As the next morning began to roll around, the students of the Gregor legion were ready to flood their front with hundreds of students coming in from other schools. Quite a few of them were more than willing to lend their arms and supplies to them. Megumi was going to need all the help she could get as these reinforcements were now beginning to come in.
"We got plenty of rifles for all and hopefully enough ammo to make the push westward." Baby Lee told the group that they had gathered the supplies they had needed. Naomi was also there, chatting with one of the students that Alice had brought along. She was short with short pig-tails with brown eyes and her face was full of freckles. Maybe more than Alexandra. "This is Alisa, she has agreed to come with us on this." Baby Lee introduced her to them.
"Nice to meet you, I think you heard our call to help destroy Communism, we could use those students that have volunteered." Megumi told Alisa as she shook her hand.
"We were short on volunteers as Kuromorimine is still fighting us and many of these students are needed there rather than here so we had to call on the Russians to help us out." Naomi explained why they were few in number but for Megumi she needed as many people as possible.
"Okay we have the port secured, Tsutsuji has more students on the way and for us, we need to begin rescuing the stranded legionnaires." Megumi explained that they needed to begin attacking westward to see if they were going to save the entire Gregor Legion and help them knock Pravda out. "Gregor students at the port, you'll be coming with us."
"No fair, we want to get out of here." One of the students told Megumi that she wasn't a fan of this plan but if it meant getting themselves free, then it was a plan. The four ladies stepped forward as they were various ages as they could be in their mid-twenties to their fifties. Many of them looked like they were grizzled veterans of the most recent wars.
"My name is Viktoria." Viktoria began as she gave her introduction. "These are Alvina, Sofiya and Soya, we're going to be helping you out with the front."
"Nice to hear, your troops have the rifles and the machine guns ready?" Megumi asked if they were ready to begin marching westward.
"How secure is the railroad?" Alvina asked if they were going to begin their attack.
"The Gregor legion secured it a day ago; they have even captured an armored train believe it or not." Megumi told Alvina that they weren't in any danger as the rail lines were secured and this meant that they could begin their attack. However the biggest help from the Russians wasn't going to be in the form of a high star general but rather their admiral in their navy.
"Who's the admiral?" Megumi asked. The admiral stepped out, dressed fiercely with his admiral cap on. He stood there with his saber in hand and his revolver in his pocket.
"Alekandr Kolchak." Alvina explained that their friend was the admiral.
"А. Похоже, собирается международная армия для борьбы с заклятым врагом белых. Я чувствую, что у вас, девочки, есть своя цель." Kolchak began as he seemed to like the international army that was gathering before him. Viktoria came forward as the scarred lady began to speak.
?Отбрось свою мелочность Колчак. Мы здесь, чтобы спасти студентов, которые оказались в ловушке в самой школе. Мы здесь ради них и только ради них." Viktoria explained while walking up to Megumi. "Вы выполните обещание, что мы выпустим этих студентов?"
"Of course Viktoria, we need to begin racing westward now, my friends are still trapped in there." Megumi ordered. She decided to get on top of a box before she began to speak. "Okay everyone, we're going to begin the race westward, our friends are stuck in the school and it is our job to free them. If we do free them, we can begin the evacuation of the Gregor Legion. Let's move." Megumi made the speech ordering the various armies to begin their westward journey to free the Gregor Legion. With the Legion split up and spread out, she was hoping to make friends along the way.
The Reds were thinly spread out. For Megumi, she had gathered her force into a single fist and was ready to begin the attack. Alice decided to take the lead with her pointing the rifle at a red and fired. The Red went down as Alice pressed the attack more.
"Time to liberate the railroad from the Reds!" Baby Lee called out. The students streamed westward with the Russians being the spearhead with the attack, since they had the most experienced troops with her, they were able to quickly sweep over the Reds. Lola and Nelly meanwhile held a section of railroad that they had fended attacks off for the past few hours. Lola turned her head to see a large force approaching their position.
