One year ago…

"Alright boys, our mission is just a recon. We are to go to this prison camp and locate a prisoner that will be rescued by Unit 2." Jay said, pointing to a map on the wall.

"Aww man, another recon mission? Why don't we get the juicy ones?" Peterson whined.

"Because Somebody decided to get trigger happy on the last one, injuring the POI." Pascal said. Everyone turned and looked at Kenji.

"Oh, ha ha, very funny. Look i didn't know alright? She snuck up on me." He replied, annoyed that he had brought that up.

"Anyway, we leave for the prison camp ASAP rocky." Jay said. "Bring your weapons,and Kenji, this is your first Covert mission." He looked at Jay confused. He hadn't expected to get out in the field so soon. Just a few days ago he had passed the covert ops exam and was ready to go undercover, but he wasn't expecting it so soon.

"Alright, your cover name is Kisaragi Mikoto. Your a Kuromorimine student visiting this are to observe and if possible, locate the POI. Did i mention you're gonna have to cross-dress?" Jay explained. Kenji looked at him shocked. He wasn't expecting something like that.

"So….i have to dress like a girl? Firstly, why? And secondly, How?" Kenji asked.

"Well, yes, because the group your blending in with are all girls and we have no one that can match the height of the kuro girls. Your our best bet." Jay explained. Kenji was silent at first, but then slowly became more and more confident and more acceptant to the situation. And with that he was fully transformed, he had the wig on, and the schools uniform, which resembled that of an SS uniform, only with a skirt instead of pants.

"Hmmm, Jay are you sure i'm ready for this?" He asked before climbing into the helo. Jay nodded and he was flown to the group. Jay's group got ready to the scouting mission in order to give Kenji some cover. Only if he fails.

A few days later…

The team was in their respective positions, Jay and Pascal covering the north side while Cody and Peterson were covering the southern side.

"My god...what the hell is with this smell…" Jay said, the wind was coming directly into them, which would only naturally blow any aroma in their direction, but this smell was different, it smelled more putrid than what they were used too.

"Jesus did something die nearby? It smells of decay.." Pascal said.

"This is the southern team, we're catching that smell too. We don't really have a good vantage point. Were going to move to some higher ground to the east." Cody reported. That's when they shots ring out.

"Shots fired! Wait...that came from the base."

Kenji was mortified. He had never seen someone get shot with real bullets, let alone die from it. He saw as the firing squad was checking to see if the group of girls were still alive. He noticed that one of them was still moving, she had been shot on the neck. One of the firing squad members pulled out a pistol and shot the girl still alive in her head. Then some more came in and moved the bodies away.

"Hey! Mikoto-san, keep up!" One of the girls, a short brown haired one called out.

"Sorry!" Jogged a little to catch up and then heard a sort of splash sound, followed by the familiar smell of blood. "What the..?"

"Oh, thats from the bodies. We sometimes lag behind in burying them and they start making streams of blood." At that moment kenji was about to lose it. First the firing squad and now this? What the hell is wrong with these people? He thought. He began to question his reason for even accepting the covert ops rank when he noticed that the other girls around him were starting to get the same look in their eyes. The look of fear. That's when kenji raised his hand.

"What is it?"

"I need a moment to, recollect my thoughts if that's alright." The group leader nodded and kenji walked off. When he got out of earshot and sight he broke down. He just cried and cried and he started to puke as well.

"Why….why is this…" He barfed again. "I can't…." When he walked out he was hit by a girl who was trying to run. She tripped up and looked at kenji with horror. Kenji saw her and realized that the POI was her. She scrambled to her feet and continued to run. Before she was gunned down by an MG. Kenji could only watch in horror as the events unfolded. The mission was over, the POI was eliminated and that meant an immediate EVAC. Later that day he slipped out of the group as they were leaving.

"Alright Kenji, what's the deal? We couldn't see you or the POI. All we saw was a guard firing his MG at someone." Jay said. Kenji was silent. He knew what he wanted to say, but for some reason it wouldn't leave his mouth.

"Well, we're waiting." Pascal said.

"She's dead…." Kenji said, quietly.

"I'm sorry, wha.."

