Slightly Earlier
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Shells boomed as they crashed down onto the camp,
The "US soldiers" she was following just laughed as the real American soldiers died in their tents,
Yukari stared in horror.
One of the "soldiers" noticed her.
They yelled in unintelligible German.
"Wir haben einen verpasst!"
One of them drew a gun.
"Ah!" Was the only thing she got out before instincts kicked in and she tore off, the soles of her boots tearing into the snow as she rocketed off.
*BANG!
A bullet landed right near her feet, splattering snow up around her leg and waist
She ran as fast as she could around a tree to take cover
In this brief moment of respite, She wondered who they actually were.
Then she remembered, Operation Greif...
Where German Commandos dressed up as US soldiers and infiltrated their lines.
Those were German commandos, not Americans!
The battle broke out around her as she continued to run, trying to not pay any mind
Bullets flew, shells exploded, creating an almost musical cacophony of chaos.
*KAKABOOOOOOM
*BRRRARRDDRRRRRT
*THUP
*THUP
*ZHING!
Bullets being first impacted the ground, and small pieces of metal
Endless artillery exploding all at once that you could feel through your gut, loud enough to deafen you constantly.
*BAKOOOOOOOOO-CKEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
A wave of dirt hit her face, with what seemed like the wind itself dragging her to the ground. Her ears crackling and ringing.
*THUMP
She hit the ground back first, her muscles cracking with the impact, tumbling to a stop in a shell crater.
"I wanna go home, this is a bad dream, this is a bad dream!" Her mind screamed
"I... want... to....go..... home..." she murmured, losing her breath, starting to feel wetness dripping down her face.
Then something snapped her out of her horror, as her ears seemed to zoom right back to normal hearing.
The German commando walking through the mud, the sloshing sounds of his boots drawing nearer
She urgently felt her waist, urgently trying to get ahold of her defense measure
Which was her pistol she hoped to never use,
She fumbled with it, her hands still shaking like leaves in the wind
Her endlessly pumping adrenaline making her arms shake like that.
The Nazi looked to her direction,
He barked something in German,
"Es gibt einen!"
*BANG
He fired his rifle, the loud crack splitting her eardrums with inexplicable noise
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he'd missed by less than a millimeter, she felt the wind on it.
The Commando pointed his rifle at her, as he attempted to to chamber another round on its bolt action,
*CLK-CLAK
He had his blood-dripping bayonet fixed,
She crawled backwards, still on the ground.....
The Nazi doing a slow walk to keep up with her struggling, gnashing his long, yellow teeth.
The helmet obscured his eyes, not human in nature
Yukari's breath got choppy, as if the air itself was like breathing needles, arms shivering.
She couldn't get up, just kept shaking on the ground like a helpless child
"MAMA! MAMA! OKAA-SANNN!" Yukari screamed
"Stirb schon, Amerikanisches Schwein!" The Nazi hissed
*SHAK!
"PUH—!" the German soldier grunted
The German was stabbed by something,
"O-Okaa-Chan?"
It was Carm again, with the fire axe that was mounted on the exterior of the tank.
He yanked the tip out of the German's back.
"We are getting out of here....." Carm said
She immediately threw her arms around him
"Mama, Mama! I wanna go home! Let me leave!" Yukari screamed.
"Save the hugs for later, we gotta go!" Carm said
Yukari failed to listen,
Carm chambered her pistol, It was time to move, wether she'd move with him or not
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the battle had truly taken off now,
Gunfire echoed in the surroundings, like nightmarish firecrackers never allowing a moment of peace
The "Super" T29 waited at the edge of the forest, where there was no dense trees.
Carm ran up to it, with Yukari being carried over the shoulder
*BRAAAATTTTTTTT!!!
*THUTHUMTHUTHUMTHUMTHUMTHUTHUM!
They received some gunfire from a nearby MG nest, but the T29 returned fire with its coaxial heavy Machine Guns, making snow particles dance across the tank like ants going mad.
Carm flew into the tank with great haste, Yukari still dangled over his shoulder
Carm slammed on his headset
"Tank forwards!" He commanded
The stark white T29 moved forward.
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It made its way to a snowy field, on the other side of some trees.
There were hordes of Panzers everywhere. And only one T29 to counter said Panzers
A shell ricocheted off of King cobra's new armor, failing to get through
"The Nazis see us, there's no way we can slip out now." Carm hissed in his mind
There was no choice but to do battle
"Panther, traverse right!" Carm yelled.
"YOU'RE CLEAAAARRRR!" Lonnie yelled
"FIRE!" Carm yelled
*KA-BOOOOOOOOM
The Panther exploded into pyrotechnics, destroyed ammunition exploding like a fireworks display, as the crew escaped from the metal machine on fire.
"Nazi f##ks!" Gary shouted, spraying the burning Nazis with 12.7mm rounds
"JAGDPANTHER LEFT!" Carm shouted
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The last thing Sharführer Jodl saw was the T29s barrel facing towards them.
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The T29 repelled all thirty Panzers, destroying an impressive sum of 17, even though the adrenaline meant that it was hard to keep track
The incredible defense played to their emotions, making them fell a sense of invincibly return.
They attempted to head back to the camp,
But, there was no camp to head back to.
There were Nazis swarming like angry ants
Their camp was a smoking crater. Even though they gave the Krauts a black eye, they couldn't stop them...
The camp was gone.
There was nothing left for them now......
"Turn around, we're leaving" Carm said
"But what about the base camp?" One of the boys said
"There is no—"
Carm stopped.
There was a destroyed M36 Jackson.
It had a muzzle brake.
Oh God.
Oh no.
"Stop the tank!" Carm said
The T29 stopped.
Carm went to check the wreckage.
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He returned a few minutes later.
"What was in there sir?" Gary asked,
"Nothing, we have to leave now." Carm said, his voice obviously hinting that something was there.
The crews of the M36 platoon were all murdered,
Including the Second Lieutenant, who was propped up against a tree, slathered in an unsavory amount of blood and spilled body fluids.
"God rest his soul in heaven......."
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But there was no time to mourn, if they spent a second mourning the dead, they'd soon join them
*FREWWWWW
A tank shell missed his vehicle by inches, crashing in the snow
"Kraut whistler shells!" Carm sneered
More Germans. From all sides.
"LOAD AP!" Carm yelled.
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