A MAN soldier stood next to a river in the crocodile swamp, Alex snuck up behind the soldier and unsheathed his sword. Alex drove the sword right through the enemy, causing a sound of pain before the body went limp. With Alex were toothdee and laval, both of whom were kitted out for battle. Further ahead MAN had set up a sort of gate system across the river, most likely to stop ships. The structure consisted of 2 towers on either side of the river, with a large metal gate sitting in the river itself. The area was full of hostiles, but the squad would have to fight through them and destroy the gate, then proceed into the swamp to deal with the rest of the soldiers.

"Lagravis" Alex said into his radio "are you in position?"

"Indeed we are Alex. FIRE!"

Laser blasts came careening out of the trees and hit the area around the enemy soldiers. While they were recovering from the attack, Alex and the group opened fire, taking out a whole squad of enemies before MAN even got a grip on what was happening. They started firing back but the squad took cover and began to dispatch the remaining soldiers. Once they were dead, the squad moved into the structure and Alex pulled a lever that caused the gate to slowly open.

"Cragger, bring it in"

"With pleasure"

A large green and red object turned the corner on the river, then came up to the gate. It was a crocodile ship, equipped with powerful weapons, armor, and a ready crew. The squad jumped on the ship and Alex took up a position on one of the guns.

"Let's go get them!" Cragger said as the ship started going down the river. More friendly forces came out of the woods nearby and began to follow the ship along the river. Enemies were camped all along the river and they started firing at the ship. The ship began firing back, with Alex hitting an explosive barrel that took out a few soldiers. Then Alex concentrated firepower on a jeep, causing it to explode. The ship and the other forces on shore were clearly overrunning the MAN soldiers and vehicles. Large amounts of gunfire bared down on the enemy and forced them into retreat.

MAN forces fell back to a group of buildings and fortifications that were set up around a lake in the swamp. Blowing up everything was not an option, because they needed to know more about what MAN was doing here, so Alex and his squad disembarked the ship and started to move on foot. As they neared the building an enemy with a turret opened fire on them, causing the squad to take cover. Luckily within a few seconds the turret and its operator were quickly destroyed by a laser blast from allies nearby. The squad began to move towards a large building, gunning down enemy soldiers as they went. Toothdee threw a smoke grenade into a group of hostiles, confusing them and allowing them to be easily shot down. Just as the group was nearing the building a loud hornlike noise sounded through the swamp. Alex turned to see a large gray object exiting a nearby river and heading into the lake. It was a ship, and a really big one at that. The massive vessel had the MAN logo on the side and was equipped with machine guns, rocket launchers, and heavy armor.

"A ship?! How did they get it up here?!" Laval said, referring to how would MAN get the ship up to the floating island that was Chima.

"They might have brought the it up in pieces and assembled it up here" toothdee said.

"Well let's turn this thing back into pieces" Alex said.

The ship began firing at the friendly forces in the woods, as well as exchanging fire with the crocodile ship. The animals on land began to take heavy firing and were unable to put up much of a fight as the ship destroyed their vehicles.

"We need to find heavy ordinance and take that thing down!" Alex yelled.

"Search the buildings!" Toothdee said, "they got to have something useful"

The squad ran into the structure nearby as the ship continued its assault. Two MAN soldiers tried to stop them, but Alex swung his sword and cut the enemies down to size. As they moved into the next room the group stumbled upon an ammo cache of RPGs. The group quickly picked up the weapons and started to focus fire on the ship. The vessel was taking heavy fire, but not much damage. The ship turned its guns towards the building the squad was in, causing them to drop the weapons and dive out a window as heavy gunfire bombarded the building.

"Hang on! We're going to ram it!" Cragger said via the radio.

"Cragger no!" Laval yelled, but it was to late.

The croc ship steamed ahead at full force and slammed into the MAN ship with a massive crash. The sound of metal breaking filled the air as the croc ship tilted in the water. The MAN ship was heavily damaged, but it was still operational and continued to fire on the croc ship. Alex turned towards Toothdee and laval.

"You two, go help our forces! I'll handle the ship"

Toothdee and laval nodded and ran back to the friendlies who were being besieged by the ship. Alex began running through the MAN camp, searching for heavy firepower. 2 soldiers appeared and tried to stop him, but Alex swung his sword against the gun of one soldier, then swung back and hit him in the throat. Alex then quickly drew his pistol with his other hand and shot the remaining soldier. Alex spotted a rocket turret sitting nearby, it was fast firing, high damage, and the perfect weapon. Taking up a position behind the turret Alex unloaded salvos of rockets on the enemy ship. Explosions appeared all over the vessel but the ship wasn't breaking apart.

"What's this thing made out of?"

A gun turret on board opened fire at Alex, who took cover as the bullets rang by. The rocket turret began sparking and smoking causing Alex to jump away in case it exploded. There was another rocket turret sitting a bit further away, but there was a lot of MAN soldiers between Alex and the turret. However there was no other option and Alex made a break for the turret. He threw a grenade that killed 2 hostiles and threw the rest off balance. While the soldiers were disoriented, Alex swung at them with his sword or used his rifle to deal with them. A sniper began lining up a shot on Alex, who took cover from the impending fire. Thinking quick, He shot an explosive barrel near the sniper that killed the enemy. As he jumped on the rocket turret Alex knew that the ship would more than likely hold up against another barrage, so there he had to find another way to take it down. Noticing a large tree nearby Alex shot rockets at the base of the tree. The massive object slowly began to fall, right towards the MAN ship. The tree slammed into the ship, crushing the vessel beneath it. The ship exploded and turned sideways as fire erupted from it. The friendly forces nearby started cheering as the gunfire stopped. Alex knew that whoever was commanding that ship obviously had to know a lot about MANs movements and operations. Getting in a Small boat that was docked nearby, Alex piloted out to the burning wreckage of the ship. It was likely that all the personnel on board were dead but Alex could still search for military documents. As he reached the ship Alex shielded himself from the flames and entered the bridge. The bodies of the crew were strewn about all over the place and sparks flew off of the control panels. One of the bodies sported a detailed uniform and Alex assumed this was the captain. Next to the body were pieces of paper that looked official, and their proximity to the captain certainly made Alex even more suspicious. Picking up one of the papers Alex read it over.

"Captain, I can assure you that soon you will be transferred to our newest conquest, the city of Zootopia. You will be working on the front lines of this war against these abominations and your assaults against them will be glorious for years to come.

-MAN high command."

Alex's eyes widened, was MAN truly thinking about attacking Zootopia? This was a major development, he needed to get this information out.

Exiting the bridge, Alex was greeted by friendly speedboats that had come out to assist in examining the vessel. Or scavenging in the case of the Ravens.

"What did you find?" Laval said, standing on one of the boats.

"MAN is moving operations to a new target"

"Where?" Toothdee asked.

"Zootopia"