By: Ominae
Rating: T
NOTE:
All characters of the Full Metal Panic! series are under the copyright of Shouji Gatou/Koichi Chigira/Yasuhiro Takemoto, GONZO Studios, Kyoto Animation Studios and Kadokowa Shoten.
To all readers:
- I'd like to thank those reviewers who gave in their suggestions. Rest assure that they will be taken into consideration. A big thanks to Perpetual159 for the clear up regarding the Colonel rank difference in the Army and Navy. Strange though is that the FMP Anime Mission Fan Book and the MITHRIL Reports in the TSR DVDs state that. Probably overlooked the Captain rank equality in the Navy, but not everyone in MITHRIL's officers corp. have the same rank level. I did remember that Amit has the rank of General, which is most likely based on their last assignment before being recruited by MITHRIL. In this case, Borda was with the American Navy and Amit's most likely with the Israeli Army or Air Force. Brings back memories of my Military Police cadet days. Oh well, never mind. That's not what I want to talk about for now.
After this is done, I'd like to set more FMP stories on the way. I'll take Perpetual's suggestion into consideration in the near future. Nice idea too. But in the next run, I'd like to do an AU story of the FMP series 'till Second Raid. I guess I can tell a bit. It'll have a bit of crossover from the Metal Gear series, including the Acid series, Ghost Babel and (ugh!) Snake's Revenge, with other series yet to consider, though I'm putting in characters from Spriggan and a certain boss character from Virtua Cop 3 too with possibility from the Tom Clancy series included too. You might see a character or two who you'll never thought off to be a MITHRIL SRT/PRT operator. That's a secret for the meanwhile. I promise that I'll provide more details if anyone's interested. If you like this story, you may want to check a recent story I also made called End. It's the second story recently made after Impressions.
Onward to the 3rd chapter...
Chapter 3: Eri Kagurazaka
Faculty Room, Jindai High School, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan
Sousuke Sagara?
Every time someone mentions that name, I can't help myself but to think all of the horrible and disastrous things that... that... that delinquent has done to tarnish the name of the Jindai Municipal High School!
I just couldn't stand him! Really, ever since that gun-wielding maniac entered Jindai on April, he's been nothing but trouble. I don't share this sentiment, the other teachers like Kogure-sensei from the Health Department and the Vice Principal shares the same sentiments with me... The only thing I don't understand is why the Principal and Hayashimizu of the Student Council continue to tolerate and ignore his actions?
For the love offf... Tch! Can't those two realize and open their eyes that Sagara-san is giving our school a bad name...
But, I realize that those things happened from April to July though.
Even if Sagara-san was a nuisance, I found out that he volunteered his free time to help around in the school.
I heard of some of things that Sagara-san had done to help around Jindai. The first time I heard about this was when he was given the job of distributing bread rolls in recess with Kaname-san and some of the female Class II-4 students. I was even told by the principal that he was also responsible for preventing Kogure-sensei from intimidating the students by trying to spoil the bread rolls prior to recess.
That was, the first time when I heard that Sagara-san did a good deed for Jindai High. Well, that would start a string of events that would permanently change my look towards that warfreak student of mine.
After that, I heard some good things that student of mine has done for the entire school. From catching a stalker obsessed with ponytails on our female students to actually reforming the entire Rugby intramural team, I was amazed to know that Sagara-san was using military-style tactics and training as his solution to these problems that Jindai had a few months ago. Sometimes, I can't even convince myself that gunji otaku was able to turn some things around for the teachers and the students. I even heard some strange rumor from some of my students that Sagara had disappeared from our Boeing 747 after Kaname had been taken captive by North Korean agents and presumably tried to call for help. So those events just make me sit back and think...
Was Sagara's presence really even a blessing or a curse for Jindai High? Ahhhh! I don't have much time to think about that question right now.
Sigh. The things that I have to do as his homeroom adviser.
You know, I can't but to think that Sagara has done for the student body ever since being appointed as the Student Council President's assistant in handling student matters. I wonder if Hayashimizu-san saw the potential in using his military-style tactics as a means of bringing control on the rest of the students, not to mention on handling student-related matters.
"Sousuke!!!"
I bolted out of my seat when I heard Kaname-san's voice outside the faculty room. When I was in the corridor, I took a look from the window of the corridor to see Kaname hitting Sousuke on the head with a harisen. Apparently, there seems to be a guy lying down near my car. Probably in his late '20s.
"Why'd you do that for, Sousuke?"
"I had to as a precautionary measurement, Ms. Chidori. This suspicious person was trying to carjack Ms. Kagurazaka's vehicle. I only used an electrical immobilizer on it."
"You should have used a better way to subdue the car thief, Sousuke!"
"But I insist! There wasn't any other choice since he was nearby. I didn't have any time to get other counter-measures ready!"
I suddenly heard another whacking sound when Kaname used her harisen, brought out of nowhere, to beat Sousuke relentlessly in the head over and over again. I don't know about this, but I can't seem to help but feel sorry for Sousuke even if he has done some mischief in the school. It seemed that he did some good for a change.
I then went back to the faculty room, now empty since it was dismissal. I had to get back to my desk and prepare the questions for the upcoming quiz on English for my students of II-4 tomorrow.
Despite all of this, I can't help but to think that Sagara-san here in Jindai has been a good experience.
Even though the school had its ups and its down due to him...
Chapter 3 END
PS - Never expected this, didn't you? Now onwards to another female from MITHRIL's perspective. Time to cast your vote, folks! Let me know, shortest chapter I wrote on her anyway. I really didn't have anything to write about her aside from what's written here, since she gets mad at Sousuke whenever the guy gets into some serious handiwork at the work. Loved it when he "did" her mini though. As always, let me know how I did for this chapter if I did okay or what. I only painted in a sort of a love and hate-like relationship for Sousuke and Eri (No Sousuke/Eri! I assure you, unless someone's brave enough to do a story for this!). I just had to do this. Besides, it's nice to see how Kagurazaka-sensei thinks of Sousuke after all this time prior to COMO.
I'll have to brainstorm more AU plotlines for my FMP story that would have AU events. Feel free to comment about this or about the next chapter. I know most of you peeps want to see a Melissa chapter...
Lately, I've been reading the novels up to BOMF. COMO rocks and is the best. Has a lot of AS-sized battles, but I do wish there was a bit of human gunfights and urban warfare-style fighting. Kinda wished FOXHOUND and maybe RAINBOW joined in the fight. He he... Also, they should've made Wraith look even more sexier for a North Korean woman... RRrraoo!! Oh well, gives me a good idea for making a COMO-AU story.