The Clock Tower

by Archive keeper

After a series of vivid visions of a world at war with itself, Elia and the rest of the 501st are transported to the MW universe where they have to fight to survive the invasion of America. They team up with Metal Team and the 141 in order to find a way home however nothing is as it seems as the fate of both worlds may be tied to the will of a single man re posted with permission

29. Chapter 29 The Day the World Ended

The Day the World Ended

Berlin Germany

Flying Officer Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen

19:05 local time

Red laser beams danced from the dozens of Neuroi that emerged from the breach in reality tearing apart men and machines on both sides. Eila watched as a Russian fighter jet turned to intercept the nearest super heavy Neuroi firing two missiles at the large creature; the missiles impacted into the Neuroi not even making a scratch on the creature's armored body. The Neuroi then fired a beam in retaliation at the Russian aircraft obliterating it in an instant. More Neuroi emerged from the breach this time big heavy bulky creatures that more resembled large zeppelins than anything else. The Neuroi zeppelins approached the ground disgorging hundreds of smaller ground type Neuroi into Berlin. Isabella still stared up at the Neuroi as they came and spoke again.

"My mission… I failed to stop this… I failed to prevent the extinction of mankind." She said with shock still in her voice.

"There is no time to think about that now just grab a weapon and start killing these assholes!" Eila shouted as she pulled the UMP off her back and cocked the charging handle; Isabella nodded and headed off to one of the tents to grab a weapon. Two Apaches flew overhead rocket pods blazing at some unseen Neuroi; an instant laser twin laser beams smacked into the first Apache causing the attack helicopter to explode into a brilliant fireball, the second Apache turned to the left its cannon swiveling to fire at the unseen Neuroi. Then another laser beam came from below blowing off the tail rotor of the helicopter sending the gunship spiraling towards the deck. Two supersonic Neuroi fighter bombers flew towards the FOB that Eila and the others were at firing their heavy laser into a forward position two hundred and fifty meters to the right of Eila, the soldiers manning the machine guns were vaporized in an instant leaving nothing but steaming air as the moister in the air was instantly boiled away. Two Flak tanks from the European Union fired at the Neuroi fighter bombers; powerful 35mm shells smacking into the black diamond like shapes diving towards them. The first Neuroi was struck by the stream of shells spiraled off course and crashed into the ground with enough force to shatter its core. The second Neuroi however returned fire destroying one of the Flak tanks before breaking off. Eila then felt something in her body, something that she hadn't felt since she got to this world. Eila's magic felt like it was back to full strength, which meant that she could augment her bullets with magic just like she could back in her world. Eila fired after the fleeing Neuroi one round striking the Neuroi in the right wing causing the aircraft to wobble but remain flying. More Neuroi fighter bombers headed towards their position firing lasers into the FOB killing dozens of fleeing soldiers. The Flak tank turned to fire at a flight of four fighter bombers, armor piercing high explosive shells smacked into the lead Neuroi shattering the aircraft's frame and core causing it to burst into white metallic shards. The remaining Neuroi fired at the AA vehicle causing it to erupt into a fireball. Just then Minna and the other witches followed by the men of Delta Force approached Eila.

"What the fuck are these things!" demanded Grinch to Minna. Minna looked to Grinch as she loaded her MK18 and spoke.

"These are the Neuroi they are the aliens that attacked our world." Minna informed him as she fired at a low flying Neuroi.

"What these things are the Neuroi? How the hell did they end up in this world then? Eila do you know anything about this?" Sandman asked her. Eila nodded her head.

"Yeah I saw a vision where Makarov did some kind of weird ritual. As soon as I woke up blood started raining from the sky and these metal fuckers started to appear." Eila explained to Sandman. Just then one of the American soldiers shouted.

"Incoming!" He shouted as a flight of two massive Neuroi started descending on their position, each one at an egg like body and two massive fifty five meter wingspans and a tail that was at least fifteen meters long, they resembled the Karlslander Me 323 Giant transport plane. Frost cocked his ACR and pointed it at the approaching Neuroi that fired two wing mounted laser ports obliterating a squad of soldiers in the open. The first one descended to ten meters and from the rear and sides of the creature dozens of Neuroi combat forms jumped down to the ground below. They were a type of Neuroi Eila had never seen before resembling some hideous half man, half spider hybrid with a blade arm and a arm that was clearly a laser port. Before the second Neuroi transport was able to descend a dozen missiles smacked into the top of the Neuroi. Eila turned to the direction where the missiles had come from to see three French Naval fighters led by that Dark Purple painted aircraft flown by that ace Frost mentioned before descending on the Neuroi. The purple painted fighter dove like a hawk on the stricken Neuroi firing its cannon into the now exposed core destroying the Neuroi. Eila then turned her attention to the Neuroi on the ground. Eila saw as a Neuroi infantry sliced a German soldier in half and fired its laser into another causing the unfortunate soldier to disappear in an explosion of steaming blood and gore. Eila aimed down her sights and fired a long burst into the Neuroi, her .45cal rounds smacking into its body tearing off white chunks of metal from its frame before its core was shattered and it exploded into white metallic shards. Gertrud growled in rage as she started to fire her G36C into the Neuroi in front of her.

"You bastards I am not going to let you take Berlin again!" She shouted as she fired her G36 into a Neuroi that had turned to face her. A single laser beam headed in her direction bouncing off her shield as she growled in rage. Shirley fired her M27 into two Neuroi that were advancing over a machinegun nest that they had cleared out.

"Get to cover!" Sandman shouted as they headed for the nearest sandbag emplacement firing into the Neuroi as they ran. Eila followed after them firing her UMP45 at the Neuroi. Eila saw a Neuroi tear off an American Soldier's head and give out a war cry as it held up the American's severed head as a grotesque trophy.

"These things are the Neuroi!?" Frost asked aloud to no one in particular. Then Shirley spoke.

"Yeah these are the things that we have been fighting back in our world for the last six years." Shirley replied to him as she fired another burst into a Neuroi fifty meters in front of her.

"You never told us they were like this!" Frost shouted to her as he fired his ACR into one of the Neuroi staggering it a bit.

"They weren't like this when we were in our world!" Shirley replied. Then a long burst from an LMG could be heard. Eila turned around to see Isabella wielding an LSAT firing into the Neuroi her familiar was out and she decked out in Kevlar over her BDU's. Frost looked to her and spoke.

"Wait you are a witch too Isabella!?" Frost shouted, she looked to him and spoke.

"No time to explain but yes I am a witch I always have been one. I will explain later for now just try not to get killed by the Neuroi!" She shouted back between bursts of fire. Frost pulled out a grenade and tossed it at a Neuroi. The powerful fragmentation grenade detonated at the Neuroi's feet blowing off several of its legs and tearing its body up as it flew through the air crashing into the ground. It started to regenerate its wounds and get back up.

"What how the hell do we kill these things!?" Frost shouted back to Minna who spoke.

"Aim for their cores it's the red jewel like object in their chests you have to expose it through gunfire first." Minna told him. Frost nodded and fired at the wounded Neuroi's exposed core. 6.8mm rounds smacked into the Neuroi's core shattering it along with the alien creature. Sanya then spoke to Eila as she fired her Mini-Uzi at the Neuroi.

"This is bad Eila if the Neuroi are in this world how can mankind possibly stand a chance against them?" She asked Eila who nodded.

"I don't know but we can't think about that right now we just need to survive." Eila said to the little Orussian witch who nodded. Just then two A-10 Thunderbolts flew over head firing two missiles a piece into the Neuroi destroying a handful of them. The A-10s turned to the east and began to turn around to make another pass when a Neuroi interceptor dove down on them firing its powerful antiaircraft laser into one of the powerful American tactical bombers sheering through the rear of the aircraft slicing off its tail and sending the stricken aircraft into the ground the Neuroi turned to the second A-10 to fire its laser at it when a Russian Mig-31 fighter jet shot its cannon at the Neuroi interceptor shredding the alien in a burst of 23mm cannon fire. The A-10 turned around and strafed the Neuroi infantry with its cannon destroying a handful of them in its path before turning to the west to return to base. Just then over the radio a voice spoke.

"This Colonel Marshal of the United States Army to all Allied Forces in Berlin announcing a general retreat from the city. I repeat all forces are to fall back to the nearest evac point to retreat from Berlin… Germany is lost I repeat Germany is lost all forces are to fall back to Ramstein Air base where they will be given new orders." The American officer said to Eila. Gertrud swore.

"What we are going to retreat? Isn't there something we can do to repel these bastards!?" She shouted. Eila saw more Neuroi pouring out of the breach in reality descending on Berlin. Then Erica spoke.

"We have to think about that later there is nothing we can do now! Look at how many of them there are! I have never seen so many Neuroi in one place before!" Erica said to Gertrud who growled in disapproval.

"She is right we have to find a way to pull back there is nothing we can do without our striker units." Minna replied to Gertrud who swore in Karlslandic.

"Damn it I don't care I would fight these Neuroi with my bare hands if I had to." Gertrud replied to Minna then Shirley spoke.

"That would be suicidal Trudy we have to fall back for now we can retake this city from them later." Shirley said to Gertrud who swore then nodded in agreement.

"Either way we are going to have to hold out until some evac choppers get here so lock and load it's going to be a long fight!" Grinch said as he fired his MK14 into some Neuroi. Eila grimaced even though she couldn't see far into the future Eila felt that for some reason this war against the Neuroi in this world is going to a long and bloody one even if there are more witches in this world like Isabella.

Berlin Germany

Private First Class Carmen Ramirez

19:21 local time

What the fuck was the matter with these people? Carmen thought as bullets smacked into the piece of fallen masonry she was hiding behind. Even as blood rained from the sky and fucking space aliens or demons or whatever started attacking everyone in sight these asshole Russians still decided they wanted to shoot at her. Two Russians armed with flamethrowers advanced on their position covered by a squad of ten Russian paratroopers with automatic weapons. Allen Ricther fired his SAW at the Russian sappers with flamethrowers. The barrel of his M249's barrel glowed red as he tried to keep their heads down. An instant later a bullet smacked into Allen's left shoulder causing him to curse and fall back. Carmen went to check on him. The bullet had penetrated his vest but not done any real damage.

"Get up you will be fine Allen." Carmen said to the Marine SAW gunner.

"Fuck my shoulder…grr…" he said as he tried to pick up his M249 but dropped it due to the weight on his arm. Carmen then thrust her M16 into his hand and spoke.

"Fine you pussy I will take the SAW. Do you think your candy ass will be able to handle my M16?" Carmen demanded of Allen who nodded and rested the rifle in the crook of his injured arm while he aimed and fired with his right arm. Carmen checked the ammo on the SAW and leaned out from cover to fire at the Russians approaching their position. Suddenly a jet black female figure jumped down right behind the Russians with the flamethrowers. The Russians looked behind them just in time to see the alien figure swing both its swords at their heads decapitating them instantly. Carmen then looked to the remaining Russians who looked at her, then looked at the alien. Carmen looked into the glowing red eyes of the alien warrior who let out a battle screech so loud it nearly deafened Carmen. Both the Russians and the Americans wordlessly called a truce and opened fire at the alien bullets tearing into its body as it tried to advance upon Carmen and her squad. Carmen dumped fifty rounds from her SAW into it as white metallic chunks fell off its body before it exploded. Carmen then looked to the Russians who nodded and turned tail to fall back to their own lines. Carmen then looked to Sergeant Rooker who spoke.

"We need to pull back to the evac point. These alien bastards are knocking are birds out of the sky left and right if we don't get a move on we are going to get left behind." Sergeant Rooker told them. Richter then spoke.

"Do we have any idea what we are going to be doing about these aliens sarge?" Ricther asked Rooker who shook his head.

"No clue we will figure it out along the way, come on." He said as he headed down the street. Carmen and Allen followed after Sergeant Rooker scanning the buildings for any more ambushes. Carmen saw as a USAF F-15 was shot out of the sky by a fast moving alien fighter craft; there was no chute the pilot was probably killed instantly. A few Havocs flew nearby with their cannons blazing covering Russians soldiers as they retreated; laser fire answered their cannon fire striking the rotor of one of the Havocs blowing up the engines and igniting the fuel. Carmen watched as some tall black four legged vehicle with a cannon mounted underneath marched across the intersection one hundred meters away stopping momentarily to fire its laser at an unseen target before advancing again.

"Holy fuck it is like War of The Worlds or something down here." Carmen said to no one in particular as they continued forward. They reached the intersection and turned left to head towards the evac point. Further down the street they saw EU troops getting cut to pieces by some alien infantry, Carmen raised her SAW but Rooker slapped the barrel down.

"There is nothing we can do for them." Rooker told her which Carmen growled in disapproval. It was bullshit that they were going to leave those EU troops to their fates. It shouldn't be every man for themselves out here. They reached another intersection and turned right heading down the street when a T-90 burst out from some of the rubble to their left and turned its cannon to face them.

"Oh shi-!" Carmen was about to say when a bright red laser beam smacked into the tank destroying it in a massive explosion. That same type of four legged walker as before stomped out of the smoke ten meters away and aimed its gun at them and charged up for another shot. Carmen knowing that there was no escape fired into the alien walker with her SAW 5.56mm rounds bouncing off its body. The walker charged its cannon when one of its legs blew off and it fell to the ground as a T-90 rounded the corner. The alien started to grow back its leg and turned to face the T-90 as it fired another round into the creature this time impacting center mass destroying the creature it a burst of white metallic fragments. Carmen and the others ran off the street using the rubble as cover as they tried to avoid having their savior notice them and decide that they were legitimate targets. They ducked through the blown out back of a store and onto another street where they saw two BTRs and a T-72 along with a platoon of Russian infantry firing at some creature that was charging at them. The creature was five to six meters tall with two arms, one clutching a massive sword that was weighted at the tip while the other was a massive crab like claw. The creature's head had a massive axe like crest on it and a pair of four glowing red eyes. The creature had a turtle like shell on its back and finally a long club like tail. As the creature charged down the street a sabot from the T-72 smacked into the creature bouncing off like it was some puny rubber ball not even causing the creature to flinch. The creature surged forwarded smacking one of the BTR aside with enough force to send it flying several meters through the air and into some buildings. The creature fired a laser out of its crab like claw destroying the T-72, and then it used its sword to skewer the remaining BTR. The Russian soldiers fired into the creature to no effect. The creature used its tail to strike four of the Russians into pulp and slash another five up with a single swing of its sword. It then grabbed a Russian officer with its claw and lifted him towards its shark like maw biting the Russian in half. It then looked directly at a dumb struck Carmen. It let out a roar so loud that it knocked down the Russians that were closest to it, their ear drums bursting with the noise. The creature started to charge after them. "Oh hell no!" Carmen shouted as she turned and started to run along with the other two members of her squad. The thundering footsteps of the creature closed in on them as they ran. They turned the corner and sprinted down the street as the creature slid past the intersection as its momentum carried it forward it turned to follow after them when two Hellfire missiles struck its body loaded with thermo-baric warheads the creature turned to face the Apaches that shot it firing its lasers at them. Just then a UH-60 landed fifteen meters away from them. The gunner on the helicopter urged them forward so they tapped into their last reserves of energy and sprinted towards the chopper. Carmen jumped into the troop compartment of the helicopter which lifted off and turned to the west to get them out of the city. Carmen looked to see the strange creature that had chased them, it was completely unharmed by the multiple hits from the Apaches and it still fired at the small swarm of attack helicopters shooting at the gunships bringing two of them down with two consecutive blasts of laser fire. Carmen looked up at that tear in the sky to see more giant alien aircraft pouring from the hole in the sky. She didn't entirely understand what was going on but she knew that whatever happened that the war with these aliens was going to be a long and bloody war, but the USMC was the toughest soldiers in the world and they would be damned before some alien bastards walked in here and decided to make this world their own.

Skies over Belgica

Commander Geena Preddy

11:11 local time

"Carla watch my six!" Geena shouted as she dove down on one of the Neuroi super heavy fliers that were ravaging the ground troops below. Gallian and Liberion troops returned fire with their flak cannons and AA guns as it flew overhead.

"Roger that Ma'am!" Carla said as she fired at one of the other Neuroi units that had engaged the human forces in the field. Geena fired at the wounded super heavy with her M2 sending a steady stream of .50cal rounds into the creature. High explosive magically augmented rounds struck into the creature blowing off chunks of metal from its body exposing the core of the creature to her fire. Geena concentrated her fire at the core of the Neuroi sending a ten round burst into the core destroying it and raining metal fragments onto the ground below. Six more Super Heavy Neuroi remained on the field. In all of her years on the frontlines she had never seen the Neuroi deploy this many Super Heavies to one battlefield they had shot down five already but still more were there to press the attack against the human defenders. Witches from both units in the 506th and the 43rd Reserve Witch Squadron dueled with the Neuroi firing everything they had against the Neuroi, even Rosalie was in the field a rarity under any circumstances. Geena looked to the 43rd's leader Captain Natalia Staglovich a night ace from Orussia as she led her girls into battle wielding a powerful 23mm automatic cannon that spewed out high explosive shells at the nearest Neuroi. The other witches of the 58th rallied behind her to cover her as she flew through the enemy ranks destroying one of the Neuroi and damaging the other. Heinrike finished off the damaged Neuroi. Geena looked at the ground troops below and frowned. When they arrived on station there were six hundred soldiers now there was maybe a few dozen at most. Heinrike flew up next to Geena.

"What is the matter Liberion are you out of ammo?" Heinrike asked. Geena shook her head and looked to Heinrike and spoke.

"No that is not it I just haven't seen this many Neuroi of this class before on the field at once." Geena explained. Heinrike nodded her head.

"Yes this is unusual I have only seen them deploy this many units at once when they were launching a major offensive against us." Heinrike replied. Just then Jennifer DeBlanc flew up beside them.

"Commander I got word over the radio the Neuroi are hitting multiple locations across the entire front it looks like they are making another push to kick us back to Britannia." Jennifer explained. Geena frowned ever since the 501st vanished the Neuroi seemed to be pressing their attack against humanity in Europe and in the Pacific, at the rate the war was going now humanity would eventually lose because of the attrition that the Neuroi would inflict upon us. Geena thought to herself. She was about to reply to Jennifer when suddenly the Neuroi teleported away. Geena had seen the Neuroi use teleportation before but never ones so big or ones that were winning a fight it was completely against their MO. Rosalie then spoke over the radio.

"All units form up on me." She simply stated. Geena started to head over to Rosalie who was hovering in her striker sweeping her gun side to side looking for any Neuroi. Rosalie then looked to the other witches and spoke. "So does anyone have any idea what happened?" Rosalie asked no one in particular.

"Oh they went to you know grab a couple of beers and maybe a few burgers because you know I keep an open mike with them and I talk to the Neuroi all the time." Marian replied with her usual level of sarcasm.

"Marian you are not helping." Geena simply replied. Then Adriana spoke.

"I don't think any of us would have any idea why the Neuroi would simply flee the field like they did it makes no sense." Adriana replied to Rosalie who nodded her head. just then a loud bang erupted from behind Geena she looked behind her to see a large fifteen meter across five meter high portal about two kilometers in front of her. On the other side of the portal she saw grey skies and what looked to be a city that was on fire.

"What the fuck is that?" Marian asked to no one in particular.

"I have no idea." Kunika replied to Marian. Then Geena heard from behind her a scream; one so loud that it sounded as if millions of people screaming in agony at once. She turned around to see cresting the horizon a large blood red wave of energy approaching her. the wave of energy close the distance to them consuming everything in its path destroying buildings, trees and anyone unfortunate enough to be caught in the wave.

"Shit head for that portal!" Rosalie shouted to all of the assembled witches who turned and firewalled their strikers towards the portal. They closed the distance Geena looked back to see that the wave had caught up to them one of the witches from the 43rd was swallowed up by the wave and simply disappeared. More witches that were caught in the wave vanished as it closed in on them. Geena swore that she saw in the wave spectral figures screaming in pain flickering as it closed in on her. Geena and the other witches of the 506th crossed through the portal Geena looked back to see two of the witches from the 43rd were alive trying to cross through the portal. One of the witches was Natalia while she didn't know who the other witch was. The witch who she didn't know crossed through the portal and just as Natalia was about to cross through the portal a black ghostly hand grabbed her and dragged her into the wave, when Natalia's body touched the wave first her skin blew off then she was stripped down to the bone and then her bones turned to ash just as the portal closed. The sole surviving witch from the 43rd screamed in horror at what she had witnessed. Everyone in the 506th was in too much shock to say anything at the moment they were all to petrified to say a word. They looked below them and saw the city they were flying over. Most of the buildings had been destroyed and Neuroi were everywhere attacking any humans they saw. Geena looked around to see a kilometer away a small outpost where strange aircraft lifted off from and headed west away from the city. Geena looked to the other witches and spoke.

"Come on we have to figure out what the hell is going on here." Geena said as she headed towards the base. She saw strange looking soldiers in grey camouflaged uniforms fighting off Neuroi infantry that were closing in on them. Geena raised her M2 and put a Neuroi in her sights and fired a five round burst smacking into the Neuroi killing it. The other members of the Noble Witches opened fire on the Neuroi infantry bullets and shells of every different caliber struck into the handful of remaining Neuroi cutting the metal aliens down in a hailstorm of lead. Geena looked around at all of the strange grey clad soldiers that were now staring up at them.

"Huh you would think that they had never seen a witch before." Kunika said to no one in particular. Then Geena noticed a young red haired woman and recognized her instantly. Geena flew down and spoke to her.

"Commander Minna? Minna Dietlinde Wilcke?" Geena asked Commander Minna who nodded her head.

"That would be me who are you, and how did you get here?" Minna asked her.

"I am Commander Geena Preddy of the 506th Noble Witches. My unit and I came through a portal that seemed to open up near our location. We were fleeing some strange red wave of Neuroi energy that was destroying everything in its path." Geena explained. She looked around at the members of the 501st only six of the members were here. "Is this all that is left of the 501st?" Geena asked Minna who shook her head.

"Negative the other remaining members along with Hanna Marseille are with the Task Force 141 Alpha Unit somewhere in the Atlantic ocean." Minna informed her. Geena's eyes lit up. Tina was alive! The woman that meant so much to her was still amongst the living.

"Hanna is alive!" Geena said ecstatically then Heinrike spoke.

"You can go arrange a get together with your girlfriend later right now we have Neuroi to kill Liberion come on!" Heinrike said with some level of annoyance in her voice. Geena nodded her head and looked to Heinrike.

"Understood." She simply stated then she looked back to Minna and spoke.

"Do you have your striker units?" Geena asked Minna who shook her head.

"No we lost them when we arrived in this world. It appears to be a parallel version of our own world with different countries and a different history. When we got here we landed in a country called America that seems to be basically the same as Liberion but with a slightly different history. They are in the middle of a war with a nation called Russia and a man named Makarov who pitted these two countries against each other… I will explain it to you later right now our orders are to evacuate from the frontlines and pull back to a safe location to reassess the situation." Minna informed Geena. Then a soldier wearing a black mask spoke.

"Wait… Hanna has a girlfriend?" he asked nervously Minna looked back to him.

"You can worry about that later Frost right now we have to focus on protecting this evac site." Minna told the soldier named Frost. Geena then spoke.

"We will cover your retreat from the Neuroi I will send one of us with you to protect your aircraft." Geena said to Minna before turning to the young blonde Karlsland witch from the 43rd. "What is your name?" Geena asked softly to the clearly frightened young girl.

"My name is… Sergeant Lea Drescher." Lea replied to Geena who nodded her head.

"Alright Lea I need you to follow after these aircraft. Protect them from the Neuroi do you understand?" Geena said to Lea who nodded.

"Commander Preddy, follow the last flight of choppers back to Ramstein we will regroup and reassess the situation from there." Minna told Geena who nodded.

"Understood we will see you soon." Geena said to Minna as she turned away and cocked her M2. She turned to face the Neuroi that were attacking both human armies and charged out after them with a fire in her heart knowing that one of the most important people in her life was still alive.

504th's base Romagna

Junior Sergeant Darya Abakumova

11:31 local time

"Come on move it people!" Lieutenant Marwick shouted to the assembled Tame Witches as well as the mundane ground personnel. Darya stared in horror at the red wave of energy storming towards them moving at well over a thousand kilometers an hour. The wave of energy seemed to extend out in every direction as far as the eye could see and Darya saw in the distance as a city was utterly obliterated by the wave. Right now the Tame Witches were trying to get as many people into a portal that had opened up at ground level as possible; currently they had gotten about sixty percent of the Base personnel into the portal. Darya looked to her lover Jenna Foster and spoke.

"Jenna what… what is that?" Darya asked nervously to Jenna who stared at the oncoming title wave of malice heading towards them screaming like the damned.

