Fight for the Big Apple

Authors Note: The Red Alert 3 universe and its characters belong to EA Games.

Moscow – Politboro meeting

The meeting was hastily called together after the battle on Easter Island. Dasha started her report. "This is the current situation. Field Marshall Bingham has been killed and his task force destroyed. With the loss of Allied leadership, our forces in Europe have occupied Britain and taken Western Europe. The continent is ours. We have captured the FutureTech HQ in Amsterdam and our scientists are looking at their prototypes, there is some interesting stuff there. Unfortunately most of their scientists have escaped to America.

Dasha continued. Two days ago the Moscow police fished the bodies of Dr Zelinsky and his assistant out of the Moscow River. They were shot execution style. We think that Cherdenko ordered the killing. We have learned that Cherdenko faked his own assassination attempt in order to frame General Krukov. The KGB has gone over some of Zelinsky's records and it appears that Cherdenko, Zelinsky and Krukov were working on some secret project. We are investigating it and will figure it out eventually

Ivanov addressed the Politboro members. "Our final task in the war is to take the United Sates. My commanders and I have come up with the plan. First, Zhana will take a force to attack Seattle, in order to take the HQ of the MassiveSoft Corporation which will give us control of the Internet. That city is also where the Allies develop their most advanced aircraft. Second, our newest Commander, Vera Belova will attack Los Angeles and Hollywood, giving us control of the world's biggest media center. We have incorporated some of the Empire's forces, notably one of their Mobile Fortresses, one called the Black Tortoise. It will provide support for our attack. Third, Commander Vodnik will attack Washington DC to take out the political center and the command and control system at the Pentagon. Finally Commander Moskvin and I will hit New York City. It appears that President Ackerman and his main force are occupying the city. He is using the Statue of Liberty as his command center

Ivanov continued "The Allied base in New York harbor is very well defended. Satellite recon shows several War factories and Naval Yards around and on Liberty Island, together with several airfields. We know they have at least one Chronosphere at their base so they can transport their forces anywhere on the battlefield. Before we attack the Statue, we first need to eliminate the secondary Allied base in Manhattan, Fort Bradley."

Manhattan Island, New York

A group of Terror Drones appeared on Fifth Avenue, smuggled into the city by a cargo ship. The spider like robots infected a squad of Guardian Tanks, destroying them. With that completed they went to their next task, eliminating Ft Bradley's harvesters

A mixed force appeared over Central Park, just north of Fort Bradley. It was four Kirovs and eight Twinblades. Four of the helicopters carried something special—some of the Tesla Tanks captured from Cherdenko's Easter Island base.

"Moskvin, I thought I would bring a surprise along. I got some of Cherdenko's Tesla Tanks for our forces. Unfortunately, our War Factories still can't produce them as we still are working on the schematics. We need to be careful with them.

Good, it is nice to have new ways to kill the enemy

The remaining Terror Drones scouted the area of Fort Bradley. The Twinblades approached the base, when one of the pilots noticed something

"Commander, there appears to be a strange distortion in area"

"I think that is the Allied Mirage Tank. I just got the briefing on it. It can appear as a tree when it is stationary. Its main gun is similar to their Spectrum Towers. It also has the alternate ability to produce a cloaking field to hide units from sight and radar.

The Tesla Tanks, backed up by the Twinblades attacked the Allied tanks. The Mirage tanks Spectrum Cannon had more firepower and range than the Tesla Tanks but they had no air cover or support so the Soviet forces eliminated the outer defense of Ft Bradley with the loss of only two of the precious Tesla tanks.

The Soviet forces approached Fort Bradley itself which had the telltale indications of a cloaking field. Ivanov knew there were forces there just not how many. He sent a pair of Terror Drones into the field where they infected two of the Allied tanks and revealed the forces. At that point the Kirovs moved in and destroyed the Allied forces in the base. With the Twinblades eliminating the Allied air defenses, the remaining forces had little trouble eliminating the last of the Allied forces in Fort Bradley.

"Fort Bradley has been eliminated, Commander" said the lead Kirov pilot

"Good, now we establish our bases to take out the Statue

Liberty City, NJ

Ivanov arrived at his rapidly constructing base. He ordered the construction of a Super Power Plant and two Flak Cannons and three Tesla Coils for defense. Ivanov put most of the defense toward the land side of the base to protect from the attacks delivered via the Allied Chronosphere. He also built some units to protect the base. Once that was accomplished, he built up ships from the Naval Yard. At that point, he got a message from the communication channel. It was Ackerman

"Now I am going to destroy you, you filthy commie"

Ivanov dismissed the bloviating American president, not even dignifying the diatribe with a response. He did send a message to Moskvin. "It is time to attack, are you ready"?

