Hello everyone! This is Codename 'KodokSangar' of the Indonesian Armed Forces – Navy, reporting back for duty! Sorry for the very very late update, I've been busy because of the Scouting Movement (Pramuka) Program and doing my other stories and fanfic.
If you know about Zipang series, please read my newest Kancolle story, 'Kantai Collection: The Future Begins'. I've also written another original story in Fictionpress titled 'Eclipse: The Knight in Green'. That story almost looks like 'Gate' manga –the crossover of Fantasy RPG and Real-life military FPS-, but there will be no tank and other armor and chopper in the first chapter.
Oh, I almost forget! This is to ship roosters of the 5th UNCF Fleet, it might be useful someday,
- JDS Akagi (Nimitz CVN)
- RNS Admiral Kuznetsov (Kuznetsov CV)
- USS Bonhomme Richard (Wasp LHD) (Sunk)
- KRI Banda Aceh (Makassar LPD)
- JDS Ise (Hyuuga DDH)
- USS Vicksburg (Ticonderoga CG)
- USS Normandy (Ticonderoga CG)
- JDS Musashi (Musashi CG (based on Ticonderoga CG))*
- RNS Admiral Petr Velikiy (Kirov BCG)
- RNS Admiral Varyag (Slava CG)
- USS Nathan James (Arleigh Burkhe DDG)*
- USS Sampson (Arleigh Burkhe DDG)
- USS Gridley (Arleigh Burkhe DDG)
- USS John Paul Jones (Arleigh Burkhe DDG)
- USS Curtis Wilbur (Arleigh Burkhe DDG) (MIA)
- RNS Admiral Chabanenko (Udaloy II DD)
- RNS Marshal Shaposhnikov (Udaloy I DD)
- JDS Kongo (Kongou DDG)
- JDS Kirishima (Kongou DDG) (Sunk)
- JDS Atago (Atago DDG)
- JDS Shimakaze (Hatakaze DDG)
- JDS Inazuma (Murasame DD)
- JDS Ikazuchi (Murasame DD)
- JDS Samidare (Murasame DD)
- JDS Akebono (Murasame DD)
- USS Freedom (Freedom LCS)
- USS Thach (Oliver Hazard Perry FFG)
- USS Gary (Oliver Hazard Perry FFG)
- JDS Jintsuu (Abukuma DE/FF)
- JDS Naka (Abukuma DE/FF)
- JDS Sendai (Abukuma DE/FF)
- JDS Tone (Abukuma DE/FF)
- KRI Ahmad Yani (Ahmad Yani FFG)
- KRI Slamet Riyadi (Ahmad Yani FFG)
- KRI John Lie (Bung Tomo FFL) (Sunk)
- KRI Ngurah Rai (RE Marthadinata FFG)
- USS Seawolf (Seawolf SSN)
- USS Dallas (Los Angeles SSN)
- USS Chicago (Los Angeles SSN)
- JDS Soryu (Soryu SS)
- JDS Hiryu (Soryu SS) (MIA)*
- RNS Yuriy Dolgorukiy (Borei SSBN)
- RNS Vilyuchinsk (Oscar II SSGN)
- RNS Tomsk (Oscar II SSGN)
*= fictional
About semperfi9988's question, I think I will add the striker version of ASF-X Shinden II near the last Arc of this story. Guess who will be the one who piloted that amazing fighter.
And by the way, expect the unexpected in this chapter. Enough talking, let's continue!
CHAPTER 8: HUNTER KILLER
Hunter Killer
June 5th 1945, 1850 hours
Unknown Place
Bayu was still sat beside the brig's cell with his back on the wall. He just starred at the floor lifelessly. Since the unknown Karsland soldiers kidnapped him and his friends, he always waited for his friends to arrive as he glanced several times at his watches.
He looked at his surround. Yoshika and Lynette were sleeping on his left. Both of them leaned at each other and slept soundlessly. Larry sat in front of him with his arms crossed. His eyes were closed and his head a bit nudged downwards. Bayu couldn't tell if Larry was sleeping or just closed his eyes.
"How long have we been here?" Larry suddenly asked with his eyes still closed.
