I do not own Warhammer. I only own my OC
Reader walks In the archives of the Slims.
Slim A Lou Prime: "welcome to the Archives Of The Slim A Lous I bet you're here for this short story."
Slim A Lou Prime pulls out a holovid out of his pocket and throws it the reader.
"Today you will meet Pilot Slim A Lou and his Freedom Knight, which is a Imperial knight by the way just named differently because of his planet of origin, Rosa." He leans in closely. "And a certain Eldar Ranger."
He then taps the readers shoulder twice than walks away. The read take a seat then activates the holovid.
Throughout this story you will see things from other games, which I will identify when I do use something that is not from the Warhammer 40k but I will not use any existing characters from any other universes as that would turn this into a crossover. I will mainly be sticking to ideas and items
The Eldar's stronghold had fallen to the Imperial guard, Lukas Alexander used his Artillery to blow away the Eldar's defenses, sending in baneblades and Leman Russ battle tanks followed by infantry. When the Eldar retaliated they were met by entrenched Guardsmen with heavy bolter turrets along with elite kasrkin commandos. In five short hours the Eldar's Stronghold was overrun and the Eldar were in full retreat. Farseer Taldeer had stayed behind to stall the Humans while the rest of her kind retreated. Some were unable to get to the ships in time and were forced to escape on foot. Once such Eldar was a female named Lanasya.
Lanasya was a Eldar ranger who Retreated into the wildness to escape the Imperial Guards advance. She had red hair and blue eyes. She was considered young by Eldar standards only being 225 Years old. She wore the traditional Eldar ranger uniform with the exception of the helmet, opting to use a hood and scarf instead.
Her main armament was a Long rifle and a Shuriken Pistol. Both were standard issue as she did not have time to make her own adjustments to them.
She was currently hiding behind some rocks waiting for a Mon-Keigh transport to pass. Once it passed she got up from her hiding spot and continued on her way.
'Dammed Mon-keigh.' She thought as she moved further into the wilderness.
She had been walking for a good three hours before she made it out of the Tundra and into rocky desert. deciding to take a much needed break, she looked around to find something to sit on as she did not want to dirty her uniform. She spotted a fallen tree and made her way over to it and sat down. As she was waiting for her energy to return to her, she heard some rustling coming from a nearby bush and jumped to her feet and took aim with her long rifle.
The rustling became more intense, Lanasya tightened the grip on her gun, in a instant a small animal jumped out of the bush. Seeing that it was just a small animal Lanasya lowered her weapon, she let out a sigh of relief then sat back down.
She felt a tear run down her eye as she started remembering all her fallen kin that had die at the hands of the Mon-Keigh, the young ranger that she held in her hands as she died. She wiped away the tears and shook her head in an attempt to suppress these feeling but proved futile. She sunk to her knees and began to cry.
After she recomposed herself she got up and continued her journey. As she made her way through the desert she stop at the base of a mountain. Taking a moment to see how high it was, she sighed and began to scale the mountain.
As she continued up the mountain she soon come across a small stream. She knelt down then pulled down the cloth covering her mouth and began to drink from the stream. Luckily the water was cold, a refreshing feeling that she had not had for a while, once she had her fill she got back up, readjusted her cloth, and continued on her way.
Lanasya had been climbing for two hours and the sun was starting to set, she needed to find a safe place to rest. She did not want to get into a fight while exhausted from lack of sleep. She couldn't risk getting a wound out here in the middle of the desert either, she had no medic supplies to treat herself should she get wounded or worse. She looked around for a little bit before she spotted a tree that she could use to hide, and sleep, in. She walked over to the tree and climbed up then tied herself to one of the branches so she would not fall off in her sleep. She then pulled out a green blanket to help hide herself, after a couple of minutes she fell asleep.
Lanasya was sleeping peacefully, she was dreaming of being back on her craftworld of Ulthwe. Enjoying the company of her mother, father, and brother as they sat in the garden. For some reason her eyes keep on drifting back to a figure in the shade, it was lying down with its hands resting behind its head. She assumed it was another Eldar, the figure was a little bit shorter than an average Eldar, but at this range she could not tell. She got up from her seat and walked towards the figure. For some strange reason the only thing she could make out was some that of some flower that she never seen before for, the stem was green like any other flower but it had thorns and the petals were a bright red. It was very beautiful, she reached for it but when her hand got close it shattered along with the shadowy finger.
