Battle of Yellowstone

## Battle of Yellowstone

### Outcome

Death of Hell Burnbottom
Destruction of the *Necrehulk*

The **Battle of Yellowstone**, also known as the **Siege of Yellowstone**, was a crucial Second NoHead War battle on May 7, 2030.

## Background

In 2030, the S.M.S.B. was forced to move directly against the NoHeads, resulting in them bringing Telekinibabe into the fold. With his assistance, Baby Intelligence humbled himself before the Police Grand Army as they were living in hiding, and Sheriff 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 plans to stop the NoHeads, replacing the ones the police were making in retribution for the loss of their home. Hell Burnbottom sent forth a large army to destroy the people of Uranus. They were, however, defeated by the forces of the Grand Army in the Battle of the Golden Gates. 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.

A ready force of police, along with Baby Intelligence, Baby Strength, and Lindsay used a captured NoHead tank, Transport 714, 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.

Having recently reassembled his armies, Bladepoint needed only the weapons with which to equip his army. During the Occupation of the Jade Sanctum, 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.

## Battle

### Battle outside the Base

The Police Army proceeded to move into their position in 10 minutes, taking up much of the level part of the grass plains 15 kilometers south of the Yellowstone entrance. 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. RC-4 commenced a preliminary bombardment as the tanks unloaded thousands of Rockets. The Rockets slowly marched in units of 56 robots and commenced fire on the police. The police, led by Dexter and Force Baby, 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. A squad of Ugbots rolled onto the bloodied battleground, further increasing police casualties.

Approximately thirty minutes into the battle, police command units broke up under the assault while individual police carried out desperate counterattacks against the robots and tanks. Dexter shortly ordered a retreat, and the Police Grand Army turned back. In the end, he and Force Baby were captured by a Rocket squad; their army defeated, Force Baby surrendered easily to Dexter’s dismay. Buffaloes rescued the police wounded while other police stood against the robots to cover the retreat, managing to destroy several more tanks in the process. With the battle turning in their favor, the Rockets set about gathering the captured police into groups while others picked up scattered weapons. RC-4 had planned on flanking the retreating Grand Army to prevent escape, but this plan was thwarted by the destruction of the Necrehulk. By the end of the battle, 143 police lay dead, although over half of the Grand Army escaped.

### Infiltrating the Yellowstone Base

Sheriff Bladepoint led his group through the nearby streets. They advanced past robot opposition and and crossed the bridge before moving down the next street. On that street, Bladepoint took control of a heavy repeating cannon and used it to eliminate Ugbots. The squad then moved down the next two corners and blasted another Ugbot. Baby Intelligence preceded Bladepoint down the next street and blasted down the robots. They met a wounded spy who told them how to open the security doors. Baby Intelligence used his telekinesis to open it. Inside the security room, Bladepoint destroyed the generator. They returned to the security door and passed through the arch. On the other side, Lindsay destroyed a force field generator blocking their way with a bomb. Together they infiltrated the base.

The NoHeads discovered the strike force, and sent Rocket reinforcements. A Resistance soldier asked Lindsay to assist them in securing the hangar by destroying the 4 power cells powering the doors. The soldier individually lowered the shields on the power cells, and Lindsay sliced through each one when its shield was down. The others provided covering fire, and in Baby Intelligence’s case, sword cover while Lindsay disabled the power cells. They faced two S4 fire Rockets, Rockets, and bombers. During that time, a police had the back hallway secured.

The police forces cleared out the hangar in short order, but the robots were able to alert Burnbottom’s brothers. Bladepoint ordered his police to regroup, and the strike force moved toward the third floor of the base. Then the doors opened, revealing a mysterious warrior. The two babies moved to attack him. After the warrior, Hell Burnbottom, appeared, the Sheriff’s strike force split up. They were then pinned down by the NoHeads' reinforcements, a squad of Ugbots. Tyler, taking refuge in a local skyfighter, while trying to find the fighter’s trigger, accidentally took off, but destroyed the robots with the craft’s far stronger laser blasts. The fighter’s auto-pilot then engaged, and took Tyler into the sky with another stray ship.

The babies and NoHead, meanwhile, engaged in a duel that waged on into the base’s Power Generator Complex. Bladepoint and his security forces left the hangar relatively unscathed through a separate door.

The Sheriff’s battle continued further into the NoHead base, traveling through the halls before he was stopped by a contingent of Rockets. After exchanging fire from behind a pole, Bladepoint and other police escaped through the window to the outside of the base, and used their ascension guns to rise to the third level. Bladepoint’s own group tried to break through to the room which their targets, Brute Gunray and Mean King, hid in. However, a squad of Ugbots surrounded Bladepoint’s soldiers and forced their surrender. Bladepoint ordered his men to throw down their weapons. The Rockets and Ugbots brought the Sheriff’s squad to the room, then left the area, leaving only around a dozen robots to accompany them into the room, where Gunray and Mean King waited.

After being led in as captured enemies, the Sheriff and his men were not to be prisoners for long. Bladepoimt grabbed a sword and cut down the distracted Rockets. As the doors to the room were jammed, Bladepoint dueled Brute Gunray. Once the Rockets were shut down and the babies found them, Bladepoint deserted the fight, leaving both NoHeads unscathed.

