Alright guys, here's the disclaimer: I do not own or claim to own anything with Girls Und Panzer's rights, though I do thank the creator of the series for how amazing it is.

I'm glad people are enjoying the story thus far. I'm enjoying writing it just as much as everyone is reading it.

*Tap*

Wha

*CRACK!*

WHAT THE HELL!?

"I SHOULD BE THE MAIN CHARACTER, BOW DOWN TO ME!" Anchovie snapped as she leveled her riding crop at Aldaeus's nose.

*blink*

You're shorter than me even while I'm sitting in a chair… no.

"You dare… defy me…" Anchovy fumed as she glared at him.

"Your arch was merely a footnote in the animated series anyway…" Katyusha grinned as she took another spoonful of pudding from Nonna.

"YOU'LL REGRET THAT YOU LITTLE…" Anchovie paled as seemingly all of the Sensha-Do team from Pravda appeared.

"Get her… and Ald while you're at it…" Katyusha ordered.

OH GOD!

"RUN!" Anchovy and Aldaeus took off at a run as the thunderous clatter of T-34-85's chased after them.

"Wow… and I thought you ran fast Alisa…" Kay grinned at her.

"I had a good reason to run away!" Alisa glared at her.

"Whatever…" Naomi shrugged as she flipped another page in the magazine she was reading "Let's get this chapter started already…" she muttered right before she blew a bubble.

"Alright then, hey everyone! Enjoy the chapter, and please review!" Kay smiled as she

xxxxxx

Ch. 2

Panzer Vor!

The Pz VI Ausf. H clattered through the streets as the girls looked around searching. "Honestly, we're not going to find any panzers like this… we'd be better off preparing the other school's panzers." Maho looked around as they rounded a corner and began driving down a side street.

"Miho!" Saori stuck her head out of the hatch again "Hippo team thinks they've found something!"

"Hippo team?" Maho blinked and looked at Miho.

"Team C, the Stug III." Miho looked at her for a moment before turning back to Saori "What've they found?"

Xxx

"What is it?" One of the Black Forest Peak girls looked at it.

"Whatever it is… it's got a funky turret…" Another of the girls reached up and grabbed the gun, pulling herself up onto its angular front.

"I remember this from somewhere, but…" Erwin looked at it while sitting on the ground pondering the strange looking tank.

"A JS-3 maybe?" Caesar suggested as she looked at it from the front.

"Too tall… and what's with that strange turret?" Oryou blinked as she adjusted her glasses, watching the Black Forest Peak girls go over the tank that was sticking out of a bush seemingly having gotten stuck backwards up a tree.

"Wait I've almost got the turret hatch!" One of the girls yelled before a loud crack caught their attention as the tank crashed down onto the back half of its tracks with several loud bangs, while three of its road wheels exploded before its turret swiveled down into place.

"I don't believe it… I know what this is…" Erwin gaped. "A pivot mounted turret… and that camo… it's French, it's one of the post war prototype tanks of the French! One of the Lorraine 40t prototype main battle tanks!"

The girls from Black Forest Peak righted themselves from the ground and their spots on the tank.

Xxx

"A what?" Miho blinked.

"A Lorraine 40t?" Maho was a little puzzled.

"That's what she called it, apparently it's some postwar prototype tank like the Porsche Tiger was, but it was never put into production…" Saori looked at them.

The hatch next to Maho's leg popped open and Yukari stuck her head out "A Lorraine 40t!? Are you sure?" She looked at Saori who nodded and held out her phone.

"Erwin and Hippo team took a picture with it." Saori brought up the picture she'd been sent.

"What if they're all prototype tanks that were used? None of them ever saw production, so there has to be flaws with them… think of the Porsche Tiger… think of how many problems it has." Maho looked at Miho.

"The Lorraine 40t is not to be joked about! It was a superb machine and took influences from the JS-3, and Panther." Yukari looked up at the two of them. "On top of the fact that it had a massive 100mm gun with a six round clip, its engine was said to have been a German made Maybach taken from a Tiger which was much heavier than it."

"What a sad thing to do to a proud panzer like the Tiger…" Maho glared.

