On the streets of Rome
Green Squad
Sargent Taniwan Zhiqiang "Green 3"
This is too easy. The cities defenders are retreating and barely able to put up a decent fight, I was expecting more from these weaklings who run and hide instead of standing and fighting, dying like a warrior with a weapon in their hands. These people don't deserve to call themselves soldiers and wear their uniforms, it almost like I'm doing the proud reputation of warriors a favour by killing them. The city streets run red with their blood and the air is filled with its sent, the screams of them dying and the gunfire sounding the end of another weakling's life. I know the gunfire doesn't symbol the deaf of our own warriors as I debut any of the pathetic excuses for a soldier defending this city is even capable of scratching one of us.
I'm advancing with my squad up the street now walking triumphantly over the corpses of the dead and the crying bodies of the dying, every street is like this now so I don't even have to touch the filthy floor. Green Squad is a heavy weapons squad consisting of twelve members including myself, four of us carry EM1 light machineguns well the rest carry a mixture of assault rifles. I carry IMR myself with a Target Enhancer sight and a Parabolic Microphone, these two combined leave the enemy with no place to hide. Green Squad has been tasked with destroying a mortar position only a hundred meters ahead of us, a hundred meters ahead of us and yet we still haven't seen a single enemy soldiers. They can't even protect something as small as a mortar, just another reason they don't deserve to be in their uniforms and call themselves soldiers.
We continue moving forward moving from cover to cover, as we move I keep my eyes down my sights and ears open for any sign of the enemy. We advance carefully but not careful enough as seconds later a mortar round slams into the road just in front of us. We dive to ground and thankfully none of us are injured. As I get back onto my feet the first bullets impact the ground in front of forcing me to dive behind a ruined armoured vehicle. I peek over the top of the vehicle and see where the shots are coming from, a small bar is now lighting up with muzzle flashes in each and every window as the weaklings try to fight us off. Fight us as if, this will be a slaughter.
"Is everyone ok?" Our squad leader asks as I duck my head back down just in time as several bullets graze over the armour and flies through the space where my head just was.
"Yes sir!" Everyone including myself shouts back as another mortar shell explodes on the roof on the building to my left causing roof tiles to rain down on top of me.
"Exo Specialists push forward!" Our squad leader orders and I immediately get to my feet along with the other two Exo Specialists. The three of us know what our squad leader wants us to do we move ahead of the group a put up our riot shields which stop every bullet fired at us in its track. As we advance I hear the order for the rest of Green Squad. "Those of you with LMG's lay down covering fire, Assault Exo's advance on each flank using the roof tops!"
I push forward with bullet after bullet slamming into my shield but thankfully not penetrating it, I should have known these primitive weaklings wouldn't have been able to scratch me. The third round from the mortar lands in front of me but thanks to my shield it has no effect, the LMG's open up as soon as the smoke clears instantly pinning the enemy down and stopping their fire. I see two of the weaklings die, one falls out of the window landing in front of the doorway and the second goes flying backwards holding his neck as blood squirts out of a newly formed hole. The other two Specialists and I reach the building and put away our shields before stacking up by the door of the building. I can hear the weaklings inside speak in what I think is German, their voices sound panicked and I can sense their fear. I raise my hand and start the countdown… Three… Two… One. I quickly set a Variable Grenade to Tactical Flash and throw it inside. A white flash lights up the doorway and several windows, as it dies down I storm the building.
I storm into the room my rifle ready, my eyes down the sights looking for a target. I find my target and line him up in my sights before he can recover from the flash, he's an American soldier with a B.A.R dropped at his feet. I don't hastate and pull the trigger sending a four round burst of lead into his chest, the weakling's cuts spill out of him as he falls to the floor taking a few seconds of screaming to die. I look around the room and spot a German SS soldier just as a bullet passes through his skull and his brains paint the wall behind him. I hear footsteps coming towards turning round just in time to see a door open and another SS soldier walk into the room with an MP40 ready to fire. Again I don't hastate when I pull the trigger placing four bullets into his chest, he drops to the ground but doesn't die spitting blood from his mouth and reaching for his weapon, I do the only thing I can do, I put him down like a wounded animal with a single bullet to the head.
"Everyone pull back to the LMG's we have an air strike incoming!" Our squad leader suddenly orders out of nowhere. An airstrike when we're so close to doing this ourselves, he must have got cold feet.
We sprint back as fast as we can and only just make it in time before a jet flies over head dropping a large bomb on top of the mortar. The explosion is powerful and load nearly deafening me and sending me tumbling to the ground. I look behind me and see the pub is nothing more than a pile of bricks. Mission complete.
