The comms servitor crackled "Brother Schnow, Commander Mormont requested your presence the moment you returned"
Ulfgar snarled at the mechanoid, baring his teeth "we were headed to see the impatient old bastard anyway"
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Johanns entered the command centre of the watchtower, Ulfgar as ever just behind him.
Many of the other high ranking brothers of the station were there, he saw the fire obsessed Brother Faust and Brother Shakran amongst them. Brother Commander Ichabud Mormont sat at the head of the table, unusually flanked by two Keepers.
"sit boy!" boomed Mormont, vox-casters amplifying his voice.
One of the others around the table started talking before Johanns had sat, "the intercepted comms from the Sons of Ananata and Blood Angels in the area match our own information. Something odd is afoot in the Anubis sector."
"Ha! You can bloody say that again!" barked Ulfgar from behind Johanns' seat, interrupting the seated kill team leader. "that dead factorum you sent us to investigate was anything but!"
He punctuared his displeasure by slamming the dog shaped helm on the table.
"Schnow, control your mutt"
"he's right Mormont, and that's not all we found." stated Johanns calmly as he motioned the space wolf forwards. Ulfgar took a bag from his waist and emptied it onto the table. It was a decaying severed human head. Mormont raised his face to talk as the head sprung into motion on the table, gnashing its teeth.
Ulfgar slammed a knife through the head, stopping it's movement, as Johanns continued to speak "whoever this ancient power armour belongs to, the dead walk alongside them. Destroying the brain or burning them is the only way to stop them."
The head burst into flames as Brother Faust muttered. He spoke, "this is not the only danger in this sector. The Keepers have turned away a few incursions to the facility side of the Watchtower. I was present during one of these, the armour design has not been seen in millenia; and they bore the symbol of the many headed serpent!"
The shock around the table was audible; the Alpha Legion on the Black Wall watchtower! Their presence had the ability to pit brother against brother in a normal Legion, let alone the patchwork force of the Deathwatch!
Ichabud Mormont solemnly spoke "these reports are dire news indeed brothers. We must find if there is a connection between the treacherous Alphas and these dog headed warriors and their undead. But first, Brother Shakran, summon back every kill team in the vicinity. Brother Altimus, issue summons to any and all chapters in the neighbouring systems calling on their debt to the Watch. Now is the time to boost our numbers. And you, Schnow, request that your 'friend' Inquisitor Morricone return to the Watchtower. Odd as he is, his cavalcade of misfits are staunch allies. A time is coming where we may need to mobilise in force"
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