"The Red Army encircles the Reichstag, the parliament building and final stronghold of the Fascist Reich. In the surrounding streets, we choke the life from those who will still dare to defend it. It is an honor and a privilege to play a part in this glorious battle. When our flag flies over the city, our enemy's defeat and humiliation will be beyond question. Our vengeance will be complete…" Nikolai told the events for the people who are still reading this. Someone was going to die.
Takashi's eyes flickered open and closed as he was beginning to wake up. He was being dragged but by who. He was glad to be alive somehow but he didn't know where he was being dragged to. The person who was dragging him began to speak.
"You will be okay, do you hear me?" Nikolai told him as he was dragging him. "They flooded their own metro, in an effort to kill us Dimitri. Once again, they failed. Once more, we cheat death. You will be okay. Relax for a few minutes, breathe deeply." Nikolai instructed him. His head turned to see Rei who was shaking the water out of her diary when the metro flooded. Nikolai snatched the diary away to speak to her. "What do you think will lead us home? Writing about this war or fighting it?" He pulled her up onto her feet as he was angry about her being a pacifist. "No one will ever read this!" Nikolai shouted as he shoved the diary into her. He soon turned and grabbed the Red Army flag. "If you lack the stomach to kill for your country, at least show me that you are willing to die for it!" Nikolai shouted as her shoving the Flag into her. Rei grabbed it as she was feeling sad on the verge of crying. Nikolai turned back and helped Takashi to his feet. Nikolai gave Takashi a PPSh-41 complete with drum magazines from a fallen comrade. They all soon gathered around Souichiro.
"Nikolai, take the left flank and eradicate whatever scum remains in the defense of each building." Souichiro began to order.
"Yes commissar, you heard him comrades, to the left." Nikolai instructed everyone as they headed to the left down an alleyway. "We are in the final hours of Berlin's downfall; we must all play our part."
"Yes." Saeko said as she began to fire from her M1A1 Thompson as they were all firing on the poorly defended hotel. People were getting shot down but they fought on trying to ward them off.
"The Germans hand their cowards by trees." Nikolai told them as he saw the bodies of innocent people hanging by their necks. He turned to Rei. "Make sure you keep a hold of that flag Chernov. Keep fire on that building." Nikolai soon let several burps from his PPSh-41. Takashi was soon beginning to flank around and take out more of their defenses.
"It's open we can pour through." Takashi announced.
"We must flank the building from both sides, Dimitri with me!" Nikolai announced as he went to clear the building. Takashi followed while everyone else ran alongside outside. They soon encountered a library holding more of them. They continued to fight their way through the entangled mess with all of them pitching firing their shots off. They cleared the library with ease as they pushed their way out to a window. "Through the window, Go!"
"Yes." Kohta smiled as he pushed out into the ruins of the city. Everyone soon followed out. Everyone was now at the gates of the enemy, they were very close.
"Our tanks will have to find another way around, we take the direct route! Wait for the signal, it is almost over." Nikolai ordered everyone to halt. "Today is the day of our glorious vengeance! For ourselves… and for Mother Russia! CHARGE!" Everyone soon began to pour out into the gates of hell as they screamed at the top of their lungs.
"Flak guns!" Saya shouted.
"Take out those positions! The bunkers are heavily fortified." Nikolai warned them to make sure that they weren't doing their own thing. The tanks came along to support them as the Flak guns began to flow the tanks up "We need to destroy the 88's before our armor could move up. Killing the crews is not enough. The emplacement itself must be obliterated! Plant charges, find a Panzerschreck, do whatever it takes to blow those bastards to hell!"
Saya grabbed some charges as she and a few others focused on taking out the crew. Takashi took one of the charges as he went to go blow up the flak gun. Shizuka covered him as he set the charge up as he ran back. The charge blew up destroying the flak gun.
"One down, three to go! Keep going Dimitri." Nikolai encouraged him as he was focusing on taking out the next flak gun crew.
Takashi grabbed another charge as he raced to destroy the second flak gun while Alice was covering his flank. Takashi took out the M37 Ithaca executing the crew from a few feet away. Kohta was sniping from some distance away focused on a flak gun crew from the back. Takashi planted the charge down as the second flak gun blew up.
"Another one destroyed! Two more remain!" Nikolai shouted as they all moved up as Shido's forces fell back.
Kohta weakened one of the flak gun crews down to where there were no men left to operate it. Shizuka took the high ground as Takashi grabbed another charge. He ran over to the flak gun to plant the charge. Zeke was busy dragging the wounded out with Alice as more people and the tanks joined in. A grenade was tossed but Saeko threw it back as it exploded in midair. Takashi soon planted the charge down as it soon exploded as he ran back.
"Dimitri you are unstoppable! Get to the last 88." Nikolai smiled as he was taking out the last flak gun crew.
Saeko was busy brushing up the last flak gun crew with her M1A1 Thompson in one hand and Katana in another. She was flying through the air like a mad girl. Takashi set the last charge up and he was making sure it exploded. But the charge never went off.
"Don't tell me that charge was a dud." Takashi shouted in frustration.
