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Read and review – thanks! This is the first part of an eventual 8-part trilogy:
Part 1: Mushroom Wars: Shell Shock (written February 2004)
Part 2: Yoshi Wars: Domination (written March 2004)
Part 3: Mushroom Wars: Koopa Storm (written April 2004)
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Mushroom Wars: Shell Shock
Chapter 2: Total War
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However, Bowser's Koopas had no desire to relent their forces. In June of 1999, Bowser made a true Koopa advance. On the 1st of June, the face of Tínjan warfare was changed forever. This war brought the abundance of guns on both sides, unlike previous wars where most troops were forced to use bows and swords to make up for few guns. Bowser's Koopaland forces swept into TMK, Dinosaur Land, the Goomba Republic, the Rashada Republic to the west, Wario Land (previously Kokoland), Yoshi's Island, and Shy Guyland in the first major blitzkrieg of all time. Taking the initiative to take key locations quickly, the Koopa navy aided the quick defeat of the Goombas, Wario Land, Shy Guyland, Dinosaur Land, and the TMK. As a memento, within eight days the Rashada Republic had lost a whole 4/5th of their territory, while a move into Shy Guy territory helped the Koopas and Shy Guys go into trench warfare halfway into Shy Guy territory. Pockets of resistance came from the Goombas in the first of nonconformist warfare, and on Yoshi's Island, the Koopa Navy escorts helped them land on Yoshi's Island and deliver fatal land blows to the Yoshi's Island army. Most of Yoshi's Island had fallen. Y'oster Isle still refused to join the Anti-Koopa alliance, but Yoshi's Island pressure and a Koopa raid convinced them to. Kool Yoshi, a Yoshi from the other universe, aided the Yoshi counterattack, even convincing Boshi to join the alliance against Bowser and Kamek's million-man army. The Koopa army, amassed with dozens of divisions, sent the Mushroom Kingdom to near-demise when a coalition, named the Mushroom-Yoshi Alliance, otherwise known as the MYA, was formed between Yoshi's Island, The Mushroom Kingdom, Y'oster Isle, and Wario Land. Knowing very well that while the Koopas held 50 divisions, the MYA combined held only about 26 divisions ready for combat. With the Shy Guys consisting of just four divisions, the Yoshis of Yoshi's Island held eight divisions. Y'oster Isle had two, Wario Land had five, and TMK had seven. A few prototype tanks also made their way in the war.
The war was no longer null and void. It was the greatest war ever to hit the region since the beginning of time, and a whole million would die in the conflict. The panorama of the Yoshi front was amazing. Y'oster Isle had joined up with Yoshi's Island as posterity, as Y'oster Isle itself was also invaded, and the combined Yoshi navies began to make flanking movements to pry the Koopa navy into fighting the Yoshis. It by itself succeeded. The Yoshi navies demolished the Koopa fleets and refurbished the warring fronts on their islands, for no more supplies from the Koopa navy could reach the now besieged forces on both islands. Y'oster Isle was liberated by the 13th, but on Yoshi's Island, the Koopas were far more numerous and held on much longer. Resourceful Yoshis of Yoshi's Island formed tight facilities to build more fighter airplanes and greater battleships and cruisers for the seas. Shy Guys and Koopas continued in deep trench warfare. A nuclear bomb was also being researched by Yoshi scientists.
The greater Koopa forces on Yoshi's Island fell soon later due to lack of supplies, as the flank of the Yoshis was vital. Also, as much of Yoshi's Island had collapsed, the Yoshis launched a frightening new technology: the bomber. MYA forces bombed BKF positions until they ran dry, and just a month after the war started, the BKF forces, though once outnumbering the MYA by about ten times, was in ruins. The Yoshis were great at aerial and naval warfare and would accept no Koopa victory. The Shy Guys, the best fighters on land, rigorously continued to keep the Koopas at bay. Subsequently, the Yoshis had trouble advancing because of supply shortages. This unerring, convincing move by the Koopas gave them a chance to rebuild their air force and navy while the Yoshis wasted their resources fighting to regain territory. The Yoshi navies and Koopa navies meet in the middle of the ocean between their homelands, and through an alias, Yoshi himself ordered the YAF (Yoshi Air Force) to reinforce the navy by firing on the Koopa navy's positions. Noticing the movement of Yoshi air power westward, the KAF (Koopa Air Force) was sent east to meet the YAF head on. As the first WWI-styled guns were used since World War II, and airplanes made its debut as a true power for both forces, so were the navies. A powerful navy decked with cannons and gunpowder also contributed to major disadvantages for the Bowser-Kamek Federation, or BKF, to send forces through the sea.
