As the highest flagship ordered, Takao changed her patrol route to be as close to the shore as possible. She brought 2 Fubuki-Class-Destroyer and 2 Nagara-Class-Light Cruiser along with her. Her vessel sailed through smooth sea while she was planning the course of attack.

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Tokyo bay, Japan

After pondering for a while, Takao noticed that she was in a radar-reach distance from the naval base. She brushed her long-blue-hair and sighed.

"Well, better to refrain from using Super-Graviton-Cannon, it's just a test after all~"

She initially detected a group of ship girls coming.

"Alright! Battle Station!" She commanded her escort vessels.

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The ship girls, who ware selected to intercept Takao, were Yuudachi, Shigure, Harusame, Akatsuki, Hibiki, Sendai, Jintsu, Naka, Kitakami, Ooi, I-19, Haruna, and Kongou as force flagship.

"Why that Takao-Class-Heavy Cruiser suddenly change course, it's not make any sense, desu" Kongou frowned.

"Haruna thinks it's stange as well, Nee-sama. But no one can find the answer yet." Haruna referred to the event before they were sent out; the conference room was flared with hot argument about Fog's behavior changing case. It was a surprise that Fog Fleet hadn't done this kind of thing before.

They ended up sending out over a dozen of girls to intercept Fog convoy, even they were low on shipgirls from division among military bases, because they wanted to play safe. They calculated that resource comsumption from operation would be less than from repairing; the very huge amount of resources were just inland transported to other naval based for a while before Takao's arrival.

"Onee-chan, please watch me carefully. It's time for Naka-chan to shine as an Idol once more~" Naka declared proudly.

"Too bad that it's not a night battle, but fighting alongside my 2-cute-little-sister is acceptable though." Sendai just shrugged.

"Be careful you two, up until now we only faced with destroyer and light-cruiser class. This is the first time we attack a big fish (Heavy-Cruiser). We don't know how dangerous it can be." Jintsu warned.

"Don't worry, Jintsu-san. It'll be alright! We outnumbered them, there's no way we will lose" Shigure innocently pointed out.

"Shigure has a point, poi~. Besides, we can move faster than their Tanatonium warhead. Plus, we got Iku-chan (I-19) support here. It's very reassuring, poi~" Yuudachi jointed the conversation.

Harusame just smiled, she hadn't any comment.

"Personally I disagree with ganging up on them; it's too unlady-like! A real lady should fight fair and square." Akatsuki protested.

Kitakami and Ooi were busy with their Yuri-fantasy-lovely-conversation. I-19 was submerged so she was totally excluded from the surface fleet. Hibiki remained stoic as ever, but deeply agreed with Jintsu.

Meanwhile, Kongou and Haruna prepared their first volley of HE-14-inch-shell, as they had longer firing-range from high-caliber mounted battleship guns. Now, they wait to get closer and closer.

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"Shit!" Takao exclaimed in slightly panic as she never ever expected this kind of welcome party, she detected more and more enemy until it was over a dozen. She conveyed her complain to her superior via personal channel quickly "Yamato, you never said anything about these many ship girls gang up on me!?"

"It's unexpected for me too; I don't know why they suddenly overestimate us for just a change in patrol route." Yamato said softly.

"So? What should I do now? Seems like I'll be in their firing range any minute." Takao requested suggestion.

"Resume the plan, Takao" Yamato confirmed.

"Are you crazy!? I won't accept to fight for high-chance losing battle." Takao yelled.

"Are you that WEAK? I believe you're strong enough to fight them, consider this a handicap. Come on~"

"Just to make sure, Yamato."

"What?"

"Do you have plan B?"

While Takao waited for Yamato's answer, she was adjusting all her turret to respective targets. When she finished, she suddenly heard several cannon fire and her klein field reacted to defend her vessel.

"You spoil all the fun~ Well, I admit that I've order one of my personal guards to back you up in case of emergency." Yamato said disappointingly.

More shells and torpedoes were sending to her more and more, her klein field process dramatically rising from those attacks.

"Glad to hear that, Yamato. I'm busy right now, I'll talk to you later. Bye" She cut her conversation.

