With the war going on in Lordaeron about the whole returning of the orcs making moves across the lands attacking major places, it is unknown how they manage to recover after many of their leaders died but now they are back and somehow they are stronger than before, they already destroyed Andorhal and almost destroyed Hearthglen and killed one of the Paladins but they will recover, the Alliance will try to go on the offence however Lordaeron isn't the only place that is under attack by the orcs as a new enemy has come in the lands of Stormwind.
The Dark Portal has been acting strange for the past few months as two months ago this portal opened up twice now in each month, the first month it opened but no one came through it but it was strange, the second month it opened again and nothing happened however on the third month it opened and this time instead of demons or green skins coming out of the portal it was something else, a new race of orcs stormed out of the portal coming at thousands of them, thousands of Uruk Hai came into Azeroth and it is unknown of how Sauron and the shadows of Middle Earth manage to do this but in Middle Earth they have a gateway that can send them to another world and that world is this one, this is how Middle Earth is connected with Azeroth, somehow their portal and Azeroth's portal are now linked up and Outland/Draenor are now locked. Sauron can now send forth his legions through the portal but first he decided to send Saruman and his legions of Uruk Hai, coming through the portal and storming Nethergarde Keep and overrunning their fortress, killing three hundred of the defenders of that place as they were really caught by surprise however some people manage to escape. Six people fled and made their way to Stormwind where they can tell every single person in that city that a new enemy has come claiming they could be orcs but in a different way.
Sauron and his plan is to invade the Nethergarde Keep and control the south eastern lands with the Uruk Hai and before he could signal the rest of the Uruk Hai to invade Stormwind he wishes to call upon the armies of Rhun, he wants them to come through the portal next after Saruman has four thousand Uruks in Azeroth. The Easterlings will come at maybe seven thousand but will not participate in this fight; instead they march to the south while Saruman and his warriors try to control the whole bottom part of Stormwind before he can send his tens of thousands of Uruk Hai warriors into this world.
Stormwind started to prepare for war and that is why Varian wanted some help just in case that is why he contacted Terenas so he can send forth Uther and some of his champions. It has been almost a month now and both sides have been preparing for battle, Varian notices that these orcs have full control over the south eastern lands and is preparing a defence in the town called Duskwood that is now a defensive position for the forces of Stormwind. Varian called his generals and commanders to hear about the situation knowing that there's a thousand Stormwind infantry defending that town and letting a paladin named Arator the Redeemer to regain his honour after he failed to defend against the Uruks in Nethergarde, he now stands as the leader in this town and he must defend this land against the orcs. His job is to defend and not attack, if he attacks now then there is no telling how many orcs there are as they can't tell how many there are and since some of their scouts found out that there are humans with these orcs it becomes difficult and hard to understand what is going on.
Inside Stormwind finally Uther and Alexandros arrived with the army they requested, leaving their forces outside to join with Stormwind's army while both Alex and Uther goes to meet with Varian and the other leaders of Stormwind, General Hammond Clay and General Arlos stands with Varian in the throne room coming up with a strategy to attack the orcs. Uther and Alex comes through and causes them to stop and look over to the two, allowing them through where they can greet one another before returning to the war table.
"Lord Varian... it has been a while." Uther said as he shakes his hand
"Yes it has..." He looks at Alexandros "Good to see you too Alexandros, i need all the help i can get."
"Just what is the situation here anyway?"
"General Hammond Clay will fill you in." He turns back and walks to the table.
Uther and Alex walks towards the table looking at the situation seeing many blue flags on the map of Stormwind, showing a few flags on their side that is controlling nearly every area in the north, the red flags that are Orc banners since they don't have anything else they placed four of them on areas, one in Nethergarde, the Dark Portal, the other one in the south and another next to their blue flag in Duskwood.
"The enemy has been holding position for a month and they have managed to pull forth thousands of troops out of the portal." The general said looking at the map then looks up at Uther "But these are no orcs we have ever faced before, i think this force isn't from Outland."
"The land that used to be Draenor." Alexandros said
"Yes..." He looks back at the map "We believe there could be maybe three thousand or more of these brutes controlling this whole area, there is more out there and i don't understand..."
"All of us don't understand." General Arlos said to them.
"What do you mean?" Uther asked
"There are humans with these creatures." Varian said
"Humans?"
"Humans?" Alexandros looks at them all seeing they are serious "You're not joking..."
