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-Lenju II
Ch.2 Operation San Francisco op.2
"I got visual on the enemy!" Erwin shouts.
"Are they those humanoid thingies, poi?" Yuudachi asks, raising her guns at level. "We can splash the HE shells no problem right here, but our gun recoil might break the pavement below us, poi."
Nodding his head, Leon waves them to stop. Clicking on his headset, he sends a transmission to Tomlin. "We're out near the port. Quit shooting and drive towards the entrance." He shouted. Tomlin's voice cuts in. "Alright. I'll trust what you're telling me. Gotta conserve ammo anyways." Tomlin says. Then static erupts as Tomlin cuts the com link.
Turning back to the girls, Leon smiles. "We're going in loud. As I remember, they should be attracted to loud noises."
"What do you have in mind, Admiral?" Harusame asks, not quite knowing why they're shooting at what she thinks are civilians.
"If I'm correct, you girls could walk on water right?" Leon asks. Both ship girls nod.
"Good. I'll tell you guys this once. Run to the port right there, and get into the water. We'll need some long range artillery to help support us while my other friend comes in. I'll give the signal of when to shoot. Calculate the distance, cause I don't want any friendly fire casualties."
"Roger that, Admiral." They shout as they start running towards the port.
"Approaching AO in 5" Tomlin shouts through the headset. "Roger that, I'll get ready" Leon replies and cuts the link.
"Admiral, we have reached the destination, requesting further orders." Harusame's voice says into his earpiece.
"Stay there armed and ready, I'll shoot a flare into the air and that'll signal the shelling." Leon says. He turns around and faces the three tank girls.
"Take positions around here, as I told the two destroyers, I'll signal the attack. Erwin, beside me. Noel and Valeriya, take positions around some of those cars." Leon shouts, taking out a flare gun.
The humming of an engine draws closer. Erwin crouches, holding the panzershrek 3 close to her. Pointing the flare gun into the air he counts down the numbers in his head. As he sees the Humvee in the distance, he shoots the flare into the sky. The glowing red orb of light flies into the sky, bursting with a really loud crack.
"Calculate your shots, and don't hit the moving vehicle!" Leon yells through the headset.
"Roger that, Admiral, poi!" Yuudachi shouts through the broadcast. Taking out a pair of binoculars, Leon spots The humvee moving towards the group. Behind the vehicle trails around 50 infected.
"DESTROYERS, FIRE AT WILL!" Leon shouts. A loud bang could be heard from the harbor, and the whizz of 5 inch HE shells flying past him. Beside him, Erwin fires her Panzershrek, causing Leon to recoil to the ringing in his ears.
The magnificent colors of orange, red, and yellow flash brightly as all shells find their mark in the horde. Shrieks could be heard as those who survived are hit by either shrapnel or pieces of concrete. The quiet bay-side erupts into gunfire again as more and more infected come running out of their hiding places, drawn by the loud noises.
"Second Volley ready!" Harusame says as she hears the click in the gun. "Same here, poi." yuudachi says excitingly, the adrenaline pumping through her veins. "Do you think Admiral would care if we go back onto land to help support them?"
Harusame shakes her head. "No, I don't think he really cares, but let's stay here anyways. Orders are orders. Disobeying him would bring us to court marshal!" Yuudachi pouts at this answer. "It's no fair, Poi! I want to be helpful as well!"
"But Yuudachi-one, let's not be so reckless!"
"It's no fair though, poi! I am my own self! You can't tell me what to do, poi!"
And with that, Yuudachi boosts herself towards the harbor, and hops up the pier. Sighing, Harusame hastily follows her older sister, softly giggling to herself. "It's really hard to be a younger sister when older sisters don't listen to you." she says softly in japanese.
"Fuck, where are the HE shells?" Leon shouts as he guns down another infected. Beside him, the clanks of .50 cal bullet cases hit the ground as Tomlin continues to spray hot lead into the crowd of infected.
"SAVE YOUR YAPPING FOR LATER, LEON, WE HAVE A JOB TO FINISH RIGHT NOW!" Tomlin shouts as he replaces another drum of ammunition. The machine gun barrel is now glowing a orange hue. "Shit, the barrel is overheated." Tomlin curses as he takes out one of his homemade Molotov cocktails.
"Yo, Leon. I found your napalm stash in the explosives hangar. Thanks for letting me use it." Tomlin says with his shit-eating grin.
"Go fuck yourself, Tomlin. I got work to do, and things to worry about. Do what you think is necessary!" Leon shouts back, spraying another magazine at three infected, bringing down two of them and sawing off the third one's leg.
"If you say so, Leon." Tomlin shouts as he lights the rag on fire and tosses the bottle of napalm. The glass bottle arcs 9 meters away from their position and bursts into a bright, orange-ish red fire setting everything in the radius a blaze. The remaining infected hiss at them and scurry off into the city. Smiling, Tomlin turns over to Leon.
