Heroes UNITE!

by So-Pro Warrior

Commander Shepard and his team have gathered together the races of their Galaxy in an effort to defeat the Reapers. But is it enough? When the team comes across a strange woman they find out that if they are to truly defeat the Reapers once and for all. They will need all the help they can get. But not from their Universe. Multiverse Crossover! Chapters 6-22 Being Rewritten!

44. Operation Life

(Insert - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers CR - 03. Where Is The Horse And Rider?)

Saturday, March 7th

9:42 AM...

A holo-photo is seen floating above an omni-tool. On it was a picture of a young, white-skinned human female with red hair, and some freckles on her face, as she smiled at the camera. Looking at this photo was a blue-skinned Asari with a few dark blue freckles beneath her eyes, a saddened smile on her face as she looked at the photo with a hopeful stare in her eyes. Just then someone's hand appeared on her shoulder catching her attention, as she turned her head to look at it and then looked up over her shoulder to see the hand belonging to a female Quarian Marine as she nodded her head at the Asari. The Asari nodded back as she deactivated her omni-tool and stood up, the two Marines then taking their leave from the locker room as around them other female Marines were still gearing up for combat.

In another locker room, this one for males, a US Army soldier places on his Improved Outer Tactical Vest. As beside him a UNSC Army soldier fastens his helmet to his head, while a Turian soldier brings out from his locker his Phaeston assault rifle. A Providence agent and Bear tribe warrior walk past the Turian and then a seated Water Tribe soldier, the Water Tribe warrior sitting on the bench completely silent while staring at the ground until a few taps on his back makes him turn and look up to see a Kirkwall Guardsman as he gestures with his head to the right.

Other than a few murmurs, the sounds of weapons being checked, gear being loaded, and lockers being closed, both rooms were completely silent. The look on everyone's face was just… blank. There was no emotion in the eyes of many; where the past few days had been full of nothing but energy, all of that had now but disappeared. Most everyone was silent, emotionless.

A Firebending soldier placed the skull-looking faceplate onto his helmet, a United States Army Ranger loaded his final magazine into his ammo pouch, a female Inquisition soldier rested her head back against the locker as she took in a deep breath and then stood up. A UNIT soldier walked by a male Systems Alliance Marine as he had his face lowered into the palms of his hands, a Gondor soldier checked the sharpness of his blade one last time before sheathing it away, while a Clone trooper and male human New Republic soldier bumped arms and then turned to walk towards the door of their locker room.

Out in the hallway, Coalition troops walked towards the hangar bay.

10:55 AM

In the main hangar bay of a Venator-class Star Destroyer, Coalition troops gathered into their Platoons as they sat around waiting for the go ahead to board their transports. A US Army soldier lied on his back, his head resting on his backpack as he looked up at a picture of him, his wife, and their two kids, one a baby boy, the other a little girl probably 5 or 6 years old. A soldier of Rohan, and a Krogan soldier sat side by side on a large crate, both of them silent as they just looked forward in their respective direction; a female elven College of Enchanter mage sat on the floor, her knees bent up and her arms resting on them as one could notice her held together hands shaking in fear. Nearby, a Fereldan soldier writes a letter with a pen.

"... And I just wanted to let you know, I love you." a Turian soldier says, finishing his audio message for his wife for if something were to happen to him.

11:12

Aboard the Infinity in one of the control rooms overlooking a hangar, stood Captain Lasky. His hands rested behind his back together as he too had a blank expression on his face as he looked out the window into the hangar. The Marines in this particular hangar were just like everyone else, sitting or standing around silently; there were a few Marines talking to one another, going over their equipment again, looking at photos of their loved ones, writing letters or recording audio messages to be sent to their loved ones should something happen to them. There were also a few groups spread about, all of them prayer groups for people from certain races, or universes.

"In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit." a 21st Century US Marine says as he does the sign of the cross. In front of him, on their knees with their hands together and heads lowered, were other Humans from the United States Military, UNIT, SHIELD, Providence, Systems Alliance, and UNSC as they too did the sign of the cross following the prayer.

"May the Maker, and Andraste watch over us all." a female Inquisition soldier says to a varying group of Humans from the Inquisition, Fereldan, Orlesian, and Kirkwall armies.

"May the Force be with us." a male human New Republic Marine says to a gathering of New Republic and Clone Marines.

Even though it couldn't be seen on his face, in his heart, there was sadness. One would think Captain Lasky would have gotten used to experiencing loss by now, having been through a lot like many other UNSC veterans of the Human-Covenant War, as well as other recent events but… was there ever really a way of getting used to such a tragic thing? Today, so many of these men and women weren't going to be returning home. Today, they were going to be leaving behind their family, their friends, everyone they cared for… or perhaps even joining them. Such is the tragedy of war, is that it cannot ever be won without sacrifice, without the loss of life, and considering the battle that was to come… there was unfortunately going to be a lot of it today. But Lasky knew, everyone knew, that if they weren't ready to sacrifice themselves to try and win this battle today, then even more lives would be destroyed. Including those that they were fighting to protect. With this thought in mind, Lasky closed his eyes as he turned and walked out of the room.

The door to the hangar opened up. A nearby Clone trooper who was sitting down amongst a circle of other Coalition Marines, looked up. A large group of people entered the room as the Clone looked on at them, this caught the attention of the other Marines as they all turned to look to see who it was he was staring at. Entering the hangar bay was Po, and Tigress. Behind them the rest of their friends from the Furious Five, as also alongside them was the 17th Super Sentai team, the Gosei Sentai DaiRangers, Avatar Aang and his group of friends, along with the Jungle Fury Wolf, and Rhino Ranger. And behind them were several more groups of Coalition Marines.

Elsewhere walking down a hallway was Tsukasa Kadoya aka Kamen Rider Decade, already transformed alongside his successor, the two-in-one Kamen Rider Double, and the 10th Shōwa Rider Kamen Rider ZX. In another hallway were the Gokaigers, their helmets off and under their arms as they walked in front of a large group of Coalition soldiers, a scene that was also happening in another hallway, with the Megaforce Rangers in front of another group of Coalition soldiers.

In another hangar was Laval, Eris, and their friends, as they sat in a circle. Eris looking at the ground with a worried expression when she felt a hand go on her back, making her look up and then to her right to see Laval as he gave her a reassuring smile. A smile that helps ease her a little as she smiles back, the worried look though still in her eyes. In another hangar, Natsu and Gajeel bashed their heads against each other with highly annoyed looks on their faces, Natsu yelled something causing Gajeel to yell back, causing Erza to come in and punch both of them in the head sending them face first into the floor as she then started yelling. Gray seemed to make a comment with an annoyed look on his face, while half-naked for some reason, while Lucy and Wendy had their eyes closed and laughed at this; Carla also looked annoyed while Happy was just casually eating a fish, and Lily sat with his arms crossed while looking over at the two. Natsu got back up and rubbed his head as he then looked over at Lucy and Wendy, somehow Lucy seemed to notice this as she stopped laughing and opened her eyes to look at Natsu. After staring at each other for a few seconds, Natsu gave his signature toothy-grin at her causing her to smile again. Elsewhere in another hallway, Sora stood with his hands against the wall as he leaned towards it with his head hanging down, only the lower half of his face could be seen as everything else was covered in shadow.

Walking down another hallway, was the Master Chief. The Spartan walking by himself with no other Coalition troops around him, when he suddenly came to a stop, and looked up to his right.

(Fade Out - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers CR - 03. Where Is The Horse And Rider?)

SSV Normandy SR-2…

11:55 AM...

Joker, as always, was in his pilot seat in the cockpit with EDI right beside him in the co-pilot seat, when he suddenly looked up to his left. Pulling up right beside the Normandy, was Admiral Hackett's Dreadnought as it came to a slow stop. Joker then watched as the Dreadnought's boarding tube began to descend towards their airlock until connecting with it.

"Commander, you've got a priority message from Admiral Hackett, requesting to come aboard." Joker informs Shepard over the comms.

(Insert - Mass Effect 3 Soundtrack "Stand Strong, Stand Together")

"Permission granted." Shepard replies.

"Aye Commander." Joker says as he presses a button, allowing the airlock doors to open as a few seconds later Admiral Hackett along with two Systems Alliance Marines walk in.

The Admiral and his guards make their way down the walkway of the CIC as the crewmen at their stations turn to look at him, other crew members, such as Cortez, Chief Engineer Adam, Engineers Daniels and Donnelly, Dr. Karin Chakwas, War Correspondent Diana Allers, and a few others walk to the sides and stand at attention as they salute the Admiral as he walks by. Hackett makes his way around the right side of the galaxy map until he is at the back where Samantha Traynor stands at attention and salutes him, and he is also greeted by Shepard and his entire team.

"Commander." Hackett greets.

"Admiral." Shepard replies as he and his team stand at attention and salute him.

Hackett returns the salute, "Are you ready to bring the might of the multiverse to bear on the Reapers?" he asks as he lowers his arm.

Shepard and the others all lower their arms, "Yes sir!" he says.

The two exchange a shake of hands, "Then let's make sure the fleets are ready." Hackett says.

Behind him one of his guards hands Samantha a datapad, as she turns around to her station and presses a few buttons on the datapad. Seemingly connecting the comms of the Normandy to all of the other fleets as on the galaxy map several green dots begin to flash across it.

"All fleets reporting in, sir." Traynor reports.

Hackett walks up the steps to the overlooking platform as he stands at attention and puts his hands behind his back, "Never before have so many come together, not just from all quarters of this galaxy. But from all quarters of the vast multiverse… But never before have any of us faced an enemy such as this. The Reapers, and their allies will show us no mercy. We must give them no quarter…"

In the hallway of a Turian Frigate, Primarch Victus stands at a window with his hands behind his back as he watches two more Turian Frigates float beside his. He is joined a few seconds later by a Turian general.

"They will terrorize our populations. We must stand fast in the face of that terror."

The crew of the Normandy stands around the galaxy map as they watch Admiral Hackett speak.

"They will advance until our last city falls, but we will not fall. We will prevail."

Captain Lasky stands at the bridge of the Infinity as he looks out the window at the rest of the Coalition fleets as they begin to move out, beside him on a holotank was Roland as he stared out the window alongside him. On the bridge of the Venator-class Star Destroyer the Resolute, Admiral Yularen, and Jedi Master Mace Windu stared out the window of the starboard bridge as well, as the Clone crewmembers around them were at work.

"Each of us will be defined by our actions in the coming battle. Stand fast. Stand strong. Stand together…"

12:00 PM...

"Hackett out." Hackett finishes as Traynor ends the transmission.

The Normandy takes the lead as behind it all of the Coalition fleets follow, and at the far back Planet X, along with the small group of Shield Fleet and the Crucible. From the bridge of his Dreadnought, Admiral Hackett watches as the fleets move out, "Good luck... everyone." he says.

(Fade Out - Mass Effect 3 Soundtrack "Stand Strong, Stand Together")

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(Insert - Mass Effect 3 Soundtrack "The Fleets Arrive")

Shepard stands on the bridge in his armor behind Joker's right, "Approaching Sol Relay, Commander." Joker reports.

Shepard remains silent, his arms crossed with a serious look on his face. This was it.

"We're through the relay in 30 seconds." Joker adds.

Finally the Normandy drops out from the relay jump beside the Sol Relay as it continues forward. Not a second later a Systems Alliance frigate follows them, followed by another, and a Turian frigate, a Geth frigate, an Alliance dreadnought, an Asari dreadnought; more and more ships from the various factions of this universe continued pouring out from the relay as there were now well over a hundred, and still counting. All of their arrivals signaled with sonic booms which continued to go off, and off, and off with more new arrivals. Soon even the Destiny Ascension arrived with a sonic boom to join the combined fleets of this universe. Meanwhile some distance off to their left, a number of Slipspace portals opened up, from two of them the UNSC Infinity and Shadow of Intent emerged, from the others emerged more ships from the UNSC and Swords of Sanghelios fleets. Off to the right of the Sol Relay, ships from the Galactic Republic, and New Republic fleets began to emerge from hyperspace; the Resolute, and Home One included. Soon the last ship came through the Sol Relay, the last slipspace portal closed, and the last Republic ship came out of hyperspace, all of Sword had arrived, leaving the combined fleets at well over a thousand ships as everyone regrouped and continued on to Earth.

"Alliance fleets reporting. Turian fleets reporting. Asari fleets reporting." Joker began to inform Shepard.

The fleets of Sword group continued forward as they passed the planet of Jupiter.

"Quarian fleets, accounted for and ready." Admiral Zaal'Koris reports.

"All Geth ships accounted for. The Geth are ready for your command." a Geth unit reports.

"The Swords of Sanghelios fleets, stand ready for battle." Fleet Master Rtas 'Vadum reports.

"All New Republic fleets have joined Sword and await further orders." Admiral Ackbar reports.

"Galactic Republic fleets reporting, UNSC fleets reporting…" Joker continues to speak.

Joker remains silent for a few seconds as he moves some holographic panels in front of him around, "All fleets reporting in, Commander. Fighter and Bomber squadrons are preparing to deploy now, troop transports are moving to the back, and our rearguard fleet has positioned themselves around the Sol Relay. Everyone's ready to engage on your command." Joker informs him.

(Fade Out - Mass Effect 3 Soundtrack "The Fleets Arrive")

(Fade In - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Soundtrack "Scrambling the Rebel Fleet" (Play from 0:48))

"All pilots, report to your fighters! All pilots, report to your fighters! We are approaching Earth, all squadrons are to deploy!" a male New Republic crewmen announces over the intercoms.

In the hangar of a MC90 Star Cruiser, Coalition pilots rush to their starfighters as the alarm sounds. A Sullustan New Republic pilot climbs into the cockpit of his RZ-1 A-wing interceptor, while nearby a Turian pilot is already closing the canopy of his T-77 Tusk fighter while activating its systems. A New Republic marshaller signals to the pilot of a F-16C that he was clear to launch.

"Yeah, let's go!"

"Come on!"

"Give them hell flyboys!"

"Teach those bastards a lesson!"

"Go get 'em!"

Inside the main hangar bay of a Venator-class Star Destroyer, Coalition ground troops cheered for their flying comrades since they were going to be the first ones to engage the Reapers and their allies in combat.

"Look at that people, we got ourselves some fans!" the male UNSC pilot of a Broadsword humorously comments as the canopy of his fighter closes.

"This is it people, it's all or nothing. Let's kick ass and get it done!" the female Systems Alliance pilot of a F-61 Trident speaks as she starts up her systems.

"Hope to see you all alive when this is over, drinks will be on me!" the male US Air Force pilot of a F-35A Lightning II states over the comms, earning a few cheers and chuckles from his fellow airmen and women.

A Clone marshaller in front of him begins directing the pilot to come forward. Activating the new propulsion systems that had been installed beneath his aircraft brings the F-35A hovering a few feet into the air as the marshaller steps off to the side. Kneeling down on his left knee as he then signals the USAF pilot to take off; the pilot retracts his landing gear and slowly throttles his engines forward as he flies through the hangar bay barrier into the center passageway and pulls up to his right. The rest of the squadron begins to follow him out, as he throttles his engines to full power and flies out through the Venator's opened bow doors, the rest of the squadron right behind him.

Across the rest of Sword group thousands, if not millions of fighters and bombers fly out from the many Carriers and other ships as they form up into their formations and join the larger ships on their approach towards Earth. Among them were the likes of Jedi Master Plo Koon in his Delta-7B Interceptor, Wedge Antilles in his T-65 X-Wing, Sasha Phyronix in a Kalebo-class Starfighter, and Talwyn Apogee in a Class-G Star Jumper that had managed to be saved and repaired in time for the battle.

(Fade Out - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Soundtrack "Scrambling the Rebel Fleet")

"This is where the fun begins." Anakin Skywalker jokingly comments as he steps into the cockpit of his Delta-7B Interceptor.

"Looks like it." his son Luke, in his pilot suit, responds as he steps into the cockpit of his T-65 X-Wing and puts his helmet on.

Both R2s chirp and beep in response to this. Behind the two Skywalkers, the rest of the heroes that would be partaking in the space battle stand ready. From the Justice League was Superman in his blue and silver space suit, Green Lantern John Stewart, Captain Atom, Orion, Aztek, Doctor Light, The Ray, Starman, and Waverider, from the Avengers was Iron Man in his Space Armor, Vision and Ms. Marvel. Other heroes included Ben Tennyson who at the moment was the alien Jetray, as well as Ratchet and Clank with the Lombax piloting his starfighter Aphelion; Leia along with Han and Chewbacca would be joining as well in the Millennium Falcon, along with a few of the Ranger and Sentai teams who had gone off to meet with the Doctor so they could get what they needed for the battle.

"Alright Luke, think you can show me what you got?" Anakin asks in a joking tone as he looks at him.

Luke smiles at this, "I can outfly and shoot down a lot more bad guys then you can old man." he replies, also in a joking tone.

"Old man? You do realize you and I are around the same age at this moment right? Looks like I'm going to have to teach you some manners." Anakin says as he looks back forward.

"Father." Luke speaks up with a serious look on his face, catching Anakin's attention again, "May the Force be with you."

A serious look comes to Anakin's face as well, "And may the Force be with you to… son."

Luke nods his head in acknowledgement as he looks forward and closes his canopy, Anakin does the same as does Ratchet. The three hover their starfighters into the air and then fly off, "Alright, time to get this show on the road people!" Tony comments as he and the other heroes take-off and follow after them.

All of the heroes fly out from a hangar bay of the Infinity as they join up with the rest of Sword.

Meanwhile in another hangar bay, the Gokaigers stand and sit around as they wait for the orders to board their transport.

"Marvelous!" a familiar voice calls out.

Marvelous and the other Gokaigers look to where the voice came from to see the Mega Rangers run up to them, "Troy? What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be out there-" Marvelous is cut off when Troy raises his right hand and presents to him four Legendary Ranger Keys, the Red Mighty Morphin Power Ranger, the Red Galaxy Ranger, the Red Ninja Storm Ranger, and the Red Samurai Ranger.

Marvelous looks at the Ranger Keys and then back up at Troy, "Since you guys can no longer use the powers of the past Super Sentai Teams, since their Ranger Keys are connected to their actual powers which they all need now. Thought we'd help you out and allow you to use the powers of the past Power Ranger Teams instead, since our Ranger Keys aren't like that." Troy says as he looks at Marvelous and smirks.

Marvelous smirks back and huffs while throwing his head slightly up. He looks back at the Ranger Keys and takes them, as does the rest of his team from the other Mega Rangers, sans Robo Knight who just stands off to the side. Marvelous looks at the Ranger Keys in his hand and then back at Troy, "We'll make sure to put them to good use… Thanks kid." Marvelous says.

Troy nods his head while Marvelous lowers his arm and puts the keys away; Troy and the other Mega Rangers turn to take their leave when, "Hey kid." Marvelous speaks up.

Troy stops and turns around, in an instant Marvelous raises and throws his right fist at Troy. Who catches the punch with ease in his right hand as he holds it there; Luka and Joe smirk at this, while Don, Ahim, and Gai seem happy with the latter looking more excited with his mouth wide open. The rest of the Mega Rangers just smile at this while exchanging looks with one another, except for Robo Knight who remains still while watching it.

"You and friends watch it out there. And make sure to give those Reapers an ass kicking with our Mecha!" Marvelous says with a wide smirk.

Troy smiles, "And you guys be careful down there. See you after this is all over." he says.

Marvelous nods his head in acknowledgement, as Troy releases his hold on his fist and turns with the rest of his team to walk away.

"Ah~ look at you, Marvelous-san! Making friends with your Ranger counterpart!" Gai excitedly says while running up to his side and throwing his hands on both his arms.

Marvelous meanwhile returns to his normal serious expression as he throws Gai's hands off of him and then crosses his arms, "I'm doing no such thing. I'm just coming to respect him a little bit more than I did before." he says.

"That doesn't look like it to us~." Luka slyly comments while walking up to his left side and placing her right arm on his left shoulder as she leans on it.

The rest of his crew walk up to either side of him, "It really does look like the two of you have come a long way. When they first appeared, you looked like you couldn't stand him. Now, you're calling him by his name sometimes, and allowing them to pilot our ship." Ahim says with a smile on her lips.

"I stand by what I said. I've come to respect him a little more since we first met, but he's still got a long way to go before I consider him truly my Ranger counterpart." Marvelous says.

