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The Red Army

"What's going on?" General Crom asked.
"It's really odd sir, several asteriods have left their normal orbits and are headed for Side Seven." A comms officer said.
"That is odd, dispatch a scout fleet to investigate." General Crom said.
"Yes Sir." The comms officer said.
'What the devil is going on? First the Red Army returns and steals our new ship, Half the colonies declare independance, now this.' General Crom thought.

"Welcome ladies to the Super Battleship Volga, stolen last week from the Federation." Matt said, leading Minerva, Ami and Meg into the massive ship.
"I didn't know it was possible to build ships this size." Minerva said, "So much for using Musais"
"I'm only here until tomorrow morning then we depart for our base again." Matt said, "The Red Army engineers want to try to reverse engineer the technology used to create this ship so we can build more."
"Sweet, can I have one? My birthday is coming up!" Ami exclaimed, then breaking out laughing.
The group went around the ship, getting a good look at everything and forgetting about the project that was due. The ship was mostly empty as most of the crew was in the colony on leave. After a few hours and dinner onboard Matt took Minerva and her friends back home before retiring for the night. The next morning the Volga departed early and headed back to Fortress Moscow. Shortly after the Volga left an odd black mobile suit approached the colony.

"Miss Zabi, care to explain why your group is the only one the didn't complete the project?" The teacher asked.
"Well, the reason is.." Minerva started.
"Minerva's boyfriend came by and showed us that huge ship that flew by yesterday." Ami said.
"Yeah, he's the leader of the Red Army." Meg added.
"Well that is no ex....What the hell!" the teacher exclaimed, noticing the odd black mobile suit landing on the schools field.
"That's a feddie symbol!" Minerva exclaimed as suddenly a pair of Zeon Omega Zakus landed on either side of the Black suit. A squad of Zeon soldiers rushed into the classroom and grabbed Minerva, trying to rush her to safety.
"Everyone away from the windows!" The teacher screamed, ushering students out of the room as one of the Omega Zakus fell.

"Why aren't more suits here!" Minerva exclaimed.
"Most were sent in to be refitted, those are all we had available." One of the soldiers said, "We've got our best pilots out there, they'll take them out.
"We've also sent out calls to all ships to send help." A second soldier said.
"What about everyone else?" Minerva demanded.
"We're sending transports to evacuate them." The first soldier said, helping Minerva into an armored vehicle.

"Matt, we're getting a distress call from Volt." Vash said from her captains seat.
"Video?" Matt asked, bringing a nod from Vash, "Bring it up."
The images of the remaining Omega Zaku fighting the mysterious suit came onto the main view screens.
"Nex...." Matt said, "Prep the Grand Tsar, I'm going after him!"
"Right." Vash said, activating the red alert status.

"Where are you little boy." Nex said, stabbing his sabre into the second Zaku, "Come and meet my Panther Claw."
Nex moved towards the school, thinking Minerva was still there. From his suits forearm emerged a chaingun which he aimed at the building. The chaingun roared to life and the huge shots impacted the building and levelled it with most people still inside.

"No! Ami! Meg!" Minerva screamed upon seeing the building attacked. Her vehicle suddenly shook as the massive Grand Tsar flew overhead. The Grand Tsar charged the Panther Claw and raked the ground with it's head vulcans.
"Nex, I gave you the chance to live and you essentially spit in my face, I won't make the same mistake twice." Matt sneered, opening his wings and arming his sabre.

"I won't even need a weapon to beat you." Nex replied.
The Grand Tsar charged with it's sabre in front of it. Just as it seemed the Panther Claw would be impaled it sidestepped at the last second and slammed a kick into the back of the Grand Tsar. The Tsar slid along the ground, crushing everything in it's path. Before the Tsar could regain it's footing the Claw was on top of it and began stomping it to the ground. The Tsar managed to flip around and catch the foot before it could stomp down again and flipped the Panther Claw off it's feet. The Tsar's verniers kicked in and it skimmed along the ground until it crashed into something, Minerva's presidental house. The Tsar took the oppourtunity to get to it's feet, further levelling the building. Just as it got to it's feet the Panther Claw was almost ontop of it again, this time with three short glowing blades protruding from it's hand. Just as the Claw was about to slash the Tsar the Tsar's verniers roared to life again and shot the suit into the air. The flames from the engines set the ruins of Minerva's home ablaze.