Xxx

"Hippo team found the first of the lost panzers, it's a variant of the AMX-50t prototype, a Lorraine 40t." Midoriko stuck her head out of the hatch and looked over at Darjeeling, who was sitting on the top of the B1 sipping her tea.

"That's wonderful." Darjeeling smiled at her "Care for some tea?"

"Now's not the time to be sitting and drinking tea…" Midoriko glared at her.

"The proof of the pudding is in the eating dear…" Darjeeling smiled as Orange held out a cup for Midoriko.

Midoriko took the cup and took a sip of the black tea. "It's… not bad…"

"Sodoko!" a voice shouted from within the tank.

"What is it Gomoyo?" Midoriko asked as she looked down into the tank.

"YOU'RE STANDING ON THE THROTTLE!" Gomoyo yelled as she realized they'd been steadily accelerating and were now at full speed,while they flew through the streets as fast as the B1 would go.

"Inside dear…" Darjeeling nodded as Midoriko quickly climbed down the hatch to find Darjeeling scotching her out of the way, as Orange climbed in and getting the teary eyed Gomoyo out of the driver's seat.

"The throttle is jammed!" Midoriko struggled trying to force it back.

"What can't be cured must be endured." Darjeeling smiled before sipping her tea.

"Wha!?" Midoriko blinked at Darjeeling, who was surprisingly calm even though they were driving so fast.

"Then again…" Darjeeling sighed as she looked at the throttle. "Move…"

"Huh…" Midoriko leapt back against the tank wall as Darjeeling gave the throttle a sharp kick, un-sticking it in the process, before pulling it back with her foot.

"In love and battle, we British cease to be refined." Darjeeling smiled as the tank slowed back to a more normal speed.

"What the heck's that supposed to mean?" Gomoyo looked at Darjeeling as they were all a little puzzled by the normally refined girl suddenly showing some brute force to get them out of the situation.

"You'll get used to it…" Orange smiled at the other girls before the tank suddenly lurched downwards and came to an abrupt stop.

"Is everyone all right?" Darjeeling asked as she glanced around at them.

"I think everyone's all right…" Midoriko looked around "Let's get out and check the B1."

It didn't take them long to clamber out of the tank, which was over an embankment with its front down in a small stream next to a bridge.

"Oh good heavens… how are we going to get this out of here commander?" Orange blinked and looked at Darjeeling.

"Do we have a hose?" Darjeeling asked "And a petrol can?"

"Why would we need those?" Midoriko asked.

"Because, if we have them we can siphon the petrol from the B1 and hopefully that starts up… and we can tow it out…" Darjeeling gestured to a machine parked under the center of the bridge.

Pazumi gaped "That's a…"

"Centurion!" Gomoyo cheered recognizing the old British panzer that had been the backbone of its army since the Second World War.

Xxx

"Darjeeling found what!?" Kay gaped as she heard the news.

"A Centurion…" Yuuki looked up at them from her seat.

"Did you hear that Darjeeling beat us to finding a tank too!" Alisa looked out to Naomi.

"So… the Centurion is a good tank… we just have to find something that's similar…" Naomi shrugged.

"That's not okay, they beat us!" Alisa yelled as she sat on the edge of the door yelling at Naomi.

"Hang on there's a bump!" Karina yelled from the driver's seat.

"Huh…? Alisa yelled before the M3 Lee hit the bump sending her flying.

"Alisa!" Kay yelled as Naomi jumped from the top of the tank grabbing her as they rolled down into a ditch along the side of the road.

"Owww…" Alisa rubbed her head as they hit something hard.

"You okay?" Naomi asked as she rubbed her back.

"Yeah I'm fine, but what did we land on…?" Alisa trailed off as they found themselves staring at a really big turret.

"What in the hell?" Alisa blinked seeing it.

"Alisa, Naomi, are you…?" Kay trailed off as she saw them sitting on it "That's an M103… hot damn that's an M103!"

Xxx

"More reports are coming in, two more tanks have been found!" Saori stuck her head out of the hatch "Darjeeling found a Centurion, and Kay found an M103!"

"The UN forces heavy hitters during the cold war…" Maho blinked.