In the greatest dogfight and naval battle in history, the waters between Hesperia and Yoshi's Island became a dangerous war zone once again. The debut of the Yoshi aircraft carrier, and the siege of Bowser's Castle, had brought about such a battle. The KAF, consisting of 501 fighters, fought a YAF fighter force of 102 in the skies above their navies. While as the Koopa Navy of 102 ships were sunk in a battle with 79 Yoshi ships, the air battle was more tense. Though the Yoshis were able to inflict a ratio of about 4:1 in air kills, the Koopas led the way, but were forced to leave the region after the Yoshi Navy had an amble through the oceans, and the KAF started running out of fuel. 398 Koopa and 90 Yoshi planes had made their fatal dive into the seas below. It was a great, burly dent to both air forces. The YAF's faster and more durable fighters had aided in the attack. A day later, on July 1st, anti-Koopa rebellion sprang up in occupied territories, and by mid-July, on July 20th, Bowser and his Bowser-Kamek Federation had fallen to the Mushroom-Yoshi Alliance, losing 500,000 Koopas in the fight for their homeland.
The margin was very small. The Koopas had worn out well over 99 of the Coalition army, and in the final fight against Bowser in the air between the greatest heroes on both sides, both planes fell to the sea below in fierce warfare. The Yoshis launched an assault on the diehard Koopa forces, but the war's victory was so close it could have been called a stalemate. The infrastructures of the distorted war combatants were battered beyond repair. The Yoshis, however, were dumbfounded. They rebuilt the Yoshi economies with maximum speed and were no longer extinct by Koopa standards. The coming months were tense as all sides recovered from the devastating war and prepared for an upcoming one. Fossils were dug of long extinct animals in the region, and the grit of the Yoshis brought them back up as a major Tínjan power, the biggest to combat the Koopas. By November 30th, the Koopas were ready once more. With yet another million-man army, the Koopas annexed Wart & Smithy Land to their empire and moved toward inevitable war. Ingrained in another move into the TMK, within a single day on December 1st, a meteoric miracle happened. Bowser's forces had launched an even faster blitzkrieg than the last time around. In somewhat of a parody, they had reached the capitals of TMK, Yoshi's Island, and even Y'oster Isle, while sweeping across Wario Land and striking bases in Shy Guy and Goomba territory. It seemed that the Koopas would prevail in this second war.
The Yoshis began a naval rebuilding program at Eastern Yoshi Point in the eastern portion of Yoshi's Island. From there, they attacked the Koopa navies in the west, rendering them nearly useless. The Yoshi morale was quickly replenished after a rummage through western Yoshi's Island gave even the most skeptical Yoshis a cause to fight for. Watching the complete devastation of half the island was enough. The Koopas skimped their resources to the Koopas on the island. The fast rebuilding program gave the Yoshis five bomber planes, thirty fighter planes, and fifty warships in just a week, and this neutralized the fast Koopa movements in neighboring regions. These advanced airplanes were able to deliver maximum bombardment of all Koopa-held positions in all Tínja. Halfway through December, the YAF of 100 fighters fought to defend their land from 300 KAF planes. 250 Yoshi warships clashed with 300 Koopa warships. As an aerial battle raged on, even sleuths could see the air/naval war was about to end. With vandalism of Koopa camps, it helped abduct any chance of a quick Koopa victory. The entire KAF and Koopa navies were sunk at the bottom of the ocean, while 80 YAF fighter planes and 220 Yoshi warships sunk. It was a major victory for the MYA forces.
