After finally managing to drag all of our tribe to safety, we took a moment to take stock of our situation. In short, we were now on Earth, which was filled with hostile element creatures, as well as who knows what else occupying it.

We'd made camp inside on of the abandoned skyscrapers in the city and...well, the look was amazing. Even if it was undeniably sad to witness another Earth where nature had reclaimed the accomplishments of mankind, the scenery such worlds created was awe-inspiring.

I caught more than a few of our tribe members staring at the landscape. Yes, this world was almost unlivable for normal humans. But it was still beautiful and worth saving.

A glimpse of several drones flying through the air warned me that we weren't alone here - this world was inhabited not only by creatures, but also by machines meant to keep the element infestation in check. Combat drones known as Enforcers followed the directions of flying Scouts, which ensured that no violence happened in the city we were making camp in. We were going to need to address this. At the very least, we'd need to fight them off until we could either hack them or build our own.

A sound of thunder turned my attention to a different portion of the sky. There, something was burning its way through the atmosphere, eventually colliding with the ground. Through a spyglass, I saw that it was a supply drop, which was now being swarmed by corrupted creatures. Oh yeah, I forgot about that - this was what happened with the supply drops on Extinction - instead of slowly landing on the ground, they crashed onto the surface and were assaulted by corrupted. You had to fight them off in order to get the supplies inside.

Also, the element infestation was controlled by a giant monster known as the King Titan (basically Godzilla), which had three subordinates known as the Desert, Forest, and Ice Titan, which needed to be slain so that you could access his arena. Did I mention that you needed to fight him using mounts and buildable mecha?

...Meh, this was only a challenge because I let it be a challenge. Bring it on!

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First order of business: get tons of element!

Luckily, there were plenty of structures in this city to harvest, so after we put together several harvesting and defense teams, we easily managed to start accruing element for stocking our armory. I remember M4 and her fellow T-Dolls reacting with shock when another group of corrupted tried to assault them, only to be gunned down by an enforcer. They mouthed something about 'ELIDs' before continuing their security work. As for our arachnid allies, Vivian had managed to intimidate them into subservience. I still can't believe she whipped a brain bug so many times it started crying. How does an insect do that? They don't even have tear ducts!

Also, apparently the bugs had a few larval queens with them. I needed to figure out a planet to dump them on in the hub once we were done - I had no personal reason to kill them, but I did not want to risk them killing our resident humans, because they did not seem friendly to humans when we first met. Contrast the machines, who did not seem interested in fighting us despite being built by phallic looking aliens to exterminate mankind...I needed to tell 2B and 9S about this. Their expressions would be priceless

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(On the hub)

Despite her best efforts, Kathikon could not stop a laugh from coming out as 2B sprayed her tea all over 9S. The revelation that there were machine lifeforms that didn't want to kill off humans was...certainly a shock. And had led to them demanding to join up with the Commander on the world of Extinction. Kathikon had forwarded the request to Fide, who would be the one to decide how it would be handled.

Synais was on the floor, laughing at the absurdity of things.

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(Flame's POV)

Once we had finished our first element harvest, our next task was getting a group of enforcers to work with. We'd gotten blueprints from killing one (because the scouts had seen us kill a raptor in self defense and decided that we were a danger), but we were going to need way more than that to take on the rest of the area, so I had Fide hack the system and give us engrams to build a horde of Enforcers to work with, alongside some scouts to spot for them.

Now all we needed was something to test them against-

"Commander, I am detecting a surge of energy that corresponds to when the ARK system summons new survivors. One will be forming near your location, and it looks like a pack of element infested creatures are making their way to the location."

Excellent. A proper first test!

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(POV: M4)

M4 watched as the creatures moved to investigate the site, eyes switching from the Commander to the gathering horde, waiting for the signal. Nearby, the Enforcers were lying in wait, with the scouts waiting to transmit the attack order, while the Commander's female companion was taking aim with a sniper rifle, preparing to pick off any unexpected attackers.

The wait seemed to last days, but then the signal came. One moment, there was calm, the next, carnage. The Enforcers spearheaded the attack, teleporting into battle and lighting up the corrupted with plasma fire. M4 was quick to join them, opening fire on a group of corrupted Dimorphodon, while the insectoid arachnids aided the green Martians in taking on corrupted Arthropleura. A Corrupted Giganotosaurus roared in anger, only to be gunned down by the enforcers.

It was at the moment the carnosaur fell that the new survivors finally arrived. They were a fairly large group, some machines, others looking human...why did they all look like girls?

Wait, why did they look so familiar-no.

No.

NO!

NO NO NO!

THIS COULD NOT BE HAPPENING!

Despite how much M4 and the rest of the T-Dolls wished otherwise, they recognized these new arrivals.

All of them were products of their primary foe - Sangvis Ferri.

Most were mass produced T-Dolls, though two appeared to be Ringleaders, though the models in question were unknown. One had black hair, the other was white-haired, and both had large weapons, though while the white-haired Ringleader's weapon was of unknown make, the black-haired one wielded some sort of missile launcher.

Oh, and they were talking.

"Architect, what happened?!" asked the white haired one.

"Not my fault! I didn't do anything this time, Gager!" answered the black haired one.

Ok, enough with this!

M4 fired a shot that went right between the two Ringleaders, taking out a Corrupted Raptor that had been approaching them in the process. The two momentarily froze before glancing at the raptor, then at M4. Realization filled their faces.

"..Griffin Scum!"

"Sangvis-"

"M4, please spare the Sangvis T-Dolls."

M4 turned her attention to the Commander, who had just jetpacked over to her location, alongside his female counterpart. "But-"

"I know. But I think we'll need all the help we can get!"

Architect let out a laugh. "You humans want our help? What makes you think we would offer it?"

Wordlessly, the Commander pointed in their direction. Turning, the two Ringleader found themselves staring at a Corrupted Rex.

Which roared at them.

M4 and the rest of her T-Doll sisters-in-arms barely stifled a laugh as the Sangvis Dolls soiled themselves, after which the Commanders grabbed them and started falling back as the Enforcers attacked the Corrupted tyrannosaur.

There would be discussion about working with Sangvis Ferri. But not now - they had monsters to kill.

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AN: Work is eating up my writing schedule, sorry for short chapter. Read and Review! This is Flameal15k, signing off!