"So not all of the panzers from the Olympic team were prototypes, the Centurion and M103 were backbones for their armies for some time…" Yukari stuck her head out of the hatch, "What do you think Miho, they've just found them lying along the side of the roads they've been on, it sounds like they were just parked there or something…"

"Wha… say that again?" Saori blinked as she heard it "You're seeing things… panzers have two tracks not four!"

"Four tracks?" Miho looked at Yukari who shrugged a little.

"I know of only one tank with four tracks… and it's in the Americas… a prototype super heavy tank known as the T28… it was re-designated the T95 motorized gun carriage." Yukari looked at her. "Only two were produced, and both were supposedly sold for scrap but they found one in the back of a field at some fort in the mid seventies… It was intended to be used in the European theater during the Second World War to deal with the Siegfried line, however the quick pace of the allied armies overran it and it was instead prepared for the invasion of the home islands, which in reality never truly happened thanks to America's airpower..."

Xxx

"It's huge…" Anchovie gaped as she stood on top of the massive T95 looming out of the mud it was stuck in.

"Looks like someone spiked this one into the dirt hard…" Noriko blinked as she looked at the rear of the machine, sunken so deeply into the dirt it was nearly level with the surface.

"We're sure this thing isn't some sort of fixed gun or something?" Shinobu asked "I mean look at it…"

Xxx

"WHAT?!" Katyusha gaped "Why is everyone else finding panzers but not us!?"

"Because of luck… we don't exactly have a map with an x marking where each one is, you know…" Anzu looked at her.

"It's because you're not trying hard enough… you're doing nothing but relaxing in that seat while they do all the work!" Katyusha snapped.

"Pot calling the kettle black, Katyusha darling?" A voice came over the radio and she instantly recognized it as Darjeeling, as a rumble echoed through the Hetzer she stuck her head out to see the much larger Centurion following the B1 back to the school. With Darjeeling sipping tea from her place in the commander's hatch.

"That… that… that's not true!" Katyusha yelled back over the radio.

"Katyusha you're…" Nonna tried to stop her but a swift kick landed in Yuzuo's left shoulder.

"That way, okay…" Yuzuo turned the Hetzer and suddenly they found themselves driving into a wooden fence blocking off the road from a field.

"AHHH!" Katyusha ducked inside as they crashed through the fence "You're crazy you know that, RIGHT!?"

"Right… okay…" Yuzuo turned the tank back to the right and they came to a sudden stop as the tank threw everyone forward.

"What the hell?" Momo blinked as she wheeled on Katyusha. "You'd better hope you didn't damage our Hetzer or you can walk back!"

"Calm down Momo, we're probably just stuck on a rock… let's get out and see if we can push ourselves off, if we can't we can radio Darjeeling, she's nearby and could give us a push…" Anzu shrugged.

"Like hell! I'd rather walk than ask for help from her at this point!" Katyusha glared. "Nonna, help me out."

"Yes ma'am." Nonna climbed out and lifted Katyusha out while the others clambered out, they blinked seeing the Hetzer seemingly forced upward by a massive lilac bush.

"Useless weak German tank, can't even run over a bush!" Katyusha kicked the Hetzer before leaping backwards, as it rolled back and revealing what had forced it up.

"You were asking about us finding a panzer…" Anzu looked at her "Well that's a panzer…"

Nonna blinked "An Iosif Stalin 8…"

"Nonna, lets clear this off, I think we need to make Darjeeling eat her words!" Katyusha ran towards the panzer.

"It probably won't start, it's been sitting here for how many years…" Momo trailed off as the low rumble of the IS-8's engine roared to life while Nonna sat in the driver's seat. A loud ripping sound and several sharp cracks came as the whole lilac bush was ripped from the ground and fell apart as the IS-8 began driving out.

"Those girls from Pravda are pretty determined…" Yuzuo looked as the bush seemingly crumbled around the low and long IS-8 before it drove up onto the road and accelerated quickly after the Centurion.

Xxx

"It's a little cramped in here you know…" Erika glared at Satoko. "Why did you insist on all of us being inside anyway!?"

"Because the Porsche Tiger has a nasty habit of catching fire, and if you were on the engine deck when that happened… you'd be on fire as well…" Satoko looked at her.

