I awoke looking up at the night sky and hearing sounds of gunfire coming from all sides, two men stood over me and were working on something on my chest, as i looked down to see what was going on i saw that my power armor had many small holes through the chest plate the wounds weren't substantial just enough to knock me on my ass i guess. I stood up and then picked up my helmet which must have been removed while the two other marines gave me medical attention. After I had picked up my helmet I looked at it seeing the cut which looked like a scar going from the top of the helmet to the top of the eye and then continuing at the bottom of the eye to the bottom of the helmet. I had remembered putting it there after I had the same scar placed upon me many years ago during the imperium's first war with these damned orks. As the bullets flew by I slipped my helmet into place and looked to see my bolter at my feet. I then picked it up and began firing rounds into the night. I heard the "thwump" of my rounds hitting their targets after every four or five shots I fired into the night. A few moments after I had gunned down 10 or 12 orks they had stopped firing at us and we kept firing back until we heard that bone chilling word yelled from the mouths of a few thousand orks. "WAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!!" After I heard that I drew my chainsword with one hand and continued firing with the other. through the fog of the night thousands of orks were charging straight for our small force of about 20 raven guard. After I downed a few more of the green skins I heard the order to charge. as soon as my bolter had run out of ammo I put my bolter on my back and pulled out my Bolt pistol and ran into the oncoming "wall" of orks. I saw many more orks get shot down. I turned on my chainsword and I ran even faster than I was before and before I knew it I was face to face with thousands of orks. My shoulder pad was hit from the side I turned toward the side I was hit from and thrusted my chainsword blindly and felt it puncture through skin I heard the "AAAAGGGHH" of the ork my chainsword was cutting through and I felt the blood splash from the ork to my body. It mostly hit my torso head and arms. As I pulled the blade from the limp body of the ork I turned around and out of instinct pulled the trigger of my bolt pistol and and I saw another ork get hit in the stomach and fall on his face, and he started crawling toward me I stomped and the blood sprayed up at me again. I continued firing my bolt pistol and orks were going down left and right. Another ork got too close and I cut his throat and he fell on the ground with a thump. The battle continued and in the end we lost 10 of our battle brothers. But we left only a few hundred orks and we had them on the run.

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Defending the emperors name
Science FictionA story of a Raven guard marine sigmus in the long battle against a tribe of orks on the planet of bentalion to defend the great imperium of man and the great emperor of man.