Chapter 6: World of the Unkown
Base Valkyria, Mess Hall 2.
"Buon pomeriggio, signore.(Good afternoon, sir.)" "Afternoon, sir." "Good afternoon, sir." A group of soldiers, consisting of Italians, Americans, and Brits, waves and greets William as they exit through the door.
"Afternoon soldiers." Greeted back, William.
William, followed by Sanya, enters the building once the group moves away from the door. Once they are inside, the witch is amazed by how clean, organized, and big it is. By comparing her base hanger to this one, this one is bigger and cleaner.
"Follow me; let's go order food for both of us." Said William as she walks to the self-ordering kiosk, a small free-standing structure displaying different kinds of menus for the person to choose what they wanted to eat.
Sanya looks at William's front and notices the tall structure they are heading towards. "Um, what is that structure?" she asks in a curious tone, wondering what it is.
"Oh, this?" William said as they stopped in front of it. "It is a self-ordering machine or kiosk." She pulls out her identification card from her uniform pocket and puts it on the card reader mounted on the kiosk. "You can order food from here by using this machine."
The screen displays William's name fully and flashes green before disappearing, meaning the kiosk accepted William's card.
"Once you order it, it will track the card I'm holding to know where I'm sitting." William moves the card away from the card reader and shows it to Sanya. "And then an order will deliver the food to you once it's finished."
The witch was amazed by this self-ordering machine. 'Is this how our future technology is going to evolve?'
William put her card back into her pocket and faced the screen to begin ordering her food first. She taps on the food category button and chooses which cuisine. 'Hmm…kind of into Japanese curry rice today.' She chooses the Japanese food button and taps on Japanese curry rice with an add-on of hot green tea for the order.
Once she finishes ordering his food, she turns to Sanya and asks her what she wants. "What do you want to eat, Miss Sanya? I'll help you order it."
Sanya was surprised by the field marshal's generosity, and she thanked her shyly, "O-oh, thank you, ma'am." She bowed a bit.
"Hahaha… There's no need to be shy, and the pay is on me. Don't worry about it." William brushes it off. "Do you want to try our world Russian food? It's a counterpart of your country, Orussia." She asks her if she wants to try out Russian foods.
Sanya once she heard about 'Russian' food, she begins to think about her motherland foods ever since she evacuated and joined the 501st in Britannia. She even forgot what it tastes like, not just what it looks like. "Erm, what 'Russian' foods can you recommend to me?"
William then looks back at the screen and say "Mmm... Well, there are two popular and common foods I heard from the Russian soldiers and the commanders are Borscht and Pelmeni." William begins tapping the screen to move to the Russian cuisine menu page.
William then begins to explain the two Russian foods she recommended. "Borscht is a sour soup made with cabbage, beef or other meat, and many other vegetables. Pelmeni is a dumpling with meat, mushrooms, salt, pepper, and sometimes herbs and onions."
'Borscht….Pelmeni…' Sanya thought about it for a second before choosing borscht. "I'll... take borscht."
"All right, do you need any drinks?" She taps on Borscht, then taps on the add-on.
"Warm water." Sanya reply
William then taps on warm water, adds it to the order, and taps on 'Done'. The page changes to a list of orders she has placed so she can check if they are correct or not before she taps on 'place order'.
[Order Received]
After she finished the order, a receipt came out of the machine.
William takes the receipt from the machine, turns to Sanya, and says, "Let's go find a place to sit and wait." She walks away from the machine, followed by Sanya.
The Mess Hall was almost empty, with only some people still eating or having tea time, there were also some MPs stationed at a table. After a while, they sit down at a two-seater table and wait for their food. As they sat down, Sanya wanted to ask William something she had been waiting to ask her ever since she met her in her office.
'How old is she anyway?' She curiously looks at William, who is looking at the receipt, 'She seems way too young to hold the rank of Field Marshal."
She then decides to ask, "Sorry if this question is rude." Sanya apologised first before asking the question, "May I ask... how old are you?"
