The Skitarii Ranger

Name: SR-37
Location: Cobra class destroyer
Mission: Search for technology

I am a Ranger nothing more nothing less. Most of my organic parts have been replaced with metal this includes my arms, my legs, my face and most of my internal organs. Yet I am still human, but each time I remove my flesh I come ever closer to The Omnissiah. I'm no longer weak, I no longer suffer from disease nor do I ever get tired. We are the peak of human evolution.

Our mission was to go to any planets with life on them and steal their technology so we can study it, my job is to protect the research team sounds easy right, no it isn't. We barely have any technology because when we get weapons or technology from planets with xeno's on it, it become's impossible to analyse them. I really wish it becomes easier in the future.

I Pull up my hood from my red coat and I head straight to the captain of this ship. The captain is a Rouge trader and he has agreed to assist us on our search for technology, he has served us well on our mission. The captains name is Kemuel he's around fifty years old; has a average body frame; he wears cloths that make him look like a pirate, even though he wears the typical Rouge trader coat; he's bold but he has a large beard and has green eyes.

As I make my way through the ancient halls of the dreadnought, I bump into a guardsman or guards-woman to be accurate. She wears the standard uniform of any guardsman a dark green body armour; green helmet; trousers with big boots and she is also carrying a standard lasgun. Her face has blue eyes and from what I can tell brown hair but I can't see most of it under that helmet. "Hey watch where you're going!" She shouted.

"Technically I did look where I was going guardsman." I say to her my raspy robotic voice. "I always look where I am going, but you weren't!" I pointed out. "Maybe I should ask the tech priest to replace your eyes with machinery so you could see better!" I threatened.

"W-Wait their's no need for that ranger, I'll be careful next time I'm sorry." she apologised. This is very typical for guardsmen they act tough but in reality they are scared shitless. I can't blame them for acting this way, they have it tough because they are on the front lines in Every. Single. Battle. They have to act tough, but she is just a new recruit and since she on a rouge trader dreadnought I doubt she has seen much action.

"... Don't talk back to me again." I tell her and I continue to walk towards the captains bridge. After that particular incident I didn't run into any more trouble, apart from the odd patrol down the hallways nothing else happened. After 1.7 miles of walking down this battleship I finally make it to the bridge, luckily Skitarii don't tire out.

Once the cold metallic doors of the bridge open I am greeted by a ragtag group of Rouge traders this includes the captain sleeping on his chair; an Eldar woman named Ilrariel; a couple of Skitarii scientists and a space marine from the salamanders with out his helmet on. With out his helmet he reveal's his pitch black skin and red eyes, I never got his name. The Eldar woman approached me and asked "Why are you here mon'keigh? The bridge is restricted to other crew members, so state your business."

"Still using that insult Eldar?" I questioned her. I never hated the Eldar just questioned them, because if they hate us why do some of them work with us? That is just one of the questions I wanted to ask them, but I don't think they'll take too kindly too my questions. "Your captain summoned me, didn't he tell you?" I continued.

"He doesn't tell me anything these days." Ilrariel sighed. She walked over to Kemuel and woke him up. "Captain someone is here is to see you." The Eldar informed the captain. After waking up Kemuel, he got up from his chair and walked up to me.

"An alpha? I was expecting your Tech priest." The captain explained. One thing I don't like mentioning about my self is that I'm an alpha, I'm in charge of my own squad but no one wants to even know me because of that. And so I prefer my number name than my rank, it is also the reason why I prefer a Galvanic rifle but I still have an arc maul.

"The name is SR-37 sir. The Tech priest is very busy at the moment, so he sent me." I replied "I can deliver a message for him if you like."

"Of course he sent you, he's always busy. I want you to tell him that after one more planet i'm taking you back to mars." He tells me. The priest is not going to be happy about this, we barely found any old tech from the dark age of technology, this is annoying.

"Why?" I ask.

"Because you lot have been on my ship for nearly five years now and you barely found anything!" He yelled "Sorry I needed to get that out of my system. I have no problem with you or your kind but I'm really tired of you going on random planets to find nothing but enemies, not to mention that your tech priest refuses to speak to me and sends one of his soldiers in his place! like it or not we are going home."

"I understand, I'll deliver the message" I say before I head towards the metal door. Before I left the bridge I heard from one of the Skitarii scientists. "Sir, an unknown vessel just exited the warp!"

"what?" questioned Kemuel as he looked towards the front window of the dreadnought. However it wasn't the warp it was the webway it's completely different because there is no daemons coming out of it, that ship has been chasing us for weeks now it's the Dark Eldar. I don't know how they found us but I have to prepare for battle, we all do.

"The ship seems to be a Void stalker sir!" A void stalker is primarily an Eldar ship but this one has spikes coming out of the sides and front, it's also a very dark purple. The Eldar ship rammed into us causing a lot of damage to our ship, all crew members staggered and fell down on the ground including me.

Not long after we fell down to the ground I get back on my feet, I then see that there's around six Dark Eldar board the ship. They wear armour that is coloured with incubi darkness and has bronze armour parts on their one of their knees. Their helmets eyes glow with a horrifying green, it almost looks demonic. One of the Eldar is carrying a power sword, he must be the squads commander.

The space marine gets up and immediately and goes to attack the invaders. But the leader slices his head off without even looking, he should've worn his helmet. "Captain Kemuel you are coming with us." said the leader as he ordered his men to grab him. They must know him because the Eldar said his name. What did Kemuel do? Kemuel resisted but was immediately punched in the stomach and kicked in the face. They grab him again, but this time he is being dragged on his feet and he's bleeding from the mouth.