"Were not joking..." Varian points at the red flag that is at the bottom point of their land. "There marching to that location and in the west too, i tried to send my scouts but the Uruks are stopping anyone from knowing where they're going."
"So if we attack now then there's no telling how many force were dealing with." Clay said "If we charge now they might turn their force towards us and we have to attack on two fronts, not to mention there are still forces coming out of the portal so we can't attack... if we send five thousand we might deal with ten thousand or more... we could be overrun."
"But if we defend then maybe we can find out how much were dealing with." Varian said and looks at the point of Duskwood. "We defend Duskwood against the orcs; if we lose that town then the orcs will attack either the city or somewhere else."
"They could attack the city, we are standing at maybe ten thousand soldiers defending this place and with the help of the cavalry of Lordaeron we got an extra of two thousand." Clay said
"We also got the dwarves and their mortars so we could maybe deal heavy damage to them if they come here with all they got." Arlos said
"So were pretty much waiting until they make the big move on us?" Alexandros asked
"I really don't want to wait so i want you two and your infantry forces to defend the town of Duskwood while we stay here and get more soldiers in the frontlines. If you hold that town then we can advance with all we got, push them back until they can't send any more troops from the portal." Said Varian
"That can work but the real trouble is those humans who are leaving the fields." Said Uther "If we defeat the orcs in that town we have to know what they're doing."
"There are ships down there... they might take some ships and sail somewhere... maybe at the harbor or..."
"Worry about the humans later, deal with the orcs in Duskwood, eliminate them all. I can't let another location fall to the enemy."
"Alright we will head there now... just can you tell us about these orcs are they like the green skins?"
"We have seen them but they are far different, there taller than humans and wears black plated armour, they hold a banner with a black and a white hand print over it. These orcs are strong but i don't think they are stronger than the green skins we fought long ago."
"Then we should go Alexandros and protect the innocent against this force."
Both of them do a slight bow to Varian before they take their leave, heading back out of the throne room and returning outside where they will bring their thousand infantry force with them while the cavalry stays behind, making the one day march to Duskwood and hopes that they will be there in time before the battle arrives.
While the Uruk Hai are advancing forward lord Saruman started to walk out of the keep and walks towards Lurtz who had his black armour ready, holding his sword and his bow on his back looking at the Uruk Hai marching to the north. He looks over to Saruman when he got close to him and he looks out seeing the Easterlings marching to the south.
"As long as the enemy don't know about this plan, we can take out both Lordaeron and Stormwind at the same time." Saruman said then looks at Lurtz "Destroy the central town... kill everyone there."
"Yes... Saruman..."
Lurtz marches out with almost a thousand Uruk Hai by his side all running towards the town of Duskwood, warg riders will also join the hunt coming at a hundred of them to come from the south west and another group of Uruks to come as reinforcements to Lurtz side. The enemy will arrive there in a few hours, not enough time for Uther and his reinforcements to arrive to help they will be force to join the fight when the town is on fire.
The paladin Arator stands in the central of the town in the middle of the night with his forces and with Valeera there as well sitting on one of the buildings holding her two red daggers, sitting there and looking out at the view and hearing the cries and roars of the Uruks coming towards them, hearing they are getting closer she stands up and started to jump down and warn Arator.
"They're coming..." She said to Arator
He draws his sword and so do the men behind him "Then i guess we make a stand here until the reinforcements arrive." He looks back to the soldiers "Prepare for war!" Then raise his sword in the air making the rest do the same thing.
The defenders started to move forward until they come outside of town, moving forward they hear them coming and seeing their torches getting closer. "Stand fast men... we shall not let them pass through here, we are chosen warriors of Stormwind, and this town shall not fall!"
As they get closer Arator charges with his five hundred men outside of town to meet their enemy, they see them with their berserkers and their pikemen and strong steel weapons ready to fight they charge forward and soon Arator took the lead and swung his sword down before their forces makes the clash, crashing against each other hard striking one another but while they fight other groups of Uruks started to move around them and attack other areas along with wargs as well as they finally come in the south west and charges towards a band of humans who prepared a shield wall in front of them, aiming their rifles they fired towards them sending the orcs flying off their wargs or falling to the ground with their dead wargs but they don't have enough time to reload instead they held their swords ready and the riders crashed right through them and those who got on the other side of this shield wall they started to ride through the town and attack and pillage anything.
