This is probably the 3rd go around with this story what with mainly me taking care of grammar and adding and removing parts of the story. But thankfully I'm glad I did. Anyways enjoy everyone.

*NOTE* Chp.5 onwards is newer stuff

Time: unknown

Date: unknown

Location: unknown

'Where am I, where is this place?' I say waking up and seeing nothing but swirling darkness

'Hello….hello?" I yell trying to get a response, but all I can get in response is an eerie silence that sends shivers up my spine.

Sitting here in the darkness really gives a person time to think, it really didn't take long for my memories to return in force causing me to grab my head in pain. After I settled down from what I could gather caused me to shiver in fear. I had died.

'Alright calm yourself down Lilly' I said to myself trying to figure out how I ended up here,

'That's right there was an explosion, a brown haired girl and a warhead heading my way…..' This caused me to pause realising that's what happened to me and how I ended up here.

'Well that's one mystery solved, now how do I get out of here?', I started to look and move around my surroundings seeing more eerie darkness and as I sighed realising that I might be stuck here in limbo until a blue light out of the corner of my eye catches my attention.

I decided that this was better than nothing so I floated over to where the blue light was and what I saw when I got there confused me a little bit, I mean come on there is a floating blue screen with a blinking cursor in the middle of nowhere, at this point I start to rant to myself about the randomness of it all.

It took what I assumed to be roughly 5 minutes before I calmed myself down after my rant, seeing as there was nothing else going on in this place I decide, albeit hesitantly, to touch the screen and see what happens…

/System standby…. start it up

/Downloading primary and secondary files...

[Installed]

/Setting up ship statistics…..

[Finished]

/Constructing mental model….. Taihō

[construction complete]

/Start up commencing…

'Startup commencing… Taihō…. what the….. AHHHHH!' I screamed as a bright white light emanated from the screen completely blinding me…

'What in hell's name was that!?' I yelled to myself as I started to stir and wake up

'Where am I?'

*BEEP...BEEP...BEEP*

'The hell…'

*BEEP...BEEP...BEEP*

As I looked around some more I realised that as was on a bed of some sort in a very clean and very white room, it was then as I was gathering my thoughts that a voice spoke up….

"Yes, she's waking up Haha" I heard the voice yelling in excitement through what seemed to be a loudspeaker, and boy was the voice loud. It was then that I heard a door opening from behind me and then a warm hand then grabbed my own.

A magenta screen then appeared in my vision causing me to jump in surprise as information was starting to be listed.

/ship contact established

Name: Hyūga

Class: Battleship

Displacement: 38,872 tons

Armament: 6x torpedo tubes, 12x photon cannons, super-graviton cannon, missile launchers, depth charges

Wave-force armour: yes

System synchronization capability: Locked down

After taking in all of this new information, the screen disappeared on its own and the newly named Hyūga started to speak up once more.

"Are you feeling okay?" she asked

"I guess…." I replied turning to face her and as I saw her face I immediately recognised her as the one I protected from that explosion

"So…" I spoke once more "you were the one I protected and I died…. didn't I?" I asked in a solemn tone.

"Yes, you see I was coming back from a resource run passing by an island chain, when suddenly two light cruisers came out of nowhere and started to attack me. I managed to get one of them but the other one managed to somehow get behind me and I thought I was done for, then you came along in your vessel blocking the shot from a corrosive warhead that was meant for me. But just as I managed to sink the second ship, it fired off one last shot destroying what was left of your vessel flinging your body onto my deck" I said

"I must have been a right old mess" she replied smiling weakly

"Yeah, it wasn't a pretty sight" I replied shivering at the memory "but you did save me from severe damage, so I secured you safely and as quick as I could I rushed over here to an old base but you were fading fast and I as arrived I barely had enough time to copy your mind before your body gave out. Thankfully I remembered that there was a spare core here so I uploaded your mind into it, making sure that the core was wiped before hand"

"Well, I guess that I'm a fog now right?" she asked finally sitting upright

"No, not really" I replied causing her to become confused

"Due to you being put into a wiped core, instead of coming directly from wherever the fog comes from, you are free from the Admiralty code's influence, so you are technically fog whilst at the same time you aren't" I finished saying

"Okay, thanks for filling me in then… I guess I should introduce myself I'm Lilly or Taihō as that blue screen stated" she said holding out my hand

"Taihō huh… well at least we know part of who you are now… by the way my name is Hyūga" I said shaking her hand for a few moments before letting go

"Uhhh… part of who I am know?" she said cocking her head in confusion

"Oh… that's right. Okay Taihō can you pull up your specs for me"

"Okay… how do I do that?"

"You numpty…. it's all in here, now concentrate" I said pointing to her forehead

It took me a little bit to concentrate and when I felt something click I opened my eyes to see multiple magenta hexagonal circles surround me, which shocked me a little bit before a beeping sound got my attention as a screen popped up once more listing what I assumed was my specifications.

/[ship specifications

Class: Mikan class Battleship

Displacement: 20,100 tons

Armament: 16x photon cannons, 6x torpedo tubes, 16x missile launchers, super-graviton cannon

Torpedos: Resupply required

Missiles: Resupply required

Weapon status: full lock-down ]/

After reading the list as well as seeing a holographic display of what I looked like as a ship, I was simply in shock at what I had seen.

"So this is me…. or rather my ship body?" I asked shakily still getting over the initial shock.

"Yes, what you are saying for both versions of yourself is correct, well barring the fact that you need a resupply on your missiles and torpedos everything checks out and my god the firepower you have if used correctly I bet you could even give the all mighty Yamato a run for her money" She said in an approving manner

"Well to be honest with you Hyūga I've been a big fan of the older generation of ships for a very long time, but know that I am one this is really hard to get used to" I said as I walked around to get the stiffness out of my legs

"It's alright, you'll get used to it I'm sure of it, oh before I forget…." she said before placing her finger on my forehead.

/ {Hyūga} command; {Taihō} Join fleet (Blue Steel)/

Realising what this meant for me, that being a whole new life and having some new friends to meet, I readily accepted.

/{Taihō} Accept Command/

/{Hyūga} Command: Grant root access to {Hyūga} for unlock. Connect to [joint tactical network]/

/{Taihō} Root Access permitted, connecting to joint tactical network….

It was as though I was suddenly transported somewhere, as now I'm currently sitting in a chair, in a pavilion with Hyūga sitting across from me.

"Good to see that the network connection is stable" Hyūga said sighing in relief

"Hyūga can I ask why you needed root access for my systems?"

"Basically to unlock your weapons systems, your main systems functionality as well as performing a diagnostics check to make sure nothing is wrong" she replied sipping her tea

"Well what are we going to do now?" I asked as I suddenly realised we were back in the real world getting a giggle from Hyūga

"Follow me…" she said to which I complied she then continued to speak "Once we get to the dry dock we'll immediately head east and meet with the others"

Once we arrived I was once again in shock as I saw my ship body in the flesh for the first time, "Woah….that's me?" even though I saw what I looked like holographically I was still just as shocked.

"Come on Taihō we need to get going" Hyūga yelled from the deck of her ship knocking me out of my stupor, so I ran over and once I went aboard my ship I immediately had a sense of being home which made a smile spread across my face as we both left the base behind and set sail eastwards.