The Mont'ka Command post was up ahead,they had almost made it! Brother Talnus ran with his terminator squad as fast as his legs willed him, carrying stormshields and thunder hammers they were truly a sight to see upon the battlefield. The crest of the Halo Chapter of the Space Marines was clearly visible on the banner upon his back. Their symbol, a black silhouetted planet with a white sun behind emcompassing the planet with a green fist upon the black planet itself. This was the crest of the Halo Chapter, through it they beared their honor, respect and brotherhood. Brother Talnus looked to their sides and saw a small fire warrior team coming up a nearby ridge but before he had even given the order to his men to fire, a small barrage of assault fire pelted the target down neautralizing the assailants. Talnus looked behind him, he was greeted by the newest member of his squad, Brother Harrus, saluting him. "Do not fire unless commanded brother!" Talnus replied, his voice becoming doubly threatening through the warped vocoder of the terminator helmet. Harrus hurriedly got back into formation, "Yes sir! Sorry Sir!" replied the rookie. Talnus glanced once more upon the new marine. Though you couldn't see it through the terminator armor, Harrus was actually a rather slender build for a space marine, fresh out of the scout force he was immediately put into the terminator section of the brotherhood for his commendable close quarters combat prowess. When his fellow scouts picked up snipers, he picked up a shotgun, it was just within his nature to be in peoples faces. Talnus both admired this talent and despised it, taking a deep breath he decided to deal with it once he got back to base, right now his orders were to take out the Tau forces newly arriving in our system. The Mont'ka Outpost loomed ever closer, they got to the final ridge when a Krootox with Kroot master swiftly came over it before them, the moment the Krootox saw them it charged in a rage.
"Brace yourselves brothers!" yelled Talnus as the other 6 brothers shouted "For the God Emperor" raising their hammers in unison and bracing for the coming mass of the Krootox. At that moment the Krootox split and formed another of itself. "What trickery is this!" exclaimed Brother Talnus. In the confusion the group had lost it's formation, they had now split into 3 man teams to deal with the foes. The first Krootox that initiated the charge was now just feet away from Talnus, now was his time to strike, he jumped, narrowly missing the maw of the brutish creature and while flipping in the air slammed his hammer upon the top of it's skull bringing down the creature with a tremendous thud seemingly easily. At this the other Krootox dissappeared, "It must've been one of those damn holo-projectors the Ethereals have!" exclaimed Brother Excrus their heavy ranged expert.
Now that they had got to the top of the ridge, Excrus looked down the scope of his lascannon and focused in on their commander, an Ethereal and his retinue not far from the tower. "We have to cut them off before they reach it, otherwise were looking at an orbital bombardment and I know our commander wants answers from Tau who are alive for them entering our space." Brother Talnus replied. They still had their chapters ship, Solitude in orbit, at the helm was one of the chapter's greatest heroes Force Commander Caldus Dechis, he had made the company well known for it's tenacity and survivability from only taking on the most dangerous jobs the imperium could throw at him and living through them all to tell the tales. Son of the Chapter's leader himself Zacharius Dechus, thus no one expected less from him.