Things were going good, they had cleared the grounds and the entrance to the cultists hide out, and now were progressing into the bowels of the lair, though on the other hand the way loyalist guardsmen were being cut down, they were lucky if a fifth of the starting company were left and only Major Nilsson was left of the HQ. Glancing around he could see that none of his personal retinue were seriously injured, Faunas was currently engaged in a one sided fight with the heavy weapon cultist who had killed Relani, Gibby was pouring fire down on some cultists attempting to shield behind a fallen statue of some heretical god.

Lustrian was mentally stripping the flesh from the weaker Daemon host the cult had managed to bind, while slicing open a cultist with his galthite lacerator and Magos Mckissock was downloading a floor plan of the base from a terminal on the wall, even as he watched he saw a stubber round hit the Magos on the head, quite calmly McKissock turned and fired his own stubber loaded with dum-dums at the enemy who spun to the ground with a large hole on the back of his head.

It had taken Orion 2 years to track down the cult who had caused many atrocities across the sector, 2 hours to request (a formality as an Inquisitor could demand a planet put to death) an infantry company, in which he was especially lucky as they were kasrkin the elite of the Cadian army and another 2 days to finalise the attack plans and personally instruct the Cadian snipers on each of their personal duties, and 20 minutes to get this far in. So far they had faced 5 waves of cultists some heavily armed and others aided by lesser daemons, which Lustrian and Orion had dealt with, while Gibby had stalked the shadows taking out the cultists in charge effectively destroying moral and making it easier for the Imperial Guard to wipe up the stragglers.

Magos Mckissock caught Orion's attention and waved that he'd finished downloading the floor plan and could now led them to the centre chamber where Orion hoped to find the facilitator of the cult. Orion mentally calling to Major Nilsson and telling him to finish the resistance so they could proceed simultaneously shot a charging cultist through the left eye who immediately dropped with his head exploding from the dum dum round. He heard a gasp and turned round to face the entrance to the chamber they were in,

“ It seems this traitorous piece of chaos filth can't wait for us to come find him.” Orion roared out as he saw the abomination that once had been a loyal and promising Marine captain of the Ultramarines. “Who are you to dare to defy the will of the Lord of Change, he who pecks at the will of the corpse who's name you stand before supposedly representing.”

As the once proud marine said this he unfolded the wings from behind his back a recent gift from his master for the foul deeds he committed, though this was just a distraction for the squad of traitor marines now appearing on the balconies behind the loyalists, though not everyone had been transfixed, Lustrian who was a greater daemon of Khorne had much more wonderful gifts from his master when not bound to a host, and was looking around for the best place to spring off so as to land behind the marine and teach him pain saw the other marines taking up positions and sent two thoughts one to Orion warning him of this turn of events and the other to sniper Johnson who was positioned behind a statue.

At once all hell broke loose sniper Johnson loosed a shot straight through the eye slit of one traitors helmet while Orion mentally sent another message to Gibby who sneaked away behind the traitor defender of Humanity, while Lustrian pounced upon the balcony sliced one traitor with his lacerator while grabbing the enemy's corrupted bolter, he melted another fallen marine just as quickly as the traitors resolve and loyalty had melted when offered eternal life in return for his soul, while turning the bolter towards the marines captain and loosing off a clip of shells so as to distract him while the ex-tanith scout slit the power cables in the traitors armour leaving him helpless.

Orion was busy commanding the guardsman to open fire on the other two marines, who died, on with another sniper shot this time below the helmet seal and the other from a combination of lasgun and heavy bolter fire. Both died though not before blowing apart a dozen guardsmen between them both and the second of the two with his dying breath dropped a set grenade and the belt attached to the rest of his grenades making one huge bomb from the balcony which fell behind the collapsed arch which fifth platoon had been sheltering behind, all of fifth platoon, commissar Harrison and the last of second platoon were obliterated in a single flash along with sniper Johnson's right arm who had been lucky to have mostly been behind the fallen statue.

Two and a half hours later after the unholy temple had been purged along with the surviving cultists, the total loyalist body count had been obtained, and Lustrain was safely hidden from his master and colleagues Orion signalled for the black ship to unleash its cargo.

Six Grey Knight terminators along with Lord Inquisitor Rosen and three other upstanding Inquisitors and their acolytes and retinues teleported down to congratulate and take the captured Ultramarine captain to tortured, questioned the executed. They also had to scan the minds of the surviving platoon of guardsmen to check none had been tainted. Only five survived the ordeal and proved to be loyal to the Golden Throne. Taking them to join his retinue teleported up to the Divine Presence his personal ship and HQ also where his retinue rested, relaxed and trained.