A/N: Right then, my first trimester finals are done, so let's get started.

Maroon567: Unfortunately Maloney having a daughter would make a future part of my story invalid, sorry. It's a good idea though, maybe you or someone else can make a fanfic for it. Also, SRPA isn't trying to make the Warlock with a Neuroi core, it's trying to make one without a core, so there's no chance of Neuroification, though SRPA is trying to find out how to use cores without that danger.

Of course, social interaction has never been one of my strong points, so I'm not quite sure on how to write one. Any tips?

And Begin.

Chapter Eight: Towering Demands

"During the Chimeran War, all humans were equal. Equally Screwed."

A remark that succinctly describes what happened to racism and sexism during the Chimeran War. For the most part.

Jorges would have liked to say that his mind was instantly focused, that he immediately went about trying to figure out how to counter this new development, that he reacted in the way a soldier of the United Earth Defense should.

Unfortunately, his main thoughts as he looked at the tower were along the lines of "OhshitOhshit there's a fucking Chimera Tower right there we'resofucked."

After that he took a deep breath and managed to calm down. He turned to the bridge crew, his face still pale. "Is it active?"

The girl who had given him the report shook her head. "No sir, it's only about a third of the way excavated, so they shouldn't have been able to get to any of the factories and converters on it, but, all the same sir, under UED protocol, no Chimeran Tower can be allowed to remain in enemy hands."

Jorges nodded, his face set. "I know that as well as anyone. Inform the rest of the Fleet. Tell them we are operating on Emergency Threshold 3 from now on, and get the rest of the Allied Command here, I want as much support as we can get to take this tower, and make damn sure that people start looking for the rest of them. If there's one, there could be dozens more."

To say that the discovery of a Chimeran Tower had put the UED soldiers on alert was like saying the ocean was a bit large. Across the Fleet soldiers went into their drills and repairs with a fervor unseen since the Chimera War. Seeing a Tower had sent the Fleet into a frenzy, as more weapons, drones, and new armor plating was created in the Carrier, as the rest of the soldiers prepared for the attack on the Tower.

"Come on everyone! We're launching the attack in the afternoon, and I want every last one of you layabouts ready! We're taking that Tower now!" Howin Yeager screamed as pilots and crewmen prepared fighters and bombers for the soon-to-be-launched campaign.

"A little excited are we?" Shirley asked her relative, staring at the fanatical effort being put into their work. She had never seen anyone in the Fleet this determined. Crewmen who would normally be joking around and smiling had their faces set in lines as they worked. There was no smiles, no amused glances, just determined effort being put into getting everything 100% combat ready.

Howin momentarily stepped back from his fighter and sighed. "Shirley, we're about to launch an assault on a heavily fortified position held by an alien race that assimilates any captured technology, and is currently in the middle of excavating a 65 million year old tower made by another alien race powerful enough to open portals that connect worlds across time and space, and if we don't win this next battle there's a good chance that said alien race may pop out and exterminate all life on Earth.

So yeah I'm a little excited."

Shirley winced as Howin talked. "The Chimera were that bad?" She asked.

Howin sighed. "They were actually worse, people consider the U.S. lucky for surviving with only 30 million dead. I grew up learning how to shoot Ferals trying to attack my home. When I was in my teens I would be flying one of our town's Biplanes, shooting and bombing local packs. And those are the Ferals, when I joined the UED, I fought a few Military Chimera holdouts in Russia. They weren't a pack of beasts, they were a well equipped army of the toughest Chimera ever, the ones tough enough to survive the Carpeting." He stared straight into Shirley's eyes. "If we don't take that Tower, who knows what could happen? An entire army could be unleashed on this Earth, we know the Chimera have conquered worlds before Earth. Hell, we had a much more advanced tech base than your people, and the Chimera started off as a small outbreak in a village, and it was still a damn near thing, what happens if they decide to skip to shoving a giant fleet through a portal?"