"Help has finally come!" Lola called out, Nelly looked as she spotted Gregor Students in the force, they were helping go to the west. Lola hopped from the armored train while Kolchak led the Russians to secure more of the railroad and the armored train. Alvina walked up to Megumi before spotting Lola and Nelly as she was curious about who they were.
"Who are these girls?" Alvina asked as she didn't know who they were. Megumi walked over and decided to introduce her friends to them.
"Alvina, this is Lola and Nelly. Lola has been my friend since we first met and Nelly is the leader of the Gregor Legion. A legion we formed as we wanted to give the girls from Gregor High School the chance to become independent from the Dual Alliance. But now with Saunders going communist, the mission here is to evacuate the legion and get them to return to Gregor." Megumi laid out the situation for the soldier that was helping them rescue the legion.
"Nice to meet you ma'am, we're grateful for the help you're giving us." Lola shook hands with the soldier. The soldier smiled while looking at her.
"I've never seen someone so nice like her before. We need to keep moving however as we still have to capture much of the school." Alvina explained that despite the warm welcome, the white army needed to continue the race westward. "The Reds are retreating and Kolchak says he wants to take full advantage of it."
"I guess we should continue, let's get the armored train into the fight and we should be able to continue." Megumi explained that the race would have to continue. For the four of them, this was enough and this got them to agree to continue.
As day one had come to an end they had advanced a mile and they had stopped for the night but however, this was going to have some dire consequences for some of Megumi's friends that she had made. As it turned out, at Yekaterinburg was where the Reds had gathered around one of the houses, inside were some rather important people. If you were wondering what Nicholas and his family were doing this entire time between when Kay abdicated and now, some explanation. After his abdication as principal, he was able to live in his usual lifestyle but while the condition at Saunders worsened, their lives went into ruin. All the Reds were doing was holding onto Nicholas and his family until they knew what they were going to do to them but the civil war only made things more complicated. All the Reds didn't want to do was have Nicholas and his family fall into the hands of the Whites.
Nicholas and his family were asleep that night in the Ipatiev house where the Reds were keeping him. The guards found out what was happening and they knew about what was happening. Alexandra was guarding the perimeter, she was happy to see her old friends back but with the condition of the front, something had to be done.
"We don't know if relocating them would be a good idea?" Alexandra asked. She didn't know if they were going to get out of there in time.
"Probably not, the white army is a few hours away walking distance. We can't just smuggle them out." The guard told Alexandra, they needed to do something with Nicholas and his family to prevent them from falling into the hands of the whites. Alexandra knew this decision was tough and whatever they were going to do with Nicholas and his family, she knew she didn't want to interfere with the operation.
"I'm going to get some rest, try figuring out what to do with them." Alexandra told the guard what they were going to do with Nicholas and his family. The guard nodded, saluted Alexandra and watched as Alexandra walked away to get some rest. The guard needed to wake Nicholas and his family.
Nicholas and his family were asleep in their beds as the Reds had been guarding them over the past few days. The door opened while the Red Guard members entered to tell them the news.
"Nicholas, get up. We're relocating you for your own safety as the whites are approaching." One of the guards began. Nicholas opened one of his eyes as he was worried.
"Whites? Okay." He sighed. His wife Alix woke up as she too heard the message. "Where are we going?" Nicholas was curious about what was happening.
"We're going to exit through the basement, get your family ready and dressed." The guard told him before she got up and left. Nicholas was left to do everything himself.
Within a few minutes, Nicholas and his family were dressed and they were being guided into the basement, following them were their servants which were four of them while the Red Guards lead the way. Nicholas was being careful as he was carrying Alexei who had fallen ill. Their captors lead them into the basement while looking for somewhere to put them. Finally they placed them in a room in the basement as the guards exited the room briefly. Nicholas and his family were waiting around to figure out what was going on.
"Where do you think they're going?" Maria [R] asked. She didn't know what was going on. "They can't just leave us here in the basement."
"They'll be back, just be patient." Alix told Marie that the guards wouldn't leave them behind and they were going to come back. Maria nodded as she gulped, this wasn't going to look good. After what seemed to be forever, two guards had entered as they were carrying a camera.
