Pizza Angels 6: Endings and beginnings
Red groaned as a persistent ringing noise interrupted his peaceful slumber. He groggily reached over and grabbed it; he had a good idea who it was.
"Hello? Red here."
"Red wake up", a stern voice said over the phone.
Red snapped to, throwing off the covers at the voice of his boss.
"Yessir I'm up!"
"Listen carefully", his boss said over the phone. He sounded rather terse today; probably not happy about one of his planes being grounded and having to pay for Red's hotel expenses on top of that.
"We're sending a crew over in the Hoplite ahead of us; they'll look over the plane and repair what they can before we bring in the zep. The locals aren't comfortable with having us around so we have to make this a quick visit. Be there to meet the crew when they arrive, we can't land the zep until the ship docks."
"Understood", Red responded in a professional matter. "What time should we expect them?"
"In a few hours", his boss responded. "Make sure you're there on time."
"Got it."
The boss hung up and Red placed his phone back on the dresser. He ran his hands over his face and looked around the modest hotel room. Aside from the double bed there was a small bathroom that lacked any kind of shower, a small dresser, a small T.V., and a coat hanger.
Sighing he patted the lump under the covers. "Time to get up."
There was a groan and the lump moved a bit, like a strange animal in a sack, until the covers finally slipped down to show Aria's tired face.
"Somehow I knew I would wake up with your hand on my ass", she mumbled. Her eyes indicated a lack of sleep and her hair was in a bad need of a comb. Her left shoulder was uncovered, and showed the orange strap of her bra.
"With one as nice as yours you should expect it more often. Now the boss just called and he wants us up to meet the repair crew when they get here in a few hours." Red stood up off the bed and began to dress himself.
Aria lazily looked at the clock and when she saw that it read 7:00 A.M, her eyes fell and she plopped back down on the pillow, covering herself up once again. "He's not my boss yet", she grumbled.
"But you want to make a good impression don't you", Red asked her. "He did agree to hire you after all." No reaction. "Aw come on Aria, when did you get so lazy?"
"Since I let you lay your horny hands on me", she grumbled back.
"Hey you were the one who asked to grind silk, not me", he retorted.
Grinding silk was a slang term in the War Games that referred to the most common form of physical intimacy amongst War Gamers, which involved all parties (keyword all, not just both), to keep their underwear on, although the girls would sometime remove their bra to go that extra mile, often referred to as going 'open topped' amongst other things.
When all parties removed all of their clothes, but avoided actually having sex, it was often called either 'Razor's Edge', or 'Back against the sea'. When the girl kept her shirt on but removed her bottoms, it was referred to (amongst pilots anyway) as going gear down. A girl wearing only a shirt and nothing else was its own kind of sexy.
"I've spent 2 years in an all-girls school and wasn't offered the luxury of fooling around during the summer, so I've had a lot of estrogen to release."
"Which I was happy to do for you; now please get up."
Aria grumbled, finally tossed off the covers and sat on the side of the bed. Red couldn't help but take a long glance at her.
Aria's bright-orange, frilly undies were very eye catching, and her perky B cups combined with her trim, yet fertile belly and leaned back posture made her look very alluring. Not to mention he knew how nice the other side was, having experienced plenty of it last night.
She got up off the bed then turned and bent down to retrieve her shirt which had ended up partly under the bed.
Unable to resist and feeling playful, despite the early hour, Red reached in and gave her bum a pinch, eliciting a yelp from her.
"Just checking to see if you're still ripe", she said with a smirk.
She cocked an eyebrow at him. "If you keep it up it'll be bruised, and so will you."
"I'll take my chances."
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Yukari sat at her desk, staring out the window as her teacher arrived to get on with the days lessons. The sun's friendly rays did little to soothe her troubled mind.
She was thinking about the sudden appearance of Anchovy and Carpaccio yesterday. What were they doing at Ooarai? Even more surprising was Carpaccio's confession that she was a War Gamer and fighter pilot like Red. Why then would she ever participate in Panzerfahren; a sport that-according to Red-War Gamers were disdainful of?
She called herself a Hawkette. What did that mean exactly? If she was a War Gamer then surely she had been keeping tabs on it, but how would she do that if it was blocked? Did that mean she had found a work around? She had to find out.
