As the Eds walked off against the
space ship that was theirs, given to them from the Emperor, the Emperor shouted
after them;
"Don´t forget that you´re Space Outlaws, you´re not allowed to be in the
nearings off Space Marines. And Lexicanum Edward. All information you´ll need
on alien races is in the computer banks of the ship."
"Thanks!" Double D shouted back. "I
think I´ll need it!"
As they sat down in the space ship named Tycho, Eddy
looked at Double D with a face full off questions.
"What is it Eddy?" Double D asked.
"I´m just wondering over the word
"Lexicanum". What does it mean?"
"A Lexicanum is a Space Outlaw with psychic
powers. I noticed I had those powers when I read your thoughts without thinking
on why I did. By the time I read your thoughts I also wondered if we ever would
come home too."
"Any more hidden powers off yours?" Eddy
asked sarcastically.
"Yeah. The Emperor told me this one by means of
telepathy; I have a psi-weapon called "Lightning Storm". Impressive,
huh?"
"Not at all. Ed, take us out of here and
against...what the planets name at the furthest end of this solar system
called?"
"It´s called Volrath, Eddy."
"Yeah, take us there Ed."
"Ay ay Captain Eddy." Ed said and ignited
the engiens.
It seemed somehow very weird that Ed knew exactly how to do, like he had done
it a hundred of times before. Even though this was very obvious, Eddy was the
only one to bother about it. He was also wondering why Double D knew the name
of the furthermost planet. Eddy decided not to think too much about this. He
lay back and took a nap while Ed was occupied driving the ship and Double D was
busy reading about all their friends as well as foes.
In Double D´s mind other things were going on. As he read the story about how
Hive Fleet Kanker and Lord Kevlinn had gripped as much territory as they had. Only
three planets were left. Those planets were; Secondus 2, a world very much like
earth, Volrath, a ice world which was defended by the Sisters of Battle and
Callidus, a agri-world which was extremly well guarded by both Commissar Rolf
and his Guardsmen and a Eldarain Craftworld called Plankian.
"How come everything seems so familiar. All the names." Double D
thought. "Commissar Rolf, Lord Kevlinn, Hive Fleet Kanker and then we have
the leader off the Eldarain Craftworld, Johnnyski. Have we come to some
alternate solar system with everything in the cul-de-sac except me, Eddy and
Ed? Oh, there´s so many questions. And so few answers. And the mere fact that
we will have to kill beings to achive our goal. It doesn´t bear to think off. I
don´t know about Eddy and Ed, but I will never get over the fact of that I have
taken a persons life."
He looked down at the plasma gun hanging from his belt in a magnetic chain.
"Will I ever use it?" He asked himself and started reading again.
Things were bugging Ed too. He looked like he was
hardly concentrated on driving Tycho but in his mind he was even more busy.
"Will I ever see Sarah again? What if I become a KIA, but it´s pretty cool
being a real Space Outlaw. And besides, I´m protected by a 2 inch thick
ceramite armour. When this is over I´m going to celebrate. And go home."
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Two hours later, Volrath could be seen on the monitor.
Ed took the eyes from the monitor for a while and knocked Eddy on his left
shoulder pad.
"Huh? What is it Ed?" Eddy asked as he woke up.
"We´re approaching planet Volrath." Ed said
and pointed on the monitor.
"The Sisters of Battle won´t approve us just
barging in." Double D said as he looked up from the monitor he had watched
and read from the latest two hours.
Double D was going to be right, because suddenly the
comm-radio frazzled and a voice that sounded very much like Nazz´s talked to
them.
"Please identify yourselves or we´ll fire upon
you with the Nova-cannons."
Eddy took courage to himself and answered:
"Captain Eddy and his to companions; Sergeant Ed and Lexicanum Edward. We
are the Space Outlaws sent here by the Emperor himself."
"Thank God that you are here. We have a serious
"bug" infestation. Please help us."
"Of course we will." Eddy answered.
"Take us down Sergeant Ed."
"Roger Wilco, Captain Eddy."
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Half an hour later, Tycho had landed on the biggest
base on Volrath, Hebra. As Eddy, Ed and Double D walked out of the
Thunderhawk-class space ship they were meeted by two Sisters of Battle. Both
looked very familiar. They were also wearing jump-packs like Ed, but theirs
were a bit more slender. One looked very much like Sarah and the other one
looked very much like Nazz. The thing that made them to look a bit less then
Nazz and Sarah was that their faces had some scratches.
"Probably caused by those "bugs"."
Eddy thought.
To describe the two gals armour, I can say that it was
mostly black with small red lines in it. The armour itself were more slender
than the Eds armour and not as thick either. They both had a bolt gun (bolter
for short) each and had a chain sword each too. (A chain sword is a sword with
the same function as a chainsaw, but less heavy, a lot less.)
The one that looked like Nazz walked forward and
saluted Eddy. Eddy did the same.