The Mega Rangers walk down a hallway back to the hangar bay the other Ranger and Sentai teams await them, as Troy brings out his Gosei Morpher, "Doctor, we're ready when you are." he speaks into it as he puts it away.

"Alright guys, back to action!" Troy shouts.

A massive shadow begins to pass by the UNSC Infinity. Onboard, Coalition troops and UNSC crewmembers look out a window in absolute shock and awe at what they were seeing.

"Look at that!"

"Holy shit!"

"No way!"

"By the Spirits!"

"Maker's breath!"

"What the fuck…" a male USAF pilot of a F-22A Raptor says in shock at what he was seeing.

"Get a load of those!" a Clone pilot of a V-19 Torrent says.

Slowly flying amongst Sword group's fleets were a number of Power Ranger Megazords, and Super Sentai Mechas.

"Variblune!" Akira Shinmei aka Aorenger shouts as he pilots the Gorengers first vehicle.

"Varidorin!" Daita Ooiwa aka Kirenger shouts while piloting the Gorengers second battle machine.

"GO!" both Gorengers simultaneously shout.

"Sky Ace!" Ryu Higashi aka Dia Jack shouts while piloting J.A.K.Q. 's aircraft.

"Denzi Fighter!" the Denshi Sentai Denziman shouted simultaneously from the cockpit of their airship.

"Dyna Robo!" the Kagaku Sentai Dynaman team shouted from their Mecha.

"Icarus Haken!" the Choujin Sentai Jetman team shouted.

"Engine-O G9! Tune Up, Go On!" the Go-Ongers and Go-On Wings announced in unison.

"Everyone, ready to go?!" Sosuke Esumi aka Go-On Red excitedly shouts.

"You bet, partner! Doru, doru!" Sosuke's Engine partner Speedor shouts in agreement.

"Yeah, let's take these Reapers down! On, on!" Engine Buson adds.

"Let's teach them a lesson! V, V!" Engine BearRV shouts.

"They won't know what hit them! Baru Baruka!" Engine Birca shouts.

"They have no idea who they messed with. Ganga Gan!" Engine Gunpherd says.

"They will regret all of the evil deeds they have committed across the multiverse. Getta, geeta!" Engine Carrigator says.

"We're going to kick their ass! Bata, bata, bata, bata!" Engine Toripter shouts.

"This will be the final day for the Reapers. Giiin!" Engine Jetras says.

"Indeed, it will be. Boe!" Engine Jumbowhale says.

"Raiden Kyoryuzin!" the Kyoryugers shouted.

"Shurikenjin Drago!" the Ninningers shouted.

"Ninja MegaFalconzord! Power up!" the Mighty Morphin Rangers, with Tommy utilizing his White Ranger powers, shouted in unison.

"Super Zeo Zords!" the Zeo Rangers, minus Tommy, shouted from their respective Zords.

The Space Rangers Andros, TJ, and Ashley fly on their Galaxy Gliders as they come up beside a Quarian frigate, "Alpha, is the Astro Megaship ready for battle?" Andros asks their robot companion through his Astro Morpher.

"Ready to fight, Andros!" Alpha 7 responds.

"Hey Carlos, Cassie, how about you guys?" Ashley asks.

"The Mega Voyager is ready!" Carlos replies.

"And so are we!" Cassie adds with the two of them in the cockpit of the Mega Voyager Megazord.

"And you Zhane?" TJ asks next.

"The Mega Winger and I are both ready to kick some serious bad guy butt!" Zhane states.

As they pass the Quarian frigate, the Delta Megaship appears alongside them, "And there's the Delta Megaship." Andros says.

Nearby, the Galaxy Rangers fly their Jet Jammers alongside the Galaxy Megazord, Stratoforce Megazord, and Centaurus Megazord which rode atop the Zenith Carrierzord.

"It's been a long time Galactabeasts, hope you guys still got some fight in yah." Leo says as he looks at them.

The three Megazords all look at Leo and nod their heads before looking back forward.

"Haha, looks like it!" Damon says with a chuckle.

"Hey, don't forget about me!" Leo's brother, Mike speaks as Defender Torozord as he floats alongside them on their left.

"Looking good Mike! You to Torozord!" Maya shouts while giving them a thumbs up.

Elsewhere, the Omega Megazord in Crawler form flies alongside the Max Solarzord in Shuttle Mode.

"Omega Crawler!" Carter Grayson aka Lightspeed Red shouts.

"Ready!" the rest of the Lightspeed Rangers shout afterwards in unison.

"Max Solarzord, powered up and ready to go!" Ryan Mitchell aka the Titanium Ranger states.

"Time Force Megazord: Jet Mode!" the Time Force Rangers Jen, Lucas, Katie, and Trip shout in unison, with both Wes and Eric nowhere in sight.

The Time Force Megazord in Jet Mode flies through the fleets, the Shadow Winger right beside it.

The Isis Megazord of the Wild Force Rangers flies past a Systems Alliance Dreadnought, and Swords of Sanghelios Sinaris-pattern heavy destroyer. From a hangar bay of the Infinity, the Wild Force Rangers spot their Megazord.

"Alright, go get them Isis Megazord!" Cole Evans aka Wild Force Red shouts.

"Valkasaurus Megazord!" the Dino Thunder Rangers, minus Tommy, shout as they fly the Valkasaurus Megazord, minus the Stegozord, through the fleets as well.

"S.W.A.T. Flyers!" the five core SPD Rangers shout from their respective aerial Zords.

"Mystic Dragon, and Mystic Phoenix. Ready for action!" Nick Russell aka Red Mystic Ranger says while transformed as Mystic Phoenix riding atop Mystic Dragon.

"Jungle Master Megazord: Bat Mode!" the three core Jungle Fury Rangers, in Jungle Master Mode, shout.

"Battlewing Megazord! We are united!" the Samurai Rangers, minus Antonio Garcia, shout together.

Somewhere else among Sword group, are the Gosei Great Megazord, and Gosei Grand Megazord.

"Gosei Great Megazord, ready!" Noah, in his Megaforce Blue form, shouts from his seat in the cockpit.

"Gosei Grand Megazord, ready!" Robo Knight says.

The Super Mega Skyship, Q-Rex Drill, and GoZyuJin fly close to one another elsewhere.

"Alright, let's go Super Mega Skyship! Always wanted to fly this thing." Jake, as Super Megaforce Green, says full of excitement.

"Just be careful where you fly it Jake, remember we have a lot of small ships out there that will blow up if they crash into us!" Gia, as Super Megaforce Yellow, says.

"Both the GoZyuJin, and the auto-piloted Q-Rex Drill are ready for battle!" Orion says from aboard the GoZyuJin.

"GO~KAIGALLEON!"

The GokaiGalleon appears, "GokaiGalleon, ready for action. Time to show these Reapers and their allies, what we're made of!" Troy, as Super Megaforce Red, says.

"AH~! This is super weird!" Navi cries out suddenly appearing from nowhere in front of Troy, and Emma as she begins flying around in a panic. "Someone's here that looks like Captain Marvelous, but they aren't! And the same goes for the one looking like Ahim, but she isn't!" Navi finishes stopping to the right of Emma's head as she looks at her.

"So you're Navi, right? It's nice to meet you." Emma, as Super Megaforce Pink, says.

"It's nice to meet you as well, Megaforce Rangers." Navi replies, becoming calm again.

"Hehe, you remind us of our robot companion Navi. His name is Tensou. I'm sure you two would get along well." Troy says.

"Hey Tony." Carol calls to him while turning her head, "How come we don't have anything like those?" she asks.

"Uh~, because we've never really had a need for a giant robot? I mean sure there were those giant Sleeper robots Red Skull used, and then Galactus, but otherwise there haven't really been a lot of situations where we've needed one." Tony replies as he looks back forward.

"Though I do have to admit they are seriously cool looking, and I have got to get me one of those now." he whispers to himself.

"I can already hear Wally asking us to give the Watchtower the ability to transform into a giant robot." John says to Superman.

"Clank, add to my bucket list. Build myself a giant robot when this is all over." Ratchet says to his robotic partner.

"But Ratchet, you do realize I can become a giant robot myself utilizing Ultra-Mech Pads." Clank says.

"Yeah. But you're nowhere near the size of those things even when going all Giant Clank. And, no offense, but they look way more cooler. And can probably do a lot more cooler things as well." Ratchet says.

"I've seen and fought plenty of giant robots before. But those ones look very cool!" Ben says.

"Glad they're on our side. Let's just hope the Separatists don't get any ideas from seeing these guys in action." Anakin says.

His R2 beeps and chirps in response, "Oh trust me buddy, I want to get me one of those things as well. Piloting one of those, looks like it would be really fun!" he says.

"I'm definitely liking our odds a lot more now; wouldn't you say buddy?" Luke asks his R2, who beeps and chirps in response.

Chewbacca roars at Han, "Hey it's not all about looks. They may look fancy, but until they can do the Kessel Run in 12 Parsecs, looks mean nothing." Han says.

The Ninja MegaFalconzord comes into view some distance off to the right of the Normandy's bridge as Shepard and Joker look at it through the window.

"Hey Shepard. When this war is over, and if we, you know, survive. And we're given a reward for you know, saving the entire multiverse and all of life from the Reapers. I want that reward to be a Normandy SR-3, that can transform into a giant, frickin, robot! Yeah, I'd like to see any future evil doers in our universe try to cause us any trouble when we have a Normandy that can transform into a awesome, fighting robot." Joker says.

Shepard humorously smirks at this while still looking towards the Megazord.

"We're coming into view of Earth now, Commander." Joker reports.

Shepard looks back forward as his serious expression from before comes back.

Earth, the homeworld of Humanity, at least the Humanity of this universe... Where months ago Shepard had been forced to flee the planet to gain the aid of the entire galaxy if there was to be any hope of saving it from the Reapers. He had now returned, and with so much more. Not only with the aid of the entire galaxy at his back, but as well as the many armies, and Heroes from across the multiverse; and more importantly, the weapon that would put an end to the Reaper threat not just here, but throughout the multiverse as well.

As Shepard stared at the planet, he noticed immediately how different it looked... and not in the good way. The blue of the ocean, the green of the land, the white of the clouds, they were all gone. It was as if all the color of the world had been drained away. The oceans were dark, the clouds were gray, the lands... were both dark, with many splotches of orange spread throughout. Those splotches, being cities that were in flames, and there were a lot of them. The sight of his home, the home of all Humanity, in such a horrible state, made Shepard tense up in absolute anger as he furrowed his brows. But he kept his calm, he knew anger was not going to help him win this war any faster, and if anything, could lead him to making mistakes, mistakes that could cost him and everyone else this war. He needed to remain calm, and keep his mind focused on what mattered. The Citadel. Which he finally spotted, amongst the sea of Reaper, Cerberus, and other enemy fleets. Just as the Coalition had built up their forces, the Reapers and their allies had done the same. There were thousands of Reapers alone, and hundreds of ships combined from the Cerberus, Imperial Remnant, Separatist, Jul 'Mdama's Covenant, Dai-Zangyack, and Armada fleets. If it was this bad up here, he could not even imagine what waited for them down on the planet. This was going to be the battle to end all battles, quite literally too in terms of this war.

(Resume - Mass Effect 3 Soundtrack "The Fleets Arrive")

The Coalition fleets advance towards the Earth, the Normandy at the very front followed by the group of Heroes taking part in the space battle, as well as a few starfighter squadrons.

Onboard one of the Cerberus Dreadnoughts, a male Cerberus officer looked out the window of his bridge, "Admiral, the Coalition fleets are in sight." a female crewmember reported.

"Yes, I can see that very clearly Ensign. Order all fleets and squadrons forward!" the Cerberus Admiral orders.

The Reaper Capital Ships, and Destroyers make their move as they begin flying towards the Coalition fleets; thousands of Oculus fighters flying past them like swarms of insects in no particular formation.

"All ships, advance!" an Imperial Officer aboard a Executor-class Star Dreadnought shouts.

"Attack, atta~ck!" a T-series tactical droid orders from the bridge of a Providence-class Dreadnought.

The fleets of the Reaper allies began to move as well, with their squadrons of starfighters flying to engage the Coalition ships as well.

"Here they come!" Tommy Oliver says.

"This is it everyone. Be ready on my signal!" Shepard says as he waits for a few seconds, "Fire!"

At this order every single ship at the front of Sword fired their weapons as Mass-Accelerator guns, MAC Cannons, Plasma Torpedo Silos, and Proton Torpedo Tubes all unleashed projectile after projectile non-stop towards the Reapers and their allied forces. Soaring through the darkness of space towards the enemy fleets were Mass-Accelerated slugs, ferric Tungsten or depleted Uranium slugs, plasma torpedoes, and proton torpedoes; as after several seconds of travel many of them began to find their targets. Slamming into Reapers, Cerberus, and other enemy ships, with a number of shots however missing entirely.

"On my command, engage the Reaper forces." Shepard says over the comms.

(Fade Out - Mass Effect 3 Soundtrack "The Fleets Arrive")

"Read you loud and clear, Shepard. All squadrons accelerate to attack position!" Anakin orders.

"Copy that, General Skywalker!" the Clone Broadside replies.

All starfighter squadrons accelerate forward past all the capital ships including the Normandy, the Heroes still at the front of them all as they close in on the incoming wave of enemy fighters.

"Choose your targets wisely!" Plo Koon speaks in a serious tone.

The Bothan New Republic pilot Kerd had a serious look on his face as he kept calm, Asari pilot Myyama looked terrified, while the US Air Force pilot of the F-35A looked calm but with the sweat running down his face telling a different story of how nervous he was.

"Watch your spacing out there people, don't bunch up too closely!" Wedge Antilles says.

Fellow Rogue Squadron pilot Wes Janson remained calm, Clone pilot Warthog looked like he was calm as well, while the Vorcha pilot of one of the Void Devils looked ready for battle as he snarled in anticipation.

Anakin furrowed his brows while Luke took in a deep breath, "Attack!" Shepard finally ordered.

"YOU HEARD HIM! LIGHT 'EM UP!" John Stewart yelled out full of rage, letting out a roaring battle cry as he pulled his right arm back over his head and threw it forward. Unleashing a massive stream of green energy from his Power Ring.

Captain Atom's hands were surrounded by orbs of blue nuclear energy as he threw them forward blasting a stream of said energy towards the enemy fighters, Orion fired the left Wristband gun of his Astro-Harness sending a barrage of Negative Astro-Force energy projectiles flying, Doctor Light swung her right arm outwards to fire off a arcing beam of white light energy, followed by throwing her left hand forward to fire a continuous, waving beam of the same energy. Aztek threw both of his hands forward, casting a beam of golden energy, followed by the Ray as he fired his own golden yellow light beams, and Waverider as he unleashed his own golden fiery energy blast. Starman came next with his arms crossed in a hunched position, reddish-orange energy emitting from both of his hands as he then straightened his body and put his hands together to his left, gathering the energy together as he then threw both hands forward to release a massive energy blast in the shape of a star. Finally followed by Superman as he fired his heat vision at a higher power level.

Iron Man threw both of his hands forward firing both gauntlets repulsor beams, followed by Vision firing a powerful laser beam from his forehead, and Ms. Marvel firing radiant photonic energy from her hands. Jetray fired green neuroshock blasts from his eyes, while Ratchet fired Aphelion's pulse cannons.

"Fire!" Andros shouts as he, Ashley, and TJ pull out and fire their Astro Blasters.

"Fire!" Leo shouts as he and the Galaxy Rangers fire their Jet Jammers' laser cannons.

The Quad Laser Cannons of the Millennium Falcon were fired, followed by Luke firing his X-Wing's 4 Taim & Bak KX9 laser cannons, and finally Anakin's 4 laser cannons of his Delta-7B.

Green Lantern drags his attack from the left to his right across a large group of enemy starfighters before the energy beam dies down. At first nothing happens, but then after a few more seconds several small explosions go off followed by a couple of massive balls of flames erupting from the large number of enemy fighters taken out by his attack. The attacks from the other heroes, mostly from the Justice League and Avengers members, and Jetray, succeed in also taking out large numbers of enemy starfighters; while the Space and Galaxy Rangers, Ratchet, along with Anakin, Luke, and the Millennium Falcon also manage to shoot down several enemy fighters.

At the same time the Heroes launched their attacks, so did the rest of the starfighters of both the Coalition, as well as the Reapers and their allies. Both sides fired their weapons at one another sending a multitude of different projectiles flying back and forth between the two sides, as fighters on both ends began to perform evasive maneuvers to avoid said incoming fire from the enemy.

"Incoming enemy fire, evasive maneuvers!" Major Piercefield shouts over the comms.

"Here they come!" Talwyn Apogee shouts.

Both sides continued closing in on each other, the weapons fire from both still heavy until finally an Oculus fighter was hit and shot down. Almost immediately following however, was a F-61 Trident that was shot as well and exploded immediately.

All hell broke loose.

"Evade! Evade!" a female USAF pilot frantically shouted.

Both sides finally collided, sending starfighters from both the Coalition, and the Reapers and their allies flying and maneuvering into various directions to both avoid enemy fire, as well as to prevent crashing into someone both enemy, and friendly alike.

Plo Koon continued firing the laser cannons of his Delta-7B Interceptor while swerving back and forth from side to side, many enemy fighters flying past him managing to avoid his shots while he does manage to shoot down a Vulture droid, and TIE Interceptor. A group of Coalition fighters continue on a straight path through the swarm of incoming enemy fighters while still firing their weapons and avoiding the enemies as well. Unfortunately an Asari Lucen-class fighter, along with a T-65 X-Wing are both shot and destroyed just a few seconds apart, the X-Wing belonging to the New Republic pilot Kerd as his last moments are of his cockpit erupting into flames followed by his fighter exploding to pieces.

"KERD!" Sancho cries out in shock.

Fighters from both sides continue flying past one another while firing their weapons as the losses begin to rise. The Male USAF pilot of the F-16C jumps in surprise as his cockpit explodes, the F-16C exploding to pieces as it is destroyed by enemy fire.

"Jesus Christ! There's so fucking many of them!" the young male pilot of a F-15C cries out in shock and terror as he looks all around.

"Keep it together Red Twelve!" a Salarian pilot speaks.

The Salarian pilot flies his Wasp-class fighter as he fires and shoots down an incoming Sugormin Fighter, and Cerberus Fighter. Unfortunately a Covenant Seraph-class Starfighter appears and fires its Heavy plasma cannons, destroying the Wasp fighter and killing the Salarian pilot.

A squadron of Coalition fighters fly towards a Reaper Capital ship before diverting into separate directions, just as the Reaper raises its forward tendrils and begins to power up its cannon as it fires. Luckily its shot misses the intended target of an Alliance frigate; the rest of the Reapers begin to fire their weapons as well as the Coalition capital ships begin to break apart into different directions.

Two Alliance frigates focus their fire on a Reaper capital ship, while a Turian frigate slowly drifts in from behind at a downward left angle as it fires its main gun on the Reaper as well, managing to score a hit on the center of its body. The Alliance frigate on the left fires its main gun again as it manages to shoot off one of the Reaper's left tendrils, it fires again separating the tendril behind the one it just shot off. Unfortunately this is not enough, as the Reaper simply powers up its cannon again and fires down to its right, before dragging the red energy beam upwards and into the Alliance frigate. Bypassing its kinetic barriers almost instantly and cutting right through it as the Alliance frigate explodes to pieces.

Just then a Galactic Republic Venator-class Star Destroyer bears towards the Reaper, "Switch to the Heavy Turbolasers, concentrate fire on that Reaper!" a Clone Captain orders while pointing towards it.

The 8 DBY-827 heavy turbolaser turrets of the Venator rapidly spin forward as they begin to fire on the Reaper, the blue laser bolts slamming multiple times into the Reaper as it bypasses its kinetic barrier instantly, and proceeds to literally tear it apart in the matter of a few seconds killing it. The sight of seeing the Reaper so easily destroyed causes the crew aboard the nearby surviving Alliance frigate to begin cheering.

"Fire MAC Gun!" a UNSC Commander orders.

