"Surprisingly, it's all going quite well so far actually. Every Hades Cannon across the globe has been taken care of. And from the last report the UNSC's AI Roland sent me, Sword has managed to create quite a few corridors for Hammer to safely travel through the enemy's fleets. With all of that done, Hammer can safely deploy." Anderson explains to Shepard.

"And not a moment too soon." the Alliance Marine says while leaning against the side of the door.

"Hell yeah, now to get the real party started!" Romeo proudly says.

"Amen to that!" James agrees.

"What's left of the England Resistance is holding a Forward Operating Base in the town of Edgware. But the Reapers are countering already. Once we regroup, it's going to be up to Hammer to take up the fight." Anderson says.

"Just the Reapers? What about Cerberus and the rest of their pals?" Ashley asks.

"Nothing from them yet. If they're as hurt as we are, they might be keeping their forces back. Letting the Reapers exhaust their forces first to see if they can stop us, while they set up ambush points and prepare their defenses so that when they do hit us. They hit us hard. The Reapers alone were bad enough, but with all these other enemy factions we're now going to be dealing with… this battle just got a whole lot more difficult." Anderson says.

"It must've been brutal here, cut off from the rest of the Alliance." Shepard speaks up.

"It's been touch and go since day one. But once we figured out the Reapers were focusing on the major cities first; it became easier to avoid direct contact." Anderson says.

"Until London." the Alliance Marine speaks up.

"Yeah... We held back as long as we could. Sending in recon teams… Lost a lot of good men planning for this attack." Anderson says with a bit of sadness behind his voice.

"But with soldiers like Major Coats here, and knowing that you'd bring us help, we held on." Anderson adds.

"Without you and your resistance, we'd be dead in the water. Wouldn't have known about the Hades Cannons, some of the enemy's defenses, hell we wouldn't have even known about the Conduit." Shepard says.

"This is very true. While the Citadel infiltration team did bring back some helpful intel about the enemy's forces, and their defenses. The information did not mention anything about a number of the Hades Cannons' locations, some of the defenses Cerberus and their allies have set up, and the Conduit. The information we gathered, and the information passed onto us from you Admiral Anderson, and Earth's Resistance, may have just helped in saving a lot more lives." EDI speaks up.

"Yeah, the Admiral's being modest. He's the reason any of us are still alive." the Alliance Marine, now identified as Major Coats, says while taking a few steps forward.

"Let's not start handing out medals just yet. This fight is just getting started. And Hammer better be ready for it." Anderson says.

"They didn't start out together. But they're ready now to stand side by side so that we can win this war." Shepard says.

"Good." Anderson says as he turns to his right, looking at the video screen that was showing war-torn London below, "That's what it's going to take." he adds.

Shepard walks over to him as Anderson turns his head, "We'll get it done Anderson!" Shepard states.

Anderson nods his head with a smile as he then looks back at the video, his smile turning into a saddened one, "I was born in London." he says.

"Really?" Shepard asks, this was a first he was hearing of it which surprised him.

Anderson remains silent after that, after a few seconds he looks at Shepard and then turns back to face him, "The entire galaxy united… And not just that, but also bringing in and uniting a number of alternate universes as well. I'm pretty sure that's going to be one for the history books, in both cases, once this war is over. Too bad it took the Reapers to bring us together." he says.

"If there was anyone who could do such a thing, it would be Shepard." Garrus says.

"No doubt about it." Tali adds in agreement.

"I'm sure all of this will be remembered for a long time to come. Perhaps not even just here, but in other universes as well." Liara says.

"That's exactly what I meant. I know you didn't like leaving Shepard, but nobody could've accomplished what you've done." Anderson says.

"It's good to be back home." Shepard says. He lowers his saddened gaze, "I just wish I hadn't taken so long to get back here." he adds, wondering if all those who had died by this point could have been saved had he just gotten here sooner.

"Don't blame yourself for the people we've lost Shepard. If we win this war, their deaths will be avenged. And it will show that everything you've done, was not for nothing." Anderson says.

"Your Admiral is correct. There is nothing more that can be done for those who have passed before us. All that can be done for them now, is as he has said, we avenge them! By destroying those who caused their deaths." Javik says.

"What has past, is in the past, and there's nothing more that can be done about it unfortunately. What should matter is what we do now at this very moment, in the present. For the future of everyone who still lives. That way, even those who are no longer with us, will still be remembered." Chief says.

Shepard, who was looking at the Chief as he said that, nods his head in agreement.

"By the way." Shepard begins as he looks back at Anderson, "Anderson, this is the Master Chief. Chief, Anderson." Shepard introduces to the two looking back at Chief.

Anderson and Chief both step towards each other and extend a hand as they shake, "Admiral." Chief greets as he pulls back and then stands at attention, "Master Chief Petty Officer SPARTAN-117 of the UNSC, reporting."

Anderson salutes back, "At ease Master Chief." he says as Chief does just that.

Anderson looks the Spartan up and down, "Well now… you're quite the giant in real life, aren't you?" he humorously comments.

"He may be gigantic sir, but on the battlefield this dude moves like you wouldn't believe. Like no joke, I literally think Chief here could take on like, fifteen Krogan, maybe even more and come out with barely a scratch on his armor." James says.

"You know I heard once that the Chief here dropped from space, to the Earth with nothing but his armor for protection, survived re-entry, hit the ground barely scathed, and was up and fighting Brutes a few seconds later." Dutch says.

"Yeah, and people say we Helljumpers are crazy. This guy dropped onto a planet in only a suit of armor. Not a drop pod, and survived to go on and save our universe." Mickey adds in.

Shepard and Anderson look at Chief, "The stories are a bit exaggerated." Chief simply says.

Shepard can't help but smirk and shake his head, "Still beats any of Shepard's exaggerated tales." Garrus comments.

"Yeah, Shepard tried surviving a fall to a planet once. Didn't end well for him." Ashley says.

"I was dead before I even hit re-entry to the planet." Shepard points out.

"Well, if the rest of these Heroes can match what you, or Shepard and his team are capable of. Whether they're real or fabricated, we just truly might win this war." Anderson says.

"There's the FOB!" Major Coats speaks up.

Anderson turns as he and everyone else looks at the video screen, "Looks good. Give Hammer the all clear!" he orders.

Home One…

"This is Admiral Ackbar to all Coalition forces. All Hades Cannons are down and Sword has broken through the enemy fleets in several sectors. First wave of Hammer, deploy!"

Resolute…

"This is Admiral Yularen; first wave of Hammer deploy immediately! Phase 3 of the operation is a go!"

The Neema…

"This is Admiral Han'Gerrel, all ground forces part of the first wave of Hammer deploy now!"

UNSC Infinity…

"This is Captain Lasky to all Hammer forces, we're proceeding onto Phase 3 of the operation. First Wave of Hammer, deploy!" Captain Lasky announces over the intercoms.

"Let's go! Let's go!"

"Move it!"

In one of the Infinity's hangar bay's Coalition troops calmly and organized into their platoons, or squads, rushed aboard their transports.

"Come on, let's go!"

"All pilots." Lasky's voice could be heard over the intercom.

"Sword has broken through the enemy fleets in several sectors. Use those corridors to get the troops to the ground safely…" the pilots of the various transports heard over their comms as they readied their ships for launch.

Coalition soldiers took their seats in the troop bay of a D79H-TC Pelican as its ramp closed, a United States Army soldier ushered his squad into a UT-47A Kodiak shuttle as once everyone was aboard he boarded then with the door shutting behind him. Boarding an LAAT/i gunship alongside Coalition soldiers was Po, Tigress, along with the rest of the Furious Five, Mantis standing on Po's left shoulder while Viper had wrapped herself around Tigress's waist. Once aboard Po, Tigress, Crane who used his left talon, and Monkey who jumped up to grab and pull his down, grabbed onto the handles above them like everyone else as the last of the soldiers piled aboard; the two side doors closing afterwards.

Elsewhere Tsukasa along with Double boarded a Kodiak after the Coalition squad they were joining had already done so as the door closed behind them; Captain Marvelous and his crew walked into the troop bay of a Pelican dropship as they took their seats save for Marvelous who stood alongside the Sangheili squad leader near the front and grabbed onto the overhanging bar next to the door. Laval, Eris, and their friends sat in a Sentinel-class landing craft of the New Republic, Cragger could be seen two seats to Laval's left talking to Worriz while a Clone sat to Laval's right remaining silent as he checked his DC-15A blaster rifle one last time. Laval himself, it was easy to tell how highly nervous he was, his hanging legs were constantly swinging back and forth rapidly, his elbows rested on his knees with his chin on his hands which he held together; it was only when Eris put her right hand on his shoulder catching his attention, and gave him a reassuring nod and smile, was Laval able to calm down a little bit. The Lion Tribe Prince smiled back at Eris and thanked her with a nod as he looked back forward, and sat back against the seat, taking in a calm, deep breath and then exhaling.

Natsu took his seat on the Pelican between Lucy on his left, and Erza on his right, as Happy then floated in onto his lap; across from the three Fairy Tail mages were Gray, Wendy with Carla, and Gajeel with Lily as Wendy sat in between the two while holding Carla. Lily sitting on Gajeel's lap as they both had their arms crossed with serious looks on their faces; Natsu looked at Lucy, and Lucy looked back, the Fire Dragon Slayer smirked as he nodded his head which Lucy returned with a small smile, but determined, serious look in her eyes.

In another hangar bay Ahsoka was already with Captain Rex, Fives, Echo, and the rest of their platoon aboard a LAAT/i gunship holding on to the handles above them. Ahsoka looked up at Rex as both of them nodded their heads that they were ready, before looking back forward; just as the doors were about to close a hand appeared grabbing around the edge as a familiar face followed, "Got room for one more?" Sora asks in a playful manner as he smirks.

Ahsoka raised a brow while smirking back, "Sure, hop on!" she replies with a throwing back of her head as a gesture.

Sora gets on the ship as he reaches up and grabs one of the handles above him, he looks back at Ahsoka, "So, this is where the fun begins, right?" he asks.

"Oh you have no idea." Ahsoka replies with a whimsical tone.

"Hope you're ready for what's about to come kid." Rex speaks up catching the two's attention.

"Hey Rex, question. So if you're like a normal soldier, and I'm like a Hero and all that… doesn't that mean I outrank you in some way?" Sora asks jokingly.

"Not that easy. In his book, experience outranks everything." Ahsoka explains.

Sora turns his head slightly to look back at Ahsoka, "Really?" he asks as he goes silent while looking like he was thinking of something, "So I do outrank him then!" he says with a wide grin and his eyes closed.

Just then the doors to the gunship finally close as do the atmospheric containment shields, "Here we go people!" Rex shouts.

Both Sora and Ahsoka look forward as they get serious, the time for fun and games was over.

At the front of the Republic gunship a male UNSC marshaller signaled to the pilot that he was clear for launch. The LAAT/i gunship hovers into the air, followed by the rest of the transports in the hangar as the LAAT/i was the first to fly forward and then exit the hangar bay, soon followed by the rest of the transports as they flew out after it one by one. From the Infinity and other Coalition ships, hundreds of thousands of troop transports are deployed as Kodiaks, Pelicans, Phantoms, Sentinel-class shuttles, Republic gunships, S.H.I.E.L.D. Quinjets, Providence Scout ships, and Galactic Ranger dropships all fly towards the Earth.

"Hammer transports are away! Repeat, Hammer transports are away!" Anakin hears over the comms from a Clone pilot.

Anakin begins transmitting his own message, "This is General Skywalker to all squadrons. Make sure those transports get to the ground!" he orders.

Anakin, along with Luke, and Ratchet fly towards a column of Hammer transports to provide cover, along the way Luke destroys a TIE interceptor as it flies towards said transports.

"This is Admiral 'Raan, I've moved my ship and others from my battlegroup into a defensive formation around Sector C-9. We will hold this sector with everything we've got, so that Hammer can proceed through here." Admiral Shala'Raan says.

'Raan's frigate's GARDIAN laser turrets fire at enemy fighters, taking a few of them out while Coalition fighters make quick work to finish off any other enemy fighters attempting to attack Hammer transports.

"Watch your spacing!"

"I got two Vultures on my tail!"

"Enemy fighters coming in, 110 degrees!"

"Requesting fighter support!"

"I've made it through, I've made it through!"

The Clone pilot of Sora and Ahsoka's LAAT/i gunship overhears on the comms, it was pure chaos. The Clone co-pilot/gunner looked up to his right as he saw a SHIELD Quinjet being chased by a TIE fighter, luckily it was destroyed by a missile fired by a F-22A Raptor that then flew by the Quinjet. Inside the troop compartment Sora, Ahsoka, Rex, Fives, Echo, and the rest of the Coalition platoon held on tightly to the handles as the ship shook violently from side to side.

A Galactic Ranger dropship exploded several meters to the right behind another Republic gunship as it began going down; this LAAT/i was luckily armed with two side-mounted laser-beam turrets as the Clone gunners inside them shot back at any approaching enemy fighters, while being careful not to hit any friendly ships of course. The right side turret turned towards and fired at three enemy starfighters consisting of a Cerberus fighter, Vulture droid, and Oculus fighter, which the Clone gunner successfully managed to destroy the Reaper fighter as the other two flew past luckily missing their shots. Inside this gunship was Po and the Five as they also held on tightly to the handles with the rest of the Coalition soldiers as the ship violently rocked around.

The Kodiak shuttle carrying Decade and Double also flew through intense enemy fire, inside both Kamen Riders looked and remained calm as they held onto the handles above them; a New Republic Sentinel shuttle was destroyed as it flew alongside the Pelican carrying the Gokaigers, inside Doc and Gai were the only ones freaking out as the ship rocked around while everyone else remained calm. Laval and Eris looked around, both of them with worried looks on their faces though otherwise they were calm like everyone else aboard the Sentinel shuttle; the rest of their friends shared the same terrified expressions, while the majority of the soldiers managed to keep their stone-cold faces up, a few of them just barely though as one young, male US Army soldier breathed in and out rapidly through his mouth with sweat running down his face, while a Salarian gritted his teeth. Suddenly, Rogon covered his mouth, before proceeding to then hurl whatever he ate earlier all over the floor earning some grunts, moans, and comments of disgust from several of the soldiers, and a few of his friends.

The Pelican they were aboard rolled and swerved from side to side avoiding enemy fire, as inside Natsu kept calm through gritted teeth though with widened eyes, Erza, and Lucy had a serious look on their faces while gritting their teeth, as did Gray, Gajeel, and Lily. Happy held on tightly to Natsu with his eyes closed in fear, while Wendy and Carla also tried to look brave; a young, male UNSC Marine looked panicked as he repeatedly said, "Come on, come on, come on, come on!"

Luckily, with the combined efforts of both Coalition starfighters, and their Capital ships, the majority of Hammer's first wave manages to make it through the battle unscathed as they proceed towards the Earth and begin their descent.

"This is the Dallas Group, we've made it through."

"Guatemala Group, beginning our descent."

"Port Moresby Group, regroup and begin your descent."

"This is the Warsaw Group, let's get these people down there so they can start kicking some ass!"

"This is the Baghdad Group, good luck everyone!"

Over the skies of London…

A Kodiak shuttle flies over the city of London, after a few seconds the shuttle begins its descent to the ground. As behind it the rest of the Coalition troop transports do the same and begin their descents as well.

Aboard the Kodiak, a young dark-skinned Alliance Marine looked at his reflection in the visor of his helmet.

Down in the city firefights could already be seen occurring, most likely between the Resistance and Reaper and allied forces. While the Hades Cannon had been dealt with enemy anti-air fire was still present, as Reaper ground troops fired heavy weapons and explosive rounds up towards the incoming Coalition transports; luckily with many of the shots missing. However, there was one unfortunate Kodiak that then received a direct hit as it exploded, taking the pilots, and troops aboard with it.

The Alliance Marine slowly raised his head to look at the rest of his squad, most everyone else save for one other Marine was already standing up, their weapons drawn and held at the ready as their squad leader, also Alliance though wearing a blue beret instead of a helmet, magnetically holstered his pistol to his left leg before grabbing the handle above him. Everyone was completely silent; the young Alliance Marine finally put his helmet on as it locked into place, and grabbed his M-8 Avenger as he stood up.

The underbelly thrusters of the Kodiak activated as the shuttle began to hover slowly towards the ground; the street it was landing on completely in ruin as buildings on both sides were heavily damaged or destroyed, rubble littering the sidewalks and parts of the road. The right side door of the Kodiak slid open; Husk forces were already moving in on their landing zone. A Clone Marine on the right side of the doorway moved to fire on the Husks, but before he could even raise his weapon a high-velocity slug penetrated his armor and went through his chest, killing him instantly as he dropped to the floor of the shuttle; while a Providence and Plumber agent fired their respective weapons on the Husks from the left side of the open door.

Alliance Marines from the Resistance were already at the landing zone attempting to provide some support for the landing troops as behind them the Kodiak shuttle touched down. A small horde of Human Husks, Ravagers, and Swarmers attacked the Resistance and landing Coalition Marines; one Alliance Marine charged forward only to be shot dead by one of the Ravagers, another Alliance Marine who was crouched on his right knee raised his Avenger assault rifle and returned fire. Focusing his fire on a Ravager before firing a concussive shot that impacted into the Rachni Husk causing it to explode as the force of the explosion took out a nearby Human Husk and two Swarmers.

Two M-080 APCs roll down the street which some of the Marines use for cover as half of them work at securing the area, while the other half head towards the Forward Operating Base. An Orlesian crossbowman and New Republic Marine use a pillar for cover as suddenly the Orlesian is shot in the back and killed; the New Republic Marine relocates behind a slab of stone and watches as a Turian Marine, and Earth Kingdom warrior are both shot dead. Peeking out around the slab of rock, the New Republic Marine looks up to where he notices some of the shots are coming from and spots a lone Cannibal acting as a sniper from the top of a townhouse, from which a few Human Husks begin to climb down from. Luckily another Kodiak shuttle flies in and fires its left mass accelerator cannon taking the Cannibal out.

Back down on the street, an M35 Mako rolls up to the entrance of the FOB and turns slightly to the left as it comes to a stop. Alliance Marines sitting on top of it disembark, as nearby to its rear a US Marine, and Galactic Ranger robot continue to fire their weapons at any Husks they see.

Edgware, London…

"Be advised, London Hammer forces landing at Edgware LZs Alpha, and Echo have encountered heavy enemy resistance. The Landing Zones around the Forward Operating Base are not secure! All London Hammer forces heading towards the FOB, proceed with caution." the female pilot of the Kodiak shuttle overhears on the comms.

"Sergeant!" she calls back.

A Turian Marine Sergeant walks over to the cockpit doorway to find out what the pilot wanted. Meanwhile sitting in the two back right seats were a Systems Alliance, and US Marine; the Systems Alliance Marine was a man who looked to be in his late 30s, he had tan brown skin, a crew cut hairstyle, and chin strip beard, while the US Marine, also male, had fair white skin, was much younger as he looked to be 19 or 20 years old, perhaps even fresh out of boot camp, and was clean shaven. His hair was covered by his Lightweight Helmet which he finished strapping on. The young US Marine took in a deep breath and then exhales through his mouth; he then looked over to his right as he noticed the Systems Alliance Marine next to him appeared to be looking at something on his omni-tool, it was a holographic photo of what was most likely his family. Him, his dark-brown skinned wife, and their two children, a baby girl, and young boy probably around 5 years old.

"Your family alright?" the US Marine asks.

The Alliance Marine looked at him, "Y-Yeah. Bit of an old photo actually." he replies while looking back at it.

"Son turned 10 just a week before all this shit went down, daughter is 5. Her birthday is next month actually, be a great early birthday present you know, take out the Reapers, save our galaxy, of course along with the rest of the multiverse and stuff. That way she has a future to look forward to, along with her brother, and everyone else. They're safe on a planet that hasn't been attacked by the Reapers yet, my mother-in-law is watching over them." the Alliance Marine explains.

"What about your wife?" the US Marine asks.

The Alliance Marine remained silent for several seconds, "She died in a skycar accident a few months ago." he finally says.

"Shit… I'm sorry." the US Marine says.

"Thanks…" the Alliance Marine deactivates his omni-tool and leans forward resting his arms on his legs, "It's been...difficult. I was planning on retiring at the end of last year so I could be with them, but then the Reapers attacked and… well what's the point of retiring to be with my kids if the Reapers are going to kill every last one of us unless we do something about it. So of course, here I am now, fighting to make sure my kids, and everyone else's children can have a future to look forward too. I managed to get in contact with them, about two weeks ago, they were doing great. Worried for me but I told them that I'd be fine. After all daddy has to go fight the big monsters so they won't come out of their closets to hurt them or anyone else. But I promised them that once this was all over, I'd be coming back for them, and we could be together again. Just gotta survive this war, and then help rebuild. So that we have a home to go back to."

The Alliance Marine looks at the US Marine, "What about you? Anyone waiting for you back home?" he asks.

The US Marine gives a small smile, "Just some family… few friends outside the military." he replies.

"What? No special someone?" the Alliance Marine asks with a mischievous smirk.

"Nah… I'm not that lucky." the US Marine replies back with a bit of humor, causing both of them to chuckle lightly.

The US Marine looks back at him, "Don't worry, you'll see your kids again." he says, giving him a reassuring smile. "And when you do, you'll be coming home a war hero with a bunch of medals and cool stories to tell them. Like how you single handedly destroyed every single Reaper with nothing but your trusty assault rifle."

"Tch, yeah right. The only heroes coming out of this that will be remembered, will be Commander Shepard and his literal army of heroes. Seriously, you've seen what some of those people are capable of right? Those Heroes are going to wipe the floor with the Reapers and Cerberus and their allies. We'll just be there doing the cleanup on any bad guys they happened to miss." the Alliance Marine says.

"Okay, okay, so you want to go for a more believable story. How about, the Commander was pinned down by a Husk that got the jump on him, and then there you happened to be. You shot the Husk, thus saving the savior of all life. Maybe even add in a handshake and thanks from the soon to be legend himself if you feel like it." the US Marine says in a humorous tone.

The Alliance Marine chuckles again while shaking his head, "First off, the Commander is already a legend in our universe… at least a little bit. After this though, his name will definitely go down in history, assuming we win of course."

"Alright people listen up!" their Turian Sergeant speaks up, catching theirs and everyone else's attention. "We're 30 seconds out from the LZ. Husk forces are swarming all over that area, so the LZ is hot!" he informs them as he grabs the handle above him.

"Once we land, I want those with shields at the doorway to block any incoming shots. Private Janise, you'll be the first one out that door, I want you to put up a biotic sphere that covers us as we disembark. As soon as your feet touch the ground, you will find and get to whatever cover you can, do not stay out in the open unless you want to get killed, do you hear me?!"

"Yes Sergeant!" all the Coalition Marines responded.

"10 seconds!" the female pilot yelled out.

"You heard her Marines. Calcon, Kirkland at the door! Janise, get ready!" the Turian Sergeant orders.

A Gondor and male Inquisition soldier take their positions a few feet from the door, Janise, a purple-skinned Asari, takes her spot beside the doorway as she readies her biotics. The US and Systems Alliance Marine stand up as the latter places his helmet on and grabs his M-8 Avenger which then unfolds in his hands; everyone stands ready to disembark from the shuttle, their weapons held at the ready to engage the enemy. Slugs could be heard impacting into the side of the shuttle, as finally they felt the ship touchdown.

"Shields!" the Turian Sergeant yells.

The Gondor soldier Calcon, and the Inquisition soldier Kirkland, raise their respective shields as the right-side door slides open; several high-velocity slugs impact right into their shields as luckily they hold thanks to their upgraded metal. Next, the Asari Janise rushes out the door as she turns to her right and stops after a few steps, raising her hands forward as she puts up a large biotic sphere that blocks anymore slugs from going into the shuttle.

"Go! Go! Go! Go!" the Turian Sergeant ushers his squad out as they begin to exit the shuttle.

The squad of Marines split off into various directions to get to cover as high-velocity slugs and explosive rounds from the attacking Husks fly past and impact around them; Alliance Marines from the Resistance already in defensive positions around the LZ to attempt to provide covering fire for the arriving Coalition Marines. More troop transports touchdown behind the Kodiak shuttle as their doors slide open or their ramps drop, allowing the Marines onboard to disembark quickly.

"Jackson! Nasser! Let's move it!" the Turian Sergeant shouts.

The US Marine, Jackson, and the Systems Alliance Marine, Nasser, are the last two to get off the Kodiak shuttle as they break into a sprint to their right with a few slugs impacting around them. The Turian Sergeant then jumps off as he pounds on the side of the shuttle, signaling to the pilot they were all clear as the door closes up and it takes off. Marines from the rest of their Company rush for cover all around Jackson, and Nasser, an explosive shot impacts into the street but luckily doesn't hit or injure anyone; Jackson looks to his right as he notices a Kig-Yar Minor running for cover when he is suddenly hit by a slug and goes down. Jackson then looks to his left as he spots an injured Firebender being dragged away by a Clone Marine while a Rohan soldier uses his shield to cover their retreat.

"Incoming!"

Another explosive shot hits the ground sending dirt and debris flying into the air, this one very close to Jackson off to his right causing him to stumble a bit to his left while raising his arms and closing his eyes as the dirt and some small debris fall onto him. Unfortunately he is now no longer looking where he is going and suddenly hits a small pothole in the ground, causing him to trip and fall forward onto the concrete as he lands hard, causing him to cry out in pain. Nasser, who had ran past him before he fell, hears his cry of pain and looks back as he comes to a stop, "Jackson!" he yells as he immediately begins running back to him.

Nasser reaches the downed US Marine and drops beside him onto his right knee, "You alright? You alright?!"

"Yeah, I'm fine!" Jackson replies as he begins picking himself up.

"Come on! We need to get out of here!" Nasser says with urgency as he looks back forward.

ZIP!

Nasser's head is suddenly thrown back as he falls to the ground, Jackson falls back to the ground as well as he rolls onto his side and looks back. There was now a bullet hole in Nasser's forehead; the slug had bypassed his barriers, and gone straight through his helmet. His body was completely motionless. Jackson panted heavily, his eyes wide, and his mouth dropped open in complete shock and horror, "MEDIC!" he cries out.

"Medic!" Jackson cries out again.

Another explosion erupts just a few feet in front of him as he covers his head with dirt and debris falling onto his body once more. Someone runs up beside Nasser's body and crouches beside it, it was the Turian Sergeant. The Turian Sergeant activated his omni-tool and waved it over Nasser as he then looked at the screen, he shook his head as he then looked at Jackson and ran over crouching beside him, "Come on Private Jackson, we need to move!"

"Sir, Nasser's been hit!" Jackson argues.

The Turian Sergeant grabs him by the vest and lifts him up, "He's gone Jackson! And we will be too, if we don't get out of the open! Now move!" he orders as he releases his hold on the US Marine.

The Turian Sergeant gets up and returns fire with his Phaeston assault rifle before running off for cover. Jackson looks back at Nasser's body, a few high-velocity slugs could be seen impacting several feet around it; Jackson grits his teeth in anger, "FUCK!" he yells full of anger as he grabs his M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle, and gets back on his feet sprinting for cover.

Resistance Forward Operating Base…

A Kodiak shuttle turns the corner of a building as it flies over the ground entrance, turning once more to the right almost immediately as it goes into a partially destroyed building that was completely missing its roof. Once at the center its underbelly thrusters activate as the Kodiak then hovers through a destroyed floor until landing in a second-story room where two other Alliance Marines waited, scorched and torn up papers being sent flying everywhere due to the gust from the thrusters as they got closer to the floor. Once touching down the ship's right-side door opened as Anderson, Shepard, his team, Chief, the ODST squad, and Major Coats exited the shuttle.

One of the Alliance Marines approached, "Admiral, we've set up a command center in the building over there." he says gesturing to a building on the opposite side of the street a bit down the road.

"Looks like we've still got groups coming in." Anderson says, noticing that some Coalition Marine platoons had already arrived at the FOB, with a few more squads still trickling in from the entrances.

"Yes sir, but not as many as we'd hoped. We've received groups from 3 of the 5 landing zones, still waiting on Coalition Marine platoons from Charlie, and Delta to arrive. Comms from our forces at those landing sites say enemy resistance there has been the most heavy, but they should be dealt with soon." the Marine says.

"This is just the First Wave of Hammer. There'll be a lot more troops on the way soon. The first three waves are supposed to work at securing the areas around the Landing Zones. Next few would slowly bring in some armor units, and then we'll be getting bigger transport ships arriving soon with more soldiers and armor." Shepard explains.

"That's good to hear that this isn't everyone. But still, we can't wait unfortunately to build our forces up for a mass attack. Time isn't with us as we've already discussed. We'll just have to do with what we get, and the rest of Hammer that's to be deployed here will just have to catch up to us. If anything that could actually help in securing our rear as we move towards the Conduit. Come see me when you're ready Shepard." Anderson tells him.

"Will do." Shepard replies as Anderson then walks off.

His team then walks up to his right side as Shepard turns to them, "So far so good, right?" Tali asks in an unsure tone.

"Not a lot from the First Wave. They must've been hit hard." Garrus says.

"We may have taken out the Hades Cannon, but there's still enemy anti-air spread throughout the city that we weren't able to deal with. Enemy soldiers, and other types of AA weapons. Until our troops start hitting back, the next several waves are just going to have to deal with them as best as possible." Chief says.

"Not to mention the fact that there's not any actual clear landing zones for our people to really land at. We're just landing at places that have been somewhat secured by the Resistance, but now that the bad guys know where those are. They're hitting them with everything they've got to make sure they take those away from us." Ashley speaks next.

"Yeah, and it's as Shepard said, until our first few waves manage to actually secure them. Our people are going to keep landing straight into enemy fire." James says.

"The fact that there are several Coalition platoons here is a good sign at least, it means that our first wave wasn't entirely wiped out." Liara says.

"That may be true here. But we do not know that for the rest of the planet." Javik says.

"Reports coming in so far indicate that every landing zone across the Earth hasunfortunately encountered heavy enemy resistance at them. No reports yet of an entire landing group being wiped out, but it's safe to say that the first wave is indeed suffering heavy casualties. Some of these landing groups may just have to wait for the Second Wave to arrive before they can do anything." EDI informs everyone.

Shepard remains silent for a few seconds as he takes this information in, "You guys go on ahead. I'll catch up." he says.

The group takes their leave as they head towards the exit, Shepard meanwhile turns to face the broken window. The Commander stares out into the street and watches as Coalition Marines continue pouring in through the entrance, and unfortunately there were many wounded among them.

"The fighting here has been some of the worst on the planet. It looks bad, but there's still hope." Shepard looks to his left to see Major Coats had joined alongside him as he looks out into the mass of arriving troops as well.

Coats looked at Shepard, "And, you're here. It'll do the troops good to see you. Bolster their resolve." he adds,

"I'm just a soldier like them." Shepard says.

"You might see yourself like that, but they don't. Like it or not Commander, you're a hero to these men and women. Which, if all this crazy nonsense I've been hearing about alternate universes, the fight between good and evil, and Heroes versus Villains is indeed true. Then you technically are one anyways. Whatever the case, don't discount the effect that can have on them." Coats says.

He looks back down at the Coalition Marines, "Got to say Commander, you sure have brought in a rather odd bunch of people. Asari, Turians, Salarians, Krogan, Quarians, Geth, Batarians, those were odd enough; but all these other human factions and strange new aliens... Are any of your fellow heroes here among them?" Coats asks looking back at Shepard.

"Just my team, and the Master Chief, who'll be moving out with the 1st Marines in retaking the city and taking some of the heat off us while we move towards the Conduit. A few of them are fighting in the city, otherwise the rest are spread out over the planet." Shepard informs him.

"Hm… damn shame. But, I guess it's good to take some precautions. If all of you were here, and the Reapers did something that took every one of you out. We'd for sure lose this war… Well, I better go meet up with my Battalion. I'll see you at the Command Center." Major Coats finishes as he turns and walks away.

Shepard looks back out the destroyed window, "I wonder how everyone else is doing…" he wonders, hoping that they were all doing okay.


Anhui Province, China...

Coalition 8th Mountain Division…

A Group of Coalition troop transports flew over dark gray clouds, "Heads up Rock Climbers, looks like we got a bit of a change in the weather." the Clone Co-pilot speaks up.

"Hope you packed ready, cause today's forecast calls for some heavy rain with a side of lots of enemy artillery raining down from the mountains." his voice could be heard in the troop compartment where Po and the Furious Five were.

"Ah, well then. As if this battle could get any more fun." a male UNSC Army soldier sarcastically says.

"Yeah, nothing says fun like fighting in mountainous terrain with enemy artillery raining down on us. And now to add to it, we got some rain to deal with. Going to make fighting uphill even more fantastic." a US Army soldier adds also in a sarcastic voice.

"Hope you're all ready to get some mud in places you never knew you had. Look at it this way, if we survive, there'll be a nice warm shower as a reward to look forward to after all this." a male Turian says in a whimsical tone.

"Hey Lieutenant, tell me again why the hell we can't just land at the top of the mountains and fight down from there? You know, like a smart army. Higher ground wins, right?" the UNSC soldier calls out to the Platoon Commander.

"Because Private Dumont, besides artillery the enemy also has most of their AA weapons setup at the top of the mountains to deter us good guys from landing right on top of them. So unless you want to get blasted out of the sky before even touching down, we're going to have no choice but to land at the bottom and then fight our way up. Basically how every other mountain battle goes for the attackers." the Lieutenant, a UNIT soldier responds.

"But what if the bad guys are like, you know, expecting us to do that? Since as you said, most mountain battles do always end up with the attackers having to attack from the bottom and fight uphill. So the bad guys might actually reverse psychology us, and there might actually not be any of these AA weapons at the top of the mountains at all." Po speaks up.

"Shit sir, fucking Kung Fu Panda over there making some sense actually. What if the bad guys don't have any AA weapons at the top of the mountains? For all we know, they may not have any at all in this area." a male Systems Alliance soldier says.

"Kung Fu Panda?" Po quietly questions as he and Monkey look at one another, "I actually kind of like the sound of that." he then says as Monkey nods in agreement.

"The bad guys would have to be either really hurting, or just really stupid to not do something like that. It's common sense, you get the high ground, you want artillery up there to rain down on the enemy, and AA weapons to defend them so the enemy doesn't just land on top of them or bomb them to smithereens." a Clone speaks.

"Either way, orders are orders. We land in the town of Tangkoucun, and fight our way up into the Huangshan Mountain, taking peak by peak until we either wipe the enemy forces there out. Or they surrender." the UNIT Lieutenant explains.

Suddenly an explosion can be heard going off outside as the ship rocks slightly. The Coalition transports had now descended through the clouds indeed into heavy rain as they headed towards the ground, explosions going off all around them from the enemy's Anti-Aircraft weapons that fired at them.

Tangkoucun, Huangshan District….

From the top of a mountain a Cerberus Centurion looks through binoculars up at the sky as he spots the incoming Coalition transports, he lowers his binoculars and turns to his left as he then points towards them. Ordering Reaper Praetorians, Ravagers, two Imperial All Terrain Anti-Aircraft walkers with turret mounted twin light flak cannons, and Separatist J-1 proton cannons to fire at them. A Providence Scout ship receives a direct hit as it explodes before going down in flames and smoke; the atmospheric shields now open Po and the others see this as Po and Tigress exchange concerned looks with one another.

From the cockpit the Clone pilots bear witness to all the flak going off in front and around theirs and the other transports as they continue closing in on the ground, "Flak's too heavy!" the main pilot says with some panic behind his voice.

A red light turns on in the troop compartment which the UNIT Lieutenant notices, "Red light! Final equipment check!" he shouts to his platoon.

"Ridgeline, your comms got some static." an Asari tells another Clone in front of her.

"Got it!" the Clone, Ridgeline calmly responds after lightly slapping the right side of his helmet.

Everyone else readies their weapons; swords being drawn, bullets being chambered, weapons being powered on, and safeties being switched off. Crane looks to his right and watches as a Sangheili Storm looks down the scope of his Type-57 Carbine to make sure its sight was alright.

"Red light, standby!" the other Clone shouted.

Po takes in a deep breath with his eyes closed and lets it out, "Okay. This is it. This is it, this is it, this is it, this is it." Po repeatedly and quietly says to himself, trying to look and remain calm on the outside as inside his heart was beating very rapidly from how nervous and scared he really was.

He felt a hand go on his left shoulder and opened his eyes as he looked to see that it was Tigress; she, and Viper giving him reassuring looks as they nodded their heads, Po looked to his right to see that Monkey and Crane were also looking at him with reassuring expressions as they nodded their heads as well. Po looked down at Mantis on his left shoulder, "We're with yah, Po." he says as he laid his right foreleg on his shoulder.

Po nodded his head in appreciation as he then looked back up at Tigress, "For the Valley." she says.

A serious look comes to Po's face as he nods again, "For the Valley… for the Multiverse." he says.

Suddenly there is a very loud explosion and the ship violently rocks as sparks fly out from the left side of the ship, the Republic gunship had received a hit to its left engine as it began going down.

"We're hit! We're going down!" the Clone pilot shouts over the intercom as the alarms blare.

"EVERYONE BRACE!" the UNIT Lieutenant yells.

Po's face puffs up as he makes a gagging sound, his left fist going over his mouth, "I think I'm gonna hurl!" he says with a strained, muffled voice.

"You better keep that in!" the male Providence agent behind him shouts.

Closer, and closer the ground gets to the Clone pilot as he pulls up on his stick trying to at least make the ship level before they crash, luckily succeeding as the LAAT/i hits the ground and bounces a few feet back up into the air before going back down again. The bottom of the ship skidded down the road as it slowly turned and tipped over onto its left wing, eventually tearing it off sending the ship further tipping over onto its side as it came to a stop after several more seconds.

A little bit of smoke now filled the compartment causing some of the occupants to cough, "Everyone alright?" the UNIT Lieutenant calls out.

His response was some of his men crying out in agony… due to the fact that in the crash Po had lost his hold on the handle and fell right on top of several of them creating a small dogpile.

"I will be when someone gets this panda and everyone else off my fucking back!" Pvt. Dumont could be heard yelling from the bottom of the pile.

The right side door was pushed open from the inside by Tigress, and the Sangheili Storm, "Go! Go! Go! Move!" the UNIT Lieutenant shouts.

The soldiers begin climbing out as enemy projectiles could be heard impacting into the top of the ship, Mantis jumped on the edge of the platform before dropping to the ground while Crane flew up into the air, Viper slithered out while Monkey jumped up and over. Po, who was now against the other door on his back, began pushing himself up as Tigress extended her right hand to him, "Come on!" she shouts.

Po grabs her hand as she lifts him to his feet.

"Contact!" one of the male soldiers shouted.

Po and Tigress pulled themselves up and over the edge of the LAAT/i platform as they landed on their feet, Tigress immediately started running as she ran around the left side of the turned over ship, passing the US Army soldier, and male Providence agent as the two fired their weapons around the corner; the US Army soldier crouched while the Providence agent was standing. High-velocity slugs suddenly started flying past and impacting close to them forcing them both to pull back around the ship for cover as a few slugs then hit the corner they were just peeking. As Po watched this he then noticed movement out of the corner of his right eye and looked down, the UNSC Army soldier Pvt. Dumont, had already been hit by a slug that went and tore through his stomach as a female Turian medic applied medi-gel to his wound to stop the bleeding, while a male Inquisition battlemage used a healing spell to seal up the wound more quickly and to try and fix up his body's internal organs. Po looked back at the other two soldiers; the Providence agent peeked around the corner again as he fired his EVO blaster, a few seconds later a high-velocity slug went right through his head. His body dropped to the ground, lifeless, as Po looked on with his mouth open and eyes widened in horror, "Guerrier!" the US Army soldier shouted as he quickly grabbed his body to pull him behind the gunship.

Po's breathing pace picked up as he continued to look on in absolute shock and horror, "Hey!" Po looked to his right.

"This is what you signed up for right, hero? Too late to turn back now. You either fight, or you die!" the female Turian states.

Po took what the Turian said to heart as he looked back forward, he closed his eyes and began to catch his breath more calmly.

High-velocity slugs continued to fly and impact around Tigress as she ran forward; those shots coming from Cerberus assault troopers, one of whom was manning a turret emplacement, in the right upper window of a slightly damaged two-story house several meters down the road. The rest of the assault troopers firing out from the other windows as at least two of the windows, one on the upper left, and the middle one on the bottom floor, had two assault troopers switching back and forth between leaning out to fire a few shots before retreating back behind cover, while the others had only one assault trooper using them. The platoon meanwhile had spread out over the area for cover; on the left side of the road were a bunch of destroyed houses which some of the soldiers used as they took cover either behind, alongside them, or even inside the ruins of the destroyed buildings, while the right side of the road only had a few abandoned, or destroyed skycars parked or crashed next to a railing as on the other side of it was a barely flowing river down below. The damaged house the Cerberus soldiers were firing from was the last house on the street, as after that there was a two-pronged road leading into the town, the buildings between the two roads were all destroyed or heavily damaged.

Across the river was another road with a bunch more houses that were either damaged, or completely destroyed, which from that side several more squads of enemy soldiers fired at the Heroes and Coalition troops from. Luckily not for much longer however, as a number of missiles, and mass accelerator shots impact into and around the enemy troops taking a large number of them out while forcing the others to either retreat or to turn and engage those who shot at them. Those being a few Coalition transports that descend to the ground as they open their doors or drop their ramps, allowing the soldiers aboard to disembark as they immediately engage the enemy. To their rear, landing behind the crashed LAAT/i were several more troop transports that touched down as the soldiers from those got off.

Tigress finally reached cover as she got behind a destroyed skycar, which the UNIT Lieutenant, Ridgeline, and the male Turian soldier were using as well; both Ridgeline and the UNIT Lieutenant were firing their guns at the Cerberus troops before being forced back into cover. The skycar was the closest cover to the building, but even then there was still several feet of open ground between the vehicle and the house, too much of a distance to make considering the number of enemy troops firing at them from said building. The assault trooper manning the turret continued firing the gun until it overheated; using this opportunity the Turian soldier prepped a frag grenade as he got out of cover and tossed it, unfortunately it fell a bit short and hit just below the window as it fell to the ground and exploded. The assault trooper, having finished reloading the gun, resumes firing it; not for much longer however as from behind one of the destroyed houses a male US Army soldier fires an M136 AT4 with HEDP 502 projectile as it slams directly into the turret. Causing an explosion that takes it, and the assault trooper out.

"Ridgeline, on my mark. Everyone else, cover him!" the UNIT Lieutenant speaks up, the Sangheili Storm, along with a Gondor archer, and Lion warrior having joined them behind the skycar.

"Covering fire!" he then yells as he, along with the Turian and other soldiers peek up over the skycar and fire their weapons at the windows keeping the remaining Cerberus troops inside suppressed.

Ridgeline, who now had a thermal detonator in his right hand, runs around the skycar and towards the house; priming the detonator as he lobs it through the right window in front of him and dives to the ground against the building. A second later the detonator goes off causing a large explosion that blows the windows out as the enemy soldiers inside could be heard crying out in pain.

"Luciso, I want you to take a team and clear out that building! Everyone else, start pushing towards the town, move!" the UNIT Lieutenant orders as everyone begins moving.

"Roger that, Fasthelm, 'Motan, 'Yaadda, with me, we're clearing out that building!" the Turian soldier, identified as Luciso, calls for over the comms.

Po finally arrives at the skycar as he drops down beside Tigress, "Hey heroes. You guys are good at close quarters fighting, right? Help us clear out that building, will yah?" Luciso asks looking at the two.

"Move it!"

"Go, go, go!"

As the rest of the company push towards the town, Crane, Viper, Monkey, and Mantis moving with them; Luciso, along with Fasthelm, a Rohirrim, 'Motan, the Sangheili Storm trooper, and 'Yaadda, a female Quarian soldier, move with Po and Tigress as they stack up and move towards the door. Fasthelm at the front with his sword and shield raised, followed by Luciso, 'Motan, 'Yaadda, and finally Po, and Tigress at the rear. The fireteam stops on the left side of the door, the holographic display on the front of it red.

"'Yaadda, you're up." Luciso says as the female Quarian moves to the right side of the doorway and activates her omni-tool.

'Yaadda then hovers her omni-tool over the lock as it begins pulsating, after several seconds the display turns green and the door opens. Fasthelm quickly moves in, going through the doorway as he is suddenly and immediately tackled to the ground from behind on his right causing him to cry out, "Fasthelm!" Luciso yells out as he attempts to go in to save him.

Only for a Cerberus assault trooper on the stairs to fire at the doorway forcing the Turian back out, 'Yaadda attempts to get a shot on whoever attacked Fasthelm but the assault trooper fires again forcing her to pull back. Fasthelm raises his head to see that he had lost his grip on his sword that was now a few feet in front of him, he attempts to crawl to it but a roar from behind makes him quickly spin around just in time as a Darkspawn Hurlock lunges at him. Fasthelm raises his shield as the Hurlock falls onto it, the Darkspawn then raises its right arm up revealing a dagger in its hand as it then attempts to stab the Rohirrim; luckily Fasthelm is able to react quick enough as he reaches with his right hand and catches the Darkspawn's wrist, stopping it but only briefly as the Darkspawn continues to slowly push the dagger towards his face causing Fasthelm to groan through gritted teeth as he struggles to keep it back.

'Motan attempts to fire but the assault trooper fires again, hitting his energy shields as they flare up from the damage forcing him back into cover, "We've got to get in there!" 'Yaadda states with urgency.

All of a sudden Po rushes forward, "Po, STOP!" Tigress cries out.

Po runs past both 'Motan and Luciso before they even realize what happened as he dashes through the doorway, taking the assault trooper slightly aback as he fires his weapon after him. The shots all just barely miss his back as the Dragon Warrior then dives into and tackles the Darkspawn off Fasthelm; using this opening both Luciso and 'Motan rush through the doorway and fire their weapons taking the assault trooper out as he falls and tumbles down the stairs. Po pushes himself up while keeping the Hurlock pinned to the ground, the Darkspawn roaring at him in anger as it attempts to push the giant humanoid panda off of it, Po punches the Hurlock across the face. Luciso runs up behind Po and pushes him aside, the Hurlock attempts to lunge at the Turian but he is already firing his Phaeston assault rifle dropping the Hurlock back to the ground.

'Motan and 'Yaadda move up the stairs to clear the second floor while Tigress runs in, Luciso goes over to check on Fasthelm while Tigress slows down and walks over to Po, "You alright?" she asks, extending a helping hand to him which he grabs.

"Yeah, I'm good." he replies while being pulled up onto his feet.

"Good." Tigress says, only to suddenly punch him in the stomach knocking all the air out of him as he falls to his knees.

"Maybe not anymore…" he says with a strained voice.

Both 'Motan, and 'Yaadda come back down the stairs, "The second floor is clear. All enemies have been eliminated." 'Motan says.

"You good Fasthelm?" 'Yaadda asks.

"I will be fine, thanks to this Panda warrior." Fasthelm says, now back on his feet as he looks over at Po and Tigress who look back, Po giving a friendly smile and wave though with a still in pain look on his face.

"Let's move it, we gotta catch up with the others." Luciso says as he and the others head towards the exit.

Tigress offers her hand once more to Po, "Are you gonna punch me again?" he asks.

"Only if you plan on doing something as stupid as that again." she replies.

Po takes her hand as she helps him back on his feet again, Po looks at her, "I had to help him!" he defends himself.

"And you're lucky that Cerberus soldier was a bad shot!" Tigress states leaning towards him, "Next time you try something like that, you might not be so lucky! I understand you want to help people Po, but you're not going to be helping anyone if you're dead!" she finishes, a worried look in her eyes as she turns and fast walks away. Leaving Po alone as he looks at the floor in silence.

An explosion goes off sending dirt and debris flying into the air. From behind another destroyed skycar a Batarian soldier, female Rodian New Republic soldier, and male Fereldan soldier armed with a crossbow popped up from behind the vehicle and fired their weapons. The Fereldan soldier got down and proceeded to reload his crossbow as the Batarian and New Republic soldiers continued to fire at another skycar several meters down the street; behind it a Cerberus assault trooper, Stormtrooper, and Gormin who got up and returned fire forcing the two back behind the skycar. Elsewhere Coalition soldiers focused their fire on a large two-story building of which a number of enemy soldiers were taking cover on the rooftop; a Cyclonian soldier ducks back behind the ledge as a few rounds hit in front of him, the Stormtrooper to his right getting shot in the head as he drops to the ground dead. An Alvarez soldier peeks up from cover and aims his staff as he fires a dark purple magic blast, managing to hit an alien Plumber agent as he goes down.

All of a sudden Monkey drops down from out of nowhere and flying side kicks the Alvarez soldier in the face, sending him skidding across the roof as Monkey lands in a handstand from which he pushes himself back into the air while flipping backwards to land on his feet, doing another jump flip to land in a handstand again and repeating the previous process to get back on his feet as he strikes a battle ready stance, the Alverez soldier's staff now in his hands.

"Take him out!" a Cerberus Centurion orders as they raise and aim their weapons at him.

Only for Crane to swoop in and grab the Cyclonian by both shoulders as he carries him high into the air, the Cyclonian crying out in terror as Crane climbs high enough before dropping the soldier to the street. Using this distraction Monkey uses the staff to launch himself at the enemy soldiers feet first, delivering another flying kick this time straight into the Centurion's chest as he manages to send the Cerberus soldier turning around and falling off the roof. Following this Monkey swings the staff striking the face of a Red Templar archer, as he lands on his feet a Nindroid charges him from behind with its sword drawn as Monkey jumps again and roundhouse kicks it across the face. Meanwhile a Collector trooper, and another Stormtrooper fire their weapons at Crane who continues flying around in the sky avoiding these shots, eventually Crane turns towards the enemy soldiers and flies straight at them, their shots continuing to miss as he spins around in every direction until he closes in and throws his talons out. Striking both of them in the face and sending them flying off the roof.

The Batarian soldier peeks out over the skycar and fires his M-96 Mattock, the slugs hitting the skycar or flying past the enemy soldiers as the Gormin sailor fires back with its rifle; the Fereldan soldier pops back up and fires his crossbow, managing to hit the Stormtrooper in the left shoulder as he yelps in pain and flinches back, but otherwise just proceeds to pull the bolt out and toss it as he raises his blaster and fires back. As the three Coalition and enemy soldiers continue firing back and forth at each other, suddenly the Cerberus assault trooper is seemingly pulled down behind the skycar, followed a second later by the Stormtrooper, leaving just the Gormin left as another second later it too is pulled behind the skycar by something. The three Coalition soldiers stop firing and look on in confusion as they begin to hear what sounds like punching going on behind the vehicle, with all three enemy soldiers crying out in pain each time the punching is heard; half the Gormin's body suddenly flies out to the left side of the skycar, before suddenly being pulled back behind it as it cries out. The punching continues, a few seconds later the Stormtrooper goes flying out from the right side of the skycar into a damaged building, the Batarian and Rodian look at each other, still unsure of what to make of this. The assault trooper then goes flying up and over the skycar, crying out as he then comes crashing down on top of the skycar the three Coalition soldiers were using for cover who then jump away from it before he impacts; the assault trooper groans in pain, the Batarian doesn't wait another second as he pulls out his M-6 Carnifex and puts a slug through his head ending his suffering.

Noticing that the sounds of fighting had stopped the three soldiers look back over at the other skycar, a few seconds later Mantis jumps on top of the vehicle followed by Viper slithering up beside him, "Come on! What are you waiting for? We still got some more bad guy butts to kick!" Mantis shouts at them.

At the center of the town was a large bridge, Coalition soldiers pushing towards it from the East as across it were a number of enemy soldiers using rubble, and constructed defensive barriers for cover. At the center defensive barrier was a Separatist Double-barrel repeating blaster which was being manned by an Uruk, the Uruk letting out a roar as it continued firing the weapon while turning it back and forth from side to side. A Galactic Ranger robot that was crouched in the middle of the street was hit directly as it went down, a male Dwarven soldier attempting to run for cover was also shot and killed.

"Dai Buster!" five people shout as suddenly red, blue, green, yellow, and pink energy bolts are shot across the bridge impacting all over, taking out the repeating blaster along with a few enemy soldiers.

Suddenly jump flipping one by one through the air were the five Dairangers, as all five of them managed to land on the other side of the bridge in the middle of all the enemy soldiers who turned towards them ready to engage.

Ryu threw his hands forward and spun them around while making his right hand a fist as he brought them back to his left with his left arm held high and right arm held low, "RyuuRanger! Heavenly Fire Star, Ryo!" he shouts going through his motions to strike his pre-battle pose.

Daigo plants his two feet on the ground apart as he turns to his right and then back forward while throwing both arms forward with his index fingers held up, "ShishiRanger! Heavenly Phantom Star, Daigo!" he shouts going through his motions to strike his pose.

Shoji throws his right hand forward with the palm facing outwards before curling it into a fist which he then brings back while throwing his left hand in front of it, "TenmaRanger! Heavenly Gravity Star, Shoji!"

Kazu crosses his left leg to the right and then his right leg to the left almost in a drunken-like manner as he then throws his right hand forward with the index finger and thumb pointing slightly out and his left hand held a bit forward behind it, "KirinRanger! Heavenly Time Star, Kazu!"

Rin throws her left arm out with her hand facing the opposite direction as she clenches her fingers slightly like a claw, pulling the arm back with the palm facing upwards as she throws her right arm in front of her clenching her fingers slightly again like a claw, "HououRanger! Heavenly Wind Star, Rin!"

Ryu throws his left hand up in front of him in a fist, "Shining in the Heavens are Five Stars!" he shouts, throwing it up into the air while holding all five of his fingers up.

"Gosei Sentai!" the five shout while throwing their right legs up and tapping their feet, spinning their arms around to their left side and bringing their left arms forward as they turn slightly sideways to the right, their palms open and facing towards the ground.

The five swing their arms around again, lifting their right foot a few inches off the ground before slamming them back down as they bring their right fist into their left hand, "Dairanger!" they simultaneously shout as Ryu throws both of his hands forward, Daigo, and Kazu dropping onto an opposite knee, Daigo his right, Kazu his left, while throwing their hands forward, while Shoji, and Rin bring their hands to the side towards the center.

The enemy soldiers just watch this, still standing at the ready to engage them as a Cerberus Centurion takes notice of this and looks from side to side a few times, "What the hell are you all standing around for? Get them!" he orders as the soldiers finally charge to attack them.

"Let's go!" Ryu shouts.

"Yeah!" his teammates shouting back in agreement as they charge forward and engage the enemy soldiers.

Across the bridge the Coalition soldiers notice that all the enemy soldiers have now focused on the heroes, "They got their attention! Move up!" a female SHIELD agent orders with a wave of her arm.

Caribbean Sea…

Coalition 1st Army Division…

Flak from enemy anti-aircraft weapons explode around a large Group of Coalition transports flying just several feet above the water.

A Jiralhanae Captain Ultra lets out a mighty roar while raising his Type-25 Brute shot into the air before pointing it towards the incoming ships, behind him off to his left J-1 Proton Cannons, DSD1 Dwarf Spider Droids, Ravagers, and Type-58 Anti-Air Wraiths fire at the troop transports. One SHIELD Quinjet is hit as it crashes nose first into the water and does a violent flip over, the co-pilot of a Pelican dropship watching as this happens as she looks back forward.

"30 seconds out!" the female UNSC co-pilot shouts over the intercom.

The Coalition soldiers inside the troop bay readied their weapons.

"Are we even going to be alive in the next thirty seconds?!" Don cries out in terror.

"Well put it this way Doc, a few more seconds have now passed since she said that. And a few more now as we talk. And another few just right now…" Gai continues to mutter, also panicking.

Joe, Luka, and Ahim remained calm. Marvelous walked to the back and grabbed onto the left handle next to the ramp as he just waited for it to drop so he could get off the ship; the Sangheili Commander who was the CO of this squad of Coalition soldiers, walked over to him.

"I've had my fair share of run-ins with pirates in my universe." the Sangheili Commander begins to speak; he then leans towards Marvelous. "They were all cowards who had no issue abandoning their comrades when the situation turned grim in their favor… Know this, should you, or any of your comrades attempt to turn your backs to the enemy and flee. I will make sure to strike you down myself for attempting to desert us." he states while raising his right hand and curling it into a fist.

"I do not care what that Human Commander claims you to be; to me you are nothing more than what you truly are. A pathetic, cowardly, and dishonorable space pirate." the Sangheili Commander finishes.

"What very kind, and inspiring words you have for me, Commander Xero 'Vogam." Marvelous replies in a sarcastic tone as he turns his head to look at him.

"However, perhaps you should know that you are talking to the Captain of a very special kind of space pirate crew. You see, unlike most other pirates who would indeed run away at the sight of some very big trouble coming their way. My crew and I, we're the kind that actually head towards that very trouble instead. Cause that's where all the excitement and adventure is. And then we proceed to kick the hell out of those who want to give us trouble which as of right now, happens to be the Reapers and their pals. We don't run from danger." Marvelous says.

"We shall see…" the Sangheili Commander, Xero 'Vogam says as he leans back and walks over to the right handle which he grabs a hold of.

Their Pelican dropship finally touches down on a beach as the ramp drops, "Welcome to the beach boys, and girls. Get out there and kick some ass!" the female pilot shouts.

"Atta~ck!" 'Vogam yells while swinging his Type-57 carbine forward.

"For the Multiverse!"

"Come on!"

"Take them down!"

The soldiers jump or run down the ramp as they go around the sides of the dropship into heavy enemy fire as they begin their charge up the beach, a few of them returning fire with their weapons; Marvelous jumps off to the right side of the Pelican and starts running as he raises his Gokai Gun and fires back. Behind him the rest of his crew follows as Joe, and Luka jump off the ramp while Don, Ahim, and Gai run down it; the five Gokaigers run after their Captain while also returning fire at the enemy as to Don's right a Nonbending Southern Water Tribe warrior is shot and goes down causing Don to cry out in terror.

Eagle Beach, Aruba…

Across the beach more Coalition transports land to deploy their troops, the Pelican along with the others that had already dropped off their load of soldiers, taking back to the sky to get back to Sword so they could get more to bring planetside. The beach had been covered by a wide variety of fortifications, from czech hedgehogs, to Covenant Guardian Triptych defense barriers, and Separatist caltrop spikes, all of them to prevent any armor the Coalition had brought along from moving up the beach. Up the beach at the base of the treeline, Cerberus and allied forces had dug up a long trenchline in the sand from which their soldiers fired on the attacking Coalition soldiers from, several defensive barriers spread out behind the trench from which more enemy soldiers fired from.

A number of enemy soldiers fired from one section of the trench, among them a Covenant Unggoy manning a Type-58 plasma cannon as a few feet to his left a Thugs-4-Less Henchman got shot right in the head and dropped dead. Coalition soldiers charged, or crawled up the beach under heavy fire from both small arms, turret emplacements, and artillery as projectiles flew and explosions went off all over; dead bodies, and body parts, already starting to litter the beach. The Unggoy continued firing the plasma cannon while laughing maniacally, cutting down a US Army, and Vorcha soldier; a SWATbot fired its arm cannon shooting a Chima Wolf warrior, while an Orc archer pulled the string of its bow back and fired an arrow into the air which then flew into the chest of a Kirkwall Guardsman who fell backwards to the ground crying out in pain. One of the proton cannons fired as the shot directly hit the left side of a Galactic Ranger dropship which was offloading its troops, taking it and several soldiers around it out in the following explosion.

A male UNIT soldier who was running was unfortunately cut down by a volley of high-velocity slugs as his body dropped forward to the ground. Two explosions went off close by sending a cloud of sand and debris erupting into the air; as meanwhile the Gokaigers, along with Commander 'Vogam, and a few soldiers ran forward for cover, enemy projectiles flying all around them as Joe blocked a shot with his saber while Ahim fired off to her left. Marvelous, Ahim, Commander 'Vogam, along with a Krogan soldier took cover behind one of the Covenant's barriers, while Joe, Gai, and a Geth trooper got behind a czech hedgehog to their left, and to the right Don, Luka, along with a female Inquisition soldier got behind a caltrop spike, the rest of the soldiers spreading out to the other fortifications for cover.

"They're killing us out here!" the female Inquisition soldier yells.

Gai fires his Gokai Spear in Gun Mode along with the Geth soldier firing its Pulse Rifle.

"Their position is too well fortified. Their cannons and other anti-air weapons are blowing our transports out of the sky, and their turret emplacements are tearing our soldiers to pieces. They need to be dealt with if we're to have a better chance at taking out their infantry." Joe says.

"Isn't this what you Heroes are supposed to be here for? How about using those abilities of yours and taking these guys out already!" the Krogan soldier beside Commander 'Vogam says in an annoyed tone.

"Looks like these bastards are forcing our hand already. Very well then, let's… Hm?" Marvelous suddenly hums in confusion as he turns his head slightly.

All of a sudden he felt a wave of… something, pass through him. Like a gust of wind but it wasn't one. The world suddenly turned a tint of sky blue, and everything in it paused for several seconds before the color returned to normal; no one noticed this, as if it was invisible to the eye. Everything however had still come to a complete standstill for some reason. The Grunt on the plasma cannon was suddenly knocked out as his eyes went completely blank and he began to slowly fall to the ground, he wasn't the only one however. The Orc archer, a Cerberus Centurion, a Tartaros and Oni soldier, every single enemy soldier, save for the robotic ones, had seemingly been knocked out by some invisible force as they began to slowly collapse to the ground. Time sped back up to normal as their bodies hit the sand, the gunner of one of the Type-58 Wraiths collapses on the vehicle as said vehicle then powered down, as if something had also happened to the operator inside.

"Eh? What happened?" Don questions as he and everyone else noticed this.

The fighting had basically come to a stop at this point, as even the remaining enemy soldiers, only a few Separatist droids, Swatbots, Techno Soldiers, and Nindroids, were trying to figure out what happened to the rest of their allies. A Clone trooper taking cover in the crater of an artillery explosion looked around as he realized no one was moving, "Come on!" he yelled, waving his right arm forward.

Now was their chance to take the beach while the enemy was weakened. With a battle cry he got up and began charging forward, as soon many of the other soldiers joined with him and charged the enemy's defensive line.

"Hey, what happened to everyone?" a B1 battle droid questioned its SWATbot companion.

Only for that B1's head to get shot off followed by the SWATbot being riddled full of projectiles as it went down. A few of the enemy droids and robots began to fire back, but by then it was too late as the Coalition soldiers swarmed all over them; shooting many of them down as one Gondor soldier charged and drove his spear into the head of a B2 super battle droid. Northern Tribe Waterbenders froze streams of water from the ocean turning them into ice spears as they shot them towards several enemy robots taking them out; the Clone trooper along with a female Dalish Elf tossed Electro Magnetic Pulse grenades as the electromagnetic emissions disabled three Spider droids. A Salarian fired a Cobra missile launcher along with another Clone firing an RPS-6 rocket launcher taking out the proton cannons; a Rhino soldier swung his double bladed axe down on a Nindroid who blocked it with its sword, allowing a Arda Elf to drop into the trench and drive his sword into the robots stomach.

With the battle on the beach won the Gokaigers, along with Commander 'Vogam, and the few soldiers who remained with them stood up from cover, "What just happened?" Ahim questions.

"I don't know, why don't you tell us… Luffy." Marvelous says as he turns around, the others turning with him.

Walking up and stopping in front of them, was Monkey D. Luffy, and the Straw Hat Pirates, along with the Coalition soldiers they had arrived with; Luffy grinned at the captain of the Gokaigers, "A little trick I know. Looked like we could use it." he says.

"Hmph." Marvelous grunts in an impressed tone as he shoulders his saber, "Don't suppose you could just use that trick to win us this whole damn war?" he questions.

"If only it were that easy." Luffy says getting serious.

"Medic!" a male Systems Alliance soldier called out while crouched beside a wounded male human New Republic soldier sitting up against a caltrop spike.

Chopper immediately began rushing over to provide first-aid.

"The battle is far from over, now we must push inland." Commander 'Vogam says as he then looks at his troops, "Move!" he orders.

He and the soldiers begin to run to join up with the others, the soldiers with the Straw Hats included.

"We still got a long fight to go. Hope you Straw Hats can keep up." Joe says shouldering his saber.

"Heh." Zoro grunts while grinning with his teeth, "I was just about to say the same to you, Gokaigers."

Usopp lets out a whining cry of terror with his arms raised and tears streaming down his face, "Landing on this beach alone was super scary! I seriously thought we weren't going to make it!"

"At least you guys didn't have to experience everything that was happening on the beach!" Don argues also in a whining, terrified tone.

"When I signed up to be a pirate, this is not what I signed up for!" Nami shouts also in a terrified voice with her eyes closed.

"Yet you haven't had any issues with any of the other big battles and powerful enemies we've gone up against?" Franky questions.

"Ah~, mou. You guys are really annoying! And you're supposed to be super strong pirates?" Luka questions while shouldering her saber behind her head.

