Ah ha i finished this chapter alot earlier than i did my last one. hehe so this chapter basically details some of the back story of both universe, and some minor character development. just some notes i changed OPFOR to Al-Qaeda just to have some more real world shit in. also most of the information i give out is based on stuff gathered from offical canon. finally before i let you read my next chapter i wanted to say that since the witches arrived they have effectifly created an AU for both worlds so as a result i have no problem killing off any character or having some seriously bad shit happen to them at certain points and let me be clear when i say anyone i mean anyone XD. Finally i wanted to warn people that i am going to have a few original villians, well more like henchmen to the main villian anyway. alright so here is the third chapter.
Clearing the Air
Arcadia Virginia U.S.A.
Flying Officer Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen
21:07 Local Time
Things had gotten a little less tense between the two groups since the witches saved the "U.S. Special Forces" unit. The Americans had set up a defensive perimeter around the witches and the one way street. The man Eila guessed was their leader put two of his fingers to his ear and spoke.
"This is Metal 0-1 calling Flaming Chariot requesting immediate extraction at my location." The commander said to someone on the other end of the radio. "Yes we have the intel in hand. However, we also have some…. guests. Yes I will explain it to Gold Eagle when I get back to base. Understood we will pop purple smoke. See you in five mikes." He said and went back to looking out for any threats. Just then Minna went up beside Eila.
"So Eila, which one of them is the man from your vision?" Minna asked her. Eila looked over to the man with the black mask; she gestured to him.
"He is; I saw him in my vision he was the one who said he was our only hope. However I didn't see the other men in my vision the other ones looked Britannian and one was Orussian." Eila told her commander who nodded.
"You really think we can trust the other guys then?" Minna asked her. Eila thought for a few moments.
"Truth be told I don't really know but I don't think we have much of a choice here." Eila responded. Minna nodded. Just then Sanya spoke, her magical antennas were out.
"Yes we can trust them at least for now; I can feel their emotions and sense some of their thoughts. I cannot tell you exactly what they are thinking but I know that they won't betray us." Sanya told them; Minna raised an eyebrow.
"When did you become a mind reader?" Minna asked Sanya.
"Ever since I came in contact with that human Neuroi a few days ago my magic has been acting up. If it makes you feel any better though I can't read the minds of magic users, so I don't know what you are thinking or feeling right now." Sanya replied. Minna shrugged. Just then they began to hear the sound of a distant propeller aircraft incoming. The leader of the Special Forces unit threw a smoke grenade that spewed purple colored smoke. Just then overhead a large twin engine airplane flew by; then to Eila's surprise the wingtip mounted engines tilted up and the aircraft hovered and landed and at the rear of the plane a ramp came down and the commander of the Special Forces unit stood on it and gestured for everyone to get aboard. They began to walk towards the aircraft when he put out a hand.
"Sorry ladies but I am going to need to take your weapons. Sorry it is a formality." The Special Forces leader told them. Minna thrust her rifle into his hands, and he tossed it into a container. One by one the witches handed him their weapons and got into the aircraft until it was Mio's turn to give up her weapons.
"I will give you the gun but the sword stays with me it is a family relic." Mio said sternly. The American nodded. After they were all aboard the remaining American soldiers went up the ramp into the aircraft covering each other as they climbed aboard. The Americans went to the front seats of the aircraft by the cockpit while the witches sat closer towards the rear. Suddenly the aircraft that they were all aboard lifted off vertically much to Eila's surprise. The leader of the Americans stood up and looked directly at the witches. "Alright ladies I have met my end of the bargain, you are on your way to Fort Campbell but now I need answers, who is in charge of your group?" He asked them Minna stood up.
"That would be me. My name is Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke Commander of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing." She told him.
"Alright well who are you guys, were did you come from and what exactly was that kind of tech or whatever were you using back there?" he again asked her.
"Well do you want the long version or the short version?" Minna asked him.
"We have time for the long version." He told her Minna nodded. Eila noticed that the masked man from her vision, was about to take off his mask. He pulled the mask off revealing a young looking face; he couldn't have been much older than Minna or Major Sakamoto, which was odd considering his compatriots were all much older than him. His skin was pale, a similar shade as Eila's for that matter. He had dark blue eyes and sandy blonde short cropped hair. Actually come to think about it he was actually pretty cute, but Eila was too interested in Sanya to pay much attention to that. He noticed that she was looking at him and he looked away practically blushing.
"Well, we are to put it bluntly, from an alternate world where the entire world is under threat of a near unstoppable enemy known as the Neuroi. We are magic users code named witches. The witches are the only people who have been able to halt the Neuroi's advance, in the six years of war Europe has been completely overrun and North Africa is a warzone where neither side is able to gain the upper hand." Minna told the American, he quickly responded.
"So what are these "Neuroi" are they a terrorist group or something?" He asked her, she shook her head.
"No worse they are an extra dimensional enemy that appeared over Warsaw on September 1st 1939." Minna told him.
"Wait you said the war has been going on for six years, wouldn't that mean that it is the year 1945 in your world?" he asked.
"Yes in our world it is 1945." She said.
"The next question I have to ask is why are you all so young? Are most of the military aged men dead or something, is that why your governments are using child soldiers to fight their battles." He asked.
"Not exactly, yes conventional forces have proved to be all but useless in stopping the Neuroi. However most of us witches lose our powers after twenty and the younger witches tend to be the strongest that is why most of us are around sixteen years old." Minna told him. He thought for a minute.
"Alright so in your world you are fighting aliens called the Neuroi, fair enough but that doesn't explain why you are here what did some spell go wrong or something?"
"Not exactly we were assaulting a Neuroi hive when we encountered some kind of magical anomaly. Next thing we know we are falling through the sky in your world with our striker units missing." Minna said.
"Wait striker units?" He asked.
"Ah yes it is a device that gives us flight capabilities and enhances our magical abilities. When we arrived here however they seemed to have disappear." Minna informed the commander.
"Ok well I guess that explains why you said that you were a fighter squadron." He said. "Alright well how long have you been in our world then?" He asked.
"I would say that we have been here for maybe four or five hours tops." Minna replied.
"Makes sense, sorry you couldn't have come at a better time then." He said to her.
"Ok I answered your questions, now I would like to ask you some questions, if that is alright?" Minna asked him.
"Yeah ask away; I will tell you anything that isn't classified." He responded.
"Alright well let's start with who are you, and what unit do you belong to?" Minna asked him.
"We are an American Delta Force unit call sign Metal 0-1, my name is Sandman, the guy with the baseball cap is named Grinch, the heavy weapons guy over there is Truck and the kid over there with the blonde hair is Frost." The soldier calling himself Sandman told them.
"I can assume those aren't your real names." Minna said.
"Yeah they are codenames we are a secret unit, we aren't even allowed to tell each other what are real names are." Sandman responded.
"Ok well judging by how you didn't know what the Neuroi, it is safe to assume that your world has never encountered any alien species before." Minna said.
"Yeah as far as we know humanity is the only intelligent life in the universe, oh and no magic either for that matter. In fact an interesting note in our world from 1939 to 1945 we fought a massive war between each other that ended up causing all of the shit that has plagued us till this day." Sandman said.
"Really do you care to elaborate?" Minna asked.
"Yeah. Frost, you tell this story better than I do. Do you mind explaining to her what has happened over the last seventy plus years?" Sandman asked Frost who stood up.
"Yes sir. So do you ladies know of a man named Adolf Hitler?" Frost asked.
"The subpar painter what about him?" Minna responded.