The MAC Cannon of a Autumn-class heavy cruiser is fired as the ferromagnetic-tungsten slug travels towards and cuts right through the middle of a Reaper capital ship, causing the Reaper to explode. Aboard a Swords of Sanghelios CCS-class battlecruiser, the ship's Shipmaster orders the gunners to fire on a approaching Reaper Destroyer; the Destroyer approaches the Swords ship only to be met with a blast from the battlecruiser's forward Energy Projector. The thin but highly powerful purple energy beam bypasses the Destroyer's kinetic barriers instantly and boils its way right through the armor and entire body, before traveling upwards of it effectively cutting the Destroy in two as red electricity travels across the dying body. On the bridge of an Asari frigate the crew watches as two Reaper capital ships are so easily destroyed by the firepower of a New Republic Viscount-class Star Defender, causing them to erupt into cheers with a few throwing their fists into the air.

Two Reaper capital ships flank a Stalwart-class light frigate from both sides and fire their magnetohydrodynamic cannons as the energy beams slam into the ship and travel across its body, causing its shields to flare up from the damage.

"Damage report!" the ship's female Captain calls out for as the bridge violently shakes from the impact.

"Shields dropping to 10% ma'am! Another hit from those two Reapers and our shields are done for!" a male crewmember shouts.

The Reapers prepare to fire again when suddenly a barrage of red laser bolts begin to slam into them. Coming right at them from their side, was both the GokaiGalleon and the Super Mega Skyship.

"Fire Beam Cannons!" Troy and Jake simultaneously shout.

Firing said cannons on the tips of their wings rapidly as the volley of red laser bolts continue to impact into the two Reapers until suddenly red electricity surges across their entire bodies and they explode to pieces.

"Alright!" Jake shouts.

"Yeah!" Gia shouts at the same time.

"Don't go celebrating too soon guys, we still got a bunch more to go!" Troy says.

Behind the two spacecraft an Oculus fighter is chased by an X-Wing. Piloting the X-Wing was Luke as he tried to get a lock on the Reaper fighter; Luke fired his laser cannons at the Oculi as it veered downwards to its left causing the shots to miss. Luke fired a couple more times but missed again, after a few more seconds he tried again, this time managing to clip the Oculus damaging its engine. Electricity surged across the Oculus followed by a trail of fire beginning to emit from its engine, Luke nonetheless fired again, this time managing to score a direct hit on the Reaper fighter as it spiraled out of control and exploded.

The broadside mass accelerator cannon of an Alliance dreadnought fired away, turning slightly to its right to fire again, followed by a second salvo almost immediately.

From the bridge of the UNSC Infinity, Lasky watched the battle unfold before him. Four Reaper capital ships flew straight towards the Infinity, each one of them shot and completely annihilated by each of the four Series-8 MAC Guns of the Infinity as it continued forward. Enemy fighters and bombers then came at the Infinity from above, only for the Infinity's Missile Pods and Auto Cannons to shred them all to pieces before they could cause any significant damage.

"Think we got their attention Roland?" Lasky asks.

"I'd say so Captain." Roland responds.

"Then I think it's time we moved onto Phase 2 of the Operation." Lasky says as he turns around to face the AI," Send the word!"

"Launch all Advance Hammer Teams! Repeat, all Advance Hammer Teams deploy!"

Inside one of the hangar bays of the Infinity, two D79H-TC Pelican Dropships, and one LAAT/i gunship hover a few feet into the air before flying out through the energy barrier into the chaos of the raging space battle as they bank right towards the Earth. Several other transports come out from the other hangar's as they also fly towards the planet. It's not just from the Infinity however, as more troop transports are deployed from several other capital ships spread throughout the battle; with UT-47A Kodiak Shuttles, Pelican Dropships, Type-57 Phantom Dropship Troop Carriers, LAAT/i gunships, and Lambda-class T-4a shuttles all now flying towards the Earth.

"All squadrons be advised…" Lasky begins to speak over the comms.

"Advance Hammer Team transports are away. Protect them from enemy fighters at all cost!" his transmission is heard by many pilots.

"You heard him people, find a transport and protect them!" Sasha speaks.

"Got eyes on a Flight of transports at my 3 o'clock. Moving in to provide escort." Warthog says as he veers his V-19 Torrent closer to the Flight of troop transports consisting of a Pelican dropship, Kodiak, and New Republic shuttle.

"Copy Shadow Two. I got eyes on you and the transports, coming in to provide assistance." the USAF pilot of Blue Squadron, Thomas, says as he flies over in his F-22A Raptor.

The two pilots are joined by several other Coalition fighters as they form up around the three transports to protect them.

"Keep your eyes peeled for hostiles, the moment they spot the transports these things are going to become prime targets for them to destroy." Warthog says as he and the other pilots all look around, keeping their eyes peeled for any enemy fighters that might come their way.

A Flight of three Vulture droid starfighters fly around, the lead one at the center raises its head and looks around, it rotates its head to the right and looks down as it spots the three Coalition transports being escorted by a squadron of Coalition fighters. The droid speaks in a robotic, garbled language as it retracts its head back down and then with the other two fighters pulls down to their right to go after the transports.

A Galactic Ranger pilot looks over his shoulder up to his left as he spots the incoming droid fighters, "Vulture Droids, coming in high from the rear at 8 o'clock!"

Warthog looks over his shoulder to notice them, "I see them! Blue Five, Gray Seven, on me! Everyone else protect the transports!" he orders.

"Roger Shadow Two!" Thomas says.

"We're right behind you Warthog!" Gray Seven, an Asari pilot says.

The three pilots pull off from the group and go into a Vic formation with Warthog in the middle, Thomas on the right, and Gray Seven on the left as they fly towards the droid fighters. Seeing them coming the droid fighters begin to fire their twin blaster cannons forcing the three Coalition pilots to perform evasive maneuvers to dodge the incoming shots.

"Let's scrap these tin cans!" Gray Seven shouts as she presses her triggers.

Firing the mass-accelerator machine guns of her Lucen fighter as she manages to take out the droid fighter in front of her, Warthog fires his laser cannons taking out the droid fighter on the right. Thomas rolls to his right to avoid the incoming fire from the last Vulture droid and then swerves back to his left, the droid getting closer and closer to him as he tries to line up a shot on it.

"Come on, come on, come on!" Thomas says to himself as he finally gets a lock on it, he pulls the trigger.

On the right wing root a small door opens up revealing the F-22's internally mounted M61A2 Vulcan 20 mm rotary cannon as the weapon spools up and then fires. 20 mm rounds impact into the Vulture droid causing enough damage to disable it, sending the droid fighter spiraling off to its right out of control as a trail of smoke begins to emit from it.

"Whoo! Alright, Thomas!" the Asari pilot shouts in joy.

"Nice shooting, kid!" Warthog congratulates, as Thomas lets out a breath of relief.

Back with the three transports all three of them manage to make it through the battle unscathed, "This is Terra One-Five, thanks for the assist."

"Could we ask that two of you continue to escort us down to the planet until we have delivered our packages safely to their LZ, how copy?" a male UNSC pilot of the Pelican dropship asks.

"This is Silver Seventeen…"

"Green Fifteen and I shall continue to provide escort for you on your approach, over."a Geth pilot confirms.

Meanwhile inside the troop bay a SPARTAN-IV Fireteam sat ready to deploy, every one of them completely silent.

Lasky stands at the holotank, a concerned look on his face with his arms crossed as he observes the holographic display of the battle, "This is Spearhead Flight One-One, we've made it planetside unscathed." the UNSC pilot reports.

"Spearhead Flight Two-One, we're also through the battle zone." a Clone pilot reports.

"Spearhead Flight Four-Four reporting in, all transports accounted for." a Sangheili pilot reports.

"So far, so good." Lasky says in his head, 30% of the Advance Teams had made it through so far and there was not a single loss… yet.

Elsewhere amongst the battle was another Flight of Coalition transports, this one consisting of a Kodiak shuttle, Phantom dropship, and LAAT/i gunship; this Flight group also protected by a squadron of fighters as they flew through intense enemy fire.

"I got two on me. I can't shake them!" a Clone pilot shouts while looking over both of his shoulders at the TIE Fighter, and Cerberus Fighter flying behind him.

Inside the cockpit of the TIE fighter, the Imperial pilot locks onto the V-19 Torrent through his targeting computer, as he then fires the TIE's L-s1 laser cannons. The shots impact destroying the V-19 and killing the Clone pilot; the Cerberus fighter accelerates forward as they begin to target the Kodiak shuttle at the back of the Flight group. Onboard was a squad of N7s as they sat on the seats and held on tightly to whatever they could.

"This is Terra Six-One-Six, I have an enemy fighter on my tail! Can anyone assist, over?!" the male pilot of the shuttle frantically cried out.

The Cerberus fighter began to fire their machine guns as the Kodiak quickly swerved to its left to avoid the shots, then veering back to the right to avoid a second burst of mass-accelerated slugs from the enemy fighter, just barely avoiding them. To make matters worse all the fighters around the shuttle were busy fending off attacks from other incoming enemy fighters, and all the Coalition fighters in the rear had either been shot down or already engaged in a dogfight. The Cerberus pilot carefully lined up her shots on the Kodiak, and once there was a lock-on, she fired her guns. The first few shots missed, unfortunately the next couple of them didn't, hitting the Kodiak's engines as the entire shuttle erupted into flames inside and then exploded.

The co-pilot of the LAAT/i looked over his left shoulder and noticed the destruction of the Kodiak, "Dammit! We lost Petch!" he shouted in anger.

"Someone get those fighters off of us!" the pilot then shouted.

Suddenly there is a volley of energy bolts fired from high above to the right behind the Cerberus and TIE fighters, taking both of them out in seconds as then the Aphelion flies down behind the remaining transports.

"This is Ratchet, I got your rear covered." Ratchet speaks.

"Thanks for the save, sir!" the Clone pilot says in relief.

"Yeah… just wish I had gotten here sooner." Ratchet says in a saddened tone, unfortunately he had been engaged in combat with a squadron of bombers that had already destroyed a Salarian dreadnought, and New Republic CR90 corvette and needed to be dealt with. He was lucky as it was that he was nearby when he destroyed the last bomber of that squadron and then noticed the Flight group of one of the Advance Hammer Teams being chased by enemy fighters and greatly in need of assistance.

Luckily the rest of the flight through the battle was as safe as it could get, both the LAAT/i gunship, and the Phantom dropship made it through and began their descent towards the planet with a B-wing starfighter, and Ranger starfighter remaining for continued escort.

"This is Spearhead Flight Three-Three, we made it but lost a transport en route." the Clone pilot reports.

"Spearhead Flight Seven, reporting the loss of two transports while flying through the battle." a female Human pilot says.

"Spearhead Flight Five-Nine, lost a transport but have arrived planetside. Beginning descent now." an Asari pilot reports.

Hearing these reports Lasky lowered his head in sadness, his eyes closed.

"What's the situation Roland?" Lasky asks.

"It's… not too bad, luckily. All Flight groups are accounted for, I estimate 80% of the Advance Hammer team transports made it through, sir. But there are a few of them that lost a transport, and unfortunately, even a few that lost two transports while en route to the planet." Roland reports.

Lasky raises his head and opens his eyes, so it wasn't entirely bad. Every Flight group at least made it but… now there were teams down there that consisted of only a single squad. And it was going to be up to those lone squads, to take out the Reaper Hades cannons in their designated area. Because if they didn't and those cannons remained operational, a lot more people were going to die when the main force of Hammer deployed.

"Breaking off. Preparing for descent." Joker informs Shepard.

Four Oculus fighters fly towards the Normandy, and all four of them are shot down one by one by the Normandy's GARDIAN lasers. The space battle above Earth continues to rage all around as the Normandy flies through it all, already the rubble of hundreds of destroyed ships from both sides floated around in space. Various ship projectiles could be seen flying back and forth between the two sides. Nevertheless the Normandy managed to avoid all of this as it eventually made its way through the chaos, and began its descent towards the Earth, joining up with a few Advance Team transports that were also beginning their descent planetside.

Shepard turned and began to walk away, as he now needed to get down to the Shuttle Bay where Cortez, and his team waited. It was now time to take the battle planetside. Joker saw this and began to stand up, "Shepard." he called to him, making him stop.

Shepard turns around to see Joker's slight struggle to get on his feet as he eventually does so, Joker takes a few limping steps towards Shepard and then stands at attention and salutes, "Good luck. And be careful down there." he says.

After a few seconds, Shepard smiles and takes a step towards his pilot while extending his right hand toward him with it open, "You too, Joker." he says.

Joker seems shocked by this, but eventually accepts it as he steps forward and shakes his hand. Joker smiles at Shepard while Shepard nods his head, with this the two part ways as Joker gets back in his seat while Shepard heads towards the elevator.

The elevator door opens as Shepard walks out, "Alright team, let's mount up and-" Shepard came to a stop when he noticed that there was an extra person with his team. Someone very familiar in fact.

That person took a few steps towards him and then stood at attention with a salute, "Master Chief Petty Officer Sierra-117, reporting." Master Chief says.

"Chief? What are you doing here? How did you get here?" Shepard asks, confused by his presence.

"Oh Chief here contacted me and asked me to bring him here." the familiar voice of the Doctor speaks up as he walks up from Shepard's left.

Shepard looks at the Doctor and then back at Chief, "Let's just say I had a feeling you might be needing my help one last time before we go our separate ways for the battle." he says.

"Yeah and if we've learned anything. It's that whenever Chief gets a "feeling", something bad always does tend to happen. And then we're glad for him being there cause he tends to get our asses out of the fire when it gets a little too hot even for our liking." Garrus speaks up as he and the others stand behind the Spartan.

"I've already ran this by Captain Lasky and he's okay with it." Chief says, he then rests his hands behind his back. "Besides. My orders were to proceed to the FOB once we landed, as that's where the unit I was assigned too is to rendezvous with Urdnot Wrex and his men. So I was going to be heading there one way or the other."

Shepard huffs in a humorous manner as he smirks, "Alright Chief, then mount up. And that goes for the rest of you! It's time we took this battle down to the planet!" he states in a serious manner while looking at the rest of his team.

"Let's go save the Multiverse!"

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Earth…

London, England...

Cortez's Kodiak Shuttle flew alongside a UNSC Pelican dropship as both transports were escorted by a T-65 X-Wing, and GA-TL1 Longsword-class Interceptor.

Cortez was in full Alliance Marine armor, minus the helmet, as he piloted the shuttle towards the London Resistance's Forward Operating Base. In the back was Shepard, Chief, and the rest of the team as they sat in their seats waiting to arrive. Just then both Joker, and the Doctor appeared on the nearby video screen, "The Advance teams have been deployed to take out the Hades Cannons, and Sword is attempting to clear some paths through the enemy fleets so Hammer can safely deploy. Normandy is rejoining Sword." Joker informs Shepard as the Commander stands up.

"And I have returned to Planet X. Where I'm going to use my machine to start opening up portals to the Universes the Reapers are attacking. So that when the Crucible activates, whatever energy it transmits to destroy the Reapers in this universe, will hopefully go through the portals and affect the Reapers in the other Universes, destroying them as well." the Doctor says.

"Doctor, what are the chances of this working?" Shepard questions with a raised brow.

The Doctor blows his lips out as he breathes out, "I'm giving it a good 50/50. 50% chance this works and all the Reapers across the Multiverse are affected when the Crucible is fired… and 50% chance of only the Reapers in your universe being affected leaving possibly who knows how many Reapers out there alive to continue causing more chaos and destruction, and possibly building more Reapers and eventually coming back to finish what the rest of their pals couldn't."

"As I've said Shepard, it's not like I've ever had to do something like this before. This is all new to me as well." the Doctor says with a serious look on his face.

"Just do what you can Doctor. We're counting on you! Stay safe, the both of you, and good luck. We'll be back before you know it!" Shepard assures them.

"I'll hold you to that, Normandy out!" Joker says as he ends his transmission.

"Good luck down there, Heroes." the Doctor says with a smile as he ends his call as well.

"We're closing in on the LZ, Commander." Cortez speaks up from the front.

Shepard walks up behind him, "How's it look?" he asks.

"Like hell… take a look for yourself." Cortez says.

Shepard walks back to the video monitor as the others all stand up to also get a look at the city below. It was as bad as they imagined. The wreckages of damaged and destroyed skycars and military shuttles littered the streets, rubble from destroyed buildings were also all over, scorch marks from fires and explosions, and fires that were still burning. It truly did look like hell.

"It doesn't even look like Earth." Ashley says in a saddened voice.

"Keelah…" Tali says in shock.

Garrus, Javik, James, and EDI remained silent.

"I'm sorry Shepard, Ashley, James. I know how you must feel." Liara says.

Chief puts his right hand on Shepard's left shoulder catching his attention, he nods his head to reassure the Commander, that this was not how it was going to be for much longer. Now that they were here.

Down below the Reaper Hades Cannon that was stationed close to the clock tower famously known as Big Ben, takes notice of the Coalition transports as it turns to face them, powering up its massive energy cannon as it fires a large, thin blue beam.

The Kodiak's alarms go off as a holovid pops up on Cortez's control panel showing the Hades Cannon firing at them, "Shit! We got a lock, hold on!" he shouts.

The Kodiak, X-Wing, and Pelican all perform evasive maneuvers to dodge the incoming energy beam, unfortunately the Longsword is hit directly causing it to explode. And to make matters even more worse, the beam drags along to the right towards the Pelican, successfully managing to clip its right wing just before it dies down as the wing's engine explodes. Sending the Pelican spiraling out of control as smoke rises from the destroyed engine.

"This is Terra Five-Nine we're hit!"the female pilot of the Pelican shouts over the comms as the warning alarm blares.

In the troop bay a squad of ODSTs held on as tightly to whatever they could as they braced themselves for the eventual crash.

"Repeat, we are hit and going down! Position-" the transmission ends there as Cortez hears nothing but static now.

"Damn it!" he says in anger.

"Status." Shepard asks as he appears at the doorway again.

"That was the team responsible for taking out that defense turret. There was only one transport meaning the other two must have gotten shot down already." Cortez says.

"Can anyone else get on it?" Shepard questions him.

"Negative, nobody else in the vicinity. All either deployed, or shot down." Cortez informs him.

"Drop us off!" Shepard suddenly orders.

"Sir?" Cortez questions wondering if he heard him right.

"We have to take that thing out so the Hammer forces coming here can safely land." Shepard says.

"Understood!" Cortez responds.

Shepard turns around to face his team, "Change of plans people! We're going to take out that Hades Cannon." Shepard says as he walks back to them and grabs onto the handle above him.

"Looks like your "feeling" turned out to be right again, Chief." Shepard says.

"Okay you have got to stop doing that, Gigante. It's seriously creeping me out with how accurate your "feelings" can get." James comments.

"Right, so how are we supposed to take out a giant Reaper cannon exactly? We didn't exactly pack any heavy weapons." Garrus asks.

"Every squad in the Advance Teams would have been carrying their own set of heavy weapons in case the other transports were shot down." Chief says.

"Perfect, you heard the man. Once we land, we fight our way to the downed transport. We'll search the wreckage for the heavy weapons and use them to take out the Hades Cannon. Once the Cannon is taken care of, we hold out until Cortez can come pick us up, and then we continue on towards the FOB. Everyone got it?" Shepard asks.

"We're right behind you, Shepard!" Ashley states as everyone grabs their primary weapon.

"Touching down Commander!" Cortez shouts, the sounds of high-velocity slugs already hitting the shuttle.

"Alright, everyone in position!" Shepard orders as everyone stands clear of the door, Shepard and Chief taking cover on either side of it while the others back up.

Shepard looks at Chief who looks back, the Spartan nodding his head to signal he was ready as Shepard nods back, he then looks at the rest of his team and he could already tell that they too were ready to get things started. The left-side door of the shuttle slides open, "Now! Go! Go!" Shepard shouts.

Everything was pitch black, there was also a high-pitched ringing that could be heard that deafened everything else out, "Status!" a male voice could just barely be heard calling out.

"Both pilots are dead!" another male voice shouted.

The ringing was starting to go away as the voices began to be heard more clearly, "Hartmann, and Pruski are both gone, Gunny." another male voice says.

"Husks! Inbound on our position!" another male voice yelled.

The vision was starting to return, eyes slowly opening and closing as everything was blurry. The sounds of gunfire could be heard.

"Defensive perimeter!" the first voice shouted.

Someone crouched in front of them, "Hey Roo-! Come on Roo-! Come on get up!" everything was still blurry to make out who it was.

