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With nelly and prima being the first to fire and defeating some of the rushing beast tanks alerting the incoming horde, the rest of the girls quickly repositions themselfs for a defensive battle.
As the group of beast tanks closes in, now entering the ranges of everyone else's guns they all start firing at the beast tanks rushing in.
Boom. Boom. Bang. Boom. Boom. Bang. Bang.
As the shells from both sides start flying to each other, zoe, zoya, lena hitting their targets and knocking them down. The shots from the beast tanks being intercepted by zoya and nelly and shrugging them off their armor or their fists and arms.
As both of me and the commander hide behind the girls behind some rubble, with the commander shouting commands through his radio at the girls, i spot a shell that ricochet off of zoe's turret gear pet and directly towards us that i think the comander didn't notice in time as i pull him back as both of me jumps away while dragging the commader back from the spot we were in before the shell crashes through the rubble and completely destroying it.
Seeing what just happened, the commander gets his bearings and quickly heads to another rubble pile as both of me follows, "thanks for saving me there, i didn't see that coming." As the commander nods to both of me as he then continues to command the girls.
Nodding back i just shrugged, "gotta keep your eyes open in a battle even if you are in the backline haha..."
As anastasia then spots a test coon corpse by the rubble deciding to check something out, johan crouched behind the commander and peeking over the battle seeing everyone busy seeing that as a signal to crawl towards it.
With shells exploding all around us, and the roars and cries of the beast tanks echoing along aide the guns firing non stop. The commander having moved up a bit to another wall of rubble to see and command better leaving both of me by the test coon corpse.
"Ok yeah... this is gross... and it smells so bad, why am i doing this anyway again?" Anastasia mutters, as i then answer myself.
"Oh yeah, i wanted to know how they worked. Might help me learn how to be a metal maiden or something." Shrugging internally.
As anastasia fiddles around with the test coon's corpse wanting to see how they controlled the mechanical parts and not really figuring out anything other than knowing that i just touched a dead giant racoon.
As i peek over the rubble with johan just in time to see a stray shot from one of the orangutan artillery beast tanks heading towards us, "OH SHIT!"
As i quickly grab anastasia's arm and yank myself back with a jump.
BOOM. Shrapnel and rubble flying in every direction. Leaving a large crater where the artillery shell landed.
As both of me then quickly jump into it, the ground still hot from the explosion but with no other cover near us, thinking quickly the crater was the safest place to be.
"O Kay that was fucking close!" I exhale as johan, lying down on the crater. As i then spot somwthing with anastasia, also inside the crater.
A turret. Specifically the turret of the test coon that was by the rubble that i was now a crater.
The turret, of the test coon. The variant with a canmon instead of the machinegun.
"Well.... thats somewhat convenient." As anastasia crawls to it , and from its size alone the turret itself is about as long as an arm from turret front to back, not including tne gun, the turret itself looks like the rusian A-20 light tank turret.
Flipping it, the turret is hollow like what it is, a tank turret. Inside it is the gun, which what seems fo be a smaller scale cannon like the turret itself and some shells that seems to look like the gun is autoloaded.
"Okay... thats... different." As i then peek out the crater with johan while anastasia continues to fiddle with the turret, as i spot the body of the test coon charred and dismembered on the outside of the crater to the right of it almost causing both of me to barf.
As the battle rages on, the girls taking down most of the rushing beast tanks, i manage to figure out how to aim the cannon on the turret up and down, like old cannons it had it own crank to turn it up or down, but on this its smaller and normally inaccessible it seems to have been part of the test coons internals. And after fiddling on it more i spot what seems to be a trigger mechanism aswell. As a stupid idea the pops up in both of my heads.
"This is stupid."
"But it can definitely work."
As both of me positions the turret on anastasia's shoulder, the turret not being that heavy as i thought.
As anastasia slowly crouches oover the crater with the turret mounted on her shoulder, holding it like a SMAW with her left hand inside the turret and aiming the gun while her right arm where its mounted is holding it steady.
"Ok yeah... i take it back, this might be stupid." As anastasia spots an injured test coon off to the side that the girls infront seemed to habe disabled its weapon but left alive to focus on the beast tanks that could still shoot back.
"Ok that one seems like a good target to try a shot with, how much shells was in this turret again?"
As anastasia then looks inside the turret and counts 11 shells, "11 is good enough, not like i WANT to fight, but i dunno..."
As i then look at myselfs.
"Fuck it, we ball."
Fuck it, we ball."
As anastasia peeks out with the turret over the crater and aims the gun towards the coon.
"I don't know the range... so imma just guess." And with a click, anastasia fires the gun.
Boom.
The commander and the girls hearing a gunshot from behind them, turns or peeks back to see anastasia shouldering a turret and firing it. As they watch the shell fly through the air and hit the test coon directly in its forehead.
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