"I don't know, but I don't want to be anywhere near that thing when it gets here." Jenna replied to Darya as the wave got closer. At the rate that it was going the wave of energy would be at their location in a matter of minutes.

"Jenna I am scared." Darya confessed to her girlfriend who nodded her head in agreement.

"Yeah me too." Jenna told her simply as she watched the last of the base personnel go through the portal. Then Clotilda spoke to everyone.

"Alright that is the last of them people. I don't know about you ladies but I don't want any part of whatever the hell that wave is. So follow me through the portal and we will just have to hope it doesn't end up taking us to the Neuroi's home world or something. For all we know this thing might take us to the world that Lilia is from so we should be safe there." Clotilda explained to her girls. Darya looked over to Jenna who smiled at her.

"Don't worry if it is Lilia's world I will protect you from any bad people over there I promise you." Jenna said to Darya who nodded her head.

"Thank you my Liberion Flame." Darya simply stated; she then pulled back the charging handle of her auto-cannon and revved her striker engine. She then started to fly towards the portal seeing on the other side of it some type of neighborhood where some of the other base personnel were crowded around. Darya flew through the portal along with the other girls. Darya looked around and instantly heard screaming, gunfire and explosions. Everywhere she looked the neighborhood was in flames one hundred meters away she saw Turtle class Neuroi firing its laser indiscriminately into houses further down the street she saw a handful of civilians fleeing from Neuroi getting cut down by beams of bright red laser fire. Darya heard police sirens and the sound of a propeller driven aircraft approaching. A Liberion P-51D flew overhead with all six machine guns blazing at one of the Turtles staggering the creature a bit before it continued to fire at the civilians. A single laser beam fired up at the Mustang and tore off its wing causing it to spiral to the ground.

"LT, what do we do?" Olivia asked Clotilda who cocked her machine gun.

"I don't know where the fuck we are but there are Neuroi here and they are killing civilians; and we are witches and that means that we are going to go and these people and route these alien motherfuckers. All Tame Witches engage the Neuroi at will; protect the non combatants!" Clotilda shouted as she gained altitude in her P-51 striker, Darya did the same with her Yak-3; below the Orussian witch the various tank witches fanned out and started to comb through the neighborhood to see if there were any civilians they could rescue and if they could find a position to engage the Neuroi.

"Darya watch my six I am going to engage the Neuroi Turtles at two o'clock low." Ludwiga Krupke state as she dove down firing her MG15 at a Neuroi turtle firing its laser into a two story home completely obliterating it and any unfortunate soul left inside. Ludwiga fired her MG15 heavy rounds impacting into the Neuroi shredding the lightly armored top before exposing the core to machine gunfire. Ludwiga then concentrated the ether in the air around the Neuroi and shouted. "DETONATE!" Ludwiga shouted causing the raw ether in the air around the Neuroi's core to explode violently shattering the Neuroi core and sending a shockwave across the ground knocking two infantry class Neuroi to the ground. Darya thought to herself for a moment Ludwiga might have been the daughter of General Ekkard Krupke but she was nothing like her bastard of a father; Ludwiga was honorable and a competent leader, the complete polar opposite of her bastard of a father. Darya shook herself of these thoughts and started to dive down. She fired her 20mm cannon at a Neuroi light walker the same type of four legged spider like Neuroi that they had encountered back in Gallia on that horrible day. 20mm APHE shells slammed into the Neuroi light walker ripping open its armor and shredding its core in a series of concussive detonations. Darya then flew low firing her cannon at two Neuroi infantry on the ground that fired up at her their lasers bouncing off of her shields. Darya fired a four round burst into the first Neuroi; the first shell ripped off its four left legs, the second shell shredded its blade arm, the third shell blew off its head and the fourth shell shattered its core. Darya then used her magic and froze the air near the second Neuroi infantrymen and sent spike of ice through its body shredding its frame and core in an instant. Darya then took a sharp left turn down the block and saw a Turtle firing its laser at a group of fleeing civilians turning them into nothing but ash and steaming air.

"You bastard I will kill you!" Darya shouted as she fired a long burst from her auto-cannon. The thunderous thumping cannon spat fifteen shells into the back of the Neuroi walker blowing off its rear legs and shattering the back and rear of the walker exposing the core. Darya fired another burst from her cannon shredding the exposed core causing the Neuroi to burst into white metallic shards. She then scanned the street spotting some cowering civilians behind an overturned car. Darya flew over to them; a young man looked up at her and spoke.

"Who… or what are you?" he asked her.

"I am a witch from the 78th Tame Witches; Junior Sergeant Darya Abakumova and I need you to get to safety these Neuroi will kill you if they spot you." Darya told the young man who nodded his head and gestured for the others to follow. He sounded like his accent was from Liberion, did that mean that she had ended up in America?

"Come on let's find a basement that we can hide in." He told them as they followed after him. Darya then turned to look down the street seeing a large black truck spot at the end of it with the word POLICE on it. Several black clad men poured out of the rear each one wielding what looked like some kind of futuristic rifle or SMG. Ludwiga descended next to Darya and spoke.

"Come on Sergeant let's see if we can get some answers." Ludwiga said as she started to fly towards the "Police" officers. Darya followed after her hoping that these men wouldn't think of her as an enemy. Darya and Ludwiga flew up near the police officers who starred up at them in confusion. "Officer my name is Lieutenant Ludwiga Krupke of the 78th Tame Witches. I need to know where we are and what is the situation." Ludwiga explained to the police officer who looked more like a soldier with the words police written on his uniform then he did an actual police officer.

"I am Sergeant North of the Philadelphia Police Department's Special Weapons and Tactics group. We got a call from dozens of sources that some unknown unit of hostile forces was attacking the city. My unit was deployed to this area to see what assistance we can provide. The National Guard is twenty minutes out but they will provide helicopter and armor support when they get here." Sergeant North explained to Ludwiga. "Who and what are you and do you have any idea what these metal things are? And more importantly what the hell is going on we saw a P-51 get downed by a fucking laser beam before we got here. Those things haven't been flown by the Air Force for the last sixty years!" North exclaimed to Ludwiga.

"As I said before I am Ludwiga Krupke of the 78th Tame Witches. We are a witch squadron currently operating out of Romagna we have no idea though how we ended up here. The enemy that is attacking us are called the Neuroi. If you don't mind me asking this country is called America isn't it?" Ludwiga asked the Sergeant who nodded his head. "Figures we would end up in her world… we will provide assistance just stay down and don't let their lasers hit you they will turn you to ash if they so much as graze you." Ludwiga explained to Sergeant North who nodded and looked to his men.

"Roger that we will do what we can against these things but I am not sure we have the firepower to take these things out." Sergeant North said to Ludwiga before looking to his men. "Move out Alpha Team!" He shouted as his men fanned out to look for civilians to rescue. Shit her worst fears were confirmed. Darya was in America; she didn't know what was going to happen next for her. If these people found out that she was an Orussian would they think of her the same way they thought of the Russians? Would they just see her as an enemy to kill? Well now was not the time to worry about this she had more civilians that she needed to rescue. Darya looked to Ludwiga and spoke.

"What do we do now Lieutenant?" Darya asked the Karlslander who frowned and straightened her cap.

"We do what we have been doing; killing these metal bastards. We can worry about how we got to this world and if we will be able to get back to our own world later for now we have people to say and aliens to kill come on." Ludwiga said as she reloaded her MG15 and flew down the street. Darya whimpered at the thought of being stuck in this world and followed after her Lieutenant. Just then she saw a few blocks away a strange looking Turtle class Neuroi. Instead of a cannon under its body it had a strange set of vertical tubes mounted on its back. Just then a stream of rockets shot out from those tubes trailing a strange green gas that looked similar to Miasma but was different somehow. The rockets landed in multiple locations across the neighborhood nearby spreading a large cloud of gas everywhere. Darya looked to Ludwiga who nodded and spoke. "Whatever that is it looks important; so we are going to kill it come on." Ludwiga said to Darya who nodded and followed after Ludwiga. Darya fired her auto-cannon at the Neuroi creature her shells impacting its body staggering the creature. Ludwiga shouted. "DETONATE!" sending an explosion of raw ether around the creature blowing off its legs and exposing its core to Darya who fired at it with her cannon shattering its core. Darya then looked around and saw the cloud of gas a few hundred meters away. Darya saw in the gas about a dozen or more people lying on the ground motionless killed by the gas. Then they started to stir and get up their eyes glowing bright red. Their forearms burst and their lower jaw fell off and in their place they grew Neuroified claws and a maw of shark like teeth. The creatures let out a demonic howl and ran off before Darya could react. Darya trembled in terror at what she saw.

"Comrade Lieutenant… what… what were those things?" Darya fearfully inquired. Ludwiga was silent for a moment.

"I don't know but they are heading straight for our ground team." Ludwiga replied much to Darya's horror. All that was going through Darya's mind at that point was about Jenna and that she was about to face whatever those horrific monsters that use to be people are.

Philadelphia USA

Sergeant Erzsi Kalmar

14:36 local time

"Two Turtles ten o'clock!" Shouted Helene as two Turtle Class Neuroi stomped out of the smoke and rubble firing their lasers as they went. Erzsi raised her shield as a laser beam impacted the shield. Erzsi then fired her 40mm cannon in retaliation a round impacting center mass blowing a hole large enough to stick you head through in the Neuroi. Erzsi fired a second time this time the force of the blow tore through the already compromised armor and shattered the core. Jenna used her Firefly's cannon to send a high velocity shell into the Neuroi first piercing the armor then exploding in a giant fireball. The Neuroi screeched in pain as its core was set alight by the fireball eventually shattering the Neuroi's body sending it to the ground in a pile of white shards. Jenna then looked to Erzsi and spoke.

"Is there anyone you can heal Erzsi?" Asked the Liberion tank witch. Erzsi shook her head; there was nothing but splatters of blood and body parts where the civilians were killed by the Neuroi. Even as a witched gifted in the arts of healing magic the young fourteen year old Ostmarkian medic couldn't bring the dead back to life.

"No there are no survivors here." Erzsi said solemnly. It was bullshit what the Neuroi were doing; slaughtering innocent civilians like this, it was like the evacuation of central Europe all over again. Erzsi shuttered at the memory of the Oder Neisse defense line shattering in the early days of the war. Hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered by the Neuroi as they broke through the hastily made defensive line and poured into Karlsland and Ostmark killing everything and everyone in their path… including Erzsi's home town. However now was not the time to dwell on the past she still might be able to save some people here in this place where ever the hell they are now.

"Ok Sydney and Valerie I want you and Noji to fan out to the west see if you can save any civilians and kill any of those walking talking scrap heaps as you can." Jenna said to the two young Faraway Landers and the Fusoan tank witch.

"Understood." Noji simply stated as she and the Radley sisters drove off to the left in search of any survivors.

"Helene and Erin I need you two to head towards the east same mission parameters search for survivors and take out any Neuroi you can." Jenna said to the two other tank witches who confirmed the orders and track dashed away. Jenna then looked to Olivia and Erzsi. "Alright you two we are going to move out to the North see if we can do the same. I need you two to keep your heads on a swivel alright?" The older Liberion witch said to them. Olivia growled and had her Frenzy ability activated giving the usually cute Liberion Marine a rather feral look on her face.

"No problem I am going to kill all of these metal fuckers as I can." She said as she cocked her M2 for extra emphasis. Erzsi nodded her head and spoke.

"Yeah I am ready for this lets go kick some Neuroi ass and save as many people as we can Jenna." The young medic said to Jenna as she adjusted the strap on her helmet that she had around her neck. If things kept getting more intense she was actually going to have to put the helmet on and deal with the fact that it made her familiar's ears rather uncomfortable. Erzsi then followed after Jenna as she track dashed away. "Hey Jenna doesn't this city look a little Familiar to you?" Erzsi asked as she looked at the tall building in the backdrop of the city; they might be in a small suburb but it was definitely part of a larger city that Erzsi felt that she should remember what this city is but for the life of her she couldn't. Plus with all of these strange looking cars around that seemed more advanced than anything from the 1940s should be it through the young witch off. Jenna looked back to Erzsi and spoke.

"Yeah I am pretty sure this is Philadelphia." Jenna simply replied as she moved forward with her cannon at the ready.

"Wait so this is your home town then!?" Erzsi asked Jenna who nodded wordlessly. Erzsi frowned if this was her home town that meant two things one the Neuroi had made landfall in the Western Hemisphere and two they were attacking Jenna's home town just like they did to Erzsi's all of those years ago. Erzsi scowled she was not about to let these alien bastards destroy someone else's home town. Further down the street she saw a barricade where ten black clad men in combat uniforms with the words "POLICE" written on them were fighting a Neuroi light walker that was advancing on them. A laser beam struck one of the police officers causing him to explode into an eruption of blood and body parts spray his comrades with boiling blood causing two to fall to the ground screaming in pain. Jenna and Olivia turned towards the police officers and started to fire their weapons sending a combination of tank shells and high caliber rounds down range at the alien light walker. A shell struck the right side of the Neuroi blowing off its legs and bullets smacked into the Neuroi causing it to stagger back and cease its advance. Erzsi dashed towards the police officers firing her cannon at the Neuroi blowing a large chunk of metal off its body revealing its core to Olivia who finished it off with a short burst of .50cal fire. Erzsi rolled up to one of the wounded police officers and knelt down. "Here let me help you I am a combat medic." Erzsi said to the officer who was dressed in what seemed more like a military uniform than a standard cop uniform. He was wearing some kind of heavy vest and a black mask on his face he had a helmet on his head and his eyes were covered by some kind of tactical goggles. Erzsi started to heal his burn wounds as Jenna rolled up to the leader of the police unit.

"Thanks for the save ladies I don't know who you are or what a witch is but you saved or asses. We talked to your leader Lieutenant Krupke she says you Tame Witches are here to help us right?" the police sergeant asked Jenna who nodded her head. Erzsi finished healing the wounded police officers wounds and went to the next officer and began to work on him as well.

"Yeah we are here to clear out any remaining Neuroi in the area that are attacking the city is there any specific area that you can see that they are concentrated in?" Jenna asked the police leader who shook his head.

"No I don't know if there is any area they are concentrated in. However we weren't the only SWAT team sent to this neighborhood though. Another team along with a few patrol cars was sent a few blocks over. We lost contact with them and we don't have the numbers or the firepower to get to their location. If you can please do see if you can reach their location to provide assistance to them as needed." The police officer explained to them. Jenna nodded her head and spoke.

"Understood we will head out and see what we can do. Erzsi you almost finished?" Jenna asked Erzsi who nodded her head as she finished with the last burn wound on the police officer who spoke to her.

"Thank I feel better its like I never got burned." He exclaimed to her. Erzsi smiled to him and spoke.

"No problem that is what healing magic can do." Erzsi replied.

"Healing magic?" He asked her. Erzsi patted him on his helmet and spoke.

"Don't worry soldier you will be fine." She told him before looking to Jenna. "Yeah I am ready to go, let's move out." She told the Liberion Master Sergeant who nodded her head and spoke.

"Alright let's move out." She said as she started to track dash towards the second SWAT team's location. Erzsi followed after Jenna scanning the way for targets. So this was America, the nation that one woman Lilia was from eh? It seems so much like Liberion it is really rather eerie. Either way there was no time to think about that now. They dashed across the neighborhood observing the destroyed homes and shredded bodies. The Neuroi had made sure that they killed everyone they saw; it didn't matter if they were a man, woman or a child they were all targets to the Neuroi. It made Erzsi sick to her stomach. She followed after Jenna and Olivia and turned a corner where they stopped cold. Several burning patrol cars along with an overturned Police Van littered to the way smoke obscuring the Tame Witches vision for the next thirty meters. around the burning police cars were bodies, pieces of bodies, bodies that looked like they had been half eaten by some rabid animal… bodies of people who looked like they died screaming. Then from the smoke emerged a humanoid figure. It was two and a half meters tall its body looked almost like it was organic yet metallic at the same time. Its torso looked heavily muscled and its hands ended in sharp, thick nails that reminded her of those of a tiger's. The creature's forehead seemed to be protected by a thick metal plate that seemed to cover its eyes and nose if it had them; the only visible feature on the creature's head was its perpetually exposed flat and sharp looking teeth that seemed to be in a perpetual grin. Its body was covered in blood and gore and in its left hand it dragged the severed upper torso of a police officer it had killed. The officer's organs spilling out and dragging behind him as the creature dragged him along. Erzsi and the other Tame Witches stared at horror at this creature as it looked upon them. Then from the smoke more humanoid figures emerged from the thick grey smoke. These ones looked completely human with the exception of the shark like maw of teeth where their mouths should be and the sharp claws where their hands use to be. Each one of these half human half Neuroi things had glowing red eyes and they stared at the witches. Then the creature that was carrying the dead police officer used its right hand to point to the tame witches and opened its mouth

"Kill" it spoke in perfect English. The human/Neuroi hybrids let out a demonic animalistic howl and charged at them.

"Kill them!" Jenna shouted as she opened fire sending a heavy tank shell straight through one of the human/Neuroi creatures causing the person to turn into an explosion of gore as its torso expanded to accommodate the shell that passed through its body. Erzsi fired one of her shells blowing one of the creatures in half sending the upper torso flying up into the air; then to her horror the upper torso started to crawl its way towards her howling in rage while it did so. Erzsi fired again obliterating the creature's body. Olivia cut down two of the creatures with her machine gun and dogged to the left as another one lunged at her. Erzsi fired her 40mm cannon at the creature sending a high explosive shell through its head killing it. Then Erzsi turned to face the Neuroi that spoke to them just in enough time to see the severed torso of the police officer flying towards her; before Erzsi could raise her shield the body smacked into her sending her to the ground. Erzsi yelped as she tried to move the corpse of this fallen police officer off her body. Another one of the former humans ran towards her only to be cut down by Olivia as it jumped into the air to pounce on Erzsi. Then Erzsi saw the creature that led these monsters charge towards Olivia who raised her shield just in enough time to block a strike from the creature's claws that hit Olivia with enough force to send her flying backwards howling in a combination of surprise and pain as she smacked into the ground a good five or so meter away. Jenna fired her cannon into the creature's back which blew a hole straight through the monstrous figure and much to Jenna's surprise caused an explosion of gore and red blood to spill out of the creature's body then to her horror the creature regenerated the wound the red blood spilling back into the Neuroi's form and the metallic shell regenerating itself. The creature turned around and charged towards Jenna who raised her shield just in time, the creature closed the distance in an instant and punted the Liberion witch sending her flying back. Erzsi just then managed to free herself and sat up and fired her cannon sending a shell through the creature's arm blowing it off; only for a few seconds' later tendrils of sinew and muscle to reach out and grab a hold on the severed arm and reattach it to the creature's body. How the fuck could they kill this thing if it kept regenerating wounds where could its core be if it wasn't in the chest like the other Neuroi creatures? Erzsi thought to herself then she had a moment of realization and stood up. Erzsi held her cannon one handed and stuck her left hand gesturing for the creature to attack her.

"Come on you fucking abomination come and get me." Erzsi said to it. The creature roared and charged at her and Erzsi let out a battle cry and charged the creature with her striker. The Creature pulled back its right arm to slash at her when Erzsi closed the distance and the creature began to swing its claws Erzsi dashed to the left avoiding the claws while shoving her cannon under the creature's chin and pulled the trigger causing an explosion of blood, brain matter and metallic Neuroi fragments to shoot out from the creature's skull. The being's metallic covering shattered and the organic body parts exploded sending blood and shredded skin everywhere covering Erzsi much to her disgust and horror. Erzsi then dashed over to Jenna and helped her to her feet. "Are you alright Jenna?" Erzsi asked the shaken Liberion who nodded.

"Yeah I am just a little startled as all. I have never had that happen before." Jenna said she dusted herself off. Jenna and Erzsi then looked to Olivia who had gotten up and dusted herself off. "You ok Olivia?" Jenna asked the Liberion Marine who nodded.

"Yeah I am fine… what the fuck were those things?" Olivia stated to the two other tank witches who shook their heads.

"I have no idea frankly." Jenna said to Olivia. Then a laser impacted a home ten meters away turning the building into splinters and sending shrapnel flying in their direction. Erzsi and the other witches raised their shields as they were pelted with wood and brick fragments. They turned to the direction of where the laser came from to see three Turtles closing in on them their weapons charging. Erzsi raised her shield again as a laser struck her. Turtles these were enemies she didn't mind fighting. Erzsi fired her 40mm cannon at the nearest creature blowing a chunk of metal off its main body. Jenna then summoned her magic and shouted Ignir sending a wall of flames at the Neuroi lighting one on fire. Then diving down from the Sky Darya and Ludwiga came firing their weapons at the Turtles blowing the two remaining creatures away in a blizzard of cannon and machinegun fire. Darya then flew down to Jenna and spoke.

"My Liberion flame are you hurt!?" Darya said to Jenna who nodded her head before kissing her girlfriend on the lips.
"Yes I am ok my Orussian Snowflake they didn't hurt me." Jenna said to Darya who sighed in relief.

"Did you encounter the monsters?" Darya asked Jenna who looked over to the corpses of the Neuroi/human hybrids and nodded.

"Yeah we did we made it out alright though they didn't hurt us." Jenna explained. Darya looked over to all of the mangled corpses littering the ground and shuttered.

"Those people… you could have been one of them Jenna… you could have met such a horrible fate." Darya simply stated.

"I know but I didn't that is what is important." Jenna replied. Then a flight of a dozen dark green painted aircraft flew by two of them unleashed a storm of rockets and cannon fire at some unseen Neuroi while other hovered nearby and grey clad soldiers roped down from them.

"Looks like the cavalry is here." Olivia simply stated. Then Clotilda spoke over the squadron wide radio.

"This is Clotilda all witches form up on my location." She simply stated to everyone. Jenna looked to Darya and Ludwiga.

"It's ok we will be fine from here on out we will see you at the rally point." Jenna said to the two air infantry witches.

"Ok my love, stay safe." Darya said as she flew up along with Ludwiga to meet up with Clotilda. Jenna nodded to the others and they started to dash towards Clotilda's location. They passed a few strange tanks with soldiers wearing grey uniforms pouring out of them sweeping from side to side. Some of the soldiers raised an eyebrow at the sight of them but didn't say anything. They saw some more corpses of the human/Neuroi hybrids lying on the ground with some of the grey clad soldiers standing over them; one of the bodies twitched which elicited a burst of gunfire from one of the soldiers putting it down for good this time. Erzsi and the others reached Clotilda's position where she along with some of the other witches were hovering in a defensive stance scanning for targets. Erzsi saw Brinda by a young girl of about five years old who was covered from head to toe in blood and just had a blank horrified expression on her face. A man in one of the gray uniforms approached them. He had to bars of a lieutenant on his uniform and he went up to Clotilda who flew down to see him.

"I am First Lieutenant Sampson of the Pennsylvanian National Guard United States of America who are you?" He asked Clotilda who thought for a second.

"I am First Lieutenant Clotilda Marwick of the 78th Tame Witches formally of the United States of Liberion Army Air Corps." She said to him. He nodded his head.

"Ah I see we were told to prepare for meeting one of your units. I was told that people from your world have been popping up all over the place in our country along with whatever the hells these alien creatures are. We are authorized to give you directions to our base where we will give you a further debriefing when you arrive." Lieutenant Sampson told her. More people from their world were arriving in this alternate world? What did that mean how could this be possible? And if more were arriving in this world what did it say about what happened in their world what did that wave of energy do to their homes? Well either way for now Erzsi and the other Tame Witches were stuck in this world until they could get some answers and something told her that when they found out the truth of the situation that she wasn't going to like the answer they got.

Venice Italy

Commander David "Section" Mason

18:45 local time

"Holy shit! Get down!" Harper said as a beam of bright red energy cut across their last location cutting down buildings like they were wheat before scythe. A black four legged walker charged across open ground heading straight for them firing its cannon.

"Crosby fire the AT-4!" David shouted to Crosby who pulled out the disposable anti-tank rocket.

"Roger that Section!" Crosby said as he lined up the mysterious machine in his sights. He pressed the firing stud on his rocket launcher sending a HEAT warhead into the alien machine blowing its right front leg off and cutting open a big portion of the metal on its front body. This would have been enough to kill a normal human vehicle; but as Section was fast learning today these things whatever they were are anything but normal. The machine started to regenerate its destroyed leg.

"Come on we got to move we don't have much time before that thing becomes combat operational again!" Section shouted to the three other SEALs in his squad, Crosby, Harper and Salazar all three of them were bloodied and bruised from the fighting against the Russians and against these new arriving creatures. The machines came out of nowhere just appearing in the city in a flash of light and opening fire on any human they saw. Section and his team ran across open ground to cover in an alleyway out of the alien creature's sight. Overhead a dozen black diamond shaped aircraft flew by firing lasers at low flying helicopters. It didn't matter if they were Russian or American helicopters they were nothing but fodder to these alien warplanes.

