Chapter 2 Rally Point
I rushed over to where our men were holding with the flag, as I ran I and the men protecting the flag killed six more of the creatures.
"Sergeant Sergei good you're alive cousin."Said Sergeant Vasily as the line opened enough for me to get into the middle."Where is the rest of your squad?"
"Dead." I said grimly. "Can you reach Colonel Vladis or the Vexal?"
"No there is some kind of jamming field that we did not detect during our initial orbit. Only thing we know is that these Xenos are Tyranids so that explains why we can't get any communications out. Vasily said. "But we are getting signals from other squads and platoons that are in a similar situation as us."
We heard a rumbling sound as we fought back more Tyranids Vasily and I looked up and saw several fiery, and rather large pieces of debris hurtling toward the surface from orbit.
"Looks like we won't be getting extracted by the Voxel." I said as I watched the debris fall.
Vasily turned to the Vox Caster. "See If you can raise Colonel Vladis on the Vox." Vasily commanded.
"Colonel Vladis come in Colonel Vladis please respond." The Vox caster said into his Vox.
"This is Colonel Vladis to all troops we will be landing two kilometers east all forces are to rally at the dropship." Said Colonel Vladis voice through the Vox.
"Alright you heard him let's get moving." I shouted as I waved my sword to the east.
Vasily and his men followed quickly behind me as I rushed to the east. as we ran we could see dead trees all around us as we ran. We then heard the boom of tank guns as we came into view of a hill. On top of the hill there were several tanks firing into the area around them in between them there were more of our comrades firing their lasguns as the Tyranids tried in vain to attack the dropships position.
The firing line paused and opened a gap wide enough for us to get through.
"What's the situation?" Asked Colonel Vladis as we paused to catch our breaths.
"Mam we lost nearly all or most of the men from the dropship crash, we believe these Xenos are Tyranids," I said quickly between breaths.
"They do match descriptions of the Tyranids mam." Vasily said grimly.
"I see then it is worse than we assessed before landing and the engines on this bird are gone eaten through by some sort of acidic matter we barely got her landed in one piece." Colonel Vladis said as she took off her helmet revealing a fair skinned black haired woman.
"So then we are stuck here for the moment." Vasily said.
"Unless we can cut through the jamming signal we'll just have to entrench ourselves until a rescue ship comes for us." Colonel Vladis said with a grim look on her face.
"Colonel Vladis there is a transmission coming through on the Vox they're asking to speak to the highest ranking officer that'd be you since the Commander is missing in action." One of the Vox Casters said as he came forward.
Who is it?" Colonel Vladis asked looking troubled at the Vox Caster.
"They did not say all they asked is that they be allowed to speak to you.