I Just Walk Away
Chapter 66
Previous Chapter Next ChapterTerra, or, in the most ancient records, "Earth," is the Throneworld of the Imperium of Man and the original homeworld of Mankind and of the God-Emperor. It is the most sacred and revered place in all the million worlds that comprise the Imperium. Billions of human pilgrims from across the galaxy flock to Terra -- even the barren and contaminated soil that these pious folk now tread upon when they reach humanity's homeworld is considered sacred by the faithful of the Imperial Creed.
Terra is effectively a globe-straddling temple dedicated to the worship of the Emperor of Mankind. The planet is home to the primary headquarters of many important Adepta of the Imperium since it serves as the capital world of the Emperor's realm. There is a great fear of Space Marines amongst the people who dwell there, due to events dating back to the Horus Heresy, when much of the planet was leveled and terrorized by the actions of the Traitor Legions.
Before the Great Crusade, Terra was plagued by a long age of post-apocalyptic civil war and anarchy known as the Age of Strife, which only came to an end when the Emperor personally waged the Unification Wars to reunite all the Terran factions under His own enlightened leadership.
Today Terra is the slow-beating heart of the Imperium, a sacred world of power and majesty that has become legend for most of the people of the galaxy. It is the site of the Golden Throne; the demesne of the divine Emperor of Mankind. The breathtaking architecture of its soaring buildings strike awe into the hearts of the millions of supplicants below.
Forbidding statues of angels and Primarchs loom down from their eyries, their sightless stare driving out all thoughts of heresy. It is considered such a blessing to set foot upon Holy Terra that most of the pilgrims who manage to reach its polluted surface never leave.
Terra is perhaps the most massive Hive World within the Imperium, with an uncounted population that numbers several hundred billion human beings. The bulk of Terra's massive population is divided between the upper class that includes the Imperial nobility and Adepts of the Adeptus Terra and the masses of the lower classes who serve as basic laborers.
The upper class is comprised of the official servants of the Emperor and His Imperium, including Imperial officials, Ecclesiarchy clergy, the aristocratic families of the Navis Nobilite, military officers, scribes, and bureaucrats.
The teeming masses who comprise the Terran lower classes are far less-privileged, and many of them are nothing more than serfs or thralls who toil in the Throneworld's countless manufactoria, providing the infrastructure that keeps the heart of the Imperium's byzantine bureaucracy functioning. Terra has one moon, Luna, which is an inhabited and highly populous Civilized World of the Imperium in its own right.
The space around Holy Terra was always busy, with pilgrims always coming and ships of all kinds coming and going. But now ships wait for their turn to land on Holy Terra, under the watchful eyes of the navy and the defense stations that surrounded the planet. The news of the Emperor of Mankind being restored to life has caused a surge of the faithful to come to Holy Terra.
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On Holy Terra -
Robute Guilliman walk the familiar halls of the imperial palace once again. He return to Holy Terra once news reach him of his father's return to the land of the living. There are wild rumors of how the Emperor of Mankind was restored from his dying and decaying body. From what he can piece together, his father is still bond to the Golden Throne till he fully recovers his strength. But all the tales he has heard one fact remains in all of them, his father is now able to talk for the first time in eons. And he is healing even now, the best and most advance medical equipment and doctors across the galaxy have been summon for around the clock care.
Guilliman had heard of such rumors before but with a message sent to him by a Adeptus Custodes, he knew it wasn't just a rumor anymore. The palace was surrounded by the masses both nobles and beggars alike, held back by the imperial guards and space marines, using both show of force and firing on the crowd to hold them back. All wanting to know what's happening with the Emperor and seeking knowledge of how he came back. A fact that's being kept hidden, with only those in the Inner Palace knowing how he was healed, by the orders of the Emperor himself. Even he, Guilliman doesn't know how his father was restored. All the message told him was to come home, which took him 8 months to do.
What Guilliman didn't expect was for his father to be waiting for him. His father was fully heal to full health and is even more powerful then he was before. His power boost allowed him to move off of the throne and was able to keep it powered as long as he was nearby. But his mood was grim along with the Custodes who knew what has caused his father to be so grim.
It had to do with the reason why the Emperor was healed in the first place. In the black ships that strip worlds of their psykers, one of the ships carried a very strange abhuman that was found on one of the world. A 6 year old girl with orange skin, a horn and wings. During the months for the ship to get to Terra, the girl was tortured by the priests on board, cutting off her horn and wings after she tried to escape. The reason why she was kept alive was because of how powerful of a psyker she is, with it taking 4 Sisters of Silence from keeping her from using her powers. Such power would be for the priest be useful in keeping their emperor alive.
