In the dead of night, three students had snuck aboard the SSISSN ship. They were there to try to make a living for themselves. Or so they thought.
"I hope this would be enough food for the school, I would just strum the Kantele to the blowing of the wind and the cherry blossoms begin to sprout." One of the students began. She took out a pick and began picking at the lock. The lock became undone with a simple click and the students began taking it off.
"You and your cryptic sayings, I swear you'll be like Darjeeling one day, except you don't pay your taxes. Her friend told her. The third student was opening the door as the safe had been cracked. The three students went inside as they began to examine the safe they managed to open. The girl with the two red twintails was excited.
"This has to be enough food to last the three of us a month." She smiled. She raced to the nearest pile as she began stuffing her face. The student with the blonde twintails looked at her leader.
"Looks like she was hungry." She responded as her friend strummed her Kantele.
"She's always hungry. I wouldn't mind for her to be as fat as a feather pillow. Might make a good head rest." She laughed quietly to herself. The third girl was busy stuffing her face with all kinds of goodies.
"Let's see what we can take back to our school in the Bt-42." She responded as they got out their bag. They began packing whatever they could carry. The third girl was too busy eating to participate.
"Got ya we'll have to hide out here until the next night when the ships come back and we get our stuff back to the school." The girl with the brown hair began hauling their food away. Once they gathered what they needed and their friend ate her share, they loaded back onto the Bt-42 as She began to give the order. "Okay my friend. Floor it." She nodded as they began to drive away from the food storage room. The Bt-42 had disappeared like that into the night.
Dalmatia and Barbera were leading an early morning patrol after some of the students had reported activity from the food storage part of their school the night before. The two students continued to wander around the early morning sun as Dalmatia was holding a lantern.
"You know I don't get why we were woken up early in the morning to do this task?" Barbera asked as she didn't like being up and early. Barbera then yawned as she was still waking up from this whole ordeal. Dalmatia looked at her friend with not that much amusement.
"We heard noises from the night before. I told the staff in my nightwear and they told me that no one should be allowed out after dark and told us to visit there tomorrow morning." Dalmatia responded as she continued shining the lantern see if everything was in order. She found something as she seemed nervous. She looked down to see the dirt had tank tracks in it. Barbera walked up to Dalmatia as she placed her hand over her friend's shoulder. Suddenly a noise was heard as Barbera shot up her head.
"What's that?!" Barbera asked as she cowered behind Dalmatia. Dalmatia placed a finger over her lips, shushing Barbera. She motioned her hand down to tell her to stay down.
"Keep low and follow me." Dalmatia gave the instructions. Dalmatia took the lead as Barbera followed behind. The two students made their way to the storage room where the food was being held. Dalmatia looked down to see the lock on the ground and not where it was supposed to be. "What is this doing here?" Dalmatia asked nervously as she picked up the lock with her other hand. She looked up to see that the door to the food storage was left open. She knew exactly what was going on. She creeped nervously to the door as she peeked inside. Barbera looked around as her eyes entered the place. She was horrified.
"OUR FOOD! IT'S GONE!" Barbera wailed in horror. Dalmatia had a similar reaction as she looked into the room.
"I know it was a week's worth of food too." Dalmatia responded as she was bummed out. Barbera was distraught.
"I know! It even included those cookies that Syrah and Lasina love dearly! ALL GONE!" Barbera continued to wail. Dalmatia ignored her as Barbera continued to put on a show like a drama queen. Dalmatia looked around to find any clues about the thieves and what they had done. She turned to her left to a corner as she found the stash of cookie wrappers all over the place.
"I think someone was hungry." Dalmatia showed Barbera what she found. Barbera went full rage mode on her friend.
"Those damned partisans! They were the ones behind this!" Barbera jumped to the conclusion that a rival gang would have broken in and ransacked the place.
