Chapter: Aim and Shoot

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Bouncing of the leg keeps making the guys to look at Nayla. She has been sitting against the wall, her right leg bent and repeatedly bouncing. The guys didn't know if it's a nervous habit or just a regular habit of hers.

They have been in the tank for the past week, traveling and taking out the enemies here and there. They only made one stop because Coon-Ass got sick and he had been throwing up everywhere. Or they make stops for Nayla to go to the bathroom because she will not go in front of them.

"Either you have a nervous habit or you are having one of your bad feelings." Bible pointed out, turning away from the scope to look at her with raised eyebrows.

"It's probably that fucking bad feeling she has. I don't want to get fucking shot at today by those fucking assholes." Grady grumbled, sitting against the wall while picking the dirt out from underneath his nails with a knife.

"It's not a bad feeling, asshole." Nayla snapped, before stopping her leg from bouncing anymore.

"Then what, sweetheart?" Grady sarcastically asked.

"I have to pee really badly."

"Piss in the bucket." Grady nods toward a bucket that the men used to piss in when they are traveling.

"Fuck no." Nayla immediately replied.

"We'll stop. We should stretch out our legs anyways." Collier said through the com as he is sitting outside of the tank behind the machine gun.

"Plus, the tank smells too much like Coon-ass and it's making me cringe." Collier added on causing the men to chuckle, except Grady, who flips off the main hatch where Collier comes and goes in.

"Fuck you, you fucking dick!" Grady shouted while the men chuckle even more.

The tank came to a stop and they all begin to open up their hatches near their station in the tank. Nayla climbs out of the main hatch and quickly jumps off the tank, running towards the woods.

"You need your gun, woman!" Red shouted after her.

Nayla ignored Red as she walks further and further into the woods until she finds herself behind a tree surrounded by bushes making her to begin unbuckling her pants. While going to the bathroom, Nayla eyes were shut as she is basking in a sense of relief for finally going to the bathroom. However, the snaps of twigs makes her eyes to snap open and she looks around for any signs of what cause a twig to snap.

Finishing up, Nayla pulls her pants back up and she begins to look around for any signs of someone. Not seeing anyone, she moves around the tree that she had been peeing behind, but quickly jumps back as a butt of a gun had tried to slam against her face.

A SS soldier appears before her and tries to whack her again, but she dodges, ducks before yelling out and lunging forwards, tackling him in his mid-section. They both slam to the ground, fighting over the gun before Nayla punches him in the nose making him to yell out.

Taking the rifle from him, Nayla throws it to the side and she keeps slamming her fists into his face until he manages to toss her off of him. When the SS got on top of her, Nayla lets out a scream, but grunts as he backhands her across the face before delivering a sharp punch across her right cheek.

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A scream makes the crew to turn towards the woods.

"Nayla." Red said, but is startle when Collier jumps off the tank and firmly lands beside Red before he is running off toward the woods with his handgun out and ready.

Both Red and Bible stood there for a few seconds before they look at one another, nodding and find themselves jogging into the path that Collier went in, leaving Grady and Gordo to guard the tank. The two men keep jogging around and hoping to pick up where Collier had run off to, but there is no sight of him.

That is when they heard a gunshot.

"Oh fuck."

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Nayla keeps struggling underneath the SS as he tries to shut her up, not wanting to draw any attention to them. When he place his right hand over her mouth, Nayla snaps her teeth down on his fingers causing him to hiss out and snapped at her in German.

As the SS soldier went to pull out a knife to threaten her with, he is tackle off of her.

Sitting up onto her hands and then she quickly gets onto her feet, Nayla watches as Collier and the SS soldier rolled around on the ground. Nayla stands back but trips over something making her to look down and see Collier's handgun.

Bending down, Nayla picks it up and pulls the hammer back, loading a bullet in the chamber. She lifts the gun up, focusing on the SS, but not getting a clear shot as Collier and the SS are rolling around on the ground, jabbing punches into each other with every opportunity they got.

When Collier kicks the SS soldier off of him, Nayla locks aim on the SS soldier that gets up into a standing position. The SS begins to reach into their trench coat, the handle of a knife showing making Nayla to take the shot.

The bullet splits through the air and went right through the right side of the SS neck and out the other side. They grab onto their throat, trying to put pressure on the injury, but it too fatal and no hand pressure will stop it.

