"Бързата работа - срам за майстора."
"Hasty work - Shame for the craftsmen"
New year new students, they say some moved on, some are introduced to handle the workload and others are recycled. However their seeds will hold something meaningful as they are planted into the ground and will grow to where they could be harvested. For a girl with chocolatey brown hair, the introduction to what appeared to be a farmer's life is an understatement.
Boarding the new school ship she was assigned to a grain freighter boat named MS Vasil Levsky along with a small bus load of other students, she was soon being shipped off to the school. Along the way, they were passing through farm fields as the ship wasn't very big, only about 2.29 miles long. It also was also very sparse with most of it being agricultural fields. They soon made it to the aft part of the ship which was the most populated area of the vessel and even then it looked like a small town. Pulling up to the school, they soon got off as the girl looked around to get an eyeful of her surroundings. The buildings she could see were overwhelmingly built from wood, the roofs sloped and covered with shingles, some of which were showing their age. What more, she noted the relative silence in this town. Though it was where most of the people on board lived, there was this sense of tranquility in the area. A town that looked like it was off the beaten path. Had it been on the mainland, it would have certainly been nestled in some forest. Was she being sent to a farming school? She began thinking that but she soon walked in. At the front desk there was a line upon which students were getting their uniforms, keys to their dorms as well as listing their names to see who they were. Soon it was her turn as she soon stepped over to the desk. The person or rather student that was greeting the newcomers as they walked in, this girl had a face full of freckles as her hair was a wavy brown, around her neck was a white scarf as if she wanted to keep her neck warm.
"Oh hello, who are you and if you say your name, sign here." The girl told her as she was telling the student to sign in. The girl scratched the back of her head as she began to think. She soon began to speak as she knew who she was.
"My name is Pomorie, nice to meet you." Pomorie introduced herself. She soon took the pen as she began writing her name down. The girl soon looked up as she soon began to speak, introducing herself to Pomorie.
"My name is Varna and nice to meet you Pomorie." Varna introduced herself. She knew she didn't want to keep the other students waiting and needed to get her out of the way for the time being. She soon decided to hand Pomorie her uniform as well as the keys to her dorm. The key to the dorm had a chain on there that on the end had read the numbers of 417. Floor 4, room 17. She soon decided to get a head as she began walking off to find the room.
Pomorie soon found the room as the door had the numbers on it but it kind of looked run down to fit the atmosphere of the school. She soon looked at the key as she put it into the door to unlock it. She soon turned the key to see what direction she could unlock it in and it mainly turned to the left. Opening the door to her new dorm, she found it to be spartan in design. Just the bare essentials were within. A simple bed with a wooden frame, with a desk situated opposite of the bed. A window in between the two was present, which gave Pomorie a pleasant view of the campus below. The curtains on the window looked like they were handcrafted here, their texture a bit rough. The only 'luxury' in her room was a small fridge to keep certain foods and drink cold and to prevent them from spoiling. She spent some time getting her things in order, such as getting her clothes stored nicely into the closet. Thereafter, she got to work already personalizing her dorm. Personal items that she brought from home were put on meticulous display on both her desk and on the window sill. The most numerous of her personal effects were, interestingly enough, snow globes. Pomorie had a deep love for the little trinkets, and over the years, scoured places like yard sales and thrift ships to build up a nice collection. They included things like famous Japanese landmarks, such as Mount Fuji, to popular characters in media in entertaining poses as 'snow' fell upon them when shook. Her favorite kind of snowglobes were ones of cities. Tokyo, London, and Las Vegas were the ones that brought her the most joy.
A knock was heard as if it came from the other room as if someone was also moving in. Pomorie soon opened up the door as she was looking out. The room 418 was having a massive move in as someone was currently carrying a lot of luggage. Outside was a girl tall for her height. She was wearing a pair of thick glasses as her hair was dark as night. She was getting help from another student as she was moving in. That student was Varna.
"I know sitting at a desk job to fill in for their break was hard enough but I still need to get my stuff to my dorm." Varna told the student she was helping move in, she was carrying about 5 bags worth of stuff. She soon turned to her as she began to speak.
