DISCLAIMER:

The following document is completely fan generated content. It is completely non-canon (obviously) and contains content that clashes with or deliberately contradicts information within the game. This is my vision for what it should be having only watched season 1 of the anime.

Thank you for understanding.

Fubuki sighed, secretary ship Nagato had ordered her to study abyssal convoys in the area. A few days prior to this destroyer division 6, which comprised of Akatsuki and her sisters had been collecting bauxite in an expedition as they generally did. And they were taken under fire from an abyssal battleship and cruiser escort and were forced to retreat, expeditions now always had to have at least a heavy cruiser as escort. Nagato had expressly told her "I will not allow japan to share its bauxite with the abyssals, we're going to find a way to stop them getting there or we're blowing the mine up." So here she was, sort of hiding behind a small island and watching. When Nagato had given Fubuki the mission, Kongou was also hanging around and was bored and so opted to go with her. Hiei wanted to come too but Nagato took a lot of convincing just to let Kongou go.

"So have Kaga and Zuikaku become friends while I was in the docks?" Kongou asked?

"Umm… I don't know, they still fight sometimes." Fubuki thought back to when she had first entered mobile unit 5, the two carriers were practically at each other's throats.

The conversation was suddenly interrupted before Kongou responded when one of the spines on her headdress began pinging, the spines were actually a disguised form of radar all of Kongou's sisters used that had been built by Yuubari.

"Right! Seems we got one after all!" she grinned and gave a V for victory. Fubuki peeked over the island to see an abyssal Ru-class battleship sailing along with several destroyers in tow, they were definitely carrying packs of bauxite. Fubuki whipped out the map and a crayon.

"Which way did they come from?" she asked Kongou, but before she could respond some fire came in from the north, it hit the Ru-class and bounced off.

They flinched for a moment,

"Someone's shooting up that convoy…" said Kongou thoughtfully. "Utter suicide!"

A shadowy figure emerged from behind another island the other side of the convoy and gave the ru-class a massive broadside. It was almost deafeningly loud and the whole convoy disappeared in a mass of smoke. Fubuki began to move but Kongou grabbed her shoulder

"Stay back, we don't know what we're dealing with here."

A voice called out above the ringing of their ears

"Eugen! Go!" It shouted. The voice seemed somewhat strange to Fubuki and Kongou.

Suddenly they heard the distinctive pop pop pop of heavy cruiser guns as more fire came in against the now helpless destroyers, they panicked and scattered as more shots came in, promptly sinking the panicking abyssals.

As the massive veil of smoke began to clear, a person seems to emerge, He looked about 17-18, same sort of stature as a heavy cruiser, holding what looked like two double gun turrets stacked on top of each other in each hand, he had ginger hair in-

And then it hit them.


He!

All Kantai were female, all of them from Japan at least.

"Something isn't right here…" Kongou frowned

"It's a guy…" Fubuki trailed off, uncertain.

They stood there contemplating as the unknown person look around for something and grabbed something, as he did, Kongou fired up her engines and moved out into clear sight of the mysterious character.

"It's a damned abyssal trick! FIRE!" she shouted, doing a 360 spin and casting her arm out to help her aim,

One by one her 8 35.6cm cannons rippled the air with a force equal to 5 times what Fubuki's guns could do, throwing up another huge smoke cloud.

Just before the guns fired, Fubuki thought she saw movement by the other island where the figure had broadsided the Ru-class.

While Kongou was not the most powerful battleship in the Japanese Kantai arsenal, she was certainly not weak and was known for taking out whole fleets of abyssals with just her 3 sisters for backup. Yet when the muzzle flash and smoke had dispersed, the new second male figure now standing in front of the ginger one seemed completely undamaged. The newcomer was massive, he was bigger than Yamato! A battleship to be reckoned with. He wore plain clothes, dull grey trousers ripped at the ankle and a black shirt. He seemed to be a little older with messy brown hair wearing a pair of fully rimmed rectangular glasses which he now whipped off and placed on top of one of his battleship turrets.

"Well that was a particularly warm invitation," he smirked, his voice had a slight German accent. Kongou looked simply gobsmacked that her salvo had done nothing at virtually point blank range.

Fubuki crept out from behind the rock into full view of the two ships, she began to say something but the Battleship cut her off.

