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- From the west, an Imperial gunship screamed in towards them for a strafing run, guns levelled.
- This time Bravestorm was ready.
- 'Form a line on these coordinates!' Symbols of request-clarification blipped on his command suite. 'For the Tau'va! Do it now!'
- Bravestorm vaulted into the air, spinning to land atop the nearest transit cylinder's ejection cradles. His team redeployed into a line leading away from the transmotive. Just as Bravestorm had suspected, the Imperial pilot could not resist the choice enfilade in front of him. The gunship thudded fat shells into Bravestorm's Crisis team, knocking two of them down – but in doing so, it aligned itself with the unstoppable Imperial walker beyond.
- Bravestorm's jump jets flared as he leapt from the roof of the transmotive to soar on a collision course with the gunship. The fist-like prow passed within arm's reach. At that precise moment the commander opened fire at point-blank range into its cockpit. The plasma bolts burned the pilot to molten sludge just as the gunship's wing slammed hard into Bravestorm's side. Tremendous forces tore at him – it felt as if his limbs were being wrenched from his body, but incredibly the suit's iridium held fast.
- The gunship fared much worse. With its wing buckled and its cockpit ablaze, its strafing run turned into a headlong dive. Flames coursed along its fuselage as the bull-nosed gunship hurtled down to earth. Just as the Imperial walker was freeing itself from the stricken transmotive, the ruined aircraft slammed right into it with catastrophic force.
- A mangled confusion of gunship, walker and transit cylinder slewed over the magnorail track before detonating spectacularly. The explosion lit the sky, Bravestorm's displays auto-dimming a moment before a mushrooming cloud of smoke billowed from the carnage. The twisted bodies of the gunship's Space Marine passengers mingled with the corpses of those fire warriors caught in the transit cylinder, tumbling down the siding in bloody confusion.
- Blade of Damocles
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