"Resistance if futile mon'keigh. Take care of the rest." He ordered his men as he gets back onto his ship. There is now three Eldar on the bridge four if you include Ilrariel. I holstered my rifle, I aim and I fired at the enemy. I killed one straight away but the other two started fire back. I dodge their attacks and move close to hit them with my arc maul, I hit one and smashed her helmet into pieces but I was hit in the back of the head by the other one. The other Eldar, she hit me with her weapon. In was still conscious however my combat inhibitor is not working, so now I can't aim straight.

Before the last two Eldar can finish me off Ilrariel shot both of them in the head, the one without the helmet went down with ease but the other one, she had to be shot twice because her helmet was still intact. I guess flesh is weak no matter what species you are.

"Come on mon'keigh, we need to get of this ship!" Ilrariel commanded. I follow her orders and get up. I then attempted to reset my combat inhibitor, but this means all my combat data will have to be wiped and I have to start my basic training again. I reset it very quickly, but this message came in front of my eyes.

Basic training/ 0% complete
Task one moving phase

This will probably take a while. "Ilrariel the captain he's-" Before I could finish my sentence Ilrariel interrupted me. "I know but right now we need to get of this ship before the lesser half of my species captures us. lets move out." She exited the bridge and I followed. This completes task one of basic training.

Basic training/12% complete
Task two shooting phase

Luckily there are Dark Eldar on this ship that I can target to complete the shooting phase. The xeno scum are taking prisoners so they can torture them for their sexual desires. We ran down the hall way for two minutes before running into a couple of Eldar, dragging two guardsman away. "You two will be wonderful pets, we will have so much fun together." said one of the xeno while he drags the guardsman by his hair as he screams "No No Nooo!"

I aim my weapon and fired at the Eldar with the screaming guardsman, I kill the xeno but the other one got away with a guardsman. Ilrariel walked up to the guardsman and helped him up. "Guardsman come with us if you want to live." she ordered the guardsman.

"T-Thank you sir." Thanked the guardsman. He now helps us in our escape, he may not survive for very long since the imperial soldiers on this ship haven't seen much combat. It took me a while to notice but I completed task two of my basic training.

Basic training/100%
praise the Omnissiah

After three hours I completed basic training. It was very annoying to go through all that again, especially the upgrade phase because all my combat data upgrades have been lost, so I can't do any advanced fighting even if I wanted to. The good news is that are at the launch bay and have found a Thunderhawk gunship, it is green because its pilot was a Salamander but I would prefer it to be red. Bad news is during our escape the guardsman who we rescued died and Ilrariel got shot in the stomach. She clinging on to life. Even worse news is their are more Dark Eldar coming after us, I hope that we can get out of here in time.

I then saw one of the filthy xeno chasing a guardsman normally I wouldn't care but that guardsman, she looked familier. I looked closer and found that she is the same guardsman who bumped into me earlier today. So feeling bad for her I aimed and I fired at the the filthy xeno that want's to take her for its sexual desires. I shot at it so many times because I have a dying Eldar in my arms, so it's harder for me to aim at the bloody thing.

After finally killing the xeno I waved my right metal arm that's holding my rifle, to signal her over here. Once she came over to me I immediately ask her. "Guardsman, what is your medical knowledge?"

"I-I only know how to heal flesh wounds, but I've never done anything like this. Plus Eldar are biologically different from us, I'm sorry there's nothing I can do ranger." She informed me. This is really bad because I have no Idea how to repair flesh without any cybernetics, she is bleeding out and their is nothing I can do.

"Mon'keigh!" Ilrariel cried gasping for breath. "You have to leave me... We both know that... I'm not going to make it... You need to leave and get help *COUGH* *COUGH*." I look into her eyes and see sadness and fear, as part machine I can feel these emotions but I don't understand them. "Alpha... That's an order, now full fill that order......." Ilrariel is now dead.

The guardsman cries but I don't, I stand up open the hanger doors and get into the gunship. I also have the guardsman with me as my companion for the time being. "If were going to be together, I need to know your name. So what is?" it I ask her as she wipes the tears from her disgusting flesh.

"It's Sara sir. Whats yours?" she asked me

"My name is SR-37" I answered as I pilot the gunship. As with any machine the gunship needs to be taken with care as would you do with your own child. It needs to be treated with respect like you would do to an elderly person. It's our way of taking care of the machine.

And so I pilot it to a nearby planet, but it's very wrong. The sun and the moon orbit the planet.

Ponyville/Nightmare night

"Nightmare night! What a fright! Give me something good to bite!" sing the children in Ponyville as they enjoy their holiday Nightmare night. The little village has been decorated for this occasion and everypony is having fun, even Luna is enjoying the the night of fun though she was acting a bit mean at the start everything turned alright in the end.

The bad news is that Nightmare night has just ended, all the ponies are now putting away the decorations for the next Nightmare night but everypony is tired so they are leaving it til morning to put away the decorations. Twilight sparkle heading back to the golden oaks library to put away her costume and to get to bed. But she to write a friendship report to princess Celestia about her sister, Luna.

Once inside she puts away her starswirl the bearded costume (Her number one hero) and heads straight to her desk to write the report.
*Yawn* Twilight yawns because it has been a long night, but she can't wait to head to her comfy bed and get some sleep. "Dear princes Celes-." Twilight was cut off by the sounds of something very loud and strange, she has never heard those sounds before. Little did Twilight know that was the sound of a gunship coming into land.

The gunship landed in the Everfree forest.