The ground shakes as shells start to land all around us, even inside my tank I can fell the vibrations caused by the impacting shells. All around me my crew is scared. I can see it in their eyes when they look at me waiting to be told want to do next, I can see it as their bodies shake when they are completing the orders I give, and I can hear it in their voices as they talk. This is their first match, their first battle, I didn't have enough time to prep them for it I needed more time. But she wouldn't allow it, for some reason that girl is hell bent on stopping me from reforming the Sensha-do team. But I can't think of that now. I need to get my team through this match.
Another shell hits us, this one glances off our armor, but the horrible sound of metal on metal sends a screech through the tank that makes everyone stop and cover their ears. We can't stop firing, we can't move, and we are outnumbered. What do we do? How can we get out of this? "Come one you're supposed to be the leader of this team" I quietly remind myself as I think. What do we do?
One Week Earlier
"So this is my new home," I say to myself as I stare at the European style detached house in front of me, a two-floor building with a small garden in back and at the front.
It looks nice and like my old home back in London only smaller; I can hardly remember that though as I lived in a dorm at the boarding school, I attended. Living with my parents again does seem nice though, back in England it was rare we would all be together but hear I hope it will be different. My dad got a job offer to run the local hospital here and accepted, it meant moving halfway across the planet to one of those Japanese carrier ships, but I was happy when I heard he took the job. Don't get me wrong I liked my old school and home, I will sincerely miss my friends, but now we have a chance to be together as a family again so I couldn't let the opportunity pass.
I can feel the smile on my face as I walk into the house, my home, for the first time. It's not as big as the house we had back home with a joint living room dining room and a kitchen in the back, a staircase along one wall and a beautiful stone fireplace built into the opposite wall. It looks gorgeous and familiar, reminding me of home. I go upstairs and see there are only two rooms, a master bedroom, and a bathroom. My room is up even higher in the loft and when I first heard that I was a bit mad but after my dad showed me a picture of it I shut up. The room is just as good as the picture he showed me, better even, a double bed fit for a queen, a desk and computer for me to use and a large wardrobe. Two massive windows give a great view of the sea and port that so good it makes you want to break down in tears it's so beautiful.
"I think I'll like it here," I say quietly to myself as I stare out at the gorgeous scenery.
"Lynne dear can you come give us a hand with these boxes!" My mother calls up to me breaking me out of the trance the view put me in.
"Ok!" I reply with a sigh as I wipe away the few tears brought out of me, I was hoping to enjoy the view for just a bit longer. "Coming!"
I sigh walking down the stairs knowing they will give me some heavy boxes to carry, I know they know I can handle the weight. Several years of playing Sensha-dou across Europe has made me stronger than most girls my age, it has led to some teasing though and people calling me a tomboy, but I don't let it bother me. Besides, here in Japan Sensha-dou is a female dominated sport unlike back in Europe where it's manly males who take part in it. So when I do find that some heavy boxes left for me to move I move them with a smile, they aren't as heavy as tank shells that's for sure.
So I move the boxes thinking about what it will be like to be part of my new schools Sensha-dou team. I already can tell I will have to try out for it because from what I hear Sensha-dou is popular in Japan and the girls that take part in it are celebrities like the football players back home. I really can't wait, I just hope I don't mess up with the tryouts. Just as I am about to grab the last box I am brought out of my daydream by a light knock on our new front door. I look over and see a small cute looking girl that must be a middle schooler; she has bright green emerald like eyes and beautiful black hair tied into a ponytail that looks so smooth and soft.
"Hello," I say as I abandon my job of moving the boxes to greet her by letting the box fall to the ground landing with a small quiet thud, my Japanese is excellent thanks to my dad teaching me on the plane, so I am able to communicate with the locals.
