See first chapter for disclaimer. 3K+ Hits folks.

A/N: Here we are folks the last part in the Battle AH Arc, next battle arc will be still set in Suliman and then we take a few chapters of R and R. Don't worry though the story isn't nearly done.

Also here are some shout outs to the reviewers.

Void: Yeah, I decided to keep it short and was able to finish it in a day. Though considering its part 4 in a 5 part arc it becomes a little more understandable as to why I kept it short.

Bibotot: Thanks, I've taken a page from one of Dan Abnett's quotes." In the grim darkness of the far future there is more than war. There are real people there too."
Also on the second part of your review, we each have our own writing style, though it may not be proper to others and sometimes inconsistent. It's the words behind them that matters.

Shadow1Real: Here you are

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Angelus Hive: Several blocks away from the ocean

After a life time of living in sewers, the hellish underhive and polluted wastes of her world, Riza lifted her nose and sniffed the air. It was salty and was clearish, a whiff of smoke mixed with rotting flesh. She had never smell the an ocean so clearly. Yes there were oceans back on her world but they were made of toxic sludge. Now she could smell an clean ocean, she enjoyed the novelty for a moment. Then as quickly as it came it went. She was on the job right now, not smelling the roses, unlike the rumors she heard about Draconians setting up their command station in a frakking garden of all places.

Riza looked about, she and her squad were resting in an abandoned store. They were resting after a full day of fighting, letting other IG units fight on ahead. So far they had gotten sleep on and off for the past three hours, blasts and las fire in the distance could be heard. Since her mission in the sewers she had lost another two troopers from her squad, but Carla remained and they had been able to pick up a few guardsmen from a broken squad, their own squad back to full strength. The squad was now made up of half men and half women, also half Ratical and Vulpine. She and her girls were armed with the special weapons, Riza with her Sniper Rifle, Cara and Hista armed with their Plasma Guns. The three guardsmen were Sergeant Hyker, Corporal Yorp the vox operator and Private Stirland, they were armed with las-guns and were acting as temporary spotters till the ramshackle squad was able to return to their regiments.

"Vox Ma'am." Stirland spoke, holding out a com-bead for her to take. She did so and spoke." Lieutenant Riza Corlionia, who's dis?" The voice that answered sounded aristocratic." This is Major Ecidius. I am in need of your squad Lieutenant. I've been given permission by your captain." She practically rolled her eyes.' Here we go again,' she thought." 'Course sir, what are ya orders?" The others were waking and looking towards her as they heard her say those words.

The Major continued on." My regiment is advancing towards the waterfront three blocks west of your location. The enemy are holding their lines, but we need to secure as many watercraft as possible intact. I need you to get behind enemy lines unnoticed and find a location to flank the enemy. In one hours' time, at the sound of the whistle, I need you to open fire upon the enemy and hold until relieved. Understood lieutenant?" Riza answered right away, knowing it would be no good to argue with a higher up, even though she was tried and wanted to return behind the lines." Yes sir, I'll move my squad out now."

"Good." The line was then cut and Riza turned to her weathered squad, she noted after this mission she would return to the rear, her guardsmen were too tried to last another day out in the field." Right we have new orders." Her squad listened to her. They swore under their breath, they were pushed to their limits as it was and now they were going into the grinder yet once more. But they didn't say they wouldn't do it, they were complaining about their job. She silenced them." Shut up and load up. We're moving out now." Her squad mates then gathered and readied their weapons.

"What's the plan ma'am?" Hyker asked his temporary commander as they walked out of the store." Soon as we find a man hole, we'll open it up. Then get to da ocean by goin' under the streets and find a storm drain. Once we get that open we'll find somewhere to hold up till them wolfies whistle." She answered, then pointed to a man hole by a drain." You and your boys open it up and hop down there." Hyker then barked an order to his remaining squad mates, they then went over to the man hole and with a grunt of exertion lifted it up. As soon as the cover was moved to the side Hyker had Stirland climb down into the sewers.

After hearing a splash, Riza heard a shout from Stirland." All clear." The fox said. "How deep is da watar?" She asked the guardsman." Up to my waist." He called back. Riza turned to sergeant hyker and said." You and Yorp get down there. We'll hand our weapons down to you, keep dem dry." The sergeant nodded and climbed down followed by Yorp. Riza was next, she climbed down and handed her sniper rifle and ammo to Hyker, who kept the rifle above the water. Carla and Hista were next, handing off their plasma guns and precious ammo to the men as well.

