C-Deck was no longer Paige's concern. With Stern's squad watching her back, and flanks, she powered forward. The first few corridors were clear, but heavy weapon fire was coming from up ahead of her. She reached an access point upward, and held her squads back. The saw team at the intersection to the ramp was putting down a withering fire.<br/><br/>"Okay, ready on the small arms", she heard the gunner yell over the hammering. "Now!"  He stopped firing and his loader began placing accurate shots into the Orcs that slid and slithered down the blood slick ramp. It was clear from the bodies that lay in the coridor already that this had happened before, and that last time an Orc had nearly got the team. The gunnar was quickly removing the overheating barrel from the gun.<br/><br/>"Suppressing fire, now. Dust, not you. We'll need your ammo later." Kerry hopped around the corner, weapon blazing, followed by first squad. The loader, with a name tag reading "Atwell", all but had a heart attack.<br/><br/>"Jeysuz, Where'd you guys come from...!" He squeaked, and then got back to killing the giant ugly creatures. The gunner was snapping the replacement barrel on to his weapon. From his expression it was still hot.<br/><br/>Kerry tapped him on the head. "Hold your fire. We're going up that ramp. Might give you a respite for a bit. We won't be coming back this way, so once we're out of sight, anything that moves, kill it!"<br/><br/>The sergeant marshalled her men and as soon as there was a slight lull in the Orcs coming down, she led them forward and up. Traction was difficult on the slick ramp and the orc blood stank. Plus as they reached the bend in the ramp it became necessary to climb over the bodies, some of which were still twitching. One of her men put his foot on the head of an orc that wasn't quite dead. The creature turned it's head and bit his foot clean off. He screamed and rolled down the slope. One of the men put a bullet in the orc's brain. "Shit." Paige grunted. She had no men to spare to take the injured man back to the infirmary.<br/><br/>"You", she pointed at a soldier called Horndean. "Wait here. Tell Stern to patch the guy up as best she can and leave him with the SAW team, I'll contact the LT as soon as I can and get him evaced. Then get your arse up here. We ain't waitin' on you".<br/><br/>With that, she led the team around the turn, and ducked under a hail of arrows and axes. "DUST! Clear that intersection." Fortunately the dead orcs provided great cover and the squad pushed several of the stinking bodies around the corner. Then as the SAW laid down a withering blanket of lead, Kerry led the rest if the squad up one side of the ramp. Near the top, She unpinned three grenades and lobbed one down each corridor.<br/><br/>Following the explosions, her men pounced around the corners and swiftly secured the intersection.<br/><br/>Paige paused to regroup. She found a spot where the com thing worked and reported in. "Sir, one man down, foot bitten off, request evac when you can. We are on B-deck, heading to A-deck access in five." She gave the location of the SAW team where she was leaving her man. "Paige out".