Again, the Yoshi's Island forces navy had choked the Koopa army of all supplies on Yoshi's Island. It is somewhat ambiguous, but the Goombas and TMK forces retook the Kalimari Desert, fighting each other at times. Wario's forces moved into Smithy Land. Koopa forces balked on Y'oster Isle. The Yoshis introduced paratroopers to the compacted conflict by dropping them on Shy Guy and Koopa positions. However, this put the Coalition forces to the limit, and Bowser was able to stop the invasions. Yoshi quickly conferred with Boshi on strategic moves in the Central Ocean, but it was no good. Like an earmark on an animal, the mark on the MYA was back. Wario's castle quickly fell in the frigid cold of pre-WWI style warfare. The Goombas, who had fought both TMK and the Koopas, implemented a war and joined the Koopas, under Raize's rule, and swept into TMK and even on the Yoshi isles. It was incalculable how many BKF, or Bowser-Kamek Federation forces remained. New Year's Day was celebrated with the entirety of the region under Koopaland rule, even as the Koopas suffered 600,000 losses and the MYA suffered 150,000.
Yoshi's Island had to surrender in late December, but a small groups of Yoshis, under the leadership of Yoyo Yoshi, formed a resistance force west on an uninhabited island later named Red Leaf Island. It was indisputable this was yet another turning point in the war. This dedicated division of 15,000 Yoshis, with the help of the remainder of the Yoshi fleet that had survived total destruction from the intensive naval war. A week into the new year, the Yoshi resistance maneuvered an amphibious invasion of Koopa-held Yoshi's Island, in which the Yoshis used their small navy to transport them and conduct sabotage operations against Koopa Army positions. The Yoshis were successful in destroying or capturing much of the Koopa equipment, including some fighter planes, a few ships, and many rifles. They were ready to strike back by January 15th. With another Resistance division formed, the scant Koopa equipment was not enough for the Koopas to bare and they were expelled from Yoshi's Island just three weeks into 2000. Yoyo Yoshi's stealthy resistance forces were now known as the Aiyee Yoshis, later shortened to just the Aiyee. With the Aiyee navy helping the two Aiyee divisions push resistance forces to the limit in the Mushroom Kingdom and Wario Land, the Yoshis revolted against the Koopas on Yoshi's Island. This revolt was led by Yoyo Yoshi's cousin, Kirb. On Y'oster Isle, the Yoshis revolted against the Koopas and succeeded. This other revolt was led by Yoshi002, his other cousin. Together, these three Yoshi nations were ready to take land at the expense of the Koopas. The Koopas were strapping, but they were steadily pushed back in Hesperia. The Aiyee forces were quickly recalled to defend Red Leaf Island and only a regiment was called to fight overseas. Their goal was to seize an island south of Yoshi's Island, known as Coconut Island to most Yoshis, from the strident Koopa invasion. Kool Yoshi quickly asked Peach to hold onto TMK at all costs though the titanic Koopa forces were swamping through Dinosaur Land. The valiant Anti-Koopa forces struck back, and in a matter of time, Aiyee and Allied forces swept towards Bowser's Castle by mid-February, forcing Bowser to make a peace.
Adhering to plan, Aiyee naval forces helped take over parts of the region with Kirb and Yoshi002's help. Through the middle half of 2000, a Tínjan Olympics was held on Red Leaf Island in the hopes of keeping a peace for at least that amount of time. In this time, the powerful Aiyee Armed Forces were formed on Red Leaf Island, as a separate entity to the Yoshi's Island Army. Kool Yoshi affirmed this build-up as necessary when Bowser restarted atrocities on August 1st. The Koopa Army now had bomber planes along with bombs to fight this second Yoshi-Koopa War. Thirty divisions, consisting of 450,000 Koopa troops, was aided by 50,000 in the air and sea. Five divisions of 75,000 MYA forces faced them. Two of them were Aiyee-based. Regardless, Koopa forces had again taken Hesperia in just a few days and moved onto the Yoshi isles.
