Symphony in the Sky (A Your Lie in April AU and AH fanfiction)

Operation Sejong: Part II, Tsubaki and Watari

A/N: Above all expectations, Coalition forces caught KPA units in Pyongyang by surprise and soon paratroopers has been entrenched in buildings and suburbs of the city, further helped by armored vehicles, including tanks, and other follow-on forces air-landed via Pyongyang's Sunan Airport with great risk. See through the view of Kousei's best friend, Tsubaki and Watari as they support the defense of Pyongyang from North Korean counterattacks from the air!

--- News update of the war ---

"On August 20th, 2018, at 1530 hour, South Korean and NATO flags were raised above Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang, signified its fall to the Coalition forces. Heavy firefight was reported, particularly during the assault of Mansudae Assembly Hall, the seat of North Korean Supreme People's Assembly. Meanwhile, the North Korean government and WPK's top leadership has been relocated to Chongjin. Premier Pak Pong-ju, on behalf of Kim Jong-un, vowed to resist the Coalition to death, while whereabouts of the Supreme Leader himself remains unknown.."

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"The Government of the People's Republic of China had protested the occupation of Pyongyang"

"Chinese Navy increased close surveillance of Coalition fleets in the Yellow Sea"

"Tanchon seized by Coalition after four hours of fighting, eleven ballistic missile launcher, including two Hwasong-14 ICBM launchers and missiles captured."

"Delhi anti-war protest degenerate into riot, 10 injured, 45 arrested."

"Unauthorized anti-war picket in front of Mitsubishi factory dispersed, five arrested"

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August 25th, 2018. 2nd Tactical Fighter Squadron (2 Hikotai, 1 Koukuudan)

"Temple 3-3 and 3-4, you're cleared to take off"

Tsubaki and Watari are now assigned as the element leader of Temple 3. Upon receiving the clear signal, the F-15E they fly is once again airborne. This time, the 2nd Squadron is assigned to close air support and interdiction duty in defense of Pyongyang, recently seized by the Coalition in a massive airborne operation. 

Their orders are to strike targets of opportunity, assisting Coalition attack helicopters deployed from Kaesong region. The squadron's Eagles are mainly loaded with CBU-105 guided cluster bombs, along with Mk 82s general-purpose bombs.

In his backseat, Watari thinks about the treatment of North Korean officials captured during the fall of Pyongyang by Coalition forces.

"The Coalition, specially South Koreans, had shown no mercy during their capture of Pyongyang. The head of State Security Department (North Korean secret police force), for example, was immediately seized and "disappeared" when his headquarters was captured by the South Koreans. Kim's mausoleum, Kumsusan Palace, was desecrated and the Kims (Kim-il Sung and Kim Jong-il) embalmed body was taken out from their pedestals and hanged outside the palace as a warning. Only intervention from the South Korean Commander-in-Chief (President Moon Jae-in) prevented coalition forces in Pyongyang to further plunder, killing civilians, or destroy the entire city altogether." 

Inside the cockpit, Tsubaki and Watari can see smokes rising up from outskirts of Pyongyang, as North Korean armored and infantry formations, supported by Chinese and Iranian volunteer forces are storming Coalition paratroopers entrenched inside the city in a bid to retake it.

It's an uphill battle for the Coalition, despite heavily equipped with anti-tank missile equipped vehicles and even reinforced with a company of US Army M1A2 Abrams tanks and Stryker 105mm Mobile Gun Systems airlifted into the city before the counterattack, paratroopers, being light infantry, were inherently insufficient in face of large armored units of North Korea, Iran, or China.