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A/N: I like to start off that I don't own either Girls und Panzer or Transformers. And also with so many variations to the Transformers lore I decided to make up my own so I wouldn't confuse one for the other.
I really hope you enjoy this fic and feel free to share your thoughts.
Prologue
Long ago, before the first stars sparked into existence, before time even began, within the vast darkness of the universe existed a wold where life truly begins, Cybertron, home of the, Cybertronians, an ancient race of sentient machines that ruled over the planet for countless eons. But over those eons the supply of energon, the life blood of Cybertron, was shrinking and so corruption grew. Riots and much unrest spread across the world, to keep the citizens in-line the ruler of Cybertron used the pits. A battle arena where convicted criminals are sent to fight to the death, the games kept the masses entertain and distracted to the problems plaguing their society, and they worked.
The people came and cheered as the gladiators slew one another staining the field with the blood of their brothers and sisters, but not one warrior has spilled more blood than the ruthless. The cruel. Megatron. A slave machine who worked in the mines that was found guilty to the murder of his master and was sentenced to pits to die, but instead of death Megatron found glory as the crowd cheered his name louder than their ruler's. And that was their downfall. Being an energon miner Megatron knew the truth and told the public what they needed to hear, Megatron freed himself along with the other gladiators that swore their loyalty to him. With his newly found followers Megatron founded the, Decepticons, the army rolled through the gates and when they came out Magatron had his ruler's head in his hand.
But this did not bring prosperity or peace, despite overthrowing their ruler injustice and anarchy infected the life of all the Cybertronians, as cities burn, the Console of Thirteen, has given the title of Prime to a records clerk, Orion Pax, now known as, Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobot Resistance. For millenniums war was waged across the planet scorching their homes til finally their world peaked its limit and the last energon well dried up. Their world can no longer capable of sustaining life, so the habitats had no choice, but to flee their dying world, and so Optimus sent out scouts in search of a new home so they can find refuge on if they are to have a chance for their species to survive. These scouts are the Autobot's only hope.
Present Day
On the Ooarai carrier the tankery club has just finished up practice for today, as the Automotive club locked up the hunger.
"Alright girls, our match with Pravda is gonna be a tough one," Miho spoke among her peers, "But as long as we stick together we may have a shot, get a good nights rest, we start first thing in the morning."
"Aye aye, Commander!" the girls shouted all together before heading off home for the match tomorrow.
As the sun disappeared under the ocean the stars twinkled brightly in the cool night air, once the last person in the school turned in all fell silent on the school grounds until one of the stars in the sky started to glow brighter than any of the others. It seem to grow in size, unbeknownst to all the star in the sky was fall straight down, burning hotter and hotter until it slammed down into the woods of the carrier.
Trees tipped over and the soiled simmered as the object from sky scorched ground it teared through, big metal arms emerged from the crash pulling itself out of the trench it made. Carefully traversing through the landscape the stranger from another world was vigilant to its new surroundings, Peering out of the woods the giant stumbles upon the Ooarai hanger, with no one in sight the scout made its way up to the do. Using a laser to cut through the chain the door swung open for the alien to find all of Ooarai's tanks waiting patiently for their operators to come again.
Morning
As the sun rose up the Ooarai tankery team hurried over to the hanger to pick up their vehicles, all excited for the game, but something was as the chain that kept the hanger doors closed was lying on the ground.
"The chains been cut!" Yukari gasps out in shock.
"Oh no! our tanks!" Saori cried in worry.
Rushing through the door the girls found to see that their tanks were left untouched, they looked around inspecting every corner carefully to see that anything was moved or tampered with, they turned on their tanks to see if something was done to them, but everything was normal.
"Everything's the way we left it," Hana noted.
"Yeah that's strange," Saori added,
'Commander!" one of the Automotive girls called out.
"Yes, Satoko?" Miho came around seeing the girls with the chain in their hand, "What is it?"
"Look how the chain was cut," she told her commander, "It's so smooth, no melting, no grooves, it's a perfect cut."
"No bolt cutters or blow touch can do that," Suzuki commented.
"That is strange," Miho agreed.
"Everything's fine let's get going, we don't wanna be late," Saori cried out reminding everyone of the match.
All the girls jumped into their tanks and into their respected rolls, as the tanks pulled out to the game.