"Before we get into anything else, I ought to introduce myself. My name is Bismarck, and this is my companion Prinz Eugen." Prinz Eugen spoke up,

"We're raiders, we attack abyssal convoys bringing bauxite back from various locations"

Fubuki was so utterly stunned, since the abyssals appeared japan had been cut off from the rest of the world. Fubuki had never even thought that the other nations had Kanmusu of their own… although the word barely seemed applicable to the two gaunt individuals before them.

"I am Fubuki, special type destroyer of the Japanese fleet, and this is Kongou Fast battleship." She spoke very quickly and bowed her head.

"Japanese? Huh, Ok so you are allies then," Bismarck said

"Ok, Eugen! Go grab all the bauxite and take it back to Germany, I'm not gonna get back there before it all goes bad"

"What do you mean?" Fubuki asked?

"As we said, we're commerce raiders, we attack abyssal convoys and take their bauxite. We're basically pirates. But… where actually are we right now?" Bismarck asked.

"We're about 30km east of japan, into the pacific." Fubuki replied.

"Damn, I'm basically on the other side of the world and it takes weeks to get back with all this stuff in tow, by that time the stuff goes bad, kind of like when fuel isn't used for weeks bauxite does the same."

Kongou was still just standing there with her mouth open.

"Ok, I have to get this stuff somewhere, if not back to Germany just somewhere It can be used" Said Bismarck.

He leant over and grabbed one of the massive bags the abyssal destroyers carried and slung it over his shoulder.

This broke Kongou out of her trance,

"Uh sure! Just come with us! The naval district is just a few km west!" she said.

"Ok, lead the way!"


Back at the naval district Fubuki marched into secretary ship Nagato's command room and saluted.

"Special type destroyer Fubuki reporting!" she said!

"Nagato's not here right now" said Mutsu, Nagato's sister, Mutsu was supposed to have been discharged shortly after she was commissioned in but Nagato had not allowed it to happen.

"What's to report?" she asked.

"The abyssal convoys proceeded from the bauxite mine towards one of the islands presumed to be a secret abyssal base but then-"

"Something intervened." Kongou Interrupted,

Bismarck marched into the room sans his enormous rig and thrust his arm out in a Nazi salute.

"Battleship Bismarck at your service!" He introduced himself, his accent clearly noticeable. Kongou punched him on the shoulder

"What?" He asked

"Don't do that! It's kind of illegal here!" Kongou hissed

"Oh, right." Bismarck responded, not apologising.

"A male Kantai? After this nothing will surprise me anymore." Mutsu remarked.

"So what brings you to these waters then?" she asked

"Abyssal hunting, piracy, etcetera. Mostly gathering bauxite from abyssal convoys. I'm not able to make it back to Germany in time so I brought a significant amount of bauxite here." Bismarck explained.

"And I totally didn't eat any on the way here…" he muttered under his breath.

"I can't guarantee anything until Nagato gets back but for the moment you're free to stay with us until you want to leave."

Bismarck turned to leave and Kongou followed him, Fubuki stayed behind.

"Mutsu, is there a spare room for him?" she asked

"There is a single person room on the other side, I think Kongou knows where it is. You can go back to your room now" she smiled.

"You Japanese people have an… interesting dress code…" Bismarck remarked.

"Really? What do you people wear at the German port?" Kongou asked.

"There is no German port, it's pan-European so there's everybody there pretty much. We just sort of wear whatever we want, but nobody dresses exuberantly." He walked off ahead into the spare room.


The next day, Fubuki's classes were dull as always. She had told her friends Yuudachi and Mutsuki about Bismarck but they had only thought about it briefly and then let the conversation wander to other things. Most days the Kantai at the naval district did little about the actual war, but early in the morning Bismarck had already headed out. Bismarck returned in the afternoon with nothing but battle damage. Fubuki watched from afar, silently wondering what was going on and why he was here, he never seemed still or at ease. Constantly working or doing something she didn't really understand. In the evening He went to Yuubari, Yuubari was a mechanic and a builder so Bismarck must want something done.

The whole time, Fubuki was curious. Something was definitely off about Bismarck. He never talked to anybody, when she asked Yuubari she told him that he had been very brief and not said any more than what he had needed to before leaving, Yuubari didn't tell Fubuki what Bismarck had wanted though. The next day early in the morning he marched into the command room and gave a full handed Japanese salute.

