IMPORTANT NOTE: This story was written far before many details about Advance Wars 2 was disclosed. I wrote this really as my own hypothesis about the game, since I have no paitence and wished it was out right now. So you'll have to bear with me, I had to make up names for Lash and Flak since I didn't know what their names were.
For Flak, I decided that Boris was a good name to use. And for Lash, I thought Sheila sounded good. I didn't mention this before, because this is a second draft of the first chapter. I mashed Sensei into Orange Star as Commander Alexander due to some screen shots I saw. Hey, he had an orange outfit, I figured that was why. But nevermind. Please enjoy my hypothesis.
Advance Wars: Dark Star
-Chapter 1: Adder Strikes!
Andy and Sami looked out across the lake as their fishing poles dangled lazily in the water. They had been fishing for an hour now and Andy's bucket was obviously more filled with fish than Sami's was. It was obvious that she had given up and simply sat back in the small boat with her arms behind her head. Andy however was still very much into the whole fishing thing and continued to look eagerly around the water for some sort of sign that another fish was nearby.
"Oh! Oh! I think I saw another one!" Andy pointed out going for the motor to move the boat.
In the months following the war Orange Star and Green Earth had signed a treaty and Sami had managed to talk the guys into taking a trip to the Green Earth territory. They teased her constantly about her affections for Eagle, but an angry shake of the fist quieted both of them for the remainder of the trip.
"I think I've had enough fishing for one day." Sami quickly cut in. "Let's get back to the cabin, Max should be done with his famous barbeque ribs by now."
She stressed the word famous with a sarcastic tone and rolled her eyes. Andy began to steer the small boat as Sami collected the fishing poles and put them down. Their boat began to make its way around a bend in the lake and their cabin could be seen in the distance. The lake and cabin was surrounded by a heavy forest making the place an ideal spot for there leave time. It was almost a year after General's Sturm forces had been crushed and he had been driven into hiding. There were a number of search parties looking for him, but so far nothing had turned up. So for the meantime, Andy, Sami, and Max had earned some well deserved leave time.
They had made it to the end of the wooden dock and Sami stepped off with the rope in hand and tied it securely. By this time, Andy had grabbed the two buckets and jumped onto the dock as well. The cabin was moderately sized and the back porch enabled it so that the entire kitchen and dining room was visible. They could all ready see Max trying to balance the rib on the end of a poker and the plate at the same time. It was no surprise that he dropped the rib onto the floor and let out a cry of anger. He gave a quick glance around and slid the piece of rib back onto the plate.
"Your not going to serve that to us, are you Max?" Andy yelled out after watching him scrape it back onto the plate.
Max jumped at the sound of this and looked around stunned to see his other two friends walking up to him. His face had run red and with a quick motion he instantly put the rib into the garbage.
"Of course not kid. I was looking for the garbage..."
"Get another plate while you're at it." Sami added. "I hope you don't do that every time you cook."
"Err... Of course not. Hey, how many fish did you catch?" Max obviously changed the subject as quick as he could.
"I got tons!" Andy announced.
They began to talk about fishing as someone from the other side of the lake spied on them with binoculars. It was a man in a black uniform and purple trim, his skin was as pale as the moon and his eyes were encircled with black rings. If it weren't for the vibrant purple hair, you could have mistaken him for a corpse. He was tall and lanky, almost like Grit in a way and his chin stuck out. He now watched in amusement as the young one had held his bucket in triumph while the girl tried to change the subject. The big muscled one had managed to sneak another rib he dropped onto the plate and chuckles smoothly at the other two. The pale faced man lowered the binoculars and began to move back through the forest with a grim face.
Meanwhile Sami tried to defend her poor fishing habits and managed to drive the conversation away with a simple statement. Andy quit with his bucket raising and looked toward Sami as Max asked her to repeat the question.
"Hey, what about my bread?"
"Your what?" Max asked dumbfounded.
"My bread you big oaf. The bread that's supposedly in the oven?"
She moved over to the oven and opened it up as a plume of smoke erupted into the air. Instantly the three began to scramble about the room. By the time the fiasco was over, there was only a pile of ashes remaining where the bread sat.
"Great guys, just great. Look what you've done!"
