There was a scramble of footsteps as various individuals rushed into hiding positions as interface scanned the surrounding areas.


They knew that eventually they'd be discovered-but they didn't expect it to be now or rather this soon. As she loaded her Spas-12 shotgun and folded the stock outwards and rested it on her shoulder.

The force was fairly big, with a complement of troops, armored vehicles, some heavier tanks, a dozen helicopters and Interface felt some feedback from her sensors telling her that they also had fighter jets inbound and even some of the RAT navy had been mobilized-they weren't screwing around this time it seems, they were outnumbered greatly and arguably even out-gunned vastly.

"We got a rat Helicopter in bound-it's unarmed and seems to be carrying radio equipment-standing by to engage" said Specter from his position on a nearby roof.

"Let's just destroy it" said Nova

"Let's see what they have to say first," said Arrow.

Nova huffed as the speakers on the helicopter sparkled to life.

"Attention rebel forces, you have stolen power cells that had been rightfully attained by the Revolutionary Acquisition Territories, return them to us at once and prepare for subsequent execution by the order of high king Atreaus the 1st, come out with your hands up and weapons down and unloaded" said a voice recording of the speakers from the helicopter.


During this Interface glanced over to see Artemis rolling her eyes in an annoyed notion, and furthermore she saw Scorn moving his hands together as if you signify one speaking quickly and not shutting up.


The message began to blare again "This is your final warn-" it was cut off suddenly as a rocket flew straight into its cockpit and promptly blew it out of the air.

Every head in the area turned to look at Thunder who stood up just as he placed another missile into his RPG rocket launcher.

"What? it was getting annoying," he said, shrugging.

Before anyone else could reply a massive line of RAT infantry in full assault gear appeared in transports and unloaded and aimed their rifles at the rebel forces.


"Since you decided to not listen-your execution has been changed-to now" said the field commander from his own vehicle as the soldiers took to their own positions.

"It was inevitable anyway" said Grey as he loaded his shotgun.

It was as if the world itself just became silent as both sides made no sounds, no one even seemed to breathe until a small drop of water hit the ground and both sides erupted into chaos.

The Lines of RAT soldiers opened fire with machine guns and assault rifles and a few even had rocket launchers of their own as they opened fire onto the rebel lines.

The "rebels" fired back as Interface fired a few shotgun rounds off then realized that they were too far out for a shotgun to be truly effective as she slung it over her back and instead drew out a mp5 as she fired off short bursts, taking out a few soldiers here and there.

Artemis sat back and turned invisible and vanished as a few moments later a pair of RAT soldiers burst into blood and guts as a heavy caliber sniper round slammed into the two of them.

"Prepare for close combat!" Flame said as his mask covered his mandibles and he raised his Carbine and picked off a few soldiers that had peeked out of cover too early, and Interface looked to see a large group of guardsmen running towards them with a mixture of large spears and longswords.

Grey shrugged off a few rounds as a few bullets slammed into him, but his suits energy shield shrugged off the rounds with ease as he grabbed the frontal-most soldier before forcing his aiming down and Grey then proceeded to back hands the ranged guardsmen in the face smashing his helmet open and knocking him away as he slammed the butt of his shotgun into the face of the second soldier before he pumped the handle and fired a 12 gauge buckshot round point-blank into his back.

Greyback glanced up as a RAT gunship appeared and began to strafe the area with machine gun fire as he fired off another burst from his suppressor energy rifle, before activating his advanced jet-pack and propelled himself into the air.


Grasping onto its extended landing gear the helicopter tilted to the side as the sudden new weight forced it to turn as he propelled himself up and much to the shock of the pilots aimed his gun at the cockpit before filling it with rounds made up of hardened light-based particles. It's composite armor doing nothing to stop the round shredding through it as the pilot's lives were snuffed out as the cockpit turned into a smoking wreck.

Using the now doomed helicopter as a means to propel himself further he let go and dived towards the ground before flipping forward and activating his boosters and smashed into a guard and used the momentum to flip-backwards and force a second guard onto the ground before Greybacks foot met his neck and ended his life.

"Would be nice if Jackal was here you know!" said Scorn as he whipped around and using the curved blades on his gauntlets slit the throat of a soldier who had tried to stab him with a sword before dodging a stream of bullets without missing a hitch and pulled out a pair of energy SMGs and sprayed the attacking soldiers down.

"Oh can it Scorn!, he's making sure we survive this thing!" said Desert as he sprayed the area in-front of him with machine gun fire taking out several troopers.

Armored vehicles began to pull up as their turrets aimed and glowed and fired energy projectiles and shot towards the lines, destroying some cover and forcing some members such as Grey and Nova to fall back.

One of the vehicles turned into a Fireball as Thunder hit it directly with a rocket but three more drove up and unloaded more troops and began to open fire.

Suddenly three glints appeared behind the RAT lines as Whiteout, Fox, and Specter opened fire from their flanks.

Whiteouts anti-material rifle punched through a RAT truck and caused it to burst into flame, while Fox sniped a crew of soldiers who had been setting up a field gun when he fired on a individual soldiers Grenade that he had strapped to his chest as it clinked then exploded taking out several more troops.

