The Only Solution

[Sheridan]

Forest 20 Miles East of Blaufelden

0:00

Cheif Jonas Algru waited patiently on his spot nehind a tree. Luckily for him, and the rest of the Otchi Army, the Freiheitians had decided last minute that driving the nuclear weapons through the streets of St. George was a huge security risk. The decided instead to drive it all the way through to the ports near Blaufelden. Also a lucky fact for the Otchi was that this area was covered by forest, providing endless amounts of cover. The Otchi had set up camp along a dirt road leading through Blaufelden. 10,000 well amred Otchi awaited the Freiheitian convoy, along with 500 AWL's that would be used to take out any helicopters thinking of joining the fight.

Algru flinched as a single car moved down the road, then he listened patiently... nope, no convoy yet...

5:24

A low rumble was heard throughout the forest as the convoy came into view. The Otchi had knocked down some trees in the convoy's path, a trick that may be used slightly more than neccesary, but useful nonetheless. 5 Heavily Armored Transports that were built specifically for transporting nuclear weapons drove down the road, along with 3 TTV Shveer troops transport vehicles, and 2 Helicopters. As the convoy hit the roadblock it came to a rolling stop.

"I'm telling you, it's those damn hippies! They've been giving us shit since we started driving." One of the soldiers said as the troops began piling out to move the tree's.

"Don't all go out at once! We have to take this seriously, there are certain groups in this world who want our cargo!"

"If it makes you feel any better- You! signal the choppers to do some searching in the surrounding area."

"Yes sir!"

Algru looked around, an ordered one of his men signal the men stationed at the AWL's to open fire, once his side had opened fire, teh men on the other side of the road would open fire as well.

The Helicopter's turnedon their search lights and went onto either side of the road. Almost immedeatly Algru gave the order. 20 of the missiles from his side fired, the helicopter fired its flare's but there was just to many. The missiles slammed into the side of the chopper and exploded. The helicopter crash landed like a large meteor into the woods. The other side did the same after this display of fire power. Then the Otchi opened fireon the troops that were moving the tree's many of whom had dropped their guns and had no cover. The rounds from the Otchi's Type-91 assualt rifles and Type-01 machine guns lit up the night.

After the troops had been taken care of, the driver's had to be taken care of. The Otchi poored out of the woods, taking the driver's and gunners out of the Troop Transport's and executing them. The driver's of the nuke-transports were cowering behind their bullet proof glass cab's. However Algru had planned for this as well, placing charges on all the doors the Otchi blew open the doors on the nuke-transports and brought out the driver's executing them and leaving them on the side of the roads.

The Otchi got into the trucks and began driving south-east to the Vertieidigung area, the Otchi were first going to liberate the other Otchi living in that worthless hole. They wouldn't take over Blaufelden as not to anger the Commandry flotilla waiting in Blaufelden's ports.

Algru smiled as he realized that his plan was working perfectly so far. Soon the Otchi would be free for the first time in almost 500 years. This was the only way, and the only solution.

 

[Sheridan]

At The Faust Estate in the Northern Grau Mountains

8:30

Jonathon Faust looked around at all the men sitting around his table. All of them were drinking some draft that came out of Faust's own brewery. Faust's family owned a number of business's, and his father's death gave Faust all of them. He had just recently purchased yet another company, a weapon's company, known as Kaiser Arms. This company was the main supplier of weapons to the Freiheit military, and now Faust had access to them all. Faust and the other Freie Kräfte leaders had heard nothing of the fact that the Otchi now had the nuclear weapons.

"Gentlemen, I think we all know why I called this little get together. Those Otchi bastards just couldn't settle with getting all their rights back. They want to try to overthrow our whole government, they aim to drive us out of our own land. They are attacking St. George, and they actually have a good shot at suceeding with this revolution. Now that I have purchased Kaiser Arms the Freie Kräfte will have means to finally eradicate the Otchi from our country." Faust said before taking a sip of beer, allowing someone else to talk.

"Are you joking!? The government will never allow us to get away with this!" gasped Vincent Vaughn, who was rumored to have some Otchi sympathies.

"Your absoluetly right Vaughn. That is why I am suggesting we become the government. This government is no longer appealing to our people, Socialism is falling, as is the ways of the old. With this Otchi uprising, people will lose their sypmathies towards the Otchi, and embrace what has to be done." Faust stated.

"I agree completely with you Mr. Faust. If you wish me to, I can begin hiring some of Freiheit's current General's, such as Sunter." replied Bastian Hofheim.

