Ace suddenly awoke from the void, this time in the midst of a square. Resistance were in another firefight with the Combine, Ace stood, shocked by the rude awakening. Suddenly, a grenade sailed through the air and landed next to Ace's hoof. Ace levitated it as it started to tick faster and flung it as fast as he could, it exploding in the air. A Resistance pony galloped past him only to be hit by Combine fire, dropping her gun, a Submachine Gun as it seemed. He used his horn to levitate it, firing at several Combine soldiers. They all fell just short of range.
Ace picked up one of their rifles, firing it at a post with a mounted gun, a soldier manning it. The recoil surprised Ace, almost making him drop it.
A giant, spider-like creature strode across the area, firing into the crowd.
"We got a Strider!" A stallion called out.
Ace noticed the Combine rifle had a secondary trigger, pulling it. The gun charged energy, a vacuum started forming at the end of it, suddenly, it released a ball of energy, hitting and bouncing off of the spider. The spider slowly disintegrated while floating into the air before disappearing out of thin air. The energy bounced off the walls, hitting several Combine soldiers. The Resistance ponies marched down a narrow road to the point of which they were one large mass. A Combine wall with several barriers, emplacement guns attached to them blocked the way. Ace, a drop in the sea of Resistance, galloped to the wall, firing the Combine rifle blindly.
The sea was gunned down, the front lines fell, then the next, until Ace was almost at the front when a mare with a rocket launcher fired at the emplacements, the Combine manning the emplacement guns flew back from the blast as the barriers were destroyed. The wave of ponies proceeded. Sniper's lasers emerged from building windows, picking off some more ponies. Another rocket fired at a building, the wall segment collapsed from the blast, Combine bodies fell limp from the gaping hole. Ace switched out for the SMG, lobbing a grenade from a secondary trigger.
The Resistance continued around a turn in the street, the road was blocked by wheeled, jet black vehicles. All seven vehicles started opening fire, shooting pulses, not bullets. The vehicles created a rain of projectiles upon the ponies.
A mare shouted above the crowd as she fired a rocket at one of the APCs. The blast hit right between the vehicles as two caught fire.
A roaring pierced the air as a ship carrying a building-sized steel crate landed in front of them, dropping the crate and flying off. The crate's lid burst open as an amount of Combine almost equal to the Resistance forces flooded out, firing.