Specter used his suits sensors to fire a guided bullet that curved as it flew and flew through the necks of two soldiers before ricocheting off of a piece of metal and taking out a third in the head.

"Wait-where's Alisa, Shadow, Cyclops and the rest of them!?" asked Sandman as he ducked below a guardsmen swinging a spear at him before he drew his survival tool and sliced open his knee and promptly beheaded him with a second swing.

As if on cue a dual-rotor helicopter showed up against the early evening sun-filled sky as Alisa's Falcon beared down on the infantry division and opened fire with it's nose mounted cannon chewing up the ground and taking out several soldiers.

Fireborn manned a pair of turrets alongside the passenger bay and sprayed the ground causing another squad to be mowed down by machine gun fire as Alisa flew over the head of soldiers.

"We still got a lot of soldiers coming in-shit radar locks multiple enemy gunships coming in hot!" said Alisa as she banked to the left as a pair of rockets flew past the right engine.

"Hang on, I'm bringing them back around!" said Alisa as she pulled back hard on the stick and pulled back into a sharp stop and forced one of the gunships to overshoot her, while Fireborn sprayed the cockpit of a second gunship causing its pilots to be killed as it spun out of control and into the ground.

Coming back towards the main area of conflict Alisa radioed Arrow and said
"Arrow ready your scatter-arrows!" she said as she banked to the right to avoid a heatseeker missile as it slammed into the ground below her.

Arrow nodded and swiftly jumped up onto a pile of rubble and drew an arrow before she whispered an ancient language and her arrow tip glowed blue and she fired it up into the air like a flare and it sparkled into the air before vanishing.

One RAT soldier seemed to start laughing at this effort before it flashed through the sky again and suddenly blue streaks of light rained down rapidly all over the area.

The shots acted as small explosives turning some soldiers into Red paste as one truck and APC exploded from the magical arrow attacks.

A few of the helicopters dove off to the side as the fourth copter found itself pummeled with shots and promptly exploded as the spell wore off.

A creaky rattling sound began to make itself known as a pair of heavy tanks pulled into the clearing and began to fire on the rebel lines with their machine guns before firing an ear-shattering blast from it's main gun.

"Tanks!" said Artemis as the explosion from the blast knocked her out of her cover and she was knocked onto her back.

"On it!" said Interface as she looked directly at the first tank and her red eye blinked and she felt it's systems connect to her own and she took control of the tank.

"Controls aren't responding, we're being hijacked!" said the tank commander as the tanks turret turned and aimed at the second tank before firing, promptly taking it out.

A third tank rolled around the corner as it fired and nearly hit the rebel lines straight on as Interface commanded the tank to turn and engage the third.

But someone else beat her to it as one of the walls around the area collapsed outwards as a dark brown and black mech charged through it.

Cyclops in his Mk.II Cyclops anti-vehicle mech smashed through the wall with ease as he extended its left hand and grabbed a soldier before throwing him off to the side.

"You got a tank problem-let me help you with that" he said as his Mech raised its right arm and a 57mm Gauss cannon extended from its forearm and fired into the fragile rear armor causing it to go up in flames.

Bullets bounced off its chassis as he swiped a pair of soldiers with its left arm into an open window of a shop, before firing off a few more rounds from its cannon destroying another batch of trucks with ease.

Interface felt a small smile grow-they were doing it-even with their greatly lower numbers they were holding off the massive assault on their headquarters when she felt new signatures show up on her sensors from long range and were coming in fast and she felt her blood begin to chill.

"Shit-we got a squadron of fighters armed and hot coming straight towards our position!"

"My missiles are unguided-I won't be able to do too much against those things!" said Thunder as he fired a rocket and blew off the tail rotor of a second RAT gunship.

"Interface try and take command of them-!" Scorn began but was cut off as The jets appeared and each fired a pair of missiles, Interfaces controlled tank was blown to pieces as missiles rained down on their lines and interface found herself thrown to the ground a few feet with her ears ringing as she lost all focus and slowly stumbled to her knees.

She spotted Nova using his fire-ability to create a burning shield that blocked and melted the sword of an attacking guardsmen before ducking and swiping the head off of the guardsmen with his own sword before he spotted Interface and said.

"Get up this is no time for cold-feet dammit-we're about to be overrun!"

But Interface hardly heard it as she scrunched up her face as her ears continued to ring from the missiles.

Ghast had joined the fight and silently floated through a hail of fire, the bullets vanishing through his body as his claws ignited with purple fire and he slashed a wave ahead of him, taking out a line of soldiers-cutting them in half as he did so.

Shadow Hunter joined him as his claws slashed through an APC and it promptly exploded as he grabbed a soldier and crushed his neck with his claws before he shifted forward in a blink and slashed the necks of two more.

The Demon Shadow joined the rebel lines flying through the air firing a pair of demonic blasters that left large yellow spikes in his victims before he switched to forearm mounted blades and sliced the rotors of another helicopter.

Interface felt her vision and her hearing clear as she heard Alisa say.

