A/N: Well i have to say i actually supirsed myself here. tonight I decided to just write the first chapter in one sitting since i had some free time avalible. after writting from 8:30pm to 2:30pm i finally finished phew that was a lot of work. First a little disclaimer as to the yuriness. I won't have any couples outside of the established obvious ones which would be Eila/Sanya, Mio/Minna (personal favorite XD) and Yoshika/Lynette, and i doubt i will make any scenes where they do more than makeout. lol i don't want to get this story removed XD. anyway on a more serious note i hope you do enjoy this story, i did give this my 110% and i tried to stay as true to the characters as i possibly could. yeah i am one of those writers who likes to follow canon religously anyway without further delay here is the first chapter
Off to Never Land
The Skies over the English Channel
Flying Officer Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen
02:32 Local Time
Eila zoomed through the morning skies at six hundred kilometers an hour. The cold night air stung her skin as she chased her illusive prey. She was within four hundred meters of her target, a human shaped Neuroi; she fired a burst of machine gun fire from her MG42, a powerful Karlsland built machine gun capable of firing twelve hundred rounds a minute. The Neuroi dodged the gun fire casually as it continued on its path to the Gallian Coast. Eila looked over her shoulder Sanya V. Litvyak was not far behind her, the fourteen year old Orussian witch was carrying her massive prototype missile launcher. Sanya had her green magical radar shaped antennas out and visible so she could track the enemy in the dim night sky.
"Eila, move to the left I need a clear shot." Sanya told her wingman. Sanya and Eila made up the 501st night patrol; they were the only ones who had the ability to hunt down the enemy when the sun had fallen.
"Roger that." Eila dove to the left and Sanya fired two missiles at the Neuroi, which quickly turned to face the witches and fired off a quick burst from its energy weapons destroying both missiles mid flight. "Damn it we need to get closer to it, if we let this battle go on any longer it will escape and there is no telling what kind of information it might be able to relay to the enemy." Eila checked her ammo she had roughly a third of a drum left in her gun. The Neuroi seemed to slow slightly and faced the young witches again, almost as if to mock them saying that their efforts to destroy it were completely futile.
"Eila you go high I will go low." Sanya said to her over the radio.
"Got you, I am heading there now, stay safe Sanya." Eila looked back to Sanya and smiled, Sanya smiled back. Just a moment of looking into each other's eye and they knew exactly the tactic they were going to use.
"Thanks you to." Sanya replied. Eila shot up, pushing her striker unit's acceleration power to its limit. She gained a hundred and fifty meters on her target; she could see Sanya dive below the Neuroi. Eila lined up her target with her weapon's sights. She fired the remaining ammo she had at the target, the human shaped Neuroi, danced around the bullets, only one or two bullets managed to connected with the target. The human shaped Neuroi looked like it was staring at Eila, its blank featureless face seemed to peer right through her, just then while it was distracted Sanya fired a volley of three missiles at the Neuroi; the target at first took no efforts to dodge the incoming missiles. A brief smile went over Eila's face, as she anticipated the impending impact. At the last moment the Neuroi, twisted its body dodging all of the missiles.
"Oh crap!" Eila shouted as the missiles headed straight for her. She cut the power on her striker and began to fall to the earth, she shifted her weight in order to dodge the missiles which had now lost their target and had gone ballistic. The missiles went past her at mach 1.4; at a quick glance she could see the writing on the missiles and individual panels of metal on the magic seeking rockets. She then looked towards the Neuroi which then shot towards her at maximum speed. Eila turned her engine on again and used her striker's power to prevent being rammed by the incoming alien.
"EILA!" Sanya shouted fearing the worst for her closet friend. Sanya gained altitude while Eila descended. Eila then kicked her legs forward in order to perform a summersault so she could begin to hover. Sanya flew up alongside Eila. "Are you ok Eila?" she asked with clear concern in her voice. Eila returned a warm smile to Sanya, and waved dismissively.
"Yeah I am alright; the Neuroi nearly killed me though." They looked up to see the Human Neuroi above them still staring at them.
"It is like it is toying with us or something." Sanya said, Eila gritted her teeth and growled. It must have been the wolf familiar in her but she felt the extreme desire to pursue her prey until the end if she had to.
