The year was 1944, after the 501st JFW had taken out the Neurio hive over Gallia Allied forces had landed in mainland Europe opening a second front with the Neurio. After weeks of bitter fighting for control of the Hedge rows off the beaches of Normandy, the push forwards had stalled. With other JFWs in combat and with a lack of new recruits to send to the front combined with more witches needed in the pacific theater, only small bands of witches now guard the front one of these units are the forces of the 99th JFW, nicknamed the "Miracle Witches" for the fact that they have spearheaded the push inland with only 4 active members in there unit. After a recon flight into Karlsland, the 99th is returning to there base, but with one more person then when they left.
The 99th JFWs base was far from state of the art, a few hangars along with tents and one building to speak of.
"Tower, squadron is inbound for landing, all witches acounted for minus a striker and a guest" Stark said as the flight neared. The "German" was asleep, he must have been up for sometime if he could sleep with the noise of the strikers and the wind. The rest of the unit were happy to be back and to get some food and a little sleep.
"Roger, witch flight is clear for landing" the tower said, if you could call a telephone pole with a chair and latter on it a tower, they had a radiomen stationed on it to serve as the airbases tower. One by one the witches of the 99th landed and get settled in. After saving Jenna, none of them had the heart to wake Kurtis so they placed him down on a cot and let him rest.
In the mess tent Jenna and Hanna scoped food onto there plates, after a mission nothing like a warm meal hit the spot. The Karlslander opted for a bowl of what she hoped was soup well Jenna grabbed two slices of what passed for bread there and spread out some ration issue peanut butter between them.
"nothing like army food to make you feel alive" the Liberion said taking a bite of her sandwich.
"So true" Hanna sot back as she tilted the bowl of soup and drank from the rim of the dish, making her look like her familiar, a Karlsland shepard. Lauren walked in to find her fellow witches eating a poor exuuse for a sandwich and slurping from a bowl like a savage.
"Sometimes i wounder how the two of you became soldiers" the girl said, the other two paying her no mind as they finshed there food.
"you know, some units have a cook who makes them huge dinners, wish we had someone like that" Hanna said wiping her mouth with her jacket sleeve. Most of them knew she was right, plenty of other JFWs had a nice base like a castle or some ruins, but the good old 99th was stuck with a clearing and an old runway until they moved with the front again.
Lauren walked over and helped herself to some of what passed for dinner here, or was it breakfast? She still had no idea what time it was. Most missions were in the morning hours or late at night.
Oh well, its food to the stomach, doesn't matter if you don't know what to call it she thought to herself as she sat down to eat.
...W...
I had the same dream, it is night and a city, i don't know what city, is ablaze. The dead lie in the streets along with soldier from both sides of this war, i'm siting and cannot move and i look up to see the flag of my nation, the swastika banner flying from a building, i an never say what building it is, and the gunfire of a battle passing dims as a soldiers on the roof of the building cuts it down, raising the allied flag instead.
This is the wars end, i know it and i wish it would come and with less bloodshed on both sides. With the Russians marching towards Berlin and the western allies on the western front moving foward we cannot last.
I open my eys slowly, i am lieing on a cot in a tent, perhaps i had dreamed up the entire thing, angels fighting dark demons? The men would get a chuckel out of that.
I kept telling my self that as a girl with no pants with a Lufftwaffe jacket and cap on her head enters the tent carrying a plate of food still steaming form the fire.
"ah good your awake, sorry but after you fell asleep we didn't want to wake you" she said with a smile as she placed the tray on my lap.
"it's good, try some" she says trying to put a spoon full in my mouth.
"it's fine maim, i can feed myself" i say as nicely as i can reading the tag on her uniform, i'm speaking to...Hanna-Dieter Weihs...i had heard of a jet ace in the Lufftwaffe by the same name, Hans-Dieter Weihs, OK almost the same.
"if i may ask" i said between bites of food, "were are we at the moment"?
"Gallia, the Normandy countryside"
Gallia? does she mean France? Frances was called Gallia once but that was a few hundred years ago, what the hell is going on?
"Miss, if i may ask, what has happend, who are these Neurio you people seem to be fighting with"?
"You been living under a rock this entire time, there the enemy of humanity who have brought with them nothing but death and horor"
Sounds more like Himmler and his SS "Perfect race"to me, those monsters who lick the Furthers boots.
He asked her more about the events of this war, and was shocked to find they mirored his own "Second world war" as some had called it.
"So Germany is still run by Kaiser Wilhelm"? he said in disbelief, the man had been banished to the Nertherlands after the was he still leading Germany after all this time?
"but wasn't he banished after the great war"?
"What? The Kasier? Banished?" the girl started gigling.
