Tiber River, September 5th 2021, 2 hours after the battle of Hammerfest

It was a mess, an area of quick, but total destruction. Ever since the strike from the ion cannon, GDI had been noticing strange mutations in the surrounding areas, survey teams were sent, the closer inspection of the ground revealed a newly formed crystal material, spreading across the surface at an extreme rate, in 4 weeks it had engulfed the entire blast site, a massive field to say the least. All efforts were made to contain the growing crystal based plants, and using magnetic fields and firestorm shielding, the entire crater was now a contained field of the strange and alien plant.

Since the attack, and continuing so, research teams poured all effort into the study of the plant, headed by the aging geneticist Dr. Mobius, little had been found, but that little was amazing as it was, for what they discovered is, the newly named Tiberium, contained naqaudah. It was unknown how it was there, was it created by Tiberium? Or was it harvested somehow? Or was it some how the strange unification of already existing materials in the earth? Despite its benefits, especially to the war effort, the GDI had declared it off limits to all but contained research, wise minds had seen that the benefit, no matter how big, was not worth the potential risk.

Patrols of Wolverines and mammoth tanks, circled around the shield perimeter, ever since the attack on Hammerfest, defences around the world were on full alert, scanners activated to search every possible attack path, be it the skies, sea, ground or even under it. The constant reinforcements it looked like the growing research faculties, the base, and most importantly the Tiberium field would be safe from harm, however like last times, GDI was not prepared, for the unexpected…

Inside Shield, near research facility.

The new Tiberium Harvesters were at work, 'mining' the new material, the 3 of the giant vehicles, filled to capacity, quickly dumped their load into the modified feeding tubes that lead directly to the research facilities silos. Men and women in hazmat suits walked around the field, their extensive variety of equipment continuously scanning, every bit of study spewed out new and exciting aspects of Tiberium, most recently the composition of the crystals. Dr Ignatio Mobius smiled at such scenes playing right outside his window, he had only been studying Tiberium for no more then a month, yet he already noticed that the possibilities of Tiberium, were limitless. His research assistant, the young Dr. Boudreau, entered his office, the grinning doctor gave Mobius her report, "We've got it."

"The naqaudah?" he asked with undisguised glee.

"Yes, the plant contains 0.9 naqaudah, the crystals that we harvest seem to be a waste product from the actual plant, but waste or not, it's the part the military want."

He nodded in agreement." And us as well, yet we must keep a continued study on the plant itself, its mutative effects on carbon based life is remarkable, its potential for harm or creation is extremely high, in what ever way you put it as."

"I agree Doctor, but the…" her report was cut off, the reinforced glass windows smashed open, across the facing wall rockets of high explosive yield smashed into the trinium strengthened metal. Outside the facility, a dozen or so distortions of light opened up and closed, firing the rockets in its wake, the patrols quickly moved to counter this attack, the lone titan squad marched across the Tiberium fields at max speed.

Nod Stealth Tank

The lieutenant grinned, he had been in this facility for near 2 days, the small and compacted innards of the prototype stealth tanks were not comfortable to say the least.

Receiving the order, his squad moved in to destroy the facility holding Kanes creation, soon it will be free to grow, and free to destroy GDI in more ways the weapons and arms ever could.

"Lieutenant, the facility is destroyed, we must take out the shield generator before leaving this place." The sergeant at the weapons station reported.

"All tanks, full power to the Lazarus shields, activate anti-grav engines!" The distortions of the stealth tanks quickly disappeared into nothingness, as if a force ripped it from the surface, dust jumped from the surface, the nod tanks were now hovering.

Titan Squad

"Damn it, they've cloaked again, all walkers switch to IR, full power to sensors." Major Simons ordered, the H.U.D display suddenly taking a red glow effect, 6 noticeable objects appeared, the major grinned, while advanced stealth technology, nods cloaking devices only reflected visible light and radio waves, not heat. The massive 170mm railguns powered their accelerators, the titanium shells were released at speeds near mach 9, almost instantly smashing right through the stealth tanks armour like it was paper, soon the majors comrades joined in the gunfight, the tanks turned around to engage, it was going to get messy.

Nod Stealth Tank

3 of the remaining 4 tanks turned to engage the massive GDI battlemechs, dragon missiles, from the stealth tanks fired seemingly out of no where for the untrained eye. The commanding lieutenants own, was quickly driving towards the final objective, the hovering craft flying directly over the Tiberium field, the crystal grew incredibly large, some reaching 2 metres, the relatively weak anti-grav engines of his tank were pushed to they're upmost limit, flying at insane speed across against the giant shield.

Titan

Simons saw the retreating tank, skimming up against the shield perimeter, how these things got in here the first place he did not know, but soon he would put and end to it. Pushing his Titan into forward gear, the auto tracking taking over, the massive railgun taking aim….

Stealth Tank

Coming within range of the generator, the remaining load of rockets were unleashed, dozens of dumb fire explosives charged towards the generator as fast as the chemical reaction would let them.

