Where's Jones?by AsmodaiBrother-Captain Joe Bender surveyed the battle-field. "Hmmm.. Looks like we'll be called in soon. The party's gettin' rough!" Sargeant Tacadena regarded the Space Marine Captain with awe. Many stories floated around about the strong, proud captain, though he had not seen anything himself. "Arrange your men" "Yes, sir!" and Sargeant Tacadena was off down the slope. He arrived at the reserve area, and quickly picked out his squad leader, via the banner-pole. "We're off!" With a cuick nod, the Squad leader shouted. "Line up! Set! ... where's our Techmarine?" "You mean officer Cameron? I don't know." With a grunt, Sargeant Tacadena wnt sprinting further down the slopes, looking for Cameron. The sounds of battle catch his ear, and he turns eastward. Horror of horrors! The techmarine is in the midst of a termagant horde! bolt-pistol fire resounds over the planes, eventually being drowned out by the much louder role of the main battle. "-pzzzt. Captain Bender! we're under attack! To the South-East! The SouthEa-pzzzt.-" "Men! South-East! Move! Move! Move!" The Captain roared! "Fire up the Rhino! Let's go!" The Marines charged downhill, but the Rhino remained still. "What's going on? Why aren't you moving?" Captain Bender shouted to one of the Crewmen half out of the hatch. "It's our pilot! Operative Jones! He's gone!" "Damn! Where the hell can that Jones be?" -meanwhile- Sargeant Tacadena leaps into the fray to help his brother-marine, yet to their dismay, more tyrranids appear, instead of Marines. -- The Hive Tyrant Surveys the battle field, looking for his next prey, searchin for--- what's this? The Hive mind has just informed him of reserve Marines to the South! With a screach, he leads his broods southward tofind a Techmarine and a Sargeant alone! Ha! What luck! The genestealers move around to block off any hope of re-inforcements. The Hive Tyrant moves in on his prey. -- Techmarine Cameron instinctively ducks as a shot from a Barbed srangler whizzes passed his head, heralding a Hive Tyrant. "Damn!" Spotting the behemoth, he unloads his clip of Bolter-shells. No effect. "Looks like it's just you and me," he murmurs, patting his power-axe. -- Fending off the Techmarine's pitiful attempts at an attack, the Tyrant chooses the best moment to attack, then -- "Hey! You cheated!" -Cameron. "I did not, that was a perfectly fair roll!" -Chris "The hell it was! You rolled six sixes for h2h! That's impossible!" "(sigh)-- look. I don't control what happens when the dice roll, it's just luck." "He's right, Cameron." -Brian "You stay out of this!" "Geez Cameron, you don't have to yell, I can still hear out of this one!" - Joe Bender "I didn't ask you!" Cameron's face is beet red, and at least 3 veins can be seen protruding from his neck. There's no way that was a fair roll!" His voice went up an octave. "Calm down, Cameron. It's just a Techmarine." -Chris "Just a Techmarine? ... JUST a TECHMARINE?!?!?!?!?!" -- Space Marine and Tyranid alike pause in mid-battle, perplexed at the strange rumble resounding from above the battle-field. Looking up, they see a gargantuine human arm sweep across the field. They try to scatter, but it was too late. The entire first company was thrown about like toys! Broods upon broods of every Tyrranid imaginable flying through the air before falling to the ground. From beneath a pile of rubble, there is movement. Operative Jones picks himself out of the piles of scrap that used to be a Rhino. "What the...?" "What the hell happe-" The marine cuts out at the site of the pure carnage. Men and aliens lying broken, bleeding all over the battle-field. "OH my God. How the hell could THIS have happened?" The stunned marine simply walked down the hill in a daze. -- Somewhere else, amid the carnage, stands a lone Hive Tyrant, with a dead Techmarine at his hooves. Alook of consternation and out-right rage palles over the Tyrant's face. -- Jones stops dead. What a wierd site! A ....Hive Tyrant standing alone! and what's this? it sounds as if he is speaking english!!! The Tyrranid turned and stomped passed Jones, paying him no attention. He looked pissed off. And he murmured what sounded like "I HATE it when Cameron gets all pissy like that! Why can't he just get a life? It's going to take forever to superglue all my Tyrranids back together again!!!" "SUPERGLUE????" - Jones exclaimed, completely perplexed.
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