"Secretary ship Nagato?" He asked. The secretary ship spun around as she was talking to the admiral.

"Didn't anybody teach you to knock?" She scowled, mirroring Bismarck's expression.

"As a matter of fact, no! They didn't." Bismarck smirked a little.

"What do you want?" she snarled.

"I need to know if there is a heavy cruiser with time to spare, usually I have Prinz Eugen or Scharnhorst to help me but I don't right now."

Nagato sighed, she had other things to deal with but at the same time Bismarck could be a valuable source of bauxite.

"I'll go look for someone." She sighed, "Mutsu, take care of things here." She asked her sister who grinned and nodded.

Bismarck and Nagato walked out of the room, as they did they passed Yamato, the most powerful Kantai in the world. Bismarck flicked his gaze in her direction and gave her the biggest scowl Nagato had ever seen, his hand shook a tiny bit as if he was trying to stop himself from giving her a middle finger.

"What was that for?" Nagato asked.

"I was the most powerful warship in the world, even more powerful than the "Big seven" that you pride yourself on being a member. I was the biggest and most powerful for a week, then… her…" he made no attempt to disguise the bitterness in his voice.


Fubuki was head down on the desk when Nagato opened the classroom door.

"Ashigara, do you have a moment?" She asked the teacher, the destroyers continued pretending to write stuff down but they were listening to the conversation.

"Bismarck is going to sortie momentarily, but he wants a heavy cruiser to back him up." Nagato told her.

"Well, I'm kinda busy with classwork right now but I have an idea." She said. "Bismarck are you setting up an ambush for whatever it you're doing?"

"Affirmative soldier," Bismarck smirked and saluted

"Can I suggest bringing some of the destroyers, this lesson we've talked about setting up torpedo ambushes, maybe you can take them out for a practical demonstration?"

Fubuki sat bolt upright in her chair and shouted

"I'll do it!" she immediately covered her hand with her mouth but then Shimakaze stood up,

"Yeah, let's get out of this stuffy classroom!" she said

"I regret everything…" Ashigara muttered

"These ambushes have to be subtle!" Bismarck noted, "I can only take one or maybe two of you at once."

"Y'know what, I'm going to let you and Ashigara handle this." Nagato walked off back towards the command room.

"Fubuki, Yuudachi, go with Bismarck." Ashigara said.

"Awwww. I wanted to get out of this dump…" Shimakaze muttered

"Alright, it's no heavy cruiser but it will do." Bismarck commented.


The battleship and two destroyers grabbed their rigs from the warehouse they were kept and set out to sea.

They set up around another archipelago like the one Bismarck ambushed the first convoy.

"Ok, places like this are your friends if you're setting up an ambush. The rocks block direct line of sight as well as abyssal Radar waves. Your teachers will probably tell you differently but this is the German way to do it, a battleship: in this case myself hides on one side of the path behind an island, the other ships should spread out around the archipelago on the other side of the route." Bismarck explained

Fubuki and Yuudachi nodded.

"So the strategy goes like this, when the abyssals escort reaches this point here." Bismarck sailed a short way up the channel. "We need a distraction, usually I have scharnhorst in this role but when he isn't available I have Prinz Eugen do both roles. Yuudachi, this is going to be you."

"Poi?" Yuudachi said

"Don't worry you're not being used as bait, just sit behind an island further up there and fire at the escort and attract their attention, if you fire at the cargo ships or destroyers, they panic and get to cover" Bismarck said

"Ok, so they look over there, at that point I pop out and blast any escorts it may have to the bottom. From that point it's all on you Fubuki, just light the destroyers or cargo ships up and we got them"

The three ships split up, Bismarck hid behind a small island to the east of the ambush location, Fubuki to another one to the south and Yuudachi went a little further west. But they continued talking on the radio

"Bismarck-san?" Fubuki asked "do you remember anything of the first life?"

The first life was something the Kanmusu almost never talked about. Kanmusu were the souls of ships of old being reborn into modern people, so some Kanmusu retained memories of their first incarnation as actual ships. Fubuki didn't remember anything, neither did Mutsuki or Yuudachi. Usually Kantai never spoke of the first life, but Fubuki was now curious, something was bothering Bismarck and she had to know what made him tick.

