Chronicals of the Justicar Act1/Part 3

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#4 of Chronicles of the Justicar


[Planet Earth. Year 3,679. April 10th. Saturday. 4:31 PM. VALOR High Command. General Constantine's office.]

The old war veteran scratched his bald head as he continued to read Arjun's report as the marine sat on the chair in front of his desk. "Shutting down the generator, killing the Hive King single handed and destroying the Khaos tram. It's amazing you did all of this private" said Constantine.

Arjun shrugged. "It wasn't that hard, sir. Most of the Khaos troops were disorganized and could easily be picked off."

Constantine laughed. "My boy, you shouldn't be humble, you did an amazing feat and VALOR is proud of that. Although the main reason I called you down wasn't to praise you, was to offer you a proposition."

Arjun relaxed in his chair with his arms folded. "What do you mean, sir?"

"You see private, the main reason we attacked Sepress Prime was to find a candidate for a special job" said Constantine has he leaned on the desk towards the marine

The general unfolded his hands and sat back. "Every generation needs its heroes, back in the first war against Khaos it was Xross and I, but I am too old now and Xross is busy with our campaign strategies against Khaos."

Arjun sat up straight. "So what are you asking?"

Constantine wheeled his chair so he faced the window outside; he watched the busy streets of Earth before turning around again. "VALOR needs a hero to both inspire moral, VALOR needs you, and the war effort needs you to become the Justicar."

"Justi-what?" asked Arjun

Constantine sighed. "The Justicars were the cream of the crop of the elite, I am the current Justicar but I'm willing to pass the training onto you, if you accept this title, the Forces of Khaos will make hunting you down their top priority but you will receive training that can counter anything they throw at you."

Arjun looked down at his feet. "Doesn't seem like I have a choice"

"You do private, but it's not really a debatable issue now is it?" he laughed.

Arjun stood up and saluted. "I will accept this and bring down Lord Khaos once and for all"

[Planet Fanturea . Year 3,679. April 10th. Saturday. 4:45 PM. Khaos World. Tormentor Drop ship-KT5.]

Zhakaev scratched his arm as he sat in the vessel that carried him back home, several Darkspawns sat beside and in front of him. The alien grabbed his energy rifle and let it rest on his lap before the Darkspawn on his right tapped him.

"Zhak, you ok?" said the Darkspawn through the voice filter in his helmet

Zhakaev fiddled with his rifle before answering. "Yea, I'm ok."

The armoured Darkspawn laughed. "Took a nasty beating in the loading dock, one day I won't be able to save your hide anymore and I known you too long Zhak, what's wrong" said the alien

"A friend died back on Sepress Prime, that's all." Zhakaev said quietly

"Friend? Don't you mean Liken?" The alien stooped and patted his friend. "Sorry Zhak, she was a good kid."

Zhakaev pulled on his helmet before the other Darkspawns could see him cry. "What's done is done, but I will swear on my family's honour that I will kill that human food.

The Darkspawn patted Zhakaev on the back again . "Chances are you won't find him again, but I will be right there if you do." He laughed.

"Thanks, Na'rakk" he sighed

Nar'rakk patted Zhakaev once more on the back. "Ship docked, come on lets go check on your family."

[Planet Earth. Year 3,679. April 10th. Saturday. 6:25 PM. VALOR High Command. Daemon training court.]

Xross laughed. "A human in a Daemon training course? This will be most tragic"

Arjun stood shoulder to shoulder with the taller black armoured commandos he saw on Sepress prime. They stood in front of several VALOR marines in full body armour with the weapons to match; they stood behind various objects for cover.

Arjun turned to the Daemon on his left. "What are we doing?"

The taller alien laughed and looked down. "Live fire training. Have fun chocolate" he cackled

Before Arjun could rebuttal against the racist comment the marines opened fire. Arjun frantically ran behind a barrel as bullet fire dominated the air, he looked to his left and right and could not see one of the daemons, in a few seconds he heard snapping and the bullets stopped.

