CHAPTER 4: Burning Dog

Burning Dog
May 22 1945, 0730 hours
501st JFW Base, Pescara, Romagna

When the morning alarm was sound off, all of the personel in the base do their usual activities. Sanya returned to the base from a night duty and parked her Striker Unit in the hangar. And like usual, she went to Eila's room to sleep, thinking that she was in her own room. Gertrude went around the base and stopped and took a peek in every room that occupied. She was surprised and also glad because the rooms that occupied by the Curtis Wilbur's crews were mostly empty without someone there. She thought that they must be do their recent activities and she also hope that more soldiers she meet would be at least discipline like them. She later entered one of the room that occupied by her fellow Karsland witch to woke up the lazy ass(You must be know who is it).

In the Hangar, Shirley was checked her P-51 Mustang model Striker like usual. In her thought that she want her Striker be as fast as the Strikers in the Curtis Wilbur's crews world while Luchinni was asleep, using her country flag as the blanket. Minna did her daily desk work in her office. She stared outside from the windows toward the cave under the base, where they hid the USS Curtis Wilbur. Minna still remembered when she told General Eisenhower about this. The General was surprised about this but willing to help them to keep low profile. The Commander sighed and continued her desk work.

James inspected the ship with his best companion, Rin. Most of the crews were just chatting or having their coffee in the dining hall of the ship. Carlos and Daniel were sat in the reactor room with some of the crews. They all talked in Spanish because majority of the engineers were Mexican-American.

In the base yard, Mio, Yoshika, Lynette, and Perrine did their usual 'Spartan' training. She told her girls to run for 20 laps around the base. But however, after ten laps of running, the girls almost passed out. Mio barked at them, ordering them to stand up but they can't. Then, Faisal and the members of the VBSS team ran passed them while sang a cadence.

"Hooyah!-Hey!-Hooyah!-Hey-Hooyah!-Hey!-Hooyah!
Hey!-Hooyah!-Hey! Hey! Hey!
One!
Sixty-two!
Feeling good!
How about you?
Fired up!
Motivate!
Dedicate!
Hoo-yah!
A-ha!
Hoo-yah!
A-aha!"

The girls were shocked because those guys have been running before them but they didn't even shows any sign of fatigue.

"Damn it, they're….too strong….I wonder what…they ate at….home," Perrine said with her voice trembling because of the exhausted. Yoshika and Lynette were too weak to say a word.

"It's because they keep training. A useless piece of metal can become a sharp knife if it frequently trained," Mio said. The Gallian witch saw Erwin grinned at her which she assumes he mocked her. She glared at the boy and got up to run again and passed the VBSS but she collapsed several minutes later. Mio laughed after watching Perrine became like this while Faisal kept running and sang another cadence.

"I had a dog his name was blue
Blue wanna join the Navy too
So, I bought him a swim mask and four tiny fins
And I told him to the ocean and I threw him in
Blue came back to my surprise
With a shark in his mouth and a gleam in his eyes"

After the training, they took a rest before went back to the dining hall for breakfast.

In the dining hall of the USS Curtis Wilbur, mostly of the crews were ate their breakfast. Some of the witches of the 501st also invited to the ship. "Wow, this is delicious!", Lynette said after tasted the food.

Yoshika was talk less because she really enjoyed her meal. After finished it she asked some of the crews, "Thanks for the meal. By the way who made this?"

"It's not other than our master chef, Bayu and Larry," Carlos paused before continued his word. "Well you know, everyone in this ship were too lazy to cook their shit up, except for the cook of course" the other were nodded. No one got angered by his word because it was true!

After finished her meal, Perrine stared at James who drank a can of Coca Cola and asked him, "Hey Commander, I want to ask something. Did in your world the witches were replaced by the male…I mean wizards?" This attracted everyone attention.

James gave a cough before replied. "Well, you see. Many of the crews in this ship are witches. Most of us were volunteers. The witches may enter service if they wanna fight. They can be placed in the fronts and serve in position they fit the most, except for one."

"Except for what?"

