Reinforcements

The Harekaze was on her way again to meet the Musashi after the resupplying and repairs were done. The bridge received a call indicating they would meet an old friend this afternoon and would then proceed in participating in Operation Perseus. And in the afternoon the bridge heard from the Communication that a ship was approaching them. The phones rang then on the bridge. Akeno heard a familiar voice in a German accent speaking. "Harekaze. Here Admirla Spee. Here I Offizier Friedeburg. Nice to meet you again. Ve are at your position in 5 minutes max." "Bye." With this Akeno turned to the remaining crew. "The Admiral Graf Spee is the "old friend' school talked about." At this Mouko nearly squealed. The Spee set herself before the Harekaze five minutes later. Both crews waved at each other. Suddenly, a bright white light appeared before everyone's eyes. The crews got knocked unconscious.

Akeno was the first to get back on her feet. She noticed appart from the sky her uniform and the of the fellow crewmembers changed to a complete white not unlike the uniforms worn by her childhood friend Moeka wore. It seemed all technical devices changed to a WW2 uniforms instead of their pink ones. Akeno noticed both crews slowly get back on their feet. While some seemed to be too amazed by the change of place and attire or didn't care others clearly voiced their discomfort of this change. This group was led by Chief Torpedo Officer Irizaki. After some convincing from Akeno and her deputy captain that they either didn't know what happened they returned to their post. The phone rang again. "Harekaze. Have you any idea vhat has happened?" Wilhelmina asked. "No but got some of your equipment get replaced too?" "Yeah. It also seems zhat ve have several coded radio signals and one open. Maybe I should come over to you so ve could hear into it? Käpitän zur See Kreutzer vould allov it." Asked Wilhelmina. Kouko nodded. Akeno said then yes to Wilhelmina. So both ships got toyed together. Mi as Wilhelmina was called by the crew of the Harekaze walkd straight to the bridge. As she entered she nearly got trembled over by Kouko. "Nice to see you all back. The Sequence is 71087." As they calibrated the radio they were surprised to hear a song sung by a female.

Vor der Kaserne vor dem großen Tor
Stand eine Laterne
Und steht sie noch davor
So wollen wir uns da wiedersehn
Bei der Laterne wollen wir stehen

Wie einst
Lili Marleen
Wie einst
Lili Marleen

Unsre beiden Schatten sahen wie einer aus;
Dass wir so lieb uns hatten
Das sah man gleich daraus
Und alle Leute sollen es sehen
Wenn wir bei der Laterne stehen

Wie einst
Lili Marleen
Wie einst
Lili Marleen

Schon rief der Posten: Sie bliesen Zapfenstreich;
Es kann drei Tage kosten!
Kam'rad, ich komm ja gleich
Da sagten wir auf Wiedersehn
Wie gerne würd' ich mit dir gehn

Mit dir
Lili Marleen
Mit dir
Lili Marleen

Deine Schritte kennt sie
Deinen schönen Gang
Aller Abend brennt sie
Doch mich vergaß sie lang
Und sollte mir eine Leids geschehn
Wer wird bei der Laterne stehn

Mit dir
Lili Marleen?
Mit dir
Lili Marleen?

Aus dem stillen Raume
Aus der Erde Grund
Hebt mich wie im Traume dein verliebter Mund
Wenn sich die späten Nebel drehen
Werd' ich bei der Laterne stehen

Wie einst
Lili Marleen
Wie einst
Lili Marleen

Wenn sich die späten Nebel drehen
Werd' ich bei der Laterne stehen

Wie einst
Lili Marleen
Wie einst
Lili Marleen

After the song ended there was heard a buzzing. Akeno turned to Mi. "Do you know the song?" "Yeah I do. It's called Lili Marleen sung by Lale Andersen, vhich ve heard, but Marlene Dietrich did a cover too. The song became knovn in the battle of Tobruk." Stated Mi. The radio sounded again this time a voice came out of it. "Dear Kameraden. Hear speakz zhe first radio station of zhe Kampfgruppe Lehr. Tomorrow shall be zhe first day vhere ve send recon teamz out. To zhose vho vill be on zhis teamz, Viel Glück. And to zhose vho stayz behind, Ve vill make zhem pay for it no matter vhat but stay focused. You vill train in zhe Morgen. Good night to all." Akeno was clearly confused. As every member of the bridge. "Vell it seems zhat ve somehov got back in time. Zhe Kampfgruppe Lehr was a German Battlegroup during WW2. Zhis vould also explain zhe change about our equipment. Vhat should ve do Kapitän?" Akeno looked unsure. Then she remembered something about the chain of Command in WW2. "Well, if I remember correctly Kreutzer should command here since she is as you said Kapitän zur See and I am only in command of a Destroyer she outranks me." Akeno stated surprising the entire crew of the bridge. Kreutzer was informed via a call and gave the first instructions: Sailing near land and asking help etc. Mi had asked to stay on the Harekaze. Kreutzer granted this. "So how what happened after we entered the Spee?" Mouko asked her friend later as they watched old films. "Nozhing in particular. Just repairz and physical training. Ve got two catz nov. Tvo vhite persians chartheux half breads. Zhey are so cute!" As Mi showed her a picture of one of them she had to agree. They were cute. Especially since above one ear a small yarn hung on the picture and the cat seemed to nearly sleep. In the morning the Harekaze reached the shore and let their anchor to the ground. Then they called on all sequences: "We head your Message yesterday and want to talk we are at position 51° N 22° E."

