The Mordor army was in position to lay siege on Minas Tirith and the orcs made war chants. "Hierarch, I'm reading half a million orcs have gathered in the Pelennor Fields. They also brought mountain trolls and other siege units," Rohana informed Artanis from the Spear of Adun.
"That's a lot of orcs," a reaper from Raynor's Raiders muttered.
"It's bigger than Saruman's army," said a marine.
"Open the gate! Quick!" a guard above the gate ordered as he something.
The Terrans and Protoss noticed only horse made it back to the city alive dragging its unconscious rider who appeared to be the leader. The gate opened until it was sufficient for the horse to pass through then locked it quick.
Several medics of Raynor's Raiders entered the scene. "It's Faramir," said one of the medics. "Get the horse to be patched up." The some of the medics placed Faramir on a stretcher and took him to the citadel while the others gave the horse medical treatment.
Jim, Swann, Stetmann, Artanis, Karax, Talandar, and Alarak remained at a command post that they had set up in the courtyard near the citadel. They noticed the medics moving the stretcher that had Faramir and Denethor followed by Pippin along with several men came out of the citadel.
"Faramir!" the steward ran towards his son. "Say not that he has fallen."
"They were outnumbered. None survived," a man reported.
"I knew this will happen," Artanis muttered.
The orc leader muttered, "Fear. The city is rank with it. Let us ease their pain." He then gave an order, "Release the prisoners."
"Catapults!" one of the orc leader's subordinates passed the order and laughed at the time the catapults launched human heads.
The Protoss robotic units were unaffected when some of the heads spattered onto them or landed right in front of them.
"What was that?" an immortal pilot asked as a human head spattered onto the machine. The Protoss' plasma shields had blocked the human heads so that none of the machines were stained.
"The Mordor siege weapons have just launched human heads," said the pilot of a Nerazim stalker.
"What kind of an attack is that?" a Purifier sentinel asked.
"What just happened?" a siege tank commander asked when a human head bounced onto the siege tank in siege mode.
"Gross," a goliath pilot muttered when a human head spattered into the combat walker's wind shield.
"Oh my god," a medic muttered when a human head landed right in front of her.
"This is the sickest thing that can come out of a siege engine," a marauder spoke with disgust when a human head landed right in front of him.
"Son of a bitch!" a vulture biker muttered as a human head bounced on the bike.
"Mordor is fucking sick," a reaper muttered when a human head landed right below him.
"Those sick fuckers," a marine muttered with disgust as a human head landed right next to him on his left.
"It makes me want to vomit," another marine saw a human head landed on his right and could not hold. He raised his visor and vomited onto the floor.
"Swear to god, I would burn those fucking monsters if I ever see them," a firebat muttered when he turned to see a human head landed right behind him.
"At least the zerg aren't here to see this," said a Hellion driver when a human head landed near the side of the car.
"What's wrong with you, humans?" a Nerazim centurion demanded.
"Raynor, the Mordor catapults have launched human heads. Why are the men getting such bad reactions from that?" Artanis demanded.
"What kind of an attack is that? What are they up to?" Karax asked.
"I know what they're up to and it is not an attack. Mordor is trying to spread fear to the people of Gondor and to shatter their fighting spirits weakening their morale," Jim gave out what he knew.
"We never know anything about this until now," said Talandar.
"Spreading fear to your enemies. I'm impressed," Alarak muttered.
"Raiders, don't fall for their trick," Jim ordered his men.
"Ha! You think a human head can scare me?" said a Thor pilot.
"Our previous battles are worse than those human heads," a Hellion driver muttered.
Swann and Stetmann noticed Denethor despaired, "My sons are spent. My line has ended."
"He's alive!" Pippin checked on Faramir.
"The House of Stewards has failed," the steward paid no attention to the hobbit as well as to Jim and his allies.
"He needs medicine, my lord."
"My line has ended!" Denethor shouted.
