"THIS IS BAD! CAR NUMBER SIXTY-THREE HAS GOTTEN INTO A COLLISION WITH ITS TEAMMATE!"

"Uegh! I'm stuck! Get me out! GET ME OUT!"

"LOOK OUUUT!"


"SCREEE! BEEEEEEP! OI, HURRY UP!"

"HUH?!" At a rural intersection, an old white sports car was still sitting at a green light. It was holding a kei truck back, so the tiny truck blared its horn at the driver of the sports car.

"OH SORRY!" The driver called out while launching his white liftback off the line. The sports car skidded it's rear tires and quickly left the agricultural truck behind.

"Man!" The truck driver called out while turning left, "What a rude guy! Fucking Celica….!"

The white Toyota Celica cruised through the peaceful countryside, driven by a young man in a white full-face helmet. No one could see his face as his visor was completely blacked out.

The boy was following a route he traced on a map for going to somewhere along Ibaraki's coastline. When he stopped to find his way on the map, the strange boy realized that he had not much fuel left in his old Toyota.

"Oh no," the boy groaned in fluent English, "Where's a gas station when you need one? Oh! There it is!"

The Celica pulled into to a service station nearby, which prompted a female attendant to run over and receive him.

"Welcome!" The slender attendant guided the Toyota Celica next to a fuel dispenser. The driver rolled down his window for the attendant and asked in Japanese, "Hello, twent-no... fifteen liters regular please."

"Of course! Just open the cap."

"No wait!" The driver revised his order while shutting off the engine, "Just fill it all the way up."

"Yes!"

The driver opened the fuel cap and let the attendant do her work. He climbed out of his Celica once he gave the money to the attendant. The boy stretched his arms and legs from the supposed long drive. The station attendant in a green uniform approached the driver with a curious look on her face.

"Umm, is there something wrong?" The driver asked.

"You're not from here, aren't you?" The attendant asked.

"Yeah I mean," The driver pointed out at the Celica's license plate, "I'm from Saitama. Well I kinda got kicked out from my apartment just last night, but I got a job around here."

"Oh..." The attendant raised an eyebrow at the driver, "There's not many jobs out here. It's pretty boring for a city boy like you, you know."

"Ehh," the boy replied, "I really don't have much of a choice. I have to be there soon today to meet the boss."

"I see. So what's with the helmet? You shy or something?"

"Okay miss," the boy remarked, "You're being awfully nosy."

"Can't I at least have some fun, dear customer?" The long twin-tailed attendant pointed out, "After all, I am the only one here."

"Alright fine..., I'll tell you." The boy explained, "I'm scared of dying. Is that good enough for you?"

"Hmmm... meh, fair enough," the attendant remarked while pacing around the boy, "Then where's your job? I can help with directions, dear customer."

The driver pointed out on his map for the station attendant, "It's this place. Somewhere nearby off the coast."

The attendant widened her eyes at the boy's destination. The boy noticed her reaction and asked, "Is there something wrong?"

"Huh? O-oh no not really! The place you're going to is there once you get through the mountain pass over there. J-just ignore all the warning signs on the way."

"I see..." The driver heard the fuel dispenser click as a signal of the Celica being ready to go. The boy climbed into his driver seat waiting for the attendant to close the fuel cap. "Thank you miss."

Suddenly, the attendant gave the boy a straight face while holding onto his hand, "Hey mister...you should turn back now."

"Excuse me?"

"You said you're scared of dying, right? If you want to live. You're better off turning back."

"Uhhh..." the young man replied, "I think I'll be fine, but thanks for the concern."

"Your choice." The attendant gave a deep sigh and let go of the boy's hand, and the Celica drove away from the service station. The female attendant looked at the white sports car heading for the mountain pass.

"Poor guy," the brown-haired attendant walked back to the station. "He won't last in that place for long."

The old Celica slowly drove towards the road the attendant pointed at. The engine purred smoothly as it pulled the car up to the mountain pass that was full of warning signs on the guardrails.

Some read as either, "Danger! Please turn back.", or "Do not trespass. Violators will be prosecuted."

However, the driver didn't take notice to those signs as he was busy reminiscing his past. "It's been awhile since that crash, huh? By now I would have gotten into Formula Three…"

"BREEEEE! BRRRREEE!"

The boy jumped from the sudden ringing. He thought that his phone had an incoming call. So he pulled over to the side of the road while turning on his hazard lights. He pulled out his cheap flip phone. The driver of the Celica realized that it was his alarm on his phone that was blaring out. It was supposed to be the time he was to arrive at his new workplace.

"OH SHIT!" The boy cried out, "I'm late!"

