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IMPROVED CHAPTER ONE

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Story Start.

Miho Nishizumi sighed to herself as she trailed behind her new friends. She was mildly upset that she'd been forced to take up Tankery(Tank Combat Arts) again but it was either that or she and new friends would've been expelled.

"Oh this is sooo exciting!" Saori cheered excitedly as she led her little group behind the student council members. Miho didn't think that this was going to be as fun as Saori was hoping but she keep quiet, not wanting to spoil it for the girl who had stuck up for her when the student council had strong armed her into joining the team.

Walking beside Saori was her friend Hana, who was watch the auburn haired girl practically bouncing along as they approached the old Oarai Tankery Team hangers with quiet amusement.

After a few moments of the girls arrived at a large, warehouse looking building that was slightly rundown and assembled into groups. There was a group of six nervous freshmen looking around and chatty quietly to themselves. Four girls in volleyball gear. Four girls wearing an odd assortment of cloths that Saori told Miho was the history club. The three girls from the student council and Miho and her new friends. Miho felt that here had been an increase in that air pressure with all the nervous energy that the twenty green and white uniformed(red and white for the volleyball team) girls were giving off, and it only got worse when a tall brown haired girl with a monocle step out from the student council and got everyone's attention.

"Alright everyone listen up!" Momo yelled before stopping for a moment to adjust her monocle then continuing in a calmer voice. "I would like to start this off by thanking you all for deciding to join the Oarai Tankery Team. That said this won't be easy as we, the student council, have confirmed that when the team was disbanded twenty years age the school board sold off a lot of the teams equipment to pay off debts" here Momo and just about everyone else cringed at the thought of basically having to start from scratch. "So we are going to spend today organizing what we DO have before we start looking for replacements for what's missing" with that said Momo pulled a large key from her pocket and inserted it into an equally large padlock in a chain around the nearest set of bay doors. With muted click the lock opened allowing Momo to remove it and the chain from the doors and the other two student council members pushed the doors open.

The assembled girls slowly filed into the warehouse with some trepidation of what they might find. Anzu rummaged around for a moment before she managed to find the light switch and turn on the lights, and even then only about a third of the lights in the building worked. Those lights that did work bathed the interior of the building in a soft light, revealing the various different work bays with the selves and tables and is a couple of cases heavy equipment.

But aside from a couple of laves and a band saw all but one of the work areas were empty.

The one bay that did have something in it was home to a tank that Miho didn't recognize. Its hull was only about four and a half feet tall at the turret ring and seven feet wide. The one track that was still attached was twelve inches wide and each link had a thick rubber pad in the center. The front of the tank had two distinct ridges in it over where Miho though the driver and radio operator sat and was sloped at forty five degrees; but at the moment all she could see were two large holes with hinges along the bottom edges showing that they were the hatches those two crew members.

The turret was positioned so that its front edge was just an inch behind the start of the front slope. It was about four feet high and five feet from side to side; and Miho suspected that it was the same front to back with clipped front corners. There was a two foot by eighteen inch hole in the front of the turret that Miho know was for mounting the main gun. From the empty gun mount a distinct six inch high two foot wide ridge ran all the way to the back of the turret with only a pair of hatches at the back being at the same level. Both of the turret's hatches were open with the one on the left opening to the front and having five periscopes with one facing forwards, two to the left side, one to the rear and one in the center of the hatch cover. The hatch on the right had the same setup but opened to the rear and was oriented to the right with larger periscopes. It also had a heavy A-frame that was incorporated into the hatch ring and could spin as well.

Miho walked to the side of the tank to get a better look at its rear and noticed that she'd been a little off about the turret. Its was indeed longer then it was wide with a two foot long by two foot tall by four feet wide box built mid-way up the centerline of the rear of the turret. There were also connection points for both a bustle box and an equipment rack.

The back of the tank gently sloped down from the turret to the rear. About halfway down the slope of the rear hull the engine deck spilt to form a pair of doors which were presently open; Miho stuck her head into the open compartment to discover that this was the engine compartment, that the space between it and the turret was take up by fuel tanks and that the stern of the tank acted as a door as well, offering easy access to the engine for maintenance. Not that the engine was in the tank at the moment.

As Miho was examining the rear of the unknown tank she noticed a pair of benches farther back into the tank's bay that were covered in tarps as well as a large tarp covered lump. The lump turned out to be the tank's missing engine and on a hunch she checked the two tables and found the tank's other missing equipment on the first table.

