Commander ShadowSoldier silently stalked through the jungle, they had landed earlier on the deathworld. The only intel reports he had was that a secret weapon had been discovered and an ork incursion was starting to ravage through the planet. Aun'sa sighed, he would have came into the mission with more knowledge if the Tau had actually supported his mission. Instead he was forced to run around with several auxillary troops, mainly kroot.
However, the kroot knowlegde of the forest and ambush tactics was in his favor and he planned on finding the weapon and leaving the planet immediatley. However, things hadn't went as planned, a force of Necrons in orbit had assaulted the small Demiurg fleet transporting his small army. They were forced to drop there troops off and leave immediatley. This unfortunate event had left them nearly without any equipment and hardly any troops at all.
"Halt," one of the kroot scouts said, raising his arm and kneeling to the ground.
"What is it?" Aun'sa asked, halting behind the kroot scout.
"I smell old foes," the kroot said, raising his kroot rifle.
"Orks," Angran, the kroot leader said grimly.
"How many?" Aun'sa asked.
"Close to a hundred thousand, maybe more," Angran answered.
"Follow me," Aun'sa ordered, silently stalking through the deeper jungle trying to get a glimpse of there foe.
For about ten minutes the entire little army had slowly picked there way through the jungle terrain. They saw it immediatley, a horde of orks, or at least a small group of them. Around 20 or so orks were all around a crude looking truck, stuck in a web of vines.
"Nex' time I iz gonna' drive, not Ghazak'z. He ain't nuffin but a stupid dung 'ead," one of the orks said, raising its choppa in the air.
"You'z ain't gonna be able to 'andle a truk. You waz screamin' da whole time we waz ridin' in dis bloody jungle," an ork replied, raising his crude slugga pistol.
"Why you dung 'ead whimp. I'll gut you right now!" The ork bellowed, charging, choppa raised.
"Now is our chance. Angran, take your squad and cut them off from escaping. The rest of us will start the blood bath," Aun'sa ordered.
The squad of Gue'vesa raised there pulse fires and awaited the command of Aun'sa to fire. The orks were in a fist fight, and paid no attention to there enemies gathering and preparing to bring destruction. "FIRE!" He bellowed, firing his burst cannon into the horde of orks.
Immediatley over half of the orks were completely slaughtered in the barrage from pulse rifles and the deadly burst cannon. Aun'sa charged into the ork horde, continuing to blast away with his burst cannon at close range. Black blood splattered his armor as three of the orks were blasted to smithereens right in front of him.
The killing was intense and not one warrior of Aun'sa's fell. The orks were devastated, the survivors were trying to flee, only to be ruthlessly cut down by the ambushing kroot. The slaughtering was over as every single ork was dead, the ork truck was all the remained and a horde of vines surrounded it.
"Khardaz, check the truck, I don't want some ork to go off and tell of our presence," Aun'sa ordered, his pulse rifle prepared to fire and destroy any thing that emerged from it.
The kroot nodded and began to approach the truck, he climbed onto the side and was preparing to get into the cockpit. Pulse rifles were raised all around in case he was ambushed.
"WAAAGH!" A gruff voice bellowed, a massive ork jumped out of the cockpit and attacked Khardaz with choppa raised and slugga pistol firing at the surrounding Gue'vesa. Only, Drex and Veldran were wounded, Drex in the shoulder and Veldran in the leg. Khardaz lashed out with his kroot gun, attempting to impale the ork with the bayonet on the end. He missed and the ork had an opening and brought its choppa down on Khadaz. Khardaz fell back, with a bloody gash on his chest from the choppa. Aun'sa raised his plasma rifle and prepared to fire, however before he could the truck was torn to shreds along with Khardaz and the ork.
Seconds ago where the truck had been standing surrounded by vines a massive eight legged and eight eyed creature stood, it legs coming out of the gaping hole it had emerged from. Where the bloody remains of Khardaz and the ork were now. "FIRE!" Aun'sa bellowed, firing his burst cannon at it. It was a massive, virtually unknown creature that none of them had ever seen.
It was a massive creature with eight legs and eight eyes, like a tank but faster and alive. A horde of mansized creatures excactly like it burst from similar holes all around. Devouring and killing anything they made contact with, both Drex and Veldran were carried away, while Phek and Zardax were overwhelmed in a massive tide of them. Aun'sa spun around firing his burst cannon at the horde creatures, they burst into a million pieces, however still dozens came.
"FALL BACK!" Aun'sa bellowed. The kroot fled back, lashing out with there bayonets and cutting there foes into pieces. Aun'sa raised his plasma gun, this was serious. He fired directly at the large leader of the creatures the beam of energy burst through the arachnid body and came out the other end. The beast tumbled down back into its hole, it was dead or at least severely injured. Seeing there leader fall, the creatures scuttled off back to there holes carrying off there new meals.
Aun'sa and his soldiers fled out of the forest until they had arrived into the midst of a battle. A heavily fortified city under siege by the force of orks spotted earlier. A horde of nearly a hundred thousand. "Damnitt, those spider bastards got us into the midst of a battle!" Velkarin, a Gue'vesa soldier, cursed. There losses weren't to heavy, only six kroot and two of the Gue'vesa were killed.
"Aun'sa let us put our tactics to use against these foul beasts," Khazakalz, one of the Demiurg captains, said.
"The Imperials have been nothing but our arch enemies, however I refuse to go back into the jungle. For the Greater Good we shall fight them!" Aun'sa replied.
"Stay away from the infantry and blast away there heavy support. If the infantry start to take notice flee back into the jungle and find cover. We will regroup later," Aun'sa ordered.
A viable target was spotted, a squad of two trucks guarded by three bikers and a horde of orks who were readying themselves to get into it and be transported to the main lines. "There, that is the target. Now attack!" Aun'sa hissed, sending a barrage from his plasma rifle at the surrounding orks. One of the orks bikes burst into flames as one of the plasma bolts found the fuel. The kroot charged out, supported by the fire of both Aun'sa and his Gue'vesa soldiers. Both the Demiurg captains fired with there devastating weaponry of plasma cannons. A gaping hole punched through the first truck, decimating it in seconds. However the remaining truck had begun to take evasive action, dodging the plasma blasts and returning fire.
Aun'sa dodged a barrage from the sluggas and shootas of the orks, only to hear the painful yells of one of the Gue'vesa soldiers. He sighed, the battle was already starting to take the lives of his troops. He stepped out of his cover to send another barrage at the orks as the battle continued...