"I'm not too sure about that, what if it was someone else?" Dalmatia asked. Barbera slammed Dalmatia to a wall as she had her hands around the copper haired student's neck.
"IT'S GOT TO BE THEM! THEY WANT TO STEAL ALL OF OUR GOOD FOOD AND I WANT TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS!" Barbera shouted as she tightened her grip around Dalmatia's throat. Dalmatia began choking as her face turned slightly blue.
"Let me go." Dalmatia coughed as Barbera continued to tighten her grip. Istria entered the room as she saw Barbera having her hands around her friend.
"Barbera, release her at once." Istria ordered her to stop it. Barbera released Dalmatia as Dalmatia collapsed on the ground gasping for air. Istria ran up to Dalmatia as she began to treat her for any signs of injury. Barbera went outside as she wanted to send the message out that she was willing to challenge the Partisans to another Sensha-do match.
Pomorie and Srebarna were doing their work around the school. Srebarna had just got back from a weekend away and didn't bother making eye contact with her team-mate. Kamchia also appeared as she went to speak with Pomorie.
"Srebarna doesn't seem to be like her usual self these days, is there something wrong?" Kamchia asked as she wanted to find out what was happening. Srebarna huffed as she slammed down a box.
"She doesn't like losing, that's the thing. Our school needs better tanks and our calls so far have been silent. If we get these tanks, then we can do better." Pomorie gave the suggestion. She looked to her tank as it had been in repair for the past few days. Popovo, Sima and Varna had been working hard to get the vickers that got trampled on in working order.
"Wrench?" Sima asked. Popovo handed her the tool. Kamchia looked back to Pomorie.
"I understand but we need to figure out what is wrong with Srebarna before the situation gets out of hand and we suffer with what Saunders had. I don't want our school divided into two." Srebarna knew the situation was on a teeter-totter, It was delicate like a vase filled with flowers and any change caused by recklessness would be enough to shatter it.
"Rachet." Sima called out. Popovo shined the light as she handed Sima the tool that she needed. Varna was in the drivers hatch as she was getting ready for the test.
"Yeah I know, for now. Erika wants either one of us to keep an eye on Srebarna kind of like a spy." Pomorie gave the suggestion. She whispered it to Kamchia as she wanted to monitor the situation.
"You're right." Kamchia responded. The engine hatch closed as Varna started up the tank. The repaired Vickers Pug Team had come to life and began driving up to Pomorie. Rila popped her head out of the tank as she looked down to Pomorie.
"Our tank is finished. We should be able to get this tank rolling." Rila told Pomorie the good news as their tank had just been repaired.
"Yes and any upgrades made while it was being repaired?" Pomorie asked if there was anything new to the tank..
"A new engine for better mobility and much more efficient ammo to pen a few more millimeters of armor." Sima explained the upgrades that were made.
"Okay good so I say we should try taking on Tigers next?" Pomorie asked if she would be able to take on heavy tanks next. Sima looked at her.
"I'm not sure you would come out of that fight in one piece as you're still a light tank." Sima explained to Pomorie.
"So that's a no then?" Pomorie asked if that was correct.
"Yep that's a no." Sima responded. Pomorie drooped her head as she wanted a much more robust tank to be able to take on the T-34's with ease but it turned out that might be too late. Srebarna was finished with her work as Popovo and Kamchia refused to give eye contact with her.
"At least Momo does her tasks better than Srebarna." Kamchia responded. Suddenly Koprinka came racing into the garage storeroom heaving from her run.
"Koprinka, what drives you here? We've just finished repairing the tanks so want to take them out for a test run?" Popovo asked the Yogurt student. Koprinka had other ideas.
"The Croatian gang posted an angry message about a raid that happened last night. They say the Partisans are to blame and they want our assistance again." Koprinka decided to give the news. Srebarna groaned as she placed her hand in her hair.
