World War V: The New War

Disclaimer: I own nothing except for the character names and mecha designs...

(Normal POV)

It was the next day. All the pilots were just chatting away in the cafeteria.

"I still can't believe that the US had split into two sections. Arnon Schwarzild is the president of the Unified Commonwealth and Greg Buckingham is the president of the United Eastern States," said one.

"I know. I can't believe that Buckingham betrayed his own country just for more power! I mean, just what was he thinking!? If the Atlantic Federation Alliance hadn't persuaded him, I bet the former USA wouldn't have collapsed so soon," said another.

"Well, at least we are fighting for the UC. After all, they have the advanced technology that the Atlantic Fedays failed to duplicate. All they have are 10 years of old research and technology that is completely laughable. At least Pres. Schwarzild knows how to run a country." chimed a woman.

"That's true. I think that the Unified Pacific Organization has the better advantage. They include China, Japan, and several advanced technology makers and researchers," added another.

(The chatting then switches to more local and boring topics until the bell rings; lunch is over.)

(5th block. Ares's POV)

'Here goes Mr. Simpson again. All he ever does is tell retarded stories and make fun of people. This is getting redundant. I wish that the UES would attack by now...'

(ERRRT! ERRRT! ERRRT! ERRRT!) "We are under attack. All civilians please head for the shelters. All others please report to your stations," said the female AI.

"Yes. What I was waiting for."

(Normal POV)

Ares headed to the mech hangars along with a fellow student Shashank. There, they met up with yesterday's pilots and some additional pilots since the attack was a large force. As they suited up, they heard the battle reports coming in. They would be getting some assistance from Midland in the form of long range area bombardments. All the pilots started their systems and listened to the reports their AIs were receiving.

Erica and Bailey were the first to launch this time. Erica piloted the AC (Armored Core) unit that looked exactly like the one on the cover of Armored Core 2. Her specialty was medium range combat. Bailey piloted one that was almost identical to Erica's except hers carried a pulse rifle instead of a heavy laser rifle in the right arm instead of the left and also carried a vertical missile launcher and a linear cannon on the back instead of Erica's multi-missile and heavy Gatling gun. As soon as they both hit the ground, they started laying down covering fire, downing 5 kills each. "All right! Whooo!!!" they both shouted.

Shashank was launched by himself. He piloted a simple, ultra-basic Temjin since they couldn't trust him with more dangerous weapons. He was there for battlefield calculations, although his arrogance usually messed it up. All the other pilots think that his purpose was to be cannon fodder since field commanders usually was targeted first. Unfortunately, he survived the engagements that "required" a tactician. The actual field tacticians were Ares, Matt, and Samantha, since they were patient enough to think through battle stratagems quickly and thoroughly with little errors. The secondaries were Erica and Issac. Anyway, Shashank only got two kills after he landed.

Ares launched with Ryan, Ares slicing a passing spyplane and bomber with two swift and precise cuts on his way down. "Too easy. Take this," he said as he landed right on top of a tank, crushed it, jumped above a mech while aiming his e-sword downwards, and impaled the unit straight through the center. "Death from above," he finished.

Ryan, on the other hand, had fun stomping enemy vehicles and infantry. "Whee! More souls for the demon below!" He then used his scythe to slice two mechs in two.

Issac and Matt then launched. Issac's unit was equipped with a slightly different weapons layout. He traded 3 of his swords, his beam rifle, and his sniper rifle for a powered up Double-Barreled Assault Sniper Rifle and a Hyper-Velocity Triple Rocket Launcher. His unit was still equipped with the two e-missile launchers and 3 swords. The moment he launched, he put two sniper shots into six mechs that were in line. In other words, both beams penetrated six mechs until it hit the ground. He also managed another six kills firing one HV Rocket through two mechs each. "12 shots before I hit the ground!" he hollered.

Matt just ignored Issac and activated his new toy. A gatling cluster bomb launcher. Each shot he fired saturated the field with plasma mines, contact bomblets, micro-earthquake bombs, shrapnel, and napalm. The weapon replaced his unit's entire right arm and covered part of the right torso. The ammo was regenerated with a built-in Nanoproduction Bay geared towards ammo regeneration. Within a minute, he downed an astonishing 107 kills total. "Ha!"