"Special Operation Wizard, or also known as Tier Zero, which like its name, only accept wizard. Several VBSS members were part of them, but for their secrecy, I can't tell you."

"Why they didn't accept witch?" Perrine asked, thinking that whoever create that policy must be a sexist.

"You see? SOW don't accept witch because of many reasons, like muscle's strength, toilet, menstruation cycle, and more importantly, those guys do the most dangerous and risky mission which if failed can cause the entire team to be captured and forced to open their mouth. There is high possibility that if the one who captured is witch, she could be raped," James replied with nods from the female sailors.

Lynette sighed in relieve. "So, that's the reasons…I almost thought it's like him."

"Whom?" The commander asked back.

"Some months ago, Air Force Marshall Trevor Maloney tried to replace the witches with the Warlock but it become rogue and attacked the aircraft carrier Akagi. He and his man managed to escape and became the MI6 and OSS most wanted," Lynette explained, shocking and angering the sailors.

"What?! He tried to disband your unit?!" One of the witch asked in disbelieved

"If I know that person, I swear I'll kick his ass!" One of the wizards said with fully angered tone.

"Yeah, I agree with you! I will not let that son of a bitch alive!" The other wizard said.

"Hey, stay calm guys," James said while clapped his hand twice. Everyone stopped talking. "Okay, we don't know who the hell is this Maloney and we also didn't has business with him. So, we must stay frosty as long as we are here. You got that?" Everyone nodded and he continued his word. "Well, I only hope he don't know about us otherwise I'm afraid that he'll stole our technology and since he is included in the shit list, you're clear to fuck him. Understood?"

"Aye sir!" Everyone said energetically. The commander turned his gaze to the witches.

"If you want to know why they don't disband the witches, it's because we need more volunteers with magic powers no matter what their genders are and witches are free to enter service if they want to and we won't discriminated her with the wizard. Also, this ship can't work properly without witches' or wizards' magic. In short wizard and witch have a strong bond and need each other. You all understand?"

The witches nodded. They were glad because even they has wizard that can replace the witches, they still keep the witches in service. They later saw Erwin entered the room in his grey service uniform while stretched.

"Hey Erwin, where are Fish and the other? I thought you were with them," James asked.

Erwin shrugged before replied, "They are in the hot spring, why?"

"Hot spring?"

In the hot spring, Bayu, Larry, Faisal, and the rest of the VBSS were took a bath. "Ugghhh, I feel like I haven't take a bath for a century," Bayu said while leaned his head down.

"Well, I wondered why you're smells like J Lo's pussy," Larry said whilst chuckling.

"How do you know about J Lo's pussy smells like?"

"Because I've licked it before," Bayu and several VBSS members gave him a surprised look. "Nah, I'm just kidding my man."

Bayu only snorted and turned his gaze to Faizal who only sat motionlessly. "Major, is this okay? I mean we take a bath in the girl's bathroom. I'm afraid if the girls will enter this place when we are here," he asked.

"Don't worry. I've talk with Commander Minna. She said we can use the Hot spring in eleven hundred until thirteen hundred and nineteen hundred to two one hundred when the girls don't use it," he explained. Some minutes later he stood up and covered his lower body with a towel. "Okay gentlemen, break time out! Meet me in that ancient building in 15 minutes, understood!"

"Hoo-yah!" The VBSS said in unison.

A 4 men VBSS fireteam descended from the rooftop of the ancient building with ropes. Upon reaching the base floor, they unslung weapons. The Pointman, Bayu tapped Larry's shoulder and marched forward. Larry did the same thing to the VBSS member behind him. They then stopped beside a doorless entrance. After Bayu tossed a dummy flashbang inside, he shouted "Go!" before marched inside.

In reflect, he fired on the wooden target placed inside whilst trying to avoid civilian casualties. His other teammates followed in and dropped the remaining target. After the last one had been shot, Erwin shouted. "Clear!"

They then slowly moved to a passage inside the room. As they marched through, Bayu stopped and raised his hand. "Trip wire," He whispered and walked very carefully to not tripped on the trip wire. In a matter of seconds after Bayu passed the last trip wire, two hostile leaped from the cover.

