Hey guys, this is the main battle chapter and I put quite a lot of work into it. And yes, the previous few chapters have been directly inspired by Aliens. Don't forget to review at the end.

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CHAPTER 24. LET 'EM HAVE IT

Nala's vision eventually returned to her and her ears stopped ringing, the first thing she saw when she got up was EJ frantically pointing his rifle in different directions; with a terrified look on his face. The team was still a little stunned from the flash-bangs, but they were Delta-Four and ready for anything. Swifty had the infrared scope now, and was drawn to a large concrete wall on the other side of the command center.

"Oh shit...I'm getting multiple heat signatures from the other side of that wall...They're trying flank us!" He said, raising the alarm. Oh no you don't try and catch us with our backs turned.

"Trying to get us from behind are they? Let's make them a door..." Nala said and readied the under slung M203 grenade launcher on her rifle.

She aimed the weapon at the wall Swifty was pointing at and fired the mighty grenade. The wall was smashed down and many Outlanders on the other side were killed by the blast. Others just stood in front of the opening; shocked. Their trap had just been foiled. Zira watched on from the safety of a tank and thought: Impossible...Nala you clever girl.

At first Delta-Four and the Outlanders just stared at each other dumbly before Swifty raised his M60 machine gun and shouted out:

"LET 'EM HAVE IT!" *BABABABABABABANG!*

Delta-Four opened fire and within seconds reduced the stunned Outlanders into a mangled pile of smoking flesh. Vitani watched on from a close distance and was shocked, she had never seen so many people killed at the same time before. She frantically picked up her radio and punched in Zira's frequency.

"Mom? They survived the trap...What? If we send anyone in there it's suicide... No!" She argued with her mother until she stopped responding. Damn it...Might as well send the next platoon in... She thought.

"Okay...fifth platoon, you're up." Vitani announced to her troops.

"What? It's cold-blooded murder! You can't make us..." One of her men started but Vitani grabbed him by the collar of his shirt to silence him.

"That's an order soldier." She snarled and the man nodded.

She then blew her whistle and fifth platoon jumped out of their cover, screaming battle cries. But as soon as they were exposed, they were cut down by Delta-Four's bullets. Vitani tried to ignore the massacre and ordered her soldiers to attack from different sides, but Nala had set up a perimeter and they were mercilessly gunning down anything that moved. Vitani watched in horror and radioed her mother again.

"Mom this is genocide! I think we have to regroup and..." She started but Zira cut her off.

"Vitani you will follow orders is that clear? Their ammunition isn't going to last forever...So we give them some target practice and let them shoot themselves out, once they have, we go in." Zira's voice said and Vitani's jaw dropped.

"Mom that's shitful! What about all of the soldiers who have families? You know better than anyone..." She said but was interrupted again.

"Vitani I suggest you do as you're told or bad things will happen...What if you were to join our boys who were getting cut down eh? Don't think you'd like that. No victory is achievable without sacrifice...you know that and so do I." Zira said threateningly.

Vitani felt tears coming on, she couldn't just let her comrades be massacred like that, she felt like a mass murderer every time she called up a platoon to advance on the command center. It was only then she started to realize the evil of her mother; to her deaths were no more than a statistic. All she cared about was her vengeance. Vitani felt like vomiting as the pile of dead bodies outside the command center grew and grew, and flies started to buzz around it. She even noticed soldiers crying before they were called up and writing letters to loved ones; as they knew that this was their end.

Eventually, the shots started to become rarer and rarer, D4 was running out of ammo. As much as she hated to admit it, Zira's plan had worked despite huge casualties. Vitani sighed and held up a pistol into the air and fired a single shot.

"C'mon guys, they're out rounds so let's finish this! Lock and load...Oh, and fix bayonets!" She yelled out and the Outlanders cheered.

Nala tossed away her empty weapon in frustration; they wouldn't be able to hold out for much longer now. They were critically low on ammo and couldn't contact Simba or the chopper. Now the Outlanders were coming in a new, huge wave, firing shots all over the place. Nala was too afraid to stick her head out as a stray bullet would likely hit her. She drew Matthew Weaver's old M1911 pistol and prepared for one final stand. She felt a little relieved that she was at least going to go out the same way he did; with a fight.

"Okay guys, we might be in the Alamo here, but we ain't going to go out without a fight...Now who's with me?" She yelled out and the exhausted Delta-Four cheered.

