K'tikathat glances at the duo on the center of the firefight; singing Vostryoan and laughing officer of Law. These humans are completely opposite of the ones he fought with earlier on the Underhive. Loud, daredevilish, humane. They are men, what bulk of the so-called Imperium of Man consist. Unlike those augmented tools of war K'tikathat shared the beast with. Maybe its all the human genetic material he has ingested lately, but K'tikathat feels small smirk escaping his beak from the power-duos behavior. Kroot moves between the pews, from fire position to fire position, on limits of his aching chest. Removing frag grenade from his harness, K'tikathat pulls the pin, lets the timer charge launch the handle and throws it towards denser mass of cultists.
Pierce taking cover as the battle kept going saw a rocket come down and manage to damage a chimera. Reloading his pistol and taking aim again he aimed at the heavy weapons team with the rocket launcher aiming to take them out before they can take anymore of there vehicles out of commission.
~~Cathedral- Main Assault~~ As battle continued to wear on in the once-holy place, Boris's Heavy Stubber did its duty as bullets flew towards the elites and hit one of their number, one of them receiving a hail of lead to his chest through his Carapace armour while Takeshi blasted the cultist in the head, viscera spraying over his killer. Ferenien's attempt to blast the most able of the three leaders however, was not successful as the leader's armour absorbed the bolt. Ogedei however, found cover behind a solid pillar while the Hellfire Bolts issued from the business end of his bolt pistol claimed the lives of both Psykers, ending that menace as they died mercifully quickly from the toxic payload while K'tikathat's grenade landed within the group and exploded, claiming a couple of heretic's lives. Pierce's Exitus Pistol ended up leaving the Heavy Weapons Team with half of their number, well aimed rounds quickly ending which Miria then finished off with a few quick shots from her bolter. Kais fired off a few more shots into the horde of cultist that ended up causing nothing more than minor injuries, while Sedric managed to land a critical blow upon one of the leaders, slaying the weakest of the leaders with a headshot. The Inquisitor her self also did well, slaying the leader she was duelling with an swing of her swords to his guts, leaving the man disembowelled. The PDF's onslaught also continued, with an effort emboldened by the enemys' lack of Psychic support, as a veritable swarm of bullets, shotgun pellets and lasers took even an even greater toll on the enemy, while the flamer teams sent more of the cult to their graves, screams of the burning heretics interwining with the war cries of the faithful, with the Heavy Flamers from two Repressors completing the firestorm. Sadly, the third one ended up having to change its Flamer's fuel tanks while the others did their work. The Chimeras then finished with bursts from their Multilasers that turned some of the few survivors of the once formidable force of Cultists into yet more corpses Despartly fighting for the lives, what remained of the cultists turned their impotent force upon the PDF, only to find themselves beaten back, while their lone leader's autogun failed to do anything to turn the tide despite aiming at the Marine, his rounds either hit nothing or harmlessly impacted the White Scar's Power Armour. The Heavy Stubbler team however, let a lead storm blow at Sedric that tore through flak armour and flesh alike. Their saving grace hwoever, came in the form of the elite cultists with hotshot lasguns and carapace armour who abandoned defending the stairs to attack the group, three of them shot wildly into the fray, while a pair managed to land a hit on both Ogedei and Sedric. The final one however, had his weapon explode which seeme to be becoming a habit of this battle. Retinue: Ogedei: 8 {12}: Lost Chainsword Alicia:10 Boris: 10 Pierce: 10 {12} Miria: 10 Takeshi: 10 Astra: 10 Kais: 10 Zoran: 10 Sedric: 5 K'tikathat: 8{10} Ferenien: 10: Elevated Van: 3 : Hull Points PDF and Arbite Support PDF Troopers and Enforcers (Group): 30 PDF + Arbite Flamer Teams X3: 6,6,6 Repressor X3: 5, 5, 3: Hull points Chimera X2: 5, 5 : Hull points Cult of the Plaguefather: Cultists(Group): 4 Leader: 5 Heavy Weapon Team: 4(Heavy Stubbler), Psykers: None that are alive. Elite Cultists: 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 4 General Effect: The Van allows for the team to resupply Grenades and Special Ammo ~~Cathedral- Stealth~~ The Krak grenade went off without a hitch, imploding and tearing the leader of the type of one who lead by speeches rather than might and skill, into chucks of gore while Firebat's flamer ended up setting the room alight, with the flamer's toxins do their part to end the foul rites, as they ended the lifes of both cultists and guard alike. After a few minutes, his work was complete with the attempt to summon a Daemon being halted by the fact both leadership and the poor saps that had been doing the ritual were dead. At least, the main objective of ending the hope of aid from the Warp had been achieved. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ @torque @GoreWrencha @Vulpas @Uriel1339 @Colapse @TechCaptain @Coffeechipmunk @Verticus @DeranVendar @High_Adept_Zeth @Shadhunter @Casavay
Pierce reloaded his exitus pistol and took aim again as he spotted the last heavy weapons team manning a heavy stubber spraying his allies he picked out new targets to begin going after. "The Emperor's faithful will have the day." He said as he took aim now at the heavy stubber team aiming to finish off any support the cultists had at sending deadly heavy weapons support there way.
