"Stop hitting me, stop hitting me, Khan of humanity! I really wasn't lying to you!"
Vect was trussed up like a maggot, and the Khan punched and kicked him without holding back.
"First of all, I am the Khan of Chogoris. The Khan of humanity is the Emperor." Jaghatai kicked Vect in the stomach, making him curl up in agony. That single kick had knocked his abdominal muscles out of place.
The Khan was still furious. "Tell me! Why am I in the Maelstrom region? Didn't you say the exit was a Webway Gate only three Terran Days from the Wallace system?"
Vect's response was...
I wasn't the one at the helm! Weren't you the one who floored it and sent the ship hurtling away?
You fiddled with the control stick for a while, then took complete control of the ship, didn't you? You practically shoved that stick through the floor.
Your "superb piloting skills" had me bouncing all over the cockpit. Who the hell knows where you were heading?
The Khan simply wanted to beat him up. That was all!
Ashlan assembled his troops. The members of eight Primaris squads made up a fairly well-rounded company, and they began serving as a temporary Primarch guard. Their physical abilities might not measure up, but they had combat experience. They had fought who knew how many campaigns.
Lepcher tried to control the Hidden Terror. When he discovered that it could not move at all, he asked the Khan in confusion.
"Oh, I stole an Aeldari warship. You're inside its 'dock' now."
Vect: "Like father, like son." (Extremely quietly.)
Lepcher decided he still could not accept that his Gene-Father had betrayed the Emperor. He wanted to return to Terra, but the warship was not moving.
"That's normal. I killed almost all the