A/N: This is what happens when I spend almost 4 months playing War Thunder and World of Warships along with studying instead of writing… Whoops, that's mainly my fault. Anyways, welcome to the 12th chapter of Survivors, I hope you do enjoy it. Probably…
Edit: Happy New Years everyone, sorry for taking so long to do this chapter
Chapter 12: More Recruits
Thirty minutes earlier from the previous chapter
"Wait, Suzukaze, didn't you say that there was a crate that wasn't opened by Kazuma a little while back?" Leon asks as he, Suzukaze, Alhied, and Noel walk along the sidewalk that overlaps the perimeter of the San Diego Harbor. Suzukaze looks over at Leon.
"Oh yeah huh… there is that other one." she says looking up for a moment. "Coming to think of it, I may or may not have misplaced it while tidying up the captain's quarters on the Lawrence…." she says, slowly whistling a tune while looking away from Leon. Leon facepalms.
"Well, looks like we'll have a fun time doing a field day looking for the case." he says, giving off a sigh.
Suzukaze laughs, and bops her own head, sticking out her tongue.
"Double Panzer Four!" Alheid exclaims happily. Leon turns around, noticing that she had gotten onto Noel's shoulders.
Leon looks over at Suzukaze, taking note that she always glances at the two panzers.
"Up you go!" Leon says as he lifts Suzukaze onto his shoulders. The flustered destroyer tried starts to flail on hs shoulder.
"P-put me down, teitoku… T-this isn't funny." She stammers while blushing. Leon shakes his head. "
"When I feel like it I will" he says, laughing. Suzukaze tries to punch him, but he tosses her in the air causing her to yelp in surprise. He catches her in his arms and carries the poor destroyer bridal style. Her face lights up like a tomato, immediately trying to get Leon to put her down.
"P-put me down, teitoku, p-people can see my p-panties…" she mutters softly. A whistle sounds right behind him. Leon turns to see both panzers looking at him with a sly smile.
"I didn't know Commander was into this stuff." Noel says with an innocent tone. Alhied, still on top of Noel, starts giggling.
"No worries, commander, Sure doesn't seem to like this on the outside, but on the inside she wants this to last longer, maybe even make time stop to enjoy it longer." Alhied says adding more tints of red to the destroyer's cheeks.
"T-talk anymore, a-and I will shove a 5 inch shell up your engine compartment." Suzukaze threatens. Alhied sticks her tongue out at her in response.
"Do it, you won't~" she says. Noel perks up.
"Commander, I've found Erwin's signature, proceed to follow?"she asks. Leon nods.
"Well, at least we know where she is now, that's a relief." He says. A as they pass by a run down looking building, they suddenly hear a sudden yelling.
"Svetlana, it's too early in the morning to be drinking vodka!" a voice screams. A drunk voice then chimes in.
"Who zeh fuak gives two shats avout dah…. I wanna try ouf zis nu vodka." The voice says.
Leon, the panzers, and Suzukaze( whom Leon lets down) looks at the entrance of the small winery. Valentine and Alyona could be sent dragging out a slightly drunk heavy tank out onto the pavement. Airalyn was the first to notice Leon standing at the doorway.
"Good morning, commander!" She announces with a salute. Leon waves her salute off.
"No needs to be so formal when we're office duty, it makes me feel kinda uncomfortable." He says. Airalyn looks up at him with a puzzled expression.
"So, if we can't call you commander on office what should we call you?"
"Leon or Henderson is fine." He says.
"B-but that's kinda weird to be calling you by your first name" the Churchill stammers, quite cutely.
Tomlin laughs.
"You'll get used to it after a Ywhile, isn't it, pal?" He says as he puts arms around Leon's shoulder. Leon tosses Tomlin's arm aside.
"Number one, fuck you, don'tg you touch me so carefree. Second, yeah you'll get used to it any how."he says.
Tomlin looks over at Leon.
"By the way, why are you here?" He asks.
Leon sighs. "Got Erwin's kinda pissed off at me, she ran off, and now we need to find her."
"Want to merge the two groups of us together? We're literally doing nothing right now but walking around aimlessly." Tomlin says. "I don't even know half the survivor camp."
Leon nods his head.
"I think we can do that, I'm was just about to head down to the pier anyways." he says. Tomlin shrugs.
"Up to you, I don't really care." He says as he beacons the rest of the girls to follow him. A drunk hiccup could be heard.
"I think Svetlana had too much to drink again…" Valeriya says poking the heavy tank's cheek.
Svetlana looks up, her face really red.
"Vhat you say comrade tiny, I'm not zhat drunk vet, you damn voking idiot…" she slurs as she tries to stand up.
"See, perfectly fine" she says as her knees give out and she falls face first into the concrete, making a facial indent into the sidewalk.
