Today is the day:
The girls from Saunders and St. Gloriana were the first to arrive at "El Alamein" a deserted place with a small town that limited with the sea. Whoever dominated that city had the privilege of having fresh supplies. Both schools decided to make their HQ in a camp that was around a 100 kilometers from the town, they took that idea so they avoided being destroyed or being surrounded by the "Axis".
The objective was easy, whoever destroys the enemy HQ first wins. If any of the HQS are destroyed that team will have to abandon the battlefield. It meant that every decision that they take could mean a victory or a defeat.
"Shit…" Kay said to Darjeeling
"What?" Darjeeling asked
"Nothing, I'm a bit nervous. Never thought that they would literally make Sensha-Do even harder" Kay answered before going with her troops
Kay made her way were the American troops made their tents and kept all the equipment safe from enemy attacks. She saw that her troops were happy about being there, even if they knew that this battle might be lost they kept hope
"So… When are you going to kiss her?" Alisa asked to her commander
"I don't know… But it's not the time now to think about romantic stuff" Kay answered to Alisa
"Okay, but have you already declared to her?" Alisa kept insisting
"Nope, I think I will declare to her tonight… After all tomorrow we have to investigate the town" The blonde commander answered while going to see her tank
The day kept normal. 2 hours later ANZAC High School finally arrived. The only problem that they had was that ANZAC didn't know where the allied HQ was.
"Commander!" A voice shouted from a tent
"Yes?" Darjeeling asked
"It's the commander from ANZAC, they ask where the HQ is" The radioman answered "Should I tell them?" he continued
"Let's send a small convoy to pick them up, we can't risk our safety…. We don't know if Kuromorimine or Anzio finally arrived" Kay said
"But…" the radio man tried to protest
"Do it… I will go" Darjeeling said before being grabbed by Kay
"No… I will send Naomi and Alisa to pick them up" Kay said before releasing Darjeeling's arm
"Alright…" The soldier said before saying it to the Australian commander
Both American tanks followed by some British medium tanks and two Crusaders made their way to the point where the Australian where waiting for them
"I don't like this…" Alisa said communicating it to the other tanks and to the HQ "It feels so weird… And so silent" She continued
"Come on, don't turn around now, you are close to the Australian team" Kay said trying to calm down Alisa
"I see them" Naomi said "Wait… Kay, we are fucked… Looks like ANZAC decided to engage the enemy" She continued as she saw a destroyed tank at the distance and smoke coming out of it
The British and American tanks finally arrived at the point where the Australian entrenched themselves. They had to exchange a firefight with a scout group from Anzio. 4 Italian soldiers and one light tank got destroyed and 3 Australian soldiers got injured.
"Finally you arrived… I thought that you would abandon us" Sophia said trying to take her breath
"We didn't know you got into a firefight with Anzio, we didn't hear gunshots" Alisa said to the commander
"Let's stop talking and let's get moving" Christian said from inside a GMC truck
"The wounded will go in the trucks! Make space!" Sophia said as she got in her tank
Lucy gave her sit to one of the wounded soldiers, she and some other soldiers decided to go on top of the tanks, thing that was extremely dangerous knowing that the battle finally started thanks to Anzac
The trip was extremely tense, they knew that Anzio might have heard the firefight or got the news from the only soldier that was able to escape. The biggest threat was Kuromorimine and their tanks, the anti-tank cannons from St. Gloriana were no match against the heavy tanks. Their only hope were the Churchill tanks and the M4 Sherman.
When they arrived they were greeted by Darjeeling and Kay. They guided the wounded into the medical tents, Darjeeling asked Sophia is she could go with her into one of the tents to tell her all the plan that they had in mind with Kay.
"Wait… I saw another town not far from where we were waiting for you, the problem is that I saw a large column of armored vehicles entering the town, I suspect those vehicles belonged to Anzio" Sophia said
"Maybe, but first we will capture the town that it's located at 100 kilometers from here" Darjeeling said as she drank her tea
"Okay… Do you need me to prepare some of my troops?" Sophia asked
"No, today we will just prepare this camp. Tomorrow we will send some troops to take the town" Darjeeling said "Let's hope that we they didn't take that city" she added
At the Axis HQ:
The Axis HQS were far one from the other, Kuromorimine planted their HQ in a zone that had a small lake and had small mountains. While Anzio planted the HQ in a small town near the Allied HQ.
