Introduction:

This is a collaborations of first person stories told in Eila's POV, some stories are original while some stories can reference to canon materials.

Can possibly have OCs, but they will either be witch-ized(female) real WWII veterans Or WWII commanders with different names.

Disclaimer: I do not own Strike Witches and all this is purely fan made

A story about when I joined the 24th Unit

A few months after training in Suomus Air Force, I was able to control the striker units and weapons better. But what really helped me the most is my Foresight because I learned to get up close to my opponents more since Foresight allows me to dodge every single attack they throw at me easily without the needs of shields. Although some officers suggest me that it's reckless because the dodged enemy's gunfire could hit my own teammate or cause collateral damage to others, but I always brushed it off since I have faith in my teammate's ability to protect themselves and that never got me in trouble anyway.

One day, a commanding officer from the Air Force told me that I am assigned to a special squad to make use of my combat abilities, it was the 24th Unit. Then a few days later, a military vehicle took me to the base in Immola. Once I arrived, I was greeted by the commander of the unit - Captain Eini Luukkanen. After we introduced each other, Captain Luukkanen brought me to the base and introduced me to everybody in the unit.

Captain Luukkanen announced to everyone, "Starting from today, we have a new member to fight along us. Please welcome Sergeant Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen; introduce yourself, Sergeant."

Everyone clapped and welcomed me, after the claps faded, I begin to introduce myself, "My name is Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen, and I am currently a Sergeant, my ability is Foresight and my specialty is that I don't need to use shields in combat."

Then a girl with boyish haircut said, "Interesting, I would like to test your combat skills sometime today through a mock battle with you if you're fine with it?"

I asked, "Who are you?"

She said while reaching out her hand for a handshake from me, "My name is Hanna Wind, I'm currently an Ensign, but everyone here call me Hasse."

As I shake her hand, she gave me a bright smile.

Then she asked, "So, would you do it?"

I thought it might be interesting to mock battle on the first day so I agreed to do it.

She said joyfully, "Good, I'll see you in the sky at 1600 hour."

As she walked away, many girls followed her.

Then Captain Luukkanen said, "She's one of the leaders in combat, great fighter and a very likable person to the squad as half of our recruits are fans of her."

Then a girl with pigtail added, "She's also known for her accuracy regardless of what weapons she use."

Before I could ask for her name she answered it for me, "My name is Laura Nissinen, I'm currently an Ensign, but others call me Lapra."

Captain Luukkanen said, "Speaking of combat leaders, Lapra is our other combat leader."

I reached my hand to shake hands with Lapra, as we shake hands, she said, "Good Luck in the battle, you'll need it." Then she walked away.

Lapra seems like a cold person...

As I thought that, Captain Luukkanen said, "She's a quiet person who's very calm in any situations, but she's also friendly at heart."

Then Captain Luukkanen showed me the hanger and my room, then she left me alone.

I unpacked my luggage and head to the hanger and hope that they unloaded my Striker Unit already. As I arrived to the hanger, the hanger was crowded with Hasse fans. I found my Striker right away since it was freshly unloaded, so I walked toward it to warm up the engine and check for any problems when I moved here.

After I did my maintenance, Hasse walked up to me and reminded me that it's almost time.

So we got into our Strikers and get our paintball guns to prepare for sorties, Lapra also got ready since she's the judge.

We flew up to around 7000ft in the air, then Lapra started to explain the rules, "The rules are simple: One round, the first one to get hit or surrender loses."

Hasse and I looked face-to-face at each other, then Hasse smiled and said, "May the best girl win."

I smiled back at her and replied, "Right back at ya."

Lapra looked at her watch as she count down, "Five..., Four..., Three..., Two..., One..., GO!"

The moment we heard "go", we split up and then flew toward each other quickly. Once we bypassed each other, we loaded our guns. Then we flew toward the forest. As we got to the forest, I was right behind her, so I pulled the trigger, but she flew upwards and looped behind me in a flash. The moment she got behind me, I was able to sense her bullets' path with my Foresight, I dodged every single bullet she fired with ease but I was unable to find an opportunity to get behind her. Then I sensed another wave of bullets coming, but the bullets this time's bullets were rather close to me although I was also able to dodge them. Then I found an opening for me to loop around her back with a right twist. But when I fired at her this time, she pointed her gun back at me and shot down all my bullets that would have hit her. So I quickly turned away from her and fly off, she chased after me after I flew off. As she was shooting me from behind with bullets that were an inch away after I dodged them, I decided to use Foresight as a close up approach. So I turned back around and fly toward her, I dodged every bullet she shot at me and got close her at point blank range. I pointed my gun at her and she did the same as well, we were face-to-face again and exchanging stares at each other.

Then she suddenly smiled and said, "It's my loss."

Lapra said, "Game set, Eila's victory."

It seems like I won the mock battle on my first day, after that, the three of us flew back to the hanger.

While we flew back, I asked Hasse, "Why did you gave up?"

Hasse said, "I was out of paintballs by the time you got to me; besides, even if I had a few left, I would have got shot in the end since I believe that you would have been able to dodge at point blank range as well."

I took her words as compliment and felt a little embarrassed as I thanked her for the praise.

Then I was curious of why her marksmanship was that good, so I asked, "So, how were you able to shoot down all my shots earlier."

Hasse said, "Marksmanship is basically my specialty and my magic does aid in precision shooting, but your ability is truly amazing and will be a great help to our unit, right Lapra?"

Lapra nodded and added, "She would be even better with my training."

The way Lapra said it kind of frightened me a little...

But I knew something was strange when those shots were an inch away when I dodged them and that never happened back in my training days.

So I said, "I think your marksmanship is truly amazing too."

Hasse laughed and then said, "Thank you. I was also thinking that I could show you around the base when we get back?"

I smiled at her and said, "Sure, I would like that."

Then Hasse asked Lapra to join, but she refused in a monotone.

After we returned to the base, Lapra left as Hasse and I dealt with her fangirls for a while before she was able to show me around the base. In the end of the day, I believe that I will be able to enjoy my time with my new squad.

Sources

Beginning:

Lieksa, Suomus - based on Lieksa, Finland, which is the birth town of Eino Juutilainen.

Simona Hayha - Archetype is Simo Hayha, whom was known as the White Death for his sniper skills in the Battle of Kollaa back in the Winter War.

Unit 24:

This chapter is inspired by the Witch of Aurora manga as a prequel.

Author Comment:

These stories are actually constructed on my iPad and mobile devices really sucks at editing for FFN for some reason, the main reason I use my iPad to write stories is because my ideas are mostly thought on the iPad but sometimes I thought of it on the spot and I had to type it on my iPhone to use iCloud to sync to my iPad. I still post stories through my PC though.

A general summary about this entire story is that most chapters would be based on certain events or the actual anime, but there will be a few side stories that are different to the main story.