"Got it lets stay right on the tails of the refugees, hopefully we will reach the capital after they have gotten in." Zita said firing off two more plasma shots at the necron line fore starting the venting procedure for the plasma gun and inserting a new gas rod into the gun, After doing that she put it onto her back and grabbed her bolter and began firing and moving at the necrons as the squad went.
"Sarge...the civis have mostly retreated.Shall we get some dust beneath these bootheels"spoke Felix as he turned to the Sergeant that was arriving with Saven from up on high.Valerian was waiting for the retreating squad at the exit-gate that was faced to the road toward the capital.
Turning the aim of his autocannon towards the approaching Necron Warriors, Rex once more braced himself for the guns recoil and opened fire in a sweeping barrage of destruction, trying to take down as many of the undying machines as possible.
Sgt. Alton to the shock of landing in his bionic legs and rolled a bit to take the rest of the momentum off. He rolled right back into a running position and ran with all the speed he could muster. " Great work people. Stay on those civilians and lets get out of here its a long walk. " As he talk he put up his sword and fired plasma at the weapon mounts hoping to disable it. Escape is the byword and to do that they needed the biggest guns neutralized.
@TechCaptain The grenade exploded reducing the Necron inside the pilot seat into a twitching mess and disabling the machine it was piloting, the nearby Necron Phalanx started firing on Alton and Saven almost managing to hit the pair of them before they managed to escape. @High_Adept_Zeth @Maleth The parting shot made no notable difference to the already worse for wear Necron praetorian who was still sitting twitching in his seat. the stalker he was in was still in reasonably good condition despite the damage to its controls but at least it was no longer moving. @EvicusDasan1 @Illfetus @Grall_Stonefist The refugees looked confused for a moment, their hesitation was threatening to break the control of the PDF over where the crowd of people were supposed to go, a few had acted on the priests words leaving the exodus to pick up some of their belongings to act as improvised weapons. Ignorning the protests of the PDF and their families they charged the Necrons taking severe losses before a small group found themselves among a single phalanx, only managing to distract the Xenos momentarily before they were massacred it was ultimately a futile endeavor. @Uriel1339 One of the shots impacted a Necron warrior forcing him to topple over in front of the rest of its Phalanx where it started twitching as it lay in the dirt @Vanestus Only one of the autocannon rounds hit taking down another Necron warrior @Vulpas One of the plasma shots hit taking down another of the machines. ~ The fire was starting to spread, it was burning out of control and consuming the entire refugee camp in an inferno as the crowd of people fled lighting up the surrounding area even as the last flickers of light from the setting sun fell on the Vale. A store of gunpowder exploded somewhere within the stockade and several of the watchtowers started to topple as the fire took its toll on their structural integrity. There were now hardly any PDF left fighting within the perimeter of the base, many had been killed but a large portion had managed to escape along with the refugees the last squads of the better equipped soldiers were only now starting to leave the base leaving only the 19th Valerian still left fighting amidst the flames. The Necron Phalanxes marched on not hindered in the slightest by the flames but thankfully both Triarch stalkers were now out of commission and no longer able to pursue the refugees, they weren't quite destroyed entirely but the Xenos formation was now too close to make sure they were gone completely. Much of the crowd had reached the road to the capital leaving only a few stragglers and some of the PDF forces still defending the rear of the retreat, the garrison had fallen into disarray and had become far less organised without leadership. But at least the crowd was safe and now the Necrons attention was focused solely on the continued resistance of the 19th Valerian squad. A storm of fire from the Necron Gauss weaponry was suddenly turned on everyone in the squad tearing up the cover around them and splintering nearby wood, the trenches started falling apart as the woodwork supporting the dirt around them failed and the dugouts started filling in in places. burning debris from some of the taller structures were starting to rain on the squad members still within the base. it was time to leave.
"Well time to head off to the capital everyone, I think we've outstayed our welcome here!" Saven called over the squad's vox, falling back in the general the direction that the refugees went, while providing some accurate covering fire for the team with her bolter. The Guardwoman could only hope they'd get some downtime after this, but that was as likely as a Commissar that was actually respected by the regular troops.
"That's our cue to leave for good!" Monty announced rather obviously and started to accelerate his backwards movement, but not turning his back to the enemy as he sporadically fired into them, although by now he learned they do not even appear to know the definition of fear. Surely they would have great talks with the Adeptus Astartes about that. And though the Elysian was not so much concerned about his life, as everyone had to die someday, he was more concerned about the life of those around him. @Vanestus "Rex! Come on, let's go! Chop chop!" He yelled toward his Ogryn friend, not knowing if he also had figured out by now that it was time to flee, not to fight for a meaningless death.
"THOUGH FEW PICK UP ARMS TO FIGHT NOW, AND HAVE JOINED THE SIDE OF THE GOD EMPEROR, PUT PIPES, WRENCHES AND TOOLS ARE NOT THE WEAPONS TO FIGHT THIS XENOS, FALL BACK AND ARM YOUSELVES, PREPARE YOURSELF, THIS FOE WILL NOT STOP TILL WE HAVE DESTROYED THEM ALL, SO MEET THEM WITH ZEAL AND STUBBURNESS, NOT WITH FEAR AND FOOLISHNESS." The priest kept up his preaching unto the crowd, he saw the defacto squard he had joined also started moving, and as much as he wanted to just charge in and destroy the necron in their advance, he was no fool, this was not the right time, but the next he wouldent let go much longer.
@TechCaptain The ground around Zita exploded as gauss fire pelted her position. Putting her plasma gun to her back she took out her bolter and fired and began to move. "Sergeant Permission to deploy smoke grenade ahead of us to give us some cover as we reatreat?!" Zita yelled asking the sergeant as she fired and moving her bionic arm taking most of the recoil of the boltgun as she kept firing and moving backwards.
Sgt.Alton voxed back. "Go right ahead. Orders are shoot and move. Get these civilians safe. Make sure their are no more fool hardy charges like that last one." He fired off percise Bolter fire everytime he turn to look behind him. He stayed at the very rear urging his team in front of him. Ssgt. Alton was the very rear guard.