"Section… buddy you have any idea what the fuck these E.T.s are?" Harper asked David who shook his head.

"Not a clue Mike but it is like a bad sci-fi movie all of the sudden." Section replied to Harper who nodded his head. Section checked his HK416's ammo load and started to move down the alley. "Come on you heard the order; we are to find a way to evac the city and find a way to regroup with the rest of our allied forces." Section said to his team. They moved down the alleyway and came across an open parking lot where a handful of Russians were facing off with some alien foot soldiers firing lasers at them. David wanted to steer clear of the firefight but as was his luck one of the Russian soldiers turned his head to face them, shouting a warning to his comrades before bringing his AK-74 to his shoulder and firing a burst in Section's team's general direction. Four 5.45mm rounds smacked into a car five meters to David's left. Section raised his rifle and fired six rounds into the Russian soldier blood spraying from multiple gunshot wounds. Harper, Salazar and Crosby all began to fire at the Russian soldiers who were pinned between the SEAL team and the aliens. It was like the reds were thrown into a wood chipper as high caliber rounds shredded some of the Russian paratroopers while others were shot in the back by lasers turning them into explosions of blood and steaming gore. Section then started to fire his weapon into the spiderlike aliens across the way bullets impacting into their bodies but not seeming to do much damage other than to stagger them back. Crosby and Salazar concentrated their fire on one of the aliens blowing chunks of metal off its body eventually revealing a bright red jewel in the opened chest cavity. Salazar fired a few rounds into the jewel shattering the jewel and causing the creature to explode.

"Aim for their chests! They have some kind of power core there!" Salazar shouted to his companions who started to fire into the chests off the alien creatures. Section switched his carbine to full auto and dumped ten rounds into the chest of one of the advancing creatures; white chunks of metal blew off the creature's body until a bright red core was exposed. David fired another three round burst into the core causing the creature to explode. Section reloaded his HK416 and switched to another target another alien foot soldier aiming its laser at him. Section ducked his head as a laser beam passed over him. Scorching hot ionized air burned the back of his neck but Section would live. The alien then lunged at Section with its bladed arm aiming to skewer him. David rolled to the right dodging the blade and aiming his carbine at the creature's chest dumping fifteen rounds into the creature's body. David then flipped around to fire at a creature charging Harper; Harper sidestepped and Section pulled down on the trigger blowing through the remaining ammo in his rifle's magazine. The creature's core was exposed and Mike whipped around and fired a single shot from his SCAR-H into the alien's core causing the creature to explode. Section watched as Crosby fired the under slung grenade launcher on his Honey Badger sending a 40mm HEDP grenade at a pair of aliens blowing them to pieces. As they regenerated their wounds Crosby and Salazar finished them off with two quick bursts. Section looked to Harper who opened his mouth to say something. Section moved his hands down to the butt of his rifle and swung it like a baseball bat behind him crashing into a creature's head sending it back about a meter. Section then pulled out his FN Five Seven and fired six rounds into the creature's body where its power core should be. Onyx colored metal started to break away as 5.7mm armor piercing bullets slammed into the metallic form. The alien's chest ripped open and Section fired a quick double tap into the core causing the creature to explode. Section then lunged forward as he saw an alien raise its weapon at him to fire a laser. The ruby red beam of light passed behind him and Section fired the remaining bullets in his chest killing the alien warrior. Section reloaded his weapon and pulled out a fragmentation grenade and tossed it at an approaching alien detonating under the monster's eight legs instantly destroying it. Section then put his hand to his ear piece and spoke.

"Command Post this is Section. My team is taking heavy fire and we are engaged by multiple unidentified beings requesting immediate extraction!" Section shouted to the command and control center outside of the city.

"This is Command Post to Section. All air assets are tied up at this time. EUAF Typhoons are currently engaging the unknown aircraft trying to clear a way for our helicopters to evacuate our forces but until they do there is no way we can get an Evac chopper to you safely. You are just going to have to hold out for a little more time try to find some cover and hunker down until air support arrives." Command post replied with next to no emotion in their voice. Either they were really good at staying calm or they just really didn't give much of a shit about Mason and his team.

"That isn't good enough Command Post we are going to at least need some immediate CAS to deal with these hostiles." Section told the operator.

"Roger that I may be able to vector in some Strike Eagles to your location but it is going to take at least five minutes can you hold on for that long?" The Command Post asked Section just as that large four legged walker from before smashed through some buildings and faced Section and his men. Section swore under his breath and spoke.

"Command Post I don't think we have five seconds let alone five minutes." Was all Section could say as the alien machine's cannon started to charge.

One hundred meters away

She watched as a warrior with an eagle emblazoned on his uniform fought with bravery and courage unlike any other man she had ever seen before. He fought not only these strange men in the red and black uniforms but also the Neuroi and had killed many of them. Matilda remembered back in her tribe before she left that the Shaman told her that she must look for the Eagle's Emissary and bring the Emissary back to her. Matilda had searched for many months before she found the Pale Skinned witch named Hanna Marseille, a warrior who soared through the skies of Africa like a bird of prey; but after a while Matilda was unsure if she was the Emissary the Shaman spoke of, Hanna was rude and boorish, drinking too much and sharing her body with anyone she felt was beautiful enough to warrant her attention. Hanna certainly had the power but she seemed to lack that certain warrior discipline that was necessary to be the chosen one to save her dying tribe. But this man, this Pale Skinned warrior in this strange land she now found herself in; could he be the one that the Shaman spoke of? Matilda grabbed her spear and shield and started to test the engines on her striker before watching as a Turtle class Neuroi started to stalk towards those four men in front of her. Even if this man that she looked at was the Emissary of the Eagle he did not have the firepower to destroy a Neuroi of that size. Matilda had to intervene she had to do something to save these men from this impending threat. So Matilda dashed forward her Panzer IV striker spear and shield at the ready for the impending threat.

David Mason "Section"

"Come on you big metal fucker!" Harper shouted as he fired his SCAR into the onyx colored walker that stomped towards them. Crosby fired a grenade at the machine blowing a small hole in its armor and sending its staggering back a meter or so.

"Get to cover!" Section shouted as he started to run towards the canals two hundred meters away. They were never going to make it in time the walker would cut them down for sure but Section would rather die trying to survive then to stare slack jawed in the face of death. Section looked towards the walker that was turning to face them when a blur of movement went under the walker's legs; suddenly the front right leg was sliced off and the creature fell forwards smashing its body against the ground. Then to Section's amazement a young twenty year old women wearing no pants and holding a cowhide shield in one hand and a spear in the other emerged from behind the machine. She was wearing some strange track like device on each of her legs that seemed to propel her forward as she moved with blinding speed. The woman moved forward and jumped towards a wall behind the creature and used the machines on her legs to wall jump back towards the creature and landing straight on top of its body. The young woman then pointed her spear downwards to face the creature and stabbed straight through the creature's armor like it was made of wet tissue paper.

"Did… did that woman just kill a robot… with a spear?" Harper asked as he lowered his weapon. Crosby then spoke.

"Yeah it looks like it." He simply replied. The woman started to approach them using the strange device to drive her forward. She was a beautiful young woman with her dark brown eyes and black hair that she kept short just below her ears. The woman wore the uniform of a member of the Afrika Korps and first spoke to him in German before switching to English.

"My name is Matilda I am a member of the 31st JFW Storm Witches. Who are you four?" The woman who called herself Matilda asked them. Section was the first to speak.

"My name is Commander David Mason commander of SEAL Team Six's Alpha Squad. The man to my left is named Mike Harper; to my right are Crosby and Salazar. What are you doing her young lady and what are those strange devices that you are wearing on your legs?" Section asked her.

"I am not sure to be honest. One moment I was on a scouting mission in Egypt and the next I am here in this strange place. And these things on my legs they are called striker units they give me the ability to traverse open ground quickly and augment my magic." Matilda said to them. Magic what was she talking about there was no such thing as magic right? Then again she did manage to take down one of these things with just a spear even Section couldn't explain that. "You men shouldn't be out here you do not have the firepower to deal with the threat of the Neuroi, you should find a place to retreat to at once." Matilda said to Section who nodded.

"I know I called for evac but it is going to be some time before the helicopters get here. These aliens… what did you call them Neuroi?" Section asked Matilda who nodded her head. "They have been shooting down our birds left and right. There is no way we can get out of the city unless by air. The Europeans are sending some Typhoons to assist the evac units but it is going to be a while before they are able to clear the airspace so we can evacuate." Section told Matilda who lifted an eyebrow.

"Typhoons? Those aren't really meant for air combat they are better suited for ground attack missions." Matilda said to Section who cocked his head.

"Um what are you talking about, the EF-2000 is an air superiority fighter aircraft." Section replied to Matilda who shrugged.

"Forgive me but I am not very knowledgeable on the weapons you westerners use." Matilda simply stated. Then it dawned on Section; the uniform she was wearing, the fact she was patrolling Egypt of all places and the fact that she thought the Typhoon was a ground attack plane all started to make sense to Section.

"Hey do you know what the year is right now Matilda?" Section asked her. She nodded her head and spoke.

"Certainly it is the year 1945." She said to Section who shook his head.

"Uh yeah it's actually 2016." Section told Matilda whose eyes grew wide as the realization hit her. It started to make sense for her. These strange uniforms these men wore, their weapons, the way they talked. She was in the future. A roar of a rotor blade rushed overhead as a MH-60 Blackhawk touched down and the crew chief waved to Section who looked back to Matilda. "Come on I will explain everything when we get back to base." Section told her as he headed for the helicopter. David's men got aboard the helicopter and David looked back to Matilda who looked uneasy about the prospect of getting into the helicopter. "What is the matter?" Section asked Matilda who grimaced a bit before speaking.

"I am afraid of heights." Matilda simply stated. Section looked at this beautiful and mysterious girl who had saved their lives today. Something about her resonated within Section. He wasn't about to abandon her that was for sure.

"Alright I will stay with you Matilda. We will find a way to get out of the city on foot." Section said as he started to get off the helicopter.

"What are you insane!?" Harper demanded as David started to get off the helicopter and walk towards the girl.

"No Mike. This girl saved our lives today and I'm not going to leave her behind in this city. I am going to find a way to get her out of the city. Don't worry we will all see each other soon." Section said to Harper who still had a dumbfounded expression on his face. Bravery… one of the qualities of the Eagle's Emissary. Matilda thought to herself. Yes this man truly was the one the Shaman spoke of all those years ago. He was the one who would save her tribe form extinction. Matilda then spoke.

"No I will go with you… it may be uncomfortable for me but I cannot put the Eagle's Emissary in unnecessary danger." She said to David as she started to head towards the helicopter. Section had a confused look on his face.

"What do you mean "Eagle's Emissary"" Section asked her to which she just pointed to the eagle on Section's uniform.

"You wear the symbol of the eagle David…" She trailed off. Matilda then looked to the helicopter before stepping on. "I just hope this is a short trip." She said as she cringed at the thought of flying. Section looked at this strange girl and thought to himself. I don't know who she is but for some reason I think we can trust her… well I guess she is better than those aliens that is for sure. With that Section got on the helicopter which lifted off. Matilda sat down next to Section cringing a bit and scooting closer to Section and leaning up against him clutching his arm. Section then wrapped his arm around Matilda to provide some security for her. Section looked to his men who all gave him a look like he was crazy but all Section could do was shrug. Well things were certainly getting interesting either way.

Onboard the IFN Yamato

Flight Lieutenant Junko Takei

19:00 local time

"Yeah that's a Liberion Flattop that is for damn sure; but I don't recognize the class of the ship or the escorts for that matter." Dominica informed Junko who nodded. Things were so strange first they were heading towards Romagna with the Fusoan fleet then there was a bright flash of white light and suddenly the Yamato along with the rest of the Fusoan fleet were somewhere else with these strange ships in front of them. Then Lilia spoke to everyone.

"Wait I know those ships… that is the USS America an amphibious warfare ship and the two larger ships guarding it are Arleigh Burke class destroyers and the smaller ship is an Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate. All of these ships are part of the American Navy." Lilia said to assembled witches then Melvina spoke.

"Yeah no doubt about it; I remember seeing those ships in dry dock before we left Norfolk to head to Europe." Melvina told them. Then Shizuka spoke

"If these ships are from your world how did they end up here?" The Fusoan Noble asked the Americans who didn't say anything. Then Dom spoke.

"Wait a second I see two aircraft lifting off from the America." Dominica said to the group. Maybe they could get some answers from these men and women onboard these American warships. If more Americans were arriving in their world maybe that means that a deal could be struck with them and they could help her world fight against the Neuroi. Then Junko's heart sank as another possibility ran through her mind. Maybe they didn't come to Junko's world maybe the 504th was in Lilia's world now. If that was the case would that mean that Junko and her girls would be dragged into the war that this world was fighting? Junko looked to Lilia… she would fight alongside this American Marine but the other girls… no she didn't want them to risk their lives like that. The American aircraft started to hover and turn sideways the door on the side of the helicopter opened up and to Junko's surprise her old friend Mio Sakamoto was standing their along with her protégé Yoshika Miyafuji.

"Mio!" Junko shouted and waved to her oldest companion who waved back before dropping a rope down to the ship. Mio and then Yoshika roped down followed by Lynnette Bishop. They all ran towards Junko and the others.

"It is great to see you Junko I never thought I would see you again." Mio said to Junko who smiled and nodded her head. She then looked to the three witches and spoke.

"Yes it is great to see you too… is… is there only three of you left… oh no did Minna get hurt!?" Junko inquired with panic in her voice at the thought of her friend losing the woman she loved. Mio shook her head.

"No everyone is alright everyone in the 501st is still alive along with Hanna Marseille. The others are either onboard the USS America or are deployed to Europe right now." Mio explained to Junko who let out a sigh of relief.

"That is good I am glad they are all ok then." She simply replied. Then Mio spoke.

"Junko… how did you get here?" Mio asked her old friend who thought to herself. She really didn't know how she got to this world.

"Wait we are in this world now are you sure that you didn't come back to our world?" asked Fernandina. Mio shook her head.

"No we were just sailing along when out of nowhere an entire fleet appeared in front of us. At first we thought that it was the Russians and our escorts were about to blow you out of the water before I stopped them." Mio replied to them. Junko grimaced at the thought that they might become stuck here in this world. Mio then looked to Lilia and spoke. "Who are you?" She asked the blonde haired Marine who was ecstatic at being back in her home world.

"My name is 2nd Lieutenant Lilia Kjellberg and this is Petty Officer Melvina Advani of the USS Abraham Lincoln my carrier battle group went missing a while ago. We got transported to an alternate world where we were attacked by the Neuroi. We are the only survivors and we were taken in by Junko and the other members of the 504th." Lilia said to Mio who nodded her head. "Can you please let the fleet know that we are alright and that we have important intelligence that we need to debrief them on?" Lilia said to Mio who nodded her head.

"Ok I will relay the information to the fleet as soon as I can." Mio said. She then looked to Shizuka and then bowed her head in respect. "Greetings my lady I did not know that a member of the Imperial Shogunate would be aboard this vessel; forgive me for my imprudence." Mio said as she began to bow. Yoshika quickly bowed her head to in a sign of respect for a witch from House Hattori. Shizuka quickly saluted both of them.

"It is no trouble at all Major Sakamoto and Sergeant Miyafuji… the pleasure is all mine I never thought I would see the day when I would meet two of Fuso's greatest war heroes." Shizuka said. Just then a man from one of the American aircraft roped down and walked over to Mio.

"Ma'am we have a large unidentified aircraft approaching from the west. I recommend that we get you back onboard the America as soon as possible." He said to her. Then Mio lifted up her eye patch and looked to the west.

"No… it can't be…" Mio had a look of fear on her face. She then looked to the man and spoke. "Tell all ships to prepare for anti-air combat we have a Neuroi inbound for our location!" Mio shouted to the now confused looking American who quickly spoke on his radio. Mio then looked to Junko and spoke. "Junko do you have any spare striker units for me and the girls? It's a large class Neuroi we will need every witch we can to take this monster down." Mio explained to Junko who nodded and spoke.

"Yes we have three striker units waiting in the hangar of the Yamato." Junko explained. Just then plums of white smoke emerged from the deck of the American destroyers sending two rockets heading towards the Neuroi.

"Holy shit!" Dominica said as she watched the missiles fly up after the Neuroi. Federica then spoke to the others.

"Come on ladies we have a Neuroi to kill." She simply stated as she headed down towards the hangar where the striker units were waiting for them. Junko then looked to Lilia and Melvina who were following after them.

"I know that you two can handle yourself in a fight but I need both of you to remain below deck while this fight happens I don't want you getting yourself hurt by the Neuroi."Junko explained to the young American pilot and sailor who nodded their heads.

"Right I will stay safe Junko, just promise me that you will do the same?" Lilia asked of Junko who smiled and nodded her head.

"I will." Junko simply stated as they headed down into the hangar of the Yamato. The seaplane hangar was immense capable of holding two sea planes or in this case enough strikers to outfit the 504th Joint Fighter Wing and the three witches of the 501st who were with them now. Junko went over to her striker unit and jumped in. The magical engine rumbled to life as she felt magic surging through her body. One by one all of the witches got in their striker units and grabbed their weapons; then Junko watched as Yoshika got in her striker unit and started the engine which instantly backfired and died.

"Whaaa… what happened?" Yoshika asked as she tried to concentrate on starting the magical engine to no avail. The Yamato rumbled and shook as it fired its powerful main guns at the Neuroi that was approaching them. Mio looked to Yoshika and spoke.

"We don't have any time to waste Miyafuji come out and join us when you are ready." She simply stated as she started to fly out of the hanger.

"Roger." Yoshika said as she tried to once again start her striker's engines again to no avail. Then the radio blared to life.

"The IFN Fubuki took a direct hit and was completely destroyed!" a radio operator shouted. Junko looked as Lynnette said something to Yoshika before flying off with the other witches who were taking off. Junko then looked to Lilia and Melvina. Lilia then spoke.

"We will help her out don't worry." Lilia said to Junko who nodded her head and started to fly off. Junko reached the open sky to see a massive blimp like Neuroi attacking the fleet. The burning wreckage of the Fubuki was sinking in two pieces down to the bottom of the ocean. The Neuroi fired again this time impacting the rear of the IFN Takao tearing apart the engine compartment and destroying the rear guns. The Takao fired back with its fore mounted guns sending four 20cm shells into the Neuroi. The Neuroi retaliated with another laser blast this time being deflected by Lynnette's shield. Rockets impacted the Neuroi's frame as it advanced firing another beam at the fleet destroying a light cruiser in a single blast. The aircraft carriers IFN Shoho and Amagi had deployed their air complements dozens of Zero fighter planes surged towards the large Neuroi aircraft firing their machine guns and cannons as they dove down on the Neuroi. The Neuroi fired its top mounted lasers cutting through a dozen of them in a single blast. The remaining conventional aircraft broke off the attack to turn around and make another pass at the Neuroi. The Neuroi fired again cutting down seven Zeros in the process. From the deck of the USS America a flight of single engine jet fighters lifted off vertically from the assault ship and then turned to conventional flight. These grey painted aircraft fired two missiles a piece at the Neuroi which shot towards them like a blur of light. The alien aircraft fired its laser destroying four of the missiles while the rest of the missiles struck its body inflicting little damage. The jet fighters closed the distance firing heavy automatic cannons at the Neuroi. Junko cringed as she the Neuroi's laser charged up and fired at them, then to her surprise it went wide completely missing. The Neuroi then started to spam laser beams in the general direction of the American jets which tried to evade to the best of their abilities; one of the jets was struck dead center and exploded into a brilliant fireball. At that moment Junko knew she had to act. Junko then charged towards the Neuroi firing her machine gun the bullets bouncing off the thick armored form. Whatever this class of Neuroi was it was going to be a tough fight to bring this thing down.

Onboard the IFN Yamato

Sergeant Yoshika Miyafuji

19:12 local time

Yoshika concentrated her magic trying to activate her striker engine. The engine was silent no matter how much magic she put into the engine.

"Why… why can't I fly?" Yoshika said as she started to sob looking down at her striker unit. "There is so much pain in this world… and now the Neuroi are here to cause more suffering. So why now does this have to be when I lose my ability to fly? Now I won't be able to protect anyone." Yoshika said to herself through her sobs. Then Yoshika heard over the radio.

"The USS Simpson has been hit! The ship was cut in half by the laser and I don't see any survivors in the water!" An American sailor said over the radio. Then Yoshika heard Lynnette yelp over the radio before hearing Major Sakamoto's voice.

"Damn it! This thing seems to be targeting Lynnette for some reason. Lynnette pull back to the America we will handle this thing!" Major Sakamoto ordered Yoshika's girlfriend. With this news know to her Yoshika redoubled her efforts to start her striker unit. There was no way in hell she would let this alien hurt the girl that she loved.

"No Ma'am I am alright I will continue to protect the fleet with my shields don't worry about me." Lynnette replied before yelping again as another laser bounced off her shields. Yoshika concentrated her magic but again had no results as the striker refused to take off. Yoshika started to break down and cry in frustration at how useless she had become. Then the American woman in the hangar with her spoke.

"Hey maybe it is the striker you are using that is the problem not you yourself. Here try this unit." Lilia said as she pressed a button and up from an elevator came a strange green painted striker unit of a type that she had never seen before.

"Maybe you can try this unit… let it be your new wings." Melvina told Yoshika who was awe struck by the unit and got out of the Zero striker unit that she was attempting to use. Yoshika walked over to it and put her hand on the right unit and felt the magical engine purring with her vary touch. Then Yoshika hurt Lynnette yelp again.

"Damn it we can't even put a scratch in this thing!" Major Sakamoto said. Yoshika then looked to Lilia and Melvina before speaking.

"Thank you." Yoshika simply told them to which Lilia and Melvina smiled and they both gave her the thumbs up before speaking.

"Knock them dead." She simply told Yoshika who then entered this mysterious new striker unit. Lilia hit the button on the elevator one more time and Yoshika started to be carried up to the deck. Then Yoshika heard a voice on the radio.

"Captain we have an unauthorized use of the rear elevator!" A sailor said to the Captain of the Yamato.

"What is going on!?" Admiral Sugita spoke over the radio before Yoshika rose up into view. "Wait that is Sergeant Miyafuji… and she is wearing the prototype!" He said in Surprise. Then Yoshika spoke.

"Sergeant Miyafuji taking off!" She simply stated as she turned on the magical engine and a circle of energy surrounded her so large that it encompassed the entire Yamato. Yoshika then shot off the rear of the battleship and flew off towards the Neuroi. Yoshika saw the Neuroi fire its laser at Lynnette again this time with enough force that it shattered the young witch's shield and Lynnette started to fall towards the sea. Yoshika could have sworn that she heard Lynnette quietly say her name as she fell but Yoshika was too concentrated to pay attention. Yoshika shot towards her falling girlfriend and right before Lynne hit the ocean Yoshika grabbed onto her wrapping an arm around the young Britannia's waste and her other grabbing a hold of Lynnette hand.

"Yoshika… you saved me…" Lynnette said weakly to Yoshika who nodded her head and smiled warmly.

"Of course my love I would do anything to protect you remember." Yoshika said to Lynnette who smiled back at her. "Can you fly?" Yoshika asked Lynnette who nodded weakly.

"Yeah I think so." Lynnette said as she turned her striker on again and started to hover. Exhaustion was clearly written on her face. Yoshika then started to turn towards the Neuroi drawing her weapon as she did.

"HOW DARE YOU!? HOW DARE YOU HURT LYNNE!" Yoshika shouted as she shot towards the Neuroi at supersonic speed. Yoshika focused her shield in front of her into a small circle and smashed directly into the center of the Neuroi flying straight through it; as she did Yoshika fired her machine gun at the weak insides of the Neuroi. Yoshika spotted the Neuroi's core and fired a long burst into it shouting in rage at the creature for daring to hurt the girl that she loved. The Neuroi exploded into white shards and Yoshika began to hover. Yoshika then started to hear the voices and cheers of the naval forces and other witches.

"Damn girl you knocked that motherfucker out with a haymaker!" one of the 504th's witches said to her.

"YOSHIKA-CHAN!" Lynnette said excitedly as she flew towards Yoshika embracing her in a giant hug which Yoshika gleefully returned.

"Lynne-chan, I can still fly… I can still protect people… I can still protect you." Yoshika said with tears forming in her eyes. Lynne smiled at the young Fusoan witch and pulled Yoshika in for a passionate and loving kiss that both Yoshika and Lynnette got lost in.

