Battlegrounds
The two trudged through the snow, trying to keep on their feet as the wind howled over them. The walked for a good two miles before stopping to take a rest.
"Hey! We should probably call in the rest of our forces!" Pascal Shouted over the wind.
"Way ahead of you! I had them gather in two seperate forces! Hopefully they're gonna be safe!" Jay replied. "What's the current temp?!"
"-54 degrees and dropping! We should head back!" Pascal suggested.
"Yeah, I don't think Pravda can even move in these conditions!"
"Well, Nobody wants to bail out on a Mountain of ice!"
"Damn right!" Jay said. And with that the two began heading back towards the group. On the way back they saw something that both scared and relieved them.
"Hey! There's some T-34's and Ski troops!" Pascal shouted. Jay got his binoculars and saw them.
"Confirming two T-34-76's and about 7 personal! Let's approach them cautiously!" The two converged on the group and soon were met by with cold lifeless bodies and tanks to match.
"Poor bastards froze to death…" Jay said, looking at one of the then spotted two other people heading down the snow drift towards them. He got his Uzi ready and gave the signal to Pascal that there were people heading towards them. Wait a minute...That Erwin and Yukari!
"Stand down Pascal, they're friendlies." They waved them down and they waved back, heading towards them.
"So you two are on your way back as well?!" Jay asked.
"That's right O'Davis! I see you And Churchill there are fine!" Erwin replied. "You boys see anything?"
"Negative! No Hostiles that I could see over that ridgeline! Its White out conditions!" Pascal replied. "And even if we did, we have no tank support to help us!" They agreed and began heading back. "Wait, where's Sodoko?"
"I don't know! Most likely she's gone back to the others!" Yukari suggested. However the truth that would reveal itself would be much more sad. Stay alive Miho, you better be alive when we get back...
Oarai holding position…
"God damn cold…" Mike muttered. "This make Snoqualmie look like a tropical resort." The Boys grumbled and groaned. Miho was still in high spirits though, at least she tried to be. While the scout group was out, the rest of the group tried their hardest to warm up the tanks so that they could function. And for the moment, it was going really well.
"Hey! The turrets turning!" Leon shouted to Cody.
"Same thing Here! Quick, keep warming the tank!" D-ray yelled.
"Here you go! Be careful it's ho-..." Moyoko suddenly collapsed and started bleeding. Everyone stood still for a moment.
"SNIPER! GET DOWN!" Miho yelled. It was absolute panic, everyone in a high place quickly climbed down and took cover behind the tanks. Moyoko was still alive though and she was trying to call out for someone
"Moyoko! She still alive! Someone get me a first-aid kit!" Pazomi raced out of cover to try and help her friend.
"NO!" But it was too late, another shot rang out and killed her, before she could even reach Moyoko's side. Miho grabbed a mirror to try and locate the sniper.
"For fuck's sake If your gonna shoot someone, Shoot me!" Leon shouted, coming out of cover. "Come on! Do it you Bitch!" Leon stood right in the open, and he was signaling his crew to be ready to pull him out of harm's way.
"Leon! Get back in Cover!" Hoshino shouted at him from behind the Porsche Tiger. Then a shot rang out and his driver, AJ pushed him out of the way. Gotcha…
"Nekonya! Cody! Come here!" Nekonya was by her and Cody made his way with his rifle, a PSG1.
"Miho, let me get into a firing position. I can take her out, trust me." Cody said, hugging his rifle.
"Well, that's exactly what i want you to do. Nekonya yo go with him. Out the back door and around." She said. The two made their way around the the back end of the tank to the back door and up the stairs. The were about to be in position, when nekonya suddenly stopped.
"Come on Nekonya, what's the hold up." Cody asked. She just looked at him and in one quick move, like something out of CoD, she was in his face and her lips on his. After a good thirty seconds, she pulled away and got into her firing position. She had a look of fury, at least from what he could tell. He got into his firing position and and acquired the target.
"Target acquired, range...250...slight wind to the South…" he saw that the sniper was lining up on someone, not at him but at Nekonya. "Damn it!" He fired at the same time as she did, and about the time the bullet hit the snipers head, a large explosion occurred in the building. It took him a few seconds to realize it was a High explosive round.
"We got him Nekonya! We…." His joy was replaced by worry as he looked in her direction. What he saw was a lifeless body bleeding out. "Nekonya?" He walked over to her and knelt by her side. "Nekonya…?" He turned her to see where she was shot. When he saw he had to face her away. "I should've taken the shot earlier...i'm sorry…" She then turned to face him and using the last bit of her strength, she gave him a smile and uttered the words "thank you" before going limp. He silently cried and soon got up to return to the others, carrying nekonya down.