"Oh," William looks away from the receipt she was looking at and looks at Sanya unfazed, "I'm 83." She answers.
"Eh?" Sanya was then frozen by the field marshal's answer, "But…but…. you have a child's body…?"
Williams leans back against the seat. "Let's just say something happened and turned me into a child, oh and by the way I was a male." She then leans forward and explains "When I was close to an armor and suddenly a lightning struck the armor and causes me to blackout."
As William was explaining, she was interrupted by a food delivery robot with three layers of plates arriving at their table with the beverages they ordered and its screen displaying 'Please pick up your order'.
"?" Sanya was confused about the machine that arrived at their table holding their beverages.
William gets up from her seat and takes the two beverages from the top plate and places them on their table before tapping on the screen, then sits back down and says, "This right here is a food delivery machine." Just as she explains, the robot begins to return to where it came from.
"Oh, I see…" Sanya acknowledged 'So…most workers are switched to robot and machine? That's interesting…'
"Where was I? Oh right. After I blacked out, I got into a weird dream or something." She takes a snip of hot green tea. "I got pushed out through a door and quickly found myself in a mediaeval place with death bodies, and entire buildings around me are on fire or destroyed." She still remembers checking on one of the dead bodies, which still gives her chills. "So after a while, I heard a girl scream, so I went toward the source to check it by going down the alleyway. Of course, with my gun ready…" William pulls her gun from her holster and shows it to Sanya before putting it back and continuing to explain everything about the dream.
Just as William finishes explaining, the robot arrives at their table again, this time with their food. She gets up again from her seat and takes the food from the plate, then places it on the table before tapping on the screen again as she sits back down.
"I…I see… I hope she finds peace in the afterlife." Sanya prayed that the girl William saved and died, to find peace in the afterlife.
William opens the box of cutlery and takes two sets of spoons and a fork. "Yeah, she's still so young," she says, giving one set to the young witch. "But I wonder... who is she? Why does it bring me to the mediaeval era? What happened to the town or place? Why did it turn me into a girl? and why does it feel…. real?" She was still curious about the dream she had and wanted an answer.
"Let's ignore those for now and just dig in," William said as she began to start eating.
Sanya then tries the red soup 'Borscht' by taking a spoonful and blowing on it for a while to cool it before tasting it as it was still hot. 'Wow….it kind of reminds me of home."
As minutes passed, they finished the food and drinks they ordered.
William stands up and takes the plates, bowls, and cups to put them at the cleaning station, where people who have finished their food can bring their empty plates, bowls, cutlery, and cups and place them there to let the cleaners take them away to wash them.
"You stay here, I'll be right back." Said William as she walks off towards the station, but she stopped for a moment reminding herself that Sanya is alone by herself.
Luckily, a small group of Russian soldiers in their combat gear was coming to their table to sit at the group table near them, so William went to them and asked them to help her look over Sanya. The Russians noticed the American Field Marshal coming toward them, and they saluted "Сэр." "Sir."
The American field marshal wanted to salute back but her hands are full carrying the plate and bowl "Sorry boys, mind you help me babysit that little girl at that seat?" William's face nod at the table where Sanya is sitting "I need to bring these to the cleaning station." She said while holding the plates and bowl with cups placed inside.
"Оh, нет problem, сэр. We'll help you look over her." One of the soldiers with the rank of lieutenant on his shoulder patch agreed to help William look after Sanya while she was away. "Правильно мальчики? (Right boys?)" the Russian Lieutenant turns to his men.
"да" "Of course."
One of the Russian soldiers then jokes, "If someone tries to touch her, we'll make him chuck our Водка(Vodka) and make his throat burn." Then the group laughed heartily, including William.
"All right, all right, By the way, she's from the same country as you boys, so treat her like a comrade but! She is very shy and, uh, not legal yet, so be soft on her." William then walks away, towards the station.
"да" "да, да" the Russians reply.
The group first sits down at the table near the table where Sanya is and begins discussing with each other.