"We'll fight it." Shirley said firmly, putting a hand on Howin's shoulder. "We've fought aliens before, we'll do it again. You already said you beat them thirty years ago, and now we know they're coming. They won't take anyone else, if they come, we'll all be ready and waiting, and we'll beat them so badly they'll never be able to hurt anyone ever again." She grinned. "And when this is all over, you and I are gonna have a race. Me in a jet striker and you in your plane, and we'll see who's the fastest. Deal?"

Howin grinned back. "Deal!"

September 19th

Outskirts of Suez

Near Chimeran Tower

"To arms, under one banner

As a unit we stand and united we fall

As one, fighting together

Bringing an end to the slaughter"

Sabaton - Union

The desert was filled with the sound of engines as the Allied army advanced. Liberion Shermans and Lees, Britannian Crusaders and Valentines, Karlsand Panzer IIIs, IVs, and Tigers, Gallian Char B2s and D1s and SOMUA S35s, and Romagnan P 26/40s and Semovente 75/18s. Spearheading the advance were the tanks of the UED 4th Armored, while transports drove safely behind the mass of armored vehicles alongside dozens of witches. Up in the sky the ships of the Third Fleet cast massive shadows down on the ground while a couple thousand planes flew overhead, from bombers to Skyrangers and fighters, while many more witches flew in their Striker Units. Along the Gulf of Suez, over a hundred ships from Fuso, Britannia, and Liberion leveled their guns and bombarded targets on the shore. The Allies had been told bluntly that the cost of failure here could be the destruction of humanity, and every asset in the area had been called in to fight.

Facing them were countless Neuroi, from towering walkers to aerial forms to Neuroified field guns and tanks, each armed with powerful lasers all over their bodies. In the sky above the city hovered a massive black cloud, hiding a Hive and most of Suez from sight, as even more Neuroi emerged from it. Towering over the city, also hidden in the cloud, was a Chimeran Tower, only partially excavated.

The battle opened as artillery emplacements sent down a rain of fire upon the front ranks of the Neuroi. Shells and rockets alike saturated the entire field, as hulls were ripped apart by ordinance. At the same time the 3rd Fleet's ships opened up with volleys of ion beams and missiles tearing apart several of the larger Neuroi. Then the mass of Armor burst towards the aliens, firing masses of shells at their targets, as planes charged towards their targets, loosing missiles and firing guns, and infantry disembarked and advanced, and anti-tank guns were deployed. Soon the Neuroi responded with volleys of laser beams. The shields of the UED vehicles and the witches protected them from the return fire, but dozens of Allied tanks and aircraft exploded as beams found their mark.

Battle was joined across the front line, as thousands of tanks and planes and hundred of thousands of men fought and died battling thousands of Neuroi. Squadrons of Allied bombers began runs on the Neuroi ground forces, with F-111s and A-10s launching missiles, destroying the field guns that would have made such an action suicide. the David Superheavy pummeled an Ultra into submissions, as beside it its escort of Lav IIIs and Osorios blasted away at other, smaller Neuroi. Swarms of Allied planes engaged in dogfights with Neuroi Small and Medium types, while witches handled the Large types. B-70 bombers burst forward, destroying formations before returning to their carrier to rearm, moving too quickly for the Neuroi to shoot them with any accuracy. Tanks from the various nations blew apart other Neuroi on the ground, as did the now deployed anti-tank guns and well-equipped infantry, and artillery barrages scoured entire grids clean, leaving nothing more than massive craters. Swarms of Assault Drones hovered over the field, blasting Neuroi with volleys from their twin pulse cannons and micro missile launchers. Then the Fleet joined in, using ventral guns to blow apart anything within range, while point defense guns massacred any Neuroi that got too close, protecting the ground forces from any air attack. The wet navy fired volleys of powerful shells into Neuroi at the shore, while marines began disembarking their landing craft.