"So that is the Magnificent Lightening striker unit they completed the prototype then?" Major Sakamoto asked Junko who nodded her head.

"Yes it appears so I heard that Doctor Miyafuji's notes were of a great help to the research team." Junko said to Mio who nodded her head.

"It appears so… well we will need that thing… we will need whatever we can get in this war… I think the war against the Neuroi is about to enter a terrifying and horrible new phase." Mio said to Junko who grimaced. Indeed Mio was right for now the Neuroi war had only truly begun.

Tokyo Japan

Katsumi Tanaka

01:56 local time

Katsumi was sitting in her pajamas watching an H rated anime on her TV in her room while her best friend Keiko Masani was sleeping beside her. The action on screen was getting really intense a beautiful blonde haired school girl was being violated by a big scary tentacle monster that used its octopus like tentacles to penetrate the school girl orally, vaginally and anally while it wrapped its other tentacles around the girl's amble bosom. Katsumi was a pervert she admits this; ever since she was eight years old and found porn on the internet she had been a fanatic of egroe games, H anime, doujins, and regular video and magazine based porn… hell right now she had a small stash of porn movies from America under her bed that she watched and thoroughly enjoyed every other night; she was a girl going through puberty after all. Katsumi was about to start touching herself when a strange feeling wracked her body. It felt like a warmth and power started to course through her veins when she looked down at her arm and saw a blue glow surround her and start surrounding Keiko who was starting to stir. Katsumi looked into the mirror in her room and saw a pair of animal ears appear on her head.

"Oh shit!" she shouted as she looked at the ears on her head and then a tail appeared behind her at the base of her spine. Keiko started to stir and Katsumi looked down at her she had a pair of cat ears and a cat tail now.

"Katsumi-chan what is the matter it is in the middle of the morning." Keiko said as she sleepily looked up at Katsumi. "And why are you wearing that pair of fox ears on your head?" Keiko asked Katsumi who was to dumbstruck to speak at one was happening. Katsumi felt the ears on her head… they felt real like they were real animal ears and they felt like they belong to her. She was able to feel herself touching the ears. Then Katsumi looked over to the candle in her room and something told her to snap her fingers. Katsumi snapped her fingers and a blue flame lit at the wick of the candle.

"Wow… that… is really cool." Katsumi said aloud as she looked at herself. "Am I… am I a magical girl?" Katsumi asked aloud and Keiko just looked at her in confusion and surprise.

"Katsumi how did you light the candle and why does it have a blue flame?" She asked with some surprise in her voice. Katsumi then touched Keiko's cat ears and gave them a light tug to which Keiko yelped in surprise.

"Keiko-chan look in the mirror you have animal ears and a tail too." Katsumi said to Keiko who looked at the mirror and let out a gasp as she touched the ears and tail.

"What the hell is going on Katsumi-chan?" Keiko asked Katsumi who shook her head. "I don't know… I just don't know." Katsumi said as she continued to stare at herself in the mirror. Katsumi thought to herself she wondered what Amaterasu-chan would think when she heard about this.

Camp Pendleton USA

Private Amaterasu Nakahara

12:34 local time

Amaterasu checked the ammo in her M4A1. She had a thirty round magazine loaded into the weapon along with one 40mm HEMP grenade loaded into the M203 slung under the barrel of the American built carbine. She examined her ACOG sight to make sure that it was sighted properly; after being satisfied that everything was in order she set the rifle on her lap. It was so strange the news that she heard during the briefing. Space Aliens were invading? And people from an entirely different reality were arriving in this world including an army of magically enhanced female super soldiers wearing some kind of flight device on their legs. It was like something out of an anime or something. She looked out the open door of the UH-1N helicopter and stared at the desert below her. Some of those people from the other world had arrived here at Camp Pendleton; an entire field army materialized in the tank training area fifteen kilometers from the main facilities. Right now she along with two dozen USMC helicopters loaded with marines along with a flight of Harriers were moving in to investigate. She didn't even have a squad yet; she was supposed to be transferred to a squad in Europe called Rouge squad but this invasion seemed to put a hold on that. Amaterasu looked out from the cockpit of the helicopter to see the mass of ground troops arrayed before them. Strange it looked like they were mostly a collection of WW2 era British and German tanks. The helicopter landed and Amaterasu and the other marines poured out. Amaterasu swept her weapon side to side to check for targets seeing nothing but a bunch of men in WW2 uniforms starring at them with confusion and a little fear written on their faces. Then a cute young blonde haired girl wearing the top of an Afrika Korps soldier and no pants approached her and spoke something in German to her.

"I am sorry I don't speak German; I only know English and Japanese." Amaterasu replied to the young girl who then switched to English.

"English what are you talking about you are speaking Britannish like I am." She replied the young girl who Amaterasu just stared at in confusion. The girl then spoke again.

"My name is Raisa Pottgen of the 31st Storm Witches who are you?" Raisa asked Amaterasu who then spoke.

"My name is Private Amaterasu Nakahara of the United States Marine Corps." Amaterasu replied to Raisa who then replied.

"Oh I see so we are in the United States of Liberion somehow. Strange we have no idea how we got here there was just a flash of light and suddenly we were here and we weren't sure what to do so we just ended up standing here twiddling our thumbs." Raisa explained to Amaterasu who shook her head.

"No this is not the United States of Liberion this is the United States of America." Amaterasu told Raisa who raised an eyebrow. "I was told that you and your people are from a parallel version of our world with different country names and everything. The year is 2016 and you are currently in the middle of Camp Pendleton Marine Crop base in the American state of California." Amaterasu explained to Raisa who looked back at her with confusion and a little bit of fear.

"You mean we aren't in our own world anymore?" Raisa asked her. Amaterasu nodded her head. Then a young girl wearing some strange devices on her legs and a pair of animal ears on her head, carrying a massive auto cannon flew overhead. The girl was dressed as a Miko and looked Japanese.

"Hey Raisa who are you talking to?" the Japanese girl asked Raisa who looked back up at her and spoke.

"Oh hey Mami this is Amaterasu." Raisa replied. Amaterasu tried saying hello in Japanese to the girl who replied back in the same language

"You speak Fusoan?" she asked her in Japanese. Amaterasu nodded her head.

"Yes well sort of. I speak a language called Japanese it seems to be the same as Fusoan I guess Fuso is the counter part of Japan back in your world." Amaterasu said to Mami who looked at her with befuddlement.

"Wait what are you talking about?" Mami asked her. Amaterasu sighed and explained the situation again to this girl who was dumbstruck by Amaterasu's claim. Then Amaterasu saw in the corner of her eye a man who was unmistakable to anyone who had ever read a history book before.

"Is that Erwin Rommel?" Amaterasu asked the girls. "Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commander of the Africa Corps?" Amaterasu asked.

"Yeah he is our commanding officer." Raisa told Amaterasu. "What is the matter you look like you have seen a ghost Amaterasu?" Raisa inquire.

"Erwin Rommel has been dead for over seventy years in this world." Amaterasu told Raisa who nodded her head.

"I guess that makes sense considering what year it is in this world." Raisa said to Amaterasu. Amaterasu watched as a Marine Corps Captain went up and started speaking with the famed Desert Fox. "Hey if you don't mind me asking you don't sound like someone who is an American which I am guessing is your world's version of Liberion; in fact you actually look like someone from Fuso. If you don't mind me asking why is that?" Raisa asked.

"Well actually I am from Japan but I became an American when I joined the United States Military. They gave me citizenship and I moved over here after the war started." Amaterasu explained to them.

"Ah so you are fighting the Neuroi over here to." Mami asked Amaterasu who shook her head.

"No we are fighting a nation that invaded American and then all of Europe called Russia." Amaterasu explained to them. "Actually I have heard that some type of aliens are attacking places all over the globe maybe these are the Neuroi that you speak of." Amaterasu said to them. Both Raisa and Mami gasped at the idea that humans were fighting each other in this world.

"People actually fight amongst each other in this world?" Raisa asked Amaterasu who nodded. Coming out from behind some of the tanks of the Afrika Korps was what looked to be some kind of large mech straight out of an anime being driven by a young looking German girl. The mech was about four meters tall and had thick armor plating on the legs and sides. Mounted on the right arm was kind of high caliber cannon connected to an out loader while the right arm looked like it was a heavy armor plate for protecting the pilot. Strangely enough though the pilot was completely exposed to enemy gunfire, which seemed like that would be a liability.

"What the hell is that?" Amaterasu asked Mami who looked to the girl driving the mech and spoke.

"Oh hi honey." She said as she flew over to the girl in the mech suit and gave her a kiss on the lips. "This is my girlfriend Charlotte Lueder and she is in command of the now production model of the Tiger 1 striker unit." Mami said to Amaterasu who tried to absorb everything. How could they have mechs back in 1945? And how liberal was this world they came from if they not only had interracial relationships and no one seemed to care but they also had same sex relationships. Both of those things still had some people draw issues with them in this world. Well that probably wasn't something that Amaterasu should have to worry about. Then The Marine Captain spoke over the radio.

"Attention all units we are to give aide and shelter to the units of the Karlsland Afrika Korps as well as the Britannia Expeditionary Force we are to escort them back to the main base where we will treat them with the utmost hospitality. Do I make myself clear?" The Captain said to all of the Marines. Well Amaterasu was sure that things were about to become even stranger now.

Fort Campbell USA

Corporal Jake Dunn

15:56 local time

"Alright let's see what this bad boy can do." Dunn said as he sat down on a rock watching the AAV-1 perform a live fire exercise. A handful of propeller driven target drones flew nearby performing random maneuvers designed to simulate the movements of a helicopter or an attack aircraft in the field. About two platoons of Rangers in hummvees and two Stryker Mobile Gun Systems were standing guard to observe the trail of America's latest Anti-aircraft vehicle. The eight wheeled wide bodied chassis mounted a 57mm radar guided cannon in a round turret for tracking air targets.

"Ok commencing live fire test one." Sean Foley said as he took a drag on his cigarette. The AAV-1 turned its turret to face the nearest drone and fired a three round burst of proximity fused HE shells which ripped the unmanned aircraft apart. Without missing a beat the aircraft then fired at the second drone with similar results; then it did the same with the third drone, then the fourth and then the fifth. In thirty five seconds it was all over all of the targeted drones had been destroyed by the AAV-1.

"Hot damn that was pretty impressive wasn't it?" James said to Jake who nodded his head.

"Hell yeah I would like to see the Russians send helicopters after us now." Jake replied to James who nodded his head.

"Yeah man… so when do you think we are going to be sent to the frontlines?" James asked Jake who shrugged.

"I am not sure man but it will probably be soon that is for sure. From what I have heard the war is starting to heat up we are beginning to turn the tide and within a couple of weeks we will probably start retaking lost territory and maybe moving into Russia itself. And if we do move in on Russia I want to be in the first assault on Moscow. I want to burn that place to the ground for what they did to our country and all of those innocent people in Europe." Dunn said to James who nodded his head.

"Yeah I feel the same way man… fucking red bastards." James said as he spit on the ground in disgust at the Russians. "My little sister is fighting in Berlin right now against the Russians. I heard she made it through the battle of Hamburg alright but from what I have heard, her unit took a causality and the fighting in Berlin is really intense right now." James said to Jake who nodded his head.

"Yeah so I have heard. The Russians tore into Germany and Poland with everything they had and I heard that they hit Berlin especially hard with bombers. Hell I hear that not one stone is atop another in the city." Jake told James who nodded his head.

"I know that is why I am worried for my little sister you know… she is a marine and all but I am still her big brother and I want to protect her no matter what happens." James said to Jake who nodded his head before chuckling a bit.

"Don't worry about her too much James; Carmen is a marine and on top of that she is a really tough girl I don't think I have ever met anyone quite as badass as she is. Beside I find her scary and I am on good terms with her. I would hate to see what it would be like to be on her bad side. Hell she would probably grab my balls and twist on them or something." Jake laughed to James who chuckled in return.

"Yeah I know you are probably right." James said between laughs. "So tell me how is your little sister doing." James asked Jake who shrugged.

"Eh she is doing alright just staying in school and keeping out of trouble. She still gives me crap about being single though." Jake said to James who cocked his head a bit.

"Oh really she has been?" He asked Jake who nodded his head.

"Yeah big time along with mom and dad; they want me to settle down and have kids especially since I am going to be heading off to war… again. Jesus Christ man, who do they think I am Hugh Hefner or something? They act like if I wanted to I could get married like that." Dunn snapped his fingers for emphasis. "But honestly I haven't really found anyone that has caught my eye in a long time you know? And the last thing that I want to do is marry someone just for the sake of marrying someone. What about you do you have a girl back home or anything?" Jake asked the younger ranger who shook his head.

"Nah I don't been too busy since I got out of high school. I have just been busy with the Army and trying not to die." James said to Jake who nodded his head and raised his canteen.

"True to that. So to not dying!" Jake said as he and James clanked their canteens together and took a drink. Then a loud bang occurred and Jake looked up to see a white light dispersing and a small airfield had materialized a few kilometers away. "What the fuck?" Jake asked aloud to no one in particular. Jake then grabbed his binoculars and looked at the base. He could see a few POGs shambling around in confusion and couldn't see really a whole lot else. Then another bang occurred and Jake heard a ranger yell.

"Holy shit what the fuck is that thing!?" the ranger shouted pointing to a large flying boxy black object with four wings two in the front and two in the back with red hexagons on them. The object looked to be about thirty meters long with a fifty meter wingspan. Suddenly from the back of the UFO four smaller black aircraft vaguely resembling flying cigars with two stubby wings and three rotor blades slowly spinning flanked the aircraft. Jake looked back to the airfield that the UFOs were starting to approach. From the hangar eight young women with strange devices on their legs flew out of the hangar and up into the air; each one of them carried a large high caliber machine gun.

"What the fuck?" Jake asks as he looked upon these strange girls flying up into the sky. The strange black flying machine opened fire with lasers at the girls which deflected off of energy shields that appeared in front of the girls; it was the same type of shield that the girls in Task Force 141 used. Did this mean that these were girls just like Yoshika and the others? The girls returned fire with their weapons their rounds impacting against the armored body of the machine. The machine fired its lasers and immediately obliterated the hangars and airfield killing the few POGs that were trying to get to cover. The UFO lowered down to the ground and dozens of half man half spider looking things jumped down and hit the ground fanning out to search for human survivors. Jake looked back to Sergeant Foley and spoke. "Sarge what do we do?" Jake asked the Ranger NCO who cocked his SCAR-H and looked to the rest of the rangers.

"I don't know who those people are out there or what those things are; but we are rangers and we aren't going to sit by and watch our fellow men and women die by some alien bastards. All units mount up and start heading towards the point of contact." Foley said to the rangers as he headed back to one of the waiting hummvees. Jake and James followed after him and Foley looked back to Jake and spoke. "Does that answer your question Corporal?" Sean inquired as he got in the side of the armored car.

"Hell yeah sarge." Jake said as he got in the driver's seat and cocked his SCAR-H. Foley looked to James and two other rangers.

"Ramirez man the .50cal, Slater and Morgan get in back and shoot any of these alien bastards you see." Foley ordered the younger rangers who gave their affirmatives before getting in the car. James got on the .50cal and pulled the charging handle back and spoke.

"Lets rock." He simply stated and Jake nodded hitting the gas pedal and starting down the road to wear the ensuing battle was taking place. Jake looked in the rear view mirror to see all of the other hummvees and the two Stryker MGSs and the AAV-1 were following down the road after Jake. At that point Jake realized that once again they were in the lead vehicle.

"Hey sarge I just noticed something. Why is it that we are always the welcome wagon? I mean we are the first ones in and the last ones out in every battle we fight in why the fuck is that?" Jake asked as he speeded down the road in the armored car.

"Because we are rangers that is why." Foley simply stated to Jake who nodded.

"I know but even amongst other rangers we are always taking point. I haven't seen any other squads take point in a battle that we have taken part in." Jake replied to Foley.

"If you are complaining you are not driving; so shut up and drive." Foley shot to Jake who looked over at Foley and spoke.

"Wait what are you talking about I am driving… you… you know what it isn't important we can talk about this later we got some E.T.s to kill." Jake said to Foley. They were within a kilometer from where a cluster of aliens were charging towards them. James was about to fire at them when two 105mm shells from the Strykers smacked into the cluster of creatures blowing two of them apart completely while three of them were shredded limb from limb. Then to Jake's surprise the aliens started to regenerate and get back up firing a laser beam that hit the rear driver side armor of the vehicle causing the metal to boil and steam. James and Morgan opened fire at them sending a stream of .50cal and 7.62mm rounds at the aliens. Jake stuck his SCAR-H out the window and pulled down the trigger sending a stream of rounds at the aliens. The heavy bullets tore into the aliens' armored bodies completely destroying three of them after a dozen or so impacts apiece. Jake ejected the magazine of his SCAR as he drove forward and he reloaded his weapon. More aliens blocked their path this time all of the eighteen hummvees had fanned out and opened up on the spider like creatures with M2 HMGs and M134 Miniguns. Bullets shredded their bodies even as they returned fire. Jake saw one of the gunners on another hummvee get struck by a laser, the soldier was completely blown apart and blood sprayed in every direction. Two lasers smacked into the engine of another hummvee and disabled the car. The helicopter like machines flew overhead and fired their lasers obliterating two of the hummvees. Then a six round burst of heavy duty cannon fire ripped one of the alien craft apart causing it to explode into white shards. The AAV-1 turned to fire at the other three remaining craft bearing down on it. The American vehicle fired a long burst at another flying machine destroying it. The aliens fired back their lasers barely missing by mere meters as the AAV-1 took evasive action. Then two of the girls with flying machines on their legs flew by with MG42s they fired long bursts of gunfire at the aliens. Their bullets seemed to tear through the aliens' armor like it was made out of tissue paper destroying both of the craft. Jake got his first good look at them. The one who took point was a grey haired girl with the ears and tail of a fox while the other was a blonde haired girl with short hair, the ears and tail of some kind of dog and a navy blue uniform. Jake then turned back to the road and saw an alien raising its weapon to fire at them. Jake turned hard right and the laser missed by a meter harmlessly flying off into the distance. Jake then stuck his SCAR out of the window and lined up the target firing on full auto sending a stream of rounds into the alien knocking white chunks of metal off its body until a bright red jewel like object in the chest was exposed. Jake being an avid gamer got the suspicion that if he shot the object it would do bonus damage. Jake fired another two rounds from his SCAR-H both 7.62mm rounds struck the creature's weak point causing it to explode into white fragments. "Aim for their chests they have a red orb under their armor it's their weak point." Jake yelled over the radio.

"You heard the man aim for their chests!" Foley shouted as he fired his integrated grenade launcher at the aliens blowing one up. Just then a laser beam struck the engine of the hummvee causing it to explode into a ball of fire and the hummvee slowed to a halt. "Everyone out!" Foley shouted. Jake looked into the back of the hummvee and spotted a M32 MGL with the words "War Machine" written on it. Jake grabbed it and slung it over his shoulder as he got out of the armored car. Jake aimed down his thermal sights to see that these aliens gave off a lower heat signature than a human did making the thermal sight almost useless against them. He fired into the nearest creature that was charging at him firing its laser nearly hitting him. Bullets from his SCAR-H struck the creature center mass breaking away at the armor of the creature until its weak point was exposed. Another burst to the chest was all the alien needed for it to explode into white shards of metal. Jake switched targets and fired at another alien that had just stabbed a ranger through the chest with its blade arm. Bullets smacked into the extraterrestrial being and staggered it back. Morgan opened up on the creature with his M240 sending a stream of bullets into the creature killing it. Jake reloaded and moved forward towards a ditch were he could take cover. James and Foley followed him firing their weapons as they advanced. James fired his M4A1 full auto each 5.56mm round striking home against an alien and staggering it backwards. When James magazine went empty he fired an M203 grenade into the creatures finishing two off. Jake reloaded his weapon and looked overhead to see the mother ship fly overhead and fire its lasers at four of the hummvees that were only a few meters apart destroying all four of them instantly. The girls with the airplanes on their legs tried to distract the creature but it seemed like they couldn't do enough damage to it. The two Stryker MGS units were firing their main guns into the aliens destroying one or two with each salvo and the AAV-1 was hanging back peppering the ground in Air Bursting HE shells. Jake looked to Foley and spoke.

"So what do we do now sarge?" Jake asked Foley who looked over the lip of the ditch.

"Simple we kill all of these alien bastards then we find out what the hell is going on here, and report back to central command." Foley said to Jake and James.

"Ah man I didn't sign up to be an extra from a bad sci-fi movie." James said aloud. Jake nodded his head.

"Yeah me either but we can kill these bastards so that means we stand a fighting chance. So let's get out there and kick some metal ass." Jake said as he tossed a frag grenade over the ditch and waited for the detonation before he got out of the ditch and started to fire at another alien that he saw that was firing at some other rangers. Jake's bullets smashed into the creature and knocked it back before its weak point was exposed to direct fire. Jake fired again destroying the creature. Jake then looked to see an alien charge at him raising its blade arm to slash at his head. Jake side stepped and then shoulder charged the alien slamming his shoulder into the alien that was thrown off balance and sending the alien to the ground. Jake pulled out his desert eagle and fired into the creature three times destroying its weak point. Jake then looked to his left in just enough time to see a creature slash for his head with its blade. Jake ducked and fired a round from his pistol into the creature, before he could fire a second shot the creature hit him with its weapon arm and sent him flying through the air and slamming into the ground. Jake's head swam for a moment but he then saw the creature jump into the air and attempt to stab him with its blade. Jake dodged the blade with a roll to the side. The creature then used the three blade like appendages on its weapon arm to try and stab Dunn with. Jake moved his head to the right avoiding the first stab then to the left to avoid the second.

"Stay still and die ape creature!" the alien used telepathy to shout the words directly into Jake's mind causing a massive but momentary headache.

"Thanks but I would rather stay alive." Jake said as he dodged another stab. Jake then noticed that this creature had a pair of devil like horns on its head while the others didn't. Strange maybe it was a signifier of status. Then bullets slammed into the alien and staggered it backwards. Jake grabbed his rifle that was still attached to a bungee cord on his vest and fired at the creature killing it; Jake looked back to see James standing there with the barrel of his M4 smoking. "Thanks man you saved my ass." Corporal Jake Dunn said to one of his closest friends.

"No problem dude you would do the same for me." James said to Dunn who nodded his head and got up. The remaining rangers were killing the few surviving alien foot soldier. That just left that big mother ship to deal with. But the trick was how the hell were they going to bring that thing down?

Fort Campbell USA

Flight Sergeant Nikka "Nipa" Edvardine Katajainen

16:17 local time

"Damn it how do we kill this thing!" Naoe growled as she fired her machine gun into the super heavy flyer Neuroi that was attacking the ground forces below. Things had gone tits up ever since that flash of light and the entire 502nd being spat out in the middle of nowhere. Nipa had no idea what was even going on. Who were the strange forces fighting the Neuroi below them, and where in the world were they? Now was not the time to be thinking of that though now was the time to do what she and other witches around the world did best… kill Neuroi. Nipa dove down firing her MG42 at the Neuroi's top section her bullets denting the armor but not doing much else. Damn this Neuroi must have the heavy armor that was able to shrug off even magically enhanced rounds; I have to find something heavier. Nipa thought to herself as she looked to the soldiers on the ground below spotting a soldier with a set of binoculars or something attached to his helmet and a strange rifle sized revolver looking weapon with a ridiculously large bore. I don't know what that is but it looks powerful and I am almost out of ammo anyway. Nipa thought as she descended down to the soldier below.

"Hey soldier boy I need to borrow this!" Nipa said to the soldier wearing the strange grey uniform as she grabbed the weapon on his back.

"Hey what the hell are you doing that is not a toy… that is a 40mm multi shot grenade launcher!" He protested with a Liberion accent. So he was from the land of cowboys and refrigerators.

"Oh so you are from the U.S. let me put this in a language you can understand cowboy. Howdy partner I reckon I need to help myself to this…gun… urgh!" Nipa said in a laughably bad southern Liberion accent as she finally wrenched the weapon away from the soldier.

"Hey screw you lady!" the soldier said to her with some level of scorn in his voice.

"Thanks I will bring this back when I am done with this!" Nipa said to the Liberion as she flew off towards the Neuroi. Laser beams shot out towards her which she blocked with her shield. Edytha Rossman and Waltrud dove down on the Neuroi to draw away its fire from Nipa. Sadako and Georgette attacked from below and behind to see if they could damage the creature while Alexsandra and Gundula observed the battle from above. Noae flew next to Nipa and spoke.

"What is that thing?" Noae asked Nipa who shrugged her head and replied.