"Lieutenant, a Titan is targeting us!" The young weapons officer reported nervously, the Lieutenant couldn't blame him, their lives ended here.

Titan

Watching the shield instantly evaporate into nothingness, the major angrily pushed the trigger, a trio of titanium rounds sliced through the stealth fields of the nod tank, the cloaking energy washing away to reveal the heavily damaged wreck.

Research Facility, Wreckage

The entire outer wall was crushed in, but it was amazing the building held as it is, the trinium reinforced armour absorbed the majority of the blast, before giving way and letting the concrete walls suffer less strain before blasting apart. It was unfortunate that many of the science facilities were facing said wall, for the causalities were massive, only one person survived, Dr Boudreau.

United Nations General Assembly, 2 weeks later.

The members of the United Nations were much smaller in numbers these days, and even decreasing still, the original 89 members of GDI seemed to take an elitist status in the UN, trying to draw more efforts to their needs and leaving others behind, this all worked to nods favour. Several nations had cut completely from the UN, declaring full allegiance to the brotherhood, others had been split in two by the growing war, rebellions declaring allegiance to either side had turned many nations into many of the growing hotspots across the globe. Even nations still in the UN but not GDI were having a growing resentment towards them, China and Russia were basically the only two nations willing to cooperate with GDI while remaining independent from it. Despite the smaller council, the UN met together today to discuss the growing threat of not just Nod, but of its creation.

The Secretary-General, made his opening announcements, "Members of the United Nations, today we gather to discuss the growing Tiberium threat, ever since the attack on the Tiber research facility two weeks ago, plant has spread its way throughout northern Italy, and recent reports of it being sprouting in completely random locations, the ambassador of the United States of America is too speak on the subject."

With a nod to the Secretary General the ambassador turned to face the levels and levels of representatives, "Ambassadors, since the beginning of this war, the Global Defence Initiative and its allies have considered Nod and the forces of Baal to be the greatest threat to earths security, however in our struggle we have lead ourselves away from the real threat, Tiberium." Taking a moment to clear his throat, he continued, "While in its current form we only see its potential uses, the naqaudah element in the crystals would fund out war effort against both Nod and Baal with relative ease, however we had yet to see the side effects."

The German ambassador rose from his chair, "What side effects?" he asked in a slightly sarcastic tone, "The way my country see it, is the fact that Nod had assigned its own downfall by offering us this resource, the colonies can now use their own resources to fit Baal, we are left to our own means, we have the naqaudah in this Tiberium, why not use it for the war effort?"

"Because ambassador, the reports gathered from the Tiber facility before the attack, and personal information gathered by Dr Boudreau, had lead to show that Tiberium is a threat to all life on earth due to its mutative effects." He paused slightly, "We've all seen its effects on human DNA, it completely rewrites it into its own form, its extremely poisonous also, the levels of harmful gases it produces is enormous, we don't even know what 20 of it even is!"

"The American government brings fair points before this council." The French ambassador interrupted, "However my nation joined the Global Defence Initiative in hopes of a quick end to this global threat so we can move to the galactic one." "It is in the Republic of France's opinion that we utilize Tiberium to further our production for both the war effort and our expansion into space, but we do believe that a containing measure should be looked into."

"The Russian Federation agrees with France's strategy, Tiberium offers earth a quick and relatively easy access to naqaudah, further this by the colonies mining and SGC's off world bases, ship production can increase by a massive scale." The Russian ambassador directs to the council.

The Secretary General rises, "Then we shall put it to vote, all of those in favour of utilizing Tiberium for the war effort?" the majority of the assembly raised their hands. "All opposed?" the American ambassador, as well as a dozen or so other representatives raised their hands in opposition. "Then today, we have decided that Tiberium is to be harvested for the war effort, continued research into its containment and potentially, its elimination will continue."

Nod Command Centre, codenamed 'Revelation'

Kane walked calmly through the open corridors of his base, it had existed for centuries, underneath the site of the first exodus of the Goa'uld, here he would make his own, but all in good time.

Reaching the command deck, he sat comfortably in the centre chair. "What's the latest report on the spread of Tiberium?"

"Extensive sir, from our introduction of it to multiple locations on earth, we expect it a matter of weeks before the entire world has at least small infestations taking place." His right hand man, Colonel Slavik reported, despite the failed attempt at destroying the Thor, Kane was most impressed about the havoc it caused amongst the United Nations, doubts in its capabilities to protect earth's people, filled the minds of many nations governments, and the results were to Nods favour.

"Good, once we've gathered the required resources, we will leave this world, and leave GDI to pick up the pieces of what's left." He then looked outside the seemingly unnecessary window of the command centre, smiling at what he saw, twin constructions on the centres hull were taking place, given a few more weeks and they will be complete "GDI won't see it coming, Revelation will come to them in the most unexpected of ways."