Corvus Corax

You're in a bad situation; fire and ash rain down; you're lightheaded after the explosion; you hear screams as your fellow soldiers are running around on fire. You see some soldiers continuing to fight against the Tau. You stand up and pick up your lasgun and begin to run to the frontline, but another explosion sends you flying back, smashing into a wall. You kill up and see a terrifying riptide tau battle suit destroying the frontline. But as if it's over a Thunderhawk gunship swoops in firing it's lascannons ripping through the riptide shields, leaving it open for the twin linked heavy bolters to rip apart the riptide battle suit, the suit explodes and crashes into the dirt. The thunderhawk flies lower, and ten raven guards Jumps from the gunship landing and firing at the tau fire warriors. But over the hill, a large stormsurge appears, and it charges its pulse blast cannon and fires at the thunderhawk, blowing it in half. The thunderhawk crashes into the dirt. You stand up watching as the stormsurge then aims towards your forces and fires a cluster or rockets raining upon you with a rain of fire. A raven guard runs in front of you and takes most of the explosion, sending both of you flying. You both hit the ground hard, you have a dislocated finger, and you pop it back in place and look at the raven guard that took the blast. He's still breathing, but his leg is missing, and his armour is heavily damaged. You quickly push yourself up and look around and grab some rope, and you wrap it under his arms and start to drag him slowly behind cover.

"Fuck your heavy"

You get behind cover and you drop the rope and run over to see if he's still breathing. Before you could check, he quickly sits up looking around his surroundings, you look at him.

"Can you still fight?"

he looks at you and speaks in a gruff voice

"Only in death, does duty end."

You hear tau fire warriors approaching; you pull out your laspistol, and the raven guard marine grabs he's holstered bolt pistol. Two tau turn a corner, and you fire, hitting one in the head, and the space marine fires a shot, ripping a massive hole in the chest of the tau. He switches hands and starts firing at more tau approaching. You take aim and help kill as many tau as possible before you are overrun. As you're firing, you hear something behind and turn to see a tau stealth suit de-camouflage raising its burst cannon. The gun rotates ready to fire, but sharp talons pierce the chest of the suit, and it gets lifted up and torn in half. That's when you see her, Corvus Corax, the Primarch of the Raven Guard. You stare in awe at her feat of strength and stealth. But before you could thank her, she rushes the enemies, cutting them down with ease. You and the space marines watch as she rips through them. Overhead, you hear the engines of thunderhawks fly over and start to fire at the storm surge, blowing it to pieces. the heavy doors open from the thunderhawks and more raven guards Jump down to assist their primarch in battle. As you watch as the raven guard rips through the tau, you flag down an apothecary and point towards the marine you were defending. The apothecary runs over and uses he's Narthecium to drill into the leg plate and inject the Marine with a chemical to stop the mass bleeding. You go to move back into the fight bits; it's already over; Corvus Corax and her son's ripped through the tau.

As the smoke and ash clear, you look over the dead guardsmen, hoping to find anyone alive, but it seems you are the only one to survive in your battalion from the gruesome battle. You're kneeling over the bodies of your dead comrades when a large shadow looms over you. You quickly turn around and see Corvus Corax.

"You're quite brave; most guardsmen would've run away when stacked against the odds like you were. You even dragged one of my sons to safety and held the line. You bring honour to your fallen allies. You've proven yourself, and I'll be personally taking you under my wing."

You board a thunderhawk with her and are flown to the flagship in orbit.