DEFCON Year Two

Chapter 5

One month after successfully invading Central Asia, the US and other Allies launched the invasion of central Russia, successfully linking up with invasion forces coming from both Siberia and Western Russia. They then successfully linked up with the Allied troops coming from Northern Europe and even managed to gain control of the northern part of Russia, intentionally leaving Moscow for the final blow. And it was up to the US Marines to lead the assault designed deliver this final blow.

Among them were Norrie Vastano, a now-promoted Carly Wells and the whole US Marine Corps. The Marines indeed used the Trans-Siberian railway to transfer from Mongolia to Western Russia, since the Allies had avoided destroying railways and train stations for further use. Not to mention the American forces and their allies now had absolute air superiority, meaning they could carry supplies by air without any Russian or Chinese plane hampering them. And they therefore left the US Army, USAF and US Navy to handle the Chinese forces.

Norrie and the rest of her squad, alongside Carly and hers were now advancing alongside the rest of the US Marine Corps in the streets of Moscow, which were now riddled with trash and wrecked military cars. And though the Marines did meet resistance, the appearance of USMC armor was generally enough to force the average Russian soldiers into surrendering.

But Norrie and Calry both knew the Rosgvardia and MVD were fanatically devoted to their dictator Putin and his entourage. This meant the US Marines had to root them out one by one. As Norrie and her men were approaching a museum, she heard voices in Russian. Norrie knew they could belong to civilians and had her men listen closely to the conversation. The Marines carefully opened the doors and realized the voices belonged to terrified civilians, who were held at gunpoint by Rosgvardia members. Norrie and her men eliminated the surprised Rosgvardia members in a split second before one of the US Marines reassured the civilians in Russian.

Norrie and her men then evacuated the civilians before searching the rest of the building alongside Carly and her squad. Norrie then stumbled on an office where she heard voices in Russian. The American then gave one of her men the signal to pry the door open as she removed the pin of an M67 grenade. The Marine pried the door open with the barrel of his M27 rifle while Norrie flicked the safety lever of her grenade off.

"Fire in the hole!" Norrie yelled tossing her grenade though the door.

A couple seconds later, the grenade went off before Norrie and the Marine both entered the office, finding two injured Rosgvardia members and an executed civilian male wearing a tuxedo.

As the two Rosgvardia soldiers reached for their handgun, Norrie and the US Marine with her pointed their M27s at the Russians. And those Russians pointed their MP443 Grach handgun at the two Marines, forcing Norrie and her squadmate to execute those Russian soldiers in self-defense.

Norrie then saw several of her men and Carly's squad bringing some Russian prisoners to the door, where they were handed over to the Russian Resistance and the USAF SFs. The Americans then heard Allied armor and infantry coming in Moscow with wrecked Russian armor and helicopters. Carly, Norrie and their men saw there were Russian Armata vehicles and Ka-52 helicopters destroyed by USMC and Czech AH-1Z Vipers as well as Dutch, British, Polish and American AH-64E Apaches.

Norrie and her men then hitched a ride towards the surrounded Kremlin while Carly and her men also hitched a ride for the Kremlin when the two squads saw Polish, Czech, Romanian, Canadian, Greek and American troops bringing captured Russian officials and propagandists including Lavrov, Gerasimov and Shoigu. The Americans didn't lose time parading their vehicles on the Red Square and hijacking Russian state TV to broadcast their victory and further humiliate Russian authorities in addition to broadcasting seized Russian missile silos.

Once they arrived at the Kremlin, Norrie, Carly and their men joined the 6th and 3rd US Marine Divisions to clean the Kremlin, since it was a huge building requiring at least a whole division to clear. But the US Marines had spotted a weak spot in the defenses thanks to drone images beforehand. The Marines then charged into the weak spot before making it to the doors of the Kremlin while the defenders of Saint-Basil's Cathedral surrendered to the 2nd and 5th Marine Divisions.

Norrie and her men as well as the 6th Marine Division swept the west part of the Kremlin while the 6th Marine Division, including Carly and her men, took charge of the east wing. Both divisions eliminated most of the Rosgvardian garrison there before finally arriving near Putin's office. Norrie and her men took stacking positions before breaching the doors of Putin's office, where they killed the remaining Rosgvardia members. But they didn't find the despot. However, they knew he didn't leave the Kremlin thanks to the interrogation a Russian prisoner.

Carly and her men meanwhile stumbled upon a mysterious door. Suspecting it to lead to Putin's bunker, one of Carly's men planted explosives on it before the Americans fell back and hid behind some furniture. Carly then detonated the explosives. And the US Marine's intuition proved to have been right since it led to a staircase. Carly and her men put night-vision goggles on before carefully descending the staircase. When they arrived at the bottom of the stairs, the Marines pointed their M27s in front of them. Rosgvardia soldiers then stormed out of their hideouts, but Carly and her men quickly killed them off before continuing down the corridor, where they found the door to Putin's bunker. Carly and her men planted C4 charges before stacking behind Kevlar ballistic matresses.

Carly once again detonated the explosives, forcing the door open. The squad then breached the bunker, killing the last remnants of the Rosgvardia while Putin himself tried to grab a pistol. But Carly saw him doing so and shot the dictator in the head, killing him. Carly's men then rushed to Putin's dead body and carried the tyrant who started World War III. The squad the left the bunker with the despot's body, whom the handed over to the Russian Resistance. The Russian Resistance soldiers didn't even hesitate to parade Vladimir Putin's dead body by binding his legs and hanging him to the rear hook of one of the US-made MRAPs used by the Russian Resistance.

Carly and her men, as well as Norrie and hers alongside the other US Marines watched as the Russian dissenters broadcasted images of the dead dictator being paraded on the Red Square. The Americans were shocked but not surprised to see the Resistance displaying the dead dictator's body for the people to see, since Italian Resistance did that to Mussolini in 1945 after shooting him dead alongside his mistress.

But now, Norrie, Carly and other forces, including Flint, Willow and so many others were now going to get involved in the last battles against China.