"We're all going to gather for a photo as we want to say that you're still here Nicholas and hopefully when the week is over we should be able to have you somewhere safe." Alexandra began as she tried her best to comfort the family. She was most concerned for Alexei who wasn't feeling like himself for the past few days. She felt pity for her friend and Megumi must've felt the same way. Now she hoped that she was able to get them to safety where they could live out their lives.
"At least you seem to still care about me and my family Alexandra. Even if you joined the enemy, you still seem to express the fact that I seemed to be the one person preventing the school from falling apart." Alexei expressed how thankful he was that Alexandra was the only person who still seemed to care for their situation. As for their situation. Alexandra was the only one who tried her best to make sure everything went smoothly.
"You're welcome, Tsarevich." Alexandra softly replied. Alexandra had set up the camera in front of the family as they had all gotten into position. "And smile." She told them before she snapped the picture. The family were waiting around to see what Alexandra was going to do next. She snapped a few more pictures to make sure the family was calm. "I'll be back for you in the next few minutes." Alexandra told them as she and the Red Guard that was with her picked the camera up and left the room. This left them all alone once again.
"When do you think Alexandra will be back?" Alexei asked Nicholas when her friend was going to return. Nicholas looked at his son and began to speak.
"She'll be back in a few minutes. She definitely took some pictures of us so it can't be anything that bad." Nicholas told Alexei that Alexandra wouldn't be gone for long and she was going to come back for them. As the minutes ticked by the family waited as they were trying to figure out what was going to happen. Finally seven minutes ticked by as the Red Guard had entered the room. Alexandra was absent from the group as the group had quite the large group. "Where is Alexandra?" Nicholas asked the group. The members remained silent as they weren't going to answer Nicholas' question. Lisa was among the group as she and Fumie stepped forth. Fumie began to read the message.
"Nicholas Romanov, you are hereby guilty by the supreme council of the Ural Soviet. You are hereby to be shot along with all of your family." Fumie began. Nicholas was horrified to hear about this. Some of the servants signed the holy cross to have God himself spare them. Alexei lifted his left arm to block his eyes to figure out what happened to the group.
"What?" Nicholas asked, he needed an explanation. The guards said nothing as Fumie pulled the trigger. She shot Nicholas in the forehead and caused him to collapse. The others opened fire seconds later, striking Nicholas again, then his son Alexei and then Alix, the daughters and servants alike. Shards of diamonds and precious jewels flew everywhere as the women had concealed them in the linings of their dresses. Fumie and Lisa looked around to see that they had shot up everyone, the youngest daughter Anastasia cried out in fear as she hadn't been shot enough. Lisa grabbed a rifle and headed over to Anastasia to finish her off. Anastasia held a pillow containing precious diamonds as it was used as a shield to ricochet some of the bullets off. Lisa spotted Anastasia as she held the pillow. Lisa then took the pillow and ripped it out of Anastasia's hands. She then took the butt of the rifle and brutally smacked her with the stock of the rifle. Anastasia cried out even more as her head was now pounding loudly. Finally she lost consciousness as her body was now laying on the ground. Fumie and Lisa looked around to see what else was there, there was a faint cry as one of them hadn't been finished off. It was Alexei who was crying as he hadn't been properly finished off. Although shot up significantly he was hanging on for dear life. Lisa walked over as she bashed the rifle stock on Alexei twice with no such luck. He was still weeping and they needed a way to finish him off. Lisa then grabbed Fumie's Mauser and shot Alexei in the back of the head. Alexei fell silent as they had seemed to have massacred the entire family and the Reds were quite proud of their work.
"Chop their bodies up, burn their flesh, dissolve their bones in sulfuric acid and dump the remains off in a local mine shaft." Fumie gave the order. Alexandra was going to be horrified when she was going to hear about this. Her enemies were at one point her friends and she didn't plan anything like this and now that it had happened what were they going to do?
The Red Guard had the time to complete none of Fumie's orders as the sun rose, the Gregor Legion was once again on the move. They quickly pushed to Yekaterinburg with Megumi taking the lead. She looked at the field ahead, it seemed to be the body of her friend, his family and servants.
