Inside his Throne Mechanicum aboard Okami, Ogami clapped his hands.
"You didn't let us down! That training exercise against the Space Wolves went very well! You brought honor to House Yato!"
"Did we really?" Suzuki grumbled under his breath, wiping the perspiration from his brow. His Armiger Warglaive, Hebi, was brought down by a bunch of Outriders, Infiltrators and Thunderwolf Calvary. He was still smarting from that.
"Yeah, well..." Tanaka sighed. Kazan fared little better, having been brought down by the Primaris Wolf Priest on bike. That damned crozius was pretty...powerful.
"Hey, at least we did okay," Kanda remarked. He had it great, for Urik or whoever the dude was on the Thunderwolf had charged him...only to fail to damage his Knight Moirax. He and Chiba then proceeded to clear out the Infiltrators, bikers and Thunderwolf Cavalry with graviton pulsars.
The Space Marines stood no chance against the potent grav weapons, their power armor crumpling and crushing them like a can.
Most of the work was done by Ogami, though. Okami's Reaper Chainsword had done some serious work, slicing the Outriders apart and outright destroying both riders and bikes. A shot from his las-impulsor blew the Wolf Priest apart. Whichever Infiltrator survived the grav onslaught were then stomped under by Okami's titanic feet.
"I was worried for a moment," Ogami continued, glaring at the two bondsmen piloting the Armiger Warglaives. "The two of you went down so easily, wrecked by the Space Wolves. You had best do better this time...this is no longer a training exercise. It's the real thing."
The Knights of House Yato were dispatched to a bloody battleground that the Thousand Sons had seized control of. Aku, the twisted Daemon Prince, was leading his Rubric Marines and Scarab Occult Terminators to conduct some sort of warp ritual to tear down the barrier between reality and the immaterium, thus flooding the planet with Daemons.
Only the Knights of House Yato could stop them.
"Apparently the Blood Angels tried to fight them last week, but they got decimated instead."
"Why can't the Space Wolves fight the Thousand Sons instead?" Tanaka wondered out loud. "Instead of doing that whole training exercise thing?"
"Question not the wisdom of the Emperor!" Ogami snapped. "So ordered the Shogun, and so we shall obey. Knights of the Imperium, we march!"
They didn't get very far. Suzuki had barely taken a stride when his Hebi was blown apart by sorcery. Arcane energies saturated the area, dishing out mortal wounds to the swaying Armiger Warglaive and blowing it apart.
Then Aku swooped in and eviscerated Tanaka's Kazan in a single strike. The Armiger Warglaive went down and blew up, dealing a bunch of mortal wounds to the Daemon Prince in revenge.
"There goes my steed," Tanaka sighed, feeling deflated as he watched his faithful steed get blown apart.
"Don't worry, bondsman! I'll avenge you!"
Ogami performed a Heroic Intervention, his Okami stepping in and cleaving the stunned Aku apart with his Reaper chainsword. Even the conviving Daemon Prince could not withstand the might of the Imperium's greatest machines, his ethereal form smote to dust by the formidable swing.
Undaunted by the loss of their least experienced leader, the Scarab Occult Terminators and Rubric Marines marched forward, firing under the direction of the Exalted Sorcerer. Ogami snorted as his ion shield deflected the ensorceled bolts, and he opened up with his las-impulsor. Despite his best shots, as well as supporting volleys of grav from the two surviving Knights Moirax, at least half of the Scarab Occult Terminators survived the deadly onslaught. The unwavering phalanx continued to stomp forward, their eyelenses gleaming ominously in the cloud of dust their strides kicked up.
"Do you think we fear your large, metal steeds?" The Exalted Sorcerer sneered, conjuring more spells to blast the advancing Knight Preceptor. Okami rocked from the impact, but the Omnissiah protects. Lethal warpcraft that should have obliterated the Questoris Knight chassis disspated harmlessly, though severe damage was still inflicted on the wavering war engine.
"If you don't, then you will learn to," Ogami shot back.
"Unfortunately, the Emperor had created us to know no fear," the Exalted Sorcerer retorted.
"Uh, I don't think that's applicable to the Traitors, though," Kanda said.
"Don't forget that Rubric Marines and Scarab Occult Terminators are fearless," Chiba reminded him. "Their morale will never break and they will never flee, no matter how many casaulties you inflict on them."
By now, Okami had stomped a squad of Rubric Marines to dust, leaving just the Aspiring Sorcerer left. The Scarab Occult Terminators and Infernal Master charged, their kopesh swords and force staves sending Okami reeling from warp-fueled impacts. However, Ogami remained defiant and scythed down the poor Infernal Master with a swipe from his Reaper chainsword.
"You shall not pass!" He roared.
Withdrawing tactically, he then decided to charge a second squad of Rubric Marines instead, mowing them down underneath his Titanic Feet. Kanda and Chiba continued firing at the Scarab Occult Terminators, but somehow the Scarab Occult Sorcerer survived their deadly onslaughts, though the automata he led were annihilated.
"Like we'll let you!" The Exalted Sorcerer yelled. Turning his wrath upon Kanda, his sorcerery wrecked the poor Armiger Knight Moirax, the esoteric flames turning the walker into scrap.
Meanwhile, the Aspiring Sorcerer and Scarab Occult Sorcerer turned their wrath upon Okami, only for the adamantium armor to rebuff the scalding slashes of their force staves.
"Nani?!" The Scarab Occult Sorcerer shrieked. "We just need a single strike to go through! Just a single hit! How the heck did he withstand all of that?!"
"Tough armor, combined with the poor armor penetration of our force staves, I suppose. And the roll of the dice." The Aspiring Sorcerer's tone was wry despite the dilemma they were in. The Scarab Occult Sorcerer didn't get a chance to reply because he was squashed by Titanic Feet.
If this was an earlier edition, he would have been removed from play by a roll of 6 on the stomp table, but Ogami settled for overwhelming the tough Terminator by sheer volume of titanic feet attacks.
That was his last triumph, for the Exalted Sorcerer crushed his armor with spells. No matter what the Omnissiah did, this time, His protection failed and the Questoris Knight crumpled. Okami slumped to the ground, finally defeated.
"Finally!" The Exalted Sorcerer crowed, only to find himself staring down the barrels of Chiba's grav pulsars. The next thing he knew, he was squashed into a pulp by intense grav beams. As he fell to the ground, he glanced in the direction of the Aspiring Sorcerer, hoping that at least one of them would survive and escape...
The remains of the Aspiring Sorcerer lay on the ground, twisted flesh and a pool of blood. Evidently Chiba had taken care of him first before focusing his attention on the leader.
"F...!"
That was the last word of the Exalted Sorcerer before he was bombed into oblivion.
"That should take care of them." Chiba sighed in relief as he surveyed the battlefield. It had been quite the brutal slugfest, and by chance he emerged as the sole survivor. He wondered what was next. Shrugging, he turned back toward the idol that House Yato had successfully protected during the bloodbath. "Well, we'll be getting reinforcements next month. I wonder who's going to join our roster. Hopefully somebody bigger and with more powerful guns."
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