"Move out," Torch said, "Zariel, take point, Ryan, cover him, Sturm, watch our 6, lets go."
Zariel unslung his needle rifle and silently crept through the decaying matter. The forest consisted of a number of dead tree trunks which had been warped by chaos and now looked like they had been twisted beyond reasoning and were completely saturated by the energies of the warp. Everyone was uncomfortable and on edge, Zariel tried to keep quiet but every noise he made seemed to be magnified tenfold.
Ryan followed, keeping his distance but making sure Zariel was always in sight.

Your time is soon, our friend tells me that your lead man will die.

What, how?

You think I'll tell you, don't make me laugh.

You better bleedin' had do or, maybe I'll just go back, or better yet, kill myself.

No wait!

Yes, do you have something to say?

Your friend will be ambushed by daemons from the east, he will die trying to return fire.

See that wasn't so hard now was it.

You will regret that when the times comes.

We'll see.

Zariel's vox-bead crackled, then he heard Ryan's voice, he turned and saw Ryan training his focus somewhere to the left.
"We got daemons moving in from somewhere to the east," Ryan said.
"How do you know?" Zariel asked.
"Trust me on this," Ryan replied, "Be very careful, and don't do anything stupid."
"Do I ever," Zariel laughed.
"I'm serious," Ryan hissed.
Zariel was taken aback, "Alright, alright."

Todd opened his eyes. He was in free fall. He yanked on his chute. It didn't deploy.
"Oh no!" Todd screamed out. He tugged again, twice. Finally he felt the sharp snapping of the chute opening.
"You ok there?" Todd looked up, it was Garius.
"Yeah I; think I am," Todd said, checking his chute.
"Well enjoy," Garius laughed out, screaming at the top of his lungs as he plummeted, swooped and dived around Todd, expertly controlling his chute.
"Quiet down!" Hector shouted over Garius' shouting, "You want chaos troopers on top of us before we even land!"
"Sorry," Garius said.
"Guys, how 'bout we worry about getting down before we fight, and the air's very thin up here, save your energy," Grade butted in.
"Right you are," Cassie said.
"Well, it looks like we're all together, follow me in," Grade said, tugging slightly on his chute rope to speed up his decent.
"Slow down!" Todd shouted after him. Grade just laughed.

"Will you hurry up, and for Emperor's sake be quite," Reynolds whispered back at Knoff and Adams.
"Sorry sir, but it's dam heavy and hard as hell lugging this multi-melta about," Knoff said.
"Then why did you put in for heavy weapons in the first place?" Reynolds' inquired.
"Well actually it's a pretty funny story, it starts, about fourteen years ago in …" Knoff started.
"Oh thanks a lot commissar, you got him started," Adams said.
"Enough Knoff, you want people to hear you," Reynolds whispered. Knoff didn't hear.
"You'd think he'd learn," Nova said, emerging from behind a ruined building.
"We could hear you a mile away," Tempest said, appearing beside him.
Knoff shut up.
"Oh my, you quieted him," Ephassus said, "But we have to move, I sense a patrol heading this way, probably to investigate the lander fly-by."
"Absolutely right," Reynolds said, reasserting himself, "We have to move now."
Everyone started moving before Reynolds turned on his heel and faced Knoff, "And if you ever speak again on this mission, unless it's an emergency, I'll shoot you for destroying morale in the unit, understand."
Knoff nodded. And everyone starting creeping along as silently as possible.

"Get down," Zariel whispered into his vox-bead.
"The daemons?" Ryan inquired.
"Yeah," Zariel replied, training his scope on them. Ready to fire.

Heheheh.

"Don't," Ryan reminded Zariel, "Sturm, move up."
"Who's in charge here?" Sturm said, approaching Ryan.
"I am," Torch butted in, "And I think the corporal knows what he's doing so it would be wise to listen to him."
"Yes sir," Sturm said, and moved up to cover Zariel.
"So what about me," Torch said with a mischievous grin on his face.
"You flank 'em," Ryan said.
Torch groaned.
"I missing something, have you 2 switched places?" Sturm asked.
They both just grinned.
The vox crackled, "Contact!" Zariel was shouting, "AAGGGHH!"
"Zariel!" Ryan shouted. Ryan grabbed his chainblade and followed Sturm into the pack of daemons, slicing his way through them while Torch tried to locate and secure Zariel.

Todd grasped the roping of his chute firmly and tried to guide his descent so as not to crash into the tree stumps around him.
Garius and Grade were already down, expertly touching down and removing their chutes before they got carried away on a gust of wind. Cassie was landing now, while Todd struggled to fight the wind. His feet came down hard before he was soon lifted up again. Hector was down too now, they were all enjoying watching Todd trying to land. His feet hit the ground again and stayed this time. He reached round to unbuckle his harness.
"Little help," Todd said.
"Can't do it himself," Cassie grinned, walking up to him. But before she could reach him, a gentle breeze caught his chute and tugged at it, causing Todd to fall back on his ass and the chute collapsed around him.
"Feth!" Todd cursed.
Garius sighed, "Always the same with him."
Grade was already scanning the area, when he saw no contacts, he recruited Hector to help him scout out the surroundings. It wasn't long before Todd was free of his harness though and back in action. He grabbed his med-kit, which he'd dropped after his first bump.
"Ready to go?" Garius smirked.
"Get moving or I'll give you something you won't much enjoy," Todd retorted.
"Oooh, stop it you're scaring me," Garius shot back.
"Both of you quiet, lets get moving," Cassie said.
"Yes ma'am," Todd said.
"Oh please," Garius rolled his eyes.