"Hello," The girl replies nervously looking me over while fiddling with the bottom of her shirt, she is so cute and must be a neighbor's daughter, and I am sure her parents must be close by. They must be just behind her, and she ran excitedly ahead of them, any second now they will be right behind her. "I am Yura Ishihara; I live next door," She says as she takes something from her bag, it's a folder with that she hands to me. "Your class schedule, student handbook, and student ID card are inside… The teacher asked me to give it to you and to introduce myself since we will be in the same class and sitting next to each other." Wait did she just say we are in the same class? No way that can't be right, she is half my size, so this is ever a joke, or I miss heard her. Yes, it has to be a joke, and my real classmate will jump out in a minute laughing. "I know I am small for my age," She says as if she read my thought. "But we are the same age, and in the same year, everyone thinks what you are thinking at first. By the way, I have also been asked to walk with you to school to make sure you know the way and don't get lost if you want me to I can knock for you and courter to eight tomorrow morning."
"Sure that sounds good, I am Lynnette Bishop by the way, but you can call me Lynne if you want." I reply still not believing that we are the same age but as I say so she looks at my arm where I have a tattoo of my old teams emblem a Churchill tank with the words "Who dares wins" written underneath.
"Do you take part in Sensha-dou by any chance?" She asks sounding more confident now than when we first met looking firmly at my tattoo.
"Yes, back in Britain I played on my school's team, we won the European Championship twice in a row and the English school league for the last six years in a row. Of cause I was only part of the last two wins and never took part in the European Championship match but I had fun." I tell her looking at the tattoo and smiling at the memory of charging headlong into battle as the ground erupts with explosions all around my tank, my first battle in charge of that tank didn't end will but my crew, and I couldn't help but laugh till our sides hurt afterward. "How is this schools team?"
"Not good," Yura answers looking down. "We haven't won anything in years; I don't think ever."
"I'm sure they will one day," I say with a smile. "Anyone can win if they give it their all and never give up."
"Maybe," She says before my mum appears.
"Nearly done dear?" She asks me before she notices Yura stood in the doorway who's gone back to fiddling in with the bottom of her shirt again, I think I get her now she just isn't good at meeting new people but quickly gets more confident the longer she's speaking. "Oh, I'm sorry I didn't notice you standing there."
"Mum this is Yura Ishihara, she lives next door and is in my class," I tell her, and I see my mum blinking in disbelief that a girl the size of Yura is my age. I did doubt at first, but now that I have talked to her I am starting to believe she really is my age. "Yura this is my annoying mother and mum I have only one more box to move."
"It's nice to meet you Yura and Lynne who are you calling annoying?" My mother replies painfully pinching my cheek. "I'll leave you alone so that I can finish unpacking, bye Yura."
"Goodbye, it was nice meeting you," Yura says as my mum walks away. "I should tell you that I heard that the Sensha-dou team might be disbanding this year, I think all the member graduated, and there is no one to lead the team or wanting to join."
"Ok," Is all I can say, I was looking forward to joining the team, and now I hear it's not going to exist anymore unless. "What if I run it? I have been a tank commander, gunner, driver, and section leader before and I am sure I can lead the team."
"There's nothing stopping you from doing so," Yura replies with a smile. "I'll join if you will let me, I'm sure my height won't help, but I will try my best."
"Relax my tank loader was missing half his leg and still could do his job," I tell her happy she will help me. "I'm sure you will too, have you ever done anything like this before?" Yura shakes her head. "It's easy so don't worry too much, I'll teach you everything you need to learn."
"Thank you," Yura says with a bow, I don't get why but when she raises back up she is smiling. "I always wanted to do this, but I never thought I had a chance to do it, I have to go now, but I will see you tomorrow ok."
"Ok bye," I reply returning her smile.
"Bye," She replies as she leaves, maybe I will get the Sensha-dou team going and I already have the first member.
