Full Metal Panic! Short Stories Volume 1: Intriguing One-Man Band?

Sagara Sousuke isn't your typical high school student.

He reads military enthusiast magazines; he responds to questions with "affirmative;" he brings grenades to school in his bag.

Though everyone at school takes him for a hopeless military geek, Chidori Kaname thinks there might be something more to him.

When their plane is hijacked in the middle of a field trip, Kaname's instincts will prove correct: Sousuke is an elite, mech-piloting mercenary... and he's here to protect her!