The Neuroi returned the favor. Any attempt to enter the cloud was answered with massive amounts of energy fire from emplacements inside the city. Entire squadrons of fighters and bombers vanished as volleys of lasers tore apart their planes. On the ground Neuroi lasers tore through over a hundred tanks, and entire platoons of infantrymen died from single shots. At the shore several ships went down as lasers raked the water. Even the tough UED units could remain untouched. An Osorio went down as two Ultras concentrated their fire, as did several LAV IIIs, Buffels, and a few Armored Skirmishers. Dozens of drones were swatted out of the air by laser fire. In the sky multiple F-111s and one of the fleet's F-23s were destroyed. The witches, through a combination of being small targets, expert dodgers, and shields managed to pull through without losing anyone. Even as both sides took losses, replacements took their places and the front line continued to be a mess of destroyed vehicles and dying men over a front kilometers long.

General Higgins, commander of the UED ground forces, frowned as he looked at the battle on the screen of his Inquisitor. They were winning, no doubt about that, but the UED really couldn't afford to take heavy casualties, what with most of the Vengeance of Japan's internal fabricators being used to make repairs to the Fleet. He continued sending orders to separate groups of UED soldiers. "I need another support barrage covering our infantry! Osorios and the David, make a breach! And someone get me Fleet Command!"

Frontline of the battle

David Superheavy Tank Eternal Hatred

"Natasha! Neuroi Walker! range: 1500 meters!" Tank Commander Oleg screamed to his gunner from his seat at the center of the tank, observing the battlefield, as the tank rumbled as repeated hits from Neuroi lasers bounced off its thick armor.

"Da commander, firing now!" the young woman responded, as the tank's massive laser cannon lanced through the Neuroi's core, obliterating it in an instant.

"Target destroyed! New target, Neuroified Matilda! range: 900 meters! Fire!" A massive BOOM! was heard as the tank's 200mm cannon spat out a shell that annihilated blew the converted tank to bits.

"Excellent Natasha!" Oleg grinned, before looking back into the depths of the cramped tank, toward a grey-bearded man working at a control panel. "Kliment, how are we doing on those missiles? I want another volley firing at the air!"

"Just getting the targets set up, we've got two more volleys after this one and- There we go!" He cheered as a a few dozen micro missiles flew into a pair of Large Types bombarding a battalion of Shermans from up in the air. "That's two less Larges, we've got a breach in their lines!"

"Alright then!" Oleg got onto comms with the entire advance force. "All tanks advance! Don't stop till the city is clear!"

Suez

17th Mechanized Infantry Regiment

Rapier Company

The soldiers who entered Suez thought for a moment that they had gone to Hell. Most of the buildings were in ruins from artillery fire, with rubble strewn across the entire area. The skies above were choked with black clouds from the Neuroi Hive high above their heads. On the shoreline marines had struggled to advance into the city, and in the distance the advance forces could hear the hum of lasers and the sounds of gunfire as the marines tried to advance forward. Recently fired lasers gave the very air a burnt taste and smell.

Things got worse as they got further in. The Neuroi had had months to fortify Suez, and converted tanks, field guns, and even worse, large masses of Neuroi armor covered Outposts, immobile Neuroi that acted as powerful stationary defenses. There were only a few Outposts inside the Suez, and all of the large ones were deep inside the city, near the Tower, but each one that was found took extreme amounts of effort and casualties to deal with. Even worse, several began deployed land-based drones, or as the UED called them, Infantry Bots.

The men of the 17th still pushed forward, blasting apart anything that stood in front of them. They had split into their individual companies, each one moving with a specific purpose in mind, whether it was to secure a point, clear an Outpost, or a general advance. Each objective helped them reach their main goal: the Chimeran Tower, rising high above the skyline.