By the time the ship reached Terra, the girl was broken and scarred from what she went through on the ship. And as the priest had guessed, her psyker energy did help in keeping the emperor alive and more so. It restored the emperor back to full health, who when he was restored enough leap from his throne and blasted his way down to the chamber where the psykers were being sacrifice and tore the coffin like machine that held the girl.
"What is so important with the girl?" Guilliman ask as he walks with his father down a hallway with an escort of custodes.
"Her name is Sunset Shimmer and your sister," the Emperor said.
"She's my sister?" Guilliman ask surprise as many questions ran through his mind.
"She is and no if you or any of your brothers wouldn't had restored me. I have no idea how she ended up on that planet she was taken from or which planet. I had all the crew members interrogated before having them killed, none bothered to learn about where she came from and I'm having every single planet that ship went to check out. I’m also thinking of having the entire order killed off as well," the Emperor said.
"Killed off?" Guilliman ask as yes harming a member of their family is a crime but the entire order.
"Sunset is more important than anything else. She is what you and your brothers should had been. Once she's fully grown her powers will be greater than mine. I reached my limit long ago and while her power did give me a boost, it's nothing compared to what she will be once she's fully grown. But because of what happen to her on the ship, her horn and wings being cut off, and not going with the mental damage done to her," the Emperor let out a sigh as he just shakes his head.
"But isn't she be able to recover from it?" Guilliman ask.
"She unlike you and your brothers wasn't designed to be able to deal with what she went through or recover. She is only a 6 year old girl who is now horrified of any human that enters her chambers. She sees any humans as monsters who only wish to do her harm. She's scared of me the most as she knows that I'm the one she was being fed to and now she thinks, I'm only keeping her around to be used like a cow. Feeding off of her when I need it," the Emperor said.
"There is something else isn't there? You're worried about something," Guilliman said.
"I am," the Emperor said as he stops at a viewing window that shows the inside of a room.
Inside the room is a grand bedroom with the grandest of furnitures that would leave any governor of any world green with envy. The room is filled with toys, books and other things for a young child. A servo skull dressed up as a flying yellow bird of somekind had come into the room with a tray of food and quickly left the room. Guilliman looked over the room and couldn't find any signs of the young girl within. Till he spotted movement as a trembling figure of a small girl came out of hiding from beneath a pile of toys. She darted to the table where the tray of food was place and quickly devoured the food before she drove into the pile of toys to hide again.
"As you can see she, she is far from being ok. No one can get near her with her screaming or hiding, or just curling up and laying down on the ground. We have to put her to sleep just to treat her and the clean the room," the emperor said.
"And what is the thing your worried about father?" Guilliman ask.
"I saw the inside of Sunset's mind when she was fed to me, and saw her mother, Celestia who is my equal in power. She left me after a big fight and looks like she was with child when she left. And knowing her, she'll be searching for Sunset and once she figures out she's here and finds her in this state... The only reason why the palace wasn't destroyed last time was because of Malcador stepping in when he did," the Emperor said.
"But you could stop her right?" Guilliman ask.
"I could but with her learning what happen to Sunset. And how she has been maimed with the lost of her wings and horn. Her rage will be unstoppable," the Emperor said.
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The RV -
"And that's why we stay out of Warhammer," Sunset said not liking what happen to her younger counterpart.
"That's bad," Captain Planet said.
"Yup it is and what happen when Celestia got to Terra is something I'm glad I'm nowhere near," Sunset said. "It's the reason why we gave in and handed over all that money to Rick for the emotion gun."
"Really?" Captain Planet ask.
"Yup," Sunset bringing up another recording.
On the screen Sunset is standing over a defeated goddess.
“This is the Emotion Gun, it works on anyone making anyone no matter what lack of empathy they have, how twisted their morals are and blue and orange outlook, to feel compassion and guilt. Everyone even those beings with a complete lack of emotions are all left complete sobbing wrecks once used on them,” Sunset said to the bond dark goddess of a fantasy world setting she and the others had traveled to.
Sunset fired the emotion gun and hit the dark goddess. At first the dark goddess just stood still with a blank look on her face. For the first time ever she could feel and understand emotions like a mortal. She now knows what she is and what she has done, no denial or mind trick could stop her from feeling. The Rick’s who made the emotion gun when all out on it. So that whoever the ray it’s used in will be affected by it. With anything that would had prevented the ray from working , not working. The dark goddess fell onto her side crying, unable to deal with the new emotions and being made to care about what she had done. (1)
"We left that goddess to face the wrath of the other gods after we left," Sunset said.
"So how long till Trixie is going to fight Izuku?" Captain Planet ask.
"She did give him a week to prepare himself," Sunset said.
"Well, I hope he's ready," Captain Planet said before thinking of something. "Also what happens if he doesn't win?"
"Trixie is already has plans drawn up and making a scale model of Lulamoon city," Sunset deadpanned.