"Contact front!" Bayu shouted, firing the hostile on the right while the left one fired on his comrade. Larry almost tripped on the trip wire in surprise but managed to evade the fire. He pulled the trigger on his Mk18 CQBR paintball replica twice, both hitting his target on the head.

However, their simulation exercise was interrupted when the alarm went off. Faisal who played the role of the hostile stood up from his pretend death and contacted the bridge. "Fish to Bridge, what is happening?" The Major asked.

"Commander Minna reported there is a Neuroi attack! The captain ordered every officer to the briefing room!" The sailors inside the Bridge said.

"Roger that, out!" Faisal replied before looked to his men. "Exercise terminated! Let's move!" All of them ran to the briefing room without bother to change their gears. The Strike Witches and Some of the Curtis Wilbur's crews were already there. They took a sit before Minna started the briefing.

"Listen up, we got a situation! A Ju-52 that transported Flying Officer Ursula Hartmann and the other Karlslander scientist has been shut down by the Neuroi in the north of this base, somewhere here," She explained before marked a circle in the map.

"W-w-what Ursula has been…", Erica said in disbelieved.

"Yes, we will launch a Combat Search and Rescue mission to rescue them but frankly 5 Neuroi bombers and some drones were reported coming from the north. So, we must organize. Mio, Barkhorn, Hartmann, and Yeager will engage the Neuroi while Sanya, Eila, and I will stay in base, in case something happened. Miyafuji, Bishop, and Perrine will scout and engage all Neuroi that got close to the crash site. for the CSAR team."

"Any questions?" She asked, but no one raised their hands. Minna nodded and continued her word. "Okay let's continue. Land Neuroi also spotted enrouted to our position. Some of the Romagnan, Karsland, and Liberion soldier and land witches are ready to help us and for the USS Curtis Wilbur, will be briefed by Commander Hopper," she said before nodded to James who stood near her.

"Thanks for the time, Wing Commander", he said to her and turned his gaze to his crews. "Okay, listen up. I'll be divide the CSAR team into several groups. Alpha will consist of First Sergeant Bayu Miyafuji and Chief Petty Officer Larry Bishop. Your objective is to recon and find the crash site and clear every Neuroi near it", He paused and stared at Bayu who nodded his head.

He continued. "The second unit is Bravo team. I'll be in charge of this unit. Our objective is to draw the Tank Neuroi's attention away from the others team with the support from the Romagnan, Liberion, and Karsland Army. And the last one is Terra 61. It will be consisted of the SH-60B Seahawk aboard our ship. The objective is to extract all survivor mainly our HVI, Flying Officer Ursula Hartmann. Commander Rei Nagato will be in command of the Curtis Wilbur. The ship will assist the Strike Witches in dealing with the Air Neuroi. If this failed, fall back to this base. Remember, they have some kind of laser weapon that can evaporate you if you got hit. Question?" He asked all of them but no one answered.

"So, they intend to turn you two into suicide squad?" Erwin whispered to Bayu and Larry.

"We've already became a suicide squad when we signed that contract," Bayu reminded his friend.

He continued, "Okay, get ready in 15 Mikes! dismissed!" He finished the briefing.

All of them rushed out from the room. Some of them wore their Combat uniform and take their weapons and whatever supplies that they can carry. Majority of the crews got HK416, M4A1, or 12 gauge shotgun. Larry and Bayu both respectively brought the SR-25 and SS2-V5. Bayu also took his machete while Larry bring an . He also took a Javelin and sling it to his back. He also attached an M203 under his SS2. Meanwhile Larry holstered his SIG Sauer P226R. Once they got armed they moved to the hangar where the witches waited for them.

"Alright peoples, like I said during the briefing. Alpha team will move first with the Rabbit while the Bravo will take the Jeeps and Trucks with the Army. Terra 61 will move after we say clear. Check weapons and ammo!" James said. Everyone checked their supplies. "Lock and load!"

Larry took one of the SdKfz 2 'Rabbit' half-track motorcycle there. Without thinking anymore, Bayu embarked at the back of the rabbit. "Well, looks like we are back into action again! Just like old times!" He said before push the throttle.