She pulled back her hand, then looked around to see that she was lying up against a jagged cliff. Blood on her hand, her blood, then she heard someone or something snickering. She looked up to see a thing of her nightmares… an agent of She Who Thirsts.
Fear gripped her heart as the creature got closer. She tried to back away but had nowhere to go. when the agent got close it reached for her only for it to come to an abrupt stop. It started to shack in fear or in pain, she could not tell which. Suddenly its blood started to flow down its from its head, it fell on its side and was sucked back into the Dominic realm in which it came.
She looked up again to see the red flower, that was lining on the shadowy figure, planted in the ground. Entranced once again by its beauty, she reached for it again only to have her eyelids fall on her.
Lanasya's eyes jerked open, she sat up and began scanning her soundings, seeing that she was safe she took a couple of minutes to think about the dream she just had.
'what was that flower and who was that figure in the shade.' She asked herself.
Finding no answers to her questions, she jumped down from the tree landing with a thump. After taking one more scan of her soundings, she got up and moved on.
In orbit a transport exited out of the Warp, and made its way toward the planet.
The ship was much bigger than a thunderhawk but had a very simpler design. Having the wings attached to the engines. The main section of the ship had four large ramps, two on each side, each ramp was big enough to load or unload a tank or large walker with ease, and with ample space inside it could hold up to four Freedom Knights .
Besides the large vehicle bay the ship also had enough room to house ten people. The rest of the ship was dedicated to repair bays, med bays and other thing to keep the ship functional as well as keeping the crew healthy. The bridge was located on the front top portion of the ship.(you probably don't know what I'm describing search MechWarrior leopard dropships on Google should be the first image. Of course the interior will be different from the lore in MechWarrior)
On the wing was a symbol, a Rose on a shield with a sword behind it and a pair of wings on either side of the shield. This was the symbol of House Rose, a knight house yet to be discovered by the Imperium of man.
On the bridge of the ship sat one person, his name was Wolfgang Rose, or Slim A Lou amongst his friends and family. He was 20 years old and had dark brown hair with hazel eyes. He wore a black trench coat, which was worn towards the bottom with holes here and there. Under his trench coat he wore medium armor to protect his torso and some plates protecting his legs.
Wolfgang always liked looking into the great wars fought on earth in the first millennium, particularly the Second Great War, so he designed his helmet after the Allies helmet then added a gasmask to it then sealed all the openings with armor plates, added technical equipment to the side of it, then changed the glass eye hole to a red visor, which he could toggle to black if he wanted. (basically he is wearing futuristic NCR armor)
His weapons of choice were two pistols, which he often Dual wielded, one being a white revolver and the other a plasma pistol that looked like a Desert Eagle from the second millennium, The main difference being the green lights, and a devastator shotgun for good measure, which he modified to collapse when holstered.
Like any respectable gun owner he named his guns, his shotgun was named Patton after the legendary general George S. Patton, his revolver Deliverance, and his plasma pistol Litany. He kept them on either side of his belt, while his shotgun was hosted on the back of his belt.
He also kept an assortment of other weapons on the ship, plasma sniper rifles, SMGs, rocket launchers, you name it he probably has it. However his most powerful, and prized, possession onboard was his Freedom knight Rosa. Rosa was a Warden-class Freedom Knight. She was armed with a light meltagun, light in her standards, a Lightning cannon , a gauntlet, and a missile rack mounted on her top. For defense she was equipped with a rechargeable iron shield which was very useful for stopping heavy weapons from doing serious damage. (yea I know that iron shields don't recharge but just take into account that the technology is not backwards for his planet).
She was painted red, with the exception of her shield and shorter plates being black, and gold for her secondary. Her shield, as well as the banner hanging under her, adorned the House Rose crest. She was currently powered down in the vehicle bay, but just because the knight was off did not mean she was off. (she's also the cover art)
Wolfgang had his phone plugged into the Ship wide speakers playing a song from the late first millennium, Burning bridges, his finger tapping in rhythm with the beat. His helmet was sitting on the arm rest beside him.
Wolfgang had been traveling for six weeks, going from planet to planet looking for supplies and getting news on recent events, he already filled over half of the cargo bay with raw metals, guns from various races, ammo of various types, food, and things that he "borrowed" from Adeptus Mechanicus.
Kronus would be his last stop before returning to his home planet of Reach. Back to his home, to his family, and friends.
'Maybe this time around I can get a girlfriend' Wolfgang thought to himself. Sure he wasn't the most social person in the galaxy, some people back at the Keep would say he was anti social, but he did enjoy the company of his friend Shawn, and Rosa was the only person keeping him sane on his incursions.
