"Is the ground efforts doing well?" Union asked over the gunfire of his AR2.

"Yes sir." His specialist with the Spas-12 replied, gunning down some AKs.

"That's good." He ducked over an AK's melee attempt and flipped it over to his back, ending it with a burst from his weapon.

The air group was avoiding the big wyvern, that destroyed a mountain in which it was contained, closing in towards Beacon.

A griffon tried to bite him, but was stopped by a hunter. The enemies encountered are mostly aerial Grimm, White Fang members, infected AKs and the Paladins. Union's group and the students have pushed back most of the hostile forces surrounding the Beacon Tower, so they went towards the Beacon Courtyards to 'clean' up.

It was a cleanup, it just wasn't easy.

"Paladin inbound! Strider, take it down!" The infected Paladin was running towards the group of students and soldiers, before getting severely weakened by a Strider's main gun.

Before Union could issue an order, the Strider was tackled by a Paladin. The Tripodal synth recovered quickly, and growled in challenge to the Paladin. The Strider sidestepped an attack from the Paladin, shooting a burst of pulse ammo at it. Its Hunter pair had supported it during the fight, harassing and scratching the Paladin.

As that fight was going on, Union was dealing with his own Paladin to deal with. Looking much more insectoid, and advanced. His NPCs we're dealing with their own problems. Rolling out of the Paladin's strike, he annoyed it a bit with an AR2 burst before dodging its next attack. He switched his AR2 with a Rocket Launcher, maneuvering the rocket to weave through the Paladin's defense.

The explosion knocked it off its guard, but didn't damage it that much. He didn't let up, shooting another rocket. Though, the Paladin dodged it and it was a mistake on this part. Union centered the red dot on the Paladin's body, the rocket immediately changed direction and went straight towards the Paladin's back.

Another explosion staggered it again, recovering slowly. Loading another rocket, he aimed at the Paladin again. But was stopped by a squad of four AKs jumping him. Union retaliated with a Spas-12, shooting off the head of two Knights. Ducking below an AK's swipe, he slapped its head backwards with his weapon. Ending the last one with its own arm blade.

He went back to his initial opponent. A mechanized punch made him fly all the way back to his group, and the students. They had dealt with their opponents, however the advanced Paladin was converging on the exhausted students and ill-equipped soldiers. A distant boom was heard by Union, then as if that was the cue, all Atlesian robots had shut down.

Union let out a breath and laughed, healing himself with a Medkit. "Oh finally! Something good happened!"

A student with long yellow hair ran off to find her teammate. One of his specialists tapped his shoulder and pointed towards the wyvern closing in. Union grimaced and ordered his troops to stay sharp. He prepared his AR2 and watched the Wyvern slowly approach Beacon, he slowly shook his head in exhaustion.

"This is ridiculous, there's way too much." Union grumbled as he walked away to the students.

"Are some of you good?" Some of them nodded, but most of them were in a bad shape.

"Alright, we might need to move. That wyvern's going to come here, so I want to get far away as possible. I've seen an evac point nearby, we can go there. The ones that are able can help out those that aren't, we can rest at the evac center. Let's move!" He turned his back, but an orange-haired student called out to him.

"Our friends are still at the Tower, we can't just leave them!" Union looked at her

"You're right, but you guys aren't in a good condition. I'll fetch them for you guys. What do they look like?" He asked.

"A blonde and a redhead with armor." The orange-haired's other teammate said. Nodding, he started to jog, he was still exhausted, at the opposite direction of the evac center.

'Here's to hoping I don't die...'

Time skip...

Union saw a rocket fly off into the distance. A few minutes later, the huge wyvern destroyed the top of the Tower with its wing.

'Damn it! Actually, I don't see how that changes things...' He thought..

Acting quickly, he looked through the spawn menu and spawned a chainlink fence, and a ship container. He threw the container towards the large Grimm, then using the fence to prop ride towards the top. The container hit the wyvern square in the face, making it fall to the ground. He removed the fence and while in midair, spawned an AR2 and tried to make sure he landed straight towards the remains of the tower.

He saw the redhead with the armor, battling a woman using fire and magic. Union rolled his eyes and prepared to meet the ground, he did and caused a massive shockwave that pushed both combatants back. He aimed the AR2 at the fire woman, who looked at him in confusion then recognition.