"Don't worry ladies! I, Sanji, will protect every one of you from these vile villains!" Sanji proclaims with his left fist raised.

"WHO SAID I NEEDED YOUR PROTECTION STUPID PERVERT COOK!" Luka angrily yells.

Brook looks out at the beach as he notices the high number of Coalition bodies there already were, "This many people were lost just taking the beach. I fear for how it's going to be by the end of it all." he says.

"If it's just as bad here, who knows how bad it is everywhere else. I hope everyone else is doing okay." Gai says.

"We should probably catch up with the Coalition soldiers." Robin says as she and Ahim look at each other.

"Agreed, they'll need as much help as we can give them." Ahim says.

Luffy looks over at Chopper who was still tending to the wounded soldier along with a male human College Mage, "Chopper! We're going on ahead to catch up with the soldiers, when you're done come find us!" he shouts to him, catching his attention.

"Right!" Chopper replies with a nod of his head.

"Let's go!" Marvelous says as the Gokaigers and Straw Hats turn and start running.

"By the way, you say we aren't super strong yet last I checked, it was our Captain who just cleared this entire beach while you guys were hiding from the bad guys." Nami says to Luka in a mocking tone.

"Huh?! We had that all under control and were just about to kick these guys' asses when you showed up and got in our way!" Luka retorts.

"Oh? Are you implying that you Go-losers are stronger than us Straw Hats?" Nami mischievously questions.

"Oh?" Luka says as she tilts her head a bit to her right, "I see where this is going. Yes, I am. And I'm willing to bet everything I have on it. Because I know without a doubt that the Kaizoku Sentai Gokaigers are far stronger then you Straw Hat Pirates will ever be!" she declares.

"So, the pirate crew that defeats the most enemies takes it all?" Nami asks.

"You're on." Luka says.

"Eh? What just happened, again?" Don questions looking back at the two.

"Oh no, it really is like having two Nami's. They're both just as bad!" Usopp says.

As they approach the trench, suddenly the Jiralhanae Captain Ultra rises up from it with a resounding roar as he raises his Type-2 gravity hammer into the air, ready to strike Marvelous and Luffy who were a few feet ahead of everyone else. Marvelous tightens his grip on the Gokai Saber, while Luffy clenches his left hand into a fist, the two pirate captains then launch themselves up towards the Covenant Brute with their saber, and fist pulled back.

"GET OUT OF OUR WAY!" Both Marvelous and Luffy simultaneously yell, as Marvelous swings his saber and Luffy throws his punch.

Marvelous slashes the Brute while Luffy punches it in the face, sending the large pseudo-ursine mammal falling back to the ground; his eyes blank, and his face heavily bruised from the punch with droplets of blood flying out from his opened mouth. The Jiralhanae falls back into the trench completely knocked out as Marvelous and Luffy land on the other side and run into the small forest, their two crews right behind them.

"Looks like your Captain missed one." Luka mocks as she and Nami look at each other again, "By the way, that's score one for the Gokaigers. Straw Hats, zero."

"Huh?! What do you mean? That was clearly our Captain taking that thing down! Your little sword wouldn't have done anything had ours not punched it in the face!" Nami argues.

"Oh yeah, cause that thing looks like it wouldn't eat a punch for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and still be hungry for seconds!" Luke retorts.

The two continue to argue as Don and Usopp just listen and sigh with their eyes closed, "This is going to be a long day, isn't it?" Usopp says.

"Most likely." Don agrees.

Southern Amazonas, Brazil…

Coalition 5th Marine Division…

Another Group of Coalition transports found themselves under heavy fire from enemy flak.

"Yeah, so much for Special Forces taking out all the enemy's fucking AA weapons!" a US Marine angrily shouted aboard a Pelican dropship as he, and everyone else held on tightly.

Natsu clenched his teeth while trying to remain calm, he did not like this one bit. Waiting for this ship to land before he would be allowed to do anything to fight back against the enemy who at any moment could just blow said ship out of the sky taking him, and his friends all with it! Just another reason to add as to why he hated any sort of vehicle whether it drove on land, steered by sea, or flew by air.

"Natsu." he hears the very quiet, and terrified voice of Happy call from below him as he looks down, "I'm… I'm scared." he says with tears starting to gather in his eyes.

"Don't worry Happy, it's going to be okay." Natsu reassures him.

To hear him say that… No matter what situation they've been in, Happy has always managed to keep strong and brave in the face of many of the powerful enemies they've faced. Only when things started to look bad, or when anyone, especially Natsu had been close to losing their life, did Happy start to break down like this. The fact he was already starting too when they hadn't even hit the ground… He, Wendy, and Gajeel had all given their Exceed partners the option of going with the Doctor and staying with him aboard his TARDIS while they went down to Earth to battle the Reaper ground forces and their allies. But none of them wanted to abandon their Dragon Slayer partners, since they had always been together through everything, even the war against the Alvarez Empire. Which as Natsu was now starting to get the feeling for, was going to be nothing compared to this war against the Reapers.

Another flak explosion went off very close to the Pelican causing it to violently rock back and forth as some of the Marines let out a yelp of surprise. Wendy, Carla, and Lucy all had their eyes tightly shut with clenched teeth, the three absolutely terrified but trying their best to remain calm; while Erza, Gray, Gajeel, and Lily had their teeth clenched but with serious looks in their eyes.

"LZ is hot! Repeat, LZ is too hot!" a male voice came over the comms as the male UNSC pilot heard it.

"No fucking shit it is!" he angrily says to himself as he activates the intercom in the troop bay, "Sergeant, the LZs hot!"

"I don't think I'm going to be able to land to get you and your squad on the ground!"

"Just get us as close as you can, Lieutenant! We'll just have to jump out!" a fair-white skinned, clean-shaven, male UNSC Marine Sergeant replies.

"Got it. I'll start lowering the ramp." the pilot says as the Marine Sergeant turns and starts walking towards the ramp.

"Heads up Marines! LZ is too hot, we will not be landing! Pilot will get us as close as possible to the ground, but we will not be landing! We will be jumping!" the UNSC Sergeant shouts.

Erza gets up from her seat and follows after the UNSC Sergeant; the ramp begins to lower as he grabs a hold of the right side handlebar while Erza grabs the one on the left. The ramp now lowered; everyone could see the flak explosions going off behind them along with a few of the other Coalition transports flying with them. All of a sudden a flaming Kodiak shuttle just barely missed the rear of their ship, coming into close view of the people onboard as Erza visibly recoiled back with her right arm raised, "Son of a bitch!" one of the Marines shouted.

Erza watched with widened eyes of shock as the shuttle crashed into the ground and exploded.

"You sure you kids are ready for this?" the UNSC Sergeant questions Erza without turning his head.

Erza looks at him as she regains her composure, "We've foughten many powerful enemies back home, Sergeant Mashima. We've even been through a few wars ourselves." she says.

"Yeah?" UNSC Sergeant Mashima asks as he looks at her, "They've been anything like this?"

Erza remains silent as she turns her head away and looks down.

"I don't doubt you kids can fight; you've shown us that. And I may not know what things are like back in your universe; but in this universe, and where I'm from. War is fought a bit differently. It's gonna take a lot more than just raw power, and skill to win this." Sgt. Mashima says looking back forward.

Erza looks back at him, "The stakes are still the same nonetheless. We know what those stakes are, and what could happen. But that's not going to deter us from fighting to protect our home, our friends, and all the other innocent lives out there." she states.

Sgt. Mashima looks back at Erza, he gives her a small smile, "You got heart. That's also good; just hope everyone else has that same strength as you. If they do, we might otherwise win this damn thing." he says looking out the back again.

The Pelican along with a few other transports soon began their descent, "Marines, on your feet! Get ready to jump!" Sgt. Mashima shouts while turning his head.

The squad of marines got on their feet along with the Fairy Tail mages. Natsu looked at Lucy who was standing beside him to his right; she was looking at the floor with clenched teeth, the look in her eyes was serious but Natsu could tell it was an act she was putting up, deep down she was probably terrified. Natsu then turned his head slightly to look at Wendy behind him, she was also looking at the floor though with a look in her eyes that didn't even try and hide how scared she was.

"Lucy, Wendy." Natsu says getting their attention; "Stay close to me." he tells them as he looks back forward.

Both the girls remain silent as they continue to look at Natsu.

Suddenly the right rear engine is hit and explodes, causing the ship to violently swing to the left throwing everyone inside the troop bay to the right side save for Erza, and Sgt. Mashima as they hold onto the handles.

"Dammit, we're hit!" the pilot yells.

The Pelican begins spiraling out of control as the warning alarm blares. A Sangheili Minor finds himself rolling through the bay towards the ramp, Erza reaches out to grab him and luckily succeeds as he manages to grab her hand with his right as the air pulls him a few feet off the floor forcing Erza to hold onto him tightly. A Clone Marine then goes sliding across the floor, accidentally hitting an Asari along the way as both of them now find themselves sliding towards the lowered ramp; Sgt. Mashima reaches out for the Asari but misses her hand by just a few inches, he tries to grab the Clone but misses as well as both marines go flying out of the Pelican.

"Happy!" Natsu shouts.

"Aye sir!" Happy shouts back as he jumps from Natsu's arms and spreads his wings flying out the transport.

Carla does the same and flies after him.

Both the Clone and Asari cry out in terror as they continue falling through the air, luckily the two Exceeds are fast and are able to catch up to them after just a few seconds as they grab the two marines beneath their arms and carry them safely to the ground. Lily, having spread his wings, carries the Sangheili out to bring to the ground as Sergeant Mashima looks out to see how close they were to it; they were close enough and continuing to get a lot closer to it real quickly.

"Everyone out! Go! Go!" Sgt. Mashima shouts, ushering everyone to the ramp as the remaining marines make their way towards it, some of them stumbling around along the way, as they jump out of the Pelican.

Gajeel attempts to run to the ramp but slips and falls as he manages to catch himself on one of the seats, Gray runs past him as he along with an Earthbending soldier jump out. Gajeel pushes himself back onto his feet and continues towards the ramp as he along with a Plumber agent jump out; Gajeel lands crouched on his right knee and hand while the Plumber agent lands a few feet to his right on both legs, where a sickening crunch is heard as the agent falls to the ground and begins crying out in pain while clutching his right leg.

"My leg!" he yells out.

Gajeel looks over upon hearing this and quickly rushes over to help.

After stumbling around Natsu, Lucy, and the US Marine jump out of the Pelican, "Let's go Pvt. Rainer!" Sgt. Mashima calls to a young, male Inquisition soldier.

The Inquisition soldier grabs his shield and sword off the floor and begins running towards the ramp as he slips and falls onto his left knee, Wendy meanwhile falls into Erza as she grabs a hold of her with Erza wrapping her right arm around the young Dragon Slayer.

"Wendy!" Erza shouts, getting her attention as she looks up, "When you land, either look for Natsu or one of the others, or get to cover! I'll be right behind you, now go!"

Wendy continues looking at Erza for a few more seconds before finally looking back out, gathering her courage she lets go of Erza and runs down the ramp, jumping off it as she hits the ground and falls face down into it. The sounds of war fill her ears as explosions erupt all around her, high-velocity slugs and other enemy projectiles fly and zip through the air above her, and the cries of pain and agony travel from every direction. Wendy lifts her head as she witnesses a US Marine, Orlesian soldier, and Storm Kig-Yar attempt to run up a small slope on the outer edge of the LZ, only for an explosion to go off directly in front of them sending the US Marine flying backwards onto his back while the Orlesian and Kig-Yar simply fall to the ground as all three roll back down the slope. Another explosion goes off far to her left, as then a second later Pvt. Rainer hits the ground next to her also to her left catching her attention; the Inquisition soldier begins pushing himself up as he gets on his left knee and plants his right foot on the ground. He raises his head to look forward, only for a slug to immediately go through it from the left side as he drops back to the ground, dead.

Wendy gasps in shock as her eyes widened and her pupils shrunk in horror; the body of Pvt. Rainer laid just a few feet away from her completely motionless, his face looking right at her with a blank, emotionless, and lifeless stare as blood seeped out from the hole in his helmet. Wendy found herself unable to bring her eyes off the dead soldier, as then suddenly another explosion erupted, this one very close to her to her right forcing her to bring her head down and close her eyes as dirt and debris fell onto her. As soon as the stuff stopped falling Wendy slowly opened her eyes and raised her head as she finally began turning to look forward to her left; the world suddenly began to slow down, the sounds deafened to her ears. She saw a young, female UNIT soldier sitting up against a crooked, charred tree with her legs up and arms wrapped around them, rocking back and forth as she looked to be on the verge of tears; completely terrified to move as the marines around her continued to shoot at the approaching enemy soldiers. Enemy projectiles chipped away at the sides of the tree causing her to flinch to the opposite side of where the shots impacted. Wendy moved her head to a look a bit to her right; a young Gondor soldier lied on his right side against the slope, his hands on the sides of his helmet where his ears would be as he was seemingly crying out with his eyes closed, his screams weren't of pain as he hadn't appeared to have been hit anywhere, but screams of agony due to all the death and chaos that was going on all around him. Wendy looked further to her right, and watched as a Krogan soldier stumbled around out in the open looking at the ground, his right arm completely torn off as blood slowly poured out from it; after a few more seconds he reached down and picked something off the ground, an arm, mostly like his own, as he then turned and began to stumble away most likely to look for a medic.

Wendy was completely, and utterly terrified, she found herself unable to move from where she laid. This truly was different from anything she and her friends had ever been through. Suddenly she felt a hand touch her left shoulder and turned to see who it was; it was Erza who appeared to be yelling something, her name by how her mouth was moving, but Wendy just couldn't hear it. The sound, and everything slowly began to return to normal, "We-dy! Wendy!"

"Wendy!" Wendy could finally hear Erza call to her, she blinked in response as her pupils returned to normal.

"Come on Wendy, we need to move! We can't stay out here!" Erza shouted at her.

Wendy just continued to look up at her, "Wendy!" Erza shouted again.

Suddenly a bullet hit her in the left shoulder with a PING knocking her down.

"ERZA-SAN!" Wendy cried out as she finally got up ready to heal Erza.

There didn't however appear to be any hole in her armor, only a small scorch mark where the bullet had seemingly hit.

Erza opened her eyes, "I'm alright, it just glanced me." she says pushing herself up.

"Medic!" Wendy looked to where she heard the male voice come from, "Medic!" a young US Marine cried out while crouched over a wounded female elven Grey Warden Mage that had gotten shot in the stomach and was bleeding profusely, the US Marine with both hands on her stomach trying to stop the bleeding.

"Wendy." Erza says, getting her attention, "We need you. Remember what, and who it is we're fighting for. They're behind you, we're all behind you."

Wendy continues looking at Erza as she catches her breath.

"I NEED A MEDIC!" the US Marine cries out again, looking over his left shoulder before looking back down at the wounded mage.

The Elven mage continued to bleed out, until suddenly a pair of small hands appeared opposite of the marine hovering over the Elven mage's stomach as they began to emit a turquoise colored glow. The marine looks up, "What's your name?" Wendy asks while looking down at the wounded mage, a serious look on her face.

"P-Private First Class Haberkorn, Todd Haberkorn." US Marine, PFC. Todd Haberkorn replies.

"Todd, I need you to keep your hands pressured on that wound. Do not take them off until I say so or else she could die." Wendy says.

"Y-Yeah, got it!" PFC. Haberkorn replies as he looks back down to focus.

Iquiri National Forest...

Explosions continued to go off all around the LZ as enemy projectiles flew through the air from all directions. The landing zone of the Coalition Marines was a large open area that was nothing but dirt and rock, the few trees that did occupy it were all charred as at the very least three were still standing while the remaining others had been knocked over or completely destroyed. The only major cover the marines had was a small uphill slope of literally a few feet circling the edge of their LZ, as otherwise there were very few rocks, and the leftover trees to use for protection. The area around them past the LZ for many miles was mostly a barren wasteland with nothing but also dirt, rock, and charred tree remains.

Enemy forces were advancing on them from all directions and there were just far too many of them; any Coalition Marine that attempted to make a push forward was either shot dead or got pinned down almost immediately managing to move forward only a few inches, a lucky few a few feet. The Pelican dropship that had carried Natsu and the others had crashed near the center and laid on its left wing, its destroyed engine smoking but otherwise it was completely undamaged. The cockpit's canopy was frozen and then melted immediately, revealing the two injured pilots as Natsu grabbed the main pilot while Gray took out the co-pilot; the two dropped to the ground where Lucy and a Northern Tribe Waterbender waited as they then laid them down against the ship.

"You guys go on ahead, we'll watch over them!" Gray tells Natsu, and Lucy as the Waterbender begins calling for a medic.

"Right." Natsu says as he looks at Lucy, "Let's go, Lucy!"

"Right!" Lucy replies as the two start running.

An explosion erupted at the feet of a Clone Marine causing him to cry out in pain as he fell to the ground, Natsu and Lucy running by this in the opposite direction as Lucy raised her arms to protect her head from the flying dirt and debris. Another explosion went off to their right this time luckily not killing or injuring anyone as they continued on. A Rohirrim warrior pulled an injured Lion Tribe soldier back as he was then hit in the chest by a laser bolt and went down. Another explosion erupted to Natsu and Lucy's left, followed immediately by another a few feet to their right as they got closer to the slope on the edge of the LZ; the two then dove onto it as the marines around them continued firing their weapons.

"Negative, we do not hold LZ X-Ray in the Southern Amazon! We do not hold it! We are in danger of being overrun!" a female Systems Alliance Marine Lieutenant shouts into her communicator.

A group of enemy soldiers consisting of Haradrim, Uruk-hai, Orcs, Darkspawn, Venatori, and Wolves charge the Marines defenses as the marines open fire on them, cutting the majority of them down as one of the Haradrim manage to survive the storm of projectiles only to be met by a Gondor soldier who stands up and thrusts his spear into the Haradrim's chest. Turning around and throwing the Haradrim warrior to the ground as a Providence agent and female UNSC Marine unloaded a few rounds into him.

"Corporal Kakihara, shift fire right!" Sergeant Mashima ordered the US Marine from the Pelican.

Said marine, Lance Corporal Kakihara, turned his M240G slightly to the right as he fired away, managing to take out a charging Venatori Zealot along with a Scorpion soldier.

"We are in desperate need of that Second Wave, if you don't send in that next wave now we are not going to be here, do you hear me?!" the Systems Alliance Lieutenant shouted.

Natsu poked his head up, "Dammit, let me at these bastards already!" he angrily says as he then looks slightly to his left, "Where's Happy? I could really use him right now."

"Keep your head down!" Lucy shouts as she puts her left hand on top of his head and pushes it down, luckily just as a few slugs and laser bolts impact in front of his position and fly overhead.

Natsu raises his head from the dirt with clenched teeth, "If I can just get high enough I can blow these guys away with a Fire Dragon King Roar and take them all out!" he states.

"Considering our situation, and the fact the Reapers have basically done your work for you. I'll have no objections today about you going all out for once. Just make sure you don't hit any of our people!" Lucy says as she reaches into her pouch and brings out two of her golden keys.

"Gate of the Scorpion, I open thee! Scorpio!" Lucy shouts, swinging both of the keys to her rear as Scorpio materializes behind them.

"Ready when you are, Lucy!" Scorpio replies.

"Star Dress: Taurus Form!" Lucy shouts changing into the Taurus Form Star Dress; she then looks at Natsu, "Natsu, I have an idea." she tells him.

Natsu gives a toothy grin, "I think I'm getting the idea here, and I'm liking it already." he says.

"Scorpio, now!" Lucy yells.

"Sand Wall!" Scorpio yells, slamming both of his hands on the ground as he summons a giant wall of sand from the earth in front of Natsu, Lucy, and the Coalition Marines who are all taken aback by the sudden appearance of it.

"Whoa!"

"Holy shit!"

The enemy soldiers fire everything into the sand wall, however nothing manages to penetrate it, not even explosive shots create any holes in it. Behind the wall Natsu and Lucy stand up as Lucy takes a few steps back, Natsu then jumps and backflips in the air towards her, "Lucy~ Punch!" she yells as she throws her punch into Natsu's feet as they come down.

Propelling the Fire Dragon Slayer high into the air above the sand wall giving him a good view of the land for many miles, along with all the enemy soldiers that were coming at them directly from the front.

"Fire Dragon King Mode!" Natsu says as immense heat begins to radiate from his body giving him an orange glow.

"Fire Dragon King's… Roar!" Natsu yells out as he shoots a massive torrent of dark red flames towards the enemy soldiers below.

Upon seeing the monstrous stream of fire coming towards them the majority of the enemy soldiers dropped their weapons and immediately began to retreat, even the Husks were turning tail and running as among them a lone Cerberus Centurion just stood frozen in place as he looked up. The fire getting closer by the second as all he did was cry out in absolute terror as the flames engulfed him and impacted into the ground; causing a tremendous explosion that engulfed many more enemy soldiers as those caught within were incinerated within seconds, while those further out were sent flying as they cried out in pain. The shockwave was immense; Scorpio's sand wall was blown away as everyone at the LZ, both the Fairy Tail mages, and the marines hunkered to the ground as it blew over them, Gray quickly using his magic to freeze the damaged Pelican to the ground so it wasn't blown away where it could accidentally hit someone. The shockwave of Natsu's attack lasted for several more seconds before finally it died down.

Waiting for a few more seconds to make sure it was all over, Lucy then was the first to poke her head up to see what the results of the attack were; followed up by the Systems Alliance Marine Lieutenant, Sgt. Mashima, Cpl. Kakihara, and soon the rest of the marines. At the current moment all they could see was a large cloud of smoke obscuring their view; everything had basically come to a stop as this point, no more shots, no more explosions, everything was just silent. The seconds continued to go by as the smoke finally began to dissipate, it took a bit more longer, but soon the marines could finally begin to see through the smoke. What they saw, made mouths drop open, and people gasp in shock.

"No way!"

"Was that the hero?"

"You've gotta be shitting me."

"What the hell?"

"By the Maker."

The smoke clearing away revealed a now massive, scorching hot crater in front of them, the crater literally glowing red with charred dirt all around as the heat radiating from it could be felt all the way to the far back of the LZ. Even the Mages, and Fire Nation soldiers were all in shock and awe at this sight, none of them having ever seen such immensely powerful fire magic or abilities before, not at anywhere near this level.

"Now that's some firepower right there, no pun intended." LCpl. Kakihara says.

Natsu lands behind everyone at the front, taking a few of the marines aback as they turn with yelps of surprise and recoil back, a few of them even beginning to raise their weapons until they saw who it was. Natsu stood up, "Bad guys at the front taken care of." he proudly says with a large toothy grin and a serious look in his eyes.

"Glad he's on our side." a female Providence agent says to a Clone.

"I'll say." the Clone replies.

An Unggoy Minor on the left flank suddenly heard "Let's get the hell out of here!" from what sounded like a Cerberus trooper trying to say it very quietly.

The Unggoy peeked up over the slope and could make out a few of the enemy soldiers beginning to retreat as quickly and quietly as possible, "I ain't fighting that shit!" a Stormtrooper says.

"I was not programmed to fight anything like that." a B1 Battle Droid says.

"Huh? H-Hey! They're retreating!" the Unggoy loudly says rapidly tapping the shoulder of the Vorcha to his left as he begins to get the attention of the other marines. "Shouldn't we be getting after them? Come on, what are we waiting for? Let's get them!" he then shouts, jumping up the slope as he begins literally chasing after the enemy soldiers.

"Hey! The bastards are running over here too! Come on!" a male Human New Republic Marine from the right flank yells out.

With resounding battle cries the Marines to the right, left, and rear flanks leap or run up the slopes as they begin chasing after the retreating enemy soldiers, several of those with guns firing after them. The Marines on the northern slope however remain down, unsure of what to do on their end due to the path before them being… rather unavailable at the moment; some of them look towards their Lieutenant.

"Uh~... 7th Platoon, hold here! We'll wait for the Second Wave of reinforcements to arrive before proceeding forward. Let's secure the area, and gather the wounded. Hop to it Marines!" the Systems Alliance Lieutenant shouts.

The Marines get up from their positions and begin to go about what the LT said. Natsu dusts off his pants as Lucy walks up to him, the Celestial Spirit Mage having returned to her normal clothing and de-summoned Scorpio, "You okay Natsu?" she asks.

Natsu looks at her, "Yeah, I'm fine." he says.

Lucy nods her head glad to hear it as she then hears footsteps approach from behind and turns around, "That was some mighty fine work you two did there. Probably just saved all of us." the Systems Alliance Lieutenant says.

She looks to her left over the shoulder, "Could have done a bit without the massive destruction you put in our path but… at this point I honestly don't care. Not like there was much left to burn down anyway thanks to the Reapers." she continues as she looks back at the two.

"Just for future reference, if you plan on doing something like that again. Let me know ahead of time; so I can either give you the go ahead to do it if we really need it, or at the very least so I can prepare my men for what's about to come."

"Of course, Lieutenant Hirano. Our apologies." Lucy says closing her eyes and bowing forward to show respect.

Systems Alliance Marine Lieutenant Hirano throws her right hand up with a chuckle, "It's alright. Like I said, we really needed it anyways. Especially since it put the bad guys on the run. Probably won't last for long but, at least it's cleared the LZ for us. Carry on you two." Lt. Hirano finishes as she walks by them.

Wendy meanwhile finally finishes healing the Elven mage. The stomach area of her robe stained in blood where a hole was from where the bullet went through; the pool of blood that covered her was gone, along with the bullet hole in her stomach. It was as if she hadn't been shot at all.

"Incredible…" the Elven mage says in awe. "I have never seen such powerful healing magic before. Especially from one so young as you. You are very talented." she adds as she looks at Wendy.

Wendy closes her eyes and smiles, "I'm just glad I was able to help." she says. She opens her eyes, "Just rest for a little bit, and you'll be good to go."

"I'll help you out." Pfc. Haberkorn says as he helps the Elven mage to her feet, and then uses himself as a crutch to begin carrying her over to where the rest of the wounded were being gathered.

Erza walks over to Wendy, "Good job, Wendy." she says.

Wendy looks at her as Erza smiles, Wendy smiles back. She then looks over to where Pfc. Haberkorn was taking the elven mage as she noticed the number of wounded being gathered there, medics, and healers already at work taking care of their wounds.

"I need to go help them." Wendy says as she gets up and begins running over.

Gajeel, and Gray work with some of the other marines in securing the area around the LZ, making sure that the bodies of the dead enemy soldiers that surrounded it were truly dead, while Lily, and Carla helped to bring the wounded over to the medics and healers so they could be tended to. Happy cries out with tears streaming down his face as he flies into Natsu and begins apologizing for why he hadn't been with him when he landed, which was basically due to the enemy fire keeping him, Carla, and Lily all pinned with the soldiers they had brought down. Natsu of course reassures him that it was alright as he completely understood the situation, and saying how everything worked out in the end anyway.

"Lieutenant, the last batch of transports are arriving." a Clone Marine reports to Lt. Hirano.

The two then watch as ten more troop transports touch down in the LZ as the marines onboard begin to disembark. An LAAT/i gunship at the center opens its doors as the marines onboard get off, among them was the Steward of Gondor and Prince of Ithilien, Faramir, back in his old Ranger armor and uniform with bow in hand and a quiver of arrows on his back.

"Captain Faramir, sir." Lt. Hirano speaks up as she approaches and stands at attention.

"What's our situation, Lieutenant?" Faramir asks.

"We took some heavy casualties sir. But thanks to the heroes we got the enemy on the run and we're working on securing the LZ now for the Second Wave."

As she says this another figure walks off the gunship as they come to a stop after several steps, "Well now. Looks I missed quite a bit." Haruto Soma, Kamen Rider Wizard says.

Manhattan, New York…

Coalition 7th Sky Corps…

More Coalition transports flew over the New York City borough of Manhattan as enemy flak exploded around them.

Central Park…

An LAAT/i gunship touches down along with several other transports; Coalition soldiers already on the ground in combat with enemy forces approaching their position as the side doors begin to open up.

The side doors of the gunship slide open, "Go! Go! Go!" a Clone shouts as the Coalition soldiers begin to disembark.

The soldiers of the gunship form a perimeter around it and return fire or block enemy projectiles as a Clone is shot dead by a laser bolt. Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Commander Cody are the last to get off as Obi-Wan activates his lightsaber just in time to block another laser bolt from his right while Cody looks to his left, raises his DC-15S blaster carbine and fires back at the enemy. The gunship closes its doors and takes off as several meters to its right a Swords of Sanghelios Type-57 Phantom lands on the ground. Its side doors open up allowing the troops onboard to disembark as they immediately join the others in battle, the last person to drop down from this troop carrier, The Arbiter, Thel 'Vadam. As the Sangheili Kaidon activates his energy sword, The Prophets' Bane, raises it and lets out a battle roar.

"We got Spiders inbound!" another Clone shouts, pointing towards three DSD1 dwarf spider droids marching towards them from the northwest.

The three dwarf spider droids fire their laser cannons; one of the shots impact in the middle of a Salarian, and Aman Elf soldier as the two ran in separate directions for cover, the explosion propelling them a few feet through the air. A female SHIELD agent crouched on her right knee aimed down the scope of her laser rifle and fired back, a Kirkwall Guardsman advancing forward with his shield raised while a male UNSC soldier drops to a prone position and fires his M739 SAW. A B1 battle droid advancing alongside the dwarf spider droids is shot down by the volley of bullets; behind the droids a Stormtrooper and Collector trooper return fire from behind two trees as an Easterling advances forward with his shield raised as it blocks a blue laser bolt.

Obi-Wan charges towards the dwarf spider droid on the far left as he continues deflecting laser bolts and avoiding other enemy projectiles, closing the distance quickly as he jump flips into the air towards it and lands on top of its head. Turning around he then plunges the lightsaber into the droid's head effectively taking it out as its eyes blink on and off several times before collapsing to the ground; Obi-Wan leaping off of it as he hits the ground in a roll and recovers to his feet while turning around. Obi-Wan then looks to his right to see Thel rush the middle spider droid as he puts his hands beneath it and proceeds to lift it up, flipping the droid onto its back as he reactivated his energy sword and drove it into the droid deactivating it. The Kirkwall Guardsman, along with a Gondor soldier approach the last spider droid from its sides; the Gondor soldier leaps up onto its head and drives his spear down into it while the Guardsman thrusts his sword into the right side of its body. Electricity surges across its body as the Gondor soldier jumps off of it as the spider droid then drops to the ground and goes offline.

Obi-Wan continues blocking and dodging enemy projectiles as Thel grabs the pike of the charging Easterling and tosses him to the ground behind him; the Arbiter takes out his Type-54 plasma pistol and fires a plasma bolt right into his head. Obi-Wan glances over at the Arbiter, suddenly throwing his left hand in that direction as a Darkspawn Shriek uncloaks itself behind Thel to his right side; before the Shriek can strike it finds itself caught by Obi-Wan's force pull and pulled towards the Jedi Master who pulls his left arm back and thrusts his lightsaber into the darkspawn's body killing it. Thel takes notice of this and looks in Obi-Wan's direction as the Shriek's lifeless body drops to the ground, Obi-Wan looks back at the Arbiter as Thel nods his head in appreciation which Obi-Wan returns.

A Galactic Ranger dropship flew high over New York City on its way to the LZ in Central Park as its back ramp began to lower. Inside the dropship Storm Hawk members Finn and Junko boarded their Skimmers, "See you on the ground fellas!" Finn shouted to the soldiers with a two-finger salute as he and Junko revved up their engines.

The two then drove their Skimmers out the back and deployed their wings as they began to head towards the ground.

Aboard a Pelican dropship was Aerrow, his co-pilot Radarr, and Piper as they revved the engines of their Skimmer and Heliscooter up while the back ramp dropped down; a Trandoshan New Republic soldier to the left side holding onto the handle. Aerrow looked back at Piper who nodded her head that she was ready, he then looked at Radarr who also nodded as he had a serious look on his face.

Aerrow nodded back as he looked forward, "Alright Storm Hawks, let's fly!" he says.

Aerrow accelerates his Skimmer forward as he goes flying out of the dropship, waiting and dropping for a few seconds before deploying his wings. A few seconds later Piper follows him out, waiting the same amount of time before deploying her ride's rotary wing as the two begin their descent towards Central Park.

Already flying over the park were Finn and Junko as the two looked down at the battle raging below, projectiles from both sides traveling back and forth as explosions went off almost everywhere.

"Alright Junko, this is it." Finn began to speak as he looked at his Wallop friend back to his left, "Let's show these guys what the Storm Hawks are made of!" he finishes as Junko looks back at him.

Almost immediately however enemy projectiles suddenly began impacting into Finn's Skimmer catching his attention as he went "Huh?!" in shock with widened eyes.

Just then a small explosion erupted from the front of his vehicle causing him to raise his arms up as he turned his head away and closed his eyes. As soon as the flash of the explosion died down Finn looked back forward and down to see what the extent of the damage was; his Skimmer had come to an immediate halt in the air, as then the entire front end of it just fell straight down. A rather strange, clean cut between it and his seat.

"Oh come on!" Finn shouts in a highly annoyed tone as he throws his arms up to his sides.

As then both he, and the remaining half of his Skimmer begin falling through the air, causing him to cry out in terror as Junko watches him fall. Finn eventually jumped off and pulled the cord to his parachute deploying it; as he slowly descended to the ground he looked around for a safe spot to land, luckily he was falling right over friendly forces so all he had to do now was wait. Just then red targeting lasers appeared on his chest as he took notice of them, the Storm Hawk sharpshooter followed the lasers back to its owner, a Reaper Ravager as it looked ready to fire its cannons at him. Finn cried out again as he quickly fumbled for his energy crossbow, nearly dropping it in the process as he luckily managed to catch it, as he then quickly took aim and fired a blue crystal-tipped bolt; the bolt traveled towards the Ravager and impacted right next to it, causing an explosion that managed to knock the Reaper over onto its left side as the Rachni Husk then fired both of its cannons. Its shots impact into the ground in the middle of a group of enemy soldiers taking them out as a nearby Stormtrooper went flying while crying out.

Finn noticed this, "Aw yeah! That's right, who's the man!? That's how it's done!" he joyously yells.

"Up in the sky, shoot him!" a Cerberus Centurion orders a squad of soldiers as they raise their weapons and fire at Finn.

The shots travel around Finn as he raises his legs and covers his head while screaming out again, the young Storm Hawk then begins flailing around as the various projectiles continue to somehow miraculously miss all around him. Obi-Wan not only senses something, but hears it as well as he looks up and immediately takes notice of the situation Finn, who was still crying out in terror, was in.

He looks to his left, "Cody, Waxer, Boil! Shoot his parachute!" he orders as the three Clones raise their blasters and open fire.

Blue laser bolts burn through Finn's parachute as he looks up to notice this, next thing he knows is that he's falling through the air rapidly once more as he begins approaching the ground at a faster rate, once again Finn cries out in a high-pitched voice. Obi-Wan deactivates his lightsaber and throws both hands up towards Finn, Finn continues crying out as the ground gets closer and closer to him forcing him to close his eyes as he looks away and prepares for the impact. But it never comes. After a few seconds Finn finally opens his eyes and slowly turns his head, finding himself face to face with the ground just a few inches away as he hovers above it; Finn looks to his right as he notices Obi-Wan who used his "force thing" to save him.

Finn gives him a toothy smile with slightly squinted eyes, "Thank you." he says in a high-pitched voice.

"Phew." Junko lets out a sigh of relief as he relaxes a bit and lies back against his seat.

Now that he knew Finn was okay, he could get back to focusing on the fighting; Junko accelerates forward and rolls to his left. Enemy soldiers fired on the LZ from across a pond on top of a slightly damaged Belvedere Castle, a Cerberus turret emplacement on top manned by an assault trooper, along with an Imperial E-Web heavy repeating blaster manned by a Scout trooper. Junko flew towards the castle and fired two crystal "little birdie" missiles as they exploded on contact, taking all of the enemy soldiers along with the turrets out. From a section of the forest that had been burned down, a Covenant Minor Brute took aim at Junko's Skimmer with a Type-52 plasma launcher as he got a lock on and fired four large plasma grenade-like bolts. Junko turned back around to his left as he began heading towards the LZ to fly over it again, just then he got a strange feeling as he looked over his left shoulder; he spotted the four plasma bolts rapidly flying right towards him. This caused Junko to let out a cry of fright as he then quickly jumped off his Skimmer with the four plasma bolts impacting into it a few seconds later, destroying it.

Finn, who was on his feet, finished dusting off his right arm as then Junko dropped right on top of him causing a loud crash. Junko sat up, seemingly unfazed by the fall, "Huh, I was a lot closer to the ground than I thought." he says.

Finn, who was now beneath him, raised his head with a look of pain on his face, "Why me?" he asks with a strained voice before collapsing back down.

Obi-Wan, Commander Cody, Waxer, Boil, and Thel 'Vadam looked down at the two, "You've got to be kidding. These guys were our air support?" Boil questions with a slight tone of annoyance.

"Uh, "temporary" air support. Until our actual air support arrives with the bigger transports which they're protecting." Waxer corrects him.

"Well now. I can see why you call yourselves the Storm Hawks." Obi-Wan says with some slight humor behind his voice.

Behind him Commander Cody can't help but slap his helmet in a facepalm as he shakes his head, "Tell me Clone Commander Cody. Is your Jedi General always like this?" Thel asks.

"You have no idea sir." Cody replies as he turns his head slightly towards him.

Back in the air Aerrow and Piper perform a strafing run on a group of enemy soldiers before pulling back up and tilting to the left as they fly away.

"Alright Storm Hawks, form up on my wing!" Aerrow says over his communicator as he calls for Finn and Junko.

"Um~. That might be a problem, Aerrow." Piper suddenly says, making Aerrow look at her over his right shoulder confused by her comment.

With a cringing expression on her face she points off to her right; Aerrow follows to where she is pointing as he squints his eyes. On the ground with Obi-Wan, Thel 'Vadam and their men, were Finn and Junko; the two of them waving up at them with large smiles on their faces while Finn was jumping up and down waving both arms while Junko was only waving his right. Obi-Wan and the others were also looking at them as he could see the Jedi Master had a slightly humorous smirk on his face while the Arbiter looked, well rather angry as he most always did, and the Clones, well even with their helmets on he could just feel their slightly annoyed glares staring right at him.

Radarr, who had a look of shock with wide eyes and his mouth dropped open, slapped his face as he looked away and shook his head; Aerrow also looking away as he slapped his face and slid his hand down, an annoyed look on it.

Coney Island Beach, Brooklyn…

Coalition 75th Ranger Regiment…

Coalition troops ran or crawled up the beach under heavy enemy fire as explosions erupted all around, the Rangers using the number of anti-vehicle fortifications strewn throughout for cover as they advanced; behind them more transports continued to land with others taking off after dropping off their load of troops. A SHIELD Quinjet hovered towards and then touched down on the beach as its back ramp lowered onto the sand, from it Steve Rogers, Captain America ran and then dropped down to the right followed by the rest of the Coalition Rangers onboard as he began charging up the beach with his Vibranium Shield raised as a few enemy projectiles slammed into it.

Several meters to the right a Providence Scout ship landed on the beach. The four metal containers beneath it opened up as more Coalition Rangers emerged and dropped onto the sand, beginning their charge up the beach; from the fourth container at the rear the Red and Quantum Time Force Rangers, Wesley "Wes" Collins and Eric Myers, dropped down as they ran alongside the troops. A Crocodile soldier to their right getting shot down.

A Praetorian fired its particle cannons as to its left a Foot Ninja fired a Cerberus shield turret; an explosion behind a male Dalish Elf warrior, and alien Plumber agent sends the two to the ground as off to the left Captain America continues running up the beach nonstop even as enemy projectiles continue to hit his shield doing no real damage to it. A Swords Kig-Yar Storm fires a Type-58 fuel rod cannon as the shot impacts into the Praetorian taking it out, a Systems Alliance soldier aims down the scope of her M-97 Viper from behind a czech hedgehog and fires a shot as the slug travels through the slit of the shield turret and into the head of the Foot Ninja. Wes, Eric, and a few Coalition Rangers continue their charge up the beach as Wes fires his Chrono Blaster, and Eric fires his Quantum Defender, the two Power Rangers taking out quite a few enemy soldiers along the boardwalk. Cap throws his shield as it slams into the face of a Grimoire Heart mage knocking him to the ground, the shield flies back into Cap's hands as he does a front flip over the railing past a Skulkin, and Techno soldier. Landing in a crouched position Cap stands back up and turns around as the Techno soldier raises its arm cannon and fires at him, Cap raises his shield blocking the laser bolt as the Skulkin soldier charges him with its sword raised. The Techno soldier fires again, but Cap angles his shield so the laser hits and rebounds off of it into the Skulkin quite literally blasting it to pieces; Cap then grabs his shield and tosses it right into the Techno soldier as it slices right through its body cutting it into two.

"Chrono Saber!" Wes shouts as he inputs the code into his Chrono Morpher to call the weapon forth, summoning it as he then separates it into two blades and jumps into the air with a battle cry.

"Quantum Defender: Blade Mode!" Eric shouts as he presses the button on the side of his blaster, switching it to Blade Mode as the sword folds out with Eric then jumping into the air with a battle cry.

The world began slowing down as Wes dropped towards a large group of enemy soldiers and swung his left blade down striking a Cerberus assault trooper. He then spun around to his left and swung his right blade diagonally upwards as he struck a charging Scorpion soldier coming from his former right side; Wes moved forward a few feet and then ducked to avoid a swing from an Uruk-hai's sword as he turned to his right and swung his right blade diagonally upwards to the right striking the Uruk's back as sparks flew. Eric came down and swung his sword diagonally downwards to the left managing to hit a SWATbot and Drophyd Trooper, he then rushed to his left and jumped as he swung diagonally upwards to the right striking a Sugormin. Landing again he turned back around and swung his sword diagonally downwards knocking away the two red lyrium blades of a Red Templar Shadow as he then followed with a side kick into the Red Templar's stomach knocking him back.

The world sped back up to normal as Wes brought his feet together and then jumped into the air, "Time Strike!" he shouts, throwing his right blade up and his left blade out to his side as he then froze in mid-air. A giant red clock appeared behind him as his right blade was held up at the 12 while his left was held out at the 3; Wes then swung his right blade downwards leaving a red energy slash behind as he followed with the left blade leaving a sideways energy slash. Both energy slashes strike a large group of enemy soldiers causing them to cry out in pain.

"Freeze Strike!" Eric shouts pressing the button on the side of his Quantum Defender again as his blade becomes enveloped by light blue energy. Dark red flames appear behind him as he swings his sword diagonally down to his left, and then again down to his right; striking more enemy soldiers with the two light blue, surrounded by flames, energy slashes as they cry out.

The large group of enemy soldiers let out one last cry of pain as they fell to the ground before exploding, as Wes, and Eric stood still and watched with their weapons at their sides.

Captain America meanwhile throws his shield as it strikes a Wolf soldier and then rebounds to the left into a Stormtrooper taking them both out before returning to him. A Collector captain gets shot dead as along the rest of the boardwalk the remaining enemy soldiers began to slowly pull back while still firing their weapons, Coalition troops beginning to push on their position as a female Inquisition soldier advanced with her shield up as behind her a Clone trooper fired his DC-15A blaster rifle out from around her left side. A Gondor soldier also advanced with his shield up blocking a few enemy projectiles as behind him a US Army Ranger tossed a frag grenade at the enemy, while an Earthbender levitated a large mass of sand and hardened it before launching it forward. The hardened sand slammed into the face of a Stormtrooper knocking him down while the frag grenade landed behind a Cerberus Centurion, and a Reaper Marauder as it went off blasting them to the ground. A Covenant Unggoy Storm gets hit and goes down as a Red Templar archer who was to his left releases an arrow and then turns to run only to get a blue laser bolt in the back as he drops to the ground.

Cullen Rutherford stood up from behind a czech hedgehog, "Come on men!" he shouts as he then waves his sword forward.

Taking cover behind a Covenant barrier was his second-in-command, Knight-Captain Rylen along with a group of Coalition Rangers as he waved his left arm forward, signaling for the troops to charge forward as he and everyone else got up and began doing so.

"Let's go!"

"Move it!"

"We got 'em on the run!"

The rangers begin climbing or vaulting over the railing, others going through the openings between the different sections, and or ascending the stairs or ramps as they begin to give chase after the retreating enemy soldiers. A wounded Husk that was crawling on the ground reached up with its right hand and let out a roar, only for it to be silenced by a passing US Army Ranger as he put a bullet through its head with his M4A1; a wounded Cyclonian that attempted to aim his staff was stabbed by a Lion warrior armed with a spear.

Wes turned his head to look back at the troops, "Come on!" he shouts as he waves his left arm forward before looking back in the direction as he and Eric begin to move.

"Keep moving!" Steve shouts also urging the rangers forward as he turns and begins running with them.

Manhattan Beach Park…

Enemy projectiles slammed into a Covenant defense barrier before coming to a stop, allowing a female Human New Republic, and Krogan soldier to pop up as they fired their respective weapons back. Coalition Rangers landing on this beach had also begun to make headway as they just about reached the concrete, the rangers breaking further out on the left and right flanks, as the center found themselves dealing with the last group of enemy defenders who were taking cover on the rooftop of the Manhattan Beach Bathhouse. A Wolf archer released an arrow as the New Republic soldier got back down behind the barrier just as the arrow impacted into it to the left; a Firebender stood up and threw his right fist upwards shooting a fireball as it struck the Wolf sending him flying back. A HYDRA soldier then popped up to the right as he aimed his Laser Rifle and fired hitting the Firebender in his left shoulder as he fell behind the barrier, Talon and Maggie the Cat also taking cover behind that barrier, with the rest of the Labyrinth Clan spread out as Talon checked on the down Firebender, "Medic!" he called out.

Just then a batarang flew through the air as it struck the HYDRA soldier in the head knocking him to the floor. Three explosive batarangs then flew through the air as they embedded themselves along the ledge on the frontside of the building, the beeping sound from all three catching the attention of a Covenant Sangheili Commander as he looked over the ledge and spotted them.

"Get back!" he shouts to his men as he, along with the other enemy soldiers turn and run away from the ledge.

The explosives go off as an Easterling, and Red Templar archer, who were much closer to the ledge, are knocked to the floor from the shockwave. The Sangheili Commander and the remaining soldiers turn around as then through the smoke four bolas fly through, flying towards and wrapping themselves around a Cerberus engineer, Tartaros soldier, and X-Borg as they fall to the floor, the fourth flies towards the Sangheili Commander who pulls out and activates his energy sword slicing them apart. Batman and Leonardo of the Ninja Turtles drop through the smoke and land on the rooftop into a roll as they recover into a crouched position, Batman tossing four more batarangs as two of them go into the recovering Easterling, and Red Templar, while the other two go into a B1 battle droid, and the Sangheili Commander. The four batarangs, which turn out to be electrical, activate sending large volts of electricity surging through the bodies of the Easterling, Red Templar, and B1 battle droid as the former two cry out in pain for a few seconds before passing out while the B1 fully deactivates and falls onto its knees before falling to the floor. The Sangheili however remains unfazed as he simply rips the batarang off his armor and crushes it in his left hand; the Sangheili then lets out a battle roar as he charges forward, Leo charges him as well with his two katanas out to his sides. The Sangheili Commander roars again as he swings his energy sword across his body to his left side, Leo remains calm and quiet with a serious look on his face, as the two close in the Sangheili swings his energy sword outwards as Leonardo drops onto his knees and slides forward as he swings both of his katanas from his left side. The two come to a stop several feet past each other and go still, the sounds of battle going on around them as then after a few seconds the energy sword deactivates and the Sangheili collapses to his knees before falling to his right side, dead.

Leo stands up and turns to his right to look at Batman who also stands up as he nods his head, a job well done, Leo returns the nod. He then looks off to his left to see that his brothers Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo had already finished mopping up the enemy troops on the other side of the building, Michelangelo waving over to him as Raphael and Donatello seemed to be checking to make sure the bad guys were truly down. Seeing that his brothers were okay Leonardo lets out a silent sigh of relief with his eyes closed, he opens them back up and looks forward as he walks over to the ledge of the building, raising and planting his left foot on top of it as he looks out at the sight before him; Batman walking over to join beside him to his right.

"Step 1: Land, and get off the beach alive. Looks like we accomplished that." Leonardo says as he turns his head to look at Batman.

"And what's Step 2?" Batman asks, keeping his attention forward.

Leo looks back forward, "Survive the rest of this." he says.

The two watched as the troops of the 75th Ranger Regiment moved towards the houses of the large residential area that was in front of them, and to their left; already the rangers being engaged from what seemed to be everywhere, from the houses that still stood, to the rubble of the destroyed houses, and from the streets.

Northern Isles, Scotland…

Coalition 9th Army Division…

"So Hawke, looking forward to our early return to Kirkwall?" Isabela remarks in a humorous tone.

"Very funny Isabela." Hawke replies, the Champion of Kirkwall and his group holding onto the handles in the troop compartment of a Kodiak shuttle alongside Coalition soldiers.

"Still hard to believe, even in a completely other universe. We seem unable to escape from that dreadful place." Anders comments.

"It truly does seem that way doesn't it." Merrill says.

"A bit harsh to say don't you think? I mean other than the name, you really think this Kirkwall we're going to is going to be anything like the one in our universe? Even if the Reapers blew this Kirkwall all to hell it'll still probably look a lot better than what ours looks like. Even if it was fully rebuilt." Varric says.

"If those holo-photos I've seen of what Human cities are like in this universe are true, then anything in this universe, undamaged or damaged, easily beats any of the cities in our universe. No doubt about that." Aveline says.

"I would say try not to blow up this Kirkwall like you did our own, Anders. But then again I could care less about that Kirkwall, and if this one is truly not as bad as ours is, then it wouldn't matter anyways since the Reapers went ahead and did it for you." Fenris comments.

"Funny." Anders says in a slightly annoyed tone.

"I must say Varric, I'm a bit surprised to be seeing you here. Thought you would have gone with your new friend, the Inquisitor and his group." Bethany says.

"You're not jealous are you, Sunshine? If it makes you feel any better, it was my own decision to come fight alongside you guys so that it could be just like old times. Reckon we're missing a certain prince but, you know, big problem there considering how we didn't end on good terms last time." Varric says.

"More like you flipped a coin on which team to join and you landed on us. But still, it certainly has been a long time since we all fought together, and if this is to be our final day, I'm glad it'll be alongside all of you." Hawke says, turning his body sideways to look at his friends and sister.

"We're right with you, brother!" Bethany says.

"We're with you until the very end, Hawke." Aveline adds.

"All of us are." Isabela also adds.

The ship suddenly rocked as explosions could be heard and felt going off outside, "It appears this is it!" Fenris says.

Aveline looked over her right shoulder, "Not having second thoughts on this, are you Sergeant?" she asks.

"None, Captain. None at all." Guardswoman Sergeant Brennan Evighan says.

The ship violently rocks from a flak explosion going off very close to them as everyone held on, "Okay, maybe a little." she then says.

Kirkwall, Orkney…

The Kodiak shuttle lands at the Shore street roundabout next to the harbor as the right side door opens up, Hawke is the first to jump off as he immediately runs for cover, the rest of his team following him out as Merrill is the last to jump off alongside a female Quarian soldier who is then shot straight in the head frightening the young elf who lets out a yelp. A Bear soldier to Hawke's left gets shot down as he, along with Bethany, Aveline, and Sergeant Evighan get to cover behind a destroyed skycar where a Clone trooper, and male UNSC soldier already are; the UNSC soldier crouched behind the car for cover while the Clone pops up and fires off a few shots from his DC-15A blaster rifle up the left road into the town. Hawke peeks over the skycar as a high-velocity slug impacts just a few inches in front of him making him duck back down for a second before slowly peeking back up again.

Far down the street that was to their right was a large building, the Kirkwall Hotel, as enemy soldiers fired down at Coalition troops from the rooftop with at least one Cerberus shield turret at the corner. Suddenly there was a loud roar overhead as Hawke looked up, just to see as the green-scaled dragon Fírnen, and his Rider, Elf Queen Arya, flew over towards the building; Hawke then watched as Fírnen breathed emerald green fire onto the rooftop of the hotel as all the enemy soldiers were engulfed by it. Their cries of pain echoed all the way over to where Hawke was as he even watched as at least two burning bodies fell, or perhaps even jumped off the roof to the street below.

"Certainly better when the dragons are on our side for once." Aveline comments, she, Bethany, and Sergeant Evighan having watched the whole thing as well.

At the intersection of St Catherine's PI, and 3 Cromwell Rd, Grey Warden Nathaniel Howe peeked out around the left corner house with the string of his Howe Bow pulled back as he released an arrow up the street of B9054. Striking a Thugs-4-Less Henchman as he ran out into the middle of the road firing his electric blaster as he then turned and fell to the ground dead; more enemy soldiers continued to fire down the street towards Howe and the Coalition soldiers from alleys, the windows of undamaged, and slightly damaged houses, and the rubble of destroyed homes. A male Human Grey Warden soldier that was behind Howe gets shot in the chest as he falls backwards to the ground, "Medic!" Nathaniel calls for, as a Salarian soldier, and alien Plumber agent pull the wounded Grey Warden back.

Howe looked back out around the corner as he spotted two armored Ogres now approaching with a large group of enemy soldiers following behind them; bullets, arrows, and other Coalition small arms projectiles impacting into them but having no effect due to their upgraded armor.

"We need heavy weapons up here, now!" Nathaniel shouts.

(Insert - Digimon Tamers Digivolution Theme (English))

"DIGIVOLUTION"

"Guilmon Digivolve too…"

"Terriermon Digivolve too…"

"Renamon Digivolve too…"

"GROWLMON!"

"GARGOMON!"

"KYUBIMON!"

(End - Digimon Tamers Digivolution Theme (English))

"Look out!"

"Whoa!"

Coalition soldiers move aside as Growlmon appears slamming his right foot onto the ground, "Pyro Blaster!" he yells shooting a large fireball from his mouth as it impacts into the armored Ogre on the right, blasting it back as it falls towards the ground as the enemy soldiers behind it scatter to avoid being crushed.

Gargomon and Kyubimon jump up on the two corner houses, Gargomon on the right, and Kyubimon on the left.

"Try this on for size, Gargo Lasers!" Gargomon shouts as he begins shooting green laser bullets from his Gatling Arm gauntlets. Hitting a number of enemy soldiers in the street as a Cerberus assault trooper attempts to push forward only to be hit by one of the laser bullets knocking him right onto the ground.

"Fox Tail Inferno!" Kyubimon shouts, the blue flames on her tail becoming brighter as ghostly faces appear on them before then launching them towards the enemy soldiers as small blue fireballs. The fireballs impact all over the street, one of them even in the right side alley as they explode sending enemy soldiers dropping to the ground or flying through the air which is exactly what happens to a Alvarez soldier in the alley as he flies out into the street.

"Well then. I suppose that will do as well." Nathaniel says in slight awe at what he had just witnessed. Just then he notices something up to the right as he readies another arrow and releases it, hitting a Cannibal in a second floor window as it falls back inside.

"Give me some fire on those windows!" he orders the troops.

A US Army soldier fires his M203 grenade launcher at a Stormtrooper firing from one of the second floor windows on the left side of the road. The grenade impacts destroying the window and taking the Stormtrooper out with it.

The remaining armored ogre meanwhile charges towards Growlmon as it pulls its left gauntlet blade back ready to strike, "Stronger Den Kick!" Shigeru Jo, Kamen Rider Stronger shouts as he jumps high into the air and then drops towards the armored ogre with a flying right side kick that was electrically charged as he impacts into the ogre causing a large explosion.

Stronger slides a few feet across the ground as he lands out from the explosion while the armored ogre is no more; he then stands up and turns around, "Kamen Rider Stronger!" he announces striking his pose.

Nathaniel smirks, "Hmph. We may just survive this yet if we have people and creatures like this on our side." he says.

Southern London, England…

Coalition 501st Legion…

Enemy anti-air fire continued to fly and explode all around the troop transports carrying soldiers of the Coalition's 501st Legion, one LAAT/i gunship descended through the air as flak exploded all around it. Inside the ship, Sora, Ahsoka Tano, Captain Rex, and his men held on when suddenly there was a loud explosion and the ship violently rocked; the gunship's left engine had been hit as flame and smoke rose out from it while the ship began to rapidly descend towards the ground.

"Does this happen a lot?!" Sora questions Ahsoka as the two hold on tightly to the handles while the warning alarm blares.

"More than you would think!" Ahsoka replies.

The Republic gunship continued getting closer and closer to the ground as it seemed to be heading towards a deserted part of the city.

"Brace for impact!" the Clone pilot shouts.

Sora however suddenly summons his Kingdom Key, "I got this!" he says as he swings it up into the air.

"Stopga!" he shouts as a white light emits from the tip of his keyblade which is also surrounded by the roman numeral numbers of 1-12.

Just as the gunship is about to hit the ground, the entire thing freezes in an instant just a few feet in the air as it also becomes surrounded and circled by the roman numeral numbers for a few seconds before they disappear.

"This isn't going to last forever, let's get out of here!" Sora says looking at Ahsoka.

Ahsoka turns her head to look at the soldiers, "Everyone stand back!" she orders.

Rex and his men take a few steps back, or as much as they could, as Ahsoka looks back forward and takes out her lightsaber which she activates. Thrusting her lightsaber into the right side of the left door Ahsoka quickly cuts all the way around it and then uses a force push to blast the doors open, "Everyone out!" she then urges.

"You heard her people, everyone out on the double!" Rex orders as Echo and Fives are the first to move towards the now open door.

Sora and Ahsoka drop out and hit the ground first followed by Fives, Echo, and a US Army soldier. The rest of the soldiers on board begin following behind them, as meanwhile the two pilots descend from the cockpit and grab their respective DC-15S blaster carbines as Rex waves them over and out the door. Just then the sounds of gunfire erupt from outside.

A large group of enemy soldiers approach their position as Echo comes to a stop and crouches onto his right knee, he then turns around and raises his left hand beside his mouth, "We got company!" he yells.

A B1 battle droid, along with a Cerberus Guardian, and Reaper Scion are among those who fire on the Heroes and Coalition soldiers.

The Coalition soldiers return fire as Rex is the last one to jump out from the ship and land on the ground, "We're too exposed out here. Spread out, find cover!" he shouts while throwing his right arm out.

A male Inquisition soldier in heavy armor uses his shield to block enemy projectiles from hitting him and the Asari soldier behind him as she fires back at the enemy troops with her M-8 Avenger, the two moving off to the right to find better cover as a Geth runs past behind them. Fives, Echo, and the US Army soldier who is armed with an M16A4 crouch behind some rubble as Fives, and the US Army soldier pop up to return fire at the approaching enemy soldiers. Enemy projectiles impact into a destroyed skycar, which one of the Clone pilots, along with a female UNSC Army soldier, and a female Human Grey Warden use for cover; the Clone pilot ducks back down as a crossbow bolt flies over him, while the UNSC Army soldier, armed with a M395 DMR, and the Grey Warden archer stand up and fire back.

Sora and Ahsoka use their respective weapons to block incoming enemy fire while also managing to skillfully dodge a few enemy projectiles. Sora looks over his right shoulder for a few seconds before looking back forward, "I got an idea. Give me a few seconds!" he says as he then turns and runs away.

Sora runs behind the still frozen gunship as he then jumps up and swings his keyblade back to his right, he keeps his full attention on the ship for several seconds until for a split second he notices it begin to move again. As soon as he sees this Sora swings his keyblade and strikes the back of the gunship as it speeds back up to normal, the hit from the keyblade however propelling it further through the air as it now travels rapidly towards the enemy soldiers. The Cerberus Guardian takes notice of this as he tosses his shield to the ground and turns to start running away while crying out in terror, "Oh shit!"

While still in the air Sora aims his keyblade towards the gunship as fire begins gathering at the tip, "Firaga!" he shouts.

Shooting three spiraling large fireballs from the keyblade as they travel quickly towards the gunship and impact, causing a large explosion that takes out a number of enemy soldiers while sending others nearby flying through the air as they cry out in pain.

"Hell yeah! Now that's what I'm talking about!" Fives excitedly shouts with a raised left fist.

Ahsoka smirks at this, impressed by what she had just seen as she then looks at Rex, "Come on Rex, let's finish these guys!" she says with a wave of her right hand as she then begins charging forward.

"2nd Platoon, attack!" Rex orders.

An explosion erupts behind her as Ahsoka continues charging towards the enemy, slicing through the stomach of a B2 Super battle droid as she passes it as she then dives forward into a roll and jumps onto a Ravager plunging her lightsaber into it killing the Rachni Husk. A Red Templar Horror fires multiple red lyrium shards from its palms as Sora raises his keyblade sideways, blocking the majority of them before jumping high into the air as he comes down at the Horror and swings his keyblade diagonally downwards cutting the Red Templar down. Hitting the ground and going into a roll Sora recovers into a crouched position on his left knee as he raises his keyblade into the air, "Thundaga!" he shouts, summoning multiple bolts of lightning that strike down a number of enemy soldiers in front of him.

Rex fires his dual DC-17 hand blasters as he shoots down a charging Husk and X-Borg in front to his right, then turning a bit to his left as he fires again taking out a charging Orc as it falls past him to the ground. A Hurlock Alpha charges the Clone Captain armed with a shield and waraxe as it roars at him, Rex comes to a stop and aims both blasters at it as he fires, the Darkspawn however manages to block all of his shots with its shield as it closes the distance and swings its waraxe at him. Rex though manages to catch the Hurlock's hand as he then turns and flips the Darkspawn onto its back, quickly recovering as he once again aims both hand blasters at the Hurlock alpha and fires putting multiple laser bolts into its body until it moves no more. A Stormtrooper along with a Spider Tribe soldier fire at the Coalition soldiers as the Spider soldier is shot dead; the Stormtrooper fires his E-11 blaster rifle as his shot hits the left knee of the US Army soldier causing him to cry out in pain as he falls to the ground, Fives running past him as he fires his DC-15A blaster rifle managing to shoot the Stormtrooper's blaster out of his hand. Fives lets out a battle cry as he closes in towards the Stormtrooper and then smacks him across the face with the stock of his blaster rifle knocking him to the ground, Fives takes aim and fires two laser bolts into the Stormtrooper finishing him off, "A Stormtrooper huh? Cheap, weak, knockoff!" he shouts in a slightly angered, and annoyed tone.

Fives then turns and rushes back towards the injured US Army soldier to check on him.

"The area has been cleared of the enemy, Captain." a Sangheili Minor reports as he looks over his right shoulder at Rex, a male UNIT soldier crouched beside him to his left scanning the area for more hostiles.

"Keep your eyes peeled everyone, we're not out of this mess yet." Rex says as he turns around and starts walking.

Sora was crouched beside the wounded US Army soldier as he held his keyblade over his shot knee, Fives and Echo also around him, as the keyblade wielder casted a healing spell that healed his wound up in just a few seconds.

"There, should be all better now." Sora says.

Fives and Echo help the wounded soldier back onto his feet as he found himself able to stand on his own immediately without trouble, "Thank you sir." he says.

Sora stands up as behind him Ahsoka, and Captain Rex approach, Sora seems to sense this as he turns around to face them, "Nice work back there kid. Some quick thinking there." Rex compliments.

"Thanks Rex, like I said before this isn't my first rodeo. I know how to fight." Sora says with a smile on his face as he puts his hands to his hips.

"So it would seem." Rex says as he then starts looking around, other than Cpl. Gallagher no one else had been wounded or killed, that was good. Now it was on to the next issue.

"Crain, where are we at?" Rex calls over to a male Systems Alliance soldier on his, and Ahsoka's right as they, and Sora look over.

Southwark, London...

Said SA soldier was crouched on his right knee and on his omni-tool looking down at it, "We're about several klicks southeast of the LZ, Captain. So long as we don't run into anymore hostiles we should be able to meet back up with the rest of the Company in under thirty." Pfc. Crain reports as he turns his head to look at Rex.

"Sounds to me like we got quite the jog ahead of us then. We better get moving before any more of the enemy decides to show up to find out what happened here. Alright 2nd Platoon, let's move out!" Rex orders.

Rex turns and starts jogging as Fives, Echo, and Cpl. Gallagher follow behind him, the rest of the platoon also get up from their crouched positions and begin jogging with them.

"Alright Sora, not bad. But think you can do better?" Ahsoka playfully questions as she puts her left hand to her hip.

"Is that a challenge I'm hearing?" Sora asks back also in a playful tone with a raised brow and smirk on his lips.

"Maybe it is?" Ahsoka says, shrugging her right shoulder.

"Alright then Tano, you're on." Sora says as he begins slowly backing up, "But uh~, one small problem for you. I'm already super far ahead." he says in a loud whisper at the end with his left hand held up beside his mouth.

Ahsoka starts walking with him, "I'm just giving you a head start. Won't be a problem for me to catch up." she says.