"Why else do you think we have several additional fire extinguishers?" Hoshino looked over at her. "This thing was a prototype anyway…"

"Then why use it, if it has so many problems?" Another of the girls from Black Forest Peak asked.

"Because it's what we had, we're not a large school like yours, we have to make do with what we have." Suzuki looked at her from her spot in the tank near the ammunition.

"Hey Satoko, the transmission's acting up again…" Tsuchiya looked up at her from the driver's seat. "Probably wearing out the first gear set again…"

"Great… a project on top of repairing all of the new tanks…" Satoko smiled. "I love rebuilding the transmission."

"What's your record at now?" Hoshino asked.

"Thirty six minutes flat from start to finish with all of the parts available." Satoko smiled as Erika gaped.

"How…" Another member of the Black Forest Peak team asked.

"The reason we were given this stubborn Porsche Tiger was that we're all of the members of the Automotive club… from the start we worked on all of the tanks. Whenever they were damaged in a match, we'd rebuild them. We went over this baby with a fine toothed comb, we know every nut and bolt in it." Satoko smiled.

"Hey Satoko, it rained yesterday right?" Tsuchiya asked from her seat.

"Yeah why?" Satoko replied.

"Didn't they repave the intersection we're coming up to last week?" Suzuki blinked and smiled.

"Huh?" Erika looked around at them.

"The conditions should be perfect then, the surface would have leached a fine layer of oil, it'll make it easier!" Hoshino looked at Satoko who nodded.

"It's all yours Tsuchiya, give her all you've got, today is the day!" Satoko braced herself.

"Roger that!" Tsuchiya grinned as she accelerated the panzer.

"Perfect for what?" Erika and the Black Forest Peak girls were confused.

"You see, ever since we climbed in this thing, we've had our hearts set on trying it at least once… we're gonna drift the next corner!" Tsuchiya smiled up at them.

"Drift…" Erika blinked "You're kidding."

"Nope, hang on!" Satoko yelled as they hit the slick new asphalt and Tsuchiya brought one track to a complete halt as the other accelerated fully, spinning the tank sideways prior to reengaging the other, as the tank spun around they were all forced to the hull's wall before it accelerated forward again.

"YAHOOOO!" Tsuchiya cheered. "THAT WAS GREAT!"

"I think I know why we lost…" One of the Black Forest Peak girls was clearly afraid. "They're all crazy… slinging a panzer around like some sports car…" She looked at Erika whose face was paler than her hair.

"I think I'm gonna be sick… I need air!" Erika muttered before scrambling to get out of the Tiger P.

"Wait, don't, we're near some…" Satoko yelled as Erika pushed past her and popped the commander's hatch, pushing herself out into the open air.

"Ahhh… huh, AHHH!" Erika screamed as she was pulled out of the top.

"Vice Commander!" The Black Forest Peak girls scrambled after her as the tank shuddered and began filling with smoke.

"Looks like the tranny went…" Tsuchiya sighed as she began climbing out with the others.

"I told you not to…" Satoko looked at Erika who was dangling from a tree branch.

"Back the panzer up and help me!" Erika yelled.

"Just let go, it's only a short drop…" Tsuchiya sighed.

"And break an ankle, you're crazy!" Erika snapped at her.

"Then hook your foot over the branch and climb your way over to the tree, and get yourself down, we need to fix the transmission if we're going to continue searching." Suzuki looked at her "And I'd hurry if I were you that branch looks dead it could break."

Erika gaped at them as they began hopping off of the Tiger P and pulling out their tools to get at the transmission, as the team from Black Forest Peak tried to ventilate the interior and put out the small engine fire.

Erika glared as she hooked her feet around the branch and began shimmying her way down it "I don't believe this… they can't spare three seconds to help me down so we can keep searching… annoying little… AHH!" The sharp crack of the branch caught her attention and she jumped, grabbing for whatever was nearest as the dead branch gave way and grasped what looked like the end of a pipe before coming down hard on something.

"Vice Commander!" the Black Forest Peak girls yelled as they ran over to check on her.

"Uhh…" Erika blinked as she found herself dangling half on and half off of something. "What's with this pipe…it's…" She pulled herself up on the angled surface, and found herself looking down the massive bore of a gun.