"Right well in our world he became the dictator of Germany and tried to take over the entire world, killing about sixty million people in the process." Frost told them. The witches were stunned how could anyone cause so much carnage and to wipe out such a large portion of the human population. Eila looked to Gertrude and could see that this revelation came particularly hard for her considering Germany was this world's equivalent of Karlsland. Eila thought for a moment what if the Neuroi had never come in their world. Would the witches that she had known for so long be fighting each other by now? And if so would Eila have to fight Sanya. No she wouldn't even if their countries were at war Eila would never fight Sanya she would defect or throw down her weapon if that ever happened. "After the war the world was left with two main super powers, the United States and the Soviet Union which was a brutal communist dictatorship also set on world domination. The two powers then entered into a forty five year cold war that left most of the developing world royally fucked over. However in 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed and split into a number of smaller states. The largest of these states was the Russian Federation, a pro western pro capitalism country, which unfortunately was led by a complete moron named Boris Yeltsin. In 1993 a man named Imran Zakhaev formed the Ultranationalist party. The Ultranationalists wanted to restore the Soviet Union and create an Eastern European communist empire. President Yeltsin then outlawed the group from all legitimate political activities. One year later the Ultranationalists became a terrorist group and began to conduct bombings and assassinations around the world. In 1996 a British SAS team attempted to assassinate Zakhaev in Pripyat; they failed and only wounding him. This caused him to be more bitter and angry at the west than ever before. On September 11th 2001 nineteen Saudi Arabian Terrorists, trained by Al-Qaeda and funded by Zakhaev hijacked four U.S. passenger planes and flew them into both the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing nearly three thousand people. A month later the man responsible for the September 11th attacks, Osama Bin Laden the leader of Al-Qaeda is tracked down in Afghanistan and the U.S. Military moves in to dismantle the terror network. However supplied by Zakhaev they end up being much more difficult to uproot than initially thought and so begins a fifteen year long insurgency that continues to this day. However I am getting ahead of myself, in 2011 the Ultranationalist gain enough power in Russia to launch a bloody civil war which rips the country apart. Meanwhile in the Middle East Khaled Al-Asad, Osama Bin Laden's second in command stages a coup in Yemen causing U.S. Forces to invade. He tricks them into attacking his stronghold where he detonates a nuclear explosion whipping out the city and killing thirty thousand U.S. Marines in the process. Back in Russia the U.S. and British forces try to help the Russian Loyalists and despite the successful assassination of Zakhaev and Al-Asad we ultimately fail to prevent the fall of the Russian government. In 2012 the ultranationalists split into two factions. One a more moderate group who only is concerned with what happened within Russia's borders and the other called the "Shadow of Zakhaev" led by Zakhaev's former right hand man Vladimir Makarov; they wanted to control all of Europe and destroy the West. Fortunately however the moderates won and ousted Makarov from the party making him turn the Shadow of Zakhaev into a terrorist group. The U.S. government first tried to assassinate him after he was ousted from the party; that attempt failed badly. The next year, just to let us know how powerful he was; Makarov ordered his men to launch a day light attack on the Pentagon the command center for the entire U.S. Military. After the Pentagon attack the U.S. government along with a handful of western countries formed Task Force 141 in order to stop Makarov their first mission was Operation Kingfish, which might I add that Metal Team was a part of. The mission went FUBAR and left half the team dead or wounded including our commanding officer Captain Price. After that Makarov went underground, he mostly didn't really carry out many major attacks; that is until yesterday when he and his men walked into a crowded airport in Moscow and shot up the place killing hundreds of people. And to add insult to injury he left the body of a dead American soldier at the scene to make it look like it was the U.S. who carried out the attack. Russia vowed revenge and today they disabled our satellite defense systems and launched an aerial invasion of the U.S. which leads us to where we are now." Frost explained to them. It was a lot for Eila to Comprehend, this was indeed a dark world though. How could anyone be willing to kill themselves just to kill their enemy did this Al-Qaeda really hate America that much that they would willing kill themselves for their cause. And what of this nuclear weapon, was their really a weapon in this world powerful enough that it could literally wipe out an entire city. Suddenly Eila remembered something very important.
"Frost, Makarov is a white man in his forties with black hair, one green and one blue eye and he has several scars on face doesn't he?" Eila asked him. The entire Delta Force team and the rest of the witches for that matter all had surprised looks on their faces.
"Uh yes he does, but how did you know I thought you just got to this world rather recently." Frost asked her.
"Indeed we did but I had a vision prior to arriving in this world. During my vision I saw a man dressed in black gunning down innocent people in an airport I couldn't make sense of it at the time but now that I have been given some context as to what has happened in your world it all makes sense to me now." Eila informed the group.
"Well I have one final question what do you intend to do with us now that you know who we are?" Minna asked Sandman.
"Well I am going to take you to JSOC's commander General Shepherd he will figure out what we will do with you. But I can guarantee that you will not be harmed." Sandman told them.
"Thank you Sandman your understanding is appreciated." Minna responded. Frost then spoke.
"Hey can we at least get to know all of your names I don't think we got the chance to hear them?" Frost asked them, Eila was the first to speak.
"My name is Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen; I am a Flight Officer in the Sumous Air Force." Eila told Frost. Then one by one the witches gave their names and ranks to the Delta Force soldiers. Then over the intercom the pilot spoke to them.
"Metal 0-1 we are two mikes out from Fort Campbell. General Shepherd wants to debrief you and speak with your 'guests'." The pilot told them.
"Understood tell Shepherd that we will be ready." Sandman told the pilot. Eila then got the feeling that the day was about to get a lot longer.
Fort Campbell U.S.A.
Commander Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke
22:46 Local Time
They exited the aircraft and walked onto the tarmac. Waiting for them was an older man in his sixties wearing the same type of grey camouflage as the Americans they saw fighting a few hours ago were wearing. He struck an imposing figure standing there alone waiting for them. The man was a general judging by the three stars on his uniform. Sandman walked up to the General and saluted him.
"General Shepherd sir we have the intel and these young ladies are the 'guests' that we have been telling you about." Sandman told General Shepherd as Frost handed him the brief case. Shepherd cocked an eyebrow at them.
"Really what is so special about them?" The General asked him.
"Well sir you aren't going to believe this sir but, um they are witches sir." Sandman awkwardly told him. Shepherd glared at him.
"Is this your idea of a joke Sandman?" General Shepherd growled at the Special Forces operative. Minna looked at Sanya and nodded. Sanya called out her familiar and magical antennas; then Minna spoke.
"No General it most certainly is not a joke; we are magic users, and part of an international task force from another world." Minna told him. The General, thought for a moment.
"Alright then, are you these ladies' commanding officer?" Shepherd asked her.
"I am, Commander Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, and she is my XO Major Mio Sakamoto." Minna said as she gestured to Mio. Shepherd nodded and looked to Sandman.
"Alright Commander Wilcke and Major Sakamoto, come with me back to my office. Frost, Sandman come with us to." General Shepherd told them. "The rest of you are free to use the bases facilities to clean up and get some rest we have some rooms and a locker room that you are free to use." General Shepherd told them, the other witches nodded and followed Shepherd into the base. Minna noticed that unlike the 501st base which in some areas looked more like a luxury hotel, this base looked more like a fortress. The hallways were grey and depressing. Several other soldiers were in the base they looked quizzically at the witches but went back to their work a few seconds later.
"Alright Minna I guess we are going to start hitting the showers for now but we will be here if you need us for any reason." Gertrud said to Minna.
"Understood, make sure you are on your best behavior you are representing the 501st out there. After you are finished bathing meet us in the mess hall we will tell you what happens then." Minna told Gertrud who nodded. The rest of the witches turned and started heading down the hallway. Minna and Mio then continued to follow General Shepherd to his office. When they arrived at his office Shepherd gestured for Sandman to close the door.