The new Aiyee command desperately called up reserves on all the islands and came up with a nine division army. Auditions for generals were even performed in this desperate situation. To cope with the fall of Yoshi's Island and Y'oster Isle, eight divisions retreated to Red Leaf Island, where they would make their last stand. Days later, 19 Koopa divisions landed to face off the Aiyee. Kool Yoshi helped organize forces again to land in Hesperia and free Eastern Tínja from Koopa conquest. In a surprising twist of events, both sides were forced to cope with a new threat from the west. Donkey Kong and his army of monkeys had landed in Hesperia and struck both the Koopas and the Allies. Eventually, the Kongs struck a very favorable deal with the crippled Tínjan forces and left. After a race against Kool Yoshi, Yoyo Yoshi found himself holding a crippled Aiyee nation on Red Leaf Island when a multi-sided, disquieting civil war erupted on September 1st. In this crucial conflict, Yoyo Yoshi found himself asking for aid from the region southeast of Tínja, known as Cosmo Land. Hoping to reach an alliance, he found one with Orange Star. Orange Star was able to send small arms, including a few tanks, aircraft, and ships, to help Yoyo Yoshi in his civil war against Kool Yoshi. Kool Yoshi had deterred much of the island from joining Yoyo Yoshi, as he saw a loophole to take over the Aiyee. This failed when the disquieted pro-Yoyo force of about 1,500 soldiers entrenched and held out against an invading division of about 15,000 troops. This victory convinced the Orange Star that their arms were not wasted.
Taking an ally in Yoshi008 on Waluigi Island, the Aiyee forces, which had now grown to a size of a single division, was transported to the Mushroom Kingdom, Y'oster Isle, and Yoshi's Island to take out Kool Yoshi's outposts. At the same time, Yoshi008 and Yoyo Yoshi struck a very favorable deal in the lag. Yoshi008 promised to send Yoyo Yoshi forty rockets, missiles, bombers, subs, and battleships in exchange for aid in retaking Waluigi Island and taking some territory. The deal was accepted, as Aiyee forces, with the help of superior weaponry, defeated 64,000 of Kool Yoshi's infantry in days, with only 5,000 casualties. Kool Yoshi's forces were gone. Now empowering Yoshi008 to take over the southern part of Hesperia, the Allied forces swept Waluigi off of Waluigi Island and the Aiyee won a crucial victory. They mangled the Koopas in a swift blitzkrieg and took over the rest of Hesperia for the Darkness faction of Yoshi008.
East of Tínja, the Stevo faction had become immensely powerful and was sweeping west towards Tínja itself. Worried, the Aiyee and Darkness forces formed an alliance with Dreamland on October 11th. This was a land east of Tínja in which the Stevo Empire was stuck in a massive land battle. The Alliance was now able to pick up a few divisions to fight the Stevo Empire in the air war. In the process, the optimists had gotten what they wanted. With the Stevo Empire crushed, Aiyee and Darkness forces now held a portion of an island region known as the Rock, in which the Stevo Empire had a foothold in. The majority nation leader, Stormrider, had wiped out a large Stevo force there. The Rock was split into many tribal chiefs posing as the leader, but four factions emerged victorious in the war. Stormrider, the leader of Firewire, became the growing force in much of the central region, holding some 60% of the Rock. General Vipwing held the northwest chain of islands, controlling 25%. The Aiyee and Darkness factions took over 15% of the territory. The situation became tense when Stormrider's army of two million headed northwest to attack Vipwing's Sneachies faction. Firewire forces then launched an amphibious invasion of Waluigi Island, in which Yoshi008's home base was situated.
Stormrider's invasions were fairly successful, so Vipwing and Yoshi008 managed to sign treaties with the giant of the Rock and head east. The greatest Tínjan alliance had come into being, completely stupefying the Aiyee generals. Darkness, Sneachies, and Firewire forces, consisting of some three million troops, struck Hesperia and other key Aiyee positions. With a team of brilliant generals, the Aiyee launched guerilla warfare against the invaders and within just a week, the Aiyee Air Force had blown the Allied air forces out of the air. Amphibious ships were destroyed before they could reach their destinations. In a surprising twist of events, things had become sulky for the Allies.
450,000 troops out of three million were still in fighting position by the landing on November 4th. Just five thousand troops faced them. Aiyee forces had seen no greater courage in its history. With even civilians conducting sabotage operations on the Allies, they were able to inflict 400,000 casualties. Knowing the situation was indeed hopeless, the Allies retreated and the Darkness faction, now known as Darkness, backstabbed their allies. A mere division existed between the two of them, preparing to fight just three divisions on the Rock in a counteroffensive. By the 15th, both Vipwing and Stormrider had surrendered, and a treaty was made between the four factions. The Aiyee were to hold all of Tínja plus a small base on the Rock, and Darkness would take 80% of the Rock. Meanwhile, the Firewire and Sneachies forces held the remainder. The land proportion would become close to even when massive rebellions for civil wars broke out later on, becoming four quadrants for the now-four allies.