The second table held the tank's armament. Two M1919 Browning 30-caliber machine guns sat assembled and ready for work along with a 'Ma Deuce' M2 50-caliber monster, which surprised Miho; most of the schools that did tankery didn't bother with the M2 as it was mostly used as a Tank Commander's weapon and most commanders didn't stick their heads out of their tanks daring matches; Heck most teams didn't bother with their machine guns at all.

Next to the three machine guns was a cannon that was setup in the usual tanker's quick fire style, though that was about as far as Miho could get with the gun because she didn't recognize it either.

Miho would have liked to examine this strange tank a little bit more as it was awakening a part of her that she had closed of since she had left her old school, but a shout from Momo got Miho's attention and she quickly walked back to where the rest of the girls were gathering.

"So how'd it go?" Momo asked forcefully as she adjusted her monocle.

"No good" one of the first years started.

"All the other bays are empty, there aren't anymore tanks in the building" another finished.

"We thought as much, the school board most have sold them off over the years to supplement the Oarai upkeep costs" Anzu grumbled before she brightened a bit "But don't worry about that."

"How can we not worry about that? We can't do tankery if we don't have any tanks" a girl with blond hair and wearing a 1940's German office's hat and coat ask.

"Most schools don't bother with it but students can build their own tanks as long as they pass a safety inspection, and don't use any technology that's newer then nineteen fifty five. Most of the other schools just take the easy way out and use world war two tanks or their replicas because it's easier. We would've done that to but we haven't been able to scrounge up enough funds for to get anything other then worn-out Crusaders or Japanese and Italian coffins" Momo mopped before she turned to the assembled tanker want-a-bees with a glare.

"We were able to get enough money to get two hundred tons of raw materials and equipment, and since we need five tanks that gives us fifty tons per tank."

"Thirty tons" Anzu corrected "without the authorization of the student council. That leaves us with eighty tons for upgrades, new designs and incoming teams." Momo nodded her head in agreement before continuing. "From here we're going to check the hold that was used to store parts and supplies for the tankery team before it was disbanded and see if there anything left. Then I'll give each team a laptop with a program on it so you can design your tanks. The equipment we ordered to help us build the tanks quickly will be here in three days. The design of your tank had better be ready in four or less."

"How are we going to decide who's on which team?" Saori asked while giving Hana and Miho a sideways look.

"Stay with the people you came with or the club you were in before" Anzu answered easily; before she and the rest of the student council turn and started hiking to the storage holds of the ship.

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Miho lay in her bed at the end of the day thinking of all that had happened in the last few hours.

A check of the storage hold showed what she and most of the other girls had suspected but hope wasn't true. Almost everything of value had been sold off over the years with only a pair of five hundred horsepower radial engines and a single German 7.5cm kwk L48 cannon remaining. There had been a large number of fifty and thirty caliber Browning machine guns, but these were of limited usefulness in a tankery battle. In addition to the previous there was also a supply of Oarai designed and produced two hundred fifthy and three hundred horsepower diesel engines, along with thirty more of the gun she'd seen with the little mystery tank; which according to the information printed on the side of the crates they came in were designated O.T.C. 4.5cm BL 45's. There were also a half dozen that were the same basic gun but with a longer sixty caliber barrel and four O.T.C. 6.0cm BL 45's and plenty of ammunition. Miho figured that even if she only used Oarai designed parts she should be able to design a good starting tank for her and her crew.

Thinking of her crew reminded Miho that it had expanded by one. A Yukari Akiyama had joined the crew after Miho had caught her following them as walked to the to the team's storage hold. Yukari was a self proclaimed ultra tankery fan and tank nut, and from the way she acted Miho thought that Yukari might also be her first fan girl, which had Miho wondering if she should get a taser to protect herself or a collar and leash to keep the girl out of trouble.

But all that was in the past now and tomorrow she and the rest of her crew had to design a tank. The last thing that the new tankery teams had done was to draw lots on which team would get which of the good pieces of equipment or the completed tank. The student council had won the tank but Miho thought that they had gotten the short end of that stick. Miho could feel a smile pulling at her lips as she started to drift off to sleep; her team had gotten something good out of the raffle and she intended to make the most out of it.

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Chapter End.

Thank you for reading and as always please leave a review. For those of you waiting for the next Strike Wizard chapter; working on it but the plot squirrels want leave me alone and someone gave them all triple military grade mochas so please continue to show your epic patience, it will be out as soon as possible.

P.S. if you wish to discuss this story then please check out the Gear Heads Garage and I'll be putting up a poll to see what parts the different teams get if at all. I may not do what the poll says as I already know what I'm going to do with the Rabbit team but I will take your opinions into account.