"Show no fear comrades!" Nikolai shouted trying to prevent a retreat. Takashi ran over.
"Sir the charge was a dud, that flak gun did not detonate." Takashi told him the bad news. Nikolai was a bit angry about this but he got together what knowledge he had.
"Dimitri there is a Panzerschreck back there; retrieve it to finish the job. Take one of our men with you." Nikolai told him. Takashi nodded as he ran to Saya who was the closest individual of the group.
"Did Nikolai say something about a Panzerschreck?" Saya asked as she fired her Carbine.
"Yes, he did. We need to retrieve it" Takashi told her. They hurried back to the first two flak guns to find a single bazooka sitting there. They took the bazooka back to the front lines while Nikolai was engaging some forces at the buildings while Kohta was cutting off recapture from the flak guns.
"We have found your Panzerschreck, time to destroy that 88?" Takashi asked as he positioned the bazooka. Nikolai nodded yes.
"Fire the panzerschreck!" Nikolai shouted at Takashi. Takashi fired the bazooka into the dud charge that was still planted. The explosion caused the charge to explode taking down the entire flak gun with it. A grenade hurled right at them. "CHYORT GRENADE!" Rei tossed the grenade as it blew up in midair. They pushed onward into a couple of concrete buildings as their forces were grouped here to prevent them from getting a foothold onto the stairs.
"Push onward!" Takashi shouted as they entered the buildings. Nikolai climbed into one of them shooting down anyone that was inside without a second thought. Kohta soon joined him to resume his sniping. But before Nikolai could get out of the building, a rocket soon hits the side tearing a chunk of cement from the building. It was clear that people were firing from the roof top.
"Move up!" Nikolai demanded. "Dimitri, take out those troops with your PPSh-41." Nikolai commanded as he began to snipe down the Machine gunners with the Mosin Nagant he still had. Takashi was ready to bark his orders back at him.
"Ramirez, DO EVERYTHING!" Takashi commanded to Nikolai.
Everyone was soon grabbing a foothold onto the stairwell leading into the building entrance as everyone was still pushing hard into the center. Kohta was taking people down to prevent anymore bazooka firing. More importantly the tanks had rolled in. A tank fired but the shell missed. They had nowhere else to go but to move up.
"Move up everyone." Nikolai commanded as they ascended a flight of the stairs outside. Most of the defenses were still set but they were getting very close to their goal.
"After this we should enter the building and throw them over the edge and wipe them all out." Saeko smiled knowing they were at the very edge.
"I hope so. Then we can all go home." Nikolai told them. Soon another tank shell fired and it hit a concrete pillar. The pillar falls forward gathering speed every second. "Take cover!" He shouted as the pillar smashed onto the ground. Dust blinding them for a second. Once the dust cleared, Takashi saw something that was alarming and very foolish.
Standing as the dust had cleared was Rei, she had ditched her M1A Super match as she was holding the Red Army Banner in her hands. She charged forth wanting to do something significant for her friends but her actions would ultimately make her pay the price. A person from Shido's army was holding a Flamethrower. As Rei got closer to him, he jumped out from the corner.
"Hold your fi…" Rei shouted. The man opened his Flamethrower on her. Rei threw the flag to the side as she desperately tried to fight the flames as they were eating up her body. She was cough and crying in pain as she soon collapsed. Rei's body soon tumbled down the stairs as she was in agony from being on fire.
"Chernov, NOOOOOO!" Nikolai shouted. He soon opened fire with his PPSh-41 killing the person with the Flamethrower immediately, the enemy had dropped to the ground as his blood trickled down the stairs. Nikolai went to Rei who was covered in third degree burns. Her skin was black as she was coughing and unable to move. Much of her clothes were burned away causing even more damage. Takashi and the others raced to his side as she was just lying there. Nikolai touched her body before he touched her head which was severely burned. He soon rummaged around and grabbed the only thing that remained intact. "Dimitri! Someone should read this…" Nikolai told him. He was holding Rei's diary which wasn't damaged by the fire. It was clear that Rei wasn't going to make it.
"I'll stay behind to do what I and the other doctors could." Shizuka told them as she gingerly carried Rei away from the field as she left. The M1A Super Match was given to Alice due to her running low on BAR ammo.
"Move inside. This is what you came here for! Kill them all! Pound them to dust!" Nikolai shouted as he and the others entered the building. Everyone screamed as they charged into the building. Someone took the flag with them.
[A/N]: I felt like this one is shorter than the rest since it is pretty straight forward. I don't want them to spend half of the chapter just tossing grenades back at the enemy especially on Veteran Mode. Also since none of you went to the Polls and voted to kill off a character that you didn't like, so I decided to kill someone off so I'm sorry to say but Rei Miyamoto is now dead. She died by getting burned by a flamethrower but this fanfic isn't done just yet they still need to take the Reichstag. So her sacrifice will be repaid in blood. Also the diary will decide Takashi's fate in her eyes whether she views him as a friend, enemy or being neutral. So the last chapter will be uploaded as soon as possible.