Hells Bells

The Incident in D24.

January 17th 2025. Unknown Location.

Originally Written in 2022.

STOKINS: Give me a sit-rep on operations.

The screen flashes to satellite feed from the Mato dimension.

ODIN: French and Mato forces surrendered after the capture of the diet building and Kyoto, we also forced the French fleet there into open combat, completely destroyed or disabled it.

The satellite feed switches to the Gods dimension.

ODIN: Italian forces withdrew after failing to capture base phoenix, and Minskin's forces were halted at the town of Clevn, the duchy and her allies have also lost a decent portion of their naval forces after a battle in the bay leading to the Duchy's capital.

STOKINS: Seems the industrialization paid off.

The Odin chief explains the rest of the dimensional operation were successes.

STOKINS: That's good, how many forces did that free up for a counter attack.

ODIN: we have 65 out of the 95 million military forces ready to deploy. Along with 34,000 out of the 57,000 naval forces.

G1: Looks like we were able to mobilize faster since WW3.

G2: And the Chinese had a better chance, since both our military forces number 20 million and vessels 15,000 then.

GL3: Since then we started to recruit from other dimensions and ramped up naval build up. Now we can't even compare.

G1: But we only keep around 20 million men and 15,000 naval forces in our world, and it takes time to withdraw forces from other dimensions, so NATO had a good strategy by attacking other dimensions to make the process longer, and also EMPing and invading the east coast to delay us even more.

ODIN: We're getting off topic.

The feed switches to the US east coast.

ODIN: NATO forces started withdrawing from the east coast after the air defense grids came back online, by the time the operations in Mato wrapped up they completely withdrew back to Europe.

The satellite pans over Europe.

ODIN: The British, German, Polish, and Portuguese fleets have kept the NATO fleets occupied. The ground forces halted the NATO ground forces, with the British pushing the Irish back to Dublin, the Norwegians capturing Iceland, and the Germans stopping NATO forces outside Leipzig.

The satellites pans over eastern Europe.

ODIN: The Russians knocked the Baltic states and Belarus out of the war, while laying siege to Kiev. Romania, Poland and Bosnia overran Czechoslovakia and Hungary. The Greeks didn't fare as well and were pushed back to Athens only to push NATO back after the NCAS got involved.

The satellite moves over Turkey

G1: How long until the briefing is over?

ODIN: The Union of the Caucasus and Turkey collapsed under a Russian and NCAS assault with the rest of the Balkans switching sides. The Chinese withdrew after having their back door blown in by the Indians and Vietnamese.

G2: I forgot about the Chinese.

The screen opens up to a world map with NATO countries highlighted.

STOKINS: Alright, now that the history lesson is over let's get down to it.

An arrow appears moving up from north Africa up to the Iberian peninsula.

G1: US and NCAS forces will push through the strait of Gibraltar, with Hells Bells going behind enemy lines to tamper defenses and open the way to Madrid, relieving the Portuguese and putting pressure on NATO's southern front. The US 2nd and 4th fleets under admiral Cunningham will support the invasion and deal with any naval forces. The NCAS fleets will accompany the 1st fleet to protect the mars and moon bases.