The Warfield (A warhammer 40k story)

Chapter 12

Scarlet and Mac both sat on the ruined balcony as part of a building that overlooked the next line of defense of the cultist as they both held their new rifles in their hands. They had been fighting almost the whole day, killing with blade and rifle, and had gone at least maybe a mile into the cultist lines with the Imperial Guardsmen after landing with the Ultramarines squad. Scarlet looked out at the open land before them and Mac asked her, "Hey... where did you get that?"

She looked down at herself and found a small bullet hole in her suit as blood pumped from it slowly and she looked around when a Imperial Guardsmen medic, who just so happened to be next to her, said, "Let me fix you up." and began to try and stem the bleeding.

Scarlet thought back to how it might have happened and thought back to when they had first landed.....

A few hours before...

Scarlet and Mac were almost wretched from their seats as the drop-pod landed and as the pods doors opened up with a hiss and a clang, the Ultramarines ran out as Theodosius and Widit ran out quickly to the left and as Mac and Scarlet unstrapped and took up their lasrifles, they heard the sound of bullets and lasers smacking into the drop pod and they quickly got up and left the drop pod as fast as they could.

And not a moment too soon as the drop pod exploded in greasy smoke from a rocket smashing into its side and as the blast carried them into the air, they landed in a trench full of Imperial Guardsmen and as the Guardsmen picked them up, a Sergeant shouted to them, "Are you with the Inquisition?"

"Yes, we are. We have to advance while the Ultramarines are with us!" Shouted Mac as he pointed towards the enemy lines.

The Guardsmen all nodded and as the Ultramarines continued to slowly advance against the cultists and then the Imperial Guardsmen jumped up and, with a roar, charged the cultists in a wave of Lasfire and as Scarlet and mac ran after them, they tried to keep a low body profile admist the storm of lasfire and hard bullets. Scarlet felt something smack her side but she kept running onward as she raised her lasrifle and fired off a burst of triple lasers at the cultists. None of the shots landed a hit but the cultists did duck their heads and as the forces of the Imperial Guard and Ultramarines advanced together, Scarlet and Mac both ducked into the ruins of a building as they tried to find a good spot to snipe from.

Instead, they came face to face with a small group of cultist, two armed with only blades, another armed with a lasrifle, and the three others armed with what looked like normal rifles. All six of the cultist saw the two assassins and Scarlet took some random scrap metal and hurled it at the cultists. The metal had just enough aerodynamics and force that it sliced two of the necks of cultists in a bright splash of blood and as the two dropped their rifles, the other four looked at them and fired their weapons or charged them.

Mac ducked behind the reminds of what might have been a generator and fired back as the lasrifle of the one fired and the scarlet beams smashed into the generator. Scarlet ducked as the other normal rifle fired and the solid round ricocheted back and killed the man as the cultist with blades kept running at them.

Mac popped up again and fired and his shots smacked into the knees of the frontrunner of the blade-wielding cultists and the man went down and, unfortunately for that cultist, his head smashed into a rusted pipe and it killed him.

The other tried to stop but Scarlet appeared and fired at him and his face burned away from the scarlet beams as her shots were accurate.

The last cultist got up and tried to run but Mac killed him and as the two approached the dead bodies, both of them put away their lasrifles as they picked up the normal rifles and as they looked outside, they watched the battle rage on.