Chapter 4

Agent's line was still in the forest, marching forth. The attackers would have been able to move faster, but the Manticores would be left behind. They were the most powerful S.F. units that can move, and would be a very valuable part in the siege.

The Ringleader was on the frontlines, of course. She casually walked in front of the rest of her troops, with her fearless, condescending frown. Agent had plenty of dummies with her to confuse the enemy, her usual strategy. Nothing should have went wrong with the attack. Architect should have been cowering at her heels.

Things spiraled out of control when one of Dreamer's T-Dolls insulted her across the comms.

"Agent, we are done slaving it out for you!" The strong voice could only belong to a Dragoon. "From this day on, we work for Donald Morden!"

The T-Doll halted. The rest of her army followed her movements with ease. Sangvis Dolls were programmed to never talk back to their Ringleaders. It was most certainly not a bug, as the a.i s of each Doll is constantly tested for glitches during production.

"How dare you speak up to me? As a Dragoon, you obey the Ringleaders without question!"

Agent hung up on Scarecrow. This rebellion was much more pressing and could jeopardize the entire mission.

Dreamer was the next one to speak, clearly hijiacked by the terrorists. "Hehehe, looks like your plan has been dashed to pieces, Agent. Now that I am free, I think it's time to see how Sangvis Dolls look when they have been thoroughly, personally deconstructed..."

"DREAMER!" The T-Doll shrieked. "It will be you who will not be returning in one piece once I get to the bottom of this! Gager, move in now; Dreamer has been hijacked!"

Agent got no answer on the comms. She quickly realized why; Gager and her forces were nowhere near the base. The Sangvis Commander was supposed to bring reinforcements once the attack had begun, but Agent could not even detect her signal. She could still feel Dreamer, but just barely.

Had someone else been stealing Sangvis Dolls?

Scarecrow and Executioner were moving in on the location where Gager was supposed to be. Why had they not detected her yet?

"Scarecrow, why are you moving to Gager? She never showed up!" She warned the Ringleader across the radio.

"Oh my, I can't find her on the comms. Why would Gager refuse to join the attack?"

"She was captured by unknown means."

"Captured? She is a Commander, how could this happen without anyone noticing?"

"It must be the work of someone becides those terrorists in the base. Hurry, Scarecrow! This is situation is above your abilities."

"Yes, Madam!"

Agent hung up once more. She should hear the engines of massive aircraft flying towards her troops. She lifted up her shirt to reveal four powerful guns, and the rest of her soldiers got into firing stances.

Then, Agent heard the planes dropping many explosives at once.

A carpet bomb run.

The Ringleader deployed her personal shield in desperate attempt to defend herself. Many small explosives rained from above the trees, blasting her T-Dolls to bits. Only three of the planes were shot down, crashing behind the fallen Sangvis units.

The roar of the bombers faded into the distance. Agent sighed with disappointment, and added the damage. Her army was no more, only a few Manticores were intact. The strengh of air supremacy was what annihilated Agent's Dolls. Sangvis only had unmanned drones from their PMC years, while the enemy somehow had the time and resources to run an air force. Even if the planes were inspired by horribly outdated models, they were still bombers and still packed a big punch.

This was very, very troubling.

"It will be impossible to deal with these foes without bigger aircraft." She said, staring at one of the wrecks. "We should start with these things..."

The T-Doll revealed her guns, pointing them at one of the androids that survived the crash. It got up slowly with much mechanic wirling, and picked up its machine gun and pointed it at Agent.

The T-Doll was drastically different from anything Agent saw. For one, it was distinctively male, while the standard was women or genderless designs. Its muscles were ridiculously huge, and its head was a skull with red eyes. A M240 was in its hands, something that Griffin would definitely use.

The android shot a long burst of machine gun fire. Agent quickly dodge out of the way and shot back. Its firing pattern was pretty simple, likely because the T-Doll's processing cores or whatever Amadeus used got damaged in the fall. The Sangvis Doll just moved in a simple circle, wearing down the android as its laughed got weaker and weaker.

"Their T-Dolls are just as resistance as our bodies." Agent thought to herself as the robot finally collapsed. "Those humans are on the same level as us! But they can mass produce Ringleader level T-Dolls, and even control ELID infectees..."

"What in the world are we dealing with?" She shook her head.

Speaking of ELID, the monkeys reached their destination. Hundreds of disfigured primates rushed to the position of the remaining Sangvis. Some were holding Uzis as well, so they were clearly trained as marksmen.

However, the monkeys screeched to a halt a few feet from Agent's dolls. Their demonic screeches even came to a halt. The zombies split up, forming an empty column where a tank drove down. It was pretty small, tinier than a Mantecore, but it still had a dangerous cannon.

The lid of the tank opened up, and out came the unconscious bodies of Scarecrow, Executioner, and Dreamer.

"I hope you androids learned a valuable lesson today." The Doctor spoke through a screen on the tank. "Never get in the way of science! Do so again and those three will be staying with us permanently."

"Hmp, I'll leave for now, pitiful human." Agent snarled, picking up the bodies of the Ringleaders and placing them inside the plane wreck. "Do you know how many researchers I've killed, Mr Amadaeus? I will do the same to you, once we get our plans underway."

The Ringleader then began to walk away from the scene, the Manticores hauling the plane back to the base. Dr Amadeus couldn't help but heave an aged laugh at the scene.

"She thinks that the Hairbuster will accomplish much in the long run... Maybe it will for that other PMC they loath so much, but they hadn't even seen what the Rebels can do... That Mastermind will be ours!"

Around the same time as the raid, Griffin had started their own attack on Sangvis turf. Gentinene, the commander assigned to sector S09, sent the AR team and a few other dolls to kill the territory's Ringleader, Intruder.

