Thank you to Theralion for posting this story's first review! I admit, I was a bit nervous when I read his/her review.

OverwatchTrooper12: If you think this story is too similar to yours, I will take it off. I didn't see your story, how could I have missed it? Blah, I have such bad eyesight. :P I read your story, so I will not make these alike. I understand if you want this off, just tell me.

About the Panther: That will be explained later. And by the way, yes, the Panther is heavily armored, but it fought against T-34's and M4 Sherman's in WWII, not other Panthers.


Chapter 2

Blitzkrieg!

"Éclair, this is Fondue," came a voice over the radio of the Somua S35.

"What?" Éclair, commander of the Maginot Tankery team, asked.

"There's some news that I just received. I need to talk to you after practice," was the reply.

"Is it more paperwork? It better not be," Éclair warned.

"No, it's not paperwork," Fondue said from her B1.

After practice, Éclair met Fondue outside the school.

"As you know, Oarai, the school that fought against Black Forest Peak, has recently closed," Fondue began. Éclair nodded.

"Well, one of their students didn't want to go to Black Forest. So, she signed up here, at Maginot," Fondue continued.

"What is her name?" Éclair questioned.

"Deiji Kawashi," Fondue stated. "She isn't on the tankery team, she was planning to join next year at Oarai. But since Oarai technically doesn't exist anymore, she transferred here. She wants to join our Tankery team."

"What is she good at?" Éclair asked.

"Uh, it says here that she's a good shot," Fondue said, pointing at a sheet of paper.

"Hmm. Maybe she can be the gunner for one of the B1's. I don't know yet," Éclair stated.

"One more thing," Fondue said. "Kuromorimine wants us to join them, as one school."

This made Éclair laugh. "As in combine schools?"

"Yes," Fondue nodded.

"That's very funny," she said. "But, no. As much as I think the Nishizumi way is fine, I'm not combining with anybody!"

"I'll send them the message then. Thanks for your time, commander," Fondue nodded.

As Éclair walked back to the dorms, she whistled the Marseillaise.


"Mrs. Nishizumi, this is Riri," Riri said into the phone. "Maginot has turned our offer down. What do we do?"

"Nothing. We will challenge Bonple first. They will not win against us, and it will give our recruits some time to adjust to our way of Tankery."

"What do we do if we beat Bonple?" Riri asked.

"We take over, and show them the Nishizumi way. Then we'll teach Maginot a lesson."

"I like this plan," an evil smile crept up Riri's face.

Miho dreaded meeting her mother on the Kuromorimine ship. She was dragging her feet through the grass.

She knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" It was Kikyuo.

"It's Miho," Miho said.

The door opened. "Come in, Miho-sama," Kikyuo said. "Madam, Miho-sama is home!"

Shiho Nishizumi came down the steps. Her demeanor was calm, but also terrifying. Miho however, didn't flinch.

"Miho," Shiho stated flatly.

"Yes, Mother?" Miho asked.

"Sit down, we need to talk."


"We're having a match against Bonple," Jagdpanther-chan said to Akio. "I heard that Bonple isn't prepared."

"I've never heard of that," Erwin stated. Akio leaned on his crutches.

"When is it?" he asked.

"Tomorrow," Jagdpanther-chan said.

"WHAT?!" Erwin and Akio exclaimed at once.

"Shh!" Jagdpanther-chan said forcefully. "I'm not supposed to be telling you all this!"

"Why?"

"No idea," Jagdpanther-chan said. "And by the way, I'm sorry, Akio."

"And why would you be sorry?" Akio raised an eyebrow.

"For the finals," she said. "I should've stopped the Panther from firing."

"By the way, why didn't the Panther stop shooting?" Erwin asked.

"We are taught to never stop shooting until the flag rises," Jagdpanther-chan sighed.

Akio clenched his fists. Or, he tried to. He was, after all, holding crutches.

"I'm not fighting against Bonple," he stated.

"But, then your team will be two crewmembers down. And uh, the instructor said that everybody had to participate," Jagdpanther-chan said nervously.

Akio groaned. "Who's my new gunner?"

"That would be her," Riri said, walking up from behind them. She was pointing at Erwin.

"Okay, so, Ritaiko, may I have a word with you?"

"Oh, sure," Jagdpanther-chan said nervously. "What is it?"

"I'm sure that you are aware of the death of one of the Oarai tankers?" Riri asked.

"Yes, I was just talking to the commander," Jagdpanther-chan said.

"Well, the Oarai Automotive club found that the surrender mechanism had been damaged. They would like to know who had damaged it," Riri continued.