"Alright Commander why don't you tell me about where you are from and what has happened in your world." General Shepherd said to them. Minna then began to explain to the American General everything about their world.
Fort Campbell U.S.A.
Flying Officer Perrine Clostermann
22:55 Local Time
The witches had stripped down naked and had gotten into the base's showers. Perrine was frustrated that these weren't the luxurious bath's she was used to back at the 501st base but some plain stalled showers that didn't even have a curtain for privacy, not that Perrine cared about that part. After spending over a year with each other they had gotten used to bathing with one another. Perrine sighed she wished that Major Sakamoto was with her; and her alone preferably sharing a shower with one another gently and passionately kissing each other and… just then she noticed Francesca grinning at her.
"Your thinking about Major Sakamoto aren't you Perrine?" Francesca said to her. Perrine blushed.
"I WAS NOT! And even if I was it isn't any of your business. I was having big girl thoughts something that you shouldn't be concerning yourself with!" Perrine retorted to Francesca who giggled.
"Ah don't be shy about it I'm pretty sure just about everyone knows you like her. Well that is everyone but Mio herself." She teased.
"That is Major Sakamoto to you!" Perrine barked at her.
"Ah you like the Major, I like her to she is a good person." Yoshika said. Perrine fumed, how dare that country bumpkin say that she liked Perrine's Major. Mio Sakamoto was Perrine's and Perrine's alone.
"I don't think she means like in that kind of way Yoshika." Eila said as she was scrubbing Sanya's back. Then Charlotte spoke with that over confident Liberion demeanor she always had.
"Ah like it actually matters anyway; it is not like she is actually going to tell the Major how she feels about her anyway. Perrine is too much of a wuss about it to actually say anything." Charlotte said with a smirk. Perrine fumed.
"I will tell her how I feel! In fact I will tell her right after she gets back from talking with those brutish Americans." Perrine said confidently. Charlotte rolled her eyes.
"Oh yeah, I bet you don't." The busty Liberion witch said with a grin. Perrine glared at her.
"How much do you want to bet then?" Perrine shot back to her. Charlotte thought for a few moments.
"Alright if you don't tell her that you like her, then you have to let me feel you up." Charlotte said to her. Perrine was confused; even though she was fluent in Britanian she felt that something was lost in translation.
"Wait what does feel up mean?" Perrine asked. Then Charlotte stepped out of the shower stall so that Perrine could see her completely naked, Charlotte then looked to Francesca who suddenly got a gleam in her eye. Francesca then jumped behind Charlotte and began to grab her breasts and massage them slowly. Perrine began to blush uncontrollably at what she was seeing. "OK ok I get it, you can stop doing that you exhibitionist. Fine I agree but if you lose you have to be my servant for an entire year when we make it back to our world." Perrine said.
"Oh really, will I be your sexual servant?" Charlotte said with a seductive grin. Perrine gasped that wasn't what she meant at all.
"No of course not! God Charlotte I swear you have a one track mind when it comes to sex." Perrine retorted then Gertrud cut in.
"Enough both of you! Alright now that I have everyone's attention what is everyone's thoughts on the Delta Force team and this General Shepherd guy?" Gertrude asked them. Lynette spoke first.
"Well they seem alright, they did save us from that warzone back there." She told everyone. Then Yoshika spoke.
"Yeah and I don't know why but Frost seems like he might be a pretty nice guy and he is around our age to so it doesn't seem as strange being around him as the other Americans we have met here." Yoshika said.
"I had a vision of Frost when we were in the hive I know we can trust him if anything. But with Shepherd I don't know I couldn't read him I didn't see anything in his eyes that said we could trust him or that we shouldn't what about you Sanya?" Eila told the group, Sanya thought for a moment.
"Well when we were with Shepherd I couldn't read his thoughts it was like there was nothing there or that he was somehow guarding them from me. However it could just be that he has had to get some mental defenses to guard against someone reading his mind with magic." Sanya told them; then Gertrude responded.
"They said they don't have magic in this world remember I doubt Shepherd would be worried about his mind being read by someone." Gertrude responded curtly. Eila quickly got in front of Sanya and glared.
"Hey don't be mean to Sanya, she was just putting an idea out on the table for us. There was no reason to bark at her like that." Eila shot to Gertrude, who then seemed apologetic.
"You're right I am sorry Sanya. Anyway I agree with your assessment on the Delta Force unit they seem more or less trustworthy, true soldiers. But Shepherd, I don't know I swear when I first saw him I thought I saw Trevor Maloney." Gertrude responded. Now that Perrine thought about it they did look pretty similar, strange.
Fort Campbell U.S.A.
Major Mio Sakamoto
23:12 Local Time
Mio was still with Minna, Shepherd and his men. Minna had just gotten through explaining what the situation back in their world was like. Shepherd looked intrigued at the idea of magic users and Mio could tell that unlike some old school commanders back in her world Shepherd actually was intrigued at the idea of magic being used in a combat situation.
"Alright, well it appears that your world is in as bad shape as ours currently is. The only question I have left is what is it that you want from us?" Shepherd asked Minna.
"Well General I know that you are busy dealing with the invasion but if you have any way to, I would like to know if you have any technology that could help us get back to our world?" Minna asked him. Shepherd thought for a few seconds.
"Other than being in command of U.S. Special Forces, I am also a majority share holder in the Tacticus Corporation. They are working on a new type of transportation device capable of teleportation. However with the proper modifications it can be used to in theory transport you back to your world. However it will take a while to perfect the technology and we currently have a bigger problem on our hands. I am dealing with a Russian invasion of my country as you are painfully aware of; and I also need to bring Vladimir Makarov to justice. If you and your team agree to help us repel the invasion and kill or capture Makarov I will help you find a way back to your world; you have my word with that." Shepherd told them then Sandman butted in.
"Sir you can't be serious, they are just kids for Christ's sake!" Sandman shouted at General Shepherd. Then Mio responded.
"That may be so, but all of us our veterans of the war in our world. We have seen just as much combat as you have. Also we have our magical abilities to help us survive. The fact is Sandman it looks like you need every volunteer you can get in this war. And we are stepping up to the plate." Mio said to the Delta Force Operator. Then Minna spoke.
"She is right we have more than enough combat experience to know what we are doing and we have trained with some basic ground combat tactics in case our striker units gave out in battle. The 501st can more than take care of itself in a fight." Minna told General Shepherd who nodded.
"Sandman, Frost I want Metal Team to be attached to Task Force 141. And Commander Minna welcome to Task Force 141 the best group of handpicked warriors on the planet." Shepherd said as he stood up and reached a hand out to give Minna a handshake. Minna grasped his hand and shook it.
"Thank you sir what will our first mission be?" Minna asked Shepherd.
"For now get some rest at 05:30 have your team assembled in the briefing room for your first mission. Sandman tell Metal Team that you will be working alongside the 501st on this mission as part of the 141. Oh and Commander, here take this." General Shepherd reached into his desk and pulled out a unit patch. It was a grey skull over a winged dagger on a black background. It had the words Task Force 141 written under the image.
"Thank you sir." Minna said and saluted, Mio also saluted Shepherd who returned the salute.
"Alright everyone you are dismissed inform your team about what is going on and get some chow and some rest you will be needing it." Shepherd told them.
"Yes sir." Everyone said and they all walked out of his office. Frost turned to Mio and Minna and spoke to them.
"Well it looks like we will be working together. I would just like to say that I am looking forward to working alongside you Ma'am." Frost said to them. Mio and Minna smiled to him.
