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It's been a couple of days, the carrier is already out at sea, and the Ooarai girls has gathered at the hanger for an important meeting hearing the banging of a wrench hitting an empty bucket.
"Is everyone present?" Anzu asked aloud then the Anglerfish Team were the last to arrive.
"That looks to be everyone," Yuzu noted.
"Good, we all know why we're all here, right?" Anzu asked the obvious.
"It's because of that mean jerk who wreck our game," one of the volleyball girls shouted and everyone else agreed.
"Let's just tell Miss. Chono to remove him from the carrier," the Moral Committee suggested.
"We tried that already," Momo noted with an irritated tone in her voice.
"What did she say?" they all asked.
"She said that she will try to keep a close watch on Mr. Daulton, but she's not kicking him off the carrier," Anzu explained leaving many of the girls to groan in disappointment.
"How can she just let someone off the hook so easily?" Caesar demanded to know.
"Miss. Chono stated that there's no evidence connecting Mr. Daulton to the incident that happened two days ago," Anzu noted.
"This is ridiculous, we all know he did it," Yukari spoke out.
"Yes, but with no further proof to point to him, Miss. Chono, can't do anything about it," Yuzu added.
"What are you saying?" They all asked.
"We're saying that we all have to suck it up and hopefully he'll slip up over time, til then he's untouchable," Anzu put it.
"As if! that jerk IS responsible and I'm not gonna stand around letting that meanie walk free," Saori gave a quick outburst.
"What are you on about, Saori?" Mako asked.
"I'm saying let's spy on him," she told them.
There was a moment of silence contemplating the idea that Saori proposed.
"Yeah, let's do it," they shouted all in agreement.
"Alright, looks like we're all on board with this, let's throw this no good punk off this ship," Momo said.
\Later/
Sitting at what is now his usual hang out spot Daulton was sitting at the very same table in front of the outdoor burger stand reading a newspaper and Anglerfish Team watching closely behind a bush with a pair of binoculars.
"C'mon do something nefarious," Saori said looking through the binoculars.
"Has he done anything yet?" Miho asked by her side.
"No, he still just reading that paper," Saori replied.
"Maybe Hippo Team got something," Yukari said texting between them quietly reading aloud, "Hey guys have you got anything?"
Hidding behind a wooden cut out of a tank, Hippo Team, have been listening in with a listening device pointing straight at Daulton trying to record anything he says.
"No, he's just humming to himself," Erwin texted back.
"Wait I think I got something," Oryou interrupted.
"What's he saying?" Saemonza asked trying to listen in as well, but Oryou shushed them.
"..." Listening very carefully Oryou's face suddenly blushes a light pink color.
"What? what is he saying?" Caesar asked and the team just peeked out of their hiding place seeing Daulton standing in front of the exposed grill looking over the sizzling patties.
"Oh yeah, that looks so... hot, so mouth watering, so juicy, I want it in my mouth so bad."
"Please tell me you're talking about the burger, sir," the cook asked.
"Shut up, Carl."
"My name's not, Carl."
"... What a weird guy," Erwin commented.
\Later/
Back at the hanger the Ooarai girls have returned to pull in what little information they've have gathered on Daulton.
"Alright so far our search for proof has been fruitless on our end, what about any of you guys?" Miho asked looking over her team.
"We've followed Mr. Daulton to a hardware store," Nozomi spoke up using a projector to show a photo of Daulton walking in.
"So he was gathering tools for his next attack," Momo inserted thinking they were onto something.
"Not... exactly," Midoriko chimed taking the remote to switch to the next slid.
All the girls gasps in surprise seeing the next picture taken was a shot of Daulton rubbing his butt onto the stores front window.
"Ah! we didn't need to see his bare ass on the glass!" Duck Team commented.
"Does anyone else have anything useful?" Momo asked slapping her own face.
"We have video of Mr. Daulton going into a karaoke bar," Anteater Team notified showing the video of Mr. Daulton singing 'Heat of the Moment' by Asia.
All the girls watched on in confusion as Daulton sung horribly, but confidently on stage with Rabbit Team shaking their heads to the beat as they were the only ones enjoying this.
"O.k... so he's just... fooling around... does any of you have ANYTHING on him?" Momo asked almost desperately, but everyone shook their heads.