K'tikathat reloads the rifle, sliding in the new clip and continuing picking out cultists one shot a time. With all the shooting, flames, explosions and splintering debris, situation was hectic as its always is in war. Looks like the decision for head-first attack was right as it denied these cultists the vantage of defensive positions.
'Firebat' was living to his designation. He withdrew the way he came from and moved on to the X marked storeroom. He marched in silence that the fire covered most other noises.
Ferenien continued to fire at the leader, inflicting a blow that did nothing was a failure he had to make right. The Scion continued his elevated attempts at crippling the enemy's leadership. The continuous fire and attempts to annihilate the command of the enemy have left Ferenien's hotshot visibly hot, scorching red metal from the white hot muzzle to the emberous ignition chambers, if his shots were in vain he had no other choice but to cover and idle with a cooling cell exchange.
"Take care of the leftovers, I get the real bad boys. Aye?!" Takeshi yelled over to the Vostroyan (@DeranVendar ) next to him. Before running off with massive shield in front of him raised, rushing straight towards an Elite Cultist. Aiming to slam the shield into the enemy, before pulling the shotgun on the enemy's face and blast the brain out.
Seeing the problem, Ogedei jumped from his cover and used his assault pack to close the distance with the heavy weapon's team and kill them using a combination of his bolt pistol (where he switched back to regular rounds) and his combat knife.
~~Cathedral- Main Assault~~ With the vastly reduced opposition, the mop-up could begin as Pierce killed off the heavy stubber team in a few quick shots from his Exitus Pistol, which slew the team operating the weapon in short order, with K'tika'that shot a cultist to death with a few bursts to the chest. Ferenien's hotshot lasgun landed a solid blow on the leader but the cooling cell was straining so hard that any further shooting would be.... ill-advised unless he wanted to end up with his weapon blowing up in his face. Takeshi slammed into the closet Elite cultist with such force that the man was toppled onto the ground and the shotgun blast nearly gutted him, while Ogedei, being unable to assault the heavy weapons team as there were none left the Marine instead attacked the elite cultists, as bolt pistol and combat knife wounded two more servants of the Dark Gods, one getting a bolt into the leg and losing the leg while the other was knifed in the chest, blood spilling out from the woman's wound. Miria's Bolter claimed a few cultist's lives, namely those that were foolish enough that the initiative was worth trying to seize when they were, simply put doomed. Sedric and Kais finished off the last of the group of cultists, leaving only the Elites and a leader fighting. Alicia however, being spent from fighting managed to drop her Power Sword tip first through her foot, leaving a set of colourful vocabulary to effectively narrate the remainder of the battle, as the Elites quickly acted to do as much damage as they could before they ended up dead at the hands of the PDF and Arbites, as two of them fired on Sedric, who was the closest to death's door and therefore the most likely to die, with one severing his left arm, and the final blow ended up claiming the Guardsman's life, as the hotshot lasgun blasted him clean through the chest and his heart. One of them managed to land a hit on the Space Marine, with a hotshot to the knee penetrating Power Armour. The other failed to harm anyone else, and with three Repressors, two Chimeras, three flamer teams and a whole bunch of Enforcers and PDF troopers, it didn't take a genius to guess the fate of the Elites and the lone leader. Retinue: Ogedei: 7 {12}: Lost Chainsword Alicia: 8 Boris: 10 Pierce: 10 {12} Miria: 10 Takeshi: 10 Astra: 10 Kais: 10 Zoran: 10 Sedric: Rest In Peace, Sedric. K'tikathat: 8{10} Ferenien: 10: Elevated Van: 3 : Hull Points PDF and Arbite Support PDF Troopers and Enforcers (Group): 30 PDF + Arbite Flamer Teams X3: 6,6,6 Repressor X3: 5, 5, 3: Hull points Chimera X2: 5, 5 : Hull points Cult of the Plaguefather: Cultists(Group): They're all dead, Dave. Leader: Swept off the field in a body bag. Heavy Weapon Team: None of them live Psykers: None that are alive. Elite Cultists: Nothing but Ashes Battle concluded! ~~Cathedral: Storeroom~~ As Firebat opened the door, he would find that in the storeroom was an armoury, with bolter weapons, hotshot lasguns and Hellguns, and a stockpile of grenades but nothing that wasn't already in the Van. Even from the storeroom. The Skitarii could hear the sounds of war dying down upstairs, with one side having clearly won the battle in the Cathedral, but who? That was up to him to find out.