"Thank you Frost. It is not often that we get such an enthusiastic response from the regular soldiers that we work alongside." Mio told him. Frost looked confused.
"Really the way that you made it sound the witches were all that stood in the way between mankind and total annihilation." Frost said. Minna nodded.
"Yes that is true but there are many men in our world who would like to see us fail at our job. They are a bunch of dinosaurs that think women only belong in the kitchen. It is disgustingly misogynistic in my opinion. But you know what they say about old men and their egos though." Minna replied.
"Wow sounds like a couple of Generals I know back at the Pentagon." Frost said. Then Sandman slapped him on the shoulder.
"Come on Frost let's go tell Grinch and Truck about what's going on." Sandman said. Frost nodded to him then turned back to Mio and Minna.
"Right well I got to go but I will be seeing you in a little bit." He said. Mio smiled to him and watched as he ran off.
"Well Frost seemed supportive but I think it is safe to say that Sandman is not onboard with the idea of women fighting alongside them." Minna said. Mio shook her head.
"I don't think that was it. I think he only objects to the fact that in his eyes we are too young to be fighting." Mio replied. Minna thought for a moment as they headed to the mess hall where the other witches should be waiting for them.
"Yeah I guess, I wonder if in this world there are regular women soldiers." Minna said. Mio nodded as they stepped inside the mess hall. The witches were all waiting for them. The witches had since ditched their pants and shoes they were forced to where in the city, now they were back to being dressed like they normally were. "Alright gather around ladies I have a few announcements to make." Minna said. All of the witches got up from where they were sitting and approached their commanding officers. When it looked like she had everyone's attention she began to speak. "Alright so here is what is happening. Major Sakamoto and I made a deal with General Shepherd. He will help us get home if we help him stop the Russian Invasion and bring Makarov to justice. We are now part of an International task force known as Task Force 141. We have about five hours before we our briefed on our first mission; any questions?" Minna asked them. Yoshika came forward.
"Wait we are going back out their again to fight? I am sorry Commander but I don't think I could kill someone even in self defense." Yoshika told the Minna. Mio then spoke.
"That is alright Miyafuji I understand you don't have to fight you can just use your healing magic on us." Mio told her.
"Ok I can do that I just don't want to have to hurt anyone." Yoshika responded.
"Does anyone else have an objection to fighting?" Minna asked the group. Everyone but Yoshika shook their heads. "Alright if no one else has any questions then welcome to the 141 and you are dismissed get some rest." Minna told them. Minna then looked to Mio. "Hey I am going to talk to Eila for a moment I will be right back." Minna said. Mio nodded. As Minna walked off a clearly nervous Perrine approached Mio.
"Uh Major Sakamoto, uh can I talk to you for a moment?" Perrine asked her nervously. Mio smiled to her and nodded. For whatever reason Perrine started blushing. "Well I, uh just wanted to say that um well….. Uh I thought you were really brave and skillful in the battle with the Russian paratroopers you were amazing out their Major!" Perrine said still wildly blushing. Out of the corner of Mio's eye she saw Yeager and Lucchini giggling to each other for some reason.
"Why thank you Perrine I thought you were quite brave as well out there and I have confidence that we will all make it through the coming battle." Mio chirped to her. The glasses wearing Gallian witch smiled.
"Thank you Major, that means a lot to me." She said to her as she began to walk away. Minna came back to her.
"Hey do you want to take a shower together before we go to bed?" Minna asked her.
"Of course I could use a nice shower right about now." Mio replied. They left the mess hall and began to walk towards the locker room. Mio then asked her commander a tough question. "Minna, do you honestly think we are going to be able to get through this war and make it back home?" Mio asked her.
"Yeah I have to have faith that we will; there are still people that we need to protect back in our world. Besides you are the strongest women I have ever met Mio, if anyone could make sure that we'll survive it would be you." Minna told her. Mio was touched at that last statement.
"Thank you Minna. Oh and hey." Mio stepped out in front of Minna who then stopped in her tracks. Mio put her hands around Minna's waste and pulled her in closer so their faces were only a few centimeters from one another. "I swear to you that no matter what happens; I will make sure that we all make it out of this alive no matter what happens, and I swear that I will protect you with my life if I have to Minna." Mio told her.
"Oh Mio." Was all Minna could say. Minna closed her eyes and tilted her head to the right and leaned in. Mio also cocked her head to the right and leaned in to plant a passionate kiss upon Minna's lips. Even though they were in the hallway technically where anyone could see them, they got lost in the moment and continued to kiss passionately for several seconds. Their tongues played a game of cat and mouse for dominance. It was perhaps the most passionate kiss they had given each other since they began seeing one another. It was a kiss that gained its fiery passion from two lovers who knew they would face certain death together but as long as they were with each other they knew they would get through it. They stopped momentarily; then Minna spoke. "Hey we better get to the showers before someone sees us. Besides in there we can do more than just give each other a kiss." Minna said with a seductive smile which Mio returned.
"Careful I will hold you to that." Mio replied. Minna started to head to the showers and then she gave Mio a look, one that Mio knew meant that tonight she might not get much sleep but she would for sure get plenty of relaxation.
Fort Campbell U.S.A.
Sergeant Derek Westbrook "Frost"
23:36 Local Time
Metal Team had assembled and were going over the details of their reassignment. Everyone but Frost was displeased.
"Sir I don't like it. I know that they must be competent soldiers but still they are just kids. Hell most of them should still be in high school chasing boys and worrying about their grades." Grinch said. Truck nodded.
"Yeah I got a daughter that is a little younger than some of them. I can't imagine how I would feel if she was thrown into combat." Truck said. Sandman then spoke.
"I know I agree, but we have our orders and we will follow them." Sandman told them.
"Alright well if there isn't anything else to say lets got get some chow and hit the sack we have a mission briefing to report to at 05:30." Frost said everyone nodded. They began to head towards the mess hall. They arrived to see the girls or rather witches were there and much to their surprise most of them were not wearing pants. They were about to walk away fearing they had walked in on some private moment of some kind when Yoshika and Lynette approached them.
"Hey there, we wanted to thank you guys for saving us back there by making you some dinner would you guys like that?" Yoshika said to them in accented English.
"Well we wouldn't want to impose on you are anything. Just because you are girls doesn't mean that you have to cook for us." Frost told her. Yoshika smiled and responded.
"Oh don't worry Lynne and I cook all the time back in our world. We actually enjoy it. Besides, as we said we wanted to thank you for saving us. I honestly don't know how much longer we would have lasted back there if you didn't come and rescue us." Yoshika said.
"Ah it was nothing besides it looks like you ladies are able to take care of yourselves in a fight anyway we saw the damage you did in the mall very impressive." Frost told her. Lynette then spoke.
"Thanks but as we said we didn't know what was going on we needed help getting out of their which you guys gave us when you could have just turned us away since you had no reason to trust us. Believe me it means a lot to us that you did that for us." Lynette said. She had a vaguely Scottish sounding accent.
"Alright well I guess if you really want to make us food that is ok." Sandman begrudgingly said. Lynette smiled.
"Alright well I hope you guys enjoy miso soup and teriyaki chicken it is one of Yoshika's and I's specialties." Lynette smiled.
"Ah awesome I love chicken teriyaki." Frost said. Yoshika looked at him with wide eyes.
"You like had teriyaki before, most Liberion's I mean American's in my world don't usually like Fusoan food." Yoshika said. It took a moment for Frost to remember the names of their worlds counter parts for the countries in his worlds.