"Yeah, happy birthday bitch! Hope you didn't get shot in the face!" He replied while checked his Assault Rifle. The rabbit leaved the entrance gate.

James chuckled after seeing how close those two are. Some peoples even mistook them as gays. Well granted because everyone notice how homoerotic the SOW are. He turned to his subordinates. "Alright peoples, let's get the jeeps and truck running!" They embarked the truck and jeeps and drove it to the crash site with the Romagnan Army vehicles behind them. The witches took off from the airstrip and flew to the Neuroi location.

Meanwhile in the USS Curtis Wilbur's reactor room, the engineers turned on the reactor. Almost all of them have animal ears and tail because the reactor need magic for working.

"All weapons activated, sir," One of the witch said.

"Shield is in 100%, sir," The other witch reported.

A huge magic circle later appeared around the ship made some of the base mechanic and volunteers surprised. "All engines activated, sir," one of the wizard said.

Carlos nodded his head and contacted the bridge. "Bridge, Engineering, the ship is ready for action sir!" Inside the hangar, some of the crews were busy to arms the Seahawk.

Larry and Bayu were moved toward the crash site. Larry later contacted James, "Alpha to Bravo, moving to crash site, over!"

"Alpha, this is Bravo, understood! Proceed to objective!" After the transmission ended, Bayu asked Larry who concentrated to drive the Rabbit.

"Larry, slow down! You didn't have a driving license!"

"If not what will you do? Arrest me?"

Suddenly, a laser fired and missed some centimeters away from them. "What the-"

"Neuroi, 100 meters, north east!" Bayu shouted.

"This is Alpha, we are taking fire! Engaging now!" He shouted in the Radio before unslung the Javelin. "Keep steady!"

"I'm trying!" Larry said, tried to control the half-track motorcycle.

They both saw the Neuroi and stunned because it more like a giant crab than a tank. Bayu shook his head and locked the Neuroi. "Lock on target!" After finally locked the Neuroi, he pulled the trigger. The Neuroi destroyed in one hit. "Bravo, we have destroyed a Neuroi, how copy?"

"Solid copy, Alpha. Just make sure you don't get laser bullets in your ass, out"

They saw some Neuroi drones fly above them but before it fired, sounds of machine gun fired were heard and the Neuroi got destroyed.

They later heard Yoshika's voice. "Alpha, this is Yoshika. We got multiple drones Neuroi contacts near the crash site but rest assured, we'll give you some cover!"

"Understood, Yoshika. Keep us updated, out!", Bayu replied. He stared above and saw Yoshika flied past them. Then they heard machine gun and laser fire replied to each other.

"Alpha, we've got you covered!" Lynette said.

"Solid copy, girls. Thanks for the assist!" Bayu replied. They later saw a stray Neuroi tank open fired at them. Larry managed to evade it but he lost his control on the rabbit and hit a tree. The tank Neuroi were closing in and ready to fire at them. But before it can, a rocket barrage hit the Neuroi, exposing its core. Larry quickly drew his P226R and destroyed the core.

He later saw his friend got trapped under the rabbit and pushed the rabbit away from him and pulled his hand. "You okay?" He asked.

The sergeant moaned. "I think I break my bones." They heard someone call them in Karsland/Germany accent.

"Hey, over here!" They turned around and saw some man armed with MP-40 and Panzershreck. The two then ran toward them.

The survivors saw the two boys got up and ran toward them. The boys seemed too young to become soldiers. But not only that, they also wore weird camouflage uniforms, making them hard to be seen in long range. They also held some weird weapons they've never seen before. The survivors told them to follow them.

Once they get to the crash site one of them who wore a skull patterned scarf and looks like Fusoan introduce himself. "I'm First Sergeant Bayu Miyafuji working with the Strike Witches and…" He pointed to the Liberion boy near him with his thumb. "This is my partner, Chief Petty Officer Larry Bishop. We are here to evacuate you out from here," he said in military tone. The survivors were glad after they heard that they come here to evacuate them. The Fusoan boy turned to Ursula who also in that place. "Flying Officer Ursula Hartmann?" He asked.

