The Greater Good

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The Greater Good
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By Deathstrike666
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This is a Warhammer 40k/MLP Crossover
This is my first fiction so please let me know of any mistakes or confusions that I make and I will try to fix them
Well thx for all the comments regarding the stuff I need to change, did some extensive research and hopefully I have fixed all the errors.
Thx to Tiny Pear, Bazing and Tresviri for proof reading.
Hope You Enjoy
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Prologue – Hyperion IV (Edited)
+Date : 902M41
+Location : Segmentum : Ultima Segmentum – Sector : Lithesh Sector – System : Vectus – Plant : Hyperion IV
+Conflict level: Server

Hyperion IV is an isolated mineral rich world just in the eastern expanses of the galaxy but for the past 34 years, Hyperion IV has become a hell hole with the never ending battle between the Imperial Guard and the Tau Empire. Recently the Tau and the Guard have put aside their differences to fight more deadly threats, the chaos forces of the Sons of Midnight and the Hive Fleet Gorgon.

Hyperion IV’s surface has become an apocalyptic wasteland with the non stop bombardment of ordnance weapons, orbital bombardments from the ships above and the falling debris of destroyed vessels. Already the casualty rate has become more than a million a week from all four armies.

On Hyperion’s surface everyone was quickly running out of ammo and soldiers because all their drop ships were being quickly shot down by a hail of anti-air and ordnance fire. The fleets of the Tau and the Guard above Hyperion IV aren't faring much better, the combined fleets were barely holding up to the non stop assault of Tyranid bio-ships and Chaos battle barges.

As the war goes on the combined forces of the Tau and Guard losing the battle, but being despite in the middle of the hammer of Hive Fleet Gorgon and the anvil of the Sons of Midnight; both the Tau and Guard knew that there is no hope of survival.

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Currently above the Hyperion IV there is a massive space battle between all four armies, the Guard and Tau desperately trying to stop the invaders from reinforcing their ground forces while the Tyranids and Chaos were just destroying any ship that wasn't theirs.

On board the command deck of the Imperial Oberon-classed Battleship called The Righteous Vengeance stood a tall slender man in a long black coat covered in imperial symbols and badges in the middle of the deck. Around the room there were twenty or so officers of varying ranks all looking at different holo-screens calling out targets, damage reports, and a few other things.

“Captain Angrus, Sir”, said one of the officers while walking up to the tall man.

“Report”, replied the captain in low booming voice.

“We have gotten response back from command and that they are sending us re-enforcements and 6 companies of Legion Astartes from the Ultramarines as well as Salamanders Chapters, but...”, there was a short pause and a sigh from the officer before he continued, ”they won’t be here for another 2 months”.

“Fuck!”, Captain Angrus shouted to no one in particular, “We’re not going to last that long”.

Before the captain could continue, another one of the officers shouted out, “Tyranid Hive Ship, collision
cause on port side, 50 seconds to impact”.

“Fire all port side batteries, destroy that Hive Ship before it tears us apart”, ordered Captain Angrus.

The Righteous Vengeance started firing all port side cannons at the incoming living ship, dismembering some of the many long tentacles spawning out the front of the creature. Without any success in killing the creature the cannons provided to piss it off and make it more eager to wrap its eager tentacles around The Righteous Vengeance and rip it apart piece by piece.

“30 seconds to impact”, said one of the officers.

“By Throne, this is the end”, Said Angrus.

But just before the Hive Ship reached The Righteous Vengeance three massive beams of light hit the Hive Ship one after another, the first two causing sizable holes in the centre and the third beam went right through its head causing it brain to explode out the other side, killing it instantly.

Trying to find where the beams came from; Angrus looked out his holo-screen displaying all the ships that are currently around The Righteous Vengeance. Zooming in on a Tau ship and bringing its details. ‘Why did we have to get saved by filthy Xenos’ Angrus.' thought to himself, he could put up with having to work with them, he knew it was the only hope they all had to defeat the Sons of Midnight and Hive Fleet Gorgon, but being saved by one just make him feel sick, ‘If I survive this,
I’m never going to hear the end of it’.

The holo-screen started to bring up the details of the Tau vessel.

