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Chapter 3: The Battle of the Empty Quarter

In their second pass, the aliens began sending down invasion forces. Each Invasion Group consisted of hundreds of ships carrying enough forces to take over a large portion of the earth's surface. The first Group landed in the middle of the Australian Outback. The next Invasion Group landed in the Gobi desert of Mongolia, near the Chinese border.

This was followed by an Asteroid impact on top of the Russian spaceport in Kazakhstan. The next Asteroid destroyed Moscow. All during this time, the Russians had been launching nuclear missiles at the aliens, but all of them were destroyed before they reached their targets.

Then an Invasion Group landed in the heart of the Empty Quarter, the desert in the heart of Saudi Arabia. The next invasion group landed in southern Libya, deep in the Sahara. The next landed in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia.

Asteroids flattened Berlin, Paris and London.

More ICBMs were launched as the Aliens continued to use Asteroids against American cities. But the ICBMs failed to hit their targets as they were all shot down. Nothing could save Washington, DC, Columbus, Indianapolis, Saint Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, NORAD or San Francisco. The same tsunami that destroyed San Francisco also destroyed the Wizarding school within the city.

The final two Invasion groups landed in the western hemisphere. One landed in Northern Mexico, near the US border. The other landed in the deserts of Chile. Spaceships had at last come to land on the Planes of Nazca.

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"All right men, Here is our mission," began Harry Potter as he addressed his officers. "An Invasion group has landed in the middle of Saudi Arabia. Our intelligence is sketchy due to the loss of the muggle satellite communication network. These same communications problems are why the Muggles are having difficulty alerting their forces in Iraq.

We believe that the aliens may have already taken Mecca and Medina and are now heading for Riyadh and the Persian Gulf. Our job will be to slow down their advance long enough for the forces from Iraq to engage the enemy. I have configured your weapons as Portkeys so the men should maintain contact with their weapons at all times. At this point nothing is known about the aliens, so intelligence gathering will be a secondary objective of our mission. We leave in three hours. Alert the men. Dismissed."

When Harry had assembled his army, there were 1,000 men standing in formation. They were organized in squads of 10. The officers were all wizards and fought as part of a squad that consisted of five wizards and five muggles. Harry touched his wand to the rifle of one of his men and sent a magical pulse that activated all of the Portkeys.

They appeared in the middle of the desert with the sweltering sun beating down on them.

"Okay men, spread out along that dune!" yelled Harry.

The Army spread out along the top of a dune that ran northwest to southeast and waited for the enemy. After a couple of hours, they began to hear the distant rumble of approaching tanks. They had just seen one come over a distant dune when enemy fighters flew overhead. The fighters had pointed cylindrical bodies like earth bound fighters and forward pointing crescent shaped wings. There were weapons mounted on the ends of the wings. Harry realized that these were the same kinds of fighters that he had seen shooting down satellites.

As soon he saw the fighters fly by, Harry cast a sonorous charm on himself and started issuing orders.

"Anti-broom missiles, fire at will!" yelled Harry.

In his squad, Private Jenkins manned the anti-broom missile. It was a small anti aircraft missile that had been modified slightly. Ever since the 2nd Battle of Hogsmead, Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes or WWW had been modifying Muggle weapons for use against Voldemort's forces when the peace ended. The Anti-broom missiles were modified anti-aircraft missiles that were operated by a single person from a shoulder launcher. They had been modified so that they would follow their target until the hit and they were imbued with the killing curse so that even a mild wound would kill their target. These weapons had been intended to be used to shoot down wizards on brooms, but they could still be used to shoot down aircraft.

When the missiles were launched, the fighters turned and began trying to shoot down the missiles that were pursuing their comrades. Many of them were successful and once the air was cleared of missiles, the fighters began shooting at Potter's Army. By then, the people manning the anti-broom missiles had reloaded, and began defending the Army against attack from the air.

When the alien tanks got close enough, they began firing at the British line.

"Anti-giant missiles, fire at will!" yelled Harry.

Every squad had a member with an anti-giant missile. It was a modified anti-tank missile that was designed to explosively impart a killing curse after it penetrated the giant's hide. Used against tanks, they would kill everyone inside the tank.

"Retexo Severitas!" hissed Harry and Luna as they each made a tank fly ten feet up in the air, then fall in a crash that left their crews too stunned to do anything for a moment.

The tanks stopped their advance for a moment as ground troops began pouring out of their back ends. The Aliens, like humans had two arms, two legs and a head. They were only an inch or two taller than the average human. But they features were much courser than humans. None of them could ever be mistaken for a human. Although their skin came in the same shades of pink and tan that humans did, it was a scaly, reptilian type of skin. They wore tan uniforms that blended in well with the desert sand.

"Immunitas Artus Cento!" hissed Harry and Luna as they prepared to defend themselves against the enemy's bullets.

To their surprise, the alien troopers had riffles that fired balls of phased plasma.

"All forces, fire at will!" yelled Harry.

All of the wizards began casting short, easy curses (Mostly Stunners and Reductors) at the aliens. But the overwhelming majority of Potter's Army was armed with AK-47's. These riffles were magically modified so that in single shot mode, they made an infinite supply of bullets and each bullet was imbued with a killing curse. This meant that even a mild wound would be fatal.

Soldiers were falling on both sides. But the alien army was much bigger than Potter's Army. After several minutes of combat, Major Neville Longbottom turned to Harry and said:

"General Potter, They're starting to out flank us! We've got to pull back!"

"I think you're right, Neville," said Harry. "All troops, prepare for Portkey!"

Harry touched his wand to one of his soldier's weapons and sent a magical surge through it, which activated the Portkeys and transported the Army ten miles back. Once the aliens had caught up with them, the fight would begin again. They repeated this several times that day. One time a fighter that was barely damaged enough to be brought down crashed near Harry's squad. It was intact enough that a Major Stan Benford took a couple of privates to investigate.

"General, I think you should see this," said Major Benford as he came forward levitating the dead pilot.

It was wearing an elaborately decorated uniform that looked like something humans had worn in the 18th century. But the most remarkable thing about the pilot was his face. He looked fully human!

"Bring him along," said Harry. "We'll want to investigate this further."

Major Benford shrunk the pilot and put him in his pocket.

As the sun was going down, they were fighting the last battle of the day. Just before they departed, Harry summoned one of the stunned troops to bring back for interrogation. Potters Army then Portkeyed back to Gryffindor Castle to see to their wounded and rest for the night