Tol Barad is now the target from Lordaeron after what happen out there between the marines of Kul Tires and Dalaran, finding out that the Admiral has been killed by Garrosh and also injured Kael badly, lord Garithos begins an operation to reclaim Tol Barad from the Blackrock orcs and to remove the Tower of Sauron and Garrosh if they are inside, Garithos commanding a strike force along with the forces of Kul Tires as well as the Ironforge dwarves from Hillsbrad, combining their forces of two thousand or more, using ships to make dock on the side of Tol Barad to begin their attack from the north west.
Garithos coming with ships and preparing to land on Wellson Shipyard with everything they got, preparing to bombard the shipyard as orcs are defending it with a battleship in the harbor preparing to sail towards them. Garithos' ships are in position to open fire, signalling the fleet to bombard the battleship and the shipyard as well, damaging their ship hard and causing the orcs on the land to retreat, pulling back to Farson Hold. With their battleship destroyed the fleet begins to make land on the harbor and started to deploy their forces on the ground while the rest of the men on the ships got new orders, a new idea. Garithos wants the dwarves and Kul Tiras to make their way towards the north to Rustberg Village so they can deploy their troops there, they do have to avoid the Cape of Lost Hope of course and on the ground they need to travel through the Darkwood in order to regroup with Garithos and his men, it will be a while but Garithos will attack that fort before the end of the day.
Auric Sunchaser has participate in this fight in Tol Barad with Garithos, he too brought some of his high elven elites with him to avenge his prince who almost died out here, here to join Garithos to hunt down Garrosh and kill him for what he has done. He and Garithos and a few men were the first to set foot on the docks and started to move out, preparing a defensive perimeter around this place and wait until all of his men are off the ships.
Garithos walking to the exit of the shipyard looking out at the view; Auric started walking towards him, placing his great sword on his back. "Tol Barad... this is where Garrosh is hiding along with the hundreds of Blackrock orcs, we should tread carefully sir."
Garithos turns back "Just to let you know elf before we go out to war is that i am in charge of this operation not you, you keep your opinions to yourself."
"I didn't mean to offend you Garithos i am just saying that –"
"Keep... your opinions to yourself... elf." He walks past him while he remains there, walking to one of the captains "What's the hold up?"
"Sir were almost done just need to wait for ten more minutes then we can move out to the fort, but i am not sure if we should attack while the rest of our forces are elsewhere taking the –"
"You have your orders captain! They will arrive once we siege the fort, all i want are those siege weapons prepped and ready to move out on my word."
"Right away lord Garithos." He turns back and walks to the ships.
One of the elves walks up to Auric while he looks over to Garithos. "You sure it was a good idea to join his side in this campaign? I mean Garithos isn't friendly with us elves and he isn't much of a 'strategist'."
"I know... just stay close to me all of you.' He looks at the others "When it comes to dealing with Garithos he only wants victory, he doesn't care how many lives will go out he just wants to win. Remember that i command all of you, not him so don't listen to what he has to say, you obey me."
"Yes sir!" All of them said it.
Colonel Karzag started to set up a defence in Farson Hold setting up two catapults and two ogres, getting three hundred regular orcs to defend the hold against the Alliance. While he was preparing for battle the Tower of Sauron appears before him, standing in front of him to speak to him.
"The Alliance is coming; don't let them win... the master cannot let the Alliance take Tol Barad."
"We can hold Farson with what we have... just when are you going to release the experiments?"
"They are not ready yet and if you fail to defeat the Alliance then you will be caught in the crossfire. Don't fail me Colonel." He vanishes.
With him gone two wolf riders comes riding through to meet the colonel. "Karzag the northern town is taken over by the humans and dwarves, their preparing their march to the base. The orcs defending there are heading this way."
He sighs "Prepare to defend this base; i want everyone dress for war!" He walks past him.
