Chapter 3:Combined Arms Championship: "Life comes full circle."
Johnnie had spent the last few hours aboard the St Gloriannas carrier going round with The group that is a part of the Tea Garden.
Johnnie:From what I saw of the ship from the sky it seems to be very similar to the ark royal carrier
Darjeeling: Yes all the Sensha-do schools are on Carriers and ours is based on the Ark Royal
Johnnie:(under his breath)Lucky bastards
Darjeeling: Did you say something
Johnnie: No it's cool to see that your the school the ark royal was commissioned to have on
Johnnie: Trenchard is on the HMS Argus
Darjeeling:interesting
They walked past Johnnie's spitfire
Johnnie: this is my spitfire
Rosehip:Yo Johnnie can In Fly in your spitfire it looks so cool desu-wa
Johnnie: You Do know it is a single seat aircraft right Rosehip
Rosehip: i will just fly it in my own then desu-wa
Johnnie:do you even know how hard it is to fly and also I do not want my plane destroyed because of your antics
Assam: How did you even get get a spitfire in this condition they are quite rare to find
Johnnie: I could asked the same about your school and how they get tanks
Assam:Fair point
They carry on there walk
Orange pekoe: How many planes does the school have?
Johnnie: 31 but some are not in the best condition we only barely have enough planes to have the max for the final, though we do have a few in repair and construction though
Assam: What are the different planes?
Johnnie: 7 Spitfires, 3 Scout spitfires, 7 Hurricanes, 6 Mosquitoes, 7Westlands,
1 Gloster meteor
Assam: A gloster meteor only 210 of them were built before the end of the war, How Did you get one
Johnnie: I have some friends in high places let's say
Johnnie:Oh speaking of friends in high places I should tell you something about me and the rest of the school commander of the aviation academies
Darjeeling: and that is?
Johnnie: you know how I said we all come from the nation the school represents
Darjeeling: yes?
Johnnie: that's not the only thing that makes us special, you see we all descend from Aces that fought in WW2 with only one exception
Darjeeling: That person being?
Johnnie: Axel Richtoffen captain of the Hoeppner academy squadron
Assam: the Red Baron?
Johnnie: yes that being an exception because he fought in ww1
Darjeeling: So who do you descend from then?
Johnnie:James Edgar Johnson more commonly known as 'Johnnie' Johnson
Darjeeling: so that is where the Nickname is from.
Johnnie: yeah(he chuckled)
Darjeeling: and you tell us this because?
Johnnie: Being from these family's us commanders have special things we can do during battles that have been passed down.
Assam: so you are naturally better than some pilots
Johnnie: the one problem is when someone's special ability goes out of control. And this Special ability is less based on family and more based on country
Darjeeling: what happens
Johnnie:I will you mine as an example, I have a natural ability to fight back no matter how small the chances of winning are and to never surrender
Darjeeling: Noble cause reminds me of Britain in the war
Assam: so what is the problem then
Johnnie: when in control it is brilliant, when out of control it is terrifying
The girls seemed to be taken aback by this
Johnnie: In short when out of control it makes me become so hell bent on not losing that I get a complete disregard for my safety and the safety of others even potentially going as far as to win by ANY means necessary.
Darjeeling: Surely you have never lossed control
Assam: but then how would you know so much
Johnnie:(lifts up his trouser leg revealing a massive scar from knee to ankle) because I have gone out of control before
The girls seemed slightly distressed at the scar on his leg
Orange pekoe: What happend?
Johnnie:The last time I was in a combined arms tournament
Assam: you have been in one before but I thought this was the first one in Japan
Johnnie:yes because it was not in Japan, combined arms tournaments are popular in Europe its how I first met some of the commanders
Darjeeling: So how did you get the scar
Johnnie: in this tournament SPAA was allowed and was crewed by boys due to them being part of the Aviation schools ground crews and I ended up getting shot down behind enemy lines and soon an SPAA tank was approaching
Darjeeling:what happened?
Johnnie: as I was getting out the plane they fired
Assam: that is not safe though
Johnnie:Exactly it is banned to fire at a crashed plane
Darjeeling: so where does the scar come in
Johnnie: I was hit by a bit of shrapnel from a round
Johnnie: However, My ability activated out of my control
Orange Pekoe: What happened when you lost control
Johnnie: You know how I said when out of control I have no regard for the safety of myself and others
Darjeeling:Yes?
Johnnie:well I can't really remember I just remember lying there on the ground near another commander
Orange pekoe: who was it
Johnnie: Richtoffen
Assam:The hoeppner captain, what did he do
Johnnie: from what I remember he tried to stop the SPAA but was hit aswell
Johnnie: I have always thanked him for it, and now we are going to be able to come full circle with some of the other commanders this tournament
Darjeeling: Full circle?
Johnnie: in the commanders group we are all mates
Johnnie, but in that group there is a smaller group with an inseparable bond between us
Darjeeling:who is in this group
The girls stood shocked at what he said
Orange Pekoe: why do that
Johnnie: it so that if any of us or anyone else losses control we can manage it whilst causing minimum damage and if it was not for them I probably would be dead by now or in prison
Girls: …
Johnnie:Sorry for telling you guys all that
Darjeeling: No, we should thank you, in fact we now know why you look so worried at the announcement
Johnnie:thanks girls, lets do our best in this tournament not just for me but for Both schools