"Is there no end to these Uruk-hai?" Artanis asked as no matter how many Uruks were slain, replacements flooded through the gap on the wall.
"There's just too many of them," said Jim at the time he and his men were still gunning the Uruk-hai.
"We can never overwhelm them," said Zagara as she impaled two Uruks.
"Still, huge numbers are used to compensate for weak weapons," Alarak stated the fact as he slashed two Uruks.
Legolas knifed the Uruks, Gimli hacked another Uruk, and Aragorn slashed another Uruk.
Theoden watched the combined forces and shouted, "Aragorn! Jim! Artanis! Fall back to the Keep! Get your men out of there!"
"To the Keep! Pull back to the Keep!" Aragorn shouted to the elves in their language. "Haldir! To the Keep!" he shouted to the defender of Lorien in elvish.
"Templar, fall back to the keep now!" Artanis passed the order to his warriors and they went to the keep.
"You heard the hierarch, go!" Karax passed the order to the adept and went with them to the keep.
"Purifiers, pull back to the keep!" Talandar passed the order to the Purifiers and they headed towards to the keep.
"Tal'darim, follow them to keep!" Alarak passed the order reluctantly to his followers and they kept up with the other Protoss.
"My Swarm, pull back to the keep!" Kerrigan ordered. Dehaka, Zagara, and the minions all pulled back to the keep.
"You heard her! Move!" Stukov shouted to the infested causing them to fall back to the keep.
"What are you doing? What are you stopping for?" Gimli shouted while struggling as Legolas and Swann had to carry him.
"To the Keep!" Haldir shouted in elvish to his kin.
"Raiders! Form a firing line and fall back to the keep!" Jim shouted to his men. The reapers all hovered ahead and did cliff jumps to the keep. The marines aimed carefully at the Uruks to cover the retreating elves. "We got your cover, Haldir," the commander said to the defender of Lorien as he continued firing at the Uruks. Kerrigan picked off the Uruk-hai on the stairs while Haldir was between her and Jim who was firing at the Uruks behind them. They went downstairs and Haldir rejoined his kin. The firebats were in front scorching the Uruks that dared to approach while marines shot Uruks continuously. Jim's infantry began walking backwards covering the retreat and the men of Rohan released arrows on the upcoming Uruks.
The battering ram made a hole in the gate and killed a man of Rohan during the process. "Brace the gate!" another man of Rohan shouted. However, the Uruk crossbowmen aimed through the hole and fired at the defenders.
"Hold them!" the men with bows returned fire at the Uruk crossbowmen.
"To the gate. Draw your swords!" the king said to his subordinates.
The firebats and hellions kept the Uruks that were flooding through the gap in the Deeping Wall at bay while the hydralisks, adepts, high Templar, marines, reapers, and ascendants took positions in the battlements of the keep to resume shooting the Uruks. "Swann, you're in charge until I get back. I'm going to help out at the gate. Take this for safe keeping," Jim handed his rifle to the chief engineer.
"Anytime you're ready, cowboy."
"I'm coming with Jim," said Kerrigan.
The men of Rohan below struggled to hold the gate despite Theoden and the captains lent them hands. After the king sliced an arm of an Uruk that was strangling a captain, he was speared by another Uruk. Theoden was injured on the shoulder nevertheless returned the favor by skewering the attacker's throat with another spear. "Make way!" the captain shouted. "We can't hold much longer," he told the king as the men continued to struggle holding off the Uruks. "Hold them!" Theoden shouted when Aragorn arrived slashing the Uruks that jumped through the hole and Kerrigan impaled one.
"How long do you need?" the Dunedain asked when Gimli, Jim, and Kerrigan arrived.
"As long as you can give me."
"Gimli, Jim, Sarah!" Aragorn shouted to the dwarf, the commander, and the Queen of Blades.
"Timbers! Brace the gate!" Theoden shouted.
Aragorn, Gimli, Jim, and Kerrigan went through another door. "Come on. We can take them," said the dwarf.
"It's a long way," Aragorn stated the fact.
"Toss me."
"Seriously?" Jim asked.
"I cannot jump the distance! You'll have to toss me!" said Gimli.
"Funny thing is that the dwarf who said, 'Nobody tosses a Dwarf,' requests to be tossed," Kerrigan laughed.
"Don't tell the Elf," said the dwarf after Jim placed his arm around the dwarf.
"Not a word," Jim, Kerrigan, and Aragorn spoke in unison.
"ARGH!" Gimli cried out when Jim threw him at the Uruks on causeway.