M36 commander Jason Garland, of unit 4 of sniper team, ran up to him and stopped in his tracks once he saw the dead girl in his hands.
"Cody...is she?" Cody just gave him a shake of the head and went outside. After he came back he had an evil look in his eyes. He looked at his crew and they knew what was about to happen.
"Cody! No!" He ran up and and tried to hold cody back. He just shook him off and he continued to walk towards the Panther.
"Get us going…" He said to the driver. "We can't, the tank isn't warm enough to start. It should be by tomorrow." His driver, Dante said. Cody didn't know that he was lying to him. The Panther felt more than warm enough to start up. He just sat there in silence, inside he was torn apart by this. He hadn't known her for very long, yet it felt like they were family and he let her die. He knew he had to continue the fight, and he had a little more respect for Jay. He knew what he had to go through when he lost Peterson.
A couple hours later….
The four who came back from the scouting mission were exhausted, cold and hungry. Jay especially was pretty much out of breath and energy. He just sat in front of the fire and warmed himself up. Miho walked up and sat next to him.
"Where's the rest of Sodoko's team?" Jay asked, in low, yet tired voice. Miho just shook her head. "What happened?"
"A sniper. She killed three of us…" Miho said. "So we're down to 14" Jay was silent. He never accounted for a sniper. He looked at the Char B1, and then at the Panther II. He knew that Cody would've been one of the people who was sent to kill the sniper. He was the next best rifleman here after all. Caleb brought him a cup of Hot Cocoa, and gave one to everyone. Miho smiled warmly as she was given the hot cocoa. "You boys are well prepared for a winter battle."
"Well we weren't prepared for this kind of battle." Jay said. Pascal sat down next to him.
"They're using the wooden log from the side of my tank to keep this fire going." He said. "Weather should improve tomorrow. It stopped snowing." Everyone was silent or working for now as the weather was slowly improving for the coming battle. The crackle of the fire kept most people awake in the area.
"Here you go." Jay said, splitting his rations with Miho, which was a turkey and bologna sandwich. She took it and began eating. "I'm kind of curious..what happened when we were unconscious?" When she heard that she nearly choked on her food.
"W-what? What do you mean, nothing happened!" She answered quickly, while blushing a bright red. You're lying Miho, you can tell me..Jay thought. But he didn't want to push on. He knew it was probably something embarrassing.
"Well, whatever gets you through the night Miho, I'm going up on first watch." Jay said, standing up. "Also, get some rest. You need it." Jay said, before walking away. Miho looked at him as he walked away. She watch as he disappeared behind the T29.
"What's so great about him?" Anzu asked Miho. "He just looks like a big brutte to me." Miho just stayed quiet, pulling her legs to her chest.
"This is coming from the shortest person here." Kenji said, climbing down from the T34. "But, height, so overrated." He walked past them and continued out to the back.
Kenji was in the middle of relieving himself when he heard a noise behind him. He looked over his shoulder and didn't see anyone at first. Soon he finished up and was getting ready to go back to the others.
"Сюрприз!" The next thing kenji knew, he was in the snow, on his back. He couldn't reach for his pistol in time and next thing he knew he was being straddled by an assassin.
"Komanski Nikolai, Смерть для вас(death for you)" The assassin pulled out a knife and Kenji pushed her off of him. He scrambled onto his feet and reached for his pistol before taking a knife in the arm.
"ARGH! YOU BITCH!" He pulled the knife out and covered his wound. She lunged at him, knife ready to enter his stomach. He pulled out his gun and fired multiple rounds, all missing the charging girl in white. Then a shot rang out and the next thing Kenji knew, her head exploded. He looked at the top of building and saw that Jay was behind the smoking barrel of a T-gewehr. The group rushed out to him, and his crew had the first aid kit ready to go.
"Kenji! Hang in there, we gonna get you patched up!" Yuzu shouted. She and buch of the other boys and girls helped Kenji walk inside, even through his protest.
"Guys, guys, guys I'm ok, really, i'm fine see." he lifted it up but immediately put it down and sucked in air through his teeth due to the pain. Jay ran down to check on Kenji. "Dude, are you alright?!" Jay asked. He was about to hug him, but saw that Yuzu was wrapping his wounds. He sighed and gave him a thumbs up. "Glad you're alright my guy. Can you still fight?" he asked.
"Hell yeah i'm still fighting. I gotta just rest up." He replied. Jay knew he was tough, especially after the things he saw. He knew some little wound wouldn't be enough to stop him.
