The Legends Still Live On
Bogen Drei: Sommer in Ooarai!
Kapitel Fünf: Das Schwimmbad!
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"And so!" Aprikose began as he held up a jerky strip in one hand. A bag of jerky was in his other hand. "Today, we'll be having a midsummer sports test!"
Many of the students there cheered in response. All of those there were within Ooarai's Panzerkraft and Jägermeistern teams. Everyone there was also in their swimsuits, fitting since they were at a pool aboard the Zuikaku.
Aprikose was atop the 8,8 cm Flak 37 Sfl. with Pfirsich and Zitrus. Zitrus had a deck brush in hand. Beside the Acht-Acht was the Panzer IV H with the student council girls atop it.
"Do you hold guys a sports test every year?" Miho asked her group of friends. Also there with them were Erich and his friends.
"I get the feeling this is on Anzu's whim," Erich opined.
"Wake up, David..." Anton tried to wake a sleeping David, but it was to no avail as David slept on.
"We evaluated your intellect in the last quiz battle," Pfirsich began as the student council groups came down from the vehicles. "This time we'll be evaluating your combat stamina! Be careful this time!"
"The time has finally come!" Ron enthusiastically proclaimed as he and the other badminton players rushed forth on their way to the pool.
"Blazing, eh!" Nathan reacted as he moved to dodge them.
"We are unchallenged in athletics!" Ron boasted as he pumped his fist forward when the group of four came to a stop. He then raised his other fist and stepped forward. "We will dispel the stigma of being derided as the 'Muscle-brain Team' during the quiz battle!"
"You didn't have to actually say it..." Seth remarked.
"You'll no longer say that our heads are only packed with bone!" Alex challenged with similar enthusiasm as Ron.
"You don't have to go that far and say that!" Seth retorted.
"Ah, I forgot to say it, but-" Anzu began.
"Go!" Ron cued and interrupted Anzu in the process. All four of the badminton players simultaneously dove into the pool upon the badminton captain's cue.
"Oof!" all four of the badminton players reacted as they hit the bare ground of the empty pool.
"We'll have to start with cleaning the pool first," Anzu continued.
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Later, all of the badminton players were pulled out, and they were in a daze as they were patched up. They were then left to recover on their own as everyone else got deck brushes to help clean the pool.
"This is the spare pool of the swimming club," Yuzu informed. "They promised us free reign over it if we clean it up nicely!"
"Huh? What's with that?" Yuuki wondered with the freshmen girls. "What a bother-"
"Don't say it's bothersome!" Azusa interrupted.
"But it sounds fun!" Ayumi opined.
"Let's give it a try!" Karina suggested.
"Hey, Saki," Aya tried garnering Saki's attention. Saki was staring off into space again.
The freshmen girls soon got down into the pool with deck brushes ready, and they all sprinted forth at the same time with their deck brushes set on the ground.
"Yeah!" Ayumi, Yuuki, Karina, and Aya called out. They were the more eager ones. Azusa and Saki had tagged along with less eagerness.
"Hey! Running simultaneously is dangerous!" Azusa warned.
Soon enough, all of them slipped on their feet and slid out of control across the pool's floor.
Further down, Erich was also scrubbing down the pool, but he wasn't doing it with much enthusiasm, or even with a smile. He had on a pouty face as he begrudgingly scrubbed away.
'I hate this,' he thought. 'Why did Miho have to use her puppy eyes on me? She's far better at this anyway!'
"Bubi! Watch out!" he heard Miho call out, and he snapped out of his thoughts as he looked back behind him.
"Hä?" was all he could say before he was met with the six freshmen girls slamming into him feet and ass first. All of those involved in the collision eventually came to a halt spread out over the floor of the pool entangled with each other. They all had varying degrees of dazes, as well.
"Are you all right?!" Miho continued as she came down to help. "Bubi?! Girls?!"