The Kopaska Operator looked on his watches. "I don't know. Probably almost 20 hours." He sighed. "I don't think we can get out from here, bro. Even if we can, we must pay a lot of sacrifice. We can't expect a heroic Tier Zero Rescue Squad like in that Act of Valor movie," He stared at the other prisoners which most of them were witches. "And we can't forget the 'No one got left behind' policy."
"Yeah, I also don't expect it. Despite we're Tier Zero ourselves," The SEAL operator said before chuckled about his sarcastic joke.
Suddenly, Bayu kicked Larry's face very hard made he grunted in pain. His foot could easily reach Larry's face because the brig was a bit narrow. "Shut the fuck up dude or you'll break our cover!" He whispered.
"Okay! Okay!" Larry rubbed his nose which was bleeding because of the kick. "Ouch! You don't have to kick my face, pal!" Larry stared at his shoe which kicked his face. He sighed in relieve that the Imperial Fuso Navy sailors used a normal shoes instead of Boots. If Bayu still wore his cammie and Combat Boots, it seems Larry will need some plastic surgery.
"Hehehe, sorry about that," Bayu laughed nervously. But before he caught a breath, a fist hit his cheek. Bayu were sent to the floor because of the sudden attack.
"Bayu-kun!" Yoshika said with a hint of concern. Lynette confused on why they hitting each other.
Bayu just waved his hand at Yoshika and spit out blood from his mouth. "Anjing!" He cursed in low tone before chuckled. "Your punch is still hard, eh?"
"Sooo, we are par now!" Larry stated while rubbed his nose which still hurt.
Bayu just grinned at him. "No, it's not over yet!"
Larry returned the grin. "Well, if you insist, we can continue this 'cock measurement contest' after we get out from here!"
"It's impossible…" A random girl said lifelessly. Bayu starred at his back. He barely could saw the girl because of the wall that separated their brig. He only knew that the girl has black hair and in the old US Army shirt.
"Huh? What did you say?" Bayu asked in disbelieve tone.
"You can't escape from here. You'll be trapped here for the rest of your life," She said again, still in her lifeless tone.
"Fuck this!" Larry cursed as he glared directly at the girl's hair which flowing out from the brig's cell.
"Calm down, pal," Bayu calmed Larry as he stroked his shoulder. He turned back toward the girl. "Of course, there must be a way! But we must pay a lot of sacrifice and struggle for it! Or else my oldman will not forgive me if I die here!" He said.
"So, you want to sacrifice all of us just to get your asses out from here?" She said again in the same lifeless voice, but packed with annoyance.
"What's your problem, Bitch?!" Larry got pissed and shouted at the witch. "Do you think that there will be some sort of a fucking knight dude in shining armor riding a donkey come here and save all of your asses?! No! So, we must get out from this shithole, as soon as possible! You understand me, miss…"
"Annabelle. My name's Annabelle." The girl now known as Annabelle said.
"Look, Annabelle-san. Even if you helped all of us to get out from here but failed and ended die, you're die for saving the others." Bayu said to her. "Maybe the government can't do anything except for give you a proper burial and medal, but the one you saved will always owe you and remember you. There's no shame on that."
Annabelle didn't say anything and kept silent, forcing both the Frogman wizards to shut themselves. Both of them sat in front of Lynette and Yoshika. Larry gritted his teeth and tightened his fist. "Damn them all! What the hell did those assholes did to demoralize those poor girls?!"
"I don't sure. But the most important thing is that we must get out from here." Bayu whispered.
Larry nodded. "Yes, but it will be difficult to do without some support from outside. We also failed to cooperate with the other prisoners. But I think the only way we can get out from here is when they take us from this brig or…"
"…Or when they're interrogating us." Bayu continued.
Both Yoshika and Lynette were fascinated on how both the boy's knowledge about escaping. "Wow, you both are also excelled on something like this too?" Lynette asked.
Larry just smirked and nodded.
"Where do you learn such thing?" Yoshika asked with enthusiastic manner.
"Escaping was one of our savage trainings before accepted on the Special Force." Bayu replied in low tone.
"You mean…like the SAS and Ranger?" Lynette asked as she tilted her head. Yoshika was confused because she never knew about the SF forces but she kept listening.