"Never can get rid of my excitement of using fire. Hah!" Tomlin grins, looking over at Leon. He then frowns. "Who are those girls running towards us?" he says as he points the two destroyers running towards Leon.
Yuudachi jumps onto Leon shouting, "We came to help you, Admiral!" Tomlin, thinking that this is a threat, turns the now equipped Mk-19 Grenade Launcher at her.
"I don't know who you girls are, or what, get off my friend." He threatens as he pulls the lever, arming the grenades. Yuudachi points her 12.7mm naval gun at him.
"I don't know who you are either, poi. But if you hurt admiral, you will die, poi." she says coolly with a chilled tone.
"Hold your fire, both of you. We'll all die if you guys decide to shoot, anyways." Leon says. He bops Yuudachi's head causing her to jump in shock. "Don't be stupid. I'll explain everything once we find a place to camp out for the night." he says, smiling at her. Taking a M4 magazine out of his pocket, Leon chucks it at Tomlin, hitting his head on the side. "And you, Be more smart about what to shoot in the future. One grenade fired out of the Grenade launcher could kill us all." he scolds.
"Yeah, yeah, fuck you too" Tomlin says, flipping him off. He gets out of the humvee and stares out at one of the old stores in front of them. "Oh, hey! A costume store! I'm going to check it out! " he says, acting like a child as he runs off, shattering the glass. As he runs into it, leaving behind a confused looking Leon with two equally confused looking destroyers.
"Commander, We found what appears to be a helicopter." Erwin says as she arrives with Noel and Valeriya. They both medium tanks nod in agreement. Leon shakes himself awake and looks at them.
"How did you find it?" he asks them. Noel raises her hand. "It was me who found it untouched, actually, commander. I was looking for a better position to shoot at the infected, but I was ambushed while searching, so I ran. I ended up getting lost, but I stumbled into a military grade attack chopper." She raises her hand to her head.
"I have the coordinates to the chopper. Follow me." she says, running off.
"What's a helicopter, poi? I only have heard of jets, because I saw one when we were first activated…"
Yuudachi says, getting off of Leon. Harusame, who is still breathing heavy from running, looks over at the running/rolling tank girls. "Why don't you run with them, Onee-san? I'll catch up with you." she says.
Yuudachi smiles. "If you say so, Harusame~!" Yuudachi says happily as she runs off to join the other smaller girls.
"Tomlin, I'm going to take a look at what Noel found, so I'll be back in about 20-30 minutes or so. Just wait for us in the humvee." Leon shouts into the old shop. He hears an ok response. Turning around, he sees Harusame smiling and giggling softly.
"Yuudachi, you still wouldn't change that excitement of yours wouldn't you." He hears her say, presumably in Japanese. Leon slowly walks towards her, and puts a hand on top of her head, and pats her head a few times. Harusame, jolts a bit, not expecting her admiral to do such thing. "A..Admiral, what's w… wrong?" She stammers, thinking that she had done something wrong.
"Nothing much. Let's go catch up with the others." Leon says in an american accented japanese, causing Harusame to stare with a blush creeping up her face.
"C...Comander, did y...you hear me?" Harusame asks, trying hard to keep her blush under control. Leon nods as he ushers her towards the rest of the group. "Hyaa.." She moans softly as she felt the heat rushing up her face. They start walking towards the others, but in an awkward silence.
"Admiral, how do you know Japanese? If I'm correct, your American right?" Harusame asks suddenly, looking up at him. Leon scratches his head and thinks for a moment.
"I think it was 4 years ago that I was sent to Japan for this military exchange kind of movement, where we give them a platoon of American soldiers, and they send over a platoon of their men. It was for a kind of evaluation thing that Japan and America did." Leon says, thinking back to the time.
"So it was me and another guy from delta, 2 guys from SEAL, 2 from Marines, 2 from navy, and one from army cause the other guy got sick the day we were leaving."
"But you didn't answer my question, Admiral." Harusame says, looking up at him. Leon sighs. "I was getting there." he says. He sits down on a curb beside an old McDonald. Harusame sits down beside him, looking up to his tall figure.
"So as I was saying, I went to Japan for that military exchange thing. We learned japanese ahead of time because our sergeants told us that their English was really bad. Turns out a whole three months learning the Japanese culture did help us adapt to their place." Leon says with a smile.
"Going to Japan was fun and all, but they seemed more serious than us in their military protocols. Waking us at 4 in the morning wasn't all that unnatural, but making us train until 9 in the morning was. Well, the US still wasn't all that popular there in Japan, knowing that some of their political bastards did yell at us to get out of Japan."
