Gutspew Nurgle walked out in the moon light. He was no
pretty sight. His body was so decayed, it could make the stomach turn on the
most hardy of beings. His skin was covered in boils and open wounds. I can say
he looked better than he smelled. Waaay better.
And he was no pretty sight, so you get the point, right?
"I think I´m gonna throw up." Double D said
quietly, and tried to keep his dinner in the stomach.
"Nah, he doesn´t smell badder than Ed." Eddy said and pointed on Ed,
who still was fixating the Deamon with his eyes.
"I think your psyker is right." Gutspew spoke in his almost trademark
croaking tone. The Eds and Rolf turned their heads quickly and looked at Gutspew.
The bloated figure went one step closer, pus left in a trail after him.
"Kharn wants you guys out of his way, and I´m the one to do that." Gutspew
croaked and opened his mouth widely.
A weak buzzing was heard before a virtual beam of flies shot out of Gutspew´s
mouth. Ed, Edd and Rolf was quick enough to get out of the way, but Eddy was
left no chance at all, as the Terminator armour makes him a bit slow.
The fly-swarm crashed into his chest-plate and sent him flying into a nearby
tree.
"Urgh!" he said as he
fainted away.
"Eddy!!" Double D shouted as he turned round. "Feel my Force
Sword, Deamon filth!!"
Double D jumped at Gutspew, using his Force Sword as a double-handed
battle-axe.
But before Double D could blink, Gutspew had pulled his sword and the rusty
blade easily parried the blue Force-steel of Double D´s sword.
When Double D landed on the ground, he was suddenly in hand-to-hand combat with
a 6½ feet high Deamon, that smelled incredibly bad.
Double D got his sword on top of Gutspew´s and thought that he had him. But he
didn´t. With a swift back-swipe, Gutspew got out of his locked position and
sent Double D´s sword flying into the same tree as Eddy had crashed into. The
blade burried itself in the trunk some inches above Eddy´s head. Double D
quickly turned his head to see where the sword went. It was not very wise to do
that because Gutspew used this oppurtunity well, and knocked Double D hard in
the back of his head with his fist. Double D went down on his knees and fainted
without a sound.
Meanwhile, Ed had taken Rolf to what Ed thought was
safety, a tree-top. He´d hated to leave his friends, but he had to do it, for
Rolf´s safety.
"You can put me down, Ed-boy." Rolf said as he found a place to stand
on in the tree, a broad branch.
"Oh, sorry Rolf." Ed answered and put down Rolf. After doing so, Ed
landed beside him.
"We shouldn´t have left Eddy and Double D." Ed said worriedly.
"You could do nothing. That Deamon is at least ten times stronger than the
last one." Rolf´s answer came.
"So what are we gonna do?" Ed asked and looked confunded.
"Think up a plan. Which I should be good at."
"Don´t you mean Yarrick?"
"I know what I mean."
"Rolf?" Ed asked after a moment of silence. "Can you smell
it?"
"What?" Rolf said and looked up. He sniffed the air and looked down.
"He´s found us." Rolf whispered as an answer on his own question.
"What are we gonna do?" Ed asked back in the same whispering tone.
"He´s after you, not me. Kharn have probably said to him to take me alive,
so...."
"So what?"
"I´ll act decoy, and you´ll take him from behind. Okay?"
"Ay, commissar!"
"Oh, well. Here goes." Rolf said and swung down from the branch. As
he flew through the air, he easily gripped another, thinner branch and swung
down that way.
When he was about 13 feet above the ground, he pulled his sword and jumped down
onto the ground. He landed directly in front of Gutspew, who was surprised of
the little human´s bravery.
"Give up Deamon!!" Rolf shouted and tried not to breathe too much.
"Are YOU threatening ME?" Gutspew said and pointed on Rolf with a
decayed finger.
"Yes, there is nothing to fear except Fear itself."
"Wise words. But they won´t help you. You´re going with me back to
Kharn!!"
Gutspew jumped on Rolf, who was astonished that such a bloated being could be
so agile. In the last second, Rolf jumped out of the way and Gutspew crashed
into the ground, head first.
Ed siezed his opportunity and jumped down from the
tree, with a brightly blue-glowing power-sword.
He landed on the ground with a heavy thump, and ran against Gutspew the fastest
he could. He would not get one new chance.
He had to time this right.
Gutspew pulled his head out of the ground, but he
didn´t have time to curse even at Rolf, before a felt an enourmous pain in his
back.
"RRRAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!"
Gutspew turned his head and looked on his back. There he saw Ed, who was
standing on his back, with his power-sword half-way down into Gutpew´s back.