All seven crash victims were soon pulled out of the pool and tended to. Lemu beat Miho to the freshmen girls as he immediately started berating them. The girls were all on their knees with their heads hung in shame as they took the berating. Miho, in the meantime, chose to look after her blonde knight.
"So much... Arsch..." Erich commented still in a daze.
Miho smacked him to not only knock him out of his daze, but also as punishment for him even thinking of saying such a thing. "Hey, you can only think about my Arsch like that, got it?" she sternly said.
"Then give me your Arsch," Erich responded as he lazily reached for Miho's ass.
He was met with another smack from his girlfriend. "Not now!" she retorted now with a blush on her face as she looked away flustered. "... Well, maybe for a little bit while we're here, if I like your behavior..."
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In the meanwhile, Lemu was still berating the freshmen girls. Kolari and Satiainen were behind him as well. All three of them were wearing standard school swimsuits similar to what the Public Morals Committee girls were wearing, but slightly changed for their particular measurements and usage. As such, they all had name tags with their nicknames on them, those being Lemu, Kolari, and Satiainen. They also had their armbands still on.
"Jeez, you're all way too hyper!" Lemu continued with his berating. "Anyway, what's up with those swimsuits? There's a properly designated-"
"Um, on your chest..." Ayumi pointed out as she interrupted. All of the girls were still on their knees.
"Huh?" Lemu responded in confusion. He then looked to his chest, and he grew shocked. "What?! Oh, I bet Faul did this! According to the school rules, the last name should be on the label! 'Mulberry' should be written here! Be sure to get it right, guys!"
The girls formerly being berated were now giggling a bit at the current scene of Lemu growing angry. Their hands were raised up close to their mouths as well.
"God! Screw you! I had to go through all that because of you!" Lemu angrily spoke to David as he walked over to where David was sleeping. He then sat down beside him.
"It's hot, Lemu," David remarked as he wiped his arm across his forehead. He didn't really care for Lemu's current mood.
"Yeah, since it's summer..." Lemu absentmindedly replied. He then turned to David with a start. "Wait, don't call me Lemu!" he snapped.
"Would you lend me that sunshade of yours?" David asked as he lazily reached for Lemu's armband.
"That's my arm!" Lemu barked at David in response.
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"Hey, Erich," Nevi quietly spoke up. Erich heard and turned to find Nevi along with his gamer buds in some swim trunks as they came through the corridor to the pool.
"Ah, hey Neville," Erich greeted with his typical smile. He was back to normal after being slammed by the girls of Rabbit Team.
"Sorry for being late," Nevi apologized. "It's the first time I've been outside in so long, so it took some motivation on my end to get down here."
"Don't worry about it," Erich waved off. "It's great that you showed up anyways."
"Man, I haven't been to a pool in almost a decade," Dexter remarked.
"Me, neither!" Mark agreed. "I haven't been out in the sun like this for about twelve years, give or take."
"If we didn't take up Jägermeistern," Nevi began with a smile as the three walked forth into the sun's rays, "this once in a lifetime chance..."
As they entered the sunlight, all three of the gamer guys immediately collapsed onto the ground face first.
"Guys?" Erich asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Impossible," Dexter declared.
"I'm sorry, Erich," Nevi apologized.
"It's useless..." Mark determined.
Soon, the Public Morals Committee came and took the three gamer guys to a designated relief area. It was an area covered with a large shade with the 'Relief' label hanging down from the edge on a slip of paper.
"It's already 'game over,'" Nevi spoke up as he and his gamer buds lied in the shade with the three gamer girls plus David and Mako. The latter two were sleeping again. Kolari and Satiainen were apparently standing guard in the area.
"You're retiring too early again!" Lemu berated the gamer guys. "Mr. Faul, wake up!"
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During that time, many of the other members of Anglerfish and Messer Teams were still scrubbing the pool.
"It's hot," Anton complained as he leaned on his deck brush. "It'll take forever at the rate we're going..."
