This is a Youjo Senki Fan Fiction Only.

A.N: For those that want a story where Tanya is a pacifist, cute, friendly and adorable.

I have a simple suggestion, look for another story, this is war, pacifist has a lifespan of goldfish, and those that write reviews, please be a little more specific and detailed why you think this story is a pile of you know what.

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Well we had such good scores that we were assigned to train to be officers, too many of the people training with us, this was the closest they been to hell, the physical demands, the high expectations from our instructors, the rigid discipline of life at Officer Candidate School was not as easy as some of them figured.

I had another experience and feeling to the entire thing, I could honestly say I felt wonderful, the demands become more and more difficult, the instructors screaming at us to do better in such a sheer display of passion and unrestricted aggression, I could only describe it in one way, I was home.

I loved every second of it, compared to the orphanage I was truly at home, the food, however, was some of the best I tasted, and after eating what the orphanage called food, this was a feast. I would finish my studies and I would often ask our senior instructor if I could get in some target practice or do a few more reps in the gym.

He simply told me that as long as I took care of everything that was required of me, I could, during my free time. I took care of everything as efficiently as possible, for some odd reason Tanya was sleeping on the bunk bed next to mine, and during my hours of night watch, I had taken the hobby of actually reading.

Reading what you ask? Why regulations, of course, a good officer should be aware of the rules and regulations that he and his subordinates must follow. "Honestly Karl, you look like someone told you this was an amusement park. I am having a hard enough time as it is, but you look like you truly are enjoying this."

I put down my book and looked at her, I couldn't help but to smile, "I don't know what you mean Tanya, I guess this place just feels rather homey to me. I had to deal with much tougher demands a long time ago, why it feels it was in another life. With you being so perfectionist I would never imagine that you would be having trouble with this?"

She looked at me and she was scowling, I knew she was a little upset, I guess she still doesn't like the fact I call her a perfectionist. "Look, Karl, if this is not hard for you, pray tell, when do you think we will face a real test of our abilities." I put down my book and looked at her, "I imagine when the war starts. Most of these guys have never seen real combat, a true baptism by fire I would imagine."

There is an old saying about how time flies when you are having fun, I guess it is true, because in less time than I care to admit we actually finished our training, twelve weeks of fun, learning, and enjoyable activities go. I told one of the guys that I wish they actually extended it for at least a year, he turned around said that I was clearly suffering from a mental defect.

At my graduation I can say one thing, I found one guy I will not be saving his life even if he begs, if I am a defect then he should be able to take care of himself. "Say Tanya are you looking forward to the mission we will each get assigned as much as I am?" She looked at me and began shaking her head, "No, I actually want to be assigned to a nice and quiet support position, but I somehow think Being X would not let that happen."

As each name was called we were given a very nice piece of paper, it was our assignment and our first mission, it appears that since all officers who graduate are untested, they are given a rank as a warrant officer, as since I was assigned to be a mage. I was given the mission to go to the northern border and patrol for the possible invasion into our territory, by an enemy nation.

It might sound exciting, but it really is nothing that exciting. It simply is fly as high as you can, to look at the area assigned and report any enemy to the artillery unit in the area. I swear this assignment made me think I was a security guard, I know they don't exist here, but doesn't mean it doesn't make me remember that from my previous life.

Well, it was not all negative, Tanya was assigned and since there was no enemy in sight, she actually was pretty chipper about the assignment, a lot happier than me. I was hoping that at least my abilities were tested, well I guess I shouldn't look at it the wrong way, as long as the Empire is safe, I should be happy with his, the mission was going to be rather easy to complete.

I thought that until I kept looking at a segment of the forest close to the border, it had a pretty nice road, and that is when I began to see several hundred men clearly marching down the road, and they were not wearing Imperial uniforms, in fact they had the flag of the nation that was north of the Empire.

"Norden Command, this is Hawk 8, I found enemy movement on the northern portion of the border close to our northern borders, I am calling for an Artillery barrage one 10 miles north and one 5 miles northeast of my current position. Recommend Incendiary shells."

