The rather brutal reaction of the Imperial guard on the second floor was what Pissari expected. The sudden fire blasting down, the tumult of las rifle fire. She turned and began to walk away from the the top step heading down a ramp to her personal Chimera. "I want the Heldrake in the air. That leman Russ pulled out. Make sure those slaves die I don't want them leading the Guardsmen to our scouting camp on the steps." She moved back out of the Chimera as it reached the edge of the Couch. She turned and watched as a large group of bunkered down Renegade guardswomen returned fire with autoguns, and las rifles, another one buried deep in fabric and firing a sniper rifle.

The Leman Russ suddenly lifted it's cannon slowly, the women in side sighting in their next target. The cannon moved and sighted in one of the sentinels and with a loud CLUNK a shell of warp energy roared through the air towards the Sentinel's cockpit. It would crush the walker easily and kill the pilot while showering anyone around it with flaming debris. More small arms fire came from below, as more of the whores took position, there was at least twenty of them now, and one stood up holding a glowing blue rifle that fired a scouring burst of energy, it went wide though and leg a long streak of scorch across the wall where it had stuck. The heretic holding the Plasma rifle was about to bunker down just as a mortal shell blew in front of her, sending her body ragdolling across the floor, and bleeding from multiple wounds, a chunk of the plasma gun sticking out her forehead. 

The combat continued for only a few more minutes, whens uddenly a enormous form overshadowed the staircase, trinagular in shape, the Heldrake zoomed down towards the guardsman line, and extreme gouts of flame poured over their formations, the creature shrieked loudly as it passed and then twisted around blowing more gouts of flame at the fortification once more before veering to leave the area.

At the same time, the Leman Russ began pulling back, rolling backwards down the ramp, blowing thick plumes of smoke into the air. It fired one more shot haphazardly at the enemy formation before it disappeared into cover. 

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Sergeant Kepper watched the firefight going on over head. She could see the damage going on down below, She winced as a mortar fell a bit nearby sending chunks of wood and carpet over her and their area. They will still hidden though, and she could see by using a mirror that the slaves sent up had all been shot down, their bodies layin gon the ground in odd positions. She shook her head slowly and swirled a finger. "Keep down.. Get those ropes ready to rappell down the side of hte staircase for a quick escape."