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Both teams were ready and waiting from opposite corners of the battlefield, as they waited for the game to begin the spectating Commanders got their food ready, Orange poured tea for Darjeeling and herself, Anchovy and her friends brought along their kit cooking up their dishes, and Naomi was passing out hotdogs fresh off the grill.
"This smells delicious," Kay commented taking a big breathe through her nose.
Alisa was sitting in her chair with anticipation as Noami was about to give her the hotdog-.
"Thank you," Daulton said walking by and swiping the hotdog before Alisa can lay her fingers on it.
"Hey! that was mine!" Alisa said irritatedly, however some of the other girls were chuckling to themselves.
"You snooze you lose," Daulton retorted taking a bite out of the hotdog, "Mmm... man, I missed these."
Alisa tried to get back at Daulton, getting up from her seat, and tried to to hit him, but Daulton just put his hand onto the top of Alisa's head keeping out of reach from him as he ate the rest of the hotdog.
"C'mon, Alisa, I got plenty more over here," Noami called picking up another piece with the tongs.
Alisa pouted giving up on her attempt to strike Daulton.
"That was one of the best dogs I had sine two years," Daulton commented licking his finger tips.
"Well thank you, don't your American girls have the saying, the quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach?" Noami prompted.
"Yes they do and it works almost everytime," Daulton replied.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated the match is about to begin," the announcer called out.
"Aw shit, here we go," Daulton said excitedly jumping onto the edge.
"You're pretty excited, you must be really psyched for Sensha-Do," Anchovy said.
"What- no, I don't give a crap about the game," Daulton told them.
"Then why were you excited?" Kay asked.
"See the screen the people are using to watch the match," Daulton point from away, "Wait and see."
The girls waited and watch wondering what he was talking about and the screen came on instead of seeing the Sensha-Do insignia they saw the words "FUCK YOU MEXT" lighting up on the screen, the girls looked on surprised to see the giant text and Daulton laughing hardly.
"WOOOO! FUCK YOU MEXT!" he cried out.
"Eheh, this guy's pretty fun," Kay said rethinking her early views on Daulton.
\Ooarai Team/
"Why's everyone on the stands laughing?" Miho asked confused by suddenly noise coming from the bleachers.
"Oh, I think it's because Daulton's just expressing his views," Anzu noted looking through with her binoculars with a smirk on her face.
\Off The Battlefield/
Just sitting quietly on the edge Daulton took out the little charm he was given, holding it by the little chain as he suspended it in the air, he stared at the little charm keeping safe for at least two weeks, the one small act of kindness was how he viewed it.
"Aww... so you do have a heart."
Looking over his shoulders Daulton saw Darjeeling looking over him seeing Daulton hold the charm in his hand.
"Oh, bit me," Daulton retorted putting the charm away.
"Why must you put up this rough facade?" Darjeeling asked, "I bet if you just open up life will be much pleasing for you."
"I rather not," Daulton replied.
"Come now, Mr. Daulton, I thought you had a change in heart," Darjeeling said sitting down closely beside him.
"Um... Rome wasn't built in a day," Daulton quoted, "But don't you have a nice seat set for you?"
"Yes, but I can see why you like to sit right here, swinging your legs off a steep edge, sitting on top of fresh green grass, and a- Ah!"
Getting careless Darjeeling almost slid right off the edge if it weren't for, Daulton, Darjeeling would've fallen straight down, but the boy quickly catches her by the back of her blue uniform, and yanked her back up.
With a look of fear, Darjeeling, eyes were wide open, and panting like crazy as she grabbed onto Daulton's arm tightly.
"You o.k?" Daulton asked.
"Y-yes... thank you, I'm gonna go back to my chair," Darjeeling said shakenly heading back to her spot.
"Nice save," Kay complemented.
"Yeah, Darjeeling would've been splattered all over," Noami gave her thought.
"That's not helping!" Darjeeling cried out.
The Saunders girls had a good laughed right before the starting gun goes off.
"Hey it's starting," Pepperoni shouted pointing outward to the field.