Bismarck's bright blue eyes went dark and cold, but from beneath the cold exterior Fubuki saw a fiery rage that scared her beyond belief.

"A sail into the freezing waters of the north." Bismarck began, his voice deeper and altogether completely different from his normal self.

"An explosion, and sheets of flame shooting into the air as our most feared foe snapped in two under my powerful guns, followed by a game of cat and mouse that never ends and a pounding of vengeance. And finally… a plunge into the depths with the image of the ship still clear in my mind…" Bismarck's eyes closed for a moment, and when they opened again they were calm and collected as he always was. Fubuki was on the verge of crying. Bismarck grinned

"Hey, don't worry about it, I just do that to scare people, the guys at the German port just EAT it up." This perked her up a bit, but the fire she had seen behind Bismarck's eyes was no horror story.

The radio crackled now and Yuudachi voice was audible above the static.

"Convoy in sight poi, but I don't see any escorts." She reported.

"Hmmm… I've not seen an unescorted convoy for quite a long time." Bismarck pondered

"We have to be careful here, it's probably a trap"

"Yuudachi-chan!" Fubuki said into the radio, "Look up, are there any planes?"

On the other side of the receiver they could just here in the very background a resigned sigh.

"3 squads, 15 planes total. 5 fighters, 10 equipped with Torpedos" She reported

"Wow, your guys over here learn fast, they must've been really pissed after I got that first convoy." Bismarck remarked, "You guys done anti-aircraft before?"

Fubuki and Yuudachi nodded, Fubuki still remembered the grueling training she had undertaken to be allowed to escort her senpai, Akagi.

"Ok, now let's go into something else. IMPROVISATION!" he grinned, "Gotta be ready for anything right? So the normal strategy would not work, because as soon as Yuudachi fires, the torpedo bombers will go straight for her and I lack the anti-aircraft firepower to take them out, we don't have any of those type 3 shells in Europe. Don't worry, I have this under control." Bismarck took out a floating deck chair and laid back in it.

"Fubuki, take care of it." He then immediately fell asleep

Fubuki sighed.

"I can still use Bismarck in my plan even if he is asleep right?" she asked Yuudachi

"I don't see why not poi." She replied

"Ok, how long until the convoy gets here?"

"It's just on the horizon, I'd give it 15 minutes poi."

"Ok, they won't expect a direct confrontation, we use Bismarck as torpedo bait, they all launch at him and we gun them down while they're unloaded. Then, as they do that, we fire all of our oxygen torpedos at once, they can dodge pretty fast but there's nowhere to dodge to here." She explained

"Coming over poi." Yuudachi announced

The trap was set, they had pushed Bismarck into the center of the channel still asleep and the convoy was bearing down on them. 5 of the 10 planes broke off and dived down and released their torpedos, a few 5 inch shells woke Bismarck from his nap.

"What the… WHAT!?" He shouted, neatly sidestepping a 21 inch torpedo before swinging around and firing at the destroyers. Instantly they began to realise their peril and another 16 61cm torpedo's passed Bismarck who was still looking around half panicking. They were friendly torps from Fubuki and Yuudachi who now pulled their guns and opened up on the helpless torpedo bombers that pulled up and away, two of them caught 100mm shells from Fubuki, another one took a 127 from Yuudachi, but only 5 had dropped their torps. The other 5 shrank back and the fighters now strafed down at the two destroyers who ducked and weaved.

Bismarck was pouring shell after shell into the destroyers who refused to back down despite the dangers. 5 had gone down and 12 were still firing, and hitting their mark dead on. But he simply shrugged the rounds off as if they were nothing and continued firing. Suddenly it was only 7, 5 had been hit by Fubuki and Yuudachi's torpedo's

The five fighters were now plunging into the sea and the destroyers were rushing to help Bismarck who continued felling the abyssal destroyers.

"We're not leaving a single ship standing or things will get a lot tougher for you guys here, when they realize how vulnerable they are they'll step up their game!" Bismarck shouted to them.

More and more fire poured into the convoy, until they were eliminated.