"Is that so? Well then, may the best hero win." Sora says as he then turns around, both he and Ahsoka start running to catch up to Rex and the others as all around them throughout the city of London, the sounds of battle could be heard off in the distance; enemy anti-air continuing to light up the dark sky.


"Be advised, Coalition Marines from Landing Zones Charlie, and Delta have begun to arrive. Second Wave is now being deployed, ETA five mikes." a female Systems Alliance Marine reports over the comms as she turns to her right and begins walking away.

From the garage behind her Commander Shepard walks out as he comes to a stop; Shepard looks around for a few seconds before taking a few steps forward, coming to a stop once again as he along with a few other Alliance Marines from the Resistance watch as more Coalition Marines walk in through the FOBs entrance. Just like the previous groups many of them already appeared battered from the fighting, some wounded being carried in with the more seriously wounded being brought in by hand-held stretchers, or gravstretchers.

"Bring the wounded to the second building on the left side!"

"All Company commanders, report to the command center!"

"Second Wave is inbound, reinforcements are inbound!"

"The battle's only just started and they already look like they've been through hell." the familiar voice of James spoke up as Shepard looked to his right.

The marine lieutenant walked over to Shepard and stopped beside him as he crossed his arms and also looked at the arriving troops.

"If it's as bad as it looks here, can only imagine what it's like in the other theaters across the world…" James then turns his head to look at Shepard, "Hey Commander." he finally greets.

"What, no "Loco"?" Shepard asks.

"Heh… yeah. Sorry." James says lowering his arms and shrugging his shoulders, the depressed tone in his voice catching Shepard's attention.

"You okay?" Shepard asks.

James lowers his head for a few seconds before raising it back up, "I don't know what I thought I'd feel, coming back to Earth. I was ready to fight, ready to die if I had to. But seeing everything like this." James answers as he slowly looks around at all the heavily damaged buildings.

Shepard walks by in front of James, catching his attention, the Commander looks towards the Conduit off in the distance, "I know it's hard to see, but this is only temporary. Once we win, everything can go back to normal. We can rebuild, we can celebrate… we can mourn… But first we need to win this thing!" Shepard states as he then turns his attention back to James, "Stay focused. Don't let them take your will to fight! We've come too far now to give up. Lost too many people. All of this is for them, for the future generations. For everyone."

James raises his hands up in front of him, "I know, I know. You're right." he says as he lowers them back down along with his head.

He remains silent for a few seconds, "So... I guess this is it no?" he asks, raising his head back up to look at Shepard as he shrugs his shoulders.

"One more push… one last fight." he finishes.

"Somehow, with how crazy our lives have gotten recently, I don't think that's going to be the case. Not by a long shot." Shepard says.

"Heh, wouldn't doubt it honestly. Supposing we all make it through today…" James stands at attention and salutes him, "It's been an honor serving with you, Shepard."

Shepard extends his right hand forward as he and James then shake, both then raising their arms up slightly and firmly grasping each other's hand to finish off, "And it's been an honor having you part of the team. You're a good man, a terrific soldier, and a great friend." Shepard says.

"Thanks." James says as he smiles a little.

"Whatever happens out there today, I know you'll make me proud." Shepard finishes.

"That means a lot to me sir." James says.

Shepard turns and begins to leave when, "Hey!" the Commander comes to a stop and looks back. "Good luck out there, Loco." James says with a humored smirk.

Shepard smiles back as he turns his attention back forward and resumes walking.

Los Angeles, California…

Hollywood…

Coalition troops pushed up Hollywood Blvd as various projectiles flew back and forth between them and the enemy, a few explosions erupting between the two sides. At the front of the Coalition forces was Jedi Master Mace Windu, alongside his Clone Commander, Ponds, as Windu deflected a few laser bolts shot at him while Commander Ponds returned fire with his DC-15A blaster rifle.

A Bat soldier fired his pulse blaster while hovering a few feet in the air as a Cerberus Centurion, and Reaper Marauder moved forward around him firing their respective weapons; a Separatist Octuptarra tri-droid behind them to their right as it fired one of its laser cannons before rotating to another cannon as it fired another high-powered laser bolt. The shot impacted in front of a male Quarian soldier propelling him back as he cried out in pain. The Tri-droid fired again as the enemy soldiers continued pressing their assault on the Coalition troops, towards the rear an Alvarez soldier took cover behind some rubble as a Wolf soldier was shot and dropped to the ground dead; the Alvarez soldier peeked out around the rubble and fired off a few magic blasts from his staff when suddenly there was a flash of orange light from behind drawing his attention as he looked over his left shoulder to see what it was.

"Eh~, what's up doc?" Ace Bunny, the leader of the Loonatics greets with a serious look on his face.

On his left were his teammates, while to his right were the Turbo Power Rangers, or rather the robotic versions save for Justin Stewart, the Blue Turbo Ranger. Behind the two teams the leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime alongside his fellow Autobot and friend Bumblebee.

The Alvarez soldier gasped in shock as he stood up, he then aimed his staff at the Heroes.

"Turbo Hand Blasters!" Justin shouted as he brought out his large, dual blue blasters, aiming both of them at the Alvarez soldier as he fired first, hitting and taking him out as he was blasted backwards to the ground.

"Turbo Thunder Cannon!" Robo Carlos shouted, bringing out his personal weapon.

"Turbo Star Chargers!" Robo Ashley shouted.

"Turbo Wind Fire!" Robo Cassie shouted, bringing out her bow.

"Let 'em have it!" Justin shouted as he and the other three Turbo Rangers fired their weapons.

Hitting multiple enemy soldiers who had turned to engage them as they were taken down.

"Hey, leave some for the rest of us. That way these guys can have a taste of my Brain Blast!" Lexi Bunny shouted as she fired a pink energy beam of concentrated psionic energy from the top of her head.

Duck meanwhile generated a power orb in both of his hands, "Get ready villains to face the might of Danger Duck!" he shouted as he pulled his right arm back and then threw it forward tossing the power orb.

Lexi's psionic energy beam impacted into the middle of a group of enemy soldiers blasting them into different directions, while Duck's power orb hit a Drophyd Enforcer causing it to explode and taking it out. Tech fired magnetic pulses from his hands as he used his power to seize the weapons of many enemy soldiers and levitated them high into the air, Rev then sped forward as he ran through a group of enemy soldiers stopping just in front of a SWATbot as he jumped and began rapidly kicking the robot in the chest sending bits of it flying until it eventually exploded to pieces. Rev speeding past this as he then ran towards and punched a Warstar Loogie across the face. Slam shouted in his garbled language as he sped forward with the lower half of his body in tornado form, using it to plow his way through a large group of enemy soldiers as they were sent flying.

Bumblebee rolled across the ground before recovering onto his feet, his right hand transformed into a plasma cannon as he aimed at the enemy soldiers and fired bursts of plasma at them causing explosions to erupt that sent them flying or dropping to the ground. Optimus Prime let out a battle cry as he charged towards the Tri-droid, his right hand transformed into an energon sword as he swung it diagonally upwards cleaving it in two; then spinning around to his right as he aimed his left Ion Blaster and fired at the ground towards another group of enemy soldiers sending them to the ground.

Robo T.J. and Ace charged towards the last group of enemy soldiers in front of them.

"Turbo Lightning Sword!" Robo T.J. shouted holding his long sword with a red hand shield forward sideways.

"Guardian Strike Sword!" Ace shouted, raising his sword upwards to his right side.

Robo TJ slid across the ground at a blurring speed as he struck the enemy soldiers multiple times from every direction with red energy slashes causing them to flail about and cry out in pain. Ace came to a stop and brought his feet together as he jumped high into the air, blue energy gathering around his sword as he then came down towards the enemy soldiers and swung his sword striking all of them with a single energy slash causing them to cry out again. Ace landed back a few feet as Robo TJ came to a stop beside him to his right, the two watched as all the enemy soldiers cried out in pain one last time and collapsed to the ground before becoming engulfed by a large explosion.

Seeing that the enemy troops in front of them had been dealt with, Mace Windu turned his head and looked over his right shoulder, "Push forward!" he shouted while pointing with his lightsaber.

Shepard walked up the street of the FOB, Marines from both the Resistance and the Coalition were standing or sitting around as they all waited for the order to move out. Resistance M35 Makos, and M-080 APCs parked on either side next to the buildings as engineers did final checks on them to make sure they were ready to go.

"Watch it! Clear the road!" a male Systems Alliance Marine could be heard shouting.

Shepard came to a stop at the crossroad as he and others watched as an M-080 APC rolled across heading towards the left road barricade; once it had made it across Shepard and a few other marines resumed walking. Shepard looked to his right, as he then spotted Ashley hanging out at the corner next to the communications building checking her assault rifle. The Commander began making his way over as Ashley finished inspecting her weapon and placed it on her back, turning around as she then spotted Shepard coming towards her.

"Hey." she greets once he gets close enough.

"How are you holding up?" Shepard asks, coming to a stop.

Ashley shrugs her shoulders, "Restless." she replies.

"Everything depends on this. Think we have a chance?" she asks.

"There's always hope. It's how we got this far. Though I will admit, I definitely like our odds a lot more now when compared to before when it was only the races of our galaxy united." Shepard answers.

Ashley chuckles, "I'll agree to that. And you made it happen, Shepard. You're the reason we're here." she says.

"I've had people like you picking me up and dusting me off when I stumbled." Shepard says as he takes a few steps closer to her, "Lost count of all the times you've saved me." he adds.

"Almost as many times as you saved me, hero-man. It always comes down to this. Feels like a thousand years since we met on Eden Prime. So much has happened, and I mean a lot. It's hard to figure out how we got here." Ashley says.

"You're a survivor Ash. Always were." Shepard says.

"I hope you're right." Ashley replies.

""Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell."" Shepard says, reciting a poem of Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Shepard then turned to his left and began to walk away when Ashley stepped to her right and stopped him from doing so, grabbing his left hand while placing her left hand on his face.

"I don't want you to go." she says, a worried, and saddened tone in her voice as she tilted her head to the left and leaned forward to kiss him, Shepard kissing her back as they shared this quick moment for a few seconds before breaking apart.

"I love you, Shepard." Ashley says.

"And I love you too, Ash." Shepard says back.

The two share a look with one another for several seconds until finally Ashley takes a few steps back, "You ready?" Shepard asks.

Ashley remains silent for a few seconds before finally replying, "I'm ready."

"Then let's get it done, and go home." Shepard says.

"Aye, aye, Captain." Ashley replies as she gives him a small smile, a saddened look in her eyes.

Shepard smiles back also with a saddened expression on his face. He then turns to his left and resumes walking, as he then approaches and walks into the communications building. There were… a few people, he wanted to talk to, just in case things didn't go as planned and… it would be nice to talk to them, for possibly one last time, if this was to be any of their final day…

Shepard walked up to the Communications Tech as he then looked at Shepard, "Yes Commander. Is there someone you'd like to reach?" he asks.

"Miranda Lawson." Shepard says, perhaps the first person should be the one who brought him back from the dead. After all if it hadn't been for her, who knows what would have happened without him.

Tuscany, Italy…

Florence…

A red Ferrari 458 Italia sped down the road past Coalition troops as they engaged enemy forces alongside the Arno river, the Italian Renaissance Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze riding inside in the passenger seat as he held onto the handlebar above him to his right. Enemy soldiers with a few Decepticon protoforms among them fired at the Coalition soldiers and the incoming Ferrari, all of their shots missing the vehicle however as it got closer and closer to them until suddenly, once close enough, the vehicle began to transform. Ejecting Ezio from inside as the Autobot, Mirage, transformed into his robot mode and slid across the concrete; Ezio flew towards a Red Templar soldier as he drove both of his hidden blades into the Red Templar's neck killing him. Mirage meanwhile slides towards the two closest Decepticons and slices through them with his arm blades cutting them across their chests as they roar out in pain and fall to the ground.

Ezio rolls forward and recovers into a crouched position as he tosses two throwing knives, one each into a charging Husk, and Foot Ninja. A Wolf soldier then begins charging the Renaissance Assassin when he is suddenly struck by a crossbow bolt from above and drops to the ground dead, enemy soldiers who were behind him look up to the nearby rooftop as they spot former Justice League member Huntress crouched on top as she fires a few more bolts from her automatic miniature crossbow. Mirage slices another Decepticon as the remaining two take aim at him with their guns, only for both of them to suddenly be hit by pillars of concrete that slam into them blasting them back; Mirage turns around to see the brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric on the ground behind the stone pillars that they had just created using their alchemy. Edward stands up and transmutes a part of his automail arm into a sword as he charges forward, closing in on a Tartaros soldier who swings their halberd at him as Ed ducks under it to dodge; Edward then swings his arm blade upwards cutting the pike in two as he follows by jumping and throwing a spinning back kick into his chest sending the Tartaros soldier flying to the ground.

Alphonse throws a side kick into a charging Red Templar Knight, while to his left a Cyclonian stumbles back before being punched across the face by Justice League member the Question. Another member of the Justice League, the magician Zatanna, raised her hands into the air as she called upon multiple bolts of lightning to strike down a large group of enemy soldiers in front of her as they all cried out and then collapsed to the ground afterwards, groaning in pain.

"Really? You're joining the battle? Thought you wanted to stay out of the fighting." Shepard asks as he crosses his arms.

"Yeah well, what can I say? Having a sit down with some of those heroes, talking to them, they say stuff that… really makes you think things over. So yeah, going back on what I said before. Doubt I can make that much of a difference but, hey if these people who are fighting with literally swords, kung fu, and other, well not so effective weapons and whatnot are going to fight. Sure, why not. Besides, if I lose all of you, well… sure I'll have Kenji but… it will definitely be a lot more lonely in the galaxy. Kind of really enjoyed that party we threw on the Citadel, getting to know everyone." Kasumi Goto explains.

"I'll be sure to throw another big party then after this is all over. We can celebrate our survival, and our victory over the Reapers. Maybe I'll even invite a few more people to liven things up a bit more." Shepard says as he smiles in a humorous manner.

"If you're referring to all these heroes you've gone and recruited… Then I'm all for that party. Though perhaps we should find a bigger place, don't think your apartment was that spacey enough that it'll be able to accommodate us, and all of our new friends." Kasumi replies.

Shepard gets serious, "Kasumi, thanks." he says, giving her a smile.

Kasumi smiles back, "No problem, Shepard. Good luck, and if you live through this, drinks are on me." she says as she then ends the call, her hologram disappearing before Shepard's eyes.

"Is there someone else I can connect you to?" the Alliance Communications Tech asks.

Miranda, Jacob, Grunt, Jack, Samara, Cortez, Zaeed, and Kasumi. That was all of his friends, and previous teammates accounted for, having already said goodbye to Joker, Doctor Chakwas, and everyone else on the Normandy before coming down here. Wrex was here at the FOB so he could talk to him when he saw him along with the rest of his current team and Chief. Now that he thought about it, there were definitely a few more people he wished to talk to, before heading out.

"Po and Tigress." he tells the Comms Tech.

"Certainly, I'll connect you now." the Alliance Tech replies as he presses a few buttons on the holo-display console.

After a few seconds the blue holographic projections of both Po, and Tigress materialized before him as they both took a step towards Shepard.

"Greetings Commander." Tigress says as she puts her hands behind her back.

"Hey Shepard, what's up?" Po asks.

"Po, Tigress, you guys doing okay where you're at?" Shepard asks.

"Normally I would have answered that with a witty remark, you know try to keep things a bit lighthearted with all this serious stuff going on around us…" Po says as a serious look comes to his face. "But with everything that is going on around us, I just can't bring myself to act that way right now. Not until all of this is done and over with. With us being the ones coming out on top of the Reapers and their pals."

Tigress looks back at Shepard as she crosses her arms, "It… could be worse. Other than a few close calls, we're all okay. We linked up with the Dairangers and they're doing alright; and we just finished capturing the town we landed in. Now we're just waiting on reinforcements to arrive before we take the battle into the hills and mountains surrounding this place so we can take out the enemies artillery and anti-air weapons. With any luck, perhaps the battle here may become much easier to win once we take those things out. Though, with the weather being the way it is now, plus the terrain we're going to be fighting in… I doubt that's going to be the case regardless." she finishes.

"It was a small hope that winning this battle, this war was going to be easy for us. But we all knew that was never going to happen. The only thing we can do now that can help us overcome our enemy, is to have a greater tenacity to defeat them, as much as they want to defeat us. Only then do we have a better chance at winning this war, even if it is only a small one." Shepard says.

"Metaphorically speaking. Fight fire, with fire that burns even more brightly then theirs! As in the fire in our hearts. Which could actually be a bit literal as well, given how some of our fellow heroes are Dragons, or have fire abilities so…" Po says putting his left index finger to his chin while looking up in a thinking manner.

Shepard smiles, humored by this as he shakes his head a few times.

"Shepard. Thank you, for giving us the chance to fight for our home, our people. Being given the chance to be here, to be given more of a reason to fight, to actually give us hope... Before you arrived in our universe, the only thing we could think of was, for how long could we keep those we cared for safe from this new, unknown, and powerful enemy? The first time we saw a Reaper, we could just tell immediately that whatever was to come next, was not going to be something we could win. All we could do was hold off the inevitable. But then you appeared, and you gave us the hope we so desperately needed, a reason to continue fighting even though we knew how outclassed we were. If you hadn't come for us, I don't think any of us would be here right now. And now, here we are, being given that second chance to not only save our Valley, our people, but the lives of so many more innocent across the multiverse. The Furious Five, as well as our Dragon Warrior,cannot thank you enough, for giving us this chance to fight for so much. It has truly been an honor, fighting alongside you, and the others, Commander." Tigress says.

"And it's been an honor having you fight alongside us as well, Master Tigress, Master Po. While you're not exactly anywhere near the levels of Chief, Sora, or most of the others, the both of you, as well as your fellow Kung Fu masters, are all still great fighters in your own regard. And great people. Your universe chose well in making you it's protectors from the forces of Evil." Shepard says.

"Other then that small little insult in there which, heck, I can't even argue about at this point cause of how true it is. Thanks, Shepard. For everything." Po says, a saddened look comes to his face as he looks down. He then looks back up towards Shepard, "And Shepard… Should… should anything happen to us. Can you… can you tell Shifu, "Thank you, for everything you've done for us. We truly couldn't have asked for a better master." And tell my pops, you know the goose with a noodle bowl hat, tell him that "I'm sorry. That I won't be able to help him out anymore at the shop.""

Shepard crosses his arms, "You can tell your master that yourselves after this is all over with. You can also continue helping your father out at his noodle place; besides, he's definitely going to be needing it once this war is over. The road to rebuilding everything is going to be a long one, and I'm sure a lot of people will appreciate having some good noodles to eat during their breaks." he says as he then smiles.

Po smiles back, "Yeah… Thanks Shepard. Stay safe out there."

"As Po would put it, which I'm honestly surprised he didn't just now… You're too awesome to die. So go out there, and teach those Reapers a lesson. And we'll see you and everyone else after we've won this war." Tigress says with a humored smirk on her lips.

Shepard puts his right fist into the palm of his left hand as he then leans forward and bows towards the two with his eyes closed, Po and Tigress return the gesture as they bow back. The call then ends as both their projections disappear, Shepard leaning back up and lowering his arms back to his sides.

"Is there someone else I can connect you to?" the Alliance Tech asks Shepard again.

"Tsukasa Kadoya." Shepard says.

"Certainly, I'll connect you now." the Alliance Tech says, also again as he presses a few buttons on the holo-display console.

The holo projection of Kamen Rider Decade appears before Shepard as he takes a few steps forward.

"Yo, Shepard." Tsukasa greets.

"Tsukasa, how are things over where you are?" Shepard asks.

"It's going rather smoothly over here. Not much trouble landing, clearing out the landing site of enemy troops. Mostly Husks that we've been dealing with so far, only just started encountering some Cerberus troops and their allies in battle. But as I said, not really much." Tsukasa explains.

Shepard crosses his arms, "More than likely as we imagined due to how hurt Cerberus and their allies must be compared to us, they're conserving their forces to cities and areas of strategic value and or big importance to us like London. They don't have enough troops to cover every part of the globe like we do, so they're focusing their efforts on select places, and leaving the Reapers to basically handle the rest with maybe a little support from their forces at the very least. Sounds to me like you got one of the easy cities." Shepard says.

"That does seem to be the case. If so, and based on what you said, then you guys will most likely be getting the heavier of the action compared to anywhere else. Though I could have told you that even before all of this started. If that's the case, then perhaps you may require my assistance. I could create a dimensional wall to you guys, be there in an instant." Tsukasa says.

Shepard raises his hands up in a stop gesture, "We're good over here at the moment, Tsukasa. But thanks for the offer. Just stick with the unit you were assigned to; if we do need help though, I'll know who to call. Besides, we haven't even left the FOB yet, still waiting on some more troops to arrive. Also things may be going well where you are now, but all it takes is a single moment, and things could go south real quick. And if they do, then the Coalition troops you're with may need your help if things get really rough for them." he says.

"I suppose you're right." Tsukasa says as he looks off to his right. After a few seconds he turns his head back towards Shepard, "Still though, call it a hunch Commander, but I just know that before all of this ends you'll definitely be needing my help to get out of a really tough situation. Guarantee it. And when that moment comes, I will be there to help you out, and you won't even need to call me. I'll just know." Tsukasa says.

"You truly are a mysterious Kamen Rider, Tsukasa. But at least it's the good kind of mysterious." Shepard says with a smile.

"I like to think it's a part of my charm. After all, I am just a passing-through, Kamen Rider." Tsukasa says.

"Remember that… And I will." Shepard says with a humored smirk.

"Hm." Tsukasa hums as he nods his head, "Good luck, Shepard." Decade finishes as the call ends, his projection disappearing.

"Is there someone else I can connect you to?" the Alliance Tech asks, again.

"Captain Marvelous." Shepard says.

"Certainly, I'll connect you now." the Alliance Tech says as he goes through the process again.

The holographic projection of Captain Marvelous appears as he stands sideways facing to his left, the red Gokaiger then turning to face Shepard as he takes a few steps towards him.

"Shepard. This won't be long will it? Kind of in the middle of a little competition over here." Marvelous says crossing his arms.

"Competition?" Shepard asks, raising his brow.

"Yeah. My crew and I versus the Straw Hats to see which pirate crew can take out the most bad guys by the end of all this. And right now, Luffy and his crew are in the lead. BUT THAT'S ONLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE MORE MEMBERS THAN US SO WE'RE ALREADY AT A DISADVANTAGE!" Marvelous shouts in a slightly annoyed tone off to his left before looking back at Shepard.

"Sounds to me like you guys are making the most out of all this, and kicking a lot of ass I presume because of it." Shepard says.

"You know me Shepard. I like to make things showy, and today, we're going all out and making it as extremely showy as possible! Still though, try not to take too long getting to that damn Conduit over there. Only so much fun to be had until eventually kicking ass starts getting a bit boring." Marvelous says.

Shepard chuckles a little, "Just waiting on some extra reinforcements to arrive before we head out. Have a feeling the fight to the Conduit's going to be some of the toughest fighting to happen across the entire planet. We'll need as many troops ready as possible for the assault, and then with any luck, the rest of the reinforcements that will arrive afterwards will help push us further towards it." he says.

"You guys get to have more action over there, and you stuck my crew and I out on some small island? I feel like our talents are being wasted over here." Marvelous slightly complains.

"The Coalition needs as much help from us Heroes as we can give them. You finish things over there, perhaps depending on how the situation here develops, there's the possibility your team could be reassigned to London to help us out. There'll be plenty of fighting to go around for quite a while I imagine." Shepard says.

"I suppose so…" Marvelous suddenly turns his head to look down to his left, "Hm~. Now that I think about it, I think we actually have this competition in the bags already." he then says.

"Wait, what?" Shepard asks.

Marvelous looks back at the Commander, "I almost forgot, Navi's up in space helping the kid out in the GokaiGalleon, and since the GokaiGalleon is technically our ship, and Navi is a member of our crew. Every ship destroyed by Troy counts for us since he's again using our ship; so we're already thousands of points ahead of the Straw Hats. Heh, looks like this competition is as good as ours!" he says, punching his left palm.

"And before you were complaining about being at a disadvantage because the Straw Hats had more members than you. But don't you think it's a bit more unfair to be counting your giant spaceship, which can transform into a giant robot, which can then do a lot more damage than anything the Straw Hats have?" Shepard asks.

"Last time I checked Commander; we're pirates. Since when did we care about playing fairly?" Marvelous asks.

"Fair point." Shepard says smiling slyly.

Marvelous's head suddenly perks up, "Which also reminds me." he looks back at Shepard and points at him with his right index finger, "Hurry up and get to that Conduit so we can destroy these Reapers already! The longer you take, the more chances Troy has of getting my GokaiGalleon destroyed. And we just got the damn thing repaired!"

Shepard raises his hands up, "Again, I'll go as fast as I can. Can't promise you anything." he lowers his arms, "Don't worry, I'm sure Troy will take care of your ship. Remember, he's a lot more responsible than you are. Plus I'm sure he wants to fight the Reapers as much as you do; would be rather hard to do that if he lost your ship."

Marvelous crosses his arms again, "Hmph, he better."

"Your attitude of him seems to have changed since you two first met. Kid growing on you?" Shepard asks.

Marvelous remains silent as he looks off to his left, "He's got… potential. I'll say that much." he says as he looks back at Shepard. "You better not tell him I told you that! Otherwise I'll leave this island right now, come over there, and kick your ass!"

Shepard lightly chuckles, "Save the ass kicking for the enemy, my lips are sealed. And Marvelous, meeting you guys, as well as Luffy and his crew, it's definitely changed my perspective on pirates. Not by much but, it's nice knowing that there are good pirates out there like you guys." he says.

"Tch, whatever. If you don't mind now, I got some more ass kicking to get back too." Marvelous says.

"I won't hold you up any longer. Stay safe out there Marvelous." Shepard says.

"Shepard, wait." Marvelous suddenly says before Shepard can end the call as he lowers his arms, Shepard looks back at him as Marvelous remains quiet "... Kick some ass out there." he finally says.

Shepard smiles at him, and he could sense Marvelous smiling back behind the helmet, of course he would never admit it. With that the call with the space pirate captain ends as his holo projection disappears.

"Is there someone else I can connect you to?" the Alliance Tech asks.

"Troy Burrows." Shepard says.

"Certainly, I'll connect you now." the Alliance Tech says.

The holographic projection of Troy, in his Super Mega Mode form, materializes before Shepard.

"Shepard, everything going alright down there?" Troy asks.

Shepard crosses his arms as a humored smile comes to his lips, "You know for a moment I thought I was talking to Marvelous again." he says.

Troy chuckles as he rubs the back of his head, "That's never gonna get old, is it?" he says.

"Probably not. We're all doing alright down here so far. What about you guys up there?" Shepard asks.

"Kicking ass and taking names! I think we've put a real good hurt on the enemy's fleets so far, adding us and the others to Sword might have helped tip the balance a little bit in our favor up here. Right now we're just focusing our efforts on keeping the space corridors open for the Hammer transports. Eventually though Captain Lasky does want some of us to start clearing out the space around the Citadel for the eventual arrival of the Crucible." Troy explains.

"That's good to hear, the more of Hammer that makes it down here, the more troops we'll have to keep pushing the enemy back." Shepard says.

"We'll keep giving it our all up here Commander! These Reapers are about to learn a lesson about what happens when the forces of Good from all across the multiverse come together to fight against a common enemy." Troy says.

"If they wore boots I'm sure they'd already be shaking in them. You treating the GokaiGalleon good? Marvelous is worried." Shepard says.

"She handles just like our Megazord would, so no problems so far. Going to need to thank him for sure though after all of this is over, it isn't much, but having both the GokaiGalleon, and GoZyuJin up here is giving us some extra firepower to beat the Reapers and their allies with. And the more of them we take out, the more ships we have for when Reaper reinforcements arrive, as well as the more people we save. Though in that regard, it would be nice if you guys could get the Citadel open for the Crucible so we can activate it and be rid of the Reapers so we don't have to worry about their eventual reinforcements coming." Troy says.

"Just keep on giving them hell up there Troy. We'll fight to the Conduit as fast as we can so we don't have to worry about that." Shepard says.

"Good luck down there Shepard. See you after this is all over!" Troy says as the transmission ends.

"Is there someone else I can connect you to?" the Alliance Tech asks.

"Laval and Eris." Shepard replies.

"Certainly, I'll connect you now." the Alliance Tech says.

The small forms of the Lion prince and Eagle princess appear before Shepard as they take a few steps towards him.

"Is this thing on? Oh, wait, I can see you, so I assume that means it's on. Hey Shepard!" Laval greets.

"How's the battle going on your guys' end?" Shepard asks.

"Well, other than Rogon losing his breakfast on the shuttle ride down here, nearly getting shot out of the sky, and a lot of other terrifying things almost happening to us…" Eris says.

"It could be worse." Laval says, finishing off for her as he raises his arms up in a shrug with a nervous smile on his face.

"Not the first time I'm hearing that." Shepard says shrugging his shoulders.

"We're making some progress over here. Slowly, but it's progress. It's better than nothing I suppose. These guys are really dug in and fighting with everything they've got, but we're fighting back just as hard!" Eris says with a serious look on her face.

"I said it before, and I'll say it again. This is definitely a lot different from what we're used to. But all that training we had before on the Infinity definitely helped prepare us a little bit for what's happening now, and most likely what's about to come." Laval says.

"Are you guys doing okay? I mean personally, yourselves." Shepard asks.

Laval and Eris look at each other for a few seconds before looking back at Shepard, "Honestly, both of us were scared. Both the night before, this morning while we were getting ready and while we were waiting, and during the ride down here." Laval answers.

"And even after we touched down, we were too scared to really do anything for a while." Eris adds.

A serious look comes to Laval's face, "But don't worry Commander, we've pushed past that fear now. After all, this isn't the time to be scared, this is the time to fight! Because if we don't, then our homes, and everyone we care for will be destroyed. And we're not about to let that happen! Especially after all the fighting for our home we've been through before all this." he states.

"Being afraid isn't something to be ashamed about, it can happen to the best of people. What matters is that you eventually push past it once you realize the terrible things that could happen if you let fear take control of you, and then keep that thought in your mind so you can use it to fight. To prevent those terrible things from coming true. I'm glad you two managed to push past that fear, we need everyone at their best if we're to win this war. That way, we can save everyone's home, Chima included." Shepard says.

"From here on, we're going to give it our all to beat these guys Shepard!" Laval says.

"You can count on us!" Eris adds.

"I know I can. Stay safe out there." Shepard says with a smile.

The transmission ends.

"Is there someone else I can connect you to?" the Alliance Tech asks.

"Natsu Dragneel and Lucy Heartfilia." Shepard replies.

"Certainly, I'll connect you now." the Alliance Tech says.

The blue holographic projections of the Fire Dragon Slayer, and Celestial Spirit mage appear in front of Shepard, "Yo, Shepard!" Natsu greets with his fists to his hips, his signature toothy grin on his face.

"Hello there Commander, is there anything we can help you with?" Lucy asks.

"Just checking up on all you guys, making sure everyone's doing okay." Shepard crosses his arms as a humored smile comes to his lips, "So Natsu, go overboard and destroy anything you weren't supposed to yet?"

"For your information, Lucy said it was okay!" Natsu shouts, defending himself.

"It's true Shepard, we were in a really tough situation so I did give Natsu the go ahead to go a little bit all out." Lucy says scratching her left cheek with her index finger nervously. She lowered her hand, "But it really did help us as it drove the enemy away from our landing area. Otherwise I don't think we would've made it."

"It's alright. If it was necessary, then it was necessary. Right now what matters is surviving, and defeating the enemy. Plus one way of looking at it is that the Reapers already basically destroyed everything, so we're going to have to rebuild everything anyways. Just… try not to go too crazy, I'm sure Humanity would like to have an Earth to come back too when this is all over." Shepard says.

"Of course, as would we all if this were any of our home planets." Lucy says.

Natsu raises his right fist, "Don't worry Shepard. You guys will have your home back soon enough, we just gotta kick these Reapers asses along with their other pals and they won't trouble any of our homes anymore!" he states.

"Then I guess it's a good thing I got members from one of the strongest mage guilds in Fiore helping us out. These Reapers don't know who they're messing with." Shepard says.

"Hell yeah they don't!" Natsu says in agreement.

"As Natsu would say, we're all fired up Commander!" Lucy states.

"As are we all, now we just gotta keep that fire ignited and we'll definitely win this war." Shepard says.

"Stay safe out there Shepard, we hope to see you again after this is all over." Lucy says.

"And Shepard, if you guys need any help, you know who to call for some extra firepower." Natsu says.

"I'll keep that in mind Natsu." Shepard says as he ends the call.

"Is there someone else I can connect you to?" the Alliance Tech asks.

"Sora." Shepard replies.

"Certainly, I'll connect you now." the Alliance Tech says.

The holo projection of Sora appears, this time however, the keyblade wielder appears running in place instead, "Hey Shepard, what's up?" he asks.

"Sora? Are you running?" Shepard asks with a raised brow.

"Yeah. There was a slight situation." Sora replies.

"By situation he means we were shot down!" the voice of Ahsoka could be heard off to his left.

"Is everyone with you alright?" Shepard asks.

"Yeah, we're all fine. Just running now to get back to friendly lines and all that." Sora replies.

"Well, stay safe out there if you're in enemy territory." Shepard says.

"Oh come on Shepard, my middle name is Safe." Sora says in a humored tone.

"I don't even need the Force to sense how much of a lie that is." Ahsoka says off to the side, earning a slightly annoyed glare from Sora as he then looks back at Shepard.

"Hey Shepard, you guys are in like Northern London right? Maybe we'll be seeing each other soon." Sora says.

"I don't know, if you guys are where you're supposed to be, there's going to be a lot of enemies between us." Shepard says.

"Hey, you never know. Might not be as bad as you think." Sora says.

"Just focus on the fighting Sora. Help out any Resistance members or civilians you come across. That's your priority, leave the attack on the Conduit to us." Shepard says.

"I know Shepard, but if there's any chance we can help you guys out over there. I'm not going to look the other way. Never know if you might need it." Sora says getting a bit serious.

"I know that. But still, for the moment we're good over here. So keep your mind focused on your guys' mission. Besides, you're not the only one offering us support. You're going to have to get in line behind Tsukasa, and Natsu, and probably everyone else they just weren't as vocal about it, but if I know them." Shepard says with a humored smile.

"Okay Tsukasa I got nothing for. But Natsu? You really want the guy who could level an entire street helping you guys out?" Sora asks.

"Fair point. But at the same time if we're about to be overrun, his powerful magic would be very helpful for that situation." Shepard says.

"Hm, fair point back. Either way Shepard, if you guys do get into a situation, and a tough one if that. Don't forget, as you just said, we're all right behind you." Sora says.

"Thanks, see you on the other side Sora." Shepard says.

"See you as well, Commander." Sora says as the transmission ends.

"Is there someone else I can connect you to?" the Alliance Tech asks.

"I'm done." Shepard finally says.

"Yes sir." the Alliance Tech says.

Paris, France…

7th arrondissement of Paris...

The Inquisitor, Maxwell Trevelyan, and Cassandra Pentaghast find themselves jumping into each other back to back as they turn their heads slightly to look at one another, "So, this Paris is supposed to be the "City of Love"? Cause it sure doesn't feel like it, does it?" Maxwell asks in a witty tone.

"I don't know Inquisitor, nothing says "romantic" like fighting side by side with the person you love. Especially with the fate of all living things being on the line." Cassandra replies also in a witty tone.

"I suppose this is indeed as romantic as things can get for special people like us." Maxwell says.

The two then spin around to switch places as Maxwell drives his Caliban longsword into a charging Uruk-hai, while Cassandra blocks a Skulkin warrior's sword with hers before bashing it in the face with her shield.

Coalition troops and Heroes engage Reaper and enemy allied forces in the Champ de Mars greenspace between the Eiffel Tower and the École Militaire; Orlesian Chevalier Michel de Chevin raises his sword, Emperor Guard Blade, sideways to block a downwards swing from an X-Borg's weapon as he then pushes it away and punches the X-Borg across the face. Overhead Jedi Knight Aayla Secura force jumps through the air as she comes down towards a marching B1 battle droid on her right, and a Techno soldier on the left; Aayla swings her lightsaber cutting the B1 battle droid down as she lands as she then swings her lightsaber upwards cutting the Techno soldier apart. A Covenant Storm Sangheili is bashed in the face by a shield and knocked to the ground, the lieutenant of Bull's Chargers, Krem then drives his sword into the Sangheili, finishing him off as he pulls his sword back out.

"Come on!" Krem yells while swinging his sword in the direction of the enemy troops.

Krem along with some of the other members of Bull's Chargers, Grim, Rocky, and Stitches, as well as Donal Sutherland and his squire Rat, charge forward with several Coalition soldiers following behind and alongside them. To their rear, Bull's Chargers members Dalish, and Skinner, as well as the rest of Sutherland's Company, Voth, and Shayd, joined by Clone ARC Commander Bly, and other soldiers give supporting fire with their respective weapons or abilities.

Blackwall blocks an attacking Red Templars sword with his shield as he then thrusts his sword into the Templar's stomach, off to his left Iron Bull swings his greataxe striking and sending a Wolf soldier flying into two Husks. Cole exits from Stealth and drives both of his daggers into the backs of a Cerberus assault trooper, and Grimoire Heart mage; an Easterling charges the Hedge mage from behind and swings his pike at him, Cole however ducks down to dodge it as he then plunges his right dagger upwards through his chin killing the Easterling. Two Scorpions, a Cyclonian, and three Tartaros soldiers charge Vivienne, the Orlesian mage calmly walks towards them as she then casts the Fade Step spell and disappears, sending a blast of freezing cold air flying towards the group of enemy soldiers as it flies in between them freezing every one of them as Vivienne reappears at the front of the magic blast which then disappears behind her. Dorian shoots an orb of dark purple magical energy as it impacts into a SWATbot causing it to stumble back, however the attack doesn't appear to do much else as the SWATbot recovers, now surrounded by an aura of the dark purple energy as it raises its head and just stares at the Altus mage. A group of enemy soldiers begin running past the SWATbot to attack Dorian, until suddenly the aura of magical energy explodes, sending a few enemy soldiers flying while completely destroying the SWATbot as then several secondary explosions go off taking out the remainder of the enemy soldiers.

Sera lets loose an arrow into a charging Genlock Darkspawn killing it, notching another arrow and pulling it back on her Firm Hunting Longbow as she aims a bit to her left and fires into a charging Oni also taking it out. Suddenly a plume of black smoke slams into the ground as a Death Eater emerges from it, Sera fires another arrow towards the Death Eater who casually deflects the arrow with a shield charm as he retaliates by casting the Killing Curse nonverbally, sending a bolt of green magical energy flying towards her as Sera quickly dives to the left to dodge it. The Death Eater prepares to cast it again when he suddenly hears someone jump to his left and turns to look, Yoko Usami, Yellow Buster, Power Jumpsinto the air as she aims her Ichigan Buster at the Dark Wizard and fires multiple yellow energy shots that impact into and around the Death Eater sending him to the ground. Ryuji Iwasaki, Blue Buster, rolls across the ground as he recovers into a crouched position and turns around swinging his Sougan Blade striking the leg of an attacking Orc knocking it to the ground; Ryuji then looks over his left shoulder as he drops onto his hands and throws a heel kick at a charging Drophyd Sentry also dropping it to the ground. A number of enemy soldiers surrounded Blue Buster as then a few of them began charging towards him from every direction, taking notice of this Ryuji raised and tightly clenched his left hand into a fist, his left arm becoming covered in an aura of green digital numbers as it slightly enlarged for a few seconds before returning to normal.

"Go!" Ryuji shouts as he rears his arm higher into the air and then slams his fist down onto the ground.

This creates a powerful shockwave, and mini earthquake that blasts back the number of enemy soldiers sending them flying and falling to the ground. A young Rohirrim backpedals across the ground in terror as a Sugormin approaches him to finish him off, as the Sugormin reaches him and raises its right claw to strike a blur of green digital numbers runs past in front as then sparks fly from the Sugormin who cries out like he had been hit as he then goes down. An Uruk berserker is then struck in the back and goes down before it can finish off a downed Geth trooper, followed by a Spider soldier, Nindroid, Thugs-4-Less Brute, and several more enemy soldiers across the battlefield as the figure, Hiromu Sakurada, Red Buster slows down to a stop from his Hyper Speed ability with his Sougan Blade in hand. Behind him all the enemies he struck explode letting out one last cry or roar of pain before the explosions die down.

"Run!"

"Fall back!"

Coalition troops retreated from an approaching Olog-hai troll, several archers and gunners firing their weapons at it only for their shots to either be blocked by its armor, or for the troll to just shrug the few that did hit it off as it let out a roar. The troll then looked to its left, as it was suddenly kicked into the air and sent flying by the Haos Bakugan, Blade Tigrerra, the troll crashing into the ground as it slid back sending a few enemy soldiers running or jumping away before they could get hit by it as it eventually came to a stop. To Tigrerra's left Drago hovers down until he is just several feet above the ground, "Nice kick." Drago compliments.

"Thanks. Bet that things realizing it's not so tough now when it's no longer the biggest thing around." Tigrerra says.

"Now let's hit the rest of them just as hard!" Drago says.

"Right with yah!" Tigrerra agrees.

All the blades on Tigrerra's body extend out as she becomes enveloped by a large aura of golden lightning, Tigrerra crosses her arm blades, "Volting Fang!" she yells, swinging both of them outwards as she shoots beams of lightning from them.

"Dragon Tornado!" Drago yells as he spews a spiraling tornado of flames from his mouth towards the enemy.

Both attacks slam into the enemy forces as Drago drags his attack towards the left while Tigrerra pulls hers to the right, both attacks coming to an end after a few seconds as then massive explosions erupt from where they impacted. Taking out many enemy troops while sending large groups of others flying as they cry out in pain. Maxwell uses his shield to toss a Husk over himself and onto the ground as he then drives his sword into it killing the Husk; an Uruk berserker charges the Inquisitor from behind as his guard is lowered and swings its huge sword at him, only for Shoichi Tsugami, Kamen Rider Agito, to suddenly appear as he gets right in front of the crazed Uruk-hai blocking the blade with his right arm. Agito pushes the weapon away and side kicks the Uruk sending it stumbling back as Maxwell looks over his shoulder to take notice of this, the Berserker comes to a stop as it recovers and roars at the Kamen Rider in anger. Shoichi straightens himself as he then presses the right-hand pad on the Altering, transforming himself into his Flame Form as the hilt of his Flame Saber emerges from the now red Philosopher's Stone at the center of his belt which he grabs and pulls out. The Uruk Berserker roars at him once again as it then begins charging Agito, Shoichi crosses his arms as the Saber Horn folds out on both sides releasing the Power of Flame from the Force Eye. The Berserker continues closing in on the golden and red Rider as Shoichi calmly bends his knees and holds his sword to his left side, the Uruk just about reaches him as it swings its sword at him to which Shoichi swings his saber as well with a, "Hah!"

Agito's Flame Saber cuts through the Berserker's sword and strikes the Uruk as it lets out a grunt of pain and goes still, the upper half of the blade falling to the ground as the Uruk Berserker explodes into flames letting out one last roar. Shoichi straightens his body and looks over his left shoulder at Maxwell as he nods his head, the Inquisitor returning the nod as thanks for saving him.

After walking up a slope of rubble onto the second floor of the building across the street from the command center, Shepard walked through an open doorway into what almost appeared to be a sort of lounge area. Though there wasn't really much in the room save for a single couch, table, and some shelves strewn along the walls; the room was occupied by a few Turians, among them Primarch Victus off to the left by the door leading to the top of the barricade, and Garrus at the other end of the room, both of whom were talking to Turian soldiers.

"That's just Wrex playing hard to get. Tell him I've got a crate of Denoiran beer I'd be happy to barter with. That oughta get his attention." Garrus tells the soldier as he then takes notice of Shepard approaching.

The soldier turns to leave as Garrus rotates his body to face Shepard, "Shepard." he greets, "So, I guess this is…"

"Just like old times?" Shepard says.

"If this had just been us uniting the galaxy I would have said something along the lines of: "Might be the last chance we get to say that." But with all the extra crazy we've been through recently, is it really just like old times?" Garrus points out.

"Point taken… Think we're going to lose?" Shepard asks.

"After everything we've been through I sure as Spirits hope not. That would just be like, really depressing if that happened… No, I think we're going to for sure kick the Reapers back into whatever black hole they crawled out of. As for Cerberus and their pals, well for Cerberus at least we're going to finish them off once and for all, this time for sure! The rest of the bad guys, well at the least we can send them back to the universes they came from. I'm sure every one of our new friends wouldn't mind if we just took them all down as well, but I guess we can only try. Guys like these, they'll probably turn tail and run at the first sign that this battle is as good as lost for them. Back on point, once this war is all done and over with, we're then going to retire somewhere warm and tropical and live off the royalties from the vids." Garrus says.

"I'll meet you there. I think my days of saving the galaxy… multiverse, are over when this is done." Shepard says as he crosses his arms.

"Damn, and we just started that new job too. Hehe. Be sure to leave room for all the autographs." Garrus says in a joking manner.

"Hmph... Just need to beat the Reapers and the rest of the forces of Evil to get there." Shepard says.

Garrus turns and looks off to his right, "James told me there's an old saying here on Earth: "May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead."" Garrus turns his attention back to Shepard, "Not sure if Turian heaven is the same as yours, but if this thing does go sideways and we both end up there… meet me at the bar. I'm buying."

"We're a team, Garrus. There's no Shepard without Vakarian, so you better remember to duck." Shepard says.

"Sorry, Turians don't know how. But I'll improvise… Hm, too bad we don't have Chief coming with us, he's tall enough that I could use him for moving cover. But anyways Shepard. Forgive the insubordination, but this old friend has an order for you." Garrus says as he takes a step towards Shepard and puts his left hand on his shoulder, "Go out there, and give them hell. You were born to do this!" he states.

Shepard lowers his head, "Just… just in case I don't get a chance to say it." he then raises it to look back at Garrus, "Goodbye Garrus. And if I'm up there in that bar and you're not, I'll be looking down. I'll always have your back."

Garrus nods his head as he takes a step back, Shepard turns and begins heading towards the exit.

Edinburgh, Scotland…

Holyrood Park...

A Cerberus Centurion is knocked face down onto the ground as the gargoyle beast Bronx drops in front of him to the right, Bronx then turns around and lunges at the downed Centurion as he bites his arm causing the Centurion to start crying out in pain. As Bronx tears away at the Centurion's arm, Hudson crosses blades with a Venatori Zealot as he slides his sword away and cuts at the Venatori's back; Blue Devil fires an energy blast from his pitchfork up a hill taking out a Dai-Shocker combatman followed by a Venatori Mage. As he fires again at another enemy soldier, a Foot Tech Ninja uncloaks behind him as it readies its blade to strike the hero, "Orbis!" a young male voice shouts.

The Foot Tech Ninja suddenly finds himself getting sucked into the ground causing him to let out a yelp as Blue Devil turns his head upon hearing this, only the head of the Foot Tech Ninja remains above ground as he struggles to break free but to no avail. Blue Devil lifts his head to see Ron Weasley standing just a few feet away with his wand pointed at where the Foot Tech Ninja was.

"Bombarda Maxima!" Hermione Granger shouts as she casts the Exploding Charm taking out a small group of enemy soldiers.

Hermione turns around as she just narrowly avoids dodging an Orc's sword, nonverbally casting the Stunning Spell to blast the Orc away as she stands back up to see an Alvarez soldier aim his staff at her. Angela flies into the Alvarez soldier before he can do anything as she drags him across the ground before releasing her hold on him, sending him sliding further away as he hits and knocks a HYDRA soldier, and Dai-Shocker combatman off their feet. A Stormtrooper fires after Lexington as he jumps to his left before then launching himself straight towards the Stormtrooper knocking him back, Brooklyn spins and sweeps his tail across the ground knocking a Wolf, and Scorpion soldier off their feet, as nearby Broadway flies towards a Jiralhanae Minor and punches him across the face.

"Flipendo!" Harry shouts as he blasts away a Collector Captain with the Knockback Jinx.

Behind him, Goliath ducks beneath an attacking Cyclonians staff as the leader of the Manhattan Clan then grabs the Cyclonian and lifts him up into the air causing the Cyclonian soldier to cry out in terror; a Spider soldier charges Goliath from behind as he is distracted as Harry turns his head to take notice of this and quickly points his wand at him, "Petrificus Totalus!" the young wizard shouts.

The Spider soldier stops immediately in place as he drops his weapon, drops his arms to his sides and goes completely still, the Full Body-Bind Curse then causing the frozen Spider soldier to drop straight to the ground. Goliath meanwhile tosses the Cyclonian, sending the soldier flying into two B1 battle droids taking them out. Behind both Harry, and Goliath, Etrigan the Demon drops down from the sky catching both of their attentions, the Demon member of the Justice League lifting his head back as he then throws it forward spewing hellfire from his mouth as it engulfed a number of enemy soldiers in front of him causing them all to cry or roar out in pain.

A massive explosion erupted on the street in front of the Forward Operating Base's barricade leading out towards the Conduit, taking out the large number of Reaper Husks that were assaulting it as then two Alliance fighters flew overhead. Shepard, who had been manning the shield turret placed atop the barricade, dismounted seeing that the enemy's short attack on their base had come to an end.

"Alright everyone, stand down. But remain on alert!" a male Systems Alliance Marine spoke.

Shepard continued on his way towards the command center as he entered the building across from where he had spoken with Garrus, and Primarch Victus just a few minutes ago. He opened the first door before him, entering a hallway with another opened doorway right across from him as he spotted Liara in what appeared to be the base's field hospital, or at least one of its rooms. Wounded Marines from both the Resistance, and Coalition forces laid on gurneys, there didn't appear to be many in the room, and all of them that were appeared to have already been cared for as they now rested.

Liara was on her omni-tool doing a scan of a wounded Systems Alliance Marine to make sure they were doing okay when she heard a familiar voice speak, "How are the casualties?" she looked to her left to see Shepard approaching.

"For the past couple of minutes at least, they haven't brought in many more wounded." Liara says as she deactivates her omni-tool. The two look at the wounded marines resting in front of them, "On another good note, there are many lives being saved due to the cooperation of our various medical personnel and the mages from the Inquisition and College of Enchanters." she adds.

"That's some good news to be hearing… We could really use it right now." Shepard says as he then looks at Liara, "How are you holding up, Liara?" he asks.

Liara remains silent for a few seconds before finally speaking, "This is it, isn't it?" she asks.

Shepard takes a few steps towards her, "Yeah. This is it." he says.

"I… don't know what to say." she says as she crosses her arms, "I just know I'll have a clever line five minutes from now."

Liara lowers her arms and turns to face Shepard, "I do have one thing for you Shepard. A gift. It'll only take a moment, if you want it." she says.

"Sure. I've got a moment." Shepard answers.

Liara gives him a small smile as she takes a step closer to him and places her hands on his shoulders while closing her eyes, "Close your eyes." she tells him to do, the Commander doing as she says.

The two stand still in complete silence as after a few more seconds Liara finally opens her eyes which have dilated, making them appear pitch black as she initiates the Asari process known as the Melding. When Shepard opens his eyes, he finds everything around him completely dark, only Liara visible before him as she stares back at him, her eyes having returned to normal. Just then, small orbs of light begin to float past all around the two as Shepard looks around upon taking notice of this. Off to his right, a beam of light appears from the darkness drawing both Shepard, and Liara's attention to it as it then begins to glow brighter, and grow bigger, the sight of it almost resembling that of a rising sun, save for the fact the light was white-lightish blue. The two turn the rest of their bodies to face the growing light as Liara then wraps her arms around Shepard's left arm and leans her head to rest on his shoulder, the two continuing to watch the light as it grows and becomes brighter, and brighter until finally engulfing them.

Shepard opens his eyes back in the real world, the entire scene having happened in his mind as he stares at Liara, "Thank you, Shepard. For everything." she says.

Liara rests her hands on Shepard's held out arms as he holds his hands beneath her arms, the two hold this for several seconds until Liara finally brings her arms back, "Let's do what needs to be done, Shepard."

İstanbul, Turkey…

Beyoğlu…

"Toh!" Kohtaro Minami, Kamen Rider Black shouts as he launches himself through the air.

The Kamen Rider coming down towards a Dai-Shocker combatman as he grabs a hold of him and brings him to the ground, the two roll across it as in the background the Choushinsei Flashman team, minus Red Flash, battle several enemy soldiers in Taksim Square. Black eventually comes to a stop on top of the Dai-Shocker combatman as he punches him in the face. Dai, Green Flash, punches a Destron Combatant across the face with his left Prism Kaiser before swinging his right Prism Kaiser to the left punching a charging Hurlock Darkspawn; Lou, Pink Flash, side kicks a Tartaros soldier with her right Prism Boot as she then follows up with a spinning heel kick across the face of an attacking Loogie coming at her from behind to her left.

"Star Darts!" Bun, Blue Flash shouts bringing out his blue star-shaped darts.

"Shocking Beads!" Sara, Yellow Flash shouts as she brings out her yellow beads.

The two toss a number of them at a group of enemy soldiers causing explosions to erupt around them while also sending bursts of electricity surging out as all the enemy soldiers are sent flying to the ground.

"Revolcane!" Kohtaro Minami, Kamen Rider Black RX shouts as he brings out his Photon Sword Revolcane in Light-Saber mode.

"Prism Holy Sword!" Jin, Red Flash shouts bringing out his thin red crystal sword.

The two bring their feet together and jump into the air towards the enemy soldiers as Jin holds his weapon diagonally sideways to the left; Red Flash then proceeds to strike an Imperial Stormtrooper, followed by Black RX striking a Separatist BX-series Commando Droid armed with a vibrosword. Dropping the two enemy soldiers as they land crouched, stand back up and rush towards more of them with Jin slashing an Uruk across the chest sending it flipping over onto its back, while Kohtaro swings his Revolcane diagonally upwards to the right to strike a Hurlock Darkspawn sending it twirling to the ground.

Janet van Dyne flies through the air in her shrunken down form as she fires off her stingers, hitting a number of enemy soldiers, some multiple times, as a Cyclonian, and Bat soldier are blasted to the ground. An Uruk Berserker swings its sword at her but misses, as Wasp then flies around to the back of its head and taps it drawing the Uruk's attention. An annoyed look on her face Janet sticks her tongue out and blows a raspberry at it before covering her right fist in bio energy as she punches the Uruk right in its face. A Cannibal drops to the ground dead, as behind to its left the Justice League member Atom-Smasher grapples with an Ogre, the Ogre roaring at the masked hero who simply narrows his eyes in response. Atom-Smasher then knees the Ogre in its stomach knocking the air out of it as it releases its hold on Atom-Smasher's hands and bends over in pain wrapping its arms around its stomach, this allows Atom-Smasher to bring his hands together as he raises them above his head and then slams them onto the back of the Ogre's head knocking it face first into the ground.

A Thugs-4-Less Brute Class II fires his large Carbine blaster from behind a small group of enemy soldiers, as they all fire their weapons a Zangyack Gormin, and Covenant Kig-Yar Ranger are suddenly both knocked out by what seems like an invisible force. This catches the Thugs-4-Less Brute's attention as the other two soldiers in front of him continue firing at the Coalition troops, only for a few seconds later the Cerberus engineer, and the Death Eater to both be seemingly punched and knocked out as well as they both fall to the ground after a single hit. The Thugs-4-Less Brute looks around in a panic and begins wildly firing his blaster in an attempt to hit whoever, or whatever was in front of him, thinking that whoever was doing it was perhaps cloaked. That is until the Brute receives a punch himself, two punches to be precise, as the combined punches send the Brute flying back onto the ground knocking him out. A few seconds later, the heroes Atom from the Justice League, and Yellowjacket from the Avengers, re-enlarge themselves as they look down at the defeated Thugs-4-Less Brute.

Shepard exits the field hospital room as he finds himself walking into a corner room of the building with large windows which were all shattered, all the windows looking out towards the Conduit as well as the many destroyed buildings in between it and the FOB. Coalition, and Resistance Marines in positions at the windows on guard duty, keeping their eyes peeled for any more potential attacks on the base the Reapers, or even Cerberus and their allies might throw at them.

"Commander." Shepard looks to his right to see Gunnery Sergeant Buck approach him, his helmet off being carried beneath his right arm as behind him was the rest of his surviving squad standing around next to a table.

"Sergeant Buck." Shepard greets, "Is there something I can help you with?" he asks.

"Heh, you already did that by helping us out back there sir. Which I just came over to thank you for once again. You really saved our asses back there." Buck says.

"Glad I was able to help. Just wished I could have arrived sooner." Shepard says.

"It's okay Commander, no need to blame yourself for the troopers I lost. Some of them died from the crash itself, nothing else that could have been done. As for the others… This is war after all. In war you lose people. I know that experience all too well, me and some of my boys are actually veterans of the Human-Covenant War. So trust me Commander, I've lost plenty of people under my command. It's… never easy." Buck says.

"Still though, I'm sorry for your losses. I know there isn't much more we can do for them, but at the very least, we can avenge them, and put an end to those who took theirs, and everyone else's lives across the multiverse away." Shepard says.

"I agree with you 100% Commander. If they were here now, they'd want us to keep fighting. For them, and all the other innocent lives these Reaper bastards have taken. And that's what me and the rest of my squad are going to continue to do. Since our original mission was a success and we took out that Hades Cannon, from there we were supposed to do whatever else we could to, well help our forces win this war, at least here in London which… is the big important battle we need to win. Since we're here now, Admiral Anderson wants us to hoof it the rest of the battle with the Master Chief and the 1st Marine Division. Not exactly where we wanted to go, much would have preferred taking the battle to that Conduit thing but, hey, I got no issues fighting alongside a Spartan. Especially if it's the Spartan." Buck says.

"How's the rest of your squad doing?" Shepard asks.

"Everyone else is doing good. Our wounded are going to make it, thank God for magic now being a thing. No offense to science and technology but, as weird and unknown as magic can be, sure as hell can do a lot more wonders… So long as you don't count the bad stuff it can do as well." Buck says.

"From what I've heard, it's definitely proving quite the life saver so far. No offense to our medical technology of course nor the people in that field also helping and saving lives alongside the mages." Shepard says.

"Yeah, got to see some magic healing up close and let me tell you. Definitely beats our biofoam by a long shot, since you know, it just heals you up completely. Probably a lot less painful too." Buck says with humor in his tone.

"Good luck out there Gunny. And if you could, try and watch Chief's back for us while we're fighting towards the Conduit. He may be a great soldier, but he also tends to do a lot of crazy things when fighting the enemy." Shepard says in a joking tone as he crosses his arms.

"So I've heard, Commander. I will do what I can, but don't expect much. He's a Spartan, a legendary one if that, trying to stop one of them from doing something crazy is like trying to face a Covenant Supercarrier with nothing but a pistol and a knife." Buck says.

With the conversation finished Shepard turns and walks away towards the next door, opening it as he walks through it into a large, heavily damaged room as in front of him to the left was a large mound of dirt and debris. The floor above this room, completely destroyed and collapsed into this one. At the top of the mound of debris was Wrex, facing out towards the courtyard that was below, while to the right, standing beside some Alliance Marines at the windows to their right was Javik. Shepard headed towards Javik first to talk to the Prothean.

"Commander." Javik greets without turning his head, his hands held behind his back as he stares out the window towards the Conduit.

"Was it this bad in your time?" Shepard asks.

"Worse." Javik says, turning his head to look back at him for a few seconds.

"I have been listening to the Krogan speak to his men. In our cycle, the races never came together. There was no rallying cry… There was also none of this craziness to do with the multiverse, Heroes, Good versus Evil… I envy you." Javik adds.

Shepard crosses his arms, "Really? There's not much left out there." he says.

"The future is still out there. It is something my people could never say: "there will be a tomorrow."" Javik says.

"Only if we win today." Shepard says shrugging his shoulders.

"No one else has ever made it this far." Javik says.

"You came a long way, Javik. Further than anyone else here." Shepard says.

"And I look forward to fulfilling my mission." Javik turns around to look at Shepard, "But you are now the avatar of this cycle. The exemplar of victory. Not just for Humanity, or Turians, or Protheans… but for all life. Every soul that has ever existed is watching this moment."

Shepard looks at the ground, "Well… no pressure when you put it that way." he says as he looks back up at Javik.

"Do not waver. Victory is never won without difficult choices." Javik says.

"I know... I've had to make a lot of those on the road here." Shepard says a bit of sadness behind his tone as he remembers all his friends that he has lost leading up to all of this.

Kaidan… Mordin… Thane… Legion...

"There may be more to come." Javik says as he takes a few steps towards Shepard, "But I know you will see this through for all of us, no matter the cost." he finishes as Javik then holds his right hand out towards Shepard.

Shepard reaches back with his right hand as the two then shake, pulling their hands away and lowering them back down once they were done.

"If we actually pull this off, what will you do afterwards?" Shepard asks.

"Since my birth, life's only pursuit has been war. I... look forward to seeing what peace looks like." Javik answers.

"Even not counting the entire multiverse, our galaxy is plenty big enough. There's a lot you could probably do." Shepard says.

"Perhaps I will write a book with the Asar-... with Dr. T'Soni. She suggests "Journeys with the Prothean."" Javik says.

"You'd do that?" Shepard asks.

"I will need a job. There will be no Reapers left to kill. Thank you Commander… for letting the last voice of the Protheans speak. It has been a privilege." Javik finishes speaking.

Shepard nods his head as Javik turns and walks back to the window, the Commander turns and takes his leave as well as he begins heading up towards Wrex.

"When the Rachni laid waste to the galaxy two thousand years ago, when all seemed lost and the end was near, one word delivered the killer blow! One word, beat the monsters back to the abyss, and one word, brought death to an enemy none dared fight! That word was "KROGAN!" And today, the Krogan rise again! Today, we forge a new path and join the galaxy, the multiverse, as allies in victory! Today, we win our future!" Wrex proclaims to the audience of gathered Krogan soldiers below, causing all of them to erupt in roaring cheers.

"Getting the troops ready for battle I see." Shepard says in a joking tone as Wrex turns his head to look at him.

"With everything going on, these men could use a little morale boost. Pretty sure we all could." Wrex says as he looks back down at his men.

"Hey Shepard, all of this, is because of you. You did this. No matter what else happens today, you did what no one else could. You not only united a galaxy, but you also united a bunch of different universes. And I'd say that's a victory in itself right there. And don't worry, I know why you're going to win... " Wrex looks back at Shepard with a wide grin on his face, "It's because you brought the Krogan to the battle. Everyone else, they're just our backup." he jokingly says.

Shepard chuckles at this, "Sounds like you're ready to get out there and start kicking some Reaper ass. Tell me by the end who gets the most kills, you, or Chief."

"Sure, but we all know who's going to come out on top in that competition. It's me by the way, just in case you needed a reminder on who the true badass of this group is. Oh, and Bakara sends her regards. She's already pregnant. There are benefits to being a clan leader." Wrex says.

"Congratulations, Wrex! You know, it's going to be interesting seeing you as a father." Shepard says.

"Thanks, you know a part of me is actually looking forward to this experience, another part of me though is not, but there's not much else I can do at this point. Let me tell you, a Krogan baby cannot compare to a baby of any other race, they are literally a handful! Especially if there's more than one. But if anything, I'll definitely be a better father than what mine was to me. Also she keeps insisting we name the first one "Mordin." But anyways, enough talking, let's get to it!" Wrex finishes.

Mumbai, India…

Borivali…

A Hydra-Bot walker fired its energy cannon towards Coalition forces as the shot impacted into a large biotic sphere that had been put up by an Asari soldier at the front, the explosion creating a large cloud of smoke. After several seconds, two vehicles drove through the smoke at high speeds, a blue Chevrolet Volt, and a yellow Hummer H2 search and rescue vehicle as they headed towards the Hydra-Bot. Enemy troops on the ground surrounding it began focusing their fire on the approaching automobiles, the two vehicles driving from side to side to avoid the many incoming projectiles, as then a Cerberus assault trooper took aim with a ML-77 Missile Launcher and fired a shot. A Gormin, and X-Borg fired their own explosive projectiles in the form of their bladed cudgels' club heads; all three shots missed however as they harmlessly impacted and exploded off to the sides of the two vehicles still driving towards them.

The two vehicles just about reached the Hydra-Bot as then the blue Chevrolet Volt began to transform, the Autobot Jolt, planting his feet on the ground as he slid to a stop and shot his two electric whips into the HYDRA walker's face on either side of its "nose", "Time to charge things up!" Jolt shouts.