"But when Sunter was president he is the one who created the laws giving the Otchi their rights back!" Vaugh gasped once again.

"That was only becuase of political pressure, trust me Vaughn, unlike some people he has no love for the Otchi." Faust said reassuringly while chugging what was left of his brew. "Bastian go ahead and hire Sunter, and any other Generals you seem fit to lead our forces. Once you ahve done that we will move our forces to the South, if we can liberate St. George then we can begin cornering the Otchi against the Helper Coast. And now that the nukes are gone to The Commandry mother nations won't be caring about this little war we have going on."

 

[Sheridan]

St. George

The fighting in St. George began at the very beginning of the day, when many people were just waking up, or getting ready to go to work. The Otchi began pouring into the city from the western side of the city. The western side was the center of the government for the whole state of Bezirk. The Otchi took the capitol building in a matter of hours and had already hidden the nuclear weapons inside the lower levels of the Capitol Building. The public of course had no idea that the Otchi were in possession of these weapons, so as to not create panic.

At around noon is when the Freie Kräfte began counter attacking the Otchi, and took control of the northern portion of the city. The northern portion contains the suburbs and the financial district of St. George. They have started to recruit soldiers, and already Generals from the Freiheit military were defecting to the Freie Kräfte. The Freiheit government has only managed to hold onto hold on to the East-side of St. George, which is mostly Lower-class housing and the Industrail district.

Each side is throwing every available resource at the city, hoping to make the other two break. Becuase all three know how crucial of a city St. George is, if one to were control St. George it would make taking over the south-east so much easier.

Freistadt

President's Office

"How the hell did this happen!?" Yelled President Charles Hoffman at his cabinet, who was staring at him with teh same stupid faces they always had on their faces. "We pride ourselves on being Socialist, yet this Faust famnily goes around buying companies up with the use of loophole sin our laws, and now we dont have enough weapons, or Generals for our military to be able to combat this issue. AND on top of all that our nukes are missing in action, who knows were the hell they went!"

"Actually Mr. President, the weapons fired at the convoy were 6.5x39mm, which is the same that the Otchi's Type-98s use. So we are fairly certain that the Otchi are in possession of our nuclear weapons. Whether they are using them as a barganing chip or actually plan to use them is unknown." Spoke Viktor Kaiser, he was part of the family that use to own Kaiser Arms and was head of the Department of Defence.

"And were the hell would they keep them? Its not like they have the resources to build a conatainer with enough concrete for our sensors not to pick them up." Asked the President.

"The Capitol building sir, it was built in the 1500's and still has the old treasury under it. That is far enough underground, and has enough conrete covering it, to keep it from showing up. That is the only building that would be sufficient for the storing of the nuclear weapons." this time it was Christoph Denenver, the Secretary of Intelligence. Denever was an ex-FKS operative and was devoted to intelligence gathering his whole life.

"How are we going to get them back though? The old treasury is 3 miles underground, and the Otchi are obviously going to be gaurding this very carefully." Hoffman was excited by the fact that the biggest problem Freiheit had was getting closer to being solved.

"Currently our troops are strechted to thin to make a push for the Capitol Building, and only 2 suads of FKS operatives remain loyal to the Freiheit Military. So for now we have to wait for either foriegn support, or for Faust's army to hurt the Otchi substantially." concluded Viktor Kaiser.

"Then we wait, lets hope to god that those Otchi warriors decide to use them as a barganning chip." finished Hoffman as he stood up to leave the office.

 

[Sheridan]

Jonathon Faust's Estate

For the past couple of days it had been made increasingly clear to Faust that the Otchi were not about to give up St. George. So now Faust was going to try a different approach to this war.

"Tell our generals to pull out their troops from St. George." he said after a long silence.

"What? After all we have been accomplishing in St. George you want to just pull out now?" Vincent Vaughn gasped, his obnoxious behaviour was starting to really get under the rest of the Freie Kräfte offiacals skin.

"That is exactly what I want!" yelled Faust.

"If we pull out now, the Otchi are going to overwhelm the rest of St. George! Then there won't be anything stopping them from continuing their advance all the way to the Aquitanian border!" Vaughn yelled back.

"Get your ass out of my office Vaughn!" Faust screamed as he stood up in anger.

As vaughn walked out of the room, Hofheim spoke up, "Please allow me to get rid of Vaughn sir. It would be for the best of the Freie Kräfte."

