AN: This is the final chapter I'll update on my own. After this I want to see some more reviews to know if my work is actually liked.
Gregory pulled the trigger of his lasgun. Immediately a stream of laser erupted, and he saw a renegade fall over. He heard screaming and as he looked over, hundreds of guardsmen, Korpsman and Cadian alike, took positions on the trench.
It wasn't long until the light sounds of lasers discharging were replaced with the roaring of bolters and autoguns. The renegades open fired, and he saw a Cadian, not much older than him, run up only to face a bullet to the head by a renegade. The renegade soldiers were getting closer and closer, as the heavy bolter positions begun filling up with soldiers, as they laid down streams of bolts into the heretics. He fired at full speed; he didn't even need to aim anymore. A renegade Taurox roared up, firing whatever the renegades had inside the vehicle like mad.
He saw a Cadian try to run, but then almost by instinct, 13798 spun around and discharged a clip into the boy.
"Y-You just shot that kid!" He shouted, in shock before turning to face back the Renegade tide. The Korpsman said nothing, and instead continued laying down a volley of las.
It was by now that the Taurox crashed into their trench, crushing a Korpsman, as renegades poured out of the door. Insane screaming emanated from inside as autoguns roared in the trench. He immediately got into a crouch, but then looked in shock as 13798 rushed up, Bayonet raised. He heard a yell he could definitely tell was a woman's.
"For The Emperor!" 13798 yelled, impaling her gun into a renegade. She barely had time to react before the butte of an autogun smacked her visor, knocking her to the ground, and leaving her lasgun stuck in the chest of the renegade's comrade.
'She's going to kill herself!' Gregory shouted inside his mind, as he quickly aimed his rifle. The Renegade brought a second smack to 13798's face, shouting something that sounded like "Glory to Khorne!" Right after this, the renegade was shot right in the head, a hot laser discharged. '
Gregory ran up, and examined her. The mask withstood most of the two hits, but she was definitely unconscious. He heard people run, and he spun around, Renegades filling up the trench.
"Back you dogs! Get back to the secondary trench!" The commissar yelled, discharging las into a renegade soldier. He heard the rolling of tanks, when he had to think of a decision. On one hand, it was extremely unlikely she would do the same for him. On the other, she was a fellow soldier, and she wasn't THAT injured. He looked around; he had no time to risk his life for a soldier who probably wouldn't do the same for her. He grabbed a tattered cloth and put it over her. That way she wouldn't be killed during the battle, and he could recover her when they won.
If they won, he felt. Regardless, he scrambled up after doing his deed. He sprinted towards the trench when he felt a bullet bounce of his shoulder, glancing off of it barely. Regardless, this sent him on the ground, a mouth filled with dirt. He gasped and quickly scrambled into the trench, greeted by Cadians and Korpsmen who were filling up the entire trench.
"By the Emperor, Greg! You made it!" He heard a man, his squad mate, shout. The heavy bolters roared into action once more, preventing any other dialogue. They quickly recovered their positions in the new trench, and laid down another line of fire. However, he quickly realized the renegades dug themselves into the trench they previously had!
He saw one of his squad mates fall on the ground, chest filled with bullets. He heard explosions emanate from the North, and fighting that sounded even worse! He was about ready to yell for mortars or something futile coming from a position like his, when he heard a yell, muffled.
"Kriegsmen, Laben Sie!" With that, hundreds of Korpsmen who packed the trench with him rose up and charged through the mud, renegade guns filling them with bullets. He then heard another yell.
"Cadians! Hold the line!" The Cadian captain shouted. He heard a small sigh come from one of his comrades as he watched the Krieg forces be torn apart, He discharged a few laser shots, accidentally hitting a charging Korpsman, but none of them paid much mind.
"They're insane…!" He muttered. Never before had he ever seen anyone who showed that much devotion. Never did anyone show that much mad fanaticism, to a cause that lead to their downfall! There had to be something, for no man would ever allow this to happen willingly, he thought!
"Cadians! Equip rebreathers!" He heard his captain yell, to which he and his comrades almost instinctively ran to the nearest crate and grabbed the rebreather helmets, trying to frantically put them on. He looked up to the trench and he saw a Renegade Predator literally running over scores of Korpsmen before his entire vision turned green with poisonous gas.
He coughed violently as the rebreather adjusted itself. He could hardly see a thing, but regardless he went back to firing blindly into the green gas, probably hitting at the very least something alive. He heard another shout.
"Kriegsmen! Zurückziehen!" The same Krieg captain yelled. Gregory had no idea what he was yelling, but he saw the remaining Korpsmen run back into the trench. He heard screams and moans roar from the other trench as the gas spread into the trench.
"Cadians! Move out!" His captain yelled. He was almost compelled to follow this order, and he saw the Korpsmen firing blindly into the gas the same way he was. Some of his Cadian brothers were shot on accident, but the Korpsmen showed no remorse, no regret. To them, the Cadians were only in the way. They were weak for being shot.
Gregory and his squad moved into the trench. He saw the cloth-covered body in the ground, as he saw hundreds of other renegades practically piled on top of 13798. Gregory looked, and saw there were no renegades in the area. He piled off the bodies off of the woman, thinking it would've suffocated her, otherwise. He heard yelling, and thudding. He looked over the trench, the gas barely clearing up.
What he saw horrified him. It was a Chaos Dreadnaught, and a squad of chaos space marines, accompanied by a whole new wave of the renegades.