Battle of the Golden Gates

The **Battle of the Golden Gates** took place during the Second NoHead War on April 25, 2030 where the Police Grand Army defended the Golden Gates from the NoHead Robot Army. It concluded the unofficially named **Yellowstone Offensive**, a series of strikes by the NoHeads under Hell Burnbottom during the Second NoHead War.

## Background

In 2030, the NoHeads prepared to invade the MBH. Over the course of the engagement, the Rocket army failed to kill anyone despite the assistance of their leader, Hell Burnbottom. Soon after, Baby Intelligence flew to their base for a counterattack, but ran out of fuel and landed in the junkyard.

After fueling up, they returned to Wyoming and, with the aid of their new member, Telekinibabe, the babies went to the Police’s hiding place to convince Sheriff Bladepoint, leader of the police, to align with them. The NoHeads had driven the police to their old base after invading their current one and destroying half the station. Baby Intelligence humbled himself before the police, and Bladepoint pledged his support to him, forging a pact and ending months of enmity between them. Once the remainder of the Police Security Forces had been summoned to their hiding place, Baby Intelligence and Sheriff Bladepoint devised a plan to stop the NoHeads. This plan replaced the ones the police were making in retribution for the loss of their home.

During the planning session, Baby Intelligence made Force Baby a General for the upcoming battle. The Police Army was to lure out the main bulk of the NoHead’s Rocket Army onto the grass plains for the head-to-head assault, allowing Bladepoint and his strike force, along with the remaining babies, to attack the base and infiltrate the main hangar. In advance of their entry, Baby Intelligence ordered the resistance to secretly program the battle flight-path coordinates.

Bladepoint, however, was actually without an organized army. Half an hour after the ready force had departed, he used the secret signal from his pocket to rally and summon all of the police that had been in hiding around the town; additionally, police from every state joined the growing army, leaving only a few to guard the towns and the cities. With his army in place, all he needed was the weapons with which to equip his army.

Agreeing that the army was scattered, Baby Intelligence told Bladepoint to continue helping the refugees and send them to the Golden Gates where many people from Uranus were also taking refuge. Wilcox suggested that they would require aid, but Bladepoint argued that no aid would come. Soon Baby Intelligence brought the Advance Guard and the Frontal Offense to defend the Golden Gates from Burnbottom's attacking forces.

## Battle

The Police Army proceeded to move out of its hiding place in the Swamps; they had licked the wounds of their previous battle and were ready to take back what was theirs. The NoHeads' actions during the previous battle reflected little more than a massacre. Many police were killed during the evacuation of the Jade Sanctum.

The Grand Army had moved into their position in 10 minutes, taking up much of the level part of the Golden Gates, where Sheriff Bladepoint ordered the activation of their shield generators, set upon the backs of the buffaloes. The Golden Gates were encased in an enormous dome approximately four kilometers wide, impervious to any bombardment. The Grand Army had formed command units, each led by a General. RC-4’s forces, freshly away from the base, descended from the hills into the valley, in a 3000-foot long formation of Assault Tanks escorting Rockets. The rocket division settled into position, facing the massive Grand Army protecting the Golden Gates. RC-4 commenced a preliminary bombardment, firing on the police’s shields, with his tanks, to little effect.

After a while, RC-4, atop his enhanced personal tank, ordered the other tanks to hold fire; the police believed the battle to be won. The tanks fell back, and with an order from the control station, transmitted via a top-secret frequency, the tanks unloaded thousands of Rockets, much to the horror of the police. As this was happening, several of the Arcanus, including Cassidy and Bartholomew Gales, grouped together and fired a powerful blast which destroyed the shield and a good portion of the fleet, as the shield’s energy cascaded and holes began popping about it. Horrified, Force Baby retaliated by firing at RC-4 point-blank, disabling him by hitting him in the arm. As several angry robots carted him off, the Rockets slowly marched in units of 156 robots and commenced fire on the police. The police, led by Sheriff Bladepoint and Baby Strength, fought with personal shields, guns, and laser cannons; the Grand Army clobbered dozens of Rockets. The laser cannons fired laser blasts at the robot ranks, but they could not halt the persistent robot march; the two sides exchanged relentless volleys of gunfire. Despite the incredible aims of the Grand Army, and the weight of fire being put out by the defenders, the robotic hordes moved steadily closer to the gate.

