Emerald Forest
It's around 8:48 pm at night. We set camp for the night, hoping to get back to beacon in the morning. Team CRDL was in the Tiger, I can understand. Being inside a tank is awesome. I was standing guard on top of RUDY, surveying the landscape. A couple howls were heard but they were distant, so I didn't exactly worry. I hopped off RUDY and walked to Cardin, who was leaning on the tank and sharpening his mace.
"Cardin", I say to get his attention. He looked up at me with his usual shit faced grin.
"Yeah Mr. Rogers", he asked. I could tell he was a little frightened from the battle earlier, I can tell. From years of being a tank commander for the allies, I've seen many faces of horror in a man's eye. Cardin was no different than the average soldier, acting tough, but when put into the field, killing men who are trying to kill him.
"I just wanted to say good job, you didn't break like any new tanker", I said. I said it to boost his moral, make him fight harder. "Do you know what would've happened if those enemy tanks were to get to Vale?", I ask him. He shook his head. "They would have captured, injured, or even kill innocent lives. From old to young, they don't care". He straitened.
"Is that why you kill. To save the innocent, and bring justice?", he asked. I shook my head.
"I never wanted to fight in a damn war, but I had no choice. I did it for revenge", I say sternly. "Because they- ", I say before I was interrupted by the sounds of footsteps. I raised my rifle and steadied myself. I looked for any visual of the noise but there was nothing. I checked to see if Cardin was still there, he was with his mace ready. That's when I saw it, German foot soldiers coming out of the forest. "Well, shit", I say. I recognized these kind of soldier's. These were a couple of Germany's best men, the Waffen-SS. They kept closing in, but that was a bad mistake. As soon as they got in front of RUDY its machine gun fired and took out a couple of them. As they were distracted, I bolted for my tank as Cardin did his. I was in a full sprint until I was tackled by a soldier. I struggled to get him off as he put me in a choke hold. I kept struggling as I reached for my knife. He seemed to notice my plan and used his other arm to grab the knife. I saw the knife get thrown away.
"You will not stop the Third Reich you pathetic American", he said. He squeezed tighter until I elbowed him in the gut. His hold gotten looser but wasn't enough to break free. I kept hitting until his grip was loose enough to be free of. As I wiggled out I grabbed his arm and twisted it, a sharp yelp was heard as the sounds of bones breaking filled the air. As the man was being held down I looked around to see most of the SS troops were dead and the rest, which were about four others, were surrendering.
"looks like we win this battle", I say as I let go of him and pick up my rifle. I look over at the Tiger to see Team CRDL were a little shocked of what happened. "This is what war looks like boy's, its ugly, and messy", I say. I turn to my team. "Tie them up, we're taking them to Vale", I say as I knock out the soldier that strangled me.
Vale
I sit on the turret as we drove through town to the police station. Eyes watching us as we moved slowly as they saw two large vehicles passing them. I looked down at the five prisoners we had, they were tied up and sitting right beside the barrel of RUDY. By the time we get there, Dravko climbs out.
"So, what do we do with these five sir?", he asked. I looked around and saw the police station ahead.
"Take them to the police for interrogation and head back to Beacon", I say as we stop. I hop off as I'm met by ten heavily armed officers. I watch as they pull the soldiers and escort them inside. I climb back on and pound the drivers hatch to tell Yavko to head to Beacon. We soon drive off.
It wasn't long until we reached the airship. We parked the tanks inside and went into the airships. As I walk in I'm met by a man in a white uniform. He was a well built looking guy, he had mostly jet black hair except he had a bit of white on the side, he also was carrying a pistol of sorts.
"Commander Rogers?", he asked. I nod my head in acknowledgement. "I'm General Ironwood of Atlas Military, I was told by Ozpin you held off some hostiles from entering the city".
"Yeah that's right, even brought some prisoners to the police station too", I say. I looked at his 'troops' if you even called them that. "The hell are those?", I ask. The general looked behind him and back at me as if I were an idiot. "What, I'm from another world that doesn't have that advance of technology"
"Oh, I forgot about that. Sorry", he said. Honestly if this guy weren't a General, I'd punch this douchebag. "Anyway, we were interested to know how you 'tanks' worked inside and out.
"Oh, we don't know we only use them to fight", I say. A couple seconds passed until I got he didn't get the sarcasm. "Oh, for fucks sake, I'm kidding, of course we know how they tick', I say. "you guy's gotta learn how to joke".
"I am a soldier, there is no joking", he said. I roll my eyes. I hate people like this. Like one time, there was this sergeant who took every little thing serious, like scrubbing the toilets.
"Whatever, We'll show you how these tanks work but first you have to do something for us", I say. I see the general looking a little concern.
"and what would that be?", he asked. I smiled as I told him about the tanks we destroyed earlier this morning. "So you want these tanks at Beacon so you may use them for either parts or for teaching", he asked. I nodded. "OK, I'll do what I can".
"good", I say. I look at my crew who were looking at the robots closely. Dravko decided it would be a good idea to mess with one and stick his tongue out at it. The robot grabbed his tongue and held it.
"THIT, let go oth my tongue", Dravko said, or at least tried. The robot let go. Uskao let out a hearty laugh as both Yavko and I facepalmed.
"Anyway General, we should get going", I say as I walked away. I grab Dravko by his tongue, which was still out, and pull him while Uskao and Yavko follow. We head to our room.
End of Chapter 5.
