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The cleaning was almost finished when the first orks began to throw themselves into the room. Several guttural organic screams came through the room and almost terrified the serfs from their post. The only thing that kept them from running for the hills was ironically the gunfire that the Skitarii Vanguard sent back to the fool with impressive force. Such a thing to the Skitarii was not however unexpected as they still had the Doctorina downloaded to their brains from the Dominus.
As he recieved the notification that the gun had finally been cleaned the XKY was able to clear out the first of the Orks charging them. He allowed his gun a moment to cool down and scanned the incoming forces for what was coming. He counted atleast twenty Orks coming towards then as well as an entire space ship at the other end of the compound.
The vibrations and sounds of the artillery gun firing were music to XKY’s ears as he realized his current objective was a success. Seconds later he issued the commands to keep the gun safe as the numerous signatures on his Omnispex began running towards them.
The twenty Orks that he detected threw themselves out into the room and ran themselves towards the gun. They sent a volley of gunfire that struck no skitarii and even missed the Serfs. The Vanguard gave them a retaliatory round of well aimed shots that shredded the Orks within seconds of their attempted assault.
They were not the first ones as the Orks who were running behind them began taking cover at the barricades XKY built. With a simple thought the Machine Spirits activated themselves and exploded with the fury of the Machine God. The only thing that increased the Alpha’s pride was the sounds of the artillery gun firing off another round into the aether of space.
After that he scanned the area and noticed numerous signatures that were around him. It did not take a fool to notice that the signatures were no longer just Ork but other. He quickly realized it to be the Mitu as the other end of the chamber quickly became alight with plasma fire.
Quickly the lesser Skitarii threw themselves in the path of the attacks and defended the Alpha for a few moments he needed to take a series of shots back at the Xenos coming into the room. Within a second he realized he was outmatched and without care dropped his amament and ran towards the gun that was almost loaded.
All the Serfs laid under his feet dead thanks to the flanking attack by the Xenos. The Skitarii who remained threw themselves onto the large piece of ammunition and pushed it into place before another rounds of shots from the Mitu cut them down to just XKY.
With the gun loaded the Skitarii ran over and pulled the firing mechanism. His last moments of life were filled with the satisfaction that he fired off a third strike against the Xenos who came to attack his home.
