Attack on Earth

### Outcome

* The Union of Ladybugs defeat Mykew Hadeline, send her into oblivion, arrest Laura Hu, and convert Jamie Smith
* Death of Charity Hirz
* Two of three lightning cuffs are destroyed

The **Attack on Earth** was a series of conflicts between the newly formed unit the Union of Ladybugs and Mykew Hadeline and her army of Wraiths affiliated with the Brotherhood in 2022. At first, the very young members of the union refused to cooperate with each other, but after the demise of Robert Bremmer at the hands of Laura, they were able to work together and defeat Hadeline and her armies, thwarting their invasion of Earth.

## History

### End of Hadeline's exile

Upon her apparent discovery that Santana Larson had been communing with her daughter, the mighty ruler of the Realm, the Black Queen, freed Mykew Hadeline. Ready to begin her invasion, Hadeline was given the first of the five Naegri by the Black Queen. Hadeline forcibly seized control of the second Naegri from Central America.

### Preparing for the end

Now with all five of the Naegri in her procession, Mykew Hadeline decided that it was time to seal the fate of the Eight Worlds by destroying it under the orders of the Black Queen. In the summer of 2012, Hadeline and her Wraiths went to the t and i Factory in Arizona and once there, they decided to use the radiation-rich cellar as their base of operations.

Meanwhile, Annie McCallin and Savannah van Dukas attended a summer camp. On the last day, everyone went on a field trip to Big Castle Park. Although Charity Hirz had forbidden Annie and Savannah to go, they hitched a ride on the bus’ roof. Later, Charity heard Annie and ordered Cherical McSnake , her henchman, to round up the kids. Upon Charity’s orders, Cherical tore after the two girls. Eventually, Savannah stopped and saw what she thought to be Cherical’s silhouette. Thinking fast, Savannah fired a bolt that knocked out Annie instead. Annie got up, but a moment too late, and they were captured as well. They were enslaved at the t and i factory.

A week later, Charity and Cherical held a ceremony, seemingly to test the kids’ loyalty, when it was in fact all part of a ruse to lure the Wraiths into the open. When Annie and Savannah did not pass, Charity attempted to burn them at the stake.

### The Unification unleashed

Channeling hordes of electric bolts into the air, Mykew Hadeline stood in the center of the poles, chanting praises to the Unification as gigantic chunks in the forty miles leading up to the Earth's surface began breaking apart, damaging Earth's magnetic poles and causing widespread destruction across the planet and mass casualties, notably tearing out the top of the Eiffel Tower, although the two people inside it were successfully rescued.

Irritated, Annie struggled to bring the children together, pitching her plan to prevent the completion of the Unification, kill Mykew Hadeline, and take back the Naegri, although Savannah argued that the plan seemed like a suicide mission. While Annie had to rest in disappointment on trying to save the world, Freddy commended the sheer extent of Annie's honor and swore to fight the Unification or die trying. Chastity then stood by Annie and vowed to fight with her as well as Rose and Pamela to stand amongst the group and vowed to fight with them. As Jose Camargo and [*blank - content needed*] decided to stand and fight with the team, Clayton then agreed to fight alongside them, citing life was short anyway, as they and were willing to put their lives on the line to stop Hadeline.

With the rest of the team on board, Annie dressed up for the battle. It soon didn't take long for the rest of the team to agree to help as well and they went back to the cluster room to discuss the details of the plan. However, they then heard Nick Jackson's alarm ringing and were stunned to realize he had called the ancient robot bodyguards to fight Hadeline.

Heartened, they met with Charity Hirz, who gave them full permission to go into her office and take a look around and arm themselves, and they deduced what she'd been doing, with Clayton using his prodigious detective skills to piece together an average day in Charity's life, much to Annie's amusement. Savannah then expanded on the plan that once they found Hadeline, Annie would taunt her and keep her busy until Freddy could take the H-53 grenade and kill the witch once and for all.

### Battle of the t and i Factory

As the Union of Ladybugs arrived at the foot of the stairs and gathered to face Mykew Hadeline and the Wraiths, Charity Hirz and Cherical McSnake and Nick Jackson stopped them and ordered Annie and Savannah to go with them, prompting them to comply and leaving the rest of the Union to wonder why they were there to begin with.

Charity attempted to burn them at the stake. However, the other workers saved them. After summoning her robots, Charity helped Cherical to deal with the threat. Notably, Hadeline watched the Naegri form the Unification as she notified the Wraiths to do battle with the children.

A chase ensued, but they flew out of the tunnel, back where they started. Amused, Laura ordered two Wraiths to grab the hovercraft and dump the children out, hundreds of feet to the floor. However, Freddy was able to snag them at the last moment and they landed on the ground. However, the Wraiths then dove in, seizing the children and holding them hostage as Jamie Smith approached Annie and Savannah.