Ursula nodded her head, "Yes, but how did you-"

He quickly contacted someone with his intercoms. "Bravo, This is Alpha. We found the crash site and got a positive ID on Ursula Hartmann but some of the survivors were injured. Requesting MEDIVAC, over"

"Solid copy, Alpha. Defend the crash site at all costs! Contacting Terra now!"

"Wilco!" Bayu said, he turned to them. "Alright, the rescue Helo is coming to our location. We need to defend this position until they arrived," He said in loud tone, so all of them could hear it.

Ursula was confused, "Helo?"

Larry let out a sigh. "The short for helicopter. It's some kind of transport plane that can take off and landing vertically. We will explain this later." All of them nodded. They took some cover behind the tree and the Junker's wreck. Bayu ran toward the cockpit where the pilot and co-pilot got injured. He summoned his familiar and healed the co-pilot.

"What?! You are…" the pilot said in shocked tone. The co-pilot only grunted in pain. However, the survivor didn't see this because they were busy at dealing with the Neuroi.

Not far from there, the Bravo team and the Allied forces soldier opened fire at the Neuroi distract the Neuroi's attention away from the crash site. "GIVE THEM HELL!" James shouted whilst firing his M4A1 into several infantry type Neuroi.

In the air, the Strike Witches have a fierce dogfight with the Neuroi. Erica and Shirley were chasing and destroy the drones. Mio and Trude fought the large type Neuroi with the USS Curtis Wilbur support. Meanwhile, not far from the crash site, Lynette fired at a large type Neuroi with her Boys Anti-Tank Riffle with Perrine covered her back. Yoshika engaged the smaller Neuroi which tried to sneak into the crash site.

The Curtis Wilbur fired two missiles at a Neuroi bomber. One of the missiles destroyed by the laser but the other one hit it, exposing the Core. Lynette quickly aimed at the core and fired. "Target destroyed!" Perrine said.

Meanwhile, several miles away from there. Trude rained a Neuroi with both of her MG42s. Mio then pulled her Reppumaru. "Reppuzan!" She shouted, slicing the unfortunate Neuroi.

Erica, who was in rage after her sister's plane was shut down destroyed another Large Neuroi with her barrel roll ability. "Sturm!"

"Nice one, Hartmann!" Shirley shouted from distance, as she evaded the Neuroi's attack in high speed.

Unfortunately, a drone managed to sneak behind Yoshika, using its stealth and fired at her. Yoshika managed to evade but the laser hit her machine gun's mag, causing it to exploded and wounded her. "Argghhh!" Yoshika yelled as she fell to the forest below.

"Miyafuji!" Perrine shouted at her.

Meanwhile, in the crash site all of the survivor open fire at the Infantry Neuroi. The Neuroi were looks like a human except for its body color were all black while the riffles were red. Larry fired his SR-25 at the Neuroi while Bayu got to cover before Lynette yelled on the intercoms. "Yoshika-chan is down!"

Bayu stopped firing and gasped. "What? Yoshika is…" "Lynette, I have the healing magic! Point me to her location ASAP! Perrine defend her crash site!"

"U-understood!" Lynette yelled before flew toward Bayu's position. "Wait for me Yoshika-chan, I'll protect you!"

"D'accord!" Perrine yelled in French/Gallian before blocked another laser fired toward Yoshika. She then activated her lightning attack ability. "Tonnerre!"

Bayu nodded and told Larry. "Larry, cover me! I'll search for Yoshika," he said while take a fresh mag to his Assault Rifle.

"What?! Are you out of your mind?!"

"Just do the fucking order, Chief Bishop!" He said before noticed Lynette hovered above him, waving her hand before flew away to the west. Bayu followed after her. He tossed a frag grenade and killed some Infantry Neuroi. He kept follow until he saw Yoshika's unconscious body lay in the ground. "Yoshika, you okay?" He said while kneeled near her body.

"Ba...yu?" She moaned, gaining her consciousness.