"For the love of god yes. However before you go and do what your going to do, I am going to finish telling you all my plan. First we are going to pull out all of our troops from St. George and we are going to bring them all back up North. Becuase we have to get rid of the Socialists at some point, and we might as well do it before they win the sympathies of other nations. So hopefully by this time tomorow Freistadt will be ours, and the Socialist government's offiacals will be dead. Any objections?" asked Faust. "No? Good."

 

[Sheridan]

Freistadt

The 'seige' of Freistadt had begun in the early morning, and had caught the government off gaurd. However the Freie Kräfte had underestimated the people's determination to defend the city. Thousand of civilian militiamen attacked the Freie Kräfte, and were surprisingly succesful.

The militias couldn't keep the Freie Kräfte from advancing for all too long though, and now Faust's forces are charging to the President's Palace.

"Get the president to safety! Get him into the underground bunker now!" yelled one of the military higher ups stil remaining in the Freiheit Military. Two Freiheit soldiers grabbed the president by the arms and began walking him to a large steel door. Before the President could pull out his key to open the door however, bullets began to fly around the hallway. The two soldiers that had been gaurding the president were shot down almost immedeatly, and the officer came soon after.

"Faust wants the President alive! Anyone else is fair game! Keep moving!" Yelled General Sunter as some Freie Kräfte foot soldiers tackled President Hoffman.

 

[Sheridan]

Southern Freiheit

For the past few days Otchi troops have been pouring into Southern Freiheit. Ever since the Freie Kräfte backed out of St. George the Otchi Army has been ensuring its dominance in the south. They even have the nuclear arsenal safely hidden, or atleast they think it is hidden. In reality the Freiheit government sent a message to The Commandry telling them of the exact location of the weapons.

The Otchi Army has been advancing so quickly and fearlessly that it is believed that in a matter of days they will have reached the border with Aquitania. The capitol has fallen and the Socialist government has been offiacally collapsed. Now the war is between the Freie Kräfte and the Otchi, The Freie Kräfte in the north and the Otchi in the south.

 

[Sheridan]

Both sides have now secured either the north or the south. The Otchi have declared themselves independent, and have created their own nation simply called Otchi, electing Algru as Cheif. The Otchi Nation's first offiacal act is to create a week long holiday known as Indupe. They have been drinking and smoking Otchi Weed for the whole week.

Jonathon Faust has offiacally taken over what reamins of Freiheit, naming himself Supreme Chancellor of Freiheit. HIs first act was to create curfew's and have military personel gaurding almost every street corner. His whole basis for this idea is to protect teh nation from the dreaded Otchi threat.

 

[Sheridan]

Freistadt

"So Chancellor, we can begin moving more men to the front within a week. We have about 20,000 men there already holding those bastards back, and with your permission we can have another 40,000 on there way to make some headway and win back some of our land." spoke Hofheim, the new War Minister.

"Go ahead with the notion. We need to start winning back some land, but not to much Hofheim, becuase we still need the citizens scared. Otherwise they might get angry with the new laws."

"I am fully aware of the discontent with a few of your laws Chancellor. We will take back St. George... and at that point just hold our ground. Does this sound good Chancellor?"

"Alrigthy then. Go ahead."

 

[Sheridan]

'Border' Between Otchi and Freiheitians

2:30 a.m.

After about a week of celebration the Otchi people were ready to make their next move. They had been planning a charge on the border, hoping to push the Freiheitians back further. They had been watching the border for some time, and the Freiheitians line of defense was growing somewhat thin, due to mandatory military patrols after curfew.

The attack was about to commence and young Otchi Private Backrana clenched his Type-98 assualt rifle. He had been raised being abused by the white men in Freiheit, and he was determined to rid the world of those animals. Then a low whistle was heard, and the Otchi began to crawl towards the trenches and other fortifications of the border.

As the Freiheitian searchlights scanned the area, the Otchi guerillas crept foward very slowly in there ghuille suits. About 2000 Otchi were slowly creeping towards the encampment. Then the Otchi came to be about 5 feet from the trenches...

Backrana waited for the signal, which was pretty much just teh officer in charge standing up and opening fire. He had a surge of fear, as he stared into the trenches seeing the Freiheit soldiers drinking beer and smoking marijuana, which was extremely popular among the Freiheit military.

The officer stood up and began opening fire, so the Otchi stood up and charged. Backrana jumped into the trench and took began opening fire with his rifle, he was firing from the hip and watched as his bullets ripped through the surprised Freiheit soldiers. Almost immedeatly after the Otchi made their chareg a blaring siren went off, and Freiheit soldiers began pouring out of the baracks and opening fire from the guard towers.