Jamie Smith once again offered them a chance to join her, this time due to impressing her in battle. Savannah then told the others that perhaps they should join. When Annie tried to remind her that Hadeline was trying to destroy the world, Annie rebutted her. As she approached Jamie, she asked if she could bring back Robert Bremmer. When Jamie told her she could, Savannah told her the one problem was that she messed with her friends before clocking her in the head.

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As if out of nowhere, robot bodyguards were seen transforming into thick pillars of green smoke, arriving to help combat the Wraiths, having been unable to assist Charity Hirz in spite of having initially come out of hiding to protect her from Hadeline. The ancient machines were able to repel the Wraiths, and while it initially seemed they were winning, they were in fact merely sending them through the air and not dealing any real damage to the evil spirits.

#### Cherical fights the resistance

As the battle began, Freddy and Pernilla led the kids to fight Cherical. After taking them briefly hand-to-hand, Cherical used the third lightning cuff to conjure a fire, setting the room’s posts and cross letters ablaze. This prompted Freddy to run, much to the surprise of several kids. After one last swish to expand the flames, Charity told Cherical to stop with the flames, to which he obliged. But the damage was already done, and the Union of Ladybugs were briefly left running for their lives until Jose noticed a bunch of Skaters (foreshadowed earlier) and told them to "skaters, get your free skaters" and they mounted into the air, only to find the Wraiths clustering together.

The two children clambered across rubble, cleverly paving out a maze, leaping over obstacles, but Freddy tripped and almost fell in, with Savannah throwing herself to the floor to catch him, holding him by his wrist and yelling to go and they'd catch up.

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As the Union approached Hadeline, she unleashed the full power of her weapon, disorienting the Union members. Hadeline attacked the children, wielding dual sticks, during which, Annie was smacked aside. Annie eventually landed a hit on Hadeline's head, making a coconut-like sound, which seemed to only make the witch more irritated. Annie quickly apologized and was seemingly knocked out of the fight by a hard blow from Hadeline.

Cherical blasted one of the kids into a wall, but deliberately spared him. Robot bodyguards came pouring in, as they were unable to help Charity. They identified Freddy as the leader of the resistance and held him at bladepoint. Not intending to kill anyone, Cherical begged the robots not to spear Freddy. The robots refused. Thinking Cherical did not intend to murder one of his own, Annie snatched his sword and cut the robot down. When the second tried to spear her, Annie intercepted the strike and cut him down. Cherical thanked Annie, but this gave June an opening to snatch the lightning cuffs and throw them into the flames. Cherical was finally overwhelmed by the kids’ following attack and decided to flee. He started climbing up a large pile of rubble, soon to be joined by Charity, who had failed to break Savannah.

### End of the war

Eventually, they made it to Hadeline and Freddy successfully shot her with the H-53 grenade; however, Hadeline was unaffected by the attack. For a moment, they were defenseless, and Hadeline attacked them sadistically in their turn. Eventually, Charity deserted the fight and climbed after Cherical. Then she lost her balance, fell into the flames and died enclosed in the main room, as she did not have the ability to stop the fire. Cherical was horrified, but it was then that a hundred Wraiths began gliding at them, seemingly sucking the happiness from Annie as they advanced. Overcome by a hopeless despair, Annie almost welcomed oblivion that would come at the mercy of the Wraiths, but a flash of light suddenly impeded the Wraiths' approach. Nick Jackson revealed that he had the flashlight from his cell phone and continued flashing it at one of the Wraiths, and the first casualty on the dark side was initiated when the evil spirit was vaporized. After Savannah escaped from the fire, she found a control console and activated the sprinklers, putting out the flames quickly. She was then able to resume her fight with Hadeline as Cherical, Nick, and Pamela rushed forward and began tearing apart the Naegri.

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Dukas managed to defeat Hadeline and dismantle the Unification, a small group of surviving Wraiths quietly departed from the factory, something only Annie McCallin noticed.

Cherical climbed down and ordered the kids back to work.

## Aftermath

Immediately after the fighting reached its conclusion, Cherical showed Annie and Savannah holograms of his and Charity’s lives, which also revealed Charity’s true intentions. The following day, the t and i Factory workers were driven home by Cherical, and several were escorted out by Savannah and Annie. Conrad was the next to learn of Hirz's death, and he never got over it entirely. Years later, Annie and Savannah became part-time crime fighters under the FBI. Savannah died later on, and her fall was mourned by many. Thanks to the terrible fight, Charity Hirz was dead, and two of the three lightning cuffs were lost forever. The Black Queen, while disappointed with Mykew Hadeline's failure, went on with her universe-spanning agenda, which eventually became known to the Syndicate. Needed Evil soon came under her dominance as a result.

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