"Stop it! No! Goya!" Minerva screamed, trying everything to get out of the car and find her adoptive mother.

"He's tougher this time." Matt growled to himself, "No time like the present to test this, Full mobility! Go!"
With the press of a few buttons the cockpit began to change. The seat and main control panel retracted and left Matt standing there. hundreds of tiny wires shot out and connected to Matts suit all over, suspending him in the middle of the spherical cockpit.
"Full motion interface active, tracking pilot movement." The computerized voice said as a pair of virtual reality googles came in place over Matts eyes.
"Let's see how you match up against me now!" Matt screamed, the Grand Tsar matching every movement his body made. He kicked the verniers and booster thrusters to max and dove at the Panther Claw.
"Suicidal fool!" Nex laughed, preparing the slash the Tsar. The Claw slashed at the Tsar and missed as the Tsar ducked then swept the Claws legs out. The Tsar leapt up and slammed down with it's sabre, but hit bare ground as the Claw skidded away using Verniers. The Claw regained it's footing and pulled a large beam rifle from it's back holdster.
"This colony is expendable!" Nex screamed firing a blast at the Tsar, only have it miss as the Tsar did a back flip over the beam. The beam slammed into the side of the colony and blew out a big hole. Matt, blinded by the rage he had fallen into during the fight, pulled both his beam rifles out and began firing wildly at Nex and the Claw, blowing up more of the colony. the Claw moved skillfully and dodged the blasts for a while, until one errant shot struck his suit and went right through his shoulder.
"Damnit! How could he have hit me!" Nex screamed, "It doesn't matter, the Zabi girl is dead and once I self destruct this suit, so will you!"
"Have fun talking to yourself!" Matt exclaimed, kicking all of his boosters to maximum and making his escape through one of the many holes in the now breaking apart colony.
"Good bye Red Army Scum!" Nex laughed, detonating the nuclear warhead he replaced the self destruct bomb with. The colony suddenly exploded in a nuclear fury as the Grand Tsar flew like a bat out of hell away. A small shuttle containing Minerva flew away as well.
"No... the entire colony..." Minerva said, tears streaming down her cheeks as the Grand Tsar flew next to the shuttle, "You... this is your fault!"
"What?" Matt replied over the radio, "I saved you!"
"You also crushed and killed Goya! You also were careless and as a result millions of people are dead!" Minerva screamed, "I never want to see you again! Any Red Army vessels will be destroyed on sight! Get the hell out of my sight."
"So if I ever help you again." Matt said, veering off and heading back for the Volga while Minerva cried for all the people killed.

"It went bad didn't it?" Kaiser asked.
"Meet me on the bridge, we're changing Red Dawn." Matt said, his face showed how angry he was.

The Red Army disappeared as a year passed. Minerva took up residence on the colony Tiberius. Relations between the new Zeon and the Federation became slighly better but remained for the most part volitile. There had been no other assassination attempts on Minerva since the Volt incident. Over the course of a year a total of sixty asteroids left normal orbits and took up positions near Side Seven. The Federation, unable to find any reason for this, stationed a fleet of battleships with the asteroids to be safe. The Federation had been tipped off to the location of Fortress Moscow but when their assult fleet arrived they found nothing.

