Spells and Louds
Chapter 150: The truth behind our allies
(FutureTech HQ)
Lincoln and the rest of the team are waiting within the HQ's warehouse area.
"Okay, we've been waiting here for almost an hour. Where the heck are they?" asked Timmy.
"Patience Timothy, they're bound to show up" said Jack Cyber.
"They were sent to Siberia. It will be a long while before they arrive here" said Penny.
Then the main doors open and they see Gyro, Neil, Leon, Dana, Sergei, Luna, Lori and Victor.
"And they're here" said Leni.
"So how was Siberia?" asked Linka.
"I almost got eaten by some kind of monstrous lake monster over the freaking frozen lake" replied Leon.
"It was a Leviathan dude" said Luna.
"Whatever" replied Leon.
"Okay" Lincoln then looks to Neil. "Dad, whats going on? Why are we all here?"
They all saw the concerned look on Neil's face.
"Neil, whats going on?" asked Gwen.
Sergei cleared his throat and began to tell them what it was that they found in Siberia besides the Leviathan.
They all remain at a loss for words.
"So, this whole time you were not from this timeline" said Becky.
"And you were born right after World War 1" said Linka.
"And Perished in World War 2" said Martin.
"Well, you were supposed to die, but didn't" said Tadashi.
Sergei nodded. "But I'm pretty much okay with it now. But what concerns me and the rest of us is what else is the guardian hiding and not telling us."
They all looked to Gyro who was sitting on some crates.
"Guardian, what is going on?" asked Lincoln.
"Why did you remove Sergei from something that was supposed to happen?" asked Leni. "Sorry if that sounded mean."
"Not at all Leni. Some part of me would have thought it was an honorable death" said Sergei.
Gyro took a deep breath and sighed. "Leon, Martin and Victor. All three of you were chosen by me. Next to Sergei that is."
They all remained silent.
"What?" asked Martin.
"Did you just say my name?" asked Leon.
"Oh boy, this is the end time man" said Victor with worry.
Neil then sits next to Gyro. "Let's start with Leon. Where did he come from?"
Gyro could see the confusion between Leon and Dana.
Dana sat next to Leon and held his right hand. It did little to comfort him.
"Leon, you are a tank ace from Germany. During World War 2" replied Gyro.
They all looked at Leon who is shocked.
"I'm a fucking Nazi?!" yelled Leon.
"Not really, you never cared about the Axis cause. All you wanted to do was to reclaim what was humiliated after the treaty of Versailles. You and you're Tank division, were just there to fight for the loss of World War 1" replied Gyro.
Leon then took a long calm breath. "Oh god! For a minuet there, I thought I was going to be arrested for being a Nazi."
"Why would we arrest a Jew?" asked Gyro.
Then they looked at Leon again. "What?" asked Leon.
"You were born on March 10 1924. Right after Sergei. You resided in Austria, that's where you lived with your parents Dimitri and Alice Davion. Your father was a soldier from World War 1, but he lost his left arm during that time. But that didn't stop you from loving him, your father was a German and you're mother was a Jew. They loved you so much and wanted to make sure you had an amazing future through the great depression."
"All you wanted to do was to become someone great and find love and start a family. That's all you ever wanted" said Gyro.
"That explains why you were so lonely when Neil found you" said Sergei.
"Shut up man" replied Leon.
"Then the day came when Hitler came to power. Your parents were taken away, your father was sent to a labor camp and you're mother …. Was sent to … Auschwitz."
Leon's eyes went shocked. "What?!"
Gyro looked concerned. "You're mother died, in the death camp. I'm so sorry Leon."
Dana could see some tears coming from Leon's face. She hugged him to make him feel better.
"What … What about my papa?" asked Leon.
They were shocked he just said that with a German accent.
Gyro didn't really wanted to tell him, but he had no choice. "He was forced into service in one of Hitler's factories, forced to build his mighty creation. The Tiger Tank."
They all gasped.
"He died within the factory from exhaustion. But he did not die for nothing. He knew you were forced into a school to learn Nazism. So he was able to pull some strings and assign Tiger Tank 609, codename Gretchen into whichever division you were going to be in. and surely enough you rose to the ranks as a Tank Commander during the battle of North Africa."
"They tried to brainwash you into believing into the Nazi regime, but you were strong willed and pretended to listen same went for your Tank crew, who were all half Jew. But they did not want Hitler or the Nazi's to know. Then you were given the Tiger Tank Gretchen. There you found a note that belonged to your father."
Then Gyro handed Leon the note. "I suggest you read it when the time is right."
Leon put the folded letter into his jacket. "So, what happened next?"
