Smash! The glass of the building broke as two people headed inside the building to loot it. A couple more people were carrying stuff as the population were shooting up shop owners for supplies. A couple of people were beating up one of Himari's friends as they sensed that the Kerensky government wasn't working.
"The Provisional Government isn't working!" One of the students chanted. Another one tossed a rock into a building and smashed it. They hurried inside and within moments, they came out with meager amounts of meat, there wasn't a lot of food to go around. One of the maxim guns was spraying as the sailors began to happily chant to themselves:
"Down with the government! Down with the war! Power to the Sovetskikhs!" One of the sailors fired the Maxim gun at some of the civilians and they were struck down. Some of the students that fought in today's failed offensive had also become rioters, they were going to trash the school once again as they were outraged. Alexandra and Konstantina were watching from a distance as they didn't want to get caught up in the riots.
"The offensive failed, and you know what that means? They're going to trash the place, more looting, more riots, more violence. It's almost as if Nicholas II had never abdicated." Konstantina began. "Tens of thousands of armed workers have taken to the streets in some of the worst violence Petrograd has seen yet."
"Yeah and Fumie has jumped in on the violence. The few students she does have are helping take part in the riots." Alexandra replied. "I tried to warn her of what happens if you attack too early and she didn't listen."
"I say we should distance ourselves for the time being and wait it out." Konstantina suggested that they should wait out the rioting until it calmed down.
"No more war!" Lisa shouted as she fired her rifle at the glass building and shattered it. One of the Saunders guards had been taken down as two more showed up with an armored car, they began to fire away as the machine gun quickly brought them down.
"End the war! We need land and bread!" Another student shouted as she lit one of the buildings on fire. The police units had arrived to try to quell the riots, but then they realized: This school isn't paying us in food so might as well join the riots. They began firing at the buildings and tossed the factory owners to the floor to beat them up.
"Power to the Sovetskikh!" Another student shouted. Clementia arrived to see what was going on. She turned to Konstantina and Alexandra who were watching the chaos from the distance.
"Do any of you know what's going on?" Clementia asked if they knew what was happening.
"Another riot is happening as Kerensky decided to not end the war. Now the people are still mad over the fact that they are still starving." Alexandra explained to Clementia that the people were still unhappy with everything and they were now going to riot because of it. "Also if you're wondering why I am not stopping any of this is because I was hired as a police lady for the school but I have no interest in supporting Kerensky and his ineffective leadership. I'm just waiting for the moment that the people have had enough of this man and they decide to get rid of him."
"All power to Pravda!" The crowd chanted. Kerensky was watching the riots when one of the students knocked on the door.
"Come in." Kerensky told whoever was at the door they were welcomed to visit. The door swung open as it was Yuri and she looked like she had been pulverized. "Man they got you good." Kerensky began.
"Yeah, protests have been happening all afternoon and everyone is fed up. We need to convince the crowd to join our side and try to prevent Fumie from gaining even more power." Yuri told Kerensky while walking over and grabbing a tissue from the box. She began to wipe her nose as a means of cleaning it up. Kerensky knew one solution to the crisis.
"You and Himari need to clamp down on the leaders, arrest them and bring Fumie over to be questioned. After that we'll continue your reforms." Kerensky told Yuri what to do. He typed a few keys into the keyboard as the message popped up in the main square of the building.
"Fumie Kame is a Kuromorimine spy." The poster would read. The crowd turned their heads to what the poster had said and then placed their signs down. Was Fumie really a traitor to the revolution? They needed to find out for sure. Then another poster popped up. "Find students from Pravda and have them arrested, rewards will be soy lattes for all those that have been captured." Kay was reading these posters but as much as she hated the Pravda students on her ships, they were being fed with fake coffee as a reward.
"I wouldn't drink that fake crap even if it's good. I want more meat." Kay grumbled as she walked off. There wasn't much to eat in Saunders at this point anyway. Alexandra was watching this and was starting to get worried.
"Oh no! Fumie is in danger of getting caught. I need to evacuate her to make sure she's safe!" Alexandra told them as the crowd with a flip of a switch was now turning against them. Alexandra turned to Konstantina and Clementia as she had one simple message for them. "Go hide you two and stay out of sight. I'm going to evacuate Fumie from Saunders." Alexandra got up and left. Clementia and Konstantina went off to find somewhere that they could hide in as Kerensky had issued a man hunt to round up as many members from the enemy as he could.
Lisa was busy protesting as well as helping students with an armed rebellion. Yuri came around the corner and tackled Lisa down. Lisa struggled to throw Yuri off of her while trying to figure out what she was going to do next. Eventually two more students came around and cuffed Lisa up.
"You're under arrest." Yuri told her. Lisa grumbled and she was escorted away. Yuri bashed her on the back to get her to move. Lisa had been rounded up as Fumie watched, she was worried that she was going to be next.
"Hey." Alexandra asked for Fumie's attention.
"This revolution has failed as it struck too early. Now we're getting arrested and carted away." Fumie told Alexandra what exactly happened. Alexandra gave a moment about this to think while she debated on what to do. She then came up with an idea.
