Chapter 25 – Nach Osten

The morning after, he had Yoshika lying on his chest, Mio in his knees, Minna on his left side and Adolfine on the right. Mysteriously, Shirley was on the floor.

"Sweet Amaterasu… Four of them were already a crowd, but five?! Sheesh, and the experience with the redheads… Just… Divine, hahahaha! And just as promised, Mio and Adi had to take it in the bunghole…"

"What next, Archduke von Fucksalotia? A sevensome?"

"You know I would have trouble getting another girl here… Adi being here is already a stretch."

"That's true… I wonder what kind of equilibrist tricks she will have to pull to justify her presence here."

"Let me see… She wanted to check my paperwork, but after it got dark her Striker broke down and she couldn't get back to Sint-Truiden, so she waited out here, and afterwards, I repaired it with Shirley aiding me."

"That could work. I shrugged."

"Heh… Ah, wait a minute! I could introduce Livy to the rest!"

"Daaaamn… I hoped you wouldn't bring that up…"

"Don't underestimate me, you millennial serpent, heheh…"

"I don't know, Master… I'm kind of shy…"

"Really? You, an almighty entity, capable of creating whole universes at a flick of a wrist, are shy?"

"You haven't noticed how I hid behind your friend when you introduced me?"

"Ah… Seriously? Awww, cute!"

"If you think so, Master… Hee…"

"Okay then, nobody will know about you, deal?"

"I'm happy, Master."

Suddenly, Yoshika, with her eyes still closed has started moving her hands in search of something. They wandered up to his cheeks, and then Yoshika kissed him. She opened her eyes and said, "Good morning, my dear."

"Yoshika, check if we don't have halo's, because I think we're in Heaven…"

"Heehee… You sure gave a stunt of endurance last night… Geez… Five girls fucked silly…"

"And Mio gangbanged by all of you, heheh…"

"Hrrrmmmm… What are you talking about?" Mio mumbled as she crawled up a bit closer to Toshiro's face.

"You sure took Yoshika on as if you were waiting for it since Britannia…" Toshiro said with a sly smile.

"Not Britannia… But yeah… I sort of wanted to make out with Yoshika…"

"You did?!" Yoshika asked surprised.

"I wanted to see how it is to be kissed by a girl while not being hammered…"

"And judging by all the moans, I guess you liked it…" Toshiro mumbled.

"It was my first time with a girl…" Mio mumbled with a red face.

"And four of them at once," Adolfine said all of a sudden.

"Shut up, Galland…" Mio muttered.

"We had sex, and you still call me by my family name…" Adolfine sighed.

"Oh okay, fine… But you didn't have to be so damn rough, Adolfine…"

"Heh, I kind of went full out unintentionally, sorry…"

"After what you told me back then, I can't bear any ill will towards you…" Mio smiled.

"When?" Adi asked.

"During the Fuso Sea Incident... It's because of you; I managed to stabilize my Magan…"

"What did I say?" Adolfine asked surprised. "I really don't' remember, it was so damn long ago…"

"Ehhh… "When we want to see something, then our eye lets us see it. In other words, our wishes become our power. That's the basics of how a Magic Eye works." I held on to those words, and they let me become who I am… Thank you, Adolfine."

"Wow… I never knew I could be so inspiring, heehee…"

"What's this mushy dialogue from the morning up, hmmm?" Minna asked with a sleepy voice.

"Oh nothing, we're just reminiscing…" Adolfine said.

"So how was it, Mio?" Minna asked.

"Why does everyone have to ask…? It was… Nice…"

"I knew you'd like it, heheh…"

"How'd you know that?" Mio asked.

"Romagna… You know, alcohol let's one loosen their moral constraints, and if you kissed me like you kissed me, then I had a suspicion that you could want more one day…"

"Damn it, nothing will escape you… And you probably know that I wanted it?"

