Cagayan lay in ruins after months of battle for control. Manila is declared an Open City for the second time in history and Luzon's defense appears grim as the government struggles to keep Chinese Marines at bay from a hastily re-purposed HQ in Pampanga. F-16s scramble from the runways of Clark in Mabalacat. Expecting a high altitude bomber, what the skies revealed to them is a new world.All Rights Reserved