"I am not sure I took it from one of the soldiers down below. He said it was some kind of grenade launcher… probably like those rifle grenades the Karlslanders and Liberions use." Nipa said to the short Fusoan witch who nodded her head.

"So do you have a plan Nipa?" Noae asked the Suomus which who nodded her head.

"Yeah I think the core might be on the top of this thing. I am going to try to weaken the Neuroi's top armor with this thing." Nipa said as she gestured to her pilfered weapon. "While I want you to use your shield punch to see if you can bash through the weakened armor and destroy the core… sound like a plan to you?" Nipa asked her wingman who concentrated the size of her shield so that it was covering her fist.

"Well this doesn't seem like the worst plan that you have come up with Crusher O'Hare the Second so I guess it's worth a shot." Noae said to Nipa who rolled her eyes. She hated that nickname it wasn't her fault that her striker units kept getting totaled. Nipa and Noae raised their altitude so that they were three hundred meters above the Neuroi when Nipa aimed her grenade launcher and fired a round. A 40mm HEDP grenade modified for bunker busting and augment by Nipa's magic to be 500% more effective than it normally would be shot out of the barrel of her launcher and smacked dead center of the Neuroi which screeched in pain. Nipa fired again sending another grenade to further weaken the armor. At this point the Neuroi fired back multiple beams striking her shield as she fired her third and fourth rounds each one striking home. More lasers hit her as she fired her final two rounds the core finally being exposed to open air.

"Go attack it now Nao!" Nipa said as a laser broke her shield and a small beam smacked into her striker units left and right leg destroying the right engine and crippling the left. Nipa started to fall towards the earth. "Oh shit, oh shit oh SHIT!" Nipa shouted as she fell to the ground her surviving striker slowing her d fall only enough that she wouldn't be killed when she hit the ground. Nipa raised her shield as she struck the ground her bones rattling with the impact. She looked up to see the Neuroi explode and Noae hovered in air victoriously.

"Jesus Christ lady are you alright!?" A voice said as she looked to her side she saw the Liberion soldier from before approaching her with a box of medical supplies. He checked her over looking for any signs of obvious injury. Nipa waved him off as she sat up looking at her trashed striker unit. Alexsandra was going to chew her out again for this.

"Yeah don't worry about me I start off every morning with a good crash; it helps wake me up in the morning." Nipa said sarcastically as she stood up and dusted herself off. She noticed the soldier was starring at her. "I am not sure if you are trying to check me out or something but I am going to stop you right there I don't sleep with men…" Nipa said to the Liberion who rolled his eyes.

"Oh please don't flatter yourself lady; I was just trying to figure out if you're like those girls that were with Task Force 141." The soldier with the goggles on his helmet said to her. Wait, what did he mean other girls.

"What are you talking about do you mean other witches?" Nipa asked the soldier who had the name J. Dunn written on his heavy looking vest.

"Well that what they called themselves anyway… you know like Yoshika and Lynnette part of Task Force 141 haven't you heard of them you practically have the same abilities as them." Nipa's heart skipped a beat; she had been in a pretty bad depression when Eila and the other members of the 501st disappeared, but could Eila and the other girls be alive. Nipa grabbed this J. Dunn's vest and pulled him in so their faces were only a few centimeters away from each other.

"Soldier was one of the witches named Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen? She has platinum blonde hair, and purple eyes and milky white skin." Nipa demanded of the soldier who nodded his head.

"Yeah she was part of the Task Force I think she is in Europe right now." He said to her. Yes Eila was alive! Nipa thought to herself. Then a sudden realization hit her.

"So soldier boy… where the hell are we?" Nipa asked the soldier who replied to her.

"We are currently at Fort Campbell United States of America. Where the hell else would we be?" J. Dunn said to her. Nipa let go of his vest and sat down. Shit things had just gotten really complicated.

Somewhere in Texas 500km away from the Liberty Defensive Line USA

Master Sergeant Daniel "Slugger" McKnight

15:35 local time

"All units load Sabot!" Daniel shouted over the radio to the assembled mechanized combat unit that was currently taking up a defensive position in some neighborhood. Daniel and his men had been briefed on the situation; aliens had invaded earth and people from another dimension had appeared all over the world with the majority of them arriving in America and Canada. Daniel and the 32nd Mechanized Combat Group (MCG) were sent to investigate the appearance of a small town in the middle of nowhere. Well it was part of a city really it just had a small chunk of it missing. The town probably had somewhere between three and four hundred thousand people living in it and they were clustered around a massive Sherman Tank Factory of all things. From what McKnight had been able to gather from the townsfolk they thought they were in 1945 in the middle of a nation called Liberion. Well after some explaining the folks had a shocked and horrified expression on their collective faces as they realized they had been transported to an entirely different reality. Then Master Sergeant McKnight got warning via a Global Hawk that battalion sized units of aliens were approaching this way using walkers and Infantry with some helicopter gunship support. With this in mind, McKnight ordered the civilians to pull back several blocks and allow the 32nd MCG to defend the town until reinforcements could arrive. The 32nd Mechanized Combat Group consisted of twelve M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks that were outfitted with all of the latest upgrades. Explosive Reactive Armor on the sides, cage armor over the engine exhaust, a remote controlled M2 .50cal, a gun shield for the M240 and lastly the smoke launchers had been replaced with an advanced grenade system similar to IMS which would detect a hostile combatant from boarding the tank by firing a 40mm smart grenade at the insurgent or enemy soldier that tried to board the tank. The rest of the 32nd consisted of a company of heavy infantry who were currently setting up HMGs and MK.19s as well as getting into position with Javelins and their rifles. There were also two dozen M2A3 Bradley IFVs that had carried the infantry to the city that were currently using some of the houses and fences for concealment what little that offered them. Lastly there were two Avenger Self Propelled SAMs with them to take out the enemy helicopters that were heading towards them. Master Sergeant McKnight had asked for air support but was denied when he was told that the aliens had bombed the crap out of Stonewall Jackson Air Force Base and it would be hours before the runway was repaired enough to launch fighters out of and the few aircraft that were launched from other bases were currently engaged with the aliens over Dallas and Houston; Daniel had heard from an Air Force JSTARS that it was pretty bad over those cities the Chair Force was destroying the aliens at a rate of four to one for the alien fighter craft but the bombers the aliens had deployed were knocking any plane that got too close to them out of the sky; combine this with the aliens numbers meant the USAF was paying a heavy price to defended Texas's two largest cities. Well this wasn't the time to be thinking about how the other battles were going now he had to deal with the task at hand. Fifteen kilometers ahead of him were dozens of four legged black colored alien walkers moving towards his position; behind them were close to five hundred of what Daniel could assume were infantry moving forward. Finally overhead were strange looking alien equivalents to helicopters. They had what looked like rotor blades on the top of their fuselage but they rotated so slowly there was no way that they were what was propelling the helicopter forward. Daniel looked down to his gunner and spoke. "Hey Timmy what do you think are the weak points on those walkers?" He asked his gunner who looked down the sight at the approaching alien horde.

"I would probably say the legs. If we can destroy them those walkers will fall right over and block the way for the infantry." Tim said to Daniel who nodded his head. The aliens had closed to ten kilometers.

"Ok ladies and gents we are going to wait to open fire until they are two thousand meters in front of us. I know that the Abrams has the range to engage them at four thousand meters but our guns are not nearly as accurate out at that distance. The Bradleys are to engage the walkers when we do as to not expose our position. Infantry you guys engage these metal bastards when they get in range for your weapons. But hear this, no matter what happens the aliens don't get past us. Those civilians back there are virtually defenseless without our help, and from what I have heard from those people these "Neuroi" are ruthless and massacre civilians without mercy; and I will be damned if I am going to let that happen no matter where these people are from. Does everyone understand the battle plan?" McKnight said to the men and few women of the 32nd MCG.

"Yes Master Sergeant!" They all shouted in unison. McKnight smiled at that. He was a veteran of the civil war in Russia and had fought during the battle in Sevastopol where a division of Ultranationalist T-80UM-1s engaged two battalions of American armor in a no holds bar beat down that lasted a good forty eight hours and ended in McKnight scoring seven kills. Daniel loved tank on tank engagements, but the problem was they were rare in the 21st Century; mostly now the wars were low intensity conflicts against poorly armed insurgent groups. It had been five long years since that tank battle and Daniel the Slugger was itching for another armor engagement. These alien walkers might not be tanks but they were probably the alien's closest equivalents so it would have to do. The aliens were five kilometers away from him; it looked like even the infantry was made of metal. Daniel looked at some of the infantry armed with M16s and wondered if they would cut it against the aliens; he shook his head. No explosives are going to be doing all of the work today. Daniel thought as he looked down the range finder they were three thousand meters away now; only a few more seconds. Now they were twenty five hundred meters away; almost there. They were at two thousand meters now.

"ALL UNITS OPEN FIRE!" Daniel shouted as all twelve Abrams and the two dozen Bradleys opened fire in unison. Twelve bright spears of light shot out from the M256 120mm cannon sending a DPU slug at mach six towards the horde of aliens. Each of the Sabots struck home two alien walkers exploded out right while some lost legs and other just had the DPU dart pass through their armor with very little damage. Then to Daniel's horror the walkers that were damaged started to regenerate. Then the TOW missiles hit their targets destroying six of the walkers. "All units switch to HEAT rounds!" Daniel shouted hoping that the High Explosive Anti Tank rounds would be more effective than the silver bullets. Johnny his loader shouted.

"HEAT UP!" Johnny shouted to Daniel.

"FIRE!" Daniel shouted.

"On the way!" Timmy shouted in return pressing the firing studs and sending the heat round down range this time impacting center mass. The HEAT shells detonated against the Neuroi sending a shaped charge of explosive power straight into the Neuroi walker's body causing the walker to explode into white fragments. Johnny and Timmy let out cheers as they watched as more shells smacked into the Neuroi destroying them. Daniel smiled and chomped on the tooth pick in his mouth.

"Spread the word ladies and gentlemen; tell all the tanks to load up on HEAT shells for all future engagements they cut through these alien walkers with like a knife through warm butter." Daniel said to HQ. Daniel then looked back to his unit and shouted. "All units fire at will stomp on these bastards." Daniel said as the 32nd opened up on the Neuroi destroying several more walkers and damaging several others which started to repair themselves. Man I wonder what these people were so scared of these Neuroi seem like total push… Daniel was cut off mid thought as the Neuroi returned fire sending dozens of beams of blood red light into his unit; instantly five Bradley IFVs and three Abrams went dark as they were utterly obliterated by the beams of light. "What the fuck they just destroyed Abrams tanks in one shot!" Daniel shouted to no one in particular. "All units start maneuver warfare don't stay still if those beams touch you they will shred your tank like you were driving a T-55!" Daniel ordered his unit as Ken his driver started to pull away and begin to perform evasive maneuvers. Then the alien air support flew by firing their lasers at the tanks and infantry below them. Two more Bradleys and a dozen foot soldiers were killed by the marauding aliens. The Avengers opened up with stingers against the aliens. Six missiles struck the first two helicopters destroying both of them; while the other two helicopters flew around and fired lasers at the SPSAMs destroying both of them in brilliant flashes of light. One of the soldiers in his unit fired a Javelin at one of the helicopters blowing it apart in a brilliant explosion. The alien infantry closed ranks with the human defenders firing their lasers at the human foot soldiers blowing a person apart with each direct hit. Timmy fired a HEAT round into a cluster of four alien infantry blowing them all apart in a gigantic explosion. He then switched targets to fire at one of the alien walkers destroying it with a direct hit to the main body. Daniel then manned the CROWS controlled fifty cal and started to fire at some approaching infantry. Each of the AP rounds fired from the HMG knocked chunks of armor off the alien which just seemed to regenerate until the creature was out right killed by the machine gun. In one case one of the aliens got its head blown off only for it to grow back and start shooting at Daniel's tank again. Daniel looked to his blue force tracker to see that eight of the Abrams had been knocked out and fifteen Bradleys were also destroyed. Daniel then looked back to the screen and saw another Walker stomping into the city attacking the Army grunts while covering its infantry that were advancing. "Gunner enemy walker 9 o'clock; load HEAT!" Daniel shouted to his loader and gunner.

"HEAT ready!" Johnny shouted back to Johnny and Daniel.

"Fire!" Daniel shouted.

"On the way!" Timmy shouted sending the 120mm HEAT shell speeding towards the walker hitting its rear and sending the walker to ground but not destroying it. Daniel noticed a red spherical object in the exposed area of the alien's body. Then alien started to regenerate.

"HEAT Ready!" Johnny shouted again.

"Aim for that orb fire!" Daniel shouted.

"On the way!" Timmy shouted once more sending another shell into the exposed orb of red energy destroying the alien and killing some of its nearby infantry. Daniel looked into the CROWS again and spotted an enemy infantry unit that had a large weapon like arm that because of his years of experience in tank on tank warfare, Daniel instantly recognized it as some form of Anti-tank weapon. Daniel swiveled the fifty cal towards the alien only for the CROWS to be destroyed by a concentrated laser blast.

"Shit Ken get us out of here!" Daniel yelled to his driver. Just then the tank shuttered as a laser blast detonated the side mounted ERA. Then another laser smacked into the side of the tank tracking the tank making it little more that an extremely expensive target. "Gunner take out the tank hunter!" Daniel shouted to Timmy who moved the turret so it would face the alien creature. Another laser blast struck the tank this time destroying the main gun.

"Main gun destroyed sir!" Timmy shouted to Daniel. Then another laser blast hit the side of the turret and Daniel could actually see the armor start to melt. Then another laser blast and the turret started to melt away. Then Daniel heard the smart grenade launcher fire before another laser blast destroyed the launcher. Then Daniel saw a blade cut through the melting armor and start to peel back the armor exposing Daniel and his crew to the open air. Daniel pulled out his M9 and pulled back the slide pointing the loaded 9mm pistol at the opening breach. Daniel then saw the body of some half man half spider looking creature that represented Neuroi infantry. Daniel started to fire but his bullets hardly put a dent in the creature it just seemed to piss it off. The alien then cut a big enough hole to stick its laser weapon arm into before a burst of machinegun fire shredded the creature causing it to explode into white shards. Then a second later a young blonde haired girl with animal ears and wearing a WW2 era Canadian uniform and some weird devices on her bare legs carrying a Thompson SMG in one hand jumped up on the tank and looked into to the crew compartment.

"Hey thanks for holding the Neuroi back Master Sergeant but we can take it from here. Tell your men to pull back and regroup." The girl said to him.

"Thanks we will but… who and what are you?" Daniel asked the girl who smiled back at him.

"My name is Major Samantha V. Walters the current commander of the 3rd Land Battle Witches otherwise known as the Iron Witches." Samantha explained to him. Then two other young pants less girls wearing strange devices on their legs and carrying fucking tank cannons drove up behind Samantha.

"Hey Sam come on; we got Neuroi to kill!" one of them said to her in an unmistakable Texan accent. Samantha looked back to her and spoke.

"Alright I will be there in a sec." She said to the other girl before turning back to Daniel. "It looks like your tank got tracked so I will hang back to cover you for a minute while you run off… now go!" Samantha said to Daniel who nodded.

"Yes ma'am! Come on men let's get the hell out of here." Daniel said to his men as he started to climb out of the tank and run for safety.

Over Atlanta USA

Captain Kei Nagase "Edge"

17:00 local time

Kei watched as dozens of black fighter sized alien craft dueled with about twenty or so F-16s and about five F-35As that had been deployed to the city which was burning to the ground as a large diamond shaped alien craft the size of a frigate fired lasers into the city.

"Oh are you fucking kidding me we have to take on that! What is this Independence Day!" Chopper shouted over the radio. Kei and the rest of Wardog flight were super cruising in towards Atlanta with a full load of AMRAAMs and AIM-9s loaded into their F-22s.

"Quite Chopper you are going to freak Grimm out!" Blaze shouted to Chopper over the radio. Kei watched on her radar as an F-16 was shot down by one of the alien fighter craft. Kei then heard over the radio the panicking other pilots who were screaming from reinforcements and to cover each other as the aliens doggedly pursued them. Kei saw the city burning against the backdrop of the setting sun. The once proud and beautiful financial district's sky scrapers were collapsing or otherwise marred by the destructive blasts of laser fire from the alien's capitol ship. Even the GNN headquarters building had been destroyed in the opening moments of the attack; it was a pity Kei really liked GNN much more than she did those right winged idiots at Liberty News; or those correct but naïve news anchors on Dove New Company. It was a shame Atlanta was such a beautiful city now it might never recover from this attack… no Atlanta had been destroyed once before and it was rebuilt bigger and better than ever… even now Atlanta could be repaired and made whole again; that is what American's did you knock down some buildings and they will avenge the deaths of their fallen and rebuild. Then the AWACS spoke over the radio.

"This is Thunderhead to Wardog squadron the unidentified aircraft are attacking civilians and have already destroyed several aircraft. You are authorized to engage targets at will destroy all hostiles in the AO; come back to base to refuel and rearm as needed." Thunderhead spoke over an open channel to the members of Wardog flight.

"Roger that Thunderhead we are one mike out from weapons range. Is there any other units coming to assist us?" Blaze asked Thunderhead.

"Roger we have two wings of F-15Cs heading towards your location loaded with AMRAAMs and Sidewinders they will provide whatever assistance they can." Thunderhead said to Blaze. Two full wings; that is seventy two aircraft; good we will need whatever assistance we can in dealing with these things. Edge selected a target coming into weapons range now.

"All aircraft you are clear to engage hostile at will splash all the bandits!" Blaze shouted over the radio.

"Roger!" the three other members of Wardog said over the radio as they picked targets and locked on. Edge selected the nearest hostile fighter and fired an AMRAAM which shot out from the weapons bay and sped towards the target. The hostile fighter didn't attempt evasive maneuvers perhaps it didn't realize it was being fired at either way it didn't matter as long as she shot this alien bastard down. The missile impacted on the right wing of the alien craft destroying it in a single hit. Edge pushed forward on the throttle and shot off towards the aliens on full afterburner pushing her aircraft towards mach 2. The radio came alive with pilots saying sighs of relief to know that reinforcements had finally come. Edge changed targets and selected an alien fighter turning weapons hot towards Wardog flight. Edge fired another AMRAAM flying straight and true towards its target detonating dead center destroying the craft.

"Break formation and engage all hostiles as they present themselves Blaze out." Blaze said as he broke formation and climbed one thousand meters to get a better angle of attack against the alien aircraft. Edge turned her aircraft towards the right to engage a flight of two small alien aircraft that were closing in towards the city. They were roughly the same size as a MIG-21 according to her radar. Edge selected both aircraft and fired two missiles one for each bandit. They were in visual range at this point; they both reminded edge of those German Natter interceptor prototype from world war two. The aircraft despite moving at mach 2 failed to notice that she was there perhaps it was because the stealth her aircraft possessed allowed it to remain undetected to their radars. If that was so it was one advantage humanity had over these aliens. Both of her missiles struck their targets obliterating the alien aircraft. Kei then turned to face the other aliens over Atlanta.

"This is Coyote 0-2 I am hit punching out!" A youngish sounding woman with a southern accent said as her aircraft started to spiral towards the ground its rear tail missing. The canopy shot off and the ejection rockets activated shooting the young woman out of the cockpit and into the open air. Then another woman's voice was heard over the radio.

"Lee Anne are you alright, talk to me!" The other woman said to Coyote 0-2.

"Don't worry about me I am ok I…" Lee Anne was cut off as an alien fighter fired its lasers at her incinerating her.

"NOOOOO YOU INHUMAN MONSTERS I'LL KILL YOU ALL!" The other woman shouted over the radio as she turned to engage the alien pilot who had killed her wingman. Kei then spotted another alien craft that was heading towards her it had a good angle of attack on her and she jerked her stick back and slammed on the air breaks to force an over shoot. The alien fired its lasers missing her by a wide margin frankly wider than it should have been perhaps this alien was just a very bad shot. Kei then forced her aircraft's nose down and switched to her cannon as the alien craft flew past her. Kei lined up the target in her gun sight and pulled the trigger sending a stream of 20mm cannon rounds at the target that shredded the aircrafts body causing it to explode into white shards. Kei then pushed forward on the throttle to avoid a stall and started to search for her next target. Then Kei noticed missiles coming in from the west destroying a dozen of the alien fighter craft.

"This is Mantis 1-1 sorry we are late; we will engage all hostile aircraft in the vicinity." The commander of one of the F-15 Eagle squadrons said over the radio as over seventy Eagles flew in at mach 2.5 towards Atlanta. Kei turned her attention over to the alien mother ship that was taking no notice of the incoming Air Force fighter planes and continuing to fire its lasers into the city below. Kei locked onto the craft and fired two AMRAAMS at the alien; both of the spears of fire and smoke shot out towards the alien aircraft smashing into its body but doing little damage.

"Shit this is Edge the alien mother ship is heavily armored I don't think I have the firepower to take it out on my own. I suggest that we attack it simultaneously." Kei said to the other members of Wardog flight.

"This is Archer understood." Grimm said over the radio.

"This is Chopper, I hear you loud and clear I am swinging over to attack the target now." Chopper said over the radio.

"This is Blaze I am acquiring the target now. On my mark fire all of your remaining AMRAAMs at the alien mother ship. 1…2…3… fire!" Blaze shouted over the radio. Kei fired her last remaining AMRAAM sending the missile towards the large alien aircraft. Eight of the most advanced air to air missiles in the world smashed into the alien craft at once and it didn't do a damn thing it just kept on moving firing its laser at the civilians below.

"Shit I don't think our AMRAAMs are going to cut it. Do you think we can get the Navy to fire some Tomahawks at it?" Chopper said over the radio to Blaze.

"I don't know; I don't think we have any naval assets in the area." Blaze replied then over the radio a young woman's voice spoke.

"This is Wing Commander Helmina Lent of the Karlsland Air Force to all allied aircraft. I am coming in from the east using the city for cover. I will handle the super heavy you just keep the fighters off of me." Helmina said to all of the American Air Force aircraft in the area.

"What where did you come from and what the hell is Karlsland?" Asked an American pilot.

"It's a country just like Liberion. Look it up on a map later if you don't know where it is." Helmina said to the pilot. Then Kei saw something that she had to do a double take on. Emerging from the smoke of the burning city below; a young brown haired girl in a black uniform with strange airplane like propellers on her legs flew up into the air wielding a massive auto cannon. The alien creature fired at her and Kei looked away to avoid seeing the young girl get fried by the laser. "Damn bastard!" Helmina shouted as she started to fire her auto cannon. Kei looked back to see a blue circle blocking the laser blast from hitting Helmina. Heavy caliber shells smashed into the alien and started to blow big chunks of armor of the aircraft's body which started to regenerate. "Oh no you don't you Neuroi piece of shit!" Helmina shouted as she raised altitude and attacked the top section of the aircraft lasers bouncing off her shields. Helmina's auto cannon roared to life sending a stream of high explosive shells into the alien. Kei then saw on the top of the creature a massive red sphere of energy which was probably the power core or something become exposed to the open air. Helmina fired again striking the power unit which caused the alien aircraft to explode into giant white shards which fell to the earth below.

"Holy shit did you see that?" Chopper asked to anyone who was paying attention.

"Yeah I saw that." Blaze simply stated. Then he spoke to Helmina. "Wing Commander… I don't know if you can hear this but if you can follow us back to base for a debriefing we will provide top cover for you. Mantis wing will take out any remaining aliens in the air." Blaze said to the young girl with the airplanes on her legs.

"Understood I will follow after your unit." She said as she started to follow after them. Edge slowed down so Helmina could keep up with her and follow her back to base. It was then that Helmina flew up beside Edge and looked in to her. Helmina was a young girl maybe eighteen or nineteen years old. She had dark brown hair and fair skin. But perhaps the most unusual thing about her was the fact that she had to ears and tail of a cat and some set of glowing green diamonds floating next to her face. She looked to Kei and smiled giving a quick salute to which Kei returned awkwardly. Kei then realized something. She had shot down four enemy aircraft today. Which means that she had shot down a total of seven aircraft making her an ace; and not only that, but she was the first ace of Japanese descent since world war two. But Kei was not in the mood to celebrate; she looked to the ground below seeing not only the burning buildings but the fiery funeral pyres of the fallen aircraft. How many pilots would not be making it home tonight? And more importantly how many civilians had died in Atlanta alone. From what Kei had heard there was fighting going on elsewhere in the United States and in other parts of the world. How many of these aliens had come for this invasion of earth? Was this only the vanguard of their invading army? If so they were in for a long war.

