Next morning


-Ring-RRing- RRRing-RRRRin-Click!-

"Hello? Yes this is the student president of Oarai High school. How may I help you?"

"Oh. So you Challenge us huh? Well we never back down from a challenge! We accept!"

-Clack!-


"Mako!" Miho called off the list of attendance for the tankery team.

"Hai." Mako replied tiredly as she slumped on the shoulder of the student next to her.

"Alex!" Miho called out next as she checked the list.

"..."

"Alex?!" she called again, getting annoyed.

"..."

"Has anyone seen him?" she finally asked as the girls popped out of their tanks and looked at her.

"Nope!"

"Uh-uh!"

"He might be in the shed." she finally concluded and walked around the corner of the tankery shed with the rest of them in tow. As they rounded the corner they saw smoke belching from the leaning chimney on the brick shed.

"That has to be an really big fire to produce that much smoke." Hana observed as Miho grabbed the handle to one of the large doors and heaved it open before gasping at what she saw. A large, charcoal black, steam locomotive sat simmering at full pressure before them, with a large black tender and long boxcar behind it that matched. Then, Miho heard a groan and snore from the top of the engine.

"Found him!" Mako called from the side and waved them to the side. Alex sat on the boiler with his hand wrapped around the shiny brass whistle fast asleep.

"Apparently he has been here all night. How are we going to wake him?" Miho wondered aloud as Mako climbed into the cab and stared in confusion at the wall of gages and levers, before yelling, "We'll move him into the sun."

As Mako looked at the bank in front of her, she spotted a red pull cord hanging from the ceiling and yanked it down. A deafening scream rang from the whistle, and Alex jolted awake.

"Huh?! What-?! Is-?!" he stuttered as he Looked about wildly.

"Is this the surprise you had for us?" Miho asked him as he slowly climbed down from his perch and she noticed the name stenciled onto the side: Dragon.

"Yeah." he said with a hint of embarrassment. " A world war two armored train, named Dragon." he replied as he climbed into the cab and shoved one of the levers forward on the bank. Steam hissed from the sides as the engine slowly lumbered out into the sun and tow the line up of tanks.

"How are you able to control where it goes, there is no track? " Miho asked him suspiciously when the train came to a stop and he climbed out.

"That is a very good question, but I know a saying that will answer it. 'Don't question how it works, only know that it works.'" he answered as he walked over to the line of tank captains.

Miho stared at him with a hint of annoyance and envy before explaining to them, "Today we are doing a mock elimination battle in preparation for a battle against St. Gloria school of tankery. We will be split up under two teams, one controlled by Erwin and the other by me."

"When you here your tank called, get into it and move it to the appropriate starting point." Erwin told them.

"Leopon, duck, and rabbit your with me, the rest are with Erwin." Miho said as they ran to their tanks.


Twenty minutes later: Erwin's team

Alex stopped beside the Aus. 111 and the other tanks with a quiet squeal.

"Dragon in position." he radioed and bowed to begin the match. All the tanks lurched forward at full speed as Alex fell behind and turned in the opposite direction.

"I'm good at long range sniping attacks, I'll go and find a spot to help you." he radioed back as Erwin asked through the set why he turned around.

'He better be good.' Erwin thought as they rumbled along and stopped on a low rise.


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