Third World War (Yuri's Revenge)

The second iteration of World War III was the repeat of the struggle as a result of Allied temporal manipulation. The first iteration resulted in an Allied victory over the Soviet Union. However, two months after that victory Yuri activated multiple Psychic Dominators across the globe, whose construction had been masked by the larger conflict.
The Allies used a prototype time machine to return to the beginning of the Third World War to not only defeat the Soviets once more, but to avert Yuri's plan for world domination. The war was also known as the Psychic Dominator DisasterAlbert Einstein: "With luck, you maybe able to avert the Psychic Dominator Disaster before it has begun!" Westwood Pacific, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 - Yuri's Revenge. Allied mission 1: "Operation: Time Lapse"., as referred to by Albert Einstein prior to the Allied time journey.
The conflict ended with Yuri's defeat, but animosity between the Allies and the Soviets had remained. This eventually led to the Post-War Crisis.
==The Disaster==
Prior to the disaster, the Allied Forces were at war with the Soviet Union, who on the ambitious Premier Romanov's orders, sought to conquer their rivals, the United States of America and with it the entire free world. Despite the Soviets' initial advantages, the Allies were victorious, having defeated the Soviets at Kremlin and captured Premier Romanov alive, who was imprisoned in the Tower of London. But their victory was not complete as Yuri, the former advisor to Romanov had escaped capture from the Allies.
While the world celebrated its victory over the Soviets, Yuri with his Psychic Corps assembled his plans for world domination. Under supreme secrecy during the war, Yuri's forces constructed a series of Psychic Dominators across the globe, one of which was placed on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. After the Americans discovered this, Yuri personally announced to the White House that he was about to take over the world: mind, body, and soul. Refusing a full presidential pardon from President Dugan , he went on to deploy his series of Psychic Dominator devices, which could release enough psychic energy to Mind control the entire world.
Dugan immediately ordered a counterattack before the device could be deployed. However, the airstrike launched at the express order of the President failed to destroy the Psychic Dominator on Alcatraz Island, though one Harrier crashed into the nuclear reactor powering the Dominator, thus rendering it inoperable. Unfortunately, the entire attack force was lost and the Psychic Dominator itself was still fully operational. As Yuri started searching San Francisco for supplementary power for the weapon, he activated the rest of his Psychic Dominator network around the globe, enslaving much of humanity under his control.Westwood Pacific, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 - Yuri's Revenge. Cinematic: "Introduction".
The Allies were desperate - at least, those still not affected by mind control. Even if Yuri could not get the Dominator back online, he had mind controlled most of the world and could send an incredible army to take over the last holdouts to ensure no guerrilla resistance nor opposition to his rule, ever again.
==Averting the Disaster==
===Going Back in Time===
The Allies, led by the young war hero, turned to Albert Einstein and he delivered. He managed to modify a Chronosphere to operate as did the original Philadelphia Experiment, producing a machine that could take people back in time. After capturing the power plants in San Francisco to power the time machine, the Allies went back in time and destroyed the Psychic Dominator again - for the first time. They also eliminated the Soviet Pacific Fleet that was in the midst of invading San Francisco, saving the city and disrupting the first Soviet occupation.Westwood Pacific, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 - Yuri's Revenge. Allied mission 1: "Operation: Time Lapse". Fortunately, no time paradox was created - yet.
===Yuri Abandons Secrecy===
Yuri realized that somehow, the Allies had determined his true intention despite his precautions and dropped all pretense. While the Allies pushed to retake Los Angeles, Yuri began operating more directly and went on the offensive: he started harvesting civilians in Hollywood with his horrific Grinders after brainwashing the populace through the use of subliminal messages, reducing them into biological components to fund his war machine. However, Yuri was unable to convince celebrities Arnnie Frankenfurter, Flint Westwood, and Sammy Stallion, as they were all very familiar with television, transmissions and propagandized broadcasts. These heroes proved that they were formidable off-screen as well as on-screen, and assisted with the elimination of Yuri's forces from the city. With knowledge from the old timeline, the Allies were able to create and deploy the new Battle Fortress and even a Chronosphere in time for the battle. Eventually, Los Angeles was liberated and Yuri was denied an important source of funds.Westwood Pacific, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 - Yuri's Revenge. Allied mission 2: "Operation: Hollywood and Vain".
With his harvesting operations destroyed, Yuri's forces took over Seattle and attempted to blackmail Massivesoft CEO Bing into funding his war effort, threatening to nuke the city. Yuri also forced the Massivesoft R&D department into developing genetic software, which would later be used for the Genetic Mutator. Allied forces arrived to save Seattle, having constructed an outpost with the Weather Control Device online. Yuri launches a nuclear strike on the outpost, taking out the base's power before the Weather Control Device can be used, forcing the Allies and Yuri's forces to battle in the streets over control of the civilian power plants. Eventually, superior Allied tactics combined with a generous campaign contribution from Chairman Bing allowed the Allies to push through into Yuri's base and eliminate the nuclear silo.Westwood Pacific, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 - Yuri's Revenge. Allied mission 3: "Operation: Power Play".