The first day of school was a lot of fun, Yura came over and shown me a shortcut that saved a lot of time. It still to fifteen minutes though, but we passed the time by taking over how to get people to join. Yura also tells me she confirmed the fact that the Sensha-dou team is disbanding and has no members, last night she had her friend in the Student Council verify the information and also told her what we are planning. When we arrived at the school we found her friend waiting for us at the main gate handing over some paperwork which I need to fill out if I want to run the club, I wasted no time, and by the end of lunch, I had the forms filled out and in her hands. We also got three new members from our class; I just walked up to them introduced myself and asked them to join. Most of my class said no but three did agree to participate, now we just need more, so how do we get them? I tried my best at lunch, but the best answer I could get was a maybe, it seems everyone thinks the team is a lost cause and don't want to be part of it. I guess I'll just have to change their minds; I'm sure most will come around after our first win. The day was going so well until she arrived, someone tapped my shoulder, and I turned to see her stood right behind me. A black haired demon with cold blue eyes that sends a shiver down my spine.
"Can I help you with anything?" I ask turning to face her.
"Do you know who I am?" She asks in response crossing her arms over her chests.
"Someone who wants to talk to me," I answer making her frown, and I think I hear her quietly growl like an animal.
"I am the Student Council President, Ao Asato," She tells me uncrossing her arms, placing her hands on her hips and sticking out her chest like she's trying to look impressive. If she is then she really is failing, miserably. "You should be honoured that I am even speaking to a gaijin like you."
"Is there a point to this?" I ask, and again she frowns as she crosses her arms back over her chest clearly unhappy that I am not impressed by her. "I have things I need to do."
"Like starting your pathetic club," She replies, and it rubs me the wrong way, I love the sport and won't have its name tarnished. "You may have become its leader, but you still don't have enough people, it won't be long now until you fail. If it were up to me I would stop you, but rules say I can't, but I can stop your funding, then even if you did save the team, you would have the money to keep it, and it will still disband."
"Why would you do that?" I ask with a little anger in my voice; I am working hard to make the team work, so her words are really starting to get to me.
"Because the team is a hopeless cause, they loss bring dishonour to the school every year," She tells me with a grin because she knows she's getting to me. "I will be more than happy when I hear that the team is gone."
"How about a bet than," I say seeing a way out of this, a way to save the team and get more members. "We have a match, if we win the team stays and you won't touch our budget and if we lose then I will disband the club for you and won't try and reform it."
"Why would I agree to that?" She asks sounding interested by my wager but not sold on it.
"Because if we lose it will prove you right about the team, you still have an advantage from what I hear. I am the only person at this school who has any experience in Tankery," I tell her, and I see a smile creep onto her face.
"Ok, I agree," She says, but there's something in her voice that tells me this isn't the end of this. "We will be docking again next week for supplies at the same time as Bonple High School; I will arrange a match with them. It will be a five V five match, first one to lose all their tanks losses the match."
"Ok," I say before she walks off, our first match is a week away, and we only have five members including me. I have a lot of work ahead of me if the team is going to make it to next week.
The tank shed is in good repair, the doors still open and shut, the roof has no holes in it, and all the walls and windows are intact. It would be a good sight, but no one is here, the only people that showed up are the tree people from my class, Yura and myself. One crew that's all we have, we better have a good tank because we will need all the help we can get to win this upcoming match. I turn to face the people that turned up, they all look excited and are ready to go. At least we have sprit, if only that alone could win matches.
I walk towards the entrance to the shed telling the others to follow, the doors creaks but opens smoothly letting us inside. What we see is excellent, at least we have something going for us. Inside I see we have seven tanks, they aren't the best tanks in the world, but all look like they are in good working order. We have five British tanks, two Crusader III's and three Matilda II's. We also have two American tanks an M3 Stuart and M18 Hellcat. All good tanks, not great but good. I can work with these tanks; we just need the students to crew them.
I decide we will take the Hellcat out; we have just enough people to crew it. I open the larger doors to allow the tank to get out and smile, outside I see more people have shown up, there are six of them enough to crew both the Crusaders. I really do smile now, with these three tanks we may have a chance to win this match and keep the team. Unless they aren't here to join us, only one way to find out.