"Итак... кто-нибудь здесь знает, как вести себя с застенчивой девушкой? (So... does anyone here know how to deal with a not legal yet shy girl?)" The Russian Lieutenant asks his men.
"Антонио, ты всегда разговариваешь с девушками? (Antonio, aren't you always talk to girls?)" one of the Russian soldiers with glasses looks at his comrade Antonio sitting to his left.
"Ублюдок, те, с кем я всегда разговариваю, легальны, а этот нелегален. (Mother fucker, the ones I always talk to are the legal ones, but that one is not legal.)" Antonia curses as he looks at the comrade called him out before looking at his other comrade "А ты, Иван? (What about you, Ivan?)"
"Нет, спасибо, я просто сижу здесь и присматриваю за ней. (No thanks, I rather just sit here and watch over her.)" the Russian soldier named Ivan sitting in front of him said as he looks at the girl name 'Sanya' sitting there swinging her legs. "Она выглядит молодо для базы, тебе не кажется? (She looks kind of young to be in the base don't you think?)"
The group then looks at the Sanya with the Russian Lieutenant saying "Да, но эй, она с Уильямом, так что, возможно… чего-то…я не знаю. (Yeah, but hey, she's with William so probably... something... I don't know.)"
Meanwhile, Sanya couldn't stop feeling curious about what the American Field Marshal was like when she was a male before turning into a girl. She looks at the group of soldiers as she looks closer at their flag patch has the same flag as her country, but the red and blue have switched places.
'Could they be the Orussia counterpart soldiers? Maybe I could ask them?' She stands up from her seat and walks toward the group.
The Russians noticed her coming toward them, the Russian Lieutenant spoke first "Uh... ho- Как я могу помочь тебе скучать? (How can I help you miss?)"
Sanya stops and asks "Каков был фельдмаршал? (Wh-what was the field marshal like?)"
The Russian Lieutenant thinks about her question for a while before knowing what she's talking about "О, вы имеете в виду фельдмаршала Уильяма Макартура? Американский фельдмаршал? (Oh, you mean Field Marshal William MacArthur? The American Field Marshal?)" He asks back which the Orussian Witch nods.
"Его ну… или она, потому что Уильям превратился в девушку, Был хорошим и лучшим американским командиром в вооруженных силах Соединенных Штатов. (His well…. or she because William changed to a girl, Was a good and the best American commander in the United State Armed Forces." He explained "Он прослужил 60 лет… Я думаю, он был и на войнах, и в конфликтах, и в миротворческих миссиях.. (He served 60 years…I think, he attended every war, conflict, and peacekeeping mission he could.)"
Sanya was amazed that William served 60 years as she listened to the Russian Lieutenant's explanation about the American Field Marshal.
"Удивительно, но ему удалось выиграть каждое сражение и быстро подняться по служебной лестнице от сержанта до генерала, а затем, наконец, до фельдмаршала. (Surprising, he manages to win every single battle and quickly rose through the rank from Sergeant to General then lastly Field Marshal.)" Он даже привел свою страну и союзников к победе во время вторжения в Китай, но, конечно же, это обошлось очень высокой ценой. Он потерял почти 3 армейских группы под своим командованием, всего погибло от 7 до 9 сотен тысяч человек. (He even led his country and the allies to victory during the Invasion of China, but of course comes at a very high cost. That is losing almost 3 army groups under his command, a total of 7 to 9 hundred thousand men died)."
'What?!' Sanya was surprised by the amount of number said by the Russian soldier '7... to 9 hundred thousand...!?'
"Да, но, конечно, его армия не была одна во время вторжения. Там были мы, русские, британцы, немцы, французы, канадцы, японцы, черт возьми, все, кто был в альянсе НАТО, присоединились к войне. Что означает больше жертв. (Yeah, but of course, his army is not alone during the invasion. There's us the Russian, the British, Germans, French, Canadians, Japanese hell everyone who was in the NATO alliance joined the war. which means more casualties)'
Far from the table, William was returning and saw Sanya talking with the Russian. 'I see she's making some new friends.'
