C207: New Guest and Visitations
Alt Title teaser: Unexpected series of Surprises.
Date published: 4/9/2025.
A little shorter chapter, ENJOY.
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"May I ask what it is you require of me, my savior?" a well endowed blond->white haired (ends are green from Nurgle taint) elvish woman whose hair she had just tied up into a proper Eldari ponytail. She is wearing a pure white wedding dress but is currently 'clothes shopping' from the options Axel gave her after rescuing the Eldari Mother Goddess from Nurgle's disgusting hands.
"I don't need you to do anything really, if you want you can choose to either settle down in my world, live amongst the other races that would choose to settle down here or I can release you back to the current universe, perhaps you reunite with your people, allowing them new life and protection from Slaanesh" Axel presents the current options to Isha, the goddess of harvest, healing, life, and growth. Yet he isn't done speaking as he chooses to state his motive for even bringing her to his world.
"Truthfully, I only took you because I knew Nurgle would jizz backwards from both the time anomaly I exposed him to as well as your being missing." his explanation showcases the fact that Axel only holds disdain for the god of plagues as only when he is in human form do this toxins work on him at all since he has the prerequisite organs for its effect but when he morphs into slime form, he is 95% less effected and only the post humanous nausea remains.
"A bit of a disgusting metaphor, no?" She states the imagery Axel gave her. Yet he just shakes his head as he states,
"Less disgusting than a single ounce of all the 'delicious' concoctions, Nurgle's 'tender' touch delivered to your lips." Axel reminds Isha of the poisons, plagues, and acids that had graced her body since her capture many…many years ago. The same toxins which Axel had meticulously siphoned out of her and purified of psychic taint before absorbing it himself.
"Fair point but I doubt my return to my people would bring about the kind resolution you would hope you"
"Sacrifice for Ynnead?"
She nods and confirms, "Sacrifice for Ynnead so that Slaanesh may die"
"Well, I guess you can choose to settle down here if you want. I'm currently training my fiancee to help her get stronger before i make one last trip before dipping from this hellscape universe"
"You proclaim that I am capable of living anywhere but am I not just another prisoner again?" Her words are starting to irritate Axel by quite a bit and he nearly regrets rescuing her from her old dead end job of being a poison beta tester.
"I'm your rescuer, not your nanny, go do your own thing, you have the right to do so and I already offered my help"
"But"
"No buts" he states and then dissolves into slime form, seeping underneath the grass to slide away from her as he is done with her strange attitude. Maybe if he had lusted after her like a normal person they would have come to an amicable relationship but she has been corrupted by so much poison that she has essentially gotten used to it but in doing so, has turned her own personality a little bit toxic as well.
"Hmm, what a good world to dump her off where she can do what she wants. Maybe one of those system anime where the mc's only way of having female relations is only through slavery. I'm sure they are pitiful enough to arouse her sense of pity and suckle up to them." Axel sighs at the level of thoughts he has had the past while due to all these recent events.
'I can't go on any more of these types of adventurers anymore, so much fighting. I just want to spend time with my family a bit. But I'm currently stuck here until I fulfill my promise to visit Khorne. Let's get this over with at the quickest pace possible.'
Shaking his blubbery head, he exits the grass and reforms before leaving his [territory]. Still on Barbarus, he flies off the planet before creating a new time bubble that brings him forward, with Ais as the link, he reconnects to the original fragmented timeline he made.
Yet his travels have alerted a 'certain someone' and when Axel exits the time rift he made and then dispelled, he finds that a small armada is surrounding him.
To say that Axel was surprised was an understatement as he left no trace of his presence in this timeline. Yet as Axel thinks of how he was discovered, he spots a certain something, traveling at a very fast speed of over 70k miles per hour is a planet. One that was supposed to have undergone Exterminatus due to Mortarion's betrayal (canon timeline).
'Hwhat is this?' he thinks to himself as he summons a spectral time stream to look at and realizes what is actually going on.
"Anomalous timeline created from multiple fracturing events caused by a singular entity, or a singularity, i.e. me. To maintain the original timeline, the offshoot fractures were merged into their own aberrant timeline that now belongs to me" Axel mutters to himself as he processes the situation but he doesnt get much time as a singular figure in golden armor with a giant sword followed by a black clothed figure with a scythe are floating towards him in personal space vessels.
Sigh. "I cant get a break today, so much to do and so many obstacles in my way" He talks normal now as he watches the very healthy and living form of the Imperiums Emperor arrive before Axel in the vastness of space to boot. Mortarion the good rides behind him, his gaze locked on Axel as he has had plenty of time to learn about Axel and his own devouring power granted by the rune Axel bestowed upon him.
"I believe it is time we met young man" The emperor amicably states as even seated, he towers over Axel's current child form.
"Um…nah, I got more things to screw up and I'm making it your fault now since you approached me." Axel's body gets covered in a spatial energy suit and lowers himself. Yet before he can rush away, he is attacked by both the 'BIG E' and Mortarion.
The emperor raises a psychic barrier to halt Axels movement whilst swinging his imperial sword at Axel, damaging his suit just enough so Mortarion who has grown very well these past ten thousand years is holding Axel down.
"Not bad, but your power was a gift from me, you should know better than to use it against me" Axel deactivates Mortarions rune while activating his own [Great Devourer]. A pillar of darkness rises from Axel and then Axel punches mortarion in the chest, sending him flying but his booster pack let's him regain his positioning, only to face the secondary shockwave due to overlapping his shades ability[1] onto himself. A pulse is send outwards and covers the two before Axel as well as the armada around them.