M4, AR-15, Scorpion, and Pphs were sent to deal with Intruder. The Dolls found her inside an abandoned theater, which was rather strange compared to previous Ringleaders. The clever Ringleader lead the Griffin dolls into a trap, and begun to call for reinforcements.

"Come, display your talents to your heart's content, AR-Team!" She grandly anounced.

"Yo, don't forget to page us, bot!" A gruff voice yelled from the exit.

Everyone's attention war draw to the theater's doors. Suddenly, tank fire of all things erupted, and the screams of various Sangvis Dolls echoed in the battlefield.

"Uh, since when did we deploy tanks?" Scorpion asked sarcastically.

"I don't here Sopmod and the rest... I hope they are alright." M4A1 mused.

Intruder still kept her grating arrogance many Ringleaders had. "It seems as if someone is going off script. Looks like I will just have to improvise!"

She raised her massive minigun and started to rev it up, aiming for the doors. Intruder pulled the trigger, shooting hundreds and hundreds of bullets at the exits.

The man that came out didn't care. A muscular figure smashed through the doors, charging straight for Intruder. Her eyes went wide as the man simply laughed off her attacks. He threw a grenade at her, sending the Ringleader flying into the ground.

"Yaahahahaha! I'm Allen O Niel; not the kind of person who dies easily!" He told the Griffin Dolls.

His bare body with filled with bullets, but Allen was still doing amazingly well. He could take as much punishment as a Ringleader, but was still just a human with a machine gun.

The Dolls couldn't tell if he was a threat or not. M4A1 was the first to speak.

"Who are you? How did you survive Intruder's attack?" The T-Doll demanded.

"Like I said, I'm Allen O Niel, first Sergeant of the Rebel Arny. Second question is too personal. It would go over your robotic minds anyways." He responded.

Rebel Army? AR-15 heard those words before...

"You work for White Baby." She responded in a serious tone. "You want to use her to take over the government."

"Bingo!" Allen exploded, causing the Dolls to recoil. "This world has really did itself in, their armies mostly ai machines. You are just asking to be hacked!"

"Pardon me, but if you think you can do the same to us, we have many countermeasures in place to stop cyber attacks." Intruder spoke, still functional after the explosion.

"Oh yeah?" Allen teased. "Then how do we know exactly what Sangvis Ferri as in store for Griffin?" Intruder's face darkened slightly. "You infected the one with the AR-15, then you use her to find the location of a Griffin base with lots of important members and ambush it!"

Intruder gasped, along with the rest of the dolls. "That was confidential information! We would have known if something broke in..."

"White Baby, that's why. Are you bots really that dense?" Allen mocked, aiming his gun to Intruders core. "Especially you Sangvis folk, you act like you are invincible. There is only one invincible being, which is me!"

"I'm infected?" 15 told Intruder, anger clearly in her eyes. "You were going to use me to harm everything that I loved? You are nothing but Sangvis Scum."

Intruder had a puzzled look in her face. She struggled to think of what to say next. The Ringleader then put up a small, knowing smile.

"You think it's over for us? Well, we could always make changes to the script, so that the show is is still splendid..."

Allen shot her in the core, killing Intruder. "Gee, are all of them like this?"

"Welcome to our world." Scorpion sighed.

"So, are you friends with us?" Ppsh-41 asked kindly.

Allen heaved a massive laugh. "Nope! You Griffin punks are just as bad in our eyes. You continue to defend the monsters who threw you into this mess. Sangvis could do something about it, but they obviously don't give a crap. So, we hired some help to steer them in the right direction. Meanwhile, we will leave you alone for now, until the time is right to strike. Well, mostly."

Allen ran outside the theater. The T-Dolls pursued the man outside, where a small army that looked like it stepped out of World World 2 waited. Their gear was very simplistic, some with knifes a bazookas, but there was still tanks with them. They were small and crude, and had a very swastika like emblem on their turrets.

"Take cover!" M4A1 commanded, the Dolls running behind the theater.

Heavy boots could be heard as the Dolls hide behind the walls.

"Are they seriously using knifes and bazookas?" AT-15 questioned. "This would be pretty easy if it wasn't for those tanks."

"Where's sopmod?" M4 said in a flustered tone. "She could've blown them up with one grenade, and those tanks!"

They couldn't talk more. The footsoldiers were closing in.

The Dolls split up, 15 and 4 on one end, and the SMGs on the other. The soldiers leaped one by one to stab the girls, but they were mowed down with ease. Human flesh was a lot weaker than the Sangvis armor.

There was too few bazookas to make up for their poor aim. They went down in a flash, leaving the tanks the only ones remaining. Thankfully, a grenade flew in between the four machines, doing enough damage to crumple them and squish the drivers inside.

Sopmod and the rest met up with M4A1's team, Sopmod hugging M4.

Until a footsoldier popped out one of the tanks with a rocket launcher. Both M4's dodged the missle and shot the man in the head, neutralizing him for good.

"If that happened with one of the military's vehicles, he would have been gone for good."AR-15 spoke.

"Guess that's the strength of our new enemies. They push old models to their limits, but still mass produce them without losing efficiency." M4A1 commented.

Later on, the three did find M16 (Who got one hell of a slap) and filled her in on everything that happened. However, M16 did have something to tell her sisters.

"After what happened with 416, I was contacted by this man called Marco Rossi. He told me that some force called the Regular Army would be collaborating with Griffin." She said. "Trust me on this, they apparently came from an alternative Earth to fight the Rebel Army, which is the guys you just defeated already. Both of them don't use T-Dolls, but the Regulars are working on something pretty close. It's pretty intriguing."

Now that the AR-Team was finally reunited, greater challenges would test the strength of their friendship. The four couldn't help but think that things would get alot rougher for now on...