"Thank God. Don't worry," Bayu healed her wounds until it stopped bleeding."First aid healing finished. I'll take you out from here," He carried her to the transport aircraft's crash site. "Chessboard! We will coming from the west! Give me some covering fire! Lyne, Perrine, protect our back!"

"Solid copy!" Larry said in the intercoms before firing continuously in semi-auto.

"Roger!" Perrine and Lynette replied in unison, firing another shots to the drones.

Bayu kept running toward the crash site whilst carrying Yoshika. He evaded all of the Neuroi's fire but one of the laser bullets hit his right hand. He grunted a bit but kept running. Yoshika saw a Neuroi tried to snipe them from behind the cover. She quickly reacted by pulling Bayu's G2 Elite from his holster.

He finally arrived at the crash site and gently placed her in the ground.

One of the soldiers who seem to be the paramedic checked her. He finally looked at the Bayu with concerned voice. "Sorry but I don't have enough kit to heal her", he said.

"Don't worry, I can fix this", The Indonesian wizard said. His hands covered by blue light and his familiar appeared. This made all of them except Larry shocked.

"A male witches?!" Ursula gasped in fully surprised tone. They later interrupted by the sound of laser bullet fire. They ran to the cover and open fire at the Neuroi.

Larry noticed a shell-shocked Karlsland soldier, probably were the same age as him ducked down with a Panzerfaust in his hand. "Hand me that Panzerfaust!" The Karlslander stared at him, dumbfounded. "Quick!"

He tossed the launcher toward Larry who used it to aimed at one of the Tank Neuroi and fired. The Neuroi destroyed but there was no rocket left.

After dropping the empty Panzerfaust, he contacted James, "Bravo, This is Alpha. We got pinned down by the Neuroi. Requesting immediate EVAC, over."

"Sorry Alpha but Terra isn't a jet striker. They will arrive at 15 minutes," James replied in the intercoms.

"Fuck, we can't hold this much longer!" he said while jumping out from cover and fired his rifle.

"Dammit, Okay…okay sit tight, son. We are moving to your location! ETA 10 mikes! Bravo out!" The American Commander said, ending the transmission.

Larry saw some Neuroi drones open fire at them from above. He quickly raised his shield and blocked all of the laser attack. The survivors were gasped after saw another male witch. After that, he raised and fired his sniper rifle, ripped those Neuroi apart.

Bayu was still focused to heal Yoshika. He saw a Tank Neuroi Appeared from behind. He quickly picked up his Assault Rifle with his right hand while his left hand healed Yoshika's wounds. His right hand was trembling after got a shot early. But before he fired the Neuroi got critically damaged by an electric shock. "That must be.."

He saw Erwin ran from cover toward the damaged Neuroi. His right hand was covered by lightning sparks. "Gledek!" he shouted while sliced the Neuroi into two parts with his right hand. It exploded into thousands snowflake. He turned his gaze to the fellow Indonesian Wizard. "You okay?" Bayu nodded and continued heal Yoshika. Later some Truck that loaded the soldiers appeared followed by several land witches with Panzer IV and Sherman strikers.

James disembarked the truck and ran toward Bayu who still healed Yoshika.

"You alright?" he asked.

"Yes sir, thanks to Bayu-kun," Yoshika nodded.

James nodded and approached one of the survivors who looks like Erica. "Are you Flying Officer Ursula Hartmann?" He asked.

"Yes I am, but who are you?" she asked back.

"I'm Commander James Hopper, the CO of USS Curtis Wilbur. Nice to meet you, Flying Officer", he said while extended his hand.

"Nice to meet you too, Commander," She said whilst shaking his hand. After the handshake, they saw the Romagnan, Liberion, and Karsland soldiers lifting some of the survivor to the truck while the UNCF crews and the witches take a defensive position and open fired at the Neuroi. Some minutes later, they saw the survived Land Neuroi got hit by a missile, destroying all of them.

"This is Terra 61. CASEVAC has arrived. Sorry for the delay," Someone said in the radio. They stared above and saw the Seahawk hovered and landed vertically near them.

"So, that is the aircraft you called helicopter, right?" Ursula asked Larry.

"Yeah," He simply replied.