"Hello, are you ladies here for Sensha-dou?" I ask walking over to them.
"Yes," One of them replies as the group all look at me. "Sorry we are late we had cleaning duty today."
"Don't worry about it," I say feeling a wave of relief wash over me; we stand a chance after all.
I was right about one thing when I argued and made that wager with the Student Council President; I am the only person at this school who's had any Sensha-dou experience. I had to teach everyone who shown up everything, at least by the end of the day they know the basics. We can drive load and fire the guns, not accurately but at least we can avoid any misfires. But one thing did surprise me though, Yura is a great gunner. She stilled needs a lot of practice but she's a natural, she can tell the range of a target with her bare eyes and instinctively knows how to fire at it. But like everyone else she still needs a lot of practice, so far we can barely hit the targets, but at least as the day went on, I can see we are improving, and I know where we need to improve. More and more I feel my confidence raise as I know we can do this, we can win and keep the Sensha-dou team.
"Good work today girls," I said jumping down from the Hellcat as everyone else exits their tanks. "We still have a long way to go, but you all did great for your first time, I plan to keep everyone in the same crews and tanks they are in now. Do any of you have a problem with that?" Everyone remains silent, so I continue. "The President has organized a match for us next week, I'm not really sure how to tell you this, but you all deserve to know this. If we lose this match, then the team won't be around anymore."
"Why we only just started?" Someone calls out.
"I don't know," I tell the team. "I managed to get her to agree to this one match to prove ourselves, so we must win this, next week we will be facing Bonple High School, and they have us outnumbered. So far we only have three tanks to their five, but don't worry we can still win this. I will make sure we do."
"Your right we can win," Yura says with her voice full of pride "Anyone can win if they give it their all and never give up."
As we walk home Yura and I are both excited just like the rest of the team, even against an experienced team that outnumbers us we haven't lost heart and are somehow in greater sprite then I thought possible. Both of us are determined to win, our whole team is. We all want to win and keep the team, the news that we may have to disband has lit a fire in each of us. All we need now is to train hard and come up with a plan, by tonight we will have an idea at least. Yura is coming over to my house so we can make a plan, she has agreed to be my second in command, and I know I can trust her to do that job. We stop by Yura's house first to tell her parents what is happening and then head straight over to my house, my mum greats us at the door and I lead Yura all the way up to my room. I still haven't unpacked yet, so there are boxes everywhere but at least it's not a total mess, we take a seat at my desk, and I quickly get out a notebook before we begin.
"Do you know what type of tanks Bonple High School uses?" I ask, I know it's a long shot but if you don't ask you don't get.
"No sorry," Yura answer shaking her head. "I know they use Polish tanks, but that's it."
"That's good news," I say with a smile. "We should have an advantage in firepower and armor, but their numerical advantage should be able to counter that."
"That's good," Yura replies smiling too. "So we should just keep them a distance."
"That's what I was thinking," I tell her. "We keep moving, fire a distance and try not to get surrounded."
"We should focus on shooting practice then," Yura says, and I nod. "We should be fine unless they get a lucky shot."
"All we can do is hope that doesn't happen," I say as I switch my computer on. "Now let's see what tanks we may be up against and what the terrain is like, what's the island called we will be fighting on?"
The day of the tournament everyone is high spirits but also nervous, everyone is excited about their first match but determined to win this. We have to win this. The ship is just arriving in the port, and our tanks are ready to go, the weather is nice and sunny. We have everything we need for a good match.
We have done all we can to prepare, our tanks are ready, and I've trained the girls crewing them as best I could over the last week. For this match, we have a decent team, two Crusader III's and an M18 Hellcat. The other side may have two more tanks than us, but after looking up what they could be, I am confident their two extra tanks won't make that much of a difference. Our tanks are faster, better armored and have much better guns than anything they could have, plus after looking over maps of the battle area I had the tanks painted to help them blind in and thanks to the help of the art club I think they will do just that. The different shades of green are perfect to help us hide in the forests and field that cover this island, it was time-consuming, but this match is too important for us not to take every advantage we can. The tanks are ready, so there is only one thing left to do, get their crews prepared for the fight.
