Chương 33: Defeat (Part III/III)

Location: External Base

POV: Kyle's

''MARSHALL! MARSHALL!'' All officers on all channels that could contact him were trying to get a response. 'Bastards, Artillery really, who uses heavy WW1 Artillery.' ''Cough cough'' Blood drips from my mouth. I Groan, ''Angela, Wolfram, Gunther you guys okay?'' I asked but almost cramped in pain as my lungs could barely expand. Silence permeated the air. 'Groan' ''I I am fine Marshall'' Gunther replied softly. ''Brother, I can't feel, nor see. wha what is happening?'' Wolfram's voice broke the silence with his much louder voice. ''Angela?'' I asked, but no response. I use my last bit of forces to move down from the commander seat to the secondary loader seat, to try and see Angela. I almost Vomited when I saw Angela, or what is left of her. Her entire body was littered with shrapnel pieces, her legs were somewhere else. Her head had a large chunk of shrapnel sticking out.

I start to feel colder as my blood loss from not only the new wounds but also the gun wounds starts to take a toll on me.''Marshall!'' Heinz Guderian Shouted. ''We need medical support, we are heavily injured, I am sorry.'' I apologised because now we will most likely fail. To hold them back. But now also the blood loss was too much as I start to lose my consciousness.

'I don't know how long has passed since I woke up, but after about 1 hour no one has arrived yet. I do not know where I am, captured or saved. But I am too weak to move.' I Started to analyse my situation. '4 hours has passed yet no one has come, to check on me either for security or my health status.' Peculiar.'

I wonder if Gunther and Wolfram are okay.' My thoughts drift to my friends. But when the thought of the young Girl Angela entered my head small tear beads start to form. 'WHY DOES SUCH AN ORGANISATION EXIST! IMPOSSIBLE, NO BOOK I READ EVER TALKED ABOUT IT. THIS IS UNFAIR!' I start to curse my -1000 luck stat and my lack of knowledge on the enemy. While I was cursing in my head did the door finally open, I held my breath waiting to see who it is.

''Marshall it is me,'' Rudolf said softly. But he didn't expect for the Marshall to be awake, so when he saw that his mouth went wide open. ''KYLE!'' He ran up towards the bed. ''Thank god you came out of your coma if the same happened as to what happened to Wolfram I will never forgive myself!'' Rudolf said almost crying. But I heard Wolfram's name, ''RUDOLF! What happened to Wolfram!'' I demanded.

''Sir, after you lost consciousness Gunther and Wolfram soon followed due to the many injuries. The medic team arrived quickly and took you 3 away... Angela was confirmed to be dead. But we tried to safe Wolfram, who suffered the most injuries sir But but, I AM SORRY!'' Rudolf's eyes glistered a bit, as he was almost crying. From his face, I understood he didn't make it. ''And Gunther?'' I asked with tears almost flowing from my eyes and a dry throat. ''We do not know, his injuries are as severe as yours, but he is still in a coma. We are not sure if he will ever come out of it.'' Rudolf replied. ''Did did we win?'' I cautiously ask Rudolf.

''Yes Marshall, after our men saw the Tank which represents out technological might was hit they went crazy, and fought until their hearts could no longer beat, but in the end, from the 10,000 Personnel, only 2387 Survived. Mostly being Non-combatant staff.

The white skulls were wiped out, only 300 Black skulls survived and from the golden skulls, only 3 survived, Zero Is severely injured, and will most likely have to retire from duty as your guard.'' He answered.

'Sigh' Everything I build has almost been wiped out. 'I must leave the influence of the enemy organisation. My heart aches as 1.6 years have been wasted now. Rudolf left while I started to think of next plan, but just before Rudolf left he said in a very icy tone, ''We have captured 2 enemy commanders, we have left them without speaking to them until the Marshall woke up, or if you didn't wake up after 1 month we would have still interrogated them. Also, I forgot to tell, you have been in a coma for 2 weeks.'' With that said Rudolf left.

''MARSHALL!'' someone shouted as the door was pushed open again shortly after. Zero on crutches hopped close to the bed. Tears flowed from his face without stopping, ''I am sorry sir, I am deeply sorry, I have not been able to keep you out of harm's way. I am not worthy as your personal bodyguard, so I have applied to be transferred to the drill instructors!'' ''It is okay Zero, no one would have thought that 1st the enemy still uses old artillery pieces, 2nd a shell would hit my tank and 3rd would also penetrate completely through 250 mm of effective thickness.'' I consoled Zero. After talking a bit more he left.