He looked over the barrel to see all the marines on the ground with broken arms and their guns scattered to one corner of the room. The daemon commandos were also gone as well.

"Where are the comman-"said Arjun before he was tackled to the ground

[Planet Fanturea . Year 3,679. April 10th. Saturday. 6:45 PM. Khaos Home world. Zhakaev's house.]

Zhakaev entered the black stone house, he knocked on the wooden door as he walked in. "Hey mom, I home!" he yelled

Na'rakk rubbed his hands together as he watched the nearby television as he stood by the door, down came the stairs near the two was a shorter much older Darkspawn, six of her eyes were white and wore the standard black and purple tunic that all Khaos citizens wore.

"Zhaky! You're alive!" his mother yelled as she hugged her son at his waist

"Of course I am alive mother, dying isn't something I plan on doing." He laughed

"After hearing the news on Sepress Prime I thought you were killed in the attack, but you're alive and that's all that matters. "She smiled

Zhakaev scratched his head. "I need to sleep here until my next deployment, that ok mother?" he said carefully

She smiled. "Of course you can along with your friend Na'rakk" she waved

Na'rakk waved back." HI miss Darkrune."

[Planet Earth. Year 3,679. April 10th. Saturday. 7:01 PM. VALOR High Command. Daemon training court.]

Xross pointed to a hologram of one of the Khaos Darkspawns, before Arjun could even blink a commando answered. "A Khaos Revenant, House Laybrinth!"

Arjun looked at the skeletal creature, it had transparent skin and both of its arms were replaced with the Khaos energy rifles. Xross pointed to anther. "This!" he yelled

Anther commando yelled. "Genesis creature! Lasher class! House Chrun'ell!"

"Correct!" saluted Xross

Arjun scratched his side as he looked at the mutant. It resembled a Darkspawn very faintly, the mutations all around its body made sure of that, its arms were scythes and were located on top of its shoulders, the head was found in the middle of it's chest and it's feet were turned around backwards at the heel.

The armoured monster was replaced by the standard Khaos Darkspawn trooper. Arjun raised his hand but a commando answered. "Khaos rifle grunt, House Laybrinth"

Arjun put down his hand. "This is going to be a long day..."

[Planet Fanturea . Year 3,679. April 10th. Saturday. 7:20 PM. Khaos world. Streets.]

Zhakaev held his helmet under his right arm as the two Darkspawns walked down the street, Na'rakk winked at two females as they jogged on the opposite sidewalk, although the standard clothing wasn't revealing he still managed to eye their bodies up and down.

"You know Zhak, there are plenty of other females to choose from besides Liken, should try to socialize more often." Nudged Na'rakk as he pointed Zhak to the females that past them.

Zhakaev sighed. "I know that." He said sharply. "I'm still mad at myself on getting her killed.

"Killed?" asked Na'rakk

"I was tasked with guarding that Carrier, I failed and now she's dead Na'rakk! And its my fault she isn't here with us today."

Na'rakk patted Zhakaev. "It's still not your fault, I mean it's not like the one human is receiving elite training just because he did well that one mission."

[Planet Earth. Year 3,679. April 10th. Saturday. 7:25 PM. VALOR High Command. Daemon training court.]

Xross rubbed his forehead with his hand as he closed his eyes. "Ok, Arjun..., you managed to fail all of the exercises, even the ones that were supposed to be fun. I have no idea why Constantine even picked you, must have been a fluke how you even lived"

Arjun sighed. "I know I'm just a human and your black op daemons out class me in almost every way, but we humans can aspire to great things, look at Constantine. In his prime he killed more daemons than most armies seen and he defeated Dread Lord Hador by himself, just give me anther chance Xross"

Xross looked at his wrist watch. "Fine, but only because Constantine insisted."

Arjun looked around. "So what's my first assignment?"

Xross pointed to his black op commandos. "Don't, die."