Jolt then sends a powerful surge of blue electricity coursing through his whips and into the Hydra-Bot as it visibly recoils by throwing its large head back; the Hummer then transforms into the Autobot Ratchet, as Ratchet transforms his left hand into a saw which he uses to cut off the Hydra-Bot's front leg. Enemy soldiers fire up at Ratchet as the Autobot Medical Officer transforms his right arm into his Beam Fusion Energon Gun and returns fire, blasting away a few enemy soldiers as some of the others begin to retreat. A red blur begins zooming its way through Coalition forces, eventually coming out at the front and heading towards the enemy troops as the Gormin and X-Borg prepare to fire up at Ratchet with their explosive projectiles again, Ratchet cutting the front right leg of the Hydra-Bot off. Before either of the two can fire, Wally West, the Flash suddenly appears behind them as he begins rapidly pounding away at the top of their flat heads, greatly disorienting and shaking them up as both Zangyack, and Armada soldiers collapse to the ground. With a battle cry Ratchet cuts off the front left leg of the Hydra-Bot, causing the giant walker to go off balance as it finally begins collapsing forward and into the ground as Jolt retracts his whips; back with the Coalition troops, a Clone trooper takes aim with an RPS-6 rocket launcher as he fires a shot. The rocket travels rapidly through the air towards the downed HYDRA walker as it impacts directly into the head causing the entire thing to explode.

Ratchet and Jolt now stand side by side as they fire their respective guns towards the remaining enemy soldiers, Wally running up beside Ratchet to his right as he begins rapidly spinning his arms around to generate two red whirlwinds that he uses to quite literally blow a number of enemy soldiers away. Overhead Sam Wilson, The Falcon, flew through the air, eventually diving down towards a group of enemy soldiers as he swung his right wing towards them, shooting a number of his red "feathers" taking a few of the enemy soldiers out. A Drophyd Enforcer marched forward as it fired its two turrets, just then the five members of the sixth Super Sentai team, Dai Sentai Goggle V, jumped one by one through the air as they landed around the Enforcer surrounding it. All of them armed with their respective Ribbon weapon as they twirled them around, eventually throwing them at the Enforcer as they wrapped their ribbons around its body, "Ribbon Sparks!" the Goggle V team shouted.

The Enforcer suddenly found itself getting electrocuted by high voltage surging through all five ribbons as after a few seconds it finally exploded. Emu Hojo, Kamen Rider Ex-Aid swung his Gashacon Breaker in Hammer Mode upwards striking a Scion, HIT!, as he then turned around and slammed it into the chest of an attacking Warrior Sangheili, knocking him back as he continued to strike the Sangheili a few more times sending him stumbling further and further back as he chased after him before delivering one final strike across the Sangheili Warrior's face sending him twirling and flying to the ground. Ex-Aid then turned around as he pushed the Actuation Lever on his Gamer Driver closed, "Gachon!"

Emu followed by removing his Mighty Action X Gashat from the Main Gashat Slot, "Gashun!" as he then took out his Mighty Brothers XX Gashat, "Let's go, Parado!" he says.

Emu slammed the Double Gashat into the Main Gashat Slot, "Double Gashat!" as he then pulled the lever open, "Gachan! Level Up! Mighty! Brothers! Futari de Hitori! Mighty! Brothers! Futari de Victory! X!" multiple rings of light orange and light blue lights surrounded Emu followed by the ten profile images of his Level 1, and Level X Forms along with the other Level 1 Forms of his fellow Doctor Riders, as the profile images circled around him until coming to a stop. His Level X Form's profile image to his right as it seemingly selected itself and grew larger, the other images dispersing in different directions as the word, SELECT!, appeared for a few seconds before fading away. The enlarged Level X Form's profile image moved in front of Ex-Aid as light orange and light blue particles began to appear and converge onto Emu while pillars of the same colored lights erupted around him, the profile image then flew into him covering Ex-Aid in a bright flash as this completed his transformation into the Double Action Gamer Level X super deformed upgrade form.

"And then!" Emu says holding his right index finger up.

Emu then closes the lever once again, "Gachon!"

"Dai~" Emu begins to yell as he swings his arms around for a few seconds, "Henshin!" he finishes as he throws open the lever again.

"Gachan! Double Up!" a holographic image of his High Flash Indicator, which shows a graphic of his current form appears in front of him, followed by a second image shooting out from the High Flash Indicator on his driver as this replaces the current graphic with a graphic of the next form. The large holographic image then disappears as Ex-Aid begins emitting a bright white light from his body as he jumps into the air.

"Ore ga Omae de! Omae ga Ore de! (We Are!) Mighty! Mighty! Brothers (Hey!) Double X!"

The enemy soldiers surrounding Ex-Aid cover their eyes from the bright light as after a few seconds it dies down, allowing them to look again as they see Ex-Aid land back on the ground. Though no longer by himself, as Ex-Aid has completed his transformation into his upgraded fighter form of Double Action Gamer Level XX, the form giving him two separate bodies, Double Action Gamer Level XX R, who is mostly orange, and Double Action Gamer Level XX L, who is mostly azure. The two Ex-Aids' hold a pose, where on R's left shoulder, and on L's right shoulder, were halves of Level X's face which they hold together for a few seconds before breaking apart.

"It's been a while, Emu." Parado, Emu's Bugster who was now his friend and ally, and was now Double Action Gamer Level XX R, says.

"Yeah, ready to do this?" Emu, who was Double Action Gamer Level XX L, says.

"Of course." Parado replies.

"Let's clear it together with super co-op play!" Emu, and Parado simultaneously say as they slap hands and throw them out in front of their faces diagonally.

Shepard opened and walked through another door as he finally found himself entering the War Room, Anderson and Major Coats speaking to each other over at the planning table, most likely discussing the plan of attack on the Conduit itself. As at the left end of the table, close to Anderson, was EDI on a small computer console. On the table were three different holomaps, the one on the left in front of EDI showing the Earth itself, the one in the middle, the largest, showing a part of London, while the other medium-sized one at the right end of the table showed another part of the city. Shepard looked to his right to see the Master Chief standing in the far corner of the room, three other armored individuals in front of him as they stood in a circle seemingly talking to one another; Shepard then looked to his left to see Tali standing next to a larger table as she was on her omni-tool facing away from him.

Shepard began approaching her first, Tali seemed to pick up on his footsteps as she deactivated her omni-tool and turned around, "Shepard. Almost time for the final push. Are you okay?" she asks.

"I thought I'd be asking you that question." Shepard says.

"Shepard, I backed you when I was just a kid on her Pilgrimage. I backed you when the Normandy was a Cerberus ship. What kind of friend would I be if I didn't back you now? And you haven't answered my question. Are youokay?" Tali questions him.

"You remember how you felt when you landed on Rannoch?" Shepard asks as he walks over to the window and turns back to face her, "Now imagine it's not a story passed down by your people. Imagine you were there just a few months ago. And no, the other versions of Earth we've been to don't count, cause they're not my Earth."

"I know that, Shepard. And now you're seeing it like this." Tali says as she walks over to him.

Shepard turns to look out the window, "We need to put it right." he states.

"We will." Tali says drawing Shepard's attention back to her, "Whatever happens, I'm proud to have served with you… Captain." she finishes as she stands at attention and salutes him.

Shepard stands at attention and salutes her back, "It's been an honor, Tali'Zorah vas Normandy." he says.

"The admirals once hung that ship-name on me like a badge of shame. And then the Normandy helped us reclaim our homeworld. It's time I returned the favor." Tali says.

"Thanks Tali." Shepard says, giving her a smile.

Tali nods her head as she turns to walk back to the table, Shepard then turns his attention over to EDI as he begins walking over to her. EDI takes notice of Shepard approaching as she walks over to greet him, "Shepard, I have a question." she says as she rests her hands behind her back.

"Is it a big or small one?" Shepard asks.

"It is important. Its relevance would be diminished at any other time." EDI says.

"Ask away then." Shepard says.

"In this battle, the Reapers have no reason not to use their full capabilities to destroy us. Their forces are in entrenched positions. They have superior firepower and outnumber our forces, especially with Cerberus and their own army of allies from across the multiverse now assisting them. And even if we were to somehow defeat their current forces here, the probability of them calling for an endless number of reinforcements from across ours and all the other universes that would most likely overwhelm us is most definitely high. Which is something we have even somewhat prepared for should it happen. My question is: What makes you think we can reach the Conduit at all?" EDI asks.

"The Reapers have the Citadel. They have their own army of allies, and as you said, they most likely have an endless army of reinforcements to call in should things start going our way. We've prepared for that potentially happening, but will being ready for it be enough to put a stop to those reinforcements should they come, most likely not. It's as you said, they outnumber us, no matter how we look at it. They think they've already won, and that's the best time to hit them." Shepard explains.

"The Reapers may not know what our plan is. But Cerberus on the other hand, without a doubt they know what our main goal is. They will be ready for us. Without them, our chances of winning would have been much higher. But now that they are here… the chances of us losing, is about even." EDI points out.

"Are you afraid?" Shepard asks.

EDI remains silent for a few seconds, "Our probability for success is still greater than any other plan presented to date." she says.

"That's not what I asked… Are you afraid?" Shepard asks again.

"I do not understand the purpose of the question." EDI says.

"There's no room for doubt anymore EDI. You understand what we have to do, or you don't." Shepard explains.

"I am clear on what we must accomplish Shepard. The Reapers have destroyed thousands of civilizations." EDI says, she then looks over at the windows towards the Conduit for a few seconds before looking back.

"But they have never destroyed ours. Nor will they!" she states.

"Couldn't have put it better myself. Hope you're ready for when it's time to move out." Shepard says.

The Commander turns and begins to leave when, "Shepard? There is something I want you to know." EDI says to him, drawing his attention back to her as he walks back.

"The Illusive Man ordered my creation years ago. Jeff was the one who allowed me to think for myself… But only now do I feel alive. That is your influence." EDI says.

"Thanks EDI." Shepard says.

EDI nods her head as she turns and walks back to her computer console to continue her work. Now, there was just one more person Shepard wanted to talk to. Shepard turned to his right as he began walking over to the Master Chief. Chief picked up the Commander's approach as he turned around to face him, "Commander." he greets.

"Chief." Shepard greets back as he comes to a stop, finally getting a good look at the other armored individuals standing behind the SPARTAN-II.

"Friends of yours?" he asks.

Chief takes a step over to Shepard's right side as he stands sideways to give the Commander a look at the people he had been talking to.

"My team, actually." Chief looks at Shepard, "Commander Shepard, meet Blue Team." he says looking back at the armored people.

Standing before Shepard, were three other SPARTAN-II supersoldiers of the UNSC, all of them in what appeared to be different versions of the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor that Chief wore.

"Blue Team, this is Commander Shepard." Chief says introducing his team to Shepard.

"Commander, it's an honor to meet you. I'm Lieutenant Frederic-104." Lieutenant Frederic "Fred" Ellsworth greets as he and the rest of Blue Team stand at attention and salute Shepard.

"Petty Officer First Class Kelly-087, at your service, Commander." Kelly Shaddock greets.

"Petty Officer First Class Linda-058, sir." Linda Pravdin states.

Shepard salutes them back, "You didn't mention you had a team." he says looking at Chief out of the corner of his eye.

"We were separated during the Reapers initial invasion of our Earth. They managed to make it aboard the Infinity before the retreat, and then you asked me to join your team, and I figured we were trying to remain small so I decided not to bring them along. Until Po, and the others joined." Chief explains.

"Captain Lasky assigned us to assist the 1st Marine Division in their assault on London. Chief was originally going to rejoin us for the landings, but then decided to rejoin you instead when he heard you were going to be among those being deployed first to the planet." Fred explains.

"I suppose he proved very helpful for you, Commander?" Linda asks.

"Yes indeed. Helped us quite a bit when we had to make an emergency landing to destroy the Hades Cannon here in London." Shepard says.

"That's our Chief for yah." Kelly says.

Chief walks back over to them, "This is where we part ways for the rest of the battle, Shepard. I'm going to rejoin my team from here and follow the original mission, which is to assist the Marines as we hit the rest of London to hopefully draw some of the heat off of you and your forces as you make the charge on the Conduit." he explains.

"I understand Chief. And Chief, should something happen to me, and I don't get a chance to see you again after this is all over. I just wanted to let you know how great of a help you've been to me and my team. You were the first official hero to join us on our mission across the multiverse, and before the others joined, even afterwards, you were a tremendous help to us. I can definitely say without a doubt, without you, all those difficult situations we found ourselves in, we definitely would have never been able to get out of them without your help. Even if we did, they wouldn't nearly have been as easy, even the chance things might have ended differently, and in the bad sense. You're a great soldier Chief, and even if you won't admit it, you're also a great friend. I do hope to see you again after this is all over." Shepard says as he smiles.

Chief remains silent for several seconds, "Same with you, Shepard." he finally says.

Shepard then stands at attention again and salutes him, "Good luck out there, and give them hell Spartan!" he says.

Chief stands at attention and salutes him back, "You too, Commander."

Queensland, Australia…

Brisbane…

Crimson Fox threw her body sideways to the left to dodge an axe swung down at her by a Bat soldier as she then punched the Bat across the face, Commander Steel lifted and threw a Haradrim soldier away as he then faced back forward to see a Tartaros soldier charging him, the Justice League hero kneeing the demon soldier in the stomach as he then punched him across the face sending him to the ground. Behind him to his left, Wildcat backed away as he ducked beneath the swing of a Husk's claw and retaliated with an uppercut.

"Sai Cutters!" Jun'ichi Aikawa, Green Sai, of the Choujuu Sentai Liveman shouts as he brings out his dual boomerang weapons.

"Bison Rod!" Tetsuya Yano, Black Bison, shouts as he brings out his staff weapon.

"Dolphin Arrow!" Megumi Misaki, Blue Dolphin, shouts bringing out her bow.

"Lion Bazooka!" Joh Ohara, Yellow Lion, shouts as he brings out his weapon.

Green Sai tosses both boomerangs forward as they become enveloped by green energy, followed by Blue Dolphin firing a barrage of blue energy arrows, Yellow Lion a barrage of yellow energy bolts, and Black Bison as both ends of his staff become enveloped by purple energy which he swings around releasing multiple purple energy slashes. Their attacks slam into a large group of enemy soldiers taking them out in a large explosion.

"Falcon Saber!" Yusuke Amamiya, Red Falcon, shouts as he brings out his saber which then becomes enveloped by red energy at the blade, "Falcon Break!" he shouts as he raises and swings it downwards. Delivering a downwards energy slash as he strikes a Jiralhanae War Chieftain, causing the Brute to roar out in pain as he then explodes.

Eiji Hino, Kamen Rider OOO inserts three Cell Medals one by one into his sword Medajaribur as he pushes the lever transferring them into the crystal unit of the blade, he then grabs the O Scanner and slides it across the flat-side of the blade scanning the three medals, "Triple Scanning Charge!"

OOO bends his knees as he holds his sword to the right side of his body, "Ah~, Seiya!" he shouts as he swings it diagonally upwards to his left releasing a silver energy slash that cuts through all the enemy soldiers in front of him, causing them to cry out in pain as they begin flailing their arms around. At the same time, the energy slash also appears to cut through the fabric of reality itself as everything above the enemy soldiers slides upwards for a few seconds before then realigning itself back to normal as the enemy soldiers then explode. Seeing the enemy soldiers dealt with, Eiji looks off to his left as he holds his sword at the ready once again and charges off to engage more enemy troops.

Shepard approaches Anderson at the war table as the admiral leaned over with his hands on it, "Commander." Anderson greets, raising his head to look at him.

"Admiral." Shepard greets back.

"Just going over the sitrep." Anderson says.

"How's it look?" Shepard asks.

Anderson presses a button on the map as the buildings on it become outlines, yellow-orangish circles popping up along with red markers appearing above them marking the center of the circles as a bunch of words and numbers could be seen.

"The first wave took the most casualties, 50% wiped out, 30% wounded, only 20% are combat effective. Second wave fared a bit better, only 30% casualties, 10% wounded, 60% combat effective. And finally the third wave that just arrived, 15% lost, 5% wounded, 80% combat effective. And just to remind you, this is only for the forces gathering here. Let's just hope things are faring better in the other theaters. The fourth wave just deployed, which finally they're bringing in some armor units. It's… good, but with what we're going to be going up against, we need better numbers." Anderson explains.

"I just talked to one of the heroes fighting up in space, they're keeping the corridors open for Hammer to get through. So we still got more troops on the way. With any luck the rest of our forces here in London are trying to deal with the remaining anti-air weapons so that the rest of Hammer can safely land without having to worry about those guns." Shepard says.

"It could be a lot worse. And with more troops still on the way, it's nice knowing we'll be having some more backup soon at least. But we can't wait any longer. I say, with what we've got, we're ready to start the assault. The rest of Hammer will just have to catch up." Anderson says.

"At least we won't have to worry about our flanks becoming exposed. The rest of the incoming waves can cover our rears as we move forward." Major Coats says.

"I agree. Every minute wasted here; the Reapers gather strength." Shepard states as he leans on the table, a serious look coming to his face.

"Exactly my thoughts." Anderson says, he then puts his right hand to his ear as he activates his communicator, "All Battalion commanders, report to HQ."

After several minutes, all the Battalion COs from the Resistance, and Coalition forces gather in the war room and around the war table, the rest of Shepard's teammates, as well as Chief and Blue Team, Wrex, and Primarch Victus included. The large holomap now showed an image of the Conduit and the buildings surrounding it.

"We fought hard to get here. But now the toughest part of our mission begins." Anderson begins as he steps towards the war table, "We've got to drive right through the heart of Reaper-controlled territory, break past their defenses, and get to that beam!" he states as he points at the Conduit.

"What kind of defenses?" Shepard asks.

Anderson swipes his right hand to the left above the holomap as this drags the view to a different part of the city, one that was very open with very few buildings in it, "The entire area is crawling with Reaper, Cerberus, and other enemy allied forces. We're hoping the rest of the 1st Marines assault on the rest of London will draw some of their forces away, but we aren't expecting much as the enemy will most likely focus the majority of their forces trying to protect every approach towards the Conduit no matter what. But right now our biggest concern is the Destroyer protecting the beam itself." as Anderson says this, a red holo image of a Reaper Destroyer appears on the map.

"Can we bring in air support to deal with it?" Major Coats asks.

"Negative. Too many anti-air guns in the area, our fighters would never make it. We'll have to take it out from the ground. We have several artillery variants of the M-080 armed with Thanix missiles, they should do the trick." Anderson explains. Anderson turns his attention back to the holomap as he begins waving his hand over it again moving its location, "Now they've cut a swath, a no-man's-land, through the city. We'll have to cross that first." he continues ending the map in another open area.

He then begins swiping his hand back in the direction of the Destroyer, "There'll be some limited shelter on the other side, but expect heavy ground resistance. We'll have to get our tanks to here." he says, ending at the edge of a number of buildings that were basically in front of the Reaper.

"Once we've got the Destroyer in our sights, we've got a shot at taking it out." Anderson finishes, the holomap showing a red image of a Thanix missile being fired as it flies towards and impacts into the Destroyer taking it out in a large, red "explosion".

"How much of a shot?" Major Coats asks.

Anderson leans up, "They know we're coming. This will be a one-way trip for many of us. But there can be no retreat, no stepping back. We move forward at all costs! Understood?" he questions everyone.

"Oorah!" the US, UNSC, and Systems Alliance Marines all yell out in unison and agreement, as the other commanding officers from the other armies just cheer in agreement.

"Hooyah! Yes sir!" Shepard responds as he stands at attention and salutes.

"Johnson, Coats. You two will coordinate the artillery units. Everyone else, dismissed. Prepare your troops to move out!" Anderson orders, Coats and another Systems Alliance Officer saluting the admiral before taking their leave as everyone else begins heading towards the door. Primarch Victus, Wrex, and Blue Team included, as both Chief, and Wrex look over at Shepard one last time and nod their heads, wishing the Commander luck as Shepard nods back.

Anderson then turns his attention and takes a few steps towards Shepard, "Shepard. I'm sending you right up the gut where the resistance is heaviest. Support the tanks as best as you can, but stay alive. I need you for the final push to the beam." he says as he walks over to his left side.

"I'll give you a minute with your squad." he says, the Admiral then giving Shepard a pat on the back as he takes his leave.

Shepard looks to see his teammates gathering before him at the center of the room, he makes his way around to the other end of the table where Anderson just was as he faces towards them, "This war has brought us pain, suffering, and loss." he begins as he walks to his right.

"But it's also brought us together… as soldiers, as allies, as friends." he makes his way around to the front of the table, "This bond that ties us together is something that the Reapers, that Cerberus, or any of those other evil armies or organizations, will never understand." he comes to a stop.

"It's more powerful than any weapon, stronger than any ship. It can't be taken or destroyed. The next few hours will decide the fate of everyone, not just in our galaxy… but throughout the multiverse." Shepard continues as he then begins walking towards them, his teammates moving aside as he begins walking through them, looking at each and every one of them.

"Every mother. Every son. Every unborn child. They're trusting you… depending on you, to win them their future." Shepard makes his way over to the window as his teammates, and friends keep their focus on him.

Shepard turns around to face them again, "A future free from the threat of the Reapers! But take heart. Look around you. You're not in this fight alone. We face our enemy together, and together we will defeat them!"


M-080 APCs and M-35 Makos roll down the street, some of them driving right over the tough terrain of the rubble covering the roads with no issue as Admiral Anderson walks forward and comes to a stop, turning around to look behind him as he then waves his rifle forward. Coalition troops begin rushing past him as they push forward, after a few seconds Anderson looks around to make sure everyone was moving before continuing forward himself. A US, male Turian, and Systems Alliance Marine find cover behind two separate, knocked over pillars as they aim their weapons down the street and open fire, them and other marines shooting down a number of Reaper Husks as the Husks attempt to charge the attacking marines only to be cut down. A Clone Marine walks out from behind cover armed with a Z-6 Rotary blaster cannon as he spins the weapon up and lets loose a barrage of blue laser bolts, his and other marines gunfire cutting down even more Husks that appear. An Asari tosses her frag grenade at a Gondor archer who catches it, he and the Turian marine next to him, both priming the grenades as they then lob them towards the Husks as both grenades go off taking out the last batch of Reaper troops. The vehicles continue driving down the road, followed by the marines.

Elsewhere, Shepard and his team drop down into what appeared to be a damaged construction site. The team takes cover as in front of them were a number of Reaper Cannibals, their backs facing towards them giving the group the element of surprise as they began taking aim with their weapons, waiting for the go ahead from Shepard to engage. Shepard got up against a pillar as he peeked out around it to see the two Cannibals that were in front of him, he looked across from him to see Ashley as she looked back at him and nodded her head, signaling that she, and the others were all ready. This was it, the final push, the final stretch. Shepard closed his eyes and took a deep, silent breath. He opened his eyes back up, a serious look in them as he then peeked out around the corner and raised his gun, "Open fire!" he orders as he pulls his trigger.

Cairo, Egypt…

A high-velocity slug impacted into a slab of concrete followed a few seconds later by another projectile, from behind the rubble Laval, and Eris poked their heads up. Further down the road from their position were the enemy troops of the Reapers, Cerberus, and their allied forces, an Imperial All Terrain Scout Transport, marching towards them as it fired its Taim & Bak MS-4 twin blaster cannon. Behind the AT-ST, two Separatist Armored Assault Tanks as they fired their heavy laser cannons at the Heroes and Coalition forces. One of the AAT's shots impacted close to a group of Coalition soldiers taking cover behind some rubble as they remained unharmed, just then Doctor Fate of the Justice League flew in and came to a stop, hovering several feet in the air as he spread his arms out and conjured up a large glowing golden ankh in front of him that then proceeded to block several of the AT-ST's, and AATs' shots. A GMC Pickup Truck drove in and slid to a stop, a few Coalition soldiers in the back hopping off as the vehicle then began to transform, becoming the Autobot Ironhide.

As Doctor Fate continued using his magic to block the enemy walker and tanks' shots, Ironhide rushed to his right side as he took aim with his Radial rocket cannon and fired. The rockets flew towards and impacted into the AT-ST, blowing its head apart as the rest of its body collapsed over to the ground. From various other covers, the Autobot sisters Arcee, Chromia, and Elita-One fired their machine guns alongside Coalition troops; Rogon, Bladvic, and Razar, along with King Crominus, Crawley, and Crug of the Crocodile Tribe, also returning fire with their Pulse Blasters as Worriz, and Cragger charged forward with a few soldiers. A second later, Hawkgirl touched down to Laval, and Eris's left catching their attention, "Hawkgirl!" Eris says.

"Hey you two, mind if I join you here?" Shayera rhetorically asks.

A Collector trooper is shot dead as the AATs continue forward while firing their cannons, all of a sudden both tanks explode without warning. The three heroes turn their heads, "What was that?" Eris questions as they had heard some loud booms erupt from behind them.

A US Army soldier who was prone on some grass turned his head along with several others as he spotted something that made a large smile come to his face, "WE GOT ARMOR!" he cried out in joy.

From the rear, a number of Coalition vehicles begin to roll or walk up, at the front an M1A2 Abrams, and a M820 Scorpion Main Battle Tanks, a UNSC soldier firing the MG of the Scorpion while the M2HB .50 cal on the Abrams was mounted on a Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station, CROWS, and also fired at the enemy troops. A Red Templar Guard attempted to provide some cover with his shield only for a .50 caliber round to rip right through his head, popping it like a pimple as the rest of the now headless body fell backwards to the ground; the remaining enemy soldiers began to retreat as the Coalition gunfire took several more of them down. A Galactic Republic All Terrain Tactical Enforcer walker fired its mass driver cannon as the shot impacted into a group of enemy soldiers taking them out; the sight of the armor arriving and beginning to drive back the enemy forces caused many of the Coalition soldiers to begin cheering, some of them raising their weapons into the air.

"Now these odds I like." Hawkgirl says with a smile on her lips, as then Laval and Eris begin running towards the arriving vehicles.

The column of Coalition vehicles, along with more arriving troops push forward as the rest of the soldiers begin to join up with them. Among the arriving vehicles were a couple of Gorilla Striker mechs, with Gorzan leading at the front, "Gorzan!" he heard the voice of Laval call to him.

Making the Gorilla stop his mech in its tracks as the others continued past him, Gorzan looked down to his left to see his two friends running up to him, "Oh, hey Laval. Looked like you dudes could use some help." he says.

"And I'd say you guys arrived just in time." Laval says, he puts his hands to his hips, "I mean we weren't in that big of trouble. But your guys' arrival definitely helped us to start pushing them back again. Now we just gotta keep this momentum going."

"Easier said than done. Based on what we've encountered so far, these guys have their defensive positions all planned out. We push them back, they regroup at another position, and then it's another long, drawn out battle like this one." Eris says.

"Yeah, I've noticed. But with any luck, now that we got our vehicles helping us out, perhaps we might be able to gain some ground a lot more quickly than before." Laval says.

"Some ground yes." Laval and Eris look to their side as Ironhide approaches, "But it won't be long until they report to their friends in the back that we've got some armor support now. Highly doubt that they wouldn't have prepared for that happening, the fact we haven't run into many weapons meant for them yet means that they're holding them back. Bet they'll start bringing them out now though. We'll probably have this momentum for a little while, but eventually it's going to come to a stop again until we've dealt with whatever these bad guys have got planned for us." he says.

"It doesn't matter what they throw at us. It's as you said, we just need to deal with it, however we can." Laval says while looking up at him, he then turns his attention towards Eris as she notices this and looks back, "Shepard and the others are probably going through the same difficulties we are, maybe more. And if they can find a way to get past any obstacles these guys can throw at them, then so can we!" he states, a serious look in his eyes.

"Heh, now that's something I like to hear. So long as everyone else here shares that kind of attitude, ain't nothing going to stop us." Ironhide says as he turns and walks away.

"By the way Laval, your father asked us to bring this to you." Gorzan says as he points off to his left.

Two Gorilla Strikers walk up pulling something behind them by rope as they then drop them, "Hey, it's my father's tank!" Laval says. The two Gorilla mechs untie the ropes from the Royal Fighter and walk off as Laval and Eris run up to it, "Wonder why my father is giving it to me instead of using it himself?" Laval questions.

"We could just ask him after this war is over." Eris says as she looks at him.

She then notices a worried look appear on Laval's face as he lowers his head, "I hope he's doing alright." he says.

A saddened expression comes to Eris's face as she stares at him, she puts her right hand on his left shoulder getting his attention, "I'm sure he's doing fine Laval. Don't worry, you'll see him again. We'll see everyone again when this is all over." she reassures him as she gives him a small smile.

After a few seconds Laval smiles back, "Thanks, Eris." he says.

"No problem." Eris replies as she lowers her arm, "Now, why don't you drive, and I'll shoot." she says with a smirk appearing on her beak.

Kanagawa, Japan…

Hiratsuka…

Ryo Murasame, Kamen Rider ZX performs a jumping side kick knocking an Easterling to the ground. ZX then turns around and takes out his Micro Chain weapon, "Micro Chain!" he shouts.

Throwing the claw end of it forward and wrapping it around two Red Templar Knights, and a Horror as the three attempt to break free but to no avail. Ryo then sends a red electrical shockwave surging through the chain as it hits and electrocutes the three Red Templars causing them to roar out in pain, ZX drops his chain and launches himself high into the air. Ryo then throws his right arm upwards to his side at an angle while throwing his left arm across his body to the right as well, ZX becomes surrounded by an aura of red energy which then transfers down into his right leg and disappears.

"ZX Kick!" he yells out while throwing his right leg outwards, coming down towards the Red Templars as he delivers his Rider Kick into them taking them out in a large explosion.

Ryu Hayabusa charges towards a Jiralhanae Captain Ultra, the Jiralhanae firing his Type-25 Brute shot after the ninja as the shots flew past and impacted around Ryu who ran from side to side dodging the incoming explosive projectiles. The Brute pulled the trigger again, only to discover he had already fired all six of his shots as he looked down at it and then let out a resounding, angry roar, the Jiralhanae then charging towards Ryu as he pulled his weapon back ready to strike him with its blade. The two rapidly closed in on each other as the Brute swung its weapon at Ryu, the Dragon Ninja however launching himself forward in a high-speed dash as in the blink of an eye he disappeared, and reappeared a few feet behind the Jiralhanae who came to a stop after a few seconds. Ryu stood bent down with his Dragon Sword drawn and swung out to his right side as then a few more seconds later, blood came exploding out from the Jiralhanae who then collapsed to his knees before falling over dead. Ryu stood up and sheathed his sword away.

Tsukasa raised his Ride Booker Sword Mode sideways to block a downwards strike from a Alvarez soldier's sword as he then pushed him aside to his left and side kicked him in the back, behind him a Rohirrim, and a female Dalish Elf engaged a Cerberus Phantom, and Wolf soldier. A Dai-Shocker Dogma Fighter charged Decade from his right as Tsukasa took notice of this and simply spun around to his right while swinging his sword striking the Dogma Fighter; suddenly an Orc pounced onto Decade's back bringing him to the ground. Tsukasa quickly recovered and grabbed his sword as he turned onto his back just in time as the Orc had also recovered and was just about to drive its sword right into the Kamen Rider, when a green-armored foot kicked the Orc away.

Kamen Rider Double hopped over the still downed Decade as Tsukasa began pushing himself back up, "Cyclone, Trigger!"

Double took aim with his Trigger Magnum and unleashed a barrage of light green high compressed air bullets shooting down a number of enemy soldiers, the Orc included, saving a downed Earth soldier, and a Salarian engaged with an Uruk. Tsukasa got back on his feet behind Shotaro, "You alright, Tsukasa?" Double/Shotaro asks, turning his head to look back at him.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Tsukasa replies while walking up to him, suddenly putting his right hand on the side of Double's head as he pushed it aside, placed his Ride Booker now in Gun Mode on his shoulder and fired a single shot taking out a cloaked Cerberus Phantom.

Double/Shotaro letting out a yelp as Tsukasa lowered his arm and walked away allowing Shotaro to turn around in shock at what had just happened, "Missed one by the way." Tsukasa says.

"Tch, wiseass." Double/Shotaro comments.

Just then both ZX, and Ryu dropped down behind Double catching his, and Decade's attention, "Armor support from the fourth wave has just arrived, along with more reinforcements." Ryo says.

"About damn time, might make things a little easier now." Double/Shotaro says.

"Doubtful. If we're lucky, for a little bit. But the tide of battle hasn't changed by much. We're still taking losses." Ryu says as he crosses his arms.

"Even if the tide were to change here, it's not like this is the battle that's important. The battle that does matter, the one that needs to turn in our favor, is the one that's occurring over in London." Tsukasa says as he turns around to face them.

"He's got a point. Even if we were to win this battle, if the Commander and them lose the battle over there, then our victory here wouldn't matter. If they're defeated, we're all defeated." Double/Philip speaks.

"That may be the case, but we still have a reason to fight over here. So that our enemy cannot focus all of their efforts in defending just that city alone. Every enemy that's focused on us over here, is one less enemy the Commander and our friends, and allies have to deal with over there." Ryo points out.

"Yeah, it may not feel like much fighting over here compared to over there. But we're still fighting the bad guys, and helping the Commander and his team out to some degree. And I can get behind that." Double/Shotaro says.

"I suppose…" Tsukasa says as he looks away.

Alberta, Canada…

Edmonton…

The Choudenshi Bioman team fought against enemy soldiers on top of and around a knocked over, destroyed building. Hikaru Katsuragi, Pink5, spun around and dropped onto her left knee as two Uruk-hai, and a Darkspawn Hurlock attacked her with their swords, "Pink Barrier!" she shouts, summoning a pink energy barrier around her that blocks their attacks while knocking them back.

Allowing Pink5 to stand up as she took out her Bio Sword in gun mode and fired pink energy blasts taking out the Uruks and Hurlock. Shingo Takasugi, Green2, jumped and planted his hands on the shoulders of a Husk to launch himself over the creature, landing behind it as he threw a back kick into the Husk sending it to the ground followed by a spinning heel kick to the head of a charging X-Borg. Behind the X-Borg was two Super Battle droids as they both aimed their wrist blasters at Green2, only for a large silver hammer, and mace to slam into both droids destroying them, the two weapons retracting back as Green2 followed them to their owner, Rex Mason, the Justice League hero Metamorpho. Daisy Johnson, also known as Quake threw her arms forward releasing a circular blue energy wave that slammed into and blasted away a large group of enemy soldiers; a Venatori Brute swings his great axe at Hawkeye forcing him to flip backwards as he lands on the ground in a crouched position and slides back a few feet, coming to a stop as Jun Yabuki, Yellow4, jumps in behind him armed with her Bio Arrow bow. Yellow4 pulls a yellow energy arrow back while Hawkeye pulls back one of his trick arrows as both archers release their strings, sending their arrows flying towards the Venatori Brute and group of enemy soldiers as they impact into and explode, taking the group of enemy troops out.

Kazuma Kenzaki, Kamen Rider Blade, slashes a Darkspawn Shriek across the chest as he then charges forward and thrusts his Rousing Sword Blay Rouzer into a Death Eater. To his right Ryuuta Nanbara, Blue3, engages a Foot Ninja with his Bio Sword, the Foot Ninja driving Blue3 back a little before Ryuuta sidesteps to his right and thrusts his sword into the Foot Ninja sending him flying to the ground. Blue3 straightens himself as Blade rushes over and joins alongside him to his left, Kazuma extends the Open Tray on his sword as he then grabs two of his Rouse Cards and slides them one by one along the Reader on the blade section, "Slash! Thunder! Lightning Slash!"

"Elec-Sword!" Ryuuta shouts holding his sword up to his right side.

Both Blade, and Blue3's swords become enveloped by blue electrical energy as they then raise their weapons and swing them down, striking a Jiralhanae Ultra, and a Reaper Praetorian as both roar out in pain before exploding.

"Time to start off with the first climax of the day. My Special Attack, Part 1!" Momotaros-Ryotaro, Kamen Rider Den-O says as he holds his Rider Pass over his belt, "Full Charge!"

"Fire Sword!" Shirou Gou, Red1, shouts as the blade of his sword becomes enveloped by flames.

The blade of Den-O's DenGasher, in Sword Form, detaches from the rest of the weapon and floats a few feet into the air, still attached to the hilt by a stream of red electrical energy as Momotaros-Ryotaro swings the blade downwards striking a group of enemy soldiers charging towards him. Then swinging the weapon to his left and across to his right delivering another strike to them, as behind him Red1 swings his flaming sword downwards striking an attacking Olog-hai troll causing it to explode at the same time as the enemy soldiers Den-O was attacking also explode from his final strike. Both Den-O, and Red1 straighten themselves as M-Ryotaro shoulders his reattached sword in a satisfied manner.

Berlin, Germany…

Moabit…

Justice League members Nemesis, Hourman, and Elongated Man formed a line, spread several feet apart from each other as they engaged attacking enemy troops; Nemesis firing his pistol a few times before having to reload as to his right, Hourman punched away an attacking Husk followed by another Husk to his right. Elongated Man stretched his upper body forward through the air, coming down a little bit as he threw and stretched his enlarged left fist to his right into a Drophyd Trooper, before then throwing his right enlarged fist directly in front of him at a charging Abomination punching it away.

"Stick Boomerang!" Haruna Morikawa, Pink Turbo shouts as her W Stick baton weapon becomes enveloped by pink energy which she then throws like a boomerang.

The W Stick flies through the air while spinning around striking a number of enemy soldiers as they are sent to the ground. Behind the downed enemy soldiers, the rest of the Kousoku Sentai Turboranger team engages more enemy troops; Youhei Hama, Blue Turbo, and Shunsuke Hino, Yellow Turbo, firing their respective J Gun machine gun, and B Bowgun crossbow weapons at a charging group of enemy soldiers, while Daichi Yamagata, Black Turbo, launches himself high into the air and swings his T Hammer downwards striking a Reaper Ravager causing it to explode.

"GT Crash!" Riki Honoo, Red Turbo shouts as the blade of his GT Sword becomes covered in blue energy. Riki then proceeds to slowly move the sword around in front of him forming a blue energy circle, once complete dark red flames erupt behind him as he then swings the sword diagonally downwards to his right, followed by down to his left. Both energy slashes hit a group of enemy soldiers causing them to cry out in pain before they explode.

From a crouched position Shinnosuke Tomari, Kamen Rider Drive fires his Door-Ju gun a couple of times taking out a small group of charging enemy soldiers; Drive then stands up and turns to his left, discarding his weapon as he then holds up the Shift Formula Shift Car. Shinnosuke turns the Advanced Ignition key on the Drive Driver as he then rotates the Shift Formula car into its Lever Mode, inserting it into the Shift Brace's Shift Landing Panel as he lifts it up and back down, "Drive: Type Formula!"

Drive changes into his Type Formula form as he then rapidly lifts up and down the Shift Formula car three more times, "F-F-Formula!" Mr. Belt announces, as Shinnosuke bursts forward at high speeds becoming a blue blur.

The car-themed Rider speeds around the battlefield as he hits enemy soldier after enemy soldier, sending all of them flying to the ground while also saving a few Coalition soldiers in the process as eventually Shinnosuke slides to a stop with his knees bent and his arms stretched out to his sides.

"Nice Drive!" Krim Steinbelt says.

Pyongyang, Korea…

The Autobot Skids spins around while swinging a Separatist AAT that was attached to his grappling hook, "Here yah go you a-holes, have your stupid tank back!" he shouts as he releases the tank sending it flying.

The AAT slams into a Drophyd Enforcer taking it out. While standing sideways in the middle of the street, Mudflap fires his Radial arm gun to his right before aiming down to his left and firing at another group of enemy soldiers taking them out; in front of him on the sidewalk was the Justice League hero Hawk as he ran forward and punched an Uruk across the face sending it flying to the ground. Behind Mudflap on the other sidewalk was Hawk's brother, Dove as he swung his body to the right dodging a downwards swing from a Venatori Brute's greataxe, Dove kneeing the Brute in the stomach causing him to hunch over as he followed with an elbow to the back of the head finally dropping the Venatori Brute. A Cyclonian charged Luke Cage as he swung his staff down at the Hero for Hire, upon contact with his head however the upper part of his staff broke off due to Cage's indestructible skin, the Cyclonian looked at the broken section of his staff with a confused look on his face before Luke grabbed him by the collar, lifted him and punched him in the face sending the Cyclonian flying. Iron Fist threw a front kick into a charging Cerberus assault trooper's stomach before then jumping and throwing a roundhouse kick across his face sending him flying off to the side; upon dropping back to the ground Iron Fist threw his left arm back elbow striking an attacking Uruk Berserker as he then channeled his chi into his right fist, covering it in red energy as he then spun around and delivered his iron-powered punch into the Berserker's face.

Kamen Riders ZO, and J fight close to one another as they take down a few attacking enemy soldiers; ZO throwing a roundhouse kick into a Stormtrooper followed by a spinning heel kick across the face of a Commando droid, while J punched a Scorpion soldier and then looked over his left shoulder to see a Nindroid coming towards him as he threw a back kick knocking the Nindroid to the ground. A Marauder appeared a few feet away and took aim at the two Riders when Ant-Man enlarged himself back to normal and punched the Reaper Husk across the face.

Huế, Vietnam…

Storm Skyress let out a mighty roar as she flew over the city of Huế, "Lightning Talon!" she yells as she fires a beam of green energy from between her blade-tipped tails. The energy beam impacts into the street as Skyress drags it upwards towards the enemy forces and slams it into them, causing a large explosion that takes out many of the troops along with a few vehicles.

On another street, Nick Fury, Clay Quartermain, and several other Coalition troops engage an advancing group of enemy soldiers, Fury, and Quartermain fire their Laser Rifles as they find theirs and everyone else's shots blocked by enemy shields. Fury places his rifle on the ground as he takes out two frag grenades, "Quartermain!" he calls to his agent, catching his attention as he underhand tosses one of the grenades to him which Quartermain catches.

The two pull the pins of the grenades and lob them at the enemy as they fly right over the shield wall, both grenades going off a few seconds later taking a number of enemy troops out while also breaking open the shield wall. Just then Grand Enchanter Fiona leaps forward between the two SHIELD agents as she slams her stave onto the ground, shooting a bolt of lightning from the top as it impacts into a B2 Super Battle droid before then arcing into several other enemy soldiers surrounding the B2, causing some of them to cry out in pain before collapsing to the ground still surging with electricity.

War Machine flies through the air as he fires both his left-shoulder mounted missile launcher, and his right-shoulder mounted minigun down towards the street below taking out a number of enemy troops and a few vehicles. Yamato Kazakiri, Zyuoh Eagle swings his EagRiser sword as the blade extends forward into a whip which he uses to strike a group of enemy soldiers in front of him from right to left, and then from left to right causing them to explode, behind them the rest of the Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger team fight more enemy troops. Zyuoh Eagle jumps forward landing close to his team as he turns back around and swings his sword striking a charging Abomination and then raises his EagRiser sideways to his right to block an attack from a Gormin as he pushes the cudgel away and counters with a downwards slash.

Misao Mondou, Zyuoh the World in his Rhinos form, rolls across the ground recovering into a crouched position as he then jumps up and throws both legs forward kicking a charging Easterling back. Misao picks himself back up as the rest of the team, Sela, Zyuoh Shark, Leo, Zyuoh Lion, Tusk, Zyuoh Elephant, and Amu, Zyuoh Tiger group up around him, "Everyone, let's blast them together!" he says raising his right fist.

"Yeah!" the rest of the Zyuohgers agree.

"Wild Instinct, Awaken!" Misao shouts as he hits the button at the base of his flashlight-based transformation device, the Three Beasts Awakening Zyuoh The Light, and then rotates the Changer's cube to the Wolf side, "OHHHHHH~! OH~! WOLF!" changing him into his Wolf Form as he takes out his Zyuoh The GunRod in Gun Mode, at the same time as the others take out their Zyuoh Busters in Blaster Mode.

"Zyuoh Shoo~t!"

"Zyuoh The Bur~st!"

The five Zyuohgers aim their weapons forward while charging them up as they then fire large cubic energy blasts that slam into a large group of enemy soldiers taking them out. Wolverine launches himself forward through the air as he flies towards and thrusts both of his adamantium claws into two Hurlock Alpha Darkspawns taking them out as both they, and Wolverine drop to the ground, James then pulling his claws out as he rolls forward across the ground and jumps away again to take out more enemy soldiers. Off to his right, Shinji Kido, Kamen Rider Ryuki swings his Dragsaber down to his left striking a Foot Ninja before then spinning around in time to engage a Wolf soldier as he runs in behind the Kamen Rider, Ryuki side kicks the Wolf soldier as he stumbles back and recovers, raising his spear forward as he charges Ryuki once again. Shinji dashes forward as he swings his Dragsaber striking the side of the Wolf as sparks fly and he is sent spiraling to the ground; Ryuki turns back around as he raises his Dragsaber up to his right side beside his face with a grunt.

"Clear a path!" Sideswipe shouts as he comes around the corner from another street and rolls his way down the current one past Coalition forces.

A Covenant Type-58 Wraith fires its plasma mortar while a Sangheili Minor fires the plasma cannon, Sideswipe continues rolling his way along the street towards the Wraith as the plasma mortar's shot flies over him. A Gondor archer pops up from behind some rubble and releases an arrow as it flies into the Sangheili's neck, killing him instantly. Sideswipe spins around and swings his right sword cutting through the center of the Wraith like butter as he rolls past it and comes to a stop a few feet away, the Wraith exploding behind him, "Damn, I'm really good." he says.

Washington, DC...

Max Tennyson and Rook Blonko along with a number of Coalition soldiers fired at the enemy troops.

S.T.R.I.P.E. of the Justice League fired his suit's finger-tip guns to his left before aiming to his right, just as then Lance, and Ilana, in their respective Manus, and Corus armors landed to his left with Lance firing off a barrage of missiles and Ilana firing her armor's repulsior beam from the chest. Kevin Levin backed up into S.T.R.I.P.E. as he then placed his right hand on his back, absorbing the material of his armor becoming metallic white with a few red stripes as Kevin then charged forward. A Techno soldier, and Grimoire Heart mage fired energy, and magic blasts at the Osmosian as the shots had no effect on his metallic body, Kevin closed the distance as he threw a right hook at the Grimoire Heart mage, punching him across the face before turning his attention on the Techno soldier. Kevin charged the Techno soldier as he threw his left fist straight through the Techno soldier's chest, ripping through it with no issue as he then transformed his arm into a blade and pulled it upwards cutting it apart.

Gwen Tennyson floated in the air on a pink mana energy construct of a platform, firing energy blasts down at the enemy soldiers below as behind her, Stargirl flew up firing a white energy blast from her Cosmic Staff. Vigilante dived to his right while firing his revolvers taking out an Orc archer, HYDRA, and Spider soldier, hitting the ground in a roll as he recovered back onto his feet and dashed for cover behind a destroyed skycar. Enemy projectiles began impacting into his cover as Gregory started reloading his revolvers, just then a Shriek uncloaked itself to his left catching his attention, the Darkspawn lunged at the cowboy hero but before it could stab him an arrow flew into the side of its head, killing the Darkspawn instantly as it fell against the skycar. Vigilante looked to where the arrow came from to see the American Revolutionary War assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton, Connor standing atop a pile of rubble as he lowered his bow, the destroyed Washington Monument and many pillars of smoke rising in the background.

A Husk that was standing on top of a damaged skycar, and an Abomination that was in front of it were both shot dead.

Southwark, London…

William Lennox, Robert Epps, and King Éomer ran up towards it as enemy projectiles flew around them, one high-velocity slug impacting into Éomer's shield as he had it raised in front of his head. The three dropped behind it as both Lennox, and Epps aimed their assault rifles over the top and fired at the enemy forces engaging them from several meters down the street; Epps fired his Noveske Rifleworks CQB while Lennox fired his Bushmaster ACR Carbine, Lennox managing to shoot down a HYDRA soldier as he ran across the street for cover. Lennox looked over his right shoulder, "Come on, push up!" he shouted before focusing back forward and firing another burst.

Behind them, the Coalition troops from the 501st Legion along with NEST pushed forward, soldiers from both units utilizing firing and cover while on the move.

Sora, Ahsoka, and their group ran down an empty street, the sounds of combat now very close to them as they approached an intersection with the roads going north, and east both blocked off by toppled buildings, and rubble. The group got up against a building on the left and moved along it until Ahsoka reached the corner making everyone come to a stop, Ahsoka cautiously peeked around it to see enemy soldiers engaged in combat with what was most likely their troops.

She pulled her head back and turned to look at Sora, Rex, and the others, "We got bad guys right in front of us most, likely engaging our people just around that corner." Ahsoka says while gesturing in the direction.

"We got the drop on them, and our boys and girls hitting them from their front. Poor bastards won't know what hit them." Fives says.

Rex turns his head to look back at his troops, "Alright men, time for us to join the fight. Spread out, find cover, and get ready to hit them on my mark." he orders.

Fives, Echo, and the other soldiers begin to move out as quickly and quietly as possible so they can set up for the ambush, Sora looks at Ahsoka, "Let's hit them from above while Rex and the others hit them from down here." he says.

Ahsoka was at first confused by this until Sora stepped away from the wall and then jumped high, he began literally running up the side of the building, "Kid's got a good idea." Rex says to Ahsoka before moving out.

Ahsoka looks and watches Rex head to cover before then looking up at Sora, she then bends her knees and force jumps into the air. Sora continues running up the building as he nears the top, only for Ahsoka to fly past behind him as she spins around in a ball and lands on the rooftop, the Keyblade wielder reaching it just a few seconds later as he jumped onto it, "What took you so long?" Ahsoka wittingly remarks as she heads to the other side to get a better view of the enemy troops below.

Sora shakes his head with a smirk as he follows behind her. The two peek over the ledge, sure enough there were their forces to the left, a lot of Coalition soldiers, and to the right, a lot of enemy troops with many more moving in behind them.

"Heads up Rex, got confirmation of friendlies. There's also a lot of bad guys right around the corner to your guys' right. Ready when you are." Ahsoka says over her wrist communicator.

"Copy that, Commander." Rex replies.

Ahsoka looks at Sora, "So, you ready?" she asks.

Sora looks back, a serious look on his face as he nods his head, "Good to know." Ahsoka says as she pulls out and activates her lightsaber, Sora summons his keyblade.

"Alright Fives, start us off." Rex orders as he looks over to him.

Fives, and Echo stood behind a pile of rubble, Pfc. Crain to their left crouched on his left knee as they all aimed down the sights of their weapons, Fives looked down the iron sight of his DC-15A blaster rifle as on his HUD was a graphical gun-sight that he used to zero in on a Cerberus Centurion crouched behind a destroyed skycar on the left side of the road. Fives pulled the trigger, and fired a blue laser bolt as it struck the Centurion directly on the side of his head, killing him instantly while attracting the attention of the X-Borg right next to him as Echo then fired next taking the X-Borg out.

"Open fire!" Rex shouts.

The platoon open fired with their weapons, a US Army soldier armed with a M240L, with its bipod deployed on the top of a damaged skycar, fired the medium machine gun sending 7.62x51mm NATO cartridges downrange as this plus the other projectiles took out a number of enemy soldiers before the rest began to realize what was going on.

Lennox, Epps, and Éomer spotted the gunfire that was flying out from the street to the right of the enemy's forward defense line, "What the hell's going on over there?" Epps questions.

"Looks like we got some friendlies hitting them from their side." Lennox says as he then looks over his shoulder again, "We got friendlies! Watch your fire and pour it on the enemy! Let 'em have it!" he shouts at the troops as he focuses back forward and resumes firing.

A Human male New Republic soldier fired his A280 blaster rifle as to his left a Clone began moving forward while firing his Z-6 rotary blaster cannon. A Cerberus assault trooper and Unggoy Minor returned fire at the Coalition forces as they and other enemy troops began to slowly pull back, the Unggoy receiving a laser bolt to the chest sending him spinning and falling to the ground dead as the Assault trooper continued firing his Cerberus Harrier. Just then both Sora, and Ahsoka launched themselves from the rooftop as they came down towards the Assault trooper, Ahsoka cutting off the front end of his gun with her lightsaber as Sora then spun around and swung his keyblade, striking the Assault trooper and sending him flying back as he hits a B1 battle droid knocking it to the ground.

"Heroes! Take them out!" a Cerberus Centurion orders as he, and other enemy soldiers fire on the two.

"Reflega!" Sora shouts, casting his reflect spell as the barrier of light appears around him, and Ahsoka deflecting all enemy projectiles back at them, taking a number of them out.

"We got Heroes!" Epps yells out.

"And they push the enemy back. Let us join them!" Éomer shouts as he walks out from behind cover, "Forth Eorlingas!" he yells as he swings his sword forward.

With roaring battle cries all the Rohirrim warriors began to charge forward, seeing this, the soldiers of Gondor, the Inquisition, and all the other ancient-era armies began to charge the enemy as well, "Let's go!" Lennox yells as he and the rest of the Coalition soldiers from the other armies join in the charge.

"Come on!" Rex yells to his platoon as they also begin to move forward.

A Techno soldier fired its arm blaster as Ahsoka dashed low to its left and sliced it at the stomach with her lightsaber cutting it in half, Ahsoka then looked to her right to see a Ravager approaching. The Jedi Padawan began rushing the Rachni Husk as it fired its twin cannons, Ahsoka force jumping into the air as she flipped forward and came down right on top of the Ravager, Ahsoka raised her lightsaber and drove it down into the creature causing it to cry out in pain as it toppled to the ground dead. Ahsoka jumped backwards off of it and landed a few feet away as she stared at its deceased body, a few seconds later all of its egg sacs exploded open releasing a number of Swarmers as they began skittering towards the young Togruta. Ahsoka pulled her left arm back and threw it forward, casting a Force Push that blasted away all of the Swarmers as they were sent flying into a few enemy soldiers, causing them to explode on impact and drenching them with acid as those soldiers began crying out in pain.

Sora jumped forward and spun around, swinging his keyblade diagonally downwards to his right as he struck down a B1 battle droid, landing and continuing forward as he got low and spun again swinging his keyblade across the stomach of a charging Orc taking it down. A Cerberus Guardian, Haradrim warrior, and Thugs-4-Less Brute Class II stood in front of him, the Cerberus and Thug soldiers firing at him while the Haradrim soldier charged to attack with his spear as Sora jumped up to his left and began running along the wall of a building. Getting behind the three enemy soldiers as he pushed off the wall and turned around to face them, aiming his keyblade at them, "Blizzaga!" he shouts.

Shooting from his keyblade a number of ice crystals that take out all three of the enemy soldiers as he spins back around and lands on the ground. A group of enemy soldiers greet him as a few take aim at him with their weapons while others charge towards him, "Graviga!" Sora shouts as he raises his keyblade into the air. Summoning a large event-horizon onto the enemy soldiers as they are crushed against the ground causing them to cry or roar out in pain.

A Stormtrooper, and HYDRA soldier rush forward and come to a stop, both of them raising their blaster and gun as they open fire on the charging Coalition soldiers; Éomer raises his shield blocking the laser bolts from the two shooters. Several feet behind him Lennox drops into a crouched position and raises his ACR as he fires back, taking both soldiers out. Other enemy troops begin to focus their fire on the attacking Coalition soldiers as their own ancient-era forces and other close range fighters begin to charge them, Coalition gunners doing the same thing as they come to a stop and fire back while their ancient-era allies and close range combatants charge past them. Both sides close in on each other as after a few more seconds they collide; Éomer swings his sword upwards cutting away a Darkspawn Hurlock, he then raises his shield blocking a downwards strike from a Wolf soldier armed with a sword as he thrusts his sword into the Wolf's stomach.

A Gondor soldier drives his spear into the mid-section of an Orc as he picks it up and pushes it into the ground, a heavy armored Inquisition soldier swings his War Hammer over his head as he brings it down onto a charging Husk smashing it into the ground. A Covenant Sangheili Storm backhands a Lion warrior across the face sending him to the ground as he then aims his Type-57B Carbine and fires killing the Lion, only for a Fire Army soldier to rush in from his right side and stab him in the neck with a spear. An Uruk Berserker drops down from a skycar as it swings its massive sword in a forward arc cutting down an Arda, and female Dalish Elf, along with an Earth Kingdom soldier, before the Berserker could do any more damage a US Army soldier ran up in front of the Uruk and fired his M4A1 into it taking it down.

The Coalition soldiers continue to engage the enemy troops up close, with even a few gunners now being forced to get in on the close quarters fighting. Lennox throws a push kick into an attacking Red Templar as he then raises his AR and fires into the corrupted soldier finishing them off, he then notices something charging him from his left out of the corner of his eye as he turns too late to see a Red Templar Shadow about to stab him with a red lyrium crystal only to then be shot multiple times by blue laser bolts. Lennox turns further to his left to look behind him where the shots came from, "That was a close one!" Rex says.

"Rex! Good to see you buddy, glad you could make it!" Lennox says as he turns back forward with Rex running up to join beside him.

"Wouldn't miss it!" Rex replies as the two fire their guns, "Our gunship got shot down. But lucky for us, we had two heroes with us." he explains.

"Speaking of which, they sure seem to be kicking some ass!" Lennox says.

Noticing far off forward to their left as Sora, and Ahsoka continue to engage and take out every enemy soldier that attacks them.

"They're full of surprises, I'll tell you that much." Rex says.

An Arda Elf swings his Lhang sword down cutting a Cerberus Assault trooper as he falls backwards to the ground dead, the Elf then turns around cutting the head off of a Husk as he then begins to notice the enemy soldiers retreating. A female Dwarven soldier finishes off a downed Collector trooper with her daggers when she too begins to notice the enemy soldiers beginning to retreat; Éomer punches a Bat soldier across the face with his shield as he also takes notice of what's going on.

"Lennox, they're retreating!" Epps shouts to him.

"Wonder what's got them spooked?" Graham questions.

"Armor! We got armor support!" a male UNSC Army soldier begins to shout.

Lennox and the others all turned around, sure enough now coming down the road towards them were a number of vehicles, from tanks, to walkers, to other kinds of land vehicles, along with a number of troop reinforcements.

"Hello fourth wave." Lennox says with a small smile on his lips.

The mass driver cannons of two frontal AT-TE's are fired as their shots fly right over Lennox and the others heads, impacting amongst the retreating enemy forces taking a few soldiers out.

"We got the bastards on the run. Let's link up with our armor and keep pushing them back!" Lennox yells out as the surviving soldiers all let out a resounding cheer of agreement, Sora and Ahsoka meanwhile regroup as Sora shoulders his keyblade.

Anakin, and Luke flew after two Oculus fighters as they fired their laser cannons, shooting the one in the rear down as it began spiraling out of control downwards in flames. The two Skywalker's continued their pursuit of the other fighter as they flew past the GokaiGalleon's left side, "Troy, Cerberus Cruiser on our starboard bow!" Emma speaks up.

"I see it Emma, firing starboard cannons!" Troy says.

The starboard cannons of the GokaiGalleon light up one by one as they fire upon the Cerberus Cruiser beginning to fly alongside them, the enemy cruiser's guns firing back as explosions erupt on both ships, causing the cockpit to violently shake as Troy, and Emma hang on to their control wheels while Navi cries out in terror. Luckily the shields of the GokaiGalleon hold as they safely fly away, while behind them the Cerberus Cruiser has erupted into flames as it explodes to pieces after a few seconds.

"That's another enemy ship down. Navi, how's our shields doing?" Troy asks the robotic parrot.

Navi flies over to a video screen which shows the GokaiGalleon from different perspectives along with other information, "Ah! Shields are holding but they're taking a beating from all this fighting! They're down to 45%." she reports.

Troy looked out the window, debris from destroyed ships were floating almost everywhere at this point, what still looked like thousands of Coalition, Reaper, and enemy allied ships still were engaged all over the place with fighters from both sides flying around. Troy tightly gripped the wheel, the number of lives that had probably been lost this far… Emma took notice of this as she looked up at him, "Troy…" she quietly says with sadness in her tone.

"This battle's nowhere near finished. We need to kick things up a notch!" he states.

Ratchet fires his plasma torpedoes taking out four enemy fighters as he accelerates forward, a few seconds later a TIE Interceptor begins to fly through the area he was just in only for Luke to shoot it down with his laser cannons. Anakin descends from the left and levels himself out as he begins to fly close to one of the corridors for Hammer's transports above to their right, the Jedi Knight looks over for a few seconds before focusing back forward, "John, how are you guys holding up?" he asks over the comms.

Green Lantern fires his power ring as behind him Ms. Marvel, and Doctor Light fired in opposite directions, Starman flying upwards and coming to a stop as he fires off another energy blast before flying elsewhere.

John turns his head slightly to the left as he puts his left hand to his ear, "Spreading ourselves thin out here to hold these openings but doing good otherwise." he replies.

"Enemy's practically trying to throw everything they've got at these corridors to seal their defenses back up." John adds.

"As long as you guys are holding and are doing fine yourselves, that's good to hear. These corridors are Hammer's lifeline…" Anakin begins to speak.

"If the enemy succeeds in cutting too many of them off, our transports could sustain heavy losses trying to fly through all of this mess. We lose too many transports, Hammer loses more reinforcements, they lose reinforcements and sustain heavy losses themselves they're done for. And if they're done for, it's game over for all of us." he finishes as off to Stewart's left Iron Man appears firing his repulsor beams off to his left.

"Yeah, you don't say Sherlock?" Tony sarcastically questions as he turns his head to look over at John, "No need to remind us of all the bad stuff that could happen if everyone in Hammer basically bites the dust. We've got that idea drilled into our heads since the beginning of this whole thing."

"No idea who this Sherlock is but he must be a nice guy." Anakin says with a witty remark and smirk, he gets serious again, "Anyways, how goes things with the transports themselves?"

"We're getting the majority of them through. Unfortunately there have been a few crazy enemy pilots who've practically ran suicide runs just to take down a transport. We've lost a few to shit like that but not too many otherwise." John explains.

"Got it, you guys just keep protecting those corridors as best as you can. Our bigger transports are going to be coming through soon. Those ships contain thousands of troops onboard, along with hundreds of ground vehicles and other equipment Hammer will most likely need if they're to start making some major progress down there. Especially for our people in London." Anakin says.

"Troy and the other Ranger and Sentai teams are dealing with the enemy's Capital ships. That just leaves us to deal with their fighters." Anakin explains.

"Of course. Leave the big job that requires a lot of firepower to those with giant robots that they can control. Sounds like a great idea to me." Tony says.

The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Ninja MegaFalconzord, with both of its power gloves once again covered by red and blue energy, slams into the side of a Separatist Providence-Class dreadnought separating it down the middle with incredible ease as a few seconds later the entire ship explodes. Wielding an enlarged version of her Power Shield, Kat's Super Zeo Zord I flies forward with the shield held up in front of her, a large number of enemy fighters fly towards her as they fire everything they've got at the Pink Zeo Ranger only for all of their projectiles to be blocked by the massive shield which remains undamaged, several fighters pull off in different directions while the majority crash straight into the Power Shield as the Super Zeo Zord accelerates and continues forward. Tanya's Super Zeo Zord II swings the enlarged Power Clubs taking out a few enemy fighters around her; while Rocky's Super Zeo Zord III flies towards and swings its Power Tonfas upwards, cutting a Collector cruiser in three as it explodes. Powering up his Power Axes's blades with green energy, Adam Park's Super Zeo Zord IV launches itself upwards and then comes down towards a Reaper Capital ship, swinging them downwards and striking the Reaper, leaving green energy slashes on its body, as it explodes.

"Mega V3 Missile Mode! And, FIRE!" Carlos shouts as he pulls the trigger.

Firing the Mega Voyager's Mega V3 missile tip as it flies towards and impacts into an Imperial I-class Star Destroyer, destroying the entire ship in a single hit.

"Lightning Spin!" Mike shouts, now wielding a large lance as he spins around and strikes a Reaper Destroyer with a black lightning energy slash destroying it.

The Dino Thunder Rangers Valkasaurus Megazord swings its right hatchet diagonally down to the left, followed by the left hatchet down to the right, following with another downwards swing to the left with the right hatchet before then raising both hatchets back and swinging them simultaneously straight down. Delivering multiple yellow energy slashes to a Reaper capital ship destroying the Reaper. The Dino Thunder Rangers then have their Megazord throw both of the Mezodon hatchets one by one as they fly towards and impact into a Separatist frigate also taking it out, both hatchets return to the Megazord like boomerangs as the Megazord catches them both together right above the head, following this up by throwing them once again, combined, as they become enveloped once more by golden-yellow energy before impacting into a Cerberus dreadnought destroying it.

"Let 'em have it!" Casey shouts.

The Jungle Fury Rangers energize the fists of their Jungle Master Megazord Bat Mode with purple energy as they then begin to swing their fists forward one by one multiple times, their Megazord copying the same movement as it swings its fists striking multiple Armada and Zangyack ships taking them out.

"Flying Slash!" the Samurai Rangers shout as they drop towards and cut a Separatist dreadnought in two using their yellow energy charged katana as it explodes.

"Robo Knight, let's combine our powers!" Noah says.

"I agree." Robo Knight replies.

