A/N: Chapter 11, let's get this over with. It's probably going to take at least another month or so just to get this chapter up, so I'm sorry for disappointing all of you guys who follow me and this story.
MonsterSlayer259: I want to stay with Naval and Land (ship/tank girls) mainly because it'll be better to write about. If I do include plane girls, it'll be kind like I'm trying to add some Strike Witch shenanigans into this story, which I'm not trying to. I've thought about this at first when I was first summarizing this story up, but decided against it, cause not only do I have to both split Tank girls with ship girls, but keeping track of them kinda is hard. I'm a lazy son of a bitch, so I tend to not want to add too much characters into one setting, though it is inevitable and will happen one of these days.
RANDOM-P4: Fuck it, I don't really give a fuck whether or not I do confuse this cm and mm shit. Deal with it.
It seems that people enjoy the small idiotic things that I put in such as Leon using the Abrams to basically run over/ hit Type H light whilst playing our most patriotic theme song that describes America in 2 minutes. I'll try to add more stuff like that. Just saying Leon doesn't actually hate Tomlin, it's kinda like a friends thing they do, so don't think that they have a shitty friendship. Yes I know it is a weird friendship but it's 2017, that's what friends do now right?
Chapter 11: Fellow Comrade
"Oww…" The white hair says as she sits up out of a bed. Her sensors activate slowly, so she groggily rubs her eyes taking a look around her. The room was unfamiliar to her, having brick walls and an intact roof. The smell of the sea rushed inside as she noticed a small window that was slightly open, letting fresh air into the room. The girl tries to move but winces as she turns around a bit.
"Tch- it feels like I was hit by a tank…." she says as she lies back down on the bed. She loops back into her memories of the night before.
"I was hit by a tank…" she says nonchalantly. The sound of a door opening catches the girl's attention as a light blue haired girl walks into the room.
"Ahh, you're awake!" She says as she walks up to her and sits down on the bed beside her.
"I'm Atlanta, what's your name?" Atlanta asks the girl.
"I don't have one… I was given only my code name of Type H." The girl says as she tries to sit up. A sharp pain flares in her back and she lies back down.
Atlanta pats Type's head.
"Don't try to move much, you did get hit in a pretty painful spot with that tank." She says.
Atlanta then claps her hands together, smiling at the small light tank.
"I got it! How about we call you Hazel? It sounds cute, kinda." She says with a smile on her face. The whitehead thinks for a second.
"Hazel… I think I can get used to it." She says. Atlanta smiles.
"Oh yeah here's your breakfast, you slept though yesterday, so you might be hungry." She says as she hands Hazel her breakfast.
"Ahh...thanks, Atlanta?" She says. Atlanta nods and exits the room.
Hazel takes a look at the food in front of her. The plate had two pancakes on it, still steaming a bit. Three strips of bacon, some golden hashbrowns and a small bunch of scrambled eggs sat on the side of the pancakes.
"I've seen my commander eat this before, but I've never thought about myself actually getting the opportunity to try this out…" she says as she takes the fork and stabs a piece of the hashbrown, putting into her mouth slowly. Her eyes widen in amazement.
"This… this is something I've never tasted before…" she says as she starts to wolf down the rest of the platter.
"T-thank you for the food." she says as she puts the tray on the floor.
I think I might come to like this commander. Hazel thinks to herself.
Leon yawns as he takes a look in the back porch.
He hears someone opening the door and sees Suzukaze standing beside him.
"Pretty rough day these three days." she says as they look into the bay area.
Leon sighs.
"I remember back during Desert Storm, we had just finished a hellish three day campaign to rid the Iraqi insurgents that had been hiding among one of these villages that were pinning our marines down. I was standing on the deck of the DDG I was assigned to along with another guy and we just stared at the view, watching as the sun rose above the horizon." he says, staring out into the harbor.
Suzukaze giggles a bit.
"I remember Kazuma Teitoku and I once arose early in the morning and went to the William P. Lawrence just to watch the sunrise. It was probably the first time, but it was beautiful and kinda romantic in a sense." she says.