"The Jets are coming back around!" as she flew overhead with a pair of gunships tailing her.

Interface blinked for a few seconds as her hearing returned to fully normal as she noticed the jets turning around and began to open fire with their machine guns.

Interface braced herself for the tracer fire that was certain to end her life-

Except it didn't.

As one of the jets aimed down at her time seemed to go in slow motion-including the missile that smashed into the jet and sent it flying into the ground and into a ball of fire.

Interface scrambled backwards a few feet as a new jet-with frontal curved wings and a large cockpit with blue engine exhaust suddenly flew over her and pulled back as small engines ignited below it and it hovered over the field.

"Seems like you guys are in a bit of a mess here, glad I got here when I could" said the pilot of the strange jet.

"Aviator!, you're a sight for sore eyes!" said Alisa as Fireborn managed to take down one of the two trailing helicopters.

"Jackal gave us a call, said you guys were up hells creek without a paddle-and I don't know what you guys did to deserve this-but holy hell you guys know how to piss people off" said Aviator.

The gathering was short lived as a low stomping sound began to be heard as a new mech crossed the street in front of them and smashed a few parked cars as it did so.

"Siege mech!" said Grey as he hid behind cover.

The RAT Siege mech was a massive bipedal mech standing over ten feet tall and armed with thicker armor then a tank and controlled by one pilot that could control its armaments-which included triple barreled 50mm missile launchers and a pair of 20mm autocannons as it smashed its way through a small pile of rubble and began to aim its arm cannons at the rebel lines.

Thunder fired a missile at it and cursed as the mechs energy shield intercepted it without a second thought as its cannons began to glow.

"I can't engage that mech, I got hinds and some fighters bearing down on me" Aviator said surprisingly calmly.

"Aviator, how are you being so calm?" asked Interface as she picked up her shotgun from the ground-her SMG was out of ammo.

"You thought I came here alone?" he asked simply.

Before they could ask more the mech took its final preparations to fire its cannons when suddenly an explosion rocked it and it stumbled off balance, its energy shield fizzing out and becoming disabeled.

Interface shot her head in the direction of the explosion and found a smile creeping up her face as she focused on its cause.

A whole squadron of different colored jets of various models flew out of the clouds in a line, she spotted an F-35, an SU-33, an F-15 and various other jets as they flew downwards in attack position.

"Siege squadron on station, beginning attack run-danger close boys-danger close!" said a female pilot who was flying a light ice blue F-16 Falcon as she trailed after a RAT fighter-which looked all too much like an F-35 in itself before shooting it out of the sky with a well placed missile shot.

"Attackers, your path is clear light up that mech like theres no tomorrow!" said the female pilot.

"Roger Thunderbolt engaging!"

"Bloodmilk engaging"

"Rattler engaging!"

Three A10 Warthogs-one in the normal Grey color you normally see one in, another in red and black camo, and a third in Grey color with red spots dived down and locked onto the siege mech before letting out the infamous "BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTT".

The three Warthogs fired their 30mm GAU-8 cannons in unison and pelted the mech with cannonfire.

The mechs armor was pelted full of holes and began to stumble as the Warthogs flew past before breaking off.

"Mech is still standing-Yeager take it with an anti-ground missile" said Thunderbolt as he turned to cause a RAT fighter to overshoot before it was promptly shot down by a black and blue F-18 Super Hornet.

"Thanks for the assist Hydrostorm" he commented as he began to strafe the few remaining tanks and destroy them with ease.

"Copy that-Yeager locking on" said the pilot of a yellow with black stripes F-35.

Yeager pulled into a dive as his radar locked onto the mech and he fired a powerful anti-tank missile that flew straight at the mech before impacting straight into its cockpit and causing it to explode into a dozen pieces.

"Mech is down your clear" he said as he pulled off.

"RAT forces are retreating-I repeat RAT forces are retreating!" said Alisa as she strafed a RAT soldier and turned him into mush with her autocannon.

"Already-sounds like we missed a party!" said another new voice as a pair of Pelican dropships-from Fireborns and other respective members of the "Halo" universe dived out of the cargo bay of said dropships before activating jet packs and slowed their decent and landed with only a soft thud as they drew their own weapons and began to fire at the retreating RAT forces.

There were about 9 more Spartans in total with four being straight Lime Green armor, with the other five being dark red in their armor as one fired off a sniper rifle, while another fired off a handheld Gatling gun.

Interface felt a presence behind her and she whipped around as a guardsmen somehow had snuck behind her and prepared to skewer her with his spear.

He didn't get much farther as a bolt of purple lighting struck him from the side and in a flash his body had been turned into dust that blew away in the wind.

Interface looked to the side as Jackal stood with his hand raised.

"Sorry I'm late-reception was shit" he commented

Interface gave a tired sigh as she watched a black and blue MIG-29 along with a red and black in the design of a scythe F-15C Eagle tail and shoot down a pair of retreating fighter jets.

"Better late than never right?" she said as the last of the RAT forces vanished, but deep down and felt that this wasn't the end-and that it was only the beginning of something bigger than any of them-and she felt the others agreed.