[ WP ] In a shocking turn from neutrality , Switzerland declares support for ISIS and attacks the rest of the EU .

In hindsight, the little things should've tipped the world off. Suited executives were flying into Geneva from the Middle East on an almost weekly basis. Billions of Euros and Dollars were poured into Credit Suisse, safe deposit boxes started getting filled up to the brim at Julius Baer and shell accounts at UBS funneled money out in small portions to small, insignificant accounts at banks all over the world. The Swiss Federal Council had increased the Swiss Army's budget by around 50 %. Recruitment was in full swing, and talk was that Switzerland was planning to take a greater step in the protection of itself and the region. Reforms were rolled back and limits placed on the size of the conscripted army were abolished, allowing every single Swiss male to join the army upon turning 18. As the Swiss signed more and more increasingly expensive arms deals with America and Russia, the world mourned the death of the last remaining truly neutral country, but the Swiss did not seem to care. `` The time has come for the Swiss people to be the masters of their own fate. We will no longer look to other people to secure our country, our region and our world for us. It is time we took the responsibility in our own hands,'' said the President at the annual New Year's speech. This increased nationalism inflamed the Swiss public with patriotic passion. 
 
 It was around this time that the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications ( DETEC ) announced that it was closing the Large Hadron Collider due to a fire that had broken out in one of CERN's housing blocks. This riled up scientists and researchers on site, because after years of patient probing, they believed they were finally close to producing anti matter in large enough quantities to produce an essentially limitless supply of energy. However, DETEC closed the facility abruptly and cleared all the researchers out. Swiss researchers were sent to Geneva where they were closely protected ( read: monitored ) while foreign scientists were sent home. Everyone was taken aback by the Swiss government's actions, after all they had actively encouraged international cooperation on all matters from science to defense to the economy. The official line was that some of the research was threatening to Swiss national security. They said they fully intended to let everyone back in as soon as they could finish their investigation. In the meantime, some of the more patriotic Swiss scientists were brought back to the LHC, presumably to check for defects in the Collider. The Swiss Air Force began training exercises on CERN premises, supposedly to prepare for a `` possible attack on Swiss soil,'' but no one bought that either. Problem was, no one knew what to think of it anyway. 
 
 On February 12th, Switzerland closed its borders. Embassies were surrounded by Swiss police, supposedly to protect the ambassadors and diplomats from an `` imminent attack,'' state television networks instructed the Swiss people to proceed to army forts and camps within 12 hours. While the White House, Kremlin and pretty much every other government in the world attempted to reach the Swiss Federal Council and figure out just what was going on, they received absolutely no explanation other than the one line which later became a part of history. 
 
 `` We are dealing with a domestic issue and we thank you for respecting our sovereignty.'' 
 
 12 hours later, for the first time since 1815, the Swiss Army violated the sovereignty of its neighbors. Northrop F-5 fighter jets took to the skies. Some flew to Berlin, more to Milan, some to Lyon and some to Turin. As the French, Italian and German governments scrambled their fighters, NATO began trying to contact the Swiss Federal Council, trying to figure out just what the hell was going on. 
 
 Until the fighters started shooting their escorts. 
 
 The Swiss jets, having been intercepted by the German, Italian and French air forces, maintained radio silence throughout. Then, in coordinated fashion over the skies, hundreds of miles apart, they opened fire on their escorts. The crippled jets fell out of the sky and the NATO powers finally started realizing what was going on. As the Swiss jets neared the centers of the cities they were headed for, the various NATO powers mobilized their Air Forces to deal with the threat. But nothing would save them now. The first F-5 had reached Milan, and dropped its relatively tiny payload of a single, modified CBU-24 cluster bomb. 
 
 There was nothing tiny about the explosion that followed. 
 
 Dwarfing any and all explosions seen up until that day, the CBU detonated several hundred feet in the air above Milan. The explosion was more than 4 times as powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima all those years ago. Entire stone buildings crumbled to dust, glass turned to sand and water in fountains was raised up. The sky had opened up like Rapture, a glittering supernova that was suspended in mid air for a split second. Then it collapsed on itself and detonated again. The NATO powers that had witnessed the explosion were stunned. There was no mushroom cloud so this could not be nuclear. Switzerland had no strategic bombers like America's B-52 Stratofortresses. Around one hundred thousand lives were lost that day, slightly more than the Nagasaki bombing. Similar explosions happened in the other targets and NATO leaders were at a complete loss for explanations. The one thing they did know was that Switzerland had just indirectly declared war on Europe. The Third World War was unfolding. 
 
 Four hours after the devastating bombings, the Federal Council took to the airwaves. In a live television broadcast they explained that the Swiss people were sympathetic to the'plight' of the Islamic State, a perfectly legitimate sovereign nation that should not be prevented from forming. They pledged to support the Caliphate to show that sovereignty should never be infringed upon and that parts of Syria and Iraq had historically been part of the Caliphate that ISIS was simply trying to recreate. The Council ended by declaring war on all nations that opposed the formation of the Islamic State, giving the world 24 hours to cease all hostilities against ISIS, or face more bombings like the ones at Berlin, Lyon, Milan and Turin that had collectively claimed nearly half a million lives in a few minutes. The broadcast ended with videos of Swiss soldiers mobilizing and moving to the country's borders. 
 
 Meanwhile, the Swiss Guard over at the Vatican City had moved to seal the borders of the tiny enclave. Acting on orders of the Swiss government, the Guards took the Papal King and the entire College of Cardinals, brought them to St Peter's Basilica. Islamic State had no conflict with other religions, the Council said. They merely wished to establish their own Caliphate. The Pope would not be harmed as long as NATO surrendered. 
 
 In the midst of all this confusion, it was discovered that all but one of the foreign scientists who had worked on the Large Hadron Collider had died on the way back home, often in mysterious circumstances. The lone survivor, a theoretical physicist named Robert Hardwick, had survived an attack and made it home to New York. There, he went straight to the FBI and broke the news. The Swiss had used their own scientists to finish up the work that the world had spent so much money on and they had succeeded. When the Director heard what Professor Hardwick had to say, he brought the professor to the White House immediately. And there, Hardwick said the words that no President ever wanted to hear: 
 
 `` The Swiss have weaponized anti-matter.'' 
 
 The end of the world was near. 
 