"Alright! You guys did great on that strategy! Although preferably you could… y'know. Not push me out into the line of fire while I'm sleeping." They shared a laugh

"Alright, everyone grab a sack of bauxite and we're heading back!"

Everyone grabbed a sack, Bismarck reached into his and pulled out a large chunk before taking a bite out of it.

"Ugh, nasty. You guys have to deal with this crap?"

They both nodded

"We get used to it"

"Wait a moment…" Bismarck stopped them. "Yuudachi you said there were 15 planes right? I only saw 8 go down."

"Poi…" Yuudachi nodded. At that very moment, the remaining 5 still armed torpedo bombers dropped from the clouds and released their torpedo's

"SCATTER!" Bismarck yelled! Immediately they all went in different directions, but the planes ignored Fubuki and Yuudachi and went straight for Bismarck. The torpedo's splashed down into the water and Bismarck began a turn, but it wasn't enough, he caught one in the rear as he turned throwing up a huge column of water so large that it actually brought a plane down with it. As soon as the attack had begun, it was over.

When the smoke had cleared, Fubuki and Yuudachi were staring Bismarck with intensity. He was sailing around in a circle with a look of pure hatred.

"I am seriously going to sit down on the toilet and piss up into my face." He said. "This is the second fucking time! It happened again! I thought you guys killed historical accuracy last episode!"

"What do you mean?" Fubuki asked

"My first life, you saw behind the show I put on, you could see I was pissed beyond hell, this is why. 27 degrees starboard. For fuck knows how long." His rage burned out of control

"Those carriers, in my first life I was against Great Britain, one single mission and one of their carriers does this, now, it's the exact same thing over again!"

"Don't worry, we'll just tow you back to the naval district!"

"Really? Fat chance, I weigh 51,000 tons. Just leave me here and get some help, and this time make it faster than a U-boat please" Bismarck told them

"Umm. Ok… we'll be back right away!" they sailed away

A few hours later after getting the help of destroyer division 6, Bismarck was towed back to the naval district. He began limping over to the docks, Fubuki had asked if he needed help getting there but he refused the offer.


At the docks he continued on into a side room where he could be repaired out of sight of the other ships. He slumped into the water and relaxed.

"You really hate her don't you?" Came a voice from the main docks

Bismarck's head flicked over to the doorway and looked out. It was Akagi.

"Who?" He asked

"Yamato," she smiled a little "I saw you earlier today, you looked so angry."

Bismarck was silent for a moment, he let out a sigh and said

"I was the biggest battleship in the world, I was unrivalled in power, even the "mighty" big 7 that we all regard so highly were barely a match for me. That lasted a whole week before Yamato was commissioned and I was forgotten. I was so angry that I had to do something to get myself recognized." Bismarck ranted "I marshalled a fleet of terror, the two battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, a couple of destroyers I forget the name of and most importantly my friend Prinz Eugen. We set off for Denmark, then Scharnhorst hit a mine. We were plagued by mishaps until I decided to forget them all and just go with myself and Prinz Eugen. I was not going to allow myself to be forgotten." He finished his rant and slid back into the water.

"You've never had to put up with something like this, have you? You've always been the best Aircraft in the world." He said accusingly

"Actually, when I was constructed I wasn't." she replied, not sharply or bitterly, but as if it was a perfectly sensible thing to say

"What do you mean? That doesn't make sense." Bismarck frowned

"When I was constructed, I wasn't an aircraft carrier, I was a battleship like you."

"Really?" Bismarck's frown lifted "How'd that work out?"

"Badly, we were in the middle of a resource shortage and couldn't afford to make any more 410mm cannons. So I was converted to an aircraft carrier, one of the best" she smiled

"One of?" Bismarck inquired

"There's a new one that came in during the battle against history, Taiho."

"The armored carrier?"

"Yes." Akagi continued "She's new but with practice she will be far better than me. Now that I think about it, what made you think this way? Why do you feel you have to be the best?"

"It was Hood, when I was commissioned Hood had been around forever, she was famous. She was the celebrity among ships. And as I was finished, comparisons were inevitably made between me and her. She was commissioned just before the big 7 were established, but unlike others she was not forgotten. Despite the big 7 supposedly being the best in the world she was still hailed as the symbol of maritime prowess and the best warship in the ocean. Even when I was built, vastly superior to Hood in almost every way they still compared us as equals."