An explosion erupted as the person threw their head down and to the left, the person then looked back at them, "Hey, hey I see those beautiful eyes opening up. Come on Rookie, wake up!"

Finally everything returned to normal as Lance Corporal "Rookie" jolted awake and looked around.

"Hey. Rise and shine sleeping beauty. Hate to wake you but, we got a war to fight so, you know. Grab your weapon, get outside, and help us to start kicking some alien zombie ass!" his Gunnery Sergeant, Edward Buck, orders in a friendly manner as he reaches over to his left and grabs his helmet and MA5D assault rifle.

He puts on his helmet while standing up, "Come on Helljumper, get on those feet!" Buck orders as he polarizes his visor and runs out to join the rest of the squad.

Rookie looks over to his right and spots his M7S Caseless Submachine Gun as he grabs it. The Rookie gets back on his feet and begins to make his way to the opened back of the dropship; along the way he passes the bodies of his two dead squadmates, who appeared to have died from the crash, along with his squad's medic, Corporal Mason Pearce as he tends to an injured Private Vincent Mullen. The Private having blood seep out from a wound on his forehead, most likely also from the crash.

"Come on, get some!" Corporal Taylor "Dutch" Henry Miles shouts as he shoots his M7S at incoming Husks, shooting down a regular Husk followed by a Cannibal.

Gunnery Sergeant Buck along with the rest of the squad fired upon the encroaching Husk forces, using the destroyed walls, and rubble of the partially destroyed building as cover as the Pelican had crashed onto a corner of the damaged structure. A Marauder and two advancing Cannibals fired their weapons as Lance Corporal Kojo "Romeo" Agu, and Private First Class Namba Toya took cover, Romeo behind a stone pillar, and Toya behind a low wall; once there was an opening in the enemy's fire both ODST's popped back out to resume firing their weapons. Romeo managed to headshot the Marauder with his M395B DMR, while PFC. Toya shot her M739 SAW taking out both Cannibals. Private First Class Michael "Mickey" Crespo, and Private Hayden Cox were taking cover behind another low wall when suddenly a high-velocity slug penetrated Cox's helmet killing him instantly.

"Cox is down!" Mickey shouts looking down at his dead body, before looking back at the Husks and continuing to fire his M7S.

Rookie finally emerged from the Pelican, just as a slug hit the side of the downed transport right next to him, the Rookie raising his SMG and returning fire as he sprinted to cover behind another low wall a few feet to Dutch's right.

"Well look who finally decided to join us! Enjoy your nap in there buttercup?" Dutch comments as the Rookie just shrugs his shoulders.

Another slug hits the top of Rookie's wall; a second after that Rookie pops up and aims down his scope as he fires in short, controlled bursts, managing to take out two Cannibals, and two regular Husks.

"Sir!" PFC. Kareem Watson calls out while crouched beside a pillar firing his MA5D, he looks over his left shoulder at Buck, "What do we do?"

"Uh~, still trying to figure that out myself Watson." Buck replies as he is then forced behind the cover of his stone pillar as high-velocity slugs begin to slam into it and fly past him.

The Hades Cannon that is practically right in front of them fires again, "We need to hurry up and take out that cannon, Gunny!" Romeo shouts.

"Hey you wanna try shooting one of those Nuke guns while all these Husks are shooting at us? Be my guest, Romeo. Don't forget what they told us in briefing, those things take a hell of a time to charge up! So if you think you can fire that off without getting shot, then go for it!" Buck retorts as another explosion from an enemy frag grenade goes off close to them.

The two peeking out from their respective cover as they resume firing at the Husks.

"Right now we're the only ones left who can take out this cannon! If we all die, and this AA weapon remains operational, the Hammer forces that are going to be landing here are going to have one hell of a time even hitting the ground! So let's take out all the bad guys first, and then we can focus on destroying the big gun!" Buck orders, as he then fires another burst from his assault rifle.

More Husks continued to advance on their position as both sides exchanged fire, more of the Reaper ground troops could be seen scaling up the walls of the building; as meanwhile, down on the street another large horde of Husks approached Shepard and his team's landing zone.

A Cannibal was shot in the face as it exploded with its body dropping to the ground. Shepard ran past its lifeless body as he and his team charged up the mound of dirt and concrete towards the street while firing their weapons at the Cannibals and Marauders that greeted them.

"Damn, I can't stay here sir." Cortez contacts Shepard.

Shepard ducks behind a slab of concrete and metal wiring, "Get clear. Come get us once we've taken out that cannon." he orders.

"Roger that. Cortez out."

"Alright everyone, push up!" Shepard orders.

Everyone gets up from behind their cover and continues forward. Ashley and Javik fire their assault rifles as Ashley shoots down a Cannibal, while Javik's hits another Cannibal causing it to disintegrate, Garrus fires his Vindicator while Tali tosses a frag grenade as the Turian shoots a Marauder dead while Tali's grenade takes out two Cannibal's close to it. Liara casts a Throw blasting a Marauder into a wall as James fires his Avenger taking out the other Marauder next to it; EDI hits a Cannibal with an Incinerate up on the street next to the destroyed bridge, as the Marauder next to it is hit by the exploding shockwave knocking it over the edge. The Marauder falls onto the mound of rubble and begins rolling down it, coming to a stop after a few seconds as it then attempts to get back up, only for a bullet to be put right into its head as the Master Chief runs past a few feet away aiming his pistol over. The Chief re-magnetizes the Handgun back to his leg and continues up the mound with the rest of Shepard's team.

The team continues firing their weapons at any Cannibals or Marauders that come into their line of sight, taking a few more of them down until eventually no more appear. They reach the top of the mound and split off into two directions to get onto the street, the Chief taking Garrus, Tali, James, and EDI left towards the stairs, while Shepard, Ashley, Liara, and Javik headed towards an opening between the low walls of the sidewalk that the mound just about reached. Chief and his team ran up the stairs, the right side buried beneath a small amount of dirt and debris; the Spartan was the first to reach the top as he took cover behind the corner of the low wall, as soon as he leaned his head out he was met by a heavy barrage of enemy gunfire slamming into the wall and flying past forcing him back into cover. James and the others crouched and got up against the wall of the stairway while Shepard and his group stopped at the wall just beneath the opening.

Shepard peeked over the wall and from his position just barely got a view of a large group of Husks slowly moving in on their location from across the street, the Commander noticed that none of them were looking in his direction and so quickly pulled himself up onto the sidewalk. Shepard crouched against the damaged low wall and peeked around the corner to get a better view of what they were going up against, his eyes widened in shock at what he was seeing. Not just from across the street, but from down the road were even more Reaper Husks approaching their position, Human Husks, Cannibals, Marauders, and even a few Ravagers, were among the horde of Reaper foot soldiers coming towards them.

"That's not good." he says.

Just then a few high-velocity slugs start impacting around him forcing the Commander back into cover; back at the stairs the Chief, James, and Garrus pop out from cover and fire off a few shots at the advancing Husks. Managing to shoot a few down before the heavy volume of enemy fire forces them back into cover.

"So, anyone have any bright ideas on how to get out of this situation?" James asks aloud.

"We need to get to that downed dropship for those heavy weapons. No matter where we come from, there are going to be Husks everywhere. And the longer we take, taking out that Hades Cannon, the more ships we lose, the more ships we lose, the more of Hammer we also lose. Time is of the essence; we need to get to the dropship now." Chief states.

"You wanna go out there and tell all those Husks that? Maybe they'll let us through if we ask nicely enough." Garrus remarks.

"It sure seems like we could use Tsukasa, Marvelous, and Troy right about now!" Liara says.

"Or even that Fairy Tail mage, the one who breathes fire!" Javik says.

Shepard fires off a burst from his assault rifle before going back into cover, "Commander, looks like you guys are in a tough situation down there!" Cortez says over the comms.

"Tell me something I don't know!" Shepard says.

"Alright, then how about this? I managed to get in contact with that remaining fighter pilot. He's still in the vicinity and is willing to provide support!"

"Excellent, put him through!" Shepard orders.

James peeks over the low wall and fires a concussive shot, hitting a Cannibal as it is blasted backwards into another Cannibal.

"This is Commander Shepard, who am I speaking to?"

"Commander, this is Rogue Four…"

"Your shuttle pilot informs me; you and your team are in really deep down there and could use some assistance. I may be able to do a gun run on the hostiles approaching your position, but after that I'm afraid I'm gonna have to bail out. It's getting too hot up here with that Hades Cannon still active." Derek "Hobbie" Klivian responds.

"Understood Rogue Four."

"Hope you can make that run a good one then." Shepard finishes.

The Husks continue approaching the group's position, the Cannibals and Marauders firing their weapons in an attempt to keep the heroes pinned down. To give some extra assistance, Ashley, Javik, and Liara join up with the others at the stairs, the three taking position on the left side as one by one they peek out around the corner to fire at the Reaper troops. At the same time Garrus, James, Tali, and EDI do the same thing with one, or two of them peeking up over the wall every few seconds and switching back and forth as they fire at the Husks taking a few of them down. The Chief gets close to the ground and leans out around the corner, aiming his MA5D and firing as he takes out a Human Husk.

"Be advised, I am requesting for a Danger Close air strike. Hostiles are just several feet from our position. Friendlies are located along the bank of the river; hostile troops are directly at street level." Shepard informs the New Republic pilot.

"Roger that Commander, I'm coming in hot."

The Hades Cannon finishes turning around as it begins powering up its weapon again, after several seconds of charging the cannon fires. Hobbie remains calm, the energy beam comes right at him as the Rogue pilot barrel rolls to his right to dodge the shot, the beam chasing after him as he climbs and then rolls to his left to dodge it again as it finally dies down. The New Republic pilot then continues his descent towards the street.

"We got an air strike coming in, Danger Close!" Shepard shouts to the rest of his team.

Ashley and a few of the others look back at him, the Chief included when he then looks up. The Spartan spots the X-Wing flying in as it continues descending towards them; from his cockpit Derek lines himself up with the street as he can see the enemy fire from below, he prepares to fire his laser cannons and even a few proton torpedoes. He presses the trigger.

One by one all four of the X-Wing's laser cannons rapidly fire down towards the Husks, the shots impacting all over the street and into Husks taking many of them out, and sending others flying into the air. One laser bolt directly hit the side of a Marauder sending it flying, while another impacted into a group of Human Husks and Cannibals causing an explosion that sent them flying as well; seeing this one of the Marauder's started speaking in a garbled language while pointing up at the X-wing as it ordered many of the Cannibals and other Marauders to turn towards the incoming starfighter and begin shooting up at it. The Ravagers also raised their cannons as they began shooting at the fighter; luckily all of the shots missed the X-wing, albeit some of them barely. Once close enough to the ground Hobbie began to pull up, but not before firing off two proton torpedoes a few seconds apart as they impacted among the group of Ravagers taking them all out in a massive explosion.

"WHOA!" Mickey yells out as the ODSTs take notice of the explosions and then the subsequent passing of the X-wing starfighter.

"Who called in an airstrike?" Buck questions.

The X-wing pulled up and began climbing higher into the air, "Alright Commander, that's it for me."

"That Hades Cannon is already trying to get another lock on me. If I stay any longer I risk getting shot down by that thing."

"Roger that Rogue Four, don't worry we got it from here. That was a great pass! Thanks for the assist, out." Shepard says as he ends the transmission.

The gun run on the Husk horde was indeed very helpful, very few Husks remained other then several Marauders and Cannibals, "Alright people, let's get to that transport. Move!" Shepard shouts.

A frag grenade landed in front of the low wall Dutch was using for cover, "Grenade!" he shouts as he ducks behind it.

The grenade goes off luckily not killing nor injuring anyone as Dutch gets back up and resumes firing, Romeo continued firing his DMR as he had repositioned alongside the Rookie who finished reloading his M7S and continued firing as well. A slug hits the upper left side of Buck's helmet, luckily it ricocheted off but it still hit with enough force to throw Buck's head back.

"Ah! Son of!" he shouted in an annoyed tone as he regained his senses and continued firing on the Husks, taking out a charging Human Husk.

"Watson, Toya! Get some grenades out!" Buck orders.

Both Helljumpers lobbed a M9 frag grenade at the Husks, one grenade went off taking out a Marauder and three Husks, while the second went off near the edge as the Cannibal that was directly behind it roared out in pain before falling over and off the building. The Cannibal hitting the destroyed floor beneath before then landing on the mound of rubble and rolling down it onto the street.

Down the street two Marauders are shot dead, Shepard and his team continued towards the building with the street now clear of hostiles, nevertheless they kept their guard up as they continued to scan all directions just waiting for another group of Husks to appear from out of nowhere.

"Damn it. You've got airborne hostiles inbound!" Cortez suddenly informs Shepard over the comms, "I'm gonna try to keep 'em off you!"

"Careful Cortez!" Shepard says.

Just then a pair of Brutes emerged from the nearby alley as Tali was the first one to spot them, "Brutes!" she shouted.

The one at the front leaped over a knocked downed pillar while the second moved around to its right, "Split up, hit them both!" Shepard orders as he raises his gun and fires away.

He, Tali, James, and Javik fired at the lead Brute while the rest of the team moved to engage the second one; "Tali, Combat Drone!" Shepard shouts.

Activating her omni-tool Tali calls out her Combat Drone as it materializes and fires a rocket at the Brute, hitting it directly in the chest as the Brute stumbles back a little before recovering, the large Husk otherwise surviving the shot as it looks back at the group and roars at them in anger. Chief and the others lay it on the Brute they're attacking as they hit it from all sides, the Brute showing very little care for all the bullets and slugs slamming into it as it simply looks towards Ashley and roars at her. The Brute then charges her with its right arm pulled back as it swings its massive claw, forcing Ashley to jump back as she just barely manages to dodge it, Ashley hitting the ground and going into a roll as she recovers back onto her feet in a crouched position and resumes firing her Avenger. Garrus fires a concussive shot into the Brute's left leg causing the Brute to drop onto its knee, using this opening the Master Chief rushes the Brute from behind and jumps onto its shoulders as he aims his rifle down at the head and unloads the rest of the magazine into it. Killing the Brute as it lets out one final roar of pain before collapsing forward to the ground dead, the Chief hopping off it back onto the ground. Javik and Tali continue firing at the first Brute while backing up, Tali's combat drone shocking it until the Brute finally smashes it with its claw arm as it turns its full attention towards the Quarian and Prothean; this allows Shepard and James to work their way to its rear as they then prep, prime, and toss sticky grenades onto its back. The Brute notices this and turns its head, just as the grenades go off blowing it's entire back apart as it collapses to the ground dead.

James approaches the deceased Husk cautiously from the side as he puts five slugs into its head to make sure it was completely dead, once confirmed he looks back at Shepard and nods his head who nods back, the Commander then looking at Javik and Tali to see if they were okay and then over at the others. Garrus and Chief check their Brute as well to confirm it was dead, as Ashley turns to look at Shepard and raises her right hand, giving him a thumbs up that they were all okay as well and that their Brute was also dead. With both Brute's confirmed dead and no more Husks in sight, Shepard signals to the team to continue towards the building.

"Cortez, do you copy? What's your situation?" Shepard asks trying to contact his shuttle pilot.

He got nothing but static.

"Cortez, do you read?!" Shepard asks with a raised, panicked voice.

He got static again but this time he could just hear Cortez's voice speaking through it, "Getting really hot up here! I got three birds on my six, taking fire!"

The team finally reached the building as they ran up the mound of rubble that luckily took them straight to the top, about halfway up however they heard the engines of the Kodiak coming in from behind as they turned to see Cortez's shuttle coming towards them. Right behind him were three Harvesters as one of them fired its cannons, both shots hitting the rear of the Kodiak causing flames to erupt, "Damn it, I'm hit!" Cortez shouts over the comms.

Shepard watched as the Kodiak flew away with a trail of smoke and fire coming out from its back-end, "CORTEZ!" he yelled out in complete shock and horror.

"ESTEBAN!" James yells out equally shocked and horrified with widened eyes.

Everyone else looked on also in shock; the three Harvesters for some strange reason stopped pursuing as they pulled up to the right and flew away. Everyone was frozen in place, waiting for the inevitable sounds of the shuttle crashing and exploding… and yet that never seemed to come.

"Don't worry, I'm alright!" Cortez's voice suddenly came over the comms.

Hearing this Shepard and everyone else let out a breath of relief, "But I won't be picking you up, I gotta land this bird quick!" Cortez says.

"Just get somewhere safe and stay there. Wait for friendly forces to pick you up." Shepard says.

"Will do, Commander." Cortez replies as he ends the transmission.

"That Esteban…" James says, sounding like he was out of breath, "I swear if we survive this, I'm going to kick his ass for giving us a damn near heart attack!"

Shepard looks back at the others, "Come on, the transport's right here!"

Mickey continued firing his SMG when his magazine ran dry, quickly he got back into cover and began to reload, "Gunny! I'm on my last mag!" he shouted.

"So am I!" Romeo added as he finished reloading his DMR.

"Shit…" Buck quietly says, he was on his last two mags plus his pistol, and with all the firing that had been going on he could tell his entire squad was close to running out of ammo at this rate.

"Toya, get in the Pelican and try and scrounge up some ammo from Doc and the others!" he orders.

"On it Gunny!" Toya says as she turns and runs to the Pelican.

"Everyone else, conserve ammo as best as you can! Single shots only, make them count!" Buck shouts.

Buck raises his assault rifle as he prepares to shoot again, aiming for a Marauder at the rear when suddenly that Marauder is shot from what appears to be its right side. Before he can even question what just happened he notices the familiar faces of Commander Shepard, along with the SPARTAN-II and Hero of his Humanity the Master Chief, appear along with what he presumed to be the Commander's team.

He lowered his rifle slightly, "Well, talk about some good timing!" he joyously comments.

Buck looks over to his men, "Heads up people, friendlies coming in from the enemy's rear! Watch your fire!"

"Halle-fucking-lujah!" Romeo shouts in excitement.

"There's the transport!" Ashley says while pointing at it.

"Shepard, there are survivors!" EDI says, the team then noticing the squad of ODSTs as they continue to fend off the Husks still coming towards them.

"ODSTs, Orbital Drop Shock Troopers." Chief quickly explains as to who they were.

"Let's get in there and help them out!" Shepard says as they begin to move towards them.

Liara fires her M-4 Shuriken taking out a Cannibal, which is when a Marauder takes notice of this and turns around to see the Commander and his team approaching from the rear. With a roar from the Marauder, several of the Husks turn around to face Shepard and his group, a Ravager with them as they begin charging and firing their weapons at them.

"Incoming!" Shepard shouts as his team spreads out to seek cover.

The Ravager fires its cannons as the Chief slides behind the cover of a low wall, the shots flying right over him as he peeks around the side and fires his assault rifle.

"They're taking some of the heat off us!" Dutch says.

"Good, let's use that to our advantage and finish these things off!" Buck orders as the two resume firing their weapons.

Toya comes out from the Pelican with both Pearce, and Mullen right behind her, a rucksack in her left hand, "Gunny! I got some-" a Marauder shoots its Phaeston managing to hit Toya in her left shoulder as she cried out in pain and spun around, falling to the ground. The rucksack slipped from her hand as the extra magazines for their weapons spilled out across the floor.

"Toya!" Pearce shouts as he quickly drops down beside her, Mullen raising his BR85N Service Rifle to return fire as he manages to take out the Marauder.

Pearce drags Toya into cover to tend to her wound safely, while Mullen tosses an extra mag to everyone else, the formerly wounded ODST then rushing to cover himself behind a low wall.

"You doing alright over there Mullen?" Buck asks.

"Just a wee bit of a scratch, Gunny. Ain't nothing that's going to keep me out of this fight!" Mullen replies in his heavy Irish accent.

High-velocity slugs impact into the wall Chief is taking cover behind, once the shots stop Chief peeks over his cover and fires again finally taking the Ravager out as it topples to the ground. Ashley tosses a frag grenade that takes out all of the Swarmers, while EDI fires her Tempest taking out another Cannibal. Dutch and Rookie fire both of their M7Ss taking out another Cannibal along with a Marauder, while Buck fires his assault rifle taking out a Human Husk. Shepard gets out from cover and fires his Avenger, taking out the last Marauder and finally clearing the rooftop of enemy troops.

"All clear!" Javik shouts.