"SHE IS DEAD! THAT MG YOU SAW…..shot...her.." Kenji repeated, a little surprised at how he responded. "I'm sorry…god damn Einsatzgruppen*..." Jay placed a hand on his shoulder.

"It's alright, i understand. You were in the trenches after all. You actually saw the horror's we could only imagine." They sat in silence after that, sort of paying respects to the girls that died in the camp.

They called in the Black Hawk and flew back to the Gerald R. Ford, filing a report and letting Unit 2 know that they have to cancel the mission, and with them being the higher rank unit, they weren't too happy about that. Needless to say, the boys were relieved that their part of the mission was over.

Gerald R. Ford,two days after Battle….

"I mean, this is a nice gesture and all, but why are we keeping them in here?" Miho asked, walking a large building with Jay.

"I mean...they may be our prisoners, but I do want to, at the very least, keep them warm." Jay said. The building was one of the abandoned storage buildings that JayPac had emptied out. It still had some working systems like the A/C units and had more than enough room for the amount of prisoners they took in.

"I still don't agree with this, but, you are the co-commander anyway. Besides, I'm not surprised you two came to an agreement so soon." Anzu said, walking behind them.

"Yeah...i guess so. Anyway, i've prepared a transport aircraft to take the prisoners back to where they came from, as you requested Miho." Jay said. They loaded the prisoners onto busses and they drove them to the airfield. The boys, all armed just in case, lined up and watched as the men and girls rushed into the jet, a C-17, and find a seat on the seat pallets. The last one on was Nonna and she was, surprisingly happy. Jay noticed that she was holding something, and that Pascal had just reported up next to him, hair still messy.

"The hell happened to you?" Jay asked as the door to the jet was closed.

"Well, i wanted to make sure nothing happened while she was here and well..i gave her my SU-100 model...as well as ...something else." Pascal said, his hair being blown by the wind from the engine starting to spool up. Jay facepalmed and shook his head, before barking orders to get away from the aircraft. Soon the jet was in the air and climbed harmlessly into the clouds.

"You should've made them suffer…" Cody said, walking past Jay. Jay grabbed cody by the shoulder and stopped him.

"You listen here, i wanted to do the same thing deep down, but i couldn't. Its what Miho wanted and in all honesty, we could've let them freeze outside." Jay said. "So too bad, now get ready for the battle in a few days. I would spend some time with with Saori if i was you." Cody was shocked, he didn't know that Jay knew about him and Momo. Jay gave him a pat and walked off to find Miho. The plane back to the Zuikaku was due to leave in a few hours, and he wanted to make the most of being home.

He walked all around the airport grounds before he finally found her. She was sitting outside of a popular diner. He walked up to her and sat down beside her.

"How did you know i would come here?" Jay said. She stood up and looked him in the eye she said nothing and turned away. "What? Did I do something to offend you in some way?" She just gave him the cold shoulder. Oh...I see what this is about...hmmm...alright let's try this…

Jay held out his hand, and Miho looked up at him. She took it and he led her into the diner.

Pascal's Apartment….

Pascal was reminiscing of the previous night, he spent with Nonna. He looked at his model shelves and saw the empty spot where his model of the SU-100 tank destroyer had sat. He smiled as he remembered giving it to her. After a while he heard a knock at his door.

"Coming!" He got up and walked out to the living room. He then opened the door and too his surprise, it was his brother. "Kai? What are you doing here?"

"Hey Pascal, can i come in?" Pascal stood aside and let him in.

"So what brings you here?" he asked.

"Just wanted to give you a heads up on the upcoming battle. I'm not going to be fighting in it." He said, solemnly. Pascal was shocked. THe only reason he joined sensha-do was to one day battle his brother.

"But..but why? I thought you wanted to battle me one day." He replied.

"We will, but not this battle. I couldn't live with myself if I knew that was on the team that killed you, let alone be the one to pull the trigger." He said. Pascal was silent. He had taught him everything about the sport and even helped him and Jay get in at an early age.

"I understand...thanks kai." Pascal said. "And take care of Maho as well."

"Yes sir." He checked the time and saw the flight back to Ooarai would leave soon.

"Well I should get going. Thanks for telling me." He said. The two walked out of the apartment and just before the two split up to go their separate ways.

"Hey Pascal!"