Over Beijing People's Republic of China

Lieutenant Cui Yifei squadron leader of Bao-Feng Flight PLAAF

06:23 local time

Cui was not meant to be a fighter pilot. Well perhaps that is only half true. The Party wanted her to be a fighter pilot, but one who was never going to see combat. She and the rest of Bao-Feng Flight were meant to be recruitment tools. They were supposed to perform acrobatic maneuvers at air shows, pose for sexy calendars and picture and star in recruitment commercials and other more unsavory duties that Cui would rather not think about. High Command never thought that her and her flight would be involved in combat. During the closing days of the invasion… whoops scratch that "liberation" of Taiwan, Bao-Feng flight performed a propaganda related CAP mission to further recruit more volunteers into the PLAAF. However the camera man riding in her back seat at the time didn't expect that the Nationalists would still have a flight of F-16s ready to intercept them. Well to make a long story short Cui and her flight had all scored a kill apiece and the four of them were made official combat pilots and were sent to be part of the Air Defense district of Beijing. Again something that would have kept them out of combat; because who in their right mind would ever dare attack the most populace country on the planet with the world's third largest Air Force… well no one seemed to have told these laser shooting alien bastards that. A mysterious weather anomaly had appeared over the city of Taipei and a swarm of alien aircraft had surged forward slaughtering the "liberation troops" and destroying several PLAN destroyers. Then the aliens surged forward towards Beijing. Naturally… high command panicked for several critical minutes before authorizing interceptors to protect the city. By that time an entire neighborhood (read as slum) had been destroyed and over ten thousand people had been killed. First on the scene were the 11th Tactical Fighter Wing in J-8 interceptors who now were mostly burning funeral pyres dotting the city below. Then the 33rd Interceptor Division was deployed with nearly 100 J-7s which were upgraded licensed (and unlicensed) copies of Russia's Mig-21 about a half hour into the air battle the 33rd Interceptor Division was barely worth calling a plus sized squadron. Finally command authorized Bao-Feng flight to mobilize and Cui and her girls climbed into their J-10A Dragons and took off to do their damn job. It took Bao-Feng flight ten minutes to reach the city from their base and when they arrived… boy what a mess. Anti-aircraft gunners on the cities rooftops fired randomly into the sky chasing after the supersonic alien fighter aircraft mostly missing. While SAM sites concentrated on attacking the larger strategic bomber sized flying wing bombers that were leveling block after block of homes in the city. So far the aliens had been kept from the government sector of the city no doubt the party officials were shitting themselves and screaming at the pilots and ground troops to prioritize all of the defenses around them. The remaining fighter aircraft over the city were dropping like flies before the aliens; bright beams of light tore through the dart like J-7s which were mostly loaded with apparently ineffective heat seeking missiles.

"This is Bao-Feng 0-1 to Command Post requesting permission to engage all hostile targets at will." Cui said to the control tower leading the air defense of Beijing.

"Standby Bao-Feng 0-1…" the ground controller said to Cui who rolled her eyes. You couldn't even wipe your ass without having to get permission first it seemed like in this army. "Granted Bao-Feng 0-1 you are clear to engage and destroy all hostiles at will, but prioritize the defense of the government sector first." The control tower told her.

"Roger that Command Post engaging all hostile targets." Cui said over the radio and selected one of her PL-12 radar guided missiles. "All units engage targets at will watch each other's six and be careful of any stray flak. Cui said as she pushed the throttle forward and accelerated past mach 2 and locked onto the nearest target.

"Roger!" her flight said as they broke formation and started to select targets. Cui pulled the trigger and sent a PL-12 straight for an alien fighter craft that was pursuing a fleeing J-7. The missile passed over head of the J-7 and the warhead detonated a few meters from the top of the alien craft showering it in metal fragments and ripping the aircraft apart. Cui then noticed on her radar that two of the enemy aircraft had turned to face her and moved up to match speed with her. Cui selected the first enemy fighter and fired a missile which sped towards the aircraft which tried to perform an evasive maneuver to no avail. The missile struck home and destroyed the enemy aircraft in a single hit. Cui saw as the black alien craft exploded into white metal shards. Strange she had never seen an exploding vehicle do that before. Then Cui shifted to the second aircraft and fired another missile this time the alien craft fired its laser as a last ditch point defense method and destroyed the incoming missile. Cui swore and pulled back on her stick to gain altitude and avoid a mid air collision. She then switched to her cannon and flipped her aircraft inverted and started to roll back towards the enemy aircraft which was turning to engage her. Cui saw the laser ports on its wings charge and prepare to fire. Cui got her gun sight over the alien craft and fired a quick half second burst with her twin barreled 23mm canon which spat a dozen shells out of which four hit. The alien craft jerked to the right and fired its laser missing her J-10 by a few meters. Cui and the alien passed by each other only ten meters apart. Cui saw that it was a jet black diamond shaped craft with V tails and two red hexagons on its wings and two smaller red hexagons on the underside of its nose. The aircraft seemed to be regenerating the damaged it had sustained from her cannon fire. It could be killed, but it could repair itself if it wasn't killed outright; good to know. Cui slammed on the air breaks and pulled a high-G back flip and as she did so she switched to her PL-12s and got a solid lock on the alien craft and pulled the trigger sending the missile at the turning alien craft smashing into the top of the craft destroying it. Cui then was violently jerked side to side as a stray flak shell detonated ten meters from her left wing sending several fragments through the wing and destabilizing her craft. Cui struggled to regain control as her aircraft fell to the ground. She flipped her aircraft so it was right side up and hit the throttle leveling out a thousand meters above the ground.

"You fucking dumb asses! Command Post; tell those flak gunners to watch their fire they peppered my aircraft with a shell fragment and nearly killed me!" Cui growled at the ground control officer who replied angrily.

"The gunners are trying to defend the seat of the People's Revolution! Do your job as a fighter pilot and avoid the flak." The ground controller told her. Cui gritted her teeth.

"Unless you want a dead pilot and a multimillion yen aircraft turned into a burning wreck on the ground as a monument to your stupidity I suggest you tell the gunners to back off you pencil pusher!" Cui shouted back as she spotted another target and fired a missile at it which sliced through the alien fighter like a knife through butter.

"Lieutenant Yifei I suggest you watch your tongue woman! I will have your political officer write you up for this!" the ground controller said to her with clear anger at his voice.

"Well you can tell my political officer that he can go su… I mean he can reprimand me when I get back to base." Cui said as she let out a sigh. She had to watch her tongue last time she was defiant towards her commissar it didn't end well for her or her flight. Then she looked and saw the big alien craft as well as the remaining fighters turned to head back to sea and back to Taipei. Cui looked at her radar to see an entire Wing worth of J-20s and a division of J-11s and a division of JF-17s with a KJ-2000 AEW craft flying towards Beijing. It looked like command had finally managed to get their acts together and gather for a counter attack. Cui saw the flak bursts and missile trails of the ground units firing after the fleeing aliens destroying a handful of them. Cui looked down at the ground to see all of the destruction on the ground. Cui shook her head. If only the reinforcements had gotten here sooner maybe more people could have been saved. Then again this was the party of the PRC they were talking about here… to the Communist Party of China… human life was cheap.

Somewhere in Oklahoma USA

Private Cord Drescher

18:09 local time

"Keep firing you bastards; don't stop shooting until they are all dead!" shouted a sergeant a few meters to Cord's left. Hundreds of Panthers and Tigers fired into the thousands of Neuroi assaulting their position. Cord and his unit were being assailed by Turtle class, Tortoise class, a few Behemoth class Neuroi and even two massive Storm class Neuroi striding across the battlefield on their three massive legs as they moved forwards firing massive lasers out of their twin barreled guns located under their bodies. In addition to the larger Neuroi there were also thousands of infantry class Neuroi surging forward baying and screeching for blood as they moved forward firing their lasers at Cord and his comrades. It was strange they had been in the middle of nowhere for a few hours now. There was a bright white light and then a flash and suddenly the entire 3rd Assault Corps went from being in Romagna to being in some forsaken desert. About forty five minutes ago a large group of Neuroi were spotted on the horizon and the 3rd Assault Corps went into action setting up fortifications and preparing defensive positions. But that would do them little good against the array of forces attacking them now. Dozens of heavy artillery shells detonated against the ground and destroyed a few of the smaller strains with each burst. Then the Flak 88s opened fire destroying a few of the Turtle and Tortoise classes in the front. Cord fired his MP40 at the Neuroi infantry closing in a few rounds struck a few of the Neuroi infantry but it really didn't do much to them other then piss them off. The Neuroi fired back sending beams of energy into the tanks and men in front of them. Tiger and Panther tanks atomized under the force of the laser beams fired by the Behemoths; and the men in the trenches were fried by the high heat weapons. MG42s opened up against the Neuroi sending streams of lead towards them cutting down a few of the infantry. One of the soldiers in Cord's squad named Hans fired a Panzerfaust rocket at a Turtle that was nearby sending the large shaped charged warhead smashing into the alien adversary staggering the creature back. Cord fired at the Turtle whose core was beginning to be exposed. The puny 9mm rounds from his SMG bounced off the Neuroi's hull doing no damage. Cord would need something heavier if he wanted to take out the Neuroi; something like a rifle preferably. Cord then reloaded and popped his head out from his trench and fired a long burst into an oncoming Neuroi, each round struck home eventually exposing the core which was hit three times by Cord's 9mm rounds causing the creature to explode. Cord once again reloaded then pulled out a grenade and tossed it over the top of the trench, exploding amongst the midst of the Neuroi. Hans and Günter the other man near him fired their STG44s at the wounded Neuroi finishing the wounded ones off.

"Come on we got to fall back the Neuroi are about to overrun our position!" shouted Günter to Hans who nodded and they started to retreat back to the secondary lines. Panther tanks fired shell after shell into the Neuroi to slow them down but the Neuroi kept coming. Cord followed after his two squad mates as laser fire smashed all around him. To Cord's left a soldier was hit by a laser and was bisected falling to the ground in two pieces. Then to Cord's horror Flying Goblet class Neuroi appeared firing Neuroified bullets at the human soldier below each time one of the explosive rounds hit a soldier he was blown to bits. Flak tanks fired their quad 20mm cannons at the Neuroi destroying a small handful of them before they themselves were destroyed by Neuroi laser fire. Cord then jumped into another trench and turned back to face the Neuroi onslaught. One hundred and fifty meters ahead of Cord several man shaped Neuroi with what looked like massive flame tanks on their backs fired purple flames from their arms into an unfortunate squad in a trench below.

"They use flamethrowers now!" shouted a soldier in the trench with Cord.

"It doesn't matter we will destroy these aliens all the same. Come on men, fire!" Cord shouted as he fired his SMG at the flamethrower troops, his bullets impacting the armor but doing little damage. The Neuroi units turn to face them and started to advance. Then MG42s opened up on the Neuroi with the flamethrowers two powerful LMGs opened up on the nearest of the two, and peppered it with enough rounds to expose the core which was destroyed after a few hits. Then a rocket hit the remaining flamethrower Neuroi killing it in a concussive blast. Cord then saw more Neuroi infantry advance towards them. Tiger tanks from the fourth armored company fired at the Neuroi with their powerful 88mm guns loaded with HE rounds, which smashed into the Neuroi killing two or three with each shot. Cord and his squad added their own fire to the mix sending hundreds of rounds at the Neuroi killing a few that advanced up the hill after them. The Turtle class Neuroi fired their lasers at the Tigers killing five out right in brilliant fireballs that sent shrapnel in all directions cutting down any unfortunate soldiers caught nearby. Then the massive Storm classes lumbered towards the human lines; they fired their massive laser beams into one of the fortified positions killing dozens of soldiers in an instant. The artillery concentrated on them several shells smashing into the two Storm classes but doing nothing more than superficial damage to them. Cord then saw a Behemoth stomp forward on its two massive legs 75mm shells from Panther tanks impacted against its body doing very little damage. The Behemoth looked towards the tanks that shot at it. The Neuroi's laser sent a focused beam of energy at the Panthers slicing them apart with ease. Rocket artillery joined the crescendo of death smashing into the Neuroi lines and destroying several of the creatures. Cord saw a few Neuroi infantry closing in on their position; Cord raised his SMG and fired at them bullets staggering them back but not stopping their advance. Hans and Günter fired their assault rifles at the Neuroi which killed a few of them. Cord checked his ammo count. He was down to one magazine. He had to make this count. He loaded the clip in and scanned for targets. Streams of 20mm cannon fire filled the air as flying goblets made their attack runs killing infantry by the dozens. Two of the goblets were brought down by the concentrated Anti-Aircraft fire but still they came unafraid of death at the hands of the human defenders.

"Shit we need air support if we want to survive this!" A soldier shouted to no one in particular.

"Yeah but where are we going to get it from? We are out in the middle of nowhere so unless you can pull a few squadrons of Fw-190s out of your ass I suggest you shut the fuck up and keep firing your weapon!" An NCO shouted back at whoever had said that. This was fucking ridiculous Cord was going to die out here with all of these other assholes he despised and no one would ever no one care about it. And knowing Krupke, if the illustrious general of the fatherland survived he would probably say something like Cord died in a traffic accident or something to make Cord come off as a giant pussy to any outsider who may have heard about the battle. Just then a Neuroi soldier jumped down into the trench and stabbed a soldier to Cord's left. Cord aimed his SMG and emptied the entire magazine into the Neuroi blowing off chunks of metal with each shot. The Neuroi's core eventually was exposed to open air and Cord tried to fire his weapon at the core to kill the creature but his weapon clicked empty. Cord then shouted a battle cry and flipped his gun around to smash the core with the butt of his SMG. Cord slammed his stock into the core as hard as he could, fracturing the core further and further with each strike of his gun. Eventually the core shattered, killing the Neuroi. Cord then slung his SMG and picked up the fallen soldiers Kar98k rifle and pulled back the bolt. It was an old but workable weapon; and given the situation it was better than going into battle with nothing but his hands and foul language. Cord then aimed his rifle and fired at one of the Neuroi staggering it back as the powerful 7.92mm rifle cartridge struck the Neuroi. Cord pulled the bolt back again and fired doing further damage to the Neuroi. He fired again and again finally exposing the core which he shot with a precisely aimed shot that destroyed the core. Cord then loaded a fresh clip into the rifle and pulled back on the bolt to load another cartridge. The Neuroi were starting to close the distance between both units' lines; it was time to fall back once more. Cord and the other soldier of Karlsland got out of their trenches and started to run further back towards the command tent where General Krupke would make his last stand if, or rather when, it finally came down to that. Cord saw a Flying Goblet fire its machine guns into a squad of fleeing soldiers cutting them to pieces with its shells. Twin flak bursts avenged the fallen soldiers as they brought the Neuroi down. Cord tossed a stick grenade at the Neuroi which landed a few meters away from a Neuroi squad and caused them to stagger a bit. Cord then fired his rifle at one of them causing the Neuroi to take cover in one of the trenches. More Neuroi infantry started to pour into the trench in front of Cord mimicking the human defensive tactic. They raised their bodies over the lip of the trench exposing just enough of their bodies to fire their lasers without putting their cores at risk. Cord then saw a pioneer with a flamethrower try and jump into the trench with Cord only to have a well placed shot by a goblet take his head off. The decapitated corpse fell to the ground next to Cord.

"Fuck… ok I am going to use the flamethrower on the Neuroi in the trenches cover me!" Cord shouted as he put on the heavy flamethrower and started to get up from the trench as machine gun fire covered his advance. He ran ten meters then hit the deck and started to crawl towards the Neuroi position. Laser fire started to hit the ground near him and a Tortoise class started to head towards him only to be killed by twin shots from a pair of Panzer IVs. Mortars and Artillery shells covered his advance as he crawled towards the Neuroi position. He got within twenty meters of the Neuroi position when he sent a jet of flame towards the Neuroi setting two alight. Cord got up and covered the remaining distance to the trench. He stood over the trench and shot another jet of flame towards the trench lighting the remaining Neuroi on fire. The Neuroi screeched in pain as they started to burst into metallic shards. After six years of fighting the Neuroi nonstop, humans had learned one thing; Neuroi really don't like fire. Cord then pivoted to his left where a Neuroi soldier started to aim his weapon at him. Cord shot out another jet of flame killing the alien creature where it stood. Cord then started to sprint back towards allied lines avoiding lasers to the best of his ability. Cord jumped into the trench right next to Hans who looked at Cord with a smirk.

"Not bad witch lover seems like you aren't useless after all." Hans said to him. Cord rolled his eyes and looked back towards the battlefield. The Neuroi were still advancing killing hundreds of soldiers as they moved up. All forty thousand men of the 3rd Assault Corps had thrown nearly everything they had against the Neuroi and they couldn't even slow the Neuroi down. Mankind was truly doomed if the Neuroi could muster this many units for an attack. Then Cord heard a strange sound from above. It sounded like some kind of rocket or something. Cord looked up in time to see two falling rockets explode in the air and shower dozens of small munitions down on the Neuroi destroying several of the Turtle and Tortoise class Neuroi as well as dozens of the infantry classes that were in the open. Even the massive Behemoth classes were damaged in the attack.

"What the fuck was that and who fired those wonder weapons?" Günter asked to no one in particular. Cord thought to himself. Something told him that he was about to find out.

Somewhere in Oklahoma USA

General Ekkard Krupke

18:32 local time

The sounds of battle filled the command tent that General Ekkard Krupke was preparing to make his final stand in. That strange flash of noise and light that transported his unit here; what was that and would it come again to perhaps save him and his unit before they were annihilated by the Neuroi? No, Ekkard couldn't count on that light to save his unit, he would have to fight this battle to the very end, his hand had been dealt and now he had to play it. Krupke then heard one of his soldiers say something to him as he ran into the command tent.

"Herr General some strange Wunderwaffen was fired at the Neuroi." The soldier said to Krupke who looked at the young Private First Class who was covered in the blood of his fallen comrades.

"What are you talking about what wonder weapons?" Krupke asked the Private.

"Two super rockets came out of the sky and exploded in the air showering the Neuroi with smaller explosives taking out a handful of Turtles and Tortoises and killing a few dozen infantry a piece." The soldier said to Krupke who went to look outside seeing the battlefield before him. Still thousands of Neuroi of all types were attacking his men with the frontlines being six kilometers from his command tent but Krupke could see a big gap in the lines of the Neuroi and several Behemoth classes were regenerating large wounds on the top sections of their bodies. Strange what weapons could have done that to a Behemoth; in Krupke's experience only several direct hits with flak 88s could even remotely damage a Behemoth yet these ones seemed like they had taken serious damage; enough damage for them to slow down their assault against Krupke's position. Then a young Captain from the command tent came out and got Ekkard.

"Sir you are going to want to head to the radio; there is something you might want to hear on it." The Captain said to Krupke who started to head back into the radio room.

"Attention unidentified forces this is the 47th Heavy Bombardment Squadron heading in from the west… do you read me unidentified forces?" A man spoke over the radio to Krupke who got a hold of the microphone and spoke.

"This is General Ekkard Krupke of the 3rd Assault Corps of the glorious Karlsland Army; who is it that I'm speaking to, and what is your intention?" Krupke said to the mysterious man on the radio who took a second to respond.

"My name is Colonel Willis of the United States Air Force leading a flight of twelve B-52s coming in from the west to perform an Arc-Light strike on the enemy forces below. We are the first units on scene of the relief force sent to assist your unit." Colonel Willis said to Krupke who grabbed a hold of the Microphone and headed out of the tent and looked to the west. Krupke then looked through his binoculars and spotted a flight of twelve large dark grey swept winged aircraft. Each one had four engine pods located under the wings and the bomb bays were open.

"Only twelve bombers? I am sorry Colonel but you will need more than just twelve bombers to deal with the Neuroi forces attacking my position!" Krupke shouted to the bomber pilot, who chuckled in response.

"That is why we are only the Vanguard sir. Tell your men to take cover we are thirty seconds out." Colonel Willis told Krupke who then spoke over the radio to the various unit leaders to tell their units to take cover. Krupke himself got behind some crates and watched as the twelve "B-52s" flew overhead at around four thousand meters. The bombers flew over the Neuroi lines and started dropping their bombs. The earth rumbled as long lines of explosives ripped apart every Neuroi that had gotten caught in the blast wave. Krupke was in awe; with just twelve B-52s these men had dropped more bombs into such a small area than a hundred Liberion B-17s could have done. Who were these magnificent men and their wondrous weapons? Krupke looked upon the battlefield where the dust was starting to settle where there used to be hundreds of Turtles, Tortoises and Behemoths now there was only scorched earth. Even one of the massive Storm classes the Neuroi employed had been destroyed. Then Krupke heard the roar of jet engines and a pair of straight winged single seat aircraft with missile and bomb racks loaded under the wings flew overhead. The two aircraft first ripple fired two missiles apiece at the remaining Storm class both of them further damaging the already damaged super heavy walker. The strange aircraft then opened up with their cannons; massive shells spit out of the front of their aircrafts sending what had to be 25mm or maybe even 30mm shells at a blinding speed. The heavy shells smashed into the crippled Storm class and shredded what little armor was left and destroyed the core. The aircraft then flipped around started to fire missiles and cannons at the remaining Neuroi below. Krupke then noticed his men were cheering the strange aircraft and he even caught himself cheering before he stopped himself. Then over the hill to Krupke's left six dark green helicopters flew by each one had its short wings loaded with rocket and missile racks. The helicopters fired into the few remaining Flying Goblets with their cannons turning the armor of the enemy support craft into dust before destroying their cores. Then Krupke heard a voice over the radio.

"This is Major Carl Armstrong of the United States Army calling General Krupke of the 3rd Assault Corps Karlsland Army; do you read me sir?" Major Armstrong said to Krupke who quickly grabbed the microphone and began to speak.

"Yes this is General Krupke thank you for the rescue; tell your pilots they have my deepest gratitude!" Krupke said to Major Armstrong who chuckled a bit.

"Don't thank me yet General the battle is yet to be won. Tell your men to clear a path to the frontline we have two companies of M1A2s and a battalion of Mechanized infantry heading your way through the pass to the north. And I along with two platoons of helicopter troops will be landing at your location momentarily." The mysterious Major told Krupke.

"Roger that I will order my men to clear a path for your men Major!" Krupke said barely able to contain his excitement. Then coming from the pass to Krupke's North massive armored vehicles with long gun barrels mounted in boxy turrets rolled into view. They were the same vehicles that were used in that recruitment video on that device that damned Lilia woman owned. Then after that a few dozen eight wheeled armored vehicles with heavy machineguns mounted on top followed after the tanks. Wait this meant that these men were American! Krupke had done something amazing he had made contact with the other world. If Krupke could convince this America to come and fight for humanity in Krupke's world or at the very least sell weapons to Karlsland he would come home as a hero of Karlsland! The American tanks opened fire spitting heavy shells into the Neuroi left alive destroy one with each shell burst. The helicopters and attack planes continued to rain death on the Neuroi shredding the handful that remained. Then overhead a four propeller engine craft flew by. "Is that another bomber?" Krupke thought to himself. Then the aircraft started to circle the battlefield and a stream of red tracers spat out from the side of the aircraft with intermittent puffs of smoke sending what had to be artillery shells down on the Neuroi slicing apart the now fleeing aliens as they fled. "Marvelous!" Krupke said aloud. "Absolutely Marvelous! I could never have even dreamed of such amazing Wonder Weapons! What other magnificent weapons could the soldiers of this world have at their disposal!?" Krupke asked aloud to no one in particular. Then over the hill two dozen dark green transport helicopters flew overhead. Some had twin rotor blades the others were smaller and had a single rotor blade mounted on top with a smaller rotor mounted on the tail. The helicopters landed and squads of soldiers in light grey colored uniforms fanned out. Most headed towards the frontlines carrying weapons that looked similar to STG44 in hand; they sent burst of gunfire towards the Neuroi as they moved forward. A few stray infantry class Neuroi had made it this far into his lines but these mysterious American soldiers cut them down with ease with their automatic rifles. One of the strange soldiers fired what had to be a grenade out from a launcher mounted underneath his rifle, blowing a Neuroi to pieces in the process. Then one of the strange soldiers went to Krupke and Saluted.

"General Krupke; I am Major Armstrong we spoke over the radio." Armstrong said to Krupke who returned the salute.

"Thank you Major we are happy for the assistance you provided us. I was starting to think that our goose had been cooked by these alien bastards." Krupke said to Armstrong who smirked and nodded.

"Hey no problem my men will help your forces mop up any remaining Neuroi in the area. We had a flight of F-35s take out the alien aircraft that were heading towards your location. Right now we have secured air superiority over the state; and the Air Force and Navy are mopping up what was left of the alien aircraft that attacked Dallas and Houston." Armstrong said to Krupke. This was incredible! Mundane forces had managed to destroy an assault by Neuroi aircraft! Krupke desperately wished he could have seen video footage of those battles. Then Krupke looked down at Armstrong's weapon.

