August 6th, 2064 AD/August 7th, 1800 AIC. Jianghai, Ashait
"Your majesty." A butler said as Zhou sat on her throne, going through the 7 stages of grief for her country, and she was currently in the depression stage. "We have just gotten word from the frontlines that the Canterians have broken through and we are the only barrier between them and total conquest." Zhou who was currently deciding whether to kill herself or let herself be captured, ignored the butler. After all her entire dynasty, lineage and empire was destroyed in a single month.
"What will your decision be your majesty?" The butler asks. Zhou who started to think of anything to stop the Canterians started thinking of old strategies and if they would be applicable to her current situation. Unfortunately for her, she was facing an enemy half a millennium older than her. "How about a siege?" The butler was dumbfounded at Zhou's suggestion since sieging was deemed obsolete in 1681 (AIC). "Your majesty, i don't think a siege would be a viable option since we are dealing with an enemy many more times advanced-" Suddenly a explosion rocked the entire castle.
"What's going on?" Zhou yelled. She took a glance to the window and saw a CG1946 attempting to conduct a strafing run towards the supposed throne room, and with that signal, she ran to shelter. "FOX 4! EAT THIS BITCHES!" A fighter pilot yells out as the Gatling guns on his plane fires 40. cal towards the throne room, decimating it. The fighter jet turned around and flew away from the castle, but just as Zhou thought she was safe she saw the fighter turn back around and fire a missile.
"What in the name of-" The missile hit and rocked the entire castle again, this time destroying some of it. "Those Canterians! Damm them!" Zhou said as she clenched her fist. Just then the minister of occultism ran in making sure that Zhou was safe. "Get half of the entire mage squadron to guard the castle, understood?" The minister nodded and ran off.
Outer Jianghai. MK-1s side.
"GO, GO, GO!" Ivan yelled as the walls were breached. Several CIDA soldiers broke through without resistance but many others were faced with several swordsmen trying to kill them, those swordsmen would be killed but were replaced by more swordsmen and musketeers. This eventually turned into house-to-house combat as they had to fight for their lives because they were outnumbered by 1-50. "FUCKING HELL! WHERE IS MK-2?" Jack yells as he is pinned down by several musketeers.
"I don't know but they better not be fucking around!" Akane yells as she blindly fires into a group of swordsmen, dumping two magazines. A musket ball merely grazes her while she's firing and takes off a strand of hair. In response, Akane throws a grenade and kills 22 swordsmen and musketeers. She then fires several 3 round bursts before seeing a magical forcefield. "Oh god. THEY HAVE FUCKING FORCEFEILDS! GET A ROCKET LAUNCHER HERE NOW!" Akane yells as she sees a mage. Luckily a nearby soldier has a CG73 and hands it to Akane, who then smiles.
"Oyasumi motherfucker." Akane fires a anti-tank rocket and destroys the forcefield. The mage then tries to put up another shield only for it to fail as a sniper blew her brains out. That same sniper then started shooting every Ashaitian in the street MK-1 was in. Combined with the sheer power of 8.25 PCI, 40 cal and 10mm the Ashaitians were killed.
"Alright lets go! We've got no time to be sight seeing!" Ivan yells out as he reloads his CGP9 with a fresh 51 round drum magazine. He then busts down a door leading to a 3 story building that is suspected to be the headquarters of all occultist operations in Ashait. "Woah! Who are you?" A mage asks as she was about to drink a glass of orange juice. Ivan brought up his CGP9S and shot the mage with 6 rounds of 10mm, killing her. Another mage, curious to the sounds of the firing of 10mm, went down the stairs only to be met with 6 more rounds of 10mm.
Ivan then moved in the building and was handed a CG79 that had explosive slugs in it and a silencer (for the CGP9S). "This is perfect." Ivan says as he puts the silencer on his CGP9S. Ivan went up the stairs to see a mage guarding the room where all of the operations are conducted. Luckily he was sleeping, just as Ivan pointed his CGP9S point blank at the mages head. He fired and the shot came out silent as the mage died. Ivan looked at his machine pistol with a expression of happiness as if he had never seen a silencer in action.
Ivan then put the barrel of his CG79 in the middle of the door and doorway enough that you could barely see it from the inside. Ivan who was hearing a conversation in the room decided to listen however. "So anyways, i killed that filthy cat person with a single ice lance. It was actually pretty good to get that out of my system honestly. I mean, why did that damm queen abandon slavery in the first place?" The mage chuckled as Ivan was preparing to fire his entire magazine into the room. "You have a point! After all, they are just disgusting mutts, designed to be the slaves of humanity!"
Just then a explosive slug detonated near the mages, killing them instantly. The other mages in the building were alerted by this and tried to get into action but unfortunately, shotguns are faster than chants, and so they were killed. "I need rockets to bomb the shit out of the third floor of this building now." Ivan said as he bum-rushed towards the door, escaping just as the first rockets struck the building. The rockets pounded the third and second floor as the building shook from the force of what was supposed to be anti-tank rockets.
"Alright. Final objective, that castle over there. You are to eliminate any hostiles present in the castle understood?" Ivan pointed his bayonet at the royal palace and several soldiers who weren't busy with the aftermath of house to house combat, saluted. "Yes sir!"
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Ivan broke into the castle after shooting down the old drawbridge made 200 years ago and killing all of the guards. He was now in the interior part of the castle armed to the teeth with his CGP9S, his CG79 shotgun, a CG4A2 rifle and a CG72 anti-tank rocket launcher. Why was he carrying 3 weapons? Because he was going to clear out the entire castle by himself.