"What we've done? I was fishing!" Andy cried out defensively.
The two guys backed away from the ruined bread and gave each other uncomfortable looks. They knew Sami was dangerous when she was mad and demonstrated it constantly during the missions against Sonja during the last war, even though she meant no harm. She turned around and glared at them both.
"Now we're all going back into town and getting more bread and this time. No one messes it up!"
"Uh... Ok... Sami." Max stuttered.
The three moved, or rather marched to the garage and piled into the jeep with Sami at the wheel. Her anger was still quite alive as she nearly gunned it out of the garage and onto the dirt road that led back to town. Andy and Max quickly put on their seat belts and hung onto the side of the vehicle as they roared past trees.
"Uh Sami, you might want to slow down just a bit..." Andy suggested mildly.
"Yeah, it would be a shame to miss dinner if we're in the hospital." Max added.
Sami gave no response and caused the engine to roar quieting the two for the rest of the trip. They could see the town as they drove down a hill and soon entered the small collection of buildings. The town wasn't any major commercial area, just a small town on the edge of civilization and was well known for its getaway potential. The small size made it certain that there was no other cars and Sami took advantage of this driving as fast as she could through the streets until they reached the grocery store and skidded to a stop before it. They stopped inches away from the glass. Sami hopped out with out even blinking and entered the store while Max and Andy released their breaths and sighed.
"Max, don't ever forget her bread. I mean ever again."
"I hear you kid." Max sighed again. "Geez."
They instantly went quiet and soon noticed a peculiar setting the town was in. The streetlights bounced up and down in the high winds and litter rolled down the sidewalks. Then it hit them both.
"Max, where is everyone?" Andy asked looking around.
"Whoa, this is weird. There's no one anywhere."
The two gave each other uneasy looks and got out of the jeep to look around. There was no one walking the streets, no one going about their business, no one anywhere. Soon they heard footsteps coming from the grocery store. Sami was running at full speed and headed toward the jeep as Max began to say something.
"Hey Sami did you notice..."
"Every one down!" She cried out at the top of her lungs.
"Wha!?"
Then in an instant the store exploded into a fiery inferno. Glass flew in all directions and the concussion of the blast flipped the jeep clear into the air and onto its top. The wheels continued to spin as the front wheels had caught fire. Andy, Max, and Sami still held their arms over their head in a defensive position as some of the food products began to rain down around them. There was another burst of flame as they got up and looked around dumbfounded.
"What happened?" Andy coughed getting up to his feet.
"I went in to get some bread and noticed there wasn't any clerk or cashier. Then I noticed C4 strapped all around the building." Sami explained.
"Andy and I were about to tell you, this town is abandoned." Max explained sitting up from his sprawling position.
Before the three could say anything there was the sound of motors in the distance. Sami looked around frantically and spotted the jeep. She ran to it and threw open the trunk or what was left of it. A handgun fell to the ground and she picked it up checking the clip and then reloading it.
"Guys, get over here!" She ordered.
They didn't need to be told twice as they went over to the jeep and kept their heads down.
"You got any more weapons?" Max asked.
"Yeah, there should be a rocket launcher. Hold this." She handed the gun over to Max and looked into the trunk again.
"They're getting closer, who ever they are!" Andy warned.
"Man we're sitting ducks out here by this jeep; we need to find some cover. Like that alley!" Max pointed out.
"I almost got it!"
Now the engine sounds were at a distance where they could be recognized from which direction they were coming. At last Sami wrenched out a rocket launcher and followed Max and Andy to an alley. They got low and watched as a unit of recon jeeps rolled up to the store and swerved to a stop. Black clothed soldiers with strange helmets began to get out of the jeeps and cover the area. It was impossible to see their faces as their helmets were like space helmets, except they were completely black and contained only a single red dot to show some kind of detection was going on.
"Oh no." Max groaned. "FN-P90s."
"Submachine guns?" Andy whispered.
"It's Sturm's forces."
After the black clad soldiers secured the area the three noticed the pale faced man step out of the jeep and step next to the jeep. He looked around showing he wore sunglasses and let out a sigh. He kicked around some of the debris and kept his hands in his coat pockets.
"That guy... He must be a CO. Look at his uniform." Sami pointed out.
