We can see tank tracks go around multiple trees, soon arriving at a smaller encampment of tanks sitting in multiple ditches. A few quick gunshots could be heard in the distance, soon before landing near the tanks.
The smoke clears as we can see a T32 heavy tank, E-75, Sherman Firefly, and a KV-85 in the ditches trying to cover their hulls.
"Where's our scout division?!" Shouts the commander of the T32 over the radio. She sounded annoyed about the situation.
"Calm down Rika, they are coming soon, I just radioed to Edina." Responds the E-75's commander, Erika. "Although we are starting to run low on ammunition, so much for ambushing." She says with a sadder tone in her voice.
"We just gotta hold for like a few more minutes." Calls the Firefly commander out. She was stressed and focussed from the shells whizzing by her.
"Thank you for the info Clarissy!" Says the commander of the KV while her tank bounced a shell.
"I swear to god if this continues-" Rika is cut off as a larger shell lands next to her tank lifting it off the ground by a good 50 cm or more. She couldn't see it well from inside the tank. "OH FOR FU-!" The radio cut off with the sound of girls falling on each other. "CATHY GET US OUT OF HERE! KRYSSY WAKE UUUUP!" This was heard as from the outside we can see the T32 deploying some defensive smoke and starting to reverse out of the ditch.
"Well...you heard our commander. Tactical repositioning!" Says Erika with sweat on her forehead. "Mely, reverse!" She says as her driver just shrugs and puts the behemoth of steel into reverse and floored it, getting the close to 90 ton tank to reverse from the ditch and slowly but surely 'reposition' themselves.
"Bloody hell!" Says Clarissa with a raised voice. "Sis, get us out of here!" Thus Ciara put their firefly into reverse, but just as they would've made it out a shell slammed into them and made the firefly roll back into the ditch. The sounds coming from the tank after this weren't screams of anger but angry Englishwomen talking that were incomprehensible for anyone over the radio.
"Do you think they are fine?" Kaarina, the loader of the KV asks her commander, shell in hand.
Her ever calm commander looks at her and just says. "They are brits, they will be fine." But not before adding a small "I hope" at the end
"OUR SCOUTS SHOULD BE HERE ALREADY!" Shouts Rika as even outside of her tank some people could hear her shouting.
The scene cuts to an open field and we can see two tanks, or rather one speedy tank destroyer and one armored car speeding through the field kicking up dust behind themselves.
"Hey! Edina! Do you see anything?" Radios or rather shouts Nanami, the commander of the Hellcat to her scout partner.
"Nothing! Zero! Null! Semmi!" Shouts the small Austrian to her partner. "All I see is dried out grass and some trees! They may be pear trees!" Adds the Austrian loli.
"Sis, I suggest you should get back to the tank from the top of the turret." Says Antonia as she looks up at her 'big' sister.
"Shush little sis! I'm perfectly good here! I even have the 50 caliber MG to grab onto!" She says as she shakes the Machine Gun on the top of the tank to show her point.
"Fine. Fine." Says Antonia "But if you fall like last time, you're getting up by yourself." Antonia says with a serious tone and with the shake of her index finger.
"Unyah?!" To that Edina quickly climbed back to the turret. "I didn't do this because you warned me! HMP!"
To this her entire crew just giggled/laughed at that.
"We are nearing the flanking point~" Said Viktoria in her sing-sang voice through the radio.
"Let's get them shall we?" Antonia said, she smiled and got on her gunner sights. She was ready to shoot at anything moving. Hoping she would land some hits this time.
"Finally we can take out some tanks!" cheered Nanami from her Hellcat.
The cheer wave went through the crew of the Hellcat like a plague. Each of them were ready to do something after they had been unable to for so long.
"Maybe for once we win and don't play targets for the others. They get to win all the time while I can't even remember our last win." Says Nakai slumping down in her seat.
"That's because our enemies that day were the 1st years who fought us as their opponents after having just gotten the tanks." Cuts in Kasumi through the radio.
