CoTJ 2: The Last Stand Act1 Part I

Story by Cartoon Malero on SoFurry

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#2 of Chronicles of the Justicar II: The LAst Stand


Necron402: Warning! Please read Chronicles of the Justicar before this one, otherwise well...its kinda obvious

Justicar: Yeah! Now lets get this new story off the ground


[VALOR Maximum Security Prison Colony, Year 3,568 AD, November 24th, 2:00 AM]

"This is control; you are cleared for landing, over."

"Copy that. Transport out." Responded the drop ship's pilot

The blue and white VALOR helicopter like drop ship touched down on the landing pad that was exposed to the emptiness of the planet's non existent atmosphere the whole world was once a mining colony but once the ores were used up VALOR moved on and transformed the underground base into a penal colony.

The engines slowly turned off, the blue thrust extinguished before the door to the holding bay was opened. Several armed VALOR marines escorted just one prisoner, he wore layered suit of metal that was coloured black and blue along with several runic symbols that covered his entire armour from his frightening helmet to his battle worn plate boots. Although the marines could not take off his armour through the use of force and even trying to cut it open with a saw blade that was used to cut star ship hulls for fitting instead the guards put him in so many restraints they he could barely walk or breathe.

"Come on yea wanker!" ordered the marine just behind the alien, he shoved the butt his rifle into the spine of the prisoner.

The prisoner did not make a sound and followed through the human's orders. The convoy passed several security measures each more complicated and secured from the rest, voice commands, DNA analysis, and ten digit passwords along with many documents to be shown and examined before letting the high threat prisoner be taken even lower into the prison.

The convoy finally reached its stopping point, small cramped cells were all around the huge hallway with VALOR marines patrolling and firing off warning shots to prisoners who got to rowdy.

"I hope you had enough vitamin D 'cause you ain't leaving this place ever!" laughed the head marine that turned around to see the prisoner who was not even bothered by the aspect at all.

"I do not plan on staying here, human. But I thank you for bringing me here." The prisoner replied, his dark gaze looked down on the marine sergeant

"What's that suppose to me-"the head marine asked before the prisoner broke free from his restraints in one flex from his arms

The guards backed away trying to find out what to do as prisoners cheered on the heavily armoured alien who tore off his remaining shackles.

"Open fire marines!" yelled the sergeant

Before the guards could even fire a single round the alien waved his hand at them encasing them all in a sheet of ice, freezing the marines solid. The human prisoners began screaming to let them out as well as applauding his strength but the alien didn't let them leave they would just get into his way all to well.

The alien came to the final door where his objective waited on the other side, a massive VALOR blast door blocked his path but it was of no consequence, with a wave of his hand the entire reinforced door was entombed in ice then without delay he closed his hand into a fist causing the door to shatter in millions of tiny shards.

The next room over was much smaller than the large door let on, he only took a few steps in before he reached the end of it. The only interest was the hundreds of safes that covered the walls. Just as he did to the human's door he broke the wall safes the same way, a grey substance oozed from all of the destroyed containers where they all converged on a single point in the room, as more of them came together they formed a much bigger glob of ooze until it started to take the shape of a humanoid.

The armoured alien watched until the figure was restored to its original form. The seemingly genderless life form had no clear facial features just shadows out lining where its eyes and nose would be. Its body continued to drip and melt its own body substance but when pieces hit the floor they quickly merged back with its body in an endless cycle

"So...you...are my sa-"Baphomet spoke before she spat out a large clump of the clay like substance onto the ground. "Savoir... took you long enough."

"I move at my own pace, Baphomet. Not yours."

"Then maybe you should try speeding it up next time, the human real-

"I have no time for your idle banter. The Grandfather commanded me to proceed to his fallback plan when your jurisdiction in this area failed with the lost of a portal and your Shadow master."

"Always the direct route with you Vurdamis, I like that" she said with the most disturbing grin that formed on her mouth

Vurdamis sighed knowing it was going to be a long day.