"Yeah, big mistake on its part though because I still have one drum of ammo left for my MG42." Eila pulled out her last ammo drum and loaded it into her gun. "Ok let's take this thing out." Sanya nodded, she had a few remaining missiles left and Eila had one hundred rounds remaining. They zoomed up to the same altitude as the Neuroi and began to fire at it. Bright yellow tracers spat a stream of death at the Neuroi which effortlessly dodged the bullets. The Human shaped opponent dove again out running the young witches of the 501st as it began to head for the safety of a nearby cloudbank. Sanya fired her remaining four missiles, and again the Neuroi turned and fired its lasers at the incoming barrage. It slowed down and allowed the witches to close the distance on it. Eila realized the only way that she would be able to shoot down her illusive opponent was too close to point blank range. The Neuroi was within five hundred meters of the clouds, it was now or never. Sanya and Eila closed on the target which had now come to a dead stop. It was facing away from them as if it was staring at something that they could not see. Eila and Sanya got within five meters of the Neuroi, they stopped and Eila raised her weapon. She lined up the target in her sights and was about to squeeze the trigger, when the Neuroi turned to face them. A blinding blast of light blue light shined in their eyes. The next thing they knew they were falling out of the sky. Eila desperately tried to restart her engine as they closed in on the sea. Eila saw Sanya was unconscious, they were within a few hundred meters of the ocean when Eila's engines finally started again, she quickly flew towards Sanya grabbing onto her and leveled out. Just then Sanya regained her consciousness.
"Eila, wha- what happened?" Sanya asked, Eila looked around they had lost their target and had nearly been killed in a fall.
"I don't know, all I remember is we were chasing the Neuroi and then there was a bright blue light then we were falling.
"Yeah that is about what I remember what do you think that light was, it was like nothing I have ever seen before." Sanya seemed both bewildered and frightened at what had transpired not that Eila could really blame her, for she was equally confused and frightened that she had effectively been defeated by the Neuroi; so she also was barely able to keep her composure.
"I don't know maybe it was some kind of stunning attack; either way we should get back to base and report what has happened to Commander Minna." Eila realized she had not let go of Sanya yet, but she didn't care she would hold on to Sanya the rest of the flight if she had to. Sanya looked up at her, the grey haired witch looked into Eila's eyes the fear and exhaustion she felt were as clear as day to Eila.
"Eila I feel strange, I can't sense any Neuroi with my magic anymore." Sanya said to her. Eila put her hand on the back of Sanya's head and pushed her head closer towards her chest.
"Hey it is alright we made it I am sure things will get back to normal when we get back to base." Eila still had her arm wrapped around Sanya's waist; likewise Sanya still had her arms wrapped around Eila. "Hey come on lets go home." Sanya just nodded. They turned and began to head back to base.
The 501st Base
Major Mio Sakamoto
06:20 Local Time
Mio Sakamoto was in the court yard practicing her swordsmanship. It was her daily ritual. Every morning she would first do calisthenics than she would practice with Reppunza and finally after all of that was finished she would then meditate for an hour. However this morning was more unique, because watching her practice was Commander Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke the base's commanding officer. The nineteen year old auburn haired Karlslander was Mio's closest friend in the 501st. they had been together for some time, fought many hard battles with one another, and shared many more "personal moments" as the war had dragged on. Minna noticed Mio looking at her and smiled to her, she had a motherly smile usually but when her smile was directed at Mio, there was a special quality to it. Mio couldn't quite put it into words but when she smiled towards her, Mio knew exactly how she felt towards her. Mio smiled back. Mio's eyes (or rather eye due to her eye patch covering her magical eye) couldn't help but wander over Minna's body she was wearing her olive green Karlsland uniform, and her dark red panties. Despite the lack of clothing she was wearing Mio wished to herself that Minna would actually wear less than that someday.
"What is so funny?" Minna asked with her sweet voice, Minna must have noticed that Mio was smiling.
"Oh nothing, I was just thinking." Minna stood up and grabbed her cup of coffee, and walked towards Mio.
"Well I am getting some more coffee would you like a cup of tea?" Minna asked her.
"Yes, thank you Minna." Minna smiled to her and began to walk inside the base. Mio went back to her training. She did more swings, more thrusts and more parries. The sun was beginning to rise over the ocean. She sensed someone else's presence, after a few seconds she realized who it was. "Perrine is there something that you need?" She asked the young Gallian witch, who stepped out from behind some stacked boxes.
"Uh, yes I wanted to ask for you to um, err, well to help me improve some of my techniques I use with my Rapier, because I think I need um some more practice." Perrine stuttered, for the life of her Mio could never figure out exactly why Perrine was so nervous around her, perhaps she was intimidated by Sakamoto's rank.