Backrana ran behind a transport vehicle and began to lean out and fire every couple of seconds. He was surprising himself with the amount of kills he was getting, soon he would be bragging to his friends about how many he had killed. Then Backrana felt a drastic pain in his back as a Freiheit soldier slammed the butt of his rifle into Backrana's spine. The soldier kicked him in the side, turning him onto his back, and jabbed his rifle into Backrana's face.

"You little shit's aren't killing my children!" teh soldier yelled as he unloaded his magazine into Backrana's face.

The Battle of the Border was at first in the Otchi favor, however Freiheit soldiers were eventually backed up by chopper, and tank support. Not a single Otchi walked away from that fight alive. It may have been a physical loss for the Otchi, but it was a physcological win for them, becuase now the Freiheitian soldiers realized how determined the Otchi were for victory.

 

[Sheridan]

Freistadt

Faust had been discussing war strategy for the past 12 hours... and he was getting pretty damn sick of it. However he knew that it was useful, becuase now they had pretty much planned out how the war was going to end.

The plan was to next Friday start the push to St. George. The push would probably take about three days if all went well. After getting to and securing St. George, which would take about another 5 days at best. AFter securing St. George they would work their way East and wipe out the resistance near Aquatania. At this point the Otchi would be pinned up against the West Coast. Then the Freiheit military would just hold the line, keeping the Otchi as a symbol of fear for the Freiheit people. And ensuring that Faust was still necessary to the civilians.

 

[Sheridan]

Carbon City, Helper

1:00 (a.m.)

The tiny town of Carbon City had been turned into a massive military camp. The city is very near a massive Otchi military encampment, so naturally all the civilians had been moved out of the town. 40,000 Freiheit troops had been moved to the city, bringing the grand total of men stationed there to about 50,000. In about three hours those 50,000 would participate in an assualt on the Otchi camp about three klicks away. The Freiheit artillery was constantly firing hoping to pound the Otchi, and soften them up for the assualt becuase even though to the civilians in Freiheit the Otchi were being whupped... the truth was that these Otchi were putting up more of a fight then anyone expected.

Freiheit Military Intelligence said that there was approximately 20,000 Otchi in the camp. While it may look like a statistically easy win for the Freiheitians, in reality the Freiheitian troops were terrified of the Otchi now. Stories were being told of what the Otchi do to there prisoners, how they are so willing to die, or their war cry which was terrifeing when a whole platoon of Otchi were chanting it.

4:15 (a.m.)

The Freheitian army was approaching the Otchi camp, which began to look more likea fortress as they got closer and closer. The Freiheit Helicopters had entered the camps airspace about 10 minutes ago, and they could hear the explosions as the majority of the choppers were being shot down. General Hofheim was watching driving next to the troops in a Heavily Armored Command Vehicle.

Hofheim looked down at the map of the camp, then turned to one of the Major's in the vehicle. "Signal der Tanks, die Soldaten bewegen in 5 Minuten." And with those words the true battle began, the MA Vertei tanks began to roll into the city, as rockets and machine guns began to light up the night. The soldiers had now reached the outskirts of the camp, and were eventually told to move in. For six hours the battle raged, with no clear dominator. At around noon though the Otchi surrendered or fled. 5,000+ Freiheit soldiers dead, and another 9,000+ wounded. The casualtie list was already soring for Faust's 'Final Offensive'.

 

[Sheridan]

Olgrana, Helper

23:00

As the bulk of the Freiheitian forces were continuing to march south, two groups had been tasked with assualting the old Otchi Slum called Olgrana. It was believed that one of the Otchi's top Generals was hiding out in the ghetto. The mans name was Usotho Kapori. The two groups tasked with taking him down were The 44th Armored Division or "Reaper's Gauntlet" as the majority of the troops called this elite tank division, and a FKS squad known as "Switchblade". Switchblade was a force of some 250 FKS special forces troops.

The plan was to sneak Switchblade into the slum, and confirm whether or not Kapori was actually there. If they found him they would kill him and then Reaper's Gauntlet would roll in to help evacuate the FKS men. They couldn't risk the manpower to actually assualt and take Olgrana so this would have to be very stealthy.