"Forget that." Andy nearly gasped. "Take a look at his skin!"
All three of them could see the pale white skin that was the color of snow. It was almost like the man had never spent a day of his life in the sun. They were almost mesmerized by it but ducked down as the man began to look around and turned their way. After he had look around the area he turned toward one of the soldiers and held his hands out.
"Well... Where's the bodies?"
"We don't see them." One soldier reported.
"All this trouble and they must have survived. Unless their bodies just up and walked away." The Pale Faced man stated darkly. "Like Night of the Living Dead, but that may be going too far in this case."
"Sorry Commander Adder." The soldier answered again in the same voice.
"Well go find them all ready." The Pale Faced man known as Adder ordered.
"Yes sir!"
Four of the five jeeps pulled out of the grocery parking lot and sped away leaving Adder and three soldiers with him. Adder continued to kick around some of the debris and looked the flipped jeep carefully running his white hands along some of the chassis. Max carefully cocked the hammer back on the gun and pointed toward the four of them. Sami nodded her head and opened up the sight on the rocket launcher. Andy didn't know what as going on but decided to creep along after them slowly. Sami launched a rocket at the jeep and the explosion drew the attention of the three soldiers as well as Adder. They had their backs to Andy, Max, and Sami as they ran toward them.
"Freeze!" Max shouted out putting his handgun up to Adder's back.
Sami had loaded another rocket and pointed it at the three soldiers as they spun around with their guns ready.
"Drop your weapons!" Sami commanded.
It was impossible to see what the soldiers were thinking or even what they were looking at but eventually dropped their guns to the ground.
"Kick them away from you, towards me! Now put your hands up!"
They continued to follow instructions and Andy slowly picked up one of their weapons and inspected it. He took the clip out of the top of the weapon and took a look at it before putting it back and cocking the weapon.
"Yep, these are definitely weapons Sturm's men would use."
"So what are you guys doing out here?" Max asked. "On a little rub out mission for General Sturm?"
"You could say that..." Adder muttered.
"Why don't you get your hands out of your pockets, slowly?"
Adder did so and revealed that he held nothing in his hands. He kept them at his side but refused to put them up into the air. He still wore his sunglasses and kept his grim appearance.
"Your glasses." Max ordered again.
"No. It's too bright." Adder complained. "It hurts my eyes."
It became obvious to them all that they were not going to remove the glasses without a struggle and Andy quickly cut in.
"So who are you? I've never seen anyone like you before." Andy asked.
"I'm... Adder."
"You want to give us your rank?" Max added driving the gun into his back.
"No. Not really." He answered frankly.
"I don't think you're in a position to refuse."
"I don't think you're in a position to demand anything." Adder countered in his same drab voice.
"Why do you..."?
Max wasn't able to say anything else as the ground began to shake. A trio of tanks rolled around the corner and began to head toward them at top speed. Two were normal tanks while the center one was a Medium Tank. Without a second warning the gunners on top of the tanks began to open fire and spray bullets in their direction. The three of them dove for cover. Adder didn't move a muscle even as the bullets landed near his feet. Sami fired off a round from the rocket launcher toward one of the tanks. She began running after the small tank took the full blast of the rocket and kept on coming.
"We need to move guys! Come on!" Sami yelled out.
Andy and Max sprinted toward the alley as well and dove into it as one of the tanks shot a round from the main cannon blowing the corner of the building to pieces. When the dust cleared, the soldiers couldn't chase after them through the alley even if they tried, a pile of rubble blocked the way. The tanks stopped before Adder and a large bulky man got out from the Medium Tank. He was almost as big as Max and wore a spiked helmet and a leather jacket while wearing no official uniform like Adder did. His eyes were covered by red goggles and he looked at the ruined alley.
"Hey Adder, why didn't you get them?" The big man demanded in a gruff voice.
"They had me a gunpoint, Boris. It's a trifle difficult to kill someone when they have you at gunpoint." Adder paused and looked at the ruined grocery store. "My explosives didn't work like anticipated. So much for a quick mission."
"Damn, now they're loose in this town!" Boris yelled out angrily. "I don't like chasing people down. They're so fast."
