Earth? 2016

Once there was a world of magic, made up of many species from many other worlds, many other Earths so to speak. Most prominent amongst them were the races of humanity who had formed a mighty Empire that spanned the vast continent on this world.

It was also a world of so-called Gods, at least by the native peoples and by the beings themselves and it was they who at regular intervals, oft though planning, or occasionally other times through mere boredom, saw fight to bring what they called new blood into the lands to make things more 'interesting' to them. The standard source of this was the site seen as Holy Alnus Hill by the Empire of Humans so again it was to be reopened...

...but this was not quite enough one particularly bored deity thought and another portal was opened to what it believed was another position on the world. More newcomers would lead to more chaos and thereby more fun and future energy for them it foresaw. Unfortunately it was not omniscient in its vast powers as these portals opened. It had...miscalculated somewhat.

Firstly in that the humans of the Empire had grasped the fundamentals of magic to a far greater depth than these Gods had realised. Moving swiftly they had 'stabilised' these portals with great 'Gates' and had amassed powerful armies at both to conquer what they saw as the primitives beyond.

The creation process in the lead up to these portals being spotted by several Imperial mages...and the drive of the deep need for Empire to continue its growth - what better place to expand its leadership believed. Somewhat the opposite of what these divines had originally intended. Still the influx of slaves would likely lead to many new and interesting things...

Secondly the calculations on the second 'Gate' were...off...somewhat. Yes indeed it would open to an Earth as planned and to a 'Japan as the land was called, so the deity was correct...from a certain point of view it can be argued. So as a Japanese city found itself invaded and a man named Itami would find himself embarking on a great heroic journey as a result...well another city in a Japan would find itself also under attack.

It was a real shame then that the deity had opened it on what was a different Earth than the first one opened to...

Tokyo Barracks, Central District Command,
League of Nations Army (Japan),
Peoples (Provisional) Republic of Japan

Cmdt. James Cooper, A Company, 4th Battalion, 2th Mechanized Infantry Division, LONAJ, blinked as the orders came across the command net then swore into the command net at the thick Sassanech fecker on the other end "What the feck are you on about? Dragons? Roman Soldiers? I don't care what their putting in your goddamned tea but I'm not puttin' up yer bullshit today of all days"

The country was a shithole in the not so humble mind of Cmdt. James Cooper, sure the people were polite as all hell. But behind those bows and smiles often lay a murderous fanatic looking to avenge the death of their (long dead mind you!) 'Divine' war criminal Emperor on some poor hapless Commonwealth or Soviet soldier trying to keep the peace. And now of course he had some green as grass Brit trying to feck around on a busy day with the deployment schedules in flux with some bullshit meant to tease the 'gombeen' Paddy. Heads would feckin roll over this once he got a complaint into General Prakash later on.

"Errr sorry Sir. But several of the sector patrols and Federal Police have reported er...flying winged dragons...and ...eh solders with swords and shields appearing in the city centre. Its...eh...their saying they're in a bit of sticky wicket Sir" came back across the comm-unit of his helmet from the nervous sounding man on the other end.

'A sticky wicket? Feck. World must be fecking ending then' he almost groaned then clicked on the mike "If your feckin with us buddy yer going to wish you were dead by the time I get through with ya"

"Were moving out boys and girls. Code Tango. Reports of...dragons...in town attacking people. No I'm not bullshittin so no complaints" he ordered switching to the Battalion-Net and motioning to his unbelieving looking aide Andy Munro. He shrugged. Really what else could you say?

Someone calls an alert cuz there's dragons in downtown Tokyo? What the Feck could ya say?

Still as the engines of the troop carriers roared to life more reports were coming in across the net. Evidently there quite alot of these fantasy-should-not-exist creatures coming in from the city, and from Jap police, and a LONAJ platoon he knew were reliable. And of course as he started to get the last of the armoured Bulldogs on the road the feckin impossible-should-not-feckin-exist decided to make itself known to him.

Why oh why did you stop making sense oh sweet world?

Why couldn't it have been Nippy insurgents or a god-damned riot maybe?

Really God? Feckin Dragons?

Was my life starting to be too feckin boring for ya or something?

Well Feck you! I don't believe in YOU ANYWAY!

SO Ha! Screw you and your feckin bullshit!

Also I've got Anti-Air! Ha! Take that ya sonfabitch!

"Charlie, Micheal, feckin blow those flyin...things...out of the sky now!" he snapped out pulling down the hatch of his Bulldog, then flicking back to command as he brought up the digital battle before him "Okay, Cooper here. We have engaged the...dragons...as nonsensical as that sounds. Combat feed initiating. And get us some air support ASAP"

'Next it'll be feckin the feckin Fey or the dullhans' he mental snarled as the imagined the whirling roar of the Company's AA units as tracer fire raced across towards flying things that shouldn't exist. Moment's later one fell from the sky as the other managed to escape a moment or two long before also being knock from the sky. Good at least they were killed by bullets. He was almost afraid they'd need magic bullets or silver or some other feckin bullshit like in those stupid games his daughter played...

Notes:
[1] The 'alternative history' setting is the future world of my AH story The World that Winston Made. The Gate still opens in Japan but the second opens in 'Japan', but a very different one from a very different timeline. A still occupied one in fact where Imperial Japan...lasted quite a while longer than OTL.
[2] Just something that popped in my mind. Opinions welcome, well constructive ones anyway.

[General - the original Timeline, which is unfinished after 1941, is currently up on Spacebattles as The World Winston Made or Alternative History dot com as Dublin 1922 - the British Attack]