From afar Daulton looked out seeing the flare launch into the air, but catching his eye Daulton spotted the referee planes soaring through the sky, the KEN III's stood out from the pale blue sky, with there bright orange paint job flying over head.
"Uh... I need to take a shit," Daulton told the girls.
"Eww... we're trying to eat," Achovy said in disgust.
With that Daulton excuses himself getting up and walking off to where the KEN III's flew off, ducking behind some trees and bushes, making sure he was alone Daulton quietly ran off. Running not too far off where he last was, Daulton, found where the referee planes were landing, seeing their planes touch down on the landing strip.
"Oh ho ho... yeah."
\The Battlefield/
Tearing through the dirt the Ooarai girls were taking cover behind small hill as they received fire from Pravda, the round smashing down into the soil, dirt flying high up.
"Push them back, we need to get around that hill," Katyusha commanded.
Pravda tried to advance forward putting their flag tank in a wedge formation with one tank to the left being taken out.
Looking through the periscope Miho surveyed the field, "Turtle and Leopon Team, are you in position?" Miho asked over her radio.
"We are in position, Commander," Anzu responded.
"Fire at will," Miho ordered.
At the left side of the Pravda team, Turtle and Leopon Team fired off their shots from behind a bush taking out one tank and shooting out the track of another. The Ooarai girls' plan was to out flank Pravda to their left hoping the surprise will be too quick to correct, targeting Katyusha's tank Anzu fires off the shot, but the round was too late to meet its target as Nonna drives right in front of her flag tank. The round bounces off of Nonna's IS-2 ringing out as the round flew else where and giving Nonna a chance to shoot back.
The round ripped through striking the Tiger (Porsche) tank dead on leaving a white flag to spring out.
"We're hit!" Satoko called out.
"Turtle Team! pull back!" Miho commanded.
"You don't have to tell us twice," Anzu responded.
\Off The Battlefield/
"Oh man, they were so close," Alisa commented.
"Well it wasn't gonna be that easy," Kay said otherwise.
"Indeed, with Katyusha as the flag tank Nonna isn't gonna let anything happen to her," Danjeeling put it, seeing Nonna's protective nature for Katyusha at work.
"What do you think, Mr. Daulton?" Orange asked, but there was no response, "Mr. Daulton...?"
Looking around Orange noticed that the American pilot was nowhere to be seen.
"Where's Mr. Daulton?" Orange asked.
"He said he was going to use the bathroom," Anchovy reminded.
"There's no bathroom out here," Noami told her.
With that everyone froze seeing that Daulton has disappeared again and abruptly a plane roars over their head kicking up the wind that took the girls off guard.
"What the-!"
"YEEEE-HAAAAAAAW!" Daulton cried for joy as he flew through the skies.
"That guy... is insane," Kay noted, "... But man is he awesome!" she added with excitement seeing another KEN III in pursuit of Daulton.
\The Battlefield/
Back on the field Miho was being pushed back from their positions.
"We have to fall back!" Miho cried out.
Seeing her opponents falling back Katyusha laughed like she already won.
"Alina! lead the way, we'll wipe the Ooarai girls out in a moment's notice," Katyusha shouted with a victorious tone.
"This ain't looking good," Noriko spoke as she looked over to see the Pravda team's KV-2 inching its way up on the hill.
As the situation looked grim for Ooarai, Miho suddenly heard the sound of an engine roaring out across the field.
"Who's engine is that?" she asked.
"Miho, what are you talking about?" Yukari asked.
"Yeah we're about to be over run," Saori noted.
"No wait, I hear it too," Hana spoke up.
"What are you girls talking about?" Mako asked finding her friends' talking distracting.
Miho takes a look out of her tank seeing the KV-2 turning its massive turret towards them, but as it looked like all was lost, Daulton, flew right over head of the KV-2 catching everyone by surprise. The KEN III spun over and with the canopy wide open Miho saw that it was Daulton behind the controls.
"WOOOOOOOOW! BORN TO FLY BABY! BORN TO FLY!" he cried out without a care in the world.
"PULL BACK TO THE AIR STRIP NOW!" one of the referee shouted flying up to Daulton's side however Daulton just flips her off, and speeds away.
