—Well, I hope you'll be fine— Emilia thought.
"Well, What's next?" Diego asked.
"After we cross this trench, we will arrive in Arizona" Miguel said.
"And what we will do after it?" Emilia asked.
"Well, we are entering in Gringo Land for first time in all war, so we need to wait for new orders from the Sedena, the Army is a great institution, probably the one that works best in the whole country" Diego said.
"Well, we can do that, right?" Emilia asked.
"Thy can do that, but stupid Diego can't" Miguel replied.
"Oh! el wey that speaks stupidly tries to say me Stupid?" he replied.
"Thy are so fucking annoying"
"Hey! both need to calm yourself, we are a team, a squad, please, get it!" Emilia said.
"Ok dude" Diego said.
"Don't worry José" Miguel replied.
She hated that.
They always refer to her as a man, she hated, all that.
She was a girl, a normal girl, why she was passing for all this?
She hated her new body.
Why?
That was the body of a man, why on earth a girl needs to pass for this?
After they crossed the border, they stopped the tank.
She hated to begin in an all-men group.
It made her feel very insecure.
"Well, we need to wait for the rest of the tank division, Miguel, give an inspection to the tank and give it service on all it needs"
"I will give her service" he replied.
"Her?" Diego asked.
"Our tank is a girl, get it!"
Well, at least the tank is a girl.
But she can't hear her problems, she was still alone in this all-men group.
They wait there for a long time.
"U know José, all this is very exhausting, I want to back to my house" Diego said.
"We are here from one day ago!" Emilia replied.
"And I can't remember sopes and pozole flavor" Diego responded.
"Well, we need to arrive at the end of this battle first, right?" she said.
"I hate to begin in a war" he answered.
"Well I hate that and other things" She said.
"I want to back to my home" Diego announced.
"I also want a lot of things, but the majority are maybe impossible" Emilia said. She was sad and very sad for that, begin in a man's body was bad where you are a woman, but until now, she can't do anything to repair it.
"So sad dude, but I still want to back home, just, look at this place, is terrible, this tank is one of the worst places where I can be" Diego replied.
"Well, was this or begin in an infantry assault to American trenches, and you know how it ends" Emilia said.
"Yes, but I'm asking myself, Why did u enter the Army?" Diego asked.
"Well, I can't answer that my friend" Emilia answered.
"Hey y'all! think something is happening right now" Arturo said.
"I don't order to you stay quiet the rest of the battle" Miguel replied.
"Well the battle will end very soon for all of us if y'all don't listen to me right now" he responded.
"What are you talking about?" Emilia asked.
"I looked some tanks, are french tank designs used by the US army, our tanks are better, but if we don't do anything they will defeat us" Arturo answered.
"So, you are telling me that..."
"Yes, the USA army has some tanks, I saw three tanks, but we need to be careful and expect more tanks at any moment" Arturo replied "Diego, Miguel, go to the canon of the tank, we need to destroy them"
"Yes bro" Diego replied.
"So, who will drive the tank?" Miguel asked.
"José, Can you drive the tank?"
Emilia looked at them with some fear, she never learned to drive one of these things, she can't learn in fucking situation.
"Sorry, I don't receive any training to drive one of this" she said.
Arturo looked at her with a stranger look and he told her.
"Well, Sargent, you are using the left canon" he said "Miguel, go back to the drive cabinet"
"Why I'm listed thy?" Miguel said.
"Because you want to live I suppose" Arturo replied.
"Okay, but only because I really want to live, no because I... forget it, I'm doing that" he said.
Miguel put work the tank and Arturo said.
"Well Sargent, What we will do now?"
Emilia thought about that and she answered:
"We are destroying that fucking American tanks"
"Okay Sir"
Emilia felt horrible to be referred to with the word 'sir', which reminded her how the world saw her.
"Sir, Are you okay?"
Emilia doesn't reply.
"José!"
"Please don't call me like that!" she said.
Everyone looked at her surprised by her attitude.
"Okay, Sargent, I think you were more polite"
Emilia felt bad for them, but she couldn't tell them the truth.
The battle against the french designed tanks was not difficult.
"The tank is destroyed Sargent"
"Well done, good job" Emilia replied.
They had destroyed 4 out of 5 tanks.
It turns out that the mobile turret of the French tanks was quite weak to the impacts of the mobile artillery of the Salinas Tank.
"Well, if all this goes as we planned it, we will have won an award" said Arturo.
At that moment an impact shook the entire tank.
"WTF? What the hell was that?"
At a distance, a tank of French design had attacked the tank of our protagonists.
They did not know what damage the tank could have.
It was almost certain that the American tank would fire at them again.
Emilia closed her eyes, preparing for the worst.
*Explosion*
At that moment an explosion was heard in the environment.
Emilia noticed that it was not her tank.
"What's going on?"
Suddenly a knock on the tank door began to reach his ears.
She took her luger and opened the door.
"Wow, I didn't expect to see you here" said that character "Or maybe yes"
"Albert!"
A kind of mini-camp had been established near the Sonora-Arizona border.
"So Albert, what do you have new?"
"I have selected a name, between you and me, you can call me Beatriz, or Betty"
"It's okay Betty"
"You know Emilia, I even like you now, you're a good friend"
