OK heres a story that is inspired by a story called Total war. So I wanted to try it out! That said Chapter length will vary a lot. In this also! My History is a bit Rusty in this regard to the story. Hope you all like it!
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The sun did not shine in Beacon their was a large storm that hit which would last for days. So the teams decided to play inside instead. All that cold, cold, wet day. Yang along with Ruby were getting bored out of their minds. They sat there those two. And Ruby said, "How I wish we had something to do."
Too wet to go out and to tired for a training brawl. Wiess was filing her nails. Blake was reading Porn.. Again! So they sat in there room. They did nothing at all. So all they could do was sit, sit, sit. And Yang did not like it. Not one little bit.
BUMP!
that sound made them jump! They looked! They saw that Zwie had tripped; on some thing
Next to The Pembroke Welsh Corgie was a box, one that had been long forgotten. Yang sprang from her chair, since this was far more interesting than watching rain fall outside. She came to the fallen Dogs side and worriedly asked, "Are you okay? Nothing's broken or bleeding is it?" "It's A Dog Yang!" groaned.
"What's in the box?" Blake said, seemingly uncaring for Zwei's stumble.
"Some stuff from DAd back at Patch." She explained. "I forgot he sent it in case I ever got bored and needed something to do. It's been raining so much, and there aren't anything to do, so I'm starting to get bored."
"Us too." Ruby nodded. "What kind of fun stuff do you have in there?" Yang opened up the box. "Well, for one there's the box itself. I think that's the most fun thing here. You can pretend it's a boat, or a fort, or a Atlas Paladin, or even Glyndas-"
"Uh, I'm more interested in what's inside."Blake cut her off, being that she had stopped finding entertainment in playing with boxes many, many years ago it took years of practice being a cat Faunas. "Are there any books in there?"
Yang groaned at the idea of books. "Books are even more boring than watching rain. They'd just put us to sleep."
Without another word, Ruby began digging through the packing peanuts to see what was inside. "Let's see… a college text book on thermodynamics, a collection of essays on theoretical Dust experimentation and how they relate to crowbars, the latest issue of the Atlas journal of science. Huh, it looks like dad got confused; this should all be for someone else Wait, there's something at the bottom!"
The other three looked in awe as Ruby dug out a board game still covered in cellophane wrapping. Total War it was called, a game that simulated warfare and conquest between two sides referred to as the Axis and Allies in some kind of fictional setting where all the countries had different names. In this strange, and bizarre setting, there were no Kingsoms, Hunters or Grimm and the nations were fighting each other.
"Oooh, this looks fun." Ruby swooned as she read the back on the box. "they have some place call The United States of America, Italy, someplace called Germany, Poland, and Switzerland. We should get everyone together and play this; it would be tons of fun!"
Blake looked over Ruby's shoulder and skim read the description of the game. "It does look kind of fun. I guess each player takes the roles of various made-up leaders and fight each other, or ally to fight the others. Wiess, do you want to play?"
"I'm not going to be trapped card am I?" She immediately asked.
Yang shook her head. "Looks like Italy is part of the Axis side which is fighting against some country called France. Germany and Japan, our Italy's Allies."
"Well, alright, sounds fun!"
ASSEMBLING THE PIECES
1931
Those who were involved in this game, Total War were Wiess, Ruby, Yang, Blake, Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora, Ren, and some how Neptune; each taking the roles of A country The game was a very complex one, involving many strategic elements ranging from troop management, and managing resources to fuel the war economy. Players had the option to research various military advancements, and every so often they had to draw from the deck of 'wild' cards just to make things interesting. The goal of the game was for one team, the axis or allies, to dominate the entire board or cause the opposing one to surrender. When taking nations, there was a plethora of options to what the player could do with the conquered territory. They could draft civilians into soldiers, force them all to work, murder them all to boost soldier morale, and for some reason the game even allowed for players to bolster national pride by committing genocide. But it wasn't like someone like, oh, say, Wiess would do, right?