Later
Leaving the carrier the girls settled on the battlefield at a small town that was eager to receive a check from their insurance company, the citizens of the town gathered around to watch to game unfold, sitting in the bleachers or families laying out blankets with baskets filled with food.
"Alright, ladies and gentlemen, please be seated because the match is about to begin," the announcer stated over the horn.
Everyone grew in anticipation as they turned their attention to the screen.
Elsewhere
Steady as their tracks crawled, the Pravda team navigated through the closed streets.
"Watch those corners, we know Ooarai won't face us head on," Katyusha advised looking through the scope within the safety of her tank.
As the Pravda girls turned a corner they came to a quiet intersection, the stoplights still blinking for cars to come by, but as they rolled forward, a round flew over striking one tank in the front, smoke steamed up to the air and a flag pops right out.
"Nice shot, Leopon team," Miho complimented.
The two opposing teams traded shots, lobbing round after round smashing against buildings, signs, and fences, all were obliterated by the tank rounds.
"Alright, fall back and lead them to the park," Miho ordered.
As Ooarai pulled out Pravda pursued.
"After them!" Katyusha shouted.
As the Russian tanks squeezed through the corners of the town they fired off their guns the moment they thought they had the shot, shell flying over head of the Ooarai tanks. One T-34 shot its gun the round lobs through the air flying over the Hetzer and the Type 89b and just striking the Mark IV in the rear corner of its armor.
"OW!"
"Who said that?" Saori pointed hearing a voice out of the ordinary.
"Ow, that's look's like a heavy hit for-," the radio rambled on.
"Oh this darn thing keeps catching games," she complained about intercepting sports station by accident as she tried to change channels.
The Ooarai Team zig-zagged avoiding getting shot from Pravda til they finally made it to the park were the space opened up for Ooarai to spread out and took cover with in the trees. Ooarai sprayed down on their opponent trying to nail Katyusha, many T-34s were struck, but Pravda had much to spare as they pushed through, but as the KV-2 came lumbering in that's were things started to get hairy for Ooarai. The round smacked against the armor of the KV only to bounce off, and trees were reduced to splitters as the timber exploded upon impact, tipping over and slamming onto the grass.
"That's it! Yuzu ram that KV!" Momo shouted from the top of her lungs.
"Wha-."
"Yeah! like we did to the Maus," Anzu agreed.
Two against one, Yuzu floors it charging right for the KV, before the giant turret could aim at Turtle team the Hetzer wedges itself under the KV's tracks, but since it took on heavier tanks before the Hetzer manages to tip the KV to its side. Turtle team all cheered as they successfully tip the tank over only to be shot by, Nonna. Ooarai was quickly being overwhelmed by Pravda as tank after tank fell leaving Anglerfish all by itself, they tried to make their escape, but fallen trees blocked their path leaving them cornered.
"Hahaha... Pravda wins this round, Ms. Nishizumi," Katyusha taunted as she popped her head out of her tank with all guns trained on the Mark IV, "Fire!"
All tanks did as commanded, their guns lighting up on the Mark IV with a giant smoke cloud swallowing up Anglerfish team and Pravda can hardly see the top of the turret of the Mark IV jump up the moment they fired. When the cloud finally settled they all looked on in shock seeing that the Mark IV was untouched as the trees and ground around it was smoking.
"Huh? we're alive?" Hana noted in confusion and then the 75mm gun fires off a shot.
The tank round rips through the air between Ooarai and Pravda slamming into Katyusha's tank dead center sending rolling back as a stream of smoke leaving the spot the round landed on and a flag pops out from Pravda's flag tank.
"... Pravda's flag tank... has been eliminated...? Ooarai Girl's Academy, wins the match," the announcer stated her too confused to what happened.
"Nice shot Hana," Miho complimented.
"What? no Miho I didn't take the shot," Hana told her.
"You didn't shoot?" Saori followed.
"The trigger probably gotten sensitive," Miho concluded, "It just needs a little fixing, c'mon."
Later On
After the battle the judges looked over the footage trying to see what had happen, but the smoke clouds have made it hard to see what went wrong, but nevertheless they gave the match to Ooarai.
"That's so unfair! we lit that tiny panzer up like a Christmas," Katyusha hollered angry of the outcome.
The two teams packed it up and loaded onto their carriers docking off back to sea, in the Ooarai girl's hanger the girls started to check the gun on their tank.