Ivan turned a corner and saw several swordsmen rushing towards him. In response he fired 16 10mm rounds and killed all of them. He then broke through a door that led to stairs that went to the throne room. Unfortunately it was packed with musketeers. As soon as Ivan opened the door he felt every musket ball in the room his his chest. Luckily he was wearing body armor and was injected with nanobots so any injury could be healed. Ivan who was just recovering from him getting blasted a few feet back decided to use his CG79 with normal shells.
Within seconds 12 gauge rounds hit every musketeer in the room and the stairs turned from an elegant golden and silver to a disgusting mess of blood and organs. However there was no shortage of suffering as musket balls eventually broke both his body armor and his helmet, causing him to get hit. "ARUGH! Fuck." Ivan yelled out as musket balls continuously hit him, with some even hitting his skull, however titanium alloy plating is good bone material so barely any of them made a dent. The musketeers were making losses too, with every 10 musket balls fired, one of their own went down by 12 gauge.
How was Ivan not dead? That would still be a mystery, however the combination of pain combined with the process of auto regeneration was too much for Ivan so he resorted to an option that could dent his entire plan. Chemical explosives. Within a moment Ivan threw mustard gas that he had obtained from an airdrop back at Lapalica and wore his gas mask. The result? Everyone in the room became severely injured or died and Ivan had no more interruptions to his massacre.
Ivan then burst open the door that led to the last hallway before the throne room. In that hallway were several magicians. "Oh fuck." Ivan said before the mages put up a forcefield. The mages then used lightning magic on Ivan, which was painful. "AUGHHHH! FUCKING HELL! AAAGH!" He was repeatedly struck with lightning bolts as his cybernetic left arm was almost fried. Fortunately he turned it off before it could kill him. Ivan then brought out a CG72, although less quickly due to his left arm not working.
The computer guidance system in the CG72 however was shut off due to the electric shocks of the electric magic, so Ivan had to manually fire it. Ivan however, was not steadying the rocket launcher properly because he was repeatedly being electrocuted. "Come on motherfucker!" Ivan said while trying his hardest to get into firing position. Fortunately luck would have his side as he got onto the right angle and accidentally fired, killing two mages with the forcefield. Just in time Ivan threw a grenade before the back mages could create a forcefield and killed all of them.
Ivan, now on his knees as his legs gave out, rolled on his back and waited half a minute so his legs could regenerate and his left arm could return to a semi-functioning state. "Well at least this wasn't as painful as the interrogation that made me lose my left arm in the first place." Ivan said while talking to himself. 30 seconds passed and Ivan stood up. "Alright, time i finish this damm war once and for all." Ivan broke into the throne room and pointed his CGP9S at Zhou.
"Au Revoir, but never return bitch." Ivan fired his entire magazine at Zhou and killed her. Finally ending the Canteri-Ashait War once and for all. Ivan then left the throne room and went on his radio. "This is MK-1, We got the queen. I repeat, We got the queen." Ivan looked outside the palace and saw 2 helicopters holding up a New Canterian flag heading towards the destroyed palace. As soon as they arrived, they put the flag on the destroyed throne room for everyone in Jianghai to see.
"I guess they wanted to show off huh?" Ivan said as he store out the window. "Yea, they definitely did." Akane said, which surprised Ivan. "When did you get here?" Ivan asks. "We were here the entire time." Akane says, Ivan stops however. "Wait. So you fuckers were here and didn't help me when i was being shot with the force of several suns and electrocuted to high hell?" Akane stared at Jack who was also in the room and gave an awkward expression. "Well yes?" Ivan facepalms and looks back at Akane and Jack. "You two fuckers are the biggest hinderances in my entire existence."
Jack and Akane look at Ivan sadly. "I ain't complaining though, you make for good entertainment on boring days." Ivan laughs as he reminiscences about his time in the air force, soon after Jack starts laughing alongside Akane. MK-2 meanwhile, was also already there and watching the entire situation unfold. Sergei attempted to stop the three but was stopped by Xui'an. "Let them have their fun for now Sergei." Xui'an stared towards the window. "In the next couple of months things are going to get worse, way worse. So let them have their fun as they prepare for the future."
Sergei stared at Xui'an. "How would you know that this situation might get worse?" Xui'an sighs. "I know it because Ashait isn't going to be the only civilization that we might have to fight against. Remember how i mentioned that we had drones in the air? Yea, they flew past Ashait and saw not just one, but multiple civilizations. With one being at a 1920s level of technology compared to earth. So i suggest that we prepare for the inevitable."
Washington, Liberos Federation.
"Mr. President. We have just received news that the Ashaitian Empire has fallen and it has been conquered." A secretary says as she enters the oval office of the presidential palace. Inside the oval office was the president of Liberos, James Henderson. "Ah yes. The Ashaitian Empire probably fell because of those Fuskiegroian and Adrian bastards in the west. No need for any more details, resume our operations."
"No Mr. President. The Ashaitian Empire has fallen because of a nation named New Canteria." As soon as the secretary mentioned that name James jumped from his seat and gave more interest into the matter. "What are the details that you could get about this so called, New Canteria?" James asks the secretary. "Well sir. From what we could get from the New Canterians themselves, New Canteria is a nation to the east of Russia and to the north of Japan. We also presume that Russia and Japan are both from the same world they are from." James calmed back down and maintained a calm tone.
"Very well. You may leave now." James said. The secretary leaves and James is left alone in his office. "I knew it. So they finally found out how to get from Earth to Ascotia huh?" James puts his hand on his chin. "I wonder though, who won their civil war?"
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Personnel and Casualties of the Canteri-Ashaitian War
New Canteria: 60,000 Troops, 4,500 Injured, 950 Dead.
PCI and Allied Forces: 5,000 Troops, 780 Injured, 60 Dead.
Ashaitian Empire: 250,000 Troops, 20,000 Injured, 150,000 Dead.