Rudy
The battlefield was scattered with destroyed hostile and friendly tanks and pieces of their armor. My name is John Rogers, Commanding Officer of a Churchill iii Heavy Tank named Rudy. It was standard green with the insignia saying Rudy with hand prints around it. Now I know what your thinking, 'Why is an American in charge of a Russian tank'. Well the other soldiers in the tank lost both their Commander and Machine Gunner, and I lost my tank while... taking a piss behind a tree. I shut the Commanders hatch and look around at the three other soldiers. The reloader, Uskao {oo-sk-oh} Monovka. He was around in his 30's. He was like a second in command. He was a smart, tactical, and fast reloader. He was wearing a tank top with overalls tied around his waist, he had a rough worn face with a mustache {Look at Abrahams from The Walking Dead} . I then look at the two brothers, Drovka and Yovka Mouskao. Drovka was the shooter, and a damn good one too. He was loud, ignorant, and always talking about women. He was young, around in his early 20's. He wore his overalls with a pack of cigarettes rolled up in the sleeve. His sister, Yovka, was his polar opposite. She was the driver, always calm and quiet. Se too was wearing his overalls except without the cigarettes. She was in his late 20's. After driving for hours, we stumble upon the last enemy, a German Tiger Heavy Tank.
"What do you want to do comrade", said Uskao, with a look of readiness. I look at the hostile tank, thinking of a plan. I look at Yovka.
"Try and circle around it so we can get its fuel tanks", I say, ready for this challenge. We began moving forward into some brush so we aren't seen. I open the hatch a little to see the Tiger tank passing us, as well as Rudy's turret following it. Once the Tiger passed us I yelled fire. The HEAT round was sent from the barrel and got a direct hit on the Tigers fuel tanks, but the hostile was still active. Uskao loaded another round quickly, but the Tiger already turned its backside away and started rolling towards us. It fired a round, it bounced off. We fired another round and hit it's turret, but also didn't penetrate. Soon Rudy and the Tiger were circling around either missing or bouncing off rounds. After about 5 minutes our tracks were hit and we were immobilized. The Tiger thought it was done with us, nope. Droka somehow was able to hit its ammo rack and making it ignite from the inside. The Tiger was down, its over, or at least we thought. The ground underneath Rudy gave in and we fell into the hole.
Remnant
I slowly wake up from blacking out. Are we dead, I thought. I look around and see I'm still inside the tank. So no, we're not dead. I crawl over to the others and shake them awake. Uskao and Yovka wake up, only Dravko didn't. He was still alive, we didn't need to check, he was mumbling about women and booze. I open the commanders hatch to see we were in a forest of some sort.
"Where are we comrade", asked Uskao. He was curious. I don't know either.
"I have no idea Uskao, but we need to find a settlement and call in for immediate evac", I said. We tried to move then remembered the tracks were destroyed. I jump out to repair the tracks. By the time I finished, I heard something growling in a bush. Not wanting to know what it is I climb back in the tank, We then pressed onwards. After about an hour or two, we made contact with some kind of creature. It looked like a giant scorpion with a gold stinger and it looked as if it was wearing armor, we then decided it might be hostile. So I fired an AP round at it, successfully killing it. Wherever we are it is definitely not earth. We kept moving forward and found a city, unfortunately, it was abandoned. We did find a place to park for the night, we climbed out our hatches to set up camp. We all agreed to keep Drovka in the tank since we didn't know what condition he was in. I was on first watch when everyone fell silent. That's when I noticed the moon looked as if it were shattering, it was beautiful though. I heard the same growling noise that I heard when we woke up. I walk around and leaned against a pillar, I look around the corner to see a giant man wolf creature slowly creeping around. I hold onto my M1 Grand tightly. I then hear the hatch of our tank open and Drovka looked out.
"GOOD MORNING MOTHER RUSSIA", He yelled. What a fucking idiot. I look back at the creature as it charged. I turn the corner and began to fire. The shots were loud enough to wake the others. I fired round after round until it was dead. I look back at them.
"PACK UP, WE GOTTA GO NOW", I said. They went straight to action, packing everything and strapping it down. As soon as everyone was in we heard howling of those beasts. Yovka then kicked it into high gear. Before all this, we had the engine upgraded to make Rudy go around 45 KMH. It proved worthy getting away from the beasts. We didn't fire at them since we only had 28 AP, 11 HE, and 7 HEAT rounds left. I only had 24 rounds for the M1, and the machine guns ran out after we had a problem with an artillery. After a long drive through the woods, we made it to another city, with people. We decided to leave Rudy behind some brush. The people were normal except for the few with animal features. We walked around a bit until we found a bookstore, we walked in to find anything useful. The door opened and a couple of those animal people walked in with what looked like rifles. They started pointing them. Luckily I had my rifle and the guys were strong in hand to hand. Without a single word we fought them. If you call us taking cover fighting then yeah. I was able to distract them a little with returning fire. The Russian tankers then charged at them and somehow beat them. They then ran off.
"HAHAHA, look at them run comrades", Dravko said. They all were laughing at the fleeing men. I then heard police sirens in the distance. Well, this escalated quickly.
Vale PD
After being transported to their police HQ, we got separated. We were in different cells. I looked over at the Dravko, who was yelling something in Russian. His sister was in the same cell, was sitting there, calm as always. They were already sent to an interrogation room, I was yet to be sent. I heard the door to the interrogation room, Uskao walked out with the biggest smile ever.
"Uskao, why the hell are you smiling", I asked. But before he could answer a man in green with a mug in hand came up to me.
"I'll answer that. Please come with me Mr. Rogers", said the man. I nodded my head and looked at Uskao.
"Try and calm down Dravko will ya", I said. He nodded and walked over to Dravko. I turn back to the man. Who was walking to the door of the interrogation room. After explaining how we got here, I looked at the clock, damn I've been sitting here for 2 hours.
"Well that is quite the story. You said to be soldiers from another world, you operate a giant vehicle named 'Rudy', hmm", the man now known as Ozpin was thinking for a second. I also learned he runs the best combat school on this planet. "How would you and your friends like if you were to teach our student maintenance on heavy equipment? You'll be given a room, and a classroom, or what we call the hanger", Ozpin said. Teaching students to use and fix vehicles, I don't see anything wrong with that.
"Alright we'll take the job, but once we find a way back home, we are out of here. The western front will need heavy support", I say as I stood up. I bring my hand out to offer a handshake, he accepted.
"By the way, we located your vehicle and its on it's way as we speak", he said. How the hell do they air lift a 39.6 ton tank. I decided to not ask that question because, right when I walked through the door, I see Uskao and Yavko carrying a tied up Dravko to the tank. I decided to ignore it and climb on the tank.
"Remember you start tomorrow Mr. Rogers", he said. I did a military salute before Rudy began to move forward.
Next Day
We eventually got Dravko to calm down last night, it was when we told him there'd be girls there. He was excited know, I hope he knows a teacher can't hit on student's. We drove to the docks where students were waiting to board a giant ship. They stared in awe as we parked Rudy in the cargo area. We walked out and joined the students in the ship. After hours of sitting down, I see a boy with a sword and blonde hair puke in a trash can. Motion sickness, it got me before when in training. A few more hours later, we arrived at the giant school. Everyone except Yavko, I walk up to her.
"You alright Yav", I ask her. She hasn't said a word since we got here. It worried me a little. She looked at me with her usual poison look.
"Yeah I'm alright, it's just what if we never make it back home", she said monotone. I put my hand on her shoulder.
"We'll find a way", I say, reassuring her. We climbed in our tank and drove to the garage. I have a feeling this will be an interesting year.