"Ah yes well then let us begin, then." Perrine drew her sword, and got into a fighting stance. Just then out of the corner of Mio's eye she saw Eila and Sanya returning from their night patrol. Huh I think they are getting back a little earlier than they usually do. After a few seconds she realized, that they were flying really close together, more so than usual. As they came closer Mio realized that Eila was actually holding onto Sanya. Then it dawned on her they must have been injured in a fight. "Perrine, get Miyafuji and have her come to the hanger now!" Mio shouted.
"Uh yes ma'am!" Perrine shouted they both jumped into action. Mio began to run towards the hangers while Perrine went to wake up Miyafuji. If they were really injured than they would need to have Miyafuji use her healing magic on them ASAP. Out of the corner of Mio's eye she saw Minna carrying a cup of coffee in one hand and a cup of tea in the other.
"Minna, Eila and Sanya are back but they look hurt, we need to find out what happened to them." Mio told her. Minna dropped the cups and began to follow after Mio.
The 501st Base
Flying Officer Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen
06:25 local time
Eila and Sanya were exerting themselves while they were trying to get back to their base. It seemed like their magic was acting up, just using their strikers was tougher than it should be. Eila could see the other witches on the base were waiting for them, she could see both Commander Minna and Major Sakamoto were waiting for them. Out of one of the doors in the hanger Perrine, Yoshika and Lynnette Bishop were coming out to help them. Sanya's striker's unit had cut out so Eila was struggling to keep both of them in the air. Eila knew she wasn't going to be able to stay in the air much longer, so instead of heading for the runway she lowered down to a few meters above the grass. Just then her engine cut out and both of them plopped to the ground. Major Sakamoto and the rest came rushing over to them.
"Eila, Sanya are you two alright!?" Major Sakamoto yelled to them.
"Yeah we are ok I think we just exhausted our magic. We got into a fight with a human shaped Neuroi." Sanya replied. Yoshika came running over to them.
"Sanya, Eila I am so glad you are alright I was so worried when I saw you to. I thought you might have gotten hurt." Yoshika went and grabbed onto Sanya holding her tightly against her body. Eila had an intense spike of jealousy, and quickly pried Yoshika off her wingman.
"Ok, ok that is enough Yoshika you're smothering her." Eila said. She made eye contact with Yoshika and gave her a brief glare, one that said back off she is mine, not yours. Yoshika seemed to notice this and looked away. Not that Eila needed to feel threatened by the young witch from Fuso, but perhaps one of Eila's greatest faults is that she was to jealous for her own good. Really anyone who talked to Sanya to often Eila felt a great amount of jealousy towards. It wasn't like Eila had anything against Yoshika Miyafuji but with the amount of time she spent with Sanya, it just made Eila nervous that they would get to close with one another and then…. well she didn't want to think about what happened if they were to get to close.
"Uh I will give you two some space then." Yoshika stepped away and Lynne stepped forward.
"Hey I am sure you two are hungry why don't we make you to some breakfast." Lynne suggested to them. Sanya smiled, and nodded in response.
"Thanks Lynne, I could really use some breakfast right about now." Sanya replied, Eila then nodded in agreement.
"Alright, let's go Yoshika, time to make some breakfast." Lynne said with a smile.
"Ok let's go!" Yoshika responded cheerfully. For whatever reason Yoshika and Lynne always like to do the cooking around the base, not that anyone was complaining though, they by far were the best cooks in the 501st. The two of them practically skipped back to the hanger and went inside the base. Then Minna spoke to them.
"I am glad you two are alright, but I will need to get an after actions report from you. How about you two give me your report while Yoshika and Lynnette are making breakfast; don't worry I know you are exhausted so I will make this quick.
"Yes ma'am!" They both responded in unison. They took off their strikers and began to head into the hanger.
The 501st Base Briefing Room
Commander Minna-Deitlinde Wilcke
06:42 Local Time
Minna had listened to the two witches accounts of the battle and she was at a loss for words. The Neuroi should have shot both of them down, but it seems that for whatever reason it didn't, then it seemed to attack them with some kind of magic draining attack that nearly caused them to crash. Things just didn't seem to add up, why did it do that, what were the Neuroi's intention was it one of the "friendly" Neuroi trying to communicate with them. Eila and Sanya looked nervously at Minna; they were probably unsure whether or not they would still be allowed to fly.
"Alright I have heard enough you two go get some breakfast then get some rest. I need both of you to be ready for the next time you sortie." She told them.
"Yes ma'am!" They shouted in unison and headed out of the briefing room. After a few seconds Mio stepped in.
"So what happened to them?" Mio asked her. She closed the briefing room door behind her.