"They have medium tanks, they should be able to handle themselves against the partisans right?" Srebarna asked, thinking that they were much more helpless than Ooarai's Rabbit team that couldn't navigate their way out of a plastic bag if it was on fire. Srebarna slammed her head down onto the boxes.
"Yeah but they still seem to be inexperienced as they are students with disabilities so they need the help." Koprinka told Srebarna to lend a helping hand to those in need. Koprinka decided to put a cigarette in her mouth as Srebarna grabbed her by the shirt collar and pinned her to the wall.
"I don't have the time to be holding someone else's hand. If you want to help them. Be my guest." Srebarna growled at Koprinka as she slapped the cigarette out of her mouth. She had Koprinka to a corner as she wanted to make sure about this.
"Listen I don't want to be the victim of your anger but calm down." Koprinka tried to reason with Srebarna but Srebarna was ready to give Koprinka another slap across the face. Kamchia rushed over as she grabbed Srebarna.
"Srebarna! Get a hold of yourself!" Kamchia shouted as she tried to pin Srebarna down. Malko just entered the room as Kamchia called for assistance. "Malko I can use a hand." Malko raced over as she leaped onto Srebarna. Srebarna continued to struggle until she tired herself out before collapsing to the ground.
"Okay looks like that she had tired herself out." Pomorie told them as she wanted to make sure Srebarna wasn't going to be any harm to them.
"It's fine, I'm a good boxer meaning if Srebarna gets free, I can give her a bloody nose with a good ol' one two." Malko told her as she had plans to deal with troubling students like Srebarna. Pomorie turned to Koprinka who placed the cigarette in her mouth before lighting it up.
"You okay Koprinka?" Pomorie asked her fellow classmate if she was okay. Koprinka dusted herself off.
"I'm a bit shaken but I seem to be okay." Koprinka responded as she blew out the smoke.
"Okay that's good so want to give SSISSN some assistance?" Pomorie asked if that would be necessary.
"I think you're the most experienced so you go in there, me and Malko would provide some support from afar." Koprinka responded as she flicked the ashes down. Pomorie gave a nod as Malko walked over to a large part of the garage as they had something on the tarp. Pulling it up, it was a giant Bi-Plane that they had in storage.
"Woah, what is that?" Pomorie asked Malko as she went to get that thing fired up.
"It's an Antonov An-2 Biplane. Pravda gave it to Yogurt to use if we wanted to bring a tank over from the air as volunteers but it's very expensive to operate so we haven't operated this plane that much. In a situation like this, this plane is perfect for travel, if there was more than one tank that needed to be carried, we can always rely on Saunders." Malko explained what this plane was. She entered the cockpit as she started it up. The propellers spun up as the plane began rolling forward. Varna was still driving the tank as the plane pulled up. Koprinka dropped the hatch on the back to let the tank roll on inside. Varna slowly drove the tank in as Malko was guiding it in. Pomorie decided to hop on board to help secure the tank down. Pomorie then very carefully slid herself into the tank where she was going to get comfortable.
"Okay, are we ready back there?" Malko asked if they were secured. Pomorie began to speak from her radio.
"Yeah we're ready." Pomorie spoke from her radio. Kamchia was guiding the plane onto the runway they had as they were going to take a trip to SSISSN.
"Lift off in three, two, one." Malko responded, She pulled the gears back to her plane as the plane took off. Racing down the runway as it became airborne. It was smaller than Saunders' behemoth of a plane but it had to carry less cargo to compensate for its smaller size. Popovo and Kamchia watched as the plane soared into the sky. They were on their way.
It was an hour before they arrived at SSISSN's newly paved airport to allow planes delivering cargo to arrive. The Biplane made landing a bit of a challenge. The plane came down as it touched the paveway. In a second, the plane stopped as Koprinka rushed to open the hatches while Malko went to undo the straps holding the vickers tank down. The tank rolled back onto the runway as two students were there to greet them.
