OTMA 2011

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Tatiana was upset. The family had been in exile for almost a year and a half. SHe and her mother and sisters had been forced to wear simple maids dresses and had been subjected to harmassment by the new group of guards. Tatians felt the worst for her younger sisters Maria and Anastasia. Unlike Olga and Herself the little pair hadn't even come close to finding husbands or getting married. Anastasia had been her usuaul funny self in secret as the guards didn't like it. Tatiana went to see Maria and Anastasia as the got ready for bed.

"Mashka and Nastenka come here I need to talk to you. ",Tatiana said.

'I need you to do something for me. ",Tatiana said.

"What Tania?",Anastasia asked.

"I don't trust those Bolsheviks. They hate us with every inch of their bodies. They see us as the children of Nicholas the bloody and his German Bitch.",Tatiana said.

"How dare they call mamma and pappa that? They made a lot of mistakes but nothing to be called that. ",Maria said.

"I fear they may try to kill us. I am going to try to find a way to get you two out of here. ",Tatiana said.

"Why us? Why don't you and Olishka come with us? ",Maria asked.

"I don't think we could make it besides people are more sympathetic to children then older girls. You have to go on for us. Try to find the whites and tell me what is happening here. ",Tatiana said.

"No I don't wanna leave you. ",Anastasia said.

"You may have no choice. Get some sleep. ",Tatiana said.

Tatiana left her younger sisters and headed to join Olga in their bedroom. Later they were awakened by the guards.

Tatiana got dressed and put on her corset with jewels sewn in it. She headed into the bedroom where her younger sisters were.

"Please put on your corsets with jewels and hurry. ",Tatiana said.

The girls dress in their simple maids dresses and followed the guards through the house and outside. As the walked outside the family headed for door leading back into the house with a truck sitting nearby.

"If they were going to move us then why don't they put us on the truck? ",Tatiana though.

Just then a noise caught everyone's attention. There was a bright light and a strange shape approached the house. It was long and round with sharp pointed edges like knives sticking out of the sides. On the sharp edges were two round objects like wheels but facing sideways. There were lights all over it. Two red lights one on the top and one on the bottom flashed repeatly. Olga noticed a long row of windows with shadows in them and then she saw the tail lit up with the Russian flag on it.

"That thing is flying our flag. Look at the back of it!",Olga yelled at her sisters.

As it passed there was a loud whinning roar and the noise suddenly got louder. The shape looked like it was going to hit the roof and then it started to go back up. Wheels hung from the bottom of it.

Several of the guards were on the guard praying in fear. The object flew away. Then everyone started walking again. They came to the cellar and Yurovsky told them to wait. Tatiana began feel something was very wrong.

"This is not right. Why bring us here when they had a truck waiting? ",Olga asked.

"Maybe they need more help with our stuff. ",Alexandra said.

"I don't think so. Did you see that thing in the sky? Some of the guards dropped to their knees. ",Anastasia asked.

"I saw it. Maybe it was an angel coming to help us. ",Maria said.

Then Yurovsky returned with nine soliders.

"Because your relatives continue to attack the Soviet Union the Ural committee has ordered us to execute you. ",Yurovsky read from a piece of paper.

"Noooooooooooo!",Tatiana screamed in her head. Bullets fly everywhere.

Nicholas is hit in the head and falls. Alexandra rushes to his side and a head shot finishes her. Alexi mourns and bleeds. The girls huddle in the corner.

The cook and doctor move to shield them. Bullets bounce off their diamond loaded corsets. Guards approach the girls and the big pair jump up and start fighting back. Tatiana and Olga try to wrestle guns from the guards trying to shoot them.

"Leave the little pair alone you monsters. ",Tatiana screams.

Olga knocks the gun out of a guards hand and pushes him into Yursovky knocking him and several other guards down. Most of the other guards had stopped shooting out of fear of hitting their own men.. Tatians spins around struggling with a guard knocking into others with her leg as the spin.

"Mashka ,Nastenka go now run. Go the way we came in here hurry. ",Tatiana shouts to her younger sisters.