"I was saving this for a special occasion...like now." EJ said and pulled out a compact Remington 870 shotgun from his equipment pack. He showed it to Nala and smiled.

"Watch the perimeter, they'll be coming in from all angles." Nala warned them before furiously shooting at a group of Outlander troops running in front of her.

They held out for several minutes, until they finally started to get overrun. Rex was furiously shooting out a window but then a burst of machine-gunfire smashed through the glass and three bullets hit him in the chest. He collapsed back down onto the floor, dead. An RPG then smashed down a wall and detonated, killing Frost and Westbrook. Their burnt, bloodied bodies lay on the floor next to EJ, and he gasped in horror. His comrades, and friends for many years were now dead.

"Rex...Frost...Westbrook...No!" EJ cried out hopelessly. Nala, Jackson and himself were the only ones left alive now.

He continued shooting furiously with the shotgun until a woman appeared in front of him; he hesitated a little at first as he didn't like killing women. But this one was different though; she was rather muscular and wore a red headband with sunglasses. He noticed the AK-47 in her hand and decided that it would be best to waste her. He raised the shotgun but the woman kicked it out of his hands in a flash. Before EJ knew it, he was on the ground at her mercy. She raised her AK and pressed it against his skull.

"Pridelander fool...This one's for all of my boys that you massacred." Vitani snarled and prepared to pull the trigger, but a foot came out from nowhere and kicked the weapon out of her hands. She turned to see a very angry Nala glaring at her.

"Where's your pretty daughter Nala?" She snarled, but was quickly silenced by roundhouse kick to the stomach, which made her double back in pain.

"Down the barrel of my gun Vitani." Nala snarled and engaged in an intense fistfight with her.

The two were perfectly matched, both gifted military leaders, both skilled martial artists and both brilliant soldiers. They fought for several minutes, while Jackson and EJ held off the huge wave of incoming outlander single-handedly. Each strike, and each block seemed to move in slow motion for Nala; it was a true battle of the heroines.

Eventually, Vitani's young age and tenacity started to show and she gained the upper hand. She struck Nala in the jaw with a right hook and she collapsed onto the ground, stunned. She then picked up her AK-47 and pointed it at her head.

"D4 assholes...drop your weapons...NOW! Or your queen dies. Let's see your hands." She yelled out aggressively and Jackson and EJ complied.

Nala looked at EJ sorrowfully and gave him the I've failed you look. They dropped to their knees and raised their hands in defeat.

"Good..." Vitani muttered and Outlander troops started arriving on the scene.

Another woman then pushed past Vitani and looked Nala over with hate in her eyes: Zira.

"Well, well, well, what have we here?" Zira said evilly and cocked her pistol. This is how I hurt Simba.

Nala closed her eyes and waited for the shot, but suddenly a loud noise broke out, and the roof exploded, sending everyone flying but her. Nala's ears rang in her head but she still managed to hear the faint sound of rotors above them. Simba...I knew you would be there for me. The V-22 Osprey descended in front of the wreckage; with rocket launchers smoking.

Meanwhile on the chopper

Simba slapped Howitzer a high five and smiled.

"Great shot kid...I'm going in to rescue D4, I need you to be ready for immediate dust-off." He said and both Lorenzo and Howitzer nodded.

He readied his Desert Eagle pistol and looked one last time at Lorenzo. Something seemed familiar about her, she was great at what did, very brave and cool in a crisis. But something about those qualities seemed to be something Simba had seen before...In someone else.

Lorenzo was a gifted military pilot, born to parents who had served in the PRF's struggle against Scar. She never knew her father, but from what her mother told her he was extremely brave, and gave his life for the PRF's cause. Killed in a final stand defending a chopper crash. All of her qualities were inherited straight from that one man, who she didn't know who he was or what significance was. She was the daughter of the widowed war nurse Eleanor Lorenzo, and the legendary Matthew Weaver. But she had no clue about that and neither did anyone else.

She straightened her aviator sunglasses and started to move the chopper over the wreckage.

Meanwhile, Outland border

Kovu smashed through the chain link fence with the car, and gunned it towards the Outland command center as quick as he could. They had little time left, and knew it. He drove furiously until something caught his eye. The entire command center erupted into a ball of fire as Lorenzo's Osprey hovered overhead. He gasped at what he saw next, piles of bodies stacked around the wreckage. They might have been too late stopping the war, but they could still put an end to it.

"Mother of God..." Kiara said when she saw the battlefield and tried her best to refrain from throwing up at the graphic images around her.

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