"Hey is everyone ready for this?" I call out as the ship comes to a halt.
"Yes!" Everyone shouts back some with their fists in the air; I guess they are already ready for this fight they all sound eager to begin despite their nerves.
"Good," I say with a proud smile on my face, our team may be small, but we are willing to take on giants if we have to. "If we stick to the plan we should win this, don't let their numbers scare you and stay focused. If we all do that, then we will be celebrating tonight."
"Of course we will win!" Someone shouts out getting a few cheers; I love these girls confidence I can only hope it doesn't get the best of them.
Just as the cheering starts the other ship arrives, it's smaller than our own but somehow more roomier. All the buildings our in the center of the vessel and at either end of the ship is a large grassy field, the rear field if in rough shape though. It must be were their Sensha-dou team practices because I can see tank tread marks all across the field as well as creators that dot the area.
Then I see the enemy tanks, ten 7TP's and six 10TP's are neatly lined up. They are the ones we are facing though, those tanks are too dirty and must have been used for training not that long ago. The tanks they have for our match must be elsewhere. Still relaxed I turn my attention away from their ship back to my team, I was about to give the order to move out when a chill goes down my spine. I am glad I get some warning before she arrives, I turn again and this time I see the Student Council President walking towards me looking confident and smug.
"Come to beg me to end this bet?" I ask as she approaches causing her to growl lightly again, is this girl a cat pretending to be a person? Even the cat, my grandmothers, owned didn't growl as much as her.
"No, I was hoping to find that you have come to your senses, that you are ready to bow down to me and admit defeat," She says sounding like she's queen of the world. "But clearly a gaijin like you is too stupid to recognize that she is beaten."
"Well a gaijin like me is about to prove you wrong," I tell her. "We will win this bet, and you are going to accept this club."
"We will see about that," She replies as she walks off, but before she leaves us, she menacingly adds. "Good luck."
The match is about to begin; our teams stand ready on the felid of battle. Most of the battle area is covered with trees as a vast forest takes up most of the arena, several small streams cut through the trees dividing up the space. Nothing to worry about, the forest isn't thick enough to stop our tanks, and the streams aren't that deep so we can drive right through them. I like this area; it's easy to hide in and set up an ambush. As long as we are careful we can use this area to our advantage; I can only hope the enemy doesn't ambush us first.
I look down at my crew to see them all shaking as their excitement wears off and their nervousness takes them over, I've seen it before with new members and experienced it myself when I first started. It's a horrible feeling, knowing any second that someone could shoot you. The tank armor has been strengthened, and the shells we fire aren't as powerful as the real shells fired by the military but it's still frightening even I still feel a little nervous, experience is the best way to cure their fear so hopefully after today if we win that fear will start to disappear.
"Don't worry," I tell everyone in my tank. "I've been doing this for years and the worst injury I have seen is a few cuts and bruises" That's a lie, the worst injury I have seen is a broken arm. But that was the injured person's own fault; he was showing off and throw his arm out of the tank's hatch at the wrong time. One low branch, a speeding tank and that's all it took. I can't tell them that though, I need them calm for the match. My reassurance seems to be working, I can see everyone start to calm down, and I can barely notice their shaking. "They wouldn't let us do this if it wasn't safe."
"We know that but…" Yura says fiddling with her shirt. "But I still can't help but imagine it."
"I know, everyone does at first," I gently reply putting a hand on her should. "I still do, it gets easy, but you will think that every time. Only the crazy won't think that."
"Match start," The announcer calls out, I feel a smile form on my lips as I hear those word. Let's do this, let's win this and keep the team. I pick up the radio so the other two tanks can her me.
"All tanks move out," I order as the engines of our tanks roar into life. "Follow our lead and keep an eye out for the enemy, this terrain means they can easily ambush us."