Akagi could sense something

"You have a story to tell, don't you." She said

"Yeah I guess. It is a long story so those of you watching skip ahead to 15:40 if you don't wanna hear it."

"What?" Akagi was confused

"Never mind," Bismarck winked. "It happened in the first life. I was sent to raid convoys, it was my first ever mission. We were at war against Great Britain which is where Hood comes from. So it was my first mission and I was supposed to be commerce raiding in the Atlantic, but first I had to get past Britain's home fleet. Best chance was to slip through the Denmark straight, there would be scout cruisers there blocking the path but regardless, I would be able to fight through them because I'm fucking Bismarck. I had been given authority to go toe-to-toe with enemy capital ships and I had been waiting for this opportunity. A chance to show that I was still the best battleship in the world.

We encountered two cruisers who more recently identified themselves as Norfolk and Suffolk, and I nearly blew them away but I just missed. Shortly later some shots came in from the west, they missed of course but the water sprays were enormous. That meant that there were capital ships on the horizon. Moving at a great speed as well. I saw these two things and realized that it was Hood. No other ship in the royal navy had guns that size that moved at that speed. I ordered Prinz Eugen to open fire, and I did as well. Five salvos in and suddenly she exploded. Hood that is, just lit up in a giant fireball after the fifth salvo and sank within 5 minutes. The other ship who I assumed was King George V although has now denied it swerves to avoid the sinking wreck and hightails it. I wanted to go after her but my better judgment convinced me to stick to the original plan. But then this happened."

Bismarck walked out of his little room wearing swimming shorts, he bent down and pointed to a large circular mark on his ankle.

"What's that?" Akagi asked

"Overpenetration, 381mms." He grimaced and walked back to his room.

"It cut off almost all of my fuel supply so I had to return to port in France, so I told Prinz Eugen to continue the original mission and we split up. Britain was pissed at me, in fact they were so pissed that they literally diverted 90% of their sea firepower to hunting me down. It was a game of cat and mouse, I was definitely the mouse, but the most heavily armed and armored mouse ever to have played this game. I sailed back to the port of St. Nazaire, but on the way there I was hit by multiple torpedo bomber strikes… just thinking about that makes me so angry! Those obsolete things should never have been able to go near me! So I dodged two strikes, a few hours later a third one came in that jammed my rudder at 27° degrees to starboard." Bismarck grimaced,
"And THIS is why I'm here at the docks today, you guys didn't do a good enough job at killing historical reoccurrences and the same fucking thing happened again. So I sailed around for a few hours until the Britschers turned up. First on the scene was one of the Big 7, Rodney, Who I should also point out has the worst design of any warship EVER. Then came a few more battleships; King George V, the other King George V class I fought in Denmark. The cruisers Norfolk, Suffolk, Dorsetshire and Sheffield all turned up. I had about 40-50 cannons of various sizes constantly hitting me. Turrets Anton and Bruno got destroyed, I kept firing back but doing minimal damage, but apart from knocking out my turrets so were they. I was determined to go down fighting but after at least an hour they took out turrets Caesar and Dora. Now I couldn't fire back, at this point I scuttled myself to stop them from salvaging my wreck. I should've been satisfied, a destroyed the hood and showed how I was almost indestructible. And yet I was forgotten as Yamato took centre stage, Yamato who achieved LITERALLY NOTHING in her first life!"

Bismarck sighed

"Sorry I just had to get that out, everyone in the pan-European port knows it and a lot of them even participated in it."

"Can't say that I know the feeling," Akagi said, "but if you're feeling stressed you can always talk to us about it."

Bismarck raised an eyebrow.

"Really?" he muttered. "That it were true, that it were true…"


AN: ok, first chapter re-edited to fix all the things that broke from my original document.

some people have taken exception to some of the things Bismarck said this chapter but remember, Bismarck isn't me. His opinion isn't mine. not to mention he is FUCKIN' pissed this chapter so maybe some things are clouding his judgement. His remark about rodney/nelson is talking about their infamous turret design, having two superfiring turrets at the front but then a third one that doesnt superfire. And Yamato never actually sank another ship IIRC, so the only thing she really had going for her was big guns in Bismarck's eyes.