"My lord!" Pippin shouted but it was useless.
Denethor was further horrified to see the Mordor army overrun the fields. "Rohan has deserted us," he despaired. "Theoden betrayed me."
Jim had command of Tosh's spectres and added them to the garrison of Minas Tirith. "The trolls are loading the catapults with boulders, they'll attack soon," a spectre spoke according to what he saw.
"Raiders. If you see a boulder coming towards you, get out of the way," Jim ordered. The siege tanks all switched to tank mode and the Vikings switched to fighter mode.
"Warriors. If the catapults launched rocks to attack all of you, move out and reposition yourselves," Artanis said to his warriors regardless of Aiur, Nerazim, Purifier, and Tal'darim.
The Mordor catapults launched the boulders damaging the city and there was cause in the citizens of Minas Tirith. The Protoss and Jim's men dodged the boulders then relocate. The siege tanks switched to siege mode and the Vikings switched to walker mode.
"They're killing civilians," a marine muttered in an angry tone as a boulder landed into a balcony killing a group of local citizens including a mother holding an infant.
The infantry of the Daelaam Protoss and Raynor's Raiders helped the Gondor soldiers on their feet.
"Abandon your posts!" Denethor got everybody's attention. "Flee! Flee for your lives!"
"What the hell is wrong with him?" a reaper asked.
"They're gotta be out of their minds," one of the marines saw the Gondor soldiers all left their positions.
"Don't let scum like this take you down!" a vulture biker shouted.
Swann slammed his mechanical arm into Denethor's forehead knocking him unconscious, "That should shut that chicken up."
Jim ran to the balcony and shouted, "Soldiers of Gondor! Belay that order! Get back to your positions!"
"We're supposed to do what the steward says," said one of the Gondor soldiers.
"Lord Denethor can no longer lead you starting from now! Have you not known what happened to Laketown?!"
The Gondor soldiers were baffled and looked at each other.
"The steward is abandoning the city when the enemy attacks like the Master abandoning Laketown when a dragon burns the whole town down!" Jim verified. "Think about your homes and your families!" he got the Gondor soldiers' attention. "This is the city that Mordor will sack! Your houses they will burn! And your families they will massacre! Do you all want those to happen? Think about your fallen brothers in arms! Do you want them to see you all now from the afterlife?!" this caused the Gondor soldiers to think things through. "I'm assuming command here! My first command to you all is to get back to your positions now!"
"Maybe he's right. Let's do this for Gondor," said a Gondor soldier causing the others to return to their positions.
"Hurry, men! To the wall! Defend the wall!" Gandalf rode Shadowfax rallying the men of Gondor. "Return to your posts!"
"That's more I like it," said a Viking pilot as the Gondor soldiers were all in positions.
"Send these foul beasts into the abyss!" the wizard ordered.
The rubbles were salvaged and the trebuchets launched the available boulders at the Mordor army killing orcs by multiples of 20's.
"Stay where you are," the orc leader ordered.
Mordor and Gondor bombarded each other. During the process, one of the trebuchets destroyed a catapult while another trebuchet destroyed a siege tower.
"All units! Fire at will!" Jim ordered.
"Time to fight back!" Artanis ordered.
The siege tanks in siege mode bombarded the orcs as well as destroying the catapults and siege towers. Marines, reapers, spectres, goliaths, and walker-mode Vikings opened fire at the Mordor army. The Purifier colossi caught multiple orcs on fire causing them to run around then collapsed into the ground motionlessly and destroyed few of the catapults. The Aiur high Templars unleashed psionic storms on the orcs killing multiples of them and the Tal'darim ascendants fired psionic orbs to killing multiple orcs. The Purifier adepts, the Aiur dragoons, the Nerazim stalkers, the Aiur immortals, the Nerazim annihilators, and the Tal'darim vanguards picked off the orcs. The Aiur sentries looked for Protoss units to regenerate Plasma shields, the Purifier energizers boosted the fire and movement of allies especially Gondor archers, and the Tal'darim havocs extended the attack ranges of allies. No matter how many catapults were destroyed, new ones were brought in to replace the ones that were destroyed.