"Apparently they encountered a human shaped Neuroi that managed to evade every attack they used on it. Then apparently it used some kind a blinding light against them that nearly knocked them out. After that they lost the Neuroi and apparently felt like their magic was drained, so they decided to come home early, which given what happened when they got here I think was a smart decision." Minna told her XO. Mio was wearing her naval officer uniform and that white swimsuit she always wore underneath it. Minna could never figure out why both Mio and Miyafuji constantly wore those things even on days they didn't even get close to the water. Regardless however Minna was wise enough to appreciate the generous showing of nicely tanned skin that Mio showed off so frequently. Mio put her hand on her chin and thought for a moment.
"Ah I see, that is very strange, do you think it is related to the weird magic readings we have been getting lately on the sensors?" Mio asked her. Minna thought for a moment. For the last week they had been getting strange signals on the base's sensors. They had no idea what was causing them since Neuroi activity had actually been pretty low recently.
"Perhaps, but it sounds like nothing that has ever happened to anyone else before though." Minna replied. Minna checked her watch; it was nearly 06:50 in about an hour she was going to have to make a call to Allied Headquarters to make her monthly report. That meant she had a little bit of free time to do, well something less than professional, while she waited.
"Well I guess this is something we are going to have to figure out eventually." Mio stated.
"Yes well I am going to have to report it to Headquarters in a little bit, but why don't you come back to my office I need your help filling out some…. paper work." Minna smiled, Mio was smart enough to figure out what she really meant. Mio gleamed back at her.
"Oh I think I might be able to make some free time to help you with that." She responded in a suggestive voice.
"Well then why don't I show you the way to my office then." Minna got up and gave a seductive smile to Mio. "I must warn you it is quite a lot of work we will be doing, who knows I might have to postpone my call to command." Mio smiled back to her.
"Oh I don't mind at all, the more work the better I always say." And with that they headed out of the briefing room towards Minna's office.
The 501st Base Dining Hall
Sergeant Yoshika Miyafuji
07:00
Yoshika had just finished making some sweet rolls with Lynne for everyone on base. So far the only people who were in the dining room were Eila, Sanya and Trudy. They were enjoying the rolls that Yoshika had made. Yoshika could over hear what they were saying about last night's mission. It sounded scary, a Neuroi that was able to dodge all of their attacks it must have been something. In Yoshika's experience it didn't seem like the Neuroi took any self preservation techniques they just charged headlong at you until they were destroyed. Lynne put her hand on Yoshika's shoulder.
"Hey are you alright? You seem really tense." Lynnette asked her. Yoshika smiled, at her friend. Admittedly Yoshika was always confused by Eila's behavior. She always seemed to prevent Yoshika and Sanya from talking to one another, but for the life of her she couldn't figure out why.
"Oh yeah I am fine Lynne, just a little worried about Sanya and Eila is all." Yoshika responded. Lynne frowned a little.
"Yeah I am worried too but they seem alright but, that must have been an intense fight to make them have almost all of their magic drained. But again they seem fine so I don't think we have to worry too much about it." She replied. Yoshika couldn't help but be worried for her friend, she was a caring person worrying is what she did. But then again they both said they were fine so she would take her friends words for it.
The 501st Base Eila's bedroom
Flying Officer Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen
19:22 Local Time
They had both been exhausted; as soon as they had finished Breakfast they had gone back to Eila's room and immediately fallen asleep. In fact Sanya was still sleeping, lying half naked on Eila's bed breathing softly, it was almost too adorable of a sight for Eila to take. But her partner deserved the rest so Eila let her continue sleeping. Eila was feeling much better from when she did this morning. In fact it felt like her magic was stronger than ever if anything. So she decided to put it to the test she got out her Tarot cards. She shuffled the deck and placed three cards on the floor where she was sitting. She drew the first card, the one representing the past; it was the chariot facing up. Basically the chariot symbolized conflict, if it was facing up it means a conflict that will be won, but if it was facing down it meant you would suffer a defeat. She drew the next card the one representing the present; it was the wizard facing up. The Wizard means someone has come into great power or will come into power soon, however whether that power will be a good think depends on the direction it was facing. Finally she drew the card representing the future; she flipped it over and it was a card she had never seen before. It was a picture of two robed hooded figures carrying two mirrors and it was facing down. Suddenly as if someone had removed her consciousness form her body Eila began to have a vision.
Unknown
Flying Officer Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen
Unknown
The world was black; all she could see was a massive clock tower with the hands stuck at midnight. She was transfixed on it, she couldn't pay attention to anything else all she heard was it slowly ticking away, and then she heard a voice.
