The low rumble of marching resonated in the tunnels. The Crawlers were storming through things. They were like ants going to a picnic because of their sheer numbers and they seemed to be endless and the metaphor is ironic because they are ants or at least giant ones that try to Cut you hence the name Cutters. They are not huggers thy are Cutters. Another metaphor is comparing the Cutters to the Soviet Union in ww2 because in ww2 the Soviet Union had 34 million soldiers serving one of the largest armies ever besides China which has the biggest and lots and lots of soldiers to fight someone with like 200 million soldiers. The Cutters has engaged the enemy just a few minutes prior and the small alliance scouts had fallen back with two of them being killed a rat and a spinner. The scouts had come back to Regalia and they told everyone that the Cutters were very close and less than a day away. The Regalians had also set Cutter traps which would slow them down but not enough the only hope was If the Alliance could prepare fast enough. The battle unknown to the surface world would be one of the biggest ever on earth. The Underland would be unknown to the surface world for a while but when the surface found out about the surface world the reaction would not be a particularly good one but it would involve lots of killing which would bring an end to all of the Underlanders * Except the Rats* but it was like a race that had lived on the surface world discovering a new species of humans and that would be very weird and may lead to extermination or integration.

Regalia- In the Eve Of War

A young Soldier stood atop the Regalian Palace as part of the watch his name was Demetri and he was brave although he had been forced to join the army in the case of war before he was a farmer but he would had befriended the warrior a long time ago and Gregor still remembered him and they were friends.

Demetri had not seen Gregor yet but he planned to after all the madness had stopped because there were quite a few who if Gregor married Luxa those would respect her decision and he was on of those people. Anyway Demetri stood at the top of the watchtower with a telescope in his hand and he had not spotted the enemy YET. Elsewhere a very big bat is closing in on Regalia.

Ares was close to Regalia he could tell. He used his echo location which was guiding him back hopefully he would be there soon he was only two hours away and he was getting tired but he was hoping to not have to rest. Ares would continue on until he had to stop.

The Alliance troops had set up everything to defend the city. All of troops had made there camps on the grounds and some inside of the walls. The walls were some of the most important parts in the defense because if all failed than they could pour oil on the enemy look at what it got them last time they did that it got them nothing but a bunch of pissed of rats who were very nasty although most rats were very nasty although some were different because they were actually nice and they knew to act in a good enough way.

WormHole- The Furry spun throughout the wormhole that was apparently bringing them to earth a long time ago. The ship rocked back and forth and the ship could not stabilize them because them worm hole was very strong and it could beat the engines at full power so they slowed down and let the worm hole bring them where they were going. After a few hours the ship finally exited the worm hole and they floated in front of the earth that was a thousand years ago. The earth looked the same in most aspects except it did not have warships patrolling its borders and floating ships traveling through the stars.

The cutters were less than an hour away and they were mad. The alliance had tried to cut them off at a ridge but had failed although they managed to kill quite a few cutters which made the cutters who had no emotions very mad and it made them move even faster.

Gregor was training in the arena for the battle because he knew he needed it in the past few hours he had gotten better at swordsmanship but even with six years of not fighting with a sword he still retained quite a bit of skill that would make quite a few Regalian soldiers jealous because they could not even hope to be that good with the sword with ten more years of training but Gregro was good enough anyway when he had less than a day's worth of training in his entire life. His lifetime amount of training was about twenty hours that he had spent training with Ripred and the others in Regalia and they did not include actual battles and if it had than it would be 32 hours of fighting in his life. So he not fought much except when he had to take for example the Great War the war with the Rats.

But Gregor was a strong fighter and one of the key warriors in the regalia's defense.

The cutters were finally here. In the distance crowds of civilians who had been evacuated spotted cutters marching there way to the capital. The war horns blew twice to signal that the cutters had entered the city. The battle was about to begin and it would be very bloody for both sides.

Gregor heard the horns and immediately put on his black armor which they had resized for him and he was about to try and go to a bat when a very large black bat swooped down and offered its wings to Gregor. "Ares is that you!" Gregor said in shock as the bat looked a lot like his deceased friend Ares. "Yes overland I am Ares but we have no time to chat I just arrived to Regalia and I am tired but I can see that the city is in need of every soldier they can get so i must defend the city. Gregor looked around and saw that Ripred had already gone off to the battle. "Alright lets do this old friend" Ares squeaked something incomprehensible and flew off with Gregor on his back.

The Fury launched into earth's orbit where it stayed for a few minutes until the crew recovered. "Where… Where are we?" the crew muttered to themselves. On the main screen showed an earth that they had not known. "it's earth from the past" Helen told her crew. The crew muttered among themselves and stared at earth in awe and wondering how they got to the past from the future when time travel had not been possible in their future so how had they accomplished it? "i have a feeling that we are supposed to land on earth captain" Pablo said. "I do too" said Helen. The ship flew into the atmosphere and it landed in an open field but they did not have a smooth landing. The crew was trying to stretch out to calm their nerves when they heard helicopters and trucks. The FBI had shown up to the ship. "You are surrounded exit the UFO right now or we will shoot!" said the head FBI who was wearing a trench coat and sunglasses. the crew slowly exited not knowing what to do because if they hurt or killed someone it might seriously mess up the future. "Who are you people and who is your leader?" the FBI guy said. "we are from the Earth Republic and I am the leader my name is Helen Im assuming from this time period that you are the United States agency that was decommissioned in 2600 called the FBI?" "that's right and how do you know who we are" "I know my history" Helen responded. "what is this thing?" asked the FBI guy. "its a spaceship from the planet earth" "if its really a spaceship than it can ressist bullets open fire!" the FBI all shot at the spaceship and even shot a rocket at it but it appeared to do nothing. "Your weapons are so old that they have no effect on our spaceships"

Gregor flew over the battlefield and saw the cutters. "Ares can you bring me in close to get a few hits on those cutters?" "Of course overlander" Ares swooped down low and Gregor started hacking away at the cutters but for every cutter he killed one more replaced it because there seemed to be an infinite amount of the cutters no matter what he did. Ares returned to the palace where he found Luxa getting ready for the fight Gregor told her that "The cutters just keep coming i did a solo run by the way Ares is back and my run seemed to do absolutely nothing at all!" "Wait you said Ares is back?!" "Yea thats what I said he appeared and helped me onto his back and we flew off into the marching cutters!" "Wow how did he survive" Luxa asked him. "I don't know all i know is that we don't have any time to waste talking because the cutters will be here any minute"

-It was the dawn of the third age of mankind ten years after the earth minbari war- 10 points if you get that reference

Sorry it took so long to post this chapter but i have been busy as the school year has been ending i only have 3 weeks left and they are throwing all kinds of projects and tests on me before the year is over but i am not quitting on this story.