The Alliance of the dwarves and humans who went to the village made it there however they did lose a ship in the rocks of the north, losing a Kul Tiras ship and losing a hundred men in that crash. They manage to take the village without any resistance and started to move out anyway, making their way to the Darkwood while Garithos signals his forces to move out first, getting a few siege weapons up the path to reach the orcs base. Once they were all in position Garithos comes riding on his horse looking out seeing the orcs are waiting for them, looking back at his men including Auric as well who stands nearby with his elite elves.
Garithos holds his large black and golden sword ready, raising it in the air and swings it down towards the orcs. "For the Alliance!"
They all charge towards the orcs with what they got, firing off a few mortars across the field hitting the walls and hitting a few orcs. They held their position for now until finally Karzag signals his orcs to charge towards the humans as well, all of them come charging and firing the catapults as well hitting a few of them and clashing against them on the open field in front of the base, the orcs were able hold the humans at first but soon they get the upper hand, they keep fighting through against the humans including the ogres as well coming forth and smashing senses against the humans.
One of the ogres who is armoured up slams the ground crushing two humans then slides his large club to the side to crush three more soldiers, Auric and his elves held their ground against the orcs and when he looks over to that ogre seeing a mortar blasting the chest of that beast, falling back on the ground dead. Garithos comes riding through swinging his sword down striking a few orcs but when his horse got hit three times by arrows he comes falling off, got back up and swings down sending a shockwave to push back the orcs then swings to the side to cut down an Orc who was fighting a human, cutting from behind then swings forward against another.
The orcs were tougher but the humans tried to push them back, recreating the shield wall to push them back while their riflemen stands behind them and started to take aim, firing at the orcs taking them out then switches to a second row of riflemen, pushing them back until they are forced to retreat and defend the inside of the base. The ogre would come smashing through their shield wall smashing four of the men and grabbing one of them to throw him across the area taking out a few guys behind, when they broke the lines the riflemen took aim and fired at the ogre and once it was weak Auric and his elves moves to the sides of the ogre and started striking the legs and the belly of this beast finally sending it to the ground.
Auric comes running towards the orcs when they retreat taking the lead while Garithos was behind, seeing him push the attack against the orcs crashing against them yet again and was being pushed back, they kept coming but Auric and the Alliance held strong and when Garithos comes over they quickly break their lines letting the orcs rush through for Garithos to send another shockwave at them, sending them flying back then forms the shield wall again to knock them back. Garithos and his men charges through fighting them in the open area while Karzag was nearby striking down a footman with both his axes, turning to another one and smacking his shield twice before hitting his sword to the ground then lays a hit to his chest then another to the head. He turns his head to Garithos after he stabs through another Orc, both standing there at the ready until Karzag charges at Garithos, swinging his axes at him while he moves back avoiding a few and blocking them with his sword.
The two keeps clashing their weapons while Auric kept advancing with his elves behind him, striking down another Orc then looks over to Karzag and Garithos, fighting against each other until Garithos sends a shockwave but missed and hits a few of his men instead, didn't care if they got hit he kept on fighting and Auric would do the same. Garithos swings down at Karzag blocking it with his axes an X then Garithos lays a punch across the face moving him back facing elsewhere but when he turns back to swing his axes, Garithos charges and stabs through Karzag making the two freeze for the moment letting him look down seeing a sword through his chest, he looks up to Garithos and he pulls the sword out then beheads him. With him dead the Alliance pressed on until they siege control of this base.
They have victory over here and Garrosh with his hundred chaos orcs stands there nearby in the Darkwood looking out hearing the humans cheering, he was preparing for an attack but notices that the dwarves and Kul Tiras marines marching towards the base. Garrosh was force to pull back and establish a defence in their fortress, it's the only way to destroy the humans here, and Garrosh must draw them in here so they can consume them in numbers.
With his men taking a break in the base Garithos heads out to see the dwarves and marines. "Can't you idiots get here earlier?!" He yelled to them when he arrives in front of them causing them to hold. "You should have been here by now and we were force to siege the base without you."