"More like SAS rather than Ranger," Larry replied. "But that's the only think we could give you, the rest is classified," Even though both the girls are their friends, both the wizards are Spec Ops and they couldn't tell the other about their Organization. They even willed to die just to protect their secrecy.
"So, what are we going to do now, seamen?" Bayu asked in a low tone.
Larry rubbed his chin before replied. "I don't know." The other comically broke down after his reply.
June 5th 1945, 1900 hours
Adriatic Sea
It was one of the calmest nights in Adriatic Sea. The sea flowed really calm. The winds blew softly. There was no ship in the sea, except for an Arleigh Burke-class AEGIS missile destroyer, USS Curtis Wilbur.
Rei was inside the Bridge, monitoring the situation. So, he couldn't join the dinner. It was the Executive Officer's duty to take command if the Captain is absent. Maybe it was odd because it was a Japanese Officer that took command of an American warship. But the UN has been created a regulation that a highest ranking officer in a UNCF vessel from any nationality can take command of a foreign warship as long as the other officers agreed.
Inside the mess hall, many of the crews had dinner. Faizal and Erwin was ate their meal in the same table with Tara, Carlos, and Daniel. "Major, what do you think about this operation?" Erwin started by asking Faizal.
"Honestly, I don't know. I just want to save our friends life, that's all," He replied before continued eating.
Carlos took a gulp from the mineral water before said. "But, did you not feel worried, major? If we ended attacking the wrong place, we can be war criminals, you know?"
"I don't think so, Carl," Erwin replied. "Lieutenant Hasegawa's mind reading magic is always correct and never wrong. I bet, if she use that magic on you, she may know how many are your porn collection," He stated with a grin. The other laughed at his joke.
Carlos who just chuckled replied him. "Yeah, I know it. But she will not use her magic for such unnecessary thing."
Then, they ate calmly until Tara noticed something. "By the way, where's Commander Hopper? I don't see him since I got here."
"He casually got to the bathroom just before you entered the mess hall. He said that he was too smelled and needed to take a bath," Daniel said.
"Huh, it seems that dude really life without pressure, eh? He always calm and I never saw him panic, even in battle," Faizal said before cleaned his already clean mouth with a tissue.
"Yeah, he's not like Erwin who always pissing his pants just because of a small storm," Carlos said a loud caused Erwin choked.
"Hey, I'm not like that!" Erwin shouted at the Lieutenant Commander.
Meanwhile in the locker room, James stood in front of his opened locker. He removed his USS Curtis Wilber cap and placed it inside the locker room, followed by his Navy Working Uniform.
His body wasn't that muscular but it's enough to make normal girls drooling. There's almost no scratch since he always fought behind the CIC screens and bridge's glass and almost all of his kills achieved through orders, not face to face. He took his towel and headed for the bathroom.
The bathroom has many showers in the wall that surround it and a big bathtub in the center of it. The tub is big enough to hold more than 20 peoples inside it. It's just looks like a mini hot spring inside the small destroyer. Actually, the 5th UNCF Fleet was the first fleet which had hot springs in their warships. It was because the said fleet was actively joined more combats than the other fleets and most of the warships always sailing months to months and almost never touched the land.
"Ugghh, God! This is fucking good!" He said as he leaned his head on the wall. His relaxed face turned to serious when he thought about his men which being captivated by the 'Karslander'. "If this mission goes FUBAR, there's a possibility that they will take this ship from our hands. They must have been knows about her. However, we still can blow this ship with the C4, but the 501st will inconvenienced on evacuated us. We might become captives as well," He slowly raised his right hand and starred at its palm. "I must protect this ship at all costs, even if it'll take my life."
He later heard Rin's voice from outside. "Jim-chan~"
James was shocked, even the towel on his buzz cut blond hair fell to the bathtub. "R-rin?!" He said -or maybe almost shouted.
Shortly, Rin opened the bathroom door. "Yahoo~" She said as she entered the bathroom and half-raised her left hand.
"H-hey! How the hell did you opened the door?!" James shouted as he looked away from her body which was only covered by towel.
"It's not locked, you know?" She simply said. She then removed her towel, made her fully nude without anything that closed her oriental skin and B-sized breasts and of course her military dog tags.
