Chapter 5: Can tank bounce on water? Pt3

…No seriously, can they?

Some random hill,half a kilometer away from the Theme Park…

"Okkkk… we got a bunch of Pershing near the entrance…some more at the "not Kevin Costner's Waterworld" and the "Supa fun ducky boat ride with no real duckies nor boats that shaped like duckies", some more around the "England-esque themed mock souvernir and treats village", None at the "Murica' Wild wild west stereotype looking mock town that actually looked pretty cool", the Centurion is nowhere in sight…" said Don as he chewing on a choco bar while looking through his binocular.

Kay was still busy laughing while Anchovy seems a bit confused as she asked "Uhhh…are those really the attractions's names?"

Don then look at her with a half surprised face as he said "Yeesss…" sarcastically.

Anchovy shrugs "Are you being sarcastic?"

Don then smiled as he said "Nooo…" sarcastically.

Anchovy look at him for a moment before she shrugs "Oh, ok…weird way to name something if you ask me…"

Kay, having heard all that, laughs even louder while the girl commanding the Pink Bunny team just said under her breath "A leadership skill of a warrior…but a brain of a…"

Before she could finish her remarks, Don said loudly "Ok, Miho's squad is entering from the front... Naomi, it's open season…"

Naomi, who was putting a chewing gum into her mouth as she began adjusting her aim "Okk, gimme a target…"

Don then said "Right... One Pershing hiding behind the ticket booth that looked like the place Grady slept when he snuck into the New York City Zoo to free the Sloths back in the States…. We have to sell Lemonade and test answers to bail him out…"

While Kay,now joined by Arisa was hugging each other as they laughed at every remarks that comes out of the young man's mouth, Naomi move the center dot toward the given target and pull the trigger.

It took only a mere second for the 7 pounder's shell to reach the target and exploded, eliminating it as a result.

Through Don's binocular, Miho's squad, consist of her own Panzer IV, Maho's Tiger I, the Mechanic club's Porshe Tiger and the Volley ball club's Type 89 managed to took out the first ambush squad and slowly moves toward the water park's entrance, with a brick roof, which seems to be quite old.

Don then said loudly "Grady get me the phone…Naomi, Norman, Momo take aim and wait for instruction…"

Grady's only answer was Don's Dynatec brickphone being thrown out from under the Fury's hatch and landed near him.

Don picked up the phone and dial Miho's number and hold it to his ear.

Anchovy, having see the size of the phone, awkardly said "Uhhh, doesn't that thing ever gave you radiation?"

It didn't take long for Miho to pick up, but before she could say anything Don took the inititive and said "Miho, you see that entrance right in front of you?"

Miho's voice replied "Ye..yes"

Don then said "From where I stood, there's about 3 Pershing waiting for you inside with their cannons all hot and loaded…stay where you are"

Miho's voice then replied "What are you suggesting?"

Don replied "See that crumbling roof? They're techichally right under it.."

Miho seems to have understood what he got in mind as she said "Got it Wardaddy"

Don then said loudly "Alright, open fire on that roof"

With that, Both Miho's squad and Don's squad unleashed a shells barrage at the structure, bringing it down with just a couple impacts.

Once the smoke cleared, Chouno's voice can be heard "3 Pershings eliminated"

Don then spotted a squad of Pershings moving onto Miho's position from the Boat ride attraction, he quickly went back into the Sherman's cockpit, pick up the radio and said "Miho, heads up, incoming Pershings, left flank, 4 of them"

The moment he said so, a shell flew right at the back of her Panzer's turret, but only for it to bounces off of it.

From Don's binocular, Miho's team quickly take evasive manuveur before returning fire.

Don the spoke into the radio "Darjeerling, move in and assist Iron Princess, Katyusha, move into the Themed town attractions and lure the rest of them out…taking out some of them in the process would be great too…"

As Katyusha's T-34 and Dajeerling's Churchill, along with two Chaffe tanks rams through the fences surrounding the park and make their way toward the designated locations, Don said to Anchovy "Duce, go help Katyusha, we'll scramble their formations as much as possible and pick them off one by one…stay out of sight if you're outnumbered…"

Kay then get back inside her Sherman and said "I'll go in aswell"

Don, still looking through his binocular nodded "Understood, head toward the Wild West themed town, Pink Bunny team will accompany you, once there, stay hidden…"

Kay nodded as she closed the turret hatch while her Sherman and Anchovy's Tankette roll off.

Don then said into the radio "Caesar, are you guys in position?"

Caesar's voice can be heard replying "Affirmative Wardaddy, look toward the vintage Japanese themed town…can you see us?"