" Насколько мне известно, китайцы взорвали свои ядерные боеприпасы во время битвы за Пекин, столицу Китая, а также в других важных городах, чтобы предотвратить их захват со стороны союзников НАТО. (From what I know, the Chinese detonated their nuclear arsenal during the Battle of Beijing, which is the capital of China, and other important cities to prevent them from being captured by the NATO allies.) The Russian lieutenant put his hand behind his neck.
'…nuclear…arsenal?' Sanya wonders what are those weapons that can cause so many casualties.
"Я не очень много знаю о том, что произошло во время вторжения, потому что я и мои товарищи были поставлены на гарнизон в Москве, можете спросить у Фельдмаршала. Ведь он был ответственным за вторжение.(I don't know a lot about what happened during the invasion because I and my comrades here were put on the garrison at Moscow, maybe you can ask the Field Marshal. He was the one in charge of invasion after all)"
Just as the conversation stopped there, William stops at their table.
"What were you guys talking about while I was away?" She asks looking at both Orussian and Russians looking back at her
"Oh uh, we just talking about you сэр." Answers the Russian Lieutenant "She wants to know more about you and the Invasion of China."
"Oh, I see... thanks for looking over her soldiers." William thanked the Russian soldiers before looking at Sanya. "Come on, it's time to get you to the International Registration and Immigration Department to get you a new ID and citizenship." She said as she starts to walk away
"Huh? Why is that?" the young Orussian witch asks as she follows behind the field marshal.
"Well, you are currently from another world that is 100 years behind." William explains "That means your current ID is not usable, and there's no 'Orussia' but 'Russia' meaning that you are currently an outlaw." She continues explaining while heading towards the exit, followed by Sanya. "Nowadays people need to have an ID, which is an Identification Documentation card, carried with them to prove that you are a citizen of the country you are from, or you are going to get sent to the immigration department by the MPs if you get caught."
"Oh, I see…. So, ID cards are important in modern times?" Sanya gets what William meant.
"Yeah, don't you strike witches need to carry ID?" The field marshal asks curiously how they will identify themselves if they land on a foreign airfield.
Sanya shakes her head. "No, because my commander Minna keeps our identification documents. If we are asked, we can use our magic to show that we are part of the strike witches.
"Ah, I see, That means you guys are special huh? VIP? hahaha." William jokes leaving out a laugh from her mouth.
"Eh...hehe…not really…" Sanya puts her hands behind her back and looks away shyly.
'Speaking of Strike Witches…what's their fight is like against the aliens so call 'Neuroi' rather than blood to blood…' William stops and looks at Sanya as she stops beside her and asks, "say Sanya, can you share the story of your life fighting against the Neuroi?"
"Oh, sure. "Sanya agrees to share her story of her life fighting against the Neuroi.
But before she starts, William tells her that she doesn't need to bring up things that were too horrific to bring it up "But if there is some part that you don't want to share it's okay but if you really want to share it, it's up to you."
"Okay." The young witch nodded.
William then continues walking towards the exit with Sanya beside her, sharing her story.
"So, it begins when the Neuroi's appears in the black sea…"
Joint Central Intelligence Agency, CIA Department
The Joint Central Intelligence Agency or JCIA was a mix of different secret agencies that were allowed to operate at this base together. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from the United States, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) from Germany, the Federal Security Service (FSB) from Russia, the General Directorate for External Security (GDSE) from France, the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from the United Kingdom, and the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office (CIRO) from Japan. It was based on William's recommendation because of 'common enemies' are now gone, so he wants all agencies within the base to work together on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism.
Nick Mason's office
In the office decorated like a 1950s detective office, Nick was sitting at his desk with a desktop, dozens of photos and documents scattered on the desk.
He places his hand on the mouse and hovers it over the mp3 file in the file explorer that is currently showing, and double-clicks it to listen to it. The mp3 file was sent from the listening post because the audio it intercepted was somewhat suspicious.