Just then a holodisc on his arm rest began to light up and projected a red medieval knight with her Longsword planted in the "ground", one hand holding the end of the Longsword while the other arm was resting on top of it. You could see a ponytail coming out of the bottom of the helmet, but it was a little hard to tell what color it was because she was glowing red. (looks like Female warden from For Honor)
Wolfgang looked at her. "Hey Rosa." He greeted his AI.
AI were banned by the Adeptus Mechanicus because of a war they had with a AI army a long time ago, however the people of Reach treated AI's as they would treated any other human. They were given the same rights as any other human. Thus the AI's of Reach did not rebel against their creators and lived alongside them in harmony.
Rosa was a battle AI, these types of AIs were used for battle or assisting in the operation of heavy machinery, such as a Freedom Knight.
Rosa was a very protective AI, she was not afraid to take a shot for her Pilot and would happy tell him if he was doing something reckless or just straight up idiotic. Going as far as to pick Wolfgang up with her gauntlet and placing him inside her cockpit and locking him In to keep him safe.
"Hello Wolfgang." She said looking up at him, then looked at the planet. "I see we have reached Kronus."
"Yup." Wolfgang said preparing for landing.
"From the information we gathered already six different armies are fighting on this planet." She said turning to face the planet, now holding her sword in her left hand just above the arm guard. "Should I turn myself on?"
Wolfgang knew what she was really saying though. 'Translation: I'm going to power up now, because there is no way in hell I'm going to let you step one foot on this planet without you being inside my cockpit.' (get your head out of the gutter.) he thought. "Yes but I am going to look for what we need for on foot." He said putting on his helmet. 'here it comes'
Rosa turned and looked back at her pilot. "It's cute how you think I'm going to let you go looking for a Necron weapon without me, let alone that there are six different armies that want us dead or captured." She said in a pleasant voice.
"All the more reason to go on foot, if your with me then the chance of us being spotted skyrockets. Plus I will be using a L.R.E.F. so I will be fine," Wolfgang started.
The L.R.E.F. stood for Light Reflecting Energy field and as the name implies the L.R.E.F. covers the user in a aura of light reflecting energy allowing the user to become invisible.
"And besides I need you to protect the ship so no one gets to the advanced technology on board... or, God forbid, finds the location of Reach. " Wolfgang finished looking back at Rosa.
She looked to the side for second then back. "Fine, you have four Days to find what you're looking for before I come looking for you."
"Deal." He said smiling. "Beginning approach."
Wolfgang took the controls in his hands and started to maneuver towards the planet. Taking care not to make his presence known to the imperial forces in orbit. He maneuvered his ship to land "out of the way" of the armies. He flipped a switch causing the landing gear on the bottom of the ship to extend allowing the ship to land.
The Ship landed with a thump. Wolfgang started to power down the ship so it would not pop up on radar. After the ship was properly powered down he got up from his chair and made his way down to the vehicle bay. Rosa was already powered up and moving down the ramp by the time Wolfgang got to the vehicle bay. He soon joined her outside of the ship, she was already patrolling the area, and started to walk into the wilderness.
"Remember four days." Rosa reminded her pilot.
"Yea I heard you." He replied waving to her.
Soon Wolfgang was out of sight. Rosa sighed, or what counted as sighing for her, and went back to patrolling the area.
Wolfgang had been walking for an hour. Not much happened during that time just a few small creatures and rocks, lots of rocks, but out in the distance he spotted a small town… or what was left of it. As he approached the ruins he noticed the corpses of humans lying throughout the town.
As he walked down the street he could feel his blood start to boil. 'Killing non threatening civilians when there is absolutely no military presence around, Bastards.' Wolfgang thought. He didn't bother checking the corpses for the cause of death, whatever massacred this town had long since moved on. Therefore, it would be a massive waste of time to find out what killed them and there was nothing he could do for them other then pray that their souls were in a better place.
Wolfgang walked over to what he thought was a warehouse to see if he could find anything useful. After a bit of searching Wolfgang came across some, decently sized, wooden crates. He approached the crates to see if they were already looted. Finding them still sealed, he started surveying his current location looking for something akin to a crowbar. After a quick search he found what he was looking for, taking the crowbar in his hand he walked back over to the crate and began open it. Inside laid an assortment of canned food.
"Nothing useful." Wolfgang sighed.
