Girls Frontline: Echelon: 463

Mission 4: departure

"Alright, let's get to that train shall we?"

"Yea!" Kalash cheered, and springfield put a hand over her mouth.

"Quiet! Top secret remember?" Springfield pointed out.

"Oh, right. Well, where do we actually have to go?" Kalash asked. In response, Abraham pulled out a small phone from his pocket, and opened the gps. A light blue hologram came out of the device, revealing the hologram to be a map. Slowly the map zoomed into the entirety of the city, illuminating the Train yard heading back to the east. The map zoomed back to their location, a birds eye view of their location, a small orange dot indicating the travelers in the middle of Crowds of people that went to and fro from the airport, and into the large red bricked square, with a giant Cavalry statue in the center facing the airport. Vast lanes of Red brick buildings lined the city streets, facing the green, snow capped mountains only blocks away from being hiked to. Many squads of police and law enforcement T-dolls walked around, watching for any possible danger in the streets. The crew began to move along to their destination, passing various shops, bakeries, and stands. People and their T-Dolls came up to the three, offering various goods, each offer kindly rejected with a nervous wave of a hand. After what had seemed an eternity of walking through a crowd and traffic, the amount of citizens began to decrease into few people running to and fro between buildings, and large, boxy warehouses appearing one after another. The trio eventually came upon a large, iron gated train station, with two Ak-12 dolls guarding the steel bar gate entrance. Abraham flashed the Echelon pass identifying their mission to this secluded area, and the Dolls nodded, letting them by without a comment, opening the gates. The gate closed right behind them, as all became louder and louder as they approached the box building. A second pair of Saiga-12 guards opened the warehouse door, and greeted the three to a wow inducing workforce loading a singular black train, steam billowing at the bottom of its rails, clouds of steam erupting from its hydraulics. Massive lamps lit up the buildings ceiling, with various soldiers of different ranks walking around the train, loading various supplies, from massive crates to small ammunition boxes, and other commanders giving orders to various staffers.

"Wow, there's so many people here, all for one secret mission back to Harbin!" Kalash remarked at the operation. Suddenly as they began walking toward the main carriage to board, A large Cargo crate was lowered onto one of the carriages, clicking into place with a thud, echoing through the floor. Abraham walked over to a soldier patrolling the trains main passenger carriage, flashed the passes for the group, and waved them through the door. Inside Commander Ivankov awaited them in the mid-carriage door, guiding them toward the private headquarters. After a minute of walking, they got to a steel door, with a passcode input in the center. Ivankov punched in a code, and the door promptly opened. A small wooden desk with a lamp was guarded by two idle Ak-47's. Kalash shivered when their gaze locked onto her. She grasped springfields hands, inching closer to her, and to Abraham. Commander Ivankov sat down, waving down for them to take the two seats. Springfield sat down with Abraham, while kalash quietly stood behind them. Abraham turned back toward her, standing up out of the chair.

"Oh, Kalash! You can sit down, I don't mind standing. Of course if thats ok with you, commander."

Ivankov raised an eyebrow, but sighed.

"Yes, that's fine with me. Albeit, a bit surprising, nonetheless." Kalash Shakingly sat down in the chair, gazing into the brown wooden floor, but looked up when springfield connected their hands with a smile. Commander Ivankov went to his drawer, pulling out a map of mainland Asia. He pointed to a thin grey line running across the entirety of Siberia, and into the familiar Harbin central in former China.

"We will be running a supply run to this area of China to help out anti-sangvis forces, who are in now dire need of supplies, as i'm sure you three know. Only problem is-" he pulled out another chart, this time a blueprint of the train they would be riding, and he pointed to a large crate looking part. "This is where all of the ammunition is held, as well as weapons for the troops. We cannot let this fall into enemy hands at all costs, otherwise the armies in the east will be in danger. We already have multiple guarding platoons all across the tundra, but we need to keep this train itself safe regardless. Thats where your battalion comes in. Led by MG5, my assistant, you will be in assistance of guarding this train as it moves across the tundra, and you will be also returned back to Harbin as well."