Collier stands up, brushing himself off from dirt and leaves. He stares at the SS soldier dropping to their knees and then onto their face, not moving anymore as their body is shutting down from the fatal wound that Nayla delivered.

Walking up to Nayla, Collier takes his gun back from Nayla and stares at her, staring at the body. He reaches up to pluck a few leaves from her hair before reaching his right hand on her cheek, examining her face.

"Fucker got you good."

"I got him too."

"Sure did." Collier replied, glancing over his shoulder at the dead SS before looking at her.

There is a bruise forming underneath her right eye on the upper part of her cheeks. A split bottom lip with slight blood drippling from it. The French braid in her hair is slightly undone and Nayla seems to be coming down from an adrenaline rush as her body is appearing to be exhausted before his eyes.

"The fuck happen?"

Pulling away from her, Collier sees Bible and Red staring at the SS before looking at Collier and Nayla standing side by side together. They take in them both before looking at the SS than back at them.

"He attacked me, we got into a fist fight and then Don appeared. I managed to get a hold of Don's gun and took the kraut out." Nayla informed a short summary of what had just happen moments ago.

A low whistle from Bible in reply while Red rubs the back of his head with his right hand, shaking his head at the thought of a bathroom trip turn into a fighting one for Nayla.

"Let's head back now. There has to be more than one fucking kraut roaming around here. Unless this jackass lost his platoon." Collier pointed out before he begin to lead them out of the woods and back to the tank.

"The fuck happen out there?" Grady is the first to ask as they got back to the tank.

"An SS."

"Get the fucker?" Gordo asked.

"Yeah, we got him, or rather, Scout took care of him." Collier pointed out as he climbs up the tank.

When Nayla got inside the tank, Grady pats her on the shoulder in a 'good job' manner for taking out an SS. For Nayla knows that whenever an SS is to appear, Collier makes sure that they are destroyed and bullets raining down all over them to the point that their bodies look like Swiss cheese.

Leaning back against the wall, the tank starts up and jerks forwards down the dirt road.

"No more bathroom breaks." Collier voice comes over the helmet com in a joking manner.

A small smiles comes onto Nayla's lips upon his words.

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Weighing tons, the tank still shakes from the missiles being dropped around them. Inside, the Fury crew are snapping at each other at the sudden attacks from German airplanes and other German tanks with ground troops.

They were on a muddy battlefield that probably used to be a pleasant field with all sorts of flowers before the war. Now, it look like a shit hole mixed with the blood of people on both sides of the war.

It had been peaceful on their trip through the woods until they got around a huge countryside hill that blocked the battlefield.

Bullets are bouncing off the tank and one manages to get inside and whizz by Bible's head.

"Shit!" Bible shouted, looking behind him to see Nayla staring at the bullet on the floor of the tank before looking at the dent it made in the wall. Her eyes turn to look at Bible with wide eyes.

"Fucking hell." Collier growled, looking through the periscope while the top rotated around to point the 75mm gun at a trench where a large group of German soldiers are hiding with sniper rifles.

"Burn them in that hole, Coon-Ass. Bible!" Collier shouted, staring at the snipers in the trench through the periscope.

Loading up a missile into the 75mm gun chamber, Grady locks it up before nodding towards Bible, who nods back and looks through his periscope to aim the 75mm gun towards the trench.

Locking on the target, Bible hits the button causing the tank to rock back at the force of the missile leaving the 75mm gun. It hit its mark causing Grady to howl with excitement and patting the back of Bible's back. Red whistle at the carter that the missile left before he begins to unleash a rain of bullets from his Cal .30 gun. Gordo is maneuvering the tank around large trenches in the ground while managing to shot out of his Cal .30 gun at the enemies running around.

As for Nayla, she can only sit back as she cannot go out onto the hectic battlefield to take care of the injured that is surely lying around everywhere.

"What is it looking like, Don?" Nayla lowly asked to which Collier looks down then back into the periscope before holding his left hand out to her without looking at her.

Reaching up, Nayla grabs his gloved hand and let him pull her up to his turret seat. He holds her as the top rotated around to face another direction where a rain of bullets are coming from.

"Look through." Collier told her.