"I know what you have done, Yuri. I know what you told them. My friend. My ally. My betrayer." She began to see and yet not see a man dressed in all black approaching her. He looked like an Orussian man. "What happens here today will change the world forever. Nothing can stop this. Not even you." She saw him draw a pistol and fire at her. She felt an intense pain in her side; it was more intense than any pain she had ever felt before. The man faded and she again saw the clock tower. Then she saw several men in an elevator. They were pulling some kind of futuristic looking guns from duffle bags. They looked like some kind of light machine guns. She saw the man in black was among them he spoke again. "Remember no Russian." The elevator doors opened and they stepped out and were in front of a large crowd of people, Eila could see Orussian flags in the room and could hear people speaking in Orussian. Then to Eila's horror they opened fired, bullets ripped through people cutting off limbs and tearing through torsos; drenching the marble floors with bright red blood. Suddenly Eila was standing amidst the corpses nearly knee deep in blood and bodies, the murders were heading in her direction but they took no notice of her. She saw a girl that couldn't have been that much older than Eila was herself, wounded and trying to crawl away. The man in black walked past her, just as Eila thought the girl would be safe, the man in black smiled and quickly pulled out a pistol. Without even looking he fired two shots into the girl's head sending an explosion of blood and brain matter across the floor; Eila wordlessly try to cry out her scream trapped in her throat. Then that vision ended and once again she saw the clock tower this time several big drops of bright red human blood dripped onto it. "It has begun, now they will all cry for war." She heard the man in black's voice. Then the clock's hour hand switched to one.
The 501st Base Eila's Room
Flying Officer Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen
19:28 Local Time
Sanya let out a loud scream. Eila turned her head quickly to see Sanya sitting up, her magical antennas and the cat ears and tail of her familiar were out. Eila lunged out for her wrapping her arms around Sanya.
"Hey its ok, its ok I am here for you." Eila told her. Sanya had tears streaming down her face.
"Did you hear it too? All of those people, I felt their suffering, I heard them dying. All of their emotions, their fear and agony as they were killed by that, that horrible man. Eila how could anyone do something like that?" Sanya asked her. The tears still followed freely from her eyes.
"I know I saw it to, but it's alright I am here for you." Eila told her. They tightened their grip onto each other and would not let go. Eila pushed Sanya's head towards her chest. She thought about what she saw and what it could possibly mean.
Fort Campbell U.S.A.
Sergeant Derek Westbrook "Frost"
Day 3 19:32 Local time
Derek was watching the news. Something big had just happened the news was reporting a massive terrorist attack had occurred inside of Russia. By the sound of it, hundreds of people must have been killed when some crazed gunmen started to shoot at people indiscriminately. Just then Sandman walked into the room he was on his cell phone.
"Yeah, Yeah I hear you. Yes sir we will be ready. We can be deployed anywhere in the world you just give us the when and where." Sandman was talking to General Shepherd it didn't take a genius to figure that one out. Shepherd was in charge of every one of the Special Forces units in the U.S. Army. He had been a veteran to three wars prior to being in charge of Special Operations for the entire U.S. Army. He had been a Green Beret back during the Gulf War and that is perhaps why he was so bad ass even now when he was in his early sixties. Sandman hung up.
"So what was that about?" Derek asked his commander. Sandman let out a long sigh.
"Things are about to get real shitty for us Frost. I just found out from Shepherd that our man on the inside in Russia, Allen he just got killed. It won't be long before the Russian's I.D. the body and try to start some shit." Sandman told him. Derek sat up and scratched his head.
"Shit things are going downhill fast then, do Truck and Grinch know yet?" Derek asked his commander. Truck and Grinch were the other members of Derek's Delta Force unit known as Metal Team. They had seen a lot of action since Derek transferred to Delta three years ago. Derek was just nineteen years old when he had Joined Delta Force something unheard of in the unit's history before. However Derek knew that he had to thank Shepherd for getting him this position. Admittedly when Sandman found out that such a young soldier was going to be part of his unit he protested to JSOC, but after Operation Kingfish the botched attempt to kill Vladimir Makarov in Russia, Derek had earned Sandman, and the others respect.
"No I haven't told them yet I will though next time I see them. Look just be ready for anything if the shit hits the fan we are going to be the first ones on call got it?" Sandman asked him.
"Yeah I got it sir. Ugh man welcome to the suck, I hate it when it is a busy day around here." Derek responded. Sandman laughed.
"Yeah no kidding, hey call Grinch for me I am going to call Truck to tell him the good news." Sandman told him.
"Got it man." Derek pulled out his phone and began to dial Grinch.
