As the night approaches, bringing its cloak of darkness over the humble fields of grain as the students of the honorable Good Luck (福) School prepare for the night's soft kiss of slumber, All but one student.

One very "Special Student".

"God fucking damnit What could Takahashi-Sama possibly want from me at a time like this?, Im probably the only one awake on this wretched lump of floating scrap"

The student's voice rang quietly through the corridors of the School ship as she begrudgingly opened the Door to the Principal's chamber.

"Ahem, Thank you for coming into my office Nao-San, At a time like this I know it must be a major inconvenience for you"

"Yeah yeah whatever, what could you possibly want from me now?...

I swear I didn't steal any rations this time"

"My my, Jumping to conclusions so soon ay? Fret not you aren't in trouble, But what I wish to discuss is a rather urgent matter"

"Uh huh Right, Now what could possibly be so urgent about "me", That you had to pull me from my dorm at this ungodly hour of the night?"

"Well If you didn't know already allow me to inform you, This school is rather behind in terms of technology and supplies, not to mention the various cosmetic and mechanical issues our ship has been experiencing as of late"

"WOAH REALLY?, What gave that away??, Was it the mass oxidation forming on every side of the ship, or the leaking hole that you sent untrained and unsupervised freshman to weld up?"

"Huh so you have noticed?"

"Yeah No shit, It's not exactly easy to cover up a giant leaking hole"

"Well that's besides the point, Anyways as I was saying our school isn't in the best of shape and could most certainly use some improvements, So i've decided to start a Sensha-Dō league for the school, I would like you to be the teams Commander"

"Oh no, oh no no no no, In no way shape or form am I interested in your dinkey little Sensha-dō Scheme"

"Hm, I thought you may say that, But unfortunately you have no say in the matter Nao-San, And if you try to weasel your way out of this…..lets just say the Chairman of our school will have some rather "choice words" about you to say"

"Are you seriously trying to intimidate me? A grown ass man trying to seduce a 16 year old into a shitty sport?"

"Well I wouldn't say intimidate, More like…...hmmm….." advanced persuasion tactics ", and believe me this sport you speak of so vulgarly is wonderful,It makes you smarter, Stronger, and eye candy to boys. You'll love it, trust me.

"Goddamnit whatever……, But why me??? Whatd I do to ever deserve this? How am I even fit to be a commander of any kind?"

"Well going off your academic performance and your odd talent for rallying a crowd when needed, You seemed like a more than ideal pick for a commander"

"Whatever i'm leaving, You can't finagle me into this hog wash"

Nao got up hastfully and exited the principal's office in an angry pace taken aback by the bewildering news she's received.

"Oh think again Nao-San, And get some sleep, Tommorows going to be a long day for you"

Principal Takahashi's voice beckoned through the empty corridors as Nao picked up the pace.

"That bag of bones can't tell me what to do, This is absurd……….."

Nao eventually made it to her dorm and laid to rest still thinking of the absurdity of this unfolding situation as she drifted into slumber.

The beautiful sun rose over the fields of wheat and rice, as the roosters crowed, awakening the agriculture students for their daily work, But today's morning was bizarre. The agriculture team's president, a quiet but stalwart kind of girl,was absent, something very unusual as she'd never missed a single day of toiling in the fields with her colleagues, except for the time she got botulism.

knock knock*

Mei Nanahara The Agriculture class President, Was sent by Principal Takahasi knowing Nao would revolt and likely not attend the morning's meeting.

"Hello?...Is anyone there? Nao-San?"

Knock Knock*

There was no sound, only the awkward silence that filled the air.

Knock Knock*

"Nao-San, please answer! This is very important. The principal made sure to note that in his email!"

Nao got up fiercely throwing a shoe at the door to silence the knocking*

"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT?"

