Alone (standard:science fiction, 3916 words)
Author: Steve	Added: Jul 03 2008	Views/Reads: 3146/2176	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
my first try at wrighting a quick 40k story

Alone 

Prologue 

There I was 

Nathan felt the mussel of the rifle pull away from the back of his head.
Looking up he saw the guardians raise their weapons all at the same 
time and fire into the ranks of the PDF solders. He only hoped the rest 
of his squad was heading back out of the mine. It was too late for him 
and he didn’t want his squad to die in some impossible rescue attempt. 
Everything had just gone to hell but there was still one thing left to 
do. Nathan pushed himself to his knees and pulled out his pistol. He 
could see the governor, see tears running down his checks, see the dark 
lines under his eyes, and the mad look of someone who knows there is no 
place left to hide. 

This will end the war, at least that’s what they told me when they sent
my squad on this mission. The reagent governor of Sin had chosen to 
forsake the light of the Emperor choosing instead cut off all contact 
and forgoing Sin’s responsibilities to the Imperium of Man. To clean up 
this mess and to “reeducate” the local PDF the 477th Varian was sent 
in. Specials in quick strikes the 477th made quick work cleaning up the 
PDF and tracking down the governor to a small mining settlement still 
held by the PDF. If HQ knew what he was really up to they would viral 
bomb the hole planet in steed of sending in my squad. But they had no 
idea, how could they? So they sent us in, the Varian 12th to cut off 
the head of this rebellion. The Varian 12th exiles in scouting and 
infiltrating enemy lines and had been sent in to take out rebel supply 
dumps and other targets of opportunity. But something didn’t seem right 
with this mission. Why did was governor hiding out in a mining 
settlement and not one of the several vast fortress city doting the 
planet? What they were doing there HQ didn’t care. It was an open 
window to end the war. So they sent us, my squad the Lost, and two 
other squads the Dead and the Night. A four day mission. In and out. 
Almost a vacation from the front lines. I’ll never forget how wrong I 
was.  Well hindsight is always 20/20. 

Chapter I 

The Lost 

Four days earlier 

Sergeant Nathan stood in the door way running his hand through his tight
cut hair. He looked old covered from head to toe in the ashes of the 
burning buildings outside. His night black hair graded and his face 
hard and dry from the ashes and heat of the fires. His green cameo was 
hardly visible and he looked more like a ghost than a man. In the room 
sat the other two other sergeants of the Varian 12th.  Sergeant Doim 
and Sergeant Carson. Where sergeant Doim was small and slender,  
sergeant Carson was a huge man with arms that stretched the sleeves on 
his shirt. Nathan liked the man, if not for his sense of good luck; 
it’s always nice to have someone bigger that you in a fire fight to 
hide behind. Leaning back in his chair Carson was the first one to see 
Nathan standing in the door way. ‘So what’s the word?’  Asked Carson 
while he opened up one of his canteens. ‘We move out at first sun.’ 
Replied Nathan. Both the Sergeant gave the usual disapproving grunts 
before cleaning off a small table in the middle of the room and 
retrieving maps from their assault bags. ‘They tracked down Governor 
Plato to a small mining settlement not far from where we are now’ 
started Nathan. ‘HQ wants us in there to take him out. Quick job, in 
and out, home in time for dinner.’ Yea that’s what they all say.’ 
Interrupted Carson.  Doesn’t sound right’ Doim shifting in his chair 
was always wary and never took anything at face value.’ I mean it 
hasn’t sounded right from day one. Why would a planetary governor just 
one day decide to turn agents the Emperor?  They must have known this 
was going to happen. And...’ And why do you always make things 
complicated?’ Carson lighting a smoke as he cut in. ‘why doesn’t 
madder, only what you do about it.’ ‘There’s three ways in’ continued 
Nathan.  ‘Doim and the Nights will take the east path thought the hills 
to infiltrate the eastern mine shafts. Carson and the Dead will hit a 
supply camp west of the settlement as a diversion for the Lost to slip 
in. 



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