The orc leader looked with disbelief at the attacks from powerful foes and saw a boulder flying towards him. He jumped out of the way and spat on it causing a troll to look at it.
"Sauron is not alone! Kill all in the great lord's name!" it was a hybrid.
"Hierarch, I'm reading hybrids coming towards you," Rohana informed.
"These hybrids are not like anything we've seen before," said Jim.
The flying hybrid nemeses flew in to join the fight and attacked with annihilation beams. The marines, dragoons, stalkers, adepts, and goliaths turned to shoot them down. The Vikings turned to fighter mode to launch long-range-anti-armor missiles at those monsters and the cloaked wraith fighters joined in the fight by launching anti-air missiles. The Aiur phoenixes, the Nerazim corsairs, and the Purifier mirages provided air cover. The annihilators fired their shadow cannons at the flying hybrids and the spectres unleashed psionic lash to inflict high amount of damages on those monsters. The Nerazim void rays and the Tal'darim destroyers fired their beams at the hybrids.
"They're endless," said a wraith pilot as more hybrid nemeses were coming.
"This can't be good," Stetmann muttered as there were blood-curtailing screeches coming from the air.
"Ah, hell! It's those Ringwraiths again but in flying steeds," said Jim as the Nazgul in Fellbeasts joined in the fight.
"The hybrids are used as distractions," said Talandar.
The Fellbeasts swooped to destroy the trebuchets easily as well as to attack the men and Protoss. Those flying creatures sent the siege tanks rolling, knocked the goliaths down, sent the fighters crashing, damaged the Purifier colossi, and brought down the Protoss assault ships. The Ringwraiths and their flying steeds screeched causing Pippin to take off his helmet to cover his ears. The screeches even shattered the marines' visors along with the windshields of hellions, thors, goliaths, Vikings, and wraiths as if the glasses were explosive. The infantry of Raynor's Raiders and Daelaam Protoss dodged the Fellbeasts. Those flying creatures grabbed Gondor soldiers and dropped them to their deaths.
"That is an air attack we have not seen before," Karax muttered.
"Hold them back! Do not give in to fear. Stand to your posts! Fight!" Gandalf ordered.
The banshees joined the fight and one of the pilots muttered, "The siege towers are getting close." The banshees launched missiles destroying the siege towers as well as killing the orcs and trolls. The void rays and destroyers helped out destroying the siege towers. A single destroyer could hit up to three siege towers.
The marauders, diamondbacks, thors, immortals, annihilators, and vanguards also fired at the siege towers. No matter how many siege towers were destroyed, there were more to replace the destroyed. "You got to be joking. Arrows can't damage the towers," said a marauder after the Gondor archers released an arrow volley at the towers.
"Not at the towers! Aim for the trolls! Kill the trolls! Bring them down!" Gandalf shouted causing the Gondor archers to shoot the trolls. The science vessels joined in irradiating the trolls and fixed the ally machines.
"These trolls are like walking tanks," a banshee pilot muttered.
The siege towers that passed through the fire lowered bridges for the orcs to attack. The Gondor soldiers with swords and shields attempted to hold them. The firebats and hellions caught multiple orcs on fire causing a number of them to fall off to their deaths. The Aiur zealots, the Nerazim centurions, and Purifier sentinels intercepted the orcs then slashed them with their blades into pieces. The Aiur avengers, the Nerazim dark Templars, and the Tal'darim blood hunters helped out and sliced the orcs into pieces unseen. The marines, reapers, spectres, dragoons, stalkers, adepts, goliaths, walker-mode Vikings, wraith fighters using their lasers, and Gondor archers picked off the orcs. The bullets sent the orcs flying midair whereas the dragoons' phase disruptors disintegrated the orcs. The attacks from ranged units also sent the orcs falling off from the siege towers to their deaths.
