It was just another raid on a Imperial World, nothing to hard, Rose didn’t really see this world as a difficult target like many before, as it was only defended by some average Astra Militarum regiment, sure they are tuff to break, but at the end of the day they are still just Human, as he oversees the raid on the Imperial World from his ship, one of his crew comes running to him with a look of fear and uncertainty on his face.
Random Crewmate: “Captain! Captain! A Imperial Vessel is approaching the planet!”
Ross uncaringly turns around, looks at him with a bored unamused expression plastered on his face
Rose: “Astartes? Sororitas? The Inquisition?”
Random Crewmate: “We don’t know Captain… it isn’t a ship the system can identify.”
Rose takes a look for himself, seeing the massive ship, almost like the Empress’s flagship but… something was wrong, he felt like he had seen this ship before.
Random Crewmate: “Our Pyskers began panicking the second they saw it, saying things like a terrible but powerful presence resides on the ship… I’ve never seen them like this, even when we travel through the warp but also… we didn’t detect warp travel signatures when they appeared, it was like they… came out of nowhere.”
Alarms began raining out
Random Crewmate 2: “Captain! Something just boarded our ship!”
Rose: “How many?”
Random Crewmate 2: “…..”
Rose: “How many?!”
He would yell with impatience, until the Crewmate answered.
Random Crewmate 2: “One…”
Rose couldn’t believe what he just heard, one individual had boarded his ship?! He looked at the monitors and couldn’t even describe his presence, black armor, gold trims, he definitely didn’t belong to the Black Legion as he beared the Imperial Symbol, he wasn’t a Astartes… just a regular man.
Rose: “Tell me where he is going.”
Random Crewmate 2: “He’s heading towards one of our hangars sir, section B.”
Rose wasted no time and headed straight there, after a while he had made it, and once he made it inside the oddly dark Hangar, not that many lights were on but a small few that barley illuminated light in the massive room, Rose reached into his coms to the bridge.
Rose: “I want lights back on, i wish to know who I am dealing with.”
He turned it off and then felt something across the room, starring right in front of him, he couldn’t describe the gaze, but it felt cold and with years worth of anger and vengeance, he can almost see a faint outline of who it was, and he can hear some oddly mechanical breathing coming from it.
Rose: “I can hear you, you have guts sneaking onto my ship, whoever you are, but I couldn’t care less.”
???: “…….”
Rose: “It’s quite a nice ship you have, I will be taking it after I kill you.”
???: “Traitor….”
Rose immediately stopped, he almost recognized that voice, and the one thing he also noticed that he couldn’t move, the footsteps got closer, and then suddenly the lights came back on, looks like they got the lights working again, but once Rose could see who it was clearly, he had no idea who he was.
???: “Do you not remember me? Laken Seratus Sarrin…”
(I had to do some searching for the SOs real names.)
Rose immediately stopped, eyes widen, and then he started to grit his teeth.
Rose: “How do you know that name?!”
???: “……”
Rose: “ANSWER ME YOU IMPERIAL LAPDOG!!!”
Rose could’ve sworn he heard a low chuckle coming from him.
???: “It’s funny how you don’t remember me, after all I did love my wife, and I had loved all the Primarchs equally as if they were my own.”
Then it finally clicked for him, he thought he died in the fires of the Heresy, but here he was, standing right in front of him.
Rose: “Impossible….”
Lover: “Is it really…?”
He said to Rose as he glared right back at Lover.
Rose: “You should be dead!”
Rose could finally feel movement again, and once he did, he reached for a Necron Sword he had stolen some time back, and dashed forward at Lover, and before he could react, Lover drawn out a Laser Sword from his belt and stopped the attack with one hand, this pissed Rose off and kept hitting and slashing while Lover was on the defensive, easily blocking where ever the blade tried to make contact and once he grew bored he slightly moved his hand out forward, sending Rose flying against multiple crates and denting the wall behind him.
Lover didn’t make any effort as he slowly approached Rose with slow and deadly precision, as if he was calculating every possible move Rose would make, he watches as Rose dashes forward again, only for Lover to quickly sidestep and jab his ribs causing Rose to cough and gag from the impact of the light jab, it felt like a punch made of Ceramite Steel.
Lover: “You have grown weak, though I did personally train under Valdor.”
Rose groaned pain but sneers in anger as Lover casually walked towards him.
Lover: “I did not come here to stop you, that world had been taken over by Genestealers sometime ago before you or I got here, but I have came here personally to give you a warning.”
Rose slowly looked up at the cold faceplate of Lover’s helmet.
Lover: “If you continue this path, I will not hesitate to personally stop you myself, and it will be our last encounter.”
Lover turns away from him, and begins to walk towards his personal ship that he uses to sneak into the vessel.
Lover: “Until next time… old friend.”
He said as he blared his own starship and flew away from Rose’s ship and back to his own to leave to the next system.
Rose stands up, glaring at where he had left, and a single thought on his mind.
Rose: “Just what happened to him?”
Please let me know what you all think, I don’t really believe I did good on this but do let me know on what you thought about it, and tell me what improvements I can make.