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The End of the Begining |
| Written by Richard Gray | |
| Wednesday, 02 January 2008 | |
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On December 25, 1991 Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev went on International Television to declare an end to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. It was a cover-up. Two Hours later Warsaw Pact Troops poured into Free Berlin and West Germany. NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, killed Soviet and Warsaw Pact Troops by the millions, but ultimately succumbed to the Soviet onslaught. By 1993, mainland Europe was under mostly under Soviet control with pockets of NATO resistance springing up here and there. After a year long campaign to crush the resistance the Soviets, on June 4, 1994, launched a full scale attack on Northern Scotland and Southern Britain. Initial Resistance was heavy and many Warsaw Pact Troops were killed, but by October, NATO forces were regrouping in Canada and the US having been beaten out of Europe entirely. The next year is marked by heavy bombing raids on New York, Quebec, and other East Coast Cities, but on October 15, 1995 the Warsaw Pact went quite. Deciding to circle the wagons and gain support from other countried NATO used this time to rebuild and for years life returned to a semi-normal state, with the largest most expensive New Years Celebration in the history of the world held in New York City in 2007. Then on January 1, 2008, Warsaw Pact troops appeared in the skies over New York, Charleston, Washington D.C., Savanah, and Jacksonville. The Soviets have initial success in America and Canada, pushing all the way to Chicago and Pensacola. Their success was due to a new type of body armor: Advanced Combat Armor.A type of powered full body armored suit that gave Warsaw troops unparralled accuracy, combat information, cooridination, and protection...
Jack Harper turned away from the news article he was reading. To the six-foot tall black haired New Yorker, it brought back bad memories. He sighed and shifted in NATO's version of the ACA. He remembered the red glow of the stripe visor, the modified voices, the demon faced mouth pieces that glowed when ever the Warsaws spoke in their own language, the near infinite strength of the Soviet Officer that had pulped his mother's head with a single palm thrust, and the whine of Warsaw Tanks, guns, helicopters, and planes; he shivered. Of course NATO did have some small victories here and there as they where pushed back to the outskirts of Detriot, Manitoba, Atlanta, and Pensacola. One such instance was that a U.S. Naval Pilot managed to shoot down a Warsaw Air Transport from which several working ACAs were captured.Thats when Jack joined the Army. He was surprised when he was ordered to turn over his old Battle Dress for the NATO ACA, which was just like the Warsaws, just faceless except for a glowing blue stripe visor that allowed him too see. Then came new weapons: The Thompson Heavy Assault Rifle that had a sickly super-heated blade for devestating melee attacks- "Harper!" a voice shook Jack from his thoughts, he looked up, it was Fist Sergeant Alan Gomez, a five foot eight inch Texan who had been Jack's Drill Instructor a year before.For some reason, that Jack couldn't fathom, he had never seen the Sarge out of his ACA. "Sarge?" Jack replied. Gomez pointed to a building across the street, "That building there is a bank, as the ranking Corporal, I want you to take three and go clear it!" Gomez said as a two-barreled Soveit Behemoth Tank rolled by cause the ground to shake. Jack looked at the building, it was your regular run-of-the-mill rectangle building that was about four stories high. "Okay," he breathed and turned around, "Sampson, Taylor, Swift, and Deseré on me."
Jack led them to the door out of the building they currently occupied, "Hey, what about that tank?" Taylor asked. Truth be told, Jack had forgotten about the tank. He poked his head out the door and down the street. The Soviet tank had stopped and has firing at something. Then two blue dots showed up on Jacks Heads-Up-Display winked into existance above the tank and two NATO troopers dropped, well more like walked, onto the tank from a second story balcony.Together
Copyright 2008 Richard Gray |
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