The Assault of Corvonis II

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[VI

 

Rajek ducked the first beam of plasma, only just moving out of the way as the bolt of blue energy seared the air around him. A second, and then a third followed in quick succession, each aimed with deadly accuracy. He activated his jump pack, launching him into the air and out of the fire. The squad fell back, their momentum faltering under lethal weapons fire. One suit tracked Rajek, its wrist mounted rocket pod launching a quintet of armour piercing missiles towards him. He had seen what those missiles could do to power armour, and didn’t want to be next. Twisting in mid air, he cut the power to his pack and plummeted towards the ground, his servos screaming in protest upon impact. The missiles, incapable of such sudden movement, split away and exploded upon the wall; their AI units scrambled. Throttling his chainsword he leapt towards the suit. Although deadly at range, XV8s where appalling in close quarters as their wrist mounted weapons made them clumsy and slow. Ducking the poorly aimed swipe at his head, Rajek went for the knee joint, hoping to immobilise it. However, the suit side stepped the blade, and delivered an uppercut to his chin. Alien metal impacted on human bone, cracking Rajek’s jawbone. Temporarily stunned by the pain, he staggered backwards, dropping his sword. The moment of respite allowed the suit to deliver a crude but powerful strike to his chest which dented his eagle, and sent him sprawling across the ground to land to land heavily on a low wall. Before he could move, the suit launched onto him and placing a foot upon his body aimed its weapon, it prepared to deliver the killing shot to his unprotected head.

 

Time seemed to slow for Rajek. He could hear his two hearts pumping; the whine of his jump pack; the whir of the chainsword, now lying out of arms reach and the shouts of his squad members as they saw what was happening. Samieal and Michieal turned as one, looks of horror etched across their faces. Lexio tried to raise his pistol in time, his armour blacked and melted from plasma shots.

 

Rajek saw the light build inside the barrel of the Tau weapon, he felt the heat radiate from its fins. He knew there was no chance of surviving a shot from this. As the Suit’s finger tightened on the trigger, Rajek commended his soul to the Emperor. He was not afraid of death.

 

 

 

 

Decided to Finish this story, as i get fed up of starting things and then not finishing them.