Hours later and it was dawn, Helm's Deep was overrun with Uruk-hai. Some of them began waving banners of the White Hand and the battering ram was brought to bring down the door. Men and Protoss took whatever they could find to barricade the entrance while the zerg were in position to attack.
"The fortress is taken. It is over," said Theoden.
"You think this fortress is invincible while our men are still giving their damn lives to defend it!" Jim shouted.
"How can you say that a battle is over when our warriors are still defending this place?" said Artanis.
"Even if death would come to my Swarm, my minions are still defending this fortress!" Kerrigan shouted.
When the Uruks rammed the door, the women and children heard the noise. "They're breaking in!" a woman shouted.
A crying woman hugged Eowyn while the women and children huddled in fear. The mothers soothed their crying infants.
"They're past the door!" a woman shouted.
"All of you! Calm down! Our allies will hold the enemy and they won't reach here!" Stetmann shouted to the women and children.
"We'll need heavier units to clear out what's left of the Uruk-hai," said Swann.
"Agree, we'll have to purify the Uruks behind the Deeping Wall. Only then, the heavier units can be deployed," said Talandar.
"Whatever happens now, the Templar will endure," said Artanis.
"Giving up shows weakness," said Alarak.
The Protoss melee and cloaked warriors were front of the ranged warriors, psionic warriors, and robotic support units.
"The Swarm will prevail," said Kerrigan as her minions prepared to attack. The zerglings were in front with hydralisks and roaches behind.
"Raiders! Take up positions! We're not going down without a fight!" Jim ordered. The firebats and hellions were in the front with marines, reapers, and vulture bikes behind.
"Is there no other way for the women and children to get out of the caves?" Aragorn asked the king but there was no response. "Is there no other way?"
"There is one passage. It leads into the mountains. But they will not get far. The Uruk-hai are too many," a captain replied.
"Send word to the women and children to make for the mountain pass. And barricade the entrance!" Aragorn ordered.
"So much death. What can Men do against such reckless hate?" Theoden asked.
"Your majesty, with all due respect, this is not the time to despair because many of your men died. If you show fear, it will weaken the morale of your men and will get your people killed. Show your people that the king's fighting spirit is not dead," said Jim.
"How can I do that?" the king asked.
"Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them," Aragorn spoke of a solution.
"For death and glory."
"For Rohan. For your people."
"For all the fallen brothers in arms that have died protecting this kingdom from Saruman," said Jim.
"The sun is rising," said Gimli.
"Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn, look to the east," Jim and Aragorn recalled Gandalf's words.
"Yes, yes. The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the Deep one last time," Theoden was back on track.
"Yes!" the dwarf shouted.
"Let this be the hour when we draw swords together," Theoden placed his hand on Aragorn's shoulder.
"Let's make our stand together," said Artanis and the king nodded.
Theoden, Aragorn, Legolas, and the remaining men of Rohan mounted on horses while Gimli went to the horn. "Fell deeds, awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red dawn," said the king while putting on his helmet. Gimli blew the horn at the second the Uruks broke open the door. "Forth Eorlingas!" the king shouted his battle cry. Theoden led the Rohan cavalry slashing and trampling the Uruks on their way through the causeway into the fields. Raynor's Raiders, the Zerg Swarm, and the Daelaam Protoss mopped up the Uruks on their way to the Deeping Wall.
After clearing the Uruks behind the wall, heavier units began arriving. Some of Kerrigan's hydralisks morphed into lurkers while sacs brought swarm hosts with carrion strain in. The special operations dropships brought in goliaths, siege tanks, and diamondbacks. The Protoss warp prisms created fields so that the Aiur immortals, Nerazim anniliators, Tal'darim vanguards, Purifier colossi, Aiur reavers, and Tal'darim wrathwalkers could be warped in. The lurkers burrowed and swarm hosts rooted while the siege tanks switched to siege mode. The swarm hosts spawned locusts to corrode the Uruks and the lurkers cut the Uruks into shreds with their subterranean spines. The siege tanks in siege mode blew hordes of Uruks sending them flying into the air and Purifier colossi caught hordes of Uruks on fire with their thermal lances causing them to run around before collapsing into the ground motionlessly. The reavers launched explosive scarabs that homed at multiple Uruk-hai blowing them up. The diamondbacks, goliaths, the wrathwalkers, and the Protoss robotic assault units fired at the Uruks. A single goliath could gun down two Uruks at a time with its twin autocannons.
"Push forward," Kerrigan ordered as the combined forces cleared the Uruks to rejoin Theoden and his battalion.
"Who would that be?" a goliath pilot muttered when a white rider appeared uphill causing the Uruks to turn their attention to him.
"Gandalf," Jim muttered.
"Theoden King stands alone," the White Rider muttered.
"Not alone," the young exiled captain appeared. "Rohirrim!" he shouted while drawing his sword.
"Gandalf has arrived with reinforcements," said Artanis.
"Eomer," Theoden recognized the young exiled captain.
"To the king!" Eomer shouted as the cavalry reinforcements began charging and the Uruk pikemen readied their pikes to counter the cavalry. Luckily, the glaring sunlight blinded the Uruk pikemen enabling the cavalry reinforcements to break through joining the fight.
"Victory! We have victory!" Theoden shouted as the Uruks were all softened up by the combined forces of Rohan, Raynor's Raiders, Zerg Swarm, and Daelaam Protoss. Towards near the end of the battle, the remaining Uruks were approximately few hundreds.
"The Uruks are retreating," said a high Templar.
"That's strange, I don't recall a forest being here when we were on our way to Helm's Deep," said another marine.
"Stay out of the forest! Keep away from the trees!" Eomer shouted.
"My Swarm, stop!" Kerrigan ordered her minions and they complied.
"Why can't we go after them?" Zagara asked.
"We'll find out," Jim replied.
When the last Uruks entered into the forest, the trees began moving and the Uruks screamed for their lives.
"It's a wonderful trap," Alarak commented.
The cleanup operation began but Gimli smoked his pipe while sitting on one of his kills. "Final count, 42," said Legolas.
"42? That's not bad for a pointy-eared Elvish princeling. I myself am sitting pretty on 43," said the dwarf.
"43," the prince of Mirkwood shot the dead Uruk.
"He was already dead," Gimli insisted.
"He was twitching."
"He was twitching because he's got my axe embedded in his nervous system!" the dwarf moved the axe embedded onto the carcass' brain causing it to move.
"I'm impressed with the scores of you two," said Jim.
"I suppose you did better," said Gimli.
"Better than the two of you combined."
"How many, Jim?"
"Up to 500," Jim gave an estimated number.
"Up to 500? That's impressive," Legolas commented.
"Nonsense, if he hadn't got those powerful weapons, he would've gotten less," said Gimli.
"It isn't just about weapons, but the skill of combat also," Jim clarified.
The leaders all looked up into the horizon at the time the elves began their journey home and the cleanup operation was over. The dead were buried and Jim took the dog tag of the dead marine. "Sauron's wrath will be terrible, his retribution swift. The battle for Helm's Deep is over. The battle for Middle-earth is about to begin. All our hopes now lie with two little Hobbits and their companions somewhere in the wilderness," Gandalf stated the fact.