Yet Axel faces another surprise as the ships shoot out lasers that formulate into a completely new barrier that traps Axel inside with the emperor and death guard primarch. Yet the surprise is not over as the energy siphoned is brought back to him. Axel feels his human body squirm and morph as his physique is modified by the excess of energy.
'500 years of war, all gone in one strike?' Mortarion thinks to himself as Axels body contorts around the new energy limits he must set for himself to not explode.
In the end he is forced to collapse back into a blue blob of slime. Though while there was interference to hijack his powers via psychic energy, due to the experience with Gaia hijacking his mind and him subsequently absorbing her to reinforce his own willpower through [Greater Will], he easily kicks out 'BIG E' and speaks his mind.
"Huh, interesting, but very mean. I should really go" With a simple burst of black fire, Axel's slime form is propelled towards the barrier and the Rhongomyniad is summoned to pierce the barrier. The veil collapses under the immense power yet he is delayed just barely enough that the emperor reactivates his own barrier which Axel is stalled upon which allows the imperium to utilize their barrier but localize it this time around as Axel is now trapped in a 20x20m barrier with the emperor reinforcing it.
"Now if only you might be willing to come with us. We would like your help some more, your ability has the possibility of finally ending the warp gods threat" The Emperor proclaims and Axel realizes that he might know about the main timeline and has taken a more active route in undermining chaos influence in this timeline.
Axel simply stares at the emperor and asks him this, "If you kill the chaos gods what would you do then? You raised your entire empire around the notion of war and possession of other worlds."
With his words ringing out, Axel retakes his human form but as he still has not fully assimilated the deca-tons of energy, he activates Alaba's draconic abilities, turning into a half dragon man of an impressive 9ft tall, he grips the Rhongomyniad and channeling Raikou's lightning and Tulips sunlight, he pierces through the dual barriers before rushing off. Mortarion did try to chase after him but the sudden weakening makes it hard for him to properly utilize his strength to chase after Axel who begins to gather the miniature fragments of what is popularly called 'speed force' and zooms off.
Some artillery from the ships had fired at him but with his enhanced speed it was like going slow motion, he could eat a whole quaker oats granola bar in the time it took the lasers to hit him but he didn't. Instead he focused on escaping from the enclosure whilst contacting Ais about potential trouble.
He is fine with revealing her location as it's good for her growth, worst case scenario is that the clone tokens he left with her snap and he brings her back to his reality marble. Instead, once he is out of reach of the emperor, he finds a secluded spot to sit down (be it on a world or in the middle of nowhere space).
It is now that he finally utilizes the psionic energy he obtained thus far. First there was the chaos gods who paid him a little visit while he was driving to this universe, second was the Blackstone fortress and it's chaos personnel followed by the Eye of Terror which was born from the power eruption from the birth of Slaanesh, a good chunk there.
Sure he might have killed a few daemon and psykers till now but the greatest boon was his recent fight. Mortarion was a treasure trove of energy which he did not expect as he didn't realize the time anomaly whilst sealed away from it in his own bubble. Unfortunately he did not get any of the emperors energy as he set up a thick wall that somehow repelled his devouring, must have spent quite a lot of time boosting Mortarion before he could finally repel it like that, even if temporarily.
As for what he is doing now, he is creating an entrance to the Immaterium and towards Khorne's domain, aptly named the Throne of Brass and Blood. A literal war like hellscape filled with blood, brass and skulls, lots of skulls there, all for the skull throne of course.
Yet he doesnt enter just yet, he encapsulates his will power to guide clones through the warp and then have that clone act as his own guide. Afterall, Ais won't be able to return to his side if he steps in due to a bunch of spatial anomalies between the materium and immaterium.
He takes a few hours to map out his route to shorten his journey, though he is sure that once he says Khornes name in the first place then the god of blood and skulls will happily meet him himself. But such a result is not optimal for him, which is why he creates the route that he did.
A sad state of affairs is that a few of his clones got pulled into the Dark Princes Realm, a strange little piece of paradise for one and all to fall to their greatest temptation. Reminiscent of the biblical hell, there is a layer for lust, greed, gluttony, all anyones hearts desire. It would sound like a lovely vacation spot if it wasnt three/fourths illusion and the last is disguised daemon princes and Slaanesh's other prisoners forced to do 'their' biddding. Axel almost pities Slaanesh as the chaos god has to deal with at least 50 of him that was sucked into that realm.
While the doppelgangers no longer possess infinite energy from their link to him, he did ensure they at least got one last command before the few pieces of [Raphael] take over them, "Cause chaos to the chaos gods"
It takes him a few hours to plot a proper course and in this time, Ais was attacked by a few groups of Inquisitors as well as Saint Celestine who hoped to talk Ais down but to no avail as Ais just pities the saint for her blind devotion to what is essentially a loose chaos god of humanity. At the end of their conversation, Ais just disappears back into the Reality Marble and Axel steps into the portal he made. It closes behind him, leaving no trace of where he went.
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Alt Title: Annoying Elf, Imperium Ambush, Portal to the warp.
Word count: 2383
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[1] the previous shades which were based on the soul fragments are now formed from Spirit energy and then given a power core based on the actual power itself. In this case, it was devouring… the same devouring which is enhanced by his 'magic' stat.