In the southeast land of Cosmo Land, Orange Star had been struck by the large army of Blue Moon to the east. The Aiyee had depended on Orange Star for aid, but with the invasion on November 15th, there had to be some way of repaying Orange Star. Aiyee technology had become close to even with the Orange Star thanks to them. All of Tínja had only reached World War II-quality weaponry from the Orange Star supplement. Blue Moon Communist forces had struck from the east, and so Yoyo Yoshi sent in his meager brigade of 5,000 troops to aid the rapidly retreating Orange Star Army of 7,000 troops. 90,000 Blue Moon troops had set foot on Orange Star, and had extensive numbers of tanks, aircraft, artillery, and ships from the recent mobilization. Orange Star had mainly light tanks with only a little aircraft, artillery, and ships. To the rest of Cosmo Land, Orange Star seemed doomed to lose even though in early skirmishes Orange Star had won.
In a surge, Blue Moon's two Commanding Officers Olaf and Grit had easily isolated Orange Star Commanders Max and Sami to the north and south, and were clearly able to take the capital city by November 30th. Supreme Commander Nell of Orange Star quickly asked for a trait of brave resistance, and a new commander, Commanding Officer Andy, was to hold on to the capital. Through drafting, Andy was able to acquire 9,000 troops to fight off Commander Olaf's 17,000 troops. Andy's forces survived the onslaught of powerful artillery and tanks. The capital was fended off. The entire division of 17,000 Blue Moon troops were defeated, at the cost of just 2,600 Orange Star troops. It was enough to give Sami and Max a chance to counterattack by December 13th.
The Coalition force of Orange Star and the Aiyee, commanded by Andy and Yoyo Yoshi, advanced east to meet the power of Grit's artillery. Nell had stripped some of the force they had to the other two fronts, and Andy had just five thousand troops to fight Grit's 18,000-man division. However, the Orange Star forces weren't unscrupulous. Abstaining from sleep, the soldiers struck the artillery with amazing speed and Nell was willing to pull in 9,000 troops for Andy. Again, the Orange Star was victorious. Just 4,700 Orange Star troops had fallen. The Blue Moon forces had lost a whole third of their entire armed forces in just two military engagements.
In allegiance to Green Earth, a land south of Blue Moon, Green Earth forces struck Andy's forces on the southern Orange Star island and was clearly moving in superior air power. On January 5th, this became dangerous for Orange Star. Pulling in even more troops, Nell had accommodated Andy with more to create an entire 14,000-man division to fight Green Earth. The Coalition forces were able to shut off Green Earth's air power with anti-aircraft fire, and about 10,000 Green Earth troops had dropped. 4,200 Orange Star troops fell. Regardless, Green Earth was forced to retreat when Orange Star brought in 2,000 more troops. With that, the Aiyee and Orange Star High Commands became as one when they amalgamated as the Coalition Command.
The arrival of Commanding Officer Max was clear on January 15th. Nell wanted to append tank power to the extended Orange Star forces. In the south, Max's army of 14,000 decimated the entire Blue Moon force of the same number. Nell had ordered a quick blitzkrieg move to recover the southern Orange Star cities, and Max had not only succeeded, but had won with just 2,600 losses. In the north, Andy's 13,000 faced off against 15,000 of Olaf's forces. Olaf's wandering sight on both north and south had effects on the northern war as well. The sinking of three major battleships with 3,000 troops each had blown an open route to Olaf's own headquarters. Andy had lost just 500 troops in this swift move. To commemorate this victory, a salute of guns was held in Orange Star.
In enumerating the locations to attack, Olaf had lost much of his hold on Orange Star. However, he was prepared to let Grit's 15,000 artillery-based troops smash Max's 13,000 troops geared up in tanks. In an attempt to launch a guerilla-style ambush on Max's forces, Grit had let way to orange Star's superiority in urban combat to spot such maneuvers. By the end, Grit's entire Blue Moon division had collapsed while Max lost just 3,200 troops. Max was quickly exalted for this victory on the Northern Blue Moon Island.
