The dust was settling …
By October 16th, what was left of the US command staff was planning their first offensive operation since the war started. Normally, this kind of operation would take weeks to plan, but they had days. Days to plan an operation involving nearly 100,000 US troops, on US soil, the biggest domestic offensive operation since Sherman’s March to the Sea.
The good news: the US had massive caches of conventional weapons at locations around the globe. As much damage as the sasquatch did, much of this and the logistics required to utilize the supplies were operational. Re-supply of newer munitions were being sent out to front line troops within a few days, while the troops stood fast in a “shadow armistice”. “Shadow Armistice” is what forces around the world were calling the pause. DARPA’s investment in next gen manufacturing and 3D printing tech allowed for the rapid deployment of experimental weapons and ammunition. Allied forces had also learned that the bigfoot were more susceptible to damage from radiation, and fell due to sickness faster than humans. The US forces would use this information.
The bad news: various nations were already making agreements with the sasquatch, NATO was split in half and Japan, where Jordan’s son died, sued for peace first. The USA was isolated, and other than China and Russia, had no allies for this fight. As horrible as the onslaught was, and as much damage was done, many people across the globe wanted to stop, evaluate, and understand. For them, and the bigfoot, the war was over.
As of October 16th, nearly 10,000 sasquatch in 6 separate battle groups were hold up around Denver, Colorado. These were scavengers and pirates, members of KLUNGIT-ARMIES from the EAST. They had traveled through portals, and were assigned DENVER as a holding point by DIRG, the sasquatch WAR LEADER. These sasquatch were vicious, and did a great deal of damage on “Chastisement Day”. Nearly 50,000 people were executed by the bigfoot forces in Denver, another 10,000 were being organized for transport as slaves, to be sold.
Hasty kangaroo trials were held at the Denver Botanic Gardens, the local sasquatch leader, VORTIZ-WOO, sat upon a throne judging the humans. The crimes they were accused of were mostly made up, crimes of destruction, neglect, but in general VORTIZ-WOO enjoyed the emotional torture of judging these weak little hairless monkeys. For several days the gutters were sticky with human blood, for several nights these ravenous and vengeful sasquatch fed on human flesh.
But what seemed the worst insult, and the greatest provocation, were the “dog trials”. Dogs that barked on the beasts, that attacked them, that stood by their owners to protect them? – they were put on trial. No knowing or understanding any of it, simply knowing that their owner was in trouble and they wanted to help. The wolves had stayed neutral, wit the crow: and DIRG considered it a kind of treachery if dogs attacked their sasquatch forces.
For VORTIZ-WOO and his angry sasquatch army, it mattered not the lives of dogs. They laughed and mocked, and even took turns swallowing French bulldogs live. It is notable that the most shocking thing to come out of the Denver assault were these dog trials, people seemed to care more about dogs being killed than people being killed.