As Switchblade entered the slum they immedeatly realized why it was the Otchi wanted to rebel so badly. The slum was a real shithole, with dried shit and piss all over the streets, and houses made of barely held together sheet metal. None of the white people had ever really been inside, or seen the inside of the Otchi slums, until right now. But they still had an obligation to defend their country, and the Otchi had killed many Freiheitians at St. George, so they weren't exactly the good guys.

45 minutes into the slum it became clear that Kapori was indeed in the 'town'. They set up sniper's inside amny of the shithole houses and prepared for any visual contact. While some other operatives set up plastic explosives along the roads at significant points. Over the radio they could hear in their ears that Kapori was in a reinforced Jeep, and his car was part of a large convoy of pick-ups and other random cars with machine gun turrents put on them. Kapori must have figured that the Freiheitians would eventually come to Olgrana and was trying to flee, but teh FKS weren't about to let that happen. As Kapori's convoy came near the only road leading out of the slum the explosives were detonated. The first three cars in the front of the convoy burst into flames while the others all stopped and started firing into the slums trying to find out were the enemy was.

A sniper hit Kapori's driver, and Kapori dove out of his car holding onto his assualt rifle. He was not about to die to the hands of these damn germans. As he ran to cover he spotted an FKS sniper and threw a grenade at the sniper's makeshift bunker. The bunker was thrown into the air as the sniper was hit with shrapnel. Kapori had grown up in this slum and knew a hole in the wall around it, it was about 2 minutes sprint away, and he knew he could make it. He began to run, but was almost immedeatly shot in the shoulder by a AWSM Sniper Rifle. He dropped his rifle and shouted in pain, but kept moving. He got to cover just as the sniper fired another shot. the shot bounced off a metal bucket and flew into the night. Kapori crouched behind his cover and reached for his pistol, a K-45 made for the Freiheit military. He counted to three and then sprinted again across the dirt road. One of the Otchi soldiers saw Kapori running, and came out of his cover to try to join Kapori. The Otchi soldier was immedeatly shot by FKS operative weilding a K-68 rifle with a silencer. Kapori jumped across the remainder of the road, which hurt his shoulder immensly.

He could now see the hole, and began praying that he would fit through it. He ran next to it and tried to squeeze through, and about half way he got stuck. He began to panic as he tried to wiggle through it. He felt somebody grab his legs as he was pulled back through the hole. He found himself face to face with an FKS operative who smakced Kapori's head with the but of his K-68. Kapori hit the ground hard, but rolled to his back and fired his K-45 pistol three times. The FKS was hit in the gut and the arm, and the other bullet wizzed past his head. As the FKS agent yelled Kapori pulled the trigger again... but it jammed. The operative laughed and painfully lifted his K-68 rifle to his hip, but before he could fire Kapori rolled and grabbed a peice of broken glass. The white man laughed and pulled his trigger, shooting at the thin peice of wood Kapori had hid behind. When the operative was out of ammo he un-holstered his pistol and walked behind the peice of wood. But Kapori wasn't there. The agent looked around, but Kapori came out of a dark doorway and grabbed the agent from behind, and slit the FKS man's throat.

Then Kapori forced himself through the hole, which cut up his sides and stomach. After he was out he heard the Freiheitian tanks roll into Olgrana... all he could do was run.

 

[Sheridan]

Kapori had managed to get back to St. George ahead of the Freiheitian Army. He got treated for his wounds and requested a prescence with Cheif Algru. As Kapori laid in his hospital bed Cheif Algru walked into the makeshift hospital room.

"What the hell happened Kapori?" Algru immedeatly asked.

"The Freiheitians they ambushed me while I was trying to get out of Olgrana. I don't know if any of my men got out alive." replied Kapori.

"Olgrana was were we had most of our weapons stashed! Even though we have been manufacturing these Commandry weapons we won't have enough to defend St. George!" yelled Algru.

"Yes Cheif, I am greatly sorry for this loss, but it was not my fault! The FKS showed up oput of nowhere! I just barely got out alive!" Argued Kapori.

"I'm not angry at you Kapori. It's just that our scouts claim that in less than 24 hours the Freiheitians will have reached this city and if we don't have enough weapons then they are going to wipe us out..." Algru looked around for a little bit making sure no one was listening in, "and if they find the nukes under the Capital Building, then we may have a CN Force storming our lands."

"Yes Cheif I have thought of this. We are going to have to them and you out of the city. We can stash them at Blaufelden, were we can try to sell them to any organization or country that will purchase them." Kapori said cooly.