'I Want my revenge for this defeat, I WANT THEM DEAD! But. I am too weak, we must leave Germany. We shall rebuild anew, BIGGER AND BETTER!' I vowed in my head. I called Rudolf over again. ''Rudolf get me a wheelchair and bring me to the Prisoners I want to KNOW!'' I ordered him. ''I will Kyle'' he replied after 30 seconds of waiting did Rudolf come in with a wheelchair. I slowly put myself in it with Rudolf's help and much pain. He silently pushed me towards one of the last 3 intact buildings.

''IN THE MARSHALL WE TRUST!'' The black skull guards opened the door for us while we approached the prison building. We enter the elevator which is the only way to the prison underground. ''Sir, we have prepared 2 of the best torturers to get anything we want out of them if they are not willing to speak'' Rudolf said and broke the silence. ''Understood'' I simply replied. 'I want to see the people who dare attack me so brazenly, but also why didn't the Wehrmacht or SS appear this time?' I started to think about abnormalities. 'Ding' The elevator stopped at the lowest level. Rudolf pushed me out and headed towards the interrogation chamber.

We enter the room, where 2 gold skull and black skulls were guarding the commanders. 2 black hands were also in the room preparing the equipment. ''Sir, we have removed their cyanide pill and also any other materials and weapons with which they could commit suicide, their tong had limited movement, only able to speak but unable to swallow it to commit suicide.'' One of the Black hands reported. ''Good work,'' I replied.

Rudolf pushed me between the two tables of equipment so that I would be directly facing them.''Let's begin shall we Gentlemen'' I said to the two prisoners.

''Pfff, a mere D grade wanderer they send this time, is the confederation desperate lately.'' One of the prisoners laughed out loud. The others just stood there confused. but my face was drained of all blood, 'How do they know?!? About the wanderer gear and the confederation?' ''What are you talking about? I am just a Businessman'' I said denying their previous statement. ''You think we are stupid?!? The only people who are able to produce tanks of this quality now are us, now I wonder how you got those tank designs, also that confederate Panther is pretty obvious, they send one as well in 1923, exactly the same. Don't try to deny it'' They both said while laughing.'FUCK!' I curse my employer. But when I think back to the flashback or forward it clearly showed a battle between the Confederation and an unknown group, 'but can the two be the same?' I thought.

''All people are to leave the room, I need to have some 'Private' Talk with these gentlemen,'' I ordered the men. They left silently even Rudolf.

''Hehe, scared that others will know your identity.?'' One of the prisoners mocked. I glared at him, ''Why did you attack me? I have clearly not done anything threatening.'' I said to them. ''HAHAHA, your existence is the threat, this timeline belongs to us, not to the confederation, and they can stop trying their luck, it will only be in a few years time before we have infiltrated not only major countries but every tiny country in this world.'' They said brazenly. ''So who do you two work for then?'' I questioned coldly. ''You don't know?!?'' They were baffled, thinking I would know.

''HAHAHA, did the confederation forgot to tell you or did they give you the good old 'induce technological revolution' Bullshit?'' Both prisoners laughed and said in unison. ''Don't worry wanderer, you will be dead soon, The SS has already fallen to our organisation, the Wehrmacht will be next, but for that, we have to eliminate you, because you don't know yet, you have without knowing, already 60% of the Wehrmacht's people behind you. So we have to eliminate your influence.'' They said, ''That's all we going to say as we take pity on your D grade status. You know the last wanderer at least was B grade, and he failed!'' And with that said they didn't open their mouths again. 'I CURSE YOU CONFEDERATION!' I was very upset as they didn't warn me at all. But it all makes sense, why squander so many resources to wanderers and 'technological revolutions'? As a cover for something larger!

''RUDOLF!'' I shouted, the men immediately stormed in. ''Gather all sector heads and senior staff, we have a large change of plans'' I ordered, 'Although I could use the Wehrmacht now, it is too weak. I must wait.' ''Yes Kyle, it will take a few minutes as most comms are down and the HQ was obliterated under the artillery fire, we need to make a temporary meeting room in one of the intact buildings,'' Rudolf replied. ''Understood.'' I acknowledged. 'I must lay low, I must leave Germany, I must have a country as backing and a fortress, we shall discuss this. The country was Austria, but we need something stronger. Or create something stronger.' I thought.