"Good, good! Keep up with the attack, I will destroy what's left of our intruders! Focus fire on both White Minotaurs and the Red Corsairs, I'll deal with their ground troops!" Loki shouted as the hangar door opened and real hell broke lose. Space Marines were well dug in and would have probably made short work of this Dark Eldar force if not for timely intervention of Virgil and his invaluable help. Of course, the Astropath probably thought his powers would help the stout defenders of the Imperium. Alas, it proved false as Loki pointed out every single Marine who was in hiding, his Kabalite warriors opening fire even before the White Minotaurs had chance to properly aim. After the initial salvo and the death of their ranged support, Astartes charged the incoming dark ones and the battle began in its earnest. Limbs were hacked, heads flew, and Loki laughed as he nimbly evaded combat, only fighting when he had to. His Incubi retinue took biggest blunt of the attack, fighting off continuous attacks, each one thinning their number. The Torturer on the other hand was busy dispatching any Marine that went through the Incubi shield, slicing the enemy with great skill that made his soldiers quite suspicious as their original Archon never carried any weapon whatsoever. Sadly for them, by the end of the fight, almost none survived to ask the question. Ten minutes later, the hangar was enveloped in eerie silence. Couple of Space Marines were lying on the ground and twitching, their enhanced metabolism working overtime to fight off effects of Dark Eldar poison. On the other hand, only couple of Kabalites survived, but badly wounded. Loki, due to his way of combat and his advanced Ghostplate armor, suffered only minor cuts and bruises, and one particularly nasty gash across his left arm. It could have gone worse. He went about killing off helpless Astartes, but once few Kabalites tried to ask questions why didn't he capture them as slaves, without a word, the Torturer began massacring his own troops. A slice here, a cut there and the hangar once again turned silent. With his casual arrogance, Loki made sure he did the work properly, after which he entered one of the crafts the boarding party used and started the engine sequence. Few people knew, but Loki always had a thing for flying. So he sat down and launched the craft out of the hangar, the bird was called Stormraven by Space Marines he believed. Knowing that he had proper codes and that for intents and purposes, he was just another White Minotaur ship, heading straight for the "Ebony Flame"...
Phoebus, Armory =Phase Two= The attacker were successfully pinned by the combined fire of Phoebus, Samuel and their one squad of stormtroopers. The Dark Mechanicus skitarii controlled mobs attempted to go around from other corridors, they were met with similar hindrances. Secutor Jerrold Harrman, was waiting with the second squad of troopers. Taken by surprise the twisted forms of the Chaos skitarii bent and burned like anything else before the wrath of the Secutor. (-8 skitarii, -14 cultists) Receiving confirmation from Harrman, Phoebus broke out the cluster and smoke grenades. 'Phase two, complete. Phase three starting.'
OOC: Overview time! Correct me if I am wrong anywhere! ~~~ Team Zeth ~~~~~ Zeth & Virgil ~~~ No enemies ~ ~~~ Bridge ~~~~~ Ry'thss & her unnamed child ~~~ No enemies ~ ~~~ In front of Bridge ~~~~~ Ezra + 8 Stormtroopers ~~~ 1 Incubus, 7 Kabalites, 6 Astartes (1 Seargent) [not in combat yet] ~ ~~~ Armory ~~~~~ Harrman, Samuel, Phoebus + 12 Stormtroopers ~~~ 20 (3 Sergeants) , 46 Cultists, 7 Skitarii, 10 Kabalites ~ ~~~ Reactor ~~~~~ SA582, Selina, Vershal + 13 Stormtroopers ~~~ 13 (2 Seargents) Astartes; 80 Cultists; 5 Skitarii ~ ~~~ Hangar ~~~~~ Cha'ka, Davarus, Joseph, Thoren + 20 Stormtroopers ~~~ 21 Marines (1 Sergeant and 1 Captain), 75 Cultists, 2 Incubi ~- Reinforcement: Loki aka 'Archon Seymour' - ~~~ Prison ~~~~~ Veronica ~~~ 1 Sybarite (Fyrin) + Archon (Seymour) + ? Daemons ~ ~~~ Med-Bay ~~~~~ 5 Stormtroopers ~~~ 25 Meatshields Cultists, 2 Astartes (1 Seargent) ~ ~~~ Dark Eldar Flagship Bridge ~~~~~ Newcomer Xenos + 6 Astartes ~~~ 1 Haemonclus 1 Kabalites 3 Incubi 30 Slaves~ OOC: Typical Reminder:
Veronica pulled her two curved Power Swords out and swung them in rotations as the Daemons materialized before her, cutting through them as if they were nothing at all. And they were nothing in comparison to the one month she fought an apparent never ending onslaught of daemons all that hundred and sixty years ago at the side of her mentor and interrogator-colleague. Lesser Daemon Spawn that knew of nothing but attack. Eventually they were smart enough to go another way and avoid her, though as she approached the prison cell of the Archon a sudden whip came around her wrist and pulled her off the feet. Even while flying the whip was cut and landing with her agility on her feet, facing her new opponent now. A Sybarite! "The Archon lied... You are not Inquisitor Bishop!" She exclaimed in High Gothic, causing Veronica to raise an eyebrow. "Yes I am, you Xeno Scum! Veronica Bishop of the Ordo Xenos. But you will not breathe to tell the tale!" She charged the Dark Eldar, calculating all her possible moves and being prepared for each as the curved Power Swords made their way. But a primitive and effective, human kick stopped her, sending Veronica back to the ground. "I am no Dark Eldar, you fool! And you are not the Inquisitor I am looking for. You carry the same name, but you look and behave nothing like her! My... Master will be highly not pleased to have followed a wrong trail." With a glance the Sybarite could see the Archon in the Prison Cell, she simply took a Splinter Pistol out of her belt and gave him a shot right into his head. Veronica tried to charge after her, but then she disappeared through the vents. The female growled and wanted to hunt... But Daemons kept on moving out of the portal. So she did what she had to and made her stand, letting none escape any longer. OOC: The mission is: Defend the Ship! We are in the middle of battle here. The mission was to prevent Red Corsairs and Dark Eldar to work together. They boarded us and now we gotta kill 'em all!
OOC: The armory is already under attack.... See here newest post: http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/ordo-xenos-inquisitor-retinue-rp.31148/page-220#post-562943 here some older post: http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/ordo-xenos-inquisitor-retinue-rp.31148/page-217#post-561601