"I am Commander – lets finish off the Allies "

Ellis Island, NY

Moskvin looked around his base at Ellis Island which rapidly building up. He went over the intel on the city of New York and the facility where his base was being constructed. Apparently, in decades past, Ellis Island was the main immigration entry point for the United States. Now we are immigrating, but not the way the Americans intended. Things were different now, of course, but there was a museum dedicated to the culture of immigration that was such a big part of American history. – "All of this will be irrelevant once we take over" Moskvin thought

New York Harbor

Part of the Soviet Fleet arrive and began shelling the north end of Liberty Island. The main part of that force was four Dreadnaughts. Moskvin's optimism disappeared quickly as the four large ships were quickly destroyed. He soon learned the cause—the Allied commando Agent Tanya, whom he had a special grudge towards, as she played a major role in his defeat months earlier in the south of France. She was the primary reason that Moskvin's fleet was destroyed, with Tanya personally destroying four of his Dreadnaughts there too.

Ivanov ordered a Sputnik from the War Factory. This vehicle was transported via Twinblade chopper to the ruins of Fort Bradley on Manhattan. The Sputnik deployed next to the ore mines there. A second base was quickly built with Ore refineries, Barracks, War factory, and Airbase and the Battle Lab

At that moment a bright flash of light appeared just outside Ivanov's base. Inside was a griup of three Guardian Tanks. Chronosphere attack, of course, Ivanov realized. The Allied tanks attacked Ivanov's base, destroying the Barracks. He quickly sent a pair of Hammer Tanks to eliminate the Allied threat. He then rebuilt the Barracks and put added a pair of Tesla Coils in the area where the Chronosphere unit arrived.

Aware that he would be facing air attacks as well as ground units from the Chronosphere, Ivanov built an Airfield—loaded with the new MiG-30s he had obtained from Cherdenko's Easter Island base. The traitor has provided something useful at least, he thought.

He soon realized how important air defense would be as the Allies attacked his base with a squadron of Century Bombers. The planes destroyed the War Factory and damaged a Power plant. Ivanov finished producing the MiG-30 squadron. It was finished just in time as the Century bombers came back. This time the Soviets were ready for them. Squadron leader Voskov attacked the incoming bombers and their escort taking out two bombers and an escorting Apollo fighter. This quick counterattack forced the Allied planes to retreat back to their base

Capture NYSE

Dasha opened a communications link to General Ivanov. "General, we have found a significant Allied cash source. It is that vile center of capitalism—the New York Stock Exchange. It is only a few blocks from the secondary base set up in the ruins of Fort Bradley. If we can capture the Exchange, we can take their resources and use them as our own.

"Good idea, I will start immediately"

Ivanov sent a Terror Drone to scout out the area near the Exchange. He found that the defenses were only a group of Guardian Tanks and what he supposed was a Mirage Tank since he saw a tree sitting in the middle of Fifth Avenue. He produced a mixed force of two Sickles, three Hammers, led by an Apocalypse tankfrom the nearby War Factory, supported by a platoon of infantry to support, including the Engineer.

The Soviet forces advanced on the Exchange resulting in a counterattack from the Allied Mirage tank, destroying one Sickle and damaging a Hammer. The Soviet tanks launched a frorce fire attack on the disguised Mirage, destroying it. With the Allied squad leader killed, they were slow to react. The Soviet tanks eliminated the Exchange's defenders, allowing the Engineer to take it over

"Commander, we now have control of the New York Stock Exchange. We can use the enemy's money to build our forces" , the squad leader reported

"Good job" Ivanov replied

Moskvin's base

"Commander, we need to neutralize Agent Tanya before she destroys any more of our ships"

" I am aware of that, she pretty much single handedly eliminated my naval forces at Canne two months ago. Fortunately, she is vulnerable to air attack "Send some Twinblades to find her - prioritize the search near our bases and our remaining Dreadnaughts .

The Soviet choppers made a sweeping search pattern across the harbor in the vicinity of a cluster of newly produced ships. The lead Twinblade pilot radioed in

"Commander, we found her, she is headed toward our new Naval Yard"

"Twinblades – Attack" came the order

The three Twinblades rained their destructive ordinance down into the waters of New York Harbor. Agent Tanya tried to evade the fire from above, but it was just too much. The Soviet choppers killed the Allied commando

"She was a fierce warrior and a worthy adversary. Too bad she was on their side" , admitted Moskvin

Attack on Statue

The three Dreadnaughts destroyed the lead Spectrum towers on the north end of Liberty Island, enabling the trio of Stingrays to reach the island and start their walk toward the tower. The role of the Stingrays was not to destroy but to uncover the Allied base. The Potemkin and Odessa joined by the newly produced Volga launched their missiles at the Allied Spectrum Towers guarding the pathway to the statue. The defenses were aligned along each side of the main pathway to the statue. As each towers went down, the Stingrays inched further down the path. Once the amphibious units got outside the range of the Dreadnaughts missiles, Ivanov sent a pair of Twinblade choppers, carrying Apocalypse Tanks to the island

The pair of Apocalypse tanks moved down the pathway to the Statue. They were flanked by the three stingrays and covered by the pair of Twinblades. When the units revealed the base of the Statue to the targeting computer in the Soviet base, Ivanov ordered a Satellite Dump attack on the Statue, delivering major damage to the target. The Apoc tanks moved in flanked by the Stingrays. The Soviet units attacked the statue, prompting an aerial counter-attack. A pair of Apollo fighters blasted the Twinblades out of the sky, and a squadron of Vindicator bombers took out the Soviet tanks but not before they did more damage to the Statue.