"We just have to win this. Then the 3rd years can finally stop laughing at us whenever we are mentioned in Panzerfahren." Says Edina with a tad bit too much enthusiasm in her tone.
"We are just 2nd graders..." Says Sonya with her usual monotone voice.
Soon they arrived to the flanking position and saw multiple King Tigers laying in cover and shooting at their teammates. Soon the T18E2 and the Hellcat started shooting
They shot but by a sheer miracle, the King Tiger bounced their shot to the side, leaving their tank undamaged. TheTigers began turning their gun to the two attackers and Edina knew she had to act fast.
"REVERSE!"
It worked well until they heard a ding behind them.
"We bumped into something." Yukina says from the M18. "I cannot move the tank."
Nanami popped out of the tank. "So what tree did you drive into this time you idiot!"
She turned around to look what they drove into and immediately came to a freezing hold. What she saw behind her wasn't a tree, but a infact a 8,8-cm-KwK 43 or in layman terms a Tiger II main cannon directed directly into her face. She could see the commander of the tank sit on her tank top smugly and blow her a kiss to say goodbye.
"BIG CAT!" Edina screamed and closed the cupola as she vanished back into the tank. The Tiger II turned its turret to the other tank wasted no second and shot the M18 Hellcat in the back of the turret, knocking it out immediately.
"VIKIIII- GET US OUT OF HERE ASAP! IT ALREADY GOT THE OTHERS!" Edina shouts as Viktoria floors the T18. I lurched forward and managed to dodge 2 of the King Tigers by sheer force of will. "WE LIVE ANOTHER DAY!"
They drove away and into the forest next to them to flee the german big cats until their tank suddenly stopped with a big BONG. "Eh?" Edina opens her hatch and sees a Löwe. "....." Edina slowly closes her hatch as she saw the snout of the Big Kitty lower itself to the front armor."Scheiße."
The German Lion let out its 10.5cm roar and sent the armored car flying into a rock.
"Sis, you spoke too soon." Antonia giggled. "But we lived for roughly ten seconds more so I see that as a win." She gave a thumbs up which only Sonya returned.
"I didn't see that thing at all." Viktoria said as she marveled the enemy that just "killed" them. "Is this what they call camouflage?"
"How did you not see a BRIGHT GRAY GIANT ASS 99 TON SUPER HEAVY TANK IN FRONT OF US?!" Shouts Edina at her driver. She popped out of the hatch and looked around, seeing the enemy flag tank, the King Tiger that nearly beheaded them earlier, come to a stop next to them.
"I see why they say the delinquent squad is bad. I once felt pity but now know what they mean and it's nothing short of hilarious. Can't even hear a king tiger behind them." The commander of one of the enemies we are facing stated smugly. "Maybe you should go up against the beginners." She giggled as she drove by.
"TEAM A ELIMINATED! TEAM B WINS!" Came the instructor's voice through their radios.
"AH FOR FU-" Came the voice of Rika through the open coms.
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"And where have you been? I haven't seen you once at the match!" Edina shouts.
"The backline to not stain our baby of course." Clarisse answered quickly. "We can't afford to endanger our tank after all."
"BUT WE ARE IN A FIGHT!" Viktoria added.
"And?" Asked Clarisse. "Is that a factor in anything?"
"Of course. If your tank gets scratched up we can repair it later." Sanya answered.
"If our tank gets scratched then we have to repair it ourselves." Cally popped out of her hatch with an annoyed look on her face. "Do you know how exhausting this thing is to repair?"
"Then why are you even fighting in it?" Nakai asked.
"To score kills and because we are forced to. And you know I can hit." Cally stated as she popped out next to her sisters.
"You cannot hit anything when you do nothing to contribute to the fight." Antonia shot back.
"And is that our problem? Ladies let's go. I don't wanna hear these ramblings." Clarisse said as she hopped into the tank and without another word spoken their Panther 2 drove off.
"I swear to god if I would be the commander-" Edina is cut short as the announcer turns on.
"Teams Panther, Hound, Cat, Firefly, Snail, Bear, Eagle, Fox, Grasshopper and Eel report to the Student council as soon as possible...IT MEANS NOW!"