Noah, and Robo Knight both take out their Gosei Great Grand Megazord Power Cards as they insert them into their morphers, Robo Knight inputting the code to activate his, and closing them, "Gosei Great Grand Megazord Activate!" the two shouted.

"Summon Megazord!"

The two fly alongside each other as then in a bright flash of white light, the two Megazords converge and transform into the Gosei Great Grand Megazord.

"Land Lance Attack!" the two shouted in unison once more.

The Gosei Great Grand Megazord swings its spear weapon, with the Beetle Zord's head at the top, forward as the spear then extends and slams into a Covenant Man O' War destroying it.

"Lightning Gravity Fall!" the Dynaman yell, the Dyna Robo delivering a downward energy slash with its Science Sword cutting in half a Collector ship as it explodes.

The Engine-O G9 Mecha is covered in a bright flash of white light, " Engine-O G12! Tune Up, Go On!" the Go-Ongers and Go-On Wings shout as the light dies down, revealing their transformation into the Engine-O G12 combination.

"G-12 Grand Prix!" the two teams shouted as they aimed their Handle Blasters, and Wing Boosters forward and pulled the triggers.

The massive Mecha summons from it projections of Engine-O, GunBir-O, Seikuu-O, and Kyouretsu-O as all four Mechas deliver a single energy slash with their respective weapons, each energy slash striking four different enemy ships, a Separatist Frigate, Cerberus Dreadnought, Reaper Destroyer, and Covenant CRS-class light cruiser causing all of them to explode. Engine-O G12 then becomes engulfed in a flaming aura as it dashes forward, ramming into an Imperial-II Class Star Destroyer causing the entire ship to erupt into a large explosion taking it out.

"Zyudenken Inazuma Brave Finish!" the Kyoryugers shout as they swing their swords down.

The Raiden Kyoryuzin drops towards a Covenant SDV-class heavy corvette with its electrically charged Zyudenken as it swings it down, striking the Covenant ship causing it to explode.

"ShurikenJin: Drago Burst!" the Ninningers shout as the Shurikenjin Drago fires a stream of blue energy from its mouth into a Reaper capital ship, destroying it as it explodes to pieces.

Superman spins around while holding onto a Vulture droid's wing as he then releases it, sending the droid fighter flying towards and impacting into a Cerberus fighter destroying both of them. Vision floats up and comes to a stop as he spots a Seraph fighter start coming towards him, the android then looks over his shoulder to see an Armada Bruiser fighter also flying towards him from behind, both fighters fire at Vision as he makes his body intangible causing both shots to fly right through him as they impact into each other. Vision solidifies his body as he then turns and flies off. Ben Tennyson, as Astrodactyl, along with Captain Atom, Orion, Aztek, The Ray, and Waverider all fire energy beams taking out a number of attacking enemy fighters.

The Millennium Falcon flies near an Executor-class Star Dreadnought chasing after three enemy fighters as both of the Falcon's quad laser cannons fire forward, taking out at least one of them while continuing to shoot at the others. Inside the Super Star Destroyer a Stormtrooper is shot down as sparks fly from his armor and he drops to the ground crying out in pain, "Take them down!"

"Stop them!" two Stormtroopers shout as they, and many other Imperial troops fire their blasters down the hallway.

Another Stormtrooper is taken out by the Red Space Ranger, Andros, who swings his Spiral Saber striking him across the chest as T.J, Leo, Kai, and Maya charge past him; behind them Ashley, Damon, and Kendrix run up the hall as Andros then resumes running forward. The three Rangers in the rear come to a stop as Ashley drops onto her right knee, "Star Slinger!"

"Trans Blaster!"

"Beta Bow!"

"FIRE!" the three simultaneously shout while bringing out their long-range weapons, as they aim forward at the Stormtroopers and fire yellow, green, and pink energy blasts, and arrows, taking out a few Imperials.

Andros, and Leo launch themselves forward into the air, "Spiral Saber!"

"Quasar Saber!" they both shout while swinging their respective weapons diagonally down.

Andros down to his right, while Leo swings his to the left as they both strike down a Stormtrooper in front of them, dropping them to the ground.

"Astro Axe!" T.J. shouts while crossing his arms with his weapon in hand before throwing his left hand forward, and right hand back.

"Cosma Claw!" Kai shouts while swinging his right arm, with the biclaw weapon, across the chest to his left.

"Delta Daggers!" Maya shouts armed with her twin melee daggers, which she held in reverse-grip.

T.J. launches himself forward as he spins around in the air, coming down and striking a Stormtrooper across the chest as another Stormtrooper attempts to melee him with his blaster only for T.J. to knock it away with his axe. Kai rolls into a crouched position and strikes the Stormtrooper across the stomach before dropping onto his hands and spinning heel kicking him off his feet, while Maya jumps forward and slashes two other Imperials across the chest sending them rolling over onto their backs.

The doors to the bridge were blasted open as three Stormtroopers were sent flying into the room, catching the attention of the ship's captain, as he and other officers, and crewmembers spun around while the squad of Stormtrooper guards rushed forward to engage the attackers. The Space, and Galaxy Rangers jumped through the destroyed doorway as Ashley, and Damon fired their weapons taking the squad of Stormtroopers down.

"Spiral Saber Booster Mode!" Andros shouted, combining his Spiral Saber, and Astro Blaster together.

"Astro Axe Booster Mode!" T.J. shouted combining his personal weapon with the Astro Blaster.

"Star Slinger Booster Mode!" Ashley shouted, doing the same thing.

"Quasar Launchers!" the Galaxy Rangers shouted, bringing out their bazooka weapons as the got into a formation with Leo at the front, Maya, and Kendrix to his left, and right on a knee, and Kai, and Damon behind them.

The eight Rangers then fired their weapons releasing massive golden balls of energy into the bridge as Imperials dove out the way of the shots before they impacted into the forward controls and exploded. The entire bridge erupted into flames from the outside as the Super Star Destroyer began going down, several seconds later, the Space, and Galaxy Rangers are seen flying safely away aboard their Galaxy Gliders, and Jet Jammers.

"This is Captain Lasky, I'm taking Battlegroups Three, and Eleven and beginning our assault on the Reaper and enemy ships surrounding the Citadel!" Lasky loudly says with his hands behind his back while taking a few steps to his left.

A number of Coalition capital ships, with the UNSC Infinity at the lead, along with hundreds of fighters fly towards the Citadel; surrounding it, a large number of Reapers and a few enemy capital ships as hundreds of their fighters begin to fly towards the Coalition ships. The fighters from both sides begin to engage as flak begins erupting all over, the UNSC Infinity fires one of its MAC Cannons as the shot goes straight through the center of a Reaper capital ship causing it to explode to pieces as it is completely destroyed. Separatist Hyena Bombers, and Imperial TIE fighters fly towards the Infinity as the ships M965 Fortress point-defense guns lock onto them and fire, the enemy ships swerving and rolling from side to side to dodge the incoming 70mm projectiles as quite a number of them are destroyed. A few however do manage to make it through as the TIEs fire their cannons while the Hyena Bombers drop their proton bombs hitting the Infinity.

The bridge violently shakes from the impact as Lasky looks around, "Roland, status!" he calls to the AI.

"Shields down to 30%, Captain!" Roland responds.

Some distance off to their right a Galactic Republic Venator-class Star Destroyer explodes while a Turian frigate, and Swords CPV-class heavy destroyer engage a Separatist dreadnought.

"Hang on Captain!" the voice of Troy suddenly comes over the intercom, "We've got your back!"

The GokaiGalleon, Super Mega Skyship, Astro Megaship, Delta Megaship, Mega Winger, Galaxy Megazord, Stratoforce Megazord, Centaurus Megazord, Zenith Carrierzord, Omega Megazord, Max Solarzord, Time Force Megazord Jet, Shadow Winger, Isis Megazord, S.W.A.T. Flyers, Mystic Dragon and Phoenix, Q-Rex Drill, GoZyuDrill, Variblune, Varidorin, Sky Ace, Denzi Fighter, and Icarus Haken all fly towards the Infinity as they begin to pass it one by one. The Variblune, Varidorin, and Sky Ace fire their missiles taking out three Zangyack warships, the Galaxy Megazord charges its saber up with white energy as it performs a triple energy slash destroying a Reaper capital ship, while the Stratoforce, Centaurus, and Zenith Carrierzord fire their weapons, the Stratoforce throwing its giant boomerang again, taking out a few enemy fighters, and two capital ships. The Isis Megazord performs its Final Strike attack as it flies upwards, turns upside down and kicks the Armadillo Wildzord which becomes engulfed in a flaming aura as it flies and impacts into a Separatist frigate destroying it.

"Now, as Marvelous would say. Let's make this extremely showy!" Troy shouts.

In flashes of bright white light, the GokaiGalleon, and Super Mega Skyship transform into the Kaizoku Gattai GokaiOh, and Legendary Megazord as they fly forward, both Megazord, and Mecha swinging their swords as they strike a Cerberus frigate, and Reaper destroyer taking them both out as they then turn around and come to a stop. Both of their chests open up revealing the Gokai Hō, and Super Mega cannons inside as they begin firing them taking a number of Zangyack, and Armada ships out.

"Let's go!" Orion shouts as he spins his wheels.

In flashes of bright light both the Q-Rex Drill, and GoZyuDrill transform as well into the Q-Rex Megazord, and GoZyuJin respectively, both of them using their drills to go right through the centers of a Victory I, and II class Star Destroyers taking them both out in large explosions. The Astro Megaship, Delta Megaship, and Mega Winger transform into their Megazord modes, also in bright flashes of white light, as they fly forward; the Astro Megazord striking a Covenant RCS-class armored cruiser with its saber, while the Delta Megazord, and Mega Winger fire their respective blasters taking out a number of enemy fighters.

"Omega Missile, fire!" Carter shouts, the Omega Crawler now in Megazord mode as it fires its missile from the top of the Omega Staff towards a Collector cruiser taking it out.

The Max Solarzord, now in Warrior Mode, fires blue energy blasts from its combination shield/blaster weapon taking out many enemy fighters.

"Time Blast!" the Time Force Rangers shout as their Megazord, in Mode Blue, fires its Time Jet Blaster, shooting double blue energy blasts that impact into a Reaper destroyer causing it to explode.

The Time Shadow Megazord combines its two arm blades as it delivers a double slash attack on a Cerberus cruiser, cutting it into two before it explodes. The SPD Rangers S.W.A.T. Megazord fires its dual magnum blasters taking out a number of enemy fighters; the Titan Megazord dives down at high speed as it swings its Titan Saber, cutting through a Covenant CRS-class light cruiser destroying it. The DaiDenzin swings its Denzi Sword diagonally down to the left while the Jet Icarus swings its Birdonic Sabre from left to right as both Mechas strike a Separatist frigate, and Reaper destroyer, taking both enemy ships out.

"Gokai Crash!" Troy, and Emma shout as they perform a double cross cut with the GokaiOh's Gokai Ken swords, striking another Reaper capital ship as red electricity surges across its body before exploding.

The GokaiOh flies elsewhere as from the bridge of the Infinity, Lasky, and some of the crew watch the scene unfold, "Captain, would it be too much to ask that we get some of our own giant robots like what those Rangers and Sentai heroes do?" Roland asks.

"Considering how much was put into just the Infinity alone to make this ship what she is… probably yeah." Lasky replies while still awestruck by what he was witnessing.

Elsewhere nearby, Joker also looks up to his left at the battle unfolding around the closed Citadel, "I'm telling Shepard again after this is all over, a Normandy Megazord." he says to himself as he looks back forward.

The Normandy accelerates forward to resume the fighting as down at one of the openings through the enemy's defenses, several Galactic Republic Acclamator-class assault ships, and New Republic GR-75 medium transports can be seen heading towards the planet.

An Acclamator-class assault ship descends through the clouds alongside a few other Coalition transport ships. Inside the assault ship, "Alright Eagles, it's time for us to join the fight!" Ewald says as he, and Eglor along with several other Eagle soldiers walk towards their Eagle Interceptors to board them.

From the ventral hangar opening, a number of Eagle Interceptors dropped out as they then began to fly forward; from the other Galactic Republic assault ships, Raven Gliders, and several other squadrons of Coalition fighters dropped, or flew out from either the ventral, or port side hangars as they began to fly forward to act as escorts for the transports. Rawzom, the king of the Raven Tribe, looked around with a worried expression on his face. The clouds that surrounded them gave cover to any enemy ships that could be near them as he, along with Ewald, Eglor, Rizzo, Razcal, Ripnik, and other pilots kept their heads swiveling about.

Just then from the cloud right in front of them, a number of energy projectiles flew out from it, "Evasive action!" Eglor shouts, all the Coalition fighters flying into different directions to avoid the incoming shots as at least one Raven Glider was hit and destroyed immediately.

Eglor, who was looking over his left shoulder, looked back forward as from the clouds multiple enemy squadrons appeared. Amongst the enemy fighters were a number of Cyclonian Talons on their Switchblade Skimmers, Bats in their Wing Strikers, and Decepticon Interceptors, a few seconds later, three Cyclonian Destroyers, and two Decepticon Carrier ships joined behind them. Eglor, and Ewald looked at one another and then back forward, one of the Talons sneered at the Coalition pilots as he chuckled. The two Eagles looked at each other once more with serious expressions on their faces before looking back forward again and accelerating to attack speed. Eglor fired his Interceptors cannons destroying one Talon Switchblade as the enemy fighters resumed firing their weapons and also accelerated to attack speed; the Cyclonian Destroyers open fired with their energy cannons and the Decepticon Carrier ships their missiles, as the Coalition transports fired back.

Viborg, Denmark…

"Nova Blast!" Greymon shouts as he releases his fireball attack from his mouth which impacts into and destroys an Imperial AT-ST.

"Howling Blaster!" Garurumon shouts while launching himself high through the air as he spews blue flames from his mouth.

"Meteor Wing!" Birdramon shouts as she shoots fire from her wings.

"Electro Shocker!" Kabuterimon yells as he crosses his arms and throws them outwards firing a ball of electricity.

"Needle Spray!" Togemon yells as she spins around launching millions of cactus spines from her body.

"Harpoon Torpedo!" Ikkakumon shouts as he fires the horn from his head, another one growing to replace it as he fires that one as well, followed by the third one.

The attacks from the five Champion-level Digimon impact all over the field taking out a large number of enemy troops as they cry out in pain, some of them sent flying into the air flailing their arms around.

"Hand of Fate!" Angemon shouts as he throws his right fist forward, firing a beam of energy that slams into an armored Ogre, blasting it away and saving a squad of Coalition troops.

"Celestial Arrow!" Angewoman shouts as she shoots a holy arrow of thunder into a Decepticon Protoform, causing him to roar out in pain as he collapses backwards to the ground.

Tsuyoshi Kaijou, Akarenger, punches a Dai-Shocker combatman across the face as he then reaches for his helmet and pulls his secondary visor off which then transforms into his weapon, "Red Bute!" he shouts as he swings his whip forward striking a few enemy soldiers in front of him.

Peggy Matsuyama, Momorenger, throws an inside crescent kick hitting the face of an Orc sending it spinning to the ground. She then reaches for and grabs her earrings, "Earring Bombs!" she yells as she tosses them. The explosives erupt amongst a group of enemy soldiers causing them to cry out as they drop to the ground.

Kenji Asuka, Midorenger, flying side kicks a Bruiser as he lands and goes for his visor weapon, "Midomerang!" he shouts bringing out and raising his boomerang. Midorenger pulls it back and then throws it as it flies through the air striking a Haradrim warrior, Bat soldier, B1 battle droid, and the back of a Venatori Zealot's head.

Kamen Riders Ichigo, and Nigo launch themselves into the air in a forward roll, "Rider Double Kick!" the Double Riders shout as Ichigo throws his right foot, Nigo his left foot, forward. The two Riders drop towards an armored Olog-hai troll and deliver their kicks into the beast causing it to roar out and explode.

The first two Kamen Riders safely drop out from the flames and land on the ground as they stand up and strike their battle poses.

Helsinki, Finland…

Justice League member Crimson Avenger fired his dual pistols taking out a charging Orc, and Genlock Darkspawn as several feet in the air behind him Steel came to a stop and fired a laser beam from his hammer destroying a Separatist AAT.

"Dragon-Zooka!" ChangeDragon shouted, bringing out his "Zooka" weapon.

"Gryphon-Zooka!" ChangeGryphon shouted, doing the same thing.

"Pegasus-Zooka!" ChangePegasus shouted.

"Mermaid-Zooka!" ChangeMermaid shouted.

"Phoenix-Zooka!" ChangePhoenix shouted.

The Dengeki Sentai Changeman team aim their Zooka weapons forward and fire massive energy blasts, taking out a large group of enemy soldiers. Three Talons fly overhead in their Switchblades raining fire down on Coalition troops, the Talon at the lead furrows his brows with clenched teeth when he suddenly hears one of his men yelp behind him, making him look over his right shoulder to see the Talon no longer on his Switchblade as it begins to go down. Another yelp from his left makes him look over his shoulder in that direction to see the Talon there no longer present on his Skimmer either. The lead Talon looked back forward, confused by what was going on until his eyes spotted something coming towards him, very quickly, causing his eyes to widen as he then cried out. Hiroshi Tsukuba, Kamen Rider Skyrider flies straight towards the Talon and punches him in the face, sending him falling to the ground below as the flying Kamen Rider continues elsewhere.

Back on the street enemy soldiers begin getting struck down by a speeding red blur as after several seconds, close to a hundred enemy troops are taken down as they then explode.

"Clock Over!"

Soji Tendo, Kamen Rider Kabuto comes to a stop in the middle of the street with his Kabuto Kunaigun, in Kunai Mode, in hand. Kabuto then raises his right hand as he points to the sky with his index finger.

Bermuda, North Atlantic Ocean…

Chieftain Hakoda blocked a Haradrim soldier's spear with his shield as he then sliced him across the chest with his Whale tooth Scimitar.

Takumi Inui, Kamen Rider Faiz side kicked a Death Eater to his left before turning to his right and raising his Faiz Edge lightsaber-like weapon to lock blades with a Commando droid's vibrosword. Faiz pushed the droid's sword upwards as he then punched it across the face making it turn around allowing him to then strike it's back with his weapon taking it out. A few feet in front of him Tyzonn, the Mercury Ranger of the Overdrive Power Rangers jumped to his right while swinging his Drive Detector in lance mode, clashing with a Cyclonian Talon who jumped to his right while swinging his staff as both their weapons collided while they passed each other. Both landed and spun around swinging their weapons once again, this time becoming locked for a few seconds until Tyzonn pulled his weapon back and hook kicked the Talon across the face. The Pink Overdrive Ranger rolled across the ground to her left beneath the swing of a Reaper Husk's claw as she recovered into a crouched position and fired her Drive Geyser, sending a liquefied laser blast into the creature's back.

The Black Overdrive Ranger side kicked a Collector Captain as he then spun around to face a charging Uruk Berserker, and swung his Drive Slammer upwards hitting the Uruk and sending it flying. The Yellow Overdrive Ranger dug her Drive Claws into the ground as she quite literally dug up the concrete of the street and threw it at the enemy soldiers in front of her, hitting them with a bunch of debris. Dax Lo, the Blue Overdrive Ranger aimed his Drive Vortex forward as he fired a powerful blast of air quite literally blowing away the enemy troops in front of him. Mack Hartford, Red Overdrive Ranger, launched himself through the air as he thrusted his Drive Lance, with the blade extended, forward; driving the blade into the chest of an unarmored Ogre as it fell backwards to the ground roaring out in pain. The Ogre still lived and attempted to grab the Ranger, Mack quickly pulled his lance back out and stabbed the Ogre again causing it to roar out in pain one last time before finally dying.

"Ding Dong Ditch!" Minx Elfin shouts as she punches a Decepticon Protoform across the face.

"Wave Shield!" Preyas shouts, erecting a blue energy shield that absorbs incoming enemy fire as Coalition troops fire around it.

"Ridol Stick!" Kamen Rider X shouted as he engaged a Cerberus Phantom with his weapon, blocking each and every one of her swings as he spun around and struck her across the face.

Off to his right Aquaman charged and ducked beneath a Tartaros soldier's warhammer as he countered with an uppercut.

Nottingham, England…

Vartag Gavorn raises his shield blocking a downwards strike from an Orc as he then swings his Dwarven Mace at the Orc's feet knocking it to the ground, he then raises the mace and slams it onto the Orc's face smashing it in, Vartag looks over his right shoulder, "Don't let up! Press the assault!" he yells as he looks back forward and charges.

Following behind him were a number of Coalition soldiers, amongst them Kardol of the Legion of the Dead, and Sigrun of the Grey Wardens. Ser Cauthrien swings her Summer Sword greatsword down cutting an attacking Hurlock Darkspawn.

Aedan Cousland, and Alistair engage enemy soldiers close to one another, Aedan swinging his Family Longsword to strike down an Uruk, while Alistair stabs an Easterling in the stomach with his Maric's Blade longsword. Barkspawn launches himself onto a Stormtrooper aiming at Aedan as he then bites his right arm and begins tearing away at it. Leliana fires arrow after arrow from Marjolaine's Recurve longbow taking out a Cerberus engineer, and a Drophyd trooper; off to her right Morrigan casts lightning from her hands shocking a number of enemy soldiers in front of her. Oghren swings his Darkspawn Ravager battleaxe striking a Loogie while Shale slams her fists down crushing an X-Borg, and Gormin, Zevran drops from a tree as he drives both of his Crow daggers into the heads of a Death Eater, and Grimoire Heart mage killing them both.

Eragon, and his dragon Saphira fly Overhead of the Wollaton Park that the group was fighting in as Eragon pulls an arrow back on his bow, "Brisingr!" he shouts as the tip of his arrow is engulfed by blue flames.

Eragon releases the arrow as it flies into a small group of enemy soldiers taking cover behind some trees and explodes, sending them flying. Saphira meanwhile rears her head back to her left and throws it forward, opening her mouth and spewing fire from it as she lights aflame many enemy troops on the ground, causing them to cry out in pain as they attempt to put out the fire that now engulfs their body. From behind the cover of trees Green Arrow, and Speedy fire their trick arrows at the enemy soldiers, Green Arrow pulling another one, an explosive arrow, back as he then released it, as off to his left Black Canary drops from the sky, stands up and lets out a blast of her Canary Cry ultrasonic scream.

Oslo, Norway…

"Come on then, bring it on!" the Autobot Leadfoot shouted as he, along with the rest of the Wreckers, Topspin, and Roadbuster, fired their chainguns while standing in a circle. Taking out a number of enemy soldiers around them as one Cerberus assault trooper, who was taking cover behind a destroyed skycar, aimed up at them, only for one of their bullets to slam right into him propelling him backwards through the glass window of a building.

"Machine Gun Arm!" Riderman shouted as he fired his weapon in a forward arc taking out a group of enemy soldiers.

VulShark, and VulPanther, of the Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan team engage enemy soldiers around them with their Vulcan Sticks as several feet from them, Takayuki Hiba, VulEagle, and Shiro Kazami, Kamen Rider V3 join alongside each other.

"Let's go!" VulEagle shouts.

"Right!" V3 shouts back in agreement as the two launch themselves into the air.

"V3 Kick!" Shiro yells as he extends his right foot forward.

"Eagle Kick!" Takayuki shouts, throwing his left foot forward.

The two slam into a Drophyd Enforcer and travel through it as it explodes.

A large group of enemy soldiers are completely frozen solid courtesy of the Justice League member, Ice. As behind Ice, Fire flies into the air and throws her hands down forward, shooting a massive stream of green fire at another large group of enemy soldiers engulfing them in flames as they cry out.

Nairobi, Kenya…

Coalition forces fire back at Reaper, Cerberus, and other enemy troops as projectiles fly past all around them; King Lagravis raising his sword and swinging it forward as he lets out a roar with Longtooth, Lennox, Leonidas, Runk, and Ruckus being seen firing back alongside other Coalition troops with their Pulse blasters.

"Taros Hammer!" Hammer Gorem shouts as he swings the bottom head of his double-sided, massive hammer upwards, striking the concrete and sending large amounts of large-sized debris flying towards the enemy troops taking a number of them out.

The Justice League member, Sand, along with a few Earthbenders raise from the street large pieces of concrete which they then launch forward, sending them slamming into enemy soldiers as they are blasted back one by one. B'wana Beast jumps forward dodging the shots of two Stormtroopers as he manages to grab the heads of the two and slam them together as he flies over them, B'wana Beast turning around and landing in a crouched position as both Stormtroopers drop to the ground.

Standing sideways and in a row, the Battle Fever J team one by one brings out their Command Bat as they then turn to face forward, "Penta Force!" they shout as they throw their Command Bats into the air.

The Command Bats form together into a boomerang which then begins spinning around as it drops in front of the Battle Fever team, the five of them then throw their right hands forward, sending the boomerang turning sideways and flying towards the group of enemy soldiers in front of them as it flies from left to right, and back. Striking them two times as electricity surges out from their bodies while they drop to the ground, and explode.

Vixen flies rapidly towards the ground where a group of enemy soldiers stare up at her, she touches her mystical amulet as the image of an elephant appears and disappears after a few seconds with her then turning her body upwards to have her feet facing down towards the ground. With the weight of an elephant, Vixen slams into the ground creating a powerful shockwave that blasts away the surrounding enemy soldiers while also kicking up a large dust cloud. A few seconds go by as the dust cloud still surrounds her, allowing a Venatori Stalker to sneak up on her as she hears him at the last second and turns to face him just as he raises his daggers to strike. At the last second however a vibranium-based energy dagger embeds itself into the side of the Venatori Stalker's head, causing his body to straighten and go still as after a few seconds it drops to the ground dead. Vixen looks to her right as the dust cloud finally begins to disperse, from it, T'Challa, the Black Panther walks forward and comes to a stop.

Vixen nods her head as a gesture of thanks which T'Challa returns; he then looks past her as Vixen turns around to follow his gaze. Another group of enemy soldiers approach, and charge them, as Black Panther walks up to Vixen's left side to join alongside her. The two look at one another as Vixen, with a sly smile on her lips, touches her amulet again, and gives herself the abilities of a panther, "After you, your highness." she says while gesturing towards the enemy soldiers.

Black Panther nods his head as he looks back forward, he raises and crosses his arms as he extends his vibranium claws, "Wakanda Forever!" he shouts as he then charges forward, with Vixen following right behind him.

Kyoto, Japan…

The Elemental Masters are seen engaging a large force of enemy troops, Skylor jumps over an Abomination as she spins around and swings her katana decapitating the Reaper Husk. Upon landing in a crouched position she stands and turns around to see a number of enemy soldiers charge towards her; just then Griffin Tuner, the Elemental Master of Speed, appears beside her as he raises his left hand in a fist bump with a smirk on his face. Skylor fist bumps him, using her Elemental Power of Amber to copy his Speed as they both place a foot back and dash forward, speeding their way through the enemy soldiers knocking many of them over. Shade ducks beneath a Venatori Stalker's left dagger as he then blocks the right arm, preventing the Venatori from swinging his right dagger; several feet behind him Tox releases a cloud of poison causing the Haradrim soldiers approaching her to start coughing violently. Jacob Pevsner shoots a beam of sound from his sitar, while Bolobo uses vines from his Staff of Nature to restrain a few enemy soldiers. Gravis lifts a few enemy soldiers into the air using the element of Gravity, while Neuro uses his Mind element to give an attacking Orc a serious headache, causing it to drop its sword and grab its head as it begins groaning in pain allowing Ash, the Smoke Elemental Master, to kick it from the side. Mr. Pale emits a beam of light, blinding the Hurlock Alpha in front of him as the Hurlock closes its eyes and looks away while raising its left arm; upon the light dying down the Hurlock Alpha opens its eyes and looks back forward, only to be greeted by a charging Karlof, his entire body Metal befitting him being the current Elemental Master of Metal, as he threw his right, large iron gauntlet fist forward striking the Hurlock in the face.

Three armored Olog-hai trolls, and two armored Ogres stand before the charging Ninja heroes of the Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, Ninja Storm Power Rangers, and Ninjago Ninjas, as they charge towards them with Sasuke, Ninja Red, Shane Clarke, Red Wind Ranger, and Kai, the Elemental Master and Ninja of Fire, at the lead.

"Let's take these bozo's down!" Shane shouts.

"Yeah!" Sasuke shouts.

"Right behind yah!" Kai shouts at the same time.

"Ninja Shadow Battle!" Shane shouts as he raises his sword sideways in front of him with his left hand behind it, his index and middle fingers also held up.

Multi-colored Shoji doors slam shut over the trolls, and ogres as only their silhouettes are seen, a few seconds later the silhouettes of the Ninja Storm Rangers, and Kakurangers appear one by one as they jump through the air and come down towards the creatures. Striking them with their Ninja Swords, Thunder Staffs, Samurai Saber, and Secret Sword Kakuremaru; a second later the Ninjago Ninjas jump at them from the opposite direction as they strike the trolls, and ogres with their weapons causing them to roar out in pain. Just then, PIXAL, in the Samurai X Mech flies in and plows into the monsters, blasting them through the shoji doors as they hit the ground.

"Thunderstorm Cannon!" the Wind, and Thunder Rangers shout as they form said weapon.

"Lightning Wave!" the Kakurangers shout as they cross their swords.

"Elemental Blast!" the Ninjago Ninja shout as they power up their Elemental Powers.

"FIRE!" all three teams shout, releasing their own energy blasts that impact into and destroy the Olog-hai trolls, and ogres.

Northern Amazonas, Brazil…

"A~MA~ZO~N!" Daisuke Yamamoto, Kamen Rider Amazon yells as he soars through the air.

Amazon drops towards and grapples with an Uruk-hai warrior, bringing it to the ground with him as the two roll across it and come to a stop with Daisuke then kicking the Uruk off of him. Amazon jumps back onto his feet, surrounded by enemy soldiers as a Tartaros soldier charges him from in front, "GiGi!" he cries out as he swings his right hand upwards, delivering a chopping strike that sends the Tartaros soldier spinning to the ground.

"Golden Eagle Sword!" Taylor Earhardt, the Yellow Wild Force Ranger shouts as she swings said weapon across her left side, while flying, striking a group of Bat soldiers with a yellow energy slash.

"Surging Slice!" Max Cooper, Blue Wild Force Ranger shouts as he performs a cross-slash with his Blue Shark Fighting Fins, delivering blue energy slashes to a group of enemy soldiers taking them out in an explosion.

Danny Delgado, the Black Wild Force Ranger throws his arms outwards and swings them forward striking two Uruk-hai, sending them flying into tree branches as they hit them and fall to the ground. Alyssa Enrilé, the White Wild Force Ranger jumps on top of and pushes a Cerberus assault trooper to the ground, then placing her right hand on his chest as she begins running across the ground on her left hand and feet, dragging the Cerberus trooper across the dirt before coming to a stop and tossing him. Sending him sliding across the ground as he knocks a couple of other enemy soldiers off their feet as they, and others attempt to move out of the way of their oncoming comrade.

Cole Evans, and Merrick Baliton, the Red Wild Force, and Lunar Wolf Rangers jump beside each other with their weapons drawn.

"Lion Blaster!"

"Lunar Cue!"

Merrick drops onto his left knee as he, and Cole aim their weapons forward and fire, sending a barrage of energy blasts downrange striking a number of enemy soldiers as sparks erupt from their bodies and they drop to the ground.

The Dalish Elf Keeper Lanaya, along with a few other Coalition soldiers watch as Grumlo, Gompsy, and Grizzam, in their Gorilla Strike Mechs, fire their Pulse Cannons taking out a few enemy soldiers.

Southern Amazonas, Brazil…

A terrified Clone trooper backpedals across the ground as a Reaper Cannibal approaches him causing him to cry out. Just then, a barrage of silver bullets begin to travel through the air, curving around trees and other Coalition troops as they fly towards and impact into the Cannibal along with two other Husks taking them out. Kamen Rider Wizard comes to a stop after having spun around and fired his WizarSwordGun in gun mode as he then holds his weapon up, "Hm." he hums before charging forward.

"Ice Make: Arrows!" Gray shouts as he fires a barrage of ice arrows from his large ice bow, cutting down a large number of Reaper Husks as they charge towards Coalition forces.

Gajeel and Panther Lily, in his Battle Mode, launch themselves into the air, "Sword of the Iron Dragon!" Gajeel yells, transforming his right arm into a large, jagged steel blade as he and Lily, armed with his Musica Sword, drop towards and swing their weapons down slicing down the body of a Brute as it roars out in pain and topples backwards to the ground dead.

Erza Scarlett dashes forward through heavy enemy fire as high-velocity slugs fly and impact around her, in front of her a Scion fires its cannon while a Husk, and Abomination both charge towards her. Erza jumps onto a log and launches herself off of it towards the Abomination as she swings her sword and decapitates it, hitting the ground and going into a roll as she recovers into a crouched position and swings her sword cutting off the legs of the Husk. Erza then propels herself towards the Scion as it fires its arm cannon again, the Fairy Tail Requip Mage throwing the right-half of her body back as the shot just barely misses her and impacts into the ground where she just was causing an explosion. Erza swings her sword forward and thrusts it into the chest of the Scion, knocking it over as she falls onto her knees on top of it; the Scion roars at her in anger, still alive as Erza pulls her sword out and drives it into the creature's face, finishing it off.

Erza pushes herself up, "Requip!" she shouts as she changes her armor and weapon, "Morning Star Armor!"

Now in her Morning Star Armor, Erza points her twin swords forward as yellow energy begins gathering at the tips, "Photon Slicer!" she yells. Firing an energy blast that impacts into a large group of Reaper Husks taking them out in a large explosion.

"Wave Wind of the Sky Dragon!" Wendy shouts as she swings her right hand forward, generating a large tornado that quickly travels across the battlefield and slams into the Reaper forces, picking up a large number of Husks and sending them flying.

Wendy looks over her left shoulder at the Coalition Marines in cover behind her, "Come on!" she shouts at them while waving her left arm before looking back and running forward.

Without question the Marines get on their feet and begin following after the young Sky Dragon Slayer; amongst them were Happy, and Carla flying with them.

"Star Shot!" Lucy shouts as she, in her Sagittarius Form Star Dress, pulls back on the string of her bow summoning three golden energy arrows.

"Moshi, moshi!" Sagittarius shouts beside her, as the two release a barrage of energy, and normal arrows taking out a number of Husks attacking them.

LCpl. Kakihara fires his M240G nearby along with other Coalition marines, cutting down a few charging Husks as high-velocity slugs fly past all around. Just then the Lance Corporal takes notice of a large group of Brutes, Banshees, Ravagers, and Praetorians coming towards their position, "Ah shit!" he says as he aims his MMG and opens up on them.

Kakihara manages to fill one of the Ravagers full of bullets as it drops over to the ground dead, just then his ammo belt runs dry, "Fuck!" he yells as he turns to look back to his left, "Where's Haberkorn with that ammo!?"

Just then someone steps in front of him to his left catching his attention, "Brilliant Flame of the Fire Dragon!" Natsu shouts as he throws a large fireball forward into the group of Husks, causing a massive explosion that eliminates all of them.

The smoke and flames die down revealing no Husks having survived Natsu's attack, "Alright!" Natsu says as he resumes charging forward.

The majority of the marines behind him also begin moving up from their current position, just then Pfc. Haberkorn arrives as he drops onto his right knee beside LCpl. Kakihara, carrying two ammo boxes, and a few ammo belts around his neck, "Sorry I'm late! I wasn't the only one trying to grab ammo!" Haberkorn replies as he passes off one of the ammo boxes to Kakihara.

Kakihara proceeds to attach the ammo box and load the belt into the feeding tray as he closes the cover and pulls back on the charging handle, "Hand me one of those belts." he says as Haberkorn begins passing off one of the ammo belts to him.

Lt. Hirano fires her M-8 Avenger as to her left Faramir pulls back on the string of his bow and releases an arrow, sending it flying into the face of a Cannibal killing it as the last of the Husks are shot dead, "Move up!" Faramir shouts with a wave of his left. The Marine forces of the 5th Division resume their push forward.

A few minutes pass by and the fighting has mysteriously died down, the Coalition troops encountering no more resistance ever since the last Husk was dealt with as they remain on the move, though the sounds of battle from the other directions could still be heard.

"Go, go!"

"Let's move it!"

Faramir slowly observes the landscape in front of him, the land was still dead with no tree or plant life in sight, the entire ground nothing but dirt and rock with craters of varying sizes everywhere, most obviously from explosions. He could see for very far and from what he was seeing, there was nothing out of the ordinary, nowhere it could appear enemy troops would be waiting for them to spring an ambush. There just weren't any enemy soldiers for miles by what it seemed like… and this troubled the Captain of the White Tower greatly.

"I do not like this…" Faramir quietly says under his breath.

"I do not like this." Erza says as she runs alongside Gray to her left, and Haruto to her right.

"Yeah, where did all the bad guys go?" Haruto mirrors her suspicions.

The Heroes and the marines around them were still on the move, not an enemy soldier in sight, no signs of any ambush points, just nothing.

"Think the Commander did something?" Gray questions.

"No. If he did we would've heard something by now." Erza responds.

"This is not a good sign. Whenever things go super quiet when they aren't supposed to be, it usually means something really bad is possibly about to happen." Haruto says.

"The question is, what is it? And how bad is it about to get?" Erza says.

Nearby, Natsu and Lucy, back in her regular outfit, run alongside each other; all of a sudden Natsu comes to a sudden stop as he looks up to the sky with a, "Huh?"

Lucy stops in her tracks upon noticing this as she turns around, "What is it, Natsu?" she asks.

Natsu furrows his brows with an unsure look in his eyes, "I hear something." he says.

Elsewhere, both Wendy who was still on the move, and Gajeel who had come to a stop, looked up to the sky as well. Natsu's eyes were still focused upwards as in his ears, he could hear what sounded like a whistling sound, one that was getting closer, and closer each second. His eyes widened in terror.

"Get down!" Natsu suddenly yells as he dives towards Lucy and tackles her into a nearby crater, just as an explosion erupts from where she was just standing.

Another explosion erupts near Faramir, and Lt. Hirano, drawing their, and other marines' attentions over to it as a Batarian is sent flying into the air crying out in pain. Two more explosions go off, sending marines dropping to the ground as Erza, Gray, and Haruto come to a stop with their arms slightly raised and shocked expressions on their faces, "ENEMY ARTILLERY!" Sgt. Mashima shouts.

"Cover! Get to cover!"

The three Heroes resume running as more artillery rounds begin to hit all over, some luckily missing and hitting no one, others taking out small groups of marines as dirt, rock, and shrapnel are sent flying through the air. One shell completely annihilates a tree sending splinters of wood into every direction; Gajeel raises his right arm in front of his face while also covering his body in steel scales as a large number of splintered wood flies into him, causing the Iron Dragon Slayer to grunt in annoyance as he eventually lowers his arm. Another explosion erupts as Wendy, Carla, and Happy all drop to the ground while crying out in fright, Wendy with her arms over her head.

"Move! Move!"

"They've got us zeroed!"

The Marines continue running as artillery shells impact all around them.

"Move it! We've got no cover out here! Do not stop! Keep moving!" Lt. Hirano yells, the Systems Alliance Marine having come to a stop as she ushers her marines forward with urgency while waving her left arm.

"Gajeel!" Lily shouts from a nearby small crater where he, and a Galactic Ranger, and Salarian take cover.

"Yeah, yeah I heard it!" Gajeel shouts back as he resumes running, with Lily and the two marines getting up and following after him.

"Let's go!" Erza shouts as she, Gray, and Haruto, along with a few marines in cover, get up and begin moving again.

"Come on, we need to keep moving!" Wendy says as she pushes herself back up and resumes running, Carla and Happy also getting back up and flying after her.

"Dammit!" Natsu says as he pokes his head out from the crater, he turns and holds his left hand out for Lucy, "Come on, Lucy!" he calls to her.

Lucy grabs his hand as she is pulled back onto her feet, the two running out of the crater as they begin sprinting as quickly as possible through the incoming artillery barrage. Explosion, after explosion erupts from all directions throwing dirt and small debris into the air, Natsu, and Lucy cover their faces from it as they continue forward. Another shell impacts and explodes, taking out a Geth trooper as pieces of its body are sent flying, a Fire Nation soldier runs out from a crater as an explosion erupts in front of him sending shrapnel into his body with the shockwave knocking him back into the crater. A female SHIELD agent, and Galactic Ranger run forward, the Ranger a few feet behind the SHIELD agent to her right as then an artillery shell impacts a few feet to the left of the SHIELD agent, propelling her through the air and into the Galactic Ranger knocking it down. An explosion goes off right at the feet of a male UNSC Marine as he is sent several feet into the air, the lower half of his legs getting severed off as he hits the ground and begins bleeding profusely.

Natsu looks up to his left, as he then suddenly dives into Lucy again sending both of them falling into another crater as a few seconds later another shell hits, sending dirt and debris into the air.

Natsu raises his head from the dirt, "Alright! Now I'm really getting pissed!" he shouts in anger and annoyance.

All of a sudden a string of artillery rounds begin to impact, one after the other just mere seconds apart and very close to one another as Coalition Marines continue running forward to try and escape the carnage. Explosion, after explosion, after explosion, after explosion continues to erupt along a line, this one seeming like a never ending barrage as the cries of pain, and terror fill the air. The sounds of the explosions began to get closer and closer to Natsu, and Lucy's position as both Fairy Tail mages quickly threw their heads down against the dirt once again and braced themselves for the incoming explosions; a few seconds later, LCpl. Kakihara, and a Clone jumped, or slid into the crater as they also threw themselves to the ground on either side of the two mages. Quite a few explosions began erupting right around the crater, sending a large amount of dirt and debris into the air as the Heroes and Marines kept their bodies pressed against the ground while things rained down on top of them. Once again, the artillery seemed like it was endless as more and more explosions continued going off around them; as Natsu kept his head pinned to the ground, his right arm over his head with his eyes clenched tightly shut, he suddenly began to hear what sounded like something beginning to crack? Natsu opened his eyes, wondering what it was he was hearing when it then hit him, this sound was coming from directly beneath them.

The entire ground suddenly gave away, sending Natsu, Lucy, and the two Marines falling through the earth as they cried out. Natsu grabbed onto Lucy, pulled her against his body and spun around taking the full impact of the fall as he hit hard rock; both Kakihara and the Clone also hit the ground, Kakihara landing face down with the Clone landing on his back, letting out grunts of pain. Back up top an artillery shell impacted into the bottom of a large tree's trunk, sending it toppling over right onto the crater completely covering it.

The Fairy Tail mages, and Marines groaned in pain as darkness now enveloped them, the sounds of small debris hitting the floor echoed around them along with the continued sounds of explosions going off above ground.

Lucy pushes herself up a little, "N-Natsu?" she says.

Natsu opens his left eye as he gives a toothy smirk, "Don't worry about me, I'm alright." he says, through a slightly strained voice, "What about you?" he then asks.

"I-I'm fine…" Lucy says, she looks off to her left with her eyes as her cheeks become slightly red, "Thanks for that." she adds.

Behind her Kakihara, and the Clone push themselves back up as they begin looking around, "Where the hell are we?" LCpl. Kakihara questions as the Clone reaches for and turns on the flashlights on either side of his helmet.

"Well considering we just fell through the ground; I'd wager an underground tunnel. Though I don't remember anyone having said anything about there being tunnels in the area." the Clone says.

Lucy pushes herself back onto her feet and then helps Natsu up, the Fire Dragon Slayer raising his right arm as he lights his fist aflame to give the group more light while Lucy makes her way over to the wall on her right. Lucy places her hand on the wall and slides her hand along it, "This isn't a natural tunnel. It's man-made. Created very recently too." she speaks up as she turns around to face the others.

"Man-made huh?" the Clone says as he then turns his head to look at Kakihara, "How much you wanna bet it was the bad guys who made this? Wonder if there's any more of them out there?" the Clone then asks as he begins looking around the tunnel again.

"Wouldn't be surprised. They probably built these things to flank us, at the very least to hide from us. Though if they wanted to flank us, I'm surprised they haven't done so already." Kakihara says.

Natsu begins sniffing the air with his eyes closed as he then turns towards the tunnel passage heading north, right towards the enemy lines. He opens his eyes, "No." he speaks up catching everyone's attention.

He points down the tunnel and turns his head to look at the others, "Their recent scents have them going that way. Right in the direction we were chasing them. I'm not picking anything up going in the opposite direction." Natsu explains.

Lucy takes a few steps forward with her arms crossed, "Then it sounds like they were using this tunnel to hide from us while they retreated. Probably so they wouldn't risk getting caught up in their artillery attack once they started using it." she deduces.

Natsu looks back down the passage, he furrows his brows, "If they used this tunnel to safely get to their next defensive line, then there'll have to be an exit at some point right?" he asks.

"It would be kind of pointless otherwise to have a secret tunnel system with multiple ways in, but not a single way out." Lucy says as she puts her hands to her hips.

Natsu turns his body to face Lucy, a large toothy, serious grin on his face, "Then if we follow this all the way to that exit. We should come out right behind the enemy lines most likely. And if we're even more lucky…"

Lucy's eyes widened upon realizing where Natsu was going with this, "Closer to where their artillery weapons should be." she says. Lucy then smiles as she raises her fists, "Natsu, you are a genius sometimes! A bit risky, but if we can pull this off we'll be saving a lot of lives."

"That's the idea." Natsu says as he raises his right fist, he then turns his body while still looking at Lucy, "Now come on, the longer we take the more people those guns will continue to take out!" he shouts with urgency as he starts running.

Lucy runs after him leaving Kakihara, and the Clone behind as they just look at each other, "The kid does realize that there's only four of us right? That artillery site is most likely going to be guarded by at least a full platoon, maybe even a small company of enemy troops if we're that unlucky." the Clone points out.

"Bad guys probably ain't gonna be expecting an attack from behind their lines though. They'll be having most of their troops at the very front trying to hold our boys and girls off, so that'll give us a small unit at the very least to deal with. Besides, I don't know if you saw what me and a bunch of others did, but that kid with the pink hair. He's worth at least a full company, maybe even a full battalion of enemy soldiers. So I think we've got this in the bag. If you don't like it, you could always go back up top and risk it with the enemy artillery raining down around you." Kakihara says as he begins running off to catch up with the Fairy Tail mages.

The Clone lowers and shakes his head with a sigh of defeat, "I think I liked it a lot better when all we ever fought were the droids. At least all they did was march at us." he says as he raises his head and follows after the others.

The sounds of the artillery explosions were still going off a few miles behind them, as Erza, Haruto, Gray, Gajeel, Wendy, Happy, Carla, and Lily, along with the surviving Coalition Marines continued forward through the heavily destroyed Amazon rainforest. The survivors of the artillery barrage soon found themselves approaching a large river, on the other bank, a large mound of dirt and rock with a few charred trees.

"Hey there's movement in the trees." a B1 battle droid speaks up, a Cerberus Centurion walking up beside it.

"You idiot, it's the Coalition troops. Open fire!" the Centurion shouted as he raised his gun, along with the droid and open fired.

From a long trenchline at the mid-section of the mound a number of enemy soldiers rushed to the front of it, aimed their weapons and began firing on the approaching Coalition Marines across the river; several marines got to cover immediately behind trees, and rocks and began returning fire. Faramir, and Lt. Hirano along with a few other marines got into the cover of a small ditch beside the river as they began firing back at the enemy troops. Erza swung her sword around blocking a few incoming enemy projectiles as she and the others continued forward through heavy enemy fire, an Asari marine to their front left getting shot right in the head as her body was violently thrown back, as the heroes along with a few other marines dropped down into another ditch. Spread throughout the mound were several other small, and medium-sized trenches; as at the very top of the mound was a large bunker which housed a Cerberus shield turret, and a droid double-barrel repeating blaster, both weapons firing away at the marines as the Cerberus assault trooper, and B1 battle droid manning them slowly turned them from side to side.

Erza, now armed with a bow and quiver of arrows, popped up with the string of her bow pulled back as she released it, sending an arrow flying into the chest of a Collector captain. Haruto fired his WizarSwordGun hitting a Gormin as it was blasted backwards to the ground.

"Ice Make: Ice Cannon!" Gray shouted, creating a large, handheld ice cannon which he then fired sending a large chunk of ice slamming into a part of a trench blasting away a few enemy soldiers.

"Roar of the Iron Dragon!" Gajeel yells, shooting his attack directly towards the bunker to take it out.

Unfortunately inside the bunker was a Hurlock emissary along with two Grimoire Heart mages, as all three of them raised their staves into the air casting a powerful shield spell that then appeared around the bunker. Protecting it from Gajeel's attack and deflecting it upwards into the sky; once the attack had died down the shield slowly faded away, allowing the gunners inside to resume firing their weapons.

High-velocity slugs began impacting into the ground directly in front of the ditch, kicking up dirt as Coalition marines quickly ducked down to avoid the incoming shots as one unfortunate Fereldan crossbowman was shot and killed instantly, a few slugs hit right in front of Gajeel forcing him to duck into the ditch.

"Dammit! Those mages inside that thing are going to be a problem if they're just going to put up that damn shield to block our attacks from blowing it up." Gajeel says in annoyance and anger.

A male New Republic Kajain'sa'Nikto marine was shot in the left area of his chest by a laser bolt as he collapsed to the ground, still alive with his right hand over where he had gotten shot as Wendy quickly rushed over and knelt beside him as she began using her healing magic to fix him up. A US Marine was then shot as the plasma hit his left shoulder, throwing him back as he fell down and began crying out in immense pain, a Galactic Ranger knelt down beside him to his left as he then turned his head, "Medic! We need a medic!" he shouted.

"Bring him over here!" Wendy called out.

Panther Lily picked up the wounded US Marine and began dragging him over to Wendy, "We'll go find anyone else who might need help." Carla says as she, and Happy fly away to look for any more wounded.

"We'll never be able to get across the river at this rate!" Haruto points out as he, Gray, and Erza duck down in the ditch.

"And I can hear those artillery guns just a few miles past that mound. We need to get to those so they can stop hitting our guys in the rear!" Gajeel says.

"We need to deal with that bunker first so our Earthbending guys can give us a path across that river, damn thing's too deep!" Gray says.

"Yeah, good luck with that so long as those enemy mages remain inside. We can take out the gunners at the most but they'll just be replaced. We need to take that thing out entirely, along with all those punks in the trenches." Gajeel says.

Just then Erza grunts in shock as she seems to realize something, she stands up a little and begins looking around, "Hold on a second. Where are Natsu and Lucy?"

"That damn flame brain. Don't tell me he got himself lost along with Lucy!" Gray says in a slightly annoyed tone.

A large rock, a fake large rock to be more precise, was moved aside along with the circular, cut up fake ground it was placed on. Revealing a hole as Natsu poked his head out and looked around, he then looked back down, "It's clear!" he quietly says to Lucy and the two marines.

Lucy was at the foot of the ladder while LCpl. Kakihara, and the Clone were a few feet away in crouched positions keeping their weapons trained down the passageway they had just come from; Lucy began ascending the ladder, eventually reaching the top as Natsu held his right hand out to her, which she grabbed, and pulled her up. The Clone was the next one to run over to the ladder as he began climbing up, a few seconds later followed by Kakihara as he slung his M240G around to his back and followed up after the others. Natsu, and the Clone pulled Kakihara from the hole as Lucy kept her eyes peeled for any enemy soldiers that could potentially appear; Kakihara and the Clone crouched onto a knee along with Natsu.

"Alright, so what's the plan now?" Kakihara asks Natsu.

Natsu remains silent as he turns around, looking in the direction he, and the others could hear the artillery guns being fired from before then turning back forward and looking over the two marines in the direction where friendly forces were in. Natsu remained silent for a few more seconds before finally looking at Kakihara and the Clone, "Forget what I said before, we're going to split up here." he says.

Both Kakihara, and the Clone looked at each other and then back at Natsu, Kakihara with a confused look on his face, "What?" they simultaneously say.

"Why are we splitting up?" Lucy questions as she walks over, having overheard what Natsu had just said as she crouches alongside him.

"I'm hearing a lot of things going on towards where Erza and the others are right now. Sounds like they're in trouble and could use some help. Something about a bunker, and enemy mages inside protecting it from being destroyed." Natsu begins to explain.

"We gotta be how far behind enemy lines, a few miles at least from the front and you're seriously telling me you're hearing that shit from all the way back here over all the guns, explosions, and everything else going on?" Kakihara questions, he and the Clone highly confused by what the Fire Dragon Slayer was saying.

"That's exactly what I'm hearing." Natsu says to the US Marine, "Our friends and everyone else needs help dealing with that bunker keeping them trapped on the other side of the river. Those artillery guns also need to be taken care of. That's why I'm saying we should split up, so we can deal with both of them at the same time."

"It would be a lot more effective than dealing with one situation first and then the other. Could save a lot of lives this way." the Clone says.

Natsu gives a toothy grin, "Great, glad you agree. Me and Lucy will deal with those weapons while the two of you deal with that bunker!" he says.

"Wait, what?" Lucy questions, taken aback by this as she looks at Natsu.

Before she can say anymore Natsu grabs her wrist, gets up and begins running away with Lucy in tow, "Come on, Lucy!" he says.

"Wha-Wait, Natsu!" Lucy nearly shouts as the two Fairy Tail mages once again leave the Marines behind.

Kakihara and the Clone remain crouched and frozen in disbelief as after a few more seconds they finally look at each other again, "What the fuck did I just miss?" Kakihara questions.

"It looks like we just got left to deal with what is probably the more difficult task of the two." the Clone says.

"The least he could have done was split them, and us up so that way it's one hero at least dealing with one of the two things. The frontline is going to be crawling with a full company, maybe even a small battalion of enemy soldiers, what the fuck does that kid expect the two of us to do against that? It's not like we have superpowers, or magic, or anything!" Kakihara questions with annoyance in his tone.

"Wishing you tried your luck with the artillery back there now?" the Clone humorously remarks.

Kakihara points at the Clone with his right index finger, "I will take that helmet off of you and slap you with it." he retorts.

"Come on." the Clone gestures with his right arm while holding his DC-15S blaster carbine, "No use in arguing with it now. Just gotta be extra, extra, extra careful, and we may survive this." he finishes as he turns, stands up and heads off.

"Who's bright idea was it to put kids with no military experience in charge of leading us? Just because they're Heroes? At least the Commander, or the Master Chief I can understand but these kids? Ooh they have super powerful magic and can take out whole units of enemy soldiers with a swipe of their hand, but have they ever fucking lead anyone before?" Kakihara angrily questions aloud as he then takes a deep breath and lets it out. He gets on his feet and begins jogging after the Clone, "If I survive this it will be a damn miracle."

A US Marine fires an M72 LAW at the same time as a female UNSC Marine fires a M57 Pilum, once again the Hurlock and Grimoire Heart mages inside the enemy bunker put up a protective shield deflecting the shots as they harmlessly bounce off it and explode nearby. A Cerberus assault trooper, and Cyclonian Talon fire their respective weapons as a high-velocity slug strikes the left leg of the US Marine who throws himself behind the tree he was using for cover before then falling to the ground. The US Marine pulls himself up against the tree, his teeth clenched shut as pain surges through his body; a few seconds later Happy, and Carla appear floating down in front of him, "Are you alright?" Happy asks him.

"Happy, he just got shot!" Carla says in a slightly annoyed tone at the question.

"I mean, it could have been worse. I'll take a bullet to the leg then my head or anywhere else." the US Marine says in a joking manner.

Carla looks over her left shoulder, "We need some help over here!" she calls out.

A heavy Inquisition, and an Earth Kingdom soldier rushed over, "Cover us!" Carla tells them as she and Happy grab the arms of the marine.

With the Inquisition and Earth Kingdom soldiers in front, with their shields raised, Carla, and Happy begin dragging the marine across the ground towards the ditch; a few enemy projectiles slamming into the shields.

"Lily!" Happy shouts.

Panther Lily carefully sticks his head out from the ditch as he spots the two shieldmen coming towards him, the two soldiers raise their shields a bit more forward and over Lily allowing him to grab the wounded US Marine as he pulls him into the ditch, "Wendy, another one!" he calls out.

A Storm Sangheili lied against the dirt wall while holding the left side of his stomach with both hands, his own blood covering his hands as Wendy used her magic to heal his wound, "I'll be right over, just stop the bleeding for now!" she shouts back.

All along the back wall were a high number of wounded, some very badly, Coalition marines as Wendy, along with a few other mage healers, and normal medics were hard at work trying to save their lives. Some of the wounded marines moaned in pain, those with very small wounds having to endure the pain they were experiencing as the healers, and medics were too few and thus had to care for those with more serious, especially life threatening injuries first.

"Bandage, I need a bandage or something over here!" Lily shouted.

"Heads up!" a male voice shouted as Lily turned his head to the left to see a roll of it coming his way, catching it in his left hand as he began wrapping it around the wounded US Marine's leg.

"There, just rest for a few minutes now." Wendy says to the Sangheili, just then an explosion erupted right next to the ditch sending dirt and small debris raining down into it as Wendy and those around her covered their heads or ducked low to the ground.

Wendy turned around as there was a wounded female UNIT soldier behind her, only to find a Clone medic already tending to her wounds, "I've got her, move on to someone else!" the Clone medic says.

Wendy turned back around and looked for the next person to care for, spotting Lily still wrapping the bandage around the US marine's leg as she started running over. Reaching the two just as Lily finished up as Wendy dropped onto her right knee beside them, "How bad is it?" she asks.

"It's nothing big, just my leg. Shot went clean through, and I can still feel it so that's a plus as well." the US marine responds in a calm manner.

Just then a Batarian dropped into the ditch to the left of Lily carrying another Batarian marine on his right shoulder as he placed him down against the dirt wall, "Medic! I need a medic now!" the Batarian called out in a panic.

The wounded Batarian had a large piece of wood sticking out from his chest as blood seeped out onto his armor and also poured down from his mouth, the Batarian coughed a few times, spitting out some blood in the process.

"That guy on the other hand is not looking too good. Take care of him first kid, I'll be fine!" the US marine says to Wendy as she nods her head.

Wendy gets up and rushes over to the wounded Batarian's side as Lily moves back a little to give her room, "I'm a healer, I can help him!" Wendy says to the other Batarian as she raises her hands and casts her healing spell.

"Please do." the Batarian marine pleads.

"What the hell happened to him?" the US marine asks.

"An artillery shell hit a tree right in front of us, everyone else dove to the ground save for Gefralor and one of the larger fragments went right into his chest as you can see." the Batarian marine replies.

"We're going to need to remove that piece of wood, if we don't my magic won't be able to heal the rest of his body." Wendy says.

"Won't that be very dangerous?" the Batarian asks.

"No need to worry, my magic has already stopped the bleeding. He might cough out a little bit of blood but he'll be fine for the most part, it will hurt a lot however but only for a few seconds." Wendy explains.

"If you wish for your friend to live, this has to be done." Lily tells the Batarian.

The Batarian marine clenches his teeth with an unsure look on his face, he then looks at Wendy, "Can you really save him?" he asks her.

Wendy looks back at the Batarian with a serious look on her face, "I promise you, I will." she states.

The Batarian closes his mouth, the unsure expression still showing on his face as he then finally nods his head. The Batarian marine looks down at his wounded comrade as he grabs a hold of the piece of wood, "Hang on Gefralor, you're going to be fine." he tells him.

"Just get this damn thing out of me." Gefralor says with his teeth clenched and sweat running down his face.

"On my mark. 1, 2, 3, now!" Wendy shouts.

The Batarian marine rips the piece of wood out from Gefralor's chest causing him to cough up quite a bit of blood, some of it splattering onto Wendy's left cheek as her eyes go wide and her pupils shrink down in shock, her mouth dropping slightly open as Gefralor begins crying out in immense pain.

"Wendy?" Lily calls to her upon noticing the look on her face, becoming concerned for her.

The shocked look remains on Wendy's face for a few more seconds before she seems to regain her composure, closing her eyes and shaking her head, as she opens them back up and refocuses on her task, "I'm alright. I've got this under control, go keep an eye out for any more wounded being brought in, Lily." Wendy says.

Lily nods his head as he gets up and runs off.

Gray fires his Ice Cannon again at the same time as Gajeel unleashes another roar attack, both of them obliterating some of the smaller trenches on the mound taking out any enemy soldiers in them. Erza releases another arrow from her bow as Haruto fires his gun, one of his shots along with several other friendly projectiles slamming into the shield turret in the bunker as the shield blocks their shots from hitting the Assault trooper on it. Haruto fires his weapon again, this time shooting the head off of the B1 battle droid manning the double-barrel repeating blaster as the rest of its body collapses to the ground drawing the attention of the other two droids on either side of it.

"Why can't we have one of those shield things on our weapon?" the droid on the right questions.

The other battle droid mans the repeating blaster, "I know right. Seems like it'd be a lot more effective at keeping us droids alive longer." it says as it begins firing the blaster.

Unbeknownst to them, and other enemy troops, LCpl. Kakihara, and the Clone marine quickly, and quietly move up the rear of the mound, Kakihara's M240G, and the Clone's DC-15S blaster carbine held up at the ready. The two reached the top, finding themselves looking over a large pit where three Covenant Type-48 Light Assault Gun Carriages, or Revenants, were located, all three Revenants firing their respective Class-2 medium plasma mortars over the bunker towards Coalition forces. Back on the other side of the river, Coalition marines were still running in from the rear as plasma fire from the mortars impacted all over, one shot impacting behind a Systems Alliance, and Turian marine, and a Gondor soldier as the Gondor soldier fell and rolled for a couple of feet across the ground.

Kakihara and the Clone both took notice of how all three Revenants only had a single person in them, the one at the rear had a Cyclonian Talon at the operator seat, while the front two had a Scorpion soldier on the left, and an Orc on the right. Both marines looked at each other and nodded their heads, understanding what needed to be done as the both of them proceeded to bring out their respective knives, Kakihara a Ka-Bar combat knife, while the Clone unsheathed his vibroknife. The Talon snickered as he fired the plasma mortar again, he waited a few seconds for the weapon to cool down as he prepared to fire it again only to find his mouth suddenly covered by a gloved hand and his throat slit open by a knife. The Clone kept the Talon's mouth covered so as to not potentially alert the other two enemy soldiers, the Talon struggling in the Clone's grasp only for a little bit as he eventually stopped moving and went limp. The Clone lowered his hand and looked back at Kakihara, both marines planning for a simultaneous takedown of the other two enemy soldiers as they began to silently move forward, Kakihara towards the Scorpion soldier while the Clone made his way towards the Orc.

Both the Scorpion warrior, and Orc fired another plasma bolt from their mortars, both their shots impacting amongst Coalition forces as one of the shots sent a small group of marines dropping to the ground as a few of them cried out in pain. The Orc let out a low, satisfied growl when suddenly it took a sniff of the air and picked up a scent of something, blood, making the Orc perk its head up as it realized the smell of blood was fresh, and very close, right behind it in fact. The Clone closed in on the Orc as he was now just a few feet from it, all of a sudden the Orc spun its head around and looked right at the Clone, taking the Clone by surprise as he visibly moved back a few inches due to the suddenness of this. The Orc roared at the Clone as it grabbed its sword and jumped off the Revenant causing it to power down, the Orc charging towards the Clone as the Scorpion took notice of this, allowing Kakihara to quickly move in behind it as he stabbed the Scorpion right in the head with his combat knife.

"Shit!" the Clone says as the Orc closes the distance and swings its sword down at him.

The Clone moves back while swinging his vibroknife blocking, and pushing the sword away as the Orc takes a side swipe at him from its position making the Clone jump back. The Clone recovers and takes a fighting stance as he holds his vibroknife in a forward hammer grip, the Orc immediately charges him again giving him not a second to catch his breath, just as the Orc reaches him and prepares to swing a couple of shots ring out and the Orc drops to the ground dead. The Clone looks to where the shots came from to see Kakihara with his Beretta M9A1 drawn as he lowers it; inside the bunker one of the Grimoire Heart mages turned around as the other noticed this, "What is it?"

"I thought I heard something." the Grimoire Heart mages replies as he then turns his head over to the two B1 battle droids, "You there, droid!" he calls, catching the attention of the droid not on the repeating blaster.

"Huh?" it says.

"Go out back and check on the others." the mage orders.

Kakihara holsters his pistol and grabs a hold of his M240G as he raises it slightly, he gestures with his head to the Clone to come over to him as the Clone quickly rushes over, "I got an idea. You clear out the bunker with your grenades, I'll climb on top of the bunker, take a position there and toss some of my grenades into the enemy trenches, and then light 'em up with my M240. That oughta get their attention." Kakihara explains.

"Uh~, is that what we want?" the Clone questions.

"We take out the bunker, and perhaps some extra heat off our guys across the river. That'll give them an opening to hopefully get across that river and save our asses before we're overrun. Only idea I got unless you have something better, we don't exactly have a lot to work with here." Kakihara says.

