Miho POV
Three years, three years in a row we have made it to the finals against my sisters team. Two teams with two different strategies of attack. It's almost a joke we keep winning. As we do the signature start bow of Sensha-do, we head to our start locations, and I make up a plan as we go. Obviously it's hard to plan without seeing the enemy formation. But I can make due with the info I remember from last season, knowing they haven't upgraded much. Maybe they swapped the older Tiger I with the slightly newer and better Tiger II? Either way it's easy pickings, and again, their formation is similar, and the flag tank noticeable. We roll out in formation, and head to a good spot to start the fight, and of course we conceal ourselves and they don't see us. I order our Jagdpanthers to fire at the cover tanks for the flag tank, and with great success as a total of four tanks were taken out, all confirmed as Tiger IIs. The flag tank was unique for sure, a Panzer IV commanded by my sister? Odd, it has an Ausf. H kit, but not the Tiger turret conversion. I see, a fair match, flag tank against flag tank. We roll the convoy out and head to the area we perform best in, the urban areas where Kuromorimine struggles. We stage another ambush, this time all of our heavy firing tanks, and yes, including the heavy hitting IV now, both Jagdpanthers, and the Porsche Tiger. Rounding it up, the STUG IV we got. As Kuromorimine rolls into the city, we are concealed, and fire a bombardment of HE shells, wiping out half of their convoy, and I can see my sister poke up, with a slight hint of fear on her face as she realizes we know what we are doing. Finally, we end up yet again with a one on one in a courtyard like the first year, as last year we won via the STUG IV landing a lucky shot. As we start fighting I order Mako to hard stop, and Hana to fire, a shot goes in one side of the engine bay and out the other, we shot clean through a Panzer IV. Suddenly the engine explodes into flames and we all instinctively run to the Kuromorimine Panzer, and help the crew out, my sister passed out in the commander hatch, and I lift her out. Just as we get away from the tank my sister wakes up.
"Miho...?" She asks for me with a raspy voice.
"I'm here, Maho.... wait, the letter!" I freak out and begin to run back towards the Panzer, when the ammo rack explodes, only thing I remember is my ears ringing, my vision going black, and I hit the ground.... hard.
"Miho!" My sister yells and crawls over to me, and verifies that I'm unconscious but alive, and does a basic medical exam and finds a broken leg and rib.
Maho POV
I was sitting in one of the chairs at the hospital, waiting to get the okay to see my little sister. After what seemed like hours, and really was hours, I was able to see and speak to her. I walked into the room and sat next to her. I didn't speak, and neither did she, we just sat there looking at each other, and we both heard the helicopter land on the roof. Damn, this is gonna be fun. A few minutes later our mother walks in and instantly starts yelling at me. I can't take it, I'm done. Miho is on the verge of tears, and at this point, I am too, behind our mother I can see Erika, who is also about to cry, knowing how much I hate this.
"Why have you been mingling with the enemy? You lost to them again, three times you've lost to a novice team!" She exclaims.
"Clearly they aren't novice if they've beaten us three times in a row." I reply.
"So you are with the enemy? You really aren't ready to head the Nishizumi household." Our mother said, which sent me over the edge, and both Miho and Erika saw this and nodded meekly.
"Well okay, then I won't lead YOUR version of the household. Miho and I will make our own version, one that doesn't mock the family name with torture to its crews! We push the commanders and operators of each and every tank to a point they snap and quit, all for your 'Nishizumi Style'! I'm done!" I did it, I explained my half. That is when Erika forced past my mother and next to me.
"I'm going with her, if she leaves, I leave." Erika explains.
"Very well, get your things by Saturday, or they go overboard the ship, and don't come back." My mother tells me.
"You don't have to tell me twice." I mutter. That was it, I was transferring to Oorai with my sister, and Erika was tagging along. Erika and I agreed that our tanks and our tank crews were technically belongings and ordered to have them transferred as well, and somehow bypassed my mother. We got all of our stuff, put it on a plane, and got it to be Oorai ship. Erika pitched in to help get Miho a bigger apartment and two new futons for Erika and myself. I helped as well as well as a little from Miho. Luckily Miho was able to walk within the week, but needed constant pain meds for the broken rib and the mild burns she got pulling me out of the tank. Later that night I got a call from a number I didn't know, but answered.
"Hello?" I ask.
"Hey, this is Hana, the gunner of the Oorai Panzer IV." She explained softly, and knowing how Miho explained her, this was too shy, something was wrong, but I wasn't going to push it. We agreed to have brunch tomorrow, all four of us, myself, Erika, Miho, and Hana, to get to know each other. Once we got the stuff moved to the new apartment, we settled in and watched some show called How Its Made, and found the special version on how tanks are built. Unfortunately they are all newer tanks as the ones we use are pre-Cold War era. The tanks of Erika and myself were transferred, and the automotive team was working on them, mainly mine. A second Panzer IV H and now a Jagdtiger. Oorai was a major threat. Especially to a team of mostly mediums like Pravda and Anzio. But our biggest threat is still Kuromorimine, the least threat being Saunders. Soon we all pass out, especially Miho, as she has slept in a hospital bed for a week and I've been using her futon at the old apartment, sharing it with Erika. We have been dating for nearly two years anyway. We pushed our two futons together and made a comfortable-ish bed, and snuggled to sleep. I glance over to see Miho on her phone after about an hour and see a reflection in her reading glasses, it's a picture of the loader of her tank, Yukari I think her name is.