The delinquent squad's faces immediately went pale as snow. Even the ever stoic Sonya had her eyes wide open.
"Fuck." Said the entire 'team'.
We can see the student council room on top of a palace. It was finely decorated with paintings and gold ornaments, even a paper weight was made of shining bronze.
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"You lot who make up Team 13 have come to our attention in a few things." Said the Student council president as all of the people stared at her with worry. "Your grades might be good but since you are a Panzer squad you uphold our school's decade long tradition in Panzerfahren." She stood up from her desk and stared out of the window. "10 years of successfull Panzerfahren that made us be feared across the world for our excellency. Everyone trembles hearing we are their next enemies." She sighted. "And now we come to you bunch of people." She threw a massive file onto her desk that made some of the paper weights jump/tilt over
"President we can explain-" Edina began but was cut off by the President.
"You have become the laughing stock of this school for your lack of achievements but we have found a way to help you." She sat back down in her chair. "We have gotten a call from a school in Japan that can fix your issues."
"And how would that help us?" Gulped the commander of the M18 Hellcat.
"Simple. We are sending you problem students to help the greenies over at another school. Maybe you can learn the basics that way." She said as she slammed some documents on her desk. "This is the school you will be going to. Read it over, you will be leaving in a week."
"And what if we don't want to. This is not legal at all I think." Says Antonia in defiance but a glare brought her down.
"Ohh do I hear complaints? Too bad. It's already been signed and allowed by both schools since 2 days ago. The match today was just the nail in the coffin." She snorted as she laid back in her chair. "And now out with you."
Promptly the lot was out of the office and the large doors shut behind them.
"Soo..." Edina started. "Church?" She asked, feeling bad.
"Church." her 'team' nodded in agreement.
"Well fine. Another place to tell how drastically superior our Panther 2 is to everyone there." Clarisse said as she and her three sisters walked off. Not even bothered by what was told to them.
"Well I have reading to catch up to and a bag to fill with books so until later." Annalena, the driver of the Panther 2 and unlucky companion with the quadruples, said as she sprinted off. The tall bookworm vanished behind the corner and out of sight.
While they are talking Rika barges through the doors behind them, running past the group while her arm covers her eyes crying.
"Rika!" Cathy called after her when she left the building.
"I'll get her back." Said the ever stoic Sonya, surprising everyone around her. "Give me 20 minutes." With that said she stormed off after the American gal.
"I hope she doesn't end up throwing Rika over her shoulder like a bag of potatoes and basically dragging her here." Said Edina with a sweat drop on her head.
We can see Sonya jogging down the path to the Tankery HQ. "Blyat. If she's known for something it's got to be being a hard skulled girl.." Sonya quickly arrives at the HQ and sees Rika and Cathy in front of the door arguing. "There you are." She says walking over to them. "AMERICAN! Why did you run away from your team?" Sonya asks in a louder and a bit angier tone.
"Oh...it's the Russian..." She glares up at Sonya. "Why are you here? You're going to poke fun at me-" She was cut off as the Russian girl picked her up like a cat.
"Listen here, American. WE are a team. WE need to work together. Because one emperor once said 'Viribus Unitis' meaning with united force. So! Get yourself together and work with us! United we stand a chance against everything life throws at us!" Sonya says while just shaking Rika in her arms.
"Together huh? Where were you then when we needed you? Where were you when we were pinned down and systematically broken apart because you left us blind. Don't talk to me about working together when your damned team left us to die!" Rika blasts back at her, pushing off before balling her fists.
"You told us to go around the GODDAMN FOREST! YOU KNEW THAT WE WERE AT ONE OF THE SHIP'S LARGER FORESTS! IT TAKES TIME TO GO AROUND A FOREST AND NOT GET SPOTTED IN THE MIDDLE OF AN OPEN FIELD!" Sonya raises her voice while dropping Rika.
