The Edelweiss pirates, together with their leaders Berthold and William, began to develop a plan for the defense of Frankenstein Castle, they ordered machine guns to be installed on the gates, cannons on the cliffs, and shooters on the walls and towers, in addition, they had one four-barreled anti-aircraft gun, which they planned to use against aircraft , but this time they decided to use it against infantry. They also had one captured Tiger tank, which miraculously survived due to the fact that the shell fell between the turret and the hull and was abandoned by its own crew in the midst of the battle, one of the Wehrmacht deserters Eckhard, a former tanker who was only 18 years old, somehow managed to recover the tank after their last battle. At this time, a group of pirates continued to remove the troupes of dead SS soldiers left after the last battle. When all the preparations were ready, dawn came and the Nazis appeared on the horizon, the Tiger command tank rode ahead, and even further several self-propelled jet guns, but the appearance of the monstrous Sturmtiger machine was a big surprise, one of the fighters managed to warn his own, but at that time the car stopped, pointed gun against the fortress and fired with a terrible roar. The shell flew straight into the fortress and by the sound, William alone understood where he was flying.
- Damn, they were aiming at the ammunition depot! - as soon as he said, the shell hit exactly the ammunition depot, the explosion was so powerful that it shook the ground. Explosions of shells flew in different directions, killing everyone who got in the way, one of the fragments from the building hit William's upper frontal part, but fortunately he was wearing a helmet that saved his head from being crushed into porridge.
- William! shouted Lucinola, running up, but he heard nothing but the ringing in his ears. He saw his comrades bleeding, some with severed limbs, others with crushed heads. As soon as Lucinola brought him to his senses, he noticed that blood was flowing from his forehead.
- Doctor! - shouted Lucinola and two porters and a Jew doctor Aaron Holzmann came to the cry, he took off his helmet and saw a crushed frontal part and made a disappointing forecast.
- The situation is very complicated! - shaking his head, Aaron replied - he vryat will live!
- Do something! Lucinola shouted in anger
"Is it possible to help him," - Aaron answered, examining William, "they don't live long with such wounds!"
- I will not let him die if I am ready to give him my blood! Lucinola replied furiously.
- I see that you love this man very much and are you really ready to sacrifice everything for William to live? Ezekiel asked.
- Yes! Lucinola replied. After that, he and two porters put William on a stretcher and carried the infirmary, leaving Juho and Francois in charge. There was a real commotion in the infirmary, the nurse girls dragged the wounded along with the porters to the operating table, of which there were only five, while a hundred of the wounded continued to sit or fall on the bare floor, only a thin bed sheet served them as a bed. Fragments from different parts of the body were pulled out to one on the operating table without anesthesia, which the unfortunate screamed in a rage of pain, another leg was amputated up to half of the lower leg using light anesthesia, but still felt terrible pain and shouted that two strong men had to hold him.
- Nurse! - shouted Lucinola - orderly here, quickly!
Then he took the nurse by the collar and ordered her to help William.
- I still have a lot of wounded and I don't have time to babysit another wounded man, who is dearer to you than all these fighters! - the nurse answered sternly, then Lucinola, having adjusted his bandage on his left eye, threatened her with a machine gun that if she did not do this, he would force her to do it by force. As a result, the nurse, having no way out, gave an injection of painkillers, after which, with a displeased face, she left to help other wounded. Lucinola and Aaron were looking for improvised materials for a makeshift operating table, while the porters put the wounded man on the floor and took the stretcher and left the unfortunate man on his way, finding everything they needed and assembling a makeshift table, Lucinola and Aaron noticed that two porters were missing.
"Where have these two morons gone?" asked Aaron.
- They went to help other wounded, while the cured went to the front line - one of the orderlies answered.
- So I need your help - said Aaron - the fate of this man depends on all of us, if you do not give him a blood transfusion, he will die! So everyone get ready and prepare your blood for the transfusion, and you, dear, bring the instruments here, now we will do the implantation of the bone of the frontal part. Who has the surviving bone?
"Unfortunately," one of the nurses began to say, "we only have a wolf skull, we don't have another one.
- It's a pity, but it looks like we'll have to make do with it - Aaron shook his head and began to prepare for the operation.
While William was in a coma, he dreamed of his parents calling him home.
- William - called his father Will Turner standing next to his mother Elizabeth Swann - come back home, you will be welcome here, this is your home!
- Father! - shouted William - I can't, I'm stuck in this world, I don't know the way back!
- I understand you, son - Will answered then changed his alms to anger - but you made a terrible mistake by following me on a boat instead of staying at home with your mother and as a result you ended up in this world, but everything can change if you listen me and you will do what I tell you!
- NO, father! - objected William - in this world my friends are waiting for me, whom I must protect from the evil that seeks to capture it! And while I am alive, I will not let this world perish, besides, I do not have the opportunity to return home, whether I want it or not, so I STAY!
