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:cool: Shut up, suspend your disbelief on that hat rack over there and sit down while you read this. No you don't get a political background, you just need to know the Soviets are still around. You need loud speakers.

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Asche zu Asche

by mmmeee0 (Dash Trudeau)
initiated 00165814032010




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Ramstein Air Base
Kaiserslautern, Germany
3rd December 1997


NATO was on high alert, in fact it was one of the highest alerts since the Soviets had their little crises seven years ago about breaking up. It hadn't happened, though many thought that maybe the world would have been better off it if it had. Intelligence had given enough warning to see the Soviet strike planes coming over; the stealth technology they had stolen from the Americans wasn't working properly for them, not since the Americans own intelligence services had gotten a whiff of the fact that they knew what the Americans knew. This had given them enough time to gain the access to the file stored about the plans for the air craft, get them to be analyzed and fire nearly blindly when the time came. The entire situation was timed close to the wire for the Americans because the Soviet plan seemed to be analogous to trying to get a fat man through a closing automatic revolving door before it was too late; everyone knew that the Soviets automatic doors weren't anything special in terms of speed, but this plan looked like it was about to rip the buttons off the fat mans shirt if it worked. It was going to be that close in terms of timing, and there were damages because of this amount of secrecy.

Transmissions from civilian aircraft were being jammed by both sides; in order to keep the Soviets from knowing that the NATO allies knew the flight plans for the Soviet craft the Allies jammed the skies, and to keep the Allies from knowing about the Soviets spotted by civilians the Soviets were jamming. As the air filled with anti-aircraft fire and western fighter planes trying to bring down the strike craft these civilian craft were just collateral damage. The poor operators screamed, though no one heard them as they buried the noses of their crafts into the populated areas of the German soil. Military planes on both sides went down, into many areas and the land was soon littered with so many planes people soon took notice.

In Ramstein the base was still sending up planes to fight the invasion off, though the front lines were getting so much closer. Pilots were being launched as fast as they could, and the base was evacuating in order to live to fight another day. As the Soviet Strike Aircraft outnumbered the defences the bombs started dropping onto the base. The tactical nuke dropped took out the plane in the middle of the formation; no one in the Soviet Union expected them to make it back anyways, and they hadn't bothered to tell the pilot this. To him the war ended, as well to his targets in Ramstein Air Base the war was done.

By this time the public was in a frenzy, word spread like wildfire over open communication channels that the shit was hitting the fan and NATO wasn't going to be able to put up enough of a fight to hit the switch to turn it off. Televisions stations on both sides were shut down by the government to prevent 'unnecessary panic' and to prevent their use by the enemy should they be captured. Similar things happened with the radio stations and soon enough you heard sirens being played in the towns as the only music; The one song everyone on both sides of the border absolutely hated was being played for what might be the last time. Children held their hands over their ears as mothers cried in harmony with the horrid song, men standing at attention saw the blast before they remembered the lyrics to their own screams.

By the time the stealth strikes were over, the Soviets ran out of their stealthy planes and were fighting with blatant displays of aggression. Only into the West German border though, Berlin was to be taken through siege. Nothing else in Germany would be spared by either side. Artillery shells pounded the bottlenecks made by the terrain on both sides, helicopters dropped off troops and were brought down by tanks. T-90s crushing cars in a drive West traded shots with the M1 tanks and Leopards as they busted through walls of the towns all around Germany in order to flank their opponents.

However the Soviets would find they made a mistake in not levelling West Berlin.

Olympiastadion 2
Berlin, Contested Germany
3rd December


On the site that Olympiastadion originally stood a new building had been put up by both cities hoping that the new stadium would be a symbol for both nations to enjoy; it hadn't worked and East Germany pulled the funding over squabbles about timetables, costs and just what would be allowed to happen in the stadium. Obviously Rammstein would be welcomed in the West German funded stadium, but East Germany thought the band degrading to the entire feeling of all German peoples and wouldn't allow such acts onto a stage it funded. So without their funding the West Germans pressed on, building a stadium that could hold nearly 80,000 people, which should have been 40,000 reserved for East German people but since the state had revoked the funding they weren't even allowed to attend anything there.

Not like there weren't any there, a few people who knew some people got into the concert. The show wasn't totally perfect though; with power disrupted from the bombings the emergency generators kicked in; however these weren't hooked up to the right emergency systems, and in some cases the phone lines suffered enough overload that the busy signal played Rammstein instead. The electrical engineers had enough cash from East Germany that they thought they'd escape after a bit of sabotage; they didn't know this day would turn to shit.

Rammstein played all the songs so loud that you couldn't hear the NATO planes bombing certain positions outside the city. Both sides needed Berlin taken more or less intact to declare victory later. The safe haven in the hellish nation was drawing more and more refugees as time passed. They came for the safety of Berlin.