"Don't lecture me about how long it takes to move an armored vehicle. Our tank is more than twice as heavy compared to yours and Cathy still gets it moving wherever needed with minimal difficulty no matter the terrain." As Rika extends one of her hands towards Catherine who is standing by the two of them.
"You do realize our armored car is 27 tons and can do only so much on muddy and hilly terrain?! Have you ever tried to go up on a muddy slope in an armored car?" Sonya asks while bringing her face close to Rika's.
"Enough you two." As Catherine places her arms between them to break the two apart. "We don't need to be causing an incident inside HQ, especially right outside the captain's office." As she motions back with her head to the door behind her.
"Hmm..." Sonya was just glaring at Rika, suddenly a sly smile appeared on her face. "Xaxaxa."
"What are you thinking?" As Rika sizes her up while Catherine glances between the two and the door behind her, muttering something inaudibly.
Suddenly Sonya just grabs Rika, throwing her on her shoulder. "You're coming with me." She states as she goes back to the team though pauses when Catherine puts a hand on her other shoulder.
"Drop her, an argument is one thing but you don't try to bully my friend like that, especially in front of me." As Catherine grips the shoulder to enforce her point.
Sonya just looks at Catherine. "..." Then the Commander's office doors swing open with the Commander standing there. With one look Sonya drops Rika and gets down on one knee before the Commander while Catherine sighs looking down at Rika who got dropped on her side before looking over to the commander behind her, nodding in respect.
"So..Anyone mind telling me what is happening here?" The CO looks at Catherine in particular. "You little lady?" She goes up to her.
"Really cap? 'Little lady'? We are nearly the same height. As for these two Rika was wanting to speak with you, Sonya was trying to drag her away, forcibly if needed, back to the dorms." As she motions over to the other two.
"Oh? Captain America and Mother Russia fighting? How original.. also I know you like the nicknames I give you" The CO just pats Cathy's head. "So! Miss America. What did you want to tell me?~" She bows down to the still laying Rika.
Rika shifts over to sit on her knees, rubbing the arm she fell on while looking at the captain with a concerned face. "Why captain? I thought I was doing everything you asked for, all the drills, both theory and practical. The T32 just last month had some of the top marks in the entire team, so why are we being sent away? It just doesn't make sense?" As Rika seems almost afraid of the answer that she will be given.
"Why? THAT'S EASY! Because you need to think outside of the box!" The CO said as she pulled out a piece of steamed potato and bit into it. "You will be going to our sissy school for that. *munch* Don't worry it's only for the 63rd National tournament!" She pats Rika's head. "Also don't take some of my advice, they may lead you to losses." She pulls out another ."By the way, want one?" She asked Rika who takes it before slowly getting up and walking away with her head down. "Wait!" The CO shouts after her. "I wasn't done talking. I have one piece of advice you can take to heart." She grabs Rika's shoulder. "Find your own way, if you can't then make one for yourself, if you can't make it then blast a way with your tank and crew. Ciao" The CO goes back to her office, closing the doors.
"Well, it's something at least." As Cathrine holds her hands on her hips looking at Rika who simply stares at the door with a mixed expression before slowly smiling and walking away. "Unless you need anything else Sonya I am going to get packing, we have a long trip in a week and we need to get ready." As she then walks away.
Sonya just looked at the walking Rika and smiled. "You damn Americans..." She rushed after her, picking her up and placing her on her shoulder. "You just won your first battle, comrade!" She giggled a bit.
With the others we can see the crew of the Panther 2 arguing with the E-75 crew about them not doing bullshiz, the other members of the T18E2 having a goddamn cooking contest with the local priest...it was a holy feast, in the end Viktoria slipped paprika into the cake mix as a prank...it shouldn't have worked! The ARL crew washing their tank of any leftover debris, the Firefly team having a tea party. Hellcat crew playing with some stray cats, along with the ISU crew. The KV and Stuart crew hanging out at a local kebab stand.
But one thing ate at their souls. Were they up for the job to help a newbie team? Can the failures of Europe go far? Will Team 13 prevail? Pfft of course they will!
Maybe dess.....