"Canoness Nazz. And this is Seraphim Sarah." she said and pointed at
the one that looked like Sarah.
"We need your help with taking out a Genestealer
Cult here on Volrath. We know that Hive Fleet Kanker is behind this. They were
once Sister Sororitas just as we two, but they were Infested by a Genestealer
Cult and now they are the leaders of the Hive Fleet. They were sisters."
"Of course we´ll help you. Aint that right
guys?" Eddy said
"Right!" Ed and Double D responded.
"Good that you´ll help us. Praise the Emperor. We´ll
leave tomorrow morning and attack the station the Cult uses as home base."
Seraphim Sarah said.
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At that evening, the Eds were sleeping in a room that
once had belonged to a General, but he was now also part off the Hive Fleet and
the Cult.
It was very quiet in the room. Ed and Double D were sleeping, but Eddy
couldn´t. He was wondering what a Genestealer was. He found it to be mostly
easy to wake Double D and ask him.
"Hey, Double D. Wake up." Eddy said.
"Mmmm..." Double D responded when he opened
his eyes and looked at Eddy. "What is it?"
"I´m just wondering, what is a Genestealer?"
"It´s a about 5 feet high, 6 limbed bug. It´s got
two pairs of arms. One pair looks like human arms and the other pair looks like
monster arms with 3 fairly big claws instead of fingers. They are pretty few,
in compartion with how many other bugs there are. I´ll belive about a hundred
or so on this planet."
"And what is our chance of surviving?"
"Fairly big. Don´t let them come close. When you
see them, you´ll understand Eddy."
"Okay. Good night Double D."
"Good night Eddy."
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When morning broke, the Eds and a company of Sisters
of Battle were already at the base the Cult had as home base.
They were lying about 500 metres from the base and looked on it through
binoculars. The base seemed empty. Suddenly, hundreds of Genestealers ran forth
from the base. And what quick suckers they were. The 500 metres were quickly
lain behind them. In less then five minutes, the Eds and the Sisters of Battle
was in close combat with the Genestealer horde. Eddy and Double D fought for
their lives. Somehow, they didn´t bother off tearing the bugs apart limb by
limb, like they had done it before, even though they haden´t. Ed on the other
hand, was nowhere to be seen. And so were Canoness Nazz and Seraphim Sarah. All
the jump-pack equipped Sisters of Battle were gone.
Eddy and Double D had just cleared out a space round
them when they saw a group of Genestealers surronding a squad of Sisters of
Battle.
"Hey!" Eddy shouted, not really realizing
what he did. "Why don´t you pick on somebody your own size!"
One off the Genestealers that looked like a leader,
looked at Eddy and Double D and said in a harsh voice:
"Like...you."
And so the entire horde ran after Eddy and Double D.
Eddy just shot Double D a very scared look before they turned tail and fled. The
Genestealers are quick, but not as quick as Space Outlaws who are on the run
away from something.
Eddy and Double D ran into an ice valley, only to find
it was a dead end.
"Oh my. Dead end." Double D said stressed.
"And we´ll be dead Eds if not a miracle
comes." Eddy said quickly as he turned his and looked right at about 70
Genestealers with glistering teeth.
Suddenly, Eddy got some snow on his head. He looked
upwards and saw Ed´s blue boot at the top of the cliff above them. Seconds
later, they heard a yell:
"FORWARD!!"
It was Ed who was in the lead of all the jump-pack
equipped Sisters of Battle. They stormed down with the jump-packs at full and
shot big holes in the Genestealer horde with their bolters.
"Hi guys!" Ed said as he landed his right
boot firmly in the face of the Genestealer leader, breaking the things neck.
The battle was soon over. The last ones off the Cult
were hunted down and killed.
Back at Hebra, the Space Outlaws were taking goodbye of the Canoness and
Seraphim Sarah.
"Thanks for your help. The Space Marine Legions
will take care off the last ones that we could have missed. So you´d better be
going. If I know right, the Space Marines don´t like you Space Outlaws." Canoness
Nazz said as she shook hand with them, one by one.
"If you ever need our help." Seraphim Sarah
added. "Send a message."
"I think we´ll need your help sooner or
later." Eddy said as he went into Tycho.
Ed and Double D were sitting in it waiting for Eddy. When he finally came in,
he had a red kiss mark on his cheek.
"Eddy, what´s that?" Double D asked.
"Oh, it´s just a present from the Canoness,
Lexicanum." Eddy replied.
As Tycho got out of orbit, Ed asked:
"Where to now, Captain?"
"Craftworld Plankian." Double D shot in.
"Why?" Eddy asked.
"We´ll need help from the Eldarain people if
we´re going to destroy Hive Fleet Kanker." Double D replied softly. "Besides,
Lord Kevlinns home planet; Armageddon, lies in the Solar system known as
"The Eye of Terror"."
"You heard Double D, Ed. Craftworld Plankia
next."
"Roger Wilco, Eddy." Ed responded and so
they flew off against a new adventure.