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“It’s not a weapon,” stammered a shell-shocked Allied field technician, speaking via encrypted line. “It’s a voice . It gets inside your skull. One second you’re aiming a rifle at a Kirov airship, the next you’re humming the Soviet national anthem and saluting a statue of Lenin.”

At 0715 hours, the earth shook. The violet sky flickered, stuttered, and collapsed into a mundane grey overcast. The Dominator’s hum ceased. The subjugated soldiers collapsed, disoriented but free.

That was the signal. From behind the Lincoln Memorial, a prism tank column—painted in the new “Urban Defiant” pattern—opened fire. The Soviet forward base, which had been celebrating its psychic victory, evaporated in a cascade of refracted light. www.westwood.com red alert 2

“Eat your heart out, Tesla,” crackled the lead tank commander, Lieutenant Maria “Sparky” Volkov (no relation to the Soviet Volkov). “We don’t need coils.”

But in the chaos, the Allies played their trump card. Sources confirm that a lone Chrono Legionnaire, operating under the codename “Vortex,” was diverted from a raid on Cuba and teleported directly into the basement of the Smithsonian. “It’s not a weapon,” stammered a shell-shocked Allied

“The Commander knew the Dominator’s shield generator was housed in the old Air and Space annex,” said a high-ranking officer, speaking on condition of anonymity. “We couldn’t get a tank column within three miles. So we sent one man. And a very, very large bomb.”

The Commander’s next move is already being drawn up on the tactical map. It involves dolphins, a stolen Soviet MCV, and one very grumpy Tanya. One second you’re aiming a rifle at a

The Dominator’s pulse has already subjugated three full city blocks. Allied Grizzly tanks sit idle, their crews staring blankly at the horizon. General Carville, in a final frantic transmission from the Pentagon, issued only two words before the line went dead: “Chrono. Now.”