"Alright let's see what's the problem," Yukari said right before pulling on the lever to empty out the chamber, but when the gun opened up there was empty shell sliding out of the gun.
"It's empty?" Hana noted the obvious seeing a the other end of the barrel clearly.
"Wait, how can you fire an empty gun?" Mako questioned and all the girls shrugged their shoulders.
The Next Day
All practice the girls fired the Mark IV repeatedly to make sure there was nothing wrong, but every test fire went perfectly.
"Everything seems to work smoothly," Satoko reported.
"Then how did it fire that shot from earlier?" Saori reminded.
"I guess we'll never know the answer to that mystery," Hana concluded.
"Maybe I threw it away and just forgot," Yukari thought about it out loud.
"Yeah, besides we still won the match, what are we worrying about?" Saori said otherwise trying to lift their spirits.
Evening
As the moon started to rise into view the girls thought it was time to head in with Miho and her friends strolling through the streets together.
"What do you guys think we should do on a fine after noon like this?" Saori asked.
"Let's go to the ice-cream parlor," Yukari spoke first feeling her sweet tooth tingling.
"Why not? I can go for something sweet," Mako agreed.
"Oh no, I forgot my phone!" Miho gasps now realizing that the small device wasn't in her pocket, "I must've left it at the hanger."
"Alright, let's hurry back," Saori sighed and they all turned around.
X
Back on school grounds Miho sprinted across the field to the hanger only to find the doors wide open.
"The door's wide open," Yukari pointed and soon they saw that the Mark IV was missing.
"Oh no! our tank's been stolen!" Saori cried out.
"No wait," Miho spoke out pointing to the dirt where obvious tracks can be seen leading into the woods, "Follow those tracks."
The girls ran quickly following the trail of tank treads on the ground, as they ran into the woods they saw trees pushed to the side, and were up rooted.
"This jerk better not ruin our tank!" Saori cried out.
But when they reached a certain point into the forest the girls saw the tracks have disappeared.
"They're gone!" Miho surprisingly said.
"It's like they vanished," Yukari added.
"You guys might want to see this," Mako called out standing on a rock.
The rest joined her and their they looked in shock to giant shaped hole in the ground.
"What is that?" Hana questioned.
"It looks like a footprint," Yukari figured, before jumping off the rock, "Are you coming?"
The rest were hesitant, but followed their more courageous friend down the path, the prints on the ground were deep in the dirt, and the top of the trees looked like they were snapped in half making the girls nervous to what may have caused it.
"Can we turn back? it's getting dark," Saori opted getting more scared.
"We can't turn back, how are we suppose to play if we lose our tank?" Miho reminded.
With that the girls marched on, but soon they started to hear a booming sound echoing among the trees.
"You guys hear that?" Mako asked.
"Wait, I think I can smell out tank," Hana said holding her nose up to the air, "It's nearby."
Hana was now leading the rest walking down to follow the scent of the Mark IV, but before they could go any further a light beamed up from out of nowhere, and into the sky.
"What is that?" Yukari spoke up, however it wasn't long til the light dyed out, and a loud sound was heard beyond the trees.
The girls rushed through shoving low branches out of the way to see a giant trench in the ground.
"What the...?" Miho noted seeing the strange anomaly before her eyes.
"Guys look!" Saori cried out looking into the trench.
Running up to the edge the girls saw their tank just sitting at the end of the trench.
"Our tank!" Miho gasps jumping down into the trench.
The girls slid down running up to their tanks looking for anyone that was attempting to steal it, but no other soul could be found.
"No one's here," Mako reported.
"And everything's the way we left it," Hana added poking her head out of the turret.
"But how did our tank get out here?" Miho brought up.
"I don't know, but let's get out of here," Saori concluded jumping into the Mark IV and that's what the girls did.
They climbed into their tank and drove back to the hanger.
X
Carefully driving between the trees the girls had their headlights on as the sun's light was no longer shining down on the carrier, but something in the lights caught Miho's eyes as the back of the hanger came to view.
"Wait, Mako, stop the tank," Miho ordered and the tracks halted.
"What is it?" Mako asked.
"Turn the headlights to the hanger," Miho said and Mako twisted the tank to point to the back of the hanger.
And their the girls all looked in shock to what's there.
A/N: I hop you loved that first chapter, more will be on their way soon.