"Germany seems to be several states." Wiess commented. "Germany, Austria, Poland… Hmm, I think I'll take this one. Germany and be the leader here, Adolf Wiess."
"I guess I'll be this tiny, happy nation of Poland." Pyrrha was content. "That makes me Nikos Rydz-Śmigły, Marshall and highest military commander."
"I'm Blake Churchill, prime minister of Great Britain." Blake announced.
"General secretary of the communist state of the Soviet Union, Ruby Losif Stalin." The RED REAPER introduced herself.
"Jaune Simo, hunter, defender of Finland." Jaune added. His nation on the board only had a single starting piece, a lone hunter. Everyone else had battalions of tanks, airplanes, artillery, and infantry; even navies.
"I'm Benito Neptune," Neptune declared.
Meanwhile, Nora cheered. "I'm Queen of an Empire I'm Queen of an Empire!."
"Then it looks like it's just you and me." Yang. D. Roosevelt. She had said.
"Let's not forget about me, President Ren François Lebrun of the nation of France." Ren put in, lastly.
Yang cleared her throat and said, "Okay, the game starts in 1930 and each turn is about a month. Now, let's agree to wait a few years before we just start attacking each other and plunging into total war. We should let everyone get a good military first so the winner is based strategic brilliance and not just numbers. So, uh, Jaune you should have more than one soldier guarding your whole nation."
"Finland only needs Jaune Simo." The Blond Knight said, placing his boots up on the table and crossing his arms.
"R-Right." Pyrrha shuddered at his shady demeanor. "Okay, looks like Emperor Nora Hirohito goes first. Remember, use this time to start building your armies and-"
September 18, 1931
The small nation of Manchuria was no match for the ten-thousand NOra army that stormed the streets armed with type-99 light machine guns, and type-30 bolt action rifles. Emperor Nora was a cunning and shrewd leader, and knew the best way to control Manchuria would be to install a puppet government secretly controlled by her. The battle for Manchuria had been a simple one, with the climax of the invasion taking place at Nenjiang Bridge where Chinese soldiers had put up a fight. Fifteen Nora's out of the 800 NOra force had died. Emperoress Nora thought these were entirely acceptable losses. Now with Korea and Manchuria under her control, all that was left was Nanking…
"I attack Manchuria!" Nora exclaimed with gleeful savagery that frankly frightened everyone but bbut Ren. She moved a handful of little soldier pieces up past the Koreas and rolled a handful of dice. "Yay! Manchuria is mine now!"
"Well, Manchuria wasn't controlled by a player, so I guess it's not that bad." Wiess shrugged. "I like this kind of initiative from my allies!"
"That doesn't mean go and attack Austria right away." Ren grumbled. "Seriously, let's not get straight into the warfare here. I heard this game is more fun if you let your empires grow."
"The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd." Wiess scoffed.
October 2, 1935
The world knew peace for four years following invasion of Manchuria by the Japanese. Italian ruler, Benito Neputune was on good terms with the Emperor and had been inspired by her bravery and initiative. On that morning, the black-shirted Neptun's infantry division prepared for the attack, with nearly 680,000 infantry alone, and over 500 tanks with 200 aircraft. To the south they marched from Italian Somalia into Ethiopia.
The hundreds of thousands of Neptune infantry began the invasion, rifles firing and Bunny-ears flying in the dusty winds of the desert. The Ethiopians had massed a sizable counterforce of 500,000 men, but the Neptune army was vastly superior with their modern weaponry. When the dust had cleared and the cities had been sacked, a lone figure stood amongst his trusted soldiers.
Benito Neptune with a hat upon his head and a pistol in his hand. He turned to his Neptune soldiers, who just looked like him in Italian uniforms and said, "Go now and bring me all the sweets and Women this country has to offer!"
November 1, 1936
Two figures stood in the Reichstag side by side looking past the well-kept lawns into the city of Berlin in Germany. Fuhrer Adolf Wiss and Benito Neptune. Wiess was shorter than the cream-skinned, Blue haired "Italian'. She cleared her throat and said, "Neptune, I heard about your assault of Ethiopia last month. Although the battle rages on, it is certain victory shall be in your grasp."
