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Waaargh! Hazug! Chapta 18 | |
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Waaargh! Hazug! Chapta 18 |
“Where’d
dey go?” Krorden yelled, steering his buggy as close to Two Heads’
battlewagon as he could while looking back and forth between where Two
Heads was poking his heads out of a hatch and the ground in front of him.
Having already damaged his buggy by running over something once today he
was eager not to do it again. “Dunno.”
One of Two Heads answered while the other continued to search the skies
for any signs of the two warcopters. The last he had seen of them they had
both gone into a sudden dive and then vanished, “Dare wasn’t an explosion
though.” The other head then added,” Dey must ‘ave
landed.” “Landed?
Wot for?” Krorden asked. “’Ow
should I know?” Two Heads responded. “See?”
Two Heads then said to Krorden, “Now go make sure everyone else does da
same. Da last thing we needs is to ‘ave to go drivin’ all over tryin’ to
round everyone up.” Krorden
nodded and his buggy suddenly swerved away from the battlewagon. Two Heads
then climbed back down into his battlewagon and looked around the
interior. Though there were enough of his own troops left to operate the
battlewagon and all of its weapons the rest of the vehicle was filled with
human and Two Heads was still trying to get used to this. He had
transported Hazug’s servants on plenty of occasions before no, but they
had all been able to speak the ork language and had known their place as
subordinate. This particular set of passengers on the hand was made up of
what Two Heads considered wild humans with ideas above their station and
his instincts were to toss them all out and try to run them over. However,
he had come to trust Hazug’s judgement and so for now at least he would
continue to follow the Blood Axe’s plan. “What
is our status ork?” Claudius asked. As far as Two Heads knew he was the
only one of his passengers intelligent enough to talk orkish, not counting
the two bizarre part man, part machine figures that Rell had brought with
him. “Da
coptas ‘ave disappeared.” He replied, “But dare wasn’t no flames so I
reckon dey could ‘ave landed.” The other head then
added. “So
we could be nearing our destination.” Claudius said. “Wot
d’ya want me to do if I sees any boss?” Gorrid asked and Two Heads
pondered this for a moment before replying. “No
point in slowin’ down.” He said before the other head added, “Best just to
drive over ‘em.” The
sun was just beginning to set when Gorrid spotted a figure standing alone
in front of the battlewagon’s path, waving a rifle in the air. “It
is ‘im.” The nob replied, both of him smiling, “Best stop before ya run
‘im over lad.” Gorrid
braked sharply, producing what Two Heads took to be complaints from the
human passengers. He could understand them, but from his interaction with
Hazug’s human servants the tone was one he associated with displeasure. As
he rushed to the nearest hatch he looked at the
humans. “Looks
like we’s dare.” He said before he threw open the hatch and leapt out of
the battlewagon. When
he landed on the ground however, he did not head straight for Hazug.
Instead he ran towards Hazug’s truck where Drazzok was still sat in the
seat beside Daggot. “Check
him out?” Sophie asked when she heard this, “What do you
mean?” “I
means Hazug’s been gone for a while.” One of Two Heads told her, “So I
wants to know dat its da same Hazug wot left.” “He
means that he needs to be certain that our master has not been corrupted
by the genestealers mon’keigh.” Mayleth said, “Very
wise.” “And
‘ow did ya get to be so smart den?” Drazzok asked as he waved at the
madboys to bring his chair. In
response both of Two Heads smiled and he slung his rifle over his
shoulder. Then he tapped his heads with his index
fingers. “Two
‘eads is better dan one.” He said in unison. “Come
on.” Sophie said to Salia, picking up her lasgun,” We need to make sure
Hazug’s okay.” Salia
nodded and both young women jumped down from the truck and approached Two
Heads. They were joined by Thuggrim, who led the rest of the madboys
carrying Drazzok aloft in his sedan chair. “Lead
da way.” Drazzok called out from his chair and Two Heads set off towards
Hazug. Hazug
stood still and watched the approaching group of orks and humans. Behind
this he could see more of the warband starting to disembark from their
transports. This included the imperial troops whose first act was to
organise themselves into lines for inspection, an action that was copied
almost exactly by Druken’s stormboys who pulled on their rocket packs
while Druken himself checked that they were fitted at least reasonably
well. “’Old
it right dare.” Two Heads called out to him as he took a step closer and
then the Evil Sun waved Drazzok closer. “Set
me down ‘ere.” Drazzok commanded. “Of
course oh great one.” One of the madboys replied as the chair was lowered
to the ground and Drazzok stepped down from it. Then he strode forwards
past Thuggrim and Two Heads. “Don’t.”
Two Heads said when he saw Sophie take a step forwards as well, ”Stay
‘ere.” “Wot’s
dis den Two Heads?” Hazug asked. “Just
makin’ sure dat ya are who ya says ya are.” Two Heads
replied. “He
thinks you may have been taken over by the genestealers.” Sophie added,
“So he wants Drazzok to check you out.” Hazug
grinned. “Well?”
he said as Drazzok came closer and stared at him. “Aye.”