"You fought your way through North Africa and became a legend in annihilating British tanks. They called you one of the Tiger Aces. But then you and every available and surviving German veteran had to be sent back to Germany and prepare for the battle of Russia at Kursk."
"It was there you fought the full might of the Soviet armor divisions and knocked them all to death. Then everything was becoming overwhelming and Hitler made the order to have his best tanks men fall back and fight in France. But before you were fully deployed to France, someone came forward to speak to you."
"Who was it?" asked Victor.
"Claus von Stauffenberg" replied Gyro.
Some of them have heard of that name.
But to Leon. "Operation Valkyrie!"
Gyro smiled. "Exactly. You and you're tank crewmen. Arno Shrolfe the driver, Joseph Shultz the gunner, Alfred Litzke the loader and Dieter Berndt the radioman. Along with you, were asked to be part of operation Valkyrie and all five of you accepted this offer. Your goal was to hold onto one of the main transmission lines/rally point in Normandy, a few miles from Omaha beach. The operation went in motion and the soldiers in the outpost picked up the transmission that Hitler was assassinated."
"I'm gonna guess it didn't take long" said Neil.
"It went awry real fast, a new transmission came in to the soldiers in the outpost. To kill the soldiers who were sent by Stauffenberg, and they knew you and you're tank crew were sent by him. You took notice and shot the men in the outpost, but not without taking a bullet to your shoulder. After killing the men in the outpost, you all heard a transmission from German resistance to find refuge someplace and wait for further orders. You and you're men were ready to leave, but you saw something in the distance staring at all of you. "A Sturmmörserwagen 606-4 mit 38cm RW 61" but you already know what it is Leon."
Leon was shocked. "SturmTiger!"
"Correct, a German assault gun with the strength of ten Tiger Tanks. You knew it would be too late to drive off, without letting it follow you. So you gave the orders to your men to run. They retaliated at that order, but you told them that you were going to hold it off and that you wanted you're men to continue fighting and save Germany from itself, free Germany from the Nazi's and fight together as brothers."
"They left you, but they gave you they're medals. The ones they earned from Africa and Russia, they did not deserve those medals because they said that you earned them as a true leader to the cause. You then took hold of the loader and gunner position and you kept firing every armor piercing round you had left, but then the SturmTiger was about to launch its rocket, so you shot one last round. As if time slowed down, both projectiles passed by each other and you said one last line before dying."
They all looked to Leon, who remembers his last words.
"Fur meine Eltern, Fur meine Manner, Fur Deutschland. Der Nazi-Absbhaum!"
Translation: "For my Family, For my Men, For Germany. Die Nazi Scum!"
They all looked to Leon and had some tears in their eyes.
"You died, on that very day Operation Valkyrie failed. And you took that SturmTiger down with you. You died with a sole purpose and for a just cause" replied Gyro.
They all looked at Leon who was starting to shed tears. Dana hugs him and he hugs back.
Then Sergei looked to Gyro. "When did you save him?"
Gyro sighs. "An hour after the situation I came to the area and I was surprised that none of the Germans came for both vehicles. So I took the opportunity to look into the tank and surely enough, Leon was still alive."
Leon and Dana broke the hug and looked towards Gyro. "What?!"
"You were still alive after that battle, but you were badly wounded. Mostly around the brain, I was able to teleport you and the Tank to the twenty first century, I pulled you out of there and hid the Tiger into one of the abandoned Nazi Tank factories, the same Tiger you drive today. I was able to heal most of you. But some of your memories were faded. Then I flew off after I heard someone coming and that someone was a group of guys, who were looking for some volunteers."
Leon then was a bit ticked off. "You mean volunteers to be illegal underground fighters?!"
Gyro gulped. "Yeah, that. But at that point I wanted to get you out of there, until Neil came and helped you escape and gave you a new purpose."
Neil looks to Leon and sees that he was calming down.
"Are there any pictures of my parents?" asked Leon.
"I'm sorry, but all records of your parents have been destroyed. Not even a grave stone was ever made. Same goes for what was left of your family. Most were tortured and killed and most were lost in history within World War 2. I'm so sorry Leon, but you are the last of your family's blood."
Leon started to cry, Dana did what she could to comfort him. Sergei placed a hadn on Leon's shoulder, they were both Spellman's with lost history.
Then Peter looked to Gyro. "What about me?! Where the hell did I come from?!"
"Technically you were from another Marvel universe, but how you got into this world was the strangest thing I could never figure out, until last month. I made a discovery that you may have passed through an unexpected portal during the late 1890's" replied Gyro.
Peter was not calm. "Oh, so that's how it happened. Okay."
Then Gyro looked to Martin and Victor. "As for you two. Command and Conquer."
"What?!" yelled Martin and Victor.