"Hey, you two aren't supposed to be back here!" the two turn to see a B1 battle droid just a few feet from them with its E-5 blaster rifle aimed at them, "Hands up!" it orders.

"Shit!" Kakihara says now unsure of what to do.

Suddenly the Clone raises his left hand forward and points at something, "Hey Clanker look, there's a Jedi behind you!"

"What?!" the droid cries out in fright as it turns and begins looking around in a panic.

Taking this opportunity Kakihara quickly rushes the droid, "Hey, there's no Jedi-," the droid begins to say as it turns back around, only to be met with the buttstock of the M240G being slammed across its face, "GAH!" it cries out as its head spins around and the body drops to the ground.

Kakihara looks back at the Clone, "You guys fight these things?" he questions him, a bit taken aback and confused by how easily it had just fallen for such a trick.

"They're more of a threat when there's a lot more of them." the Clone replies in a jaded tone.

Inside the bunker the Cerberus assault trooper, and remaining B1 battle droid continued firing their respective turrets. Back outside the Clone moved to the left side of the doorway as he got up against it, behind him Kakihara pulled himself onto the top of the bunker and then went prone as he began crawling across it. After a bit of crawling Kakihara finally reached the edge of the bunker, giving him a view of the long trench right in front of him and the bunker, as well as friendly forces firing from across the river; Kakihara set up his bipod and then placed the MMG down as he reached for and pulled three M67 frag grenades, one by one, from his pouches as he placed two of them down beside him while keeping the third one in his hand. The Clone meanwhile placed his DC-15S down beside his leg as he reached for and took out two thermal detonators, holding one in each hand.

"Ready on you Kak." the Clone says over comms.

"Copy that." Kakihara replies, he then takes a deep breath and exhales through the mouth silently.

"Now!" he says as he pulls the pin off his grenade and tosses the explosive into the mid-section of the trench directly in front of him.

Quickly grabbing the second grenade he pulls the pin from that and tosses it towards the section on his right, the Clone meanwhile primes both of his thermal detonators and tosses them into the bunker as he pushes himself against the wall. Both detonators roll across the ground while beeping loudly, catching the attention of the two Grimoire Heart mages, and the Hurlock Darkspawn as all three turn and look down at them, the detonators roll right up to the backs of their feet and come to a stop. The sounds of the beeping, and the flashing red lights begin speeding up. Kakihara tosses his third and final grenade as he drops back down and covers his ears. The thermal detonators go off inside the bunker, as the flames from the explosions blow out through the bunker's slit, and entrance which the Clone feels the heat of; at the same time Kakihara's first grenade goes off taking out a small group of enemy soldiers in front of him, a few seconds later the second grenade goes off, finally followed by the third one as the explosion and shrapnel causes a few enemy soldiers to drop to the ground while crying out in pain.

"What in the world?" Haruto says as he perks his head up.

Wondering what had caught Haruto's attention, Erza stands up and cautiously pokes her head out from the ditch, along with Gray, Gajeel, and several marines around them as Haruto, and other marines had seemingly taken notice of something having taken place across the river. From the bunker they see a large plume of smoke emit out from it as the flames from a large explosion die down.

"What the hell just happened?" Lt. Hirano questions as she, and Faramir also look across the river wondering just what, or who caused those explosions just now.

"That explosion, it came from inside the bunker." Faramir says.

The Clone rushes through the doorway with his DC-15S raised, rapidly scanning around the room to see all the enemy soldiers, some of them their bodies completely torn apart and all over the place, dead.

"What the hell was that?!" a Cerberus assault trooper questions loudly as he, and many other enemy soldiers look back towards the bunker trying to figure out what caused that explosion just now.

The smoke finally begins to fade away, as Kakihara hops back onto his machine gun and opens fire on the enemy troops directly in front of him, mowing many of them down as a few realize what is going on and attempt to escape only to be cut down as well. The rest of the enemy soldiers finally take note of the situation as they turn and fire back at Kakihara, "We've been flanked!" another assault trooper shouts.

Enemy projectiles hit the bunker kicking up small pieces of it as Kakihara slowly shifts fire to his left taking out more enemy soldiers in that direction, inside the bunker the Clone mans the double-barrel repeating blaster as he turns it towards the right and fires it upon the enemy soldiers in that direction. Taking quite a few of them out before others begin to realize what's happening and begin focusing their fire towards the Clone.

"Another one in the bunker!" a Stormtrooper shouts.

"Those are marines!" Lt. Hirano says in shock, spotting the two through the scope of her rifle as she then lowers it, "We've got friendlies in the bunker! Help them out!" she yells out as she raises her Avenger again and resumes firing.

Faramir raises his bow and shoots an arrow, hitting the back of a HYDRA soldier and killing him as a Collector trooper takes notice of this and turns around to resume firing on the Coalition marines across the river, soon other enemy soldiers joining it as well as they fire on the marines once more. The rest of the marines also resume firing on the enemy soldiers, Erza and the others included as they successfully manage to take a few more enemy soldiers down.

"I think this is the chance we've been looking for. While the enemy's fire is divided!" Haruto points out taking a quick glance at Erza.

Erza releases another arrow as she turns a bit to her left to look behind her, "We need Earthbenders up here now!" she yells out.

"Earthbenders up front!" a female Systems Alliance marine shouts from behind a large rock.

"Earthbenders up front!"

"Earthbenders to the front!"

"We need some Earthbenders up to the front now!" a male Human New Republic marine yells out.

An Earthbender, taking cover behind a tree, moves his head back slightly as a high-velocity slug hits the edge of it just a few inches from his face. The Earthbender then charges out as he begins running forward as quickly as possible, other Earthbenders following behind and on either side of him as at least one of them is shot down by a laser bolt.

"Cover the Earthbenders!" Faramir shouts.

"Covering fire!" Lt. Hirano shouts as all the marines intensify their fire on the enemy troops.

A Cerberus Centurion, and Techno soldier focus their fire on the marines across the river, while a X-Borg, Loogie, and SWATbot have their backs turned firing on the two marines behind them. All five enemy soldiers are then shot down by Kakihara as he stops firing for a few seconds, resuming fire again almost immediately as he continues laying down heavy fire on the enemy troops to his left. The Clone inside the bunker continues firing on the enemy soldiers to the right, taking out an Unggoy Minor as some of the enemy soldiers back up further down the trench while continuing to fire on him. The Clone finds the remaining enemy soldiers on the right flank now out of the repeating blaster's arc of fire, forcing him to abandon the weapon as he grabs his DC-15S blaster carbine and resumes firing on them with that. A Covenant plasma grenade lands right beside Kakihara to his left close to his hip, the US Marine picking up on the hissing sound it was emitting as he looked and spotted it, his eyes widening in shock and terror upon realizing what it was as he began scrambling to get on his feet, "Oh shit!" he yells.

Kakihara is forced to abandon his gun as he gets up and runs as fast as he possibly could, jumping off the bunker at the last second as the grenade goes off behind him. The Lance Corporal hits the ground landing hard on the left side of his face as he groans in pain for a few seconds and then pushes himself back onto his feet.

Back on the other side of the river right at the edge of it, a group of Earthbenders raise their arms up as a few seconds later, flattened, and hardened earth rises from the water for a few miles in both directions. Finally giving the Coalition marines their means of crossing the river so they could attack the enemy's position.

Faramir climbs out of the ditch as he draws his sword, "Attack!" he yells as he thrusts it forward upwards.

Many marines let out battle cries as they begin charging the mound; Erza, Gajeel, Gray, and Haruto, along with the marines around them, climb out from the ditch as they join the charge as well. The marine gunners fire at the enemy soldiers, taking more, and more of them down as they close in on their trenches; a Haradrim archer looks around in a panic as the Thugs-4-Less Henchman, and Wolf archer on either side of him are shot dead. A squad of marines move in on one of the closer, and smaller trenches at the foot of the mound as inside the trench a Cerberus engineer, and Stormtrooper are seen quickly dropping their weapons, and raising their hands up as they surrender. More enemy troops begin to follow this, dropping, or hurriedly placing their weapons on the ground as they raise their hands up to surrender to the marines who keep their weapons trained on them.

A Hurlock Alpha, and Uruk Berserker climb out of a trench as they charge forward to attack the marines, only to be swiftly cut down by Erza, and Haruto using their swords. The remaining enemy soldiers all surrender to the marines, "Hands where I can see them!"

"Drop your weapons!"

Coalition marines begin securing their newly acquired prisoners while others search around for any remaining enemy troops that could be hiding, or still alive. Faramir, Lt. Hirano, Erza, Haruto, Gray, Gajeel, and a few marines drop into the pit as they cautiously move to surround the bunker entrance with their weapons held at the ready, "Thunder!" Lt. Hirano shouts.

"Flash!" the voice of Kakihara shouts back from inside.

"Friendlies, coming out!" Kakihara adds as he, and the Clone exit the bunker, Kakihara with his sidearm drawn but pointed towards the ground.

Everyone lowered their weapons as it appeared the danger, at least for this area, had passed. Allowing them to relax even if just for a little, "Kakihara, Inferno, what the hell are you two doing back here? More importantly, how did you get back here?" Sgt. Mashima questions.

"Short version sirs, we found a tunnel made by the enemy. Whether there's more of them out there we're not exactly sure but, it's something we may want to pass on to the other battalions so they know. Especially if the enemy ever plans on using them to attack us from the rear." Kakihara explains.

Lt. Hirano looks at a Salarian marine behind her to her right, "You heard him marine, go make the call." she tells him.

"Yes ma'am." the Salarian says as he turns and walks away while activating his omni-tool.

"Nice work men, this information and your actions may have just saved the entire battle here." Faramir says.

"Thank you sir." Kakihara says.

The Clone identified as Inferno looks towards Erza and the others, "Excuse me, but you're friends with the fire breather, and the girl who uses keys for her magic right?" he asks.

"You've seen Natsu, and Lucy?" Erza asks.

"Yeah, they fell into the tunnel with us. Crazy son of a bitch that guy is. He, and the girl went on ahead to silence the artillery guns, sent us here to deal with all this." Kakihara explains.

"Sure hope they're okay." Inferno says.

Gray and Gajeel both cross their arms with smirks on their faces, "There's no need to worry about those two. Natsu may be an idiot, but when it comes to fighting it's going to take a lot more than these small chumps to take him down." Gray says.

"Yeah, and blondie ain't so bad either. She's definitely a lot better than when I first met her." Gajeel says.

"I'm sure those two are doing completely fine." Gray adds.

Natsu fire punches a Scion across the face, turning and inside crescent kicking a charging Venatori Stalker also across the face with fire; several feet behind him Lucy, in her Star Dress Cancer Form, slashes a Death Eater, and Sangheili Minor in front of her across their chests with her right blade taking them down. A Destron Combatant sneaks around the corner of a Cerberus M-080 Artillery variant before then charging the Celestial Spirit mage, Lucy hears him coming and looks over her right shoulder as she spins around and swings her left blade, blocking the Destron Combatant's knife as she then jumps to her right and turns her body sideways. Sliding her blade upwards of the knife and pulling it away as this sends the Destron Combatant stumbling forward; Lucy lands and quickly jumps at the Destron Combatant striking his back with her right blade dropping him to the ground.

From behind a tree Sagittarius pulls three arrows back on his bow's string as he then releases them, shooting down a Loogie, B2 Super battle droid, and a Foot ninja while Loke engages a Cerberus phantom, and an Orc.

"Regulus Impact!" Loke yells, using his attack to blow the two enemy soldiers away as they are sent flying.

Natsu, while a few feet off the ground, headbutts an Uruk knocking it down as he remains unfazed, then spinning around as he throws a flaming, flying roundhouse kick into an Oni, followed by backflipping while still in the air over a Talon as he swings his staff, as Natsu then punches him in the back of the head. Natsu lands back on the ground and stands up, an Alvarez soldier charging him from behind with his sword pulled back to his right side as he swings it at the Fire Dragon Slayer, Natsu ducks down and spins around, as he then goes back up and uppercuts the Alvarez soldier sending him flying back a few feet.

A Gormin swings its bladed cudgel at Lucy who drops to the ground onto her hands and sweep kicks it off its feet, then getting back up and spinning around as she raises her left blade and drives it into the downed Gormin finishing it off. A screech from behind makes Lucy turn just in time to see an Orc coming at her as it swings its mace, Lucy ducks to dodge it as she then goes back up where the Orc takes another swing at her which she blocks this time with her sword. Lucy spins around to her left while still blocking the Orc's mace as then reverse thrusts her other blade into the Orc's stomach, killing it as she spins back around again. Lucy spots Natsu struggling with a Jiralhanae Ultra as the latter attempted to squash the Fire Dragon Slayer with his Gravity Hammer, which Natsu held back by holding onto the shaft; unbeknownst to Natsu, or due to the fact that he was already occupied by the Jiralhanae, a Genlock Darkspawn was sneaking up behind him preparing to stab him with its dual daggers. Lucy gasped in shock upon seeing this.

Natsu growled through clenched teeth as he attempted to push the gravity hammer back, but the Jiralhanae pushed back harder making it a bit difficult. Just then Natsu heard something approaching him from behind as his eyes widened and he looked over his left shoulder, spotting the Genlock as it began rushing towards him to strike until suddenly a familiar blade embedded itself into the side of its head killing it instantly. Natsu looked to where the blade came from to see Lucy, who had thrown her right sword, as she leaned back up and looked at Natsu while catching her breath; Natsu nodded towards her as thanks as he then looked back at the Jiralhanae, "Roar of the Fire Dragon!" Natsu yells, gathering fire in his mouth as he then releases his roar attack point blank into the Jiralhanae causing a large explosion.

The Jiralhanae collapses backwards to the ground, completely charred as smoke emits from his body. Natsu begins catching his breath as he looks over at Lucy who walks towards him, "Thanks, but I had that all under control." Natsu jokingly says.

Lucy puts her hands to her hips "Sure you did." she replies in a humored tone.

Natsu smiles at her with a hum which she returns back. Loke, and Sagittarius both walk over towards them, "That was the last of them. The area's clear now." Loke says.

Natsu and Lucy look at them, "Thanks again, Loke, Sagittarius." Lucy says.

"We'll still be awaiting further summons, moshi, moshi!" Sagittarius says as he salutes her.

"The battle's only just started. And all of us spirits are ready to assist you and everyone else, no matter what!" Loke says.

Lucy nods her head as thanks as she then sends them both back to the Celestial Spirit world. Natsu suddenly turns his head in the direction they came from, "Hm? Here come the others." he says.

Sure enough Erza and the others, Wendy, Happy, Carla, and Lily included, along with Coalition marines began closing in on their position. Lucy lets out another deep breath with her eyes closed as she returns to her normal clothing, Natsu looks at her, "You doing alright?" Natsu asks.

Lucy opens her eyes and looks at him, "Huh? Y-Yeah. I'm doing fine. Just a bit tired is all." Lucy says as she then looks forward, "It's only been a few hours since the fighting started. Yet it feels like it's been days."

"And we're not even close to being finished." Natsu says as he looks back forward, a serious look on his face.

"Well, it's hard to say for us. For all we know, Shepard and the others are probably closing in on that Conduit over there, getting closer, and closer to ending all of this." Lucy says.

"We can only hope so." Natsu says as he furrows his brows.

After several seconds of silence Natsu looks back at Lucy with a toothy grin, "So, ready to continue?" he asks.

Lucy looks back at him with a smirk as she nods her head, "You bet!"

Huangshan Mountain, Anhui…

The rain continued heavily pouring down. From a trench uphill enemy soldiers fired downhill at the Coalition soldiers coming towards them. The terrain combined with the weather had made the climb upwards for the soldiers of the Coalition 8th Mountain Division much more difficult; the ground had become extremely muddy and slippery, causing soldiers left and right to slip and fall into the highly saturated soil. To add on to the enemy soldiers firing down at them from a single, never ending trench with a few bunkers spread out, was the still present enemy artillery dropping shells on top of and around them from the top of the summit.

A Rohirrim slipped and fell face down into the mud, a Galactic Ranger fired up the hill at the enemy soldiers, while an Orlesian mage helped a Clone back onto his feet after the latter had also slipped and fell into the mud. An artillery round impacted amongst a group of Coalition soldiers, causing them to cry out in pain as they fell to the ground, an Alien Plumber agent being sent rolling back down the hill. The enemy soldiers continued firing from the trench, a Stormtrooper manning an E-Web heavy repeating blaster inside a bunker, fired the weapon cutting down a Fire Nation soldier, and Kirkwall City Guardswoman.

"Come on! Let's go! Keep moving!" the female SHIELD agent shouted as she waved her left arm forward repeatedly, only for an artillery shell to impact directly beneath her causing an explosion to erupt leaving nothing left where she once stood.

A male soldier's cry of pains could be heard as HououRanger dropped behind a fallen tree with her Dai Buster in hand, turning and peeking over the tree as she fired off a few shots uphill. Monkey vaulted over the tree to her left as he continued upwards, a Chima Wolf soldier was shot in his left shoulder causing him to spin and fall to the ground on his back as he cried out in pain. Crane flew down towards him and hovered a few feet off the ground as he grabbed the Wolf's arms with his talons and began dragging him away to safety. Another explosion sent a male UNIT soldier flying through the air as he cried out, while Viper, Mantis, ShishiRanger, TenmaRanger, and KirinRanger, continued upwards with the soldiers around them, TenmaRanger returning fire with his Dai Buster while crouched on his right knee.

A golden haired elf with similar golden armor came to a stop as he looked up the hill for a few seconds before turning halfway to his right to look behind him, "Do not stop! Keep moving!" Glorfindel shouted as he focused back forward and resumed running.

A group of Coalition soldiers moved uphill, among them the UNIT Lieutenant, Ridgeline, Luciso, Po, Tigress, and RyuuRanger. Po slipped and fell towards the mud with a, "Whoa!" managing to catch himself before his face went in as he scrambled back onto his feet.

Another artillery shell hit several feet in front of them taking out a College Mage, and Asari soldier; the group moved to take cover in a large crater a bit to their right as they got into it, some of the soldiers popping up to return fire at the enemy troops almost immediately as Po rejoined them dropping beside Tigress to her left. Luciso fired his Phaeston assault rifle while crouched to his left was Ridgeline firing his DC-15A blaster rifle. Directly upwards from their position was one of the enemy bunker's, inside the E-Web heavy repeating blaster as several friendly projectiles impacted into the concrete bunker around the slit where the barrel of the blaster stuck out.

From beside the bunker a Stormtrooper lobbed a thermal detonator into the air, the explosive landing directly in the center of the crater as a US Army soldier took notice of it, "GRENADE!" he shouted as he fell to his right and began backpedaling away.

Acting quickly Tigress grabbed the grenade and tossed it back, the detonator landing in front of the bunker as it exploded, but failed to do anything about the structure or weapon inside as the E-Web resumed firing. A female Quarian, and Bear soldier were struck by the repeating blaster as they fell into the crater, still alive as a male Inquisition mage began healing the Bear first due to his more serious injury while a Systems Alliance soldier applied medi-gel to the wounded Quarian.

Luciso dropped to the ground on his back, "We gotta take out that bunker!" he urgently says.

"We need a launcher. Does anyone see a launcher anywhere?!" the UNIT Lieutenant shouts.

"There's one, over there!" an Unggoy Storm says while pointing off to their left, pointing towards a dead Clone several meters away with an RPS-6 rocket launcher lying right beside him.

"I got it!" the Unggoy shouts as he begins running for it.

"No wait!" the UNIT Lieutenant shouts as he tries to stop the Unggoy, but is too late as he makes a break across the open ground and barely gets a few feet before being cut down by enemy fire.

"Everyone stay put, I got it!" Ryo says as he then starts running for the launcher.

"Shit, covering fire!" the UNIT Lieutenant shouts as he, and the other soldiers fire upon the bunker and enemy soldiers around it.

Enemy projectiles fly and whizz past Ryo as he gets closer and closer to the rocket launcher, at least one laser bolt strikes his right shoulder sending him spinning around as sparks fly from his suit making him cry out in pain. Ryo nearly falls as well but manages to recover as he gets close enough and dives towards the launcher, landing into a roll as he grabs the RPS-6 and goes into a crouched position, taking aim towards the bunker and firing a shot as the rocket soars through the air and through the slit into the bunker. Causing the entire thing to explode, sending debris flying in all directions while the force of the explosion also takes out a few enemy soldiers around it.

Hearing the explosion Glorfindel, who was taking cover behind a large rock with a few other soldiers, peeks around the left side of it as he sees the destruction of the enemy bunker. He looks down the hill, "Come on! Push forward!" he shouts as he gets out from behind the rock and begins running towards the trench.

"Let's move!" the UNIT Lieutenant shouts as he gets up and runs out of the crater, Luciso, Ridgeline, and the others following behind as Po and Tigress also get back on their feet and follow after them.

Ryo meanwhile tosses the now empty launcher aside as he also resumes charging up the hill.

An Uruk steps out from the trench as it raises its sword and lets out a roar, roaring again for several more seconds as then a number of close-quarters fighting enemy soldiers begin climbing out from the trench and letting out battle cries and roars as they begin charging down the hill towards the Coalition troops. The Coalition soldiers yell back as they continue charging up the hill, gunners, archers, and mages, firing their respective weapons and attacks taking a number of enemy soldiers out as both sides continue closing in on each other. Another artillery round hits, taking out another small group of Coalition soldiers while a Gondor soldier is sent flying into the air; enemy soldiers armed with pikes, and spears lower them towards the Coalition troops, as Coalition soldiers also armed with spears lower them towards the incoming enemy soldiers, as after several more seconds, both sides finally, and violently collide on the slope of the hill. Spears, and pikes skewer soldiers on both sides, while everything else turns into complete chaos; weapons of all kinds are swung, bladed weapons are thrusted forward, and bodies fall left and right whether it was because of the fighting, or from the ground itself.

A human male New Republic soldier finds himself skewered by an Uruk pike, a Gondor soldier grasps his spear with both hands as he drives the weapon into the chest of a downed Talon, while a Turian lifts an Orc and throws it to the ground sending it bouncing and rolling down the hill. A female Inquisition soldier thrusts her longsword into the stomach of a Hurlock Darkspawn, a Lion warrior who has slipped and fallen onto his knees finds himself constantly bombarded by a Phantom swinging her monomolecular blade down as he blocks it with his spear, a Clone slides down the hill as he attempts to find something to grab a hold of to stop him. An Arda Elf falls to the ground but while doing so turns and swings up to his left managing to slash a Husk killing it, a Genlock jumps towards and grabs a hold of an Alien Plumber agent bringing him to the ground as they both begin rolling sideways down the hill. Glorfindel downward slashes an X-Borg to his right before turning and push kicking a Foot ninja to his left away, he then swings his sword to the right striking a Dai-Shocker combatman in front of him.

Armed with the Star Sword, and Star Cutter dagger, Daigo, and Shoji cut down enemy soldiers around them with ease, while Kazu thrusts his Dairen Rod spear into the stomach of an Uruk and throws it into a Gormin, knocking it down. Rin blocks a Tartaros soldier's mace with her Phoenix Spear as she then sweep kicks him off his feet, sending him onto his back as she then drives the blade of her weapon into the soldier's chest, finishing him off. A male Dwarven soldier swings his maul knocking an Orc off its feet as he then slams his weapon down onto its chest, a Foot ninja slashes the neck of a female UNIT soldier killing her, while a downed Swords Sangheili Storm pulls on the feet of a Red Templar Guard bringing him to the ground on his back as the Sangheili then gets on top of and begins choking the Red Templar while pushing his head deeper into the mud.

Po throws his arms to the left knocking away an attacking Easterling's halberd as he then inside crescent kicked him across the face, while Tigress side kicked a Scorpion soldier to her left before noticing a Skulkin coming towards her which she took out with a jumping spinning hook kick. After taking out the Skulkin, she noticed an Uruk armed with a crossbow in the trench taking aim in her direction, more specifically, towards Po; the Uruk fired the crossbow, "Watch out!" Tigress shouts as she just barely manages to catch the bolt before it hits Po, stopping it just a few inches away from the back of his head as Po turns around, notices the crossbow bolt and yelps in fright.

Tigress spins the bolt around and throws it right back, managing to hit the Uruk square in its head taking it out, "We need to clear that trench!" she says as she begins running towards it.

"Right behind yah!" Po shouts as he follows after her.

Ryo swings both of his Dragon Swords diagonally down to his left, slashing and killing an Oni as Tigress, and Po ran past behind him which he took notice of. Before he could give chase to assist them, he is attacked by a Red Templar Shadow forcing him to raise and cross his swords in front of him blocking the Shadow's red lyrium blades. An Uruk backhands a Providence agent sending them to the ground, while a Hurlock slams the pommel of its longsword into the head of an Earth Kingdom soldier dazing him, the Hurlock then proceeding to dig its teeth into the Earth Kingdom soldier's neck causing him to cry out in pain. A US Army soldier yells out as he thrusts the M9 bayonet of his M16A4 into the chest of a Wolf soldier killing him.

From the trench the enemy gunners and archers continue to fire down at the Coalition troops engaged with their comrades, remaining cautious so as to not hit one of their own as a Stormtrooper shoots down a Fereldan soldier before they can finish off a Haradrim soldier. A Cerberus assault trooper tosses a frag grenade further down the hill, taking out a Geth, and Clone trooper.

"Take them down!"

"Hit those motherfuckers!"

A squad of Coalition soldiers fire back at the enemy soldiers in the trench, one of them managing to take out the assault trooper.

"Take the trench!" a male Systems Alliance soldier shouts as he, and other Coalition troops begin charging towards the trench while the rest of their comrades continue dealing with the enemy soldiers on the slope.

A US Army soldier, and a female Dalish Elf toss frag grenades towards the trench, both grenades landing inside and going off taking out a small group of enemy soldiers. Luciso raises his gun and fires, killing a Haradrim, and Red Templar archer, along with a Collector and Drophyd trooper. A male UNSC Army soldier lets out a battle cry as he tosses his emptied MA5D assault rifle into a Cerberus Centurion and then dives into him, tackling him down into the trench; a Salarian drops into the trench only to be tackled by a HYDRA soldier who pushes him down against the low wall. A Fire Nation soldier jumps into the trench and swings his Pudao downwards slashing a Cannibal dead, while a Rohirrim slashes across the face of a B2 super battle droid with his sword taking it out. A Clone raises his Z-6 rotary cannon alongside a male Bothan New Republic soldier armed with a A280 blaster rifle, as both soldiers fire their weapons taking out a small group of enemy soldiers.

The battle has now reached the trench as it begins getting filled with Coalition soldiers who engage the remaining enemy troops in it, some of the enemy soldiers attempt to flee only to be pulled back in by a Coalition soldier, or shot and killed immediately with very few managing to escape. Most however immediately engage the Coalition soldiers as everything has now become close quarters fighting; off some distance down the left side a Krogan can be seen armed with a M-451 Firestorm as he fires it into one of the remaining enemy bunkers. Another Krogan lifts and throws down a B1 battle droid as he then raises his left foot and smashes its head to bits, a Cerberus assault trooper thrusts his omni-blade bayonet into the stomach of a downed Orlesian soldier, while a Clone trooper repeatedly smashes the buttstock of his DC-15A blaster rifle into the face of an Orc.

Mantis lands in front of a Cerberus assault trooper, and Covenant Kig-Yar Storm, both enemy soldiers taking notice of him as they aim their weapons only for Mantis to then launch himself into the Assault trooper, kicking him in the face and making him spin around. While at the same time rebounding off the Cerberus trooper as he also kicks the Kig-Yar across the face making him spin around before collapsing to the ground. Viper launches herself towards a Gormin and swings her body upwards striking its chin with her tail sending it onto his back, a Red Templar Knight pounds away at the shield of a downed Gondor soldier leaving dents on it, as the Red Templar Knight prepares to slam both of his fists down Viper wraps herself around the Red Templar's neck, and her tail around his right wrist. Using this hold Viper then begins having the Red Templar Knight repeatedly punch himself in the face as the Red Templar attempts to pull her off but to no avail, after many continuous punches to the face the Red Templar finally knocks himself out and collapses to the ground as Viper slithers off. Crane flies down into the trench as he extends both of his legs forward kicking a Foot ninja, and Loogie aside; he then lands and slides to a stop as a Hurlock charges him and swings its waraxe, Crane grab the wrist of the Hurlock with his left talon stopping its attack as he then kicks it across the face with his right talon. Monkey slides between the legs of a Bruiser and then pushes himself up and back over the Bruiser's head as he grabs its shoulders and brings it to the ground, jumping and elbow slamming the Bruiser in the stomach as he goes into a roll and launches himself forward feet first into two Husks kicking them into the wall.

A Stormtrooper, B1 battle droid, and Alvarez soldier fire their weapons, and magic, down the hill, suddenly they begin hearing someone yelling to their left as they look to see Po charging towards them while letting out a battle cry. The Stormtrooper, and Alvarez soldier are visibly taken aback by this as all three of them turn to fire their weapons, only for Po to jump towards them as he turns his body sideways, and with his back now facing towards them, as he slams into them, knocking them to the ground as the B1 battle droid's head breaks off upon impact. A HYDRA soldier appears as he aims his gun at Po, only for Tigress to jump onto him from behind bringing them both to the ground; Po rolls off the enemy soldiers as the Stormtrooper, and Alvarez soldier begin to recover, the Dragon Warrior quickly punching the Stormtrooper first, followed by the Alvarez soldier knocking them both out. Tigress gets back onto her feet in a battle ready stance, while the HYDRA soldier starts pushing himself up, as he is halfway up Tigress spins around to her left and throws her left leg straight up as the HYDRA soldier looks at her, Tigress then delivering her spinning axe kick as she slams her foot onto the head of the HYDRA soldier sending him face first into the mud. As she does this a Cerberus Centurion suddenly charges her from behind the HYDRA soldier as he lets out a crazed battle cry, Tigress instantly takes notice of the primed frag grenade in his left hand as she ducks to her right just as the Centurion attempts to grab her. Tigress gets back up now behind the Centurion as she wraps her left arm around his left arm, and palm strikes the back of his shoulder, breaking it and causing the Centurion to drop the grenade into the mud as he cries out in pain. Tigress looks at the grenade with wide eyes as she quickly throws the Centurion on top of it and drops onto his back keeping him pinned to the ground, she closes her eyes and braces herself for what's about to come next.

The grenade goes off, causing a blast of red mist to erupt from beneath the now dead Centurion's body as the force of the explosion sends Tigress flying back and into the low wall, causing her to let out a grunt of pain upon impact as she opens her eyes and mouth in a daze. The air completely knocked out of her as she tried to catch her breath, her ears were now ringing causing everything around her to nearly be deafened out as she began looking around. The battle in the trench was still going on and had turned into absolute chaos, soldiers from both sides were quite literally at this point beating each other to death in whatever way they could. An Easterling attempted to choke out a Batarian on the ground, only for a Rhino soldier to charge into him with his horn sending him flying off the Batarian as the Rhino soldier then jumped onto the Easterling and began punching him in the face. A wounded Stormtrooper attempted to crawl away only for a female Dwarven soldier to jump onto him as she began repeatedly stabbing the left side of his stomach with a dagger; an Uruk tore off the skin of an Asari's neck with its teeth, causing blood to come spewing out like a geyser as a Providence agent slammed the butt of their rifle into the side of the Uruk's head knocking it to the ground. The Providence agent then dropped onto their left knee as they continued slamming the butt of their gun onto the Uruk's head while the Asari slowly slid to the ground with her left hand on her neck. Three firebenders shot fire streams from their fists into a group of enemy soldiers, lighting them aflame as they began running around in a panic while crying out in pain and agony, trying their best to put out the flames engulfing them but to no avail.

Tigress watched as one Haradrim soldier fell to the ground several feet from her, still crying out as he squirmed and rolled around unable to put out the flames, after several more seconds of screaming he was finally silenced by a bullet to the head. Tigress looked up to her right to see the UNIT Lieutenant as he lowered his Heckler and Koch G36C assault rifle, a blank expression on his face; Tigress looked back at the Haradrim's still burning body as he no longer moved or made a sound. Tigress continued staring at the body until the familiar grunt of Po drew her attention back to her left, Po was rapidly punching a Wolf soldier in the chest multiple times as he then threw a jumping upwards kick into his chin sending him against the wall. Suddenly there was a sharp cry of pain back to Tigress's right as she looked back in the direction, to see the UNIT Lieutenant's lifeless body in the air with an energy sword through the chest as he was then tossed aside by a Covenant Sangheili Major.

"No!" Tigress yells out in shock and anger as she quickly gets back onto her feet and lunges at the Sangheili Major.

The Sangheili however backhands her across the face, sending her face down into the mud; Tigress's scream catches the attention of Po as he turns around. Tigress slowly attempts to push herself back up, finding herself still slightly dazed from the explosion as the Sangheili walks over to her and brings his energy sword back as he prepares to finish her off. Before he can do that however Po grabs his wrist and snaps it, causing the Sangheili to roar in pain as he drops the energy sword which deactivates as it falls from his hand; Po then hits him with his left hip sending him flying a few feet to the ground as he slides across the mud on the left side of his body. Po reaches down and grabs the deactivated energy sword as the Sangheili gets back onto his feet, looking towards Po with a highly angered expression on his face with his teeth barred as Po holds the energy sword hilt behind him with his left hand forward. After a few seconds a surprised look comes to Po's face as he turns his head to look at the weapon, "Uh~, how do I turn this thing on?" he questions no one in particular as he brings it in front of his face.

The Sangheili Major roars at Po and begins charging him, Po desperately tries to find a way to activate the energy sword but finds himself unable too, as he decides to forget it and tosses the hilt at the Sangheili instead who simply just knocks it away with his left arm. Po rushes towards him and throws a punch, the Sangheili however dodges it and kicks Po off his feet sending him face down into the mud; Po tries to quickly get back onto his feet, but the Sangheili Major pushes him back down with his left foot and then leans towards him as he grabs Po's head with his left hand and pushes it further into the mud beginning to suffocate him. Po begins flailing around trying to break free of the Sangheili's grasp but to no avail, Tigress looks over and upon noticing this her eyes widen in horror, "PO!" she cries out.

Tigress forces herself back onto her feet as she charges the Sangheili, tackling him off of Po allowing him to bring his head up as he coughs out a bunch of mud, wiping his face clean of most of it as he begins catching his breath. It doesn't take long for the Sangheili however to gain the upper hand on the still dazed Tigress as she finds herself on her back with the Sangheili Major on top of her as he grabs her neck with both of his hands and begins choking her to death. Tigress grabs the wrists of the Sangheili and attempts to pull them off, but finds her strength quickly beginning to fade; the Sangheili roars at her, as then suddenly he is struck on the side of the head by a large rock, knocking him off Tigress and to the ground as Tigress begins catching her breath again, coughing a few times as she then sees that the rock is being carried by Po. Po stumbles over Tigress in a weakened state as he drops onto his knees, raises the rock again and slams it onto the face of the Sangheili, all Tigress hears is a loud crunch and squish, as she watches Po repeat the process again over, and over, and over, for a few more times. Each time letting out a cry of anger until finally he stops, leaving the rock on what's left of the smashed in Sangheili's face as he lifts his head up, revealing his face now being covered by its splattered blood as he has a blank expression on it.

Tigress sits up while holding her left arm, "Po?" she says with a worried look on her face.

Po remains still, "Po?" Tigress says again, this time catching his attention as he looks at her.

"Are you alright?" Tigress asks.

Silence is all that came from Po for several seconds until he finally began to respond, "Y-Yeah… Are you?" he asks.

Tigress nods her head, "I'm fine, thank you." she says.

Po gives her a small smile which she returns, "You uh~... You got a little something on your…" Tigress points at her own face trying to tell Po about the blood on his, his eyes slightly widen as he wipes his right cheek with his arm.

Looking down at it to notice the blood, "Oh, that's uh~... That's definitely not mine. Good that it isn't but still kind of gross, uh~..." Po says at a loss for words as he tries cleaning his face as best as possible, luckily it was raining so it wasn't that difficult to do.

"It definitely doesn't suit you." Tigress says in a joking manner.

Po finishes cleaning his face as he looks at her and chuckles lightly, "No, I would imagine it doesn't. Hoping I... didn't get any of that in my mouth that would be even more disgusting." Po says, the both of them now trying to lighten the mood a little.

Just then there is a large explosion from the top of the hill at the summit, drawing both of their attention up to it as then the Coalition soldiers around them began to cheer. It was then that Po, and Tigress noticed that the battle in the trench seemed to have come to an end, the remaining enemy soldiers all surrendering as they were on their knees and disarmed of all their weapons.

"Whoa, looks like we missed quite a bit." Po says.

"Sure looks like it." Tigress says.

Po looked at Tigress, "Hey Tigress." he says bringing her attention back to him, "So what, you're allowed to do crazy things to save people, but I'm not?" he says with a humored smirk, referring to what just happened now.

Tigress smirks back, "Sure, let's go with that." she says.

Po gets back on his feet, "How about, we both don't do any more crazy things that could get us killed in the process. We still save the people we can though maybe try to be more careful about how we do it. We beat the bad guys, maybe have a celebration feast after this is all over, and we make it back home safely with the others?" he says as he then extends his right hand out to her.

"Sounds like a plan to me." Tigress says as she reaches for and grabs his hand, Po then pulls her back up onto her feet.

"Still probably have a lot more fighting to go. Think you can handle it?" Tigress questions Po light-heartedly as she puts her hands to her hips.

"I was about to ask you the same thing." Po says.

Northern Huangshan Mountain area…

RJ, and Dominic, the Jungle Fury Wolf, and Rhino Rangers engage a group of enemy soldiers on an outside staircase as RJ jumps past a Techno soldier and back kicks it with his right leg, while a bit up the stairs Dominic fights against a Bat soldier, and Foot tech ninja. A squad of enemy soldiers fire their weapons as General How and a few Earthbenders around him raise up an earth wall protecting them and the other soldiers behind them, the General and his men then sending the earth wall sliding towards and into the enemy soldiers knocking them away.

Katara water whips a charging Phantom knocking her back as nearby, her brother Sokka locks blades with a Red Templar. A Hurlock emissary casts a fireball at Zuko who easily redirects it around him and back towards the Hurlock taking it, and a few Darkspawn, and Uruk-hai out; Toph creates an earth wave and sends it at the enemy soldiers in front of her blasting them away. Aang leaps through the air as he comes down and slams his staff onto the ground, producing an air bomb and blasting away a number of enemy soldiers around him; the Avatar then spins around and swings his staff outwards creating an air swipe, sending it into another group of soldiers several meters away as they are blasted backwards into a building.

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia…

Bear Elder Balkar, along with other members of the Bear Tribe Buchuma, Bungey, Bumpy, and Bozy, and Coalition troops fire down the street at the enemy forces in the capital city of Mongolia; behind them a Republic AT-TE comes to a stop as its mass driver cannon is fired.

Kamen Rider Super-1 shin kicks a Cerberus engineer in his stomach making him bend over as he then elbow strikes his back sending him to the ground, Super-1 then looks to his left and ducks in time to dodge the swing of an Orc's sword as he comes up and spinning heel kicks the Orc across the face sending it rolling over onto its back. As this happens, several feet behind him FiveRed engages a Commando droid, and Nindroid with his V-Sword; Gaku Hoshikawa swings his sword down striking the Nindroid as sparks fly from its body and it drops to the ground, he then turns his head to look behind him as the Commando droid charges him with a vibrosword. FiveRed spins his body and swings his V-Sword diagonally upwards to the right, slashing the Commando droid across its chest as it is sent spinning around to the ground. FiveBlue, and FiveBlack launch themselves through the air as they thrust their respective weapons forward, Ken striking a Collector trooper with his Twin Arrays bladed dumbbell, while Fumiya hits a Foot ninja with his Power Cutter claw weapon. FiveYellow wraps her Melody Tact whip around a Marauder as she pulls it to her right and then twists it around sending the Marauder flipping over onto its back, FivePink hits a Covenant Kig-Yar Storm across the face with her Cutie Circle baton as she then turns around and thrusts it forward striking the chest of a charging X-Borg.

Johnny Thunder calmly stands still with a smile on his face, and his arms crossed as a Shriek, and Hurlock Darkspawn charged towards him, only for Thunderbolt to fly in as he zaps both of them with pink lightning bolts blasting them away. Mr. Fantastic stretches his body and wraps himself around an Ogre preventing it from doing anything as it attempts to break free, this allows the Thing to jump towards the Ogre and punch it across the face; Invisible Woman projects a psionic force field in front of her preventing a squad of enemy soldiers from shooting her dead, overhead her brother, the Human Torch takes notice of this as he begins flying down to help her. Johnny Storm throws both of his arms forward as he shoots streams of fire from his hands, lighting the squad of enemy soldiers aflame as they cry out.

Cluj-Napoca, Romania…

A group of Chima Wolf Pack Trackers slowly roll across an open field as their cannons are fired, Coalition soldiers using them, and other vehicles that were spread out for cover as they move and fire. In the driver's seat of two Pack Trackers, was the Wolf Elder Wakz, and the female warrior Windra, as manning the turrets for the two all-terrain vehicles were Winzar, and Wilhurt, continuously firing them at the enemy troops.

A Cerberus assault trooper peeked up from the tall grass as he fired his gun, other enemy troops around him remained down as then a Thugs-4-Less Brute to his right popped up and fired his weapon. Just then there was a loud roar that came from the sky making the two look up, soaring through the air, and now rapidly descending towards them was the Hulk as he let out another roar. Seeing him coming, the Assault trooper, along with all the other enemy soldiers who got onto their feet, turned and began to scatter to escape from the incoming green behemoth. It was too late however as Hulk landed on the ground, sending out a powerful shockwave around him sending the enemy soldiers flying as they cried out.

"Death Trident!" Alpha Hydranoid shouts as he releases dark purple energy beams from his three mouths, taking out a large number of enemy soldiers and vehicles across the field.

Justice League member Obsidian destroys a squad of B1 and B2 battle droids with a dark purple energy blast from his arms, as several meters to his right a Stormtrooper, and Sangheili Minor take aim at him with their weapons. Before they fire however, J'onn J'onzz phases up through the ground behind them and solidifies his body as both enemy soldiers seem to sense his presence, the Stormtrooper turns around and is immediately punched in the face by J'onn as the Sangheili attempts to raise his plasma rifle to fire only to have it pushed back down by the Martian and backhanded across the face being sent flying as J'onn then takes to the air.

"Dogga Bite!" Kivat shouts as he bites down on the grip of the Dogga Hammer activating its powers.

Wataru Kurenai, Kamen Rider Kiva in his Dogga Form raises the fist-like war hammer as a giant, dark purple energy manifestation of the fist appears several feet above it, connected to the weapon by dark purple lightning. Kiva then spins it around above his head a few times before raising and swinging it downwards, slamming the energy fist onto an armored Olog-hai troll as it impacts and causes the troll to explode.

Leyte, Philippines…

Jaro…

On the shallow Cabayugan River, Kamen Rider Hibiki charges towards a Husk, and a Wolf soldier with his Ongekibou Rekka drumsticks in hand, the heads lit aflame as he strikes the Husk to his right first before continuing forward and hitting the Wolf on his left, sending him flipping over into the water. Vibe throws his arms forward generating seismic wave blasts from his hands sending a group of enemy soldiers in front of him flying. Manic plays his drums creating a green energy shield in front of him as a number of Swatbots, B1 battle droids, and Techno soldiers fire their weapons, their shots impacting into the shield only to be reflected back causing them to destroy themselves. A large group of enemy soldiers converge on Sonia, Kamen Rider Kuuga, and Doctor Mid-Nite; Sonia summons her piano on a stand as she begins playing it, summoning a mist from it that quickly engulfs them, and the enemy soldiers around them. A Stormtrooper, and Venatori Zealot lower their arms from their faces as they look at one another, just then Doctor Mid-Nite emerges from the mist and punches the Stormtrooper across the face before disappearing back into it. The Venatori looks forward, only to be punched in the face as well by Kamen Rider Kuuga in his Pegasus Form as he also disappears back into the mist. An X-Borg, Loogie, and Gormin back up into each other as around them they hear the sounds of their comrades being taken out one by one by the heroes, just then Sonia appears above them as she jump flips into the air, her piano in hand as she aims down at them and fires multiple pink energy bolts taking all three of them out.

A SWATbot fires its energy gun up at a tree as The Creeper leaps off of it over the shot which destroys the branch he was on, turning upside down as he grabs the shoulders of the SWATbot and throws it over him as he turns upright, sending it crashing into two charging Techno soldiers. A blue blur then speeds by the Justice League hero as it zips its way through a number of enemy soldiers, coming to a stop in the middle of a group of them as Sonic, armed with his guitar, spins around and plays his instrument firing a barrage of blue energy bolts that takes them all down. The blue hedgehog then speeds off elsewhere.

Auckland, New Zealand…

Murtagh rides his dragon Thorn over the city, as Murtagh fires another arrow from his bow Thorn flies lower towards the ground as he spews a stream of fire from his mouth. Lighting up an entire street full of enemy soldiers as further down the street, a Cerberus Centurion sees the red dragon coming and turns to run away but is too late as he becomes engulfed in flames causing him to cry out in pain.

Aragorn raises his sword Andúril sideways blocking a downwards strike from a Hurlock alpha's longsword, the High King pushing it and his sword to his right and downwards in a circular motion to the left as he quickly recovers and drives his sword into the Darkspawn's stomach causing it to roar out as it dies. Gimli hits a Dogma Fighter in the face with the tip of his double-bladed axe's head knocking it to the ground, as he then turns his weapon sideways and slams one of the blades down onto the Dogma Fighter's chest killing it. Legolas jumps on top of the roof of a destroyed skycar as he pulls an arrow back on his bow and fires it, hitting and taking out an Abomination as he notches another arrow, pulls it back and releases it killing a Tartaros soldier. Two Genlock emissaries, along with a Grimoire Heart mage fire a combined lightning spell attack, as Gandalf raises his sword Glamdring which seems to summon lightning to it and thrusts it forward, shooting that lightning which overpowers the enemy's lightning attack as it breaks through and slams into the three enemy mages.

"Omega Morpher, Light Beam Mode!" Sam, the Omega Ranger of the SPD Rangers shouts as he revs the throttle control on his morpher, activating and powering it up.

To his left, Booster Gold throws his hands forward as both future heroes fire their respective attacks, Omega Ranger a highly-concentrated white energy ball, and Booster Gold a beam of golden energy, as their attacks slam into a group of enemy soldiers causing them to explode. Anubis Cruger, the Shadow Ranger leaps off a large pile of rubble as he swings his Shadow Saber downwards striking an Uruk; upon getting back up he swings his saber upwards to his right knocking away an attacking Alvarez soldier's sword as he then throws a side kick into his stomach sending him to the ground. Nearby, Daggeron the Solaris Knight of the Mystic Force Rangers spins around as he fires his Laser Lamp, firing a barrage of golden energy bolts as he shoots down a number of enemy soldiers.

Moscow, Russia…

Khamovniki District…

Several enemy projectiles slam into a damaged skycar, as the shooting continued Black Widow, and Winter Soldier popped up from behind it as Natasha fired her wrist blasters while Bucky fired his laser rifle. Flying overhead was Rocket Red as he then unleashed a barrage of bullets from his left shoulder mounted minigun; some distance away, Red Tornado lands in front of a group of enemy soldiers as he raises his hands and shoots red vortices of air, quite literally blowing them away.

"Flame Fist!" Flamedramon shouts as he shoots fireballs from his right fist.

"Eagle Eye!" Halsemon shouts as he fires glowing red energy arrows from his eyes.

"Gold Rush!" Digmon shouts as he fires his drills from his head, and hands.

All three of their attacks impact into a large group of enemy soldiers taking them out in a large explosion. From the smoke, an Imperial AT-ST emerges as it fires its twin blaster cannons at the Digimon; Flamedramon, and Digmon jump away while Halsemon flies higher into the air to avoid the shots.

"Spiking Strike!" Stingmon shouts as the spikes on his arms extend out while he flies rapidly towards the AT-ST, driving them into the "head" of the AT-ST as electricity surges across its body with Stingmon pulling his spikes out and flying away as the walker explodes a few seconds later.

Jerusalem, Israel…

The Hikari Sentai Maskman team along with Coalition troops fight up a narrow stairway path as they take cover in doorways, up against buildings, and behind those with shields while firing their weapons. Red Mask leans out from behind a doorway on the left side as he fires his Laser Magnum taking out a Collector captain, Blue, and Yellow Mask move up on the right side while firing their weapons while Black, and Pink Mask pull a wounded Krogan into a building followed by a female elven College mage. At the rear of the enemy forces was a Cerberus Guardian protecting a Red Templar archer as he let loose an arrow from his bow, unbeknownst to them, up on a rooftop to their right, was the Levantine Brotherhood assassin mentor Altaïr, as he crouched and carefully moved towards the edge of the building until he was overlooking the enemy troops below. As the Red Templar archer readied another arrow, Altaïr dropped onto him and plunged his hidden blade into the Red Templar's neck killing him; the Cerberus Guardian took notice of this as he turned his head, before he could turn the rest of his body around however Altaïr unsheathed his short blade and slashed the Guardian up his back. A HYDRA soldier, and Death Eater to the Master Assassin's right both took notice of this, but before they could do anything Altaïr was already spinning around and throwing two throwing knives into them, taking them out.

Shining Knight then rode in on his winged horse, Winged Victory, as the flying horse flew in, smacking a Stormtrooper in the face with its front right hoof in the process, and landed. Shining Knight quickly jumped off it as Winged Victory took back off, charging and slashing an Uruk across the chest followed by an upwards right slash to an attacking Skulkin taking them both out.

"Let's go!" Red Mask shouts, now armed with his Masky Blade as he, the rest of the Maskman, and the Coalition soldiers began charging the enemy troops, engaging them in close quarters combat with Shining Knight, and Altaïr.

Overhead Sunflowmon flies over the battle as she flies over towards and rejoins the rest of her team as they, along with more Coalition troops pushed up a nearby street, opposing them were a bunch of enemy soldiers and several vehicles.

"Let's hit these guys with everything we've got!" GeoGreymon says, "Mega Flame!" he shouts as he spews a stream of fire from his mouth.

"Spiral Blow!" Gaogamon shouts as he shoots a tornado from his mouth.

"Sunshine Beam!" Sunflowmon shouts as she fires rays of sunlight from all her petals.

"Kunai Wing!" Peckmon shouts as he throws kunai-like bladed feathers.

All of their attacks slam into the enemy forces up the street causing a massive explosion that travels further down it, taking out many enemy soldiers along with destroying all of their vehicles.

Buenos Aires, Argentina…

Agent Six blocks a few incoming enemy projectiles with his magna blades while around him Bobo Haha, Captain Calan, along with several Providence agents including Kenwyn Jones, Beasly, and Wade, fire at the enemy troops.

Rex Salazar fires a massive ball of concrete from his Slam Cannon into a Cerberus Atlas Mech taking it out, while behind him Spider-Man swings by on his web; shooting off another string and swinging on it Spider-Man heads towards a group of enemy soldiers consisting of Easterlings, Red Templars, and Alvarez soldiers. Spider-Man releases his hold on the current web string as he aims both web shooters at the enemy soldiers and fires two web nets, trapping the soldiers beneath them as they become pinned to the ground and attempt to escape but to no avail, as Spider-Man fires another web string and swings off.

The Ressha Sentai ToQgers, and Legendary Warrior Digidestined fight together against enemy soldiers around them, as ToQ 1gou downward slashes an Oni with his Rail Slasher sword, while Agunimon throws a Pyro Tornado fiery punch into the face of a Sangheili Storm. ToQ 2gou, and Lobomon jump sideways past each other landing right beside the other as ToQ 2gou aims and fires his Home Trigger gun, while Lobomon fires his Howling Laser attack taking out a small group of enemy soldiers. ToQ 4gou, armed with his Tunnel Ax, and Beetlemon launch themselves into the air towards an armored Olog-hai troll, and Ogre, as ToQ 4gou swings his Tunnel Ax downwards producing a green energy slash while Beetlemon brings his hands together, charges them up with electricity for his Thunder Fist attack, and brings them down. Both of their attacks slam into their respective target sending them to the ground as both the troll, and ogre then explode. ToQ 3gou slams her Shingou Hammer onto the ground creating a large shockwave that sends the enemy soldiers in front of her flying into the air, "Hurricane Wave!" Kazemon shouts as she shoots long, thin tornadoes from her fingertips, blasting the enemy soldiers back down towards the ground as they are sent crashing into it.

"Crystal Breeze!" Kumamon shouts as he blows an icy gust from his mouth, freezing a large group of enemy soldiers in front of him.

Beside Kumamon was ToQ 5gou as she held up her Tekkyou Claw, raising it above her head as it was enveloped in pink energy and suddenly enlarged itself massively, taking Kumamon aback as he let out a yelp and hopped back with his right arm slightly raised and a shocked expression on his face.

"I am strong! I am strong!" Kagura shouts as she grabs the weapon with both hands, somehow manages to lift it up, though with a bit of difficulty, and begins swinging it around forcing Kumamon to drop to the ground as she uses the enlarged Tekkyou Claw to strike the frozen enemy soldiers smashing them to pieces.

After coming back around the weapon returns to its normal size as ToQ 5gou sees the defeated enemy soldiers and lets out a cheer with her hands raised, Kumamon getting back on his feet as the two then look at each other with Kagura holding her hands up in front of her.

A smile then comes to Tommy's face as he high fives her with both hands, "Yeah!" he cheers with her.

ToQ 6gou, and Loweemon launch themselves forward through the air as they thrust their respective weapons, Akira his Yudo Breaker, and Koichi his spear, at a Jiralhanae Major. Striking his chest and sending him flying into two Jiralhanae Minors knocking them to the ground.

Kamen Rider Fourze, and Kamen Rider Ghost land in front of a group of enemy soldiers, "Let's go!" Gentaro shouts as he holds up his Giantfoot Switch, at the same time as Takeru holds up his Newton Ghost Eyecon.

"Yeah!" Takeru says in agreement.

The two Riders activate and insert their devices into their respective Drivers, "Giantfoot, On!"

"Kaigan! Newton! Ringo-ga Rakka! Hikiyose-makka~!"

Fourze equips his right leg with the Giantfoot Module, while Ghost changes into his Newton Damashii form, "Attack!" a Cerberus Centurion shouts as the enemy soldiers begin charging the two Riders, the gunners firing their weapons as Ghost uses his Repulsion Glove to block the shots from hitting him and Fourze.

Gentaro pushes on the Capture Handle on his Fourze Driver while also helping Takeru to pull out and push back in his Detonate Trigger on his Ghost Driver, "Giantfoot Limit Break!"

"Dai Kaigan! Newton Omega Drive!"

Fourze lifts and slams his Giantfoot Module down while Ghost throws his Attraction Glove forward, a massive energy manifestation of the Giantfoot, along with a blue energy pulse of gravity beneath the Giantfoot, appears above the enemy soldiers as the gravity pulse pushes them to the ground pinning them down. The enemy soldiers attempt to push themselves up but to no avail, as then a few seconds later the Giantfoot energy manifestation drops onto them creating a massive explosion that engulfs all of them as they all let out a cry of pain.

Athens, Greece…

Around Areopagus Hill, Coalition forces engage Reaper and enemy allied troops. Jedi Master Luminara Unduli swings her lightsaber around blocking and deflecting several laser and energy projectiles while even slicing up one arrow that was shot towards her, while behind her Commander Gree and the soldiers of Green Company fire their weapons at the enemy forces while slowly advancing towards them. Several meters behind them was a Swords of Sanghelios Type-58 Wraith, along with a New Republic T3-B heavy attack tank as the Wraith fired its plasma mortar while the T3-B shot its heavy blaster cannons. The plasma shot from the Wraith impacted into and destroyed a Separatist AAT, while the laser bolts from the T3-B's heavy cannons took out two armored Ogres; all of a sudden both tanks were destroyed just a few seconds apart from each other, as Luminara turned her head to look back at this for a few seconds before looking back forward, and then up as she saw what had hit them. Two Imperial All Terrain Armored Transports, or AT-ATs, were now approaching them as the AT-AT at the front turned its head slightly to its left and fired its heavy laser cannons, destroying an American M3A3 Bradley.

"We got Imperial Walkers, inbound!" Commander Gree shouts.

Just as Luminara was about to yell for a retreat, something massive flew overhead bringing her attention upwards, "Shadow Split!" Master Ingram shouts as three copies of himself appeared on either side of him, one to his right, and two to his left.

All four of the Ingram's then extended their dual claw blades as they flew towards the AT-ATs which shot at them, all four Ingram's maneuvering around the shots to dodge them, "Moonlight Slash!" the original Ingram shouted as he, and his copies split off into duo's and flew on either side of the Imperial Walker's, swinging their claw blades into their sides. Penetrating their armor and dragging their blades alongside its body until coming out the rear as they continued flying forward, the three copies disappeared, leaving the original Ingram as then both AT-ATs exploded behind him.

Luminara watched the whole thing unfold, an intrigued look on her face as she was impressed by what she had just witnessed.

Meanwhile, up on the nearby rocky outcrop that contained the Acropolis of Athens, several other heroes fought against a large group of enemy soldiers around the damaged ruins of the ancient buildings. These heroes being Wonder Woman, Gypsy, Thor, the Gold Samurai Ranger of the Samurai Power Rangers, StarNinger of the Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, and Kamen Rider Gaim. While floating high up in the air, Thor let out a mighty battle cry as he gathered lightning in his hammer and swung it downwards, shooting the lighting into a number of enemy soldiers; Wonder Woman used her bracelets to deflect a few enemy projectiles fired at her as she then punched a charging Drophyd Trooper, and Techno soldier smashing the latter to pieces, while to her left Gypsy phased through an Orc swinging its mace at her as she solidified her body and punched it in the face. The Gold Samurai Ranger, and StarNinger charge towards two Jiralhanae Minors, sliding up to them as both of them then unleash a speedy barrage of golden energy slash attacks on the two Jiralhanae, sliding past them once they were finished as both Covenant soldiers then explode.

On the steps of the Parthenon Kamen Rider Gaim upward slashes a Red Templar to his right with his Daidaimaru, turning and raising the Musou Saber in his left hand sideways to block an attacking Uruk Berserker's sword as he then slashes the Berserker across its chest with his sword sending it turning and flying off the steps. A Cerberus Phantom charges Kouta up the steps as he sees her coming and hops down towards her, throwing a push kick sending her flying backwards to the ground. Gaim then looks a bit to his left as he jumps forward and swings his Daidaimaru downwards releasing an orange energy slash.

Cairo, Egypt…

A large door is opened as Coalition troops rush in with their weapons raised, "Secure the building!"

"Move, move, move!"

Outside, more Coalition soldiers follow in behind those already inside, as Laval watches this from the turret seat of the Royal Fighter tank as it slowly rolls by. For them things were now, and had been quiet for some time as their armored column continued moving down another street, though the sounds of battle could still be heard off in the distance throughout the rest of the city. Other than a few stragglers hiding in some of the buildings, which were being handled by the infantry as they cleared each one out as they moved past them, Laval, his friends, and their troops had yet to hit another major enemy defensive position. It was both somewhat of a relief, and of major concern, as this was giving everyone room to catch their breath before the next big skirmish, but at the same time making them paranoid of when exactly the next big fight would begin, and how bad would this one be compared to the previous ones.

Further ahead at the front of the convoy Ironhide, alongside Hawkgirl, and a Turian soldier flanked by a female Inquisition soldier, and a alien Plumber agent stand to the right of a bridge; the Turian with a binocular out as he looked through it across the bridge to the other side, "Send word we've reached the southern bridge to Gezira Island and we're about to start crossing it." the Turian says as he looks at the Plumber agent.

The Plumber agent nods his head as he turns and walks off while putting his right hand up to his ear, "I don't like it, with how quiet it's been lately. Not to mention now with us crossing a bridge, this all reeks of an ambush." Ironhide says with his arms crossed.

"It's been nothing but ambush after ambush since we landed, not going to change now. At the very least we're not walking into this completely blind. We know it's coming, it's just a matter of what exactly it is and how we're going to counter it." Shayera says.

"Everyone move forward, but keep your head on a swivel! They're waiting for us on the other side, no doubt about that. Scan every window, every opening between buildings, you so much as see what looks like the barrel of a weapon and you light it up!" the Turian orders over the comms.

The M1A2 Abrams at the front of the column resumes moving forward, followed by the Scorpion, and all the other vehicles behind it as well as the soldiers using them for cover. Several squads move off to either side of the bridge to provide support from the current position, along with two Humvees, and Warthogs, one per side, and a M1128 Mobile Gun System variant of a Stryker on the right, and M35 Mako on the left. Ironhide remains where he is as he lowers his arms while Arcee, Chromia, and Elita-One roll up around him, Hawkgirl and Doctor Fate take to the skies over the convoy to provide overwatch, while Gorzan and two of his Gorilla mechs take up position on the left side of the bridge. Cragger and the others have already started their trek across the bridge behind a Lion Attack buggy, while Eris, and Laval on the Royal Fighter are just a few vehicles behind them just now getting on it.

The Abrams reaches the halfway point, its main turret slowly turning from left to right as inside the commander continued scanning for targets, outside the vehicle on the sides and rear, Coalition soldiers were also keeping their eyes peeled with their weapons raised for signs of the enemy. From above Shayera, and Dr. Fate looked down towards the other side of the bridge, but did not see anything that was cause for concern, "Not seeing anything from up here yet." Shayera reports over the comms.

Dr. Fate however narrowed his eyed in suspicion. Laval looked from right to left with a serious expression on his face, looking back forward as he saw the Abrams at the front beginning to close in on the exit. In front of the M1A2 Abrams to its left was a large pile of rubble, as it got closer the vibrations from the heavy moving main battle tank caused some of the smaller rocks to start shaking more and more. A Providence agent on the left side of the tank, second from the front looked over at the rubble as the Kirkwall Guardsman in front of him looked to his right; staring at it for a few seconds the Providence agent kept their eyes focused on it, suddenly Reaper Swarmers began crawling out from the rubble and moving towards them.

"Swarmers!" the Providence agent shouted as he raised his rifle and opened up on them.

The rest of the gunners on the left, soon reinforced from the right side, and the rear of the tank, fired upon the small mutated Rachni workers taking many of them out while the Abrams came to a halt. More Swarmers however just kept coming out from the rubble, and soon more of them began appearing from a destroyed skycar up in front to the right of the tank. More Coalition gunners rushed up to deal with them, there were just too many however as several of them made it past the soldiers and began making their way towards the tank, "They're going for the tank!" a female soldier shouted.

The Kirkwall Guardsman along with a few other melee soldiers started slashing, stabbing, and doing whatever they could to stop the Swarmers that made it past the gunners. A Firebender swung his right arm upwards summoning and shooting a curving fire stream to take out a small group of Swarmers on the right, a Waterbender to the left of the Abrams raised water from the river and used it to wash away the Swarmers in front of him. Unfortunately it wasn't enough, as at least ten Swarmers crawled underneath the tank, while two on the left, and three on the right, leaped onto the outer sides of the tank treads and exploded, covering them in acid which immediately began melting away at the treads and wheels.

"Shit, they got the tank!" a US Army soldier shouted while looking over his left shoulder at the tank, before looking back forward as he resumed firing at the remaining Swarmers.

"Status report?!" the Turian called over the comms.

"This is Anvil Six-Six, we've been hit by Reaper Swarmers, our tank has been immobilized!"

The last Swarmer was shot and destroyed, the soldiers taking up positions around the tank as a member of the tank crew checked on the condition of the Abrams's tank treads, the treads had been entirely separated in a few spots, and several of the wheels had been greatly damaged by the acid. The tank was not going anywhere. From above Hawkgirl, and Doctor Fate looked down at the scene, suddenly Doctor Fate shot down towards the ground taking Shayera aback as she wondered what he was doing, the sorcerer landing in front of the Coalition soldiers also taking them aback as he raised his arms forward and shot magic bolts from his hands. His magic bolts flew for several feet before seemingly impacting into nothing but air, until two Grimoire Heart mages were decloaked from the attack as they were sent flying to the ground, "It's illusion magic! They've been in front of us the whole time!" Doctor Fate says.

A large number of transparent silhouettes of varying shapes, and sizes appear before the Coalition troops, as then after a few more seconds the seemingly empty courtyard becomes no longer empty as the cloaked enemy soldiers, vehicles, and weapons are revealed. Acting quickly Doctor Fate puts up a magic barrier in front of him blocking the heavy barrage of enemy projectiles from taking him, and the Coalition soldiers behind him out as the enemy troops continue firing everything they've got into the barrier to take it down. At one of the upper floor windows from the large damaged building on the right, a Cerberus assault trooper pops out with a ML-77 Missile Launcher as he fires the weapon taking out the Lion Attack buggy Cragger and the others were using for cover, as they, and the soldiers around it are sent to the ground. A cloaked J-1 proton cannon on the rooftop of a low building located on the docks to the left, turns towards the Coalition forces on the bridge as it fires its gun, destroying a Geth Colossus as the Geth ground unit collapses to the ground.