Don then look toward the given location and scan the place for a few seconds before he said "Kinnndda…hey that's some nice camoflauge"

He then spoke into the radio "Anchovy, come in"

Anchovy's voice then can be heard replying, in a rather panicked tone "Uhhh, Before you ask anything, NO we can't, that broad from the Bermuda trio picked us up near the Toddlers funland anddddd looks like she wants revenge for her teammatEEEEkk, can't you go any faster?"

Then the driver's voice can be heard replying loudly in the background "I CAN'T! IT's a FIAT!"

Don then quickly look around for Anchovy's location for a couple of seconds before he dropped his jaw when he saw her tankette and the last member of the Bermuda Triangle having a wild chase on the park's old roller coaster railroad, several feets above ground before he said "Damn… and I though Grady was the crazy one…"

He then said to Naomi "Alright I'll go help Anchovy out, you should move in aswell, just find a good vantage point and do what you do best…" before getting back inside his Easy 8 Sherman and roll off.

Naomi shrugs as she pull the trigger, landing another shot on a lone Pershing moving along the wooden bridge in the boat ride attraction before her Sherman Firefly began moving aswell.

As Don's Sherman roll into the Wild west themed town, being chased by 3 Pershings, Gordo took a sharp turn in front of a saloon, turning the Sherman right back and faces their pursuers.

The three Pershings also stopped with their cannons pointed at the Sherman.

Silence began to fill the cowboy showdown-like scene, with "The good,the bad,and the ugly" theme playing faintly in the background while a tumbleweed can be seen rolling across the road, then a rat, then another rat, and then a bald eagle just swoop down and grab one of the two rats and flew off, leaving the remaining rat to swing its paw at the bird and squeeks intensly, seemingly cursing at the bird and swore vengence upon it for taking the rodent's friend.

Then, before the three Pershings can open fire,a shell pierced through the Butcher shop from the left side and the another shell pierced through the gun store on the right side and landed on the two Pershings, before a shell from the Fury landed on the Pershing in the middle, eliminated 3 of them at the same time.

Turns out it was Kay and the girls from the Pink bunny team whom Don asked to stay hidden within the attraction earlier who helped ambushing his pursuer.

Don's voice then can be heard "Nice shootin' girls, now head toward the hedgemaze and park your tanks according to my instruction…"

The scene then show Don, inside the cockpit, looking at the old map of the whole park, including the hedgemaze and its patterns from a birdeye view for a bit before he said "Yep…this plan is gonna work jussstt fine…"

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Back to Anchovy, who was still being chased by the last Triangle member as they continue along the roller coaster railroad, sending sparks from grinding their tracks agaisnt the metallic rails. Anchovy can be seen poke her head out from the hatch and have a look at their pursuer before she said "Ughh… it's like being chased by the IRS…"

The driver, with the long dark blonde hair awkwardly asked "Uhhh…how would you know that?"

Anchovy then replied "None of your business"

As she does so, Chouno's voice can be heard "6 Pershings eliminated", seems like Don's plan with the hedgemaze worked.

Her eyes then suddenly lit up as she saw Don's Sherman rolling just below her position, with the young man yelling at her from the turret hatch "NEED A LIFT?"

Anchovy shouted back "YESS!"

Don then replied loudly "WELL, The SHERMAN CAN'T CARRY YA BUT THAT MOSS-COVERED BOUNCY HOUSE 15 FEETS AHEAD CAN! MEET YOU THERE"

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Meanwhile…

Darjeerling's Chruchill and Rosehip's Chaffe tanks was moving a long the streets of a European-esque themed town attraction, passing a series of eliminated Pershings, assuming being done by Miho's squad, until they stopped when Darjeerling heard an unmistakable sounds of tank tracks moving on the ground.

The elegant young girl then said "Rosehip, take point on the opposite side, we'll take it out once it out of the alley"

However, what Darjeerling saw was the Chaffe just head right into the alley with Rosehip replying outloud "Don't worry mistress, I GOT THIS!"

The Churchill quickly roll into the alley, attempting to stop and assist the Chaffe. However, through her Binocular, Darjeerling's eyes shot wide open as she seems to recognized the tank Rosehip was attacking as she spoke into the radio "No, Rosehip, full reverse now!"

The moment she said so,a shell came out from the darkness of the alley and bounces off of the Chaffe's armor, the impact was so big that it actually knock the light tank back.

Once Rosehip finally got a good look at her attacker, she gulped and quickly have her tank quickly back out of the alley, away from a menacing American design and made T28 super tank and heavily self-propelled gun, leading a squad of 4 Pershing through the alleyway while acting as a shield due to its sloped and thick armor layer.