Rapier Company had been assigned to link up with the Allied Marines and help them advance towards the Tower. The ninety surviving members marched alongside twenty Archer combat drones, a half dozen Buffels, three Assault Drones, and two Stalkers. So far, the advance had been going smoothly, the Buffels' and Archers' pulse cannons slaughtered bots with ease, while Augers, Ion cannons, missiles, and rockets had torn through the few Neuroi tanks they had encountered, even as the sounds of gunfire drew closer as the company advanced, blasting anything that wasn't human.

They encountered the first marines in the middle of a battle with a pair of Heavy Neuroi. A volley of ion beams tore through one of the aliens. As the other turned around to avenge its comrade it exposed its core to a volley of Bazooka and anti-tank rifle fire, which sent it crashing down. The two human groups examined each other. The marines had set up makeshift barricades in the middle of the rubble of several buildings, and there were several destroyed tanks and dozens of burnt corpses, as well as what little wreckage remained from several Heavies. The survivors were about 60 strong, from several nationalities, using anti-tank rifles, bazookas, and a trio of 57mm field guns. Oh and there were two Type 89 tanks as well, but Captain Simmons wasn't sure if they could be counted.

Simmons spoke first. "I'm Captain Simmons, Rapier Company, 17th Mechanized infantry. Who's in charge here?"

There was a half minute of arguing and confusion in the Allied ranks until a Liberion man stepped forward. "Sergeant Sullivan, United States Marine Raiders, and the highest ranking survivor of this sorry bunch. I'm guessing you're the UED everyone's been talking about. Thanks for the save."

"Just doing our job Sergeant, and we've got another one. Most of the Neuroi are bunched up near the Tower over there" Simmons pointed to the massive structure. "Are you still up for another fight?"

Sullivan gave the marines a quick look. "Fuck yes we are sir! It's time for payback."

The front-line between the marines and the Neuroi was a mess. The advance forces of both sides were cut off from support and were being pounded with fire. Battleships continued to barrage the city, turning entire blocks into open ground filled with rubble. Soldiers went down with horrific wounds, from their faces being melted off by glancing blows from lasers to entire sections of their bodies vanishing in flashes of red light. Suez no longer resembled a city. It was a wasteland of shattered vehicles, destroyed buildings, and corpses.

And still humanity fought on. The Marines and African forces linked up and continued the battle. Rapier Company quickly enlarged itself as scattered units joined its advance. Witches used the rubble as cover, ambushing large groups of Neuroi that would have cost hundreds of losses to remove and beating their foes without even a scratch.

Soon a pattern emerged. Soldiers with Augers would target close up targets through buildings, while other men with light infantry mortars common in the UED launched barrages of fire at distant emplacements, while other men with rapid-fire shoulder mounted ion beam cannons kept the skies clear of Neuroi acting as gunships. Bit by bit, and bombed out block by block, the Neuroi were pushed back, leaving behind them trails of broken hulls and bodies.

But even as all this went on, more flying Neuroi emerged from the Hive in endless waves, and while some moved to engage the soldiers fighting in the city, most went on to join the battle outside the cloud, where the massive aerial battle was still ongoing.

Aerial Combat Zone

Outside the Hive's cloud

Vengeance of Japan

Howin frowned as a volley from the Japan's railguns blew apart a squadron of Large Types. The flaw of the Bulletstorms was becoming painfully apparent very quickly. True the multi-barreled guns would tear apart Neuroi like they were made of paper, but they burnt through ammunition like nothing else. That wasn't a problem back in UEG space, where a full resupply from Earth was usually a few hours, or at most a day away at most. Now however, with most of the Carrier's internal fabricators busy making plating to repair the ships, the constant battles were starting to drain the 3rd Fleet's ammunition stockpiles quickly. He made a mental note to inform High Command of this flaw if he ever got back.