"We risk detection if we try to move them... having another country find out about them would be equally as bad as one of them going off. We HAVE to hold the city. We have sufficeitn enough weapons to arm a group of about 10,000... hopefully we can hold the city. Becuase if we can't then it seems our childhood dream of having an Otchi nation will be destroyed my friend." explained Algru.

".... I guess your right, but trust me 10,000 isn't going to hold the city."

"It will have to. For now we will evacuate the women and children East to Blaufelden. We will have to hold this city."

"Yes Cheif, I am ready to fight. We are going to give thoe Freiheitian bastards one hell of a fight!" Kapori said confidently.

 

[Sheridan]

St. George, Bezirk

12:00 (a.m.)

The Otchi were waiting for the Freiheitian army to attack. They knew it was coming, and that it was coming soon. There were Otchi sniper's and soldiers scattered and hiding in buildings all over the city waiting for the upcoming battle. Cheif Algru walked around his office in the State Capitol Building. He had under his command about 250 Elite Guards who were ready to defend him, and the building, with their lives. These ELite guards were some of the only well armed soldiers in the Otchi army, most of the other soldiers were using hunting rifles or shotguns and small caliber pistols. In other words things certainly didn't look good for the Otchi. The were out-manned, out-gunned, and were pretty damn low on morale.

There were landmines all over the city, in an attempt to slow down some of the Freiheit tanks that would surely be rushing into the city any minute now. General Kapori was on top of the City Hall Building. The City Hall Building was a huge sky scraper with a view of almost the entire city, which is why he picked it.

Suddenly the distant sound of helicopters could be heard. The Otchi who had been either pissing or setting up more land mines rushed to their positions and began to check their rifles. Within minutes the Novera Transport Helicopters were dropping soldiers into the heart of the city, while Havoc Attack Helicopters were busy firing on Otchi positions. At almost the same time the TTV-Shveer transports were driving into the city, a few hit the landmines, but the vast majority of them reached the heart of teh city and dropped tehir soldiers off. Covering the Shveer's were a hell of a lot of Vertei tanks.

Algru heard gunfire and explosiosn and knew that the battle was starting. "Alright 150 of you come with me down into the old treasury, the rest of you stay up here and make damn certain that they don't even reach the treasurie's door."

The Freiheit soldiers entering on foot arrived into the outskirts of the city, and immedeatly started taking building after building from the Otchi. The soldiers at the heart of the city had pretty much secured everything near them and were now positioned near the Bezirk State Capitol Building, waiting for word from command to move in on it.

The sphere's of influence on the city now looked somewhat like a bulls eye. With the middle dot belonging to Freiheit along with a ring going around the entire outside of the city. The only places under Otchi control was a ring surrounded on both sides by Freiheitians. A Havoc attack chopper spotted Kapori and his men firing rockets off the top of City Hall. The chopper called in for three other choppers before going up to the Otchi rocket squad and opening fire with its minigun's. Men all around Kapori were being ripped to shreds, but he immedeatly began to run downstairs. The chopper's weren't done yet though. They began to fire tehir rockets in through the broken windows of the insanely tall building.

Kapori was knocked to the ground by an explosion and patted himself down to check for shrapnel. None had hit him yet so he got up and started running again. The whole building was being rocked by missiles, and Kapori knew that if he didn't get out of their soon, he was going to be crushed under hundreds of tons of concrete and metal. As he continued to run down the multiple flights of stairs, he felt a shockwave of sorts jolt up the building. It was coming down on top of him. He ran faster then he thought he could and realized that there was still a lot more flights of stairs to go down... so he jumped. He hit the ground, shattering his ribs, and breaking multiple bones in his legs and left arm. So he pulled himself with his good arm through a door, and reached the Waiting Room at the bottom of the building. He could see the exit to the outside. Before he could reach it though the building came down on top of him, squashing him like an insect.

For the past four hours the Freiheitians have been cleaning up what was left of the Otchi inbetween their forces, and that left only the State Capitol Building to liberate. Command gave the go-ahead that a group of no more than 300 go in and scout it out, and if they could, destroy the Otchi left in there. The Freiheit soldiers broke in through the back, the front, and through both sides of the building.

The 100 Otchi Guards inside of the main part of the State Capitol fought valiantly, and took out about 85 of teh Freiheitian soldiers before the last of the guards were killed off. The soldiers fell in the fairly massive old Treasury's door. Waiting for command to give the go ahead to break in and wipe out the last remnenants of the Otchi army. Algru was hiding behind one of the nuclear weapons at the very bottom of the treasury, which was almost a mile underground.