Nayla grabs a hold of the periscope and looks out it. There is nothing but black smoke she sees until they drive through it. That is when she sees German tanks around and German soldiers running around, firing at them and the other American tanks and foot soldiers. There is bodies dropping like flies and there is gun firing everywhere.

When bullets ricocheted off the Fury tank near the periscope, Nayla pulls away from staring out of it anymore. Collier knowing that she seen enough, helps her back down to sit back against the wall behind Bible's seat.

"Fuck! Incoming." Collier shouted, bowing his head.

Quickly, Gordo stops and turns the tank slightly a certain way just as a missile ricochets off the front of the tank. The tank shakes at the impact, but Gordo pushes on and keeps driving.

"Take them out!" Gordo shouted before mumbling something in Spanish underneath his breath as he drives the tank away from the German Tiger I that magically appeared out of nowhere on the battlefield.

"We got them fucking surrounding. We have to get them from behind." Red shouted, staring out the assistant driver's hatch before shutting it.

Nayla shuts her eyes before opening them and turning her head to the right where two pictures were of her son. She cannot but help to get a grin upon her face at the sight of her son's smiling face. Looking away, Nayla shuts her eyes again as the tank rocked back and forth before stabilizing again.

"Shit, we lost Copper." Collier growled, slamming his right fists against the side while keeping his eyes staring out of the periscope. He watches as one of their fellow tank's blow up and into flames thanks to that single Tiger I tank roaming around the battlefield.

"Come on, we can do this. We got this." Collier keeps saying to himself as he watches as the German side is losing quickly now as another line of American airplanes fly over and drop bombs on the German side.

"There you go boys!" Red excitedly shouted while reaching over and slapping Gordo's shoulder in excitement.

"They are retreating." Another commander of a tank voice came over their radio, saying.

They look out the periscope to see the remaining Tiger I tank with foot soldiers are trying to make an escape attempt towards the woods. However, Collier commanded their tank and the others to fire everything at the Tiger I tank because that is a big weapon aspect to the German side.

Before the German Tiger I tank can get away, the Fury tank with others have been shooting missiles at it. They all hit the spot causing the Tiger to stop and blow up into flames.

The men cheered upon taking out the monstrous tank. Now, the foot soldiers taken care of the rest of the German soldiers that were standing around.

There is no more firing from guns; thus, Collier opens up the main hatch and stands out so half of his body is in the tank while the other half is outside. The others begin to open up their hatches to poke their heads out to see all the damage they had caused with the others.

Smoke and bodies is the visual sight that welcomes their eyes. The sad part is that they are used to this sort of thing now.

Climbing out of the tanks, they begin to search through the bodies of the enemies and their own. Nayla is running around, treating those that are wounded with other American medics.

Everyone else is making sure that all the enemies that are lying around are truly dead or if not, they will be. A group of troops went towards the woods to make sure that there will be no ambush on them while they are walking around.

Stepping away from a body, Nayla shuts her eyes and wishes Bible is near her to stay a prayer. She gently mumbled one underneath her breath for the young man that just passed on from gunshot wounds throughout his torso area.

"You good?"

Turning around, Collier steps towards her while pushing his helmet slightly up as it had been falling over his eyes.

"Yeah. I think so." Nayla replied, looking away from him to stare at the young man's body that is being covered up with a jacket before being carried away by his comrades.

"Too young." Collier lowly said making Nayla to only nod before turning away and she begins walking back towards the Fury tank. Collier turning on the heels of his feet and following after her, but making his strides long to walk beside her.

"It'll end soon."

"What will you do when it does?"

"I have no fucking clue. Go home and try to be normal. You?" Collier answered, shrugging his shoulders.

"Home to my son and hug him like no tomorrow. Probably go back to working as a nurse." Nayla told him to which Collier nods his head, eyeing her before looking away to stare around at the gruesome surroundings.

"Let's get something to eat before moving on out."

"Ok." Nayla shuts her eyes, blocking the scene around her out, but knowing that it will always be engraved within her head to always remember.

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Hi Everyone,

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I'm trying not to make it a quick relationship between anyone, but at the same time it will pick up very, very soon. It's just trying not to make is a mushy type story or anything. But at the same time, the way I see Nayla and Collier relationship is being sped up because you never know what will happen the next day or rather seconds during this war.

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