Flashback, Or: How It All Began

It all started back in the early 1900s.

During that time, the Industrial Revolution had been thriving strong for over 300 years. Inventors everywhere were constantly creating new and ingenious to change the world and improve the lives of many, as well as occasionally trying to one up the other. But not everyone had such luck.

The country of Germany fell on hard times after losing the Great World War in 1918. The loss of allies and increasing debts were the cause of the once proud nation to turn to fascism.

The leader responsible for this drastic change was only known as the Great Chancellor.

He was determined to bring back glory to his country through any means necessary. Even if it meant making foes out of his own people. In doing so, he sought after Germany's greatest minds in the hopes of inventing something that will destroy the industrial competition.

And in 1930, that progress was achieved with the creation of the B.R.A.I.N.

An A.I. so intelligent, it's able to solve, think and create freely all on its own. It absolutely was unlike any other robot made at the time, even overshadowing other inventions weeks after it made headlines. But despite its advanced and unique ability to make new creations of its own image, the Chancellor wanted more. He wanted something bigger. And with his growing power, he can use that leadership role to bring his visions to life.

Within just a few months after the B.R.A.I.N.'s appearance, the Chancellor announced his latest and successful project: The Fabrication Machine.

A giant, hulking mass of machinery with more arms and tools than you could count. And connecting the entire thing together was none other than the B.R.A.I.N. The Fabrication Machine shares the same purpose as its predecessor, except it can now create 30-foot tall death machines.

Despite receiving glowing praise from Germany and their supporters, the Chancellor's new was met with scorn from groups of rebels and disapproval from other nations who are not fond of Germany's new ideals. Soon, concerns and suspicions were brought about the rising tensions between Germany and other struggling countries. A dreadful sign of the Chancellor abusing his authority to prove Germany is the 'superior' country.

Then, in 1934, tensions reached its breaking point when Germany made the decision to declare war. But this wasn't just a burn caused by a spark, it was a uncontrollable flame that blazed into a second World War. Before long, many people started to believed that the Chancellor simply wanted an excuse to use the Fabrication Machine to mass produce as many war machines as it can so he can invade the other nations.

By 1935, more than 30 countries joined the worldwide battlefield. The few that refused to fight, the United States included, wanted nothing to do with this 'reckless war'.

However, in that very same year, things took a turn for the worse. Rumors were being spread of a leaked report about a War Machine (or Walkers as they were called) going rogue and killing its entire squadron. But it was quickly brushed off as nothing more than a defect.

Then another Walker killed its fellow soldiers.

And yet another one started killing civilians without any orders. Then another, and another.

While Officials tried to chalk it up to a strange virus or a malfunction, within a month there were dozens to hundreds of reports of Walkers seemingly turning against their humans. By the time the uprising reached the news of the world, the killings were in the thousands.

It became pretty clear that the Fabrication Machine is behind the killings, but no one could figure out how or why it happened.

Not even the Chancellor could give out an answer, for he was too busy trying to shut down his own project while making excuses about science being the real enemy, and throwing speeches about fighting back. He even put all the blame on the scientists who created the B.R.A.I.N.

Aside from his followers and a selective few, no one else listened to him. But the world agreed on one thing: The machines must be stopped.

The following years could only be described as pure anarchy. What was originally World War 2 had transformed into the War of the Machines, and everyone throwed out everything they've got at them. But the battles themselves proved to be much more worse.

The Great Chancellor tried to shut down the Fabrication Machine for good. He succeeded, but the Walkers do not stop.

Germany tried looking towards the Chancellor for answers. No one hears from him again.

Every military leader tried firing every firearm and weapon they've got. Only a handful of Walkers went down.

All the air bases tried attacking the Walkers from above. Some fall, many still rise.

USA tried to destroy the main Walker factories in Japan and Ukraine using their first and only nuclear bombs. All that did was wipe out the cities of Pripyat, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Many Rebels, enemy countries and civilians all over Europe and Asia tried to push some machines out to the ocean. The result was the destruction of UK, Ireland, Singapore, The Philippines and many other small islands in between.

By that point, the situation felt hopeless. Africa, Australia, and the whole Western side turned to desperate measures to protect themselves. They resorted to closing down all their airports. Shielded every coastline with every Navy and Marine ship available. Cut every communication they had from the still-fighting nations.

Even with the eastern countries following the ship technique and sending the remaining planes to spray the air so the gas doesn't spread to the ocean, the war still continues. For many, it felt like it was never going to end. And joining the battle now will only result in death.

Any group that did were only search-and-rescue teams fishing out survivors from the underground tunnels.

Until finally.....

...in 1945....

...the fighting stopped.

At first, there was relief, but that relief quickly turned to uneasiness. The closest nations noticed that it was quiet. Too quiet.

Fearing the worst, communicators in Africa attempt to resume contact with Saudi Arabia and United Kingdom. While Japan reopens up their airports so they could send planes to check up on Korea and Russia. Eventually, Australia, and North and South America followed suite.

They sent out search-and-rescue teams, brought out the biggest radars, praying for survivors. By the time the results came back and were shown to the media....

...the conclusion was the unthinkable.....

.....everyone is dead.

All of Europe is gone. What is left of Asia is destroyed or uninhabitable. Many islands were wiped clean, England and Ireland had fallen, Saudi Arabia and its surrounding nations are gone for good. Not a single human or machine was left.

To call it compete devastation is no understatement. But the news truly shocked the remaining world. What used to be enemies turned to each other for comfort. Any thought of fighting and hate went out of minds to make room for mourning.

The leaders of the surviving nations had no idea what to do. Nothing like this had ever occurred on this planet before. So many cultures and monuments and civilizations gone because of the war. The most they could do, was offer a worldwide truce to each other.

Ever since, the rest of the world was slightly more at peace than before, if not for the people having too much grief to want to go through another War of the Machines.

And no one dared to go back to the remains of Europe or Asia. They were too afraid....