"Pomorie, we haven't seen you at all during the last match, we heard what Srebarna is planning to do and we were worried." Rosa greeted her as Tocai was excited to see her as well.
"We know, we heard the call that your food storage got raided and we decided to come and help. Srebarna said no but we did come out of kind heartedness." Pomorie responded as their tank continued rolling forth. "So what's the situation?" Pomorie asked them.
"Dalmatia and Barbera found the food store busted open as some of the food had been eaten on the spot and the rest of it was taken." Tocai spoke as she and Rosa mounted the tank. Varna began driving with the two students in tow to the field where the match was going to happen.
"Barbera began choking Dalmatia as she wanted to defend her claim that it was the Partisans that did it and not something else. Many students were skeptical but Barber, my friend Tocai and Lasina think they are to blame." Rosa told Pomorie about what happened next.
"Is Dalmatia okay?" Pomorie asked as she was concerned for what had happened to her.
"She's fine but she has a collar on her neck as a result." Rosa told Pomorie that their friend was fine. This sparked a question in Pomorie's head.
"What kind of collar is she wearing exactly?" Pomorie asked Rosa if she knew what collar she had on.
"I don't remember what collar Dalmatia is wearing but when we find out we will get a look of it ourselves." Rosa didn't remember what collar her friend was wearing.
"Sounds like a plan." Pomorie replied as Varna drove off to the field.
The lone Vickers tank got to the field as Tocai and Rosa got off of the tank. Barbera had Dalmatia in her collar and Istria was worried about this.
"Pomorie I'm happy that you've arrived, I've figured you know about the situation that has been happening all day today. Right?" Istria asked if Pomorie knew what was happening.
"Yes I do and Barbera is blaming the Partisans on this?" Pomorie asked if this was correct,
"Yep. And we got clear signs that they pulled up in a BT style tank and stole our food supplied by Tocai." Pomorie gave her response. Istria nodded.
"I know. SSISSN is on high alert because of this incident. Now we need to figure out who is going out of their way with who. That will be settled with today's match." Istria paused as she began coughing. She took a puff from her inhaler as she regained her ability to speak.
"Did you contact anyone else about this so they can guard the stands? We brought Malko and Koprinka with us as they were willing to go." Pomorie introduced her friends as she brought some guards with her. The rumbling of a Drache helicopter was heard as it began to land. The students felt the blades of wind hit them as the helicopter made landing. Kuromorimine had just arrived. The first student stepped out as she was carrying her airsoft Karabiner 98k rifle. Two more students stepped out as the first student closed the door. They began to march forward as The first student went center, second student right and third student left. She placed the rifle down onto the ground with the butt in the dirt.
"Commander Nishizumi, we weren't expecting you." Dalmatia responded as she walked up to greet her.
"We've heard news that someone's been going around and stealing all of their food. I would doubt it would be the partisans so we decided to come here and guard the perimeter to find the true bandits behind this." Maho explained why they were here. Not to observe the Partisan match but instead find the true culprit. "Now I brought my apprentice with me who is armed with paintballs and she would be able to hunt down any bandits running around the school."
"At least you decided to act on our behalf. I doubted that the Partisans would be behind this. I heard they had a BT style tank with them." Dalmatia told Maho what she knew from this. Barbera decided to shock Dalmatia with the collar around her neck. Dalmatia flinched feeling the electric shock go through her.
"It's a BT-5 from what I could gather but we know that the Partisans have a BT tank style tank somewhere." Barbera decided to give what information that she did know of but Dalmatia was ready to give counteractive information.
"Don't you mean a BT-42?" Dalmatia asked Barbera. Barbera decided to shock Dalmatia again. Dalmatia flinched and began to complain in protest. "Ow! That hurts!" Dalmatia told Barbera that the shock was a lot more powerful than normal. Erika walked up to Barbera as she gave her a warning.
"If you shock her one more time I will take that collar off of her. It's clear Dalmatia doesn't like that." Erika looked at Barbera telling her to knock that off or the collar will be coming off.