Rin got into the bathtub and moved closer to the James who still looked away from her. The girl still smiled while closed her eyes and leaned her arm closer to James. Both their faces turned redder -mostly James.
"What do you want?" The Commander suddenly asked.
"Nothing, I just want to take a bath. That's all," She replied.
Both of them took a bath in silent, the only think can be heard was Rin's hummed. Rin noticed something wrong with James's face. It was neither a blushing nor flustered face, but it was like James thinking about something. "Jim-chan, what's wrong?"
"Uh, nothing," He replied without looking back.
Rin giggled and leaned her head at his shoulder. She then leaned her face on his ear. She even could barely hear his breath. "You're really bad at lying."
James raised his eyebrows. "Really?" He said without looking at Rin.
"Of course! We have been together since little, you know? So, I know your personality and your behavior very well," She giggled again before saying in teasing manner. "Including your interest in big breasts and older woman."
The boy scratched the back of his neck and nervously said. "You mustn't say that," But he didn't notice that Rin lowered her face.
"Tell me, Jim-chan! Why? Why did I feel there is something separating us?" It gained James attention. "Unlike when we were young, we can do anything we like together, like playing, swimming, studying, and taking a bath," She sighed heavily. "I really hope we can be kids again. We won't enter this war and can play again in Sasebo," To her surprise James took his left hand on her left shoulder. He pulled her closer to him. "J-j-jim-chan!" She said with blushing face.
"I feel the same too," He said. "But I must throw that feeling away, because of what your father said. We, the witches and wizards are our countries last defense. Beside, we promised that we would go to separates way. I joined the US Navy. You joined the JMSDF. And we will meet again under that tree after the war end," He stared directly at her eyes. "Do you remember it?"
Rin recalled the time when they made that promise. There were her and James's younger self stood under a cherry blossom. Rin said something to James which caused him to shock and bit his lower lip but he nodded. It was ended with them tied their pinkies.
Rin then nodded her head. "Yes."
James smiled at her. "Don't worry. After all of this end, we will go back to Japan and do that unfinished business."
Rin then smiled back at her childhood friend. "Okay!"
Some minutes later, all of the officers stood near a table inside the CIC, listening what the Captain said. James unfolded the island's map. "This is the map of our target base." He pulled a pen. "We will enter their territory from the south west to avoid their ship's detection from the north. And then we will stop here." He wrote an 'X' in the south of the cape. "I'll choose 7 crews that will come with me to infiltrate that place. We will enter the island by the Helo. I and 2 other crews will infiltrate the dungeon under the base to release the hostages while the rest will plant the C4s in the Naval Gun and the Anti-Air Gun. After we release the hostages, we will blow them sky high. The other crews will stay on this ship and remain vigilant. Hoo-yah?"
"Hoo-yah!" The other replied.
"For the crews that will come with me, I want Lieutenant Hasegawa to go with me. With your 'mind reading' magic, we can find the dungeon easier."
"Ryokai desu!" Rin replied.
"Major Perdanakusuma, Sergeant Hendradiningrat, and 2 other VBSS members will be the one who plant the C4s."
Faizal nodded. "Siap!"
"I need someone who has marksmanship magic and Hand-to-Hand combat expert."
"That would be me, sir!" An American witch with neck-length short chestnut hair and hazel eyes raised her hand. "I had marksmanship magic," She said as her familiar ears, Turkish Angora twitching.
"Alright, Petty Officer Michelle Bradshaw, you're in," The short Seahawk ASW officer nodded.
"So, who have been trained in advanced hand-to-hand combat?"
"I have a training sir," Carlos replied.
"What kind of hand-to-hand combat?"
"Judo."
"Okay, you're coming with me."
"Yes sir!"
James turned to Rei. "Commander Nagato, I will leave you in command of this ship."
Rei nodded. "Yes sir. All yours, sir!"
"Back to the strategy, 2 minutes before we blow their assets, the Curtis Wilbur will get out from hiding and engage the warships. Report said there are several C-class destroyers, U-boat Submarines, Agano-class light cruisers, Cleveland-class light cruiser, Fletcher-class destroyers, and Deutschland-class Heavy cruiser docked on that island." James said. The other looked at the report in the table.