Another part of Rome
Charlotte E. Yeager "Shirley" P.O.V
This isn't good. Enemy soldiers are swarming the city and massacring us. The city defensives have all collapsed and everyone who tries to fight them is instantly massacred. Right now we are resting in a ruined house, Yoshika is still in shock holding her ears trying to block out the horrible screams outside, Lucchini has started to cry, she's hiding it but I know her well enough to know she is crying. Also with us now our a pair of Karlsland soldiers armed with MP40's and one has a Panzer Faust on his back, the house elderly owners a friendly and scared couple in their late sixties. The elderly couple comfort each other in the corner of the room while the Karlslander's and I keep watch. In the sky enemy jets swarm the sky completely dominating the airspace above Rome, flack clouds from AA guns which once darkened the sky are now gone and the thick black smoke from the fires outside have begun to turn night into day.
"Shirley come in!" Sakamoto's voice suddenly speaks up over the radio over the sound of battle. "Shirley are you there?"
"Yes I'm here!" I reply grateful for the first time in my life to see the Major, the other times I see her is normally followed by a lecture and a tortuous training regime. "We're hold up in a house"
"Ok hold your position and wait for further orders" Sakamoto orders as I look up to see the 501st fly over the city.
"Yes ma'am" I reply watching the witches fly overhead. "Hey guys the cavalry's here" I tell everyone as I turn round. "The 501st and 504th are here"
"Lynne's here" Yoshika suddenly speaks up, hearing Lynne's name has somehow snapped her straight out of her shocked state.
Yoshika Miyafuji P.O.V
"Lynne's here" I say standing up and looking to Shirley. I don't give her a chance to reply and make my way to the window and look up in time to see Perrine fly over with Lynne just behind her acting as her wingman. "Lynne, be careful"
I watch as the witches fly towards the giant airships shooting down two plans in route before a swarm of ten enemy jets dive on them forcing them to break off their attack. Everyone is instantly a lot happier at the sight of the witches and I can see their growing hope show on their faces. We watch the witches fight in the sky with the enemy jets, the jets may be faster but the witches working in pairs are holding their own. They fight in pairs working with their wingman to shoot down the enemy jets, the first blocks the enemy's fire while the second shoots and destroys the enemy jet. I see the 504th fly to join them the fight along with fighters from all over the world, artillery shells and rockets start to rain down on the city and gunfire in the distance starts and doesn't seem to end.
"Reinforcements are here!" The Karlslander with the Panzer Faust on his back shouts out raising his in the air cheering alongside his fellow countrymen. "Now those sons of bitches are in for a fight"
Francesca Lucchini P.O.V
I run up to the window just in time to see Sakamoto shoot down and enemy jet causing it to spin into the ground exploding on impact. The nice couple that let us hide in their house also joins us at the window and a smile grows on their faces as for the first time along with me we have hope that the city could be saved. Yoshika has also snapped out of whatever is wrong with her when she heard our squad mates arrived, I heard her say to herself "Lynne, be careful". Their mutual love for each other is so obvious I'm surprised that one of them hasn't made a move yet. Lynne's such a great cook and her rack is perfect, if I was Yoshika I wouldn't miss a chance of being with her and groping her every day.
"Shirley" I say turning around and burying my head in-between her two mountains of breasts, her hand instantly comes down to stroke the back of my head.
"Yes Lucchini" Shirley replies patting me on the top of my head.
"Do you think the city can be saved?" I ask her looking up into her eyes.
"Yes with the witches out there there's no way the invaders can win" Shirley answers with a smile on her face.
On-board the A.A.S Atlas
Jonathan Irons P.O.V
"Sir those girls just decimated Riper Squadron!" The radar operator calls out, I don't need him to tell him because I can see the burning wracks of their planes spin into the ground and explode.
"Order all fighters to pull back and get every anti-aircraft missile aimed at those bitches, load are cannons with airburst rounds on proximity fuses and shot every one of them down" I order watching another one of my planes being blowing out of the sky. "Also load our missile launchers with high explosive rounds and destroy every famous landmark"
"Yes sir!" Everyone shouts back as they start to carry out my orders.
"Turn to port and let them taste an airburst broadside" I tell the helmsmen.
"Yes sir!" He shouts back before turning the airship to port.
I feel a smile grow on my face as I feel the airship turn. I look out the window at those girls flying around blocking everything thrown at them and destroying every fighter that tries to take them out, these girls must be the witches my recon teams told me about. They certainly are impressive and I am kicking myself for not taking the threat they pose to my plan more seriously but now I won't hold back, I know how deadly they are and will eliminate each and every one of them. As soon as we show them what we are made off they will fear us and never dare to attack us again. As soon as my cannons open fire at them with their airburst rounds proximity rounds and the sky fills with heat-sealing and radar guided missiles they will no longer be a threat and become so filled with fear they won't come anywhere near us again.
