Fan Fic

[Bifrost]

So, I have decided that this thread is where all members of ZGeek can put their their stories inspired by the characters of popular fiction. Star Trek stories; Star Wars stories; Warhammer 40k stories; Middle Earth stories - whatever.

If you wrote it, but it has characters from someone else's imagination in it - post it here. There can be no Copyright infringement because we're making no money off this thread.

If this thread becomes popular, I'll consider making it a forum unto itself. But let's just see how we go.

Oh and if you're a creator who wants us to pull down any of this stuff - P.M. me.

Fan fic away.

[Bifrost]

This story was inspired by this post (http://forum.zgeek.com/showthread.php?p=794907#post794907) by TheGorn.
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The sound took me back to the Clades III mission and I felt one of my hearts skip a beat...

The Tyanid swarm writhed out before us, felling trees and consuming every living thing it touched. I looked left and right, beside me my Brothers - the warriors of the Tenebra. The Crescent Moons. Each Marine cool, each bolter blessed by the word of the Emperor himself.

Brother Captain Vertex and sixteen Ferocitas Company troops jump-packed over the front line into the mindless swarm signalling the offensive. As Ferocitas began to tear a swathe through the beasts we pushed forward, bolter fire drowning out the repugnant chitter of the Tyranids. We followed the battle plan, moving down the rocky hill toward a patch of low foliage which surrounded a natural rock barricade. It was bearly seconds later we realised. Our squad had been separated - isolated from the main force, as if the beasts themselves had manouevered us.

Brother Maas was first to fall, a Lictor appearing from nowhere, rending flesh and metal in a casual swipe such that Brother Maas fell in two. Then the filthy spikes of a massing Termagant brood spattered against our helmets, obscuring our vision and the Lictor was amongst us. I drew my blade blocked a thurst from the beast, even as it faced the other way, impaling Brother Issus. These Lictors have blades for arms and arms in all places. As I moved to tear into the beast's armoured flesh, I felt my helmet touched from behind and threw myeself forward, rolling past the Lictor. As it stabbed one of its blades down through my leg, I saw its whip-like tongue flailing where my head had been. Then that sound filled my ears as I suppressed the pain, that wet, staccato of ripping flesh, of vile Termagants working their maws on my comrades. It struck my mind and nearly turned my stout hearts to water. I slashed a Termagant across its blood-soaked head and fired my bolter away toward the Lictor as it moved in on the last of my squad. I closed my eyes and prayed to the Emperor for guidance.

That was when I heard the unmistakable war cry of Brother Captain Vertex. The blast of jump packs stirred the dust into the air and the greatest hand-to-hand combattants in the Imperium fell upon the Tyranid abomination which had decimated my squad. I stood, blood gouting from the wound in my leg and turned my hatred against the remaining Termagants. I killed three in short order and suddenly found myself on one knee, my head spinning. I watched as Brother Captain Vertex's lightning claw split the Lictor's head in four and I fell, a pride in my soul that no death could take away.

I woke in the medical frigate Ephiscal some two days later. No others among my squad had been so lucky.

[TheGorn]

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