"C'mon guys we can't just give up now, our livelihood is on the line," Yukari stepped up, but everyone just wasn't feeling it.
"Yukari, we'll just be wasting our time, besides the Sensha-Do federation decided we can redo the first match, we need to go prepare this time for St. Gloriana," Miho broke it to her.
Everybody in the garage groaned as they failed to get Daulton removed from the ship.
\The Next Five Days/
The Ooarai carrier has just hit port letting off Miho and her team for today's match, rolling off the ramp seeing the view of the town overall.
"Alright, let's hope we can avoid another one of Mr. Daulton's tricks," Miho emphasized to what happened last time.
Parking the tanks off at a private parking lot, the Ooarai girls took time to inspect their machines making sure nothing has been done to them, while Miho and the student council went to meet up with St. Gloriana.
"Why hello there Miss. Nishizumi, isn't it a glorious day for a tankery match, especially for a fresh cup of tea," Darjeeling greeted taking a sip from her beautiful porcelain cup.
"It's good to see you too," Miho smiled.
"Oh, before we head into battle is it true that a mysterious third party has rudely cost you the match with, Chi-Ha?" Darjeeling asked hearing the news from last week.
With that the girls gave a quick sigh before Miho responded back, "Well, yes our match with Chi-Ha was rudely interrupted," she answered.
"Really, who do you think has done such a thing?" Darjeeling asked further.
"Oh, we know exactly who done it," Anzu said.
"We just can't prove it," Yuzu added.
"I see, well let's hope for the best that something like that doesn't happen again," Darjeeling said confidently taking another sip of tea, "Let this be a match to remember."
Joining back with their team they saw that everything looked ready to go.
"Are the tanks ready to depart?" Miho asked and everyone replied with a yes.
"And have any of you seen any signs of you-know-who?" Momo wanted to know.
"No, ma'am, we haven't seen Mr. Daulton anywhere," Hana said.
"Or his little toys," Yukari added.
"That's good, maybe he stopped testing his luck," Anzu thought loud.
"Yeah... maybe, but be on the look out," Miho ordered.
After that everyone climbed into their tanks, fired up the engines, and they rode off to the battlefield.
\Thirty Minutes Later/
Sitting at the far end of the field the Ooarai girls ready themselves for the starting flare.
"This time there won't be any incident," Momo spoke up.
"Something's not right," Miho said.
"What is it Miho?" Hana asked turning back to her commander.
"I just have bad feeling in my gut," she responded and then her phone vibrated, "Hm?"
She takes out her phone flipping it open to see she had received a message, but the caller ID was labeled 'unknown', she opens the message seeing that a picture was sent to her that shocked Miho causing her to drop her phone.
"Miho! what's wrong?" Yukari asked concerningly.
However rather than answer her friends' Miho popped out of the Panzer waving her arms in the air, "WE SURRENDER!" she cried out before the game could even start much to the shock of everyone.
\Ten Minutes Later/
Darjeeling and the rest of St. Gloriana were completely confused to why Miho threw the match before the flare could even be fired and so went to see why.
"Miss. Nishizumi! Miss. Nishizumi!" Darjeeling called out then finally spotting the Ooarai girls gathered around Miho, "Miss. Nishizumi, why did you throw the match so abruptly?"
The Ooarai girls turned to see St. Gloriana coming over wondering why, but Miho was a little too timid for some reason, so Anzu answered for her.
"Remember the 'mysterious third party' we were just talking about?" she reminded.
"Yes, what about it?" Darjeeling asked.
"Because he broke into Miho's home and held her whole Boko bear collection hostage," Saori explained bringing up Miho's phone.
On the screen Darjeeling saw a picture of the stuffed bears all tired together with bags over their heads and a pair of giant scissors used to cut tree branches being held next to them in the photo. One of the bears was holding a piece of cardboard with a message written on it saying "lose the match or lose your bears".
"He zipped tied them and everything," the Leopon Team noted seeing the level of detail done in the photo.
"That guy watches way too many movies," Saemonza commented.
"It's a boy?" Orange asked in a surprised tone.
"This is a low blow to commit such actions, why would this person stoop to such levels?" Dargeeling asked shocked by the news.
"He's pissed because we accidentally shot his plane down and had it confiscated by MEXT," Mako explained.
"Oh... so he's out for revenge," Darjeeling realized, "How are you going to deal with this troublemaker?"