Leon sighs.
"How much trouble are we going to get into in one walk?" He questions as he picks up the heavy tank and carries her piggyback styled.
"Ugh, Tomlin you want to carry her? She reeks of vodka" he says.
Tomlin laughs giving him the middle with his well known shit eating grin.
"Your problem, ain't mine" he laughs.
Svetlana starts singing the USSR national anthem, or more like trying to sing it, but getting it slurred a bit too much to make out what she was saying.
Leon turns the corner, with Tomlin at his side and the drunk heavy on his back when he notices two familiar figures standing near the pier. Erwin is standing next to the Asian man, smiling, while Chiyoko seemed to be intrigued by a slightly shorter blond drill-haired girl.
"Isn't that-" Leon starts, but Tomlin finishes his sentence.
"Yup it is , good ol Devon Lee, our one of a kind sniper." He smiles.
Leon smirks. "Let's give him a greeting."
Back into the present timeline
Devon smirks. "It's been way too long, Leon. Probably a few months now." He says. Leon nods in agreement.
"It's been way too long man, how have you been doing?" He asks, giving Devon a pat on the back. Devon nods.
"I've met with your tank girl, Erwin, I assume, right?" He asks. Leon looks at him and over at Erwin who glares at him back.
"Alright, I'm sorry Erwin, it has been a long week, and that I'm not always a morning person, so I'm sorry for yelling at you."
Erwin looks away from him, concealing a slight smile.
"I-it's not as if I'll accept your apology right away, stupid commander. Hmph" she says. Tomlin leans in on the two.
"Did a German just pull off the classic Tsundere move?" He whispers to the two others.
Devon laughs. "Yeah, I guess she did." He then motions the two girls that he had with him over.
The two girls, one with blond hair and the other one with short brown hair stand up and salutes.
"Leon, meet my two girls, Miyuki and Elizabeth, one a tank girl and one a ship girl. Girls, this here is a friend and a comrade of mine, Leon Henderson." He says. The girls bow down to him.
"Nice to meet you, Commander Henderson, sir. Commander Ryung has talked about a lot, now it is nice to meet you in person." Elizabeth says as she gives him a small curtsy.
Leon bows down. "By the way, what tank are you, Elizabeth?"
Elizabeth giggles. "Funny you ask me, Commander Henderson, if you can't tell by my uniform already." She says twirling around. Leon looks her up and down.
"Now that you mention it yeah it doesn't look like a Second World War uniform. Interwar perhaps?" He asks. Elizabeth giggles as she skips to his side and stands on her tippy toes and whispers into his left ear.
"I'm Mark IV of the First World War~." She whispers and pulls away giggling, leaving a dumbfound Leon staring at her.
"You made the same face as Commander Ryung when we transferred from our late Commander Göring, a fascinating German commander we were put under while liberating a small town near that bloody large city Los Angeles." She smiles and hides behind Miyuki, giving her a small push.
"Your turn~" she says.
Miyuki stumbles and then stands straight. "Nice to meet you, Henderson Teitoku. I'm Miyuki of the Fubuki class destroyers. I hope we can have an exciting time together!" She says. Suddenly she lurches over, feeling someone tackling her from behind.
"W-who?" She screams in surprise.
"Miyuki-chan! You sunk too early for me to give you any kind of greeting!" Suzukaze cries with glee as she bear hugs the poor destroyer.
"S-Suzukaze-chan? I-it's really been a while!" she says.
As the destroyers continue talking about the war, Devon turns over and looks at both Leon and Tomlin.
"I believe you have something to tell me, right, Leon?" Devon asks. Leon nods.
"I'm setting up basically a large squad of basically tank girls and ship girls alike to try and take the major cities of California and maybe the states above the Sierra Nevadas. If possible, would you join our team?" Leon asks him. Devon unslings his Daewoo rifle and puts it down besides him. He then draws out a quarter.
"If it lands on heads, I'll go with you guys. if it lands on tails, I'll be going my separate way, how does that sound, Leon?" He asks. Leon laughs.
"Fine by me." He says. The Korean man laughs. He flips the coin into the air. The momentary clank could be heard as the coin sails through the air and slowly makes its way to the floor in between Leon and himself. The coin bounces twice, spinning as it starts to slown. The coin drops and Devon smiles.
"Seems to be your lucky day, Leon." He says as Leon looks down at the coin. The coin had landed on heads.
"Welcome to the team Devon, it's nice to have you back." He says as he gives the Korean man a pat on the back.
"Well get your girls together, I'm heading to Suzukaze's ship, the William P. Lawrence, getting something off of there." He says. Devon laughs.
"Never hear about a ship captaining another ship, huh." He says. Leon starts laughing.