They lifted all remaining survivor to the Seahawk. But however, the Seahawk were overloaded, forcing the survivor who weren't heavily wounded to evacuate by jeep and truck.

Bayu tried to carry Yoshika but she gently pushed him. "Don't worry, I can walk," Yoshika said as stood up, smiling to him. "Thank you!" He replied by grinned to her. Both of them then mounted the truck. Larry was still busy planting the C4 before the driver, the only female VBSS called him.

"Larry get back here! 'Coz once I once I step the gas, I'm not stopping!" The black short-haired witch shouted to him.

"Fuck you, Imaizu!" Larry said before he finished planting the C4.

The Helo took off and headed back to the Base. "Strike Witches, this is Commander Minna. The survivor has been evacuated. Mission complete, Return to Base!" Minna said in transmission.

Larry quickly jumped to the back of the truck. The truck accelerated up on the bumpy road, causing him to accidentally pressed the button detonated the C4 and the transport aircraft exploded sky high. But fortunately, the convoy was far from the crash site.

The Strike Witches were flying in arrowhead formation, protecting the Seahawk from all side.

After several minutes of flight, the Helo landed in front of the main building. The base medic and guards brought stretchers toward the Seahawk.

The members of the CSAR team from the Curtis Wilbur returned to the base with trucks and jeeps and celebrated their victory.

"That was awesome! Did you see Larry? He almost blew ourselves!" Iria exclaimed, glancing to Larry mischievously.

"Yeah, thanks to your driving!" Larry retorted.

The witches meanwhile were dumbfounded by the act of the sailors. Well, they surely had never seen how regular soldiers celebrate.

Both Yoshika and Lynette giggled while Perrine groaned at those guys childish act. Suddenly, Iria appeared out of nowhere and hugged the three witches from behind.

"Waaa!" They yelped.

Iria exclaimed loudly. "Yo, did you see our Joker? He was fucking rock! He rained thunder on those Neuroi! Roar, roar, roar! He saved our asses!"

"Yes, he did, he did!" Larry said as he pulled Erwin's face to his crotch. The Indonesian wizard pushed the American away from him.

"Get off me! That ain't no fun!" He yelled angrily, causing the other to silence. "If it goes a little different, we could have all got killed today."

Everyone then laughed and started hitting his helmet.

"Don't pet a burning dog," An orange haired SEAL Petty Officer and also a VBSS member, Chris Patrick said.

"We sure pet one didn't we?" Bayu replied to him.

"Mhm," He replied as Bayu walked to Yoshika.

The Kopaska wizard asked. "Yoshika, are you alright?" Yoshika was about to reply yes until she saw the large cut on his left arm.

"Bayu-kun, your arm!" She yelled worriedly. Several of the sailors looked to their direction

"It's nothing but scratch. It'll heal itself," He replied reassuringly.

"Well, well, well, looks like the Princess is worried about her knight in shining armor," Larry commented, causing Yoshika to blush. Bayu then marched toward Larry while glared. "No check that, 'her knight...in BDU which smells like November Juliet," Bayu then hit him with his rifle's buttstock which Larry blocked. "Fuck!"

Both boys wrestled around, pushing each other. Larry won the pushing contest and pushed Bayu away, accidentally to Yoshika.

"Whoa!" Bayu crashed on top of Yoshika. Both groaned before opening their eyes. Yoshika saw Bayu's face only a few centimeters away from her. The people around them silenced themselves and stared.

Bayu opened his eyes and noticed his right hand was on her breast. "Kuso!" He quickly stood up and looked away, blushing. His friends cheered and whistled to him. He glared to them as Yoshika stood up. Her eyes were obscured by her hairs. "Ano...Yoshi-" Before he finished, she broke to run.

"Yoshika-chan!"

Lynette yelled before running after her. Perrine followed.

"Miyafuji!"

Bayu was dumbfounded on why she ran away, but he knew that has something to do with him grabbing her breast. And he regretted it.

"Hey Bayu, my man," The blonde wizard patted his best friend's shoulder.

"Don't touch me!" Bayu yelled, pushing him away.

