Marc saw another object move in the corner of his eye, as he fired, blasting an orks skull into fragments of gooey brain, and chunks of flesh and bone. He turned and retreated, dashing for the cover of the fort as he heard Alessio calling for support. Reaching the fort walls, he span and rested his rifle on the wall shifted to bear on the new target, and fired again, the beam searing a large blast through an orks gut as he charged, and the beast fell, roaring in pain. The second shot silenced the beast.
"Alessio! Lauren!" he shouted to the others. "Get you arses back here!" He aimed his rifle again, and fired, taking down another ork as he desperately tried to buy time for Alessio and Lauren.

Alessio swore as the ork lept on him, despite the fact that he had blasted its arm off with his bolt pistol. The ork bore down on him, and pinned him to the floor, trying to get its good hand around his throat, whilst snarling and shouting in his face. Alessio twisted away from the orks hand, and tried to push it away, slamming his knife against the orks neck in an attempt to deter it, but the ork kept coming, its own blood spraying on Alessio's face.
A combat knife slammed into its skull, and it slummed down, dead, its vital fluids leaking from its skull. With a grunt, Alessio pushed the monsters corpse off himself, and snatched up his fallen pistol, looking to see who had saved his life.
""What would you do without me?" asked Lauren, flicking a strand of her from her face in a practiced motion. He smiled, and ran back to the base, his stride increasing as he ran.

Laura pulled the trigger again, and then span around, her pistol kicking in her hand again, and another ork went down to a well placed burst to the neck. The clip came down empty, and slid automatically from the gun, and she slammed a fresh one in from her belt, not bothering to snatch up the empty clip on the floor. She heard a curse behind her and span around, seeing Alessio knocked off his feet by a large ork.
"Alessio!" she shouted, running to his aid, knowing that her bolts would be deadly to Alessio, as well as the ork. Her knife slid out of its sheath, and she plunged it down into the orks head as she neared, cracking it open, and pulling it to one side as Alessio shoved the corpse off him.
"What would you do without me?" she said with a sigh, flicking her hair out of her eye. It didnt surprise her when Alessio simply smiled and ran back to the fort. Lauren sighed again, and ran after him, putting distance in between herself and the orks.

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