"What I can't imagine why I love Japanese food it tastes really good." Frost responded. Yoshika beamed
"Alright I will cook a batch right up then!" Yoshika said, as she turned and skipped back to the kitchen. Lynette smiled at Frost and followed her friend back to the kitchen. Frost smiled back. After Lynette turned away Sandman slapped Frost on the back of the head.
"Don't even think about it Frost." Sandman told him. Frost raised an eyebrow.
"Owe, don't even think about what?" Frost inquired.
"Don't even think about trying to hit on them or anything damn it. That goes for all of you remember most of these girls are under aged so don't try anything got it?" Sandman told everyone who nodded except Frost.
"I wasn't going to hit on them or anything anyway." Frost said.
"Yeah sure you weren't I saw you giving googly eyes with Eila and damn it she couldn't be older than sixteen Frost she is still a minor." Sandman retorted.
"Hey I wasn't checking her out I just noticed that she was looking at me is all." Frost retorted. Just then as if speaking of the devil brought her fourth Eila and Sanya approached them.
"Hey Frost can we talk to you for a bit?" Eila asked him.
"Yeah sure, what is up?" Frost asked them.
"Oh we just wanted to get to know you is all. You know just ask a few questions and stuff." Eila responded. Just then Sandman butted in.
"You can talk to him but first you have to answer why the hell are you all half naked?" Sandman said to them. Eila and Sanya looked confused.
"Wait what?" Sanya said.
"You aren't wearing any pants why is that?" Sandman asked them. The Fair skinned witch laughed in response.
"Oh yeah that. Well the striker units we told you about earlier. Well we wear them on our legs and they have to have either direct contact with skin or at least through tights to properly synch with us. And given the random nature of the Neuroi attacks we never know when we will need to put them on so as a consequence we have grown used to not wearing any pants." Eila explained to them. Sandman snorted.
"Right well around this base after tonight you ladies are going to have to start wearing them again because in this world to us it looks like you are all half naked." Sandman said.
"Alright we will tell Commander Minna about it in the morning. Now Frost if you will come with us over to our table." Eila said. Frost nodded and headed over to wear they were sitting.
"So what would you two like to ask me about?" Frost asked them. Sanya was the first one to speak.
"Well for starters what is your real name?" the young Russian girl asked him.
"My real name is Derek Westbrook." Derek said to them. Sandman then slammed his fist on the table.
"Damn it Frost! You aren't supposed to give out your real name!" Sandman shot at him.
"Whoops sorry sir. Uh forget I said that ladies." Frost said to them.
"Alright well can you tell me if you had any brothers or sisters? And are you still in contact with your family." Eila asked him.
"No I am an orphan, my parents died in a car crash when I was five." Frost responded. Sanya looked saddened.
"I am sorry to hear that Frost I also lost my parents during the war. I don't even know if my father is even alive or if he is dead." The young grey haired witch told him.
"Oh that is very tragic I am sorry that you have to go through that." Frost told her. Just then Shirley practically slammed into him jumping into his side of the booth.
"Oh is this the interrogate Frost hour, what did I miss?" The busty red haired American girl asked them. Frost couldn't help but smile at her straight forward nature.
"Not much we just started talking. But we found out that Frost here is an orphan like Sanya." Eila told her. Shirley looked saddened.
"Oh shit I am sorry man that sucks." Shirley told him. Frost waved dismissively.
"It is alright so any other questions?" Frost Asked.
"Yeah why are you so much younger than the rest of your team? Because they all look like they are in their forties or something." Eila asked him, Frost thought for a moment on how much he should tell him.
"Well I am new to the squad but let's just say that I met all of the requirements and I had a friend in a high place that saw my potential and transferred me from the regular army to Delta Force." Frost told them. He saw that Shirley was intrigued by this.
"Oh who was he?" She asked him. Frost smiled.
"Hey I have to have some secrets don't I." He said. Just then Yoshika brought out their food. It looked very delicious.
"Wow this looks amazing Yoshika where did you learn to cook this good?" Frost asked. Yoshika smiled.
"Oh I did a lot of cooking with my mom before the war." She replied. "Well I got to go I am going to serve up the other girls and the rest of your team." She said before leaving.
"Alright next question how old were you when you joined the army?" Eila asked him.
"I was seventeen I had my guardian's permission to join. I was deployed overseas to Afghanistan the following year. After my tour I was transferred to Delta where I was deployed on Operation Kingfish." Frost told them.
"Ooh sounds exciting. That was the mission to capture this Makarov guy right?" Shirley asked him.
"Yeah it didn't go well. Makarov knew we were coming and he laid a trap. The whole mission went belly up and we lost a dozen soldiers trying to get to the evac site." Frost said to them. Sanya looked sadden at this.
"Frost I know I am not exactly a Russian but I wanted to say that I am sorry for all of the things they have done it isn't right." She said with clear sadness in her voice. Eila put an arm around her.
"Hey it's alright it isn't like you personally are responsible for what a few assholes in power are doing. I don't blame you at all or the Russian people for that matter. It is just the assholes who have invaded my country I have a problem with." Frost said that last sentence with a twinge of anger. Shirley must have noticed this as she put him in a headlock and dragged his head closer to her ample breasts.
"Ah cheer up Frost I am sure we will kick them out of our country in no time." She told him. Frost smiled.
"Yeah I am sure you are right." He replied. Just then Frost noticed that Shirley's eyes wandered over to the French girl named Perrine. Perrine noticed Shirley's gaze and got a nervous look on her face. Shirley let go of Frost. "Well you guys will have to excuse me for a moment I have to… do something." She said with a grin on her face. Perrine did an about face and started to head out of the mess hall. Wonder what that was all about. Frost thought to himself.
"Well we have no further questions for you, but we enjoyed talking to you. We are going to go hit the hay now good night." Eila said.
"Good night Frost." Sanya said.
"Good night ladies." Frost responded. With that they left the mess hall.
Fort Campbell U.S.A.
Flight Officer Sanya V. Litvyak
00:00 Local Time
Sanya and Eila were heading to their room when they were greeted by the amusing sight of Shirley molesting Perrine. Shirley had one hand under Perrine's shirt and the other in the front side of her panties; she was gently rubbing Perrine with them.
"Well your breasts might not be the biggest but they are alright. Oh and I can feel that you are still a virgin, saving that for Sakamoto now weren't you?" Shirley teased her victim.
"Yes of course I was waiting for Major Sakamoto's and I's wedding day." Perrine said. Shirley smiled.
"Well you better act fast before she slips out from between your fingers Perrine." Shirley said. Sanya smiled.
"I am surprised you aren't the one doing that Eila, knowing how you are with everyone else." Sanya said as she looked to her friend who grinned mischievously.
"Ah well Perrine is a constellation prize anyway, I am more concerned with someone else at the moment." Eila said with a grin. Sanya smiled. They walked into their room and got on one of the two beds. "Hey do you want to scoot the beds together so we can cuddle?" Eila asked her. Sanya nodded. They moved the beds closer together and got undressed down to their underwear. They hopped into bed and cuddled up together. Suddenly Sanya had a feeling of dread as a horrible realization came to here.
"Eila, what happened to Frost got me thinking. What if even if my father is alive we can't go back to our world? What if we are stuck in this nightmarish world for the rest of our lives?" Sanya said her eyes got watery at the thought of being stuck so far away from the people that she cared about.
"Hey we will get back to our world I promise." Eila told her. Sanya was about to protest when Eila put two fingers on her mouth. "Hey I will always protect you Sanya, no matter what happens; no matter what enemy we have to fight." Eila told her.