"You want to be loved, Mio…" Shirley mumbled from the floor. "You may be hard as a rock, but that longing for another person will slowly drill a hole in your being…"

"My, your being damn philosophical in the morning, Shirley." Toshiro smiled. "Come on to us, that rug must be cold as hell."

"We should get going anyway," Minna said. "Adolfine must probably go back to Sint-Truiden already."

"About that…"

Shirley suddenly stood up from the floor and looked at them with a half-asleep face.

"Occupied…" she muttered as she looked at Toshiro. "Cramped…" she mumbled as she looked at Mio. "Hmmm… You're a guest so…" she said as she jumped at Adolfine and cuddled her.

"Now, how did I deserve this show of affection?" the Karlslander asked surprised.

"The floor was kinda cold, and you're the hottest woman I saw in my life, heheh…"

"Hahaha!" Mio laughed.

"Oh indeed," Adolfine smirked. "Well, anyway, about my flight back…"

Three days after that, after dinner, Sanya wanted to talk to Toshiro in private. He sat with her on the sofa in the office and asked, "What do you want to talk about, Sanya?"

"Yesterday I… I heard a message… It was very silent and with a lot of static but… I could recognize the voice of my parents… I think they somehow got permission to use a military radio to send the message, but… The Neuroi are probably jamming the signal…"

"Wow… Got any details?"

"They're both in Petersburg right now, but in two days, they are supposed to move again deep into Siberia… And I wanted to see them so much…"

"So we have about forty-eight hours… Shit… You know what? Leave this to me; I'll give you results ASAP, okay?"

"O-Okay! Please, Toshiro, I have to see my parents!"

"Okay, okay. Run along now, or Eila will be jealous."

"Heeheee… She's already a bit jealous because of the private lessons I'm giving you."

"She should know better that I wouldn't touch you no matter what…"

"Oh… Now you've offended me…" Sanya puffed her cheeks.

"You know damn well what I meant…" He sighed.

"Yes… Heh… I'll be going now, I bet you want to be alone."

"Indeed. I promise I will give you some results before supper."

"Thanks!" Sanya cheered and went away.

Now what… Ah, I'll call the OKW.

The melodic voice of the telephonist rang through the receiver.

"OKW, please state your business."

"Von Edelweiss here, I want to get connected to somebody who knows the current situation on the Ostfront and in the north."

"Hmmm… Admiral Canaris is pulling an all-nighter today; I can connect you to him, Herr Generalmajor."

"What's his business?"

"He's the head of the Abwehr, and if anyone knows anything about the situation in Europe, that should be him."

"Then please, put me through."

"Sofort!"

After a few crackles, Toshiro heard an old sounding voice, "Canaris hier."

"Von Edelweiss here, Herr Admiral."

"Ah, the heir himself is calling the old me. What do you want, Generalmajor?"

"Sir, I would like to know what's the safest, and possibly shortest, flight path from Frankfurt am Main to Petersburg."

"Hmmmm… Please give me a few minutes, I will call you back."

"Thank you, Herr Admiral."

After only a minute, a knock on the door was heard.

"Enter," he said.

Minna strolled in and asked, "Are you busy?"

"Pretty much yes. I'm gathering intel for a possible future mission."

"Oh? Can you tell me what's it about?"

"Sanya heard a transmission about her parents. They are now in Petersburg, and I want to fly over there."

"From here to Petersburg? That's quite a trip…"

"When flying two thousand kilometers per hour it's a piece of cake. The problem is the path I should take, but Admiral Canaris is calculating a path for me."

"Canaris himself? Shit, Toshiro… You are one bold guy to ask the chief of the Abwehr himself about such petty info."

"I didn't call Keitel to get clearance yet, heheh…"

"I have to watch this…" Minna said and sat on the sofa.

"Sure, why not…"

Toshiro waited a few minutes and the phone rang.

"Von Edelweiss," he said.

"It's me again. I have a flight path for you, Generalmajor, but I hope you know what you're doing, whatever you're planning."

"Yes sir, I know."