Valeera who got back on the buildings again started running forward looking at the wargs who are coming through the streets, she draws her daggers and jumps off the building, stabbing her dagger through the side of one of the wargs and laying a kick to send the Orc falling to the ground. Valeera looks over and does a combat roll before this warg tried to bite her, she throws her dagger and impales the Orc killing him before a soldier shoots the wolf dead and when she looks back she clashes against an Orc who lost his warg in the fight however she was able to slay it quickly by only clashing against her dagger twice she does a spin and strikes her dagger through the neck of the creature, pulling the dagger out and running towards her other one. Valeera gets her dagger back and keeps going dealing with the wargs, noticing the soldiers with their rifles shooting them dead and blowing the orcs off the wargs but they kept charging forward and eating them, dragging them away but Valeera tries to stop this while Arator is still fighting through the forces of the Uruks with more men coming over to help.
While the fighting is going on everywhere and more Uruks are storming the town from the rears Arator was force to fall back inside the city, allowing the riflemen on the buildings to take aim and shoot down the Uruks for them a bit time to retreat. Arator does turn back and strikes a few Uruks to help his men on pulling back, as he keeps striking through them Lurtz started to come walking into the fight while his Uruks runs past him, holding his bow and looking out at Arator seeing him killing his Uruks he started to take his poison arrow out of his quiver and slowly started to take aim at him while he keeps going. Valeera was nearby helping by striking a few Uruks and seeing Arator and before she knew it Lurtz fired his arrow towards him, when he looks forward he took a hit to the left arm causing him to gasp and feel the pain of the poison arrow flowing inside of him.
Valeera throws an axe towards an Uruk before running towards him. "Arator you alright!?"
"No..." He pulls the arrow out and moves back "That was no ordinary arrow..."
"Come on..." She started to help him back while his men charges forward to clash against the Uruks
"Hold them off... hold them!"
As they keep going Lurtz stands there looking at them and looking at an Uruk who stands next to him. "Bring me their heads... and don't let anyone survive."
They continue to advance forward and kill anyone in their way, pushing back the defenders and with Arator injured Lurtz tries to move closer to get another shot to take him out but Valeera keeps moving him back and sending her to one of the houses, she gets him in one of the houses that isn't burned down yet while the men keeps fighting against the Uruks, fighting hard and holding them off for maybe another hour.
Valeera slowly puts him down leaning against the wall that he is facing the door. "Are you alright Arator?"
"I'm... fine... i just need to..." He tries to get up but she holds him down.
"You can't keep moving or the poison will spread more..." She pulls back her hood and started to take off his left shoulder plate and rips a bit of her clothing to use to bandage the top of his arm to maybe slow down the poison. "It's going to be alright; i will go and lead the men to victory."
"I should be out there... by your side..."
She slightly laughs and places both hands on both sides of his face. "Your parents don't want to lose you now and i really don't want to lose you." She leans closer to give him a kiss and he started to kiss her back while he just sits there.
Valeera kicks open the door and looks out seeing two Uruks coming at her she blocks both their swords with her daggers then lays both daggers through the necks of those Uruks, she closes the door behind her and runs out to join the fight, helping the men on the offensive for a little bit more but Lurtz started to come to the battlefield, firing another arrow and taking out one of the shooters before he switches to a sword and starting to strike down three men with one swing of his sword, smashing their faces before confronting Valeera.
She stands there looking at Lurtz while the Uruks and men fighting each other around them. "You hurt my dear friend..."
Lurtz simply laughed at her then charges towards her swinging his sword at her but she ducks and lays a strike through his leg, causing him to yell out loud but he lays a punch at the back of her then lays a kick to send her falling back. Lurtz pulls the dagger out of him then throws towards her but she moved her head out of the way letting the dagger hit the wall behind her but gave a cut on the side of her face. She grabs her dagger and runs towards him and he does the same, clashing against her daggers together as an X to hold him at bay but he lays a knee hit to her chest with his non wounded leg but when she moved down she moves one of her daggers to lay a strike through his arm then lays another strike through the chest and lays a kick to push him back away from her, sending him moving back and crouching down on one knee. Lurtz slowly takes the daggers out of his body but when he looks up Valeera runs over and lays another knee kick across his chin just to get her blades back and before she was ready to strike she heard the horn of reinforcements finally arriving.