[Infinite Head Quarters, Year 3,568 AD, November 24th, 2:50 AM]

Liken continued to drag the Justicar along the ground by the shoulders but the human's power armour was heavy even when it was out of power. Although the Shadow Gate was destroyed, void soldiers and cultists still roamed the corridors and hallways and they were more than happy to spill their blood for what they did to their master's portal.

"You heavy Justicar! Armour off and go!" Liken said in broken English tiredly and gave up dragging him "Take off suit, we leave!"

"Yea right, let you defend me? I would be in no better hands than with one of those monsters." Arjun argued back

"We no time for stupid! Horribles still here, go we must!"

"Listen scale face-"

"Name me Liken"

"As I said scale face, I single handily kicked Pandemonium's little puppet show's ass" Arjun said back ignoring the fact he became empowered by the seer to do it. "We will need to find some kind of computer room and send out a single to a VALOR fleet"

Arjun could see that Liken was very uncomfortable with the idea as that she and VALOR were not on the best of terms. "Either the fun loving monsters here or my blue and white boys where they will give you a hot meal and a warm bed, I wonder which choice is better."

Liken nodded and began to walk off, leaving the Justicar alone on the blood stained floor, disappearing in the darkness. "God dammit" Arjun muttered to himself as he began to take off the Justicar armour plating. "I didn't say to leave me behind!"

Howls and screams echoed through the cultist head quarters which only further panicked Arjun Fiaz to get free faster. "Hey, scale face?" Arjun said trying to still sound tough

"Scale face..." But no answer came back; the valgary had left him alone. Arjun stood up with his dismantled and non functional gear laid on the floor in a pile. "I swear to god once this is over and I'm putting that bitch into the ground, first she my arm and now leaves me after I saved our asses!" Arjun kicked his helmet with his foot but only lead to hurting himself instead. "God dammit!" He yelled in pain

After tending to his minor wound Arjun carried on, passing by the remains of Zhakaev along with the failed experiments in Xoro'tanth's quarter, without his armour Arjun could smell the rancid decay of flesh that was his attackers which caused the brown skinned hero to stop and pause to catch his breath or even vomit when he passed by some really deformed atrocities.

"I don't like this shit at all..." Arjun stated as he passed by more bodies that he killed earlier hoping for one void soldier is not playing dead to lure him closer. "Scale face..." Arjun whispered again trying to raise his voice for her to hear but at the same time not raise it too much for a cultist or void soldier to zero on his position.

Arjun was now frozen in place; he felt a cold chill run up his spine he could feel someone or something was watching him; he didn't no how he knew, he just knew, a six sense. "This isn't funny scales...seriously..." Arjun said nervously

Countless dead experiments surrounded the human, each of them in no shape to hunt down the now very weak organic. They all just laid there, looking at him as he walked past their bodies. "Come on man, you're the kickassticar!" Arjun said to himself to be his own self motivator when he heard foot steps coming up from behind him which he quickly turned around to find, nothing.

With a very puzzled look on his face he shook his pounding head and his hands where now shaking, he didn't want to admit it but he was scared to death the void soldiers would rip him to shreds and he needed the valgary for protection. Arjun hated the fact he would have to swallow his huge ego for unknown period of time so Liken would buy his act but that required finding someone so skilled at sneaking about.

Arjun followed what ever door was not locked, broken or even both with the looming gaze of his unknown follower always keeping its distance but he shrugged it off, it had to be his mind trying to screw with itself. But his imagination was cut short when he spotted a void soldier at the end of a long dark hallway, although encased in shadows he still made out its bandaged face, bladed arms, huge clubbed legs and many tumours and boils pulsating from its unholy mass.

Arjun quickly turned back but it was too late the void soldier heard it's pray and slowly crept towards the other end of the hallway as it groaned further making Arjun feel even more defenceless as he was. With no where to go, Arjun hid near the walls hoping the shadows would mask his body.

