Tales from the First Panzer Division
Mission Five: R & R Time!!!





Colonel Karl Lichen Schubaltz reporting. After months of endless missions, I feel it is time for the Division to take a well-deserved break. Luckily at the same time, the Guardian Force will be joining us on our respite. So it's good that familiar faces will be with us on our vacation. Both groups decided to go to Lighthouse Rock Beach, only miles south of the Home Country.





"WAAAAAHOOOOO!!!" Van Flyheight dove into the crisp sea water, following him was Zeke. Irvine dove in afterward, followed by Thomas and Chuckles. Scotty floated by on an intertube and a bottle of beer in his hand. He was dressed in cut-off blue jeans, a fisherman's hat and shades. On the beach, the girls lied there in the sun, rubbing suntan oil all over themselves. They were admiring the men as they made asses of themselves in the water.

"Van is just so dreamy." Fiona giggled. "But so is Thomas."

"Irvine's good-looking too. But look at those bods over there." Moonbay pointed to Karl and Leon, who were sitting on the beach. Leon was easily noticable with his black and blue hair and California tan and manly physique. Karl's trim and athletic body was also the talk of the town with the girls. Leon was rubbing suntan oil all over Karl's back. "What hunks."

"They sure are!" Jinx piped up, smiling like a minx. "Good thing is, I work with them too. They're all good."

"Awwwwww." Fiona looked up to see Doc sitting on the beach all by his lonesome, the Yukito-cute medic hugged his knees and let out a lonely sigh. He was watching all the fun from the confines of his beach towel and cooler. "He looks so lonely."

"That's Doc, he's our field medic. It seems like after his brother died, he hadn't been the same." Jinx frowned, lifting her shades.

"I got an idea." Fiona got off her blanket and rushed to the edge of the water. "Hey! Thomas!!"

"Miss Fiona!" Thomas waved back, then was ducked by Irvine.

"Tag! You're it!"

Thomas surfaced and swam to the shore, then looked up at Fiona. "You wanted something, Miss Fiona?"

"Can you do me a favor?" Fiona smiled very cutely.

"Anything for you, Miss Fiona."

"See that young man sitting on the beach towel over there?" Fiona pointed to Doc, Thomas frowned sadly upon seeing the sorrow and grief in Doc's large, beautiful blue eyes.

"Yes."

"Can you cheer him up? You know, make him smile and make him happy?"

"Sure." Thomas got up and saluted, then rushed up the hot sand of the beach, hot-footing it up. "Ow! Oo!! Ow! Hothothot!!!"

Doc stood up to make clearance as Thomas crashed on his beach towel, then frantically tried to get the burning to stop. The cute medic pulled out an icecube and ran it up and down Thomas's feet.

"Feel better?" Doc asked, kinda smiling.

"Sure does." Thomas breathed a sigh of relief, then looked up at Doc. "The name's Thomas Richard Schubaltz."

"You're the colonel's younger brother." Doc smiled very Yukito-like.

"Yes, yes I am. I was over in the water and I couldn't help but notice how lonely you really are."

"Oh." Doc frowned a little bit, then sat down on the beach towel. "Well, I'm not lonely now that you decided to come up to talk to me." Doc smiled brightly and cheerfully.

Fiona, Moonbay and Jinx smiled when they saw the two start a conversation, the returned to gawking at the guys.


"Your hair is so long and silky." Karl gently set Leon's long black and blue hair off to the side to rub suntan oil all over his back. "My, your back is so tensed-up..."

"I kinda noticed." Leon said with his face buried in his arms.

"Want me to give you a nice back massage?" Karl smiled slyly as he continued to rub oil all over Leon's back.

"Oooo, kitten. I'd love that." Leon smiled, looking back at Karl. Just as soon as he answered, Karl began giving Leon such a soothing, rejuvenating back massage. "Oooooooh... kitten, right there. Ahhhhhh.... yes...."

"Most powerful being in the universe's never heard of a back massage?" Karl chuckled, light-heartedly.

"Don't play me like that, baby." Leon smirked, then let himself go as Karl rubbed his back. "Ahhhh.... feel that quintessence flow. Are you sure you're not a mage? Because you got magic fingers."

Karl giggled and finished the massage, leaving Leon in a state of Nirvana. The Imperial Exemplar sat up, his hands on Karl's shoulders. Karl's shoulders bunched up at he grabbed a bottle of Kaiserdom Club-Malz from the ice cooler and popped the top.***
***Author's Note: Kaiserdom Club-Malz is a non-alcoholic Malt drink from Bamberg, Germany.***

"That feels so good, Leon."

"I know." Leon smiled and continued to rub Karl's shoulders. "The best Imperial officer's never heard of a shoulder massage?"

"You jest, Leon." Karl chuckled, his hands firmly around the bronze bottle.

"Yes, I definately do jest." Leon's lips planted themselves on Karl's neck, causing the colonel to moan out out ecstasy. The Kaiserdom bottle fell from his hands and perched in the sand. The girls watched intently as Leon and Karl made out in the beach towel.