"Looks like they got a shitload, eh?" Erwin said to himself.
"But remember, not all of the ships are hostiles. We will send them message about the captured witches. If they don't know about the captured witches, of course they will not attack us and send the reply. If they aren't, they must be those Kraut bastard's friends," James took a breath before continued. "Remember about the 'rules of engagements', do not fire unless fired upon. All unknown are assumed as potential hostile. We must minimize the casualties as low as possible. To minimize the casualties, I've made this plan…" He then told the crews his plan. All of them nodded. "Any question?"
Erwin raised his hand. "Sir, why we don't stay on the higher ground and designated all of the targets coordinates than blow them with C4s?"
"We need to conserve ammo, Sergeant. No one can build our weapons in this era. Even if they can, Pilot Officer Ursula Hartmann said they will need roughly some years to finish the build," James exhaled deeply before finished the briefing. "Alright, that's all. Dismissed," All of the officers walked toward their post.
Unknown to the crews, a Kriegsmarine U-boat Submarine followed them from behind.
One of the submarined crews looked at the lone destroyer through a periscope. "Kapitän, I saw an unknown class of cruiser with Liberion flag. It only has one deck gun on its bow. That must be our target," He then turned to the Captain. "What's your order, sir?"
The Captain grinned. "Prepare the torpedoes."
Inside the Curtis Wilbur CIC, Walker was eating a hotdog when she heard a response from passive sonar. "Bridge, this is TAO. Behind us, portside, I'm picking some unidentified noise," After he finished his hotdog he realized what were those are. His eyes widened. He then screamed on the radio. "Behind us! I see two torpedoes closing in! Bearing 3-5-9! Speed 44 knots! Distance 3200 meters! Two minutes and 20 seconds to impact!" Everyone in the CIC then focused on the screens.
James shouted his order through the radio. "CIC, activate the EWS!"
One of the crews turned on the AN/SLQ-32(V)2 Electronic Warfare System "EWS has been activated!"
He then turned to Tara. "Helms! Engines ahead, flank!"
"Aye sir! Engines ahead, flank!" She replied as she pushed to engine to maximum.
Meanwhile in the outside deck, Carlos saw the torpedoes coming to the ship with a binocular. "I see the torpedoes! They are closing in fast!"
Some seconds later, the torpedoes were about to hit the destroyer. "10 seconds to impact!" After 10 seconds, the ship evaded the torpedoes. "We evade them!"
In the submarine, the captain could not believe what he saw. The Liberion ship evaded the torpedoes with their incredible acceleration and agility. The captain gritted his teeth as he looked at periscope. He then turned back to his crews. "Fire the G7e homing torpedoes! A wide spread! Make sure they can't evade it!"
"Jawohl, Kapitän!" the crews replied. Then, the torpedo tubes opened and fired 4 torpedoes
"Where the heck did the Yankees get a ship like that?! Is it really from the future?" The captain asked himself.
"They're firing 4 torpedoes! Bearing 3-5-4! Distance 3700 meters!" Rin shouted again.
"CIC Sonar, what's the torpedo launcher position?" James asked.
"Bearing 3-5-3! Distance 3800 meters! They're following us in 5 knots! Depth 40 meters! Assigned track number Sierra 1!" Walker replied.
"The one who abduct Bishop are Karslander. It must be a U-boat." Rei said. "I thought they're using homing torpedoes."
"What?! Homing torpedoes?!" James asked.
"Hai, the Nazi used the G7e homing torpedo during the World War II." Rei looked back at James. "Hopper, I recommend to launch the decoys. I'm afraid those 4 torpedoes are homing."
James nodded and grabbed the radio. "Fire the decoys on the port and starboard!"
"Yes sir! Dropping decoys!" One of the crews in CIC replied. Then, two AN/SLQ-25 Nixies were dropped from the port and starboard of the ship.
James shouted another order to the helmsman. "Right, full rudder!"
"Right, full rudder!" Tara replied. The ship then turned to the right.
"20 seconds to impact!" Max shouted.
James then contacted the CIC. "Prepare to fire the VL ASROC! I want that sub in the Davy Jones' locker now!"