- NOOOOO! - shouted Will - know that from now on you are no longer my son!
Then his mind moved to a certain stone plateau surrounded by stone mountains in the form of heads of death wrapped in a hood. And from the darkness appeared terrible faceless shadow creatures whose eyes burned with yellow fire, they slowly walked and growled trying to grab William. William, noticing a STG 44 submachine gun nearby, began to shoot from them, but each time there were more and more of them, Lorenzini suddenly hung in the air, who spoke to him:
- You're trying to resist the inevitable, stupid boy!
- SHUT UP! - William screamed in anger and continued to shoot from the monsters of Lorenzini.
- Do you think that carrying this burden you are participating in the battle of nations? - Lorenzini answered - why resist if you have already lost, why would you sacrifice yourself for these scum, William Turner III, why are they so important to you?
- YOU CAN'T TEMPT ME, YOU DEVIL SPOT! - William shouted again in anger, but by this time the ammunition in his machine gun had run out, then he threw his weapon on the ground and he was surrounded by Lorenzini's henchmen, preparing to deliver a final blow.
- Admit that you lost, give up and maybe I'll save your life! - suggested Lorenzini - I can even bring you home to your loving parents!
- NO, NO, NOTHING! William shouted again in anger.
- Fool, you doomed yourself to the eternal torment of this dying world, look at these people they have no will of their own! And you are the only one in the entire Enchanted Forest, you are special, there will be no more like you! - Lorenzini shouted in anger - So tell me who are you fighting for? For these pitiful, hypocritical people? For this dying world? For those who have never been your family? You are a stranger in this world, William, confess that here you will always be an outcast!
William took a breath and took out a cross from his tunic and pointed it at Lorenzini's minions, shouting:
- I FIGHT FOR HOPE!
Then a bright light came out of the cross, which destroyed the minions of Lorenzini and expelled him from here.
Then William woke up in the infirmary, slowly opening his eyes, he noticed other wounded, his head was clogged, he felt a slight headache putting his hand on his chest, but the nurse who appeared stopped him with the words:
- No need! You haven't fully recovered yet! To you still need to lie down in bed for a month!
- What day is it? asked William
- January 1, 1945 - answered the nurse
- Oh, God, I was in a coma for four months - William answered with horror - did we manage to repulse the attack?
- Yes, but with great difficulty, many of our people died that day - the nurse answered - How good that you returned, we thought that we had already lost you, I will immediately inform Aaron about your condition.
After Aaron came and examined William, he asked him about his state of health, well-being and that he had undergone a complex operation to implant a bone from a wolf skull, after several tests, Aaron was surprised that a foreign substance appeared in William's blood, which accelerated the regeneration of his body and allowed return to duty, where he continued to fight with the constantly attacking Nazis, but one day:
- William, trouble! - answered the scout.
- What is it, Yuho? William asked.
Juho breathed heavily and said that a large army of Nazi super-undead soldiers, led by the surviving Iron Hans, was approaching here.
- This can not be! - William was surprised - I killed him on Terra Magica!
Whatever you kill, it will come back! Yuho replied.
Meanwhile, a group of fighters were sitting near the brazier in winter uniforms trying to keep warm. One of them, an Estonian by birth, began to play the melody Enne veel kui tõuseb päikene.
"Could you stop playing that?! Irritating already - indignantly answered one of them.
- What else do we have to do? - embarrassedly answered the Estonian - soon we will all be finished!
And continued to play his melody.
After that, William held a meeting at which it was decided to evacuate all the wounded and former prisoners, William chose the chief Ezekiel, as more experienced.
- William, we will not go anywhere from here, we swore to the end to fight the Nazis shoulder to shoulder - objected Berthold.
- This is not your fight, Berthold! - William answered - I will not let your people die ingloriously, I will stay here with my people and try to buy time for you, there is a secret passage near the garden, go along it, no one will notice you, all enemy forces will be concentrated on us, this give you time to escape!
- In that case, tell me where we will fight? asked Berthold.
- Go to Cologne, help your brothers, hold out there as long as you can until the American troops arrive - ordered William.
- It was a great honor for me to fight with you William, goodbye, we are unlikely to see each other again - Berthold said goodbye, then he ordered his people to leave the fortress along with Aaron. They took the seriously wounded and those who could not walk on stretchers and headed for the secret tunnel to the exit. William watched with pride as hundreds of rebels left on the horizon, a hundred left, a handful remained to give the last, heroic battle to the Nazi hordes, for the chance of saving that very hundred.
Meanwhile, four half-tracked self-propelled guns with rocket-propelled mortars, one KingTiger, as far as howitzers and mortars lined up an abandoned Sturmtiger and four self-propelled guns lined up at the castle, William understood that with one PAK 43 gun and a four-barreled anti-aircraft gun, he had no chance of defeating the horde of undead soldiers, a group of super-soldiers that he led Iron Hans himself.