"Alexei!" Megumi cried out. She raced over to his body and began to feel him up for signs of life. She thought all hope was lost and the Reds had just murdered the entire family. Alexei coughed as he seemed to have his joints paralyzed.
"Megumi." Alexei weakly called out. Megumi hugged Alexei as she was relieved to see he was still alive.
"Thank goodness you're alive." Megumi cried as she hugged her friend with relief. The other members of the family began to wake up after having been beaten and shot. Some of them had managed to take the worst of it as Anastasia had been bashed in the skull. Nelly and Lola walked over to see what they were talking about.
"Are they okay?" Nelly asked. Megumi looked over to see what they needed.
"They are not. They need medical attention immediately!" Megumi called out that she knew she needed to stay behind to take care of Alexei as his condition was the thing she showed the most concern about. The medics arrived a couple minutes later and evacuated them from the scene. "Continue the offensive without me, I need to take care of these people." Megumi instructed Nelly and Viktoria to keep the offensive up if they were to get the Red's out. Viktoria nodded as she knew she needed to keep the westward advance up.
The offensive resumed an hour later as Kolchak's army was up on the front line and attacking, they were running out of supplies but even then the Reds were still in full retreat. They were firing off everything they had to prevent a true breakthrough. Artillery exploded while the Russian soldiers that were fighting were struck down with plastic pellets and firecrackers. They were scrambling as they were terribly organized.
"Почему они перестали стрелять?" Kolchak asked as he was furious about their artillery not firing. Soldiers raced up and down as they were trying to man their positions.
"Ваше Превосходительство, у нас закончились боеприпасы." One of the Russian soldiers replied. The soldier was shot down before falling into the trench. Kolchak raced down the trench to see if they were going to find more ammunition.
"Беги к Ложкину и купи!" Kolchak ordered one of his soldiers to see if they could find more ammunition. The soldier had this to say.
"Там тоже нет!" He said. Kolchak knew the situation was hopeless as they were out of supplies and they needed to continue their advance. A nun was carrying one of the injured men over as she was attempting to make sure the wounded were able to get out safely. More explosions were heard as some of the cavalry scouts came back, the situation was falling apart for Kolchak as he raced to a bunker to find more ammunition for his men.
"Штаб... ответьте!" Another soldier called out. He needed to figure out what Megumi and her friends were doing regarding the ammo situation.
"Генерал-лейтенант Войцеховский с передовым отрядом... нас теснят на левом фланге." Another soldier called out that the left flank was being constricted by the Reds, their enemy might even blunt their advance and counter attack. "И у нас закончились боеприпасы." He also stated. Kolchak knew he needed to get his army in shape so he could attack.
"Вы можете идти." Kolchak told the soldier. The soldier nodded before he dashed off. "Что касается коммуникаций?" Kolchak asked if they were able to communicate with Viktoria in the hope of getting resupplied.
"Мы не можем... линия прервана." Another Russian soldier explained to Kolchak. The poor admiral knew that there was no way he was going to be able to keep the pressure up.
"Продолжайте пытаться!" Kolchak shouted. This was all he could do for now as the ammo situation wasn't working in the favor he was expecting it to be. Musicians waited in the trenches while the soldiers fired their rifles off as they wanted to nail a Red or two.
"Ответ, хедквартс…" The soldier called out. Then Viktoria and a few soldiers entered the hold out.
"Штаб-квартира здесь." Viktoria told Kolchak that she was there for him.
"Виктория, как ты здесь оказалась?" Kolchak asked while she was here with the soldiers.
"Он находится под обстрелом." Viktoria responded that their headquarters were being attacked by the Reds too.
"Почему вы прекратили наступление?" Kolchak asked Viktoria why the front wasn't still advancing.