"Good afternoon, This is National Edinburgh News, and I am the news reporter John Morris. Today we have news of the Federation launching a full-scale counterattack on the Empire after four months of the Second Europan War-"
'Federation? Counterattack on the Empire? Second Europan War...?'
"Now we have the news on the Principality of Gallia, Gallia has lost a small border town 'Bruhl' and border fortress 'Ghirlandaio' to the Empire. But reports said that the town's guards with the help of a small unknown military force, managed to repel the Imperial forces as the town's civilians evacuated."
Then it ends there, leaving Nick wondering what he just listens to.
"What the hell is going on…" he said to himself as he stood up from his seat, putting his hand on his forehead.
The photos on his desk show types of things he had never seen before, photos of a huge city that is medieval looking, photos of unknown military forces in blue and red fighting each other, tanks he had never seen before, and flags never seen before.
Weird things started showing up and were captured by the UAV drones yesterday, Many things make no sense as the nation's military was completely reformed, decommunization and militarized under the watchful eye of the US military force.
'A Coup during our communication is down? But it doesn't make sense, the news mention about something about Second Europan War'
He then walks to the detective board hanging on the right wall with pinned photos and sticky notes.
'A war that is called the Second Europan War, unknown military forces, unknown countries, tanks never seen before, a city that looks medieval...'
He takes a new sticky note and a pen and then wrote 'Second Europan War?' and sticks it on a photo of unknown military forces fighting each other.
'But…aren't we currently in China?' He then looks at another photo which has the flag of an unknown country that is blue on the left and right sides and white in the middle with a shield wearing a crown on top, and both sides have Pegasus holding a lance.
The CIA agent then takes 3 new sticky notes and writes 'Federation?' 'Empire?' 'Principality of Gallia?' before sticking all 3 on the photo of a flag. He then draws a red line on the photo of unknown military forces fighting and links it to the photo of a flag.
'Never heard of these 3 countries before…specially this flag…' He taps the pen on the photo of the flag 'Looks like a monarchy flag…. monarchy coup?' he said to himself before making his way back to his desk. 'So first we got a girl that is from another world that is a game called 'Strike Witches' now we have a war that is called the Second Europan War that I never heard of especially when the communications were down meaning we could only count on UAV reconnaissance and radio interception.' He sits down on the chair and lets out a sigh as he looks at the fan spinning above him.
But as a few seconds passed, a bright white light appeared in front of the desk, blinding the CIA agent, who surprised shielding his own eyes with his arms.
'What the fuck!?'
As the light dies down with a sound of something landing hard on the floor, Nick lowers his arm to see what happens.
A Japanese female voice can be heard "痛い…この罠はパチョリが用意したのか…? (Ouch…. did patchouli prepared this trap jus- )"
Nick sees what's looks like a witch with long blonde hair in dark witch clothes sitting on the floor in front of his desk with a straw broom laying next to her.
Both the Witch and the CIA agent looks at each other confused, before the witch was the first speak.
"ええと...こんにちは?(Um, hi?)" said the witch as she waved her hand .
Principality of Gallia, Vasel, West bank near the great bridge of Vasel
"So," Michael looks at the bridge then the town still within the hand of the Imperial forces across the river "What's your plan taking the bridge back within 48 hours?" he asked.
Both American and Gallian Lieutenants are currently standing along the edge of the river as the sun slowly descends with the night slowly takes its place in the sky.
"You make a big promise to that soldier that if you fail to take the bridge within 48 hours, you'll go resign and he'll take command of Squad 7." The American said as he looks at the Welkin currently standing on his left side observing the river. "But if you succeed. He and the red-haired girl will shut up and take orders from you."
Welkin made a compromise with two of his squad mates named 'Largo' and 'Rosie' during the heated conversation because their reason was that Welkin's sister, Isara, is a Darcsen and doesn't take command from someone like him. The compromise is that if Welkin fails to take the bridge within 48 hours, he will resign and let the muscular man 'Largo' take charge of Squad 7, but if he retakes the bridge within 48 hours, they'll have to take orders from him.
