"We're inside the parliament building now. Our tanks will be no use to us and it's now up to us as students to clear out the building and take down the flag. Once we do that, we can return to our school, our people, our own blood, now let's go!" Brook gathered the morale of the students for the final push. The students nodded as they began to make their way into the parliament building. Nakhimov was overlooking the crowd of students as he began to speak into his megaphone as this was it.
"Your schools need your final commitment, whatever remains of Kuromorimine will fight to their last breath to defend this building and tonight our flag will fly over this ship. We will never falter!" Nakhimov called out as Pomorie ran along with her friends as they were going to take over the building with what they had left. Exhausted but determined, they rounded the corner as Mg08's slow chug opened up on the students. The students ducked behind cover as the Kuromorimine residents opened up on the ground floor and the stairwell defending the machine gun.
"Come on, we need to keep going!" Pomorie shouted as she fired her Mp-40 hitting one of the residents. Nakhimov continued to speak as he wanted to show that they weren't going to give in.
"Show courage, show strength, show your pride but show no mercy!" Nakhimov shouted as he wanted to be ruthless with the students.
"How do we take out the machine gun?" Ticha asked as she continued to fire upon it. Pomorie looked around as they could either go left or right. She needed to act fast as they were still against the clock.
"Head left." Pomorie told her as she darted off to the left. She tumbled behind some cover and began spraying away trying to get the attention drawn onto her. Rila and Varna ran up next with Rila spraying as well to try to hit the targets. Varna looked down the small corridor as she raised her Kar98k and bang! She managed to knock a student down as she cycled the bolt. Rila was still firing single shots as she was going to cover for her friend.
"Come along now, we should be poised to break through!" Varna shouted as more students rushed in to support them. It was the SSISSN Partisans that had joined them. Erwin who was manning the Mg08 saw the breakthrough to his right and knew he needed to keep them suppressed so they didn't get to the stairwell. He turned the Mg08 to the right and began firing away. Pomorie and her friends ducked for cover while Rila fired a few shots at the blonde teenager. Brook knew the Mg08 was distracted and decided to make her move.
"Nina, take your group right I'm going straight." Brook told her that they were going to advance to the stairwell. Nina nodded as her small group headed to the right. Nonna looked at the center group as she decided that she was going to help out with clearing the building.
"Up and over!" Nonna shouted. The students did what Nonna commanded as they went up and over the barricade that was their cover. Brook turned to the right a bit and began spraying her papasha as she ran to the stairwell to clear a path for Nina and her group. The center group made it to the stairwell as Brook continued to spray paintballs from behind their foes. Nina looked up to see most of their enemies were down. She gave a thumbs up as she and her group raced to the stairwell ahead. Pomorie and her friends were doing their best to keep Erwin and the Mg08 crew distracted long enough for Pravda to take it out.
Brook decided she was going to be the first one up, so she raced up the stairwell as she was poised to break on through herself. A couple of residents turned and began to fire on her but Brook being a battle hardened veteran, tumbled behind some cover and began spraying away. Nonna, Klara and a few others raced up the stairwell as they kept firing to cover their advance.
"We're getting closer!" Nonna began as Brook was in the process of reloading. They began firing as their fire was enough to take Erwin completely by surprise. He suddenly collapsed after getting hit by four paintballs on his side. The first machine gun was silent.
"It's out, let's go!" Pomorie shouted as she was taking observations of it. Pomorie and her group began to rush up the left stairwell as the three remaining students saw who was coming and panicked, they decided to retreat further into the building but Brook was waiting for them on the other side. When the three students were spotted, she opened up as the Papasha spat its paintballs at the students, cutting them down like trees with a chainsaw. Pomorie and her group made it to the top as Brook nodded.
"We're heading the right way." Nonna began but they had an hour to clear the building and plant the flag down.
"We're running out of time so we shouldn't be wasting it." Brook reminded the group what they came here for. She turned and decided to lead the way further into the building. The other students followed as they didn't want to be left behind.