"Good. Now all of you rest up. We gotta get going early for tomorrow." Jay said.
The next day….
"This is 1-1, I'm reporting about 200, 300 tanks tops." Jay said, sitting on the top of his Hellcat. This is some ass backwards bullshit. They should only have 13 tanks left… He thought.
"Roger 1-1, fall back to the designated point and wait for orders." He heard.
"Wilco. 1-1 out. Courtney, get us going. Tout suite!" The hellcat backup up from the ridgeline and drove to the rendezvous point. On the drive there he began to think about the plan. I hope we can pull this off, even with the extra vehicles. He pulled out a map of the area that he was given. Alright, right now, i have the entirety of scout team shadowing them with Shield and sniper moving just behind on either side. We should be able to get them encircled in about an hour.
At the rendezvous point the rest of the group was ready for the coming battle. Miho and Jay were discussing the plan for the battle while the tanks up from were hatches open and watching some were also franticly piling snow high enough to cover their weak spots on the heavy tanks. The lighter vehicles got ready to move into their ambush positions.
"So, you called in your backup tanks anyway?" Miho asked.
"Yes, trust me on this one. Please, Miho." Miho was a little bit angry. She knew the rules stated that only 15 vehicles at most were allowed, and since both schools were technically new, they could easily be disqualified for this stunt. She had no other choice though, the damage was already done and the tanks were closing in on them.
"Jay, i swear...this better work." She said. Jay smiled, but not before receiving a slap to the face. He climbed back into his tank and got ready to go.
"INCOMING!"
"BUTTON UP!" Jay shouted, and everyone got in their tanks. "Court, take us onto that ridgeline about one click to the north. Move it!" The hellcat sped away. Meanwhile the boys who were outside piling snow onto the tank scrambled onto and into them.
A volley of fire, a mix 76 and 85mm cannons and bounced off the heavy tanks that were hulled down. Jay and Miho's tanks were just in position as the first shots rang out. He climbed into the gunners seat and looked into the sight.
"Range: 930 meters! Targets moving at 20 to 30 mph, left-to-right!" Jay reported. "Anglerfish it's your call!"
"FEUER!" The two tanks opened fire on the convoy "2-1 lay down some fire!" the breech was opened and closed in about 4 second and soon the panzer was ready to fire.
"Clear!"
"Round away!" The 76mm fired again, knocking out a 85mm T-34. "Tank destroyed! Caleb! Cmon caleb!" He punched another shell in the breech.
"Clear!"
"Round away!" another one down. That's when all hell let loose. "OH SHIT! ANKOU, PULL BACK, PULL BACK!" The two tanks pulls away from the mountainside, the M18 firing smoke shells to cover them. Just as the two crested the hill, a shell rocks the M18, nearly hitting the driver.
"The hell was that?!" he asked, looking back at jay, who was thrown out of his seat.
"Don't worry about it, keep driving!" Jay said, climbing back into the gunners seat.
"1-1, are you ok? That shell ricocheted off you!" Miho's voice said.
"We're all right!" Jay reported. He climbed out as saw the others on the other side, at least what was left of them. He saw the flaming wrecks of both Anteater and duck team, and turned just in time to see a 122mm enter the front plate and obliterate the M3 Lee. "NOO! 2-1, 2-1 fire at everything! Courtney pull us over the hill!" He saw the Heavy tanks that were left to defend themselves stager fire to Increase the fire rate. He started seeing T-34 after T-34 get blown to bits, but realized they could only take on so many tanks at once. He watched as they were about to get surrounded themselves. And Jay couldn't really do anything but watch.
"1-1, We can't hold out for much longer! You gotta do it!" He say the IS-2 fire at IS-3, its shell bouncing off the highly sloped armor. Jay grabbed the radio, getting ready to call in the calvary.
"This is 1-1, All JayPac tanks have permission to enter combat, and hurry!" He looked and saw a wave of white snow being kicked up behind the already numerous T-34's.
"This is 1-4, we have the back end of the formation in sight, can we fire?" Jay heard.
"For Christ sake, Shoot!" Jay replied. And soon the noise of 8 other M24 Chaffee's firing pierced the air. Then Jay heard the noise of tank engines behind him and soon multiple M26's and a jumbo sherman reported next to the Hellcat and stopped.
"You think we'd miss this party? All shield units open up!" The 90mm canons of the Pershing's opened up on the T-34's, knocking out everyone they hit.
