Border of Little Spain and Little France
El
May 12

El watched over the girls clad in light blue uniforms as they worked on their defensives. They had been tasked by the Duce with setting up proper defensive positions in the Little Pyrennees. They both knew that the Blue forces did not have very strong offensive capabilities since most of their armour consisted of Panzer II and Panzer I with a few Panzer III.

El had also noticed a surge in willingness, determination and loyalty toward the Anzio Empire after the failed Assassination and coup d'etat in Little Rome. There had even been a rumour that had spread amongst the troops talking about how Maginot had funded the rebellion. She hadn't commented on the rumour as it simply solidified their willingness to fight against Maginot.

She directed a few girls with shovels to go dig a small trench to stick their anti-tank into. She couldn't help but feel apprehension about what was gonna come in two weeks. She had heard the stories about the Invasion of Bonple and had seen the casualties for their own side which had still numbered in the thousands and it was supposed to be an operation that did better than expected.

She was scared for her girls, her innocent girls who were excited about the adventure to come. She could only pray to whatever god existed out there to protect them as much as possible.

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Near Little Lemberg
Anne
May 13

Anne opened the door of the car and stepped out of it, the army had been sent ahead of her as she had to stop at a meeting with both the Count and Yogurt Commanders so they could better coordinate their forces and how they were currently set up.

She had been designated with arguably both the easiest and hardest area to defend, a stretch of 210km of Bonple land (currently under Ooarai Empire control). The land was relatively flat mostly covered with farming fields and plenty of small villages scattered throughout the countryside. They had plenty of patches of forests and a large city just 30 km away from the frontline.

Walking through the makeshift base she watched as the girls currently in the base were solidifying its defences. Grabbing a set of binoculars she watched the troops around 5km away digging building bunkers, setting barbed wire and expanding the trenches that had been there already.

The plan was a fairly simple one, with flat farmlands being the majority of the land they were defending she hoped to create a layered defensive line, with every broken trench line there would be a second one better defended with more artillery and tanks helping. She was hoping that this would great such enormous losses for the enemy that they would simply focus on trying to breakthrough somewhere else. She also was planning on requesting for mines to create a deadly minefield in front of the trenches.

She wished she could have chosen some better terrain to set her forces as the farmlands didn't give her an advantage. She had to hope that the defensive positions and the desire to defend one's homeland would be enough.

Looking around the small base she was at she studied it once more, there were some munition caches, a circle of trenches and sandbags on the perimeter. The base itself was set up on a small hill, one of the few hills in the surrounding areas. Only tents had been set up so far and there were a few campfires.

Anne sighed as she walked over to the designated commander's tent, finding a table and a map as well as a few other devices necessary for commanding. She studied the map as if it would contain the key to give her soldiers an advantage against the inevitable Pravda forces, she knew this would be like the siege of Little Danzig which meant gruesome and ruthless.

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Little Atlantic Ocean
Hayami
May 15

Hayami had been at sea for over two weeks now, she had been cramped inside her submarine with her entire crew. They had been searching for the Saunder ships and Maple ships that were sailing towards Little Britannia. So far they had little to no luck having only stumbled upon one ship and had sunk it.

She searched with the periscope for enemy ships when she found two ships following each other. She grabbed her notebook which contained most of the shipping models that could be found in the Commonwealth navy.

Finding the ship she grimaced as she saw that it had a few guns on board which could hurt her submarine if they would surface. The job was much simpler when she didn't need to worry about enemy guns, she could just surface and shoot at them with the deck gun in till it sank.

"Get the torpedo tubes 1 and 2 ready" she called out hearing the order being echoed up and down the submarine

Most people thought submarines could simply shoot torpedoes at will, only needing to reload it after each shot but the process itself was much more complicated and long that most people knew. They first needed to heat up the torpedo then they needed to flood the tube before finally shooting it at the enemy boat.

Her well-drilled crew quickly began the process and a few minutes later, just enough to allow her to calculate the speed and distance of the enemy boats, she ordered the launch of tube one followed a few seconds later by a launching tube two.

Grabbing a pocket watch she began timing the torpedoes at this distance if the torpedoes didn't hit in 50 seconds she could assume that she had missed.

The soft ticking of the watch filled up the silence in the normally loud and bustling submarine. Everyone watched with bated breath as the time ticked by before a muted boom suddenly could be heard in the distance.

Hayami smirked as she watched through her periscope as the middle of one of the ships lifted into the air slightly pulling both the front and back part of the ship slightly before crashing back down a visible crack could be seen in the middle as the ship began to rapidly sink.