"TIME FOR SOME PAY BACK GIRLS!" She got intimidated by the attack.

"ALL SHIPS, FIRE! ! ! !"

Ship girls watched in alarm as they saw enemy vessels started to attack; main-mount guns and sub-mount shot colourful plasma ray, AA guns released limitless of 12.7 mm. – 40 mm. caliber. They were starting to scattered-

Takao scored her First-blood with Naka; one of her 8-inch plasma struck a hole on Naka's chest directly, her blood was vaporized by the intense heat, her eyes were devoured of all life, she didn't feel any pain at all, it could be considered as one of the most mercy-killing despite the horror on the corpse.

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"NAKAAAAAA! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !"

Sendai and Jintsu shouted unison in desperation upon realizing their youngest sister's death. They tried to grab Naka, but it was too late as she sank too fast.

Naka's death alerted all her comrade to be awared of plasma shots, they avoided direct hits, but the shots still grazed them leaving burned make on their part.

But they weren't out of the crisis yet as the barrage of heavy machine guns' bullets rained down all them.

"Sink their destroyers and light cruiser first! Leave the Heavy Cruiser for last!" Kongou ordered as she noticed the flying missile coming.

Yuudachi, Shigure, and Harusame crossed T fire at the fog destroyers; supported by many torpedoes launched of Kitakami and Ooi.

Fog-Fubuki-Class suffered klein field overload from heavy assault; it was shattered lastly by Yuudachi 5-inch round, followed by direct hit from the same caliber of Harusame and Shigure ship-gun. They didn't last much longer because Iku bumped them with her own torpedoes at the keel.

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KABOOM! ! ! KABOOM! ! !

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They quickly lost balance and sank in a few minutes.

Takao had problems tracking her target at point black range, she realized how these ship girls were effective weapon against her own kind; they hit fast, hit hard, and hit often!

Their flagship decision was good, she targeted the easy prey first; those mindless vessel proved to be sand bag for the enemy instead of support, no wonder Fog vessels continued to fall in an alarming rate. She crushed a light cruiser but lost her 2 destroyer: time for retreating-

Boom!

Takao's auto-shield system prevented her from critical hit from Iku perfect torpedo attack from a blind spot under her vessel.

"IKU, You IDIOT! !" Kongou yelled.

"Shit! They got submarine, too?!" Takao angrily hissed with surprise. Now, she was really pissed off at the present of submarine. Time to get serious, she opened all hatches of VLS missile preparing all the warhead; she ordered the leftover Nagara-Class to find the submarine.

"You two! Use active sonar to find that freaking Sub, Now!"

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"Alright! No more holding back. I'LL BLAST YOU ALL TO DUST! ! ! !"

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The remaining ship girls watched in horror as 128 Tanatonium warhead got launched from Fog-Heavy Cruiser; 2 seconds later, the weapon adjusted their aim, split up into groups upon raining down for wild-area-bombardment. They all had the same synchronizing thought:

'HOLY SHIT! ! !'

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KABOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMM ! ! ! ! ! !

The sea was shaking violently by the sheer force of hundreds of dark & light-red-plasma explosion; every ship girl was deemed to catch collateral damage, Takao never expected her attack to hit directly in the first place, they were too agile. This was the solution she came upon after watching their fighting style.

True to her thought;

Harusame, Sendai, Kitakami, Ooi, Haruna, and Kongou were very unluckly; they got at least single direct hit, their corpse couldn't be found because they were reduced to nano-particle from the blast, the remain particle scattered around the area by sea wind. They returned to mother nature without doubt.

Yuudachi, Akatsuki, and Jintsu had been heavily wounded; their outfit were tattered soaked with blood in every square inch like they just got out of blood-bath. Considered lucky or not, their limbs were still intact. Yuudachi and Akatsuki got knock out cold, while Jintsu was panting heavily: still conscious floating on her back.