While he mused the battle continued, as planes, witches, and Neuroi alike twisted and weaved around each other in dogfights. Any Neuroi that got to far from a human quickly found itself torn to shreds by the Fleet's close range weapons and Armored Skirmishers, and large concentrations moving out from the Hive were blown apart by the 64 inch cannons, ion beams, and missiles. On the flip side, Neuroi field guns still kept the human forces at bay, even as their numbers were constantly reduced as the ground forces advanced. Soon their numbers would be small enough that Howin could risk moving the Fleet into the cloud to deal with the Hive without fear of losing their weakened shields and taking severe damage.

A small group of Neuroi attempted to make a run on Liberty 5, and all but one of the creatures were shredded for their troubles. The guns quickly tracked the survivor...

But failed to fire before a ruby red laser beam tore through its core, destroying it as it shrieked in surprise. Several nearby Neuroi were just as shocked, and their combat maneuvers became clumsy as they tried to find out what had happened, leaving them easy targets.

Howin stared at the scene in disbelief. "What the hell just happened out there?" He demanded, incredulous. Everyone else was just as baffled, Neuroi never shot each other, the only cases he knew of were friendly fire incidents, and those only happened when human warships unleashed truly hellish amounts of jamming.

"I- I don't know sir, tracking beam now." As the scanners and recon drones did their work, another beam shot out, burning another Neuroi to dust. "Sir we've got it! Bringing up visual now." A screen showed the viewpoint of one of the Fleet's drones. On it was a Neuroi, but unlike any other Neuroi they'd seen, this one was humanoid, with cat-like ears sticking out of its head, and had hands ending in glowing red implements, which continued to fire lasers at any nearby Neuroi. After three more shots it noticed the drone. It immediately boosted towards the Vengeance of Japan and started screeching when it got close enough for the Carrier to pick up.

Howin covered his ears as the screeching entered the comms system. "What is that thing saying!?"

"No idea sir, but the rest of the Neuroi don't seem to like it!" The crewman was right, the moment the screeching started, the closest Neuroi immediately broke off from their attacks and began rushing towards the Humanoid, shooting all the way. The Humanoid immediately began evading and firing back, even while it continued screeching to the Carrier.

Howin finally recovered from the events. He stared at the Humanoid, which continued to weave around the Carrier, and kept screeching, sometimes for a while, sometimes stopping a bit after it began. His mouth worked. "Cover that Neuroi."

"Sir?"

"Cover that Neuroi!" He yelled. "It's trying to tell us something, and its no good to us dead! Get the 501st on the horn and tell them they've got escort duty. And make damn sure we're recording what that thing's saying!"

"What!?" Minna yelled into her comms over the battle, busy blasting apart a group of drones with the rest of the 501st.

"There's a witch-like Neuroi circling around the Carrier trying to tell us something. Your new job is to protect it for as long as possible, the rest of the Neuroi are going berserk around it." Came the response from Overseer.

"You want us to protect a Neuroi?" Mio echoed, baffled.

"It's shooting the other hostiles, and they say that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Besides, it could have important intelligence it's trying to tell us about. Wolverine Squadron will assist you, now get going!"

Minna nodded and signaled the rest of the 501st. At the same time, Wolverine Squadron's F-23s broke off from the fighting and followed them to the carrier, where the Humanoid was still engaged with the rest of the Neuroi. The UED's Armored Skirmishers had taken up positions protecting the Humanoid, and were also weaving in and out of combat, destroying many Neuroi, but more continued to pour in from every direction, sometimes outright ignoring everything else in favor of attacking the turncoat.

The 501st and Wolverines dove into combat almost immediately, as a volley of missiles from the F-23s and Sanya blew open most of the small and medium types. A millisecond later Lynette blasted a Large Type in the core, and the rest of the witches began supporting the Skirmishers.

It was strange. Minna thought as she teamed up with two of the mechas against a Large Type. Just a couple days ago she wouldn't have touched anything like the Skirmishers with a ten-meter pole, but now she was here, fighting alongside them, and actually trusting the Warlock-like things to watch her back and keep her girls safe. Just now she saw several of them move to protect Lynette as she took down Neuroi with her new rifle.

