Franklin D. Roosevelt sat in the Oval Office staring at the reports. The Egyptians were up to something. But what?
The Indians and Germans were building up their armies ready for yet another conflict, the hatred between those two nations being so strong they would probably never have true peace until one was destroyed.
The Zulus had been cowed by the American attack on them in the Great War, now rebuilding their army, which was only a slight worry to Roosevelt, and Japan and Rome were getting on only slightly better than the Indians and Germans, jostling for power in the Central Sea.
England and Russia were putting on big military shows in their capitals, and their troops were facing off at the border. A big showdown was coming soon between those two superpowers soon, Roosevelt could feel it.
But Egypt had no enemy to worry it, as it was surrounded only by two allies, Russia and America. But Cleopatra had been icy during Roosevelt's visit to Thebes, and her forces were now massing at Memphis and Nanking.
The reports suggested that the Egyptians may just be increasing their border defences so that they would be unharmed in another Great War, but Roosevelt thought this unlikely. The units were mostly offensive ones.
Then his aide walked in with another report from the CIA.
It had plans in copied by a CIA agent in Thebes of an attack on Beijing and Atlanta! The Egyptians were planning to attack!
But the US was the world's biggest superpower. Surely that would be suicide, them attacking the US? Unless another nation was involved, Roosevelt thought.
The Zulus.
He quickly picked out the report on the Zulus again. Yes, it fitted, they were increasing offensive strength, and were massing outside Mpondo. Roosevelt guessed they would probably move to retake their old city, Bapedi.
He was wrong.
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The next day, Operation WolfPack went into action.
Cleopatra smiled at Shaka as he walked into her throne room.
"A pack of determined wolves can bring down the strongest beast." Shaka said, smiling and looking at the real plans for the attack.
"Hence the name of our great plan, Operation Wolf Pack." Cleopatra grinned.
CIA Agent Martin Jones smiled at his Queen.
"I fed them the false plans like you asked me to, my Queen." he said.
"Good. America will soon learn how determined these wolves are." she laughed nastily.
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Roosevelt had placed his best troops to defend the targets he thought were going to be attacked. He had placed his attacking troops near Nanking in the hope of taking it as soon as the troops there moved, as it was isolated. He had blundered badly.
Zulu forces marched, but not towards Bapedi. They went straight at Boston, and the weaker garrison there was overwhelmed.
The Egyptian forces outside Nanking headed towards not Beijing, but New York, hitting the forces there so hard that the Big Apple fell.
The troops outside Memphis went forward towards Atlanta, as expected. But they bypassed it, and headed straight for Chicago, which fell after a fierce fight.
The offensive troops near Nanking attacked it, thinking that the enemy had moved off in the expected directions, as no orders had come to the contrary from the now isolated Washington. Nanking fell to their troops after a bitter battle which killed most of America's attacking strength.
Roosevelt had been humbugged.
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Roosevelt spoke one order to the CIA Director:
"I want an investigation into that information! If it was fed to our agent on purpose by the Egyptians, get him out of there!"
The CIA Director shook his head. "I've already ordered him out. He doesn't reply, and we have sightings of him now with the Queen's entourage. It is now certain that he was a double agent."
Roosevelt looked furious, and cursed, then spoke. "Kill the son of a *****!"
The CIA Director nodded and walked out.
Roosevelt turned to his Secretary of Defence, who looked exhausted.
"Mr. President, Washington only has three regiments in defence, all three are pikemen regiments. We suggest you escape immediately, I will handle the defence of Washington, and we will die to the last man to defend it. We have a fast horse waiting to take you to Beijing. Please, go now!"
"I am not leaving my people!" was Roosevelt's stubborn reply. The Defence Secretary had been trying to get him to leave for the last few hours.
"But sir, the Zulus have halted, yes, but that is because they have a slow army and an agreement with the Egyptians. The Egyptians are coming though! Even with leaving troops to garrison their new cities, they have five knight regiments advanving on Washington! You must escape now to Beijing!"
An aide rushed in and handed a piece of paper to the President, then a copy to the Defence Secretary.
Roosevelt glanced at the paper in disgust. The Japanese had declared war, and taken Beijing by amphibious assault!
"Escape to where?" Roosevelt shook his head. "I will not leave my people, and that is final. Plus, there is nowhere to run to!"
The Secretary of Defence just nodded.
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The English were overwhelmed by Russian numbers at Paris, and that city fell to Stalin's forces. The war then stalemated, with English technology holding out against Russian numbers.