===Foiling Yuri's Back-up Plans===
====Rescuing Einstein====
Unfortunately, while Yuri has once again been denied a source of income for his army, he has managed to capture top scientist Albert Einstein. Yuri's plan was to force Einstein to work for him on the Psychic Dominator technology in Egypt, hoping to accelerate its eventual completion. During his forced work on the Dominator prototype, he manage sabotage it such that it will self-destruct after first use.
Not risking for the Psychic Dominator network to be completed sooner than in the old timeline, Agent Tanya was sent in with an Allied force of tank destroyers to recover the professor. She succeeded, and Einstein provided the Allied Commander with control of the sabotaged Dominator, before he was taken away to a secure location via a Nighthawk helicopter.
Without hesitation, the Allies used Yuri's own weaponry against him, succeeding in wiping out his entire Egyptian base.Westwood Pacific, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 - Yuri's Revenge. Allied mission 4: "Operation: Tomb Raided".
====Disrupting the Cloning Operations====
Yuri was still far from beaten and had another sinister plan. Using his cloning facility in Sydney, Australia, he intends to kidnap key Allied world leaders and replace them with clones. Allied operatives discover the cloning operation, and General Carville ordered the Commander to take out the facility.
The Allied forces launched an offensive into Yuri-controlled Australia. The Republic of Korea provided a squadron of elite Black Eagle jets for support in gratitude for clearing the Pacific from Yuri's Boomer fleets.
Yuri countered by cloning massive amounts of his Initiates and garrisoning them into buildings across the city. Ejecting someone from an occupied structure normally entails seriously damaging the entire structure and so by the end of the battle, Sydney was in utter ruins. However, superior Allied tactics ensured a destruction of the enemy base.
===An Unholy Alliance against Yuri===
At this point, the Allies had reached their point in time when the Soviets had to surrender in front of their victors. Since Yuri was still at large, a top secret meeting of world leaders was planned to help with him. Unfortunately, Lieutenant Eva had been mind controlled by Yuri in tapping the Allied communications to the Commander who then would received the location of the top secret meeting to be held in London.
If Yuri couldn't clone the Allied and Soviet leaders, he would Mind control them and use them as his pawns. Determined in his effort to kill the world leaders, Yuri sent his best weapons: Floating Discs, Masterminds, and what remained of the Boomer Submarine fleet.
However, a brilliant Allied commander built up solid defenses in front of Parliament House, which prevented Yuri from making much headway into attacking the building. Later, Soviet forces joined the battle to be combined as Allied and Soviet forces destroyed Yuri's base.
===End of the War===
Lieutenant Eva, feeling like a failure had briefly offering to tender her resignation until General Carville reminded her that she was still needed and wasn't the only person ever mind controlled. She went ahead to pinpoint the location of Yuri's transmission and triangulations confirmed that he was transmitting from Antarctica and an Allied attack, which included the use of a Soviet base was immediately planned.
The Allies launched their strike just after Yuri got there (assuming he ever left). Yuri attempted to deploy his last remaining Psychic Dominator as well as a newly built Genetic Mutator device, but limitations on the technology involved prevented them from firing too often. The Allied Commander made good use of this fact, and destroyed them before they could fire too many times. Allied forces, assisted by the technologies of both Allied and Soviet to which allowed 4 separate superweapons to be constructed, leveled Yuri's bases.
==Timeline re-merge==
They even captured Yuri, although how they distinguished him from his many clones remains a mystery. He was placed in a 'Psychic Isolation Chamber' to which prevented him from mind controlling anyone - not even a fly. At that moment, the timelines began to merge. As Professor Einstein explained, "One series of events must take precedence over the other!".
Fortunately, the new timeline replaced the previous timeline - rather than Yuri being alive and making an unwelcome announcement to President Dugan, it was General Carville's emergence that became important. Exact details as to the timeline merging remains classified.
==Aftermath==
Little did the Allies suspect that the Soviets were able to capture the details and specifications of the Allied Time machine for themselves. While the Allies declared full victory, an era of peace over the occupied Soviet Union and the now destroyed Yuri faction, the Soviets secretly plotted for one final war against the Allied Nations. In hopes of restoring their communism on a world scale, however this would prove to be a fatal mistake as the war against the Soviets had in mind a much greater twist than ever imagined...
==References==
Category:Wars
Category:Red Alert universe events