The time of peace is coming to an end.
I heard stories that years ago, Earth was invaded by Abyssal. Nobody know where their origin comes from, but what everyone agree on was that they appear from the waters of the oceans. Initially, they had the upper hand, destroying ships and navies across the world. It almost seems that Abyssal will take total victory. Just then, girls with equipment came swarming in, taking the fight against the Abyssal invader, but even then just barely.
Even though we stop the advance of the Abyssal, we couldn't take it back, and even if we did, we suffered irrecoverable losses. The last offensive, occurring in North China and conducted by a combined force of China, Korea and Japan in 2034-5, was successful, destroying an entire Abyssal fleet and neutralised their ports, particularly at Liaodong Peninsula and Weihaiwei, but at the cost of tens of thousands of lives and effectively destroyed the Chinese and Koreans as a fighting force.
Peace was called on May 2036. The United Nations signed what we call it, "Treaty of Washington". It lets the Abyssal keep whatever they got, as long as they don't disturb the world any more. Japan and Britain didn't believe peace will be a long term affect, as the Abyssal held major ports, including the very ports we took back.
And we are right.
Reports from the Chinese and Koreans that an Abyssal navy is expanding at Port Arthur. This connects with other reports from Russia that they're building more ships at St Petersburg. Clearly they're preparing for war.
Predicting the next battles will be at our doorstep, we expand our own navy, preparing for the worst. Britain helped us build our battleships. Although they're born in Britain, they have the soul of the Japanese.
Even with our maximum capacity, we still woefully behind. The Abyssal are simply too many.
But I remembered, it's not how powerful you are, it's how you use your power.
This is my story of the greatest war in the Abyssal Wars that will be remembered through history.
Chapter 1 - The New Admiral
Togo Hachi,
Starting from 27th January, 2044, you have been assigned to Sasebo Naval Base and command the newly formed Combined Fleet. Your job is to prepare for war and lead to victory.
The Combined Fleet is smaller against the Abyssal. However, it's not about the numbers, it's about how you use it. Use the qualities of the Combined Fleet to turn things around. As you have past experience from the Offensive of 2034-5, you have my full confidence to defeat the Abyssal once and for all.
I hope you succeed.
Yamamoto Gonhee, Minister of Navy
I finished reading the letter and stepped into a base. It's quiet and nobody's around. I checked my papers and it confirmed I'm in the right place. I then checked my watch.
06:29
Everyone's still asleep I assume.
Undeterred, I walked into the base and head for a building, with a sign saying 'Administration'. Walking through the corridors, I was minding my own business. The hallway suddenly flashed into a deck of a boat, with water splashing around, before coming back to reality. I tried to shake it off and that's when I bumped into someone head on.
I fell flat on the ground with a thud before getting up, trying to rub my wound off. I looked up at the person who bumped into me and all the pain suddenly disappeared.
In front of me was a brown, long haired girl, wearing a white kimono held up by red tasuki, a blue hakama skirt and pantyhose, doing the same thing as I did before. Quickly I got back to my feet and offered a hand. "I'm so sorry for bumping into you. Here, take my hand."
The girl looked up and blushed a bit before taking my hand. "I should be the one apologising. I'm so clumsy."
"N-No, it's alright," I reassured her. "So which way are you going?"
"Oh I was about to go to the front door to wait for the new Admiral."
It was then I realised what she meant. And she reached the same conclusion as well.
"S-Sorry for my tardiness," she apologised, giving a quick bow.
"No it's alright."
She quickly grabbed by my arms, "At least let me show you your office."
"S-Sure."
The girl quickly realised what she's doing and backed off quickly. "Sorry!"
"You can stop apologising," I said to her, a little annoyed, but not too much.
"By the way, I didn't catch your name," I said as we walking down the hallway after the incident.
"Oh, I'm battleship Mikasa, modified version of the Britsh Formidable-class battleships," she introduced herself in a very formal way. And then it struck me. The famed battleship was in front of my eyes. "What's your name?"
"Oh, my name's-" All of a sudden, some body's behind me, with their cold hand on my shoulder. The shock nearly gave me a full-out-of-body heart attack.
"Mikasa-chan, is this your new senpai?" a young woman's voice said behind my back.
"Hatsuse-chan, you nearly made him passed out!" another woman scolded.
"Excuse me, are you ok?" a girl around the same age as Mikasa asked me, as I stood here like a frozen idiot. Before not too long, somebody shook me out.
"Oh yeah, I'm alright," I quickly said.
I looked around and saw three more girls. A girl with a long black hair, a woman with black short hair and the woman, who was responsible for the prank, had greenish hair in a twintail. The former was wearing blue kimono and hakama skirt, almost like Mikasa, but without pantyhose, has blue tasukis and has a bow to hold her hair up. The other two were wearing non-traditional miko and hakama skirts.
"Oh, I almost forgot. I'm Asahi, modified version of Formidable-class battleships, and a friend of Mikasa," the girl with black hair introduced herself in a respectful way.