"Yes sir!" Rin replied. "Preparing to fire the ASROC missile!" She then typed something on the keyboards. "Firing on track number Sierra 1," She opened the glass that closed the launching button. He then pressed one of the buttons. "Opening VLS-1! Birds away!"
Then, one of the VLS in the bow of the ships opened and launched a RUM-139 VL-ASROC missile to the night sky.
Back to the outside Michelle looked through the spotter. "Bradshaw! Do you see those goddamned torpedoes?!" Carlos asked.
"Wait a minute, sir!" She kept looked at the spotter until she looked back at Carlos. "I see them! They're closing in fast!"
"Get ready for the impact!" Carlos shouted as he tightened his grip on the fence. But fortunately, all of the torpedoes hit the decoy rather than the ship. The explosion caused a shockwave and some sea water splashed to the ship.
"Kyaahh!" Michelle lost her grip on the fence and crashed on Daniel who also lost his grip because of her. They then fell to the floor.
"Dammit, that was close!" He said as he adjusted his cap. He then looked at Michelle on top of Daniel on the floor. "What the hell do you both doing there?!"
Daniel tried to stand up, but his face trapped on Michelle's not too big busts. "Ugghh! D-daniel, d-don't-Hyaah!" Michelle moaned. Her face turned red.
With Carlos' help, they managed to stand back. Both of their faces were still as red as tomato. "I'm sorry about what had happened Michelle," Daniel said.
"I-it's nothing Daniel, really. Hehehe…" She laughed nervously as she waved her hands like a football official who tried to say 'No Goal'.
Carlos ignored the young sorcerers and used his binocular to see the ASROC missile. He saw the missile stopped in the midair and dropped an Mk 54 torpedo to the sea. Slowly, it parachuted to the sea.
One of the crews saw something parachuting to the sea through the periscope. "Kapitän, I see something parachuting."
"What is it?" The Captain asked. The crew just let the Captain see it through the periscope. He saw the parachute finally touched the sea surface.
Suddenly, the sonar blared loudly. "It's a torpedo sir!" The Sonar officer shouted. All of the crews shocked.
The Captain gritted his teeth. "The Britainian is still experimenting that weaponry, how did the Liberian…" The Captain quickly shouted an order. "Right full rudder! Advance at top speed!" The submarine turned to the right. But it was no use since the torpedo was closing in. "Move faster, you bastard!" The Captain shouted in frustration.
Finally, the torpedo hit the portside of the sub. "The torpedo is hit! Track number 1002 is out of action!" Rin stated. Everybody in the CIC sighed in relive.
Unlike the Curtis Wilbur's CIC, the crews inside the U-boat were panicked. The submarine had a breached hull. The Captain picked up a radio transmitter and called the base. "Base, this is U-789! We are under fire from the target! Requesting-" Before he finished talking, the wave of water filled the entire submarine. However, the base will never get the transmission because of the Curtis Wilbur's EWS jammed everything.
"No aircraft, submarine, and surface contacts. The scope is clear," Rin said through the radio.
"Roger that, Lieutenant. Bridge out!" James replied. He then looked at a Japanese Wizard on his left. "Inform the chosen officer to get ready. I'll waiting for them in ten minutes in the helicopter hangar."
"Hai!" The wizard saluted before walked away.
James now has changed into his Navy Blue BDU and wore his CIRAS Plate Carrier. He folded the long sleeve to his elbow, just to make him more 'tacticool'. An M4A1 with ACOG sight was slung on his back.
Faisal, who is already in his Kopaska Digital camouflage BDU approached James. "Sir!" The Major saluted him. "All chosen crews have reported in!"
James saluted him back. "Good!" They then walked to the hangar. There, they saw Erwin, Carlos, Michelle, Rin, Daniel, 2 other Kopaska members, and several US Navy crews stood in a row.
James walked to their front and all of them saluted him. He saluted back before lowered his hands. "We will being dropped in that island by the Seahawk and proceed with our mission. Our primary objective is to find and rescue our abducted crews and witches of the 501. Our secondary is to rescue the rest of the abducted soldiers and witches and arrest the ones behind this. The top priority is to bring the prisoners out of there alive!" He paused as he looked to every face that will go with him. "Remember about the 'rules of engagements', 'don't fire unless fired upon!'"