Anton then took notice of Hana doing something. She was practicing flower arranging again, but this time with weeds and a couple of deck brushes. Hana then noticed Anton looking on at her doings.
"Anton, it's not like that!" she nervously spoke up as she turned around to face Anton. "I just got all excited after seeing the weeds... By the way, the title is 'Stillness of the Deck Brush!'"
"Nathan, go all out on it," Anton granted with an iron face.
Nathan then whipped out some beefy hedge cutters with a wicked grin as he approached the arrangement.
"Please stop!" Hana cried out as she reached out to try and stop Nathan. Anton held her back, though. "The flowers and weeds are innocent!" She threw all her effort to break free from Anton's grip one last time to save her arrangement, but Anton was still able to hold her back. "There are flowers here that bloom nowhere else!"
"Don't use iconic phrases!" Nathan retorted.
"So what, we came here today to trim them?" Anton asked as he held Hana back.
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Later, Nathan had finished laying waste to the flower arrangement, as evidenced by Hana shedding tears and sniffling. Anton, however, looked pleased by the arrangement being destroyed as he smiled.
"Right, right, we're stepping up the pace," Aprikose lazily spoke up as he ate another jerky strip.
"You guys!" Pfirsich barked as he pointed at Anton and Hana. "If you don't get this done by today, know that-oof!"
Pfirsich was cut off after being hit with an uppercut by a deck brush. The source of the hit was from the four history guys combating each other. They were all in swimsuits that fitted with their typical outfits.
"Open the gun ports!" Wolf declared as he wielded a hose with a spray nozzle fitted. He had on his peaked cap plus a pair of dissolvable swim trunks that were Feldgrau in color. "Feuer!" he said as he opened fire with his weapon.
"Too weak!" Leonidas retorted as he dodged the incoming stream. He also wielded a hose with a spray nozzle. He had on some light armor around the waist that created a skirt of sorts. It was flexible enough, though, to act as clothing.
"You guys..." Pfirsich grumbled as he recovered from being hit as well as from being forced back.
"Yeah, here's Abe!" Abe declared as he wielded a deck brush like a rifle equipped with a bayonet. He was wearing a black 19th century-style swimsuit. "If you desire prompt and utter destruction, then come at me!"
"Gott mit Uns!" Gustav called out as he charged Abe with his own deck brush in a bayonet charge-like manner. He was in swim trunks that were colored blue and had a yellow stripe going up each side. "Anfalla!"
"Cut it out!" Pfirsich yelled out as he tried to intervene. However, he was only met with the brush end of deck brushes as Gustav and Abe both swung and took him down with great force behind their attacks.
"Hit something worthless again..." both Gustav and Abe remarked less than pleased after observing their handiwork.
"Attans," Gustav additionally cursed.
"Hey, you alright Pfirsich?" Zitrus asked as he helped out Pfirsich.
"Well he would've lost to der Löwe aus Mitternacht, anyway," Aprikose remarked with a look that said he didn't really see anything wrong with the current situation.
"Well, now that we've played around to our heart's content," Wolf began, "it's about time to start cleaning. Männer!"
He then noticed all of his fellow history buffs staring at him. "Hm?" he asked. "What?"
The others were staring at him because of his current lack of swim trunks. His swim trunks had dissolved during their fight.
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"Hey look, Galland!" Wolf called out with his confident grin. He now had a towel wrapped around his waist after his swim trunks dissolved. "Those German dissolvable swim trunks really do dissolve in water! I heard that the bands would melt and get loose first, but I was already nude once I noticed!"
"That's awesome, Wolf!" Nathan energetically replied.
In the meanwhile, Lemu was getting increasingly frustrated at the current state of events. He soon rounded up those responsible for the latest disturbance and began scolding them hard.
"Why am I included?" Pfirsich muttered as he suffered through Lemu's berating alongside the history buffs.
"Jeez, I can't leave this to you!" Lemu ended as he took out a whistle.