Thought thanks to its enormous size, the tank move quite slow, giving Rosehip enough time to finally got back into the open and out of its firing range.

Finally got some room to breathe, Rosehip sighs in relief and asked "Uhhh…so what now mistress?"

Darjeerling was silent for a moment before replying "I have a plan…but it's…quite risky, we need to lure it toward the boating attraction…follow me"

As the two british tanks roll off with the T28 and its squad looming not far behind them, Darjeerling spoke into the radio "Iron Princess, we got a problem…"

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The view then show a smoking barrel of Caesar's StuG pointed at 4 eliminated Pershings, being oddly camoflauged by attaching panels with patterns which was identical to the surface that the tank parked against, while easy to spot from the sides, it's very difficult to the untrained eyes when look at it from the front.

Erwin, who was peeking her head out from the turret hatch to have a look around while saying "Welp… no incoming preys… I hope Miho and the others don't run into that T28…"

Caesar replied "Hey, this is Miho we're talking about, she'll find a way to beat that slow-ass hunk-a-junk everntually, remember the Maus?"

As she said so, the crew saw Don's Fury Sherman and Anchovy's tankette rolling right toward their direction, with the last Triangle member still hot on their tail.

Erwin quickly got back into the cockpit and said "Next victimmmm!"

Caesar then look through the cannon sight as she said "Cmonnn, come to mommy"

Once the Sherman and the tankette reached the T-section they suddenly split into two each opposite paths and roll off, leaving the Pershing right in front of the StuG's cannon.

However before Caesar can pull the trigger, a shell from the Pershing landed right on their frontal hull, eliminating the vehicle as a result.

Once that done, the Pershing took the left path, the same path which the Tankette took earlier.

Back to the smoking StuG, Caesar's voice can be heard from inside the cockpit "Uhhh can anyone please explain to me HOW did that Pershing see through our ingenius disguise?"

Erwin then look at the hatch above her head before she said awkwardly "Umm…I… think I can explain that… as she find that it was wide open, seems like the blonde forgot to close it when she got back inside, and with the hatch open, its lid can be easily seen from all directions, thus fully exposed their own disguise.

Anchovy then spoke into the radio "Where the heck are you GOING?"

Don's voice then replied "Remember that small channel we ran pass when your tank rammed into that closed down takoyaki stand?"

Anchovy replied "HEY it wasn't MY fault! But yea I remember it,what about itOoooooohhhhh… I see…"

Don's voice then replied "Good, meet you there…try not to get shot"

Anchovy then said to the driver "Alrighttt girls! It's time to show these nerds how to drive a tank"

With that said, The Tankette suddenly spin 90 degree while still moving, turning its machine guns toward the Pershing's hull and continue to drive backward at full speed as the driver skillfully kept the vehicle within the blind spot, which was right under the end of the Pershing's barrel as the two heads toward the small channel Don mentioned,which was at the T-section of the historic japanese themed town's streets.

Once only about 10 meters from the edge, the tankette quickly spin 90 degree and speed up, heading toward the water,much to the Pershing's commander's shock.

To add to her surprise, the Pershing's commander quickly put her tank to a stop, with about a quarter of its tracks already over the water surface while witnessing the tankette bounces across the water surface, due to the speed and angle when it flew down.

Once made it to the other side of the channel, the tankette pulled into a full stop and turn toward the Pershing, with Anchovy pop out from the hatch and gave the Pershing's commander two middle Fingers.

Still shocked by what she have just witnessed, the girls piloting the Pershing couldn't even pull the trigger,despite the tankette is perfectly within range.

That prove to be a fatal mistake as Don's Sherman bust through one of the houses behind their Pershing and,instead of shooting it, Don have his tank rammed into the back of the Pershing, pushing it into the water, eliminating it as a result.

As Don back up his tank, he look at Anchovy's tankette and gave her a thumb up, just split second before a shell landed right on its side hull, flipped it over, thus eliminated it.

Don's eyes wide opened as he recognize the Centurion MKI, commanded by Alice, rolling menacingly, with its cannon pointed at his Sherman while accompanied by three other Pershings.

Not wasting another second, the Fury Sherman took evasive manuveur and retreat,but not without a couple shots from the Pershings and the Centurion bounces off of its turret armor.