"I just don't want to lose you here Eila." Sanya confessed to her. Then Eila did something unexpected. Eila pulled off her bra exposing her bare breasts. Eila had beautiful milky white skin that was as fair as Sanya's was herself. She leaned closer to Sanya and planted a kiss on her lips. The kiss lasted for several minutes; with each passing moment it became more intense and more passionate. Sanya leaned up a bit and Eila helped her out of her undershirt. They were both in nothing but their panties. Both of them let their hands wander and explore one another's bodies, feeling each other's tender flesh for the first time in such an intimate way. Eila broke away from the kiss and began to kiss Sanya's neck then down her collar bone and finally her exposed breasts. Sanya moaned softly. Suddenly Eila pulled away. Sanya whimpered for a moment.
"We can finish the rest when we get back to our world Sanya, and then I can show you how big girls really kiss." Eila said with a seductive smile.
"Now we have to get back to our world. You can't leave me hanging forever Eila." Sanya replied. Eila smiled.
"Of course. Anyway we have to get up early so let's go to bed goodnight Sanya, and I love you." Eila confessed to her. Sanya's heart swelled with passion Eila had finally said it after all of the years that Sanya had hinted to Eila as to her feelings Eila finally returned them.
"I love you to Eila." Sanya said and they began another long and passionate kiss.
Fort Campbell U.S.A.
Sergeant Yoshika Miyafuji
00:24 Local Time
Yoshika and Lynne left the mess hall and began walking back to their rooms. Yoshika was pleased with herself tonight. Finally a Liberion or rather American actually enjoyed her food without looking at it like it was alive first. Seriously that had never happened before; even Shirley was hesitant to try Yoshika's cooking. Lynne smiled at Yoshika.
"Well it looks like someone made a new friend." She told her, Yoshika smiled back.
"Yup, he seems like a really nice guy. I wonder if there are any other things from Fuso that he likes. Huh wouldn't it be cool if he actually spoke Fusoan it has been so long since I have actually spoken to someone other than the Major in my native language." Yoshika said with enthusiasm.
"Well try not to get to friendly with him, remember he is an adult." Lynne told her. Yoshika looked confused. Why shouldn't they be friends? Major Sakamoto was an adult and they got along just fine.
"What I don't understand." Yoshika said. Lynne rolled her eyes,
"I mean don't take him to bed are anything." Lynne said with a grin. Yoshika's face went beet red.
"Oh that is what you meant, don't worry I would never do that, haha he is much too old for me." Yoshika quickly stated.
"Oh really well how much older would you let someone be before you considered them to be too old?" Lynne asked her. Yoshika thought for a moment.
"Maybe two years older but I wouldn't date anyone older than that." Yoshika told her. Lynne then smiled.
"Ok good then." She said. They then opened the door that separated where the witches' rooms were from the rest of the base. In the middle of the hallway were Shirley, Perrine and Lucchini. Shirley was much to Yoshika's surprise groping Perrine. Gertrude then walked out of her room with Erica and saw what was happening.
"Alright Yeager you have had your fun now let her go." Gertrude said with a twinge of anger in her voice. Shirley let go of Perrine, who was wildly blushing and trying to adjust her clothing.
"Alright you can go now Perrine but if you want to do this again sometime just let me know." Shirley said with a seductive grin.
"Uh right I'm going to um go to, err bed now." Perrine said as she quickly darted into her room and closed the door. Gertrude looked annoyed.
"Damn it Yeager why did you have to do that to her, it is highly inappropriate of an officer to behave as such." Gertrude said. Shirley shrugged.
"Hey what can I say, speed isn't the only trait I picked up from my familiar. But you are already familiar with that aren't you Trudy." Shirley said with a sly grin. Gertrude was stunned for a moment and her face turned red from embarrassment. Then Erica turned to her and raised an eyebrow.
"Huh what does she mean by that Trude?" Erica asked.
"Nothing, she means nothing by it. Come on Erica it is time to go to bed!" Gertrude said as she practically shoved Erica back into her room.
"Huh what did you mean by that anyway Shirley?" This time Francesca inquired, to which Shirley just grinned.
"Oh that is just between her and me." Shirley replied, she then turned and saw Yoshika and Lynne. "Oh hey there guys you going to bed to?" Shirley asked them. Yoshika smiled.
"Yeah we are going to bed see you in the morning." Yoshika replied. They headed into their room. It was a rather Spartan room just two beds and two desks. The beds themselves were also nothing particularly special either. Lynne started to undress. Yoshika couldn't help but watch her friend strip down. Yoshika had to fight the urge to grab at her nicely sized breasts. Suddenly Lynne noticed Yoshika's eyes were on her.
"Huh is there something you want to ask me Yoshika?" Lynne asked.
"Oh yeah I wanted to ask about what do you think tomorrow's mission is going to be?" Yoshika replied. Lynne thought for a moment.
"Hmm I haven't really thought about it hopefully it will be something a little further from the frontlines." Lynne responded, Yoshika then nodded.
"Yeah I hope we do something away from all of the fighting like maybe I could use my healing magic on wounded soldiers are something." Yoshika said. Lynne looked down at the ground for a moment.
"I doubt that unfortunately I think we will end up fighting no matter where we are sent." Lynne replied. Yoshika was saddened by this.
"Hey Lynne, will you really kill someone out there I mean if you have to? I noticed that you didn't say anything when Major Sakamoto asked if we had any objection to fighting." Yoshika inquired and to her surprise Lynne nodded.
"Yeah I will. I won't like it but as Sakamoto said it is kill or be killed out here and it isn't like these Ultranationalists are the nicest people either." Lynne said with a hint of sadness in her voice.
"Yeah but still they are human beings Lynne! Someone's son maybe someone's father, and I can't stand the thought of turning someone into an orphan!" Yoshika said.
"I know but when it comes down to it. War is brutal, it is pointless and it leaves no one unharmed. Here we have to do what we have to do." Lynne told her. Yoshika thought for a moment.
"I still won't kill anyone under any circumstance." Yoshika claimed. Lynne nodded to her statement.
"I understand. Well let's go to bed goodnight Yoshika." Lynne said as she got into her bed.
"Good night Lynne." Yoshika said. As she got into bed Yoshika wondered how many people will the 501st have to kill in order to make it home, and in the end will it be even worth it? Will the witches even be able to live with themselves afterwards? "Hey Lynne can I sleep in the same bed as you tonight?" Yoshika asked her. Lynne raised her head, and blushed slightly.
"Uh sure I don't mind." Lynne said. Yoshika got out of her bed and slipped into bed with Lynne. She pressed the side of her face into Lynne's breasts. She enjoyed the feeling of warmth and safety she felt when she was with Lynne it was almost as if Yoshika like her as more than friends.
"Hey Lynne." Yoshika said.
"Yeah Yoshika?" Lynne responded. Yoshika raised her head so she could make eye contact with Lynne.
"No matter what happens stay safe alright. I can't stand the thought of losing you to." Yoshika told her. Lynne blushed.
"I will, and stay safe as well Yoshika." Lynne said.
"Thanks I will good night Lynne." Yoshika said. She started to drift off into sleep when she thought she heard Lynne say something that she couldn't quite make out. Whatever she would ask Lynne in the morning.
Fort Campbell U.S.A.
Flight Lieutenant Charlotte Yeager "Shirley"
05:29 Local Time
Shirley and the rest of the witches walked into the briefing room. General Shepherd and the Delta team where waiting for them. Shepherd looked towards them and spoke.
"Before we get started I want you to be scanned by Corporal Marquez over here so we can properly determine what size of uniforms you will need. I can't have you ladies running around without Task Force uniforms that would be a recipe for a bad friendly fire incident." Shepherd told them. Minna nodded as a young female soldier approached them carrying some kind of device.