"Yeah?"

"Good Luck!" Pascal gave a thumbs up and headed towards the airport.

Ooarai, Japan…

The tanks were loaded onto train cars and the boys and girls all boarded a train that would take them to the city of Kuromorimine. Miho, Jay, Pascal and Anzu were all sitting in a dining car discussing the semantics of the upcoming battle.

"So this is the official lineup for the battle." Jay said, handing her a clipboard that had the tanks as well as the names of each crew member on it.

Lineup

Jagdpanzer 38t

Panzer IV

Tiger I(P)

Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. F

M18 Hellcat

M10 Wolverine x2

M36 Jackson

M26 Pershing

M4A3E2 (76)W

T29

T34

IS-3

M24 Chaffee x2

There was another page with the names but they were more focused on the tanks. Miho was quiet, more quiet than the last two time they discussed tactics.

"So, i propose we move the the heavy tanks into the open and have the lighter tanks flank around and wipe them out from behind." Jay said.

"So, you want to use us as bait? Yeah, no, not happening pal. I say we use you lighter tanks as the bait. You've grown to have quite the reputation." Pascal said. Miho just sat as the two argued about what was originally the tactical plans to about who has a bigger reputation.

"Well in the end its up to the CO." Jay said, turning to Miho. "So what'll it be?" She looked at the boys and saw that both the boys eyes had changed slightly. It was like she could peer deep into their soul, and then some.

"Well, uh...I think they're both good. But i have a better plan." She said. "One that doesn't put us in an open field. This isn't gonna be like the Battle of Arracourt, Jay." Jay nervously smiled and rubbed his head.

"Saw right through my plans...just as i expected from the ace of Kuromorimine." Jay said. He looked at miho and expected a smile back, but all he got was a cold stare. Yikes...i'd better make my escape before she kills me just by staring at me. He thought. He turned to leave, but Miho grabbed his arm.

"You're not going anywhere. Pascal, some privacy please?" Pascal nodded and left the two. Jay watched him go. "No! Don't leave me here! She's gonna kill me!" Is what Jay's eyes said.

"Relax Jay, i only wanted to say..thanks." She said.

"For what? I did nothing." He replied.

"Of course you did, you took a risk and it paid off. We did lose some of our tanks, and yours too, but we prevailed." Jay was shocked. "I know we'll make it through this battle."

"It's nothing..we are partners after all. We have your backs and you have ours." Jay said. Miho then got up and walked down the car to check on the others.

"Hello Jay-dono!" A cheerful voice chirped behind him. "Mind if I take this seat?" Jay nodded and Yukari took a seat next to him. Jay was glad to see at least one of the girls was still in high spirits and he really appreciated that, wit all the doom and gloom hanging over them.

"I'm glad at least one of you girls seem to be in high spirits." Jay said.

"Thank you Jay-dono! I always try to be positive!" She said.

"That's one of the reasons i like you Yukari. Always happy and hyper." Jay said. That caused Yukari to blush a little and her hair seemed to get more poofy. Jay chuckled a little. "Geez, i didn't expect that reaction from you." Jay said. "Anyway, I'm curious to know how much you really know about my tank specifically. You seemed to take and interest in them."

"Y-yeah! Your tank, the M18 is the fastest one on the battlefield! Its slightly slower due to the roof and cupola yu installed onto it, but still very fast. And with that 76mm gun, it can knock out even the toughest of tanks!" She said. Jay was impressed, and secretly deep down he had feelings for Yukari, but he was nervous about the answer he would receive. The rest of the train ride the two talked and talked. Pascal was talking to a couple of the history club girls about the IS-3 and they eventually got into an argument about whether or not it was really a war-time tank. (spoiler alert, it is. It actually rolled through the streets of Berlin in 1945, before the war ended)

Kuromorimine, One day before battle…

The train came to a stop and everyone disembarked. Yukari was beaming with joy.

"The real Kuromorimine! It looks just like does in Tank Magazine!" She exclaimed.