In the south, Andy's 15,000 troops, supported by air, swept across the pre-war border into Blue Moon itself to face Grit. Again, much of Grit's 12,000 troops fell. Just 3,500 fell for Orange Star.
These victories brought the Blue Moon Armed Forces to near-ruin. Blue Moon Commander Olaf had thought they would win the war. It was far-fetched to them that they would fall back so much. Quickly raising a draft, Olaf was barely able to get in a steady count of 40,000 soldiers in uniform, while Orange Star forces quickly numbered to 50,000.
However, Olaf's navy was still powerful. Glumly, he put it to good use in the Battle of Jiniport on January 29th against Andy's advancing force in the north. Andy moved in 16,000 troops through the northern steppes of Blue Moon, facing 13,000 troops. Olaf's navy, heavily bombarded by artillery, rocket, and battleship fire, was decimated in just a week. Again, Andy lost just 4,000 troops to Olaf's 13,000.
Sensing weakness in Andy's battle, Max replicated Andy's attack on Olaf by striking slightly south in the Blizzard Battle with 6,000 troops. Olaf also had 13,000 troops in that region. With Nell supplying Max with four more thousand highly-trained soldiers. Though Olaf only lost 1,800 troops to Max's 2,500, Olaf's hold on the river region was over.
Responsive to these disastrous defeats, Olaf left to find support elsewhere to look for sanctuary. Self-seeking for honor, Andy and Max both continued their advances as Andy moved into to strike the other half of Olaf's navy and Max moved into the rest of Blue Moon to defeat the final forces of Grit. On February 26th, the Orange Star had completed their conquest of the northern peninsula of Blue Moon. Andy prepared an amphibious force of 16,000 to strike the defenders of 14,000. Orange Star lost just 3,600 in the invasion while Olaf had lost his final force in that region.
Submissive to his supreme commander, Commander Grit held on while Max continued to bombard his positions. Orange Star's fully polished division of 15,000 was well placed to flank Grit's 10,000 troops. With the entirety of Blue Moon left with just a cruiser force, a few dozen landers, and a division, Olaf knew the time was up. Again, Orange Star suffered only 2,600 losses.
Watching the Blue Moon Army lose an astounding 111,000 troops to Orange Star's 40,000 was too much for Green Earth Commander Eagle to stay idle. Tallying up the odds, he was prepared to send a few air divisions to annihilate the Orange Star forces in Southeast Blue Moon. Andy prepared the remaining Orange Star forces for these tough odds. With the arrival of Orange Star Commander Sami, who put down Blue Moon guerilla forces, a combined elite division of 16,000 troops, with numerous tanks and aircraft, 3,900 Orange Star troops fell while 9,000 Green Earth did, as the Green Earth Air Force plummeted to the ground in defeat again. Through a beacon, Nell informed the Orange Star Army that they had armed up new divisions to fight the Blue Moon resistance.
Stunned, the Green Earth forces enumerated their forces and left. Discovering that the Blue Moon Army had escaped through Yellow Comet, Nell ordered the Orange Star forces to launch a sea invasion of Yellow Comet. Pulling in thousands of landers, the Orange Star Navy commenced in Operation Sea Otter, the invasion of Yellow Comet, surprising the Yellow Comet defenders and exalting the Orange Star forces. Supreme Commander Kanbei sent in an entire army group of twelve divisions to fight the two Orange Star divisions that had landed on Yellow Comet shores. To the utter amazement of Kanbei and Sonja, the Yellow Comet Army, through extorted wars, was crushed. Most of its army of 180,000 was devastated. Only five intact divisions remained. The Orange Star had lost most of its two divisions as well, but Nell had reinforced the far-fetched, victorious Orange Star Army with more divisions. Thus, Orange Star's loss of 35,000 in Yellow Comet were not in vain, for they had defeated 100,000 Yellow Comet troops and prepared to launch an invasion of Green Earth to capture Olaf's army division, who had fled into Green Earth.
The Supreme Commander of Green Earth, Commanding Officer Eagle, looked nervously at Orange Star victories in Blue Moon and Yellow Comet. Looking glum and going berserk, he quickly created a replica army, one that was ready to defeat any Orange Star invasion attempt from the east. Responsive to these demands, Drake, the other Green Earth commander, met the Orange Star invasion force in a full-fledged war. CO Eagle ordered Green Earth's Army Group South to fight Orange Star's advance, but it was clear that his 180,000 troops were not suited to fighting the moralized Orange Star Army's five divisions of 75,000. Eagle's offer of Green Earth as Olaf's sanctuary had failed him. His celestial air force, once thought invincible, was shattered.