"Что за оскорбления? У нас не осталось ни одного патрона." Viktoria asked before she explained that they were out of supplies too. Kolchak looked around to see that Viktoria was right; they were running out of supplies and their logistics were stretched thin. Kolchak turned and made the cross with his hands. It was now all or nothing and this battle's outcome was on him. "Я получил вашу телеграмму. И хотя у нас закончились припасы, мы должны атаковать." Viktoria added it just expressed how dire this situation was."Остальная армия уже в пути?" Viktoria asked if they were going to get reinforcements. Kolchak turned and began to speak to Viktoria.
"Мы будем мертвы к тому времени, когда они придут сюда." Kolchak told Viktoria that the reinforcements weren't going to rescue them. "Приготовьтесь к битве, у нас нет другого выхода." Kolchak explained to Viktoria that they had no options left. They needed to attack now. "Время на исходе." Kolchak added to what Viktoria was saying.
"Колчак, скажи людям, чтобы заходили." Viktoria ordered Kolchak to get the men ready to launch an attack. Kolchak nodded and he left the scene.
The men were arranged with their rifles as Kolchak hurried down the trench to give the order to attack. He found a good spot to give his speech and order the soldiers to attack.
"Офицеры и солдаты." Kolchak began the speech to order the soldiers to attack. "Ребята... нам негде взять боеприпасы. Черт с ними! Бог с нами! И с Богом и молитвой мы победили врага и будем продолжать это делать! Все в руках Божьих. Если нам суждено погибнуть, мы с честью пойдем на дно! Мы с честью пойдем на дно! Сделай или умри!" Kolchak made the speech that they needed to fight. He climbed onto the embankment while getting ready to make a call to attack. "За веру, за Родину, штыки вперед, вперед марш!" Kolchak shouted before he drew his saber out. Now came the chance to attack.
"Прикрепите штыки!" The officer shouted. The soldiers began to draw out their bayonets and began to attach them to the rifles. Once the bayonets were fixed, the students began to exit the trench, the first wave of students exited the trench and were cut down in the process they fell as the adults continued to chat.
"Колчак, ты не можешь. Ты ведешь армию." Viktoria explained to Kolchak that he was going to be leading the attack but to Kolchak that wasn't what he wanted he was going to press the attack.
"Где музыканты?! Армейская музыка! Быстрее!" Kolchak called for the musicians to get out and begin playing their music. The musicians however weren't too keen about it, Kolchak wanted to have them come out to fight. "Music I said!" The musicians weren't too keen on marching forth. "Музыканты, вперед марш!" Kolchak shouted. The musicians went forward as they began to exit the trench. The Pravda maxim gun was trying its best to mow down as many of the attacking soldiers as possible, the ones in the first wave continued to fall down.
"Тесная формация!" Viktoria shouted. The musicians lifted their instruments and began to play them as the troops marched forward, it was their way of keeping their morale up. "В огонь!" Viktoria shouted as she guided the troops into the gun fire. The Reds continued to fire away as the waves of white troops marched to the group. For Kolchak this was what he wanted. The Reds weren't hitting all of their shots and it was up to the machine gun to do the heavy lifting, Now their enemy was marching to them. The troops continued to march forward as those that got shot attempted to drag themselves in any direction, The other troops went forward before they fell down onto the ground. One fell and another troop tripped onto the other and fell down after him. One was crawling backward before heading into an officer's saber.
"Вперед!" The officer shouted for the soldier to get up and keep going.
"Музыка! Вперед!" Another officer shouted as he ordered the musicians to keep marching forward. They continued to move forward as the artillery exploded all around them. The students looked around while they continued to fire at the soldiers as the soldiers fell one by one. The nun was trying to treat the soldiers and she was starting to go crazy. She didn't want the fight to continue and she was going to make an attempt to break the fighting up. She threw down the bandage and she began to run out to the front of the crowd.
"Прекратить огонь!" The nun shouted as she appeared into the crowd. She charged forward as she didn't want the Reds and the Whites to continue massacring each other. "УРАААААААААА!" The nun screamed as she ran forward. The Maxim didn't care as it continued to fire away. The nun was struck multiple times before she fell into the snow. The soldiers looked at the nun that was now down in the snow. Silence had swept over the field as the first soldier looked at the nun that was in the snow.
