Comrades of The North: Party All Night

Target Practice

Another day had passed and the day was fairly slow. We had to kill time somehow!

"Who wants to head down to the range and blast up random crap?" I chuckle.

"You don't even need to ask!" Gangut chuckles. "I'm always down to blow stuff up!"

"As I expected." I say as everyone gets up and heads outside, intending on getting to the target range. It was a little ways from the base, positioned near the docks in case actual enemies were there and we had to respond- there were actually some cases where the enemy shot at the targets we were using before actually opening fire on the town. Without any words the girls brought out their riggings and I brought out my laser rifle before firing the first shots. The plasma rounds violently explode when they hit the targets, sending superheated plasma everywhere and creating multiple chances to set fire to something, and after I fire a good fifty shots, the target I focused on was covered in burn marks. "Man, I forget what this thing can do sometimes."

"Alright, I haven't fired these yet, so let's give these a test fire." Gangut chuckles. "It's been a long while since anyone has seen battle, especially after we upgraded our rigging." She adds as she fires. Before her cannons were already strong enough, but now one good blast managed to completely annihilate the ten inch thick target. "Blyat that was powerful!"

"You tell me!" I say in surprise as Rossi fires her cannons and does more or less the same thing to another target. Chapayev and Tashkent manage to chip the targets with their insanely powerful shots and it's not long before there are no more targets to shoot at because Rossi and Gangut have destroyed them all! Once we realize that I fake glare at Gangut, who only chuckles awkwardly and rubs the back of her head in response.

"Aheh... Sorry?" Gangut says.

"Eh, that just shows how powerful you girls have gotten." I chuckle. "But with all of our targets blown up, what else are we going to shoot at?"

"Hmm... Let's see what we have laying around..." Tashkent says as she walks off to find random stuff to shoot at. She initially returns empty handed, but she pulls Rossi along with her, and when the two come back, Rossi is carrying a bunch of bags of flour, some of it she carries with her riggings without breaking the bags, and Tashkent has her hands full with various melons.

"So we're going to be shooting those? This should be interesting." I chuckle as Tashkent sets one of the bags on what used to be a target, and I take aim. One shot is all it takes for the entire bag to go up in a big ball of fire, and when Gangut and Rossi shoot at the bags of flour, the powdery white stuff goes everywhere, and some of it even lands on us.

"Well, I knew that these riggings packed massive firepower but I wasn't expecting THIS much." Rossi chuckles as she spits out some flour. As she has shot our last bag of flour the melons get secured to the targets, and I am among the first to take a shot.

"I bet you this melon is going to go all over the place just like the flour." I say as I take a shot. The melon explodes with immense force, and a few bits of it land in our mouths. When Gangut and Rossi shoot the melons though there's barely any trace of them left for anything to go flying, and before we know it we've run out of things to shoot again. "Well, that was fun while it lasted. What do you girls wanna do now? There's barely anything left to do in the office, and we have to find some way to kill time."

"If we're going to kill any time, I think we best do it indoors, it's getting a whole lot colder than normal out here..." Rossi says, practically shaking in her boots from the sudden drop in temperature. It's not long before the rest of us feel the sudden chill and we practically scramble back to the base to get some heat, with Chapayev and Avrora clinging onto me as we head in. I don't bother to say anything as the girls let go as soon as they're inside, and I crash on one of the couches in the common room. Gangut proceeds to do the same as I hear that familiar poof sound, and Rossi and the other girls sit down in a more proper manner, with Chapayev and Avrora unsurprisingly sitting on the same couch as I am. Thankfully there's a small library that has been built into a corner of the common room and the girls decide to pick out something to read while I decide to take another nap. For some reason I expect to wake up with my head in someone's lap, and my suspicions are confirmed after an hour's nap when I wake up with my head in Chapayev's lap much to Gangut's amusement. Not feeling like hearing Gangut tease me I close my eyes and simply relax.

"You enjoying yourself there?" She asks.

"I think he is." Chapayev giggles as I nuzzle into her lap. I can feel someone's gaze for a few seconds, and it seems to be one of jealousy, probably Avrora. Next thing I know I feel someone moving my legs and scooting over and when I open my eyes I see that Avrora has scooted herself over next to Chapayev, and now my whole upper body is in their laps while the two look at each other with sly grins.

"What are you girls doing?" I ask.

"Like what you see?" Avrora and Chapayev giggle.

"It's not like I can crane my head over and look into your eyes. I'd fall off if I tried." I reply as I hear Gangut snorting and trying her best not to burst into full out laughter- something she fails a few seconds after...