"It is only through our purity that we can know that we are the servants of the God-Emperor. Those who lack purity have no basis to identify the mutant, the alien, or the traitor."

-Red Scorpions Captain Domnik Mornay

Chapter 1

My eyes creep slowly open and my head hurt something fierce. What time is it? I looked at the clock, hmm 2am. Something didn't feel right; like there were eyes on me from a number of directions. This is weird, I'm turning on the light, I thought.

I start reaching for the switch until I hear a gravelly rumble from the direction of my end table; "It will end badly for you if you touch that giant man." Uh huh, here goes nothing I'm turning the light on. Light illuminated me stark and fuzzy, that wasn't the only thing. A flurry of mini rocket propelled grenades pelt my face and arms. Shit they sting, and the blanket provides meager cover from the barrage.

The red and white checker pattern on my blanket was beginning to resemble Swiss cheese and it felt as if a thousand tiny hornets were stinging me. The material is beginning to smolder. "Okay, STOP IT!" I bellow. There is a shout and most of the gunfire dies away. Surrounding me is a ring of space marines in red, gold, and black livery. I mentally face palm, Red Scorpions, zealous space Nazis with a massive hard on for purity. Why couldn't it have been the Ultramarines?

A space marine in terminator plate adorned with eagles, purity seals and other motifs steps forward. His right hand clutches a massive double-barreled machine pistol, the left a crackling sword writhing in blue energy. I hear a faint hiss of air displacement as he pulls off his helmet. Eyes like flint, hard-edged and cold stare at me. Craggy cliffs of tan skin mark his brow and a long scar slides from his left temple all the way down to the bottom of his right cheek. The hair on his head is cut severely short.

When he spoke the gravelly voice I had heard earlier returns, "The only reason you are not dead is because you resemble a human giant man. One of my apothecaries will now take a sample of your blood, if you resist, by the God-Emperor retribution will be swift and hardier than before." He pauses, "What say you?"

I did the only thing that a guy could do when being threatened by a man that is no bigger than his thumb. I laugh.

Okay end of chapter one, thoughts, feelings, too wordy, too short? what? Feed me! I will continue this ASAP if there is enough interest.