The Rohirrim and the Zerg Swarm were about to close in towards Minas Tirith. Eomer arrived, "The scouts report Minas Tirith is surrounded. The lower level's in flames. Everywhere, legions of the enemy advance."

"Time is against us," said Theoden.

"Make ready!" Eomer ordered.

Dehaka noticed Eowyn and Merry talking.

"Zagara, Dehaka, Stukov," Izsha called out from the Leviathan. "I'm picking nearly half a million orcs had occupied the fields, they also had trolls for heavy support and Fellbeasts for air support."

"Sounds like Mordor is prepared for a siege," said Stukov.

"The siege had started and is continuing. Even Mordor took heavy casualties during the siege when Raynor and the Protoss are helping, Sauron's army and Amon's hybrids outnumbered them severely," said Izsha.

"It will only be a matter of time before Mordor sacks the city should Raynor and the Protoss fall."

"Prepare to move out!" Eomer shouted.

"Make haste. We ride through the night," the king passed the order and the men blew the horns as signals.

Merry and Eowyn put on helmets.

"Minions, when the time comes, show Mordor and Amon the fury of the Swarm," Zagara said to the whole Swarm and they all cried out.


The battle of Minas Tirith resumed as the Mordor catapults launched balls of burning hay. The mountain trolls operated Grond and the orcs began gathering in the gate. The Gondor archers above the gate and the orc archers fired at each other.

"Back to the gate! Hurry!" Gandalf shouted as he in Shadowfax leading the Gondor soldiers and archers to the gate.

"Raiders, take your positions at the gate," Jim ordered as he and Swann led his men to the gate.

"The gate will fall. Warriors, our allies will need help," said Artanis. He, Karax, Talandar, and Alarak led the Daelaam Protoss following their allies to the gate.

Meanwhile, Pippin noticed Denethor making preparations on Faramir. The hobbit followed them and attempted stop the steward from burning his last son alive. Despite Pippin's protests, Denethor released him from service and threw him out.

The Protoss melee warriors and cloaked warriors prepared their blades while Jim's infantry troops all prepared their guns. The siege tanks were on tank mode this time and the Vikings were on walker modes. The vulture bikes had took their time lay spider mines around Minas Tirith if Mordor sacked the city. Some of the Aiur high Templar merged to become archons and the thors participated this time.

"Steady. Steady," said Gandalf when the large battering ram pounded the gate. "You are soldiers of Gondor. No matter what comes through that gate, you will stand your ground," the wizard made a reminder when a large hole was punctured at the gate.

When the gate was broken open, trolls wearing armor and wielding spiked maces stormed in bringing fear to the men of Gondor. "Run!" few of the men attempted to kill the armored trolls but were killed.

"Light them up!" Jim ordered.

"Engage them!" Artanis ordered.

"Chew on this!" said a thor pilot as the mech killed an armored troll with its cannons on its arms.

"Power overwhelming!" an archon muttered as it killed another armored troll with psionic shockwave.

The marauders all had concussive shells that slow the movement of foes and the armored trolls were slowed by their blasts. The diamondbacks, siege tanks, Aiur immortals, Nerazim annihilators, Tal'darim vanguards, and Tal'darim wrathwalkers fired at the armored trolls taking them down easily. Following the armored trolls were orcs and human soldiers wearing oriental armor wielding pikes.

"Hierarch, I'm reading human soldiers from Rhun called Easterlings are joining the fight," Rohana informed.

"Volley!" Gandalf ordered.

"Fire!" the Gondor archers released an arrow volley felling a number of orcs and Easterlings. However, more of them were coming.

The Gondor soldiers with swords and shields clashed blades with the orcs as well as slashing the Easterlings. The Gondor soldiers with spears skewered some of the orcs while the Gondor archers picked off the foes.

The Aiur zealots, Nerazim centurions, and Purifier sentinels charged to intercept the orcs and Easterlings. The Aiur avengers, the Nerazim dark Templars, and Tal'darim blood hunters helped out without being seen by the Mordor forces. The Protoss melee warriors slashed the orcs and Easterlings into pieces. The Protoss cloaked warriors not only slashed the orcs and Easterlings into pieces, but they also took out additional armored trolls.

The firebats and hellions caught the orcs and Easterlings on fire causing them to run around then collapsed into the ground motionlessly. The marines, reapers, spectres, vulture bikes, goliaths, walker-mode Vikings, Aiur dragoons, Nerazim stalkers, and Purifier adepts fired at the Mordor forces. The bullets sent the orcs and Easterlings flying midair while the dragoons' phase disruptors disintegrated them. The Aiur high Templar and Tal'darim ascendants unleashed psionic storms and psionic orbs on the Mordor forces respectively. The Aiur sentries looked for Protoss forces to regenerate plasma shields, the Purifier energizers provided boosts for allies, and the Tal'darim havocs extended the attack ranges of allies. The Aiur reavers launched scarabs blowing multiple orcs and Easterlings while regenerating the scarabs. The Purfier colossi caught multiple orcs and Easterlings on fire with their thermal lances causing them to run around then collapsed into the ground motionlessly. When the colossi attacked, they also created fire walls that scorch incoming hostiles.

