The Legends Still Live On
Bogen Vierzehn: Inzwischen in Russland...
Kapitel Zwei: Es ist das Sascha Tagebuch!
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Aboard the Kiev during yet another normal Russian day, Katyusha was carefully peeking around a building's corner. She was in her usual small Pravda school uniform.
Why she was peeking was because she was staring at Sasha walking through the area for some reason. He didn't have any particular expression of note as he walked on in his usual Pravda school outfit. He had a relatively neutral look.
Katyusha then quietly got out a book and pencil, and she muttered quietly as she wrote something down in it. "Fourteen hundred," she began. "Passing corner of 3rd block! As of now, target destination still unknown…" She then finished writing. "Done!"
She then closed the book. The book itself was sized like a composition notebook. On the front cover was the title 'Sasha Diary,' and the author was Katyusha. There was a childishly drawn picture of a bear's head on the cover, as well.
"I once heard a rumor that Nonna made something called the 'Katyusha Diary' with the help of Sasha and Nudelmann!" Katyusha quietly said to herself in reflection with a determined grin. "So keeping that in mind, I have created a 'Sasha Diary!' Why create one for Sasha? Well, that's because he's far more easily riled, and hence embarrassed!" She then made a fist as she continued with reflecting on her plan for a counterattack. "So I will disclose Sasha's private life to find out whether or not the rumors of the 'Katyusha Diary' are true or not!"
While Katyusha was reflecting on why she was currently following him, Sasha had looked back and spotted her out of the corner of his eye. He didn't hold any reaction besides turning back so he could continue walking on.
"Huh?" Katyusha reacted as she saw Sasha continue walking on, and she scampered away to follow him.
"Just gotta hang in there!" Katyusha quietly motivated herself as she took cover behind a street pole while following Sasha through some more streets. "It's almost snack time!"
Sasha grew a slight grin as he continued forth, since he could perfectly hear Katyusha behind him. But he continued to play oblivious.
He soon arrived at the Volga Bookshop, and he walked inside.
"A book store?" Katyusha wondered as she hid behind a shelf of books just outside. She kept watching Sasha for a bit before she entered as well.
She followed him discreetly before Sasha stopped in one of the aisles and picked up a magazine. Said magazine had a cover picture of an Me 262 A-1a firing off some R4M rockets it carried under its wings just outboard of its engines.
"Ah, he's taking a look at this month's Arts of Warfare magazine…" Katyusha observed as she hid behind a promotional sign.
Sasha flipped through the magazine for a bit, and Katyusha saw him stop at an article led off by a picture of her pointing onwards in a heroic pose.
"Oh, he's reading this month's article about me!" Katyusha observed.
But Sasha continued to flip onwards and soon stopped at an article led off by a picture of Erich and Miho posed together with both of them flashing a victory sign from one of their hands in a victorious manner.
"What?! He skipped my article for the one on Ooarai?!" Katyusha observed as she started to grow angry and highly jealous. She threw a brief childish tantrum as she swung around her arms while she growled a bit. 'But why?! Why aren't you looking at the pictures of me?!' she thought in jealousy as she stomped her feet a bit.
Sasha could see her little tantrum from the corner of his eye, and he grew a small grin seeing her behave that way. He then looked back to his magazine and continued to read it.
The next article he chose to stop and skim through was one where Alfred-Joachim Hartmann had chosen to speak about the performance and abilities of the Bf 109 G-6. Sasha quickly grew a look that said he was getting pissed as he read through the article. As he reached the end, he finally chucked the magazine back to the shelf in anger.
"Yebanny Cherniy Chort," he cursed as he stomped out of the store.
Katyusha heard Sasha's stomps and snapped out of her little tantrum as she quickly made her way to follow him. She discreetly followed him out of the store and out onto the streets surrounding.
'Huh, looks like he still hates seeing German engineering prevail,' Katyusha thought to herself on the outburst as she continued following Sasha throughout the streets. She soon momentarily stopped to observe him from behind a corner.
By now, the blond Russian ace had calmed down from his burst of anger earlier, and he now had a more neutral look as he walked on.
'But still,' Katyusha thought as she rushed to take cover behind a sign along Sasha's path. 'Just where does he intend to go?'
As she continued to follow him, she soon stopped and peeked around another corner that led into an alley, where Sasha had chosen to walk into. But she broke out of her cover upon seeing Sasha hop up to the top of the wall at the end of the alley after boosting himself up with the trash can there. She grew a surprised look seeing him parkour up to the wall's top, evidently caught off-guard by that.
Katyusha chose to follow, but her short height gave her a hard time with scaling the wall. 'Just where is he even going?!' she thought in disbelief of Sasha's route. 'Does Sasha always walk through here?!'
Katyusha soon managed to get to the top, and she followed Sasha who had by now started walking along the wall's top. She chose to follow by crawling along the top of the wall.
She soon spotted a cat looking to her from a nearby balcony, and in alarm she quickly shushed it with a finger to her lips. The cat looked on as if confused at what Katyusha was doing.
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From the ground, both Nina and Alina were looking up at the wall with looks of confusion as they saw Katyusha crawling after Sasha atop the wall.
"Do you have any idea what the komandiry are up to this time?" Alina wondered to Nina beside her.
"Who knows?" Nina replied as she shrugged her shoulders.
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Atop the wall, Sasha just reached the end of it. He jumped from the top, performed a forward roll in the air, and landed in a dramatic crouch with a hand to the ground. He then sprung up and continued on.
Katyusha, meanwhile, soon arrived to the edge, and she cautiously made her way down. Her short height prevented her from descending without falling at least a little bit, so she descended as carefully as she could.