Nao let out a grueling scream that quickly replaced the silence that was previously lingering

"Um, I just came to get you for the meeting we were supposed to have this morning…….., Again the principal said it was very important and sent me to come get you"

"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT TIME IT IS? ITS 8 IN THEE FUCKING MORNING"

"Yes….i'm quite aware but we still need you for the meeting"

"FINE WHATEVER, JUST STOP KNOCKING YOU FOOL"

Nao Hastfully got up and put her uniform on while trying to get the rest of her morning routine done in a rush, But in spite of this Mei continued to nag Nao getting up and personal with the door trying to peer into what Nao was doing.

"Nao-San I hate to pester you but we must get going soon!, The principal said he wants us there by eig-"

WHAM!

Nao kicked the door open in an act of extreme aggression hitting Mei square in the face causing her to fly back and her nose to run red.

"OW OW OW OW OW, MY NOSE! I THINK IT'S BROKEN!"

"NEWS FLASH BIR BRAIN, MAYBE DON'T STAND SO CLOSE TO THE DOOR NEXT TIME"

Mei sat there wallowing in pain as Nao stoically looked on, becoming more and more annoyed by the second.

"sigh, Here take this, It'll hopefully get you to shut up"

Nao handed Mei a small Boko themed handkerchief to wipe the blood off her face.

"Oh, Thank you Nao-San……..We should get going now………"

Mei began walking and Nao followed suit walking side by side and conversing along the way.

"Yeah whatever dude, Do I even know you?"

"Oh Uh I guess I really didn't introduce myself, My apologies but my name is Mei Nannahara The president of the agriculture class"

"Ooooooh yeah I remember, You're the chick who got uh……..let's see uhhhh…………Syphilis right? You were the chick who got syphilis last year because of the crops or something?"

"Erm……Botulism…….it was Botulism but it's fine, Anyways i'm pretty sure I had you for Home EC last year"

"Did we have Home EC together? I'm pretty sure I'd remember you but then again………Freshman year was one big blur that i'd rather forget"

Nao shivered at the thought of anything having to do with the shit show that was freshman year.

"Yeah I think we did! I'm pretty sure it was you who almost burned down the class while we were making Baozi in Sensei-Saeki's class"

"Oh yeah that did happen, that was pretty funny, especially when all hell broke loose and Sensei-Saeki couldn't get anyone under control……...and then that one kid jumped out the window so they could get out safe and ended cutting her leg open……….."

Awkward silence lingered as the two walked after Nao's rather disturbing anecdote.

"Sooooooo Mei, do you know exactly WHY were up so early and WHY were walking to thee bum fuck middle of no where?

"Not a clue in the world Nao, All Principal Takahashi said in his email is that "Everyone in which this form is enlisted too must immediately meet at these coordinates

[click to expand attachment] at no later than 9:00 in the morning" Pretty cryptic right?"

"Yeah it really is cryptic and it certainly can't be anything good judging by what this nut case told me yesterday"

"He talked to you about this?"

"No, just told me his really retarded idea"

"Well what'd he say?"

"He went on some whole spiel on how our school is failing and how he's gonna enstate a Sensha-dō team here and that I was "a more than ideal pick for a commander"

"Sensha-dō? Like the sport with tanks?"

"Yeah that, But going off of what he told me this is most definitely about the Sensha-dō junk"

The 2 girls continued to trade banter while making their way to the mysterious coordinates provided to them by Principal Takahashi, Reminiscing about freshman year and trading the latest news and gossip from around the school ship until they eventually finished their pilgrimage, Arriving at what appeared to be a large rotting steel hangar of sorts.

"Is this the place Mei? This looks pretty sketchy for something like a meeting, You sure we arent gonna get raped here or something?"

"Well……my phone is telling me this is the place……..my GPS never fails so…….."

Suddenly a voice called out from the large Hunk of steel, Confronting the 2 girls but in a welcoming tone, It was Prinicaple Takahashi!.

"Nao-san , Mei-San! You're just in time! Come on in!"

"Alright…….if you say so……."

