Tyre! (Twenty-Six)

After the bombardment ceased, Guk immediately entered the square, with the other guards following at his sides.

The Orks opened fire, dense barrages cutting across the square and tearing the ghouls to pieces.

"This is too easy!"

The machine gun mounted on Guk's mechanical claw roared.

"Where are the ones worth fighting?"

The sound of shattering glass made him look up. Great sheets of stained glass were bursting out from high up in the government building.

Though it was still the dark hours before dawn, the flashes of gunfire revealed the magnificent monument to Imperium glory, defiled and damaged from within. He vaguely saw soldiers' helmets shifting in the darkness behind the window frames.

After firing several shots at the shattered windows, Guk drew the warhammer from his waist and charged into the clustered ghouls, hacking a bloody path through them with ease.

The guards followed his lead, concentrating their fire on the high windows.

The grotesque creatures swarming around the government building turned their heads in unison toward the approaching Orks. Their black eyes gleamed like polished garnets, reflecting the searing trails left by rockets.

Rat-a-tat-tat!

Sweeping fire from the heavy machine guns tore them apart, either blowing the creatures up from within or ripping their strange limbs from their torsos.

They bared their fangs and hissed at what was coming. Though they did not know what it was, some deep instinct told them those newcomers were hostile.

Soon, the horde of ghouls split into two with eerie coordination.

One half continued toward the government building, climbing its high walls and gate towers under the goad of endless hunger.

The other half maneuvered with incredible precision, greeting the incoming threat with drooling fangs and scythe-like claws.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

Another rocket shrieked through the low clouds. In the final instant before