"Shit, Airs, I need a spare round" Jenkins said as he spent the last of his ammo.
"Here, use it wisely, cause I only have one left!" the private roared over the sound of warfare and dying soldiers.
"IN OTHER WORDS, DON'T STOP SHOOTING!" Kaitlin shouted over the countless explosions, her eastern Terran accent echoing over the fighting.
"Why do I get the feeling their using them to make us eat through our ammunition so they can send their traitor marines through the holes they've made" said the lieutenant.
Just as he said that, his ears began to pick up what sounded like a jet engine screeching through the sky, slowly drawing closer and closer to the ground with unnatural speed. He suddenly realized that it wasn't a jet, it was a raptor.
"Shit! Emperor's Children! screamed an officer right before he was crushed under a boot and chewed up by a chain sword.
"Fall back, fall back; Move forward, you idiots; Man down, we have a man down!; Medic!; Retreat, retreat, fall back to the inner sanctum; Shit their every where!" The chatter over the vox network went on and on for what seemed like hours.
"Fuck, fall back to the inner gardens! You soldier, who's your commander?" Jenkins asked.
"Lt. Morris, but he's dead, you rallying men?" the recruit asked.
"Indeed I am!" he yelled so the recruit could here him over the noise in the back round.
"Hey, alpha company, where with the Lt. over here, we're following his orders!" the private screamed to the last ten men in his unit. Only ten men left from a whole company.
"Hey, Cpl. you leading these men?" he said to a Cpl. who was flanked by a good four hundred men.
"Hell if I know. We're just fighting together! You taking over?"
"I am. Listen up you sorry bastards, you're following my orders now, we're falling back to the inner gardens to try and make a stand their! Alright?"
They nodded their heads in agreement and then slowly began to turn away and fall back to a more defensible position. One by one they proceeded to fall back behind their new commanding officer, each of them firing behind them so they could keep the fire on their pursuer's. Three of them kept the fire on them for a bit too long, giving them enough time to fire a missile in their direction, blowing the fire team to shreds of flesh and wisps of smoke. Several more were taken out by a devastator bolter, chewing them up till their was nothing left standing. One by one they were killed off until it was Aris, Kaitlin, and Jenkins alive.
"Shit, I'll keep you covered. I'll be right behind you!" Aris said as he stopped and squeezed off have a mag, killing two children in the process before he turned tail and sprinted, letting them give him covering fire.
"Die, you pathetic loyalist!" one of them screamed right before he and his entire squad were gunned down in a torrent of bolter shells which bought the three enough time to escape.