[Planet Sepress Prime. Year 3,679. April 10th. Saturday. 9:30. Tram crash site.]

Apothecary Lord Truth J. Carpender surveyed the crash site, his genesis creatures picked up the Valgary body parts scattered around the area,the floating Dread Lord wore a pure white wrapping around his body like a mummy; metal purple plating protected his shoulder, his left arm and right leg. The eight pointed star of Khaos was engraved onto his chest, part of the wrapping around his left eye was loose faintly showing a black eye with a green slit in the middle.

"Harvest the bodies you idiots! Not the train!" growled the Dread Lord as he watched several of his experiments savaging metals instead of the precious organs

The alien watched one of his mutants walk up to were he was floating, it's left foot dragging across the sand. Although it couldn't talk Carpender knew it wanted to be followed, the Dread lord floated behind the shambling monster, the creature pointed to a dead Valgary with its left scythe arm on its shoulder.

"It's dead, It's suppose to be dead you idiot." Snarled Carpender

The creature pointed its both arms at the fallen Valgary; Carpender cocked his head at the animal. "It's dead...don't tell me you can't harv-" Carpender stopped when he noticed it was breathing.

He laughed. "This Valgary...looks promising."

[Planet Earth. Year 3,679. April 20th. Monday. 10:25 AM. VALOR High Command. Daemon training court.]

"You came along way human; you can identify any known Khaos daemon with a brief description, you managed to steal the wallets off my Commandos as they were fully aware on your presence and you mastered every single weapon VALOR has at it's disposal in only ten days. But there is one last test, you must defeat my Black op Commandos at once." Said Xross proudly

Arjun turned to the heavily armed daemons behind him, Arjun cracked his knuckles. "Don't try to bore me you six" he laughed

The closest Daemon raised his rifle but Arjun charged forward, he grabbed the gun and broke the commando's arm at the elbow with his free hand. He pulled the gun away and broke it against the daemon's back sending him to the ground.

Two Daemons raised their fists and swung at the marine, Arjun leaned backward dodging the almost instantaneous attack, and he leaned forward back into the two and punched both of them in the stomach dropping both to the ground.

The last three attacked Arjun at the same time, Arjun jumped, he rolled through the air as two of the punches past over him and the third one underneath, he gained his footing, he slammed his palm into a commando's face knocking him to the ground, the second one spun around but Arjun grabbed his arm and swung the larger daemon over his shoulder onto the ground where he snapped it.

The last commando was disarmed of his knife; Arjun stabbed the daemon in the foot then punched the alien in the face, knocking him out cold.

Xross clapped. "Twenty seconds, your best time. You finished my training but its not all over. You still have to grafted into the Justicar power armour, which should increase your attributes by a good three-hundred percent"

Arjun saluted Xross. "I won't let you down"

Xross laughed. "You better not, I'm behind in my reading training you."

[Planet Chru'nach. Year 3,679. April 20th. Monday. 11:25 AM. Necromatic labs . Cell block, 2-55]

Carpender watched as the Valgary woke up from its coma. "Welcome back, good to see you will be joining us today miss...." Carpender stopped as he grabbed his note pad from a nearby shelf.

"Liken."

The Valgary rubbed her head as she laid on the silk laced bed. Several lasher creatures walked around the room as Carpender floated at the end of the bed. "Wh-what happened." She groaned as the Valgary felt her head.

"You took a nasty bump on the head, body....organs." said Carpender

"Organs? How could you know I was hurt there?" she groaned again as she fell back on the pillow

"Well for one thing, I could see them. And half your body was missing..." Carpender corrected himself. "Well not missing, we found it half way across the train wreck"

Liken gulped and slid under the covers as Carpender laughed. "Oh don't worry my little Valgary, your quite whole now. But I will keep you at my-oh so lovely labs for further stud...care taking. My nurses will take care of you for the time being." Said Carpender as he nodded to the three lasher creatures that guarded the room.

[Planet Earth. Year 3,679. April 20th. Monday. 10:25 AM. VALOR High Command. Armoury.]