"That thought never occurred to me." He says. A rumbling could be heard behind them. Devon's eyes stare behind him as he opens his mouth speechlessly. Leon turns around and is greeted by his own M1 Abrams stopped in front of him. The hatch opens up and Atlanta pokes her head out the opening.
"Commander, don't just leave us alone at home, that was rude of you!" She shouts. Leon sighs.
"Why the Abrams? We don't have so much fuel for that thing I hope you do understand that." He says. "Wait, who's driving it?"
The driver's hatch opens up and Hazel's head pops out as she waves at Leon.
"No worries, commander. I have ran a test on this vehicle. It is actually much easier to drive this." She says. Leon only stares.
"How can you drive it though? There are a lot of levers and things like that." He asks.
A second clone of her pops up and waves at him.
"Wait then where's Furutaka and the others?" he shouts over the engine.
"Furutaka and Yuudachi are in the Radio operator's seat. I think Yuudachi is playing with the Satellite GPS thingy in the seat. Harusame just dozed off in the loader's seat." Atlanta says as she motions to Hazel to kill the engines.
"By the way, who's that guy standing beside you? He looks like the kinda people I blasted with my dual purpose guns back in the war, you know the ones in those zeros." She says as she jumps out from the hatch, onto the ground.
Leon points to Devon.
"Devon, this is Atlanta. Atlanta, Devon." He says.
Atlanta grins and pulls her hand out for a handshake which Devon accepts.
"Nice ta meet ya!" She says giving off a toothy grin. Devon laughs.
"Nice to meet you too, Atlanta." He says.
Hazel jumps out of the small driver's hatch and walks over to Devon. She walks over to him and offers her hand out slowly.
"I'm Hazel, nice to meet you." She says nonchalantly. Devon shakes her hand.
"Nice to meet you too." He says. He the turns over to Leon.
"How many girls do you have?" He asks. Leon chuckles and scratches his head.
"Last week I had two, then Tomlin came and it turned into three. We found Yuudachi and Harusame at San Francisco naval base so that turned to here to San Diego four days ago and met Suzukaze and her girls, which made nine girls. Then went near the pier and found two crates underwater and fished out Erika, an SPG and Furutaka, my heavy cruiser so that made eleven. Uhhh….. McKinley and the rest of us went to the old 34th armored regiment site and I found Atlanta deactivated in the Abrams behind me, and then Hazel, whom I ran over with the Abrams, then helped her recover and join us, so that makes 13. Yesterday there was some British General whom left his girls under my command since he needed to return to Britain to help out in something and he had another four girls so yeah I have around 17 now." He says.
"So where are all of you guys headed?" Devon asks. Tomlin shrugs.
"I'm just following Leon, I'm basically trying to map out the city at the moment." He says.
"I'm just going to the Laurence cause apparently Suzukaze left something on it that might help us." Leon says.
"Another crate of sorts?"
"Yeah, I guess."
"Thought so."
Leon hops onto the Abrams.
"Since it's already here, lets all just ride this tank to the port." Leon shouts.
"C-c-commissar? W-what am d-doing on your back?" Svetlana screams as she slowly wakes up sober.
Leon laughs.
"You drank too much too early in the morning. You were mumbling something the whole time in a drunk manner" he laughs.
"T-that's embarrassing of me." She says as she slowly sits down on the Abrams.
"Y-you didn't do anything suspicious to me d-did you?" She asks as she covers her brass with her arms, furiously blushing.
"Why does everything leader me inappropriately touching you girls that I don't do?" Leon wonders aloud as he starts up the engine.
"It's just that you can't be trusted, commander. You look young and all, but you always have the look of a pervert, poi." Yuudachi says, poking her head out of the radio compartment.
"GOD YOU ALL!" Leon shouts as the Abrams heads down the docks.
Aboard the USS William P. Lawrence
"Alright you girls ,let's look for some containers aboard this ship!" Leon shouts as the girls separate from each other. Naturally he and Suzukaze are partnered up due to the fact that Suzukaze is the captain of the ship and Leon had almost memorized every part of the DDG.
"You wanna first check out the Captain's room?" He asks. Suzukaze shrugs.
"I guess…. Not too sure." She says, giving him an uncertain grin.
"THIS IS YOUR DAMN SHIP ISN'T IT?" He screams with a pissed off smile.
"Alright alright, let check." She says. "It's been a while since I've been on board this ship though, and last time I've checked, I kinda left a mess in the room." She chuckles nervously.
"How bad can it possibly be?" Leon asks as they reach the captain's room. He opens the door, and immediately an iron crate falls on him.
"Very bad?" Suzukaze says as she slowly pulls the box off of Leon.
"I would yell at you, but we found the box." Leon says.