+Tau Or'es El'leath (Custodian)-class Carrier

+Vessel Name : Shas’Kai

+Commander : Kor’El

+Primary Weapons :
Prow : 2 Heavy Rail Gun Batteries - Port : 2 Heavy Rail Gun Batteries, 2 Ion Batteries - Starboard : 2 Heavy Rail Gun Batteries, 2 Ion Batteries

+Secondary Weapons
2 Gravitic Launches, 20 Defensive Turrets

+Current Transport Status : Full

Angrus closed window of the ships details and replaced it with a communications link to the Shas’Kai. When he got a reply there was a skinny blue alien wearing a red commander outfit, the aliens face looked like someone had merged the genes of a human and a fish together. The sight of the Tau commander at first made two thoughts go into Angrus’ head, ‘why in the emperor’s name are working with filthy Xenos instead of blowing them out of the sky with the entire Emperor’s wrath’, and the second one being ‘what the fuck happened to his face?’ He only thought of the second one because he actually had never seen a Tau without a mask on before. The first time he saw an actual Tau was only a couple of years ago, just before the Sons of Midnight and Hive Fleet Grogan arrived, when his ship was transferred to this sector by the Departmento Munitorium as re-enforcements.

“Greetings Captain Angrus”, said the Tau Commander in a weird kind of robotic sounding voice.

“Greetings Xenos, thanks for the save, but next time don’t try and save us again” said Angrus.

“Very well then, we will sit back here then and let you lot do all the fighting”, said Kor’El, just before cutting the link.

Kor’El was a very respected amongst the Tau, he had brought several victories to the Tau during the Damolcles Crusade a few years before Hyperion IV, but he also hated the idea of working with aliens unless they had joined the Greater Good.

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As the day turned to night on the broken planet all sides were sustaining heavy losses and by now most of the ships could hardly move more than 100 meters before running into the debris of some destroyed ship. The Righteous Vengeance and the Shas’Kai both have suffered some damages but both were still fully operational and were currently severely outnumbered. The Righteous Vengeance and the Shas’Kai were trying all their best to stay alive against the increasing despite odds.

Angrus stood in the middle of the command deck barking out orders to the other offices.

“Fire Forward cannons at The Nighthunter. I want the chaos flagship dead”, barked Angrus.

“Yes sir”, said several of the officers in unison.

When The Righteous Vengeance finished locking on to The Nighthunter, the ship started charging up its forward cannons but before they could fire something unexpected happened. The Righteous Vengeance shook violently as a deafening explosion coming from the starboard side, causing Angrus plus everyone on the ship was flung onto the floor.

“Damage Report”, ordered Angrus just after getting up from spending the last 5 seconds with his face on the floor.

“Engines 5,6,7 and 9 are destroyed, engines 1,3 and 8 severely damaged”, replied one of the officers, “Also levels 6 through to 19 are gone on the starboard side plus all starboard batteries are spaced and shields are at 12 percent." the officer paused. "What hit us sir?”

“I don’t kn-”, Angrus started but before he could finish the command deck started flashing red as hazard lights started going off. A mechanical voice started saying, “Warning. Warp Drive Reactor breach reaching critical levels”.

Without hesitation Captain Angrus barked out a new order, “Commence Primary Code Destra on the chaos command ship. May the Emperor protect us.”.

“Yes Sir”, replied a female officer, “May I say it has been an honor serving under your command."

“As has it has been an honor to command such loyal crewmen.” replied Angrus, “Thank you, Lieutenant Astrine”.

Everyone on the command deck knew the severity of the breached Warp Drive and what Primary Code Destra meant. It meant that The Righteous Vengeance was doomed and the only way to go out in true untainted honor was to use what was remaining of the ship as a giant missile.

“Collision course set, setting all remaining engines to full power, using forward batteries to clear debris”, said Lieutenant Astrine.

As The Righteous Vengeance was halfway to its impact, the chaos crewmen started firing all canons at The Righteous Vengeance but doing nothing to deviate the rampaging ship from its collision course. As the prow of was about to make contact, Angrus ordered the ship to fire the forward batteries at point blank range, blowing a hole straight through the other side and blowing apart a small chunk out of the front end of The Righteous Vengeance. A few seconds later the hole was filled with the front of The Righteous Vengeance and stopping with a loud metallic thud and crumpling of metal.

Unable to hold the high amount of energy for any longer and the damaged Warp Drive imploded into a small rip in space and time, sucking in the two vessels into the terrors of the Warp. The two ships weren't enough for the hungry warp rip, it wanted more, suddenly most of the ships in that battle were moving slowly but gaining more and more speed the closer they got to the warp rip. One by one, the Shas’Kai and most of the ships in the battle were sucked into the unknowns of the warp. The Warp Rift now satisfied with its meal started to close behind them, trapping them with the daemons of the warp.