Date: 5/30/15
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Sergeant Ige jerked awake at the sound of artillery fire. He listened for a moment and relaxed a little. He looked at his watch and it read 1:43 PM, "Five hours of sleep. That's the most I have had in seven days." He cracked his neck, grabbed his gun, and stepped out of the dugout. He looked down the trench and could see men scanning the barren wasteland in front of them. He walked over to one, "Get your head down. You're a perfect target for a sniper right now."
"Sir, the abyssals could be launching an attack."
Ige shook his head, "If they were we would have heard about it by now. Now get your head down."
He looked like he was about to argue but nodded and ducked down. Just as he did a bullet passed over his head and slammed into the earth behind them. "Go down the line and tell anyone who has not to get their heads down." He was shaking a little but nodded and headed up the trench. Ige shook his head and continued down the trench.
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"Sir, are launching an attack?
"No. If you hear the battleships' guns then get ready for an attack."
"Sir." He saluted and Naegi saluted back. "Ige-san, good to see you are still alive."
"The world is full of small miracles. It is good to see you too Naegi-san."
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"Did they just start?"
"Yeah, and it doesn't look like they plan on stopping anytime soon. It's going to be another one of those days Ige-san."
"Great, just what I wanted to hear." He looked up and saw a squadron of Zeros flying overhead. "I hope they're having more luck than we are."
High above the battlefield, a squadron of Zeros from Zuikaku-san are on patrol. A strike mission launched from Shokaku-san, Zuiho-san, and Hosho-san is set to launch in fifteen minutes. Along with Zeros from Ryujo-san, their objective is to shoot down abyssal fighters over the targets and suppress AA guns. The pilots scanned the skies looking for dots on the horizon. They passed over no mans land which is a five-kilometer stretch of ground between the trench lines. The vegetation had been destroyed from artillery bombardments leaving the ground bare and littered with shells craters.
They passed over the abyssal trenches but didn't take any fire from the flack guns. Seconds later the lead Zero reports dots to their nine o'clock. They have an altitude advantage over them so the Zeros enter a climb. Once they had an altitude advantage they turned toward the dots and spotted more dots above the first group. They turned and entered a climb but they were spotted and the dots turned toward them. They informed Ryujo-san's squadron of their position and turned to engage.
They fired quick bursts before breaking off the attack. They shot down one abyssal and didn't lose any of their own. The abyssals climbing to meet them didn't have the speed or angle to engage so they wouldn't be a threat for a time. They turned back around and engaged again. This time no fighters from either side were shot down and they broke formation going after individual targets.
One Zero was on the tail of an abyssal fighter but it was forced to break off when another abyssal tried to get on its tail. It performed a split S and entered a dive. The abyssal broke off and the Zero entered a climb. The pilot scanned the sky looking for threats near him when he spotted a Zero with an abyssal on its tail. He rolled left, entered a dive, and fired a burst. Machine gun and cannon rounds tore into the abyssal and it exploded in a fireball.
Above the dogfight four abyssals are chasing two Zeros. They broke in opposite directions and two abyssals followed them both. Both Zeros did a split S and headed toward each other. The banked away from each other but turned back in and engaged the abyssals on their tails'. The first Zero shot down the second's attackers while the second Zero shot down one and damaged another. Black smoke belched from its engine and it dived away, both Zeros dived after it. The lead Zero couldn't get a shot and overshot the abyssal but the second fired a burst and tore its tail off. A second burst tore the abyssal's wing off and the Zero broke off.
A few kilometers away a Zero and an abyssal are engaged in a dogfight. The Zero scissors with the abyssal trying to get it to overshoot. In the process of a turn a second abyssal enters the fight and quickly shoots down the Zero. The first abyssal rolls and dives when another Zero enters the fight. It fires a burst at the first abyssal and then fires a burst at the second before entering a climb. Once high enough it levels out and picks its target before diving again. It fires a long burst at an abyssal and clips its wing before pulling up. A third abyssal fighter appears and fires shredding the Zero's fuselage and causing the wings to fold in on themselves. The flaming wreck falls out of the sky and the abyssal fighters start to climb.
