It was 7pm. The sky is getting dark. Gunshots flew past Terry's head. The Nationalists were putting a hard last fight over the port. Some bodies of the 21st paratrooper battalion lay sprawled on the ground. Some bodies were missing heads. A soldier wailing in pain as a mortar shell hit near him and his intestines were flowing out from his body like spaghetti being poured out from a bowl. A paramedic was there to attend him but was shot in the head soon after. The Nationalists had machine gun emplacements atop warehouses and cranes of the port, pinning the teams down with hot lead. Terry looked up from a trench and fired a few shots at the emplacements. But they were too far to be accurate and a rain of bullets didn't make it easier. Then a missile flew past and hit the crane filled with machine guns. The crane began tumbling down with its occupants trapped. Terry looked behind, only to see a familiar face.

"I told you we'd meet again."

Yulie, Eric and Nicky quickly got into the trench to avoid getting shot by snipers. Machine gun fire from the warehouse kept them down.

"I see some missing members. Where's Doug?" asked Yulie.

"He and Maddie go to save Vespin. Ivan's injured," said Terry through the noise of ricocheting bullets. He then also noticed some missing members of Yulie's team.

"You?"

"They didn't make it from Gibraltar."

"Sorry about that."

"Don't be. There were far more good soldiers that died in this war. They were just part of it." Another mortar hit close by the trench. They all covered their heads as the dirt rained down on them.

"Nicky, missile them," commanded Yulie. Nicky came out and aimed the launcher at the warehouse. A shot came and hit him at the side of the neck. He immediately dropped the weapon, then slumping back into the trench. He held his wounded neck and screamed in pain as the blood started sprouting out from the wound.

"Medic! Cheryl, get here quick!" shouted Terry across the trench. Cheryl was attending to a soldier with another two medics to stop the bleeding from a fragmentation grenade when her service was needed. She looked at the Alpha team and saw Nicky in pain.

"Put pressure on the wound! I'll be there shortly!" shouted Cheryl. Then she turned to the ailing soldier.

"Do you think you can handle it?" asked Cheryl. The other two medics nodded and continued to work on the soldier. Cheryl started running towards the team, passing through a few soldiers who one of them was shot on the head, but was saved by his helmet. He quickly ducked in and checked his helmet to see a bullet lodged into the synthetic helmet. She passed another soldier who was about to launch a rocket at the warehouse, but was killed instantly. One bullet narrowly missed her head as she raced to Nicky.

"Where has he been hit?" asked Cheryl and Nicky showed the neck wound.

"I need people to put pressure on it while I inject the morphine." The team followed, Yulie putting pressure on the wound as Cheryl stuck the morphine through his leg. Nicky continued to scream in pain.

"Shut up, will you?! You're not making it easier," scolded Cheryl as she looked into the neck wound.

"You're lucky, it's a clean cut. Bad news, it hit one of you arteries. Don't worry, I'll fix you up," said Cheryl. She injected anesthetic into the neck, then wrapping the wound up. Then she added more morphine so that his nervous system won't drive him to an epileptic shock.

"Someone needs to take care of his neck until help arrives." But help did not arrive. The planes were kept off the skies, the artillery were halted halfway by Nationalist forces. Help doesn't look like its going to arrive in time.

"Hang on, Nicky. We're going to make it," said Yulie, giving words of encouragement. Then a few shots from behind came and hit the occupied warehouses. Terry looked behind and smiled. Doug, Maddie and Vespin had arrived. They rushed into the trench.

"What's the situation?" asked Doug.

"Snipers are everywhere. Gunners are stopping us from finding them. One man down," replied Terry.

"Got it. Vespin, get those snipers. Maddie, you take care of the gunners. Terry, Yee Lin, James, follow me. Yulie, Eric, provide us covering fire." Everyone understood and nodded. Doug gave a signal to follow him. Yulie and Eric aimed and fired at the warehouse to keep the machine gunners busy.

"I was excellent sniper, but you guys had to take it away from me," mumbled Vespin as she took a shot. It hit one of the snipers through his scope, with the bullet going through his head.

"It cost me an arm to get this far," mumbled Maddie, taking a shot at a gunner. He was instantly killed. Cheryl was still running around in the trench, attending to one soldier after another. Casualties were high in this assault. Meanwhile, Doug and his small team made it near the warehouse where the gunners were.

"James, grenade," commanded Doug. James pulled the pin out, gave it to Doug, then Doug threw it through the window. The window blew out together with two Nationalist soldiers. Yee Lin and Terry shot the soldiers as they fell down. Back at the trench, Yulie carried the Javelin launcher from Nicky and aimed at the warehouse.

