The explosion sent boards flying upward and from beneath the two Space Marines the floor seemed to rise upward in a ripple.  Like a giant wave the floor rose upward throwing Kester free and clear of the destruction to come.  A wall was kind enough to stop Kester’s advance, boards breaking and cracks forming across the wall where he threatened to go through.  Leonatos was not so lucky.  When the ground opened up, he was there to fall below.  Beneath his metal clad boots another surface rose and he was brought to his knees from the impact.  Such a roar of his landing could not deafen the cry of the onrushing orks as they came for him.  Crude weapons lifted and fell, striking and cutting at his flesh through the armor gifted to him.  From all around him the weapons fell and his blood spilled from wounds cut through his armor.<br/><br/>Those watching could only stare as their Brother-in-Arms seemed consumed by the green wave.  Like a hungry maw they fell shut across the black armor of their Battle Brother.  Yet then a dark wind seemed to blow across each, a quiet calm descending until the very warp seemed to open up around them.  Lightening lifted upward and downward, cutting across the floor and lashing out down the hall.  Orks screamed and turned to ash.  That calm persisting only a moment before they gave their blood scream to make another charge for the Marine that had slain so many so quickly.<br/><br/>Downstairs the figure of Broddi could be seen leaping downward.  Floor flashed by the Space Marine as he leapt and descended.  The pack on his back flaring to life just as the melta bomb was placed.  He felt his body lurch to the side, slamming through a wall so that he fell to his hands and knees on the fifth floor of the building.  Behind him was a blinding flash and then a earth shaking boom.  From above the Space Marines could see the heat ripple out across the stairs, setting alight the flesh of their attacks and melting the metal of the staircase.  Molten metal dripped down from the now destroyed stairway.  This blocked the path of the orks for now but also kept the Space Marines from simply continuing their descent.  Another way would have to be found.<br/><br/>As for Broddi there was the howl of unhappy orks and their realization that he was not so far away.<br/><br/>--OOC---<br/>Leonatus took 12 wounds.