There was no resistance in the hallway as the students were probably being staged somewhere further in. Pomorie looked at the room next to her as a Pravda student was wrestling down Akebi with her Papasha. Pomorie decided to head to the next room where Brook and Klara were getting ready to bust the door to that room open. Klara sprayed away at the door, Pomorie watched as Klara went up to the door and kicked it in with her foot. Anteater team was caught inside as she and Brook sprayed the three of them down with their Papasha's. Pomorie witnessed this as she entered the room to notice the students were unconscious. She quickly exited the room as she needed to join up with her teammates. The students continued up the stairwell when they entered the auditorium of the parliament building. Brook and many others were greeted with machine gun fire.
"Chyort! More Mg's!" Brook shouted as she ducked behind the wooden wall. She turned to Pomorie as she began to speak. "Be on your guard, they'll fight to hold every strongpoint they can!"
"Well what are we going to do, there's only fifty-five minutes left." Nonna reminded Brook as they were racing against the clock at this point. Brook began to look around as she wanted to find a way to climb up and take a position on the high ground. She then found it.
"Yogurt Academy, get up on that balcony!" Brook called out for the Yogurt academy students to get up the stairs. Brook turned as she waved her hand to get the students to follow her. Pomorie noticed the gesture and decided that was where they needed to go.
"Follow her!" Pomorie called out. She got up and motioned the students to follow her as they began to climb up the stairs. They got to the balcony moments later as the students decided to take up positions. Six of the students decided to cover for the students fighting below while the others went to Brook who was standing there with what appeared to be her training rifle that had a scope in it.
"Pomorie, here's my Papasha, use it well while I try to take out the most immediate threats." Brook told her as she tossed her the smg. Pomorie caught it as Brook was now staring down the scope of the M1891/30. Her first target was the Mg42 gunner that was keeping Nina's group suppressed. She looked on and bang! The shot landed square on the side of the gunner's head. Brook cycled the bolt as she turned, focusing on a student with a Panzerschreck, she fired again knocking that student out. More seemed to be coming from the room next behind the wall as she knew they needed to take something down to block it. Brook looked around for more targets to hunt down but it turned out that Nina was observing this.
"Their defenses cannot hold! They are beginning to buckle, now's our chance. Attack!" Nina called out as her group moved out from the protective cover and into the rows of seats that the students had set up defenses. Brook observed this as the then looked up to see the Kuromorimine residents as they were now on the balcony across from her.
"Left balcony, focus on them!" Brook shouted as she raised her rifle and fired, knocking another resident out. Pomorie and her friends continued to focus on below.
"We need to support Nina's advance so we can prevent more students from entering!" Pomorie called out as Brook was reloading her rifle. She raised it again as she fired and took out the last student on the balcony. She looked at her watch, fifty minutes remaining.
"Agreed everyone, on me!" Brook called out as she loaded another round in and quickly took back the Papasha, she was going to clear out the rest of the room. She went to the door and kicked it down as the thirteen students began making their way down the stairs to help support Nina who was poised on breaking through.
Pomorie and her friends hopped over the barricade as she began firing her Mp-40 at a couple of students as they were going to keep them at bay. Nina looked around to see what they could use to block the students in, there was a Panzerschreck. Nina grabbed it and checked the tube to make sure it was full, thankfully it was. Nina raised herself up and fired the Panzerschreck. The paintball rocket slammed into the massive golden eagle that stood as a symbol of Kuromorimine. The eagle had been knocked off its perch as there was a loud groan-like sound. Finally, the bolts holding the remaining part up gave away as the eagle finally fell from its perch.
"Yes they've been blocked in, no more reinforcements will be coming in." Nonna began. She and another group of students ran off as they were ready to lay out the different objectives they were willing to set out for each other. "I will clear the basement where the rest of them are hiding, you will get the flag on that roof with the amount of time we have left." Nonna and her group split off from the rest of them. Brook nodded as she waved farewell to Nonna. She looked at the door as she wanted to make her way to the rooftop.