"Hey! Surf's up, dude!" Van surfed on the waves, using Zeke as a surfboard. Irvine and Chuckles dove out of the way as soon as Van headed for shore. Zeke saw he was about to crash and panicked, throwing Van into the water. When the waves hit the shore, Zeke's head was in the sand, his powerful legs and tail thrashing about. Van looked up with a bit of seaweed on his forehead and a starfish on his shoulder. Irvine, Scotty ahd Chuckles laughed at Van's dismay, then the 56-year-old flanksman drank another sip of his Budweiser.

"Way to go, dipshit!" Scotty called out before putting the cigarette to his lips.

Chuckles saw two bikini-clad girls walking toward the sands, soaking wet from the swim. Immediately he moseyed on over, smiling like a Great White Shark. "Hello, ladies. Which one of you lucky dolls wants to party hearty with a member of the First Panzer Division?"

The blonde girl in the pink bikini laughed. "You? A member of the First Panzer Division?" She laughed again. "Dream on, Dweeb."

The brunette laughed also, they walked away, talking about the corny pick-up line. "But it's true, dollface! I am a member of the First Panzer Division!"

"Gods, that's the oldest pick-up line on Planet Zi." Leon looked at Chuckles from his beach blanket, lifting his shades up to view the carnage.

"No doubt." Karl moaned with his stomach on the blanket, David Arkenstone playing on the stereo next to him.

Leon went back to suntanning, but there is not enough rays under the Zi-an sun to get him to tan more than his already-permenant California-tan complexion. Karl was getting to be a nice golden color, so he turned onto his back and put his earpiece-less shades over his eyes.

Thomas and Doc were playing checkers on Doc's beach towel, two bottles of half-drank Ramune soda sat in the sand by their sides.***
***Author's note: Ramune is the name of a popular Japanese cola. It is what the anime "Knights of Ramune" were named after***

"So what'd ya do after you joined the Imperial armies?"

"Oh, I trained primarily on zoid pilotting and medical work. I am a strict non-combatant, I don't believe in fighting at all. My Lightning Saix is equipped with weaponry that disable, not destroy." Doc answered with a charming smile on his face.

"Believe me." Thomas said, picking up a red chip. "I'm as sick of the needless fighting as anyone. But we're both on the same teams.... you're part of the First Panzer Division and I am a member of Guardian Force. Your job is to protect the Empire and my job is to protect it all."

"War corrupted my brother." Doc frowned, looking into the glass bottle by his feet. "Tanaka was Camford's personal assassin, you could say he's Raven's equivalant. But because death and pain was all he ever really knew, he became a corrupted Fox-Spirit and he... he tried to drag me with him. Not all Fox-spirits are bad, but there are few that are lead astray, only because of what the humans have taught them. The person who took me in was a very kindly old couple and they taught me to love all things in life, no matter how cruel and daunting it all seems to be."

"It's a good attitude to have, ya know." Thomas smiled, then played his move and removed a few red chips. "But there are some people who see death as a game, peoples' lives are toys to be played with and discarded when they are broken."

"Sad, sad mentality." Doc sighed, then realized he's only got one red chip left. "Hey!!!"

Thomas smiled with a neko-smile and snickered a Muttley snicker.


Daytime turned into night time, a bonfire was lit and everyone was sitting around it, everyone except one person. Drinking, roasting hot dogs and marshmallows on the open fire, the Guardian Force and the First Panzer Division were exchanging stories and jokes. Karl sipped his Club-Malz and waited for his marshamallows to finish. He looked out toward the sea to see Leon standing at the shore looking out at the starry night. Getting up, Karl walked toward the mysterious Imperial Major and put his hand on Leon's shoulder. Leon looked at Karl was a sad smile on his face.

"Join us, Leon."

"Nah, go ahead and have fun. I don't feel.... right.... with other people." Leon turned toward the stars and let out a soft sigh. "Everywhere I go, no matter how accepting people are... I always feel I'm alone."

"You're never alone." Karl slipped his hand on Leon's shoulder. "You're never alone with me by your side."

Leon smiled and slid his hand on top of Karl's, his eyelids fluttered shut. "Stay with me, Karl."

"I will." Karl rested his head on Leon's back, feeling his long fluffy black and blue hair on his suntanned face.

"The stars were so pretty on Earth... and on Malfaes. Very easy to read our fortunes in their sparkles... here... the stars seem so dettached... like someone took their sparkle."

Karl looked at the sky with Leon, seeing that the stars barely twinkle. "What were the stars like on Earth and on Malfaes."

"Diamonds.... celestial diamonds." Leon answered in a soft voice. "Stars were refered to in both worlds as the diamonds in the sky."

"I would love to have seen them...." Karl's eyes fluttered shut, his arms around Leon's waist.

"I would have loved to have shown you."

Karl smiled, but Leon was still sad, his expression grim.




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