"I heard the scout team of Anzio got defeated by the allies" Erika said to Maho
"Yeah… They were lucky, those Italians don't understand that they can't charge just like that. This place doesn't have a lot of zones to take cover" Maho said
"Commander… Sorry for interrupting you" A soldier said entering the tent where Maho and Erika were talking
"Go on…" Erika said
"Um… A soldier from Anzio arrived she wants to talk to you" The Afrika Korps soldier said
Maho and Erika left the tent and saw a beaten up female soldier that was sitting while drinking a bit of water. The soldier was the only one that could escape from the firefight with ANZAC
"Commander Nishizumi…" The Italian soldier said
"Maho" The short brown haired girl said
"I wanted to say that I'm sorry, we weren't able to defeat ANZAC" The girl said
"Just that?" Erika said "We already know that" she continued as she went to see her tank
"No… The Australian made their camp near to our HQ" the beaten up girl said, she didn't know that the Australian team moved their camp to the HQ of the allies.
The soldier got up and went to the truck that transported her from her HQ to the German HQ. Maho doubted the information of the Italian, she knew that if they attacked the Australian team, St. Gloriana and Saunders could make a joint attack and take out Kuromorimine out of the battle.
"New plan… Erika send some of our soldiers to take Alexandria, if we keep that city we might have a strategic point to make ambushes" Maho said as she pointed the city on a map
"But Maho, we don't know where the Allied HQ is. Maybe Alexandria it's under allied control" Erika protested
"True… Then send a pair of scouts to recon the zone" Maho answered
Erika left the tent and went to the barracks, she called 4 members to enlist as scouts. She told them not to engage the enemy, in case the enemy opens fire they must contact with her and hold their ground. She wouldn't accept retreat, the only retreat that they could do was in case that Alexandria was under allied control.
The four soldiers were 2 machine gunners, 1 radio operator and a sniper. The only boy in the scout group was the second machine gunner. The group went in a pair of motorcycles towards the city. They left their vehicles when they were close to their objective.
The radio operator and the sniper located themselves in a small mountain of sand and kept guard of the situation for 2 hours.
"Any news?" one of the machine gunners asked
"Nein… I can't see anyone" the sniper said "fucking sand, it's making me really uncomfortable" she added
"At least it isn't snow" the other machine gunner joked
"Shhh… do you hear that?" the radio operator asked
The four soldiers heard the sound of a vehicle moving towards their position, the girls decided to hide in an improvised trench that they made in case of combat. What they didn't know it was that the vehicle belonged to Anzio.
The girls heard that the vehicle stopped right next to their trench and heard some footsteps approaching them. The sniper decided to confront them pointing one of the Anzio soldiers
"Jesus fucking Christ! We thought that you were the allies" The sniper said
"Nope, we were scouting the area, we wanted to check where is the allied HQ" the officer of the Italian team answered
"Well… We are also scouting for the HQ, and we were trying to see if that town was occupied or not" the male machine gunner said as he pointed the city with his finger
The Italian and German groups decided to stay together to scout for information, it became darker and darker and both teams still hadn't found any information. They almost engaged the enemy twice after they saw some patrols of American troops.
Both groups were now far from their respective camps, so they made their own camp for the night. They used the Italian truck as a shelter in case spiders or snakes come out on night, they felt insecure because they didn't know if the allies would send patrols during night or maybe the axis may have sent another patrol and they could think that the truck belonged to the allies.
At the allied HQ:
Kay was spending time with Darjeeling inside of one tent. The allied team had the problem that they didn't have enough sleeping bags for all the soldiers so some of them had to share it with another soldier or sleep without it. Kay offered Darjeeling to sleep with her, Kay used the excuse that it was the least that she could do for her.
"Thanks kay…" Darjeeling said as she lied of the floor
"Hey… It's nothing" Kay said as she lied next to Darjeeling
"Um… Kay… I have something to tell you" Darjeeling said nervously
"I also have something to tell you" Kay said
"Kay… For this time that have spent together, for the time that you cheered me up during the fight with Christian I have to say that I…" Darjeeling said before being interrupted by a kiss on her lips
The kiss was short, but both Darjeeling and Kay enjoyed the kiss. They broke the kiss and looked at each other
"Sorry… I just got carried away" Kay said as she giggled "I love you Darjeeling" She confessed
"And I love you too" Darjeeling said as she kissed Kay´s forehead
The couple didn't know that one of the crew members of Alisa heard all the discussion, she rushed towards the tent where Alisa and Naomi where sleeping.
"Commander…" The crew member "Are you awake?" She asked
"Yes… What is it?" Alisa asked as she lazily opened her eyes
"She finally confessed her feelings towards the British commander" she whispered, she didn't know that Naomi was listening to them
"Fucking finally…" Naomi said as she smirked and left a small giggle
"Were you listening to us?" Alisa asked
"It's not difficult to hear you if I'm next to you" Naomi answered "Now go to sleep, we need to have energy for tomorrow" she added before falling asleep again