“Slowly from the beginning again private, what happened when you made planetfall at the mining colony?”
He sat in a cold steel chair, the room absolutely dark aside from the light above him, at the edge of the circle he could just make out two figures, one in the uniform of an Officer, the other from glimpses of his coat must be a Commissar.
“Sergeant Kellamin lead us down, we deployed by AA-42, no intel, just to expect heavy resistance from unknown foes.
We made touchdown practically on top of the outpost just as the Holy Sisters arrived. The drop seemed to go according to plan, I caught sight of a large Ork, the war leader I assume and his hulking armoured warriors but the Sisters cut them down without even breaking stride, seemed like it was gonna be a milk run Sir”
“And then?”
“All hell broke loose, the Orks Sir, they had Bugs with em, Tyranids! Just sitting around the compound like obedient guard dogs, never seen anything like it Sir!
The instant our boots hit ground they were on top of us, slashing claws ripping through the men, half the squad were dead in seconds. It was a trap Sir, the Orks had vehicles half buried under netting or something, they crashed into the Holy Sisters before they even knew what was happening.
Then I heard it Sir, this horrible screech and there were bugs clawing out of the ground, a huge snake creature tore through the Sisters scattering them like dolls but there was more, a pack of them, 10 feet tall, they would have dwarfed even a hero of the Astartes, one of them seemed to be the leader. Before the Canoness could even raise her blade that thing tore her to pieces, didn’t even have time to scream. Then more Sisters arrived from the sky, Avenging Angels, I thought we were saved, the Sister leading them nearly took the leaders beasts head off with one blow and I saw it’s arm hacked clean off… but… but It ignored the blow, let it land! Drove it’s blades clean through her!
All the while the Orks whooped and hollered they enjoyed it Sir, if the Emperor isn’t watching over his Holy Sisters, is he really with any of us?”
“How did you survive Private?”
“I ran Sir, had to report back, the colony is lost Sir, Bugs and Orks together Sir, what hope do we have!”
The officer nodded and the second man stepped into the light, a tall Commissar, his bolt pistol suddenly rose to the Privates face
“On charges of Heresy and Cowardice”
There was a click, a flash and the world went black…
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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