The Pravda team watched in awe as another referee plane gave chase to Daulton, but the match was still going, and so the Mark IV fired off at the KV-2 hitting it right under it, making a large hole. With the weight of the KV-2 and the sliding soil combined the KV-2 found itself leaning forward, flipping over, and the white flag popping out.
"Thank you, Gale," Yukari chanted.
"Quick! everyone make a break for it," Miho commanded.
With that everyone followed the Mark IV out of danger.
"GRRRR! THAT STUPID BOY RUINED IT!" Katyusha yelled in anger.
riding out in a single file line the Ooarai girls drove out to a dried out lake, but mot before Daulton flies low to the ground, but flew passed diagonally on its side while the referee tried to catch up.
"That guy is in so much trouble," Erwin noted looking out of her tank, but then a tank round exploded right next to them.
Looking back Miho spotted the Pravda team catching up to them.
\Bleachers/
Sitting at the highest row Maho watched the screen seeing that Daulton had bought her sister time to escape.
"Hm, maybe he's alright," Maho thought to herself.
\In The Air/
Daulton climbed higher and higher into the sky with the pursuing Ken III trying to out climb him, but at some point she lost him in the sun.
"I lost him!" the referee cried out only to narrowly misses him as Daulton came barreling by her, "CRAP!" the referee cried out leveling out to avoid crashing into Daulton.
As the referee leveled her plane she lost sight of the stolen KEN III, she looked all around her through her cockpit seeing nothing, but clouds.
"Where is he," the referee snarled grinding her teeth like they were a file, until suddenly a shadow was casted over her cockpit, "What the-?"
Looking up she was speechless as Daulton was right above her with his canopy flying parallel to her's, the referee looked up where he can see Daulton waving at her, then pulls off as she heard him laugh diving down towards the earth.
\The Battlefield/
Nonna took position off on high of what used to be a lake taking shots at the Ooarai girls.
"Circle around, they have nowhere else to run," Katyusha ordered.
"Ah! it's gonna be shooting fish in a barrel," Nekota startledly said.
"And we're the fish!" Momoga added.
The girls were surrounded as Pravda had high ground and the lake was a dead end with no escape, Katyusha made her shot only to be blocked by Mallard Team as they were taken out of the game.
"Welp, it was fun while it lasted," Mako commented as there was nowhere to run.
However Daulton continued to show his reckless abandon as the KEN III had no guns so he decided to make a crash landing.
"Fuck it, it's not my plane," he said to himself, not even bothering to put down the landing gear.
Daulton slams the plane down on its belly on the ground skidding along the lake's edge right into the Pravda tanks.
"Beep! BEEP! OUT OF THE WAY! HAHAHAAAA!" Daulton laughed holding onto the stick.
As the T-34's scattered to get out of the path of the KEN III the wing actually tore off when one T-34 couldn't move in time, so the plane spun around in circles as it goes crashing against another T-34 as it almost drove off the edge.
The plane had finally stopped, the dust clearing, and Daulton could be heard chuckling from the cockpit, and climbing on Daulton saw some of the Pravda members checking up on him.
"What's up," he said rhetorically.
"The Senshad-Do Federation aren't gonna be happy about that," Yuzu noted about the destroyed KEN III
"Stop!stop!stop!stop!" the commander cried out as the nose of the tank almost tilting over.
The tank stops just as the front treads hang off leaving the operators relieved... until one of the Ooarai girls shot the edge out beneath them, leaving them falling to the bottom of the empty lake. The T-34 smashes onto the dirt that would knock it out of the game, but gave one last shot before the flag rang out, but the round didn't head in the direction of the Ooarai team. Instead it blow out the edge under Nonna's tank, the ground gave out causing her tank to fall in, barrel first, making it bend and break taking it out of the game.
But that was the least of the IS-2's crew's worry as the tank laid upside down tossing the operators around inside like lose change in an empty tin can.
"Is everyone alright?" Nonna asked calmly.
"We're fine, Commander," one of them shouted out.
"Commander! fire!" another cried out.
Looking over Nonna spotted flames raising from the rear of the tank.