"Pomorie! Alina! You two get that door open." Brook gave the order. Pomorie and Alina nodded as they went up to the door and began to push against it. They were pushing hard but it wasn't budging.
"Push!" Alina grunted as she continued to shove on the door. Pomorie knew that the two of them weren't enough to get the door open.
"It's being held from the other side. We need help!" Pomorie called out as they needed to be able to get the door open. Brook nodded as she went up to the door. The three of them began to push on the door as the door buckled. Brook backed off a bit before the three of them slammed into the door finally forcing it open. Two residents of Kuromorimine guarding the door were instantly met with the hail of paintballs as they were mowed down.
"Go everyone! Through the doors!" Brook commanded as she was the first to run. The others followed as Pomorie was still bearing the flag. They began to climb up the stairs to the left balcony. Pomorie and her friends continued to hurry up, wondering how many stairs there were going to be before they reached the top of the building. They made it to the left balcony as Brook began firing away at the small ground of students that were trying to hold the balcony.
"Get that Dp28 and cover us until we reach the other side." Nina ordered as one of the students began to fire the machine gun at the other side of the left balcony. Pomorie charged on through as she knew the end was near. She bashed the resident in the jaw as she motioned the others forward. Three students moved up while Nina was keeping another group of students distracted. Pomorie and her friends rounded the corner as the encountered the students Nina was fighting. Raising her Mp-40 she began firing away with Rila and Varna joining the group as they mowed down the four students. Once done, Pomorie waved her hand to guide the students forward. Nina saw this as she turned to her crew. "Come on!" She got up and began to run after Pomorie.
Pomorie and her friends were approaching the rooftop as they climbed up more stairs. They were almost there.
"Look how far we've come since the beginning of the year, we should be able to claim victory." Pomorie called out as they were approaching the final floor.
"Nonna will be able to feast on our scraps but we should push ahead to the last part, our victory." Brook told them as they were heading up the stairs to the final floor. The heart of Kuromorimine was now on its final beats.
Brook gave her Papasha to Nina as she got out the rifle again for long range firing. The Mg08 machine gun opened up as the students scattered for cover. Brook raised herself up and fired, the Mg08 gunner was taken out. She then turned as she focused in on the Panzerschreck students as it fired the launcher. Another group of Pravda students were rushing up the stairs as they were going to be the distraction needed. Brook fired as the paintball went into the head of the student. Pomorie knew now was the chance to attack.
"Come on everyone! We don't have much left to go!" Pomorie shouted for them to begin their final push. Nina nodded as she raised the papasha and began to spray it at the two students ahead. Pomorie rushed to the cover where the students were as she hid behind it. Rila and Varna rushed up to it and ducked behind it as well. Rila noticed there was a gap in the wall so she began firing into it. A shriek was heard as another student had been struck. Pomorie hopped over the cover as she made a run for the hole. She entered through a doorway and began spraying down the remaining students inside. "Come on let's go!" Pomorie shouted. Rila and Varna dashed after her as they then began to enter the hole.
"Well we are still on that clock but we're making progress." Varna replied as Rila lifted herself up and began firing away, one more student had been taken down as Pomorie reloaded.
"Yeah we need to get this done as fast as we can. Forty five minutes remain." Pomorie reminded them as they were nearing the end.
"Let's do this!" Rila reminded them. Pomorie cocked the bolt back as she went out into the next line of cover and began firing. More Pravda students were moving in as they were getting closer and closer. Pomorie and her friends ran from cover as they kept firing. They went into the second corridor and began firing away at the students that were behind their pieces of cover. They peeked their heads out as they managed to push their way onto the opened up rooftop. Srebarna ran up ahead as she began spraying away with the Mg34. Pomorie exited the area as the flag was mere feet away from them.
"It's just over there. We've been anticipating this moment all day." Pomorie told her friends. Nina walked up as she was carrying the Papasha.