"You were both born during the time the Soviet Union invaded New York, or as most call it. The March of the Red Army. Then came the time warp anomaly, or most call: The Assassination of Albert Einstein. Martin you were 17 when you joined FutureTech, you were pretty much a child prodigy. At the age of 2 you already read your first biology and Geometry book and you already made the equation of pie."
Martin remained silent. But in his thoughts. 'I must've been one hell of a kid. Even better than Lisa.'
"Victor you joined the Russian science division code named: The United Coalition, but you came there at the age of 16, when you introduced the science committee of your latest invention. The V4 Rocket Launcher. They immediately put you in the front line as an officer and soon you became a commander at the age of 18."
Victor felt like his mind has been blown.
"Though you were mostly a commander when it came to "Shock Therapy" You were more interested in Tesla weaponry than the normal standard heavy armor divisions" replied Gyro.
"So, what happened next?" asked Sunset.
"Martin, you were sent to Britain to hold of the Soviet invasion at Brighton beach. Then you proceeded to France to save some of the European politics, then you went off to Germany and then you fought alongside Victor when the Empire of the Rising Sun came to the Atlantic. Though Victor was different from the other Soviet Commanders, he respected you and tried to aid you for the battle of Tokyo."
"So, we were like equals?" asked Victor.
"Yeah, when you found out that the soviets were headed for Cuba, Victor arrived and led a rebel soviet army to help knock out the Kirov Airship divisions. Afterwards Victor was marked as an enemy to Russia, but he did not care, all he cared about was putting an end to the insane power of Premiere Anatoly Cherdenko. Victor aided Martin and Commander Warren Fuller when they stopped Cherdenko and Krukov from escaping to space."
"Afterwards Victor Abromovitch along with Communications officer Dasha Federovitch, did whatever they could to restore the Soviet Union to peace, but then there was word of FutureTech forces building up near the borders of Russia. Victor you were sent to rescue the kidnapped scientists at Romania, then you stopped FutureTech from experimenting on your people and afterwards with the help of Martin you stopped President Rupert Thornley from unleashing one of martin's canceled Projects."
"The Sigma Harmonizer!" said Martin and Victor.
"Martin McKenzie was eventually promoted out of Commander Position and took up arms as the Head of FutureTech, after Kelly Weaver decided to step down to avoid any more accusations against her. But you knew you're mentor was not a part of Thornley's plans. You did all that you could to restore FutureTech to its former glory, but then a bomb went off in both FutureTech and the United Coalition. It was the opportunity I took to save both of you and the company, then I sent you all to this world with new memories in order to accomplish what the Fates had in store."
"And here we are now" said Gyro.
They were all speechless. Everything that has ever happened was changed due to the Guardian Gyro and his arrival.
"Also it is true that I am the ancestor of Martin. I was also in the same world before the whole Command and Conquer bullshit" said Gyro.
Neil looked to Gyro. "And me?"
Gyro turned to him. "I didn't do anything to you, but I made sure that the Spellman couple found you in the Philippines that day, I made sure that you were on the right path to act as the pillar to this alliance."
"So, all of this was because of the Fates?" asked Leni.
Gyro nodded. "They only speak to me, they were also the ones who pulled me out of my timeline and sent me to Azeroth and that's how I became the Guardian."
Neil looks to Leon and Sergei, then he turns to Martin and Victor. "You guy okay."
"Sort of" said Sergei.
"I think I'm going to hurl" said Victor.
"This is just too much right now" said Martin.
"What the hell?" said Leon. Dana was still hugging him.
"I'm actually okay with this" said Peter.
Neil looks to Gyro and shakes his hand. "Thank you Guardian. For telling us this, it's gonna be a while before some of us can find any form of closure."
Gyro also sees the heroes are trying to comfort Leon, Sergei, Martin and Victor. "Yeah, I know that you will find a way to make this right. I feel like I made a mistake trying to bring you all together."
"No, you didn't. You brought us together and unified the realms. What you did may have felt like breaking many rules to the laws of space time. But you did what you had to do. And I'm damn proud of it, thank you Guardian, thank you" said Neil.
Gyro smiles and morphs into a raven. "We shall speak again when something comes up." He then flies out of the building.
Neil looks to his family. "Looks like we're all broken down. This day just got interesting."
Penny was thinking one thing. 'So I guess this really was all for something, looks like I'm gonna have to take down my investigation chart. Poor Martin.'
To be continued …..
Secrets found, Stories told and all things have come together, looks like Penny was right, there was a conspiracy to all of this. The names of the Tiger Tank crewman are from the video game Company of Heroes Tales of Valor "Tiger Ace". Leave a review and tell me what you think.