"Clear over here!" Mickey adds.

Shepard and his team get out of cover and begin jogging over to the ODST squad, "We're not out of this yet people. Stay alert!" Buck says as he begins making his way to the front to greet the Commander and his team.

The Hades Cannon fires again, lighting everything up in a bright blue light, "And Dutch, shut that thing up!" he adds in an annoyed tone while pointing at it and looking at his Heavy Weapons Specialist.

"On it Gunny!" Dutch replies, he then looks at the Rookie, "Rookie with me. Grab the other Cain just in case we need it." he says as the two ODSTs run into the dropship.

Shepard's team spreads out to find cover and watch the perimeter. While the Husks had been currently dealt with, it was only going to be a matter of time until more showed up, after all they were deep in enemy territory, and this Hades Cannon was obviously going to be a highly defended target. Which had been proven right thus far. More Husks were most definitely on their way. And even if they did take it out they were still going to need to wait for an extract, if there was even going to be one at this rate...

"Thanks for the save Commander, Master Chief. Gunnery Sergeant Buck, 65th Shock Troops Division." Buck says in gratitude and to introduce himself as he un-polarizes his faceplate.

"Glad we could help Gunny. What's your situation?" Shepard asks.

"Both Pilots and two of my men are KIA, we got one wounded. I think we're all a bit banged up from the crash, but as you've seen we can still fight. Very low on ammo so it's a good thing you guys showed up when you did." Buck explains.

"Well it's as you said, we're not out of this yet. We need to take out that cannon first and then wait for an extract... If we can even find someone to pick us up." Shepard says.

"That shuttle those Harvesters were chasing after, I assume it was yours?" Buck asks.

"Unfortunately. Our pilot survived, but his transport took some damage and he was forced to land." Shepard explains.

"And our dropship isn't exactly in any condition to be flying again soon." Buck says as he looks at the damaged Pelican, "So it looks like we're going to be here for possibly a while."

"Looks that way." Shepard says in agreement.

"Hell yeah, fire that thing right down its throat!" the voice of Romeo excitedly exclaims drawing everyone's attention.

Dutch raises the M-920 Cain and aims it right at the cannon, "Are we sure this thing's going to have enough power to take that massive thing down?" Mickey can't help but question. His, Romeo, and Dutch's faceplates, all un-polarized.

"Well if it doesn't then that's why we have a second one. And if that doesn't put the damn thing down then we are royally screwed." Dutch says.

Dutch pulls the trigger of the M-920 beginning the charge-up sequence. Ashley and the rest of Shepard's team continue to keep their eyes peeled for anymore Husks, while the other ODSTs can't help but be drawn towards what's about to happen while still remaining on alert. After a few more seconds of the weapon charging up, a small whitish-yellowish orb of energy gathering in the barrel with small beams of red light emitting out from it, said energy orb is finally released from the weapon as it is fired towards the Reaper Hades Cannon with a rather dull, thump!

The orb travels towards the cannon where it suddenly banks a sharp turn right once very close to it, the orb then curving to the left as it travels directly into the cannon of the Reaper. Everything then goes silent.

BOOM!

A tremendous explosion erupts from the inside of the Hades Cannon as the Reaper even appears to "scream" in agony, with parts of the cannon being sent flying in every direction.

"HOLY SHIT!" Mickey cries out in absolute shock.

"Hohoho~!" Romeo chuckles loudly.

The flaming wreckage of the Hades Cannon topples to the ground, "Now this is a Heavy Weapon!" Dutch shouts.

The rest of the ODST squad, save for the Rookie, un-polarize their visors as they look at the remains of the Hades Cannon in complete shock and awe. This weapon definitely seemed to be a "tad" bit stronger than the Spartan Laser in terms of infantry heavy weapons, it made just a bit of a bigger boom, and it was a good thing they were the ones using it.

"Gunny, I officially want one of these things." Dutch says looking at Buck.

"Normally, I would have asked why you would need a mini-nuke launcher to keep. But considering what we're going through, and should we survive, and so long as it's not a loaded one. You can have anything you want… Well okay not anything, anything it has to be reasonable, and again, not a fully-loaded mini-nuke launcher." Buck says with a bit of humor behind his tone.

Buck turns to look back at Shepard, and Chief, "Okay, now that that's over with." he says to them as he then turns halfway to his left and puts his left index and middle fingers to his helmet, "This is Gunnery Sergeant Buck. Hades Cannon in London has been neutralized!"

"This is Captain Johnson, we read you loud and clear Gunny." a female Systems Alliance Marine responds.

Just then Shepard, Chief, and everyone else begins receiving a transmission, "This is General Taskeen to all Coalition forces, we are proceeding onto Phase 3 of the Operation. First Wave of Hammer, prepare to deploy!"

"Sounds like the cavalry's coming!" James excitedly says.

"About damn time too!" Dutch adds.

"I wonder if that means the other Advance Teams were also successful in taking out their Hades Cannons?" Liara questions.

"Not to forget if that also means Sword managed to make a few holes in the enemy's fleets so Hammer can safely fly through them." Tali also adds.

"Let's hope so." Shepard says as he then puts his left index and middle fingers to his ear. "This is Shepard to any Alliance forces in the area, we need extraction!" he says over the comms, hoping someone would hear it.

Unfortunately he gets nothing but static in return; and to make matters even more worse, the familiar screech of a Banshee Husk echoes through the air catching everyone's attention.

"I don't like the sound of that." Romeo says as he along with all the other ODST's polarize their visors once more.

"That's a~... that's a Banshee, uses that weird biotic stuff right?" Mickey asks.

"You guessed right trooper; your prize is hopefully knowing enough about these things so you can survive." Ashley says in a dull tone.

The screech of the Banshee pierces the air again, this time a lot closer as everyone looks to the right side of the building towards where the Conduit could be seen far off in the distance, as the Banshee uses its biotics to hover into the air and onto the rooftop. Landing on some rubble that happens to be in the form of a makeshift ramp; the Banshee looks towards the Heroes and ODSTs and lets out its ear-piercing screech again. In an instant the Master Chief grabbed the remaining Cain from the Rookie's hands as he aimed it at the creature and began charging it up, "Get to cover!" Shepard shouts as he and the ODSTs dove or ran for it.

A biotic aura surrounded the Banshee, before it could do anything however the Chief fired the M-920 as the orb flew and impacted into the Asari Husk. Just like before causing a massive, blinding explosion, albeit a luckily more smaller version than before, that took the Banshee out as it quite literally evaporated into nothingness before the explosion died down. Chief, who was covering his face with his left arm from the bright light of the explosion, looked at where the Banshee once stood along with everyone else as they peeked out from behind their cover.

"I reiterate what I said before Gunny, I want me one of those." Dutch says.

"And meanwhile I now have a story I can tell my children, if I ever have any, that I officially saw the great hero known as the Master Chief, literally fire a mini-nuke launcher with my own eyes." Buck comments to no one in particular.

"He did know that wasn't going to kill us all right? Since it again… is basically called the "nuke launcher"?" Buck asks looking at the Commander.

Just then Shepard's communicator comes online as he begins receiving a transmission, "Commander, this is Major Coats. We've received your transmission and are en route. Prepare for extraction!"

"We got a pickup on the way people!" Shepard shouts to everyone, the Chief turning around to look at him.

The Chief suddenly turns his head slightly down to his left as he then tosses the empty Cain to the ground and spins back around while pulling out his MA5D, the Spartan firing the gun just as a Cannibal walks out from behind a wall killing the Husk instantly.

"More hostiles, inbound!" Chief speaks up, then turning slightly to his right to fire at two more Cannibals as they walk out from behind another wall.

From the direction they came from more Cannibals appear as Garrus, EDI, Liara, James, Mickey, Romeo, and PFC. Watson turn to engage them, firing their weapons. Chief walks backwards and behind the cover of a pillar as Shepard and the rest of the group fire on the Cannibals emerging from behind the walls on the two sides, and from crawling up over the edge of the building. Shepard fired his gun taking out a Cannibal before it could even finish crawling all the way up the edge, when he then started to hear the sound of an approaching Kodiak shuttle's engines. Drawing his attention up to his left as he saw the shuttle fly over them and towards the side of the building the Cannibals were crawling up from, another Cannibal being shot dead with two more still approaching them. The right side door of the shuttle opened up as an Alliance Marine with pale-white skin, and black hair, was already standing at the doorway with an M-8 Avenger in hand as he fired at the backs of the two Cannibals cutting them down.

"Come on! I got you covered!" he yells.

Shepard looks at Buck, "Gunny, get your men aboard first!"

"Roger that." Buck says as he looks back at his squad, "You heard the Commander, Helljumpers! Get on that shuttle, on the double!"

Pearce helps Toya to her feet and begins helping her over to the shuttle, Mullen, and Watson right behind them, "We got a lot of Cannibals coming our way!" Garrus yells to the others.

Ashley, Tali, Javik, Rookie, and Dutch rush over to help them while Shepard and Chief run to either side of the ramp to provide support from there when need be, Buck also at the ramp beside Shepard ushering his squad onto the shuttle. Toya manages to hop aboard the shuttle while holding her left arm in pain, the bullet hole sealed up by biofoam, as Pearce jumps in after her followed by Mullen, and finally Watson.

"Romeo! Dutch! Mickey! Rookie! Get your asses aboard!" Buck calls to them.

The four ODSTs turn and sprint towards the shuttle, "Pull back! Fire and retreat!" Ashley tells the others as they get out from their cover and while still firing at the Cannibals, walk sideways towards transport.

Romeo hops aboard the Kodiak first, followed by Dutch, Mickey, and Rookie as Buck then follows after them and jumps into the transport, "Ash, you're guys' turn! Get aboard, now!" Shepard shouts.

EDI turns first and runs towards the shuttle as she jumps aboard, followed by Tali, Javik, Ashley, Liara, James, and Garrus last. The first of the Cannibals turn the corner and fire at the heroes and their shuttle, Shepard and Chief return fire along with some of the people in the shuttle, "Chief, go!" Shepard orders.

Chief turns and runs up the ramp as he jumps aboard the Kodiak, leaving Shepard as the final one as he fires off one last burst from his assault rifle before turning, running up the ramp and jumping aboard as Ashley and Liara catch him. The Alliance Marine along with Chief, the Rookie, and Javik firing at the Cannibals taking a few of them down as Buck then appears at the doorway to the cockpit, "We're all aboard get us the hell out of here!" he tells the pilot.

The door closes shut as the Kodiak flies away from the building, a few of the Cannibals still shooting after it as all the shots miss however.

"You okay?" the Alliance Marine asks.

"We're alive." Shepard answers.

Everyone around him except for the Chief, EDI, and Javik, catching their breaths from the long firefight, even though this was just the beginning.

"That you are, Commander!" a familiar voice speaks up from behind Shepard. A voice that made Shepard smile as he was glad to finally be hearing it in person and not over long-range communication after so many months.

The Commander turns around as he is greeted by his close friend, "Anderson!" he says, happy to see him.

"I knew you wouldn't let me down, Shepard." Anderson says.

The two shake hands and come in for a quick pat hug, "It's good to see you." Shepard says before breaking apart.

"And you are a sight for sore eyes." Anderson says.

"I heard we've moved on to the third phase of the Operation. Are all the Hades Cannons taken care of? What about up in space, did Sword manage to break through the enemy fleets in a few sectors?" Shepard asks.

Sometime Ago…

Two Pelican dropships and a Kodiak shuttle fly above the clouds while being escorted by a B-wing and V-19 Torrent.

"Terra Two-Six, Terra One-Nine, form up on me. We're closing in on the LZ." the female UNSC pilot of the lead Pelican says over the comms. The pilot then switches to the intercom of the troop bay "We're one minute out..."

"...from the LZ. Hope you're ready back there."

A figure stands at the back next to the ramp as they hold onto the right side handlebar, "One minute!" he shouts to inform the rest of the men.

The squad of twelve United States Army Special Forces operators, colloquially known as the Green Berets, sat in silence save for their squad leader, just waiting for the transport to land.

Aboard the other Pelican were twelve Inquisition Scouts as they sat in their seats quietly, and finally a squad of twelve Turian Spec Ops operators on the Kodiak shuttle, hanging onto the handlebars above them while also completely silent.

"Beginning descent." the female pilot says as she, along with the other Pelican and Kodiak began to descend through the clouds.

After several seconds of seeing nothing but the dark clouds they were descending through, the Flight of transports finally emerged over a large island, the Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico…

"This is Ranger Five." the female UNSC pilot and her male co-pilot look right out of their cockpit as the B-wing starfighter flies into their view. "Me and Blue Fourteen will move in and engage that Hades Cannon. Get its attention so you guys can get those troops on the ground, over."

"Roger that Ranger Five, you fellas be careful. Don't go getting yourselves killed." the female pilot says.

The B-wing and V-19 accelerate downwards towards the Hades Cannon as it can be seen towering in the middle of a large rainforest.

El Yunque National Forest…

The Hades Cannon turns around as it aims its cannon and begins its charge-up sequence.

"Hit that thing!" the male Human pilot of the B-wing says.

"Roger that!" the Clone pilot agrees.

The New Republic pilot fires his starfighter's heavy laser cannon and twin autoblasters while the V-19 fires its two laser cannons, red and blue laser bolts slamming into the Reaper Hades Cannon as it fires back at them. The blue energy beam flies right between them as the two pilots maneuver away from it in different directions, the B-wing going right and the V-19 veering left. Both pilots pull up and begin to fly around the cannon as it follows after the B-wing starfighter, charging up its cannon and firing again as the pilot skillfully dodges the beam once more.

While the Hades Cannon is distracted, the two Pelican dropships and the Kodiak shuttle safely descend to the ground some distance away, the three transports landing on a flat, rocky bank next to a river as the Pelican's open their troop bays and the Kodiak opens both of its side doors. Allowing the three Special Forces teams to hurriedly disembark from their respective craft; as the Green Berets form a perimeter around their ramp, the Turians take up positions around the sides of the shuttle, and the Inquisition Scouts also form a defensive line around the ramp of their Pelican. All Operators and Scouts dropping onto a knee as they raise their weapons and point them outwards, scanning the area for any hostiles that could potentially greet them as luckily for the moment, they don't see anyone or anything.

The three transports meanwhile close back up and take off, ascending back into the air as they get above the treeline and turn to fly away, the Hades Cannon still focused on the two starfighters as it can be seen firing again. Once again missing as both fighters evade the incoming energy beam; from his cockpit the Clone pilot notices the transports flying away, both the V-19 and B-wing then pull off to their right and begin climbing back up into the clouds to rejoin Sword in space and to get away from the Hades Cannon.

Back on the ground the Green Berets continue scanning the area using their AN/PSQ-20 Enhanced Night Vision Goggles, the Inquisition Scouts being supplied with their own ENVGs as well, while the Turians also use their own night vision optics to look for any enemy troops. Everything was quiet save for the sounds of the rainforest, animals, and insects making noises from every direction, the running water behind them, and the constant rainfall happening all around them. Either they had been lucky where they landed, the enemy was on their way right now, or they had set up an ambush somewhere along the path towards the Hades Cannon. Whatever the case was, they had to continue with the mission.

The squad leader of the Green Berets lowered his M4A1 SOPMOD and activated his communicator, "Alright people, let's get on with the mission. Move out." he quietly says.

Elsewhere a Flight unit consisting of a LAAT/i gunship, Pelican dropship, and Kodiak shuttle race towards the coastal town of a large island with a F/A-18E Super Hornet, and GA-TL1 Longsword escorting them, the transports and fighters flying low to the water. As they close in a number of Ravagers, and Praetorians can be seen along the coastal hills with Cannibals, Marauders, and Scions as all of them open fire on the approaching ships. The transports and fighters begin evading the incoming shots with a number of them exploding very close to the ships; unfortunately the Longsword suffers a hit to its left wing causing it to go spiraling out of control as it crashes into the ocean. The pilot of the F/A-18E sees this as he looks back forward, from both middle hardpoints under the wings AGM-84H/K SLAMERs are fired towards the coastal hills, impacting into the Husks and taking a number of them out. The Republic gunship fires its chin-mounted Laser cannon turrets, along with the Pelican firing its nose-mounted machine guns, and the Kodiak with its front-mounted mass accelerator cannons, taking out even more Husks as the transports and remaining fighter fly over the hills.

Peyia, Cyprus…

The three transports land in the middle of a street of a residential area, houses on either side of them in various states with many of them destroyed and in ruin, a few of them damaged but still standing, and some that even looked completely untouched. The side doors of the gunship and shuttle open up while the back door of the Pelican drops down; from the Republic gunship a squad of Clone ARC Troopers, one with red markings on their armor while the others had blue, quickly rush out, ODSTs exit from the Pelican, while a squad of N7 Commandos, consisting of three Destroyer Soldiers, one Shadow Infiltrator, and Slayer Vanguard, two Fury Adepts, two Demolisher Engineers, and three Paladin Sentinel's, come out from the Kodiak. From down the street directly in front of them a large group of Husks approach as the Cannibals, and Marauders fire at them, Human Husks charging towards them as there were also three Scions.

"Contact front!" a male ODST shouts as he raises his MA5D and returns fire, the transports taking back off into the air.

Another ODST rushes towards the right side of the street as they drop to their right knee beside a low wall, aim their M7S submachine gun and return fire, an ARC Trooper running behind them and going prone to their left as he aims his DC-15A blaster rifle and also begins firing. The three squads of Spec Ops soldiers spread out and return fire on the encroaching Husks, one of the ARCs standing in the middle of the street armed with a Z-6 Rotary Blaster Cannon as he lays down heavy fire on the enemy soldiers taking a few of them out. On the left side of the street another ODST and ARC Trooper get beside the low wall at the front of a house, the ODST standing behind the crouched ARC as they fire their guns; unbeknownst to the both of them, at the damaged house behind them on the second story, a Marauder peeks out from one of the windows as it aims its assault rifle and fires. The shots penetrate the back of the ODST as she lets out a grunt of pain before collapsing to the ground, falling forward to the Clone's right as the ARC takes notice of the body, "Shooter from the rear!" he hears one of the female N7s yell out.

The ARC quickly spins around and raises his DC-15S blaster carbine, luckily spotting the Marauder almost immediately as he fires his blaster, hitting it a few times as it falls back into the house, most likely and hopefully dead. One of the Scions fires its arm cannon as the shot impacts in the middle of the street, safely a few feet away from the ARC with the Z-6 as everyone continues firing at the Husks; the ARC Trooper with the red markings takes out, primes, and tosses a thermal detonator as it directly impacts the Scion blowing it to pieces while also taking out two nearby Cannibals and a Human Husk. Following suit, one of the N7 Destroyers activates his omni-tool as he raises his right arm towards the Husks and fires three frag grenades from it, the grenades going off taking out a few more Husks. Suddenly both the Shadow Infiltrator and Slayer Vanguard fold their N7 Hurricane SMGs and attach them to their armor as they bring out their respective monomolecular blades, the two N7s then rushing forward towards two of the closest Human Husks as they close the distance and strike. The Slayer Vanguard runs past the Husk in front of him as he swings his sword cutting its head off, while the Shadow Infiltrator jumps into a roll and recovers into a crouched position thrusting her sword directly into the chest of her Husk killing it.

One of the Paladin Sentinels fire their N7 Eagle Pistol taking out another Marauder, while one of the ODSTs peek out from behind a destroyed skycar and fire their BR85N Service Rifle taking out the last Scion, the last Husk falls finally clearing the street of Reaper hostiles.

"Everyone alright? Who's hit?!" the male ODST squad leader yells out.

"Alana's down!" another male ODST responds.

The squad of ODSTs rush over to their downed comrade as the ARCs and N7s secure the area and keep their eyes peeled for anymore hostiles, the ARC Trooper who was with the ODST Alana, beside her as he checks on her for signs of life.

"How is she?" the ODST squad leader asks.

The Clone looks up, and then lowers his head a little as he shakes it. She was dead.

"Fuck!" the ODST squad leader nearly shouts in anger, the rest of the squad visibly saddened or angered by her death, as some of them turn and walk away, shaking their heads or with clenched fists while the others lower their heads.

The other squad leaders walk over, "I'm… sorry Sergeant. But we have to keep moving." the N7 Destroyer Soldier says.