"Yeah, they were no match for the armored division!" Neptune happily nodded. "Say, why'd you fly me out to Germany anyway?"
"I have a proposal, Neptune." Adolf Wiess stated.
"Ooh, you wanna marry Me?" Neptune gasped.
"No! Not that kind of proposal!" Wiess shouted at him, all patience gone. "No you idiot, I'm saying we work together. Italy is a pretty good strategic point and I could use your help with… plans…"
"Like how you're gonna annex Austria?"
"Shh!" She shoved her hands over Neptunes mouth. "There could be people listening in anywhere, don't just blab that kind of stuff out loud!"
Meanwhile, a Wiess Strumtroppen marched in with a clipboard and paper. The Wiess Strumtroppen looked like her without the scar, and wore German soldier uniforms. She cleared her throat and saluted her leader. "Fuhrer, the 5,000 cattle cars you commissioned are being built, along with the Zyclon B gas, and labor camps. The reprinting of your hit book, Mein Kampf was also successful and is now mandatory reading in school. Also, the Wiess Youth program, huge success!"
If Benito Neptune didn't know any better, Adolf Wiess was up to something!
November 25, 1936
Once again, the Reichstag had a foreign guest. This time it was Empress Nora, the now honored guest of Adolf Wiess.
"Hiya Wiess-san!" Nora happily greeted her. "Why'd you fly me all the way out to Germany? Is it because you want me to pretend to be your big sis-"
"No, no, no." Wiess cut her off. "I want to talk to you about the biggest threat to your nation. Communism."
"Communism?" The Japanese Empress repeated the strange, new word.
"Yes. Communism." Adolf Wiess paced the room with her hands behind her back. Her boots clicked loudly against the ground as she spoke. "To my east and your north lies a dreadful and feared ruler. Ruby Losif Stalin. She leads her people in a strange way, by… giving them equal shares! It's like socialism, which Germany is of course, but so much more vile and perverted! See, there's a reason that Finland has been fighting with them for years and had to claim their independence by force. The communists wanted to take Finland… give it out to everyone to share equally! Even the Faunas!
"What do the Faunas have to do with this?" Nora had to ask.
"Er, nothing." Adolf Wiess quickly faced the other way. "Anyway, I want to make an Anti-Cominterm pact with you! That way we can band together in case Losif Ruby tries to… SHARE. What do you say?"
"Well, I like Ruby-chan a lot, but communism sounds like a threat to my nation. I accept!"
Wiess smiled and shook her hand. "Good, now if you excuse me, I have to go make a speech on the evils of Faunasism."
"All this waiting around is starting to get boring." Neptune groaned. "Let's start the fun! I attack Ethiopia with all my little plastic guys! Go! Go! Go! Pew pew pew, attack!"
Dice were rolled, and poor little Ethiopia was annexed to Italy. Neptune gave one last cheer! "Yeah! Soldiers of Italy are second to none! Hmm, Wiess, why don't we make a pact so we don't start fighting over Austria or something?"
"Hmm good idea." Wiess nodded, and shook Neptune's hand across the game table. "Let's call it the Rome-Berlin Axis. Also, let it be known that Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affairs of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss."
Pyrrha spoke up as well, "Wiess, you have twice as many soldiers as me and Ruby is right there breathing down my neck. Can we sign a non-aggression pact too?"
Wiess shook her hand as well and announced, "Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland... We shall adhere to it unconditionally... we recognize Poland as the home of a great and nationally conscious people."
"Wow, she's really getting into character here." Jaune commented.
"Yeah, but Germany has a lot of armies." Ruby pointed out in her normal tone. "I'll probably get taken out of the game right away."
"Says the girl with the biggest country in the game." Jaune as he patted her on the shoulder. "Look at me, I just have one single lone soldier defending Finland."
Ren tapped Wiess shoulder. "What about my nation? Are we on good terms as well? For someone who has so many soldiers, you want to make sure everyone is on the same side. You're not up to something, are you?"