He tossed the crowbar on the ground. It hit the ground with a clang which caused Wolfgang to stop moving toward the exit. He turned and walked back over to the crowbar, knelt down and picked it back up. Something was off, the sound it made when the crowbar hit the floor was not right. He hit the crowbar against the ground again to prove his theory.
"It sounds hollow." He said quietly. "There is something underneath this."
He stood up and looked around 'there must be an entrance around here somewhere' he thought.
He walked over to the office to see if he could find a clue. As he enter the office he could of sworn that he heard something coming from outside. Deciding not to risk being found he activated the L.R.E.F. unit.
Wolfgang slowly started to fade from sight then became completely invisible. Sure enough the door to the warehouse opened and in stepped a Space Marine.
'Blood Raven' Wolfgang thought.
The Space Marine was scanning the warehouse with his bolter razed.
'He must of heard the noises I was making.' He added.
The Blood Raven proceeded inside, still scanning the warehouse, he then stopped and looked toward the office and started to walk over.
Wolfgang ducked into some cover, there was only one way into the office so Wolfgang would need to wait for the space marine to complete his search before he could leave. The Blood Raven kicked opened the door and walked in. Wolfgang drew Litany and loaded a plasma cartridge. The space marine looked around and was about to proceeded when he placed one of his finger on his helmet.
"Receiving." The space marine spoke."I heard a noise coming from this warehouse." he continued obviously talking to someone over his intercom. "No, what ever made the noise is hiding now."
'there must be a platoon nearby.' Wolfgang thought.
"Yes Sir returning to squad." The Space marine said respectively. He then turned and walked out of the office then out the door.
Wolfgang stood and started to leave as well before he spotted a shadow of a person come into view just outside the entrance to the warehouse. Wolfgang ran to wooden creates, his cloak becoming unstable from the sudden moment revealing him a little bit, and hid behind them. When he was safely behind them, his cloak stabilized making him invisible once more, he poked his head out to see who it was.
"Fuck." Wolfgang murmured.
In stepped a space marine wearing blue power armor, the only exception being his arms were painted red and his shoulder plates white, with purity seals hanging from his shoulder plates. In his right arm he held a bolt pistol and in the other a staff with the Imperium of Man's symbol on the top of it. This was no ordinary space marine, this was a librarian but more importantly a psyker which meant that he could sense Wolfgang's presence.
The Librarian walked forward, his bolter still at his side, scanning the area, then he looked towards the crates that Wolfgang was hiding behind.
"I know you're there," The Librarian spoke "Come out before I force you out."
'Damn,' Wolfgang thought.
Seeing that he was found out Wolfgang walked out into the open, his clock still active, he stopped when he was ten feet away from the Librarian. He then deactivated his cloak, his body slowly becoming visible as the field dissipated.
The Librarian looked him over trying to figure out what order he belonged to. As he looked him over he could not seem to find the Imperial Aquila anywhere on his body. The closest thing he could compare him to was the Death Korps of Krieg but even then he did not look like them. The Librarian decided to ask the man who he was.
"Identify yourself." The Liberian ordered in a stern voice.
Wolfgang could not say he was from the House of Rose, that would compromise his houses and Reach's Existence, that was something he would not allow. He had to make something up and quick. He was not worried about the Librarian reading his mind he had implants that made his mind a metaphorical minefield. One wrong step and boom the invader will receive a powerful psychic feedback damaging him and giving him a mass concussion.
"Preserver." Wolfgang said plainly.
The Librarian did not know that he meant by "preserver" so he opted to read Wolfgang's mind.
Wolfgang felt the tug in his mind, he smiled. 'Look out for that first step, doc, it's a real lulu.' As soon as Wolfgang finished that thought the Librarian stepped on a mental landmine. The Librarian suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head, causing him to drop his weapon and staff and grab his head.
Seeing his chance, Wolfgang drew Litany and took aim at the Librarian firing three shots, two to the chest plate and one to his head. The green plasma piercing his armor burning through his flesh causing the Librarian to fall back dead. Wolfgang bolted to the door, knowing that the other Blood Ravens heard the commotion, upon exiting the warehouse he turned and ran toward the wilderness hoping the other Blood Ravens were too far behind to notice him. His question was answered when a bolter round just barely missed his head. Turning his head around he spotted a squad of Space marines chasing after him.
"Catch me if you can." Wolfgang said as he ran toward a range of large rocks that formed a maze.
After Lanasya crossed the mountain she ran into a group Tau fire warriors. Lucky this group only had four members so she was able to kill them before they got a message out to their base, but she needed to keep moving she was in Tau territory now and she could not risk getting caught. She needed to make her way to the spaceport, or hijack a ship from one of the other races, to escape this planet.
