Kat Pulled out her microphone, and called down to her crew, "Akina, fire on sight, Amber get the shells at the ready, Julia, take the lead in front of all the tanks." and she popped her head back out of the hatch.

"Hai!" They call. Kat nods, and she calls to her tanks.

"OK everyone! We will take the lead. I want locust L1 to go ahead and scout for us. Flag tank, stay towards the back. Shermans S3 and S4 take the right side and left of the tank." She orders.

"Well Leader, I'll let you do all the talking, because it seems I wont' be needing to do anything." Kaitlyn says as she relaxes in her tank.

Kat watches as Locust L1 begins to slowly disappears into the forest. She sighs, and slumps back down. Action won't arrive for another while, and she knew it. The Sherman, still at steady speed, followed the Locust, just barely out of sight. Kat didn't know what to expect, but she knew that this unknown school was not gonna take kindly for them

Kat got back onto the radio, and called to her teammates, "Ok, S5 and L2 I want you both to flank our right positions, and keep the defense for our flag tank." She set the radio down, and looked over at Sherman 5 and Locust 2 as they drifted to the right.

Kat began to slump down in her tank again, but her radio roared to life, and Locust 1's radio operator yelled into her radio, "CONTACT! I see them ahead!" Kat rushed and picked up her radio

"This is S1, how far are they from you?" She asked the operator.

"Around 1000 yards from our current position." The operator answered .

"What is your location?" Kat demands, as the tanks lurch forward, faster than before.

"We're on a small hill, just outside the forets." The operator answers, this time in a hurried voice.

"And how many tanks are there?" Kat demands again.

"I think, there are 5." Comes the answer. Kat turns to her other tanks, and signals them to surge forward.

On the hill, Kay watches, grinning and stuffing her face with popcorn. "Darjy, we might have contact soon!" She says excitedly.

Darjeeling nods, but doesn't say anything. She calmly picks up her tea cup and takes a sip. Orange Pekoe stands by her side, her hands clasped, looking at the screen intently. Assam, behind Darjeeling, was on her computer figuring out the stats to win.

Kay breaks the silence again. "Hey Darjy, how about a bet? If I win, you have to buy me, well, something that I'll figure out later on. If you win, I'll have to buy you, hmmmmm. Tea!"

Darjeeling opens her mouth to speak but Rosehip speaks for her. "That sounds like a deal, desu wa!" Darjeeling looks at Rosehip, a tint of wonder, confusion and anger in her gaze. Rosehip doesn't seem to mind.

Kay breaks into a bigger grin. "Its on! We're gonna win this, right Alisa?" She looks over at her friend. Alisa, half asleep, doesn't make a sound. "Hey!" Kay yells, startling Alisa.

"Woah! What's happening?!" Alisa looks around. Kay laughs at her friend, and Alisa's face flushes. Naomi gives a snicker, but the Glorianas team, apart from Rosehip, don't laugh, or pay attention.

"Pekoe-san? Can you fetch me some more tea?" Darjeeling asks, still looking towards the screen.

"Yes Darjeeling-sama." She replies, and walks off to get Darjeeling more tea. Kay still laughing, looks back over at Darjeeling.

"Is- is the best- still on?" She says through each laugh.

"I suppose. Rosehip has already volunteered us, I will not turn down the bet." Darjeeling answers. Kay pumps her fist in the air with a cheer.

Katsumi's crew breaks through the forest, and out into the open. The British tanks are slowly getting closer. In the middle fo them all, is Kiri's tank, the Black Prince. She the five tanks slowly make it over another hill and stop.

"Kat! Do we have permission to fire?" Kaityln yells into the radio, just as the Black prince and the British tanks open fire.

"Permission granted." Kat yells just as Akina fires a shot. Another nine follow in suit, and the pinging of the British tanks being hit.

"We got none of 'em!" The S2 radio operator yelled. Kat looked down to Akina.

"Take your time, there's only 5 of them, just aim and fire." Kat says calmly, and pops her head out of the hatch again. Another 5 bursts of rounds and Kats Sherman rocks backwards. "Shi-" She begins to curse when another 5 shots from the side hit one of the Locusts to her right.