For Shigure and Hibiki; they escaped the critical moment as a result of Yuudachi and Akatsuki threw themselves at their sister to tank the damage. So, the protected sisters alive with moderate damage, but unable to continue the fight as their equipments were broken. Shigure lost all her fighting spirit while stared blankly at her injured sister. Hibiki did princess-carry Akatsuki close to her face, her cap covered upper part of her face, she cursed quietly about something in Russian.

The last person standing was I-19, still it was on a matter of time pass as the submarine herself couldn't launch any attack, plus those mindless Nagara shot active sonar like crazy. After cleared out the surface vessles, Takao jointed the fray to hunt down I-19.

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Ping!

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"FOUND YOU!" Takao hissed happily.

She and Nagara-Class started to discharge dept charge: intended to corner a submarine in a cage space. I-19 began to panic because her movement was restricted by the deadly weapons floating around her. Takao pumped sea water inside her lowest deck, caused her ship to lean more and more until it reached 35 degree from perpendicular; she charged all her main guns and aim carefully at the submarine's coordinate.

"FIRE!"

ZAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!

The same caliber that killed Naka ran straight for I-19 torso; even though she tried her best to avoid the attack, she lost her right arm as a compensation. Iku suppressed the pain as hard as she could before she decide to resurface.

Seeing her finishing move fail, she ordered I-19's execution.

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"Detonate"

The entire dropped dept charges were remotely detonated by death sentence; Iku was engulfed by high-pressure pressed her from all direction, her body was squeezed into a lump of read mist before she even realized that she was dead. The power of dept charges were too great that it pushed up the aqua-wall for 20-30 meters.

"IKU-SANNNNNNNNNNNN!"

Shigure broke into tears as she just backed to reality that another comrade had sunk, Hibiki gnashed strongly like her teeth would break any moment; her stern face fell upon the fog heavy cruiser, she readied herself for last dead match.

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Takao watched over the ceased fire battle zone from her vantage point on the top of the bridge; victory was hers: just losing 2 destroyers was worth it! She gazed at the crumble remaining girls.

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"Okay, Yamato. I'm available now. I'm the victor, we just lost 2 destroyers" Takao reported.

"See?! I told you~~" Yamato teased via the line.

"That's not funny, Yamato! I guarantee, it's not easy as you think."

Takao sighed.

"Should I upload the event today on the JTN, High Flagship?"

"Please do, but limit access for Eastern Fleet only"

"Copy that. Last question, should I kill the survivors?" Takao sternly asked. Her ship guns aimed at the survivor units; the target heard the mechanical sound of ship guns changed angle and aimed at them, readied to be charged anytime.

Except for unconsciouss Yuudachi and Akatsuki; Jintsu closed her eyes peacefully awaiting her death moment, Hibiki revered her cap with determination to fight even bare hand until her last breath, Shigure gave up all hope and smiled regrettably infront of her enemy.

Yamato thought for a moment before requested more information "How much of a threat they possess?"

"They aren't threat at all, just stay alive and breathing"

"Then leave them… Takao, your mission is complete.I give you a week of holiday as a reward before you have to return to your patrol route. Use it freely"

"Roger, Takao's out!"

Takao ordered the light cruisers to retreat first. She was thinking about how to spend her holiday while turning her vessel's away from the scene. After that, she left for her designed destination.

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"It didn't finish us off?!" Hibiki surprisingly exclaimed.

Jintsu and Shigure widened eyes from the unexpected, they regrouped. Jintu, as the most senior alive, acted as temporary flagship.

"Grab your sisters, we'll return to base!"

Hibiki and Shigure carried their sisters on their back and sped up back to base.

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Jintsu remained her eyes on the departed Takao Heavy Cruiser, she muttered to herself.

"No matter where you are; I'll find you. And I WILL KILL YOU."


Navy infirmary, Yokosuka naval base, Honshu, Japan

After the assault fleet came back, their great lost news reached the school very quickly. Iori, Sou, and Yamato decided to visit Shigure; Maruri, despite knowing Kitamami for a short time, accepted Kitakami's death the hard way that Gunzou and Haguro needed to stick to her to calm her down. Sou and Yamato were sad about their ship girls death too, but not on the extreme level of Maruri. The trios were led to special chamber for ship girls repair underground by sights.

