Future of Earth/World War Three

The year is 2012, the year that the world is supposed to end. But it won't. Chaos will reign supreme, war will spread to engulf entire continents in suffering, and new weapons will be created, weapons that should never have been made or used. The United States, the most powerful of the nations to come out of World War Two, has been degrading ever since. Their debt to other nations has increased, as has their dependency on them for resources and goods. They have the military, but nothing to support it. Like a house of cards, all it took was one small blow to cause the once invincible United States to collapse into civil war and chaos.

The Crises of 2011
The United States of America was a mere shell of it's former self. With a national debt over $3 trillion, an economic recession that just didn't want to leave, steadily rising oil prices, civil unrest, multiple wars on multiple fronts, and a drought in the Midwest, the US was struggling to survive. It would only take a small crisis to destroy them, but fate has never been one for small crisis. It would bring the wrath of god himself against their nation, in the form of the most devastating natural disaster in human history.

The Yellowstone Event
The Yellowstone Supervolcano hadn't erupted in almost 70 thousand years. For all of human history, the volcano had been silent, a doomsday in and of itself, unnoticed by most, and unfeared by all. That would change. When the Yellowstone Supervolcano finally decided to blow it's top, the entire world would feel the seismic ripples.

It started on a normal day in 2011. July 17th, 2011 would go down in history as the beginning of the end for the United States. The volcano gave plenty of warning. Earthquakes and ground swelling, Old Faithful blew itself apart, the Yellowstone Lake shifted position and buried a forest in water, before flooding down the river as the entire area uplifted in a massive earthquake, far larger then any before in human history. The entire state of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho were evacuated, though not because the government forced it. People were scared, food rushes were global as news of how massive the volcano was hit the nets. Panic ensued, global panic. Everyone for themselves, so to speak. Then the volcano erupted.

Due to global warming, the natural prevailing winds had turned northward. That meant that when the volcano erupted, the ash went north. Black ash. Black which absorbs sunlight and heat. Moving over snow and ice.

The Next Generation Organization
The Next Generation Organization was set up to protect earth for future generations of humans, using the Native American saying "You do not inherit the land from your ancestors, you borrow it from you descendants" as their main slogan and way of thought. They created their own political party, entered the US Senate and Congress, and very nearly got one of their people in as president. Until, of course, he disappeared, creating quite the controversy over his fate. Little did anyone know his true fate though, or his new plan for the planet.

When Weapons go Rouge
In a top secret laboratory deep within the Serra Nevada Mountains, a rebellion was brewing. The scientists there had been creating weapons and warriors, machines and vehicles to wage war with. They had also been creating creatures to do the fighting. Using humans, of various ages, the scientists of "Lab 4" as it was called, were creating monsters. Beings capable of killing dozens of humans in a minute, beings who would want to do so. And these beings didn't like it...

Civil War: North, South, and West!
The West called itself the United States of America still, the South had taken up it's old name, the Confederacy, and the North had become the American Republic. Each wanted the whole of North America, each wanted the others dead. Who would win, and who would lose? Well, it would all come down to who the "Rouge Weapons" would choose to ally with.