5 Tankers And A Dog In Another World

Arc 2, Chapter 7: Cleanup

The day after the fight, it came to the task of making a report on the damages. The Moskva was used to tow the wounded Tiger to the stable they had first left the tanks when they arrived at the town. They did an inspection of the modules, they started with the tracks. They used a jack which luckily was a few centimeters from getting hit by the Sherman, they first got the tracks lined up with the road wheels. The bigger problem was the right idle wheel and the left drive sprocket wheel which received the worst punishment, the tracks themselves got torn but they were easier to repair. They gathered what remained of the damaged wheels and the ones that were still in decent condition and went to the blacksmith to see if he could do something about it. The man told them that he would see what he could do about it, that was one thing off the list. Next was the mantlet damage, the shell had impacted it at an angle getting past it and into the armor behind it.

Finn: How bad is it?

Arran: They almost got to the barrel itself from what I can see, had they gotten deep and we had fired, the gun would had been split open like a banana.

Finn: Can we get it out?

Arran: Yeah we can get it out, I think. Just know it might take a while, then there's also the problem about the hole it made.

Finn: We'll buy some pig iron and fill up the holes, sure iron is not as good as steel but not much we can do about.

Arran: Yeah, hey Peter, pass needs the crowbar.

Finn: Whats the damage on the rear Lucas?

Lucas: Like before, a cooling unit is completely destroyed, a fuel tank is ruptured and the radiator is in pieces. This thing is just not gonna be the same anymore, Marco was the one who knew how to be gentle and the thing is in bad shape. Those are some great handicaps am I right?

Finn: Why did you have to bring up Marco?

Lucas: Um hello! Some one has to stay in reality! Marco is dead, we can't change that. Sure touching a sensitive topic is bad but there are times where it can't be avoided to talk about it, Shutting up about it completely and go on as if it never even happened is worse though. He was our friend, our brother! Choco is still over at his grave, she still thinks he's gonna wake up but he isn't.

Finn: ...

Lucas: Now, I'll see what i can do about the fuel tank. The radiator is gonna have to stay the way it is because there is no way to fix it.

Lucas went back to the process of repairing the damage, his focus was finding the shell that caused the damage and find out if he would have to do more work. Finn went around the tank to its left side, he looked for the failure in the armor and found it. The shell had gone through the lower side plate, hitting Marco, and lodged itself between the mid front plate and the transmission. Peter was inside trying to unwedge it from there, getting a shell with your bare hands aint easy.

Finn: How is it going?

Peter: it aint budging, well not with my hands atleast. Hey are you done with the crowbar yet over there?!

Arran: Almost... There!

pop, clunk

Arran: Here, im done with it.

Finn: When you guys are done with that, lets get the tracks fixed and under the roadwheels so that we just have to put the drive sprockets and the idle wheels.

When placing the tracks back under the wheels, they had Ga1ahad help them to try to teach him what they could about maintenance. He almost got his hand crushed when trying to adjust something last minute as Lucas released the pressure from the jack.