Allied High Command
Harold Alexander P.O.V
Sitting around a table with a map of Rome on top with Benito Mussolini and Albert Kesselring is not a situation I thought I would be in. I never thought I would have to fight anyone other than the Neuroi and humans, never one did I think that in a war for our very survival against aliens would I have to fight my fellow humans. Looking at the both Mussolini and Kesselring faces and from what I have heard about the situation in Rome and I know the city is in a bad way, the garrison in Rome has suffered eighty percent causalities and civilian causalities are just as high probably higher. Whoever the enemy is they seem hell-bent on killing everything that moves on sight and their technology is decades ahead of anything we have, only the witches seem to be making progress against them.
"We should pull back the Mediterranean Fleet to avoid t taking damage" Kesselring suggests making Mussolini furious.
"No!" Mussolini shouts back slamming his fists down on the table. "We need to use the Fleet to launch airstrikes, the Battleships should bombard enemy positions on the western side of the city and guard reinforcements making amphibious landings!"
"We already got three panzer and an airborne divisions in bound from the north and an infantry division advancing from the south" Kesselring points out.
"An armoured division and a light infantry division from Britannia is coming down from the north and eighty Commandos are attacking from the south" I add.
"See the Fleet isn't needed" Kesselring tells him but still Mussolini doesn't look convinced "With mine and Alexander's forces combined with the Liberion armoured division, your five infantry and two airborne divisions also advancing on the city we should be able to crush them"
"With a vote two to one we are withdrawing the fleet" I say causing Mussolini to storm out the room muttering in Romagna as he goes most likely muttering very mean stuff about Kesselring and I. "Now let's get on with the counter attack, is our aircraft there yet?"
"The 501st and 504th have arrived and engaged the enemy" He answers looking back down on the map. "The rest of our air forces we sent are just arriving"
Above Rome
Takei Junko P.O.V
"Jane, Dominica, Patricia come with me and attack the airship on the left" I order as my squadron and I arrive over Rome. "Suwa, Nakajima and Angela take the one on the right, Red Pants keep those fighters off of us"
"Yes ma'am" Everyone replies before flying off to carry out my orders.
"Incoming missiles!" Suwa suddenly calls out over the radio. I look at the airships and see a pair of missiles fired from each airship heading straight for us, I look down and see even more raising out of the burning city towards us.
"Take evasive actions missiles incoming front and below!" I shout as I roll to move out of the way of missile shooting towards me from the ground. As I roll over I look up to see a sight that makes me scared, me scared that is something very rare, the missile I just dodged is turning around and coming back down towards me. I fire at the missile destroying it but another quickly takes its place. "Destroy the missiles they won't stop coming until they are destroyed or we are!"
"Nakajima's hit!" Suwa screams and I just turn round in time to see a missile hit her in the back, when the fireball from explosion disappears all that's left of innocent Suwa is her legs still inside her Striker Unit burning and falling down to earth.
"Regroup at my…" I begin to order just as the cannons on one of the airships fires and before I can blink I see the Red Pants, Fernandia, Luciana and Martina become engulfed in thick black clouds of flack. When I can see the again I see them falling to the ground covered in blood and burning from their flaming Strikers. "Regroup at my position"
"This can't be happening" Patricia says clearly scared and panicking before she suddenly flies off as fast as she can.
"Patricia get back here!" I yell but I find it useless as Jane and Dominica quickly follow her off the battlefield only Jane and Dominica aren't as lucky. Patricia escapes but Jane and Dominica get caught in a thick black cloud of flack and fall to the ground leaving a trial of fire from their burning Strikers. "This is Flight Lieutenant Takei Junko my Squadron the 504th Joint Fighter Unit has suffered heavy casualties and can no longer continue combat. We retreating from battle"
In route to Rome from the north
232nd Romagna Infantry Division Squad 6
Proculus Aufidius Gluvias "PAG"
"We will be reaching the city in ten minutes everyone get ready" My squad leader calls out as the truck we are in speeds forward along a dirt road through the countryside. "Our mission is to secure a couple of warehouses on the outskirts of the city, once secure those warehouse will be used as a supply depot fuelling our mission to hold the Capital"
"Is it true that we will be fighting human's sir?" Someone asks causing mine and the rest of my squads heads to turn and look to our Squad Leader for an answer, its question we all want to ask and be answered.