"Wait how do we get scanned?" Major Sakamoto asked Shepherd. Then Frost spoke.
"Like this, just spread you legs shoulder width apart and stick your arms out and Marquez will do the rest." Marquez pointed the device at Frost and a bright blue beam shot out covering him from head to toe. "This device scans your measurements for fitting with Kevlar and with your uniforms." Frost stated
"Ok do it." Minna told Marquez who nodded and approached her. One by one they were scanned by the device and the Corporal recorded their measurements.
"Ok I got your stats; I will be waiting for you in the armory with your uniforms." Marquez said. Minna nodded and the American corporal left the room. Then General Shepherd started to speak.
"As of twelve hours ago the Russian Army launched a massive airborne assault on the East Coast. Their primary target was Washington D.C.; they struck strategic installations across the city, including Whisky Hotel, the Capitol Building, the National Mall and several monuments. Also in Virginia they attacked the CIA's headquarters in Langley and the Pentagon which fortunately was able to repel the assault. Now the rest of the Task Force got intel from Alex the Red leading them to the location of an HVI by the number 627. They are currently moving to assault a gulag in Siberia. As for your unit I want you to head to D.C. and provide assistance for the regulars there. The Washington Monument evacuation site has been taking heavy fire from a battery of BM-30 MRLSs located in a parking lot here approximately two klicks from the Capitol Building. I want your unit to move in to destroy those rocket batteries. Unfortunately you won't have any air support there as most air assets are tied up fighting enemy aircraft launched from the three Russian's aircraft carriers that they deployed for the invasion; plus the rocket site is protected by several emplaced SAMs and ZPU batteries. Once the rockets are neutralized find a safe location and hunker down, to wait for further orders. Does anyone have any questions?" Shepherd asked them. Minna raised her hand.
"Yes what kind of support can we expect from the regular forces if any?" She asked him.
"Not much frankly most units have become isolated in the last few hours or are tied up with the evac efforts. For the most part you will be on your own out there, but if you do encounter any friendly units you are free to commandeer them if you need to." General Shepherd told them. Then Shirley raised her hand. "Yes, um I am sorry I don't know your name yet." Shepherd responded.
"It is Lieutenant Charlotte Yeager. And my question is should we be expecting any enemy armor support in the city or will we mostly be dealing with infantry?" Shirley asked him.
"Well Russian transport planes landed at the airport and offloaded about two companies worth of armored vehicles mostly T-80s and BMD-3s. Additionally Russian rotary wing units will be in the area so watch out for them." Shepherd told them. "Any other questions?" He asked, when no one responded he then spoke again. "Ok so for the record I need to get everyone's name and rank." He ordered everyone gave him their names. "Ok everyone dismissed." He said and they all began to head for the armory. Shirley noticed Frost and walked up beside him.
"Hey there handsome what's up." She jokingly said to him. Frost turned to her half surprised half embarrassed. Shirley noticed Sandman gave him an angry look.
"Oh uh nothing just stoked about the mission is all." He responded.
"Ah I see same here. Hey I didn't see you at the rooms on base where were you guys?" Shirley asked him. Frost smiled at her.
"Oh we were in our rooms on the other side of the base; we figured we would give you ladies as much privacy as possible." Frost replied. Shirley waved dismissively.
"Ah you didn't have to do that." She said with a grin. Frost cocked an eyebrow. Just then they walked into the armory. Marquez was waiting for them.
"I have your armor and equipment in the other room you can change there." She told them. Sandman walked further inside the armory with the rest of the Delta Force unit.
"Alright ladies go with Marquez she will help you with your new uniforms we will be waiting for you by the weapons station." Sandman told them.
"Understood we will be there momentarily." Minna told him. Sandman nodded and turned away. The witches walked into the other room. On a long bench were eleven sets of uniforms each were neatly arranged.
"I have it in order from who I scanned first to the last person. Ma'am you are here on the far right." Marquez gestured for Minna to grab her uniform. Shirley approached hers. It was a dark grey combat uniform with a black vest and black gloves. Shirley changed into the fatigues and put on the gloves. Shirley then picked up the vest which was surprisingly heavy.
"Hey Marquez why is the vest so heavy?" Shirley asked her.
"Oh that is a Kevlar vest designed to stop bullets and shrapnel." She told him. Interesting Shirley thought. It seemed like humanity had given itself better protection from bullets over the years. She put on the vest, and then she looked over to Gertrude and saw a symbol on her uniforms sleeve.
"Hey what is with that symbol Gertrude?" Shirley asked her. Gertrude looked to her shoulder as if she had just noticed it.
"Huh I am not sure. You have it on your arm too Yeager." Gertrude told her. Shirley looked down and noticed it as well. Then Minna spoke.
"That is the symbol of the unit we are now part of Task Force 141 apparently that is their insignia." Minna told them. Then Marquez spoke.
"Sorry Ladies but I couldn't find any helmets in your sizes you are going to have to go without." She told them.
"That is fine they would get in the way of our familiars anyway." Minna told her.
"Uh yes ma'am." Marquez replied. Now that they had finished changing the witches left the room and went to meet up with the Delta unit. They arrived to see Sandman in a small room separated from them by a desk and a window that he was looking out of. In the room on the back wall it was covered in futuristic weaponry that Shirley had never seen before.
"Look I know Shepherd said that you could work with us, but I am going on record and saying that I don't like it. You are just a bunch of kids you shouldn't be out fighting in a war like this. Hell most of you should still be in high school or college right now. But Shepherd ordered me to fight alongside you so I will, but when we are in the field you have to defer to me and my squad. We are the ones who have more combat experience so we can help you better survive in a ground war." Sandman told them.
"I understand." Minna simply stated. Sandman nodded and then went back to the weapon rack. He pulled off a stubby looking black carbine with some kind of low powered sight on it.
"Here Commander Minna this is a MK18 CQBR it is basically a shortened version of the M4A1 which you were using before." He handed the gun to Minna and gave her a magazine of ammo. "Go shoot off some rounds at the firing range to familiarize yourself with the weapon." Minna nodded and headed towards the range. Mio was the next person to approach him. "Well we don't have a P90 but we do have a gun that was based off of it." He went to the wall and gave her some jet black rectangular gun, with a glass sight on top. "This is a Magpul PDR. It fires a standard 5.56mm round from a twenty round magazine."
"Ah how interesting. It does feel rather like the weapon I used before." Major Sakamoto said. She then left and headed towards the range. Next Gertrude came up to him.
"You are from Germany right?" Sandman asked her.
"Well I am from Karlsland but in your world you call it Germany." Gertrude told him. Sandman then grabbed a gun off the wall.
"Right well this gun here is a G36C it is made by a German fire arms company called HK." Sandman told her as he handed her the weapon.
"Wow this is really light and the fore grip really adds a lot of stability. And the sight ah it makes aiming so easy." She said as she examined the weapon.
"I know right well head over to the range and get familiar with the weapon." Sandman told her. Gertrude walked off then Perrine approached him.
"Hey we have the same type of MP5K that you used when we found you. Would you like to use it for this mission?" Sandman asked her.
"Yes I found the weapon to be most effective on those Russian brutes." She replied as smugly as ever. Sandman gave her the weapon and she walked off. Then Erica Hartmann walked up. Sandman gave her a weird looking rifle with the magazine behind the trigger. The barrel of the weapon was really short it looked more like a SMG than assault rifle.
"This here is an IMI MTAR-21 made in Israel." Sandman told her.
"Sweet can wait to squeeze off a few rounds." Erica said as she took the weapon and headed towards the gun range. The Eila came up to Sandman. He grabbed some kind of SMG.