"I'm getting you out of the school, we're going to flee to avoid arrest. I told Clementia and Konstantina to hide from Yuri and Himari while they rampaged throughout the school." Alexandra then grabbed Fumie by her hand and began to drag her away.
"Hey where are we going?" Fumie asked as she was curious.
"Jatkosota to hide. This school is no longer safe but we need to disguise ourselves as well to avoid suspicion from the students who might decide to turn us in." Alexandra explained the plan on what was going to happen. It wouldn't be long until they arrived at the airport and requested that they would be flown to Jatkosota, at least the people in the airport didn't care that much for what was happening and the two students were allowed to flee. Alexandra even decided to take the chance to purchase clothes to disguise themselves.
Lisa meanwhile had been dragged by Himari and Yuri to the school's prison, They had been busy on damage control and arresting those that were spurring on with the armed riots. And by the looks of things, the aristocrats had arrested many people. Lisa was tossed into a cell with The students that were part of the group. Lisa looked around to see Nonna, Reni, Ruiko, Polina, Akebi, Aya, and Nekota.
"Arrested too?" Lisa asked the group if they had been thrown into jail as well.
"Yep, stupid aristocrats." Ruiko grumbled.
"I told Katyusha to go hide somewhere and I ended up getting caught as well." Nonna added that they were also caught.
"Looks like Kerensky isn't going to stop until he has all of us in jail." Lisa sighed. Nekota placed her ear out while trying to figure out what they were going to say.
"Quiet and listen." Nekota told the group that they needed to listen if they were going to figure out what was going to happen next.
"Did we catch them all?" Himari asked Yuri if they caught all the people they needed if they were going to prevent the riots from swallowing the school whole.
"Negative, Alexandra, Fumie, Konstantina, Clementia, Katyusha, Nina and Alina are still out there, although we have caught a few members so far, it's not enough. We need to make sure they're all caught." Yuri told her friend that seven or so students were still out there plotting Kerensky's overthrow.
"Start searching for them. I want this all over and the school under our control." Himari called out to the aristocrats to look for these students who were going to overthrow their leader and toss them into prison until they could figure out what to do with them.
"How long do you think we will stay here?" Nekota asked, she wasn't familiar with prison and didn't want to be locked away for the rest of her life.
"We don't know for sure, I hope Katyusha could bust us out of here. I don't want to rot away either." Nonna told Nekota. She sat down while her friends seemed to be crammed together in tiny jail cells.
Alexandra and Fumie had arrived at Jatkosota. The two had been disguised as two commoners as they were going to attempt to hide their identities. Alexandra knew she needed to remain calm but Fumie was outraged by all of this.
"This sucks! Now I'll never be able to have my revolution!" Fumie shouted as she didn't take any of this. One of the students walked over as she spotted the two commoners and wanted to figure out what they were doing here at the school.
"Why are you two dressed differently?" She asked. Fumie turned to her as she wanted to set things straight.
"It's a disguise you idiot!" Fumie told her, she paused for a second before she began to calm down. "It also makes me feel pretty." Fumie told her as if she was fluffing her clothes up.
"Yeah… I'd figure, looks like we're going to hide here for a while as Saunders is no longer safe for us and if we get caught, we're off to jail." Alexandra told the student as she began to walk away from the conversation. She didn't want to stick around for what was going to happen.
Over the course of the night, the situation in Saunders had calmed down, the riots had been suppressed and the students had gone back to normal. The workers however were still growing restless as they wanted more. Kerensky having saved the school was praised by the aristocrats but he just couldn't simply catch a break. Yuri entered the room as she decided to sit down with Kerensky.
"This school despite us putting down the riots remains very unstable, it's clear that things aren't going too well. With the workers still striking and having thrown hundreds of people into jail, Mika having deserted Saunders and running away to Jatkosota, we're facing an overwhelming backlash from the workers as they continue to act restlessly. This is alarming for us and the business owners as we need someone to come up to try to get the situation to go in our favor." Yuri described the situation that Saunders was still facing and with the school not being in the best shape, someone needed to step up and help Kerensky. Kerensky began to give it some thought as he tried his best to come up with a solution to the crisis. After a minute or so of thinking, he began to speak.
"I understand the instability part but I want to bring back Kay but seeing how neither you or Himari are fond of her, I've decided that someone else will take her place. And sensing the school is ruled by radicals, I did my best to find someone who was the complete opposite and doesn't like being a socialist." Kerensky told Yuri that with the poor handling of the war and the call for the school to have more extreme forms of socialism, Kerensky knew he needed to put someone new up to the plate to appease Yuri, Himari and the business owners of Saunders. "She's an absolute legend of the school and her promotion will be carried out swiftly." Kerensky promised Yuri. Yuri looked at him, giving him the: You promise not to screw this up. The legendary student that Kerensky had planned to promote was someone who hated the revolution, loved the death penalty and was devoutly anti-socialist…
Nathalia Kornilov.
Nathalia had walked into the office where Kerensky was sitting. He had called her down a few minutes ago to talk to her about what was going to be happening next. Kerensky was sitting in front of her while Nathalia was sitting opposite of him.