"No fair! I thought you preferred to fight the honorable way!" shouted Issac. "When they're this boring? No way!" responded Matt. "You Bi–" "Hey! None of that now!" "Damn, I'll give you payback next time!"

Rosie and Samantha were the last to launch, but they took out 10 opponents just as they hit the ground. "I don't care what any of you do just as long as you don't interfere with me." said Rosie as her unit transformed into a high speed plane and activated its beam wing, allowing it to slice any head-on opponents into two. She charged the ranks and took out a total of 40 with her ramming attack.

Samantha's unit did graceful acrobatic maneuvers around the war zone, damaging or destroying critical areas of the opposing force. "To defeat the most enemies with the least damage, you must be graceful in your fighting style. It's a waste of time to constantly spend too much time on repairs," she said while skillfully dodging six shots.

'God, I can't believe that she and Issac have been dating for three years now. They are just like polar opposites, but just like a magnet, they end up attracting each other.' thought Ares while sniping off the arms of an opposing commander unit.

(Meanwhile, in a different part of the battlefield)

"This is so neat! I didn't think that fighting would actually be fun!" giggled Erica as she gleefully sliced a tank into twenty pieces. "Me neither! I thought that it would just be a waste of my time since I thought war was gay!" responded an overeager Bailey as she unloaded twenty unnecessary shots into an already collapsing mech. They both giggled as they were surrounded and forced back-to-back. As they were about to be fired upon, they both jumped and unleashed all their weapons to the point of overheating. "Whee!" they shouted, as they wasted all their ammo.

A dying pilot shouted, "Go to hell!" as he charged them. Erica was horrified. "Excuse me? That was not very nice!" Bailey also chimed in, "You know what, your MOM!" as they both aimed all their weapons directly into the cockpit.

Rosie, who was near their area of devastation, muttered, "What little emos. I simply cannot accept the fact that their fighting persona makes them act like a little and severely disturbed child. How pathetic."

(To the lowly Cryak)

"AAAHHH!!!" he screamed as his unit was sliced into several pieces. Unfortunately, the pilot survived. He looked up to see a black unit with one red monoeye look down at him. Then he heard a voice say, "Tell your leaders what I'm about to tell you. Their time is about to be up. We will completely annihilate this pathetic town along with you all. It will be so thorough that not even the bacteria will be able to make use of your remains. I spared you only because I noted that YOU ARE TOO WEAK. I bet that you can't even kick a short kid in his balls if he was to stand right over your foot. Once you deliver this message, then your only useful purpose would be completed." With that, the mysterious pilot disappeared without a trace.

"Why me..." Shashank said as he started to cry.

Once the battle was over, the pilots assembled before Commander Rhodes. "Well, most of everyones' performances were satisfactory except for one. Here are the results. Issac, your unit's head was blown off but you still managed to take down 84 enemies. Matt, your unit suffered zero damage and you took down an amazing 2666 enemies. Ryan, your unit lost its entire left torso. Your lucky that the reactor wasn't hit. You took down 67 enemies. Ares, your unit suffered minor damage to its right leg, but that didn't stop you from taking down 99 enemies. Roseanne, your unit took collision accidents from units that tried to tackle you, but you still took 110 opponents. Samantha, you unit took 'paint scratch' damage, and you took down 105 enemies. Erica and Bailey, your units suffered damages everywhere. What were both of you thinking!?! Well, you took down 140 enemies each. Finally, Shashank, your unit was sent to the one below and you only took 3 kills. That was some very poor showing. Care to explain?" the Commander said.

After 5 minutes of explaining and giving the warning, Mr. Rhodes, with a grave look, dismissed everyone.

To be continued...

Additional pilots and their alternate persona

Erica – Playful, overeager, showoff, and prefers to double team with Bailey.

Bailey – Playful, overeager, showoff, and prefers to double team with Erica.

Shashank – Crybaby, fearful, weak, and prefers to stay in the background and/or run.