Ever since Alita rose to popularity as a Motorball Champion, Iron City hasn't been the same. People looked at her as their Saviour who would one day, redeem their land from the clutches of the technocratic titan who was ruling them all. Nova's goons began to fear her for she, in utter defiance of the rules of the factory used guns in broad daylight. As her prowress in fighting Nova's thugs increased tremendously, she rallied a group of defiant Hunter-Warriors to take down this ruthless Technocrat. Besides, by this time, her memories were restored and she knew of her previous life, the logic behind her being called number 99, the events of the fall and her apparent demise at the hands of Nova himself.

First things first, they lay waste to the factory. They faced a huge resistance from the Machine Gun wielding drones and tanks. One of them lobbed grenades which reduced those armoured vehicles to smithereens! This liberated the Hunter-Warriors to take up arms against their oppressors and goons alike and this bugged Nova a lot. Soon, Alita and her allies found out about a secret passageway to Zalem and they snuck into the floating city made entirely of metal. Not exactly floating for it was held up in the air by strong metallic tubes that were designed for carrying transport ships, ships to send supplies to Zalem.

Before going any further, she paid a visit to the graveyard. She spent a few minutes by Hugo's grave, swearing that she'll avenge his death. For her, this mission was important as Nova murdered her boyfriend Hugo when he tried to climb the metallic tubes to go to Zalem

As Nova began to experiment on teleportation technology, he stumbled upon a world with blood red skies and creatures with demonic blood-lust. "With a little upgrade" he thought "These creatures could be exactly what I want to quell this uprising" and so, he made contact with their leader, the Orc shaman Ner'zhul.

While these developments were going on, Alita and her allies broke through the defenses of the floating city of Zalem. They fought with the robotic drones and cyborgs that were headed their way.

"There's the citadel!" and the Resistance member pointed at the towering building from which intense flashes of light started to emerge.

"Nova!", then Alita held on to her sword and stabbed one of the drones that was guarding the citadel. "This one's for Hugo!"

Alita and her allies stormed into Nova's citadel. Breaking through the intense gunfire coming from all sides, they made their way to the power core that gave power to the entire city. Shutting down the core also shut off the defenses of the city.

This didn't stop Nova's plans. He turned on the backup power supply to his laboratory. Alita and her allies barged in, only to see Nova teleport from that location.

"Huh, where did he go?"

"He must have surrendered"

Just then, a vision flashed in Alita's mind: "He's evil incarnate, he never surrenders!"

Their discussions were soon interrupted by a blinding flash of light as the ground beneath them rumbled. When the light faded, the Resistance members looked out of the window to witness the shocking truth:

A few blocks away from the outskirts of Iron City, where once was an old ruined keep, a huge portal now stood there. Worse yet was that a huge number of cybernetically advanced creatures poured out of this portal and they could see Nova at the centre of it all.