"Yeah because family expected me to move out when they said I was heading to a dorm with my stuff." She replied. Pomorie looked at the two of them as Varna was able to spot her again. She soon began speaking as she wanted to greet her.
"Oh Pomorie, I didn't know your dorm was right here, my dorm is 419." Varna told her as she adjusted her scarf. Pomorie looked at her as she began speaking to her friend.
"I heard a noise as I decided to look out here to see what it was and as it turned out to be." Pomorie soon responded as she wanted to see what it was. The girl soon began to speak as she wanted to introduce herself.
"Well Varna, this girl is…" Her voice trailed off as she didn't get any introduction to who she was. Varna began to speak as she said the girl's name.
"Pomorie, Pomorie, this is Rila, she's going to be your dorm neighbor." Varna introduced her to Rila. Rila soon walked forth as she began to shake her hand.
"I wish we were your dorm neighbor but you're might as well mine, how was your room when you first moved in?" Rila asked her if she knew how her layout was. Pomorie soon looked out as she began to speak.
"Nothing too special, everything at least has the essentials." Pomorie responded as she looked out to her friends. Varna looked at her as she began speaking.
"We're all new here but this is mostly a farming school, we do have a lot of money but to buy tanks and stuff they charge outrageous prices." Varna knew what she meant by their school being one of the smaller ones. Pomorie looked at her as she heard tanks.
"Tanks? What are those? And does the school have them?" Pomorie asked curiously. Varna looked at her as she began to speak.
"Yes the do from what I have gathered from the brochure they got seven tanks so far being light tanks and they are willing to expand their collection, they have two tanks which they bought and converted them into tractors. But the Sensha-Do program wishes to expand." Varna told Pomorie about the tanks. Rila walked over as she soon began to speak.
"Sorry if I might be interrupting something but I wish to see what our uniforms look like plus our first of small classes will begin, much of the day is farming." Rila responded as they soon knew they needed to change into their uniforms and attend their class.
The girls were walking to class after they changed into their uniforms about ten minute later. Their uniforms consisted of a white shirt uniform with denim blue skirts. On the front of their shirts was a little rose pin as Varna was still talking about.
"...this school is famous for its roses which we do a good chunk of the rose oil among the schools. That is where most of our revenue comes in but we also do agricultural contracts for the other schools like, wheat for Anzio since they make really good pasta, yellow Potatoes for Saunders, Onions for Pravda and Sweet Potatoes for a really small school named Oarai which has been circulating the media for the past few days, they just won their Sensha-Do tournament last year." Varna told them as they all went to their class. They soon took seats at the front as this class which was going to be an hour long and basically will serve as an introduction to what they were going to do for most of the year. Soon three students walked in as they were going to be the heads of the school. The first student was a light blonde student with her hair tied into a braid. The second one had her sleeves rolled over as her hair was black, the last student was a fiery, beautiful girl with ginger hair. She looked over as she soon began to introduce herself.
"Hello my name is Srebarna, and welcome to Yogurt Academy, we would like to say we are looking for new students to join the upcoming Sensha-Do team, following the events from the summer, we are looking for young, bright students to help with this years matches, since the matches are going to be free for all, we don't know who we might be paired up with or against so I expect those that want to sign up, sign this piece of paper and drop it off at my office, practice will begin tomorrow but for now we got a little presentation." Srebarna introduced herself as the blonde student walked over and decided to set up the projection. With the room darkened, she soon began playing the clip of how this sport will play itself out and what it meant.
The moment the show started, the room erupted in a shower of thunderous cannon fire as a series of tanks firing was shown in rapid succession. Any students who happened to be dozing off in their seats were certainly now awake and paying full attention to the screen ahead of them. An excited energy existed in each girl in the room as their eyes opened wide, gazed upon the steel machines on the film that captivated them all. This montage of tanks in action was more than enough to persuade some members of the audience to take up Sensha-Do as an elective, yet there was more to come. In the next scene, a Tiger was shown driving around a dusty road as a narrator began to speak.
