Guilliman Arrived, Though Late (Three-in-One)

Just as Lox finally arrived in the new universe and headed for Earth in immense excitement, the situation in the Warhammer universe was becoming increasingly clear.

With the Emperor defeating Horus, leader of the traitors, the civil war that had nearly brought humanity to extinction was finally beginning to die down.

Lion El'Jonson, Rogal Dorn, Jaghatai Khan, and Leman Russ moved out together, purging and annihilating every rebel and Warp daemon on Terra.

Adam led hundreds of thousands of Iron Men in crushing every enemy through overwhelming numerical superiority.

Whether they were Chaos Astartes, mortal cultists, or Warp daemons from the Sea of Souls, all were either forced to retreat or die in bitter hatred beneath the Iron Men's encirclement.

Adam's rationality could accept Lox's departure, but a nameless fire of loss burned within him.

The Iron Men leader only knew that he was furious, and these rebels and Warp daemons were perfect targets for venting his anger.

If all these damned enemies were destroyed, if the Warp no longer threatened this universe, then his father would not have needed to risk everything on an inter-universal expedition in search of a future for humanity.

Adam could calculate the risks Lox had taken in this desperate gamble. From a purely probabilistic perspective, it was only marginally better than suicide.

If anything went wrong, he might never see his father again in this lifetime. The thought filled Adam with unbearable anxiety and rage.

These intensely human emotions came from his personality, not his rigorous logic matrix.

Terra was merely the loyalists' first stop in their vengeance. With humanity's Throne World as their core, the Imperium's forces were destroying every surviving traitor.

This would be the bloodiest, most merciless, most furious revenge. These scum had betrayed the Imperium and humanity; none would escape