Meanwhile

Berengar, Miho and Le leaned over a map. Well a white sheet with roughly drawn lines and routes of the scout parties marked on them. They weren't sure why they looked over it. They had no information about the land or enemy movements. The awkward silence was interrupted as a girl stormed into the tent. "Sir, Ma'ams!" She saluted. "At ease, what happened?" Miho asked. "We got a radio message saying there were someone awaiting us at a coordinate." She stated. "Good. Tell tvo of the crews of zhe Sdkfz. 222 to get ready. Also get one VW Kübelwagen. You vill drive it. Funk Spähtruppe 5 to go to zhese coordinates but don't engage until ve are zhere. Dismissed." She saluted and ran away. "Wouldn't it by risky to go into enemy territory?" Miho asked. "It could hovever zhis radio message comez clearly not from zhe enemy since zhey don't have zhe technological amascenez to do so. Ozher countries on zhe ozher hand is also unikely because if anozher gate vould have open ve vould be informed from your country defence department." Le explained. "Ah okay."

Later that day

Akeno waited with binoculars in hand. She had watched the tree line in anticipation. The Harekaze and the Graf Spee lay in a small bay with a sandy cost. Although the beach from the beach it was easy to enter the water it was still deep enough to hold both ships without on a sand bank or something like this. Kreutzer had ordered to stay alert in case hostiles arrived. Akeno heard the roaring of engines. Soon emerged three vehicles from the treeline. "We have a group of three vehicles at the beach. Hostiles or not is not clear." Akeno shouted. The phone rang again. It was Kreutzer. "Take your leading officer vizh you to zhe beach to greet zhe strangerz." Kreutzer ordered. Akeni agreed. She spoke to every one of her officers and lead them to the beach. Mi had departed to go with Kreutzer. As they neared the crew Mi leaned over to the Harekaze Bridge Crew: "It appear so we may have traveld back in time. Those vehicles are one VW Kübelwagen." She mentioned to the one looking like a car. "and two Sdkfz. 222." She mentioned to the other two vehicles appearing to have at least a bit of armour and weaponry. From the Kübelwagen emerged three figures two other from the armoured cars. They approche them into a arrow formation. Leading them was a man in a WW2 German Officer grey uniform. He was followed by two females, one in a similar uniform to the man, the other in a black uniform. Following them were two soldiers with assault guns.

Kreutzer greeted them in German. "Hallo, wer sind sie und was ist ihr Name." The women in grey murmered something to the other. Akeno couldn't make out was being said. "Nun, meine Dame das selbe könnte ich sie fragen. Aber wir sind einige der Offiziere der Kampfgruppe Lehr. Und mein Name lautet Berengar Hahn." „Ich bin Thea Kreutzer Kapitän der Admiral Graf Spee. Das ist meine erste Offizierin Wilhelmina Friedeburg." Akeno noticed the suprised looked once Thea said Spee. "Und was ist mit diesen Damen Frau Kreutzer?" Berengar asked. „Sie sprechen kein Deutsch." She answered. He made an Ah. „Vell zhen let me repeat myself. Vhat are your names ladiez." "I am Akeno Misaki and these are my leading officerz Miss Shirotoko, Miss Nosa, Miss Munetami, Miss Irizaki and Miss Tateishi." "Vell and zhese are Leah Falkenstein and Miho Nisizumi." He introduced. "It would probably zhe best if one or two of you vould follow us to our HQ to explain everything." He stated. Kreutzer nodded. "Vell in that case. Friedeburg du wirst sie begleiten." She ordered. Kouko nearly shriek but could control herself. Mi nodded but had a sad expression on her face.

Authors Note: New chapter! Yay! Sorry for the delay I have now school again and in the last week I was sick as fuck and couldn't concentrate on writing. But here it is. Also Haifuri crossover. Hope you enjoy this and my other story. R&R