"Okay, then look. I will give you a path, but you have to stick straight to it, or you could bump into the enemy."

"What if I make a super-high altitude flight? Say… fifteen thousand meters?" Toshiro asked.

"Doesn't matter, Hive clouds are even taller, so that could be a hindrance."

"Ah, okay. Then I'm all ears, Herr Admiral."

"The listen carefully. You will fly southeast towards Nurnberg, then in a straight line to Linz, then another straight to Brünn, Reichshof, Kiev and you're home free. But thinking about it again, you should fly at a high altitude to avoid low flying marauders."

"Jawohl, Herr Admiral, I'm very grateful for this intel."

"No problem, Generalmajor, that's why I'm pulling all-nighters some times. Dismissed."

"Jawohl!" Toshiro shouted and cut the connection.

"So?" Minna asked.

"I have a path, now I need a permission."

"That was fast…"

"Yeah… A bit too fast… Well, now let's call the boss… Oh wait, it's too early…"

"Then let's do some good old paperwork," Minna smiled.

"I suppose so…"

A few hours later, when Toshiro was about to call Keitel, the phone rang. Toshiro raised one of his eyebrows first, and then the receiver.

"Von Edelweiss."

"Hello, Toshiro."

"Eheh… Good morning, boss. I was just about to call you…"

"I could guess as much. Canaris told me you have requested some pretty detailed intel… May I know what you're planning?"

"One of my underlings, Sanya Litvyak, received a transmission regarding her parents on her night patrol yesterday. She wants to see them urgently, because in slightly over 40 hours they're scheduled for relocation."

"I see… Does the girl really need to see her parents?"

"Yes, boss. She has been searching for them whenever she's on leave since she joined the 501st."

"I see… So what is your plan?"

"I'll fly along the route that I have received with Sanya on my back at a speed nearing Mach 2. That's more or less the whole plan."

"Why can't she fly using her own Striker?"

"She still has a reciprocating Striker, boss. If I piggyback her, it will take two hours tops to get there."

"Okay, you have my permission, but if anything happens, the Wehrmacht has nothing to do with it, understood?"

"Jawohl!"

"Dismissed."

Toshiro hooked the receiver and said, "Well, operation greenlit. I guess I could do it today, but on the other hand, I don't know jack shit what's happening there, so I'd rather turn around during one day."

"So you will head out just as it gets bright enough?"

"Yeah, probably."

"And you will be taking only Sanya with you?"

"Most likely yes."

"Fat chance…" Minna smiled mysteriously.

"Hmmmmmyyyyeaaaaah… Right… If Ms. Jelly goes along, I'll have to take Yoshika too."

"Why?"

"I doubt I could take both on my back comfortably, and Yoshika does have a jet Striker."

"True… Well, when are you breaking the news?"

"Let's finish the paperwork and I'll go tell her."

"Good choice."

Once they finished the paperwork, Toshiro went to the door to Eila's and Sanya's room. He knocked.

"Come in," Eila answered.

Toshiro came in and saw the two lying down on their respective bunks. Eila was in the middle of a tarot reading, and Sanya was just looking into the ceiling while hugging the cat plushie she received from Heidemarie.

"I have news, Sanya."

"Really?!" she jumped up immediately. "Tell me!"

"I have a rather safe path towards Petersburg and clearance from my superiors to undertake the mission."

"Oh wow! Thanks! Are we going tomorrow?"

"Yes, tomorrow. Be sure to take your warm clothes and whatever you need."

"Okay!"

"Wait, wait, waaaaaaait!" Eila shouted. "Fill me in on what the hell is happening!"

Sanya looked at Toshiro who only shrugged. She in turn sighed and said, "I'm going to Petersburg. My parents are supposedly there."

"And you didn't want to take me with you? But Saaaaanyaaaaaaa…"

"I didn't want to take you because it would cause problems with organizing the mission…"

"I somehow have problems believing that…"

"Okay, I didn't want to take you, because you're such a dunce that you would babble out that we're a lesbian couple before my parents!"