Maria and Anastasia run through the gap made by their older sisters and into the hall. They then see other guards with a machine gun pointed out the door.

"This way Nastenka. ",Maria points out.

The little head towards the stairs they came down eariler and head up them. Then they come outside near a waiting truck. Inisde the cellar Tatiana and Olga were still struggling with the guars.

"Go Olishka get out while you can. ",Tatiana screams at her older sister.

Olga starts through the door as Tatiana struggles with the one guard still trying to kill her. Most of the other guards are drunk and others shot the four servants trying to help the former czar and then the turn towards the girls.

"Come on Tania. Hurry. ",Olga said.

Tatiana gets the gun free and falls back. She shoots back and hits some guards. Then she makes for the door but a guard grabs her leg and then she kicks him with her other foot. Tatiana races out the door with her sister. They join the little pair outside.

"What are you still doing here? ",Tatiana asks.

"There are guards out here Tania we can't get out.",Anastasia explains.

"Get in the truck!",Tatiana shouted.

Tatiana and Anastasia got into the front while Olga and Maria climbed into the back. Tatiana starts the engine and put the truck gear then she hits the gas. The truck speeds towards the gate. Guards fire but some are knocked away by the truck. Tatiana floors it and crashes through the gate. The truck fly's down the hill and on to the street. It makes a hard left and speeds away.

"Slow down Tatiana or you will kill us. ",Maria shouted.

"There's a civil war on, everyone in this town hates us, ,men just tried to kill us, and I am going to kill us?",Tatiana replied.

"I will head east and try to reach the white army camps. ",Tatiana said.

"Why did they try to kill us and who is the Ural Committee? ",asked Anastasia.

"Probably more of Lenin's thugs and the vote was likely unanimous. ",answered Olga.

"They talk of equality ,peace ,and freedom. They talk of free elections. Lies all lies. If only people knew. ",Anastasia said.

The raced out of town. Back at the Ipatiev House the guards were cleaning up.

"This is the last time I allow drunks on an execution squad. Had you all be sober those grand duchesses would be dead!",Yursovky shouts.

"Lenin might just shoot us all. ",Yursovky groans.

Inside the cellar blood was everywhere. Seven bodies lay on the floor along with two dogs. The guards wrapped them in blankets and began to load them on to another truck.

"What do we do about the girls? ", guard asked Yursovky.

"We must tell the Ural Committee and send out search parties. If that fails there are ways of manipulating things to make it look like everyone in that family is dead. He looked down at the blood.

The girls continued through a field outside of the city. Tatiana stopped at a strange sight. A greenish fog was just ahead of them. It glowed eerily.

"I don't like that fog it looks creepy. ",Anastasia said.

"Nastenka that is just fog. We used to see it all the time at Tsarskoye Selo and on the Stardard. ",Olga said.

"It would take too long to go around and that might give them time to catch us. Beside it would cover our tracks. ",Tatiana said.

With that Tatiana drove on. As they entered the fog the ground was no longer visible and an eerie glow surrounded them.

Then it cleared. The girls looked around and something didn't seem right. Anastasia noticed a row of lights racing nearby.

"That must be a train. Where's the engine?",Anastasia asked.

There was a loud roar and the girls jumped out. They looked up and saw two Mig-29 fighters race overhead.

"Those looked like that thing we saw eariler only smaller. ",Maria said.

"Let's try to get some sleep. I don't think anyone is going to find us out here. ",Tatiana said.

They were used to sleeping on cots without pillows and sleeping in the back of a red army truck was no different. They all feared being found by the same men that tried to kill them in the cellar. Anastasia dreamed of the horror she and her sisters had escaped. She saw Tatiana, Maria ,and Olga shot in the heard. Worst she saw men stab her with bayonets. She woke up screaming. "No don't stab me stop it. ",Anastasia screamed. Olga comforted her.

"It's only a nightmare. Your safe now. ',Olga said.

"They were stabbing me with bayonets while you were all shot in the head. ",Anastasia said.

