Frenemies
It was a beautiful day at the amerimedium family's base. Everyone was doing something, even baby Sherman was pot-shooting at a tree 200 yards off base with his lil' 76mm. The three brothers, Pershing and the Patton twins, were ramming each other to show who was the real big guy at home. Even grandpa Lee was strolling around with grandma M2. M4A3E2 was helping her little baby learn how to adjust for range on targets. T20 was looking at a framed picture of great-grandpa T2 "Oh grandpa" he said, "if only you could see your family now". After his self-pep talk he drove over to spectate his boys fighting. Although Pershing was the youngest of the three, he was bigger than P.J (Patton junior) but was barely smaller than his oldest brother Grizzly (Big Patton) or Grizz for short. Pershing fought like his oldest brother and tried to go for the big slam right away. Being the nimblest of the three P.J. Dodged oncoming hits rather well and went for sideswipes. Grizzly charged hard but could counter any surprise moves. After a good scrimmage, they all backed away chuckling and boasting to each other about certain moves they pulled on one-another.
Across the base, their mother stopped helping Sherman shoot and answered a radio coming from the amerilight's base on the edge of the American area. It was the family head, Chaffee, and he told her "I've talked to the Germans and Soviet leaders and they will join us for our trial games, but the Chinese are still on the fence about it." "Good," Mother said, "I'm glad they got over the war we had so long ago." She was referring to the war the Soviets and Germans waged against the British, French, and Americans over land areas. They ended it in a draw, and the land they were fighting over was divided between the 6 states. Even though there was still tension between the states, they have coexisted peacefully and now they were even participating in sporting events with each other. "I think America will win this year" Chaffee said "your boys are finally old enough to compete, except for Sherman of course." "Yes," she replied "I'm sure we'll be able to beat the British this year, but I haven't known much about the capabilities of the Chinese, Soviets, and Germans." "Sorry but I have to go, Locust and M22 are fighting... Again" And with that Chaffee broke connection and Ms. M4A3 went back to helping baby.
A long way away, IS and his wife KV-2 drove up to the Chinese compound. Being a small group, they didn't need different bases for their different families. The heavy tanks family head, 110, came out to meet the 2 soviets. He couldn't see them as there was a heavy fog but he knew they were out there. He was followed by medium tank leader Type 59 and light tank leader WZ-131. As the five got close to each other, 131 said to Type 59 "I hate dealing with these soviets, they scare me." Type 59 replied "we are going to have to live with them; otherwise we'll just be the little Chinese family. Soon, with their help, we will be ruling the world as the Chinese-Soviet nation leaders who will destroy all in our way." "Fine, but I won't be talking much." By that time they were all in a close circle. And IS broke the silence "I'm sure you're all ready to execute the first phase of the plan." "Yes" 110 replied, "but did you consult all soviet leaders too?" "Why don't you ask them?" IS said. With that, the other 3 Russian leaders materialized out of the fog behind him. The medium T-62a in front, with the TD ISU-152 and the light T-50 behind him. When 131 saw that they were outnumbered, he reflexively backed up a few inches. ISU-152 noticed and said "oh, did I scare you, I'm sawwy" with that, everyone else chuckled and 131 felt embarrassed. "Yes, we are ready, but we should participate in the games to see who the biggest threat to our plan is" 110 suggested. "But of course" IS said with a snicker, " we wouldn't want to be party poopers would we." And with that, the soviets turned and disappeared. WZ-131 had a bad engine feeling about this, but focused on the reward at hand.