"you have set off one to many landmines my friend, the Kasier is alive and well, and leading Karlsland in its fight with the Neurio"
The two went on for some time about this world, it seems Cesar of Rome was never killed and the roman empire expanded, this meant that the country's had diffrent names, and since germany had not lost the great war and never lost it's borderspace along with land in Africa.
"why don't you know any of this anyway"? Hanna asked.
"i'm not from around here"
"i can see that, but where have you been? under a rock this entire time"?
"something like that, you see i'm not of this world, i was some how transported here by some means unknown to me, my worlds history is nothing like yours" he said sternly.
...W...
"Where the hell am i" The captain asked himself, after his escape from the Nazi's he had found himself lieing next to a road near a sigh in french, it read the following
99e Escadre de chasses mixe: 3 km.
"wish i knew french right now" he said to himself. With little idea of what to due, he bagan walking down the road towards where the sigh pointed to.
...W...
A Wille's jeep speed down the road of the countryside, inside was the driver, a Liberion engineer and the passanger, Jamie Chruchill, she was heading to a supply depot to "borrow" some supply's from the army, As they rounded a bend in the road, they came upon a lone Liberion soldier, a Submachine gun in hand walking towards the 99ths basecamp.
"driver, stop" she orderd and the man stopped next to the soldier.
"where you heading trooper"? she asked the man.
"closet allied base, you couldn't give me a ride by any chance"?
"Sure, hope in" she spoke pointing at the back of the jeep. He jumped in the back and the driver hit the gas and they were off again.
...W...
"...so what your saying is that you world is in a war like are own, but without the Neurio"? Hanna said, looking at the sapper with a glance as if she was looking at a two headed cow.
"Yes, my world is locked in a conflict between two factions, the Allies and the Axis powers, the Axis is losing and soon will be defeated" he said, deep down he knew this was the truth, his nation was doomed since the start.
"so you fight other humans, how"?
"it is war, over stupid things like god or border disputes"
?
She looked shocked and noticed something on Kurtis's shoulder, an odd patch with something like a plus sigh with the edge's bent in separate derection's and tilted at an angle on a background of white and red.
"whats this" she asked pointing at it" his face turned white and he spoke in a stark tone.
"its something i'm not proud of wearing" he said ripping the patch off and shoving it into his could tell it was a sore subject by the life leaving his eyes as he spoke and did not ask anything else about it. The life returned and he seemed fine.
"so why did you become a soldier anyway"
The life left his eyes again "it was a mistake i made" he said swiftly.
She could see the pattern here.
...W...
"So Maim, are you a WAC or a nurse"? The captain asked, the women chuckled.
"no Captain, I'm a Witches in the 99th Joint Fighter Wing"
"a what"? he yelled over the sound of the engines roar.
She explaned the idea and concept of witches, suprised he had never heard of them.
"wait, so your fighting these Neurio things, not other people"?
"why would we fight each other"?
" i don't think i'm from around here" the soldier stated explaning his world to her, about the axis invasion of Poland and the mass killings.
Just as he finnsied, Hanna called them over there short wave radio and informed them of the nature of Kurtis and his orgin's
"i'll be damned, perhaps we should head back to base" Jamie said as they made a U-turn and drove back towards home.
...W...
"...You mean you have found someone else from my world too"? the sapper asked, not holding back his joy that he wouldn't be stuck here alone. They had told Jenna and Stark about Kurtis and the four were waiting in one of the hangars for the Commander.
"hey Kurt, thanks for saving me, sorry i didn't say it before, but..." Jenna trailed off.
"it was nothing, sorry i'm just so glade i'm not only here" he said as the jeep pulled up and it's riders exited it.
The driver walked away leaving Commander Churchill and a Liberion standing in front of them. The Liberion and Kurtis were silent.
"Oh do you two know each other" Hanna asked smiling, expecting them to shake hands or hug.
She did not expect Kurtis to grab the knife he had in his ankle holster and charge the man, throwng him to the ground.
"I WILL KILL YOU"! he screamed trying to jam the blade into the mans forehead as the Liberion tryed to shake out of his grip before he head butted the sapper and rose to his feet with his fist rasied.
"i guess there not friends then" Jenna said aloud as both men took to a fighting stance...
There's chapter three, it's a cliffhanger because...i'm an ass. If you didn't notice, all the Withes of the 99th are based off of real aces (Minus Jamie, she is based off of "Mad Jack" Churchill, who yes did carry a bow and sword into combat and even killed a German with the bow in 1940.
Hope you liked this so far and any comments are welcome (YOUR A NAZI is not on the other hand or anything bashing the germans, i don/t mind you not agreeing but keep it clean)
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