"Need help?" Nina asked as she was ready to take the flag. Pomorie looked at Nina as she would appreciate it.
"Yeah, take the flag. Katyusha will be proud." Pomorie replied. Nina nodded as she took the flag from Pomorie. Nina began to unravel it as she slung the Papasha behind her back.
"Let Pravda finally claim its victory!" Nina shouted as she raced out onto the rooftop. Pomorie and her friends followed behind as the other students went out onto the roof. Nina hopped over the cover and saw the flag. Pomorie raced over as she and her friends began to undo the flag. Within a few moments, the Kuromorimine flag became free. Varna tossed the flag over the side as Pomorie and Nina worked feverishly to get the new flag in. And clunk, the Pravda flag had fit into its position. Pomorie and Nina let the flag forward as it began to wave in the wind. The participants that were watching from afar began to cheer as Pravda had placed the flag on top of the parliament building with forty two minutes to spare.
"And the winner of the special match is Pravda and its allies." Shichiro announced as the crowd cheered. Pomorie and Nina admired the flag that was now waving in the wind. The match was now over.
An hour later while the field was still being cleaned up, Maho walked over to Pomorie and her friends. She had some words for her.
"You did well today Pug team. I heard how well you managed to push on through with the help of your allies. I thought we were going to hold out forever but you managed to keep me surprised. I had a lot of fun." Maho began. Pomorie looked up to the Kuromorimine senior as she began to speak next.
"Well this year was the ice breaker, with being in the alliance and then us being your foes, it was pretty crazy how I would put it." Pomorie replied. Maho began to nod.
"Yeah the years to come, you and your friends will be even better than what I would recognize. If we do meet again, I want to wish you the best of luck, goodbye for now." Maho told Pomorie and her friends that she was ready to bid them farewell. Maho turned and began to walk away as Pomorie and her friends came up to her.
"We got the victory we have desired, Katyusha knows that Kuromorimine isn't a threat to them as they are agreeing to signing a peace treaty. We can finally rest for once!" Kamchia told Pomorie. Pomorie and her friends were lifted in the air as they were being cheered. Pomorie felt special as she felt like she was being celebrated.
"Aww. Thanks everyone. I wonder what may lie for us next year." Pomorie responded as Varna began speaking.
"Who knows? Probably Alice being our teacher?" Varna giggled at the prospect of her younger half sister teaching them Sensha-Do. Everyone laughed.
"So what's the celebration?" Rila asked the group what they were going to do now that they've won.
"Kay's hosting a carnival May ninth, we're all invited, including the losers. We might get to see our old friends that have dropped out." Srebarna gave the answer to what Kay plans on doing.
"I am excited by that. Maybe we can see Dalmatia and Solti again?" Varna asked as they were their best friends so it might be an opportunity to invite them to hang out for the night.
"Let's go back to our school." Popovo suggested they could use the rest.
"Yeah I feel drained, I could go for a relaxing time in the hotspring." Malko joked as she cracked her knuckles.
"I think a good night's rest will do us just as well." Pomorie told them as they began to walk back to their ship. They couldn't be happier with that day's match.
Maho meanwhile was talking with Olivia who seemed to be down by it. She wanted to know what was going on.
"I know you seemed upset by the results of today, is it because we have lost?" Maho asked her apprentice if that was the case.
"It's not. I feel like we didn't have a tank conclusion to the match, I feel empty and not satisfied because of it. Some of the freshmen feel the same way." Olivia gave her input on why she felt this way. Maho began to think about it. She knew that it was technically over but she had to give in to her apprentice's demand.
"Okay. I'll tell Katyusha that you aren't satisfied with the results and want a proper tank match. I will have to sign a deal with Katyusha, Darjeeling and Kay that we can't handle it anymore." Maho told Olivia that their demands will have to be met. Olivia nodded and began to walk away as she was exhausted from the match herself. Maho knew she needed to find Erika. Erika was in another room as she was telling a story. Maho peeked in to find Emi, Koume and the others listening in. "Erika, we've lost the match. We can't keep going." Maho began. Erika looked at Koume who was smiling at her.
