearby, faust then saw a rocket comming straight towards him.
"turn right! turn right!" faust yelled at his driver
the driver turned right, but the rocket got to the vehicle first and hit the tracks, now immobile the salamander was a sitting target.
"bail out!bailout!" faust commanded the crew.
seeing as how none of his crew was injured he took out his bolt pistol and sword readying himself for the mob of oncomming orkz. faust peeked over the end of the salamander and saw an ork nob staring right at him, not hving enough time to bring his weapons to bear he turned back to his side of the salamander he heard the *thump* of he choppa hitting the ground. knowing that orks are not that incredebly stupid he turned to face the top of the salamander to see the nob jump down onto one of the crew man, the crew man dying under the impact still had his finger on the trigger of his las pistol and hit the nob in the head. now orks do have a brain....but this shot some how missed it....because the nob was right back on his feet, but with fire from a bolt pistol, 2 lasguns, and a laspistol, the nob want standing for long, faust came up and gave 1 more in the head for good measure. now looking over the edge again he saw the last of the orks die, looking around he climbed back into his salamander and grabbed the vox.
"anyone willing to let me commandere there salamander?"
on cue a salamander pulled up beside him and the commander jumped out.
faust looked at his crew and said
"you and the commander wait here for the rest of the vehicles, then hitch a ride in one of the chimeras"
the crew and the commander nodding in agreement, faust jumped in his new salamander and gave the signal to go onward.he asked the gunner how many lost.
"3 outriders and 4 salamanders counting yours sir"
"gah....didnt turn out how i wanted...."
going back up top he took out his scope and saw a ork gargaunt walking towards them, dropping the scope from shock he fumbled with the vox.
".....all stop!"
"pull back and wait for the rest of the column!"
he then switched to the whole devision freequency
"alright bring up the russes and 'it' we got a gargaunt commingat us, one of the smaller ones but those orks pu more guns than usual on it!"
his salamander hitting reverse they went back to the column.
after several anxious minutes he could see the leman russes and 'it' comming up.....he couldnt take his eyes of 'it' it was the most beutiful thing a tank commader could see.....with12 independant weapon systems, armor that makes a leman russ look like a salamander....
"stormblade....." he couldnt help but mutter
they had gotten it only yesterday, a year after faust had requisitioned it.
the gargaunt now in range opened up, 8 salamanders and 3 leman russes were nor in flame.
"russes open up on those weapons! i dont want thatto happend again!"
they did and multiple explosions raked the hull or the gargaunt, now in plain vew faust could see it, 70 meters of destructive force walking rght towards them then faust heard te discharge of the stormblades plasma cannon, now either they are an experienced crew or it was a lucky shor because it lit off not only the feul, but the munitions as well! looking at the stormblade with awe he couldnt help but lt his mouth fall open......
now they had to get to the battle raging ahead of them.
"alright all units to the battel double quick!"
and there they set off, to defend hive hades once more from the ork WAAAGH...

samuel riding up top a chimera couldnt stop thinking of what he saw that night....it was the most beutiful thng he had ever seen....but new how many people must have died.....he saw......*bang!*
somewere a grot sniper had found his mark, and samuel lay dead draped over the top of the chimera smiling, because he had something the previous night that other guardsmen only talked about...something more rare then the sighting of a space marine.....
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yes i know uber editing still needed.

[Inquisitor Rosenadel]

I think you know what has to be done to make this more readable. It sounds good, though!