"No way…" One of the girls yelled as the camouflage net ripped a little, revealing the light tan paint that had faded over time of the massive panzer. "It's a Strumtiger!"

Xxx

"Wha… Erika found a Strumtiger!?" Maho gaped.

Saori nodded "Yeah, so that makes us the only ones who haven't found something yet."

"Wait Anteater team found something too!?" Yukari gaped.

"Yes, they showed up unannounced, apparently their radio blew a fuse… they found a Type 62 light tank." Saori nodded.

"Its getting dark, we don't have any lights, so it'd be hard to get back if the sun sets on us…" Hana poked her head out of the hatch on the opposite side.

Miho nodded "Mako, we should turn around." She relayed over her mic.

"Understood… uhh…" Mako replied, causing Miho to glance inside.

"Mako!" Saori yelled as she shook her, the Pz IV Ausf. H accelerated at high speed.

"What's going on?" Maho stuck her head inside.

"Mako has low blood pressure… she falls asleep easily…" Miho looked up at her.

"Get her out of that seat then, we're about to…" Maho leapt into the tank and pulled the hatch shut just as a defining crash echoed around them, they all lurched forward as the Pz IV came to an abrupt halt. "…crash…"

"Uhh…" Mako straightened herself up. "Sorry…"

"Everyone's all right?" Miho looked around.

"We crashed into some garage…" Maho looked at her before pushing the hatch open, the clatter of some wood echoed as it fell away. "Owww!" She yelped as she stuck her head out.

"Maho!" Miho looked up at her sister, who had abruptly ducked back into the tank and was rubbing her head.

"I hit my head on something…" Maho grimaced.

"Not just something!" Yukari grinned "You got bopped on the head by a Lion!"

Maho blinked as she climbed out of the side hatch following Yukari, as the others climbed out to see that they had collided headlong with a massive panzer.

"A VK 7201!" Maho blinked as she saw it.

"Otherwise known as the Löwe, or Lion." Yukari grinned. As she looked under the long barrel at Maho, who had cracked her head on it when she stuck her head out of the commanders hatch too quickly.

Miho looked around and saw a light switch near the door to the garage, she jumped off and ran over flicking it on and they gasped as the lights flickered to life revealing the garage around them. An old Japanese flag hanging over the seven Olympic rings with two long rows of various panzers in either direction.

"We found the Olympic garage…" Hana blinked as she looked around. "An M46… the Lion… a Leopard 1…"

"An M24 Chaffee, A Conqueror, An AMX 50 Foch…" Yukari was drooling as she looked around.

"A T-54, SU-122-54…" Mako looked around at them "…and a Type 59."

"A pair of AMX 13 75's." Miho blinked noticing her sister who was on the floor next to the Pz IV looking at the track.

"We hit the jackpot…" Yukari cheered.

"Save the cheering, how are we getting back to the school?" Mako looked around at them. "The lead is bent, we can't take the Pz IV and I'm willing to bet all of these tanks haven't moved in over thirty years, and probably all have congealed oil and bad petrol."

"I've got it, we'll take the Leopard 1! It should run from the looks of it… and we can siphon the gas from the Pz IV!" Yukari looked over at it.

"What about congealed oil don't you get, it's probably turned to dust by now… if we run it there's a chance the engine could cease up." Mako looked at her.

"We can take the oil from the Pz IV too… besides even if the gas has broken down, the Leopard 1's MTU MB 838 CaM 500 was a multi fuel engine. It could run on kerosene if we put it in it." Yukari smiled "What do you say Miho, we can pick up the Pz IV tomorrow with the others?"

"All right, how are we going to drive at night?" Mako looked at her.

"The Leopard 1 has passive light intensifiers for the commander and driver's hatches, we could drive by starlight!" Yukari smiled. "Besides it's not like you sleep at night anyway Mako…"

Mako glared at her "Fine…" She looked at Miho. "It's your call Miho… do you want to try driving it back?"

"We kinda have to… we're out of radio range of the school, and the others were all back already…" Saori looked at her.

"What about your cell?" Hana asked.