"Bring that building down!" the Turian orders while pointing towards it.

The M1128 Stryker fires its 105mm gun, along with several other vehicles as they lay waste to the large building to the right of the bridge eventually bringing it down; Laval turns the turret towards the J-1 proton cannon and fires it, hitting and destroying one of the droid artillery gun's legs causing it to collapse before a second shot impacts into it destroying it completely. From the right flank a Hurlock fires an Imperial E-web heavy repeating blaster as a Marauder to its left is shot and killed, one of its shots hits a female Human New Republic soldier as she runs past the Royal Fighter, while a few of them hit the side of the tank directly next to the driver's seat causing Eris to let out a yelp of fright as she throws her head down with her arms over it. Hearing this, and having taken notice of the shots that hit his tank, Laval turns the cannon in the direction they came from and returns fire, taking the Hurlock as well as the E-web out in a small explosion as he then begins focusing his fire on the other enemy troops along the same section taking out a Kig-Yar Storm, and SWATbot. The Coalition soldiers on the bridge return fire at the enemy soldiers hitting them from the sides, at least one Orc archer is shot and killed as the enemy troops focus their fire on the Coalition forces on the bridge.

A Reaper Harvester flew up into view as it, along with five other Harvesters, and a squadron of Talon Switchblades, and Bat Wing Strikers flew towards the bridge. A Clone taking cover behind a Fire Nation Tundra tank, fired his DC-15S before being forced back into cover by enemy fire as he then looked up, immediately taking notice of the incoming enemy flyers, "Incoming!" he shouts as he points towards them.

The Clone along with several soldiers take aim and fire at the incoming flyers, some of the turret gunners doing the same thing as the .50 Cal gunner of an M113A2 armored personnel carrier turns the M2 heavy machine gun towards and fires at them. The Talons and Bats return fire as at least one Cyclonian is shot off his Switchblade, while a Bat Striker becomes heavily damaged and begins doing down in smoke; Laval shoots his cannon up at the flyers, as meanwhile a number of biotics, and mages take up positions between the vehicles and raise their respective defensive barriers around them and the rest of the troops, protecting them just as the Harvesters fire their cannons down onto them causing their shots to be blocked. Laval continued firing his cannon as the enemy flyers went over them, turning and resuming fire almost immediately as he successfully manages to shoot down one of the Harvesters, "Alright!" he cheers pumping his right hand.

"Nice one Laval!" Eris shouts at him.

Suddenly a large number of enemy soldiers consisting of Collectors, Imperial Jumptroopers, Covenant Sangheili Rangers, Jiralhanae Jumpers, Death Eaters, Swatbots, Bat warriors, and Separatist B2-RP battle droids take to the sky as they fly over, or around Doctor Fate's barrier.

"They're coming over!" a male Ferelden soldier shouts.

Shayera, who was taking cover behind the damaged Abrams, flew up and slammed her Nth metal mace into a Death Eater sending him flying, as she then flew over and landed behind Doctor Fate, "Protect Fate, if he goes down, we all go down!" she orders as several Coalition soldiers move in around her to protect the sorcerer.

The rest of the Coalition troops on the bridge quickly begin engaging the enemy soldiers now landing around them, a Systems Alliance soldier raised and fired their M-8 Avenger killing a Bat soldier as an Imperial Jumptrooper landed to their left and fired their E-11 blaster rifle killing the SA soldier. As the Imperial Jumptrooper turned to his right, he was struck down by an Orlesian soldier armed with a longsword. A Jiralhanae jumper armed with a gravity hammer landed as an Arda Elf, Dwarf, and Crocodile soldier charged him only to be sent flying as he swung his gravity hammer; a Clone on the cannon of an AT-TE looked to his right as he saw a weaponless Collector trooper flying towards him, the Collector reaching towards him as the Clone raised his hands catching the Collector's as the two began to struggle.

Cragger swung his Vengdualize double-side bladed weapon striking a Bat soldier flying towards him, as Worriz engaged a Sangheili Jumptrooper, Razar another Bat soldier, and Bladvic a Collector captain. Rogon inserted a CHI orb into his harness, powering him up as he then charged towards and jumped into the Jiralhanae jumper's chest, horn first, knocking him back; Laval turned his cannon and fired at the Collector trooper attacking the Clone, blasting it away and saving him. A bolt of green magical energy flies past in front of Laval's face, missing him by just a few inches as he yelps in surprise and throws himself back against the seat, recovering as he grabbed the turret controls, spun the cannon to the left and fired. Laval fired again as this time the shot hit the flying Death Eater sending him falling towards the river as he cried out. A B2 jetpack droid lands directly in front of Eris on the vehicle making her cry out while throwing her arms up, the droid aims and fires its wrist blasters as the Eagle princess ducks down to her left causing the shots to miss and hit the seat instead. Eris grabs her Eglaxxor axe as she comes up and swings it, cutting the droid's arms off as she then turns the weapon and slams one of the heads into its chest, sending it falling off the tank.

"Let's go help them out!" Elita-One says to her sisters, as the three turn and roll towards and onto the bridge.

Elita, and Chromia fire their arm guns taking a few enemy soldiers out, while Arcee slashes a Jiralhanae jumper with her arm sword saving a male human College mage. A Collector trooper hanging onto the side of the cannon attempts to pull Laval's sword from his hands, as then a Sangheili Ranger lands on top of the turret, pulls out, and activates his energy sword as he raises it back to stab Laval. Thrusting it at him as Laval quickly ducks forward to his right causing the energy sword to go through his seat instead; Laval looks at the Collector trooper as he kicks its arm causing it to release its hold on his sword, allowing him to swing it as he decapitates the Collector and then swings it at the feet of the Sangheili knocking it off them onto its back. Laval then stands up as he drives his sword into the Sangheili's chest, killing him. Chromia swings her arm sword striking, and destroying a SWATbot as she, and the rest of her sisters roll in and take positions around the Royal Fighter, Arcee firing her arm gun forward to her left as Elita-One shoots up at the air to her right taking out an Imperial Jumptrooper sending him crashing and exploding into the side of the bridge.

"Shit, those flyers are coming back around!" Arcee shouts as she looks back at Laval.

Laval looked to his left, sure enough the remaining Harvesters, Switchblades, and Wing Strikers had finally turned back around as they began making their way back towards the bridge. Laval's eyes went wide as he realized what was going on, making him look forward to see that the Coalition troops were all still engaged with the remaining enemy soldiers, the mages and biotics were either preoccupied in combat, wounded, or dead.

"But they still have their own soldiers on this bridge!" Eris says.

"One thing about bad guys, they tend to never really care about taking out their own sometimes!" Chromia says as she then slashes a Bat soldier.

Laval turned the cannon towards them and began firing, to make matters even more worse the gunners on the other vehicles were also either preoccupied with the enemy soldiers, wounded, or dead, meaning it was just Laval at this moment firing at the returning enemy flyers. His pulse beams flew around the enemy flyers as at least one of them struck and destroyed a Cyclonian Switchblade; Laval bared his teeth while letting out an angered growl as he continued firing the cannon as rapidly as he could, taking out a Bat Wing Striker and hitting one of the Harvesters as it roared in pain but otherwise continued flying.

"AHH~" Laval cried out as he fired, and fired, and fired.

Just as the Harvesters looked like they were about to fire their cannons, missiles slammed into them causing them to explode along with a number of several other projectiles destroying some of the Switchblades, and Wing Strikers, while the survivors scattered into various directions. Laval stopped yelling as a surprised expression came to his face and he looked to his left where the shots came from. Two Boeing AH-64D Apaches flew in as they opened up on the enemy forces on the other side of the bridge with their 30mm M230 chain guns, and Hydra 70 rockets, followed by Eagle Jets, and Raven Gliders as they also fired upon the enemy ground forces, or broke off to chase after the remaining enemy air units.

"We've got air support!" a Galactic Ranger excitedly, and joyfully shouts.

The enemy forces on the bridge had finally been dealt with as the survivors begin cheering for the arrival of their air support.

"Yeah!"

"Woo~hoo!"

"Get some motherfuckers!"

"Oh you beautiful sons of a bitches, you!"

The Apaches made quick work of the vehicles, and guns that would have been major trouble for them had they not taken them out immediately, as now the remaining enemy troops were on the run. Doctor Fate finally lowered the barrier, and his arms as Shayera walked up to his left side with a smile on her face, "Heads up people, reinforcements inbound." the Turian says over the comms as the two turn and look up.

Flying overhead were a number of Coalition troop transports, now also including CH-47 Chinooks, and UH-60 Black Hawks, as the transports touched down in the courtyard allowing the troops on board to disembark.

"Secure the area!"

"Move it, move it!"

Doctor Fate got to work using his magic to move the immobilized Abrams out of the path, while Ironhide dealt with the destroyed Geth Colossus, and two Geth Primes moving aside the Lion Attack buggy, allowing the convoy to begin moving again. As they waited their turn to also resume moving, Eris, and Laval took this moment to catch their breath, "You alright back there Laval?" Eris asks looking over her left shoulder, even though she couldn't see him.

Laval laid his head back against the seat with his eyes closed, "Ask me that again when this is all over. Otherwise, there's not really any point in asking it now." he replies sounding out of breath.

Eris chuckled at this as she looked back forward, "Guess that's true." she says.

Acclamator-class assault ships, and GR-75 medium transports approached the island nation of Japan while under fighter escort, from the ventral hangars several troop, and vehicle transports were deployed as they began flying towards the island. Among them were United States Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallions, MV-22B Ospreys, and UH-1Y Venoms; including a few AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters. From the troop compartment of a UH-1Y Venom, a Gondor soldier watched as two F/A-18D Hornets flew past; many pillars of smoke could be seen rising from the Kanagawa prefecture that they were heading towards.

Hiratsuka…

Explosions erupted all over a massive open area filled with a bunch of fields as projectiles flew back and forth between the Coalition Marines, and the Reaper and allied enemy troops pushed forward, their vehicles spread out across the fields, and roads as the marines used them for cover while advancing on the enemy's defensive position which was one long trenchline with a few bunkers spread throughout, and several of their own vehicles behind it. A Providence assault vehicle rolled forward down the road as it fired its machine guns on the upper right, and left sides, Coalition marines moving alongside, and behind it with shieldsmen at the front, and gunners, and archers behind firing their respective weapons. Just then two Covenant Type-54 Banshees appeared, flying in high from the left as the forward Banshee fired its heavy fuel rod cannon at the Providence assault vehicle, sending the Coalition troops around it running away as the shot impacted into the vehicle causing it to explode and knocking it on its side. The second Banshee fired its plasma cannons, taking out a few marines as many of them turned towards it and fired back, the Banshee's energy shields protected it from the small arms fire as it pulled away from its attack run and began to fly away. A male UNSC Marine manning the M343A2 chaingun on the back of an M12B Warthog fired at the retreating Banshee, eventually managing to take out its shields and destroy its engines, sending it spiraling out of control and crashing into the ground.

Enemy projectiles begin hitting the Warthog, as then one high-velocity slug hits the left shoulder of the UNSC Marine knocking him off the gun and making him cry out in pain. An Asari Marine beside the Warthog to its right looks towards the gunner, "Shit. Medic!" she calls out while looking to her right.

She looks at a male Dalish Elf archer to her left and taps him on the shoulder getting his attention, "Get on that gun!" she orders him as the Dalish Elf immediately complies.

The wounded UNSC Marine is pulled from the back by a Southern Water Tribe warrior, and female SHIELD agent, while the Dalish Elf hops onto the Warthog and gets on the chaingun as he begins firing it. The remaining Banshee comes back around as it begins heading towards the marines again from straight up in front of them, "Trigger Maximum Drive!"

Kamen Rider Double, in his LunaTrigger form, aims at the incoming Banshee with his Trigger Magnum, "Trigger Full Burst!" both Shotaro, and Philip shout as they fire multiple gold, and blue charged energy shots that home in on the Banshee and impact into it, causing it to explode.

"That takes care of that annoying bastard." Double/Shotaro says as to his right, Decade, ZX, and Ryu, along with Coalition marines, move with a Krogan Tomkah whom he then rejoins.

Tsukasa raises and fires his Ride Booker gun, while Ryu lets loose a two-pronged arrow from his Fiend's Bane bow. Ryu's arrow decapitates an Orc as its headless body collapses to the ground as the rest of the enemy soldiers around it continue firing their weapons, beside them to their left a bunker as a Cerberus shield turret is fired from inside. A Galactic Republic TX-130 Saber-class fighter tank hovers forward as the Clone gunner fires the KB-50a beam cannon on top, a few seconds later two bunker buster missile shells are fired from the ordnance launchers as they travel towards and impact into the enemy bunker, causing it to explode while also taking out a few enemy soldiers around it. A Thugs-4-Less Henchman drops a mortar shell into a mortar tube as he turns away and covers his ears just as it fires, a few feet to his left a Cerberus engineer preps another mortar shell as he drops it into another mortar tube and does the same thing as the Thug Henchman with the shell then being launched into the air. The mortar shell impacts just a few feet in front of a group of Coalition marines as no one is killed or injured by it.

"Requesting Danger Close Air Support. Enemy troops are dug in, north of our position! Armor is directly behind them. Marking targets with lasers..." a US Marine says over the comms as overhead, two A-10 Thunderbolt IIs fly over.

"Copy that, targets are marked. Proceeding with attack run."

The A-10s fly over to the right to hit the enemy position from the side as they eventually turn towards it and let loose with their GAU-8/A Avenger rotary cannon, strafing the enemy troops and vehicles as the 30mm rounds quite literally make any enemy soldier hit by it disappear in mists of red, while also tearing into the enemy's vehicles leaving massive holes in them and even causing a few like an Imperial AT-ST, and Cerberus M-44 Hammerhead to erupt into flames. The A-10s then switched to their AGM-65 Maverick missiles, taking out a few more enemy troops, and vehicles, including another bunker before finally pulling up. An M1A1 Abrams, and M820 Scorpion both fire their main cannons a few seconds apart, their shots impacting into different sections of the enemy trench taking several enemy troops out; an M-080 IFV variant fires its main gun destroying a Separatist AAT. The marines were closing in on the enemy trench as the enemy soldiers continued firing everything they had at them; a Wolf soldier tossed a frag grenade towards the marines as it landed among them, luckily a Gorilla soldier took notice of it as he scooped it up and tossed it back towards the enemy. The grenade landed in the trench and went off, taking out a few enemy soldiers, including the Wolf who threw it. A Venatori Spellbinder shot a Energy Barrage towards the marines, as a female Turian raised a biotic sphere to block the elemental blasts from hitting her group.

The marines were now just several meters from their trench, "ATTACK!" a Sugormin shouts as he climbs out from the trench and thrusts his right arm forward.

A large number of enemy soldiers begin climbing out from the trench and charging towards them, "Shield wall!" the Asari marine shouts, the Coalition vehicles coming to a stop but continuing to fire as the marines begin forming up with shields of course at the front.

The enemy gunners that were charging towards them continued firing their weapons, their shots however being blocked by the Coalition's shields, "Earthbenders, launch!" the Asari then shouts.

From the Earth Kingdom tanks, and Earthbenders spread throughout, large rocks are launched through the air towards the enemy soldiers, as they hit the ground, bounce, and roll into them taking a number of their troops out.

"Biotics, Firebenders, Mages, at the ready!"

The enemy soldiers got closer, and closer to them, "Now!" the Asari shouts while throwing her right arm down.

Holes are opened up in the shield wall, as then biotics, firebenders, and mages, all unleash a barrage of various attacks; from the biotics mostly shockwaves, firebenders fireballs and fire streams, and from the various mages a variety of different elemental attacks. Their attacks slamming into the enemy troops, blasting them away, lighting them on fire, or freezing them solid.

"Spears!" the Asari shouts, as the holes are closed and said weapons are lowered towards the enemy.

The remaining enemy soldiers slam into the Coalition's shield wall, as many of them are skewered immediately by the spears, while others manage to make it past the weapons. The marines begin their close quarters engagement with the enemy troops.

"Loose!" a male Inquisition soldier shouts as all the archers, which are further back away from the front, release their arrows sending them soaring through the air and over all the friendlies in front of them.

The arrows come down piercing many enemy soldiers, including those still in the trench. Ryu Hayabusa swings his Dragon Sword downwards to the left slashing and killing a Venatori Gladiator, as he then ducks and spins around to his left thrusting his sword into the stomach of an Uruk before bringing it back and slashing it across the neck. Ryo Murasame meanwhile jumps forward and punches a Cerberus phantom across the face as he turns to his right and raises his arms blocking the blade of a Foot ninja, allowing him to punch him across the face as well. Tsukasa, and Shotaro meanwhile drop into the trench where marines have already begun engaging the remaining enemy soldiers in there as well. Tsukasa push kicks a charging Husk away as he then ducks to avoid the swing of a Tartaros soldier's mace to his right, coming up as he then pushes the Tartaros soldier down against the low wall and drives his Ride Booker, now in sword mode, into his chest killing him before tossing his body aside. Behind him Shotaro reverse roundhouse kicks a Spider soldier across the face; a Haradrim soldier charges the two-in-one Kamen Rider with a sword as Shotaro holds up two of his Gaia Memories and activates them, "Heat! Metal!"

He inserts them into his Double Driver and pushes it open, "Heat, Metal!" Double then turns his upper body around as he changes into his Blazing Warrior form, with the Metal Shaft materializing on his back just as the Haradrim soldier swings his sword causing it to be blocked by Double's staff.

Shotaro grabs the Metal Shaft and pulls it out as it extends, allowing him to turn back around as he thrusts one end of it into the chest of the Haradrim soldier knocking him backwards to the ground. A few enemy soldiers jump or rush in, ready to engage Double, as Shotaro backs up while holding his Metal Shaft at the ready until he finds himself backing up into Tsukasa who was also doing the same thing, a bunch of new enemy soldiers in front of him as well.

"You know when to duck, right?" Tsukasa says to him.

"If you're about to do what I think you are, then yes." Shotaro responds.

The enemy troops around both Riders charge towards them, Tsukasa quickly pulls out and inserts a Rider Card into his Decadriver, "Attack Ride" he closes his Driver, "Blast!"

Tsukasa switches his Ride Booker back to gun mode as Shotaro drops to the ground, Decade raising his gun forward and firing a rapid barrage of energy bullets taking out the enemy soldiers in front of him before turning around and continuing to fire into the remaining enemy troops that were charging to attack Shotaro, also taking them out. Tsukasa stops firing as he holds his gun up, Shotaro jumping back onto his feet, "Nice work." he says.

"Thanks." Tsukasa replies.

The two Riders look around them as they notice something, "You know, ever since we landed. We've foughten nothing but the cannon fodder. No major bad guys or monsters anywhere." Shotaro says.

"Perhaps they're waiting a bit more further in?" Tsukasa says.

"You really believe that?" Shotaro questions him, turning his head slightly towards him.

Tsukasa turns his head slightly towards him as well, "Not in the slightest." he says.

Oranjestad, Aruba…

Marvelous throws a back kick into a Drophyd Trooper, sending it stumbling back as he then turns around, raises his Gokai gun and fires a couple of shots into it. He then looks to his right and ducks as a Gormin swings its weapon at him, Marvelous retaliates with a high spinning heel kick across the Gormin's face sending it stumbling away to its right as Marvelous comes back around, aims his gun forward and fires again taking out a charging Uruk, and HYDRA soldier.

"Gomu Gomu no Muchi!" Luffy shouts as he stretches his right leg outwards and swings it to his left, striking a group of enemy soldiers and sending them flying into a nearby building.

Luffy looks to his left and jumps backwards into the air as a Husk Brute attempts to smash him with its oversized claw arm, the Brute looks up at Luffy as he extends both of his arms backwards, "Gomu Gomu no Bazooka!" he yells as he throws his arms forward delivering a powerful double open palm strike into the Brute's chest, sending it flying backwards into a skybus.

Joe, and Zoro stand close to one another as Joe swings his two Gokai sabers to the left slashing a Wolf soldier, and Foot ninja, then turning to his right and diagonally downwards slashing a Red Templar with his left saber as he side kicks him in the chest sending him to the ground. A Cyclonian charges past the downed Red Templar as he swings his staff down at Joe who raises his left saber sideways to block the strike, and then slashes the Talon across the chest with his right saber, using the momentum to turn to his right; meanwhile Zoro cuts down a Tartaros soldier with his Shusui katana and then spins around to his left swinging his Sandai Kitetsu katana to slash a charging Husk from behind across the chest. As the Husk falls Zoro sees a Covenant Sangheili Warrior charging towards him with two energy swords in his hands, the Sangheili Warrior letting out a roar as he continues charging towards the swordsman. Zoro crosses his two swords across his chest while placing his third one, the Wado Ichimonji which he holds in his mouth, behind them, "Oni Giri!" Zoro shouts as he dashes forward at high speed and slides past the Sangheili Warrior while swinging his swords across his chest, the Sangheili slows down a stop, with blood then exploding out from his body as the Sangheili Warrior collapses to the ground.

Joe inserts his Ranger Key, as well as one of the Blue Legendary Power Ranger Keys into the Gokai Cylinders of the sabers as he twists and closes them, energizing the blades with blue energy as he crosses the blades and bends down a little with his right leg out to the side, "FI~NAL WA~VE!"

Zoro holds his two swords horizontally above his right shoulder with them, and the one in his mouth pointing in the same direction, "Santoryu: Hyakuhachi Pound Ho!" he shouts.

Zoro performs a circular swing while Joe swings both of his sabers in a cross motion. Zoro's swing creates an air compressed tornado-like projectile which then combines with Joe's blue X energy slash at the front spinning, and propelling it forward as their fused attack slams into a massive group of enemy troops causing them to cry out in pain. The two swordsmen turn around as the enemy soldiers erupt into an explosion behind them.

"Sky Walk!" Sanji shouts as he continuously kicks the air to jump higher and higher while going forward, enemy gunners below aim up and fire their weapons at him as all the projectiles miss and fly around him.

Eventually Sanji angles himself downwards and launches himself at high speed towards the ground, landing in the middle of a group of enemy soldiers in a handstand as he heats up both of his legs, "Diable Jambe: Party Table Kick Course!" he shouts as he begins spinning around, delivering multiple flaming kicks into the enemy soldiers around him.

Luka and Nami jump backwards into each other, surrounded by enemy soldiers as the two look over their shoulders at each other and nod their heads with a hum, Luka drops her sabers now holding them by the wires of the grappling hooks within the hilts, while Nami swings her Sorcery Clima-Tact forward, "Black Ball: Raiun Rod!" she shouts, producing bubbles containing small dark thunderclouds within them from the end of her staff until there is a long chain of them.

The bubbles then begin popping, expanding the dark clouds which then connect to one another. With this both Luka, and Nami let out battle cries as they begin jumping, and moving around each other, swinging their respective weapons around like whips as Luka strikes down a number of enemy soldiers with her "whip" sabers, while Nami electrocutes many others with her chain of thunderclouds. Eventually all the enemy soldiers around them collapse as the two come to a stop and look at each other once again, "Not bad." Luka comments.

"Same to you." Nami says back.

Don and Usopp run screaming in terror as enemy projectiles impact and fly all around them, Usopp runs around the front of a skycar to get behind it while Don simply jumps over the roof with the two getting down and up against it. Enemy troops move towards them as the gunners continue firing their weapons to keep them suppressed; Don gets up and turns around as he begins rapidly, and wildly firing his two Gokai guns at the enemy soldiers taking a few of them out while some of his shots are blocked by shields. A few seconds later Usopp finally stands up as he pulls back the rubber bands of his Kuro Kabuto, "Midori Boshi: Devil!" he shouts as he releases the rubber bands shooting a few Pop Greens towards the enemy.

The seeds hit the ground and immediately grow into large venus flytraps which catch several enemy soldiers in their mouths, while ensnaring others with their vines, "Alright!" Usopp proudly cheers.

"Yeah!" Don cheers at the same time as the two look at each other and high five.

Just then a Cerberus Phantom, and a Darkspawn Shriek decloak behind the two as they both turn their heads to look at them, both the Phantom, and Shriek ready their blades to strike causing both Don and Usopp to cry out in terror again as they hug each other.

"Kung Fu Point!" the voice of Chopper shouts as he suddenly jump flips in and kicks the Phantom in the head, rebounding off her as he spins around and throws a roundhouse kick across the Shriek's face sending it to the ground before finally landing himself.

"Chopper!" Usopp happily shouts as he and Don let go of each other.

"Thanks for the save!" Don says.

Chopper changes back to his Brain Point body, "No problem!" he says.

"Veinte Fleur: Clutch!" Robin shouts with her arms crossed in her usual attack pose, sprouting twenty arms, two per enemy soldier in front of her, as they grab the heads of the soldiers and pull them back, making the enemy soldiers bend their backs until their bones eventually break and they collapse to the ground.

Ahim jumps in behind Robin as she raises her Gokai guns and fires taking out a few charging enemy troops. Just then three Armada Bruisers appear several meters away in front of Robin, as Ahim turns around and steps to her left side taking notice of them. The Bruisers aim their energy cannons at them and fire, as their shots impact at the feet of Robin, and Ahim who cry out; a few seconds later Ahim jumps out from the flames high into the air with Robin on her back holding on, "Cien Fleur: Wing!" Robin shouts, sprouting a hundred arms from her back, by the shoulder blades as she creates two giant makeshift wings made from fifty of the arms per wing.

The Bruisers look up towards the two in shock, as Robin, and Ahim begin flying forward over them while slowly descending to the ground; Ahim places her Ranger Key, and one of the Pink Legendary Ranger Keys into her guns, "FI~NAL WA~VE!"

"Double Gokai Blast!" Ahim shouts as she shoots two pink energy supercharged bullets towards the Bruisers, as they impact into them causing them to explode.

Ahim, and Robin look at each other as they nod their heads and hum.

Gai swings his Gokai Spear in front of him from right to left, delivering a silver energy slash to an Orc, Loogie, and Skulkin sending them to the ground, he then spins around and swings it again striking a Scorpion, and Spider soldier.

"Weapons Left!" Franky shouts as he fires his machine guns from his left knuckle, taking out a group of enemy soldiers.

Enemy melee soldiers charge forward while enemy gunners fire their weapons, all of them attacking Brook as he just calmly walks forward with his Soul Solid cane sword in his right hand and the sheath in his left. The enemy projectiles fly around him while he blocks those that do almost hit him; just then he dashes forward and in an instant is past all the enemy soldiers several feet behind them with his sword swung out to the side. All of them stop what they are doing as they turn their heads to look at Brook, the musician of the Straw Hats then begins sheathing his sword, "Hanauta Sancho: Yahazu Giri!" Brook shouts as he finishes sheathing it.

All the enemy soldiers then cry out as slash marks from Brook's attack finally manifest on their bodies and they collapse to the ground.

An armored Ogre, Olog-Hai troll, and Jiralhanae War Chieftain armed with a gravity hammer, all charge towards the three pirates, "Franky, Brook, let's show these guys the combined power of two awesome pirate crews!" Gai excitedly says.

"Yeah, let's show them our SUPER awesome team-up attack!" Franky agrees.

"Yohohohohohohoho, let's do it!" Brook says.

Gai takes out his Ranger Key and inserts it into his Gokai Spear, which he has now changed to Gun Mode, as he twists the key, "FI~NAL WA~VE!"

Gai slowly raises his gun into the air in his right hand, "GO~KAI SUPERNOVA!" he shouts as he grabs it with his other hand and brings it down aiming it forward.

"Franky Cannon!" Franky shouts as two cannons pop out from hatches on his shoulders.

"Aubade Coup Droit!" Brook shouts as he thrusts his sword forward.

Gai shoots a silver energy supercharged bullet, while Franky fires two cannonballs, and Brook's sword thrust creates a highly compressed blast of air, their attacks slamming into the Jiralhanae, Ogre, and Troll causing them to roar out in pain as they explode. Gai, Brook, and Franky turn around as they strike different poses, "Alright!" Gai shouts.

Marvelous cuts the head of an Abomination, while Luffy punches a Cerberus assault trooper face first into the ground; the two pirate captains then look at each other, Luffy with a serious expression on his face, as then suddenly Marvelous inserts his Ranger Key into the cylinder of his saber and twists it, "FI~NAL WA~VE!"

While Luffy pulls his left arm back while holding his shoulder with his right hand, Gomu Gomu no…"

"Gokai Slash." Marvelous calmly says, as he then swings his saber forward in a downwards motion sending forth a red energy slash that flies towards Luffy.

"Pistol!" Luffy shouts as he throws, and extends his left arm forward.

Both attacks pass by each other, as Marvelous's energy slash continues towards Luffy, while Luffy's fist continues traveling towards Marvelous. At the last second both Marvelous, and Luffy, simultaneously move their heads aside as their respective attacks fly past the other; Marvelous's energy slash impacts into a Praetorian causing it to explode, while Luffy's punch slams into the face of a Banshee sending it flying into and across the ground. Marvelous starts walking towards Luffy while the pirate captain of the Straw Hats retracts his arm and then begins walking towards the captain of the Gokaigers, the two meet up, "Not bad so far, Luffy." Marvelous says as he shoulders his saber.

"You're a pretty strong fighter as well, Marvelous." Luffy says back with a small grin on his face.

The rest of the Gokaigers, and Straw Hats regroup with their respective captains, just then several meters away a large force of enemy soldiers appear ready to fight both pirate crews, "Ah~ mou, these punks just don't know when to quit!" Luka says in a slightly annoyed voice while spinning her right saber around.

"They want to keep fighting; we'll gladly keep giving it to them." Zoro says.

"I agree with Moss Head, they're never going to stop, and so aren't we. So let's just get it done and kick their asses already." Sanji says as he and Zoro begin moving to confront the new enemy troops, when Marvelous suddenly holds his right arm out making them stop as they look at him.

"Luffy, hold your crew back." Marvelous says turning his head slightly towards him as he then looks towards his crew, "Guys, let's go." he says.

"Right/Yeah!" the rest of the Gokaigers say as they all take a few steps forward and form up in a row.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Usopp asks.

"You guys stole our spotlight back there on the beach, so now it's our turn to finally shine. At least for this fight." Marvelous says.

"Technically that was all Luffy, the rest of us didn't even do anything…" Usopp quietly says.

"What are we doing, Luffy?" Robin asks looking at him.

Luffy rests his hands behind his head, "Alright! We'll leave these guys to you then." he casually says.

"Huh?! Hey wait a minute, we still have a competition going on here you know!" Nami shouts in an annoyed tone.

Luffy looks at her, "Yeah, but I really want to see the Gokaigers in action, especially as a full crew now that Marvelous is here." he says.

"Oh, that's right. We've never really seen them at their full strength, nor when they aren't holding back compared to their sparring matches back on the Infinity." Chopper says.

Robin crosses her arms, "This is true. I think this will be quite interesting to watch." she says.

"From what we've seen so far from them, no doubt about that." Franky agrees.

Brook does his unique laughter once again as Zoro and Sanji just smirk while looking at the Gokaigers.

"Hey Marvelous, let's use those Legendary Power Ranger Keys the Megaforce Rangers gave to us!" Gai says, turning his head to look at him.

"Yeah." Marvelous says nodding his head as he then looks back forward, "That's just what I was thinking. Let's make this super showy!" he shouts.

The Gokaigers hit the buttons atop their belts bringing forth a set of Legendary Ranger Keys as they grab, hold them up, and fold them before throwing them forward.

(Insert - Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger: BGM Sakuretsu! Densetsu No Chikara)

"Gokai Change!" they shout, inserting them into their Mobilates and twisting them, Gai inserting his into his Gokai Cellular as he hits the DragonRanger button.

"MI~GHTY MORPHIN!" manifestations of the Power Coins appear from their devices, enlarging before the Gokaigers as they then travel backwards and shrink into them, causing them to become enveloped by the respective colored energies of the Mighty Morphin Rangers they were changing into, as then the Mighty Morphin team's symbol appears before them for a few seconds as their transformation into the first Power Rangers team is complete.

The enemy soldiers begin charging the Gokaigers, "Dragon Dagger!" Gai shouts bringing out said weapon.

"Power Bow!" Ahim shouts.

"Power Daggers!" Luka shouts.

"Power Axe!" Don shouts.

"Power Lance!" Joe shouts.

"Power Sword!" Marvelous shouts.

The Gokaigers hold their weapons at the ready and charge forward to engage the enemy troops, colliding with them as they begin swinging their respective weapons around, striking a few soldiers, or blocking their attacks. Marvelous downward slashes a Loogie before spinning to his left and swinging his Power Sword to strike a Collector, and Drophyd trooper, then turning around to diagonally downwards slash a Gormin. Joe rolls forward onto his left knee as he raises his Power Lance sideways to block the swords of two Hurlock Darkspawn, pushing himself back up and forcing the Darkspawn back as he then turns around and swings the lower end of the lance diagonally upwards to strike a Talon, then spinning back around to strike the two Darkspawn with the other blade. Don swings his Power Axe downwards to strike a Thugs-4-Less Brute II as he then turns around and swings it upwards to hit a charging Husk; Luka dives over an Easterling's halberd as she hits the ground in a roll and recovers into a crouched position, turning around and swinging her right Power Dagger upwards to strike the attacking Easterling as he turned around to face her, she turns back around and throws a sweeping heel kick knocking an Oni, and HYDRA soldier off their feet. Ahim swings her Power Bow knocking away an attacking Skulkin's sword making him stumble by her as she then launches herself backwards into the air, pulls back on the bow and fires a small volley of pink energy arrows, taking out a Cannibal, Death Eater, and Grimoire Heart mage. Gai diagonally downward slashes a Scorpion soldier as he then spins around and slashes a Techno soldier, and SWATbot across their chests taking them out, Gai then spins back around to his left and throws a high reverse heel kick across the face of a B1 battle droid.

The Gokaigers regroup in a circle as the enemy soldiers around them charge, "Gokai Change!" the Gokaigers shout inserting the next set of Legendary Ranger Keys into their Mobilates, or Gokai Cellular.

"ZE~O!" the shapes of the Zeo Rangers visors, filled in by the color of the respective visor's Ranger, appear before the Gokaigers knocking back the attacking enemy soldiers before traveling into the Gokaigers with the transparent manifestation of the Zeo Ranger team's symbol floating and enlarging outwards a little before disappearing as the Gokaigers complete their transformation into the Zeo Rangers.

"Zeo I Power Disc!" Ahim shouts, bringing out the circular shield of Zeo Ranger I Pink.

"Zeo II Power Clubs!" Luka shouts.

"Zeo III Power Tonfas!" Joe shouts.

"Zeo IV Power Axes!" Don shouts.

"Zeo V Power Sword!" Marvelous shouts.

"Golden Power Staff!" Gai shouts.

Ahim and Luka step forward together before jumping into the air, launching themselves towards the enemy soldiers as Ahim thrusts her Power Disc forward while Luka swings both of her Power Clubs down, striking a B2 super battle droid, Alvarez soldier, and X-Borg knocking them down. Joe, and Don are the next two to jump forward into the air as Joe swings both of his Power Tonfas horizontally across his body, while Don holds his Power Axes across his chest before swinging them outwards, both of them striking an Uruk, Hurlock, Tartaros soldier, and Scion with blue and green energy slashes. Both Marvelous, and Gai then launch themselves forward into the air as Marvelous fires a beam of red energy from the star on the hilt of the Power Sword, while Gai fires a beam of gold energy from his Golden Power Staff, both of their attacks taking out a small group of enemy soldiers.

Marvelous, and Gai land several feet away as the others regroup with them, another large group of enemy soldiers gather behind them as the Gokaigers turn around to face them, "Gokai Change!"

"LO~ST GALAXY!"

"Transdagger!" Marvelous shouts.

"Star Formation!" he and the rest of the main five Gokaigers shout as they bring out their Transdaggers and hold them in the Star Formation.

"Magna Blaster!" Gai shouts as he brings out Magna Defender's weapon in blaster mode and pumps the weapon before aiming it at the enemy troops.

Marvelous and the others fire a multi-colored, star-shaped energy blast from the Transdaggers while Gai fires a couple of green energy shots from the Magna Blaster, their attacks impacting into the group of enemy soldiers as they cry out and then explode. More enemy soldiers however just charge forward through where the previous ones just were towards the Gokaigers, "Gokai Change!" the Gokaigers shout, bringing out the next set of Legendary Ranger Keys and inserting them into their respective devices.

"NI~NJA STORM!"

Marvelous, Joe, and Luka change into the Red, Blue, and Yellow Wind Rangers, while Don, and Ahim become the Crimson, and Navy Thunder Rangers, and Gai the Green Samurai Ranger. The former three unsheathe their Ninja Swords, while Don, and Ahim bring out their Thunder Staffs, and Gai his Samurai Saber; the Gokaigers then jump and become speeding blurs as they disappear, and begin using their enhanced speed to jump around the battlefield, striking all of the enemy soldiers with their weapons repeatedly. Most of the enemy troops are unable to react in time as they are quickly struck down, while those that realize what's going on, are unable to counter in any way before they are also taken out; the last enemy soldier falls as the Gokaigers land back in their original position. They stand up and turn back around, changing back into their basic forms, only to find the enemy soldiers already replaced by more, "Looks like the last of them." Joe says.

"Then let us finish them off." Ahim says.

Marvelous takes a few steps forward, "Agreed. In that case, let's use these." he says as he holds up a Red Legendary Ranger Key, that key being of the Red Megaforce Ranger, Troy's powers.

Marvelous folds the key as the others step up on either side of him, "Gokai Change!" they shout as they insert the Legendary Ranger Keys into their devices.

"ME~GAFORCE!" manifestations of the Megaforce Rangers transformation Power Cards materialize and enlarge before them before merging into their bodies, changing the Gokaigers into the forms of the Megaforce Power Rangers.

"Power Rangers!" Marvelous shouts.

"Megaforce!" the Gokaigers shout as they strike the Megaforce Rangers team pose.

"Fire!" a B1 battle droid shouts as it, along with all the enemy gunners unleash a barrage of projectiles towards the Gokaigers.

Don, and Luka step forward as they bring out a Power Card and insert them into the Gosei Morphers, "Defense Stone! Activate!" they simultaneously shout as they close the morphers, activating the Power Cards as a large wall of stone emerges from the ground in front of them blocking the enemy shots.

Marvelous, and Ahim then jump high into the air above the stone wall with their own Power Cards already placed in the morphers, "Twist Tornado! Activate!" they both shout, closing the Gosei Morphers and activating the cards as they summon large red, and pink transparent whirlwinds from their morphers which travel towards and slam into the enemy soldiers, blowing many of them away.

The remaining enemy soldiers begin charging towards the Gokaigers, most of them armed with melee weapons as they all let out battle cries, and roars; two B2-HA super battle droids aim their rocket launcher arms towards the stone wall and fire, their shots soaring into and exploding on contact destroying the wall. As the smoke from the explosion dies down however, it reveals Joe, and Gai at the ready with their Gosei Morpher, and Robo Morpher in hand and their own Power Cards already inserted in them, "Ice Axe! Activate!" they both shout.

The two close their morphers, shooting a blast of freezing cold air from them as the charging enemy soldiers become frozen solid upon contact, "Now then, Megaforce Blaster!" Marvelous shouts.

The five main Gokaigers combine the Mega Rangers weapons into the Megaforce Blaster as they then grab a hold of it and aim it towards the frozen enemy troops, "Vulcan Cannon!" Gai shouts, bringing out the Robo Blaster with the Vulcan Cannon attached as he also aims at the enemy soldiers.

"Knight Dynamic!" Gai shouts.

"Dynamic Victory Charge!" Marvelous and the other shout.

Gai shoots from the Vulcan Cannon a barrage of blue energy bolts, and a single supercharged gold energy bolt, while the others fire from the Megaforce Blaster a highly charged golden energy blast with the symbol of the Megaforce Rangers at the front. Their shots impact into the frozen enemy troops as they shatter to pieces and then erupt into a massive explosion, the Gokaigers turn around as they return to their normal forms.

(End - Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger: BGM Sakuretsu! Densetsu No Chikara)

"WHOA~! AWESO~ME!" Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper simultaneously shout full of awe as their eyes even appear to be sparkling.

The rest of the Straw Hats just looked on with intrigued expressions on their faces; the Gokaigers turned back around as Marvelous crossed his arms, "Hm." he hums.

Northern London…

Coalition 1st Marine Division...

Enemy soldiers fired down the street from cover as a B1 battle droid peeked up from behind a pile of rubble and fired its E-60R missile launcher, the missile impacting into and destroying an M35 Mako as Primarch Victus, who was nearby to the now destroyed vehicle's right, turned his head away and raised his left arm up. Lowering it down after a few seconds as he looked at the flaming wreckage of the Mako and then back forward as he raised his Phaeston assault rifle and fired off a couple of slugs, Victus looked to his left, "We've got to keep moving, do not stop!" he orders as Coalition Marines continue pushing forward.

"Get that wreckage out of the way, move it!" a male Systems Alliance marine orders as three Earthbenders earthbend the wreckage of the Mako off the road, clearing it for the other vehicles.

"Harvesters inbound!" a female marine shouts.

Three Harvesters fly low towards the marines, "Take them down!" a male marine could be heard shouting, as a Clone beside an AT-TE looks up at the cannon gunner and points towards the Harvesters.

Several marines were already firing up towards the incoming Harvesters as the Clone gunner aimed the mass driver cannon towards them and fired a shot, scoring a direct hit on one of them as that Harvester was completely eradicated. The other two however reached the marines as they fired their cannons down towards them, their shots impacting just a few feet in front however, as then from them emerged several Human Husks, and Abominations as they charged the Coalition marines. UNIT Private Ross Jenkins fired his G36C alongside a Providence agent as an Orlesian soldier charged by them, the Orlesian cutting off the head of an Abomination and then quickly raising his shield up forward as a Husk tried to attack him. Five other Husks ran by heading towards Jenkins, and the Providence agent, the two firing their respective weapons taking three of the Husks down while the remaining two closed in, the Providence agent swung and struck the Husk in front of him with the stock of his gun while the other pounced onto Jenkins knocking him to the ground. As the Husk raised its right claw back to strike the young UNIT Private, a loud shot rang out and the Husk practically exploded on top of Jenkins sending bits and pieces of it, and a lot of blood, splattering onto him; Jenkins let out a disgusted groan as he looked at himself, as then someone big walked up beside him to his right, "Having fun down there kid?" Urdnot Wrex jokingly says as he reloads his M-300 Claymore.

The Krogan extends a helping hand to the UNIT soldier who takes it as he is pulled back onto his feet, "THEY'RE CHARGING!" a US Marine yells.

Emerging from several buildings were a large number of Husks, and other enemy soldiers, most of them armed with melee weapons as they began charging towards the marines, "Form Shield Wall!" Primarch Victus shouts.

The shieldsmen form up at the front and hold their shields forward; Earthbenders launch rocks over it, while arrows are let loose, grenades are tossed, and grenade launchers are fired over as well, taking out quite a number of enemy troops. The large enemy force however continued closing in as spears were lowered towards them, "Brace!" a Gondor soldier shouts.

The enemy force was about to collide, just then at the center of the shield wall, the Master Chief leaps over it. A grenade in each hand and already primed as he tossed them out to his sides towards the enemy, before hitting the ground in a roll as he recovered into a crouched position and pulled out his MA5D opening up on the enemy soldiers in front of him, cutting several of them down. The grenades went off taking out a few more enemy troops, as then his fellow SPARTANs Kelly, and Fred, jumped over the shield wall as well, Kelly firing her M45D shotgun and Fred his M395B DMR taking out more enemy soldiers as they landed on either side of Chief.

"Drop!" a male UNSC Marine shouts while throwing his right arm down.

The shieldsmen all suddenly drop to the ground, revealing the row of marine gunners behind them already aiming their weapons forward as they unleash a volley of gunfire into the charging enemy soldiers, cutting many of them down. The shieldsmen all get back on their feet as they raise their spears, "Charge!" the Gondor soldier shouts as they rush forward, colliding with the enemy troops.

Wrex clotheslines a charging Red Templar knocking him onto his back as he then stepped on his stomach knocking the air out of him, he then spun around to his rear, powering up his biotics and casting a Throw as he blasted away a Uruk Berserker, and two Wolf soldiers. A male Quarian marine on the ground raised his left arm up as a Scorpion soldier prepared to finish him off, only for the Scorpion to then be shot and killed saving his life; a Rohirrim raised his shield as an Alvarez soldier charged him only for him to be shot down as well. From atop the AT-TE crouched beside the gunner, Linda fired her custom SRS99-S5 AM sniper rifle, Nornfang; Linda located another target, a Scion as she fired a shot right into its face taking it out, her magazine now empty as she began to reload. Wrex grabbed the shoulder of a Gormin as he then headbutted it dazing the Zangyack soldier, turning his head to look back and raising his shotgun in his right hand as a Death Eater landed a few feet away in a plume of black smoke, standing up and pointing his wand at the Krogan as Wrex immediately pulled the trigger as soon as he appeared blasting him back. Wrex looked back at the Gormin and headbutted it again, knocking it out for good as he then tossed it to the ground and began to reload his shotgun, unaware of the Foot Tech Ninja that had just uncloaked right behind him as he slowly crept up on the Krogan and readied his sword to strike him. The Foot Tech ninja raised his sword above his head and then swung it down, only to have it blocked by the Master Chief's left arm as Chief shoved the Foot Tech ninja back and raised his assault rifle putting a few rounds into him.

"Thanks for that." Wrex casually says looking over his left shoulder, as he then looks back forward, raises his shotgun and fires again taking out a Collector trooper.

Chief begins reloading his assault rifle, "You knew he was there, didn't you?" he says, finishing his reload as he aims off to his left and fires taking out an Easterling, Red Templar Shadow, and Alvarez soldier.

"'Course I did. I also knew you were there so I decided to let you deal with him. That and that little toothpick of a sword wasn't going to do any real damage to me so, nothing to worry about unless he decided to go for my head." Wrex says.

Several enemy soldiers charge towards Wrex along with a B1 battle droid, and SWATbot as they both fire their respective weapons at him, meanwhile the Chief finds a Red Templar Knight coming towards him as it roared at the Spartan.

"Wanna switch?" Chief questions, turning his head slightly to the right.

"What's wrong? The guy coming towards you too big to handle?" Wrex jokingly asks.

"I have one enemy soldier coming towards me, you have multiple based on what my motion sensor is picking up. I have an assault rifle; you have a one-shot shotgun. So unless your spread is really good…" Chief says.

"Yeah, yeah. Got it." Wrex says as the two spin around switching places; the Red Templar Knight just about reaches them as he pulls his right fist back only for Wrex to blow his head off with the Claymore, while Chief cuts down the charging enemy soldiers with the rest of his MA5D's magazine.

Wrex reloads his shotgun and aims to his left as an Abomination closes in on him, only for the Abomination's head to explode from a high caliber round as its headless body drops to the ground. Wrex watches this as it happens as he then looks back forward and witnesses as a B2 super battle droid, Cerberus Centurion, and Bruiser, who were all attacking various Coalition Marines, were all shot dead in a manner of seconds. Wrex turns his head towards where he managed to hear the shots come from, spotting Linda still on top of the AT-TE as she finished loading a fresh mag into her gun and resumed looking for targets, firing another shot almost immediately. A loud roar to his left brought his attention towards an armored Olog-hai troll as it swung its massive war hammer hitting, and sending a few Coalition marines flying into the air as they cried out.

"Get back! Get back!" a male Human New Republic marine shouted as several Coalition marines ran, or backed away from the attacking troll, a few gunners firing their weapons towards it.

The troll raised its left arm to protect its face from the projectiles; a Southern Water Tribe warrior suddenly charged the Olog-hai armed with a whale tooth scimitar, the troll immediately took notice and slammed its war hammer down, crushing the soldier. Kelly then rushed forward past the marines, jumping onto the troll's arm as it was taken aback by this with Kelly quickly raising and aiming her shotgun right at the troll's face as she fired a shot point blank. Practically destroying the Olog-hai's face as the lifeless body spun around and collapsed to the ground, with Kelly jumping off it and rolling across the ground back onto her feet as she ran off. The whole thing being witnessed by Wrex as he then took notice of something else a bit to his right; that being Chief's other teammate Frederic, as he raised his DMR and fired a shot only for the weapon to be knocked from his hands by a Sugormin who then took a swing at him with its right arm as Fred quickly jumped back a few feet to dodge it.

Fred raised his head to look forward as he saw the Sugormin, joined by a few other enemy soldiers, stand at the ready to engage him. Fred straightened his body as he remained calm, reaching for and unsheathing his two combat knives as he held both of them in reverse grip and began to slowly walk towards the enemy troops. The first enemy soldier, a Haradrim warrior, stood at the ready with his sword drawn as Fred began to approach on a path that would take the Spartan by him. As Fred was just a few inches from him, the Haradrim soldier let out a battle cry and swung at the Spartan who dodged with ease and countered by swinging his right combat knife across the Haradrim's neck slicing it open. A Spider soldier attacked next as it swung its axe down at him, only for Fred to block it with his left knife and slash the Spider across the face with his right one. A Loogie charged Fred who threw a hook kick with his right leg striking it in the face, as then a Foot ninja rushed him and swung his sword with Fred ducking beneath it to dodge, coming up and wrapping his right arm around the Foot ninja's shoulder as he twisted and threw him to the ground onto his back. Fred finished the Foot ninja off as he stabbed him in the chest with his right combat knife and got up, turning around as the Sugormin charged towards him and swung its right claw at him with Fred throwing an inside crescent kick to knock the claw away and make the Sugormin spin around. Fred then drove both of his combat knives into the Sugormin's shoulders causing it to cry out in pain as he then kicked it in the back, sending it stumbling forward to the ground as he withdrew his knives from its shoulders and held them at the ready again.

"So this is what a team of Spartans is like huh?" Wrex asks as he looks at Chief, and then smiles, "I like it. Where the hell were you guys when we were fighting Saren and the Geth all those years ago?"

Chief remains silent as he looks back forward and notices several enemy troops beginning to retreat, "So, how do you think Shepard's doing?" Wrex asks, also looking towards the retreating enemy troops for several seconds before looking back at Chief.

"I've been listening in on the comms traffic coming from our forces advancing on the Conduit from time to time." Chief says as he then turns his head to look at Wrex over his left shoulder.

"It doesn't sound bad… but it also doesn't sound good. It's pretty hectic over there. One minute they're doing fine, the next they're taking massive casualties. The only reason they probably haven't been wiped out so far is because of our constant stream of reinforcements coming in." Chief looks back forward, "But it's just as we expected, the Reapers are focusing most of their troops in defending all roads leading towards the Conduit, with Cerberus and their allies most likely supplying their own equal amounts of troops in the defense as well. The rest of the 1st Marines, as well as the 501sts attacks across the rest of London have probably taken some heat off their advance, but it still isn't enough."

"Well look at it this way, if the rest of us succeed in liberating most of London. We could start sending troops towards the Conduit as well, hit that thing from all sides. Bet not even a Destroyer can defend against all of that." Wrex says.

"At the rate we're going, it could take us several hours to do that. We don't have that long. The Reapers will send for reinforcements long before that can happen. All we can do now is continue doing what we're doing, and hope that Shepard and the others can deal with that Destroyer soon and reach the Conduit quickly. Long before the Reapers can gather a sizable force to counterattack us with." Chief says.


A Reaper Brute collapses to the ground dead as it lets out one final low growl, Shepard walks by its head as he puts a few extra slugs into it as a precaution to make sure it's truly dead as he then looks back forward and slaps a fresh thermal clip into the gun. The Commander and his team had just finished dealing with another large group of Reaper troops as they exited out the back of a restaurant into an alley, "EDI, what's our location?" Shepard asks.

EDI, who was at the back keeping watch to their rear, turned around to face forward, "We appear to be closing in on Golf Company's location. I am picking up the transponder signals from their vehicles on the other side of this building to our right." she says.

"Golf Company? That last transmission said all contact with them had been lost." James speaks up.

"Then they are all most likely dead. There is nothing more we can do for them now." Javik says.

"That may be. But if their missiles are still intact, we could use them to help in taking out that Destroyer." Liara says.

"If we can even do that if the other transmission from Able Company is anything to go by." Tali points out.

Shepard furrows his brows, Tali was right. The last transmission from Able Company before they went dark was that something was messing with the missiles guidance systems, making the marines unable to get a proper lock-on to the Destroyer. Major Coats had said that engineers were working on the issue, but if something was causing interference, and they didn't know what it was or how to deal with it, then taking out this Reaper would be a lot more difficult than it already is.

"It's always one thing after the other. And here I was hoping all that hard work we put into gathering allies from across the multiverse would actually make this fight a lot easier." Garrus says.

"Yeah, unfortunately all that did was just allow us to expand this thing to a worldwide invasion. Sure that spread the enemy forces out a little, but it still feels like we're dealing with the vast majority of their troops." Ashley says.

To say this battle was going in their favor, was a bit difficult to say in all honesty. Sure it wasn't exactly going terribly bad, but it was also not going as good as Shepard wanted it to be. According to EDI, casualties across the planet were still on the rise and in very high numbers, perhaps not as bad as when the invasion first started, but only by a little bit as they were still losing a lot of people. The Reapers, and their allies were practically dug in on every street, inside every building, for every mile in the forests, deserts, on the mountains; the Coalition forces could not take a foot of land without paying for it in blood, sometimes lots of it. If there was any good coming out of this, it was that all Coalition units were at least making progress, pushing the enemy back on all fronts. There had not been a single retreat yet.

As for the Hammer forces advancing towards the Conduit, just as it was expected, the fighting for these troops was perhaps the worst of what was being experienced across the entire planet. Enemy resistance was very, very high; when the Artillery Companies first moved out, they were all able to push right through enemy forces with very minimal resistance and next to no casualties. As they got closer and closer however to the Conduit, the number of enemy soldiers, most of which were composed of just Reaper Husks for some reason, as well as their ferocity seemed to increase; now they were quite literally taking heavy losses at nearly every turn. To make matters even more worse, because of the fact that they were constantly on the move, due to the need to reach the Conduit as quickly as possible, the marines in each company were never given proper times to clear out each and every building they moved past. That objective being left to the Hammer reinforcements coming up from the rear. It seemed however, that the enemy had been expecting this to happen, as it was now that the Reaper allied forces were coming out of hiding, springing ambushes left and right from the buildings that the Artillery Companies had walked past, to hold back Coalition reinforcements from reaching them. Roadblocks were being created, enemy vehicles that had been hidden were being brought out, all of this, as well as the high number of enemy troops that had been in hiding when the forward Hammer Companies had moved past, were bogging down their reinforcements, making it very difficult for them to reach them. The enemy had effectively cut off the Artillery Companies from receiving any more support for most likely some time until all the hidden enemy forces had been dealt with, and all the buildings cleared out and secured. It was most likely at this point that the forward Hammer Companies were now on their own.

If time hadn't been against them, Shepard knew that Anderson would have waited until there were more reinforcements from the other waves before moving out. He would have waited until there was a very, very long, and constant column of Coalition marines, and vehicles, moving towards the Conduit. They could have taken things a lot more slowly, cleared out each and every building so that there were no surprises waiting for the rest of their forces in the back. Perhaps taking out the Destroyer then, would have been a lot more easier to do if that had happened instead, but Shepard knew that unfortunately, this was not going to be the case. As he and his team moved through London towards the Conduit, they had been listening in on comms transmissions, mostly coming in from the other companies moving towards the Conduit, with EDI listening in on the comms traffic happening worldwide; and the recent transmissions had not sounded good at all. From what they had heard by this point, all the artillery companies had arrived at their positions to take out the Reaper Destroyer, but had suffered heavy casualties; Bravo and Delta Companies had both sustained heavy losses, contact had been lost with Able and Charlie though, the last transmissions from both of them did not sound very good. Echo, Foxtrot, and India were also severely depleted, but luckily still alive, and there had been no contact from Golf since they first moved out. In terms of the battle worldwide, things were very close. The Coalition was taking losses, but they were pushing the enemy back on every front; but for attack on the Conduit, which was the most important part of the battle. Things were not going very well. All Shepard could hope, was that things changed soon.

"Anyone else finding it weird, that besides the Husks, and hearing about our forces coming into contact with normal enemy soldiers from the other armies. We surprisingly haven't ran into, or even heard of anyone coming into contact with any of the monsters, or villains yet from any of the factions?" Tali suddenly brings up.

"Now that you mention it. Yeah, it is pretty strange. I would have expected at least one or even two of the low level guys by now. But surprisingly, nothing. Not that I'm complaining." Ashley says.

"EDI, anything on your end?" Liara asks.

"Negative. No monsters or villains have been encountered, or even sighted anywhere across the planet. Only the common enemy foot soldier." EDI responds.

"I do not like the sound of that." Javik says.

"No kidding. Cerberus didn't work their asses off to recruit all these big bads just to do nothing with them. So where the hell are they? Unless we finally got lucky and they all decided to bail out at the last second." James says.

"I highly doubt that. A lot of those guys we fought don't seem like the kinds to just ditch out on some big final battle especially against people they really hate. As in us and all our hero friends. Plus if they did for some reason decide to abandon Cerberus and the Reapers, wouldn't they have taken all their troops with them?" Garrus points out.

"Something's definitely up. But whatever it is, we'll have to deal with it later when it happens. For now, let's just reach Golf Company's position, see if there are any survivors, and then use their missiles to take out that Destroyer." Shepard says.

As the team spoke they walked down the alleyway towards what appeared to be a dead end, "So if Golf Company's to our right, that means we'll need to blow a hole in the wall if we want to reach them. Anyone got any explosives strong enough to do that?" Garrus asks aloud.

Just then the wall of the building at the very end explodes outwards as another Reaper Brute leaps through it, "Never mind! Don't need it anymore!" Garrus shouts as the entire team opens up on the Brute while beginning to back up.

Another Brute walks out from the building as the first one turns and begins moving towards them, "Another Brute!" Javik shouts.

"Oh you gotta be kidding me! These things just don't know when to quit!" James shouts in an annoyed tone.

"Fall back!" Shepard orders as Liara, Tali, and EDI turn and start running while the rest continue firing on the first Brute.

"Hit the first one with Concussive shots!" Shepard orders as he, Ashley, James, and Garrus all fire one at it, hitting the Brute and causing it to stumble back as the second one shoves it aside and lets out a roar as it begins charging towards them.

"Here it comes!" James shouts as the rest of them turn and start running themselves.

The group runs past EDI who is hiding in a stairwell as the second Brute runs by and takes a swipe at Shepard and Ashley who dive forward into a roll to dodge it, both recovering into a crouched position as they turn around and fire upon the Brute along with the others. The Brute raises its left arm to block the shots from hitting its face, as then EDI walks up the stairwell and casts an Incinerate from her Omni-tool hitting the Brute's back with a high-explosive plasma round, causing it to catch on fire as the Brute lets out a roar of pain and spins around towards EDI. This allows Shepard and the others to focus their fire on the Brute's back as Tali spawns a Combat Drone which fires a rocket into the Brute's back destroying it, causing the Brute to throw its head up and let out one last roar as it collapses to the ground dead.

"EDI, watch your back!" Shepard shouts.

EDI turns around to see the first Brute charging towards her as it swings its claw at her forcing her to dive into the stairwell to dodge it as she hits the bottom. Shepard and the others now focus their fire on the final Brute, Garrus, and James moving around to its left side while holding their fire as its attention is drawn towards the others; this allows both of them to then toss Sticky grenades onto the Brute's back as they stick right onto it, going off a few seconds later finishing the Brute off as it falls to the ground also dead. Tali rushes over towards the stairwell as she looks down, "EDI, are you alright?!" she calls out.

At the bottom she sees EDI pick herself off the ground and turn around to look back up at her, "I am fine. Luckily this body is very durable." she replies.

Tali lets out a silent sigh of relief as Shepard and the others group up behind her, they then wait for EDI to run up the stairs to rejoin them, "Alright people, let's keep moving." Shepard says as the team resumes on their path.

A Batarian is struck in the chest as he cries out and drops to the ground dead, a young female UNSC Marine who was taking cover behind a piece of rubble looks at his lifeless body just a few feet from her with horror on her face, as then the armored hand of a Systems Alliance marine grabs her by the collar of her armor and lifts her up, "Get up Marine! If you're gonna die, at least die firing your rifle!" he shouts as he gets up, pulling the UNSC Marine with him back onto her feet as he then turns her around.

Both marines raise their respective assault rifles as they return fire at the incoming Reaper Husks. The remaining marines of Golf Company continue their best to try and hold out from what seems like a never ending horde of Husks, though their situation was not looking good, as most of their company had already been wiped out by this point. A Kig-Yar Storm fires his Type-56D Needler until a high-velocity slug hits him in the head killing him, while a female Inquisition soldier armed with a crossbow peeks up from behind cover to fire only to be hit as well. A female Quarian drags a wounded Geth back as a male Dwarven soldier blocks a few slugs with his shield, a Northern Tribe Waterbender bends water around him before launching it forward and freezing it solid, piercing the chest of a charging Human Husk with an ice spear as then the Dwarven soldier beside him is struck multiple times and goes down. The Waterbender looks back forward with widened eyes of terror as he takes a step back and then turns around as he begins running away, running past a US Marine manning a M249 SAW with its bipod deployed atop a piece of concrete as the marine stops firing and looks at the retreating waterbender, "Hey! Get the fuck back here!" he shouts in anger.

The door to the left building opens up as Shepard rushes out with his Avenger raised, the Commander watching as the Waterbender runs out from the other side of the M-080 APC in front of him only to get shot in the back, dropping him to the ground. The rest of Shepard's team runs out behind him as he looks to his left, spotting the surviving marines and attacking Husks, "Survivors. Reinforce them!" he shouts as they begin moving towards them.

The marines were taking cover around the rearmost M-080 Artillery truck, trying to protect it from the attacking Husks as Shepard and his team split off to either side to support the troops; with Shepard, Ashley, Javik, and Tali remaining on the left side, while James, Garrus, Liara, and EDI moved to the right flank.

"Friendlies! Coming in from your rear!" Shepard shouts, catching the attention of the Systems Alliance marine who looks over his left shoulder to spot the incoming Commander before looking back forward.

Shepard moved in between him, and the UNSC marine as he fires his rifle, taking out two Cannibals, "Commander Shepard! Aren't you a sight for sore eyes sir. Sergeant Rein, Golf Company!"

An explosion erupts in front of the marines, and Shepard, forcing them down behind cover; a few seconds after the UNSC marine gets back up as she resumes firing on the Husks.

"Sergeant, where's your CO?" Shepard asks.

"Dead sir, along with most of our company! Only ten of us left. We got fifteen wounded that we moved into the APC for protection, our medic's taking care of them now." Sgt. Rein reports.

"How'd you guys get here? Aren't you supposed to be somewhere on the right flank?" Shepard asks.

"We kept on running into roadblocks sir, had to find different routes that eventually led us here. I think the Husks set them up, cause the minute we arrived those fuckers lit us up! Took out our Captain and a bunch of others before we even knew what hit us! We tried to call for help, but our comms weren't going through for some reason!" Sgt. Rein says.

Garrus fired his Vindicator as in front of him to his right was a Gondor soldier, and Clone marine taking cover behind a damaged skycar; after a few seconds the Clone got up and out from behind the vehicle as he lifted his Z-6 rotary blaster cannon and returned fire at the Husks. Managing to cut down three charging Human Husks, as then from an upper floor window a Marauder fired its Phaeston assault rifle, hitting the Clone in his left shoulder as he fell to the ground with a grunt of pain; Garrus spotted where the shot came from and quickly raised his gun as he fired, taking the Marauder out.

"Give me some cover!" Garrus says to the Gondor soldier as he vaults over the piece of concrete he was using for cover, going for the wounded Clone as he grabs him by his arms and lifts him up.

"But my shield is damaged, sir." the Gondor soldier says in a frightened tone.

A slug hits Garrus in his right shoulder throwing it back as his barrier absorbs the damage and flashes for a second, "Then grab his weapon, and use that to cover me! They taught you how to shoot, right? Hopefully?" Garrus questions in a slightly annoyed voice.

Garrus begins dragging the wounded Clone away as after a few more seconds, the Gondor soldier comes out from behind the skycar, sheathing his sword away as he grabs the Z-6 rotary cannon, lifts it up and pulls the trigger. Spooling the weapon up as he begins firing a constant volley of blue laser bolts towards the Husks in every direction, all the while backing up.

"Are both of your artillery vehicles intact?" Shepard asks.

"Yes sir, both vehicles, and their payloads are undamaged. But there's something interfering with their guidance systems, we can't get a lock onto the Destroyer!" Sgt. Rein says.

"So we've heard." Shepard says.

"Commander, do you read?" Major Coats comes over the comms.

Shepard puts his left hand to his ear, "I hear you Major. My team and I found Golf Company, there are survivors, along with several wounded, and their missiles are intact. But Reaper Husks are swarming all over us. What's the situation with that interference?" he asks.