On christmas the Red Army returned, this time revealing their true intentions. While most people were opening presents and celebrating the Volga was fully armed and sitting in a low orbit around the Earth. The ship sent out a signal that took over all the comms lines, radio stations and television broadcasts. Every television that was on had it's picture replaced with Matt's face. Every audio line went silent until Matt spoke.
"People of Earth and the colonies, allow me to share a story with you on this Christmas morning. It's the story of a nation. A nation that was strong, a nation that in the nineteenth century stood up to the Grand Army of Napoleon and won when so many others fell before it. A nation that during the horrors of World War Two stood alone against the full brunt of the Nazi terror and held their ground until allied nations could assist. It's the story of a nation that was utterly destroyed by an unprovoked nuclear attack almost a century ago!" Matt said, his voice raising around the end, "In the year UC 0004 the nation of Russia changed into the Neo Soviet Union to better serve it's peoples need. Under the capitalist government life was better for a period of time, then suddenly plummeted into poverty. The workers rallied under Olaf Gregoran and forced a change in government. Immediately life improved immensly. But the western powers couldn't accept this. The United States launched an unprovoked nuclear strike on the Neo Soviet Union even after we opened our arms in friendship. We took no aggressive actions! Even after the attack we did not retaliate even though we had the nuclear capability to wipe them our as they had us! Yes I say we. My name is Mathias Romanov Gregoran, Great Grandson of Olaf Gregoran. The people of Zeon know me as the leader of the Red Army, now everyone will know me as General Mathias Gregoran, leader of the reborn Neo Soviet Union!"
People watching on television could see as the cameras pulled away to reveal Matt, Vash, Kaiser and several others standing infront of a massive Neo Soviet flag wearing the traditional heavy brown overcoats of Soviet officers.
"My Great Grandfather preached peace. I do not, I hereby declare war on the entire planet Earth!" Matt said, a smirk on his face, "Why the entire world and not just the continent of North America? Easy, when the United States attacked did anyone come to our aid? No! Every other nation just sat back and watched as over two hundred million Russians were slaughtered! We're coming for revenge. And any colony that aids the Earth will be destroyed. Merry Christmas."
With that the transmission cut off leaving millions of people stunned.

"He wouldn't, he couldn't, where would he get that type of manpower!?" Minerva asked, having seen the broadcast.
"Lady Minerva! We're recieve reports that Side Seven has cut off all communication. I think they've joined the Neo Soviets." A Zeon officer said.
"Wait, it all makes sense now." Minerva said, "When he said something big was coming, he meant this! Side Seven must have been their major base of operations over the last year! Who knows, maybe the building of Side Seven was a Neo Soviet plan all along."
"Shall we mobilize?" The officer asked.
"Yes, Mobilize everything but don't take any aggressive actions, maybe we can stay out of this." Minerva said.

"Send out the order to the new fleet, tell them to destroy any Federation Vessels they spot." Matt said to the communications officer on the bridge, "Send the Message to all Earth-based forces to commence attacks and prepare to enter the atmosphere."
"It's a glorious day." Vash said, leaning up against Matt.
"Even more glorious when we have the Earth at it's knees." Matt said, "Set course for Lhasa, Tibet."
"Da Comrade General." The navigator said.

"This is bad." The Admiral of the Federation fleet watching the asteroids said.
"Um.. sir, something odd is happening." A bridge officer said, pointing to the asteroids.
Almost all at once the asteroids exploded revealing hidden shipyards. In each of the shipyards sat a completed Superbattleship almost identical to the Volga.
"Oh crud." The Admiral said as sixty Superbattleships trained their weapons on his small fleet, "Battlestations!"
Before the crews of the Federation fleet could even get to their positions the Neo Soviet fleet opened fire. After the first volley the entire Federation force was wiped out and the shipyards began to move into Side Seven escorted by the powerful Neo Soviet Fleet.

"Sir!" A Federation Major said, handing a report to a Federation General.
"What?" The General asked.
"Sir, it's impossible!" The Major exclaimed, "We're getting reports of Mobile suits dropping onto Torrington Base, Fleet attacks on Luna Two and reports of soldiers, armor and mobile suits attacking from the Russian Wasteland!"
"Impossible!" The general exclaimed.
"Sir!" A second officer said, bursting into the room, "Reports from Fleet command, The Side Seven fleet monitoring the asteroids was just wiped out, they sent this picture."
"Dear god..." The general said, looking at the image of the Neo Soviet fleet, "Contact all forces, full alert! He wasn't lying, but we'll teach him a lesson!"

To be continued....

Next Chapter - Federation Anarchy, Side One Strikes back!, Unexpected Enemies.