So while the Warsaw Pact went toe to toe with the NATO allies in a dangerous dance that threatened to destroy the world the Stadium couldn't hear the news and had a bitchin' time. By the time the band ended Asche zu Asche it was true enough; the debris from the nukes used by both sides rained ashes onto Germany, parts of France, Denmark as well as Poland.

Link 2


As the Soviet forces pushed the front lines passed the former East-West border they decided it was time to take Berlin before any Allied troops had a chance. Their invasion of the city started slowly, letting the Allied soldiers inside surrender. Or so they hoped, however the allied commander thought otherwise. The siege of Berlin turned into a massacre, but only for a while as the Allied troops abandoned their commander to live in hopes that they might live in hopes in the Gulags that they may see their families again. The gulags would have taken care of that hope and made it into hopeless soon enough, the traitors would have gotten what they deserve; but loyal soldiers in the Allied camp shot them before they could desert, leading to less then required intelligence for the Soviets as they advanced through the city.

The urban conflict caused people to run away from the edges of the city; some of them wouldn't make it two steps outside of the door before a sniper mistook their sudden movement and made his trigger finger twitch. Those who did make it huddled in the buildings that were intact. This time the guards of the stadium were overwhelmed, they weren't armed and the people needed somewhere safe. The stadium wasn't packed but the number of people it took in was too much, and the music too loud for most of them so it ended up only the people who could stick around inside were adults. The music too loud for news to be passed around to the core of the concert and the electrical sabotage too intense to fix made the concert go on unhindered still.

Soon enough there were no real allied military commanders in the area, merely partisans trained for this type of warfare; they set up jamming signals, explosives to funnel Communist vehicles into spots where allied planes would come. These tactics, done by the civil population of Berlin, worked for a while, keeping the tanks away from the core of the large buildings protecting the refugees. These partisans took in allied soldiers, keeping them alive long enough to write down any useful intelligence before letting them sleep and taking their weapons for use later. These partisans had contacts with some people in the refugee hideouts in the larger building, and the concert organizer was one of them; there was a large cache of weaponry in the stadium, hidden from any sabotage it needed a few keys and the concert organizer cursed today, since he was already so busy to have a war explode under his feet like this was not his idea of a good day. He looked into the crowd for the person who had the other key; on a secure radio he found them and led them to the locker where the weapons were. Using their keys they got them out and started putting them to use, giving them to the Partisans in the staff of the stadium and some of those who knew to come to the Stadium in the event of an attack. They didn't know how much use the weaponry would be, but they were going to try and were damned either way.



The delaying tactics used by the partisan forces wore out, and the Soviet forces advanced on the areas of Berlin where the refugees lay, expecting an easy victory. However as they passed ruins the destroyed buildings exploded, sending heavy debris into the infantry and blocking certain roads; these left-behind devices were just as tricky as the partisans were when they had been fighting. This delayed the Soviets yet again, their searches for the devices taking up most time than actually walking one city block should normally. However as soon as they were too close to the refugee centres for any partisan to feel comfortable the fighting started up again. Anti-tank weapons in the hands of people trained in their use and not having to remember how to march and defending their homes worked better than the hands of the professional military. The APCs were especially hard hit, the soviet-made vehicles were the first targets because they carried so much men; the tanks were too well armoured for the shots to penetrate to some.

As a tank busted through the wall of the Stadium with Rammstein only then did they notice; however the fans through it was part of the show, Rammstein even went along with it. The T-90 was quickly swarmed by fans, who opened up the hatch and tried to go inside. The officers didn't know what to do and after shooting one or two of the drunken German youth they were dragged out and beaten savagely. Some escapees from the Soviet states knew how to work the machines and soon enough they were attaching the stage back to it's mobile platform so they could use the tanks they captured from the Soviets to drag the stage into the streets. The emergency generators were small enough to fit as well, providing power for the songs to continue as the stadium spilt out into the streets, head-banging, screaming and angry at the Soviets for almost ruining the concert.

Link #3


The Soviets had thought there would be little in the way of partisan activity and if they had chosen any other night to start shit they would have been right. However the 100,000 pissed off Germans armed to the teeth with the weapons cache under the stadium following Rammstein as it was dragged through the ruined streets of Berlin while they played Bestrafe Mich the Soviets invaders never stood a chance. Hooking the radios from the Partisans equipment and stolen Soviet radios into the soundboard and using the wireless signals they used the sirens speakers to blast Rammstein all around the city, giving rise to all the Germans in the city to continue to resist the Soviets as they did. The Soviets soon found themselves in retreat from the thousands of headbanging youth, unable to keep Berlin the Soviet commanders ordered a full-scale retreat. Before the concerts scheduled end the Allies were in control of half of East Germany (or what was left of it). The war was over because of the heavy metal blasting from the powerful speakers leading the new German people.

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