The World Championships

Chapter 4: Training Regime, Unexpected Visitors...And a problem...

For Miho and Yukari, keeping up with the British was hard, it was nothing at all like their friends had said. The British had obviously been training harder and harder over the years...Some could attribute this to the British Economy almost buckling and the cutbacks on its military...But they worked VERY hard.

For being the most technologically advanced army in the world (from what they remembered reading) they certainly deserved respect.

When Miho's tank column, made up off 5 Challenger two tanks, took a moment to rest. Miho couldn't be more thankful. She took the drink that she was offered, then was offered a second one because she drank the first one so quickly.

A massive roaring noise encouraged her to turn her head skyward and she smiled when she saw her girlfriend in the skies...Or at least the squadron she was apart off. They were working so hard...Moving at speed...VERY fast speed...

Miho winced when she heard one of the sergeant's shouting at Yukari's aircraft for getting too close. 'That's not her fault...She's not used to your way of doing things is all'

"Alright. All units will report to the base for the next exercise! MOVE IT! MOVE LIKE YOU HAVE A PURPOSE!"

Miho instantly dropped into the tank she was apart off. Closing its hatch as she did so. It had 4 people inside it (including herself). She was the commander, she had a female driver and two male guys for the radio and loading stations.

"Move us back to base please."

The other three looked to her with smiles on their faces, which instantly made her start to fluster.

"We may speak broken Japanese...Forgive us...But...Don't say please and try to English...Okay is it?" The loader asked her in his best version of the Japanese he had learnt.

She nodded. "Ok...I will try." Miho said in English and began to communicate with her colleagues in English, the more she chatted to them...The more she began to understand them...and their stories were just as fascinating as her own.

When the tanks got back to base, the aircraft began to land as well.

When Yukari got out of her Hawk, she felt her legs begin to wobble and thankfully Miho caught her before she hit the dirt.

"That plane...Damn...Hard to control..."

Miho nodded. "I know what you mean." She smiled when Yukari looked at her in shock for using English words. "Miho?" Miho began to giggle nervously as the pair headed inside the base for some downtime. "I was asked to use English...Its easier to talk to them this way..." She smirked evily which made Yukari gulp nervously. "I can always use Japanese for you!" She began to tickle Yukari which made the younger girl begin to whittle and yelp in laughter.

"Are we interrupting something?"

The pair stopped and looked to General Mortimer and a Lieutenant by the name of Alexander.

Alexander looked Yukari up and down while the General kept his focus on Miho. "The Championships start in around 8 months from now. Think you can handle the training, based on what you have experienced so far?" Miho nodded with a salute. "Yes, sir!" The general returned it and nodded at Alex. "Be nice." He said with a very authoritative tone in his voice.

Alexander growled when the general had left and turned back to Yukari. "So, you are the new fly-girl are you?" He glared at her.

Yukari nodded. "Yeah...What of it?" She returned his glare.

"You've got no flight experience...Hell-"Alex scoffed. "I don't know how you even got here...But I'm not going to make it easy for you. You can count on that."

"And I'm not going to make it easy for you to insult her girlfriend and get away with it."

Alex turned his sights to a Commander by the name of Martin Rogers. "What do you want now Rogers?"

Martin smiled with a look that said, 'Just try it'. "You degraid or hurt either of these two...I'll be the one writing the report. You need the military right?"

Alex growled as he walked off, not saying much other then slight mutters under his breath.

Within seconds the base siren went off. Every single military soldier raced to their relevant posts.

Miho looked to Yukari and the pair looked to Martin in panic. "To your relevant stations! I take it your in the Tank command?" Miho nodded. "GET TO YOUR TANK. YOU, YOUR PLANE! MOVE IT!"

Just as Miho and Yukari went outside, and Yukari got into her aircraft, and Miho in her tank, they saw planes heading their way...Problem was...

They were from Japan...The plane at the back of a huge squadron of over 40 planes, Yukari almost recognized in seconds.

As Yukari took off into the skies, she was now in a Eurofighter because there was no Hawk's left, her eyes widened as she saw just what she didn't want too see.

"Yukari? What are you seeing? Talk to me...Please honey, talk to me"

Yukari began to stutter but calmed down and spoke back to Miho, who had demanded to speak to her. "The plane at the back...Its carrying something dangerous..."

"What is it?"

Yukari gulped.

"A nuclear device."

[To be Continued...Sorry for the short length! I'll try to make the next one longer!]