"Yes sir!" The crews yelled in unison.
"Synchronize the time!" James shouted as he and the others turned synchronize their watches. After that they then boarded the helicopter. Carlos who is the last person who boarded the Helo closed the door.
"The Helo is ready to take off!" The helicopter deck watch master said as the Helo was taken out from the hangar by the magnetic pad.
"Everything is good?" James asked the pilot and co-pilot.
"Good sir!" The pilot replied. The pilot and co-pilot flicked some toggle switches on the control panel. Then, the engine began to whine and the rotor slowly rotated. "Take off!" The pilot said and the helicopter left the landing pad.
Back to the dungeon, Bayu was still awake. He flicked the brig's bars countless time because he didn't know must he do. Same like Larry who just counted the torches, the only light sources in the dungeon. He found out that most of the brigs were empty and the prisoners were mostly consisted of young boys in both civilian and soldier uniform and witches. He bet those young boys must be some OSS and MI6 agents they managed to capture.
Then, Bayu heard footsteps coming. He acted like he didn't care about the peoples who were coming here, but actually he's very caution. He saw those men wear civilian clothes rather than military uniform. Probably, they tried to protect their identity and nationality. Those men took several prisoners out from their cells. The prisoners had bags on their head. He saw Annabelle was one of the prisoners they dragged out from the brigs.
"Be save, Annabelle…" Bayu mumbled. Then he saw some of those men opened the brigs and pulled Larry out.
"Get up!" The man said in thick Karsland –or German from Bayu's POV- accent.
"Hey, calm down will ya?" Larry shouted as he stood up himself and let those men handcuffed him.
"No! Don't take Larry!" Lynette cried as she stood up and tried to pull Larry's hand. But the man kicked her. "Kyaah!"
"Lynne-chan!" Yoshika yelled as she grabbed her friend before she hit the floor.
Larry glared on the man and shouted. "You hurt her once again! I'll fucking kill you!"
"Khu khu khu khu…" The man punched Larry's stomach and caused him to drop to his knees. "How do you kill me? You can't even fight!" He smirked and closed Larry's head with a bag.
"Fuck you…" Larry cursed but no one heard him because of the bag on his head. Then, the man with one of his friends took Larry out of the dungeon.
Bayu turned his stare from Larry to several men inside their brigs. One of them, an Asian looking man approached him with a Katana. He has a short tidy brown hair and hazel eyes. Bayu didn't know why this men seems attracting his attention. Maybe it was because his calm expression which was very calm, unlike the other men who were glared or smirked. He needed to know who is this man are.
Without any resistance, he stood up from his sit. He knew even though he can defeat all of these men with bare hands, he could dangers his friend's life, mostly Yoshika. And of course, he also wanted to know who is that Asian man is.
Bayu was about to show his hands to the other men before the Asian man hit his head with the blunt side of his Katana. Before Bayu's vision turned blank, he heard Yoshika and Lynette shouted his name.
From the cape of the island, a Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk Multirole Helicopter from the USS Curtis Wilbur approached the island and was about to land. Inside the cockpit, the pilot, Ensign Richard Kerner informed the passengers. "30 seconds!"
Rin picked up her suppressed M4. She saw James tossed a mag toward her and she caught it. Rin loaded it to her assault rifle and smiled on James who gave her a toothy grin.
The helicopter then touched the grassy land inside the forest of the island which was as big as Betio Island. Carlos opened the door and all of the passengers got off from the Helo. Richard turned off the engine and the rotor's spin slowed down until it stopped.
"Let's move!" James said as Carlos and Rin followed him while the other teams got to their position. "All teams, this is Bravo lead! Proceed with your objectives! Charlie, you take the higher ground! Zulu, you plant the C4 on the Naval and Anti-Air gun!"
"This is Charlie 1, roger!" Bradshaw replied.
"This is Zulu lead, copy!" Faizal replied. With their replies, the rescue mission has started.
Bayu woke up after a bucket of water washed his face. He coughed and looked to his surrounds. He saw about five soldiers in Karslands Army Wehrmacht uniform. From all of them only one is armed with pistol. He suspected him must be the leader.
