Girls Und Panzer: Tricolore
Chapter 2: Girls in Uniform
Our school used to be an old chateau made in the classical style, and now it's many rooms hold classes and dorms for our students. After lunch and testing our guns out at the gun range in the forest, we parked our tanks in a special garage made for each team at the school. There are eight teams at this school: four heavy tanks and four tank hunters.
What is a specialized school without a uniform. Our school uniform is modeled after the famous 'Chasseur Alpins' with their famous berets combined with a sharp dark blue long sleeve top, and a lighter blue skirt with dark blue pantyhose. Commanders like me wear a black long sleeve top with brass buttons, and a French Army M1923 sword at our sides
"Will the commanders of Team Faucon, Team Aigle, Team Epervier, and Team Buse please come to the Dean's Office?" came an announcement from the intercom as Julie and I were coming inside with our teams. We soon met up with Adelaide De Montfort of Team Buse and Stella Dupree of Team Epervier. Both were with us in our last finals appearance
"What do you think she wants?" asked Stella
"It may have to do with the inspector," said Adelaide
"The one from Japan? How interesting," I replied
Stella is a short-haired and pretty young lady with black hair that either reminds me of 'Trinity' or a bowling ball. She is a tall, and healthy young lady of my height and figure with brown eyes. Adelaide is also around my size, but she has dark brown hair and keeps hers in a nice braid in the back. We entered the office, and we saluted our school dean.
"At ease," she asked of us, and we followed. Our ranks, and medals of our achievements in competition are on the top right side of our jackets. Our school dean is Jeanne-Marie Labelle. She has black hair that is straight and smooth which goes down to her mid-neck, and sharp brown eyes. She also has a very tiny mole in the lower corner of her left eye
"Now I was expecting an inspector from the Japanese League to come and see our tanks," she said, and lightly chuckled as she stood up to introduce her to us. Jeanne-Marie is 5'10 and 175lbs of smoothly curved shapes, and buxom woman, "I was not expecting the Federation Head to grace us with her company, ladies, please welcome Miss Shimada,"
We stood to attention and saluted, "Such discipline"
"Oui, we pride ourselves on quality," stated our dean
"Very nice, now let's see the tanks," said Miss Shimada
"Right this way, mon amie," said our dean and we followed as escorts for the Head of the University Sensha-Do Federation in Japan. We led our visitor outside to the garages. She smiled seeing what French Post-World War II tanks look like. She was looking over everything from the road wheels to the tracks, and the main gun of each of our vehicles.
"Hmm...plenty of German influence behind these designs, the AMX M4 Mle. 49 looks similar to a King Tiger, and this AMX AC Mle. 48 looks like it has some of the Jagdpanther in it's design, although these designs are only a year or more newer, they still keep to their World War II-esque technology," she explained to us which might increase our chances.
"Please do allow me a few days to come to a formal decision," she concluded as she bowed to us, and we bowed back to her. She is staying at the Kyriad Lille Gare Grand Palais. With that, we were thanked for our good behavior around our visitor, and dismissed from her office. I met back up with my crew in the cafeteria where I got myself some coffee.
"How did it go?" asked Christine with a cup of hot cocoa
"Not sure, Miss Shimada needs a few days to think it over,"
"This will be great, our first time to Japan!" said Jeannette
"Well, there's no formal decision yet, Jeannie," said Anne-Marie, stirring sugar and cream into her tea, "now we just have to be patient," she said, smiling and patting her lightly on the head, "your complaining can drive me crazy sometimes, but you're still my friend and crewmate," she earned a hug from Jeanette. I smiled warmly to this touching sight.
"Come on, let's go see if there are any more Pain Au Chocolat," I suggested, and the crew followed to have something nice to go with their coffee as a snack. There were plenty for the crew at the cafeteria. Each of our crew got one. Now that I think about it, if we get the green light to go to Japan, we are going to need a few things such as a school ship
Still, it's all up to Miss Shimada. Time passed and we kept up our classes, and training with our tank. We also do marching drills, and work out around the school from jogging the trails to working out in the gym and pool. A couple days have passed, and we were conducting a daily marching drill outside the chateau when we were stopped by our Dean.
"Ladies, HALT!" I snapped as an order, "about face!"
"It's good to see you, ladies," said the Dean, "at ease!"
"Now I've spoken to Miss Shimada, and I have good news,"
"Through lengthy talks, and the Navy allowing us to use the Charles De Gaulle as our school ship, we've come to a formal decision, Team Faucon, Team Aigle, Team Buse, and Team Epervier will go to Japan, I'm very happy and proud of all of you, I wish you all the very best of luck," she concluded, and smiled, "now let us show them what we can do,"