"All right, listen up everyone", the teacher said. "We have a new student joining us today, so I would like you to give her your full attention and warmest welcomes."
The students were puzzled; a transfer student at this time a year? That was rather unusual.
"Come in please", the teacher said.
The door slid open and a girl shyly stepped inside, and Yukari and Hippo Team's jaws dropped.
"My name is Chiyomi Anzai, nice to meet you."
Yukari was stunned. 'Anchovy?'
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Red and Aria waited on the tarmac beside the grounded Vampire, watching a speck in the distance as it got closer and closer.
"Ever worked with autogyros before", Red asked her?
She shook her head. "No, Italy has a strong helicopter industry; they don't want any competition. Europe in general tends to avoid them."
Red shrugged. "Maybe it's the mountains. Come to think of it I don't think you've done anything outside the main War Gaming circuits."
She sighed. "Not really. The only thing I can think of is being on Anzio's Panzerfahren team."
Red scowled. "I'd still like to know what possessed you to do that."
"I wanted a way to keep my edge throughout the year, and it offered the best way. There aren't a whole lot of other options in this country."
Red sighed and said nothing. The speck was now a much more defined shape as it made its landing approach to Ooarai's airstrip.
One could be forgiven for thinking that the Ford Hoplite was a helicopter with its spinning top mounted rotors, but it was in fact an Autogyro. The large engine and propeller at the front pulled it forward which caused the rotor to spin and provide lift; thus the Hoplite was able to take off and land in a small space without the complexity and expense of a true helicopter.
The red and white hoplite landed on the runway and stopped in less than 100m. It taxied over to the parking spot beside the Vampire and turned off its engine.
The side door slid open and several men wearing khaki coveralls walked out carrying tool boxes and walked over to the Vampire, immediately beginning to inspect it.
"Aren't you going to greet them?"
Red shrugged. "They prefer it if they have a chance to look over the plane first; not really sure why."
The two pilots heard a string of curses from the Vampire as one of the mechanics started shouting at the others, pointing at the large gashes near the wing roots.
He was a man of average statures who looked to be approaching middle age. His hair wasn't grey but wasn't as dark is it probably once was. His rough, hard-jawed face indicated someone who didn't take things lightly.
"Looks like Hackwrench isn't happy", Red smirked.
"Hackwrench?"
"Chief Mechanic; it's the same he goes by." Red sighed. "Well I better go see what's up."
Hackwrench noticed Red approaching and went to meet him.
"Hey Hackwrench. Sorry you had to come all this way."
Hackwrench scowled. "Well if someone hadn't taken out all the armor on the wing roots then we wouldn't have to."
Red blinked. "What? Someone took armor off the wings? Why the hell would someone do that? Do they think they'll save money that way?"
"I don't know, I think it's even dumber than that!"
"Can you fix it here?"
"Yeah but we're gonna have to wait for the Pepper Cloud to get here before we can do any real repairs. Most we can do right now is change the oil."
Red raised an eyebrow at him. "Pepper Cloud?"
Hackwrench sighed. "Yeah, he finally decided on a name for the damn thing."
Red looked exasperated. "It took him six years to come up with Pepper Cloud? It sounds like what his daughter would name their pony."
Hackwrench snorted in agreement then saw Aria standing a little ways away. "Who's she", he asked?
Red turned and saw that he was looking at Aria. "Oh, she's the new cook apparently. I guess there was an opening I never knew about."
"Well that should shut the kitchen staff up for a while. They've been whining that they need more help for a while."
Red smirked. "We'll have to see if they can handle her."
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The bell signaling the start of the school lunch break was welcomed with great enthusiasm as it brought an end to the incredibly boring lesson. Yukari was never a big fan of math.
As she packed her book into her school bag she saw Anchovy rapidly vacate the room ahead of everyone else.
It was certainly strange to see her in the same uniform as them, and it was likely she was aware that there were members of the Panzerfahren team in the class. The History team had a tendency to stand out after all.
Yukari went to her locker and retrieved her bento, meeting up with the History girls again on their way up to the roof. The girls of Ooarai's Panzerfahren club had often been going up to the roof to eat lunch together. It had started after the match against Pravda, and had been a tradition ever since. The other girls greeted them as they arrived on the roof, waving them over as they all sat in a circle in the middle of the roof.
