[1943, somewhere around Estonia]
[Scene all in monochrome]
Vadim: "Am I... dead? Am I inside hell now? All around me is nothing. Yet I can smell those burning flesh."
[The bright moon appears]
Vadim: "Everything is dark except the moon."
[Vadim kneeled and rubbed his face hard]
Vadim: "I hate moon. Yet it shines and mocks me!"
The whispers louden: "Useless kid! You'd be better be dead in fire! Everything is your fault! You made Eduard died in vain! Oh, and now you are leaving the family? Good! You have to learn why you are useless before back here!"
Vadim thrashing on the ground and crying: "Stop torturing me!! Stop it, you old man!! This is just madness of hell, isn't it?!"
Eduard: "My sun Vadim, why are you crying so loudly?"
[Vadim opened his eyes, finding black-haired Eduard sitting on a lush green tree amone monochrome desolated world.]
Eduard: "You should be happy now. Papa won't demand you to get lost anymore. I heard he demand you to go home once you learned. So please, hold your faith and return to the world you've lived."
Vadim: "For what? it's good for me to reunite with you. I'm okay in this hell as long you were beside me."
Eduard: "Really, Vadim? What a shame. You still need to learn..."
[Eduard proceed to stab himself, but Vadim immediately take off the blade.]
Vadim: "What have you done, brother?? Let me heal you! Please don't die again!!"
Vadim look left and right, and finding one fallen Soviet medic.
Vadim: "Since when... that corpse appears? No time to think! Thank goodness he is a paramedic. Lend me this aid kit, my comrade..."
[Then Vadim proceed to heal Eduard with bandage and medicine.]
Eduard: "You really resembled with papa. Hatred inside, but kind inside deepest heart"
Vadim: "You still not changed your positivity. Stop comparing me with that old man! Just shut up and let me switch your clothes with that medic's uniform. You need more cleaner clothes."
Eduard: "Ah, that's also what papa told me in my childhood too: 'Let me switch your clothes with that sailor's uniform. You need more luxurious clothes...'"
Vadim: (grunting)
[Then Eduard now dressed as Soviet paramedic.]
Eduard: "Wow. I never expect myself wearing uniform again. Since my death involved with a soldier uniform too. But thank you-"
Vadim: (sobbed hard at Eduard's shoulder) "I beg you, Eduard! Come back to us, to our brother and sister, and mother in our home Usolye Sibirskoye! You never know how Mark and Zinaida missed your radiant laugh to entertain us! There must be a way to leave this limbo and bring you back!"
Suddenly Vadim thrown out from his hug, and he heard someone talking in German (but I still using full English for this story lol).
???: "Stop calling me Eduard, won't you?! I have my own name, you dumbass."
Vadim witness a blond guy with blue eyes looking at him in pissed expression. They look at each other in silence. That lush green tree is actually a black burnt tree. And everything has turn into full colour at dawn.
???: "And I affiliate with Wermacht soldier too"
Vadim: "WHAT?!"
???: "I don't know what have you been talking about except naming me Eduard but... I can see quickly you are such crybaby."
Vadim: "N-no! I was helping a civilian with brown sweater named Eduard!"
???: "Well, look again on the ground"
[Vadim witnessed the dead paramedic instead wearing grey uniform instead the brown sweater.]
Vadim: "Wha... how..."
???: "Just after I successfully kill myself, you approached me, heal my wound, and changed my uniform. I can't fight you because blood loss. Oddly your eyes looked blank and murmuring alone until after I managed to shove you."
That soldier then sighed.
???: "Now I'm going to ask you, enemy. Why did you saved me? I want to end my miserable life, you know..."
Vadim: "What a loser. I thought Germans won't give up to kill us even after we saved you!"
???: "I AM AUSTRIAN, IDIOT!!! CAN'T YOU TELL OUR ACCENT?!"
Vadim: "How the hell would I know about that?!"
???: "You're so annoying! Did you save me because there's nothing to mock with, huh?!!"
Just before that soldier lunge on Vadim, there is a shout in Russian language (but yeah still written in English lol).
Soviet soldiers1: "Heyyy! We found another lost soldier! Comrades, come join us, okay?"
The scene changed with rows of walking Soviet soldiers. Vadim and that soldier secretly shaking hands
???: "Wilhelm Alkern..."
Vadim: "Vadim Oktyuchev..."
Wilhelm: "Oh well, I think there must be a reason why I ended up in enemy's body and side..."
Vadim: "Still, you need alternative name as yours was not Slavic enough."
Wilhelm: "Then give me the suggestion!"
Vadim: "Vasily... Vasily Kardanov. Yeah, that suits you, Wilhelm."
Wilhelm: "Any reason why do you think that?"
Vadim: "Dunno. Just came out from my mind. Dislike it?"
Wilhelm: "That's fine. Not hard name for me."
Vadim: "... I'm bored. Wanna share stories?"
Wilhelm: "Sure thing, my enemy!"
[As the Soviet soldiers marched on.... there is faint ghost of Eduard and Erika at the lush green tree, watching the sunrise.]