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The Longest Short Bus. Chapter 54
🕑 Added 2025-01-21 08:07:11 +0000 UTCI was kinda busy you know trading for massive stores of ore and materials to be loaded up on the ship in return for extra blessed weapons to the sent to the Ecclesiarchy. Too busy to deal with auditioning the thousands of Sister's of Battle that were ecstatic to go on this holy crusade.
But... I probably should have fucking made time honestly. As I watched through dull eyes as the Sisters of Battle did a very Sisters of Battle thing in stripping buck naked besides seals covering their chest and genitals.
And then with wooden swords in the shape of chain swords. The initiates proceeded to beat the living shit out of one another till the other Sister fell to the ground due to their wounds or broke their opponents 'chain sword'.
"Adeleith, how does beating the piss out of one another determine they are worthy of joining our holy crusade?" I asked the lieutenant of our group of Sister's of Battle as Katherine was the leader of the our group of Sisters.
Adelieth without hesitation from where she was noting down notable names of the Sister's who were proving themselves spoke up. "This isn't unusual, though typically proving grounds like this happen more often due to a powerful Inquisitor coming to take sister's to purge a world or censor some Astartes."
I shook my head and said with a grunt. "Add another criterion on the strength of their faith. Have the combat failures go through a test of determination and will and take the best from there as well."
She was quiet for a moment before she said bluntly. "Organizing such a test will take a few days my lord, to say nothing of doing the test."
I gave Adelieth a look from the side with her stiffening before I said. "We have a week before we leave. Get it done, I don't want only meat heads on the ship who can only swing a chain sword."
Adeleith bowed and I heard her finger nails clicking on her own data slate to send my orders and just as I was about to take a drink from some wine I bought in bulk that came from a relatively close Pleasure World.
I got a notification on my HUD as a Custodian sent me a direct message. [Sister's who failed that proving ground have attempted to sneak onto the ship.]
With a mental groan, I messaged whichever Custodian it was. [Get rid of them. Either throw them off the ship, or into an incinerator. Do not allow anyone onto the ship we do not get a chance to check as I refuse have Gene Stealers on my ship.]
I didn't get a message back from the Custodian so I just disengaged my helmet so I could literally pinch the brow of my eyebrow before grumbling. "Who knew there would be so much damned paperwork being a Rogue Trader."
And the worst part! Was how all the damned paperwork was literally actually in paper/parchment that I needed to safely store on my ship to keep track of my shit in case officials from Terra demanded to get the book for taxes.
"Is this Bishop asking if I am taking on servitors that have been blessed?" I muttered in disdain before deleting the damned offending message.
But then a loud blaring rang out that made my ship's energy shield shimmer at the awful cacophony of noise. "What the hell was that?" I asked confused as hell as I began cycling through the ship's systems to see what happened.
Was there a surprise attack coming from outside the system my own ships' systems didn't pick up? Did that old Cardinal fucking keel over and die after looking into the records and finding out who Erebus was?
Soon enough my system bleeped and I got the message. [Risen Lord Lion El Johnson has won a battle against Hive Fleet Kronus of the Tyranids and is en route to preform Exterminatus on several corrupted worlds in the radius of the Eye of Terror.]
"Well this is interesting news." I mused to myself with a hand coming to my jaw as I wondered if I should go out of my way to go meet a Primarch... Or if that was too risky and attention seeking.
Granted he was clearly also doing something I appreciated in fucking over the Tyrranids and the forces of the Great Enemy. But I didn't want to give up my forces to join his retinue and if he got an idea of what I could do.
He could order me to be his serf and maybe... Just maybe the Custodian's would stand beside me but I had my doubts about the Sister's and the Guardsmen's loyalty in the face of being blasted with a Primarch's aura.
"My lord do you-" Adeleith's words were silenced as the door to the bridge opened up with a loud hiss and I chuckled as Ecris the catgirl bounced in with a happy smile.
"Sir! I came to directly report that several civilians taken out of the ore, and materials bay from the world have been given the Emperor's mercy and their bodies destroyed under the orders of the Custodian watching the intake work."
I nodded and said firmly. "Good work Ecris, great evil in the Gene Stealers adore to climb into ships to infect the passengers and take over their minds."
Both Adelieth and Ecris's face twisted at the mention of Gene Stealers as I made sure my men and women knew... The general threats of the galaxy and what they could expect and how to deal with them.
I most certainly didn't tell them about Greater Demons or other bullshit like that as that was dangerous information. Though with several dozen sister's and Custodian's armed with a lesser version of Supernatural's Colt. I was confident in us dealing with those as well.
"Wait one second Ecris, I need to send a message then we will be heading down to the manufactorium where the new larger weapon systems will be made." I spoke as I sent a message to the other Guard squad leaders.
Confirming for a second time that 'ALL' stow-aways were to be shot on sight as I was well aware of Gene Stealer Patriach's bullshit psychic nonsense that could mind control people.
Comments
MasBoss
Purge all stowaways in holy fire!
travis btmb
Tftc
Azazyel
Hence the purge even its a bit much
Azazyel
That only tests for tempature remember XD
juugo
Y'all remember that movie I am legend where people got laser tag tested for gene shit due to the virus mutations? Yeah that should snuff out gene stealers shits
Hmm is it time
Thanks for the chapter looking forward to more.
Toru Jack
Tfc
Forgottenone
Yes the toaster worshipping red robes can do gene test, but the mind altering powers of high level gene stealers are very dangerous.
Rockinalice
The good things in Life, especially since said Amazon is also a Blonde known for being extremely Beautiful even as just a Man imagine as a woman
PhotoStorm
oh definitely stay away from the lion.
Bishop7053
A gender bent Sanguinious would let Dante finally take a damn break. Also sexy 10 foot tall Amazonian big titty hawk girl. Do it
Rockinalice
Ritual, Ritual, Ritual we Need our Gaint Winged Badass back especially for him to kick his Brothers an also kick ass. Even better if the Ritual because it used the faith of so many sisters of battle Accidentally taints the ritual an brings back our Blonde Angel back as a Female. An Jake go "shit" while The Angel just shrugs an moves on with his day
ZeroLink21
Is there a way to find gene stealers without shooting them in the face to see what happens? Tftc
Big ToFu
he really does need more brains on that ship other than his own, also yes, shoot all the gene stealers because they uber suck. So many near death rescue mission fail in the end because they rescue a gene stealer cult member and they infect new planets.
