Chapter 25: Smoke, Blood and Bullets
Soldiers came from out of the smoke and dust, dressed in military hardware but in addition to the armour they covered the noble green of the Imperial Guard with the marks of heresy and bloodstains of the innocents, yet they continued to pervert it more with spikes and the skulls of those they killed, they know no mercy and neither do we.
"Praises Chaos! What a shot." raising my rifle to the sky with a sadistic grin plastered on my face as I turn to see the cheers from other members of my squad those boys from sixth know how to make easy prey for us! We approached the down bird, with caution but I think we are wasting our time here and yet our commander sent us to check for survivors, what a bitch, I should have been the one to be promoted to company commander but no! I will have her skull and SACRIFICE HER VERY SOUL TO THE DARK GODS!!!
two of my squad approached first, I could hear them complaining about getting the door open, " Why won't this karking door not open! Bloody hell." He raised the butt of his rifle as he was about to short circuit the panel, getting closer something started to feel off about this ship, it was nothing like what I saw in my days in the guard, until it clicked and panic took hold and shouted, " Take cover!!!"
The ramp fell to the ground and four words were spoken in a deep mechanical voice, " Death to the Traitor." sound of bullets began to deafen me as I felt fear take over me, that voice was no guardsmen, the ground shook like footsteps, I slowly came out of cover for a bit to catch a glimpse of what we are facing and what I saw was all my hope of surviving this just vanished, a heavily armoured giant walked out unleashing fire and death as he tore through my men without mercy. I witnessed as the scum of Emperor went into a trench made by debris of buildings and pieces of the aircraft, as the metal giant took brunt of the fire, so much for easy pickings, I raised my head towards the sky seeing mortar shells climb higher and higher into the sky of the Hive City. The commander she didn't care for our lives, the mortar shells were now but a few metres above my head, that karking bitch I will curse your name to the end of time!
"Lieutenant! we are running low on ammo, at this point we need to prepare for the worst!" grabbing his trench shovel, flicking it open, then quickly began to tighten and lock the head of his shovel into place. The lieutenant looked around as some of the men and woman he had led into battle time and time again lay dead on the ground or wounded badly by gun fire or shrapnel, to think that this once beautiful courtyard was turn into a battlefield, these cultists sent tens maybe hundreds just to force us to use our ammo, I feel like the end is nearing and we will be swept away by its tide.
"Get up Lieutenant, you have lives to save, and you are an officer in his army, until your duties end you can't give in to fear of hopelessness, stand and fight!" I gazed up at Chapter Master, he killed so many of these bastards that the bodies started to cover the ground and his counterpart was unrelenting in his assault unleashing pure destruction against them that the barrels began to glow red hot from changing the landscape, filled with new hope that his angels were here fighting by our side, " Yes my lord, we will follow your orders."
I will not allow this to be another Isstvan! The Lieutenant has seemed to have court his second wind me and Rylanor has been able to hold off the hoard but we need support, we are still being shelled by mortars, we could try to punch through their lives but we might lose all our lives in the attempt and I doubt that the Emperor would approve of wasting the lives of those who value could be used in better ways.
Amongst the sound of gunfire and explosions the communications officer's field radio came to life picking up a faint transmission, " This is squads two and six come in we are close to your position ready to provide the Emperors vengeance, I repeat come in!" the communications officer who had lost a leg shouted, " We have support! require coordinates for targets?"
Hearing the cheerful man shout, was the best news I have heard today. I started to trace where the shells were coming from and give him coordinates of likely positions of where the mortar positions were hiding, the Lieutenant came to passing behind cover so not to get shoot along the way, I quickly explained my plan to those over the radio, the Lieutenant heaving a sigh from all the ducking and cover, asked " Do you have a plan my Lord?" I looked above the debris that I took cover behind seeing through the gunfire, smoke and bodies, as Rylanor used the wing of the Thunderhawk that got torn off in the crash as a shield. I turned my head to face the Lieutenant then began to speak, " Do you have a whistle?"