"Captain Harlowe is right. More enemy troops are probably on their way. We need to quickly get to that Hades Cannon and take it out, if we don't a lot more people are going to die." the ARC Trooper with red markings says.

The ODST Sergeant turns his head to look at the two, he nods his head in understanding. He looks back at the body of his dead trooper and kneels down as he reaches for and takes her dog tag from her, putting it in one of his armor's compartments as he gets back up and turns around, "Let's get moving." he says.

Antarctica…

Another Flight consisting of a Kodiak shuttle, Pelican dropship, and LAAT/i gunship land somewhere amongst the coldest, driest, and windiest continent of all of Earth, while there is also a raging snowstorm going on. The three transports open up as Special Forces teams consisting of five Citadel Spectres, two Turians, two Asari, and one Salarian, a SPARTAN-IV fireteam of five Spartans in all white armor, and a squad of four Clone Commandos in silver-gray armor, rush out and secure the perimeter. The transports close up and take back off into the sky leaving the SF operatives behind.

"This is Spectre Jondum Bau, we're on the ground." Salarian Spectre Jondum Bau says over the comms.

Amazonas, Brazil…

A Kodiak shuttle, LAAT/i gunship, and Type-57 Phantom dropship fly over the Amazon Rainforest while escorted by a F-61 Trident, and Seraph-class starfighter; three Harvesters fly towards the ships and fire their cannons at them, managing to take out the Trident as the rest of the ships move to evade. The Seraph fires back with its heavy plasma cannons managing to take two of the Harvesters out, the third one evading the plasma shots as it flies right past the starfighter. The Seraph turns around to give chase after the flying Husk; the transports meanwhile continue their descent towards the ground as the Hades Cannon now turns towards them and begins powering up its cannon, the Reaper fires. Hitting the Republic gunship directly as it explodes to pieces, the Kodiak and Phantom touch down as they open their doors, allowing the squads of the Salarian Special Tasks Group, and of the Swords of Sanghelios Special Warfare Group to disembark. The Salarians, and Sangheili move to cover in foxholes, and behind burned trees both standing and knocked over, as the transports close their doors and take back off.

Major Kirrahe peeks his head over the charred, knocked over tree trunk he and two of his men were taking cover behind. What he saw before him... was complete devastation. He had done his research on the Amazon Rainforest leading up to the invasion, to give himself, his men, and their allies an idea of what to expect when it came to the terrain and environment they would be facing the enemy in. It was a massive rainforest, which was a type of forest characterized by high and continuous rainfall, that covered most of the continent that was known as South America; with some 2,100,000 square miles of land being covered by this rainforest. Based on the photos he had seen that were taken from orbit, and on the ground, this entire land they were on was supposed to be nothing but green for miles and miles in all directions… but at the moment, it was anything but that. Instead all there was for miles and miles in every direction, were charred trees and dirt, small fires that were still burning in a few areas and on trees; there was not a sign of life anywhere, no plants, no animals, nothing. It was almost a barren wasteland.

To Kirrahe, it was indeed a sad, and terrible sight to behold. With any luck, if this war was won, the Humans would find a way to bring life back to this place. So that he could see the sights of this rainforest in person.

"Major Kirrahe." the Salarian looks to his right at the Sangheili who spoke to him, the leader of the Special Operations squad.

"We must proceed with the mission cautiously. Now that we are the only squads left." Special Operations Officer N'tho 'Sraom says.

Off the Coast of New York City…

Two Pelican dropships, and a LAAT/i gunship fly towards the city of New York, escorted by a F-35C Lightning II and Quarian Stiletto-class fighter. The three transports get low to the water as suddenly all of their rear ramps drop open, from these ramps what appear to be SEAL Delivery Vehicles are pushed out and dropped into the water, followed by the Special Forces teams jumping out after them. Once the last person had jumped out from each of the transports, all three of them closed their ramps back up as they began to pull up.

From the Sandy Hook barrier spit, two Cannibals along with a Ravager stand on the North Beach. The three Husks take notice of the Coalition transports and fighters as they began climbing back up into the sky and disappear into the clouds. The two Cannibals look at each other, the one on the right shrugging their shoulders as if confused by the appearance and then sudden retreat of the enemy ships.

Staten Island…

The Hades Cannon can be seen, far off in the distance at the center of Great Kills Park. Along the sloping, riprap shoreline next to what appears to be a residential neighborhood, the barrel of a M4A1 Carbine begins to grace the surface; the rest of the gun and the owner, Navy SEAL Lt. Rorke follows after as he slowly and quietly rises from beneath the calm water. A serious look on his face as he scans around for hostiles and sees none; a few seconds later from behind on his right, Spartan Commander Sarah Palmer also emerges from the water quietly and slowly, her M395B DMR raised as she also scans around for any Husks or enemy forces that might greet them. And then finally from Rorke's left the Clone Commando RC-1138 known by his nickname, as "Boss", also emerges from the water with his DC-17m Interchangeable Weapon System raised and ready to engage any bad guys that may appear. The three squad leaders make their way onto the shore, as behind them were the rest of their teams of SEAL Team Seven, Fireteam Majestic, and Delta Squad.

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A Reaper Oculus fighter spirals out of control with a trail of flames following it before exploding. A Swords of Sanghelios Seraph fighter chases after and shoots a Cerberus Trishul-class Interceptor destroying it, almost immediately however that same Seraph is then shot from the front and destroyed as a TIE Interceptor flies through its explosion.

A V-19 Torrent chases after a Hyena-class droid bomber, "Oh no you don't, come here!" Broadside shouts in an annoyed tone.

The laser cannons of the V-19 firing after the Hyena bomber as the first couple of shots miss, the next shots however finally landing a direct hit as the droid bomber explodes. Broadside accelerates his fighter forward to find his next target.

"They're all over me! I can't shake them!" a female USAF pilot shouts as her cockpit then explodes.

The F-16C Fighting Falcon explodes to pieces as an Armada Bruiser, transformed into a jet fighter, and a Vulture droid starfighter fly through its remains.

"I'M HIT!" a human male New Republic pilot cries out as sparks explode inside his cockpit.

The pilot's damaged Y-wing bomber spirals out of control, the two TIE fighters that were chasing after it pulling away, as it crashes into an Imperial Star Destroyer.

Another V-19 Torrent flies in a finger-four formation with a F-61 Trident to its left, and to its right were a F-41 Broadsword, and a F-15E.

"This shit's fucking getting crazy out here, they're all over the place!" Marquez shouts in a panic as he looks around.

"Keep it together Marquez!" Oddball says trying to calm him down.

"Heads up people, enemy fighters at 40 degrees." Barr informs the group.

"I see them, let's get those bastards!" Sancho states.

A vic formation of five Imperial TIE fighters fly between an engagement of a Quarian dreadnought and a Separatist Munificent-class star frigate as both ship's side cannons fire back and forth between one another. The four Coalition fighters roll and pull up to their right as they accelerate to attack speed; Marquez locks onto the TIE fighter second from the left as he then fires one of his AIM-7 Sparrow missiles, the missile impacting into and destroying the TIE fighter. At that same moment Oddball, Barr, and Sancho fire their laser cannons, mass accelerator guns, and M1075 autocannons taking three of the other TIEs out as the surviving fighter then rolls slightly to its right before turning into that direction and accelerating to try and escape.

"Oh no you don't!" Sancho says as she throttles her engines to full power to give chase.

"Sancho, where are you going?!" Oddball calls out to her.

"I ain't letting that bastard get away so he can kill any more of our guys!" Sancho responds.

Sancho gets right on the TIE's tail as she fires her autocannons at it, the TIE fighter going right to dodge the shots as she swerves right after him and fires again, causing the TIE to then turn left making the shots miss again.

"Alright, let's see you dodge these." Sancho says to herself.

She begins locking onto the TIE fighter as it continues flying from side to side, after a few more seconds she finally gets a lock on it as she presses the trigger. Firing the Broadsword's M6088 ST/MMP missile delivery systems as she sends two ST/Medusa missiles towards the TIE fighter, the enemy fighter attempts to evade but to no avail as both missiles impact into it causing it to explode.

"Hell yeah! How'd you like that?!" Sancho shouts joyously.

Just then a Reaper Oculus fighter drops straight down towards Sancho from above and fires its weapon, hitting her Broadsword as sparks explode inside her cockpit causing her to cry out in pain, the fighter explodes to pieces as the Oculus flies through its remains.

"Sancho!" Marquez cries out in shock and horror.

Oddball throws his head back and looks up, Barr looks down as he shakes his head and then slams his right fist into the side of his cockpit, full of anger as he lets out a grunt.

Three Galactic Ranger Kalebo fighters fly in a formation when suddenly the fighter on the left is shot and destroyed, while the one on the right is shot in the engines causing it to go spiraling out of control as it crashes into the debris of a destroyed ship. Three Cerberus fighters fly down and get behind the remaining Kalebo fighter as they chase after it, "This is Ranger Leader, I have three enemies on my tail. Could use some assistance!" Sasha Phyronix calls out of the comms.

Almost immediately blue laser bolts slam into the lead Cerberus fighter, coming up from their right side, destroying it. Before the other fighters can react the one on the right is shot by red laser bolts and destroyed, while the one on the left attempts to pull away to its left only to be hit by yellowish-orange energy bolts, striking it as the fighter spirals out of control before exploding. A second later Anakin's Delta-7B interceptor, Luke's T-65 X-Wing, and Ratchet's Aphelion fly past down to the left as they then pull up and fly off to the right.

"We got your back Sasha." Ratchet says.

"Thanks for the save Ratchet." she replies.

"Luke, Ratchet, form up again behind my wings. We're hitting that Cerberus cruiser in front of us." Anakin speaks up.

"Copy that, Hero Leader." Luke responds.

"We're right behind yah, Anakin!" Ratchet adds.

The three heroes fly towards a Cerberus cruiser as they fire their main guns, strafing the cruiser up its entire body bypassing the kinetic barriers almost instantaneously as explosions erupt from where their shots hit. Eventually they complete their run as they fly over the ship's engines, flying some distance away before suddenly turning into various directions as Anakin pulls up, Luke rolls and turns upwards to his right with Ratchet doing the same but going to his left. The three do a complete turnaround as they readjust themselves to a level position and fly back towards the Cerberus ship, firing their guns again as they hit the engines causing them to explode; sending the heavily damaged cruiser going down as explosions continue to slowly erupt from throughout its body.

Several meters away the Millennium Falcon flies past with a number of enemy fighters on its tail as they fire after the light freighter, "Alright then, come on!" Han Solo shouts.

Han rolls the Falcon slightly to the right as several enemy shots miss it, the top AG-2G quad laser cannon firing back as on the gunner seat was the Wookie, Chewbacca who let out an angered roar as he fired the cannon again. This time managing to shoot down a Cerberus and Oculus fighter as the rest of the enemy ships continue their pursuit. Manning the bottom laser cannon was Leia as she turned the gun down and fired at a Vulture droid attempting to hit the ship from below, the shots hitting the droid fighter immediately as it exploded.

Superman flew straight through another Vulture droid causing it to explode, green laser bolts flew past him from his left as he looked in that direction and shot back with his heat vision, cutting off the left wing of the firing TIE interceptor as this sent it spiraling out of control. The starfighter flying right past in front of him as it curved to its left and crashed into some debris. Green Lantern flew facing down as he pulled his right arm back and threw it forward, firing a powerful green energy beam from his ring as he used it to cut right through a Reaper capital ship, starting from the bottom of its body before pulling it all the way up to the top. Cutting the Reaper into two halves as a few seconds later red electrical energy surged out and the Reaper exploded. Iron Man fired both of his palms repulsor beams taking out a Cerberus fighter below him, the Iron Avenger then turning around and firing at a Covenant Seraph fighter as it fired at him, the plasma shots missing as his beams impacted into and destroyed the enemy fighter.

Captain Atom and Ms. Marvel flew over and hit an Imperial I-class Star Destroyer with their powers causing major damage to it, Orion flew after a Zangyack Sugormin and shot it down with his left wristband gun, while Doctor Light flew up behind him facing the opposite direction and fired light beams at two TIE fighters taking them both out. Aztek, The Ray, Starman, and Waverider grouped up and fired their respective attacks destroying four Armada battleships, the four heroes then flying off in different directions. Aboard a purple-colored Armada Imperial-class battleship, a Bruiser ordered the X Borgs to fire their guns on a Salarian cruiser, when suddenly Vision phased up through the floor terrifying the Bruiser and X Borgs, once they turned around and noticed him, as Vision then solidified his body and pulled his right fist back before throwing it at the Bruiser.

"Concentrate fire on that ship." an Imperial Captain orders his gunners, referring to the damaged UNSC Marathon-class heavy cruiser that was right in front of them engaging three Reaper capital ships.

All of a sudden an intangible Big Chill floats up right in front of the viewing window taking the Imperial Captain and his XO aback as they cry out in shock and begin backing away from it. Ben then phases through the window and solidifies his body as everyone on the bridge was now looking at him in shock and horror, "Why don't you fellas just… chill out." Big Chill says while leaning towards them.

"Guards!" the XO cries out.

The doors to the bridge open up as five Stormtroopers rush in and raise their blasters, Big Chill however rears his head back and throws it forward as he breathes out a beam of freezing ice.

"Let's take it down!" Kirenger excitedly shouts.

The Variblune, Varidorin, and Sky Ace fly towards a Reaper Destroyer and fire rockets at it, hitting it as the Destroyer powers down before exploding.

The Denzi Fighter fires its laser cannons from below a Separatist frigate as the beams impact into and destroy the ship, while the Icarus Haken performs its Jet Phoenix attack and rams into the side of a Covenant RCS-class armored cruiser, splitting it apart and also destroying it as it explodes. The Astro Megaship, Delta Megaship, and Mega Winger fire their laser cannons taking out multiple Armada and Zangyack ships; the Omega Crawler fires its large cannon destroying a Cerberus dreadnought, while the Max Solarzord in Shuttle Mode, Time Force Megazord Jet Mode, and Shadow Winger fire their laser cannons destroying a Collector cruiser with ease.

"Hit that enemy ship!" Jack Landors, SPD Red Ranger shouts.

The five S.W.A.T. Flyer Zords fly towards a Covenant CRS-class light cruiser as they fire their laser cannons, strafing the ship up its entire body as it explodes to pieces. Mystic Dragon flies after a small group of enemy fighters, breathing fire as it destroys all of them and then flies towards a Separatist Providence-class dreadnought, "Let's take that thing out!" Mystic Titan says while pointing at it.

Mystic Dragon flies up alongside the droid ship as Mystic Titan brings his sword back and then swings it, striking the side of the dreadnought as he drives his sword into it and drags it across the body from the mid-section to the back. Eventually coming out from the engines as Mystic Dragon flies away while the ship explodes behind them.

"Time to go for a spin, hyah!" Orion shouts while spinning his wheels to the left.

Spinning up both the GoZyuDrill, and Q-Rex Drill's respective drills as he rams them both into two Reaper capital ships, drilling straight through them as they explode.

T.J. Johnson, the Blue Space Ranger chases after a Cerberus fighter as he fires his Astro Blaster taking it out, "Star Slinger!" Ashley Hammond, theYellow Space Ranger shouts as she aims her slingshot weapon and fires energy pellets, destroying a TIE fighter coming towards her from behind.

A Vulture droid chases after and shoots at the Red Space Ranger, the red laser bolts flying past around him as Andros weaves his Galaxy Glider from side to side to dodge the incoming shots. The Red Space Ranger looks back for a second before looking back forward, throwing his right arm back with his left arm in front of his chest as he decelerates the glider. Quickly bringing him towards the droid as he backflips and lands atop its head, "Spiral Saber!" Andros shouts, bringing his weapon out as he plunges it into the droid's head deactivating it.

As the droid fighter begins to roll to its right while falling, the Red Space Ranger calls in his Galaxy Glider as it flies up to his left and he jumps onto it, accelerating away. The five Galaxy Rangers chase after five Oculus fighters as they fire their Jet Jammers' laser cannons, hitting all of them and destroying them instantly.

The Ninja MegaFalconzord spins around while throwing a right roundhouse kick, striking the front end of a Cerberus dreadnought as this quite literally sends the ship spinning around out of control while flying towards another dreadnought, crashing into it as both ships explode. The four Super Zeo Zords bring out enlarged versions of the Advanced Zeo Laser Pistols as they aim and fire, taking out a number of enemy fighters; discarding them the four Zords then power up and fire energy blasts from the emblems on their torso's, taking out a number of Zangyack and Armada ships.

"Mega Laser!" the Black and Pink Space Rangers shout.

Firing the four laser cannons on the chest-plating of the Mega Voyager Megazord, taking out a large number of enemy fighters. The Galaxy Megazord flies up and swings its saber, cutting diagonally across the body of a Collector cruiser as it flies past it with the ship exploding; the Galaxy Megazord then lands on the left side of a Separatist Lucrehulk-class Battleship's outer ring, inside the ship the Neimoidian captain sees this on a video screen as he cries out in terror. With the Condor Galactazord in Missile Mode aimed at the center sphere of the massive ship, the Galaxy Megazord charges the inside of his beak with green energy as it then opens up, firing a green bolt in the shape of its head as it impacts into the sphere causing the entire thing to explode. The Galaxy Megazord takes off as the rest of the ship begins to explode as well.

Powering up its giant boomerang, with blue lightning traveling into it, the Stratoforce Megazord then tosses it as it becomes covered in blue energy. The boomerang takes out a number of enemy fighters en route to its actual target, a Reaper Destroyer as it slams into it causing the Reaper to explode. From atop the Zenith Carrierzord, the Centaurus Megazord fires its laser cannon alongside the Zenith Carrierzord firing its beam cannons, both Megazords focusing their fire on a Victory I-class Star Destroyer as they eventually take it out with the ship exploding.

"Defender Axe!" Mike shouts, raising his Pole Axe-like weapon up as golden energy gathers into the double-side axe head.

The second Magna Defender then rotates it around in front of him, creating a golden circle aura as he brings his Defender Axe back and raises it again, lightning shooting and gathering into the axe as he swings it diagonally downwards to his left. Curving the swing a little as he delivers the curving golden-black energy slash attack on a Reaper capital ship, which he then repeats from his left with a downwards curving right slash as red electricity surges across the Reaper's body causing it to explode.

"Fire at that thing!" an Imperial Captain orders in a panic.

All the Turbolaser batteries and cannons are focused on and fired at the Wild Force Isis Megazord, the Isis Megazord flying quickly towards the Victory-II class Star Destroyer as it folds its wings over the shoulders and to the front of the body bringing them together. The green lasers of the turbolaser weapons slam into the Isis shield as they are blocked by it, "Impossible!" the Imperial Captain says in complete shock.

The Isis Megazord then boosts itself higher up to get away from the laser bolts as it opens its wings back up, suddenly the two blue eyes on its wings transform into yellow catlike eyes that then send out a blast of light at the Star Destroyer. Inside the ship surges of electricity suddenly erupt out from all the control consoles, causing the crewmembers manning them to cry out in pain as they are shocked by them with the Captain and his XO look back in confusion as one of the men stand up.

"Sir, all our systems have malfunctioned!"

"What do you mean?" the Captain yells in anger.

The Isis Megazord aims the Giraffe Spear towards the ship as it begins flying down towards it at high speeds, the Isis Megazord begins spinning around rapidly as a golden aura of energy surrounds the Giraffe Spear's head. In a flash of light the Isis Megazord spears its way through the center of the Star Destroyer, as a few seconds later the entire ship erupts into a massive explosion.

"Dino Drill!" the Dino Thunder Rangers simultaneously shout.

The Tyranno Tail on the left arm spins up as the Valkasaurus Megazord flies towards and drills through the center of a Covenant SDV-class heavy corvette, causing it to explode. A large number of enemy fighters fly towards the Jungle Master Megazord and fire their weapons, "Big mistake!" Casey, Jungle Fury Red Ranger says.

The shots harmlessly impact into the Megazord as then the Jungle Fury Rangers have it spin around, using the wings of the Bat to hit all of the enemy fighters taking them out. The Samurai Battlewing flies towards four Reaper capital ships swinging its katana from side to side as it cuts through all four of them, the Reapers bodies separating into two halves and floating apart for a few seconds before all of them explode.

"Mega Strike!" Noah shouts, as the Gosei Great Megazord swings it flaming Dragon Sword diagonally to the left, striking another Reaper capital ship as it explodes.