At the walls of the medieval castle, the Edelweiss pirates lined up with rifles and machine guns, submachine gunners covered from the rear, snipers stood on the towers, they all loaded their weapons with silver bullets, because only they were able to kill these super-soldiers. Night has fallen and rivers of blood will be shed before their last refuge, there is no turning back for them!
In a medieval castle, they hold the line with grim determination, preparing for death!
And then William called all his fighters to himself, among them were Juho, sniper Hannah, Francois and his faithful deputy Lucinola:
- We were left alone! There will be no help! Here they are barbarian hordes came here to sow evil that destroyed many nations! We are not enough to win! We have no chance of winning! The enemy has surrounded us, there is no escape for us, but we will not surrender! If we are destined to die, we will sell our lives dearly so that those who are in trouble have a chance to get to the American side!
All those present rejoiced, praising the name of William, after which they began to take up defensive lines, it turns out that in addition to all the remaining weapons, they had some captured Pupchen guns, anti-tank guns and mortars that could help them in the defense. And so Iron Hans gave the order to his soldiers to attack. The ghouls attacked first, followed by super soldiers in SS uniforms in armor and armored masks with eyepieces glowing red with submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles, some with panzers. The first line opened heavy fire from rifles and machine guns at the ghouls, destroying them in waves, on each wave a new one appeared and a new one appeared until they reached the walls and that's when William pricked from pupchens to open fire, simultaneously leading a firefight with super-soldiers from machine guns and sniper rifles , Hannah was an excellent sniper and killed two dozen super soldiers and a dozen ghouls, but she herself did not die at the hands of a super soldier sniper, a super soldier sniper hit her right in the optical sight, shooting through her eye, the bullet went right through the back of the head.
- FIRE! shouted William - KILL THEM ALL! AT THE WALLS OF OUR FORTRESS!
The cannons from the donjon fired another salvo and crushed the wave of ghouls, in response to this, the Nazis opened fire with their rocket mortars, howitzers and mortars, William had to order all the remaining artillery to destroy the self-propelled guns. The captured Tiger tank entered the battle with the King Tiger, destroying all the remaining self-propelled guns along the way, the tank duel was fierce in which the tiger of the Edelweiss pirates received several hits and destroyed the main gun, and then Eckhardt, in desperation, went to ram and at the cost of his and the crew's lives destroyed the tank King Tiger. Everything was going great William and his men held out until midnight, killing most of the Nazi super-soldiers, until Iron Hans himself entered the battle, he shot the rebels with his machine gun, cutting them down like a young birch, and then he ran up to the gate and knocked them out with a few blows of his fists, after which he ordered the hordes of ghouls to attack the survivors, they tore them with their claws and tore them apart with their teeth, François bravely shot back from them until two of them fell on him and not torn to pieces, before his death, he asked William to kill him to end his torment, which he did by shooting him in the head, Juho furiously, like a true Finn, fired from the bloodthirsty hordes of ghouls, but was shot by one of the super soldiers. And now only Lucinola and William survived.
- William, are you there? Lucinola asked.
"Yes," William replied.
Do you see that weapon?
- Yes!
- About three, break through there, there should be more ammo on donjon, it should be enough to destroy the remaining super-soldiers! One two Three!
William and Lucinola ran at the same time as the super soldiers fired at them, barely reaching the anti-aircraft gun on donjon and inspecting it for ammunition, they realized that its supply was limited, so they dumped the bodies of the killed crew, they took the gun and prepared for battle.
When the remaining ghouls and super soldiers appeared, they opened fire on them from anti-aircraft weapons, the ghouls ran wave after wave and died as well, the super soldiers fired back from STG 44 and FG 42, a group of snipers suddenly appeared and opened aimed fire at them, William was wounded several times in shoulder and left leg, while Lucinola was less fortunate, he was wounded in the stomach, then he ordered William to destroy the snipers on the tower, which he did wonderfully, and when all the ghouls and super-soldiers were destroyed, Iron Hans himself entered the battle. The heroes opened heavy fire on him, but the bullets could not penetrate his tank armor. And then Lucinola ordered:
"William, shoot his helmet, that's the only way we'll have a chance to kill him!"
William agreed and started aiming directly at the helmet of the thug monster and when he managed to knock off the helmet, he saw under it the ugly face of the creature, what was once a man had a disfigured face with scars in place of which there were once seams and now it is angry due to the flak bullets firing at him, he took a piece of rebar and threw it at Lucinola piercing it like a bug, then he made a jerk and threw William away from the flak that he was on the other end of the site. As soon as he got up after such a strong throw, he picked up the first rifle that came across and prepared for a one-on-one battle with Iron Hans, and that's when the monster spoke to him in German for the first time:
- Jetzt sind wir allein! Sie werden für Ihre Eskapaden bezahlen! Du wirst die Wut von Eisen Hans spüren!