Arjun opened his eyes to see the inside of his new helmet; it was a lot less cluttered than the marine HUD, no squad green bars, he had no ammo count for his rifle, and the triangles highlighting the VALOR personal were no were to be found.

The human flexed his gauntlet and felt as it was a second skin, the gauntlet was a white colouring with a grey 'spine' that ran from the hand into his neck, several grey spines connected the body parts to his neck as well.

"What's with the grey wires.." said Arjun as he wore the Justicar armour

Xross folded his arms. "The 'wires' connect your nervous system to your other body parts, so you can react faster than your spine would allow. Through the use of hydraulics you can lift almost anything you can grab and finally I will be able to communicate from VALOR High Command to your suit without having the problem of being jammed."

Arjun touched his head. The silver cross on his helmet shined from the light in the armoury, he looked at Xross. "Why so little detail on the HUD?" asked Arjun

"After your training, you won't need those comforts." Xross turned to three marines who each were trying to lift a large silver sword. The daemon grabbed the sword in one hand and handed it to Arjun. "Here is your primary weapon, it's the same sword General Constantine used back in his youth"

Arjun wielded it one hand, he placed it on his back and the magnets instantly activated and held the blade in place. "This is so great, I'm like Robo-cop, Master Chief or a Power ranger!" said Arjun as he danced on spot

Xross sighed as he rubbed his forehead. "Humans...."

[Planet Fanturea . Year 3,679. April 20th. Monday. 1:20 PM. Khaos World. Bar.]

Zhakaev dismissed the waitress as he slumped into his stool as Na'rakk made out with his who offered him a drink earlier, Na'rakk took one last kiss before he waved the female Darkspawn away, he wiped the pink lip stick off his cheek with his armoured gauntlet and drank his beer before turning to Zhakaev.

"See Zhak? That easy, we can always drop by the Baphomet side of the city, you can use the....entertainment."

The older Darkspawn placed his arms on the counter and buried his head in them when a much larger daemon walked over as he cleaned the mug in his hands. "Na'rakk, what's wrong with 'Z' over there?"

Na'rakk took a large sip emptying the large mug before setting it on the counter for it to be re filled. "He's just butt hurt that one of his friends were killed at Sepress Prime."

The bartender nodded. "Sepress Prime you say? Tragic battle there, glad you boys made it back in one piece. They say that a lone human took down the Valgary Hive King himself? Can you believe it?!" he laughed as he placed the clean mug under the counter.

Na'rakk wiped the white bubbles of his mouth with his right fist. "Afraid that's true, but blame it on Carpender for making such a shitty battle plan" angrily said the drinking Darkspawn

"Eh! Don't bad mouth the Dread Lord, Lad's done more for Khaos than your entire blood line Na'rakk!' said the Barkeep

Na'rakk sighed. "Sorry, it's just the battle plan was a recipe for disaster on both sides, It's like Carpender just wanted deaths then a victory, but he is a Dread Lord and I will follow on my family's honour and serve his judgement."

The bartender smiled and handed Na'rakk anther filled mug.

[Planet Earth. Year 3,679. April 20th. Monday. 1:25 PM. VALOR High Command. Briefing room.]

"It's time for your first mission as the Justicar Arjun; it's time to show Khaos that the Justicar is back." Said Zhakaev as he activated the hologram of a Khaos planet

"This is your target. Khaos World; Fanturea, population two hundred million, five thousand, sixty one. Your assignment will be to wipe the planet clean of all Khaos followers."

Arjun scratched his head. "The, entire planet?"

"The mission isn't a strategic one, this is to show if it can happen to this planet it can happen to any. It will be a great boon in moral for new recruits and inspire fear into the Khaos loyalists, for the obvious fear factor reason you will be doing this mission yourself. I will be able to guide you through out the streets."

Arjun twirled the blade in his hand before sheathing it on his back. "Point me to the planet." Said the Justicar