Leon laughs.
"So what are you going to do today, considering that it is going to be a free day today, cause I think I believe all of you girls should be taking a break after doing all this shit these few days."
"I know Chiyoko is already gone helping Nakajima-sensei as she always would do. Alyona and Alhied are probably going to explore around the town again. What are you going to do, Admiral?" she says as she looks at Leon.
Leon thinks a bit.
"I'm probably going ot go take a look around with the new girls. Atlanta, Furutaka, the british girls, and Erika. I can have you show Yuudachi and Harusame around unless you want to tag around with me." he says. Suzukaze nods.
"Let's do that then, Admiral, I want to know you better, such as your off time personality if that's okay~."
"Then you might be disappointed later on to find out that I am a boring motherfucker that only lazes around and does nothing productive."
"Don't be so negative about yourself, you never know, Admiral~! I already memorized this Survivor Camp by heart~!"
"That's cause you've lived here for I don't know how long."
"Shhh...that is irrelevant right now."
"If you say so."
"Ehehe~"
Leon sighs as he walks into the house. Furutaka and Atlanta chat quietly as they wash the dishes that were leftover from dinner and the earlier breakfast. As hey see him entering the house, they snap a hasty salute to him. Leon waves them off.
"There's no need to salute me, it's kinda weird to have people saluting me." He says.
"But admiral, it's written in our protocols," Furutaka says. Leon sighs.
"Fuck the protocols, no one usually follows them anyways." He says.
"What are we doing today, Admiral?" Atlanta asks, taking another dish to wash.
"Not much today. I think that you girls deserve a little break knowing that you've all been fighting these few days." Leon answers. Leon hears another pair of footsteps and looks over. He sees Noel who was quietly sitting on the couch sipping some cold tea and a messy-haired Erwin slowly walking over to the couch.
"Fuahh… I overslept again, Noeeeel…." Erwin moans as she rubs her eyes and glimpse herself on the poor medium tank who can only sigh, put down her tea, and take out her own comb to brush her heavy tank companion.
"Erwin get off of me, you're kinda heavy." Noel says trying to reach her right arm over to brush Erwin's messy bed hair.
"I don't want to, it feels comfortable here~." Erwin says softly as she starts snoozing on Noel's shoulder again. Noel sighs in defeat, looking over at Leon for help.
Leon shrugs back in response. Noel frowns at Leon.
"Commander, this is why we can't have nice things." She pouts.
Leon laughs.
"Well we never get much nice things in the first place."
"You have us already, but then you get a tank that is better than all of us…. Commander is a bully." She says.
"It was either that we leave it and let some looters find it or us taking it for the greater good."
"I see no greater good though."
"Point taken."
Erwin raises her head slowly, rubbing her eyes and stretching.
"Noel you argue too loudly…"
"It was your idea in the first place to be sleeping on my shoulder, so either way you'll be woken up by me wether you like it or not."
"Noel, why are you so mean?"
"I'm just stating facts, Erwin."
Leon notices something that was oddly missing that made the morning more relaxing.
"Where's Tomlin?" He asks.
"He, the new British girls, and Alyona I think her name was, went to explore the city. Admiral, if I could, could we go look through the city too? I've only been activated for around two and a half days so." Atlanta asks Leon.
Leon shrugs his shoulders.
"That's what I was planning to do anyways. So who wants to come with me?" Leon asks. All the girls in the living room raises their hands.
"Alright then, I guess we're all going to go explore the San Diego area." He says. Just as he turns around, he hears a door in the hallway open and sees Hazel walk out.
"Hazel, are you sure you're ok walking out like that?" Atlanta bursts out all of a sudden. Leon looks over at Atlanta, a puzzled expression blooms over his face.
"Who the fucks Hazel?" He asks. Hazel rashes her hand.
"That would be me, sir. The blue hair over there thought it would be better calling me Hazel than Type H, although I don't quite care what you call me." She says, her expression not changing at all.