"She needs it on if she's going to behave." Barbera protested. Erika looked at her as she began to speak.
"Dalmatia behave's just fine so there is no reason to shock her like that." Erika told Barbera.
"What if she starts bickering and giving contradicting orders?" Barbera retorted as she wanted to seem right.
"She's only a gunner for Istria this time around, not a commander." Erika told Barbera that she has her eyes on her. Barbera turned and began to walk away.
The five students were sitting in their chairs as they were going to observe today's match. It was a flag tank match in the hopes that this will teach the students a lesson in a quick and easy match. The Panzer 3 and M3 Lee's were the flag tanks respectively.
"Okay, we're all ready?" Pomorie asked. Dalmatia got into her tank as she had her trigger over the gun.
"I'm ready." Dalmatia responded as Istria sat as the commander for her Matilda 2.
"She said she was ready." Istria told Pomorie. The other students began to nod as the second partisan match had begun.
"All tanks roll onward!" Tocai gave the order from the Panzer 3. All the tanks rolled onward as they went ahead to go scout out the area around them.
Meanwhile, Koprinka, Malko and the Kuromorimine students were watching the match from a safe distance as Olivia decided to take up the role as a sentry in case the culprits decided to come along and steal their food.
"So what did you get from your school when Pomorie and her friends decided to go to that arcade?" Maho asked as she had never been to their school before. Malko began to laugh.
"I really wanted Belorussian Mega chips and I asked for Pomorie to get me a couple boxes of those before I would go out to the market this week myself." Malko gave her response as she decided to take a chip from the container and ate it. It was bacon flavored and it was good.
"I'm sure she definitely did you a kind favor." Maho gave her response as someone else wanted chips from their noses. Two hands sneaked out as they were going to take something. What appears to be the Mega chips they had stored. Maho looked down as someone was going to take her stuff. "Malko!" Maho called out. Malko looked down to see her Megachips slipped down beneath the bleachers. She got up and began to race off the said thieves.
"Someone's committing to thievery again?" Erika asked as she was concerned that her snack was gone. Fortunately Maho knew she had someone to count on in an emergency like this.
"Okay Olivia, someone decided to steal Malko's snack and we need you to go after her. Meet up with Malko as soon as possible." Maho gave the news to Olivia to get going. Olivia nodded as she got up from her post and began to walk away. She was going to meet up with Malko to come up with a plan to catch the thieves.
The two students met at a junction not too far off from the crossroads. Both students had plenty of energy as they were ready to continue the pursuit.
"Where did they go?" Olivia asked as she wanted directions on where the thieves ran off to. Malko looked around as she spotted a student in a light blue uniform running off with snacks and in the middle of them were the Megachips.
"That way!" Malko pointed as she and Olivia took up the pursuit and to chase down the student to get their snacks back.
Pomorie and her friends were oblivious to the thievery going on as they had a match to focus on. It was a fifteen on fifteen tank match this time. The twist was the flag tank was going to be the key to winning. The Vickers and Matilda drove off as they went to seek enemies to destroy. They were the most experienced of the crews and could do a lot of damage.
"See anything?" Pomorie asked Istria if they could spot any tanks. Looking down. Dalmatia got a glimpse of what appeared to be the main force.
"Yeah their M3 Lee flag tank. Being accompanied by a few M3 Stuarts." Dalmatia described what the tanks were. The Panzer 3 was off somewhere else being guarded by the tankettes. On the opposite side of the ridge lay the Panzer 2, The FT-17's and R35's. Their plan was to envelope the tanks on the move to trap the flag tank to prevent it from escaping. First they needed to soften the enemy up.
