Several of the heroes had formed a perimeter around the site of the alien landing to prevent any of the drones, soldiers, or monsters that they'd released from getting out and spreading further and wreaking more havoc outside of city A.
Death Gatling, Blue Fire, Golden Ball, Air, Gun Gun, Pink Hornet, Shooter, Mushroom, Jet Nice Guy, Sneck, Heavy Kong, and Chain'n'Toad were all holding position around the area, refusing anything to pass.
They'd spaced themselves out so there was some distance between the heroes using projectile weapons, and the ones who used physical strength to stop the threats. It was mostly just the alien soldiers who tried to get passed them, getting gunned down, burned, beaten, poisoned, or if all else failed pummeled.
It was difficult for them to hold their ground and not try running in to help the other heroes within the combat zone, but they had to stay put, making sure the only ones who left were the heroes who were acting as the rescue team for the surviving humans in city A.
Stinger, Lightning Max, Smile Man, and Spring Mustachio were all focusing their efforts on rescue instead of direct combat. It was shocking to those watching to see that none of them had been the one to lead the charge to rescue the humans trapped in the combat zone. It had been the C class hero Mumen Rider who'd gotten them to focus on what was important: keeping the civilians safe.
Meanwhile, there were only five heroes in the combat zone who were taking care of the actual alien soldiers. Of course anyone in the combat zone would attack any enemy who hey saw opportunity to, but for the most part the heroes kept to the groups they'd started in to avoid tripping over each other and making the battle more confusing than it already was.
The alien soldiers were remarkably varied, but all seemed to be humanoid if nothing else. They weren't the mindless, cookie cutter soldier types either, making them harder to deal with because finding the exploit for one soldier didn't make it any easier to defeat the next.
Some fought with melee weapons, bizarre alien blades and clubs that looked less like weapons and more like just awkward shapes being swung at them. Others had more mechanical weaponry, guns firing aciding, burning plasma or intensely powerful bursting caps that could probably have killed any of the heroes if they landed a direct hit on them.
Flashy Flash and Speed O' Sound Sonic were the ones making sure the bursting caps didn't hit anyone directly, staying at high speeds as they dashed throughout the battlefield and targeting the gun users.
Sonic threw his kunai into the bursting caps when they were still only a few inches away from the gun that had fired them, killing the soldiers using them. Flashy Flash, going even faster than him, was able to just disarm the soldiers and cut through them with his blade before they even realized what was happening.
At the speeds they were moving, they couldn't be kept track of. The only S class the soldiers could focus on was Watch Dog Man. They made the mistake of underestimating him based on his less than threatening appearance.
Any of the soldiers who'd made this mistake were now dead. Even the sniper who'd tried to take him out from across the combat zone was killed, Watch Dog Man having somehow seen it, dodged it, and made his way to the sniper by way of digging underground to brutalize the soldier.
Eventually they did manage to start doing damage to Watch Dog Man by swarming him, attacking ten at a time with large, bulky fighters and powerful blade wielders together to prevent him from having any opening.
But even this turned back when Watch Dog Man decided to switch modes. He supposed that there was no need for a look out currently, as everyone already knew where the danger was. A look out was not needed currently; and so he switched from Watch Dog Mode to Attack Dog Mode.
His growling could be heard for almost a mile in every direction, the canine claws extending from his hand longer as he began to thrash through even the highly advanced soldiers without slowing.
While Watch Dog Man carved a bloody murder canyon through the combat zone and the speedsters dashed throughout it picking off high risk threats, Doll Master and Great Philosopher did what they could to keep the number of soldiers getting to the perimeter to a minimum.
Great Philosopher took out less, but was also taking out far stronger soldiers, ripping the cybernetic limbs off of enhanced soldiers while reciting ancient and emotionally moving words from memory.
He even managed to take out of the massive drones who'd evidently been sent to try and break the line of heroes keeping the soldiers in. The others hadn't been sure they'd be able to stop it from getting through, but Great Philosopher stepped into its path to prevent it from even reaching the line in the first place.
Great Philosopher lifted his book, bringing it down like a hammer onto the drone. The impact sent the drone into the ground, crushing it like a soda can against the dirt. It was his special move, Ten Tons of Philosophy.
Whether the book itself weighed ten tons and he'd be fighting so well while carrying, or it was a normal book and he'd just brought it down with the force of Ten Tons was unknown, but it was just as impressive either way.
Doll Master was taking out more threats though, controlling dozens of his dolls at once through puppet strings, a miniature army around him to keep the soldiers away from him. Any time an alien soldier died in close enough proximity to him, he let out another puppet string and caused the corpse to stand; another doll.
The heroes were… very thankful Doll Master had decided to become a hero and not a super villain.