After the Freiheitians had broke in, they began to walk down the fligth of stairs to the bottom of the treasury. On the stairs the Freiheitians were easy pickings, so teh Otchi opened fire, wiping out all but three of the group of Freiheitians. The Otchi could hear one of the soldiers scream into his radio for back-up, right before Algru shot him in the head. So command ordered for 500 more Freiheitian soldiers to get in. The 500 were also picked off, but not before they noticed that the crates on the very bottom looked a lot like the crates one of them saw on the news... and if that was true then there were nukes inside of those crates. That soldier ran back up the stairs and radioed in that the Otchi had nuclear weapons.

Command was reluctant to believe him, but he continued to swear that he saw them, so they treated this like any situation in which a radical group was surrounded by the enemy and had nuclear weapons on them. They waited around the Capitol building, hopefully the Otchi inside would starve, or try to break out.

 

[Sheridan]

"We cannot detonate those nuclear weapons!" Algru screamed at the men who were begging him to let them use the grenades they had left to detonate the nuclear arsenal in the Treasury.

"Sir we can't just let these bastards get away with what they have done!" yelled one of the Otchi.

"What the hell do you think they will do to the rest of us!? I fwe detonate those nukes there will be more fuel in the furnace of hate the Freihetians have toward us! Our only option is to surrender..." It took another 45 minutes for him to convince his men to drop their weapons and walk up their with him... but eventually they did.

With absoluetly no weapons and their hands all raised in the air the Otchi walked out into the street. Sicherheitskräfte and Freiheit soldiers had the entire place surrounded, and immedeatly 5 Sicherheitskräfte men walked up to aresst Algru.

"Go ahead, we have Algru!" yelled one of the officers. After he yelled that the soldiers and Sicherheitskräfte opened fire on Algru's men.

"NO! YOU FUCKERS!" Yelled Algru as he used his handcuffs to strangle the life out of one of the Sicherheitskräfte aressting him, but then another one took a peice of concrete from the street and bashed it into Algru's head. Algru hit the floor, as the Sicherheitskräfte began to beat him with their guns, feet, and hands. After Algru slipped out of consioucness they put him in the back of the Sicherheitskräfte car.

"Take that dumb fuck to the train. There is one more load of those things heading to Gilrae."

 

[Sheridan]

Orders had finally come through about the nuclear arsenal. The nuclear arsenal consisted of 10 Nuclear Bombs designed to be dropped out of a plane, and 40 warheads. The bombs were nowadays completely useless, but nonetheless Hofheim had devised a plan on what to do with them.

While St. George was being reconstructed, The would build a shaft underground that would hold 5 of these bombs. Should the city ever be invaded, they could destroy everything inside it. The other 5 were being discreetly moved to Freistadt were they would be placed underground in a similar way and for a similar purpose. The warheads were being moved in a train to the Grau Mountains in the north. The would all be put in silo's across the mountain range.

If any other nation spotted these nuclear weapons then Freiheit would be in deeper shit then it already was.

 

[Sheridan]

When Algru awoke he found himself laying on a dirt floor with about six little Otchi children looking up at him. He sat up and drank in his surroundings. He could hear women and children wailing, many of the women screaming becuase of rape, and the children screaming from the Freiheitians beating the shit out of them. This must be the Otchi camp, he thought. He looked at the children and smiled at them. Their glares remianed un-changed, many of them didn't even blink. The eyes of one in particular caught his attention, one boy probably about 10 years old. It was as if the boys soul was dead, becuase if it hadn't been that the boy was sitting and breathing, Algru would have thought the boy was dead.

"What happened to you little one?" Algru found himself asking after straing the boy down for what felt like hours. It took the boy about fifteen minutes to reply, but his story was absoluetly chilling.

"My father died in the revolution, and the germans killed my mother before we got on the train to come here. We were part of the group escaping the battle of St. George. On the train it was just me and my six year old brother... but he didn't make it. Mother told me to watch him... and I tried to... but one day he just didn't wake up when they were loading us off the train..." The boy said, and still the boy's expression remained like that of a brick wall.

"I am truly sorry for what happened to you. Don't worry though son, the Council of Nations is going to get us all out of here soon."

"But sir, how do you know that?" asked a 8 year old girl.

"Becuase the world knows what is happening to us. We are going to be rescued. It can't be more than two days. You watch children, in two days we will be liberated." Algru said in an attempt to pick up their spirits.

