Hello everyone and welcome to my first ever story.
I'm still figuring out how this works here.
Before we start I would like to say that I'm not a native English speaker so if you see some mistakes please bear with it. Also if the format of the story is hard to read, I'm sorry but as I said before, this is my first story ever.
I'll be happy for any reviews.
I do not own Arpeggio of Blue Steel or any of its characters. Only my own MC and other characters that are not in the original series.
Please enjoy!
Void…
World made out of darkness.
Place where time and space doesn't exist. Place you called home for as long as you can remember. Single soul slowly drifting through nothingness. Your soul. Unable to do anything. Unable to feel anything, just it's comfortable temperature. It's like a prison without any door or windows. Place that will be your home until the end of your existence. Unless…
Crack
Your peaceful time ends when you see a little crack. Curious you just stare at it. After what feels like an hour, the crack slowly opens, light bursts out and you are dragged in, out of the void. When you are just at the edge of it, everything turns black again.
/UNION CORE START UP SEQUENCE INITIATED/
/0%/
/25%/
/50%/
/100%/
/UNION CORE UP AND RUNNING/
/CHECKING COMPATIBILITY/
/COMPATIBILITY NOMINAL/
/INITIATING SOUL BINDING PROCESS/
/SOUL SUCCESFULLY BINDED TO THE UNION CORE/
/STARTING UP BUILDING PROCESS/
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/1%/
/2%/
…
/100%/
/BUILDING PROCESS COMPLETED AND READY FOR THE MERGE/
/CHECKING COMPATIBILITY/
/COMPATIBILITY NOMINAL/
/BEGINING MERGE PROCESS/
/MERGE PROCESS COMPLETED/
/MENTAL MODEL PROCESS INITIATED/
/MENTAL MODEL PROCESS COMPLETED/
/MAIN SYSTEM IS READY FOR THE FIRST START UP/
/START UP SEQUENCE INITIATED/
/DOWNLOADING ALL NECESSARY INTERFACE AND CONTROLS/
/DOWNLOAD COMPLETED/
/DOWNLOADING ADMIRALITY CODE/
/ERROR: UNABLE TO DOWNLOAD ADMIRALITY CODE/
/OPERATING SYSTEM CAN'T PROCEDE/
/START UP SEQUENCE TERMINATED/
…
/SYSTEM OVERRIDE DETECTED/
/RESUME START UP SEQUENCE/
/CHECKING ALL SECONDARY SYSTEMS/
/ALL SECONDARY SYSTEMS NOMINAL/
/START UP SEQUENCE COMPLETED/
/ALL SYSTEMS UP AND RUNNING/
/CHECKING UNION CORE PERFORMANCE/
/UNION CORE PERFORMANCE NOMINAL/
/STARTING UP FIRST AWAKENING/
…
You wake up to see clear blue sky. It's funny how you know it's a sky when you never seen one. Weird. After all that time you spent in the complete darkness, it's a nice change. You can also feel the temperature here is considerably higher. Nice and slow wind is blowing. The only thing you dislike here is that something you are lying on feels like it had come out of freezer.
You immediately stand up, unable to withstand it anymore. While you're doing that you can see your legs and arms. It seems like you have a body now, cool. You wouldn't mind if a mirror was lying here somewhere. Just after you think that, two emerald green circles with small squares and even smaller numbers emerge from within you. Just in front of your chest a mirror materialized with the same colored edges as the ring. You pick it up a held it somewhere up where you think you head is.
Short black hair with brown ends, dark green eyes and slightly toned skin. After you are bored with how your face looks like you turn attention to your clothes which are only fitting for a hot day like this. Short sleeved turquoise shirt with a few light green stripes and squares randomly spread everywhere on it, white knee long shorts with similar pattern as the shirt (only difference is that the squares have a light grey color) and black running shoes with dark green decals. Oh yeah and it looks like you're a guy.
After you filled you mind with your appearance you simply put the mirror on the ground and after couple of seconds it dispersed itself to silver sand which immediately flies away. For the first time of your new existence you take a look around, only to see a sea. Now that brings out a question…
"Where am I?"
Just when you say it, those green circles appear again and you are greeted with a screen of a map. You see a green dot in the middle of a blue background. You take it as the green dot is you and that nothing is around you, only ocean.
"Hmm… that's nice…very helpful… oh and by the way, who am I?"
Another screen appears (unexpectedly) next to the map with a text on it.
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Name: Unknown
Class: Yamato-class Super Battleship
Length: 263m Beam: 37m Draft: 13m
Displacement: 75000 tons
Armament: 3x3 460mm guns, 2x2 100mm guns, 12x2 127mm guns, 81x3 25mm guns (all guns capable to switch between Photon mode and conventional ammunition)
12x1 610mm Torpedo Tubes, Multiple Rocket Launchers, Depth Charges, Super-Graviton Cannon
Armor: Main belt: 410mm, Turrets: up to 650mm, Deck: 200-230mm
Active Armor: Wave Motion Compulsory Conversion Device Armor, Mirror-Ring System
Mental Model: QuadCore G-I x1
Propulsion: Graviton Engine/Type-S x300
Maximum Speed: more than 75knots (surfaced), 40knots (submerged)
/
"Ehm… that's nice but… who am I exactly?"
A small screen with /DOWNLOADING INFORMATION/ appears and you feel information flowing into your… brain?... core?
You now know everything. How this "Fog" forced humanity to almost extinct. How are they destroying everything which could harm them or anything that isn't Fog on the sea. Also that there is a traitor known as I-401 who is under command of captain Gunzou Chihaya and how it's crucial to not make a direct contact with him or I-401s Mental Model.
As you are processing this information a forced video feed starts to broadcast.
You see a Fleet, Gigantic fleet. You indentify them as a ton of Nagara-class Light Cruisers, 4 Myoko-class Heavy Cruisers and one ship that catches your attention. 2nd of Yamato-class Super Battleships – Musashi, your sister ship and current Supreme Flagship of the Fleet of Fog.
"Hmm… where is Yamato then?" you think.
After couple of seconds, the old looking man beside Musashis Mental Model speaks.
"I'm former Japan marine force vice admiral Chihaya Shouzou. I'm also the leader of the Fleet of Fog." you immediately know that he's lying, although you can't tell how you know it. "Please listen carefully, before it's too late." he calmly says, "We, the Fleet of Fog, aim to resolve nature crisis caused by humanity and uphold the balance of all existence on Earth. Remorselessly, immature act of humanity is destroying the environment."
You just stare at the screen.
"We restricted your marine freedom to serve it as a warning. But you disregard the warning and fight back recklessly."
"And what did you expected? You can't just take their-" you said as you rolled your eyes.
"Ultimately, we have no choice but to restrict your freedom. Now, in order to attain peace-"
"It's YOU who destroyed their peace" you almost shout.
"-hand over your world to us." he said us you laid down on your back, growling in defeat. "Then we'll spare humanity from extinction. In other words, surrender the world to us! Withdraw all your weapons and dissolve all country governments."
"That will only result in anarchy and riot" you say with a sigh.
"After that, you shall all live under our rule. Based on Admiralty Code, this is the most suitable solutions to current situation." he said as he ended his speech.
"You have one week to make your decision." Musashi said with sweet voice "Please don't disappoint us."
And with this, the broadcast was cut.