Kaptin Killer, disheartened by the losses he sustained fighting the Iron Templars Space Marines, headed for his starships to leave the planet Malaan. He needed to regroup before attempting another campaign on the planet. Unfortunately for him, he passed through the lands controlled by the Death Guard.
Lord Pustulus, displeased with this incursion, ordered his Marines to close in from all sides and attack the Orks as they tried to pass through the jungles. Pustulus, his Sorceror Lieutenant Festulus, and their Chosen waited in the path of the Orks, with a possessed Predator Annihilator and Defiler. Three squads came in from the flanks as the Orks moved forward.
Upon seeing the Death Guard, the Orks fired their weaponry. A tremendous cacophony echoed through the jungle. Trees and bushes were splintered and flattened. When it ended, the Predator was blasted apart, victim to the Orks' massive looted Basilisk, and two Chosen had fallen, their Terminator armor unable to hold against such a fusillade. The Death Guard closed inward, destroying the Orks' Battlewagon and Basilisk quickly, and felling some of the Orks. Pustulus, sensing the Orks' forward scouts trying to sneak past him, assaulted them and ripped them apart.
The Orks, stunned by the ferocity of the attack and surprised by the sudden appearance of Death Guard forces all around them, tried to react as best they could. Firing all they had at the Death Guard, they only dropped another Chosen and a single Marine. The Death Guard reacted by killing even more Orks with ranged fire. Pustulus charged forward, ripping into the Gretchin. Plaguebearers were summoned into battle, and they charged the Ork Nobs. They felled one of the Nobs, but all of the Plaguebearers were sent back to the Warp. The Chosen charged into a large mob of Ork assault troops, tearing them apart.
The Nobs charged after the Death Guard, ripping apart a squad while losing another of their member. The rest of the Orks pressed on, hoping to make it through the jungle. They were unable to cause any more casualties on the Orks. Pustulus, enraged that he was being swamped by a horde of small Gretchin that were impeding him, tore through the small greenskins, sending the rest running. Pustulus then summoned a pack of Plaguebearers to him. He and the Plaguebearers went forward, charging into a large mob of Orks. The Chosen turned their attentions to the Orks' heavy firepower troops and charged in. The Death Guard on the flanks were now coming around behind the Ork army, closing the trap around them. The Orks, unable to hold up against the charges of Pustulus, the Plaguebearers, and the Chosen, died by their dozens, the survivors fleeing as they could.
Finally Kaptin Killer was facing Festulus and the remaining Chosen. The two sides charged into each other. The Chosen, equipped as they were with devastating combat weapons, slew all of the slower Orks before they could strike back. Upon rending the Nobs, Festulus turned back to his Lord and signaled that all was positive. The Death Guard had crushed the Ork horde, and protected their territory.
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