Girls Und Panzer Tankery's End Retribution

Chapter 14

Chapter 14

Austin and Nonna hopped out of the Humvee and found themselves back at North Park. General Sato ordered the Team regroup there for debrief, but that would happen later. North Park looked like a giant refugee camp minus all the tents and stuff. There were stalls and things being set up to aid all those who lost their homes until the Island's Government could fix something up for them. Many people who did and didn't lose their homes were here temporarily until they moved out of the City and to somewhere else. Nonna smiled as she saw Saori, Chubbs, and their kids passing out food from their restaurant to people.

"Austin, Nonna over here!" Mark called to them by the medical tent. The two came over and saw Mark talking to someone on one of the stretchers.

"Butch! Your alive!" Austin said. He and Nonna heard how heavy the fighting had been in that corridor Butch and Darius defended but they didn't hear anything about survivors.

"You bet. I promised I'd hold them off didn't I?" Butch said.

"That you did Corporal. They'll probably give you a medal for that." Austin said. Butch laughed a bit before he looked at Nonna.

"Good to see you Lieutenant." He said as he saluted to the best of his ability.

"I'm glad to see you're alright Butch." Nonna said.

"Of course. It take more than an armory of bullets and grenades to kill 'The Butch Cavendish'." Butch said as one of the Medics came to check on him.

"I'm sure people will be singing your praises now rest Corporal, that's an order." She said.

"I outrank you Jessica." Butch said as the Medic glared at him. "Ok, Private 2nd class Linton."

She scoffed and replaced the some bandage before going off to help someone else.

"I like the health care I get." Butch said. Austin and Mark laughed with the latter giving Butch a fist bump. Nonna just scoffed.

"Men." She muttered.

"I'm sorry about Darius." Butch said opening his fist to reveal his tags. "He tossed these to me just before he closed the stairwell door. He gave me time to set up and hold back the bastards."

"You held them off for as long as you could Butch." Nonna said. Butch just shook his head.

"We took out every single one of them. Two men against two hundred. And Darius wont get to see it." Butch said.

"No! don't talk that way!" Nonna said coming up to Butch. "You said Darius got you the time you needed to keep fighting. so don't let his last act be something to be sad about. Honor his fighting spirit and tell people how it really happened. 'In his last moments of defiance Darius Robinson closed and locked the door so I could ready myself for my own last stand. In him giving his life, he allowed me to keep mine'. Don't ever let him down Butch. Now that's an order."

Butch felt tears rolling down his eyes as he nodded and laid his head back. The three moved away and let him rest, passing through the park and seeing more people arriving to set themselves up.

"Its going to take time to rebuild." Mark commented.

"Since when has this Island been afraid of rebuilding?" Austin responded.

"If that's what needs to be done then we'll help them. besides its our job to help these people right?" Nonna said. The two shrugged as they saw Carl and Johnson come over.