Read and review – thanks! This is the second part of an eventual 8-part trilogy:
Part 1: Mushroom Wars: Shell Shock (written February 2004)
Part 2: Yoshi Wars: Domination (written March 2004)
Part 3: Mushroom Wars: Koopa Storm (written April 2004)
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Yoshi Wars: Domination
Chapter 1: The Yoshi Wars
The Aiyee Yoshi forces had created a vast empire under an inoffensive centrist democracy in which he was leader. Aiyee lands had now consisted of the entirety of Tínja plus a whole 25 of the Rock in which they claimed. By the beginning of 2002, the Aiyee Army had the most modern army in the entire Pacific region, which became known as Gondiva. Armed with laser, their three elite divisions were well-trained and frighteningly effective. This did not save them from being involved in yet another war, however. Adjacent to the Aiyee Empire was a mighty army led by an ambitious general named Stevo. Alight from the Aiyee successes, he was ready to give the empire some barren spots when he invaded the Aiyee. Not surprisingly, the Aiyee forces were barely able to lift up even a single division to meet the invader and were soundly defeated in battles away from Red Leaf Island. But suddenly, things became to disrupt the invasion's successes.
A great hurricane had swept across the island region in mid-January, turning the air and seas to such rough degrees that the powerful dynasty force of some forty divisions simply were unable to get across the sea to fight the Aiyee Empire's most elite forces. Creating a prototype bomber plane later known as the Yay-1, the few Yay-1 bomber planes was a foretaste of what would come in the future. The invasion force that had reached Red Leaf Island on January 12th had fallen by March 10th due to immense bombing on their positions.
Germinating in power, Aiyee forces had already begun retaking other islands taken in combat. Humdrum civilians rose up against the Stevo Empire forces in Hesperia and helped relieve much of Aiyee Tínja from Stevo Empire control the day after. By March 15th, nothing existed of the Stevo Empire Army.
This would only be the first hurtle to peace for the Aiyee. Quickly forming new divisions, they were caught in a war on the Rock between the Darkness Yoshi nation and its Sneachies and Firewire enemies. Forced upon the Yoyoy Valley Yoshis was another war between the Yoshis and the Protoons. Laser had also made its way to the battlefield on both sides after the Protoons quickly copied the Yoshi technology.
Insinuating of a larger war, StormRider opened a new front after Yoyo Yoshi's visit to the land of the Golden Sun and Pokemon Island from April through June. Yoyo Yoshi had failed to stop the lighting of two lighthouses in Gondowan but won the Hoenn League. On June 12th, the Firewire had reached an alliance with the Koopa rebels and the Koopas were clearly ready to launch a wide-scale rebellion to regain the Koopa Kingdom. Aiyee forces responded by sending in a ten-division army from the Mushroom Kingdom down south to encounter the Koopa Home Army of thirty divisions. The interminable battle over the Kalimari Desert would start once more.
The Mushroom-Yoshi divisions north of the Kalimari had interrogated many Goombas that fought for the Koopa resistance. They had wanted to fight the Koopas if they were recompensed with a new Goomba homeland. Yoyo Yoshi reluctantly agreed, because he needed to renovate the Aiyee Intelligence Agency and the Goombas were fit for that job. Through résumés, the Goombas were given a major role in the anti-Koopa alliance in cutting off Koopa lines.
Sullenly, Aiyee generals watched as eighteen Aiyee divisions got tied up another front. Wario Land had risen up in revolt on the Koopa side. With General Taboo holding the line on the Rock and himself fighting the Koopas in the Kalimari Desert, newly promoted General Panda was given the Southern Army, consisting of six divisions, to send Wario's forces trickling back to nothing. Trivial forces also fought inside Shy Guyland. No truce would be signed by either side. Firewire's forces on the Rock began its counterattack, and with all its available forces, it smashed through the lines of Lieutenant Generals Yoshi1466, Kirb, and Yoshi002. Forced to retreat, General Taboo asked for more divisions to cater the hold of Yoyoy Valley.
Unable to reach a compromise, the Aiyee Empire feverishly began work on creating cybers, machines that could fight in combat alone. Dissuading the Koopa Army of about 13 divisions from advancing, the diminished Northern Aiyee Army of five divisions launched a counterattack on the hapless Koopa Troopas through the fall of 2002. Like an entrepreneur, the firebrand Mario accused Aiyee forces of starting inadvertent hazards by seizing complete control of the Mushroom forces against Bowser. The Goombas followed. By the end of September, the Mushrooms and Goombas had declared complete independence from the Aiyee Empire and withdrew from the war with its four divisions. The issue of homicide had given the Aiyee and their allies indifference. Without a doubt, the Koopas advanced back into the Kalimari.