"Okay then…. I thought you were still in bed, how are you up right now and out of bed? Did your back already heal or something?" Leon asks.
Hazel shakes her head.
"I am merely a clone of the original body. Master sent me out telling me to try getting to know you guys more so I don't appear as a hostile anymore, though the other day I was only following commands of my previous commander." She says as she eyes Erwin and Noel with their snipers drawn already.
Erwin hisses at Hazel like a cat defending it's territory.
"How can we believe that you're telling the truth you fucking bastard?" She says.
Hazel sighs.
"No matter what I say right now in my position I am not trustworthy enough for you guys to trust me yet due to the fact that I had attacked you in the outpost the other day. If you don't believe that I am your comrade in arms, then ask your commander. I for one don't really care if I make friends or enemies. All I really do care about is being able to finish tasks without any hesitation." She says.
Erwin clench she teeth as she glares angered at Hazel.
"I speak only truth, Erwin. There is no need to be glaring at me like that. Put the gun away before things get nasty."
"You disgust me." She says as she fires an incinidary round out of her rifle at Hazel. Leon has no time to react as the round flies straight for the clone's head. Leon braces for impact, but doesn't feel the blast at all. He looks up and sees a red hexagon that caught the shell right in between the clone's eye.
"It would be a shame if this house were to be ruined by such lack of care." Hazel sighs as she snaps her finger. The shell falls onto the ground as if it were a dud and then crumples up like a leaf, simply disappearing afterwards as if it were never the at all.
"Admiral, are you okay?" Furutaka asks as she watches Leon get back on his feet slowly.
"Other than almost going into cardiac arrest by thinking that a portion of this house was going to be blown up, yeah I guess." He says as he grabs onto Erwin's shirt collar.
"I HAVE ALWAYS TOLD YOU THINK BEFORE YOU ACT HAVEN'T I, ERWIN. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE WERE KICKED OUT OF THIS SURVIVOR CAMP BECAUSE OF YOUR FUCKING MISTAKE?" Leon shouts at her. Erwin looks away from him.
"Sorry…" She scowls.
"Sorry ain't going to do shit if the shell fuse were to blow."
"I DON'T FUCKING CARE RIGHT NOW COMMANDER. JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LEAVE ME ALONE FOR A WHILE." Erwin shouts as she bolts out of the room and out the front door.
Leon sighs as he plants his hands over his face.
"I'll get her later. Right now let's wake the other girls up and go out to the city." He says.
Noel looks up at Leon.
"Commander, are you sure she'll be alright?" She asks him.
Leon shrugs.
"Hopefully… I don't really know to be honest."
"She's a heavy tank. I think she can handle herself."
"Yup."
"Commander is an idiot." Erwin says as she continues to look into the bayside.
"He's almost like those stubborn officers back in the Western front near Leningrad who thought it was a good idea not to use antifreeze in my engines." She continues to mumble. She puts her rifle besides her, having it lean against the bench. She sighs, stretching a bit as she looks around. She doesn't see anyone looking her direction so she shrugs her shoulder.
"Oh well…" She says as she picks up her sniper. She whispers a command code at watches the sniper start smoking. It blows up like a smoke grenade, and then as the smoke clears, it turns into an MG-34 with large belts of ammunition.
"I guess it wouldn't hurt if I were to be shooting the sea as target practice." She says, taking the machine gun and setting the bipod over the wooden top of the railing. She scans around for a target and spots a metal beacon that had drifted into the harbor.
"I guess that'll work." She says as she looks into the iron sights of the machine gun. She squeezes the trigger and fires off a 20 round burst into the beacon. The rounds ding off the beacon causing causing it to bob up and down in the water. She squeezes the trigger and allows the machine gun and sprays the full 200 belt rounds at the beacon. She looks at the beacon and giggles as she sees it dark with bullet rounds dented into the side.
She sighs and sits back down on the pier, laying the machine gun leaning in an upright position on the bench. She hear a set of footsteps approaching her.