The 501st Base the hallways the next day
Flight Lieutenant Charlotte "Shirley" Yeager
16:53 Local Time
"Damn it Francesca, give that back!" Shirley ordered the young and mischievous Romagnan witch. Francesca Lucchini had stolen her shirt as Shirley was trying to take a bath. Now Shirley had to chase Francesca half way across the base in order to try to get it back. Even though Shirley was much taller and faster, she had to admit the younger girl was really crafty. Francesca turned to face Shirley.
"Ha ha you can't catch me." She mocked.
"Can to, I was just giving you a head start." Shirley replied. She was just in her underwear running through the base, if people didn't know what she was doing they would have probably thought she had lost it. She started running towards Francesca, but just as she was about to catch her Francesca slipped away and jumped over a railing landing on the stairs a few feet below her. Shirley quickly rounded the corner and went down the stairs after her. The two of them were heading in the direction of the hanger. Suddenly both Gertrud Barkhorn and Erica Hartmann rounded the corner. Francesca failing to react in time collided with Gertrud, causing them to fall onto each other. Shirley quickly closed the distance and snatched her jacket from Francesca. "Gottcha, you little troublemaker." Shirley looked at Gertrud who was now fuming with rage.
"Charlotte Yeager is there not a disciplined bone in your body!? This is a military base not your personal playground!" Gertrud snapped at her. Erica began to chuckle at the absurdity of the situation.
"Oh chill out Barkhorn, we are just having a little fun." Shirley replied
"Yeah Trudy we are just messing around." Francesca responded then to both of their amusement, Francesca took the opportunity to grope Gertrud's nicely sized breasts. Gertrud's face went bright red. And she practically threw Francesca off her.
"Lucchini that is highly inappropriate you are a military officer and…" Gertrud was saying before Erica cut her off by grabbing her boobs as well.
"Oh lighten up Trudy you are being a killjoy." Erica said as, Trudy yelped.
"This is highly unbecoming from an officer of Karlsland!" Trudy pleaded. Charlotte smirked. Just then she noticed out of the corner of her eye out of a window the sky suddenly darkened and she heard lightening. Then the bases air raid siren went off.
"Oh shit!" Shirley exclaimed, as the entire group began to run to the hanger. Suddenly the PA activated and Minna spoke over the intercom.
"Attention all witches a massive hive just appeared directly over the base, everyone get into the air as soon as you can!" Minna shouted over the PA. They quickly closed the distance on the Hanger and jumped into their waiting striker units, Shirley familiar appeared she grew rabbit ears and a tail when the striker's magical engines coursed through her body. A few of the bases personnel came out and handed them their weapons. A Britannian crew member handed Shirley her BAR and a few extra magazines of ammo. Shirley saw Yoshika and Lynne run into the hanger followed by Perrine. They jumped into their strikers as well. Then Minna, Mio, Sanya and Eila ran into the hanger. Everyone got into their strikers and grabbed their weapons. They began to take off first Minna and Mio, then Gertrud and Erica. Next Shirley took off; Merlin's powerful engines propelled her forward. Shirley quickly gained altitude and looked up to see one of the largest hives she had ever seen before directly above the base. Just then some Neuroi began to appear. Several of them all medium class Neuroi. "Barkhorn, Hartmann take the Neuroi on the western most flank. Bishop, Clostermann and Miyafuji takeout the Neuroi to the North. Shirley, Lucchini, Juutilainen, Litvyak take out the medium class to the east. Major Sakamoto and I will take out the one to the south. Alright people break!" Minna ordered them
"Alright ladies watch my six I'm going to go high and distract this guy you three hit him when he is not looking got it!?" Shirley asked her partners.
"Right kick some butt Shirley!" Francesca responded.
"I understand." Sanya said.
"Yeah I get it, good luck and stay safe Shirley." Eila told her
"Thanks ladies." Shirley said as she shot up so that she was a hundred meters above the Neuroi. She raised her automatic rifle to her shoulder and fired an entire magazine into the center of the crescent shaped enemy. The guns powerful recoil and deafening sound would be overpowering for most people, but over the years the young seventeen year old Liberion witch had learned to control it. The Neuroi fired its powerful beam weapons at Shirley, but they were easily blocked by Shirley's powerful shield. The red beam impacting the shield in front of her was blinding so Shirley had to shut her eyes until the laser stopped.
"Sanya hit it with your missile launcher!" Eila shouted to Sanya who quickly shot a volley of six missiles at the distracted Neuroi. The missiles drew a deadly arc across the sky as they sped towards their targets. The Neuroi seemed to sense this at the last moment and turn to face them. But it was too late every one of missiles hit the Neuroi racking it from side to side. It seemed to groan as it was struck. The core was now exposed and Francesca and Eila went in for the kill. They both fired directly at the vulnerable part of the Neuroi, shattering the core like glass. Suddenly the Neuroi exploded into white shards indicating that it was destroyed. Shirley smiled it was a clean kill. She looked back on the battle more Neuroi were appearing; all of them medium class. She could see that the rest of the witches were still fighting their own battles in the sky. "Alright people are work isn't done for the day let's get a move on." Shirley told them.