"Fire in the hole!" she said, launching the missile at the warehouse. The missile impacted the warehouse, evacuating all its occupants. For the first time in three hours, the guns fell silent. The soldiers cheered and moved out from the trench, rushing towards the nearest structure for cover. The remnants of the Nationalist troops rushed for cover but pulling back, showing that the Eurasian forces were winning the battle. They managed to push them until the docks, the last refuge of the Nationalist forces. When the Eurasian forces reached the docks, they saw something that shouldn't be there. The mechs that were used in Italy were used here, all 15 available in the continent. The mechs mowed down some of the troops from the 21st paratrooper battalion while the others went into hiding. One of the mechs opened its rocket pods and fired at the port buildings the Eurasian forces were hiding. The rockets hit the building of the 21st paratrooper battalion, causing the building to crumble down. Only a few survived the rocket attacks. Alpha 1st team regrouped as the mechs began their search and destroy.

"Maddie, Vespin, get into that building. We'll divert them robots," commanded Doug, pointing at a port authority building nearby. Doug and the rest of the teams ran out and diverted the mechs away, giving opportunity for the girls to get there. As soon as they got up there, they set up their sniper rifles and aimed for the drivers.

The mechs continued to chase after the team, who was running back to the trench where Nicky lay injured with Eric and Yulie.

"Fire the missile!" shouted Doug. Yulie locked the launcher at the mech's rocket pods.

"Say hello to my dead teammates in heaven," she commented as she fired the missile. The missile hit the rocket pods, detonating the remainder rockets in the tubes. It led to a huge explosion causing it to break into pieces and came crashing down.

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall," commented James. Another one appeared from behind a building and fired its mini guns. Everyone ducked in the trench while Doug used his invisible shield to defend himself from bullet fire.

"Doug, get in here!" exclaimed Yulie.

"Wait a minute…….," replied Doug. Then the machine stopped firing. Up at the building, Maddie was looking through the scope of her smoking rifle.

"Too easy."

She saw her teammates down below like ants taking triumph on a grasshopper. Her teammates later rushed to the adjacent buildings to try take down the other mechs in operation. Vespin took a shot, and another mech falls to its knees. Maddie turned to Vespin.

"Nice shot," commented Maddie.

"Thanks," replied Vespin. Maddie thought of something to say while they take care of the cannon fodder.

"I noticed you like Doug," Maddie stated. Vespin blushed.

"No!" shot back Vespin.

"There's nothing that I don't know. Your face tells everything."

"Ok, I admit. But he loves you; I'm won't compete for him." Vespin took a shot at another mech.

"It's not that….he told me he kept his sister a promise, to treat you as family. Even after the war, you're welcome to the family." Maddie took a shot at a hidden sniper.

"Okay…..wait. A family? You mean…?" asked Vespin surprised.

"Yes, we are getting married after this operation," replied Maddie, showing a ring with the German Iron Cross decorated around the ring. Vespin's jaw dropped. Then something attracted Vespin's attention. She quickly aimed at a crane at the docks and shot a sniper aiming at them.

"No time for surprises. If we don't do this quick, there won't be a wedding to celebrate," said Vespin. Maddie nodded and stared through her scope.

Down on the ground, Doug and his teammates rushed to the nearest building to the Nationalist last line of defense. The machine gun fire and mortars were pounding them hard, but were all misses. The Nationalists' desperate way to win the assault had hampered their accuracy. The remaining mechs were disabled and the last of the Nationalist soldiers were cleared out with grenades and flash bang grenades. The team ran towards the trenches to search for any survivors. All the dead bodies filled the trenches and the stink was unbearable. Maddie and Vespin came down and regrouped with the team.

"Nice job. Now to finish it," said Doug. They began going for the cranes to plant the C4s but suddenly gunfire from behind took them by surprise. Maddie and Doug quickly deployed their shields to defend the team from gunfire as more Nationalist troops appeared before them. They started firing at the soldiers, but they seemed more experienced than the basic soldiers and even tougher than the Navy Stormtroopers despite not having much gear. They carried rifles that had a very high rate of fire and had agility that supersedes the Stormtroopers. But a symbol made them the most feared even among the Nationalists ranks. A symbol used by the Germans during World War II, the double S. The American-SS soldiers had arrived.

Doug was having a hard time, since he knew everything about the American-SS troops. They had agility that made them nearly impossible to defeat, having no known weaknesses as Canadian and Brazilian battalions early in the war were decimated by them. But these troops don't have numbers on their side, so they were rare in warzones outside the country. These were those rare moments that the Nationalists have deployed these 'shinobis' in the theatre of war. The team struggled to hit the SS troopers, but they proved too fast to hit. They started to pull back when something fell off the sky.