"Yes we are up against humans" Our Squad Leader answers confirming the rumours circling around our division. "We don't know where they are from, who they are or what they are trying to do. All that we know about them is that they are killing our fellow countrymen by the thousands, men, weapon, children… young and old are being massacred. Their weapons are more advanced than our own and they are well trained and organised but we have the numbers, we have them under attack from two sides with soldiers still fighting them within the city. We will win this fight and turn…"
His speech is interrupted by the roar of jet engines and we all look up to see the sky filled with enemy planes and our own being decimated by them. Our fighter escort has been shoot down and every transport plane carrying paratroopers is tumbling to the ground in flames crashing all around us. I can't see any parachute so I doubt that anyone in the air is still alive and… Shit a plane just landed right beside the truck and the shockwave of plane exploding shakes the truck nearly tipping it over. Another plane crashes just in front of us and the drive has to swerve to avoid its burning wrack only the he turns to violently knocking me and several others to the floor and three soldiers fall out the back of the truck, another fall over the side of the truck and most soldiers included myself are injured by the violent fall onto the trucks floor. I'm luckier than others only receiving a few bruises and cuts but some people have broken bones and others are not even conscious anymore.
"Stop the truck!" Our Squad Leader orders the driver just as the enemy jets turn their attention towards us. "Everyone out!" Just as he orders that missiles start to rain down on us destroying everything we have. "Take cov…" Our Squad Leader shouts just as a missile hits our truck he's still on blowing it and him to pieces along with most of my squad and sending me flying. I Land in a ditch and blackout.
Allied High Command
Harold Alexander P.O.V
"Sir the reinforcements coming in from the north have been wiped out by enemy aircraft" A Radio Operator calls out.
"Sir the reinforcements from the south have been decimated by artillery fire and retreating" Another Radio Operator says.
"What is the situation inside the city?" I ask standing up from the map table.
"Every one of our ground forces is retreating and the 501st Joint Fighter Wing is the only unit still fighting" Someone answers. "The 504th were forced to retreat and only two of their squad managed to survive and the rest of our aircraft were all shot down"
"Dam it" Kesselring says hitting the table. "They predicted our every move"
"Order all forces to retreat the city is lost" I order grimly looking down at the ground.
On-board the A.A.S Atlas
Jonathan Irons P.O.V
"The enemy is retreating sir" The Atlas Captain tells me joining me at the window just in time to see a Me 210 get blown to pieces by a missile fired from the ground. "The cities defenders are retreating and their reinforcements both north and south are retreating suffering heavy casualties"
"Good cancel our mission strike on the city's landmarks and direct them to strike the retreating enemy since we don't need to break their moral anymore" I order him as I continue to watch the city burn by my hands. "Also have our aircraft continue attacking the retreating soldiers I want every one of them dead so I don't have to fight a second battle for this land"
"Yes sir" He replies before relaying my orders.
"Have the Duchess brought to the bridge" I order but there's no need as Ghost pushes the young Duchess onto the bridge as soon as those word leave my mouth.
The little girl falls to the ground landing face first unable to stop herself due to her hands being bound behind her back, as Ghost roughly picks her up by her hair I see that the fall has given her a noise bleed. Ghost drags her straight to me and forces her to kneel. She looks up at me with fear in her eyes and I can see her body shaking like a leaf, perfect this is how I want her, this is how I want her people to see, to see her as the scared little child she is right now. It would have been better if she wet herself but her scared as she is right now will be fine. Looking at her now is how I want her country to see her, scared, bound and at my mercy, this would be the perfect way to destroy her country's moral and force their surrender.
"One brat just like you ordered sir" Ghost tells me patting the Duchess on the head.
"Good work now go get some rest" I tell him and he nods and leaves. "Duchess we have a lot to talk about"
On the streets of Rome
Charlotte E. Yeager "Shirley" P.O.V
"We are at the park now" I tell Minna over the radio.
"Ok we're be there in a minute to get you out of here" Minna replies as I step over a dead little girl who's body and blood are scattered over a large area.
I can't believe the cities fallen and so easily and quickly, everyone who tried and fight the enemy was butchered and those who managed to escape was hunted down. Lucchini hasn't said a word since the order to retreat was given, all she does now is cry and no matter how much I comfort her she doesn't seem to stop. I can't imagine what she is going through as Liberion is safe and hardly effected by this war but I know Minna, Gertrude, Erica and Perrine know what she's going through all their countries have been conquered and Gallia has only just be liberated so maybe one of them could talk with her. Yoshika hasn't took her eyes off the sky since she heard Lynne was up there, she also hasn't said a word but I know when she sees Lynne she'll be fine and she's only silent because she's worried about the girl she's crushing on. The elderly couple from the house we were hiding in refused to leave their home and come with us and the two Karlsland Soldiers also refused to come with us saying they would rather die here than retreat.
"Shirley we coming down now get ready" Minna tells me over the radio as I begin to her the sound of their Striker's engines.