And to his shock, he saw someone he really knew tied on a chair in front of him. "Yoshika…" He said.
Then, the leader who is the closest to him kicked the Kopaska operator on his chest and caused him to fell backward. Bayu realized both his hands and feet were being tied.
"Get up!" The leader said as he pulled Bayu's collar and pulled him back to his kneeling position. "Listen! You will answer all of the questions I'll tell you no matter what! Or else the things will get harder for you and your little friend, understood?"
Without replied, Bayu spat on the leader's face.
The leader wiped the spit on his face and slapped the wizard's face. "I'll take that as a yes," he said. The leader then pulled a knife and slashed Bayu's right arm with it. Bayu gasped a bit before controlled back his breathe. "Alright, first question! Who are you and where do you from?"
Bayu looked at the man eyes before smiled innocently. "Sorry mister, but Mommy forbid me to tell my name to someone I don't even know!"
The leader raised his eyebrows. "Oh like that, huh?" He then hit his bleeding right arm and poked his wound with his knife.
"Ugghhh!" Bayu grunted as he held the urge to scream. After the leader released his arm, he looked to Yoshika who has tears on her eyes. He didn't if that was because the witch is too damn scare because those men did something like this to him.
"Alright, next question!" The leader voices caught back his attention. "How do you make that cruiser can hold the Neuroi's beam? And how do you train your wizards?"
Bayu looked back to the leader's face. Honestly, Bayu knew nothing about how his father made the Witch Powered Reactor but he knew how it worked. But he will never tell that to anyone. He then answered. "Bangsat lu!"
The leader then picked up a plier and pressed it on Bayu's palm.
"Aaarrgghhh!" He cried in pain as the leader pressed the plier harder while some of the men held him.
Yoshika who has her mouth was gagged with a piece of cloths screamed on top of her lungs but nothing she can say. She wanted those men to stop torturing Bayu, the boy she hold dears, the boy who she want to protect, the boy who once saved her life, the boy who can make her happier, and the boy who stole her heart.
The leader stopped pressed Bayu's palm and put the plier away before pulled back his knife.
Then, one of the Karsland soldiers approached him. "Kommandant, why don't we use this girl to make him talking?" The soldier whispered to his leader. "It seems she is his weakness."
The leader then looked on Yoshika. "Are you sure about that?"
"Of course, have you see Lieutenant Commander Kusaka punished for playing with those girls?"
Bayu looked down and thought. "Kusaka? That's maybe that Asian guy name…" He realized about that 'playing' word and get shocked.
"What if he still didn't want to say anything?" The leader asked again.
The soldier then grinned evilly. "That doesn't matter, Kommandant. At least we can taste how the Strike Witches' pussy feels like."
The leader also grinned and said. "Alright, you guys go ahead! I want to see this boy shitting his pants," he then approached Bayu and crouched beside him. "Alright, young boy. You're really tough for boys in your ages and we've gave up on tutored you," He then placed his left hand which has his knife on it on Bayu's shoulder. "But I wonder, will you be tough anymore if you see your girlfriend now?" He pointed on Yoshika.
Bayu eyes went widened. He saw the soldiers begin to strips her. He tried to stand up but the leader shoved him back to his kneeling position. "Lepasin gue, Bajingan!"
The leader grinned on him. "Just shut up and enjoy the show, will ya?" Bayu looked back to Yoshika and saw the men begin to touch her womanhood parts.
"Whoa! I'm sorry, boy! But I think you'll never feel her virginity anymore!" One of the soldiers shouted at Bayu. The young boy's eyes still widened as he heard Yoshika hopelessly tried to release herself and let out moans which was suppressed by the cloth on her mouth. Her tears slowly fell from her eyes to her soft cheeks.
This is the first time for Bayu to felt this desperate. He thought he is failed to protect someone who's valuable for him.
"I'm sorry, Yoshika…"
Yes, I know! Cliffhanger is a bitch! By the way, forget about that rape part, if you watch Zipang, you'll know who Kusaka is.
Well, I think Yoshika's fans are going to kill me right now! So bye~ *running from mad Yoshika's fans*