"The Panther that was with us. It was yours, I might add," Jagdpanther-chan said.

"Hmm," Riri nodded. "Clever little girl."

Jagdpanther-chan rolled her eyes. She was shorter than herself.

"But, I have been given specific instructions to turn somebody in. And, I am not about to turn myself in, since I am the SC President at Oarai. Also, I was given specific instructions from Mrs. Nishizumi. If Oarai were to find out, we would be in trouble for not ceasing fire," Riri said, turning her back on Jagdpanther-chan.

"Wait, you aren't suggesting-"

"I am very much suggesting that." Riri clapped her hands.

Within seconds, Jagdpanther-chan found herself surrounded by five Safety Sentinels (S.S.). There was nowhere to run.

"Lock her up. I'll deal with her later," Riri said.

The S.S. girls dragged Jagdpanther-chan away.


The next day, everybody was wondering about Jagdpanther-chan's disappearance. However, they had to get ready for the match.

When the tanks were matched up, it was clear who had the advantage. Kuromorimine's line up consisted of Akio's Panther and two others, Maho's Tiger, Miho's Panzer IV, the StuG, which had a new crew member, and four Panzer III's.

Bonple's line up was two 10TP's, two 7TP's, and six TK3 tankettes. They weren't even close.

"Commanders, shake hands!" the announcer ordered.

When the match started, Maho's plan was to go into an all-out attack on the Bonple formations. Two Panzer III's spotted a 7TP and a TK3 sitting on a ridge.

"Everybody, fire!" Maho ordered.

Cannon fire filled the air. When the smoke cleared, the TK3 had been knocked over, and a Black Forest Panzer III was smoking.

"How did one of our Panzer III's get taken out?" Yukari asked. Miho didn't say anything, but just stared ahead.

No one noticed Akio smiling.

"Scratch one Panzer III!" he said.

"Why did we shoot it?" Erwin asked.

"For mayhem," Akio said.

The Panther lurched forward. Suddenly, five TK3's broke out of the tree line to Kuromorimine's left. The tanks racked their machine guns. Each stopped behind a tank.

Akio took advantage of this. He wasn't going to fight for Kuromorimine, but was going to fight against them. His crew had agreed. After all, they had caused Kento's death. Erwin just went along with it. This was a perfect friendly fire opportunity.

"Take out the Panther to our left!" Akio ordered.

BOOM!

The Panther beside them erupted into flames. Akio grinned.

Suddenly, the crew hatch one of the TK3's opened, and a girl with a Panzerfaust climbed out. She slammed it into the rear of another Panther, taking it out. She climbed back in, and the TK3 was off again.

However, the Panzer III's knocked out every TK3, but also took losses. When the smoke cleared, only one Panzer III remained, one Panther, the Tiger, and a Panzer IV. The StuG had thrown a track.

Erwin radioed the StuG.

"Is everyone okay?" she asked.

"We're fine," came Caesar's voice. "I don't like the new Commandant though."

"Shh," Erwin whispered. "Don't say that."

The rest of the match was pretty much clean up. The flag 10TP was knocked out, and Kuromorimine took over Bonple just like it had with Oarai.

Akio sighed. He could tell that this was going to be a rampage.


In the stands, Éclair just stared at the screen, Fondue at herside.

"Get the teams together. I have a feeling that we're next," Éclair ordered.

"Excuse me, my dear," came a voice from behind them.

Éclair and Fondue whirled around. Darjeeling was standing there. She smiled.

"We can help you, if you would like," Darjeeling said.

"We are not combining schools, if that's what you're suggesting," Éclair said.

"No, we just would like to assist you against Kuromorimine," Darjeeling said.

"We need all the help we can get," Fondue said.

Éclair nodded, turning to Darjeeling. The latter held out a teacup.

"Tea?" she asked.

"No thanks to the tea, but we accept your offer," Éclair said.


Notes: Once again, OverWatchTrooper12, if you don't want this story here, I will take it off.

Maho and Miho's relationship in this will be shown.

About the actual realisticness (If there is such word, which I think there isn't) of this story, as in the government prohibiting this, I'm not going to include that. Sorry! The Nazi theme. Well, we can't control what the school is themed after, right?

About the single-gender thing at Kuromorimine (did I spell that right?): I'll probably get Shiho Nishizumi to try to send Akio and his crew away. Oh wait, spoiler! Blah, whatever.

I will post a one-shot about how the boys got thrown into tankery at Oarai.

Thanks again to Theralion, who gave me a heart attack when I saw the review.