"Right!" they all responded as one. They then headed back into the fray.
Over the 501st Base
Flying Officer Perrine Clostermann
17:13 Local Time
"Miyafuji you uncouth raccoon dog cover me damn it!" Perrine snarled at her wingman as a beam of energy passed right by her. It seemed like that completely barbaric Fusoan witch was useless in the air sometimes Perrine thought to herself.
"I am trying there is too many of them." Yoshika responded. She was back to back with Lynnette. They were firing their weapons like crazy at whatever Neuroi came into range. Ugh damn greenhorns. Perrine thought to herself. They had both been here for over a year at it still hasn't seemed like they have gotten any better.
"Ok Lynnette and Miyafuji flank to the left I will go to the right of this one. Distract it why I get in close enough to use my lightening spell on it, understand?" Perrine barked at them.
"Roger!" they both shouted in response. They moved to the left of the Neuroi, Lynette fired her anti-tank rifle knocking big chunks out of the Neuroi. Yoshika fired her machine gun at it putting further damage into it. Perrine looked at the Neuroi waiting for when its core would be exposed. Lynette fired another shot at the Neuroi, blowing the top middle part of the Neuroi off. There Perrine saw the core a bright violet jewel like thing. She closed the distance to the target and holstered her weapon. She landed directly onto the Neuroi and cast her spell.
"TONNERRE!" Perrine shouted, from her fingertips lightening danced out striking the Neuroi's core causing the alien to shatter into a million bright white pieces.
"Amazing you did it Perrine." Yoshika chimed. Perrine smirked.
"Of course I did, I am just that good." Perrine gloated. Just then a dark shadow appeared over Perrine. She looked up and to her horror saw a massive Neuroi above her. "Oh shit!" was all she could say as it began to charge up its beam weapon. Her heart stopped as she thought this would be the end. But at the last moment her salvation came as if an angel from above Major Sakamoto descended on the Neuroi cutting it cleanly in half with a single swipe of her magic infused sword. The Neuroi exploded into white debris. Minna followed Major Sakamoto who was now leveling out to Perrine's altitude.
"Are you alright Perrine?" Major Sakamoto asked her. Minna was facing away from them watching the Major's six.
"Yes, thanks to you Major that was amazing!" Perrine chimed to her idol and object of affection.
"Right well you really need to be more careful Perrine we aren't going to be out here to help you all of the time." Minna told her.
"Yes Commander I will be more careful next time!" Perrine quickly responded. But even as she did, she thought to herself that it was really Miyafuji's fault that she almost died not her own.
"Alright everyone breaks over; we have some Neuroi to kill." Mio said to them.
"Yes ma'am!" they shouted in response and flew back to the nexus of battle.
Over the 501st Base
Flight Lieutenant Gertrud "Trudy" Barkhorn
17:24 Local Time
"Take this you bastards!" Gertrud shouted as she fired both of her MG42 machine guns into a small speed class Neuroi. The bullets raked across the exposed core destroying the infernal creature. "That was for Karlsland, and for Chris." She growled. Hartmann flew behind her. Gertrud was now back to back with the blonde haired witch.
"So how many does this make for today Trude?" Erica asked her.
"Seven, how many have you gotten?" Gertrud asked back, she looked at her wingman who grinned like a madwoman.
"Eleven, you're getting sloppy in your old age." Erica mocked. Trudy gritted her teeth.
"I am just warming up." She replied. Just then two diamond shaped "fighter bomber" class Neuroi appeared. They were an extremely rare class but they could be more dangerous than the larger classes if you let your guard down, because for what they lacked in armor they made up for in fire power and maneuverability. "I will take the one on the left; you take the one on the right. Got it?" Gertrud asked her wingman who nodded in response. Gertrud went after one of the fighter bombers. It fired two of its lasers at her; she blocked them with her shields. She strained with effort as the blasts slammed into her shields. She then fired at the Neuroi as it flew past her; she saw several bullets impact the enemy, each one resulting in a white puff of debris and the sound of crunching glass. She turned to pursue it. She fired another burst into it, this time the hammer fall of magic enhanced bullets blew away the armor exposing the core. She fired a good fifty rounds between her MGs and shattered the core and Neuroi. She looked back and saw Hartmann had finished off her opponent as well. Just then she heard over the radio.