Leon takes his ear piece and opens up a com.
"You girls find anything? Tomlin?"
Most of the answers are a no.
"This is Chiyoko and Alhied, I think we found another one." Chiyoko says.
Leon smiles.
"Copy that, Chiyoko, I think this short expedition around the ship is concluded. Meet me on the bridge head." He says.
"Roger that, commander!" A chorus of shouts could her heard.
"Now let's open up these crates and see what we have." Leon says.
He slowly speaks his code into the two crates and steps back.
The crates smoke up and three figures stand up.
"Commander…. Henderson?" The figure says as the smoke clears. There stood three girls, two who looked like twins and a slightly taller girl with a kantele. The taller one steps up first and bows down.
"Nice to meet you, Commander Henderson." She takes a look and notices everyone else. "Or shall I say, everyone. Nice to meet you, I'm Ansa, model BT-42." She says as she strums her kantele.
Tomlin leans over to Leon.
"Are we in the Girls und Panzer universe now or what?" He asks. Leon shrugs.
"I guess the developers had some weird ideas. At least they didn't call her Mika" he whispers back.
"You two go now, I've introduced myself." Ansa states as she picks up her small grenade launcher.
The light brown haired girl slowly steps up to Leon.
"N-nice to meet you all, a-and c-c-commander Henderson. I-I'm Abigail, a-and this is my older sister, Alexi. We're both the same tank model, but different variants. M3 and M5 Stuart" she stammers holding onto Alexi.
"Funny thing I have pink hair, while Abigail here has brown hair." Alexi laughs.
M3 Stuart "Abigail"
Abigail seems to be the shy kind. She carries a radio set on her back, representing her large radio that was used for long ranged recon back in the war. She carries a .30cal M1A1 rifle. She stands at round 3'9. Abigail has brown hair that drops down to her shoulder and blue eyes. She wears a US tanker uniform with the pants replaced with a brown skirt.
M5 Stuart "Alexi"
Alexi is the same as Abigail except for a few differences. She has pink hair tied into twin tails with hair ornaments that represents her wartime turret. She has a more flamboyant personality, quite opposite from Abigail. She also has a Thompson with the etched name "Chicago Typewriter" on the side of her radio.
BT-42 "Ansa"
Ansa stands at around 4'1. She has light blue hair. Her eyes are special, one being red and the other being electric blue like Erwin's eyes. She wears a Finnish tankers uniform, which really looks like Erwin's uniform. Her weapon consists of a 40mm grenade launcher. She also carries around a kantele.
Mark IV "Elizabeth"
Being the first main battle tank, Elizabeth basically acts like a noble. She wears a world war 1 uniform. Her blonde hair is tied a drill style and she has yellow eyes. She doesn't carry any weapons, but is able to summon weapons at will (hence Tomlin called her Mami Tomoe but got hit by both Leon and Devon) which would either be two modified 6 pounder cannons or four .303 Lewis machine guns.
Fifth Fubuki class DD "Miyuki"
Miyuki has a very upbeat personality. She has black hair and black eyes. She seems to want to go to battle. As Suzukaze said, she sunk before World War 2 started due to a sailing accident. She wears a sailor uniform different from Harusame and Yuudachi. She has a rigging that has her wartime engine smoke stacks, torpedo tubes on both her legs, and a five inch gun she could turn into a hair clip.
"She's so cute!" Atlanta squeals as she hugs Abigail. "It's been so long since I've seen you two!"
Abigail is blushing too much to say anything, but Alexi asks instead.
"Umm… I'm sorry if I'm being rude, but who are you? I know you're a US warship though." She asks.
Atlanta stops. She scratches her head.
"I don't know if you could remember that far, but I'm USS Atlanta, Light Cruiser, identification CL-51." She says. Abigail's eyes widen.
"D-do you mean the one that sunk in Guadalcanal? T-to friendly fire? I-in if I remember correctly Iron Bottom Sound?"
At the sound of Iron Bottom Sound, Atlanta, Furutaka, and Yuudachi all go silent.
"Y-yeah. That's it." She says.
Abigail looks over at her.
"I-I remember what happened… I'm sorry for bringing it up…" she says as she hugs into Atlanta.
"Abigail-Chan, please don't bring up bad memories, poi…" Yuudachi says, holding her head.
"S-sorry" she says.
Leon clears his throat.
"How about we forget all these bad memories and have a late lunch? I think I know the perfect place to get some good food." He laughs.
"The same place again?" Tomlin asks.
"Probably." He says. "So who's with me?"
The girls all break in a chorus of cheering.
A/N: It's really been too long. Sorry about not updating for so long. I have a busy schedule and sometimes I just feel kinda lazy. I'll try updating more often. OCs still being accepted.
-Lenju II