"We found out what's causing it. It's that beam. It's somehow messing with the missiles guidance systems. We can fire and possibly hit the Destroyer, but we'll never make the precision strikes we need to take it out!" Coats informs him.

"Dammit… EDI, you hearing this?!" Shepard calls out to the AI.

"Yes Shepard. I may be able to use the Normandy's systems to enhance the missiles' targeting capabilities. I'll need to open a link to the Normandy from the launcher controls." EDI says.

"Then do it. Everyone else, cover her!" Shepard orders, he then looks back at Rein, "Sergeant, we're gonna need you and what's left of your company's help if we're going to take that Destroyer down."

"No problems here, Commander. We're with you all the way!" Sgt. Rein states.

The last Cannibal is shot down by James, and a New Republic Quarren Marine, "Last Husk taken out!" James shouts.

EDI rushes over to the Artillery truck's launcher controls as she quickly gets to work, "I'll let you know when I've adapted the targeting systems." she says.

"Sounds like good news, Commander. Let's hope it works." Coats says.

"Let's hope it does." Shepard says.

"All forward Hammer Companies, this is Admiral Anderson. The Reaper ground forces are making a push. Hold your ground! Protect those trucks at all cost until we can get a shot on that Destroyer!" Anderson transmits over the comms.

"Sounds like we're gonna have more company, sir." Sgt. Rein says.

"You heard him, people. Get ready!" Shepard shouts.

"SECOND WAVE, INBOUND!" the US Marine shouts while looking over his right shoulder.

"There they are!" Ashley shouts.

"Weapons free!" Sgt. Rein shouts, as he and Shepard open up with their Avenger assault rifles.

The rest of Golf Company, and Shepard's team doing the same thing with their weapons as they fire upon the next wave of Reaper Husks that charge towards them. Several Human Husks, along with a few Cannibals, and Marauders are all shot down by the Heroes, and Marines; more of them appear however to replace those killed as they move towards them, the Marauders, and Cannibals firing their weapons. The Heroes and marines continue firing their weapons, hitting them with everything they've got as they continue taking down the Reaper troops; an Asari marine continues firing her M-9 Tempest when she suddenly stops, seeming to take notice of something off in the distance, "Hey, is it just me? Or is that Destroyer moving and looking towards us?"

As if to answer her question, the red beam of the Destroyer flies over the group's heads as it slams into and destroys a bridge connecting two buildings several feet behind them, making several people drop down out of reflex. The beam of energy eventually comes to a stop, as Shepard, and Sgt. Rein get up and look off towards the Conduit, "That's not good." Shepard says.

The Reaper Destroyer, which had been hanging back along the left side of the Conduit since they arrived, was now on the move heading in their direction. After several more seconds the Destroyer powered its weapon up again and fired, this time off to the group's left into a different part of the city.

"Son of a bitch! That Destroyer's on the move! Fucking almost took us out!" a female marine could be heard shouting over the comms.

"We need to fire the missiles now!" a male marine shouted.

"Negative! Hold your fire! We need precision strikes to take this thing out or we're all dead anyways!" Major Coats says.

Shepard ducks back behind cover and puts his left hand to his ear again, "Everyone, this is Shepard. Hold your positions, and do not fire until I say so! Try and find some cover to hide from the Destroyer's beam, but do not retreat! Hold back the Husks and protect the artillery trucks, they're our only means of taking that thing down!" he orders.

"Roger that Commander, we'll do what we can." the female marine says.

Shepard places his left hand back on his rifle and pops back up to resume firing. James fires a concussive shot taking out a Marauder, while Liara casts a Singularity catching five Human Husks in it, allowing Tali, along with the Gondor soldier wielding the Z-6 to shoot all of them dead. The Destroyer fired again, this time to their right flank, it was getting closer to their position.

"Hey Shepard. I know you like getting crazy and having face to face times with a Destroyer, but most of us would rather prefer not having them getting that close to us!" Garrus shouts.

"EDI, how's it coming along?" Shepard asks, looking over his right shoulder.

"I am almost finished Commander. Just a few more… it is done! I have reprogrammed the targeting systems. The missiles are ready for launch." EDI says as she looks at him.

"Then hit that son of a bitch!" James shouts.

"Do it EDI!" Shepard orders.

EDI begins inputting the command code to launch the missiles, "Missile guidance enhanced. Firing!" she says.

The missiles shoot off towards the Destroyer, which was now directly in front between them, and the Conduit, "Hell yeah! Eat some of that you mother-"

"Detecting counter-interference!" EDI shouts, cutting off the US Marine.

Both missiles suddenly swerve around the Destroyer up to its right, one of them going straight into the ground behind the Reaper while the other one flies off some distance before exploding mid-air.

"What happened?" a Galactic Ranger asks.

"EDI?" Shepard calls to her also confused.

"The beam appears to have countered even the enhanced guidance systems." EDI explains, she looks at Shepard, "We will need to draw the Reaper further away from its influence if we're to get the precise strikes we need on it."

"You gotta be fucking kidding me, you want that thing getting even closer to us?!" the US Marine questions full of shock.

"Stow it Pvt. Hoffman, or I'll send you out there to deal with the Destroyer yourself if you think you can do better!" Sgt. Rein angrily shouts while pointing at him.

Just then, "Commander." Anderson's voice comes over the comms as Shepard puts his hand to his ear again, "Hammer reinforcements are still getting bogged down by enemy forces to our rear. Our forward units are being overrun at every turn. Reaper ground forces are now converging onto your location. We're fighting our way to you, hold on Commander. Hold on!"

"What are your orders Commander?" Sgt. Rein asks as Shepard looks at him, a worried look on the Sergeant's face.

"Ammo is not looking good for us, Shepard." Liara says.

"We're not doing so well on ammo either, sir." the female Quarian marine speaks up as she checks her Adas Anti-Synthetic Rifle.

Shepard looks forward and lowers his gaze as he takes a few seconds to think this over, "We've got no choice. We need to hold on!" he states as he looks back at the Sergeant. He then begins looking at everyone else, "This is the only chance we'll get at this! There can be no retreat."

Shepard looks back at Rein, "Sergeant, keep your men back and cover our flanks. My team and I will take up defensive positions around the remaining artillery truck and hold off the Husks from there while EDI enhances those missiles' guidance systems. We'll draw the Destroyer closer in to us and with any luck, this time we'll get it."

"What about ammo, sir?" the female UNSC Marine asks.

"Scrounge up whatever you can from the dead and wounded, ammo, weapons. We'll need to make do with whatever we've got. We can do this people, don't give up!" Shepard states as he looks back forward with a determined expression.

Southern London…

501st Legion…

The Coalition soldiers of the 501st Legion continued pushing forward alongside their armor, the sounds of battle echoing all around them from throughout the rest of the city though at the moment for them, things were very quiet. Which could only mean that there was most likely trouble waiting just around the next corner. Sora, and Ahsoka moved up alongside Rex, Lennox, Fives, Echo, Epps, and King Éomer, those whose faces could be seen with concerned looks on them; Ahsoka looked up towards the buildings on her left as she scanned the windows, and other openings, keeping her eyes peeled for signs of movement. Sora turned to his left to look behind him, watching as a squad of Coalition soldiers stacked up on either side of the door to a building before a Geth trooper opened it, allowing the soldiers to move in to start clearing it out. Suddenly Lennox threw up his left hand in a fist as everyone came to a stop, save for Sora who hadn't noticed it forcing Ahsoka to throw her left arm out to stop and get his attention as everyone then crouched, including the Keyblade wielder upon noticing.

"What is it?" Éomer asks.

"Nothing… that's the problem." Lennox says as he scans the street in front of him, seeing absolutely no signs of enemy troops.

"But isn't that good that we're not seeing any bad guys?" Sora asks.

"Kid we're in the middle of the biggest, and most important battle of a war that's to decide whether we all die or not. If we ain't seeing bad guys when we should be, then that's not good because it means they got something in store for us." Epps explains as he looks at Sora.

"Probably just another damn ambush. At this point we've basically ran into everything we possibly could, so what else could they throw at us that we don't already know about?" Fives says.

"Not to mention why would they bring out some sort of secret weapon this late into the fighting?" Echo says.

Rex looks at Lennox, "What's the play, Lennox?" he asks.

Lennox takes a deep breath and lets it out as he thinks about it for several seconds, "Not much else we can do other than keep doing what we have been for the past half hour. Keep moving, remain on alert, and let our boys in the back keep clearing out the buildings so our rear is at least secured." he says.

With this Lennox gets up and resumes moving as Rex signals to the rest of the men to also begin moving again.

Several more minutes go by as they remain on the move and still have no contact with enemy troops. The street they were moving down now was filled with skycars on either side of the road, a bit further down what looked to be a garbage skytruck parked sideways blocking the road. The Coalition soldiers were all still scanning around looking for any signs of movement from the windows, rooftops, or further down the street that could signal a potential ambush from the enemy. Still however, they were not seeing a thing. As Sora looked around he took notice of how on edge Ahsoka now appeared to be, her lightsaber held at the ready and waiting to be ignited, "What is it?" he asks her.

"I'm sensing something. Might be trouble." she says, her eyes focused on the buildings as she slowly looked further to her right.

Hearing this Sora looked up to his left as he looked at the windows of another building, then throwing his right arm out as he summoned his keyblade and held it at the ready; Lennox had been looking over his left shoulder towards the two as he overheard what Ahsoka had said. The Lieutenant Colonel looked back forward as he slightly raised his rifle, "Hey Rex." he says to the Clone Captain who was right next to him.

"Yeah?" Rex says while keeping his gaze up to his right.

"So Jedi they, they can sense stuff right? Like you know if something bad was about to go down?" Lennox asks.

"Yeah, something like that. Though, think of it as a sort of early warning system, it doesn't really give out any real information. Only that something is about to happen." Rex explains.

"Great… that's reassuring." Lennox says in a sarcastic tone.

Epps moved up slowly with both Fives, and Echo right behind him; Echo looked to his right as they passed another skycar, "Sure are a lot of vehicles here compared to any of the other streets we've been through." he comments.

This comment catches Epps attention as he furrows his brows and looks at the upcoming skycar to his right, "Yeah, there sure are." he says in an uneasy manner as they pass it.

Epps looks back forward as he begins darting his eyes around, looking at the number of vehicles that now at this point surrounded them, also noting the position of a few of them, namely the garbage truck that blocked their path, as well as two of the middle-most skycars which were angled in a way with their fronts facing towards the center of the street. If there were machine guns in those, they would have created a small kill zone. Epps slowly raised his left hand to his ear activating his communicator, "Lennox. Possible Decepticon trap." he says as quietly as possible.

Upon hearing this Lennox raised his left fist immediately ordering everyone to come to a stop again, he then placed his hand onto his earpiece, "Everyone, remain calm, and back away from the civilian vehicles as slowly as possible." he says, also very quietly.

Some of the soldiers exchange looks of concern with one another, but otherwise they, along with the others closest to the vehicles listen to the Lieutenant Colonel and begin to slowly back away from them. Several tense seconds go by as the Coalition soldiers continue backing away from the "civilian" vehicles, until suddenly two machine guns pop out the front sides of the two angled skycars and open fire, cutting a few of the troops down as they cry out in pain, while others turn and scatter for cover.

Lennox looks over his left shoulder, "Shit. DECEPTICONS!" he shouts, looking back forward as he raises and aims his ACR and begins firing at one of them.

One of the Decepticons throw their arms out as they begin to transform, smacking a group of Coalition soldiers and sending them flying through the window of a store; the skycar beside Epps, Fives, and Echo begins to transform as well as Echo falls onto his butt taken aback by it, while Epps, and Fives turn and fire on the Decepticon with their weapons. The skycar to Ahsoka's left begins to transform as the Coalition soldiers around her quickly turn and run away save for one female UNIT soldier who begins firing on him; one of the arms of the Decepticon swings up from below the vehicle towards Ahsoka, who at the last second is shoved out of the way by Sora as he is hit by it and sent flying across the street into the upper floor of a damaged building.

Ahsoka falls to the ground as she looks towards the building, "Sora!" she yells out.

The Decepticon finishes his transformation into his robot form as he looks down and spots Ahsoka, the Togruta Padawan looks up at the Transformer as he then lifts his left foot up and begins to bring it down to crush her beneath it. Ahsoka pushes herself back onto her feet and activates her lightsaber, swinging it and cutting off the foot of the Decepticon, causing him to recoil back as he lets out a roar of pain and while holding his left leg, begins hopping back on his remaining foot until falling onto his ass.

"Concentrate your fire!" Lennox shouts as he, and Rex, having retreated back some distance, along with a squad of soldiers fire on the Decepticon in front of Epps, and the others.

Their projectiles slam into the Decepticon, eventually bringing him down as Fives helps Echo back onto his feet and they, along with Epps begin to retreat to safety, "Come on! Go, go!" Epps shouts at the two.

At the same moment the garbage skytruck begins to transform as well, this Decepticon transforming into a massive, bulking robot that was heavily armed with two shoulder-mounted rocket launchers, two cannon arms, and two machine guns, one atop each of his cannon arm, "Kill them all!" he shouts as he raises both arms and lets off a massive barrage of cannon, machine gun, and rocket fire.

His various projectiles impact all over, his cannon shots sending Coalition troops flying while his machine guns tear through several unarmored or unshielded soldiers, his rockets fly into and destroy the M1A2 Abrams, and the AT-TE at the front of the armor column which then collapses to the ground in flames.

"Curse you!" the downed Deception shouts as he transforms his left arm into a machine gun and fires at Ahsoka.

Ahsoka jumps high into the air and does a somersault forward as she lands on the Decepticon's arm, turning around as she then uses her lightsaber to cut off his machine gun causing him to roar out in pain again. Ahsoka turns back around and jumps onto his left shoulder, the Decepticon turning his head to look at her as then with a single swipe of her weapon, she separates the Decepticon's head from the rest of his body, making him go silent. A few seconds later the head rolls off and onto the ground. The Coalition troops regroup as soldiers from the rear move up to reinforce the front while a few wounded are carried towards the back, all the soldiers fire their weapons at the Decepticons who spread out as they shoot back; the garbage truck Decepticon pushes aside another Decepticon in front of him to his right as he then raises his right arm cannon and fires it along with several rockets. The cannon shot impacts into a large pile of rubble that a few Coalition soldiers were using for cover, as the shockwave of the impact and explosion knock them down; his rockets meanwhile fly and impact into a Swords of Sanghelios Type-54 Ghost, and a New Republic T2-B Repulsor Tank, taking them both out.

Lennox lowers his rifle, "Alright, that big guy needs to go. Bring up the heavy weapons!" he shouts as he turns his head around to his right.

Rex turns around completely as he holds his right hand up beside his mouth, "Get some rockets up here, now!" he shouts.

A NEST, and human male New Republic soldier rushed towards the front, the former holding a M136 AT4 while the latter had a HH-15 projectile launcher. The two eventually got up there as they got into position and took aim at the big Decepticon, "Clear backblast!" the NEST soldier shouts.

"Backblast clear!" a female soldier could be heard shouting.

"Firing!" the NEST soldier shouts as the two fire their weapons.

The garbage truck Decepticon spots the two weapons being fired towards him, as he looks to his left and transforms his left arm back to normal, grabbing the nearest Decepticon comrade beside him as he pulls him in front and pushes him forward. Causing the two rockets to impact into that Decepticon instead as they explode, taking him out.

"Shit, the fucker sacrificed one of his own!" the NEST soldier says as he, and the New Republic soldier lowered their weapons.

Lennox looked back forward with a worried expression.

Meanwhile, Sora finally sits up from the small pile of rubble that he had been buried beneath, as he lets out a groan of pain with his eyes closed and rubs the back of his head, "Anyone get the license plate number on that guy?" he says in a joking manner as he opens his eyes.

The keyblade wielder saw what was going on in the street, he clenched his teeth with a grunt of anger as he pushed himself back onto his feet and summoned his keyblade to his hand again. Sora took a few steps back to give himself more room as he then ran forward, going to the edge of the destroyed floor as he launched himself through the air. The garbage truck Decepticon raised both of his arms again, ready to fire another barrage of projectiles towards the Coalition troops as Lennox saw this making his eyes go wide, "Everyone down!" he shouts as he, and those around him ducked.

Just as the Decepticon was about to fire, Sora flew in and sliced his right arm completely off. The separated arm dropped to the ground as the Decepticon spun a bit to his right, holding his left hand over where he had his arm cut off as he let out a robotic cry of pain; Sora spun around while getting back up as he looked towards the Decepticon, who then looked at him full of rage as he aimed his remaining cannon at him and fired. By then Sora had already jumped towards the Decepticon as the cannon shot went by him and impacted into where he once stood, the keyblade wielder swings his weapon again as he cut off the Decepticon's right shoulder rocket launcher; Sora planted his right foot on the Decepticon's shoulder as he then hopped off it, and spun around to his right landing on the other shoulder, swinging his keyblade again to cut off the remaining rocket launcher. By this point Lennox, Rex, and the others had slowly brought their heads back up upon noticing how the Decepticon hadn't fired at them yet, spotting Sora as he then jumped right on top of the Decepticon's head and drove his keyblade into it, seeming to daze him.

"Firaga!" Sora shouts as an orange-reddish glow began to emit from within the Decepticon's head, which then erupted into an explosion several seconds later as Sora jumped away from it.

The headless body of the bulky Decepticon collapsed onto its knees before falling forward to the ground. Lennox turned to his right to look back, "Finish them off!" he shouts.

A Salarian, and male Turian soldier both fired a Cobra Missile Launcher, taking out another Decepticon as the remaining few began to back up; an M820 Scorpion, and Type-58 Wraith moved forward and came to a stop as they both fired their main weapon, the Scorpion hitting another Decepticon directly in the chest killing him, while the Wraith hit another one directly in the face, melting it away with its plasma. Ahsoka charged towards another Decepticon from his right side while his attention was focused on the Coalition troops, she then dashed forward and sliced through the bottom half of his leg, sending him falling forward to the ground onto his knees; as the Decepticon raised his head to look forward, the last thing he saw was Sora jumping towards him with his keyblade pulled back to his right as he swung it horizontally across his face. The last Decepticon fell to the ground as his red eyes began blinking on and off rapidly and he attempted to get back up, only to collapse back down as his eyes shut off, indicating his death. With this the shooting began to die down.

"Cease fire! Cease fire!"

Lennox lowered his gun as he began to catch his breath, "Alright, looks like that's the end of that. Let's gather the wounded, move them towards the back, and get this road cleared so our armor can continue moving." he says.

"Medic over here!"

Sora, and Ahsoka regroup amongst the bodies of the Decepticons as they both catch their breaths as well, "You alright?" Ahsoka asks.

Sora nods his head, "Yeah… Yeah nothing like getting hit by a giant robot and being sent flying into a building." he says as he chuckles a little, "I'm actually being serious too, trust me, I've been hit by worse." he finishes.

Ahsoka can't help but smile and laugh at this a little.

"So, those were Decepticons, huh?" Rex asks Lennox who looks at him.

Lennox nods his head, "That's right." he replies.

"Heh. Would definitely prefer taking on an entire battalion of droids compared to those guys. At least the Clankers can't transform and hide themselves as vehicles." Rex says in a joking tone.

Lennox shrugs his shoulders, "They ain't so tough once you have the tech to detect them with, and then the weapons to actually take them down. After that, they're just giant, alien robots." he says.

Suddenly several projectiles impact and fly around Sora, and Ahsoka, who instinctively bring out their respective weapons again and begin blocking, and deflecting others from hitting them, "Son of a bitch!" Lennox shouts angrily as he, and Rex drop to the ground along with a few others.

A Kirkwall Guardsman, and Lion Tribe warrior are both shot dead instantly before they could react, as the rest of the Coalition troops begin to take cover, and or return fire immediately. Some distance further down the road, enemy troops rush out from the buildings as they fire upon the Coalition soldiers. Lennox, and Rex get back up as they raise their weapons and shoot back; Epps, Fives, and Echo get to cover behind a concrete barricade as they also return fire, with Éomer using his shield to block enemy projectiles as an alien Plumber, and a female SHIELD agent both carry away a wounded NEST soldier.

"Here we go again!" Rex says in an annoyed tone.

"These guys just don't know when to quit, do they?" Ahsoka questions, also annoyed as she continues using her lightsaber to deflect what shots she can, while dodging others.

Sora uses his keyblade to also block, and deflect several enemy projectiles shot at him, "Come on Shepard. You can do this; I know you can!" he says in his head.

"Firing missiles!" EDI shouts.

The thanix missiles are fired towards the Reaper Destroyer, which is basically right on top of Shepard, his team, and the remnants of Golf Company at this point; the Destroyer fires its energy beam again, this time in an attempt to destroy the missiles as they fly towards its "face", but misses. The Destroyer then attempts to close its armor plating to protect itself at the last second, but just barely the missiles make it through and explode, causing the Reaper to stumble around as it lets out a "roar" of pain and the armor plating opens back up, "It's going down!" the US Marine joyfully shouts.

Shepard activates his omni-tool and raises it to his mouth, "Hit it with everything you've got!" he orders.

The remaining Artillery Companies fire their missiles as they fly and impact into the Destroyer, causing multiple massive explosions to erupt as the Destroyer finally crumbles to the ground, dead.

"Destroyer terminated!" EDI states.

The surviving marines of Golf Company begin to cheer, "Yeah!" the US Marine shouts.

"Alright!" the Galactic Ranger shouts.

"Woohoo!" the female Quarian Marine shouts.

"Nice work, EDI." Shepard says as he turns towards his AI friend, the others also celebrating a bit more quietly from their small little victory. After all, it still wasn't over yet.

"Shepard." Anderson's voice comes over the comms, "We're on our way to your position. ETA five mikes."

"Roger that." Shepard replies as he turns around, and stops.

Sergeant Rein was crouched beside the female UNSC Marine, who had a pool of blood beneath her as she laid against a piece of concrete rubble, and multiple bullet wounds in her body; Shepard looked around, their victory against the Destroyer had not come without cost. Half of the surviving marines had been killed by the time the final Husk dropped. Only the Sergeant, female Quarian marine, Galactic Ranger, Gondor soldier, and US marine were left alive. Shepard began walking over towards the two as he crouched beside them and looked at the Sergeant, Rein looked back at Shepard, and shook his head. Sadness came over the Commander as he lowered his head and closed his eyes, his team, and the surviving marines began to gather around behind them.

"At…" the female UNSC marine choked on some blood in her throat as she swallowed it, "At least I died… firing my rifle… Right sarge?" she says in a weakened tone.

Sergeant Rein lowered his head for a few seconds before looking back at her, "Yeah… Yeah you did. Did a really good job out there, kid… You did good." he says.

The female marine lets out a huffing chuckle as a smile comes to her lips. She then goes still. Everyone was silent, saddened expressions on all of their faces as some of them lower their heads; Shepard raises his head, and watches as Sgt. Rein closes her eyes, "What was her name?" he asks.

"Camille… Private Elodie Camille. Joined the day after her 18th birthday, which was four months ago…" Rein says as he removes her dog tags and places them in one of the compartments of his armor alongside other fallen marines' tags.

"The day before, she heard that Reapers were beginning to close in on her home planet. She was worried, but also glad, because we were finally launching the operation to take them out. Which meant there was a chance at saving her home, her friends and family, at stopping the Reapers before they reached them… She said, the last time she talked with her parents, she learned that she was going to be having a baby brother soon, she had been an only child. She said, she was really looking forward to the day she would meet him… said she always wanted to be a big sister…"

Shepard looks away from the Sergeant and towards the ground, "I'm sorry for your losses… Sergeant." he says.

Sergeant Rein looks at Shepard, "Commander…" he says, getting his attention.

"Just promise me one thing… Promise me, that you'll make the sacrifices of these men, and women worth something."

A serious expression comes to Shepard's face, "I promise you, Sergeant. These marines, along with all the other lives the Reapers have taken from us, they will be avenged." he states.

The Sergeant nods his head, glad to hear it from him. Just then the sounds of vehicles approaching from the rear catches everyone's attention, as then several M-080 APCs roll up towards them, spreading out as far apart as they could before coming to a stop. The troop compartment doors open up from each of them, as the marines onboard begin to disembark and take up positions around the area, just in case any more Reaper Husks decided to rear their ugly heads. The surviving medic of Golf Company, a Clone, meanwhile runs up to two Inquisition mages, one male, the other female, as he begins leading them to the wounded. Shepard and the others get a look at the marines around them as they take up their defensive positions, noticing the grime that covered many of their faces, or helmets, and bodies, some even had blood on them that was most likely not their own. In the eyes of those whose faces could be seen, Shepard could see how exhausted every one of them was, both physically, and mentally.

"Shepard, over here!" the voice of Anderson called out as he, and Major Coats approached him, "Thank God you made it." he says.

Shepard looked around once more upon noticing something else, "Where's the rest of Hammer?" he asks.

"Scattered. Reaper forces in the city are beginning to focus in on this area, keeping us from regrouping." he explains.

"What about our reinforcements?" Shepard asks.

"Still getting bogged down. They're moving towards us as fast as they can, but Cerberus and their allies are not making it easy for them. They're holding their ground, and giving it their damn best to make sure those reinforcements don't reach us." Anderson says.

"What about the rest of the 1st Marine Division? The 501st?" Shepard asks.

"Running into equal amounts of heavy resistance throughout the city. The 1st Marine Division is trying to divert some of their forces into attacking the Conduit from its flanks, but just like our reinforcements, they're encountering tough enemy defenses on the way to it. As for the 501st, they're still fighting their way towards the bridges to cross the Thames river so they can try and reach us." Anderson explains.

"Dammit." Shepard says, angered, and annoyed by this as he turns around and walks over to a piece of destroyed concrete. He, and Anderson both lean on it.

"It gets worse." Anderson then says.

"Of course it does." Shepard says as he, and Anderson both lean back up.

"Lasky just reported in. A single Reaper has broken off from the battle with Sword, and is heading directly here… It's Harbinger." Anderson says.

"Harbinger?" Shepard says, shocked and surprised to be hearing this. This definitely was not good news.

"I know all of this isn't exactly the best of news we need to be hearing right now. But there is one good thing that is coming out of all of this. Sword has successfully cleared 96% of the space around the Citadel, only a few Reapers, and enemy ships remain. Sword also has what remains of the enemy fleets highly outnumbered; the battle down here may not be going so well, but up in space our people are kicking ass! Ackbar has already sent word to Hackett to start bringing in the Crucible, all that remains now is for us to get a team on board the Citadel to open those arms!" Anderson says.

"With the big bad Reaper himself coming down here to greet us at the front door? What's that old human saying, "Easier said than done"? Well, this is the exact opposite, even said it doesn't sound easier at all, and it will most definitely not be so easily done." Garrus speaks up.

"He's right, sir. And we still don't even know what we'll find when we get on the Citadel. If we can get on the Citadel." Coats says.

"With Harbinger coming down here, getting to the Conduit beam is going to be next to impossible now. Especially with the forces we have. But if we try waiting for our reinforcements to catch up to us, Harbinger will either raze the city trying to take all of us out, or even worse, the Reaper reinforcements arrive and there'll be more than one Reaper we have to worry about trying to get to it. Our odds aren't exactly looking good either way." Shepard says.

"I agree. But I think we have at least some chance of getting to the Crucible if there's only a single Reaper we have to get past. Which is why I think we should just go with the forces we have here now, and take what'll probably be our only chance at getting onto the Citadel." Anderson says.

"As highly dangerous as this is going to be, it is the least most dangerous option we have of the two. Dodging one Reaper, compared to dodging possibly hundreds of them. We either take the Citadel now, or we're all done for!" Shepard states.

Anderson nods his head in agreement, "Alright marines, mount up! We're moving out." he orders as he, and Coats turn and head back towards their APC.

"Let's move it, people." Shepard says to his team as they follow after them.

On the outskirts of London…

"Fire!" a M777A2 Howitzer is fired.

"Fire!" another M777A2 Howitzer is fired.

"Fire!" another M777A2 is fired, the Marine Artillery crew then quickly moving to load the next round in.

Nearby, four Galactic Republic AV-7 Anti-vehicle Artillery Cannons were continuously fired; a US military M109A6 "Paladin" fires its M126 155mm Howitzer, followed by the second one to its right, and then a third one. In a large open field area, a Galactic Republic Acclamator-class assault ship, along with two others, as well as a few New Republic GR-75 medium transports had landed as troops, vehicles, and supplies were being offloaded. Overhead two AH-1Z Vipers flew over, heading towards the city to provide air support.

"Alright, let's go!" a female Systems Alliance Marine shouted with a wave of her left arm from the gunner position of a Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement MK-23 as the truck began to roll forward, followed by several other vehicles with most of them carrying supplies for the troops on the frontlines, while the others were bringing more marines there.

Positioned around the landing zone, and beside the ships were several anti-aircraft weapons, and vehicles to deter any enemy flyers from attacking their position. Guarding the ramp of one of the Acclamator's was a Humvee, and a Warthog; while the gunners of these vehicles kept watch, more Coalition troops marched down the ramp on one side of it in Company sizes, while the vehicles went down the middle, and the wounded were being brought up on the other side.

"Jesus…" a young UNSC Marine says, taken aback in shock by what he was seeing.

He, and the other arriving troops looked, and watched as the wounded were being brought up the opposite side of the ramp from them. All of the wounded were basically missing a limb, some even two; those with both legs intact were walking on their own save for a few who were being helped up the ramp by some assisting marines, while those who were missing either one or both of them were being carried by normal stretchers, or gravstretchers. There were very few wounded who had all of their limbs attached still, these ones having bandages wrapped around various parts of their bodies, from their stomachs, to their chests, some had them wrapped around their eyes, some had one half of their face covered, and there was even one, a male Inquisition soldier being crutch carried by a female Turian, who had his entire face covered save for his nose. Another thing they were taking note of, was the large number of wounded going up the ramp.

"Almost every single one of them has some sort of limb missing. What the hell's all that about?" a male SHIELD agent questions.

"Mages." a Salarian marine speaks up, "Their healing magic is quite powerful, depending on the caster anyway. Can practically heal any minor wound, even a number of major ones. Though the one thing they can't seem to do, is regrow an entire limb." he finishes explaining.

"Even sorcery has its limits it seems." a Sangheili Storm says.

"For us good mages yeah, unfortunately." a male Elven College mage speaks up from behind the four catching their attention, "We try to do what we can with what we got. But even then, there's still only so much we can do. Think of magic however you want, we still aren't miracle workers who can fix everything."

"Not without turning to the dark arts, and shit like that right? All the evil crap?" the UNSC Marine questions.

"That's correct." the Elven Mage says.

The company of Coalition Marines finally reached the bottom of the ramp as they begin marching through the Forward Operating Base that was quickly being put up to support the operation in Northern London; at the moment the base consisted only of a few rapidly put up canopies, and tents to cover, and house the arriving wounded who needed immediate medical attention, and deceased in, with more being put together. Artillery guns had been set up, and artillery vehicles had taken up positions in different areas to provide support for the marines already in the city; AA weapons and vehicles were also set up and spread throughout the base to deal with any enemy air units that may attempt to attack them. Several machine gun nests, and mortar pits had also been erected in, and around the base, should the enemy succeed in managing to land any troops close to them. A makeshift airfield had also quickly been made, which was mostly just some lights signaling where it was for the transports to land, which a squadron of them were now flying towards from the city.

The various troop transports began to touch down on the makeshift airfield, as marines tasked with protecting the base, as well as medical, and air personnel rushed onto the field to help offload the wounded they brought back from the front. The company of marines continued staring off to their right, this time their attention was drawn towards the large number of varying sized body bags that held the bodies of the dead. They were just lying out in the open, possibly a hundred, maybe even more. Though base personnel were at work trying to move them into some of the recently finished tents.

"Make way, make way!" a few of the marines looked forward to see a Providence agent, and Clone medic carrying a stretcher with a Gondor soldier, who had lost both of his legs, on it as they ran by.

Behind them were a lot more wounded being carried, supported, or walking in; a Southern Water Tribe warrior who had lost his right arm, held his left hand on his right shoulder with gritted teeth as he walked by. A Crocodile soldier had lost his left leg as a Lion soldier used himself as a crutch to help him walk; two male Quarians, both of them wounded with bandages wrapped around their chests, helped to carry a still alive Geth Hunter who had also lost both of its legs. A Blood Pack Krogan was carrying an unconscious, and wounded Eclipse Salarian over his right shoulder, as he passed, the UNSC marine, and SHIELD agent noticed that the Salarian's eyes had been covered by a bandage.

"You there, state your name, rank, and unit!" a male Systems Alliance officer shouted as he approached the company, flanked by two other Alliance Marines.

"Captain Acaculus, sir! Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment." Turian Captain Acaculus states as he stands at attention with a salute.

"At ease." the Systems Alliance officer orders as he comes to a stop in front of him, "I'll get straight to it Captain Acaculus, as of now the situation in Northern London is in all sorts of shit. We're making a push on the Conduit from the right, and left flanks now; enemy resistance however is high and their defenses are strong and holding. Our forces are making progress on all three fronts but they are slow, and as you can expect, they're taking casualties. Our troops going down the center just got reinforcements, and the left flank is holding strong, the right flank however is suffering too many losses; that's where you, and your men come in. You're going to take those troop transports and reinforce the attack on that flank." the SA officer says as he turns and points towards the transport helicopters and ships.

"Yes sir!" Captain Acaculus says, he then turns around to look at his Company, "K Company, get to those transports and mount up! We're heading to the front!"

"Sir!" all the marines shout simultaneously as they begin running towards the transports.

"Let's go! Let's go!"

"2nd Squad, on me!"

The Marines rush over towards the airfield as they begin boarding the transports; the UNSC Marine, along with the SHIELD agent, Salarian Marine, Sangheili Storm, Elven mage, a Fereldan soldier, and two Clones board a Bell UH-1Y Venom as its blades spin around above them. Once all of the marines were aboard the transports they began to take off one by one, turning around after a while as they started flying back towards the city, where many pillars of rising smoke could be seen. As they flew towards the city the UNSC Marine, who sat on the left side seat next to the open door, looked down; far below on a road, and on either side of it, he could see vehicles moving towards, and away from London. Those that could fit on the road and move quickly used that, while those that were slow moving, like the Republic Walker, or those that were too big for the road drove alongside it on either side. Half of the vehicles that were heading towards the city were carrying either troops, or supplies; while those vehicles that were driving away, some of them appeared to be loaded with either dead, or wounded, some appeared to be carrying what looked to be civilians, most likely to get them away from the intense fighting, while most of them were just empty.

"At least not all of them are filled with dead, and wounded." the UNSC Marine says in his head, a bit glad of that as he looks back forward.

The troop transports soon reached the edge of the city as they began to fly over buildings; the Fereldan soldier, who sat on the other side seat, hesitantly leaned over a bit to look out the doorway, as they looked down into the war-torn city below them. Out of fright they recoiled back against their seat and began breathing in, and out a few times as if to catch their breath, "First-time flyer. Understandable. Especially in a helicopter with both side doors open. You're either going to be breathtaken when you look out the side, or about to shit your pants." the SHIELD agent comments jokingly with a smirk on his lips.

This causes the two Clone marines to begin chuckling while the UNSC marine smiles, "Don't worry. Not even all the people in our time are comfortable yet with flying." the SHIELD agent then adds, as if to try and reassure them.

"A part of me has always wondered what it would be like to soar through the air like a dragon does. It is… breathtaking I will admit, though the scenery could be a bit better. It is also indeed very scary. Since our means of flight doesn't involve us having wings." the female Fereldan soldier says.

"Precisely why perhaps you should be careful not to lean too far out. It is a very long way down after all." the Salarian marine comments as he gives her an "innocent" smile.

"Ah this isn't even the fun part. It's once we start getting shot at, that's where the fun really begins!" the Clone marine on the right jests.

"I question how it is you find us getting shot at, "fun", Clone?" the Sangheili Storm says.

As his squadmates talked amongst each other, the UNSC Marine decided to look out his side door again, as below he could see Coalition troops, and vehicles just safely marching, and rolling through the city streets. They were probably still far enough back, and in an area that had been thoroughly cleared of hostile forces in order to be in this somewhat relaxed state. Down on the street, on the left sidewalk, a squad of Coalition marines stood guard around a small platoon of enemy prisoners who were on their knees with their hands behind their heads.

Eventually the troop transports started to descend to the ground where red smoke could be seen, "This is as far as we can take you. The rest of the city is still infested with enemy troops hiding in the buildings, we cannot risk flying any closer. We've also been requested to evacuate the wounded at this location." a Sangheili pilot says to Captain Acaculus.

"I understand." Captain Acaculus says as he turns around and walks back into the troop compartment, "Alright marines, we're hoofing it on foot from here. Let's go!" he orders.

The marines disembark from the transports as they touch down, "Let's get these people loaded up!" a male marine shouted from the side as the wounded begin getting moved to the transports.

The UNSC Marine looks down to his left as a female Human Plumber agent is carried past on a stretcher by a Galactic Ranger, and male Dalish Elf to get loaded onto the UH-1Y Venom. He looks back forward as he, and his squad move to regroup with the rest of the Company, "Captain Acaculus. Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment." Captain Acaculus introduces himself to a female UNIT officer, "We've been ordered to reinforce the Hammer forces heading towards the Conduit on this flank."

"Immediate left right here Captain, bit of a run. Should be a straight path now though since we've cleared all the roadblocks the enemy set up to slow us down. Just be warned, we still have enemy holdouts in some of the buildings. We have troops clearing them out but we're focusing the majority of them on the push towards the Conduit, so we only have a few units at best clearing each of the buildings out, making it a slow process. Just be careful is all I've got to say." the UNIT officer explains.

"Thanks for the heads up. Alright Kilo Company, let's move!" Captain Acaculus orders with a wave of his left arm as they begin to move out.

The marines of Kilo Company jogged down the sidewalk as the vehicles beside them moved down the street in the same direction, most other Coalition troops were also heading towards the front to reinforce the push towards the Conduit, with most of them taking things a bit more slowly. Keeping their weapons raised as they continued scanning the buildings around them since there were still enemy soldiers that could be in hiding. There were a few troops heading in the complete opposite direction, back towards where Kilo Company had just landed, most of them were carrying wounded, while a few of them carried nothing but their weapons, probably on a resupply run or something. The SHIELD agent looked to his left, as he saw enemy soldiers walking out of a building in a single file line with their hands on their heads while being watched over by a few marines. The Fereldan soldier looked to her right, as she saw a group of civilians being led out of another building by a squad of marines, a Systems Alliance marine ushering them towards the back to get them away from the fighting; there were men, women, and even a few children, with most of them being carried away by the adult civilians, save for one young boy who was being carried to safety by a Clone marine. All of them were covered from head to toe in grime on their skin, and their clothes; some even had cuts, and bruises on them.

All of a sudden a missile shot out from a building on the left side from one of the upper floors as it slammed into an Earth Kingdom tank destroying it.

"Contact! Contact!" one of the male marines shouted as everyone got to cover.

Gunfire erupted from several of the upper floor windows as Coalition troops, Kilo Company included, returned fire.

"Get us some gunship support!" an Asari marine orders as a Providence agent begins calling for one.

Captain Acaculus peeks out from behind a wall as he fires at one of the windows with his Phaeston assault rifle, the UNSC Marine fires his BR85HB battle rifle as the Fereldan soldier, along with one of the Clone marines rush forward past him to find better cover, the Fereldan soldier with her shield raised above her head at an angle to cover the two as they get into an alleyway. The SHIELD agent fires his Laser rifle, crouched on his right knee while peeking out around a pile of rubble when suddenly another missile is fired towards one of the vehicles, a US Marine Corps LAV-25. Before the missile can hit however someone rushes in front of and puts up a biotic sphere around it, protecting the light armored vehicle from getting hit. Just then several rockets fly overhead as they impact into the building, the marines look back as they spot two Systems Alliance A-61 Mantis gunships flying in and over them, heading towards the enemy building. The two gunships let loose with their mass accelerator machine guns while also firing off a few more rockets, just for extra insurance as they stop and hover just a few feet away from it. After firing their guns for a little bit longer, the two gunships pulled away, revealing the large hole that was now in the building; suddenly a loud roar pierced the air as the marines looked up once again, watching as two Dragon Riders flew over them. Both dragons spewed flames from their mouths as they also came to a hovering stop in front of the building, breathing fire into the hole and all of the upper floor windows; the Coalition troops watched as then from a few of the windows, flaming bodies could be seen as they either crawled, or jumped out from them, throwing themselves from the high level floors to the ground below.

"Dragons on our side. Never thought I'd see that. Really liking it so far." the female Fereldan soldier comments as she looks at the Clone who nods his head in agreement.

Both the gunships, and dragons then flew away; as below on the ground, Coalition troops began to stack up on the entrance door, opening it up as they moved in to begin clearing the building out. The biotic sphere meanwhile that had been protecting the LAV-25 was lowered as the person who casted it stood up, "Hey, thanks for the save kid!" the vehicle commander says.

The person turned around, "No problem. Just doing my job, sir!" Ensign Jason Prangley proudly says.

The Grissom Academy biotic student moves aside to allow the vehicle to continue forward as he rejoins Ensign Rodriguez, and the rest of the academy students who were supporting the 1st Marine Division as a support unit in the back. Captain Acaculus, and the rest of Kilo Company got out of cover as he looked back to make sure everyone was alright, meanwhile Earthbenders moved the destroyed tank out of the road to allow the rest of the vehicles to resume moving.

"Let's keep moving!" Captain Acaculus says, upon seeing everyone was alright as Kilo Company resumes moving as well.

A Rhino soldier falls dead to the ground as his head lands in a puddle of water; Coalition troops move past around him as they fire their weapons while a Galactic Republic HAVw A6 Juggernaut tank slowly rolls forward. The Clone gunner manning the heavy laser turret on top at the front fires the weapon towards the enemy forces, cutting a few of them down as the rest nevertheless continue to hold their ground; from both sides near the rear of the turbo tank, retractable projectile launchers slide out as they launch a volley of grenades towards them. Multiple explosions go off taking out even more enemy troops. Amongst the Coalition troops was Grunt as he fired his M-22 Eviscerator towards the enemy, stopping after firing his last shot as he lowered his weapon and turned his head to the right to look back, "Come on Aralakh Company, let's show them how it's done!" he shouts.

Grunt reloads his shotgun as the Krogan from his company rushed forward around him, "Definitely no other battle that's going to be as glorious as this one." he says to himself, as he begins chuckling and then runs forward.

The enemy troops were slowly beginning to retreat as the Coalition marines, and Juggernaut tank moved in on their position; a group of Uruk-hai, Orcs, and Darkspawn charged forward to engage the marines only to be blasted back by a powerful biotic shockwave. Courtesy of one, now "semi", crazed, and powerful biotic, Jack as she hopped down from atop some concrete rubble with a smirk on her lips before continuing forward. Another group of enemy soldiers are hurled away by a powerful biotic Throw, as two Cerberus assault troopers, and a Stormtrooper fire their weapons at the Asari Justicar in front of them, Samara, who casts a Barrier on herself to absorb the shots as they hit her, with Samara then raising her M-4 Shuriken as she fires taking all three of them out. Miranda Lawson, Jacob Taylor, Zaeed Massani, and Kasumi Goto meanwhile take cover behind a destroyed skycar as they fire at the enemy troops, who have now begun to regroup with reinforcements coming in from their rear as they begin taking up defensive positions again to hold the Coalition forces back. A few enemy projectiles hit Miranda, causing her kinetic barrier to flare up from the damage as she ducks down behind the skycar to let it recharge.

Meanwhile, a Hydra-Bot appears as it fires its main energy cannon, hitting the Juggernaut directly as the turbo tank explodes, "Blast it!" Miranda says angered, and annoyed by this.

Coming up from the Coalition forces rear was Kilo Company, along with several more marine reinforcements as they joined the battle.

"Come on Shepard, what the bloody hell is taking you so long?" she questions aloud.

Miranda gets back up as she resumes firing her submachine gun.

A Harvester flew high over Coalition forces, a Dragon Rider on its tail as eventually the dragon spewed fire from its mouth, lighting the massive, flying Husk up in flames as it roared out in pain and began going down. Soon crashing into the ground as it skidded for several feet before coming to a stop. The Urgal that was riding the Dragon then heard something coming in behind him as he turned his head to look, spotting a Decepticon Tactical Fighter coming right towards him as it fired its heavy machine guns, hitting the dragon multiple times across its body, and wings, as its armor was cut through like butter. The dragon roared in immense pain as it too began going down; a B1 battle droid at the front of the enemy troops fired its E-5 blaster rifle before suddenly looking up and spotting the incoming dragon, the dragon then crashing right into it as it skidded across the ground, forcing the enemy soldiers in its path to break off into multiple directions to avoid being hit by it as the body eventually came to a stop. A few seconds later, an eastern Warg appeared as it jumped on top of the deceased dragon's body, an Orc riding on top of it as several more Wargs appeared around it, some of them also being ridden by Orcs while the rest weren't. The Orc thrusted his sword arm forward with a battle cry while his Warg roared with him, the pack of Wargs and Warg riders then charged forward towards the Coalition marines.

"Wargs!" a Rohirrim shouts.

Coalition gunners, and archers take aim and fire at the Wargs, and Warg riders; some of their shots hit, taking out a few of the wolf-like creatures, while some only manage to take down the rider but not the Warg itself. The speed of the Wargs allows the creatures to quickly close the distance as the first Warg lunges at a US Marine, knocking him to the ground and landing on top of him as it begins digging its claws into his body causing him to cry out in pain.

"Look out! Look out!"

"Spread out!"

The rest of the Wargs lunge, or ram into the marines at the front knocking many of them down while the rest scatter away. An Orc archer lets loose an arrow hitting a Providence agent in the chest as they spun around, another Orc rider swung his scimitar slashing the face of a Kirkwall Guardswoman; a Warg dug its teeth into the right leg of a Clone as it pulled him closer towards it, causing the Clone to cry out in pain as he attempted to swat the creature away only for it to then go for his neck. A Warg rider charged towards the Rohirrim as the latter let out a battle cry and thrusted his spear into the creature, causing it to rear back onto its hind legs as it roared out in pain causing the Orc to fall off; as the Orc attempted to get up, it was greeted by a charging male Dwarf soldier who proceeded to decapitate the Orc with his dwarven waraxe. A Lion, and Earth Kingdom soldier, along with a Batarian, and Vorcha cornered another Warg as the latter two shot the wolf several times with their guns until it went down; a UNIT soldier, and Galactic Ranger shot another Warg saving the life of a Bear soldier.

Another Warg Rider charged towards two ODSTs, those being Buck, and the Rookie as they both took notice of it, "Whoa!" Buck shouts as he, and the Rookie both spun around in opposite directions as the Warg leapt between them, the creature landed on its feet and immediately turned back around to face them.

The Warg growled at the ODSTs and was about to leap towards them again, but both Buck, and the Rookie fired their guns into it taking both the Warg, and the Orc rider out.

"Uh~, bad doggy?" Buck says as he and the Rookie exchange a look with one another.

Just then another Warg leapt towards the two ODSTs who failed to notice it this time, hitting the Rookie and pushing him to the ground as Buck jumped back out of shock and surprise, the Rookie losing his gun in the process as it slid across the ground.

"Rookie!" Buck shouts as he raises his MA5D to fire at the wolf, only to hear something coming from behind him while also picking up a red dot rapidly approaching him on his motion sensor, as he spins around and is greeted by an Orc taking a swing at him with its sword forcing him to duck.

Rookie manages to roll onto his back, only to be greeted by the Warg's face as it snarls at him with its sharp teeth; Rookie raises his arms in front of him in an attempt to protect his face from what's about to come next. Only for a few shots to ring out as the Warg lets out a whimper and falls to its side dead. Rookie looks down at the dead Warg, and then to his left where the shots came from, to see the Master Chief, and Wrex fast walking over towards him as the SPARTAN-II fires his assault rifle while the Krogan fires his shotgun. Both Heroes manage to take several more Wargs, and Warg riders out, saving a few troops in the process; Wrex fires his shotgun again as he begins to reload, only to take notice of a Warg coming straight towards him as it leaps at him. Wrex pulls his left arm back forming his hand into a tight fist as he swings it forward, punching the Warg right in its face, sending it to the ground as he finishes reloading his shotgun and fires it into the wolf. Chief fires his assault rifle taking out another Warg on his left, a Warg rider begins to run past a few feet away to his right as the Orc archer on top fires an arrow at him, the arrow deflecting off his armor as Chief turns his rifle towards the two and fires taking them both out. Another Warg comes at Chief straight from his left as it lunges at him, the Spartan turns his head to look at it as he then swings the butt of his rifle upwards, striking the Warg and sending it flying over his body onto his right side; as the Warg scrambles to try and get back onto its feet, Chief turns around and puts the remaining two bullets into its head, making it move no more.

That had been the last of the Wargs, and Warg riders, as the marines moved around to make sure all of the enemy troops were truly dead, while also checking for any wounded. Chief walked over to the still downed Rookie while reloading his gun, finishing it as he then extended a helping hand to him, "Rookie, right? You alright?" he asks.

Rookie nods his head as he grabs the Chief's hand and is pulled back onto his feet; behind them, Wrex, the rest of Rookie's squad, the rest of Blue Team, as well as Primarch Victus gathered, "Hey, is anyone else hearing that?" Wrex asks.

Silence. Nothing but silence around them, save for the off distant battles going on throughout the rest of the city.

"It's quiet." Mickey says.

"Yeah. A little too quiet." Romeo says with a huff as the two ODSTs look at each other.

Kelly steps up closer to Chief, "Probably setting up for another ambush." she says.

Chief turns his head to look at her, he then looks at everyone else, "The battle is not yet over." he says; Chief then turns to face forward, "Let's go spring this one as well." he finishes as he begins walking away.

"As much as I would prefer not to walk into another trap. It's not like we have much of a choice in the matter." Victus says as he turns around and signals to the marines to continue moving.

He, along with the marines, begin moving again, soon followed by Wrex, the ODSTs, and the rest of the Spartans. Just because there was most likely going to be another ambush they would be walking into soon; didn't mean they could at least try and detect the enemy first so they could get the first shot on them instead. The Spartans, ODSTs, and everyone else continued scanning the buildings around them, keeping watch on the windows, rooftops, and the street in front of them for any signs that they had walked into the next enemy trap. So far yet, that had not seen anyone or anything.

"I just received word that the Destroyer has been dealt with. The Commander and his forces must most likely be moving in on the Conduit right now. However they've seemed to have suffered heavy casualties, and reinforcements are being blocked off by heavy enemy resistance. Our forces are trying to now hit the Conduit from its flanks, but they too are dealing with strong enemy defenses." Victus informs the group.

"Great, bet it can't get much worse." Wrex sarcastically says.

"Unfortunately it does, Wrex. Harbinger has been reported leaving the battle with Sword, and is heading towards the Conduit now as we speak." Victus says.

"Harbinger?" Chief questions slightly in shock, according to Shepard, Harbinger was the very first Reaper ever created, perhaps even the leader of all the Reapers themselves if that was the case. Especially since nearly every Reaper was made in his image, save for the fact he was the largest of them all.

"If they've suffered heavy losses, and Harbinger is coming down here to greet them at the Conduit… I want to believe in Shepard, but there's no way without any sort of heavy ordinances are they going to be able to take that thing down! Let alone get past it to reach the Conduit!" Wrex says.

"Trust me Wrex, I want to go help the Commander as much as you do. But even if we were to deviate from our course, there's too many enemy troops between us, and the Conduit on this flank. We'll never make it in time!" Victus says.

Chief turns around to face the two, making them stop, "We won't know until we try!" he states.

The others had also come to a stop as the ODSTs, and Spartans exchange looks with one another within their respective teams, "What do you want us to do Chief?" Fred asks as he looks at him.

Before Chief could even answer, a massive explosion erupted from the bottom level of a building in front of them at least a few meters further down the street, causing everyone to go on full alert, "What the hell was that?" Dutch questions.

"Did they just prematurely set off explosives when we weren't even anywhere near that building?" Romeo questions.

Something drew Chief's attention upwards, as he looked further, and further up, "Those explosives weren't meant for us." he says.

Everyone looks at him, and then follows his gaze upwards. The building the explosives went off at, was very tall, and now because of the explosives that went off at its bottom level, very unstable. The building began to slowly tilt towards them as pieces of it were already beginning to fall off, "EVERYBODY RU~N!" Buck shouts.

Every single Coalition marine turned and started to run, the crews abandoning their vehicles as there wasn't even any point in trying to save them with how long the column would have taken to back up. Buck's ODST squad turned and started running as well, soon joined by Primarch Victus, Wrex, and then finally the Spartans as the building leaned further, and further over until finally beginning to collapse towards them. Run, that's all anyone could do at this point was run as fast as they possibly could if there was to be any hope at escaping being crushed by the massive building. Furniture from the higher floors began smashing through the windows, sending debris, furniture, and glass raining down all over the place as the Coalition forces continued running as fast as they could.

"I did not survive getting stabbed by a Brute, just to die from a fucking building!" Romeo angrily shouted.

"I can't believe this! They're dropping, an actual fucking building on us! What the hell kind of crap is that?!" Dutch, also angrily, questions.

Chief turned his head to look up, the building was beginning to get closer and closer to the ground, and also closer to him. He looked back forward, even if he were to go at full Spartan speed, he would never be able to clear it in time; and Wrex, Primarch Victus, the ODSTs, and most of these other marines, at the speed they were going, none of them were going to be clearing it either. This was not looking good for them. Chief looked back up at the building, it was now a lot more closer. The shadow of the building began to cover the Spartan as it got closer, and closer to him, and then… everything went dark.

Charon Relay…

A fleet of Systems Alliance ships exited out from the relay, soon followed by a massive object that easily eclipsed any of them in sheer size, it was the Crucible. The ancient, and highly complex device that had been in development for an unknown many cycles, and was the only known superweapon that could perhaps finally put an end to the Reaper threat, once and for all.

"It's now or never, Admiral. We're going in!" Anderson says over the comms to Hackett.

"Acknowledged. I'll send the word." Hackett replies.

"All ships, this is Admiral Hackett. The Crucible is on the move. I repeat, the Crucible is on the move! Protect it at all costs. We've got to give Hammer more time." Hackett orders.

Lasky meanwhile listened to the broadcast from the bridge of the Infinity, "You heard him everyone. I need several battlegroups to form a defensive formation around the Citadel. No Reapers, or any bad guys for that matter are to get near this station, and that weapon!" he orders.

"Captain!" Roland shouts, getting his attention, "Reaper forces just engaged the ships we sent to delay Harbinger. He's moving past them and continuing on his path towards the Conduit!" he says with urgency.

"What?!" Lasky says in shock as he turns to look back forward, "Any available ships, Harbinger has broken through and is continuing on his course down towards the planet. Is there anyone available who can intercept him?"

"We hear you Captain…"

"Leave Harbinger to us!" Troy states, as he begins giving chase after the first Reaper in the GokaiOh.

As Troy begins closing in on Harbinger due to GokaiOh's greater speed, several red energy beams fly past around the mecha, the close proximity of which causes it the shake a bit as Troy, Emma, and Na'vi hold on with the latter squawking in surprise.

"Troy, on our tail!" Emma shouts.

Several Reaper Capital ships were now giving chase after the two Megaforce Rangers to protect Harbinger from them; the Reapers fired again as half of their shots missed, the other half however hit the GokaiOh causing an explosion that violently shook the mecha, "Ah! Shield's down to 5%! Shield's down to 5%!" Na'vi shouts in a full panic as sparks begin flying out from different parts of the cockpit.

Troy groans in pain as he picks himself up, "We gotta take those Reapers out first!" he says as he, and Emma take out their Super Megaforce Keys and insert them into the control wheels.

Troy spins the GokaiOh around to face the Reaper Capital ships as the hatches on each limb open up and the Gokai Hō chest cannon pops out, "Gokai Star Burst!" the two shout as they begin firing in rapid succession a volley of cannon balls.

The cannon balls impact several times into each and every Reaper Capital ship, eventually taking them all out in a matter of seconds as they explode to pieces, "Now then, for the main target!" Troy says as he turns the GokaiOh back around, ready to fire the attack again on Harbinger this time, when suddenly a Destroyer flies out from the explosions behind them and fires its weapon.

Striking the back of the GokaiOh directly as inside the cockpit, sparks, and small explosions erupt all over, causing Troy, and Emma to cry out in pain. The Destroyer closes in on the heavily damaged mecha as it prepares to fire its energy beam again, this time at point blank to finish them off, "Oh no you don't!" Emma shouts angrily as she spins her wheel.

The GokaiOh takes out its right sword as it spins around and slashes the Destroyer across its "face", cutting it in half as it explodes. The force of the explosion propelled the mecha faster towards Harbinger due to how close it was, "Troy, we're coming up on Harbinger fast!" Emma shouts.

The cockpit was now on fire, as Troy, and Emma nevertheless fought to finish their mission, "Right, okay then. Gokai Star Burst!" Troy shouts.

Only for sparks to erupt from behind him knocking him forward as he cried out again, the alarms were beginning to blare as Na'vi flew over to the monitor, "Ah! Weapon systems are down! I repeat, weapon systems are down!" she shouts as all sorts of warning alerts were popping up on it, the mecha basically flashing red on the monitor.

"We haven't… lost all of the weapons!" Troy states as he struggled to remain standing behind his wheel.

The GokaiOh took out its other sword as the mecha let out one last boost of speed to catch up to Harbinger, smoke now trailing behind it as the GokaiOh got closer, and closer, and closer to the Reaper, "Let's finish this!" Troy shouts.

The GokaiOh prepared to perform the Gokai Crash attack, when suddenly Harbinger spun around to face them directly; inside their helmets, Emma, and Troy's eyes went wide in shock, "You will not stop us!" Harbinger saysas he fires multiple red energy beams point blank into the GokaiOh. Causing the mecha to explode.

Seeing this both Jake, and Gia gasped in shock, "TROY!" Jake shouts.

"EMMA!" Gia cries out at the same time.

"NO!" Noah shouts upon seeing this, as Orion, and Robo Knight were both speechless and also in complete shock at what they just saw.

The torn up and heavily damaged GokaiOh began to fall towards the planet as it caught on fire. With this, Harbinger turned back around as he resumed on his way towards the Conduit.

Shepard, his team, along with Admiral Anderson, and Major Coats sat in the troop compartment of an M-080 APC as they were on the final approach to the Conduit, "We're almost there. Come on everyone, just hang on!" Shepard says in his head, hoping that Chief, and everyone else was doing fine so far, and hoping that they could just hold on for a bit more longer.

"From here on in, it's a straight shot to the beam." Anderson says.

"A straight shot with a Reaper trying to crush us along the way." Coats comments.

"We just need to get a handful of troops through." Anderson says.

"Only a handful, huh?" Ashley says, she and the rest of the team unsure of just how exactly this was about to go.

Only a handful, heck even one person, though that was playing it risky since they didn't know what could potentially be waiting for them on the Citadel, was all it could take to win this war. The only thing that now stood in their way, the grandfather of all Reapers, Harbinger. The odds have never been this highly stacked against them before, compared to the fight against Saren and Sovereign, compared to the Suicide Mission against the Collectors.

"We knew this was going to be a gamble at best." Anderson says.

Shepard stands up as he turns to face everyone, "Can't think of anyone else I'd rather do this with." he says as he grabs onto the handlebar above him, everyone else doing the same thing as they readied themselves to disembark from the vehicle.

"Nobody does it alone." Ashley says.

"We're all right behind you Shepard, no matter what happens." Tali says.

"Let's get this war finally done and over with!" Garrus says.

"And send those Reapers packing!" James says.

"And this time, they won't be coming back!" Liara says.

"For your cycle, for mine, and for all those before ours!" Javik says.

"We will avenge them all here, and now!" EDI says.

Shepard nods his head in agreement, "We've certainly come far from our days hunting a rogue Spectre." he comments in his head as a small smile appears on his lips.

"Sirs, we're in sight of the target." the driver of the APC reported over the intercom.

"Alright everyone, this is-" before Anderson can finish a loud explosion erupts from the outside as the APC violently shakes around and then jolts to a sudden stop, throwing everyone to the floor.

"That didn't sound good!" James says.

"Everyone out, move!" Shepard orders.

Shepard, and Anderson push the rear doors open as they hop out, followed by the others as they get a look at what happened to their vehicle. The APC had crashed into a crater, the front of it in flames, something had hit it, "Shit!" Anderson says as he, and Shepard run forward.

The others follow behind them as to their rear, the remaining Hammer APCs pull up and come to a stop, the marines onboard each of them, quickly beginning to offload. Shepard, and Anderson run to the edge of the plateau as they come to a stop while looking up, shock, and horror on their faces at what they were seeing. Before them, was the Conduit, and it was massive. A thin blue beam of energy emitted from the center of the three tower-like constructs, three smaller ones surrounding the entrance to the beam that was quite some distance from where they were standing. A massive portion of the land surrounding it had been completely razed, basically putting the Conduit in the middle of a massive-sized crater with next to no cover around save for some small amounts of building debris spread throughout. It wasn't the Conduit however that had the two shocked and horrified, rather who appeared behind it, Harbinger. The first Reaper ever created, touched down behind the Conduit, its glowing eyes staring right towards them, "Shepard, your interference. Comes to an end."

Nearly all of the Coalition troops present behind the Commander and his team, were frozen in absolute fear as they stared up at the massive, towering machine. Even Shepard's teammates were finding it a bit difficult to move from their spots as they stared at him.

"We gotta move!" Anderson shouts while looking at Shepard.

Shepard turns around to look back at his team as they all stare towards him, "Come on!" he shouts.

Shepard looks and hops down over the edge, Ashley and the others all exchange concerned looks with one another, but follow after him immediately.

"Come on you lot, remember what you're all fighting for! For the multiverse!" Coats shouts as he charges forward, all of the Coalition troops stare at one another, before looking towards the Conduit and letting out a resounding, and uniting battle cry as they join in the charge as well.

Shepard hits the ground as he stumbles back up, "All squads, move it, move it, move it! Do not stop! Get to that beam!" Anderson shouts over the comms.

Shepard looks around him as all of the Coalition troops charge towards the Conduit, several M-080 APCs, and M35 Makos joining in as well as everyone was now running, or driving straight towards that beam. Shepard included as he began sprinting at full speed towards it.

"Face your annihilation." Harbinger says as he begins firing his multiple red energy beams.

The energy beams begin impacting all over, anyone that was hit by it was vaporized in an instant, the vehicles did not stand a chance as their shields were passed right through and they exploded. Nevertheless, everyone continued charging straight towards the Conduit, never stopping, never going back, it was now, or never!

An Orlesian soldier to Garrus's left was vaporized in an instant as one of Harbinger's beams hit him, an M35 Mako that was driving right past EDI only got a few feet in front of her before another of Harbinger's beams hit it, causing it to explode. Another of Harbinger's beams hit an M-080 sending it flipping over to its right side, crushing a Geth, and Galactic Ranger beneath it as Tali could do nothing but watch.

Closer, closer, closer, closer, closer! Shepard was getting more, and more closer to the Conduit beam, but as he, and others did, Harbinger began focusing his fire on them. Taking out more, and more Coalition troops around him, while Shepard was lucky and managed to either dodge, or just barely miss one of Harbinger's beams.

A Clone, and US Marine cried out just as one of Harbinger's beams hit them, leaving nothing left of them. Ashley, and a Systems Alliance marine split off as another of Harbinger's beams hit in front of them, both managing to dodge it, a second later however another of his beams struck the SA marine as Ashley looked on in shock and sadness. An M35 Mako was hit in front to James's left, flipping it into the air as he just barely managed to avoid being crushed by it. Liara looked and saw as an Asari attempted to use a biotic sphere to protect her, and a few troops around her, Harbinger fired one of his beams at them, and the sphere didn't even last a second as the Asari, along with all of those around here were instantly vaporized. Javik watched as several Coalition troops fired their weapons at Harbinger, obviously to no effect as one by one they were vaporized by his energy beams.

"Almost there. Almost there. Almost there! ALMOST THERE!" Shepard continued to shout in his head as he got closer, and closer to the Conduit, unfortunately he had yet to see anyone make it through.

Just then the M-080 in front of him received a hit, sending the APC flipping sideways continuously through the air as it headed right for him. Everything went dark.


110,103 words… that is all I've got to say.

Q&A…

To CT7567Rules - Yes sir, that is indeed Delta Squad from Republic Commando! :)

To Gameer98 - Pretty sure the Reapers don't want to destroy planets, only harvest the races. So a planet-destroying space station would be rather redundant to have, especially if Cerberus or any of the other bad guys got their hands on it to possibly use against them.

To CapitalClassShip - No worries, glad you're enjoying it! :)

To Starlord Master - Try years, if you noticed when it was first published and how it's still going on now XD