Greetings, sorry this took too bloody long to write but I was kinda swamped with university assignments. Well I hope you like this one. Also, I apologize if it feels rushed, forgot the original idea for this so I made a new idea. Also in this, I will be introducing two new countries, both are my personal AU nations.
Chapter 22: Old meet New, Southern Force
"Calling the 501st Joint Fighter Wing and the 501st Joint Fighter Squadron, this is Lancer One, can you hear me?" An older sounding pilot radioed.
"This is Colonel Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke; we can hear you loud and clear" Minna replied, "Who are you?"
"Well, it is easy to say that we are from the future." The pilot said.
"Would you like to head back to our base?" Minna asked
"That's sounds like a great idea but we need to head back" Lancer One replied.
"What's the hurry for, buddy? We just want meet with the pilots who just saved our asses" Emily said.
"Yeah, if it wasn't for you, we would have kicked the bucket" Amelia replied.
"We are sorry but we fear that we might do more harm than good if we stayed any longer." Breaker One replied.
"Come on, it won't be so bad" Peter replied.
The new pilots relented but they agreed as they headed with the aces and witches back to Pescara. Once there, they began conversing. It was they began chatting when aces were first surprised by how similar the new pilots appeared to them, and the aces were once again surprised to find out that their saviours were actually their grandchildren.
"Holy shit" Chuck uttered.
"You are not the only one" Emily uttered.
"So I assume you all also have magic?" Erich asked
"Yes granddad, we all have magic" Helmut replied as his dachshund familiar appeared. However there some confusion such as Chuck, Emily and Amirul apparently who now have the same grandchildren which led to awkwardness between the three friends. There were some that were no surprise like Erich and Gerhard sharing grandchildren. However this conversation would not last long especially with the aces and witches being very tired.
It was then a storm cloud appeared and everyone immediately turn towards it. The aces looked at the cloud and noted it looked different than the clouds that teleported them to their current world, it looked much more stable.
"Well shit, looks like we have to head back" Sakura said as she hugged Sakai one more time.
"Gone so soon?" Erich said, "That's a shame, would have loved to talk more"
"Don't worry, we will meet each other again soon" Hans replied as he nodded to Gerhard. Th
The witches and WW2 fliers watched their very recently met friends get into their planes and head into the clouds.
"Oh, don't worry, we will meet again… Granddad" William radioed before the plane flew into the clouds.
"What? Oh right…" Erich uttered still not used to what he now knows, the cloud disappeared.
"And just like that they have left." Arthur said.
"Yeah" Shirley said, "Still, they were a great help."
"But I do have one question," Riki piped up, "Shouldn't they have helped us with returning home"
"Yeah but we would be in another situation that might be harder to deal with." George said.
"That is true" Erich said.
"Besides, I like it here." Ben chimed in.
"Also, we promised to our sisters that would help them with their battle and we can't do that if we leave before their last battle" Amirul said. The other pilots voiced their agreement and they headed home. Everyone was dead tired and many just felt asleep the moment they landed, especially the pilots. In fact, in Charles's B-17, he and Mack were the only ones awake as all the gunners were asleep. However, there were two that even more tired than the rest, but it was no surprise as they were two main healers of the squadron. This battle was a hard fought one, the fliers were exhausted and wounded and their machines were in serious need of repair from the battle. It was then a surprise to the witches and the pilots when they woke up the next day when they found two helicopters in their hangar both were apparently called UH-1 Hueys according to the manuals that came with them. It didn't take long for the gearheads in the JFW to clamber all over the flying machines. Soon enough Shirley and Chuck became good enough to fly the helicopters. At the same time, engineers, scientists and technicians descended down on the jets that were left on the airfield the Anti-Witch Wing was located which was secured by Task Force 141. This led the high command to delay the planned operation however this wasn't such a bad thing as it gave time for two additional allies to supplement the Allied Forces in Europe.
These allies were not late comers but just finished their campaign in the South East Asia. These two allies were regional powerhouses and had played key role in supporting the Allied Forces both economically and militarily. This was something the Mediterranean High Command was quite relieved by this news as it meant more men, equipment and supplies for their forces which had to wait for what was left after Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the Pacific had taken their shares. Now with these new allies, Mediterranean can be secured much faster, to this effect, is already underway as a week prior to the 501st Joint Fighter Wing's battle with the Anti Witch Jet Squadron, the northern coast of the Red Sea exploded into action as a large scale amphibious landing took place with about five marine divisions assaulted the beaches on the Red Sea coast and the Sinai Peninsula while two airborne divisions landed on either side of the Suez Canal.