"I won't let that happen to you. Please go back to sleep Nastenka. ",Olga said.

They both went back to sleep. The next day they found a road and followed it to a farm. They saw a farmer nearby.

"Sir can you help us? We are in trouble. ",Tatiana asked the farmer.

The farmer was a dark haired man working on his tractor. He got up and faced the girls.

"What kind of trouble are you in girls? ",the farmer asked.

"We escaped from Ekaterinburg. They killed our parents and our brother. ",Tatiana said.

"Who killed them? ",the farmer asked.

"The Bolsheviks the reds. We are trying to find the white army camps. ",Tatiana explained.

"What are you talking about? There haven't been any Bolsheviks or whites around here for several decades. ",the farmer said.

"Where did they go?",Olga asked.

"The reds took over Russia and called it the Soviet Union. It lasted until 1992. Now this is the Russian federation. Come inside and meet my wife. Alexandra. ",the farmer said.

They went inside.

"Alexandra come here. These poor girls are lost and they someone murdered their parents. ",the farmer said.

"They were talking about Bolsheviks. ",the farmer said.

"Poor things they must have been abused and raped. No wonder they are confused. ",Alexandra.

"We were not raped. They tried to kill us but we got away. ",Maria said.

"Look at you all wearing those nice dresses. You dress a lot better then kids your age nowadays. All those saggy pants and short skirts. Leas some people have good taste. ',Alexandra said.

"Our mother's name was Alexandra. These are simple maids dresses. We were forced to wear them after being put under home arrest. ",Olga said.

"House arrest for what? ",the farmer said.

"Please Ivan they couldn't have done anything that bad. Look they have matching eye's and hair. They must be sisters. ",Alexandra. said.

"We are sisters. They imprisoned us because of things our parents did. ",Tatiana said.

"Who imprisons children for their parents crimes? That's insane. ",Alexandra said.

Olga and Tatiana looked around the kitchen. They noticed a strange box above the stove with a window in it and glowing numbers on it. Anastasia wandered into the living room where the couple's son was watching television. An episode of Doctor Who was on.

"Daleks be warned you have declared war on the Cybermen. ",the cyberleader said.

"This is not war. This is pest control! ",screamed Dalek sec.

"What is that black thing some kind of tank? ",Anastasia asked.

"That a Dalek the emeny of the Doctor. You don't wanna mess with them. Daleks hate anything that isn't a Dalek and will exterminate it on sight.",Boris said.

There was a huge battle between Cybermen and Daleks. Cybermen were yelling delete and Daleks yelled exterminate.

"That's strange we never saw anyone fight with weapons like that. ",Anastasia said.

"What is your name? ",Boris asked.

"I am Anastasia. ",Anastasia said as she curtsyed.

The other girls ,the farmer ,and his wife came in.

'Boris please turn on CNN. Radio said there was a new development about that plane that disappeared last night. ",Ivan said.

Boris picked up the remote and changed the channel.

"Where is the projector? ",Maria said as she looked around the room.

"You must really be poor. That is a television set not a movie screen. ",Ivan said.

"This is CNN Breaking News. We have new developments involving that Russian Air Flight that disappeared late last night over Ekaterinburg. We now go to our corespondent in Moscow for more details. ",a female reporter said.

Then a men appeared in front of the Kremlin. Russian authorities are still baffled by the events of last night when Russian Air Flight 294 disappeared off radar screens and was out of contact with the control tower for 15 minutes. When the plane reappeared the captain declared an emergency and landed safely. Afterword it was determined that all clocks ,watches ,and any electronic devices with internal clocks were off by 30 minutes. The pilots reported having flown through a strange green storm as they descended for a landing. The Russian goverment scrambled two Mig-29 fighters to look for the unusual weather but found nothing. Russian offical also moved quickly to close off all airspace with in a 300 miles radius around Ekaterinburg. As far west as the Ural Mountains. ",the reporter said.

Video of the plane taxing down the runway appeared. The girls recognized it.

"That's what we saw while we were heading to the cellar. ",Olga whispered her sisters.