"They keep coming even when they take fire," a marine commented.

"They don't even know about taking cover," said a reaper.

"Don't let scum like this take you down," said another marine.

The Nerazim void rays concentrated their batteries mainly on additional armored trolls while the Tal'darim destroyers could hit not just additional armored trolls but also orcs and Easterlings. The Aiur phoenixes and Purifier mirages used graviton beams to pick off orcs and Easterlings. The wraith fighters fired their lasers on the Mordor forces from the air but the banshees' air-to-ground missiles handled them better.

Gandalf on Shadowfax slit the throat of an armored troll and Swann fired his grenade gun at another armored troll. Jim fired his C-14 Gauss rifle at any Mordor forces and Karax picked them off with his drones. Artanis used lightning dash taking out a group of orcs and Easterlings then slashed them with his twilight blades. Talandar used thunderous charge and slashed any of the Mordor forces with his purifier blades. Alarak used deadly charge that killed a troll then used destruction wave killing a number of orcs and Easterlings then slashed them with his bane blades.

Meanwhile, Pippin went looking for help. "Come on, soldier! Move it!" a Gondor soldier ordered as the wounded were being taken away.

"Gandalf! Jim! Artanis!" the hobbit shouted passing the men on the way. "Where are Gandalf, Jim, and Artanis?!"

As for the battle, there were more orcs and armored trolls to replace the fallen even though all Easterlings were killed.

"They're endless," said a banshee pilot.

"Retreat!" a Gondor soldier shouted as the men of Gondor all began running.

"What the hell is wrong with them?" a marine asked.

"We can't hold them much longer," said a high Templar.

"The city is breached! Fall back to the second level! Get the women and children out! Get them out! Retreat!" Gandalf ordered.

"Warriors, pull back to the second level," Artanis ordered.

"Purifiers, let's move," Talandar pass the order.

"Tal'darim, you heard the hierarch. Retreat," Alarak ordered.

"Raiders, cover everyone," Jim ordered. The vehicles and air forces went ahead. Jim, Swann, and the infantry continued firing at the Mordor forces and walked backwards simultaneously.

The orc leader in the fields ordered, "Move into the city. Kill all in your path." The orcs and armored trolls all stormed the city slaughtering whatever was in their path especially civilians. There were chaos and screaming throughout the streets of Minas Tirith.

"Fight. Fight to the last man! Fight for your lives!" Gandalf ordered. The orcs were overwhelming the exhausted men of Gondor and armored trolls hurled the men of Gondor as if they were projectiles.

A number of orcs grappled onto the men of Gondor, Jim's marauders, and the Protoss melee warriors. "Get them off me!" a marauder shouted as the orcs all grappled onto him. A zealot slashed the orcs helping his ally so that the marauder could kill one of the orcs with one of his grenade guns. "I owe you one."

The orcs even climbed onto the goliaths, diamondbacks, siege tanks, dragoons, stalkers, immortals, annihilators, vanguards, reavers, colossi, wrathwalkers, and thors. The orcs' weapons all broke when they attempted to destroy the machines. The reapers, spectres, and wraith fighters had to pick them off. The phoenixes and mirages used graviton beams to pluck the orcs from the vehicles and war machines.

"They're all over the place," said a marine as he fired at whatever hostiles he saw.

"They just won't stop," said a zealot.

"Then shoot all over the place," said a thor pilot.

The orc archers fired their arrows at the Protoss forces but the plasma shields all blocked the piercing projectiles. However, one of the orc archers killed the marine with a headshot.

The reapers picked off the orcs with their pistols before turning to see an armored troll coming towards them. "We're screwed," said one of the reapers. The troll swung its mace killing the reapers causing their jet packs to be out of control sending the bodies flying.

One spectre picked off the orcs with his rifle and used psionic lash on an armored troll killing it. However, another armored troll swung its mace killing him. "I'm gone," the spectre muttered before dying.

One armored troll swung its mace at an Aiur zealot, a Nerazim centurion, and a Purfier sentinel. The damage depleted their plasma shields and wounding them so that the orcs could finish off the melee warriors that were infantry. An immortal killed that troll before another armored troll struck the assault strider from behind. The damage was sufficient causing the immortal to activate the barrier then the assault strider finished that troll. However, several more armored trolls converged upon the immortal and destroyed the assault strider.

A vulture bike fired a grenade at an orc and an orc archer released an arrow on the biker's throat. A few hellion cars caught lines of orcs on fire sending them running around before several armored trolls crushed the cars with their maces. A goliath fired its autocannons at the orcs before turning to see an armored troll was behind it. The armored troll knocked the machine into the ground with its mace and crushed the pilot. A walker-mode Viking fired its autocannons at incoming hostiles but was struck by an armored troll from behind. Several more trolls all converged upon the downed machine and finished it off. A dragoon and a stalker fired at the orcs. Only the stalker saw several armored trolls coming and blinked to get out of the way. The trolls all crushed the dragoon with their maces before turning to the stalker and a few banshees blew those trolls with their missiles.