"Its battery is dead… we were out of radio range a long time ago…" Saori sighed. "Sorry Miho…"

"It's fine… besides I think it'll work, don't you Maho, we'll just have to idle the engine for a bit to make sure the oil is flowing." Miho looked at her sister who sighed.

"You're pushing it, I doubt it'll even start… it probably needs overhauled." Maho sighed as Mako entered the tank to get familiar with the controls.

Xxx

"It's getting late… the sun's already setting…" Kay looked over at Anzu "Anji where is Miho's team?"

"Not sure, we haven't received any transmissions back for a while…" Anzu looked around at the others who began to look worried.

"We'll form search parties, everyone get ready to…" The low rumble of thunder caught their attention as rain began to fall with the last rays of sunlight disappearing the night became pitch black.

Ami looked around at them "No, everyone stay here I'll go and search, I don't want anyone getting hurt in this kind of a situation."

"We have to!" One of the girls from Black Forest Peak ran over. "Commander Maho is with that team!"

The flash of lightning illuminated the scene and briefly the aggressive image of a machine appeared, that crashed through the trees near them, with the crash of the thunder that followed.

"AHHHH!" All of the girls screamed as they ran, the low roar of its engine echoed off of the buildings.

"That's a…" Ami blinked while the terrified girls hid near their tanks as it slowed to a halt and was lit up to them fully by the light of the garage.

"Leopard 1 main battle tank…" Darjeeling blinked seeing it as the rain began to come down harder, diluting her tea in the process.

The commanders hatch opened and Miho stuck her head out "Sorry if we worried everyone!" She climbed out as the engine was shut down.

Maho was the next out. "You won't believe what we found…"

"Another Strumtiger?" Erika looked at her.

"No… the garage they housed the Olympic panzers in for the Japanese team, it's loaded with them!" Yukari grinned as she pulled herself out "Maho you should get your head looked at, you were fussing with it the whole way back."

"I'm fine…" Maho glared at her.

"You cracked your head on the barrel of a VK 7201 Lion trying to get out of the commander's hatch…" Mako looked at her.

"Where's the Pz IV?" Ami asked looking at the girls.

"Well, we sort of crashed through the garage door… and it hit the Lion head on… its lead was damaged so it needs a pickup…" Yukari grimaced a little.

"I hope everyone is all right then?" She looked over at Maho who was absentmindedly rubbing her head again. "Maho… you should get that looked at…"

"Ah…" Maho blinked. "Yes ma'am…"

The rain began to slow as the girls looked at the newest addition to the panzers they'd found. "Let's take this chance with the lull in the rain to get everyone home, we can take care of the panzers in the morning. It may be a weekend, but we need to get them all ready." Ami looked around at them. "Everyone get a good night's sleep and be safe."

"What are we supposed to do about a place to sleep?" Kay asked.

Ami looked around at the girls from the other schools "Partner up, there's about the same number, everyone take someone home with them for the night… if anyone's parents ask explain the situation."

Xxxxxx

And so we have many tanks... a ton of tanks… tones of tones of tanks…

*CRACK!*

"That was a bad joke…" Erika grimaced.

What didn't enjoy drifting in a Tiger P?

*WHACK!*

"YOU'RE CRAZY!" Erika belted Ald out of his chair.

"Erika… don't beat the writer up he's still recovering from Katyusha's assault…" Maho glanced over at her as she iced her head.

"YOU ALSO HURT MAHO!" Erika glared as she kicked Ald in the ribs. "AND EMBARRASSED ME!"

"But your favorite tank is in the story Erika… I wouldn't complain unless you want him to stick you in one of the AMX 13 75's…" Anzu grinned as Erika paled a lighter shade than her hair.

"He…he… HE WOULDN'T DARE!" Erika dove on Ald and began beating him senseless.

"Erika… don't kill him… we need him for the next chapter…" Miho looked at her.

"The likelihood of him putting you in one of the light tanks is remote anyway…" Maho looked at her.

"We'll just have to keep an eye on his writing through the next chapter then… won't we…" Erika gave him a death glare "GET TO WORK!"

Darjeeling smiled as she slipped into the seat Ald had been knocked out of "Well then, we'll see everyone next time… if Mr. Aldaeus is alive that is…"