Authors Notes: Welcome fellow tankers, buckle up for the next installment of It Bounced Off. I hope you have been enjoying so far so sit back and relax and load your AP shells because it's about to bounce off!

Chapter 2: Critical Hit!

The last time we left off, the girls of Anglerfish were introduced to the world of World of Tanks. Miho had just experience her first battle so the rest are diving in to experience the great fun of playing on an online battlefield.

"AH! MAKO MY TANK IS ON FIRE! WHAT DO I DO!?" Saori gushed when she saw her French Renault FT flaming in the back. Mako sighed and got of her chair and took Saori's keyboard and hit the 3 key which extinguished the flames. "Ah…thanks Mako-chan." Mako scoffed and returned to her seat.

"YEAH I GOT ANOTHER ONE!" Yukari shouted while she shot her fist in the air. She had gotten a kill in her British Loyd Gun Carriage. She quickly returned her hands to the mouse and keyboard and leaned in closer to her screen.

"I'm very sorry! I have to do this!" Everybody turned their attention to Hana's computer, her Panzerjager I was looking at the husk of a destroyed enemy tank.

"What's wrong Hana-san?" Miho asked.

"I destroyed an enemy vehicle but I feel like the other person hates me now." Hana said chokingly.

"Nothing wrong with that, you're supposed to do that." Mako said while drinking from her water bottle.

"But…but I destroyed it while moving." Hana said brokenly. The room went silent.

"Yo..You…you destroyed an enemy tank in a tank destroyer while on the move?" Yukari stuttered. Hana nodded, suddenly Yukari leapt from her chair and started bowing up and down repeatedly, "PLEASE MISS ISUZU, TEACH ME YOU WAYS!"

"Heh…" Saori was all confused at the situation at hand, Miho gently got up and took Yukari's collar and dragged her back to her seat.

"I'm sorry." She said dejected. The girls continued to play until Miho raised a question.

"Is there any possible that we can play together?" The group looked at Mako again.

She sighed, "You can make a group called a platoon which three players can join each other and go into public matches, tank companies is for larger groups of 7 to the max of 15 and those are usually reserved for clans."

"Oh…so how do that again?" Miho asked again. Mako pointed to the little arrow below the battle button that extended and showed more options. "Platoon! I see it!" Miho dragged her mouse pointer over the platoon button and clicked it. "What's this?" Miho was confronted with a window where she had to find people to invite.

"You have to add people to your contacts so you can invite them and see when their online."

"Oh, what are your guy's names?"

"Lazy_Mako."

"Ikebana_Gunner."

"Takebe_Saori."

"Eh? Are you sure you want to use your real name?"

"OF COURSE Miporin! Mostly boys play this game so maybe after showing my dominance over them, they'll remember my name and maybe send me proposal's." Saori gushed excitedly. Mako could only sigh as she said,

"That's flawless logic Saori."

"You're mean!" Saori whined.

"How about you Akiyama-san?"

"Guderian."

"That's it."

"Yup." Yukari reassured. Miho quickly typed the names into the text field and added the names to her contacts.

"There, I added everyone so I can only choose two people?"

"Yeah."

"Aw…but I feel bad for the two left out."

Saori quickly interrupted, "Well Miporin, I'll be going if you don't mind, I had a fun time but we'll do this at another time, I'll probably see you online."

"I'll be going too Miho-san." Hana added.

"Oh…well thanks for coming, I'll see you tomorrow!" Miho got up and opened the door for her friends and waved goodbye as they went down the stairs. She returned to her seat, Mako and Yukari still remain.

"You ready to go Nishizumi-Dono?"

"Hm." Miho nodded in acknowledgment. She clicked the arrows that moved the names of her friends into her platoon. Once she did that, she clicked the invite button.

"Hey! I'm in your platoon now!" Yukari exclaimed.

"What's our line up?" Mako asked.

"Well, I'm going done the medium tank line so I'll be in the 35(t)."

"I'll be using the M2 Light tank, it's fast and I can spot targets for Yukari."

"I'll be counting on you Reizei-dono!"

"You guys ready?" Miho asked. The two nodded and Miho clicked the battle button. The timer counted down until it hit zero.

"LET'S ROLL OUT!" The announcer said. The map was Himmelsdorf and Miho and her platoon wasted no time in communicating.

"Yukari-san, set up by the train station, Mako-san begin scouting once our team is heavily engaged."

"Roger that!" The two girls replied. Yukari moved her Gun Carriage behind the massive train yard building, some friendly tank destroyers also frequented that line. Miho took her 35(t) and began moving down the street. Half of her team were going to take the high ground where it dominated sight over the entire map. Soon, red contacts started blipping all over the map and the sound of 37's, 20mm, and .50cals erupted. Continuing down the street, she caught sight of four enemy tanks down her line. Out of it, the British Medium seemed the greatest threat, she angled her armor and hid behind the corner of a building. She began firing her 37mm and she could see the HP fall off the but the four tanks were inching closer. Miho was all alone, defending her line while the rest of the team were contesting over the hill.

"Reizei-San, Can you start moving, Yukari needs spots on the hill."

"Already on it." Mako was moving her nimble tank through the middle of the map and went through the enemy spawn by the church, she stopped to take some liberty shots at the enemy artillery. She maneuvered behind the mosh pit that was the hill and postioned herself so she couldn't be seen. "Area lit."

"YAHOO! EAT THIS!" Yukari exclaimed as she clicked her fire button. Miho could hear the sound of the SPG as she saw the shell fly and land on the hill, an orange splash accompanied by a flying turret marked a kill.

"Good hit Yukari-san!" Miho complimented the kill but quickly returned to the evolving situation at hand. She managed to pop a shot into the and destroyed it but there were still three more tanks to deal with. Miho popped out once more and took a shot at one of the tanks but misses and her tank took a massive hit, bringing it down to 12 HP. She backed up into the corner and the side of an American T2 Medium presented itself. Miho fired and was awed when she realized that she only tracked it. She watch as the turret began to turn in her direction, instinctively she closed her eyes as if she was actually inside the tank.

*BANG*

Miho opened her eyes and saw the burning hulk of the T2, she saw as another side of a tank crowned from the side of the building, she aimed at it but she stopped when it displayed a green outline. Two friendly tanks moved down and began pushing the enemies remaining tanks back until they were flanked by the forces from the hill. Miho just leaned back in her chair as the counter for her team reached 15, signaling the end of the game.

"Wow that was intense." Yukari remarked as she spun in her chair.

"That was exhilarating." Mako added. Miho could only laugh at her friends comments. She began to yawn.

"*Yawn* I'm tired."

"Oh…we'll leave now if you want us to Miss Nishizumi."

"Oh, well…okay, Mako how abou-"Miho looked at Mako who was slumped in her chair sleeping.

Yukari sighed, "Well, I guess we'll be leaving now, I have to bring Reizei-dono with me but I'll see you online Nishizumi-dono."

"Bye Akiyama-san." Miho waved as her apartment emptied. She closed the door and sighed and logged out and closed her laptop and put it away. Not even doing anything else she flopped down on the bed whilst hitting the light switch on the way and fell fast asleep.

Author's notes: Well that was fun, they're having a better outcome than I did in my WoT career. I wished I had teams like that but oh well, beggars can't be choosers. I hope you enjoyed this and please leave a review and critique because it's always appreciated!

PS: Much vocaloid was listened to in the making of this.