"So tell me Major what is that weapon you are using called?" Krupke asked Armstrong who looked at his rifle and spoke.

"Oh you mean this? This is an AK-47 assault rifle, re-cambered to fire the same type of rounds your STG44s fire." He told Krupke before handing the rifle to Krupke. "Here take a look for yourself; beside I prefer my M4 anyway." Armstrong said to Krupke who marveled at the weapon.

"Amazing… do you happen to have any spare rifles that my men can use for the time being?" Krupke asked with a hopeful look in his eyes.

"Yes sir. In fact my orders were to reequip your entire unit with AK-47s, RPG-7s and M-60s. Plus we got enough body armor and NVGs to equip your entire unit with them." Armstrong told Krupke as he gestured to some of his men offloading crates of munitions from the larger cargo helicopters. Krupke fought back a squeal of joy.

"Incredible you have my utmost gratitude… wait what are NVGs?" Krupke asked Armstrong who pulled out a pair of goggles.

"Ah yes, NVGs stand for Night Vision Goggles they allow a soldier to see in the dark almost as well as they can in the day. It is what allows the United States Army to fight a twenty four hour war." Armstrong said to Krupke. Krupke smiled at that. Finally his men and all of the rest of his world brave fighting men would not have to rely on those damned night witches for protection. "My orders are for my unit to attach itself to your unit to act as advisors and to make sure the transition to modern weaponry goes smoothly. After the area is secure we will have teams of engineers fly out here to provide modifications to your tanks and artillery units to bring them up to something close to 21st century standards sir. The upgrades should be able to boost your unit's combat efficiency against the Neuroi." Armstrong told Krupke who gave a genuine smile. These Americans were willing to give him some of their weapons and even upgrade some of his existing units to even greater levels of power. And not only that they were willing to fight alongside Krupke and his men. Truly this had to be one of the greatest days of his long life. Then a dark thought popped into Krupke's head as he remembered that Blonde Harlot who claimed to be a marine came to mind.

"This is great news Major I look forward to working with you and your men." Krupke told Armstrong. "But out of curiosity do you have any woman in your unit?" Krupke asked Armstrong who shook his head.

"Um no sir… some other units in the U.S. Army have woman in them; but mine sir does not." Armstrong told Krupke who nodded.

"Ah I see, very well then." He simply stated. Armstrong shrugged and then looked to the battlefield before speaking.

"Well… I am going to head off to the front to help out my men. Captain Lewis over there with the supply troops will answer any questions you may have sir." Armstrong told Krupke who nodded. Armstrong ran off towards the Neuroi and Krupke turned to face the Americans unloading the crates and smiled. Soldiers in his unit were pulling out more AK-47s and some pulled out rocket launchers that he assumed were the RPGs that Armstrong had told him about. Some men now wielding machine guns that looked like that had a similar lineage as the MG42 but were made to be handheld. Some Americans helped his soldiers put on body armor and night vision goggles. Yes this was truly a perfect day and with these wunderwaffens Krupke would soon bring glory to the fatherland.

South Carolina USA

First Lieutenant Nick Aristov "Steak"

19:22 local time

The main gun of the Sherman tank fired sending a low velocity HE shell straight for a Tortoise class Neuroi that exposed itself from behind a building. The shell struck home and blew off the front right leg and some of the armor on its main body. Reese his gunner loaded another HE shell in the main gun, and Dwayne his gunner fired another shell out towards the wounded Neuroi. The 75mm shell struck the main body and destroyed the core killing the alien creature.

"Yahoo that is another kill for us!" Nick shouted to his men below him. First Lieutenant Nick Aristov of 4th Marine Expeditionary Unit was a combat veteran who had been fighting the Neuroi in the pacific with the rest of General Lee Oliver's men for the last five years. He was Liberion's leading tank ace, and had destroyed now a total of forty five Neuroi walkers and more recently a few dozen of the Neuroi infantry. Nick should be a Major by now and in fact for a while he was… that was until those two fucking witches screwed up his career. Nick gritted his teeth at the thought of the Wallace sisters… for the life of him he didn't know what he did wrong; all he and his men did was teach those two a lesson for not respecting the dead enough. Then they go and shit on his career. After that Aristov's platoon was "transferred" (or more accurately renamed) to a penal unit and Aristov and all of his men received demotions. Fortunately General Oliver was a reasonable man who did not care for witches one bit, Oliver made sure that Aristov and his men would be put on fast tracks to be promoted back to their original ranks; and other than the name change nothing else really changed about Aristov's unit. But still those damned witches walked around in the military acting like they owned the place when really the only place they should be walking around is the kitchen. But now was not the time to think about such things; Nick had Neuroi to kill. Two platoons of riflemen with heavy weapons support along with a company of Sherman tanks and two Pershing tanks moved down the block of this strange neighborhood they found themselves in. A flight of F4U Corsairs loaded with rockets and Napalm flew overhead firing their rockets at Neuroi ground troops below. Nick and his unit were part of the spearhead of the assault into this strange area. All Nick was able to remember of the last few hours was a flash of light and suddenly being in the Pacific one moment to being in the middle of what Nick thought might have been Liberion the next moment. When Nick arrived in this area they saw in the distance a small town under attack by the Neuroi and Oliver and his men moved out from their base to intervene. For the last hour they had been fighting street to street; house to house for this town to see if they could stop the Neuroi and rescue anyone. So far there had been no survivors in the town. There was nothing to be seen but rampaging Neuroi, burning homes and corpses littering the road.

"5th Penal Platoon what do you see up ahead." Frankie one of the Pershing commanders asked Nick over the radio.

"Nothing Frankie, all I see is just a bunch of corpses and destroyed buildings." Nick said over the radio. Then Frankie spoke again.

"Yeah same here I think we might have cleared out most of the Neuroi though." Frankie replied. "You know those fucking witches say that they are here to protect mankind from the Neuroi and shit but I don't see a single fucking one of those little shits anywhere in the AO. What a bunch of fucking hypocrites." Frankie said over the radio.

"Yeah no kidding I am glad we don't have to work with them anymore. It makes my blood boil how they get to live in nice cozy billets away from the frontlines; while every day we sleep in the rain and mud under constant threat from the Neuroi. Those witches treat war like it's some kind of game and not what it really is… a man's job. That and those bitches have the gall to say we should cover them when they leave us twisting in the wind first chance they get." Nick replied. Like Nick pretty much everyone in the 4th MEU despised the witches.

"You know what pisses me off though about the witches? The fact that we have to spill our guts on the battlefield every day, and it's those fucking little girls who get all of the glory for it." Frankie told Nick who nodded inwardly. Over the course of this long war the conventional forces had borne the brunt of the fighting and took most of the causalities although you rarely heard stories about the bravery of mankind's fighting men, the papers were filled with nothing but the "tales of heroism and courage of mankind's saviors; the beautiful and noble witches". Nick rolled his eyes at that thought. If he ever found a reporter who would say something like that in front of him; Nick would punch the reporter's lights out. Just then Nick heard something over the noise of the tank engines. It sounded like some kind of jet engine that the Karlslander were experimenting with. Nick opened the hatch on his Sherman and looked out to see two strange looking hovering aircraft fly by. The aircraft fired rockets and cannons at some unseen Neuroi. Even though light was fading Nick could see the words "USMC" written on the tails of both aircraft. The jet engines mounted on the underside of the aircraft swiveled back and the aircraft started to return to level flight. Then a flight of four airplanes with engines mounted on both wing tips flew overhead. The engines on the aircraft titled upwards and the ramp at the rear came down. Soldiers roped down from the aircraft carrying strange looking rifles. One of the soldiers came up to Nick and saluted.

"I am Sergeant O' Harris of the United States Marine Corps. Who are you?" O' Harris asked Nick.

"I am First Lieutenant Nick Aristov also of the Liberion Marine Corps nice to meet you Sergeant. Nick told the marine who he saluted back.

"Sorry to say sir but you aren't in Liberion sir… or anywhere in your old world… you are in an alternate reality located in a country called America sir. I was ordered to debrief your commanding officer as soon as possible." The American Marine said to Nick who was too stunned to say anything. How could this be possible… this had to be a dream… no this was real… and Nick was just going to have to deal with it.

Near Warsaw Poland

Moriz Glazkov inner circle

23:32 local time

Moriz had spent most of his adult life as a terrorist. He had run guns, drugs and sold people. He had seen and committed some of the most disgusting acts imaginable on other human beings. That being said he never expected himself to be in a situation like this. Moriz fired his AK-74M into a charging zombie its eyes blood red and its mouth turned into a mass of black metallic sharp teeth. The bullets from Moriz's gun struck home and shredded the creature turning it into a mass of torn flesh. Moriz looked back to some of his men. With him right now was Sasha "The Butcher" a masked sniper who worked for the inner circle, Maks a younger man using a Saiga-12k; and Kostya who was a demolitions expert. Other than them there were two others who Moriz couldn't remember what their names were. Moriz frowned he always had the gut feeling that Makarov was a psycho; but the last thing he expected was for the terrorist mastermind to do some kind of satanic ritual and become… Moriz shuttered; whatever the hell he had become. Most of the other members of the Inner Circle have committed suicide during whatever ritual Makarov was conducting. However Moriz and his men were too smart for such things. Moriz then looked to his men.

"Come on follow me." He told them as he moved towards the dungeon on the base grounds. Sashawas the first to speak.

"What are we going to do sir?" He asked Moriz who continued moving forward. He just hoped that his Little Comfort was unharmed by these zombies.

"I don't know about you but I would rather not get killed by whatever the hell these things are. So I have a plan; we are going to get my Little Comfort and then we are going to be heading towards Sevastopol." Moriz said to Sasha.

"Why Sevastopol; what could possibly be there?" Matx asked Moriz.

"Tell me gentlemen have you ever heard of the Spetsnaz Guards Brigade under the command of General Sergei Izotov?" Moriz asked them. They all gave him blank stares. "It is an elite unit of the Russian Army tasked with guarding the motherland in case of invasion. They are a closely kept secret and only a few people know of their existence. And it just so happens to that I know General Izotov personally. I used to trade guns for sex slaves with him when I was involved in human trafficking before I joined the Inner Circle." Moriz explained to his men.

"Well how do you know he will help us?" asked one of the men who Moriz didn't know the name of.

"Well we don't, but unless you have any better ideas that is what we are doing." Moriz replied as he got towards the dungeon. Moriz pulled out the key and opened the door. Inside were about a dozen naked woman and girls ages ten to twenty five chained to the walls. Each one was starving and covered in bruises. All except one who given the situation was not in that bad of shape. She was a young girl about twelve years old with beautiful fair skin and pewter colored hair; she belonged to him, she was his "Little Comfort". Moriz smiled lustfully and went over to his Little Comfort and undid her shackles and grabbed her by the scruff of the neck.

"Come on Little Comfort you are coming with me!" Moriz said to the young girl who didn't even try to resist him. After owning her mind, body and soul for the last five years Moriz had broken her in, much to his satisfaction.

"Sir what do we do about the other girls?" Kostya asked Moriz who shrugged.

"Leave them; they can be zombie bait and give us a better chance to escape from this place." Moriz said as he headed off towards the motor pool. Maks cringed but followed after Moriz. If Moriz and his Little Comfort could make it to Sevastopol then everything would be alright. He would be safe there; then he and General Izotov could come up with a plan to avoid these things… whatever the hell they were.

San Diego California

Logan Walker

20:09 local time

Logan and David sat on the couch watching the news with their dad. They were shocked at what they were seeing. Space aliens had invaded earth suddenly and without warning attacking cities all across the globe; from Atlanta to Beijing and even US and EU forces in Europe. Everywhere these aliens attacked they brought with them death and destruction. And not only were these aliens here on earth but apparently people from an alternative universe had arrived to this world as well including young teenage girls who had magical powers had appeared with these new arrivals. Right now on the TV screen a Liberty News reporter was talking to a witch that looked just a little bit older than Logan was. The screen read her name as being Keiko Katou and she was stationed with the alternate version of the Afrika Korps that had appeared in Camp Pendleton only a few miles from where Logan was now. Finally one of the other things the news talked about is all over the country handfuls of young teenage girls were also spontaneously gaining magical powers. This was all so much to take in. Elias came out from the kitchen with a beer for himself and two cokes for Logan and David.

"So boys what do you think?" Elias asked the Walker brothers.

"I don't know dad this is just too weird to take in. Aliens? Magic? It all seems like something out of a bad comic book or something." David told his father who nodded.

"Yeah dad the fact that these girls have magic and these aliens are attacking pretty much throws everything we know about the universe on its head." Logan said to his father.

"I know sons. I just hope that whatever these aliens are, we can find a way to kill them before they kill us." Elias said to his sons. Just then Logan heard a window upstairs break followed by some thumping footsteps. Elias held his hand to his mouth and swiftly walked over to the cabinet in the living room. He unlocked the cabinet and pulled out a Remington 870 shotgun, a .44 Magnum revolver and a Glock17 pistol. Elias handed David the Glock and gave the revolver to Logan. He then pumped the shotgun and pointed for Logan to head down the hallway and for David to move around to the other side of the stairs. Logan nodded his head and went down the hallway looking left to right to check for any intruders. So far Logan didn't see any. Logan then reached the end of the hallway and took a right looking at David who nodded and headed up the stairs. Logan followed after him. They reached the second floor of the house and headed towards the master bed room where they thought that they heard the noise come from. Logan looked behind them to see Elias was following after them. Logan checked the bathroom to see that no one was there. Elias checked the office while David checked David and Logan's bedroom. That left only one of the rooms they had left to check. Elias and David stacked up on either side of the door with Logan getting behind David. Elias gave the hand signal to breach and clear on three. Elias gave the countdown and they burst through the door to the master bed room. Elias was the first into the room and he searched to the right, while David searched to the left. Finally Logan was through the door and he cleared the center. There was no one in the room it was empty other than for the furniture in the room. Logan saw that the window had been broken but no one could be seen. Then Logan started to head towards the bed to see if anyone had hid under there when he heard a thump followed by his brother's voice.

"LOGAN LOOK OUT!" David shouted. Logan looked back in enough time to see a black man sized and roughly shaped creature with clawed hands lunging for him. David slammed Logan aside as the creature slashed out for him. Blood splattered all over Logan as he aimed his magnum and aimed at the creature who had shoved a claw through his brother's torso punching straight through David's body. Logan fired at the creature blowing a chunk of metal off the creature's body. The alien dropped David and started to make a move to kill Logan when Elias fired his shotgun at the creature staggering it back. Logan fired again and again putting shot after shot into the creature finally exposing the chest cavity to open air where a bright red jewel could be seen. Logan fired his remaining shot into the jewel like object destroying it and causing the alien to explode. Logan then got up and ran over to his wounded brother who was coughing up blood and gasping for breath.

"No, no, no! Please don't die on me David!" Logan shouted as his brother gasped for breath. Elias went over to David and grabbed his hand.

"Don't die on me soldier that is an order!" Elias said as David coughed out what little life he had left. The light in David's eyes went out and Elias looked towards Logan. "Logan quick, call the hospital tell them to get an ambulance here ASAP!" Elias shouted to Logan who ran over to the Phone and started to dial 9-11. Even as he did this both he and his father knew it was too late for David. That alien or whatever it was had killed Logan's brother and best friend. And for that Logan swore that he would kill every last one of these invaders and send them straight to hell.

Somewhere over Florida USA

Squadron Leader Heidemarie W. Schnaufer

01:23 local time

"Come here Heidemarie I promise I won't hurt you… much." The depraved human like Neuroi whispered directly into Heidemarie's mind. It had been chasing her for the last half an hour over this strange land. The Neuroi was shaped like a beautiful young woman with the exception of the sharp class and barbed tail in addition to the demon horns on her head and the bat like wings on her back.

"Screw you!" Heidemarie shouted as she turned around to fire another burst of cannon fire at the Neuroi. The Neuroi skillfully dogged the gunfire and continued after Heidemarie giggling directly into Heidemarie's mind.

"You are going to have to do better than that if you want to kill me young witch." The Neuroi laughed at her as it kept closing the distance. If Heidemarie didn't kill this thing soon she would be in serious trouble. Damn if only she used a different striker unit than a BF110 then maybe she would be able to outrun this Neuroi but as it was; the BF110 focused more on firepower and armor instead of mobility. Heidemarie pushed herself and her striker to its limits to try and gain as much speed as possible. But it was no use she was only moving at around four hundred and fifty kilometers an hour and the Neuroi was closing in on her. "Why don't you just give up already which that way you won't be as tired for our love making session?" The Neuroi jibed at her. Heidemarie didn't know what it meant by love making session, but something told her that she wanted no part in it whatever it was.

"How is this for love making then!" Heidemarie shouted as she turned around and fired her auto cannon at the Neuroi. The heavy shells smashed into the Neuroi as it advanced on her. Then the Neuroi closed the distance and grabbed the barrel of her cannon and twisted it to the side. The Neuroi regenerated what little damaged it had sustained and then grabbed her by the throat.

"Come here you little slut." The Neuroi said to her as it pulled her in closer. Heidemarie trembled at the thought of what this depraved creature might do to her. The Neuroi wrapped its tail around Heidemarie's leg and it started to move up towards her panties. "So tell me witch… have you ever been touched before?" it asked her. Heidemarie cringed at what the implication was. This Neuroi was going to rape her, and judging by the barbs and blade on the creature's tail it would probably kill her in the process. Heidemarie wouldn't let that happen no, this monster was not going to take her chastity. Heidemarie dumped all of her magic into her striker engine and spun the magic propellers so fast that they would be able to cut through steel. Heidemarie then smashed her striker into this Neuroi's legs and sliced one off. The Neuroi let go of her and screeched in pain. Heidemarie then dove for the deck and tried to use the tree line for cover. Heidemarie looked back to see the Neuroi teleport away in frustration; Heidemarie was safe… but for how long?

Ontario Canada

Captain Liam Winters "Hitman"

02:09 local time

Not many people actually knew that Canada had a military. And when pressed about the issue, people would often joke that the Canadian Military was nothing but an army of Mounties armed with muskets and the Canadian Navy was just a canoe with a shotgun tapped onto the end of it. This was not true Canada; actually had a sizable and modern military capable of answering the call to arms if it or its allies in Europe or down south were ever threatened. Hitman and the rest of Ambush Squad were about to answer that call to arms when the world turned upside down.

"Roadie, Hook keep hitting them with the LMGs! Gauge, Tanto and Kitt-Kat move up the left flank and surround these assholes!" Hitman yelled to some of his squad as laser beams fired from spider like alien walkers slammed into their position. As of twelve hours ago Canada and the United States were attacked by a horde of aliens both land and air based. The first alien to attack Canada appeared at the air base Hitman and his squad was at getting ready to depart for the frontlines in Europe. The three meter tall spider like walker appeared on the runway and destroyed the C-130J that Hitman and his squad were getting ready to board killing its crew and all who had previously boarded the transport. It took two AT4s before the alien war machine was destroyed. A half hour later, an alert got sent out that more of the strange black metallic creatures had been spotted in Ontario and were attacking civilians in the area. Hitman and his team boarded a helicopter and headed out with some of the regular troops along with a few platoons of Leopard 2A5s and LAVs to provide whatever assistance they could to the local forces. Ten hours later there were a half dozen burning LAVs and dozens of dead Canadian soldiers splattered across the ground. Hitman raised his C7A2 rifle and fired a quick burst of gunfire at one of the alien soldiers across the way, his bullets exploding against its armored body. The alien screeched in pain as the incendiary bullets from his rifle burned away its armor and exposed its power unit to the open air. Hitman fired another burst sending two 5.56mm rounds into the exposed weak point causing the creature to explode into white shards. Hitman smirked. About two hours into the gunfight Hitman had realized that fire and explosive based weapons were more effective against the aliens then kinetic weapons. The fire seemed to interfere with their regeneration abilities. Winters had spread the word to command which in turn alerted every other military unit in the EU and US that incendiary bullets were the way to go.

"Hitman we got alien reinforcements heading in from the west!" shouted Cobra over the radio as she reloaded her rifle.

"Roger that. Grappler 1-1 requesting support in sector Alpha 7!" Hitman shouted to the platoon of Leopard tanks taking cover behind some destroyed homes.

"Understood Ambush 1-1 we are one mike out!" Grappler 1-1 replied. Hitman fired more rounds into an alien walker that dashed between cover, his bullets striking its body and the flames eating away at its armor. The walker screeched in pain as it exited from his view. Hitman was still unsure if the spider like walkers were alien vehicles or if they were the aliens themselves. The walkers just like their infantry were metallic in design but they seemed to cry out in pain when they were hit badly enough. Hitman then saw Kitt-Kat, Gauge and Tanto reach their flanking position and tear into some of the alien walkers with their rifles and SMGs. Kitt-Kat fired a 40mm grenade into one of the walkers blasting a big chunk out of its armor and exposing the power unit to gunfire, to which Tanto laid on a long burst from his P90 shredding the power unit with AP 5.7mm rounds. Two Leopard tanks smashed through one of the buildings firing canister shells into the alien ranks sending thousands of tungsten ball-bearings into the creatures blowing the creatures apart. Gunners on the top of the tanks fired their MG3s into the aliens in front of them killing two who were left alive stunned and wounded by the initial strike.

"Nice work Grappler 1-1! Now I need you to…" Hitman was cut off as a quartet of thick laser beams fired from the spider like walkers smashed into the tanks tracking both of them. A second volley of laser fire struck one of the tanks flash boiling away the armor around the engine causing it to explode. The surviving tank turned its gun towards the threat only for more lasers to smash into the turret destroying the main gun which started to droop like an under watered plant as the metal melted. Four alien walkers emerged from the smoke from Hitman's left and fired at his squad barely missing them. "Shit! Kitt-Kat, Gauge, Tanto get the fuck out of there!" Hitman shouted as the aliens switched their lasers to rapid fire sending a stream of laser beams for his squad. Kitt-Kat and the others ducked behind their cover and started to double back towards Hitman. "Shit does anyone have any anti-tank rockets left!?" Hitman inquired.

"Negative, we ran out about an hour ago." Trick the unit's sniper said over the radio.

"Damn it, those tanks were the only counter we had left against those walkers! It is going to take a lot of gunfire to take those things down!" Hitman said over the radio.

"Well on the bright side this is where the mysterious stranger will inevitably show up to rescue us from the mysterious invaders. And the stranger will hold the key towards stopping this invasion." Kitt-Kat said over the radio to no one in particular.

"What!?" Roadie said over the radio to Kitt-Kat.

"Well if this was a movie or a story that is what would happen anyway." Kitt-Kat replied to Roadie.

"For the last time Kitt-Kat this isn't a movie this is real life! Now be quite and keep shooting these walking scrap heaps!" Hitman shouted to the notoriously strange woman. Hitman raised his head from cover and fired a burst of gunfire at the charging aliens not doing much damage. Things were about to go tits up unless they could get some kind of support. Just then as if God himself was answering Hitman's prayers a long burst of gunfire from what sounded like a PPSH-41 SMG slammed into the nearest walker blasting away its body and destroying the power unit. Then emerging from the smoke was the figure of a woman wearing some kind of strange devices on her legs and holding a limpet mine in one hand a PPSH-41 in the other charged toward the alien walkers who turned to face her. The aliens fired their lasers at her which bounced off a blue colored energy shield that appeared in front of her. The woman then closed the distance with the aliens and slid passed them firing the rest of the magazine of her SMG into one of the creatures causing it to explode into white shards. She then circled the remaining creature as it tried to get a beat on her with its head mounted laser. The young woman then slapped the limpet mine onto the creature and dashed off. An instant later the mine exploded destroying the alien war machine in a massive explosion.

"Told you." Kitt-Kat simply stated which caused Hitman to roll his eyes and get out of cover. The young woman approached them; the woman was wearing the top section of a World War Two era Finnish Army uniform and some strange device on her legs that vaguely resembled tank tracks. But the most unusual thing about her was the pair of animal ears on her head.

"Hey guys sorry I didn't get here sooner I got held up on the terrain." The woman said to Hitman. "Do you guys have any idea where I am by the way?" The woman asked Hitman.

"Yeah you are in Ontario Canada." He told her to which she raised an eyebrow. "My name is Captain Liam Winters of Joint Task Force Two. Who are you?" Hitman asked the young lady who smiled at him,

"My name is Aurora E. Juutilainen of the Suomus Army." Aurora replied. "Hey do you have any hooch on you by any chance?" Aurora asked the Canadian commando.

