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well, not too hard, vik. ^^

^^

Once into the sub-levels, and over half a dozen sentries silenced by Vochenko, who hid them away after he was done, the group came to a hole in the plascrete wall of the sub-levels. They cautiously entered after Vochenko went first and let them know it was all clear.

"That Vochenko is scary good Miklhail." Vasily said.
"Enjoy him while you can, he comes back to my party after we are done, Traeger is officially all yours, and Hellier should be up and about soon with his new leg attached." Mikhail replied.

"So, Vochenko is a S.C.H.M.E.R.T.Z. agent." Vasily said aloud. Mikhail simply said, "You could say that." and left it at that.

The place was a cavern, glowing lichen helped to light the way, the tunnel twisted a bit, and the floor was rimed in moisture. "Oh great! Now what?" One of the Spetznats said, before them, the tunnel went three ways.

"Now it get's interesting!" Mikhail said.

Above, the enemy seemed to be split as to what threat to deal with, the enemy of 1st company, or the Spetznats to their flank? The enemy sent infantry to deal with the mostly anti-tank equipped Spetznats Stormtroopers, and the sentinels and tanks with grenadiers to deal with the Infantry company.

Lt. Troucescau saw the danger and gave more orders to bring it down. He was now seeing what a real officer in combat was expected to be. His illusions of the past were melting away in the fires of war. He was now also regretting his decision to "ground" Vasily and his squad, he could really use their skills now. He had sent a call to re-activate Vasily to HQ. Minutes later, as his teams were shrinking, and the enemy tanks were still operational, he got a reply. 'Sir! HQ reports Sgt. Vasily and his men are not on base." That sank in. "WHAT!? How can that be?" Did the man and his whole squad just up and go A.W.O.L.? "Are any of his men on base?" he asked the voxman.

"HQ says Pvt Hellier is getting a new leg and that Pvt Galier is KIA" replied the voxman. "How the hell......??" then he remembered the visit from the Inspector General in the power armor of gold.

Vasily was working under one of "Them?" Once more Lt. Troucescau went pale.

oh so short an update but a sweet one...

i bet he just wet his pants^^ that lil fether of a Lt... hehe... now he has a glimpse of whats in store for him... if he isn´t really able to turn the tides in thsi fight there will be nothing thats speaking on his account...

better sort your worldly affairs...^^

don´t let us wait too long with another installment for this was a wee bit to short...you know the ever hungry beasts of the audience needs constant feeding...

Quality over quantity!^^

hey were talking imperial forces here... thats victory through massmurder of both sides... when the rounds are all spend the big guns shoot with IGs...^^

Ah but now we are seeing a kommando mission!

I am thinking I will not make this an easy one though.

ohoh...this does not bode well...

Yep, the body count will be going up a notch!

Stop teasing!
nah, you know we love to hate it...
good work, and things keep getting more and more interesting!
"melting away in the fires of war"
Nice line, there!

Mikhail looked at the three way fork. "Sgt. Gregor, take your squad down the left fork, Vasily the right fork, My retinue and I will see what's down the middle." He said. "Yes sir!" snapped Sgt. Gregor crisply. Vasily said "No problem."

"Report back if you find anything unusual." He ordered. The Spetznats Sgt. nodded, Vasily smiled and asked, "What isn't unusual about the enemy sir?" And with that, he lead the "Violators" into the tunnel as the Spetznats also headed off.

Before heading down the middle tunnel, the Inquisitor in training, Valentina spoke, "Sir, why do you allow the Veteran Sgt to be so,,,so familiar with you?"

Mikhail smiled. "That is one way to keep some of your pieces happy Valentina, he is as expendable as any other, but the fact that he is so very good at odd jobs makes him slightly less so." He then added, "Also, as part of cultivating future acolytes and help, it is good to see how they do, and act so that you know what group to add them to."

"Now to see what we can find my pupil." Mikhail finished before walking into the tunnel.


Above, 1st Platoon took cover behind the rocks, crates, building corners, anything the Tanks could target in on them as the Heavy Weapon crews tried to stop the enemy vehicles. One exploded spectacularly as all the cannons from Team 2 speared it, igniting the fuel and ammo.

Two of the Spetznats teams were now in hand to hand fighting as the enemy sought to overwhelm the specialist soldiers, but they seemed to be handling themselves well, until they were getting platoon strength enemy attacking.

Kommissar Zvedvedov saw what was happening, the enemy tanks and sentinels engaging 1st and 2nd company. "Platoon! Our fellow soldiers need our help! Brave Spetznats will die if we do not help them!" she then raised her sword which crackled with power, and said. For the Spetznats! for the Emperor! KILL THE ENEMY!" and with that\, she lead a charge that had the remaining thirty soldiers herself and Father Orlov screaming into the enemy flank.

Several Spetznats lay still as the fighting raged, and the intervention of 1st Platoon added tot he body count as enemy, platoon mates and Spetznats all fell in the swirling melee of swinging weapons, knives, power sword and eviscerator.

Platoons of the attack force were chewed up by battle cannons and multi-lasers of the enemy, and the sentinels of Lt. Troucescau's forces hunted the enemy sentinels in a game of cat and mouse hunting. If one of the tanks stalled , squads would surge over them and plant grenades all over the metal monster, and they would be rewarded with smoke and or explosions inside.

