Chapter : 11 Nicholas & miho
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"It's my fault." Sobbed Mako, "I hurt Hana and I totalled the Panzer IV. It's my fault." "No its not." Said Hana in her usual kind voice. Mako looked up, here face on the verge of tears.
"Its not your fault you have low blood pressure. Besides, if we hadn't crashed, we wouldn't have found this tank." Miho left Hana and Saori to calm down and went to see Yukari, who was still mid panzer trip.
"So," asked Miho, "What have we got?"
"A jem that Nicholas' sister would want in her collection without a doubt. An A33 Excelsior!" Said Yukari. "It's a prototype British heavy tank in world war 2, built as a replacement for the Churchill but never saw production."
"Great." Said Miho, "Will it run?"
"Probably not." Said Yukari, "I'm no engineer but, I think the crankshaft is has been disconnected, its not going to run so were going to need a tow." Miho sighed and pulled out her phone to call Leopon and the student council for a report and a tow. She was about to open her contacts when her phone started ringing. The caller ID showed it was Nicholas. She pressed the answer button and raised it to her ear. Over the phone came Nicholas' familiar voice.
"Miho? Its Nicholas, you're not going to believe what we've found."
"What have you found? A panzer?" asked Miho.
"One better," said Nicholas, "Or should I say possibly 4 better."
"What do you mean, possibly 4 better?" asked Miho in a confused voice.
"We found a panzer 38(t) n. A old container, and a worker says that 4 other containers were dropped off at the same time by the same people. I'm having the containers sent back to the sheds." Explained Nicholas.
"Really? Well done, we'll see you back at the sheds." Hiho hung up and turned and said to the group.
"Well, we got lucky. Nicholas found a Panzer 38(t) and potentially 4 other panzers. So, here's what we do." Said Miho. "Anteater team take back Mikaze, Shizuha, Karin, Ayamo and Hana back to the sheds and tell Leopon to break out the tool kits and get over here. We'll bring the Excelsior and the Panzer IV back when they're running again." The girls all nodded and climbed onto the Chi-Nu and it turned around and headed for home.
Ōarai Sensha-dō sheds, 2:45pm
Miho jumped off the turret of her panzer IV and was amazed at what she saw. Parked outside the Sheds were a Panzer 38(t) .n.A and 4 old wooden containers, 1 large, 2 medium sized and 1 small. Miho walked up towards the student council who were inspecting the largest of the containers. Anzu spotted Miho heading their way smiled and said,
"Quite a find hey?"
"No doubt, where's Nicholas and why haven't you opened them?" asked Miho.
"Nicholas and the boys are working on his Spitfire. And we didn't open them because that honour goes to the commander." Said Momo.
"Are we the last team back?" asked Miho.
"Yes, team 2 didn't find anything but judging by team 1's find that really doesn't matter." Said Yuzu. Miho nodded and walked into the shed, looking for Nicholas. She found him and the other boys and a few Ōarai crew members admiring the Spitfire. When she got close she realized why, the RAF roundels had been replaced by the logo for the Ōarai school. Seeing her looking at the new paint job.
Now no-one will wonder where my loyalties lie." He said with a smirk. Miho nodded and turned away, she walked towards the panzer IV and climbed up. She cleared her through to attract attention. Everyone in the shed turned toward Miho, watching her expectantly.
"um" she stuttered, "Well done for finding 6 new panzer, which puts in the fortunate position of having more panzer than teams so new teams will get first pick of the new panzers and if any of the other crews want to try or change to one of the new panzers they are more than welcome to, but I have a feeling that everyone's going to stick with their panzers from last year. I'm now going to handover to Momo who is going to deal with the new panzers in the crates. Momo." Momo nodded and said to the group,
"Today's search turned a very good result. An A33 Excelsior, a panzer 38t .n.A, and 4 other mystery containers. Now without further ado, lets open the other containers.".
"Yeah!" yelled the whole group in response. The group moved to the line of 4 containers outside of the shed. The automotive club were started at the first and smallest of the containers with crowbars and bolt cutters. They levered the front of the container open and stepped inside. Nakajima turned on a flashlight and turned it on the panzer, its high profile, slopped armour and angular turret making it instantly recognisable.
"We've got an M5 Stuart!" called Nakajima. Miho and the girls crowded round the Stuart, admiring the small light tank. The automotive club started on the second and third containers, quickly tearing the fronts off the 2 medium sized containers.
"Yukari! Care to identify this for us please?!" cried Tsuchiya. Yukari and Miho made their way round to the container that Tsuchiya was standing in front of. Inside was a tank with cast armour, a small, offset turret with a short gun and the whole tank was clad in an orange camouflage scheme.
"I know what this is!" cried Yukari, "That cast hull and that camo, its French. It's a Somua S35!"
"It's an early war French tank" said Miho, " It mounts a 47mm gun and has 47mm of armour. Its not incredible, but we could do worse."
"Yeah, like what we got in here." Said Tsuchiya, "It only has a machine gun." Miho and Yukari looked at each other and then walked over to the container. Inside was a panzer with a highly angled hull, wide tracks, a fixed forward facing machine gun but no turret. Instead, it had a wooden box superstructure and a rear mounted crane that was folded away.
"I know what that is!" cried Yukari, "It's..."
" A Bergpanther" said Miho, "We had one at Kuromorimine. We used it for rescuing tanks that had been damaged in training."
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