I feel our tank start to move forward gentle picking up the pace until we reach a nice cursing speed, we head straight ahead straight for the woods in front of us. It's easy to swerve around the trees, and the small bumps and the hills pose no problems for us, our tanks just keep advancing no mater wants in front of us. After a few minutes I order a turn to the left, our team's lack of experience shows here. I stand so I am half out of the hatch and look to see our messy turn, both the Crusaders fall out of formation with the lead tank, and our tank nearly crashes into a large oak tree only missing it by breaking hard and coming to a halt less than a meter away.
I sigh as we move back into formation, this mess up cost us time, and with the noise, we made correcting it may have given away our position. At least we recover quickly; I can only hope we make it there in time. There's a hill in the center of the battle area, and if we can get there before the enemy, then we can snipe them before we come into range of their guns. But now they might reach that hill first or move out of range of it so the position will be useless to us, I can only hope we make it in time, and my plan can still work.
"I can see something on the left," The Crusader on the left calls out, I look right away but can't see anything.
"Where a bout's on the left?" I ask still looking to see what their tank saw.
"By the willow tree, I saw something flash like the sun hitting metal," The same person answers, I train my vision on that tree and see it. Like she said it's a flash of metal being hit by sunlight, but something about it seems odd, it looks like.
"Enemy tank on the left! Crusader One take it out!" I shout as I see a barrel of a gun sticking out of the bushes. "Crusader Two scan the right, Yura scan the front."
I watch the Crusader fire but they miss, their shell smashes into the trunk of the willow tree covering the enemy tank with bark but failing to do any damage. Then I see a flash as the enemy tank returns fire blowing the tracks off of my tank, my tank grind to a halt and the two Crusaders stop beside us. Then more shells rain down on us, all miss, but they shake the ground and kick dirt up into the sky. Now I see we have been ambushed; all fire enemy tanks emerge from the bushes. They have us surrounded and are moving in for the kill; they have us at their mercy.
The ground shakes as shells start to land all around us, even inside my tank I can fell the vibrations caused by the impacting shells. All around me my crew is scared. I can see it in their eyes when they look at me waiting to be told want to do next, I can see it as their bodies shake when they are completing the orders I give, and I can hear it in their voices as they talk. This is their first match, their first battle, I didn't have enough time to prep them for it I needed more time. But she wouldn't allow it, for some reason that girl is hell bent on stopping me from reforming the Sensha-do team. But I can't think of that now. I need to get my team through this match.
Another shell hits us, this one glances off our armor, but the horrible sound of metal on metal sends a screech through the tank that makes everyone stop and cover their ears. We can't stop firing, we can't move, and we are outnumbered. What do we do? How can we get out of this? "Come one you're supposed to be the leader of this team" I quietly remind myself as I think. What do we do?
"Return fire, all tanks fire at will!" I quickly shout out as more shells land around us, we all open fire but all miss. "Stay calm we can do this, they aren't close enough yet to knock us out. We can knock them out, all we have to do is knock them out before they close in and take us out."
"Crusader on took a hit!" Someone calls out. "They lost their track too but can still fire!"
"Stay calm," I calmly tell everyone making sure my radio is on so the other team can hear me. "If we stay calm and don't panic we can do this; the enemy is right here in front of us so we can take them out and win this." We fire again this time Yuri hits one of their 7TP's and knocking it out getting a round of cheering from our crew. "Good shot," I tell her before speaking to the rest of the team. "See that? We can bet them, that's one down. We still have four to go but we can do this, we can win this so don't give up."
We fire again missing all but one of our shoots which blows the tracks off of the 10TP, great their best tank is disabled, and its weapon can't touch us at this range. We fire again just as more shells hit us sending more screeches as the round glance off of our armor. I can never get used to that sound and always hated it. We fire and fire and fire some more, most of our shoots mess but we take out the tracks of another 7TP and take out the 10TP. Three on three, we can do this.
