Sniper Rifles

Five Dark Angel scouts sit on a rock outcropping. Stiff and tired scout Cassius peers through his nightvision scope looking for the eldar that might be in the area. Two more hours and back to base camp Cassius thinks to himself. Sergeant Scarribus clicks on his comlink, "Eldar scum north east of us.. Looks like a squad of guardians and a Wraithlord." Cassius looks back a Edwards and whispers.."Psst.. Ok men load up the electroacid clips. We need to take down that wraithlord first."      "Optimal shot in... Five seconds. Wait till both the squad of guardians and the wraithlord pass. We will hit the wraithlord from behind and squad Scarribus will open up on the guardians." Ordered Cassius. The five guardians carefully pick their way past the rocks as the red and white wraithlord follows them ponderously. One guardian stops and turns his head to the right in apprehension feeling something just not right. Rechecking his Shuriken Catapult he catches up to the remainder of the squad. From up ahead one guardian points to a treeline just as the sound of bolterfire rips through the cover, at the same time five small red dots appear on the back of the Wraithlord. "Emperor Guide our munitions."      Cassius prays as he sights in on the upper part of the elongated head on the Wraithlord. Two guardians drop one clutching his right leg the other drops lifelessly over a large rock, the other three take up positions behind a fallen tree near the rocks.      "Open fire.." Commands Cassius. Three shots find their marks two of which eat away at power couplings causing shorts in the right arm of the wraithlord to jerk and electric arcs jump from the powerfist over the arm. Though the arm still seems to move from the elbow down the shoulder assembly seems to lock up as the wraithlord turns around to face their rearward threat. The three remaining guardians form up behind a few of the rocks out of sight of the scouts and in cover from the tactical squad. Slowly they look up and start firing back at the marines. Looking around they know that the wraithlord will have to clear out the scouts so they can go back to report the marine presence and return with more firepower and secondfold to return the waystones of their fallen comrades.      "Ok Scarribus we got their attention. Just a few more shots and the wraithlord is history. Without it the elven scum will definitely run," encouraged Cassius.      Just then the wraithlord raised its left arm fully and itıs right arm at the elbow and opens alight with both heavy flamers. Over the Right shoulders the long, sleek Shuriken cannon spouting its disk like ammunition. Timothy and Judas are down to the flames of that thing Jackie's out of it. He caught a round in his right arm he's going to need a replacement before he can fight again. "Cassius what do we do?" Nigel asked.      "We take out that abomination," responded Cassius, "Ready your bolt pistol and chainsword, scout. We will finish this the hard way if we have to."      One last time Cassius and Nigel raise their snipers rifles targeting weak points in the armor of the wraithlord. Their special acid rounds start to eat through the armor in one spot only causing minor damage. Then during the confusion.      "Charge!" Bellowed Cassius as he and Nigel leave the cover of the rocks sniper's rifles slung across their backs. The wraithlord seeing this looks at his closes target, this time being Nigel, and prepares for the ensuing combat. Cassius tightly grips his plasma pistol as he ducks around to the opposite side of the wraithlord that Nigel is assaulting. The wraithlord bringing his massive left powerfist across it's front to its right hits Nigel across his chest and face as the electric arcs explode in a flash of light. Cassius knowing that there's no way that Nigel could have survived decides that the only way to honor his fallen brethren is to fell this beast before him. Using his chainsword he pulls aside the power cabling on it's back to expose the engine casing already eaten away by the acid round they fired sticking his plasma pistol directly into the opening he pulls the trigger twice...      A flash of light later he finds himself behind some rocks moving away from the guardians scurrying between rocks collecting the waystones of their two fallen friends and heading to the wraithlord to collect it's own waystone as well. End.

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