Riza sniffed the air at the bottom of the sewer, she could smell waste, rust and no xeno's. That was a good sign for her, she then dipped a finger into the water and felt a slight current. Another good sign that there was a way out further down the sewer, a way that lead to the ocean hopefully. She took back her rifle as did her squad mates their plasma guns, keeping their weapons above their heads. The girl's weapons being rare and prone to jamming unless kept clean, in the case of the plasma guns this could have disastrous consequences for the shooter. Then they began to walk, Yorp taking point with his las gun. The Guardsman, who was hardly past eighteen, walked lightly setting down each foot in front of the other, feeling around to make sure that his next step did not send him into a deep pool of water.

Luckily he didn't fall into the water and the trip down the storm sewer was uneventful, save for when they passed below the xeno lines. Even a few meters below the top side they could hear the sound of battle, but unlike a full fledge fire fight this was a slow battle. The sound of bursts of stubbers, or las-fire followed by a scream, or a single grenade exploding and pelting nearby buildings with shrapnel. Then after another hundred yards they were past the worst of it and behind enemy lines. It wasn't long that they then found an exit, a bared off, half submerged pipe drain leading into the ocean.

Riza then ordered." Carla up front and ready ya plasma gun, the rest behind me." Her unit obeyed and then she said." 8 shots, make it slow we don't want dat gun blowing up in ya face just yet." The sergeant did as she was told, firing each shot after a five second cool down for the gun. In less than a minute the cross bars melted away and a hole was made large enough for the Vulpine troopers to squeeze through. Though that would be another three minutes as they awaited the plasma to dissipate on the bars and Carla to reload her plasma gun.

" Stirland." Riza said, getting the fox's attention." Get out there and swim around, then tell me what ya saw out there." The young fox then asked." What if the xeno's heard those plasma bolts?" Riza smirked, her yellowed teeth and incisors making the grin seem much more wicked." Then when you get shot we'll know. Now move ya tail." Handing off his las-rife to Yorp, who gave him a pat on the back for good luck, and with a curse, Stirland slipped through the bars into the ocean. Surprising the fox knew how to doggie paddle and looked around, after a minute of looking at his surroundings he returned to Riza.

He spoke as he entered the drain." I didn't see any Xeno's out there. I could hear them though, I think their moving towards the fighting with the Canny's." Riza nodded, taking in the information." What else did you see?" She asked." There was a beach… lots of dead people… a thousands yards away to the south. Three hundred yards north there is a ship along the sea wall." He bit his lip as he thought up the words for what he was about to describe." It's a wooden one… three masted for sails. It was called the 'Revenge' and had some… I want to say gun ports." Riza raised an eyebrow as she asked." Was it facing the sea wall?" Stirland nodded." Yes, one side was."

Riza took the information in and after a few seconds of digesting it she spoke." Alright, were goin' to swim to the ship and bunker down dere till we're suppose to open up on the xeno's asses." That got a couple of smiles from the squad, though Yorp was not happy." Can I dump the Vox unit ma'am? It'll weigh me down and most likely not work after getting salt water in the system."

"Sure be sure that you tell your quarter master that it took a bullet for ya, otherwise you might have an appointment with a commissar." Riza responded. Then as Yorp was taking off his vox unit she was the first to slip through the bars, followed by the rest of the squad. One by one they swam into the ocean and kept close to the sea wall, the precious plasma and sniper rifles being kept above their heads. In a matter of minutes they reached the ship. Riza then stopped by a peer piling and handed her rifle off to Hyker who was now forced to tread water. Quickly she grabbed a rope attached to the piling and pulled herself up to look over the dock's edge.

She could see there were xeno's directly in front of her, down the road manning a barricade and not paying attention behind them. She pulled herself onto the dock and then walked across a gangplank. Its side banner proudly declaring that the ship was a reproduction of famous vessel that was the center of a pirate fleet and that there were weekly ocean tours. She didn't read it though more intent on reaching the decks below.

In a matter of seconds she reached the second deck and opened a gun port. Her squad saw her and swam below it, Hyker saying in a low voice." Catch." He threw the sniper rifle up to Riza who caught it." Thanks. Hista, Carla guns." They then tossed their plasma guns up and Riza caught them. The lieutenant then disappeared into the belly of the ship, throwing out a coil of rope to her squad mates. Carla and Hista were first up the rope followed by the Vulpine, each helped up by Riza's hand.

