The combat was expected, battle was something they all knew was taking place. The sudden appearance of the grenades though, that was unexpected, and the explosion ripped through four Guardians, their bodies sent crashing through walls, and their shuriken cannon going a rather hazardous explosion as well. The building began to shake and rattle, it’s support structure damaged by the explosion as it began to collapse. Several more Guardians ran out of the building quickly taking cover behind chunk of ferrocrete wall. The sudden bolter fire was expected now as well, after so many grenades had been tossed. A downpour of shuriken fire came from other buildings that were on either side of the road, the ammunition pounding into Astartes armor digging deep gouges in the plate and tearing some chunks away, but none of it was seeming to get through. 

Slowly an Eldar turned his rifle slightly, finger sliding across the trigger as his scope took on Brother Melkior. The Ranger took in a deep breath, then let it out, then another one as he watched the Space Marine charged across the ground with the melta gun. Soon the crosshairs found their mark though, that tiny sloth where the Space Marine’s eye would be, and the trigger was pulled. The shot likely could barely be seen, the only thing noticeable would be the sudden spray of blood from the hole that was now in the face of the Astartes’ helmet. The large man didn’t know he was dead for a moment, his body still running even after the shot had torn his brain to pieces, it was after a few running steps his body suddenly slowed down and he fell face forward on the ground. 

So close they were getting, but the Eldar were intent on not letting them make it all the way. The Fire Prism turned it’s barrel and fired a long stream of lance fire at the assaulting Astartes sending up gouts of vaporizing dirt, and stone, explosions tearing through the ground as it suddenly fired a flurry of scatter lasers at the Astartes as well. 

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“Now” Autarch Keshanlia said softly into her communications, and the onslaught of firepower picked up on the main Imperium defensive position where Arash had just been, giving cover fire that caused the enemy troops to duck down behind their cover. A squad of Striking Scorpions came rushing from the main building and jumping over the Imperium defenses into the battle lines. Direswords revved, and slashed at PDF, the Scorpions Exarch getting into a rather fierce duel with the Major of the PDF forces. Shuriken fire began to overlap and move away from the melee taking place hoping to keep others who might try to get involved under cover.