"Rrrggg! GET OFF, PIPSQUEAK!!" Gutspew
shouted. The pain from the trilitium sword was too much, even for Gutspew, who
was renowned to be one of the most sturdy Deamons alive.
"As you wish!" Ed said and swiftly jumped off Gutspew´s back.
Gutspew got up and turned round. He held his rusty-sword in a firm grip, a grip
so firm that the bone of his knuckles pierced out of his skin.
"Have you got ANY idea of who I am?!" Gutspew shouted. He was very
angry on this youngster.
"Nope!" Ed´s simple answer came.
"I am Gutspew Nurgle, Lord of Decay and Diseases."
"Do you know who I am?" Ed asked back, playing along.
"No." Gutspew answered and raised what would have been an eyebrow, if
it weren´t so that he didn´t have any.
"That´s good, because you won´t need to know when you´re dead." Ed
said and with an almost blinding speed, he raced forth and cut Gutspew in the
left arm.
"Arrrgh!" Gutspew cried out
as he felt the pain again. "Foolish
Outlaw!!"
Gutspew swung his sword in a deadly arc, but Ed was quick and ducked away, so
the sword only took a piece of his shoulder-pad armour. But the duck made him
vulnerable for a new attack, so Gutspew brought his sword in a back-sweep,
which would cut Ed´s head clear off.
But just as he was about to deal the final blow to Ed,
a blue ball of plasma hit Gutspew right in his back wound. The pain was
horrendous, to much even for the Lord of Decay.
Double D and Eddy came out from behind and joined Ed and Rolf.
"Finish him Ed." Double D said. "He´s as good as dead."
"I don´t think so Double D." Eddy said frightened. "Uh, he´s
definetly not as good as dead."
"Oh my." Double D said as he saw Gutspew grip Rolf by the waist and
run away from them.
"Get him!!" Eddy shouted and the three Outlaws ran after Gutspew.
"How can he be so bloated and so quick?" Eddy
asked while they ran after the decayed creature.
"I have no idea, Eddy." Double D answered.
"I didn´t ask you." Eddy looked at Ed, who turned on his jump-pack
and flew after Gutspew.
"ED! Where you going?!" Eddy shouted, shocked.
"To save the commissar."
"Jesus!" Eddy said and shook his head.
"You´ll have it sooo nice in the slaver-pit on
Secondus 2, commissar." Gutspew said maliciously.
"I have a feeling Kharn won´t make me a slave." Rolf said and tried
once again to break free from Gutspew´s grip, but to no avail.
"So why does he want you, then?" Gutspew asked, deeply confunded over
the answer. "All humans are now slaves to great Lord Kharn."
"He doesn´t want me as a slave, he wants me killed."
"Then he would have given me orders to kill you, right?"
They´d reached the dumpster by now, and Rolf recognised the spot where the
warp-gate opened last time.
"Has it ever occured to you, that Kharn hates me?"
The Deamon and the commissar didn´t get any further in their conversation,
because they were heavily interupted by an Ed that came flying down from the
skies, the armour glittering in the moonlight. He was going very fast because
of the aerodynamical shaped helmet he was wearing, and the white and red crest
on it fluttered in the powerful wind. In his hands he held the bolter that he´d
always used, ready to fire a salvo at Gutspew any second.
"Let go of Commissar Yarrick, Deamon of Hades!!" he shouted as he
flew down like a bolt of thunder.
"Does he ever give up!?" Gutspew asked himself and threw away Rolf
from the grip. He landed in a pile of trash (obviously).
As Ed came closer, he shot off a short burst from his bolter, which hit Gutspew
in the stomach.
"Rrrg! Dodge this!!" Gutspew shouted and opened his mouth and lashed
out with his tongue.
The tongue hit Ed on his chest-plate, and as it did so, Gutspew by accident
turned off Ed´s jump-pack. And as Ed is no bird, he falled to the ground with a
thump.
Gutspew walked up to Ed where he was lying on the ground and said:
"Hope that´ll teach you."
Without warning, Ed shot up from the ground, pulled his power-sword and cut
open Gutspew´s stomach. With a last scream of pain, Gutspew falled to the
ground, dead. But his body didn´t dissipate like Githu´s. Eddy and Double D ran
up to Ed, and so did Rolf, who´d gotten out of the pile of carbage.
"That was that Deamon." Ed said and took off the helmet.
"Not quite, Ed." Double D said softly.
"Whaddya mean?" Ed asked, surprised.
"Remember what happened on Armageddon? With the Plague Marine
Champion?"
"Yeah!" Ed said happily and slowly his facial expression changed to a
scared one. He´d realized what was going to happen.
