Editing Pathetic Marines (section)

==''The Sanctification of Atticuss Sackituss''==

As the auspexes calculated the exact location of the new object, the Captain of the Ninth was driving the captured Void Stalker towards the Bastion of Weakness so that the Space Hulk would absorb the xeno ship into its clusterfuck of battle barges and strike cruisers.
Within 5 minutes the Chapter Master, the 5th, the 9th and the 10th Company were on their way to the unknown object, all the while the Captain of the 9th was still driving (''It is still unknown to me how he was managing to.'') the Voidstalker towards the Space Hulk.
Thunderhawks arrived engines roaring to the unknown object, that by the looks of it was merely an asteroid.
But auspexes can locate astounds around ships without problem and with much ease, so that asteroid had more than met the eyes of the landing force.

Except for the members of the 10th, they were all blindfolded.

Ironically enough, it was one of the terminators of the 10th that tripped over a rock and found an entrance to a cave, which was strangely geometrical and decorated, and glowing green.
For a while nothing happened as the Marines proceeded trough the cave, guided by the apparently well informed Brother Notan Ecron, then, out of nowhere, a chasm appeared, glowing with a sick green light, silent.
The Marines cared not and proceeded to poke around.
With the poking came xeno weaponry and "other stuff" to quote their Techmarines' reports. Many Astartes would have been behaving in a most careful way in a situation like that, but not the Pathetic Marines, for either they were absolutely oblivious of the danger or simply did not care.

At some point appeared a figure, which the Marines testify they didn't notice until one of the Scout-Terminators tripped over its foot, which was stupidly big and skeletal in appearance. While the poking around intensified and the Marines' curiosity reached sky high levels, the structure didn't remain still for much longer.
The impact with the figure triggered the activation of the whole structure, revealing to the Marines a terrible twist.

Xenos.

Everywhere.

Enough to make an Ordo Xeno Inquisitor giggle in a most heretical manner.

From that chasm they found before started to crawl out what the marines reported at "skeleton robot zombies with flashy guns" (''The current Xeno Index has identified such creatures as "Necrons".'') .
The figure that was standing still on which the Terminator tripped now was coming back to life, its green eyes flashing menacingly and its metallic body starting to move. 
It first backhanded a scout marine in the face, then it looked around to find the chief of the interlopers and locked eyes with the Chapter Master Atticuss.
The honour-guard of the Chapter Master reported that this peculiar Necron (later found out by the descriptions to be a Necron Lord) started to talk in some incomprehensible language to Atticuss.
While the 5th, 9th and 10th Companies were holding off the first Necron Warriors that had arrived, Chapter Master Atticuss Sackituss answered to the Xeno's menacing words in the only way he knew: by starting to banter in High Gothic.
The word duel kept going for a while actually, with the fighting in the background escalating.

[[File:Chaplain Notan Ecron.png|290px|thumb|left|This is the reassuring and calming figure of the 10th Company Chaplain, wouldn't you too belive him?]]The Necron Lord suddenly disappeared at some point, ending the "duel". All the while a "big trianglular thing that shot big green lasers" (''Later identified as a Necron Monolith.'') appeared, escalating the fighting even more.
In that moment the Chapter Master and his Honor Guard entered the battle.
It is recorded that the Miserable Patheticnought, the most honoured and revered dreadnought of the Chapter, blew itself up by overheating its melta cannon.
60% of the 5th Company was wiped out, its Captain being put in a Pathetic Engine for having been largely turned into bacon by a barrage of Necron attacks.
The 9th Company suffered heavy losses, around 30 to 40 percent, and the 10th suffered in a similar manner.
Remarkable events from that battle are:
*-The Chapter Master surviving a direct shot from the Monolith and then fighting with such valour and inspiring his Battle Brothers so much that the Emperor saw fit making him become a Living Saint.
*-Despite being surrounded by them, the Monolith didn't notice the Assault Terminators of the 10th hammering furiously its hull for a good quarter of an hour.

After some heroic fighting and the destruction of the Monolith, the  Necron Warriors started to increase rapidly in numbers, with also fearsome units reported as "bigger skeleton robot zombies with flashier double-guns" (''The Xeno Department refers to these units with the name of "Immortals".'').

The Assault Terminators of the 10th for some time acted as a shield wall to cover the retreat of their Battle Brothers to the Thunderhawks. The retreat was flawless and no marine died or got injured during it.

As the last marines left the the "Tombsteroid" (''Term used by Chaplain Notan Ecron''), the Captain of the 9th had a <strike>horrible</strike> wonderful idea: to smash the previously captured Voidstalker onto the structure.

The Terminators of the X Company, along with the Chapter Master that personally wanted to oversee the shield wall, teleported back to the Bastion of Weakness few seconds before the impact between the captured Voidstalker and the Tombsteroid.

The impact between the two xeno constructs must have triggered something, as both the Tombsteroid and the Eldar vessel were turned into wreckage, that the "Good ol' Bastie" absorbed into itself in less that a few hours.

For his daring plan, the Captain of the 9th Company was praised with two dozens of Litanies of Booming (''The Ordo Hereticus have yet to confirm the existance of such litanies and their adherence to the Imperial Truth''.).

But trouble was always ready to come at the Pathetic Marines, and sometimes even from within.

-''Inquisitorial Record n.4358376-477, Inquisitor Emil Von Ansanger, De Miserationi Adepti Astarti ''
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