"Oh, it's you." Sounding bored, she smirked. "I thought you wouldn't bother with this event, considering how Atlas treated you."

"Well, first contact isn't exactly the best contact sometimes. So I don't blame them." Union replied, eyeing her up.

"You don't have to interfere, you can just leave it be."

"Oh, I don't think so." He smiled, keeping the gun leveled on her head.

"Fine, if you'll interfere. I'll have to make you regret it."

He laughed. "I regret a lot of things, but this one ain't one of them."

Without warning, she sent a stream of flame towards him. He spawned a blastdoor infront of him to shield him from the attack, freezing it in place. He saw her jump over the door to strike him with an obsidian sword, so he backed away and prepared his riot shield. The shield held as the blade of the sword made contact with whatever the shield was made of, it looked like the same metal used on APCs.

After blocking the strike, Union replaced his AR2 with his Stunstick. He did an upwards swing, to which the woman evaded and prepared a thrust. Angling his shield to bring the thrust towards the left, he striked on her exposed side. He knocked her back, but not by much. She threw a few fireballs towards him, causing him to spawn objects for them to collide with.

A fireball nearly squared him in the face if he hadn't seen it, he looked back to his opponent. Union blocked and dodged the flurry of strikes, kicks and magic sent towards him using his shield, props, and the stunstick to some extent. After dodging a stream of fire, he threw an explosive barrel at her using his Gravity Gun. To which it exploded once it hit the ground next to his opponent.

Ducking under a thrust from an obsidian sword from his recovered opponent, he blocked a slash from the other sword. Jumping out of the way of a stream of fire, Union pulled out his 357 and aimed at his opponent. Two bullets hit her square in the chest, two missed, one blocked, and one disintegrated. The woman retaliated with a stream of fire, all too similar from before.

Union blocked it his shield, but the remaining embers grew brighter and became another stream. Caught off guard, he got himself thrown towards a wall. His chest felt like a sunburn times a hundred, applying the burns with some health vials. The burn cooled down which managed to make him sit up and spawn a Gravity gun holding a sawblade.

He saw another girl with black hair and red highlights and a mechanized scythe next to her, next to the redhead he was supposed to save. The woman was about to prepare another stream of fire.

That was the last time she ever used her left arm.

Blood-curling screams of pain wasn't unheard by Union, who grunted and held out his hand to the redhead and the scythe girl.

"Get yourselves out of here!"

Union never saw what was behind him as the two girls ran away. Let's just say he had just more than broken bones. Blurred vision accompanied by varying degrees of high-level pain, he looked around. Seeing his opponent carried off by something and the wyvern's face going ever so closer. Out of panic, he brought out his Toolgun.

He saw the numbers '314' go across the screen, and shot the wyvern with it. Immediately, a lightning bolt struck the wyvern's face, causing it to screech. Union looked above, seeing a huge portal open up.

The last thing he saw, was the reminder that Earth lost a war in seven hours...

Line break...

One of Union's specialists, the leader of the specialists squad, looked over to the tower. A lightning bolt striked the top, which opened up a huge portal.

Specialist 1-1 urgently broadcasted his message to the NPCs remaining.

"All units, regroup on me. Union is down, I repeat Union is down."

There was no questions about their leader's status, there was only a chorus of affirmatives. He looked back up, seeing an all too familiar looking base of a large tower. The tower itself broke through Beacon's tower, demolishing it. Once it hit the ground, a huge shockwave emitted from it. Strong enough to bring an earthquake on where 1-1 was standing.

The tower wasn't done yet however, it retracted some plates on its base and started hammering down on the ground. It made itself a bigger hole to nest in, the ground surrounding it was cracked and jagged. Soon enough, the remaining NPCs had arrived, seeing the tower.

Time skip...

Tales of Beacon's fall brought a shiver to those that witnessed it, an imposing tower replacing the beacon of safety.

The local huntsmen tried to retake Beacon, but was met with heavy resistance from its guards.

What's left of Union's NPCs made themselves at home in the liberated bandit camp.

Specialist 1-1 was made the leader of the group, making sure to keep what power left for Union's return.

Union was dead, as far as Remnant was concerned.

But little did they know, it took a lot more than a crushing death to hold back GMod's stupidity.

Finally, the end for Part one. Time for part two!

If you want to ask any questions regarding this chapter, feel free to ask through PMing me or waiting until the next chapter to which I responded to you.

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