"What the..?" muttered the surprised Terry as the 'thing' hit the ground hard. The thing was a man with silver hair and carrying Akimbo Mac-10s. The man fired, hitting the SS troopers in the leg, making them more vulnerable to attack. The man turned around and astounded everyone. It was Ivan.

"Hey, I'm back!" said Ivan, sporting some kind of exoskeleton armor around him, glowing dark blue. The team cheered and started firing at the downed SS troopers.

"Hit them in the legs, then the head. This came from intel," said Ivan as the team moved forward to face the SS troopers. Ivan stopped Vespin who was going together with the team.

"Wait, I believe these belong to you," said Ivan, handing the Mac-10s to Vespin.

"This belongs to you too," said Vespin, handing his sniper rifle. They switched weapons and began attacking the SS troops. Now with their secrets out, the SS troops were no longer invulnerable to attack. The troopers had been killed, and the team quickly planted the C4s on the cranes and the docks. They moved to a distance and Terry pushed the trigger and the docks blew up with orange filling the already night sky. It was a few minutes to 10:30 pm and had half an hour to spare. Knowing the port had been captured, Doug radioed in for reinforcements.

"The port has been captured. Send reinforcements," said Doug. Then the ground rumbled and a huge mech appeared from the end of the port. This was bigger than the mechs they faced and looked like it's pulled out from the manga 'Gundam'. It had energy cannon on its left side, auto cannon on its right side and rocket pods at the top of the torso. In between the rocket pods was a head, where the assumed pilot was controlling the monster.

"Damn, they read too much comic books," commented Ivan. The mech charged up its energy cannon, then firing at the team. The team spread out, evading the energy weapon and went into hiding. The huge mech spots James and Yee Lin and fired its missiles. It hit them, sending them flying and hitting a container. But they however escaped with a few bruises. Then Maddie and Vespin tried to take the driver out, which was in the head. The mech spots them and fired its energy cannon at them. The blast was so bright that Doug couldn't see them.

"Maddie! Vespin!" yelled Doug as he tried to rush for them, but was held back by Terry and Ivan. The mech soon turned to the trio and fired its auto cannon. The all hid behind Doug's shield, having proven to withstand rocket blasts. Then the mech charged up its energy cannon, ready to strike the trio. But then the mech was hit by an artillery shell, knocking it off balance, but it got steady on its feet. It came to meet its contender, a two-legged mech that has three cannons and a pilot cockpit at the side. The big mech radioed in to Doug.

"This is the Headhunter squad. We're here to take care of the mech," crackled the radio. The mech fired another volley at the Nationalist mech and the mech crumbled down to dust. Terry and Ivan cheered, but Doug rushed towards where Vespin and Maddie were. He arrived to found that both of them were okay, but Maddie's head was bleeding and part of the metal arm she had was torn apart. Maddie was unconscious.

"What happened?" asked Doug.

"She hit her head pretty hard. The shield didn't stand against the energy cannon. We need an ambulance quick!" replied Vespin. Doug radioed in.

"Send in the emergency crews, we've got people down! I repeat! People down!" alarmed Doug on the radio. A few minutes later, a military ambulance came by to pick up the injured soldiers. The medical crews came with stretchers and inspect her. They quickly lifted her to the stretcher and ran to the military ambulance. Inside was a few of the 21st paratrooper battalion, Nicky and Cheryl. Cheryl was telling the military doctors the diagnosis she undertook, so that the treatment could be carried out immediately. Doug called for Cheryl to run a diagnosis on Maddie.

"Cheryl, Maddie looks badly hit. Give a quick diagnosis, please," pleaded Doug. Cheryl looked at Maddie for a while, and then gave a conclusion.

"She had a minor concussion. The hospital would be able to get her up," she concluded. Then she called for a paramedic. A young paramedic ran towards her, panting after so many casualties.

"Give this the top priority. We don't want the concussion to become a coma," said Cheryl. The young paramedic nodded and led Maddie into the military ambulance. The ambulance raced out of the area until it disappeared into a fog of dust. Doug could only hope she's okay. Vespin came up to him and comforted him.

"She's going to be fine. Trust me," said Vespin, putting her hand on his shoulder.

"Thanks, Vespin," replied Doug.

"Come; let's clean this place up quickly. The sooner we finish, the faster we can get to the hospital," said Vespin. Doug nodded. They met up with the rest of the team.

"Ok guys; let's help fortify this port. We have 15 minutes before the enemy reinforcements arrive," said Doug.

"Need extra hands? Thought we could be of help," asked Yulie, with Eric behind her.

"Sure, come aboard," replied Doug.