The Story of a Hero

Chapter 6 is Finally here. A bit of action with what I hope will be seen as a scary twist (I mean resident-evil scary, if you've played it). Enjoy!

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The dunesa were overfilled with fire warriors by now. Magus and his two space marines were stuck on the rock, and their only way off was a set of steps, the set that Cassius had gone up.
"Drop your weapons," one of the space marines said. "Just do it. All but the knives."
Magus dropped the missile launcher and a frag grenade, but before dropping it down he pulled the pin.
Beside the rock was a metal grate. The other space marine jumped through it, followed by Magus. About three seconds later, there was a massive explosion.
Flames came flying in every direction, even through the grates. It reached down to the very bottom of the grates that Magus was almost toast before he got up.
He wiped his face and looked around. They were in an old mine.
"Still got your bolt pistol, brother?" the remaining space marine said, getting up.
"Yes," Magus spoke, confident, ripping the gun out if its leather holster.
"Good, now let's move. We still have Cassius to worry about."
"I know."

Cassius was now in the control room. He was stripped completely to wires and was carrying a bolter around with him. Quickly finding a panel, he began typing.
A big screen came down in front of him. Cassius looked at it, confused. It was in a Tau language. Quickly remembering his Tau language training, he read it. "Control..." he read. "Sa... Sanc... Sanctuary! That's gotta be good."
He pressed the screen on the Tau digits he read as Sanctuary. Still confused, but concentrated, he kept reading.
"Area One... Dunes... Manta b- Dunes!"
He pressed on Dunes. A live image of the dunes was placed in front of him. Black fire warriors filled the dunes and a space marine on a rock was laying there, obviously dead.
Cassius hit an earpiece. "Attention all remaining team members, as of late, we have lost one space marine to fire warriors. Brother Mantis deceased on Kronos IX, 336.M41 with honour. May his gene-seed return to the chapter, if it can..."

Magus, receiving that, was shocked. It was his fault it had happened. But he had not ime for that. He kept walking through the dusty mines, slowly.
Around the corner came a Ripper. It screamed at Magus, but Magus just laughed and fired at it several times until it was dead.
"Whoa..." the space marine said. "I've never seen a ripper killed so fast."
"You have now," Magus said, picking it up and examined it. "Manticore class, very deadly." He threw it at the wall, leaving it sticking there.
The sound of swarms came to Magus's ears quickly. The space marine quickly reloaded his gun and ran back. But behind them were three genestealers.
"What do you say, we'll die fighting?" Magus asked.
"There's always a time to die brother," the space marine spoke.
"Indeed there is. Let's run, there's nothing we can do."
The space marine looked around. There were rocks piled to reach a hole in the ceiling of the mine. "Up there!"
Magus ran to the rocks, putting away his bolt pistol and taking out an Auspex. He scanned the area quickly and came to a dead halt at a terrifying sight.
"LICTOR!"
This made the two space marines run faster. Magus put away the Auspex and climbed, crumbling some if the rock as he went. But he needed to reach the top.
The Lictor jumped towards the Space marine, grabbing him and piercing his leg. The space marine screamed in pain, dropping his bolt pistol in to Magus's hands. Magus leaned on rock, drew his own bolt pistol and fired at the Lictor with both guns.
The Lictor shouted in pain, dropping the space marine. Magus, running empty, put away one of the guns and climbed, eventually reaching the top.
The Lictor screamed as Magus climbed out of the hole. He drew a krak grenade and held it for a few seconds before pulling the pin and placing it in the Lictor's mouth, almost losing his hand in the process.
Soon after, the lictor exploded everywhere, even through the gap. Magus drew the other gun, put both guns together and reloaded them, fast as he could. Then he began running. He was back on the dunes which was not a good thing.
"Brother Zurius, deceased on Kronos IX, 336.M41 with honour. Cassius, I need you to create a distraction, and a good one quickly."
"What happeed to Zurius?" Cassius asked down the radio.
"He got eaten by tyranids. We were in a mine and he literally got feasted on."
"I'll try and create a distraction, but right now I need help too. I'm in Chaos power armour, so be careful who you shoot. I'm coming for you."
"Thanks." Magus ran for a set of steps. He climbed them, breaking one step in the process.

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