"Captain! We're out!" L4 calls. Kat looks over, and to her doubts, a white flag and smoke are coming from the tank. Behind it, 5 tanks emerge from the forest.

"Fuck! Full retreat!" Kat calls into her radio, and the tanks begins to reverse and turn around. Another tank is hit, and crashes into hers, and Kat his her head into the porthole.

"Guns are firing everywhere, everyones panicking, what do I do?" Katsumi thinks to herself amidst the chaos.

"Captain, we're trapped by the damn Brits! What do we do from here?" Akina yells as she fires into the mass of Churchills and Matildas. "Captain, can you hear me? Kat!"

Katsumi opens her mouth to respond to the situation, but nothing comes out.

It had only been a couple of minutes since the match had started, and immediately fell into the hands of the devil.

Anka yells into the radio for everyone to group up, but all Katsumi can hear is the thumping of her heart.

In a panic her team is trying to defend their outpost without success. Amber in the heat of the moment, throws in the shell, while Akina fires.

Nothing.

Her heart drops as she watches it fly by the tanks.

The 75mm shell bounces backwards, almost hitting Katsumi, but she doesn't even flinch.

Anka calls for everyone to fall back, and while everyone is busy retreating Kat can do nothing but watch as the chaos begins to unfold. One after another after another the Shermans begin to fall.

Their defense point had gotten wrecked.

Kat felt her soul go into despair.

A single tear drop produces from her eye as each and every white flag begins to pop up.

Chaos soon engulfs the situation. Katsumi's Sherman begins to speed away.

The British Captain smiles as she watches the Shermans and Locusts begin to flee the scene.

"Fire." Kiri says as she calmly commands her tanks forward.

Shots ring out in the air as more sounds of tanks being hit come pounding into Kat's ears.

Kat looks down on her team's faces. Amber looks in worry looking side to side in sheer fear, Akina's face turns stone cold as she looks wearily down at their driver, Julia, who has tears running down her face as she hears the amount of tanks taken down left and right.

The only thing that Kat could see was another defeat they were going to bring back, which dragged her soul deeper into despair.

Kay is watches as another tank is knocked out, only three tank remain. Darjeeling smiling, takes another casual sip of tea. "Kay? Hows the match going."

She looks over at Darjeeling, but she smiles back. "We'll win, trust me. I can tell." Kay looks back over to Alisa and Naomi. Naomi nods her head, but Alisa's dazed off again. She sighs, and looks back on the screen. "Come on." She mutters under her breath.

Assam has a smug look on her face. As Kay watches another tank taken out.

The forest continues on, Kat quietly sits there. The shock of her tanks being taken out, how they had been tricked by a simple play, and the blow to her head.

"Kat? You ok there?" Akina asks. Julia calms herself down as they burst through the forest onto an open field.

"Ye- yeah. I think." Kat says robotically. She picks up her radio, her hand shaking. "Is- is there anyone still alive?"

"Yes Kat." A voice replies, followed by Anka's voice. "Kaitlyns been taken out, Locusts 1,2,3,4 and 5 are out. Its us Shermans now. I can't believe out flag tank made it out of that."

Kat calmly, but shaking, replies "Ok, just regroup over that hill to the right, max speed, we don't want them to see we went over there."

"Gotcha."

Kat looks back down at her crew. "We'll turn this around, I promise."

Anka pops out of her turret she waves to Kat. Kat looks over, and understands what her next move is.

"How are we looking?" Kiri asks inside her tank to her crew.

"We knocked out seven tanks, but we couldn't get the flag tank." Her radio operator says. Kiri even though smiling, feels a bit of annoyance.

"How couldn't we get the flag tank? It's in the open!" Kiri cried.

"The- they had a goo- good defense ma'am!" Her gunner stuttered, "They had protected it with every tank they had!"

Kiri groans, and then picks up her radio, muttering "I really need a better crew. Alright everyone listen up! Everyone forward, no order, the plan is to take out all tanks no matter the cost, we're winning this no matter what!"

The radio erupts with all the radio operators all replying with Hai!

She sits back, and takes a sip of tea. "Lady Darjeeling would be so proud of me right now." She thinks to herself as they enter the forest.