Tanya looked at me and began to shake her head, "They don't have those yet. Norden Command what my fellow warrant means is heavy bombardment, I do confirm at least one Batallion that are from the Entente Alliance."

I keep forgetting they don't have incendiary rounds, I was just so focused on eliminating the enemy I forgot they have not developed that yet, I do have to admit I thought that a nice enough of a forest fire would pretty much kill most of them, if the fire and falling debris from the forest doesn't do the job, the smoke inhalation would certainly help.

"Acknowledged Hawk and Pixie, keep observing enemy troop movement."

I looked at Tanya and began shaking my head, "It is too much to ask for something that can blast a few hundred enemies to ash in a few seconds? I have wasting time, the only good enemy is one that is either blown to pieces or ashes in the wind."

She looked at me and also began to grin at me, "Yes, you still need to remember that the current year is 1917, they consider shotguns illegal, and you want them to have artillery shells that pretty much behave like napalm on impact? Besides, that is why mages like us exist in the first place, and there aren't that many of us to actually load those artillery cannons with spells to do that."

"You know Karl, you always struck me as a kind, considerate, and very sociable person growing up, whenever the sisters had to ask for some help you always volunteered, even if it was something that other boys would throw up doing. It just strikes me as odd that you have no problem with setting a few hundred yards of pristine forest in flames to eliminate the enemy."

I kept looked as the shelling began and began to notice that the enemy troops where not as dumb as I first thought, "Damn it, they scattered to save their lives, guess they are not that dumb after all, or it is basic survival instincts, Norden Command enemy has scattered into the surrounding forested hills, one is 15 degrees west correct for altitude by 12 and the remaining group 12 east and have found a small undergrowth to hide in."

I stopped looking at the enemy and looked at Tanya, "I don't know if I am any different from back then, all I know is that they will more than likely figure out that we are up here directing these shots, and they will more than likely send at least one mage hunter unit after us."

She looked at me and realized, "So you wanted to eliminate the enemy in such a way they would be scared enough to retreat before they figure we are up here scouting their locations? I have to admit that would be nice, but not going to happen, I have an idea what we are going to end up doing, what do you think we should do?"

I looked at my bolt action rifle and saw that it was properly loaded, decided to attach a bayonet to it, turns out it was not such a bad idea, I should really thank Tanya for reminded me of that later, if we survive.

"The second they start to interfere with our communications, then we know they are pretty close, an entire mage hunter unit against the two of us, I would tell you that we should pray, just to get you in the right mood, but other than that, we fight till reinforcement come, if we manage to ask for reinforcements that are."

She looked at me and began to shake her head, "Yes, I imagine they will be no less than half or a dozen of mages to hunt us down, Norden Command, request a flare to be shot one hundred feet from of location towards the forest area we have told you the enemy was."

As the flare was shot it looked like a small version of a firework, and as it descended I saw why Tanya asked, damn it, the mage hunters were already looking for us. As soon as they realized that they had been spotted they came towards our position as fast as they could, they were using mage gear that looked like horses from a merry go round.

"Norden Command, unit of mage hunters confirmed, requesting reinforcements. I repeat a full mage hunter squad confirmed, awaiting further orders." I looked at Tanya as she said that and we began to put a little distance between us and them, they began firing and I knew that asking these idiots to surrender and stop this international incident from getting worse was impossible.

My shoulder was graced by their fire a few times. Tanya looked more and more upset as she clearly was hearing something that was not good for either one of us, she unstrapped the communication pack form her and let the thing fall towards the ground. The minute that she picked up her rifle, I knew she was going to tell me something that was not good, the smile on her face told me it was really not good news at all.

"Reinforcements are coming, but they will need 10 minutes to reach us." You have got to be kidding me, 10 minutes, I could cook instant ramen and eat it in that much time. From the way she was biting her lip, I knew she felt the same way.

"If the reinforcements are inbound, they will simply ask us to buy them enough time for them to arrive, so retreat is not an option, and here I was thinking this mission was going to be boring. What do you think we should do Tanya?"

She told me to follow her lead, as we got closer to them they began to look a bit confused not realizing that we were both pushing our gear to the most we could get out of it, we kept going higher and higher until we had a significant high difference enough that they could not follow.