"Everyone out," Nonna told the crew to abandon the tank.
Out in the open everyone started to see smoke building up from the Nonna's IS-2 causing everyone to cease firing.
"All teams hold fire, I repeat: hold your fire," Miho ordered her team to stand down.
"NONNA!" Katyusha cried out seeing her tank flip and hit the ground and so she jumps out of her tank and runs to the shallowest part of the lake to get to her.
The escape hatch on the bottom of the tank opens up with the other Pravda members climbing out first.
"Go, before the flames builds up," Nonna motivated her team members.
"Commander!" Nonna looks back and sees one girl at the back crying out to her, "Commander my foot's stuck!"
Nonna goes back to help the other girl, seeing her foot caught between two pipes, and so she undid the laces on her boot slipping her foot free.
"GO!" she pushed the girl ahead of her.
The girl quickly climbs out of the tank, Nonna was about to go next, but suddenly a small explosion happens knocking her back down, and slamming the hatch shut.
"Oh no!" Miho gasps in shock.
"NO! NONNA!" Katyusha cried out.
"Commander no! it's too dangerous," some of the other girls held her back.
"LET GO! LET GO OF ME!" Katyusha pleaded.
\Off The Battlefield/
With a clear view of the smoke raising to the sky the other tank commanders look on helplessly as the game had just took a turn for the worse.
"That's not good," Noami noted.
"What should we do?" Orange asked looking over to Darjeeling.
"... Pray," she responded.
\The Battlefield/
Back on top of the dry lake Daulton got off of the KEN III then runs to the edge when he heard the explosion happen, looking over it all he see the IS-2 starting to catch fire, then sees Katyusha crying as she was being held back by her teammates. He stood in total shock, his heart & mind racing, every fiber of his beings just shook as he looked onto a familiar setting. The sounds of crying, the flames blazing, and sirens blaring in his head, til something in him just settles over him, and he just took off.
Running along the edge Daulton ran like his life depended on it, running up next to a T-34 Daulton spots an axe hooked to the skirt of the tank, without a second thought he snatched the axe as he dashes by.
"HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" one the Pravda girls cried out to him, but Daulton didn't bother.
"What's Daulton doing?" Yukari spoke out seeing Daulton blast passed the Pravda girls.
He ran and ran until he leapt off the edge with the axe in hand, time seem to go slower as he jumped off leaving everyone watching in shock as he makes it to Nonna's tank. Feet slamming flat on the bottom of the tank Daulton can feel it getting warmer. He sees the hatch and stands over it, with the axe Daulton took a stance and started swings, banging the blad against the hatch.
The hatch was tough and it was starting to get hotter, but he didn' give up picking up the paste chipping away at both the hatch and the axe-head, everyone on the sidelines looked on hoping Daulton could make it to Nonna. But then the axe handle snapped in half letting the axe-head to fly off, everyone gasps seeing the axe break, but Daulton saw that he made a hole big enough to fit his fingers through. He squeezes both of his hands through the hole and attempted to pull the hatch apart. Beads of sweat leaked across his face, his skin starting to feel the sting of the heat, but Daulton didn't care he pulled, and he pulled until everyone started to hear the hatch moan.
The metal of the hatch had given in and Daulton had made it in, dropping into the inside Daulton finds Nonna lying on the ground dazed, he goes over and picks her up.
"Wh-what?" Nonna fumbled with her words, but finally saw Daulton, "You!"
"We gotta get out!" Daulton told her.
Helping Nonna through the hatch, the two hurry to get away from the burning tank, the moment the two jumped off they ran as fast as they could get as much distance between them and the IS-2.
"Nonna!" Katyusha cried out.
"GET BACK!" Daulton yelled waving everyone to get away, and the IS-2 explodes in a ball of fire.
As it happened the girls furtherest out stumbled back from the shock, but in the last second Daulton jumps behind Nonna as shrapnel goes flying by and grazes him in the side of his head sending him down to the ground. With a thud Daulton falls limp to the ground and everyone looked on in shock and as for, Daulton, all he can hear was muffled out voices screaming all around him, and his sight nothing, but a blur as everything. Goes. Black.