However, probably the most ambitious and probably the ballsiest move ever pulled in the Second Neuroi War so far, a task force of fourteen modern battleships and six interwar battleships raced through the still occupied Suez Canal, blasting away at the Neuroi. Meanwhile on the other side of Cairo, the Allied Forces began their push towards the capital of Egypt. The neuroi seeming caught off guard, now fought desperately to hold the wave of soldiers. Then on the day the 501st Joint Fighter Witches' battle, a barrage of guided rockets and supercharged shells from five of the battleships in the Suez Canal slammed into the Neuroi Hive, stunning it, giving time for the 31st Joint Fighter Squadron and the 516th "Sky Pirates" Joint Fighter Wing, a veteran of the South East Asia Theatre, to pounce and destroy the hive, thus freeing Egypt and the South Eastern Mediterranean from Neuroi control. There was much rejoicing.
While the 501st Joint Fighter Wing is resting
Port Said
The port town was alive with joy and cheer as soldiers, sailors, airmen alike celebrated what they had just accomplished, while ships offshore blasted their horns in good cheer while overhead, planes and witches flew victory passes over the men. This was repeated across cities in the newly liberated Egypt. Then a cheer came out and soon the crowd turn and cheered, it was the first of the five battleships, slowly steaming up the canal. She had scorch marks but she was sailing proud, she and her two sisters and their allies had achieved a great victory, flying from her stern was a blue and red flag which has a central yellow circle and a white star in the centre of the circle. Following behind this behemoth of steel was another battleship; she had a flag divided into four quarters, black, red, blue yellow with a white star in the black and blue quarters.
"Three cheers for Rowan!" A Britannian soldier shouted, "Three cheers for Malacca!"
Cairo
"Well, looks like we have done it, we got all of North Africa free of those Neuroi bastards" Patton grinned as he lit his cigar.
"Yes but it must not be said that it was not for the help from our allies" Montgomery said as he looked out the window, "They played the decisive part"
"Ja, I should apologize to you, Elizabeth" Rommel confessed, "I should not have doubted your plan"
"It is alright, it was very understandable" Elizabeth Hellen replied. Elizabeth Angela Hellen is the admiral who was in command of the joint Rowanese and Malaccan Naval Task Force that sailed up the Red Sea. She is one of Rowan's best naval commanders of the war. She is nicknamed "Hell-izabeth" for her daring tactics and her fiery temper. It can be said that she is Rowan's equivalent of William "Bull" Halsey.
"I am just glad that we have re-opened the supply line into the area." Iskandar said as he sat down with his cup of tea. Iskandar Rashid, commander of the Royal Malaccan Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet which took part in the amphibious landing, codenamed Operation Reverse Tide alongside the Rowanese Federal Navy 2nd Fleet. He is one of Malacca's leading admiral and among the oldest at 55 years old. His nickname is Datuk, Malay for grandfather. He is what many would say is the Malacca's equal to Raymond Spruance.
"Yes but all our effort would have been in vain if it wasn't for the 31st and the 516th" Elizabeth said, "Say, how is the Hanna doing? I hope she didn't mind being second place for shooting at the Hive"
"Oh, she is fine, though I must say, she was surprised to hear your name, Your Grace" Rommel said.
"Please, just call me by my name or my rank at least" A Royal Malaccan Air Force Wing Commander said as she lit her cigar, "Besides you do the same to your royalty, why treat me so special?"
"Well, I guess it was to avoid confusion, your cousin is serving not far from here, Amirah." Montgomery said.
"I suppose that is true. I wonder if she already knows that I am here," Amirah said, "With her, it is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when but given her occupation, it doesn't surprise me."
"That is true, very true," Elizabeth nodded as she glanced out the window to see the crowd still celebrating.
This Amirah who shares not only name with RAF Squadron Leader Amirah but appearance as well bar for a scar that cuts across her face, has a very unique title as she is Crown Princess Amirah, Duchess of Selangor. She is the crown princess of the Malaccan Throne, the next in line for the crown, though originally this was not to be as her brother, Amiruddin was supposed to be the heir but he died when his ship was sunk in the Battle of Java Sea. Hence Amirah is now the heir to the throne. Her resemblance to RAF Amirah can be explained, the two are distant cousins, sharing the same great grandparents. In addition to that, she commands the 516th "Sky Pirates" Joint Fighter Wing whose next mission is the Adriatic Sea.
Well I hope this chapter was okay. Once again I apologize if it was lackluster.