"Now new video from a passenger on board flight 294 shows what many claim is the first evidence that the passengers and crew of flight 294 may have been the world's first time travelers. The video shows several young women walking behind a large house identified as the house of special purpose or Ipatiev House. The location where Russia's last royal family the Romanov's met it's tragic end. The women seen here have been identified as the daughters of Czar Nicholas the second. We see Olga about to enter the house for the last time followed by Tatiana and Maria. In a strange twist of fate the one girl seen here in close up looking up at the plane is none other then the czar's most famous and mysterious daughter Anastasia Nikolayev Romanov who many people still believe somehow survived that horrible massacre in the cellar. Here we see her and her sisters in living color headed towards their doom. Anastasia of course was believed to be the lone survivor of that night until 2007 when the bodies of one of the Romanov sisters and Alexi Romanov were found in a separate grave from the rest of the family meant to cause confusion. Already the internet is abuzz with new theories and claims that the video proves that Anastasia never went into the cellar. Over the years there have been several women claiming to be Anastasia only to be proved false. ',the reporter said.

Old photos of Anastasia in her court dress appeared as well as the photo of the bloody wall in the cellar.

"Those butchers!",groaned Olga when the bloody wall appeared.

The girls noticed the year 2011 by the date on the screen.

"Butchers indeed. Those poor children didn't deserve that to go through that nightmare because of their father. ",Alexandra said.

Anastasia was giggling and rolling on the floor.

"A mystery about me HEHE who could have thought. ",Anastasia said giggling.

Tatiana hit her lightly on the shoulder.

"Stop it Nastenka. ",Tatiana said.

"Oh your no fun. ",Anastasia replied.

"What was her problem. ",Boris asked.

"She sometimes pretends to be the real Anastasia. ",Tatiana said.

"We need to get going. ",Tatiana said.

"Where are you going? ",Ivan asked.

"We were headed east. Do you think you could take into town? ",Tatiana asked.

"Your all such nice girls. I wish more people were like you. ",Alexandra said.

Ivan took them to the edge of Ekaterinburg.

"Take the 20 line trolley it will take you to the train station. Here I will give you some money to buy train tickets. ",Ivan said as he headed some paper money to Tatiana. The girls boarded a trolley and rode through the city.

"It sure have changed here since we left. Look over there two arches by a building. ",Maria said as she pointed towards a Mcdonalds.

"You think that is strange look over there. ",Anastasia said as she pointed towards a a strip mall shopping center.

They soon neared the site of the house of special purpose. The girls were in shock to see that that house that had been their prison was gone and a church was standing in it's place. They got off headed towards the church. The entered the church and met a woman standing near the entrance.

"What happened to the house that used to be here the one were the Romanov's died? ",Tatiana asked.

"They tore it down in 1977 because it was drawing too much attention. ",the woman said.

"Who did? ",Anastasia asked.

"Communists. They feared it might be used as rallying point for anti Soviet groups. ",the woman said.

"Where was the cellar located? ",Olga asked.

"In that room over there. ",the woman said.

The girls entered the room and almost immediately felt they were back in the cellar. They looked at pictures of themselves on the walls.
"They made us holy martyrs? Why?", Olga asked.

The all knee led and began to prey. "Mother and Father please guide us. We are lost in a strange world. ",Olga said.

Nicholas and Alexandra appeared before their daughters and were not visible or heard by anyone else.

"My daughters you have been sent to a safer place. The world you came from would have consumed you before you could reach safety. ",Nicholas said.

"What do we do father? ",Anastasia asked.

"Follow the path placed in front of you and follow you hearts. Farewell my daughters for now. ",Nicholas said as he disappeared.

"what did he mean? ",Anastasia asked.

"I think he meant we were brought he to protect us. Look around you there are no more reds and no one trying to harm us. ",Olga said.

They left the church and stood near the street.

"We should head to Moscow and St. Petersburg. Maybe someone there can help us. ",Tatiana said.

They got on the next trolley and headed for the train station.

to be continued.