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*Avicus hurls forth a string if insults and obscenities.
Lukas' storm shield is nigh impossible to damage, krak grenade blast bounces harmlessly, bolts ricochet in to the surrounding grOund.
Sirius smashed his thunder-hammer into another plague bearer, intent on delaying them long enough for Merric and the others to kill the glacier serpents.
Merric launches himself toward the two plague marines huddled behind the rubbles, knowing that Avicus will easily dispatch the champion.*

"Plague Marines and Daemons."
The Alpha Legionnaires looked at the ensuing battle between the Glacier Serpents, Hounds of Loken, Blood Angels and the Plague Bearers, stalker bolters at the ready to open fire - on the loyalists. The Scions of Nurgle could, despite their absolutely disgusting appearances, be very useful still. The Loyalists retreated, but before Alpharius could give the order to open fire, he noticed an encrypted signal being broadcasted. Legion encryption. He opened the channel, and found himself listening to an operative near the space port, in position to destroy the Loyalists.
"Operative Seven-three-two-one-eight-zero-zero," he began, "your call has been noted. Stay put. Within three minutes your requested melta charge will be delivered, and you will be able to continue on your mission. The Loyalists are retreating before the Daemons as we speak. We shall inform you once the equipment has been delivered."
Alpharius closed the link, and turned to brother Efrett, ordering him to deliver several melta charges at a certain location. He sent the Legionnaire the exact coordinates of the signal broadcast, and Efrett vanished through the rubble, heading towards the Spaceport to deliver the melta charges.

In a disturbing echo of the chase earlier, the sluggish-looking Plague Marines are still faster than their more heavily armoured enemies. The squad draw chainswords and pistols, prioritising defense as they know the the seemingly unending tide of Daemons will overwhelm the loyalists sooner or later. Time is on their side. Meanwhile, Karnus charges Avicus as a disgusting praise to Nurgle escapes his ruined jaw. As soon as he enters range he makes a series of rapid sweeps and cuts with the Nurgle-blessed power sword, taking pot shots with his Plasma Pistol when he gets the opening.

"Acknowledged. I will rejoin the loyalists and accompany them to the roof. Agent Seven-three-two-one-eight-zero-zero out", Calyso says. He puts the communicator back in his pouches, activates his lightning claws and runs back downstairs to help his "comrades". He is interrupted by the sight of his squad mates backing up the stairs with their shields facing towards the fight. "What of the Hounds of Loken?", Taris asks. "We informed them that we should retreat. If they refuse than so be it", Selin says. The three Terminators turn around and start off towards the next flight of steps. "We abandoned our brothers. We are cowards", Calyso says after a long period of silence. The other Blood Angels do not disagree with the man. He is putting to words what was on their minds the whole time. "We are not cowards, Brother. It is the mark of a true warrior to know when a position should be abandoned for a more tenable one", Selin says.

With the Blood Angels gone, the Hounds of Loken are now trapped between the swarming horde of Plaguebearers and the resolute barrier that is the Plague Marines...

'Efrett' moved quickly, running towards the space port, ducking from cover to cover to remain unseen. He climbed the walls of the massive building, and when he reached the floor the signal had been coming from, he seqrched for the room where the Operative had been before. He placed the meltacharges on the ground in a plain metal box, before leaving again to rejoin his brothers, who had moved down to the ground near the Space Port's entrance.

{Avicus} “Ha. Lightning claws are REAL power weapons, now stay still and let me cut you to pieces!”
*he wretched his arm in spastic circles, blocking the faster warrior’s attacks.*
*Sirius groaned as the literal weight of all the plague bearers began to weigh him down as they covered him in a thick tide, and lukas was using his stormbolter to try and disable legs and or headshots. Merric used his power axe to cut a half-dozen plague bearers in half, and glimpsed the blood angels retreating into the stairs.*
{merric} “The stairs! Get to the stairs!”
*the four terminators, moving slowely due to individual reasons, begin to back up toward the stairs entering the main building.*

Selin and Taris turn around after hearing the Sons of Loken retreating up the stairs. "Now is the time for our redemption, Battle Brothers. Let it never be said that the Blood Angels abandon their comrades!", the Sergeant says. The two Terminators charge into the fray as fast as their massive suits of armor allow for which isn't very fast at all. Taking advantage of yet another distraction Calyso departs from his squad and does to search for the Melta charges he requested. He quickly finds the plain box that had just been placed. As the Terminators charge Calyso calmly walks over to the weapons cache.

As the Terminators foolishly turn their backs on the Glacier Serpents, the Plague Marines immediately raise their boltguns and concentrate fire on the vents on the back of the otherwise seemingly impenetrable plating.