Noticeably absent were the members of the volleyball club, and the student council members. If Yukari remembered correctly the volleyball girls were having intermurals in the gym and the student council was in a meeting.
Yukari sat down next to Hana and the history team squeezed together in the remaining space.
"I'm so excited for our parade", Saori exclaimed! "I'll get a lot of phone calls; I'll have to schedule my dates!"
"Y-yeah", Miho said unsure.
"Oh, I want to find a new boyfriend", Yuuki from the Rabbit team said. "The last one wasn't very nice."
"That's right", Saori said. "True it's important for a girl to seek romance, but she must have standards."
As Saori rambled on about boys Yukari's head was still in the clouds.
Unlike the others she didn't feel so much like celebrating. After everything she'd learned, everything she'd been told, she felt like their accomplishment was really nothing to be too proud about, or at least the 'magic' of it had gone.
"Yukari, are you alright?"
She looked up and saw Miho looking at her with concerned eyes. "Y-yeah, I'm fine; just tired, that's all.
Miho's eyes fell a bit. "You should really get more sleep Yukari."
"Y-yes Ma'am."
As Yukari drew from her juice box a low droning sound could be heard reflecting off the buildings and growing steadily louder.
"What's that sound", Yuuki asked nervously.
"Aya, hurry and look it up on the internet", Karin cried!
"I can't look things up that easily", Aya yelled back!
"Look up", Azusa said.
"I just said I can't!"
"No, I mean literally look up." She pointed skywards and everyone followed her finger, seeing a massive object floating in the sky.
Yukari instantly knew what it was. It had to be the Pizza Angels' Zeppelin.
They looked up in awe of the massive cigar shaped aircraft. It was over two thousand feet long and even over a thousand feet above their heads they could see blisters running along the underside, some even in the two gondolas.
Yukari brought out the binoculars that she always carried with her and gazed through them at the massive airship above. She could see that the blisters running along the ventral surface were gun turrets, bristling with heavy machine guns and auto-cannons. If there were just as many guns along the dorsal surface, then what was flying over their head was a veritable flying fortress.
She zoomed in on the forward gondola and found letters that appeared to be freshly written on the side.
"I think it's called the Pepper Cloud."
"That's a cute name for such a scary looking thing", Saori said.
Yukari frowned. She wondered what the reaction of the school staff was going to be with a veritable Death Star floating above their heads. She wondered if it was the reason for the sudden Student Council meeting.
The Zeppelin seemed to be maintaining its position above the ship, as if staring down at them like a hawkish schoolmaster. If it was planning to land on the ship, then it would have to wait until they docked at Oarai, which was expected to happen before the school day ended.
"I want more pizza", Yuuki said. "It was so good."
Saori wagged her finger at her. "No, no; you'll get fat if you eat too much junk food."
The raven haired girl pouted. "But I wanna eat lots so I grow up to be beautiful like Hanna-san."
"Hanna doesn't eat lots of junk food", Saori argued.
"I want to see inside it", Erwin said as she gazed up longingly at it.
Yukari nodded, equally curious.
"Ehhhhh? But isn't it too dangerous", Saori protested?
"There's probably boys on board", Erwin told her with a sly grin.
Saori's eyes grew wide. "Well, I girl can't spend too much time worrying about her figure, since worrying leads to premature wrinkles."
Yukari sighed. Well at least that was out of the way, and if there were any clues about the War Games around, it would be on that Zeppelin.
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Red helped Aria with her luggage as they went up the steep steps into the Zeppelins passenger gondola where the restaurant was housed.
At the top of the stairs was the waiting room. Walls of cherry wood and matching floors created a nice warm interior and beyond that into the sitting area.
The passenger gondola was essentially a small three story building with large glass windows that provided amazing natural illumination.
"It's beautiful", Aria said breathlessly.
"Used to be a luxury zep before she was converted", Red answered.
He led her to a door that read: "Staff Only", and then led her through where an elevator waited. They went up the elevator and came up to a noticeably different environment.
