Imperial guard 05 - The Citadel by Warhammer

Author:Warhammer [Warhammer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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screaming to the rocks, few of the mutants were careless enough to present viable

targets now.

Instead, they poked out only briefly and, when they did so, they fired directly

downwards again. Kabanov saw that the last of the smoke had cleared.

“Ivanenko,” he voxed. “Status!”

From a team of eight, only three sappers remained, working frantically at the base

of the wall. “More time, damn it. I’ve lost too many. I need more time!”

Even as Ivanenko said this, another of his men crumpled soundlessly, shot

through the top of his hat.

Kabanov felt sick, almost dizzy. “Ivanenko,” he voxed. “Get to cover, damn you.

We’ll work something else out.”

The last of the Ivanenko’s men screamed and spun, his face a bloodied mess, and

only Ivanenko himself was left.

“Did you hear me sergeant?” shouted Kabanov.

“No time, sir!” replied the sapper-team leader. He stood alone at the base of the

wall, hands working frantically. Above him, a score of mutant guns zeroed in. His

time had run out. There was only one option left.

“Good luck, you men,” he voxed. “Keep your heads down, won’t you?” With

that, he stepped back from the wall, raised his lasgun and fired into the central mass

of the high-explosives.

“Ivanenko!”

Kabanov was thrown onto his back by the blast. Utterly deafened, the breath

ripped from his lungs, he felt as if the universe itself might be ending.

Stone blocks rolled down the slopes in a great, dust-trailing torrent, and only

good hard cover prevented more Firstborn from being killed.

The dust, thought Kabanov as he coughed and spluttered. Don’t let the dust settle.

Sergiev was standing over him, hauling him up by the edges of his breastplate.

“He did it, lieutenant!” he gasped. “The damned citadel is wide open!”

In Kabanov’s mind, he saw Ivanenko’s face staring back at him with a sardonic

smile. There was grief, like a lead weight in his belly, but he knew he had to put it

aside, at least for now.

“Firstborn,” he voxed determinedly. “You know what to do!”

With a booming battle cry, the men of Sixth Platoon surged forward towards the

breach.

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