Selin and Taris jump off of the platform besides the staircase and get in between the retreating Hounds of Loken and the Plague Marines. "So, you wish to fight for your gods? Earn favor with the Lords of Chaos? How about I send you back to them so that you may gain favor with them in person?", Selin asks. He charges at the Plague Marines with his Storm Shield at the ready. Taris is right behind Selin with his shield up as well.

Calyso collects the melta bombs. A devious plan forms in the heretic's mind about how to destroy the loyalists. He primes one of the Melta Bombs and places it on his belt. He then seemingly charges to join his brethren.

'Brothers, full evasion tactics... Disruption pattern Beta 27...'

Karnus roars to his brethren and the Plague Marines scatter. Ignoring the Storm Shields, they run in different directions.

As the loyalists close in, each one activates a remote detonator, triggering Krak grenades dropped in the rubble at the start of the fight, the grenades exploding as the Terminators are passing over them, imploding the rubble beneath them and causing it to shatter.

The Terminators fall down through the hole created in the stairs. They land on the first floor on their feet thanks to their improved reaction times as Astartes. The impact leaves a noticeable dent in the floor plating and breaks a few pipes. The Blood Angels do not charge straight at the Plague Marines, though. Instead they smash through the wall and leave the Space Port proper and charge down the adjacent hallway towards the front of the building.

*as Avicus is about to charge after the blood angels, merric grabs his shoulder*
{merric} "NO! we go up! Get to the ship, if they survive, then they will meet us there!"
*the four terminators turn and charge straight up the stairs, a few bolts following them before they dissapear behind a turn.*

Brother Sergeant Selin's plan of flanking the Plague Marines may have worked under certain circumstances. Had the Hounds of Loken charged instead of ran they could've possibly put pressure on the Traitors on two different sides creating confusion. However, with the Hounds of Loken gone they are instead charging into a mass of pustulent flesh and corroded equipment. The Blood Angels may be well armed and equipped but they lack the numbers to deal with this threat easily. Then again, when do the proud elite of the Adeptus Astartes ever have it easy?

The two heavily armored giants burst through another wall in the space port not too far from the entrance. Once more they have their Storm Shields raised at the ready to take anything the Plague Marines might throw at them. They slowly walk through the hole they created and cry out their individual challenges to the traitor astartes. .

Meanwhile, Veteran Battle Brother Calyso watches the Hounds of Loken retreat from the fight. He is now right next to the stair case giving him a good chance to throw the Melta Bombs onto the Hounds which he takes advantage of. In these close quarters it would be difficult for them to miss.

(The taurox and hydra pull up alongside the space port the just in time to here the sounds of krak grenades going off inside.)
{Helios} "Damn The battles begun"
{Jasper} "time we joined the fray"
{helios}(shouting cammands to the guardsmen to aim the taurox battle cannon at the wall of the spaceport) For Leandros!
{Jasper} (changes to a bolter and repeats the cry as the cannon blasts a hole large enough for the hydra to fit through)
the tanks roll into the facility the hydra dropping its gun and sliding in after the taurox

*Merric had just sheathed his power axe to allow faster running when a Melta bomb landed in his hand. An old terran expression came to mind. Hot potato. He threw it, as hard and fast as he could, over his shoulder, and it flew past his brothers' heads, exploding in mid-air, and melting the very outer layer of Avicus' armour.*
*Merric looked upwards, and caught a glimpse of red. why had the blood angel dropped a bomb on them? his mind raced, symbols and information racing through his brain. Sirius figured it out a second before he did thoe.*
{Sirius} "ALPHA LEGION!"

*Merric barrelled up the stairs, the blood angels were dead, he was sure of it. As he reached the traitor, he grabbed and hauled, throwing the treacherous blood angel/alpha legionnaire down the metal stairs. Lukas, Avicus, and sirius followed him. Merric passed up and up, up and up, until finally he shoulder barged through a door, and was standing on the space port roof. The shuttle, the size of a storm raven, sat squatly on a slightly raised platform. He sprinted to it, any followers had not yet reached the roof. Merric tapped the activation rune for the ramp, and it slid down. The terminators sprinted into the shuttle, and while sirius sprinted to the cockpit, Merric punched the ramp rune to shut it. Avicus stood at ready, waiting to see if anything would tr to ply the door ramp down.*
{Sirius} "Got it! Engine full capacity in 35 seconds!  
Navigation set to the tribute, weapons count, forward mounted heavy bolters, fighter level las-mountings under the wings."
{Merric} "Sirius, get us the feth out of here."