Luckily for the Aiyee Empire, the Firewire, Koopas, and Wario Land had also started bickering over lands and split. An indignant Wario claimed the Koopas were trying to take the Naboo Desert between them for the Koopas themselves. With this, the Aiyee Empire held loose regions in Hesperia even with Army Groups North and South there, and effectively, the Koopa Kingdom, Wario Land, the Mushroom Kingdom, and Wario Land were formed once again.
Indispensable for the Aiyee was not the forces in Hesperia, however. Their greatest nemesis lay in Firewire. General Taboo had held the line once more, and pleased, Aiyee Supreme Commander Yoyo Yoshi supplied him with extra ammunition and weaponry. Aiyee successes on the Rock helped the Aiyee gain a favorable treaty on Christmas Day 2002. The war had ended. Delegates from every Tínjan faction had been asked to attend a conference at the Rock capital to discuss terms for an United Tínja. Lubricating the process, Stevo ordered mutual treaties be signed there. Pelting to the conference, an united Tínjan government was formed and faction rights were dissolved.
Many Aiyee, Firewire, Sneachies, and Darkness forces thought the government had shot its bolt. The government wanted to force them to form a union, take away all their military forces, and then wanted to arrest all leaders in each faction? The citizens had agreed to this as well? Pelting comments at the union, they unsuccessfully plagued the union with remarks and the union was officially formed. They, however, would arrest the leaders of every faction.
As the Tínjan Union poised to take over as a military dictatorship, Yoyo Yoshi and Yoshi008, respective leaders of Aiyee and Darkness, would have none of this. Opposers of the regime, they left Kensa City, the former capital of the Aiyee Empire and Red Leaf Island, in a potato truck to escape government intervention. Moving south to Tínja City on New Year's Day, the first day of the union takeover, Yoyo Yoshi was welcomed by the southern Red Leaf Island city as liberators. Red Leaf forces had freed them in Nintendo War II, in which Koopa forces ransacked Yoshi's Island. Yoshi forces led by the Yoyo were able to retard the Koopa advance. They had transparently understood the reason of Red Leaf's arrival.
Rising in revolt, Tínja City officials helped form a brand new Republic of Aiyee as well as a new Darkness Empire. Unscathed for the first hours, the city was also able to receive the new Field Marshals Taboo and Panda to command their army, as well as newly promoted generals Kirb, Yoshi002, Yoshi1466, and Dark Yami Yugi.
Chatting animatedly, the Tínjan resistance army on Red Leaf Island had enlisted an outstanding 900,000 Yoshis to the cause. Millions were moved for Yoshi independence. The brood quickly seized government weapons, ships, aircraft, tanks, and artillery at midnight, which had been theirs before the union took over anyway. On January 2nd, they were ready to strike.
The sixty Aiyee and Darkness factions quickly moved into Kensa City and culminated in the slow collapse of twenty government divisions at the city, hence putting Red Leaf Island under liberated control. A downright optimist, Yoyo Yoshi had already gotten thousands of aircraft and ships in preparation for the liberation of Y'oster Isle twenty-four hours later. Seizing the opportunity to drone their way through to victory, Yoshi forces attacked in eight directions over the next week, striking government bases in Y'oster Isle, the Mushroom Kingdom, Sarsaland, Pokemon Island, Dreamland, Ness Land, Wario Land, Waluigi Island, Koopaland, and Wart Land, in the Naboo Desert. The united government's army of 4.5 million, mostly conscripts, were completely surprised by the speed of the Yoshi assaults. Goading Yoshi008 to advance west, the Yoshi forces also struck bases as far west as Zelda Land, Falcon World, and Fox Land. The Yoshi forces, experienced fighters, clearly made up the most elite army in all Gondiva.
Indulging in the Red Leaf independence movement in Cosmo Land, Yoyo Yoshi sent an army group led by Panda to launch a surprise attack on his former allies on January 15th. Orange Star, Blue Moon, Green Earth, and Yellow Comet became tied up in a fierce war in the seas and in southeast Blue Moon, where the Red Army had taken shape.