It was still clean looking but much darker, bathed in the artificial light with not a window in sight. They must have transferred from the gondola to the interior of the zeppelin. Aria could hear the sounds of a kitchen nearby, and even smell the cooking pizzas.
"Well look who's here."
Red and Aria turned and saw two boys about the same age approach.
"Ah, Aria this is Gazer and Verde, two other delivery pilots."
Gazer had short, spiked brown hair, while Verde had his black hair in a buzzcut. Both boys were wearing the same uniform as Red. They both dressed Aria up and down.
"Nice to meet you", they said in stereo.
"Like wise" she said politely.
Then someone about ten years older appeared from behind them.
"You're Aria" he asked?
"Yes."
"I'm the manager here. Follow me and I'll take you to your quarters."
Aria nodded and grabbed her luggage, following the manager deeper into the bowels of the zeppelin.
"She doesn't seem like much for conversation", Gazer said.
"She isn't", Red told him. "She has….. other methods of communication."
The other two looked at him puzzled but he ignored them and went to the washroom.
"Here's your bunk", the manager told Aria.
The small room was about the size of a king sized bed, with a bunk that folded into the wall, a small desk, and a small dresser.
"We'll start your training tomorrow, so relax until then."
Aria nodded. "Thank you."
The manager nodded and left Aria to start her unpacking.
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"Do you think they'll let all of us on the ship", Hana asked?
School had just ended and a large portion of the Panzerfahren team was on their way to the airfield where the airship was anchored. They had heard that they were open for business as a pizza restaurant, so the girls were eager to get going.
"If we all agree to buy a slice I'm sure they'll be fine", Saori said. Of all she was the most eager; the only thing as big as her heart was her libido.
"It's so huge", the Rabbit team girls exclaimed as the stepped into the airstrip.
Yukari had to agree there, it seemed much bigger close up, but it also looked far more threatening. Yukari was able to see the dorsal weapons, and they were just as threatening as the ventral ones.
Signs set up on the tarmac guided them to the rearmost gondola of the two and the girls traveled the short distance to the steep stairs.
They all gasped when they saw the interior. The waiting room was impressive by itself, but from there they could see into the sitting and eating area.
"It's like a castle", Karina said excitedly!
The rabbit team gazed through the doorway at the crowded room beyond, swooning over the beautiful, almost fantasy like view.
"Can I help you", a voice asked in broken Japanese?
The Oarai team turned and saw a young girl standing behind the desk, looking at them with an odd expression.
Miho cleared her throat. "Ah, yes, do you sell individual slices?"
The girl paused and looked down at a paper on her desk.
"Yes, but you'll have to wait a bit."
"We don't mind."
The girl nodded and placed a piece of notepaper on the desk. "Please write down your orders here."
One by one the girls lined up and wrote down their preferences and then the girl at the desk told them to wait as she took their order to the kitchen.
Just as she disappeared through the Employees Only door, Carpaccio appeared out of it.
"Oh, nice to see you again", Miho greeted.
Carpaccio nodded. "Come for more pizza?"
The team captain paused. "Weeeeellllll."
"Ohohoho! They have waiters", Saori yelled excitedly! She was quite happy that, for once, her expectations had been fulfilled.
Miho let out a nervous laugh, not really sure what to say.
Yukari meanwhile decided to kill time by seeing what magazines were available and she discovered something interesting.
On the cover of one of the magazines was a picture of a Centurion Main Battle Tank, adorned with markings she did not recognize.
Curious she picked it up and found the table of contents where she saw two key words that immediately grabbed her attention: War Games. This was a War Games related magazine.
She quickly went through the pages, not wanting to read details yet, just wanting to get a general feel of what she was looking at. Then she stopped when she found a picture of a girl who looked very familiar.
Yukari realized that the girl in the magazine reminded her of Erwin. Was this the same girl Erwin reminded Red of? She did have short blonde hair but it was strait, in a rather boyish haircut, and unlike Erwin, this girl appeared flat chested, though she seemed younger. She checked the date on the magazine and it indicated that it was over a year old.
"What are you looking at Guderian", Erwin asked her?
Yukari jerked in surprise, Erwin had caught her a bit off guard. "Oh, just looking at some of these magazines?"
"Oh?" Erwin reached down and picked up a magazine for herself that had images of planes on the cover.