A diamondback took down an armored troll but more were coming. It went forward and picked off the others simultaneously. A siege tank killed an armored troll with its twin cannons; however several more trolls converged upon the tank and destroyed it with their maces. A colossus caught multiple orcs with its thermal lances on fire; however several armored trolls sent the battle strider falling by destroying its legs then finished it off. Several armored trolls converged upon a wrathwalker and it shot an armored troll. However, the other armored trolls destroyed the legs of the battle strider and finished it off. A reaver launched a scarab killing multiple orcs and saw an armored troll coming. Despite the next scarab killed the troll, several trolls crushed the reaver from behind. An archon used psionic shockwave on whatever hostile was on the path; however several armored trolls caused the archon to disintegrate. A thor picked off the armored trolls, however a horde of them converged upon the mech. The armored trolls turned the mech into a thor wreckage then finished it off before immortality protocol could be used.

A group of marines fired at incoming orcs but turned to see an armored troll approached. Within a single swing of the troll's mace, the marines sent flying into the air and died right away. The other marines, marauders, adepts, reapers, spectres, high Templar, and ascendants used the wreckages of the destroyed machines for cover. They and the orc archers fired at each other. The orc archers fired flaming arrows attempting to shoot down the Terran and Protoss air forces. A Nerazim corsair used a disruption web to prevent the orc archers from shooting them and the orc archers had to relocate.

Swann used his cybernetic arm to club the orcs and fired his grenade gun at any troll. One orc grappled onto the chief engineer and was killed by Karax's drones. "Thanks," said Swann.

"You can thank me later," said Karax. Swann killed another armored troll that was behind the Protoss phase-smith. "Then I should be thanking you."

Swann set up his Flaming Betty that caught multiple orcs on fire causing them to run around then collapsed motionlessly. The turret also drew the armored trolls' attention and both engineers had to take them down.

"Is this all you got?" Alarak muttered after dodging an armored troll's lethal swing. He then killed the troll with deadly charge and used destruction wave on a horde of incoming orcs. "Larger numbers are used to offset weak weapons. Those trolls are tougher than I thought."

Talandar used thunderous charge on an armored troll and finished it off with his blades. He used whirlwind killing surrounding orcs so that they would not grapple onto him.

"No more hybrids coming. Amon thought Sauron's forces can overwhelm us," said Artanis as he slashed an orc. He noticed an armored troll coming and dodged its lethal swing. The hierarch then used lightning dash and finished off the troll.

"Fall back, we're cut off," said a marine firing at the orcs.

"Do what you think it's best," said Jim as he fired at incoming orcs.

"Gandalf! Jim! Artanis!" it was Pippin.

"Pippin, you shouldn't be here," said Artanis.

"Denethor has lost his mind! He's burning Faramir alive!" the hobbit informed.

"Up! Quickly!" the wizard helped the hobbit into Shadowfax.

"Raynor, leave them to us. You go ahead and stop the steward," said the Protoss hierarch.

"Give them hell, Artanis," said Jim and he threw a hand grenade another horde of incoming orcs. As a result, the explosion sent the orcs flying into the air.

No matter how many orcs and armored trolls were killed, more replaced the fallen. The streets of Minas Tirith became littered with bodies of men, orcs, and trolls along with the wreckages of destroyed machines. A slain Protoss infantry disintegrated and left no dead body.

Gandalf and Pippin on Shadowfax followed by Jim were intercepted by a Ringwraith in his Fellbeast. Unlike the other Ringwraiths, this one wore a crown-like helmet. Jim guessed the particular Ringwraith was their leader, the Witch-king of Angmar. "Go back to the abyss. Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your master," said the wizard.

"Do you not know death when you see it, old man? This is my hour," the Witch-king drew his sword and lit it with fire. As a result, the wizard's staff exploded knocking him and the hobbit into the floor.

"Gandalf!" Pippin shouted.

The Fellbeast pinned the wizard to the floor by roaring and froze the charging hobbit with another roar.

"You have failed. The world of Men will fall," said the Witch-king.

"Not if I can help it!" Jim got the Ringwraith leader's attention.

"You think you can stop us? You, your army, and your allies will fall this day. No man can kill me," said the Witch-king.

"Even so, it is you who will die today. Your army and your master will be next."

"You, fool! No one can defeat me or my master," the Ringwraith leader raised his sword. However, there was a horn faraway that got his attention. The Witch-king had his Fellbeast flying away from Minas Tirith.

"Rohan and the Zerg show up," Jim muttered.

Author's Note

When I was writing the transmission from Izsha, I listened to the soundtrack "Rhythm Tension" from StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. Never know if the soundtrack is appropriate for that scene.

After I wrote Gandalf saying "Fight! Fight to the last man! Fight for your lives!", I listened to the first 40% of the soundtrack "A Card to Play" from StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty when writing the chaotic fight.

I thought "A Card to Play" soundtrack would be suitable for the chaotic fight in Minas Tirith.