"That's an accident, buddy. She will understand," Larry replied before sighed. "If someone must be blamed, that's me," Both of them exchanged stares before smiled and bumped their fists.

Yoshika's closed the door of her room, panting heavily. The Fusoan Sergeant leaned on the door and slided down to the floor. She hugged her legs and closed her teary eyes. "Why I was running away?" She felt that her heart was beating faster than usual. That time when Bayu saved her and stared her in her eyes replied like a broken disk in her mind. "What is this strange feeling?" She asked herself.

May 22nd 2017, 23:00
Ionian sea, Italy

In the night sky above the Ionian Sea, a young wizard flew alone. He wielded a Russian made machine gun, PKP Pecheneg and piloted a prototype Sukhoi PAK-FA model striker. He wore a green flight suit with Russian flag printed his right arm and on his left arm was a patch of head of a wolf which seems to be roared to the starry sky in the other arm. On the patch he was wearing, there was also words '108th Joint Tactical Fighter' above and word 'Warwolf' under the patch. His silver hair gently swayed as the winds blew it. He also wore a tactical vest to protect his body and hold his ammo. The 'radar' on his head kept searching for any intruders in the airspace. He heard someone contacting him in the intercoms.

"Warwolf 3 to Warwolf 4, joining formation," He stared to the left and saw a wizard with same uniform like him closing in. Unlike him, this wizard used the new brand MiG-35. He also has the same silver hair, but his eyes which closed by visor were purples instead of blue. He flew next to him. "Did you find anything, Sergei?" The boy with the 4+++ Generation Jet Striker, Major Alexi Tachibana asked.

First Lieutenant Sergei Tachibana only shook his head. They both kept silent until Alexi broke it.

"Hey Sergei, can you track something in the radio? I'm kinda bored by just hearing you humming a random song," He said. Sergei tracked some frequencies and a song sung by the Red Army Choir played on their radio.

Polyushko-pole,
polyushko, shiroko pole,
Edut po polyu geroi,
Eh, da krasnoj armii geroi.

Devushki, glyan'te,
Glyan'te na dorogu nashu,
V'yotsya dal'nyaya doroga,
Eh, da razvesyolaya doroga.

"Brat," Sergei said clumsily as he lowered his head. "I want to go home…"

"Hmmm?" His brother was taken aback by his words.

"I want to finish this war quickly so we can see Mama and Babushka again," Sergei said in very low tone. But Alexi managed to understand what he said.

"We will, after we avenge Papa, and the Motherland," Alexi said, patting his younger brother on his head. The grim scene when the AWWB raided his home city, Volgograd replayed in his mind. The screeching bombs, the burning houses, the massacres, and the time when their father died after bomb hit their house. Alexi was only 12 then while Sergei was 10. That was ten year after the planet fall when the AWWB which formed by many desperate falling nations which taken over by the extremist, aiming to rule the world.

Both Alexi and Sergei joined the Russian Air Force for revenge. Both quickly became the Russian greatest aces and scored over a hundred kills. They were nicknamed the 'Медведь и Волк Москвы' or Bear and Wolf of Moscow' after they defeated the AWWB Mage aces in the dogfight above Moscow during its Siege which in the aftermath, they along with the then Major William Bishop and Captain Alice Margatroid formed the 108th Joint Tactical Fighter.

Alexi then awoke himself from his 'day' dreaming and continued to listen to the song.

Devushki, glyan'te,
Mi vraga prinyat' gotovy,
Nashi koni bystronogi,
Eh, da nashi tanki bystrokhodny.

Aaaaakkhhhh…..Aaaaakkhhhh…..

Nashi koni bystronogi!
Eh, da nashi tanki bystrokhodny!

Eh, pust' zhe v kolkhoze
Druzhnaya kipit rabota,
Mi dozornye segodnya,
Eh, da mi segodnya chasovye.

Devushki, gliantye,
Devushki, utritye slyozy!
Pust' po silnyeye grianyem pyesnyu,
Ey, da nasha pyesnya boyevaya.

Polyushko-pole,
polyushko, shiroko pole,
Edut po polyu geroi,
Eh, da krasnoj armii geroi.

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