Several minutes of this intense fighting saw the Khadrovians bloodied, yet victorious, the remaining enemy soldiers fleeing tot he hills, the vehicles smoking wrecks.

Lt. Troucescau had ordered reinforcements to help hold and bring medi-vacs in. He walked up to Zvedvedov and said, "Kommissar, I congratulate you on your."...CRACK! went his nose as he saw stars and lights, blood dripped from it. "Lieutenant, as kommissar assigned to this mission, I am letting you know that charges of incompetence, poor planning, and irresponsible abuse of your office will be filed due to the loss of so many of the soldiers in what was claimed to be a simple and easy operation!" she said icily. "Furthermore, you understimated the enemy forces and their determination to fight. You lead us into a trap that nearly saw the failure of this mission in which we went in short of men and equipment, Am I making myself clear?"

He nodded, holding his broken nose. "Cwyshtal" was all he could manage. "Vashiwy ish here, I'm not sure where, but with the Inspector General's party most likewy, ash he countermanded my grounding."

That startled her, She then recovered, "We will discuss any further actions later." she said to him,

"1st Platoon! we are not finished yet!, we go into the enemy building, we may have to support another mission and or do a rescue!" Other squads also volunteered to search all the buildings to see where the missing squad was. Svedvedov moved towards the largest, the HQ building.

Inside they found the bodies of sentries, and followed the trail to the sub-levels.

again i have to say: yeeeehaaawww! i punched the air as she punched the nose^^... that was needed... and there are still great things to come to he who was

irresponsible abuse of your office

(best line^^)

didn´t like mikhails coment about vassily

he is as expendable as any other, but the fact that he is so very good at odd jobs makes him slightly less so

but getting to be an inquisitor must mean to be a not so nice personna after all he is out there to get a dirty job done...

that will help me to sleep better tonight^^

cheers, vik

Vik, everybody is expendable to an Inquisitor, if they get too attached, they lose their ruthless effectiveness!

Oh I felt that was a long time coming, she broke his frikkin' nose!

Pleasant dreams.

glad you joined with vassily...this will be fun^^

lol

that nose-punch was better than the time in "his last command", when a really posh captain refused to fire his artillery...
he smacked gaunt with his glove and stated "sir, you are uncouth. I challenge you to a bout of merit at your convenience."
Gaunt broke his nose mid-sentence, told the artillery crewmen to fire, turned on the floored captain and said "that was a convenient time for me."
I laughed. A lot.

seems really that i have to get me a copy of the gaunts novels^^ sounds like fun read^^

They really are a good read...
there's a bit in the same book, where a IG platoon are dealing with these 2m diameter metal balls with pilots inside, which rolls along randonly shooting plasma gun shots around.
A colonel's right hand man didn't get hit as the last one rode past, and he lobbed a grenade into it. The last shot it fired before the grenade detonated vaporised the guy's head.
from a win to a fail in seconds...

Well, I had not expected to get compared the venerable Dan Abnett with my writing!

Seriously blushing now!

shasolenzabi wrote:Well, I had not expected to get compared the venerable Dan Abnett with my writing!

Seriously blushing now!

BTW, if you want a non-BL book for a good read, I strongly reccommend "skulduggery pleasant". It's about a living skeleton sorceror detective who gets a 13-year-old apprentice and goes solving mysteries. Wow that storyline sounded crap. Seriously, it's a lot better than it sounds. He isn't the stereotypical sorceror with the hat or anything- he goes around punching people, he's quite witty and he does a load of cool stuff. It's quite similar to...um...dunno...
here's a better synopsis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skulduggery_Pleasant

does it have good british humor in it? black to the bone? i had one of these range of books from time to time pondering a buy in my hands when rumaging in the bookstores... was hesitant as it is always located in the kids section of the shop...

Viktor von Domm wrote:does it have good british humor in it? black to the bone? i had one of these range of books from time to time pondering a buy in my hands when rumaging in the bookstores... was hesitant as it is always located in the kids section of the shop...

yes, some nice brit humour...at my book stores it's in the "teen" section...

kids teens.... a bit difficult sometimes to draw the line^^

Read a few reviews on it if you're not sure.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/apr/07/featuresreviews.guardianreview27
http://kidslitinformation.blogspot.com/2007/05/review-skulduggery-pleasant.html
Just google "skullduggery pleasant review"- there's loads.
BTW shaso, sorry to hijack your thread. ^^

yep sorry shaso... if you´ve wrote more we would talk less^^

and i think next time i will give that skeleton a chance^^

glad I gave you confidence to buy books from the kids section. ^^

well i could always justify myself as i would buy it for pascal^^

^
that's one way to do it...I've known many an adult to buy things like lego for 40k conversions and explaining that it's "for thier kid(s)."
I have a similar excuse...the fact that I'm 5 feet tall and got a high-pitched vioce for my age means I get to go places without getting wierd looks or getting to go to places cheaper...only downside is I have trouble buying games/going to see films that are rated 15+.

More will be on the way guys.

It better be... *fist smacks into palm*
^^