Janurary 10th, 2361 Planet Argus
Adam Thoren quickly placed the last explosive charge on the OU9-BETA and dove for the doorway using the hangerdecks low gravity. He would not be a slave to Shrubbe and the Sovereign and would not let the BETA help their evil cause. Once in normal gravity he took cover behind a bulkhead and clicked the detonator, but nothing happened.
"The BETA is a work of art, I cannot have you just blow it up" said Alexander Torqueaz as he sneaked out of the shadows. He was a well known scientist who had worked both restoring the ALPHA and designing the BETA. "I will not have it be used for a massacre!" shot back Adam. "Then don't, use it to help turn the tide, help them defeat Shrubbe and the Titan" replied Alex "I know it will be hard, Shrubbe or the Regiment has been doing something to alter our thought patterns but the pilots trust you, rebel and they will support you. The IronPride is mankinds last hope of re-unification". "I understand" replied Thoren as he tried to focus on what he had to do, what he must do.
-- The Empire Buildings, Planet Argus, 1200 hours--
There were battlesuits as far as he or his scanners could see. An endless tide of U.N.S.C., Regiment and Gro-Nak battlesuits. In the front of the enemy wave was the OUX-Titan, the largest battlesuit known to exist. No one was quite sure who piloted the monster but he seemed to be completely devoted to the Regiment rather than the U.N.S.C.."There's too many of them Commander" panicked a sergeant. "Take it easy soldier, they may have us out numbered, but if we have to give our lives, we'll make those bastards pay dearly for them" responded Krasian, unsure if even he would survive this dark day.
The remnants of the once great IronPride rebellion took positions and prepared for the massacre as the ominous force approached. Suddenly a Punisher II with 2 Heavy arms sprang from its cover (as much as a battlesuit can spring that is) and unloaded its weapons into the wave of Gro-Nak. The rapid-fire railguns tore through the enemy ranks like a knife threw butter. But as a cheer drifted over the IronPride COMs the Titan aimed and fired its Bazzoka at the hero and finished him, before turning and shooting the last anti-air turret remaining and then finally reloading.
A firefight soon began between a small advanced group of Pharoahs and Punishers against the second Gro-Nak attack force. Even though the group had superior fire power and armour to the Gro-Nak the U.N.S.C. forced quickly obliterated the squad with its surpression fire. Another squad faced a much more terrible fat as Titan finished re-loading and decimated them. "All IronPride forces!" commanded Krasian "Fall back to secondary defensive line!". Suddenly the Golden Mist charged into the enemy line "Corvin fall back! What are you doing!" question Krasian, but it was too late. The Golden Mist self-destructed in the middle of the enemy wave, its NOVA Cannon stressed core ruptured like a nuclear bomb, tossing battlesuits everywhere. The enemy horde was forced to fall back temporarily, and the IronPride took advantage of it by quickly re-fortifying their line with a bunch of Elite punishers and Victor Tagart Himself.
The sky lit on fire as the new wave approached, it was 10 times the size of the last and it also consisted of the ALPHA and BETA Battlesuits. "This is the Escalibur, mayday! we are going down! I repeat! Mayday! We are going DOWN!" yelled its pilot as the ship crashed several kilometers deep into the enemy lines. The ALPHA and the now energy-sword equipped Titan took advantage of the chaos and quickly charged into the enemy lines. The BETA charged in soon after but was struck by a NOVA Cannon and fell back a bit before it suddenly teleported behind the IronPride lines. Kill Tagart! raged a voice inside Thoren's head Kill the Heretic and you shall go down in history! the voice boomed, Thoren could barely control his own actions as he charged at the IronPride commander and lunged his sword through the cockpit before the suit could even turn around. Suddenly the voice died out as he was pummeled by a shocked Krasian Longblade. "What have I done" Adam said solemnly to himself as his Battlesuit fell to the ground. "All U.N.S.C. forces still loyal to the true U.E.G., this is Adam Thoren, slayer of General Tagart, can you not see within your own hearts that the Regiment is controlling us! Rise against Shrubbe! Do it before all of humanity is lost to his madness!" ordered Thoren as he fell into unconciousness.
The entire U.N.S.C. force froze, and then half the army rebelled, plunging the enemy lines into chaos. Such chaos that no-one noticed the ominous wave of inter-dimensional energy radiating from the Escalibur's damaged core...