Chapter Three: Assault
The battlefield was nothing but crater's and bodies.
Gorgutz stronghold was easy to find, can't miss the obvious collection of red standing out among a rainforest.
The first volley came from my three thousand drones, bodies warped and changing into collections of weapons on weapons, firing on everything in an endless hail of bullets, missiles and other ordinance.
The orks that charged were evicerated by the overwhelming hail of munitions.
I couldn't call this a slaughter, let alone a massacre.
It was like cutting the grass on the frontyard with napalm.
The second volley came from my fifty dominators, incindiary artillery burning away at the growing piles of corpses and any ork unfortunate to survive the storm of metal that came before.
The green hord was thinning, momentarily, which allowed me the chance to move in. The drones would deal with the greenskines while my dominators would fire upon any structure in sight, the heat from their rounds would be more than enough to melt the metallic parts.
But there was the main problem.
Gorgutz.
For an ork, he was smart, which is bad. For a warboss, he was also not above leaving the planet when things stopped going his way, which is also bad.
What I'd need to do is find the jolly green bastard before he could skitter away in one of his escape tunnels.
Yes, he had escape tunnels.
"I know yer out dere, tin can. Not dat 'ard ta miss".
Oh fuck.
Okay, okay. deep breaths. you got this Kieran.
"Funny, I'd expect the warboss at the front of his WAAAGH and yet he isn't. I'm surprised any of these idiots still follow someone so... cowardly".
I strolled through, i made this body to fight a warboss and i didn't want it to go to waste.
"Heh, I'd a'v krumped ya for dat if yer 'ere worth kill'n humie. Now where's dat tin can".
Ah, that's...huh.
I honestly didn't expect for him to mistake me for a human, which was strange seeing as how my body was the only human like thing amongst my forces.
Oh yeah about that, i based my warboss killing body off my old one. And about my commander, i was upgrading it.
I couldn't help shaking my head to clear it.
So, I'd have to go with plan B.
When it came to WAAAGH's there where two important things.
One was the warboss, kill him and the whole thing turns on itself to see who's bid and bad enough to be the new warboss.
Two was the WAAAGH banners, can't have a proper WAAAGH without WAAAGH banners.
I directed small squads of drones to search for any banners and burn them.
If gorgutz wouldn't come out and face me, then I'd just take his forces from him.
However.
"WAAAAGH!".
I found myself the target of a sizable ork nob clade in crude power armour.
I hadn't a need to worry about it's shoota, the rounds would simply be assimilated by my nanomachine's.
It swiped at me with it's power klaw, i met it with my own.
I brought my left arm up, the limb blooming into a spiky, jagged shield. It did it's job well despite the majority of it now dented inwards by the attack, i didn't give the large greenskin time to recover.
I thrusted my shield arm at it, a blade shooting out finding itself in the gap between the shoulder and the rest of the body. With a push i severed it's left arm from it's form, which no doubt angered the behemoth.
It brought its klaw down on me again which i met with my right arm, the limb warping and rearranging into a mimicry of the orks weapon.
Both limbs crashed into eachother, the nobs power klaw crumpled like paper.
Letting loose another roar, it launched itself again only to be cut down by a dominator.
I continued on, before me was a massive tower haphazard in construction and covered in red painted metal plates leading into a large plate shaped crudely into a form similar to an orks face culminating into a large WAAAGH sign.
My limb's changed and reformed into an array of explosive weapons and along with my forces that where around me, opened fire upon the banner.
It was surprisingly sturdy. But after five hours of the continuous barrage it fell. I didn't want to leave things to chance so i took control of a few drones that had traveled to where i think the banners are.
So, first place. Good, good, definitely done.
Second place, same. Which is great.
Third, Awesome.
While i directed those drones and a few more to search for more possible banners, i decided to take the majority and head for the heart of the camp.
It wasn't an uneventful trip, there was the odd ork attack here and there. A few gretchins even.
Ultimately, i had arrived and i did not expect what i was going to find.
The heart of gorgutz base was deserted, everywhere i looked not a single ork could be found. Of course i was on edge, nothing like this meant things would be good.
My drones broke down and entered every building that was around while i continued onward towards the centre.
Status reports flooded my vision.
Well, i didn't have to worry about WAAAGH banners anymore and what was left of gorgutz WAAAGH has all but dissolved. Though the fact that said warboss was worringly silent didn't help.
"My lord, we have entered the main structure".
Huh, they've learned to talk. Neat.
"And?".
"There is a bomb".
What.
"What".
"There is a bomb. A large bomb".
"...a bomb".
And said bomb picked then to explode.