She finally descended to the ground via a slight drop down, and she hurried to follow Sasha. She had fallen behind a bit because of her cautious descent.
The next area Sasha passed through was full of bushes and shrubbery. Sasha passed through it relatively calmly. But behind him, Katyusha followed with a lot more rustling noises from the shrubbery as she hastily tried to catch up to him.
The bushes and shrubbery opened up to a playground. Sasha approached a few young kids playing jump rope, and he passed through by jumping through the rope being swung.
The kids looked a bit surprised and confused by Sasha entering their jump rope game. They were looking at him walk off with looks of confusion after he passed through. But Katyusha ended up passing through the jump rope, too, while they weren't paying attention. What resulted was Katyusha getting smacked by the rope.
"Ah!" she reacted as she stumbled a bit. The kids playing with the rope then looked to her in surprise and alarm as they realized what just occurred. But Katyusha paid them no mind as she shook her head quickly to dispel the pain and rushed off to catch back up to Sasha.
She finally caught up with him as he passed by a barred metal fence. On the other side of that fence was a Russian bear. Why a Russian bear was being kept in a neighborhood is easy enough to guess with the fact that the Kiev is a Russian ship, inhabited by Russians who like to do Russian things.
As Sasha passed the bear, he gave a quick pet to it through the bars as he rubbed the fur on its head. The bear did not react with hostility to the rub, but it instead growled contently, as if satisfied with it.
When Katyusha moved to pass the bear, the bear started roaring loudly as it came up against the fence's bars and tried to reach over to her.
"Ah!" she screamed in fear as she jumped back. She started releasing tears from her eyes because of how scared she was from the bear randomly roaring and trying to reach her. Katyusha then chose to run off immediately, for two reasons. One, to keep up with Sasha, and two, to just get away from that bear.
Finally, Katyusha caught up to Sasha. "Blyad', that bear nearly gave me a heart attack…" Katyusha reflected as she dried her tears with her hands. She then saw where Sasha was entering next. "A café?"
Sasha was entering the Petersburg Café, and Katyusha followed as she entered a little later.
She chose to hide behind a promotional sign and watch Sasha from there. Sasha was now at a table as he spoke with a waitress.
"I'll take two slices of cake and two servings of tea with jam," Sasha ordered as he leaned forth and rested his arms on the table.
"Certainly, they'll be here soon," the waitress replied with a kind smile. She then went off to get Sasha's order.
About five seconds later, Sasha saw the same waitress come back with his order. "Man, the service here is almost impossibly quick," he remarked to himself in a bit of amazement as his food was set down on the table.
Katyusha saw Sasha's order from her vantage point. "Seems like he ordered some slices of cake with a couple cups of tea…" she observed. She then pulled out her Sasha Diary to start writing things again. "Current time: fifteen hundred," she began. She then looked up to find Sasha drinking his tea, and her stomach growled in response as she stopped writing. "Grr… snack time…!" she grunted.
She then saw Sasha cut off a piece of cake and bring it up to his mouth. Katyusha's mouth started to water a bit at the sight as she grew even hungrier. When she saw Sasha actually gulp down the piece, she grew extremely jealous of seeing him have food while she didn't, and she started throwing a small tantrum at the sight. She was growling, swinging her arms around, and stomping her feet for a bit.
"No!" she told herself in determination as she stopped. "Just bear it! Bear it!" Katyusha then turned back to continue watching Sasha, but she noticed that Sasha was no longer in his seat. "Huh?" she wondered with confusion.
Sasha was no longer at the table that still had his order resting on it. Instead, he was approaching from behind Katyusha with a small grin that showed off a small portion of his teeth. He first shut the Sasha Diary in Katyusha's hands with his own.
"Fifteen hundred six hours," he began as Katyusha grew an alarmed look after realizing she was discovered. "Enjoyed some tea and cake together with Katyusha. I also ordered Katyusha's share."
Upon hearing that her share was already ordered, Katyusha grew a more excited look driven by her hunger for a snack. "Snack time!" she called out as she and Sasha went over to the blonde Russian ace's table. She got into her chair and started happily eating some cake. Sasha just looked at her with a satisfied grin from across the table in his seat.
There were two more people of note sitting at opposite ends of the café that were secretly watching Sasha and Katyusha. They took pictures periodically with some small cameras they had. These two people were Nonna and Nudelmann, who were apparently spying on the two smaller Russians.
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Later that night in Nonna's room, she, Nudelmann, and Sasha were all gathered around together at her desk. Nonna was in the chair for the desk while the two Russian boys stood at either side of her. All of them were now looking through their recently updated version of the Katyusha Diary.
"So let's see what we've gathered today…" Nonna began as she turned to a blank page. There were several pictures beside the book. Evidently, all of them were taken by Nonna and Nudelmann while they hid along the route Sasha had taken earlier that day.
"There's her hiding behind the corner of the alleyway…" Sasha noted as he taped that picture in the book.
"There's her rushing to get behind the sign…" Nudelmann observed as he stuck that picture in the book as well.
"There's that bear roaring at her…" Nonna noted as she taped that picture in.
"There's also that jump rope catching her…" Nudelmann said as he stuck that picture in.
"Her trying to scale the wall…" Nonna said as she stuck said picture in as well.
"And finally, there's her enjoying some snack time after joining me," Sasha ended as he stuck the final picture into the book.
All of the Russians by now had small grins of satisfaction as they stared at the pictures of Katyusha that they found to be cute.
"Today's 'Katyusha Diary' was truly substantial…" Nonna noted as she chuckled a bit. She had also started writing short descriptions under each picture using a pen. "We've all done great work today, tovarishchi."
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These Russians have everything laid out in their hands…
Part of Projekt Jägermeistern.
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