During the heated conversation, some of the US Marines who heard the commotion sided with Welkin and his sister telling the rebellious Gallian soldiers. "If you don't like to fight along with her just because she's a Darcsen, you can leave the squad you're currently in, racist ass bitch!" "That's just your opinion big guy, but does other think of that?" "During the war, you put race difference between you? Come on girl."
"Don't worry I've already started planning," said Welkin. "See that Mistlereed over there?" He points at the Mistlereed near the edge of the river.
"Huh?" Michael looks at the Mistlereed Welkin pointing at "What… does it have to do with your plan exactly?"
"My plan is to drive the tank submerged across the river as this stretch runs shallow enough for my tank to drive across." Welkin explains slowly, pointing towards the other side. "Once the Edelweiss cross over and clear out any Imperial patrols on the shore, I will send up a flare signalling my squad to follow by boat."
"What?" Michael was confused by this young gallian plan "Welkin… I'm not sure you are being crazy after that heated conversation," he looked at Welkin "Tanks aren't meant for submerging due to their weight not to mention the compartment isn't water resistant."
"Yup, therefore I ask my little sister Is, to fit the Edelweiss with water-resistant to allow the tank for submersion" Welkin explains.
"!?...that's…." Michael was surprised by his plan but concerned. "Are you sure about this 'water-resistant' thing? What if it failed?"
"Don't worry, I trust her." Welkin replied with confidence, "Does your modern military have floating tanks or tanks able to submerge?"
"Well, no. But we have amphibious IFV which able to float and move on water."
"IFV? What's that?" Welkin asks
"IFV means infantry fighting vehicles, also known as a mechanised infantry combat vehicle or MICV." Michael explains, "It's a type of armoured fighting vehicle that can carry infantry into battle and provide direct fire support because it is mostly armed with a 20mm autocannon or a large gun and sometimes paired with an antitank missile launcher."
Welkin gains new knowledge of the new ideal type of vehicle "Wow, so... it's almost like a light tank?"
"Yeah, you could say that. Not to mention, most countries back in my world abolished the light tank for more favourable like the IFV I mentioned and the MBT." Michael
"Interesting…Is would probably love to know more about the IFVs. But what your plan would be, Michael?" Welkin asks back since he talked about his plan except for Michael.
"My plan?" Michael looks at the bridge "we'll advance by the bridge, spearhead it with our tank." he explains his plan "Once you and your squads started fighting across the river, we'll start our attack."
"Are you sure about spearheading the bridge? It's going to be heavily defended by the Imperials." Welkin asks if the US Lieutenant is sure about advancing by the bridge.
"That is what I wanted, if they focus their forces on us, you will have an easy time taking them by surprise by flanking them. Just like how we did during the first fight in the town." Michael answers him as he looks at his watch "Let's meet at the same spot tomorrow."
"Sure," Welkin agrees to meet Michael at this same spot tomorrow.
The two lieutenants then part away from the shore to prepare and ready their squad for their next battle tomorrow.
Base Valkyria, Officers Apartment, 2nd Floor, William Room.
As the night descended upon the world, William still in her uniform in the living room with lights on sitting at the table with a cup of hot coffee while reading a file about 'Strike Witches'.
'An enemy that is made out of crystal…shoot laser…destroying the core will kill the Neuroi…' she remembers what Sanya tell her about her life fighting against the Neuroi 'Germany known as Karsland its capital Berlin fallen, France known as Gallia has its capital Paris fallen, Austria-Hungry known as Ostland fallen into the hands of the Neuroi…but the governments manage to evacuate.' she looks at map contains the map of the Europe of the 'Strike Witches' world. 'Russia lost Moscow and Ural River which cutting the country into two along the Ural Mountains' she puts the map back into the file.