As the Centurion roll pass the eliminated Pershing in the water, the commander of the downed vehicle's voice can be heard through the radio "I'm sorry Commander,they…"

Alice's voice can be heard cutting her off "It's fine, you did your best… I'll handle things from here..good work"

The view then show the young girl, inside the cockpit, whispering to the Boko teddie bear which was given to her by Miho a few days earlier "You see Boko? They're just like you… the odds are highly agaisnt them in every way, yet they just keep on fighting with the best they got to offer… they're the best opponents I've ever faced"

Then, what's left of the University tank crews just awkwardly listen to their radio as Alice's voice can be heard, joyfully singing Boko's theme song as her Centurion makes its way into the battlefield.

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A few minutes later…

"Iron Princess, it's no good, that Centurion took us all out… that girl is a machine!" said Nekota's voice through the radio.

Then, the Pink Bunny team's commander's voice follow "Uhhh Miho… would it be weird if I told you that us, the Volley ball team, the Hall Monitor team, Katyusha and Erika was taken down by a single Centurion? Well…Katyusha single-handledly took out her squadmates before that happened but eh… that…that girl…her skills scares me"

Miho then said "Don't worry, as long as you guys safe…" before her Panzer took out the last of the T28's squadmates as it roll across the wooden bridge at the boating attraction, with the Chaffe moving in the back and the Churchill moving in the front, creating a shield as they crosses the structure.

As the T28 makes it way onto the bridge with its massive weight, the vehicle managed to land a shot at the back of the Chaffe's rear hull, knocking it into the water.

The Churchill, after made it to the other side, turn its cannon toward the T28 and fire, only for the shell to bouces off of its hull harmlessly.

As the Panzer also do the same, the T28 suddenly detatch a set of its tracks, reducing its hull width and somwhat lower its weight and proceed on crossing the bridge.

Unknown to the T28, Kay and Naomi's Sherman have been parking right under the bridge with their cannons pointed upward.

Miho then spoke into the radio "NOW!"

Naomi then pops the bubble she was blowing from her gum and said "Say goodbye to your metallic…"

The rest of her sentence was muffled by the sound of her cannon,along with Kay's cannon firing at the same time.

The impact blew up the bridge right where the T28 was, sending it down the water, but not without bending the Firefly's cannon with its weight as it landed on top of the vehicle. Next thing the T28's crew know was another shell from Kay's Sherman landed right on its cannon's barrel, heavily damages it, thus result in its elimination.

The crowd once again went wild as they saw what happened.

However, before Miho can sigh with relief, a shell landed right into the back of the Churchill, eliminating it.

Miho took a peek out from the turret hatch to find the Centurion,with its smoking barrel moving toward her Panzer. But before it can fire, 3 shells, each from Don's Sherman, Maho's Tiger I and Kay's Sherman bounces off of the Centurion's hull.

It was enough to get its attention nonetheless, Miho then heard Don's voice through the radio "Go with Maho! We'll buy you some time"

Miho then have her Panzer ram through the wall and head toward the large,open area with all the big attractions such as the carousel, the bumper cars ride and many more,including a miniature version model of mt. Fuji along with the Tiger I.

However, just mere seconds after the Nishizumi sisters escape the scene, Chouno's voice can be heard "2 Shermans eliminated"

Miho's heart nearly sank as she heard that. Don's voice then can be heard "Sorry Princess…that kid…she's too damn good"

Then, Kay's voice soon follows "Sorry Miho, But I know you still GOT this, don't let me down girl!"

Miho then look at Hana, Saori and Rezei as the three was looking back at her with bright smiles on their faces, save for Rezei for a moment before she spoke into the radio "I won't…I promise!"

Just as she said so, a shell from the closing Centurion landed onto her Panzer's side Schurzen armor plate and blew it right off.

The two sisters quickly took evasive actions and split as they both return fire while the three engaged in a battle around the sloped structure of the miniature mt. Fuji.

As the battle went on, the Centurion substained heavy damage on its left tracks armor, while Miho's Panzer have lost most of its Schurzen armor plates, in addition, the rain have finally stopped, make way for the sun and the blue sky to illuminate the entire battlefield.

The Tiger I and the Panzer ended up on top of the "mt. Fuji" while the Centurion ended up on the opposite direction.

There was a long pause as the tanks seems to be "staring" at each others.

The view then shows Miho, inside the cockpit,speaking into the radio "Mah…I mean Big sis… do you remember that one…trick we do back then?"

Maho seems to understood what Miho meant as she replied "Yes…but it's risky"

Miho replied "It's our best gamble…"

Maho sighs as she said "I understand…"

Miho then look at her teammates one more time, with all three of the girls nodded at her.

With that, Miho then spoke into the radio "Let's end this…"

Then, the Panzer move down the mt. Fuji structure, with the Tiger I following close behind.