"Do you mind if I sit here?" A voice says besides her. It is heavily accented in a Korean accent so she turns around. A man who looks around his mid 20s smiles at her, sitting down besides her.
Erwin shakes her head.
"I don't mind. I'm alone at the moment." She sighs as she tosses some bullet casings into the water.
The man laughs.
"You have pretty high accuracy with a machine gun, probably one of the best I've seen in my life." He says. Erwin breaks into a small smile, scratching her head slowly.
"I'm pretty good with machine guns and snipers. It's nothing much, really." She says.
The man smiles.
"I'm more of an assault rifle guy, hence the Daewoo K1 that's on my back." He says pointing at the large rifle on his back.
"My name is Lee Cheol-ryung, I am, wait no, was a former North Korean special operations soldier. I guess you could say I was with the bad guys at one point, but it's not like I care a lot about the republic anymore."
Erwin tilts her head and looks at Cheo-ryung.
"What happened?" she asks curiously.
Cheol-ryung looks up for a moment, taking a breath.
"It was about a year ago when I was assigned a task to watch the American and South Korean leaders meeting about what happens if the republic decided to attack them. I was actually ordered to assassinate a North Korean Defector by the name of Lin Song-Ho. I spied during the conference meeting and then later I killed the defector in his hotel complex."
"The republic wanted me to stay here in america after I finished my task, knowing that there may be something else that they were hiding up their sleeves. Fast forward probably a good month to probably three months, and a new sickness had been discovered around the world. The republic called me telling me that I can't return anymore, for fears that I bring in the so called sickness that has everyone scared. They told me that they were already executing the sick and they didn't want to risk me bringing in more trouble. Even a friend of mine told me that he had overheard the higher-ups talking about execution if I do go back. I basically am stuck here now as an ex-specialist here I guess, wasting my time fooling around in this apocalypse." he says.
Erwin nods.
"I guess you did have it rough… Do you miss the Republic still?" she asks.
Chol sighs and intakes some air.
"I guess I do, but I've spent more than enough time here now that I probably wouldn't mind calling myself an American cause you know, the Republic basically put up stereotypes to make it seem like the Americans are bad and that we should hate all Americans. From what I learned, Americans are different from monsters that would eat a baby for breakfast."
Erwin laughs.
"I think when I was back in Germany a few years ago I heard the same from some people, which I didn't quite believe cause I never seen the Americans much in my area." she says without thinking.
"Oh, so you're German? When did you come to america?" he asks.
"Uhh... " Erwin tries to make an excuse, since it was around 80 years ago since the war and that the SS has been long gone.
"I came here with a military family couple years ago to visit my grandfather, I guess you could say my family was harsh on me and taught me marksmanship and how to properly operate a machine gun." she says quickly, trying to make an excuse.
"My family told me that they needed to go back to Germany, but left me with my uncle, so now he's taking care of me. Though I had an arguement with him this morning so I kinda left the house to take a walk." she says as she remembered what happened earlier and then slumped over on the stock of her MG 34.
"How about walk around the city with me for a bit? It's been awhile since I had someone to talk to I guess. It's fine if you don't want to." he says.
Erwin thinks for a sec and nods.
"Well why not? I mean it's not like I'm busy or anything at the moment. As long as you don't do anything shady it should be ok"
Chol laughs.
"I swear I won't do anything shady. I'm not into that stuff anyways." he says as he gets up off of the bench, swinging his Daewoo K1 across his back. Just as they start walking, Erwin notices that there are two girls running straight for him. They seemed to be shouting something at him, but Erwin couldn't quite hear what they were shouting.
"Uhh... Mr. Lee, there seems to be two people running towards you." she says.
Chol-ryung turns around and immediately freezes as he sees them. He slaps his face.
"Forget I said anything about being lonely, I need to introduce these two now that you've seen them." he sighs.
The girls catch up to him the taller girl flashes a smile.
"Admiral Lee! You didn't tell us that you were going to be out." she says, in an energetic tone.