"Grand Strike!" Robo Knight shouts as the Gosei Grand Megazord shoots six missiles from the Lion Mechazord's tires. The six missiles impact into another Reaper before the Gosei Grand Megazord headbutts through it, destroying the Reaper.

Armed with the Beat Hammer, a flail-like weapon with a hammer on one end, and a spiked ball on the other, the Dynaman's Dyna Robo spins the ball end around before throwing it at a Separatist dreadnought and wrapping the chain around the center of the ship's body. The Dynaman then have their Mecha begin to pull on the dreadnought as they spin around, spinning around with the ship at high speeds until eventually releasing the ship as they send the dreadnought crashing into a Trade Federation battleship, taking both ships out in a massive explosion.

"G9 Grand Prix!" the Go-Ongers and Go-On Wings shout at the same time.

Their Mecha firing energy manifestations of all the Engines down the manifestation of a racing track as at the end of it was a Cerberus dreadnought, which all the energy manifestations slam into as the ship is completely destroyed. Raiden Kyoryuzin cuts across the body of a Covenant RCS-class armored cruiser with its Goren Zyudenken sword, while Shurikenjin Drago flies up several meters to its right and shoots energy bullets from its mouth taking out a large number of enemy fighters.

Meanwhile the GokaiGalleon, and Super Mega Skyship team up against an Imperial II-class Star Destroyer; the GokaiGalleon flying along its right side while the Super Mega Skyship comes up its left as both ships fire their side cannons into the Star Destroyer. The shots take out the Star Destroyer's shields as they start tearing away at the ship, explosions erupting all along the sides as both galleon-like spacecraft fly past the Imperial ship. A few seconds later the in flames Star Destroyer ship erupts in a large explosion sending debris everywhere.

From the bridge of his flagship Home One, Admiral Ackbar watched the battle unfold. The Mon Calamari Admiral furrowed his brows; a Swords of Sanghelios CPV-class heavy destroyer engaged two of Jul 'Mdama's Covenant CRS-class light cruisers, the Heavy Destroyer firing a barrage of plasma torpedoes as they impacted into both of the Light Cruisers. Both cruisers shields held up however, as both of them then returned fire with their ventral plasma beam emitters, hitting the ship directly and taking out its shields as the beams slammed into its hull causing major damage with explosions erupting throughout the ship as it suddenly exploded apart. Off to his right, the Admiral then watched as a medium-sized battle group of Systems Alliance, and Turian cruisers focused their efforts on a lone Imperial I-class Star Destroyer, the Star Destroyer already damaged with both of its shield generator domes destroyed. Nevertheless the Star Destroyer continued putting up a resistance as its heavy turbolaser batteries, and heavy turbolaser turrets tore away at the weaker kinetic barriers of this universe's warships, resulting in the destruction of both a Systems Alliance and Turian cruiser mere seconds apart from each other before a well-placed shot from one of the other Systems Alliance cruisers struck the bridge directly. Sending the flaming wreckage of the Star Destroyer slowly going down.

It was hard to say who's favor the battle was in. With the help of Hero Squadron the Coalition had somehow managed to destroy many, many enemy ships and fighters than possible in the amount of time since the battle had started. The Heroes were indeed making a difference, too bad it still wasn't enough; the enemy still outnumbered them, and the Coalition was still losing people. Hundreds of ships so far, with hundreds, thousands of crew aboard, and even more pilots had probably been lost and killed. Ackbar had a feeling that this battle was going to be a costly one… but still, it had only been half-an-hour since it started, and there were already so many dead. With the numbers still piling up on both sides. At the rate things were going, the Admiral guessed that it would probably take another hour, maybe even two to completely clear the space above Earth, to completely destroy all the enemy fleets if they were to try and do that. They didn't have even an hour to try and do that, and even if they were to, the minute the tide started turning in their favor Reaper reinforcements would probably come pouring out through the Sol Relay. There would only be so much the Rearguard fleet would be able to handle before they were overwhelmed by sheer numbers, there was no time for Sword to try and clear the space above the planet, they had to act quickly if they were to get Hammer on the ground so that they could put an end to this war faster.

"This is Admiral Ackbar to all fleets. We must create as many openings in the enemies defenses as possible. Clear as many paths as we can so that Hammer can safely be deployed to the planet! Look for any weak points in their defenses and push through them!" Ackbar orders.

El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico…

So far so good, the Green Berets, Inquisition Scouts, and Turian Spec Ops operators hadn't encountered any enemy forces yet. The sound of the Hades Cannon firing again echoed through the quiet dark air, the light of the energy beam illuminating the land all around the Special Forces team as it also gave them an idea of how much further away it was.

At the moment the three squads were making their way carefully through the thick foliage of the forest; the terrain not at all level and with bushes, and rocks all over the place making the traversal somewhat difficult but luckily not too much. The scouts and operatives kept their weapons held at the ready, their eyes constantly scanning around for enemy troops. If they could keep it this way, taking out this Hades Cannon was going to be a walk in the park for them. They just hoped that the other teams were faring just as well as they were.

Peyia, Cyprus…

One of the Paladin Sentinel's was shot in the head as he dropped dead, "Derell!" one of the ARC Troopers shouted as he got up from his prone position and sprinted towards him.

"Hang on, I gotcha!" the ARC says reaching and dropping down as he wraps his arms around both the N7's shoulders and begins dragging him back. Only to receive three high-velocity slugs to the chest, killing him as his body falls backwards.

"Stay down! Everyone stay down!" the ARC squad leader yells out, his back against the ground as he then turns, raises his DC-15S and fires back.

The three squads of Special Forces troopers take cover in a dried up ditch between the road behind them and an open field in front of them. Husk forces having emerged from the plantation of small palm trees across the road at the end of the field as the team find themselves engaged once more. The Human Husks charge across the field while Cannibals and Marauders move across it while firing their weapons; the ARCs, N7s, and ODSTs fire back from prone and crouched positions in the ditch, high-velocity slugs impacting into the ground around them and flying past or over their heads. One of the Marauder's crouches on their right knee as they aim their rifle and fire, hitting one of the ODST's in their right shoulder as he falls into the ditch with a cry of pain; one of the Fury Adepts, armed with a Valiant Sniper Rifle, spots the Marauder and fires taking it out.

"Skinner, take care of his wounds!" the red ARC tells his medic.

"On it Captain!" the ARC medic responds as he slides down into the ditch, rushing over to the injured ODST as he looks over his injury.

"Dammit! We can't get pinned down here, we've got to move!" Captain Harlowe shouts.

The N7 Captain peeks over the ground and aims his N7 Valkyrie Assault Rifle as he fires a few bursts before getting back down, shots impacting into the ground in front of his position a second later.

"Toss some grenades out there people!" Harlowe shouts again.

The other two Destroyer Soldiers aim their omni-tools up at an angle before launching multiple frag grenades from them, at the same time three ARCs toss thermal detonators along with two ODSTs lobbing frag grenades at the Husks. Multiple explosions go off seconds later as the dying cries of the Husks can be heard; Captain Harlowe waits a few seconds before peeking his head up out of the ditch, the smoke from the explosions clear away revealing many dead Husks though with a few still alive and crossing the field. No more appeared to be coming out from the plantation.

"Still got a few left, but looks like there aren't any more coming." he says as he brings his head down.

"Let's use this opening while we can! Get up, and keep moving until we reach the town, do not stop! Trooper, are you good?" he asks the injured ODST.

"Just a scratch, sir!" the ODST responds, the ARC medic finishing applying a bacta patch to the wound on his shoulder.

"Alright, let's take that cannon out. Move!" Captain Harlowe yells as he shoots up onto his feet.

Aiming his assault rifle as he fires again, taking out a Cannibal as he loads in a fresh thermal clip. The rest of the N7s, along with the ODSTs, and ARCs also get up as they begin moving forward, firing their weapons taking many of the remaining Husks out. While moving the ARC Trooper Skinner rushes over to the bodies of the other ARC and ODST, quickly checking on the both of them to see if one of them was still alive… unfortunately they were both dead. Another Human Husk is shot dead, as several feet behind it was a Cannibal which fired a frag grenade from its arm cannon just as it was shot as well; the grenade lands at the feet of two ODSTs, and an ARC Trooper.

"Grenade!" the injured ODST yells out.

The Shock Trooper diving onto it as the ODST to his right, and the ARC Trooper both dive to the ground away from it, the rest of the team doing so as well. The grenade goes off, blowing the ODST's body a few inches off the ground as he falls right back down; everyone raises their head and looks over, smoke rises from beneath the ODST's body, there was no movement from him. The ODST Sergeant, and Clone ARC Captain lower their heads in sadness, Captain Harlowe continues looking over but remains silent for a few more seconds, "K-Keep moving!" he shouts, though the pain was evident in his voice.

Antarctica…

The team of Citadel Spectres, SPARTAN-IVs, and Clone Commandos continued through the heavy winds and near zero visibility of the raging snowstorm while staying alert due to said low visibility, giving the enemy a possible chance of getting the jump on them if they were out there.

"Are we even heading the right way? If I'm going to die, I want it to be in the field of battle, not freezing my ass off in the middle of nowhere!" one of the Clone Commando's complained.

"Quit your whining, Whiney." another of the Clone Commando's spoke.

"Intel says the Hades Cannon is in the middle of a small town. Said town is located in a valley, surrounded by high walls of ice. There are three ways into the valley; from the sky, which none of us want to get shot down by the cannon we're trying to destroy so that's out. The front entrance which is basically the large opening between the walls of ice, where most likely the enemy's going to keep most of their troops watching for us. Or an ice cave that goes through the left wall, bringing us straight into the town. It's supposedly very well hidden when it comes to the entrance side in the town, so if we find the entrance on the outside, getting into the town could be a lot easier for us. We could even get in, hit the Hades Cannon, and get out before the bad guys even know we're there." the male Spartan squad leader speaks up.

"Sounds like an excellent strategy to me. Should the town be full of Reaper Husks, and with how small a group we are, attempting any full-scale engagement may not end well in our favor. Let us hope that this ice cavern pans out well." Jondum Bau says.

Amazonas, Brazil…

Major Kirrahe took cover behind a large rock with his back to it as high-velocity slugs flew around him, an explosion erupted from his right throwing dirt and debris into the air as some of it fell on the Salarian STG operative making him close his eyes and mouth. Opening his eyes and mouth again he continued catching his breath as the Major looked to his right to see his men, and the Sangheili of the Special Operations taking cover in foxholes and behind trees as they fired back at the Husk forces engaging them. Another explosion erupted close to his left in front of the rock, making him flinch as he turned and looked in the direction to see another of his men as they fell to the ground beside him injured, blood slowly pouring out from the cuts on his face from shrapnel.

"Give me your hand, Corporal!" Kirrahe calls to him as he reaches out.

The Salarian reaches back, but is suddenly riddled with high-velocity slugs as he dies on the spot shocking the Major. Nevertheless Kirrahe grabs his body and pulls it behind the rock as he mentally curses himself, Kirrahe then turns around and stands up as he peeks over the rock and fires his M-15 Vindicator. Multiple slugs suddenly hit his rock forcing him back into cover, "Come on Kirrahe. You can do it, just like that mission on Virmire. Just a lot bigger, and with less likely chances of surviving." he says to himself.

The STG operative then takes one final deep breath as he closes his eyes and breathes in, and then breathes out. He opens his eyes again and looks to his right, "Come on men, we must move forward. Push the enemy back!" he orders as he turns around and gets up again, firing back at the Husks as he moves around the left of the rock and starts fast walking forward.

Staten Island, New York…

SEAL Team Seven, Commander Palmer alongside Fireteam Majestic, and Delta Squad quickly and cautiously moved down the street of Hylan Blvd. Their weapons raised and constantly scanning the area and buildings around them for any hostiles that could appear. They had moved away from the residential neighborhoods into an area with various restaurants and other small businesses on either side of the road; damaged and destroyed skycars, some of which were still on fire, littered the street along with rubble, and debris. Some buildings had been completely demolished, others were damaged but still standing, and a few were even completely untouched, save for the front doors and windows which had probably been broken down by looters.

So far they had not encountered any Husks, or other enemy soldiers, not even any patrols. Which was either very good, or very bad…

As they continued Madsen, who was on the right sidewalk with Thorne, and Hoya in front of him, two of the Clone Commandos, named Fixer, and Scorch, and three of the seven SEALs behind him; looked to his right and seemed to be drawn to something as he stopped. Across the street in the background, Palmer, DeMarco, Grant, Boss, Sev, Lieutenant Rorke, and the rest of his SEALs could be seen on the sidewalk as they continued moving.

"What's got your attention?" the Clone Commando RC-1262, Scorch asks as he notices Madsen and comes to a stop beside him.

Behind the two Fixer, and the SEALs walked past. Scorch followed the Spartan's gaze as he found himself looking upon what appeared to be a two-story building, there were knocked over tables and chairs out front, the inside was also pretty wrecked. From the barely readable holosign that hovered in the air a few inches out from the building one word could be made out, Shawarma.

"Hm~... shawarma." Madsen simply says while nodding his head a few times. He looks at Scorch, "You guys have Shawarma where you're from?" he asks.

"Uh~, I don't think so?" Scorch responds while looking back at him, shrugging his shoulders.

"Uh, you are missing out my Clone friend. Tell you what, we survive this, and find a place that isn't all torn to shreds and has good, you know, not spoiled ingredients or anything. You are going to get a taste of some fine Shawarma dishes that I know how to cook." Madsen says.

Suddenly a loud shot rang out and an explosion erupted close to Thorne and Hoya who were luckily unharmed as everyone dropped slightly to the ground in surprise.

"Ambush!" Thorne shouts.

A Scion stood on the rooftop of an undamaged house as it fired its arm cannon again, sending three salvos of explosive shots towards the Spec Ops team on the ground as all three shots once again missed and impacted into the street harmlessly, sending dust and debris flying. The SEAL at the back of the group stood up with his M4A1 Carbine raised, only to suddenly get shot multiple times as he fell backwards into the wall and slid to the ground, "Hurst is down!" another SEAL yelled out.

"Get to cover!" Palmer yells out as she raises her DMR and returns fire.

Down the street from them a number of Husks emerge from the buildings as Cannibals, and Marauders fire at them with Human Husks charging towards them. Boss and Lt. Rorke took cover behind a damaged skycar as they aimed their weapons and fired at the Reaper troops. Taking cover behind another skycar was Spartan Grant as she fired her DMR, to her left was a SEAL utilizing a M249 LMG Para as he fired the light machine gun in short, controlled bursts. The rest of the team seeked out cover behind and inside buildings, or behind skycars as they returned fire at the enemy troops. Several of the Human Husks were cut down immediately by the combination of bullets and laser fire, as the Clone Commando Sev aimed down the electromagnetic targeting scope of his DC-17m Sniper Rifle configuration and fired a shot. Sev located another target which was a Marauder as the creature fired its Phaeston rifle from behind a pile of rubble, Sev fired again and blew its head right off. Thorne meanwhile aimed his MA5D and fired his gun, taking out the Scion on the rooftop.

Taking cover in the doorway of a store, Paul DeMarco fired his BR85 Heavy Barrel Service Rifle while a SEAL that was crouched in front of him, using another store's doorway as cover, fired his M4A1 Carbine before slugs started hitting the building forcing him back into cover. DeMarco fired another burst from his gun, emptying his magazine as he got back into cover and ejected it, loading a new one in as he turned and leaned back out of cover aiming down the 2x magnification scope to fire again when something caught his attention. DeMarco lowered his gun for a second before raising it again to look down the scope, through it he could see a large group of Husks coming towards them, among them were at least three Brutes, five Ravagers, and two Banshees, along with a whole lot more Cannibals and Marauders.

DeMarco lowered his rifle again," Hey Commander! We got a problem!" he yelled out to Palmer who was now behind a skycar for cover.

Palmer fired another shot from her DMR, hitting the head of a Cannibal as it dropped to the ground. Revealing the horde of Husks now coming towards them. Palmer slowly lowered her gun as if in shock, "Well shit…" she says to herself.

An X-wing starfighter chases after and fires at a Zangyack Sugormin destroying it, "They're heading for the Medical Frigate. Rogue Two, Rogue Three, on me." Wedge Antilles says.

"Got it." Rogue Two, a human male New Republic pilot responds.

"Copy Rogue Leader." a female Turian pilot says.

Forming up Wedge's X-wing, along with Rogue Two's A-wing interceptor, and Rogue Three's Tusk fighter chase after four Oculus fighters as they fly towards an EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate, the three Coalition fighters firing their weapons at them as they manage to take two of them out while the others fly beneath the frigate and turn left as they attempt to escape with Wedge and his pilots giving chase.

"We got a Star Destroyer with its shield's down in Sector D-2. Requesting bomber support." Myyama reports.

"This is Wraith Ten, we read you Blue Six. Coming in for bombing run now." a Clone pilot reports.

A large squadron of Clone BTL-B Y-wing starfighters, and New Republic BTL Y-wing starfighters fly towards an Imperial II-class Star Destroyer, the destroyer's heavy turbolaser batteries turning towards them as they open fire. Many of the shots miss the incoming Y-wings, though one Clone Y-wing is hit in the left engine causing it to go spiraling out of control as it goes down, while a New Republic Y-wing is hit as it explodes entirely. The rest of the bombers make it through however as they drop their payload of Proton Bombs across the ship, causing major damage to it as the damage proves to be enough to shut down the engines sending the Star Destroyer slowly plummeting downward.

From the cockpit of his Trident Major Piercefield watches this, "This is Blue Leader to Sword Command." he begins to speak.

"Sector D-2 has been cleared of enemy ships, we have an opening for Sword." Captain Lasky, and Admiral Ackbar both hear.

"Fire!" Matriarch Lidanya orders.

The Destiny Ascension fires its main mass accelerator gun, sending a massive blue slug flying towards a damaged Separatist frigate as the shot impacts into the ship, causing it to explode as its body is ripped apart by it.

"This is the Destiny Ascension, Sector B-5 is clear." the Asari Matriarch says over the comms.

A UNSC Vindication-class light battleship, and two Halberd-class destroyers fly towards and fire their MAC Cannons at a Victory I-class Star Destroyer, the slugs slamming into the warship as explosions erupt on impact but the ship remains intact. The Star Destroyer fires back, but the three UNSC ships' shields hold strong as they continue their fire releasing large salvos of archer missiles along with another shot of their MAC Cannons. Eventually taking down the destroyer's shields as the following barrage of missiles and MAC slugs rip away at its hull, the UNSC ships continue their onslaught until finally tearing the Star Destroyer apart as it explodes to pieces.

Elsewhere a Swords CRS-class light cruiser fires its plasma beam down towards a Cerberus dreadnought, bypassing the kinetic barriers instantly as the beam cuts through the dreadnought causing it to explode. Three New Republic CR90 corvettes, and Marauder-class corvettes focus their fire onto a Reaper capital ship, the Reaper managing to fire off a shot of its magnetohydrodynamic cannon as it hits and destroys one of the Corellian corvettes. The remaining New Republic ships eventually blast the Reaper apart with their weapons. A Galactic Republic frigate flies through a battlegroup of Zangyack and Armada battleships, firing its twin turbolaser turrets and laser cannon taking at least two Zangyack, and one Armada ship out before flying off.

"This is the UNSC Trident, we have Sector K-7 cleared of enemy ships." a male UNSC officer reports.

"Reliant reporting in, hostiles taken care of in Sector A-3." a Clone officer says over the comms.

"This is the Lufirn, Sector C-9 is open for Hammer forces." a female Quarian officer says.

Hearing these incoming messages, Admiral Ackbar couldn't help but give a small smile.

"I want all guns focused on that Super Star Destroyer, fire at will!" Admiral Yularen orders.

Three Galactic Republic Venator-class Star Destroyers, along with two UNSC Charon-class light frigates, and five Quarian cruisers fire their weapons at an Executor-class Star dreadnought; the Super Star Destroyer, along with four Covenant RCS-class armored cruisers, three Reaper Capital ships, and two Destroyers fire back at the Coalition warships. One of the Quarian cruisers suffers too much damage as it rolls to its right and begins to go down.

Aboard the Super Star Destroyer, the Imperial Captain and his XO watched from the bridge, "Have the gunners focus their fire on the three Venator-classes first. Our allies will deal with the rest of them, and if not we will ourselves." the Imperial Captain calmly says.