"I don't believe you. You said we would win the revolution. Father said that you promised that we would win!" said the boy with the dead eyes.

Algru opened his mouth to say more, but found himself lost for words. The little children all sat up and walked out of the shack. Algru decided that he should get up and walk around, so he stood up. Almost immedeatly he fell back down. His leg was badly hurt, and he was starving. But he tried again, and this time succeeded in standing. He limped through the thin cloth 'door' and covered his eyes from the sun.

The sounds that he had heard could not have prepared himself for what he was seeing. Almost everywhere there were Sicherheitskräfte either beating people, or raping women. He had to find food. He looked around and noticed a line forming, he figured that it had to be for food. So he walked into the line and waited for his turn to be fed. The 'chef' gave him a single cup of water, and a loaf of bread.

"Hey wait! Are you Algru?" asked the white chef.

"... yes." Algru said, and rigth as he said it he recieved a punch to the bridge of the nose.

"Hope your happy for what you did for these people.... dumbass."

 

[Socialist Commonwealth]

Diary of Dusan Mejic

All in all, the plan seemed to have worked out as planned. It had cost me quite some convincing, but in the end, Lucijan did as I asked him and ordered his men to arrest the Freiheiter diplomats. The international reaction was as expected, some more vocal than others. This is a temporary loss of face we'll have to accept in order to keep the pressure up on these Neo-Mezhists. I'd say the Tysker and Oltremaren diplomats return once the issue is out of the spotlight.

It remains to be seen how Freiheit reacts to this incident. We provoked them - and cornered animals are unpredictable. However, I believe we have made a point that there will be consequences for continued persecution of the Otchi and the way the discussions in the Council of Nations are led strengthens my optimism. I don't think it is too much to say that my decision to arrest the ambassador and investigate his possible involvement into the Otchi persecution has drawn the Otchi issue into the spotlight of European attention and thus made a resolution which punishes Freiheit a real possibility.

Matija keeps bothering us with what he believes to be the negative consequences of this move. Despite the long distance to Freiheit, he insists that the number one enemy status we have now acquired in the eyes of the government of Freiheit may cause them to interfere with our plans in Akhaltsikhe. He's worried a principled stance in a state where there is nothing at stake for Carentania, may prevent a principled stance in a state where there is everything at stake for Carentanias economy and geopolitical situation.

I'm not sure if he's completely wrong, but not because of a possible retaliation from Freiheit, but moreso because we may lack time to even out the damage in international relations I've caused Carentania on the short term. However, I am almost perfectly certain that this was a risk I had to take, if only to accomodate the public opinion which was more worried about the Otchi than the Urudoah in recent days. Carentanians want the knowledge that such a crime does not go unnoticed by their government. And if we manage to force the rest of Europe to a principled stance in the Council of Nations, criticism of our membership there may ebb out as well.

To be perfectly honest, though, I can't deny the personal gain I have from this operation. The last All-Workers Congress only narrowly reelected me and the delegates have made it quite clear to me that they wished for a more principled, more socialist stance of Carentania in the world. I am too weak, too compromising, too moderate it seems. Someone once told me "Carentania was isolationist for so long, not because Carentanians do not wish to deal with the outside world. It was isolationist, because Carentanians want foreign policy based on ideological issues."

He may have been right - and I just gave the public a sacrifice so they'd be content with me.

 

[Sheridan]

Algru was not about toput up with these conditions, and he began to doubt that any foriegn countries would intervene. So he had found four other Otchi males and they began to try to find ways to break out. All Algru had to do was get to Aquitania and they would have a chance to plee for the world to help.

It was 0:00 when they executed their plan. They simply ran out of the camp. The electric fence wasn't exactly on... and the Sicherheitskräfte had been counting on the fact that the Otchi were to tired, hurt, and scared to try and escape. For the most part they were right, except they underestimated Algru's determination.

However one of the officer's spotted them escaping, and recognized Algru from the news. He called in for a helicopter to hunt them down... but the Grau Mountains were a damn good place to hide, so he also released the hounds.

Algru continued to run as he heard the barking in the distance. He also couldn't help but notice the chopper with the searchlight. Nonetheless he just kept on running. Eventaully he heard one of his men scream as teh dogs reached them and attacked. Algru was knocked down to the ground and bitten several times. The dogs bit his ankle, ripping his achilles, and making it immposible for him to run anymore... it didn't take long for the Sicherheitskräfte to catch up... and they weren't gentle in returning them to the camp.