'After she finished training, her parents were evacuating to the Ural area where Sanya is but she said they couldn't make it but she still believes her parents is still alive…. poor Sanya' she felt pity for the young Orussian witch
After William bring Sanya to the International Registration and Immigration Department to get her a new ID and register her as both citizen of Russia and United State of course which William give the green light to make her temporary as citizen of US. And she got her new ID, William brings her to the Refugee Apartments which is very empty as there is no Refugee crisis anymore so she can live there for the time being.
William then puts away the file contain about strike witches before taking another file which is an Intelligence Report to read it. She takes out the first page reads it.
[
Joint CIA/Military Intelligence Report
1) Military forces have been seen fighting at the Northwest, North and Northeast, both sides have color uniform code that is Blue and Red.
2) Flag and name that is called 'Principality of Gallia' and 'Empire', it appears that we have no information on those two countries
3) No communication link with the Pentagon nor other garrison Camp Humphreys and Camp Zama, highly suspect enemy using high power jamming signal cutting our communication link.
4) Cities near our base and landscapes which doesn't appear on our map.
5) UAV have been deployed to conduct reconnaissance for more information.
6) Radios news frequency has been intercepted and listened to, none of them bear similarity that is 'National Edinburgh News' and 'GBS'.
7) Failed to connect to the satellite, highly related to report 3.
8) Agents have been dispatched to gather information and infiltration.
End of the Report.
]
'Jesus, first we have a girl that is from a video game then we have unknown military conflict and unknown cities.' She puts the file on the table before standing up and walks to the windows.
William looks out the window, seeing camps, building, warehouses, lone Abrams with headlight heading down the road with streetlight lighting the way before looking up the sky which turn dark filled with stars. 'Now I wonder…. will these Neuroi arrive to our world? If she can arrive to our world maybe they can too?' she then imagines a fight against the Neuroi enemy who can shoots laser against a multi-international military force who can shoot bullets, tank rounds, ballistic missile, and nuclear arsenal.
But that is literary impossible as human was trained to kill each other for centuries not against alien, not to mention it fires laser that can kill and penetrate more than bullet who can only kill 1 or 2 depending on the type and size.
'…. But our modern military force isn't trained to fight aliens but human…' she turns away from the window and returns to the table. 'Nether less…we still need to prepare incase it really happen, since we did have CONPLAN 8888…' She then decided to prepare her army to face against the Neuroi if it really did arrive to the world but first, she need to have meeting with other commanders to discuss about it.
'Maybe I should have Sanya teach the flyboys, she's the one who had the experience after all…*yawn*' she looks at the clock hanging below the tv showing its '9:30pm' now. 'Oh its 9:30pm…I should prepare to go to bed...' she gets up from her chair and head to the seat to switch off the light in the living room before heading to bed.
Strike Witches World
January 21st, 1944
Britannia, 501st Joint Fighter Wing Base, Wing Commander Office.
Inside the office, Minna Dietlinde Wilcke commander of 501st JFW at her desk talking to the phone.
"I see, Thank you." She thanked before placing the handset back on the cradle "*sigh*" she sighed as she places her hand on her own head.
It's been 2 days since Lieutenant Sanya disappear, Search and Rescue has been launched with help of RAF and RN at the English Channel since that's where she last disappears. In the end, they only found her weapon floating on sea not body which Minna doesn't want to hear.
'What the hell happen at that night...?'
Suddenly there's knocks on the door with a voice came through.
"Minna? It's me, Mio. May I come in?"
Minna put down her hand and answer "Come in."
The door opens with Major Sakamoto Mio entering the office and walk toward to Minna desk.
"Any news on Lieutenant Sanya?" Mio asks.
"The Royal Navy only found her weapon floating on the sea except her body…. which is something I don't want to hear…" she lay her back against her chair. "How's Eila?"
Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen an Suomus witch, She and Sanya were very close and open fiercely protective of Sanya. But when she heard the news that Sanya disappear, she was devastated and often lock herself inside her own room.
