"Hey Yu-Chan, its time to wake up." said my roommate, Eru (L86), while gently shaking my shoulder.

I merely grumbled in response and sat up in my bed, rubbing the sleep from my eyes. I noticed that she had already changed into her uniform and was in the process of packing up her bag.

Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Ultimax 100 but most of my classmates call me Hyaku while my friends call me Yu. I am a magazine-fed light-machine gun (LMG) produced in Singapore, a small island city-state at the tip of South-East Asia. I have 2 sisters, Sar-21 and SR-88A. Both of them are students at Seishou Academy at some another part of Japan. Meanwhile, I'm attending school here at Suchiru Academy.

Speaking of which, I got up, made my bed, washed up, put on my uniform which has a slightly longer skirt than the others (I'll get to that later), grabbed my school bag along with a black bag holding my other barrel and a few other parts and headed out with Eru.

"So what's the first lesson after morning practice?" I asked her, barely able to stifle my yawn.

"First one is either gun maintenance theory or maths." she replied back. She seems down, I thought. Then again it could be the hot weather today. Kinda reminds me of home but with less humidity and from what I know, my British friend here comes from a cold and wet country. As we walked towards the middle school compound, we were greeted by an energetic shout from behind.

"MORNING!" as we both turned around, a strange sight greeted us. We saw our American friend, Mk43 Mod 0 literally dragging our Belgian friend, FN Minimi, while ignoring her protests. I couldn't help but giggle at the sight along with Eru. Nimi (FN Minimi) was glaring at Yonjusan (MK43).

"What was that for?" Nimi asked while trying her best to straighten her uniform.

"You were too slow." Yonjusan cheekily replied as she began to walk towards the middle school compound with her hands placed behind her head, as was her usual pose even while walking. We then walked together to the entrance hall and took out our bulletproof vests each with our names on it (I'll explain later) and started towards the firing range. As we reached the range, I saw our instructor, MG42 or MG-sensei as we call her standing there with someone else I did not recognize along with some of our classmates.

"Who's that?" asked Yonjusan as she just stared at the girl. (We had already reached the range) We greeted MG-sensei and she then told us that the girl is a new student who will be joining out class. She encouraged the girl to introduce herself to us.

"M-my name is PKP Pecheneg. P-pleased to make y-your acquaintance." she stuttered follow by a rather deep bow. We were shocked at her introduction. A Russian weapon?! What was she doing here? Why isn't she enrolled into Red Steel Academy? Why does she not have a tail? And why does she look like as if we were going to attack at any moment? I looked at the others. Nimi looked shocked, Yonjusan seems to be biting her tongue and had a weird guilty look on her face but it was what Eru did at that moment that surprised me the most. Eru's just stood there looking at her and then all of a sudden she just stepped forward and hugged her.

"Relax, we won't hurt you or do anything mean. Right guys?" she said gently and she released her from her embrace. Wow, who knew Eru was the motherly type.

"Well, she seems nice enough. Hi, I'm Ultimax 100 but you can call me Yu. And these are my friends, FN Minimi and Mk43. " I said as I gestured towards my still shocked friends. Eru just smiled and nudged both Nimi and Yonjusan in the shoulders. This seemed to break the spell.

"Uh… hi." said both Nimi and Yonjusan in unison. They seem embarrassed, I thought. MG-sensei then asked us to start practice as the rest of the class arrived.

This looks like the start of a beautiful relationship, I thought as we sent bullets downrange.