"We are pushing them back they seemed to be retreating towards the hive press the assault!" Minna ordered them. Gertrud looked back to her wingman and nodded and they flew in closer to the eye of the storm.
Over the 501st Base
Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen
17:37 Local Time
Eila had just finished off her third Neuroi of the day when she got the order to move closer to the center of the hive. She saw that there were only a few Neuroi remaining. She moved in on one of the smaller Neuroi and was about to fire when MG fire from Shirley tore through it causing it to disintegrate.
"Whoops sorry Eila did you want that kill?" Shirley asked her with a smile on her face. The busty redheaded witch had one killer smile if you took the time to notice; however most of the time Eila was too busy thinking about Sanya to pay attention to it.
"No I'm good; I will just get the next one." Eila responded. Shirley reloaded her BAR and turned to face one of the remaining Neuroi. Suddenly Eila began to hear something, at first she couldn't put her finger on it but it sounded eerily familiar. Then it dawned on her it was the sound of the clock ticking in her vision. Then for some reason Eila felt compelled to do something that under any other circumstance she would have thought to be crazy.
"Everyone we need to go into the hive and attack it directly, follow me in!" She told everyone over the radio.
"What are you insane? Going in there is suicide!" Eila heard Perrine say.
"Just trust me we need to destroy it or we will all be dead soon enough!" Eila shouted to them. She began to fly towards the massive hive.
"Eila, I order you to come back." Minna shouted to her, when Eila didn't reply Minna spoke again. "Damn it all units follow Eila into the hive; let's make sure she doesn't get herself killed." Minna ordered the flight. Everyone began to head into the storm.
"Eila do you hear it to?" Sanya asked her. Eila looked back and saw that Sanya had her magic antennas out.
"Yeah that is why we have to go in there." Eila responded she saw that remaining Neuroi had retreated to the hive. Eila looked behind her to see the rest of the 501st was hot on her heels. They had all entered the hive; it was strangely peaceful in there. Then suddenly as if they had entered a vortex it seemed like their world began to spin. Then Eila had another vision
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She again saw the massive clock tower. Its hour hand was still at one and its previously pristine white background was still stained with human blood. She began to hear voices.
"There everywhere!" One voice shouted the man spoke Britanish with a clear Liberion accent.
"Sierra Delta repeat!" Another man shouted.
"I am looking at fighter jets over the I-95! How the hell did they get through!?" the first man responded. Eila began to see vision. First a city in flames dozens of large planes flying over head with hundreds of men parachuting out of them. She saw gunfire lighting up the sky. And strange looking planes that Eila could clearly tell were military fighter planes of some kind dropping bombs indiscriminately over a residential area. She then saw dozens of men in strange camouflaged uniforms shooting at each other with futuristic looking weapons. She then saw a burning Liberion Flag superimposed on against the backdrop of a blood red sky. She then saw back to the clock tower more blood had fallen onto it and the hour hand shifted to two. Then the tower vanished and she saw four men walking towards her. Not the men from her first vision thank god, but four different men. The first wore a grayish tan colored uniform, and the same type of guns she saw the soldiers fighting with a few moments ago. The first man stepped out in front of the others and looked directly at Eila. He was wearing a solid black colored mask and goggles so she couldn't see his face. His helmet looked just as futuristic as the rest of his uniform. The second man wore a greyish black colored uniform. He had a mohawk of a similar style that the U.S.L. Airborne units had. The next was an older man with a short greying beard, he wore a boonie hat. Finally the last man had a five o'clock shadow, he wore a solid green t-shirt and camo pants. he was weilding a weapon that looked similar to a MP44 but heavily updated.
"Who are you?" Eila finally managed to speak. The man stared at her for a moment; she noticed on his vest was a small Liberion flag indicating his nationality.
"I am the only hope you have left." He said to her reaching out his hand to help her up. She reached out to grasp it. The man vanished and she heard a voice.
"History is written by the victors." it was a different voice from the Liberion man that had spoken eariler.
Then the next thing she knew the vision had ended and she was falling to the earth.
Ok i hope you enjoyed that chapter. in case anyone was wondering the fighter bomber class Neuroi is my own creation, yeah im not to knowledgable on the names of the different Neuroi types. anyway i will try to keep updating this story quicker than i intially stated but we shall see now wont we XD. anyway please do read and review as it will encouarge me to write faster XD. p.s. please dont take the lack of punctuation and improper grammar in the A/N as a lack of professionalism its more that at this hour 2:40am im really tired and well yeah that is about it XD