Bronson ran down the stairs after the commander roaring commands as he ran to the bases floor, out the blast doors and ran for almost an hour before he got to the bunker. As he got within visual range of the bunker the sky darkened he turned and looked up at the ever darkening sky and saw what the advancing things were. Spore mines! The invaders were Tyranids! He turned and sprinted shouting for them to close the doors when he was a few yards away, jumping through the closing doors and losing a boot in the process, and almost losing his leg. The commander walked over to him and clipped him on the side of his head. "What in the name of the emperor do you think you were doing!!"

"Sir you don't understand"

"understand what? My god you're as pale as a sheet what is it?"

they aren't ships" he managed to get up before holding back tears "Sir, they're Tyranids!

They are aren't ships they're spore mines they forced us into a corner with the mines then the hive ship will get here and they'll kill us all!"

"not if I have anything to say about it!... Corporal send out a distress signal at once!"

"yes, sir!"

"come on Bronson we better get you to the barracks area." the commander said as he helped the weeping soldier to his feet.

"This is commander Nestus of the 4th Blood Raven fleet we heard your distress signal whats happening down there?"

The commander was now sitting in his chair in the Control Room.

"Tyranids the radar couldn't identify them in time and we had to pull our forces back to bunkers but they're only half finished so we've set up auto-turrets collapsed all tunnels except the ones leading to the mess hall that's where we'll make our stand we hope that the turrets will kill enough of them on there way there to make a difference we have enough food and water for several years but it's ammunition I'm worried about we'll probably last a week before having to resort giving everyone a sword. When can you get here?"

"roughly two days I hope your plan succeeds Nestus out!"

he walked down the halls trying to think of some way of keeping the 'nids out of the base all together hopefully making it even more difficult for them. The only way to do that would be to block every tunnel but that would mean no where to retreat to and they wouldn't know where the 'nids would come from having an open tunnel would hopefully force them through that door only two or three at a time.

As he walked he suddenly found that he had stopped out side Bronson's quarters. He decided to check up him. He knocked twice waiting three seconds then entered. He found Bronson sitting in a corner no longer crying but he was still very shaken. "how are doing?"

"better"

"good"

"did anyone answer the distress beacon?"

"Yes the Blood Ravens are on there way worst case scenario we can't defeat the Tyranid fleet and we get teleported up to the ship and we get of this god forsaken rock."

I didn't know they could teleport us up without a beacon."

"they can if they know where we are but its only short range technology so they'll have to be in orbit but only for a few seconds."

at that point the drumming of thousands of exploding spore mines shook the entire planet.