"You know why you're getting this promotion right?" Kerensky asked Nathalia.
"Yes. I heard that the liberals needed someone to be appeased while the war fell apart. I didn't participate in the offensive that caused the school to descend into even more chaos." Nathalia replied while she was flicking a pen around. Kerensky nodded.
"Good to hear, you will be promoted to the head of the Saunders army. We're looking for good students like you." Kerensky told Nathalia. Nathalia smiled.
"That is, real swell of you Kerensky to give me the promotion." Nathalia told Kerensky she was glad to be given this position. Kerensky laughed before he continued speaking.
"With you by my side, who would dare to overthrow me?" Kerensky asked. Nathalia knew Kerensky shouldn't have asked that question as if she was getting second thoughts of the promotion. Kerensky was asking her if there was anybody that was going to challenge her.
"How about… me?" Nathalia asked. Kerensky's smile quickly faded away thinking Nathalia was going to be serious about that one.
"I did not see this coming." Kerensky told Nathalia. Nathalia smiled as if she was only pulling his leg.
"I'm just teasing you and I will be back." Nathalia told Kerensky while she got up and left the room. Kerensky was hoping that Nathalia was only playing with him otherwise they were going to face another crisis on their hands. She opened the door and walked out, closing the door behind her.
"I hope she was playing with me." Kerensky told himself before he got back to work.
Nathalia later on decided to gather her friends that she had formed in her unit while the war was going on. It turned out Nathalia wasn't kidding about overthrowing Kerensky, she had plans for what was going on and she was going to take matters into her own hands.
"The Kerensky government is very weak and ineffective, but the Sovetskikhs are gaining even more popularity. They are both dangerous to Saunders and we need to take matters into our own hands! We have to restore the old system but not Kay and her plutocratic foreign investors." Nathalia told the group that they needed to try to bring back the old way of leading if it meant trying to fix the problems the school was still facing. Now they needed to be able to launch a coup and take over.
"All right!" The students cheered. With much of the Sovetskikhs in jail, there was little in the way of stopping her. Megumi and Lola were watching from a distance as they were both really worried about what was going to happen.
"What do you think will happen? This school is falling apart?" Lola asked as if the uncertainty of what was happening was quickly falling onto them. There needed to be a way out of this if they were going to live. Megumi began to think and she began to speak, but not in the way Lola hoped it was going to sound.
"Lola, where do I begin with this?" Megumi began speaking. "I'm off to participate in Nathalia's coup, We're breaking apart faster than we can patch ourselves together. Everyone wants power and at this point we should try to take control of it ourselves. I think this school really wasn't for you in the end. I'm sorry Lola." Megumi told Lola that she was going to be with Nathalia when the coup was going to happen and she decided to tell the truth to Lola.
"Where am I supposed to go?" Lola asked. She was starting to get teary eyed as if the one person left in her life was going to throw it away for a chance to bring back the past.
"Lola, your big goal left is to start evacuating the Gregor Legion. If I change my mind about this, I will join you." Megumi told Lola that her task now was to make sure the Gregor students would get themselves to safety. "Pack your things and prepare to move out Bluebell." Megumi told Lola that she needed to pack supplies as the school was going to fall apart.
"Okay." Lola told Megumi. She felt rather upset about the uncertainty that was happening. She got up and left the scene as Megumi turned back as Nathalia was finishing her speech.
"Remember, the aristocrats have armies but we will quickly defeat them because the army is no place for undisciplined, left-wing snowflakes. We will begin marching off to oust Kerensky and take control tomorrow." Nathalia gave the day that they were going to begin their coup. The students cheered as they all got up and left. Lola had left to pack her bags and prepare to evacuate the Gregor Students from the ship. Megumi wasn't too sure about this either. She thought both sides were a threat as Nathalia had said but being on the fence wasn't going to help, it was either she participated or deserted to help Lola and Nelly evacuate the school.
Back in prison, the students were listening on a radio that they held as a contraband to hear what was going on outside of their cell.
"Nathalia has said she was going to overthrow Kerensky but we don't know if she is willing to make concessions with us and figure out what she has in mind. We're still in prison so we're not going to be able to do much." Nekota began explaining what was going on.
"How many students does she have in her group?" Ruiko asked curiously. Nekota began to think about it but nothing seemed to come to her head.
"That I don't know about." Nekota sighed. Looks like they were going to be still stuck in this prison.
With Alexandra and Fumie on the run, several members of the group still needing to be captured and now Nathalia calling for a coup to overthrow Kerensky, the writing on the wall was beginning to show. The students of the school were still freaking out as they needed a solution to all of this, either defend Kerensky or join Nathalia.
Nathalia's army was now on its way.
[A/N]: Aftermath of the events that continued from the previous chapter. Jajka has switched sides and joined the enemy, Mika has deserted, and Kay is still alone. Nathalia is planning a takeover of the school to try to fix what is going on even after she got promoted, she dislikes Kerensky as much as everyone else. What will Kerensky do to prevent Nathalia's coup from succeeding? Would he have to free those he threw in jail to try to stop Nathalia? I would like to see where this will go in the next chapter.
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