Interlude Private Hebert
"DIE MOTHERFUCKING KRAUTS", I roared at the enemy line I was charging, firing my machine gun in bursts. Enemies dropped before me.
Okay, so, technically, my family is from Germany, but these days that's not something anyone want to emphasize. Germany is taboo now.
So I joined in on the anti-kraut club. Fucking Nazis, they ruined a perfectly fine country.
Oh shit, a German was lining up for a shot, I tried to dive for cover-
BAM, the German exploded as a beam of light tore him apart.
"Grandpa Kyle, what are you doing!", screamed the crazy masked future guy. Daniel (I refuse to think about his surname, because frankly, the crazy guy is NOT my family. No sir).
He marched up to me and poked me in the chest, "I told you specifically to NOT die. So why are you charging the enemy line!?"
I got angry then. The famous Hebert temper rearing it's ugly head.
"Look grandson", I said the word with contempt, "I am trying to contribute to the fucking war effort. To support my comrade in arms. To fight for my country. To free Europe. To kill fucking Nazis" And to redeem the German blood that flows through my veins.
"So",I poked him in the chest hard with each word, "Stop. Getting. In. My. Way."
He stared at me with his four creepy yellow lenses.
"Are you two cunts done measuring your cocks, or are we going to kill Nazis?", that was Lieutenant Pitt cutting into arguments the typical way he knew how- by being a bigger dick.
Daniel grunted and turned away, hand stroking his stomach area, where we patched him up after he fainted a few days ago.
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2 weeks later
We first head the reports of the "Iron Wolf" a couple of weeks later. Most dismissed it as rumours, but Daniel acted awfully concerned about it for some reason.
Then we came across a village and saw the mutilated corpses.
"What the actual fuck!", Bob commented, staring at a nude women, her bottom half torn to shreds hanging from a utility pole.
"The Nazis do not like deserters. Or Women who refuse to send their children to war as part of their last ditch attempt", Pitt explained.
It was then that I noticed Daniel was shaking.
"Daniel? What's wrong man?", I asked. I mean sure I don't like the guy, he's crazy. But he's part of the squad, and that has to count for something.
He explained and it sent a shudder through my guts, "Hookwolf was here. I know these wounds."
"Hookwolf?"
"A Nazi. From the future. He can turn into a metal wolf with flexible metal hooks, spines, spikes and blades erupting from his body to reduce his victim to shreds. Loves to fight. Loves to kill."
Fucking Nazis.
He paused, and then pointed at something that escaped my notice, too caught up in the carnage I was witnessing.
"What's bothering me...is what the fuck is that doing here!?"
He was pointing at some kind...Steam contraption, billowing smoke from some kind of engine. Nearby, coils wounded around two spires sticking out of the ground, like curved horns. Electricity danced between them.
"What is that? Some kind of new German wunder machine?", Pitt approached it.
Daniel shook his head, "No. That's tinkertech. But that's not possible. Only Hookwolf and I traveled back in time. It's not possible for other parahumans- er, that is to say, people with superpowers like me, to be here, in this time period".
Pitt growled, "If the Nazis have future technology, we are in serious trouble."
"It's more than future technology. Even in the future, this stuff is not possible for us normally. They are built by special parahumans called Tinkers who have the intuitive ability to create advanced technology. Actually, the technology is from the recorded technological information of extinct Alien Civilizations . It's hard to explain."
Time travel, Future Nazis, my grandson, and now Aliens. Great. Just fucking great.
Suddenly the electricity between the two spires increased, creating a humming that gew steadily louder.
"Whoa, whoa!", Bob pointed his gun at it, and Pitt started backing off, yelling out commands, "I want eyes on this thing, somebody call the Tank over, I think it might be a very very damn good idea to blow it up-"
Suddenly a hole ripped open in empty air.
And a Metal figure flew out. Pitt and Bob dived to the ground. The strange projectile sailed past us to drop somewhere further away.
And they came through the portal.
Nazis, an entire army streaming through, screaming and firing wildly.
I raised my gun and shot back.
Daniel was already on the move, shrinking himself as he leapt towards the Nazi contraption. Good idea, take it out first and prevent the rest of the Nazis from coming through-
A roar sounded from behind me. I turned and holy shit- it was the "projectile" from before, some kind of steel goblin- a round ugly thing with a huge mouth (ugly rusted teeth) and tint flailing limbs. It charged at me on all fours and screamed, "HEIL HITLER!"
I wasted all of my clips on it, most hitting, some straying to the side.
It kept coming. As it jumped at me, I thrust my firearm forward, right into it's mouth. And then I leaned back and swung it over my head.
I landed on my back with an oomph.
The Goblin was launched towards the contraption by the force of the swing, sailing across the air. Right as a tiny purple beam shot of out nowhere (by an ant sized Daniel I am sure). The Goblin turned into the size of a Tank and smashed through the contraption causing it to explode.
There was a clanking sound as our own M4 Sherman rumbled into view.
BOOM. A group of Nazis was instantly pulverized.
Tak-tak-tak-tak-tak.
And not a German was in sight. Yours truly excluded.
Yeah Norman! The Guy was a damn fine monster on that tank.
Daniel and Pitt was staring at the wreckage of the portal contraption.
I walked closer, what were they-
Jesus Christ.
The "Goblin" was lying in the midst of the wreckage, blood leaking from it's mouth as it gasped it's last breaths.
That wasn't what was disturbing.
What was disturbing was that it was changing into a small boy (well, he was still the size of a tank, but you get the idea), wearing the typical uniform of the Hilter-jugend.
A boy. Just a boy.
Fuck.
Daniel growled, "Parahumans local to this time period. What the fuck is going on!?"
I would like to know to.