"We have no idea," Momo responded.
\Long After/
After their thrown match with St. Glariana the Ooarai girls had one misfortune after the other as Daulton sabotaged each match they played in. With their match with, Saunders, Daulton had snuck into the hanger, and loosen all the bolts causing their tanks to fall apart. Then with, Anzio, Daulton impersonated a homeless man in the middle of the battlefield, as Anteater Team found him Daulton pulled out a stick of dynamite then forced the girls to fire onto their flag tank. And next was their match with Jatkosota which Daulton filled their ammo racks with stink bombs.
In other words it was a painful losing streak as the girls were powerless to stop him.
"Alright girls today's match will be against-,"
"Oh who cares?" Momo interrupted Miho, "It doesn't matter who we're up against because that idiot, Daulton, is just gonna come in and ruin everything," she said in a completely defeated tone.
"I'm a little too afraid to what he has in store for us this time," one of the Rabbits admitted.
"Let's just face it, we're never gonna get rid of this guy," Momo said sadly.
"C'mon you guys can't quit," said a random voice turning over to the front of the hanger everyone saw that it was all the other academy commanders, St. Gloriana, Saunders, Anzio, Jatkosota, and Chi-Ha-Tan that had come to pay a visit.
"What are all you guys doing here?" Miho asked so surprised to see them.
"Yeah, talk about a surprise vist," Saori thought out loud.
"We're all here to help you girls once again," Kay said gladly.
All the other visiting commanders voices their support in unison all willing to lend their hand to the Ooarai school once more and the morale of the girls were begging lift off, that is until...
"Well look at this!" boomed a familiar voice the girls at Ooarai has grown to loath.
From far to the back of the other academy girls they were all about to meet Daulton in person for the first time.
"Did you guys throw a party, and forgot to invite me," Daulton remarked as he made his way towards the hanger.
"I don't think so, take another step closer, and we'll bury you," Momo threaten.
"Big words for a girl who has a personality of a chihuahua," Daulton mocked calling Momo a small little dog trying to act big.
"So this is the infamous, Daulton, we keep on hearing about?" Assam figured.
"The one and only," Daulton confirmed bluntly.
"This is the troublemaker that wreaked havoc on the Ooarai girls?" Anchovy spoke up unimpressed.
"Dosen't look very much," Pepperoni agreed.
"And neither was your sauce for your shit noodles you call spaghetti," Daulton fired back at them, commenting on their cooking when he sabotage their match.
"*GASP!*... How dare you," the Anzio girls gasps in offense.
"Such blunt and irrational tones coming from this one," Mika commented.
"Oh like I'm gonna take crap from Finland over here," Daulton shot back
"Hey! you better stop picking on our friends," Naomi told him in growing anger.
"Not until I get what I keep asking for," Daulton made it clear.
"We told you again and again, there's nothing we can do about it," Yuzu pleaded.
"And I guess we're gonna be stuck here together for a long time," Daulton put it.
"And I said back OFF!" Naomi repeated this time swing her fist right into Daulton's face.
There was a loud and noticeably smacking sound when Naomi's fist hit across Daulton's face, but even though she turned his head the young man didn't move from where he stood, instead twisting his neck back to them, and pressed his ungloved fist against his jaw until it made a loud popping sound.
"... I didn't start this... But I'm gonna finish it," he told them trying to hold himself back, "I'm getting my Mustang back, one way. Or another."
Then he turned away and walked off.
The Ooarai girls were completely worried fearing that they'll be stuck with this mad man for the rest of their tankery career.
"Great, if he wasn't mad before, he's totally pissed at us now," Mako noted sounding let down.
"He's not gonna stop until our tanks is as destroyed as his plane," Ayumi spoke up in dismay.
"No he's not!" Kinuyo cried out trying to get the Ooarai girls out of their funk.
"We'll make sure that brute doesn't go anywhere near you," Darjeeling said.
"Or your tanks," Alisa added.
"Because we're gonna be your personal security team," Haru stated and all them agreed.
"Who are you having your next match with?" Kay asked.
And with that Miho and the others smiled hopefully, "It's with my sister," she answered.
"Alright ladies we got a lock this whole place down and lock it down tight," Kay told the rest with much enthusiasm.
To hear such a kind thing the Ooarai girls feel that there might be hope after all.