#### The duel in the Power Multiplex

Meanwhile, Hell Burnbottom engaged Baby Intelligence and Lindsay Kellerman in a furious swordfight. The trio fought through a pair of blast doors connecting the hangar to the base’s Generator Complex. On a catwalk across the Complex, the duel raged for a long time, Burnbottom wielding his double-bladed sword with vicious efficiency. Despite Burnbottom’s seeming dominance on the battlefield, however, he continually gave ground over the entire battle, leading the two babies into a labyrinth of catwalks. Burnbottom then leapt up to a higher level, with the babies following. Burnbottom split the two babies apart after Lindsay was forced back over the ledge. When trying to return to the battle, Lindsay fell through the catwalk down to the next level.

Lindsay then jumped across the gap to the next catwalk. She then was able to continue back to the main chamber where Baby Intelligence and Burnbottom were continuing their fight.

Baby Intelligence forced the NoHead back down to the central catwalk, which met a hall with force fields. By the time Lindsay caught up to the two combatants, she was kept back by the fields. The fields also separated Baby Intelligence from his NoHead adversary; the baby meditated while Burnbottom paced until the barriers opened. Lindsay did not catch up before the barriers closed again, responding to automatic power outputs. This left Baby Intelligence to duel alone with Burnbottom. Baby Intelligence could not keep up with the NoHead’s furious energy; this was coupled with the restriction of the narrow catwalk around the melting pit, which kept Baby Intelligence from using his Ataru style to its full capacity. Eventually, Baby Intelligence led his guard down for one moment, allowing Burnbottom to kick him to the ground. Lindsay could only watch in horror as Burnbottom kicked his opponent in the head and turned his attention on her. Hell Burnbottom then taunted Lindsay. The force fields soon switched off, and Lindsay ran through to avenge what she thought to be her master’s fatal blow.

Overcome with hatred, Lindsay lashed out at Burnbottom. She succeeded in slicing the NoHead’s double-bladed sword handle in half, leaving Burnbottom with only one blade. However, the NoHead remained in control and eventually pushed Lindsay into the melting pit. The S.M.S.B. trainee clung for her life on a power node and watched as Burnbottom kicked her fallen sword into the pit.

As the NoHead tried to dislodge her with sword strikes on the edge of the pit, whose metal happened to be resistant to the weapon’s blade, Lindsay was able to relax her nerves and focus on the light side. She disappeared from the pit, telekinetically pulled her master’s sword into her hand, and landed with a single sweeping death blow into Hell Burnbottom’s torso. She finished by pushing Burnbottom away. The NoHead fell into the melting pit, neatly sliced in two. By then, everyone else had been liberated after the Necrehulk at the edge of the base was destroyed, thereby shutting off control to the Rocket army.

### Telekinibabe's flight

Young individual Tyler accidentally flew toward the central control station, followed by a stray skyfighter on autopilot, when he inadvertently launched his skyfighter refuge and took off from the hangar on autopilot. He managed to disengage the autopilot, and then succeeded in taking down several robot skyfighters before having his own skyfighter shot down, and he landed in the battleship’s left-hand hangar while its shield was undergoing repairs for the last several hours. In the hangar, Tyler’s ship landed on the hangar floor, overheated. He ducked down to avoid discovery as Rockets surrounded his ship and ordered the pilot to come out. After his starfighter rebooted, he fired at the Rockets and unintentionally launched a pair of torpedoes into the main reactor. The reactor explosion caused by Tyler managed to create a massive explosion that ripped the ship in half. Shocked over the explosion, Tyler quickly escaped through the ship’s main hangar. A puzzled Rocket pilot saw Tyler’s skyfighter retreating from the ship in a fast manner, but failed to realize what was happening when the control computer in front of them malfunctioned and exploded, killing the entire crew in an instant; this process deactivated all the Rockets stationed below and thus marked the end of the battle. Tyler cheered.

Despite a crushing defeat for the police on the Grass Plains, events altered dramatically when the control station was destroyed by Tyler, deactivating the Rocket army, and leaving the police survivors instantly liberated from their recent capture. They watched awestruck as their Rocket captors and enemy vehicles all around them suddenly shut down, realizing that while their own battle had been lost, the battle above them must have been won. They promptly celebrated by tipping over the deactivated Rockets.

## Aftermath

"*From now on, you can have half of whatever I have, and will create.*"
―Sebiscuits Cardarphen[src]
Although Hell Burnbottom was dead and the *Necrehulk* was gone, Brute Gunray and Mean King had survived. They were captured afterwards by the police. Later, they escaped from the Mutamon together and visited Sebiscuits Cardarphen. Gunray requested Sebiscuits to lend them a squadron of Rockets since very few Rocket soldiers survived the battle. After thinking it over, Sebiscuits agreed to make it so if they could defeat him in a sword battle. Mean King and Brute Gunray both came on Sebiscuits roughly, but Sebiscuits calmly met their strides with his own calm moves, utilizing both of his swords to deadly effect. The two brothers won out in the end, and Sebiscuits kept his end of the deal, promising that the brothers could share anything he acquired. Satisfied, both of them returned to Wyoming. Sebiscuits then dispatched dozens of Rockets to Yellowstone. Thanks to his help, Gunray and Mean King outfitted thirty Rockets with independent thought processors and kept the base in Yellowstone. During this time, Mean King also stole several computers hoping to attain their personal information.

The S.M.S.B. did not know that Brute Gunray and Mean King had escaped the trial, and Baby Intelligence began teaching the others subtraction, as well as the basics of Lavieren. But two weeks after the battle, Telekinibabe had a vision about him fighting Mean King and, as a result of fighting alone, losing. He told the other members, and Baby Intelligence led a counterattack on their base. Although several members were shut out, Baby Intelligence killed Mean King and Baby Strength killed Brute Gunray.

## References

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