"Unfortunately it means that we can't explore the city. Besides it's already sunset and by the time the tanks are off loaded, it should be about time to settle in for the night." Jay said. The 66 kids made their way to the living quarters for the night. The boys all went and set their stuff down and began talking amongst themselves. It was different this time around, instead of separate areas, they had to share the large space with the girls. Unfortunately they couldn't provide enough futons for everyone to have one, so sme boys began arguing about who should get the futons. Some boys were smart and went to grab their sleeping bags they brought from the tanks. Jay had gotten his futon and set it out on the ground. He didn't realize the location of where he put it though.

That night he was tossing and turning, he couldn't sleep. He couldn't sleep, flat out. He was scared of the match tomorrow and he just lied there. He pulled out his phone and went through some family photos. He kept scrolling until he saw some photos of him and the Ooarai teams. A tear trickled down his cheek as he scrolled through them. At this point they were apart of his family. And he was scared for them.

"Jay-dono?" A voice whispered to him. He turned the screen to see to it was Yukari.

"Oh, sorry Yukari, i woke you up didn't I?" Jay said, as quiet as he could.

"No, its ok, i was awake as well. Can't sleep?" She said. Jay nodded. That's when he felt someone shift into his futon. But it was so quick he couldn't tell if that was his leg or someone else's.

"Is it ok if come into there too?" Yukari asked. Jay nodded and opened a space for her to enter. As he rolled to face the other way Jay felt the sensation of warmth from another person. And not only that, he caught a full waft of her fragrance. He seemed to freeze up at that, and Miho let out a small giggle.

"I'm scared…" Jay said, solemnly. He rolled onto his back and just stared at the ceiling. "Is that bad? I'm a 6'2" killing machine, and I'm scared of tomorrow."

"Everyone's scared of dying." Yukari said. "It's perfectly normal." Jay felt his hand brush against something smooth, but it was shaking.

"Hey, Yukari, you mind keeping Miho company for a little? I gotta go talk to someone." Jay said. Yukari nodded and Jay got up. He walked outside the room and walked down to the lower level and out the door. He just stood outside, thinking about the match tomorrow. After about fifteen minutes of standing in the cold in nothing but his shorts, he went back inside. Once back in the room he noticed everyone was awake.

"What the fuck is happening?" Is what he wanted to say, but before he could say anything, he was pushed onto Miho by Yukari.

"Sorry!" Jay exclaimed, but right after Miho kissed him passionately. What the? What is this side of her? When she pulled away Jay looked into her eyes. He saw a very familiar face in hers. That of his own, a look of a bullied kid. One side is the tank commander/leader tough side, but this was her true side.

"P-please be gentle…" She said, once they were both naked. Jay nodded and kissed her. That night the wo became one. Cody and Saori, Leon and Hoshino, and a few others who had become a couple just couldn't hold themselves back from each other.

Day of Battle

The next morning everyone freshened up and got ready to go. It was a bit awkward for some of the boys and girls, especially after the previous night's events.

"Good morning Miho. Sleep well?" Jay asked. Miho just kind of ignored him though, though she did give him a sort of grunt as a response. Whats gotten up with her? Last night she was lovey dovey, now she's cold hearted..

"Hey miho, don't I get a kiss for the morning?" Jay asked playfully, before getting winded by Miho.

"Hold your tongue!" She shouted before walking off to her tank.

"You messed with the chain of command Jay, ya got bit, or in this case, hit." Pascal stated.

"Yeah, thanks. Now I have no Idea how were gonna pull this…." Jay looked onto the ground and saw some leaflets. "Hey Miho? You reading this? They want us to surrender." Jay said, reading the leaflet. He looked up to see a helicopter circling around, likely for another pass.

"We're not going to surrender. If we do, they kill us." Miho said. Murmurs arose from everyone about whether or not they should.

"Anyone who wants to surrender from JayPac raise your hand. And be honest!" Jay dhouted to the boys. None of them raised their hand. "Good!" He turned to Miho and smiled. "Looks like we're with you to hell and back." Miho gave a light smile before walking to her tank.

"Boys! MOUNT UP AND BUTTON UP!" The boys all hopped onto their tanks and got ready to go.

"All tanks are ready Ankou, your call." Jay reported. Miho saw the flare that signaled the beginning of the match.

"Panzer Vor!"

Finally squeezed out another chapter of this. Thank you all for waiting. Might be a little before the next chapter will be out. But we will see.