Gryphons started mass-assaulting this big clunky piece of metal as it rapidly advanced toward the Palace. Most were shot down with machine gun bullets while others still were ran over.

"Systems in critical, cannot continue. I repeat, systems in critical, cannot continue." Said a robotic voice before the Valkyrie stopped dead in its tracks, guns failing to work as it shut down.

"Shit." Lance snarled as he tried to type keys in order to repair the tank.

"We got bigger problems to worry about!" Katie said as she recklessly jumped out of the tank to scan her surroundings. Her jaw dropped upon seeing a platoon of winged lion-hybrids surrounding the Valkyrie for miles around. "Holy shit." She hissed. "GUYS, GET YOUR ASSES UP HERE AND HELP! WE HAVE A PROBLEM OUT HERE!"

Anna, Lance, Matt, and NoLegs emerged from the top of the tank.

"Jesus..." Matt gasped as he clutched Heaven's Gate. Just by surveying the entire scene that sprawled out before him, he could tell it wasn't going to be pretty.

"This does not look good." Anna rasped as she drew her Fairy Bow. It dawned on her that she somehow had infinite arrows--a very good thing for situations like this. The Mighty Oak also eyed everything, and he was waiting for a command to be ordered.

"No comment." Lance sighed as he adjusted the Nazi hat on his head. The gunblade was locked and loaded with bullets. He made sure to use armor-piercing rounds.

NoLegs meowed as he drew sword and shield. A bead of sweat formed on his head, indicating he was nervous.

Katie remained quiet. Her hands clenched into fists tightly. Her wings became stiff as a board and her tail swished about impatiently.

"They're waiting for us to make a move. Katie, what's the plan?" Matt asked the fox-girl as she stood with him back to back.

"Kill all sons o' bitches!" The fox-girl shouted as once again she went into Overdrive and started tearing at Gryphons, sending a few hundred flying as her jaws howled for blood. Many soldiers lunged at her, only to be felled with a flick of the fanged maw.

Lance cued Organ Jaws...and took out his walkie-talkie. "Repair crew, come to my current location and repair the Valkyrie pronto! Ich habe einige Bastarde mit zu tun!" He put the walkie-talkie back inside his jacket and started loading Snipe shots and shooting Gryphons nonstop. Some shrieked and fell to the ground while others deadpanned in midair as bullets hit them in their vital organs with clinical precision. When a few particularly stupid Gryphons came close to him, he gave them an up-close look of his Shadow Blaster.

NoLegs tripped Gryphons by using his sword to slice off their feet and talons. If they were out of reach, a spear more often than not met with their throats or someplace just as important.

Matt started Cleaving his way through wave after wave of Gryphonian soldiers, each time severing a head clean off the body with the occasional wing or two. But they soon overpowered him--only to meet up with a Ragnarok that wiped most of them out.

Anna, having relearned her Frost Arrow technique, started to lock and load upon flying soldiers, freezing them and watching them shatter against the ground upon impact from falling. She'd pick off the most annoying soldiers, though soon learned that wasn't necessary because Katie had a skill called Gale Slice--her wings would become stiff as she caught a breeze, granting her inhuman speed and devastating strength. Heads were severed and sent flying throughout the mob as she went one, two, slice. In short, her version of Wind Slash with her own impromptu swords. The Mighty Oak toppled many soldiers with either his hand-drill or by simply taking the approach of jumping on them left and right.

"Teach me that sometime!" Matt called as he started Draining the Gryphons.

"Grow your own wings first, blondie!" Katie called back before returning to setting Gryphons ablaze with holy fire. Yes, she can learn holy fire, she's part fallen angel. How else does she have wings?

"You're a berserker with talent!" Lance hollered as he threw Binds willy-nilly.

"I'd say the same for your nukes!" Katie responded before performing another Gale Slice.

"Send in more soldiers, the fox-girl is devastating our numbers by the hundreds and so is that big piece of lumber they brought!" Shouted one soldier. He had...a walkie-talkie??

"TAKE THAT ONE OUT NOW, KATIE! HE'S CALLING FOR BACKUP!" Anna cried as she started sending Ivy left and right to more Gryphon soldiers. Many were ensnared and dragged down into the earth while others died almost immediately due to poison shutting down vital organs.

"No need for that!" Katie responded as she saw NoLegs behead the desperate Gryphon. She too started Draining the Gryphons...by biting their necks and snapping them in her jaws. She also Sapped them of any magic, thus restoring her own for a few more Gale Slices.

And then a bomb exploded right onto the area, dead center of the Valkyrie. A green gas spread out through the bloodied fight and it first felled Matt (who fell asleep standing), then Anna, who proceeded to stumble backwards into a pile of severed heads and NoLegs, who fell on his backside with weapons lying next to him.

"Sleeping gas?!" Lance shrieked before he fell asleep as well. He fell onto the pavement face-first. The gunblade and blaster were both on his person still.

"Dammit....so...tired...." Katie huffed before collapsing onto the bloodied cobblestone walkway. She tried to fight it a little longer, but her body became numb and her arms gave way.

Everything fell to darkness shortly after.