Mio crosses her arm and shakes her head with her eyes closed and reply "She's been feeling down lately ever since Sanya disappear…" she then open her eyes as she moves her hand to under her chin "What the hell happen that night...?" said the Fuso Major, worrying what happened to Sanya
"I wish i can know what happen too…" said Minna before letting out another sigh because it's a heavy height for her as a wing commander losing a young witch and was a night witch as well. "How am I going to report this to the higher ups…"
Eila Room
The Suomus witch was sitting on her bed doing fortune-telling with her tarot cards to try and find answer what happened to her beloved Sanya, when she pulls 3 tarot cards and turnover them she was not expected to see tarot cards she never seen before.
'T-this….'
The first card was 'Door of Hundred' with image of a door slightly opened with many different things from hand to legs to eyes to finger that doesn't seem human are trying to come out.
The second card was 'Unity' what's looks like a guardian or an angel as it had angelic wings at the middle holding a scale of justice on its left hand and a sword on its right hand, below her has humans and creatures what's looks like they are shaking each other hand but not only that as both top corner of the card has elements which Eila presumes. starting from the top left was star, the top right was planet of earth.
And the Last card is the one surprise her the most, because it doesn't have anything…just empty.
'What does it all mean?!' she was confused of the three card she pulls from the deck, she tries to figure the first card by picking it up and look closely. 'Door of Hundred…. does it point at Neuroi?'
She remembers Neuroi have different type of form and sizes but aren't sure why does it have to do with her answer.
She then picks up the second card with her other hand and looks at the guardian in the middle 'A guardian with scale of justice and a sword…. does it mean us? The Witches?' she then focuses on the human and creature holding hands. '….? What does it even mean...?' much worse is that she unable to get a glim of the each cards future.
Eila then puts down the card after she inspect the first and the second card except the last one which is empty doesn't seems to tell anything. She then lets out a big sign before looking out the window on her bed praying her beloved Sanya is okay.
'Please be safe Sanya…'
At the same time
Valkyria Refugee Apartment, Room 1
In the living room, Sanya was looking outside the window at the moon in its waning crescent phase.
'Eila….commander Minna…'
The room Sanya in was quite nice and comfortable as an refugee room as it have a living room, bedroom, bathroom, and a kitchen, the room maybe small but it fit for 1 person living here.
She walks away from the window and sits down on the sofa facing toward the TV, she had no idea what it was as she stares at the TV screen which reflect like a mirror but it's not the time to find out what it was for her.
The night witch stand up from the sofa and head into the bedroom as she lets out a yawn before collapsing onto the bed which is very soft and much better than the one she slept back on her base.
As she closes her eyes, her memory brings back what William said.
'In this world, has none of this Alien war, flying witches, underage girls joining the military, Human united together fighting a single threat.'
'And if you ask us to send you back to your world, I'm sorry we don't have that kind of technology yet as we still not yet discover the simple from A to B.'
But none of them matter now as she closes her eyes to sleep.
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?,?
In the darkness a console screen turns on by itself.
[System rebooting…..]
After a short while, the system reboot itself.
[System rebooted…..Checking for damage please standby…..]
Another time has passed as the system check for damage.
[Checking for life sign….]
The screen shows number of personal '0/500'
[Protocol: Dark have been activated …. All personal have been K.I.A or M.I.A…. Facility will be running Emergency Generator mode and automatically.]
The screen then shows a list of people with a tag with 'K.I.A/M.I.A' by the system
[Distress Beacon have been activated to alert S.C.P Foundation of the loss of the facility.]
The console then configures on its own.
[Checking for remaining test subject in frozen chamber….]
The screen then checks the remaining subject were preserved or kept within the frozen chamber.
[1/20 …..Estimating Life Support remaining time….2 Day 13 Hour 21 Min…transferring remaining power to Life Support]
[Shutting off to preserve power….]
This is the Chapter 6, sorry for the long hiatus because I'm being lazy asf and wanted to grind the games. Can be highly unmotivated and may get motivated sometime to write this story.
I will continue write the story but who knows i will stop writing due to language 101 and being a newbie. :)