"Sensha-Do is a sport involving armored fighting vehicles in a competitive setting. It is to empower and strengthen the woman who operates them in matches here and around the world. It has been shown that any women who participates in Sensha-do get better their studies, improve their careers, and become better wives and mothers."
Even those among the audience who weren't too familiar with Sensha-Do did know that the sport was all about female empowerment, an aspect that convinced others who had no knowledge whatsoever about tanks to take up the sport, as the benefits were tantalizing. Plus, being part of a sports team makes someone popular, getting them special attention from others. Who wouldn't want that? The film continued with its narration as the Tiger tank performed maneuvers on screen to the entertainment of the audience.
"Sensha-Do matches are conducted in two manners; flag match and annihilation. A flag match involves a designated vehicle on each team. The objective is to immobilize the other team's flag tank to achieve victory. In an annihilation match, victory can only be made through the total destruction of the other team's tank force."
Once the narrator concluded with explaining the basics of how Sensha-Do matches are conducted, another montage of action was played, this time, showing footage of relatively recent Sensha-Do matches. One that was a real crowd pleaser was a clip from the final match of a Sensha-Do tournament from the previous year. It showed a Panzer IV facing down the legendary Tiger. The two tanks engaged in a duel that was the pure definition of tension. Volleys were exchanged but only barely missed. At the end, with the maneuver of the Panzer IV drifting around to the Tiger's rear, snapping its tracks in the process, and knocking it out, that made those who still had reservations pull the trigger. The lights were switched back on as the projector finished its presentation. Students dispersed back outside and a good chunk of them were totally enamored with Sensha-Do and were committed to joining their school's own team. This included Pomorie, her mind occupied by only one thing; steel and firepower.
"Any questions?" Srebarna asked as she wanted to see if anyone had anything to ask about the program. Pomorie had nothing to say as she was still looking at the schools. Srebarna and the others got up and left the scene as they were no longer needed. Rila looked at Varna and Pomorie as she had a few questions for them.
"Anyone interested in joining since I want to be the one to duel a big cat." Rila asked if the two of them were interested in joining, Rila was excited as she wanted to see what it was to be a part of their program. Varna looked at her as she was more than interested as she looked up and began to speak.
"Yeah I am, I want to be the one to take out the tank." Varna looked at Pomorie who showed some interest but also some concern as she was having second thoughts.
"You sure we won't get injured or worse yet killed?" Pomorie asked as she didn't know what was going to happen if they joined but Varna looked over to her as she began to speak.
"If you don't stand in front of the tank when it comes along then yes. The rounds they use are brand new paintball rounds that just came with the ordinance from what I have gathered, the old rounds are not only dangerous but were deemed obsolete and are no longer in use." Varna explained as Rila soon began speaking again.
"In this case I think we should say that we should join the Sensha-Do club. It could be something we should be very interested in." Rila soon chose the program. Varna followed along as Pomorie was thinking about it. She soon came to the conclusion that if she was going to be with her friends, she needed to get into the tank.
"Okay I will join if it makes you two happy." Pomorie responded as she circled off Sensha-Do for her elective. They knew they were going to hang onto these cards as they will be attending the program tomorrow after their skills and chores were done.
The three of them were getting onto a ride and the ride for their first year was going to be a crazy one.
[A/N]: I went on a hiatus to bring you this. This story will greatly expand the universe that the other two stories have left off. It will be picking up with the free for all matches I mentioned in the last story as we are going to be focusing on some of the more minor and forgotten schools.
This took so long as we had to create characters and get them together for about 5 different schools as these schools are small and don't have that big of a tank force and would be relying on a bigger school to help them out as they aren't in a true alliance and just working toward common goals.
The minor schools are listed of these of the following: Magyar Girl's Academy, Gregor High School, (As a puppet of Kuromorimine) Yogurt Academy, Count High School and one of the gangs of SSISSN in the form of Croatia.
Also a big thank you to fanfic/Discord user AAHW who helped me with creating a large bulk of the Oc's and helping out with this first chapter, if chapters come out not as frequently, it's because we're tag-teaming to get this done. Go check out AAHW's works, as I will say that you will be in for a treat. See you next chapter. Goodbye.