Russia was slightly shocked by an Egyptian attack on Minsk, which succeeded, and they counter-attacked, but it failed. Minsk became the fortress which stopped the Russians entering the Egyptian homeland, not the fortress to stop Egyptian expansion as it had once been.
The Romans declared war upon Japan, and the latter had put so much effort into its assault on the US that it had left Edo vulnerable. Mussolini's troops moved in, and Hirohito was forced to sign a humiliating peace treaty to stop the rest of Japan from being overwhelmed.
The Indian war elephants fared well against the Germans, but a horrid sight welcomed the soldiers as they rode into Nuremberg.
A little village near it was called Auschwitz, and was full of dead bodies. The reports of slaughters that Roosevelt had received was right.
The Indian soldiers wept that they hadn't arrived sooner, and been able to save these people.
But they had saved the lives of ten thousand more who had been awaiting death at the camp, much to the relief of those there. But the soldiers were too upset at the sheer numbers of dead.
Nearly two or three million, it was estimated.
Now the Indians fought with a vengeance, and invaded Hamburg.
Hermann Goering was taken prisoner there, and was tried at Numreberg for the atrocities commited by the Nazis. He was beheaded by an Indian swordsmen after the sentence of death was read out.
But Hitler and his SS still had power in Berlin and Munich, and were too strong for now to be beaten. The Indians forced the Germans to sign a peace treaty which included a clause that Hitler must stop all killing of innocent people.
He didn't, but it took the Indians many more years to find out that he hadn't.
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Washington was doomed, or so it was thought. Then America, the world's most advanced nation, made an even more startling discovery involving a little used resource called saltpeter. They found it could be used to make gunpowder, which could explode, and the scientists soon produced a new weapon known as the musket.
Roosevelt ordered every pikeman regiment in the US Army to be upgraded with these new weapons, and due to the large US Treasury, it was done.
Washington was now defended by three musketmen regiments, which evened up the fight a bit.
But Roosevelt's men were veteran, whereas the Egyptians were regular troops. That would play a vital role in the battle to come.
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Roosevelt stood on the walls of Washington, holding a musket like those carried by the men fighting under him.
The Egyptians charged, hoping to tie a rope around the gate and use it to pull it down. Their first assault was ripped apart by the concentrated firepower of the muskets.
The second regiment's assault was also routed, until the third wave pulled down the gate, injuring many musketmen.
Roosevelt rushed to the gate, leading his men. They engaged the knights, and pushed them back out. But they were soon back after regrouping, along with the two remaining regiments of knights.
A bitter fight ensued.
Roosevelt fired his musket at a knight, but hit the horse. It collapsed, dead, and its rider fell to the floor. As Roosevelt reloaded, the dismounted knight drew his sword, and killed a musketman, taking his loaded musket. It took the knight a second to work out how to fire it, but then he aimed it at the President.
Roosevelt knelt to pour the powder down the barrel, showing his back to the knight. The knight fired, and Roosevelt felt a thud at the base of his spine. But he staggered to his feet, turned around, and fired once.
The knight dropped to the floor, a hole in his helmet where the bullet had struck.
Roosevelt collapsed, and was rushed into the White House.
The doctors were relieved to find that he was not dying, but horrified at the fact that he couldn't move his legs. They broke the news gently to him that he would have to go around in a wheelchair from now on.
Roosevelt shrugged as best he could, and asked one question:
"Did we win?"
The doctor turned to the Secretary of Defence.
"Yes sir, we did. We won."
"Good, now I need some rest if I'm going to see the victory parade." Roosevelt smiled and laid back.
[Yes, I know that Roosevelt was really disabled by a disease, not a war injury, but I thought it would sound better in the story]
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The Americans counter-attacked soon after, with Boston falling to troops from Washington, and Mpondo being taken by forces from Bapedi.
The US then attacked from Atlanta and Shanghai, recapturing the Big Apple and Chicago.
Finally there was peace in the world, and due to large numbers of US troops heading towards Beijing, that city was handed back to the USA in peace negotiations with the Japanese.
America had survived her worst ever time, and had come out from it stronger than ever.
And the agent who betrayed her mysteriously disappeared from Thebes one night.
No trace of him as ever been found.
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There will be more I promise! And after this story, I am doing one with screenshots, as I am no longer saving over my old saves in my newest game!
Next chapter should come tomorrow night, or the night after if I'm busy.
Comments are appreciated!
The World After the Second Great War
Nemesis
PS: This will be posted on Apolyton, but I can't get on there very often, the forums seem to be down quite a bit!