"Well, least your units have that wonderful near impervious armor." Adder pointed out. "Anyway, we know they're here now. We'll get them eventually."
-Next Chapter: Escape!
For Flak, I decided that Boris was a good name to use. And for Lash, I thought Sheila sounded good. I didn't mention this before, because this is a second draft of the first chapter. I mashed Sensei into Orange Star as Commander Alexander due to some screen shots I saw. Hey, he had an orange outfit, I figured that was why. But nevermind. Please enjoy my hypothesis.
Advance Wars: Dark Star
-Chapter 1: Adder Strikes!
Andy and Sami looked out across the lake as their fishing poles dangled lazily in the water. They had been fishing for an hour now and Andy's bucket was obviously more filled with fish than Sami's was. It was obvious that she had given up and simply sat back in the small boat with her arms behind her head. Andy however was still very much into the whole fishing thing and continued to look eagerly around the water for some sort of sign that another fish was nearby.
"Oh! Oh! I think I saw another one!" Andy pointed out going for the motor to move the boat.
In the months following the war Orange Star and Green Earth had signed a treaty and Sami had managed to talk the guys into taking a trip to the Green Earth territory. They teased her constantly about her affections for Eagle, but an angry shake of the fist quieted both of them for the remainder of the trip.
"I think I've had enough fishing for one day." Sami quickly cut in. "Let's get back to the cabin, Max should be done with his famous barbeque ribs by now."
She stressed the word famous with a sarcastic tone and rolled her eyes. Andy began to steer the small boat as Sami collected the fishing poles and put them down. Their boat began to make its way around a bend in the lake and their cabin could be seen in the distance. The lake and cabin was surrounded by a heavy forest making the place an ideal spot for there leave time. It was almost a year after General's Sturm forces had been crushed and he had been driven into hiding. There were a number of search parties looking for him, but so far nothing had turned up. So for the meantime, Andy, Sami, and Max had earned some well deserved leave time.
They had made it to the end of the wooden dock and Sami stepped off with the rope in hand and tied it securely. By this time, Andy had grabbed the two buckets and jumped onto the dock as well. The cabin was moderately sized and the back porch enabled it so that the entire kitchen and dining room was visible. They could all ready see Max trying to balance the rib on the end of a poker and the plate at the same time. It was no surprise that he dropped the rib onto the floor and let out a cry of anger. He gave a quick glance around and slid the piece of rib back onto the plate.
"Your not going to serve that to us, are you Max?" Andy yelled out after watching him scrape it back onto the plate.
Max jumped at the sound of this and looked around stunned to see his other two friends walking up to him. His face had run red and with a quick motion he instantly put the rib into the garbage.
"Of course not kid. I was looking for the garbage..."
"Get another plate while you're at it." Sami added. "I hope you don't do that every time you cook."
"Err... Of course not. Hey, how many fish did you catch?" Max obviously changed the subject as quick as he could.
"I got tons!" Andy announced.
They began to talk about fishing as someone from the other side of the lake spied on them with binoculars. It was a man in a black uniform and purple trim, his skin was as pale as the moon and his eyes were encircled with black rings. If it weren't for the vibrant purple hair, you could have mistaken him for a corpse. He was tall and lanky, almost like Grit in a way and his chin stuck out. He now watched in amusement as the young one had held his bucket in triumph while the girl tried to change the subject. The big muscled one had managed to sneak another rib he dropped onto the plate and chuckles smoothly at the other two. The pale faced man lowered the binoculars and began to move back through the forest with a grim face.
Meanwhile Sami tried to defend her poor fishing habits and managed to drive the conversation away with a simple statement. Andy quit with his bucket raising and looked toward Sami as Max asked her to repeat the question.
"Hey, what about my bread?"
"Your what?" Max asked dumbfounded.
"My bread you big oaf. The bread that's supposedly in the oven?"
She moved over to the oven and opened it up as a plume of smoke erupted into the air. Instantly the three began to scramble about the room. By the time the fiasco was over, there was only a pile of ashes remaining where the bread sat.
"Great guys, just great. Look what you've done!"
"What we've done? I was fishing!" Andy cried out defensively.
