The next day, Keiji drove his dad's car to school again. He arrived at 7:15 am and got out of the car. He heard some commotions that got him really curious.
"Have you heard of the FOBS?" said a girl to a different girl.
"Yeah!" exclaimed the other girl. "I heard that they were fresh off from China!"
"Dude, have you seen the FOBS yet?" said a boy to a girl.
"No, have you?" asked the girl.
"Ey bro! New meats arriving today!" shouted a guy.
"Who?" replied a Mexican guy.
"FOBS comin today, son!" yelled a white guy.
Keiji walked all the way to his friends, thinking who the heck the "FOBS" were. He knew that FOB stood for "fresh off the boat", but he didn't hear of any FOBS coming to their school.
"Why's everyone all blabbering about these FOBS?" Keiji asked them.
"Haven't you heard?" said Sakon. "There are new FOBS coming to this school!"
"Who?" Keiji asked.
"These rich kids from China!" said Masanori. "I heard they mastered English real good!"
"I heard there's a triplet sibling," Kiyomasa added.
"I heard one of them went to war and lost an eye!" exclaimed Yukimura.
"Really?" said Sakon. "I heard that one too!"
"Well I heard they're really good with Martial Arts," said Kanetsugu.
"I know, right?" said Kiyomasa.
"I heard that they're fast learners," Mitsunari said.
Keiji was plain confused and all that talk about the FOBS was starting to annoy to him. "So why am I like the last person who knows about this?" he asked them.
"It was on Facebook yesterday," Sakon told him.
"Ohhhhh," Keiji said, nodding his head. "Maybe it's cuz I wasn't on yesterday; that's why I didn't know anything."
"Yup," said Kiyomasa.
"Besides, how great can they really be?" Keiji asked them. "All you guys heard were just rumors. Who knows if they're actually as great as they seem?"
They shrugged their shoulders and when the bell rang, they all went to their class. At break time, they met up with each other and walked to their Martial Arts class.
"I've spotted the FOBS!" exclaimed Masanori, pointing ahead. They all looked where Masanori was pointing at and saw a big group of Asian peoples, but they didn't get a good look at them though. Then they saw this guy that looked like a teacher. He shouted, "Let's do this!" and the FOBS shouted, "Yeahhh!"
"Like seriously, I don't get what's so special about them," Keiji said, blankly.
"Go switch into your armors quickly!" shouted Tadakatsu. Everyone quickly went into the locker room and switched. They all came out together and Keiji decided to ask Tadakatsu who they were, because he figured that since he's a teacher, he would probably know more about them.
"Sooo, Tadakatsu," Keiji began. "Who are those people anyway?"
"They are students from China," began Tadakatsu. "They are talented in Martial Arts and they are going to stay here until Winter break."
"What are they doing here anyways?" Keiji asked again.
"To come and battle you guys," Tadakatsu told him. "And to see how American Schools are like."
"Oh..I see now," Keiji said, as he walked to his friends. When Tadakatsu blew his whistle, everyone went to their numbers.
"Listen up, class, because I'm only going to say this once," said Tadakatsu. "You guys see that class over there?" He pointed to the FOBS.
"You mean the FOBS?" asked Masamune.
"Yes," answered Tadakatsu. "Anyways, we will be playing a war invasion game against them. You guys have today to come up with the war plans. Keiji, I want you to be the team commander, so you better make a good one. Is that understood?"
Keiji was excited. "Of course. You can always count on me."
"Good," replied Tadakatsu. "Now everyone, into the South X room."
Everyone walked into the South X room and sat down. Keiji got the map of the battlefield and saw that there were eight bases total; four for them and four for the FOBS.
"You have ten minutes to come up with three generals, two lieutenants, and assign bases for the rest," said Tadakatsu.
"Alright," Keiji said, thinking. He drew the map on a dry-erase board. He labeled the main camp "X". The other three bases were labeled, "Y," "Z," and "W." "My first general will be…Sakon," Keiji began. "My next general will be…Yukimura…And my last general will be Kiyomasa…"
"Awesome," they said, smiling.
"And now for the lieutenants," Keiji began again. "Mitsunari and Kanetsugu."
"It will be my pleasure," said Kanetsugu.
"Hmph. Whatever," said Mitsunari.
"Okay. Anyways, Sakon, you will be in base Y. Yukimura, you will be in base Z. And Kiyomasa, you will be in base W."
"Alright," they said.
"Magoichi, Masamune, and Nagamasa. You guys will be with Yukimura on base Z," Keiji told them. "Goemon, Hanzo, and Ginchiyo. You guys will be with Kiyomasa on base W. Oichi, Yoshimoto, and Nene. You guys will be with Sakon on base Y. Musashi and Motochika, you guys will be the reinforcements under Mitsunari. And finally, Toshiie and Masanori. You guys get to be the reinforcements under Kanetsugu. Are we cleared?" finished Keiji. Everyone nodded their heads.
After that, Tadakatsu began explaining the rules, which they already knew. One of the rules was that you could only come back into the game three times. For every time that you fall down or drop your weapon, that meant that you got defeated, and once you got defeated, you have to run three big laps around the track field to come back into the game. Once you come back on your third round and you die, that means that you just got captured. Specific tactics work for a specific amount of time, and you could only use up to three tactics. You cannot invade the main camp until you have captured the enemy's three bases. Reinforcements have to run around the track field five times before coming into the battle. Everyone in the game will have two powdered bombs that they can throw. If someone throws their bombs and the powders touches someone, that's one round of defeat for whoever got touched by it.
"So what tactics are you planning to use?" said Tadakatsu. "And don't fool around, because we only have ten minutes left to think of what we want. Tomorrow, we will be getting the tactics ready, so be serious."
"Okay," said Keiji. "I want to use Tactic: Capture, Tactic: Force March, and Tactic: Slow March. Everyone okay with that?"
"Yeah," said everyone.
"Good job," said Tadakatsu, as he dismissed everyone to go and switch back into their clothes.