After which he jumped at him from the air like an angry gorilla on a victim, William barely dodged a deadly prowess, which at best could stun him, now that Iron Hans did not have a helmet on his head, William knew where to shoot, with every shot from with all the weapons at hand, he enraged the beast and at the same time inflicted damage on his head, which exposed bloody wounds.
Oh! Kleine Ratte! Ich... werde deinen Schädel mit meinen bloßen Händen zertrümmern! - Iron Hans shouted in anger.
Then the fight continued.
- Komm hier!
William tried to kill him from the back, but Iron Hans felt him and, scattering the boxes, grabbed William by the neck and began to choke, then William pulled out a dagger from the scabbard and hit Hans on the neck with it, he immediately released him and, in a fit of pain, pulled the dagger out of his neck and said:
- Netter Versuch! Aber dumm, ich kann nicht mit einfachen Waffen getötet werden!
William and Hans continued the fight, which was getting hotter, each time Hans jumped and hurled rebar at William, each time William dodged them with a catlike reaction.
- Why don't you feel like a strong man when you don't have a helmet to protect your head? William asked mockingly.
- Jetzt wirst du sterben!
He attacked him again with the words:
- Oh, du Abschaum! Komm her, ich werde dich für unsere Soldaten rächen!
- Du kannst dich nicht vor mir verstecken!
William, left without a weapon, began to shoot back with a Luger pistol.
- Ich zerquetsche dich wie einen Floh! - Iron Hans shouted in anger and attacked William with redoubled fury. Then William decided to change tactics, play cat and mouse with him, having difficulty hiding behind the shield of the anti-aircraft gun, he checked for the presence of remaining ammunition in the box and the bolt, and as it turned out, there was only one shell in the gun from which in no case could it be missed , then he began to throw cartridge cases and shells in different directions to attract Iron Hans. And he took the bait. He walked slowly, speaking in his German:
- Ich weiß, dass du hier bist, komm raus, Hündchen und vielleicht werde ich dein Leben retten! Vielleicht!
Having gone around the entire site in search of William and not finding him, he approached the gun where William was, he had to hide in a shelter covered with a tarpaulin, and when the Iron Hans turned his back, William pointed the muzzle of the gun at the back of Hans's head and said in a whisper before the shot:
- This is for ours!
And with a shot from a gun, he tore his head like a watermelon, the body of the monster swayed and fell backwards. William barely rejoiced at the victory, as one surviving German soldier with a rifle approached him and ordered him to raise his hands in German, but suddenly he heard a shot from a pistol, it was Lucinola, barely alive.
- Leave my friend alone! - strictly answered Lucinola to the corpse of a German soldier, barely holding a gun in his hands, he fell to the ground, unable to rise.
- Lucinola, you're alive! - happily shouted William - How is your wound? You can go?
- I'm afraid not William - answered Lucinola - I am mortally wounded, I was not lucky like you. I heard on the radio that a large group of the Wehrmacht is heading here, you have to leave!
- Lucinola, I won't leave you! William objected.
- Do what I tell you, as the elder of you! - objected Lucinola - give me that damn rifle!
William had to obey, he took the Mauser rifle from the German soldier killed by Lucinola and, making sure that it was loaded, gave it to Lucinola.
"I'm lucky to have a good friend like you, Lucinola!" - said William - It was an honor for me to fight next to you!
- Old wolves die when it's their turn! - Lucinola answered jokingly - Juho has films with our history in his bag, find them and save them as a memory of us, no one else will ever remember our exploits, we are dead to them, we are ghosts of a fictional story. And if you are lucky enough to have a family, tell them about us!
"But Lucinola, I am," William tried to protest.
- No, it's all over for me - objected Lucinola - Go to the American zone, I'll try to buy time for you and delay the Germans. Now go!
William tried to prevent such a decision, then Lucinola shouted:
- I SAID GO!
William had no choice but to obey, and when Lucinola was left alone, he aimed his rifle at his chin and William heard a shot in the distance, it was Lucinola who shot himself, not wanting to be a burden for his friend and be captured by the Germans. William turned around and ran up to see the corpse of Lucinola over which he burst into tears, but it was impossible to stay here, a large detachment of the Wehrmacht was approaching the castle, then, having done as Lucinola said, he went to the place where Juho was lying and took the bag with the camera and films, picked up the STG 44 with one loaded store, and at the last moment remembered the gold that they hid in the castle and entering there, he examined the warehouse and making sure that in one box there were enough gold bars to live a comfortable life, he put it on his right shoulder and left the castle went straight into the woods to the American zone of occupation. At the last moment, his Edelweiss badge, which he kept with him, dwarfs his memories.
Events are carried over to the present day.