"Sorry for the late Garithos." One of the marines said "We had to get the men out of the water, some survived the impact on the rocks and we couldn't just –"
"If they can swim then they can get back to the frontlines, i don't want any wuss soldiers who can't follow their nature and get back into the battle! Get your men moving now and establish a perimeter out there in the south, we attack in two hours."
"Right away lord Garithos." He signals the men and started to spread out and march to the south.
One of the dwarves did whisper to one another while they walk. "You know if they were paying us less to fight for this asshole... i would have put a bullet in his head by now."
"If anyone asked it was friendly fire." Said another dwarf and they both started laughing while they walk.
While they move out Auric moves towards Garithos while he stands there watching. "Lord Garithos are you sure it's a good idea to attack at night, the orcs will probably be ready for us if we attack them."
"They already know were here... we can't afford to show them how weak we are, we are going to attack in two hours with all we have. It's the only way to retake Tol Barad." He turns back and returns to the base.
Auric looks out to Tol Barad then to Garithos "Lord Garithos we can't defeat them in large numbers, but if they have more than us then they will have full advantage of us." He turns back and walks after him while he keeps walking. "Send scouts in there lord Garithos; you need to know what were up against."
"I know what were up against, a bunch of brute creatures waiting for us to come in. We will show them what the Alliance is made of now shut up and fall in line soldier!" he kept walking while Auric stops.
His elves started walking past Garithos to return to Auric to find out what's going on since they heard those two are starting again. "Sir... what are your orders?"
"I want you to scout that fortress." He whispers and looks back "I know there ready for us but we can't afford any ambushes, we need to know what were up against."
"Yes sir." He and four of his elites walks past him heading to the fortress while the other three stays behind Auric.
"Let's hope this doesn't become a mess."
While there preparing for battle in two hours in Tol Barad the orcs are also getting more numbers, having a force of chaos orcs, a couple of hundred goblins inside breeding Uruks in this place. Since Tol Barad was taken over the orcs and goblins worked together by cutting down hundreds of trees so they can start arming more soldiers inside, breeding Uruks inside this place and with the Tower of Sauron at his command he holds now a large force that can defeat Garithos and his armies, in two hours he and Garrosh will be ready to release their demons that was imprisoned here for a long time, using them for the fight that will drive the humans back.
Armies of Tol Barad:
800 Chaos orcs
500 Uruks
100 Goblins
3 demons (Argaloth, Occu'thar, Alizabal)
5 ogres
Total: 1,408
Vs
Garithos' forces
400 Lordaeron soldiers
1,200 Kul Tiras marines
500 Ironforge dwarves
30 high elven elites
Total: 2,030
Two hours later Garithos started to prepare the forces to move out, Auric would be with him but he found his elves that came from Tol Barad to report, quickly telling the both of them causing Garithos to hold his position. "Lord Garithos and Auric... we scouted the fortress as you requested, the orcs are mustering their forces well and have the upper hand since the Blackrock orcs are now redskins, there orcs in there but there's another force in there that's hard to explain, and they look orcs but there different, taller than humans."
"Who ordered you to scout the..." He turns his head to Auric "You are starting to annoy me elf."
"Can you continue?" He asked the elves
"Yes sir... we believe they have demons on their side, not sure how many but they are doing whatever it takes to stop us from taking that fortress."
"You hear that Garithos... if we attack now we are sending our men to their deaths without strong support. Call for more men Garithos we might need some mages out here too, we need to get the upper hand."
"If we wait for a day or so then they will attack us, we are advancing forward with what we got."
"Garithos if you are not fit and qualified to lead these people to victory then i will be force to take control of this operation."
Garithos looks back to him and stares at Auric with a serious look. "You take my army... and i will take your life." Then he looks forward "Advance... for the Alliance!"
Auric stands there while everyone marches with Garithos to the front entrance of Tol Barad, knowing that he does not know what he is doing. Since he can't go back he is force to go after him with his elves by his side, if things don't go out the way it is then he will take control of his forces and signal a retreat. Garithos believes he will retrieve victory over this land, doesn't care how many dies he will just get the job done, all for the glory of the Alliance.