Meanwhile, nowhere was the government forces stronger than on the Rock. Sneachies, Indence, and Firewire rebel troops, led by Yoshi002, Roma emu, Stormrider, and Vipwing, had been at war with the government for independence since New Year's Day with their six-division armies to match the government stronghold army of 1.5 million. Luckily for the rebels, much of the government force had deserted just like in other regions of Gondiwa like the Mushroom Kingdom, and a combined Yoshi-Protoon Theater Army had crushed the government ingredient forces by January 29th. While the Yoshis and Protoons looked at their 400,000 casualties or desertions in disdain, a new independence era had begun once more.
However, though the Loyalist government was indeed dead, they were not defeated. Fighting onward in many regions of Hesperia such as Goombaland and Yoshi's Island, they still held a true army of 90,000. Aiyee and Darkness forces decided to regroup before they would take those regions. Meanwhile, war loomed on for Goomba, Shy Guy, and Yoshi nationalists against these Loyalist forces. Aiyee and Darkness forces kept fighting for respective regions they had attacked earlier, finally taking over Red Leaf Island, Sarsaland, and Y'oster Isle in early February. The other regions in the west and east would hold out into April.
Meanwhile, the Cosmo Land War had gone out well and the Cosmo Land allied forces were defeated in April. Promising independence if they were to give Red Leaf independence, the Allies agreed and gave Red Leaf large sections of Blue Moon, Green Earth, and Yellow Comet territories, as well as the former Black Hole island, which was held by Orange Star. By this time, however, the Aiyee Empire had lost another 300,000 casualties on all fronts.
Victory had finally come in the luster. Indence, however, was furious at the territory they had after this war. They wanted their homeland back, and from the west, Indence forces struck east to as far as Hesperia in the Indence-Aiyee War of 2003. The Aiyee Army of 12 divisions were taken by surprise and agreed to give these western holdings to Indence all the way to Hesperia. In the east, the Aiyee agreed to release control of Pokemon Island, Dreamland, and Ness Land.
Miscellaneous factions had once again gained power in Tínja. In an oration to the public, Yoyo Yoshi acknowledged this truth but peevishly, he asked that the Yoshis refuse to give support to a new Koopa Kingdom. Angered by constant Koopa wars against the Yoshis, he organized his divisions into tightly formed brigades before he and Field Marshal Panda left to fight in the Super Smash Bros. tournament, in which they achieved a draw in the end.
Returning home, Yoyo Yoshi found the Yoshis seething in hatred for the recent Koopa Kingdom formation. The Koopas were back, with help from their Firewire allies. The Mushroom Kingdom was reformed by Princess Peach, who obviously did not care to be singed under Aiyee domination. In a solid alliance format, the Aiyee, Darkness, and Indence forces formed the ADI alliance to combat the unique Koopa-Firewire forces. Firewire's army had grown huge after its recovery in January, and was now 600,000-man strong. The Koopa Home Army held 150,000 Snifits, Goombas, Koopa Troopas, and Paratroopas. The combined ADI army had just an army of 300,000. An independence movement on Y'oster Isle against Aiyee rule succeeded in late May and standing upright, the Aiyee Empire had verified they could not hold these far-off lands. They were right. Yearning to join the war, Y'oster Isle, Wario Land, and the Mushroom Kingdom joined the Firewire alliance to take lands from the Aiyee in Hesperia.
Bewildered, the Indence Empire under Supreme Commander Roma emu quickly seized the opportunity to play the buffoon and be the turncoat. Refusing to see a powerful presence of Mushroom armies on Hesperia, Bowser ditched his allies and controversially joined the Aiyee. The Aiyee armies sent in dive bombers and missile-firing submarines to aid their new allies. The stalemate was never broken. Disheartened, Yoyo Yoshi looked for ways to end this war by forming a true Tínja-uniting democracy.
The Stevo Empire, who had lived under Indence protection for a while, showed interest. Kool Yoshi, who had been an advocate of the regime, agreed to run against Yoyo Yoshi in a presidential election. A truce was signed between all factions in late July and the election was set on August 9th. That was Yoyo Yoshi's fifteenth birthday.
Yoyo Yoshi was narrowly elected on his birthday. Though not fruitless, things were about to get hostile again, and fast. The fact that inflammable armies existed in Gondiva meant the democracy could not be enforced. Soon afterwards, warfare would engulf them again...even though 100 million in Gondiva had fallen over seven centuries of warfare.