"Oh!" he said put on the helmet, and so did Eddy and Double D. Rolf
hid behind a pile of trash and was soon joined by the Eds. A split second
later, the body of Gutspew exploded. It wasn´t a large explosion, but it was
enough to achieve the right effect.
FLA-DOOM!
"What a blast!" Ed said as he looked up.
"Good thing we were out of blast, unlike last time." Eddy said,
remembering his mistake on Armageddon.
"Ed-boys?" Rolf asked worriedly.
"Yes Rolf?" Double D responded.
"It ain´t over yet." Rolf said and pointed on some small beings that
came crawling out of Gutspew´s remaints.
"What are those?" Eddy asked shocked as he saw the small copies of
Gutspew.
"Those are Nurglings. I belive." Double D said and pulled his Plasma
Gun. "Fry ´em!"
Ed, Eddy and Rolf followed orders and pulled their guns to. The red laser shots
and the blue Plasma balls were mixed with the white streaks that were the
trails of the bolts that came from Eddy´s stormbolter and Ed´s bolter.
As all the Outlaws and Rolf´s weapons could fire at a fast rate, the Nurgling
threat was easily dealt with.
"Okay, what now?" Eddy asked as they got up from their cover. "Do
we wait for the next Deamon?"
"No." Double D´s troubled answer came.
"Why not?" Eddy asked surprised.
"Because...." Double D hestitated. "Because Gutspew sent a
psychic message throw the Warp. I didn´t understand it, but I have a feeling he
wanted a Warp-passage to be opened for him."
"By who?" Rolf asked. "A Dark Eldar? They´re the only ones that
can manufacture Warp Gates."
"No. A Deamon."
"A Deamon? A psyker Deamon?" Eddy asked shocked.
"Yes, and as it takes time for this one to reach it´s destination. Not
only through space, but through time, we should have a Warp-passage here
soon."
Double D had barely ended that sentence, before the familiar sound of a
Warp-passage was heard. The Eds and Rolf turned round and looked at the
swirling pattern of colours.
"I never done this before." Rolf said, with a spec of fright in his
voice.
The foursome walked up to the passage and Eddy said to Rolf with a kind
gesture:
"It´s just to walk in."
The four heroes walked in and the warp-passage closed with a sucking sound,
followed by a plop.
***************
Amon Chakai rushed the fastest he could to Kharn. How
could he´d been so stupid? He knew the Warp. It takes time for a psychic
message to reach it´s destination, sometimes days or even years.
"Kharn, I have good news and bad news!" he shouted as he entered the
throne-room.
"Again?" Kharn´s surprised answer came.
"The good news are that Yarrick is alive, so you can kill him
yourself."
"And the bad news?" Kharn asked with a face that said he had some
idea of what was coming.
"Eh, bad news number one is: Gutspew is dead."
"I knew it." Kharn interupted.
"And bad news number two is: The Space Outlaws and Yarrick are on Secondus
2." Amon ended and tried to look innocient.
"What!!?" Kharn screamed.
"They got into the Warp-passage before I realized what was
happening." Amon tried to explain.
"You moron!" Kharn kept on going. "Those four are the ultimate
fighters. Working as a team, nothing can stop them."
"Listen Kharn. I opened the Warp-passage in the Badlands in the south. They
won´t survive long against the lesser Deamons and the Berzerkers out
there."
"Maybe your right." Kharn said and calmed down.
"Give orders to all your troops to kill the Outlaws, except the Lexicanum,
I want him myself. Also give orders that they must capture Yarrick, at all
costs."
"Good idea Amon. What would I do without you?"
"I don´t know. Maybe you wouldn´t be King over Deamons and
Berzerkers?"
"Maybe so." Kharn said and laughed maliciously. "Maybe so!"
****************
The Eds and Rolf stepped out of the warp-passage. Eddy
came out lastly.
"Hurry up! It´s gonna eat my leg." he said as the passage almost
closed on his left leg.
"Where are we?" Ed asked.
"On secondus 2." Rolf said. "The Badlands, home of many
aliens."
"How far is it to the Imperial Palace?" Eddy asked and looked at the
blood-red sun of the Secondus System; Betelguese.
(Note: Kadoria is the Eldar name of Betelguese as
Khaine is the Eldar name of Khorne)
"About 20 miles." Rolf´s heavy answer came.
"It´s gonna take forever to walk that far." Double D said and looked
down on the ground.
But his head snapped back up as he heard a shout from behind:
"Blood for the Blood God!!! Skull for the Skull
Throne!!"
The four turned around and looked straight at 20 Berzerkers that were charging
at them, chainswords and bolt pistols at the ready.
"Not good!" the four said in unison.