The Orange Star Army moved northward from the amphibious invasion, self-seekingly moving into many regions in order to find Olaf. Green Earth guerilla forces inflicted such heavy casualties on the Orange Star Army that another three divisions was sent by Nell across the border to take out Green Earth positions in the North, which were held by Green Earth's Army Group North. All in all, the Green Earth forces were submissive and could not tally up together to meet the Orange Star advance. Orange Star lost the entirety of five out of their nine divisions in the fight, while Green Earth lost both army groups. Chastening to remove the threats of the entire Cosmo Land, Orange Star had succeeded.
Soon, it was realized that the war was orchestrated from the beginning by the Supreme Commander of the Black Hole Republic, off of an island south of Orange Star and west of Green Earth. Black Hole had invaded Green Earth to help Blue Moon in its Orange Star campaign, which dragged in sympathy by Yellow Comet and Green Earth to Blue Moon because Black Hole forces had looked like Orange Star forces to them. As a taskmaster, Sturm had played the Cosmo Land armies right into his hands. All of the other four nations in Cosmo Land had lost a great number of soldiers in their wars, and effects were felt everywhere. Orange Star had lost ten divisions in its wars against Blue Moon, Green Earth, and Yellow Comet. Confiscating many of their defeats as victories, Blue Moon had lost ten divisions of their own in their war against Orange Star, including nearly a single division during their guerilla war. Green Earth suffered a loss of thirty divisions in its wars against Orange Star and Black Hole, and only six divisions remained of the once proud Army Group Center. Data had confirmed that Yellow Comet lost seven divisions in its war against Orange Star.
Orange Star, Blue Moon, Green Earth, and Yellow Comet formed a new alliance to detract the fighting from their homelands. Black Hole had lost barely three divisions while the Coalition had already suffered the loss of 57 divisions. Encountering a large Black Hole army in Southwest Blue Moon, a Orange Star-Green Earth force of ten divisions trapped the two divisions there and defeated the Black Hole forces in a nasty flank. Like a well-written epic, the Coalition Army of 6 Green Earth, 4 Orange Star, 1 Blue Moon, and 5 Yellow Comet divisions were ready to take on the mighty Black Hole force once and for all. And like a pantomime, they would do it by actions alone.
The Black Hole Army still possessed the rest of its army group of seven elite divisions. Deep inside Green Earth, the Black Hole forces set up a mine trap against the pessimistic Coalition divisions and with air support and precaution, it set up a major defeat for the Coalition. With a cost of only one Black Hole division, half of the Coalition Army lay in ruins. With that victory, the Black Hole forces moved into a fortress position in preparation to take on the rest of the Coalition divisions. Orange Star forces led by Commander Andy smashed through enemy lines and downed the fortress. The enemy commanders in the attack were prosecuted and executed.
Appearances were deceiving. Though Black Hole had just four divisions against seven Coalition divisions, the Coalition had to puncture through the Black Hole Navy before they could set foot on their island itself. Retaliating fiercely, their navy put the invasion force in a dangerous position until a special Aiyee navy group of battleships sank the remaining Black Hole ships and put the Black Hole Army in a not-so-sham position to render with.
While Coalition forces landed on the shore of Black Hole's home island by the thousands, Sturm had built up his greatest force yet. Arming up his final and desperate stand up in the mountain capital, his strongest military units came into play. Uncouth and loyal to Sturm, they proved to be two of Sturm's remaining four divisions.
Coalition divisions could not be loaded fast enough to fight Black Hole. They were an underscore to the enemies that faced them. After a week into the battle of ground and air, the Coalition forces were barely able to get three divisions into the fire. However, it was enough. The wholesome attack had succeeded. Sturm's last two divisions were crushed at his capital. A new era was set to begin at the end of 2001. An entire Aiyee division had perished in this war alongside Orange Star. The wistful Yoyo Yoshi sighed a breath of relief and turned back to conflicts closer to home even when Orange Star and Green Earth forces clashed over the western Black Hole island.