The Big Game part 2

                         .....And Another Tales From 40K.


      Yuell two hearts were beating at peak efficientcy as the team joged as the ever nerrowing tunnel dragged on. The tunnel ceiling was so high it was out of visual sight and the walls were so close it made it so only one marine could go at a time. Sgt Marson lead the group followed by Hallson. Yuell was in the middle followed by Erikson and Barnson. Yuell did not know why but the two troopers had stuck to him. Mabey because he had talked to them like a teacher to a student or more likly is that Yuell was moving cover. Yuell didn't care. His mind was fully foucused on the mission now.

      "Infutation team Whiskey to command! I repeat we are compromised alert the other teams! Our presence in know! I repeat..." Yelled the female Trooper in to her head set. The teams com officer. A corpril, Yuell remembered her name was Kallen.

      "Kallen! Status?" Hallens yelled.

      "Theres a lot of static but I think it got through sir." She said.

      "Keep moveing don't slow down they'll be coming soon!" Sgt Marson yell.

       Sgt Marson knew what he was talking about. This would be his third mission of this style. The team picked up the pace. The troopers started to pant while the marines could keep up this pace for days. The tunnle wond this way and that for what felt like an eterity all the more growing stranger and more deformed. The walls were becoming smoth and covered in a strange purple fugus. Yuells guntlet scaner blared with noise and alarms.

      "Movement! We got compony!" Yuell yelled.

      "What ever happens don't stop! We must reach the objective at all costs or the lives lost today will be in vain!" Marson warned.

      The tunnel suddenly became wider with enough room for a marine to squeese passed another. The walls were pockted with random holes ranging in size from a pin hole to the size of a man. A low roar that sounded as if it came from a million throuts echoed from every hole at once.

      "Watch the walls! Single file!" Yelled Sgt Marson.

      Yuells heads up dispaly showed the scan radius of his gauntlet and showed unkown or houstiles as red blurs. What the display showed even unnerved him. It looked like a red sea was coming in from both sides to crush them like a small boat in a tsunami. Hisses and clickes of mandible could be hear drawing ever closer and ever louder. The noise kept going untill it was defting, only the troopers helmets and the marines augmenting hearing kept them safe. Then suddenly the noise stopped alltogether. Yuells mostion scanned went dead escept for the teams movement.


      "What happened? Were in the name of the God-Emporer did they go?" A Trooper near the back asked.

      With a woosh of wind and a flash of purple a trooper in front of the trooper that asked the obviusly dumb question flow side ways into a hole on his left with a sceam. With out warning two more troopers vanished, one with a retort of hellgun fight and a sickening death cry. Yuells scanner went crazy, with most of the blips on top of them. Yuell barly looked up in time to see a haft formed genestealer plumit towards him with only three claws insted of the infamise four. Yuell could not rase his bolter in time as the genestealer landed on him sceaming and drolling. The hit stopped Yuell and knocked him into the right wall. Yuell immediatly felt more claws grab him from behind and hold him down with his hands keeping the first genestealer at bay. Yuell heard a loud thumping gun shot and felt his left leg get free. He looked down to see Erikson laying a round into any hole that had a limb sticking out of it. A bright light erupted on Yuells right as Barnson stuffed his flamer in the biggest hole he could find(Ha Ha yes were all children now pay attention) and let lose a jet of death resulting in multiple screams of pain. The genestealer use all its strength to push closer to Yuell but Yuell wasn't going to have it. He put his off hand under its neck and adivated his mini chain blade that poped out of his forarm, reved up and tore through the mutants neck like paper thrown into a woodchiper. Decapitated the genestealer crumbled to the floor.

      "Boss told us to pretect you since we need you to complet the mission." Erikson said blowing off the last limb holding Yuell and reloaded.

      Yuell was shocked, offended, amused, and most of all thankful but now was not the time to dwell on such thoughts.

      "I'll buy you a round later now move!" Yuell ordered

      "Thats a promise." Barnson chirped as they got into step with the rear of the team.

      Three more guardsmen and one marine were missing from the team Yuell noticed. The lose of the marine hit Yuell hard because one of his primary duties was to recover the geneseed of any fallen brothers. In this he failed for he did not know were the lost marines body was. This infiated Yuell to near madding levels. He wanted to get that sample now more that ever so he can kill ever last one of these God-Emporer forsaken monsters.

      "Inful...tration...Team Whiskey.. to ...command...come in." Kallen panted into her head set. "Sir! All teams reporting contact and there is no trafic fron team Echo."

      "Don't consern your self with things you can't change trooper!" Marson yelled as he cut a gene mutant in half with his chainsword. "Just keep moveing!"

      The team had a running gun battle all the way till the a fork in the road. By then they only lost one more trooper and the rest adapted to the genestealers tricks. which brings the total caualtys to 6 troopers and 1 marine. The team had fough off the enemy for the moment and had a slight respire.

      "Which way?" Hallson asked Marson panting.

      "The hive mind fryed the womens brain before she could tell us. Yuell?" Marson said looking at Yuell.

      Cleaning purple blood off his guntlet Yuell typed in a new patter for the scanner to search for. Insted of movement it scaned for large biomass comsentrations.

      "It seem both paths lead to a single mass of biomater dead ahead. The right path goes up and the left goes down." Yuell gestured his gauntlet in both directions. The omonice roar echoed up behind them again but was slightly smaller this time.

      "Yuell, Sanders and Vern right path" Marson said pointing at the three marines and the right path. "Gathren, Jerin, Dern with me and Hallson. Yuell you in charge."

      "Erikson, Barnson, Callvern go with them." Hallson ordered. "Kallen, Fryer with me."

      "Yes sir!" came the collective voice of the troopers.

      "Move it people!" Mason barked.


                                  continued in part 3