The fighters, skirmishers, and witches worked like they had been practicing combined arms for years. After the F-23s had been rearmed, they returned to the fight and targeted the largest Neuroi, bringing them down with pinpoint missile strikes before diving in with their energy cannons. The Armored Skirmishers used their own weapons to take apart anything that got too close to the fighters. The witches would dive in and out of combat, strafing Neuroi and using their powers to great effect. All the while the guns of the fleet fired at anything trying to approach.

The battle continued to escalate. More Neuroi began breaking off, desperately trying to attack the Humanoid. In response, more planes and witches came to help defend the turncoat, and one of the Liberty 5 moved closer to provide support, while the Charlie Tent and Unity 3 took advantage of the Neuroi's distraction to move into the cloud and attack the Hive directly. Minna took a quick look at her wing as she gunned down another Large with the Wraith. Mio had just bisected another Large Type, Shirley was busy fighting alongside and chatting with Wolverine Squadron, Gertrude, Erica, Lucchini, and Perrine were fighting alongside another group of witches against dozens of Neuroi. From what she could tell Erica was arguing with another witch, Hanna-Justina Marseille. Lynette was staying up high, moving from target to target at a faster pace than should have been possible, each shot destroying a core. Eila was carrying an exhausted Sanya back to the carrier to get more missiles, and Yoshika...

... That was a good question, where was Yoshika? She did a quick search and found her, staring straight at the Neuroi Witch's core, which it had exposed.

Yoshika had been protecting the Neuroi since she had entered the battle. It had stopped screeching a while ago and had continued blasting apart its kin with powerful lasers from its hands. Yoshika covered its back, shooting down drones while it handled the Large Types.

One large type took Yoshika by surprise, blasting her several times, destroying her shields before a laser beam destroyed it.

"Than-" Yoshika stopped as she turned around, seeing the Neuroi less than a foot away from her. Its chest opened up to reveal its core, pulsing gently, and shining with a faint glow. Fascinated, Yoshika reached for it.

"Yoshika, what are you doing!? Pull back now! Miyafuji, answer me!" Minna's voice came from Yoshika's comms.

She ignored it, hypnotized by the Neuroi, her hand touched the Core and began to firmly grasp it.

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Minna had been dashing towards Yoshika and redoubled her efforts as the girl screamed, lunging back from the Neuroi in horror, staring at it and babbling in her own language. She had just reached it and was preparing to fire when it suddenly took on a burst of speed and smacked her with superhuman force, leaving her with several new bruises and sending her flying off. It turned to Yoshika and grabbed her. Then three Large Type Neuroi broke through the defenses and charged at the Humanoid. It turned quickly and hurled Yoshika at Minna, sending them both sprawling and barely managing to avoid getting hit by each others' Strikers. Then it turned, extended both of its hands and fired two lasers. Each one tore through one of the Neuroi, but the final survivor unleashed a volley of its own, striking and damaging the Humanoid. Then, still taking fire from all directions, it rammed into its target, destroying both Neuroi and leaving nothing but falling sparks.

"Yoshika!" Lynette practically barreled into the Fusoan girl, whose Strikers had turned off somewhere in the middle of the mess. Minna let go as Lynette hugged her friend tightly, whispering into her ear. Yoshika responded by hugging the Britannian even tighter. The rest of the 501st quickly gathered around, looking very concerned for their newest member. "What-?" Gertrude started.

Minna shook her head and gave a baffled shrug, before getting back to buisness. "Yoshika's in no shape for combat. Lynette, get her back to the Carrier, the rest of us will stop any Neuroi from touching her." The Wing nodded, their expressions fierce.

The 501st massacred anything that tried to stop them, but just as they got to the Vengeance of Japan the black cloud vanished, as did the remaining Neuroi, leaving the Charlie Tent and Unity 3, both with several more scorch marks and damaged parts than they had had before, hovering over the massive Chimeran Tower, partially excavated over the utterly destroyed city of Suez.