Chapter 26: Objective Reclaimer
The Lieutenant looked at me with confusion, then began to pull a chain from out behind his flack jacket grasping his whistle in his hand, " What is your plan my lord?" I stared at those around me, these guardsmen have fought well, I can see it in there eyes and by the wounds they suffer from being shot in the arm or scratching the side of their head covering the eyes with blood or outright losing it, I looked back into eyes of the Lieutenant, I could see fear, I could see anger, yet that was not only what lingered in him for I see hope behind it all and courage to face the enemy head on even if death was certain for him and the lives of his squad.
" Lieutenant you and your soldiers have fought well in this battle and again this is the time to put our lives on the line, I have a plan to break through there lines but you need to keep that whistle handy." The Lieutenant looks around at his men tired but fighting, he turns back to me and spoke, " My Lord we have all lost hundreds if not thousands of brothers and sisters across the years never knowing when our time will come, but we only ask that our lives will not be wasted, so that we are not discarded, I know my words may seem heretical or disobedient but my men deserve to fight in his name and be given the chance to find a glorious death of their own."
Looking at him I could feel that he was intimated and scared by how I would react to what he has spoken even if he spoke from the heart and for the safety of his men. Yet his words have reminded me of my past and what I would do in his stead, " Lieutenant, many years ago, I had the same thoughts as you do now but the only difference between us is at that time when I lead 50 of my battle brothers to war, I was the only survivor until I found my Friend... we are what's left of one of the greats forces to ever have severed the Emperor." walking out of cover, bullets began to fly past me, with all my might I shouted towards the very heavens, " FOR THE EMPEROR!!!" With my sword, the last fang I ran towards the enemy lines bullets bouncing of and scratched my armour, I felt the very ground shake, Rylanor unleahed a warcry, " For the Emperor, For the forgotten, FOR THE CHAPTER MASTER!!!" smashing his cover away throwing the wing right into the enemies lines cut some of them in half and decapitating others, standing still he let loss a barage of rounds with his assault cannon, giving pause to any who dared try and shot me, yet some idots tried but was turn into a pink mist.
Looking back on my past I haven't called Rylanor my brother and yet we are whats left of a bygone era... surrounded by those who don't know of our sacrifice. Yet he is my brother not by blood, but by battle. Using my bolter in one hand I shot at targets who presented them selves, then I jumped into the trench corned by heretics and yes they are in number but my bolter and sword will make quick work of this filth, lunching a flurry of attacks cuting down multipule enemies, some in a single blow. Body parts began to fly around me as my bolter punched holes right into their body, The last fang enjoyed cutting through these vermin like a hot knife through butter.
As more enemies appeared from around me I would cut them down, thining the herd, I shouted towards our downed Thunderhawk, " Lieutenant Now!" a second later I heard a whisle blow, the sound of charging soldiers with bayonets and the sound of grenade launchers going off, a few more seconds had passed and explosins and las fire could be heard around me. Rylanor pushed up with the Lieutenant and his squads, the other two squads let loss their armaments on enemy morter positions and HMG (Heavy Machine Gun) positions. making short work of their forces but what concerned me was their were no officers amongest the bodies, making me think that they retreated before we had the chance to cut the head of this snake.
After regrouping with the squads that supported us and making note of those who didn't survive today, may they rest and let us carry the burden of their duty. We pushed through other postions that guarded their AA ( Anit Air) postions, they used Hydra's to take care of our airsupport, a mighty tank based off the Chimera the Guardsmens main armoured personnel carrier chassis bosting two twin-linked autocannons which tears through anything in the air, yet they stain it with the bodies of inoccents and heretical symbols. putting these corrupted machines out of there missery we used our anti tank launchers, taking out all three targets one after the other.
Making our way to the landing zone I noded to the Lieutenant let the Admiral know that we completed our mission, talking to the wouned communications officer he relaid the success of our mission, " My lord the Admiral sends her congrats and that reinforcements are in bound as well as The Hammer of Emperor." Looking towards the sky, where the clouds are thick and posion I enjoyed the sight of thousands of Valkyries carrying tanks and fresh troops for combat but the gem among them was The Hammer of Emperor, as the Valkyries made their quick decent to the ground and dropped off our forces, I stood witness to one of the Emperors greats creations... a Baneblade.
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