"Fire!" Istria gave the order to all the tanks on the ridges. Both ridges opened fire as they wanted to see what they could knock out in the opening wave of fire. Shells rained down as an M3 Stuart was hit with five shots. The tank spluttered as it was knocked out. The M3 Lee and most of the remaining Stuarts moved to face against the ridge where most of the tanks were stationed. They began to fire down onto the ground above them. The tanks had the height advantage as shells fell short of their position. A couple of the tanks turned as they began to face off against Dalmatia and Pomorie while the others continued to have their tails to the wind.
"How do you want to go through with this?" Istria asked as her loader prepared a shot for Dalmatia to fire.
"How about we knock out one tank at a time, our guns on one tank will be more than enough if we're going to be able to take out these light tanks." Pomorie explained her plan. The two Stuarts opened fire as their shells began to strike the hill. The turrets rotated as they prepared to open fire on Pomorie's position. Pomorie knew that she was going to let them attack first before they would move in to prepare the finishing move.
"Sounds good to me." Istria gave her response as the M3 Stuarts opened fire. The shells landed on the hill as a rainbow of colors were exposed. Pomorie and Istria prepared to take their foes on.
"Get them!" Pomorie gave her order to open fire. The tanks opened up as their first shots landed head on into the frontal armor of the Stuart. A white flag popped out as that tank had been knocked out. The remaining Stuart traversed its turret as it attempted to fire on the Vickers. The shot landed short of its target like usual and the tanks on the ridge can now focus their fire on the remaining Stuart. Once getting their sightings correct, they opened up as their shots had the same results, hitting the front armor and the engine simultaneously. Another white flag popped from the Stuart tank as Pomorie and Istria tried to decide what to do next.
"I think we should take the opportunity and take on the M3 Lee and call it a match." Istria suggested. Pomorie knew that she wanted to do this as well.
"Right on, let's go." Pomorie responded with her usual vigor. Her vickers plowed forward as the Matilda 2 followed up from the rear, they were now heading downhill and straight into what remained of the group. Pomorie didn't know however that two Valentine tanks were on their way and were going to run straight into their ambush.
Olivia and Malko had chased down the thief to get their Megachips back. Little did they know that they were about to be outnumbered. The girl kept running as a voice came out.
"Halt!" She shouted. Malko and Olivia stopped in their tracks as the girl they were chasing had been joined by her friend, a tall girl with a blue and white cap and her short friend with red hair in twin tails. "You think you two are here to stop us as we were the one that took the food?" She asked. She strummed her Kantele as she giggled. "That's the direction the wind will blow."
"Listen we might think you were the one who decided to take all of the food. We saw your friend make a run for it with my Megachips! I want them back." Malko told them to give them back her snack. The tall girl just strummed her Kantele as she looked at them with a calmness in her eyes. The girl with the red twintails was busy stuffing her face with the megachips. This made Malko angry. She then came to a deal.
"We'll fight you if you agree." She decided. Malko and Olivia nodded as she giggled she had three and they had two. Malko cracked her knuckles as she was itching for a fight.
"Okay Olivia, I'll take the short twerps on and you focus on their leader." Malko devised a plan. Olivia didn't know if that would work.
"You're against two and I'm against one, is that fair?" Olivia asked Malko.
"Yeah that seems fair now get ready." Malko responded. Olivia grabbed for her Karabiner 98k rifle as she shoved a stripper clip into the rifle before closing it. The red headed student charged at them first as she tried running as fast as possible but with all of the food she had to eat, this made her a much slower target. Olivia just needed to line up her sights and Bam! She fired as a golden paintball splattered over the side of the girl's head.
The girl was slowed down significantly as her blonde friend came running in. Malko approached the first girl and slammed her fist into the first girl, knocking her away a bit. She reeled around and tried hitting Malko but Malko stepped away as she grabbed the girl's wrist and flung her to the side, she wanted to deal with her later. Her blonde friend was right behind as Malko turned suddenly and punched her right fist into her cheek. She was knocked away as Malko knew she needed to focus on her. She swings her hands around hitting Malko a couple of times but her flailing wasn't going to do much. Malko blocked the flailing and spun her leg around, kicking her in the side. She was pushed back as Malko raced forth to continue to fight her.