The heavy, and normal turbolaser cannons focus their fire on the Republic attack cruiser to the right of the Resolute, tearing through its shields as they begin pounding away at its hull before eventually causing the entire ship to erupt in a large explosion. Admiral Yularen watches as the ship next to them explodes with a worried look on his face, he looks back at the Super Star Destroyer, it wasn't looking good for him. Back on the Super Star Destroyer, the Imperial Captain smirked as his victory against this group of enemy warships was all but guaranteed.

"Sir, there's something wrong with the systems!" one of his men suddenly yell, his smirk disappearing as the captain turns around.

"What do you mean?" he asks.

"There's… it's like something's taking control of them!" the standing at attention crewmember reports.

The captain was confused by this, who or what could be taking control of a Super Star Destroyer's systems?

"Captain!" the XO cries out in terror as he points at the window.

The Imperial Captain turns around, his eyes widen in shock at what he sees. Some weird, black gelatinous-like thing was covering the window, green markings traveling across its body in various directions and shapes.

"Wh-What is this?" he questions.

Suddenly at the center of the black-green gelatinous thing, a green circle appears, "Oh don't mind me, I'm just taking control of your ship." Ben as Upgrade casually informs the Imperial Captain.

Outside, the entire Super Star Destroyer had been covered by Upgrade's body as it was now black and green all over, the turbolaser cannons no longer firing. From the bridge of the Resolute, Admiral Yularen and his Clone XO watched with shock and confusion. Suddenly, the Super Star Destroyer's turbolaser cannons take aim at the Covenant ships, and Reapers and open fire; green laser bolts slamming into all of them as the Reaper capital ships and destroyers are destroyed within seconds, while the Covenant ships take a bit more longer but eventually go down or explode as well with none of the enemy ships being able to return fire by the time they realized what was going on.

"Thanks for letting me borrow your ship. But uh, you can have it back now." Upgrade says as he then slithers back down the window, the rest of the ship returning to normal.

A flash of green light illuminates from down outside the window, as a second later Ben as Astrodactyl can be seen flying away. The Imperial Captain and his XO have no idea what to make of the situation, until suddenly their alarms start to blare, "Captain, there's something coming towards us from above, it's coming in fast!" one of the crewmen shouted.

Dropping towards the Executor-class Star dreadnought from above was the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Ninja MegaFalconzord; red energy gathered into the Red Ape arm Power Glove, while blue energy had been gathered into the Blue Wolf arm Power Glove. With its power gloves covered in energy, the Ninja MegaFalconzord slammed right into the top of the Super Star Destroyer's bridge, destroying it as the Megazord traveled through the rest of the ship coming out the bottom. This caused the entire ship to suddenly explode as debris from the massive warship went flying in every direction; from the bridge of the Resolute the Clone crewmembers cheered at the sight of the destruction of the enemy ship. While Admiral Yularen looked on in awe at the power and destruction he had just witnessed from that giant machine, eventually regaining his composure as he smiled.

"This is Admiral Yularen of the Resolute." he begins to speak.

"Sector M-3 is open. Moving Battlegroup Eight into defensive positions around the Sector. Hammer forces can proceed through here." Admiral Ackbar hears.

"Looks like some good news finally, right Captain?" Roland asks Lasky.

Lasky looks down to his left at the AI with a small smile on his lips, "Yeah." he says as he looks back forward; "Let's just hope it stays that way." he finishes as the smile disappears, replaced with a worried one.

A Brute lets out a roar of pain before collapsing to the ground dead, revealing behind it the smoking remains of its destroyed back as Clone Commando Scorch raised his Anti-armor configurated DC-17m in a proud manner, putting his left hand to his hip. One of the SEALs put an extra bullet in the head of a dead Banshee, just to make sure she was completely dead. The Spartans, Commandos, and SEALs stood amongst the remains of the Husk horde they had completely, and somehow managed, to wipe out; most of the team going through the bodies to make sure each and every Husk was really dead while the squad leaders regrouped.

"How are we doing?" Palmer asks Boss, and Rorke.

"Only one casualty… we lost Hurst in the beginning." Rorke reports, sadness in his voice as Palmer lowered and nodded her head slowly.

She raised it back up to look at Boss, "Damn near took us all our ammo just to deal with all these Husks. Me and my brothers are on our last blaster cartridges, and grenades." Boss informs her.

"We're on our last mags and grenades as well, M249 has half a belt left." Rorke adds for his squad.

"We're not so hot either with ammo. We're gonna have to be careful from here on. If we run out of ammo before we get to the Hades Cannon, we're done for." Palmer says as she lifts her DMR placing her left hand under the forearm.

"Alright people, we still have a Reaper cannon to take out. Let's get moving!" Palmer orders.

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A convoy of enemy vehicles move along a road in the mountain forest of El Yunque National Forest; the convoy consisting of Cerberus M-44 Hammerheads, Separatist AAT battle tanks, and several Imperial 74-Z speeder bikes on either sides of the larger vehicles. Enemy foot soldiers from the various factions ran alongside the vehicles as they eventually pass and continued further down the road.

Several seconds later, from the bushes and trees on the right side of the road the Green Berets, Inquisition Scouts, and Turian Spec Ops squads emerge as they quickly and quietly dashed across the road. Their destination, a stone tower several meters away across a parking lot. Two Haradrim soldiers stood around the entrance to the tower, one leaning with his head back against the side of the entrance while the other was standing off to the left side facing away before turning around and walking towards the right side of the tower. Two silenced shots rang out as both Haradrim soldiers then dropped to the ground dead, their spears clattering onto the ground, as the Special Forces team moved in on the tower. The guns of the Green Beret and Turians were raised, while three of the Inquisition scouts held a crossbow at the ready with another two having their bows also ready with an arrow already on them ready to be pulled back.

Two Inquisition Scouts ran into the tower, followed by the Green Beret squad leader, a Green Beret and one Turian rifleman, along with the Scouts and Operators carrying the M-920 Cain's while the rest of the team spread out to secure the perimeter. An Imperial Stormtrooper ran down the stairs wondering what the noise was he heard from below as he was also unable to raise the men at the entrance. As he rounded another corner of the spiraling staircase, he was greeted by the lead Inquisition Scout as he pushed the Stormtrooper against the wall and drove his Inquisition Dagger into the side of his neck, the Stormtrooper gagging before finally going silent and limp. The second Inquisition scout continued up the stairs with the others behind him.

An Imperial Scout trooper looked out into the valley using his Rangefinder, his E-11s sniper rifle lying next to him against the wall as behind him was a soldier of HYDRA as he walked towards the stairs, his laser rifle in hands. The HYDRA soldier walked over to the stairs and turned around as he leaned back against the low wall, which then allowed the Inquisition scout to leap up and wrap his right arm around his neck causing the enemy soldier to let out a yelp of fright. The Scout trooper turned around and saw what was happening. Quickly he threw his rangefinder down and went for his blaster pistol, only for the Green Beret squad leader to come up the stairs as he raised his M4A1 SOPMOD and fired a couple of shots, hitting the Scout trooper with all of them as the Imperial dropped to the ground dead. The Inquisition scout slit the throat of the HYDRA soldier as he then tossed him to the ground.

"Target in sight." one of the Green Beret operators quietly speaks up.

The Green Beret squad leader points to one of the Turians with the Cain as he signals for him to take the shot, the Turian placing his Phaeston assault rifle on the ground as he then grabs the M-920 from his back and moves to the front of everyone else. Taking aim at the Reaper Hades cannon the Turian presses down on the trigger starting the charge-up sequence until eventually the shot fires; the shot travels towards the Reaper and then makes its way inside the barrel of the cannon. Several seconds later the entire Hades Cannon erupted in a massive explosion as it "cried" out in pain and fell over to the ground, destroyed and in flames.

"Command this is Advance Team Five, be advised Hades Cannon in Puerto Rico has been neutralized, over." the Green Beret squad leader says over the comms.

Peyia, Cyprus…

"MOVING!" a male ODST called out.

The ARC Trooper with the Z-6 ran a few feet before stopping and turning around, spinning the weapon up as he fired it as the enemy troops behind him while the N7 Slayer Vanguard carried a wounded Shadow Infiltrator using himself as a human crutch. The ARC Trooper stopped firing as he turned slightly to his right and was about to fire again, when suddenly a high-velocity slug struck him in the left shoulder knocking him back as his left hand lost hold of the weapon. The ARC pushed through the pain as he gripped the weapon again and lifted it up, however another slug struck his right shoulder as he then fully dropped the weapon this time; another slug hit him on the left side of his chest, followed by a final one striking his head as he finally fell to the ground dead.

Two ODSTs took cover behind two piles of rubble as they provided covering fire for the retreating N7 soldiers. Suddenly the ODST on the left was shot right in the head as he dropped to the ground, the ODST on the right looking over for just a split second when she too was struck by a high-velocity slug that went right through her head, her body falling over onto the rubble. The surviving Special Forces troopers took cover inside an electronics store as the N7 Slayer brought the Shadow inside; Husk forces moving in on their position from all directions as there just seemed to be far too many for them to handle this time. Captain Harlowe continued firing his Valkyrie assault rifle until suddenly an explosive shot slammed into his body, blowing him back as the N7 Captain hit the ground and slid back a few inches. He did not move an inch afterwards.

The ARC Captain looked back at Captain Harlowe's motionless body, as then the ARC to his right was shot making him turn and look at him as well; just as the ARC Captain looked back at the Husks to continue engaging them a slug struck his head.

On the rooftop of the building a surviving ARC fired the M-920 Cain as the shot traveled towards and into the Reaper Hades Cannon, a few seconds later the Reaper exploded.

"This is Advance Team Fifteen, Hades Cannon on the West end of Cyprus has been eliminated." the ODST Sergeant reports, behind him an N7 Fury was shot dead as she shot down at the Husks from the edge of the rooftop. The ODST Sergeant failed to notice a frag grenade land behind him, "I repeat, Hades Cannon on the West coast of Cyprus has been-" the grenade goes off.

Antarctica…

The Spartans, Clone Commandos, and Spectres formed a perimeter around the mouth of the cave exit, Husk forces charging and firing at them as the Coalition Spec Ops team fired back. Their entrance into the small town unfortunately, had not gone unnoticed as the snowstorm happened to end while they were traversing through the cave and upon exiting, were immediately spotted by a Banshee which of course decided to let out its really loud screech attracting all of the other Husks to the area. Nevertheless the cave did help the team in accomplishing one thing, getting them close to the Reaper Hades Cannon as the thing was directly several meters in front of them.

As the rest of the team continued holding off the attacking Husks, Spectre Jondum Bau aimed and charged up the M-920 Cain as he fired it at the Reaper. Several seconds later the Hades Cannon exploded as its flaming remains toppled to the ground.

"This is Advance Team Seventeen, we have taken out one of the Antarctica Cannons." Bau informs Command.

Amazonas, Brazil…

One of the Salarian STG operators fire the M-920 Cain destroying the Hades Cannon, "This is Advance Team Twelve, we've eliminated one of the Hades Cannons in the State of Amazonas. What's the status of Hammer, over?" Major Kirrahe asks.

"We read you loud and clear Team Twelve. Be advised the deployment of Hammer is still unknown at this time, over." a Salarian officer responds over the comms.

"Copy that. Will most appreciate if you can send them soon, over, and hopefully not out." Kirrahe says as he ends the transmission.

"Sounds like we are to have a fight for survival ahead of us." N'tho 'Sraom says as he looks at the Salarian Major.

"Yes, that indeed seems to be the case." Kirrahe replies, looking back at him.

While they had taken out the Hades Cannon, the Salarians and Sangheili now found themselves in a rather precarious situation. They were surrounded on all sides, with massive amounts of Husk forces now bearing down on their position. The surviving Salarians and Sangheili took up positions in a defensive circle as they prepared themselves for what was surely going to be their final moments.

N'tho stands up, "If this is indeed to be our final moments. Then let us make it a glorious one!" he yells as he brings out and activates his Type-1 energy sword, raising it into the air as the rest of the Sangheili let out a roaring battle cry.

Kirrahe looks at his men who stare back at him, he smiles, "Men, prepare to hold the line!"

Staten Island, New York…

Commander Palmer and her team quickly and cautiously moved through the trees of Great Kills Park, reaching the treeline as they dropped to crouched positions. The Hades Cannon was within sight and range of their heavy weapons, "Scorch, you're up." Boss says, looking over to him.

Sev slaps Scorch's left shoulder with his right shoulder getting his attention, "Try not to miss." he comments in a snarky tone.

Scorch ignores this as he takes out the M-920 Cain, takes aim at the Hades Cannon and charges the weapon up, firing it. The shot travels towards the Hades Cannon and then curves its way inside of it. Everything goes silent.

Madsen and Thorne look at one another as they shrug their shoulders and look back. Just then the Hades Cannon erupts in a massive explosion.

"Oh-ho~ baby! Now THAT is an explosion!" Scorch excitedly yells while throwing his hands into the air.

"Holy shit…" Thorne says a bit taken aback by that, the Spartan looking at the Cain on Hoya's back seriously surprised by how much power that tiny little thing packed.

"This is Advance Team One, Hades Cannon on Staten Island is down. Ready for Hammer to bring the party." Palmer reports over the comms.

On the Infinity, Lasky hears this report come in. He looks down at Roland, "Roland, what's the status of the rest of the Advance Teams?" he asks the AI.

Taichung City, Taiwan…

The door to a rooftop bursts open as Marine Raiders and New Republic Special Forces rush out. The two squads take positions around the rooftop as right in front of them standing over a large, open plaza, was the Reaper Hades Cannon. One of the Marines readied the M-920 Cain, taking aim at the giant Reaper as he pulled the trigger, charged the weapon up, and fired; the shot traveling into the Reaper as it exploded a few seconds later.

"This is Advance Team Thirty-Two, Hades Cannon in Taichung is down!" the Marine Raider squad leader speaks over the comms.

Sardinia, Italy…

A Hades Cannon in the middle of an open field toppled to the ground, destroyed and in flames as several miles away from it were three squads of Coalition Special Forces, consisting of N7s, Marine Raiders, and Spectres.

"This is Advance Team Fifty, Sardinia is clear for Hammer." a N7 Fury Adept spoke.

Lagos, Portugal…

Another Reaper Hades Cannon toppled over the edge of a cliff as it fell into the ocean, the destruction of this Cannon being done by a squad of Inquisition Scouts and Delta Force Operators as the squad leader of the Deltas reported over the comms about the destroyed Hades Cannon.

Hafnir, Iceland…

The flaming remains of a destroyed Hades Cannon could be seen off in the distance, a squad of Special Operations Sangheili, and Navy SEALs calling in its destruction.

Tashkent, Uzbekistan…

An Asari Commando fired her M-8 Avenger taking out a charging Human Husk, clearing the area of hostiles as behind her a Delta Force operator fired the M-920 Cain taking out the Reaper Hades Cannon in the distance. A Special Operations Sangheili began to call it in.

Madagascar…

An injured Asari Commando was being tended to by an ARC Trooper medic, an injured Delta Force operator who was already patched up sitting right beside her. The team of Asari Commandos, Delta Force Operators, and Clone ARC Troopers secured the area of a small village as bodies of dead Husks littered the ground around them.

"This is Captain Fordo of Advance Team Ten, we've taken out the Hades Cannon guarding the southern end of Madagascar, awaiting reinforcements." ARC-77, Captain Fordo says over the comms.

Home One…

"Roger that Team Ten, will inform Command of your success, out." a Clone Captain responds as the transmission ends.

Gathered in the Home One briefing room were various High-ranking officers from some of the factions, as well as assisting personnel. Each of the officers assigned a Theater to keep tabs on due to how large a battle this was.

"Reporting success from all Advance Teams in the Africa Theater, General Taskeen." the Clone Captain informs the New Republic General.

"All Advance Teams in South America have reported in, every one of them have taken out their Hades Cannons." a Salarian officer speaks up.

"We're good to go in the Australia Theater." a Turian officer speaks next.

"Antarctica Theater has been cleared of Hades Cannons." a Mon Calamari New Republic officer says.

"...we read you loud and clear Gunny." General Taskeen looked to where he heard the voice speak up from, "General, the last Hades Cannon in the United Kingdom has been destroyed. The Europe Theater is officially clear of Reaper Anti-Air weapons." the Systems Alliance Marine, Captain Johnson informs him.

With this, all continents had now been accounted for. It was a damn miracle, every Advance Hammer Team that was sent in, had destroyed their Hades Cannon. And just in time too, since the General had received word that multiple openings had now been created in the enemy fleets giving Hammer multiple ways to reach the planet safely. It was time to move onto the Third Phase.

General Taskeen began broadcasting, "This is General Taskeen to all Coalition forces, we are proceeding onto Phase 3 of the Operation. First Wave of Hammer, prepare to deploy!"

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Q&A…

To zaksaurus1 - We are entering the final phase of the story, so no more universe chapters will be written so none of those characters will appear.

To CT7567Rules - Hope your answers have been answered :)

Also only the US Aircraft, and since they don't use any SU-35s or MIGs, none of those will obviously appear. As for Ahsoka and Rex, doing some slight AU for the "Legends" Star Wars Universe where basically it's a version where it's all Star Wars stuff PRE-2008 Clone Wars Series. So basically anything Clone Wars and onwards didn't exist in this "Legends" Parallel Universe. If you understand what I mean.

To Destonus - True, but you also have to take into consideration on if they have enough fighters FOR the pilots of the United States Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps. At this point in time the Systems Alliance is cut off from getting any resupplies on starfighters and such, and the UNSC would also be busy as well dealing with the Reapers to do a whole lot of supplying of their own. If the United States Military was to get as many of their troops involved in the fight as possible, including the pilots, it would work best to try and upgrade their stuff basically cause they at least have it already and stuff, right? Sure some fighters are probably (are were) lost trying to do all this stuff, but at least in the end they got a lot more fighters then what would've been possible if the Systems Alliance or UNSC had tried supplying them with, since they were already engaged with Reaper forces and needed everything for their troops as well.

Yes guns still function in the same as pulling the trigger and shooting and such. But you have to take into consideration that they need to learn how to reload the various types of weapons since not all guns utilize bullets and magazines.

Thanks again for helping me with understanding all the military stuff, will definitely try and fix these mistakes during the rewrites XP.

With all the enemy ships around getting UNSC ships close enough to Earth to even launch the drop pods would be very difficult, no? Not to mention with how accurate the Reaper Hades Cannons could possibly be, it'd be even more dangerous, at least with the transports there's a chance of those avoiding the energy beams more easily. Deploying decoys could be very helpful, but also very risky, lose too many transports, gets bringing more troops down to the ground a lot more difficult with less and less if they keep losing too many of them.

To UNSC INFINITY - It's been difficult, that's a given. With life, and other things going on in my life, completing this story (and still trying to complete it with the rewrites) has and will continue to be quite difficult. Balancing out time to write for this, my other stories which I unfortunately had to put on hiatus so I could finish this story, gaming and doing videos for YouTube, and just life in general with my family and friends. It's very difficult, but I love doing this and I want to continue doing this for as long as I possibly can and so much more. Sequel? Hmmmmm…. You'll have to wait and see ;).

To Actionmoviefan - Wait and see ;)

To MarauderPrime 12 - Not really sure where that could fit in, in all this serious stuff that's going on, and with some really depressing things to come since a lot of people are going to die and stuff…

To BrutusPrime - It's still far from over ;) (Quite literally too since I'm still going to have to do those rewrites for the earlier chapters XD)

To twilightnite13 - Nope, sorry that's not going to happen. Besides, unless these people saw the Reapers for themselves or had an actual encounter with Cerberus, or the Commander and his friends in person. If a strange, random voice just came out of nowhere and told you… well basically all of THIS of what's going on in this story and whatnot, would you really believe any of it? Would even trust the person telling you this since again, you don't know them or anything? Even if he were to do that, the Clones would only attack the Jedi, which yeah the Heroes might respond to but there aren't a lot of Jedi with the Coalition at the moment so it wouldn't really matter there, though yeah it would mess up the Coalition and could lead to the Reapers winning. But the Reapers would be a threat to Palpatine's plans so he wouldn't want them to survive anyways so… not really a thing he would probably consider.