Chapter 1: New Pilots, New Sub, Famous Captain

As usual, the sounds of people and machines would continue to echo throughout Blue Dome as it did each day. But today was the day that each of the new Blue Submarines Type-A would welcome their new crew members to join them in their voyages. While the original Blue Submarines are still active, these new Version-A submarines were currently Blue Fleet's newest and most powerful Submarines ever made, and now provide additional boost to mankind's military strength.

Among these recruits, one group consisting of ten pilots were making their way towards the Blue Submarine No.6-A. While eight of them were ordinary humans, four being men while the other four being women, the last two were a pair of human-cat hybrids, one being a boy while the other a girl.

The cat-girl was very cute looking in human female terms, as did her brother in male terms. Both hybrids had bright brown cat eyes. The boy's hair was brown mixed with blonde, while the girl had simply dark brown hair. Both hybrids also had very light brown fur covering their bodies, or this case their heads, as the group is wearing Blue Fleet uniforms. Out of all the people around them, they were the first and so far the only two parahumans were ever made Blue Fleet officers.

"Is it really Tetsu Aya who's going to be our commander? The one whose mother is that Mutio fish female hybrid? And her father was Tetsu Hayami, the man who killed Zorndyke forty years ago?" one of the young human men in the group asked.

The young man was considered a very handsome officer, with his stylish dark brown hair reaching to the bottom on the back of his neck. His skin unnoticeably seemed tan.

"Were you missing more than twenty years of news? Of course it's the same Testu Aya!" the young woman next to him replied, with a sweet expression on her face.

The young woman was slightly shorter than the young man. Her hair was light brown, slightly reaching past the spine of her back. Her pretty white face seemed like that of a beautiful princess, mature enough to be queen.

"I know. I was just being sure, because it all seems too good to be true, that we are now being a part of her crew," the young man said, feeling bad about asking a stupid question, but holding a great level of exciting.

"It's the same person. A friend of mine introduced me to her," said the oldest man in the group.

The oldest man was big and strong looking. His short shaved head and facial hair was something that would definitely not go unnoticed.

"Really!? What was she like?" the same young woman asked, just moments before the group walked up the stairs into the Blue 6-A.

"She looks exactly like a human woman, except she had her mother's red eyes, point ears, as well as her face. It's almost like she was a complete human version of those female-fish hybrids." The oldest man explained, with a smile on his face.

"We know what she looks! We have been seeing her on the news as far as we can remember. I meant is she nice, or mean, or shy?" the young woman said, before the group disappeared into the submarine.

The appearance of the Blue 6-A was almost as it was described, having a combined structural design, that of both the original Blue 6 and Blue 10. It had twice the amount of fins than the original submarines had, and its paint color was plain blue, making look like a double sea creature camouflaged as it swims around the oceans.

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As the new pilots walked inside the hallways of the submarine, they could help but admire the metal floors and walls that were blue mixed with white. They were almost convinced that they were on aboard a space ship from the future, but they reminded themselves that they were still in a submarine.

Walking towards the meeting room, the group was ready to finally meet the captain in person. As the soon as the door open and they made their way inside the room, they were all surprised and shocked as soon as the female captain came into view. They remembered seeing images of her appearance in news channels and web articles. Many people did not know what to expect when the first few interspecies children were coming, in fact being both species being so closely related, the possibilities of what the children might be were random. Some have turned out chimeras, and some turned out ordinary humans, while there were many who were more human than chimeras but less human than the ordinary ones.

Though not being entirely human or human-aquatic hybrid, Tetsu Aya turned out more human than she was chimera. This interspecies woman the group was looking at had a human female's body. She also had her father's human skin tone, and black hair. But the glowing crimson eyes and pointy ears still serve as signs of her chimera heritage. Also like nearly all her aquatic relatives, she too had a face of extreme beauty.

Standing up, the female captain looked at the new pilots with a welcoming expression.

"Welcome aboard. I'm Testsu Aya, captain of Blue 6-A. This is first officer, Hotsuma Knonaka." the female captain introduced herself with a calm human female voice, as she turned to the man next to her. "You are all here because you have shown an impressive level of teamwork during the training exams."

Soon afterwards, the new pilots salute their captain before beginning their introductions. The two cat hybrids introduced themselves and Michael and Kelly Robinson, apparently they must be related if they shared the same name. The young man and woman who were chatting earlier soon introduced themselves as Tom Freeman, and Ashley Stewart. Then the oldest man introduced himself as Gordon Witherspoon. Eventually the other pilots introduced themselves as well, before they were dismissed and moved to their quarters.

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As usual when walking into the main bridge of the ship, Aya would enjoy the amazing background of her surroundings as she positioned herself on the commanding chair, with first officer Hotsuma next to her.

The Bridge shared the same metal coloring as the hallways of the ship, but it was surrounded by the most advanced computer and robotic systems to date. Monitors, sensors, and control boards of all kinds were seen on both sides of the bridge, such as sonar detectors, screen viewers, and weapons control systems.

"Alright, we are done here. Take us out and head towards Peace Dome" Aya said, ordering the ensigns who control the movements of the submarine, before they would give an ensigns reply to a commanding officer.

As the submarine makes its way out of the hanger, Blue Dome soon came into view as it begins to be further away. After the original Blue Dome was destroyed, it was soon rebuilt and enhanced. This version of Blue Dome was now powerful enough to destroy even another ghost ship or pyramid, but that would not happen because the patrolling submarines around Blue Dome will see to it that no enemy vessel would live to see its amazing environment.

And with that, Blue 6-A begins to speed up and disappear into the dark blue, heading towards Peace Dome.