Ivanov contacted Moskvin "we need to do a coordinated attack. One more group, plus a Satellite attack should do it " Can you build an Iron Curtain to protect our units?

"I'll do it, General

Ivanov built up a task force, two Apocs and Bullfrog out of the war Factory and four Stingrays out the naval yard. Using three Twinblades, he transported the tanks Liberty Island, followed by the Stingrays. Moskvin's forces joined them on the island.

"We need to assemble out forces together to use the Iron Curtain—is it ready to use?"

"Almost, General, I will set control to your base"

The forces approached the outside range of the Statue's defenses. In a few minutes both the Iron Curtain and the Satellite Dump were ready to activate. The two task groups moved together in a tight formation and Ivanov gave the order "Activate the Iron Curtain"

The Iron Curtain in Moskvin's base activated, giving the Soviet forces and impenetrable shield. The Soviet forces moved in an attacked the Statue oblivious to the fire from the defenses. The Statue started to crack under the firepower if the Soviet tanks. Ivavnov then ordered the Satellite Dump on the Statue. The combined firepower destroyed the Statue of Liberty, eliminating the Allied command center in the city

Epilog -

Premier Dimitri Ivanov was in his office working in all the various items that came from running a worldwide political entity. There was a lot of transition in administering the various departments. People still needed to make sure all the basic government functions were done in dozens of former countries. The mail had to be delivered and trains still needed to run. It was best to just let the people who actually did the work stayed in their place. To the average government worker it really didn't matter who their boss was. It was important to keep people happy or at least content. Administrating this is much harder than commanding an army, he thought…. Irina was now doing goodwill work as she was now "First Lady" of the new Soviet Union. She could definitely do more for education as First Lady than as a middle school teacher.

Ivanov looked through some of the other reports he received from the capture of FutureTech HQ. There was an artillery unit that outranged the V4 launcher and had more firepower. Not only had that it had defensive abilities. Its only weakness was that its targeting sensors gave warning to targeted units so they could evade the shells if they were alert. FutureTech had also miniaturized the cannon on the CryoCopter so it could be carried by an infantryman. The planned Cryo Commandos could have been a significant threat had they been deployed

He looked at the reports from the other operations. The MassiveSoft company had been captured and Soviet computer experts were going over their programs to see what could be utilized. Los Angeles and Hollywood were occupied and the Propaganda division was working on producing films commemorating the Soviet victory. One thing already planned was the story of the heroics of Boris Molotov, the hero of Mt Fuji

Hero of the Soviet Union Natasha Volkova entered the office "Hello Comrade Premier – how have you been? "

"Very busy, much more so than in the army. What things are you doing now that the war has ended?

"I am going to be doing sniper training at the military academy. Have a recruit with a lot of potential, someone from Almaty, in the Kazakh region, guy named Jarmen Kell"

I am sure you will do well – that is the place where you can best serve the Soviet Union

Commander Moskvin arrived in the office. "Congratulations on your new promotion Comrade Premier". It was an honor serving with you and I was glad to be there with you when we struck the final blow to the Allies"

"Were there any new projects that we were working on?

"There were several. The most significant one was called the Desolator Trooper Program. It was based on a cosmonaut exosuit technology using terminally ill patients. We found a way to reduce toxic emitters so they could be carried by an infantryman. Devastating to enemy infantry and light vehicles. It was intended as a last ditch plan in the dark days when it looked that all was lost. The program was just too brutal. The remaining test subjects are still in their base in the Arctic. I think they should remain there for however long they have to live, which isn't long from what I hear. The test subjects just aren't stable. I hear they killed the project developers.

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Captain Ivan Voskov arrived at Commander Zhana's office

"Great job in New York and Easter Island, you will probably get the Hero of the Soviet Union medal. How did you like the new Mig-30 fighter?. How does it perform?

Great, Comrade Premier, It might be hard for a new pilot, Voskov replied

You will probably get your choice of assignments- have you given it any thought?

I think I want to be an instructor, Comrade Premire

At Red Falcon? – I am sure you will do well there

Ivanov sat back and relaxed for the first time in a long time. The Soviet Union was the dominate power across the globe and he was its leader. I only hope I do this right he thought

THE END