"Эх, у тебя есть женщина…" The red student asked as she didn't know they shot the nun. The officer stepped forward as he knew this couldn't go on any more.
"Вот ублюдки!" The officer shouted, the rest of the white army charged forward and into the Red army to avenge the nun. The reds knew they needed to keep retreating as they were still hopelessly outnumbered. They fired the machine gun until they realized they were going to get run over.
"Назад!" The Reds shouted as they abandoned the machine gun; it was their lives that were at stake and not their equipment. The Whites overran the position as the battle was now over. Later, a priest was giving holy smoke to those that had fallen on the field while a couple men were deciding on what to do regarding who was going to be buried or not.
"Будем ли мы укладывать красных вместе с белыми?" The first man asked if their troops were going to rest together in the field.
"Вместе." The second man replied. He pulled another body down with his friend and he continued to speak. "Мы все - люди Бога." He told his friend. "Бог не раскрасил их в разные цвета." He continued while the priest went around and continued to chant. The battle was now over.
Despite the attacks made throughout the day, the legion decided to split up. Lola decided to push northward while Nelly continued west. Eventually Nelly pushed onward and took Kazan and reached the Volga River. Now that they managed to arrive, Nelly went over to the building that she believed that the building held.
"Take a look inside." The student told Nelly. Nelly went over and she began to open the door. Afterward the door opened after turning the vault like a wheel and for Nelly, she wasn't going to believe what she found inside. Wandering into the room, Nelly couldn't believe it, bars upon bars of gold were inside of the building.
"Oh my goodness what is all of this gold doing here?" Nelly asked as she didn't exactly know about the gold. She picked up the gold bar and she knew she needed to take some of this with her. Alvina walked over as she too was ecstatic about the gold. Megumi had rejoined them and she entered the room. Even she couldn't believe what was happening.
"Nelly. You and the Gregor Legion have just found all of Saunders' gold reserves. We can use this as payment and we have taken all of this from the Reds. With all of this, they knew they needed to pack up all of this and move all of this back." Megumi explained that they had found where the Reds were hiding their hard currency.
"Now that the Reds don't have money we should begin evacuating all of the gold and get it off of the ship. Find some rail cars and pack all of the gold onto them. Once done we should begin the evacuation process." Alvina explained with excitement. She now had to organize the gold train and get it all out of there.
"Yeah but there is one problem with all of this." Megumi began speaking.
"What's that Megumi, spit it out for us." Alvina wanted to see what Megumi had to say.
"The problem is even though capturing all of Saunders gold reserves was a major victory for us, we just don't have enough troops to guard all of the territory from Kazan to Vladivostok and whatever help the other schools have managed to give us only amounts to a few thousand people with the war still going on for the other schools as Kuromorimine is still in the fight, they are only willing to send those that they had laying around. If we can hold out until Kuromorimine is defeated, we can get more reinforcements." Megumi explained that the war was still happening and if the enemy was defeated they could get more students to help keep themselves in the fight and knock Pravda out.
"For now, we should mostly pack the gold up and ship it all away. We'll try figuring out what to do regarding the shortage of abled fighting people along with our supply situation." Alvina explained that the immediate goal as of now was to evacuate the supplies from Kazan including all of the gold reserves. Maybe they could use the gold as a bargaining tool but even with all of the riches, a greedy snake from the water takes it all for himself.
[A/N]: I haven't written a chapter in nearly 3 weeks and that was because of the brain situation, I just needed to take a break or write about something else as I couldn't think of anything regarding what I want to do with this fanfiction. Now that this chapter is made, I felt like I have made some progress regarding where this story is going. This chapter deals with the international landing and the race westward to fight Pravda and the Saunders communists. Unfortunately Pravda in the next chapter will prove that they aren't the same slouches as they were when the Civil war began. So with the civil war slowly turning, the students have been stretched thin and even though Megumi and her friends along with their Russian allies having won a major victory and took over all of the gold reserves, they just don't have the men and the supplies to hold so Kazan is about as far as they will go.
The next chapter will begin the turn around for the worst for the Gregor Legion.