Alonya gunned her tank forward, the other tanks followed her. In a matter of mere seconds they had cleared the protective cover of the buildings around the Monument. The Tigers that were advancing , immediately threw their tanks into reverse and activated their Active Defense Systems.

She heard Nakamura laugh, "They must think were a bigger force." She found that hysterical and started to giggle as she jinked left to dodge a stray tank round. She saw four BTR-20 Yastrebs fly low close to the ground bundled up T39 Bogatrys clamped on tail. The Battle Walkers' feet touched the ground the Yasterbs increased power and climbed into the sky. A few EU soldiers on top Crucifix Hill had a Man-Portable Air Defense Systems. She knew the MANPADS system they were using well, the Mitchell SAAW 86 . She cursed. One of four rockets from one launcher slammed just to the right of the cockpit of one of the Yasterbs, the pilot put the transport into a steep dive straight into an EU Walker, she saw drop pods come out of another as it simply fell out of the sky. She blinked, just like that most of the transports were dead.

She sighed, "They knew the risks, they're heros in my book." She spun right bringing the main cannon to bear on Mk-15 Bandit Light Recon Vehicle, she lead the scout and watched as Nakamura's High Explosive round ripped the scout into millions of pieces.

"Almost there," some cried out followed by a sharp yell, "incoming!" Alonya watched the yellow tracer of a tank round bounce of a rock and start flipping, it smacked into the bow of Fifty-four causing it to end-over-end. The tank's forward momentum kept it flipping destroying the delicate gun and optics and with out a doubt killing the crew. The Nekomata came to a rest upside down.

The Bogatrys in the meantime were functional falling into step with the tanks of Macaw squadron, together the very thin line of armor caused havoc amidst the EU units pouring from Crucifix Hill. A line of heavy rounds stitched a line of EU Tiger Tanks brewing them up into funeral pyres. She didn't risk looking at the sky as she spun her tank around and backed up to Hill 1845. They had made it.

She opened her hatch and pulled her self out of the tank and then looked up, the Tributs was above them, shelling the playground with heavy cannon fire. The only problem was an EU Titan was directly off the Bow. Red and Blue tracers lit up the sky as the Dorsal guns of the Titans opened up on each other.

Afonik and Monika pulled up on either side of her. Monika looked at the carnage that had once been a play ground and crossed her self. Afonik muttered something about the EU having Titans and theirs being just as good as the PAC's.

The Titan's shields kept them from damaging each other, that was until bluish-white bolts of lighting rained down from the heavens. General Arkadi Petrov and his EU counter part had ordered EMP strikes against their rival's Titan. While not very effective against the Titan itself the strikes could drop a Titan's Missile and Kinetic Round (TMKR "Teamkiller") Shield. Said shields flickered once and then died.

An APC behind Alonya began to make noise as a squad of infantry took flight towards the EU Titan. From high up in the atmosphere hundreds more drop pods rained from the non-combative and small Titans that hung in a High Altitude Low Orbit flight. There were so many, in fact, that quite a few flew into each other causing their computers to believe that the pod had reached a safe destination and then the pods would open with nothing but 500 feet to the ground beneath hundreds of troops. It wasn't long before bodies began to rain from the sky. Afonik had night mares...but he knew he would never forget this. Monika closed her eyes and dove back into her Nekomata. Alonya stared at a EU Engineer that landed on the barrel of her tank. Four more Titans joined the battle above them and the cycle began again. She wonder what hell hath in store for the soldiers part of the boarding and repelling actions. She could only imagine.

The Dorsal Turrets of one Titan would constantly spray the dorsal areas of a friendly titan. The soldiers lucky enough to survive that and get inside found a determined crew. On board the Tributs a small five foot-two Private slammed a fresh magazine into her Kyrlov as the EU soldiers attempted to charge down one of four hallways to get at the control boards that flanked the Core to her right. She peeks around the corner and finds a target, the Krylov kicks twice in her hand and a woman screams. All around her echo the sounds of battle people screaming. At console 3 the battle had disintegrated to brutal hand to hand combat, a young Titan Security Force Soldier finds an EU soldier on top of her the others hands wrap around her neck she gasps for air as darkness creeps to the edges of her vision. Instinct and Training kick in she attempts to knee the other girl in the groin and gouge out her eyeballs, but her legs are too weak, the soldier is wearing a face plate. The PAC soldier's eyes roll back and she becomes still.

Reinforcements from several decks below arrive at Console 3, the PAC soldiers raised their Clarks, Vlosses, Baurs, Shukos, Granzs, Herzogs, Krylovs, and Lamberts at the crowd of soldiers a Lieutenant gives the orders, "Fire!" the reinforcements fire indiscriminately into the crowd. The Lieutenant will never forgive himself for killing friendlies, he thinks, To Hell with the Enemy, They're trying to kill me, but my own allies? Why?

The situation is no better on the EU Titans, on the Titan Queen Victoria, a PAC Field Marshall uses his family's Dai Katana to cut an EU Soldier in half, "Quickly, blow this console, before their reinforcements arrive!" He orders, little known to the PAC troops a Drone Specialist has laid down a A-12 Enforcer Sentry Gun. The Sentry Bot opens fire with its 20mm Cannon killing the Field Marshall, the Demolitions Expert lives, barely, and manages to destroy the Console, the A-12 kills her before she can escape.

On the PAC Titan Sun Tzu,the worst happens, a strafing shot from a UD-6 knocks out the field emitter on the Hanger Shield. The EU's Boarding parties waste no time in landing troops in the Hangar Bay. The Bridge Crew fights valiantly to the death. The PAC Private aboard the Tributs is down to her last bullet she fires and the round splashes the wall behind an EU officer with a fresh coat of crimson. The Private ducks back behind the bullet-proof glass. "No Ammo!" she shouts. A Sergeant hands her a fresh Krylov and she goes back to the shooting.

The PAC Lieutenant has been wounded his arm taken off by a Frag Grenade, that doesn't stop him, "Hold the Line, Soldiers, We will make it through the Night, yet!" With his good arm he fires a Turcotte Rapid SMG he picked up from the stinking heap behind him. "No Retreat, No Surrender, Give them nothing!" His soldiers responds, "URA!" their echos reaching the Private who with out realizing it, shouts right along with them. The tide turns for the Tributs.

The Tzu is lost, the senior officer, a Sergeant Major, orders an Orbital Strike on the Titan. Hundreds of Hyper Velocity Kinetic Penetrators impact the Titan at 99.9% the speed of light. A bright light, the last pyre of Sun Tzu, envelops the battlefield.