Enemy Ace: War in Heaven - Part 2 of 2
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http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/5227136.html
The timeline skips forward to 1945, with Hans' unit having been transfered back to a dying Germany some time ago in a vain attempt to stop the American and British bombing of German cities. This happens to be something of an impossible task for Hans and his people, as they're not only getting out produced by the Allies but they're also starting to run out of fuel, spare parts and food as the War rolls on...
Later in a fire fight against some American fighters, Hans is shot down once again... causing him to land directly within a part of the Nazi regime that he'd managed to remain ignorant about until this point...
Pieter explains that, unlike Hans, both himself and the German people had lived through the fallout of the First World War, with the rest of the world seemingly taking out their hatred on them. Then Hitler showed up, claiming that what they had lost had actually been stolen from them by an enemy within... and this allowed him to turn some of them into his curs while the rest just looked the other way... Which Pieter says means that they're all guilty, in one form or another.
And yet, Pieter says how can he surrender while the creature in Berlin still lives, with their German dead littering the streets, while he still has a weapon like the jet to defend them? The mark of a soldier, says Pieter, is someone who fights for his people and his comrades, NOT for an ideology or for his leaders. This makes Hans remark that he always fought because he thought that it was the only thing he was ever good at.
Pieter says that he knows, and that he used to have nightmares of someone working out how to mass produce people like Hans von Hammer. Thousands of "perfect killers" as if on some kind of production line. A view seemingly changed by Hans' reaction to the horrors he's seem over the past few years.
An alarm sounds, another wave of bombers is coming, so Pieter and Hans depart with their unit. In the resulting air battle, Pieter dies, and in his anger Hans shoots down some more of the bombers, until he sees the actual men inside. Wounded and patched up to the best of the abilities of those inside.
He flies back to base, where after a while his head mechanic tells him that they've run out of parts for their jet fighters at last, but he might be able to scavenge compotents from the thoroughly damaged craft to repair the others... Hans thanks him for his hard work, then hands him a bottle of wine and orders him to go and get drunk.
He goes out into the airfield, once again seeing his "black dog" lurking in the nearby woods. He tells the thing he doesn't want to do this any more, and the creature slinks off into the darkness. He mutters to himself that he can't surrender before the German people... not yet.
Later, he has his men and their aircraft arranged out on the converted piece of autobaum that they've been having for an airstrip and await the Americans.
http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/5227136.html
The timeline skips forward to 1945, with Hans' unit having been transfered back to a dying Germany some time ago in a vain attempt to stop the American and British bombing of German cities. This happens to be something of an impossible task for Hans and his people, as they're not only getting out produced by the Allies but they're also starting to run out of fuel, spare parts and food as the War rolls on...
Later in a fire fight against some American fighters, Hans is shot down once again... causing him to land directly within a part of the Nazi regime that he'd managed to remain ignorant about until this point...
Pieter explains that, unlike Hans, both himself and the German people had lived through the fallout of the First World War, with the rest of the world seemingly taking out their hatred on them. Then Hitler showed up, claiming that what they had lost had actually been stolen from them by an enemy within... and this allowed him to turn some of them into his curs while the rest just looked the other way... Which Pieter says means that they're all guilty, in one form or another.
And yet, Pieter says how can he surrender while the creature in Berlin still lives, with their German dead littering the streets, while he still has a weapon like the jet to defend them? The mark of a soldier, says Pieter, is someone who fights for his people and his comrades, NOT for an ideology or for his leaders. This makes Hans remark that he always fought because he thought that it was the only thing he was ever good at.
Pieter says that he knows, and that he used to have nightmares of someone working out how to mass produce people like Hans von Hammer. Thousands of "perfect killers" as if on some kind of production line. A view seemingly changed by Hans' reaction to the horrors he's seem over the past few years.
An alarm sounds, another wave of bombers is coming, so Pieter and Hans depart with their unit. In the resulting air battle, Pieter dies, and in his anger Hans shoots down some more of the bombers, until he sees the actual men inside. Wounded and patched up to the best of the abilities of those inside.
He flies back to base, where after a while his head mechanic tells him that they've run out of parts for their jet fighters at last, but he might be able to scavenge compotents from the thoroughly damaged craft to repair the others... Hans thanks him for his hard work, then hands him a bottle of wine and orders him to go and get drunk.
He goes out into the airfield, once again seeing his "black dog" lurking in the nearby woods. He tells the thing he doesn't want to do this any more, and the creature slinks off into the darkness. He mutters to himself that he can't surrender before the German people... not yet.
Later, he has his men and their aircraft arranged out on the converted piece of autobaum that they've been having for an airstrip and await the Americans.
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Date: 2015-04-12 06:06 pm (UTC)But this seems like a good story, and not as cynical as I expect from Ennis.
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