The Tigers of Chi-Ha-Tan ReRise Volume 4: The Scars of a Warriors Past

The Rise is Deafening The Fall is Quiet

An assistant women walk up next to a cameraman who was aiming toward the set, the woman touch her headset to listen to her producer who was going to alert her to start the countdown. The wait wasn't long as she receive the go-ahead from her producer to begin, the women wave her hands for quiet on the set from the other assistants and staff members, then turn her eyes to the large sports broadcast set, that had one large desk built with the words into its front with neon lighting in cursive saying: Sensha-do Battle Network.

Sitting behind this desk was one was a handsome older gentleman in his late 30's. He had a chiseled face with a light tan, a neat comb-over, a fresh clean shave, with large brown eyes. While wearing a gray business suit, as he was the host of the Sensha-do Battle Network, by the name of Fumihiko Sakaguchi, a commentator on matches and on the current news going on around the sport as well.

Suddenly the assistant women wave to get the attention of their host, signaling they were going live. She then held her hand out, holding five fingers, then four, then three, then two, then pointed at the host to let him know he was on.

"Hello, Sensha-do enthusiast! This is your host Fumihiko Sakaguchi, bringing you live from our studio here in the beautiful capital city of Tokyo. As you know, we are currently only into the infancy of the second round of the sixty-third national tournament, with only just yesterday the much-anticipated match between Oarai Girls Academy and Chi-Ha-Tan Academy was fought and what a fight it was."

"As Chi-Ha-Tan suffering from a heavy suspension with many of their veteran's tankers taken out, leaving them only first-years to fight it out against a tough opponent. Yet these young cubs of the Tigress Corps display they could roar just as loud as the rest of their team, as time and time again they gave Oarai fits. Though for all their tenacity Oarai was to fight back with their force of oddball tanks of every variety but were given a little help by foreigners."

"Those foreigners belonging to an American Sensha-do school, by the name of Wolverton Girls Academy. They were part of what we've been told as an experimental reinforcement perk that allow for tanks to help for once give Oarai a full set of tanks. These new American tankers prove that even in their first match they were more than ready to take on Miho Nishizumi's tactical brilliance, whose cunning opening round gambit saw Chi-Ha-Tan not make contact with the enemy for over three hours, while also allowing Oarai and their allies to enjoy the luxury of taking the city that dominated the match grounds, while again not attacking or showing themselves to their foe for a long period of time."

"The inaction seem to prove the right tactic, odd as it was, making Oarai's Commander Yukari Akiyama have to send a scout force to find Chi-Ha-Tan, only for they themselves to be caught out and ambush by their foe who was waiting for them to open the match up finally. From there it was back and forth between the two forces that traded tank takedowns and plane duels with one another."

"Though in most minds of the spectators would find themselves focusing on the actions of Miho Nishizumi herself, having kept back from the match till she came to save her distressed teammates in the dreaded Tiger 1. First hitting a now record shot at over fifteen thousand meters, which smash ace gunner Naomi of Saunders record shot last year of Pravda T34/85. Then the Tigress commander had to fend off 4 tanks, with some support from her team, but untimely it was up to her to what I believe is the most legendary moment in our proud sport, with Miho Nishizumi taking out these four tanks in what most analyst still can't find words for. For Miss Nishizumi commanded her Tiger 1 like she knew when and where her opponent was going to attack. Like watching a Samurai with their katana defecting blows till they found the perfect strike, very uncanny sort of instinct I have never seen."

"With Chi-Ha-Tan eventually winning by Miho's teammates who finally found the Oarai flag tank in the city and took it out with a brilliant assault that sources say Miss Maita led that won the match. Yet only by seconds as the Tiger 1 took a bad tumble after taking out the Panzer 4, and its white kill flag came up just a half-second behind Oarai's flag tank. Which marks the first time in the history of our sport that the Federation Referees had to determine the winner by repay."