Ironhide plunged deep into the Imperium-controlled zone. Along the way, he encountered no resistance at all, as if those humies had vanished in an instant.
There was no sign whatsoever of the Steel Legion, who had fought them so fiercely. Only footprints and tread marks on the ground, not yet ground flat by the wind, remained for the Orks to remember.
The panic of being unable to find an enemy spread among the Orks. Those who had rushed out of the main camp finally began to understand what their Warboss had been so anxious about.
Dead-Eye looked down on them. The fierce humies and tin cans with him looked down on them too.
Waaagh!
The Orks roared in unison, but this time, their war cry carried far less excitement.
The Kommando Boyz sent out had finally found Yarrick and immediately reported the news to Ironhide.
The Armageddon Steel Legion, the iron-willed force that had fought hundreds of battles against Ironhide's Orks, now stood scattered before a dismantled factory. This had been specifically ordered by Commissar Yarrick.
Show your contempt for the Orks in your own way. They are weaklings, and we are going to Cadia to strike the Black Legion!
It was a rather strange order, but the men and women of the Steel Legion were willing to obey. After all, it was what the invincible Commissar Yarrick had demanded.
The clamor made by the Orks drew ever nearer, yet the soldiers showed no panic whatsoever.
They were merely Orks. Even without defensive positions, the bayonets in their hands would be enough to show those beasts the tenacity of the Imperium's army.
Ironhide sensed the Steel Legion's disdain from afar. As a formidable force acknowledged by the Orks, the Armageddon Steel Legion, like Yarrick, had been strengthened by the Power