Olivia was facing off against the ringleader of the group as she came running forward. Olivia cocked the rifle and fired instantly, the red paintball missed as Olivia cocked the bolt trying to get another shot off. The girl rushed in within range and proceeded to punch Olivia on the cheek. Olivia was knocked back as the girl tried to throw another punch into her. She threw her fist into Olivia but found something made contact and it was hard. Olivia had blocked her punch with her rifle. She pulled her hand back and threw another punch in. Olivia dodged it as she took the opportunity to finish rechambering her rifle and sling it to her back. Now she was more prepared to engage this threat. The girl rushed in and tried to punch Olivia again but Olivia blocked her with her own hand as she flipped herself over and spun around kicking the girl with her own feet. She got up as the girl kicked Olivia in the face. The Kuromorimine student was knocked back a bit but threw three punches in retaliation. Two struck her in the face and the last one in the shoulder. Her foe was knocked back as she decided to look at Malko who was fighting off two opponents at once. The girl rushed in as Olivia decided to thwart her as she kicked her back. The girl was taken off guard as Olivia kicked her again in the stomach. She was knocked back more before Olivia punched her in the chin. The student not having enough of her rushed to Olivia as she tried to kick her down but Olivia simply leaned back and countered her rush as she kicked her down. She simply tumbled as Olivia rushed in to hopefully punch her again. She countered Olivia by hitting her jaw with her knee. Olivia had been pushed back but she leaped in as she wanted to kick her in the chest. Olivia grabbed her leg with one hand and pushed it back before grabbing her body with the other hand and slamming her down on some flimsy wooden crates. The crates shattered as Olivia punched her hard, and again and the final time with her left hand being the hardest. The girl with what strength she had left grabbed a glass bottle and smashed it into Olivia's face to act as a distraction. The bottle shattered as the girl got up. Olivia was stunned for a moment before regaining her focus. This fight was going to be a brutal one.
Pomorie and her tanks meanwhile were dealing with the Partisans still. They were within main range as four of their tanks remained. The two valentine tanks had just arrived as Pomorie decided to stop. The tanks fired at the vickers as the Vickers reversed suddenly to avoid the shots. Its rear slammed onto the back of the Matilda 2 as that said tank fired. The shot struck one of the Valentine tanks from the side as that tank was knocked out. The remaining Valentine tank fired as the shot struck the Matilda 2's front armor, doing little to stop the tank. Pomorie's vickers sped on ahead while this Matilda 2 was going to finish the remaining bugger off. The tank fired as the remaining Valentine tank had been knocked out. It went ahead to support its friend in the battle against the flag tank.
The tanks on the opposing ridge began their assault as the Matilda 2 fired again, the turret of the M3 Lee was struck as the tank tried to face down the threat. The Vickers tank got within comfortable firing distance as shells from the opposing ridge. Shells rained down from all sides as the crew didn't know who to focus on, surely this would be their downfall? The 75mm gun in the hull fired as it knocked out an R35 that was coming down the hill. Pomorie knew with its tail turned to the wind, she will have a window of opportunity. She fired into the rear of the tank as the first shot didn't do much to damage the engine. She fired again as the second shot yielded better results but it wasn't enough. The Matilda 2 decided to hell with this as it fired a shot, the shot struck the rear of the tank as it spluttered and came to a halt. A white flag popped out as The Croatian Gang managed to secure another victory.
Once the field had been cleaned out, they attempted to interrogate their leader to see what she had. Barbera walked forth as she had a few choice questions for their commander.
"Okay Now we're going to ask you this once so I suggest you pay attention. Do you have a BT-5?" Barbera began. The student began to speak.