The enemy tanks keep charging like berserkers knowing they can only hit us at close range; they fire wildly as they charge. They must be pushing their tanks to the limit because the smoke from their engines is thick and the dirt they kick up starting to paint the jungle with its color, come on if they keep this up they will be right up on us and able to take us out. I order my tanks to fire at the two charging tanks and to ignore the damaged one, that's no threat to us at this range. The ones charging is the real threat, the damage they will do if they close the distance could cost us the match. So I order my whole team to fire on them, all three of our tanks fire at once at the closest enemy tank. Surprisingly all three of us hit the tank; our shells hit it with such a combined force that the tank actually moves back despite the speed it was charging towards us with. One down one to go. The last mobile enemy tank fires and we fire back; our shell hits the 7TP's turret knocking it out leaving only one disabled enemy tank left.
"Crusader Two is hit," The tank commander of that take reports. "Our guns been taken out but we are fine, my glasses broke, but we are unharmed."
"Good, sorry about your glasses but at least you are unharmed," I reply before I look over to the enemy tank and shout. "Do you want to call the match here, I don't think you can win at that range." I get an answer with the thunder of a gunshot, their shell harmlessly bounces off of my tanks armor, but their reply is clear. "We will not surrender!" I have to admit I admire and respect that crew, very few people will carry on fighting in their situation. "Yura take them out they aren't giving up."
"Ok," Yura says as she starts to aim the gun, she fires, and I watch the round hit the enemy tank in the turret knocking it out.
"Good shooting," I said patting her on the back as I sink down onto the commander's seat.
"Match over, winner Koala Forest High School," The announcer announces being an end to the battle and causing our whole team to cheer and hug each other.
"Good job everyone," I say over the radio before I join in the celebration.
Yura and I are watching the tanks as they are towed back to the ship for repairs, each of them showing the scares of the battle as their beautiful new paint job is scratched and chipped. I hope the art club won't kill us for wreaking their hard or, or for asking them to do it again so soon. This battle was hard fought and well won, the enemy put up a good fight and opposed us to the last tank. They may have had weak guns and armor but they really came at us hard and had me worried that they could beat us at one point, I can't help but respect them for doing so well with so little.
I smile as we watch the tanks head off on their journey back to the ship, we won and got to keep our team. But someone I know won't be happy and as if on cue I feel a chill run down my spine which is becoming all too family. I turn round to see the Student Council President storming towards us looking really mad.
"I hope you are happy," She says staring daggers of hatred into my eyes. "You won the right to have your team."
"And you won't interfere?" I ask making sure I hear she will keep up her end of the bargain.
"Of course a deals a deal," She says sounding as if the words leaving her mouth is going to make her sick. "But if you bring any more dishonor to the team as the last members did then I will make your life a living hell."
With that, she storms off not giving me a chance to reply, Yura and I just look at each other, and all I can think of to say is. "I guess we have to keep on winning."
"And become like our ships name," Yura replies with a smile. "Invincible."
"Invincible, that will be good," I say as girls from our school suddenly surround us, I look over the crowd and see about ten girls before I calmly and kindly ask them. "Can I help you?"
"We want to join the Sensha-dou team," One of them says.
"Yeah you guys were so cool out there," Another says.
"More than cool!" Someone shouts out.
"Welcome to the team," I say, I can tell with these new members we will go far this year. With this, our team can grow, and we can compete without being outnumbered, we can do well in the Sensha-dou tournament. We may not win, but we can do well and have fun, that's the most essential part having fun.
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Just to let you know about the school I am using in this story, Koala Forest High School.
Their name appears on the team roster during the competition. Their team captain drew 2 as their position. Koala Forest High is likely an Australian and/or New Zealand themed school and would likely use a mix of US and British tanks. Koala Forest Academy: Australia themed academy; defeated by Viking Marine in the first round. Their ship's name is Invincible.
I plan to have the school continue to use tanks from Britain and America.
I hope you enjoy, please favourite, follow and review so I know what is going wrong with this story and what is going right.