Both Eila's and Toshiro's jaws dropped after hearing Sanya's little outburst, with Eila looking slightly more shocked.

"I told you my parents would probably disown me faster than Toshiro could crack a fart if they got to know about our relationship…" Sanya mumbled with slightly red cheeks.

"Ah, okay… I thought it's something more serious… But Sanya, can I go too?"

"If Toshiro lets you."

"I could let her go… But then, Yoshika also has to come."

"Huh? Why bother with her?" Eila asked.

"I figured that I'd piggyback Sanya and rush at slightly under Mach 2 to make things faster, but if you're coming into the picture, I also need Yoshika to carry you, since she also has a jet, and neither of you have one."

"Makes sense… So we're going tomorrow?"

"Whatever… I'll explain the intrinsic details tomorrow, for now just prepare mentally. I think we'll head out after breakfast."

"Thank you," Sanya said quietly.

"I'll always go lengths to help my girls…"

Toshiro went out of the room and went to his. He opened the door and saw that his bed was rather occupied with the rather preoccupied Yoshika, giving Trude a good time with her hand, who in turn fondled Yoshika's breasts violently.

Uhm… Yeah…

Toshiro quietly backed up and closed the door silently. He leaned back on the wall and waited.

"That was unexpected, right, Master?" Livy asked, appearing in her usual fashion.

"I guess my little fiancé took my words a bit too seriously…" he sighed. "And geez, this is a bit awkward…"

"Catching your cousin and your fiancé in flagranti?" Livy asked with a sly smile.

"With emphasis on cousin… Damn, this is really something new for me…"

When he heard the door being opened, he also waited until one of the two came out. The first one was Trude, walking out with a mellow face.

"Hi," Toshiro said nonchalantly.

"Eeek!" Trude shouted and turned towards Toshiro.

"Did you just use "eek" as an interjection? That's very fishy…"

"It's just…I… I was… Errmmm…"

"Oh stop teasing her, Toshiro," Yoshika peeked out of the room. "Yes, we did it."

"Yeah, I saw it."

"Really?" Yoshika asked.

"Really. A few minutes ago I sort of casually walked in on you two…"

Trude's face was as red as the finest grade carminic acid.

"So you finally got some action, Trudy," Toshiro put his hand on her shoulder. "How did it feel?"

"G-Good… Very good… Much better than… You know…"

"Handiwork alone?" Toshiro asked.

"Uh, yeah..."

"How nice. Okay, scoot now, Trudy, your cousins have something to discuss in private."

"Sure, sure…" Trude said and wandered away.

Toshiro entered the room and closed the door behind him.

"You really shouldn't do such perversities in the middle of the day, you know…"

"I made a gamble, and I lost. Tough luck…"

"Imagine what would happen if Francesca, Perrine, or Lynne came in… They would probably need a shrink."

"Oh, I didn't think about that… Man, good that you were the only one to interrupt us."

"How do you know I was the only one? You two were so in it that I could probably drive into the room with a damn Maus tank, and you would still finger Trude in bliss."

"Heheh… True… But Trudy was so… So…"

"Virgin-ish?"

"Yeah… She was like a dormant sexual volcano, but by the time she gets laid properly by a man, she'll probably regain her power…"

"Who knows…? Anyway, we're going on a mission tomorrow."

"Oh, a mission? What's it about?"

"We'll be trying to find Sanya's parents in Petersburg."

"Oh, interesting. But why do you need me?"

Toshiro briefly explained the plan.

"Oooooooooh… Neat. I'm up for it."

"That wasn't a request, Yoshika. That was an order."

"Oh reaaaaally…"

"Reaaaaally… I can always take somebody else willing to carry Sanya on her back and capable of about two hours of high speed flight."

"I doubt you'll have anybody else fulfilling those criteria, heehee…"

"I can always give an order…" Toshiro shrugged. "So, I heard you also wanted to learn Orussian…"

"Yeaaah… I wanted to see if my new brain potential is really so impressive."