Upon reaching the destination, they heard Shigure's voice yelling to someone which caused them to stop in track.

"AKASHI-SAN! DO YOU EXPECT ME TO ACCEPT THAT!?"

"It is the final decision; we can't do anything other than that" Akashi said painfully.

Shigure grabbed Akashi's shirt collar with a wrathful glare; Hibiki was in despair with her hands shaking, Jintu gasped at the cruel conclusion. Their bleeding had stopped but the injury was still present under tattered uniform and bandage.

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Yeah…. The conclusion about scarping Yuudachi & Akatsuki for material to repair Shigure, Hibiki, and Jintsu…..! !

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With unexpected heavy lost, the base superior sent message to other military bases to gave them the required material; unfortunately, every single base couldn't give them a damn thing, they either needed them to repair return-from-sortie ship girls, or already used them in process of construction new ship girls.

Confirmed that no supply would be coming, they feared for their life as there was a possibility that Takao might return any moment assuming worst case. They ordered to scrap heavy damaged ship girls to repair moderate damaged ship girls back to health; sacrificed Yuudachi and Akatsuki for resources to repair Shigure, Hibiki, and additional Jintsu in exchange. So they could at least buy them some time to escape if the need arised.

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"I WILL NEVER ALLOW HER TO BE DISCARDED! I already lost Harusame, there's no way I'll let it happen to Yuudachi" Shigure cried.

"Where are they? I mean Akatsuki and Yuudachi-san" Hibiki asked loudly

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"They're at the scraping chamber!" Akashi replied nearly as howled.

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Shigure and Hibiki steeled their gazed, they opened the door and sprinted out of the room: completely ignore the students completely.

Akashi yelled after them "Just give up! It's too Late!."

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Iori, Sou, and Yamato looked at one and other awkwardly.

"May be we came at the wrong time?" Iori muttered.

"You guess?" Sou responded.

Yamato looked after the two ship girls' back with curiosity. Referred from what they had heard, she got and idea or two about where they were heading.

"Well, I just recall that I've some business to take care of. See you later~" Yamato ran off following them behind.

"What's wrong with her?"

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Meanwhile, Jintsu continued lying on a bed, she worried that the destroyers might do something reckless, their eyes told her that much. While she couldn't decide what to do (consider the state she was in: still in heavy damage state), something caught her attention.

"Akashi-san, what is that black metal on the counter?"

Akashi viewed the mentioned object, she picked it up and sat near Jintsu.

"I'm studying about it, its called pistol: one of human weaponry, this model is one of the standard stuff for JSDF."

"Their weapons have vastly types as our ship guns, it's interesting! So I end up experimenting them during my free time."

"Well, Akashi-san….Could you share you knowledge about this pistol on how to operate it while waiting Shigure-san and Hibiki-san to come back? It might be useful some days"

Akashi smiled. She gave Jintsu a short brief enough to use the SIG-Sauer P220 9mm. pistol (Japanese License).

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However, Akashi didn't know that her patient had something not-innocent planned in her mind.


Scraping chamber, Yokosuka naval base, Honshu, Japan

It located in the open-air area, the size was large and contained varieties of scraping space inside. Yuudachi and Akatsuki were going to be carried into one of said space.

"STOP!" Shigure shouted and angrily dashed to the workers, followed by Hibiki.

Even still wounded, these two were stronger than normal human. They knocked out the workers with their current full force; didn't care whether victims alive or dead.

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After secured their target, new challenge occurred.

"What's next, Shigure-san?"

"We must get out of here, if they found out that we act against order, we die… But I don't know how to get out and to where?!"

Sisterly Love was strong; they didn't think ahead too much, so now they were facing serious issue here.

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'A Defection, Huh?' Yamato concluded upon spying on them from a big tree near by.

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Suddenly, she felt something touched the back of her head and let go.

"What are you doing here, student-san?"

Yamato half turned herself to get a look behind; she was greeted with the sight of deadly-gaze Jintzu, horizontal-pointing pistol at her with right hand: hammer pulled.