At short range, Ugbots rolled onto the bloodied battleground and began attacking with their slow-loading, yet hard hitting whips, killing several, one falling horribly into the mass of robots below. Then Cassidy and Gales showed up as if out of nowhere and began erecting a field for robots to scale the walls. Many officers were killed during this stage of the battle as the pressure increased and the tanks moved in to trap the Grand Army. At some point, a Rocket, having been severed from the waist, flew onto Force Baby, eventually getting him off and he started stomping and kicking it, eventually and accidentally getting his foot entangled with the severed wiring. This eventually came with an advantage where he took down some robots, including an Ugbot, due to the wiring causing the robot to fire his gun when he makes movement with the entangled foot. Despite the overwhelming force of the adversary, the freedom warriors had managed to keep the robots from getting a foothold on the gate.

Initially, Baby Intelligence was intensely reluctant to participate in the fight, but after Ford forced him to realize that it was madness to not fight the robots, he relented - sending his pupils into the fray, encouraging his friend Kelly Hughes to rain down death who in turn encouraged the dog Gobbles, and he himself wielded his sword skillfully against the forces of evil. While the officers were dueling Ugbots on the gate, Rebecca laid the charges that were prepared by Hell Burnbottom in the culvert under the wall. However, Kenzie Walters, who had recently turned against the NoHeads, prepared to light the previously placed bombs, though she briefly fought Cassidy, who failed to defeat her. She found Baby Intelligence, but then they were ambushed by Mira and Rebecca. After being disarmed by Mira, Walters turned to Rebecca and muttered her last words, *"Too late, asshole"*, and proceeded to activate the explosives in front of Baby Intelligence. The ensuing explosion sent robots, officers, and huge chunks of rock high into the air, killing both Walters and Rebecca in the process. The falling debris brought great casualties to both sides of the conflict.

Tanks now ripped unobstructed into the Police lines, tearing up the previously untouched gates. While the polices’ laser cannons had a quick firing rate, they had a narrow area of effect, and they were nearly useless when in motion, and police fell to the mechanized NoHead Army; the two armies engaged each other at close range among several ruins and mounted laser cannons. In the confusion, Force Baby, running on foot, was sent flying onto a tank by an explosion. Dexter drew up alongside on his horse and fired a laser blast to aid Force Baby, as Force Baby lacked a weapon to take down the tank. However, Force Baby clumsily deflected it onto the tank’s pilot, causing the vehicle to crash.

Starting to feel exhausted, Force Baby turned to Baby Intelligence. Walking slowly, he muttered his title and said he couldn't stand upright and begged him to understand. Shocked, Baby Intelligence grabbed Force Baby's wrist, but then he collapsed, moaning that he was sorry and haphazardly firing a gunshot before Baby Intelligence told him to rest. Resting more easily with his master's understanding, Force Baby dozed off, and Baby Intelligence asked Dante Christensen to carry him off after dryly commenting that he was *"lying down on the job"*.

Baby Intelligence met up with Optica and Lindsay Kellerman.

A ready force of police, along with Baby Intelligence, Baby Strength, and Lindsay used a captured NoHead tank, Transport 509, to approach the base without being detected by NoHead forces. The group navigated the transport to the entrance of a secret passage at the base of the cliff face. The ready force disembarked.

## Immediate aftermath

Less than half of the 15,000 robots survived the main battle, after being driven away at most one fourth managed to escape back to Wyoming. The mechanical carcasses were simply piled off to the side of the battlefield and left to deteriorate. Force Baby had lost his glove in the battle and was wounded badly on the head, but he had killed fifty-seven robots to Baby Intelligence's fifty-six.

During the Police Station Battle, Rocket Commander RC-4 had captured the police’s horses and buffaloes, which were their beasts of war. Bladepoint took a small squad and attacked the place where the beasts were being held, and rescued them from captivity, as well as the captured guns. With all of the pieces in place, he moved the Grand Army out onto the plains. The NoHeads, meanwhile, had sent three divisions to engage the police. Almost all the forces moved to engage the Grand Army head-on, while the guards stayed at the base.

## Later aftermath

The battle was critical to the survival of the Police Grand Army and their participation in the Second NoHead War as a whole; had the Grand Army lost the Battle of the the Golden Gates, the organization as a whole would have been obliterated by the rampaging legions of Hell Burnbottom's livid robots. The Golden Gates would later be repaired; the Uranians were ultimately able to rebuild.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *The Super Babies: Revenge of Hell Burnbottom*
2. ↑ *The Super Babies: An Ended Generation*
3. ↑ *S.M.S.B.: Where Are You Now?*