“Go.”
‘WruuuUUUU’
“Medlenneye, medlenneye. MEDLENNEYE SU*!” [Slower, slower. SLOWER B*!]
“I’ll stall the engine if I go slower!”
“And if you won’t we’ll break the plow!”
“It is already broken so many times! One more, one less!”
“Cut the crap and go.”
‘WruUUUUU’
“SLOWER!”
I was sitting on the gun barrel right above the driver’s hatch. Inside the hull was sitting Old man whose head occasionally peaked out.
“Halt.”
“What is it now?” Old man raised his head to look at me.
“What ya think, will the soil handle us?” I looked in front of the tank but I was not sure if we will slip on this ground.
Old man looked out. “It will, don’t worry.”
“Will it?” I was still not sure, after yesterday’s rain the ground was looking too soft for our tracks.
“It will, we just need a bit more throttle.” (O)
“I said no! Don’t throttle that much!”
“Listen, who is the driver here? You or me?” (O)
“Don’t care, you do what I say.”
“I can’t! We stalled the engine a few times already! I don’t care if this plow will fall apart because it can be welded again and again! Unlike our engine!” (O)
“This is their property, not ours!”
“Hey, honest people, tell me, is it okay if we were to break the plow?” The villagers nodded.
“It doesn’t change the fact that we should be careful!”
“Hey, guys why don’t you stop argu…” Jester bleated from his hatch.
“Shut up!”
“Shut up!”
Jester’s POV
This morning captain ordered us to drive to a nearby field to help the villagers. It is already afternoon and we plowed entire… 30 meters, all because those two keep bickering. She wants the tank to go slower so as not to break the village’s plow, Old wretch keeps throttling up to avoid stalling the engine.
Ya he* nad etim zooparkom.[I just go crazy in this zoo.] They keep arguing and I have to stay on guard with avtomat [automatic rifle].
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I was looking around, mostly to distract myself from boring reality and spotted a couple of men approaching, they are not locals so…
“Captain, two are approaching. What to do?”
“Just scare them away.” She did not even turn her head here and immediately returned to debating with Old man.
I aimed at the two soldiers and pulled the trigger.
‘Tra-ta’
Two shots landed near them and that was enough to make them run away.
A. Belov’s POV
“A pity we can’t use the dozer blade here.” I looked at the frontal plate below which on the lower plate the dozer blade is located. It is used to entrench the vehicle but won’t do anything to plow the damned field.
“A pity indeed…” Old man sighed out and sat back to the controls.
“Go.”
‘WrUUuuuUU’
If I was not sitting on the barrel I’d fall after fitful acceleration. It would not be possible if I was in the damned pink nightmare called dress. I changed into my new uniform right after I received supply drop.
We continued our pathetic attempt at plowing the field and only finished when the sun set. We only finished one small field after which the villagers asked us to return.
The tank gracefully passed the gates and rolled towards its spot.
“Captain, do you like the barrel that much?” (J)
“As long as it doesn’t crush my balls it’s fine.” I found a rare thing that makes this body acceptable. Previously it was impossible to sit like this for a long time, however, I was sitting here since we started plowing and I am yet to feel uncomfortable.
“Don’t you want to ride a shot [like baron Munchausen]?” (J)
“Nah, I’ll be cut by the fins.” I laughed at his remark.
After we entered our house we sat at a table and started a little meeting.
“So, what will we do? Soon we will have to go somewhere because we can’t stay here forever.” I opened the meeting with my statement.
“We might follow the local nation’s army or might just drive around and search for trouble by ourselves.” (J)
“We already encounter trouble by ourselves, we just need to follow the army because we need infantry.” (O)
“One vote for following the army; Jester?”
“I agree, we need some support until we find something more interesting.” (J)
“Then it’s settled. Old man, you are the first on post. We will go to sleep.” With this Jester and I fell on the beds while Old man will stay awake to protect us. Ever since the second army arrived one of us remained to guard the rest. We change the guard every 3 hours so everything is fine.
Right after I closed my eyes I felt chilly. I opened my eyes to check what is going on but I found myself in a weird room with a table. I looked around and saw a person standing in a shadow.
“Welcome to the war room, Captain.”
“Hello, Ether.”