"National Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe... The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation... Germany needs peace and desires peace!" Wiess replied with strange, enthusiastic vigor. She then turned to address Nora. "Valkyrie! I suggest we agree on a peace treaty so that the poisonous, communist view of Losif Ruby does not harm either of us!"
"Okay!" Nora happily agreed. "I'm way over here by myself, so any kind of backup would be great!"
July 7, 1937
Flames burned across the city of Nanking, proud once, but now no longer. 100,000 Nora soldiers had stormed the city, blasting through the Chinese army's defenses with little trouble. They fought for Japan, they fought for Empress Nora, and most of all they fought for Pancakes!
Empress Nora herself had watched the massacre unfold with not even the slightest hint of remorse. Civilians and unarmed soldiers were dragged into the street in lines with the Japanese army waiting for orders. A Nora soldier approached the Empress. She looked the same, except was wearing a Japanese soldier uniform. She gave a salute and said, "Your divineness, we've taken the city and rallied all the prisoners into the street. What are our orders?"
Without thinking, Empress Nora replied, "Eat all the Pancakes!, and leave none alive!"
Nora finished moving more plastic pieces all over the entirety of China and cheered, "Yay, I beat China! Those people in Nanking sure put up a fight, but I don't think I'll have to deal with them anymore."
"This game is freakin' dark." Yang said in shock at the level of detail that went into the things that could happen. The Japanese soldiers had gone into this land, China, and murdered just about every last man, woman, and child and instigating countless war crimes. Last she remembered, board games were supposed to be fun things for kids.
March 11, 1938
The Austrian people were alive with cheer and joy as the tanks and soldiers of Germany rolled in through the border. Swastikas on banners were raised, all throughout the cities and the German army was met like they were a parade. The SturmTruden soldiers smiled and waved, although were a little disappointed at Austria's welcoming of them. A lot of them had been ready for a fight, to finally exercise all the training and use all the weapons Adolf Barkhorn had been amassing in secret
"I annex Austria." Wiess declared when her turn came around.
"OH, COME ON!" Both Neptune and Pyrrha shouted in unison.
"You said you wouldn't do that!" Pyrrha pointed a finger at her.
"Yeah, we had a deal!" Neptune waved a fist.
Wiess just shrugged smugly, "A leader must be strong. Now what else is here…"
"You are not having Czechoslovakia." Ren growled. "Blake!, help me get heavy handed here, I don't want Wiess to just walk all over Europe. Each time she takes up a piece of the country, she gets more soldiers and resources!"
"Maybe we could have an agreement?" Blake Churchill said. "Why don't we just give Wiess part of Czechoslovakia so she's happy with her conquest?"
"That's a good idea." Neptune chirped.
"I… would be okay with that, I guess." Ren sighed. "You're not going to just take everything else, are you?
Boundaries were redrawn in Europe, and Adolf Wiess then had key military points of the once free nation added to her own. With that, she answered Ren's question. "I have no further interest in the Czecho-Slovakian State, that is guaranteed. We want no Czechs."
September 29, 1938
Four figures gathered in the conference room of the government building of Munich, Germany. The four were Blake Churchill, President Ren, Benito Neptune, and of course Adolf Wiess. They had debated tirelessly about Germany's unprecedented annexing of Austria. After the Great War, Germany had been denied military privileges but after seeing the state Germany was in, it was clear this was not being upheld. While most of the world was in economic crisis, Germany was thriving under the quickly growing war machine.
"So, you're worried the German army is going to annex or take over Czechoslovakia next?" Adolf Wiess summarized their meeting with a smirk.
"Our intelligence shows you're amassing armor and soldiers towards the border." Ren pointed out, pushing her glasses up the rim of her nose. "We're here to help defend the Czechs, who have no defense against your power, Wiess."
"Well, we had a proposal…" Blake spoke up. "Maybe you would be happy with just a little bit of the eastern border of the nation? Such as the mountains? We know you're afraid of Losif Ruby, so maybe this would help you defend."
