Mostly Girls, und Panzer (Male Reader OC x Girls und Panzer)

Episode 13 Part 1

Yukari woke up for real this time,

Inside of the Metal interior of the T29

The sun brightened up the overcast clouds

Snow was still quite deep

There was a fog layer in the far background.

Normally she would've taken awe to these sights,

But her mind dwelt on the horrible nightmare last night.

Who saved her from being shot?

She had a feeling who, but didn't know for sure.

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Carm got out from the T29's hatch, since it was now morning and the sun was shining, he could actually see the T29 for real now,

He rounded around to the tank's forward hull

Holy moly...

It was ripped up,

Chunks of steel armor had flown off, the carbon layer underneath was the only thing that protected the T29 to any major degree,

The 30. Caliber hull Machine gun lost its barrel, explaining why it couldn't shoot earlier.

One of the rangefinders had a gaping hole in it.

Some of the very outer teeth of the T29s track extensions had been ripped off,

The turret and mantlet were full of dents and scratchmarks, it was a miracle that there was no spalling.

The Ōarai logos from their old world were being worn off from the sides of the turret,

Those Shermans from before were headed back to base hopefully,

So maybe, just maybe, he could follow? And then reach their base?

There they would surely have enough food and supplies, the T29 shoveled down gas like nothing.

And hopefully, they will have some winter gear there as well.

Because it was freezing outside.

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Breakfast was small, considering the spare food they packed was not meant to last days, but only a few hours.

Carm advanced back to his seat.

"Tank forwards"

The T29s engine growled, and it shook off all of the snow that was building on it.

The vehicle moved up, out of the forest and onto the dirt path.

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December 12th 1944

Ardennes Forest

Second Lieutenant Gavin Graves scanned the snowy field with his binoculars,

He was the leader of a M36 tank destroyer platoon,

The platoon had three M36 Jackson tank destroyers, it used to have four of them but since yesterday, they only had three.

An M8 Greyhound, one of  which was destroyed a few days ago,

And a GMC CCKW utility truck.

An M36 Jackson tank destroyer

The M36, with its large 90 millimeter gun, it was an ideal tank destroyer that could effectively poach any Panzer, no matter the range.

He was tasked with the destruction of a German Tank ace in the area,

It had reared its ugly head when it destroyed another platoon of four Sherman tanks headed back to base after infantry support.

The ace was said to have been using a King Tiger,

Which is why his platoon of M36 TD's (Tank destroyers) was selected instead of Hellcats or Wolverines, because of their more powerful guns to fight the rare super heavily armored beast that was a King Tiger.

but as of right now, he didn't see any.

"Maybe they just packed their bags and went home?" The gunner said

"They went home alright, look over there." His loader pointed to something in the distance

It looked like a snowed over, destroyed tank

He looked at it with binoculars.

It was, in fact a King Tiger,

....Without a turret

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He went down to see personally via one of his platoon's M8 Greyhound armored cars.

A burnt out Tiger,

The turret was upside down, and a few yards away from the wrecked hull,

It was full of snow.

A gaping hole was created in the mantlet.....

Was someone else tasked with the destruction of this tank and made it here before they could,

The air power difference in the allies's favor was massive, but poor weather kept them on the ground more and more often.

So, the question was still in the air,

Who did this?

*vrrrrm

An engine noise rung out in the background.

It broke through the forested trees

Gavins eyes widened upon seeing it.

The culprit had revealed itself on the road in front of them.