"This is a UMP45 it is a German submachine gun with a twenty five round magazine. It is very light weight and deadly at close range." He told her. She took the gun and wordlessly nodded. Then Sanya came up to him.
"Uh I handled a lot of explosives back in my world can you give me any explosive weapons?" She asked him. Sandman looked surprised.
"Seriously? Well I can give you a prototype weapon called the XM25 it is an air bursting grenade launcher. Basically you can program the round to explode either on impact or in the proximity of your intended target. Frost will show you the basics when you get to the range." Sandman said as he handed her a deadly looking high tech weapon. Then Lynne came up to his desk.
"I was the 501st marksmen back in my world can you give me some kind of long ranged rifle?" Lynne asked him. Sandman nodded as he went to one of the walls and grabbed a sniper rifle of some kind.
"This is the M40A5 sniper rifle. It is accurate at over a thousand yards." He said as he handed her the weapon. Then Francesca walked up to him.
"What do you got for me mister?" Francesca said with a grin. Sandman raised an eyebrow.
"Something small." He simply said as he pulled a tiny looking machine pistol from the wall. "This is a TMP lightweight and accurate. Be carefully it has a bit of a kick." He said Francesca giggled and ran off to the range. Then Yoshika walked up to him.
"Uh I am sorry mister Sandman but I am a pacifist and I can't bring myself to kill anyone so I won't be taking any weapons. I am just going to be using my healing magic on this mission." Yoshika told him. Sandman scratched his chin for a second. Then he pulled out a blocky looking pistol.
"Here this is a USP45; it's a pistol take it." Sandman told her. Yoshika shook her head.
"Sorry but I couldn't bring myself to kill anyone so I won't need it."
"It's not for anyone else. Let's just say you shouldn't get captured by the Russians." Sandman told her. Yoshika looked frightened at what he was implying but shook herself out of it and took the pistol. Finally Shirley stepped up to weapons room. She looked at the rack of weapons and she saw a gun that interested her. For some reason it reminded her of her BAR.
"Hey can you give me the gun on the far right about midway down?" Shirley asked him. He grabbed the weapon.
"This is an M27 IAR it is a prototype automatic rifle you sure you can handle the kick on it young lady?" Sandman asked her as he handed her the weapon.
"Yeah I will be fine." She replied as she grabbed the gun.
"Alright, well head down to the range then and try it out. I am going to get some side arms for everyone I will meet you out there in a few minutes." Sandman told her. She nodded and headed towards the range. She started to hear the sounds of gunfire as the witches practiced with their weapons. The rest of the Delta unit was giving some pointers to their new team mates. Frost then saw her and waved.
"Hey they you ready to give that thing a try?" He asked her. Shirley grinned.
"Yeah I am ready to shoot some shit up." Shirley responded. Frost walked over to her and gestured to the boxy looking sight on her weapon.
"That is a holographic sight, see this little button? Press it to turn the sight on." Frost told her. She pressed the button and in the middle of the glass center a red circle appeared. She looked down her sights. This holographic sight made aiming a lot easier. She grabbed onto the handle that was on the underside of the barrel a few inches away from the magazine. She crouched and got into a stable firing stance. She then squeezed the trigger and let lose a barrage of machine gun fire. The recoil tore into her shoulder but it wasn't anything she couldn't handle. She held the trigger down until the weapon went dry. She then ejected the magazine and hit the button to bring the target to her in order to see how she did. "Damn girl that is really impressive." Frost said as the target got closer. Most of the shots were right around the center. She smirked; she still hadn't lost her edge.
Fort Campbell U.S.A.
Flight Lieutenant Gertrude "Trudy" Barkhorn
06:23 Local time
Gertrude was pumped. She was ready for this fight. She had gotten a shiny new gun the G36C and a nice new side arm called the Sig Sauer P226 which was also made in Karlsland much to her delight. They were walking to their transport something called a helicopter. Apparently it was the same type of helicopter that had transported them to the Liberion military base a "V-22". On the way there she saw three men in black uniforms, black masks and tan colored Kevlar vests standing by one of the hangers, only one of the men was not wearing a mask. She made eye contact with one of them and the one without a mask spit in her path and mouthed the words "Dyke" to her.
"What the fuck did you just call me you piece of shit!?" Gertrude shouted. Her temper flared and she summoned her familiar. Her biceps tensed with the anticipation of a fight. The men in black chuckled.
"I called you a carpet munching lesbian whore what are you going to do about it, Dyke?" the one without a mask smugly said to her. She gritted her teeth and began to walk towards him, hands clenched into fists.
"How about I rip your dick off and shove it down your throat you arrogant little prick?" she said suddenly both Frost and Erica restrained her.
"Hey leave her alone you mercenary dogs." Frost growled at them.
"You better watch your mouth D-Boy or you might find yourself the victim of a friendly fire incident." The one without the mask told him.
"Piss off Mattias, don't you have a village to rape and pillage or something." Frost said. Mattias smirked and gestured for his men to follow.
"Come on guys we have better things to do." He said as they walked away. Gertrude nearly pulled away from Frost and Erica.
"Don't Trude they aren't worth it." Erica told her. Gertrude calmed down a little bit.
"Frost who the fuck were those people?" Gertrude asked him still heavily breathing as the rage coursed through her veins.
"They were members of Shadow Company, one of the most dangerous mercenary groups on the planet. We hired them back during the war in Afghanistan. They pretty much took it as their permission slip to rape and pillage their way across the country. Half the shit they did I am surprised didn't get them shut down. I heard that they fired on U.S. troops who were trying to stop them from gang raping some girl in the middle of a village. I don't know how but they have managed to survive multiple congressional investigations it is almost like they are being protected by someone high up in the military." Frost told her. Mercenaries how she hated them, they took all of the glory out of war and turned it into some kind of money making enterprise; they had no honor and in her opinion they were little better than common criminals. Then Gertrude heard Major Sakamoto speak.
"We aren't going to have to work with those…. Men are we?" Mio asked clear anger in her voice.
"I hope not. I fucking hate those assholes." Sandman told her.
"Yeah ditto on my end." Grinch said.
"Yeah one of those cocksuckers tried robbing me at gunpoint at Baghram thought I was some kind of logistics guy. Big mistake I put the bastard in the hospital after that." Truck said.
"Then I think it is safe to say that we should refuse to ever work with them under any circumstances." Minna said.
"Agreed." Literally everyone said in unison. Gertrude thought to herself if that asshole Mattias ever tried anything on her she would beat him to a bloody pulp. In fact she actually secretly wished he would.
Ha ha i hope you enjoyed that chapter as much as i enjoyed reading it. and judging by all of the profanity and (is lemon the right word) i had in this chapter you can tell why i chose to give this story an M rating lol. yeah personally i am the type of person who thinks "Fuck censorship" anyway don't worry if you aren't a big yuri fan im not going to have that many yuri scenes in my story lol it is to fast paced fro that to happen often XD. Also another note is i know teryaki is a pretty stereotypical Japanese dish but it was late and i could not think of anything else. plus in my experience when i was on a military base for a while and they did serve chicken teryaki is was alright, a little to sugary but if you knew what you were doing you would propbably be able to modify it in such a way that it would be better. also btw as a porduction note for those who are wondering when the narrator is speaking through someone like say Eila he begins to think like that person if that makes any sense. anyway so some bad news is this will probably be the last of my rapid fire uploading of chapters as i seriously need to start writing my freaking essays for my classes. anyway expect the next chapter to be some time in december. oh and lastly please review the story as i really do apperciate your feedback because it will help me make my story better. XD