As she closed the gun port she looked around and saw long iron barrels laying against the wooden floor." What are those… oh cannon's." She realized what they were, half remembering similar ones in the underhives of her youth, though be these were infinitely better made. She counted six of the cannons on this side… portside she remembered, of the ship, She assumed that there would be more of the same above her though what use of cannons on the ship she had no idea-

Then her devious mind began turn and she looked down at her watch. They had another twenty minutes till the attack was suppose to begin, more than enough time to find what they needed." Alright troopas, I need ya to scavenge some stuff."

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When the whistle, amplified by mega phone units, blew all along the board walk area of Angelous Hive, a fraction of second later it was drowned out as scores of special weapon teams, artillery pieces and thousands of small arms fire drowned it out. All along the line the xeno's were caught off guard by the Imperials attack. Their officers and NCOs equivalents were taken down by sniper fire. Plasma bolts, demolition charges and artillery strikes blew up dozens of tanks in seconds of each other. Small arms erupted from along the Imperial lines as thousands of Canenids and other mixed regiments leveled their las-guns and the air was filled with sharp cracks of vaporization.

This surprise attack didn't mean there were causality's for the Imperials as well, but they were mitigated. Three artiliery strikes eliminated three unlucky special weapons squads, another was blown up when their demo-charge was thrown back at them by a xeno, who was in turn torn apart by a fusillade of las guns. Other special weapon squads were targeted by the Xeno's and suffered casualty's since they were computed as being high valued targets by the xeno's simple brains.

On the Revenge, Riza and her squad found an inventive way to kill the xeno's while their backs was turned to the Imperials. Their target was a very large clump of xeno's protected by a defensive barrier facing the Canenids. It had one of the xeno's open top tanks and a powerful dual rocket making it impossible for armor to advance down the street. Instead of using their las-guns or even the plasma rifles, the squad had loaded the cannons aboard the Revenge. They were blank black powder cartilages' meant to show off the cannons for the tourists who paid their way aboard the ship and wanted a show. But Riza had turned them into real weapons again at least for one volley. After loading the cannons on both decks with the blanks she had her crew load them with whatever else they could find. From broken glass, silver ware, cannon balls, chain shot, nails and anything that could fit down the barrel was loaded.

When her squad heard the whistle two teams of two began setting off the cannons. Riza and Hyker on the top deck and Yorp and Stirland on the second deck used their las-guns to fire down the touch holes of the cannons setting off the powder charges. Twelve guns, six on each deck barked in seconds of each other. The guns flung back against their ropes and the entire portside of the ship was engulfed in flames. On the poop deck and forecastle, Hista and Carla used their plasma guns on the hover tank both shots glancing the vehicle while a cannon ball hit its reactor blowing the vehicle up.

Along the xeno's defense line dozens of the grey beings fell from under the cannon's makeshift canister shot, most were torn asunder by the impact of the shot. Some though, even though their comrades fell all around them, were unharmed, grazed or slightly wounded. But even as they turned to the Revenge they were hit by a new fusillade of fire from the Canenids who now had little fear from the few remaining xeno's.

In twenty minutes, while caught between the fire from the special weapon squads and that of the advancing Imperial Guard, the Xeno's were exterminated from the boardwalk allowing the main imperial force to advance to the sea.

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When Major Ecidius advanced down the boardwalk with his command squad, while inspecting the damage, seeing about ships and otherwise enjoying the ocean view. He found the Revenge, he noted that it might serve as a troop carrier if it had engines or could be towed. Then he noticed that it was occupied by a special weapon squad, its members resting against the guns or the gunwales. He called over to them and said." Didn't you receive the order to return to the rear?" One of them, a fox called back over." Vox unit took a bullet sir."

Ecidius looked over to them and began walking across the gangplank, deciding that now may have been a good time to score some 'comrade points' by talking to the common troops, after all he couldn't see any officers amongst them." Well then your relived. Would one of you tell me how you fared against the xeno's, after all you look like you went to warp and back." Said the wolf. "Certainly major." Said a new voice, this one a female." But first let me say this."

Ecidius turned to the voice and saw it was a Raticle, she had a lieutenant's bars on her flak armor and wore a pair of grey camo pants. But what struck him was that she was sitting on a barrel, a treasure chest filled with plastic and fake gold next to her. In her right hand a cutlass with the point down into the wooden floor board and her sniper rifle leaning against a crate on her left hand side. The most striking though was that she was wearing a bright red wool coat like some rouge traders found fashionable, which looked warm on the water logged rat and a tri-corner hat on her head which she wore for no other reason than it was cool." Welcome aboard the Revenge."

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A/N: So did folks enjoy the Battle for Angelus Hive in its nearly 15K word glory? Well if you did, or if want to add some constructive criticism, give your thoughts about the characters or any scenes in particular you enjoyed, review!