"We don't, we just received a few Valentine light tanks from Darjeeling and that was it, we didn't receive any BT's." She told Barbera as Dalmatia was taking notes. Barbera wasn't too convinced.
"We'll see about that." Barbera told her as she looked at Dalmatia for the evidence. "I say she's completely guilty as we know that she has a BT-5 on her team." Dalmatia looked up.
"We only saw Stuarts, Valentines and a M3 Lee. Tocai told me that she only saw R-35's and a T-32 so no BT-5's in their force." Dalmatia decided to go over her evidence. Barbera was convinced that Dalmatia was trying to present the truth but she didn't want to hear the truth. She wanted to hear her truth. She took out the remote and shocked Dalmatia hard. Erika noticed this as she walked over to Barbera and took the shock remote away giving Dalmatia room to breathe.
"Barbera I've had enough of you trying to electrocute your fellow team-mates. I'm taking over this interrogation." Erika was fed up with her as she walked over to the student as she began to present the same question to her.
"Now is it true you have a BT-5?" Erika asked her. She began to speak.
"We only have the M3 Lee, a T-32, several R-35's, M3 Stuarts and Valentine tanks, we haven't received any tanks from Pravda when we made this team." She responded. Erika nodded as she walked over and continued to speak.
"Oh okay then. So if there were no BT tanks that your team owns, we can come to a single conclusion. It must be the BT-42." Erika told them as she removed Dalmatia's shock collar from her neck. Dalmatia felt free to breathe as she knew she was no longer going to be electrocuted. Malko and Olivia pulled up into the BT-42 as they were carrying several students that they managed to catch. Both Malko and Olivia were beaten to a pulp. Malko had a black eye, several scratches across her face and several bruises from the fight. Olivia had a black eye, a bloody nose, a busted lip, several cuts on her cheek with glass in a couple of them and bruises all over.
"We found the food raiders we went after." Malko responded as she pulled the bag off of one of them. Tied up and gagged was a student in a light blue and white uniform with light brown hair and a blue and white hat on her head.
"MIKA!" Erika and Maho said in unison. Two more bags were taken off as they were Mika's friends, Aki and Mikko.
"We found Aki was stealing food and Mikko was eating like a giant snake trying to fit it all into her system. She was easy to deal with as she had a bellyache. Mika was a pain to deal with, Olivia was beaten up pretty badly by her." Malko told the Kuromorimine students who were behind in the food stealing. She took off the gag from Mika as Mika began to speak.
"We were only borrowing the food, we promised to return it to you." Mika lied as she wanted to tell Maho what her true intentions were. Maho wasn't so keen on listening to her.
"We'll see about that. Check her." Maho ordered Erika. Erika walked over as she began checking Mika, she found a bulge in one of Mika's pockets and decided to stick her hand inside. She pulled out several cookies as Istria gasped.
"It was her all along? So she was the one stealing our food!" Barbera realized that Dalmatia was telling the truth all along. Erika walked over as she looked at Mikko.
"I'm taking this girl to the nurse's office, she's beginning to look a little green." Erika told Maho what her intentions were. Maho nodded as she began to escort a battered Olivia back to her school.
"I'm going to take my friend to get treated for her injuries. Get yourselves home." Maho told the others as she was helping Olivia into the Drache. Istria looked at Pomorie and her friends.
"Thanks for helping out with today's match, we couldn't have done it without you." Istria told Pomorie. Malko walked into the plane as Koprinka guided the Vickers into their plane. She strapped the tank into the plane as the plane began to whirl with their departure. Pomorie had an eventful day today. A match against a foe that was innocent. She smirked as there will be many more matches ahead. Even though there were still four more months in this year left, there were still a lot more matches to come.
[A/N]: Another Partisan match done as a new month is around the corner. With each chapter this story just keeps getting longer. So might as well set up a goal. Let's reach five reviews before spring happens. When Spring comes we might set ourselves up with more possibilities. Keep an eye out for more chapters. Goodbye.