Shortbus Chapter 41 (Patreon)

The Tzeentch could turn the upper hives levels of elites into monsters that would kill the world with political games. Slaanesh would have everyone fuck each other to death. Khorne would have everyone stab each other to death.

The monster that was Nurgle was an entirely different beast. His goal wasn't to just tear everything down. No, his objective was the very core of rot and a slow march to oblivion.

Which played into his famous Poxwalkers of mutated humans that had their bodies piloted by the demonic plague with their minds chained from within.

And within a Hive city? There were just too damned many fucking people.

Within this lower hive city, there were easily a couple of hundred million people at the very least that were infected with the Poxwalker virus of Nurgle as each Hive City could typically have billions of souls within in.

So when I say, a literal tidal wave of Poxwalkers were trying to overwhelm us as we worked to purge the infected habitation building... I literally meant a wave of pox walkers rolling, crawling, and forcing their way toward us as they couldn't even walk in line without they kept tripping over each other with how tightly packed they were.

But... We weren't going to be overwhelmed so easily. Holy, Heavy Flamers burnt through the waves of corrupted flesh coming for us. We chucked plasma grenades that turned all flesh however corrupted by the Plague Grandfather into carbonized ashes.

Our lines and formations held tightly with simple slug throwers, and melee weapons not being nearly enough to get through the energy-shielded power armor all my super soldiers were armed with.

"T̶h̴e̸ ̴G̶r̸a̸n̸d̴f̵a̷t̵h̷e̸r̴ ̴l̴o̸v̷e̶s̵ ̸y̷o̶u̶ ̴a̴l̸r̷e̶a̵d̴l̴y̶ ̶c̷h̸i̶l̷d̴ ̸o̷f̴ ̵m̷a̶n̵" One of the demons spoke with its voice being a file over a rusted metal surface.

In response, a loud clang rang out as I formed a Solar Warhammer that violently exploded as I threw it into the demon with the demon screaming in agony as my 'Emperors' flames burned away his demonic taint actually killing the demon and its human host.

"Let not the sounds of evil fill your hearts! Have only your weapons ammo counters in your ears and the hymm of the Emperor remain in your minds!" Barghest roared as she slammed her gravity hammer with a loud 'Thoom' noise that splattered several dozen poxwalkers that were bunched up around her.

Our purge wasn't stopping even as monsters of all shapes and sizes closed in around us. We knew... We were quite literally outnumbered several thousand to one to say the least so as we moved through the hab block. 

Our heavy munitions experts threw timed sticky plasma charges into the ductwork above our heads while the flamers would burn with longer-lasting fuels that stuck to the doors that bought us time using the choke points.

And soon enough we had cleared the large hab block tower with the ritual site being a large ritual site with Nurgle's classic iconography with the three points having three local-born pyskers being used as batteries to fuel the arrival of the lesser tallymen demons to inhabit their host victims.

We killed the bound-up pyskers with their chained-in demons going up in a burst of flames as I used my colt to truly kill the demons within the pyskers and then we set even more plasma charges and a small nuclear bomb hidden within a storage crate that had was obviously used to transport all their victims.

I took out a zipline gun and then shooting the line down the long line past the other hab towers towards a large platform on a lower level I called out. "Use the zipline to get down. Flamers go last so they can keep the pox walkers and any remaining heretics from the bombs!"

The hundred-odd men and women quickly used their assigned padlocks as an impromptu zipline they could hold onto to slide down the angled metal line and I remained with the flamers knowing the nuke had a good five minutes to go for us to get out of here.

Along with the custodian, Adelieth, Barghest, and Katherine of course... Adelieth and Katherine had to shout the other Sister's of Battle to go down first to secure the exfiltration point.

"Alright, everyone rides down!" I ordered as my Crysis suit formed a hook around the line so I could easily slide down with everyone else following behind.

Once we landed on the other side I could already hear and see from the flashes of bright green plasma energy as the plasma charges on the lower levels of the massive hab bloc were going off.

"Get going! We need to put a few more hab blocs between us and the nuke!" I ordered harshly and began running the fuck away from the small yield but still powerful nuke that was going to blow to shit the already collapsing previously corrupted hab block.

We quickly made our way past several hab blocs in the next couple of minutes putting a good deal of tons of material between us and nuke where we began descending down through the Hive City to head back to our main base in the Geothermal Plant.

A loud rumble went off signifying the nuke going off violently and as it went off I quickly ordered. "Headcount! Are we missing anyone!?" 

And out of the hundred and fifty people we had come with. Only five people were lost when several large powerful chaos spawn surprised us and took out the floor beneath us before being dealt with plasma grenades.

"Return to base then," I ordered everyone with Barghest and the Custodian taking point as we quickly made our way back towards the Geothermal Plant. But as we were making our way there and I got in range of the worlds Vox systems.

I realized I had a priority message waiting for me from Inquisitor Grendyl.