"Is that how you learned Japanese then?" Harusame asks again, but she looks more into hearing one of his life stories. Leon nods.
"What happened to get us noticed was probable three weeks in while we were taking time off in Tokyo. I think it was in the mid noon time that Tuesday. I was with some of my group, looking for some place to eat when we heard screaming. I remember turning around and seeing a whole group of terrorists armed with AKS-74Us and suicide bomb vests, shooting into the crowd of it was me, my partner and the two SEALS guys were the only guys with guns. Me and my partner had drd paratus-18s with around 15 clips on ammo on us, while the seals guys had carried their Arctic warfares out, so as we were trained to handle terrorists, we took on the job." Leon smiles as he thinks back to the good old days.
"Me and Devon, I think, went in with our suitcase guns while the two SEALS did their thing. All I remember was the terrorist faces go from evil grins to the looks of shock and surprise when they saw two Americans showing up to take care of business and other terrorists falling to the ground with their skulls fractured. Took us probably 20 minutes to take care of them, but we did help lower the civilian casualties by only half. Even better, we had the police talk us out when their FBI came in. At the end of the day, the total civilian casualties stood at around 10 dead and 30 wounded. We captured 2 terrorists and killed probably 13 others. Then, the Japanese sort of recognized us as heroes for saving them from what could have been a huge massacre, and even was on the news for two weeks. Before we returned to America, the government even invited us to some formal dinner, which was pretty nice of them."
Leon finishes his story. "So that is my life story of how I learned Japanese and how some of my life went before all of this madness." He remarks and stands up. "Come on, Harusame, let's get going before the others start wondering where we are." Getting up, Leon swings his M4 carbine on his back. He reaches into his Holster and takes out his MK-23 pistol.
"Here, Harusame, take this. You'll need this just in case." he says as he hands her the pistol. Harusame slowly takes the pistol uncertainly. "But admiral, this is your sidearm though. I can't take it from you.I-" Harusame stops when Leon puts his index finger on her lips, causing her face to warm up and redden.
"It's ok. I have more back at my bunker. I can just get another one there. Also, you'll need this just in case." Leon says as he gives her a small smile. Both of them start walking when they hear an explosion. Leon runs towards the main source of the explosion, wondering what it was. There he sees Erwin holding the smoking sniper rifle and a messed up looking concrete pole 600 ft. away
"You guys panic too much. Told ya that it wasn't an infected" she huffs.
Leon clears his throat, startling the four girls. They turn around and salute to him, something they don't usually do often. Erwin's face suddenly grows more and more terrified as she realizes that She may have potentially attracted more infected into the area, and mentally prepares herself for a scolding by Leon. It doesn't happen, so Erwin was making a fool out of herself and Leon looking at her confused to why she is closing her eyes and holding her breath.
"Okay then…. Where is that helicopter you girls told me that you found. It should be around here right?" Leon asks, completely ignoring the fact that Erwin was glaring daggers at him with an embarrassed face. Noel points to a building right behind them.
"The helicopter's rotors should be visible from here, commander. I believe it should work perfectly, because I ran a small diagnostic on the condition of it. As my scans say after completing, there is only a few bullet holes on it. Nothing has been looted off this vehicle yet, which means that it is still in good performance to use. The last used date on this aircraft was probably 6/28/20 which is probably a good month before we came out of the bunker." she concludes on a huge statement.
"Guns up, just in case. Let's take a look at this chopper." Leon announces to the little group as he un-slings his M4 and pulls the safety off the gun. He passes through the narrow area and inspects the helicopter after checking for anyone else. The helicopter appears to be a newer model of the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, with most of the aircraft's armaments untouched. Inspecting the helicopter, Leon notices some scratches, and a few bullet holes on the helicopter, but nothing so major. After a complete inspection of the aircraft, it was decided that it could still be flown.
"Tomlin, get the humvee down here. We have an aerial vehicle now. I'll send the coordinates to your GPS system so you can see where we are." Leon announces into the headphone.
"Sure... Ugh… I'll be there in a minute." Tomlin replies hazily. Turning around, Leon enters the helicopter. The cockpit seemed to be fine, so he exits and enters the cargo bay. In there, he finds a crate of .50 cal bullets and three small cardboard boxes full of 5.56 bullets. The space was relatively empty, so Leon exited and called for the girls. "When Tomlin arrives, I'll need help putting all the things in the humvee into the back. You'll also have to be sitting in the back, so sorry bout the cramped conditions before hand." he then smiles after he says this. "Or does one of you want to sit in the front with me?" Suddenly Leon found himself on the floor with three girls on top of him. Lifting up, he sees Erwin, Yuudachi, and Noel on him.