Aragorn walked back and jumped in. Jim did the same to join the fight while Kerrigan used leaping strike on an Uruk. The dwarf swung his axe at the Uruks, the Dunedain slashed the Uruks, Kerrigan impaled the Uruks with her wings, and Jim engaged in hand-to-hand-combat with the Uruks.
"Shore up the door!" Theoden shouted.
"Make way!" the men brought wood and nails.
"Follow me to the barricade!"
"Watch our backs!"
"What are those?" Karax asked when two siege engines were used.
"These are ballistae, they resemble giant crossbows. They're loading them with grappling hooks," Swann replied.
"What are they up to?" Artanis asked.
"Throw another one over here!" a man below shouted.
"Higher!" the king instructed.
The ballistae fired the grappling hooks at the battlements and the Uruks held onto ropes. "Great, they're using taller ladders," said Swann as hordes of Uruks held onto the taller ladders while pulling the ropes. When one of the taller ladders landed, it had steel grips locking into the battlements so that those ladders could not be knocked. "Damn it, the ladder is locked. We can't knock it down," said Swann as the Uruks began to flood the battlements of the keep through the tall ladder. The Aiur zealots, centurions, sentinels, and zerglings engaged the Uruk warriors. The avengers, dark Templar, and blood hunters helped out slicing the Uruks unnoticed. The dragoons, stalkers, and vulture bikes picked off the Uruks at a distance. The roaches continued to corrode the Uruks by engulfing them with acid and roachlings were spawned from some of them. The elves and men of Rohan engaged in close combat with the Uruks.
Legolas noticed the second tall ladder was raised and released an arrow that cut the rope so that the tall ladder could fall crushing the Uruks that were on the ladder and some of them fell off to their deaths.
"I have an idea," said Karax as he saw another tall ladder was raised. He had the drones cut the rope so that the tall ladder could fall down as well crushing the Uruks that were on the ladder while causing some of them to fall to their deaths.
"Rohana, I request solar lances from the Spear of Adun at the ballistae," Artanis got word to the preserver in the ship.
"As you say, hierarch," Rohana replied and operated a console. The ship fired three powerful laser beams killing three lines of Uruks while destroying the ballistae surprising the men of Rohan, elves, Aragorn, and Gimli.
"Hold fast the gate!" a man shouted below at the time Aragorn, Gimli, Jim, and Kerrigan continued holding off the Uruks on causeway.
"Gimli! Aragorn! Jim! Sarah! Get out of there!" Theoden shouted before putting the wood into the gap.
"Reapers! Get Aragorn and Gimli to safety!" Jim shouted and two reapers did a cliff jump to their location. "Just hang on, you two," he told the Dunedain and the dwarf. One reaper held onto Gimli while the other had Aragorn. They did cliff jumps taking the Dunedain and the dwarf to the battlements of the keep.
"Jim! Sarah!" Legolas shouted throwing in the rope.
"Jim, you go ahead. I'll return when you're safe," Kerrigan told the man she loved. He held onto the rope causing the Protoss, the marines, the reapers, and the infested to help out. Legolas and his allies managed to pull Jim up. Kerrigan jumped to rejoin the others leaving the Uruks to storm the gate and Swann returned the assault rifle to Jim.
"Pull everybody back. Pull them back," Theoden ordered.
"Fall back! Fall back!" the captain passed the order.
"They have broken through! The castle is breached. Retreat!" the king shouted when the Uruks on causeway broke the gate open.
"Fall back!" the captain shouted.
"Retreat!" Theoden shouted.
"Hurry! Inside. Get them inside!" Aragorn directed the men of Rohan and elves to the narrow pathway to retreat.
"Into the Keep!" the captain shouted.
"Templar! Enter the Keep!" Artanis passed the order to his warriors.
"Purifiers! Fall back into the Keep!" Talandar passed the order to the Purifiers.
"Let's move!" Alarak passed the order to his followers.
"My Swarm, retreat into the Keep!" Kerrigan passed the order to the Swarm.
"You heard her, let's move!" Stukov passed the order to the infested.
"Raiders! Form a firing line and cover everybody until they entered the Keep!" Jim ordered. The marines, firebats, and reapers gathered in formation. There was an opening for their allies to get through while the firebats scorched the Uruks while the marines and reapers continued firing at the Uruks.
"Betty will keep them busy," Swann set up his turret scorching multiple Uruk-hai so that he, Jim, and the rest of the Raiders could enter then shut the doors.