Nao and Mei begrudgingly walked into the rotting heap of steel as Principle Takahashi gestured them to take a seat in one of the few foldable chairs that had been set up and subsequently filled by the others invited to this cryptic meeting.

"Nao look!, I guess there really are more people here than anticipated huh?"

"Yeah it seems like it, The Chairmans even here…….huh neat"

The rotting hunk of steel filled with the sounds of equally confused students bantering with one another until the sound of someone clearing their throat rang like a gunshot in a black neighborhood. It was Principal Takahashi clearing his throat attempting to get the attention of the crowd.

"Good morning and attention to all! I would like to get this meeting going swiftly! So let us not waste time and let's get straight into the point. Ahem I have brought all you fine ladies here today to announce our schools greatest prosper yet! Behold the start of the Good Luck schools Sensha-dō Team!"

The Principal proceeded to pull 2 large tarps that were covering 2 large objects off in one clean motion revealing 2 T-26 Light Tanks causing an awe to wash over the small crowd of students

"As you see here our good allies over at Pravda High School have agreed to

"lend us" these 2 Beautiful T-26 Light Tanks to kickstart our Sensha-dō Team, But they require a wee bit of maintenance, BUT luckily for you little ladies our great friends at Pravda have sent over some experts in this field to assist you all in becoming acquainted with the sport of Sensha-dō, Ahem Nonna-San! Klara-San! Please reveal yourselves for our eager crowd!"

As the Principal made his call two tall girls and mature looking girls exited the T-26's and walked towards the crowd of students and began softly speaking.

"Hello Comrades of Good Luck School, My Name is Nonna of Pravda High School"

"And I am Klara of Pravada High School"

"Today we will be instructing and providing demonstration on how to repair,drive,and operate These beautiful bastions" of old"

The 2 girls sprang up and passed around pamphlets all about the T-26 as they gave instructions on how to maintain, operate, and drive the T26.

Over the course of the next few hours Klara and Nonna divided themselves into groups giving their set of girls various tasks to perform to get them acquainted with the vehicles.

First giving them the guidance and tools needed to repair The T26s various mechanical issues, then teaching those who volunteered how to load, fire, and drive the T26.

After hours of fiddling with the T26's Klara and Nonna rounded everyone up for a grand send off to the newly repaired T-26's and a celebration of everyone's hard work in spite of no one wanting anything to do with this.

"Attention Comrades!"

Nonna got up onto the T26 and began speaking to unorganized crowd

"I would like to personally thank you all for your cooperation in breathing new life into these marvelous machines. I wish you all in your future endeavors in the wondrous sport of Sensha-Dō ! And look forward to your participation in the 64th National High School Sensha-Dō Tournament!"

The crowd began chattering and frantically looked at one another in confusion and shock, "The 64th Tournament??? But we only have 2 tanks and the tournament begins in a month???" One girl chimed in.

"Heheh, Alright girls I think that's enough, Once again thank you Nonna-san and thank you too Clara-san for taking time to teach these "younglings" the sport, But I think you've served your time"

Principal Takahashi immediately silenced the crowd as he escorted Nonna and Klara out of the dilapidated hangar, Eventually coming back to a crowd of scattered students.

But as soon as he got back he was immediately swarmed by a sea of confused and rattled student's demanding answers.

"Woah Woah Woah! Everyone please calm down! One at a time please!"

Principal Takahashi became overwhelmed by the crowd swarming him like vultures swarming a fresh carcass, And in his state of haze he looked around desperately for a way out of this and simply looked at the single girl politely raising her hand amongst the madness.

"Yes you there! The one raising your hand! What's your question?"

The short blonde haired girl moved further through the crowd to face the Principal.She timidly spoke as the crowd silenced and faced her

"Well……..I just wanted to um………ask……..if…... .if we were really participating in the 64th Sensha-Dō Tournament……….?"

"Yes what you've heard is indeed true, We will be Participating in the 64th Sensha-Dō Tournament"

The whole crowd once again began conversing amongst each other frantically