The weirdboy said, “Ya’s still one of us.” And Salia suddenly exhaled,
having unconsciously been holding her breath. Two
Heads then both smiled at Hazug and the two nobs walked towards one
another. “I
reckon dat dis choppa would give me a fair chance against dat big choppa
ya got dare.” He replied and Hazug looked at each of the two necron
weapons in turn. Illuminated
by a mix of burning troches and the more advanced electric lights carried
by the human troops Hazug gathered the entire warband together for what he
had to say, both greenskins and humans. He stood in the middle of a ring
formed around him and using a stick he began to scrape lines in the ground
to illustrate what he had seen in the mining camp. “Da
mine’s a great big fort.” He told them, “With a wall runnin’ all day way
around it. Dare’s big shootas and kannons on da walls and more big guns
inside, includin’ some lobbas and a couple of supa kannons wot can shoot
out over da wall.” “’Ow
many lads?” Two Heads asked. “’Undreds.”
Hazug replied, “Maybe even a thousand.” “Those
are extremely poor odds.” Claudius commented, “Particularly given that
they are defending a heavily fortified position.” “Well
I got a plan to make dat fort a lot less fortified dan it is at the mo.”
Hazug said and he began prodding where he had drawn a line to represent
the wall surrounding the mining camp, “I spotted dat dares places where
dey’ve filled in da grot tunnels wot run underneath da wall.” He said, “My
plan is for a bunch of us to sneak in while its still dark. We’ll get our
own grots to dig out da tunnel entrances again and use ‘em to get into da
camp. Den we’ll find da biggest guns and take ‘em out before dey can be
used against us.” “’Ow
many of dese guns d’ya reckon ya kommandoes can deal with?” Two Heads
asked, aware of the damage that the emplaced artillery could do to his
vehicles. Hazug
smiled. “I
aint just talkin’ about me kommandoes.” He replied, “I wants to take
everyone wot can sneak about without getting’ noticed. Dat means me lads,
Ratish and me other servants plus all of da lads Rell’s brought with ‘im.”
“Really?”
Sophie replied, “You’re taking us with you as well?” “Yeah,
dis time I reckon I’ll be needin’ all da ‘elp wot I can get.” Hazug said.
Then he looked at Claudius, “’Ow good can ya lads move in dat ‘eavy armour
ya all wearin’?” he asked and Claudius smiled at
him. “Well
enough.” He replied, “Plus our armour’s systems will allow us to assist
guiding you in the darkness. But how do you propose to disable the camp’s
defences?” “If
we are to carry this out without the enemy realising that we are there
then we’ll need to synchronise the detonations.” Torris pointed out, his
statement translated by the servitors for the benefit of the orks that did
not speak gothic. Hazug
looked at Batrug and his apprentices. “Can
ya make somethin’ for us to do dat?” he asked. “Of
course I can.” Batrug replied, “It’s just like da fuses for stikkbomms. In
fact da easiest way is to take da fuse from a bunch of ‘em and just make
it longer. Though den ya’ll ‘ave a bunch of stikkbomms wot ya can’t
use.” “Dat
don’t matter.” Hazug replied, “We can still use da explosives from
inside.” “Nah,
da gates’ll need blowin’ from da outside.” Hazug
replied. “Oh
yeah?” Two Heads asked and then the other added, “And ‘ow d’ya suppose to
do dat.” “Wot?”
Hazug asked him in return, “Dontcha remember ‘ow we got into da rock where
all dem tau was ‘idin’?” Two
Heads both grinned. “I
don’t understand.” Salia said and she looked at her sister, “Wot did they
do?” “They
filled a truck with explosives and drove it into the doors of the tau
base.” Sophie replied,” It was supposed to explode on contact, but it
rolled over and so Gorrid shot it with the battlewagon’s
cannon.” “Blew
da doors wide open.” Gorrid said. “So
den we’ll ‘ave taken out da big guns and opened up dat gate.” Two Heads
said, “Wot den?” “Den
ya bring in da rest of da lads and we smash da place up.” Hazug
replied. “Dese
is already runnin’.” Batrug told Hazug as he handed one timed explosive
detonator after another to him and his covert strike force. The devices
were all made from modified grenade timers, but because of the length of
delay needed were much larger. In fact each one was contained within the
metal shell of a grenade, limiting the number an individual could
carry. “When
does dey go off?” Hazug asked. “Dey’s
set for about da time da sun comes up.” Batrug answered, “I figured dat
ya’d want da rest of us to be able to see wot we was doin’ when we stormed
in dare.” And Hazug nodded in agreement. “Ya
sure ay knows wot ya’s doin’?” he asked. “Fine.”
Hazug said and he looked at Batrug, “Give ‘im some of dese an’ all.” Then
he turned towards his truck where Rhia was stood with her back to it, “Wot
about ya den?” he said to her, “Is ya comin’ an’
all?” Immediately
Rhia, Salia and Sophie stared at Hazug. “Why
bring dat got master?” Ratish hissed, “It lies.” “Because
I needs every pair of ‘ands we got.” He said, walking towards Rhia,
“Well?” he asked. “I
knows ya arm aint strong enough for a zappa.” He said in reference to the
injury he had inflicted on her himself as punishment for betraying him,
“But ya ‘ad dis when ya came back so I figures dat ya can use
it.” “You
can’t give her a gun Hazug.” Sophie protested, “Ratish is right. We can’t
trust her.” Hazug
looked at Mayleth. “Ya
knows wot to do if she tries to sell us out right?” he asked and the eldar
smiled and nodded once. “She
will suffer for any betrayal my master.” She said. “Dare.”
Hazug said to Sophie, “All settled. If she tries changin’ sides den she
aint gonna get away with it.” “I
won’t let you down.” Rhia said as she accepted the pistol and then took a
step closer to Batrug and held out her hands to be given some of the
fuses. “I
knows ya won’t.” Hazug replied as he turned in the direction of the
fortress walls that lay on the other side of the
hill.
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