So the young man threw his phone into the passenger seat and turned off the hazard lights. He quickly launched off at full throttle. The Celica thundered down the mountain pass leading up to the his new job. The driver dived into the first corner the pass had with full braking and banged down through the gears all the way into second. The Celica leaned significantly towards the outside, but the boy held the car through the tight turn with his right foot pinned on the accelerator. During the first corner, he didn't touch either the guardrail or the middle line of the road.

"I'm not going to lose this job!" the young man yelled as he powered out of the turn. He shifted up a gear and blasted through the next corner. He raced through the through the tight and narrow turns of the pass with ease albeit with an A60 Celica that had seen better days.


"Damnit! It's just not getting any better!"

Meanwhile at the Ibaraki Naval Base, Awa Maru was still tending to the ill Akashi. Unfortunately, she was still suffering from the fever, and the situation was the same as it was when she collapsed. Akashi coughed roughly and groaned from the heat.

"I-I'm sorry….. Sensei…" Akashi spoke to the frustrated hospital ship.

"Hey mistakes happen," Awa Maru consoled Akashi, "Just next time take care of your body better next time."

Awa Maru looked at her wristwatch to check the time. She became annoyed at what time it was, "Damnit! The supplies are supposed to be here by now. What the hell's going on?!"

"BRUUUUUUUUUUMMM! BRUURUUUUUUUM!"

An loud engine noise blared out behind the naval base.

"An engine?" Awa Maru asked, "Is there someone coming?"

The hospital ship had figured out that the engine sound had belonged to a car. It was a car that was heading down to the naval base at an alarming rate. Akashi asked about the sound at the the hospital ship, "Hey sensei….. that noise….where is it coming from…?"

"I don't know," Awa Maru responded, "But I have to ask the admiral about it."

The car engine sound was getting closer and closer. Both ships could hear the car's tires screeching and screaming for grip. Awa Maru went for the door to find the admiral, but when she was about to reach for the slider, the Admiral opened the sliding door.

Awa Maru asked, "Admiral Kitami, do you know if there's anyone coming here?"

"I'm pretty sure you know already, " The admiral replied. Then she came over to Akashi to try to somehow console and apologize to her, "Hey, I'm sorry Akashi-san. I didn't notice your problems since I got here. You looked okay to me, but I guess I should have known better, huh?"

"Admiral…" Akashi replied with tired eyes. She still couldn't get her strength back to sit up.

"Don't worry." The Admiral assured, "Help is on the way soon."

"SCREEE!"

The three women heard a set of tires screeching to a halt right outside the infirmary. Awa Maru first looked at the window and spotted an old white sports car right under them. "Oi Admiral!" Awa Maru pointed at the white car, "Is that supposed to be the guy?"

Then the three women heard footsteps thundering down the hallway with loud panting noises. Then a muffled male voice yelled out clearly to a shipgirl in the hallway, "EXCUSE ME! WHERE'S THE BOSS?!"

"B-boss? Oh you mean the admiral right? She's in the infirmary upstair-"

"THANK YOU SO MUCH!"

The footsteps were heading straight upstairs for the infirmary. The owner of those noisy footsteps emerged from the sliding door. Awa Maru and the admiral were quite surprised at the man who was about to collapse at the doorway. The young man asked, "Haaargh! Sorry I'm late! My name is-!"

Awa Maru came up to the boy in the white helmet with an angry face. "TOO SLOW! LOOK! This girl is really ill! You're supposed to be the one delivering the medical supplies here, right?!"

"Yeah… s-sorry…" the boy replied.

"APOLOGIES WON'T BE GOOD ENOUGH! HURRY UP AND GET THE SUPPLIES UP HERE!"

"Y-yes!" the boy quickly sprinted off to his car in order to get the supplies up to the infirmary.

"Man…," Awa Maru slowly shook her head at the boy's first impression on her. Then she faced the admiral for help, "Sorry admiral, but could you please give me some more towels and hot water. Oh, and some spare clothes for Akashi-san."

Admiral Hina smiled, "Don't worry. I'll take care of it."

Once the admiral left, the hospital shipgirl walked over to bed-ridden Akashi. "Sorry for yelling like that, Akashi-san."

Akashi turned her head over to Awa Maru and replied in a weak tone, "It's…..okay….. but….who is….. that….boy?"

Then Awa Maru asked the repair ship before answering, "Well for now, can you sit up?"

Akashi slowly pushed her upper body from the bed with some grunts. Her body still feels hot, and her strength wasn't coming back. Akashi felt as if she couldn't get back up on her feet. Awa Maru noticed Akashi's struggles and pushed her upper body up instead.

"Here, I'll have to take off your uniform so that we can wipe off your sweat for now."

"O-okay…."

Awa Maru pulled the infirmary curtains around Akashi's bed and slowly took off her uniform. The new employee came back with a few boxes of medical supplies in hand. He asked Awa Maru, "Umm sensei? Where do you want these boxes at?"