"Right, the mountains pose a strong tactical value." Ren pointed out.
"And you have all of Poland and Pyrrha guarding you too!" Neptune added. "It's a good thing you and Pyrrha are pals, right?"
"R-Right." Wiess nodded, and quickly moved the war plans to attack Poland off a nearby table and into a drawer. "Hmm, I agree to this agreement. Call for a cartographer, it's time to redraw the maps of Europe once again!"
January 30, 1939
The Reichstag in Berlin was alive with commotion with thousands of German citizens arriving to hear Adolf Wiess's speech. Apparently the hot topic to warm up that chilly night was the state of the Faunas. Now, unknown to the rest of the world (even Neptune, Wiess BF?) Adolf Wiss had been doing certain… 'things'. Most of the economic problems in Germany had been blamed on the Faunas, instead of gross hyperinflation and a weak market. Wiess claimed those things were the work of the Faunas, and ever since she had started slowly taking away their citizen rights, the economy of Germany had gotten to the point where it was the single most powerful nation in the world. This had nothing to do with the countless jobs created from the war effort or the implementing of a successful fascist socialist state. It was clearly the fault of an ethnic minority group and not, say, the remnants of a horrible war twenty years ago.
Standing before the Reichstag on her podium, she began her speech…
"In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power, it was in the first instance only the Jewish race that received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the state and with it that of the whole nation and that I would then among other things settle the Faunas problem...but I think that for some time now they have been laughing on the other side of their face. Today I will once more be a prophet: if the international Faunas financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevising of the earth and thus the victory of Faunas, but the annihilation of the Faunas race in Europe!".
"Pardon my Words, but Wiess, what the fuck?" Pyrrha immediately responded to Wiss's speech. Neptune, who had been sitting next to Wiess, scooted away loudly, with Ruby doing the same on the other side of her. The whole table was in shock at what she had said.
Blake looked like she was ready to murder Wiess then and there!
"What?" Wiss replied to their reactions. "Look at the stats of my nation! All my soldiers and workers get a huge morale bonus for having a hated enemy. I just picked the Faunas because, hey, why not?"
"Looks to me like you're trying to commit genocide." Jaine pointed out. "You're just being more subtle about it and more efficient than Ms. Murder Panties over there."
He was looking at Nora.
"Eh? It's like what Wiss said! Morale bonus!" Nora desperately replied.
Pyrrha had asked why would Wiess even talk like that.
Wiess shrugged indifferent, "Quiet Poland, the adults are talking right now. Ruby, may I have a word with you in private regarding… plans?"
"Uh…" Ruby blinked, suddenly realizing all of Trude's armies were close to the border of Germany and Poland. "Blake, Ren, may I have a word with you?"
March 31, 1939
Gathering in London, the leaders of the three nations: Britain, France, and Poland met in secret. Pyrrha was distraught, pacing frantically around the capital building of London next to her two allies.
"Guys, seriously, Wiess is after Poland! My soldiers are strong, but she has all those tanks and her Struntroppen are much better equipped. You have to help me!"
"Well, I can't really march an army to help you…" Blake Churchill told her with a bit of sorrow. "I'm really sorry, but there's not much either of us can do! Maybe we could let her take over Croatia instead like we did with part of Czechoslovakia?"
"Not even Neptune wants Croatia." Ren reminded her. "That's saying something since she took Ethiopia, the land of mud huts and starving children."
"I think she complained that Croatia kept stealing her country's fax modems." Pyrrha said. "But, is there really nothing you two can do?"
Ren bit his lower lip, and then shouted, "Yes! We do need to take action! First it was Austria, then Czechoslovakia, and next it will be Poland. But where does it stop? For all we know, Wiess will move on and attack France too! Blake, let's make an oath! If Wiess tries to attack Poland, we will instigate war!"
Blake nodded in agreement. "Alright, Great Britain will declare war on Germany if Poland is harassed."