A short haired woman walked up to me, "I'm sorry for my sister. I'm Shikishima and that's Hatsuse."
"Haiya! Both of us are the improved Majestic-class battleships!"
"We shouldn't give him more trouble. Let's go," Asahi said as she urged the Shikishima-sisters to move.
"Alright. See ya!" Hatsuse gave me farewell as she ran off.
"Hey come back! I'm sorry for the trouble," Shikishima apologised and chased after her.
"Hey Mikasa-chan, is that our new Admiral?" Asahi asked to Mikasa, who was just watching the entire scene in blank.
"Y-Yes, that's the new Admiral."
"Oh, well it's nice to meet you Admiral. I hope we fight side-by-side," Asahi gave me a bless and walked off.
"Well that's a nice scene," I commented. Mikasa simply nodded. Both of us continued walking.
"Oh right, I didn't catch your name."
"Right, I'm Togo Hachi, but just call me Togo."
"Hachi... eight."
"That's my name. Eight, the lucky number."
"I hope that define you. Oh we here."
We in front of two huge doors, saying 'Admiral's Office'.
"I should get going. Fuji's waiting for me at the range. I'll see you later," Mikasa gave me a farewell before running off.
I looked back at the two huge doors. However, just before I about to open the door, I sensed somebody's here. Quickly, I unsheathed my katana and faced at the direction of where I sensed it from. This katana was handed down from my grandfather, who gave it to me, saying it will protect me.
A girl walked out of her hiding spot. However, I widened my eyes. It was a girl, with long black hair, a red kimono and a pleated black skirt. But it's no random girl, this girl was the same one in the offensive of 2094-5.
Yalu River, 17 September 2034
I looked out of my boat as the battle raged on between the combined Asian Fleet and the Abyssal. Shells were flying everywhere. It wasn't clear who would be victorious as it can go either way.
I'm only 19 years old, yet I command this torpedo boat. This torpedo boat was crewed by fairies who would follow my orders. I saw a fairy nearly went overboard. I raced towards him and pulled him up back on the boat. He gave me thanks before running off. I ran back to my post and that's when a shell landed just near our boat, throwing me onto the decks and got me soaked.
Standing up and getting my bearing, I spotted a shipgirl under fire. Then I spotted an Abyssal cruiser closing in, intending on sinking her. A fairy helped me up and get back to my post.
"We need to sink that Abyssal cruiser as soon as possible! It will sink that shipgirl if we don't do it! Charge at the fastest speed possible!"
Some objected, but I rebutted, "Remember your duty! We must support the main fleet in defeating the Abyssal Fleet, no matter the cost!"
After this, the boat started picking up speed and smoke from the boilers getting heavier. We closing in on the Abyssal Cruiser. The shipgirl collapsed from under fire and noticed the Abyssal Cruiser closing in. "Ready the torpedoes!"
Crewmen were preparing the two torpedoes, giving the correct setting. Once they did, they called out it's ready. I waited until we near point blank. "Launch!"
Torpedoes launched into the water and swam at full speed, straight for the Abyssal Cruiser. At the same time, the Abyssal noticed us and turned its guns at us. "Hard to Starboard!"
Just as we tried to turn away, the Abyssal fired. The shell lodged itself into the engines, causing an explosion. I managed to save a crewman, who was running along the deck, from the explosion, but the concussion knocked me overboard on port. The only thing that saved me was the railing, which I grabbed onto. The result of the impact had also slowed the boat down, making us sitting ducks. The Abyssal was preparing another attack and aimed at me. It looked like we dead.
However, what the Abyssal Cruiser failed to realise was the two torpedoes, which both impacted. I watched as smoke clouded over where the Abyssal was. It looked like she sank. But that isn't the case. The smoke cleared and the Abyssal was still alive, albeit heavily damaged. She tried to point her gun, before a gun shot was heard and there's holes in the Abyssal, including one on her head.
The Abyssal cruiser collapsed forward, revealing the same shipgirl, with smokes from her guns.
The flashback ended and I went back to reality. We were standing there for a good minute. It was then the shipgirl broke the silence.
"I'm Naniwa, lead ship of the first protected cruiser class," she introduced herself, giving a quick bow, "Thank you for your actions at Yalu River."
"Likewise to you. It good to meet each other again," I said, sheathing my katana.
"Oh I should leave you alone. I'll see you soon," she said, ran off. I looked at the direction she ran to.
This is only my first day and already I'm feeling like at home.
A/N: This is a complete overhaul of the previous fanfiction, which is based on Russo-Japanese War. This fanfiction will closely follow the naval battles during that war, but also has some life behind the front lines.
The new admiral is, obviously if you can't tell his name, is based off Togo Heihachiro. However, I had to make some liberty to fit in with the KanColle meta, like the Yalu River case. Also, he's younger than real life version in 1904.
The liberty I made is that any remaining sailors and fairies are crewing torpedo boats.