The Centurion also began to adjust its cannon and move forward.

As the Nishizumi sisters' tanks began to pick up some speed, the Tiger I suddenly point its cannon at the rear armor of the Panzer at point blank and fire.

The impact from the 88 cannon acted as a hammer sending a bullet out of a gun's barrel,thus sending the Panzer grinding right at the Centurion at high speed, destroying both its caterpillar strips as a result.

Alice was completely caught by surprised as she mumbles "a..spearhead?" before pulling the trigger.

The shell from the Centurion however only hit the metal wheels on the right side of the Panzer, blowing them right off, but didn't do much to slow it down.

In just moments, the Panzer's cannon, acted as a spear "stabbed" the Centurion just right below its cannon before sending out a shell at point blank.

Upon witnessing what just happened, Maho sighs in relief as she saw two white flags popped out from both the Centurion and her little sister's Panzer.

The next thing she heard was the faint but audible cheer from the crowd far away from the battlefield as they've look at the screen and hearing Chouno's voice announcing "Panzer IV, Centurion eliminated! Last remaining tank: the Tiger I which belong to the Ooarai School… WHICH, is also the FINAL WINNER!"

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A few minutes later…

Back at the spectators area, the girls from both teams can be seen watching the annoucement of the final result, with the girls from Ooarai cheered their heart out,while some of the University member can be seen clapping slowly.

Kay once again can be seen doing her air guitar solo, while Momo was completely out of her character as she shrieked with joy before grabbing Grady, who was standing next to her, shook him a few times before slamming her lips onto his right in front of Anzu,who was pulling out her phone to take a picture and a blushing Yuzu.

Momo then soon realize what she just did, causing the her to broke away from Grady with both of her cheeks crimson red and punches him right in the nose, sending the young man right to the floor,out cold.

Then, the Ooarai girls cheered loudly as they saw Maho towing her sister's Panzer back with her own Tiger I.

Once Miho finally got down from the tank, Anzu leap from where she stood and right into Miho's arms as she yelled "MIHOOOOO YOU DID IT!"

Yuzu was sobbing with joy while Momo just doing her best to hold in her own tears.

Shiho can be seen clapping with a smile as she look at Miho hugging her friends and celebrate their victory.

The view then show Konstantin and Lukas,along with the bald director who Lukas met a few days back, standing in front of the four eyes MEXT personnel who was signing the some sorts of paper as he trembles with fear.

The view then shown Alice, as she riding a motorized Boko kiddie cart toward Miho.

The sight is far from hard to ignore as Miho quickly walk toward the young girl and said "Oh, Alice, hi"

Alice then get down from her ride, shyly approaches Miho, then pulls out the same Boko teddie bear that Miho gave her.

The girl then held the teddie at Miho and said shyly "This…this is…my gift…to you..mis..miss Miho…I…I think you're…really great"

The girl seems to have trouble looking Miho in the eyes as she blushes and keep dashing her eyes left and right.

Miho then smiles and gently took the bear from Alice before she said "I think you were great too…and I…I sincerely hope that we'll be able to meet again…both as friends…and as rivals"

Alice,while still too shy to look at Miho,smiled in reply and slowly nodded.

As Miho waves goodbye at Alice, Don went to her side and said "I gotta give to you Miho…I was… scared shitless back there…"

Miho then blushes as she reply "Oh…well..me…me too…"

Don then awkwardly reaches for Miho's hand and held it,which Miho shyly returned it as the two lovebird just look at opposite directions with their cheeks crimson red.

Then Maho suddenly appears right next to Don, staring at the sky as she said "Congratulation Miho..."

She then whispered into Don's ears "If you make her cry…I'll hunt you down" with one hand gripping on Don's shoulder, causing him to gulp as a reply.

Anchovy then can be seen nomming down a dish of Pasta with her teammates while Katyusha was being chased by Don, who once again attempting to pinch her cheeks.

Miho smiles as she stood next to Maho, who said "My point still stand Miho…your way of Sensha-do…"

Miho then look at her big sister while looking a bit confused.

Maho then gently kiss her forehead before saying "It makes me so proud of you…"

Miho then suddenly wraps her arms around Maho's neck and hugged her before saying "Thank you…Thank you so much, big sis" which Maho gently returned it with a smile.

Then, as the two broke away from each others arms, Anzu's voice can be heard "EY MIHO! PARTY AT THE SCHOOL TONIGHT, MY TREATS!"

As they heard that, Miho look at Maho once more,who nodded at her with a smile before running toward her friends while screen slowly zoom out.

The end?

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