"Once the distance has been closed to 300 meters, open up with the machine guns to sike them out." Jay ordered
"Sniper team has a firing position, we are engaging." He heard 3-2 report. Slowly the tanks all surrounded the enemy and began to literally wipe them out. "Miho, this is how we fight. This is what happens when you mess with the bull." Jay said. Miho was astonished, She watched as T-34 after T-34 was destroyed. He started to see the T-34's return fire, knocking out a Chaffee and a Pershing. The crews got out and hid behind the advancing tanks. Jay ordered courtney to follow the Pershings and they did.
"Alright, we've taken them out enough. If they open fire again, wipe them out." Jay ordered. They watch and waited, they still opened up with the MG's just to keep them on their toes. Jay watch as one of the tankers climbed out of her unit and ran to what seemed to be like the commanding unit, an IS-2.
"Jay we have a clear shot on the girls, opening fire."
"Negative, all tanks cease fire completely. I wanna see where this goes. Pascal, get ready to blow that IS unit to hell if it opens fire." Jay ordered.
"Oh god she's gonna shoot her own teammate!" He heard Leon yell.
"Hold your fire."
"Their on the brink of a complete annihilation, maybe she was the cause. Hold fire." He watched and watched, and then it happened. A loud crack sounded as well as the commotion over the radio when the girl hit the tank roof lifeless. Moments later the a judge a ran over to Miho's tank.
"Match is over due to Pravda's abandonment!"
Results
Ooarai/JayPac: 6 units lost
Pravda: 195 unts lost
Jay ran over and embraced Miho, the two hugged each other, and soon the whole panzer IV crew was in on it.
"We did it guys! We actually did it!" He shouted. Pascal walked over to them and was holding an ice back to his head.
"Who knew a 122 could be so powerful." He said, walking up to the group. Jay went and hugged his friend. "Oh, uh thanks."
"Glad you made it buddy." Jay said. Pascal patted Jay on the back and saw someone, most likely a tanker from Pravda, walk in their direction. She was carrying someone, and he rushed over to her. That's when she pulled out a gun. He was running now, running at he full speed,forgetting about the ice pack or the pain.
"NO!"
BANG!
"I said ceasefire!" A judge yelled. She turned and saw the two on the ground. Pascal was on top of her, holding the gun away from her head, its barrel smoking. She had a look of shock on her face as the boy was restraining her arm from moving.
"You know...we're like this and i don't even know your name…" He said.
"Nonna.." she said. He looked into her eyes and she looked back at his.
"Give me the gun…" He said, clasping her hand with the gun. "It's ok, i'm not gonna hurt you." Slowly she released the gun, and Pascal placed it on the ground, before drawing his gun and shooting it twice. She looked at him in shock. "Just in case."
Jay was talking to Miho about something when a Kuromorimine member drove up on a german motorbike, fitted for snow terrain.
"Members of Ooarai and JayPac, congratulations on reaching the finals. Commander Erika asked me to deliver this message 'Lets both do our best in the finals.'" she said.
"Ah well, if it wasn't for our great tactician here, we would've been wiped out." Jay said.
"I've also been asked to seek permission to take the prisoners of Pravda." She said. Jay looked at her and laughed.
"I'm sorry about his behavior, but I reject your request!" Miho replied.
"Di...ditto!" Jay laughed out.
"What?"
"The rights to the prisoners belong with the winners. And that would be us, Ooarai and JayPac." She said, with a serious expression.
"Besides, y'all did jack shit to help us out in this match!" Jay added. "So eat that, sauerkraut." He calmed down and stood next to Miho. "Unless you wanna exchange fire now…" Soon all the boys were looking at her and just standing in their place, menacingly. She nodded and headed back to Kuromorimine.
"Confident bastards…" Pascal said, brining Nonna along with him.
"Hey buddy, you know she's a POW, right?" Jay asked.
"Well she's also suicidal, and i'm gonna use every precaution to prevent that." He replied. Jay just shrugged it off and turned back to Miho.
"That confidence is gonna get them killed, you know." Cody said, and the group of boys began talking.
"I haven't about it yet have I? About the real reason i quit Sensha-dou." Miho said.
"Wasn't it because of the abuse at the prison camp?" Momo asked.
"No, that was painful but…" Jay was listening now.
"But what?" He asked, getting the other to take the conversation somewhere else.
"It was pain that wasn't caused by me. If you cry from pain, the moment you stop you'll be happy again." Jay looked at her confused.
"The real reason was because i saw it...what my old school was doing during those 9 year domination...I found out about the screams and the smell…"
I know that most of you are wondering why i decided to write a fanfic about a Doujin based on well, Yukiyukite senshado. Well, ill give a short answer. I started reading that and since i already had two other JPHS stories, i thought the third one should be something different. So I thought Why not? And my immagination ran wild.
untli next time, Panzer vor!