"I've burned through the beginner book already, have a go."

"Heh, thanks. I guess with Sanya, you'll be doing the advanced book in a few days?"

"Khuy ego znayet…"

"Hmm?"

"Who the fuck knows, heheh…"

"You'll see, I'll be as good as you!"

"I'm aiming for native level proficiency, so watch out!"

"So let's study now, you with your book, me with mine!"

"Sure, where?"

"Bed, where else!"

"Good!"

The next day, after breakfast, all of them were checking their equipment and clothing. Toshiro in his standard uniform, to which Eila was very skeptical.

"You'll catch a cold, you know?"

"Ah, didn't I explain? Yoshika and I will be holding hands so my Sacred Flame can heat all of us at one go, since we'll be flying at an altitude of, give or take, fifteen kilometers."

"Why so high?"

"To minimize the risk of getting into an unnecessary fight, numbskull. But at least I see that the rest of you is dressed accordingly," he looked at the warm clothed trio.

"Oh, but I have a spare set of clothes in the bag!" Yoshika cheered showing him a plump duffle bag.

"What did you take?"

"Your coat and visor cap, you have to look like a Generalmajor when you're on ground, right? Also your long pants and the other shoes."

"Yeah, I suppose you made a right call… Okay then, let's go then."

Eila and Sanya mounted their Strikers, and they hopped on the backs of Yoshika and Toshiro.

"Remember to hold tight you two."

"Toshiro, tell me why we don't have jets yet?" Sanya asked all of a sudden.

"In your case, I think that Orussia still hasn't developed a Striker ready for wide employment, and as for Eila… I guess Suomus still didn't buy an XF-2 from Karlsland for her."

"Sounds reasonable…" Eila murmured "But they're sure taking their time…"

"The XF-2 must cost an arm and a leg, that's for sure. When we return, I'll try to get out some info, okay?"

"I'll make sure you'll remember!"

Toshiro slowly accelerated and they taxied out to the runway.

"Hang tight!" Toshiro shouted and started accelerating.

After Yoshika and he both crossed five thousand meters, he slowly turned up the heat so they would have a room temperature surrounding their bodies at the altitude of fifteen thousand meters.

"Wow, so nice and warm," Sanya said from his back. "But Toshiro, how are we going to navigate from above the cloud cover?"

"Errrr…"

"Heehee, don't worry. I'll guide by the radar," Sanya pulled up her Magic Antenna. "We're surprisingly on course."

"I hope you thoroughly studied our flight path after I explained it after supper?"

"In navigating on instruments so to speak, I'm a real pro. Don't worry, Toshiro, just follow my guidance."

"Okay, lead the way."

The sun shone on them brightly during their way on into Orussia. On the way, they saw Hives from the distance, but fortunately, no marauding Neuroi have attacked them.

After they passed Kiev, Toshiro said, "Wow, that path was pure gold."

"Really, where did you get such info?" Eila asked.

"From the Abwehr chief himself."

"Hmmm… Not bad… Not bad at all…"

"You think we could descend under the clouds, Sanya?" Yoshika asked. "I would like to see some scenery."

Sanya closed her eyes, and after a minute she said, "We can, there are no Neuroi I can detect."

"Then we're going down," Toshiro said and started the descent.

Once they went down, they saw a landscape both idyllic at some parts, and war stricken at other. Plowed fields and lush forests contrasted with tank wreckages, craters and destroyed villages.

"Such tragedy…" Yoshika said silently.

"Orussia had the privilege of having a small time window to prepare defenses. And mass producing tanks and Strikers, with a nationwide witch conscription following, yielded the probably biggest counterattack in the history of this war namely operations Barbarossa and Typhoon. These are the reminders of those days…" Sanya explained with an indifferent voice. "But the same time, Operation Dynamo was ending, and I had fallen back from the continent to Britannia. I couldn't help my country…"

"Sanya…" Eila said shocked.

