Defense of Lantaiya

[Father Nurgle]

Vesuvius quietly listened in on the conversation, keeping his regular monitoring self at bay. should he had been in his chapter he would have put all those talking like that in penance. "the relics are not currently digging loopholes around our defenses, Captain, this squads priority is hunting down that creature, not protection of relics and "shiny objects." Vesuvius snapped at the captain once the conversation ended. "we will meet you after our mission is complete, should that happen." He intoned as he turned around back to the tunnel. "my brothers! lets move!"
Vesuvius started to walk into the depths of the tunnel. his enhanced senses providing him plenty of visibility. His black armor glistened from the dim lighting that the light at the beginning of the tunnel gave him. His skull helmet gave him the expression of fearlessness as he ventured through the dark cavern. Each of his brothers followed him. "Chaplin, a large number of xenos, approaching our location..." Brother Regal noted as he was looking down to his sensor in his hand. "Prepare the bolters brothers; short accurate bursts..." Vesuvius said running to a crack wide enough for him squeeze into. His battle brothers took cover amongst the rubble that littered the ground. ahead of them trekked 8 warriors and a warrior prime. all toting an intimidating devourer and deathly sharp claws. From those claws seem to drip a deadly toxin. "they are within chaplain..." Regal toned. "open fire my brothers..." Vesuvius ordered. The cavern quickly lit up in bursts of yellow as the patrol came under attack...

(no worries, others can join on this side mission. im kinda practicing my story writing skills cause of my novel im working on and this helps. ill join you in the end though)

[Esiphas]

harry touched down on the ground for the fih time. he had found another tunnel, but this on seemed man made, like the rest of them. excepting the trygon tunnel, no tunnels he had yet to see contained ant tyranids.

[Silence]

(Y'know what, my pic is of a Death Korps man. He's Fraggy from now on. xD)

Frastus shook his head and stood up on the rock. He gave a speech while overlooking the activities of his squadron.

"Good news and bad news! Deathleaper from the mess hall stories is here! Now here's the good news. We're Death Korps of Krieg, not (please do not swear) missionaries. Let's say we bag this Lictor and fry him up later!"
He paused, turning to Rein. "Please tell me we HAVE tanks."

[w00teldar]

(dammit FN, i am your commanding officer, you do what i tell you!)

"of course" Rein said as the first vehicles started moving over the ridge. Suddenly, roars could be heard a short distance away. "Brothers! Guardsmen! fiiring line! none will pass!"

[Silence]

"Asharn! You know what do to. I want overlapping fields of fire at Delta and Charlie! You three, watch the rear, you lot, standby. Not one passes!"

He hopped forward, standing at the line and waiting for the Tyranids to arrive.

[Esiphas]

harry dropped back in formation with his squad, right behind commander rein. 'no active tunnels sir, but six potentials. i have put a signal at each one, just in case. check your auspex to see where they are.

[w00teldar]

"Have you foun the inquisition base yet?" Rein asked over the battle, Swinging a powersword against a zoanthrope about to psychically blast the imperials.

[Silence]

"First rank! Fire! Second Rank! Fire!"

A tide of lasfire swept through the tyranids, felling many lesser beasts while Hellguns killed a pair of Lictors. The fighting continued like this for a few moments, before breaking point. The Iron Fist of the Imperium met the Chitin Swarm of the Tyranids. Untold numbers of gaunts broke through the line and were about to cause mayhem when the flamer spluttered. Once. Twice. A roar of fire overtook the tyranids and burned their first charge to a crisp, before the flamer got shot in the head by a Devourer.

[Esiphas]

harry shook his head, then rocketed skywards. he and his squad came rocketing down in the swarm, blasting gaunts and genesealers alike intothe air. they set into the foe with powersword and chainswords, then jetpacked back behind the imperial line as a carnifex came into view.

[w00teldar]

"Guadsmen." rein voxed, sty here and cover us. "Brothers, charge." The black-armored warriors of the deathwatch sharged forth, power weapons flashing and bolt pistols firing. The Astarted sprinted toward the carnifex, and Rein's scout skillfuly attached a melta bomb to its head. Anything behind them was cut down by the guardsmen, leaving them free to return. Rein ran back to the firing line , when he noticed the ground buldging behind the guardsmen. The ground burst, and several raveners slitihered forth, killing guardsmen as the ran oward one of the tanks.

[Esiphas]

harry shouted for frastus's attention, then pointed at the raveners. 'Keep your men safe, away from them. kill ones that get too close to the tanks!' hary engaged his jumppacks and rocketed skyward, landing nearby to some of the raveners, and began to fight the beasts at close combat.

[Silence]

"Stuff that Marine's orders, you there, grab the flamer, you, take out that Ravener! Rear cluster, FORWARD!"

The guardsmen swapped positions, suddenly stormtroopers wiped out the last of the Lictors and cut away a lot of hormagants before the flamer torched any others getting too close. The rest of the guardsmen reloaded and took up new, overlapping fields of fire which also took out many tyranids before a full half-dozen men fell to Tyranid Bioplasma as the Screamer-Killer came over the ridge.

[Father Nurgle]

"die you xenos!" Vesuvius yelled as he burst through the rocky sliver he was crammed into. his powerfist activated and hummed the same hue as he rod of office. with a strike forth he buried the wings of his crozius into the closest warrior, caught unaware by his ambush. with a tug Vesuvius forced the warrior to turn and a punch to the neck and head area dispatched the first one with ease. 2 warriors turned to their fallen brethren to avenge him. Vesuvius stabbed the first creature in the chest carapace and stopped its charge, but didn't kill it. Vesuvius slapped the beast with a slow back hand swipe, it wasn't like the warrior could have dodged... Though the second warrior got through Vesuvius' defenses whilst he was dispatching one warrior, and started to tear into the black armor he wore. occasionally he was able to shred the thigh plating to a ribbon and cutting flesh, this small point of victory on the warrior's behalf was quickly dispatched with a fist to the chest cavity.
with 3 dead warriors in front of him Vesuvius watched his men carve the remaining 5 down with precision strikes and coordinated attacks. Suddenly though, Regal dropped his weapons and 2 boneswords sprung from his chest, spraying heavy visceral material around the combat. "Theres the prime! avenge your fallen brother!" Vesuvius yelled furiously as Regal fell completely and the prime behind him revealed 2 more boneswords. He and his squad mates charged the beast, bolt pistols springing off its armor with ease. Vesuvius took to flanking the creature, getting it whilst it was busy with his other veterans. Within seconds Vesuvius had actually gotten behind the beast. About the strike the killing blow he raised his fist to bring down, and with a satisfying crunch bought the fist down upon the head of the beast, smashing it into its own carapace armor and causing a sickening crunch to spray forth much blood. "Our victory... was at a cost here brothers..." Vesuvius said, falling to his knee to honor his fallen Brother Regal...