Short Chapter, briding the arrival of our German time travelers and meeting the rest of the Oarrai shensado team. I'm not sure about the date I wanna use in the GUP universe so I'm setting it in the 2020's to give me some breathing room. By the way this story uses our historical timeline fused with the GUP universe. Reason I have to say this is the Panthers OCs come from an alternative history book were the war started in 1938 in Czechoslovakia and not in Poland in 39. So I don't own GUP and the Panthers OCS obvisouly. By the way any help with any language I write in is appreciated. Shout out to BUND3SW3HR for helping correct my Butchering of the German Language. Back to the story.

Chapter 2: First contact

Oarai Girls High School Ship, June 23rd 2022

Things couldn't have gotten worse for the girls of Mallard, Leopon, and Anteater teams. First they were divided into three platoons and sent out on maneuvers to practice communications and comradeship. Then they went down a muddy trail in which all of them got bogged down in the mud. Finally while all the other platoons made it back on time they were stuck in a clearing where the Tiger P had been detracked and had to wait for it to be repaired. To top it all off a surprise thunderstorm had passed over the ship and had further delayed their repairs of the Tiger P. Now those gray clouds seemed to be jamming their radios making calling for help impossible.

"Wonder whats with that surprise Thunderstorm. The forecast for today was supposed to be sunny all day," said a disgruntled Suzuki as she lifted the track back onto the road wheels. "Wouldn't be the first time the weatherman was wrong," replied Nakajima as she checked the Porsche Tigers transmission. Then a shout of frustration was heard and the whole crew turned a very pissed off Sodoko as she stomped over to their tank.

"This is outrageous we are so late! I can't stand being late!," cried Sodoko. "Chill would ya, the Tiger P will be fixed in a few minutes. Then we can head back," replied Nakajima At this Sodoko huffed and started walking back to her Char when she stopped and said "Does anyone else hear another engine?" At this everyone cocked their heads and they too heard another engine. "Could it be the others coming to check on us," suggested Nekota.

Then a Panther tank bursted into the clearing and stopped in the center of the clearing. "Whoa a Panther Ausf. G, when did we get one of those-" Nakajima said but stopped short when a man popped out of the commander's cupola. "Guten Tag Fräulein, warum haben Sie Mädchen Panzer? Wissen Sie außerdem, wo wir sind?," said the man. "Eh, Nani?," said Nakajima. Then Sodoko began to walk towards the unfamiliar Panzer. "Just what are you MEN doing in a tank on an all girls highsch-" she was then interrupted by the bow machine gun bursting to life and drawing a line of bullets in the ground before her. Sodoko was paralyzed by fear as the man held up his hand in front of him and said "Das ist Fräulein weit genug," The man then ducked into the turret and muted chatter could be heard.

The man than came out of the hatch and jumped to the ground. He was followed by a man who pointed the turret mounted dual MG-42 towards them and pulled back both their charging handles. Another man popped out of the radio operator's hatch to get a better view for firing the hull mounted machine gun and the main gun dropped down until the group of girls could look down the barrel to the awaiting shell. The man who appeared to be the commander then approached the group and it was then they noticed he was wearing a WW2 era panzer corps uniform.

Clearing Same time

As Herman approached the now frozen stiff girl a whirlwind of thoughts were going through his head. First, these appeared to be Japanese school girls due to the fact they seemed to speak Japanese, looked to be Pre-teens or teenagers, and were wearing what appeared to be school uniforms. Second, they seemed to be the ones operating the tanks and seemed used to operating them. These facts led to the questions "Are we in Japan?", " Where did they get European panzers from?", and "Why are the panzers being driven by GIRLS?!" Herman was getting the feeling they were in deeper shit than they ever had gotten in before.

"I'll ask again Fräulein what are you doing with these tanks and were in hell are we?," said Herman in a more agitated and nervous voice than before. "Watashi wa anata ga nani o itteru no ka kentōgatsukanai! Watashi kara hanarete taizai shite kudasai!," replied the now retreating girl. "Answer me dammit!," Nearly begged Herman as he grabbed the girl's arm. "Tondemo arimasen - touch me!," said the girl as she ripped her arm away. "Eh, when did you start speaking German?," said a now confused Herman. "German? When did you start speaking Japanese?," said the now very confused girl. "Ack, I don't get it but this will work for now," said Herman as he facepalmed. "I need to make contact with your superior officer to discuss how we came to be here. Oh, since when has the imperial army let girls drive tanks and where did you get those european tanks from?," asked Herman as he raised an eyebrow. "We'll discuss that later. We're repaired so if you follow us to our sheds we will take you to our commander," said the girl who he guessed was the Tiger P's commander. "Wunderbar lead the way. We'll follow right behind you," said Herman with a smile as he walked back to his awaiting Panther.

"Follow them, their leading us back to their sheds and to their Kommandant," said Herman as Adi gunned the engine to follow the now advancing column of panzers. "Are we sure we can trust them?," said Lothar. " I'm not sure. It was funny that we could understand each other once we touched though. Anyway we'll follow them make contact with whoever is in charge and get to the bottom of what just happened," said Herman. " I just hope we also don't end up at the bottom of our own graves as well," said Theo. After this not a word was said as they followed the girls towards the sheds.

"Nakajima are you sure we can trust them?," asked a very ansy Sodoko over the radio. "I have no idea. They look like real soldiers and seemed to know their way around there way around their tank. Though why did he call us Japanese Imperial Army soldiers? The Imperial army was disbanded right after the war," said a nervous Nakajima. "You don't think they were real german soldiers though right?," said a pleading Sodoko. "Again don't know, hopefully Nishizumi-san will have some idea of what to do," replied Nakajima. At this the girls silently drove back through the city to the sheds with the unknown Panther right behind them.

Guten Tag Fräulein, warum haben Sie Mädchen Panzer? Wissen Sie außerdem, wo wir sind? - Good day Miss, why do you girls have tanks? Also, you know where we are?

Nani? - what?

Das ist Fräulein weit genug. - That is far enough Miss.

Fräulein - Miss

Watashi wa anata ga nani o itteru no ka kentōgatsukanai! Watashi kara hanarete taizai shite kudasai! - I have no idea what you're saying! Please stay away from me!

Tondemo arimasen - Don't you dare

Wunderbar - Wonderful

Kommandant - Commander