—(Commander)—

I push my way into the temporary command tent, “Have the enemy fallen for it?”

A battalion commander salutes me, “Exactly as hoped for sir! The garrisons elite are gone! Only very few Rooks have stayed behind, and only one Leader!”

I nod, “Any intel on who said Rooks and Leader are?”

They nod back, quickly and sharply, “The Soviet Shadow, The Russian Bear, The Destructive Lord, The Sunlight Warrior, and The Faceless Darkness.”

I nod, and look down at a map, “Well, they are quite powerful. Russian Bear can hold down entire sectors of the city by himself, so we need to out-flank him and try and surround him. Soviet Shadow is a problem because of how efficient he is, and he can’t be caught, hmm. We need to take out everyone else as quick as possible, and rush his position, his rifle only fires so quickly. The Lord is easily the most dangerous, we need to avoid him if at all possible and surround him when he is alone. Don’t get people bunched up near him, or he can take out entire squads with a single swing. Sunlight Warrior is not as destructive as the others, but he is still very dangerous. We need to get him to over extend with a spell if at all possible, so that he will be defenseless as he uses it. We don’t know how to beat the Darkness, so we shall see what to do with him after everything else. Okay, let’s go.”

—(Slendy)—

*BOOM!*

“Combine advancing from the west! All forces deploy now!” A messenger runs over to us, shouting a warning only to have his head explode.

The garrison troops all grab their Fetlock muskets, but I know we stand no chance.

All of us commanders rush out into the city, only to see Combine already here and pushing. I look back at Heavy, “Heavy, hold as long as possible! Everyone hold as long as possible! We need to hold until the others get here! Someone get Jack over the radio!”

All of us rush to optimal positions. Solare and Kendrick (in Lord form) rushing into a crowd of enemies. Heavy rushes up to a tall roof, and rains down fire upon all Combine. Reznov blends into the shadows, and starts picking them off. I stand outside the base of operations, the one thing we can’t let fall.

—(Solare)—

I lunge at an enemy soldier with a stab, and impale him. I flip the body around to use as a shield against some fire, and I throw a lightning bolt at the soldiers fireing. I mange to take out most of them, and I play bowling with the remaining by throwing the body at them.

I roll into the middle of a clump of Combine, rasing up and slashing three of them. I then ring the chimes I have Benitez my shield in order to use Wrath of the Gods, and blast the rest of the clump away, killing most. One group in particular flies towards Kendrick, and he bats them out of the air.

I know that behind me is a large group, and behind Kendrick is a tiny amount of them. We immediately communicate with each other, ad instinctively know what to do. We run at each other, and at the last second, I slide under his legs. With the momentum from my slide, I impale one and roll out of the way of fire the others are giving me.

I roll up on my feet, and hold up my shield to block the lasers. But they continue to blast me, so I cannot move. I manage to parry a laser back, and it hits the rest of the the soldiers.

—(Kendrick)—

I swing my mace at the huge mob of Combine. They are almost all knocked dead, and I can mop up the other easily.

*Thrw-Thrw-Thrw!*

I’m blasted in the back by heavy lasers, “Ahhhhhhh!!”

I’m knocked to my knees in pain and injurey, and can only muster enough energy to roll out of the way of more shots.

Of course, my main weakness, Striders. These things have guns so heavy that they can knock me out the fight in one blast.

I look behind me to see the Strider stride it’s way over towards me, and it moves it’s cannon to me.

I look up at the Strider, and at the last moment it is hit by a huge blast of lightning, destroying it. I look to my side to see Solare rushing over to me, “Don’t worry, this humble warrior knows many healing miracles.”

*Thunk!*

“Hunters!” I shout as I see a Hunter land right behind him. We barely manage to move into a building before it opens fire on us.

Solare pulls me into an office room, and barricades the door, “We did good, now we need to heal.”

—(Raven)—

I hear my radio crackle to life, “Operation Final Charge was a trick, Stalliongrad is under attack and is losing bad!”

I can hear Chem scampering up, “We gotta go!”

I hold up a hoof, “You go, bring the people with you. I... I have a plan I hope will work.”

I move my way into a communications building, and I find the omniuniversal radio.

I set everything up, and turn on the mic, “To any in the universes that might hear this: we need help. My name is Ravens Breath, we were tricked by our enemies, the Combine. One of the last three free cities, Stalliongrad, is being attacked. We stand no chance alone, and we cannot get there on time. Anyone out there, please help. Universe 001. I will repeat this message.”

I hear a voice crackle from the other side, “Ravens Breath of Universe 001, this is Emperor Eric McBad of Universe 015. I will say one message as of now. I am coming now to assist your side in Stalliongrad. Don’t worry, I got this.”

I laugh out a joyous laugh, “Yes, yes, yes! Hahha, that’s what we needed right there!” I pick up the mic, “Emperor Eric McBad of Universe 015, I will be glad to shake what ever appendages you have after the battle is over!”