The two guys backed away from the ruined bread and gave each other uncomfortable looks. They knew Sami was dangerous when she was mad and demonstrated it constantly during the missions against Sonja during the last war, even though she meant no harm. She turned around and glared at them both.
"Now we're all going back into town and getting more bread and this time. No one messes it up!"
"Uh... Ok... Sami." Max stuttered.
The three moved, or rather marched to the garage and piled into the jeep with Sami at the wheel. Her anger was still quite alive as she nearly gunned it out of the garage and onto the dirt road that led back to town. Andy and Max quickly put on their seat belts and hung onto the side of the vehicle as they roared past trees.
"Uh Sami, you might want to slow down just a bit..." Andy suggested mildly.
"Yeah, it would be a shame to miss dinner if we're in the hospital." Max added.
Sami gave no response and caused the engine to roar quieting the two for the rest of the trip. They could see the town as they drove down a hill and soon entered the small collection of buildings. The town wasn't any major commercial area, just a small town on the edge of civilization and was well known for its getaway potential. The small size made it certain that there was no other cars and Sami took advantage of this driving as fast as she could through the streets until they reached the grocery store and skidded to a stop before it. They stopped inches away from the glass. Sami hopped out with out even blinking and entered the store while Max and Andy released their breaths and sighed.
"Max, don't ever forget her bread. I mean ever again."
"I hear you kid." Max sighed again. "Geez."
They instantly went quiet and soon noticed a peculiar setting the town was in. The streetlights bounced up and down in the high winds and litter rolled down the sidewalks. Then it hit them both.
"Max, where is everyone?" Andy asked looking around.
"Whoa, this is weird. There's no one anywhere."
The two gave each other uneasy looks and got out of the jeep to look around. There was no one walking the streets, no one going about their business, no one anywhere. Soon they heard footsteps coming from the grocery store. Sami was running at full speed and headed toward the jeep as Max began to say something.
"Hey Sami did you notice..."
"Every one down!" She cried out at the top of her lungs.
"Wha!?"
Then in an instant the store exploded into a fiery inferno. Glass flew in all directions and the concussion of the blast flipped the jeep clear into the air and onto its top. The wheels continued to spin as the front wheels had caught fire. Andy, Max, and Sami still held their arms over their head in a defensive position as some of the food products began to rain down around them. There was another burst of flame as they got up and looked around dumbfounded.
"What happened?" Andy coughed getting up to his feet.
"I went in to get some bread and noticed there wasn't any clerk or cashier. Then I noticed C4 strapped all around the building." Sami explained.
"Andy and I were about to tell you, this town is abandoned." Max explained sitting up from his sprawling position.
Before the three could say anything there was the sound of motors in the distance. Sami looked around frantically and spotted the jeep. She ran to it and threw open the trunk or what was left of it. A handgun fell to the ground and she picked it up checking the clip and then reloading it.
"Guys, get over here!" She ordered.
They didn't need to be told twice as they went over to the jeep and kept their heads down.
"You got any more weapons?" Max asked.
"Yeah, there should be a rocket launcher. Hold this." She handed the gun over to Max and looked into the trunk again.
"They're getting closer, who ever they are!" Andy warned.
"Man we're sitting ducks out here by this jeep; we need to find some cover. Like that alley!" Max pointed out.
"I almost got it!"
Now the engine sounds were at a distance where they could be recognized from which direction they were coming. At last Sami wrenched out a rocket launcher and followed Max and Andy to an alley. They got low and watched as a unit of recon jeeps rolled up to the store and swerved to a stop. Black clothed soldiers with strange helmets began to get out of the jeeps and cover the area. It was impossible to see their faces as their helmets were like space helmets, except they were completely black and contained only a single red dot to show some kind of detection was going on.
"Oh no." Max groaned. "FN-P90s."
"Submachine guns?" Andy whispered.
"It's Sturm's forces."
After the black clad soldiers secured the area the three noticed the pale faced man step out of the jeep and step next to the jeep. He looked around showing he wore sunglasses and let out a sigh. He kicked around some of the debris and kept his hands in his coat pockets.
"That guy... He must be a CO. Look at his uniform." Sami pointed out.
"Forget that." Andy nearly gasped. "Take a look at his skin!"