A few seconds later and another explosion could be seen as the back half of the ship was engulfed in a fiery inferno that began consuming the ships and even illuminating the sailors on deck as some of the more desperate sailors jumped of the side of the ship.

She ordered the ship to surface as she watched the O2 meter slowly dipping lower and lower. They had been forced underwater earlier due to a plane flying overhead. It had forced them to use some precious oxygen in an attempt to hide from it.

The submarine broke through the water, a silent predator of the ocean as two ships further away slowly sank their sailors doomed to a watery grave.

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Little Turin, Little Italia
Miho
May 18

Miho sat and watched as she sipped her drink and brought some of the best pasta she had ever had into her mouth and began chewing. She watched with amusement as some of her girls including her crew played in the park nearby, these childish moments had become even more important after the invasion of Bonple, for everyone. She watched as the Ooarai army acted more like a family, a weird family for sure, but a family none the less.

Midoriko was off to the site with her so-called Morals Company talking with each other. At another table, the Rabbit team was surrounded by other first years, they had become popular with the younger girls thanks to their performance during the Bonple Invasion. A medal pinned to each of their chests of which they were quite proud of.

The other teams were currently enjoying their time in other locations, well except for the turtle team which was at the table next to her discussing the two different Ooarai armies currently being trained and the Bonple Legion which had now been stationed on the Pravda border.

The only other girl that was sitting alone was Amaryllis who was a few tables away eating her own spaghetti. She was an interesting girl, both being caring and cruel, sweet and wicked as well as above all else being quite mysterious. Miho had pinned her personality down a month ago but she knew for the rest of the army she remained this mysterious charismatic leader that always looked as if the reaper was hanging over her shoulder with her pale skin.

A feeling welled up inside of Miho as she watched the girls run through the park playing some game they had come up with. Perhaps Miho mused this was what being a mother felt like. Her cheeks heated up at the thought of having children but she couldn't argue with herself that it was probably the closest description to how she felt for her troops.

It was her duty to keep them protected and safe just like it was a mother's duty to keep their children protected and safe. She winced slightly at the thought that in a little more than a week she would be sending some of them to their deaths. Unable to see them running around and playing around.

She wondered how the spies she had sent into Little Sardinia were doing, in reality, she could probably say that all the girls under the Ooarai Empire she considered as her children. That was the burden of being the leader of a nation.

She sipped her drink once more as she shook her melancholy thoughts and tried to ignore the gripping feeling in her heart and the gut-wrenching feeling telling her to enjoy this time as it would be a long time in till she would be able to see this again. She nervously fingered the gun in her holster, how she hated this unrestful rest, this burden of command.

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Little Turin, Little Italia
Noriko
May 23

Noriko laughed as she jumped into the air hitting the volleyball back into the other court. The game had been going on for a dozen minutes now as it flew back in forth. Seconds felt like minutes and minutes like hours before the ball touched the sand on the other side. A wave of relief flowed through her at the victory.

She looked back down and found Shinobu raising in the air abruptly hugging her while exclaiming in excitement. Sounds began to fade and everything became a bit dizzy as the world began to spin, first slowly before picking up speed and everything slowly faded to black. Noriko didn't realize the small gasp she had let out or the quiet scream afterwards.

Noriko stared around widely she was back in Bonple, near Little Warsaw. She remembered this day vibrantly, how could she not when she had almost died that day. She saw herself riding her tank forward, she had tried to copy Miho and tried to keep her head out of the commander's hatch as she commanded her unit.

The Panzer II F that she was in sped past her as the cannon blared out towards an insignificant defensive line when an explosion landed next to the tank raising the right side of the tank into the air before crashing back down this time on its side.

Noriko had been launched out of the tank and into the ground, dazed and confused she stumbled around before collapsing as a bullet barely grazed her arm. She crawled a few inches forward before a shell landed next to her digging into the dirt and just staying there. She remembered the fear that had clutched her body in a deathly grip as she ran forward toward her own tank where the other girls were knocked out.

Suddenly she was pulled from her memory, she felt more sweat than before pouring from her forehead as the rest of the volleyball club gathered around her in worry she gasped in a few big gulps of air her eyes franticly moving left in right in search of danger before calming down. This was gonna be annoying to explain she thought to herself.

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I feel like this chapter isn't adequate, I'm not too happy with this chapter and how it came out and at the same time I understand that since this is the last chapter in the small break from war in the last two months (in the book) that there wasn't much I could include. I also had a small amount of writer's block.

I hope you guys enjoyed it even with how short it is (feel like a bit of a scam for making it so short). Please leave a comment/review on what you thought of this chapter (or the book so far) they really brighten my day and I'm so thankful for those of you who have already done so.

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2020/11/08