"Whoooaaaaa!"
Yukari nearly jumped from Saori's sudden exclamation as she also discovered the magazines.
"Boys in uniforms!" She was practically drooling as she started to flip through the magazine's pages.
Yukari smiled nervously and leaned away awkwardly. Many of the other girls had come over, curious to see what all the fuss was about.
"This guy's pretty handsome."
Yukari almost froze. She turned her head and realized to her shock that it was Erwin who had spoken.
The blonde haired girl gazed wistfully at the page, is if remembering something from long ago, her eyes had a very sober look to them.
"It's very unusual for you to show such an interest in boys", Caesar said to her.
Saori grinned and then presented Caesar with a page of one of the magazines that showed several handsome guys in roman army uniforms. Caesar's eyes nearly popped out of her sockets as she tentatively grabbed the magazine and her face started to flush as she stared at it.
"What's all the noise about?"
Red suddenly appeared with two other boys from the employee door, looking curiously at the assembly of girls in the waiting room.
Saori licked her lips hungrily and strutted to the front of the gaggle of estrogen, putting on her best smile.
"Hello, I'm Saori. It's nice to meet you gentlemen."
"We've met already", Red told her flatly.
"Hey don't just go talking in some language everyone else can't understand."
Red gave Gazer a dumb look. "You're the only one who doesn't understand it, everyone else speaks Japanese."
Saori also seemed to realize this and cleared her throat. "Hawrow, my name iz Saori."
Gazer smiled and gently took her hand, giving it a reassuring squeeze. "Charmed to meet you Saori. I'm Gazer. I'm honored to meet such a lovely lady as you."
Red and Verde shook their heads, but Saori seemed completely enchanted, despite not understanding what Gazer actually said. It was certainly an example of just how important body language was.
"Take me with you", Saori said dreamily.
Shaking her head and choosing to ignore the rather lame romantic exchange, Carpaccio walked over to Yukari who was totally engrossed in the magazines.
"You're interested in the War Games", she asked her? "Surprising; very few people from Japan, and even fewer girls show such interests."
Yukari managed a weak smile. "Y-yes Ms. Carpaccio; Red told me about them the day he arrived."
"My name is Aria, Carpaccio is behind me."
Yukari's head dropped apologetically. "R-right. Ms. Aria then."
"Just Aria. Did Red happen to speak…. unfavorably about Panzerfahren?"
Yukari paused. "Well, not exactly but, I guess he wasn't being complimentary about it."
Aria shot Red a disapproving glare then looked back at Yukari. "Sorry about that. Red is a bit of an elitist, so he doesn't appreciate just how much work and dedication a Panzerfahren team goes through.
"Tell me Yukari, how did you originally feel about winning the tournament?"
Yukari didn't even have to think about it. She had felt the same everyone else had.
"It was amazing; I felt so proud of what we had accomplished. We had defeated the toughest of opponents, defied all the odds, and won!" She sighed. "But when Red told me about what Kuromorimine did at the world championships, I didn't feel as good."
Aria sighed. "Yes it's true that KMM usually only fights much younger and less experienced opponents, but the fact is that you entered the tournament with virtually no experience or much training, and you ended up winning against, arguably the strongest team. You have every reason to be proud of your accomplishment. What KMM does outside of Japan doesn't matter when you beat with even less skill and experience than those opponents."
Yukari smiled. She felt as though the weight of the world had been on her shoulders and it had just been cast off. "Thank you M-Aria."
"Don't mention it."
"Yay, our Pizza's here!"
The rabbits quickly snatched up their slices of Pizza and began munching happily. Yuuki, still trying to imitate Hana, had three slices instead of just two.
"Alright then, we had best go and get the parade ready to go, so everyone please start making your way to the garage."
The girls filed out, down the stairs to the tarmac below, but one girl didn't want to leave.
"Nooooooooo, I finally found a guy who's interested in meeeeeeee!"
Miho and Hana were using all of their strength the pull Saori to the stairs, but she was putting up quite a fight.
She slipped through their grip and fell to the floor, only to get grabbed by her legs and dragged to the exit, she fingers clawing at the floor.
"Sanctuaaryyyyyyyy!"
Yukari sighed and then waved good bye to Aria before she herself made her way to the exit.
