Mogrok - Sacred Isle Under Siege: Mogrok's tellyport jump would carry him away toward the coastlands, the battle for the Auspice Savannah raging in his wake. The Human forces would no doubt attempt to bring their own reinforcements to the battle via the natural bridges that linked Alaric Prime's major islands. The Big Mek could not allow this to happen. Luckily, he had a cunning plan.As day turned to night and the carnage on the savannah grew to ever more epic heights, the Knights of House Velemestrin sought to cross the gap that lay between their own island and Sacred Isle. There was but one fordable point between the two land masses, a place where an archipelago of huge flat stones protruded out of the sea.The site was known to the natives as the Knight's Causeway. With care, and assuming the tides were right, a Knight could pick its way across from Isle Velemestrin to Sacred Isle. Mogrok, who had invested a lot of effort and millions of Orks in keeping the savannah embattled, had made it his personal mission to ensure no such thing occurred. Unfortunately, the forces he had to spare were very little -– quite literally, in fact.The previous day Mogrok had ordered dozens of Runtherdz and their Gretchin teams to mount flat plates of electronic gubbins that he had entrusted to them. The plates should have been in place by now; the horizon was already dotted by the hulking shapes of the human walkers approaching the causeway.As usual, it was the lack of intelligence on part of the Grots that were gumming up Mogrok's plans. After taking his disappointment out on the nearest Runtherd, by throwing him from a high cliff, Mogrok stomped on through the confusion, resolving to root out Mek Dagogg from wherever the useless git was hiding and get his Shokk Attack Gun into the fight.By the time Mogrok had found Dagogg, the first of the Human walkers had picked a path halfway across the Knight's Causeway, slowly striding from one flat stone to another. Dagogg narrowly escaped a beating from Mogrok's piston-klaw when he protested that he had not been sleeping and was merely aiming with his eyes closed whilst he waited for the targets to get into range.Firing up his Shokk Attack Gun, Dagogg called for his Runtherd mate Grabber to get the Snotling mobs nice and close. A thunderous boom interrupted him as the first of the Knights crossing the causeway took a ranging shot with its cannon.The shell detonated on the face of the cliffs nearby, and Mogrok swore in consternation. Dagogg grumbled about how you couldn't rush these things, his black tongue protruding from the corner of his mouth as the Shokk Attack Gun's whirly bits spun faster and faster.The world filled with noise, light and pain as a Battle Cannon shell detonated right in the midst of the Snotling farm. Mogrok felt the force of the explosion hit him like the hand of Gork, hurling him toward the edge of the cliff. He barely had time to shout in terror before Grabber's runt-catching stick lashed out, its spiked pincers sinking into the pitted metal of Mogrok's armour and arresting his lurching fall."Gotcher!" wheezed Grabber, straining mightily as he and his Grots hauled Mogrok's Mega-Armoured weight back to safety. "Biggest runt I caught all day!" Half-deafened by the explosion, the Big Mek let the comment slide. He made a mental note to find the Runtherd a nice new electroprod, though he hadn't made up his mind yet about which end of the prod he would present to Grabber first.Down on the causeway, one of the Knights had nearly made it across. Still shaken by his close escape, Mogrok could only watch as the Knight aimed its Battle Cannon straight at him. Then the giant walker put its foot down right on one of the electro-plates the scurrying Gretchin had managed to get into position.There was a sudden flare of green energy under the Knight's foot, and the walker's leg vanished, reappearing ten feet to the right. It dropped down into the surf as gravity claimed its due. A moment later a blunt shell whistled over Dagogg's head, sailing harmlessly into the distance as the towering warrior's aim was spoiled.As the walker began to tumble sidelong into the crashing waves, Mogrok found his voice. He shouted in triumph, turning to Dagogg, "The plates work! You can have the next one, Dagz -- get 'em inna head this time!" Unfortunately, almost all of the Snotlings that had survived the Battle Cannon blast had scurried away or were running around shrieking with Grabber's Squig-hound in hot pursuit.Mogrok cast around frantically, seeking any alternative. His gaze settled on several Burna Boyz who were loafing about nearby, and an evil grin spread across the Big Mek's face. "Ready?" shouted Mogrok moments later, his question answered by a thumbs-up from Dagogg. As the gunner Mek squeezed the firing bar, the Burna Boyz let fly, sending a roaring column of flame straight into the vacuum tube. Halfway across the strait, fire blasted from the foremost Knight's eye-plates.It fell to its knees with a clang as the Shokk Attack Gun filled its cockpit with flame, but its corpse stayed upright. The causeway was blocked -- and with it, any chance of swift reinforcement for the Imperial forces.