"ALLIANCE FORCES, WHY ARE YOU INVADING OUR FATHERLAND? IT IS MY DUTY TO INFORM YOU THAT YOU ARE INVADING OUR NATIONAL BORDER, I SUGGEST YOU SURRENDER IF YOU SURRENDER YOU SHALL BE TREATED HUMANELY UNDER THE TREATY OF WORMS."

Why bother giving them the chance to surrender, they know they have us currently outnumbered, and they probably know that our situation is not that good, not that they would even consider give us the same opportunity to surrender like she did, no by the looks of it they wanted to do to us, what I want to do to them. Isn't mutual understanding a wonderful thing?

"Well Tanya they don't look like they are surrendering or plan to take up your kind offer, I am kind of glad they are not truth be told." I began to load Artillery spells in my rifle and looked at her and then at them.

"I am so happy that I am practically drooling, WE GET TO HUNT DOWN THE ENEMY OF OUR BELOVED FATHERLAND, WHAT HONOR, WHAT JOY, COME ON TANYA, LET'S GO, IT'S NOT POLITE TO PLAY WITH OUR PREY."

She honestly began to laugh like an absolute maniac, but then again who am I to judge. "YOU ARE RIGHT KARL, WE GET TO FIGHT AND DIE FOR THE FATHERLAND. IT IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE!"

We both turned around and began to fly towards them as fast as we could Tanya killed three of them using just her bayonet, her small frame gave her plenty of maneuverability to evade and get into close quarters combat, me, not so much, I went and fired a few shots to caused them to evade and when they were close enough I began to blast them, it was easy for me, a few shots to lead them where I wanted and another shot to finish my prey off.

The battle quickly began to turn against us when I could feel my Observation Orb begin to get a little warmer as the fight went on, the stress of constant using my magic was getting to be too much for it, and the heating told me it was close to overheat, I suspect Tanya was having the same problem.

She came towards where I was and I saw the cracks on her orb, and she saw the ones that I think we're on mine, even if we threw the orbs at them as makeshift grenades, the altitude was such that if the enemy didn't kill us, the fall would.

I was wrong it was not a single mage hunter squad but two of them. "Tanya, it was an honor to fight with you, a joy to have met you, and I think we could have been good friends. The situation does not look good, I don't know about you, but if I am about to die, I say we take the enemy with us."

She saw me hold my rifle and she looked at her own and she began to nod, "It is odd that we often thought alike, it was an honor for me to Karl, too bad, we might have had some fun but you are right, if we are to die, let's do so in defense of our Fatherland!"

We both it seems we had the same idea we few towards the center of their formation and we both shot our last bullet, I loaded every bit of magic I had into that one last shot, there was no point in trying to conserve, I might as well load it all in that shot than to let it go to waste.

As we both fired at the leader one of the squads we took a deep breath and detached our orbs, the shot went through the orb causing them to blow up, as I felt my body burn as it rushed towards the ground, I should have known better than to expect our enemy to put us in a fair situation.

I know Tanya as far as she told me it was a man in her past life, and I know that it should be something I found myself kicking myself for ever thinking it, I don't know why it is taking me this long to hit the ground and become yet another smear on the surface of the ground, but since I had some time, my friend may be a guy in her other life, but she was rather cute in this one, what a waste.

I felt the pain and knew my life was over, next thing I heard was this annoying clock, this ticking that made me want to bash the clock to pieces, the fact that I could feel something on my face and half my body that made me feel itchy was not helping, wait for a second, shouldn't I be dead after the fall the very least?

I opened my eyes and I saw the white of the ceiling, I began to try to move my hands, and realized that for some odd reason I was strapped to a bed, I have to admit after the bed I slept in the orphanage this was a rather comfortable bed, who am I kidding, a pile of hay would be better than what I slept in the orphanage.

"Well let's keep positive shall we, I survived, wonder how Tanya is doing. I must be in a military hospital, which means the reinforcements dealt with the enemy and we got transferred to this hospital for immediate care. On the negative I don't imagine our superiors are going to be too happy we ended up like this."