"Thanks, you two are the best!" Pyrrha, leader of Poland, gave a strong sigh of relief. "I know Europe is pretty big, but if she does attack I'm sure we could hold out for years and win against her!"
"Things are getting tense." Ruby quietly commented on the political landscape unfolding around the table.
"Really." Yang shuddered. "Nora is building up her navy over there and I'm the only target she has right now. Plus, I started with a stupid Great Depression and can barely make any units! This isn't fair, Jaune over there gets plenty of resources and he just spends it all on making saunas for his solders!"
Jaune shrugged. "It boosts troop morale without killing civilians."
Meanwhile, across the table, Neptune rolled a handful of dice and cheered. "Yay! I took over Albania! Take that stupid Albania! Hahaha, stupid Albania didn't stand a chance… Say, Yang, is Albania a real place?
Everyone just looked at him like he was stupid.
"Of course it's a real place you idiots!" Jaune shouted from nowhere and slammed his fists on the table. Eyes were on Him in surprise as He ranted. "I'm sick of this, Albania never gets any respect! It was part of both Greece and Rome, which were important!"
"Jaune, I didn't know you felt so strongly about Albania." Ruby said in surprise.
"It's just…" Jaune sighed and rested her head in her arms on the table. "I know what it's like to be the little guy nobody remembers and gets taken over to compete with Germany's land grabs and has a puppet government installed by the Italians. I've been there, man."
"There… there…" Ruby gently patted Jaune's head. "It's just a game. Oh that reminds me, Wiess and I need to, uh, speak in private about something."
August 23, 1939
Once again, a foreign leader met with Wiess in the sanctity of the Reichstag. This time it was a newcomer, the elusive and powerful Losif Ruby. She stood beside Adolf Wiess looking down at a political map of Europe. Plastic figurines representing German Strumtroopen and their panzer brigades were lined up against Poland's western border.
"So… I have your guarantee that your Red Ruby army will cripple Poland from the east as Pyrrha will no doubt flee from my Western forces?" Wiess queried.
"Yes, my soldiers are marching across the Ukraine territory as we speak. It will take some time though." Ruby replied in a cold, flat, emotionless voice. "Now, about the territorial divides…
"The Ukraine and half of Poland shall be yours following a successful invasion." Wiess replied without pause.
"And Finland? I know you have relations with them after helping them gain their independence thirty years ago."
"What old German rulers did doesn't dictate how I act. Finland is yours for the taking." The German leader told her. "However, I must ask, aren't you rather close to the Finland's ruler?"
Ruby sighed and looked the other way. "It's part of my plan, Wiess. Don't interfere."
"Oh." Wiess raised her eyebrows in surprise. "Alright, you have my word."
"Good. See you on the battlefield then." With that, Losif Ruby turned and walked away, leaving Wiess just a little unnerved.
Under her breath, so that no other could hear, Ruby whispered, "I can take over Finland, make its old ruler my servant, and order him to kiss me on the lips…"
Wiess's turn came around, and she waited in silence for ten seconds as the rest looked at her.
"Well, what're you gonna do?" Yang asked her, slightly impatient. Near her, Ruby's lips curved into a wicked, strange smile that was never seen on her.
Wiess matched that smile, and announced, "I invade Poland."
Pyrrha sighed and looked indifferent. "Well, I saw this coming from a mile away. Alright, I'll handle this like an adult. I have plenty of soldiers and cavalry units."
Blake leaned over and whispered to Pyrrha, "Pyrrha, cavalry units can't even hurt tanks, and infantry get blown away by them."
Pyrrha sighed once more and sniffled. "Oh. I see. This… changes things. The happy little nation of Poland will have to rethink things."
"Pyrrha… are you crying?" Nora gasped.
"N-No!" She lied. "Just have something in my eye."
"Like what?" Wiess smirked.
"Tears!" The red headed Spartan cried. "I was really becoming attached to Poland, but if that's how you're gonna play it, then fine, bring it on!"
And there we go! I'll be honest I had to follow with the original plot fairly closely DONT WORRY it's not plagiarism I'm breaching off next chapter hope you all like this!