Authors Notes: We are back with another chapter to 'It Bounced Off!' From where we left off, Miho recently came across Kay in one of her matches, Mako and Hana came across their first loss, what will happen next? Well, we'll find out soon enough, ONWARDS TO THE STORY!

Chapter 4: This grind is painful

Saunders School Ship

Somewhere in the Pacific

"So you're telling me that Miho plays World of Tanks? You're kidding me Kay, I've would've known that."

"Are you monitoring their radio traffic again Alisa?"

"NO! Why ever would I do that?!"

"You're the one that wants to get the advantage."

"That was one time, that one time. I won't do it again next time."

"I know you won't, anyway, you up for a platoon?"

"Sure, send me an invite." Kay hits the invite button and brings her co-commander and 76mm Sherman commander Alisa to come play with her. "What tier are we running?"

"Five, running Sherman's as usual."

"Eh…do you ever get bored of playing the Sherman, you have all that free experience and over 10,000 gold, at least spend it on the other Sherman's."

"I'm saving up for when they release the Firefly."

"But that's a British tank."

"SHERMAN Firefly."

*Sigh* "Whatever, let's get going."

"Are you sure you want to use the 76mm? That thing doesn't pack a punch."

"I'd prefer the rate of fire, plus I can hit from longer ranges."

"Whatever floats you're boat. Here we go!" Kay clicked the battle button and then came up the familiar match up page. Soon the screen froze a bit before showing the map and the lineup. "Hm…Himmelsdorf." Suddenly Kay heard a sigh come in from the other side of her microphone.

"I hate this game."

"Cheer up Alisa, we could always use you on the hill."

"I'd rather die." Kay could only laughed as the battle started and she and her commander went their separate ways. Their team split, half going up the hill, half going through the city streets, Kay was with the street team with her 105mm made it an excellent close quarters combat vehicle. Alisa, much to her dismay went up the hill as Kay told her. Alisa could not do much until the hill had been taken over, though her Sherman's gun depression was more than adequate to deal with threats, the lack of damage that the 76mm did not improve her odds.

"I'm going down the heavy tank alley." Kay reported as she peaked her tank around a corner.

"You sure? It's called heavy tank alley for a reason."

"I'll be fine, from what I see, you have a mess up there." Alisa looked at her map and saw the red blob approaching her.

"Ah hell." Alisa was only accompanied by a platoon of Matilda's that were chugging their way up to the hill. "Well, I'm F'ed." She cursed as two KV-1's and a Matilda Black Prince encroached on her position. Deciding she'd rather die doing something rather than nothing she peaked her tank around the rubble and fired a shot at one of the KV-1's.

"That one bounced off!" The computer voice announced.

"I knew it."

"Just hang on Alisa, we're almost done here."

"Kay, you've barely moved."

"Hey, it's the thought that counts." Kay replied as she fired a 105mm round into a T-28, causing it to explode spectacularly. "We're pushing through." Kay moved onto the small street and keep her gun trained towards the end of the intersection, her teammates followed suit. Suddenly, a T-34 came zooming around the far corner. Instinctively Kay drove her tank behind some fallen rubble as the T-34 fired. Kay watched as the marker for a bounce and the sound que played. "He hit the mantlet." Kay quickly reversed and fired off a shot, tracking the tank which fired again. Her teammates took advantage of the T-34's plight and destroyed it in a matter of seconds. Meanwhile back on the hill.

"I hate this." Alisa uttered. The tanks were nearing closer and her Matilda back up had just gotten to the second flight. She popped out again and fired at the Matilda BP and scored some damage, causing the tank to stop and fire. Can you hurry it up, I sense this flank is about to fold."

"You can't rush perfection. We're almost there."

"You still haven't moved."

"Hey hey."

The enemy tanks were now just a few meters away from her. "I'm moving, their right on top of me." Just as she began to move, an artillery shell landed next to her tank, tracking her and damaging her engine. "ARTY CAN'T WORK ON THIS MAP!" She exclaimed at the random stoke of bad luck. The front road wheel of the KV-1 crowned over the rubble and she watches as the turret slowly traversed towards her. She fired into the turret and scored some damage but the HP pool was barely touched. Just as she felt that the 76mm was going to rip into her tank she saw sparks begin to pop up over the KV-1. She looked and saw that the Matilda platoon finally made it up the hill and began engaging, causing the tanks to turn their attention away from Alisa, the prospects of an easy kill. But to her amazement, the Matilda platoon managed to bring the down the HP pools of all the tanks to a quarter of a way allowing Alisa to finish them off. "Take some of this!" She shouted as she pumped 76mm round into the backs of the Russian Heavies, destroying them before moving on to the next. The Matilda BP tried to retreat but ended getting surrounded by the Matilda's and was subsequently pummeled to death under a fusillade of the 2 pounder guns.

"We're here." Kay exclaimed as she crested the other side of the hill only to be greeted by Alisa's Sherman and 3 Matilda's and the burning wrecks of KV-1's and a Matilda BP. She laughed before saying, "And you said that you needed my help."

Alisa scoffed, "If it weren't for those Matilda's." The match came to an end with a base capture and the two were back in the garage.

"You should send that platoon a message Kay."

"I already did."

*Message*

"Hey, that was some great work out there! I look forward to playing with you again! Nice catch!"

"You too! Do you know this quote 'Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head'?"

"Nope, but funny, seemed the enemy team had no head to begin wi…wait a minute."

"Hm? What's wrong?"

"Nothing, that quote thing, I know someone that does that."

"Oh really now?"

"Yeah. She went by the name of Darjeeling, strange name if you ask me, naming yourself after tea."

"I take major offense to that."

"Oh! I'm sorry, I apologiz- WAIT WHAT! DARJEELING?"

"Yeah, how do you know that?"

"It's me. Kay, you're platoon saved Alisa in the last match."

"Oh, it was nice to see you, it was very much like Alisa to hide like that."

"Interesting to see you here."

"Well, things have been bland around here so we found new things."

"I see, well Miho and her team also play this."

"Do they now? It would be a treat to play with them."

"I'll see if I can get a hold of them but I got to go, nice talking to you Darjeeling."

"Same, bye Kay."

As Kay said her goodbye to Alisa, she logged off her computer and spun in her chair before getting up and heading downstairs.

Author's notes: This game is getting popular with the ladies, I can imagine it now, Maho with a Tiger I and Erika with a Tiger P. Well I hope that you guys enjoyed this, if you like it please leave a review and a critique because it's always appreciated!