Medusa V - First Blood

Steel-cased hydralics grinded as the four-legged behemot valsed through a ruined block a few miles off the Deimos Space Port on the ravaged Medusa V. Around it the red-armoured warriors of Khorne advanced. A predator cranked it's turret as it sought up a defensive position behind a small residential block on the main street of this destroyed little town, knowing that a Space Marine predator advanced from the other side of the town. To the south two rhinoes with close-quarter masters loaded up their cargo and started to advance under a hail of smoke. At the same time, radio-connection with the Noise Marines in the forest was established and the one's securing the prisoners in the meat-lockers and wine cellars emerged. As the marines from the Guardian Angels Chapter advanced on the main street blocks, the legionares, advanced and sought up defensive positions among the rubble, fuel by their debauchery in the prisoner holding area. The marines converged on the hapless squad, but their position ensured that they held were safe from the guns.
To the north the berzerkers steadily advanced as the Defiler started to shell the southern part of the city ineffectively, in the area of some observed scouts. As the berzerkers advanced and started to run at rage-induced speeds the marines started to give ground and the landspeeder fired with all guns at the advancing red, while the other speeder met a heavy bolter salvo from the Predator and crashed a few blocks in the wastland further north.



As the legionares in the precarious position in the forward ruins prepared to get attacked, their champion started to spasm and convulse and soon screamed in delight of the sensations burning through his every fiber. Suddenly a greater daemon of Slaneesh stood towering in front of the Space Marine Captain and his retinue. It quickly charged the command squad while blasting a spray of golden energy that left three marines sprawled on the pavement. The Space marines met the charge and heroically gained the upper hand in the struggle against the daemon.

At the same time as the greater daemon instigated an attriotional combat against the command squads the berzerkers charged forward, while the mounted squads deployed protected by their rhinoes blocking the street. As the rhino exploded due to a crack missile from the scouts the squad it belonged to used the wreck to cover their assault, while the other squad held back. And the scouts and tacticals was soon wittled down, with only a couple of legionares rendered knocked out of the battle.

While they finished off the opposition, the bloodletters that had manifested slaughtered the tactical squad that had held the northern flank, before they started taking the predator apart, while it frantically kept firing at the bloodletters, but that was more difficult than it sounds. The Greater Daemon of Slaneesh gained the upper hand amonst the rubble as the marines failed to hurt it, as even strong, powerful blows was rendered ineffective by it's inhuman fortitude! It slowly tore the marine command squad apart.

As this happened the noise marines battled a squad of attack bikes and they were quickly finished once the Berzerkers entered the fray. A few harsh words and some hateful glares was all that ensued as the berzerkers dogded a second shot from the Vindicator and started a frothing charge towards it...

The Greater Slaneesh Daemon finished off the commander, who lay with a grivious wound amongst the rubble. Clearly Slaneesh favoured the Black Legion's 18th company now, as their small warband received a gift of a handful daemonettes. That quickly dispathed the weakened tactical squad that had come in support of the command squad.

The daemonettes proceeded to use their daemonic talons to rend apart a rhino, while the letters, together with some berzerkers literary tore apart the marine predator.

The berzerkers that charged the Vindicator bare reached it before the Slaneesh Keeper destroyed it with it's mountrous strength and vigor. The defiler shot the remaining landspeeder down and while the Space Marine Command Rhino drove off in a hurry after having loaded up the wounded.

Then the Black Legionares intercepted the land train that the Guardian Angels seemingly had tried to protect. On board they found many potential offerings, but the berzerker's bloodlust was not yet stilled.