"Oh, pardon, I didn't want to get so serious…"

"No, it's okay," Yoshika said with a smile. "You have the right to express your feeling in one way or another."

Sanya's Magic Antenna suddenly changed its hue to a deep green.

"Toshiro, I'm putting through a transmission."

"Okay."

"I repeat, identify yourself or we will shoot you down," a voice with a heavy Orussian accent said.

"Vy ne osmelilsya by sbit' naslednika prestola Karlslandu (You wouldn't dare to shoot down the heir to the throne of Karlsand)?" Toshiro responded with a smile.

"Net, pozhaluysta, prodolzhayte (No, please continue)!"

"Spasibo…"

"Toshiro, that was some nice Orussian, I'm proud of you," Sanya said with a smile and clapped her hands briefly.

"Heheh, I'm a very diligent student. Oh, what's that coming for us?"

"It's… A Striker… It has an Orussian radio signature… What, that's… Sasha!"

"Sasha?" Toshiro asked.

"That's what Sanya calls Captain Pokryshkin," Eila explained. "Did you know that there's a literal fuckton of variants of the name "Aleksandra" in Orussian?"

"Sanya is also Aleksandra, heheh… Okay, we're slowing down, Yoshika."

"Sure."

They slowed down and waited for the Captain to close in on them. She had blonde, shoulder long curly hair adorned with a headband, and with small white bear ears sticking out in their proper places. She was wearing a black, long-sleeved uniform with a dark blue shirt under it, and a matching short skirt barely covering her thighs, which in turn were clad in black tights.

She was flying a white jet Striker who shared a striking resemblance to the Me 262, and in her hands was a roughly two and a half meter autocannon.

"Sanya!" she shouted. "How nice to see you again! But why are you riding piggyback? And who are your friends?" she said and looked at the rest. "Blyet! Um, I mean… Good morning, General!" she saluted quickly.

"Hi there," Toshiro responded. "And who are you?"

"Captain Aleksandra Ivanovna Pokryshkin of the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing!"

Damn she looks so cute at this age!

"Ah, so you were taking care of the two piggybackers a few months ago? Thank you."

"No problem, sir!"

"At ease already. Well, I guess you know who I am?"

"Yes sir."

"Then take a wild guess at who's under Sanya."

"That must be…" Aleksandra squinted her eyes while looking at Yoshika. "...your fiancé!"

"Hehehe, dead right…" Yoshika chuckled.

"So what's with that equipment and that gruff meeting?" Toshiro asked.

"Ah, we are demonstrating the new Su-9 before Marshal Zhukov himself! So maybe that's why…"

"And what's the deal with that autocannon? That's very interesting…" Toshiro said while carefully looking at the enormous gun.

"Ah this? This is also a new construction, fitted especially for the Su-9, the Nudelman-Suranov NS-45."

"I guess the "45" is the caliber?"

"Yes sir."

"Hot damn… Trudy would let herself get flailed for such a gun…"

"Um, may I ask what are you all doing here?"

"Sanya got a transmission that her parents are in Petersburg right now, so we came."

"You were going quite fast I must admit… Are those some new Strikers? Haven't seen them before…"

"And you're asking why?"

"She's a mechanic buff, heheh… Maybe an even bigger than Shirley and you combined," Eila said.

"Oh please, Eila…" Aleksandra said but soon she made a sour face while grabbing her ear. "Da… Da… Da…" she repeated. "Could you follow me? Marshal Zhukov wants to see you all."

"And how the hell does he know we're here?"

"My transponder sometimes get stuck… That's literally the only thing I can't fix on my own…" Aleksandra mumbled.

"Heh… Okay, we're going. Lead the way, Captain."

Small AN time

As you can see, I decided to introduce the Su-9 here and now. Yes, it's a year to early, but considering how I already made stuff appear before, I think it's excusable to do this. It's not like I'm introducing a fourth gen jet here, right? (looks at some authors)

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