It was lunchtime when they finished parking their tanks and all three of the girls are now currently in their clubroom discussing further matters.
Shino talked first.
"Now, what we need now is new members but I'm hungry so we'll discuss this later... you guys want to grab a snack?"
Saori then rubbed her chin and thought of something.
"Can we drive our tank to the school canteen?, i want to drive more"
"Wont that be dangerous for other students?" Shino replied.
Ikeda suddenly realized an idea.
"Yes, yes! i think we should!, im one with Saori here"
Shino looked at Ikeda confused.
"Are you sure?, you know pretty dangerous right?"
Ikeda grinned and completely ignored Shino's concerns, she ran outside the clubroom and went to the tank garage and Saori and Shino having no choice decided to just follow Ikeda.
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Ikeda is already inside of the M3 Stuart and after a few seconds its engine roared and Ikeda's face showed up in the driver's vision port and excitedly invited the two girls that followed her.
Shino sighed and eventually decided to play along with it, she sat on the commander seat while Saori sat on the co-driver seat and after confirming they're seated Ikeda started driving the tank forwards.
It was a pretty smooth ride although she is not used to the loud engine noise coming from the tank engine, which she mentally noted herself to get some earmuffs and earphones to drive out the noise so for now all she could do is go inside the tank and close the hatch which surprisingly muffled the noise somewhat.
The tank drove smoothly on the school pavement and some students saw it, even though it does not have any horns the sheer size and noise it produced immediately picked the attention of passersby students hanging around.
"Hey, Commander, could you fire the blank round i loaded earlier?"
Ikeda requested.
"Eh, i do not know how that works also firing something from this cannon is dangerous"
Shino objected..
"Coming just do it, trust me its safe!"
Ikeda insisted.
Shino just decided to go for it but she felt the inside is pretty cramped with many nooks and cranny that she doesn't recognize, after a few seconds she finally sat on the gunner seat and found herself in a pretty tight position, she sighed and went on finding the shell that Ikeda mentioned, She eventually found the shell rack where she found two shells labelled as Blank Shots and grabbed one of them and closed it.
Holding the 37mm shell that weighs around a kilogram she then opened the manual and read a few lines and followed and after a few minutes.
"Loaded"
Shino shouted just like the manual instructed.
Shino could only see the outside with the periscope installed inside and she noticed they were already in the cafeteria.
"So are we leaving now?"
She asked.
"Nah, fire that thing in the sky"
Ikeda replied with enthusiasm.
Shino nodded and read the gunnery manual, after turning the turret and raising the gun barrel, she fired it in a safe direction the sudden blast rocked their cores, Shino's heart is pounding and beating fast, eventually but it calmed down and they all left the tank and turning it off.
After leaving they now just realized how hot and cramped those tanks are since they just accumulated a large amount of sweat, however besides that a huge crowd formed up looking at their tank.
Some are amazed while many are just simply looking at the commotion, with this crowd Ikeda suddenly walked ontop of the tank and talked loudly.
"The Tankery Club is currently looking for more members!, we have many of these machines, just like me you could drive these tanks, fire its gun and many more, there are also other benefits found, just look up at our registration details"
After the announcement the trio left the tank to the crowd and ate their lunch.
After that they drove their tank back to their clubroom and as expected after a few minutes people came knocking at their club door.
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"Hello, welcome to the Tankery club, my name is Shino Katake the president commander of this club"
"My name is Anna, i am the leader of the nonexistent fashion club of this school, and i would like to merge our group with your tankery club, and with me are 24mebers that came to me willing to join this club.
Shino immediately recognized the Gyaru fashion shown by Anna and she was impressed, the deep purple colored eyes and blonde look the many accessories and makeup, just like the many people described, she looked at the members aswell and found many kinks of hairstyle and clothing styles in general which impressed her further.
With excitement she replied.
"Uhh, why did you pick us instead of others?"
Shino suddenly got nervous and suddenly realized that she must be talking to a 3rd year student after taking another glance.
"Well i got informed that this club has the biggest room and open field than any school club out there, and im just thinking if we could do our thing here while taking part in Tankery since i do know the sport but i did not took any interest on such a dangerous sport."
She paused for a little then talked again.
"So what do you think would you like to take 24 members?"
Shino thought for awhile and stood up and then after a few seconds.
"Welcome to the Tankery Club"
Shino reached out her hand and shake hands with anna.
"You may rest on the large room over there and put down your stuff since im greatly assuming you guys already got your club registration done?"
"Yes girl."
Anna replied.
As the girls moved to their room Ikeda and Saori approached Shino.
"Are you sure about them?"
Ikeda asked.
"Yes im very sure about them, why did you asked?"
Shino replied.
"Well its just that... they're not really the looks of people driving tanks you know?"
Shino got puzzled for a second before replying.
"Eh, let them be in fact members are members all they need is an assignment and training and im sure they're gonna be the tankery members you are looking for."
Shino at the end of her reply assured Ikeda and Saori everything will be fine and her judgement is correct.