"How long is the trip going to take?" Springfield questioned.

"approximately 12 hours to 14, depending on conditions at this time of year. We will slow down around snow storms to ensure the safety of the train and us crew."

"Where is our echelon going to be stationed?" Abraham asked. He thought for a moment, then pulled out the blueprint section of the trains head.

"You will be guarding the main head of the train, where the driver T-dolls will be. There will be two echelons, one including yours of course. Yours will be one carriage ahead of the engine, while the other will be in the engine carriage itself. there will also be food available in that carriage, so if your hungry, rations will come around to you. Everything clear?"

The team nodded, and exited the office, through the help of the Ak-47 dolls opening the door, glaring at Kalash as she moved through. They moved through the carriages, as the train honked its horn, and began to move away from the train dock. finally sitting down next a window in the second carriage at their post, they located a comfortable table, and put their weapons onto the rifle racks outside their door. A PPK t-doll eventually came by their table.

"Food and drink for the passengers?" The doll said with a smile. She reached into a metal box, and pulled out various grey colored bags, with the letters MRE on them. Springfield looked at hers, with the words Steak strips, Kalash had Permeni on hers, and Abraham had Ziti with cheese on his. PPK put down three bowls and forks. "I hope you enjoy them." PPK said with a smile, and rolled the cart off to the next group of passengers.

"Well, this all we have for lunch again. Man Im gonna starve from this." Abraham noted.

"Yeah, and they didn't even bring any Vodka. And this train is going through russia too. Disappointed." Kalash pouted. SPringfield leaned against the window, looking to the blur that was the mountainside. Abraham suddenly perked up.

"wait a second. Pel'meni, steak strips, and ziti. Hmm. I have an idea!" He took the three MRE's, and dumped them together in one of the larger bowls, and used a spoon to mix it all together. Suddenly, the math happened, and the smell multiplied to greater levels. He then distributed the new mixture to each of them." when I was younger, I loved to make chili out of anything, just mixing into the pot whatever I could find that would work together! Bon Appetit as the french say!" he exclaimed, as they prepared to eat. Kalash and Springfield's eyes simultaneously lit up from the magnificence of the food, as they devoured the new mixture Abraham had brought into existence. "wow, this turned out surprisingly better than I expected, I have to say." Springfield noted.

3 hours into the trip, at the front of the train.

"All right, all systems check, all ready to go! we should be there by the end of the day." said the T-doll in engineering clothing.

"Mhmm." her partner quickly responded, further checking through the dials and system screens.

"honestly, you think we would able to do more than this."

"hmm."

"No action either. Just sitting around. Waiting till we get there."

"mmm."

"And I wish you were more energetic."

"Mhmm."

"Harumph." she replied. Suddenly, a quiet beeping noise came from one of the monitors. The first T-doll checked the monitor, seeing a small orange dot moving around the train.

"strange." One of the guards said.

"We don't have any convoys at this section of the trip, why so early?" Suddenly, another dot appeared, but now keeping pace with the train. "Oi, this better not be an early bird coming to help us." Suddenly there was a loud banging noise on the top of the train.

"Oh. Oh shit. call the other gau-" The soldier ran to the phone, and began to plug in the emergency code. The soldiers head exploded in a volley of blood onto the floor, collapsing his body down with the red shower. The T-dolls ran to get the button to alert the other carriages, but their hands had already been severed by the time they reached it. one of the dolls crawled up against the wall of the carriage.

"please. no, LET ME LIVE-"

Crack.

A hand picked up the announcer communication phone.

"Everyone on this train. Disarm yourselves immediately if you even want a chance to live. Hehehe. The sangvis Ferri are in town."

The voice clicked away, and the phone dropped to an ever growing pool of blood at the guards hands on the floor.