"Take me, poi! I can show admirala that I'm a really trustworthy person!" Yuudachi says as she grabs onto his chest and bear hugs him. Pissed off, Erwin shoves the destroyer off her commander.
"I demand attention from him, because he respects me and that I was his first activated girl in this unit!" She boasts proudly grinning in victory.
Leon just looks at them confused, regretting that he ever made that decision. At that precise moment, Tomlin's humvee pulls up near the Black hawk.
"Speak of the devil! Tomlin is here and uhhhhh…." Leon stops as he notices what costume Tomlin was wearing. Tomlin, who just got out of the humvee appears to be wearing a Ronald Mcdonald costume, which is terrifying enough without the facepaint he put onto himself.
"I always wanted to wear this!" Tomlin shouts like a kid at Leon. "You can't tell me what to do!"
Leon physically facepalms. "You're definitely not sitting next to me." he says, pushing the clown away from him. Clapping his hands together Leon shouts at the little unit to load everything they had into the humvee.
Two hours later 1448 hours
After a painful time loading the helicopter and leaving the humvee, Leon finally starts the helicopter. The fuel tank states that the helicopter still had half of the tank left, which as Leon calculates, would be at least around two hours of flight before they need to land and refuel the chopper.
"Sir, is it really alright for me to sit here with you?" Harusame asks as she sits in the co-pilot seat. "Yeah, I'm sure. I don't want anyone else who would distract me while flying this thing anyways. A lesson that I learned from fighting in Syria in '16 anyways." Leon says as the helicopter lifts off the ground.
"What happened back then? If I can ask this of course." Harusame asks another question, looking at Leon as they fly the helicopter out towards somewhere in the horizon.
"Another life story with Henderson. Let's go!." Leon says as he switches the light off in the cocpit, and replacing it with a dim red light.
"So what happens was that back in '16, after ISIS kidnapped some ambassador in Syria, us Delta was called in to help rescue that poor guy. Me being one of the heli pilots, I had to stay behind as my buddies went out to retrieve the guy."
"It was a lot of fun, me flying in a Apache with Hank beside me in the co-pilot seat, we were shooting at those hadji fucks, making some of them crap their pants when they realized that the americans were right outside their door. Well, After like most of that base was blown up by our missiles that we met with the rest of the team. So when we landed, some sniper took a shot at the aircraft and hit Hank in the shoulder, so he had to be evacuated, and I got a new co-pilot. That new guy turns out to be a newbie who didn't quite know what he was doing, so most of the flight back to base was me yelling at him to stop pressing buttons or flicking on and off the switches of the lights, cause either he would shut the goddamn engine off or that someone would be shooting at us from below."
Leon clearly has an anger vein popping out of his head suddenly.
"So what happened was that the guys in the other helicopters was yelling at me to stop doing stupid shit and me shouting at the newbie to stop pressing buttons, and everything became chaos. After like 10 hellish minutes, he stopped and the other guys stopped yelling at me, so I thought I was at peace again." Leon grits his teeth.
"Then that dick decides to pull a switch that launched a flare out of the helicopter. Two minutes later, we had AA Rockets flying all over the place. And by the time I landed, I made sure that this newbie got sent back to boot camp." Leon says and looks over to Harusame and smiles.
"That is the exact reason why I chose you to sit here, because you're not that much of a distraction, and that you're not too short, cause I would have chosen Noel to be here if she wasn't so short."
Harusame smiles awkwardly. "T...Thank y..you admiral…" she says. Leon grins as he looks out into the horizon. The from an aerial view, the view seemed less hectic and he could still see some parts of places that weren't as chaotic. He looks over at the pink haired destroyer. Her eyes were closed and she was lightly snoring.
"Heh….after a long day, catching a few couple z's is pretty good." Leon chuckles as he lays his jacket over Harusame.
1626 hours
Harusame jolts awake from the feeling of the Black hawk landing on the ground. "Admiral?" She asks as she rubs her eyes and takes a look around. Leon looks over. "Ah, you're awake. It's about time to get out and stretch a little. I need to refuel this bird anyways." Leon says as he exits the helicopter. Opening the cargo hatch, Leon shouts at everyone else to get out of the helicopter.
"Tonight, we'll be staying here. We're close to bakersfield right now, so by tomorrow, we'll get there." Leon says. They take out some MREs and everyone eats them quietly. The horizon slowly turns dark and the stars start to light.
"Hey, Noel. Don't you remember back in the war in places like Paris, we were able to enjoy the view of the stars? I sure miss those days." Erwin whispers, peering into the sky. Valeriya who hears this smiles to herself. This is what my comrades used to say, 'Moscow nights are always beautiful.
Leon yawns. "Tomlin, Wake me up at 200 hours. I'm going to go sleep.
Tomlin nods. "Sure thing. I'll take first watch.