Battlefields: Motherland 3 of 3
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http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/4819607.html
Anna has been assigned some new pilots to train, something she initially refuses to do, as she knows that sending them up with too little training will just turn them into cannon fodder.
Anna asks for an hour to gauge their abilities, which the Colonel grants her with the warning that a SS division had crossed a nearby river yesterday, so they'll probably be needed soon. She then mentions that their hearts might not actually break, a remark that confuses him. She gives him a smile and mentions that she has a certain vested interest in the end of the war, which he replies saying that they'll just have to see how she does with the recruits.
Turns out that that they're actually kind of hopeless, at least by Anna's high standards. It turns out that they're at the level where one even forgets to lower the undercarriage before landing, wrecking the plane in the process. She sends them all back to their barracks, despite their protestations that they're ready to die for Mother Russia... a fact that Anna is all too clear about.
Later, the voice of Zoya returns...
Anna says that if if she's put in charge of them, she's grounding them. If they get set up, it'll be just to die, and it would be for absolutely nothing. The Colonel begrudgingly agrees with her assessment, as he too saw the wrecked plane from the testing period earlier. He tell Anna that they have to hope that the Nazis run out of steam soon so that she has more time to train them properly later, as the way they're going at the moment they won't be able to spare anyone. Anna accepts this, and goes to follow him up in her own plane while her trainees say at the base...
Or so she thought. Returning from the battle to refuel, Anna notices that the new planes that they'd recieved had gone missing while she was airbourne. Mouse tells her that it's because her trainee pilots have been sent up anyway, as the base's new political officer saw the planes "standing idle" and decided to send up Anna's six pilots (plus two from the infirmary) away.
Yeah, it turns out that he didn't even give them a mission, just told them to just keep flying until they find the enemy. Anna goes to punch him, only for the Colonel to stop her, mentioning that he's NKVD, and that if she tries anything then he won't be able to protect her. Instead he and Anna decide to refuel as quickly as possible to go and rescue their people before they all die.
While up though, Anna and the Colonel up under fire from enemy aircraft, both getting riddled with bullets in the process.
The dying Colonel crashes his plane into a Nazi tank while the horrified Anna watches. She bitterly tells Zoya that they're winning, and that they've won another 1000 yards of dirt.
Suddenly she sees some planes approaching from the rear, and goes to attack them, only to get some familliar voices over the radio. It's the trainees. It seems that they started approaching the battle, but when the two wounded officers from the infimary were cut apart by anti-aircraft fire, they all scattered and got lost in the process.
Having found them, Anna starts organising them, telling them to get into formation and if they see an enemy plane, to give the location and direction rather than just scattering. Anna says that she's Piper Leader, and asks them to acknowledge themselves as Pipers Two through Seven.
And that's it. Anna reappears in the (as far as I know only post-WW2 Battlefield story) "The Fall and Rise of Anna Kharkova", where it's 1963 and she's in a gulag after having been a jet pilot in the post-war years. Haven't read it yet though, will post some when I get the trade.
http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/4819607.html
Anna has been assigned some new pilots to train, something she initially refuses to do, as she knows that sending them up with too little training will just turn them into cannon fodder.
Anna asks for an hour to gauge their abilities, which the Colonel grants her with the warning that a SS division had crossed a nearby river yesterday, so they'll probably be needed soon. She then mentions that their hearts might not actually break, a remark that confuses him. She gives him a smile and mentions that she has a certain vested interest in the end of the war, which he replies saying that they'll just have to see how she does with the recruits.
Turns out that that they're actually kind of hopeless, at least by Anna's high standards. It turns out that they're at the level where one even forgets to lower the undercarriage before landing, wrecking the plane in the process. She sends them all back to their barracks, despite their protestations that they're ready to die for Mother Russia... a fact that Anna is all too clear about.
Later, the voice of Zoya returns...
Anna says that if if she's put in charge of them, she's grounding them. If they get set up, it'll be just to die, and it would be for absolutely nothing. The Colonel begrudgingly agrees with her assessment, as he too saw the wrecked plane from the testing period earlier. He tell Anna that they have to hope that the Nazis run out of steam soon so that she has more time to train them properly later, as the way they're going at the moment they won't be able to spare anyone. Anna accepts this, and goes to follow him up in her own plane while her trainees say at the base...
Or so she thought. Returning from the battle to refuel, Anna notices that the new planes that they'd recieved had gone missing while she was airbourne. Mouse tells her that it's because her trainee pilots have been sent up anyway, as the base's new political officer saw the planes "standing idle" and decided to send up Anna's six pilots (plus two from the infirmary) away.
Yeah, it turns out that he didn't even give them a mission, just told them to just keep flying until they find the enemy. Anna goes to punch him, only for the Colonel to stop her, mentioning that he's NKVD, and that if she tries anything then he won't be able to protect her. Instead he and Anna decide to refuel as quickly as possible to go and rescue their people before they all die.
While up though, Anna and the Colonel up under fire from enemy aircraft, both getting riddled with bullets in the process.
The dying Colonel crashes his plane into a Nazi tank while the horrified Anna watches. She bitterly tells Zoya that they're winning, and that they've won another 1000 yards of dirt.
Suddenly she sees some planes approaching from the rear, and goes to attack them, only to get some familliar voices over the radio. It's the trainees. It seems that they started approaching the battle, but when the two wounded officers from the infimary were cut apart by anti-aircraft fire, they all scattered and got lost in the process.
Having found them, Anna starts organising them, telling them to get into formation and if they see an enemy plane, to give the location and direction rather than just scattering. Anna says that she's Piper Leader, and asks them to acknowledge themselves as Pipers Two through Seven.
And that's it. Anna reappears in the (as far as I know only post-WW2 Battlefield story) "The Fall and Rise of Anna Kharkova", where it's 1963 and she's in a gulag after having been a jet pilot in the post-war years. Haven't read it yet though, will post some when I get the trade.
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Date: 2014-09-04 09:59 pm (UTC)All my feels. ;_;
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Date: 2014-09-05 01:58 pm (UTC)