She been walking for one hour before she spotted something that made her heart sink. The forces of Chaos were advancing into Tau controlled territory. She had to stay as far away from them as possible or risk being taken by She Who Thirsts. Many of her kind had already been taken by her already and she would not become one of them.
But if Chaos was here then they would have to fight through the Orks just to get to the Tau. But what if the Tau were not their target, what if they were on their way to the Eldar fortress to try and capture some fleeing Eldar for She Who Thirsts.
This made here heart sink even further. 'No,' she thought. 'The Mon-keigh have done that job for them by now, they must be after the Tau.'
She turned back to the way in which she came and ran. If she was lucky they did not notice her, but the Eldar were not having the best luck on this planet. She did not notice a certain Chaos Lord who spot her running away.
He smiled and turned to his sorcerer. "Summon an agent Of Slaanesh, we have found a ripe soul for her."
Lanasya was running as fast as she could trying to put as much distance between her and the Chaos advance. Every once and a while she looked back to see if she was being followed but saw nothing but tall weeds and rocks.
'Got to keep moving,' she repeated in her mind. 'Got to keep moving.'
Soon she came arose a wide ravine. She peered over the edge, it was a good thirty feet drop from the top of the ridge to the bottom. She started to climb down the cliff when she got to the bottom she started to make her way to the other side of the ravine to climb back up but was stopped when she heard someone snickering. She drew her shuriken pistol and looked for the source of the sound.
"You lost little Eldar?" A eerie Voice asked.
Lanasya looked up. Before her, hanging on the wall of the ravine, was a demon spawn but this was no ordinary demon, this was a spawn of Slaanesh. The daemonette had purple skin with some scales running down her arms and legs, Its "hair" was a darker shade of purple, its eyes were pink, and its hands were like claws. Lanasya's eyes widened in fright as she turned and started to run down the Ravine.
"I love it when they play hard to get." The daemonette said with lust.
The daemonette jumped at Lanasya, Only to miss her. Lanasya turned and fired four rounds at the spawn, three rounds missing their mark but the fourth round hit the daemonette's leg. The daemonette cried out in pain but the pain soon turned to pleasure, It smiled and licked its lips. Seeing that her pistol did little damage she started to run again. Lanasya rounded a corner and continued to run, until she spotted a crack in the rock face. Seeing a chance to hide she ran over to the crack in the rock face and squeezed into it. She could hear the warp spawns footsteps drawing closer and closer. The warp spawn came into Lanasya's view, luckily it was looking in a different direction, she could feel her heart pounding in her chest. It sniffed the air then counted to search for the young Eldar.
Lanasya let a sigh of relief and decided to wait a little while longer to let the warp spawn get some distance between her. After a five minutes had passed she started to squeeze her way out of the crack. As soon as he got out of the crack she felt a sharp pain come from her chest. She winced and grabbed the area were the pain was coming from. Looking at her hand she saw blood, her blood, she leaned against the rock face then slide down. She looked up to see the smiling face of the daemonette looking down at her, with her blood dripping from its hand.
The daemonette started walk toward her. Lanasya laid their against the rock face all sorts of thoughts going through her mind all at once.
'is this the end?' one thought said. 'I will be tortured by Slaanesh for all eternity' another said in despair.
With all these thoughts rushing through her head she did something she had not done in a long time. She closed her eyes and screamed in fear.
The daemonette laughed at the young elders sudden scream. "Music to my ears." It said in a twisted voice.
The only thought running through Lanasya mined now was. 'someone. Anyone. help me.'
*p-taff*
The daemonette screamed as it's arm was blown off.
Suddenly a figure landed in front of Lanasya she opened her eyes to look at her savior
The figure wore a black coat and an odd shaped helmet. The man, as far as she could tell from his build, stood straight up to his full height, which was around six three, and pointed a large white pistol at the daemonette.
The holovid stops playing and slim a Lou appears in front of the reader slightly floating above it ground.
"Yay cliff hangers." He said then stopped floating and fell to the ground. "Ow."
He then stood up. "well now that that's over I can now tell you that I have updated the main frame so now I can show the progress on all my stories." (Main frame is my profile)"I will try and update it every day."
If people like this story then I will continuing it passed this short story and start a new full story involving Wolfgang, Lanasya, and many other characters I have planned. So hit that follow and favorite button and don't forget to review.
God bless and have a nice day.