The Warfield (A warhammer 40k story)

Chapter 27

Stalker had literally just got up to the top of the stairs when he heard it: the sound of feet going over broken rubble.

He quickly put down the heater as he pulled his blade out with his laspistol and as he pointed it down below, he knew what was coming up in a small guess as he slowly backed up and as he came to the room door, he looked inside and saw Logan slowly waking up but Logan saw him with his weapons out and knew the rest as then he grabbed his lasrifle and ran over to the door as Stalker shifted over to the doorway just across from the door and as Shino hunkered down behind the bed with her blade in hand as she was trying not to make herself looked scared or panicked but it was kinda obvious.

But as Logan crouched at the door they were, he said to Shino, "Take whatever covers are around and make a rope down to the ground... we'll cover you so use the rooms around us."

She nodded and as she look around for some sheets or covers and as she found some, she began to tie them as quickly as she could into strong knots and as Logan looked down the hall through his lasrifles scope, he said to Stalker, "You think we can hold them off, whatever they are?"

Footsteps were heard along with voices coming from the stairway and Stalker said, "Its likely just a bunch of simple cultists.. hopefully.. but we have to hold them."

Logan nodded and as both of them kept low in a crouched stance, they watched as the first of their enemy popped up and as Stalker gave a sneer, he watched as the Traitor Guardsmen popped up and gave a shout just as Logan fired  and as the guardsman fell back from the lashot to his face, the enemy all came charging up at once as lashots began to fill the hallway.

A lasrifle from one of the traitors nearly took off Logans head and as he ducked back, Shino appeared as she said, "I need to get into Stalker's room!"

"Covering fire!" shouted Logan and Stalker nodded as he fired on full auto and as they soon had to reload their few laspacks, Shino ran over as she looked around the other room and as she found some more blankets and sheets, she ran with them back across the hallway filled with red, death beams as she continued what she was suppose to and as Logan fired again, suddenly something blew a large hole in the head left to his head and as he looked p past some of the guardsmen they saw darker versions of the Skitarii the Mechanicus used and as he watched one of the corrupted Skitarii Rangers reloaded his Galvanic rifle, he saw a few more with those same rifles but one had a larger rifle and as he looked at it, the ranger with a sickly yellow eye color and his cloak tattered and smeared in blood, he didn't know what it was but knew it was bad and as he watched the thing take aim, suddenly Stalker fired and blew its head off as he said, "I becha that's a Anti-tank weapon.. how far till you're done, Shino?"

"I just finished!" she said as she threw the rope out the nearby window.

"Good! GO down it, get into the tank, and turn the turret around to fire at anyone still down there! Be careful though!" said Stalker as then he and Logan stood.

"What are you going to do then?" How will you get down?" asked Shino.

"By going through fire and death!" shouted Logan as suddenly both charged down the hall as their enemies charged them back.

The first traitor guardsman that reached Stalker was quickly sliced down and as the blood splattered the floor and walls, he raised his pistol as he fired point-blank into another enemies face and as the ruby-red beam seared the corrupted woman's flesh away, another of the Galvanic rifles fired past his face and he blocked a guardsmen's rifle as they tried to use it as a club.

Logan ducked anothers crude blade as he took his own and as he rammed it into his foes stomach, he brought his rifle up to his hip as he fired full-auto and as he struck down a corrupted Skitarii Ranger, sparks and dirty oil went all over as the mechanical being fell back and as Logan ducked another shot from a Galvanic rifle, the Ranger slowly cocked back the musket-like rifle as then one of Stalkers shots hit the Ranger in its shoulder and as it lost its weapon from its grip, Logan rushed over and tried to club it down.