Onboard the IFN Shinano, Off the Coast of Louisiana USA

Admiral Tetsugo Sakamoto Commander of the Imperial Fusoan Navy Ninth Fleet

06:50 local time

D4Y Comet dive bombers landed onto the deck of the Shinano while A6M Zeros circled overhead to provide top cover for the Ninth Fleet. The four Nagato class Battleships, four Kongo class Battlecruisers and two Tone class heavy cruisers shifted their guns towards the land where about two or three dozen remaining Neuroi marched across the Coast approaching some sea side fishing village. These Neuroi barbarians were going across the coast line attacking defenseless villages; what a bunch of cowards. As a member and the patriarch of the once illustrious Sakamoto Samurai family, Tetsugo was a proud follower of Bushido the way of the Samurai; and as such his blood boiled in rage at the thought of these aliens attacking innocent fishermen. It was a dishonorable tactic only fit for a coward and barbarian to use. Tetsugo might not have known where he and his fleet was, or who the fishermen were but he would fall on his own sword before he let these aliens kill those people.

"All ships open fire!" Tetsugo shouted over the radio. The powerful guns of the Ninth Fleet opened up on the Neuroi sending dozens of heavy shells towards the Neuroi Turtle classes. The shells burst in the air showering the Neuroi below in flaming particles. Neuroi after Neuroi exploded under the force of the anti Neuroi shells. Tetsugo then ordered his fleet to switch to High Explosive rounds. The fleet fired another volley at the Neuroi sending thousands of kilograms worth of explosives towards the Neuroi. Thunderous detonations sent shockwaves across the Neuroi lines obliterating another handful of Neuroi. At the start of the war so many years ago mankind debated on the path it should take in naval development. Some of the younger admirals both those of noble blood and commoner lobbied for development of aircraft carriers; while admirals like Tetsugo suggested that mankind should invest in bigger and better battleships. In the end in Fuso at least the carrier faction one out and Fuso began to focus its efforts on building aircraft carriers to support both witches and conventional aircraft much to Tetsugo's disappointment. In fact, the Shinano was an aircraft carrier that was built from the hull of one of the seven Yamato class battleships that were under construction. Because of the change in naval doctrine the remaining four Yamato hulls along with the hulls of the famed Kii class battleships (known in the west as the "Super Yamato class") were left in their dry docks to gather rust. It was a pity the keels had been laid and the plans drawn out and everything. But it was not to be. The Shinano rumbled as another volley of shells fired from the powerful guns of the battleships and cruisers of the Ninth Fleet. More Neuroi fell before the powerful shells raining down on them. Over the course of this long endless war the Imperial Fusoan Combined Fleet had been called upon by allied forces on countless occasions; either to pave the way for an advance or more often than not cover a desperate retreat back to allied lines. The guns of battleships and cruisers were the most powerful weapons a conventional army could employ… well not counting what High Command had in store for the Yamato once its transformation was complete. Tetsugo shook his head, even though he didn't deny the power that the Neuroified Yamato would possess it still didn't sit well with him. The idea of turning the pride of the Fusoan navy into a Neuroi just made his skin crawl. But alas he was a Samurai; a warrior of the Empire of Fuso and a servant to mankind. He would follow his order to the letter or die trying.

"Sir all Neuroi in range are down. The area is clear." Captain Watanabe his XO told him. Tetsugo nodded his head as he observed the burnt black ground where the Neuroi used to be. The power that the Imperial Navy possessed never ceased to amaze him.

"Very good then." Tetsugo replied to Watanabe.

"Sir what are your orders?" Tetsugo's XO asked him.

"We continue down the coast, and see if we can find a port large enough to take us in. Then we try and figure out where in the world we are." Tetsugo told his XO who then relayed his orders to the rest of the fleet. Four battleships, four Battlecruisers, two heavy cruisers, six light cruisers, nine destroyers and one aircraft carrier continued to sail east in search of a port. Tetsugo then found himself thinking about his only child Mio. She had gone missing a few months prior… he still had no idea what had happened to her. Tetsugo frowned, as much as she had disappointed him, she was still his daughter and in his own way he loved her and wanted what was best for her. That is why he had been so hard on Mio for the last year or so. Tetsugo shook his head; he remembered when she got home from Britannia a year ago telling him the heartbreaking news that she had fallen in love with a fellow witch. Tetsugo's wife Mori was infertile, some sort of condition she had contracted shortly after they married. And Mio was the only descendant to the Sakamoto Samurai family… so by making the selfish decision to choose to love a woman instead of a man (preferably a man from another samurai family or better yet a man from one of the thirteen vassal families of the Shogunate) she was effectively destroying the once proud Sakamoto Samurai family who had served the Imperial Family for generations. It was then that Tetsugo had come up with a compromise for Mio… one now given what happened to her could never come to pass. Tetsugo at this point didn't know whether Mio was alive or dead… but it didn't really matter now. The Sakamoto bloodline ended with him. Watanabe shook him from his dark thoughts.

"Sir we have two unidentified aircraft approaching from the mainland!" Watanabe said to him. Tetsugo looked out of his binoculars to see two strange looking aircraft with propellers on the tops of their fuselage instead of in front of them were approaching the fleet. The aircraft then started flashing in Morse code… (Turn to radio frequency 14.2…) the code repeated over and over. Tetsugo didn't know who those strange aircraft belonged to but he changed the radio frequency anyway. Perhaps now he could get some answers.

Over The Atlantic Ocean

Air Marshal Adolfine Galland

08:23 local time

Adolfine Galland was the highest ranking witch in the world; she held the rank roughly the equivalent to a general and as such her job now was primarily administrative. Adolfine was primarily responsible for managing the Joint Fighter Wings and observing the progress of developments for the newest striker unit models. Which was why the young Flight Sergeant Helma Lennartz was with her in this JU-52 passenger plane; her prototype Me-262 striker unit was stored in the back of the crew compartment next to a handheld 30mm machinegun. Helma was currently asleep resting her head on Adolfine's shoulder leaving Adolfine to stew in her own thoughts. A few hours ago a bright flash of light had hit her transport aircraft and what was once day time over Neue Karlsland was now night time over the ocean. That had changed a while ago as the sun had come out and the pilots turned to the west hoping to find land. Just before arriving at Bingo fuel they had spotted landed and started to move into to the coast line hoping to find some place to land their aircraft. Adolfine gently moved Helma's head and walked up to the cockpit of the transport plane.

"Pilots anything new?" Adolfine asked the two Karlslander pilots who shook their heads.

"No ma'am we haven't been able to get a radio signal on any of the military frequencies." The pilot said to Adolfine who frowned.

"Well what about any civilian frequencies then?" Adolfine asked them to which they also shook their heads.

"No all we have been able to get as been static so far." The pilot replied to Adolfine who let out a sigh. Damn for all she knew they had been teleported to the middle of nowhere. What had happened to them was this some sort of new Neuroi trick. Then on the horizon Adolfine spotted two specs of incoming aircraft. Adolfine took out her spy glass and activated her magical ability amplifying the objects in her view. They were strange looking propeller less aircraft with slightly bent wings and massive jet intakes on either side of the nose. The wings were loaded with what looked like some kind of rockets and Adolfine was able to spot the twin shapes of automatic cannons mounted under the fuselage. The aircraft zoomed past the JU-52 and turned around to come up alongside Adolfine's aircraft. The pilot of one of the unidentified aircraft looked into the cabin of the JU-52 and put a flashlight up to his canopy and started flashing Morse code for them to switch to a radio Frequency. "What do we do ma'am?" One of her Pilots asked her nervously.

"Do as he asks; change to the frequency." Adolfine replied to the nervous pilot who started to change radio frequencies. Adolfine grabbed a hold of the microphone and stated to speak. "This is Air Marshal Adolfine Galland of the Karlsland Air Force. Who am I currently speaking to?" Adolfine said over the radio.

"Air Marshal Galland… good you are one of the HVIs we have been looking for." A man with a Liberion accent said to her over the radio. "My name is Captain McKinley of the United States Marine Corps. We are to escort you back to Rock Sand Air Force Base thirty kilometers to the west. Rock Sand is currently being used as a staging and recovery area for people from your world." Captain McKinley told Adolfine. What did he mean people from her world?

"Understood we will follow after your aircraft." Adolfine said to the Marine. She then looked to her pilot and spoke. "Go ahead and follow after him. It will be ok." Adolfine told the pilot who nodded and turned to follow after the unknown aircraft. Just then Helma woke up and got into the cockpit.

"What's going on?" She asked as she was rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

"I think we just managed to catch a break dear." Adolfine said to Helma gesturing to the aircraft that her transport was following.

"Wow what in the world are those?" Helma asked Adolfine who shrugged.

"I have no idea to be honest but we are going to follow them back to their base." Adolfine told Helma.

"Should I get my striker unit ready?" The young witch asked Adolfine who nodded her head.

"Yeah perhaps just in case." Adolfine told Helma who went to the back of the transport and put on her jet striker unit. Helma had powerful magic coursing through her veins she should be able to handle any threat that might occur if the situation arise. It took another ten minutes for them to arrive at Rock Sand Air Force Base; and when they arrived at the base Adolfine's jaw dropped. Dozens of aircraft from air forces all over the world were lined up around hangers and runways. She saw Britannian Lancaster Bombers, Karlslander Me109s and Fw190s, Liberion P-51s, Orussian Mig-60s, and Fusoan Zeros. Down the ways on another runway a flight of Royal Air Force Typhoons in desert camouflage started to come in for a landing. The aircraft landed one after the other and started to taxi off the runway to clear the path for a flight of Liberion P-47s and B-26s which also landed one after the other. But what caught Adolfine's eye the most was the row upon row of futuristic jet fighters on the tarmac. These jets were more advanced than even the most sophisticated and ambitious aircraft prototypes in the world. "What is this place, and how did we end up here?" Adolfine said aloud as her aircraft came into land. The aircraft taxied off the runway and started to head towards a waiting staircase for them to disembark. At the edge of the staircase a group of men and women in strange light grey uniforms stood at parade rest waiting for her. Adolfine opened the aircraft door and started to walk down the stairs with Helma following behind her carrying her striker unit. The soldiers waiting for her all saluted her. Well she might not know where she is now but she was sure that she was about to find out.

White House Lawn USA

Doctor Ursula Hartmann

09:09 local time

She had somehow ended up in Liberion. She had to be in Liberion she woke up on the White House LawnAlong with General Eisenhower and General Patton who along with a handful of other officers were standing with her with a dazed and confused look on their faces. Ursula then saw on the top of the White House two snipers had a lock on her and a dozen men in business suits carrying some kind of bizarre looking SMG rushed towards them.

"Put your hands in the air!" One of them shouted to Ursula and the others.

"What are you doing soldier? Don't you realize who I am? I am General George S. Patton of the United States Army. I don't know how I got here but I damn well know that you don't greet a war hero by shoving guns in his face!" Patton growled to the men. Eisenhower then put his hand on Patton's shoulder.

"Easy gentlemen we are on your side. I am sure that if you send out President Truman we can explain everything to him." Eisenhower told the man who didn't lower his weapon.

"President Truman is dead sir." The man told Eisenhower who took a step back in surprise. How could this be? Last thing Ursula remembered was being in Allied Headquarters in London talking to the two Liberion Generals only for a flash of light to appear and the next thing she knew she was here with these men pointing guns at her.

"What then who is the President now!?" Eisenhower demanded of the men. Then another man of seemingly African descent appeared from the White House. He put his hand on one of the other men's guns and forced the barrel down.

"That would be me. My name is Barrack Obama current acting president of the United States of America." President Obama said to the two generals. He then looked to Ursula. "Erica Hartmann?" He asked her. Ursula shook her head.

"No sir I am Ursula Hartmann. Erica Hartmann would be my sister… have you met her?" Ursula asked President Obama.

"Yes I have she arrived in this world a few months ago." President Obama said to Ursula. Her sister was alive!? That was great news Ursula had been worried sick about her sister for several months now. "I also know who you two are. You are Lieutenant General George Smith Patton of the Liberion Third Army; and you are General of the Army Donald D. Eisenhower Supreme Commander of all Allied forces in Europe." Obama said to the two Liberion Generals.

"Yes sir we are… where are we if you don't mind me asking?" Patton asked President Obama who nodded his head. Just then one of the men with the guns spoke to the president.

"Mr. President a Neuroi Hive just appeared over Miami." The man told her. Obama nodded his head before looking back to the generals and Ursula.

"I will tell you everything you need to know but for now I need you to follow me into my command center under the White House." Obama said as he started to head back towards the White House. Ursula and the two Liberion Generals followed after the President of America. What they would learn over the course of the next few hours would shock them to their very cores.

Antarctica

Number Zero Doctor Ichiro Miyafuji

11:23 local time

The Neuroi had finally made it to this world. The demonic menace that had plagued his world for millennia had finally arrived into this world to harvest up mankind. Additionally the witches of this world had finally been awoken to their true potential. And like rats fleeing a sinking ship, billions of people from his old world had arrived all over the planet lost and confused in a new world they didn't understand.

"I want this one alive for study." Ichiro said to one of the ODESSA operatives under his command.

"Yes sir." The operative replied as he fired a sonic emitter shell into the wounded Neuroi foot soldier paralyzing the Neuroi momentarily while more of his men placed sonic shackles on the Neuroi's arms and legs to prevent it from moving. They dragged the creature along until they reached the cryo chamber where the Neuroi was placed to be frozen and taken back to base to be experimented on.

"Gather up the destroyed shards gentlemen. I don't want a single Neuroi fragment to go to waste. Every piece of Neuroi we gather, is one step closer we have gotten to achieving ODESSA's goals." Ichiro said to his men who began using metal containment devices to gather up and freeze Neuroi fragments. With these Neuroi fragments Doctor Miyafuji could continue to further his research into the next stage of human evolution. Soon if everything went to plan, man and machine could become one and the same. Humanity would be perfected and Ichiro would have control over all of Humanity. Ichiro had been in this world for a long time and his eyes had finally been open to the truth that he had been blinded to for most of his life. Humans were animals… no worse humans were nothing but vile scum who didn't deserve to draw breath. Mankind was capable of nothing but barbarism and cruelty; Shepherd saw this like he did, they desired to change this… to perfect mankind. But now the American General was dead by Ichiro's daughter's hand no less. It was a pity Shepherd would have liked to see the Forced Human Evolution Project come to fruition. Ichiro grabbed one of the containers from one of his men and looked at the Neuroi fragment inside. Mankind might be nothing but barbarians but… this small Neuroi fragment might help unlock humanity's true potential. Once the Forced Human Evolution Project was complete mankind would be perfect… and no one would be able to stop him… not even his own daughter.

Ramstein Air Force Base Germany

Staff Sergeant Derek Westbrook "Frost"

12:09 local time

Frost entered the mess hall where the witch from the other world was staying. Frost had asked to talk to the witch in question a few minutes ago, and she told him to meet her here in the mess hall. Frost sat across from Geena Preddy.

"Hey there." He simply stated to the Liberion witch who turned to face him and smiled.

"Hi how is it going?" Geena asked Frost.

"It is going ok… how are you holding up?" Frost asked the young eighteen year old girl who shrugged.

"I don't know really. I saw some pretty freaky shit back in my world right before I got here. I am still trying to get a handle on everything to be honest. Hell that wave of energy that nearly killed my unit and I; I don't know how far it went across the globe in my world. For all I know that wave of energy could have destroyed the entire planet." Geena explained to Frost who nodded his head.

"I didn't see what that wave was but I will take your word for it." Frost said; then he put his hand on Geena's and spoke. "But don't worry I am sure your family and friends are alright back in your world." Frost said to the witch who smiled at him.

"Thanks I appreciate the words of encouragement. But most of my friends are here… and the person that means the most to me in the world is also in this world apparently." Geena said to Frost who nodded and looked down at the table for a moment. How was he going to convey his feelings he had for Tina to this girl… and what would she think of him if he told her? Frost thought to himself. No he had to get this off his chest… it was better to be up front about these kinds of things than for him to hide his feelings in the shadows.

"Hey, listen… Geena… I know you care about Hanna a lot… and I don't know what your relationship with Hanna was like back in your world; but." Frost paused for a second. "I really care about Hanna a lot. I have gotten to know Hanna pretty well over the last few months that I have known her… and to be honest I have fallen in love with her." Frost confessed his feelings towards Hanna to Geena who had a surprised look on her face. Then Geena nodded her head.

"I see then… so you two have become lovers then." Geena said as she started to look towards the ground. A deep look of sadness filled Geena's face as she tried to absorb what Frost was telling her.

"No that is not it… I haven't even told her my feelings yet… but I wanted to say if she sees you and decides that she would rather be with you Geena, then I would understand. And I would be happy for you two." Frost said to Geena who looked back to Frost with a fair degree of hope in her eyes. "As I said I care about Hanna a lot. All I really want is for her to be happy; and if being with you is what makes Hanna happy then that's what I want for her." Frost said to the young brown haired witch.

"Wow that really means a lot to me Frost. I guess I feel the same way as you do on this matter then." Geena said to Frost. "I don't know what has happened between you two in this world; but if Hanna decides that she loves you and wants to be in a relationship with you; then I would be happy for you two." Geena said to Frost who smiled.

"Thank you for understanding Geena." He simply stated to her. Geena smiled back and put her hand on top of his.

"You know you are a pretty cute guy Frost… any girl, Hanna included would be lucky to have you." Geena said to Frost.

"Thanks same for you." Frost replied. Geena then thought for a moment.

"You know actually knowing Hanna there is a possibility that Hanna might decide that she wants both of us… what should we do if that happens?" Geena asked Frost who was at a loss for words for a moment.

"Well I guess we will cross that bridge when we get there." Frost said to her. Just then Colonel Marshall walked into the room.

"Listen up ladies and Gentlemen. These aliens that attacked us in Berlin have been sighted all over the world. And apparently there is a hive that appeared over Miami Florida. Command has ordered that we are to evacuate Europe. Several of our units will stay behind to help evac the civilians while the rest of us head back to the home front to kick some alien ass. Is everyone clear?" Colonel Marshal informed everyone who gave out acknowledgments. A Neuroi hive had appeared over Miami? Frost thought to himself. Well if that was the case then Frost and the rest of the Task Force would be in for a hell of a fight.

Unknown

Trevor Maloney

Unknown time

Trevor struggled to get up off the floor. He was an old man and he was not nearly as limber as he used to be. All Maloney was able to remember was being with his assistant Captain David Brown in his study looking over Warlock designs when a bright flash of light occurred and suddenly it felt like the world was turned upside down. Trevor Maloney heard footsteps coming down the hallway. They were intruders, they had to be. Captain Brown was right here with him on the floor unconscious, and his maid staff was gone for the day to get supplies. So who could these intruders be? Maloney thought to himself. Just then the door was kicked and half a dozen men stormed into the room wearing some weird red and black camouflage uniforms and holding some unknown type of rifle. They pointed their weapons at Maloney and screamed for him to not move. Trevor complied with these men as they aimed their weapons at him. This was it he was going to die by whoever these men were. Just then a man in a white suit walked into the room. The man was smoking a cigar and was missing one of his eyes. He looked down at Maloney his face an unreadable mask of stoicism. The man then bent over to one of the schematics of the Warlock and examined it for a few moments.

"If I gave you the supplies to build these… Warlock machines… would you build them?" The man asked Trevor.

"If you gave me the right amount of resources, I could build you an army." Maloney replied. Then man then laughed and picked Maloney off the ground.

"Well then my friend. Welcome to Cordis Die." Raul Menendez said to Trevor Maloney. Something told Trevor that this man and this organization Cordis Die… would help him get the revenge he so desperately desired; and with an army of Warlocks under his command both the witches and the Neuroi would feel the wrath of his vengeance.

The Oval Office USA

"The Herald"

13:09 local time

The Herald loved delivering messages to targeted species. It loved the fear that he could feel emanating from the mortals when it told them how their pathetic souls belonged to the Architect now and that they could only expect a slow and horrific death at the hands of the Neuroi. It loved watching the mortals beg for mercy when they would never receive it from the Empire. Now The Herald was assigned to deliver a message from The Architect to the mightiest kingdom of earth. The Herald appeared in the middle of a large conference room where he saw the leader of the nation called America sitting behind a desk with at first a rather surprised look on his face, which then quickly faded back towards neutrality. The Herald tossed the declaration of humanity's destruction onto Obama's desk. The message was written in blood upon a piece of flayed human flesh.

"Pitiful mortals, we the Neuroi of the Empire let by the Mighty God King The Architect have come to lay claim to your world and all that inhabit it. There is nothing you can do to stop us. Your armies will be smashed, your navies sent to the bottom of this oversized puddle you call an ocean, and your cities will be burnt to the ground. Behold us and despair human." The Herald told the leader of America who raised an eyebrow.

"So you are a messenger from your leader is that correct? The Architect did you say? Well I have a message for him if you don't mind delivery it to him for me." President Obama said as he started to open up a cabinet in his desk. The Herald smiled to itself. This was the part it loved the most the begging.

"If you plan to grovel and beg for mercy you are only wasting your breath human. The Architect has never shown a targeted species any mer…" The Herald was cut off as a .357 round fired from a P229 pistol slammed into its head knocking the Neuroi messenger on its back. President Obama then walked over to the creature and spoke.

"You can tell your master this. We are Americans and we don't bow down or grovel to anyone. We will fight you till our ammo runs out, our blades go dull and our fists are bloodied. We will fight this diseased Empire you are part of till our dying breath and we will never surrender to you." The President told The Herald who was too stunned to speak. Then four other men with SMGs stood over the Herald. "Your God King might have come to this world expecting a slaughter… but we are going to give him a war." President Obama said to the Neuroi before he and the four Secret Service Agents emptied their weapons into its body.

Atlantic Ocean

Flight Lieutenant Junko Takei

19:03 local time

Something had slaughtered the crew of all of these vessels. Junko thought to herself as she moved through the corridors of this aircraft carrier that was left abandoned in the middle of the ocean. This vessel used to belong to the 508th Joint Fighter Wing… but now it was a ghost ship and the witches of the 508th were dead by their own hands along with the rest of the crew. It looked like most of the 508th put up a fight but in the end something had killed them… or made them kill themselves. Everywhere Junko went she saw people who had shot themselves or had clawed their own throats out with their own two hands. Just then Junko heard some insane laughter from one of the rooms up ahead. Junko entered a bunk room where she saw an officer sitting with his back towards her in the fettle position giggling like a madman.

"Sir, are… are you alright." Junko asked the officer who continued to giggle.

"I made the nightmares stop…." He chuckled and turned to face Junko. Junko let out a gasp of horror as she saw the man whose face was covered in blood and his eyes torn out from his head. "I made the nightmares stop!" he shouted as he opened his hands revealing his eyes that he had torn out of his skull.

Unknown

Pilot Officer Amaki Suwa

13:46 local time

"Hold on I will check it out!" Amaki shouted to Sergeant Hijikata as she flew up into the air. Amaki and the rest of Hijikata's supply unit had been in Romagna a few minutes ago but now they were here in some strange land after a flash of light. This place it looked like she was in mainland Asia rather than Europe. But for the last twenty minutes they had failed to see anyone or any signs of civilization. That was until they saw strange looking tanks on the horizon. The tanks were large by Fuso standards; heck by anyone's standards. They had long barrels mounted on boxy turrets. The tank was much smaller in profile than most tanks were which she found quite odd. Another strange thing about the vehicles in front of her was the vehicle that looked like it had some kind of radar dish instead of a turret. Had someone developed a mobile radar vehicle? If that was the case no one had told her. Then again Amaki always seemed like she was the last to know about anything military related. Amaki approached the tank column and started to wave. "Hey up here you guys!" Amaki yelled down to the soldiers below. Just then the radar tank pointed its dish at her. That was strange why would it do tha… Amaki's entire body felt like it was on fire as she fell to the ground screaming. Her skin burned with such intensity she felt like she had been hit by a Neuroi laser beam. Just then the tanks belonging to the unknown soldiers started to fire their cannons and machine guns at the Fusoan troops who scrambled to try and find cover. Amaki was in too much pain to do anything but roll on the ground in an attempt to desperately try and cool herself. Then Amaki felt a boot on her back and she was unable to move or even look up as the soldier put a boot on her head and pressed her skull towards the ground. Amaki yelped in pain. "Why are you doing this to us!? We are human just like you!" Amaki demanded of the unknown soldier who didn't say a word. Then the soldier took his boot off of Amaki's skull and allowed her to move her head. She saw an Asian man in a strange uniform approach her. Behind him to other Asian men in the same type of uniform dragged Sergeant Hijikata towards her.

"You are now a prisoner of the People's Republic of China." The man said to her in Britannish. The man then pulled out his pistol and pulled back to slide. "Resistance will not be tolerated." He said as he put the pistol to Sergeant Hijikata's head and pulled the trigger… this is when Amaki's endless nightmare would truly begin.