Codex:

UED Warfare Doctrine: UED Doctrine can best be described as flexible. Used to fighting a variety of Chimeran strains and vehicles, the average UED formation comes equipped to deal with any form of opposition. This is best shown with UED mechanized infantry. The average company will carry a plethora of mortars for indirect fire, ion cannons, LAWs, rocket launchers, and missile launchers to destroy tougher foes, and vehicle and drone support to deal with any number of situations. Furthermore, all UED forces are capable of operating on a squad level to deal with much larger and more powerful hostile forces. The best example of this was when a squad of British soldiers used hit and run tactics to destroy two Goliaths without losing a single man. Armored Regiments combine MBTs, IFVs, and artillery to deliver punishing amounts of firepower on relatively small areas, with light tanks usually being reserved for Airborne regiments.

Archer combat drone: A small drone only as high as a human's knee, the Archer is cheap and quick to produce, and can be armed with a number of infantry weapons, from machine guns to rifles and rocket launchers.

Assault Drone: Also known as the HK(Hunter-Killer), the Assault drone is armed with four Energy Pulse Cannons and a pair of Micro missile launchers, and is protected by a powerful energy shield. HK Drones are used to flush out hostile squads, and engage in hit and run attacks on hostile armor.

Eagle VTOL: The gunship of the UED, armed with two nose mounted 20mm cannons, and racks that can mount rockets or anti-tank missiles, also carrier a shield generator for protection. This gunship was designed to continue to provide support even if Chimeran Stalkers were present.

Battle of Suez: The Battle of Suez was the first major battle in which UED forces had a large presence. Starting off with a massive armor clash, the battle eventually moved into the city, where Allied Marine forces had already landed. During the fight, UED Mechanized Infantry forces distinguished themselves, storming Outposts and using a variety of tactics to neutralize Neuroi strong-points with minimal casualties. Even so, the battle ended with tens of thousands dead, and even more wounded. UED casualties included 2 Osorios, over two dozen LAV IIIs and Bulffels, 19 Stalkers, over a thousands drones, 3 F-23s, 18 F-111s, a half dozen VTOLs , 23 Armored Skirmishers, and hundreds of soldiers. As was common for previous battles during the war, there were no witch deaths. The city of Suez was utterly destroyed during the battle, with almost every building completely leveled. Even so, due to the Chimeran Tower, Suez would become the UED Headquarters for the rest of the war. Furthermore, with the capture of Suez, the Suez Canal was restored, creating a soon-to-be vital link between Asia and Europe.

Emergency Thresholds: When things get desperate, Emergency Thresholds are called, allowing a number of previously unthinkable options to come into play.

ET 3: Tactical Emergency: A vital resource has been located, and under no circumstances is it to be allow to be taken by the enemy. Even if it means abandoning all others fronts in the region, this position/resource must be taken and/or held.

ET 2: Regional Emergency: The situation has become so bad in a region that any option is allowed to remove the invaders. Danger-Close Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical operations have been authorized, as has the Universal Conscription of any able-bodied person, and many who aren't.

ET 1: Strategic Emergency: The region is in danger of being overrun, and the total destruction of it has been deemed better than allowing the enemy to take it. All methods are to be used to render the region completely sterile and uninhabitable, including Nuclear Saturation and Grey Tech Explosions.

ET 0: Final Emergency: All is lost. Humanity has reached the point where total annihilation is better than defeat. Specially enhanced bombs are to be detonated within the Earth's crust, destroying Earth, and hopefully taking the enemy with us.

Neuroi Type, Humanoid: We have absolutely no idea what this is.

A/N: The Eagle VTOL looks like the Black Ops 2 VTOL. The Archer looks like the Endwar Drone. The Assault Drone is a Chimeran Attack Drone that's been modified with more firepower.

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