The orcs brought in a battering ram attempting to bring down the gate. The Gondor archers above the gate fired at the orcs especially the crew and the orc archers returned fire.
"Fight them back!" Gandalf shouted. "Peregrin Took!" he noticed Pippin. "Go back to the Citadel!"
"They'd called us out to fight," Pippin muttered in a tone like he had forgotten what he was doing.
No matter how many orcs were killed, more replaced the fallen. Gandalf jumped in and engaged the orcs that saw the hobbit. The wizard clubbed the orcs with his staff and slashed the orcs with the Foehammer sword. "This is no place for a Hobbit," said Gandalf and resumed holding off more orcs. Pippin noticed an orc was about to strike the wizard from behind and stabbed it before it could attack. "Guard of the Citadel, indeed," Gandalf spoke as if he was impressed watching the impaled orc fell to the floor dead. "Now, back, up the hill. Quickly. Quick!" this caused Pippin to run off.
"We have to help them," said Artanis.
"Right," said Jim.
Jim, Swann, Artanis, Karax, Talandar, and Alarak went to the battlements assisting the men and the Protoss warriors. Artanis, Alarak, and Talandar slashed the orcs into pieces with their blades. Swann picked off the additional siege towers, Jim fired his C-14 Gauss rifle at the orcs carefully, and Karax used his drones to attack the orcs. Jim threw a fragmentation hand grenade into one of the siege tower causing it to crumble and Swann set up the Flaming Betty in the battlements to pick off the orcs carefully.
"They just don't stop," said Jim gunning down an orc.
"Why would they?" Artanis asked as he stabbed another orc.
"Hierarch, the battering ram that orcs brought was stopped," said Rohana as the Gondor archers above the gate almost killed the entire crew of the battering ram.
"What are you doing, you useless scum?!" the orc leader yelled.
"The door won't give. It's too strong," said the orc leader's subordinate who was an Uruk-hai.
"Get back there and smash it down."
"But nothing can breach it."
"Grond will breach it," the orc leader smirked maliciously. "Bring up the wolf's head."
"What just happened?" a marine asked as the fighting paused at the time the siege towers were all destroyed.
"Hierarch, the Mordor army are bringing a larger battering ram to destroy the gate," Rohana informed.
"Grond! Grond! Grond! Grond!" the orcs chanted as three horned creatures were chained pulling something huge and the trolls were also pushing it. Jim, Swann, Artanis, Karax, Talandar, Alarak, and Gandalf watched. "Grond! Grond! Grond!" the orcs chanted when the massive battering ram was closing in.
"That gate won't hold for long," Jim spoke with prediction.
Kerrigan, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli confronted the Corsair fleet. "You may go no further," the Dunedain got the Corsair captain's attention. "You will not enter Gondor," Aragorn announced and the Corsairs laughed at him.
"Who are you to deny us passage?!" the Corsair captain shouted.
"Legolas, fire a warning shot past the bosun's ear," said Aragorn.
"Let me show them what they got," said Kerrigan.
"Your skills are good, Sarah. Let Legolas handle this one."
Legolas drew his bow and Gimli tipped the bow, "Mind your aim."
"Now that's what I call a warning shot," the Queen of Blades commented when Legolas released the arrow into one of the Corsairs.
"Oh," Gimli covered his mouth for bit. "That's it. Right. We warned you. Prepared to be boarded!" the dwarf spoke with a bold tone when the Corsair ship got closer to the river bank and the archers prepared their bows.
The Corsairs all laughed at the group of five and their captain mocked, "Boarded? By you and whose army?"
"This army," Aragorn replied and the army of Dead came out from the mountains.
"Look who's scared of ghosts now?" Kerrigan laughed at the Corsairs who screamed with terror when the ghosts were closing into the ships.