"On the floor. Is that all of it?" Awa Maru asked while taking off Akashi's serafuku.

"There's still a few boxes lef-"

"Then hurry up and get them in here! Jeez!"

The boy ran down to grab the rest of the medical supplies in his car. Awa Maru took off Akashi's zipped shirt, but right when the hospital ship unzipped the shirt, Akashi started to breathe in more deeply and clearly. Awa Maru realized that Akashi was wearing a uniform that restricted her blood circulation.

"How long have you been wearing this?" Awa Maru asked.

"F-five years…..." Akashi answered.

"No one gave you a different size after all this time?"

"Yes…."

Awa Maru gave a deep sigh and continued on with taking Akashi's clothes off. "Here, I'm going to get your skirt and leggings for now."

It was the same for the rest of Akashi's outfit. Akashi can't fit the uniform anymore since it was too small for her. Awa Maru realized Akashi had been suffering more than just an intense fever. Awa Maru didn't know that Akashi's condition was worse than she thought. Ever since she came to the naval base, Awa Maru thought she would have a somewhat slow time due to the Ibaraki Naval Base being fairly small than the other bases and naval districts in the entirety of Japan.

However, it wasn't the right time to break down from the sudden discovery, so Awa Maru kept her composure and took off Akashi's uniform to let her breathe freely. Once Awa Maru was finished, the admiral came in with what the hospital ship requested and helped out with wiping Akashi's sweat off.

While the two women were tending to Akashi, the new employee came in with the rest of the medical supplies he picked up on the way here.

"There!" The boy announced, "All done!"

He turned to see the three women covered by the curtains around the bed. Admiral Hina looked at the boy and told Awa Maru, "I'm going to have to wrap up a few things with him. Could you take care of Akashi by yourself?"

The hospital shipgirl nodded, and Admiral Hina walked over to the boy and took him to her office. She beckoned the boy to keep his mouth shut before he gets out of the infirmary. As soon as the admiral and the new employee left the room, Awa Maru placed Akashi back on her bed and tended to the sealed medical supplies for Akashi to use.

"Don't worry. I'll get some medicine to take out that fever!"

"Y-yeah…...thank you…." Akashi replied in a weak tone. She was still burning and suffering from her fever, but she still put up a smile on her face. After a few minutes of searching in the boxes of medical supplies, Awa Maru found the medicine to take care of Akashi's fever.

"Here, I found it, " Awa Maru asked Akashi, "Hey Akashi-san, can you turn over to your stomach please?"

"Yes, but why?"

"Please brace yourself, " Awa Maru announced, "I have the medicine, but the one I could find in here is a suppository."

"A suppository?"


"I'm sorry for being so late boss!"

Meanwhile inside the office, the new employee bowed down as a sign of apology in front of Admiral Hina and Ooyodo. Ooyodo got ticked off a bit from the new guy's behavior. Ooyodo told the boy with a sharp tone, "You salute to the admiral when you meet her. Not bowing."

The boy quickly stood straight up and saluted the admiral, "Y-yes! S-sorry! I've been assigned here to be-! Err….."

The admiral chuckled, "Don't worry. After all, you're a mechanic here."

"Y-yeah that…" the boy asked, "So, where do I start boss?"

"You…" Ooyodo tried to scold the new mechanic, "You will address the admiral as 'Admiral' not boss!"

"Admiral?" The boy asked, "What do you mean?"

"The uniform didn't give it away?'" Ooyodo asked with a disappointed face.

"It's okay Ooyodo-san. After all, he just joined us."

Once they were done, Admiral Hina remarked while pulling out a handbook for Daniel, "It's a good thing you brought your helmet with you."

"Well you know," Daniel gave an awkward chuckle, "Better safe than sorry, right?"

"That's good because…" the admiral gave the handbook to Daniel, "All of the people you will be working with besides myself are shipgirls."

"Shipgirls?" Daniel quickly flipped through the handbook that was a roster of all the shipgirls stationed at the naval base. Much to Daniel's surprise, there was no male in the roster. Just girls with no surnames. "A-are you serious?" Daniel asked.

"Yes, I am serious." Admiral Hina explained, "Everyone else here is a shipgirl, and your job is to help them out with repairs. However be careful, they're not going to trust you at first… since you're a guy."

"Ehh?"

"Well since everything's in order now…" Admiral Hina stood up from her desk and gave her hand to the boy in the helmet for a handshake.

"Welcome to the Ibaraki Naval Base." The admiral introduced herself, "I am Admiral Hina Kitami, and this is my assistant, Ooyodo-san. I thank you for helping us out at our time of need, Daniel Nguyen-san."


A/N: Thank you all for supporting my decision to do a rewrite. I hope you enjoy this chapter, and I will still continue to write.