The hulking void soldier continued to move using its massive arm blade as crutches to propel it further closer and closer near the human. Arjun tried not to look at the monster but a sick sense of curiosity had overwhelmed him as the void soldier inched closer trying to locate what had alerted it. The monster was almost three times the size of him with huge bulging biceps that was covered in stitch marks and scars. With the void soldier so close to him he could tell it wasn't simply one body mutated to form this abomination of nature but a quilt of flesh from various races sewn together.

The void soldier was now right beside the human as it stared down where the hallway turned. Thankfully void soldiers had little to no intelligence but what they lacked they made up for in pure brutality, its huge arms was just centimetres from brushing against Arjun but the human tried his best to crouch down without his knees bending into the monster but his concentration was starting to fail as the overpowering smell of dead meat was too much to bear but with sheer willpower he focused just hard enough to grab a rock from the ground and tossed it down the hall way so the monster would follow its new distraction.

Arjun blew a sign of relief as the void soldier moved past him thinking it was its original target. He waited for the monster to turn the corner before he continued onward trying to find Liken in this dirty compound, corridor after corridor he went through trying his best to stay in the shadows as cultist and void soldiers moved in patrols in a hurry as if they were all meeting up some where within the base. As if it was not unnerving enough for the human he still felt the gaze of an unknowing watcher breathing on his neck hairs, although he tried to calm him self as clearly nothing was following him but he still had a strong gut feeling he was being stalked by something. Arjun turned down anther hall way to find his next path had been flooded in partially with water; he trucked through the knee deep liquid soaking a good portion of his jumpsuit when he heard the struggle of a very intense sounding battle which stroke Arjun as odd as there should have been more monsters or cultists that would have heard this easily.

He peered around the corner to get a better view when a massive blade hit the concrete wall breaking a large piece of it off and coming close of hitting the human's neck. After the near death experience he looked again and saw a massive void solider, he couldn't count the number of different bodies that were patched together to make this abomination and unlike its much weaker counterparts this monster was encased in armour plating heavy enough to be found off a tank its strength alone was enough to make this incredibly durable armour practical, its left arm still had the regular giant knife that replaced its arm at the elbow while its other arm was completely intact aside from the mutations that turned its arm into a unrecognizable fleshy mass with two sharp bone hook shaped fingers at the very end. The super void soldier limped towards its adversary, dragging its huge disgusting arm behind it.

The massive monster swung its blade arm forward trying to hit its very nimble target and as it continued its onslaught when its prey ran through one of the dim lights to reveal it was Liken, her black scales glistened in the light before she disappeared into the darkness again but the small window of time to see was just enough for Arjun to recognize her. Without his armour he would be completely useless against this super void soldier he would have to think of something fast otherwise the valgary was going to end up all over the room like a blender with the top off.

"I'm coming scale head!" Said Arjun hoping he would be heard. "Just don't know how..." he whispered after until he spotted a ramp up to a catwalk and grinned.

The Void Behemoth slowly raised its sluggish and tumour ridden arm into the air to let gravity be the force behind it as it tried to crush Liken like a bug but she quickly rolled to the side as the fleshy hammer like weapon made a crater from its impact. Liken kept her distance from the monster by keeping to the dark edges of the room and varying her movements and speed but the behemoth kept its focus on her continually turning with its think budging legs and using both of its arms as crutches. The abomination used its hammer arm again to crush her but once more did she avoided it and struck back at its arm causing both of claws to get stuck in its fleshy mass. Liken looked upwards to see the giant was going to split her into two with its knife arm now poised in the air until Arjun ran and jumped off a catwalk onto the monster's neck.

Arjun struggled to stay on but he managed to hang onto the bandages that covered the head of the monster which made for a great distraction for Liken to put her left hoof on the monster's arm to pull her claws free before leaping onto its face. She ripped into the monster's face doing as much damaged as she could using he right claw to hook in and stay attached while her other claw and tail just tore part the face of the super void soldier until it took all it could and fell over dead.

Liken jumped off before it hit the floor she stood on her hind legs and took a large breath with a sigh of relief when she heard Arjun who was still under the monster's head. "Get this thing off of me!" He said in a muffled voice