Chol introduces the two girls.
"This may be kinda awkward I guess, but I am the commander of these two girls, since the last commander they served with along with me died from a raid a while back." he explains.
He points at the taller girl.
"Her name is Miyuki, fourth special-type destroyer apparently."
"Fubuki-class that is~!" she chirps in.
He then moves on to the slightly shorter one.
"And she is-"
The blond drill haired girl smiled.
"I'm Elizabeth, carnation of the Mark IV tank." she says as she gives a little smile.
Erwin, shocked at meeting her, immediately kneels down and kisses Elizabeth's hand.
"It's an honor to meet you, Elizabeth." she says.
Chol, who is very confused by this, looks at Erwin funnily.
"Well, Mr. Lee, I kinda told a lie too. I'm not actually from Germany, but a tank girl like Elizabeth here. I only was in the harbor area just because I had a fight with my commander earlier." she explains, having a slight smile. Saluting, she stands up.
"I'm Erwin, Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger. I hope you'll excuse the fact that I lied to you earlier."
Chol waves her apology aside.
"It's fine, I don't mind a lie or two." he says, in the tone that sounds as if he had been lied to many times before.
"By the way, if you are a tank girl, then wouldn't your commander be somewhere?"
Erwin nods.
"I kinda ran off cause of a small thing that happened earlier in the day." she says.
Miyuki points over behind her.
"Umm… Erwin-chan, I think there is someone you might know running up here." she says as she looks over her shoulder. Erwin looks over and notices Chiyoko running at her, waving.
"Erwin-san!" Chiyoko shouts as she catches up to the small group.
"Chiyoko? I thought you were out with the others." Erwin says, not actually expecting someone to see her.
"I was with Nakajima-sensei. I actually saw Tomlin-san and the Svetlana-san earlier." she says. Chiyoko looks behind her and sees Chol, Miyuki, and Elizabeth.
"Ooh! I see you've met Mr. Lee!" she announces happily.
Erwin smiles, and then stops when she realized what the small medium tank said.
"Wait, Chiyoko… You know them?" she almost screams into the poor girl's face.
"E-Erwin-san, not too loud, my eardrums are ringing…" she says, sweat dropping a bit. "Yeah Ryung-sensei is a normal visitor to our shop." she says as she quickly bows down to Chol.
"Ahh, Chiyoko, I thought it was a while since I've seen you." Chol waves as he gives Chiyoko a small pat on the head.
"Ryung-sensei, It's nice to see you again. It's been quite a while since you've went to the shop to visit." she says, looking up at the 6'2 man.
"Well, it's been awhile since I really did need any weapons." he laughs a little, scratching his head.
"Oh so that's where you got my saber, commander?" Elizabeth asks as she unsheathes a mid sized saber.
Chiyoko nods.
"Yup~" then she notices something.
"Commander?" she asks as she looks over at Chol.
Elizabeth giggles.
"You act just like how Erwin over there acted~." she says with a smile on her face. Elizabeth curtsies.
"Nice to meet you, Chiyoko? I'm Elizabeth, Mark IV tank carnation, nice to meet you." she says.
"M-m-Mark IV?" Chiyoko gasps as she bows down to her.
"I never thought that I would be seeing a piece of history right in front of me…" she says.
Elizabeth smiles, patting Chiyoko on the head.
"Don't say that, it makes me sound old." she says.
Erwin turns over to Chol.
"I forgot to ask you, Mr. Lee, what's your english name?" she asks.
Chol smiles.
"It's actually-"
A familiar voice behind her answers the question.
"It's been almost half a year, hasn't it."
Erwin turns around, seeing Leon and the others. Tomlin stands with Leon giving Chol a grin as he walks over to him, giving Chol a hard pat on the back.
"Nice to see you again, Deavon."
A/N: Wouldn't say too much down here this time. I hope I can do better and update faster next month. See you guys next month.
-Lenju II
P.S.- As per usual, I'll be accepting OCs.