As Saori was pulled down the stairs she let out one final message.
"Call meeeeeee."
Red turned to a slightly bewildered Gazer and said: "Don't call her."
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Yukari was probably having the proudest moment in her life as she and the rest of the Panzerfahren team drove down the main streets of Oarai in their tanks, with the tournament flag flapping proudly in the breeze. They waved to the people as they lined the streets, cheering them as they drove by, making sure to spot family members in the crowd.
Yukari was glad to have all the mess of her losing faith in their accomplishment behind her, and though she still wanted to find out the issue with the safe-search block, it didn't feel like a critical issue anymore.
As their parade drew to a close and they headed back to the ship, a low droning noise could be heard over the clacking tracks and screaming engines of their tanks.
Looking up Yukari could see the Zeppelin turning floating away from the ship, the windows on the gondolas glistening in the setting sun.
She realized that Red would also soon be leaving with his newly repaired plane, or at least she imagined it would be repaired by now; she didn't actually see it when they visited the zeppelin. This would be her last chance to talk to him.
The very moment that they tucked their tanks in for the night and they went off to get ready for their formal party, Yukari ran to the airfield, hoping to make it in time.
She arrived at the gates out of breath, panting heavily as she staggered onto the tarmac and was relieved to find the Vampire still sitting in the same spot, but it was no longer strapped down, and Red appeared to be in the cockpit. Standing between her and the Vampire was Carpa-, Aria and…. was that Anchovy talking to her?
"I guess it makes sense that she would see her off", Yukari mused.
Anchovy and Aria stood close to each other, Anchovy with her head down slightly and her hands held in front of her.
"I wish we didn't have to part", the silver haired girl said. "I wanted us to stay together."
Aria gave her a smile. "We've had this conversation before Deuce. This is necessary for both of us. Don't make this any harder."
Yukari was sorry to interrupt the touching conversation, but she needed to ask before she left.
"Um I'm sorry for intruding."
Anchovy nearly jumped out of her skin from surprise, but Aria simply looked at her as if Yukari was delivering a parcel.
"You're back again."
Yukari swallowed and then bowed sharply. "I'm sorry, I just needed to ask you about the safe-search blocks that have been preventing me from looking up information on the War Games. I'm asking for help as someone who loves tanks!"
Aria sighed. "So that's what this is all about. It's blocked in most schools because the government considers it war/violence promotion. They consider Panzerfahren different because it's considered a martial art, but the War Games have only rules of engagement, it's not about honor."
Yukari frowned. "But that just seems….. silly."
Aria shrugged. "If you really want to know, try going to St. Gloriana. They come for the Battle of Britain and Operation Overlord every year so they probably don't have the block."
Yukari looked at her puzzled. "Every year? Is it some kind of re-enactment?"
"Well, sort of. It's more of a scenario than anything else."
Suddenly there was a series of mechanical coughs and then one of the Vampires engines roared to life.
Aria sighed and looked back at Anchovy, her eyes tearing up. "I guess this is, so long."
"I-idiot, don't start crying", Anchovy said as her own eyes started to well.
The two girls shared a long, warm, hug just as the second engine roared to life.
Aria gently pulled away and then climbed up to the cockpit, squeezing herself into the 'rumble seat' behind Red.
The four waved at each other as the Vampire revved its engines and taxied away.
The two girls stayed and watched silently until the flying death machine took off into the sky.
Anchovy then silently walked away, not even exchanging a glace with Yukari.
Yukari felt like she wanted to say something but she just couldn't think of what as the other girl walked out of sight.
Yukari sighed and jogged back to the garages where the tank team was gathering once again about to head out together to the banquet hall.
"Where were you Yukarin", Saori cried? "We were worried."
"Ah, sorry to make you worry."
Suddenly one of the first years screamed and then something blew just over their heads with a deafening roar and everyone hit the deck as wind ripped around them.
"What was that", Saori yelled.
Everyone looked up and they saw the Vampire flying away from them.
Yukari sighed as she realized that they had just been buzzed.
Momo lifted her head up. "That idiot! Where did he learn to fly!"
Yukari just chuckled and they all watched as the plane banked away and then followed the Zeppelin into the sunset.