"You like her don't you?" I ask, and smile seeing a small blush go over her face to the question. And she meekly nods. "Just admit your feelings, it's easier than holding them." I tell her, and she again nods meekly. Guess I just helped my sister with her love life. As I lied there, the only one awake as Miho was out cold again, I was thinking. That letter, it was the last thing I had from the Kuromorimine Miho, the one I had raised. It sucks I lost it. And it hurts me knowing I could have lost my sister because of it. Damn I'm a fool, I kept letting my guard down fighting my sister, hoping she would screw up, but it was me who messed up. Honestly, I'm glad I did, because it gave me a chance to get away from my hell of a mother, who would always berate me for messing up. Miho is much calmer on the field than myself and Erika. She has proven someone like herself, so sweet and warm, could also be a cold pit that instantly imposes fear. While laying there my phone goes off, and it's a text from my mother, odd. Erika wakes up and sees it, and instantly lets out a soft growl.
"Damn it..." is all she can muster.
"Come back now, as your mother I order you to come home and finish your legacy. My legacy of the Nishizumi name." Is what the text says.
"God damn it, she can't figure out I'm not a child, I made this call, and she needs to accept it!" Shit, too loud, Miho woke up confused. I explained it and next I know is my sisters arms around me in a tight embrace. I missed this. Thank you.
Hana POV
Crap, yet again awake in a cold sweat after a nightmare. I quickly ran to the bathroom where I puked up dinner, which unfortunately for me was curry. Ouch. The nightmares are more vivid, and feel more real. I can't stand it. This one was the worst of all, where neither of the Nishizumis make it out alive. While trying to get Maho out of the IV, the ammo explodes, as Maho gets pulled from the commander hatch, throwing both Maho and Miho, and they land with a sickening crunch. After checking, both were confirmed flat line.... dead. All because of a shell I fired. That shell killed my best friend, and her sister... I'm scared of how her family will react. Thank god it was only a dream..... or I would be way worse off than I am now. The next day would hopefully help me, hopefully.
Maho POV
Us three beat Hana, who arrived a few minutes later. As soon as she got here I realized something was wrong with her, and she hadn't slept because of it.
"You okay, Hana?" I ask her.
"Yeah, just tired, had a bad dream." She tells me. Something is wrong in her mind, and I can tell Miho sees it too. We order our food and eat, and I thankfully was able to get myself some coffee, as well as Erika. I feel old when drinking coffee. Erika smiles at me and leans on me.
"Hey Maho, I'm having a meeting for the Sensha-do team later today to introduce you, Erika, and your teams. I spoke with sub-commander Kadotani and she is willing to give you her sub-commander position." Miho told me.
"Oh really? I'll think about it, it will be odd to be under your command for a change." I tell her.
"Not a problem, but either way, think of something to say in front of the team for me please?" She asks me.
"Not a problem at all my dear sister." I tell her. The food gets to the table and looks delicious, and I very quickly clean my plate. I was very hungry as I didn't eat dinner last night. I glance up and Miho is talking to Hana about one of their tanks, can't tell which one, but they are. After lunch we head to the school and start going over their tanks, I noticed they had an extra large room in the back of the tank shed that had a huge door on it, and asked to see what it was. Miho agreed and called over one of her best commanders who ran their STUG IV last match. After she walked over and opened the door, the shadows hid everything g except the last two feet of a very large caliber barrel of a main gun. They flicked the lights on in the room to reveal the biggest tank I've seen in Sensha-do other than Kuromorimine's MAUS. Damn Miho, keeping secrets, they got a SU-100. and they use it as a sniper tank. Next season Kuromorimine has a run for its money. I went back with Miho to my tank to look it over. It seems while we were busy she renamed both my tank and Erika's, my tank now known as Tiger team was finished, with the new side art. And they were in the process of working on Erika's tank, team Eagle. A Jagdtiger and a Tiger 2 along with a 100, two Jagdpanthers, and two STUG IVs. That is a scary combo for a team. Our first match is a training match against Saunders, two weeks from now, we are all due to start practice today once the paint dries on the Tiger II and the Jagdtiger. Let's see what happens when I end up in a formation I'm not used to. Only time will tell.
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. Hey everyone! Jordan here, first update in close to a year, been super busy with stuff and have had writers block. Rewatched Girls und Panzer and had motivation to do something. And here is the result, my longest chapter of just shy of 2200 words. I will be updating this story periodically, and hope to make this the story for setting word records along side my other GuP story. Stay tuned!
-ElysiumDarkness
P.S, this took me almost two days, so hope you enjoyed it!