"Erika you are positively DISPOSABLE!" Koume's sweet words turned sour when she was angry. She smacked Erika's stick from which she was playing around with. The stick tumbled around as the other girls were now angry.
"You lied to us Erika, you said we were going to have a victory when the time ran out, not this kind of fluff." Emi growled under her breath. The girls got up as they began to walk out of the room. Erika was the last to walk out as she turned to face her commander.
"You just had to ruin it. We could have won!" Erika began. Maho knew she didn't want to put up with Erika in particular.
"Yeah but they proved that they were better than us, even everything we used wasn't enough to keep Pravda at bay. Even if it was Pravda alone, we were too exhausted to keep them at bay for very long." Maho replied as she knew that at this point they might as well accept defeat. Erika knew that she didn't want to hear about this.
"So all of those extra students and vehicles provided to us for this match were for nothing?!" Erika asked if this was the case.
"Sadly yes. Look at the facts, no matter what we will do, it's best we sue for peace with what resources we have left." Maho responded as she turned and began to walk away as she was going to arrange something with Katyusha. Erika then raced up to Maho as she tried grabbing her skirt.
"We can't surrender to our enemy, we need to keep fighting. We can go on the offensive again once Pravda has exhausted itself." Erika responded as she knew that they needed to keep going. Maho turned as she snapped at Erika.
"Erika, we're tired! We got no money and we got no fuel! I was lucky that I was able to salvage our school when we could. If you want to pout, go to your bunker and get out of my face, you are no longer my vice commander." Maho shouted at Erika that the need to keep going was going to be futile and there was no point. She also decided to strip Erika's status completely. She turned and briskly walked away. Erika began to tear up as she knew that Maho was done with her. Erika turned around and ran the other way as she had her face in her hands bawling her eyes out. She wasn't ready to accept this fate.
Maho continued walking as she spotted Olivia once again talking to Erwin as if she was trying to treat him.
"...I don't know what to say, we might get sent to Nuremberg for crimes against humanity, I feel scared for you." Erwin was chatting with his girl if he was fearing for her life.
"What do we do, we can't exactly go into hiding?" Olivia stated as she knew that they can't be detected.
I have a distant uncle that lives in Argentina, I wonder if we could go there?" Erwin told Olivia that they could escape there. Maho turned her head to them as she began speaking.
"I hate to be rude but none of that will happen plus you can't run away from your punishment." Maho told them as she continued walking. Olivia and Erwin turned their heads to Maho as she kept on walking. At least their emotions were intact as Olivia continued tending to Erwin.
Erika meanwhile ran into her bunker in tears as she was upset that Maho yelled at her to face the facts. Erika locked herself in the bunker as she knew there was nothing else that she could do at this point. She grabbed her Walther PPK and a magazine loaded with paintballs, she stuffed the magazine into the pistol and cocked it. She was having a hard time accepting all of this at once and with her condition rapidly deteriorating, she knew there was only one way out of this. She stood straight as she held her arm out and high on an angle. She stuffed the pistol into her mouth.
"For Adolf!" She told herself, she then pulled the trigger, the inside of her mouth was shot with paint as Erika spun for a moment before falling backwards, onto a pile of paint packets. The packets were full of red paint so when her head landed on them, they exploded, releasing paint everywhere. Erika laid there unconscious as this was her final moment. Erika knew she was never going to be the same again.
[A/N]: This one was pretty short but it's the final part of the Berlin themed match as it was the final assault for Pravda and they won. This is also the second to last free for all match in this fanfic and there will be about a couple more chapters after this and then it's complete. I actually enjoyed this but there will be a couple more things left I want to get to before this fanfic could truly conclude. Which is a good thing as this story was truly draining me and I wish to get this done and move on to something else. See you later.