All three of them could see the pale white skin that was the color of snow. It was almost like the man had never spent a day of his life in the sun. They were almost mesmerized by it but ducked down as the man began to look around and turned their way. After he had look around the area he turned toward one of the soldiers and held his hands out.
"Well... Where's the bodies?"
"We don't see them." One soldier reported.
"All this trouble and they must have survived. Unless their bodies just up and walked away." The Pale Faced man stated darkly. "Like Night of the Living Dead, but that may be going too far in this case."
"Sorry Commander Adder." The soldier answered again in the same voice.
"Well go find them all ready." The Pale Faced man known as Adder ordered.
"Yes sir!"
Four of the five jeeps pulled out of the grocery parking lot and sped away leaving Adder and three soldiers with him. Adder continued to kick around some of the debris and looked the flipped jeep carefully running his white hands along some of the chassis. Max carefully cocked the hammer back on the gun and pointed toward the four of them. Sami nodded her head and opened up the sight on the rocket launcher. Andy didn't know what as going on but decided to creep along after them slowly. Sami launched a rocket at the jeep and the explosion drew the attention of the three soldiers as well as Adder. They had their backs to Andy, Max, and Sami as they ran toward them.
"Freeze!" Max shouted out putting his handgun up to Adder's back.
Sami had loaded another rocket and pointed it at the three soldiers as they spun around with their guns ready.
"Drop your weapons!" Sami commanded.
It was impossible to see what the soldiers were thinking or even what they were looking at but eventually dropped their guns to the ground.
"Kick them away from you, towards me! Now put your hands up!"
They continued to follow instructions and Andy slowly picked up one of their weapons and inspected it. He took the clip out of the top of the weapon and took a look at it before putting it back and cocking the weapon.
"Yep, these are definitely weapons Sturm's men would use."
"So what are you guys doing out here?" Max asked. "On a little rub out mission for General Sturm?"
"You could say that..." Adder muttered.
"Why don't you get your hands out of your pockets, slowly?"
Adder did so and revealed that he held nothing in his hands. He kept them at his side but refused to put them up into the air. He still wore his sunglasses and kept his grim appearance.
"Your glasses." Max ordered again.
"No. It's too bright." Adder complained. "It hurts my eyes."
It became obvious to them all that they were not going to remove the glasses without a struggle and Andy quickly cut in.
"So who are you? I've never seen anyone like you before." Andy asked.
"I'm... Adder."
"You want to give us your rank?" Max added driving the gun into his back.
"No. Not really." He answered frankly.
"I don't think you're in a position to refuse."
"I don't think you're in a position to demand anything." Adder countered in his same drab voice.
"Why do you..."?
Max wasn't able to say anything else as the ground began to shake. A trio of tanks rolled around the corner and began to head toward them at top speed. Two were normal tanks while the center one was a Medium Tank. Without a second warning the gunners on top of the tanks began to open fire and spray bullets in their direction. The three of them dove for cover. Adder didn't move a muscle even as the bullets landed near his feet. Sami fired off a round from the rocket launcher toward one of the tanks. She began running after the small tank took the full blast of the rocket and kept on coming.
"We need to move guys! Come on!" Sami yelled out.
Andy and Max sprinted toward the alley as well and dove into it as one of the tanks shot a round from the main cannon blowing the corner of the building to pieces. When the dust cleared, the soldiers couldn't chase after them through the alley even if they tried, a pile of rubble blocked the way. The tanks stopped before Adder and a large bulky man got out from the Medium Tank. He was almost as big as Max and wore a spiked helmet and a leather jacket while wearing no official uniform like Adder did. His eyes were covered by red goggles and he looked at the ruined alley.
"Hey Adder, why didn't you get them?" The big man demanded in a gruff voice.
"They had me a gunpoint, Boris. It's a trifle difficult to kill someone when they have you at gunpoint." Adder paused and looked at the ruined grocery store. "My explosives didn't work like anticipated. So much for a quick mission."
"Damn, now they're loose in this town!" Boris yelled out angrily. "I don't like chasing people down. They're so fast."
"Well, least your units have that wonderful near impervious armor." Adder pointed out. "Anyway, we know they're here now. We'll get them eventually."
-Next Chapter: Escape!