As Uther and Alexandros comes walking from the north with hundreds of soldiers of Lordaeron, coming for their aid and giving the defenders a fighting chance they fight harder and pushing them back and Valeera charges towards Lurtz to finish this off, he tries to lay a punch at her but she moves out of the way quickly and gets behind him, crossing her wrists together and aims both her daggers at the neck of Lurtz.
"Who is commanding this force... tell me now brute!"
"I... serve... Saruman!"
She sighs and beheads him, sending body falling to the ground dead in this fight. She looks out seeing the Uruks fighting more but they will soon be pushed back until they are forced to retreat so since the others got this under control she started to run back to Arator to see if he is alright, appearing back into the house and seeing him on the ground.
"No... Arator!" She runs towards him and grabs him and leans him back up to sit there. "No... Don't give in Arator..."
He was still alive and started to open his eyes again then started to cough rough, placing his hand over his mouth while she leans back then he looks back at her after he finished coughing. "Hey... did we win?"
"Yes we won... the enemy is falling back."
She was right and they were retreating back causing only a hundred of them to flee back while Uther and his forces started to swarm through the town, Uther striking down a few more Uruks before looking at Alexandros who stabbed through one. He signals the attack to advance forward and Uther would agree to this, advancing forward with their men outside however there was something else out there they did not expect.
Two thousand Easterlings and five hundred Uruk Hai all standing there outside the town in this square formation, the Uruks were at the back and the Easterlings stood there with their shields in front of them and spears aiming in the air. Uther and Alexandros held position and so does everyone else who comes standing behind the two ready for a fight, as they look at all of them the ones in the middle started to move out of the way as Saruman comes walking through this force and comes to stand in front of them all, looking at Uther and the rest of the army here.
Saruman started to walk towards them and so does Uther and Alexandros. "I'd expected more from you men... you could not defeat the strength of my Uruk Hai."
"Uruk Hai... that's what these orcs are?" Alex asked
"Who are you?" Uther said and takes a step forward "Why would you command a force of... orcs like this?" he looks back at the Easterlings then to him. "Why would humans join sides with the orcs?"
"Oh you do not know don't you Lightbringer?"
"How did you –"
"A great change will come to this world of Azeroth... a change that will change your life and everyone else's..." He turns back and starts walking. "You should retreat now before it is too late. Defend that kingdom of yours; the fight will happen there once this is taken over by us."
"Who are you?!" Alex asked again causing Saruman to stop and look back.
"I am Saruman... and i serve the Dark Lord of Middle Earth... Lord Sauron." He smiles then walks away going back through the armies and once he was half way the Easterlings started to raise their shields forward and so do their spears.
The defenders did the same thing however Uther decided something else. "Alexandros... were pulling back to Lordaeron."
"Wait... what?" He looks at him then looks out at the Easterlings "Were not going to fight?"
"No... were outnumbered, that is what they wanted us to do. Fight here to see how capable we are then they come." He looks out at the south west seeing more Easterlings coming forth all marching at maybe five hundred to seven hundred of them coming towards them. "They come swarming through."
"Live to fight another day Uther?"
"Yes."
"Very well then... live to fight another day." Alex looks back at his men, remaining silent for a while before he is force to say it to them all. "Fall back! Everyone pull back to Stormwind now!"
As they started to turn back and withdraw from this town Saruman hears them retreating he turns back and smiles. "They caught our bluff." He looks back at his Uruks "Call forth the rest of our forces... we have work to do."
With them falling back the Easterlings started to raise their spears and started to withdraw also, returning back to the south just to make sure that the enemy doesn't advance forward. All the Easterlings of five thousand have made it through and started to all march towards the south while Saruman calls forth the rest of his Uruks, calling all of them to march to Duskwood and waits for the rest of his armies to come through.
Uther lets a deep sighs and looks back seeing the Uruks advancing forward and Arator walking towards the two with Valeera with him. "Uther... we could have taken them?"
"We only have a thousand men here against maybe three thousand... i would wish to challenge that Saruman but i can tell he is strong and corrupted."
"So after all that work on defending that town..." Valeera said
Uther stops and so did Alex and looks back while the army walks past them. "This was a victory on both sides right now, we won the fight but they will win that fight if we engage. All we can do now is live to fight another battle and then we hope that we will win the war."
"I hope you know what you're doing Uther."
"Yes i do... but right now we still don't know what were dealing with. Humans and orcs and... Uruks together, this will be one of the toughest wars ever done." He turns back and heads back to Stormwind.