Two Zeros are closing in at their altitude; two abyssals break but the third is a little slow and is shot down. They pull an Immelmann putting themselves above the abyssals. The first Zero dives and forces its target to turn and then second Zero dives and shoots down the target. The third abyssal dives away and the Zeros don't peruse. Below them, another Zero spots the abyssal and follows it in the dive. It fires and the abyssal banks hard left causing the Zero to overshoot. It inters a climb and doesn't attack a second time.
Ahead of the Zero two abyssals shoot down a Zero and then go after another two. One of them is shot down but the second turns into the abyssal and it overshoots. The pilot engaged the one in a climb and shot it down. The second abyssal fired at him but with the speed he had gained in the dive combined with the abyssal's own slow speed he escaped. The second Zero engaged the abyssal and it tried to break off but it was shot down.
"Strike mission inbound. ETA twenty minutes." Both pilots respond to their home carrier's message and enter a climb. The abyssal fighters are mostly destroyed and the few that remain are retreating. Flack bursts and tracer rounds race up from the ground and the Zeros track the tracers or look for flashes on the ground to locate the AA guns.
They dive toward the deck and fire two to three-second bursts at the AA guns. Fireballs rose up from their positions along with debris from the destroyed guns. The Zeros made quick work of the guns but three of them were shot down. With the AA guns around the targets destroyed the Zeros target the AA guns outside the immediate vicinity of the targets. Multiple fireballs rise upwards as the Zeros destroy every AA gun that could pose a threat to the dive bombers. After ten minutes the sky is free of tracers and flack bursts.
A squadron of Zeros from Ryujo-san arrives a minute later and takes over for Zuikaku-san's squadron allowing them to return for refuel, rearm, and repair. Minutes after they arrive the lead Zero in Ryujo-san's squadron spots eighteen dots on the horizon. They're abyssal land-based fighters and they're heading straight for the Zeros. They engaged in a head-on pass and five abyssals are shot down for the loss of two Zeros.
Two Zeros broke left and rolled to avoid an abyssal. One turned and chased it while the other rolled right and fired a burst at a second abyssal that missed. It turned after the abyssal but held fire for fear of hitting the Zero in front of the abyssal. The Zero did a split S and the second Zero fired a three-second burst destroying the abyssal fighter. He began to climb when he spotted an abyssal overshooting the Zero he had just saved. He rolled left, entered a dive, and shot the abyssal to pieces.
Above him, two abyssals shot down a Zero. Unknown to them a second Zero was diving on them and shot both of them down before zoom climbing away. Below this another abyssal was shot down and the Zero started to weave. This pattern took the abyssal into a head-on with a second Zero and it was shot down before it had a chance to fire. The remaining eight abyssals tried to fall back and four more would be shot down.
A few minutes later the dive bombers arrive over their targets. No AA fire greats them and they begin their dive. They drop their two-hundred and fifty-kilogram bombs and huge explosions and fireballs follow shortly after. The bombers pull out of their dive and head for their carriers and the Zeros escort them home. Dozens of fires rage on the abyssal's line marking the mission's success.
Date: 6/2/15
9:14 AM
The soothing sound of the ocean is broken by dozens of warplanes flying overhead. Zeros roar over the ocean toward Taiwan; their objective is to secure air superiority over a ten-kilometer section of the frontlines. Ten minutes later D3A1 dive bombers and B5N2 torpedo bombers roar toward Taiwan. The B5N2s have swapped their torpedoes for two two-hundred and fifty-kilogram bombs.
Off the coast Ise-san, Fuso-san, Yamashiro-san, Kirishima-san, and Tosa-san train their guns on the abyssal line. Ise-san unsheathes her katana and points toward the island.
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The sound of their guns jolts the Japanese soldiers on the island into action. A full-scale assault on the abyssal line is imminent. Sergeant Ige looked up and saw dozens of bombers flying over the trench. He turned to Naegi-san, "Good luck." Naegi-san nodded "Same to you."