He then blew the whistle, and on demand, several members of the Public Morals Committee surrounded the pool. Lemu was still in the center of the pool with Erich's group. The ones not in the committee looked on at the committee's massive number of members. All of the members had styles that matched those of either Lemu or Sodoko depending on the gender.
"Public Morals Committee members, assemble!" Lemu ordered as all of the members stood at attention. "Begin the cleaning!"
All members of the Public Morals Committee then began efficiently scrubbing down the pool as the rest of the students there looked on from out of the pool.
"The Public Morals Committee has a total strength of over two hundred members," Herz noted with a grin as Erich's and Miho's groups of friends looked on together. "They'll be done with this in a breeze!"
"Yeah, looks like it," Erich commented. Miho had chosen to sit atop his lap as she looked on with a smile unique to her. Erich supported her with his arms around her stomach.
"Seeing Lemu like this feels bad," David commented in his monotone.
"God, David," Anton exasperated at his friend's insinuation.
"Great work, Public Morals Committee!" Nathan and Yukari cheered.
"You guys just sit there and watch wistfully!" Lemu ordered with a satisfied grin. He then pointed up to David. "Especially Dafa!"
"Yeah, yeah," David replied without really caring. "Sure, whatever."
"You better be grateful to the Public Morals Committee members!"
Aprikose chuckled a bit mischievously as he and the rest of the student council looked on. "Just as planned," he commented with a predatory grin.
"Really now?!" Saori yelled out in frustration upon seeing the student council conspiring again.
"Great work, Mr. President," Pfirsich complimented with a similar grin as Aprikose.
Aprikose then stepped forth. "Now then!" he began as he performed some stretches. "Guys, are you ready to rumbleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?!"
Practically everyone erupted into cheers in majority agreement.
"Wai-What?!" Lemu began in surprise from the pool with the rest of the Public Morals Committee members. "Shouldn't you ask for my consent regarding this?!"
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Over at the hangars concurrently, the aeronautics guys were fixing up the F4F.
"Hurry and get done with this so we can join the others," Brown stated with implied eagerness to get going.
"Just a little more..." Yeager said as he continued wrenching.
"I've got my swim trunks on underneath to cut down changing time," Brown continued as he ruffled his coverall's legs, which revealed some thicker clothing underneath them.
"But we'd have to help with cleaning if we get there too early," Yeager reminded as he pulled away and got down from the F4F with a wrench in hand. "Taking it easy is fine."
"Actually, I've got my swimwear on, too," Dittmar commented as he patted his coverall's legs. "Hey, let's get the jet ski out of the warehouse! I want to try doing a roll with it!"
"It'd be an even greater feat considering there aren't any waves!" Reitsch commented.
"No way," Yeager denied. "That thing can't be ridden in a pool that size, let alone pull a roll there." He then took notice of someone walking nearby wearing a backpack with a few long rolls of paper sticking out of it. "Hm?" he wondered with a raised eyebrow.
"Hey, did you get lost?" Yeager chose to call out to the person. The person stopped with a bit of nervousness. "Is something wrong?"
The person then turned around, and now observable was that they were wearing some brown trousers with a belt plus a dark gray button-up shirt. The person also had some ear buds on along with some sunglasses that had a small camera attached to one corner. The glasses were also equipped with a fake nose. The person's physical appearance consisted of black hair. Their eyes couldn't be seen through the glasses.
"O-Oh, yes!" they began in what was distinguishable as an American male voice. "I'm just an American who loves Jägermeistern!"
In his thoughts, the new guy chuckled briefly in a mischievous manner before thinking, 'A perfect disguise! I'm so amazing! I'll return the disgrace by revealing all of Ooarai's classified information!' In his thoughts, it was also noticeable that he had brown eyes. As his voice revealed, he definitely had an American appearance.
'Suspicious,' all of the aeronautics guys thought as they looked on at the newcomer.
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What is the true color of this shady character? Continued in the next arc!
Part of Projekt Jägermeistern.
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